Rugeley Captains

We travelled to Walsall for our final ever league match playing as this team in this division. Nikoli our board 1 signed off in style with a win that was never in doubt after his opponent had to give his Queen up during the middle game. Myself playing my last ever league match got trounced by one of their new ungraded players. Not the ending I was hoping for. Bill got a comfortable win on board 4, while Matt had a cagey affair on board 2 and was unfortunate in the endgame. So our last match...

We arrived at Wolverhampton with the threat that there would be cribbage games on at the same time in the same room. Bill was the first to finish, his opponent getting a good position but Bill fighting it back to a draw. Matt was second to finish, he had an advantage as far as the computer was concerned but first person to push for a win loses. So a draw was agreed Yev finished next low on time his opponent got an outside passed pawn and found the win. Nik was the final result to come in,...