Welcome to another Game of the Week – this time played by our very own Dominic Blundell

This game was played in the hard fought encounter between Broadstairs and Bridge in the Hargreaves’ Shield

Like all really exciting games it takes two to Tango and Dominic’s opponent, Zach Stonier definitely helped make the game so interesting with his attacking play.

Please enjoy the game, especially the fantastic finish

 White:  Blundell, Dominic     Black:  Stonier, Zach

Broadstairs 8^th Nov 2021

   1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. e4 Be7 4. Nc3 d5 5. Bxf6 Bxf6 6. e5 Be7 7. Qh5 c5 8. Nf3   cxd4 9. Nxd4 Nc6 10. Bb5 Bd7 11. Bxc6 bxc6 12. O-O O-O 13. f4 Qb6 14. Rad1 Qxb2   15. Rd3 Qb6 16. Kh1 c5 17. Rh3 h6 18. Rff3 cxd4 19. Rfg3 Rfb8 20. Rxg7+ Kxg7   21. Qxh6+ Kg8 22. Qh8# 1-0       

White to play

White played Qh5 with the direct threat of Qh8 mate – Black has 3 moves

1. Qh5 Qxe5  2. fxe5  and White is simply a Queen up
2. Qh5  Rh6  3. Qf7+ Kh7 ( if Kh8 then Rxh6+ followed by Ng6 mate) 4. Rxh6+ Kxh6 5. Rh1 mate

The game continued 1. Qh5 Kf8 2. Qf7+ Rxf7  3. Ng6+ Kg8 4. Rh8 mate

Another Monday, another home match, this time in the Hargreaves Shield

The following games were played in the Club Championship

Fredy Reber  1 – 0   David Clifford

Michael Jenkinson 0 – 1  Trefor Owens

Arnaud Wisman 1 – 0 Reg Pidduck

This position comes my most recent game. It is White to play and either force mate or win the Black Queen, can you find all of the tactics?

This was the team’s first Millar League match since the momentous evening in March 2020 when we won the competition, just days before the original ‘Lockdown.’

Everyone was pleased to be back playing chess but we knew that we had a very difficult task ahead of us; playing a very strong team from Bridge. We were all outrated, on every board!

The first game to finish was Reg on board 7. Reg had bravely stepped up to take part only a couple of hours before kick off, after a club colleague had been admitted to hospital. Despite playing very well Reg had to concede defeat on this occasion

Things looked up as we skilfully secured victories on boards 5 and 6. Superb performances from Dominic Blundell and Andy Flood respectively had, against all odds, given Broadstairs a 2 – 1 lead. Sadly this was to be the highlight of the evening, and, although the remaining four games were hard fought and could have produced different results, Bridge made a clean sweep of boards 1-4

This Bridge won the match with a scoreline of 2 – 5 The result was very fair but the scoreline was harsh on the quality of the Broadstairs’ performance.