Stirling's Bruce v Dunfermline's Minnows allegro match 12/11/12

We did not have such a good result and were extremely lucky not to have been hammered. A drawn match was just a bit unfair on Stirling.

I was lost in my first 2 games against Dave and Bill before both produced shockers. We were still one down with just Terry’s game going in a level position before Tony left a rook hanging. Terry might have missed it but Tony threw his hands in the air after his blunder thereby dropping Terry the hint he required!!

Ian

Bruce	8-8	Minnows
Paul Prescott	1-0	Terry Docherty
Tony Pitson	1-0	George Webb
Bill Cook	0-1	Iain Sneddon
Dave Hewitt	0-1	Ian Robertson
	2-2
Dave Hewitt	1-0	Terry Docherty
Paul Prescott	1-0	George Webb
Tony Pitson	1-0	Iain Sneddon
Bill Cook	0-1	Ian Robertson
	3-1
Bill Cook	1-0	Terry Docherty
Dave Hewitt	0-1	George Webb
Paul Prescott	1-0	Iain Sneddon
Tony Pitson	0-1	Ian Robertson
	2-2
Tony Pitson	0-1	Terry Docherty
Bill Cook	1-0	George Webb
Dave Hewitt	0-1	Iain Sneddon
Paul Prescott	0-1	Ian Robertson
	1-3

Stirling A V Dunfermline A 05/11/12

I was an utter idiot for asking people to meet at the club for pick-up on bonfire night. The place was heaving and although I had proposed an earlier pick up time than normal Michael still could not get through. By the time we sorted another rendezvous it was about 6.50 leaving Dunfermline for a 7.00pm start in Stirling! We all lost 35 minutes on the clocks so had to play the first 30 moves in 25 minutes.

Ian won on bd1 comfortably mostly following up from when Doug put a piece on a poor square in the opening of a Pirc Defence he was trying for the first time. Florin's flag fell as he made his 30th move so lost on time in a far better position. Iain with 4 moves still to make in about 10 seconds should probably have lost on time but instead Robin with 8 minutes left had a long think - and lost on time!! Michael fell to a neat combination by Graham which netted the exchange. Fred was slightly better even after his spectacular rook sac was declined but with him and Bill only having around 5 minutes of allegro time left each they agreed a draw rather than a lottery scramble.

Stirling A Dunfermline A 
Douglas Bain 0-1 Ian Robertson 
Steve Smith 1-0 Florin Toropoc 
Robin Hayles 0-1 Iain Sneddon 
Graham Anderson 1-0 Michael Roy 
William Cook Draw Fred Ossowski 
2.5-2.5        

Dunfermline B Stirling C 24/10/12

There was no luck for Stirling C after a brave show. The home side controlled boards 1, 3 & 5 but board 2 could have gone either way after Douglas sacked the exchange to gain the white squares. This paid off with a neat mate using a knight and the white square bishop.Robert played a combination one move too early. If he had shut George's bishop out first the board 4 result could have been reversed (based on pub analysis!).

Dunfermline B Stirling C 
Fred Ossowski 1-0 Jono Blake 
Douglas Rew 1-0 Mick Bloor 
Bryan O'Rourke 1-0 David Brodie 
George Webb 1-0 Robert Leckie 
Glynis Grant 1-0 Tom McKay 
5-0 

Allegro League Dunfermline Sharks V Dunfermline Minnows 16/10/2012

Home Team			Away Team
Dunfermline Sharks			Dunfermline Minnows
Name	Colour	Score	Name	Colour
Florin Toropoc	W	0-1	George Webb	B
Mike Roy	W	1-0	Ian Robertson	B
Stewart Brisbane	W	1-0	Terry Doherty	B
Matthew Stewart	W	0-1	Gavin Saxton	B
Round 1 Score		2-2
Name	Colour	Score	Name	Colour
Matthew Stewart	B	0-1	George Webb	W
Florin Toropoc	B	0-1	Ian Robertson	W
Mike Roy	B	1-0	Terry Doherty	W
Stewart Brisbane	B	0-1	Gavin Saxton	W
Round 2 Score		1-3
Name	Colour	Score	Name	Colour
Stewart Brisbane	W	0.5-0.5	George Webb	B
Matthew Stewart	W	0-1	Ian Robertson	B
Florin Toropoc	W	1-0	Terry Doherty	B
Mike Roy	W	0-1	Gavin Saxton	B
Round 3 Score		1.5-2.5
Name	Colour	Score	Name	Colour
Mike Roy	B	1-0	George Webb	W
Stewart Brisbane	B	0-1	Ian Robertson	W
Matthew Stewart	B	1-0	Terry Doherty	W
Florin Toropoc	B	1-0	Gavin Saxton	W
Round 4 Score		3-1
Final Score		7.5-8.5

Dunfermline v Badgers Brook 10/10/12

Jonathan for Badgers and Iain for the home side were unlucky not to get a half point. It would not have affected the overall score which was a very fair reflection of a well fought match. Florin won a piece but making progress was awkward. Iain passed up regaining a pawn sac to go for mate but Andrew’s king slipped away to mid board and the extra pawn was the eventual decider. Ian on B1 was very slightly better throughout according to fritz but there was nothing disastrous about Kenny’s position. Stuart dropped a pawn against Gavin and to compensate went full bloodied for a kill but was fended off by clever defence. Graham outplayed Michael winning an exchange which he put to very neat use.

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Dunfermline			Team	Badgers Brook
Name	Grade	Pnum	Result	Name	Grade	Pnum
Ian Robertson	2102		½-½	Kenny McGeoch	1839	14326
Florin Toropoc	U/G		1-0	Jonathan Rowney	1821	8493
Iain Sneddon	1835		0-1	Andrew McHarg	1723	20886
Gavin Saxton	1748		1-0	Stuart Ward	1649	23079
Michael Roy	1689		0-1	Graham Kerr	1546	10613
	TOTAL		2½-2½