A Team Loses Out to Oswestry

Team captain Francis Best was unavailable for this match.  David Everington stood in as captain and reports as follows: “Ed never really got going against Richard and ended up with his King surrounded and mate inevitable.  Dan played very well against Brian Whyte but finally lost a tricky double rook ending with both clocks running down.  I got a decent game on the Black side of the Ruy but badly overestimated my chances around move 30 and got punished.  Peter had a very nice miniature – see here or in interesting games – which should be a good morale booster.

Mark won on time in a very tense and double edged game in which Keith made an illegal move (overlooking he was in check) towards the end.  Mark claimed an extra two minutes but no-one knew how to add them to the clock!!

I suggested that they simply play on as Keith was by that time clearly running out of time – and so it was.”