Sidcup 2 played Petts Wood 4 on Friday night and secured their first win of the season. The evening started off well with Ian Reeve beating a young Siyang Xu. It is always difficult playing youngsters as they improve so quickly and the ratings they are given at the start of the seasons can leap dramatically during it. However, Ian coped with him well and won in 48 moves (see below). The next game to finish was my loss against Phil Wheeler. I am having a very bad season with four out of four losses and not a win in sight. I at least had a small advantage in this game and lost in my usual fashion of making a silly blunder in the middle game (see games below). Ken asked the score and when I said we were drawing at one each, he looked at Ken Smith’s game who was in a very commanding position against Phil Easthope and offered a draw to his opponent Roger Blundell, who accepted his offer. This put us in a very good position as Ken was well up and had plenty of time to make it count. He duly went on to secure the full point for us.

ScoreCard 16-11-12

PGN Notation:

[pgn height=400 layout=horizontal autoplayMode=none] [Date "2012.11.10"] [White "Knight, Michael"] [Black "Smith, Ken"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "A50"] [PlyCount "71"] [SourceDate "2012.11.10"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Bf4 Be7 4. e3 O-O 5. Nf3 b6 6. Be2 Bb7 7. O-O d6 8. Nbd2 Nbd7 9. Qc2 c5 10. Bd3 h6 11. Rfe1 Ne8 12. a3 f5 13. b4 Nef6 14. Bg3 Nh5 15. d5 Nxg3 16. hxg3 exd5 17. cxd5 Bxd5 18. Bxf5 Nf6 19. e4 Bf7 20. b5 Qc7 21. Rac1 Qb7 22. a4 Rad8 23. Nh4 Rfe8 24. Ng6 Bxg6 25. Bxg6 Rf8 26. Qc4+ Kh8 27. f3 Nd7 28. Qd5 Qxd5 29. exd5 Ne5 30. Bh5 Nd3 31. Rxe7 Nxc1 32. Rxa7 Rf5 33. g4 Rxd5 34. Nc4 Rd1+ 35. Kh2 d5 36. Nxb6 1/2-1/2 [/pgn]

Game 2

PGN Notation:

[pgn height=400 layout=horizontal autoplayMode=none]
[Event "Fuller"]
[Date "2012.11.14"]
[White "Wheeler, Phillip"]
[Black "Thompson, Keith"]
[Result "1-0"] [ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "113"]
[BlackElo "124"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[SourceDate "2005.07.14"] 
1. d4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bf5 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Bd3 Bxd3 7. Qxd3 Nc6 
8. a3 e6 9. Nf3 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. b4 Rc8 12. Bd2 Qd7 13. b5 Na5 14. Ne2 Nc4 
15. a4 Ne4 16. Ne5 Nxe5 17. dxe5 Rc7 18. f3 Nc5 19. Qb1 b6 20. Nd4 Nb7 
21. Nc6 Nd8 22. Nxe7+ Qxe7 23. Bb4 Qg5 24. f4 Qg4 25. Bxf8 Kxf8 26. Rc1 Re7 
27. Qb4 Qe2 28. Re1 Qd3 29. Rac1 Ke8 30. Rcd1 Qg6 31. e4 dxe4 32. Rxe4 Nb7 
33. Red4 Rc7 34. Qd2 f6 35. Rd7 Rc2 36. Rd8+ Nxd8 37. Qxd8+ Kf7 38. Rd7# 1-0 
[/pgn]

Game 3

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PGN Notation:

[pgn height=400 layout=horizontal autoplayMode=none]
[Event "Fuller"]
[Date "2012.11.16"]
[White "Xu, Siyang"]
[Black "Reeve , Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C46"]
[WhiteElo "83"]
[BlackElo "88"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[SourceDate "2005.07.14"] 
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 f6 4. Bc4 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. Bb5 Bd7 7. a3 a6 8. Bxc6 Bxc6 
9. b4 Bb6 10. d3 Qd7 11. Qd2 O-O-O 12. Nd5 Bxd5 13. exd5 Ne7 14. c4 Rde8 15. Qb2 Nf5 
16. a4 Nd4 17. Nxd4 Bxd4 18. Qa3 Bxa1 19. Qxa1 g5 20. b5 a5 21. Re1 b6 22. Qb2 h5 
23. Qe2 Qf5 24. h3 h4 25. g4 hxg3 26. fxg3 Qxh3 27. Qf3 Qh2+ 28. Kf1 Rh3 29. Re3 Qh1+ 
30. Qxh1 Rxh1+ 31. Kf2 Rxc1 32. Rf3 Rf8 33. g4 Ra1 34. Ke2 Rxa4 35. Rf1 Ra2+ 36. Ke1 Ra1+ 
37. Ke2 Rxf1 38. Kxf1 f5 39. gxf5 Rxf5+ 40. Ke2 a4 41. Kd2 g4 42. Kc3 g3 43. Kb4 g2 
44. Kxa4 g1=Q 45. Kb3 Rf2 46. Kc3 Qc1+ 47. Kb3 Rb2+ 48. Ka4 Qa1# 0-1 
[/pgn]

Keith Thompson