Sidcup 3 played their last match for this season in the Fuller League on Thursday against a strong Gravesend 5 who, because their grading was higher than the limit, were deducted .50 point. The team was in fine form and come away with a 3.50 to .50 win but because they had the half point deducted we won 3.50 to 0. Gravesend plays underneath a pub so meant that we could play till 11.30pm leaving an agreed time to play of 35 moves in a hour and 15 minutes with 15 minutes to finish the game. The evening started of well with Mark Lenette grade (70) winning with white against Conner Phillips (60) on board 4 in quick time. Then after a hard game, about an hour later, Ken Smith (117) playing black, had a terrific win on board 1 against Paul Le Bretton (135) 18 grading points higher. Third to finish was Lee Brockwell when a draw was agreed between Lee (113) playing White against Lee Phillips who was 20 grading points higher on (133). Last to finish, after a very hard game, Keith Thompson (112) brought the evening to a close with a good win against John Fowers (120) who had soundly beaten Keith on the last 2 occasions.

Game 1

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[pgn height=400 layout=horizontal autoplayMode=none] [Event "Fuller"] [Site "?"] [Date "2014.03.29"] [Round "?"] [White "Lanette, Mark"] [Black "Phillips, Conner"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D02"] [WhiteElo "70"] [BlackElo "60"] [Annotator "Fritz 13 (30s)"] [PlyCount "37"] [SourceDate "2005.07.14"] {D02: 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 sidelines, including 2...Nf6 3 g3 and 2...Nf6 3 Bf4} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bg5 {last book move} Nc6 4. Bxf6 exf6 5. e3 Bd6 (5... Be6 6. Bd3 $11) 6. c3 {Prevents intrusion on b4} (6. c4 O-O $11) 6... O-O 7. Bd3 Be6 8. Qc2 Re8 (8... h6 $142 $5 $11 {and Black can hope to live}) 9. Bxh7+ $16 Kf8 10. Bd3 Bg4 (10... g6 $5 $16) 11. Nbd2 $18 a6 (11... Ne7 12. O-O-O $18) 12. O-O-O b5 13. Rde1 (13. h3 Be6 $18) 13... Qd7 14. e4 dxe4 (14... g6 $5 15. exd5 Ne7 16. h3 Bxf3 17. Nxf3 (17. gxf3 $6 Nxd5 18. Kb1 Rxe1+ 19. Rxe1 f5 $11) 17... Nxd5 18. Be4 $16) 15. Bxe4 $18 Rab8 (15... Kg8 16. h3 Bxf3 17. Bxf3 $18 (17. gxf3 $143 Bf4 $16)) 16. Bxc6 Qxc6 17. Qh7 Rxe1+ $4 {the final mistake, not that it matters anymore} (17... Be6 18. Qh8+ Ke7 19. Qxg7 Qd5 $18) 18. Rxe1 Bxf3 (18... Be6 {a last effort to resist the inevitable} 19. Qh8+ Ke7 20. Qxb8 Bf4 $18) 19. Qh8# 1-0 [/pgn]

Game 2

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[pgn height=400 layout=horizontal autoplayMode=none] [Event "Fuller"] [Site "?"] [Date "2014.03.28"] [Round "?"] [White "Fowers, John"] [Black "Thompson, Keith"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B13"] [WhiteElo "120"] [BlackElo "112"] [Annotator "Thompson,Keith"] [PlyCount "98"] [EventDate "2014.??.??"] [SourceDate "2005.07.14"] {This was the best game of the season for me without a doubt despite nealrly loosing it should have won it earlier on at move 30, bit lucky in the end to win though. At least I did not go through the season without a win, which I thought I may well do on Thursday when I saw it was Mr Fowers I had to play.} 1. e4 {The opening is a Caro Khan Panov Botvinic attack.} c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 Bf5 {Probably more usual in this line is Nf6, Nc3 , or Bg4.} 5. Bb5+ Nc6 {Not many people have played this line of opening in a database of over 4 million only 17 people have played this opening but black scores well with a 54% percentage of wins.} 6. O-O Nf6 7. Nc3 a6 {At this position only one other game was showing in my database which black won. White played here BxN which I thought white was going to play here.} 8. Ba4 b5 {I think black has equalized here by playing what is normal opening moves and can progress to a good position.} 9. Bb3 e6 {Freeing my bishop and protecting d5.} 10. a3 { making a square for his bishop. I think here black has a slight advantage his d4 pawn looks vulnerable as his c pawn cannot protect it and his knight on c3 looks bad and I have a semi open file c file for my rooks to make use of. Whites bishop on b3 looks out of., while mine is bearing down on his c2 pawn} Bd6 11. Re1 O-O {Finishing my development just need to bring my rooks to the c file.} 12. Ne5 Bxe5 {Pity but the Bishop has to go definitely not Nxp white can the play pxN forking my Bishop and Knight.} 13. dxe5 Nd7 {attacking his pawn for a second time.} 14. Bf4 {slightly better than f4 which exposes his king to a queen check.} Rc8 {Now to start putting pressure on the c file and his Knight} 15. Bg3 Na5 {Fritz says that Nc5 was a better way of attacking the bishop and removing it from defense of c2 now he cannot move his knight.} 16. Ba2 Nc4 {My knight was a bit out of it on a5 which is probably why Fritz says that Nc5 was better. Also Nc4 it gives white the option of getting rid of his bad bishop for my good knight which white does.} 17. Bxc4 Rxc4 {much better than either pawn taking Bishop it gives me the option too place my other rook on c8 and perhaps Qc7} 18. Qd2 Qb6 {This moves prevents f3 or f4 and lines up a push of either my b pawn or d pawn} 19. Rac1 Rfc8 {Completing my plan for the rooks on the c file, now how to continue the attack.} 20. Qe2 Bg4 $2 {Not a very good move it does nothing to enhance my attack on his knight or the c file. b4 or a5 was the correct move} 21. Qd2 Bf5 22. Kf1 Qa7 {Should have played b4 here but thought that d4 was better but the d pawn could not take the knight immediately because my knight on d7 was hanging.} 23. f3 Qb7 { getting my queen out of the way of Bf2} 24. Bf2 {now preventing d4 so it has to be a b4 and a5 attack} a5 25. Bd4 b4 26. axb4 axb4 27. Na2 Rxc2 28. Rxc2 Rxc2 29. Qxb4 $2 {start to loose it after working hard to get into a good position missed a simple win here} Qxb4 $4 (29... Qa6+ 30. Kg1 Qxa2 {and black has virtually won the game}) 30. Nxb4 {was disappointed at coming out of what I thought at the time was a winning position and failing to find a the correct moves felt sure by this stage that I should have made better use of the position and now white has what looked like an equal position if not better with a passed outside pawn.} Rc4 31. Bc3 d4 32. Bd2 d3 $2 {not the best move should have played h5 and still be slightly better} 33. g4 Bg6 34. Kf2 Nc5 { Time was getting on here white had about 10 mins to finish the game while I had about 18 mins so I was Ok with the time a thought I should be able to get a draw from here although the b pawn could be a major factor but I was not sure if white had enough time to get a win.} 35. Ra1 h6 36. Ke3 Nb3 37. Ra8+ Kh7 38. Nxd3 Nxd2 $2 {Bxd3 was better here and it gives the way I plyed this it gives white chances of a win. White was a pawn up but could he get it home in time was becoming short for white not so much black as I had played the last few moves fairly quickly and kept a time advantage.} 39. Kxd2 Rd4 40. Ra3 Rd5 41. f4 Be4 42. Ke3 Bxd3 {Was unsure about this at the time but its Ok for black. It will still be hard to get the pawn home for white. Elliminate the king side pawns so the all I have to consentrate on is the b pawn but was unsure about this tactic but no time to think to much.} 43. Rxd3 Rb5 {what I could not allow was my rook to be taken} 44. b3 f6 {start exchanging the king side pawns} 45. exf6 gxf6 46. f5 {white has the same idea here. White has about 4 mins left is this a mistake? it give me back my pawn} exf5 47. gxf5 Rxf5 {now I have a passed pawn it makes thing much more equal he still has the outsude pass pawn.} 48. b4 {its on the move I think I can attck the h pawn it moves my rook out of the way of my f pawn} Rh5 {not the best move but I needed to attack something I thought attacking this pawn mightwould stop his other pawn from moving abd hped that it would make him use thinking time.} 49. Rb3 { He did not think out this move it was gis blunder and lucky for me.} Rh3+ { John Fowers resigned immediately I made this move he looked a bit shocked. He said after that his planned endgame was like mine to exchange the kingside pawns and then he could concentrate on getting the the rook behind the passed pawn and push on to be a queen. While I could concentrate on stopping it. It was in the end a lucky win for me to win on a mistake but I must have been due a bit of luck.} 0-1 [/pgn]

Keith Thompson