The pre-season friendly game against Fareham. The Chandler’s Ford team Captain Graham Stuart reports. Photo by Keith Gregory. Plus, some team player comments.
Proposal for a friendly match
At the end of last season Keith Gregory was asked by Fareham Chess Club to sound out Chandler’s Ford Chess Club about having a friendly match before the start of the next season.
With the season drawing to a conclusion and a “summer break” looming, Fareham chess club have asked me to check if there would be interest in a Fareham v CF friendly match (possibly two matches i.e., home & away). Fareham suggest we play it over 8 boards and restrict it to under 1900 players to level the playing field (as Fareham have 2 x 2200/2300 FMs!). Fareham chess club meets on Tuesday evenings @ the DOCOC club => https://www.facebook.com/docfareham/ – there’s plenty of space for many boards, free parking and a bar – what’s not to like 🙂
Keith
Match details
- Date: Tuesday 30th August 2022
- Time: 7:30 pm
- Location: Fareham Chess Club, Duke of Connaught’s Own club, 74 Western Road, Fareham PO16 0NS
- Time Control: 60 mins + 10 seconds per move
- We will toss a coin for colours and the board order for our team is in rating order (with the exception of Ian who is currently ungraded).
Match report
Many thanks for the players who played in our pre-season friendly against Fareham last night. Although we lost 5 – 3 this was an excellent result against a very strong side. As can be seen from their team their average grade was 160 points more than ours.
Excellent wins by Iwan and Ian and Rob drew against a very experienced strong player as well. I am still recovering from my draw which went to the bitter end when we were both living on the very small increment (10 seconds)
Graham Stuart
The game results will be submitted to the ECF for grading.
Team comments
Keith Gregory: Hard fought games all played in a very sporting manner by both teams – perhaps we can make this an annual event and host at CF next year?
Ian Partridge: Thanks Graham and Keith for setting this up, it was great fun. For anyone interested, my game is here: