Last Thursday saw Cumnor 1 gain their first league win of the season at home to Oxford City 2.
After suffering a couple of heavy losses in recent weeks, it was Cumnor’s turn to move up a gear and win handsomely.
Cumnor 1 | City 2 | ||
1 | Stevens, Gareth (149) | 0 – 1 | Smith, Roger A ( ) |
2 | Varney, Andrew (146) | 1 – 0 | Biswas, Karl (147) |
3 | Glenn, Liam (140) | 1 – 0 | Yates, John O (142) |
4 | Varney, Daniel (133) | 1 – 0 | Godfrey, David (140) |
5 | Sayers, Mark (134) | 1 – 0 | Smith, Lucy K (125) |
6 | Carr, Robin (126) | 1 – 0 | Brooke, Ian R (109) |
Match played: 21 Nov 2013 | 5 – 1 |
The first to finish was Daniel who played the Smith-Morra gambit as white. He sacrificed two pieces in the build-up to the mate.
Gareth on top board played against a Smith-Morra and suffered the same fate, 1-1.
Andrew won a piece early in the game and went in to win, while Liam was under a lot of pressure but wiggled his away out to end up in a better position.
Robin and Mark also won to produce a 5-1 win for Cumnor 1!
Even more shocking is that this win puts us up to 4th place (for now at least) in Division Two.