4NCL 2013-14 (first weekend)

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Have just been looking through the results for round 1 of the 4NCL:

http://www.4nclresults.co.uk/4ncl/1/1a/export/
http://www.4nclresults.co.uk/4ncl/1/1b/export/
http://www.4nclresults.co.uk/4ncl/1/2a/export/
http://www.4nclresults.co.uk/4ncl/1/2b/export/
http://www.4nclresults.co.uk/4ncl/1/3s/export/
http://www.4nclresults.co.uk/4ncl/1/3n/export/

As far as I can tell, the established teams have won as expected and the promoted teams have not managed any wins, though I may have missed something. A couple of individual results stand out. Good to see what look like a number of new teams in division 3.

[Graham Borrowdale]

Cracking game between Rowson and Bisby, if you like king's indian games :


http://www.4ncl.co.uk/live_games_toma2.htm

[John Saunders]

How about this for a King's Indian game from yesterday...

[Event "4NCL Division 1b"] [Site "Hinckley Island ENG"] [Date "2013.11.16"] [Round "1.162"] [White "Flear, Glenn C"] [Black "Eckersley-Waites, Adam"] [Result "1-0"] [BlackElo "2284"] [BlackTeam "Cambridge University 1"] [ECO "E73"] [EventDate "2013.11.16"] [WhiteElo "2475"] [WhiteTeam "Guildford 2"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Bg5 Na6 7.Qd2 e5 8.d5 Qe8 9.Bd1 Nc5 10.Bc2 a5 11.Nge2 c6 12.dxc6 Qxc6 13.f3 Ne6 14.Nd5 1-0

[Neil Graham]

Cracking game between Rowson and Bisby, if you like king's indian games :


http://www.4ncl.co.uk/live_games_toma2.htm

Agreed drawn - but black had a win in the final position - but would he have found it?

[Joey Stewart]

Not sure if anybody has heard of him, but a player named Adam Ashton beat glenn flear in quite a nice game today.

[Matt Mackenzie]

How about this for a King's Indian game from yesterday...

[Event "4NCL Division 1b"] [Site "Hinckley Island ENG"] [Date "2013.11.16"] [Round "1.162"] [White "Flear, Glenn C"] [Black "Eckersley-Waites, Adam"] [Result "1-0"] [BlackElo "2284"] [BlackTeam "Cambridge University 1"] [ECO "E73"] [EventDate "2013.11.16"] [WhiteElo "2475"] [WhiteTeam "Guildford 2"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Bg5 Na6 7.Qd2 e5 8.d5 Qe8 9.Bd1 Nc5 10.Bc2 a5 11.Nge2 c6 12.dxc6 Qxc6 13.f3 Ne6 14.Nd5 1-0

One word - ouch!

[Mick Norris]

Not sure if anybody has heard of him, but a player named Adam Ashton beat glenn flear in quite a nice game today.

Of course, Adam plays for Urmston in the Manchester League and came up through the 3Cs system - nice guy, good player

[AustinElliott]

Not sure if anybody has heard of him, but a player named Adam Ashton beat glenn flear in quite a nice game today.

Of course, Adam plays for Urmston in the Manchester League and came up through the 3Cs system - nice guy, good player

Yes, second that on both counts.

I seem to recall from a previous conversation on here that Adam has at least one IM norm, though perhaps a few years old.

3Cs actually have now generated a 'diaspora', one aspect of which is players from their junior system now turning out on the top boards for other Manchester clubs - apart from Adam, Alex Longson, currently playing for Marple in the Manchester League, is an example. And Stephen Gordon has been known to return to play the occasional league match, though I suspect not this season.

[Keith Arkell]

In round 1 I found an improvement over 1 e4:
31 e4 checkmate

[David Shepherd]

I always knew there was a good reason to start d4 or Nf3 rather e4. Still I guess 1 e4 followed by e4 checkmate is possible - I wonder if that has ever happened?

[Alex Holowczak]

All of the games from the weekend are now online, with apologies for the delay in yesterday's Division 1 games.

I quite liked the Williams-Rogers in Round 2 Division 1b. It was a very wild 23 moves...

[Roger de Coverly]

All of the games from the weekend are now online, with apologies for the delay in yesterday's Division 1 games.

The file for 2a Round 2 is missing from the server.

The requested URL /pgn/div2_1314/4NCL-div2a-rnd2.pgn was not found on this server.

[Alex Holowczak]

All of the games from the weekend are now online, with apologies for the delay in yesterday's Division 1 games.

The file for 2a Round 2 is missing from the server.

The requested URL /pgn/div2_1314/4NCL-div2a-rnd2.pgn was not found on this server.

Ah yes, I'd neglected to FTP that to the site for some reason.

But it's there now.

[Matthew Turner]

A slightly bizarre observation, but all the matches in div2 B seem to be incredibly close. This must be unusual?

[Joey Stewart]

It is pretty usual in div2 for there to be no one team dominating. On paper it is the most balanced division in the league so all matches should, theoretically, be quite close.