Recent Progress

Snodlands prestigous A-league is going very well indeed and has some very interesting line ups. Matthew Bunn is leading the league but still has some very tough games (notably against David Fowler and Bob Fenn who we know to be "hard to beat" players and who are still in the running for the title). David Fowler doing very well also who is still a main challenger for honours at the end of the season. Most notable progress has been Len Hammond who has had some brilliant results in the league and is emphatically shining in the league. A brilliant turnout for him. Some very unlucky results from Nick in his games where from what is told he had the advantages in his games but very unfortunately lost, but still is by every means a very strong player has to be considered as that.

A few results in the Harvey has swindled our way and vice versa. We won against Tonbridge 2 at home 4.5 - 1.5 which was very convincing and brilliant results from all players.

We very unfortunately lost against the ever strong maidstone where we looked strong on every board but in the end swindled their way to overcome us 3.5 - 2.5. However a fantastic contribution from Soriah Williams on board 6 beating Brian Stock and also to Nick and David Fowler also for their results. Tyrone Jefferies, Henry Williams and Matthew Bunn were believed to be either winning or materially ahead in their games which they unfortunately lost to very strong opponents indeed.

However bouncing back from the unfortunate match against Maidstone, we beat Weald of Kent where indeed we were the fortunate and lucky ones. The match finished 3.5 - 2.5 to Snodland but the last two games more or less finished at the same time (about 3 minutes before both players times were up, and lead to a very quickplay finish) Snodland were 1.5 - 2.5 down where David Fowler beat Henry Cove on time and thus levelled the match, very shortly afterwards Matthew Bunn beat a strong David Warrick on board one on time but was a whole Bishop up and if more time required I think the game would have favoured Matthew and the Bishop. So a result Snodland were satisfied with.

Elsewhere in the En Passant Snodland 1 lost to Folkestone which made certainty that Snodland 1 Could not go through, However credit must be mentioned to David Nicholls who drew to Jim Bayford 185 which was thought to be a fantastic result for Snodlands board 1. And also to Tyrone Jefferies who won and who has believed to of had a brilliant season in terms of his results. David Fowler once again being his solid style drew to Chris Siebert who is a good player and again we very rarely see David Fowler losing. A Fantastic season for him also with many wins and draws and the one we always want to see, very few losses.

Also a victory for the En Passant team where we again overcame Tunbridge Wells 4-2 a brilliant result from David Fowler, Chris Marshall and Matthew Bunn who all won on boards 2, 3 and 4. Tyrone and Nick also achieving draws, while David Nicholls unfortunately lost. We all know the results he can pull off but even with Grandmasters, not everyone can pull off the results they want because chess nowadays is becoming so much more flexible and stronger. Saying that David is 9 times out of 10 on the stronger side of things than most of his opponents.

As always more to follow soon