10/11/22
| Bury St Edmunds | | 31/2 – 1/2 | Saxmundham | |
1 | Steve Lovell | 1796 | 1 – 0 | Mike Usher | 1767 |
2 | Bob Jones | 1703 | 1 – 0 | Dominic Carter | 1663 |
3 | Mark Heffer | 1682 | 1/2 – 1/2 | Matthew Lawes-Wickwar | 1300 |
4 | Laureano Garcia | 1690 | 1 – 0 | Lee Osmon | 1375 |
Saxmundham kicked off their campaign in the U1800 Cup (a competition for teams of four, whose players are all rated below 1800) last week with a tough trip to Bury St Edmunds.
For Sax, this was essentially our B Team playing. Bury were much the stronger team on paper and duly won convincingly 3.5 -0.5. For us, Matthew’s sterling effort on board 3 earned a draw and prevented the whitewash. Lee was quickly dispatched on board 4 and on top board, Mike managed to drop a vital pawn in a complex middle game and that was enough. Dominic seemed to have reached a drawn R+P endgame, but then went wrong and lost quickly, to cap a very disappointing night.