OCTOBER 11, 1993

Exeter hold Iles Cup

The annual contest between Exeter and Taunton Chess Clubs for the Iles

Cup ended in a convincing 11-1 win for Exeter. The scoreline hides a number of very close games which were still in doubt in the last few minutes of play. The game was played with an 'allegro' finish, where the whole game has to be finished in a given time - this means in long games both players may be in time trouble from which there is no reprieve by reaching a given number of moves. Top board Ben Beake took a draw rather than push his luck with the clock under these circumstances, and team captain Brian Hewson mated his opponent with only seconds to spare. Exeter fielded a number of new club members and all of them won. The scores and Exeter players in board order were: Beake 1/2, Heath 1, Hills 1, Hewson 1, Lingham 1, Regis 1/2, Lane 1, Leigh 1, Towers 1, Pope 1, Stooks 1, Willis 1. The Taunton team were heavily outgraded but all the games were fiercely contested.

 If you haven't seen it before, there was an important type of tactic in my own game. After 1 e4, g6; 2 d4, Bg7; 3 Nf3, d6; 4 Bc4, c6; 5 Nc3, Nf6; 6 O-O (DIAGRAM) there was an opportunity to play 6...Nxe4!? I didn't play it and chose 6...O-O, but after 7 Re1 suffered from the threat of e5 for the rest of the game. After 6...Nxe4; 7 Nxe4, d5 regains the piece with equality, and the apparently aggressive 7 Bxf7+ simply gives up the bishop pair in an open position.

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