Exeter 4-2 Teignmouth 15th March 2014
(W) Paulsen (186) 1-0 (181) Brusey (B)
Regis (176) 1-0 (160) Ingham
Waters (165) 1-0 (139) Gorodi
Frangleton (153) ½-½ (133) Doidge
Marjoram (146) 0-1 (123) Tidy
Dobber (136) ½-½ (119) Ariss
Exeter, away and fielding a stronger team than of late, beat a rather
less highly graded team from Teignmouth on Saturday, but the match
looked like it was going to be a victory for the home side for most of
the afternoon.
The normally solid Will Marjoram handed his opponent a Rook early on and
found his King chased into a mating net. John Ariss was content to draw
with Queen and Pawn against a pair of Rooks when Piet Dobber blockaded
pawns on the same colour squares as John's Bishop.
Bill Ingham calmly took apart the Black Queen's-side when Dave was
thrashing around trying to get some play against the London System, and
it looked as though a second win would soon be recorded for Teignmouth.
Simon Waters centralised with devastastating effect against veteran John
Gorodi and although Andy was angling for an attack against the White King
in a Winawer, it fizzled out into an opposite-coloured Bishop endgame,
leaving the scores level.
With all the other players in time trouble, Bill looked to be cruising
to victory, but allowed himself to be swindled, dropping a piece by
overworking his Queen. Alan's command of the b-file on top board came to
nothing when he lost on time after falling for a late trick. We saw a second
swindle on the last board when, in the blitz phase of the endgame, Dave
generously donated a whole Rook on f2, but to everyone's astonishment it was
found that Black could still Queen a pawn. Poor Bill deserved better luck!