Submitted by James Mansson on 28 October, 2014 - 08:13
Mark Baldock submitted the following report on the recent Horsham 5 vs Horsham 4 match.
Earlier this week saw the first fixture in Division 3 of the Mid-Sussex League. And what a fixture! A keenly competitive match between Horsham 4 and the new newly promoted Horsham 5. The latter faced an average deficit of 20 grading points on each board and, as the home team, played black on 3 out of 5 boards. But did this didn’t curb the enthusiasm and fighting sprit of the home team? No it didn’t as they ground out 4 very solid draws on Boards 2 to 5 and were just edged out on Board 1 right at the death.
Submitted by James Mansson on 2 October, 2014 - 09:00
Last Tuesday was the day set aside for the first round of the standard play knockout competition. We managed to play two thirds of the fixtures, which was not too bad.
There were no real upsets in the games played. The full results can be found here.
Submitted by James Mansson on 24 September, 2014 - 14:18
Last night saw the start of the Quickplay Knockout competition. The aim was to complete at least the first couple of rounds and this was largely completed, with only the top eighth failing to do so as a consequence of the rearranged D Gray - Z Rustom fixture not being played. Indeed, there were a few people keen enough to play their third round matches as well, so we already have one semi-finalist in the main competition and the plate!
Submitted by Anthony Higgs on 10 September, 2014 - 21:44
I managed to overcome the assembled club members 12-7 in the annual simul last night, there was certainly plenty of high-quality opposition to keep me worried...
