NCCL Team 2019-20

North Circular League Div 2

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
4	2	2	0	6

To see match report, click on score, or scroll down.

Day	Date	Venue	0pponents	Result
Thu	17-Oct-19	Away	Barking II	D 2½-2½
Wed	23-Oct-19	Home	Enfield II	W 3½-1½
Thu	21-Nov-19	Away	Wanstead III	W 3-2
Wed	15-Jan-20	Home	Enfield I	D 2½-2½
Tue	31-Mar-20	Away	Enfield II
Wed	08-Apr-20	Home	Wanstead III
Wed	22-Apr-20	Home	Barking II
Mon	4-May-20	Away	Chingford II
Tue	12-May-20	Away	Enfield I
Wed	27-May-20	Home	Chingford II

Match reports

St Margaret's Church Centre, Barking Thur 17^th Oct 2019

	Barking II			Loughton I
1	Ramage, Colin R	158	½-½	van Tol, Martin	147
2	Berkley, Stephen W	115	½-½	Groce, Ken	136
3	Monk, George H	124	½-½	Kershaw, Graham J	130
4	Maftei, Razvan		0-1	Jones, Barry E	112
5	Chtym, Vladimir	108	1-d	Dee, Fault
			2½-2½

Unfortunately Dave got sick on the day, leaving us one short, and everybody moved up a board. Under the circumstances, a drawn match was a decent outcome.

Colin had Martin under some pressure from one of his exotic openings, but Martin wriggled out and got a draw.
Ken and Graham both felt they might have missed wins.
Barry controlled his game well and his opponent fell apart later on.

Loughton Bowls Club Wed 23^rd Oct 2019

	Loughton			Enfield II
1	van Tol, Martin	147	1-0	McNish, David	140
2	Moth, Simon C	142	1-0	Efthymiou, Demetris	132
3	Groce, Ken	135	½-½	Chowdhury, Majbaha	119
4	Stiffell, Lyn	129	½-½	McWilliams, Mark
5	Clarke, Gordon	90	½-½	Tsentides, Mike	98
			3½-1½

Wanstead House Thur 21^st Nov 2019

	Wanstead III			Loughton
1	Murrell, Mark R A	160	0-1	Faulkner, David J	155
2	Barclay, Paul R	148	½-½	Van Tol, Martin	147
3	Jones, Keith S	142	½-½	Moth, Simon	142
4	Nickals, Peter A	132	0-1	Groce, Ken	138
5	Haddock, Paul	127	1-0	Kershaw, Graham J	130
			2-3

Loughton extended their unbeaten run in the NCCL B division to 15 matches with a narrow 3-2 victory over league leaders Wanstead III.

Ken’s opponent blundered in the opening and was lost after 19 moves.
Simon and Martin reverted back to their old ways and both drew quickly.
Graham gained some activity for a couple of pawns but his opponent consolidated and then won the exchange. Graham resigned shortly afterwards.
This left the match tied with Dave’s game remaining. It was an exciting finish for the spectators - Dave was in his customary time trouble and was almost an hour behind his opponent on the clock! However, he had the bishop pair and unleashed them with d5! followed by d6! which forced his opponent to sacrifice the exchange. There was no compensation for the exchange and Dave won with seconds to spare!

Loughton Bowls Club Wed 15^th Jan 2020

	Loughton			Enfield I
1	Faulkner, David J	160	0-1	Olulode, Olu	186
2	van Tol, Martin	145	½-½	McNish, David	140
3	Moth, Simon C	145	½-½	Efthymiou, Demetris	129
4	Groce, Ken	136	1-0	Gilberg, Paul	130
5	Kershaw, Graham J	131	½-½	Kyriacou, Kyriacos	119
			2½-2½

Loughton extended their unbeaten run in the NCCL B division to 16 matches with a tightly fought draw against Enfield I.

Dave was outgunned on board one.

Ken gained the bishop pair and won comfortably. See game.
Graham had a quick draw.
Simon sacrificed a pawn in the Sicilian dragon for an attack, but this did not materialise and a draw by 3-fold repetition occurred.
Martin - McNish as usual (!) was the last match to finish with both players short of time. There was a complicated position on the board with a material imbalance. The players agreed a draw to level the match.

The remainder of the 2019-20 season was abandoned due to coronavirus concerns.

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