Other tournaments the club have entered:

Circular Chess World Championship (2010)

C&D Individual Lightning Tournament (2010)

Inter-University Tournament (2010)

Christmas Blitz (2009)

C&D Team Lightning Tournament (2009)

Freshers' Tournament (2009)

C&D Individual Lightning Tournament (2009)

C&D Team Lightning Tournament (2008)

Exchange Tournament (2007)

C&D Individual Lightning Tournament (2007)

Inter-University Tournament (2007)

C&D Team Lightning Tournament (2006)

Warwick Blitz Championship (2006)

C&D Individual Lightning Tournament (2005)

C&D Team Lightning Tournament (2005)

C&D Team Lightning Tournament (2004)

BCF 100 Year Celebration (2004)

C&D Individual Lightning Tournament (2004)

Inter-University Tournament (2004)

C&D Team Lightning Tournament (2003)

Inter-University Tournament (2003)

C&D Individual Lightning Tournament (2003)

C&D Team Lightning Tournament (2002)

Inter-University Tournament (2002)

C&D Team Lightning Tournament (2001)

C&D Team Lightning Tournament (2000)

Inter-University Tournament (2000)

The club sent a team of 6 to Girton College, Cambridge on Saturday 11th November to take part in the Inter-University Chess Tournament. The team didn't know what to expect, other than a strong Cambridge side, who unsurprisingly, went on to win comfortably (they had 200+ rated players on the top four boards!) However, we did not disgrace ourselves in the 7-round 10-minute blitz tournament, finishing with a grand total of 21 points out of 42, enough to secure 5th place out of 8, behind Cambridge 1, Oxford 1, Imperial and Cambridge 2 and ahead of Durham, Cambridge 3 and Oxford 2. It was very close for second place however, and with one round to go, we still had the possibility of finishing as runners-up. Special congratulations go to Richard Bates for gaining 5.5/7 and winning 2nd prize in the top board competition, whilst Oliver Gill also got an impressive 3.5 against strong opposition on board 3. The team who played, with their scores out of 7 in brackets, were:

Board 1: Richard Bates (5.5)
Board 2: Dave Buckley (4.5)
Board 3: Oliver Gill (3.5)
Board 4: Steven Turvey (1.5)
Board 5: Adam O'Reilly (3)
Board 6: Wern Kai Yap (3)

Hopefully, next year we can build upon this solid performance, as well as enter a second team, especially as we may get the opportunity to host the event!

The club sent 5 players to the annual league lightning tournament on Tuesday 5th November. Lightning chess means you get 10 seconds for each move, and is a great leveller (as anyone can blunder when you play that quickly!) Teams were of 6 players, so we gained a spare player from Meriden Knights to get our full quota. The tournament had a good atmosphere and wasn't too serious (due to the lack of prizes for winning it!) In the end though, we finished a credible 3rd out of the 7 teams who entered.

Final Team Scores (numbers of points in total scored against the other teams):

1st: Nuneaton 31.5/36
2nd: Whoberley A 26
3rd: WARWICK UNIVERSITY 24
4th: Coventry Transport 20

The University team, plus the number of points gained by each player, was:

Board 1: Dave Buckley 5/6
Board 2: Oliver Gill 4/6
Board 3: Adam O'Reilly 3/6
Board 4: Steven Turvey 5.5/6
Board 5: Leighton Powell 4.5/6
Board 6: Graham Winney (from Meriden Knights): 2/6

Well done to everyone who took part. It was good to see no University player getting less than half points, despite most of us not having played lightning chess for ages!

This time around the club managed to get a full team of six players out for this annual event, although exactly how this happened is still not entirely clear. The format was the same as last year's - 10 seconds per move, although it *seemed* like a lot more in the endgame and a lot less in the middle game. We got off to a good start with 11 points out of 12 against Meriden A and Whoberley B, but our hopes of doing better than last year were dashed in the next two rounds with losses to very strong Nuneaton A and Whoberley A sides. We won our last two matches against Nuneaton B and Meriden B convincingly though, securing third place and exactly the same score as last year(!). The team went home in high spirits, all six of us packing in to Ference's car for the ride back to Hearsall Common.

Final Team Scores (numbers of points in total scored against the other teams):

1st: Nuneaton A 31.5/36
2nd: Whoberley A 27.5
3rd: WARWICK UNIVERSITY 24
4th: Whoberley B 15
5th: Cov Transport 14.5
6th: Nuneaton B 12
7th: Meriden B 7.5
8th: Meriden A 6.5

The University team, plus the number of points gained by each player, was:

Board 1: Dave Buckley 4/6
Board 2: Richard Colfer 4.5/6
Board 3: Steven Turvey 3.5/6
Board 4: Adam O'Reilly 3.5/6
Board 5: Joey Stewart 4.5/6 (inc. a default win)
Board 6: Ference Brose 4/6 (inc. two default wins)

A good performance from everyone who turned up, with everyone scoring higher than 50%.

Due to the success of last year's inter-university tournament, everyone agreed that another should be held this year. Our president (Dave Buckley) wasted no time in volunteering to host it here, at Warwick University. After months of e-mail conversations between the clubs to arrange the tournament, the day of the tournament finally arrived... along with nine teams from seven other universities and three from Warwick. Despite some organisational problems at the start of the day (not enough sets, boards or clocks...) the tournament finally got underway around 40 minutes after the scheduled start time. The format for the tournament was five rounds of twenty-five minutes each, with match points being used to decide the final places - game points as a tie-breaker. In the final round, Warwick I led the field by half a match point, and needed to beat Edinburgh to be certain of winning the tournament. In a hard-fought match on every board, Warwick came through to win and take first place. Thanks to all the universities who took part, everyone who loaned us equipment and especially to Dave Buckley and Steve Turvey for organising the tournament.

Final Scores:

Seed	Name	TN	Round Number					Game Points	Position
			1	2	3	4	5
10	Birmingham I	1	0    7	1    2	1    6	2    8	2    5	13	8th
12	Birmingham II	2	0  12	0    1	0    8	0  11	0  10	2.5	12th
5	Cambridge	3	1  11	1    9	2    5	3  10	3    6	14.5*	4th
3	Edinburgh	4	0  10	1  11	2  12	3    7	3    9	14.5*	5th
7	Imperial	5	0.5  6	1.5  8	1.5  3	2  12	3    1	12	7th
1	Oxford I	6	0.5  5	1.5 12	2.5  1	3    9	4    3	17	2nd
4	Oxford II	7	1    1	2  10	2    9	2    4	3  12	14	6th
8	Sheffield	8	0    9	0    5	1    2	1    1	1.5 11	9.5	10th
2	Warwick I	9	1    8	2    3	3    7	3.5  6	4.5  4	18	1st
9	Warwick II	10	1    4	1    7	2  11	2    3	3    2	17	3rd
11	Warwick III	11	0    3	0    4	0  10	1    2	1.5  8	7	11th
6	York	12	1    2	1    6	1    4	1.5  5	1.5  7	11	9th

*    - Teams separated by sum of opponent's match points
TN - Tournament Number

Full Tournament results here

Coventry and District Chess League Team Lightning Tournament (03/12/2002)

This year, the University managed to enter two teams into the tournament, though the B team could only be completed by adopting two other players from other clubs. With only 6 teams participating, the tournament was conducted in the round-robin format. University A started horribly with a 5-1 defeat at eventual joint winners Nuneaton A. But comfortable wins over University B (5.5-0.5) and Nuneaton B (4.5-1.5), coupled with draws with Whoberley (the other joint winner) and Rugby, saw the University A team finish 3rd for the 3rd consecutive year. University B had a rough time of it though, but clearly out rated, they managed to pull off some impressive individual results to finish very closely with Nuneaton B.

The Teams:

University A
Board 1: Alistair Fletcher 1/5
Board 2: Nigel Chapman 2/5
Board 3: Nathaniel Frank 3/5
Board 4: Joey Stewart 3/5
Board 5: Russell Pearson 4/5
Board 6: Divino Sabino 4/5

University B
Board 1: Liam Whelan 1/5 (from Coventry Transport)
Board 2: Dave Filer 0/5 (from Whoberley)
Board 3: Myles Heywood 0.5/5
Board 4: Ference Brose 2/5
Board 5: Chris Baynes 1.5/5
Board 6: Ankit Jajoo 0.5/5

Report By Joey Stewart

C&D Individual Lightning Chess Tournament (25/02/2003)

A big round of applause to our very own Dave Buckley for winning the tournament with a 100% record, winning all 6 of his games. Other club participants didn't do too badly against a strong herd of competition: Adrian Fowkes got 4 out of 6; Alistair Fletcher and Divino Sabino got 3 out of 6; Joey Stewart got 2 out of 6 and Amit Sood came out with 1 out of 5 (plus one bye).

Report By Divino Sabino

Inter-University Tournament (2003)Birmingham (08/02/2003)

The Inter University Tournament this year was slightly disappointing, not because we were knocked off our championship spot by a very strong Oxford team (too strong by my reckoning, I think someone should have blindfolded them before the matches in the interest of fairness) but because of Birmingham's organisational skills, which prevented more then one team per university from entering the tournament. This denied many Warwick players the chance to enter the tournament, and consequently, led to the withdrawal of two strong teams (Edinburgh and Cambridge), which weakened the overall field of players and allowed Oxford such an easy time. Ranting aside though, Warwick preformed admirably with a weaker team then last years winners and secured second place so as not to disgrace themselves. The tournament itself was a 25 min rapidplay event with 5 rounds.

Position	Name	Match Points	Game points
1	Oxford	5	20
2	Warwick	4	16.5
3	Birmingham	3	12
4	Imperial	3	11
5	LSE	2.5	12
6	Manchester	1.5	12.5
7	Leeds	1	10.5
8	Kings College	0	5.5

The overall Warwick player scores were:

Dave Buckley 2.5/5
Adrian Fowkes 2/5
Adam O'Reilley 2/5
Alastair Fletcher 4.5/5
Ruth Nicol 3.5/5

Also our substitute, Nigel Chapman did very well in the Imperial team, getting 3/5 on board 2, makes you wonder why he was only a substitute....

Report By Joey Stewart

Coventry And District Chess League Team Lightning Tournament 2003 (02/12/03)

Once again the university entered the league lightning and once again we came third! Hopes of bettering this notorious position were crushed in the first and second rounds where we were drawn against Whoberley and Nuneaton A consecutively, losing to both, 1-5 and 1.5-4.5. However, we wouldnt go down without a fight and won our next three games against Coventry Transport, Rugby and Nuneaton B (4.5-1.5, 3.5-2.5 and 5-1 respectively) allowing us to save face and come third again. The tournament itself was in the all play all format,with only six teams entering.

Final Team Scores (numbers of points in total scored against the other teams):

1st: Nuneaton A 23.5/30
2nd: Whoberley A 19.5/30
3rd: University 15.5/30
4th: Coventry Transport 12.5/30
5th: Rugby 11.5/30
6th: Nuneaton B 6.5/30

The University team, plus the number of points gained by each player, was:

Board 1: Stephen Clark 4/5
Board 2: Adrian Fowkes 3.5/5
Board 3: Alastair Fletcher 3/5
Board 4: Joey Stewart 3.5/5
Board 5: Andrew Inglis 0/5
Board 6: Daniel Cardnell 2.5/5

A good performance (on the whole) by the team with hopes that one day we might break out of the cycle and get our hands on the second place.

Report By Joey Stewart

Inter-University Tournament (2004)Warwick (07/02/2004)

The overall Warwick player scores were:

Warwick I
Stephen Clark 3.5/5
Stuart Black 3/4
Alastair Fletcher 2.5/5
Adrian Fowkes 4/5
Robin Killick 4.5/5

Warwick II
James Beardwood 1/5
Matt Rogers 1.5/5
Andrew Inglis 2.5/5
Divino Sabino 3.5/5
Faruq Husainy 3.5/5

Warwick III
Joey Stewart 3/5
Asin Shah 1/4
Simon Morris 1/4
Dan Cardnell 1.5/4
Sean Hynes 1/4
Gui Foong 1/4

Pictures Of The Event here
Individual Results Of Each Match here

Report By Joey Stewart

Well it was certainly a change from last years tournament with no player distancing themselves until the very end, meaning that Alastair and I both went into the final round with a chance of winning the event. It is interesting to note that we were the only people to take any points off the winner - with both of us getting draws in good positions which could well have been won. Gui managed to beat Andy's 0/5 record in the team lightning by getting 0/6 but, to be fair to him, the average grade of player was about 135 so he was outgraded by at least 40 points in almost every game. The tournament itself was the usual 6 rounds with 10 seconds per move, with illegal moves resulting in the game being lost as many players found to their woe.

The final scores were as follows:

1st
Paul Davies (Nuneaton) 5/6

2nd=
Alastair Fletcher (University) 4.5/6
Mike Donnelly (Whoberley) 4.5/6

4th=
Joey Stewart (University) 3.5/6
Adrian Fowkes (University) 3.5/6
Bob Wildig (Rugby) 3.5/6
Karl Forman (Cov Transport) 3.5/6

8th=
Des McCarthy (Cov Transport) 3/6
Matt Humphries (Cov Transport) 3/6
Charles Van Der Westhuizen (Nuneaton) 3/6

12th=
Tom Burgess (Whoberley) 2.5/6
Andy Bullock (Cov Transport) 2.5/6
Jon Cox (Rugby)

14th
Dave Filer (Whoberley) 1.5/6

15th
Mark Harman (Rugby) 1.5/6

16th
Gui Foong (University) 0/6

Report By Joey Stewart

This was a match set up to celebrate 100 years of the BCFs existence, it was played between three local leagues, namely Birmingham, Coventry and Leamington. Each team had 20 players and the pairings were done in such a way to ensure a fair match for all the teams involved. Two university players took part and both won their games, which can be accessed by clicking on the links on their names. It was a close affair but in the end Coventry ended up joint first with Leamington on 11.5 each.

24/02/04

Report By Joey Stewart

Unfortunately, the university was unable to turn out a team which was sufficient to handle the stronger forces of the league. With only 4 players for a 6 player tournament, we were only able to enter a team at all thinks to substitutes from Coventry but this was still not enough to prevent us from finishing very low. It was certainly an interesting year though, as Whoberley and Nuneaton were unable to prevent the forces of Coventry from taking the title for the first time in 11 years.

Final Table
1.Coventry 24
2.Whoberley 22
3.Rugby 16
4.Nuneaton 14
5.University 11
6.Meriden 3

Individual Results For University Players:
Board 1. Adrian Fowkes: 2.5/5
Board 2. Joey Stewart : 2/5
Board 3. Oli Anderton : 3/5
Board 4. Dan Cardnell : 1.5/5
Board 5. A.Jones : 1/5
Board 6. P.Jones : 1/5

Report By Joey Stewart

After last year's unimpressive performance in the team lightning we had some pride to regain and, in this respect, we well and truly were given justice. A pretty strong squad of A and B team players was created to give us maximum winning chances and we set out, only to find the field to be a lot better then anticipated.

A nice convincing 5-1 win vs last year's champions, Coventry, gave us high hopes for the tournament but the second round we drew our greatest nemesis - Whoberley A. The games in this match were all of a good standard and, at 3 - 2 up, it came down to the result of the third board to decide whether we finally got a win against this dangerous side or just held them to a draw. The game itself was most intersting, involving the rare position of a queen vs three minor pieces and it looked as if the small army of lesser pieces were getting the better of the powerful queen until "luck" conspired against Whoberley and a series of blunders allowed most of the pieces to be lost, ending in a win for us 4 - 2. Having now overcome Whoberley A it was up to their B team to extract revenge upon us, but their forces were dashed upon the rocks and dispersed in a 4.5 - 1.5 win for us. Next up was another big shot team, Nuneaton, who had also laid claim to the title in previous years. Their formidable force was just not enough to overcome the rampaging university team, and they were blasted off the boards in a 5 - 1 victory. With this win it was looking certain for us to take the championship for the first time in university history; all we had to do was overcome Rugby in the final round. With a 1 point advantage from the start, due to a default on board 6, it was going to be a massive effort for them. They fought bravely but were also snuffed out in our final 4.5 - 1.5 victory.

In the meantime, however, Whoberley A had been annhialating the other teams and had come within spitting distance of catching us in the final round. Fortunately they were a mere half point short in the end (and in fact even with that extra half they would have still lost as it would have been decided by the result between our two teams) and the university made chess history by winning the team lightning for the first time!

Final Scores

University	23
Whoberley A	22.5
Coventry	13.5
Whoberley B	12
Nuneaton	11
Rugby	8

Individual player results

Board 1	Tom Rendle	4.5/5
Board 2	Joey Stewart	3/5
Board 3	Leor Nadison	4/5
Board 4	Alastair Fletcher	4/5
Board 5	Nasrul Humaimi	3.5/5
Board 6	Steve Turvey	4/5

I would also like to mention our seventh player Rob Woolham, who filled a space for the Coventry team and got an impressive 3.5/5 on board 6.

Report By Joey Stewart

With university players making up half the field for this event, it was a better turnout then ever before. Some very interesting games went on, and club vice president Joey Stewart came close to getting something out of it all but failed to beat the eventual winner Colin Green from a good position and then lost the final round game to the lowest rated (but, by no means the weakest) player in the tournament. In the end it was Ian Gallagher, a recent recruit of the university society, who came out with the best socres amongst university entrants. The final player scores are as follows:

1. Colin Green (Nuneaton) 5/7

=2.Colin Eckloff (Whoberley) 4/7

=2.Ian Gallagher (Rugby/Uni) 4/7

=2.Frank Weidt (Nuneaton) 4/7

5.Joey Stewart (University)3.5/7

6.Nasrul Humaimi (University)3/7

7.Mike Donnelly (Whoberley) 2.5/7

8.Steve Turvey (University)2/7

Report By Joey Stewart

Player Number	Name	Round Number					Game Points	Position
		1	2	3	4	5
1	Alex Miles	0    W16	0    B7	0    B2	0    W8	0    W3	0	18
2	Filip Solsjo	0  W15	0    B11	1    W1	2  W3	3  B16	2	=11
3	Alex Liang	0  W14	1    BYE	1    W17	1  B2	1    B1	2	=11
4	Michael Harris	1  W13	2  B16	2  W14	3    W17	3    B7	3	=6
5	James Hall	1  W12	1  B15	1  W9	2  W11	2    W13	2	=11
6	Ben Simpson	1  W11	1 B10	1  W7	1    W12	1.5    B8	1.5	16
7	Rob Woolham	0    W10	1  W1	2    B6	3    B16	4  W4	4	=1
8	Simon Peters	0    W9	0.5    B12	0.5    W18	1.5    B1	2 W6	2	=11
9	Leor Nadison	1    B8	1.5    W13	2.5    B5	2.5  W15	3  B10	3	=6
10	Nasrul Humaimi	1    B7	2    W6	2.5  W15	3.5    W14	4    W9	4	=1
11	Qhairol	0    B6	1    W2	1  W16	1    B5	1  W17	1	17
12	Joel Murang	0    B5	0.5    W8	0.5    B13	1.5  B6	2  BYE	2	=11
13	Stephen Clark	0    B4	0.5    B9	1.5    W12	2.5  W18	3.5  B5	3.5	=4
14	Robin Killick	1    B3	2    W17	3    B4	3  B9	3.5  B15	3.5	=4
15	Joey Stewart	1    B2	2    W5	2.5    B10	3.5  B9	4  W14	4	=1
16	Steve Turvey	1    B1	1    W4	2    W11	2  B7	3  W2	3	=6
17	Joe Stobbart/Michael Jones	1    BYE	1    B14	2    B3	2  W4	3  B11	3	=6
18	Jonnie Wolf	0.5    BYE	1    BYE	2    B8	2  B13	2.5  BYE	2.5	10

A very closely contested tournament eventually saw two A team players (Joey Stewart and Nasrul Humaimi) and, a suprisingly good result for a D team player (Rob Woolham), all finishing in joint first position. This is the most well attended tournament at the university for many years and deserved a place in history.
Report By Joey Stewart.

This year Lightning did, indeed, strike twice as the University were able to make a successful defence of last years title.
A good turnout by the reliable players of the A team meant that we even had enough leftover players to make a B team (our first B team in this tournament for four years) albeit, missing a player thanks to some last minute dropouts.
A slight problem was encountered upon arrival as Meriden had unexpectedly entered a side in the competition, making a total of seven teams. There were two potential solutions to this problem - either have an all play all which would last seven rounds (as it would be structured as an 8 player tournament but have one side sit out each round) or, for the sake of an earlier finish, adding a Meriden player to each team to increase the squads to 7 men. In the end, the latter of these solutions was chosen and the University adopted two new 'students'- Robert Glinton played in the A team and William Davis played in the B.
A good solid win in round one (6-1) against University B put us in good stead for the upcoming battles against the tougher teams. Round 2 saw us facing a weakened (but still dangerous) Nuneaton side but we gave no ground easily and comfortably won the match 5.5-1.5.
Next round was, effectively, the deciding match of the tournament against Whoberley A. The top 3 boards were first to finish, bringing the University a 2-1 lead. Whoberley then struck back, with wins on board 6 and 7. A win on board 5 meant that the result of the match was to be decided board four. Fortunately our board 4 is a three time team lightning champion and overcame his opponant to win us this crucial match 4-3.
Next match against Rugby was another solid win (5-2) although not without some underhanded tactics being used by both sides, two matches being decided by illegal moves (a valid rule in lighting chess is that an illegal move results in a lost game).
This left us with a 3 point lead on closest rivals Whoberley A and, worse still, we were facing their B team who were prepared to put up the fight of their lives to help their A team over the victory line. Whoberley A duely achieved a 7-0 whitewash of University B, putting the pressure on the A team to produce a good win in order to secure the tournament. The Whoberley B players fought admirably but were finally overcome in a 5.5-1.5 win for the University.

As I dont know the individual details of the B team I will just put the main highlights of each match.
Round 1 was a 1-6 loss to University A with the win coming from Michael Jones against Stephen Clark.
Round 2 saw the B team taste victory, beating Whoberley B 4-3 even with a default.
Round 3 the B team were again successful, winning against Rugby, the best individual result was Michael Harris beating Bob Wildig on board one,4-2 was the final score.
Round 4, the team again only just lost out to Nuneaton in a 3-3 draw which could have been another win were it not for an illegal move.
Round 5 is one the B team would probably rather never think about again as they were on the receiving end of a 7-0 whitewash by Whoberley A.
It must be said, that with a full side, the B team would have likely finished at least two points higher as two other sides only had 5 players but even though they finished last they were by no means the worst side.

Final Scores

Final Scores
University A	26
Whoberley A	24.5
Nuneaton	13.5
Whoberley B	13
Rugby	12
University B	11

Individual A Team results
Board 1	Joey Stewart	3.5/5
Board 2	Stephen Clark	2.5/5
Board 3	Robin Killick	4/5
Board 4	Nasrul Humaimi	4/5
Board 5	Leor Nadison	5/5
Board 6	Lloyd Hill	3/5
Board 7	Robert Glinton	4/5

Individual B Team results
Board 1	Michael Harris	2.5/5
Board 2	Michael Jones	2/5
Board 3	Steve Turvey	1.5/5
Board 4	Ben Simpson	2/5
Board 5	Charles Hall	2/5
Board 6	William Davis	1/5
Board 7	default	0/5

Report by Joey Stewart.

This year twelve teams from six universities turned out for a six round Swiss rapidplay tournament, and after the previous few had been dominated by one team it was nice to see a close finish for once: Warwick I, Sheffield I and Nottingham tied for first place (Sheffield winning the title on tiebreak), with Imperial I just half a point behind. Our other three teams, while not threatening to upset those which outgraded them by 50+ on every board, performed creditably, finishing 7th, 9th and 11th respectively. Congratulations to Reading, who managed to put out a team despite only setting up their club this year, while several long-established clubs failed to enter teams - although they came last they showed signs of promise, and we wish them all the best for the future development of their club. We would like to thank the Warwick Graduates Association and Chess & Bridge Ltd. for sponsoring the tournament.

*Tie break was sum of progressive scores.

Individual scores of Warwick players were:

Warwick I

Tom Rendle 5/6
Callum Gordon 4/6
Joey Stewart 3.5/6
Robin Killick 4.5/6
 

Warwick II

Leor Nadison 4/6
Lloyd Hill 2/6
Michael Harris 4/6
Nasrul Humaimi 3/6
 

Warwick III

Michael Jones 1.5/6
Jonnie Wolf 1/6
Pingli Fan 2/6
Steven Turvey 2/5 + 1 default win
 

Warwick IV

Ben Simpson 2.5/6
Thomas Booker 3/6
Abhiroop Basu 0/6

This probably doesn't qualify as the best game of the tournament, but it was one of the more interesting ones:

[Event "BUCC"]
[Site "University of Warwick"]
[Date "17/02/2007"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Simpson, Ben"]
[Black "Jones, Michael"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1. Nf3 e6 2. g3 d5 3. c4 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg2 Nf6 6. O-O Nc6 7. d4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Bc5 9. e3 Nxd4 10. exd4 Bb6 11. Bf4 O-O 12. Nc3 Be6 13. Na4 Rc8 14. Nxb6 Qxb6 15. Qb3 Qxb3 16. axb3 a6 17. Rac1 Rc6 18. Rc3 Rfc8 19. Rfc1 Ne4 20. Rxc6 Rxc6 21. Re1 h6 22. Re2 g5 23. Be3 Rb6 24. Bxe4 dxe4 25. d5! Rxb3?? (25... Bg4) 26. dxe6 fxe6 27. Bd4 Rb4 28. Rxe4? e5! 29. Rxe5 Rxd4 30. Re6 Rb4 31. Rxh6 Kg7 32. Rd6 Rxb2 33. Kf1 a5 34. Rd5 a4 35. Rxg5+ Kf6 36. Ra5 b5 37. Ke1 Rb3 38. h4 a3 39. Kd1 b4 40. Kc1 Rb2 41. Ra4 Ke5 42. h5 Ke4 43. h6 Kd3 44. Ra8 (44. h7 Rxf2 45. h8Q Rf1# was the reason I wasn't bothered about letting the h pawn go through) 44... Rxf2 45. Rd8+ Kc3 46. Rc8+ Kb3 47. h7 a2 48. h8Q a1Q+ 49. Qxa1 Rf1+ 50. Kd2 Rxa1 51. g4 Rg1 52. Rg8 Ka2 53. g5 b3 54. g6 Kb2 55. g7 Rg6 56. Kd1 Rd6+ 57. Ke2 Rc6? (57... Rd7 58. Ke3 Ra7 59. Kd2 Ka2 60. Rh8 Rxg7 61. Ra8+ Kb2 62. Rb8 Rd7+ 63. Ke2 Kc2 64. Rc8+ Kb1 65. Ra8 b2 66. Ra6 Rd4 67. Ke3 Rd1 68. Ra8 Rc1 69. Kd2 Rc6 70. Kd1 Rd6+ 71. Ke2 Rd5 72. Rc8 Rd4 73. Ke3 Rb4 74. Rf8 Ka2 75. Rf2 Ka1 76. Rf1+ b1Q -+) 58. Rb8 Rg6 59. g8Q Rxg8 60. Rxg8 Ka1 61. Ra8+ Kb1 62. Kd2 b2 63. Kc3? (63. Rb8 Ka2 64. Kc2 Ka3 65. Rxb2 Ka4 66. Kc3 Ka5 67. Kc4 Ka6 68. Kc5 Ka7 69. Kc6 Ka8 70. Kc7 Ka7 71. Ra2#) 63... Kc1 64. Rh8? (now 64... b1Q loses on the spot to 65. Rh1#, while 64... Kd1 drops the pawn and after 64... Kb1 65. Rh2 or Rb8 White wins the pawn anyway, but there's a textbook trick which I - and probably most of the spectators who had gathered when our game was the last to finish - knew, and Ben evidently didn't) 64... b1N+! (the endgame of rook versus knight with no pawns is a theoretical draw; it's worth playing on in the hope that your opponent makes a mistake - Gata Kamsky managed to win it against Etienne Bacrot in Sofia a few years ago - but in this case we were both down to our last couple of minutes and Ben couldn't be bothered to try) 1/2-1/2

Pictures of the event here
Individual results of each match here

Position	Team Number	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	Score
1	1	Leor Nadison/Charles Hall	-	1	0	1	1	1	4
2=	2	Callum Gordon/Arjun Gupta	0	-	0.5	1	1	1	3.5
2=	3	Steve Turvey/Ben Simpson	1	0.5	-	1	0	1	3.5
4	4	Jonnie Wolf/Michael Jones	0	0	0	-	1	1	2
5=	5	Joey Stewart/Abhiroop Basu	0	0	1	0	-	0	1
5=	6	Michael Harris/Johnny	0	0	0	0	1	-	1