13 January 2014 - Central League Division 2

Stirling C v Stirling B
Martyn Roe Gordon Allcock Craig Manson Mick Bloor David Brodie	1458 1383 1318 1323 1207	½ - ½ 1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0	1810 1616 1559 1520 1518	Jim Shemilt Bill Cook John Blake Tony Pitson Dave Hewitt
		3½ - 1½

Dave Hewitt writes:- Tremendous win on Monday for Stirling C vs Stirling B - especially as C were the home team and thus only had two whites (on boards 2 and 4). They almost pulled off a shock in the reverse fixture in September, and this time - despite being outgraded by an average of 266 points per board - took their chances when an out-of-sorts B team provided them.

The first game to finish was on board 4, where Tony was two pieces up but allowed Mick to conjure a mate. John quickly levelled things with a win against Craig (John's the only B-teamer who has been in steady form this season, winning all four of his games) before Gordon beat Bill on board 2 to put the Cs ahead again. This left Jim and me both needing to win in order for the Bs to snatch the match, but by this stage we were both worse - Jim was an exchange down against Martyn in what looked to be the game of the night, while I'd messed up a reasonable middlegame position (not for the first time this season) and had no realistic hope of anything better than a draw, and even that looked unlikely with David well on top by now and playing good chess. The Jim-Martyn game ended in a draw by repetition, so I now needed to win from a lost position in order to draw the match (again not for the first time this season). But it was more a case of the captain going down with the ship and I resigned when David acquired his second Q. Not the best of nights for the Bs, but a well-deserved win for the Cs, who thus broke their duck in terms of league points this season.

Hewitt - Brodie