18 September 2017 - Central League Division 1

Badgers Brook A v Stirling A
Kenny McGeoch   Mark Cooke   David McConnell   Fabio Biancalana   Stuart Ward	2054   2012   1863   1782   1763	1 - 0   ½ - ½   1 - 0   ½ - ½   1 - 0	1767   1704   1663   1584   1418	Jim Shemilt   Steve Smith   Bill Cook   Dave Hewitt   Kyle Kirkpatrick
		4 - 1

Thanks to Dave for providing the game below, his board 4 clash with White against Fabio Biancalana.

[Event "Badgers Brook A v Stirling A"] [Site "Badgers Brook CC"] [Date "2017.09.18"] [Round ""] [White "Hewitt, D"] [Black "Biancalana, F"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. e4 h6 4. Bxf6 Qxf6 5. Nf3 b6 6. Nbd2 Bb7 7. Bd3 d6 8. c3 g5 9. h3 Bg7 10. Qc2 Nd7 11. Nh2 c5 12. Ng4 Qe7 13. Nf3 a6 14. Qe2 O-O 15. O-O cxd4 16. Nxd4 Ne5 17. Bc2 Ng6 18. g3 Rac8 19. Rae1 Rc5 20. Nb3 Rc7 21. Nd4 Rc5 22. Nb3 1/2-1/2

Dave writes:- The computer doesn't reckon there was ever much in it - I felt I had a slight edge but probably Fabio thought he had one too! I offered the draw after the repetition and Fabio accepted immediately. I'm wanting to keep my N on d4 if possible, to prevent any e5 ideas due to Nf5, but I didn't want his Rc5 becoming too active. Ideally I was wanting to push the f-pawn and create attacking chances on the K-side, and there were also ideas along the b3-g8 diagonal, but it felt risky and Fabio's a strong opponent so in the end I was happy to settle for the draw. Later in the season with a few more games under my belt I might well have carried on to see where it might lead.