| Grangemouth B | v | Stirling B | ||
| Alan Petrie Daniel Kitaev Ian Mason Bill Gray Nicholas Kitaev |
1711 1633 1626 1543 |
0 - 1 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 0 - 1 |
1670 1513 1489 1562 1487 |
Graham Anderson Nathanael Loch Bill Cook Dave Hewitt Sean Flanagan |
| 2½ - 2½ |
The first of two games from this match - this is the board 1 game, where I had White against Alan Petrie.
Anderson, G–Petrie, A1–0Grangemouth B v Stirling BGrangemouth CC23.02.2023
1.e4 b6 2.d4 b7 3.d3 e6 4.f3 f6 5.e5 d5 6.a3 c5 7.c3 c6
It's here I started thinking about c4. 8 c4 Nc7 or e7 9 d5 exd5 10 cxd5 Nxd5 11 Bc4 Nce7 and I can't see that this is worth a pawn.
8.0-0 f5
I'm still not entirely sure that the c4 plan is solid, but with the pawn on f5 at least I don't lose a pawn.
9.c4 c7 10.d5 exd5 11.cxd5 xd5 12.xf5 de7
Alan thought afterwards that Nce7 may have been better. Stockfish is undecided.
13.g5 c7 14.h3 h6 15.h4 g5 16.g3 0-0-0 17.c3 a6
I'm still trying to work out how to make e6 work, and how to reply to d6. Should I just ignore the rook attack? Stockfish is screaming Qa4.
18.e1 b7 19.e4 g8 20.d6+ a8 21.a4 d3 22.ad1 h7
I've been trying to work out the best time to play e6 - Stockfish says now. I, on the other hand, still can't work out to reply after d6.
23.f7 g4 24.xg4 xg4 25.xg4 f5
Stockfish still recommends e6 for White.
26.a4 e8 27.e6
Black resigns. There aren't many good option here. Qb7 or Qc8 falls to Nd6 and the loss of the scond rook, still with the threat of exd7. Stockfish recommends b5 Qxb5 Qb6 Qxb6 axb6 exd7 which loses a bishop.
1–0Thanks to Sean for the game below from board 5, where he had White against young Nicholas.
Flanagan, S–Kitaev, N1–0A08Grangemouth b v Stirling BGrangemouth CC22.02.2023
1.f3 d5 2.g3 c5 3.g2 g6 4.d4 g7 5.0-0 cxd4 6.xd4 c6 7.xc6 bxc6 8.c4 e6 9.c3 e7 10.cxd5 cxd5 11.f4 I was trying to tempt e5 here with a view to Nxd5 - the engine likes this but thinks after e5 Bg5 is even stronger a6?? 11...e5 12.xd5 12.g5 f6 13.xd5 fxg5 14.xe7 12...exf4 12...xd5 13.xd5 b8 14.c6+ d7 15.g5 f6 16.xd7+ xd7 17.e3 xb2 13.xe7 xe7 14.xa8 12.a4+ d7 13.xa6 0-0 14.d6 ac8 15.a3 fe8 16.xe7 xe7 17.ac1 b8 18.fd1 ee8 19.b3 ec8 20.a4 b5 21.e3 xc1 22.xc1 e2 23.d6 f8 24.a3 d2 25.b4 d4 26.exd4 xd4 27.f1 b8 28.c5 b2?! 28...xb4 29.xb4 xb4 30.b3 b6 31.c1 h5 32.f1 h4 33.c4 hxg3 34.hxg3 xb3 35.axb3 29.xa7 xb4 30.d3 Lots of alternative moves here - nearly played Na6 to win the rook - but the simplest ending looked to be to get rid of the dark squared bishop and then just push the pawn due to my time trouble. With that off the board and the bishop on g2 supporting I couldn't see a way black could stop a promotion without sacking 30.a6 b6 31.xb8+ xb8 32.xb8 30...b5 31.xb2 xb2 32.a4 f8 33.a5 a3 34.a6 Black resigns. 1–0