2025-11-26 Central League Division 2 Match

Clackmannanshire      2-3  Stirling E 

Vytautas Jakstys u/g  0-1  Mick Murphy     1087
Dale Carberry    u/g  1-0  Mick Bloor      1084
Joseph Lambert   u/g  1-0  Rudra Pardhi    930
Roman Quinn      u/g  0-1  William Feather 875
Lewis Wyper      u/g  0-1  Josh Heesom     u/g

E Team captain Graham Anderson reports on a close match at Alloa:

Boards 3,4 and 5 were all juniors, although the two Micks managed to keep the average age of the Stirling team at around 40.

Game of the night was Joseph-Rudra on board 3, where from quite a closed position Joseph managed to sneak a defended knight onto e6 and wreak havoc with Rudra's backline, then showed impressive end-game technique to claim the win. It's worth keeping an eye on both these players.

Graham also forwarded the game-score of a very nice win by Mick M on board 1, by first winning the exchange and then keeping the pressure on, which produced a fatal error from his opponent.

[Event "Clackmannanshire v Stirling E"] [Site "Alloa"] [Date "2025.11.26"] [Round "?"] [White "Murphy, M."] [Black "Jakstys, V."] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A45"] [WhiteElo "1087"] [PlyCount "49"] [EventDate "2025.??.??"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. e3 g6 3. Bd3 Bg7 4. Nd2 O-O 5. f4 d6 6. Ngf3 Nd5 7. Qe2 Bg4 8. h3 Bxf3 9. Nxf3 Nd7 10. Bd2 Re8 11. e4 N5f6 12. O-O c5 13. c3 b6 14. g4 Nf8 15. e5 dxe5 16. fxe5 Nd5 17. Bb5 Nd7 18. Bc6 Nc7 19. Bxa8 Qxa8 20. Ng5 f6 21. Nf3 cxd4 22. cxd4 Kh8 23. Rac1 Nd5 24. Qb5 Nb8 25. Qxe8+ {Black resigns. 25 ... Bf8 26 Qxf8#} 1-0