The League season got underway with the B Team hosting Grangemouth.
Central League Division 1
Stirling B 3-2 Grangemouth
1. Brad Duthie 1562 0-1 Alan Bell 1939
2. Bill Cook 1552 ½-½ Dougie Will 1859
3. Kenny MacPherson 1525 1-0 Duncan Glassey 1676
4. Nathanael Loch 1525 ½-½ Pranav Hariharan 1712
5. Toby Geyer 1491 1-0 Mark Monaghan 1706
B team Captain Bill reports:
Despite being outgraded by a combined total of over 1000 points, Stirling managed to win an exciting and close match played in a good spirit.
My game was the first to finish - Dougie built up a attack which I fended off until we were left with a blocked position. Alan won two pieces for a rook with a nice tactic and although Brad resisted for a long time he had to resign - this was the second game to finish. Meanwhile Kenny had been building up pressure against Duncan, winning a couple of pawns and eventually delivering mate.
Nathanael appeared to be winning, a piece up with a strong attack on Pranav's exposed king, but he allowed his rook to be taken, and for a while was losing, but Pranav's king was still vulnerable and he was forced to repeat moves with perpetual check.
The last game to finish was Toby v Mark. Toby was two pawns up at one stage but allowed Mark back into the game before finally queening a pawn at which point Mark resigned.
Meanwhile, the A Team were in Broxburn and also took overall victory by the minimum margin.
Central League Division 1
Badgers Brook 2-3 Stirling A
1. Kenny McGeoch 2041 0-1 Isaac Browning 2053
2. Ian McLean 1883 1-0 Leo Gardner 1889
3. Stuart Ward 1866 0-1 William Spiers 1766
4. Graham Kerr 1599 1-0 Richard Warcup 1630
5. Jonathan Rowney 1512 0-1 Harry Feather 1471
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