So the great match arrived. Things started very slowly. The 1 team despite their grading advantage were being careful. Geoff was first to finish, despite starting last as a substitute. In a position that looked favourable for Keith, he found two neat tricks both of which won an exchange. Nick was next eventually bursting through…
Nomads I
Captain: Jeremy Hamm
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Nomads 1 v Chesterfield 1 Richardson Cup
After the disaster in the league last week, this was a chance to redeem ourselves. We were from last weeks team missing boards 4 & 5. Chesterfield were missing Dave Latham on 1 but had Mike Alcock on 2. Otherwise it was their first 6. We won the toss but Jon felt that himself, Kieran…
Nomads 1 v Ecclesall 1
The first thing to note is that we comfortably outgraded Ecclesall on all boards. The second thing is to note that was by and large irrelevant! Having won the toss there was a long debate between all 6 of us about choice of colours. Jon eventually took black and Paul white. And so we set…
Nomads I vs SASCA II
Well SASCA 2 could only raise 3 players for the match. They had to play it to gain access to the Plate. I was able to give Jeremy and Nick the night off. So only 3 games played. On Board 2 Sam’s opponent played a fairly accurate French defence and I thought that this could…