Our second match of 2018 and a trip to dark horses, Darnall and Handsworth. They were missing a number of their top boards from this season, which undoubtedly helped us albeit we were also not at our strongest and indeed, I only managed to scrape together a full team on the morning of the match.…
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Hillsborough A vs Nomads A, 16th October 2017
Match day two… Jon was back… and so was Sue for the hosts which wasn’t unexpected, but of course made our task just that extra bit trickier. Our opponents have had a name change over the summer but they still bat very deep and on paper this looked like a very closely matched contest. Over…
Ecclesall A vs Nomads A 4th October 2017
And so it begins… a tough match first up became suddenly exceedingly tough when Jon was unable to make it due to illness. Throw in some ludicrous traffic that led to 5 of us arriving at 7.55pm and it was just about as bad a start to match as I’ve known at Nomads…and most of…
Ecclesall A vs Nomads A
Usually chess evenings end with a mad scramble. However, on this match day it began with a mad scramble as one of my players went AWOL and several others either didn’t respond to requests to play or had already made arrangements for the evening. I had even emailed James to inform him we were likely…
Chesterfield A vs Nomads A
Chesterfield A 2½ 5½ Nomads A 1 6729 190 :12 Mike Alcock W 0 1 Jonathan Nelson 202 :35 7062 S 2 2291 198 :09 Hubert Mossong B 0 1 Chris C W Shephard 191 :23 1603 S 3 1284 186 :19 David Latham W 0 1 Deji Jeje 183 :19 4156 S 4 7693…