Grantham started their new season campaigns in both the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Leagues in the past week.
In the Lincolnshire League, Ben Mason's side convincingly beat Louth 3:1. The stand out game was on board 2 where Grenville Wollerton's enterprising opening play bamboozled his opponent and lead to a quick win in just 14 moves. Ivan David has annotated the game here. Ben Mason and Tom Claxton also won.
In the Nottinghamshire League, Grantham I began with an away game to traditional rivals, Mansfield. This is usually the last game of the season but evidently the League Secretary thought it better to get it out of the way early on this year's fixtures list. Both sides fielded string and experienced teams but Grantham came out on top 3:2. A couple of Kings Indian defences were played by Grantham players, with Claudio Mangione taking advantage of some home preparation from his previous encounter with Jim Burnett to bring home the point. Again, Ivan has annotated a couple of games here
