Grantham I beat Division I leaders

Grantham I were successful in their latest home match against Nottingham University I; winning by a one point margin. This leaves Grantham I third in the Division I table after seven matches on nine points. This is just one point behind University I and Ashfield I. The individual match scores were as follows (respective ratings are in brackets);

1 Cumbers C (194) 0 – 1 Lam P (190) 2 Birtwistle N (202) 0.5 – 0.5 Walker A (180) 3 Coates D (175) 0.5 – 0.5 Lee D (171) 4 McCarthy K (182) 1 – 0 Yap A (178) 5 Pierbattisti G (160) 1 – 0 Lewis C (136) 3 – 2

Grantham II v West Nottingham II

Grantham II won their latest home game against West Nottingham II by the handsome score of 5 Nil.
There were wins for Giorgio Pierbattisti, Trevor Palmer, Ivan David, Ben Mason and Mrs. Rona Allgood. This win puts Grantham a point ahead of Gambit III at the top of Division 3 of the Nottinghamshire Chess League on 11 points with the same number of games played.

Lincolnshire Chess League

Grantham won their latest match against Louth in the latest match in the Lincolnshire Chess League. There were wins for Grenville Wollerton and Chris Cumbers and draws for top board Ivan David and Captain Ben Mason to bring the final score to 3:1. This brings the season to 2 wins and 1 loss so far this season.

4NCL First Weekend

Grantham's 'Pandora's Box' kindly sponsored by Club Chairman , Fred Jones, is this year playing in Division 1B of the nationwide 4NCL league (www.4ncl.co.uk). Their first round of matches were played on the weekend of the 24th of October and began with a loss to the very strong team from Guildlford and a win over the South Wales Dragons.

Photo: Stephen Connor and Claire Summerscale, 2009

Team	Won	Drawn	Lost	Points
GUILDFORD-A&DC 1	2	0	0	4
WHITE ROSE 1	2	0	0	4
BARBICAN 4NCL 1	1	0	1	2
BETSSON.COM	1	0	1	2
WOOD GREEN HILSMARK KINGFISHER 2	1	0	1	2
PANDORA'S BOX GRANTHAM	1	0	1	2
SOUTH WALES DRAGONS	0	0	2	0
POISONED PAWNS 1	0	0	2	0

1st Team Results in the Nottinghamshire League

Grantham's 1st Team are sitting pretty at the top of Nottinghamshire League Division I after the first four matches.

Division 1 (2009-2010)

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Df	Pn	Pt
1	Grantham 1	4	3	0	1	13	7	6	0	6
2	University 1	4	3	0	1	12.5	7.5	5	0	6
3	Ashfield 1	4	3	0	1	11	9	2	0	6
4	Gambit 1	4	2	1	1	9.5	10.5	-1	0	5
5	West Bridgford 1	4	1	1	2	10.5	9.5	1	0	3
6	Newark 1	4	1	1	2	9.5	10.5	-1	0	3
7	Nottingham Central 1	4	1	1	2	9	11	-2	0	3
8	West Nottingham 1	4	0	0	4	5	15	-10	0	0

2nd Team Results in the Notts League

In Division 3 of the Nottinghamshire Chess League, Grantham have got off to a great start and are in second position with a game in hand at this early stage of the season.

Division 3 (2009-2010)

	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Df	Pn	Pt
1	Gambit 3	4	2	2	0	11.5	9.5	2	0	6
2	Grantham 2	3	2	1	0	10	5	5	0	5
3	Newark 2	4	2	0	2	11.5	9.5	2	0	4
4	Mansfield 2	4	2	0	2	10	10	0	0	4
5	West Bridgford 2	4	1	2	1	10	10	0	0	4
6	West Nottingham 2	4	2	0	2	9	11	-2	0	4
7	Ashfield 3	4	1	1	2	9.5	10.5	-1	0	3
8	West Nottingham 3	3	0	0	3	4.5	10.5	-6	0	0

Grantham draws with Gambit in season opener

Grantham 2 travelled to Gambit Chess Club yesterday evening for the first game of the new Nottinghamshire Chess League season. The match ended in a draw at 2.5 points each. Ivan David lost to Brian Hayward on top board, Ben Mason drew on board 2, Chris Holt won on board 3 with team captain Chris Cumbers achieving a won game very quickly on board 4. Mrs Rona Allgood fought a brave fight right down to the wire on board 5 but was beaten in a hard fought endgame.