Bourne Chess Club hosted a friendly against New England Chess Club who are based at the City of Peterborough Sports Club. New England is a well established chess club, having been in existence playing top rated chess in the region for decades. The club caters extremely well for Peterborough people with a vibrant Junior’s Club and yet also able to play chess of 2000 grade standard, and everything in between!
New England brought with them four players: Chris Russell, Peter Walker, Norman Wedley and Benny Sivaraj. The format/time control was entirely optional on the evening, as was notation. Very kindly, the two players on the top table, Peter Walker (New England) and Jason Dilley (Bourne) agreed to have the game recorded and featured on this website. It is not often that you get to see two heavy-weights in the chess world (circa 2000+ elo) playing at your local club – and Bourne Chess Club is very grateful to New England for taking the trouble to come and visit the club.
Here is the move list and a few stages of the game between Peter Walker (white) and Jason Dilley (black):
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bc5 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. g3 O-O 8.
Bg2 Bb7 $6 9. O-O d5 $6 10. e3 $6 Qe7 11. Qc2 Ba6 12. b3 dxc4 13. bxc4 Bxc4 14. Rd1
Be6 15. Bxc6 Rad8 16. Bb2 Bg4 17. Rxd8 Rxd8 18. Ne4 Nxe4 19. Bxe4 h5 20. Qc3 $6
Bd4 $3 21. exd4 Qxe4 22. Re1 $1 Qd5 23. Qb3 Qxb3 24. axb3 Rb8 25. Re3 Be6 26. Rc3
Rxb3 27. Rxb3 Bxb3 28. Kf1 f6 29. Ke2 Kf7 30. Kd3 Ke6 31. Kc3 Bd5 32. Kb4 $2 Kd6 $9
33. Kb5 Bb7 34. Bc1 Kd5 35. Be3 $6 g5 36. h4 $2 gxh4 37. gxh4 Ke4 38. Bh6 $2 Kf3 39.
Bg7 $6 f5 40. Be5 Kxf2 41. Bxc7 Ke3 42. Kc5 f4 43. d5 f3 44. Bg3 f2 *
English opening: 4 knights variation
After 10 moves it looked like this:
Castled same side. Fianchetto’d bishops. Even material. Two chunks of pawn islands for both players. Bishop pairs for both players. There followed a “brilliant” tactic by black using a sacrificed bishop to counter the mate threat at move 20, while also removing whites light squared bishop to expose many light squares around the King:
As the queens go off the board, and they enter the endgame, the bar on the left is still finely balanced, both players have the same number of isolated pawns, and there are no passed pawns:
Black manages to get up a pawn at move 28 with a passed pawn:
Time to activate the Kings!
A wandering bishop for white, tips the balance in black’s favour on move 39:
White resigns after move 44:
Black wins 0-1 A good game all round. Big thanks go to both players for allowing their match to feature on our website.
Sam Warner beat Chris Russell.
Norman Wedley and David Hemingway agreed to a draw.
Benny Sivaraj beat Ian Batchelor.
Bourne won on the evening: 2.5 – 1.5
