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Lowestoft 2.5-1.5 St Johns Knights

Over confidence is a bad emotion, something that should be locked away and never let out to play. Then it finds the key to the door and creates havoc. This happened on Monday night in the B Teams match against St Johns Knights. The Knights are bottom of the league without a draw never mind a win, but that didnt stop them hurting Lowestoft with a valiant effort and taking 1½ points from us. It could have been so much worse as well!!

Firstly Karthik snatch a win against all the odds, his opponent missed the simplest of mates but the Chess Gods were looking down on Karthik and he turned the game on its head within 3 moves and recorded one point for the team, on board three Graham missed a not so simple piece win that hurt him badly, he never recovered and was slowly crushed by Rod Mills. On board One Warren played Ritchie Downie and after Warrens win at St Johns earlier in the season, was expecting a easy ride. This got all thrown out of the window after 13 moves in to the game, Warren lost his best bishop, Ritchie gained an excellent outpost for his knight, all looking bleak for Warren, then after a few lackluste moves by Ritchie let Warren gain some pressure on the his Queen. Ifelt I had some chances of breaking out of the stronghold, I made one major mistake and Ritchie went for the kill but didnt have enough firepower to take the win. Draw. Lucky Warren. Mark Pooley on board Two seemed to make it an easy win against his opponent, Mark is playing quite well at the moment, between us we are dragging the team forward. We are 1½ points ahead of Broadland and 4 ahead of Wymondham Owls. The match against the Owls will be crucial to who goes up with Broadland (I think its Broadlands to lose)

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