John-Paul on fire

John-Paul continued his fine start to this year's championship with a win over Geoff. The game featured an unsound sacrifice, but the complications were too much for the ageing secretary who spent far too much time thinking! Joachim dropped his first point of the season when held to a draw by Tony and Carl continued to challenge with a fine win over Phil.

Jake defeated Tony in the only Pomeroy Cup Game to be played

Pomeroy Players Missing

The Pomeroy Cup competition has begun slowly with no games played on October 17th and only 4 in total to date. The organiser hopes to see more action this coming week!

Meanwhile, in the club championship, John-Paul consolidated his lead with a win over Denzil but Joachim maintained a 100% start coming through a thrilling match against Geoff who played an appalling opening. During the subsequent play both players had totally won positions, but, as they say, it's the last blunder which counts! An out of sorts Tony fell to Phil in his first match of the campaign.

Macc Well Beaten

Travelling to Crewe to take on Crewe A in the North Staffs League on Wednesday, a somewhat weakened Macclesfield side came a cropper losing 3.5-0.5. Out graded on each board, the team put up a fight with skipper Phil looking good for a while against Karl Lockett and Geoff on top board holding Martin Burns. The latter game saw the clock stopped when Geoff noticed no time increments were being used. Given Geoff's frequent time problems anyway, this did seem a bit over the top!