John-Paul became club champion for the first time when 2 games were decided suddenly by Secretary-style blunders. John E was certainly holding his own when he moved his queen to allow mate in 1. Joachim looked well up with John A behind on material and also playing on the time increments. Sadly a couple of blunders led to the loss of, first a rook, and then a queen. None the less John-Paul's play has certainly merited his success.
Meanwhile Ant defeated Tom to take the Pomeroy Cup. Tom put up a good fight but Ant used all his experience to find a number of challenging moves - to cap a good campaign.
Denzil's guile meanwhile threw the Quickplay competition wide open when he saw off the secretary 2-0,
overcoming an early loss of the exchange in game 2.