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Wolverhampton Division 1 For three of the four players in the Lichfield team it was their second consecutive Monday evening at the Forty Four Club. Ben Nevett-Farman, Maurice Staples and Adam Routledge had all played in the victorious Birmingham Division 1 team against Wolverhampton the week before, and now returned
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Birmingham League Division 1 Lichfield’s first team are now in mid table and surely safe from relegation worries after their 4-2 victory over Wolverhampton. Lichfield produced a strong performance in winning at Wolverhampton. Gradings were pretty even on each board. John Keaveney was first to finish, agreeing a draw
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Birmingham League Division 1 A below strength Lichfield team was crushed 5.5 – 0.5 by South Birmingham A, the team most likely to win the Birmingham League first division championship. Lichfield were conceding an average of 300 rating points per player. Tony Green prevented the whitewash. He had all
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Birmingham League Division 1 Lichfield’s Birmingham Division 1 team were out-graded on every board in their Guild Hall clash with Sutton Coldfield, and the opposition were ultimately too strong as the Lichfield team suffered a 4.5 – 1.5 defeat. The difference in strength was particularly stark on the
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Birmingham League Division 1 Lichfield’s first team not only moved into fourth place in Division 1 by defeating Central B but they now have the added boost that their top player, Turan Asgarova, is keen to get back to playing chess following the birth of her son. It was
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Birmingham League Division 1 Below strength and outgraded on every board, Lichfield’s first team pulled off an excellent 4-2 win at Redditch to move into sixth place in the Birmingham League’s Division 1. Encouragingly, Lichfield have already played three of the top five teams and while all the
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Birmingham League Division 1 After three league defeats, Lichfield earned a much needed 4-2 win over a Shirley & Wythall side who arrived at The Guild Hall with a weaker lineup than expected. The match win was built on victories on three of the lower boards, with David Hulme, John
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Birmingham League Division 1 Lichfield’s first team were beaten 6-0 by a Solihull A team which had a ratings advantage of at least two points on the top four matches and in the case of Turan Asgarova on board one the margin was 389 points. After a couple of
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Birmingham Division 1 A second board one victory by newcomer Turan Asgarova took Lichfield’s first team within a whisker of snatching an away draw against reigning champions Central Birmingham A. Turan is the first female to play for Lichfield’s top team this century. In fact it is a
