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Cannock League Division 3 Mick Horrigan played his first match for Lichfield in over 20 years and won as Lichfield hammered Walsall Kipping 4-0. Mick was a first team player before leaving the club which he rejoined a few months ago. Mick played on board two and Peter Rose o
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Cannock League Division 3 Lichfield’s rising young star Emilie Nastase played on board one for the first time for Lichfield 3A, faith that was rewarded with a win over Oscott’s 1600 rated Sam Whitehouse. The ratings system has yet to catch up with Emilie’s progress as she
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Cannock League Division 3 Gary Monks was beaten on top board but after that it was all positive wirth Peter Rose, Connor Whetnall and Andrei Pinzaru all winning. Peter Rose at first struggled to find an attacking plan. Castling Queenside he started a pawn storm on the Kingside which his
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Cannock League Division 3 Joint winner of the Club Championship a couple of weeks ago, Andrei Pinzaru , took just 23 minutues to win his debut league match. Peter Rose then continued a fine season with another win and Lichfield’s 3B team was able to clinch a 3-1 win over
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Cannock League Division 3 Fourteen years old Emilie Nastase has been playing chess for not much more than 12 months and she has still to get another seven league match opportunities to qualify for a genuine rating. Leading club members think she is around 1500 and in her third league
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Cannock League Division 3 Elliott Ward would surely improve on his already considerable talent if he would just slow down a little. In his own word he” battered” his Norton Canes opponent using just eight minutes of his time against 28 minutes. It was Elliott’s fifth win of the
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Cannock League Division 3 Outrated by more than 200 points Peter Rose won his board one match against David Mercer to help Lichfield B to a 2-2 draw against Stafford at the Kings Head. His oppo nent would not have been out of place in Division 1 .tephen Shields on
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Cannock League Division 3 When skipper John Fryer loked at board one it all seemed very level. Next time he looked Gary Monks was wrapping it up very efficiently. John Fryer himself followed with a second win on board two. His opponent provided him with space and a pawn but
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Cannock League Division 3 Lichfield’s 3A team were well beaten by a strong Tamworth team who take a two point lead at the top of the third division. The deficit was 3.5 – 0.5 with Lichfield’s only point earner coming from young Isaac Adams who played well
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Cannock League Division 3 Fourteen years old Emilie Nastase joined Lichfield at virtually the same time as Turan Asgarova and she would love to emulate her achievements. Turan returned to chess after a long absence in her mid teens whilst Emilie started to play only this year. A few days
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Cannock League Division 3 Lichfield’s 3B team found it so tough against Wolverhampton that skipper John Fryer said two of their opponents played like wolves in sheep’s clothing with performances which belied their ratings. Perhaps one might expect that bearing in mind the town they represented. Lichfield lost
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Cannock League Division 3 With a looming checkmate threat and facing inevitable material loss Albert Chacko’s opponent resigned in just seven moves in 3A’s match with Bushbury. It was the spark which led to a 4-0 win. Steady pressure from Phil Sykes in the middle game was followed
