TAFCA MATCH REPORT: A Halloween Specieal: Glenrothes Chess Club A v Castlehill Chess Club Dundee B I heard a story over the grapevine which I would like to share with you! The story is maybe a work of fiction (who knows for sure?) but the score line is a fact! As for the players involved? Who knows what goes on behind closed doors in the sleepy rooms of the Glenrothes Chess Club... To be continued T`was Thursday 31st Oct and Halloween night! Castlehill “B” headed to the city of Glenrothes to play the defending league division one champions. It was a ghoulish prospect but one our team was ready to face. They were well prepared for anything on the night. Armed with stakes, garlic, flashlights, silver bullets, and great chess skills, Castlehill B managed a Halloween special an produced a “spooktacular” performance against Glenrothes A! After the Rocky horror show last season in which Castlehill B finished second bottom and in the relegation spot but were saved by the spooky hand of fate. It was a vast improvement this time around! No it was spellbinding! To play the league champions in their own lair was never going to be easy especially as they would be massively out graded on all boards? Glenrothes A showed last year that once they sink their teeth in they have a lot of bite. But it seems “fangs” are not what they used to be in the vampires den. I have no information on what order each individual match finished so the report is in board order only. On board one our very own Harry Potter apprentice wizard, Leonardo Sani (1634) J14 was up against the fighting chess warlord Andrew Burnett (2248). Only a mere 614 difference in grading! As they both tried to cast devastating spells to finish off each other, it was proving difficult to achieve a direct hit on the king because both players were well practiced in the defense arts. In the end (game), it was the vastly experienced and higher graded Andrew Burnett that came out on top. Leonardo is in unknown territory this year leading his team from the front and playing some of the best players in the league! Watch out muggles, Leonardo will soon no longer be an apprentice! On board two, Castlehill`s new man in the team, Dariusz (Freddy Kruger) Kosznik (1624) weaved his bloody magic against the very talented and rising star Russell Kynoch (1925). He left Russell ghost like in appearance and in low spirits!! Dariusz is beginning to find his feet in the club and will prove to be one of the main players of the “B” team. On board three, Castlehill “B`s” captain and vampire hunter Fergus “Time lord” Milne (1617) set his sights on Glenrothes “A” king vampire George “Dracula” Pyrich(1878)! As the captain of our “B” team, Fergus had a big stake in how our team would do! Time was going to be of the essence in this one and so it proved as Fergus somehow managed to hammer the stake through Count Dracula’s heart with seven (7) seconds left on his clock! As a time lord he is always in complete control of time it seems while we mere morals are slaves to it! Board four saw Keith “Witch hunter general” Rose (1578) take on Ben “the lone wolf” Jenkins (1872). It was a monster mash of a battle in which both players gave their all and then some for the teams they play for. In the end even the Grim Reaper could not separate them and both were left like zombies from the effort! A draw was a fair result but especially good for Castlehill B! The match ended with Castlehill “B” beating the defending league division one champions Glenrothes A 2½-1½! A howling success for Castlehill “B” and a Halloween nightmare for Glenrothes “A”! As they headed home in high spirits after this win. Was that thunder clapping? Did lighting strike? And in the shadows was that headless horsemen following them home? Was it our imagination or were the scarecrows in the fields watching their every move as they traveled out of Glenrothes and through the Kingdom of Fife to the Tay road bridge and the safety of Bonnie Dundee?. Would they make it back alive? Well yes they did because this was a Halloween story with a very happy ending as the good and the living triumphed over the living dead! The end... or is it?
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:41:28 +0000
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