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This was the final Team Battle organised by Martin Clancy. Sadly, Martin could not participate himself because of internet problems. As last time, only 18 players participated but nonetheless an enjoyable evening was had.

Having won the previous event on tie-break, Southbourne won this one in clear-cut fashion, seventeen points ahead of their nearest rival. They took an early lead and never really looked like being caught. They were led by Jamie Doyle on 24 points, who was the evening’s highest scorer and had a rating performance of 2299.

Ringwood had only two players but despite that came second, albeit by just one point. Adam Ursell notched up 20 points and an excellent performance rating of 2357. Results-wise this was a good finish for us, making seven times that we were placed 2nd to go with a one 1st place from August last year.

Poole were in third, playing their usual highly combative chess, closely followed by West Dorset Jedi, playing their usual sophisticated chess!

Many players last night expressed how much they had enjoyed the team battles, so all that remains is to thank Martin, on behalf of us all, for organising them!

Martin has announced that with chess clubs starting to meet up and life more generally returning to some sort of normality, last night’s Team Battle would be the penultimate one that he would be running, with the last one to be held in two weeks time. At the start of the evening, many players offered their thanks to Martin for organising the battles and clearly there are a few who will really miss them.

With 18 players taking part last night, there were enough to make the event viable but only just, so the low turn out seems to support Martin’s decision.

That said, it was an exciting evening, with tied scores for the first time in a Team Battle. Southbourne and Poole both amassed 53 points with Southbourne winning on tie-break (and I have no idea how Lichess calculates that)! Poole were without the services of Oscar Garcia, which left the teams evenly matched on paper and in reality. Keith Gregory and Mike Duggan were their top scorers respectively.

West Dorset Jedi were the only other full team and, led by Kevin Goater, they came in third.

For Ringwood it was less successful, with only Peter and Richard playing the whole evening and Rob joining us for just a couple of games. Nonetheless we came 4th, only 6 points behind the Jedi.

After the dip in attendance at the last one, there was a better turn out for the Team Battle this time with 5 teams and 25 players.

The overall result was the same, with a Poole, Ringwood, Southbourne 1, 2, 3. Poole got off to a quick start and whilst Ringwood gave a good chase, never being too far behind, we never quite managed to catch them. As is often the case, the difference between the teams was Oscar who scored 31 points.

The top rating performance of the evening was from Adam with 2294.

The result made it seven wins in a row for Poole.

It may have been the anniversary of the first Team Battle but it was the quietest to date with New Milton and West Dorset Jedi absent. There were just 17 players and four teams involved. Perhaps this is the combined effect of lockdown easing, the nice weather and the partial return of normal chess.

Regardless, Poole marched on, with Richard Allis scoring 32 points, ably abetted by Oscar Garcia, John Weatherlake and Zander Booth. They didn’t even need the services of Mike Duggan who was off playing tennis!

Ringwood and Southbourne had a good tussle for second, with Southbourne leading for much of the battle, only to be overtaken near the end.

This Team Battle saw an incredible and very enjoyable scrap between Poole and Ringwood for first place, with the former prevailing by just two points, the lead having swapped frequently over the evening, making it one of the tightest of these events.

Boosted by a couple of our Southampton league players, Adam and Richard Ursell, who joined the regulars, Peter and Martin, Ringwood scored heavily, with a good all round team performance. This gave us a total of 90 points, which was by far the highest second placed score any team has managed and would have won all but two other Team Battles. Adam was the second highest individual scorer on the night (behind Oscar Garcia of course) whilst Richard was the only person to beat Oscar (and not by luck)!

The high scoring extended to the third placed team, West Dorset Jedi, who notched up 55 points, one of the highest bronze medal totals we have seen.

And we should mention in passing that this made 5 in a row for Poole… maybe next time someone will catch them?

Poole won it's fourth Team Battle in a row, the first time any team has done this since the battles started nearly a year ago. Once again their star player was Oscar Garcia who won all ten of his games and single-handedly notched up 40 points.

Last night the real competition was for second place. Highcliffe, led by Adam Ursell, prevailed over Southbourne who were third and New Milton in fourth. This is Highcliffe's third silver medal.

Ringwood came fifth for the second time in a row, but there were some highlights for us with Rob beating no less than Mike Duggan and Keith Gregory, and Bob picking up a couple of wins in just four games.

Poole won again in the team battle but this time it was a real ding-dong scrap between them and Southbourne, with the lead changing hands a few times through the evening. In the end just 4 points separated them.

Poole had the top scorer in Richard Allis who notched up an impressive 37 points, whilst Southbourne’s Alan Dommett turned in 30 points and the top rating performance of the evening of 2445.

New Milton came third, some way behind the top two but also well clear of the chasing pack, thanks to a solid team effort.

Ringwood did not have the best evening coming in fifth. The Ursells were back to playing for Highcliffe, Martin had the evening off, Peter was not on top form, and even with Ian guesting for us we only had three team members. Hopefully it will go better next time.

There was an excellent turn-out with 39 players taking part.

Whilst not notching up as many points as last time, Poole once again comfortably won the team battle, led by Oscar Garcia who berserked in every game, meaning he got extra points for winning but had only 2 minutes and 30 seconds and no increment for each game versus his opponent's 5 minutes and 3 seconds. Understandably he had a few mishaps but nonetheless was the top scorer once again for the evening, notching up 32 points.

Ringwood came a clear second, once again with a full complement of Ursells and this time also Ian Clark. Southampton were third with Jamie Doyle being their top scorer. It was Chandlers Ford's best result with them snapping at Southbourne's heels just 3 points behind.

There were new winners in the team battle as West Dorset Jedi walked away with the event. Congratulations to the Jedi who had the night’s top scorer and joint second top scorer in Allan Pleasants and Kevin Goater. This is only the second time either Poole or Southbourne have not won. Poole did come in second

Ringwood edged out New Milton and Highcliffe for third place by one and two points respectively. As is often the case we had Ian Clark playing for us as a guest but we also had a new player in Bob Gladstone who has taken up chess again after a 40 year break. Bob notched up 8 points and a very respectable 1741 performance - pretty impressive for someone just returning to the game.

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