Div 2 Heidenfeld Trophy 2014 - 2015

mikhail

flipsake wrote: »

Well done to Jim Murray of Lucan. First player to be guaranteed of a board prize in the Heidenfeld this year. Some excellent wins there and mainly with the black pieces.

With 2 rounds to spare!

For info, here's his record.
http://leinsterchess.com/lcu1415/div2/pt0803.htm
(Rd 1 was a bye for Lucan, and the missing game means 7.5/10 is the cutoff for a board prize.)

flipsake

This silence is most uncharacteristic Cdeb! ;-)

cdeb

L1m1tless

What's happening?

cdeb

We played last night. Inchicore A play tonight. Tomorrow, we'll show them ours if they show us theirs.

L1m1tless

Haha very secretive.

cdeb

I guess we can break our silence now!

We lost 4½-3½. Not a bad result considering we were outrated on seven of the boards, and were 4½-1½ down at one stage.

I hung a piece in a "nice" tactic close to the end of my game, but my opponent missed it! Kind of made up for the mate in two we missed on one of the other boards though.

flipsake

Phibsboro 3.5 Inchicore A 4.5.

A bit lucky to win this one.

Gap down to 3.5 points now.
Still hope but running out of matches.
Our clash with Benildus on the 19th will be a biggie now.

cdeb

Really?

That's a let off for us!

Ye seem to do well against the better teams and struggle against the lower teams (lost to your Bs; scraped by Lucan)

Yeah, the next match is obviously huge.

But the more this season goes on, the less keen I am that we have your B team on the final day! We reckoned it was a nice way to end if we still needed a few points to avoid the drop - but a lot different if ye're hot on our tails on the final day and we need to rack up points.

flipsake

Yep. I we get a win against ye the next day out, on the final day, it will be like we have 16 players playing for us.
But winning the next day won't be easy. Looking forward to it anyway.

2bts

Huge = Points earned in the head to head are effectively worth double those earned in the final day matches.
(Each 0.5 in the St. Benildus vs Inchicore A means a 1.0 swing between the two teams.)

cdeb

Against that, we know that we can afford to lose 5½-2½ against Inchicore A and still go into the final game in second place in the table, with arguably the easiest final round game of the three remaining contenders.

L1m1tless

I know 2 2100 players looking for a club. Do you think inchicore would like them for the next round?? :-P

cdeb

Sandbags 'r' us time so!

(That said, we've a 100% winning record against 2100s this season)

L1m1tless

Ill only charge €500 per game per player! :P

seriously tho if I knew some 2100 players I think we would need them for next year!

Its a pity you arent playing the A's in the last round. That would be a great one for the spectators!

flipsake

CowboyDreams wrote: »

I know 2 2100 players looking for a club. Do you think inchicore would like them for the next round?? :-P

Send them down to us on Emmett road there Thursday week so, cowboy, and we'll give them a run-out.
Could be a bit of a trial run for next year when we'll really need them!

L1m1tless

If only I could use some tomorrow for our game of the season against Dun Laoighre in Division 4. Playing board 1 carries all the responsibility, so no pints for me tonight! booo

cdeb

Any sort of score will see ye promoted there surely?

Three up, so you've a 4½ point gap and a game in hand.

L1m1tless

yes but it is quite possible we lose 6-0 tomorrow! We are outrated HEAVILY! Ya'd never know though, we might pull a St.Benildus and win the match!

It would be nice to get promoted but its nicer to get something for the mantle to go along with it!

Ciaran

CowboyDreams wrote: »

Playing board 1 carries all the responsibility, so no pints for me tonight! booo

That's one plan...

L1m1tless

I can barely play chess when I'm nice and fresh, hungover would be a disaster! :P

flipsake

Partial eclipse of our dreams.
Inchicore A 4.5 St Benildus 3.5
Benildus fought hard to maintain a healthy 2.5 point lead over us for the much coveted 2nd place with 1 round to go. Credit to them as they were without 3 regulars to our 1.

L1m1tless

We could win the league tomorrow so, I think we just need 6 to secure the title. Our division 4 are guaranteed promotion now too and our bodley team should still do the business tomorrow against Benildus A.

I guess my predictions were more than just rose tinted glasses after all :-)

checknraise

How are they guaranteed promotion in Division 4, do 3 teams get promoted this year?

cdeb

Three teams promoted from the Ennis down due to Kilkenny withdrawing from the Heidenfeld.

Ciaran

Neo_Ninja wrote: »

We could win the league tomorrow so, I think we just need 6 to secure the title. Our division 4 are guaranteed promotion now too and our bodley team should still do the business tomorrow against Benildus A.

I guess my predictions were more than just rose tinted glasses after all :-)

You're sure of promotion from the heidenfeld anyway. Keep counting your chickens in the Bodley though.

L1m1tless

We will see after today. As long as we have a few chickens it'll be grand :-)

L1m1tless

Curragh 8 Drogheda 0

cdeb

Wow! Way to win the title!

L1m1tless

Thanks but not as impressive as it seams! Drogheda gave walkovers on 6 boards or something like that.