Div 6 Bodley Cup 2014 - 2015

2bts

No pressure then.

cdeb

Well, that all worked well!

St Benildus A 5-0 Inchicore
St Benildus B 3-2 Rathmines B

2bts

My youthful opponent gave me a good game, finding resources I had not spotted. He can only get better in the future.

cdeb

Any word on Malahide v Blanchardstown from Tuesday?

Big game at the top

Razzen

Malahide 4 - 1 Blanchardstown

2bts

St. Benildus A 3:2 Naomh Barrog

Ciaran

Blanchardstown 2.5-2.5 Benildus B

Debornie

Enniscorthy 3 - 2 Curragh

cdeb

Rathmines B 1-4 St Benildus A

Slightly surprised Rathmines B are struggling as much as they are; they've a very young team, but there's plenty of promising players there. That said, the Bodley is a lot stronger than last year of course (when half the league was relegated)

Debornie

Enniscorthy 3 - 2 Rathmines A

cdeb

Don't suppose you've a result for here as well CowboyDreams?

Curragh v Malahide

L1m1tless

2.5 each

cdeb

Benildus 1-4 Blanchardstown!

Everything went wrong. Let's hope we don't have a day like that again.

Debornie

Malahide 0.5 - 4.5 Enniscorthy

cdeb

Interesting. Malahide must be favourites to miss out on promotion now.

St Benildus B v Curragh postponed due to a clash with the Leinster Schools finals, which took up most of our players. Rescheduled for next week.

cdeb

St Benildus B 2-3 Curragh

Quite happy with that.

Debornie

Benildus A 1.5 - 3.5 Enniscorthy

cdeb

Yep. Pretty much guarantees Enniscorthy the title (as I predicted at the start of the thread!) Deservedly so; best team by a distance. I think they are the first team to mathematically secure promotion too? Curragh, Malahide and St Benildus A can't all catch Enniscorthy as we have to play both the others.

But our players will be kicking themselves after that. Fairly sure we had winning chances (not just that we were better) in all five games; how we came out of it with just 1½ I don't know.

But if we play like that for the next two games and we should still go up. Just need to be that bit more clinical and hopefully we'll have a rematch against Enniscorthy next season!

Chess_Coach

I would like to congratulate both teams on very nice games. As Enniscorthy Chess Club Coach and Private coach of 4 players in the team I had a look into games . Firstly at the start of the season I tried to peak form of my players for March and April 2015 . Augustin won 200 + rating points in Bunratty so he just explode a bit early . Chess is 40% psychology and 99%Tactic so therefore I use this saying a lot . I do not insist on openings quite a lot but I do insist on tactic and I am not in panic if my players have some problems after opening in fact they are then in House where they were born . I finally got my Fide Trainer title after 3000 kids that learnt how to play chess with me and many many Irish Champions , 2 British , 2 youngest FM in Ireland all from Kilkenny . Was very proud to have one of the youngest teams to win Armstrong and I was part of the team .

Now talking about training . This is big secret of the trade. The most important factor is to make your students to feel special and best. This is what I managed to give Ryan, John C, Aravind M, Pornima M , Robert W , Eion M , Sarah and Catherine etc .
I spend usually 15 minutes talking to my students and I praise them a lot .
Each player is different character and coach must adopt the style to personality . This is hard part of the job .

Some said that Kilkenny pulled 2nd team etc. In 2010 I stopped coaching for Kilkenny Chess Club and in 2013 started with Enniscorthy . When I left Kilkenny they had 4 teams now only one . Enniscorthy is in good shape now .
Parents and Coach with hard working smart kids can achieve a lot !

Looking forward to clash in next year !

Debornie

Enniscorthy 5 - 0 St Benildus B

cdeb

Threw away at least a point, if not more, again. Still, tough learning curve!

Curragh 3-2 St Benildus A. Missing our top two players again. This is turning into a disaster for us!

Means Enniscorthy have won the league; congrats!

cdeb

Rathmines B 2½-2½ Bray/Greystones
Rathmines B 3½-1½ Elm Mount

Means the league table is -

Pos	Team	        MP	GW	GD	GL	Pts
1	Enniscorthy	10	40	4	6	42    
2	St Benildus A	10	31	7	12	34 1/2
3	Curragh	        9	26	6	13	29    
4	Malahide	9	25	8	12	29    
5	Naomh Barróg	8	15	10	15	20    
6	Elm Mount	9	15	6	24	18    
7	Rathmines A	9	14	6	25	17    
8	Bray/Greystones	8	13	6	21	16    
9	Blanchardstown	8	14	3	23	15 1/2
10	St Benildus B	9	13	5	27	15 1/2
11	Rathmines B	9	11	7	27	14 1/2
12	Inchicore	8	12	4	24	14

We actually have a point more of a gap over Malahide/Curragh than I thought, which is something at least...

L1m1tless

I wouldn't worry I say you guys will get promotion. There was just no stopping Enniscorthy this year. You did predict it!

cdeb

I did - and I also predicted we wouldn't quite make it!

Problem in our last couple of games is that we've not had a full team out - been missing three players each of the last couple of games.

And then ye sneaky go and change your board order too!!

But Malahide's next game is against our Bs - if we can do to them what we did to Curragh, our As should be ok.

If.

L1m1tless

ah we learned that trick from playing your B's! Fool me once etc etc. I hope your B's do well against Malahide that would help us stay in promotion position.

cdeb

Yeah, we thought ye might alright, but there was nothing we could really do! Given that our Bs took two points off ye from that trick, it was arguably worth it in the end.

Chess_Coach

What is this with team swap thing? We never do it as this clearly show the fear . Just play according the rating and that is all . I mean this just show how some teams spend time and energy on off board things. I prefer to teach kids how to win in better position . This is the weakens when one focus on openings rather then other things. Kotov wrote nice book about it !

L1m1tless

Swapping around players and playing to your strengths is never a bad idea.

Its been proven in practice, using the rules to your advantage is part of the game.

There is a difference between being a coach and being a captain.

Chess_Coach

I know that is why my team is on the top !

cdeb

Don't see why team order should be rigid anyway.

Why should just one player get exposure on board 1? And a player playing on board 1 regularly will have a different match on board 5 - it might be the difference between playing 100 points above their rating and 200 points below.

Good to mix things about like that.