York RI 'A' chess team suffered heartache again in the Woodhouse Cup when losing 5 -4 at home to Hull 'A'.

After previously losing to Sheffield 'A' it was imperative that York beat Hull, but despite fielding an exceptionally strong team York just failed.

All the games were close and seven were drawn, with Hull having two wins and York one from Gawain Jones. York's draws came from David Adams, Norman Stephenson, David Wise, Tony Slinger, Paul Hopwood, Jon Griffith and Paul Johnson.

The defeat means York will not be able to win the Woodhouse Cup this season.

York RI 'B' had a comfortable 6-2 win against St Andrews. Early wins by Patrick Gower and Norman Andrews were followed by wins from Tim Turner, Barry Marshall and Richard Mounce. The two draws came from Eric Key and Laurance Cornhill.

York RI 'C' defeated Hull 'B' by 5-2 with wins from Richard Hardy, Neville Pearce, Sri Sriharan, Mick Beavers, and John Lafferty and a draw from David Findlay.

York RI 'D' produced probably the best result of the day when they drew at Calderdale 'B'.

Graham Marshall and Fahad Yousif on the top two boards both had very creditable draws and Aaron Barker, Arjuna Prithiviraj and Bill Fulton all won to give York a deserved share of the spoils.

Cavaliers beat Lady Anne Middleton for the second successive week, this time in the LTKO Cup. Wins from Steve Huxley, Richard Hardy, Peter Cloudsdale, Owen Robson and draw from Paul Hopwood sealed a 4-1 win.

LAM's points came from a win by John Griffith and draw by Tony Slinger.

Elsewhere in the LTKO, Kings had their first win of the season when they defeated Nowhere Men 5- with wins from John Bennett, Don Baldwin, Rachel Mothersill, Rodney Mitchinson and John Lafferty and a draw from Peter Blacker against Neil Atkin.

Lady Anne Middleton 2 succeeded where their first team failed and progressed to the second round by defeating University 2 by 5- with wins from John Knowles, Colin Snowball, Sam Watson, Chris Summerville and Andy Wade and a draw between Rob Joyce and Schuller.

The first game below is a stylish finish from Robson and the second is from Mounce and shows that you should never resign prematurely.

Owen Robson v J Miers

LTKO round one

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 Nc6 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bb5 e6 6. 0-0 a6 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. d3 Be7 9. b3 0-0 10.Bb2 Re8 11. Qe1 Qc7 12. h3 Bb7 13. g4 e5 14. fxe5 dxe5 15. Ne2 Bd6 16. Ng3 c4 17. Nf5 cxd3 18. cxd3 Bf8 19. Qe3 Rad8 20. Qg5 Rxd3 21. Nxe5 Nxe4 22. Nh6+ Kh8 23. Nexf7+ Qxf7 24. Nxf7+ Kg8 25. Nh6+ Kh8 26. Rxf8+ Rxf8 27. Qxg7++ 1-0

Richard Mounce v D Strauss

IM Brown competition

1 e4 d5 2 exd5 Nf6 3 d4 Bg4 4 Be2 Bxe2 5 Qxe2 Qxd5 6 Nf3 Nc6 7 Nc3 Qf5 8 Be3 0-0-0 9 0-0-0 e6 10 Ng5 Rd7 11 Qf3 Qa5 12 Nge4 Nxe4 13 Qxe4 Bb4 14 Rd3 Bxc3 15 Rxc3 Qxa2 16 Ra3 Qd5 17 f3 a6 18 Rd1 f5 19 Qd3 Qd6 20 Rxa6? bxa6 21 Qxa6+ Kb8 (..Kd8 Qa8+ is good for white) 22 Qb5+ Ka8 23 Rd3 Na7 24 Qa4 c6 25 Ra3 Rb8? 26 d5 Rbb7? (..Rb4!) 27 Qxc6! Qxa3 (at this point I nearly resigned, assuming I had to play 28 Qxb7+ Kxb7 bxa3 which is clearly lost for white, however...) 28 bxa3! Nxc6 29 dxc6 Rbc7 30 cxd7 Rxd7 31 f4 Kb7 32 c3 Kc6 33 Kc2 Kd5 34 Kd3 Rb7 35 c4+ Kc6 36 Kc2 Rb8 37 a4 Ra8 38 Kb3 Rb8+ 39 Kc3 Rb1 40 a5 Re1 41 Bb6 Re2 42 c5 Rxg2 43 a6 Ra2 44 a7 h6 45 Kb3 Ra6 46 h4 g6 47 Kb4 Ra1 48 Kb3 Kb7 49 Kb2 Ra6 (..Rxa7 draws) 50 Kb3 Kc6 51 Kb4 Ra1 52 Kb3 Kd5 53 Kb2 Ra6 54 Kb3 e5 55 fxe5 Kxe5 56 Kc4 f4 57 Kb5 Ra2 58 Ba5! f3 59 a8=Q f2 60 Bc3+ resigns.

Updated: 12:02 Thursday, November 22, 2001