We were dumped out of the summer knockout on Tuesday night despite starting with a full point on bottom board when Jesmond defaulted.

Paul Dargan made it 2-0, but it quickly went downhill from there as both Darren and myself lost.  The handicap system gave Jesmond a 1.5 points head-start, so a final score of 3.5-2 in their favour.  Chess Tales examines 3 positions from the games including a very nice mating attack by Paul.