Thanks to a 'perfect' game first time up from gambiitti who won without moving a piece, and draws from HyperMagnus and me, team Current_Affairs (lowest rated in our section) secured a 2-2 draw with the highest rated team MonkeyClub2000 in round 1.
It's good to see HyperMagnus playing competitively again - the more so because he's on our team! - his use of the Birmingham Defense was inspired, and I don't just say so because that's where I grew up! The 1. e4 a6, 2. d4 b5 defense was so named because GM Tony Miles used it to beat GM Karpov at a tournament in Birmingham, England. Hyper's opponent tried a plan of quickly fianchettoing his King's Bishop which allowed ... f5! immediately hacking at the centre.
My own desperate rear-guard action has most gratifyingly produced several spoils of battle; not only half a game point (boosting my overall Teamleague tally by 50%), and some ratings points (almost 1800 again...), but also and most valuable, the virtue of hanging in there and hoping against hope has netted the team a precious half a match point to kick off the season, in a round in which only one team had a decisive result, and that by the narrowest margin of 2.5-1.5.
Everything to play for! Roll on Round 2!
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