Another draw! This time against Switzerland

We went into our match this week hoping to get our first win of the season, Switzerland being one of the weaker teams who were promoted from the C league.

On 1st board was new team member Chong Han. He played an unconventional, centre-oriented opening which lead to complex fighting and many chances for both to win, but in the end he lost by a few points.

On board two Des Cann started powerfully and looked on course for a crushing victory until he blundered some key cutting stones, but fortunately he battled on and won anyway. Alex Selby also won his relatively peaceful game.

Finally, Andrew Simons lost his game when he played a time tesuji to read if a group could be killed by ko or unconditionally and then forgot to kill it afterwards.

The Swiss team kindly let us join reviews of the games the next evening by their trainer, Hwang In-seong 7d. So another draw and our first win of the season remains elusive. Next up are current league leaders Finland.

Games:

1. Chong Han lost to John Walch by 5.5 points
2. Des Cann beat Lorenz Trippel by resignation
3. Alex Selby beat Félicien Mazille by resignation
4. Andrew Simons lost to Sebastien Ott by 20.5 points

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