U1 vs Horsham 3

A disastrous night for the First Team really.  I hate driving to Horsham from Uckfield, it's about the worst venue from here (including Hastings) so I'm not usually in a good state when we start...and frankly it didn't improve much from there.

Chaski put in another smooth performance on Board 1, beating a Sussex Junior rather handily.

Mark on 2 made it out of the opening in essentially an equal position, having to choose between two knight moves.  Sadly I chose the wrong one and it was downhill from there.

Simon on 3 had two central pawns for the exchange and was looking good to even mate his opponent...but fell foul of a nasty pin which left him in a difficult endgame losing n the last game to finish.

Brian on 4 was being attacked but probably looked OK, though it looked a bit scary (Brian thought he was easily OK) but also fell to a pin, losing a whole rook, game over.  Stephen on 5 was pushed back on the kingside and it was only a matter of time.

So we lost 4-1, disappointing.  The next match is not til late January so quite a long break now.