by Ray Flood
TAFCA Division 1
Dundee A 3½-½ St Andrews B
Jacques Ophoff CM 2293 1-0 Carrick Simpson 1614
Ed Spencer 2046 1-0 Leo Olson 1563
Joshua Crofts 1778 ½-½ Fraser McIntyre 1482
Ray Flood 1419 1-0 Ruary Duddy 1400
Comfortable scoreline in the end, but after a quick win for Ed, Josh and I were toiling for most of our games. To have pulled out 1½ points from them was an excellent rearguard action/daylight robbery. They all count. Jacques finished off the evening efficiently to hand our Fife friends a scoreline they certainly didn't deserve. The A Team still need St Andrews A to blow up, but they're still there.
TAFCA Knockout
Dundee B 7½- ½ Newport Knights
Jim Anderson 1½ - ½ Doug Cairns
Ansh Bhakta 2-0 Alan Wallace
Daniel O'Connor 2-0 Angus Sneddon
Katerina Tanzerova 2-0 Roy Morris
The 'B' Team made it through to the final in style, with a scoreline I certainly didn't expect. It's tricky to predict the effects of the time handicaps, but our guys took it all in stride.
Club Intermediate
Cameron Neilson 1-0 Amy Soutar
Subhayu Banerjee 1475 1-0 Christine Sim 1010