Round 6

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Wales v Montenegro
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Bd 1. FM Richard Jones (2321)..- GM Nikola Djukic (2503) ..1-0
Bd 2. Richard Dineley (2270) ..- GM Milan Drasko (2527). ..0-1
Bd 3. Tim Kett (2238)..........- GM Dragan Kosic (2495) ..1/2-1/2
Bd 4. Alan Bennett (2108)......- IM Blazo Kakezic (2459)..1/2-1/2

Games Here
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Tim's report

Following yesterdays tense and not entirely convincing win over Scotland, a really well-deserved good result for the boys today.

Outgraded by around 200 points a board we held Montenegro to a draw with a comprehensive win for Richard J on board 1 on the White side of a Taimanov Sicilian and two lots of stubborn resistance lower down.

Richard J's really got going now with two good wins in a row and hopefully he can build on this and produce some more fireworks in the closing stages.

Richard D got slowly ground down by some really consummate positional technique, after his long struggle yesterday it was the last thing he needed to face such an examination.

On the bottom two boards it wasn't pretty and there wasn't much get excited about apart from the results but Alan and I hung in there for dour draws in contrasting styles.

I enhanced my reputation for mastery of rook & pawn endings (!) by eventually forcing a slightly worse one down to K v K while Alan successfully blockaded his opponents Bishop pair with his own more passive but defensively effective B & N. Alan's tournament performance continues to hover around the 2500 mark ... sensational - and just a pity he can't now play enough games to qualify for a norm !

Tim