Phil Wheldon failed a late fitness test with this tummy bug doing the rounds, Mark filled the void at a minutes notice, thanks Mark for the effort.

Glyn faced top Lancastrian Ben Hague, a guy who always prefers Knights to Bishops if you check out his c. v.

Dennis was first to the punch with the standard back rank mate threat (three Pawns in front of the isolated king). Star Man for the evening was Jonathan, Arriving 35 minutes down on his clock his accelerated dragon duly dispatched his opponent putting us 1-0 up by this side of 9-o'clock amazing!

Reitze had a tough baptism of fire on his debut, pawn power failed this time against Aspinall's extra knight.

I rolled the ultra passive Butterworth over in 30 moves, ramming speed for me!

Mark went pawn grabing and paid the price.

This left the scores tied at 3-3.

Johns final position was claustrophobic as he looked for compensation on the queenside his opponents heavy pieces broke through on the kingside.

thanks to everyones efforts for this tricky fixture.

OLDHAM 4 - 3 URMSTON

(w) Ben Hague 1-0 Glyn Morris

(b) M.J.Abbot 0-1 Dennis Owen

(w) M. Searles 0-1 Jonathan Hill

(b) D. Aspinall 1-0 Reitze Bouwer

(w) R.Gavin 1-0 John Hopkins

(b)F Butterworth 0-1 Denis Horton

(w) N.Jerzynek 1-0 Mark Davies