Armstrong A lose to Dublin

Well, it had to happen. The great run of the Armstrong A team came to a crashing and shuddering halt against Dublin on Saturday, losing by 5.5 to 2.5. Mindaugas continued on his very impressive run, now with 5/6 and unbeaten. And Leon was very assured in reaching a dominant endgame a pawn up. Aside from that, we were either well-beaten or slightly unlucky (Killian lost in a probably-drawn position). Still, as a team, we continue to out-perform our overall ratings. Some of the estimated rating performances, even after the recent losses, are good:

Mindaugas = 2158 (+247 better than his own rating)
Killian = 2140 (+190)
Leon = 1899 (+126)
Tony = 1882 (+72)
Jack = 1860 (+51)
Ken = 1782 (+99)

I’ll annotate some games for the site in the coming days…

Rathmines A vs. Dublin
Armstrong Cup, Round 6, Saturday Dec 6th 2008
(Rathmines names first)
1 Cafolla, Peter 1927 0 – 1 O’Connor, Jonathon 2191
2 Delaney, Killian 1950 0 – 1 Mendelson, Andrew 2087
3 McCabe, Darren 1897 0 – 1 Schmidt, Martin 2025
4 Janusaitis, Mindaugas 1921 1 – 0 O’Connor, Eddie 1962
5 Scannell, Tony 1810 0 – 1 Collins, Mark A. 1871
6 Killane, Jack 1809 1/2 – 1/2 Egan, Colm 1776
7 Fagan, Leon 1773 1 – 0 Paolo Barbosa 1742
8 Moore, Ken 1683 0 – 1 Ferrero-Turrion, Alejandro 1714