Well I wasn't playing, but what the hey, I'm sure I'm qualified to comment on what happened. As it happens, I've had access to 3 games. See if you can spot which ones.

Richard's game, which according to the PGN was streamed on chess24.com, opened with an opening that he's keeping as a surprise weapon. It will be surprising because I don't know what it was. In fairness, Buckers contributed to the mess of the position early on. Richard got a cheeky Greek gift sacrifice in, and threatened to simply repeat in the Russian style to assert his machismo, and then took the draw.

Martin also tried a bold new opening, as far as I know, and I love it. Somehow it transposed in a Sicilian on move 17, but it wasn't a Martin-Sicilian, so it counts as new. Martin very cooly established a passed central pawn and also managed to mop up some-pawns for his troubles. Once he had an extra three and one of them was on d2, white chucked in the towel.

Ian very quickly established a beautiful wave of-pawns in the centre and pieces were swapped. Both sides had a majority on one side and an isolated-pawn. Both players also had an awkwardly placed piece and one that was poised for action. Fortunately, before I was required to put some serious analysis into the game, a draw was agreed.

Jerry was crushing, as one would imagine considering his season, but was doubtless robbed. Who knows? You'd expect him to be able to bail out for a draw, at worst, so something must've gone wrong.

In the last 5 A-team matches, the A-team has failed to win 3. I'm not saying it's because I've missed all 3 of those, but you really have to question those coincidences.