A Match of Two Halves as Hampshire Draw

Fraser McLeod

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On Saturday in the Chiltern League Under 160 competition, Buckinghamshire hosted the match against Hampshire at the Prestwood Village Hall. The hall was warm, quiet and spacious; good playing conditions. A quick glance at the pairings list before the start suggested that Buckinghamshire should win the match as they out-graded their Hampshire opponents on almost every board.

By the end of the match it turned out to be a match of two halves, the top 9 boards and the bottom 9 boards. In the top 9 Hampshire were leading by 7.5-1.5 points (+6, =3, -0). In the bottom 9 boards
Buckinghamshire had the better score of 7.5-1.5 (+7, =1, -1), so the match was drawn.

Well done to the Hampshire team for drawing the match against the odds!

The latest Chiltern 2017-18 Chiltern League U160 table and future fixtures may be viewed here.

Buckinghamshire BHampshire B
1Nataraj, Nakul (157)01Piecha, Lukasz (150)
2Basham, Edward P (153)0.50.5Chapman, Timothy J (148)
3Forrest, Peter (145)01Chilton, James I (145)
4Watson, Darrell A (145)01Moore, Gillian A (141)
5Barnes, Stephen (143)0.50.5Steele, Kevin (138)
6Driscoll, William (143)01Wiseman, John M (137)
7Melsom, Jonathan T (143)0.50.5Agostinelli, David (136)
8Ferris, Herby (141)01White, Michael J (127)
9Brown, A Graham (139)01Priest, Christopher PA (124)
10Saeed, Yaqub (139)10Barnett, James (120)
11Hawkins, Kevin F (137)01Bonsey, Frank A (118)
12Turner, David J (137)10Chandar, Manoj (118)
13Pomerenke, Richard (134)10Young, Jonathan G (110)
14Driscoll, John (129)10Willis, Alan S (106)
15Bolduc, Eugene (117)10Chandar, Maha (96)
16Frost, Paul (115)10Lamb, Keven A (95)
17Brown, David (113)0.50.5Cochran, Brian V (94)
18 Hill, Andrew W (113)10Chandar, Mansa (70)
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(ave grade 136)99(ave grade 121)

Match report kindly provided by Chris Priest