A Match of Two Halves as Hampshire Draw

31st October 2017 Fraser McLeod COUNTY TEAMS 0

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 B				Hampshire B
1	Nataraj, Nakul (157)	0	–	1	Piecha, Lukasz (150)
2	Basham, Edward P (153)	0.5	–	0.5	Chapman, Timothy J (148)
3	Forrest, Peter (145)	0	–	1	Chilton, James I (145)
4	Watson, Darrell A (145)	0	–	1	Moore, Gillian A (141)
5	Barnes, Stephen (143)	0.5	–	0.5	Steele, Kevin (138)
6	Driscoll, William (143)	0	–	1	Wiseman, John M (137)
7	Melsom, Jonathan T (143)	0.5	–	0.5	Agostinelli, David (136)
8	Ferris, Herby (141)	0	–	1	White, Michael J (127)
9	Brown, A Graham (139)	0	–	1	Priest, Christopher PA (124)
10	Saeed, Yaqub (139)	1	–	0	Barnett, James (120)
11	Hawkins, Kevin F (137)	0	–	1	Bonsey, Frank A (118)
12	Turner, David J (137)	1	–	0	Chandar, Manoj (118)
13	Pomerenke, Richard (134)	1	–	0	Young, Jonathan G (110)
14	Driscoll, John (129)	1	–	0	Willis, Alan S (106)
15	Bolduc, Eugene (117)	1	–	0	Chandar, Maha (96)
16	Frost, Paul (115)	1	–	0	Lamb, Keven A (95)
17	Brown, David (113)	0.5	–	0.5	Cochran, Brian V (94)
18	Hill, Andrew W (113)	1	–	0	Chandar, Mansa (70)
19	_default (-)		–		_default (-)
20	_default (-)		–		_default (-)
	(ave grade 136)	9	–	9	(ave grade 121)