Inter County Terriers Team (U120) 2010/11

Team Captain: Steve Emmerton.

MCCU Inter-Counties Under-120 Championship

Match report on Steve Emmerton's www.northstaffschess.com website

	Grade	Nottinghamshire			Terriers	Grade
1	118	John Buttery	1	0	Thomas Healey	119
2	117	Raghau Sudarshan	½	½	Karol Grzybowski	113
3	112	John Edwards	1	0	Nic Wright	115
4	111	Malcolm Hargreaves	0	1	Steve Emmerton(Captain)	112
5	109	Chris Sargeant	½	½	Alex Cartlidge&	115
6	105	Chris Bonello	½	½	Stuart Hull	98
7	105	Stephen Morley	1	0	Carl Mustafa	99
8	100	David Somers	0	1	Ernie Wilkinson	100
9	99	Lukasz Kacprzak	1	0	Liam Dimmick	95
10	98	Charlotte Attwood	1	0	Peter Tideswell	85
11	89	Ken Cairney	½	½	Jacob Boswell	84
12	82	Dorothy Blampied	½	½	Hamid Shabani	U/G
		TOTAL	7½	4½

Terriers 5½ - 6½ Worcestershire
Match played 5 February 2011 at Fenton Sports & Social Club, Staffordshire.

Match report by Steve Emmerton:
Another disappointing result for the Staffs Terriers again in the MCCU U120 County Championship at Fenton Sports & Social Club this afternoon.  In a very close match we were once again beaten by the odd point - 6½ - 5½.  But it could have so easily been different.  with 2 matches still in progress we were trailing by 5½ - 4½ but the games in progress were both going in our favour and a 6½ - 5½ victory for the Terriers looked the likely outcome.

Ernie Wilkinson, playing on Board 11, went into his endgame with a rook, knight and 4 pawns against a knight and a pawn.  However, he then took about half an hour to find the most tortuous way of winning.  One can only assume he was playing to the crowd.  This levelled the match at 5½ each and all eyes then turned to Richard Cantliff in the remaining game on Board 9.  Richard was most certainly not playing to the crowd.  He went into his endgame with a 2 pawn advantage, which he then proceeded to turn into a pawn disadvantage.  He then applied his coup de grace by putting his rook en prise, swiftly followed by the knocking over of his king.

So, once again, in what is becoming a habit over the past couple of seasons, we found ourselves in the silver medal position.

Well done to Tom Healey of Meir on Board 1 and Dave Johnson of Kidsgrove on Board 12 who were the only other 2 players to win their respective games.

Next up is our final County fixture of the season - an away match against Nottinghamshire on 26th March.  We can only hope that our fortunes change in this match.

Steve

	Grade	Staffordshire			Worcestershire	Grade
1	119	Thomas Healey	1	0	I Clack	119
2	118	Denis Nesbitt	0	1	T Pountney	118
3	113	Karol Grzybowski	½	½	P Wood	118
4	115	Nic Wright	½	½	M Clark	117
5	114	David Hallen	½	½	R Woolley	Ung
6	115	Alex Cartlidge	0	1	G Stanton	114
7	113	Paul Shelley	½	½	R Turner	113
8	112	Steve Emmerton (Capt)	½	½	R Collett	109
9	105	Richard Cantliff	0	1	M Clack	106
10	104	Steven Cooper	0	1	M Hore	96
11	100	Ernie Wilkinson	1	0	R Thompson	100
12	98	David Johnson	1	0	T Taylor	90
		TOTAL	5½	6½

Terriers 5½ - 6½ Warwickshire
Match played 15 January 2011 at Fenton Sports & Social Club, Staffordshire.

Match report by Steve Emmerton:
Staffs Terriers were narrowly beaten 6½ - 5½ by Warwickshire in the MCCU U120 County Championship at Fenton Sports & Social Club on Saturday.  Staffs proved to be the stronger over the top half of the match with 4½ out of 6 on the top 6 boards.  Unfortunately we couldn't sustain this in the bottom half with only 1 point from the bottom 6 boards in the form of draws on boards 8 and 9.

Technically the match should have been drawn as, on board 5, Paul Clapham's opponent's mobile phone rang twice during the game.  Paul was a pawn down at the time and, being the sportsman that he is, agreed a draw.  The win he was entitled to claim would have given us 5 out of 6 on the top boards and a 6 - 6 result overall.  The age of chivalry is not dead !!!

Bd	Grade	Terriers	Score	Score	Warwickshire	Grade
1	119	Thomas Healey	1	0	Joe Rourke	119
2	118	Denis Nesbitt	1	0	Roy Hadfield	119
3	113	Karol Grzybowski	1	0	Wilf Morgan	117
4	115	Nic Wright	0	1	Guy Greenland	116
5	116	Paul Clapham	½	½	Bill Dixon	115
6	115	Alex Cartlidge	1	0	Richard Leaper	115
7	113	Paul Shelley	0	1	John Pakenham	114
8	112	Steve Emmerton (Capt)	½	½	Peter Hodkinson	114
9	105	Richard Cantliff	½	½	Steve Hotchkiss	112
10	104	Steven Cooper	0	1	Pauline Woodward	112
11	100	Ernie Wilkinson	0	1	Peter Leggett	108
12	98	David Johnson	0	1	Graham Gee	107
		TOTALS	5½	6½

Terriers 12 - 0 Leicestershire
Match due to be played 20 November 2010, in Staffordshire

Leicestershire conceeded the match due to illness of a number of their players.

Bulldogs 7 - 5 Terriers
Match played 16 October 2010, at Bushbury Chess Club

Bd	Grade	Bulldogs	Score	Score	Terriers	Grade
1	119	Peter Crozet	1	0	Thomas Healey	119
2	117	Anthony Meakin	1	0	Denis Nesbitt	118
3	115	Bob Brodie	½	½	Paul Clapham	116
4	114	Peter Evans	0	1	Nic Wright	115
5	111	David Molineux	1	0	Eliot Green	114
6	111	Stephen Micklewright	½	½	David Hallen	114
7	106	Mike Savin	½	½	Alex Cartlidge	115
8	106	Danny Torbica	0	1	Karol Grzybowski	113
9	104	Simon Jones	1	0	Paul Shelley	113
10	104	Paul Guest	½	½	Steve Emmerton	112
11	101	Geoff Cox	0	1	Richard Cantliff	105
12	94	David Buckley	1	0	Ernie Wilkinson	100
		TOTALS	7	5