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Inter County Bulldogs Team (U100)
Team Captain: David Buckley.
MCCU Under-100 Championship
Bulldogs 6½ - 5½ Nottighamshire
Match played 28 March 2009 at Bushbury Chess Club, Wolverhampton.
Match report by Matthew Carr:
With just 5 minutes to go before the 1:30 start time there was just 6 players in the room then by 1:40 the place was packed.
With the players ready to go Nottinghamshire won the toss and had white on the odd boards.
Tony Meakin's opponent was a no show so we had a point in our favour from the word go.
There was action all the way, Barry Smith elected for a Caro Kann against his opponent and David Moleneux chose to throw the French Defence at his.
An hour in and we were still no closer to seeing a winner, the boards looked had all passed the opening and strategies were beginning to show themselves.
David Buckley was the first to finish and as captain he certainly set a good example.
Simon Jones was playing well until he made one careless move and that gave his opponent the game.
Manpreet Sangha's game attracted a lot of attention.
There was plenty of action and in the end when both players queened a pawn it was Manpreet to move and got a position where it would have been his Queen and 3 pawns vs a King.
With only three boards left to go Nottinghamshire had managed to pull it back to 4½ each.
Then with just board 1 left playing it was even again (5½ each) and right at the end there was a bit of contravercy regarding score sheets but the result was a win for Barry and a win for Staffordshire.
It has been a great pleasure to be an observer at this game today and hope they and our counterparts the Terriers have done equally as well.
Matthew Carr.
30 March, 2009
The U100 inter-county section is for players graded under 100.
Following an objection, the MCCU County Match Controller has ruled that although the player on board 3 for the Bulldogs was ungraded, his level of skill makes him too good to play in the under 100 section.
Because of that, the result on board 3 has now been awarded as a default win for the Nottingham team and a further penalty point deducted from the Staffordshire team's score.
That makes the final result 6½ - 4½ to the Nottingham team.
(Results of several recent league matches etc were used to estimate the player's grade.)
The actual result of the game on board 3 will still be sent for grading as a win for the Staffordshire player.
| Bd |
Grade |
Bulldogs |
Score |
Score |
Nottinghamshire |
Grade |
| 1 |
99 |
Barry Smith |
1 |
0 |
Alan Brown |
98 |
| 2 |
95 |
Phil Jackson |
0 |
1 |
Benjamin Hobson |
95 |
| 3 |
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Default |
Def |
1 |
Christopher Sargeant |
95 |
| 4 |
91 |
Richard Dawson |
1 |
0 |
Edwin Justice |
91 |
| 5 |
90 |
Robert Brodie |
0 |
1 |
Peter Gorecka-Marshall |
90 |
| 6 |
88 |
Peter Crozet |
0 |
1 |
Richard Dawson |
90 |
| 7 |
87 |
David Moleneux |
½ |
½ |
Lenard Morrell |
83 |
| 8 |
84 |
Anthony Meakin |
1 |
Def |
Andrew Garside |
80 |
| 9 |
75 |
Simon Jones |
0 |
1 |
Paul Todd |
74 |
| 10 |
75 |
Paul Guest |
0 |
1 |
Arun Maini |
71 |
| 11 |
75 |
David Buckley |
1 |
0 |
Kenneth Heath |
62 |
| 12 |
68 |
Peter Evans |
1 |
0 |
Dorothy Blampied |
60 |
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TOTALS |
4½ |
6½ |
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David has now been running this successful team for several years.
Matches are played on Saturday afternoons, with no adjournments.
If you might be interested in playing, please get in touch with him - contact details on the left of this page.
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