Inter County U-140 team 2009–10

Team Captain: John Day.

ECF National Championship — Quarter finals

	Grade	Suffolk			Staffordshire	Grade
1	139	R.Jones	1	0	M.Wyza	142
2	138	J.Tulik	½	½	R.Edmunds	141
3	138	E.Kirkham	1	0	J.Button	140
4	131	M.Bettley	½	½	J.Day	139
5	132	A.Paez	1	0	R.Taylor	139
6	122	J.Lambert	1	0	S.Onions	135
7	122	K.Woodcock	1	0	F.Westlake	132
8	124	D.Picton	½	½	T.Healey	136
9	117	C.Szentmihaly	0	1	R.Dolan	132
10	116	M.Steele	0	1	A.Meakin	131
11	121	J.Fitzsimons	0	1	B.Birchall	130
12	119	D.Wild	½	½	A.Dobson	130
13	113	M.Weidman	0	1	J.Montague	129
14	110	L.Garcia	½	½	D.Nesbitt	125
15	113	M.Coughtrey	0	1	K.Walklate	124
16	113	G.Ellis	1	0	P.Shaw	112
		TOTAL	8½	7½

Well done to John Day and the team.

ECF National Championship — Preliminary round

John Day welcomed Stephen Burton and the Yorkshire team to the Bridge Club in Newcastle for their preliminary round tie.

The matches started at 1 pm.  The first result was on board 3: A win for John Button.  After that, the results came in steadily, and before we knew it we had scored 8½ points.  Tony Meakin’s draw took us to 9.  An excellent result.  Well done to John Day and the whole team.

Bd	Grade	Staffordshire	Score	Score	Yorkshire A	Grade
1	137	Matthew Wyza	0	1	Dave Parton	139
2	125	Conrad Green	½	½	Norman G Andrews	136
3	135	John Button	1	0	Darren Bedford	e131
4	134	John Day	0	1	Brian Foster	130
5	129	Michael Page	0	1	Stuart M Johnson	130
6	131	Tom Healey	1	0	Graham J Marshal	130
7	127	Ray Dolan	0	1	Ian D Strickland	130
8	126	Tony Meakin	½	½	Dave W Dixon	e129
9	125	Brian Birchall	0	1	Mike J Dow	129
10	125	Alan Dobson	0	1	David Summerland	127
11	124	John Montague	1	0	Stephen Spencer	124
12	124	Clive Ferry	1	0	Stephen A Jennings	120
13	120	Dennis Nesbitt	1	0	John K Holliday	119
14	111	Karl Walkate	1	0	Dominic Gallagher	119
15	109	Elliot Green	1	0	Robert Pells	117
16	107	Peter Shaw	1	0	Stephen Burton	116
		TOTALS	9	7

MCCU Inter-Counties Under-140 Championship

Bd	Grade	Staffordshire	Score	Score	Shropshire	Grade
1	137	Matthew Wyza	1	0	Stefan Tennant	136
2	136	Roger Edwards	½	½	Windsor Peck	134
3	135	John Button	0	1	Ian Davies	131
4	134	John Day	0	1	Peter Mellor	125
5	125	Conrad Green	½	½	Ivor Salter	120
6	129	Michael Page	1	0	Francis Rooney	110
7	131	Tom Healey	½	½	Vincent Crean	109
8	127	Ray Dolan	1	0	Maisy Pugh	100
9	126	Tony Meakin	0	1	Huw Davenport	99
10	125	Alan Dobson	1	0	Matthew Best	95
11	124	Clive Ferry	1	0	Richard Szwajkun	94
12	124	John Montague	1	0	Jonathan Newey	91
13	120	Dennis Nesbitt	1	0	Steve Szwajkun	81
14		Default	Def	1	Shane Sweeney	61
15	109	Elliot Green	1	0	Richard Heath	50
16	107	Peter Shaw	1	0	Alex Dillon	50
		TOTALS	10½	5½

Staffordshire 6 - 10 Nottinghamshire
Match played 6 February 2010 in Bushbury, Wolverhampton.

Bd	Grade	Staffordshire	Score	Score	Nottinghamshire	Grade
1	137	Matthew Wyza	1	0	James Thomson	139
2	136	Roger Edwards	0	1	Robert Willoughby	138
3	135	John Button	½	½	Chris Lewis	136
4	125	Conrad Green	½	½	Barry Redburn	136
5	131	Tom Healey	0	1	Neil Graham	135
6	130	Sam Onions	1	0	Graham Neil	135e
7	129	Michael Page	0	1	Michael Zhang	134
8	127	Ray Dolan	1	0	Mike Nailard	133
9	125	Brian Birchall	0	1	Andrew Garside	133
10	125	Alan Dobson	0	1	Alan Kenyon	132
11	124	John Montague	0	1	Alan Robinson	131
12	124	Clive Ferry	1	0	Alan Brown	131
13	120	Denis Nesbitt	0	1	Ashton Alfred	130
14	111	Karl Warklate	0	1	Ross Mackay	127
15	109	Eliott Green	½	½	Robert Parker	124
16	107	Peter Shaw	½	½	Derek Cronshaw	123
		TOTALS	6	10

Worcestershire 8 - 8 Staffordshire
Match played 12 December 2009 in Astwood Bank, Worcestershire.

Bd	Grade	Worcestershire	Score	Score	Staffordshire	Grade
1	139	David Scriven	0	1	Mathew Wyza	137
2	139	John F Varilone	½	½	Roger Edwards	136
3	138	Ashley Davis	1	0	John E Button	135
4	137	Don Curry	1	0	John Day	134
5	136	Ian Truscott	½	½	Tom Healey	131
6	129	Jeffery Heath	½	½	Sam Onions	130
7	129	WW Watson	½	½	Ray Dolan	127
8	129	Tim Yates	½	½	Anthony R Meakin	126
9	126	Krzysztof Krowicki	½	½	Alan Dobson	125
10	125	Rob Bricknell	½	½	Clive Ferry	124
11	125	Giles Stanton	0	1	John Montague	124
12	124	Michele J Clack	0	1	Karol Grzybowski	112
13	124	T Francis O'Gorman	0	1	Karl Walklate	111
14	122	Ian Clack	1	0	Peter Shaw	107
15	121	Peter S Banks	½	½	Paul Clapham	107
16	116	James P Friar	1	0	Richard Mansell	103
		TOTALS	8	8

Staffordshire 10½ - 5½ Derbyshire
Match played 14 November 2009 in Bushbury, Wolverhampton.

Match report by Matthew Carr
2pm was the start time and when it came all players were present and correct and the battles began.  Matthew Wyza faced the Roy Lopez; Sam Onions had the centre counter used on him; Conrad Green faced battled against the Vienna; John Day fought the sicilian defence and I got a four knights defence.  Our fastest game today was from Alan Dobson, closely followed by John Day.  Both games were draws.  Well done to both of you.  Conrad Green finished his game with a win, which put us in the lead.  Congratulations Conrad on a job well done.  Sam Onions and Brian Burchall were the next to finish with wins for Staffordshire well done.

My game ended in a draw and with an unfortunate loss from David Hadley we were 4½ –2½ ahead.  Four more points would secure a win, who would deliver them?  Tony Meakin helped start that answer.  Tony, along with John Montague, Paul Walters and Matthew Wyza acquired draws — well done everyone.  John Button worked his magic for us again and secured a win on board two.  Now we only needed one more point to win.

My attention was drawn to board 15.  There was a queen race going on between Elliot Green&rsquots pawn on the ‘a’ file and Norman Parkin’s pawn on the ‘h’.  Elliot calculated he would have a queen two moves ahead of his opponent.  When Elliot’s queen materialised on the board we had our point.  Staffordshire stood on 8½ – 4½ we’d won.

Dennis Nesbitt added to our score with a win of his own, well done Dennis.  After that, the only games still playing were Mike Page and Ray Dolan.  Mike locked the position up and the game was called a draw.  Ray Dolan had been facing extreme threats of queening for well over an hour: In the end he stopped the threat and before any more problems came, a draw was agreed.  Well done Ray.

Our final score was 10½ – 5½.  It was a very exciting afternoon all round.

I would like to thank John Day for organising the venue and for doing the catering for us.

Good luck to the U140 team in there next battle in December.
Matthew Carr.

Bd	Grade	Staffordshire	Score	Score	Derbyshire	Grade
1	137	Matthew Wyza	½	½	David Pickering	139
2	135	John Button	1	0	Luke Alldread	138
3	135	Matthew Carr	½	½	John Kelsall	133
4	134	John Day	½	½	William Hoggarth	133
5	130	Sam Onions	1	0	Vaughn Smith	132
6	129	Michael Page	½	½	Roger Walker	130
7	127	Ray Dolan	½	½	David Dunne	128
8	126	Tony Meakin	½	½	Ronald Harisson	128
9	125	Conrad Green	1	0	Richard Hickling	127
10	125	Brian Burchall	1	0	Jonathan Swift	125
11	125	Alan Dobson	½	½	Douglas Bramley	124
12	124	John Montague	½	½	Herbert Loomes	123
13	121	Paul Walters	½	½	Howard Bradbury	118
14	120	Dennis Nesbitt	1	0	Graham Pace	118
15	109	Elliot Green	1	0	Norman Parkin	117
16	ug	David Hadley	0	1	Nigel Marshall	113
		TOTALS	10½	5½

Warwickshire 4 – 12 Staffordshire
Match played 31 October 2009.

Match report by Matthew Carr.

The battle started at 1.30 and all the players from both teams had arrived — except my opponent.  The openings went well for all of us, John Button opened with the Reti, Matthew Wyza with the anti-sicilian, John Monague had the Vienna Gambit thrown at him, Dennis Nesbitt fired off with the Roy Lopez and Ray Dolan started with the english.  10 minutes later, my opponent turned up.

After about twenty minutes of battle and six moves played John Button’s opponent resigned.  An hour passed like lightning and the tensions were starting to show on all of us.  Warwickshire broke first with a win for Staffordshire on board 14, well done to Elliot, his first time for the U140’s this season, well done to him.  Two hours into battle I went to look over at the score sheet at found myself mouth wide open - We were winning 5 – 0.  A little later more results started to trickle in and we were standing on 8 – 2 and a draw from one of our players meant we were on 8½ and couldnt lose.

Finally, the score stood 11 – 4 with just Conrad Green to finish.  Conrad was a Bishop down but he had six pawns to his opponents three.  Three of Conrad’s pawns were passed, connected and one was standing on c7.  A few moves later it was all over.  Conrad pushed his rook down to d8 and his opponent resigned.  Well done Conrad.  In total we finished 12 – 4 and a good win for Staffordshire.

Well done to all who played today, and well done to John Day for great captaining.  I look forward to reporting on our next match.

Until next time,
Matthew Carr

Bd	Grade	Warwickshire	Score	Score	Staffordshire	Grade
1	136	Mike Biddle	0	1	Matthew Wyza	137
2	135	Shakeel Choudhury	0	1	Roger Edwards	136
3	137	Michael Harrington	0	1	John Button	135
4	131	Chris Pitt	½	½	Matthew Carr	135
5	131	Mike Walker	0	1	John Day	134
6	132	Frank Jimenez	1	0	Tom Healey	131
7	129	Kim Gilbert	0	1	Sam Onions	130
8	129	Malcolm Phipps	0	1	Mike Page	129
9	133	Medhi Al-Samir	0	1	Ray Dolan	127
10	128	Adrian Hussain	½	½	Alan Dobson	125
11	128	John Llewelyn	0	1	Conrad Green	125
12	125	John Green	1	0	John Montague	124
13	120	Peter Hodkinson	1	0	Dennis Nesbitt	120
14	117	Richard Leaper	0	1	Karol Grzybowski	112
15	114	John Pakenham	0	1	Elliot Green	109
16	111	Peter Hughes	0	1	Peter Shaw	107
		TOTALS	4	12

Lincolnshire 7 – 9 Staffordshire
Match played 3 October 2009.

Bd	Grade	Lincolnshire	Score	Score	Staffordshire	Grade
1	138	Jan Van Gemeran	1	0	Matthew Wyza	137
2	134	Peter Sherlock	½	½	Roger Edwards	136
3	133	James Smith	0	1	Matthew Carr	134
4	130	Dave Bell	½	½	John Day	134
5	130e	Michael Dew	1	0	Tom Healey	131
6	129	Keith Noons	0	1	Sam Onions	130
7	129	Mike Robinson	½	½	Ray Dolan	127
8	128	Christopher Cumbers	½	½	Alan Dobson	125
9	124	Charles Moss	0	1	John Montague	124
10	122	Mark Bradshaw	0	1	Dennis Nesbitt	120
11	122	Paul Fischer	1	0	Karol Grzybowski	112
12	120	Robert Crawshaw	0	1	Peter Shaw	107
13	120	Rick Davey	½	½	Paul Clapham	107
14		Jim Stern	0	1	Richard Mansell	103
15	102	Paul Chaplin	1	0	Default
16		Default	½	½	Default
		TOTALS	7	9

Match report by Matthew Carr.

When it came time to start play Lincolnshire were a man down and we were two men short on the team, so they had a point advantage over staffordshire from the word go.  Then an hour into play the results started to trickle in.  Peter Shaw won on board 12 and Matthew Carr secured a win on board three.  Our captain, John Day, followed with a draw.  Matthew Wyza was a knight down heading into the end game but unfortunately couldn’t pull it back.  Dennis Nesbitt’s opponent blundered away a knight and resigned a move later.  John Montague’s opponent found himself in a position where it he either lost the game or gave up a rook.

Three hours in, Staffs had an 8 – 7 lead with just Paul Clapham, Roger Edwards and Karol Grzybowski still playing.  Staffordshire needed only a draw from one of them to secure the win.  That draw came from Paul Clapham, followed closely by Roger Edwards who also achieved a draw, unfortunatly for Karol his opponent queened a pawn and ten moves later Karol resigned.  The final result was 7 – 9 in favour of Staffordshire.

Well done to everyone who played today.  It was a most exciting day.  The next match is at the end of the month.  Lets look forward to repeating the success.