Inter County U-160 team 2009/10
Team Captain: Alan Thomason.
ECF National Quarter finals
Essex 9½ - 6½ Staffordshire
Match played 22 May 2010 in Milton Keynes
Bd |
Grade |
Essex |
|
|
Staffordshire |
Grade |
1 |
157 |
Peter Doye |
½ |
½ |
Richard Parker |
159 |
2 |
157 |
Ken Clow |
½ |
½ |
Steve Wilcox |
157 |
3 |
159 |
Peter Laundy |
½ |
½ |
Ben Zitha |
156 |
4 |
151 |
David Pearse |
0 |
1 |
Max Wootton |
154 |
5 |
155 |
Matthew Shaw |
½ |
½ |
Martin May |
154 |
6 |
150 |
David Payne |
0 |
1 |
Peter Leary |
153 |
7 |
149 |
David Brock |
½ |
½ |
William Armstrong |
153 |
8 |
147 |
Rod Johnson |
1 |
0 |
Steve Hill |
152 |
9 |
148 |
Ian P Morgan |
½ |
½ |
Derek Perks |
152 |
10 |
149 |
Jeff Macwain |
1 |
0 |
Phil F Staley |
147 |
11 |
148 |
David Smith |
½ |
½ |
Alan Thomason |
142 |
12 |
147 |
John Wright |
1 |
0 |
Matthew P Wyza |
137 |
13 |
144 |
Malcolm Kingsley |
1 |
0 |
John Button |
135 |
14 |
144 |
Ian Woodward |
1 |
0 |
Peter Broomhall |
133 |
15 |
141 |
Peter Nickals |
0 |
1 |
Brian T Birchall |
125 |
16 |
133 |
Alan Riddoch |
1 |
0 |
Karol Grzybowski |
112 |
|
|
TOTALS |
9½ |
6½ |
|
|
MCCU Inter-Counties Under-160 Championship
Shropshire 8 - 11 Staffordshire
Match played 20 March 2010 in Shifnal
Bd |
Grade |
Shropshire |
|
|
Staffordshire |
Grade |
1 |
156 |
Iain R Wilson |
½ |
½ |
John Staniforth |
157 |
2 |
156 |
Gerald C Link |
0 |
1 |
Ben Zitha |
156 |
3 |
152 |
Andrew Tunks |
0 |
1 |
Max Wootton |
154 |
4 |
149 |
Glyn Randle |
0 |
1 |
Martin May |
154 |
5 |
147 |
John A Westhead |
0 |
1 |
Peter Leary |
153 |
6 |
143 |
Eugene BD Raby |
0 |
1 |
Steve Hill |
152 |
7 |
147 |
Steve Tarr |
½ |
½ |
Derek Perks |
152 |
8 |
141 |
Gary M White |
1 |
0 |
Mike Groombridge |
151 |
9 |
139 |
Graham C Shepherd |
½ |
½ |
Phil F Staley |
147 |
10 |
138 |
Richard G Thompson |
0 |
1 |
William Rea |
146 |
11 |
138 |
John A Tunks |
0 |
1 |
Alan Thomason |
142 |
12 |
131 |
Nathanael Paul |
0 |
1 |
John Day |
134 |
13 |
136 |
Stefan H Tennant |
1 |
0 |
Matthew P Wyza |
137 |
14 |
134 |
Windsor WA Peck |
1 |
0 |
John Button |
135 |
15 |
129 |
Richard Gillespie |
0 |
1 |
Peter Broomhall |
133 |
16 |
117 |
Roger R Brown |
½ |
½ |
Brian Birchall |
125 |
|
|
TOTALS |
5 |
11 |
|
|
Staffordshire 8½ - 7½ Nottinghamshire
Match played 27 February 2010 at Bushbury, Wolverhampton
Looking at the MCCU tables at the start of this match, Notts were in second place, with the Staffs team joint third, two points behind.
As today's match began, the Notts team quickly went into a 5 - 0 lead.
It wasn't looking good.
As the other matches began to finish, the results started to swing back the other way.
Peter Broomhall found himself in a tense engame position, but forced the advantage by pushing his king side forward.
Matthew Wyza (white) missed one winning opportunity, and soon found himself with pawns locked together on f3 and f4.
His rook on d4, against black's bishop on b8.
With careful play, he drove the black king across to the a file, with inevitable results - Well done Matthew.
With just three matches still playing, it still looked like Notts would win by the narrowest of margins.
Steve Hill asked how the game was going, and was told that a draw from him would be useful.
A short time later Bill Armstrong's win brought the teams level.
Now there was just Steve's game to finish.
A tense position, with plenty of onlookers.
On Steve's clock his flag had started to lift, his opponent had almost 10 minutes left.
Then it was all over - Alan's team had won, by the narrowest of margins.
Once confirmed, this results should put the Staffs team in equal second place.
Well done to Alan Thomason and everyone on the team.
The season concludes with a match against Shropshire, in Shifnal next month.
Good Chess!
Bd |
Grade |
Staffordshire |
|
|
Nottinghamshire |
Grade |
1 |
159 |
Richard Parker |
0 |
1 |
Robert P Taylor |
157 |
2 |
157 |
John Staniforth |
½ |
½ |
Stephen J Foster |
156 |
3 |
156 |
Ben Zitha |
1 |
0 |
Eric Williamson |
156 |
4 |
154 |
Max Wootton |
0 |
1 |
Tim R Poole |
155 |
5 |
153 |
Peter Leary |
0 |
1 |
Richard Myers |
153 |
6 |
153 |
William Armstrong |
1 |
0 |
Janos Wagenbach |
152 |
7 |
152 |
Steve Hill |
1 |
0 |
Dragoljub Sudar |
151 |
8 |
152 |
Derek Perks |
½ |
½ |
Marcel Taylor |
150 |
9 |
151 |
Mike Groombridge |
½ |
½ |
Keith W Roper |
148 |
10 |
147 |
Phil Staley |
1 |
0 |
J Keith Walters |
148 |
11 |
146 |
Ken McNulty |
0 |
1 |
John Tassi |
146 |
12 |
146 |
William Rea |
½ |
½ |
Philip D Morgan |
145 |
13 |
139 |
Ken Francis |
½ |
½ |
Stanley E E Cranmer |
144 |
14 |
137 |
Matthew P Wyza |
1 |
0 |
Keith D Brameld |
143 |
15 |
133 |
Peter Broomhall |
1 |
0 |
George J Murfet |
140 |
16 |
128 |
Andy Lenz |
0 |
1 |
Hamzah Ali |
140 |
|
|
TOTALS |
8½ |
7½ |
|
|
Staffordshire 11½ - 4½ Warwickshire
Match played 23 January 2010
Bd |
Grade |
Staffordshire |
|
|
Warwickshire |
Grade |
1 |
159 |
Richard Parker |
1 |
0 |
Robert Reynolds |
159 |
2 |
157 |
John Staniforth |
1 |
0 |
Neil Clarke |
158 |
3 |
156 |
Ben Zitha |
0 |
1 |
Darren Lee |
155 |
4 |
156 |
Frank Wood |
1 |
0 |
Philip Bull |
150 |
5 |
154 |
Max Wootton |
½ |
½ |
Anthony Sadler |
150 |
6 |
142 |
Alan Thomason |
½ |
½ |
Mike P Maher |
149 |
7 |
153 |
Peter Leary |
½ |
½ |
Andrew Moxley |
149 |
8 |
153 |
William Armstrong |
0 |
1 |
Mark E Tallis |
150 |
9 |
152 |
Derek Perks |
1 |
0 |
John F Fahy |
147 |
10 |
152 |
Steve Hill |
1 |
0 |
Andrew J Moxley |
Ung |
11 |
151 |
Mike Groombridge |
1 |
0 |
Louis S Rawson |
147 |
12 |
146 |
William Rea |
1 |
0 |
Jon A Asbury |
142 |
13 |
134 |
John Day |
½ |
½ |
Fred S Dickson |
141 |
14 |
139 |
Ken Francis |
½ |
½ |
Andrew Cottom |
141 |
15 |
137 |
Matthew P Wyza |
1 |
0 |
Alan J Burnett |
140 |
16 |
125 |
Brian Birchall |
1 |
0 |
Chris W Pitt |
131 |
|
|
TOTALS |
11½ |
4½ |
|
|
Staffordshire 8 - 8 Manchester Federation
Match played 7 November 2009 in Newcastle, Staffs.
Match report by Matthew Carr.
Play was due to start at 1:30 and when that time came all our opponents were here but three of our team were unfortunatly detained.
Twenty minutes into play they had arrived and the battles were all in.
Some strong openings as expected from this team.
Matthew Wyza had to face a centre counter, William Armstrong had to face the dutch defence, Steve Wilcox had the English thrown at him and I had to deal with the Kings Gambit accepted.
While I was doing this early observation I noticed one of our boards had already finished.
John Staniforth had secured a draw, well done John.
Just after the hour mark we were on 1½ - ½ however a blunder from me put us back on even ground, sorry everyone.
After the two hour mark was reached everything was still even, then Mike Groombridge informed me he had lost and then Steve Wilcox's game ended in a draw.
After three hours things started to look good for Staffordshire.
Matthew Wyza and Peter Broomhall won their games and brought the score to 6½ - 7½ to Manchester, so victory depended on wins from our last two boards.
William Armstrong managed a draw, well done.
Now we could only draw - it all depended on Derek Perks.
To me the game looked drawn but his opponent had only a few minutes left.
The tension in the room was high and everyone was bunched around the board, I'm 5ft 11 so trying to look over the shoulders of people who were 6ft 3 meant I didnt even know the result until it was put on the score board.
Derek's opponent had resigned with only seconds left, meaning we drew the match 8-8.
Well done Derek.
It was a great day I thought, and look forward to reporting on my next (and possibly my last county game for some time), the U140 match against Debyshire.
Until then enjoy chess.
Matthew Carr.
Bd |
Grade |
Staffordshire |
|
|
Manchester |
Grade |
1 |
157 |
John Staniforth |
½ |
½ |
Alan Beresford |
159 |
2 |
156 |
Ben Zitha |
1 |
0 |
Jon Lonsdale |
157 |
3 |
154 |
Max Wootton |
0 |
1 |
Joao Rita |
155 |
4 |
153 |
Peter Leary |
0 |
1 |
Steven Jones |
143 |
5 |
153 |
William Armstrong |
½ |
½ |
ADB Wilkinson |
153 |
6 |
152 |
Derek Perks |
1 |
0 |
Matthew Pollard |
149 |
7 |
152 |
Steve Hill |
0 |
1 |
Richard Nurse |
149 |
8 |
151 |
Mike Groombridge |
0 |
1 |
Mick Connor |
147 |
9 |
147 |
Andrew Leadbetter |
1 |
0 |
Peter King |
146 |
10 |
146 |
Ken McNulty |
0 |
1 |
Mark McNulty |
144 |
11 |
146 |
William Rea |
½ |
½ |
Damian McCarthy |
142 |
12 |
157 |
Steve Wilcox |
½ |
½ |
Jim Nicolson |
141 |
13 |
137 |
Matthew P Wyza |
1 |
0 |
Ray T Sumner |
140 |
14 |
135 |
Matthew Carr |
0 |
1 |
Graham Phythian |
137 |
15 |
133 |
Peter Broomhall |
1 |
0 |
Les Moore |
129 |
16 |
125 |
Brian Birchall |
1 |
0 |
Harry Brooks |
110 |
|
|
TOTALS |
8 |
8 |
|
|
Leicestershire 9 - 7 Staffordshire
Match played 17 October 2009 in Leicestershire.
Match report by Matthew Carr:
The match started on time with all players present.
Staffordshire were white on the even boards.
An hour into the match and Alan Thomason and Peter Leary had secured draws.
Peter Shaw finished next, unfortunately not with the result we wanted but it was still early days.
Two hours later the score was 7 - 5:
There were 4 games still playing and Staffs were 2 points behind.
Matthew Carr was a Rook, Bishop and Knight v Queen but lost the rook, with the inevitable result just a few moves later.
Only minutes after that Ray Dolan followed suit, and resigned.
That left just Steve Hill and Ben Zitha still playing.
Ben came through first.
In the endgame, he pushed the a & b pawns and used them to checkmate the enemy king - a very rare checkmate if I do say so, and well done to him.
In the final game, Steve's position looked very drawish but he managed to block out the opposing bishop and promote to queen.
In the end Leicestershire won 9 - 7 but what a great day of fun we had.
Bd |
Grade |
Leicestershire |
|
|
Staffordshire |
Grade |
1 |
159 |
Dave Farrell |
1 |
0 |
John Staniforth |
157 |
2 |
159 |
Rajin Ganger |
½ |
½ |
Mark Handley |
157 |
3 |
156 |
Greg Adcock |
0 |
1 |
Ben Zitha |
156 |
4 |
154 |
Paul Deacon |
0 |
1 |
Max Wootton |
154 |
5 |
154 |
Karl Potter |
1 |
0 |
Stephane Pedder |
154 |
6 |
152 |
Alan Jex |
½ |
½ |
Peter Leary |
154 |
7 |
150 |
Steve Turvey |
½ |
½ |
Mike Groombridge |
151 |
8 |
143 |
Bob Collins |
0 |
1 |
Steve Hill |
152 |
9 |
141 |
Tom Dove |
½ |
½ |
Alan Thomason |
142 |
10 |
140 |
Peter Harrison |
½ |
½ |
Matthew Wyza |
137 |
11 |
138 |
Larry Hayden |
1 |
0 |
Matthew Carr |
135 |
12 |
137 |
Peter Hickman |
½ |
½ |
John Day |
134 |
13 |
137 |
Tony Robinson |
1 |
0 |
Ray Dolan |
127 |
14 |
137 |
Barney Thomas |
½ |
½ |
Alan Dobson |
125 |
15 |
135 |
Ian Farquaharson |
½ |
½ |
Paul Clapham |
107 |
16 |
129 |
Roy Lathwood |
1 |
0 |
Peter Shaw |
107 |
|
|
TOTALS |
9 |
7 |
|
|
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