Tight Victory For Lincolnshire Over Derbyshire

This afternoon the Lincolnshire County Chess Team played match against Derbyshire and nothing was possible to take as a granted. Grades on the paper and reality on the chessboards looked completely different.

Section:  OPEN
Home Team: Lincolnshire	Away Team: Derbyshire
Venue: Lindum Atrium - North Hykeham	Date:  2nd November 2013
Team having white on odd boards: Derbyshire	Result reported by:  Nigel Birtwistle

Board	ECF Code	Grade	Home team players’ names	Score	Score	Away Team players’ names	Grade	ECF Code
1	280480H	203	Claudio Mangione	0.5	0.5	Ray Evans	193	110349A
2	106801F	196	Nigel Birtwistle	1	0	Trevor Bould	182	107033C
3	119269H	192	Nick Stead	0.5	0.5	Simon Gilmore	178	111264J
4	222105G	191	David Coates	0.5	0.5	Ray Forey	167	110757E
5	247736J	190	Samuel Milson	0.5	0.5	Ralph Allen	163	105641E
6	181511D	190	Joe Kilshaw	1	0	Martin Cobham	164	136751B
7	231112E	183	Daniel Wells	0	1	Derek Jarvis	162	173444B
8	216825L	177	Harry Russell	0.5	0.5	John Hoddy	162	112778A
9	116655E	169	Keith Palmer	0.5	0.5	Luke Alldread	151	166478F
10	190995H	160	Andrew Hebert	0	1	Maurice Hill	142	112669G
11	772721E	159	Ivan David	1	0	Dave Hoddy	140	210955E
12	152031D	159	Steve Allott	0	1	Paul Moore	136	115733E
13	270555C	158	Alastair Summers	1	0	Ian Edmundson	135	281310F
14	277271G	151	Stuart Macdonald	0	1	Ronald Harrison	122	111222J
15	111157H	149	Denis Georgiou	1	0	Roger Walker	121	120998L
16	244268B	170	Kevin McCarthy	1	0	Default	-	-
				9	7

As team captain Nigel Birtwistle summarized in his e-mail: "...match was not one of our most inspiring performances against a Derbyshire team who we outgraded by a considerable margin. Having said that we can be happy that we won the match,even though it was by a smaller margin than expected."

Well, we can be looking forward to our next match on Saturday, December 7th against Leicestershire hoping that we will do better than Americans in 1941. Actually it was Sunday and not Saturday.