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Under-150 Team Championship Quarter Final: Nottinghamshire - Sussex
Played on 20 May 2006 at unrecorded loaction. Sussex players on odd-numbered boards had white.
Nottinghamshire won, just, on board-count.
| Board | BCF Code | Grade | Nottinghamshire | Score | Score | Sussex | BCF Code | Grade |
| 1 | 148 | Tim Lane | 0 | 1 | Jim Graham | 148 | ||
| 2 | 144 | Ian Kingston | 1 | 0 | Ray Williams | 145 | ||
| 3 | 142 | Keith Brameld | 0 | 1 | L John Cannon | 142 | ||
| 4 | 140 | Steve Hunter | ½ | ½ | Anthony Higgs | 150 | ||
| 5 | 138 | Kevin Harvey | 1 | 0 | Alan Palmer | 138 | ||
| 6 | 137 | Dave Flynn | 1 | 0 | Jerry Stone | 137 | ||
| 7 | 137 | John Tassi | ½ | ½ | Keith Davies | 135 | ||
| 8 | 134 | Tony Wright | 1 | 0 | Peter Rayment | 132 | ||
| 9 | 136 | Neil Graham | ½ | ½ | Brian Izzard | 132 | ||
| 10 | 131 | Drag Sudar | ½ | ½ | TimWoods | 123 | ||
| 11 | 131 | George Murfet | 0 | 1 | John Scholey | 121 | ||
| 12 | 131 | David Toms | ½ | ½ | Jamie Wilson | 121 | ||
| 13 | 128 | Phil Morgan | 0 | 1 | Graham Thomas | 120 | ||
| 14 | 127 | Shane Bhayat | 0 | 1 | Mick Plumb | 113 | ||
| 15 | 125 | Keith Roper | ½ | ½ | Paul Taylor | 111 | ||
| 16 | 126 | Marcel Taylor | 1 | 0 | R Daniel Hirsch | 110 | ||
| 8 | 8 |
There was little to separate the sides on grading yet perversely the outgraded players did better. Nottinghamshire established an early lead, but that was disappearing as play continued. Tony Wright gained his point using sound technique in a bishop ending to take his side to 7½. Steve Hunter withstood pressure to get a draw and take Notts to 8. In the two unfinished games, Phil Morgan was the exchange up for pawns, but lost on time. This made the Toms-Wilson game crucial. The Notts player had fought back ffom being a piece down for pawns and had construcyed a fortress. The Sussex player played on to get an unclear queen and pawn ending, forced the exchange of queens and won an important tempo for the ensuing pawn race. Toms and Notts looked doomed in king and pawn ending, but then an error by the Sussex player allowed a drawn king and h-pawn versus king ending. (Based on Ian Kingston's report for The Middlegame Results Supplement 22)