2018 County Team
Championships national stages

Published 9 July 2018

Under-180 national final: Warwickshire - Yorkshire

Played on July 2018 at Poseidon Centre, Warwick. Yorkshire players on odd-numbered boards had white pieces. Match reported by ECF website.

 

Board	Grade	Yorkshire	Score	Warwickshire	Grade
1	180C	Sullivan, Daniel JS	½ - ½	Cundy, Mark A	177A
2	179B	Hodge, Steve R	½ - ½	Chowdhury, Mohammed NA	170E
3	177A	Bak, Christopher	½ - ½	Hurtado, Philip	174L
4	175L	Hunter, Ian  P	0 - 1	Escott, Keith L	172C
5	174E	Wedge, David C	0 - 1	Ali, Golam S	174A
6	174L	Bak, Andrew	½ - ½	Owen, Neil J	179L
7	171B	Kendall, Paul SN	½ - ½	Green, Anthony J	169A
8	171B	Birkin, Mark H	1 - 0	Smith, Simon C	161A
9	166D	Hempson, Peter W	½ - ½	Singh, Amrik J	157B
10	174D	Hamm, Jeremy A	1 - 0	Hickey, AJ (Tony)	159B
11	162C	Vleeshhouwer, Douglas	1 - 0	Hope, Gary	158A
12	165L	Slinger, AJ (Tony)	½ - ½	Wallman, Robert J	154A
13	166A	Johnson, Paul A	½ - ½	Reynolds, Robert	158A
14	155C	Coop, Brian H	½ - ½	Bull, Phil	157C
15	161L	Mann, Steve J	½ - ½	Thomas, Keith	155B
16	151L	Stewart, T Noel	½ - ½	Byrne, Nigel	145A
		Totals	7½ - 8½

Neil Graham reports. The Under 180 was notable for the fastest and longest games of the whole event. Keith Escott won inside an hour with the first result in the 2018 national team championships. After ten successive draws there were, at last, some decisive results but most were in Yorkshire's favour. With one game to declare, the match score was 8-7 to the northerners. It was left to Phil Bull to try and salvage the point which would have given Warwickshire a win on board count. In the last game to finish in the event, spectators were treated to a marathon ending that finished with bare kings.