BEDFORDSHIRE
HOME (BCF QUARTER FINAL)
WANSTEAD HOUSE
13 MAY 2000
| ESSEX | BEDFORDSHIRE | ||||||
| Board | Colour | Home Team | Grade | Score | Away Team | Grade | Score |
| 1 | B | Trevor Coote | 171 | ½ | Richard Freeman | 170 | ½ |
| 2 | W | Tim Hebbes | 168 | 1 | Vic Rumsey | 171 | 0 |
| 3 | B | Lawrence Trent | 170 | 1 | Adrian Elwin | 164 | 0 |
| 4 | W | Paul Williamson | 167 | 0 | Phil Thomas | 165 | 1 |
| 5 | B | Peter Doye | 169 | 0 | Richard Mahony | 162 | 1 |
| 6 | W | Ivan Myall | 166 | 1 | Joe Valerio | 160 | 0 |
| 7 | B | Nick Gough | 167 | ½ | Kevin Williamson | 159 | ½ |
| 8 | W | Terry Whitton | 166 | ½ | Richard Ormesher | 152 | ½ |
| 9 | B | John White | 164 | 1 | Mark McCready | e140 | 0 |
| 10 | W | Ian Hunnable | 164 | 1 | Peter Gill | 135 | 0 |
| 11 | B | Sid Kalinsky | 160 | 0 | Raj Ganger | 132 | 1 |
| 12 | W | Neville Twitchell | 156 | 1 | Eric Lake | 131 | 0 |
| 13 | B | Paul Barclay | 156 | 1 | Malcolm James | 130 | 0 |
| 14 | W | Dave Pearse | 156 | ½ | John Harbour | 128 | ½ |
| 15 | B | Howard Grist | 154 | 1 | Mal Waddell | 125 | 0 |
| 16 | W | Colin Ramage | 152 | 1 | Bill Charlett | 86 | 0 |
| TOTAL - Home | 11 | TOTAL - Away | 5 | ||||
The strength is depth of the Essex U175 squad was once again illustrated in this match, as despite contributing five players and the non-playing captain to the Open team that was in action at Syston, the home side held a substantial grading advantage in their quarter final againat Bedfordshire at Wanstead House, particularly in the lower order. Nevertheless, the visitors put up a good fight, only just failing to hold Essex over the top eight boards, and can feel somewhat hard done by in terms of the Essex margin of victory.
Early on, Essex looked like running away with the match. A draw on top board was followed by wins for John White, Tim Hebbes (a particularly powerful performance), Paul Barclay and Colin Ramage. However, Bedfordshire fought back and narrowed the margin to 7 - 4 by dint of picking up three victories. The Essex points scorers in this period of play were Neville Twitchell who consolidated to victory after his opponent's piece sacrifice in the opening has at first seemed to give him reasonable chances, Lawrence Trent whose king had looked exposed but who managed to land the knockout punch first and Dave Pearse who settled for a draw after looking to have an edge for most of the game.
Essex reached the 8 point mark when Ian Hunnable's opponent capitulated, but still needed half a point from the four remaining games to secure victory in the match. This came from the most unlikely of the four, when debutant Nick Gough who had been a pawn down from move 12 after being forced to decline his opponent's Greek gift sacrifice on h7 managed to salvage a draw. Terry Whitton then also agreed a draw, and the match was concluded by Ivan Myall (in an ending of queen and pawn against queen) and Howard Grist (in a pawn up opposite coloured bishop ending) both winning on time.
Tim Hebbes v Vic Rumsey
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 5.d4 cxd4 6.cxd4 d6 7.Bc4 Nb6 8.Bb3 dxe5 9.d5 Na5 10.Nc3 Nxb3 11.Qxb3 e6 12.Bg5 Be7 13.Rd1 Bxg5 14.dxe6 Qe7 15.Qb5+ Kf8 16.Nxg5 Bxe6 17.Nxe6+ Qxe6 18.0-0 f5 19.Rfe1 Re8 20.Qc5+ Kf7 21.f4 e4 22.Nb5 Rd8 23.Nd6+ Kg6 24.Rxe4 Qxe4 25.Nxe4 Rxd1+ 26.Kf2 Rhd8 27.Qe7 fxe4 28.Qe6+ Kh5 29.Qf5+ 1-0
Adrian Elwyn v Lawrence Trent
1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nb4 6.Bc4 Nd3+ 7.Kf1 Nc6 8.Qb3 e6 9.Ne2 Nxc1 10.Rxc1 a6 11.Qe3 Be7 12.a3 0-0 13.e5 b5 14.Bd3 Bb7 15.h4 c4 16.Bb1 Na5 17.Ng5 h6 18.Nh7 Re8 19.Rh3 Nb3 20.Rd1 Kh8 21.Qf4 f5 22.exf6 Bxf6 23.Ng5 Qe7 24.Qg4 Rad8 25.Nf4 Qd7 26.Bh7 Bxg5 27.hxg5 Kxh7 28.gxh6 g5 29.Qxg5 Rg8 30.Qe5 Nxd2+ 31.Ke2 Rg4 32.Nh5 Rf8 33.Rxd2 Rxf2+ 0-1
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