MIDDLESEX
AWAY (SCCU STAGE)
NORTHOLT
20 FEBRUARY 1999
| MIDDLESEX | ESSEX | ||||||
| Board | Colour | Home team | Grade | Score | Away team | Grade | Score |
| 1 | W | Tim Spanton | 173 | 0 | Tim Hebbes | 174 | 1 |
| 2 | B | Jurgen Jakob | 173 | 0 | Rod Nixon | 170 | 1 |
| 3 | W | Paul McKeown | 169 | 0 | Bill Saunders | 171 | 1 |
| 4 | B | Dave Ebbett | 171 | ½ | George McNally | 172 | ½ |
| 5 | W | Velko Stanisic | 166 | 1 | David Millward | 169 | 0 |
| 6 | B | Alex Bourke | 162 | 0 | Ian Hunnable | 166 | 1 |
| 7 | W | David White | 161 | 0 | Peter Doye | 166 | 1 |
| 8 | B | Anthony Wheatley | 160 | 1 | Paul Barclay | 165 | 0 |
| 9 | W | Graham Brown | 152 | 0 | Ivan Myall | 164 | 1 |
| 10 | B | Robert Aw | 152 | ½ | Dave Pearse | 163 | ½ |
| 11 | W | Anthony Fulton | 150 | ½ | Roy Heppinstall | 162 | ½ |
| 12 | B | Chris Fewtrell | 148 | 0 | Neville Twitchell | 162 | 1 |
| 13 | W | S H Rezvany | 0 | John White | 161 | 1 | |
| 14 | B | Ray Harper | 146 | ½ | Les Crane | 159 | ½ |
| 15 | W | Jonathan Kay | 135 | ½ | Colin Ramage | 153 | ½ |
| 16 | B | P Simek | 132 | 0 | Mark Weighell | 151 | 1 |
| TOTAL - Home | 4½ | TOTAL - Away | 11½ | ||||
Easily the best collective performance of the season as Essex rose to the occasion to bury a Middlesex side that could still have pipped them to the SCCU championship.Ivan Myall won inside one hour and Rod Nixon in two, and with Essex having several clearly favourable positions, victory in the match was never in doubt.
Rod Nixon v Jurgen Jakob
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d6 3.g3 Be7 4.Bg2 c6 5.Nf3 g5 6.h3 h5 7.d4 exd4 8.Qxd4 Bf6 9.Qe3+ Be6 10.Ne4 g4 11.Nfg5 Nh6 12.Qd3 Be5 13.Nxe6 fxe6 14.Bg5 Qa5+ 15.Kf1 Nf5 16.hxg4 hxg4 17.Rxh8+ Bxh8 18.Bf6 Bxf6 19.Nxf6+ Ke7 20.Nxg4 Nd7 21.e4 Nc5 22.Qf3 Nxg3+ 23.Qxg3 Rg8 24.Qh4+ 1-0
Mark Weighell v Paul Simek
1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.d3 Qh4+? [ Mark commented that his opponent had fallen into a well known trap in the Vienna game. This was encouraging for his captain, who did not know the trap at all, and had not the slightest idea what was going on in the resultuing position, Black should resist the queen check and play 5...Nxc3 6 bxc3 d4 with a satisfactory position.] 6.g3 Nxg3 7.Nf3 Qh5 8.Nxd5 Nxh1 9.Nxc7+ Kd8 10.Nxa8 Bg4 11.Bg2 Nc6 12.d4 Be7 13.Be3 Bh4+ 14.Ke2 Kd7 15.Qxh1 Rxa8 16.Kd2! f5? 17.e6+ Ke7 18.Nxh4 Qxh4 19.h3? [19 Bxc6 was the consistent continuation. Now Black can make use of his otherwise dubious sixteenth move] 19...f4 20.hxg4 fxe3+ 21.Kxe3 Qxg4?! [21...Qg5+ was much more awkward for White, who now gets back on track by capturing on c6 and concludes the game with a king hunt once Black runs out of checks] 22.Bxc6 bxc6 23.Re1 Rf8 24.Qxc6 Qg3+ 25.Kd2 Rf2+ 26.Kc1 Qf4+ 27.Kb1 Qxd4 28.Qc7+ Kf6 29.Qf7+ Kg5 30.Rg1+ Kh4 31.Rh1+ Kg3 32.Qc7+ Kg2 33.Qh2+ Kf3 34.Qh5+ Ke3 35.Re1+ 1-0
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