MIDDLESEX AWAY (SCCU STAGE)
EXMOUTH ARMS, EUSTON
16 MARCH 2002

    MIDDLESEX   ESSEX    
Board Colour Home Team Grade Score Away Team Grade Score
1 W Gordon Dickson 171 ½ Tim Hebbes 171 ½
2 B Jurgen Jakob 171 ½ Paul Williamson 174 ½
3 W Jim Falzamo 171 1 Ivor Smith 170 0
4 B Paul McKeown 168 ½ Ian Hunnable 166 ½
5 W Anthony Fulton 165 1 Ian Reynolds 166 0
6 B Carsten Pedersen 165 ½ Bobby Payne 161 ½
7 W Tony Wheatley 161 1 Sid Kalinsky 164 0
8 B A McGuinness 161 ½ John White 162 ½
9 W Michael Healey 154 1 David Millward 160 0
10 B Oliver Williams 156 0 Terry Whitton 160 1
11 W Bruce Birchall 156 0 Neville Twitchell 160 1
12 B V Ray Harper 154 1 Jason Roberts 159 0
13 W Keith Jones 142 ½ Dominic Allen 158 ½
14 B John Harvey 138 0 Kevin White 156 1
15 W Jonathan Kay 137 1 Paul Barclay 153 0
16 B Chris Fewtrell 109 0 Dave Pearse 152 1
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This fixture was academic in terms of final positions in the table as regardless of its outcome Essex would be champions and Middlesex would finish as tail enders. It was just as well from an Essex point of view that nothing was riding on the match as for once they found themselves outplayed. Credit where credit is due to Zoe Ryle who has improved Middlesex out of all recognition since the start of the season and is three quarters of the way to fielding a team that would be challenging for the championship. In the upper order Middlesex made full use of the advantage of the White pieces, and although the Essex lower boards recorded their customary plus score, the margin on this occasion was insufficient to compensate for the deficit further up. Essex did lead 7-6, but with Ivor Smith and Jason Roberts clearly losing it fell to Paul Barclay to try to save the match. Although Paul played extremely well for most of the session and was the exchange ahead, he ran himself too short of time in the allegro finish and a knight fork sealed victory for the home team.

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