First county match of season

The first county match of the season for Shropshire Juniors took place on 3 October. This season the team is competing in the Midlands Chess association under 140 section. As it's a 16-board event, there will be a mix of adults and juniors to make up the team.

The first match was a tough one and ended with a 12-4 defeat to Warwickshire with wins for Graham Shepherd, Ian Davies an Maisy Pugh and draws for Athar Mehmood and Vinnie Crean. Unfortunately a couple of transport problems meant that we defeated three boards.

Juniors playing their debut match for the county were Richard Heath and Laura Newey

	Shropshire	ECF CODE	GRADE	SCORE	Warwickshire	ECF CODE	GRADE	SCORE
	white on odd				white on even
1	Shepherd, Graham C	118873C	139	1	Harrington, Michael J	156103A	137	0
2	Mehmood, Athar	264465E	133	½	Choudhury, Shakeel	269822F	135	½
3	Davies, Ian G	136893L	131	1	Al-Samir, Medhi	270896G	133	0
4	Default			0	Brelsforth, Dave	172043A	138	1
5	Salter, Ivor	118435A	120	0	Jimenez, Frank C	113645J	132	1
6	Default			0	Pitt, Chris W	129346B	131	1
7	Micallef, Charles	273522C	112	0	Walker, Mike BA	120981E	131	1
8	Rooney, Francis	264469B	110	0	Gilbert, Kim T	111228E	129	1
9	Crean, Vincent	143038F	109	½	Phipps, Malcolm J	117082L	129	½
10	Pugh, Maisy			1	Llewelyn, John D	114495K	128	0
11	Best, Matthew	269317D	95	0	Hussain, Adrian	256357F	128	1
12	Newey, Jonathan	267845H	91	0	Green, John	273516H	125	1
13	Dean, Angelica	273523E	72	0	Hodkinson, Peter	249822E	120	1
14	Default			0	Leaper, Richard D	192092D	117	1
15	Heath, Richard			0	Pakenham, John H	116631B	114	1
16	Newey, Laura			0	Hughes, Peter J	270857H	111	1
	RESULT			4				12