Wednesday 21 October 2009

League season underway for junior teams

Both Shrewsbury Juniors and Newport Juniors found their opening league matches tough going down 4-1 and 5-0 respectively.

For Shrewsbury the half points came from Chris Lovejoy (who drew after being too polite to play on and win on time!) and Angelica Dean.

Shifnal & Telford D v Shrewsbury Juniors 4 - 1
A Jones 1, F Rooney 0;
R Brown 0.5, C Lovejoy 0.5;
P Broderick 1, M Best 0;
R Szwajkun 1, H Graham 0;
T Skidmore 0.5, A Dean 0.5.

Newport Juniors v Wellington B 0 - 5
J Newey 0, K Hickmott 1;
J Allan 0, D Powell 1;
M Richards 0, D Ogundipe 1;
H Davenport 0, J Kuczynski 1;
R Heath 0, D Wright 1.

Saturday 10 October 2009

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