Worcestershire Chess Association

If you have corrections or know scores of other matches in this season, please contact Ray Collett

Final: 10 May 2007 at Worcester: Worcester City 3 - 2 Headless Cross. The match was reported by Worcester News.

Semi Finals: 26 Mar 2007 at Worcester: Worcester City 4 - 1 Kidderminster

Quarter Finals: 2 Mar 2007 at Malvern: Malvern 1½ - 3½ Worcester City

Preliminary Round: 28 February 2007 Kidderminster 1 - 5 Greenlands

 

Greenlands - Kidderminster			KO Cup
Board	Home team	Result	Away team
1 2 3 4 5 6	Lawrence Wheatley Ian Truscott Ian Ellis S Shaw Richard Collett handicap	½ - ½ ½ - ½ 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 0 - 1	Mark Riley John Varilone Paul Thomas Terry Pountney W (Bill) Pugh -
	Result	2 - 5	Played Feb
Source: Bulletin 3

Malvern - Worcester City			KO Cup Quarter-final
Board	Home team	Result	Away team
1 2 3 4 5 6	Brian Turner Ian Clarke Geoffrey Herbert Denis Spenser Brian Stone handicap	½ - ½ ½ - ½ 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 -	Steve Mellor Jim Keene Ray Collett Andrew Farthing Roger Yates -
	Result	1½ - 3½	Played 2 Mar
Source: Ray Collett

Worcester City - Kidderminster			KO Cup Semi-final
Board	Home team	Result	Away team
1 2 3 4 5 6	Steve Mellor (158) Jim Keene (148) Ray Collett (141) Andrew Farthing (111) Roger Yates (81) handicap	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 -	Mark Riley John Varilone Paul Thomas Terry pountney W (Bill) Pugh -
	Result	4 - 1	Played 26 Apr
Source: Ray Collett

Worcester City - Headless Cross			KO Cup Final
Board	Home team	Result	Away team
1 2 3 4 5 6	Ray Collett (141) Andrew Farthing (111) Roger Yates (81) Pat Greenow (ug) George Henderson (ug) handicap	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1 -	Jason Cole (110) Russell Sanders (108) David Richardson (99) Mark Hore (81) Ashley Davis (64) -
	Result	3 - 2	Played 10 May 2007
Played at neutral venue Greenlands Social Club, Longbridge, Birmingham. Source: Ray Collett and Worcester News. In the final, Worcester started badly losing quickly on board five. Pat Greenow's game was also lost in a king-side attack to Headless Cross captain Mark Hore. At this stage, Worcester were in trouble on top board and board 3. Andrew Farthing was first to score for city continuing his good form in his debut season for the club. Roger Yates was lucky. In a minor piece ending and he somehow stopped his opponents' connected passed pawns from queening. On board 1, Collett equalised but there looked little chance of a win until Jason Cole allowed Collett's queen to penetrate his defences in time trouble. With seconds left, Ray Collett wrapped up the game with mate. Reported by Worcester News