Worcestershire Chess Association

Surrey overcome Worcestershire u1650 team in national quarter final

18 May 2024. The match was played in Cumnor Old School, Oxon. Paul Sharratt travelled as non-playing captain and reserve.

Board	Rating	Worcestershire	Scores	Surrey	Rating
1	1610	Varilone, John F (w)	0 - 1	Jones, H Trevor	1632
2	1530	Allsopp, James	1 - 0	Lawrence, Peter A	1623
3	1543	Barton, Luke	½ - ½	Davies, Robert	1648
4	1637	Horwill, Eric	½ - ½	Romeril, Alan P	1626
5	1612	Truscott, Ian M	0 - 1	Fairhall, Robert W	1602
6	1629	Lee, Chris	0 - 1	Keen, Maya	1480
7	1534	Wilkes, Brandon	0 - 1	Gunn, Michael J	1611
8	1509	Cleak, David	1 - 0	Jurjevic, Robert	1624
9	1571	Kirkland, Arnold G	½ - ½	Tillett, Richard	1605
10	1541	Stanton, T Giles	1 - 0	Skinner, Brian	1575
11	1539	Adams, Che	0 - 1	Boyd, David	1560
12	1479	Alcock, Steve	1 - 0	Ryan, John	1521
13	1425	Loynes, John H	0 - 1	Widdicombe, Ben	1479
14	1352	Griffiths, Aiden	1 - 0	Kilambi, Aahna	1007
15	1322	Doran, Ben	0 - 1	Hills, Elliott	1455
16	1400	Pountney, Terrance	0 - 1	Welch, Stephen T	1457
		Totals	6½ - 9½

Worcestershire just miss out to Sussex for semi-final place

11 May 2024. The team travelled to Abingdon to play at Abingdon Village Hall for the national quarter final in the Minor Counties competition. Worcester were out-rated, yet the first three decisive results were all in favour of Worcester. Collett was very fortunate. When he had a quite lost position, his opponent gifted a queen. After half the games, had concluded the match score stood 4½-3½ in favour of Worcestershire but Worcestershire players stood worse in several of them. Sussex caught up with Worcestershire when there were five games in play. The next result put Worcestershire back in the lead, but Sussex clawed back another win to equalise the scores. With two games in play, Joe Rastall put the finishing touches to his victory to level the scores. Unfortunately, Nigel Towers was a pawn down in a N+P ending and Worceshire needed to win that game because Sussex would have had the better board count if scores had been tied at the end of the match. In the end, Nigel had to concede his game and Sussex had won 8½-7½

 

Board	Rating	Sussex	Score	Score	Worcestershire	Rating
1	2245	Rutherford, Luke E	1	0	Lambourne, Daniel M	2087
2	2260	Kwiatkowski, Feliks J	½	½	Friar, Joseph D	2033
3	2143	Payne, Matthew J	1	0	Hurney, Kevin	2041
4	2124	Broom, Mark	0	1	Davis, Lee	2063
5	2169	Wilson, Jaimie	½	½	Edge, John A	2095
6	2128	Farr, Peter G	1	0	Clarke, Ian J	1960
7	2053	Newman, Stephen J	½	½	Evans, Harry G	1947
8	2059	Mansson, James C	0	1	Rastall, Joe	1859
9	2001	Boardman, Jeffrey	1	0	Cartwright, Gavin	1849
10	2023	Norinkeviciute, Rasa	1	0	Smith, David	1797
11	2039	Batchelor, Paul A	1	0	Towers, Nigel S	1807
12	1964	Cove, Henry	0	1	Attwell, Ben	1796
13	1924	Pickersgill, Adrian O	½	½	Woodhouse, Stephen V	1847
14	1857	Wheeler, James M	0	1	Collett, Ray A	1851
15	1767	Edwards, Paul	0	1	Luca, Dorin	1750
16	1755	Selby, Paul R	½	½	Waud, David	1731
		Totals	8½	7½

Worcestershire u1650 lose to Linconshire

20 Jan 2024. The county u1650 team travelled to East Goscote, but lost 6½-9½. John Varilone (Kidderminster), David Cleak and Simon Berry (both Worcester) and John Loynes, making a welcome return to the team won their games.

 

Board	Rating	Lincolnshire	Score	Score	Worcestershire	Rating
1	1562	Fray, Gregory	0	1	Varilone, John F	1610
2	1648	Orr, William	½	½	Horwill, Eric	1637
3	1596	Anbalagan, Amanthika	1	0	Lee, Chris	1629
4	1635	Nelder, Alan J	1	0	Barton, Luke	1543
5	1617	Arthurton, Robert J	½	½	Allsopp, James	1530
6	1554	Sherlock, Peter G	½	½	Truscott, Ian M	1612
7	1554	Howard, Jac	1	0	Kirkland, Arnold G	1571
8	1484	Watson, Andrew T	1	0	Stanton, T Giles	1541
9	1463	Housego, John	0	1	Cleak, David	1509
10	1441	Pocock, John	1	0	Carter, Robert (Bob)	1490
11	1465	Williams, Glyn G	½	½	Alcock, Steve	1479
12	1410	Cumbers, Christopher	0	1	Berry, Simon	1475
13	1375	Gill, Tony	0	1	Loynes, John H	1400
14	1810	Ashcroft, Ben	1	0	Pountney, Terrance	1400
15	1272	Golding, Jason	½	½	Griffiths, Aiden	1352
16	1161	Barker, Vincent	1	0	Downie, Daniel	1490
		Totals	9½	6½

Worcestershire in near miss for Midlands Team Championship

2 Dec 2023. In the fixture to decide Midland Counties' team championship, Worcestershire lost narowly to Lincolnshire. It was a hard fought match with over half the games drawn played at Sharnford Evergreen Village Hall, Leicestershire. County players were generally out rated by their opponents. Worcestershire players on odd-numbered boards had white pieces. WGM Kata Toma (Worcester), Gavin Cartwright and Phil Maddocks (both Longbridge) won their games.

 

Board	Ref	Rating	Worcestershire	Score	Score	Lincolnshire	Ref	Rating
1	305272C	2364	WGM Katarzyna Toma	1	0	Craig Whitfield	240308A	2284
2	259244L	2076	Dan Lambourne	½	½	Paul Cumbers	103734B	2255
3	109427A	2076	Lee Davis	½	½	Jason Dilley	109693H	2189
4	110076C	2055	John Edge	0	1	Steve Prior	263507A	2184
5	275633L	2040	Joseph Friar	½	½	Nigel Birtwistle	106801F	2147
6	127645B	2022	Peter Kitson	0	1	Nick Stead	112269H	2145
7	127123E	1972	John Wrench	½	½	Joe Kilshaw	185511D	2062
8	120670K	1950	Brian Turner	½	½	David Coates	221105G	2031
9	182425K	1881	Gavin Cartwright	1	0	Alex Royle	311048F	2009
10	306497K	1879	Joe Rastall	½	½	Robert K Taylor	120174J	1895
11	127046B	1793	Stephen Woodhouse	0	1	Graham Ladds	113979C	1877
12	104371H	1758	Philip Maddocks	1	0	Eric Gibbon	142364C	1865
13	303821L	1741	David Waud	½	½	Andy Hebert	190995H	1852
14	105816C	1711	Roger Aris	½	½	Denis Georgiou	111157H	1844
15	248737J	1708	Tony Shaw	0	1	Stuart MacDonald	277721G	1808
16	104355K	1690	Kieran Lappin	0	1	Chris Holt	112012A	1790
			Totals	7	9

 

Worcestershire u1450 lose to Staffordshire in final for Midlands title

21 Oct 2023. Worcestershire had difficulties in recruiting players for this match and captains agreed to play over 8 boards only. New captain Aiden Griffiths (Worcester) was the only player to score. The Worcestershire team featured several new players: Paul Serafini (Worcester) Dan Pulley (Kidderminster) Jonah Brown (), and Luke Elsden (Worcester). In spite of this heavy loss it is likely that Worcestershire will be invited to play in the national stage of the u1450 county tem competition.

 

Board	Rating ref	Rating	Staffordshire	Score	Score	Worcestershire	Rating ref	Rating
1	128860L	1396	Peter Evans	1	0	Terry Pountney	183529E	1396
2	143878F	1390	David Stuart	1	0	default	-	-
3	350240F	1384	Rhys Morgan	0	1	Aiden Griffiths	349374L	1345
4	266660B	1374	Gary Wickett	1	0	Andy Tipper	320637D	1345
5	314131H	1355	Stephen Smithson	1	0	Paul Serafini	259363E	1100e
6	322842D	1344	Josh Sawyer	1	0	Daniel Pulley	360109C	1350e
7	307450L	1298	Martin Chadwick	1	0	Jonah Brown	352190E	747e
8	319214D	1117	Maurizio Baravalle	1	0	Luke Elsden	TBA	600e
			Totals	7	1

 

9 Sep 2023. There were a disappointing number of entries for the Midland championships and Worcestershire’s teams play for the Midland titles on the folllowing dates:

• MCCU championship, Worcestershire First team play Lincolnshire on 18 November at home over 16 boards.
• The u1650 Midlands Championship. The u1650 team plays Lincolnshire away on 20 January 2024 over 16 boards.
• 1 Sep 2023. Worcestershire have entered three teams in the Midland Counties Chess Union competitions: The first team in the Open tournament, the u1650 and u1450 competitions.

19 Jul 2023. At the annual meeting of the association it was agreed to enter three otb teams and Aiden Griffiths (Worcester) was elected captain of the u1450 team. The captains for 2023-4 are: First team - acting captain Paul Sharratt (Stourbridge); u1650 Paul Sharratt (Strourbridge); u1450 Aiden Griffiths (Worcester).

 

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