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Greater Manchester - Shropshire

Played at the Atherton Arms, 6 Tyldesley Road, Atherton, Manchester on 17 October 2009. Shropshire players had white on odd numbered boards.

 

Board   Greater Manchester   ECF Code   Grade   Score   Score   Shropshire ECF Code   Grade  
1 Alan Beresford 106649D 159 0 1 Lee, Geoffrey 266811H 158
2 Jon Lonsdale 143105F 157 0 1 Edwards, Gareth 242385G 156
3 Steven Jones 245951G 143 1 0 Tunks, Andrew 256377A 152
4 Richard Nurse 116338D 149 ½ ½ Westhead, John A 157397E 147
5 Mick Connor 108722J 147 0 1 Tarr, Steve 166164E 147
6 Peter King 247173F 146 ½ ½ Crean, Peter 104197G 142
7 Mark McNulty 259539E 144 ½ ½ Eugene Raby 117579J 143
8 Damian McCarthy 230117K 142 ½ ½ White, Gary M 143011H 141
9 David Connolly 247722B 141 ½ ½ Thompson, Richard G   120348E 138
10 Jim Nicolson 142857D 141 1 0 Mehmood, Athar 264465E 133
11 Marc Constantine 278451J UG 0 1 Peck, Windsor WA 116900C 134
12 Dalil Bencherba 277232C UG 0 1 Paul, Nathanael 245834C 131
13 Nathan Butterworth 186588C UG 1 0 Davies, Ian G 136893L 131
14 Phil Adshead 269334D UG ½ ½ Brown Roger R 107507L 117
15 Matthew Pollard 117260J 150 1 0 DEFAULT    
16 Harry Brooks 107364D 119 1 0 DEFAULT    
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Match Report [Based on John Lonsdale’s longer report from a Manchester perspective] Shropshire won the early games to overcome their default deficit. With the last four boards in play, Shropshire were in the lead by a point. Manchester’s Mark McNulty made it only three to go when he agreed a draw. Nathan Butterworth levelled the match for Manchester converting his extra material into a win. By this time, Manchester were hoping to bag the match because David Connolly was the exchange up with rooks on the seventh. Active counterplay by Richard Thompson forced the Manchester player to return the material. Soon after Connolly also had to jettison a knight for two advanced passed pawns leaving an ending of rook and two pawns against rook, bishop and pawn. Fortunately for Manchester, Thompson had the wrong bishop for queening his h-pawn and any exchange of rooks was dead drawn so to Shropshire’s delight Connolly and Thompson agreed a draw. This gave Shropshire an unexpected match point.