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Published 29 October 2011. Match report added 31 Oct.
Warwickshire - Worcestershire
Played 29 October at Hill and Cakemore Liberal Club, Halesowen (but it was a home match for Warks!). Warks players on odd-numberted boards had white. Result reported first by Giles Stanton.
| Board | ECF Code | Grade | Warwickshire | Score | Score | Worcestershire | Grade | ECF Code |
| 1 | 129117J | 139 | Rawson, Louis | 1 | 0 | Cole, Jason | 139 | 128813B |
| 2 | 129958L | 137 | Warren, Ken | 0 | 1 | Yeadon, Peter | 139 | 266352B |
| 3 | 113645J | 137 | Jimenez, Frank | ½ | ½ | Crockett, Stephen J | 139 | 279615G |
| 4 | 247045H | 134 | Dickson, Fred | 0 | 1 | Peters, Roy | 138 | 152169L |
| 5 | 184072B | 133 | Wilson, Alexander | 0 | 1 | Riley, Mark | 136 | 117964A |
| 6 | 256376K | 138 | Thompson, Peter | ½ | ½ | Shaw, Tony | 134 | 248737J |
| 7 | 256357F | 133 | Hussain, Adrian | 1 | 0 | Truscott, Ian | 130 | 120615B |
| 8 | 260913H | 132 | Green, Derek | 1 | 0 | Loynes, John | 133 | 185413G |
| 9 | 125792E | 131 | Oliver, Peter | 0 | 1 | Sharratt, Paul | 131 | 118792C |
| 10 | 273516H | 131 | Green, John | 1 | 0 | Shaw, Steve | 131 | 118830G |
| 11 | 143240A | 130 | Evans, Chris | ½ | ½ | Bricknell, Rob | 130 | 234732F |
| 12 | Default | 0 | 1 | Curry, Don | 128 | 179081L | ||
| 13 | 111228E | 130 | Gilbert, Kim | 0 | 1 | Ellis, Ian | 131 | 248739B |
| 14 | 277315G | 129 | Fergusson, Matthew | 1 | 0 | Banks, Peter | 129 | 165118D |
| 15 | 157186C | 122 | East, Chris | ½ | ½ | Kirkland, Arnold | 128 | 128994K |
| 16 | 280310A | 83 | Fergusson, Andrew | 0 | 1 | Humphries, Jeremy | 117 | 266351L |
| 7 | 9 |
Report from Giles Stanton. Fortune favoured Worcs with Warks defaulting on board 12. Players were evenly matched except on board 16 where Jeremy Humphries' experience overwhelmed a young player in his first county game. All other boards were keenly contested. Adjacent boards often yielded contrasting results. On boards 9 and 10, English Openings were played and black won both. On board 10 the Worcs player was under pressure from raking bishops and queen and John Green's piece sac on g3 wrapped up the game. This was nicely mirrored on board 9, but in Worcs favour. Paul Sharratt used his heavy pieces on an open h-file to win a rook. Worcs' board 4, Roy Peters, used better placed pieces to punish greedy pawn grabs. Worcester's board 2 won on time.
At this stage the match stood at 5-8 with Worcs needing only half a point from three games. A draw seemed likely on board 14 where the Warks player had the exchange for two pawns, but was down on time. Matthew showed other wise. He promoted a pawn and mated Peter with only seconds remaining. On board 13 Worcester's Ian Ellis was in a winning position a pawn up in a rook-and-pawn ending butboth players were getting short of time. Ian held his nerve,l promting his pawn and winning the game.