2018 County Team
Championships national stages

Published 9 July 2018

National Minor Counties Final: Surrey - Lincolnshire

Played on 17 July 2018 at Trident Centre, Warwick. Surrey players had white pieces on odd-numbered boards. Match reported by Nigel Birtwistle

 

Board	Grad Ref	Aug 16	Jan 17	Surrey	Score	Score	Lincolnshire	Jan 17	Aug 16	Grad Ref
1	107290A	211	208	Briscoe, Chris	½	½	Birtwistle, Nigel	196	199	106801F
2	111505E	198	198	Granat, Russell G	½	½	Milson, Samuel A	193	195	247376J
3	273064K	177	198	Price, Gwilym T	½	½	Cumbers, Paul	196	193	103734B
4	111878L	192	192	Haldane, Robin W	0	1	Stead, Nick P	187	192	119629H
5	129556B	182	183	Shepley, Julien M	1	0	Dilley, Jason M	189	188	109683H
6	187830L	174	172	Way, Julian M	0	1	Smith, Murray D	197	185	308072K
7	118670L	167	173	Sedgwick, David R	1	0	Williams, J Stuart	182	182	121741A
8	119742D	168	167	Stimpson, Philip M	0	1	Kilshaw, Joe	183	175	158511D
9	265631A	167	166	Faulks, Nick W	1	0	David, Ivan	169	177	277281E
10	173125H	161	162	Phillips, Owen S	½	½	Palmer, Keith J	163	168	116655E
11	105427C	149	155	Alcock, Graham P	1	0	Georgiou, Denis	159	166	111157H
12	110069F	152	152	Eckert, Jon	½	½	Cusick, Peter W	169	162	109241J
13	113829H	156	154	Jones, H Trevor	1	0	Hebert, R Andrew	161	158	180995H
14	312869G	152	152	Fox, James	½	½	Holt, Chris M	160	159	112912A
15	136130C	152	142	Collins, Anthony S	1	0	McCarthy, Kevin C	161	154	244268B
16	111697G	144	142	Grey, Nicholas D	0	1	Parnian, Arya	147	139	297587H
	Mean	168	169		9	7		175	174	Averages

 

Report from Neil Graham - In the Minor Counties Lincolnshire lost their title, losing 9-7 to Surrey. The match was very close but the Midlands county lost a couple of key games towards the end of play leaving them with an impossible task to salvage 1½ point from the last two games neither of which they were winning; once one game was lost the other was quickly agreed drawn.