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Published 8 July 2020

Preliminary Open Challenge Matches

 

Open Preliminary/trial matches 6 June 2020
Home Team Result * Away Team
Northumberland A 7 - 7 Middlesex A
Norfolk 7 - 5 Yorkshire
Essex 7½ -3½ Devon
Greater Manchester A 1½ - 6½ Surrey A
Surrey B 2½ - 1½ Leicestershire A
Leicestershire B 3 - 1 Greater Manchester B
Gloucestershire 8½ - 3½ Worcestershire
Oxfordshire 8 - 4 Shropshire
Berkshire 3½ - 8½ Cumbria
Warwickshire 4 - 5 Hampshire
Cheshire & N Wales 10 - 2 Beds & Herts
Derbyshire ½ - 8½ Somerset

* Click on match result to see details of matches involving MCCU teams.

Source: ECF League Management System. Full results for matches involving non-MCCU teams and links to scores for each game played on chess.com are available from web pages linked from the ECF-LMS.

 

6 June 2020 Open Preliminary Match
Board Grade Greater Manchester A Score Surrey A Grade
1   Rawlinson, Aidan M (w) 0 - 1 Granat, Russell G  
2   Hilton, Tim 0 - 1 Frostick, Clive A  
3   Green, Tom DA 0 - 1 Shepley, Julien M  
4   Nagy, Viktor N 1 - 0 Default  
5   Lamb, Ian D 0 - 1 Rosenbach, Martin  
6   Whalley, Mark E 0 - 1 Sameer-Had, Mohammad  
7   Kwasniak, Kacper ½ - ½ Sedgwick, David R  
8   Busznyak, Arpad 0 - 1 Jones, H Trevor  
    Result 1½ - 6½    

 

6 June Open Preliminary Match
Board Grade Surrey B Score Leicestershire A Grade
1   Josse, Mark (w) 1 - 0 Brown, Tom  
2   Seyfried, Donald ½ - ½ Hadi, Justin  
3   Fenwick, Hugh F 1 - 0 Tang, Julian  
4   Hogarth, Mark J 0 - 1 Pourmozafari, Ben  
    Result 2½ - 1½    

 

6 Jun Open Preliminary Match
Board Grade Leicestershire B Score Greater Manchester B Grade
1   Okhai, Shabir (w) 1 - 0 Niedbal, Piotr  
2   Taylor, Robert K 1 - 0 Tyton, Adam  
3   Vann, Richard P 1 - 0 Norris, Michael J  
4   Bingham, James T 0 - 1 Doherty, Paul D  
    Result 3 - 1    

 

6 June 2020 Open Preliminary Match
Board Grade Gloucestershire score Worcestershire Grade
1 198 Michael Ashworth (w) 1 - 0 Stephen Mellor 180
2 182 John Jenkins ½ - ½ Nigel Towers 160
3 154 Robert Ashworth 1 - 0 Stephen Woodhouse 159
4 153 Aaron Saunders 0 - 1 Julie Wilson 148
5 141 Graham Brown 1 - 0 Phil Maybury 146
6 140 Adrian Walker 1 - 0 Hossam Aboushady 145
7 124 Ainsley Killy ½ - ½ Scott Russell 149
8 122 Matthew Reeki-Black ½ - ½ Tony Shaw 133
9 102 Kevin Markey 1 - 0 Matthew Holmes 126
10 100e Alex Carey 1 - 0 Arnold Kirkland 118
11 99 Indy Southcott-Moyers ½ - ½ Joseph Dance 112
12 83 Shaun Walsh ½ - ½ Jeremy Humphries 105
    Result 8½ - 3½    

 

6 June 2020 Open Preliminary Match
Board Grade Oxfordshire Score Shropshire Grade
1   Burrows, Nick (w) ½ - ½ Paul, Nathanael  
2   Cole, James 0 - 1 Zabrocki, Philip AM  
3   Terry, Sean 0 - 1 Gostelow, David W  
4   Cole, Graham L ½ - ½ Grillage, Andrew  
5   Neatherway, A Philip 1 - 0 Lewis, Christopher D  
6   Evans, Chris John 0 - 1 Kolbusz, George  
7   Matilal, Tamal K 1 - 0 Clark, Matthew DH  
8   Hameed, Asif 1 - 0 Smith, Mark  
9   Weston, Richard 1 - 0 Tarr, Steve F  
10   Arora, Tashika 1 - 0 Hilditch-Love, Daniel  
11   Piggott, Roly 1 - 0 Holmes, Nick D  
12   Burcham, AW (Tony) 1 - 0 Thompson, Richard G  
    Result 8 - 4    

 

6 Jun 2020 Open Preliminary Match
Board Grade Warwickshire Score Hampshire Grade
1   Pink, Joshua (w) 1 - 0 Piecha, Lukasz Marek (b)  
2   Sandhu, Manvith 1 - 0 Feltham, George  
3   Chen, Daniel Xingyu 1 - 0 O'Donovan, Fionn  
4   Summerfield, Julian H 0 - 1 Deacon, Matthew  
5   Johnson, Mike J ½ - ½ Cutter, Tim G  
6   Mitchell, George 0 - 1 Ware, Philip J  
7   Weaver, Simon ½ - ½ Willis, Alan S  
8   Default 0 - 1 Deacon, Nicholas  
9   Default 0 - 1 Panda, Devansh  
    Result 4 - 5    

 

6 June 2020 Open Preliminary Match
Board Grade Derbyshire Score Somerset Grade
1   Bromilow, Edward T (w) 0 - 1 Rudd, Jack (b)  
2   Taylor, Marcel V 0 - 1 Chaplin, Peter E  
3   Shaw, John S ½ - ½ Lampard, Alice  
4   Adamski, Tomasz D 0 - 0* Miller, George I  
5   Meyer, Dylan 0 - 0* Kumar, Yuvraj  
6   Wootton, Stephen G 0 - 1 Morgan, Roger  
7   Cockburn, Andre 0 - 1 McKinley, Chris TJ  
8   Caswell, Matthew 0 - 1 Dimond, Peter D  
9   Fancourt, Leslie J 0 - 0* Greenland, Guy  
10   Sharp, Chris 0 - 1 Greenaway, Christopher P  
11   Dibble, Adrian J 0 - 1 Symonds, Haroon  
12   Biles, Fred 0 - 1 Stonebridge, Alan A  
    Result ½ - 8½    
* ?Players used wrong colours/time control