County Championship Finals

[Greg Breed]

Open (of the 10 boards i can see online)
Surrey are ahead by a point thanks to Gavin Wall's victory over Colin Crouch, but David Okike seems to be doing well again Clive Frostick further down the boards for a chance to level the match.
...Very tactical though it could get messy.

[Greg Breed]

Andrew Stone seems to have held on to his extra piece with 42. Qd3...

[Greg Breed]

OMG is there a notation error in Pall Thorarinsson (Mid) 2xx v Marcus Osborne (Sur) 204 ?
Move 75 appears to be a black blunder and white chooses not to take advantage! Time scrambles - arrrggh

Then move 80 see what appears to be an illegal move. I wonder what's happening...

[Paul McKeown]

Just the live boards struggling to keep up. Perhaps Middx. has done the double? Some interesting games played anyway.

[Richard Bates]

It looks as if Middlesex are probably over the line, unless the Thor-Osborne game has ended in a stalemate trick. If so Middlesex still have board 12 in reserve.

Not sure why e2e4 haven't got a result for board 5?

[Paul McKeown]

It looks as if Middlesex are probably over the line, unless the Thor-Osborne game has ended in a stalemate trick.

I was wondering about Rxd6, too...

Not sure why e2e4 haven't got a result for board 5?

Board 5, was drawn between Ian Sharpe and Rick McMichael.

[Daniel Young]

Am I right in saying that it was the U-100 section where neither finalist had previously won a match in the national stage? Only, I'm reading a 6-6 draw with Essex winning on board count...

[Paul McKeown]

Middlesex won the Open and the U180.

[Greg Breed]

Middlesex won the Open and the U180.

YES!!! Go Middx. I bet Tony Fulton is getting the champagne treatment now...

[David Sedgwick]

I bet Tony Fulton is getting the champagne treatment now...

Very well deserved if so. Congratulations to Anthony and to Middlesex.

[David Sedgwick]

Am I right in saying that it was the U-100 section where neither finalist had previously won a match in the national stage? Only, I'm reading a 6-6 draw with Essex winning on board count...

Correct. There were six teams in the National Stages, so there should have been five matches. Two were won by default and the other three all finished 6-6.

[Richard Bates]

So, five titles for the SCCU and two for the MCCU. When was the last time the NCCU returned home empty handed?

[Paul McKeown]

If my quick calculations are correct, Middx have now 29 wins.

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County             First Win    Last Win   Total
Middlesex            1908        2012       29
Surrey               1911        2011        6
Kent                 1912        2003       13
Yorkshire            1921        2009        5
Lancashire           1922        2010       20
Oxfordshire          1951        1952        2
Warwickshire         1957        1968        3
Essex                1958        2006        4
Cambridgeshire       1970        2001        6
Greater Manchester   1990        2005        3
Staffordshire        1992        1992        1
Leicestershire       1994        1994        1
SUB-TOTAL                                   92
Not Contested        1915        1945       12
TOTAL                                      104

EDIT: corrected count

[Sean Hewitt]

All results now online at www.e2e4.org.uk/live

[Paul McKeown]

Sean,

Thanks very much for your work: it was great to be able to follow the finals on-line. Will the scoresheets be published as pgns at some point?