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Thank you Stephen, it’s always interesting to see the match from the opposition perspective. Well played to all at Yorkshire.
Peter Lee is still playing high level bridge as well as chess

Today’s qualifier at Golders Green is strong. 5 GMs and 6 IMs.
https://s3.chess-results.com/tnr1240768 ... 1&SNode=S0

That game was from a Thames Valley Div 2 match in 2009, Harrow A v Surbiton B.

Paul’s last game was in a Thames Valley Div 1 match against Kingston where he played IM John Hawksworth

The SCCU bulletin has a team list. https://sccu-chess.com/bulletins/SCCUBu ... 78_123.pdf

From the Surrey rules One of the following: Fischer – all moves in 1 hour 15 minutes with an additional 10 seconds per move, with any game unfinished at the end of the agreed playing session to be adjudicated; Guillotine – 30 moves in 1 hour, then all remaining moves in 30 minutes; Adjournment – 35 ...

Jeremy Leake of Streatham might be the strongest. ECF rating of 2310, but doesn’t have a FIDE id

Surrey win 10-6

Surrey played Northumberland in both Open and U-2050 last year. Both matches were played in Newark although at different venues.

Of more concern is the clash of the final with the World Senior Teams, which will affect a substantial proportion of the Surrey players.

Zain Patel beating Laura Unuk runs it pretty close

Chris I think Dave Metcalfe would have been the captain around that time. If you want details of the SCCU matches, can I recommend Anthony Fulton’s book The Southern Counties Chess Union - a retrospective I played for Oxfordshire through most of the 80s and into the 90s so may be able to help in ide...

Another closely fought round. One drawn match and all the others 3.5-2.5

Two close matches at Wanstead. 9-7 to Essex in the U-2050 and 8.5-7.5 to Surrey. Further to the comment by Kevin, I had 5 u-14s in my Surrey U-2050 side

It’s a pity that these dates couldn’t be publicised earlier. As it is they now clash with long arranged dates for county matches in both the SCCU and EACU.

Neill, the Wallingford Herald would certainly have shared the chess column with the Abingdon Herald. If I remember correctly it was the same paper apart from the cover pages

Wallingford was in Berkshire until the county boundaries were changed.
As someone who grew up in Abingdon I can remember these chess columns.