Final weekend reports

[Mike Truran]

John Saunders' report on the final weekend is now on the 4NCL website, as are reports by John Carleton (Spirit of Atticus) and Stephen Kee (Ferry 'Cross the Maroczy).

[Mike W. Richardt]

There are match reports from the West is Best team of every 4NCL weekend

http://www.matparry.com/4ncl.html

[Leonard Barden]

This is my article from today's Guardian. Not to be compared with John Saunders's brilliant magnum opus, of course, but I am interested to know if there is a definitive answer to the question posed in my first paragraph: was this the strongest ever UK inter-club match?


http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/m ... 4ncl-title

[benedgell]

The highest rated matches, to the best of my knowledge, in some of the previous years:

2013/ 14 Wood Green av. 2647 v Guildford av. 2656
2012/13: Wood Green av. 2627 v Guildford av. 2647.
2011/12: Wood Green and Guildford met early on and by the last round the respective averages were >2600.
2010/11: Wood Green av. 2550 v Pride and Prejudice 2552 was the highest- rated, I think.
2009/10: Wood Green av. 2570 v P & P 2519.
2008/9: Wood Green 2509 v Guildford 2537
2007/8: no results stand out. Guildford were the strongest teams but at best were just over 2500.
2006/7: Guildford were the only team averaging 2500 at any point, I believe.
2005/6: Wood Green 2670 v Guildford 2617, Wood Green 2586 v Slough Sharks 2529
2004/5: Wood Green 2640 v Guildford 2588
2003/4: Guildford 2507 v Wood Green 2584
2002/3: Guildford 2522 v Wood Green 2557

[benedgell]

2005/6 full result: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/pre2010/0506_div1 ... div_1_6_11
2012/13 full result: http://www.4ncl.livechess.co.uk/div1_20 ... d11.htm#t1
2013/14 full result: http://www.4nclresults.co.uk/4ncl/11/1c/export/

[Roger de Coverly]

The highest rated matches, to the best of my knowledge, in some of the previous years:

At the time, the Slough v Wood Green match from May 2000 was publicised as the highest rated ever.

Retrieving the result, shows it was a relatively modest by more recent standards 2531 v 2562
http://web.archive.org/web/200104221758 ... clrd11.htm

To complete the picture, the May 2001 weekend featured Wood Green v Beeson Gregory at 2571 against 2549 thus outranking it.

So it looks from Ben's research as if Wood Green themselves have fielded a higher rated team, but this season's match was the highest across both teams.