Bedford club hosted the county championship third round this week. Bedford players (bolded) had mixed fortunes but Steve ledger took an uncontested lead at the halfway stage of this year’s competition.
| Board | White |
Black |
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| 1 | Adrian Elwin | 169 | (2) | 0 | v | 1 | (2) | Steve Ledger | 188 |
| 2 | Richard Freeman | 187 | (1.5) | 0.5 | v | 0.5 | (2) | Graham Smith | 182 |
| 3 | Peter Hunt | 166 | (1.5) | 0.5 | v | 0.5 | (1.5) | Steve Pike | 170 |
| 4 | Paul Habershon | 191 | (1) | 0 | v | 1 | (1.5) | Ravi Arulnandhy | 183 |
| 5 | Ray Holland | 152 | (1) | 0 | v | 1 | (1) | Rajan Ganger | 183 |
| 6 | Graham Borrowdale | 180 | (1) | 1 | v | 0 | (1) | Rob Whiteside | 160 |
| 7 | Kevin Williamson | 170 | (1) | 1 | v | 0 | (1) | Michael Joseph | 152 |
| 8 | Tim Puleston | 139 | (1) | 0.5 | v | 0.5 | (1) | Adrian Matthews | 166 |
| 9 | Sajan Ganger | 123 | (0) | 0 | v | 1 | (1) | Brian Valentine | 161 |
| 10 | Colin Solloway | 129 | (0) | 1 | v | 0 | (0) | Ben Pike | 80 |
| 11 | Bryan Leggett | 88 | (0) | v | (0) | Dave Phillips | 114 | ||