Bedford club players had mixed fortunes in a competitive Fleming Trophy Beds (6) v Bucks (8) county match yesterday:-
1. Andy Smith 204 1-0 Gary Kenworthy (W) 205
2. Guy Moss 192 1-0 Adrian Elwin 181
3. Simon Finn 190 0-1 Kevin Williamson 181
4. Roger De Coverly 187 0.5 Pete Clarke 177
5. Peter Ackley 184 0.5 Graham Smith 176
6. Ray Edwards 184 1-0 Nick Collacott 170
7. Phil Bonafont 183 0.5 Steve Law 168
8. Steve James 170 0.5 Rob Whiteside 167
9. John Syner 169 0.5 Brian Valentine 166
10. Edward Basham 166 0-1 Ravi Arulnandhy 157
11. Jonathan Melsom 152 0-1 Pete Taylor 154
12. Ian Cross 147 1-0 Colin Solloway 141
13. Nakul Nataraj 137 1-0 Peter Rawcliffe 137
14. Ian Hall 109 0.5 Peter Housden 104
As Gary Kenworthy said in a subsequent email, the match could have been tied if he’d won this miniature which he modestly annotates (many thanks to him for sharing an entertaining game that must have been a tough pill to swallow):-
When asked by Ravi to share his board 3 game, Kevin’s response was “Modesty won’t prevent me from sharing my game! It’s not often I get to duff up 190s in under 20 moves.” In playing through it, I think you will understand what he means! Thanks to him for sharing and his annotation.
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Ravi’s position goes from slightly worse (with 12.. Qb6) to overwhelmingly winning in about ten moves where White doesn’t appear to do anything too terrible. An impressive positional crush.
Who won on board 1 Steve? The game suggests black but the team result suggests white won.
sadly Black – Beds were White on odd boards (1….. Gary Kenworthy (W) )
Forgive the pedantry, but Fleming, please. I probably deserve to be covered in phlegm for saying so.
Nice to get a comment that doesn’t concern jerseys!