On Tuesday the 19th of June 22 players from Chester Chess Club met 22 players from Wallasey Chess Club at the Town Crier in Chester. This challenge event has has been held annually during the close season of recent years and this year reached its 10 year milestone. As always the match was hard fought and Wallasey as seems to be the trend surged into an early 5-1 lead.
As the evening progressed Chester gradually eased back into contention and late on went into the lead. The match was finely poised at the point when Chester were two up with three to play. Of the three games that were still in play Jack Yang was clearly lost and Jo Nemcek faced a difficult defence a pawn down in a minor piece ending. Fortuitously for Chester Rob Killeen emerged victorious and thus Chester clinched the match. The final result was 12-10 to Chester, a result comprising of 10 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses. With this result Chester have pulled one back in the series but still remain 5-4 down to Wallasey. Here is to next year and the chance to finally draw level in the series!
Wallasey Challenge Match 2018 Results
Board Number | Chester | Grade | Result | Wallasey | Grade |
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1 | Phil Crocker | 194 | 1-0 | Colin Hughes | 163 |
2 | Chris Doran | 178 | 0.5-0.5 | Mike Coffey | 161 |
3 | Graham Bromley | 160 | 0.5-0.5 | Chris Latham | 157 |
4 | James Lee | 142 | 0-1 | Phil Brine | 155 |
5 | Jixin Yang | 142 | 0-1 | Mike O'Mahony | 154 |
6 | Stephen Lloyd | 141 | 1-0 | Jeff Povall | 150 |
7 | Robert Killeen | 149 | 1-0 | Steve Clare | 129 |
8 | David Bryan | 140 | 1-0 | Mark Spriggs | 129 |
9 | Ray Williams | 140 | 1-0 | Viv Oldham | 129 |
10 | Jo Nemcek | 139 | 0.5-0.5 | Leon Wolszczak | 128 |
11 | Seth Collinson | 138 | 0-1 | Ken Jones | 123 |
12 | John Harvey | 137 | 1-0 | Alan Jackson | 123 |
13 | David Hulme | 134 | 0.5-0.5 | Colin Rees | 118 |
14 | Keith Emerton | 125 | 1-0 | Duncan Rennie | 115 |
15 | Jack Yang | 124 | 0-1 | Graham Carr | 112 |
16 | Dan Dowling | Est 120 | 0-1 | Gordon Somerville | 103 |
17 | Ian Clayton | 103 | 1-0 | Alan Kelly | 99 |
18 | Nethuli Saram | 87 | 1-0 | Graham Heath | 99 |
19 | Sam Burchett | 81 | 0-1 | Ron Champion | 95 |
20 | Philip Skippon | 67 | 0-1 | Martin Cockerill | 92 |
21 | Ben Woodfinden | 67 | 1-0 | Trevor Amos | 69 |
22 | Barry Kelly | 15 | 0-1 | David Williams | 66 |