County Matches 2019/20

	Played at Plymouth Bridge Club on 15^th February 2020
	Devon		10½ - 5½	Cornwall
1	201	Paul O'Neill	½ - ½	Lloyd Retallick	182
2	198	Dominic Mackle	1 - 0	Jeremy Menadue	179
3	189	Jonathan Underwood	1 - 0	Grant Healey	167
4	185	Paul Hampton	½ - ½	Robin Kneebone	167
5	184	Steven Levy	0 - 1	Ian George	163
6	183	Jos Haynes	½ - ½	Jamie Morgan	157
7	181	Tim Paulden	1 - 0	Gary Trudeau	156
8	177	Tom Thorpe	½ - ½	Percy Gill	148
9	177	Chris Lowe	½ - ½	Jan Rodrigo	146
10	176	Alan Brusey	1 - 0	Nigel Kirkman	146
11	172	Chris Bellers	½ - ½	Richad Smith	145
12	171	Mark Bowhay	½ - ½	Jeff Nicholas	144
13	170	Oliver Wensley	½ - ½	Colin Sellwood	138
14	169	John Wheeler	1 - 0	Mick Hill	137
15	169	Steven Martin	½ - ½	David Jenkins	111
16	159	Mike Stinton-Brownbridge	1 - 0	Beatrice Steele	UG

Match Report

A big thank you to everyone for making the trip in terrible weather, Especially Prof David Jenkins who came in at short notice as a very late replacement.

We had 9 draws by Lloyd, Robin, Jamie, Percy, Jan, Richard, Jeff, Colin, and David against a really strong Devon team. Each opponent was about 20 to 30 grading points higher on average.

Lovely to see a fantastic return to county chess, after a 10 year hiatus, by Ian George with our only win (see Game of the Week)

Richard Smith

	Played at Plymouth Bridge Club on 18^th January 2020
	Devon Under 160		10 - 6	Cornwall Under 160
1	157	Giles Body	1 - 0	Gary Trudeau	158
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3	156	Nick Butland	0 - 1	Toby Willis	153
4	156	Brian Gosling	1 - 0	Jan Rodrigo	152
5	154	Meyrick Shaw	1 - 0	Percy Gill	149
6	154	Steve Dean	½ - ½	David Grant	146
7	148	James Schofield	½ - ½	Richard Smith	142
8	145	Sean Pope	1 - 0	NIgel Kirkman	142
9	UG	Danilo Gouveia Wasques	1 - 0	Mick Hill	142
10	140	Alan Dean	0 - 1	Colin Sellwood	142
11	139	Steve Clarke	½ - ½	Jeff Nicholas	142
12	135	Patrick Dillon	½ - ½	Geoff Lingard	141
13	132	Robert Wilby	0 - 1	Jason Henderson	137
14	129	Bob Jones	½ - ½	Stephen Savill	134
15	123	Richard Smith	½ - ½	Alistair Bissell	128
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Match Report

The match was played in a very friendly atmosphere. Another big thank you to Tony Tatam for providing and setting up all the sets, clocks and scoresheets. Plus, Tony worked tirelessly, all afternnon, to provide tea, coffee, cake and biscuits to all the players and spectators.

Cornwall were 2 - 0 down before the start - due to unforseen circumstances and too late to get replacements. Nevertheless, there was some great chess played by Toby Willis, Colin Sellwood and Jason Henderson.

It was great to see some new Cornish players and those had hadn't played for Cornwall for quite a while. A big thank you to all who made it to Plymouth. Jan Rodrigo, for example, travelling by train from St Ives.

Richard Smith

	Played at Victory Hall, Exminster on 5^th October 2019
	Cornwall		9½ - 6½	Somerset
1	187	Jeremy Menadue	0 - 1	Jack Rudd	219
2	177	Lloyd Retallick	1 - 0	Kevin Thurlow	172
3	160	Jamie Morgan	½ - ½	Chris Purry	161
4	158	Gary Trudeau	½ - ½	Roger Morgan	160
5	148	Richard Clark	1 - 0	Gerry Jepps	155
6	142	Nigel Kirkman	½ - ½	Mark Baker	146
7	142	Colin Sellwood	1 - 0	Phil Chapman	140
8	142	Jeff Nicholas	1 - 0	Chris Greenaway	126
9	142	Richard Smith	1 - 0	Tom Alsop	123
10	122	Bryan Jones	½ - ½	Adrian Byrne	122
11	122	Thomas Oates	0 - 1	Guy Greenland	116
12	113	David Jenkins	0 - 1	Stan Wojcik	113
13	112	Andy Young	1 - 0	Ala Stonebridge	111
14	109	Ian Renshaw	½ - ½	John Jeremiah	109
15	101	George Black	1 - 0	Horoon Symond	108
16	85	Eric Westlake	0 - 1	Simon Gray	107
*Last updated 21/1/2020*