Essex Knockout: Into the Semis of the Plate

PLAYED 2 JULY 2018, AT ILFORD

	Ilford	R1	R2	Wanstead C
1	Neville Twitchell 162D r (B, W)	0-1	½-½	Kyan Bui 139A r (W, B)
2	Tom Barton 154E r	1-0	1-0	Peter Nickals 137B r
3	Anthony Kent 144E r	½-½	1-0	Keith Jones 137C r
4	Syd Kalinsky 147E r	1-0	1-0	Ben Harte 135D r
5	Jef Page 138F r (146B s)	1-0	0-1	Paul Haddock 129A r
		3½-1½	3½-1½
	Ilford	7-3		Wanstead C

A solid win for Ilford with 2 of our players, Tom and Syd, convincingly winning both games. In the first round top junior prospect Bui gave Neville a hard time on board 1, going 2 pawns up and thwarting every tactic Neville tried. But fortunately, by then, Ilford had taken a 2.5-0.5 lead.

At 2.5 -1.5 up, Jef was struggling to win his first game. He went from a comfortable pawn up to losing pawns in the endgame. However, the clock saved him, and he won on time with just 14 seconds left! That gave a vital 3.5-1.5 lead at the turn round.

Anthony and Syd then won their second games in under half an hour, and the match was effectively over with 5.5 points in the bag.

We play Thurrock at home in the Semi-Final.

WansteadCKO1 WansteadCKO2