Richard Buxton reports:
The Warwickshire U1650 team took on Lincolnshire at St Hilda’s Church in Leicester on Saturday 30th November.
There were 12 boards in a very competitive match with the lead changing hands throughout the event.
Warwickshire taking the first win on board 12 after only 45 minutes. This changed at 1 hour 15minutes with Lincolnshire breaking even on board 7 and then going into the lead at 2 hours on board 6.
The lead then changed hands with both drawn and won games up to the 3 hour point with the score tied at 5 -5 with 2 games left to finish on boards 3 and 4.
Peter Stiff on board 3 put up a fine defence in a very difficult end game which eventually ended in a draw.
David Cotterell on board 4 was offered a draw by his opponent however Warwickshire needed the win to win the match, so he bravely declined the offer. Eventually however his opponent was able to take advantage of two linked past pawns on the g and h files which became too much to defend against, which gave Lincolnshire the match 6.5 to 5.5.
The full match result can be found here.
Thanks to everyone who took part in the event and we look forward to our next match against Worcestershire on Saturday 7th December.
