4-Counties U16 Tournament, Wallington - 7th December 2008

Sussex finish second!

Andy Payne, Sussex Team Manager, writes:

"Due a bad accident on the A23, one of our players could not make it at all (stuck in traffic 1½ hours sorry James Falvey).

The event started a little late at 2.15pm. We were drawn to play Buckinghamshire in the 1st Round; one player down we knew we were up against it. We were all square 4.5pts each with Board 3 to finish, Chris Yates eventually won the match for Sussex, 5.5pts/ 4.5pts Bucks.

A short break due to the late start our 2nd Round opponents were Surrey, who thrashed Berkshire in the 1st Round.

As the results came in our top three boards drew. Two matches left, and we were 2pts behind Surrey. Unfortunately both players lost so Round 2 ended with a win for Surrey 7pts to 3pts Sussex.

Well done to all of the players, especially those who maintained no losses over the two rounds, George Salimbeni, Matthew Payne, Chris Yates and Jonny Burch."

Final positions were :

1st Surrey

2nd Sussex

3rd Bucks

4th Berks

Round 1
Board Sussex Grade
Result
Bucks Grade
1 George Salimbeni 172
0.5 - 0.5
Sam Walker 158
2 Matthew Payne 123
1 - 0
Joshua Ye  
3 Chris Yates 117
1 - 0
Yufei Xie  
4 Thomas Fitzgerald 112
0 - 1
Matthew Sanders 84
5 Oskar Schortz 93
1 - 0
Joseph Walker 84
6 Jonny Burch 73
1 - 0
Kirill Mikhaylov  
7 Kumarsambhav Aggarwal 73
1 - 0
Kaushik Sadanand 31R
8 Daryl Brooks 79
0 - 1
Jamie Tilston 53
9 Matthew Burch 46
0 - 1
William Claridge-Hansen 64
10 Default  
0 - 1
Bryce Clark  
     
5.5 - 4.5
   
           
Round 2  
Board Surrey Grade
Result
Sussex Grade
1 Anand Krishnan 147
0.5 - 0.5
George Salimbeni 172
2 Jasper Tambini 127
0.5 - 0.5
Matthew Payne 123
3 Aditya Gupta 120
0.5 - 0.5
Chris Yates 117
4 Chris Dunne 114
1 - 0
Thomas Fitzgerald 112
5 Benjamin Andrew 110
1 - 0
Oskar Schortz 93
6 Joshua Pineda 109
0.5 - 0.5
Jonny Burch 73
7 Kavitha Appulingam 101
1 - 0
Kumarsambhav Aggarwal 73
8 Adam Taylor 89
0 - 1
Daryl Brooks 79
9 Jonathan Andrew 96
1 - 0
Matthew Burch 46
10 Balraj Gill 94
1 - 0
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