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updated 23.9.07

NATIONAL CLUB 2006-7

OPEN
5 entries (5 last year)
Preliminary round (by end February) Ilford 4½ 1½ Bedford
Semi-finals (by end April) Ilford 4 2 Maidstone ; Mushrooms 0 6 Wood Green
Final at Harrow, 15.7.07 Ilford ½ 5½ Wood Green

MAJOR
15 entries (21 last year)
Round 1 (by 17th December) Alwoodley 2 3 Milton Keynes; Gloucester w/o scr Cosham; Brown Jack 3½ 1½ Metropolitan Rooks; Metropolitan Knights 4 1 Tunbridge Wells; Writtle 2 3 Maidstone; Hastings & St Leonards w/o scr Wood Green; Hackney 1½ 3½ Wanstead & Woodford; Bye Bedford
Quarter-finals (by 25th March) Maidstone 3 2 Hastings & St Leonards; Wanstead & Woodford 2 3 Metropolitan Knights; Milton Keynes 1½ 3½ Gloucester; Bedford 4 1 Brown Jack
Semi-finals (by 17th June) Gloucester 3½ 1½ Bedford ; Metropolitan Knights 3 2 Maidstone
Final in Northants 15.7.07 Metropolitan Knights 3½ 1½ Gloucester
PLATE
Quarter-finals Wood Green 4 1 Cosham; Tunbridge Wells 3½ 1½ Hackney; Metropolitan Rooks 2½ 2½ *Writtle; Bye Alwoodley (note the advantage of coming from north of Essex)
Semi-finals Wood Green w/o scr Alwoodley (note the disadvantage); Writtle 3 2 Tunbridge Wells
Final at Wanstead House 23.9.07 Wood Green 3½ 1½ Writtle

MINOR
22 entries (28 last year)
Round 1 (by 31st December) Lancaster 2½ 1½ Alwoodley; Diss Old House 1½ 2½ Bedford; Bushbury Staffs 1½ 2½ Buckley/Mold; Syston 0 4 Milton Keynes; High Wycombe 1 3 Hackney; Chipping Campden 1½ 2½ Forest of Dean; West Leeds ½ 3½ Newark; Barton on Humber 1 3 Ashfield Notts; Woodpushers Sussex 3 1 Cosham; Tunbridge Wells 1 3 Maidstone; Westcliff 1 3 Wanstead & Woodford.
Round 2 (by 18th February) Ashfield 2½ 1½ Lancaster; Wanstead & Woodford ½ 3½ Bedford; Milton Keynes 2½ 1½ Hackney; Rest byes
Quarter-finals (by 21st April) Bedford* 1½ 1½ Ashfield; Newark 1 3 Milton Keynes; Buckley/Mold 3 1 Forest of Dean; Maidstone* 2 2 Woodpushers
Semi-finals (by 17 June) Milton Keynes v Buckley/Mold; Bedford v Maidstone
Final at Harrow, 15.7.07 Milton Keynes 2½ 1½ Maidstone
PLATE
Rd 1 Bushbury 2 2 *Chipping Campden; West Leeds 2 2 *Barton on Humber; High Wycombe scr w/o Westcliff; Rest byes
Quarter-finals Chipping Campden 4 0 Syston; Alwoodley 2 2 *Barton on Humber; Cosham* 2 2 Tunbridge Wells; Westcliff* 2 2 Diss Old House
Semi-finals Chipping Campden v Cosham; Barton on Humber 1 3 Westcliff
Final at Harrow, 15.7.07 Westcliff 3 1 Cosham

UNDER 100
9 entries (no competition last year)
Preliminary Round (by 14th January) Ashtead 2 2 *Snodland (Kent)
Quarter-finals (by 25th February) Snodland 2½ 1½ Rainham; Buckley/Mold 2½ 1½ Leeds Juniors; Bushbury 3 1 Chipping Campden; Forest of Dean ½ 3½ Magdalen College School
Semi-finals (by 3rd June) Magdalen College School 2½ 1½ Snodland ; Bushbury 1½ 2½ Buckley/Mold
Final in Northants Buckley/Mold 2 2 * Magdalen College School
PLATE
Preliminary Round (by 15th April) Chipping Campden 4 0 Forest of Dean
Semi-finals (by 3rd June) Rainham w/o scr Ashtead; Leeds Juniors scr w/o Chipping Campden
Final in Northants Rainham 3 1 Chipping Campden

HANDICAP RAPIDPLAY
22.4.07
John Philpott writes:
This event took place at Magdalen College School, Oxford - a 5 round Swiss for teams of 4 with 20 minutes per player per game. The handicapping system used in recent years was scrapped in favour of the following round by round adjustments based on average grade.
Grade
difference
0-  9
10-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-59
60   + 		Bonus to lower
graded team
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
3.0
The 11 entries necessitated a bye, which after some debate turned into a 3 point bye. Results (mean grades from CEM 27.4.07):
1 Cowley 1 (mean grade 102) 18; 2 Mushrooms (184) 16; 3 Oxford City (105) 15; 4-5 Gloucester (159), Kings Head (183) 14½; 6 Magdalen College School Blackbirds B (110) 14; 7 Cowley 2 (129) 13½; 8 Cowley 3 (140) 13; 9 Magdalen College School Blackbirds A (150) 12½; 10-11 Syston (96), Wanstead & Woodford (130) 11½

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