HERTS CENTENARY

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THE HERTS CENTENARY MATCH
Herts v Rest of SCCU at County Hall, Hertford, 30th September 2000
The splendid venue came free of charge, through the generosity of Hertfordshire County Council. Excellent playing conditions, lovely setting, but TOO EASY TO FIND. This confused your Webmaster no end. There was a bar, though. The refreshments were a big plus, and the staff called you "sir". (No women played. Not sure what they called the children, but there were some, including three girls.)
      Double round, same opponent both times, Rapidplay (all moves in 60 minutes). Herts had white on odd in round 1 and black on odd in round 2. There were also four five-minute games at the end, on the top four boards. This was to bring the number of games up to (in fact over) the 100 mark. It had been planned as a 50-board match, but there were three double defaults. The five-minute games, as it turned out, turned a drawn match into an SCCU win. If you think the board order looks a bit odd in places, it's mostly because they were using last year's grades (Standardplay) and we've given the new ones. The event will not be graded, unfortunately. That's what they told us when we asked afterwards.
     We've given County affiliations, for the SCCU side. Some Counties were much more heavily represented than others. Hampshire have returned to the fold with their U14 team, and lots of Hants juniors turned out. We had no need of "H" to mean Herts, so it was available for Hants and that's how you should read it.
     In places we've had difficulty identifying players. Some of the grades supplied appeared to be not so much last year's as imaginary, some of the Counties given were dubious, and one of the Hampshire surnames had three spelling mistakes in it. Where we really couldn't identify someone, we've said. If we've got other people wrong, please tell us.

Hertfordshire			Rest of SCCU
1 Simon Knott 220	1 ½	0 ½	Colin Crouch M 227
2 Martin Walker 197	0 1	1 0	Rick McMichael M 195
3 Paul Byway 186	1 1	0 0	Chris Howell Sx 181
4 Geoff Hollis 198	0	1	Andrew Webster Sy(?) 228
	0	1	Chris Majer (Pres) 157
5 D Ross Brennan 176	½ 0	½ 1	Robert J Richmond Bu 189
6 Howard Tebbs 178	0 ½	1 ½	Colin MacKenzie M 183
7 Steve Tovey 174	0 ½	1 ½	Richard CP Freeman C 180
8 Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell 170	0 0	1 1	Hugh Murphy Br 176
9 Kevin Clark 173	1 1	0 0	Colin Purdon Br 166
10 Ian Mutton 140 /def	0	1	Chris Majer (Pres) 157 /def
11 John Denton 164	½ ½	½ ½	Peter Ackley M 168
12 Barry Morris 160	0 ½	1 ½	Phil Bonafont Bu 177
13 Steve Weston 152	½ 0	½ 1	Mark Bowhay Br 167
14 Anthony Burrows 166	0	1	Colin Lyne Br 158
Tim Thurstan 174	1	0
15 Gordon Davies 150	1 ½	0 ½	John White E 166
16 Brian Judkins 149	½ ½	½ ½	David Millward E 165
17 Phil Myers 145	0 ½	1 ½	Paul Barclay E 163
18 Mark Thomas 146	0 0	1 1	Julian Winkworth E 163
19 Matthew Peat 142	0 0	1 1	Colin Ramage E 158
20 Caius Turner 150	1 ½	0 ½	Andy King E 158
21 Dominic Allen 134	0 0	1 1	Ken Clow E 157
22 Richard Mycroft 142	½ 0	½ 1	Richard Haddrell K 146
23 Peter Andrews 132	0 0	1 1	Mark Weighell E 156
24 Mike Price¹	½ 1	½ 0	John McVicar M 157
25 Bruce Toper 137	½ 1	½ 0	Richard Weeber E 147
26 Mike Flatt 136	0 0	1 1	David Smith E 150
27 Kevin Baggs 134	1 0	0 1	ST Kevin Wilkinson Sy 135
28 Mike Connock 132	0 ½	1 ½	Jamie Williams E 124
29 Ken Castle 131	1 ½	0 ½	David Cork Sy/Sx 135
30 Alan Gore 138	½ 0	½ 1	Chris Fewtrell M 116
31 Dave Thompson²	1 1	0 0	Colin Parker Sy 149
32 Matthew Dignam 126	0 1	1 0	Krishna Mehendale Sy 130
33 Terry Dowse³ 126	0 0	1 1	Fred Manning Sy 132
34 John Marshall⁴	1 1	0 0	David Bland K *125
35 Graham Howard 122	½ 1	½ 0	Bernard Haase M 114
36 Keith Woodhouse 110	1 1	0 0	Ivor C Smith K 118
37 John Leake 105	1 ½	0 ½	Joe French H 102
38 def	0 0	0 0	def
39 Chris Cook⁵	½ 1	½ 0	Mike Gunn Sy 105
40 Quazi Latif 100	1 0	0 1	Ted Bradley M 95
41 Simon Cage 96	1 1	0 0	Graham Snow M 76
42 David Healey 84	1 1	0 0	Hari Aran H
43 Alan Brewis 87	1 ½	0 ½	Thomas Winkworth E 74
44 Geoff Wilson 85	½ 0	½ 1	Graham Hargraves H 99
45 Charles Davie 89	1 1	0 0	Michael Augousti H 71
46 Rodney Wright 80	1 ½	0 ½	Arthur Truslove H *74
47 Daniel Allen *41	0 1	1 0	Andrew Carney H 67
48 John White	0 1	1 0	Andrew Augousti H
49 Yvette Cook *43	½ 0	½ 1	Jason Rentmore H 68
50 Catherine Wasilewski *30	½ 1	½ 0	Rhiannon Chilton H 40
The five-minute match:
1 Simon Knott 220	½	½	Colin Crouch M 227
2 Martin Walker 197	1	0	Rick McMichael M 195
3 Paul Byway 186	0	1	Chris Howell Sx 181
4 Geoff Hollis 198	0	1	Robert J Richmond Bu 189
The tally:

	Herts	SCCU
Round 1	23½	25½
Round 2	25	23
Five-minute	1½	2½
Total	50	51

Notes:
¹ Can't identify. Given as 137, Herts CA.
² Can't identify. Given as 130, St Albans.
³ Given as Douse.
⁴ Can't identify. Given as 122, Herts CA; says he used to be graded in the 190s.
⁵ Can't identify. Given as 102, Little Heath.