South Hams Chess Club
South Hams Chess Club

West Devon Retain the Devon Inter-Area Jamboree Trophy

The Plymouth and South Hams Clubs combined to represent West Devon on 18th January in the Devon Inter-Area Jamboree 2015 at the ISCA Centre in Exeter. Four South Hams club members were in the team - Ben Wilkinson (team captain), Stephen Levy, Cliff Peach and Phil McConnell.

West Devon retained the trophy, with the final scores as follows:

West Devon6½
East Devon6
North Devon6
South Devon5½
 
Paul Brooks presents the trophy to Ben Wilkinson
Paul Brooks presents the trophy to Ben Wilkinson
Paul Brooks presents the trophy to Ben Wilkinson
Paul Brooks presents the trophy to Ben Wilkinson
 

The full event results are set out below.

BoardTeamWhiteResultTeamBlack
1 E Paulden, Tim 185 1 - 0 N Hewson, Brian 174
2 S Brusey, Alan 176 1 - 0 W Stinton- Brownbridge, MH 164
3 N Bartlett, Simon ½ - ½ S Brooks, Paul 154
4 W Hart-Davis, Adam 161 0 - 1 E Scott, C 157
5 E Gosling, Brian 153 ½ - ½ S Kinder, Andrew 146
6 N Annetts, Ivor 162 1 - 0 W Medhurst, Brian 157
7 W Butland, Nick 154 1 - 0 N Atkins, K 157
8 S Taylor, Wilf 142 ½ - ½ E Wensley, Oliver 149
9 S Tidy, Norman 137 0 - 1 N Duckham J 152
10 E Pope, Sean 144 ½ - ½ W Levy, Steven 140
11 N  Clarke, S 133 ½ - ½ E Marjoram, W 132
12 W Quinn, Martin 143 1 - 0 S Allen, John 132
13 E Palmer, E 131 0 - 1 N Hunter, Kelvin 120
14 S Mills, Nathan 132 ½ - ½ W Wilby, Robert 140
15 N Dooley Rick 120 1 - 0 S Hussey, Michael 113
16 W Hodge, Nick 130 ½ - ½ E Thomson, D 134
17 E Jones, Robert 129 1 - 0 S Knott, Jim 109
18 N Dow, M 115 0 - 1 W Wilkinson, Ben 129
19 W Peach, Clifford 110 1 - 0 N Thorpe-Tracey, Stephen 104
20 S Narayanan, Nandaja 101 1 - 0 E Whittington, R 123
21 S Cockerton, Mike 88 ½ - ½ N Flanagan, Joe u/g
22 E Jenkins, Geoffrey 111 0 - 1 W Tatam, Tony 107
23 N Jones, G ½ - ½ E Blake, Simon 102
24 W McConnell, Phil 102 0 - 1 S Blackmore, Joshua 83

 

Unfortunately, young Nathan Mills, from the South Devon team, collapsed at the board from what appeared to be an epileptic fit and was taken by ambulance to hospital. We wish Nathan a speedy recovery. Rob Wilby has agreed that his game with Nathan should be declared a draw.

Many thanks to the Plymouth Chess Club, and to Tony Tatam in particular, for providing us with both the results and the photographs. By rights, a photograph of Tony should feature in the bottom middle picture below... but he was the photographer!

Mick Stinton-BrownbridgeAdam Hart-DavisBrian Medhurst
 
Nick ButlandSteven LevyMartin Quinn
 
Rob WilbyNicholas HodgeBen Wilkinson (Capt)
 
Clifford PeachThe Inter-Area JamboreePhil McConnell