County Match Programme 2017-18

Busy weekend

SCCU U180: Kent 10-6 Essex
At Dartford. Played at Not the Mick Jagger. Kent have a new venue, round the corner from Mick Jagger at St Anselm's Parish Centre. All Kent's home matches will be played at St Anselm's, with the exception of the Open fixture which will be played at Rochester. In the present fixture, Kent gave their new home a good welcome, which is more than they gave today's visitors! Regardless of the outcome, we found the new venue offered spacious and comfortable playing conditions and especially quiet.

Skipper Gavin had to work hard to complete the team, not long before looking at three defaults. In the end, only illness prevented the full 16 taking the field. One of the Kent players is ungraded, but does not appear on the cleared players list, which if confirmed will change the score to 8-7 with penalty points, but won't change the result; we wait to hear.

SCCU U140: Essex 9½-6½ Herts
At Wanstead House. The U140 team brought Essex its only success on a busy day. In a fairly blood-thirsty encounter, Essex scored 8 wins to 5 with just three draws.

SCCU U100: Essex 4½-7½ Surrey
At Wanstead House. In the third of the day's fixtures, Essex were disappointed in the opening U100 fixture. This is a surprising reverse as Essex had a slight edge on the grades of an average 3.6 GP per board. In such circumstances, one is reminded of the words of Harry Woolverton: "If you could tell the result of a chess match just by looking at the teams on paper, chess would be a very dull game indeed!"

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