Hampshire v Devon’s Re-Scheduled Match (14.04.2013.)

Originally scheduled for January, the Hants vs Devon match was postponed due to snow; not so much Devon’s problem, but a number of the Hants players could not only not get to the Wincanton venue, some couldn’t even get home from work on the Friday evening. Whatever date was chosen, re-scheduling would almost inevitably mean bumping into other planned events. In this case, Devon had the Teignmouth RapidPlay the prevous day, while there were other distractions for the Hants players.

The Devon captain managed to hang on to most of his players, but the Hants team was much below what would been expected on the original date. Not only in strength, but numbers too, as Hampshire could only raise 7 players for what was planned as a 12 board match, thus defaulting 5 boards. Nevertheless, in spite of the comfortable-looking scoreline, many of the Hampshire players put up a brave fight, and seven 1st team Devonians failed to find a win against opponents c. 20 grading points lower.

The details were:

Bd.	Hampshire	Grd			Devon	Grd
1	D. Tunks	207	½	½	K. W. Derrick	207
2	O. Gill	196	0	1	A. Boyne	195
3	D. Fowler	174	½	½	J. K. F. Stephens	192
4	C. J. V. Bellers	167	½	½	J. F. Wheeler	186
5	S. Knox	163	0	1	D. Regis	179
6	S. J. Smith	161	½	½	P. Medina	175
7	A. Manning	158	0	1	A. J. Billings	171
8	T. Davis	156	1	0	J. Leung	169
9	G. Jones	155	½	½	J. Underwood	177
10	R. Ashmore	150	0	1	B. W. R. Hewson	174
11	D. Thompson	147	½	½	M. V. Abbott	167
12	Ms G. Moore	141	½	½	O. E. Wensley	172
13	S. Le-Fevre	141	½	½	A. S. Kinder	162
14	T. Chapman	141	0	1	M. Shaw	166
15	B. Kocan	140	0	1	T. F. Thynne	158
16	D. Culliford	135	½	½	B. G. E. Gosling	164
			5½	10½

	Hampshire II				Devon II
1	C. Priest	132	0	1	W. H. Ingham	158
2	A. Syed	132	0	1	P. Brooks	157
3	K. Steele	130	1	0	D. A. Toms	159
4	J. Young	130	½	½	J. Fraser	153
5	J. Barnett	119	0	1	M. Stinton-B	159
6	S. Murphy	106	0	1	J. Duckham	153
7	K. Lamb	91	0	1	I. S. Annetts	152
8	def		0	1	A. Frangleton	157
9	def		0	1	D. R. Cowley	159
10	def		0	1	C. E. Keen	155
11	def		0	1	J. E. Allen	149
12	def		0	1	R. G. Wilby	145
			1½	10½