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Essex Summer Team Rapidplay Knockout

Preliminary Round
Barking 'B'	scr-w/o	Wanstead 'B'
Round 1
Wanstead 'B'	5-7	Upminster
Writtle	10-2	Ilford
Wanstead 'A'	9½-2½	Chelmsford
Roding & Loughton	2-10	Barking 'A'
Semi Final
Wanstead 'A'	*6-6	Writtle
Barking 'A'	7-5	Upminster
Knockout Final
Barking 'A'	6½-5½	Wanstead 'A'

Plate Draw

Preliminary Round
Barking 'B'	5-7	Roding & Loughton
Round 1
Roding & Loughton	6-6*	Wanstead 'B'
Ilford	7-5	Chelmsford
Plate Final
Wanstead 'B'	2½-9½	Ilford

Knockout Round 1

Wanstead 'B'	R1	R2	Upminster	Writtle	R1	R2	Ilford
T.D. Whitton	1-0	½-½	M. McCall	R.P. White	1-0	1-0	Default
K.S. Jones	0-1	0-1	L.J. Crane	R. Slade	½-½	0-1	J.H. Hodgson
J.R. Keehner	1-0	0-1	A. Rowan	T.D. Coote	½-½	1-0	S.M. Kalinsky
L.J. Burtt	½-½	0-1	A.T. Corish	D.J. Millward	1-0	1-0	T.A. Barton
D.J. Rawlings	½-½	½-½	R.A. Watts	N.L. Gough	1-0	1-0	J.W. Klimach
S. Burns	½-½	½-½	R. Davies	K.M. Chilvers	1-0	1-0	J. Page
Total 5	3½-2½	1½-4½	7 Total	Total 10	5-1	5-1	2 Total

Wanstead 'A'	R1	R2	Chelmsford	Roding & Loughton	R1	R2	Barking 'A'
Li Wu	1-0	1-0	D. Chandler	D. Jarmain	0-1	0-1	D.A. Sands
L.E. Marden	½-½	1-0	S. Collins	J. Rayner (R1)	0-1		J.A. Goldberg
J. Winkworth	1-0	1-0	B. Payne	P. Robertson (R2)		0-1	J.A. Goldberg
I.D. Hunnable	1-0	1-0	P. Brander	J.A. Campbell	½-½	½-½	J. White
S.G. Gilmour	1-0	0-1	T. Armer	S. Moth	½-½	0-1	C.R. Ramage
J.A. Philpott	0-1	1-0	B. Sherman	G. Clarke	0-1	0-1	S.W. Berkley
Total 9½	4½-1½	5-1	2½ Total	D.I. Lewis	0-1	½-½	R. Purse
				Total 2	1-5	1-5	10 Total

Knockout Semi-Finals

Wanstead 'A'	R1	R2	Writtle	Barking 'A'	R1	R1	Upminster
Li Wu	1-0	½-½	R.P. White	D.A. Sands	1-0	1-0	A.E. Robertson
L.E. Marden	½-½	1-0	F.C. Chin	J.A. Goldberg	½-½		M. Rahaman (R1)
I.D. Hunnable	1-0	½-½	C. Fegan	J.A. Goldberg		1-0	M. McCall (R2)
S.G. Gilmour	0-1	0-1	D.J. Millward	J. White	½-½	0-1	L.J. Crane
P.R. Barclay	0-1	0-1	R. Slade	C.R. Ramage	½-½	0-1	A. Rowan
M.R.A. Murrell	1-0	½-½	K.M. Chilvers	S.W. Berkley	1-0		A.T. Corish (R1)
(WIN) Total 6	3½-2½	2½-3½	6 Total	S.W. Berkley		0-1	M. Rahaman (R2)
Wanstead 'A' won on board count. As close as you like! Wrttle were desperately unfotunate: in the last game to finish, Francis Chin resigned in a winning position! Wanstead 'A' meet Barking 'A' in the Final.				R. Purse	½-½	1-0	R. Davies
				Total 7	4-2	3-3	5 Total

Knockout Final
Played 14th October 2004 at Barking.

Barking	R1	R2	Wanstead 'A'
D. Sands	1-0	0-1	L. Wu
J. Goldberg	1-0	0-1	L. Marden
J. White	1-0	0-1	I. D. Hunnable
C. Ramage	1-0	½-½	P. Barclay
S. Berkeley	½-½	½-½	M. Murrell
R. Purse	½-½	½-½	J. A. Philpott
Total 6½	5-1	1½-4½	5½ Total

The Summer Rapidplay Knockout that finished in the Autumn! Dates had proved difficult to find and 14th October was the earliest suitable.

The final turned out to be the proverbial "match of two halves". The Wanstead team turned up at the approriate time, but their chess followed an hour or so behind. Barking took full advantage and their 5-1 first round score seemed insuperable.

Wanstead, however, had other ideas and fought back strongly in R2 to take the top three boards. After Colin Ramage had induced Barclay into a drawing trap, Wanstead now needed to win both bottom boards, but Berkley and Purse held firm. Had Paul Barclay managed to beat Colin Ramage, the scores for each team would have been identical and neither board count, nor board elimination would have split the match, requiring a replay. (Dreams. Dreams.)

So congratulations to Barking on victory in one of the most dramatic finals seen.

Plate Preliminary Round

Barking 'B'	R1	R2	Roding & Loughton
G.H. Monk	1-0	1-0	P. Robertson
M.J. Cresswell	1-0	1-0	J.A. Campbell
J. Howlett	0-1	0-1	S. Moth
H. Alley	0-1	0-1	D.I. Lewis
A. Burns	1-0	0-1	G. Clarke
Default	0-1	0-1	A. Clarke
Total 5	3-3	2-4	7 Total

Plate Round 1

Roding & Loughton	R1	R2	Wanstead 'B'	Ilford	R1	R2	Chelmsford
G.J. Kershaw	1-0	1-0	Default	J.H. Hodgson	½-½		B.J. Sherman (R1)
J.A. Campbell	0-1	0-1	David Smith	J.H. Hodgson		½-½	D. Chandler (R2)
D.I. Lewis	1-0	½-½	L.J. Burtt	D. Guthrie	1-0	½-½	S. Collins
G. Clarke	0-1	0-1	S. Burns	T.A. Barton	1-0	1-0	B.P. Payne
J. Raynor	½-½	0-1	W. de Jong	J. Page	1-0	1-0	P.A. Brander
A. Clark	1-0	1-0	A.F. O'Regan	H.J. Berlin	½-½		D.I. Gatheral (R1)
Total 6	3½-2½	2½-3½	6 Total (Win)	H.J. Berlin		0-1	B.J. Sherman (R2)
Astonishing! Despite Roding & Loughton winning both games on board 1 (by default), they could only tie on board count (17-17) by dint of having won both bottom board games! Wanstead 'B' win on elimination of bottom board.				Default	0-1		D. Chandler (R1)
				Default		0-1	D.I. Gatheral (R2)
				Total 7	4-2	3-3	5 Total

Plate Final
Played 5th October 2004 at Wanstead

Wanstead 'B'	R1	R2	Ilford
T.D. Whitton	0-1	0-1	J.H. Hodgson
L.J. Burtt	0-1	0-1	D. Guthrie
P. Staniland (sub)	1-0		Jan Klimach (sub)
P. Staniland (sub)		0-1	D. Hawrami
J.R. Keehner	0-1	½-½	S.M. Kalinsky
G.M. Brown	½-½	0-1	Jason Klimach
S. Burns	0-1	½-½	T. Barton
Total 2½	1½-4½	1-5	9½ Total

Both sides experienced distruption of their intended line-up due to non-arrivals. Wanstead had Philip Staniland on hand to cover for Keith Jones and Ilford called on Jason Klimach's father Jan to cover for Dana Hawarami, who arrived in time to take his place in R2.

The Ilford first team were always favourite to take this match against Wanstead's second string. The contest was over with the first round result of 4½-1½ to Ilford and the visitors were confident enough to have their team photo taken at half-time. In round 2, bolstered by the arrival of Dana Hawrami, Ilford extended their lead by winning 5-1 for an overall score of 9½-2½.