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10/04/2022

NCCU Open Section Won by Northumberland

The NCCU inter-county team Opens section for 2021-22 concluded on Sunday 10/04/2022 when Lancashire played at home to Northumberland managing only to draw.  Northumberland chess has seen something of an upturn in recent years, largely due to the efforts, it seems, of Tim Wall.

	Lancashire	6-6	Northumberland
1	Jeff Horner (B)	½‑½	Tim P Wall
2	Paul Macklin	1-0	Thomas Eggleston
3	D Brett Lund	1-0	David P Mooney
4	Graham Morrison	0-1	Graeme Oswald
5	Peter E Jowett	½-½	David Armbruster
6	Martyn Hamer	1-0	Andrew Burnett
7	Malcolm R Peacock	0-1	Paul AG Dargan
8	David A Phillips	½-½	Nathan Ekanem
9	Andrew A Clarkson	1-0	Michael J McBeth
10	Graham W Dobson	½-½	Ravi Wariyar
11	John D Lyth	0-1	Stuart Skelsey
12	William O'Rourke	0-1	William Robinson

That leaves the final cross-table looking as follows:

\/ Home Team \/	Match Points	Game Points	Nor	Yor	Lan
Northumberland	3	13½		7½‑4½
Yorkshire	2	11½			7‑5
Lancashire	1	11	6‑6

This means Northumberland and Yorkshire earn the right to progress as NCCU nominees to the ECF “final stages” Open competitions respectively as “N1” and “N2” in the pairings.  (As N2, Yorkshire is likely to meet a nominally stronger team than does Northumberland in the first round of the final stages.)