The B Team scored their first win of the season against Kents Luton, who brought their strongest team but could only score one and a half points. Joe had an excellent win on board 5, Chris was about to offer Peter Montgomery a draw when Peter lost the exchange, and Marc out-tacticed Damon D’Cruz in a game that could have gone either way. Alex and Mick Joseph drew, and Andrew Perkins overcame Nick in a hard-fought battle on board 1.
In Milton Keynes, Bedford D played the Open University. All five games were won by Black! Unfortunately, as the away team, we had three Whites. John and Jan were successful on boards 2 and 4, whilst Neil, Ben and Mac were less so on 1, 3, and 5 respectively. Apologies for the lack of detail – your reporter was struggling to pay attention to his own game let alone the others.
In division 2 there were a couple more wins for the black pieces: Tony Lawrence 0-1 Peter Housden; Nigel Staddon 0-1 Gerry Nolan (see Staddon-Nolan).