Third in Division Two of London League

With David Sandham finally overcoming his Wimbledon opponent after two adjournments, the match is drawn 5-5. We finished third in the league, just missing out on the second promotion place by a handful of game points. Full details here.

Bromley v Beckenham Annual Match 2011

Twenty club members turned out last night for the annual Bromley v Beckenham match. In a closely fought contest, a five-all result was finally achieved when Alan Sands (borrowed for the night by Beckenham) offered John Lewin a draw with only minutes left on the clock.

As they say, an enjoyable evening was had by one and all.

Thanks to match captains John Lewin and James Kinsella.

Fred Wellings

	Bromley		Result		Beckenham
1	Ian Snape	204	0	1	Nick Briggs	185
2	John Lewin	157	½	½	Alan Sands	166
3	John Alderson	154	½	½	Ranuk Rao	144
4	Geoff Kelsey	140	½	½	Chris Barnard	127
5	Malcolm Mouant	140	½	½	Fred Wellings	124
6	Gautham Reddiar	135	½	½	Richard Putman	123
7	Paul Andrews	126	½	½	Mike Smee	124
8	Alan Fraser	113	1	0	James Kinsella	109
9	Howard Walden	105	1	0	Mike Spencer	102
10	Jason Kevan	27	0	1	Steven Roberts	40e
	Average	130	5	5		124

Clean Sweep by West Wickham in the Croydon League

Howard Walden reports that West Wickham [that's Beckenham and Bromley's nom de guerre in South London. Ed.] teams have won all three divisions of the Croydon League this year.  Well done to everyone who took part in the teams this year.

West Wickham A won Division 3 for the second year running which means this team have been champions three times and runners up once in the last four years!!!

COUNTY CUP FINAL: Beckenham 1 v Charlton 1

The result in the final was a 4½-1½ loss as follows:

Ian Snape ½-½ Philip Morris
Nick Briggs 0-1 Alan Hanreck
John Duggan 0-1 Tony Stebbings
Michael Prizant 0-1 Philip Gregory
Kevin Bailey 1-0 Conor Murphy
Alan Sands 0-1 Renee DuToit

However, that doesn’t reflect the full story. My game was the first to finish. I had a minute temporary advantage through control of the e file which Morris set about neutralising and the game ended in threefold repetition. Kevin played a storming game to beat Conor Murphy. Next to finish was Nick with a loss having looked uncomfortable from the opening. John was very cramped but had some hopes of drawing but it was not to be. This left us 2½-1½ down with two to play and (on account of board count) needing two wins. However, this looked more than possible as Michael was won and Alan was having an up and down game. Not much later Alan dropped a rook and it was all over. The final calamity befell Michael when he lost a won ending.

Ian

PS Thanks to Malcolm for his support.