Date: May 15, 1994

Devon chess knock out..

In last Saturday's match Devon were knocked out of the National County

Championship quarter-final by Leicestershire. Sixteen players from each county battled for nearly five hours in the village hall at Frampton-on-Severn, and despite some stiff resistance on the lower boards Leicestershire's strength in depth brought them a deserved 10-6 victory.

 Exeter players were out in force, making up six of the sixteen and all of the top four boards. Exeter and Devon top board Ben Beake had to face Grandmaster Mark Hebden, and held out with great determination for many moves after an unfamiliar opening, eventually missing his footing in a queen and pawn ending. Further down Brian Hewson and Richard Lingham went down boxing bravely out of their weight, while Ken Hills let a win slip. Peter Lane had a winning game against the Leningrad Dutch which nearly went astray in mutual time trouble, but some firm manoevring brought him the full point. Lastly, Matthew Leigh as White and Dave Regis with Black had the better and the worse of their respective draws against Leicester players.

 Our thanks, as always, to non-playing match captain Tim Hay from Kingsteinton, who as well as organising our side of the event also provided some excellent pasties from a store in his mine.

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