Linwood Intermediate wins ‘Press’ chess

Press, 1 August 1989, Page 29

Linwood Intermediate wins ‘Press’ chess

Linwood Intermediate School, runner-up in last year’s final of “The Press” intermediate schools chess teams’ competition, went one better yesterday when it won its first title at Chisnallwood Intermediate School. Linwood started with a clean sweep against Chisnallwood in the round-robin final; beat Merrin School, 3-2, with Dean Seymour gaining a vital victory in the deciding game on board four; and finished with a 4-1 triumph against the defending champion, Medbury School. All five Linwood players contributed important wins to the team’s over-all success, but its middle-order strength was the decisive factor. The only female player, Keryn Miller, won her three games on board three and Seymour was unbeaten on board four.

Apart from Miller and Seymour, Michael Spiller, the Medbury No. 2, was the only player to win all three contests. The best of the top board players was Daniel Wallace, of Merrin, who had two wins and a draw. Final points:— Linwood 3 (12), Medbury 2 (8), Merrin 1 Chisnallwood 0 (2i/ 2 ). Results:— FIRST ROUND Linwood 5, Chisnallwood 0 Justino Gutierrez beat Richard Scarcliffe; Ricki Hapi beat Blair Pollock; Keryn Miller beat Brent Tobeck; Dean Seymour beat Carl Adcock; Darrell Minson beat Chris Wilkinson. Medbury 3, Merrin 2

Guy Bromley lost to Daniel Wallace; Michael Spiller beat Duane Pettet; Tim Davis lost to Robert Elliott; Greg Kerdemelidis beat Richard Love;

Stephen Mitchell beat Craig Woolhouse. SECOND ROUND

Medbury 4, Chisnallwood Bromley drew with Scarcliffe; Spiller beat Alcock; Davis beat Tobeck; Kerdemelidis beat Adcock; Mitchell drew with Wilkinson. Linwood 3, Merrin 2 Gutierrez lost to Wallace; Hapi beat Pettet; Miller beat Elliott; Seymour beat Love; Minson lost to Woolhouse. THIRD ROUND Merrin 3y t , Chisnallwood 1%

Wallace drew with Scarcliffe; Pettet beat Adcock; Elliott drew with Tobeck; Love beat Adcock; Woolhouse drew with Wilkinson.

Linwood 4, Medbury 1

Gutierrez beat Bromley; Hapi lost to Spiller; Miller beat Davis; Seymour beat Kerdemelidis; Minson beat Mitchell.