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Frost Wilmot
Frost Wilmot Team Blitz
Held: Wed. 6th November 2002 at 11 Belgrave Road
Controller: David Sedgwick
Barclays retain Frost Wilmot
This season's competition proved to be the most interesting and best attended Frost Wilmot for a good many seasons, following the decision to open the competition to Legal League teams on top of the invitation extended two seasons back to Banks teams. It might have been even better as a second Legal team, Slaughter & May had entered, but late calls on two of their players meant they were ultimately unable to attend.
Enter then the first outing of 'Sedgwick pairings', prepared with admirable foresight by David Sedgwick, for just such an eventuality. Sedgwick pairings implement a sort of Hutton scheme, borrowed from the world of bridge, for five teams of four boards so that no-one sits out a round as would be the case with an all-play-all for an odd number of teams. It worked like an orderly version of musical chairs without the music as one set of players occupied the same places all evening (OK they were allowed to move around between games), and the opponents moved down one board each round. Four rounds of two games each round gave rise to an 8-game competition.
ABI/Zurich and RBS both opened with a strong score of 6/8, closely followed by defending Frost Wilmot holders Barclays on 5/8. Barclays forged ahead in Round 2 when scoring 6½/8 against 4 by ABI/Zurich and 3½ from RBS. ABI/Zurich narrowed the gap on Barclays slightly in Round 3, with the bank now holding the slenderest of leads on 16½ against ABI/Zurich with 16. RBS, however, had dropped 3 points adrift of the leaders on 13½.
The last round saw two key pairings between players from the two leaders and in this respect Nitz's double triumph over Martin Page was the clincher to see Barclays home by a point and a half.
IDH
Team Scores in Draw Order
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G |
Round 1 |
Prog. |
Round 2 |
Prog. |
Round 3 |
Prog. |
Round 4 |
Total |
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A - ABI/Zurich |
1 |
0111 |
3 |
6 |
1010 |
2 |
10 |
0111 |
3 |
16 |
1011 |
3 |
20½ |
|
2 |
1110 |
3 |
0011 |
2 |
1110 |
3 |
00½1 |
1½ |
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B - S.J. Berwin |
1 |
0000 |
0 |
0 |
1000 |
1 |
1 |
1100 |
2 |
3 |
0000 |
0 |
4 |
|
2 |
0000 |
0 |
0000 |
0 |
0000 |
0 |
1000 |
1 |
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C - RBS |
1 |
1111 |
4 |
6 |
10½0 |
1½ |
9½ |
1100 |
2 |
13½ |
1110 |
3 |
19½ |
|
2 |
1001 |
2 |
1010 |
2 |
1010 |
2 |
1110 |
3 |
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D - Ombudsmen |
1 |
½000 |
½ |
3 |
0011 |
2 |
8 |
0001 |
1 |
11 |
0101 |
2 |
14 |
|
2 |
½110 |
2½ |
1110 |
3 |
1001 |
2 |
0001 |
1 |
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E - Barclays |
1 |
½101 |
2½ |
5 |
111½ |
3½ |
11½ |
0011 |
2 |
16½ |
1010 |
2 |
22 |
|
2 |
½011 |
2½ |
1110 |
3 |
1011 |
3 |
111½ |
3½ |
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Teams given in draw order with their team letters. Each pairing involved two games (Game 1 and Game 2 in the column headed "G"). The two columns under each round heading give: the score on each board in order (but not the opponents) followed by the totals and, in the next column, the progressive team score. |
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Individual Results
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ROUND 1 |
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G1 |
G2 |
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G1 |
G2 |
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A.G.C. Paish A1 |
0-1 |
1-0 |
D. Lean E2 |
R.F. Collins A4 |
1-0 |
0-1 |
P. Deligiannakis E3 |
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D. Tunkel B2 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
M.C. Page A2 |
A. Brettell B3 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
G. Callan A3 |
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S. Ledger C1 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
H. Mather B1 |
M. Lake C4 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
C. Humpe B4 |
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C. Bartlett D2 |
0-1 |
1-0 |
C. Howe C2 |
G.W. Naldrett D3 |
0-1 |
1-0 |
D. Tidmarsh C3 |
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T. Nitz E1 |
½-½ |
½-½ |
J.H. Aldred D1 |
M. Jones E4 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
A. Beasley D4 |
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ROUND 2 |
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G1 |
G2 |
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G1 |
G2 |
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A.G.C. Paish A1 |
1-0 |
0-1 |
J.H. Aldred D1 |
R.F. Collins A4 |
0-1 |
1-0 |
A. Beasley D4 |
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D. Tunkel B2 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
D. Lean E2 |
A. Brettell B3 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
P. Deligiannakis E3 |
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S. Ledger C1 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
M.C. Page A2 |
M. Lake C4 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
G. Callan A3 |
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C. Bartlett D2 |
0-1 |
1-0 |
H. Mather B1 |
G.W. Naldrett D3 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
C. Humpe B4 |
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T. Nitz E1 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
C. Howe C2 |
M. Jones E4 |
½-½ |
0-1 |
D. Tidmarsh C3 |
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ROUND 3 |
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G1 |
G2 |
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G1 |
G2 |
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A.G.C. Paish A1 |
0-1 |
1-0 |
C. Howe C2 |
R.F. Collins A4 |
1-0 |
0-1 |
D. Tidmarsh C3 |
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D. Tunkel B2 |
1-0 |
0-1 |
J.H. Aldred D1 |
A. Brettell B3 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
A. Beasley D4 |
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S. Ledger C1 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
D. Lean E2 |
M. Lake C4 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
P. Deligiannakis E3 |
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C. Bartlett D2 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
M.C. Page A2 |
G.W. Naldrett D3 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
G. Callan A3 |
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T. Nitz E1 |
0-1 |
1-0 |
H. Mather B1 |
M. Jones E4 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
C. Humpe B4 |
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ROUND 4 |
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G1 |
G2 |
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G1 |
G2 |
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A.G.C. Paish A1 |
1-0 |
0-1 |
H. Mather B1 |
R.F. Collins A4 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
C. Humpe B4 |
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D. Tunkel B2 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
C. Howe C2 |
A. Brettell B3 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
D. Tidmarsh C3 |
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S. Ledger C1 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
J.H. Aldred D1 |
M. Lake C4 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
A. Beasley D4 |
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C. Bartlett D2 |
1-0 |
0-1 |
D. Lean E2 |
G.W. Naldrett D3 |
0-1 |
0-1 |
P. Deligiannakis E3 |
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T. Nitz E1 |
1-0 |
1-0 |
M.C. Page A2 |
M. Jones E4 |
0-1 |
½-½ |
G. Callan A3 |
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The letters in bold print after each name give the player's team letter and board number. Players on the left of each pairing had white in the first game, black in the second. |
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