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Plate Zone winners

Updated 1.7.01

TIMES BRITISH SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIP
2000-2001

Results are now complete. The latest information starts one or two screenfuls down.
     This year's entry was 246 teams, divided into 24 Zones. That's quite a big increase on last year. They were chasing a cheque for £1000 for the winning school. The semi-finals and Final of the Championship, plus a play-off for third place, made up a prestigious all-expenses-paid event in London at the Charing Cross Hotel, Friday and Saturday 29/30 June.
     The age handicap
The older team must win by a number of points at least equal to the age difference in years, taking the difference as a whole number by truncation. If it does not, it loses. The maximum handicap applied is four years, so 5-1 or better always wins. In the results below, an asterisk indicates win on age handicap (or board count / elimination if there is no handicap). Failing an asterisk, the team with more points wins.

CHAMPIONSHIP
    Round 1 (by 16th March) Yarm A (15.8) 5 1 Rossall (13.6); Nottingham HS A (15.7) 4½ 1½ K Edward Camp Hill (15.10); Bedford Modern A (14.0) 0 6 Oakham School (13.11); Highworth Warneford (14.4) ½ 5½ Magdalen College School A (15.10); Southend HS (14.3) 4½ 1½ Ipswich School (14.7); North Bridge House* (10.7) 2 4 St Olaves GS (15.8); Maidstone GS (15.2) 4 2 Yateley Manor* (11.9); RGS Guildford A (15.3) 2½ 3½ Tiffin (15.3); byes Blue Coat Liverpool; Manchester Grammar School; Methodist College Belfast A; QEGS Wakefield A; St Margarets Airdrie; St Pauls London A; Torquay Boys GS A; Millfield Prep School A
     Round 2 (by end of spring term) St Margarets Airdrie* (13.9) 2½ 3½ Methodist College A (17.2); Yarm A (15.9) 2 4 QEGS Wakefield (15.0); Blue Coat (14.6) 1 5 Manchester Grammar (16.5); Oakham School (14.4) 4 2 Nottingham HS (15.7); Tiffin (15.10) 2½ 3½ Magdalen College School A (16.0); Southend High School (15.4) 2 4 St Pauls (16.9); Yateley Manor (11.9) 3½ 2½ North Bridge House (10.7); Millfield Prep A (11.10) 0 6 Torquay Boys GS A (15.11)
     Quarter-finals (by 9th May) Manchester Grammar (16.1) 5 1 St Margarets Airdrie (14.4); QEGS Wakefield (15.0) 2 4 Oakham School (14.5); Magdalen College School (16.1) 0 6 St Pauls School (16.1); Torquay GS (16.0) 3 3 *Yateley Manor (11.10)
     Semi-finals 29.6.00: Yateley Manor (12.0) ½ 5½ Manchester Grammar (16.9); St Pauls (16.2) 3 3 *Oakham School (14.7)
     Third Place Play-off 30.6.01: St Pauls (16.2) 6 0 Yateley Manor (12.0)
     Final 30.6.01: Oakham School (14.7) 4 2 Manchester Grammar (16.8). Oakham, headed by their two Kasparov Scholars, took the Championship for the first time. They were Plate Champions last year.
     Best Game Prizes: 1 Adam Eckersley-Waites; 2 Andrew Carney
The Presentation Dinner was enlivened by the red-blazered presence of Yateley Manor, probably the first prep school ever to reach the last four. They have not yet had a thirteenth birthday between them, and their age handicap was huge. While it cannot be said that they scored many points, their enthusiasm was delightful and infectious. They spent much of the Dinner playing chess with Steve Davis, having grabbed their places an hour in advance in order to be next to him. They used a pocket set in which, as far as we could make out, one white pawn was a white sugar lump and one black pawn was a brown sugar lump. The braver ones then forayed across the room and took on Jonathan Parker. Their results against both opponents are unrecorded.

SEMI FINALS
	Yateley Manor	29.6.01	Manchester Grammar
1 2 3 4 5 6	Arthur Truslove *74 (W) Matthew Elstrop 93 Ramesh Nadarajah 60 Andrew Carney 67 Michael Augousti 71 Edward Devonshire 48	0 1 0 1 0 1 ½ ½ 0 1 0 1	David Shaw 181 John Tompson 171 Jonathan Fish 157 Chris Statter 111 Martin Fish 122 Ben Moody *52
(Charing X) (12.0)		½ 5½	(16.8)

	St Pauls School	29.6.01	Oakham School
1 2 3 4 5 6	Desmond Tan 209 (W) Thomas Nixon 167 Michael Healey 148 Edward Leung 126 Richard Charlton *125 Adam Swersky 114	1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0	Alexander Yastrebov *184 Zhanna Lazhevskaya 180 William Bennet 150 Adam Eckersley-Waites 121 Andrew Foster-Yeow 121 Matthew Moore 106
(Charing X) (16.2)		3 3	(14.7)
THIRD PLACE PLAY-OFF
	St Pauls School	30.6.01	Yateley Manor
1 2 3 4 5 6	Desmond Tan 209 (W) Thomas Nixon 167 Michael Healey 148 Edward Leung 126 Richard Charlton *125 Adam Swersky 114	1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0	Arthur Truslove *74 Matthew Elstrop 93 Ramesh Nadarajah 60 Andrew Carney 67 Michael Augousti 71 Edward Devonshire 48
(Charing X) (16.2)		6 0	(12.0)
FINAL
	Oakham School	30.6.01	Manchester Grammar
1 2 3 4 5 6	Alexander Yastrebov *184 (W) Zhanna Lazhevskaya 180 William Bennet 150 Adam Eckersley-Waites 121 Andrew Foster-Yeow 121 Matthew Moore 106	1 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1	David Shaw 181 John Tompson 171 Jonathan Fish 157 Chris Statter 111 Martin Fish 122 Ben Moody *52
(Charing X) (14.7)		4 2	(16.8)

PLATE (for Zone runners-up)
     Round 1 Lancaster RGS (15.0) 1½ 4½ St Bedes GS; Rushey Mead* (14.5) 3 3 Spalding GS (16.11); Dr Challoners (15.2) 5½ ½ Bedford Modern B (13.4); Northgate HS A (15.2) 5 1 K Edward VI GS Chelmsford (14.5); King Solomon w/o scr Dulwich College; Hampton School (14.9) 5½ ½ QE Barnet; Devonport HS A w/o scr Bristol GS; Dorothy Stringer (13.7) 4 2 RGS Guildford B (14.1); byes Argoed; Bolton School; Commonweal; Greenwood Academy Irvine A; KE Edgbaston Pk Rd Birmingham; St Columbs College Derry; Kingswood House Epson; RGS Newcastle
     Round 2 Greenwood Academy A (15.4) 4½ 1½ St Columbs College Derry (15.10); St Bedes GS (16.7) 4½ 1½ RGS Newcastle (14.6); Argoed (13.10) ½ 5½ Bolton School; Rushey Mead (14.7) 0 6 K Edward Birmingham (17.0); Dr Challoners w/o scr Northgate High¹; Hampton School (14.10) 5 1 K Solomon (13.7); Dorothy Stringer HS (13.9) 4 2 Kingswood House Epsom (11.0); Commonweal School Swindon (12.9) 4 2 Devonport HS A (14.5)
¹ match conceded through inability to agree a date
     Quarter-finals Bolton School (14.8) 2 4 Greenwood Academy Irvine (15.5); King Edwards Birmingham (16.11) 4 2 St Bedes GS Bradford (16.9); Dorothy Stringer HS Brighton (13.9) ½ 5½ Hampton School (14.11); Dr Challoners GS Amersham (15.3) 5½ ½ Commonweal School Swindon (13.0)
     Semi-finals Hampton School (14.11) 5 1 Dr Challoners GS (15.4); Greenwood Academy* (15.1) 3 3 King Edwards Birmingham (16.4).
     Final Greenwood Academy (15.1) 0 6 Hampton School (15.1)
The last two rounds of the Plate have to compete with little things like exams, never mind the potentially huge travelling distances. (No one plays by telephone if they can help it. When Scottish teams play Irish teams, one of them jumps on a ferry and the other one meets them at the port. This year's one and only telephone match was in the Birmingham Zone. It eliminated a team from Jersey.)
     The second semi-final was played on Tuesday 26th June at Carlisle, or it may even have been Glasgow, and the Final on Thursday 28th in Birmingham. Just in time for the presentation of the Trophy, an inscribed board, on Saturday 30th at the Charing Cross Hotel.

PLATE FINAL
	Greenwood Academy	28.6.01	Hampton School
1 2 3 4 5 6	Richard Graham David Deary Alasdair Carey Bryan King Barry Lee Colyer Mark Burns	0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1	Murugan Thiruchelvam 203 Nick Kingston-Smith 158 Ross Mooring 148 Mike Wu *89 Nicholas Moon 88 Eric Pollitt 101
(Birmingham) (15.1)		0 6	(15.1)

ZONE WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP
Zone 1 (N Ireland) 1 Methodist College Belfast (A team); 2 St Columbs College Londonderry
Zone 2 (Scotland) 1 St Margarets High School Airdrie; 2 Greenwood Academy Irvine A
Zone 3 (North) 1 Yarm School A; 2 Royal Grammar School Newcastle upon Tyne
Zone 4 (Yorks) 1 Queen Elizabeth GS Wakefield A; 2 St Bedes GS Bradford
Zone 5 (Lancs) 1 Rossall School Fleetwood; 2 Lancaster Royal Grammar School
Zone 6 (Gtr Manchester) 1 Manchester Grammar School; 2 Bolton School Boys Division
Zone 7 (Wirral) 1 Blue Coat School Liverpool; 2 Argoed High School, Mold, Flints
Zone 8 (W Midlands) 1 King Edward Camp Hill Birmingham; 2 King Edwards School Edgbaston Park Rd Birmingham. (All schools in Birmingham appear to be called King Edward. Adding "VI" doesn't help in this case because they both are.)
Zone 9 (E Midlands) 1 Oakham School; 2 Rushey Mead Leicester
Zone 10 (Notts/Lincs) 1 Nottingham High School A team; 2 Spalding GS
Zone 11 (Beds/Herts) 1 Bedford Modern School A; 2 Bedford Modern School B
Zone 12 (Bucks/Berks/Oxon) 1 Magdalen College School A; 2 Dr Challoners GS Amersham
Zone 13 (E Anglia) 1 Ipswich School; 2 Northgate High School Ipswich A
Zone 14 (Glos/Hereford/Worcs/Wilts) 1 Highworth Warneford School, Highworth Wilts; 2 Commonweal School Swindon
Zone 15 (Essex) 1 Southend High School for Boys; 2 King Edward VI Chelmsford
Zone 16 (London NW) 1 North Bridge House NW1; 2 Queen Elizabeths Boys Barnet
Zone 17 (London NE) 1 St Pauls SW13 A; 2 King Solomon High School Ilford
Zone 18 (London SW) 1 Tiffin School Kingston upon Thames; 2 Hampton School
Zone 19 (London SE) 1 St Olaves GS Orpington; 2 Dulwich College
Zone 20 (Kent/Sussex) 1 Maidstone Boys GS; 2 Dorothy Stringer High School Brighton
Zone 21 (Surrey) 1 RGS Guildford A; 2 Kingswood House School Epsom
Zone 22 (Hants) 1 Yateley Manor School Yateley; 2 RGS Guildford B
Zone 23 (West) 1 Millfield Prep School A; 2 Bristol GS
Zone 24 (Cornwall/Devon) 1 Torquay Boys GS A; 2 Devonport High School for Boys A