Our second match proved too much for your captain. To avoid being squashed I gave up a knight for 2 central pawns on f4 and e5, and then spent the rest of the game trying to play positional chess. With the score at 7-8 I offered my opponent a draw having won a third pawn and with a protected pawn on the 6th - sorry all. I guess I needed a deputy captain to ask the score one more time. Meanwhile elsewhere Simon Charles and Cecil Sloan continued their run in the team with a pair on the top two boards, and with Mike Price, Alan Gore and Keith Woodhouse all winning we were doing well despite defaulting board 16. Well done to Tim Sampson for putting his poor Herts congress behind him with a win - and a big thank-you to Alan Brewis and Peter Baker for allowing us to field a semblance of a full team.
| 1 | Sidney Golding | 138 | 0-1 | Simon Charles | 138 |
| 2 | Steve Sonnis | 138 | 0-1 | Cecil Sloan | 138 |
| 3 | Richard S Dunn | 137 | 1-0 | Andrew Maclaren | 138 |
| 4 | Joseph Farrell | 137 | 0-1 | Michael Price | 138 |
| 5 | Peter Hawran | 134 | 1-0 | Corinne Mountford | 137 |
| 6 | Wilson Ransome | 133 | 1-0 | Simon Cage | 134 |
| 7 | Michael C Price | 132 | 0-1 | Alan Gore | 129 |
| 8 | Cormac T O'Caolaidhe | 131 | 0.5-0.5 | Gary Ruddick | 129 |
| 9 | Andrew Costeloe | 129 | 1-0 | Austin McMahon | 122 |
| 10 | Patrick Sartin | 126 | 0.5-0.5 | Stephen Dicks | 124 |
| 11 | Martin Leman | 126 | 0.5-0.5 | Peter Seeley | 122 |
| 12 | Doug Bonn | 124 | 0-1 | Tim Sampson | 118 |
| 13 | Mark Huba | 119 | 0-1 | Keith Woodhouse | 115 |
| 14 | Peter Pickering | 118 | 1-0 | Alan Brewis | 90 |
| 15 | Gerald Parfett | 116 | 1-0 | Peter Baker | 94 |
| 16 | Evan Beachley | 122 | 1-0 | def | |
| Totals | 8.5-7.5 |