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Cricket - NSW vs SA 10-Dec-2004 At 11:10:05 AM Breezy

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and now for the latest in Chess news :)

The latest NSW Country Teams Championship was won by Mingara Chess Club.

After achieving 2nd placing in the previous 2 years Mingara finally broke through in very closely fought competition where even in the final round there were three co-leaders.
Up till round 6 Mingara and the “Fright Knights” had both built dominating leads against the rest – the youth team from Toukley’s White Knight Chess Club being half a point shy of Mingara. Round 5 – just two rounds till the end and the second round of the second day, was when Newcastle laid Mingara low 2½ : ½ while Ettalong dented the Fright Knights ambitions 2 : 1 (2 draws and a win) . This left 3 teams on 11½ and a theoretic possibility of five teams finishing equal first !
But Mingara showed a clean set of heels to Dubbo team (though indeed each individual games was closer than a 3 nil score leads you to think) while Newcastle and the Knights ground each other down 1½ : 1½ .
The quest for the Reserves Shield resulted in a three-way tie between Cardiff (who were awarded it last year); Ettalong and Gosford.
We saw 5 players score over 70% and over the seven rounds and Lennie Locke playing board 2 for the Gosford team impressed us with elegant chess in his unbeaten run (we haven’t seen that since 1998).
We all had a thoroughly enjoyable chess weekend.