Having won the Metropolitan Area section of the Stevenson Cup our Stevenson Cup team has played Hastings to decide which team plays in the Stevenson Cup Final against Maidstone Juniors. The match started with James Wagstaff drawing from a poor position out of the opening. Tony Packham also reached a poor position and could not recover. However Mohammed Imran Ali had a good win on top board and with all three of the other games looking promising it seemed that we were going to win the match. Boye Sodeke in a strong position offered a draw. If Boye’s opponent accepted Sidcup would clearly win the match as things stood, so he stopped playing for some time waiting to see how the other games went; when Greg Edwards’ opponent resigned he played on and duly lost. Finally Ian McAllan had reached a won ending but forgot to press his clock and lost on time. So Sidcup won 3.5 - 2.5.

Ian McAllan