Broadstairs 1 Bridge B 6
| 1 | David Faldon (175) | 0-1 | Richard Eales (202) |
| 2 | Paul Carfrae (131) | 0-1 | Vishnu Singh (195) |
| 3 | John Couzens (118) | 0-1 | Alan Atkinson (173) |
| 4 | Bob Cronin (112) | 1-0 | Arnaud Wisman (173) |
| 5 | Andy Flood (111) | 0-1 | David Shire (161) |
| 6 | Michael Doyle (89) | 0-1 | Patrick Burns (142) |
| 7 | def | 0-1 |
David Faldon writes:
Six players travelled to Bridge on a wet Monday in April in search of a miracle … and it didn’t happen. Still, we tried hard. The star of the night was Bob C who produced a fantastic game to defeat a player 61 points higher graded, and it wasn’t all a one-move trick either. Bob got what looked to me a dubious position in the opening, with the pawns in front of his king too far advanced, but he turned the negative into a positive and used the advanced pawns to crash through with his own winning attack. Splendid! Most of the other games went roughly as advertised, though none of the games were exactly easy for the winners. Paul in particular put up a terrific defence with the black pieces against a 195-rated opponent and I got in a queen sacrifice to chase my opponent’s king. Unfortunately for me, Richard defended very well and exchanged down to a tricky ending that I didn’t quite manage to draw. Many thanks to all of the Broadstairs guys for putting up such a good resistance and congratulations to Bridge B as this result means that they win this year’s Millar Cup, narrowly ahead of Folkestone and Bridge A.