Team captain Francis Best was unavailable for this match. David Everington stood in as captain and reports as follows: “Ed never really got going against Richard and ended up with his King surrounded and mate inevitable. Dan played very well against Brian Whyte but finally lost a tricky double rook ending with both clocks running down. I got a decent game on the Black side of the Ruy but badly overestimated my chances around move 30 and got punished. Peter had a very nice miniature – see here or in interesting games – which should be a good morale booster.
Mark won on time in a very tense and double edged game in which Keith made an illegal move (overlooking he was in check) towards the end. Mark claimed an extra two minutes but no-one knew how to add them to the clock!!
I suggested that they simply play on as Keith was by that time clearly running out of time – and so it was.”
| Shrewsbury A | Oswestry A | |
| Ed Goodwin | 0-1 | Richard Bryant |
| Daniel Lockett | 0-1 | Bryan Whyte |
| David Everington | 0-1 | Graham Ives |
| Peter Kitchen | 1-0 | John Davies |
| Mark Smith | 1-0 | Keith Grice |
| 2-3 |