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| Manningtree B | | 2 – 2 | Saxmundham A | |
| 1 | Rod Saines | 1850 | ½ – ½ | Simon Wilks | 1936 |
| 2 | Robert Stephens | 1735 | ½ – ½ | Malcolm Lightfoot | 1896 |
| 3 | Simon Webber | 1689 | 1 – 0 | Sam Gaffney | 1833 |
| 4 | John Price | 1545 | 0 – 1 | Mike Usher | 1773 |
Despite being much stronger on paper, Sax A struggled against a plucky Manningtree team. Simon and Malcolm were never in trouble but couldn’t find a breakthrough. Sam was winning his game quite comfortably but then inexplicably fell into a mate. Mike evened the scores by piling the pressure onto his opponent until he eventually cracked.