England’s over-65s and over-50s had contrasting experiences this week at the World Senior Team Championships in Prague. The over-65s, led by the individual world champion, John Nunn, and with a virtuoso 7/8 performance by Peter Large, led throughout and were unbeaten with 16/18 match points, seven wins and two draws. Two German teams, Lasker Germany and Saxonia, took silver and bronze.
England over-50s also led for much of the way despite a round four loss to Italy, but faltered in the final round crunch matches against the USA, which they lost for the third year in a row, and Kazakhstan, where they drew.
