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The Club Championship is in the balance after the penultimate round, with four players now sharing the lead on 4/5!
Armaan Nilim and Jonathan Rubeck drew in their long-awaited clash on top board, which gave others a chance to catch up. Six players from the chasing pack were in action this evening, and Alex Funk and David Amior both won to join the leaders.
Continue reading...The Middlesex League is now complete for the 2024–25 season, so here is my annual round-up of our team chess this year.
Continue reading...The leaders were unchanged after Round 4 of the Club Championship. Armaan Nilim and Jonathan Rubeck could not be paired against each other, as they had both had two Whites in a row: they played Black against other opponents.
Both drew, so neither pulled ahead, but nobody else joined the leaders on 3½/4 either: the only other player with a chance of doing so, Ilya Art Vorozhtsov, lost to pre-tournament rating favourite Elliott Macneil.
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