| Hendon 2 | Hendon 2 | Hackney 1 | Hackney 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meszaros, Gyula | 247 | ½ - ½ | Ansell, Simon T | 226 | ||
| 2 | Lalic, Peter D | 206 | ½ - ½ | Eames, Robert S | 207 | ||
| 3 | Ellis, Daniel | 181 | 0 - 1 | Adelaja, Abimbola | 205 | ||
| 4 | Rogers, Tim L | 168 | 1 - 0 | Tasker, Michael W | 180 | ||
| 5 | Levene, Joseph | 172 | 1 - 0 | Jones, Emyr | 176 | ||
| 6 | Bennett, Michael K | 177 | ½ - ½ | Vives, Pepe | 168 | ||
| 7 | Dragomir, Ionica O | 177 | 1 - 0 | Donnelly, Terence M | 157 | ||
| 8 | Du Buf, Paul | 173 | ½ - ½ | Tennyson, John | 152 | ||
| 5 - 3 | |||||||
Match report by Michael Bennett
The Tigers managed a superb 5-3 win over visitors Hackney 1 tonight, to consolidate their position in Division 1 of the Middlesex League. With 8.5/13 match points, the Tigers have now secured a 3rd place finish!
On top board, Julian had a solid draw against IM Simon Anselll. Tim Rogers outplayed Mike Tasker on board 4 to offset a rare loss by Daniel Ellis against his 200+ opponent, and Paul du Buf had a solid draw on bottom board (2-2).
The Tigers then went ahead as Ionica Dragomir won with his usual positional squeeze (3-2). On board 2, Peter Lalić – coming up against FM Bob Eames on his debut for Hendon – also drew, although very short of time at the finish, when his opponent sportingly agreed a draw. (3.5.-2.5)
By then I had managed to wriggle out of an awful position and even seemed to be better at the end, but agreed a draw as I was short of time. (4-3)
Last to finish was on-form Joseph Levene, who had sped to a 2-pawn advantage early on, but missed something and was a piece down (R,N&2 pawns v R&pawn). However, his opponent’s flag fell while trying to win the ending to level the match! (5-3)
Congratulations to the whole team on an excellent performance!
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