Tigers come close against Lions

Thursday 24 October, 2013

	Hendon 2		Hendon 2		Hendon 1
1	Ellis, Daniel	190	½ - ½	Richardson, John R	220
2	Rogers, Tim L	179	½ - ½	Sanders, Isaac B	215
3	Burbidge, Duncan R	189	1 - 0	Mures, Cristian	213
4	Du Buf, Paul	176	0 - 1	Eden, Tomer	207
5	David, Barry AH	148	0 - 1	Bennett, Michael K	177
6	Ivanov, George	136	½ - ½	Pepe, Salvatore	157
7	Levene, Oren	135	1 - 0	Iwi, David	146
8	Ivanov, Elizabeth	121	0 - 1	Rogal, Chris S	143
				3½ - 4½

Match report by Michael Bennett

The Tigers gave the Lions a scare last night, as they nearly overcame a 25 point grading disadvantage! The final result was 4.5-3.5 to the Lions, but it could have been closer.

Games in brief:

John and Dan drew a fascinating stuggle in a Classical Dutch, which ended in perpetual check
Tim had a huge bind on the position, but at the end chose a move which allowed a perpetual, instead of one which won
Duncan’s Hendon debut resulted in a rare loss for Cristian in an Advance French!
Paul looked to have an attack, but Tomer seemed to always something in hand (as he usually does in those kind of positions)
I exploited dark square weaknesses to reach a winning rook ending
Salvatore missed a win at the end, but all credit to his young opponent for holding the draw
Oren played a solid game to win the exchange and beat David
Chris won on the black side on a Modern/KID

This result leaves the Lions with a healthy 2/2, but they will have to make up the valuable game points that have been dropped.

The Tigers have 1/3 match points, but will be looking to increase that tally in their pre-Christmas matches.