Drunken Knights 3 v Ilford London Division 2 23rd October 2017. Ilford lead 5.5 – 3.5 with one game adjourned
one Patryk Stanisz 197 1-0 Chris Fegan 176 
two Diana Serbanescu 183 1-0 Gary Thurston 173
three Douglas A Bennett 173 0-1 Paolo Casaschi 174
four William Taylor 178 adj Julian Hudson 169
five Habib Rahman 154 1/2-1/2 Tom A Barton 168
six Colin Rigby 155 0-1 Neville H Twitchell 168
seven Greg J Breed 146 0-1 David Millward 167
eight Dickie Geddis es130 0-1 Anthony R Kent 150
nine Kishan Pattni 146 0-1 Aidan T Corish 148
ten David A Grange 109 1-0 Jason W Klimach 146
A good evening at the Plough, Museum Street, London WC1. The lighting at Drunken Knights’ excellent home venue has been improved during the summer!
Ilford were stronger on the bottom 6 boards. These games all finished first giving, us a strong 4.5 – 1.5 start. David Millward’s game went 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 e5 3. BC4 a6? 4. Qh5 and black was already losing a pawn
Anthony Kent had a double-edged Sicilian Dragon, going …..15 e5 (below) to liven things up. Game went 16. Nxb axB 17. Bxb Ke7 and black has 2 pawns for the piece and the advantage . Computer likes 17. Qxd for equality.
Good win for Paolo Casaschi on board 3 gave Ilford the match. We eventually lost hard fought matches on boards 1 and 2.
Chris Fegan fighting hard in his board 1 match which went right to the end:
Ilford Chess Club 