No joy against Hackney 2 in the London League

Wednesday 14 March

Hackney 2 and Ilford had an average grade of 159 across their ten boards so a tight match was to be expected. There were familiar faces in the opposition and Les agreed an early draw with Gavin and invitation to head to the pub for a pint. David won in fine style with some nice finishing moves to take the point and at that stage the boards were looking promising, however, there were no more wins and we lost the match 4-6.

Hackney 2	GRADE	SCORE	Ilford 1	GRADE
Charles Hughes	180	1 – 0	Paolo Casaschi	174
John Tennyson	181	½ – ½	Gary Thurston         (b)	173
Jonathan Benyunes	177	0 – 1	David Millward	167
Francis Chin	173	½ – ½	Julian Hudson	169
Gavin Hughes	171	½ – ½	Les Crane	164
Tobias Baumann	150e	1 – 0	Tom Barton	168
Salim Kriman	145e	½ – ½	Aidan Corish	148
Emyr Jones	153	1 – 0	Jason Klimach	146
Mark Rivlin	138	½ – ½	Jeffrey Page	144
Ramon Jose	122	½ – ½	Stephen Abbott	141