London League D3 East – 25 May 2022
Tom Barton, Captain
A disappointing loss of 7 – 1 in this match, the only win was by Rahul.
Neville arrived slightly late, got into difficulties and departed early. Dlawar had a challenge playing a FM on board one and he tried getting out of any standard lines but the decision not to castle proved to be a mistake. Last to finish were Jef and myself. I had equality for much of the game but my opponent had the bishop pair and I made a mistake allowing him to clear pawns and open the board up which made his bishops powerful.
We were out-graded overall, and heavily so on some boards so the result was not that surprising.
| DHSS | GRADE | SCORE | Ilford 1 | GRADE | |
| 1 | Rafe Martyn | 2395 | 1 – 0 | Dlawar Hameed | 1950 |
| 2 | Sam Walker | 2173 | 1 – 0 | Neville Twitchell | 1923 |
| 3 | Simon Lunn | 2025 | 1 – 0 | Tom Barton | 1908 |
| 4 | Greg Edwards | 1856 | 0 – 1 | Rahul Ghose | e1850 |
| 5 | Ray Harper | 1802 | 1 – 0 | Anthony Kent | 1750 |
| 6 | Rob Parsons | 1755 | 1 – 0 | Jef Page | 1630 |
| 7 | Stephen Pride | 1646 | 1 – 0 | Taha Undre | 1540 |
| 8 | 1 – 0 | forfeit | |||
| Total | 7 – 1 |
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