Board Metropolitan 2 Ilford
1 1935 (1930A) Carmichael, Ned 0 – 1 Pereslavtsev, Alexandr 2215 (2090A)
2 2073 (1993P) Kamar, Mohammad 0 – 1 Ghose, Rahul 2023 (1993K)
3 1862 (1867K) Marrow, Jonathan ½ – ½ Jaiswal, Adhar 1827 (1794A)
4 1842 (1867K) Lepetun, Jan ½ – ½ Kent, Anthony R 1777 (1797K)
5 1822 (1821K) Lenaghan, Kevin 1 – 0 Choudhury, Shakeel 1730 (1720K)
6 1774 (1768K) Day, Gareth 1 – 0 Page, Jeffrey 1657 (1685A)
7 1817 () Asade, Tolu 0 – 1 Undre, Taha 1548 (1561K)
8 1733 (1738K) Benson, Neil 1 – 0 Croitoru, Riley UNG
Average Grade 1858 4 – 4 Average Grade 1598
(Edited from Jef’s notes). We had some difficulty sorting out the team for this match: Ilford’s usual captain Tom Barton was away, and one player dropping out due to illness. In the event, it was good to get a full team out. At one stage, with so few members available, it looked as though we night have to default the match.
Junior Ilford member Riley made his Ilford debut- a tough baptism of fire and his game quickly ended after he went a knight down. After that some of the games seemed to end in a strange fashion. Taha was under pressure on the Q-side from Tolu’s Q&R’s but a terrible error cost him the game . Whilst Shakeel managed to win R for B, but being pawns against 2 powerful Bishops, an oversight saw Shakeel try to avoid them, and blundered putting his Rook en pris. Jef held off Gareth for quite a while with a nice opening, but then let it all slip away in time trouble losing a pawn and the endgame.
Adhar recovered from his loss in the last match to play a more conservative opening and hold for a draw. Anthony Kent as Black played an Old Indian and got down to a Queen and opposite coloured Bishops ending. The hurried queen swap led to a draw against Lepetun. However, instead of 32…QxQ, 32…Qc1 would have given black a key material advantage.
Alexandr on board 1 played a nice forcing Q,R and B attack down the open KR On Board 2, reached a late middle game with a Rook and 4 pawns each, where he had a Bishop and white a knight. After the Rooks went off, hos Bishop dominated the knight which had to sacrifice itself. Rahul won with his Bishop blocking his opponent’s passed b pawn and his king soon to take white’s a pawn (picture below).
Given the average grading difference, a good result and the solitary point for the drawn match after a series of losses. That gets us off the bottom of the division 3 league table. Our inspirational captain below.
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