NORTH CIRCULAR CHESS LEAGUE A DIVISION 24th March 2025
ILFORD 2½ – 3½ CHINGFORD I
1993 RAHUL GHOSE 0-1 GAVIN HUGHES 1949 W
1868 NEVILLE TWITCHELL ½ DAVID BRADY 1843 b
1837 ADHAR JAISWAL ½ PETER ROSE 1800
1797 ANTHONY KENT ½ ROBIN OAKLEY 1729
1687 RAYYAN ASIF 0-1 BRIAN SPEAR 1739
1685 JEF PAGE 1-0 default
(Edited from Jef’s notes). After Ilford II lost narrowly to Chingford II last week, They have now done the ‘double’ over us. A 6 boards match had been agreed, and Jef won our only game- by default.
Brian Spear quickly got the advantage over Rayyan as was troubled by the earlt Qb3 against his Leningrad Dutch opening, losing his b-pawn and another pawn. Brian held on as he weathered Rayyan’s attempts at a breakthrough, and then forked his King and Rook to finish the game.
On board 1, Gavin Hughes got a strong position from the Grand Prix Attack. His Knight got in among Rahul’s Kingside defence and once Hughes’ Rook and Queen joined the attack it was all over. So from here on we went from 1-nil up to 1-2 down.
Anthony played his ‘usual’ Kingside pawn push and attempted to break through, but Robin came up with a very neat defence of forcing a draw by repetition of Rook checks against Tony’s open King. in the diagram below Black plays Rh3 check, and the Rook can keep checking the black king. If the king moves to the g-file, black retreats the Rook to h6. If the king goes to the back rank, the black queen joins in the fun. Computer analysis confirmed the game was completely drawn.
On board 2, Neville, won a pawn against Brady’s French defence, but with accurate defensive play, Knight against Bishop, and his with King well placed, David held on for a half.
The wildest game of the night was Adhar’s as it seemed where ever you looked someones Queen, usually Adar’s, seemed to be en pris. Both Kings were open to attack. In the end, with Adhar’s Queen rather off-side, it was Peter who forced a draw by repetition.
Ilford Chess Club 