Tigers draw against Enfield

Tuesday 17 November, 2009

Away against a strong Enfield first team, the Hendon Tigers managed to hold a 4-4 draw in Division 3 of the Middlesex League. In a match which went right down to the wire, Salvatore Pepe and new member Tim Rogers provided the wins for Hendon.

Enfield 1 Enfield 1 Hendon 2 Hendon 2
1
Thethi, Pritpal S
180 ½ - ½
Bennett, Michael K
170
2
Rughwani, Neil R
164 0 - 1
Rogers, Tim E
157
3
Capes, Ian
158 1 - 0
Iwi, David
162
4
Gore, Alan D
156 0 - 1
Pepe, Salvatore
159
5
Capes, John S
146 ½ - ½
Limonov, Petr
144
6
Kyriacou, Kyriacos
145 1 - 0
Rogal, Chris
143
7
Porter, William S
140 ½ - ½
Pattni, Kishan
139
8
McNish, David
136 ½ - ½
Lennard, Graeme
120
4 - 4

Mini-report by Adam Raoof

Enfield’s line-up looked pretty strong, and some concerns were expressed at the outset as to whether we could get the full point from this fixture. As non-playing captain I looked at all the boards and reckoned we had an advantage on several. Solid draws on a couple of well-matched boards soon followed.

The match was in the balance when Chris Rogal had the win all but written up on the scoresheet. Then he inexplicably blundered a rook, with check, and went down soon after.

Tim Rogers was the new star of the second team – he made his own way to the venue, arrived 15 minutes late, played into an endgame with about five minutes on the clock and squeezed a win out of a complex pawn advantage to draw the match. Go Tiger Tim!

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