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!