Tigers do double over Hackney!

Tuesday 16 April, 2013
Hendon 2 Hendon 2 Hackney 1 Hackney 1
1
Meszaros, Gyula
247 ½ - ½
Ansell, Simon T
226
2
Lalic, Peter D
206 ½ - ½
Eames, Robert S
207
3
Ellis, Daniel
181 0 - 1
Adelaja, Abimbola
205
4
Rogers, Tim L
168 1 - 0
Tasker, Michael W
180
5
Levene, Joseph
172 1 - 0
Jones, Emyr
176
6
Bennett, Michael K
177 ½ - ½
Vives, Pepe
168
7
Dragomir, Ionica O
177 1 - 0
Donnelly, Terence M
157
8
Du Buf, Paul
173 ½ - ½
Tennyson, John
152
5 - 3

Match report by Michael Bennett

The Tigers managed a superb 5-3 win over visitors Hackney 1 tonight, to consolidate their position in Division 1 of the Middlesex League. With 8.5/13 match points, the Tigers have now secured a 3rd place finish!

On top board, Julian had a solid draw against IM Simon Anselll. Tim Rogers outplayed Mike Tasker on board 4 to offset a rare loss by Daniel Ellis against his 200+ opponent, and Paul du Buf had a solid draw on bottom board (2-2).

The Tigers then went ahead as Ionica Dragomir won with his usual positional squeeze (3-2). On board 2, Peter Lalić – coming up against FM Bob Eames on his debut for Hendon – also drew, although very short of time at the finish, when his opponent sportingly agreed a draw. (3.5.-2.5)

By then I had managed to wriggle out of an awful position and even seemed to be better at the end, but agreed a draw as I was short of time. (4-3)

Last to finish was on-form Joseph Levene, who had sped to a 2-pawn advantage early on, but missed something and was a piece down (R,N&2 pawns v R&pawn). However, his opponent’s flag fell while trying to win the ending to level the match! (5-3)

Congratulations to the whole team on an excellent performance!

Top of Division 1:

  1. Hendon 1 – 11.5/13 (73)
  2. Hendon 2 – 8.5/13 (56)
  3. Kings Head 1 – 7.5/10 (44.5)
  4. Imperial 1 – 6/14 (57.5)
  5. Harrow 1 – 5/13 (41.5)
  6. Hackney 1 – 4.5/11 (41.5)