Lions fend off Tigers' challenge
Thursday 23 October, 2014
| Hendon 2 | Hendon 2 | Hendon 1 | Hendon 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burbidge, Duncan R | 191 | 0 - 1 | Buchicchio, Giampaolo | 210 | ||
| 2 | Du Buf, Paul | 177 | 0 - 1 | Mures, Cristian | 215 | ||
| 3 | Pein, Jonathan | 167 | 0 - 1 | Willmoth, Robert F | 203 | ||
| 4 | Levene, Joseph | 172 | 0 - 1 | Warman, Simon M | 198 | ||
| 5 | Rocco, Federico | 145 | 0 - 1 | Raoof, Adam N | 183 | ||
| 6 | Pollack, Oscar | 132 | 0 - 1 | Landau, Jonathan | 181 | ||
| 7 | Klingher, Dominic | 137 | 1 - 0 | Ellis, Daniel | 179 | ||
| 8 | Levene, Oren | 126 | 1 - 0 | Pepe, Salvatore | 146 | ||
| 2 - 6 | |||||||
Match report by Michael Bennett
In the first of our two annual Hendon 1 v Hendon 2 matches, the Lions overcame stiff resistance and a couple of surprise results from a youthful Tigers team, to eventually come out 6-2 winners.
In order of finishing:
- 12-year-old Oren made short work of Salvatore on bottom board, with a nice attack against a weakened kingside, to give the Tigers an early lead (0-1)
- In a Morra gambit, Cristian coolly and calmly fended off Paul’s attack and converted his extra material (1-1)
- Simon also defused a dangerous-looking attack from Joseph, eventually winning material (2-1).
- Oscar’s pieces seemed to be roaming at will around the holes in Jonathan’s queenside and centre, but experience eventually told and Jonathan netted a rook to win (3-1)
- Duncan’s efforts to complicate the game in Giampaolo’s time trouble rebounded (4-1)
- Adam outplayed Federico in quiet but strong Raoofian ways, eventually winning the exchange and promoting a pawn (5-1)
- Rob defused counterplay from Jonathan – on his Hendon debut – and eventually steered the game into a won ending (6-1)
- In a long game, Dominic eventually capitalised on a couple of errors from Dan to finish the match (6-2)
All in all an entertaining match, and we look forward to more of the same next Thursday!
