Jonathan Rubeck wins March Blitz!

By Andrew Medworth, Hendon Club Captain
Saturday 15 March, 2025

Our FIDE Blitz tournament on 6th March was won by Hendon member Jonathan Rubeck with 5½/6. Congratulations to him!

This week in the Middlesex League, our fourth team defeated Ealing 2, while our junior team narrowly lost to Harrow 2.

The results of the March blitz last week were as follows.

Full standings:

  • 1: Jonathan Rubeck (5½/6)
  • 2-3: Mohammad Hossein Mozaffari, Vineet Sood (5/6)
  • 4: Kaichen Sun (4½/6)
  • 5-11: Domenico Napolitano, Joao Artur Almeida Santos, Orest Stus, Francesco Sciaudone, Seho Lee, Arjun Pyda, Gregory Mostyn (4/6)
  • 12-14: Luca Thorogood, David Amior, Toby Pleming (3½/6)
  • 15-24: Aymen Noui, ACM Gautam Sriram, Rineesh Bansal, Rohan Theo Barbier-Ramaiah, AFM Bartolomeo Fortunato, David Ben-Nathan, Sammy Garcia, Armaan Nilim, Garon Chesler, Siddarth Ramaraju (3/6)
  • 25-26: Lion Lebedev, Jose Millan Soto (2½/6)
  • 27-33: Kayal Vijay, Oscar Worrall, Lorenzo Gabrielli, Gul Kapur, Louis Kirsch, Aviraj Bhaduri, Ronak Bansal (2/6)
  • 34-37: Paul Braithwaite, Andrew M Shoulders, Abe Abraham, Garry Wimble (1/6)

Full results available here.

In the Middlesex League this week, Hendon 4 did superbly to overcome Ealing 2, especially on the bottom three boards where we were out-rated by at least 120 points on each, but still scored 2½/3!

Hendon 4 Hendon 4 Ealing 2 Ealing 2
1
Rogal, Christopher
1707 0 - 1
Lushpa, Alex
1695
2
Sriram, Gautam
1679 1 - 0
Braine, Anthony
1680
3
Kollias, Vasileios
1674 1 - 0
Pringle, Leslie
1590
4
Jacobs, Stanley
1408 1 - 0
Loat, Martin L
1571
5
Lewis, David
1394 ½ - ½
Lester, Daniel
1519
6
Bansal, Ronak
1080 1 - 0
Akinmolayan, Ore
1250
4½ - 1½

Hendon Barnet Knights had an even more uphill task against visitors from Harrow, out-rated on all boards by an average of 250 points! While the team did narrowly lose the match, juniors Julian and Aviraj both scored excellent wins, and Djad also drew.

Hendon Barnet Knights Juniors Hendon Barnet Knights Juniors Harrow 2 Harrow 2
1
Hill, Callum
1686 0 - 1
Padarthy, Joshua
1845
2
Kapur, Gul
1458 0 - 1
Schnatterbeck, Peter
1762
3
Ben-Eshak, Djad
1430 ½ - ½
Deans, Mary Helen
1630
4
Samuels, Benjamin
1348 0 - 1
Dhemrait, Surjit S
1596
5
Bhaduri, Aviraj
1286 1 - 0
Dhemrait, Manav
1681
6
Morin, Julian
1193 1 - 0
McKenna, Phil
1389
2½ - 3½

Thanks very much to everyone who played in and organised these events!