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
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
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!