Seven lead after Championship round two

By Andrew Medworth, Club Secretary
Friday 19 June, 2026

Round 2 of the Hendon Club Championship took place yesterday. There are now seven players in the joint lead, including rating favourite Gautam Jain and reigning champion David Amior.

Many thanks to arbiter Lance Lealie-Smith for running this round! We look forward to seeing everyone for round 3 next week.

Games

WhiteBlack
1Epstein-Lightman, Yishai17480 — 1Jain, Gautam2159
2Amior, David19861 — 0Itzcovich, Giulio1801
3Nilim, Armaan19231 — 0Ben-Nathan, David1761
4Macneil, Elliott20441 — 0Booker, Jack1753
5Vorozhtsov, Ilya Art16971 — 0Rubeck, Jonathan1928
6Napolitano, Domenico18671 — 0Gordon, Marcus1407
7O'Gorman, Brendan1697½ — ½Alster, Robert1840
8Piccininno, Alessandro15390 — 1Atulugamage, Saniru Lohan1951
9Hill, Callum17370 — 1De Boer, Sanne0
10Rogal, Chris16811 — 0Jacobs, Stanley1457
11Paulins, Michael18441 — 0Mahtani, Arun1358
12Smith, Peter00 — 1Kovalenko, Andrey1791
13Barbier-Ramaiah, Rohan Theo17201 — 0De Boer, Lara1415
14Ramchandani, Kunal15890 — 1Funk, Alexander1831
15Wolfin, Edward14641 — 0Green, Alfie1525
16Thompson, David Nigel13940 — 1Ben-Eshak, Djad1703
17Pride, Stephen C15990 — 1Goulbourne, Nick1357
18Abraham, Abe12000 — 1Garcia, Tom1641
19Pepe, Salvatore16611 — 0Upreti, Arjun1430

Byes

  • Full-point: Schneider, Poppy
  • Half-point: Hazell, Peter; Bohnacker, Andreas; Aziz, Daniel; Bhaduri, Aviraj; Medworth, Andrew; Murphy, Nick; Kollias, Vasileios; Kapur, Gul; Bansal, Rineesh; Shiran, Yoni; Hulstrom, Tony; Bansal, Ronak
  • Zero-point: So, Ingmar; Lixi, Henri; Moura, Arya

Standings

  • 1-7: David Amior, Armaan Nilim, Elliott Macneil, Gautam Jain, Domenico Napolitano, Ilya Art Vorozhtsov, Saniru Lohan Atulugamage (2)
  • 8-14: Robert Alster, Brendan O'Gorman, Sanne De Boer, Chris Rogal, AIM Michael Paulins, AFM Andrey Kovalenko, AFM Aviraj Bhaduri (1½)
  • 15-37: Alessandro Piccininno, Yishai Epstein-Lightman, Giulio Itzcovich, Edward Wolfin, David Ben-Nathan, Nick Goulbourne, Jonathan Rubeck, Djad Ben-Eshak, Salvatore Pepe, AFM Alexander Funk, Marcus Gordon, Tom Garcia, Peter Hazell, Andreas Bohnacker, Daniel Aziz, Andrew Medworth, Jack Booker, Nick Murphy, Rohan Theo Barbier-Ramaiah, Gul Kapur, Tony Hulstrom, Ronak Bansal, Poppy Schneider (1)
  • 38-45: Lara De Boer, Vasileios Kollias, ACM Callum Hill, Rineesh Bansal, Yoni Shiran, Stanley Jacobs, Arun Mahtani, Peter Smith (½)
  • 46-54: Kunal Ramchandani, Alfie Green, David Nigel Thompson, Stephen C Pride, Abe Abraham, Arjun Upreti, Ingmar So, Henri Lixi, Arya Moura (0)