A slightly weakened Richmond B team faced a visit to Surbiton B, the strongest team in Division 2. They had declined promotion to Division 1 this season.

On the lower boards at least, things, not unexpectedly, didn’t go well.

	Surbiton B		Richmond B
1	Jasper Tambini 192	0:1	Bertie Barlow 167
2	David Scott 191	½:½	Sampson Low 155
3	Tony Stewart 179	1:0	Raghu Kamath 157
4	Nick Faulks 169	1:0	Adrian Waldock 146
5	Steve Kearney 164	1:0	Masoud Molazadeh 126
6	Heiko Cassens 159	1:0	Lewis Low 94
7	Liam Bayly 152	1:0	Huw Williams 97
		5½:1½

What great results for Bertie and Sampson, though! Well done!

Surbiton B had previously beaten Staines A 6½:½ and Wimbledon B 6:1 so at least we did better than their previous opponents.

Surbiton’s Steve Kearney tweeted:

“It was a very friendly and sporting match and the final match score belies how close the games were. My opponent played very well and I was pleased to squeeze a win at the end. Hope my opponent and his team Richmond have a very good season.”