Our experimental team including four new members found the going tough against Wimbledon D, although they missed a few chances for a better result.

	Richmond C		Wimbledon D
1	Masoud Molazadeh 129	0:1	Sean Ingle 138
2	Marcel Holowienko –	0:1	Pawel Slonczuk 133
3	Andreas Maroulis –	0:1	Robbie McCarthy 130
4	Rob Hunter –	0:1	Alex Boitier –
5	Paul Evans –	½:½	Alex Brett 103
6	Omar Anbagi 108	½:½	Omar Selim 68
		1:5

Paul’s game was unfinished at the end, but he appeared to be just about holding it, so a draw was agreed.

In the Battle of the Omars, our Omar had KN v KQ when his opponent’s flag fell. As it’s not possible to construct a checkmate position for the king and knight the game was declared drawn.