Our first match of 2020, against the students of Imperial College, newcomers to the top flight, gave us a much needed point.

The university team had a very strong top board but the grades of their lower boards declined very rapidly thereafter.

Gavin lost on board 1. Mike was unlucky on board 2, losing on time by a second in a position where he had queen against pawn. Lower down there were fewer problems, and we scored a comfortable victory.

	Imperial College		Richmond
1	Li Tian Yeoh 260	1:0	Gavin Wall 224
2	Sourav Bhattacharjee –	1:0	Mike Healey 217
3	Juan Manuel Arteaga 167	0:1	Andreas Wetscherek 193
4	Wasim Ahmed –	0:1	Caspar Bates 200
5	Elliott MacNeil 156	½:½	Martin Benjamin 181
6	Desmond Chan –	0:1	John Burke 175
7	Antonios Georgantas –	0:1	Chris White 180
8	Jonny Vincent –	0:1	John Bass 176
9	Imran Rahman 137	0:1	Mike Smart 170
10	Kene Nwegbu –	½:½	Chris Baker 168
		3:7

Thanks to all who played and congratulations to the winners.

Best wishes to our opponents for the rest of the season.