A disappointing result for our C team against Ealing Juniors B.

Huw’s report will follow shortly, but I understand several games were lost through careless mistakes.

Ealing Juniors had a very strong top board, but the other players were all beatable.

	Richmond C		Ealing Juniors B
1	Conor Murray-Playfair –	0:1	Luca Buanne 163
2	Marcel Holowienko –	0:1	Nandinee Thatte 111
3	Andreas Maroulis –	0:1	Kamran Harandi 108
4	Colin Dailley 111	0:1	Saeed Harandi –
5	Ron Bilkhu –	0:1	Nilesh Thatte 92
6	Huw Williams 96	½:½	Andrew Glass 57
		½:5½

My go-to man for chess instruction at this level is US coach Dan Heisman (Twitter): perhaps it’s no coincidence that we were born in the same year. He goes on and on, over and over again, that the most important word in chess is ‘safety’: making sure your move isn’t an oversight. Just the same as I do.

Congratulations to all our friends from Ealing Juniors. We look forward to seeing you again when we come out on the other side.