A lot of results to report. Let’s take them in chronological order.

Please note that the ratings are those taken from the league websites, not the latest ratings.

15 February saw Richmond D go down to a narrow defeat in a home match against Ealing B.

1. Barry Sutton (1600) 0:1 Martin Loat (1615)
2. Richard Sleep (1615) ½:½ Leslie Pringle (1656)
3. Dan Donohoe (1533) ½:½ Tony Braine (1545)
4. George Dokic (1338) ½:½ David English (-)
5. Jim Anandajeyarajah (1195) 0:1 David Websdale (1462)
6. Laurie Catling (1390) 1:0 Default

On Monday our Surrey Centenary Trophy team lost 4½-1½ to a strong Epsom C team.

1. Chris Wright (-) 1:0 Otto Weidner (-)
2. Mike Wickham (1675) 1:0 Paul Evans (1563)
3. Venkatesh Subramoniam (1660) 1:0 David Heaton (-)
4. Alastair Prince (-) ½:½ Levente Lencses (1525)
5. Mervan Ozcan (-) 0:1 Yann Sydow (-)
6. Emma Buckley (-) 1:0 Ron Bilkhu (-)

On the same evening Richmond E scored an excellent win away to Hounslow C.

1. Pavan Kumar Kota (1533) 1:0 Barry Sutton (1600)
2. Shion Fernandes (-) 0:1 Richard Sleep (1615)
3. Michael Blake (-) 0:1 Dan Donohoe (1533)
4. Andrew Cleminson (1293) 0:1 George Dokic (1338)

Last night (Tuesday) an experimental Richmond B team went down to Ealing Juniors B in another close match. It was great to see Mike playing his first ever game of over-the-board competitive chess.

1. Andrew Hebron (2020) 0:1 Xavier Cowan (1900)
2. Raghu Kamath (1885) 1:0 Teymour Harandi (1668)
3. Victor Bluett (-) ½:½ Kamran Harandi (1525)
4. Masoud Molazadeh (1533) 0:1 Elaheh Jafari (-)
5. Mike Robinson-Chui (-) 0:1 Leslie Pringle (1656)
6. Sampson Low (1833) 1:0 Default

Thanks to everyone for playing and congratulations to the winners.