This week’s results: a narrow win for Richmond C against Ealing D in Division 3 of the Thames Valley League and a heavy defeat for Richmond A against Kingston A in Division 1.

Monday’s match first:

1. Lewis Crook (1465) 0:1 Jack Thompson (-)
2. David Housego (1348) 0:1 George Milligan (1538)
3. Andrew Glass (1307) 1:0 Mike Robinson-Chui (1442)
4. Ian Patterson (1229) ½:½ Ron Bilkhu (1404)
5. Mark Robinson (-) 0:1 Anurag Venkataramanan (-)
6. Roger Beeson (-) 1:0 Ollie Taylor (-)

Congratulations to Jack, George and Anurag on their wins and thanks to all for playing: great to see our newer members doing so well. Mike reports that Ron generously agreed a draw after his opponent overstepped the time limit!

Here’s what happened on Tuesday.

1. Gavin Wall (2311) 0:1 David Maycock (2336)
2. Mike Healey (2250) 1:0 Peter Lalic (2314)
3. Andrew Hebron (1992) 0:1 Silverio Abasolo (-)
4. Chris Baker (1956) 0:1 Vladimir Li (2099)
5. Maxim Dunn (1909) 0:1 David Rowson (2047)
6. Maks Gajowniczek (1800) 0:1 Peter Andrews (2011)

Kingston were at full strength and, on this form, will be serious rivals to Hammersmith for the league title. We were perhaps a bit unlucky on boards 1 and 5. I’m sure Maks will provide a more detailed report within the next few days.

There are some photographs of the match here and Kingston’s match report is on their website here.