Our week started with our TVB team returning to Wimbledon for a tough encounter with their A team.

We were outrated on every board so our defeat wasn’t unexpected, but there were some outstanding individual performances.

A great win for Tom along with excellent draws from Sampson and Bertie gave us two points. Well done to them!

On Tuesday our TVE team welcomed Surbiton D to the Adelaide for a Division X match.

An amazing result, and it’s great to see that our newer members, Alex and Oscar, are being given match play opportunities.

Here’s the league table. We need a win and a draw from our two remaining matches to win the division.

The week concluded with our Ellery Williams Trophy team making the trek to South Norwood, where they went down to a narrow defeat.

Congratulations to David and Peter for great results against much higher rated opposition.

This is a rapidplay league with rating limits: Board 1 not above 1900, others not above 1750. This year we’ve been struggling to field teams which are competitive on rating, but as a result some of our lower rated players have been able to gain valuable experience.