This match was played on 25th of March at Ealing Chess Club. We lost to Richmond C with the score 2-4. Looking at the rating gaps between the opponents there isn’t too big a difference on most boards. So I think there is opportunity for more than 1 or 2 wins for us.

Board	Ealing C	Rating	Score	Richmond C	Rating
1 (B)	Matthew Georgiou	1752	0-1	Jack Thompson	1857
2 (W)	Tony Braine	1632	0.5-0.5	Tom Lloyd	1762
3 (B)	Alastair Johnstone	1581	1-0	David Heaton	1564
4 (W)	Trevor Bates	1533	0.5-0.5	Peter Kasprowicz	1550
5 (B)	Jagat Singh	1457	0-1	George Milligan	1546
6 (W)	Subas Subbaraj	1529	0-1	Harry Mithun	1298

We had creditable performances from some members. Well done to Alastair on his win. Well played Tony and Trevor on their drawn games. We know Richmond C will have a strong player on Board 1 and unfortunately Matthew took the short straw to play him. Young Jagat did well to get to the end game but could not stop an eventual pawn promotion. Subas playing white was clearly winning at multiple points in the game against a much lower rated opponent.  But greed got the better of him when he took a poisoned pawn around the middle game and the game for him went downhill from there.