Kingston B v Maidenhead A, Thames Valley League division 1 match played at the Richard Mayo Centre, United Reformed Church, Kingston on 24 November 2025
The fixture schedule has given Kingston B a tough introduction to their first season with the big boys of the Thames Valley League first division. Having played Kingston A “home” and “away” in the first two matches, we next faced the league leaders, Maidenhead A. Admittedly, Maidenhead away do not seem to be the same daunting challenge as they are at home; they were missing some of their strongest players, most notably GM Matthew Wadsworth. Nevertheless, we expected a close match.
In fact, the only board on which we were outrated was the top one, as Bohdan Terler has a very impressive 2235 ECF grade. However, this was actually the first game to finish, with a convincing win for Peter Hasson (pictured above). After opening with the curiously named Slow Variation of the Sicilian Defence (2. Be2), White surprisingly allowed a knight fork which won the exchange. He didn’t get any real compensation for this and Peter efficiently pressed home his advantage.
On board 4 Alan Scrimgour, with White, and John Snead were contesting a c3 Sicilian Defence. Alan commented that “The game was mostly level, even slightly better for him early on,” but he felt that he later missed a couple of chances before the position resolved itself into one where it was hard for either player to make much progress.
This was definitely a night for the Sicilian Defence in all its varieties. Jasper Tambini chose to employ the Grand Prix Attack against Charles Bullock on board 2. He noted: “I think it’s interesting to show how the Grand Prix Attack, thought to be such an aggressive opening, can turn into positional play as well.” In the position below the game looks like a war of attrition, but it was at this point that Jasper gained a decisive advantage.
As the evening went on, all the games turned in Kingston’s favour. I had gained the bishop pair early on with Black against Nigel Smith on board 3 , but was only able to capitalise on this when the queens came off and, in a battle between passed pawns, my own, backed by the two bishops, proved the more dangerous.
Meanwhile, on board 6 Kingston newcomer Martyn Jones had achieved the sort of position a Vienna Gambit player dreams of:
So the score was 4.5-0.5 to Kingston B with only the board 5 game to finish. Here Homayoon Froogh, with Black against Nigel Dennis, had been the exchange down for some time, and his prospects looked bleak. Remarkably, as time trouble approached, he turned the tables, and his bishop and three pawns overcame his opponent’s rook and one pawn. This was the position in which White slipped up.
This was a fitting conclusion to a very dominant performance by Kingston B. The result gives us our first Thames Valley League division 1 points, and also, by taking points off Maidenhead, is helpful to the Kingston A team in their quest to win the league for the fourth successive year.
David Rowson is Kingston B captain in Thames Valley League division 1
Surbiton 1 v Kingston 2, Surrey League division 2 match played at Fircroft, Surbiton 19 November 2025
For this match I deputised as captain for Peter Andrews, who was busy moving house, though he did manage to come to the venue later to support his team. The thread of his WhatsApp commentary expressed well the twists and turns of the match, in which for a long time the final decisive result appeared improbable. Surbiton had a rating edge on five of the boards, and on the other two the ratings were close to parity.
The first game to finish was on board 3, where Alan Scrimgour (who had Black) and Joshua Pirgon agreed a draw, despite the fact that, as Alan Scrimgour said later, he was possibly slightly worse in the final position. After that the difficulties of my own game required all my concentration, so I wasn’t aware of the order of events.
I did, however, register that Stephen Moss was conducting a devastating kingside attack with Black against Graham Alcock on board 7. One thing that was original about this was that Stephen had opened with the Caro-Kann Defence and then castled queenside – commendably ambitious play. A key early moment came in this position.
In the board 1 game, Mark Josse began with the English Opening against Kingston’s Jasper Tambini (pictured above, right), and the two players castled on opposite sides. The presence of all four bishops on open diagonals made for a double-edged position.
The board 4 game between Stephen Lovell and Liam Bayly had also begun as an English Opening. White was able to put pressure on Black’s queenside pawns.
On board 5, Homayoon Froogh had Black against Neil Davies. It was an intense struggle, but after a long period of manoeuvring Homayoon got on top in a time scramble to record another good win. Meanwhile Jon Eckert, with White on board 6, was pressing Nick Faulks hard with a kingside attack. He showed principle in refusing to take a draw by perpetual check, but unfortunately a subsequent error resulted in him losing.
On board 2, having misplayed the middlegame and lost a pawn with White against David Scott, I tried to find tactical resources to avoid going straight into a lost endgame. In this position I was eventually successful.
So Kingston 2 defied the ratings to achieve a clear victory in a very well-contested match. We look forward to the return match against Surbiton 1 at home tomorrow.
David Rowson is Kingston second-team captain in the Thames Valley League and was acting captain in this Surrey League match
Guildford 1 v Kingston 1, Surrey League division 1 match played at the Guildford Institute on 17 November 2025
In Surrey League chess, as in most professional sport, the home side enjoys an advantage. In our case that is not because of crowd support or pressure on referees, but because it is easier to turn out the strongest possible team when there are no travel issues and when the match is on the night of one’s choosing. So away at Guildford – on paper our strongest rivals for the Division 1 title – was always likely to be a difficult and crucial match. And so it seemed when the teamsheets were exchanged, with Kingston having the rating advantage on boards 1-3, but Guildford having the edge on 4 to 8. For once I won the toss, giving Messrs Maycock and Lalić, at least, their preferred colours.
John Hawksworth was first to finish, with a solid draw against fellow IM Nigel Povah in which both players declined to push for more. But I let the side down in an error-strewn game against Clive Frostick. A brain fade in which I thought I might win two pieces for a rook with a zwischenzug but missed the most obvious reply left me with a compromised pawn structure. Trying to create chances, I sacrificed a pawn and succeeded in inducing Clive to blunder a piece. But he had some initiative for it, and in trying to unravel actively rather than acquiesce in a draw I carelessly allowed a mate which could only be avoided by giving up the queen.
David Maycock soon scored the equaliser on board 1 with White against Gwilym Price. Black had gradually got on top in this game, but David hit back resourcefully.
The remaining games were all heading for endgames and time trouble, with not much certainty about the outcomes (and given that the players mostly stopped recording under the five-minute rule, not much clarity about what actually happened).
On board 5, Peter Hasson won an ending against Mark Josse in which he was a piece up but Mark had two advanced passed pawns which had bypassed Peter’s king as it stormed up the board. Peter managed to combine his rook, knight, king and advanced d-pawn to produce mating threats to advance the pawn, sufficient to win before Mark queened his infantry.
On board 6, Jasper Tambini’s game with Matthew Dishman was level for a long time, but his attempt to attack by pushing kingside pawns left his own king decisively vulnerable in the major piece ending.
The board 3 game between IM Peter Large and Guildford FM Jon Ady was baffling to the occasional viewer. At one stage, Peter seemed to be on the back foot against a sacrificial attack, threatened both down open kingside files and potentially on the back row. But he devised a clever major piece defence along the third rank which addressed all the threats, and the next time I looked he was a rook up and the attack had burned out, so Kingston had taken the lead again.
On board 2, Peter Lalić had Black against the fast-rising junior Adam Sefton, who had recently defeated Peter’s mother when Guildford visited Epsom. So the win was not only crucial in the match but important in terms psychologists understand. Yet again, Peter’s endgame technique depriving the opponent of useful moves was decisive.
The last game to finish was John Foley’s with Black on board 8 against Adrian Wallace (pictured above). John’s cause looked hopeless when he went into an ending of rook and bishop v rook and knight three pawns down. He had some activity, and regained one of the pawns, but a rook ending two pawns down is still generally lost. However, one of the pawns was a rook’s pawn, which gives the weaker side some hope, as did the clock situation, with John’s opponent often down to a few seconds before moving. As John’s king was forced out from in front of the other pawn, the position below crystallised.
White was in his own words “unable to work it out given the time” and conceded the draw. Some of us were sceptical, but it seems that the position really is a draw.
• If white moves his king up the board to support queening, the black king stops him escaping to the opposite side of the pawn from the black rook, so he can’t use the pawn to block checks. • If he hangs close to the pawn, eg 1. Ke6 Rh6+ 2. Ke7 Re7+, Black can keep checking. • If he moves to the right towards the rook, then if the king gets to f7, Rh7+ forces it back to e8 or e6 else the pawn is lost, so he can’t get to the g-file to stop the checks. • And if he goes to f6 intending Kg7, then after 1. Kf6 Rh6+ 2. Kg7 Rd6 wins the pawn. • If the white king goes backwards hoping to use his rook to stop the checks, then while he stays on the c-file (or further to the right) Black can keep checking, and as soon as he goes to the b-file Black will be able to move his R to the d-file behind the pawn, winning it, eg at some stage the black rook checks the white king on the fourth rank, 1. Kc3 Rh3+, 2 Kb4 Rd3. • And once the d-pawn is lost, the ending with the black king in front of the a-pawn is dead drawn, whether or not the rooks stay on the board or are exchanged.
Thankfully that drama was only gilt on the gingerbread with the match win already secured, but it was another illustration of the importance of endgames, and the different sort of visualisation which may be needed there.
Peter Andrews captains Kingston’s first and second teams in the Surrey League
Peter Large won the 16th blitz held at the All Saints church in Kingston on 26 November 2025 with 5.5/6
The phrase “irresistible and smooth” refers not only to the style of play of IM Peter Large in winning All Saints Blitz XVI but also to the first prize of a box of Lindor salted caramel chocolates. Peter has now won seven of the 16 All Saints blitzes, just enough to open a confectionery kiosk in the market square for Christmas. He dropped half a point in the penultimate round to Graham Keane, the second-highest rated player after Peter.
The 16th edition of the All Saints Blitz was held in the heritage room of the church, which is a quiet and comfortable space to the side of the church with wooden flooring, panelled cupboards and a vaulted ceiling. It was also warm, which was welcome on a day starting at -2°C.
There were 12 participants in the blitz, including former winners Peter Large, Robin Haldane and Marcus Gosling. The time control was the usual three minutes per game plus seven seconds per move. We treated ourselves to six rounds, which meant each game followed immediately after the other without intervening chit-chat.
Many games swung between comedy and tragedy. Several games were lost on time in a winning position. Tactics were missed given the short time control. In round 1 (photo above), Graham Keane as White had three connected pawns, a sheltered king and a queen against Alan Hayward’s queen and isolated pawn, with the king exposed in the middle of the board. Nevertheless, Graham somehow managed to lose when Black’s king went on the attack.
It was excruciating to watch some endings. On the optimistic side, players can improve simply by studying basic concepts such as the “opposition” in king and pawn endgames. A study of rook endgames is required to disprove the doleful but pragmatic perception of JJ Walsh that “Rook endings a pawn up are generally drawn – but rook endings a pawn down are usually lost.”
Graham won his next three games and faced Peter Large in round 5. The two top-rated players agreed a quick draw after a level opening – the only draw of the entire event.
Round 5: Graham Keane v Peter Large and behind Robin Haldane v Marcus Gosling
All Peter had to do in the final round was avoid defeat against Alan Hayward, who can be a dangerous player. Alan managed to whip up a threatening attack but ran out of time trying to prosecute it. So Peter ended up with 5.5, a clear point ahead of the field. Peter said afterwards that he keeps coming because he enjoys the relaxed atmosphere of the All Saints Blitz.
The winner Peter Large (right) receiving his box of irresistible and smooth chocolates from John Foley
We took a midway break to officially present a cheque for £250 as the club’s donation to the Saxon Kings Embroidery Project. As president of the Kingston club, I handed over the cheque to the Revd Joe Moffatt, vicar of All Saints, thanking the church for hosting the chess and expressing our particular interest in the tapestry of Æthelred the Unready as the unofficial club patron saint. In turn, the vicar said that they were very happy that we used the space as part of the community and brought custom to the café. He noted that we were friendly and flexible.
Revd Joe Moffatt receiving a cheque for £250 from John Foley, President of Kingston Chess Club, for the tapestry project (behind)
Final standings
5½ IM Peter Large (Kingston) 4½ Graham Keane (Crystal Palace) 4 Robin Haldane (Streatham), James Pooler (Epsom) 3 Alan Hayward (Pimlico), Marcus Gosling (Epsom), Peter Roche (Kingston), Dominic Fogg (Kingston)
Kingston C v Richmond E, Thames Valley League division X match played at the Richard Mayo Centre, United Reformed Church, Kingston on 17 November 2025
This match was in the balance right until the end when Nette Robinson, with Black against Michael Larby on board 3, blundered in a winning position, making Richmond the winners by 2.5-1-5. Rob Taylor lost to the accomplished Abhay Patil on board 1, but there were positives for Kingston on the other two boards: a fine victory for Anqi Yang against Aditya Patil on board 3 and an encouraging draw for Robert Chmiest against Richmond captain Karl Stand on board 4. Thanks as ever to captain Jon Eckert for putting the Kingston team together and overseeing proceedings.
Epsom 5 v Kingston 3, Surrey League division 4 match played at Epsom Christian Fellowship on 17 November 2025
This match was played in freezing conditions at Epsom’s church venue. Note to Epsom – that is really not fair to players and you will need to address these concerns as the winter progresses. But the Kingston players managed to rise above the temperature and put in a strong performance, marshalled as ever by the indefatigable Ed Mospan, winning 4-2.
Kingston newcomer Xavier Cowan won an important victory with Black on board 1 against Epsom veteran Michael Wickham, and Adam Nakar shared the point on board 2 with the dangerous Sammy Hedges. Promising junior Ethan Bogerd, who also plays for Kingston, got the better of Seth Warren on board 3, but the wins that took Kingston over the line came on boards 4 and 5, where the experienced Ye Kyaw and David Shalom got the better of their opponents. Fred Marthoz, though outrated by more than 250 points, ensured a clear margin of victory with an excellent draw on board 6. A terrific victory, appreciated by Ed and his team once they had thawed out.
The opening two rounds of the new 4NCL season, spread across two weekends in mid-October and early November, saw CSC/Kingston’s three teams make bold starts
As well as falling leaves, autumn sees the start of treks to Midlands hotels to play the opening rounds of the 4NCL season. CSC/Kingston 1 began with matches against Barbican and Cheddleton, played at the Copthorne Hotel in Dudley on 1/2 November. CSC/Kingston’s second and third teams had been in action a fortnight earlier at the same venue, which was being used by the league for the first time. All three teams performed superbly and, as we see below, are well placed after the first two rounds of the 11-round season.
CSC/Kingston 1 came a creditable seventh in division 1 last year and hope to do at least as well this season. There is a great deal of jeopardy in this very tough division – three of the 12 teams get relegated, a 25% churn. This is one too many in the view of this writer – two down would be fairer – but there is no question that it adds drama to the season.
The first team faced Barbican on Saturday. CSC/Kingston had a slight ratings edge but it promised to be very close, and the match seemed likely to set the tone for the rest of the season. The young Polish grandmaster Jakub Kosakowski, runner-up in last year’s Polish national championship, was making his debut for CSC/Kingston, supported by many of the regulars from last year’s successful campaign. Jakub had White against IM Alan Merry and, as the time control approached, the game became a comedy of errors and missed opportunities.
Barbican’s second IM, Sohum Lohia, came straight to Dudley from a very strong tournament in Coventry, where he had shared first prize with GM Vojtech Plat and IM Hao Wang. Clearly he was a player to be feared. But the CSC/Kingston board 2, FM Ulysse Bottazzi, playing Black, was able to neutralise the threat without undue alarms, and a draw was agreed after 36 moves.
CSC/Kingston’s board 3, Supratit Banerjee (pictured above), had White against FM Martin Taylor on board 3, and boldly gambited a pawn in the opening to get an initiative. For a long time the engine favoured Black, but in this position he erred and Supratit gradually got a stranglehold on the game:
David Maycock, with Black against Jonathan Rogers on board 4, had the advantage early on, but Rogers skilfully fought back and had the upper hand when David blundered a rook in time trouble. At that stage the match looked as if it could go either way, and seemed certain to be very close. But it was about to take a decisive turn.
Roland Bezuidenhout played a superb game in a complicated tactical struggle to win with White on board 5 against Stephen Dishman. Black’s key error comes in this position where he allows an exchange which gives White a powerful pawn centre.
An important win for CSC/Kingston and now we could breathe a little easier. But the result which completely changed the complexion of the match was on board 7, where young George Zhao with Black had a much better position against CSC/Kingston’s Peter Lalić when he inexplicably failed to make his 40th move to reach the time control. He thus lost on time, a tragedy for the promising Barbican junior and an unexpected bonus for CSC/KIngston, who were now winning the match with ease.
Liwia Jarocka, with Black, secured an important draw with Peter Sowray on board 6, and Zain Patel battled magnificently with Black against Emma Hng to hold a rook and pawn endgame two pawns down which for a long time he looked destined to lose. That gave CSC/Kingston the match 5.5-2.5 and made the Saturday-evening dinner a very pleasant affair, but it was hard not to feel sympathy for George Zhao, who had played very well to secure a potentially winning advantage against Peter Lalić before his brain fade.
On Sunday, CSC/Kingston 1 faced Cheddleton, with their three GMs and three IMs. We were outrated by an average of 100 points a board. I did not expect us to win the match and thought 5-3 was a likely score. I would happily have settled for 4-4, which one spectator predicted after the match had been under way for a couple of hours. To win it by 6-2 was simply extraordinary, and I couldn’t help reminding people on the Kingston WhatsApp group that the average age of our team was 21. A group of very talented and highly motivated youngsters had walloped some of the cream of British chess.
Jakub Kosakowski was always pressing against David Eggleston on board 1 and duly converted. Cheddleton’s Mark Hebden equalised with a nice attacking game against Liwia Jarocka. Ulysse Bottazzi once again played solidly to draw with GM Simon Williams on board 2, and Supratit Banerjee defended superbly to hold a rook endgame against GM Nick Pert when two pawns down. Supratit’s was the last game to finish, and it is worth studying the endgame and marvelling at the 11-year-old’s mature and resourceful defence.
The other four games were all won: Zain Patel beat Nina Pert with a powerful attack with White on board 8; Peter Lalić performed one of his characteristic escape acts to convert a losing endgame into a winning one with Black on board 7; and on the critical middle boards David Maycock beat Richard Pert with White on board 4 in a rollercoaster game and Roland Bezuidenhout recorded his second victory of the weekend by beating IM Ezra Kirk, who played an ambitious knight sacrifice which proved to be unsound.
David’s game was a dizzying one which left both him and his rival exhausted. He had a winning plus as the 40-move time control approached, but then made a mistake which gave Black a potentially decisive advantage. To have blundered away his second game of the weekend would have been crushing, but he showed remarkable resilience to fight back and turn the game around. This is the position in which David went wrong:
David’s win and Supratit’s draw ensured a convincing 6-2 win for CSC/Kingston, a remarkable result given Cheddleton’s strength and experience.
These two wins left CSC/Kingston 1 sitting proudly on top of division 1 (see table below), jointly with Wood Green, who on paper are the strongest team in the division. We face Wood Green in round 4 on the weekend of 10/11 January, and happily the match will not be played on paper but on eight chess boards.
CSC/Kingston 2 also had a fantastic opening weekend in division 3 (knights) and also ended up on top of the table (see below), half a game point ahead of Sussex Martlets and Ashfield 1. It is very pleasing to see our neighbours Surbiton also going well.
Matches in divisions 3 and 4 comprise six boards, compared with eight in the top two divisions. CSC/Kingston 2 beat Warrington Mates 3.5-2.5 in a tight struggle on Saturday, with wins by the ever reliable Peter Finn on board 1, Ewan Wilson on board 4 and Adrian Wallace on board 6, and a crucial draw by Clive Frostick with Black on board 2.
Sunday’s victory against the self-deprecatingly named Poole Patzers was slightly more emphatic at 4-2, but could still have gone either way. There will be no easy matches in this highly competitive division and winning promotion to division 2 – two teams go up from each 12-team division 3 pool – will be far from simple. The success on Sunday came courtesy of wins by Peter Hasson, Giampiero Amato and Adrian Wallace, who had an excellent weekend with two victories, and top-board draws against two highly rated players by Peter Finn and Clive Frostick.
It was a tremendous team performance across the weekend, with every player contributing. Peter Hasson, who was White on board 4 against Mark Collinson, has kindly supplied a detailed analysis of his fascinating king and pawn endgame.
CSC/Kingston 3 played in Dudley on the same weekend as the second team, 18/19 October, and also had a successful start to the season. We drew 3-3 against Oxford 3 on Saturday, with wins for Mike Cresswell and your correspondent, and then won 5-0 on Sunday against War and Piece B, one of whose players failed to show, leading to the deduction of a point.
These results left us joint seventh in the 29-team division 4, which is played as a Swiss tournament . The current table, showing the leading nine teams, is below.
Four teams are promoted from division 4, but there are some very strong outfits among the leading contenders and it is safe to assume that we will not be one of them. But this was nevertheless a pleasing beginning.
Well done to all three teams on their excellent starts; thanks to all the players who made the Great Trek to Dudley in north-west Birmingham; and thank you as ever to team captain Kate Cooke, who keeps the whole show on the road. We now have 43 CSC/Kingston squad members, and juggling that number of potential players and getting them to the various Midlands hotels we will play in during a long season is a complicated logistical undertaking.
Kingston 4 v Epsom 6, Surrey League division 5 match played at the Richard Mayo Centre, United Reformed Church, Kingston on 10 November 2025
You have to hand it to Epsom – even their sixth (!) team plays a mean match. On paper this looked like a strong Kingston 4 team, playing in the Minor Trophy (effectively the fifth division of the Surrey League). But it wasn’t strong enough for the solid and experienced team Epsom brought to the Richard Mayo Centre, with the visitors prevailing 4-2.
First the positives. New Kingston members Martyn Jones and Alexander Chmelev recorded excellent wins on the top boards. They will no doubt soon be appearing in higher teams. Martyn was a strong junior who has recently returned to chess; Alex is a great enthusiast, a strong player and a qualified arbiter. Both are becoming important presences at the club.
Things did not go quite so well on the lower boards. On board 4, Jaden Mistry lost with Black to Sammy Hedges in a Queen’s Gambit Declined; on board 6, Sam Wilcox was defeated by the capable Robert Fairhall in a Danish Gambit; on board 3, Epsom veteran Michael Wickham had too much nous for promising Kingston youngster Ethan Kim; and on board 5 David Bickerstaff (pictured above, right) lost to Venkatash Subramoniam. Kingston captain Edward Mospan described the latter game as “ping-pong chess”, and said David had good chances before eventually succumbing.
Well done to Ed, who, as well as captaining Kingston in this match, ran a large number of rated friendlies and looked after the social chess while several of his regular co-organisers were playing in an away match at Hounslow. And congratulations to Epsom on running a large number of teams in the Surrey League and making them all so competitive. The sign of a very healthy and dynamic club.
Hounslow v Kingston, Thames Valley Knockout match played at the Royal British Legion, Hounslow on 10 November 2025
Photograph: Jasper Tambini (top right), having won his game, watches the Moss-Fincham finale
This game was the best of the match between Hounslow and Kingston in the Thames Valley Knockout. It answers the question about the difference between a strong player (over 2000 rating) and a regular club player. Jasper deploys an opening – the Grand Prix Attack – which is full of danger for his unsuspecting opponent. Black allows White to drive a stake at f6 into the king’s position, after which the mating attack is inevitable.
Hounslow v Kingston, Thames Valley Knockout match played at the Royal British Legion, Hounslow on 10 November 2025
Photograph: Stephen Moss (right, seated) sets a puzzle for Leon Fincham, while David White (left) and Jasper Tambini (right) look on. David Rowson (centre) is keeping the club updated on WhatsApp
Even though Kingston did not field our strongest side, we still outrated Hounslow by an average of 160 elo per board. Hence the final result of 5-1 was no surprise. As holders of the Thames Valley Knockout Cup, Kingston had a solid launch to the 2025/26 campaign.
The first to finish was David Rowson with a nothing-much-happened draw with Black in the Italian. Next up was Jasper Tambini, who, with White against David J White, executed a classical queen sacrifice against the castled king.
Next to finish was Genc Tasbasi, who exchanged pieces to reach a drawn endgame. I got a neat attack against Vibhush Pusapadi and was well ahead on the clock. My opponent resigned in a hopeless position just before his flag fell. So 3-1 to Kingston with two games remaining. On board 1, Peter Large was squeezing Mateusz Dydak in the endgame such that Mateusz froze with indecision and lost on time, to make it 4-1.
This left Stephen Moss, who had carelessly lost a pawn in the opening – he would argue it was an intuitive gambit – after which he played dynamically and rudely threw away another couple of pawns against Leon Fincham. In the crucial position below, Leon’s queen is under attack and he decided to capture the e3 bishop counter-attacking White’s queen (the counter-intuitive Qb6 is the best move). However, after the rook recaptured, not only was the queen still under attack but so was the bishop on e5, so Black had to lose a piece. The resultant complications ended in yet another frozen-by-indecision flag fall, though Black was lost on the board when his time ran out. That made the score a convincing 5-1.
We look forward to the next round, but discovered that this may not be played until next summer because Richmond and Harrow have busy schedules. Surely a league knockout should be held during the main season. We await developments, with our fixtures secretary on standby.
