Hackney chess club blitzed

Check mate for Hackney chess club, writes Ravender Sembhy

HACKNEY CHESS CLUB suffered a crushing 3.5 – 1.5 defeat to Tunbridge Wells on Saturday in the final of the National Club Championship Major. Francis Chin, playing for Hackney, started off poorly by losing the opening game of the tie, and the team never recovered. The Hackney team was blitzed by the golden trio of Scholes, Musson and Bedwell for Tunbridge, who put on an awesome display of chess wizardry to lift the coveted plate.

The defeat is the second in succession for Hackney, who also lost to Wanstead 4.5 – 1.5 in the North Circular Chess League last week, a major setback in their quest for Championship glory. The match saw pawns drop like flies and castles capitulate en masse, as league leaders Wanstead romped home in a one-sided affair.

The defeat leaves Hackney five points adrift of Wanstead and effectively ends their Championship hopes for the season.


North Circular Chess League Division 1

Position Team Pld Pts

1 Wanstead 1 9 11
2 Wood Green 6 9
3 Barking 1 5 8
4 Hackney 6 6
5 Barnet Elizabethans 7 5
6 Waltham Forest 7 0

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