Bd.	Ealing B	Gd.		Harrow Jun B	Gd.
1	Xavier Cowan	1879	1-0	Siena Gurjar	1473
2	Simon Healeas	1812	1-0	Niranjan Ramesh	1276
3	Anthony Braine	1680	1-0	Ashly K Anderson	1003
4	Alastair Johnstone	1592	1-0	Kiiaan Agrawal	915
5	Clive Lawrence	1583	½-½	Arin Kulkarni	665
			4½-½

Ealing B coasted to a comfortable win against an outgunned Harrow Juniors B team in this encounter.

My own game was first to finish with my young opponent’s attack-at-all-costs approach proving not to be a recipe for success. The game was to all intents over after around 15 moves but resignation didn’t arise until mate was delivered on the 37th.

Tony also made short shrift of his opponent when he greedily grabbed an extremely toxic pawn which cost him his queen a discovered attack with check was delivered the following move.

Simon ground down his adversary gradually building his advantage before converting the win.

It was not so simple on bottom board however where Clive faced some resolute resistance before the game ended in stalemate with his king defying the further advance of Black’s h-pawn in a well-known theoretical position.

Last to finish was Xavier. Playing in his usual patient positional style he slowly ratcheted up the pressures on White’s position before exchanging down to a R+P endgame in which his two pawn advantage proved decisive.

So Ealing B prevailed on the night but I suspect some of the Harrow players will prove to be a lot tougher assignments in a few years time.