The En Passant Cup team went to Charlton to play their first match of the season.

Lee Brockwell’s opponent lost the exchange and the game (see below) and Howard Wilkins recovered from a difficult position to draw, but Tony Packham did not and Dave Helps overlooked something.

Ian McAllan’s opponent’s king arrived on e4 with most of the pieces still on the board and Ian went on to win, so everything depended on the result of Greg Edward’s game.

Greg had won a pawn and after a tense game queened a pawn with less than two minutes left on his clock. Unfortunately he had forgotten to press his clock after queening. With 40 seconds left he noticed, so Sidcup had won 3.5 - 2.5.

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