Bank holidays often provide fairly quiet evenings for those chess clubs that meet on Mondays. Last night’s turnout of six was par for the course and with nothing arranged, it seemed a good idea to look through a few games from the recently-completed Moscow Candidates tournament. We were fortunate in being able to analyse the decisive final game between Sergey Karjakin and Fabiano Caruana (see report below) two days before it appeared in the papers. David then suggested that we could play a mini-tournament between the six of us with all playing all and ten minutes each on the clock. Reg, Richard and the two Michaels were given a two-point handicap bonus because of their grades and this made it a close contest that was only decided with the last match between the Michaels. Michael Doyle was a worthy winner not just because he achieved the highest score but also because he beat David fair and square in their contest. It was an enjoyable evening and possibly something we might repeat on bank holidays in the future when few games are arranged.
| RB | MD | DF | MJ | BP | RP | H’cap | Points | |
| Richard Bowles | x | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Michael Doyle | 1 | x | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| David Faldon | 1 | 0 | x | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Michael Jenkinson | 1 | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Bob Page | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | x | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Reg Pidduck | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | 2 | 3 |