Saturday 14 May 2016

Autumn Cup - Anthony beats Scott, 1 round to go

Apologies for the late publishing this week. There is one week left of the official games, with a catch up week to follow. Some of the lower groups are in a terrible state, there are so many results missing. It beats me why people sign up for these tournaments if they are not going to turn up for the games, but there you go.

In the A grade, Anthony beat Scott to maintain his 100% record. Nic beat Russell, and is 1 point behind Anthony with 1 day to go. Anthony has to play Layla, while Nic gets Scott in the last round.

I don't know how the Wastney-Ker game went, sorry, both these players are rather coy about sharing their games.

Brian Nijman took the lead in the B grade with a win against Bill Forster. I had another terrible experience, and, bizarrely, in both the last 2 weeks, Bill Forster had to tell me after the game how I could have drawn the rook and pawn ending.

Ross is leading the C grade with his closest rival Yogesh stumbling in his game against Philip Rossiter, and in the D grade, Bob List is looking good with 3 wins out of 3.


Timergazi 1-0 Thomas
Wastney 0-1 Ker
Dive 0-1 Croad

Nijman 1-0 Forster
Pomeroy 1-0 Sellen

Jackson 1-0 Barraza
Rossiter 1-0 Kulkarni

Farrington 1/2-1/2 Stracy
Brockway 1-0 Cunningham
List 1-0 Forlong-Ford

Dixon 1-0 Wight
Baker 1-0 Theodosiou

Tagos 0-1 Winter

Zhao A 0-1 Sknar
Kibblewhite 1-0 Zhao J


Autumn Cup 2016 A Grade 

Cross Table

No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
1 Ker, Anthony 2415 4 * 1 1 1 1
2 Croad, Nic 2412 3 0 * 1 1 1
3 Dive, Russell 2452 2 0 0 * 1 1
4 Timergazi, Layla 2152 2 0 0 * 1 1
5 Wastney, Scott 2448 1 0 0 0 * 1
6 Thomas, Ben 2203 0 0 0 0 0 *

Autumn Cup 2016 B Grade

Cross Table

No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
1 Nijman, Brian 2141 3 *   1 1 1  
2 Nyberg, Michael 2068 2.5   * 1 1 ½  
3 Forster, Bill 2075 2 0 0 *   1 1
4 Pomeroy, Arthur 2133 1.5 0 0   * 1 ½
5 Sellen, Ian 2116 .5 0 ½ 0 0 *  
6 Stone, Andrew 2063 .5     0 ½   *


Autumn Cup 2016 C Grade

Cross Table

No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
1 Jackson, Ross 2027 3.5 * ½   1 1 1
2 Rossiter, Philip 1814 2.5 ½ * 1 ½ ½  
3 Kulkarni, Yogesh 1854 2   0 * 1   1
4 Barraza-Perez, Jesse 1925 1.5 0 ½ 0 *   1
5 Aldridge, Alan 1992 .5 0 ½     *  
6 Stoeveken, Peter 1932 0 0   0 0   *

Autumn Cup 2016 D Grade

Cross Table

No Name Rtg Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
1 List, Bob   1661 3 * 1 1   1  
2 Forlong-Ford, Colwyn   1731 2.5 0 *   1 ½ 1
3 Farrington, Lawrence   1810 2.5 0   * ½ 1 1
4 Stracy, Don   1742 1.5   0 ½ *   1
5 Brockway, Andrew   1777 1.5 0 ½ 0   * 1
6 Cunningham, Patrick   1744 0   0 0 0 0 *


Autumn Cup 2016 E Grade

Cross Table

No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7
1 Wight, Joshua 1534 2 * 0 1     1  
2 Dixon, Hamish 1544 2 1 *         1
3 Baker, Jack 1588 2 0   *   0 1 1
4 Day, Fabian 1564 2       * 1   1
5 Anderson, Gordon 1663 1     1 0 *    
6 Landrain, Marc 1528 1 0   0     * 1
7 Theodosiou, Andreas 1489 0   0 0 0   0 *


Autumn Cup 2016 F Grade

Cross Table

No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
1 Meravanage, Satwik 1395 2 * 0 1   1  
2 Konakanchi, Karthik 1399 1 1 *        
3 Wevers, Alexis   1 0   *   1  
4 Asplet, Mike 1472 1       *   1
5 Proctor, Matthew 1458 1 0   0   * 1
6 Asher, Bruce 1419 0       0 0 *

Autumn Cup 2016 G Grade

Cross Table

No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
1 Winter, Ryan   4 *   1 1 1 1
2 Bennett, Sarah 1299 3   * 1   1 1
3 Tagos, Bernardo   1.5 0 0 * ½   1
4 Austin, Tama   .5 0   ½ *    
5 Konakanchi, Pramodh 1275 0 0 0     *  
6 Hewson, Paul   0 0 0 0     *


Autumn Cup 2016 H Grade

Cross Table

No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6
1 Sknar, Andriy 1152 1.5 * ½       1
2 Kibblewhite, Daniel   1.5 ½ *   1    
3 Collings, Alex 1040 1     *   1  
4 Zhao, Jeffrey   0   0   *    
5 Ross, Awatea   0     0   *  
6 Zhao, Aiden 1231 0 0         *

2 comments:

  1. Actually I don't recall telling you how to draw your previous rook and pawn ending (versus Brian) - but for the record - a good rule to remember is that in R+P v R if your king is securely in front of the pawn it's a draw. The normal method is Philidor's third rank defence but in the special case of a g pawn it's even easier than that. Set up your king and rook as if you've just castled kingside - so king on g1, rook on f1 and you are golden. This is because there is no room for the opponents rook to approach from the other side. The b pawn is a mirror image (obviously), put your king on b1 and rook on c1.

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  2. It must have been someone else then. In any case, I had a definite sense of deja vu!

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