Club Championship 2017 Begins

And so time for the main event of the year. This year there are 3 round robin groups of 10, and a Swiss group with 20 players. The A grade is slightly down in strength from last year, with Arthur Pomeroy too busy at work, and Scott Wastney absent too. Last year's runaway B grade champion, Andrew Stone is also not participating.

Still, 50 participants is pretty decent, let's hope we don't have people dropping out halfway through this time.
It'll be interesting to see how the fast-improving young players go. In the C grade I'll be particularly watching Wellington College team mates Michael Sole and Ryan Winter, and in the D grade we have the He brothers, Karthik Konakanchi, Samuel Darr, Hamish Leask, and many others!

Round 1 took place on Thursday, and although there were no huge upsets, we did see Alan Aldridge losing against returning player Brett Mullan, and in the C grade young Ryan Winter defeating Fabian Day.

The first game to finish was also in the C grade, between Hamish Dixon and Colwyn Forlong-Ford, Hamish winning this encounter in just 7 moves.

I'll go through the games and maybe post a couple later in the week

A Grade

No Name            Loc   Result   Name             Loc 

 1 Nyberg, Michael 2101    0:1    Dive, Russell    2434
 2 Sellen, Ian     2056    0:1    Perry, Roger     2124
 3 Nijman, Brian   2146     :     Croad, Nic       2393
 4 Forster, Bill   2093    0:1    Timergazi, Layla 2158
 5 Ker, Anthony    2489    1:0    Jackson, Ross    2020

B Grade

No Name                 Loc   Result   Name             Loc 

 1 Aldridge, Alan       1936    0:1    Mullan, Brett    1800
 2 Rossiter, Philip     1978    1:0    Stoeveken, Peter 1849
 3 Farrington, Lawrence 1838    ½:½    Brockway, Andrew 1899
 4 Benitez, Edgar       1809    1:0    Barraza, Jesse   1890
 5 Coghini, Phillip     1888     :     Chen, Wei Kai    1813

C Grade

No Name            Loc   Result   Name                 Loc 

 1 Rabina, Romeo   1767     :     Wight, Joshua        1609
 2 Day, Fabian     1784    0:1    Winter, Ryan         1711
 3 Dixon, Hamish   1697    1:0    Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1738
 4 Thorpe, Richard 1632    1:0    Stracy, Don          1737
 5 Sole, Michael   1727    1:0    Wevers, Alexis       1654

D Grade

No Name               Loc   Result   Name                    Loc 

 1 Karthik Konakanchi 1504    1:0    Aiden Zhao              1279
 2 Bruce Asher        1258    0:1    Andreas Theodosiou      1493
 3 Bernardo Tagos     1483    1:0    Josiah Jacobsen-Grocott 1238
 4 Paul He            1142    ½:½    Samuel Darr             1444
 5 Caleb He           1413    1:0    Pramodh Konakanchi      1106
 6 Prashant Nagrecha  899     0:1    Daniel Kibblewhite      1400
 7 Bobby Stannard     1369    0:1    Aurian De Briey             
 8 Joshua Langford            1:0    BYE                         
 9 Hamish Leask       1570    ½:½    BYE                         
10 Ric Benitez        1566    ½:½    BYE                         
11 Matthew Proctor    1478    ½:½    BYE                         
12 Sarah Bennett      1427    ½:½    BYE                         
13 Nathan Hall        1278    ½:½    BYE