Saturday 2 September 2017

Nic Leads Julian Mazur with One Round Remaining

After seven rounds Nic Croad leads the Julian Mazur Memorial with 6.5 out of 7. Anthony Ker is on 6, Russell Dive on 5.5 after taking a half point bye in round seven, and Scott Wastney seems to have dropped out altogether.

Don Stracy has also left, exasperated, because all the people not turning up at short notice has made it impossible to predict who his opponent will be.

Nic was rather fortunate to win against Bill - the latter was up most of the way through the game (up to 6 computer points, as he later lamented to me by email), and even in the final position where Bill lost on time, it was still pretty even, although the tide seemed to be turning.

Some interesting upsets did take place, and a lot of the results were totally against the run of the play. For example, Negracha v Konakanchi P went from easily winning for Black, to easily winning for White, to checkmate for White, all in the space of 14 moves.

Biggest upset must have been Rick Thorpe beating Andrew Stone, despite a ratings gap of nearly 500 points. Andrew's having a bit of a shocker this tournament.

Here is my game against the Captain.





Round 7

No Name                     Loc  Total  Result   Name                 Loc  Total

 1 Croad, Nic               2375 [5.5]    1:0    Forster, Bill        2094 [4.5]
 2 Timergazi, Layla         2174 [4.5]    0:1    Ker, Anthony         2474 [5]  
 3 Perry, Roger             2125 [4]      1:0    Nyberg, Michael      2032 [4]  
 4 Rossiter, Philip         1945 [4]      0:1    Sellen, Ian          2079 [4]  
 5 Aldridge, Alan           1942 [4]      ½:½    Jackson, Ross        2054 [4]  
 6 Chen, Wei Kai            1732 [4]      ½:½    Coghini, Phillip     1888 [3.5]
 7 Thorpe, Richard          1630 [3.5]    1:0    Stone, Andrew        2118 [3.5]
 8 Sole, Michael            1586 [3.5]    1:0    Stoeveken, Peter     1863 [3.5]
 9 Winter, Ryan             1715 [3.5]    1:0    Dixon, Hamish        1698 [3.5]
10 Farrington, Lawrence     1855 [3]      +:-    Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1739 [3.5]
11 Meravanage, Satwik       1524 [3]      0:1    Barraza, Jesse       1871 [3]  
12 Darr, Samuel             1505 [3]      0:1    Benitez, Edgar       1750 [3]  
13 He, Paul                 1051 [3]      0:1    Mullan, Brett        1750 [3]  
14 Hall, Nathan             1063 [3]      0:1    Day, Fabian          1726 [3]  
15 He, Caleb                1416 [3]      0:1    Wight, Joshua        1629 [3]  
16 Bennett, Sarah           1452 [2]      0:1    Leask, Hamish        1300 [2]  
17 Konakanchi, Karthik      1499 [2.5]    1:0    Sknar, Andriy        1266 [2.5]
18 Tagos, Bernardo          1433 [2]      0:1    Wevers, Alexis       1641 [2]  
19 Jacobsen-Grocott, Josiah 1200 [2.5]    0:1    Van der Anker, Juan  1501 [2]  
20 Stannard, Bobby          1481 [2]      -:+    Zhao, Aiden          1305 [2]  
21 Kibblewhite, Daniel      1451 [2]      1:0    Asher, Bruce         1288 [2]  
22 Nagrecha, Prashant       899  [1.5]    1:0    Konakanchi, Pramodh  1129 [1.5]
23 Proctor, Matthew         1464 [1]      0:1    De Briey, Aurian     1300 [1]  
24 Dive, Russell            2426 [5]      ½:½    BYE                            
25 Del Favero, Marcus       1410 [2]      ½:½    BYE                            
26 Theodosiou, Andreas      1392 [2.5]    ½:½    BYE                            
27 Langford, Joshua              [1]      ½:½    BYE                            

Cross Table


No Name                     Loc  Total  1    2    3    4    5    6    7  

1  Croad, Nic               2375 6.5    9:1 10:1 17:1  2:½ 24:1  6:1  8:1
2  Ker, Anthony             2474 6     26:1 18:1  4:1  1:½  0:½ 14:1  6:1
3  Dive, Russell            2426 5.5   39:1 16:1  5:1 14:1  6:0 11:1  0:½
4  Perry, Roger             2125 5     37:1 20:1  2:0 16:½  0:½ 15:1 14:1
5  Sellen, Ian              2079 5     52:1 29:1  3:0 34:1 14:0 23:1 17:1
6  Timergazi, Layla         2174 4.5   22:1 21:1  7:½ 25:1  3:1  1:0  2:0
7  Jackson, Ross            2054 4.5   38:1 27:+  6:½ 19:0 10:½ 30:1 13:½
8  Forster, Bill            2094 4.5    0:½ 49:1 11:½ 10:½ 17:1  9:1  1:0
9  Sole, Michael            1586 4.5    1:0 41:1 15:½ 29:1 27:1  8:0 25:1
10 Chen, Wei Kai            1732 4.5   41:1  1:0 46:1  8:½  7:½ 18:1 15:½
11 Winter, Ryan             1715 4.5    0:½ 35:1  8:½ 18:½ 25:1  3:0 26:1
12 Thorpe, Richard          1630 4.5    0:½ 28:1 19:0 39:½  0:½ 34:1 24:1
13 Aldridge, Alan           1942 4.5   43:1  0:½ 14:- 32:1  0:½ 16:1  7:½
14 Nyberg, Michael          2032 4     45:1 30:1 13:+  3:0  5:1  2:0  4:0
15 Coghini, Phillip         1888 4     35:½  0:½  9:½ 47:1 20:1  4:0 10:½
16 Mullan, Brett            1750 4     48:1  3:0 31:1  4:½  0:½ 13:0 33:1
17 Rossiter, Philip         1945 4     31:1 44:1  1:0 48:1  8:0 21:1  5:0
18 Barraza, Jesse           1871 4     36:1  2:0 37:1 11:½ 26:½ 10:0 29:1
19 Wastney, Scott           2391 4      0:½ 46:1 12:1  7:1  0:½  0:0  0: 
20 Day, Fabian              1726 4     33:1  4:0 44:1  0:½ 15:0  0:½ 30:1
21 Benitez, Edgar           1750 4     40:1  6:0 42:1 24:0 45:1 17:0 37:1
22 Wight, Joshua            1629 4      6:0 40:1 24:0 33:1 30:0 45:1 31:1
23 Farrington, Lawrence     1855 4     46:0 31:0 35:1 42:1 48:1  5:0 27:+
24 Stone, Andrew            2118 3.5   32:0 45:1 22:1 21:1  1:0  0:½ 12:0
25 Stoeveken, Peter         1863 3.5    0:½ 47:1 32:1  6:0 11:0 28:1  9:0
26 Dixon, Hamish            1698 3.5    2:0 36:1 30:1  0:½ 18:½  0:½ 11:0
27 Forlong-Ford, Colwyn     1739 3.5   42:1  7:-  0:½ 28:1  9:0 41:1 23:-
28 Konakanchi, Karthik      1499 3.5    0:½ 12:0 52:1 27:0 46:1 25:0 42:1
29 Meravanage, Satwik       1524 3     54:+  5:0  0:½  9:0  0:½ 35:1 18:0
30 Hall, Nathan             1063 3     34:1 14:0 26:0 52:1 22:1  7:0 20:0
31 He, Caleb                1416 3     17:0 23:1 16:0 37:1 34:0 32:1 22:0
32 Van der Anker, Juan      1501 3     24:1  0:½ 25:0 13:0  0:½ 31:0 41:1
33 He, Paul                 1051 3     20:0  0:1 34:0 22:0 51:1 47:1 16:0
34 Stracy, Don              1731 3     30:0 43:1 33:1  5:0 31:1 12:0  0: 
35 Theodosiou, Andreas      1392 3     15:½ 11:0 23:0 49:1 44:1 29:0  0:½
36 Zhao, Aiden              1305 3     18:0 26:0 39:0  0:½  0:½ 44:1 49:+
37 Darr, Samuel             1505 3      4:0 51:1 18:0 31:0 52:1 38:1 21:0
38 Kibblewhite, Daniel      1451 3      7:0 42:0  0:½ 51:1  0:½ 37:0 48:1
39 Wevers, Alexis           1641 3      3:0 48:0 36:1 12:½ 41:0 49:½ 45:1
40 Leask, Hamish            1300 3     21:0 22:0 45:0 43:1  0:0 46:1 47:1
41 Jacobsen-Grocott, Josiah 1200 2.5   10:0  9:0 43:1  0:½ 39:1 27:0 32:0
42 Sknar, Andriy            1266 2.5   27:0 38:1 21:0 23:0  0:½ 48:1 28:0
43 Del Favero, Marcus       1410 2.5   13:0 34:0 41:0 40:0  0:1 50:1  0:½
44 Nagrecha, Prashant       899  2.5    0:1 17:0 20:0  0:½ 35:0 36:0 51:1
45 Tagos, Bernardo          1433 2     14:0 24:0 40:1 46:1 21:0 22:0 39:0
46 De Briey, Aurian         1300 2     23:1 19:0 10:0 45:0 28:0 40:0 52:1
47 Bennett, Sarah           1452 2      0:½ 25:0 51:1 15:0  0:½ 33:0 40:0
48 Asher, Bruce             1288 2     16:0 39:1 49:1 17:0 23:0 42:0 38:0
49 Stannard, Bobby          1481 2      0:½  8:0 48:0 35:0 50:1 39:½ 36:-
50 Langford, Joshua              1.5    0:½  0:½  0:   0:  49:0 43:0  0:½
51 Konakanchi, Pramodh      1129 1.5    0:½ 37:0 47:0 38:0 33:0  0:1 44:0
52 Proctor, Matthew         1464 1      5:0  0:½ 28:0 30:0 37:0  0:½ 46:0
53 Brockway, Andrew         1877 1      0:½  0:½  0:   0:   0:   0:   0: 
54 Nijman, Brian            2153 0     29:-  0:   0:   0:   0:   0:   0: 

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