Tuesday 2 October 2018

Club Champs Round 2 - While the IMs are Away....

While the IM's are away, Nic Croad will play - and quite well, too. He was against Ryan Winter, whom he struggled against in the last tournament. Again, he got quite a difficult position (but not nearly as difficult as last time), Ryan getting quite a useful pawn lodged on d6 cramping Nic's position. Ryan maybe didn't play boldly enough, he could more than once have sacrificed the exchange on c6 to set himself up with a monster passed d pawn, and eventually Nic unleashed an attack on the other side of the board, yielding a decisive material advantage.




Game of the evening was probably Nijman v Timergazi. Officially, Club Championship games are supposed to start at 7:30, but they very seldom do. You are allowed to start your opponent's clock at 7:30 even if they are not there. Brian being one of those players who are habitually late, Bill and I tried to goad Layla into starting Brian's clock on time, which she very sportingly refused to do. Bill pointed out that one of the factors that had helped him defeat Brian the previous week was that he had taken a "no more Mr Nice Guy" stance, starting Brian's clock before he had actually arrived.
Anyway, I suspect that, despite Layla's gentlewomanliness, Brian still suffered from time trouble at the end - having survived a harrowingly complicated middle game, he made some bad errors at the end that decided the game.




After 2 weeks, Nic is the sole leader in the A grade, on 100%.
In the B grade Alan Aldridge leads, despite coming out of the opening against Alan Winfield with disadvantageously doubled pawns. Philip Rossiter scored a useful win over Ross Jackson, and Wei Kai Chen beat Gordon Lyall with a nice tactic at the end.


In the C grade top seed Andrew Brockway was held to a draw by Lawrence Farrington. There are only two players left on 100% here, Nathan Hall and Peter Stoeveken, but there were a lot of absent players in this grade.





A Grade

Forster    ½-½    Sellen
Winter      0-1     Croad
Nijman     0-1     Timergazi
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
1 Croad, Nic 2431 2 *       1       1  
2 Forster, Bill 2011 1.5   *   ½           1
3 Timergazi, Layla 2157 1.5     *   ½         1
4 Sellen, Ian 2041 1   ½   *   ½        
5 Winter, Ryan 2129 .5 0   ½   *          
6 Laking, Robert 2014 .5       ½   *        
7 Dive, Russell 2425 0             *      
8 Ker, Anthony 2485 0               *    
9 Nyberg, Michael 2114 0 0               *  
10 Nijman, Brian 2162 0   0 0             *


B Grade

Aldridge      1-0      Winfield
Mullan         0-1      Day
Rossiter       1-0      Jackson
Chen            1-0      Lyall

No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10
1 Aldridge, Alan 1892 2 *           1   1  
2 Day, Fabian 1899 1.5   * ½   1          
3 Rossiter, Philip 1947 1.5   ½ * 1            
4 Jackson, Ross 1945 1     0 *   1        
5 Mullan, Brett 1923 1   0     *         1
6 Chen, Wei Kai 1895 1       0   *       1
7 Winfield, Alan 1957 .5 0           * ½    
8 Benitez, Edgar 2006 .5             ½ *    
9 Sole, Michael 1899 0 0               *  
10 Lyall, Gordon 1854 0         0 0       *

C Grade

No Name              Loc  Total  Result   Name                  Loc  Total

 1 Andrew Brockway   1867 [1]      ½:½    Lawrence Farrington   1763 [1]  
 2 Edward Tanoi      1800 [1]      0:1    Nathan Hall           1863 [1]  
 3 Robert Hurndell   1551 [1]      0:1    Peter Stoeveken       1822 [1]  
 4 Alexis Wevers     1795 [.5]     1:0    Michael Ashe          1623 [1]  
 5 Geoff Osborne     1500 [0]      0:1    Satwik Meravanage     1550 [.5] 
 6 Hamish Dixon      1701 [.5]     ½:½    Dylan Frater          1509 [.5] 
 7 Bruce Asher       1256 [0]      0:1    Daniel Kibblewhite    1481 [0]  
 8 James Kierstead   1317 [0]      1:0    Kane Rodrigues        1000 [0]  
 9 Lewis Carroll     1190 [0]      0:1    Karthikeyan Annamalai 1300 [0]  
10 Caleb He          1823 [1]      ½:½    BYE                             
11 Romeo Rabina      1695 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
12 Don Stracy        1649 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
13 Paul He           1507 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
14 Samuel Darr       1481 [1]      ½:½    BYE                             
15 Lars Stannard     1409 [0]      ½:½    BYE                             
16 Nicholas Heyworth 1368 [0]      ½:½    BYE                             
17 Bobby Stannard    1298 [0]      ½:½    BYE                             
18 Josh Langford     1291 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
19 Aiden Zhao        1236 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
20 Christopher Sole  1184 [.5]     0:0    BYE                             
21 Sean Johnson      1099 [0]      0:0    BYE                             

Cross Table


No Name                   Loc  Total  1    2  

1  Stoeveken, Peter       1822 2     18:1 10:1
2  Hall, Nathan           1863 2     22:1  9:1
3  Brockway, Andrew       1867 1.5   20:1  4:½
4  Farrington, Lawrence   1763 1.5   24:1  3:½
5  Wevers, Alexis         1795 1.5    0:½ 19:1
6  He, Caleb              1823 1.5   23:1  0:½
7  Darr, Samuel           1481 1.5   26:1  0:½
8  Meravanage, Satwik     1550 1.5    0:½ 26:1
9  Tanoi, Edward          1800 1     21:1  2:0
10 Hurndell, Robert       1551 1     30:1  1:0
11 Dixon, Hamish          1701 1     16:½ 14:½
12 Rabina, Romeo          1695 1      0:½  0:½
13 Stracy, Don            1649 1      0:½  0:½
14 Frater, Dylan          1509 1      0:½ 11:½
15 He, Paul               1507 1      0:½  0:½
16 Langford, Josh         1291 1     11:½  0:½
17 Zhao, Aiden            1236 1      0:½  0:½
18 Kierstead, James       1317 1      1:0 30:1
19 Ashe, Michael          1623 1     27:1  5:0
20 Kibblewhite, Daniel    1481 1      3:0 27:1
21 Annamalai, Karthikeyan 1300 1      9:0 28:1
22 Stannard, Lars         1409 .5     2:0  0:½
23 Heyworth, Nicholas     1368 .5     6:0  0:½
24 Stannard, Bobby        1298 .5     4:0  0:½
25 Sole, Christopher      1184 .5    29:½  0:0
26 Osborne, Geoff         1500 0      7:0  8:0
27 Asher, Bruce           1256 0     19:0 20:0
28 Carroll, Lewis         1190 0      0:0 21:0
29 Johnson, Sean          1099 0     25:0  0:0
30 Rodrigues, Kane        1000 0     10:0 18:0





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