Wastney is the Champion!

Scott Wastney overcame Michael Nyberg's resistance to become the 2015 A grade Club Champion. He finished on 8/9, half a point ahead of Russell Dive. Congratulations!

Alan Aldridge was by all accounts lucky to scrape a draw against Peter Stoeveken, but that was enough to earn him joint first place in the B grade with Ross Jackson. Congratulations to these two as well. There is still one game left in the B grade, Coghini v Stoeveken, which will be played in the upstairs room on Thursday while the rest of us are having a party downstairs.

There may be some C grade action as well, as there are still some games to play there. The identity  of the C grade champion is not in doubt though, Yogesh Kulkarni finished off his 2015 campaign with a victory over Mike Asplet to maintain his 100% record. Well played!

In the D grade I thought all the rest of the games were being abandoned, but Chris Sole turned up to play his game against William Scarlett, which the latter won to finish with an excellent 7.5 out of 8, drawing only with Karthik Konakanchi and winning the rest.

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[Event "Club Championship 2015"]
[Site "Wellington Chess Club"]
[Date "2015.12.10"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Scott Wastney"]
[Black "Michael Nyberg"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteELO "?"]
[BlackELO "?"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
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Qc7 9. Nbd2 b6 10. Rc1 a5 11. Re1 c4 12. Bc2 b5 13. Ng5 Nf8 14. Qh5 Bxg5 15.
Bxg5 Ne7 16. b3 Nfg6 17. bxc4 bxc4 18. Rb1 h6 19. Be3 Bd7 20. Nf1 Nf5 21. Bc1
Nge7 22. g4 g6 23. Qh3 Ng7 24. Ba3 Bc6 25. Bd6 Qd7 26. Rb2 Nc8 27. Bc5 Qd8
28. Reb1 Qg5 29. Rb7 Nh5 30. Qf3 f5 31. exf6 Nxf6 32. Rc7 Bd7 33. Rbb7 Nxg4
34. Kh1 Nf6 35. Rxd7 Nxd7 36. Ba4 Qf5 37. Qxf5 gxf5 38. Rxd7 Nb6 39. Rh7+
Nxa4 40. Rxh8+ Kd7 41. Rxa8 Nxc3 42. Rxa5 Ne4 43. Kg2 c3 44. Ba3 Nd2 45. Bc1
Nc4 46. Rb5 Nd6 47. Rb3 e5 48. Rxc3 Nb5 49. Rc5 Nxd4 50. Rxd5+ Ke6 51. Rxd4
1-0

A Grade
Wastney, Scott               1-0        Nyberg, Michael

B Grade
Aldridge, Alan             1/2-1/2    Stoeveken, Peter
Forlong-Ford, Colwyn    0-1        Coghini, Phillip

C Grade
Asplet, Mike                   0-1      Kulkarni, Yogesh

D Grade
Sole, Chris                      0-1       Scarlett, William

Club Championship A grade

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10


1
Wastney, Scott
2439
8
*
1
1
1
½
1
1
1
1
½


2
Dive, Russell
2429
7.5
0
*
½
1
1
1
1
1
1
1


3
Croad, Nic
2420
7
0
½
*
½
1
1
1
1
1
1


4
Ker, Anthony
2435
5.5
0
0
½
*
1
1
1
0
1
1


5
Sellen, Ian
2077
4
½
0
0
0
*
½
1
1
½
½


6
Perry, Roger
2099
3
0
0
0
0
½
*
0
½
1
1


7
Forster, Bill
2088
3
0
0
0
0
0
1
*
1
0
1


8
Nyberg, Michael
2122
2.5
0
0
0
1
0
½
0
*
0
1


9
Nijman, Brian
2157
2.5
0
0
0
0
½
0
1
1
*
0


10
Timergazi, Layla
2180
2
½
0
0
0
½
0
0
0
1
*

Club Championship B grade

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10


1
Jackson, Ross
1981
7
*
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
½
½


2
Aldridge, Alan
1939
7
1
*
½
½
½
1
1
½
1
1


3
Barazza, Jesse
1710
6.5
0
½
*
1
½
1
1
½
1
1


4
Coghini, Philip
1757
5
0
½
0
*

1
½
1
1
1


5
Stoeveken, Peter
1901
4.5
0
½
½

*
1
0
1
½
1


6
Forlong-Ford, Colwyn
1752
4
0
0
0
0
0
*
1
1
1
1


7
Brockway, Andrew
1773
3.5
0
0
0
½
1
0
*
½
1
½


8
Farrington, Lawrence
1829
2.5
0
½
½
0
0
0
½
*
0
1


9
Stracy, Don
1807
2.5
½
0
0
0
½
0
0
1
*
½


10
Rossiter, Philip
1910
1.5
½
0
0
0
0
0
½
0
½
*

Club Championship C grade

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11


1
Kulkarni, Yogesh
1430
10
*
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1


2
Cunningham, Patrick
1657
8
0
*
1
½
1
1
1
1
½
1
1


3
Lamerton, Troy
1659
5.5
0
0
*
½
1

0
1
1
1
1


4
Sole, Michael
1657
5
0
½
½
*
½
1

½
1
1
0


5
Wight, Joshua
1484
4.5
0
0
0
½
*
1
1
0
0
1
1


6
Day, Fabien

4
0
0

0
0
*
1
1
1

1


7
Dixon, Hamish
1613
3.5
0
0
1

0
0
*
1
½
0
1


8
Meravanage, Satwik
1398
2.5
0
0
0
½
1
0
0
*

1



9
Landrain, Marc

2
0
½
0
0
1
0
½

*




10
Theodosiou, Andreas
1386
2
0
0
0
0
0

1
0

*
1


11
Asplet, Mike
1536
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0


0
*

Club Championship D grade

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9


1
Scarlett, William
1336
7.5
*
1
½
1
1
1
1
1
1


2
Konakanchi, Karthik
1332
7
0
*
1
1
1
1
1
1
1


3
Konakanchi, Pramodh
1161
5.5
½
0
*
0
1
1
1
1
1


4
Zhao, Aiden
826
5
0
0
1
*
0
1
1
1
1


5
Bennett, Sarah
1377
4
0
0
0
1
*
0
1
1
1


6
Collings, Alex
979
3.5
0
0
0
0
1
*
½
1
1


7
Bailey, Daniel
1258
1.5
0
0
0
0
0
½
*
0
1


8
Nagrecha, Parchant

1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
*
0


9
Sole, Chris
1178
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
*

Club Champs CR2 - Down to the Last Game!

We do have some champions now!
Congratulations to William Scarlett, the winner of the D grade. He was totally dominant, and we sort of knew he'd won, but we had to wait for the people who have wandered off without finishing their games to have zeros put next to their name for the title to be confirmed.

And congratulations to Yogesh Kulkarni in the C grade. He won every single game! A couple of the games I played through, he seemed to have got a bit lucky, but this is still an amazing achievement - I look forward to seeing how Yogesh gets on against the higher rated players in tournaments to come.

The important Aldridge-Stoeveken fixture in the B grade did not take place on Thursday, so we have to wait another week to see if Alan can overtake Ross to become the B grade champion.

Russell Dive defeated Bill Forster to take the lead in the A grade, half a point ahead of Nic Croad. Importantly, Scott Wastney also won his game against Anthony Ker to stay in contention for the title. In what seemed a fairly innocuous position with all the minor pieces swapped off, Scott chased Anthony's king all the way over to the other side of the board to land in a mating trap. Very impressive!

So Scott needs to defeat Michael Nyberg in the final catch-up game, due to be played this Thursday, to overtake Russell and become the 2015 overall Club Champion. Remember that Michael earlier on in the tournament upset Anthony in their clash, but he will have to play better than he did against me last week if he wants to make an impression on a very much in form Scott.

Catch-up round 2:

A Grade

Ker               0-1        Wastney
Dive             1-0          Forster
Nyberg         0-1           Sellen

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10


1
Dive, Russell
2429
7.5
*
0
½
1
1
1
1
1
1
1


2
Wastney, Scott
2439
7
1
*
1
1
½
1
1

1
½


3
Croad, Nic
2420
7
½
0
*
½
1
1
1
1
1
1


4
Ker, Anthony
2435
5.5
0
0
½
*
1
1
1
0
1
1


5
Sellen, Ian
2077
4
0
½
0
0
*
½
1
1
½
½


6
Perry, Roger
2099
3
0
0
0
0
½
*
0
½
1
1


7
Forster, Bill
2088
3
0
0
0
0
0
1
*
1
0
1


8
Nyberg, Michael
2122
2.5
0

0
1
0
½
0
*
0
1


9
Nijman, Brian
2157
2.5
0
0
0
0
½
0
1
1
*
0


10
Timergazi, Layla
2180
2
0
½
0
0
½
0
0
0
1
*

B Grade

Barraza         1-0    Forlong-Ford
Brockway  1/2-1/2         Rossiter

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10


1
Jackson, Ross
1981
7
*
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
½
½


2
Aldridge, Alan
1939
6.5
1
*
½

½
1
1
½
1
1


3
Barazza, Jesse
1710
6.5
0
½
*
½
1
1
1
½
1
1


4
Stoeveken, Peter
1901
4
0

½
*

1
0
1
½
1


5
Coghini, Philip
1757
4
0
½
0

*

½
1
1
1


6
Forlong-Ford, Colwyn
1752
4
0
0
0
0

*
1
1
1
1


7
Brockway, Andrew
1773
3.5
0
0
0
1
½
0
*
½
1
½


8
Farrington, Lawrence
1829
2.5
0
½
½
0
0
0
½
*
0
1


9
Stracy, Don
1807
2.5
½
0
0
½
0
0
0
1
*
½


10
Rossiter, Philip
1910
1.5
½
0
0
0
0
0
½
0
½
*

C Grade

Kulkarni        1-0                Day
Sole               0-1            Asplet
Theodosiou   0-1        Lamerton
Wight            0-1   Cunningham

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11


1
Kulkarni, Yogesh
1430
9
*
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1



2
Cunningham, Patrick
1657
8
0
*
1
½
1
1
1
1
½
1
1


3
Lamerton, Troy
1659
5.5
0
0
*
½
1

0
1
1
1
1


4
Sole, Michael
1657
5
0
½
½
*
½
1

½
1
1
0


5
Wight, Joshua
1484
4.5
0
0
0
½
*
1
1
0
0
1
1


6
Day, Fabien

4
0
0

0
0
*
1
1
1

1


7
Dixon, Hamish
1613
3.5
0
0
1

0
0
*
1
½
0
1


8
Meravanage, Satwik
1398
2.5
0
0
0
½
1
0
0
*

1



9
Landrain, Marc

2
0
½
0
0
1
0
½

*




10
Theodosiou, Andreas
1386
2
0
0
0
0
0

1
0

*
1


11
Asplet, Mike
1536
1

0
0
1
0
0
0


0
*

D Grade

Scarlett         1-0         Collings

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9


1
Scarlett, William
1336
7.5
*
1
½
1
1
1
1
1
1


2
Konakanchi, Karthik
1332
7
0
*
1
1
1
1
1
1
1


3
Konakanchi, Pramodh
1161
5.5
½
0
*
0
1
1
1
1
1


4
Zhao, Aiden
826
5
0
0
1
*
0
1
1
1
1


5
Bennett, Sarah
1377
4
0
0
0
1
*
0
1
1
1


6
Collings, Alex
979
3.5
0
0
0
0
1
*
½
1
1


7
Bailey, Daniel
1258
1.5
0
0
0
0
0
½
*
0
1


8
Nagrecha, Parchant

1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
*
0


9
Sole, Chris
1178
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
*