Timergazi v Forster and Tables

Many thanks to Bill for talking us through his loss in round 2. Nice finish by Layla:

Club Championship A grade

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
1
Croad, Nic
2429
2
*
 
 
1
 
 
 
1
 
 
2
Ker, Anthony
2461
2
 
*
 
 
 
1
 
 
1
 
3
Nijman, Brian
2206
2
 
 
*
 
 
 
 
1
1
 
4
Timergazi, Layla
2105
1
0
 
 
*
1
 
 
 
 
 
5
Forster, Bill
2066
.5
 
 
 
0
*
½
 
 
 
 
6
Pomeroy, Arthur
2134
.5
 
0
 
 
½
*
 
 
 
 
7
Dive, Russell,
2440
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
 
8
Jackson, Ross
2067
0
0
 
0
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
9
Nyberg, Michael
2085
0
 
0
0
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
10
Wastney, Scott
2448
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*

Club Championship B grade 

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11
#12
1
Rossiter, Philip
1897
2
*
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
1
 
 
2
Coghini, Phillip
1872
1
 
*
1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3
Wilkins, Mark
1969
1
 
0
*
 
 
 
1
 
 
 
 
 
4
Sellen, Ian
2064
1
 
 
 
*
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
 
5
Stone, Andrew
2047
1
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
6
Aldridge, Alan
1979
.5
 
 
 
 
 
*
½
 
 
 
 
 
7
Barraza, Jesse
1957
.5
 
 
0
 
 
½
*
 
 
 
 
 
8
Farrington, Lawrence
1811
.5
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
*
½
 
 
 
9
List, Bob
1794
.5
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
½
*
 
 
 
10
Brockway, Andrew
1801
0
0
 
 
0
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
11
Kulkarni, Yogesh
2036
0
 
 
 
 
0
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
12
Bye,
 
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*

Club Championship C grade

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
#11
#12
1
Day, Fabian
1605
2
*
1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
2
Winter, Ryan
1533
1
0
*
 
1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3
Anderson, Gordon
1648
1
 
 
*
 
 
 
 
1
 
 
 
 
4
Forlong-Ford, Colwyn
1726
1
 
0
 
*
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
5
Dixon, Hamish
1648
1
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
6
Sole, Michael
1637
1
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
1
 
 
 
7
Baker, Jack
1619
1
 
 
 
 
 
 
*
1
 
 
 
 
8
Austin, Tama
1539
0
 
 
0
 
 
 
0
*
 
 
 
 
9
Cunningham, Pat
1652
0
 
 
 
 
 
0
 
 
*
 
 
 
10
Landrain, Marc
1490
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
11
Stracy, Don
1748
0
0
 
 
 
0
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
12
Wight, Joshua
1622
0
 
 
 
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*

Club Championship D grade 

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10
1
Wevers, Alexis
1472
2
*
 
1
 
 
1
 
 
 
 
2
Bennett, Sarah
1414
2
 
*
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
1
3
Asher, Bruce
1316
1
0
 
*
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
4
Kibblewhite, Daniel
1418
1
 
 
 
*
 
 
1
 
 
 
5
Konakanchi, Pramodh
1191
0
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
 
 
 
6
Proctor, Matthew
1369
0
0
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
 
 
7
Sknar, Andriy
1184
0
 
 
 
0
 
 
*
 
 
 
8
Konakanchi, Karthik
1484
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
9
Zhao, Aiden
1289
0
 
0
0
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
10
Zhao, Jeffrey
980
0
 
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*

Club Championship Week 2

The Club Championship is already a mess of postponements, particularly in the D grade, where not a single one of the scheduled games took place. (Instead a couple of round 9 games were brought forward to accommodate the players who actually showed up).
In the A Grade Scott and Russell are still wending their way homewards, so their opponents played each other, the game that should be played in week 7.
Nothing too outrageous happened. Pomeroy v Ker was a reprise of their game 2 weeks ago, which ended in a draw, but Anthony varied first and ended up not so bad this time.
Layla bounced back from her round 1 defeat by Nic to checkmate Bill in 31 moves.
The B grade is being led by club captain Phil Rossiter with 2/2, although the top seeds in this group have played one game fewer.
Fabian Day leads the C grade, and Alexis Wevers and Sarah Bennett lead the D grade, all with 2/2. Again they have benefitted from having played more games than some of their opponents.

Full results:
A Grade
Nyberg    0-1 Nijman
Pomeroy  0-1 Ker
Timergazi 1-0 Forster
Jackson   0-1 Croad

B Grade
Stone         1-0     Kulkarni
Rossiter     1-0     Farrington
Sellen        1-0     Brockway
Wilkins      0-1     Coghini
Aldridge 1/2-1/2  Barraza

C Grade
Stracy       0-1    Day
Winter       1-0    Forlong-Ford
Sole           1-0   Cunningham
Austin         0-1  Anderson

D Grade
Wevers      1-0   Asher
Zhao A      0-1   Bennett

Club Championship 2016 - Players and Results Round 1

Apologies for the lateness of the update on the Club Championships that started last week. There were a few games postponed. We had 4 late entries (Yogesh Kulkarni, Fabian Day, Michael Sole, Jack Baker) and 1 late withdrawal.

Results from round 1 on 8-Sep

Group A: Croad 1-0 Timergazi, Forster 0.5-0.5 Pomeroy, Ker 1-0 Nyberg, Nijman 1-0 Jackson
Group B: Barraza 0-1 Wilkins, Brockway 0-1 Rossiter, Farrington 0.5-0.5 List
Group C: Austin 0-1 Baker, Forlong-Ford 1-0 Wight, Dixon 1-0 Stracy, Winter 0-1 Day
Group D: Bennett 1-0 Zhao J, Asher 1-0 Zhao A, Wevers 1-0 Proctor, Sknar 0-1 Kibblewhite

Here is a full list of the Club Championship participants, in NZCF rating order

A grade
1	Anthony F Ker	2461
2	Scott Wastney	2448
3	Russell J Dive	2440
4	Nicholas Croad	2429
5	Brian Nijman	2206
6	Arthur J Pomeroy	2134
7	Layla Timergazi	2105
8	Michael Nyberg	2085
9	L Ross Jackson	2067
10	William Forster	2066
B grade
1	Ian Sellen	2064
2	Andrew Stone	2047
3	Yogesh Kulkarni	2036
4	Alan L Aldridge	1979
5	Mark Wilkins	1969
6	Jesus (Jesse) Barraza Perez	1957
7	Philip E Rossiter	1897
8	Philip G Coghini	1872
9	Lawrence B Farrington	1811
10	Andrew Brockway	1801
11	Robert List	1794
C grade
1	Don M Stracy	1748
2	Colwyn Forlong-Ford	1726
3	Patrick D Cunningham	1652
4	Gordon Anderson	1648
5	Hamish A Dixon	1648
6	Michael D Sole	1637
7	Joshua Wight	1622
8	Jack Baker	1619
9	Fabian Day	1605
10	Tama Austin	1539
11	Ryan Winter	1533
12	Marc Landrain	1490
D grade
1	Karthik Konakanchi	1484
2	Alexis Wevers	1472
3	Daniel Kibblewhite	1418
4	Sarah Bennett	1414
5	Matthew Proctor	1369
6	Bruce Asher	1316
7	Aiden Tyler Zhao	1289
8	Pramodh Konakanchi	1191
9	Andriy Sknar	1184
10	Jeffrey Zhao	980

I'll publish a list of fixtures separately.

Scott Wastney Gains Double IM Norm in Baku

Congratulations to Scott Wastney who gained a double IM norm at the Baku Olympiad.
Previously I said he had gained the IM title, but I'm still not sure if that's the case.
Here is the last round game he had to win for the norms. He makes it look so easy!

Update re the norms (and the comments), Russell sent this from Dubai where he's waiting for his connection back home:

"Just to clarify Scott's IM situation, he still needs another IM norm and he also needs to get his FIDE rating over 2400 before he gets the IM title.  He needs about another 60 rating points and is hoping to gain some of them in the Wellington Club Champs (assuming that this is FIDE rated).  I'm not sure how willing his Wellington Club Championship competitors are to contribute to his cause.  We shall see in the next few months!!!

I think both teams performed alright at the Olympiad.  The women's team significantly improved their ratings, while the three young girls (aged 10, 13 and 15) all gained valuable experience and will be better players for having played in the Olympiad.  The Open team obviously had Scott's double IM norm to celebrate and if my memory serves me right, this might be the first double IM norm achieved in the Open team at an Olympiad, since a certain Russell Dive achieved one at the 1994 Moscow Olympiad.  If that is in fact correct, it's been a long 22 year wait for another one!!!  This is also the last Olympiad that double norms will be given out (they resort to single norms at the next Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia in 2018, so Scott picked a great time to do it."

Analysis from Arthur Pomeroy and Brian Nijman

Good luck to Scott Wastney as he attempts to convert himself from an FM to an IM in Baku today. He needs a win against Harold Wanyama (FIDE rating 2251) in the last round match between New Zealand and Uganda.

Many thanks to Arthur Pomeroy and Brian Nijman for some quality analysis of their recent club games.

Here is Arthur Pomeroy, and his game against Anthony Ker in the last round of the Julian Mazur Memorial.Normally you'd be pretty happy with a draw against Anthony, but in this case Arthur was two pawns up and had high hopes of the full point...

And here is Brian Nijman analysing his win against Ross Jackson in the first round of the Club Championship. Brian, not for the first time, conjures up a winning out of nothing. Apparently, earlier on Ross offered a draw in a dead equal position, which Brian would have accepted if he hadn't been listening to music through his headphones at the time.

Club Championship 2016 Begins!

Slight confusion for the first round of the Club Championship. Why are so many chess players unable to say if they are playing in an event before the first round is due to start? Is it some sort of chess-induced behavioural irregularity?

Anyway, I'm still awaiting the full line-up of most of the groups, but the A grade is fine. It's very strong - too strong for me, I failed to qualify for the first time in many years.

Dive v Wastney postponed due to both players slugging it out in Baku, but here are the other A grade results:

Croad, Nic      1-0        Timergazi, Layla
Forster, Bill      1/2-1/2  Pomeroy, Arthur
Ker, Anthony   1-0        Nyberg, Michael
Nijman, Brian   1-0        Jackson, Ross

Many thanks to Bill for providing some extremely entertaining notes to his escape against Arthur

Dive Wins Julian Mazur 2016 in Absentia

Russell Dive missed the last round of the Julian Mazur Memorial because he is in Baku ready to play in the Olympiad that starts today. Arthur Pomeroy did him an enormous favour by drawing with Anthony Ker, although from all accounts he should have beaten the IM, being 2 pawns up in the endgame. Still I think Arthur deserves at least one beer.
So Russell finished on 7/8, a draw plus a half point bye. Anthony had draws against Russell, Nic Croad and Arthur, finishing on 6.5/8. And just behind Anthony was Nic Croad with his first round bye, and his accident against Andrew Stone in  round 4.

That's it for this tournament, looking forward to the big one, the Club Championship starting next week. Meanwhile don't forget you can follow all the action in Baku online, and even follow Russell and Scott's games live, if you don't mind staying up all hours. Modern technology is wonderful!

Julian Mazur Memorial 2016 - Round 8

Results

No Name                 Loc  Total  Result   Name                 Loc  Total

 1 Pomeroy, Arthur      2133 [5]      ½:½    Ker, Anthony         2415 [6]  
 2 Nijman, Brian        2141 [4.5]    0:1    Croad, Nic           2412 [5]  
 3 Dixon, Hamish        1544 [4.5]    0:1    Sellen, Ian          2116 [4.5]
 4 Forster, Bill        2075 [4.5]    ½:½    Jackson, Ross        2027 [4.5]
 5 Barraza, Jesse       1925 [4.5]    0:1    Stone, Andrew        2063 [4]  
 6 Farrington, Lawrence 1810 [3.5]    0:1    Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1731 [4]  
 7 Proctor, Matthew     1458 [3.5]    0:1    Aldridge, Alan       1992 [3.5]
 8 List, Bob            1661 [3.5]    0:1    Stoeveken, Peter     1932 [3.5]
 9 Austin, Tama         1250 [3.5]    1:0    Coghini, Phillip     1872 [3.5]
10 Brockway, Andrew     1777 [3.5]    1:0    Sole, Michael        1629 [3.5]
11 Wevers, Alexis       1350 [3]      1:0    Wight, Joshua        1534 [3.5]
12 Tagos, Bernardo      1300 [3]      0:1    Winter, Ryan         1450 [3]  
13 Bennett, Sarah       1299 [3]      1:0    Kibblewhite, Daniel  1000 [2.5]
14 Zhao, Aiden          1231 [2]      1:0    Landrain, Marc       1528 [2]  
15 Sknar, Andriy        1152 [2]      1:0    Bloor-Wilson, Ethan  1050 [1.5]
16 Zhao, Jeffrey        950  [1]      0:1    Asher, Bruce         1419 [1]  
17 Dive, Russell        2452 [6.5]    ½:½    BYE                            
18 Cunningham, Patrick  1744 [4.5]    ½:½    BYE                            
19 Stracy, Don          1742 [3]      ½:½    BYE                            
20 Day, Fabian          1564 [3.5]    0:0    BYE                            
21 Meravanage, Satwik   1395 [2.5]    ½:½    BYE                            

Cross Table

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

1  Dive, Russell        2452 7     22:1 12:1  6:1  2:½ 11:1  4:1  8:1  0:½
2  Ker, Anthony         2415 6.5   26:1 15:1  4:1  1:½  6:1  7:1  3:½  5:½
3  Croad, Nic           2412 6      0:½  8:1 25:1  7:0 14:1  9:1  2:½ 11:1
4  Sellen, Ian          2116 5.5   36:1 24:1  2:0 37:1 12:1  1:0  9:½ 13:1
5  Pomeroy, Arthur      2133 5.5   27:1 14:½  0:½  0:½ 18:½ 23:1  7:1  2:½
6  Forster, Bill        2075 5     42:1 10:1  1:0 17:1  2:0 33:1 11:½  9:½
7  Stone, Andrew        2063 5     28:1 21:1  0:½  3:1  0:½  2:0  5:0 15:1
8  Cunningham, Patrick  1744 5     39:½  3:0 20:1 30:1 16:1 12:1  1:0  0:½
9  Jackson, Ross        2027 5     18:½  0:½ 29:1 35:1 33:1  3:0  4:½  6:½
10 Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1731 5     34:1  6:0 33:0 29:0 42:1 19:1 20:1 24:1
11 Nijman, Brian        2141 4.5   13:1 37:½ 14:½ 23:1  1:0 21:1  6:½  3:0
12 Aldridge, Alan       1992 4.5   35:1  1:0 27:1 19:1  4:0  8:0 21:½ 28:1
13 Dixon, Hamish        1544 4.5   11:0 19:0 18:1 31:1 15:½ 25:1 16:1  4:0
14 Brockway, Andrew     1777 4.5   40:1  5:½ 11:½  0:½  3:0 34:1 15:0 22:1
15 Barraza, Jesse       1925 4.5   19:1  2:0 32:1 33:0 13:½ 29:1 14:1  7:0
16 Stoeveken, Peter     1932 4.5   29:½ 17:½  0:½ 39:1  8:0 26:1 13:0 21:1
17 Austin, Tama         1250 4.5    0:½ 16:½ 21:1  6:0 22:0 27:½ 31:1 25:1
18 Winter, Ryan         1450 4      9:½ 38:0 13:0 28:1  5:½ 20:0 30:1 32:1
19 Wevers, Alexis       1350 4     15:0 13:1 24:1 12:0 23:0 10:0 36:1 27:1
20 Bennett, Sarah       1299 4      0:  25:0  8:0 41:1  0:½ 18:1 10:0 34:1
21 List, Bob            1661 3.5   41:1  7:0 17:0 32:1 27:1 11:0 12:½ 16:0
22 Sole, Michael        1629 3.5    1:0 39:1  0:½  0:½ 17:1  0:0 24:½ 14:0
23 Stracy, Don          1742 3.5    0:½  0:½ 34:1 11:0 19:1  5:0 25:0  0:½
24 Farrington, Lawrence 1810 3.5   31:+  4:0 19:0 27:0 30:1 31:1 22:½ 10:0
25 Coghini, Phillip     1872 3.5   32:½ 20:1  3:0  0:½ 29:½ 13:0 23:1 17:0
26 Day, Fabian          1564 3.5    2:0 35:+ 31:1  0:½  0:0 16:0 34:1  0:0
27 Wight, Joshua        1534 3.5    5:0 40:1 12:0 24:1 21:0 17:½ 29:1 19:0
28 Proctor, Matthew     1458 3.5    7:0 31:0 35:1 18:0  0:½ 39:1 35:1 12:0
29 Meravanage, Satwik   1395 3     16:½  0:½  9:0 10:1 25:½ 15:0 27:0  0:½
30 Zhao, Aiden          1231 3     37:0  0:½ 41:1  8:0 24:0  0:½ 18:0 36:1
31 Sknar, Andriy        1152 3     24:- 28:1 26:0 13:0 41:1 24:0 17:0 39:1
32 Tagos, Bernardo      1300 3     25:½  0:½ 15:0 21:0 36:0 35:1 41:1 18:0
33 Kulkarni, Yogesh     1854 3      0:   0:  10:1 15:1  9:0  6:0  0:   0: 
34 Kibblewhite, Daniel  1000 2.5   10:0 42:1 23:0  0:½ 40:1 14:0 26:0 20:0
35 Asher, Bruce         1419 2     12:0 26:- 28:0  9:0  0:1 32:0 28:0 41:1
36 Landrain, Marc       1528 2      4:0  0:½ 39:0  0:½ 32:1  0:0 19:0 30:0
37 Rossiter, Philip     1814 2     30:1 11:½  0:½  4:0  0:   0:   0:   0: 
38 Thomas, Ben          2203 2      0:½ 18:1  0:½  0:   0:   0:   0:   0: 
39 Bloor-Wilson, Ethan  1050 1.5    8:½ 22:0 36:1 16:0  0:0 28:0  0:  31:0
40 Wood, Oliver         1100 1.5   14:0 27:0  0:1  0:½ 34:0  0:   0:   0: 
41 Zhao, Jeffrey        950  1     21:0  0:½ 30:0 20:0 31:0  0:½ 32:0 35:0
42 Asplet, Mike         1472 1      6:0 34:0  0:½  0:½ 10:0  0:   0:   0: 
43 Nyberg, Michael      2068 .5     0:½  0:   0:   0:   0:   0:   0:   0: