The 120th NZ Chess Championship opened today in Wellington, and it could not have had a more dramatic start, in that the favourites of both the Championship and the Major Open lost to vastly lower rated opposition.
Anthony Ker lost as white against Brian Nijman's French Defence in 28 moves. Ben Hague and Scott Wastney, the seeds 2 and 3 respectively both won. Ben's game against Nathan Goodhue was particularly interesting, I thought.
Incidentally, further to my comment on Scott's performance in the Club Championship, Nathan Goodhue informs me that he achieved the same feat of defeating Anthony Ker and Russell Dive in successive rounds himself, back in 1985!
Ross Jackson, number one seed in the Major Open, lost to Nigel Cooper.
Here is Brian's win against a distinctly below par Anthony
Sunday, 30 December 2012
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Pics from last tournament night of 2012
Thanks to Matt Veldhuizen for these
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| Bob List |
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| Anthony Ker |
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| Alex Johnson |
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| Alan Aldridge (right) v Ian Sellen |
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| Mike Roberts v Jonathon Whittle |
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Julian Mazur Final - 100% Scott Wastney
Congratulations to Scott Wastney for winning the tournament with a clean sweep of 7 out of 7.
Also worthy of note are Alok Pandey who beat no fewer than three A grade players on his way to 5th place, and also Andrew Brockway, Mark Wilkins and Robert List.
Just the Christmas party left for this year, hoping to see you all there on Thursday
Cheers
Julian Mazur Memorial 2012 - Round 7
Results
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Pandey, Alok 1700 [4.5] 0:1 Wastney, Scott 2381 [6] 2 Ker, Anthony 2449 [4.5] 1:0 Brockway, Andrew 1798 [4.5] 3 Wilkins, Mark 1917 [4] 1:0 Pomeroy, Arthur 2111 [4] 4 Aldridge, Alan 1959 [4] 0:1 Sellen, Ian 2039 [4] 5 List, Robert 1539 [3.5] 0:1 Nijman, Brian 2157 [3.5] 6 Farrington, Lawrence 1751 [3.5] .5:.5 Jackson, Ross 2026 [3.5] 7 Roberts, Mike 1843 [3] 0:1 Whittle, Jonathon 1637 [3] 8 Cook, John 1611 [2.5] 0:1 Veldhuizen, Matt 1573 [3] 9 Johnson, Alex 1500 [2.5] 0:1 Stone, Andrew 2035 [2.5] 10 Stoeveken, Peter 1917 [2] 1:0 Wight, Joshua 1350 [1.5] 11 Stracy, Don 1828 [2] +:- Sampathkumar, Shyamkumar 1301 [1.5] 12 Dive, Russell 2437 [4] 0:0 BYE 13 Forster, Bill 2049 [2.5] 0:0 BYE 14 Miriyala, Rama Rao 1900 [3] 0:0 BYE 15 Hewson, Michael 1857 [3] 0:0 BYE 16 Timergazi, Layla 1755 [3] .5:.5 BYE 17 Marney, John 1610 [3.5] .5:.5 BYE 18 Gupta, Saurabh 1600 [2.5] .5:.5 BYE 19 Frater, Dylan 1596 [2] .5:.5 BYE 20 Sknar, Andrew 1427 [1.5] .5:.5 BYE 21 Scott-Howman, Zack 1350 [2.5] 0:0 BYE 22 Sknar, Andriy 1011 [1.5] 0:0 BYE 23 Theodosiou, Andreas 1232 [1] 0:0 BYE
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Wastney, Scott 2381 7 14:W 20:W 19:W 10:W 2:W 8:W 5:W 2 Ker, Anthony 2449 5.5 0:D 5:W 25:W 3:W 1:L 7:W 6:W 3 Sellen, Ian 2039 5 13:W 24:W 6:D 2:L 4:D 19:W 9:W 4 Wilkins, Mark 1917 5 16:W 6:L 13:W 15:W 3:D 0:D 8:W 5 Pandey, Alok 1700 4.5 7:W 2:L 12:D 25:W 17:W 20:W 1:L 6 Brockway, Andrew 1798 4.5 33:W 4:W 3:D 24:W 0:D 0:D 2:L 7 Nijman, Brian 2157 4.5 5:L 26:W 14:W 19:W 8:D 2:L 16:W 8 Pomeroy, Arthur 2111 4 11:W 0:D 18:W 22:W 7:D 1:L 4:L 9 Aldridge, Alan 1959 4 15:W 18:D 10:L 21:W 12:D 11:W 3:L 10 Dive, Russell 2437 4 0:D 17:W 9:W 1:L 22:W 0:D 0:L 11 Whittle, Jonathon 1637 4 8:L 0:D 0:D 18:W 24:W 9:L 19:W 12 Jackson, Ross 2026 4 21:W 19:L 5:D 27:W 9:D 0:D 14:D 13 Marney, John 1610 4 3:L 32:W 4:L 0:D 31:W 27:W 0:D 14 Farrington, Lawrence 1751 4 1:L 30:W 7:L 32:W 15:W 28:D 12:D 15 Veldhuizen, Matt 1573 4 9:L 34:W 26:W 4:L 14:L 24:W 28:W 16 List, Robert 1539 3.5 4:L 33:W 20:L 35:W 23:D 17:W 7:L 17 Stone, Andrew 2035 3.5 0:D 10:L 28:W 23:W 5:L 16:L 27:W 18 Timergazi, Layla 1755 3.5 34:W 9:D 8:L 11:L 21:W 0:D 0:D 19 Roberts, Mike 1843 3 29:W 12:W 1:L 7:L 26:W 3:L 11:L 20 Hewson, Michael 1857 3 30:W 1:L 16:W 0:D 0:D 5:L 0:L 21 Gupta, Saurabh 1600 3 12:L 29:+ 0:D 9:L 18:L 26:W 0:D 22 Miriyala, Rama Rao 1900 3 27:W 31:W 0:D 8:L 10:L 0:D 0:L 23 Stoeveken, Peter 1917 3 0:D 25:D 0:D 17:L 16:D 0:L 32:W 24 Stracy, Don 1828 3 32:W 3:L 31:W 6:L 11:L 15:L 33:+ 25 Forster, Bill 2049 2.5 28:W 23:D 2:L 5:L 0:D 0:D 0:L 26 Frater, Dylan 1596 2.5 0:D 7:L 15:D 33:W 19:L 21:L 0:D 27 Johnson, Alex 1500 2.5 22:L 28:W 0:D 12:L 34:W 13:L 17:L 28 Cook, John 1611 2.5 25:L 27:L 17:L 30:W 35:+ 14:D 15:L 29 Scott-Howman, Zack 1350 2.5 19:L 21:- 0:D 34:L 32:W 33:W 0:L 30 Sknar, Andrew 1427 2 20:L 14:L 33:L 28:L 0:W 0:D 0:D 31 Sknar, Andriy 1011 1.5 0:W 22:L 24:L 0:D 13:L 0:L 0:L 32 Wight, Joshua 1350 1.5 24:L 13:L 34:W 14:L 29:L 0:D 23:L 33 Sampathkumar, Shyamkumar 1301 1.5 6:L 16:L 30:W 26:L 0:D 29:L 24:- 34 Theodosiou, Andreas 1232 1 18:L 15:L 32:L 29:W 27:L 0:L 0:L 35 Sass, Christoph 1300 1 0:D 0:D 0:L 16:L 28:- 0: 0:
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Julian Mazur round 6 results - 1 week to go
This week was notable for the number of people who asked for byes, turned up late, or just didn't show up at all. Back to normal next time, I hope...
I won't bother putting up the provisional pairings for the last round, as they are pretty meaningless
Julian Mazur Memorial 2012 - Round 6
Results
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Pomeroy, Arthur 2111 [4] 0:1 Wastney, Scott 2381 [5] 2 Nijman, Brian 2157 [3.5] 0:1 Ker, Anthony 2449 [3.5] 3 Hewson, Michael 1857 [3] 0:1 Pandey, Alok 1700 [3.5] 4 Roberts, Mike 1843 [3] 0:1 Sellen, Ian 2039 [3] 5 Whittle, Jonathon 1637 [3] 0:1 Aldridge, Alan 1959 [3] 6 Stone, Andrew 2035 [2.5] 0:1 List, Robert 1539 [2.5] 7 Marney, John 1610 [2.5] 1:0 Johnson, Alex 1500 [2.5] 8 Veldhuizen, Matt 1573 [2] 1:0 Stracy, Don 1828 [2] 9 Scott-Howman, Zack 1350 [1.5] 1:0 Sampathkumar, Shyamkumar 1301 [1.5] 10 Dive, Russell 2437 [3.5] .5:.5 BYE 11 Forster, Bill 2049 [2] .5:.5 BYE 12 Wilkins, Mark 1917 [3.5] .5:.5 BYE 13 Miriyala, Rama Rao 1900 [2.5] .5:.5 BYE 14 Brockway, Andrew 1798 [4] .5:.5 BYE 15 Timergazi, Layla 1755 [2.5] .5:.5 BYE 16 Sknar, Andrew 1427 [1] .5:.5 BYE 17 Sknar, Andriy 1011 [1.5] 0:0 BYE 18 Farrington, Lawrence 1751 [3] .5:.5 Cook, John 1611 [2] 19 Frater, Dylan 1596 [2] 0:1 Gupta, Saurabh 1600 [1.5] 20 Jackson, Ross 2026 [3] .5:0 BYE 21 Stoeveken, Peter 1917 [2] 0:0 BYE 22 Theodosiou, Andreas 1232 [1] 0:0 BYE 23 Wight, Joshua 1350 [1] .5:0 BYE
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Wastney, Scott 2381 6 14:W 16:W 15:W 7:W 2:W 8:W 2 Ker, Anthony 2449 4.5 0:D 3:W 21:W 5:W 1:L 10:W 3 Pandey, Alok 1700 4.5 10:W 2:L 11:D 21:W 22:W 16:W 4 Brockway, Andrew 1798 4.5 31:W 6:W 5:D 27:W 0:D 0:D 5 Sellen, Ian 2039 4 12:W 27:W 4:D 2:L 6:D 15:W 6 Wilkins, Mark 1917 4 13:W 4:L 12:W 20:W 5:D 0:D 7 Dive, Russell 2437 4 0:D 22:W 9:W 1:L 18:W 0:D 8 Pomeroy, Arthur 2111 4 17:W 0:D 19:W 18:W 10:D 1:L 9 Aldridge, Alan 1959 4 20:W 19:D 7:L 23:W 11:D 17:W 10 Nijman, Brian 2157 3.5 3:L 29:W 14:W 15:W 8:D 2:L 11 Jackson, Ross 2026 3.5 23:W 15:L 3:D 24:W 9:D 0:D 12 Marney, John 1610 3.5 5:L 32:W 6:L 0:D 30:W 24:W 13 List, Robert 1539 3.5 6:L 31:W 16:L 35:W 28:D 22:W 14 Farrington, Lawrence 1751 3.5 1:L 33:W 10:L 32:W 20:W 25:D 15 Roberts, Mike 1843 3 26:W 11:W 1:L 10:L 29:W 5:L 16 Hewson, Michael 1857 3 33:W 1:L 13:W 0:D 0:D 3:L 17 Whittle, Jonathon 1637 3 8:L 0:D 0:D 19:W 27:W 9:L 18 Miriyala, Rama Rao 1900 3 24:W 30:W 0:D 8:L 7:L 0:D 19 Timergazi, Layla 1755 3 34:W 9:D 8:L 17:L 23:W 0:D 20 Veldhuizen, Matt 1573 3 9:L 34:W 29:W 6:L 14:L 27:W 21 Forster, Bill 2049 2.5 25:W 28:D 2:L 3:L 0:D 0:D 22 Stone, Andrew 2035 2.5 0:D 7:L 25:W 28:W 3:L 13:L 23 Gupta, Saurabh 1600 2.5 11:L 26:+ 0:D 9:L 19:L 29:W 24 Johnson, Alex 1500 2.5 18:L 25:W 0:D 11:L 34:W 12:L 25 Cook, John 1611 2.5 21:L 24:L 22:L 33:W 35:+ 14:D 26 Scott-Howman, Zack 1350 2.5 15:L 23:- 0:D 34:L 32:W 31:W 27 Stracy, Don 1828 2 32:W 5:L 30:W 4:L 17:L 20:L 28 Stoeveken, Peter 1917 2 0:D 21:D 0:D 22:L 13:D 0:L 29 Frater, Dylan 1596 2 0:D 10:L 20:D 31:W 15:L 23:L 30 Sknar, Andriy 1011 1.5 0:W 18:L 27:L 0:D 12:L 0:L 31 Sampathkumar, Shyamkumar 1301 1.5 4:L 13:L 33:W 29:L 0:D 26:L 32 Wight, Joshua 1350 1.5 27:L 12:L 34:W 14:L 26:L 0:D 33 Sknar, Andrew 1427 1.5 16:L 14:L 31:L 25:L 0:W 0:D 34 Theodosiou, Andreas 1232 1 19:L 20:L 32:L 26:W 24:L 0:L 35 Sass, Christoph 1300 1 0:D 0:D 0:L 13:L 25:- 0:
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I won't bother putting up the provisional pairings for the last round, as they are pretty meaningless
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Scott Wins Julian Mazur with Round to Spare
Congratulations to Scott Wastney for his impressive achievement of winning 6 out of 6 in the Julian Mazur Memorial (one more round to go, and his nearest rival is on 4.5). He defeated Arthur Pomeroy last night, to add to his scalps of Lawrence Farrington, Michael Hewson, Mike Roberts, Russell Dive and Anthony Ker.
Incidentally, does anyone know of a precedent of Russell and Anthony being beaten by the same person in successive rounds?
Here is his victory over Anthony Ker last week:
Incidentally, does anyone know of a precedent of Russell and Anthony being beaten by the same person in successive rounds?
Here is his victory over Anthony Ker last week:
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Julian Mazur Round 5 Results and Cross-table
Julian Mazur Memorial 2012 - Round 5
Results
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Wastney, Scott 2381 [4] 1:0 Ker, Anthony 2449 [3.5] 2 Nijman, Brian 2157 [3] .5:.5 Pomeroy, Arthur 2111 [3.5] 3 Sellen, Ian 2039 [2.5] .5:.5 Wilkins, Mark 1917 [3] 4 Miriyala, Rama Rao 1900 [2.5] 0:1 Dive, Russell 2437 [2.5] 5 Stone, Andrew 2035 [2.5] 0:1 Pandey, Alok 1700 [2.5] 6 Jackson, Ross 2026 [2.5] .5:.5 Aldridge, Alan 1959 [2.5] 7 Frater, Dylan 1596 [2] 0:1 Roberts, Mike 1843 [2] 8 Stracy, Don 1828 [2] 0:1 Whittle, Jonathon 1637 [2] 9 Veldhuizen, Matt 1573 [2] 0:1 Farrington, Lawrence 1751 [2] 10 List, Robert 1539 [2] .5:.5 Stoeveken, Peter 1917 [1.5] 11 Gupta, Saurabh 1600 [1.5] 0:1 Timergazi, Layla 1755 [1.5] 12 Sknar, Andriy 1011 [1.5] 0:1 Marney, John 1610 [1.5] 13 Johnson, Alex 1500 [1.5] 1:0 Theodosiou, Andreas 1232 [1] 14 Cook, John 1611 [1] +:- Sass, Christoph 1300 [1] 15 Scott-Howman, Zack 1350 [.5] 1:0 Wight, Joshua 1350 [1] 16 Sknar, Andrew 1427 [0] 1:0 BYE 17 Forster, Bill 2049 [1.5] .5:.5 BYE 18 Hewson, Michael 1857 [2.5] .5:.5 BYE 19 Brockway, Andrew 1798 [3.5] .5:.5 BYE 20 Sampathkumar, Shyamkumar 1301 [1] .5:.5 BYE
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total 1 2 3 4 5 1 Wastney, Scott 2381 5 15:W 13:W 10:W 7:W 5:W 2 Pomeroy, Arthur 2111 4 12:W 0:D 18:W 16:W 4:D 3 Brockway, Andrew 1798 4 30:W 8:W 9:D 26:W 0:D 4 Nijman, Brian 2157 3.5 6:L 24:W 15:W 10:W 2:D 5 Ker, Anthony 2449 3.5 0:D 6:W 22:W 9:W 1:L 6 Pandey, Alok 1700 3.5 4:W 5:L 11:D 22:W 17:W 7 Dive, Russell 2437 3.5 0:D 17:W 14:W 1:L 16:W 8 Wilkins, Mark 1917 3.5 19:W 3:L 20:W 23:W 9:D 9 Sellen, Ian 2039 3 20:W 26:W 3:D 5:L 8:D 10 Roberts, Mike 1843 3 31:W 11:W 1:L 4:L 24:W 11 Jackson, Ross 2026 3 28:W 10:L 6:D 21:W 14:D 12 Whittle, Jonathon 1637 3 2:L 0:D 0:D 18:W 26:W 13 Hewson, Michael 1857 3 33:W 1:L 19:W 0:D 0:D 14 Aldridge, Alan 1959 3 23:W 18:D 7:L 28:W 11:D 15 Farrington, Lawrence 1751 3 1:L 33:W 4:L 34:W 23:W 16 Miriyala, Rama Rao 1900 2.5 21:W 29:W 0:D 2:L 7:L 17 Stone, Andrew 2035 2.5 0:D 7:L 27:W 25:W 6:L 18 Timergazi, Layla 1755 2.5 35:W 14:D 2:L 12:L 28:W 19 List, Robert 1539 2.5 8:L 30:W 13:L 32:W 25:D 20 Marney, John 1610 2.5 9:L 34:W 8:L 0:D 29:W 21 Johnson, Alex 1500 2.5 16:L 27:W 0:D 11:L 35:W 22 Forster, Bill 2049 2 27:W 25:D 5:L 6:L 0:D 23 Veldhuizen, Matt 1573 2 14:L 35:W 24:W 8:L 15:L 24 Frater, Dylan 1596 2 0:D 4:L 23:D 30:W 10:L 25 Stoeveken, Peter 1917 2 0:D 22:D 0:D 17:L 19:D 26 Stracy, Don 1828 2 34:W 9:L 29:W 3:L 12:L 27 Cook, John 1611 2 22:L 21:L 17:L 33:W 32:+ 28 Gupta, Saurabh 1600 1.5 11:L 31:+ 0:D 14:L 18:L 29 Sknar, Andriy 1011 1.5 0:W 16:L 26:L 0:D 20:L 30 Sampathkumar, Shyamkumar 1301 1.5 3:L 19:L 33:W 24:L 0:D 31 Scott-Howman, Zack 1350 1.5 10:L 28:- 0:D 35:L 34:W 32 Sass, Christoph 1300 1 0:D 0:D 0:L 19:L 27:- 33 Sknar, Andrew 1427 1 13:L 15:L 30:L 27:L 0:W 34 Wight, Joshua 1350 1 26:L 20:L 35:W 15:L 31:L 35 Theodosiou, Andreas 1232 1 18:L 23:L 34:L 31:W 21:L
Provisional pairing round 6 (will probably change)
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Pomeroy, Arthur 2111 [4] : Wastney, Scott 2381 [5] 2 Nijman, Brian 2157 [3.5] : Ker, Anthony 2449 [3.5] 3 Hewson, Michael 1857 [3] : Pandey, Alok 1700 [3.5] 4 Roberts, Mike 1843 [3] : Sellen, Ian 2039 [3] 5 Farrington, Lawrence 1751 [3] : Jackson, Ross 2026 [3] 6 Whittle, Jonathon 1637 [3] : Aldridge, Alan 1959 [3] 7 Stone, Andrew 2035 [2.5] : List, Robert 1539 [2.5] 8 Marney, John 1610 [2.5] : Johnson, Alex 1500 [2.5] 9 Cook, John 1611 [2] : Miriyala, Rama Rao 1900 [2.5] 10 Stoeveken, Peter 1917 [2] : Frater, Dylan 1596 [2] 11 Veldhuizen, Matt 1573 [2] : Stracy, Don 1828 [2] 12 Scott-Howman, Zack 1350 [1.5] : Sampathkumar, Shyamkumar 1301 [1.5] 13 Wight, Joshua 1350 [1] : Gupta, Saurabh 1600 [1.5] 14 Theodosiou, Andreas 1232 [1] 1:0 BYE 15 Dive, Russell 2437 [3.5] .5:.5 BYE 16 Forster, Bill 2049 [2] .5:.5 BYE 17 Wilkins, Mark 1917 [3.5] .5:.5 BYE 18 Brockway, Andrew 1798 [4] .5:.5 BYE 19 Timergazi, Layla 1755 [2.5] .5:.5 BYE 20 Sknar, Andrew 1427 [1] .5:.5 BYE 21 Sknar, Andriy 1011 [1.5] .5:.5 BYE
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