In the A grade, Anthony beat Scott to maintain his 100% record. Nic beat Russell, and is 1 point behind Anthony with 1 day to go. Anthony has to play Layla, while Nic gets Scott in the last round.
I don't know how the Wastney-Ker game went, sorry, both these players are rather coy about sharing their games.
Brian Nijman took the lead in the B grade with a win against Bill Forster. I had another terrible experience, and, bizarrely, in both the last 2 weeks, Bill Forster had to tell me after the game how I could have drawn the rook and pawn ending.
Ross is leading the C grade with his closest rival Yogesh stumbling in his game against Philip Rossiter, and in the D grade, Bob List is looking good with 3 wins out of 3.
Timergazi 1-0 Thomas
Wastney 0-1 Ker
Dive 0-1 Croad
Nijman 1-0 Forster
Pomeroy 1-0 Sellen
Jackson 1-0 Barraza
Rossiter 1-0 Kulkarni
Farrington 1/2-1/2 Stracy
Brockway 1-0 Cunningham
List 1-0 Forlong-Ford
Dixon 1-0 Wight
Baker 1-0 Theodosiou
Tagos 0-1 Winter
Zhao A 0-1 Sknar
Kibblewhite 1-0 Zhao J
Autumn Cup 2016 A Grade
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 1 Ker, Anthony 2415 4 * 1 1 1 1 2 Croad, Nic 2412 3 0 * 1 1 1 3 Dive, Russell 2452 2 0 0 * 1 1 4 Timergazi, Layla 2152 2 0 0 * 1 1 5 Wastney, Scott 2448 1 0 0 0 * 1 6 Thomas, Ben 2203 0 0 0 0 0 *
Autumn Cup 2016 B Grade
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 1 Nijman, Brian 2141 3 * 1 1 1 2 Nyberg, Michael 2068 2.5 * 1 1 ½ 3 Forster, Bill 2075 2 0 0 * 1 1 4 Pomeroy, Arthur 2133 1.5 0 0 * 1 ½ 5 Sellen, Ian 2116 .5 0 ½ 0 0 * 6 Stone, Andrew 2063 .5 0 ½ *
Autumn Cup 2016 C Grade
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 1 Jackson, Ross 2027 3.5 * ½ 1 1 1 2 Rossiter, Philip 1814 2.5 ½ * 1 ½ ½ 3 Kulkarni, Yogesh 1854 2 0 * 1 1 4 Barraza-Perez, Jesse 1925 1.5 0 ½ 0 * 1 5 Aldridge, Alan 1992 .5 0 ½ * 6 Stoeveken, Peter 1932 0 0 0 0 *
Autumn Cup 2016 D Grade
Cross Table
No Name Rtg Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 1 List, Bob 1661 3 * 1 1 1 2 Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1731 2.5 0 * 1 ½ 1 3 Farrington, Lawrence 1810 2.5 0 * ½ 1 1 4 Stracy, Don 1742 1.5 0 ½ * 1 5 Brockway, Andrew 1777 1.5 0 ½ 0 * 1 6 Cunningham, Patrick 1744 0 0 0 0 0 *
Autumn Cup 2016 E Grade
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 1 Wight, Joshua 1534 2 * 0 1 1 2 Dixon, Hamish 1544 2 1 * 1 3 Baker, Jack 1588 2 0 * 0 1 1 4 Day, Fabian 1564 2 * 1 1 5 Anderson, Gordon 1663 1 1 0 * 6 Landrain, Marc 1528 1 0 0 * 1 7 Theodosiou, Andreas 1489 0 0 0 0 0 *
Autumn Cup 2016 F Grade
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 1 Meravanage, Satwik 1395 2 * 0 1 1 2 Konakanchi, Karthik 1399 1 1 * 3 Wevers, Alexis 1 0 * 1 4 Asplet, Mike 1472 1 * 1 5 Proctor, Matthew 1458 1 0 0 * 1 6 Asher, Bruce 1419 0 0 0 *
Autumn Cup 2016 G Grade
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 1 Winter, Ryan 4 * 1 1 1 1 2 Bennett, Sarah 1299 3 * 1 1 1 3 Tagos, Bernardo 1.5 0 0 * ½ 1 4 Austin, Tama .5 0 ½ * 5 Konakanchi, Pramodh 1275 0 0 0 * 6 Hewson, Paul 0 0 0 0 *
Autumn Cup 2016 H Grade
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 1 Sknar, Andriy 1152 1.5 * ½ 1 2 Kibblewhite, Daniel 1.5 ½ * 1 3 Collings, Alex 1040 1 * 1 4 Zhao, Jeffrey 0 0 * 5 Ross, Awatea 0 0 * 6 Zhao, Aiden 1231 0 0 *
Actually I don't recall telling you how to draw your previous rook and pawn ending (versus Brian) - but for the record - a good rule to remember is that in R+P v R if your king is securely in front of the pawn it's a draw. The normal method is Philidor's third rank defence but in the special case of a g pawn it's even easier than that. Set up your king and rook as if you've just castled kingside - so king on g1, rook on f1 and you are golden. This is because there is no room for the opponents rook to approach from the other side. The b pawn is a mirror image (obviously), put your king on b1 and rook on c1.
ReplyDeleteIt must have been someone else then. In any case, I had a definite sense of deja vu!
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