Summer Cup Round 1

No upsets, the higher rated player won in all cases.

Please be considerate and let the club captain know as soon as possible if you can't attend.
Seriously, it shouldn't be necessary for me have to write this.

Round 1

No Name                 Loc  Total  Result   Name                Loc  Total

 1 Dixon, Hamish        1724 [0]      0:1    Ker, Anthony        2461 [0]  
 2 Dive, Russell        2440 [0]      1:0    Cunningham, Pat     1717 [0]  
 3 Sole, Michael        1654 [0]      0:1    Timergazi, Layla    2117 [0]  
 4 Croad, Nic           2398 [0]      1:0    Thorpe, Richard     1630 [0]  
 5 Wight, Joshua        1629 [0]      0:1    Nijman, Brian       2192 [0]  
 6 Pomeroy, Arthur      2137 [0]      1:0    Rabina, Romeo       1600 [0]  
 7 Kibblewhite, Daniel  1550 [0]      -:+    Sellen, Ian         2080 [0]  
 8 Jackson, Ross        2049 [0]      1:0    Van Der Anker, Juan 1500 [0]  
 9 Konakanchi, Karthik  1484 [0]      0:1    Wilkins, Mark       1969 [0]  
10 Aldridge, Alan       1956 [0]      1:0    Tagos, Bernardo     1433 [0]  
11 Rose, Nathan         1406 [0]      0:1    Rossiter, Philip    1900 [0]  
12 Stoeveken, Peter     1863 [0]      1:0    Theodosiou, Andreas 1392 [0]  
13 Asher, Bruce         1275 [0]      0:1    Brockway, Andrew    1826 [0]  
14 Farrington, Lawrence 1755 [0]      1:0    Leask, Hamish       1200 [0]  
15 Konakanchi, Pramodh  1191 [0]      0:1    Stracy, Don         1747 [0]  
16 Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1737 [0]      +:-    Kemp, Jonah         1100 [0]  
17 Nyberg, Michael      2048 [0]      ½:½    BYE                           
18 Wevers, Alexis       1649 [0]      ½:½    BYE                           
19 Le, Vincent          1600 [0]      ½:½    BYE                           
20 Meravanage, Satwik   1524 [0]      ½:½    BYE                           
21 Bennett, Sarah       1458 [0]      ½:½    BYE                           
22 Benitez, Rick        1400 [0]      ½:½    BYE                           
23 Benitez, Edgar       1400 [0]      ½:½    BYE                           
24 Proctor, Matthew     1392 [0]      ½:½    BYE                           

Cross Table

No Name                 Rtg Loc  Total  1  

1  Sellen, Ian              2080 1     39:+
2  Forlong-Ford, Colwyn     1737 1     40:+
3  Ker, Anthony             2461 1     25:W
4  Dive, Russell            2440 1     26:W
5  Timergazi, Layla         2117 1     27:W
6  Croad, Nic               2398 1     28:W
7  Nijman, Brian            2192 1     29:W
8  Pomeroy, Arthur          2137 1     30:W
9  Jackson, Ross            2049 1     31:W
10 Wilkins, Mark            1969 1     32:W
11 Aldridge, Alan           1956 1     33:W
12 Rossiter, Philip         1900 1     34:W
13 Stoeveken, Peter         1863 1     35:W
14 Brockway, Andrew         1826 1     36:W
15 Farrington, Lawrence     1755 1     37:W
16 Stracy, Don              1747 1     38:W
17 Nyberg, Michael          2048 .5     0:D
18 Wevers, Alexis           1649 .5     0:D
19 Le, Vincent              1600 .5     0:D
20 Meravanage, Satwik       1524 .5     0:D
21 Bennett, Sarah           1458 .5     0:D
22 Benitez, Rick            1400 .5     0:D
23 Benitez, Edgar           1400 .5     0:D
24 Proctor, Matthew         1392 .5     0:D
25 Dixon, Hamish            1724 0      3:L
26 Cunningham, Pat          1717 0      4:L
27 Sole, Michael            1654 0      5:L
28 Thorpe, Richard          1630 0      6:L
29 Wight, Joshua            1629 0      7:L
30 Rabina, Romeo            1600 0      8:L
31 Van Der Anker, Juan      1500 0      9:L
32 Konakanchi, Karthik      1484 0     10:L
33 Tagos, Bernardo          1433 0     11:L
34 Rose, Nathan             1406 0     12:L
35 Theodosiou, Andreas      1392 0     13:L
36 Asher, Bruce             1275 0     14:L
37 Leask, Hamish            1200 0     15:L
38 Konakanchi, Pramodh      1191 0     16:L
39 Kibblewhite, Daniel      1550 0      1:-
40 Kemp, Jonah              1100 0      2:-

Round 2 Provisional Draw
No Name                 Loc  Total  Result   Name                 Loc  Total

 1 Ker, Anthony         2461 [1]       :     Aldridge, Alan       1956 [1]  
 2 Wilkins, Mark        1969 [1]       :     Dive, Russell        2440 [1]  
 3 Timergazi, Layla     2117 [1]       :     Stoeveken, Peter     1863 [1]  
 4 Brockway, Andrew     1826 [1]       :     Croad, Nic           2398 [1]  
 5 Nijman, Brian        2192 [1]       :     Farrington, Lawrence 1755 [1]  
 6 Stracy, Don          1747 [1]       :     Sellen, Ian          2080 [1]  
 7 Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1737 [1]       :     Jackson, Ross        2049 [1]  
 8 Nyberg, Michael      2048 [.5]      :     Meravanage, Satwik   1524 [.5] 
 9 Wevers, Alexis       1649 [.5]      :     Bennett, Sarah       1458 [.5] 
10 Le, Vincent          1600 [.5]      :     Benitez, Rick        1400 [.5] 
11 Proctor, Matthew     1392 [.5]      :     Dixon, Hamish        1724 [0]  
12 Cunningham, Pat      1717 [0]       :     Konakanchi, Karthik  1484 [0]  
13 Tagos, Bernardo      1433 [0]       :     Sole, Michael        1654 [0]  
14 Thorpe, Richard      1630 [0]       :     Rose, Nathan         1406 [0]  
15 Theodosiou, Andreas  1392 [0]       :     Wight, Joshua        1629 [0]  
16 Rabina, Romeo        1600 [0]       :     Konakanchi, Pramodh  1191 [0]  
17 Leask, Hamish        1200 [0]       :     Kibblewhite, Daniel  1550 [0]  
18 Van Der Anker, Juan  1500 [0]       :     Kemp, Jonah          1100 [0]  
19 Pomeroy, Arthur      2137 [1]      ½:½    BYE                            
20 Rossiter, Philip     1900 [1]      ½:½    BYE                            
21 Benitez, Edgar       1400 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                            
22 Asher, Bruce         1275 [0]      ½:½    BYE                            

2017 Season Begins

Nice to be back at the chess club, with the Summer Cup starting tonight. I'll update the blog later on with the results, but I thought I should just make a quick note of the successes enjoyed by club members over the summer.

You probably know about these already, but I'll just go over them again quickly.

 First of all congratulations to Scott Wastney, the 2017 New Zealand Champion. This is the 3rd time he has won the title, the last time being in 2013, which was also the last time the New Zealand Championship was held in Wellington.
Scott got 7/9, half a point behind the tournament winner Ari Dale (who doesn't get to be New Zealand champion because he's Australian).

In the same tournament, Wellington players Bill Forster and Yogesh Kulkarni jointly picked up the Major Open title with their 5.5 points out of 9.

In the Rapid tournament, Wellington player Anthony Ker became joint NZ Rapid champion along with Hans Gao with their 7/9 scores, once again half a point behind Australian Ari Dale.

The NZ Blitz title was not picked up by a Wellington player, but by Upper Hutt's Jeremy Knowles, who is well-known to many of us at the club - congratulations to him.

On to the Zonal - many congratulations to the high-performing Wellington players there.
Anthony Ker came joint second in the Open with 7/9, half a point behind Australian wunderkind Anton Smirnov.
And Layla Timergazi won the women's title with a round to spare, picking up the WIM title in the process. This is the first time a non-Australian has ever won an Oceania Zonal competition, either Open or Women's, so special congratulations to her.

We are very proud of all our winners!

For my own part, I only managed one game in the Blitz tournament before I had to withdraw with painful kidney stones. I did manage to win this game, though, which probably makes me the only player in all the Congress events with a score of 100%!