Don Stracy has also left, exasperated, because all the people not turning up at short notice has made it impossible to predict who his opponent will be.
Nic was rather fortunate to win against Bill - the latter was up most of the way through the game (up to 6 computer points, as he later lamented to me by email), and even in the final position where Bill lost on time, it was still pretty even, although the tide seemed to be turning.
Some interesting upsets did take place, and a lot of the results were totally against the run of the play. For example, Negracha v Konakanchi P went from easily winning for Black, to easily winning for White, to checkmate for White, all in the space of 14 moves.
Biggest upset must have been Rick Thorpe beating Andrew Stone, despite a ratings gap of nearly 500 points. Andrew's having a bit of a shocker this tournament.
Here is my game against the Captain.
Round 7
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Croad, Nic 2375 [5.5] 1:0 Forster, Bill 2094 [4.5] 2 Timergazi, Layla 2174 [4.5] 0:1 Ker, Anthony 2474 [5] 3 Perry, Roger 2125 [4] 1:0 Nyberg, Michael 2032 [4] 4 Rossiter, Philip 1945 [4] 0:1 Sellen, Ian 2079 [4] 5 Aldridge, Alan 1942 [4] ½:½ Jackson, Ross 2054 [4] 6 Chen, Wei Kai 1732 [4] ½:½ Coghini, Phillip 1888 [3.5] 7 Thorpe, Richard 1630 [3.5] 1:0 Stone, Andrew 2118 [3.5] 8 Sole, Michael 1586 [3.5] 1:0 Stoeveken, Peter 1863 [3.5] 9 Winter, Ryan 1715 [3.5] 1:0 Dixon, Hamish 1698 [3.5] 10 Farrington, Lawrence 1855 [3] +:- Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1739 [3.5] 11 Meravanage, Satwik 1524 [3] 0:1 Barraza, Jesse 1871 [3] 12 Darr, Samuel 1505 [3] 0:1 Benitez, Edgar 1750 [3] 13 He, Paul 1051 [3] 0:1 Mullan, Brett 1750 [3] 14 Hall, Nathan 1063 [3] 0:1 Day, Fabian 1726 [3] 15 He, Caleb 1416 [3] 0:1 Wight, Joshua 1629 [3] 16 Bennett, Sarah 1452 [2] 0:1 Leask, Hamish 1300 [2] 17 Konakanchi, Karthik 1499 [2.5] 1:0 Sknar, Andriy 1266 [2.5] 18 Tagos, Bernardo 1433 [2] 0:1 Wevers, Alexis 1641 [2] 19 Jacobsen-Grocott, Josiah 1200 [2.5] 0:1 Van der Anker, Juan 1501 [2] 20 Stannard, Bobby 1481 [2] -:+ Zhao, Aiden 1305 [2] 21 Kibblewhite, Daniel 1451 [2] 1:0 Asher, Bruce 1288 [2] 22 Nagrecha, Prashant 899 [1.5] 1:0 Konakanchi, Pramodh 1129 [1.5] 23 Proctor, Matthew 1464 [1] 0:1 De Briey, Aurian 1300 [1] 24 Dive, Russell 2426 [5] ½:½ BYE 25 Del Favero, Marcus 1410 [2] ½:½ BYE 26 Theodosiou, Andreas 1392 [2.5] ½:½ BYE 27 Langford, Joshua [1] ½:½ BYE
Cross Table
No Name Loc Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 Croad, Nic 2375 6.5 9:1 10:1 17:1 2:½ 24:1 6:1 8:1 2 Ker, Anthony 2474 6 26:1 18:1 4:1 1:½ 0:½ 14:1 6:1 3 Dive, Russell 2426 5.5 39:1 16:1 5:1 14:1 6:0 11:1 0:½ 4 Perry, Roger 2125 5 37:1 20:1 2:0 16:½ 0:½ 15:1 14:1 5 Sellen, Ian 2079 5 52:1 29:1 3:0 34:1 14:0 23:1 17:1 6 Timergazi, Layla 2174 4.5 22:1 21:1 7:½ 25:1 3:1 1:0 2:0 7 Jackson, Ross 2054 4.5 38:1 27:+ 6:½ 19:0 10:½ 30:1 13:½ 8 Forster, Bill 2094 4.5 0:½ 49:1 11:½ 10:½ 17:1 9:1 1:0 9 Sole, Michael 1586 4.5 1:0 41:1 15:½ 29:1 27:1 8:0 25:1 10 Chen, Wei Kai 1732 4.5 41:1 1:0 46:1 8:½ 7:½ 18:1 15:½ 11 Winter, Ryan 1715 4.5 0:½ 35:1 8:½ 18:½ 25:1 3:0 26:1 12 Thorpe, Richard 1630 4.5 0:½ 28:1 19:0 39:½ 0:½ 34:1 24:1 13 Aldridge, Alan 1942 4.5 43:1 0:½ 14:- 32:1 0:½ 16:1 7:½ 14 Nyberg, Michael 2032 4 45:1 30:1 13:+ 3:0 5:1 2:0 4:0 15 Coghini, Phillip 1888 4 35:½ 0:½ 9:½ 47:1 20:1 4:0 10:½ 16 Mullan, Brett 1750 4 48:1 3:0 31:1 4:½ 0:½ 13:0 33:1 17 Rossiter, Philip 1945 4 31:1 44:1 1:0 48:1 8:0 21:1 5:0 18 Barraza, Jesse 1871 4 36:1 2:0 37:1 11:½ 26:½ 10:0 29:1 19 Wastney, Scott 2391 4 0:½ 46:1 12:1 7:1 0:½ 0:0 0: 20 Day, Fabian 1726 4 33:1 4:0 44:1 0:½ 15:0 0:½ 30:1 21 Benitez, Edgar 1750 4 40:1 6:0 42:1 24:0 45:1 17:0 37:1 22 Wight, Joshua 1629 4 6:0 40:1 24:0 33:1 30:0 45:1 31:1 23 Farrington, Lawrence 1855 4 46:0 31:0 35:1 42:1 48:1 5:0 27:+ 24 Stone, Andrew 2118 3.5 32:0 45:1 22:1 21:1 1:0 0:½ 12:0 25 Stoeveken, Peter 1863 3.5 0:½ 47:1 32:1 6:0 11:0 28:1 9:0 26 Dixon, Hamish 1698 3.5 2:0 36:1 30:1 0:½ 18:½ 0:½ 11:0 27 Forlong-Ford, Colwyn 1739 3.5 42:1 7:- 0:½ 28:1 9:0 41:1 23:- 28 Konakanchi, Karthik 1499 3.5 0:½ 12:0 52:1 27:0 46:1 25:0 42:1 29 Meravanage, Satwik 1524 3 54:+ 5:0 0:½ 9:0 0:½ 35:1 18:0 30 Hall, Nathan 1063 3 34:1 14:0 26:0 52:1 22:1 7:0 20:0 31 He, Caleb 1416 3 17:0 23:1 16:0 37:1 34:0 32:1 22:0 32 Van der Anker, Juan 1501 3 24:1 0:½ 25:0 13:0 0:½ 31:0 41:1 33 He, Paul 1051 3 20:0 0:1 34:0 22:0 51:1 47:1 16:0 34 Stracy, Don 1731 3 30:0 43:1 33:1 5:0 31:1 12:0 0: 35 Theodosiou, Andreas 1392 3 15:½ 11:0 23:0 49:1 44:1 29:0 0:½ 36 Zhao, Aiden 1305 3 18:0 26:0 39:0 0:½ 0:½ 44:1 49:+ 37 Darr, Samuel 1505 3 4:0 51:1 18:0 31:0 52:1 38:1 21:0 38 Kibblewhite, Daniel 1451 3 7:0 42:0 0:½ 51:1 0:½ 37:0 48:1 39 Wevers, Alexis 1641 3 3:0 48:0 36:1 12:½ 41:0 49:½ 45:1 40 Leask, Hamish 1300 3 21:0 22:0 45:0 43:1 0:0 46:1 47:1 41 Jacobsen-Grocott, Josiah 1200 2.5 10:0 9:0 43:1 0:½ 39:1 27:0 32:0 42 Sknar, Andriy 1266 2.5 27:0 38:1 21:0 23:0 0:½ 48:1 28:0 43 Del Favero, Marcus 1410 2.5 13:0 34:0 41:0 40:0 0:1 50:1 0:½ 44 Nagrecha, Prashant 899 2.5 0:1 17:0 20:0 0:½ 35:0 36:0 51:1 45 Tagos, Bernardo 1433 2 14:0 24:0 40:1 46:1 21:0 22:0 39:0 46 De Briey, Aurian 1300 2 23:1 19:0 10:0 45:0 28:0 40:0 52:1 47 Bennett, Sarah 1452 2 0:½ 25:0 51:1 15:0 0:½ 33:0 40:0 48 Asher, Bruce 1288 2 16:0 39:1 49:1 17:0 23:0 42:0 38:0 49 Stannard, Bobby 1481 2 0:½ 8:0 48:0 35:0 50:1 39:½ 36:- 50 Langford, Joshua 1.5 0:½ 0:½ 0: 0: 49:0 43:0 0:½ 51 Konakanchi, Pramodh 1129 1.5 0:½ 37:0 47:0 38:0 33:0 0:1 44:0 52 Proctor, Matthew 1464 1 5:0 0:½ 28:0 30:0 37:0 0:½ 46:0 53 Brockway, Andrew 1877 1 0:½ 0:½ 0: 0: 0: 0: 0: 54 Nijman, Brian 2153 0 29:- 0: 0: 0: 0: 0: 0:
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