Club Championship Week 4 - Total Domination

After four weeks of the Club Championship, each of the grades has a player who is totally dominant -  Nic Croad in the A Grade, Alan Aldridge in B and Nathan Hall in C. Each has won all their games.
Anthony and Russell were back in town on Thursday. I was hoping to get a jet-lagged Russell, but unfortunately for me rounds 4 and 5 were switched and Bill got to play him instead (and got a draw, but could so easily have got more!).


There were an awful lot of people away this week, including 13 out of the 29 people nominally signed up for the C grade.

Sorry for the delay in the update, here are the results for weeks 3 and 4, plus the cross tables

A Grade

Week 3
Laking          1-0      Forster
Croad            1-0      Sellen
Winter           1-0      Nijman

Week 4
Sellen         ½-½      Nyberg
Timergazi    0-1       Ker
Nijman        0-1       Croad
Forster        ½-½      Dive

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10


1
Croad, Nic
2431
4
*


1
1



1
1


2
Forster, Bill
2011
2

*
0
½



½

1


3
Laking, Robert
2014
1.5

1
*
½








4
Sellen, Ian
2041
1.5
0
½
½
*




½



5
Winter, Ryan
2129
1.5
0



*
½



1


6
Timergazi, Layla
2157
1.5




½
*
0


1


7
Ker, Anthony
2485
1





1
*





8
Dive, Russell
2425
.5

½





*




9
Nyberg, Michael
2114
.5
0


½




*



10
Nijman, Brian
2162
0
0
0


0
0



*

B Grade

Week 3
Chen      ½-½   Benitez
Jackson   0-1    Aldridge
Sole         1-0    Mullan

Week 4
Lyall      ½-½   Benitez
Aldridge 1-0    Chen
Mullan    1-0    Winfield

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10


1
Aldridge, Alan
1892
4
*

1


1
1
1




2
Day, Fabian
1899
1.5

*

½




1



3
Winfield, Alan
1957
1.5
0

*

½



1



4
Rossiter, Philip
1947
1.5

½

*


1





5
Benitez, Edgar
2006
1.5


½

*
½



½


6
Chen, Wei Kai
1895
1.5
0



½
*
0


1


7
Jackson, Ross
1945
1
0


0

1
*





8
Sole, Michael
1899
1
0






*
1



9
Mullan, Brett
1923
1

0
0




0
*
1


10
Lyall, Gordon
1854
.5




½
0


0
*

C Grade

No Name               Loc  Total  Result   Name                  Loc  Total

 1 Alexis Wevers      1795 [2.5]    0:1    Nathan Hall           1863 [3]  
 2 Peter Stoeveken    1822 [2]      1:0    Dylan Frater          1509 [2]  
 3 Hamish Dixon       1701 [2]      1:0    Karthikeyan Annamalai 1300 [1.5]
 4 Romeo Rabina       1695 [1.5]    ½:½    Lawrence Farrington   1763 [1.5]
 5 Lars Stannard      1409 [1]      1:0    Josh Langford         1291 [1]  
 6 James Kierstead    1317 [1]      0:1    Bruce Asher           1256 [1]  
 7 Bobby Stannard     1298 [1]      1:0    Kane Rodrigues        1000 [0]  
 8 Nicholas Heyworth  1368 [.5]     1:0    Geoff Osborne         1500 [0]  
 9 Andrew Brockway    1867 [2]      ½:½    BYE                             
10 Caleb He           1823 [2]      0:0    BYE                             
11 Edward Tanoi       1800 [2]      ½:½    BYE                             
12 Don Stracy         1649 [1]      0:0    BYE                             
13 Michael Ashe       1623 [2]      ½:½    BYE                             
14 Robert Hurndell    1551 [2]      ½:½    BYE                             
15 Satwik Meravanage  1550 [1.5]    ½:½    BYE                             
16 Paul He            1507 [1]      0:0    BYE                             
17 Samuel Darr        1481 [2]      0:0    BYE                             
18 Daniel Kibblewhite 1481 [1]      ½:½    BYE                             
19 Aiden Zhao         1236 [1]      0:0    BYE                             
20 Lewis Carroll      1190 [1]      0:0    BYE                             
21 Christopher Sole   1184 [.5]     0:0    BYE                             

Cross Table

No Name                   Loc  Total  1    2    3    4  

1  Hall, Nathan           1863 4     11:1  5:1  2:1  4:1
2  Stoeveken, Peter       1822 3     21:1  8:1  1:0  9:1
3  Dixon, Hamish          1701 3     22:½  9:½ 19:1 18:1
4  Wevers, Alexis         1795 2.5    0:½  7:1 14:1  1:0
5  Tanoi, Edward          1800 2.5   18:1  1:0 10:1  0:½
6  Brockway, Andrew       1867 2.5   19:1 10:½  0:½  0:½
7  Ashe, Michael          1623 2.5   17:1  4:0 21:1  0:½
8  Hurndell, Robert       1551 2.5   29:1  2:0 27:1  0:½
9  Frater, Dylan          1509 2      0:½  3:½ 22:1  2:0
10 Farrington, Lawrence   1763 2     16:1  6:½  5:0 13:½
11 Stannard, Lars         1409 2      1:0  0:½  0:½ 22:1
12 He, Caleb              1823 2     20:1  0:½  0:½  0:0
13 Rabina, Romeo          1695 2      0:½  0:½ 18:½ 10:½
14 Meravanage, Satwik     1550 2      0:½ 28:1  4:0  0:½
15 Darr, Samuel           1481 2     28:1  0:½  0:½  0:0
16 Stannard, Bobby        1298 2     10:0  0:½  0:½ 29:1
17 Asher, Bruce           1256 2      7:0 19:0 29:1 21:1
18 Annamalai, Karthikeyan 1300 1.5    5:0 26:1 13:½  3:0
19 Kibblewhite, Daniel    1481 1.5    6:0 17:1  3:0  0:½
20 Heyworth, Nicholas     1368 1.5   12:0  0:½ 30:0 28:1
21 Kierstead, James       1317 1      2:0 29:1  7:0 17:0
22 Langford, Josh         1291 1      3:½  0:½  9:0 11:0
23 Stracy, Don            1649 1      0:½  0:½  0:0  0:0
24 He, Paul               1507 1      0:½  0:½  0:0  0:0
25 Zhao, Aiden            1236 1      0:½  0:½  0:0  0:0
26 Carroll, Lewis         1190 1      0:0 18:0 28:1  0:0
27 Sole, Christopher      1184 .5    30:½  0:0  8:0  0:0
28 Osborne, Geoff         1500 0     15:0 14:0 26:0 20:0
29 Rodrigues, Kane        1000 0      8:0 21:0 17:0 16:0
30 Johnson, Sean          1099 0     27:0  0:0 20:0  0: 

Club Champs Round 2 - While the IMs are Away....

While the IM's are away, Nic Croad will play - and quite well, too. He was against Ryan Winter, whom he struggled against in the last tournament. Again, he got quite a difficult position (but not nearly as difficult as last time), Ryan getting quite a useful pawn lodged on d6 cramping Nic's position. Ryan maybe didn't play boldly enough, he could more than once have sacrificed the exchange on c6 to set himself up with a monster passed d pawn, and eventually Nic unleashed an attack on the other side of the board, yielding a decisive material advantage.




Game of the evening was probably Nijman v Timergazi. Officially, Club Championship games are supposed to start at 7:30, but they very seldom do. You are allowed to start your opponent's clock at 7:30 even if they are not there. Brian being one of those players who are habitually late, Bill and I tried to goad Layla into starting Brian's clock on time, which she very sportingly refused to do. Bill pointed out that one of the factors that had helped him defeat Brian the previous week was that he had taken a "no more Mr Nice Guy" stance, starting Brian's clock before he had actually arrived.
Anyway, I suspect that, despite Layla's gentlewomanliness, Brian still suffered from time trouble at the end - having survived a harrowingly complicated middle game, he made some bad errors at the end that decided the game.




After 2 weeks, Nic is the sole leader in the A grade, on 100%.
In the B grade Alan Aldridge leads, despite coming out of the opening against Alan Winfield with disadvantageously doubled pawns. Philip Rossiter scored a useful win over Ross Jackson, and Wei Kai Chen beat Gordon Lyall with a nice tactic at the end.


In the C grade top seed Andrew Brockway was held to a draw by Lawrence Farrington. There are only two players left on 100% here, Nathan Hall and Peter Stoeveken, but there were a lot of absent players in this grade.

A Grade

Forster    ½-½    Sellen

Winter      0-1     Croad

Nijman     0-1     Timergazi

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10


1
Croad, Nic
2431
2
*
 
 
 
1
 
 
 
1
 


2
Forster, Bill
2011
1.5
 
*
 
½
 
 
 
 
 
1


3
Timergazi, Layla
2157
1.5
 
 
*
 
½
 
 
 
 
1


4
Sellen, Ian
2041
1
 
½
 
*
 
½
 
 
 
 


5
Winter, Ryan
2129
.5
0
 
½
 
*
 
 
 
 
 


6
Laking, Robert
2014
.5
 
 
 
½
 
*
 
 
 
 


7
Dive, Russell
2425
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
 
 


8
Ker, Anthony
2485
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*
 
 


9
Nyberg, Michael
2114
0
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*
 


10
Nijman, Brian
2162
0
 
0
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
*

B Grade

Aldridge      1-0      Winfield

Mullan         0-1      Day

Rossiter       1-0      Jackson

Chen            1-0      Lyall

No
Name
Loc
Total
#1
#2
#3
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
#9
#10


1
Aldridge, Alan
1892
2
*
 
 
 
 
 
1
 
1
 


2
Day, Fabian
1899
1.5
 
*
½
 
1
 
 
 
 
 


3
Rossiter, Philip
1947
1.5
 
½
*
1
 
 
 
 
 
 


4
Jackson, Ross
1945
1
 
 
0
*
 
1
 
 
 
 


5
Mullan, Brett
1923
1
 
0
 
 
*
 
 
 
 
1


6
Chen, Wei Kai
1895
1
 
 
 
0
 
*
 
 
 
1


7
Winfield, Alan
1957
.5
0
 
 
 
 
 
*
½
 
 


8
Benitez, Edgar
2006
.5
 
 
 
 
 
 
½
*
 
 


9
Sole, Michael
1899
0
0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*
 


10
Lyall, Gordon
1854
0
 
 
 
 
0
0
 
 
 
*

C Grade

No Name              Loc  Total  Result   Name                  Loc  Total

 1 Andrew Brockway   1867 [1]      ½:½    Lawrence Farrington   1763 [1]  
 2 Edward Tanoi      1800 [1]      0:1    Nathan Hall           1863 [1]  
 3 Robert Hurndell   1551 [1]      0:1    Peter Stoeveken       1822 [1]  
 4 Alexis Wevers     1795 [.5]     1:0    Michael Ashe          1623 [1]  
 5 Geoff Osborne     1500 [0]      0:1    Satwik Meravanage     1550 [.5] 
 6 Hamish Dixon      1701 [.5]     ½:½    Dylan Frater          1509 [.5] 
 7 Bruce Asher       1256 [0]      0:1    Daniel Kibblewhite    1481 [0]  
 8 James Kierstead   1317 [0]      1:0    Kane Rodrigues        1000 [0]  
 9 Lewis Carroll     1190 [0]      0:1    Karthikeyan Annamalai 1300 [0]  
10 Caleb He          1823 [1]      ½:½    BYE                             
11 Romeo Rabina      1695 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
12 Don Stracy        1649 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
13 Paul He           1507 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
14 Samuel Darr       1481 [1]      ½:½    BYE                             
15 Lars Stannard     1409 [0]      ½:½    BYE                             
16 Nicholas Heyworth 1368 [0]      ½:½    BYE                             
17 Bobby Stannard    1298 [0]      ½:½    BYE                             
18 Josh Langford     1291 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
19 Aiden Zhao        1236 [.5]     ½:½    BYE                             
20 Christopher Sole  1184 [.5]     0:0    BYE                             
21 Sean Johnson      1099 [0]      0:0    BYE                             

Cross Table

No Name                   Loc  Total  1    2  

1  Stoeveken, Peter       1822 2     18:1 10:1
2  Hall, Nathan           1863 2     22:1  9:1
3  Brockway, Andrew       1867 1.5   20:1  4:½
4  Farrington, Lawrence   1763 1.5   24:1  3:½
5  Wevers, Alexis         1795 1.5    0:½ 19:1
6  He, Caleb              1823 1.5   23:1  0:½
7  Darr, Samuel           1481 1.5   26:1  0:½
8  Meravanage, Satwik     1550 1.5    0:½ 26:1
9  Tanoi, Edward          1800 1     21:1  2:0
10 Hurndell, Robert       1551 1     30:1  1:0
11 Dixon, Hamish          1701 1     16:½ 14:½
12 Rabina, Romeo          1695 1      0:½  0:½
13 Stracy, Don            1649 1      0:½  0:½
14 Frater, Dylan          1509 1      0:½ 11:½
15 He, Paul               1507 1      0:½  0:½
16 Langford, Josh         1291 1     11:½  0:½
17 Zhao, Aiden            1236 1      0:½  0:½
18 Kierstead, James       1317 1      1:0 30:1
19 Ashe, Michael          1623 1     27:1  5:0
20 Kibblewhite, Daniel    1481 1      3:0 27:1
21 Annamalai, Karthikeyan 1300 1      9:0 28:1
22 Stannard, Lars         1409 .5     2:0  0:½
23 Heyworth, Nicholas     1368 .5     6:0  0:½
24 Stannard, Bobby        1298 .5     4:0  0:½
25 Sole, Christopher      1184 .5    29:½  0:0
26 Osborne, Geoff         1500 0      7:0  8:0
27 Asher, Bruce           1256 0     19:0 20:0
28 Carroll, Lewis         1190 0      0:0 21:0
29 Johnson, Sean          1099 0     25:0  0:0
30 Rodrigues, Kane        1000 0     10:0 18:0