Round One Carnage at the Julian Mazur

The Julian Mazur Memorial tournament, which is an eight round Swiss of classical chess, began on Thursday.
Normally the first round of a Swiss is a series of massacres where the top half of the club get to pick on players with ratings half their size, with maybe the odd upset to keep things interesting.
There must have been something in the air, however, as there were no fewer than EIGHT upsets right throughout the draw.

Congratulations to (in board order):
- Alexis Wevers who draw with the black pieces with Anthony Ker
- Jamie Webster who (on crutches!) beat Brian Nijman
- Michael Ashe who drew with Arthur Pomeroy
- Samuel Darr who beat TE Tanoi with the black pieces
- Bobby Stannard who drew with Wei Kai Chen with the black pieces
- Lewis Carroll who beat Robert Laking
- Rafe Dunlop who drew with Alan Winfield with the black pieces
- Blake Shepherd who beat Al Nicholls in his first classical game at the club.

Blake Shepherd

Lewis Carroll

Samuel Darr

Here are some games
Russell Dive said after this game that if he had been Alexis he would have tried to beat Anthony from this position. Easy for an International Master to say!




One of the games that wasn't an upset was Kibblewhite v Forster. Interestingly, they also met in the first round of the Summer Cup, and that time it really WAS an upset, the only one. Thanks to Bill for these annotations.



Finally, TE Tanoi gets my vote for sportsperson of the year. It's not pleasant being brought down by an up-and-coming junior, but here he is annotating his own loss. You're a winner in my book, Mr Tanoi!

Julian Mazur Memorial Round 1

No Name                  Loc  Total  Result   Name                 Loc  Total

 1 Ker, Anthony          2456 [0]      ½:½    Wevers, Alexis       1807 [0]  
 2 Van Der Hoorn, Thomas 1795 [0]      0:1    Croad, Nicholas      2453 [0]  
 3 Dive, Russell         2403 [0]      1:0    Farrington, Lawrence 1710 [0]  
 4 Webster, Jamie        1689 [0]      1:0    Nijman, Brian        2203 [0]  
 5 Winter, Ryan          2086 [0]      1:0    Dixon, Hamish        1676 [0]  
 6 Ashe, Michael         1659 [0]      ½:½    Pomeroy, Arthur      2075 [0]  
 7 Stone, Andrew         2066 [0]      1:0    Stracy, Don          1612 [0]  
 8 Kibblewhite, Daniel   1523 [0]      0:1    Forster, Bill        2018 [0]  
 9 Tanoi, TE             2013 [0]      0:1    Darr, Samuel         1520 [0]  
10 Cooke, Xandi          1506 [0]      0:1    Sole, Michael        2009 [0]  
11 Chen, Wei Kai         1968 [0]      ½:½    Stannard, Bobby      1461 [0]  
12 Carroll, Lewis        1442 [0]      1:0    Laking, Robert       1965 [0]  
13 Jackson, Ross         1961 [0]      1:0    Stannard, Lars       1408 [0]  
14 Theodosiou, Andreas   1328 [0]      0:1    Lyall, Gordon        1945 [0]  
15 Aldridge, Alan        1927 [0]      1:0    Osborne, Geoff       1264 [0]  
16 Ackroyd, William      1258 [0]      0:1    He, Caleb            1914 [0]  
17 Winfield, Alan        1903 [0]      ½:½    Dunlop, Rafe         1234 [0]  
18 Ebarle, Joshua        1200 [0]      0:1    Rossiter, Philip     1898 [0]  
19 He, Paul              1879 [0]      1:0    Sripathy, Boopathy   1200 [0]  
20 Asher, Bruce          1177 [0]      0:1    Ross, Matt           1864 [0]  
21 Brockway, Andrew      1850 [0]      1:0    Mulheron, Oscar      1000 [0]  
22 Shepherd, Blake       1000 [0]      1:0    Nicholls, Al         1844 [0]  
23 Mullan, Brett         1825 [0]      1:0    Singh, Amrit         1000 [0]  
24 Nyberg, Michael       2104 [0]      ½:0    BYE                            
25 Benitez, Edgar        2043 [0]      ½:½    BYE                            
26 Sellen, Ian           2023 [0]      ½:½    BYE                            
27 Stöveken, Peter       1808 [0]      ½:½    BYE                            
28 Quayle, Jamie         1684 [0]      ½:½    BYE                            
29 Rabina, Romeo         1682 [0]      ½:½    BYE                            
30 Hurndell, Robert      1544 [0]      ½:½    BYE