Result:
Andrew Robinson 1 Brian Willcock 0
This Friday night saw the crucial Round 7 game between Brian Willcock, playing with the black pieces, and Andrew Robinson. Brian needed to win to keep up with Gabriel Boross at the top of the table but came up against a record of 4 draws and 6 losses in his 10 encounters to date with Andrew. Unfortunately for Mr Willcock, history repeated itself, but not this time in the dramatic fashion that has concluded some of the more memorable recent encounters. The game was closely fought in the early stages with Brian replying to Andrew’s standard d4 opening with a queenside attack applying pressure to the pinned knight on c3. After castling, white was able to capture a pawn in the centre and the exchange (knight for rook – move 20), but at the cost of Brian moving his queen to the kingside, gaining tempo, and launching one of his trademark blitzkriegs, ably assisted by a well positioned bishop on c6. Andrew just managed to cover some of the gruesome possibilities at which point Brian overlooked that the g2 pawn was not pinned, gave away a knight for a pawn, effectively ending the game as a contest.
Andrew Robinson (1585) - Brian Willcock (1320)
1 d4 d5, 2 c4 c5, 3 Nf3 Nf6, 4 Nc3 e6, 5 Bg5 Be7, 6 e3 Qb6, 7 Qc2 Nc6, 8 Rd1 Qa5, 9 a3 Ne4, 10 Bxe7, Nxe7, 11 Rc1 Bd7, 12 Be2 Nf5, 13 0-0 Bc6, 14 dxc5 Qxc5, 15 b4 Qe7, 16 cxd5 exd5, 17 Rd1 0-0, 18 Nxd5 Qe6, 19 Nc7 Qg6, 20 Nxa8 Ng5, 21 Nxg5 Qxg5, 22 Bf1 Nh4, 23 f4 Qg4, 24 Qf2 Rxa8, 25 Qg3 Qh5, 26 Rd4 Nf3+, 27 gxf3 Bxf3, 28 Rc5 f5, 29 Qg5 Qe8, 30 Re5 Qf8, 31 Qxf5 Qb8, 32 Qg8+ Kh8, 33 Rd7 h5, 34 Re7 Bc6, 35 Rxh5++ 1-0
If Peter Hiller beats Gabriel Boross then there are 3 players who still have a statistical chance of catching Gabby. The trophy has been sent to the engravers.
One Hour Tournament: Current Standings
All players to play 8 games
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
Gabriel Boross |
6 |
7 |
|
2 |
Brian Willcock |
5 |
7 |
|
3 |
Andrew Robinson |
3½ |
6 |
|
4 |
Patrick Tao |
3½ |
6 |
|
5 |
Doug Foster |
3 |
5 |
|
6 |
Chris Yu |
2 |
4 |
|
7 |
Harvey Quaresmini |
2 |
6 |
|
8 |
Peter Hiller |
2 |
6 |
|
9 |
Stuart Wilson |
0 |
7 |
|
10 |
James Hiller withdrew |
|
|
All games involving James Hiller have been removed from the above table.
One Hour tournament 2001 results in detail
45 Minute Tournament
Result:
Stuart Wilson 0 Patrick Tao 1
The Senior-Junior 45 minute tournament wrapped up with one game. Following this game the tournament has been completed with Harvey Quaresmini and Patrick Tao sharing first place with 4 wins and a loss. As a result there will be a play-off to decide the tournament winner. Harvey will be looking to recapture the title that he won in 1999. Sam Constantin won last year.
45 Minute tournament 2001 results in detail