Report – 19 April 2002

 

Preview of the One Hour tournament 2002

This year has seen the return of many old faces to The Gap Chess Club. Earlier in the year we saw George Flitcroft-Smith come back, winning the Lightning and performing well in the Flood Cup. Recently Ray Adams came back, often playing a friendly game at the slower time controls. Tonight saw more players exercising the right of return: Mark Wardle, who has not been a regular at the club since the late 1980s, and Jack Badenhorst & his son. Together with this year’s new members (among others, John Curran & Garry Jarvis) it would seem that the One Hour could have an entry of 15 to 20, depending on the number of junior entries. If the entry is over 14, it is likely the tournament will be run on a Swiss format. However the attactions of the round-robin format mean that the possibility of running it as a 13 or 15 round tournament have not been entirely ruled out. This option may be feasible with the quicker 1 hour guillotine finish time control (it certainly would not be for the Flood Cup!!).

 

 

Flood Cup 2002

 

Results:

Peter Hiller 1 Brian Willcock 0

Stuart Wilson 0 Doug Foster 1

Harvey Quaresmini 1 James Hiller 0

 

Highlights from tonight’s 3 games:

- Brian Willcock maintained his shockinng run of form. Peter continues his good form from last week when he almost toppled Gabriel;

– Doug Foster managed victory in one of the club’s oldest rivalries;

– James maintained his record, but keeps improving.

 

Brian’s game finished prematurely after a blunder at move 35 conceded a two move mate, however after the game it was demonstrated to everyone’s satisfaction that white’s extra pawn on the b file would be enough to ensure victory with correct play.

 

Full details of all scoresheets to be provided by the end of the week.

Peter Hiller (1049) - Brian Willcock (1320)

1 e4 e5, 2 Nf3 d6, 3 d4 exd4, 4 Nxd4 Nf6, 5 Bg5 Be7, 6 Bxf6 Bxf6, 7 c3 0-0, 8 Bd3 Nd7, 9 0-0 Ne5, 10 f4 Bg4, 11 Be2 Bxe2, 12 Qxe2 Nc6, 13 Nxc6 bxc6, 14 Nd2 Qb8, 15 Rb1 Qb6+, 16 Kh1 Rfe8, 17 a3 Rab8, 18 Rfd8 c5, 19 Nf3 Qc6, 20 e5 dxe5, 21 fxe5 Qe6, 22 Rde8 Qf5, 23 Qc4 Bxe5, 24 Qxc5 f6, 25 Qxa7 Red8, 26 Nxe5 fxe5, 27 Qxc7 Rde8, 28 b4 Rc8, 29 Qd6 Rxc3, 30 Qd5+ Kh8, 31 Rf1 Qg6, 32 Rbe8 h6, 33 Rxe5 Rxa3, 34 Rxe8 Qxe8, 35 h3 Qg6??, 36 Rf8+ Kh7, 37 Qg8# 1-0

 

Stuart Wilson (1130) - Doug Foster (1209)

1 d4 d5, 2 e3 Nf6, 3 Bd3 g6, 4 f4 e6, 5 Nf3 Bg7, 6 0-0 0-0, 7 Bd2 Nbd7, 8 Be1 c5, 9 c3 c4, 10 Bc2 b5, 11 Bh4 Bb7, 12 Ne5 Qc7, 13 Nd2 Nxe5, 14 fxe5 Ne4, 15 Nf3 a5, 16 a3 a4, 17 Bf6 Bxf6, 18 exf6 Nxf6, 19 Ne5 Ne4, 20 Bxe4 dxe4, 21 Rf6 Qe7, 22 Qf1 Kg7, 23 Ng4 h5, 24 Ne5 Qxf6, 25 Qxf6+ Kxf6, 26 Nd7+ Ke7, 27 Nxf8 Kxf8, 28 Rf1 f5, 29 h4 Kg7, 30 Kh2 Rf8, 31 Rf4 Re8, 32 Kg3 e5, 33 Rf2 exd4, 34 cxd4 Rf8, 35 Kf4 Kh6, 36 Rd2 Re8, 37 d5 Kg7, 38 Kg5 Re7, 39 d6 Rd7, 40 g3 Bc6, 41 Rd4 Kf7, 42 Rd2 Rd8, 43 Kh6 Be8, 44 Rd5 Ke6 white resigns 0-1

 

Harvey Quaresmini (1417) - James Hiller (unrated)

1 e4 e5, 2 Nf3 Qe7, 3 Bc4 Nf6, 4 0-0 Nxe4, 5 d4 Nc6, 6 dxe5 Nxe5, 7 Nxe5 Qxe5, 8 Qf3 Nd6, 9 Bb3 Be7, 10 Bf4 Qxb2, 11 Nd2 Qf6, 12 Rae1 0-0, 13 Ne4 Nxe4, 14 Qxe4 d6?, 15 Qxe7 Qxe7, 16 Rxe7 b6, 17 Rxc7 Ba6, 18 Re1 Rfd8, 19 Bxf7+ Kf8, 20 Bb3 Rac8, 21 Rf7+ Kg8, 22 Rxa7+ Bc4, 23 Ree7 Bxb3, 24 cxb3 d5, 25 Rxg7+ Kf8, 26 Rxh7 Re8??, 27 Rh8# 1-0

 

Flood Cup: Standings at 19 April 2002

All players to play 9 games

No.

NAME

POINTS

PLAYED

1

Andrew Robinson

6

2

Paul Evans

7

3

Doug Foster

5

7

4

Gabriel Boross

8

5

George Flitcroft-Smith

4

6

6

Harvey Quaresmini

4

7

7

Peter Hiller

3

6

8

Stuart Wilson

1

6

9

Brian Willcock

½

6

10

James Hiller

0

7

 

Flood Cup 2002 results in detail

 

 

45 Minute Tournament

No play this week

 

"45 Minute": Standings at 19 April 2002

Round-Robin format

No.

NAME

POINTS

PLAYED

1

Ben Lazarus

4

5

2

Nathaneal Lim

3

4

3

George Flitcroft-Smith

2

2

4

John Curran

2

5

5

Harvey Quaresmini

1

2

6

Stuart Wilson

1

3

7

Brian Willcock

0

0

8

Doug Foster

0

1

9

Chris Yu

0

1

10

Scott Kenney

0

3

 

45 Minute tournament 2002 results in detail

 

 

Transfer

No transfer tonight.

 

 

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