Report – 19 February 2010

 

Prize Night Tournament - Handicap Lightning

 

Prize Night

The night commenced with the presentation of prizes to tournament and trophy winner for 2009. Stuart Wilson was on hand again to hand out the prizes to the prize winners from last year, which were quite well distributed.

 

Handicap Lightning Tournament

For the first time in ten years there were less than 12 entrants and so the tournament was run as a single group round-robin event.

 

A handicap system was used, based on players’ ACF ratings. 1500+ players received a zero handicap (‘playing off scratch’), 1400-1499 would have received a ½ point handicap (but there were none), 1300-1399 1 point, Greg received 2.5 points and Stuart was given a nominal rating of 750 and thus received a 4.0 point handicap. Before each game the difference between the 2 players’ handicaps is calculated, with the lower rated player having 5 minutes in the game to make all moves. The higher rated player is allocated 5 minutes minus the handicap difference (but must have at least one minute). For example, if the difference is 1.5 then the higher rated player will receive 3.5 minutes to make their moves, the lower rated player 5 minutes.

 

The tournament was decided in the last game in which Andrew beat Tony.

 

Final Table

No.

Player

Rating

H’cap

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Total

1

Andrew Robinson

1398

1.0

X

1

0

1

1

1

1

5

2

Tony Howes

1501

0.0

0

X

½

1

1

½

1

4

3

Nathan Shaw

1307

1.0

1

½

X

0

0

1

1

4

Greg Colwell

1073

2.5

0

0

1

X

1

0

1

3

5

Cameron De Vere

1524

0.0

0

0

1

0

X

1

1

3

6

Ray Adams

1386

1.0

0

½

0

1

0

X

1

7

Stuart Wilson

750*

4.0

0

0

0

0

0

0

X

0

 

Colours and draw

No.

Player

1

Cameron De Vere

2

Andrew Robinson

3

Stuart Wilson

4

Ray Adams

5

Nathan Shaw

6

Tony Howes

7

Greg Colwell

 

1v8 2v7 3v6 4v5
8v5 6v4 7v3 1v2
2v8 3v1 4v7 5v6
8v6 7v5 1v4 2v3
3v8 4v2 5v1 6v7
8v7 1v6 2v5 3v4
4v8 5v3 6v2 7v1

 

 

 

Further information:

Past winners of the Handicap Lightning tournament (with index to past tournaments)

Results of tonight’s tournament in are presented here in detail.

 

Other incidents

Another huge downpour at 10:30pm, just like last year. But no mystical appearance of Brian this year.

 

 

Some photos from tonight’s action

Stuart Wilson presents the Flood Cup to 2009 winner Ray Adams

Stuart Wilson Trophy winner for 2009, Cameron De Vere

St David’s Day individual winner for 2009, Tony Howes

Best All-Rounder 2009, Andrew Robinson

Allegro tournament winner 2009, Nathan Shaw

Round 3 action from tonight’s tournament

Cameron De Vere playing against Stuart Wilson

Cameron in concentration

Stuart considering his next move

 

 

Quote of the night

“That’d be a first” – Nathan to Greg after an upset result in Round 4

 

 

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