Report – 30 January 2015

 

Lightning Tournament

 

The Lightning Tournament attracted 14 entries, the highest number of entries since the 1998 Lightning Tournament.

The high number of players necessitated 13 rounds, and with a late start due to administrative issues (collecting membership fees), and final round was not completed until 11:15pm.

 

Defending champion Andrew Mather was unable to compete due to school commitments, so it was expected Marcus Porter would now be the favourite. In the first half of the tournament played tonight Marcus didn’t disappoint, although he got off to a slow start by salvaging games from losing position against Cameron and Andrew. After this he only dropped a half point to Metin who was playing at the club for the first time. Metin specialises in Blitz play and was only a point away from Marcus at the end of the night with just a single loss to Martin.

 

All players came away with at least one win, including newcomers Tom Humphries and junior Adam Morris, whose older brother Joshua presently sits in third position.

 

There were no disputes, and all players co-operated well in completing a heavy schedule within the first night.

 

 

Lightning 2015: Current standings

All players to play 26 games

No.

NAME

POINTS

PLAYED

1

Marcus Porter

12.5

13

2

Metin Ozaslan

11.5

13

3

Joshua Morris

10.0

13

4

Martin Laizans

9.5

13

5

Cameron De Vere

9.0

13

6

Andrew Robinson

8.0

13

7

Tony Morris

7.5

13

8

Peter Hiller

6.0

13

9

John Ryland

5.0

13

10

Brian Willcock

4.5

13

11

Jim Petrie

4.5

13

12

Adam Morris

1.0

13

13

Nick Petrie

1.0

13

14

Tom Humphries

1.0

13

Lightning Tournament 2015 results in detail

 

Week one results

No.   Player            Rating      1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9     10      11    12    13    14    Total

1     Andrew Robinson   1675        X     1     1     0     0     1     1     1     1     0      0     0     1     1     8.0

2     Peter Hiller      1244        0     X     1     0     0     1     1     0     1     0      0     0     1     1     6.0

3     Brian Willcock    1272        0     0     X     0     0     1     0     0     1     0      ½     0     1     1     4.5

4     Marcus Porter     1633        1     1     1     X     1     1     1     1     1     ½      1     1     1     1     12.5

5     Cameron De Vere   1637        1     1     1     0     X     1     1     1     1     0      0     0     1     1     9.0

6     Adam Morris       unrated     0     0     0     0     0     X     0     0     0     0      0     0     0     1     1.0

7     Jim Petrie        1007        0     0     1     0     0     1     X     0     0     0      ½     0     1     1     4.5

8     Tony Morris       1314        0     1     1     0     0     1     1     X     1     0      0     ½     1     1     7.5

9     John Ryland       892         0     0     0     0     0     1     1     0     X     0      0     1     1     1     5.0

10    Metin Ozaslan     unrated     1     1     1     ½     1     1     1     1     1     X      1     0     1     1     11.5

11    Joshua Morris     1298        1     1     ½     0     1     1     ½     1     1     0      X     1     1     1     10.0

12    Martin Laizans    1335        1     1     1     0     1     1     1     ½     0     1      0     X     1     1     9.5

13    Nick Petrie       unrated     0     0     0     0     0     1     0     0     0     0      0     0     X     0     1.0

14    Tom Humphries     unrated     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0      0     0     1     X     1.0

 

Round

Week one – Pairings

1

1 - 13

3 - 2

5 - 4

7 - 6

9 - 8

11 - 10

14 - 12

2

4 - 1

2 - 13

6 - 3

8 - 5

10 - 7

12 - 9

14 - 11

3

6 - 1

4 - 2

8 - 3

10 - 5

12 - 7

14 - 9

11 - 13

4

1 - 8

2 - 6

3 - 10

13 - 4

5 - 12

7 - 14

9 - 11

5

10 - 1

8 - 2

12 - 3

6 - 4

14 - 5

7 - 11

9 - 13

6

1 - 12

2 - 10

3 - 14

4 - 8

5 - 11

13 - 6

7 - 9

7

14 - 1

12 - 2

11 - 3

10 - 4

5 - 9

8 - 6

13 - 7

8

1 - 11

2 - 14

3 - 9

4 - 12

5 - 7

6 - 10

8 - 13

9

9 - 1

11 - 2

3 - 7

14 - 4

13 - 5

12 - 6

10 - 8

10

1 - 7

2 - 9

3 - 5

4 - 11

6 - 14

12 - 8

10 - 13

11

1 - 5

7 - 2

13 - 3

9 - 4

11 - 6

14 - 8

12 - 10

12

1 - 3

2 - 5

4 - 7

6 - 9

8 - 11

14 - 10

13 - 12

13

2 - 1

4 - 3

5 - 6

7 - 8

9 - 10

11 - 12

13 - 14

 

 

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