Report – 29 March 2002

 

Flood Cup 2002

 

Results:

Stuart Wilson 0 Harvey Quaresmini 1

George Flitcroft-Smith 0 Andrew Robinson 1

Doug Foster 1 Paul Evans 0

 

Paul Evans unbeaten run came to an end at the hands of giant killer Doug Foster. According to Paul, he spent 20+ minutes on a move, came up with a combination, and then (as so often happens) played the wrong move. Hence, instead of being 2 pawns up, he was a piece down! A pawn endgame developed after pieces were forced to be exchanged with white having an extra bishop due to black's fateful move 19.

 

Andrew, seeking to be the first to retain the Flood Cup since the ‘Great Joe’ (1995-1996), beat George in the showdown between the top two seeds in the tournament. The game lasted 249 minutes (finishing at 12.26am) making it the longest game of the 2002 Flood Cup so far. George had Andrew pinned down early on in an f4 Sicilian with a knight on e4 and black still to castle. By move 11 white’s kingside pawns were on f4 g5 h4. However the storm was weathered by black and after castling, then exchanging some pieces, black had a strong rook on the f-file with much counterplay that threatened to open white up altogether. White finally removed his king from immediate danger, but at the expense of continuing with a 2 pawn deficit. Black gave up a pawn at move 34 to exchange off a rook, and then effectively won the game by virtue of a passed pawn on the g-file.

 

Harvey knocked over Stuart in time to face him again in the 45 minute tournament.

 

Stuart Wilson (1130) - Harvey Quaresmini (1417)

1 d4 Nf6, 2 e3 g6, 3 Bd3 Bg7, 4 f4 c5, 5 c3 cxd4, 6 cxd4 0-0, 7 f5 d5, 8 fxg6 fxg6, 9 Nf3 Nc6, 10 a3 Bg4, 11 0-0 e5, 12 Qb3 e4, 13 Ne5 exd3, 14 Nxg4 Nxg4, 15 Rf4 Rxf4, 16 exf4 Bxd4+, 17 Kh1 Nf2+, 18 Kg1 Qd7, 19 Nc3 Re8, 20 Bd2 Ne4+, 21 Kh1 Nxd2, 22 Qd1 Be3, 23 g3 Qf5, 24 Nb5 Qe4+ white resigns 0-1

 

George Flitcroft-Smith (1568) - Andrew Robinson (1585)

1 e4 c5, 2 Nc3 Nc6, 3 f4 e6, 4 Nf3 d5, 5 exd5 exd5, 6 Bb5 Nf6, 7 Qe2+ Be7, 8 Ne5 Qc7?, 9 g4 Qd6, 10 g5 Nd7, 11 h4? 0-0, 12 g6 fxg6, 13 Nxd5 Ndxe5, 14 fxe5 Nxe5, 15 Nxe7+ Qxe7, 16 d4 Nf3+, 17 Kd1 Qxe2+, 18 Bxe2 Nxd4, 19 Bc4+ Be6, 20 Bd3 Bg4+, 21 Kd2 Rad8, 22 Kc3 Ne2+, 23 Kb3 Nxc1+, 24 Raxc1 Rf6, 25 a4 Bf5, 26 Bc4+ Be6, 27 h5 Bxc4+, 28 Kxc4 b6, 29 c3 a5, 30 Rce1 Kf6, 31 h6 gxh6, 32 Rxh6 Rh8, 33 Rd1 Ke7, 34 Rdh1 Rf2, 35 Rxh7+ Rxh7, 36 Rxh7+ Ke6, 37 b3 Rf7, 38 Rh8 Kf5, 39 Kd5 Rf6, 40 Rh1 g5, 41 Rf1+ Kg6, 42 Rg1 Rf3, 43 Kc4 Kf5, 44 Kb5 Rxc3, 45 Kxb6 Kxb3, 46 Kxa5 c4, 47 Rc1 c3, 48 Ka6 g4, 49 a5 g3, 50 Ka7 g2, 51 a6 c2, 52 Ka8 Rb1, 53 Rxc2 g1=Q, 54 Rc8 Qg2+, 55 Ka7 Qf2+, 56 Ka8 Qf3+, 57 Ka7 Qe3+, 58 Ka8 Qe4+, 59 Ka7 Qd4+, 60 Ka8 Qd5+, 61 Ka7 Qd7+ white resigns 0-1

 

Doug Foster (1209) - Paul Evans (1335)

1 b3 d5, 2 e3 e5, 3 Bb2 e4, 4 d3 Nf6, 5 dxe4 Nxe4, 6 Bd3 Bb4+, 7 c3 Qf6, 8 Bxe4 dxe4, 9 Qd4 Qxd4, 10 exd4 Bd6, 11 Ne2 0-0, 12 0-0 f5, 13 Nd2 b5, 14 a4 bxa4, 15 Rxa4 Bd7, 16 Raa1 Nc6, 17 Nc4 Rab8, 18 b4 Nxb4!, 19 Nxd6 Nd3? (should have been Nc2), 20 Ba3 Rf6, 21 Nc4 f4, 22 Ne5 Be6, 23 Nxd3 exd3, 24 Nc8 Bc4, 25 Rd1 f3, 26 g3 Re8, 27 Nxd3 Rfe6, 28 Ne5 Be2, 29 Re1 Rb6, 30 Bb4 a6, 31 Nxf3 Rbe6, 32 Ne5 Bb5, 33 Nf3 h6, 34 Rxe6 Rxe6, 35 Ne5 g5, 36 h3 Kg7, 37 c4 Be8, 38 Re1 Ba4, 39 Bc3 Kf8, 40 d5 Re8, 41 Ng6+ Kf7, 42 Rxe8 Kxe8, 43 Ne5 Ke7, 44 c5 Bb3, 45 Nc6+ Kd7, 46 Nb4 a5, 47 Na6 a4, 48 c6+ Kd6, 49 Nb4 Bxd5, 50 Nxd5 Kxd5, 51 Kf1 Kxc6, 52 Ke2 Kc5, 53 Kd3 a3, 54 Ba1 Kb4, 55 Kc2 Kc4, 56 Bd2 (notation error, from a1???) a2, 57 Kb2 Kd3, 58 Be3 a1=Q, 59 Kxa1 Ke4, 60 Kb2 Kf5, 61 Kc3 h5, 62 Kd4 g4, 63 hxg4+ hxg4, 64 Kd5 c6, 65 Kxc6 Ke6, 66 Kc5 Ke5, 67 Kc4 Ke4, 68 Bb6 Kf3, 69 Kd3 Kg2, 70 Ke4 Ka3, 71 Kf4 black resigns 1-0 black resigns 1-0

 

Flood Cup: Standings at 29 March 2002

All players to play 9 games

No.

NAME

POINTS

PLAYED

1

Paul Evans

5

6

2

Doug Foster

4

5

3

Andrew Robinson

4

4

Gabriel Boross

6

5

George Flitcroft-Smith

3

5

6

Peter Hiller

2

3

7

Harvey Quaresmini

2

5

8

Stuart Wilson

0

4

9

Brian Willcock

0

4

10

James Hiller

0

4

 

Flood Cup 2002 results in detail

 

 

45 Minute Tournament

Only one game tonight… (the junior club is in recess for the school holidays).

 

Result:

Harvey Quaresmini 1 Stuart Wilson 0

 

"45 Minute": Standings at 29 March 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

Harvey Quaresmini

1

2

5

John Curran

1

3

6

Brian Willcock

0

0

7

Doug Foster

0

0

8

Chris Yu

0

1

9

Stuart Wilson

0

2

10

Scott Kenney

0

3

 

45 Minute tournament 2002 results in detail

 

 

Transfer

Transfer from 12.30am until 2am. George & Paul teamed up against Harvey & Andrew and won the first two games. Them Harvey & Andrew got serious and the final result was 5-2 in their favour. It was remarked that it seemed odd to have a ‘sister-less’ transfer session….

 

It should be recorded for posterity that while the transfer was going on, Messrs Foster and Willcock were engaged in battle, playing the more traditional version of the game. When a game finished at 1.45am Doug said that he felt it was time to go home. Brian alias ‘the Vampire’ protested saying that he had won his first game of the night and was ‘just getting into his stride’. Doug stuggled on and delivered appropriate retribution (which Brian as usual blamed on the DOP!).

 

 

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