Report – 21 February 2003

 

Flood Cup

 

Results:

Peter Hiller 0 Ray Adams 1

Tony Howes 1 John Curran 0

 

Two games were played tonight with Tony and Ray both recording wins.

 

Aaron Michaux and Eric Faccer showed up tonight up a long absence from the club and indicated that they will likely be late entries to the Flood Cup. This will make the tournament a 16 player 7 round swiss. Aaron and Eric will play each other in Round 1 so as not to disrupt the draw which has already taken place.

 

 

Selected games from the One Hour tournament will be published each week.

 

Peter Hiller (1174) – Ray Adams (1604)

1 e4 e6, 2 d4 d5, 3 e5 c5, 4 c3 Nc6, 5 Bb5 Bd7, 6 Nf3 Nxe5, 7 Bxd7+ Nxd7, 8 dxc5 Bxc5, 9 b4 Be7, 10 0-0 Ngf6, 11 a4 Rc8, 12 Bb2 0-0, 13 Qc2 Nb6, 14 a5 Nc4, 15 Nbd2 b4, 16 Nd4 a6, 17 Nxc4 Rxc4, 18 Ba3 Qc7, 19 Ne2 Ne4, 20 Rac1 Rc8, 21 Qd3 Nxc3, 22 Nxc3 Rxc3, 23 Rxc3 Qxc3, 24 Qxc3 Rxc3, 25 Bc1 Bxb4, 26 Bd2 Rc4, 27 Bxb4 Rxb4, 28 Rc1 Rc4, 29 Re1 Kf8, 30 f3 Rc2, 31 g4 Ke7, 32 h4 Kd6, 33 f4 b4, 34 g5 b3, 35 g6 hxg6, 36 Rb1 b2 white resigns 0-1

 

Tony Howes (1651) – John Curran (1026)

1 d4 d5, 2 e4 dxe4, 3 Nc3 f5, 4 f3 exf3, 5 Nxf3 e6, 6 Bc4 Bb4, 7 0-0 Bxc3, 8 bxc3 c6, 9 Ng5 Nf6, 10 Bxe6 Bxe6, 11 Nxe6 Qe7, 12 Re1 Kd7, 13 Re5 Qxe6, 14 Rxe6 Kxe6, 15 Qe1+ Kf7, 16 Ba3 Re8, 17 Qg3 Nbd7, 18 c4 Re4, 19 Rae1 Re8, 20 Rxe4 Rxe4, 21 Bb2 Re2, 22 d5 cxd5, 23 cxd5 Rxc2, 24 Qb3 Rd2, 25 Bxf6 Nxf6, 26 d6+ Ke8, 27 Qe3+ Kd7, 28 Qxd2 Ne4, 29 Qd4 Nxd6, 30 Qxg7+ Kc6, 31 Qxh7 a5, 32 Qg6 b5, 33 h4 Kd7, 34 g5 Ke7, 35 h5 a4 36 Qxd6 Kxd6, 37 h6 b4, 38 h7 Kc5, 39 h8=Q a3, 40 g5 Kc4, 41 g6 b3, 42 axb3 Kxb3, 43 g7 Kc2, 44 g8=Q Kb1, 45 Qb3+ Kc1, 46 Qc3# 1-0

 

 

Flood Cup: Standings at 21 February 2003

All players to play 7 games

No.

NAME

POINTS

PLAYED

1

Gabriel Boross

1

1

2

Ray Adams

1

1

3

Tony Howes

1

1

4

Andrew Robinson

0

0

5

George Flitcroft-Smith

0

0

6

Harvey Quaresmini

0

0

7

Paul Evans

0

0

8

Brian Willcock

0

0

9

Debbie Jenkins

0

0

10

Stuart Wilson

0

0

11

James Hiller

0

0

12

Peter Hiller

0

1

13

John Curran

0

1

14

Mike Talbot

0

1

 

Flood Cup 2003 results in detail

 

 

Lightning Tournament

 

The final set of lightning games saw 4 mistake riddled games by 2 players having an off night. Paul won the first game when Andrew gave away a free rook in a vastly superior endgame. Andrew won the second and third games to cross the line and win the tournament. Game 4 was won by Paul who claimed fourth position in the tournament after Andrew let his opponent become overwhelmingly strong with white down the h-file.

 

Result:

Andrew 2 Paul 2

 

Lightning Tournament: Final Standings

All players to play 28 games

No.

NAME

POINTS

PLAYED

1

Andrew Robinson

23

28

2

George Flitcroft-Smith

21½

28

3

Harvey Quaresmini

16½

28

4

Paul Evans

15

28

5

Brian Willcock

14½

28

6

Gabriel Boross

11½

28

7

Peter Hiller

8

28

8

John Curran

2

28

9

James Hiller

(½)

(8)

James withdrew from tournament – less than half completed - games void in crosstable.

 

Lightning tournament 2003 results in detail

 

 

Transfer

No transfer. But the late games continued until 12.30am with Aaron and Eric both playing well and showing that their years away from the club have been put to good use. Andrew was unable to take a game off either, and it was not just the unusual time control (for our club) of 2min+12sec. Andrew settled for a few games with Ray Adams, while Brian took on Eric and George took on Aaron.

 

 

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