Round 4 games:
Tony Howes 0 Harvey Quaresmini 1
Marty Chadwick 1 Peter Hiller 0
Debbie Jenkins ½ Gabriel Boross ½
Brian Willcock 0 Andrew Robinson 1
Stuart Wilson 1 James Hiller 0
Gavin Foulger 0 George Flitcroft-Smith 1
Mike Talbot ½ John Curran ½
A full schedule of seven games were played tonight with several important results at the top of the table. Harvey won a game against Tony that he said he was never in until the end.
The other game between undefeated players came to a tense climax with the DOP able to report on the last ten minutes. George had long sunk below the five minute mark and stopped recording. When George stopped recording, Gavin did likewise unaware of that he must keep doing so under the rules. George stopped the DGT with his time 1:30, Gavin’s 4:57. The DOP ruled that Gavin should allow 30 seconds to run off his time (Gavin offered one minute) to allow for the non-recording, and both players agreed. At this time the position was something like: white Kc3 Rc4 a3 g3 h3, black Kd5 Ra7 a4 g5 h5. Gavin then pursued the wrong strategy, perhaps falling a victims of his opponent’s time trouble. He attempted to move the king up the b-file and dropped his rook upon a check at b7. George then added to his long list of lucky escapes in time trouble to win with about 30 seconds of time.
Gabby was reportedly unhappy with his game as he was held to a draw after being a pawn up. Andrew achieved a two pawn advantage which was enough to have an overwhelming advantage when Brian walked into a rook check that won a knight and brought on immediate resignation (please note: not in the same league as some of Brian’s queen sacs over the years).
Stuart ensured that James’ record would continue and even though James had a promising situation at one stage with connected pawns on the sixth and seventh ranks. Marty ensured it was a sad night for Hillers (still got the Wimbledon final to look forward to though!) when he managed to achieve chackmate in an overwhelming situation, but with less than two minutes on the clock.
By far the oddest game of the night was the Talbot-Curran clash. In the hushed tournament room Mike broke the room up with an ever so polite enquiry into the ethnic background of John’s surname, possibly breaching the CAQ’s code of conduct! (for more of Mike see ‘Quote of the week’ below) The game continued until well beyond the other games. In fact this one hour game went for two and a half hours! When asked by the DOP what was going on, John said that he thought that the analogue clock used for the game was defective because the flag didn’t fall. The DOP noticed that Mike’s time said ten past twelve and John’s said twenty to twelve. But John was adamant that Mike’s flag had not fallen. According to him, the hand went around but the flag didn’t fall (the clock seemed OK to the DOP!). Mike said he didn’t know anything (full stop). So the DOP said they should play on. And they did until a draw was agreed in a position approaching stalemate.
One Hour tournament: Current standings
All players to play 13 games
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
George Flitcroft-Smith |
5 |
5 |
|
2 |
Harvey Quaresmini |
4 |
4 |
|
3 |
Tony Howes |
3½ |
5 |
|
4 |
Gavin Foulger |
3½ |
5 |
|
5 |
Andrew Robinson |
3 |
4 |
|
6 |
Gabriel Boross |
2½ |
4 |
|
7 |
Brian Willcock |
2 |
4 |
|
8 |
Marty Chadwick |
2 |
4 |
|
9 |
Debbie Jenkins |
1½ |
4 |
|
10 |
Mike Talbot |
1½ |
4 |
|
11 |
John Curran |
1½ |
5 |
|
12 |
Stuart Wilson |
1 |
5 |
|
13 |
James Hiller |
0 |
4 |
|
14 |
Peter Hiller |
0 |
5 |
One Hour tournament 2003 results in detail
Quote of the night:
On the mysterious clock in his game with John Curran:
“I tampered with it”
- M Talbot
“This is no s--t. Guess what I saw on the internet…”
- M Talbot
“S--t. Bloody. Bugger. Bum. Blast.”
- M Talbot
“Transfer? I’m not playing that. That’s a @#$%^&’s game”
- M Talbot
Peter Hiller checkmated Andrew in the first game of transfer.
GF: “The crowd is hushed”
AR: “Except for some hyena laughing in the background”
Andrew & George won the next five games against Harvey & the hyena.