Round 13 games:
Gabriel Boross 0 Tony Howes 1
Harvey Quaresmini 1 James Hiller 0
Marty Chadwick 0 George Flitcroft-Smith 1
Debbie Jenkins 1 John Curran 0
Harvey won his final games against James to clinch the tournament. This would seem to be his greatest tournament victory, certainly at The Gap. For some reason Harvey held that an insignificant allegro tournament at Northside was a greater achievement, due to him being sixth seed in a field of 19, and winning every game.
Overall, Harvey’s win was very popular at the club, and long tiem coming for Harvey, who had not won a significant tournament outright at The Gap since 1989.
George suffered the rare fate at The Gap of going undefeated through a tournament but not winning, or at least sharing the glory. Only Eddie Ottschoffski in the 1997 Flood Cup and Luke Murray in the 2000 One Hour suffered a similar fate, but both of those tournaments were over 7 rounds, rather than 13.
Of course this year’s tournament was also notable for Debbie’s Maiden Trophy win, and James’ first tournament win, breaking a run of 44 games without victory.
From the DOP’s perspective of the tournament, the best aspect was everyone’s enthusiastic participation, which was reflected in the fact that only 3 games were forfeited (1 by James and 2 at the end by Mike), and the vast majority of games were played on the scheduled night. Well done all!
Debbie v John
1.e4 c6, 2.d4 d5, 3.Nc3 e6, 4.e5 c5, 5.Nf6 cxd, 6.Nxd4 Nc6, 7.Bb5 Bd7, 8.NxN BxN, 9.BxB+ bxc6, 10.0-0 Be7, 11.Qg4 g6, 12.Be3 f6 13.exf Bxf6, 14.Qxe6+ Qe7, 15.Qxc6+ Kf7, 16.Qxd5+ Qe6, 17.QxR a6, 18. Qd5 Ne7, 19.QxQ+ KxQ, 20.Rfd1 Rc8, 21.Rd3 g5, 22.g4 h6, 23.Bd4 Rc6, 24.Re1+ Kf6, 25.BxB KxB, 26.Rf3+ Kg6, 27.RxN Rd6, 28.Rfd3 Rf6, 29.Ne4 Rf7, 30.RxR KxR, 31. c4 Black resigns.
Marty writes: “Here's the notation from the game I played against George on 26/9. I had
lost concentration at moves 28 and 29. Just like in the game against Stuart,
where I gave up a queen at a similar stage in the game. Had about 17 minutes
left on the clock at that point so I didn't feel any time pressure. George
then defeated me with his stronger endgame skills.”
Marty - George
1 d4 Nf6, 2 Nf3 d6, 3 Nbd2 Bf5, 4 e3 Nbd7, 5 h3 h5, 6 Bd3 BxB, 7 cxd3 e5, 8
0-0 Be7, 9 dxe5 dxe5, 10 a3 Bd6, 11 e4 h4, 12 Nc4 Qe7, 13 Bg4 Qf8, 14 Bxh4
Rh7, 15 Qa4 a6, 16 NxB+ QxN, 17 Rfd1 0-0-0, 18 g3 Nb6, 19 Qb3 Qe7, 20 Ng5
RxB, 21 gxh4 Rh8, 22 Nf3 Nfd7, 23 Rac1 Rh6, 24 Rc3 Qf6, 25 d4 Qg6+, 26 Kf1
Qxe4, 27 d5 Kb8, 28 Rdc1 Nxd5, 29 Qc4 NxR, 30 RxN QxQ+, 31 RxQ b5, 32 Re4
f5, 33 Re1 e4, 34 Nd4 g6, 35 Ke2 Ne5, 36 f4 Nc4, 37 b4 Rxh4, 38 Rg1 Rxh3, 39
Rxg6 Rxa3, 40 Nxf5 Ra2+, 41 Ke1 e3, 42 Nd4 Rf2, 43 f5 Ne5, 44 f6 NxR white
resigns 0-1
One Hour tournament: Current standings
All players to play 13 games
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
Harvey Quaresmini |
12 |
13 |
|
2 |
George Flitcroft-Smith |
11 |
13 |
|
3 |
Tony Howes |
10½ |
13 |
|
4 |
Andrew Robinson |
10 |
13 |
|
5 |
Gavin Foulger |
8 |
12 |
|
6 |
Gabriel Boross |
8 |
13 |
|
7 |
Debbie Jenkins |
7½ |
13 |
|
8 |
Brian Willcock |
7½ |
13 |
|
9 |
John Curran |
4½ |
13 |
|
10 |
Peter Hiller |
3½ |
13 |
|
11 |
Marty Chadwick |
3 |
13 |
|
12 |
Stuart Wilson |
2 |
12 |
|
13 |
Mike Talbot |
1½ |
13 |
|
14 |
James Hiller |
1 |
13 |
One Hour tournament 2003 results in detail
Allegro tournament
Two fixtures were brought forward and played tonight.
Andrew 2 Peter 0
Andrew 2 James 0
Quote of the night:
“None of ‘us’ won”
– Marty Chadwick commenting on the fact that no one in the bottom six won a game tonight. (Editor to BW – Changed ‘half’ to ‘six’ to save your money from hiring an incompetent lawyer)