The tournament finished in the most anti-climactic way with Peter Hiller not showing up and thus forfeiting his remaining games. This handed Andrew the Allegro tournament, and by virtue of his finishing ahead of George, the BAR Trophy. Next year the tournament will have rounds and dates for each fixture (as occurred in last year’s Allegro). This should lead to earlier attention to those players who don’t play their games, thus leaving their opponents in limbo.
Luthien played well in her games against Stuart to surge to a final fourth place in the tournament.
John was obviously pleased with his performance. After the final table was announced at the end of the night, he whispered rather reverentially: “Did I really finish above Brian Willcock?”
Results:
Harvey 0 Stuart H 1 (One game only was played. The other game was awarded to Stuart H on forfeit)
Luthien 2 Stuart H 0
Harvey 1 James 0 (making it 2-0)
James 0 John 1 (making it 2-0)
Ray 2 James 0
Luthien 2 Harvey 0 (on forfeit)
All unplayed games involving Peter Hiller (6 opponents) & James Hiller (3 opponents) were awarded to as 2-0 forfeits.
Allegro 2004: Final standings
All players to play 26 games
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
Andrew Robinson |
22½ |
26 |
|
2 |
Tony Howes |
22 |
26 |
|
3 |
George Flitcroft-Smith |
21½ |
26 |
|
4 |
Luthien Russell |
16 |
26 |
|
5 |
Stuart Holt |
15 |
26 |
|
6 |
Ray Adams |
14½ |
26 |
|
7 |
Debbie Jenkins |
14 |
26 |
|
8 |
Harvey Quaresmini |
12 |
26 |
|
9 |
John Curran |
12 |
26 |
|
10 |
Brian Willcock |
11 |
26 |
|
11 |
Marty Chadwick |
8½ |
26 |
|
12 |
Peter Hiller |
6 |
26 |
|
13 |
Stuart Wilson |
5 |
26 |
|
14 |
James Hiller |
0 |
26 |
Note: Adam Lucas withdrew from the tournament
Allegro tournament 2004 results in detail
45 Minute tournament
Three more games played tonight.
Andrew game with Mark was interesting and could have gone either way. Certainly it was a dead draw at the end until Mark made a huge blunder with five minutes left on his clock. Some of the positions during the game were:
W: Ke1 Re2 a4 b3 c2 e4 g3 g5; B: Kg7 Rd4 a5 b4 c3 e5 g6 h7
W: Ke1 Re3 a4 b3 c2 e4 g3; B: Kh6 Rd4 a5 b4 c3 e5 g6
W: Ke1 Rb5 a4 b3 g3; B: Kf5 Rg2 b4 c3 e5 g6
W: Kd2 Ra1 a7 b6; B: Kf2 Rd8 e2 g6
Results:
Ray 1 John 0
Stuart W 0 George 1
Mark T 0 Andrew 1
45 Minute 2004: Current standings
All players to play 5 games
Group A
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
Harvey Quaresmini |
1½ |
2 |
|
2 |
Ray Adams |
1½ |
2 |
|
3 |
Phillip Kirkman |
0 |
0 |
|
4 |
Luthien Russell |
0 |
0 |
|
5 |
Marty Chadwick |
0 |
0 |
|
6 |
John Curran |
0 |
2 |
Group B
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
Andrew Robinson |
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
George Flitcroft-Smith |
1 |
1 |
|
3 |
Mark Taylor |
1 |
2 |
|
4 |
Debbie Jenkins |
0 |
0 |
|
5 |
Brian Willcock |
0 |
0 |
|
6 |
Stuart Wilson |
0 |
2 |
45 Minute tournament 2004 results in detail
Quote of the night
“Did I really finish above Brian Willcock?” – John Curran
“I’ll give myself a C+” – James writing his own review for his performance in the Allegro tournament
“If he’s gonna be C+, who’s gonna be D?” – Upon seeing the final tournament table which showed that James had a donut collection to make Homer Simpson blush, this harsh judgment came from across the Sea of Japan
“I don’t think any of the Australian Idol contestants from this year could hold a candle to last year’s Australian Idol contestants. Paulini and Guy Sebastian, now they were giants of the genre” - James