Tonight saw a return to good attendances with all of the Flood Cup entrants showing up tonight apart from Brian and Gabby who will be playing their round 5 game at Gabby’s house at Samford due to his recent (successful) knee operation which temporarily prevents him from driving a car.
Flood Cup
Round 5 results:
Garvin Gray 0 Phillip Kirkman 1
Tony Howes 1 Debbie Jenkins 0
Gabriel Boross 0 Brian Willcock 1 – played Sunday 1 May
Andrew Robinson 1 Harvey Quaresmini 0 (on forfeit)
Ray Adams 1 Mick Waters 0
Shane Martin 1 Marty Chadwick 0
Mark Taylor 1 James Hiller 0
Stuart Wilson 1 point bye.
Phil and Tony maintained their lead at the top of the table, with only Andrew and Brian anything more than a statistical chance of catching them following the round’s other results.
Phil was a few minutes late and thus arrived to find his clock started on him. Ten years ago or more when Phil previously was a regular at The Gap this never happened. However the club’s culture has changed and punctuality is now an expected virtue (Do I hear cries from Mr Willcock “The DOP’s a fascist”?). Anyway, this clock starting just made Phil more concerted in his efforts, and after the opening ten moves he started to ramp up the pressure which finally Garvin could not organise his resources to repel. Garvin was very sharp over the first ten moves or so through the opening indicating to some observers that he had put some thought and preparation into this game.
The other top board game was a marathon see-sawing battle that saw opportunities on both sides. The game was the longest of this tournament so far finishing at 12.20am. Tony looked to be building an advantage in the middle game until Debbie found a good bishop move to hold it together. As the endgame was approaching both players had two rooks and a bishop of opposite colours while Tony had a pawn advantage. Many seasoned observers thought a draw the most likely outcome due to the opposite coloured bishops, as the rooks appeared headed for exchange without advantage. Then after white’s 38th move the situation was: {W Ka5 Be1 b4 c5 d3 f3 g2 h2; B Kc6 Bd5 d4 e3 f5 g7 h6; W 11:38 min; B 25:00 min}. Phil suggested (away from the game of course) that black had a win with Bc4. This did not happen over the board, and a draw still seemed likely but Tony just managed to scrape through in the small hours of the evening. Debbie said afterwards that she will never forgive him for playing 1 e4 instead of his usual 1 d4!
In other games, Ray had a comfortable win over Mick (and gave him a tutorial after the game). Shane pulled off the surprise of the night with a solid victory over Marty, holding onto a piece advantage going into the endgame. James played surprisingly well getting to the endgame just two pawns down with only single rooks on the board. However once James’ draw offer was rebuffed his chances receded, and his finally resignation with caused by the en passant rule (he called the DOP but was assured that it was a real rule and not one that Mark had made up!).
Late news: Brian
reported on his game with Gabby on Sunday as follows:
“I won! It was an endgame game! I entered the endgame a pawn up and was able
to convert that into a win.”
Flood Cup: Current standings
All players to play 7 games
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
Phillip Kirkman |
4½ |
5 |
|
2 |
Tony Howes |
4½ |
5 |
|
3 |
Andrew Robinson |
3½ |
5 |
|
4 |
Brian Willcock |
3½ |
5 |
|
5 |
Debbie Jenkins |
3 |
5 |
|
6 |
Ray Adams |
3 |
5 |
|
7 |
Garvin Gray |
3 |
5 |
|
8 |
Gabriel Boross |
2½ |
5 |
|
9 |
Harvey Quaresmini |
2 |
5 |
|
10 |
Mick Waters |
2 |
5 |
|
11 |
Mark Taylor |
2 |
5 |
|
12 |
Shane Martin |
2 |
5 |
|
13 |
Stuart Wilson |
1½ |
5 |
|
14 |
Marty Chadwick |
1 |
5 |
|
15 |
James Hiller |
1 |
5 |
|
16 |
Peter Hiller |
0 |
2 |
|
17 |
Cameron De Vere |
0 |
1 |
Flood Cup 2005 results in detail
Standings (from Swissperfect)
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score Buch. M-Buch. 1 Kirkman, Phillip QLD 1552 4.5 16.0 9.0 2 Howes, Tony QLD 1527 4.5 13.0 8.0 3 Willcock, Brian QLD 1246 3.5 13.0 7.0 4 Robinson, Andrew J QLD 1596 3.5 12.0 7.5 5 Jenkins, Deborah QLD 1360 3 14.5 8.5 6 Gray, Garvin QLD 1188 3 13.0 8.0 7 Adams, Ray QLD 1468 3 12.5 7.0 8 Boross, Gabriel QLD 1418 2.5 14.5 8.5 9 Waters, Mick QLD 1290 2 13.0 7.0 10 Quaresmini, Harvey A QLD 1525 2 12.0 8.0 11 Martin, Shane QLD 2 11.5 7.0 Taylor, Mark QLD 2 11.5 7.0 13 Wilson, Stuart QLD 882 1.5 10.5 6.5 14 Chadwick, Marty QLD 1048 1 12.0 6.5 15 Hiller, James QLD 619 1 10.0 6.0 16 Hiller, Peter QLD 1159 0 5.5 5.5 17 De Vere, Cameron QLD 0 2.0 2.0
Quote of the night
“Last week’s account of my game was factual” – James Hiller
“Don’t worry if he checkmates you. Just keep on playing. He won’t notice” – Stuart passing on some sound words of advice to Mark before his stoush with James tonight
“Are you opening the batting tonight” – James to Mark
“Is he 334 not out yet?” – Andrew. “He’s not there yet, but he’s in good form” – James
“I could have got another draw if he hadn’t en passant-ed me. I knew he’d have a trick up his sleeve” – James
“I waited at the board for the first five minutes without making a move just to annoy him” – Phil revealing that he’s been keenly reading Alex Ferguson’s Mind games for dummies
“There are good bishops and bad bishops…” – Ray while explaining the Cambridge Springs variation to Mick