One Hour / Maiden Trophy
Round 8 results:
Nathan Shaw 1 John Curran 0
Brian Willcock 0 Kieran Lyons 1
Ray Adams – BYE
Mark Taylor 0 Greg Colwell 1 (on forfeit)
Russell Lyons – BYE
Tony Howes 1 Andrew Robinson 0
Round 10 result:
Russell Lyons 0 Ray Adams 1
Tony grabbed his chance to win the tournament assisted by two amazing and unprecedented black-outs from Andrew. The first occurred after Tony took a while on a move and Andrew looked at the ongoing farce that passed for a game of chess between Kieran and Brian. Brian had just left his queen en pris and was folding up his scoresheet preparing to ritually destroy it while Kieran was still contemplating her move. Andrew went back to the board (wondering to himself about Brian’s amazingly instinctual chess), moved hastily and left his own queen en pris. Tony exhaled audibly in shock and grabbed the queen. Andrew managed a knight and bishop as compensation and then somehow managed to almost claw back into the game. Tony’s queen was nearly trapped in the middle of the board and he had to give back the exchange to prevent this. Then the position was reduced down so that Tony would have had a Q+R v R+R+B endgame, except that Andrew moved hastily again (even though again he’d thought through the combinations exhaustively during Tony’s thinking time) and lost the bishop. Tony finished Andrew off professionally and with style to clinch an important victory in the context of the tournament.
Russell and Ray reached what many observers thought was a drawn endgame with opposite coloured bishops and five pawns each with kings in appropriate defensive positions. If anything Russell might have had the better position, however his lack of endgame experience was the telling factor in Ray slogging his way to victory.
Nathan won against John to improve his chances of a 50/50 finish while condemning John to an anxious battle to avoid the wooden spoon.
Kieran’s win over Brian sees her and Tony as the two remaining players that can win the tournament on their own account. The other two players with a possible chance, Andrew and Ray, will have to hope that results fall their way to have any chance.
The Maiden Trophy is virtually decided with Kieran now at unbackable odds to win this trophy for the first (and only!) time.
One Hour 2007: Current standings
All players to play 10 games
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
Andrew Robinson |
7 |
9 |
|
2 |
Ray Adams |
7 |
9 |
|
3 |
Kieran Lyons |
6.5 |
8 |
|
4 |
Tony Howes |
5.5 |
7 |
|
5 |
Russell Lyons |
5 |
8 |
|
6 |
Greg Colwell |
4 |
7 |
|
7 |
Nathan Shaw |
3.5 |
8 |
|
8 |
Brian Willcock |
3 |
8 |
|
9 |
Garvin Gray |
1.5 |
10 |
|
10 |
John Curran |
1 |
8 |
|
11 |
Mark Taylor |
0 |
6 |
One Hour 2007 results in detail
Odd Knights Tournament
No games played tonight.
Quote of the night
“First he gave a piece to me, then he left his queen en pris” – Kieran, who even with her vast Olympic experience had never encountered such creative tactics such as those employed by Mr Willcock tonight.