Prize Night Tournament - Handicap Lightning
Prize Night
The night commenced with the presentation of prizes to tournament and trophy winner for 2009. Stuart Wilson was on hand again to hand out the prizes to the prize winners from last year, which were quite well distributed.
Handicap Lightning Tournament
For the first time in ten years there were less than 12 entrants and so the tournament was run as a single group round-robin event.
A handicap system was used, based on players’ ACF ratings. 1500+ players received a zero handicap (‘playing off scratch’), 1400-1499 would have received a ½ point handicap (but there were none), 1300-1399 1 point, Greg received 2.5 points and Stuart was given a nominal rating of 750 and thus received a 4.0 point handicap. Before each game the difference between the 2 players’ handicaps is calculated, with the lower rated player having 5 minutes in the game to make all moves. The higher rated player is allocated 5 minutes minus the handicap difference (but must have at least one minute). For example, if the difference is 1.5 then the higher rated player will receive 3.5 minutes to make their moves, the lower rated player 5 minutes.
The tournament was decided in the last game in which Andrew beat Tony.
Final Table
|
No. |
Player |
Rating |
H’cap |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
Total |
|
1 |
Andrew Robinson |
1398 |
1.0 |
X |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
|
2 |
Tony Howes |
1501 |
0.0 |
0 |
X |
½ |
1 |
1 |
½ |
1 |
4 |
|
3 |
Nathan Shaw |
1307 |
1.0 |
1 |
½ |
X |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
3½ |
|
4 |
Greg Colwell |
1073 |
2.5 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
X |
1 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
|
5 |
Cameron De Vere |
1524 |
0.0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
X |
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
6 |
Ray Adams |
1386 |
1.0 |
0 |
½ |
0 |
1 |
0 |
X |
1 |
2½ |
|
7 |
Stuart Wilson |
750* |
4.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
X |
0 |
Colours and draw
|
No. |
Player |
|
1 |
Cameron De Vere |
|
2 |
Andrew Robinson |
|
3 |
Stuart Wilson |
|
4 |
Ray Adams |
|
5 |
Nathan Shaw |
|
6 |
Tony Howes |
|
7 |
Greg Colwell |
1v8
2v7 3v6 4v5
8v5 6v4 7v3 1v2
2v8 3v1 4v7 5v6
8v6 7v5 1v4 2v3
3v8 4v2 5v1 6v7
8v7 1v6 2v5 3v4
4v8 5v3 6v2 7v1
Further information:
Past winners of the Handicap Lightning tournament (with index to past tournaments)
Results of tonight’s tournament in are presented here in detail.
Other incidents
Another huge downpour at 10:30pm, just like last year. But no mystical appearance of Brian this year.
Some photos from tonight’s action
Stuart Wilson presents the Flood Cup to 2009 winner Ray Adams
Stuart Wilson Trophy winner for 2009, Cameron De Vere
St David’s Day individual winner for 2009, Tony Howes
Best All-Rounder 2009, Andrew Robinson
Allegro tournament winner 2009, Nathan Shaw
Round 3 action from tonight’s tournament
Cameron De Vere playing against Stuart Wilson
Cameron in concentration
Stuart considering his next move
Quote of the night
“That’d be a first” – Nathan to Greg after an upset result in Round 4