Report – 27 March 2015
Flood Cup
Round 3 results:
Marcus Porter 1 Andrew Mather 0
Tony Howes ½ Andrew Robinson ½
Russell Lyons 0 Sanat Kunwar 1
Other games from this round played last Friday:
Tony Morris ½ Martin Laizans ½
Brian Willcock 0 Metin Ozaslan 1
John Ryland 0 Cameron De Vere 1
Peter Hiller 1 Stefan Flanigan 0
Adam Morris one point BYE
Perhaps the most crucial game of the night resulted in a defeat for the reigning Flood Cup champion, and a great opportunity for Marcus to win the tournament.
The game seemed to be played at a leisurely pace, and especially Marcus, who arrived late for the game from work, then used very little of his time, and seemed to be only half-serious in his attitude.
However this may have been a clever ploy to disarm Andrew, because Marcus developed a lethal attack with his two rooks and a knight to conjure a mating trap which Andrew’s less well positioned pieces were unable to defend against. This game also put to an end Andrew’s run of 14 consecutive wins, his last loss also against Marcus, in last year’s Flood Cup.
Tony played an original opening he discovered during his lunch break today, hoping it would precipitate an earlier finish to his game.
Alas, this was not to be, and the game became one of Tony’s well positioned pieces looking for an opening against desperate defence.
Two hours into the game, each player had lost just two pawns, black had two knight on the fourth rank and all other pieces on the back rank.
A snatched pawn breathed some life into black’s game, and there were just enough counter-attacking possibilities to thwart white’s attack from becoming decisive.
A draw was agreed at 11:20pm, with black a pawn up, but white with central connected passed pawns on the fifth and sixth rank (but difficult to progress).
Sanat won his game early on against Russell, to move into the top half of the table.
A pleasing aspect of tonight was the number of players who came to chess and did not have tournament play.
The club welcomed Samuel Hunt, a noted chess coach and promoter, who has done much to popularise chess in West Kentucky, USA.
We also saw Joe Curtain at the club, who as well as playing blitz chess took a keen interest in the top of the table between his friends Andrew and Marcus.
Ray returned to the club after an absence of a month on a South Sea cruise, and being an aficionado of the longer form of the game stayed to the end just before midnight, keenly following the Howes-Robinson clash.
In addition, Tony Joshua and Adam Morris came and played various form of social chess, as did Brian and Metin.
Flood Cup 2015: Current standings
All players to play 7 games
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No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
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1 |
3.0 |
3 |
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2 |
2.5 |
3 |
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3 |
2.0 |
3 |
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4 |
2.0 |
3 |
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5 |
2.0 |
3 |
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6 |
2.0 |
3 |
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7 |
2.0 |
3 |
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8 |
2.0 |
3 |
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9 |
1.5 |
3 |
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10 |
1.5 |
3 |
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11 |
1.5 |
3 |
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12 |
1.0 |
3 |
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13 |
1.0 |
3 |
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14 |
1.0 |
3 |
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15 |
1.0 |
3 |
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16 |
0.0 |
3 |
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17 |
0.0 |
3 |
Flood Cup 2015 results in detail
Standings after Round 3 (from Swissperfect)
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score Buch. M-Buch. 1 Porter, Marcus QLD 1663 3 4.0 1.5 2 Howes, Tony QLD 1658 2.5 4.0 2.0 3 Mather, Andrew QLD 1796 2 6.5 2.0 4 Robinson, Andrew QLD 1675 2 5.5 2.05 Kunwar, Sanat QLD 2 5.5 1.5
Ozaslan, Metin QLD 2 5.5 1.57 Morris, Tony QLD 1314 2 4.0 1.5
8 Morris, Joshua QLD 1299 2 2.0 0.5 9 Laizans, Martin QLD 1335 1.5 4.0 2.0 10 De Vere, Cameron QLD 1637 1.5 3.5 1.5 11 Hiller, Peter QLD 1244 1.5 3.0 1.5 12 Petrie, Nicholas QLD 1 5.5 2.0 13 Morris, Adam QLD 1 5.5 1.5 14 Willcock, Brian QLD 1271 1 4.5 2.0 15 Lyons, Russell QLD 1357 1 3.5 1.5 16 Ryland, John QLD 892 0 5.5 1.5 17 Flanigan, Stefan QLD 0 5.0 1.5
Crosstable after Round 3 (from Swissperfect)
No Name Feder Loc Id Rtg Total 1 2 3 1 Porter, Marcus QLD 4559853 3 13:W 6:W 3:W2 Howes, Tony QLD 4134680 2.5 16:W 5:W 4:D3 Mather, Andrew QLD 4559396 2 8:W 15:+ 1:L4 Robinson, Andrew QLD 4156911 2 14:W 7:D 2:D5 Kunwar, Sanat QLD 4562196 2 10:W 2:L 15:W6 Ozaslan, Metin QLD 2 9:W 1:L 14:W7 Morris, Tony QLD 4143334 2 12:W 4:D 9:D8 Morris, Joshua QLD 4562211 2 3:L 17:W 12:W9 Laizans, Martin QLD 3078794 1.5 6:L 16:W 7:D10 De Vere, Cameron QLD 4539936 1.5 5:L 11:D 16:W11 Hiller, Peter QLD 4150876 1.5 0: 10:D 17:W12 Petrie, Nicholas QLD 1 7:L 0:W 8:L13 Morris, Adam QLD 1 1:L 14:L 0:W14 Willcock, Brian QLD 4140615 1 4:L 13:W 6:L15 Lyons, Russell QLD 4166321 1 17:W 3:- 5:L16 Ryland, John QLD 4560391 0 2:L 9:L 10:L17 Flanigan, Stefan QLD 0 15:L 8:L 11:L
45 Minute Tournament
One game played tonight.
Result:
Tony Morris 1 Brian Willcock 0
45 Minutes 2014: Current standings
All players to play 4 games in Group A and 7 games in Group B
Group A
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No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
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1 |
4.0 |
4 |
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2 |
2.0 |
3 |
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3 |
2.0 |
4 |
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4 |
0.0 |
2 |
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5 |
0.0 |
3 |
Group B
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No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
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1 |
4.0 |
4 |
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2 |
3.0 |
6 |
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3 |
3.0 |
6 |
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4 |
2.0 |
2 |
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5 |
2.0 |
4 |
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6 |
1.0 |
2 |
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7 |
1.0 |
5 |
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8 |
0.0 |
3 |
45 Minutes Tournament 2014 results in detail