Report –
Prize
Night Tournament - Handicap Lightning
Tonight’s prize night
and associated were a success as always, with a rivetting
tournament following the allocation of trophies to last year’s prize winners.
Two special guests came along tonight:
triple Flood Cup winner Phillip Kirkman; and Metin Ozaslan who had flown in from
Eleven players presented themselves for
the tournament and were divided into two groups, with the top two players
progressing to the semi-final stage.
As in previous years, time handicaps
were applied to players based on performance at the recent Lightning
Tournament, or on
Group stage
Results in the
group stage were as follows.
|
Group
A |
POINTS |
Handicap |
|
Martin Laizans |
4.0 |
1.0 |
|
Tony Howes |
4.0 |
2.0 |
|
Andrew
Robinson |
3.0 |
0.0 |
|
Adam Morris |
2.0 |
3.0 |
|
Metin Ozaslan |
2.0 |
1.0 |
|
Brian Willcock |
0.0 |
3.0 |
Martin played like he did in the first
week of the Lightning Tournament rather than the second week, and comfortably
qualified through the group stage.
Tony Howes
won all of his group matches except against Metin,
benefiting from a generous handicap after a below average result in last week’s
Lightning Tournament.
A play-off between Tony Howes and Andrew Robinson occurred to decide second place
in this group. As this was due to a calculation error, it was fortunate Tony
won the game anyway, and progressed to the semi-finals.
Metin
suffered the effects of jetlag and took a few matches to find any form, losing
the first few, but winning later against Tony Howes
and Brian Willcock.
|
Group
B |
POINTS |
Handicap |
|
Joshua Morris |
3.0 |
1.0 |
|
Phillip
Kirkman |
2.0 |
1.0 |
|
Andrew Mather |
2.0 |
0.0 |
|
Evgeny Voloshko |
2.0 |
1.0 |
|
Tony Morris |
1.0 |
2.0 |
Play-offs: A
random draw was made for two rounds of games to decide second place:
Andrew Mather – Evgeny Voloshko 1-0
Phillip Kirkman – Andrew Mather
1-0
Group B was very close with a three way
tie for second place.
Andrew Mather
seemed the most likely winner, but Phil Kirkman provided an upset to make it to
the semi-finals.
Semi-Finals
Martin Laizans – Phillip Kirkman 0-1
Joshua Morris –
Tony Howes 1-0
Not Played
Final
Joshua Morris –
Phillip Kirkman 1-0
Phil Kirkman continued to defy the
odds, brought on by a long period of chess inactivity, and made it all the way
through to the Final.
The Final Match was where Phil’s run
ended, with Joshua Morris winning and claiming this tournament for the first
time.
CONSOLATION MATCHES
Not Played
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.