Report –
Flood Cup
Round 1 results:
Brian Willcock 0 Andrew Robinson
1
Cameron De Vere 1 Daniel Sheldon
0 (on forfeit)
Joshua Morris
0 Evgeny Voloshko 1
Tony Morris –
1 point BYE
The Flood Cup commenced with 9 of the
11 entrants having competed in last year’s edition of the Flood Cup.
New entries for this year came from Rex
Scarf and Evgeny Voloshko,
for their first Flood Cup campaigns
Four games were
played tonight, all wins to black.
The biggest
upset of the night saw the joint reigning Flood Cup champion Tony Howes succumb to Joseph Curtain.
Tony
experimented with a less familiar opening and never recovered after Joe played
solidly to tie up Tony’s pieces leading to a resignation in the middle game.
Evgeny Voloshko also showed he will be a force in this tournament
overcoming a formidable opponent in the first round.
Brian was
getting his pieces tied up in the middle game after the opening left a pawn
blockade across the middle 4 files of the board.
He then
overlooked the result of an exchange which left him a piece down after 25 moves
and resigning at Move 32.
Martin was on
top for most of his game, but made a few errors towards the end which Rex
failed to exploit, and remained comfortably in front until the end.
Flood Cup 2017: Current standings
All players to play 7 games
|
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
|
1 |
1.0 |
1 |
|
|
2 |
1.0 |
1 |
|
|
3 |
1.0 |
1 |
|
|
4 |
1.0 |
1 |
|
|
5 |
1.0 |
1 |
|
|
6 |
1.0 |
1 |
|
|
7 |
0.0 |
1 |
|
|
8 |
0.0 |
1 |
|
|
9 |
0.0 |
1 |
|
|
10 |
0.0 |
1 |
|
|
11 |
0.0 |
1 |
Flood Cup 2017 results in detail