Summer Cup round 4

Nic Croad is now the sole leader, having beaten Anthony Ker yesterday and maintained his 100% record. In fact, he got 100% in the the last tournament too, the Julian Mazur, so that makes at least 11 victories in a row. Looking back at my previous blogs, the last time he lost was against Brian Nijman in the Club Championships.
Next round he will probably face a tough challenge in Russell Dive, who is also in a winning mood.

Results:
Croad 1 Ker 0
Dive 1 Hewson 0
Pomeroy 1 Nyburg 0
Marner 1 Forster 0
Sellen 1/2 Baider 1/2
Jackson 1 Bowden 0
Stracy 1/2 Du Plessis M 1/2
Aldridge 1 Nicholls 0
Wilkins 1 Proctor 0
Brockway 0 Hill 1
Salem 1 Seabrook 0
Du Plessis N 0 Nijman 1
Shierlaw 0 Rabina 1
Pattekar 0 Farrington 1
Joshi 1 Olssen 0 (default)
Capper 1 Waugh 0

Standings:

4 points
Nic Croad

3.5 points
Russell Dive

3 points
Ross Jackson, Anthony Ker, Gavin Marner, Arthur Pomeroy

2.5 points
Daniel Baider, Megan Du Plessis, Michael Hewson, Brian Nijman, Romeo Rabina, Edmund Salem, Ian Sellen, Mark Van der Hoorn

2 points
Alan Aldridge, Paul Bowden, Lawrence Farrington, Bill Forster, Martin Hill, Mulshankar Joshi, Marany Meyer, Michael Nyburg, Don Stracy, Mark Wilkins

1.5 points
Neels Du Plessis, Roy Seabrook

1 point
Andrew Brockway, David Capper, Alistair Nicholls, Somesh Pattekar, Matthew Proctor

0.5 point
Alex Olssen, Hugh Waugh

0 points
Hamish Shierlaw

Wellington versus Wanganui/Palmerston North

A very convincing victory for the Wellington visitors in Palmerston North on Saturday against Palmerston North and Wanganui combined. - 16.5 versus 1.5. Congratulations to all players!

Scott Wastney - Charles Ker 2-0
Anthony Ker - John McDonald 2-0
Nic Croad - Justin Davis 2-0
Alan Aldridge - Cedric Backhouse 1.5-0.5
Ross Jackson - Martin Post 2-0
Roy Seabrook - Stewart Holdaway 1-1
Ralph Townsend - Brian Williams 2-0
Lawrence Farrington - Tehgyu Kim 2-0
Andrew Brockway - John Young 2-0

For a sample game please visit Nic Croad's excellent blog http://www.southernchess.blogspot.com/

Summer Cup Round 3

Maybe I put a curse on the official site - it went down as soon as I linked to it. Anyway, I will carry on adding results to this blog, as I can get them out faster than them.
A few interesting results in round 3 - most notable was Megan's draw against Gavin Marner after a difficult knight versus bishop ending. Megan is rated 585 points below Gavin in the latest rating list! Our B grade champion Alan Aldridge (rating:1801) lost spectacularly to Paul Bowden (listed as an Upper Hutt player, rating 1432), and our joint A grade champion Brian Nijman was held to a draw by Don Stracy. Recent arrival Marany Meyer put up some resistance to Russell Dive, but lost in the end. And Michael Hewson is currently joint 3rd, along with Russell Dive, Just behind Anthony Ker and Nic Croad.

Full Results:

Ker 1 Sellen 0
Van der Hoorn 0 Croad 1
Du Plessis M 1/2 Marner 1/2
Dive 1 Meyer 0
Hewson 1 Rabina 0
Proctor 0 Jackson 1
Nyburg 1 Farrington 0
Baider 1 Wilkins 0
Forster 1 Joshi 0
Bowden 1 Aldridge 0
Nijman 1/2 Stracy 1/2
Hill 0 Pomeroy 1
Shierlaw 0 Seabrook 1
Olssen 0 Du Plessis N 1
Waugh 0 Salem 1
Nicholls 1 Capper 0

Standings:

3 points
Nic Croad, Anthony Ker

2 1/2 points
Russsell Dive, Michael Hewson

2 points
Daniel Baider, Paul Bowden, Megan Du Plessis, William Forster, Ross Jackson, Gavin Marner, Michael Nyburg, Arthur Pomeroy, Ian Sellen, Mark Van der Hoorn

1 1/2 points
Neels Du Plessis, Marany Meyer, Brian Nijman, Romeo Rabina, Edmund Salem, Roy Seabrook, Don Stracy

1 point
Alan Aldridge, Andrew Brockway, Lawrence Farrington, Martin Hill, Mulshankar Joshi, Alistair Nicholls, Somesh Pattekar, Matthew Proctor, Mark Wilkins

1/2 point
Alex Olssen, Hugh Waugh

0 points
David Capper, Hamish Shierlaw


Good luck to the Wellington team for Saturday, when they play the combined might of Wanganui and Palmerston North. I hope to get the results to publish here.

Summer Cup round 2

The official Wellington Chess Club website is now back up and running. The address is http://chess.wellington.net.nz/. Since tournament information will be available there, I will stop adding to this blog, unless anyone out there wants me to carry on for any reason.

I will just provide round 2 results before I sign off, since, uncharacteristically, I am up there with the leaders!

Aldridge, Alan 0 Ker, Anthony 1
Croad, Nic 1 Nyburg, Michael 0
Joshi, Mulshankar 0 Van der Hoorn, Mark 1
Sellen, Ian 1 Forster, William 0
Wilkins, Mark 1/2 Bowden, Paul 1/2
Pomeroy, Arthur 1/2 Baider, Daniel 1/2
Du Plessis, Megan 1 Salem, Edmund 0
Nichols, Alistair 0 Hill, Martin 1
Seabrook, Roy 1/2 Brockway, Andrew 1/2
Capper, David 0 Hewson, Michael 1
Rabina, Romeo 1 Pattekar, Somesh 0
Du Plessis, Neels 0 Proctor, Matthew 1
Jackson, Ross 0 Dive, Russell 1
Stracy, Don 1 Shierlaw, Hamish 0
Farrington, Lawrence 1 Olssen, Alex 0
Byes: Meyer, Waugh

Standings:

2 points
Croad, Ker, Van der Hoorn, Sellen

1.5 points
Dive, Du Plessis M, Hewson, Marner, Meyer, Rabina

1 point
Aldridge, Baider, Bowden, Farrington, Forster, Hill, Jackson, Joshi, Nyburg, Pomeroy, Proctor, Stracy, Wilkins

1/2 point
Brockway, Du Plessis N, Olssen, Pattekar, Salem, Seabrook, Waugh

0 points
Capper, Nicholls, Shierlaw

Welcome back! and Summer Cup round 1

Great to see so many people at the club tonight after the summer break.

Summer Cup started tonight and runs for eight weeks. No real upsets as far as ratings go.

Results:

Ker, Anthony 1 Stracy, Don 0
Hill, Martin 0 Croad, Nic 1
Van der Hoorn, Mark 1 Seabrook, Roy 0
Farrington, Lawrence 0 Sellen, Ian 1
Marner, Gavin 1 Capper, David 0
Brockway, Andrew 0 Jackson, Ross 1
Nyberg, Michael 1 Nicholls, Alistair 0
Olssen, Alex 1/2 Wilkins. Mark 1/2
Forster, William 1 Shirlaw, Hamish 0
Proctor, Mike 0 Aldridge, Alan 1
Meyer 1 Waugh, Hugh 0