Croad slips, Ker takes Fischer Random title

Congratulations to Anthony Ker who finished with wins against Nic Croad and Brian Nijman to take the inaugural Fischer Random title. Here are the positions:

Round 5

It was really difficult to castle in this position, and less than half of players managed it. Only one person managed to castle on the King side - Martin Hill. In his game against Matthew Proctor he cleared his back rank, and with a great flourish (and a great big smile) swept the king and the c1 Rook over to the other side of the board. Not only this, Martin and I played a couple of blitz games afterwards using the same position, and he castled on the King side in both games!

Round 6 position:

For the record, here are the results of rounds 5 and 6:

Round 5

Ker 1 Croad 0

Wastney 1/2 Dive 1/2

Farrington 0 Nyberg 1

Jackson 1 Van der Hoorn 1

Nijman 1 Aldridge 0

Brockway 0 Forster 1

Drinkwater 0 Sellen 1

Hill 1 Proctor 0

Round 6

Nijman 0 Ker 1

Nyberg 0 Croad 1

Jackson 0 Wastney 1

Dive 1 Hill 0

Sellen 0 Van der Hoorn 1

Forster 1 Proctor 0

Aldridge 1 Brockway 0

Drinkwater 0 Farrington 1

Final placings:

5.5 points

Anthony Ker

5 points

Nic Croad

4.5 points

Rusell Dive, Scott Wastney, Michael Nyberg

4 points

Brian Nijman

3 points

Alan Aldridge, William Forster, Martin Hill, Ross Jackson, Mark Van der Hoorn

2 points

Andrew Brockway, Lawrence Farrington, Matthew Proctor, Ian Sellen

1 point

Blaise Drinkwater, Edmund Salem, Roy Seabrook

0 points

Paul Bowden, Romeo Rabina

Back to normal this week for the Autumn Cup. See you there.