Anthony Ker leads the Julian Mazur Memorial tournament with 5/5 (3 rounds to go). He beat his nearest rival, Michael Nyberg, and now leads the field by a full point. Upset of round 4 was Bill Forster (rating 1904), who beat Brian Nijman (rating 2141) with the black pieces. Bill thus joins Nic Croad in the chasing pack on 4/5. Romeo Rabina has been playing very attractive chess, and comes in half a point behind, along with Michael Nyberg and Mark van der Hoorn.
Full results:
Ker 1 Nyberg 0
Croad 1 Sellen 0
Nijman 0 Forster 1
Marner 1 Grkow 0
Jhurani 0 van der Hoorn 1
Kay 1 Bardiya 0
Krueger 0 Rabina 1
Proctor 0 Salem 1
Bowden 0 Brockway 1
Farrington 0 Jackson 1
Some players have only played 1 or 2 games - I have followed the convention of scoring the first 2 absences as half point byes, and any further absences as defaults. This does not affect the top placings.
1. Anthony Ker (5)
2-3 Bill Forster, Nic Croad (4)
4-6 Mar van der Hoorn, Michael Nyberg, Romeo Rabina (3.5)
7-12 Andrew Brockway, Brian Nijman, Bruce Kay, Daniel Baider, Ian Sellen, Ross Jackson (3)
13-14 Gavin Marner, Anil Jhurani (2.5)
15-16 Hamish Shierlaw, Ridhesh Bardiya (2)
17-21 Alexei Manouilenko, Andrew Grkow, Edmund Salem, Paul Bowden, Sebastian Krueger (1.5)
22-24 Blaise Drinkwater, Lawrence Farrington, Somesh Pattekar (1)
25 Matthew Proctor (0.5)
The inaugural WELLINGTON RAPID took place on Saturday 15th November, and was won by Nic Croad on 5.5 points (5 wins, plus a draw with Anthony Ker). Anthony was 2nd on 5, and visitor Edwin Lee 3rd on 4.5 points. 27 players took part. Thanks to Alan, Ross and Mark for organising the event, and to Scott Wastney for bring along a fair size contingent of his juniors. Maybe some of them will come along to regular chess club meetings in the near future.
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