Summer Cup Round 4 - Baider Defeats Croad, Shares Lead.

Daniel Baider showed excellent technique winning his 4th round encounter against leader Nic Croad. When I first looked at the position Daniel had a passed pawn deep in Nic's position on d6 supported by a pawn on e5. The position was wildly complicated, and I was glad it was not I trying to play either side. His victory puts him in first place with 3.5/4 along with perennial conquerors Russell Dive and Anthony Ker, both of whom won their games, against Martin Hill and Mark van der Hoorn respectively. Martin seemed to be holding against Russell's English opening, but no doubt Russell had it all worked out. Mark got lumbered with weak pawns in a Rook and pawn endgame, and got ground down.
Michael Nyberg against Gavin Marner was interesting, with mutual violence against the opposing Kings leading to Gavin being a piece up in the endgame. Gavin had Knight plus Bishop plus pawn versus Michael's Knight - If Michael could take the pawn for the Knight Gavin would have had to try to win the difficult King + Bishop + Knight versus King endgame, which would have been a challenge. Fortunately for him he was able to shepherd his pawn to promotion, at which point Michael resigned.

I am not sure of the result of Palmer vs Jeffrey Wu, I am guessing the result from the relative sizes of their smiles after the game. Please let me know if I got it wrong.

Round 4 full results:

Baider 1 Croad 0
Ker 1 Van der Hoorn 0
Dive 1 Hill 0
Nyberg 0 Marner 1
Nijman 1 Brockway 0
Sun 0 Sellen 1
Forster 1 Stracy 0
Grkow 1/2 Jackson 1/2
Rabina 1 Hewson 0
Wylde 1 J Hong 0
Drinkwater 1 Pattekar 0
Shierlaw 1/2 L Wu 1/2
J Hong 0 Aldridge 1
Theodosiou 0 Tung 1
Palmer 0 J Wu 1


Standings:

3.5 points
Daniel Baider, Russell Dive, Anthony Ker

3 points
Brian Nijman, Gavin Marner, Ian Sellen, Nic Croad

2.5 points
Bill Forster, Mark van der Hoorn, Martin Hill

2 points
Alan Aldridge, Andrew Brockway, Anil Jhurani, Don Stracy, Hamish Shierlaw, Henry Wylde, John Marney, LingZhou Wu, Melvin Tung, Michael Nyberg, Romeo Rabina, Zak Sun

1.5 points
Andrew Grkow, Jeffrey Wu, Michael Hewson, Paul Bowden, Ross Jackson

1 point
Blaise Drinkwater, Jen Nung Hong, Jen Sun Hong

0.5 points
Andreas Theodosiou, Luke Palmer, Somesh Pattekar

AGM is this Tuesday. If you have anything to say about how the club is run, please make sure you are there to make your voice heard!
Should be time for a bit of blitz fun afterwards...