Monday, February 9, 2009

Welcome back!

Congratulations to Anthony Ker who not only took his 10th New Zealand Champion title in Queenstown, but also took the rapid and blitz titles as well! Very greedy.
Anthony and Russell Dive were missing from the starting line-up for the Summer Cup on Tuesday, but present were Nic Croad, Mark Van der Hoorn and Daniel Baider. Lots of new faces at the club, too. Big upset of the first round was Ross Jackson losing to Henry Wylde after blundering into a fork the exchange up. The other seed to lose was Romeo Rabina. Mark played his famous-in-New-Zealand Vandaliser system (f3 followed by Kf2) and ground out a win against Hamish Shierlaw. I won somewhat unconvincingly against newcomer Melvin Tung.

Round 1 full results:
Croad 1 Hewson 0
Bowden 0 Baider 1
Van der Hoorn 1 Shierlaw 0
Drinkwater 0 Nijman 1
Jackson 0 Wylde 1
Zhon 0 Nyberg 1
Sellen 1 Tung 0
Wu 0 Grkow 1
Stracy 1 J Hong (sr) 0
Sun 1 Rabina 0
Brockway 1 J Hong (jr) 0
Byes: Aldridge, Forster plus (no doubt) others

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