The Summer tournament award ceremony took place on 27th September
On the last wednesday of september chess players gather - in this case 20 players - of all strenghts. They play a tournament with a difference - a difference in times calculated from the difference on the players ratings - One player could end up with 2mins against their opponents 18mins - all the games times added up to 20mins. A great way of equalising the playing field - would their be upsets? Games where a winning position is lost because of no time to complete - or in time trouble.... All part of this beautiful game.
Summer Quickplay - Round 1
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1913 [0] 1:0 Ram Rajan 1478 [0] 2 David Seaby 1338 [0] 0:1 Stephen Rush 1901 [0] 3 David Ruben 1714 [0] 0:1 CJ Murphy 1276 [0] 4 Dmitry Zelenchuk 1265 [0] 1:0 Bobby Thompson 1623 [0] 5 John Bradley 1605 [0] 0:1 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1226 [0] 6 Ranjit Singh 1100 [0] 0:1 Robert Lavery 1590 [0] 7 Daniil Zelenchuk 1587 [0] 0:1 Barney McGahan 1075 [0] 8 Geoff Hindley 870 [0] 0:1 Ian Woodfield 1511 [0] 9 Mark Newman 1556 [0] 1:0 Neil Green 1669 [0] 10 Derek Truesdale 1465 [0] 0:1 Boal Andy 848 [0]
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Round 1 and a few upsets showing the challenge and effectiveness of the time differences. Cathal Murphy beat David Ruben, Dmitry Zelenchuk beat Bobby Thompson, Adrian Dornford-Smith beat John Bradley, Barney McGahan beat Daniil Zelenchuk. These results could open up the competition.
Summer Quickplay - Round 2
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 CJ Murphy 1276 [1] 0:1 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1913 [1] 2 Stephen Rush 1901 [1] 1:0 Dmitry Zelenchuk 1265 [1] 3 Robert Lavery 1590 [1] 1:0 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1226 [1] 4 Barney McGahan 1075 [1] 1:0 Mark Newman 1556 [1] 5 Ian Woodfield 1511 [1] 1:0 Boal Andy 848 [1] 6 Ram Rajan 1478 [0] 0:1 David Ruben 1714 [0] 7 Neil Green 1669 [0] 1:0 David Seaby 1338 [0] 8 Bobby Thompson 1623 [0] 0:1 Ranjit Singh 1100 [0] 9 Geoff Hindley 870 [0] 0:1 John Bradley 1605 [0] 10 Derek Truesdale 1465 [0] 0:1 Daniil Zelenchuk 1587 [0]
Two upsets Barney McGahan beats Mark Newman and Ranjit Singh beats Bobby Thompson. Top cedes Nicholas and Stephen continue on full points.
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Summer Quickplay - Round 3
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1913 [2] 0:1 Robert Lavery 1590 [2] 2 Ian Woodfield 1511 [2] .5:.5 Stephen Rush 1901 [2] 3 David Ruben 1714 [1] 0:1 Barney McGahan 1075 [2] 4 Dmitry Zelenchuk 1265 [1] 1:0 Neil Green 1669 [1] 5 John Bradley 1605 [1] 1:0 CJ Murphy 1276 [1] 6 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1226 [1] 1:0 Daniil Zelenchuk 1587 [1] 7 Mark Newman 1556 [1] 0:1 Ranjit Singh 1100 [1] 8 Boal Andy 848 [1] 1:0 Bobby Thompson 1623 [0] 9 Ram Rajan 1478 [0] 1:0 Geoff Hindley 870 [0] 10 David Seaby 1338 [0] 1:0 Derek Truesdale 1465 [0]
Robert Lavery stops Nicholas' run of wins whilst Ian gets a draw against Stephen. Barney keeps his unbeaten record and gains a point of David Ruben. Ranjit beats Mark Newman whilst Andy wins against Bobby.
Summer Quickplay - Round 4
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Robert Lavery 1590 [3] 1:0 Barney McGahan 1075 [3] 2 Stephen Rush 1901 [2.5] 1:0 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1913 [2] 3 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1226 [2] 0:1 Ian Woodfield 1511 [2.5] 4 Ranjit Singh 1100 [2] 0:1 John Bradley 1605 [2] 5 Boal Andy 848 [2] 1:0 Dmitry Zelenchuk 1265 [2] 6 Daniil Zelenchuk 1587 [1] 1:0 David Ruben 1714 [1] 7 Neil Green 1669 [1] 0:1 Ram Rajan 1478 [1] 8 CJ Murphy 1276 [1] 1:0 Mark Newman 1556 [1] 9 Geoff Hindley 870 [0] 1:0 David Seaby 1338 [1] 10 Bobby Thompson 1623 [0] 1:0 Derek Truesdale 1465 [0]
A play off between Robert and Barney is won by Robert who leads with 4 out of 4. The top cedes meet and Stephen wins against Nicholas.
Summer Quickplay - Round 5
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Ian Woodfield 1511 [3.5] .5:.5 Robert Lavery 1590 [4] 2 John Bradley 1605 [3] 0:1 Stephen Rush 1901 [3.5] 3 Barney McGahan 1075 [3] 0:1 Boal Andy 848 [3] 4 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1913 [2] 1:0 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1226 [2] 5 Dmitry Zelenchuk 1265 [2] 1:0 Daniil Zelenchuk 1587 [2] 6 Ram Rajan 1478 [2] 1:0 CJ Murphy 1276 [2] 7 David Seaby 1338 [1] 0:1 Ranjit Singh 1100 [2] 8 David Ruben 1714 [1] 1:0 Neil Green 1669 [1] 9 Mark Newman 1556 [1] 1:0 Bobby Thompson 1623 [1] 10 Derek Truesdale 1465 [0] 1:0 Geoff Hindley 870 [1]
Last but one round. Robert remains unbeaten with a draw against Ian Woodfield, Stephen Rush joins the lead with 4.5. Andy Boal is making progress with 4 out of 5 points.
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Summer Quickplay - Round 6
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Stephen Rush 1901 [4.5] .5:.5 Robert Lavery 1590 [4.5] 2 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1913 [3] 0:1 Ian Woodfield 1511 [4] 3 Boal Andy 848 [4] 0:1 John Bradley 1605 [3] 4 Ranjit Singh 1100 [3] 0:1 Ram Rajan 1478 [3] 5 Barney McGahan 1075 [3] 0:1 Dmitry Zelenchuk 1265 [3] 6 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1226 [2] 1:0 David Ruben 1714 [2] 7 Daniil Zelenchuk 1587 [2] 1:0 Mark Newman 1556 [2] 8 CJ Murphy 1276 [2] 1:0 Geoff Hindley 870 [1] 9 Neil Green 1669 [1] 1:0 Derek Truesdale 1465 [1] 10 Bobby Thompson 1623 [1] 1:0 David Seaby 1338 [1]
An exciting finish - the leaders Stephen and Robert play for the championship - but an interesting result - a draw and Ian Woodfield catches them with a win Nicholas Pilkiewicz. So 3 players on 5 points - we would have to go to tie breaks to see who wins. Stephen Rush wins the tournament. Some sharp games some beautiful positions and some rushed/quick moves..... special mention of Andy Boal who did brilliantly to come joint 4th.
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Summer Quickplay - Standings
Place Name Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1-3 Rush, Stephen 1901 5 16.0 22.0 18.5
Woodfield, Ian 1511 5 15.0 21.0 18.0
Lavery, Robert 1590 5 14.0 22.0 19.5
4-7 Andy, Boal 848 4 13.0 19.0 15.0
Bradley, John 1605 4 13.0 19.0 13.0
Zelenchuk, Dmitry 1265 4 12.0 19.0 13.0
Rajan, Ram 1478 4 10.0 14.0 10.0
8-13 Pilkiewicz, Nicholas 1913 3 17.0 25.0 13.0
Dornford-Smith, Adrian 1226 3 15.0 22.0 11.0
McGahan, Barney 1075 3 13.0 20.0 15.0
Singh, Ranjit 1100 3 12.0 18.0 11.0
Murphy, CJ 1276 3 11.0 16.0 10.0
Zelenchuk, Daniil 1587 3 10.0 15.0 9.0
14-17 Ruben, David 1714 2 12.0 18.0 7.0
Newman, Mark 1556 2 11.0 16.0 8.0
Thompson, Bobby 1623 2 10.0 15.0 4.0
Green, Neil 1669 2 9.0 14.0 6.0
18-20 Hindley, Geoff 870 1 12.0 18.0 3.0
Seaby, David 1338 1 8.0 14.0 4.0
Truesdale, Derek 1465 1 8.0 13.0 2.0
Following the competition we had the award Ceremony for the Summer Tournament - a marathon of 20 weeks of chess.
Summer Tournament Winners
Overall Winner: Dmitry Zelenchuk percentage of 85.7% - and unbeaten - a brilliant result.
Second Overall: Stephen Rush percentage of 80%.
Top section Winner: Nicholas Pilkiewicz on 75%.
Middle section Winner: Daniil Zelenchuk on 62.5%
Lower section Winner: Barney McGahan on 71.4%.
New comer to the tournament Ranjit Singh got a commendable 60% and came second in this section.
