Congratulations to Dean for winning all of his games. We start the 7 round (7 week) Hobsons Bay Cup event on the 4th May (may the fourth be with you!)

Purdy Cup final laddder

Pos   N  NAME                Rtg  PRtg Pts Buc1 BucT  
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  1   2  Hogg,Dean           1974 2326 5.0 13.0 
  2   4  Davis,Tony J        1797 1663 4.0 15.0 
  3   1  Beaumont,David      2017 1727 4.0 14.0 
  4  31  Maure,Eric             0 1253 4.0 10.5 
  5   7  Hogan,Steven        1518 1070 3.5 13.0 
  6  14  Saric,Sergey        1355 1111 3.5 12.5 
  7  20  McIntyre,Cameron     789 1162 3.5 11.0 13.0 
  8   5  Enano,Ronald        1602 1345 3.5 11.0 12.5 
  9  15  Paul,Cijo           1295 1041 3.0 14.0 
 10   9  Whitford,Matthew    1446 1174 3.0 13.0 
 11   6  Humphreys,Scott     1584  896 3.0 12.0 
 12  18  D'Souza,Nathan       975  702 3.0 11.5 
 13  10  Kirk,Ian            1410  746 3.0 11.0 
 14   8  Salanowski,Mark     1466  918 2.5 12.5 
 15  22  Beaumont,Archer      553 1527 2.5 11.0 
 16  28  Cox,Tyler              0  973 2.5 10.0 
 17  13  Mullen,Chris        1359  433 2.0 13.0 
 18  26  Condick,Peter          0 1174 2.0 11.5 
 19  12  McIntyre,Julian     1384  399 2.0 11.0 
 20  11  Nowak,Ruben         1408  570 2.0  9.5 11.0 
 21  21  Clerk,Max            695  768 2.0  9.5 10.5 
 22  29  Koci,Adem              0 1065 2.0  9.0 
 23  33  Kurian,Maksym        792  911 2.0  8.5 
 24  17  Matijas,Dejan       1011 1209 1.5 13.0 
 25  23  Bejjanki,Pranav Sai  533    0 1.5 10.0 
 26  32  Maure,Evangelino       0  587 1.0 10.5 
 27  19  Clerk,Felix          853  381 1.0  8.5 
 28  27  Cox,Aiden              0  337 0.5 11.5 
 29   3  Gusain,Daniel       1936    0 0.5 10.0 
 30  24  Watson,Nicolas       222  151 0.0 11.0 
 31  16  Lim,Neiss           1021 1217 0.0 10.0 11.0 
 32  25  Abraham,Robin          0    0 0.0 10.0 11.0 
 33  30  Mathew,Shashi          0  555 0.0  9.5 10.5 
 34  34  Gupta,Varun            0  175 0.0  9.5 10.5 

Tony and Dean remain undefeated, and they will decide the winner of the Purdy Cup next week.

Round 4 results

 1=Beaumont,David  (3.0)-Hogg,Dean          (3.0)= 1- 2=0-1
 2=Davis,Tony J    (3.0)-Hogan,Steven       (2.5)= 4- 7=1-0
 3=Salanowski,Mark (2.5)-Enano,Ronald       (2.0)= 8- 5=0-1
 4=Nowak,Ruben     (2.0)-Humphreys,Scott    (2.0)=11- 6=0-1
 5=Whitford,Matthew(2.0)-Paul,Cijo          (2.0)= 9-15=1-0
 6=Saric,Sergey    (2.0)-Kirk,Ian           (2.0)=14-10=1-0
 7=Beaumont,Archer (1.5)-Maure,Eric         (2.0)=22-31=0F-1F
 8=McIntyre,Cameron(1.5)-McIntyre,Julian    (1.5)=20-12=1-0
 9=Cox,Tyler       (1.5)-Clerk,Max          (1.0)=28-21=1-0
10=Mullen,Chris    (1.0)-Maure,Evangelino   (1.0)=13-32=1-0
11=Matijas,Dejan   (1.0)-Koci,Adem          (1.0)=17-29=0F-1F
12=Condick,Peter   (1.0)-Bejjanki,Pranav Sai(0.5)=26-23=1-0
13=Cox,Aiden       (0.5)-Clerk,Felix        (0.0)=27-19=0-1
14=Watson,Nicolas  (0.0)-D'Souza,Nathan     (1.0)=24-18=0-1
15=Gusain,Daniel   (0.5)-(not paired )      (0.0)= 3- 0=0    
16=Lim,Neiss       (0.0)-(not paired )      (0.0)=16- 0=0    
17=Abraham,Robin   (0.0)-(not paired )      (0.0)=25- 0=0    
18=Mathew,Shashi   (0.0)-(not paired )      (0.0)=30- 0=0    
19=Kurian,Maksym   (1.0)-(not paired )      (0.0)=33- 0=0    
20=Gupta,Varun     (0.0)-(not paired )      (0.0)=34- 0=0    

Round 5 pairing (provisional)

 1=Hogg,Dean          (4.0)- Davis,Tony J     (4.0)= 2- 4
 2=Whitford,Matthew   (3.0)- Beaumont,David   (3.0)= 9- 1
 3=Enano,Ronald       (3.0)- Saric,Sergey     (3.0)= 5-14
 4=Humphreys,Scott    (3.0)- Maure,Eric       (3.0)= 6-31
 5=Hogan,Steven       (2.5)- Salanowski,Mark  (2.5)= 7- 8
 6=Cox,Tyler          (2.5)- McIntyre,Cameron (2.5)=28-20
 7=Kirk,Ian           (2.0)- Koci,Adem        (2.0)=10-29
 8=D'Souza,Nathan     (2.0)- Nowak,Ruben      (2.0)=18-11
 9=Paul,Cijo          (2.0)- Condick,Peter    (2.0)=15-26
10=Beaumont,Archer    (1.5)- Mullen,Chris     (2.0)=22-13
11=Matijas,Dejan      (1.0)- McIntyre,Julian  (1.5)=17-12
12=Clerk,Max          (1.0)- Clerk,Felix      (1.0)=21-19
13=Maure,Evangelino   (1.0)- Cox,Aiden        (0.5)=32-27
14=Bejjanki,Pranav Sai(0.5)- Watson,Nicolas   (0.0)=23-24
15=Kurian,Maksym      (1.0)- ( not paired )   (0.0)=33- 0 = 0    
16=Gusain,Daniel      (0.5)- ( not paired )   (0.0)= 3- 0 = 0    
17=Lim,Neiss          (0.0)- ( not paired )   (0.0)=16- 0 = 0    
18=Abraham,Robin      (0.0)- ( not paired )   (0.0)=25- 0 = 0    
19=Mathew,Shashi      (0.0)- ( not paired )   (0.0)=30- 0 = 0    
20=Gupta,Varun        (0.0)- ( not paired )   (0.0)=34- 0 = 0     

Round 3 results

  1=Humphreys,Scott  (2.0)-Beaumont,David   (2.0)=  6- 1=0- 1
  2=Hogg,Dean        (2.0)-Whitford,Matthew (2.0)=  2- 9=1- 0
  3=Paul,Cijo        (2.0)-Davis,Tony J     (2.0)= 15- 4=0- 1
  4=Hogan,Steven     (1.5)-McIntyre,Cameron (1.5)=  7-20=1- 0
  5=Salanowski,Mark  (1.5)-Beaumont,Archer  (1.5)=  8-22=1- 0
  6=Enano,Ronald     (1.0)-Matijas,Dejan    (1.0)=  5-17=1- 0
  7=Kirk,Ian         (1.0)-Condick,Peter    (1.0)= 10-26=1- 0
  8=Koci,Adem        (1.0)-Nowak,Ruben      (1.0)= 29-11=0- 1
  9=Maure,Eric       (1.0)-Mullen,Chris     (1.0)= 31-13=1- 0
 10=Maure,Evangelino (1.0)-Saric,Sergey     (1.0)= 32-14=0- 1
 11=McIntyre,Julian  (0.5)-Cox,Aiden        (0.5)= 12-27=1- 0
 12=Bejjanki,Pranav  (0.5)-Cox,Tyler        (0.5)= 23-28=0- 1
 13=D'Souza,Nathan   (0.0)-Gupta,Varun      (0.0)= 18-34=1- 0
 14=Watson,Nicolas   (0.0)-Kurian,Maksym    (0.0)= 24-33=0- 1
 15=Clerk,Max        (0.0)-Clerk,Felix      (0.0)= 21-19=1F-0F
 16=Gusain,Daniel    (0.5)-( not paired )   (0.0)=  3- 0=0    
 17=Lim,Neiss        (0.0)-( not paired )   (0.0)= 16- 0=0    
 18=Abraham,Robin    (0.0)-( not paired )   (0.0)= 25- 0=0    
 19=Mathew,Shashi    (0.0)-( not paired )   (0.0)= 30- 0=0    

The round 1 results are below, with a total of 32 players competing, with a message from Steven:

Next week will be round 2, however with Easter the following week we will play a short time control event on the following week (6 April) to allow people who may be going away over Easter to not have to miss a round of the rated event.
This short time control event is 5 rounds played under a time control of 10 minutes + 10 secs per move (called an Allegro event). The club runs 3 of these per year, and traditionally has a specific opening theme for each one, meaning that all games are played starting from a position in the same opening. These themes are selected via vote.
Up until next week, players can submit opening themes you would like to play, and from next Tuesday we’ll conduct the vote via email. When submitting an opening, please include the starting moves that lead to the position games will be played from (i.e. If submitting the Advance French, the moves 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 might be the position you’d like to submit as a theme.
Feel free to submit more than 1 opening you’d like to try, as there are 3 allegro evenings, players will be able tom vote for 3 of the theme’s that I’ll advise next week. These can be standard openings, however aggressive gambits have also been played as themes in previous years.

Round 1 results

 1 = Lim,Neiss            - Beaumont,David    =  16- 1 = 0 - 1
 2 = Hogg,Dean            - Matijas,Dejan     =   2-17 = 1 - 0
 3 = D'Souza,Nathan       - Davis,Tony J      =  18- 4 = 0 - 1
 4 = Enano,Ronald         - Clerk,Felix       =   5-19 = 1 - 0
 5 = Clerk,Max            - Humphreys,Scott   =  21- 6 = 0 - 1
 6 = Hogan,Steven         - Beaumont,Archer   =   7-22 = ½ - ½
 7 = Watson,Nicolas       - Whitford,Matthew  =  24- 9 = 0 - 1
 8 = Kirk,Ian             - Abraham,Robin     =  10-25 = 1 - 0
 9 = Condick,Peter        - Nowak,Ruben       =  26-11 = 1 - 0
10 = McIntyre,Julian      - Cox,Tyler         =  12-28 = ½ - ½
11 = Koci,Adem            - Mullen,Chris      =  29-13 = 0 - 1
12 = Saric,Sergey         - Mathew,Shashi     =  14-30 = 1 - 0
13 = Maure,Eric           - Paul,Cijo         =  31-15 = 0 - 1
14 = Maure,Evangelino     - ( bye )           =  32- 0 = 1