Quite a few interesting games, Narelle and Bruce was interesting, Bruce’s Q and pawn winning over Narelle’s R and N. Daniel’s win over Dean, and Sergey drawing with Steven will certainly improve their rating next time they are updated. My game against Tommy was lost by me from about move 25, but I kept moving stuff around and avoided exchanges. Even on his last move of the game, I would have lost if Tommy had played any other move than the one he made, and I checkmated him – the only way I was going to win! Chess can be cruel sometimes!

It was unfortunate that there were 2 no-shows on Tuesday! Please let Steven know if you cannot play on game night, preferably the day before or earlier, so your opponent does not have a wasted trip.

Round 4 results

No Name              Rtg  Loc    Result   Name              Rtg  Loc  
 1 Williams, Bruce    2060 [3]      1:0    Szuveges, Narelle 1724 [3]  
 2 Gusain, Daniel     1562 [2.5]    1:0    Hogg, Dean        1999 [2.5]
 3 Wootten, Rory      1255 [2]      0:1    Davis, Tony       1892 [2.5]
 4 Dogaris, George    1004 [2]      -:+    Russo, Guy        1370 [2]  
 5 McIntyre, Charlie  1444 [1.5]   .5:.5   Enano, Ronald     1741 [1.5]
 6 Saric, Sergey      875  [1.5]   .5:.5   Hogan, Steven     1532 [1.5]
 7 Hu, Timothy        870  [1.5]    0:1    Ramos, Antonio    1496 [1]  
 8 Castles, Tommy          [1]      0:1    Humphreys, Scott  1724 [1]  
 9 Mullen, Chris      1390 [1]      0:1    Richards, Derek   1483 [1]  
10 Nowak, Ruben       1476 [1]     .5:.5   Whitford, Matthew 708  [1]  
11 Doust, Aidan       503  [.5]     0:1    Edwards, Regina   1363 [.5] 
12 O'Leary, Mike      271  [.5]     0:1    Maunders, Myiesha 964  [.5] 
13 Liu, Jim           528  [0]     .5:.5   Liu, William      257  [.5] 
14 Kostakakis, Angelo 1016 [0]      +:-    Bejjanki, Pranav  409  [0]  
15 Trofimovs, Joel         [0]     .5:0    BYE                         
16 Hibberd, Nathan    1977 [2]     .5:0    BYE                         
17 Salanowski, Mark   1668 [2]     .5:0    BYE