Julian has wrestled the lead heading into the Allegro round, with a hungry pack not far behind. Makes for a very exciting last 2 weeks.
Next weeks Allegro will involve 5 matches at the time control of 10 mins + 5 secs. Each game will count 2 points towards the championship.
The medium and the first of the long games has completed, with Rheyansh holding onto his tournament lead. An exciting leaderboard with 10 players in striking distance, each able to make a strong case for taking out the event.
See you next week for week 3. It will run as the same format as this week, two long games at the 30 + 15 sec time control.
Current standings:
Round 1 2 Length Medium Long Player Rating Max 12 Max 8 Total Rheyansh Annapureddy 1157 10.5 6 16.5 Julian McIntyre 1292 7.5 8 15.5 Sergey Saric 1376 9 6 15 Ruben Nowak 1411 9 4 13 Matthew Whitford 1567 4.5 8 12.5 Steve Hogan 1536 6 6 12 Scott Humphreys 1538 7.5 4 11.5 Dejan Matijas 1228 7.5 4 11.5 Mark Salanowski 1442 6 4 10 Ian Kirk 1241 6 4 10 Adem Koci Unr 4.5 4 8.5 Conrado Cajes Unr 0 8 8 Max Clerk 737 6 2 8 Cijo Paul 1528 7.5 0 7.5 Eric Maure 1255 6 0 6 Peter Condick 1191 6 0 6 Tyler Cox 954 6 0 6 Aiden Cox Unr 0 4 4 Emmanual Massa Unr 0 4 4 Felix Clerk 848 3 0 3
Due to some computer issues for our Arbiter, I do not have the round 7-9 results. But round 10 is below. Congratulations to Mohammad on his tournament win with 8.5 / 10! Next Tuesday is an allegro evening, with the Grunfeld defence as the theme (starting moves 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5)
The following week will be the commencement of the 7 round Koshnitsky Cup. The event calendar is here.
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Cheema, Mohammad 1728 [7.5] 1:0 Russo, Guy 1450 [4.5] 2 Hibberd, Nathan 1812 [6.5] 1:0 Hogan, Steven 1610 [6] 3 Enano, Ronald 1777 [6.5] 1:0 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [5.5] 4 Minichelli, Phil [4.5] 0:1 Hibberd, Aaron 832 [4.5] 5 Saric, Sergey 550 [4.5] .5:.5 Liu, Jim [4.5] 6 Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [4] 0:1 Gusain, Daniel [4.5] 7 Salanowski, Mark 1574 [4] 1:0 O'Leary, Mike 449 [3.5] 8 Richards, Derek 1512 [4] .5:.5 Papac, Luka 1637 [3.5] 9 Shelev, Petar [2] 0:1 Bejjanki, Pranav [2.5] 10 Liu, William [2.5] .5:0 BYE
Please see the results below for rounds 5 and 6. With Mohammad beating Dean in round 6, he is in the box seat for future rounds.
Round 5
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Cheema, Mohammad 1728 [3.5] 1:0 Nowak, Ruben 1435 [3] 2 Hibberd, Nathan 1812 [3] 0:1 Hogg, Dean 2036 [3] 3 Russo, Guy 1450 [3] 0:1 Enano, Ronald 1777 [3] 4 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [2.5] 1:0 Salanowski, Mark 1574 [2.5] 5 Mullen, Chris 1382 [2] 0:1 Hogan, Steven 1610 [2.5] 6 Gusain, Daniel [2] 0:1 Richards, Derek 1512 [2] 7 O'Leary, Mike 449 [2] 0:1 Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [2] 8 Hibberd, Aaron 832 [1.5] 0:1 Saric, Sergey 550 [1.5] 9 Doust, Aidan [1] 0:1 Ramos, Tony 1487 [1.5] 10 Liu, Jim [1] 0:1 Minichelli, Phil [1] 11 Liu, William [.5] 1:0 Liu, Tina [.5] 12 Papac, Luka 1637 [0] 1:0 Bejjanki, Pranav [.5] 13 Shelev, Petar [1] .5:0 BYE
Round 6
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Hogg, Dean 2036 [4] 0:1 Cheema, Mohammad 1728 [4.5] 2 Hogan, Steven 1610 [3.5] 1:0 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [3.5] 3 Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [3] 0:1 Hibberd, Nathan 1812 [3] 4 Richards, Derek 1512 [3] .5:.5 Russo, Guy 1450 [3] 5 Nowak, Ruben 1435 [3] 1:0 Salanowski, Mark 1574 [2.5] 6 Saric, Sergey 550 [2.5] 1:0 Ramos, Tony 1487 [2.5] 7 Mullen, Chris 1382 [2] 0:1 Gusain, Daniel [2] 8 Minichelli, Phil [2] 1:0 O'Leary, Mike 449 [2] 9 Hibberd, Aaron 832 [1.5] 1:0 Liu, William [1.5] 10 Doust, Aidan [1] 0:1 Papac, Luka 1637 [1] 11 Bejjanki, Pranav [.5] .5:.5 Liu, Jim [1] 12 Enano, Ronald 1777 [4] .5:0 BYE 13 Shelev, Petar [1.5] .5:0 BYE 14 Liu, Tina [.5] .5:0 BYE
Two more rounds have been played (5 nights or 10 rounds in total). it is still a very tight event. Results are below, and a preliminary draw for round 5.
Round 3
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Cheema, Mohammad 1728 [2] .5:.5 Enano, Ronald 1777 [2] 2 Russo, Guy 1450 [2] .5:.5 Hogg, Dean 2036 [1.5] 3 Hibberd, Nathan 1812 [1.5] 1:0 Ramos, Tony 1487 [1.5] 4 Ilic, Milan 1609 [1.5] 0:1 Nowak, Ruben 1435 [1.5] 5 Gusain, Daniel [1] .5:.5 Hogan, Steven 1610 [1] 6 Liu, Jim [1] 0:1 Salanowski, Mark 1574 [1] 7 Richards, Derek 1512 [1] +:- Saric, Sergey 550 [1] 8 O'Leary, Mike 449 [1] 0:1 Mullen, Chris 1382 [1] 9 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [.5] 1:0 Bejjanki, Pranav [0] 10 Hibberd, Aaron 832 [0] .5:.5 Shelev, Petar [0] 11 Withers, Jeremy [0] 0:1 Doust, Tim [0] 12 Doust, Aidan [0] .5:.5 Liu, William [0] 13 Minichelli, Phil [0] 0:1 Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [0] 14 Liu, Tina [0] .5:.5 BYE
Round 4
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Enano, Ronald 1777 [2.5] .5:.5 Hibberd, Nathan 1812 [2.5] 2 Nowak, Ruben 1435 [2.5] .5:.5 Russo, Guy 1450 [2.5] 3 Richards, Derek 1512 [2] 0:1 Cheema, Mohammad 1728 [2.5] 4 Hogg, Dean 2036 [2] 1:0 Mullen, Chris 1382 [2] 5 Salanowski, Mark 1574 [2] .5:.5 Gusain, Daniel [1.5] 6 Hogan, Steven 1610 [1.5] +:- Ilic, Milan 1609 [1.5] 7 Ramos, Tony 1487 [1.5] 0:1 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [1.5] 8 Doust, Tim [1] 0:1 O'Leary, Mike 449 [1] 9 Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [1] 1:0 Liu, Jim [1] 10 Liu, Tina [.5] 0:1 Hibberd, Aaron 832 [.5] 11 Shelev, Petar [.5] .5:.5 Doust, Aidan [.5] 12 Liu, William [.5] 0:1 Minichelli, Phil [0] 13 Bejjanki, Pranav [0] .5:.5 Withers, Jeremy [0] 14 Saric, Sergey 550 [1] .5:0 BYE
Round 5 (preliminary draw)
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Cheema, Mohammad 1728 [3.5] : Nowak, Ruben 1435 [3] 2 Hibberd, Nathan 1812 [3] : Hogg, Dean 2036 [3] 3 Russo, Guy 1450 [3] : Enano, Ronald 1777 [3] 4 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [2.5] : Salanowski, Mark 1574 [2.5] 5 Mullen, Chris 1382 [2] : Hogan, Steven 1610 [2.5] 6 Gusain, Daniel [2] : Richards, Derek 1512 [2] 7 O'Leary, Mike 449 [2] : Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [2] 8 Hibberd, Aaron 832 [1.5] : Saric, Sergey 550 [1.5] 9 Doust, Aidan [1] : Ramos, Tony 1487 [1.5] 10 Minichelli, Phil [1] : Doust, Tim [1] 11 Liu, Jim [1] : Shelev, Petar [1] 12 Bejjanki, Pranav [.5] : Liu, Tina [.5] 13 Liu, William [.5] .5:0 BYE by Swiss Perfect (TM) www.swissperfect.com
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