Summer Tourney
2008
Last updated:
Tuesday, 23 September 2008 17:05 UK
Summer Handicap Tournament 2008 at
the Adelphi each Monday evenings 7.30pm.
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Started: |
Monday
19th May |
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Ends: |
Monday
9th September |
Winner 2008:
Andrej Stancak
This tournament was open for
members and non-members and took place every Monday
(excluding Bank Holidays) from
7.30 - 10.30pm. It's was a casual event, games were not
graded and it was possible to play as little or as much as you like.
The tournament was run by Luke
Boumphrey
lboumphrey@yahoo.co.uk.
Weekly updates are
below with reports by Luke. The Adelphi was an
ideal venue for the tournament, our clubroom is large and
spacious with licensed bars easily accessible via the main
staircase or lift to the ground floor.
For information
about the format of the event and details of the 'rules' please
see below.
Some grades have been estimated
and are based on 2007 not 2008.
Table @ 2nd September 2008
|
Name |
Grade |
Games Played |
Score |
Pos |
|
Andre Stancak |
155 |
6 |
43.67 |
1 |
|
Chris Wentworth |
114 |
6 |
39.67 |
2 |
|
Vojtech Fiser |
96 |
2 |
38 |
3 |
|
John Carleton |
208 |
6 |
36 |
4 |
|
John Redmond |
165 |
5 |
26.2 |
5 |
|
Phil Hopkins |
115 |
12 |
21.083 |
6 |
|
Sean Malkeson |
75 |
2 |
17 |
7 |
|
Luke Boumphrey |
161 |
11 |
11.81 |
8 |
|
Stephen Philp |
122 |
5 |
3.4 |
9 |
|
Steve Burge |
104 |
6 |
2.67 |
10 |
|
Brian Ewart |
128 |
6 |
0.5 |
11 |
|
Martin Blasczyk |
135 |
6 |
-8 |
12 |
|
Sanjoy Banerjee |
77 |
2 |
-9 |
13 |
|
Frank Boyd |
154 |
3 |
-19.3 |
14 |
|
Neil Suttie |
130 |
9 |
-23.4 |
15 |
|
Mark Wadsworth |
140 |
6 |
-23.5 |
16 |
|
Dave James |
191 |
3 |
-32.3 |
17 |
2nd Sept -
Report & results
from Luke Boumphrey
Sean Malkeson
½-½
Stephen Philp
Although it was a busy
night down the club tonight only one summer tourney game took
place. Sean attacked well but at the critical moment missed a by
no means obvious win and play transposed to an ending which was
by the time I saw it, drawn.
Next week is the end of the summer tourney
and there are 3 contenders for first place with Andre Stancak
being favourite.
19th
August -
Report & results
from Luke Boumphrey
John Carleton 1-0 Chris Wentworth
Phil Hopkins 1-0 Sean Malkeson
Luke Boumphrey 0-1 Chris Wentworth
Its been a quiet few weeks whilst the
British Championships have been on. Chris has been busy though
and now lies in second place. He beat Neil Suttie after Neil had
the better of the opening 2 weeks ago.
This week Chris unleashed a
new opening on both me and John Carleton beating me quite
convincingly but failing to get the better of John. In the other
game played Phil won on time against the returning Sean
Malkeson.
5th August -
Results
from Luke Boumphrey
Chris Wentworth 1-0 Neil Suttie
30th July -
Report & results
from Luke Boumphrey
Steve Burge 0-2 Luke
Boumphrey
Phil Hopkins 0-1
Brian Ewart
Mark Wadsworth 1-0
Neil Suttie
With most chess players in
Liverpool concentrating on the British Championships at St.
George's Hall, the summer tourney had its quietest night yet.
The first game to finish
was my first against Steve Burge. Steve obtained a reasonable
position with his new opening but went wrong in the tactics
dropping material and the game. Phil and Brian's game was
interesting Phil conceding some pawn weaknesses for an
entrenched knight . Brian played round this and while Phil was
worried about his pawns he forgot about his king and Brian
converted quickly. Mark and Neil fought out a tough battle
Neil's early pawn gambit for development permitted Mark to
consolidate his position and in giving the pawn back, went on to
win a close fought game.
22nd July -
Report & results
from Luke Boumphrey
John Carleton 1-0 Brian Ewart
Steve Burge 0-2 John Redmond
Dave James 0-1 Luke Boumphrey
Steve Philp 0-1 Phil Hopkins
Some tough games played tonight with no less than 3 players claiming bonuses for their high percentage of wins. John faced an unusual line against Brian but managed to outplay him in the middlegame and
notched up his 100% bonus. He has a chance of winning this tourney if he continues to win but must play some higher graded players as well or hope that when Andre returns from holiday he is not in such quite good form.
John Redmond picked up a pawn early as white to beat Steve Burge and then picked up his 90% bonus by outplaying him in a difficult middlegame. I was lucky in my game against Dave who held some advantage
all the way through but mis-judged the ending which he went in for. By not acquiescing to some draws he eventually ended up with a worse position and I managed to convert picking up an 80% bonus. Steve Philp and Phil's game was truly
chess for blood with no quarter given in either the game or the analysis. In the end Phil played on in what may have been a drawn position and with the clock on his side duly converted.
14th July -
Report & results
from Luke Boumphrey
Luke Boumphrey 1-0 Vojtech Fiser
Mark Wadsworth 0-1 Andre Stancak
Phil Hopkins 2-0 Neil Suttie
Brian Ewart 0-1 Vojtech Fiser
Chris Wentworth
½-½ Steve Burge
6 games played tonight and most of them decisive.
Phil's first game against Neil finished very quickly with Neil blundering early on. The next game to finish was my game against Vojtek. He played originally in the opening and obtained a reasonable
position. The game revolved around an unsound queen manoeuvre of mine which Vojtech missed the main threat of which spoilt his position completely and I soon won material and position and the game.
Andre earned his place at the top of the table with a model opening and consistent strategy. Prophylaxis on the queen side coupled with a strong attack on the king gave him the win and the 90% bonus. If
Andre were to notch up even a draw against similarly graded opposition next week his will be the score to beat. It was good to see Vojtech down the club again and he played Brian who quickly established a position a piece up. However
Vojtech had established a wedge in Brian's position and in attempting to break it Brian unfortunately dropped a whole rook.
Meanwhile Neil's unfortunate night continued with Phil taking full advantage of his opening mistake in the return game. No matter how much Neil battled he couldn’t recover and Phil notched up his second
point of the night. Meanwhile Chris and Steve played a more sedate game with Steve's draw offer accepted by Chris with plenty of time left to discuss things down at the Everyman (Theatre).
5th July -
Report & results
from Luke Boumphrey
Luke Boumphrey 1-0 Neil Suttie
(game)
Phil Hopkins 0-1 Steve Philp
Mark Wadsworth 1-0 Brian Ewart
Martin Blasczyk 0-1 Andre Stancak
Steve Burge ½-½ Chris Wentworth
Phil Hopkins 1-0 Sanjoy Bannerjee
Another night another set of results and some interesting games.
My game against Neil was very interesting I think. I have given it to Steve to put up on the website. In summary Neil played principally and maybe correctly for much of the game but run into
some fierce tactics when he decided to open the position. A few errors here and there from either side left black material down and a hopeless endgame.
Phil's game this week against Steve Philp left him with a misplaced queen more down to inexperience rather than a lack of desire or talent. This cost him the game as Steve was able to
trap her majesty. Mark played a very sound positional game against Brian’s attempts to follow Grischuk’s opening idea. In a difficult position Brian miscalculated to leave Mark a
whole rook up. There was no coming back.
Andre continued his strong form with a demolition of an opening idea of Martin's which left him a sound pawn up which he converted with good technique. If Andre were to win his next game he
will get a bonus for his high percentage of wins and this will put him in a strong position.
Steve Burge and Chris Wentworth had a real dogfight. Chris found himself with control on the queenside which I rather unfairly(on Steve) expected him to convert. When I next looked at the game
he had his major pieces on the eighth rank and a mating attack. However Chris defended doggedly and after a slip allowed a resourceful (or according to modest Chris) desperate exchange sac. Chris was able to force perpetual and rare
for this tourney, shared the honours with his opponent
16th June -
Report & results
from Luke Boumphrey
Luke Boumphrey 1–0 Mark Wadsworth
John Carleton 1-0 Phil Hopkins
Steve Philp 1–0 Martin Blasczyk (game)
A quiet night tonight which started with the usual problem solving. My game against Mark was the first to finish. Mark drifted into opening difficulties and didn’t find the best defence
dropping a pawn. A further queen exchange left him with a hopeless endgame. Phil chose a French pawn structure against John Carleton and soon drifted into a lost ending with a hopelessly bad bishop. Steve and Martin had a very
interesting game which I have asked for it to be put on this website. Martin grabbed a hot pawn and soon regretted it, Steve's superior development telling.
2nd June -
Report & results
from Luke Boumphrey
Neil Suttie 0-1 John Carleton
Phil Taylor 0-1 Luke Boumphrey
J, Redmond 1-0 Martin Blascyk
Mark Wadsworth 0-1 Chris Wentworth
Andre Stancak ½-½ Dave James
Neil Suttie ½-½ Frank Boyd
Another good night down the Adelphi with 5 games played in the summer tourney and plenty of bitz and lively discussion afterwards.
Carlo's game against newcomer Neil Suttie was interesting John allegedly went wrong in an open game but his class told and he quickly won.
In my return match against Phil in another open game my love of sacrifice again had an influence. It should have lost but instead of centralising his king against my attack Phil headed for the
corner with big material loss coming.
Neil then took on Frank and their result is above (sorry didn’t see these games).
Nor did I see Chris and Marks game but Chris pulled out an interesting aggressive line with black and won material.
The heavyweight encounter of the night had to be Andre and Dave's game, In a highly theoretical line Andre seemed to establish advantage with white. Dave fought hard and with the queens coming
off the current seemed to change. An ending resulted which was difficult to judge but Dave had the upper hand. As the material reduced Dave won the pawn race but only just. After nearly 3 hours play a position resulted with Dave
having Q+N against pawn but amazingly it seemed to be a theoretical draw so peace was agreed.
27th May -
Report & results
from Luke Boumphrey
Sanjoy Bannerjee 0-1 John Carleton
Luke Boumphrey 1-0 Phil Taylor
Andre Stancak 1-0 Steve Philp
Frank Boyd 0-1 Martin Blasczyk
John Redmond ½-½ Luke Boumphrey
A quiet start to the summer tournament saw most games being decisive. Carlo finished first with a neat dark square destruction of Sanjoy’s English Opening.
I took on Phil in a main line Sicilian rather uncharacteristically deciding to sacrifice early. Phil declined and it was solely this that cost him material position and the game.
Meanwhile Andre and Steve had decided to play an opening neither were that familiar with, with the result that Andre with the white pieces obtained a clear positional plus of doubled isolated
pawns on an open file which he duly converted.
John Redmond arrived later and we played a half hour game that was not without interest or inaccuracies. We disputed who was better following the opening and John got into time pressure which
led to a clear advantage for me (clear to John that is) I succeeded in 'ballsing' it up and it was only Zeitnot which got me the draw.
The final hard fought game between previous Summer tourney winner Frank Boyd and newcomer Martin Blaszyk was very interesting. Frank got some advantage with the white
pieces but maybe not enough to claim a theoretical win. Martin's pieces were well placed for the defence and Franks position was a little loose. Rather than steer to an ending with a slight edge Frank mis-combined and Martin brought
the point home leading to him having a well earned early lead in the summer tourney.
Rules for 2008 Summer Tournament
Game Play: Normal Tournament and
League rules apply.
Rate of Play
To be mutually agreed.
Format
A double round flexible all play
all. Although no player may play each other more than twice
(once with white and once with black) there is no obligation to
play anyone. However to be eligible for the trophy a
minimum of 6 games must be played. Theoretically any number of
games can be played in a night.
Handicap
Formulae
You do not
have to understand the
formulae to play and take part. It is provided here so that if
you wish and are able you can confirm (hopefully) that the
organisers are doing a decent job.
SCORE =
Tournament Grade- Published Grade + Game bonus+ ‘Giant Killer’
bonus
Tournament
Grade is calculate in a
standard way which can be summed up as;
Tournament
Grade = Sum of Game grades
Number of Games Played
Game Grade
= Opponents Grade Plus
50 for win or Minus 50 for loss, unless
difference in grades is more than 40.
Then:
Game Grade = Your grade
+or-40 Plus 50 for win or minus 50 for loss
Published
Grade is the last
published grade
Current
members who are ungraded will have their grade assessed by their
captains
New members
who are ungraded will be assessed on the basis of their first
three games.
Game bonus
1 point per
game played
Giant
Killer Bonus
This has been
used to encourage lower graded players to play higher graded
players
If the
difference in grades is more than 50
5 pts for a
draw
10 pts for a
win
If the
difference is more than 100 the bonus is trebled.
This bonus is
in addition to the large score already obtained.
High Score
Bonus
Introduced
this year to give the strongest players a chance of winning.
For a total
score of 80% 5pts for a score of 90% 10 pts and for a score of
100% 20 pts
If you have questions about the
Tournament please speak to Luke or email:
lboumphrey@yahoo.co.uk
