The 2025 Summer tournament ends with a fun tournament and award ceremony
The evening started with our fun time-handicap tournament. Players clock times depended on the difference of the ratings of the two players.
ie : if the difference was in the range 620 to 779 then the times are set to 3mins v 17mins. If they are within 59 rating points then we have 10mins v 10mins. David Seaby a regular at previous Summer Tournaments setup the scale of differences - many thanks to David. We run 5 rounds and to help with the smooth running I had clocks setup to various pre-defined differences. The draw included the players ratings - I used the classical UCU ratings.
Fun Civil Service - Round 1
Results
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Caleb McClean 1853 [0] 1:0 David Blair 1625 [0] 2 Cathal Murphy 1597 [0] 0:1 Andrew Campbell 1849 [0] 3 Ethan Cole 1815 [0] 1:0 Richard Proctor 1565 [0] 4 Sanket Sawant 1546 [0] 0:1 Edward Khanzharov 1812 [0] 5 Shane Keers 1792 [0] 1:0 Ashish Shambharkar 1542 [0] 6 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1481 [0] 0:1 Jack Edens 1765 [0] 7 Mark Newman 1754 [0] 1:0 Michael Cullen 1469 [0] 8 Geoff Browne 1400 [0] 1:0 Robert Lavery 1714 [0] 9 Christopher Kelly 1697 [0] 1:0 Geoff Hindley 1400 [0] 10 Jim McLean 1400 [0] 0:1 Amol Thoke 1639 [0] 11 Peter Campbell 1635 [0] 1:0 Shloke Thoke 1400 [0] 12 Peter Ward 1400 [0] .5:.5 Chris Armstrong 1629 [0]
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Round 1 Geoff Browne got a good win against Robert Lavery and Peter Ward a good draw against Chris Armstrong. The rest of the games went to rating. It is very challenging to not loose when you only have 2mins against 18mins!
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Fun Civil Service - Round 2
Results
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Jack Edens 1765 [1] 0:1 Caleb McClean 1853 [1] 2 Andrew Campbell 1849 [1] 1:0 Torres Wenceslao 1567 [0] 3 Christopher Kelly 1697 [1] 0:1 Ethan Cole 1815 [1] 4 Edward Khanzharov 1812 [1] 0:1 Peter Campbell 1635 [1] 5 Amol Thoke 1639 [1] .5:.5 Shane Keers 1792 [1] 6 Chris Armstrong 1629 [.5] 1:0 Geoff Browne 1400 [1] 7 Robert Lavery 1714 [0] 1:0 Peter Ward 1400 [.5] 8 David Blair 1625 [0] 1:0 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1481 [0] 9 Michael Cullen 1469 [0] 1:0 Cathal Murphy 1597 [0] 10 Richard Proctor 1565 [0] 1:0 Geoff Hindley 1400 [0] 11 Shloke Thoke 1400 [0] 0:1 Sanket Sawant 1546 [0] 12 Ashish Shambharkar 1542 [0] 1:0 Jim McLean 1400 [0]
Peter Campell gets a good win against Edward Khanzharov. Amol Thoke draws against Shane Keers. Michael Cullen wins against Cathal Murphy. The rest of the games fall to rating.
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Fun Civil Service - Round 3
Results
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Caleb McClean 1853 [2] 0:1 Ethan Cole 1815 [2] 2 Peter Campbell 1635 [2] 0:1 Andrew Campbell 1849 [2] 3 Shane Keers 1792 [1.5] 1:0 Chris Armstrong 1629 [1.5] 4 Edward Khanzharov 1812 [1] 0:1 Amol Thoke 1639 [1.5] 5 Richard Proctor 1565 [1] 0:1 Jack Edens 1765 [1] 6 Sanket Sawant 1546 [1] 0:1 Robert Lavery 1714 [1] 7 Ashish Shambharkar 1542 [1] 1:0 Christopher Kelly 1697 [1] 8 Geoff Browne 1400 [1] 0:1 David Blair 1625 [1] 9 Peter Ward 1400 [.5] 0:1 Michael Cullen 1469 [1] 10 Cathal Murphy 1597 [0] 1:0 Jim McLean 1400 [0] 11 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1481 [0] 0:1 Shloke Thoke 1400 [0] 12 Geoff Hindley 1400 [0] 1:0 Torres Wenceslao 1567 [0]
Amol Thoke wins against Edward Khanzharov, whilst his son Shloke beats Adrian Dornford-Smith. Geoff Hindley wins against Torres Wenceslao.
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Fun Civil Service - Round 4
Results
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Ethan Cole 1815 [3] 1:0 Andrew Campbell 1849 [3] 2 Amol Thoke 1639 [2.5] 0:1 Caleb McClean 1853 [2] 3 Jack Edens 1765 [2] 0:1 Shane Keers 1792 [2.5] 4 Robert Lavery 1714 [2] 1:0 Ashish Shambharkar 1542 [2] 5 Michael Cullen 1469 [2] .5:.5 Peter Campbell 1635 [2] 6 David Blair 1625 [2] 1:0 Chris Armstrong 1629 [1.5] 7 Geoff Browne 1400 [1] 0:1 Edward Khanzharov 1812 [1] 8 Christopher Kelly 1697 [1] 0:1 Sanket Sawant 1546 [1] 9 Geoff Hindley 1400 [1] 0:1 Cathal Murphy 1597 [1] 10 Shloke Thoke 1400 [1] 1:0 Richard Proctor 1565 [1] 11 Jim McLean 1400 [0] 0:1 Peter Ward 1400 [.5] 12 Torres Wenceslao 1567 [0] 0:1 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1481 [0]
Sanket Sawant wins against Chris Kelly. Shloke Thoke continues to win with a win over Richard Proctor.
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Fun Civil Service - Round 5
Results
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Shane Keers 1792 [3.5] 1:.5 Ethan Cole 1815 [4] 2 Caleb McClean 1853 [3] 1:0 Robert Lavery 1714 [3] 3 Andrew Campbell 1849 [3] 1:0 David Blair 1625 [3] 4 Peter Campbell 1635 [2.5] 1:0 Amol Thoke 1639 [2.5] 5 Sanket Sawant 1546 [2] 1:0 Michael Cullen 1469 [2.5] 6 Edward Khanzharov 1812 [2] 1:0 Shloke Thoke 1400 [2] 7 Ashish Shambharkar 1542 [2] 1:0 Jack Edens 1765 [2] 8 Chris Armstrong 1629 [1.5] .5:.5 Christopher Kelly 1697 [1] 9 Peter Ward 1400 [1.5] 0:1 Geoff Browne 1400 [1] 10 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1481 [1] 1:0 Geoff Hindley 1400 [1] 11 Torres Wenceslao 1567 [0] 0:1 Richard Proctor 1565 [1] 12 Jim McLean 1400 [0] 1:0 BYE
Shane Keers and Ethan Coles game was interesting - at the end Shane was winning on time and the position was drawn on the board. Shane and Ethan agreed to share the Championship - so I allocated the unusual result of 1 : 0.5. and they both ended on 4.5. and shared first prize.
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Fun Civil Service
Standings
Place Name Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1- Ethan Cole 1815 4.5
1- Shane Keers 1792 4.5
3-4 Andrew Campbell 1849 4 9.0 13.5 13.0
Caleb McClean 1853 4 8.5 15.0 12.0
5 Peter Campbell 1635 3.5 8.0 14.0 11.0
6-10 David Blair 1625 3 8.0 14.0 9.0
Robert Lavery 1714 3 8.0 13.5 9.0
Edward Khanzharov 1812 3 7.5 13.0 8.0
Sanket Sawant 1546 3 7.5 12.0 7.0
Ashish Shambharkar 1542 3 6.5 11.5 8.0
11-12 Amol Thoke 1639 2.5 10.5 15.5 10.0
Michael Cullen 1469 2.5 8.5 13.5 8.0
13-19 Jack Edens 1765 2 9.0 15.5 8.0
Shloke Thoke 1400 2 8.0 13.5 5.0
Geoff Browne 1400 2 8.0 12.5 6.0
Chris Armstrong 1629 2 6.5 12.5 7.0
Richard Proctor 1565 2 5.0 9.5 5.0
Adrian Dornford-Smith 1481 2 5.0 8.0 3.0
Cathal Murphy 1597 2 3.5 8.0 3.0
20-21 Christopher Kelly 1697 1.5 8.0 13.5 5.5
Peter Ward 1400 1.5 6.5 10.0 4.5
22-24 Jim McLean 1400 1 7.5 12.0 1.0
Geoff Hindley 1400 1 5.5 8.0 3.0
Mark Newman 1754 1 2.5 2.5 1.0
25 Torres Wenceslao 1567 0 6.5 11.5 0.0
The winners of the Fun Time-Handicap.
Joint Winners: Ethan Cole and Shane Keers
3rd : Andrew Campbell
4th : Caleb McClean
Then we had the award ceremony for the weeks of the Summer Tournament - we had some 45 players and 218 games ( some FIDE rated) over 20 weeks - some brillant chess. Thanks to all the players. Thanks to the brilliant venue and staff of NICS Pavilion.
The standings. I split the group into 3 sections. Each week I try to pair people in similar groups - this isnt always possible so apologies to anyone who played up.
The rules of prizes is that we give the 2 players with the highest % overall 1st and 2nd ( players must have played 10 games to qualify ). Then out of the remaining players we take the top 2 of each section and they are 1st and 2nd of the section. Anyone in any section can be overall Winner and 2nd - in the past we have had winners from section 2 and 3. We have 3 sections. All the 8 winners were given as part of their prizes a Simultaneous ticket for this seasons UCU Simultaneous.
Section 1.
| Name | Rating | Played | Score | Penalty | Adj Points | Adj % | Winners |
| Shane Keers | 1738 | 10 | 8 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 80.00 | Tournament Champion |
| Robert Lavery | 1717 | 11 | 8 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 72.73 | Tournament 2nd |
| Chris Kelly | 1680 | 7 | 5 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 71.43 | |
| Ethan Cole | 1797 | 10 | 7 | 0.00 | 7.00 | 70.00 | Section Leader |
| Mark Newman | 1741 | 9 | 6 | 0.00 | 6.00 | 66.67 | |
| Caleb McClean | 1872 | 5 | 3 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 60.00 | |
| Jack Edens | 1734 | 13 | 7.5 | 0.00 | 7.50 | 57.69 | section 2nd |
| Andrew Campbell | 1839 | 14 | 7.5 | 0.00 | 7.50 | 53.57 | |
| Jon Masterson | 1931 | 2 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 50.00 | |
| David Ruben | 1679 | 18 | 8 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 44.44 | |
| Conor Spackman | 1775 | 7 | 2 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 28.57 | |
| Edward Khanzharov | 1828 | 10 | 2 | -1.00 | 1.00 | 10.00 | |
| Sam Moore | 1702 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Cathal Murphy | 1697 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Section 2
| Name | Rating | Played | Score | Penalty | Adj Points | Adj % | Winners | |
| 1 | Peter Campbell | 1637 | 14 | 10 | 0.00 | 10.00 | 71.43 | Section Leader |
| 2 | Patrick McKillen | 1574 | 3 | 2 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 66.67 | |
| 3 | Sanket Sawant | 1523 | 12 | 8 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 66.67 | section 2nd |
| 4 | Chris Armstrong | 1645 | 13 | 8 | 0.00 | 8.00 | 61.54 | |
| 5 | Bobby Thompson | 1644 | 15 | 8.5 | 0.00 | 8.50 | 56.67 | |
| 6 | Amol Thoke | 1614 | 12 | 6.5 | 0.00 | 6.50 | 54.17 | |
| 7 | Ashish Anil Shambharkar | 1531 | 13 | 7 | 0.00 | 7.00 | 53.85 | |
| 8 | David Blair | 1619 | 13 | 7 | 0.00 | 7.00 | 53.85 | |
| 9 | Richard Proctor | 1565 | 15 | 7.5 | 0.00 | 7.50 | 50.00 | |
| 10 | Michael Cullen | 1537 | 2 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 50.00 | |
| 11 | Bernard Jaffa | 1594 | 15 | 7 | 0.00 | 7.00 | 46.67 | |
| 12 | Owen Dumigan | 1582 | 10 | 4.5 | -1.00 | 3.50 | 35.00 | |
| 13 | David McCracken | 1619 | 3 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 33.33 | |
| 14 | William Storey | 1631 | 8 | 2.5 | 0.00 | 2.50 | 31.25 | |
| 15 | Sam Smylie | 1650 | 7 | 2 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 28.57 | |
| 16 | Torres | 1567 | 16 | 4.5 | 0.00 | 4.50 | 28.13 | |
| 17 | Hamish Mounsey | 1564 | 8 | 1.5 | 0.00 | 1.50 | 18.75 |
Section 3
| Name | Rating | Played | Score | Penalty | Adj Points | Adj % | Winners | |
| 1 | David Collins | 1400 | 1 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 100.00 | |
| 2 | Trevor Eagleson | 1400 | 5 | 3.5 | 0.00 | 3.50 | 70.00 | |
| 3 | Shayan Pourjalali | 1400 | 7 | 4.5 | 0.00 | 4.50 | 64.29 | |
| 4 | Geoff Hindley | 1394 | 16 | 10 | 0.00 | 10.00 | 62.50 | Section Leader |
| 5 | Shlok Thoke | 1300 | 12 | 7.5 | 0.00 | 7.50 | 62.50 | Section Leader |
| 6 | Roy Stafford | 1467 | 18 | 10 | 0.00 | 10.00 | 55.56 | |
| 7 | Stewart McConaghy | 1456 | 18 | 9 | 0.00 | 9.00 | 50.00 | |
| 8 | Peter Ward | 1300 | 6 | 3 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 50.00 | |
| 9 | Abdulazelerz Ademola | 1500 | 7 | 3 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 42.86 | |
| 10 | Jim McLean | 1329 | 12 | 4.5 | 0.00 | 4.50 | 37.50 | |
| 11 | Peter Storey | 1293 | 11 | 3.5 | 0.00 | 3.50 | 31.82 | |
| 12 | Adrian Dornford Smith | 1481 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 25.00 | |
| 13 | Geoffrey Browne | 1300 | 14 | 3.5 | 0.00 | 3.50 | 25.00 | |
| 14 | Diego Zaniel Peramangalath Felix | 1300 | 9 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 11.11 |
The winners:
Overall Champion - winner of The Hammel Cup : Shane Keers 80%
Overall 2nd - Robert Lavery 72.73%
Section 1 - Winner : Ethan Cole 70%
Section 1 - 2nd : Jack Edens 57.69%
Section 2 - Winner : Peter Campbell 71.43%
Section 2 - 2nd : Sanket Sawant 66.67%
For section 3 we had 2 joint winners.
Section 3 - Winner : Geoff Hindley 62.50%
Section 3 - Winner : Shlock Thoke 62.50%
This ends the chess Season. The next thing is the UCU chess league - we wish you all well in your games in the league - enjoy.
