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Three weeks left and the standings for the Winter 2012 Tournament

With 3 rounds left how are the standings. This tournament alot of players have played almost every week. Which makes for a good tournament and occasionally provides some challenging pairings. Most players have played more than the 14 games that allow them to ignore the rule of having to play 2 of the 3 last weeks.

We have had some brilliant chess. Some challenging positions and lots of fun.

We have had 19 weeks of 3 hours per game chess. With 106 games and 24 players.

The current standings with 3 rounds/weeks to go is:

Danny Roberts leads the competition with 85.71% followed closely by Mark Newman (me!) - I have played less and on occassion played a game against a lower rated player who may have arrived late. As controller I have ruled myself out. So 2nd overall is Michael Hood on an excellent percentage of 66.67%. Leader of the top section is Chris Kelly.

Chris Armstrong leads Section 2. Closely followed by Joseph Gunning and Adrian Dornford-Smyth.

With Michael Hood 2nd overall that leaves David Corr leading section 3.

The last 3 week rule kicks in during these last weeks:

Rules
1. Players must complete 10 games to be considered to qualify.
2. If a player does not play in two of the last three rounds they will be assumed to have played and lost 2 games. If they play only one then they will forfeit one game.
3. However if a player has played 14 or more games then they are exempt from rule 2.
4. Scores will be calculated on a percentage basis.

Section 1
Rating Name lichess user Score Played %

Provisional

Place

1 1706 Damien Lavery Kentuckian 2 2 100.00
2 1812 Danny Roberts DannyRoberts1 12 14 85.71 1st Overall
3 1642 Mark Newman ishi100 10 12 83.33
4 1534 Chris Kelly chriskelly 6 11 54.55 1st
5 1900 Steve Scannell lastoutpost 1 2 50.00
6 1614 Michael Sheerin RDWRER 0.5 1 50.00
7 1801 Alex Goss Kek2000 7.5 16 46.88
8 1645 Robert Lavery Yreval 2 8 25.00
9 1712 Ernie Crozier Sandyhill 0.5 5 10.00
10 1581 James O'fee JamesOFee 0 2 0.00
Section 2
Rating Name lichess user Score Played % Place
1 1209 James Wong messagemetosayhi 1 1 100.00
2 1377 Chris Armstrong pcmorphy 12 19 63.16 1st
3 1200 Joseph Gunning Josephgun 9 17 52.94
4 1259 Adrian Dornford-Smith Dornford 8 16 50.00
5 1400 john Sweeney Johnsweeney 3.5 8 43.75
6 1139 Gary Johnston bluethecat 3.5 13 26.92
7 1245 Chris Dorrian faunorcival 1 5 20.00
8 1215 Bernard McGahan jtsdad 0.00
9 1192 Michael Mckimm Meitnerium 0.00
Section 3
Rating Name lichess user Score Played % Place
1 961 Michael Hood michaelhood 10 15 66.67 2nd Overall
2 1000 David Corr MrScrumps 10 19 52.63 1st
3 1053 Kyle Milligan pinallwizard 2.5 5 50.00
4 1000 Calum Glendinning CalumGlendinning2005 1 2 50.00
5 895 Paul Anderson Number_8 4 9 44.44
6 827 Geoff Sterrett GeoffSterrett 0 2 0.00
7 640 George Gamble ChessGeorge13 0 8 0.00
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