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