Photos and results from NICS Lacksidasical
On Sunday March 22nd at the Civil Service Maynard Sinclair Pavilion, after a delicious lunch with some good chat and excellent company. The speed of the chess was brought down a peg for the third tournament. We had 5 rounds with time limit of 20mins and 5 sec increment for each player.
Nicholas Pilkiewicz is the person to beat. Having won all of these this season in fact not only winning them but having only dropped 1/2 a point. Would he maintain his supremacy.
The results and photos of the competition......
Round 1
Results
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1877 [0] .5:.5 Robert Lavery 1506 [0] 2 Patrick McKillen 1306 [0] 0:1 Ian Woodfield 1648 [0] 3 Mark Newman 1613 [0] 1:0 Drew Ferguson 1201 [0] 4 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1010 [0] 0:1 Niall Troughton 1598 [0] 5 Richard Gould 1529 [0] 1:0 Geoff Hindley 976 [0] 6 David Seaby 1239 [0] .5:.5 BYE
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The first round went to grade apart from Roberts excellent draw against Nicholas.
Round 2
Results
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Ian Woodfield 1648 [1] 0:1 Richard Gould 1529 [1] 2 Niall Troughton 1598 [1] 0:1 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1877 [.5] 3 Robert Lavery 1506 [.5] 1:0 David Seaby 1239 [.5] 4 Geoff Hindley 976 [0] 0:1 Patrick McKillen 1306 [0] 5 Drew Ferguson 1201 [0] .5:.5 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1010 [0]
Adrian played well against Drew to get a draw and Richard Gould beat Ian Woodfield.
Round 3
Results
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Richard Gould 1529 [2] .5:.5 Robert Lavery 1506 [1.5] 2 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1877 [1.5] .5:.5 Ian Woodfield 1648 [1] 3 Patrick McKillen 1306 [1] .5:.5 Niall Troughton 1598 [1] 4 David Seaby 1239 [.5] 0:1 Drew Ferguson 1201 [.5] 5 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1010 [.5] 1:0 Geoff Hindley 976 [0]
At this stage the field was wide open and Ian with a draw against Nicholas. Meant maybe we would see an different overall winner. Richard Gould lead the tournament with an unbeaten 2.5.
Round 4
Results
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1877 [2] 1:0 Richard Gould 1529 [2.5] 2 Robert Lavery 1506 [2] .5:.5 Niall Troughton 1598 [1.5] 3 Ian Woodfield 1648 [1.5] 0:1 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1010 [1.5] 4 Drew Ferguson 1201 [1.5] 0:1 Patrick McKillen 1306 [1.5] 5 Geoff Hindley 976 [0] 0:1 David Seaby 1239 [.5]
The games lead to some complex and brilliant positions. Also there were plenty of fascinating endgames.
Nicholas did what was needed to defeat the leader Richard. Adrian played a brilliant game to defeat the tough player Ian Woodfield.
Round 5
Results
No Name Rtg Total Result Name Rtg Total 1 Patrick McKillen 1306 [2.5] 0:1 Nicholas Pilkiewicz 1877 [3] 2 Adrian Dornford-Smith 1010 [2.5] 0:1 Robert Lavery 1506 [2.5] 3 Niall Troughton 1598 [2] 0:1 Richard Gould 1529 [2.5] 4 David Seaby 1239 [1.5] 0:1 Ian Woodfield 1648 [1.5] 5 Geoff Hindley 976 [0] 0:1 Drew Ferguson 1201 [1.5]
Interestingly Black won every game of the last round. and went almost with rating apart from Richard Gould beating Niall Troughton. And again Nicholas Pilkiewicz won the tournament. With Patrick McKillen receiving the under 1400 rating prize.
Thanks to all the players for playing such interesting chess and having a thoroughly lacksidasical fun afternoon of play.
See you in June - watch out in Upcoming Events for the final competition in this series - an intense afternoon of chess...
Standings
Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Pilkiewicz, Nicholas UCU 1877 1877 4 8.5 14.0 11.0
2-3 Lavery, Robert UCU 1506 1506 3.5 8.0 13.5 10.0
Gould, Richard UCU 1529 1529 3.5 8.0 12.0 11.5
4-7 Woodfield, Ian UCU 1648 1648 2.5 8.5 14.0 7.5
McKillen, Patrick UCU 1306 1306 2.5 7.0 11.0 7.5
Dornford-Smith, Adrian UCU 1010 1010 2.5 7.0 10.5 7.0
Ferguson, Drew UCU 1201 1201 2.5 6.5 9.5 6.0
8 Troughton, Niall UCU 1598 1598 2 9.5 16.0 7.5
9 Seaby, David UCU 1239 1239 1.5 7.5 11.0 4.5
10 Newman, Mark UCU 1613 1613 1 2.5 2.5 1.0
The Winners. Overall Winner Nicholas Pilkiewicz and under 1400 grading prize winner Patrick McKillen.
