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Photos and results from NICS Lacksidasical

The Alan Burns Series continued at a slower pace. Photos and results.

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.

Round1-1

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.

Round2-1

Round2-2

Round2-3

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.

Round3-1

Round3-2

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.

Round4-1

Round4-2

Round4-3

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...

Round5-1

Round5-2

Round5-3

 

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.

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