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In the UCU Summer tournament we have reached week 16.

With only 4 tournament weeks left followed by a prize giving on Sept. 26th. How are the players standings? Who is in with a chance of winning.

We have had 16 brilliant weeks of chess. With some 42 players and 159 games.

We have had visitors on holiday from Belarous and Malta.

We have up and coming youngsters improving their Chess by playing the long time controls and Club players.

A reminder that after this week we will have only 3 weeks left and our special rules come into effect: 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. However if a player has played 14 or more games then they are exempt from this rule.

all the results are available at : https://www.ulsterchess.org/competitions/competitions/comp-3032/cvt_event/standings/467#tabhead

The current standings: (players need to have played 10 games to be considered for prizes.

name Rating Played Points %

Senior Section

Aleksandr Kirvosheev 1872 1 1 100.00
Ryazard Kaczorowski 1823 3 2.5 83.33
Daniil Zelenchuk 1748 9 7 77.78
David Ruben 1591 14 9.5 67.86
Christopher Kelly 1507 7 4 57.14
Ian Woodfield 1578 12 6.5 54.17
Robert Lavery 1655 7 3 42.86
Mark Newman 1747 6 2.5 41.67
John Bryars 1628 2 0 0.00

Intermediate Section

Bernard Jaffa 1344 3 3 100.00
Ram Rajan 1393 8 6.5 81.25
Stewart McConaghy 1288 15 9.5 63.33
Sheerin, Michael 1474 6 3 50.00
Bobby Thompson 1467 8 3.5 43.75
Niel Gardner 1300 6 2 33.33
William Storey 1364 10 3 30.00
Cathal Murphy 1363 10 2.5 25.00
Patrick McKillen 1302 3 0.5 16.67
Claude Licari 1480 1 0 0.00
Peter Wilson 1451 1 0 0.00
Chris Armstrong 1409 2 0 0.00

Junior Section

James Wong 975 8 6.5 81.25
David Seaby 1042 14 10.5 75.00
Adrian Dornford-Smith 1164 15 11 73.33
Ranjit Singh 1177 10 7 70.00
Minaahil Shahzad 750 3 2 66.67
Aaditya Singh 750 3 2 66.67
Adam Rushe 967 14 8.5 60.71
Chris Hamill 1000 9 5 55.56
Michael Wong 968 9 4.5 50.00
Paul Anderson 904 9 4.5 50.00
Aaron Wafflart 900 13 6.5 50.00
James Fairley 939 14 6.5 46.43
Geoff Hindley 1018 15 6 40.00
Roy Stafford 1198 14 5.5 39.29
Gary Johnston 1222 4 1.5 37.50
Derek Truesdale 1013 13 3 23.08
Andy Boal 857 8 1 12.50
Stephen Law 1251 2 0 0.00
Rhys McLean 799 2 0 0.00
Ali Shahzad 750 3 0 0.00
Anjali Singh 750 2 0 0.00
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