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Summer Tournament report week 18 - one week to go

With only one week left in the tournament. How do things stand.

The second to last week of the tournament saw our largest number of players - 28 with 14 games.

With a great season over the summer with visitors from Belarus and Malta. New players and new players still at school.

The atmosphere is always friendly and we get some great games. People come for the chess - but with only a week to go theres more focus on the percentages.

I have managed to play several games and have enjoyed the ones I lost as much as the ones I have won - each giving me plenty of problems to solve.

Going into this round the top players are Daniil Zelenchuk, Ram Rajan, James Wong, David Seaby, Adrian Dornford-Smith all with good percentages.

Adrian Dornford-Smith beats James Wong whilst Ranjit Singh beats David Seaby - both very close and well fought battles.

Ram Rajan gets a draw against Michael Sheerin - another tough battle.

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Mark Newman 1-0 Peter Wilson
Robert Lavery 1-0 Christopher Kelly
David Ruben 0-1 Ian Woodfield
Bernard Jaffa 1-0 Cathal Murphy
Michael Sheerin =-= Ram Rajan
Bobby Thompson 0-1 William Storey
Adrian Dornford-Smith 1-0 James Wong
Ranjit Singh 1-0 David Seaby
Adam Rushe 1-0 Roy Stafford
Paul Anderson 0-1 Aaron Wafflart
Michael 1-0 Chris Hamill
James Fairley =-= Geoff Hindley
Andy Boal 0-1 Adam Fitzsimons
Derek Truesdale 0-1 Stewart McConaghy

We are left with

Tournament leader: Ram Rajan 80%

Tournament second: joint : Daniil Zelenchuk 75%  Ranjit Singh 75%

Top Section leader: David Ruben 59.38%

Middle Section leader: Stewart McConaghy 55.88%

Lower Section Leader: James Wong 72.22%

The lower section has a tight battle between James Wong, David Seaby, Ranjit Singh and Adrian Dornford-Smith.

The rule of penalties for not playing 2 out of the last 3 weeks still needs to be calculated.

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Full results: https://www.ulsterchess.org/competitions/competitions/comp-3032/cvt_event/standings/467#tabhead

name Rating Played Points %
Top Sectopn
Aleksandr Kirvosheev 1872 1 1 100.00
Ryazard Kaczorowski 1823 4 3 75.00
Daniil Zelenchuk 1748 10 7.5 75.00 Joint Tournament 2nd
David Ruben 1591 16 9.5 59.38 Leader top section
Robert Lavery 1655 9 5 55.56
Ian Woodfield 1578 14 7.5 53.57
Christopher Kelly 1507 8 4 50.00
Mark Newman 1747 7 3.5 50.00
John Bryars 1628 2 0 0.00
Middle Section
Bernard Jaffa 1344 4 4 100.00
Ram Rajan 1393 10 8 80.00 Tournament leader
Stewart McConaghy 1288 17 9.5 55.88 Leader middle section
Sheerin, Michael 1474 7 3.5 50.00
Bobby Thompson 1467 10 4.5 45.00
William Storey 1364 11 4 36.36
Niel Gardner 1300 6 2 33.33
Cathal Murphy 1363 12 2.5 20.83
Patrick McKillen 1302 3 0.5 16.67
Claude Licari 1480 1 0 0.00
Peter Wilson 1451 2 0 0.00
Chris Armstrong 1409 2 0 0.00
Lower Section
Adam Fitzsimons 750 1 1 100.00
Ranjit Singh 1177 12 9 75.00 Joint Tournament Second
James Wong 975 9 6.5 72.22 Lower Section Leader
David Seaby 1042 16 11.5 71.88
Adrian Dornford-Smith 1164 17 12 70.59
Minaahil Shahzad 750 3 2 66.67
Adam Rushe 967 16 10.5 65.63
Michael Wong 968 10 5,5 55.00
Aaditya Singh 750 4 2 50.00
Aaron Wafflart 900 15 7.5 50.00
Paul Anderson 904 11 5.5 50.00
James Fairley 939 16 8 50.00
Chris Hamill 1000 11 5 45.45
Roy Stafford 1198 16 6.5 40.63
Geoff Hindley 1018 17 6.5 38.24
Gary Johnston 1222 4 1.5 37.50
Derek Truesdale 1013 15 3 20.00
Andy Boal 857 10 1 10.00
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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