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The Summer tournament 2021 is over with award ceremony to go.

What were the final standings of the Summer Tournament face to face and the Newman Virtual Summer Tournament (non-UCU).

With some games online and some face to face I have split the results. Using the criteria that players needed to play approx 50% of the games to be counted.

So for the Summer Tournament - we had 11 weeks of brilliant face to face chess. So used limit of 5 games.

Overall Winner is Adam Rushe with 85.71% followed closely by Robert Lavery with 75%.

In the sections.

Top Section: Conor Spackman comes 1st with 66.66% and Des Moreland chasing with 62.5% but not quite played half the games.

Middle Section: Adrian Dornford-Smith 55% 1st and Joseph Gunning 2nd 37.5%

Lower Section: Conal Boyle 61.11% 1st and  David Corr a close second with 60%

Summer Tournament - 11 Weeks
Top section played points Percent
1614 Michael Sheerin 1 1 100
1421 Bernard Jaffa 1 1 100
1645 Robert Lavery 8 6 75 2nd Overall
1565 Conor Spackman 6 4 66.66 1st
1665 Des Moreland 4 2.5 62.5
1427 Bobby Thompson 7 4 57.14
1801 Alex Goss 1 0.5 50
1642 Mark Newman 7 3 42.85
1464 Richard Gould 10 3.5 35
1702 Ross Harris 2 0.5 25
Middle Section played points Percent
1214 Adam Rushe 7 6 85.71 1st Overall
1259 Adrian Dornford-Smith 10 5.5 55 1st
1370 Andrew Todd 2 1 50
1200 Joseph Gunning 8 3 37.5 2nd
1400 Amol Mohan Thoke 6 0.5 8.33
1377 Chris Armstrong 1 0 0
1363 Cathal Murphy 1 0 0
Lower section played points Percent
1000 Conal McGlinchey 1 1 100
1000 Cónal Boyle 9 5.5 61.11 1st
1000 David Corr 5 3 60 2nd
1030 Dexter Harris 3 1 33.33
1000 Calum Glendinning 2 0 0
1000 Matthew Moreland 2 0 0
800 Colm O'Brian 1 0 0

 

Not so many rounds played in the Virtual tournament and lower nos of games.

Newman Virtual Summer Tournament - 10 Weeks (Non-UCU)
Top section played points Percent
1642 Mark Newman 4 3 75
1801 Alex Goss 2 1 50
1534 Chris Kelly 4 2 50
1614 Michael Sheerin 1 0 0
Middle section played points Percent
1370 Andrew Todd 2 2 100
1377 Chris Armstrong 10 6.5 65 2nd overall
1259 Adrian Dornford-Smith 8 4.5 56.25 1st
1200 Joseph Gunning 10 5 50 2nd
1288 David Jackson 6 1 16.66
1400 Amol Mohan Thoke 1 0 0
Lower section played points Percent
827 Geoff Skerrett 1 1 100
395 Paul Anderson 1 1 100
1053 Kyle Milligan 4 3 75
1000 David Corr 6 4 66.66 1st overall
961 Michael Hood 1 0 0
640 George Gamble 5 0 0

Thanks to all those who supported the tournament - without you there would be no chess.

Looking forward hopefully to a face to face competition next Summer.

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