The Winter Tournament kicked off on Monday 19th October 2020
Alot of the players playing in the Summer tournament expressed regret that it was coming to an end and that they were keen to play more slow games over the Winter months. So not wanting to clash with anything else organised for the Winter I checked with fellow organiser Neil Green to see if he was happy for me to run a Winter tournament - with the go ahead - I advertised the Winter tournament with the same rules as the Summer one.
The following players registered:
| Rating | Name | lichess user | |
| 1 | 1900 | Steve Scannell | lastoutpost |
| 2 | 1812 | Danny Roberts | DannyRoberts1 |
| 3 | 1645 | Robert Lavery | Yreval |
| 4 | 1642 | Mark Newman | ishi100 |
| 5 | 1614 | Michael Sheerin | RDWRER |
| 6 | 1581 | James O'fee | JamesOFee |
| 7 | 1400 | john Sweeney | Johnsweeney |
| 8 | 1377 | Chris Armstrong | pcmorphy |
| 9 | 1259 | Adrian Dornford-Smith | Dornford |
| 10 | 1245 | Chris Dorrian | faunorcival |
| 11 | 1209 | James Wong | messagemetosayhi |
| 12 | 1200 | Joseph Gunning | Josephgun |
| 13 | 1192 | Michael Mckimm | Meitnerium |
| 14 | 1139 | Gary Johnston | bluethecat |
| 15 | 1053 | Kyle Milligan | pinallwizard |
| 16 | 1000 | Calum Glendinning | CalumGlendinning2005 |
| 17 | 1000 | David Corr | MrScrumps |
| 18 | 961 | Michael Hood | michaelhood |
| 19 | 895 | Paul Anderson | Number_8 |
| 20 | 827 | Geoff Sterrett | GeoffSterrett |
| 21 | 640 | George Gamble | ChessGeorge13 |
A brilliant list and a good range of ratings.
On Monday evening at 6:00pm I emailed the list asking who wished to play that evening. Each player who responded OK was included in my draw. I worked out the draw and emailed it out at 7:00pm for players to start - players can start later than this if they let me know in advance - I then place this start time in the draw against the two players. With the draw out players with White challenge their opponents and the games begin. Time limit is set to 90mins and the type of game to rated.
I check for all the games to start - chatting with players who are waiting or having problems challenging.
This week there was an odd no of players to I got a game.
The pairings and results for this first week:
| Week1 | |||||||
| Rating | White | lichess userId | Score | Rating | Black | lichess userId | |
| 1645 | Robert Lavery | Yreval | 0 - 1 | 1812 | Danny Roberts | DannyRoberts1 | https://lichess.org/xuzMIfVg |
| 1259 | Adrian Dornford-Smith | Dornford | 1 - 0 | 1200 | Joseph Gunning | Josephgun | https://lichess.org/bGNy1CsU |
| 1400 | john Sweeney | Johnsweeney | 0 - 1 | 1642 | Mark Newman | ishi100 | https://lichess.org/emPUjSDb |
| 1139 | Gary Johnston | bluethecat | 0 - 1 | 1000 | David Corr | MrScrumps | https://lichess.org/8zt4fySr |
| 895 | Paul Anderson | Number_8 | 1 - 0 | 640 | George Gamble | ChessGeorge13 | https://lichess.org/XVeJvSTk |
| 1245 | Chris Dorrian | faunorcival | 0 - 1 | 1377 | Chris Armstrong | pcmorphy | https://lichess.org/c6MviH7U |
| 827 | Geoff Sterrett | GeoffSterrett | 0 - 1 | 1209 | James Wong | messagemetosayhi | https://lichess.org/sztTxcxo |
WIth 14 players and 7 games we had a brilliant no participating - more than the evenings of the Summer tournament.
If you wish to register please email me: mark.chris.newman@googlemail.com
next date is Monday 26th Oct : https://www.ulsterchess.org/Members/ucu00450/winter-tournament-2020-21/winter-tournament-2020-21-week2
