e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

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Sean Hewitt

e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

Post by Sean Hewitt » Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:28 am

Results

OPEN (50 players)

Rank Name Flags Score Fed. M/F Rating TPR W-We
1st Longson, Alexander Marple / 3Cs 5.0 ENG M 2249 2956 +2.31
2nd GM Wells, Peter K White Rose 4.5 ENG M 2497 2584 +0.40
3rd= O`Toole, George E Barbican Youth 4.0 ENG M 2157 2370 +1.36
3rd= Chernoff, John USA 4.0 USA M 2140 * 2351 +1.50

MAJOR (42 players)

Rank Name Flags Score Fed. M/F Rating TPR W-We
1st Balaji, Ananthanarayanan QE Boys 4.5 ENG M 1598 2569 2.39
2nd= Prior, Stephen Spalding 4 ENG M 1976 1977 0.02
2nd= Kane, Robert West London 4 ENG M 1880 1964 0.51
2nd= Ali, Golam S Ilford 4 ENG M 1874 2077 1.06

MINOR (36 players)

Rank Name Flags Score Fed. M/F Rating
1st Adcock, Jamie Reading 4.5 M 133 *
2nd Gibbs, Daniel C Essex 4 M 136 *
2nd Foley, Phil Upminster 4 M 135 *

Matthew Turner
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Re: e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

Post by Matthew Turner » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:01 am

What an amazing performance from Alex, defeating both Keith Arkell ande Mark Hebden. Has anybody ever beaten both of these two in a weekend congress before?

Sean Hewitt

Re: e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

Post by Sean Hewitt » Mon Oct 10, 2011 10:20 am

Certainly not in an e2e4 event. In fact, I think it's the first 5/5 in an e2e4 Open since Mark Hebden at Milton Keynes in Nov 2008.

LozCooper

Re: e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

Post by LozCooper » Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:36 pm

Matthew Turner wrote:What an amazing performance from Alex, defeating both Keith Arkell ande Mark Hebden. Has anybody ever beaten both of these two in a weekend congress before?
I can only think of Tony Miles at Sandwell 1992 (yes, I did need to look it up!) and Ameet Ghasi years ago in the British Rapidplay in the last two rounds when he won it jointly with Aaron Summerscale.

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Re: e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

Post by Michele Clack » Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:40 pm

This was an excellent tournament very well run. Thanks to Sean and the team.

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Re: e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

Post by Alex Holowczak » Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:39 pm

LozCooper wrote:
Matthew Turner wrote:What an amazing performance from Alex, defeating both Keith Arkell ande Mark Hebden. Has anybody ever beaten both of these two in a weekend congress before?
I can only think of Tony Miles at Sandwell 1992 (yes, I did need to look it up!) and Ameet Ghasi years ago in the British Rapidplay in the last two rounds when he won it jointly with Aaron Summerscale.
Blimey, Sandwell had a chess congress? Where was that held?

LozCooper

Re: e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

Post by LozCooper » Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:15 am

Alex Holowczak wrote:
LozCooper wrote:
Matthew Turner wrote:What an amazing performance from Alex, defeating both Keith Arkell ande Mark Hebden. Has anybody ever beaten both of these two in a weekend congress before?
I can only think of Tony Miles at Sandwell 1992 (yes, I did need to look it up!) and Ameet Ghasi years ago in the British Rapidplay in the last two rounds when he won it jointly with Aaron Summerscale.
Blimey, Sandwell had a chess congress? Where was that held?
Several different venues, the Harry Mitchell Centre was one and then they downsized to a couple of smaller venues. It used to have a fairly high multiple on the Grand Prix and had many titled players who played including Miles, Sadler, Hebden, Arkell, King, Kosten, Harriet Hunt, Collinson, Buckley, Susan Lalic, Lawton, Baker etc

I'm not sure how long it ran for but I played between 1984-94.

Sean Hewitt

Re: e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

Post by Sean Hewitt » Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:55 am

LozCooper wrote:I'm not sure how long it ran for but I played between 1984-94.
That's a long game. Adjourned? :D

LozCooper

Re: e2e4 High Wycombe Congress : 7-9 October

Post by LozCooper » Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:28 am

Sean Hewitt wrote:
LozCooper wrote:I'm not sure how long it ran for but I played between 1984-94.
That's a long game. Adjourned? :D
Just a marathon rook ending against Keith :wink:

Bizarrely, I did manage to adjourn one game despite it being a rapidplay finish, due to a faulty clock and the caretaker kicking us out :oops: