2016 BUCA Championships: 20-21 February

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Alex Holowczak
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2016 BUCA Championships: 20-21 February

Post by Alex Holowczak » Sun Feb 21, 2016 1:24 am

After the first day's play, Bristol are the (surprise?) leaders on 6 MPs, with Imperial and Cambridge on 5 MPs. Match 1 tomorrow sees Cambridge 1 take on Bristol 1. Warwick 1 are a further point behind.

In the Plate, Imperial 2 have 6 MPs, with Cambridge 2 and LSE on 5 MPs. In the Shield, Imperial 3 and Sunderland lead on 6 MPs, and play in Round 4. Exeter 3 are just behind on 5 MPs.

We held our first ever Saturday evening blitz, the results of which are here: http://chess-results.com/tnr208618.aspx ... =30&wi=821

The top 3:
1st: P U Midhun (Imperial) 8/9
2nd: Adam A Taylor (Imperial) 7.5
3rd=: Stefan Manole (UCL), Isaac Craft (Manchester) 7
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Re: 2016 BUCA Championships: 20-21 February

Post by Neill Cooper » Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:38 am

It is great to see the event so popular with players of all abilities. Congratulations!

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Re: 2016 BUCA Championships: 20-21 February

Post by Neill Cooper » Sun Feb 21, 2016 5:49 pm

Congratulations to Cambridge 1 on retaining the Championships ahead of Imperial 1, with Imperial 2 and 3 winning the plate and shield. http://www.buca.org.uk/

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Re: 2016 BUCA Championships: 20-21 February

Post by Mike Truran » Sun Feb 21, 2016 6:12 pm

Excellent event. Well done to Alex and the team for resurrecting it to such spectacular effect.

With a bit of luck we will also have Oxford University in next year to give Imperial and the other place :lol: a run for their money. David Martins and Aleksandra Kozera seem to have done wonders in getting their teams organised in the Oxfordshire League **, so I have high hopes that they will get their act together for next year's event.

** It was always going to take something special to break Witney's five year long grip on the Division 1 title. :cry:

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Re: 2016 BUCA Championships: 20-21 February

Post by IM Jack Rudd » Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:25 pm

Neill Cooper wrote:Congratulations to Cambridge 1 on retaining the Championships ahead of Imperial 1, with Imperial 2 and 3 winning the plate and shield. http://www.buca.org.uk/
My sister and I like this. :D

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Re: 2016 BUCA Championships: 20-21 February

Post by MartinCarpenter » Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:01 pm

Great to see Manchester doing so well too.
(Also Warwick, and York - I've been to a few Uni's!)

The most impressive thing to me is actually looking at the plate at seeing teams like Durham4, Exeter4 and Warwcik4 (!) playing. Brilliant :)

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Re: 2016 BUCA Championships: 20-21 February

Post by Alex Holowczak » Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:05 pm

The full prizelist, which will appear on the website soon:

Championship
1st: Cambridge 1
2nd: Imperial 1
3rd: Manchester 1

Also qualifying for the European Universities Games
4th: Bristol 1

Gold Board Prize: Matheusz Eggink (Warwick), Gavin Fong (Southampton), Aitor Garcia-Ruiz Fuentes (Bristol), Samuel Lim (Imperial), Agoston Mihalik (Birmingham), Nikolas Neusken (Cambridge), Sixten Threstrup (Manchester), Joel Wagg (York), Jean-Luc Weller (Cambridge), Yang-Fan Zhou (Cambridge)

Silver Board Prize: Shami Abdullayev (Manchester), Peter Batchelor (Warwick), Ryan Rhys Griffiths (Imperial), Gregory Young (Cambridge)

Bronze Board Prize: Matthew Best (Exeter), Horia Bogdan (Southampton), Marcus Gosling (Exeter), Joseph Levene (Cambridge), Diana-Maria Serbanescu (UCL), Ewan Wilson (Edinburgh)

Plate
1st: Imperial 2
2nd: Warwick 2
3rd: Cambridge 2

Gold Board Prize: Kamil Celinski (Manchester), Guillermo Dierssen Garcia-Barredo (Imperial), Andras Forizs (Warwick), Vigram Mohan (Imperial), Philip Purcell (Durham), Matt Smith (Nottingham), Robert Starley (Cambridge), Adam Taylor (Imperial), Thomas Thorpe (Warwick)

Silver Board Prize: Sean Grenham (Nottingham), Elhans Imanovs (Manchester), Daniel Koehler (Bangor), Thomas Maddox (Exeter), Szymon Palucha (Durham), Frank Sabin (Sussex), Kane Toh (Cambridge)

Bronze Board Prize: Kavitha Appulingam (LSE), Thomas Donaldson (Imperial), Jiri Lhotka (Cambridge), Felix McPeake (Warwick), Donovan Sipho (Swansea), Zheng Yang Sng (LSE), Rowan Swiers (Warwick), Shengjin Wang (UCL), Simon Wilks (Sussex), Eddie Wilson-Hebben (Leicester), Robert Wright (Aberystwyth)

Shield
1st: Imperial 3
2nd: Warwick 3
3rd: Sunderland

Gold Board Prize: Fei Gao (Warwick), Nikolaos Koukoulekidis (Imperial), Milan Quentel (Warwick), Jimi Squirrell (Bangor), Luu Quang Thong (Sunderland), Midhun Unnikrishnan (Imperial), Karolis Znutas (Lancaster)

Silver Board Prize: Max Dooley (Nottingham), Jaspar Goodall (Warwick), Peter Hornsby (Durham), Tom Leah (York), Daniel Mayfield (Durham), Thapelo Mothatego (Imperial), Piotr Niedbal (Sunderland), Alexander Poyser (Exeter)

Bronze Board Prize: Max Browning (Swansea), Oliver Clarke (Warwick), Sam Cotterill (Exeter), Jacob Gorman (Birmingham), Ryan Hargreaves (York), Joseph Helbawi (Durham), Faith Mbakhwa (Nottingham), Charles Phillips (Birmingham), Andrew Smith (Bangor), Theo Wait (Birmingham)