Jersey Chess Festival 2013

[LawrenceCooper]

Apologies Loz - don't know how that happened, and I should have checked my preview more carefully, as I knew it was Richard I was quoting. All fixed now

Many thanks, it's easily done, especially when you get the message about a limit in embedding quotes and frantically start removing them one by one.

[LawrenceCooper]

Eight players defaulting in round 5 or should those be half point byes?

[Adam Raoof]

Eight players defaulting in round 5 or should those be half point byes?

The weather is astonishingly good, and we are right on the water - it's a miracle that any of the players are still left in the hall...

[LawrenceCooper]

Amazing game on board one

[Adam Raoof]

Amazing game on board one

And to think I had second thoughts about keeping the live board on one this afternoon, in case there was a quick draw!

[Brendan O'Gorman]

Nice Congress - would suit lots of players in England (return air fare from Gatwick < £80, single room £36 a night B+B). Some photos here: http://tinyurl.com/Jersey2013 Hope to add more over next few days.

[Sean Hewitt]

Brendan,

You normally tag all your photos of players

[Brendan O'Gorman]

Looks surly - didn't fancy asking him his name!

[LawrenceCooper]

Any chance of board two being shown live in round seven?

[Adam Raoof]

Any chance of board two being shown live in round seven?

There is a chance, I will keep my fingers crossed and hope the board works - a few problems last round - but that looks like the game to watch.

[Adam Raoof]

We had the Jersey Blitz Championships tonight, 22 played 10 rounds of five-minute chess in good spirit, and enjoyed it enough to want to have it as part of the official programme next year! Igor Rausis won (losing one game to Bruce Jenks's London System), Andrew Stone was a solid second and Marcin Mazurkiewicz won the Island title.

Ranking after round 10 of Jersey Blitz Championships
No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR W-We
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1. 1 Rausis, Igor 9.0 60.0 54.50 51.0 2518 2543 +0.16
2. 3 Stone,Andrew 8.5 61.0 48.75 47.0 2196 2347 +1.81
3. 2 Lyell,Mark 7.0 58.5 35.50 39.0 2227 2203 +0.03
4. 7 Mazurkiewicz, Marcin 6.5 55.0 30.75 36.0 2097 2140 +0.61
5. 10 Adams,Tim 6.0 52.5 27.50 30.5 1873 1985 +1.19
6. 4 Martin J Simons 5.5 61.0 27.75 34.0 2159 2077 -0.88
5 Orishko,Yaroslav 5.5 54.5 25.25 31.5 2145 2064 -0.85
6 Jenks,Bruce 5.5 61.5 31.00 36.5 2135 2047 -0.89
8 Taylor, Robert Graham 5.5 53.5 24.25 30.5 1964 1942 -0.21
11 Frijling, Jeroen 5.5 50.0 21.25 30.0 1858 1848 -0.27
12 Alex Rossiter 5.5 60.5 28.00 35.0 1834 2041 +1.79
21 Webster, Jim J 5.5 47.5 21.00 25.5 1626 1766 +1.24
13. 13 Leanse,Martin 5.0 48.5 16.50 26.0 1754 1870 +1.01
16 Billot,Daniel 5.0 46.0 19.00 25.0 1709 1837 +1.20
15. 9 Forbes,Garry 4.5 50.0 18.75 27.5 1913 1761 -1.58
15 Derrick,Neil 4.5 44.0 13.25 22.0 1714 1838 +1.02
18 Christopher Hill 4.5 44.5 16.50 23.5 1700 1740 1740
18. 14 Bynnersley,Tony 4.0 47.0 15.50 22.5 1722 1593 -1.22
19 Ruff,Steven 4.0 43.5 12.00 20.0 1669 1608 -0.79
20 Rissmann,Bodo 4.0 38.0 12.00 15.0 1642 1439 -1.53
22 Salsac,Eric 4.0 38.5 11.50 21.0 1600 1548 1548
22. 24 Ruff,Andrew 2.5 41.0 6.75 13.0 1400 1576 1576
23. 23 Katukina,Zena 1.5 42.0 2.25 11.0 1400 1450 1450
24. 17 Wilson,David 1.0 41.5 4.00 7.0 1704 1478 -1.84

[Adam Raoof]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01592bv

From 2 hours 49 mins and 41 seconds to 2 hours 58 mins and 31 seconds - so nearly 9 mins of airtime for chess!

A link to a radio interview this morning at BBC Radio Jersey.

[LawrenceCooper]

Safe journey home all: http://www.jerseyairport.com/index.asp?NavID=101

[John McKenna]

Jersey airport was closed due to the weather earlier.

[Adam Raoof]

Jersey airport was closed due to the weather earlier.

Due to the weather we are stuck here for a few more days! Unfortunately Tito has taken all the chess sets away so we can't even have another chess event...