Liverpool Quadrangular 6th & 7th Dec 2014

[Peter Turner]

Does anyone have any information about this event?

[Matthew Turner]

Report supplied by Peter Purland in very timely fashion

Quadrangular Match

This annual event between teams from Scotland, Wales and the North and Midlands of England Regional teams took place over the weekend of 7-8th December at Liverpool College. We are very grateful to the continued help from the school. There are 26 players in each team, 6 at U16 and 10 at both U14 and U12. We had full teams at U14 and U16 but Wales and Midlands were a board short at U12. The first round went smoothly enough but the results were a little surprising. North beat Scotland at all three levels (5-1. 7-3. 5.5-4.5), whilst Wales won 2 out of 3 against Midlands (0.5-5.5, 6.5-3.5, 7.5-2.5). The second round saw Wales dominate at U12 beating Scotland 6-4 whilst the Midlands came back from their heavy defeat against Wales to beat North 6.5 – 3.5. This left Wales 4.5 points clear on 13.5 but the other three were very close with Midlands and North both on 9 and Scotland on 8.5. At U14 level Wales went on to Day two with a two point lead over the North(14-12) with the two due to meet. Midlands were in third position on 8.5 with Scotland on 5.5. The crop of northern players at present U16 have carried all before them for years and by the end of round two it seemed obvious this would happen again as they had 9 points, Midlands had 7.5, Scotland 6 and Wales 1.5. Even the greatest optimist cannot see Wales derailing the northern juggernaut. Sadly at U12 level the Kamath family of three players failed to arrive or even let Glynis know giving Wales three points before a result came in and virtually guaranteed them the tournament. This just shows how selfish behaviour can affect a wide range of people. In fact Wales got the 3.5 points they needed out of the remaining 7 games and won the tournament with 21 points. Midlands beat Scotland to come second on 16.5 whilst North just pipped Scotland for third by half a point. At Under 14 the battle continued until the final games with Wales needing half a point to secure the championship whilst Midlands defeated Scotland but still ended up third. In the end Wales scored 1.5 to draw the match and take the tournament with Midlands third. At Under 16 level the North signed out with an emphatic 6-0 win against Wales whilst Midlands and Scotland shared the spoils but this left Midlands second just ahead of Scotland. It was another good weekend and the quality and competitiveness of the chess is shown by the fact that only 9 players; James Kearney, Karam Sangha and Jonah Willow (Midlands) Daniel Abbass, Robert Maclean and James Walsh (North) John Morrison (Scotland) Hugo Fowler and Shayanna Sivarajasingam (Wales) scored three points.
Next year’s event will be held on December 6th and 7th at Liverpool College.

[Andrew Camp]

[Peter Turner]

The Quadrangular 2014 took place this weekend (6th & 7th Dec), does anyone have any details?