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Hi folks,

Here are the results for the 2nd Leeds Chess congress, which took place from 19th-21st of July 2013.

For further info and pictures please visit: http://www.leedschesscongress.org.uk

For those that attended, hope you had a good weekend, and hope to see you again next year.


OPEN

1st place shared by:
~ Charlie Storey of Jesmond
~ Laurence Webb of Blackthorne Russia
~ Mike Surtees of Bolton
each with 4 points

Grading prizes:
~ Peter Shaw of Wakefield
~ Bob Newton of Rochdale
~ Jim Vickery of Alwoodley


Rank Player Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 Mike J Surtees b17+ w9+ b7= w8= b4+ 4
2 Laurence E Webb b10+ w11+ b4= w7= b8+ 4
3 Charles H Storey b22+ w4- b20+ w9+ b7+ 4
4 Sarah N Hegarty w19+ b3+ w2= b5+ w1- 3½
5 Robert A Newton b8= w21+ b6+ w4- b10+ 3½
6 Peter Shaw w16= b23+ w5- b17+ w15+ 3½
7 Ali Jaunooby w12+ b18+ w1= b2= w3- 3
8 Alan J Walton w5= b14+ w15+ b1= w2- 3
9 Jean-Luc Weller w24+ b1- w12+ b3- w16+ 3
10 Andrew Bak w2- b19+ w18+ b15= w5- 2½
11 Peter W Hempson bye+ b2- w17= b16= w12= 2½
12 Mark A Whitehead b7- w22+ b9- w20+ b11= 2½
13 A J (Tony) Slinger w18= b15- w23= b21+ w17= 2½
14 Jim Vickery bye= w8- b21= w19= b20+ 2½
15 Trevor Braithwaite bye= w13+ b8- w10= b6- 2
16 Khalid Mohammed b6= w20- b22+ w11= b9- 2
17 Francis P Best w1- b24+ b11= w6- b13= 2
18 Eric Gardiner b13= w7- b10- w23+ b19= 2
19 Peter G Lovatt b4- w10- bye+ b14= w18= 2
20 Dave W Stephenson bye= b16+ w3- b12- w14- 1½
21 Derek A Sheppard bye= b5- w14= w13- b22= 1½
22 Peter Jaszkiwskyj w3- b12- w16- bye+ w21= 1½
23 Joao Rita bye= w6- b13= b18- 1
24 Alex Ghiocel b9- w17- -

MAJOR

1st prize of £200: Andy Jaques of Burnley with 5 points

2nd place shared by:
~ Harry Baxter of Alwoodley
~ Clive Davies of Rose Forgrove
~ José López of Denton
each with 4 points

Grading prizes:
~ Oleg Cukovs of Poulton with 3½ points
~ Eric Key of York RI with 3½ points
~ Chris Bak of York University with 3½ points
~ Dave Grobler of Netherton with 3 points

Rank Player Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 Andrew Jaques bye+ w17+ b8+ w2+ b10+ 5
2 Clive W Davies w32+ b33+ w5+ b1- w8+ 4
3 Harry Baxter bye= w27+ b7+ w6= b11+ 4
4 J Pablo Lopez w35+ b5- w18+ b23+ w9+ 4
5 Christopher Bak w25+ w4+ b2- b22+ w6= 3½
6 Oleg Cukovs bye= w29+ w30+ b3= b5= 3½
7 Eric A Key w9= b34+ w3- b18+ w16+ 3½
8 Michael I Connor w37+ b16+ w1- b25+ b2- 3
9 David Grobler b7= w14+ bye+ w10= b4- 3
10 Martin J Burns bye= b38+ w22+ b9= w1- 3
11 Colin Procter w16- b37+ w28+ b24+ w3- 3
12 Tim Hilton b29= w15= b17= w30+ w13= 3
13 Mark Taylor w36+ b30= w17+ b12= 3
14 Neil Coward bye= b9- w29= b35+ w24+ 3
15 Brian Coop b17- b12= w34= b29+ w22+ 3
16 Gunnar Mallon b11+ w8- b19= w20+ b7- 2½
17 Senan Al-Biatty w15+ b1- w12= b13- w31+ 2½
18 Khaled Muflehi bye= w20+ b4- w7- b30+ 2½
19 Jim Lobley bye= b28= w16= b31= w21= 2½
20 Peter Braham bye= b18- w38+ b16- w23+ 2½
21 Randy Donahue b26- w23- b36+ w28+ b19= 2½
22 Paul R H Clarke b23+ w26+ b10- w5- b15- 2
23 Paul May w22- b21+ w31+ w4- b20- 2
24 Richard E Desmedt b33- w32+ b26+ w11- b14- 2
25 Russell R Goodfellow b5- w35+ b33+ w8- 2
26 Amanda Hipshon w21+ b22- w24- b27- w32+ 2
27 George V Glover bye= b3- b32= w26+ 2
28 Noel Stewart bye= w19= b11- b21- w33+ 2
29 James L Thomson w12= b6- b14= w15- w36+ 2
30 Ian W Mackay w31+ w13= b6- b12- w18- 1½
31 M John Cawston b30- w36+ b23- w19= b17- 1½
32 Kevin Winter b2- b24- w27= w33+ b26- 1½
33 Tony AG Morley w24+ w2- w25- b32- b28- 1
34 Robert Clegg bye= w7- b15= 1
35 Dean M Hartley b4- b25- w37+ w14- 1
36 Andy Ross b13- b31- w21- w37+ b29- 1
37 Shane Frith b8- w11- b35- b36- w39+ 1
38 Frank T Sheldrick bye= w10- b20- 0½
39 Kenneth Marsden b37- -

INTERMEDIATE

1st place shared by:
~ Firas Almazedi, resident in Leeds (no club)
~ Dave Parton of Yorkshire Copperworks
~ John Saxton of Bradford
each with 4 points

Grading prizes:
~ Roger Walker of Belper with 3½ points
~ Jack Duckworth of Harrogate with 3 points
~ John Brooke of South Bradford with 3 points
~ Zana Aziz of Leeds with 3½ points

Rank Player Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 David R Parton w21+ b16+ w3+ b2- w8+ 4
2 Almazedi Firas b24+ w8+ b11= w1+ w4= 4
3 John Saxton b5+ w23+ b1- w9+ b7+ 4
4 Bruce R Oliver bye= b18+ w17= w11+ b2= 3½
5 Zana Aziz w3- w15+ b21+ b16+ w10= 3½
6 Roger W Walker bye= b7- w18+ w13+ b11+ 3½
7 Jonathan Mahony b10= w6+ b9= w17+ w3- 3
8 John Brooke w13+ b2- b23+ w12+ b1- 3
9 Jack Duckworth bye= b12+ w7= b3- w16+ 3
10 James E Moreby w7= b17- w22+ b20+ b5= 3
11 Noel J Boustred w19+ b22+ w2= b4- w6- 2½
12 Barry Groves bye= w9- b24+ b8- w21+ 2½
13 David N Holt b8- w24= bye+ b6- w20+ 2½
14 Jamie Kubisa bye= w20- b15- w23+ b17+ 2½
15 John Hipshon w16- b5- w14+ b21= w22+ 2½
16 Wesley McGough b15+ w1- b20+ w5- b9- 2
17 Chris Roche bye= w10+ b4= b7- w14- 2
18 Daniel Hubbort bye= w4- b6- b19= w24+ 2
19 Gregory Bailey b11- bye= w18= b23+ 2
20 William J Egan bye= b14+ w16- w10- b13- 1½
21 John Merry b1- b25+ w5- w15= b12- 1½
22 Mark A K Carter bye= w11- b10- w24+ b15- 1½
23 Dave Summerland bye+ b3- w8- b14- w19- 1
24 Paul Gelder w2- b13= w12- b22- b18- 0½
25 John Light w21- -

MINOR

1st prize of £200: Michael Snowdon of Rotherham with 4½ points

2nd prize of £100: Matthew Best of Shrewsbury with 4 points

3rd place shared by:
~ Paul Cooper of Burton-on-Trent (no club)
~ Boris Garanins of Poulton with
both with 3½ points

Grading prizes:
~ Phillip Shaughnessy of Urmston with 3½ points
~ John Light of Leeds with 3 points

Rank Player Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 Michael Snowdon b19= w13+ w5+ b3+ w2+ 4½
2 Matthew Best b7+ w15+ b14+ w8+ b1- 4
3 Boris Garanins bye= w19+ b4+ w1- b10+ 3½
4 Paul Cooper bye= w12+ w3- b11+ w9+ 3½
5 Phillip Shaughnessy bye= w21+ b1- w12+ b8+ 3½
6 John Light b11- bye+ w16+ b9- w15+ 3
7 Binali Yilmaz w2- b18+ b15+ w14+ 3
8 Gary Clarke b16+ w10= w9+ b2- w5- 2½
9 Eric McKenna bye= w20+ b8- w6+ b4- 2½
10 Anthony J Lightowler bye= b8= w11= b13+ w3- 2½
11 Eric P Davies w6+ b14- b10= w4- b17+ 2½
12 W (Bill) Pinder bye= b4- w19+ b5- w20+ 2½
13 Can Guven bye= b1- bye+ w10- b19+ 2½
14 David J Archer b17+ w11+ w2- b19- b7- 2
15 Kenneth W Parkin w18+ b2- w7- b16+ b6- 2
16 Philip May w8- b17+ b6- w15- b21+ 2
17 Phil Higgins w14- w16- b21+ b18+ w11- 2
18 Kenneth Marsden b15- w7- b20+ w17- bye+ 2
19 Phil Taylor w1= b3- b12- w14+ w13- 1½
20 Mark Cooper bye= b9- w18- w21+ b12- 1½
21 John G Hainsworth bye= b5- w17- b20- w16- 0½

Jon

Looks like a strong event - how did entries compare with last year?

Mick Norris wrote:Jon

Looks like a strong event - how did entries compare with last year?

Hi Mick

Yes we were very pleased; the Open in particular was one of the strongest up north, I’ve seen in recent memory. Of course we do have the advantage of been right before the British - some of our stronger players came to warm up for that

I don’t have the exact figures in front of me, but numbers were up by 40+ over last year.

Strangely enough it was the Minor that was a little thin on the ground this year, but we are confident that will level out in time.

Jon Mahony wrote:Yes we were very pleased; the Open in particular was one of the strongest up north, I’ve seen in recent memory.

Depends where you consider the North starting I suppose!

Jon Mahony wrote:I don’t have the exact figures in front of me, but numbers were up by 40+ over last year.

If it hadn't been for the ECF membership scheme, you'd have been 80 up on last year.

The Leeds evening league is also the only evening league in Yorkshire that sends all it's games for ECF grading. Bradford are considering following suit.

Sean Hewitt wrote:Depends where you consider the North starting I suppose!

It starts just north of Watford innit

Sean Hewitt wrote:
Depends where you consider the North starting I suppose!

That would be Darlington then :

Jon , I will make every effort to attend Leeds Congress next year. Hope the wife sticks to crashing her own car next year rather than mine !

Sean Hewitt wrote:If it hadn't been for the ECF membership scheme, you'd have been 80 up on last year.

It wasn't FIDE rated, so players didn't have to upgrade to Gold. Bronze players would have had to play an extra £ 6 on the entry fee and most likely for a single event. Does it matter? Uncertain, but some Northern and other Congress organisers would complain bitterly about having to add on £ 2 per head or thereabouts to pay the BCF or ECF for Congress membership.

Great to see central Leeds chess coming back into things after rather too long. Still quite a way to catch Scarbrough/Blackpool I think

As Andrew noted, the Leeds evening league is ECF graded and membership levels are very high with it - 82 per cent by players, 92 by games. Not that a congress in Leeds won't logically draw people in from lots of places, or for that matter that the other Yorkshire congresses noticed any sort of effect. (It looks to have been very level year on year.).

All the games from the Open are now available on the Leeds Congress website, some of which are annotated.

You can also see many pictures, reports and full crosstables!

All Games from the Open

Andrew Bak wrote:All the games from the Open are now available on the Leeds Congress website, some of which are annotated.

Games in pgn format for download are best presented in text files with a pgn extension. Pasting them to html is all very well and would work well for pasting them on a forum, but those wanting to incorporate them in a database then have the task of pasting them back from html into text.

Round 10 of the British Championship is the preferred approach
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/BCC/PGNs/BritishR10.pgn

This is a plain text file that can also be opened with a text editor or word processor as well as your chess software of choice.

Roger de Coverly wrote:

Andrew Bak wrote:All the games from the Open are now available on the Leeds Congress website, some of which are annotated.

Games in pgn format for download are best presented in text files with a pgn extension. Pasting them to html is all very well and would work well for pasting them on a forum, but those wanting to incorporate them in a database then have the task of pasting them back from html into text.

Round 10 of the British Championship is the preferred approach
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/BCC/PGNs/BritishR10.pgn

This is a plain text file that can also be opened with a text editor or word processor as well as your chess software of choice.

To be honest I hadn't checked the links as I already had the games in my database!

I'll contact the webmaster and see if he can link to a .pgn download file.