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The club had an informal meeting on Friday night and has decided to take advantage of an offer from Chess World to purchase 10 digital game timers (DGTs) to replace the analogue clocks currently used at the club. The DGTs will be purchased at the reduced price of $90 (RRP $139). This will enable all players at the club (including the juniors) to become familiar with DGTs which are the standard chess timing equipment used in interschool competitions, state and national championships.
A junior tournament was held
with 12 entries playing in 2 groups. Games were played at the rate of 8 minutes
per player. In group 1 Matthew Cannon managed to overcome Timothy Stanley in
the deciding game. Jacob Gatt won group 2 assisted by some sneaky scholars
mates - and was gentlemanly enough to reveal to his opponents the secret to
thwarting this four move calamity. <Full Results>
Group 1
No. |
Player |
Total |
1 |
Matthew Cannon |
5 |
2 |
Timothy Stanley |
4 |
3 |
Sean Purdon |
2˝ |
4 |
Thomas Robinson |
2 |
5 |
Christopher Stanley |
1 |
6 |
Thomas Mellor |
˝ |
Group 2
No. |
Player |
Total |
1 |
Jacob Gatt |
5 |
2 |
Stephen Mellor |
4 |
3 |
Jarred Pascoe |
3 |
4 |
Mark Dickson |
2 |
5 |
Michael Louttit |
1 |
6 |
Kieran McHugh |
0 |
Round 2 game:
Debbie
Jenkins 1 James
Hiller 0 – awarded on forfeit
Round 3 games:
Mike
Talbot 0 Tony Howes
1
John
Curran 0 Gavin
Foulger 1
George
Flitcroft-Smith 1 Stuart
Wilson 0
Gabriel
Boross 1 Marty
Chadwick 0
Peter
Hiller 0 Harvey
Quaresmini 1
With all games played
between players in the top half of the draw against players in the bottom half
of the draw, no upsets were expected. And neither did we have any.
James managed to show up at 10pm thus
exhausting Debbie’s patience and recording a forfeit. Despite this all at the
club assured him that he is not a pariah and is most welcome to continue coming
to the club.
No scoresheets this week.
One Hour tournament: Current standings
All players to play 13 games
No. |
NAME |
POINTS |
PLAYED |
1 |
3 |
3 |
|
2 |
2˝ |
3 |
|
3 |
2˝ |
3 |
|
4 |
2 |
2 |
|
5 |
2 |
2 |
|
6 |
1 |
2 |
|
7 |
1 |
2 |
|
8 |
1 |
2 |
|
9 |
1 |
3 |
|
10 |
1 |
3 |
|
11 |
1 |
3 |
|
12 |
0 |
2 |
|
13 |
0 |
3 |
|
14 |
0 |
3 |
One Hour tournament 2003 results page
Quote of the night:
Quotes were flowing thick
and fast tonight, so we will leave it to the reader to decide on a personal
preference. Quotes given chronologically.
“James doesn’t take his
chess very seriously”
- D Jenkins
“It’s a bit hard to be
relaxed when you’re the pariah of the chess club”
- J Hiller
“I wouldn’t dare do that
to Mike or he’d come after me with his M-16”
- J Hiller
“James just mentioned
‘John Howard’ and ‘sexy’ in the same sentence”
- M Chadwick
“blah blah blah…. Bottle
blonde…. blah blah blah….”…. followed by an apology to a club member.
- G Flitcroft-Smith
“Elizabeth Taylor was my
auntie twice…”
- D Jenkins