Open Tournament
Hughston Parle has been playing exceptional chess lately drawing with Queenslands newest International master Brodie McClymont a few weeks ago not to mention drawing with Grammars board 1 Tom Slater-Jones and beating TSS board 1 David Liu in the GPS inter-school competition.
Michael D'Arcy handed out prizes on behalf of the Queensland chess federation.
Jason Wang made the winners circle once more losing only to the winner and drawing with Henry Slater-Jones. He was second on countback with 5.5/7. Picktured to the right is Churchie's favourite D.O.P Tyson Walker
Henry Slater-Jones is another outstanding Queensland junior with a FIDE (world chess federation) rating of 1920, only 2 points below his older brother Tom. He played a bit too solidly (dare I say professionally?), not losing any games but drawing three and didn't get to play the winner.
Third on countback with 5.5/7 is not bad though
Three players tied for the U800 rating prize, Keanu Matsuura won
Chun Lee came second
and Evan Fraser third. All three made 4/7
Isaac Lupari also finished on 4/7 but lost the tiebreak lottery.
Sophie Watkins was the best girl also scoring 4/7 and played the whole tournament on the top tables. She beat everyone under 1492, losing only to the professionals.
Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Club Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Parle, Hughston B 1482 800+ 7 20.5 29.0 28.0
2-3 Wang, Jason B 1543 800+ 5.5 22.5 33.0 22.5
Slater-Jones, Henry B 1512 800+ 5.5 22.5 31.5 24.0
4-6 Kundal, Armaan B 904 800+ 5 21.0 30.5 22.0
Su, Lucas B 874 800+ 5 20.5 28.5 19.0
deGit, Cole B 840 800+ 5 18.0 25.0 20.0
7-8 Liu, David (GC) GC 1492 800+ 4.5 22.0 31.5 20.5
Waddell, Craig B 898 800+ 4.5 17.5 25.0 17.0
9-14 Watkins, Sophie B 876 800+ 4 21.5 30.0 18.0
Fraser, Daniel B 1090 800+ 4 20.5 28.5 18.0
Matsuura, Keanu GC 790 Under 800 4 18.0 25.0 15.0
Lee, Chun B 744 Under 800 4 17.5 23.0 14.0
Fraser, Evan B 773 Under 800 4 16.5 23.5 14.0
Lupari, Isaac B 743 Under 800 4 15.0 22.5 12.0
15-17 Chan, Jacob GC 988 800+ 3.5 21.5 30.0 20.0
Yuan, Dylan B 722 Under 800 3.5 19.0 25.5 16.0
Huang, Aaron B 588 Under 800 3.5 14.0 19.5 11.0
18-24 Cox, Joshua Under 800 3 18.0 25.0 12.0
Milbourne, Noah Under 800 3 16.5 24.0 12.0
Zhuang, Raymond B 832 800+ 3 16.0 24.5 12.0
Eager, Blake B 638 Under 800 3 16.0 22.5 12.0
Congreve, Sophie B 872 800+ 3 15.0 20.5 12.0
Houghton, Sam B 602 Under 800 3 15.0 20.0 9.0
Kane, Euan B 518 Under 800 3 13.5 19.0 6.0
25 Shresth, Aryan B 825 800+ 2.5 17.5 23.5 13.0
26-30 Williams, Joshua Under 800 2 16.5 22.0 11.0
Evans, Angus Under 800 2 15.5 23.0 6.0
Wood, Joshua B 652 Under 800 2 14.5 21.0 8.0
Pollack, Oscar Under 800 2 14.0 18.5 5.0
Millar, Jack Under 800 2 13.5 20.0 8.0
31 Heaven, Max
Grades 1-5 tournament
Marcus Su won this event with ease and should play in the open next time. Not only his score but his play was so impressive that even my "official photographer", Francoise Petitjean, noticed. Pictured to the left of Marcus is Mr Max Condon, master of Chess at Churchie and the driving force behind our whole chess program.
Lachlan Congreve cruised into second place on 6/7 with a broken arm.
Rei Sannomiya looks happy with his third place scoring 4.5/7
And so our third term rapid concluded with lots of happy faces on this glorious winters day. 55 participants is a new record I think and we also had many players come up from the Gold Coast. Thanks must go to their parents who drove such a long way to indulge their children's passion.
Let's see is we can break this record in term 4 :-)
Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Su, Marcus B 626 7 21.5 31.5 28.0
2 Congreve, Lachlan B 598 6 19.5 28.5 24.0
3-5 Sannomiya, Rei 4.5 21.5 31.0 19.0
Chan, Jordan GC 544 4.5 21.0 30.0 20.0
Khagram, Aaryan B 563 4.5 19.0 28.0 18.0
6-9 Williams, Matthew 4 22.5 32.5 19.0
Khagram, Ayesha 4 20.5 30.0 17.0
Huang, Adam 4 18.0 26.0 17.0
Hsu, Kelvin 4 17.5 26.5 17.0
10-13 Bose, Ishan 3.5 18.5 26.5 17.0
Woodhouse, Roc 3.5 17.5 24.0 14.0
Lee, Adeline 3.5 15.5 22.0 13.0
Gregory, Jeremy 3.5 13.0 18.5 12.0
14 Evans, Bella 3 15.5 21.5 12.0
15-16 Mathew, Christopher 2.5 15.5 22.0 7.5
Latimer, William 2.5 12.0 18.0 7.0
17-22 Brookes, Ardy 2 16.0 22.5 10.5
Hsu, Perry 2 14.5 20.0 9.0
Latimer, Isabella 2 14.0 20.5 8.0
Coxon, Nicholas 2 13.5 21.5 4.5
Sejourne, Pierre 2 7.0 15.5 5.0
Swindale, Lachlan 2 6.0 12.0 5.0
23 Sejourne, Maxime 1 7.0 12.5 2.5
24 Sanders, Aidan 0.5 7.0 12.5 1.5
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