Hamilton Chess Club

We had 8 rounds of 3 + 2 blitz last night. Top score (7/8) to Prashanth and Richard in the adult division, and top score (7/8) to  Sean and Joel in the Junior division. Blitz again next week, six rounds or 5  + 3. Guests welcome.

Adult

Junior

We will have a Swiss blitz tournament next week of six rounds. Depending on numbers we will probably have an older players and a youngsters division. Guests are welcome. Come along and join in the fun. Doors open 7pm, The blitz will kick off at 7:30. Dont be late.

The club welcomes Michael Serrate as its newest member. Michael will be a valuable addition at the strong end of the club spectrum:  he has played 13 ratable games so far and enters the ratings board with the rank of Rook on a very respectable 1604.Welcome Michael.

Seventeen last night for a mini round robin in three divisions. A few false starts at the end but things eventually settled down to 3 games at time control 10 + 0. Special mention to Richard Jackson, Dhusar and Sean who all manged a clean sweep of their games.

We had 19 players for the round robin last night. Special mention to Graham Nolan and Sean Clark who both won all three of their games. The format was popular and will be repeated next week, don’t be late: games kick off at 7:30 sharp

Forty eight players turned out for the Waikato Open on the Weekend, which is a local record. The open section had 23 players. First was Michaeal Steadman on 5 points, followed then by a six way tie on four points between Russell Dive, Robert Smith, Ben Hague, Daniel Gong, Layla Timergazi, and Alphaeus Ang. Twenty five played in the under 1800 division. Sivaram top scored on five, while Ian Kennedy and  Aaron Wang shared second equal on 4.5 points. Final crosstables are here, and this is the rogues gallery. Thanks once again to Gary for organizing the venue, and Keong Ang for a stirling effort as arbiter.

This weekends Waikato Open looks to be our best ever, with 47 confirmed entries so far, including 7 FIDE titled players (6 FM, and an IM). Registered players can be seen here for the open division, and here for the under 1800. We look forward to seeing you there!

Numbers were a little light this week and the graded double round robin didn’t eventuate. Depending on numbers that attend  we might try and have a mini graded round robin the next two weeks. Groups of four players of similar ability based on club ranking playing against each other, 3 games, time control 15 + 0. Same again the following week. Remember your club needs you to show some commitment and turn up.

We didn’t quite have the numbers to make the round robin feasible last night so had an evening of 3 + 2 blitz instead. There was an adult and a junior section. Special mention goes to JARVIS who won his first four games and was outright leader at that point. Unfortunately he dropped his next two gaims but still ended up first equal with Adam and Jeff on 5 points. Jarvis has gained 58 club rating points in his last 15 games, which is more than any other club player, so his chess is really coming along. In the adult division Richard  Graham and Michael were first second and third respectively. Crossstables are below, and club ratings have been updated.

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Adult