Hamilton Chess Club

We have had two bye notifications for tomorrow night so the revised round 5 draw is:

Club ratings and club ladder have been updated based on the weekends games. See who is now sitting at number 2 on the club ladder !!

Once again thanks to the joint efforts of Hilton, Keong, Gary, joined this year by Helen, for putting on a very successful Weekender tournament. First prize in the Open went to Alpehus Ang on 5.5, first prize in the U1800 was shared by Sravan Renjith and Duran Rubaclava. The Len Whitehouse trophy for best Waikato player went to Prashant Mistry, and the William Lynn cup for best Waikato junior was shared jointly by Sean Clerk and Adam Hasan-Stein. Full crosstables can be viewed here.

You can check out who has registered so far and follow tournament progress using these links:  Open,   U1800.

See you tomorrow night

The fiftieth player has now registered for the Waikato Open weekender tournament commencing tomorrow night. It is not too late to enter

The club ratings and club ladder have been adjusted to reflect tonights games. Remember that if you won against someone that was higher than you on the ladder you will have swapped places with them. The ladder is found under the club ratings menu.

This is next weeks’ draw if there are no bye requests.

1. There has been a change in the pawn structure. Your opponent has 8 and you don’t have any.
2. Your opponent begins to throw pawns at your eyes.
3. You have a position won but your opponent has a gun.
4. The Director tells you not to bother turning in your scoresheet after the game.
5. Before game begins you notice your opponents 1st initials are ‘GM’.
6. After completing your development you sense your opponent playing the endgame.
7. Just as you make your opening move your opponent announces mate in 11.
8. You don’t control any squares at all.
9. Your draw offer sends all the people watching your game into uncontrollable laughter.
10. Your opponent has 3 bishops

Just when you thought Club Ratings couldn’t get any better: Introducing the CLUB  LADDER. This is based on the traditional name tag in a slotted board concept.  An explanation of how it works can be found here. A permanent link to the club ladder has been added under the Club Ratings drop down menu. See where you rate on the ladder. Protect your ranking by avoiding losses against players that are sitting low down on the ladder. Don’t step on any snakes. Check it out!!.

Subject to notification of byes the round 4 draw will look like this. Let me know bye requests by Sunday the 24th please

The club is in recess now for the school holidays, we resume on 27 July with round 4 of the club rapid  champs.

Only one bye notified, so tonights draw looks like this. Remember that games start at 7.30pm – a 10 minute late time applies (your game is lost if you are 10 minutes late). Clocks will be started at 7:30 even if neither player is present.

The club welcomes Jason Nairn as its newest member. Jason has won one game so far in the club rapid champs, and enters the rating table on 1506. Welcome Jason

The Club Rapid tournament is now in full swing and runs through until 9 August (with a 2 week break for the school holidays) so it will be members only until 16 August, when we will start the winter cup. If you are interested in joining up check out the calendar to work out when the best nights would be to come along

Twenty four players have turned out for this years club rapid. Round 2 next week, don’t be late. The crosstable so far is  below.

Club ratings have been updated incorporating games played at the rapid on Saturday. Only games between club members have been incorporated. Richard managed to reach 1700, briefly at least, until Prashant managed a win in round five.

We had 49 players for the Waikato Rapid held  June 18 at St Paul’s Collegiate. Previously we have used the excellent school staff room as the location. This year the tournament took advantage of a new student centre which was an even better venue. We will hold this years’ Waikato Open in this building next month, and we hope to take advantage of this in future years.

The prize winners were

Open:
1st=  Bob Smith, Etienne De Beer (5)
3rd   Gino Thornton  (4.5)
Grade Prize
Graham Nolan, Milton Severinsen  (3)

Under 1800:
1st  Oliver Picken  (5.5)
2nd William Lynn  (5)
3rd=  Don Eade, Hilton Jacobs, Damian Eades
Grade I Prize
Sravan Renjith, Vyanla Punsalan  (3.5)
Grade II Prize
Lara Heppenstall  (3.5)

Under 1200 / Junior
1st  Michail Andreef  (6)
2nd Joel Crombie  (5)
3rd=  Sean Clark, Tiana Mayo, Grace Li, Alexander Mayo  (4)
Grade Prize
Nathan Alegado  (3.5)

The entire crosstable is located here, and the usual rogues gallery is here.