Kevin shows style

In round 8 of the Lindsay Atkinson, Kevin showed his form against Neville's Caro Kann. Neville had done some preparation but was faced with imaginative play by Kevin and found himself completely outplayed. Neville said he has no intention of playing the Caro Kann again!
Carey had the better over his son, Dylan, but couldn't battle time pressure and agreed to a draw with a few minutes remaining. Afterwards dad was shown the mate he missed and how to stop the pawns he feared.
Phil played solidly against an ambitious Vincent in the King's Indian. Phil launched two surprises - h4 and a queen side castle - leaving Vincent exposed on his kingside and underdeveloped. Vincent was able to reorganise and launch a mating attack but just needed one more move. Phil stopped this with his own mating attack and won the game.
David shot to the lead with another win (7/9), this time against Andrew who gave away a knight on move 10 and later another piece - too easy!
Charlie was at a memorial dinner and unavailable.
Sadly the reserves were depleted through homework and illness and no tournament games were played.
Zen, Lenard, Russell, Nigel, Peter and Mitchell played some fun games.

Next week:
Vincent vs Nigel; Andrew vs Dylan; Phil vs Neville; Russell vs Reg; David vs Carey; Kevin vs Charlie
Reserves multiple games!

NW Junior Chess Championships

Conducted by Russell Horton for TCA.
Sunday October 4, 12 -5pm,
Ulverstone Primary School, $10/player
Medals for winner and runner up U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 - Boys and Girls

Players can qualify to play in the Tasmanian Junior Championships October 10 and 11 in Hobart.

Prizes for interesting games – recording moves encouraged but not required.

Games will be played in separate divisions if sufficient entries (e.g. U10 boys, combined U8, U10 and U12 girls).

Entries: Please send name and D.O.B to nwchess@gmail.com or 11:30 on the day.

Leaders slug it out

David and Phil played a tough even game and finished with a draw in a rook ending to share the lead in the Robert Isted.
Russell walked into a trap against Nigel and spent 30 minutes extracting his king to safety and getting his pieces out. Despite a huge time deficit a passed pawn and an attack on f2 helped Russell over the line.
Carey saw too much! The knight sacrifice looked good but he saw a line of defence but in later analysis Andrew missed this and Carey would have secured a brilliant attacking win. Nevertheless points went to Carey.
Dylan secured a win over Kevin.
In the Reserves - Gemma couldn't defend after dropping a piece against Anthony but secured a draw with Cohen. Anthony df Cohen.
Next Week
Dylan vs Charlie; Kevin vs Neville; Andrew vs David; Phil vs Vincent
Gemma vs Anthony; Mitchell vs Cohen; Anthony vs Mitchell; Cohen vs Gemma
Missing game yet to play from previously published list: Russell vs Phil

Nigel storming home in Robert Isted

After a slow start Nigel is storming home by scoring another win last week. This time over tournament leader David Hughes! Dylan has been showing some form but Neville scored the point. Kevin defeated Carey. A number of players were absent and the draw is looking pretty loose.
Draw for 16th is Neville vs Charlie; Dylan vs Carey; David vs Phil; Kevin vs Andrew; Nigel vs Russell.
All players in reserves to play. Reg and Vincent away this week.
Progress scores to date (Points/games):
Charlie 1/4; Neville 1.5/7; Carey 2/7; Kevin 2/7; Andrew 3/6; Dylan 4/8; Nigle 4.5/8; Reg 4.5/8; Vincent 4.5/6; Phil 4.5/6; Russell 5/7; David 5.5/7.
Reserves: Mitchell is the current leader with 3 points, with Cohen and Anthony on 2 and Gemma trailing. These scores have been affected by the withdrawal (?) of Ashton and are tentative.

Remaining games in Robert Isted and Reserves

See the remaining games in the comments
See cross tables inteh comments

David hits the lead

Round 8 RI
David has 5.5 out 6 games and is the only undefeated player in the tournament. He rose to this status after an interesting game against Russell. Both players were far to cautious in playing the Najdorf and after some trading Russell fell to some simple tactics in time pressure.
Vincent and Kevin played the game of the night with some long combinations and tactics - a win to Vincent.
Phil sacked a piece but Nigel found the defence to emerge victorious.
Dylan confirmed his rating rise with a win over Reg.
Carey beat Neville.
Anthony defeated Cohen and Mitchell won a seesawing game over Anthony.

The REVISED new draw for next week is:
Next week Andrew, Vincent, Russell, Mitchell and Anthony are away.
Phil vs Neville David vs Carey Charlie vs Kevin
Gemma vs Cohen

Chesskids tournament packed!
114 players contested regional final today at West Ulverstone Primary. WUPS won the primary section and UHS won the secondary on countback from St Brendan's Shaw College. Several schools weren't able to enter due to the full field.

I have the medals to give away at NW Junior Championships
U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 Boys and girls.
Be ready for Sunday, October 4th 12-4:30 pm. Entries on the day.

Junior Coaching at Ulverstone Primary School
with Russell 28 Sept, 5 Oct - 3:30-5pm