Burnie Shines - Weekender Yuglibar(?) and Think Big Grand Prix Today.
A small field of 20 contested the 6 round event with David H capably performing DOP and struggling to beat players over 1900 but still giving tehm a run for their money! Top seed Tony D went undefeated with 4 wins and two draws to tie for first with Alastair D. Marcus B was going well on day 1 with his opponents losing games for him inlcuidng second seed Kevin B. Jackson J returned to competitive chess and scored an early upset over Dallas F. Mason C gave the "Oh no" look and I walked straight into a free pawn lose a piece tactic. Dragan R also returned with typical unorthodx gritiness to have 3.5 on day 1. Mason notched up a solid Q, R, and 5p end-game win over Phil. Vincent H played a fun attack against Peter L's Sicilian to be 2 R vs K & B and then Peter's pawns started to roll! Tactics from both players saw a 65 move marathon swing both ways before the last tactic gave Vincent 3 points to finish Day 1.
On Day 2 the oldest competitor, Dragan, played Mason (64 years junior) and after a lot of holding on, and pawn blockages, Dragan was unable to stem the tsunami. Tony S played an entertaining Grob and caused me a lot of trouble to vindicate his most improved rating listing. Tony D outplayed Vincent and drew with Kevin to finish equal first. Alastair and Marcus played out a lot of exchanges into a draw.
Placings
1st Alastair D and Tony D 5/6
1st Alastair D and Tony D 5/6
3rd and U12 Mason C 4.5/6
U1700 Russell H 4/6; U1400 Carey K
U18 Marcus B; 2nd U18 Vincent H and Lawrence B.
Toilet cleaning prize! pictured (my unfortunate 
job last year!)
job last year!)
1 comment:
Thanks Russell, a most enjoyable weekender, with some interesting chess played, and the rise of another junior to prominence. Well done Mason!
On a personal note, I feel truly initiated into the Tasmanian chess community with Tony (Thelston) Sturgess playing the Guatemala attack against me. Fortunately I prevailed.
Well done to those Burnie senior players for avoidig the Toilet brush prize, except for Nigel that is, who handled it with dignity Well as much dignity as a person wearing pink gloves can show.
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