Summer Cup

Many thanks to Simon for running a great tournament, as always ! Congrats to Josh for winning, and good to see some newcomers this year. In particular, it will be interesting to see how my last round opponent, Sean Doherty, fares in the new season. Sean played remarkably for someone that has little OTB competitive chess experience, and has just started taking online lessons from a GM, so he's obviously serious about improving.

Round 6 of Summer Cup

The final round of the Summer Cup was played yesterday evening and congratulations must go to Joshua Pink who has scored 6/6 and has therefore won the 2013 John Evans Memorial Trophy Summer Cup.

Congratulations must also go to Dave Ireland who was this year's Runner Up with a score of 5/6.

Ed Goodwin scored 4/6 only loosing once in the tournament

In matches last night Joshua only needed a draw to win the Cup and he actually won his match against Bava.

Paul Sweatman achieved a very creditable draw against Clive Blackburn. Don Sheward also played very well to secure a draw against Pete Smith. As mentioned previously our two newcomers also performed very well - Gerald Reason drawing with Howard Jones and although Sean Doherty lost against Dave Ireland he played very well.

Tournament Round Up

Bob Holmes narrowly missed out on a trophy this year with 4.5 points and yet again had an excellent Cup run and always does consistently well in this tournament.

Bava had a very good tournament securing 4/6 and had a chance of winning the Cup right upto the last round. The two games he lost were to Dave and Joshua

Stan Whitmore, Clive Blackburn, Pete Smith  also had an excellent Cup Run - only loosing twice in the tournament.

Well Done to Paul Sweatman who also achieved 3.5 points only loosing twice as well, with one being to Dave Ireland

John McCann and John Harris also obtained 3 points another solid performance.

A special mention for Sean Doherty who got 3.5 points for the tournament and was challenging the leaders at the end of the Cup... a great result for someone who is just learning the game!

Gerald Reason who has recently returned to chess after a long period also scored a creditable 2.5 points - having missed the first round.

Daniel Rowlands also only lost twice scoring 2.5 points

A big Thank you to all  the players who took part in the Cup and playing in the spirit of the game this made it a very enjoyable tournament to run and organise.

Presentation of the trophy's will take place at the AGM next week - 11th June 2013 7.30pm - 8pm

Results from last night

J.Pink 1 0 Bava
D.Ireland 1 0 S.Doherty
P.Sweatman .5 .5 C.Blackburn
R.Holmes 1 0 J.Harris
E.Goodwin 1 0 J.McCann
D.Rowlands .5 .5 J.Faill
D.Sheward .5 .5 P.Smith
I.Evans 0 1 S.Whitmore
G.Reason .5 .5 H.Jones
T.Beesley .5 .5 T.Gazee
G.Cornell 1 0 T.White


Overall Results

J.Pink             6   Winner
D.Ireland        5    Runner Up
R.Holmes       4.5
E.Goodwin     4
Bava              4
P.Sweatman    3.5
C.Blackburn   3.5
S.Doherty       3.5
S.Whitmore    3
D.Sheward     3
J.McCann       3
J.Harris           3
D.Rowlands    3
R.Parekh        2.5
P.Smith           2.5
J.Faill             2.5
T.Sheasby      2.5
H.Jones          2.5
G.Reason       2.5
I.Evans           2
R.Sian            2
G.Cornell       2
D.Filer           1.5
T.Gazee         .5
T.Beesley      .5
W.Beeston    .5
T.White         0
C.Dobson     0

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Summer Cup Round 5

Results of Round 5 of the Summer Cup.

Joshua won again keeping his 100% record in the competition and looking as though he will win the Summer Cup as he only needs a draw next week.

Although Dave Ireland is still hot on his heels!

J.Pink      1 0 R.Holmes
D.Ireland 1 0 E.Goodwin
Bava       1 0 J.Harris
J.McCann .5 .5 S.Doherty
C.Blackburn 1 0 D.Sheward
P.Sweatman 1 0 R.Sian
I.Evans 0.5 0.5 T.Sheasby
H.Jones 0.5 0.5 P.Smith
G.Cornell 0 1 G.Reason
S.Weaver 0 1 D.Rowlands


THE CLUB AGM WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY JUNE 11th 7.30PM

TOTAL POINTS

       J.Pink 5
Dave Ireland 4
       Bava  4
 R.Holmes 3
E.Goodwin 3
D.filer        1.5
I.Evans       2
S.Whitmore 2
P.Smith 2
R.Parekh 2.5
H.Jones   1.5
D.Sheward 2.5
C.Blackburn 3
W.Beeston 0.5
P.Sweatman 3
R.Sian         2
J.McCann   3
J.Harris       3
J.Faill          2
T.Sheasby   2.5
T.Gazzee    0
T.White     0
S.Doherty 3.5
G.Cornell  1
D.Rowlands 2.5
G.Reason    2
C.Dobson   0

Summer Cup Round 4 Results

The Fourth round of the Summer Cup was held on Tuesday 21st May

The Match with the only two players on three points was between Dave Ireland and Joshua Pink (who has just joined us this season) J.Pink was playing with the white pieces and he eventually managed to gain a pawn in the end game and won a very close fought match. This is the first time time Dave Ireland has lost a game in the Summer cup for a long time. Could we soon have a new name on the cup ?

R. Holmes continued his run of excellent results and is now in second place on 3.5 points

Sean Doherty also continued his run of excellent results winning his match against John Faill. This is Sean's first tournament and has only just joined Coventry Chess Club.

Daniel Rowlands drew with P.Smith another player who is very quickly improving. Daniel hopes to get into Warwick University - but of course he will not dare switch to playing for University or so he tells me!

Fifth Round is next Tuesday 28th May.

Full Results

D.Ireland 0 1 J.Pink
E.Goodwin .5 .5 J.Harris
J.McCann 0 1 Bava
R.Holmes 1 0 C.Blackburn
I.Evans 0 1 H.Jones
J.Faill 0 1 S.Doherty
R.Sian 0 1 D.Sheward
S.Whitmore 1 0 T.Beesley
P.Smith 0 1 D.Rowlands AMENDMENT P.Smith 0.5 0.5 D.Rowlands
P.Sweatman 1 0 G.Reason
T.Gazee 0 1 G.Cornell
T. White 0 1 S.Weaver

Summer Cup Round 3

Round 3 of the summer cup was held on the 14th May.

There were some very close games.With Dave Ireland yet again winning a tricky ending situation with Bava. Joshua Pink won his match against Ravi so both these players are now on 3 points and are the current tournament leaders.

Congratulations to G.Reason on getting his first point in the tournament and to J.Faill for beating another 2nd division player.

Full Results

D.Ireland 1 0 Bava
J.Pink      1 0 R.Sia
E.Goodwin 0.5 0.5 R.Holmes
I.Evans 0.5 0.5 D.Sheward
S.Whitmore 0 1 S.Doherty
J.Harris 1 0 D.Rowlands
C.Blackburn 1 0 P.Smith
J.McCann 1 0 P.Sweatman
W.Beeston 0 1 J.Fail
G.Reason 1  0 T.Beesley
G.Cornell 0 1 T.Sheasby
S.Weaver 1 0 C.Dobson

Other Notes

We intend to hold the Club AGM after the Summer Cup has finished. June 11th. Will confirm details later in the month.

John Harris was presented with the best newcomer trophy for last season. So congratulations to John on this achievement. John also helped the B team win the 2nd Division title.

Simon