The Second Round of the Summer Cup has produced one of the oddest situations I have seen in chess!
After 2 Rounds and over 35 players entered into the competition only TWO players have 2 points !
Quite remarkable at such an early stage of a Swiss competition - You would have expected the top 10 or so seeds to have all gained 2 points by this stage of the competition - and of the two players one was not even seeded - making it all the more unusual !
Summary
Dave Ireland is the only seeded player to have 2 points.
Warrick Scaife (unseeded and no grade) had a great win against Bernard Charnley. Mike Johnson held Sam Cotterill to a draw and arguably had the edge in a close end game.
Margarita again showed how much she has greatly improved and drew with Bava - a fantastic result.
There were also wins for Wesley Beeston, Arun Paul, Aloise Evans, Roy Watson, John Loughnane, Sit Anwar and John Conway.
The above results show how close this competition is going to be with all the higher graded players already dropping points at such an early stage.
Results
D.Ireland 1 0 D.Riley
B.Charnley 0 W.Scaiffe
E.Goodwin .5 .5 Kaan
S.Cotterill .5 .5 M.Johnson
J.Harrison .5 .5 D.Filer
Bava .5 .5 Margarita
C.Pegler 0 1 J.Loughnane
W.Beeston 1 0 J.March
N.Morris 0 1 A.Evans
R.Watson 1 0 P.Smith
P.Sweatman .5 .5 C.Badley
S.Whitmore .5 .5 S.Simpson
A.Franklin 0 1 S.Anwar
A.Paul 1 0 Lana
Scores After Round 2
D.Ireland 2
B.Charnley 1
E.Goodwin 1.5
S.Cotterill 1.5
J.Loughnane 1
D.Adams 0
S.Anwar 1
C.Badley .5
J.Harrison 1.5
B.Evans .5
Bava 1.5
Hok 0
D.Filer 1.5
C.Pegler 0
M.Johnson 1.5
A.Franklin 0
W.Beeston 1.5
L.Nasibova .5
D.Riley 1
Seb 0
N.Morris .5
J.March .5
R.Watson 1.5
A.Paul 1.5
J.Conway 1
Margarita 1.5
Kaan 1.5
P.Sweatman .5
S.Whitmore 1
A.Evans 1.5
P.Smith .5
S.Simpson 1
N.Carrouche.5
Next Round - Third Round Tuesday April 9th 7.30pm
