Venue: Geelong Chess Club, 33 Myers Street Geelong
Duration: from Friday 15th April to Friday 20th May, 2016
Time limit: 60 minutes, plus 30 seconds increment per move.
Clocks Start: 7pm
Enquiries / bye requests: send email to geelongchessclub@gmail.com
The 2016 Geelong Chess Club Championship Qualifying Tournament commenced on Friday, 15th April, 2016.
The event was a five-round Swiss Tournament, with players competing for either Open or Reserve Grade ranking in the 2016 Club Championship. The first six placings qualified for Open ranking.
Bye Requests
Players could elect to request a bye if they were unable to attend a round. Only one bye could be requested per player. A bye round earned half a point.
Tiebreaks
If more than one player was tied for 6th position, the Buchholz score (column “Buch.” below) was to be used as a tiebreak. If two players were tied with the same Bucholz score, the Median-Buchholz (column “M-Buch.”) was to be used as a tiebreak.
In the event two players were tied with the same Buchholz and Median-Buchholz score, a playoff mechanism was to be invoked. This would take the form of a 10-minute rapid play match (players drawing for colors) at the conclusion of round 5.
The tournament concluded without the need for Tiebreaks.
Games
Please see Qualifier2016.pgn for a full list of recorded games.
Round 1
Round 1 kicked off with 13 entries – new faces for this year’s Championship Cycle included Geoff Davis, Stuart Cuxson, Chris Ashworth, and Kingsley Chung. Please see results below.
No Name Result Name 1 Ristic, M (7) 0:1 Sugrue, M (1) 2 Babic, Z (2) 1:0 Davis, G (8) 3 Mcclaren, N (9) 0:1 Daneshvar, R (3) 4 Barber, G (4) 1:0 Cuxson, S (11) 5 Smith, J (12) 0:1 Courtis, O (5) 6 Stokie, B (6) 1:0 Ashworth, C (13) 7 Chung, K (10) .5:.5 BYE
Round 2
Round 2 was played on Friday 29th April. The match of the round saw Bill Stokie taking the overall lead with a win against Michael Sugrue, despite being two pawns down in a rook and pawn ending. Results were:
No Name Result Name 1 Sugrue, M (1) 0:1 Stokie, B (6) 2 Daneshvar, R (3) .5:.5 Babic, Z (2) 3 Courtis, O (5) 0:1 Chung, K (10) 4 Cuxson, S (11) .5:.5 Ristic, M (7) 5 Davis, G (8) 1:0 Smith, J (12) 6 Ashworth, C (13) 1:0 Mcclaren, N (9) 7 Barber, G (4) .5:.5 BYE
Round 3
Round 3 was played on Friday, 6th May. Reza Daneshvar and Geoff Barber both scored strong victories to take the shared lead. New player Stuart Cuxson backed up his round 2 draw against Mio Ristic, grinding out a Knight versus Bishop endgame win against Jack Smith.
Full Results:
No Name Result Name 1 Stokie, B (6) 0:1 Daneshvar, R (3) 2 Chung, K (10) 0:1 Barber, G (4) 3 Babic, Z (2) .5:.5 Sugrue, M (1) 4 Davis, G (8) 1:0 Courtis, O (5) 5 Ristic, M (7) 1:0 Ashworth, C (13) 6 Smith, J (12) 0:1 Cuxson, S (11) 7 Mcclaren, N (9) .5:.5 BYE
Round 4
Round 4 was completed on Friday, 13th May. Results:
No Name Result Name 1 Daneshvar, R (3) 1:0 Barber, G (4) 2 Stokie, B (6) 0:1 Babic, Z (2) 3 Cuxson, S (11) 0:1 Davis, G (8) 4 Sugrue, M (1) 1:0 Chung, K (10) 5 Mcclaren, N (9) 0:1 Ristic, M (7) 6 Courtis, O (5) 1:0 Ashworth, C (13) 7 Smith, J (12) 1:0 BYE
Round 4 Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Daneshvar, Reza 1657 3.5 4.5 8.0 8.5
2-3 Babic, Zoran 1751 3 5.5 11.0 7.5
Davis, Geoff 1456 3 3.5 7.0 6.0
4-6 Sugrue, Michael 1895 2.5 4.5 9.0 6.0
Barber, Geoff 1648 2.5 3.5 8.5 7.5
Ristic, Mio 1470 2.5 2.5 5.5 4.5
7-8 Stokie, Bill 1573 2 5.5 10.0 7.0
Courtis, Owen 1634 2 2.5 6.0 5.0
9-10 Cuxson, Stuart 1200 1.5 5.0 8.5 3.5
Chung, Kingsley 1300 1.5 4.5 9.0 5.0
11-12 Smith, Jack 1200 1 4.0 8.5 1.0
Ashworth, Chris 1000 1 4.0 7.0 3.0
13 Mcclaren, Nick 1350 0.5 4.5 9.0 1.0
Round 5
Round 5 was played at 7pm Friday, 20th May. Results:
No Name Result Name 1 Davis, G (8) 0:1 Daneshvar, R (3) 2 Barber, G (4) .5:.5 Sugrue, M (1) 3 Ristic, M (7) 0:1 Courtis, O (5) 4 Chung, K (10) 1:0 Cuxson, S (11) 5 Mcclaren, N (9) 1:0 Smith, J (12) 6 Ashworth, C (13) 1:0 BYE 7 Babic, Z (2) .5:.5 BYE 8 Stokie, B (6) .5:.5 BYE
As it turned out, no tiebreakers were required.
Reza Daneshvar took outright honours on 4.5 out of 5, his only draw being to 2015 co-champion Zoran Babic, who finished second on 3.5 out of 5. Geoff Barber, Michael Sugrue, Geoff Davis and Owen Courtis all qualified on a score of 3 out of 5.
The remaining players completed all matches, becoming eligible to compete for the Geelong Chess Club 2015 Reserves Championship.
Final Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Daneshvar, Reza 1657 4.5 8.5 13.5 13.0
2 Babic, Zoran 1751 3.5 8.5 15.5 11.0
3-6 Barber, Geoff 1648 3 8.0 14.0 10.5
Sugrue, Michael 1895 3 8.0 14.0 9.0
Davis, Geoff 1456 3 8.0 13.0 9.0
Courtis, Owen 1634 3 6.5 10.0 8.0
7-9 Stokie, Bill 1573 2.5 9.0 15.0 9.5
Chung, Kingsley 1300 2.5 8.5 13.0 7.5
Ristic, Mio 1470 2.5 6.0 10.5 7.0
10 Ashworth, Chris 1000 2 7.5 12.0 5.0
11-12 Cuxson, Stuart 1200 1.5 8.0 11.5 5.0
Mcclaren, Nick 1350 1.5 6.5 11.5 2.5
13 Smith, Jack 1200 1 7.0 11.5 2.0
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