This tournament was held over the Foundation Day weekend on the 4th & 5th of June at the Moresby Street Centre, Kensington. The number of entries for this tournament were about average. What was different was that we only had one Junior player. Perhaps it is more difficult to attract Juniors for tournaments on long weekends. We did have a couple of visitors, though, in Gary Bekker from Victoria and Eliseo Tumbaga from the Phillipines. Tom Donaldson went through undefeated in winning the tournament, though his game with Akef Saleh in the last round looked pretty dodgy at times. Akef was also undefeated in the event. Dave Dempster, after a draw with Gary Donaldson in round 1 and a loss to Akef in round 2, won 4 games in a row to grab second place. His win against David Ellis in the last round made both himself and Tom very happy. Another player to have a big finish was Girma Orssengo. Girma lost his first two games (including one where he forgot to press his clock whilst a Queen up!) then also won his last 4 games to finish in a tie for third place. Nedeljko Tomic is an habitual prizewinner in this type of event, and so it proved again. He also habitually leaves before the prizegiving and often ends up paying the entry fee for the next tournament with the prizemoney from the previous one. I would like to thank Gordon Dunlop for acting as the DOP for half of Saturday, to enable me to get home and look after my Junior Club. He must have been a little nervous in agreeing to do this, after last time, but there were no incidents, as far as I know. Report by Haydn Barber. |
Open 1st Tom Donaldson 5/6 2nd Dave Dempster 4.5 =3rd Akef Saleh 4 David Ellis 4 U/1900 1st Nedeljko Tomic 4 U/1700 1st Girma Orssengo 4 U/1450 1st Gary Donaldson 3 U/1200 1st Shane Shaw 3 Best Junior 1st George Carolin-Unkovich 2.5 |
Place Name Loc Club Score 1 Donaldson, Thomas 1932 5 2 Dempster, Dave 1895 4.5 3-6 Ellis, David 2008 4 Saleh, Akef 1928 4 Tomic, Nedeljko 1826 4 Orssengo, Girma 1665 4 7-9 Stassen, Walter 1860 3.5 Tumbaga, Eliseo 1801 3.5 Bekker, Gary 1599 3.5 10-13 Shaw, Shane 1095 3 Dunlop, Gordon 1840 3 Mechlowski, Lennard 1663 3 Donaldson, Gary 1419 3 14-15 Carolin-Unkovich, George 1453 Junior 2.5 Summerfield, John 1345 2.5 16-18 McArthur, John 1114 2 Powell, Darren 998 2 Szabo, Tamas 1406 2 19 Cheong, Joseph 1416 1 |
No Name Loc Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Donaldson, Thomas 1932 5 9:W 5:W 7:W 3:D 11:W 4:D 2 Dempster, Dave 1895 4.5 13:D 4:L 9:W 19:W 8:W 3:W 3 Ellis, David 2008 4 12:D 10:W 14:W 1:D 5:W 2:L 4 Saleh, Akef 1928 4 14:D 2:W 11:D 8:D 10:W 1:D 5 Tomic, Nedeljko 1826 4 15:W 1:L 16:W 12:W 3:L 7:W 6 Orssengo, Girma 1665 4 10:L 14:L 15:W 16:W 12:W 11:W 7 Stassen, Walter 1860 3.5 19:W 8:W 1:L 11:D 14:W 5:L 8 Tumbaga, Eliseo 1801 3.5 16:W 7:L 18:W 4:D 2:L 15:W 9 Bekker, Gary 1599 3.5 1:L 15:D 2:L 17:W 16:W 14:W 10 Shaw, Shane 1095 3 6:W 3:L 13:L 18:W 4:L 0:W 11 Dunlop, Gordon 1840 3 18:W 17:W 4:D 7:D 1:L 6:L 12 Mechlowski, Lennard 1663 3 3:D 13:D 17:W 5:L 6:L 18:W 13 Donaldson, Gary 1419 3 2:D 12:D 10:W 14:L 15:L 17:W 14 Carolin-Unkovich, George 1453 2.5 4:D 6:W 3:L 13:W 7:L 9:L 15 Summerfield, John 1345 2.5 5:L 9:D 6:L 0:W 13:W 8:L 16 McArthur, John 1114 2 8:L 0:W 5:L 6:L 9:L 19:W 17 Powell, Darren 998 2 0:W 11:L 12:L 9:L 19:W 13:L 18 Szabo, Tamas 1406 2 11:L 19:W 8:L 10:L 0:W 12:L 19 Cheong, Joseph 1416 1 7:L 18:L 0:W 2:L 17:L 16:L |