This event was held over the Foundation Day long weekend on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd of June at the Moresby Street Centre, Kensington. This year’s Foundation Day tournament attracted a reasonable number of players, including Angelito Camer and Mark Vucak from interstate. I am still hoping to raise the prestige (and prizemoney?) of this tournament, but the money was just not there for this year. Next year?? We may also have to consider changing the name of the tournament, as the holiday is now called WA Day. The tournament was closely fought, with 13 drawn games being evidence of that. At one stage, a mass finish for first seemed possible, but Yita Choong and Ganesh Viswanath asserted themselves over the rest of the field to finish equal first. Yita did not seem to play at his best, but held it together to just draw with Ganesh and George Carolin-Unkovich. Ganesh does not play regularly in CAWA events, but always plays well when he does. After the two equal winners came the mass finish – with 10 players finishing within a point of each other. I think the tournament went quite well, and indicates that players will turn out for 3-day events, at least occasionally. Report by Haydn Barber, DOP |
Open =1st Yita Choong 5/6 Ganesh Viswanath 5 =3rd Eddy Seah 4 Akef Saleh 4 U/1900 1st Nedeljko Tomic 3˝ U/1600 + Unrated =1st Gary Donaldson 3 John Summerfield 3 Junior =1st George Carolin-Unkovich 3 Sean Xiong 3 |
Place Name Loc Club Score 1-2 Viswanath, Ganesh 2075 5 Choong, Yita 2317 5 3-4 Saleh, Akef 1931 4 Seah, Eddy 1997 4 5-6 Camer, Angelito 1996 3.5 Tomic, Nedeljko 1797 3.5 7-12 Dunlop, Gordon 1869 3 Carolin-Unkovich, George 1874 Junior 3 Ellis, David 2017 3 Donaldson, Gary 1536 3 Xiong, Sean 1436 Junior 3 Summerfield, John 1426 3 13 Chin, Albert 1962 2.5 14 Dharmapuri, Sri Krishna 1077 Junior 2 15 Yap, Ignatius 1355 Junior 1.5 16 Green, Timothy 1 17-18 Vucak, Marc 1667 0 Gong, Patrick 1388 Junior 0 |
No Name Feder Rtg 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. Choong, Yita AUS 2203 8:D 12:W 5:W 2:D 9:W 3:W 2. Viswanath, Ganesh AUS 2048 11:W 3:D 4:W 1:D 7:W 10:W 3. Ellis, David AUS 2035 13:W 2:D 8:D 9:L 6:W 1:L 4. Seah, Eddy SIN 12:W 6:W 2:L 8:D 5:D 9:W 5. Camer, Angelito AUS 2004 14:W 7:D 1:L 16:W 4:D 12:D 6. Chin, Albert AUS 1999 15:+ 4:L 14:W 10:L 3:L :D 7. Saleh, Akef INA 1923 16:W 5:D 9:D 13:W 2:L 8:W 8. Carolin-Unkovich, George AUS 1741 1:D 17:W 3:D 4:D 10:D 7:L 9. Dunlop, Gordon AUS 1896 17:D 10:W 7:D 3:W 1:L 4:L 10. Tomic, Nedeljko AUS 18:W 9:L 13:W 6:W 8:D 2:L 11. Vucak, Marc AUS 1812 2:L 13:L 12:L : : : 12. Donaldson, Gary AUS 4:L 1:L 11:W 18:+ 14:D 5:D 13. Xiong, Sean AUS 3:L 11:W 10:L 7:L 16:W 17:W 14. Summerfield, John AUS 5:L 18:W 6:L 17:D 12:D 16:W 15. Gong, Patrick AUS 6:- : : : : : 16. Yap, Ignatius AUS 7:L :D 17:W 5:L 13:L 14:L 17. Dharmapuri, Sri Krishna AUS 9:D 8:L 16:L 14:D :W 13:L 18. Green, Timothy AUS 10:L 14:L :W 12:- : : |