The 2016 Christmas Lightning event was held at the Leeming Primary School on Sunday 11th December. 16 players in 3 divisions participated in the 9 round event. The overall winner was Patrick Gong with perfect a score of 9.0. The full prize list is given below. Prizes consisted of Xmas stockings with a small cash bonus. As done in previous years three rounds were played with Fisher time control, three with Bronstein time control and three with guillotine. In each round there were novelty book prizes. The first win of the day was by Andrew Hardegen. George Carolyn-Unkovich won a prize for most time on the clock in the Fischer time control with 40 seconds more than he started with. The biggest upset went to Sebastian Vearncombe defeating George France rated nearly 1000 points higher. Some of the book prizes were won by winning with unusual openings such as f6 and every player won at least one book prize including a prize for best illegal move. The event was followed by the CAWA presentations of Grand Prix awards and other major events held during 2016. Thank you to all the players for joining in the day's activities. Everyone had an enjoyable day and will hopefully participate again in December 2017. Report by Gordon Dunlop |
Open Patrick Gong Andrew Hardegen Chirag Saroha Reserves (Under 1900) Edik Gilmetdinov Alex Janceski Ned Tomic Restricted (Under 1800) Ben Hurst Andrey Lugovskoy Bernard Laugery |
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr. 1 Gong, Patrick WA 2180 9 35.5 45.5 45.0 2-3 Hardegen, Andrew WA 1982 6.5 32.5 43.5 33.0 Saroha, Chirag WA 2064 6.5 32.0 42.0 32.0 4-9 Hurst, Benjamin WA 1596 5 37.5 50.5 27.0 Kelly, Adam WA 2025 5 35.5 45.5 29.5 Gilmetdinov, Edik WA 1887 5 32.5 42.5 27.5 Hardegen, Kathryn WA 1949 5 31.0 42.0 23.5 Janceski, Alex WA 1873 5 26.5 32.5 21.0 Tomic, Nedeljko WA 1835 5 25.0 35.0 19.0 10 Escalante, Lorenzo WA 1832 4.5 29.0 37.5 20.5 11 Shaw, Robin A WA 1806 4 28.0 38.0 21.0 12 Carolin-Unkovich, George WA 1874 3.5 34.5 45.5 23.0 13-14 Lugovskoy, Andrey WA 1722 2.5 32.5 40.0 13.5 Laugery, Bernard WA 1000 2.5 26.5 32.5 11.5 15 France, George WA 1621 2 30.5 38.0 11.0 16 Vearncombe, Sebastian WA 674 1 29.0 37.5 2.0 |
No Name Feder Rtg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 Gong, Patrick WA 9:W 7:W 2:W 5:W 3:W 6:W 4:W 12:W 11:W 2 Hardegen, Andrew WA 13:W 4:W 1:L 12:W 5:W 3:L 6:W 7:D 15:W 3 Saroha, Chirag WA 10:W 12:W 5:L 4:W 1:L 2:W 13:W 6:D 16:W 4 Hurst, Benjamin WA 6:W 2:L 8:W 3:L 9:W 11:W 1:L 5:W 10:L 5 Kelly, Adam WA 11:W 8:W 3:W 1:L 2:L 12:D 16:W 4:L 6:D 6 Gilmetdinov, Edik WA 4:L 13:W 15:W 7:W 16:W 1:L 2:L 3:D 5:D 7 Hardegen, Kathryn WA 15:W 1:L 10:W 6:L 8:L 9:W 14:D 2:D 13:W 8 Janceski, Alex WA 16:W 5:L 4:L 11:L 7:W 10:W 15:L 14:W 12:W 9 Tomic, Nedeljko WA 1:L 15:L 16:W 13:W 4:L 7:L 12:W 10:W 14:W 10 Escalante, Lorenzo WA 3:L 14:W 7:L 15:W 13:D 8:L 11:W 9:L 4:W 11 Shaw, Robin A WA 5:L 16:W 12:L 8:W 14:W 4:L 10:L 13:W 1:L 12 Carolin-Unkovich, George WA 14:W 3:L 11:W 2:L 15:W 5:D 9:L 1:L 8:L 13 Lugovskoy, Andrey WA 2:L 6:L 14:W 9:L 10:D 16:W 3:L 11:L 7:L 14 Laugery, Bernard WA 12:L 10:L 13:L 16:W 11:L 15:W 7:D 8:L 9:L 15 France, George WA 7:L 9:W 6:L 10:L 12:L 14:L 8:W 16:L 2:L 16 Vearncombe, Sebastian WA 8:L 11:L 9:L 14:L 6:L 13:L 5:L 15:W 3:L |