These rounds were played 25th July.

In round 3 the top boards were – 1. Katrine Metge v Paul Postma  2. Barry Hooton v John Worn  3 . Cairo Molesi v Dave Misileki. Katrine, Barry and Dave were the winners. This leaves Katrine Metge leading on 3 points followed on 2.5 by Barry Hooton & Dave Misileki.

Round 4 the top boards were 1. Dave Misileki v Katrine Metge  2. Paul Norris v Barry Hooton  3. Paul Postma v John McRae. The winners were Katrine, Barry & Paul Postma.

Leading scores after 4 Rounds –

Katrine Metge      4

Barry Hooton       3.5

Paul Postma          3

Dave Misileki        2.5

John Worn             2.5

Cairo Molesi          2.5

We began this competition on Wednesday 18 July. Time control is 30/30 with no increments and we play 2 rounds per evening and it is 8 rounds.

With the Swiss format, in the first round the top half of rated competitors play the bottom half. All of the top half won their game and therefore are on 1 point. They are as follows –

Katrine Metge

John Worn

Barry Hooton

Paul Norris

Cairo Molesi

Greame Coleman

Paul Postma

Dave Misileki

Jagmahan Singh

After a cuppa and bickies we played the second round and three player followed their win in the first round with another win. They are as follows –

Katrine Metge

Paul Postma

Jagmahan Singh

Following on 1.5 points are –

John Worn

Cairo Molesi

Barry Hooton

Dave Misileki

The final round of the Winter Cup was played on Wednesday 11 July so this report is a bit late (sorry).

Congratulations to Katrine Metge winning the A Grade with a picket fence 6/6. Also congratulations to William Lefe’e and Graeme Coleman 1st = in the B Grade on 3 points.

Final results –

A GRADE

Katrine Metge   6

John Worn         4

John McRae       3.5

Dave Misileki      3.5

Paul Norris         3

Barry Hooton     2.5

Yash Narayan     2

Paul Postma       2

B GRADE

William Lefe’e     3

Graeme Coleman 3

Pauline Thomas   2.5

Rhoslyn Lapworth  2

Gallipoli Misileki     1.5

Solomon Lefe’e        1

Jagmahan Singh      1

Cairo Molesi             1

Satnam Singh          0

Ethan Perston          0

James Lefe’e              0

Ossip Bernstein  v  Jose Raul Capablanca    Moscow  1914.

Queen’s Gambit Declined  Orthodox Variation.

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Be7 5.Bg5 0-0 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Rc1 b6

[ 7. …c6 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Nd5 is common in this line] 8.cxd5 exd5

9.Qa4 Bb7 10.Ba6 Bxa6 11.Qxa6 c5 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.dxc5 bxc5 14.0-0 Qb6

15.Qe2 c4 16.Rfd1 Rfd8 17.Nd4 Bb4 18.b3 Rac8 19.bxc4 dxc4 20.Rc2 Bxc3

21.Rxc3 Nd5 22.Rc2 c3 23.Rdc1 Rc5 24.Nb3 Rc6 25.Nd4 Rc7 26.Nb5 Rc5

27.Nxc3 Nxc3 28.Rxc3 Rxc3 29.Rxc3 …….find the best move for Black 29. …Qb2!

  here Bernstein resigned …. ” to play one

  more  move would be an anticlimax “

    Note that several of the possible lines require a    precise winning move from Black because of the danger of being mated on his own back rank.

if 30.Qxb2 Rd1#

if 30.Qe1 Qxc3 wins a Rook [ 31.Qxc3 Rd1+ 32.Qe1 Rxe1# ]

if 30.Qd3 Qa1+ 31.Qf1 Qxc3 wins a Rook. 

 if 30.Rc2 Qb1+ 31.Qf1 Qxc2 wins a Rook.  

if 30.Rd3 Qb1+[31.Rd1 Rxd1+ 32.Qxd1 Qxd1#31.Qd1 Qxd1+ 32. Rxd1 Rxd1#] 31.Qf1 Qxd3 wins a Rook. 

if 30.Rc8 Qb1+ 31.Qf1 Qxf1+ 32.Kxf1 Rxc8 wins a Rook.

 if 30.Qc2 Qxc2 31.Rxc2 Rd1# and if 30.Rb3 Qxe2 wins a Queen    

Jose Raul Capablanca    World Chess Champion  1921-1927

Round five of the Winter Cup was played on Wednesday 4 July and there was some good old American fireworks on board two.

On board 1 Katrine Metge won against Pauline Thomas to extend her lead to an unbeatable lead of 1.5 points with 1 round to play. Board 2  was John McRae vs John Worn and with a big rating difference John Worn was expected to prevail. However John McRae has been playing well in this tournament with his only loss in round 4 against Katrine. The game was long finishing about 11.30pm after 80 moves with John McRae pushing pawns to the six rank with the enemy king in front on the back rank, he was able to checkmate.

I would also like to congratulate Rhoslyn Lapworth getting her first points by drawing with Dave Misileki and welcome to a new member James Lefe’e a brother to Solomon, William and Caleb. There will be a few battles of brothers in the future.

Leading scores are –

A GRADE

1. Katrine Metge   5.0

2. John McRae      3.5

B GRADE

1. William Lefe’e  3.0

2. Pauline Thomas  2.5

The final round of the winter cup will be this Wednesday then follow the next week by The Spring (Ewen Green) Rapid.

The Papatoetoe Chess Club Library has an extensive range of books dealing with all facets of the game.There is also a selection of older books in discriptive notation for sale [$5 – $15] in storage at Graeme Colemans.

There is a refundable lending fee of $5 for a maximum of 2 books for 4 months. Pages of special interest can be copied for free at the club. NOTE you will be invoiced for any damage to books, so please treat them carefully.they are hard to replace and in some cases quite expensive.

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