On Saturday the 7 December we had our annual rapid open for seniors and juniors. This year we held it at the Panmure Community Centre on the same day as the Panmure Santa Parade. As far as I am aware the clash did not cause any problems.

The junior tournament was six rounds and we used a tie-breaker system recommended by FIDE. This is because we cannot have split prizes.

Congratulations to the overall winner, 10 year old, Jack Sun on 5.5 points. The other cup winners for the overall tournament are-

2nd Leo Zhang      4.5 points (10 years)

3rd Raymond Huang 4.5 points (7 years)

Book prize for 4th went to Oliver Picken on 4.0 points

I would also like to mention the others on 4.0 points but missed out on an overall prize because of the tie-break system –

Darrick Pan

Rebekah Massey

Allan Han

Emily Massey

Lucas Salazar Eyre

 

Grade prizes were as follows –

12 years plus

David Xu 5 points.

Please note that this age group was ineligible for the cup prizes so David was unable to take 2nd place.

Under 12

Rebekah Massey 4.0 points

Under 10

Sasha Ghadiali  3.5 points

Under 8

Allan Han 4.0 points

Top Girl

Rebekah Massey 4.0 points

 

We had 28 juniors all together and there were no issues so I would like to congratulate all the entrants on their great sportsmanship.

 

 

 

Junior  Prize  Giving   2013

Tuesday  10th   Dec

6pm  to  7pm.

 

For the last 4 Years at least the Santa Parade has

been held on the 2nd Wed in Dec. our Junior Prize

Giving night.

Therefore we moved the Junior Prize Giving to the

2nd Tues in Dec, and informed the Bowling Club.

This Year they moved the Santa Parade to the

1st Wed in Dec – our last Junior Chess night.

We didnt know until Monday 2nd Dec. too late

to make any changes.

SO WE WILL HOLD OUR      JUNIOR PRIZE GIVING  ON

TUESDAY  10TH  Dec. @  6pm – 7pm.

Papatoetoe Rapid  was  being held in Papatoetoe Town Hall

Now in the

 

Panmure Community Centre

7-13 Pilkington Road 

Panmure    

7th December- Saturday 

Entries Close Friday  -6th December

PH 527-7520  – cell -0274506140

Barry Hooton

One of the main reasons for recording games is so we can relay them. Try to find improvements, look for things we missed, maybe find out why we lost, or if we won were we just lucky.

BLACK to play – played 26. … Rgxf2+ 27.Kg1 Rxh2 28.Rxf3 Rxc2 29.a4 Rxb2 30.a5 Rhc2 31.Rf1 –   did Black miss anything ? YES  Mate in 2 – can you see it?

BLACK to play – played 31. … Ra2  Can you see anything better?

Correct was 31. … Rg2+ 32.Kh1 Rh2+ 33.Kg1 Rbg2#

GAME continued – this position was reached – WHITE to play What would you play?

WHITE to play – played 46.Ke1 ? and lost after … Ke3 47.Kf1 f2 48.Kg2 Ke2 49.Kg3 f1Q

Correct was  46.Kf1! Ke3  47.Ke1!  – King Opposition – King opposite King with an odd number of squares between them – if his King has to move – You have the opposition. 47. … f2+ 48.Kf1 Kf3  DRAW.

 

J C C  ROUND 5    Black to play    –  has the advantage and should win.

BLACK  played  53. … f5  trying to force an exchange and win with the extra pawn, but he missed something –

Stronger was  … Kh4  54.Kf4 f6!  55.Kf3 g5  and Black wins the pawn. 56.Kg2 Kxg4.  The GAME continued –

54.gxf5 Kxf5  55.Kg3    what should Black play now?

BLACK  played  55.  … g5   thinking that was good enough.

RULE OF THUMB – “GET YOUR KING INFRONT OF YOUR PAWN”

55. … Kg5  King Opposition – King opposite King -odd number of squares between them- if his King has to move – You have the Opposition.

56.Kf3 Kh4  57.Kf4 g5+  58.Kf3 Kh3  and on down to Queen.

GAME  CONTINUED –   56.Kf3! g4+  57.Kg3 Kg5  58.Kg2 Kh4  59.Kh2 g3+  60.Kg2 Kg4  61.Kg1 Kf3  62.Kf1 g2+  63.Kg1 Ke2  64.Kxg2   DRAW

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes your advantage does not become clear until you reduce the number of pieces on the board. Basically – Simplify to Win .

Now instead of playing … Bb7+ and chasing the King around for another 25 moves the “easy way” was – Simplify to Win  eg.

1. … Rxe1  2.Rxe1 Rxe1  3.a4 Rc1  clear the way for the c pawn  4.a5 Rxc3  5.h4 Ra3  6.Kh3 c4  7.Kg4 c3  8.h5 c2  9.f4 c1Q  10.g4 Qh1#

John McRae Junior Summer Shield  2013  Ethen Stowers

Russell Metge Junior Rapid Cup  2013  Lucy Massey

Lew Collins Junior Autumn Cup  2013  Arav Gaundar

Hans Gao Junior Handicap Shield  2013  1st = Skyler MacFarlane , Christopher Delport

Graeme Coleman Junior Winter Knight  2013  Ryan Nguyen

Clive Wilson Junior Spring Cup  2013  Rebekah Massey

 

Nigel Metge Rook  Junior A Grade Champion 2013 –    Lucy  Massey

Graham Banks Cup  Junior B Grade Champion 2013 –   Rebekah Massey

Lew Peti Cup  Junior C Grade Champion 2013 –  Stanford  Colson

Pauline Thomas Trophy  Junior 5min Blitz Champion 2013

Other Prizes –

Russell Metge  B Grade  – Joanna Lee  [ book prize]

 Hans Gao Handicap  –  Green Prize Jasraj Singh

Blue Prize  Andrew Crowsen

Red Prize  Anusha Gaundar

Graeme Coleman Winter Knight  Best Game   1st  Rebekah v Joanna  R1

2nd  Emily v Lucy  R2

Winter Pawn 1st  Robin Han  [ book prize]

Clive Wilson Spring Cup B Grade 1st  Lucy Massey [ Table 2 ]  [ book prize ]

Our Juniors playing for their local schools have done very well again, last year Papatoetoe West Primary placed 3rd in the NZ Schools Finals, this year Papatoetoe Central Primary School came 3rd in the Chess Power National Finals. The team was 1.Arav Gaundar 7/9  2.Henry Wang 6/9  3.Fergus Lee 5.5/9  4.Anusha Gaundar 5.5/9 and Dylan Nguyen 4/9.

Holy Cross Primary came 1st in the Southern Area Primary Finals, and did very well in the Auckland  Primary Finals finishing 2nd to the very strong Hillsborough team and drawing 2-2 friendly against Rosehill Intermediate. From there they went to Tauranga and played in NZ Schools Finals and came 3rd, behind Kings Primary who they had beaten a few days before.   The team was    1. Lucy Massey 2. Conrad Hart     3. Rebekah Massey  4. Stephan Sabu   – Awesome effort by our Juniors – Congrats  all round.

 

 

 

 

Our Spring Rapid 30/30 began on the 30th July and we are playing  rounds per night.

After the first  rounds the leading scores are –

Katrine McCarthy   2

John McRae              2

Solomon Lefe’e         2

John Worn                 1.5

Yash Narayan            1.5

 

Sorry we have been offline for a little while but following are the final standings in the winter cup –

A GRADE

Katrine McCarthy    6.0

John Worn                 4.5

Barry Hooton            3.0

Paul Postma              3.0

Graeme Coleman      3.0

Paul Norris                 2.0

 

B GRADE

Yash Narayan             3.5

John McRae               3.0

Pauline Thomas        3.0

Solomon Lefe’e         3.0

Daniel Coop               2.0

William Lefe’e           1.0

Caleb Lefe’e               1.0

Ronnie Shaddick      1.0

Pat Hewett                 1.0

Vialli Eliu                   1.0

 

 

 

The second round of the winter interclub was played on Wednesday. The top boards and results were as follows –

1. Katrine McCarthy  – Paul Postma  1-0

2. John Worn – Graeme Coleman  1-0

3. Barry Hooton – Yash Narayan  1-0

4. Solomon Lefe’e – John McRae   0-1

All the games went with the ratings except on board 5 in which Pauline Thomas (playing white) beat Paul Norris.

In the A Grade there are 3 players on 2 points –

Katrine McCarthy

John Worn

Barry Hooton

Followed on 1 point by Paul Postma and Graeme Coleman.

The B Grade has bunched up with 6 players on 1 point –

Yash Narayan

Solomon Lefe’e

John McRae

Daniel Coop

Pauline Thomas

William Lefe’e