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

We began the Papatoetoe Winter cup on Wednesday evening 19/6. There is an A & B grade and the tournament runs for 6 rounds, time control is 1 hour + 30 seconds from move 1. As per normal we will do the draw with A & B grade mixed together because of the low numbers.

Because of swiss pairing rules round 1 meant that the B graders were drawn against the A graders. There were two exciting upset otherwise the full point went the way of ratings.

On board 2 Yash Narayan, playing black, defeated second seed Andrew Michael. Andrew overlooked a knight fork and losed has queen. On board 4 Solomon Lefe’e, again playing back, defeated fourth seed Paul Norris. Paul saced a knight in the end game for a strong pawn advance but he was unable to bring it off.

Leading scores –

A Grade

Katrine McCathy, John Worn, Barry Hooton, Paul Postma and Graeme Coleman all on 1 point.

B Grade

Yash Narayan and Solomon Lefe’e both on 1 point.

Held @ Alexandra Park  Papatoetoe played Howick  – result  Hans Gao 1/2- Ewen Green 1/2

Bob Gibbons 1/2- Martin Dreyer 1/2  – Paul Spiller 0- Andrew Michael 1

Andrew is proving to be a bit of giant killer @ the moment  among the top players ,  well done to him

final result Howick 4 – Papatoetoe -2

hi chess fans

Last Wednesday night  Ewen Green &  Hans Gao our best junior  played a simli against ( 20) of our club players we started  7-50pm  till 10-15  Andrew Michael  got  a Draw  which was Avery good result   with stop @ about 9-00 chat & tea

Its  good time for club members  to have  played   real top  players  as we have the club champs coming  up   soon

Auckland Chess @ Alexandra Park  in the Stable Café -A Grade –  on Sunday nights  meeting time – 6-15PM-

Dates

May-26th

June-9th -June-16th -June-30th

July-7th

all these Dates are  Sunday nights  Starting  Time 6-30pm  if you can not make it please   contact your  team leader

the Junior interclub @also held @ Alexandra park  Stable Café @  this stage will be held on Sunday -4thAugust – finish About- 5-00PM-

meeting time 10-15AM-

Autumn Cup round 2 was played on Wednesday and saw the top 3 players, who have a gap on the rest of the field rating wise, continue their winning ways. This leaves them on 2 points (Katrine McCarthy, Andrew Michael and John Worn) ahead of many players on 1 point. Round 3 will be interesting as these top players will start to clash.

Papatoetoe Chess Club’s Autumn Cup began on Wednesday and we would like to welcome a new member, Pat Hewett. Pat use to play at Papatoetoe many years ago so he is really an old member returning.

Round 1 had 6 boards playing and all games went the way of the top seed except board 5. This was a clash between Pauline Thomas (playing white) and Yash Narayan. Yash is rated 236 points above Pauline who come away with the full point so congatulations Pauline.

So the leading scores on 1 point are –

Katrine McCarthy

Andrew Michael

John Worn

Paul Norris

Paul Postma

Pauline Thomas