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.

PT Library 1  PT Library 2.  PT Library 3.  PT Library 4.

The forth round was played on the 27 June and the top boards where –

John McRae v Katrine Metge

John Worn v Graeme Coleman

Katrine won on board 1 and John defeated Graeme on board 2.

This leaves the standing in each grade as follows –

A GRADE

1. Katrine Metge   4

2=  John Worn     3

2=  Paul Norris     3

B GRADE

1.   Pauline Thomas  2.5

2= Graeme Coleman 2

2= William Lefe’e       2

The tentitive draw for next Wednesday –

1. Katrine Metge v Paul Norris

2. John McRae v John Worn

3. Barry Hooton v Pauline Thomas

4. Graeme Coleman v Dave Misileki

5. Yash Narayan v William Lefe’e

6. Paul Postma v Gallipoli Misileki

7. Rhoslyn Lapworth v Cairo Molesi

8. Solomon Lefe’e v Jagmahan Singh

9. Satnam Singh v Ethan Perston

  White to Play

Arul [ Club Rating 546] continues to dominate the Junior events by

winning the Hans Gao Junior Handicap Shield for 2012 with 7 out of 7.

Anusha [CR 482] shared 2nd place on 6 points with the two big

surprises Dylan [ CR 347] and Andy [ CR 317].

Dylan or Andy only had to win their last 2 games to equal Arul and

topple him from 1st place because in this event “Lowest Rated Player

Wins if scores tied”, but sadly it was not to be, both could only manage

one win each.

The first 2 Rounds used diagrams of positions from the Lew Collins Cup

where players missed easy wins or misplayed the ending,however even

with a “2nd bite of the apple” some still got it wrong.

More use needs to be made of ideachess.com 1 move checkmate tests.

Try to get 20 in a row right with no mistakes,before trying 2 moves.

Committee-Meeting-24.6.2012

Last night we played the third round (out of six).

The top board was a clash of the 2 top seeds – Katrine Metge vs John Worn. It was fairly even for most of the game with Katrine applying the pressure which eventually bought the mistake from John and allowed Katrine to win a piece after a small combination. On board 2 it was Paul Postma vs John McRae which John won after winning a piece and then checkmating.

Although the Winter Cup is being played as one group, all players with a club rating under 1150 are playing for the B Grade cup. Here are the leaders in each group –

A GRADE

1. Katrine Metge  3.0

2.  John McRae    2.5

3= John Worn, Paul Norris & Yash Narayan  2.0

B GRADE

1=  Graeme Coleman & William Lefe’e  2.0

3. Pauline Thomas  1.5

The draw for the fourth round is as follows unless there are any absences (please let me know if you cannot make it so i can redo the draw).

1. John McRae vs Katrine Metge

2. John Worn vs Greame Coleman

3. Paul Norris vs Yash Narayan

4. William Lefe’e vs Barry Hooton

5. Solomon Lefe’e vs Pauline Thomas

6. Rhoslyn Lapworth vs Paul Postma

7. Dave Misileki vs Gallipoli Misileki

8. Satman Singh vs Jagmahan Singh

9. Cairo Molesi vs Ethan Perston