The tournament was won by FM Maciej Czopor with a clean sweep of six wins from six games - he won £100.00. Second place went to FM and author Andrew Smith (pictured above - thanks for his game below) and Savas Marin Stoica with 4.5/6, winning £25.00 each.
Here is the table showing the final standings - https://chess-results.com/tnr617562.aspx?lan=1&art=4&turdet=YES&flag=30 on the excellent site Chess Results. Thanks to Arbiter Lance Leslie Smith for a smooth event and entering lots of games!
The rating prize was won by Thomas D Moss with 4.0/6 winning £50.00.
There are two tournaments in May - May 10 & 17 / then June 21 / July 12 & 19 /
September 13 & 27 / October 11 / November 15 & 22.
Andrew Smith writes; "my best game was probably in round 3 against Tom Hill" -
AP Smith Tom Hill
1 e4 c5
2 Nf3 g6
3 d4 cd
4 Nxd4 Bg7
5 Be2 Nc6
6 Nb3 e6
7 0-0 Nge7
8 Nc3 Bxc3 ?!
It's ambitious to give up the dark square bishop after weakening the dark squares with both 2..g6 & 6...e6
9 bc d5
10 ed Qxd5
11 Qe1 Ne5 ?!
Presumably played to stop 12 c4 but now his King gets stuck in the centre because of his lack of dark square control.
12 Ba3! Nec6 ?!
Now castling kingside really will be difficult, but maybe he envisaged castling queenside.
13 Rd1 Qe4
The Black seems to be powerfully centralised but if my opponent looks closely, he will notice that she is uncomfortably short of squares to move to.
14 Nd4 a6
Not wanting to exchange Knights and undouble my pawns. But he has weakened still more dark squares.
15 Qd2! Bd7
16 Qg5
I felt that Black may have been hoping to castle queenside. This move scuppers that plan and takes advantage of the weak squares.
16 b5
Perhaps hoping to shut my Ba3 out of the game with 17...b4 and perhaps escape with his king by castling kingside
17 f3
The Black queen has no squares to escape to. So Black has to counter-attack my Queen.
17 h6!
18 Qf6 Qe3+
19 Kh1
I wasted quite a bit of time agonising over whether to play this over or 19 Rf2. Was there any difference. After thinking about it, I was none the wiser !
19 Rg8
20 Nxc6 Nxc6
21 Rxd7! Kxd7
22 Qxf7+ Ne7
23 Qxe7+ Kc6
24 Bd3 Rad8
25 Be4+
1-0
