Saturday 12^th & Sunday 13^th November 2016

Temple Moor High School

Field End Grove

Selby Road

Leeds LS15 0PT

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Tournament Secretary - Brent Kitson kitson453@btinternet.com

British Rapidplay Chess –First Day Report..Oct 31^st 2015. BK

The Chess World met in Leeds (At the Leeds Beckett University, Headingley)

for the main weekend rapidplay chess event in the UK. The weather was dry

and not too cold.

Whilst The All Blacks were winning their second consecutive Rugby

Union World Cup and Jose Moreno’s Chelsea were losing again , our chess players

gathered in Beckett University, Headingley, Leeds .Despite some air conditioning, lighting ,

vending machine, power supply and top table size issues, the set up went pretty well .

#On Halloween though I did see one of the juniors dressed in his skeleton onesy !

Must have scared some opponents I guess!!

In the one day event under 11 trial we saw a fine day’s chess .Joint winners were

Jacob David Yoon and Dhruv Easwar who both scored 4.5/5 points. EPSCA joint

Manager Balvinder Ahluwalia (ECF) presented the top prizes. Our thanks go to Jon

Hipshon and Cathy Bowler who ran the event. The best girl player was Leonara

Ives, whilst there were three players in joint second……Nakul Nataraj , Weiming

Xu,and Edward Gray .

In the main hall’s two day events the Open event welcomed back its all-time

record holding winner Mark Hebden G.M.. We also welcomed the faithful Ahmeet

Ghasi I.M. These two met during the day and ended up with a draw. Mark also drew

with Daniel Fernandez I.M. Daniel and Simon Ansell I.M. kept up the good play

and by the end of the day all the leading players were on 5/6 points. Jim Burnett was

also having a good day’s chess .

The event was using digital clocks throughout. It also was using a Fisher system

of 20 minutes plus 10 sec increments for each move. Overall this new time control

worked well. There was no clattering, banging of analogue clocks ,plus the format

gave a more relaxed environment with the last seconds of a game still offering

potential if any of the players were in a precarious position!

In the Major section the leader was Pawel Golomowski of Spalding on 5.5/6.

whilst in The Intermediate Kevin Winter was on 5/6 points and Seny Denisov was

on 5.5/6 In The Minor.

We must give a big thank you to all who helped get the event set up

as well as its running. The event will of course be 30 years old in 2016 !!!!We thank

all the chess players who have supported and continue to support this event. We look

forward to the second day for more exciting rapidplay chess. Note photos will

appear on the website in due course.

B.Kitson