Cumbria Chess Association

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Cumbria Correspondence Chess Results: C&DCCC 2008-2009

Carlisle Rapidplay 2009

County U150 matches

Results

		Lancashire	Score		Cumbria
1	145	Collins, Richard A	½	½	Woodburn, James	148
2	144	Gaston, Dave	0	1	Jarmany, David	146e
3	141	Taylor, Phillip J	0	1	Cole, David	146
4	139	Talbot, Nathan	½	½	Horne, George	137
5	135	Jackson, Paul	1	0	Gleizon, Philippe	134
6	139	Thompson, Peter	½	½	Kirby, Tony	125
7	133	Dobson, Emlyn DG	1	0	Dobson, John	125
8	132	Whitfield, John	1	0	Gawne, Martin	120
9	131	Fanning, Stephen M	0	1	McMath, David	118
10	128	O’Rourke, William	½	½	McAtear, Andrew	115
11	128	Ashcroft, Ray	1	0	Houlsby, Mark	112
12	115	Fielding, Thomas	1	0	McAtear, Lewis	105
Total score:			7	5

Cumbria played his first county match of the season on the 22nd February against Yorkshire in a cordial atmosphere at the Beacon Social Club in Penrith. I would like to express all my gratitude to Andy McAtear for accepting to host the match in the premises of Penrith Chess Club, and for his help in organising it. The match started at 2pm despite the absence of the Yorkshire team captain and two of his club mates! As usual the Yorkshire team showed a very strong side and was clearly outgrading us on all boards except on the first two boards.
In spite of a good effort, Cumbria lost on the final score of 4.5-7.5. This was an honourable score considering the strength of the Yorkshire team and the fact that last year we lost on a worse score of 2-10 against almost the same team.
Most of the points were scored by the first 7 boards that all managed to draw or win their games. The only win for the team was achieved by Dave Cole who had a superior position during all the game and finally put his opponent in zugzwang in the endgame. Some of the draws were saved from an inferior position and even could have turned into a win. This was the case on boards 4 and 5 where Philippe Gleizon and Peter Shaw both lost a pawn in the middlegame but hold the position to a drawn endgame. Philippe, who was playing the Yorkshire captain, tied the position with a Damiano pawn and a back rank mating threat. Also congratulations to Peter Caulfield who opposed a stiff resistance to his opponent and secured another draw for the team.
Our final score was all the more acceptable that Lancashire lost previously to Yorkshire on the score of 5-7. Therefore Cumbria can still qualify for the runners-up quarter-finals if we can win with only one point difference our next match against Lancashire, on Saturday 7th March, at the Reform Club in Lancaster.
Many thanks for your time and effort to all involved in that match against Yorkshire.
Philippe Gleizon

Results

		Cumbria	Score		Yorkshire
1	148	Woodburn, James	½	½	Gower, Patrick	149
2	146	Cole, David	1	0	Shepherd, Andrew	143
3	137	Horne, George	½	½	Davies, Clive	143
4	134	Gleizon, Philippe	½	½	Birkin, Mark	142
5	131	Shaw, Peter	½	½	Patrick, Dave	140
6	126	Glover, George	½	½	Baxter, Harry	140e
7	125	Dobson, John	½	½	Swallow, Jonathan	139
8	118	McMath, David	0	1	Howden, Paul	138
9	115	McAtear, Andrew	0	1	Cuaresma, Ben	137
10	115	Caulfield, Peter	½	½	Jones, Rupert	134
11	106	Mackay, Ian	0	1	Browne, Robin	134
12	88	Mason, Mike	0	1	Johnson, Paul	120
Total score:			4½	7½

South Lakes Open Congress

held on 5th, 6th, and 7th June 2009 at Grange over Sands, Cumbria.

NCCU Major Cup

Cumbria Individual Chess Championships 2009

Photo:
Bill Hardwick, left (Minor Winner ), Robert Patla, centre (Open Winner), right Lewis McAtear (Grading Prize , Major)

Results

OPEN
	Name	Club	Grade	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Total
1	Robert Patla	Penrith	180	b +9	w+4	w+2	w+3	b+8	5
2	John Jarmany	Cockermouth	156	b+10	w+11	b-1	w+4	b+3	4
3	David Jarmany	Cockermouth	140e	b+12	w+8	w+6	b-1	w-2	3
4	Matthew Mackenzie	Barrow	179	w+7	b-1	w+9	b-2	w+10	3
5	George Glover	Carlisle	126	b-8	bye	w+7	w+11	b=6	3
6	John Banks	Dumfies	1477 (110)	bye	w+12	b-3	b=8	w=5	2.5
7	David Siddall	Penrith	134	b-4	w=10	b-5	w+13	b+12	2.5
8	Stephen Barnes	Carlisle	138	w+5	b-3	b+11	w=6	w-1	2.5
9	George Horne	Barrow	137	w-1	b+13	b-4	w=12	b=11	2
10	Paul Rivers	Carlisle	131	w-2	b=7	w+13	bye	b-4	2
11	Dave Cole	Barrow	146	w+13	b-2	w-8	b-5	w=9	1.5
12	John Kelly	Carlisle	130e	w-3	b-6	BYE *	b=9	w-7	1.5
13	Philippe Gleizon	Cockermouth	132	b-11	w-9	b-10	b-7	BYE	1
Well done to Robert on retaining his title with a perfect score. John took the runners-up prize by beating his brother in the final round, how's that for loyalty? Grading prizes went to David Jarmany and George Glover.
MAJOR
	Name	Club	Grade	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Total
1	Neil Jones	Cockermouth	123	b+19	w=2	b+15	w=7	b+6	4
2	Robert Mitcheson	Barrow	113	b+16	b=1	b+10	w=8	w+3	4
3	Lewis McAtear	Penrith	105	b+4	w+8	b+17	w=6	b-2	3.5
4	Kevin Southernwood	Penrith	113	w-3	b+20	w=5	b+10	b+8	3.5
5	Steve Benn	Carlisle	107	b-8	w+16	b=4	w+18	b+7	3.5
6	David Wrigley	Tynedale	109	bye	b+12	w+11	b=3	w-1	3
7	Ian Mackay	Austin Friars	106	w=12	b=11	w+20	b=1	w-5	2.5
8	Dave McMath	Penrith	118	w+5	b-3	w+13	b=2	w-4	2.5
9	Mark Houlsby	Ulverston	112	w-17	w=19	b=12	b+14	w=11	2.5
10	Tony Pattinson	Gosforth	100e	w=11	b+13	w-2	w-4	b+16	2.5
11	Frank Whalley	Barrow	111	b=10	w=7	b-6	w=12	b=9	2
12	Andy McAtear	Penrith	115	b=7	w-6	w=9	b=11	w=13	2
13	Peter Blackmore	Cockermouth	100e	bye	w-10	b-8	w+19	b=12	2
14	Alan Hiatt	Austin Friars	111	w-15	b-18	BYE*	w-9	w+20	2
15	Mark Mallard	SASRA	96	b+14	b=17	w-1	bye	w'drew	2
16	Stephen Lowis	Austin Friars	102	w-2	b-5	bye	b+20	w-10	1.5
17	Daniel O'Dowd	Carlisle	100	b+9	w=15	w-3	w'drew		1.5
18	Syd Cassidy	Austin Friars	118	*	w+14	*	b-5		1
19	David Jackson	Carlisle	110e	w-1	b=9	bye	default		1
20	Alastair Dallas	Dumfries	(1240) 80	bye	w-4	b-7	w-16	b-14	0.5
A very competitive section as ever and lead for the first 4 rounds by Lewis McAtear. Bob Mitcheson ended his chances in round 5 but then was in a tie with Neil Jones that tiebreaks failed to sort so they agreed a 10-minute blitz game which was won by Neil. Better luck next year Bob and sorry about the three blacks. Third place and grading prize went to Lewis, Kevin and Steve.
MINOR
	Name	Club	Grade	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Total
1	Bill Hardwick	Austin Friars	86	w+4	b+6	w-2	b+7	b+3	4
2	Bill Henderson	Cockermouth	95	bye	b+5	b+1	w=3	w+4	4
3	Bill Burgess	Austin Friars	90	b+8	bye	w+6	b=2	w-1	3
4	Dan Zurek	Lime House School	55e	b-1	w+8	w+9	b+5	b-2	3
5	Joe Biggans	Dumfries	75	BYE *	w-2	b+7	w-4	b+8	3
6	Sam McStay	Austin Friars	82	b+7	w-2	b-1	bye	W+9	2.5
7	Albert Soler	Lime House School	45e	w-6	b+9	w-5	w-1	BYE *	2
8	Drew Millar	Austin Friars	81	w-3	b-4	BYE*	b+9	w-5	2
9	James Leitch	Austin Friars	50e	bye	w-7	b-4	w-8	b-6	0.5
This was a competitive competition despite the small entry. Going into the last round 4 players were tied for the lead,including last year's winner Bill Henderson and the surprise packet of the section Dan Zurek from Slovakia, a pupil at Lime House School near Carlisle.  He and Albert Soler have improved immensely since the schools league jamboree inNovember and now can give anyone a stiff game as Philippe can testify. The final result was a tie between two of the Bills and Bill Hardwick won the title by the narrowest of margins, 12 to11.5 on the sum of cumulative scores. Well played too to Joe Biggans whose firsttournament this was.
*	Other games played to avoid players sitting out were:
	Joe Biggans	0-1	Syd Cassidy
	Drew Millar	0-1	Syd Cassidy
	John Kelly	1-0	Alan Hiatt
	Philippe Gleizon	1-0	Albert Soler