All official club games are over for the year and we will be playing some casual chess, perhaps some 15 minute tournaments

Come along for the last few nights of 2009 at Salvation Army, and don’t forget our prize-giving to be held on 16 December: ALL people are welcome and bring some food for our celebration of Chess in Kapiti.

23/11/2009

We have winners! The Kapiti Chess Club’s Championships are now over.
Results:

C Grade
1st: Johnny Hynes
2nd equal: Luke Reynolds and Josie Clark

B grade:
1st: Christy Paul
2nd equal: Rick Lowe
3rd equal: Dave Seddon, Brian Seddon, Chris Carr and ‘Crumb’ Hocking

A Grade:
1st: David Paul
2nd: Dennis Sosnosky
3rd: John Whibley

Congratulations to all players who participated in this exciting tournament.

On 25 of November the last round of the 5 minute Blitz Tournament will be played.

14/10/2009

The Kapiti Chess Annual Clubs Champs are drawing to a close. There are three more rounds for the B and C grade players, and the A grade has several catch up games—see below. Johnny Hynes is well ahead on points to take out the C grade. The B grade is a battle between Rick Lowe and Christy Paul, closely pursued by a pack of three players. David Paul appears to have taken out the A grade with an insurmountable eleven and a half points. His nearest contender David Sosnoski needed to defeat Guy Burns last week to have a chance of beating David to the trophy. Please note these points/results are tentative and are yet to be triangulated by Club officials—see below for detailed results

			Round Robin 1
	A Grade		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	T1
	PAUL, DAVID	1775	0.5	1	0.5	1	+	1	1	6
	O’RORKE, MIKE	1386	0	1	+	1	1	0	1	5
	WHIBLEY, JOHN	1463	1	1	0.5	1	0	0	+	4.5
	SOSNOSKY, DENNIS	1370	0.5	+		0	1	1		3.5
	BURNS, GUY	1459	+	0	0	0	1	1		3
	KINGSTON, ZOE	1589	1	0		0	0	+	0	2
	ROBERTS, TIM	1370	0	0	1	+	0	0	0	2

			Round Robin 2							T2		T1+T2
	PAUL, DAVID	1775	0	1	0.5	1	+	1	1	5.5		11.5
	KINGSTON, ZOE	1589		0	0			+	1	2		4
	WHIBLEY, JOHN	1463	1	0.5	0.5			1	+	4		8.5
	BURNS, GUY	1459	+	0.5	1	0		0	1	3.5		6.5
	O’RORKE, MIKE	1386	0	0.5	+	0	0.5	0	0	2		7
	ROBERTS, TIM	1370		0.5	0	+	0.5	0.5	0	2.5		4.5
	SOSNOSKY, DENNIS	1370	1	+	1	1		0.5	0	4.5		8


			Swiss Format 1
	B Grade		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	T1
	PAUL, CHRISTY	967	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	6
	SEDDON, DAVE	912	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	5
	SEDDON, BRIAN	978	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	5
	LOWE, RICK	1100	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	4
	CARR, CHRIS	745	+	0	1		1	0	1	4
	REEVES, David	1450		0	0	1	1	1	0	3
	KINGSTON, ROSE	842	1	0	+	0	0	0	0	2
	HOCKING, Crumb	1531			1	1	0		1	3
	BENNY, TRISH	742	1							1
	C Grade
	HYNES, Johnny	540	0	+	0	1	0	0	1	3
	REYNOLDS, Luke	539	0			0		1	0	1
	CLARK, Josie, Josie	542	0				1			1
	TOON, Josh	537								0
	MURROW, Xander	512	0			0		0		0
	CLARK, Jack, Jack	539	0				0			0
	CHARTERIS, Andrew	505					0			0

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			Swiss Format 2
	B Grade		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	T2	T1+T2
	PAUL, CHRISTY	967	1	1	0	1					3	9
	LOWE, RICK	1100	1	1	1	1					4	8
	SEDDON, DAVE	912										5
	SEDDON, BRIAN	978										5
	CARR, CHRIS	745	0	1	0						1	5
	HOCKING, Crumb	1531	1	0	1						2	5
	REEVES, David	1450		0	1						1	4
	KINGSTON, ROSE	842	0	0	0	+					0	3
	BENNY, TRISH	742										1
	C Grade
	HYNES, Johnny	540	0		+	0					1	4
	REYNOLDS, Luke	539				0						1
	LIDELL, Ian	1120				1						1
	CLARK, Josie, Josie	542										1
	TOON, Josh	537										0
	MURROW, Xander	512				0						0
	CLARK, Jack, Jack	539										0
	CHARTERIS, Andrew	505										0

KAPITI CHESS CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS—A-GRADE CATCH UP GAMES

Round One

Zoe Kingston V Dennis Sosnosky

Guy Burns V Dennis Sosnosky

Round Two

Zoe Kingston V Tim Roberts

John Whibley V Zoe Kingston

John Whibley V Dennis Sosnosky

Guy Burns V Zoe Kingston

2009 Kapiti Rapid

20/09/2009

Sunday 20 September 2009. A field of 38 players ensured the annual Kapiti Rapid 6 round tournament was another success. Anthony Ker wiped the field clean with an impressive 6 point sweep—perhaps his most difficult game of the day was round one against the mighty Kapiti Chess Club battler, Mike O’Rorke who played a brilliant 62 move game with some draw potentials? Junior Alan Ansell and Wellington’s Ross Jackson played above their weights and finished with an impressive 4.5 points, along with Edward Lee and former Kapiti player Martin Hill.

Kapiti’s David Paul and Dennis Sosnoski kept the top B grade prize in Kapiti’s hands for a second year running with 3.5 point finishes. Junior Ryan Hill also played well in this grade with 3 points along with Kapiti’s Mike O’Rorke. Argentinian Sebastian Manzt supply of Mate tea possibly helped him to also finish with 3 points in the B Grade.

Anil Jhurane took the C Grade prize, with 3.5 points—this result will boost his rating—followed closely on 3, by Juniors Michael Yuan, Tawan Sunathvanichka, and James Stewart.

The Junior prize was shared by Ryan Lee, Pasan Pahalawatta and David Kweon—names to be watched closely as future champions maybe?

RESULTS

		A GRADE
	No	NAME	RATING	TOTAL	1	2	3	4	5	6
	1	KER, ANTHONY	2345	6	21:W	10:W	8:W	2:W	12:W	3:W
	3	LEE, EDWARD	2057	4.5	23:W	12:D	17:W	6:W	2:W	1:L
	6	HILL, MARTIN	1965	4.5	26:W	16:W	9:W	3:L	11:W	5:D
JUNIOR	10	ANSELL, ALAN	1765	4.5	30:W	1:L	21:W	26:W	5:D	9:W
	12	JACKSON, ROSS	1719	4.5	32:W	3:D	13:W	7:W	1:L	11:W
	2	CROAD, NICHOLAS	2290	4	22:W	11:W	7:W	1:L	3:L	14:W
	4	BURNS, CHRIS J	2004	4	24:W	13:D	5:L	22:D	16:W	21:W
	5	MCDONALD, JOHN A	1973	4	25:W	17:L	4:W	15:W	10:D	6:D
	7	NIJMAN, BRIAN	1945	4	27:W	19:W	2:L	12:L	22:W	20:W
	8	NYBERG, MICHAEL	1935	4	28:W	18:W	1:L	17:W	9:L	26:W
	9	DAVIS, JUSTIN	1881	4	29:W	20:W	6:L	27:W	8:W	10:L
	11	SIMS, MARTIN	1740	3	31:W	2:L	23:W	20:W	6:L	12:L

		B GRADE
	No	NAME	RATING	TOTAL	1	2	3	4	5	6
	18	SONOSKI, DENNIS	1540	3.5	37:W	8:L	27:L	29:D	31:W	25:W
	13	PAUL, DAVID	1699	3.5	33:W	4:D	12:L	25:L	34:W	17:W
	24	LIST, ROBERT	1403	3	4:L	33:W	15:L	19:W	14:L	34:W
	21	O’RORKE, MIKE	1423	3	1:L	34:W	10:L	36:W	27:W	4:L
JUNIOR	20	HILL, RYAN	1463	3	14:+	9:L	34:W	11:L	30:W	7:L
	14	MANTZ, SEBASTIAN	1690	3	20:-	29:L	37:W	33:W	24:W	2:L
JUNIOR	22	YUAN, DANIEL	1405	2.5	2:L	31:D	29:W	4:D	7:L	30:D
	19	MCGOWAN, ALISTAIR	1515	2.5	38:W	7:L	26:L	24:L	33:D	28:W
	17	HOLDAWAY, STEWART	1645	2.5	36:W	5:W	3:L	8:L	25:D	13:L
	16	REID, ANTON	1658	2.5	35:W	6:L	25:D	31:W	4:L	:
	15	FARRINGTON, LAWRENCE	1672	2	34:L	30:W	24:W	5:L	26:L	29:L
JUNIOR	23	DE SILVA, NIRANJAN	1403	1	3:L	32:W	11:L	34:L	35:L	33:L

		C GRADE
	No	NAME	RATING	TOTAL	1	2	3	4	5	6
	29	JHURANE, ANIL	1173	3.5	9:L	14:W	22:L	18:D	28:W	15:W
JUNIOR	25	YUAN, MICHAEL	1386	3	5:L	36:W	16:D	13:W	17:D	18:L
	26	STEWART, JAMES	1361	3	6:L	35:W	19:W	10:L	15:W	8:L
JUNIOR	27	SUNATHVANICHKAL, TAWAN	1320	3	7:L	38:W	18:W	9:L	21:L	35:W
JUNIOR	30	LEE, RYAN	1052	2.5	10:L	15:L	35:W	37:W	20:L	22:D
JUNIOR	31	PAHALAWATTA, PASAN	1036	2.5	11:L	22:D	28:W	16:L	18:L	36:W
JUNIOR	33	KWEON, DAVID	1010	2.5	13:L	24:L	38:W	14:L	19:D	23:W
JUNIOR	34	AGAC-AC, JOHN	1005	2	15:W	21:L	20:L	23:W	13:L	24:L
	35	ANSELL, JOHN	943	2	16:L	26:L	30:L	38:W	23:W	27:L
JUNIOR	37	LOU, BRIAN	920	2	18:L	28:D	14:L	30:L	36:D	38:W
JUNIOR	28	ZHANG, WILLIAM QIHAO	1186	1.5	8:L	37:D	31:L	32:W	29:L	19:L
JUNIOR	36	DIAS, RAVEEN	929	1.5	17:L	25:L	32:W	21:L	37:D	31:L
	32	CARR, CHRISTOPHER	1022	1	12:L	23:L	36:L	28:L	38:L	:+
JUNIOR	38	HYNES, JOHNNY	827	1	19:L	27:L	33:L	35:L	32:W	37:L

		JUNIOR
	No	NAME	RATING	TOTAL	1	2	3	4	5	6
	30	LEE, RYAN	1052	2.5	10:L	15:L	35:W	37:W	20:L	22:D
	31	PAHALAWATTA, PASAN	1036	2.5	11:L	22:D	28:W	16:L	18:L	36:W
	33	KWEON, DAVID	1010	2.5	13:L	24:L	38:W	14:L	19:D	23:W

View Photos From The Event

The KAPITI CHESS CLUB 30-30 Rapid was held Sunday 20th September 2009.
at the Kapiti Community Centre, Paraparaumu (map) .
2009 Tournament Entry Form

For further details contact
Guy Burns
04 9042002

02/09/2009

It’s hard to determine which game was the biggest upset of the current Club Champs:
Christy Paul’s shock loss to Brian Seddon, or Mike O’Rorke’s win over Dennis Sosnoski. They are both, significant, as far as 2009 upsets go.
In the B grade, David Seddon is now equal with Christy Paul on the points table, closely followed by Rick Lowe and Dave Seddon.
Johnny Hndes, comfortably leads the C grade.
David Paul’s lead in the A grade has been helped by Mighty Mike’s win against Dennis. There are still two catch-up games to go, in this grade for Dennis, against Guy Burns and Zoe Kingston, before final points can be determined.

Next week, 09 September will see the commencement of Part Two for the A grade Champs. For the B and C grade swiss run tournament, next week will be the last round of this series, followed by a break—16 September. Part Two of the B and C grade series will commence 23 September.

CURRENT POINTS—as of 02 September 2009:

		Round Robin 1
A Grade		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	T
PAUL, DAVID	1775	0.5	1	0.5	1	+	1	1	6
O’RORKE, MIKE	1386	0	1	+	1	1	0	1	5
WHIBLEY, JOHN	1463	1	1	0.5	1	0	0	+	4.5
SOSNOSKY, DENNIS	1370	0.5	+		0	1	1		3.5
BURNS, GUY	1459	+	0	0	0	1	1		3
KINGSTON, ZOE	1589	1	0		0	0	+	0	2
ROBERTS, TIM	1370	0	0	1	+	0	0	0	2

		Round Robin 2
PAUL, DAVID	1775
KINGSTON, ZOE	1589
WHIBLEY, JOHN	1463
BURNS, GUY	1459
O’RORKE, MIKE	1386					0.5
ROBERTS, TIM	1370					0.5
SOSNOSKY, DENNIS	1370


		Swiss Format 1
B Grade		1	2	3	4	5	6	T
PAUL, CHRISTY	967	1	1	1	1	1	0	5
SEDDON, DAVE	912	1	1	1	0	1	1	5
SEDDON, BRIAN	978	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
LOWE, RICK	1100	1	0	1	1	0	1	4
CARR, CHRIS	745	+	0	1		1	0	3
REEVES, David	1450		0	0	1	1	1	3
KINGSTON, ROSE	842	1	0	+	0	0	0	2
HOCKING, Crumb	1531			1	1	0		2
BENNY, TRISH	742	1						1
C Grade
HYNES, Johnny	540	0	+	0	1	0	0	2
REYNOLDS, Luke	539	0			0		1	1
CLARK, Josie, Josie	542	0				1		1
TOON, Josh	537							0
MURROW, Xander	512	0			0		0	0
CLARK, Jack, Jack	539	0				0		0
CHARTERIS, Andrew	505					0		0

26/08/2009

Christy Paul faced his nemisis—Rick Lowe—keeping his cool, came away with a finely deserved win, arguably the winner of this game will be the winner of the 2009 B Grade title, as both players have been running neck and neck. Johnny Hynes continues to dominate the B grade. The game to watch in the A grade was between David Paul and Dennis Sosnosky—a gargantuan match—which ended in a draw, though both players had opportunites through the game. Mike O’Rorke continues his fine form and managed a draw against the tenacious Tim Roberts. Perhaps the ‘get out of jail’ card was handed to Guy Burns who scored an unexpected victory over Zoe Kingston after a shocking start.

Next week (02 September) the A grade will play out the last round of this series, and the B & C will contine their combined Swiss Round games.
09 September will be a catch-up night for the A grade. B & C will by as per normal.
16 September all the grades will begin a new series of games for the Club Championships.

13/08/2009

There’s still two rounds of the A Grade Championships to go—series 1 of a double-round-robin. Then there is a break between series—a chance for players to catch-up on any games they’ve missed. Series 2 for the A Grade starts 10 September. The B and C grade Champs are now well under way, next week is Round 4 for this Swiss based Championships.

12/08/2009

Kapiti Chess Club has a Grand Prix Tournament based on all competition games played during the year—including the blitz tournaments. Here’s the results, up the the last Blitz tournament played on 29 July. There’s still Club-Champs and one more Blitz round to go before the winner can be determined.


	BLITZ 1	30-30	BLITZ 2	60-60	BLITZ 3	BLITZ 4	TOTAL
PAUL, David	13	34	12	15	16	13	103
BURNS, Guy	12	31	10	12	18	15	98
FROST, Paul		29	14	21	15		79
KINGSTON, Zoe	12	29	12	18			71
MILLS, Glenys	12	25	9	12	12		70
O’RORKE, Mike	7	15	9	12	12	12	67
CARR, Chris	9	24	3	18	6	6	66
PAUL, Christy	10	31	9	12			62
ROBERTS, Tim,		27	9	12		9	57
LOWE, Rick	6	6	3	21	7	9	52
WHIBLEY, John			10	12	9	16	47
HYNES, Johnny	4	22		10	4	7	47
BENNY, Tricia		23		12		9	44
CLARK, Jack	5	14		11	6	6	42
SEDDON, Dave	6	12		3	9	6	36
KINGSTON, Rose	3	31		2			36
SEDDON, Brian	9	6		4	9	6	34
SOSNOSKI, Dennis		26		6			32
CLARK-Josie, Josie		10		10	6	4	30
ROBERTS, Earl			11		16
WOODWARD, Mark	9					12	21
REYNOLDS, Luke		14		4	3		21
KINGSTON, Rose	3		9		7		19
REEVES, David					9	9	18
TOON, Josh		15		1			16
MURROW, Xander		4		4	4		12
MCGOWAN, Alistair					9
CHARTERIS, Andrew			0			6	6
CARTER, Colin		3

05/08/2009

Club champs continued with strong competition in all grades. Next week will be a catch-up night for the A grade for those who have missed games.

Zoe Kingston (left) looks cautiously on as David Paul is about to move Rook to g2, Check! Next move, take the Bishop—game over, Rover.

29/07/2009

Round Four of the Blitz Tournament was held. John Whibley played impressively to win the six round 5 minute Swiss tournament. The four top players faced each other in a rugby sevens type final. Here are the results:

Swiss points—29/07/2009

BLITZ ROUND FOUR
29/07/2009	1	2	3	4	5	6	T
WHIBLEY, John	1	1	1	1	1	0.5	5.5
BURNS, Guy	1	1	1	0	1	1	5
PAUL, David	1	1	0	1	1	0.5	4.5
O’RORKE, Mike	1	0	1	1	0	1	4
WOODWARD, Mark	1	1	0	1	0	1	4
ROBERTS, Tim	1	0	1	0	1	0	3
REEVES, David	0	0	0	1	1	1	3
PAUL, Christy	1	0	1	0	0	1	3
LOWE, Rick	0	1	1	1	0	0	3
BENNY, Trish	1	0	1	0	1	0	3
HYNES, Johnny	0	0	1	0	0.5	1	2.5
CARR, Chris	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
SEDDON, Brian	0	1	0	1			2
SEDDON, Dave	0	1	0	1			2
CHARTERIS, Andrew	1	0	0	0	1	0	2
CLARK Jack,	0	1	0	1	0	0	2
CLARK Josie,	0	0	1	0	0.5	0	1.5

Points (Sevens) after 4 rounds

ROUND	4	3	2	1	T
PAUL, David	20	20	20	16	76
BURNS, Guy	12	16	8	12	48
KINGSTON, Zoe			12	20	32
O’RORKE, Mike	12	12	6	2	32
ROBERTS, Earl		12	16		28
WHIBLEY, John	16	4	8		28
MILLS, Glenys		6	6	12	24
FROST, Paul		8	12		20
PAUL, Christy	3		6	8	17
Brian SEDDON	3	4		6	13
LOWE, Rick	4	2	4	1	11
ROBERTS, Tim,	4		6		10
KINGSTON, Rose		2	6	1	9
CARR, Chris	1	1	4	2	8
Dave SEDDON	3	4		1	8
Mark WOODWARD	8			4	8
REEVES David	3	4			7
CHARTERIS, Andrew	3		2		5
Jack CLARK	3	1		1	5
Johnny HYNES	2	1		1	4
Trish BENNY	4				4
Josie CLARK	2	1			3
Xander MURRAY		1			1
Luke REYNOLDS		1			1
Theresa HYNES		1			1

Next week (5 August) is designated a catch-up night, where players can catch-up on games they have missed for our Club Champs—applies mainly for the A grade.
See you there!

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