ACC Summer Cup 2017 - B Grade : Round 1 ===================================================== 1 = 1 Zhang, Jasmine Haomo - 8 Macdonald, Paul 2 = 2 Wang, Tony - 7 Goodhue, Nathan 3 = 3 Fan, Allen Chi Zhou - 6 Nagorski, Alex 4 = 4 Wells, Clinton A - 5 Morrell, Gordon ACC Summer Cup 2017 - B Grade : Round 2 ===================================================== 1 = 8 Macdonald, Paul - 5 Morrell, Gordon 2 = 6 Nagorski, Alex - 4 Wells, Clinton A 3 = 7 Goodhue, Nathan - 3 Fan, Allen Chi Zhou 4 = 1 Zhang, Jasmine Haomo - 2 Wang, Tony ACC Summer Cup 2017 - B Grade : Round 3 ===================================================== 1 = 2 Wang, Tony - 8 Macdonald, Paul 2 = 3 Fan, Allen Chi Zhou - 1 Zhang, Jasmine Haomo 3 = 4 Wells, Clinton A - 7 Goodhue, Nathan 4 = 5 Morrell, Gordon - 6 Nagorski, Alex ACC Summer Cup 2017 - B Grade : Round 4 ===================================================== 1 = 8 Macdonald, Paul - 6 Nagorski, Alex 2 = 7 Goodhue, Nathan - 5 Morrell, Gordon 3 = 1 Zhang, Jasmine Haomo - 4 Wells, Clinton A 4 = 2 Wang, Tony - 3 Fan, Allen Chi Zhou ACC Summer Cup 2017 - B Grade : Round 5 ===================================================== 1 = 3 Fan, Allen Chi Zhou - 8 Macdonald, Paul 2 = 4 Wells, Clinton A - 2 Wang, Tony 3 = 5 Morrell, Gordon - 1 Zhang, Jasmine Haomo 4 = 6 Nagorski, Alex - 7 Goodhue, Nathan ACC Summer Cup 2017 - B Grade : Round 6 ===================================================== 1 = 8 Macdonald, Paul - 7 Goodhue, Nathan 2 = 1 Zhang, Jasmine Haomo - 6 Nagorski, Alex 3 = 2 Wang, Tony - 5 Morrell, Gordon 4 = 3 Fan, Allen Chi Zhou - 4 Wells, Clinton A ACC Summer Cup 2017 - B Grade : Round 7 ===================================================== 1 = 4 Wells, Clinton A - 8 Macdonald, Paul 2 = 5 Morrell, Gordon - 3 Fan, Allen Chi Zhou 3 = 6 Nagorski, Alex - 2 Wang, Tony 4 = 7 Goodhue, Nathan - 1 Zhang, Jasmine Haomo
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Summer Cup Draw for A Grade
ACC Summer Cup 2017 - A Grade : Round 1 ===================================================== 1 = 1 Kulashko, Alexei - 8 Hague, Ben 2 = 2 Watson, Bruce R - 7 Gong, Daniel Hanwen 3 = 3 Duneas, John - 6 Ang, Alphaeus Wei Er 4 = 4 Steadman, Michael V - 5 Garbett, Paul A ACC Summer Cup 2017 - A Grade : Round 2 ===================================================== 1 = 8 Hague, Ben - 5 Garbett, Paul A 2 = 6 Ang, Alphaeus Wei Er - 4 Steadman, Michael V 3 = 7 Gong, Daniel Hanwen - 3 Duneas, John 4 = 1 Kulashko, Alexei - 2 Watson, Bruce R ACC Summer Cup 2017 - A Grade : Round 3 ===================================================== 1 = 2 Watson, Bruce R - 8 Hague, Ben 2 = 3 Duneas, John - 1 Kulashko, Alexei 3 = 4 Steadman, Michael V - 7 Gong, Daniel Hanwen 4 = 5 Garbett, Paul A - 6 Ang, Alphaeus Wei Er ACC Summer Cup 2017 - A Grade : Round 4 ===================================================== 1 = 8 Hague, Ben - 6 Ang, Alphaeus Wei Er 2 = 7 Gong, Daniel Hanwen - 5 Garbett, Paul A 3 = 1 Kulashko, Alexei - 4 Steadman, Michael V 4 = 2 Watson, Bruce R - 3 Duneas, John ACC Summer Cup 2017 - A Grade : Round 5 ===================================================== 1 = 3 Duneas, John - 8 Hague, Ben 2 = 4 Steadman, Michael V - 2 Watson, Bruce R 3 = 5 Garbett, Paul A - 1 Kulashko, Alexei 4 = 6 Ang, Alphaeus Wei Er - 7 Gong, Daniel Hanwen ACC Summer Cup 2017 - A Grade : Round 6 ===================================================== 1 = 8 Hague, Ben - 7 Gong, Daniel Hanwen 2 = 1 Kulashko, Alexei - 6 Ang, Alphaeus Wei Er 3 = 2 Watson, Bruce R - 5 Garbett, Paul A 4 = 3 Duneas, John - 4 Steadman, Michael V ACC Summer Cup 2017 - A Grade : Round 7 ===================================================== 1 = 4 Steadman, Michael V - 8 Hague, Ben 2 = 5 Garbett, Paul A - 3 Duneas, John 3 = 6 Ang, Alphaeus Wei Er - 2 Watson, Bruce R 4 = 7 Gong, Daniel Hanwen - 1 Kulashko, Alexei
Draw for Summer Cup Round 1
Summer Cup Entries
The Summer Cup with be starting on Monday the 13th of February at the Auckland Chess Centre. It will run for seven rounds. Currently it is planned that there will be three or four 8-player rounds robin grades plus a Swiss for everyone else.
Entries must be in by Sunday if players wish to be in the Round-Robin grades and should be in for others to guarantee a place. Please text of email Simon to enter before the start of round one.
Current Entries (based of NZCF November list), the players in bold are those who are candidates to play up a grade. Draft Grade assigned is listed.
Vega Links: A Grade, B Grade, C1 Grade, C2 Grade, D Grade
2100+
- 2463 – A – Ben Hague
- 2428 – A – Alexei Kulashko
- 2414 – A – Bruce Watson
- 2331 – A – Paul Garbett
- 2328 – A – Mike Steadman
- 2302 – A – Alphaeus Ang
- 2255 – A – Daniel Gong
- 2183 – A – John Duneas
- 2181 – B – Gordon Morrell
- 2153 – B – Allen Fan
1600 – 2100
- 2059 – B – Paul MacDonald
- 2035 – B – Nathan Goodhue
- 1934 – B – Clinton Wells
- 1923 – B – Alex Nagorski
- 1923 – B – Tony Wang
1902 – C2 – Richard Taylor- 1901 – C1 – Keith Ward
- 1890 – C2 – Don Eade
- 1837 – B – Jasmine Zhang
- 1812 – C2 – Joy Qin
- 1797 – C1 – Simon Lyall
- 1778 – C2 – Tim Ha
- 1768 – C1 – Kate Song
- 1757 – C1 – Grant Burrows
- 1755 – C2 – Caroline Yan
- 1740 – C2 – Hilton Jacobs
- 1734 – C1 – Eric Wu
- 1714 – C2 – Everett Bishop
- 1651 – C1 – Virginia Milne
- 1640 – C1 – Sergiy Kozakevych
- 1631 – D – Andrew Michael
- 1622 – C2 – Stephen Peak
Under 1600
- C1 – Nicole Qin
- D – Oscar Qin
- D – Mathew Steadman
- D – Jacob Barry
- D – Louie Wei
- D – Wayne McDougall
- C2 – Euan McDougall
- D – Charlotte Wen
- D – Leo Li
- D – Rodney Li
- D – Sarah Yan
- D – Kimberley Yuan
- D – Neil Sonnekus
- D – Aaron Wang
- D – Ying Wang
- D – Jennifer Zhang
- D – Abraham Deng
- D – Kelvin Xiao
- D – Erica Hu
- D – Selena Hu
- D – Hugh Gao
- D – Felix Xie
- D – Oliver Picken (Swiss only)
- D – Renae Ghadiali
- D – Saasha Ghadiali
- D – Rosa Ryu
- D – Xinyang Liu
- D – Mike Steiner
- D – Uday Jain
- D – Yin Yang Lin (name to be be checked)
- D – Silei (name to be checked)
- D – Marcus Pooley
- D – David Xu
- D – Toby Zhang
- D – Isaac Yuan
- D – David Ansell
- D – Sylvia McDougall
- D – Gaurav Pahuja
- D – Daniel Morrin
Simultaneous Display 2017
- 24 players in a Simul on January 23rd
- Reminder that Summer Cup starts February 13th, entries needed.
The first event of 2017 was a Simultaneous Display by two of ACC’s top players: 2016 Club Champ Bruce Watson and Club Treasurer Mike Steadman.
With two players in the middle things go faster but it is harder for Bruce and Mike to coordinate together. For instance Mike started a little early so player “1. b4” on most boards which is not an opening that Bruce regularly plays.
In today there were 24 people playing against Bruce and Mike and the results were very good with Bruce and Mike winning just 12 games while they drew 5 and lost 7.
Full results ( Note: Result from the players point of view, ie Charlotte Wen lost her game)
- Charlotte Wen – loss
- Jacob Barry – loss
- Eric Wu – loss
- Kimberley Yuan – loss
- Grant Burrow – loss
- Oliver Picken – Win
- Ying Wang – Win
- Rodney Li – Draw
- Leo Li – Loss
- Sarah Yan – Loss
- Caroline Yan – Loss
- Euan McDougall – draw
- Wayne McDougall – draw
- Louie Wei – Win
- Justin Garlick – Loss
- Stephen Peak – Win
- Aaron Wang – Draw
- Simon Lyall – Win
- Oscar Qin – Loss
- Nicole Qin – Draw
- Nathan Goodhue – Win
- Allen Fan – Loss
- Neal Sonnokis – Loss
- Sergiy Kozakevych – Win
Events coming up – January to March
There are several Chess and other events coming up.
18 January – Locksport Auckland first meeting
Interested in learning lock picking for fun? LockSport Auckland is starting up and their first meeting is the evening of January 18th. See their Meetup group for details.
23 January – ACC Junior Rapid
During the day on Monday January 23rd the 1st ACC Junior Rapid for 2016 will take place. See the New Zealand Chess Calendar for details.
23 January – Simultaneous Display at the Chess Centre
At 7pm we plan for one or two of the top ACC players to take on all comers at the Chess Centre in a Simultaneous Display. We are currently planning on 2016 Club Champion Bruce Watson plus another top ACC player Mike Steadman.
The field limit is around 30. There is usually enough room for those interested in playing but email to guarantee your place. People signed up so far:
- Neil Sonnakis
- David Ansell
27 – 30 January – Auckland Anniversary Weekender
Over the Long Weekend there will be a 7 round tournament at the Auckland Chess Centre. See the New Zealand Chess Calendar for details.
13 February – First club competition night
The first normal Club night will be February the 13th. That night will be round one of the Summer cup.
4-5 March – Auckland Backgammon Tournament
Two days of backgammon at the at Onehunga RSA. See their Eventfinda page for more details and how to enter.
Start of 2017 update
- 2017 Calendar is now online
- New Zealand Champs
- Some results from last year
Happy New Year everybody. I hope you all had a good break.
2017 Calendar
The 2017 Calendar is now online, See the calendar page for details. This year we will start with a Simil on January 23rd followed by a two weeks break and then the Summer Cup will start on February 13th. More Details posted soon.
There is also a Junior Rapid on January 23rd and an Auckland Anniversary Weekender on January 27th-30th. See the NZCF Calendar page for details.
Congress Results
Several players from the Club played at the New Zealand Chess Congress on Wellington. Results for them included:
NZ Champs: 3rd= Danial Gong
NZ Junior: 1st Allen Fan
NZ Junior: 2nd= Oliver Picken
NZ Rapid Champs: 1st= Hans Gao
NZ Blitz: 2nd= Ewen Green
For fuller results see the NZ Chess results page.
Results from last night of 2017
The last night of 2017 was AGM, Pizza, Prizegiving and a Chess960 tournament.
The Chess 960 was held over 6 Blitz rounds (with varied time controls). Winner was Alexi Kulashko with Ben Hague and Daniel gong 2nd and 3rd.
After a check it appears the joint 2016 Club Rapid champions are John Duneas, Alphaeus Ang, Alex Nagorski. They all scored 5.0 in the Summer Rapid and 4.5 in the Spring Rapid.
Finally the ACC Centre Spirit Prize was awarded to Alex Nagorski.
Some photos from the final night of 2017 are online.
Spring Cup – Round 6
The 6th and final round of the Spring Cup was played on December 12th. Results below
- December 19 will be the last Club night for 2016. We will have the AGM, Prize-giving, Pizza and a Chess960 tournament.
Round 6 PGN by Alex Nagorski
Vega for links for the Spring Cup are:
A Grade
Bruce Watson vs Alexei Kulashko – Bruce dominated the game from start to finish, starting out better in the opening and gradually increasing his advantage until Alexei resigned.
Daniel Going vs Gordon Morrell – Some interest at the start but after most pieces were traded the players agreed on a draw in a even (going on dead) position after 22 moves.
Ben Hague vs John Duneas – John grabbed an exposed pawn but missed that it was guarded by a mate threat and lost a Knight for it. John managed to pick up a couple of extra pawns but Ben got them back as pieces were exchanged and his extra piece dominated. Win for Ben.
Kieth Ward vs Allen Fan – A fairly even game with some chances for both players. However Keith made a slipup and his position rapidly deteriorated.
Jasmine Zhang vs Virginia Milne – After missing a (hard to see) way of trapping Jasmine’s Queen, Virginia lost a piece and resigned after things got worse.
Leo Zhang vs Alex Huang – An interesting game went one-sided after Alex drove a pawn though the middle of Leo’s position.
Nathan Goodhue vs Tim Ha – After a long and fairly even game Tim missed a mate-in-one threat.
Paul MacDonald vs Alex Nagorski – Paul blundered a piece for a pawn on move 8 but by move 28 had got back 2 more pawns for his piece. He eventually had 5 pawns and a rook to Alex’s rook, Knight and single pawn. Alex then lost his rook and resigned.
Simon Lyall vs Tony Wang – Simon got a very good position and pawn lead in the opening but failed to followup. After a swap Tony had a very threatening passed pawn and a series of inaccurate moves by Simon gave Tony a winning endgame.
Eric Wu vs Sergiy Kozakevych – An exchange sacrifice by Eric yelding nothing and Sergiy was able to explot his material advantage to win.
Andrew Michael vs Don Eade – Andrew missed some early tactics which allowed Don to win a piece
The final result was that Bruce Watson and Ben Hague’s wins took them both to first equal on 5.0 points ahead of Alex Kulashko, Gordon Morrell and Daniel Gong on 4.5
B Grade
For obscure reason this round saw 7 Black Wins (the top 3 and bottom 4 boards), 3 white wins and 2 draws.
Leader Euan Macdougall won on the top board to come in first. Second equal were James Liu and Xinyang Liu.
Spring Cup – Round 5
Round 5 of the Spring Cup had a large number of decisive results. There was just one draw in A grade (on board 14) and the top 8 boards of B Grade had Wins.
Both grades now have one player in the lead on 4.5 points and 4 players on 4 points. In A Grade Alexi Kulashko is winning while in B Grade Euan McDougall is ahead.
Next week (the 12th) is the last round of the Spring Cup. On the 19th we will be having Pizza, Prize-giving and a Chess 960 Rapid/Blitz tournament.
Round 5 PGN by Alex Nagorski.
A Grade
Alexei Kulashko v John Duneas – The opening was a line with very high winning percentage for white. John managed to come back a bit in the middle game but a swap left each player with a same colour bishop and some pawns and Alexei’s pawns were much better.
Alex Huang v Ben Hague – Ben was a little ahead throughout the game and Alex was on the defensive. In the endgame Ben was a pawn up and 3 pawns vs 1 when enabled him to put on the pressure until he eventually queened.
Allen Fan v Bruce Watson – Allen made a mistake and lost a rook and was unable to recover.
Virginia Milne v Daniel Gong – Daniel was well ahead from early in the game although he missed the best continuations a couple of times so it last 58 moves before Virginia resigned.
Gorden Morrell vs Jasmine Zhang – Another long game. Gordon was a little ahead in the endgame but short on time. He managed to find good moves however and keep the pressure on until Jasmine’s position crumbled.
Alphaeus Ang v Simon Lyall – Simon got a piece trapped early in the game and did not recover.
Oliver Picken v Leo Zhang – Oliver played 1. e4 c5 2. a3!? and proceeded to kick the unprepared Leo around.
Apart from Oliver beating Leo the other main upset was Tony Wang beating Don Eade.
Going into the last round Alexei Kulashko is on 4.5 while half a point back in second equal are Ben Hague, Gordon Morrell, Bruce Watson and Daniel Gong.
B Grade
The shortest game:
Very few upsets in the round apart from Renae Ghadiali beating Ryan Dukeson.
The Grade is now led by Euan McDougall on 4.5 points with Jame Liu, Xinyang Liu, Leo Li and Jason Huang just behind on 4.0
Vega for links for the Spring Cup are:
Draft draws for round 6 is below. Subject to late byes as usual.
Spring Cup – Round 4
Both A and B Grade and still pretty close with many players within half a point of the lead.
PGN for Round 4 by Alex Nagorski
A Grade
Ben Hague vs Alexei Kulashko – After an advantage out of the opening Ben sacrificed a bishop for 3 pawns but the computer was not impressed. Some sharp tactics swapped everything down to RNppp for Ben and RBB for Alexei. A miss-step by Alexei left him no option but to give up his bishops for Ben’s 3 pawns and the game was draw.
Bruce Watson and Gordon Morrell took a fairly quick draw
John Duneas vs Alphaeus Ang – Pretty even until Alphaeus sacrificed a piece for two pawns in the endgame. Alphaeus ended up with 4 pawns vs John’s 2 pawns and a bishop, but Alphaeus pawns were badly placed. John rounded them up and got a Queen himself
Jasmine Zhang vs Alex Huang – After getting a big advantage Alex missed a couple of winning moves to leave Jasmine a little ahead after some swaps. But Alex had enough to draw.
Daniel Gong vs Tomas Madr – Tomas was looking good for a while but after a couple of of mistakes his position fell apart.
Allen fan vs Tim Ha – Tim seems to have resigned fairly early in this game, possibly he over estimated Allen’s attack or the scoresheet is incomplete.
Keith Ward vs Virginia Milne – Virginia continued her good run after spotting a tactic and picking up an exchange and some pawns.
Nathan Goodhue vs Oliver Picken – Oliver turned a single pawn advantage into a two pawn advantage and a won endgame.
Simon Lyall vs Alex Nagorski – Alex had a winning attack but missed the best continuation which left Simon with a material advantage. Simon eventually converted that to a win
Leo Zhang vs Richard Taylor – After going into the endgame a little ahead Leo picked up a 3 pawns.
Paul MacDonald vs Sergiy Kozakevych – Any interesting game which eventually was drawn after good play from both sides.
Major upsets this round were Oliver Picken beatign Nathan Goodhue, Lewis Jordan beating Scott Treanor and Virginia Milne’s win against Keith Ward.
Standings are Alexei and John Duneas in 1st place on 3.5 points with 8 players just behind on 3.0.
B Grade
A few upsets at the top had Ying Wang beating Gaurav Pahuja and Wayne MacDougall blundering into a early loss to Leo Li.
Isaac Yuan also upset Neil Sonnekus and Samuel Sajch beat Tody Zhang
Standings are Louie Wei, Euan MacDougall and Ying Wang in first place on 3.5 while 6 others are just behind on 3.0
Vega for links for the Spring Cup are:
Draft draws for round 5 is below. Subject to late byes as usual.
