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Founded 1890

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Round Six - Part One

With four players in contention for the top prize, the final round was going to be very close and hard-fought. The two highest graded players were paired together on board one, as were the two previous Hampshire champions on board two - you could not ask for a better conclusion to the tournament!

I know that you can work it out who was the winner yourself from the results below - but I will leave these games to Round Six part two and concentrate on some less important, but nevertheless interesting games on the lower boards! To keep your interest going, a picture of the top boards is below.

White

Grade

Res

Black

Grade

Res

A.Corkett

207

1

M.Simons

207

0

M.Yeo

194

0

D.Tunks

178

1

A.Chahine

u

½

D.Pye

185

½

J.Wheeler

180

½

M.Buckley

153

½

G.Lock

171

0

K.Esmat

165

1

D.Cutmore

167

½

F.McLeod

159

½

D.O'Mahoney

u

1

M.Cutmore (def)

166

0

T.Anderson

151

0

D.Cordner

164

1

R.D.Perrin

159

1

J.Coburn

142

0

J.Wilkinson

159

½

L.Allen

153

½

M.Krawczuk

163

0

G.Stuart

138

1

I.Matthew

135

1

G.Moore

123

0

S.Gonem

137

1

S.Dunleavy

u

0

Tony Corkett playing Martin Simons and Michael Yeo against Dominic Tunks

Tony Corkett (front left) playing Martin Simons and Michael Yeo (second left) playing Dominic Tunks in the last round.

Tom Anderson - David Cordner Hampshire Congress Round 6

Anderson - Cordner

For the last round I was paired with Mike Krawczuk, with my second game of the day with the Black pieces. It's a fact that in the Hampshire Congress the games just don't get any easier!

I have to be honest and say that I did not like my position and after 10 moves in my game against Mike, I offered a draw. This was declined, not without reason, as White did have an advantage.

What was in my favour was time, as Mike was using more and more trying to find the key moves. But in doing this, he first let the position slip away and then blundered the game. He was a bit unlucky, as to get a killing move from the position did not look possible. But the problem was that in the final position White will be the exchange and a pawn down and even though he has the two Bishops he does not have much counter play.

This was therefore for me a successful Hampshire Congress, just the one loss to John Wheeler, this one win and three draws against higher graded opponents. But as to who was the Hampshire Individual Champion you will have to see Round Six part two  .....

Tom Anderson was having a successful, if solid Hampshire Congress, with all draws so far. Three of these games were against opponents graded from 20 to 35 points higher than him and he was probably hoping for a final win, to cap a fine tournament.

 

In the last round though, he played an inspired David Cordner, who showed no ill effects from his marathon games against me from the morning with a stunning sacrifice.

 

In the position left Tom has just played 20.f4. David snatches his chance with 20...Nf3!!, which soon leads to check mate. The game finished  21.gxf3 21...Qh4+ 22.Ke2 Qf2+ 23.Kd3 Bf5#  0–1

 

 

Mike Krawczuk v Graham Stuart Hampshire Congress Round Six

 

Krawczuk v Stuart

 

White has just played 14 Qf3, which allowed the killing 14...Bxb4!. The game continued 15.cxb4 [ 15.Bd2 Nxd2 16.Qe3 Nf3+ 17.gxf3 Qh4+ 18.Kd1 Bd6] 15...Qxd4 16.Rb1 Qc3+! 0–1

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