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Hampshire Chess Association

Founded 1890

Hampshire Congress 2004 Round One
Contents Round 2

The Hampshire Congress incorporating the Hampshire Individual Championship was held at Eastleigh College the weekend of 30th October 2004. After a steady increase of players in the last few years, it was disappointing to see the numbers in the Open down from 32 to 20, although there was an increase from 20 to 26 in the Under 125 tournament.

The format of the report this year, is to have one game highlighted from the round, which you can play through on-line. All the games from the round are also available to go through on-line on a separate page (see below). In addition you can download all the games from the Hampshire Congress 2004 Contents page. I hope you enjoy the report and any feedback is welcome. If you were a participant in the tournament I would welcome your own analysis to the games, which I will be very pleased to publish. This is also true for the under 125 tournament, as I do not have any of these games.

Tony Corkett was back to defend the title he won last year and being the highest graded player by 16 points made him the favourite. Other previous Hampshire Individual Champions in the field were Michael Yeo and Dominic Tunks.

All Round One Games

White Grade Res Black Grade Res
A.Corkett 205 1 F.N.McLeod 155 0
J.Coburn 145 ½ M.Yeo 189 ½
J.Fraser-Mitchell 179 1 L.Allen 141 0
G.Stuart 141 0 J.F.Wheeler 178 1
D.Cordner 176 1 C.Klein 139 0
P.Byre 132 0 G.Lock 175 1
D.Holmes 123 0 R.McMaster 162 1
R.Perrin 152 1 I.Matthew 131 0
K.Esmat 174 1 Bye    
D.R.Tunks 177 ½ Bye    
S.Khoo 148 ½ Bye    
P.Williams 120 ½ Bye    

The first round was the normal slaughter as the higher graded players met the lower graded players.

For myself, it was a case of deja vu, as I had white against John Wheeler, which was exactly the same pairing as last year. Unfortunately, for me the trend continued, with John winning the game fairly easily.

Update 1st Jan 2005

With regards to the Joe Coburn - Michael Yeo game I had entered this incorrectly. Previously it looked as if Joe could have won a pawn as I had the 8th move as Qa4 when it was actually a4. Therefore the final position was one where Joe had a slight advantage, but not one where he could have won a pawn, nevertheless an excellent result for Joe. 

In the final position Michael Yeo indicates that 22....Nxb4 23 Nd4 could be played where White has a slight advantage.











Coburn,Joe (145) - Yeo,Michael J (189) [D02]
Hants Congress Eastleigh, Southampton (1), 29.10.2004

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bf4 Bg4 4.Nbd2 e6 5.h3 Bh5 6.c3 Bd6 7.Bxd6 Qxd6 8.Qa4N a6 9.e3 Nge7 10.Bd3 0-0 11.Qc2 Bg6 12.Bxg6 fxg6 13.c4 e5 14.dxe5 Nxe5 15.Nxe5 Qxe5 16.Nf3 Qd6 17.0-0 Rad8 18.cxd5 Nxd5 19.Rad1 Qe7 20.Qc4 b5 21.Qb3 Qb4 22.Qxb4 White has a slight advantage 1/2-1/2