HAMPSHIRE
CHESS ASSOCIATION
Hampshire Chess
Association Newsletter January 2003
Volume 4 Issue 2/2
Introduction
Well
I hope you all had a good Christmas and are looking forward to the rest of the
season. This newsletter will cover the recent Hampshire Congress, an update on
the County and League situation and an annotated game from the New Hampshire
Individual champion, Michael Yeo.
Leagues
The
Southampton and Portsmouth Leagues are at about the halfway stage, with Cosham A
and Gosport A looking the likely candidates in Portsmouth Division One. Whilst
in Southampton Division One, Southampton A look like they are in the best
position, but Passed Pawn A and reigning champions Stoneham A (formerly
Eastleigh Unity) are also in the hunt.
Games
The
Hampshire Congress (see separate report) produced a number of excellent games
this year. The winner Michael Yeo has kindly supplied one of his wins, with
extensive analysis.
Rather
than repeat the game from the Hampshire Congress, play through the game here.
Hampshire
Congress
This
Hampshire Congress, incorporating the Hampshire Individual Championship was held
the weekend of 1st November 2002 at Eastleigh College.
The format was the same as the previous year, with an Open and an under
125 graded tournament. The trend in numbers was positive, with a slight increase
seen in total.
Keeping
the tradition of the last two years, the winner of the Open Tournament
(Thomas Rendle) did not enter this year, although the Hampshire Champion,
Dominic Tunks was defending his title.
The
first couple of rounds did not spring many surprises, although in round two, two
of the top seeds failed to get maximum points. This was as Khaled Esmat (169)
held Michael Yeo (202) to a draw and John Wheeler (170) beat David Pye (185).
In
round three there were 4 players on maximum points, Bill Purkiss, Jeremy
Fraser-Mitchell, John Wheeler and Martin Newbury. On board one Bill Purkiss beat
Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell in 14 moves. It seems that Jeremy played a dubious move
in the opening (7.Qb3) and after Bill's reply Nxd4, decided to really mix it up
with 8.Bxf7, rather than move his Queen back to d1, where he obviously stood
worse. After this Jeremy then sacrificed his Queen for two Knights, for which he
was never going to get enough compensation, and resigned soon afterwards. This
meant that the board one game was the first to finish and Bill was on maximum
points.
Fraser-Mitchell
- Purkiss,W [D32]
1.d4
d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.e4 dxe4 6.Bc4 Nc6 7.Qb3? Nxd4 8.Bxf7+ Ke7
9.Bxg8 Nxb3 10.Bxb3 Ke8 11.Nxe4 Qe7 12.f3 Bf5 13.Bg5 Qe5 14.Ne2 Bxe4 15.Bf4 Qxb2
0–1
Also
moving onto maximum points was John Wheeler who defeated Martin Newbury. In
fact, both Bill and John were 1 point ahead of the field, as none of the other
players on 1½ managed to win their games.
Round
four was the Saturday evening game and John Wheeler took a bye. This left Bill
playing the up-floated Khaled Esmat in a game that was the turning point of the
competition.
Khaled
played an excellent game, beating Bill, which meant that John Wheeler was in the
sole lead after the fourth round, with four players half a point behind.
Leader
Board after Round Four
Name
|
Score
|
John
Wheeler
|
3½/4
|
Bill
Purkiss
|
3/4
|
Michael
Yeo
|
3/4
|
Khaled
Esmat
|
3/4
|
Martin
Newbury
|
3/4
|
With
all to play for in the 5th round, there were a lot of hard fought games. The
board one game between John Wheeler and Bill Purkiss went the distance. I don't
know if Bill won the exchange, or John sacrificed it, but John did get some
compensation for it. In the end John won the exchange back, but agreed a draw in
the Quickplay finish, when he had less time than Bill.
Martin
Newbury was late for his game and suffered the price, losing on time against
Michael Yeo from admittedly a bad position. Meanwhile Khaled Esmat was
blundering all his pieces against Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell, in the same way that
Jeremy had done against Bill Purkiss in round three and Khaled soon resigned
Coming
into the last round, whoever won the top board game would win the tournament.
John Wheeler probably only needed a draw from this game to win the Silver Rook,
as his sum of progressive score was the best. Bill Purkiss,
Jeremy-Fraser-Mitchell and Martin Newbury had to hope that the top board was
drawn and for them to win, to share 1st prize.
The
Yeo v Wheeler game was quite a bit of theory, but John's position started to
fall apart when he played 12...c5. Instead of this 12...d5 looked stronger. This
would have stopped Michael's Knight moving to e4 where it was very dominant. In
fact, from there it moved into d6 and soon afterwards a tactical exchange won
Michael a Rook and the Hampshire Championship. This was Michael Yeo’s first
win of the Hampshire Championship, from 10 previous entries.
Yeo,M
- Wheeler,J [B06]
Hampshire
Congress 2002 (6), 03.11.2002
1.e4
g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.f4 c6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be3 Nd7 7.h3 Bxf3 8.Qxf3 e6 9.0-0-0 Qa5
10.Kb1 Ne7 11.g4 0-0-0 12.Rd3 c5 13.e5 Nc6 14.Ne4 dxe5 15.Nd6+ Kb8 16.dxe5 Rhf8
17.Bg2 Bxe5 18.Nxb7 Qb6 19.Rb3 Nb4 20.Nxd8 Rxd8 21.fxe5 1-0
In
the fight for 2nd place, Bill Purkiss and Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell won against
Martin Newbury and David Cordner respectively and they therefore shared 2nd
place.
Meanwhile
four players shared the U160 grading prize, with Ian Cary taking home the trophy
on tiebreak. Richard Perrin won the U140 grading prize.
|
Prize
Winners
|
1st
|
M.Yeo
|
5/6
|
£120
|
2nd
=
|
W.Purkiss
|
4½/5
|
£60
|
2nd
=
|
J.Fraser-Mitchell
|
4½/5
|
£60
|
U160
gp
|
I.Cary
|
3/6
|
£15
|
U160
gp
|
F.N.McLeod
|
3/6
|
£15
|
U160
gp
|
A.Mills
|
3/6
|
£15
|
U160
gp
|
G.Stuart
|
3/6
|
£15
|
U140
gp
|
R.Perrin
|
3/6
|
£50
|
The
under 125 tournament that was run alongside the Open was a great success for ex
Ladies Champion Gillian Moore, who has come back to chess after a break.
Gillian
scored four wins and two draws from her six games, which was enough to win first
prize outright. A.Hayes was second on 4½ points, whilst there were 5 players on
4 points. Darren Radford won the under 100 grading prize with 3½ points.
|
Prize
Winners
|
1st
|
G.Moore
|
5/6
|
£90
|
2nd
=
|
A.Hayes
|
4½/5
|
£60
|
3rd
=
|
P.Marshall
|
4
/5
|
£6
|
3rd
=
|
P.Flack
|
4
/5
|
£6
|
3rd
=
|
R.Langham
|
4
/5
|
£6
|
3rd
=
|
A.Mayer
|
4
/5
|
£6
|
3rd
=
|
M.Garrod
|
4
/5
|
£6
|
U100
gp
|
D.Radford
|
3½/6
|
£40
|
Next
year’s tournament will likely be around the same time; so don’t forget to
leave some time for this in your diary.
County
Chess
The
County season has got off to a mixed start, with the B team beating Dorset, but
the A team losing to Cornwall and Gloucestershire.
Meanwhile
in the Chiltern League we beat Oxford and Berks, but lost to Bucks. The U125
team in the Chiltern League has had better success, winning all four games so
far.
West
of England Matches
Hants
A beat Dorset B 7 – 5
Hants
A lost to Cornwall 7½ - 8½
Hants
A lost to Gloucestershire
Chiltern
League – U170
Hants
beat Oxford 9½ - 6½
Hants
beat Berks 12 – 8
Hants
lost to Bucks 6½ - 9½
Chiltern
League – U125
Hants
beat Oxford 10 – 6
Hants
beat Berks 10 – 6
Hants
beat Bucks 10½ - 5½
Hants
beat Oxford 8½ - 7½
If
you are interested in playing in any of the remaining matches, please contact
the respective match captain.
West
of England Team
Chiltern
League U170 Team
Chiltern
League U125 Team
Mick
Garrod
023-9283-8506
Contributions
If
anyone would like to publish an article, either for the newsletter, or the Web
site, please supply by e-mail or post.
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