GM Alexander Cherniaev (left) battling it out against FM Peter Sowray (on the right)
BEST GAME PRIZE WINNER - Ewan wins a book!
Event "Golders Green Rapidplay 2nd July - OPEN"
White "Han, Yichen"
Black "Fewell, Ewan"
Result "0-1"
WhiteElo "2210"
EventDate "2022.07.02"
EventType "rapid"
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 b5 5. Nc3 b4 6. Nb1 exd5 7. cxd5 d6 8. g3 g6
9. Bg2 Bg7 10. O-O O-O 11. Nbd2 Nbd7 12. e4 Re8 13. Re1 a5 14. Qc2 Nb6 15. Rb1
Ba6 16. b3 Rc8 17. Nc4 Nxc4 18. bxc4 a4 19. Bb2 Ng4 20. h3 Ne5 21. Nxe5 Rxe5
22. f4 Re8 23. Bxg7 Kxg7 24. e5 dxe5 25. fxe5 Qg5 26. e6 Qxg3 27. e7 Rc7 28.
Qb2+ Kg8 29. Qf6 Bxc4 30. Rbd1 Bxd5 31. Rxd5 Qxe1+ 32. Kh2 Qxe7 33. Qa6 Ra7 34.
Qc4 b3 35. Qc3 bxa2 36. Qa1 Qe2 37. Rxc5 a3 38. Rc1 Qb2 39. Rd1 Re2 40. Rg1
Rxg2+ 41. Rxg2 Qxa1 0-1
Our next event at this venue is on Saturday 6th August. My apologies for not having any food on sale today - entirely my fault, and it will be back to normal next month!
Thanks to Rob Hammond, Jo Wildman and Lance Leslie-Smith for running the tournament today. You can find all the results here - https://chess-results.com/tnr652943.aspx?lan=1 - but the prizes were awarded as follows (if you win something email your bank account and sort code to adamraoof@gmail.com);
OPEN PRIZES:
1st (£100) - GM Alexander Cherniaev 5.5/6
2nd (£25 each) - FM Yichen Han & Evangelos Kostopoulos 5/6
Rating Category Prize (U1900 - £50) - Stanley Badacsonyi 4.5/6
MAJOR U1800
1st - £100 - Alexander Funk
2nd - £50 - Rock Yu
Rating Category Prize - £50 - Alexander Nikolov
MINOR U1450
1st - £60 - Sujan Nargund
2nd - £15 each - Jason Birbas and Delroy Bennett
Rating Category Prize U1180 £15 each - Pierre Nedellec and Alexander Horwood
