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                                        Dandenong Summer Swiss 2010

Congratulations to Richard Voon, despite being easily beaten by Mehmedalija Dizdarevic last night he had built up enough of a lead to still finish outright first in the event with 7 / 9.

Two othes could have matched Richard's score but were unable to do so.

Milenko Lojanica agreed an early draw with Abdulwahab Rashid which left him on 6.5-points and Greg Albarracin lost a long game against Bahri Senturk to finish on 6-points.

Mehmedalija's and Bahri's wins took them to 6.5-points and a share of second along with Milenko and Miralem Campara.

The U1600 Group was eventually won by Bahri Senturk, defeating Greg Albarracin taking him to 6.5-points while Greg dropped to second with 6-points.

Bahri had a great tournament and it was a very good result for him. Greg also did extremely well and led this group from the start, leading the whole tournament after 7-rounds. Unfortunately he faltered in the final 2-rounds allowing Bahri to pass him. Ismet Gungordu also had a very good event to finish a further 1/2-point back on 5.5-points.

The U1400 Group saw both George Tolpigin and Elvis Espejo emerge with last round victories to finish equal first on 5.5-points. Equal with them going into the round, Peter Keefe could only draw his game to finish 1/2-point behind on 5-points. All three of them played higher rated opponents in the last round and neither of them lost, they all had very good tournaments.

Finishing on 4.5-points were Stephen Bickell and john Zamora.

The U1100 Group has many leaders over the course of the event but was eventually claimed with a last round win by Geoff Lee who knocked off another contender in Ashley Mison to jump to 4-points. This took him past Alan Gray who had a tough task playing Mirko Kudric and finished with 3.5-points. It was a really good result from both players. Following on 3-points were Ashley Mison, John Seehusen and Henning Rasmussen.

Following are the results from the final round, the final standings and a crosstable.

Regards; Garry Lycett

Richard Voon followed up a good performance at Ballarat with a win over Abdulwahab Rashid to continue on his merry way to 6 / 7. But he still only shares the lead with Greg Albarracin who conjured up another upset when he downed Mehmedalija Dizdarevic. In what looked a very good position for Mehmedalija, 2-pawns up and plenty of time on the clock, he managed to blunder his Queen to a knight fork. I think it is the only time I have ever seen Mehmedalija lose a game in this way.

Following the two leaders by 1-point is Milenko Lojanica and Miralem Campara who drew a quick game against each other last night.

Next week Milenko plays Greg for the second time in the tournament, this is allowed as Milenko had to forfeit the first time around and forfeits can be re-paired. Hopefully Milenko is able to play this time.

There then follows a further 1/2-point back a group of 9 players all on 4.5-points.

Greg is leading the U1600 with a 1.5-point lead over six other players.

But if Greg should win the event then the U1600 group is in for a tight finish.

The U1400 has a new leader; Masood Alikhail, who has steadily climbed to 4-points after last night beating Peter Pispek. He is followed by 4 players; Stephen Bickell, George Tolpigin, Elvis Espejo and Peter Keefe all on 3.5-points. I didn't see the other games but Stephen should also have been on 4-points, except that he managed to lose due to a very entertaining, (for the spectators), oversight. In a totally drawn position he forgot that pawns on the 7th rank should be captured, not allowed to simply move forward and Queen on a square your pieces aren't covering.

In the U1100 Ashley Mison and Geoff Lee both won last night to emerge as the leaders with 3-points.

Following are the results for Rd7, the pairings for Rd8 and the current standings.

Regards; Garry Lycett

After round six there are now two equal leaders on 5 / 6; Richard Voon who disposed of Ismet Gungordu and Greg Albarracin who claimed his win on forfeit when Milenko Lojanica was unable to attend.

Milenko is still only 1/2-point behind but is joined in second place by Abdulwahab Rashid and Miralem Campara who drew their game, and also by Mehmedalija Dizdarevic who won an interesting game against Matthew Potter.

Still within 1-point of the leaders are Chris Potter, Bahri Senturk and Ismet Gungordu. The three of them are also equal leaders in the U1600 section, with a group of six players only 1/2-point behind.

Back in outright lead in the U1400 section is Stephen Bickell who upset George Tolpigin to go to3.5-points. He leads Masood Alikhail by 1/2-point with a further seven players 1-point adrift.

The U1100 section now has five equal leaders all on 2-points; John Seehusen, Ashley Mison, Geoff Lee, Alan Gray and Natalie Ang.

Following are the results for Rd6, the pairings for Rd7 and the current standings.

Regards; Garry Lycett

Milenko Lojanica went to 4.5 / 5 and took a 1/2-point lead following Rd5 with a win over Richard Voon.  This loss put Richard back to a share of second in a group of 5 players on 4-points.

Leading the U1600 are Greg Albarracin and Ismet Gungordu, both having very good tournaments with 4-points.

In the U1400 there are now 5 players with a share of the lead on 2.5-points.

Peter Pispek and Elvis Espejo got there with wins in Rd5 while George Tolpigin and John Zamora got there with draws. Stephen Bickell lost outright leadership in this group, but remained as one of the equal leaders despite losing a very interesting game Pezhman Ghayoori.

The U1100 group  saw Ashley Mison, Geoff Lee and Natalie Ang with wins

catch John Seehusen so all 4 of them are now equal leaders with 2-points.

Following are the results for Rd5 and the pairings for Rd6.

Regards; Garry Lycett

Round four saw Richard Voon emerge as the sole leader with 4 / 4  as both co-leaders Miralem Campara and Ismet Gungordu lost their respective games.

Miralem was white against Richard in the longest game of the night and itappeared very close throughout. But eventually Miralem made a slight error which allowed Richard to break through for a win, (despite having to sit on

the wrong side of the board).Ismet has been having a great tournament, defeating three players rated above himself, (by an average of 250-points), in the opening rounds. But his run was stopped by Mehmedalija Dizdarevic whose tactical ability proved

too much for Ismet. Mehmedalija joins Milenko Lojanica in equal 2nd place on 3.5-points after Milenko accounted for Reginald Chong.

It was a another fighting round with no draws recorded. There were two upsets with John Seehusen defeating Victor Lane and Stephen Bickell played very well to knock over George Meilicke.Stephen Bickell is now in the lead in the U1400 section with 2.5-points,ahead of three players on 2-points and another five players on 1.5-points.

John Seehusen is leading the U1100 section on 2-points, clear of seven players all on 1-point.

The U1600 section has three players tied for first on 3-points, Chris Potter, Greg Albarracin and Ismet Gungordu. They are leading Kevin Forster who is on 2.5-points and a further seven players on 2-points.

Following are the results for Rd4 and the pairings for Rd5.

Regards; Garry Lycett

                                 Results Rd4

Wins to Richard Voon, Miralem Campara and Ismet Gungordu saw them all in equal first place with 3 / 3 as the seven leaders going into the round were whittled down to just these three.

Richard and Miralem both had hard fights, with Richard's game looking a certain draw until Greg Albarracin made a fatal error that gifted Richard many pawns. Ismet is having a great tournament, although helped last night by Chris Potter who blundered in the middle of a very interesting game. Ismet is also leading the U1600 section by a full point, with no less than eight players in that group on 2 / 3.

In the U1400 section it is Elvis Espejo, Stephen Bickell and Zygmunt Krol who lead with 1.5 / 3, ahead of 9 players on 1.

Following are the Rd3 results

Regards; Garry Lycett

There are now 40 players in the event which is good turnout for the first tournament of the year.

After two rounds there are still 7 players on 2/2, with two of the top players, Milenko Lojanica and Mehmedalija Dizdarevic closely following on 1.5-points, (both took 1/2-point byes in Rd1).

There were a few upsets last night, unrated newcomer Greg Albarracin defeated Garry Lycett with a clever sacrificial kingside attack. Bahri Senturk and Ismet Gungordu both defeated higher rated players to continue

their good form. And Jirrair Sissian produced a surprise when he knocked off Peter Pispek.

There was an issue in the game Chris Potter vs Ahmet Yilmaz when Chris realised the clock had been set incorrectly, it was not adding 30sec per move as it should have been. This was obvious as after playing his move Chris had only 10sec remaining when there should have been a minimum of 31sec. The arbiter checked the clock and found it had been set to the"Bronstein" increment rather than the "Fischer" increment. As per the rules the arbiter reset the clock correctly and added times to each player based

on the number of moves made. Ahmet, who was a piece down, complained  that he had made some mistakes by playing too quickly in trying to win on time, even though he had 48minutes remaining. The arbiter pointed out that this was irrelevant. The arbiter wanted to point out that when your opponent is in time trouble then playing quickly is simply giving yourself the same

handicap, and gives you as much chance to blunder as your opponent. But the arbiter is there to apply the rules, not give advice. Anyway, Ahmet refused to accept this and after arguing simply resigned.

The arbiter was applying rule 6.10 b which states; "If during a game it is found that the setting of either or both clocks

was incorrect, either player or the arbiter shall stop the clocks immediately. The arbiter shall install the correct setting and adjust the times and move counter. He shall use his best judgement when determining the correct settings."

The difference between the Bronstein and Fischer time increments is that the Fischer increment always adds the entire amount after a players moves. eg; 30secs will be added no matter how long it took to play the move. The Bronstein increment will add the entire amount if the player look longer than the increment time, if a player takes less than the increment time it will only add the amount of time the player took. eg; 30secs will be added if a player took longer than 30secs to make a

move, if the player took only 15secs to move it will add only 15secs.

The major difference is that with the Fischer increment a player can increase his available time, with the Bronstein increment a player will never have more time than when he started his move. In Chris' case with 10secs remaining he could have played every move in under 10secs but the clock would always go back to the 10secs remaining, not increase.

Following are the results of Rd 2

Regards; Garry Lycett

33 players have so far entered the first tournament at Dandenong for the year.In the first round 3 players took a 1/2-point bye, still on holidays.If any other players still want to join the event let me know by 5.00pm

Monday and I will redo the Rd2 pairings.The Summer Swiss has a trophy for 1st place, and also trophies for the

U1600 & U1400 rating groups. Of the 15 games played only 2 had results that defied the ratings.

On top board Ismet Gungordu caused a big upset when he defeated Abdulwahab Rashid.

And it was the first game to finish ! Peter Keefe also played very well to hold Matthew Potter to a draw.

The remaining games went according to rating but quite a few were tough fights. Greg Albarracin is a newcomer to the club, although he has obviously played before and seems quite good. But he had his hands full with Alan Gray, who with better clock management would have a much higher rating. Greg eventually prevailed when Alan's time trouble became too much.

Geoff Lee made Pezhman Ghayoori work hard in their game. It came down to Geoff's bishop against Pezhman's two passed pawns. The pawns won but only due to Geoff allowing his king to get stranded away from the action.

Masood Alikhail eventually lost a very close game against Manny Chua after a long struggle that was looking like a draw for much of it. The longest game of the night came with Richard Voon trying to win a rook &pawn vs rook ending against Victor Lane. He finally succeeded but Victor had played well to hold him out for so long, and no doubt missed a draw by not knowing standard endgame theory.

Following are the Rd1 results .

Regards; Garry Lycett