It has been a few years since I have been to Aotearoa, aka New Zealand, and I have missed it. The country is the most beautiful one on planet earth, or at least the most beautiful I have seen. The chess scene is vibrant and friendly despite it’s distance from the rest of the world.One of the reasons for its success is the Auckland ches [...]
George Trundle Masters
It has been a few years since I have been to Aotearoa, aka New Zealand, and I have missed it. The country is the most beautiful one on planet earth, or at least the most beautiful I have seen. The chess scene is vibrant and friendly despite it’s distance from the rest of the world.One of the reasons for its success is the Auckland ches [...]
Happy 50th birthday Steven Solomon
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Last weekend Anthony, Steven’s son, organised an open tournament in honour of his dads birthday. Since mine fell on the weekend, I was included as well. Thanks Anthony. And thanks for wearing your Doubleroo t-shirt at the prizegiving.
Prizegiving
Steven duly won the tournament with a picket fence score. His fifth round win a [...]
Brodie McClymont wins Peninsula open.
Brodie won with a picket fence 7/7. He was in trouble in round 5 against Yi Liu but apart from that his tournament looked like plain sailing. I was second on 6/7 and Tony Weller finished in clear third! A sensational result for Tony in a strong field.The other prizes were mainly taken by the juniors. I’ll publish those results when I f [...]
Peninsula Open, rounds 4+5
First up in the morning I had to play Brodie with black. 18…f5 was based on a miscalculation which obliged me to sack a pawn. I got some counterplay only to miscalculate the ending. Shows I need a warm up before Malaysia.
So feeling quite dejected after the morning debacle, I played this game quite aimlessly until my opponent made an [...]
Peninsula Open 2013
After some radio silence expect a flurry of posts. I am escaping the winter for some chess in Malaysia and France. But before leaving why not warm up a bit? The Peninsula Open offered the perfect opportunity.Since I was a teenager I regularly wrote “Solomon” on my scoresheet. Today, for the first time, the initial was different. [...]
IM Moulthun Ly wins Wilde Weekender
IM Moulthun Ly
Winners are grinners! Moulthun played the best chess this weekend and was a deserved winner. To me he never looked to be in any trouble. I tied for second with Yi Lui and Bruce Williams.
Now a list of the final standings.
Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Ly, Moulthun [...]
May First Sunday Final Standings
Doubleroo May First Sunday
Doubleroo May First Sunday – Round 7
Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Slater-Jones, Henry 1086 7 23.0 31.5 28.0
2-4 Wadell, Craig 831 5 21.5 31.5 21.0
Watkins, Sophie 686 5 [...]
Henry Slater-Jones wins May FSJR at L...
Preliminary Pictorial Report
La Dolce Vita cafe on Park rd Milton hosted our First Sunday Junior Rapid for the second time this Sunday. They were great hosts, helping us in every way possible and generously donating two lunches for two to the winners of the open and open girls divisions.
Henry Slater-Jones reigned supreme in the open divisio [...]
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