{"id":770,"date":"2013-07-24T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T01:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2013-07-24T11:42:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T01:42:42","slug":"happy-50th-birthday-steven-solomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/2013\/07\/happy-50th-birthday-steven-solomon\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 50th birthday Steven Solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">Last weekend Anthony, Steven&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-PZUaV2paeAI\/Ue8YwR6qltI\/AAAAAAAADM8\/f0zjhKDIsHg\/s1600\/photo+(1).JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-PZUaV2paeAI\/Ue8YwR6qltI\/AAAAAAAADM8\/f0zjhKDIsHg\/s400\/photo+(1).JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Prizegiving<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Steven duly won the tournament with a picket fence score. His fifth round win against Moulthun Ly is very impressive. It is a true attacking masterpiece that deserves a place in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.remoteriverman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Casey&#8217;s<\/a> next edition of \u00a0&#8220;Australian Chess Brilliancies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chessvideos.tv\/replayer-insert.php?id=82681\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"580\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My tournament was less convincing. I did receive my first birthday present for the weekend in the first round from Anthony Solomon. Organising can be distracting and Anthony gave me a piece very early.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chessvideos.tv\/replayer-insert.php?id=82682\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"580\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was extraordinarily lucky in the next round where I dropped two pawns cold against Tony Weller. I will show you this amazing swindle as soon as I find my scoresheet.<\/p>\n<p>Third round I got Brodie McClymont. A \u00a0nice game right up to when I misplayed a winning ending. That scoresheet is missing too. Later on that evening we had some drinks and snacks followed by a wonderful chess cake and stories of past glories.<\/p>\n<p>I chose to take a bye in the fourth round. My present to myself, not playing chess at 9am. I had a sneaky plan as well. Play an easy opponent in round 5 and Steven for the tournament in round 6.<\/p>\n<p>The first part already nearly derailed my evil scheme. I was paired against Leteisha Simmonds who had been playing well. When I tried to semi-bluff her with 15&#8230;b5 she thought for a while and then took both pawns! Lost again&#8230;ooops. Luckily for me she got over eager to take all my pieces with 19.b4 allowing tactics. 19. Bf2 instead and it looks to me like I am just a pawn down with misplaced pieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chessvideos.tv\/replayer-insert.php?id=82683\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"580\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The draw for the last round was greeted with great anticipation. Solo was on 5\/5 while several mortals, including myself, were on 4. The clash of the birthday boys was the dream pairing for all concerned. It was not to be. The computer paired Steven against Lauchlan Pederson who had just beaten Gene Nakauchi {!!}, Moulthun got Ross Lam while I faced Melbourne IM James Morris. My scheme was undone.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, I did manage to beat an IM, something I had not done for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chessvideos.tv\/replayer-insert.php?id=82685\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"400\" height=\"580\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe other IM&#8217;s also won so the final results were<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #efefef; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;\">No Name Feder Rtg Loc Total 1 2 3 4 5 6<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1 SOLOMON, Stephen QLD 2428 6 33:W 27:W 14:W 4:W 2:W 8:W<br \/>\n2 LY, Moulthun QLD 2471 5 34:W 20:W 6:W 5:W 1:L 7:W<br \/>\n3 WOHL, Alex QLD 2466 5 25:W 11:W 4:D 0:D 10:W 5:W<br \/>\n4 MCCLYMONT, Brodie QLD 2399 4.5 22:W 16:W 3:D 1:L 17:W 14:W<br \/>\n5 MORRIS, James VIC 2409 4 8:W 10:W 17:W 2:L 13:W 3:L<br \/>\n6 NAKAUCHI, Gene QLD 2276 4 21:W 13:W 2:L 15:W 8:L 26:W<br \/>\n7 LAM, Ross QLD 1599 4 0:D 0:D 12:W 24:W 11:W 2:L<br \/>\n8 PEDERSEN, Lachlan QLD 1390 4 5:L 43:W 28:W 20:W 6:W 1:L<br \/>\n9 CASEY, Kevin QLD 2065 4 40:W 19:L 22:W 16:D 23:D 15:W<br \/>\n10 SIMMONDS, Leteisha QLD 1686 4 38:W 5:L 35:W 25:W 3:L 19:W<br \/>\n11 WELLER, Tony QLD 1712 4 42:W 3:L 40:W 19:W 7:L 21:W<br \/>\n12 LEE, Leon QLD 1262 4 14:L 39:W 7:L 31:W 27:W 20:W<br \/>\n13 HUGHES, Harry QLD 1600 4 43:W 6:L 42:W 37:W 5:L 23:W<br \/>\n14 LESTER, George QLD 2037 3.5 12:W 26:W 1:L 17:D 18:W 4:L<br \/>\n15 SELNES, Hamish QLD 1852 3.5 35:D 29:W 19:W 6:L 16:W 9:L<br \/>\n16 TSAI, Charles QLD 1485 3.5 32:W 4:L 30:W 9:D 15:L 24:W<br \/>\n17 CAVEEZZA, Paul VIC 1482 3.5 39:W 18:W 5:L 14:D 4:L 30:W<br \/>\n18 LOVEJOY, David QLD 1843 3.5 0:W 17:L 0:D 36:W 14:L 34:W<br \/>\n19 CERVANJAK, Mark QLD 1447 3 41:W 9:W 15:L 11:L 36:W 10:L<br \/>\n20 ESMALI, Ali QLD 1686 3 36:W 2:L 21:W 8:L 40:W 12:L<br \/>\n21 LIANG, Raymond QLD 1314 3 6:L 44:W 20:L 0:W 28:W 11:L<br \/>\n22 MCGREGOR, Craig QLD 1351 3 4:L 32:W 9:L 0:D 0:D 36:W<br \/>\n23 CIGELJ, David QLD 1231 3 0:D 46:W 37:D 0:D 9:D 13:L<br \/>\n24 MCKEE, Callum QLD 1000 3 27:L 33:W 46:W 7:L 25:W 16:L<br \/>\n25 SOLOMON, Anthony QLD 1423 3 3:L 38:W 31:W 10:L 24:L 37:W<br \/>\n26 HAMILTON, Don QLD 1537 3 44:W 14:L 45:W 0:D 0:D 6:L<br \/>\n27 STOKES, Mark QLD 1597 3 24:W 1:L 36:L 42:W 12:L 39:W<br \/>\n28 D&#8217;ARCY, Michael QLD 1782 3 0:D 0:D 8:L 35:W 21:L 38:W<br \/>\n29 MAGUIRE, Tom QLD 1667 3 37:L 15:L 0:D 44:W 38:D 35:W<br \/>\n30 WANG, Jason QLD 1154 2.5 0:D 31:D 16:L 34:D 37:W 17:L<br \/>\n31 YANG, Thomas QLD 711 2.5 0:D 30:D 25:L 12:L 42:D 44:W<br \/>\n32 SLATER-JONES, Henry QLD 916 2.5 16:L 22:L 33:L 0:D 46:W 42:W<br \/>\n33 POMERENKE, Zachary QLD 1408 2.5 1:L 24:L 32:W 38:D 35:L 43:W<br \/>\n34 ZHONG, Tony QLD 1446 2.5 2:L 36:L 44:W 30:D 43:W 18:L<br \/>\n35 MILLS, Gareth QLD 1246 2 15:D 37:D 10:L 28:L 33:W 29:L<br \/>\n36 MILLS, Ross QLD 1220 2 20:L 34:W 27:W 18:L 19:L 22:L<br \/>\n37 RANDALL, David QLD 1059 2 29:W 35:D 23:D 13:L 30:L 25:L<br \/>\n38 BARGO, Peter-John QLD 1098 2 10:L 25:L 39:W 33:D 29:D 28:L<br \/>\n39 MANUNEEDHI, Kabilan QLD 877 2 17:L 12:L 38:L 46:W 41:W 27:L<br \/>\n40 BUCIU, Avram QLD 1274 2 9:L 41:W 11:L 45:W 20:L 0:<br \/>\n41 SOLOMON, Michael QLD 700 2 19:L 40:L 43:L 0:W 39:L 46:W<br \/>\n42 KUYPERS, Ron QLD 1225 1.5 11:L 47:W 13:L 27:L 31:D 32:L<br \/>\n43 OSTAPENKO, Michael QLD 1045 1.5 13:L 8:L 41:W 0:D 34:L 33:L<br \/>\n44 SOLOMON, Rachael QLD 946 1 26:L 21:L 34:L 29:L 0:W 31:L<br \/>\n45 SOLOMON, John QLD 1000 1 0:D 0:D 26:L 40:L 0: 0:<br \/>\n46 ROGERS, Jim QLD 886 .5 0:D 23:L 24:L 39:L 32:L 41:L<br \/>\n47 SOLOMON, Janeen QLD 1400 .5 0: 42:L 0:D 0: 0: 0:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #efefef; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: #efefef; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre;\">A great tournament, the first ever to feature all 6 Solomons, the best venue I have seen for a while and a great Saturday night party. Jim Richie did a very\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre;\">professional job as DOP and Anthony has shown himself to be a great organiser.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre;\">Congrats again Steven for also making 50 not out and for playing such a nice<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre;\">game.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"><span style=\"white-space: pre;\">Now, I&#8217;m off to look for those two missing scoresheets&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend Anthony, Steven&#8217;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 against Moulthun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleroo.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}