Another great weekend at one of our annual congresses
We had 8 players across across the 5 sections.
In the Open section we had the regular congress Crew Carmel, Harry and Simon.
Dave L in the Major
Jamie in the Inter
Dave P in the Minor section and Dave R, Jack and Mal all in the Standard section
Our top player for the weekend Jamie Roberts his starting rank was 17 and ended joint first on 4.5/5 Well done Jamie
Just to add a few more stats to this weekend’s adventure in Blackpool for our regular Congress Gang.
Dave P of course managed to miscount our number of players – despite naming all 9 of them (he says there was 8 LOL).
There were 375 entrants to the congress and only one out of the 375 managed to score 5 out of 5 – and unsurprisingly this was in the lowest section (The Standard).
As Dave P says we had players in all five sections, with the standout being Jamie Roberts who illuminated Blackpool’s prestigious congress by winning the Intermediate Section (U1850) with a superb score of 4.5/5, defeating the only Intermdiate player to have 100% going into Round 5. Jamie’s performance rating for the weekend shows as 2110 on the Chess Results server, worthy of any player in the Open Section.
Our three players in the Open all scored well in a firecely competitive section, and finished 2 or 3 places above their starting ranks in all cases ! Carmel scored 2.5 rating 2119, Harry 2pts/2111 and simon 1.5pts/1869.
In the Standard section I would like to make a special mention of young Jack Patullo who scored 2 pts ranked at number 72, but finishing 13 places higher in his first senior congress – well done Jack – in playing such a massive congress. The last mention goes to Dave Roberts, who enjoyed the benefit of playing Mr D Fault in round 5 and was able to watch son Jamie battle his way to collect 1st prize.
Full congress results and some pgn games from the Open section
The Motley Crewe just before our last game