MCC Allegro 2009 - Page 13 - OzChess

**Firegoat7** · 12-27-2009, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by Heartbreak Kid

And I was the only one who saw it! Fg is never going to live that down!

1.Ne4 the new 1.Qf8

**Lekko** · 12-27-2009, 04:23 PM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

1.Ne4 the new 1.Qf8

Be6, possibly Baron's blunder of the year. Congrats on third btw

**Lekko** · 01-02-2010, 01:41 PM

Good luck to everyone today!

**Grant Szuveges** · 01-16-2010, 07:29 PM

Allegro 48 was massive - in more ways than one! Firstly we had 32 players, but secondly, 5 board 1 games were streamlined live via the dgt board, thanks to some helpful MCC members.

The fun started in the very first round when Michael Tanner scored an upset win over 2nd seed Cedric Antolis, and the upsets continued in the second round when Sylvester Urban and Richard Voon both lost. The top seeds kept falling in round 3 when Douglas Lindberg lost to Rad Chmiel. In the meantime, top seed Michael Baron just kept winning, defeating Marcus Raine, Chris Kolak and David Beaumont to get to 5/5. In the 6th round Baron continued with a win over Lindberg as black after sacrificing the exchange while Kolak-Beaumont went down to the wire on board 2 with Beaumont declaring mate with one second left - after a queen was left en prix in the time scramble! In the final round Baron was crushing Antolis but strangely lost the plot to register his only loss from the tournament. However this loss was still enough to win after Beaumont and Raine eventually drew a blocked up position from a Samisch Nimzo-Indian. Angelos Tsoukalis won the group A prize while new MCC junior Thomas Gawin won the group B prize with 3.5 points. It was great to see 8 new players playing the first MCC allegro and also great to see so many new members sign up today!

6/7 Michael BARON
5.5 Cedric ANTOLIS
5.5 David BEAUMONT
5.5 Marcus RAINE
5 Douglas LINDBERG
5 Chris KOLAK
5 Angelos TSOUKALIS
4 Sylvester URBAN
4 Richard VOON
4 Rad CHMIEL
4 Shaun HOSE
4 Deniz TUNCER
4 David STIMSON
4 Michael TANNER
3.5 Tony TOSEVSKI
3.5 Thomas GAWIN
3 Milutin KRUNIC
3 Frank LEKKAS
3 Endre SIMON
3 Tristan RAYSON - HILL
3 Rueben NOWAK
3 Sreemanth GURRAM
3 Izabella GAWIN
3 Sebastian GAWIN
3 Brook HORNUNG
2.5 Russel JARVIS
2 Bosko TOSEVSKI
2 Anthony HARRIS
2 Michael STEELE
2 Brendan McCUSKER
1 Archie BEAUMONT
1 Fitzroy BEAUMONT

**Lekko** · 01-16-2010, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Grant Szuveges

Allegro 48 was massive - in more ways than one! Firstly we had 32 players, but secondly, 5 board 1 games were streamlined live via the dgt board, thanks to some helpful MCC members.

The fun started in the very first round when Michael Tanner scored an upset win over 2nd seed Cedric Antolis, and the upsets continued in the second round when Sylvester Urban and Richard Voon both lost. The top seeds kept falling in round 3 when Douglas Lindberg lost to Rad Chmiel. In the meantime, top seed Michael Baron just kept winning, defeating Marcus Raine, Chris Kolak and David Beaumont to get to 5/5. In the 6th round Baron continued with a win over Lindberg as black after sacrificing the exchange while Kolak-Beaumont went down to the wire on board 2 with Beaumont declaring mate with one second left - after a queen was left en prix in the time scramble! In the final round Baron was crushing Antolis but strangely lost the plot to register his only loss from the tournament. However this loss was still enough to win after Beaumont and Raine eventually drew a blocked up position from a Samisch Nimzo-Indian. Angelos Tsoukalis won the group A prize while new MCC junior Thomas Gawin won the group B prize with 3.5 points. It was great to see 8 new players playing the first MCC allegro and also great to see so many new members sign up today!

6/7 Michael BARON
5.5 Cedric ANTOLIS
5.5 David BEAUMONT
5.5 Marcus RAINE
5 Douglas LINDBERG
5 Chris KOLAK
5 Angelos TSOUKALIS
4 Sylvester URBAN
4 Richard VOON
4 Rad CHMIEL
4 Shaun HOSE
4 Deniz TUNCER
4 David STIMSON
4 Michael TANNER
3.5 Tony TOSEVSKI
3.5 Thomas GAWIN
3 Milutin KRUNIC
3 Frank LEKKAS
3 Endre SIMON
3 Tristan RAYSON - HILL
3 Rueben NOWAK
3 Sreemanth GURRAM
3 Izabella GAWIN
3 Sebastian GAWIN
3 Brook HORNUNG
2.5 Russel JARVIS
2 Bosko TOSEVSKI
2 Anthony HARRIS
2 Michael STEELE
2 Brendan McCUSKER
1 Archie BEAUMONT
1 Fitzroy BEAUMONT

Grant, you only need to post on one thread

**Grant Szuveges** · 01-23-2010, 11:14 PM

Michael Baron completely dominated Allegro 49 from start to finish. From what I saw of it all, nobody else ever stood a chance against him this week. Michael steamrolled the field and had won the tournament by the end of round 6. He then went on to play in the blitz and draw with Polish GM Soko who is here visiting for a few weeks - hopefully he can play in next weeks allegro to give Baron a challenge... Chris Kolak jumped into second defeating Douglas Lindberg and Tony Tosevski joined him by defeating Bosko Mijatovic. Elizabeth Warren won the B group with her first 4/7 in an allegro. Rueben Nowak also impressed scoring a creditable 3.5 points.

7/7 Michael BARON
5 Chris KOLAK
5 Tony TOSEVSKI
4.5 Douglas LINDBERG
4.5 Ian STONE
4 Bosko MIJATOVIC
4 Milutin KRUNIC
4 Deniz TUNCER
4 Elizabeth WARREN
3.5 Frank LEKKAS
3.5 Rueben NOWAK
3 Rad CHMIEL
3 David STIMSON
3 Adolph LEKKAS
3 Bosko TOSEVSKI
3 James MACAULAY
3 Alister MACAULAY
2 Jack HUGHES
1 Sreemanth GURRAM

**Grant Szuveges** · 01-29-2010, 01:25 AM

Here are 2 reasons to play in MCC Saturday Allegro number 50:

1. Its the 50th MCC allegro since it was relaunched! We have had allegros 50 weeks in a row!!!! Make the 50th your next (or first) allegro! Lets see if we can get 50 for 50!

2. The MCC has a new couch - in burgundy leather. So come down on Saturday, try out the couch and then stay for the allegro - what more could anyone want?

I would love to see 50 players for Allegro 50 - we could even get a photo of them all on or around the brand new couch!

**Grant Szuveges** · 01-30-2010, 11:25 PM

The MCC broke the record for allegro participant numbers for Allegro number 50, with 35 players. Michael Baron was in fine form winning the event easily with wins in all 7 of his games. Brian Fitzpatrick came second with 6 after beating Carl Gorka in the final round while a number of players shared third. Great to see Goran Ilic back at MCC after a number of years away! He scored a creditable 4 points. Also great to see so many MCC members renew their memberships today - and a few new members sign up! We have more than 50 already and its not even the end of January yet! Hopefully we break that record this year too. Of the rest, Michael Addamo started well - after losing to Baron in round 1, he won the next 4 in a row, while Jack Puccini started with a draw with Sylvester Urban and continued on the defeat Simon Karumbi who recovered brilliantly to score 4.5 points.

7/7 Michael BARON
6 Brian FITZPATRICK
5 Jesse JAGER
5 Carl GORKA
5 Chris KOLAK
5 Rad CHMIEL
4.5 David BEAUMONT
4.5 Sylvester URBAN
4.5 Simon KARUMBI
4 Ian STONE
4 Frank LEKKAS
4 Goran ILIC
4 Deniz TUNCER
4 Kam LEE
4 Michael ADDAMO
3.5 Tony TOSEVSKI
3.5 Milutin KRUNIC
3.5 Ari DALE
3.5 Shaun HOSE
3 David STIMSON
3 John WILDES
3 Jack PUCCINI
3 James MACAULAY
3 Anthony HARRIS
3 Ben FRAYLE
3 Finley DALE
3 Elizabeth WARREN
3 Jack HUGHES
2.5 Sebastian GAWIN
2 Michael SKOLNIK
2 Thomas GAWIN
2 Sohith SINGAMSETTI
1.5 Syed JAFFRY
1 Emmanual WONG
1 Sreemanth GURRAM

**Just2Good** · 06-26-2010, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by simonkaey

Wow, Im shocked, I didn't realise how close the tourney was!

If it were any closer, they'd have to exchange vows!

**Grant Szuveges** · 07-08-2010, 04:54 PM

Allegro 71 was a bumper allegro, with 31 players! Here are the top scores:

7 Greg HJORTH (IM)
5.5 Michael BARON (FM)
5 Chris KOLAK
5 Frank LEKKAS
5 Michael ADDAMO
4.5 Borris KROL
4.5 Ari DALE

For the full results, check out Welcome to the Melbourne Chess Club

**Axiom** · 07-08-2010, 06:36 PM

is there a 2010 thread ?

12-27-2009, 04:20 PM	#181 (permalink)
Firegoat7 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Getting owned by White in the Dragon and trying to recover lost positions from shock paralysis OTB Posts: 2,044 ICC Handle: guest	Originally Posted by Heartbreak Kid And I was the only one who saw it! Fg is never going to live that down! 1.Ne4 the new 1.Qf8 __________________ "...What I meant? Dear Mr Ian Rout (ACF news publisher) could you please put Ozchessforum in the next news letter! There is no reason to hide this forum from the Australian chess public. What they meant? Sorry, No english!- Amir Karibasic

12-27-2009, 04:23 PM	#182 (permalink)
Lekko HBK Join Date: May 2009 Location: Melbourne Posts: 1,359 ICC Handle: Heartbreak-Kid FICS Handle: HeartBreakingKid	Originally Posted by Firegoat7 1.Ne4 the new 1.Qf8 Be6, possibly Baron's blunder of the year. Congrats on third btw __________________ Originally Posted by Iconoclast Girls attract boys. more girls playing chess = many more boys playing chess

01-02-2010, 01:41 PM	#183 (permalink)
Lekko HBK Join Date: May 2009 Location: Melbourne Posts: 1,359 ICC Handle: Heartbreak-Kid FICS Handle: HeartBreakingKid	Good luck to everyone today! __________________ Originally Posted by Iconoclast Girls attract boys. more girls playing chess = many more boys playing chess

01-16-2010, 07:29 PM	#184 (permalink)
Grant Szuveges Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,003	Baron wins Allegro 48 despite final round loss! Allegro 48 was massive - in more ways than one! Firstly we had 32 players, but secondly, 5 board 1 games were streamlined live via the dgt board, thanks to some helpful MCC members. The fun started in the very first round when Michael Tanner scored an upset win over 2nd seed Cedric Antolis, and the upsets continued in the second round when Sylvester Urban and Richard Voon both lost. The top seeds kept falling in round 3 when Douglas Lindberg lost to Rad Chmiel. In the meantime, top seed Michael Baron just kept winning, defeating Marcus Raine, Chris Kolak and David Beaumont to get to 5/5. In the 6th round Baron continued with a win over Lindberg as black after sacrificing the exchange while Kolak-Beaumont went down to the wire on board 2 with Beaumont declaring mate with one second left - after a queen was left en prix in the time scramble! In the final round Baron was crushing Antolis but strangely lost the plot to register his only loss from the tournament. However this loss was still enough to win after Beaumont and Raine eventually drew a blocked up position from a Samisch Nimzo-Indian. Angelos Tsoukalis won the group A prize while new MCC junior Thomas Gawin won the group B prize with 3.5 points. It was great to see 8 new players playing the first MCC allegro and also great to see so many new members sign up today! 6/7 Michael BARON 5.5 Cedric ANTOLIS 5.5 David BEAUMONT 5.5 Marcus RAINE 5 Douglas LINDBERG 5 Chris KOLAK 5 Angelos TSOUKALIS 4 Sylvester URBAN 4 Richard VOON 4 Rad CHMIEL 4 Shaun HOSE 4 Deniz TUNCER 4 David STIMSON 4 Michael TANNER 3.5 Tony TOSEVSKI 3.5 Thomas GAWIN 3 Milutin KRUNIC 3 Frank LEKKAS 3 Endre SIMON 3 Tristan RAYSON - HILL 3 Rueben NOWAK 3 Sreemanth GURRAM 3 Izabella GAWIN 3 Sebastian GAWIN 3 Brook HORNUNG 2.5 Russel JARVIS 2 Bosko TOSEVSKI 2 Anthony HARRIS 2 Michael STEELE 2 Brendan McCUSKER 1 Archie BEAUMONT 1 Fitzroy BEAUMONT __________________ People who have nothing to hide post using their real names...

01-16-2010, 10:09 PM	#185 (permalink)
Lekko HBK Join Date: May 2009 Location: Melbourne Posts: 1,359 ICC Handle: Heartbreak-Kid FICS Handle: HeartBreakingKid	Originally Posted by Grant Szuveges Allegro 48 was massive - in more ways than one! Firstly we had 32 players, but secondly, 5 board 1 games were streamlined live via the dgt board, thanks to some helpful MCC members. The fun started in the very first round when Michael Tanner scored an upset win over 2nd seed Cedric Antolis, and the upsets continued in the second round when Sylvester Urban and Richard Voon both lost. The top seeds kept falling in round 3 when Douglas Lindberg lost to Rad Chmiel. In the meantime, top seed Michael Baron just kept winning, defeating Marcus Raine, Chris Kolak and David Beaumont to get to 5/5. In the 6th round Baron continued with a win over Lindberg as black after sacrificing the exchange while Kolak-Beaumont went down to the wire on board 2 with Beaumont declaring mate with one second left - after a queen was left en prix in the time scramble! In the final round Baron was crushing Antolis but strangely lost the plot to register his only loss from the tournament. However this loss was still enough to win after Beaumont and Raine eventually drew a blocked up position from a Samisch Nimzo-Indian. Angelos Tsoukalis won the group A prize while new MCC junior Thomas Gawin won the group B prize with 3.5 points. It was great to see 8 new players playing the first MCC allegro and also great to see so many new members sign up today! 6/7 Michael BARON 5.5 Cedric ANTOLIS 5.5 David BEAUMONT 5.5 Marcus RAINE 5 Douglas LINDBERG 5 Chris KOLAK 5 Angelos TSOUKALIS 4 Sylvester URBAN 4 Richard VOON 4 Rad CHMIEL 4 Shaun HOSE 4 Deniz TUNCER 4 David STIMSON 4 Michael TANNER 3.5 Tony TOSEVSKI 3.5 Thomas GAWIN 3 Milutin KRUNIC 3 Frank LEKKAS 3 Endre SIMON 3 Tristan RAYSON - HILL 3 Rueben NOWAK 3 Sreemanth GURRAM 3 Izabella GAWIN 3 Sebastian GAWIN 3 Brook HORNUNG 2.5 Russel JARVIS 2 Bosko TOSEVSKI 2 Anthony HARRIS 2 Michael STEELE 2 Brendan McCUSKER 1 Archie BEAUMONT 1 Fitzroy BEAUMONT Grant, you only need to post on one thread __________________ Originally Posted by Iconoclast Girls attract boys. more girls playing chess = many more boys playing chess

01-23-2010, 11:14 PM	#186 (permalink)
Grant Szuveges Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,003	Baron Michael Baron completely dominated Allegro 49 from start to finish. From what I saw of it all, nobody else ever stood a chance against him this week. Michael steamrolled the field and had won the tournament by the end of round 6. He then went on to play in the blitz and draw with Polish GM Soko who is here visiting for a few weeks - hopefully he can play in next weeks allegro to give Baron a challenge... Chris Kolak jumped into second defeating Douglas Lindberg and Tony Tosevski joined him by defeating Bosko Mijatovic. Elizabeth Warren won the B group with her first 4/7 in an allegro. Rueben Nowak also impressed scoring a creditable 3.5 points. 7/7 Michael BARON 5 Chris KOLAK 5 Tony TOSEVSKI 4.5 Douglas LINDBERG 4.5 Ian STONE 4 Bosko MIJATOVIC 4 Milutin KRUNIC 4 Deniz TUNCER 4 Elizabeth WARREN 3.5 Frank LEKKAS 3.5 Rueben NOWAK 3 Rad CHMIEL 3 David STIMSON 3 Adolph LEKKAS 3 Bosko TOSEVSKI 3 James MACAULAY 3 Alister MACAULAY 2 Jack HUGHES 1 Sreemanth GURRAM __________________ People who have nothing to hide post using their real names...

01-29-2010, 01:25 AM	#187 (permalink)
Grant Szuveges Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,003	2 reasons to play in Allegro 50! Here are 2 reasons to play in MCC Saturday Allegro number 50: 1. Its the 50th MCC allegro since it was relaunched! We have had allegros 50 weeks in a row!!!! Make the 50th your next (or first) allegro! Lets see if we can get 50 for 50! 2. The MCC has a new couch - in burgundy leather. So come down on Saturday, try out the couch and then stay for the allegro - what more could anyone want? I would love to see 50 players for Allegro 50 - we could even get a photo of them all on or around the brand new couch! __________________ People who have nothing to hide post using their real names...

01-30-2010, 11:25 PM	#188 (permalink)
Grant Szuveges Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,003	Allegro 50 breaks record and Baron wins all 7! The MCC broke the record for allegro participant numbers for Allegro number 50, with 35 players. Michael Baron was in fine form winning the event easily with wins in all 7 of his games. Brian Fitzpatrick came second with 6 after beating Carl Gorka in the final round while a number of players shared third. Great to see Goran Ilic back at MCC after a number of years away! He scored a creditable 4 points. Also great to see so many MCC members renew their memberships today - and a few new members sign up! We have more than 50 already and its not even the end of January yet! Hopefully we break that record this year too. Of the rest, Michael Addamo started well - after losing to Baron in round 1, he won the next 4 in a row, while Jack Puccini started with a draw with Sylvester Urban and continued on the defeat Simon Karumbi who recovered brilliantly to score 4.5 points. 7/7 Michael BARON 6 Brian FITZPATRICK 5 Jesse JAGER 5 Carl GORKA 5 Chris KOLAK 5 Rad CHMIEL 4.5 David BEAUMONT 4.5 Sylvester URBAN 4.5 Simon KARUMBI 4 Ian STONE 4 Frank LEKKAS 4 Goran ILIC 4 Deniz TUNCER 4 Kam LEE 4 Michael ADDAMO 3.5 Tony TOSEVSKI 3.5 Milutin KRUNIC 3.5 Ari DALE 3.5 Shaun HOSE 3 David STIMSON 3 John WILDES 3 Jack PUCCINI 3 James MACAULAY 3 Anthony HARRIS 3 Ben FRAYLE 3 Finley DALE 3 Elizabeth WARREN 3 Jack HUGHES 2.5 Sebastian GAWIN 2 Michael SKOLNIK 2 Thomas GAWIN 2 Sohith SINGAMSETTI 1.5 Syed JAFFRY 1 Emmanual WONG 1 Sreemanth GURRAM __________________ People who have nothing to hide post using their real names...

06-26-2010, 06:25 PM	#189 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,233 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Originally Posted by simonkaey Wow, Im shocked, I didn't realise how close the tourney was! If it were any closer, they'd have to exchange vows! __________________ . "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ~ Isaiah Berlin ~

07-08-2010, 04:54 PM	#190 (permalink)
Grant Szuveges Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,003	31 players in Allegro 71! Allegro 71 was a bumper allegro, with 31 players! Here are the top scores: 7 Greg HJORTH (IM) 5.5 Michael BARON (FM) 5 Chris KOLAK 5 Frank LEKKAS 5 Michael ADDAMO 4.5 Borris KROL 4.5 Ari DALE For the full results, check out Welcome to the Melbourne Chess Club __________________ People who have nothing to hide post using their real names...

07-08-2010, 06:36 PM	#191 (permalink)
Axiom Reality Analyst Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 3,498	is there a 2010 thread ? __________________ "Sometimes the obligation of the intelligent is to restate the obvious. None more important than emphatically stating that there is a : ' Naked Emperor Elephant in the Room' " Axiom

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