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07-04-2010, 12:21 PM
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Latest list of entries
Here is the latest list of entries. Still not sure whether we will have 2 groups or 3.... 3 is looking likely at this stage though....
Definite (19): Brad ASHLOCK Paul CAVEZZA Ben FRAYLE Goran ILIC Victor KILDISAS Chris KOLAK Tanya KOLAK Frank LEKKAS James MACAULAY Jack PUCCINI Tristan RAYSON - HILL Jack SHANKS Michael SKOLNIK David STIMSON Grant SZUVEGES (FM) Tony TOSEVSKI Richard VOON Alec YU Allen YU Maybe (15): Michael BARON (FM) David BEAUMONT Jack HUGHES Jesse JAGER Bill JORDAN (FM) Simon KARUMBI Jake KOSTRZEWA Adolph LEKKAS Aires MASCARENHAS Elliot RENZIES Mirko RUJEVIC (IM) Brian SHANKS Erik TEICHMANN (FM) Sylvester URBAN Elizabeth WARREN
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07-06-2010, 04:34 AM
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3 round robins very likely
Here is the latest list of entries. It is looking increasingly likely that we will have 3 seperate tournaments. I think that at least a few of the "maybes" are going to play, as well as all 3 "almost certains".... It is still not too late to enter....
Definite (21): Brad ASHLOCK John BECKMAN Paul CAVEZZA Ben FRAYLE Goran ILIC Victor KILDISAS Chris KOLAK Tanya KOLAK Frank LEKKAS James MACAULAY Jack PUCCINI Tristan RAYSON - HILL Jack SHANKS Michael SKOLNIK David STIMSON Grant SZUVEGES (FM) Tony TOSEVSKI Sylvester URBAN Richard VOON Alec YU Allen YU Almost certain 90% or more (3): Jake KOSTRZEWA Aires MASCARENHAS Elliot RENZIES Maybe (9): Michael BARON (FM) David BEAUMONT Jesse JAGER Bill JORDAN (FM) Simon KARUMBI Adolph LEKKAS Mirko RUJEVIC (IM) Brian SHANKS Erik TEICHMANN (FM)
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07-06-2010, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Grant Szuveges
The player highlighted is going to run away with this one. 
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07-06-2010, 03:21 PM
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JAK is in!
Definite (22):
Brad ASHLOCK John BECKMAN Paul CAVEZZA Ben FRAYLE Goran ILIC Victor KILDISAS Chris KOLAK Tanya KOLAK Frank LEKKAS James MACAULAY Jack PUCCINI Tristan RAYSON - HILL Elliot RENZIES Jack SHANKS Michael SKOLNIK David STIMSON Grant SZUVEGES (FM) Tony TOSEVSKI Sylvester URBAN Richard VOON Alec YU Allen YU Almost certain 90% or more (2): Jake KOSTRZEWA Aires MASCARENHAS Maybe (10): Michael BARON (FM) David BEAUMONT Jesse JAGER Bill JORDAN (FM) Simon KARUMBI Bob KRSTIC Adolph LEKKAS Mirko RUJEVIC (IM) Brian SHANKS Erik TEICHMANN (FM)
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07-09-2010, 03:12 AM
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Teichmann is out!
Big news, with Victorias in form player Erik Teichmann out of the blitz marathon. David Stimson has also had to pull out due to a last minute funeral or memorial service in the afternoon. The good thing though, is that we will have Davids services as arbiter for the morning rounds. I saw Tino Fulgenzi at Preston Market today and told him about the event - so hopefully he will play too... Still not sure whether we will have 2 groups or 3. It will depend on the maybes. In any case, I will be putting together a number of possible group scenarios in the next 2 days so that by Sunday morning everything will be easy to sort out.
Definite (21): Brad ASHLOCK John BECKMAN Paul CAVEZZA Ben FRAYLE Goran ILIC Victor KILDISAS Chris KOLAK Tanya KOLAK Frank LEKKAS James MACAULAY Jack PUCCINI Tristan RAYSON - HILL Elliot RENZIES Jack SHANKS Michael SKOLNIK Grant SZUVEGES (FM) Tony TOSEVSKI Sylvester URBAN Richard VOON Alec YU Allen YU Almost certain 90% or more (2): Jake KOSTRZEWA Aires MASCARENHAS Maybe (12): Michael BARON (FM) David BEAUMONT Ari DALE Finley DALE Tino FULGENZI Jesse JAGER Bill JORDAN (FM) Simon KARUMBI Bob KRSTIC Adolph LEKKAS Mirko RUJEVIC (IM) Brian SHANKS
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07-09-2010, 10:11 PM
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Big guns are playing! FM Jordan and Jager are in!
Definite (23):
Brad ASHLOCK John BECKMAN Paul CAVEZZA Ben FRAYLE Goran ILIC Jesse JAGER Bill JORDAN (FM) Victor KILDISAS Chris KOLAK Tanya KOLAK Frank LEKKAS James MACAULAY Jack PUCCINI Tristan RAYSON - HILL Elliot RENZIES Jack SHANKS Michael SKOLNIK Grant SZUVEGES (FM) Tony TOSEVSKI Sylvester URBAN Richard VOON Alec YU Allen YU Almost certain 90% or more (2): Jake KOSTRZEWA Aires MASCARENHAS Maybe (10): Michael BARON (FM) David BEAUMONT Ari DALE Finley DALE Tino FULGENZI Simon KARUMBI Bob KRSTIC Adolph LEKKAS Mirko RUJEVIC (IM) Brian SHANKS
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07-10-2010, 02:33 AM
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Baron is in!!!
Blitz champion FM Michael Baron is the latest player to confirm his entry today - a day full of big names entering this event! But none are bigger than Baron who tends to dominate fast one day events and will start as clear favourite! If you want to play in this event, or even spectate Baron in action, come down to MCC this Sunday!
Definite (24): Brad ASHLOCK Michael BARON (FM) John BECKMAN Paul CAVEZZA Ben FRAYLE Goran ILIC Jesse JAGER Bill JORDAN (FM) Victor KILDISAS Chris KOLAK Tanya KOLAK Frank LEKKAS James MACAULAY Jack PUCCINI Tristan RAYSON - HILL Elliot RENZIES Jack SHANKS Michael SKOLNIK Grant SZUVEGES (FM) Tony TOSEVSKI Sylvester URBAN Richard VOON Alec YU Allen YU Almost certain 90% or more (2): Jake KOSTRZEWA Aires MASCARENHAS Maybe (9): David BEAUMONT Ari DALE Finley DALE Tino FULGENZI Simon KARUMBI Bob KRSTIC Adolph LEKKAS Mirko RUJEVIC (IM) Brian SHANKS
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07-12-2010, 12:36 AM
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Baron completely dominates!
FM Michael Baron completely dominated the innagural (is that spelt correctly?) MCC Blitz Marathon scoring 57.5 out of a possible 63 points! To indicate how dominant Baron was, he scored 7 "Fischer scores" of 6-0 from his 9 matches, thus accumulating 7 bonus points! The only players to take half a point off him were Jesse Jager who scored 3-3 against him and Bill Jordan who scored 1.5 points. Everyone else got hit by a truck!
Jesse Jager came second with 45 points and was generally consistant. 3-3 against Baron turned out to be a very good result. FM Bill Jordan would be disappointed with his third place (41 points). He made a few too many blunders, particularly against the players in the middle and lower part of the field. He would take solace in his 5-1 demolition of Jager though. I managed to come 4th with 40 points. I felt really rusty at the start and had an awful 2.5-3.5 loss to Urban in the first round, but recovered well to score 28.5/30 against the players in the bottom half. I was happy with my 2.5-3.5 loss to Jordan and I was able to beat Jager 3.5-2.5 in the final round. Overall I was happy with how I played and it was nice to play some chess rather than running it for a change! I particularly enjoyed my Sicilian battles with Bill and Jesse! Sylvester Urban managed 35.5 points and finished probably as expected. He beat me and scored 3-3 against Jordan. Of the rest, Aires Mascarenhas played the best - particularly considering it is the first chess he has played in donkeys ages! He even scored 2 wins against Jordan! Richard Voon finished at the bottom of the field but was more than competitive, still scoring 11 points. All of the players in the bottom half fought well in what proved to be a tough tournament. 57.5 Michael BARON (FM) 45 Jesse JAGER 41 Bill JORDAN (FM) 40 Grant SZUVEGES (FM) 35.5 Sylvester URBAN 16 Aires MASCARENHAS 15 Jack SHANKS 14.5 Goran ILIC 13.5 Tony TOSEVSKI 11 Richard VOON Junior Alec Yu won the B group fairly convincingly with 46 points. His brother Allen came second with 42.5 points. Both have booked their spot in the higher section for the next blitz marathon! 46 Alec YU 42.5 Allen YU 35.5 James MACAULAY 33 Paul CAVEZZA 31.5 Elliot RENZIES 24.5 Finley DALE 22.5 Ben FRAYLE 21.5 Tanya KOLAK 19 John BECKMAN 2 Tristan RAYSON - HILL The tournament was played in the right spirit and the players were wonderfully well behaved all day! Many thanks to David Stimson and Elizabeth Warren for their joint job as arbiters! The top 4 players in each group won prizemoney and there was also a special prize in each group for the longest winning streak! Michael Baron won the top one with 37 wins in a row and Alec Yu the bottom one with 11 wins in a row.
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07-12-2010, 11:05 AM
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Great fun, it was fun watching the results come in and the progress over the day.
In the top group the first round told the story of the day a little- Szuveges started badly losing the series to Urban but showed some real strength in the later rounds to take 3 or 4 six-nils, Baron and Jager drew 3-3, the only game I saw Jesse left his clock running in a strong end game position but all credit to Baron who was in some stellar form. Bill won most of his matchups but didn't seem to get the 6-0's and bonus points that Jesse, Michael & Grant did. In the end Michael annihilated the field with something like 55 points out of a possible 56 (bonus points for 6-0's included). Jager came in second with 45, Jordan was next on 41 or so and Grant finished 4th on 40. It was a very strong field but difficult for Voon & Tosevski in the lower half. I think the bottom player still scored 11 points in the top group which is still pretty good! In the second group Elliot Renzies shot out to an early lead with 16/18 points after 3 rounds, with James McAuley just behind. The Yu brothers alec & allen were the stars of the show however playing consistently strong stuff and finishing 1st and 2nd- so they'll be able to play in the top group next time if they wish! It was an evenly matched group with the winners picking up 45 or so points, McAuley, me! and Elliot rounding out the top 5. Tanya Kolak also came down and was in good spirit, Chris better play the next one!! She finished on 21 points I believe. Took 3 off me. Everyone had fun and considering around a thousand games of blitz were played out there were very few disputes! My advice, come down and play the next one!
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07-12-2010, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Pablito15
I would , but i think i'm all out of organic chocolate ..........oh ! , i'm with you ..ok, hang on ....
..ahem... For those , like yourself that missed the shoutbox celebrations last night, here is a live replay:- [Today 12:17 AM] Axiom: Don't sell it short for truth. [Today 12:12 AM] Axiom: [Today 12:03 AM] Axiom: THE BARON !! [Today 12:03 AM] Axiom: The Ultimate Chess Warrior [Yesterday 11:58 PM] Axiom: He is Caissa's gift to Melbourne. [Yesterday 11:57 PM] Axiom: .. as well. [Yesterday 11:57 PM] Axiom: it's a marathon , and the baron is an athlete [Yesterday 11:53 PM] Axiom: but its julia gillard and god ( in that order ) [Yesterday 11:52 PM] Axiom: but.. [Yesterday 11:52 PM] Axiom: i'm not sure they would want me to go public with it .. [Yesterday 11:52 PM] Axiom: well.. [Yesterday 11:52 PM] Grant Szuveges: who are 1 and 2???? [Yesterday 11:52 PM] Axiom: i'm his no.3 fan [Yesterday 11:50 PM] Axiom: a hero , a legend, an inspiration [Yesterday 11:49 PM] Grant Szuveges: Baron is the rolls royce - a true champion! [Yesterday 11:49 PM] Grant Szuveges: not sure - good to see so many people happy to play though! [Yesterday 11:48 PM] Axiom: THE BARON !! [Yesterday 11:47 PM] Axiom: ... mickey baron is a thoroughbred [Yesterday 11:47 PM] Axiom: grant would you say the rising phenomenon of online blitz has contributed to the popularity of this new format ? [Yesterday 11:47 PM] Grant Szuveges: Baron first by a mile, Jager 2nd, Jordan 3rd and me 4th [Yesterday 11:46 PM] Axiom: what were the leading results grant ? [Yesterday 11:44 PM] Axiom: by removing himself from this forum as protest [Yesterday 11:44 PM] Axiom: he's striking against online oppression [Yesterday 11:44 PM] Grant Szuveges: what do you mean? [Yesterday 11:44 PM] Axiom: on strike [Yesterday 11:43 PM] Grant Szuveges: Where is the goat? [Yesterday 11:43 PM] Grant Szuveges: Im still full of adrenaline after the tournament and in need of talking! Happy to answer questions about the tournament! [Yesterday 11:43 PM] Axiom:  [Yesterday 11:42 PM] Grant Szuveges: Congrats to Alec and Allen Yu who came 1st and 2nd in the B group - they are eligible for the top group next time! [Yesterday 11:42 PM] Axiom: ..the bastards ... [Yesterday 11:41 PM] Grant Szuveges: Best event ever! All of those soft people who didnt play dont know what they missed out on! [Yesterday 11:41 PM] Axiom: THE BARON !! [Yesterday 11:40 PM] Grant Szuveges: Axiom, play that music! Here comes the Baron!!! [Yesterday 11:39 PM] Grant Szuveges: Michael Baron has completely dominated the MCC blitz marathon today!!!! He beat 7 of his 9 opponents 6-0!!!
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Originally Posted by Pablito15
That is the spirit !!
are you familiar with the SCT ?
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07-12-2010, 11:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Pablito15
I sensed you were a man of good taste and fine standing .
(...and don't worry be secure in the knowledge that the possum is always there , should you ever need it .)
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