2021 MCC Blitz Championship (Sunday 31 Jan)

[Thai Ly]

2021 Melbourne Chess Club Blitz Championship

Where
Melbourne Chess Cub
66 Leicester Street, Fitzroy, VIC

When
Sunday 31 January 2021
Entries Close: 3:45 pm
Tournament Start: 4:00 pm

Format
13 Round Swiss Tournament
Entry is open to all players (Members and non-Member).

Byes
Players may take up to 2 half point byes during rounds 1-11

Time Control
3 minutes + 2 seconds per move.

Pairings and Ratings
The tournament will be Tornelo rated only.
Pairings will be done on the basis of Tornelo ratings
Any player who does not have a current Tornelo rating will have a Tornelo profile generated based on the current FIDE or ACF rating.

Entry Fee
$12 Full Member, $10 Concession / Junior Member. (Add $10 for non Members)
Club Member GMs, IMs and FMs free. GMs and IMs not resident in Victoria free.

Prizes
First prize of $150 and 2 rating prizes of $50 are guaranteed.
Further prizes may be determined depending on numbers of entrants.
The highest scoring MCC member will obtain the title of MCC Blitz Champion.
If necessary a playoff or count-back may be used to determined the MCC Blitz Champion.

Tournament Organiser
Thai Ly (0421 912 296 or melbchessclub@gmail.com)

Arbiter
To be confirmed

Further Questions
melbchessclub@gmail.com

Registration of entry can be done by Registering on Tornelo (Link to be created soon), contacting the Tournament Organiser or by entering in person at MCC prior to the scheduled close of entries.

Please note - MCC's COVID protocols for Allegros will apply to this tournament.

[Thai Ly]

Below is the link to the Tornelo page for entry to the 2021 MCC Blitz Championship.

https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/melbo...z-championship

Make sure you register early as the COVID restrictions mean that no more than 62 players will be accepted.

[Thai Ly]

Just a reminder that you can become a MCC member for 2021 to get discounted entries to MCC tournaments.

MCC memberships for 2021 are now open and can be paid online via the Trybooking website:

2021 MCC memberships Trybooking page

In light of the effect of COVID restrictions over the much of the past year, MCC are providing major discounts for the 2021 memberships, particularly for any member who is renewing their current membership.

The fees are set out below:

2021 MCC Membership Fees
Adult (Renewing) - $85.00
Adult - $120.00

Concession (Renewing) - $62.50
Concession - $75.00

Junior (Renewing) - $42.50
Junior - $60.00

Country (Renewing) - $30.00
Country - $45.00

[Thai Ly]

We are steadily getting more entries for the MCC Blitz Championship which is on this Sunday.

The field below is currently headed by IM Mark Chapman with FM Michael Baron the next seed.

Please enter early just in case there is a rush as Sunday nears.

Aden Buhagiar
Aman Deepak Thadani
Benjamin Pasquali
Budveen Hewabaddage
Chloe Chen
Daniel Accary
Daniel Poberezovsky
David Beaumont
Goran Illic
Hans Gao
Ishraf Ismath
Jack De Rooy
Jesse Zafirakos
Joshua Culbert
Justin Goodison
Leo Kalina
Leonard Goodison
Marcel Lammerse
Mark Chapman (IM)
Michael Baron (FM)
Nicholas Ilic
Prabhat Sinha
Regan Crowley
Rheyansh Annapureddy
Riley Dexter
Robert Frantzeskos
Ryder Testolin
Samuel De Rooy
Thai Ly
Thomas Hormann

[Michael. I]

How long is each round? Will this finish at 8pm?

[HAHAHAHA]

How long is each round? Will this finish at 8pm?

3'+2" blitz takes less than 10 minutes a game. Assuming Rounds are played shortly of the previous finishing I would say 6:30 as a finishing time. (May go later though).

[Michael. I]

Thanks :-)

[Michael. I]

Congratulations to Mark Chapman for his perfect score, and all the big-improvers by rating, sometimes by up to, what, in excess of 100 points? Good grief*! :-)
*Of surprise, so no offence, although I've seen that happen before (that said, there are 2-digit improvements in rating without a score much higher than the expected score).

[MichaelBaron]

https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/melbo...nship/pairings
Blitz results. Fantastic performance by Mark Chapman!
Also 8 yo Arthur Gao finished outright 4th.
The highlight of my tournament was watching my (adult!) opponent perform a celebratory dance after I blundered mate in a winning position in rd 2 .

[Michael. I]

I wasn't there, though...

[Thai Ly]

Well done to all prize winners in the 2021 MCC Blitz Championship.

From a full field in attendance, IM Mark Chapman won with a perfect 13/13.

2nd place and the 2021 MCC Blitz Champion title went to IM Ari Dale with 12/13. His game with Mark was obviously pivotal to the final results.

3rd place was won by FM Michael Baron on 10/13.

Full results and standings at the Tornelo tournament page: https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/melbo...z-championship

Open
1st - Mark Chapman - $200
2nd - Ari Dale - $100
3rd - Michael Baron - $70

Rating Group 1 (<1850)
1st - Arthur Gao - $60
2nd - Daniel Poberezovsky - $25

Rating Group 2 (<1500)
1st - Chloe Fan - $50
2nd - Leonard Goodison - $25

Rating Group 3 (<1250)
=1st - Randheer Thogata, Hirday Bajaj, Jack De Rooy - $25 each

Biggest Upset - Hirday Bajaj (for win over Arthur Gao) - $20

[MichaelBaron]

Well done to all prize winners in the 2021 MCC Blitz Championship.

From a full field in attendance, IM Mark Chapman won with a perfect 13/13.

2nd place and the 2021 MCC Blitz Champion title went to IM Ari Dale with 12/13. His game with Mark was obviously pivotal to the final results.

3rd place was won by FM Michael Baron on 10/13.

Full results and standings at the Tornelo tournament page: https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/melbo...z-championship

Open
1st - Mark Chapman - $200
2nd - Ari Dale - $100
3rd - Michael Baron - $70

Rating Group 1 (<1850)
1st - Arthur Gao - $60
2nd - Daniel Poberezovsky - $25

Rating Group 2 (<1500)
1st - Chloe Fan - $50
2nd - Leonard Goodison - $25

Rating Group 3 (<1250)
=1st - Randheer Thogata, Hirday Bajaj, Jack De Rooy - $25 each

Biggest Upset - Hirday Bajaj (for win over Arthur Gao) - $20

The tournament clearly shows that Aurthur Gao may become one of stars of the Victorian chess scene very soon!

[Scott Colliver]

Very happy to see South Aussie Mark Chapman smash all you Vics.

Arthur Gao seems to be a huge talent, great to see him doing so well.

[Michael. I]

Very happy to see South Aussie Mark Chapman smash all you Vics.

Arthur Gao seems to be a huge talent, great to see him doing so well.

So what is stopping Mark Chapman from having the actual title?

[MichaelBaron]

Very happy to see South Aussie Mark Chapman smash all you Vics.

Arthur Gao seems to be a huge talent, great to see him doing so well.

We've taken good care of Mark in recent allegros .