Phoenix Invitational

[MichaelBaron]

Pheonix Invitational Tournaments will be moving to Thursdays.
10 player round robin events.
FIDE/ACF rated
Entries $50 ($40 concession)

Phoenix 1 2010
February 11th-April 15th

Contact MCC to register for participation!

[fireeater]

The Pheonix tournaments for 2010 are taking on a new dimension. While the intention is to eventually have these tournaments FIDE rated round robins, initially they will not be FIDE-rated.

A new event starts next Thursday 18th February. The change to the advertised schedule has been caused by an attempt to play some games in the tournament online with players interstate. So far there are 7 players signed up to what is scheduled to be an 8-player round robin event, and hopefully the Pheonix tournaments will expand in time.

Sorry for any changes to the calendar, we at the MCC hope that this new initiative will prove useful for Australian chess in the future and seek expressions of interest from clubs around Australia who would like to participate in this sort of event in the future.

Thanks

Carl Gorka

[Garvinator]

This tournament should probably have its title changed

[fireeater]

Originally Posted by Garvinator

This tournament should probably have its title changed

The tournament will stay as the Pheonix, if the mods want to change the thread title then they can

[fireeater]

Phoenix Tournament 1 2010-02-18
This is to be an 8 player round robin tournament with a time control of 60 minutes + 10 seconds increment per move. The tournament is to be directed by the Melbourne Chess Club in association with Hobart International Chess Club and the event will be applied to the ACF for rating. At the Melbourne end, Carl Gorka will be the DOP/arbiter, while Kevin Bonham is coordinating the Tasmanian end of affairs, though someone else may be nominated as an official arbiter. The main aim of the tournament is to successfully bring together players from different states of Australia and use the amazing resources the internet has to offer to advance club chess. The MCC as a goodwill gesture are offering all members of Hobart International Chess Club, and their Junior Chess Club honorary memberships of the club for the period of 12 months which will entitle these players to play in our tournaments at the reduced rate which we offer our own members.

The 8 players who have entered the tournament are as follows, in the order they were drawn:
1. James Briant (Tasmania) [1306]
2. James Macauley (MCC) [unrated]
3. Frank Lekkas (MCC) [1445]
4. Elizabeth Warren (MCC) [905]
5. Adolph Lekkas (MCC) [unrated]
6. Harrison Briant (Tasmania) [899]
7.Simon Karumbi (MCC) [1083]
8. Jack Puccini (MCC) [unrated]

The draw for the tournament was conducted at the Melbourne Chess Club on the night of round 1 with the numbers being drawn by past President Greg Gatto.
Round #1 : 2-7 3-6 4-5 1-8
Round #2 : 1-2 7-3 6-4 8-5
Round #3 : 3-1 4-7 5-6 2-8
Round #4 : 1-4 2-3 7-5 8-6
Round #5 : 5-1 4-2 6-7 3-8
Round #6 : 1-6 2-5 3-4 8-7
Round #7 : 7-1 6-2 5-3 4-8

We decided to start the tournament by pairing the Lekkas brothers together, which meant round 7 was officially the first round. The 2 Tasmanian players are due to play each other this week which means that their round 6 game has already been played. On the first night some mishaps occurred. Jack Puccini turned up late and his opponent had left the building, so Jack was paired against Simon Karumbi who was, in turn, due to play one of our friends from Hobart. Jack Puccini and Elizabeth Warren will have to play their game at a date before the last round. And James Macauley’s game against an unknown opponent will have to wait for a later date.
The results from the first night at the Melbourne Chess Club were:
Adolph Lekkas-Frank Lekkas 1-0
Jack Puccini-Simon Karumbi 0-1

Due to some late negoatiations between MCC and the various online chess servers, it was only agreed very late in the day that the games could be played on the ChessCube site, the site which earlier this year experimented with the South African Open including players from overseas. But because of this, we have had to delay our online games yet another week. Round 6 will be played this week, making the Melbourne players a game ahead of the Tasmanians.
Week 2 Thursday 25th February 2010
James Macauley-Adolph Lekkas
Frank Lekkas-Jack Puccini
Elizabeth Warren-Simon Karumbi
Games played between players from Tasmania and Victoria will be played via the internet on the chesscube site with the first games to be played next Thursday, 4th March

[HeartBreak Kid]

One of the games can be viewed live from
http://melbournechessclub.org/index....r&Itemid=1 14

[MichaelBaron]

omg, Adolph Lekkas beat Frank Lekkas

[HeartBreak Kid]

Originally Posted by MichaelBaron

omg, Adolph Lekkas beat Frank Lekkas

Well aren't you well informed.

[Garvinator]

I had a look at the chesscube website and am now wondering how does this all work as the chesscube website did not appear easy to understand to me.

Am certainly interested in future possibilities.

[MichaelBaron]

Originally Posted by HeartBreak Kid

Well aren't you well informed.

and you have not even complained on facebook yet

[HeartBreak Kid]

Originally Posted by MichaelBaron

and you have not even complained on facebook yet

Yeah, because you don't complain on facebook after your games.

[MichaelBaron]

Originally Posted by HeartBreak Kid

Yeah, because you don't complain on facebook after your games.

You did on Monday

[HeartBreak Kid]

Originally Posted by MichaelBaron

You did on Monday

And? You've done it before.

[MichaelBaron]

Originally Posted by HeartBreak Kid

And? You've done it before.

Hmm...I can not recall myself....writing long passages about my king travelling the board..

[HeartBreak Kid]

Originally Posted by MichaelBaron

Hmm...I can not recall myself....writing long passages about my king travelling the board..

The post was... "head's going to explode after that game, can't believe the sac didn't work". That's shorter than what you wrote.