UK Tournament Result

This year Cambridge moved the Trigantius back from March to February and from the hospital to a city centre location. 46 players attend the event at St. Columba's Church.

Cheshire returned after a year gap for the British in Chester and ran again alongside the Frodsham Chess Tournament.

In the top group David Ward (3 dan Cambridge) was the winner, beating Sam Aitken (3 dan Warwick) in the final. In the Handicap Section, the winner on 5/5 was Justin Neeves (7 kyu Manchester). On 4/5 were Jack Ley (8 kyu Warwick) and Brian Timmins (9 kyu Shrewsbury). Jamie Taylor (5 kyu York) was the top junior winning 3/5. 28 players took part.

Wanstead returned to its old early year spot, but kept the same Wanstead House venue in East London.

Matthew Macfadyen got his first tournament win of the year. Other players winning all three were: Mike Cumpstey (3 kyu Manchester), Eric Hall (5 kyu Swindon) and Gary Gibson (7 kyu Wanstead). 32 players took part. Photos.

The bar was at 2d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

60 players attended the HQ of HITACHI Europe Ltd for the 19th Maidenhead Tournament.

Jon Diamond (4 dan) was judged the winner on tie-break from David Ward (3 dan) and Tim Hunt (3 dan), all winning 2 games. Players winning 3/3 were Phil Beck (1 dan, Cambridge), Geoff Kaniuk (3 kyu Cambridge), Fancisco Divers (5 kyu London), Xinyi Lu (5 kyu Maidenhead) and John Collins (12 kyu St Albans). In addition all on 2/3 won a prize thanks to generous sponsorship from HITACHI. Team winner was the Central London team with 75 percent. There was no prize awarded in the 13x13.

The bar was at 3d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

First and second place were split by mutual game result.

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table> NoNameRankCountry1234Wins 1Yanqi Zhang / Wei Wang6dCN10+4+6+2+4 2Alice Bradley / Andrew Simons6.5kUK14+12+3+1-3 3Jenny Radcliffe / Yohei Negi 2kUK-JP11+5+2-6+3 4Guo Juan / Geoff Kaniuk2.5dNL-UK8+1-9+7+3 5Kirsty Healey / Matthew Macfadyen3dUK13+3-14+8+3 6Yangran Zhang / Michael Webster2dUK15+7+1-3-2 7Cher B

The bar was at 3d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

The bar was at 1k. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

Sunday 6th December 2009

All games played full handicap (10 komi per grade over 9).

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table> PosnNoNameRankClubCountry1234WinsSOS 11Peter Collins2kBristolUK18+16+9+4+47 22Michael Webster1kLondonUK20+5+6+3-310 33Neil Cleverly7kBournemouthUK11+8-10+2+39 44Colin Maclennan10kTwickenhamUK10+22+8+1-38½ 55Matthew Cocke5d

Held at the Space Centre, Leicester.

The bar was at 3d. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.

Held in Grange-over-Sands

The bar was at 1k. Handicap and no-komi games are in red.