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Preseason club match opens with a Blitz!
Luton chess club has played a preseason friendly Blitz tournament this evening for the prize of prestige chocolate, kindly donated by the Jones family. With club secretary Peter Montgomery at the helm, the four round Swiss tournament ran as perfectly as a Swiss watch.
This was a trial unrated tournament, to see how many games at a time control of All moves in 5 minutes plus 5 second increments each move, we could squeeze in before 10 pm. Ten players entered with four rounds seeming about right. The results were as follows:
Round 1.
Damian Skowron 0-1 Samir Vora
Daman Singh 1-0 Nishal Meethele Madathil
Andrew Pye 0-1 Peter Daly
Michael Joseph 0-1 Nilesh Meethele Madathil
Daven Patel 0.5-0.5 Dixon Jones
Round 2.
Nilesh Meethele Madathil 0-1 Samir Vora
Peter Daly 0-1 Daman Singh
Dixon Jones 0-1 Michael Joseph
Nishal Meethele Madathil 0-1 Daven Patel
Damian Skowron 1-0 Andrew Pye
Round 3.
Samir Vora 0.5-0.5 Daman Singh
Daven Patel 1-0 Damian Skowron
Michael Joseph 1-0 Peter Daly
Andrew Pye 0-1 Nilesh Meethele Madathil
Nishal Meethele Madathil 0-1 Dixon Jones
Round 4.
Samir Vora 1-0 Daven Patel
Michael Joseph 0-1 Daman Singh
Nilesh Meethele Madathil 0-1 Dixon Jones
Peter Daly 1-0 Damian Skowron
Andrew Pye 1-0 Nishal Meethele Madathil
Final standings:
Daman Singh, Samir Vora 3.5/4
Dixon Jones, Daven Patel 2.5/4
Peter Daly, Michael Joseph, Nilesh Meethele Madathil 2/4
Andrew Pye, Damian Skowron 1/4
Nishal Meethele Madathil 0/4
Congratulations to joint winners Daman and Samir and well done to all who played this evening. With top guns Julian Hudson and Tommy O'Brien absent, the matches were much closer in comparative skill than the results suggest, and everyone, especially the juniors gave tough opposition. Thank you to Peter Montgomery running this event.
The next club tournmanent will be another Swiss System with the match results sent to the English Chess Federation for rating.