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   Frost Wilmot 2005-06

27-Oct-05

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Frost Wilmot Team Blitz

Held: Wed. 26th October 2005 at 11 Belgrave Road
Controller: Ian Hunnable

Barclays pip Athenaeum in close contest

Five teams initially entered for this season's Frost Wilmot and, for once, no-one dropped out at the last minute and all who had entered turned up and played! So a second outing for Sedgwick Pairings was called for (last used 2002-03) and provided the framework for a close and exciting contest.

Of the five teams, only ABI/Zurich was an "Insurance" team, the others, Athenaeum 1 and 2, Barclays and ABS/Americans, are all participants in the Combined Banks and Insurance Chess League.

The format of Sedgwick Pairings as basically to divide the entry into two groups, the first comprising boards 1 and 2 of each team, the other comprising boards 3 and 4 of each team, and play a jamboree-based pairing system within each. This produced four rounds of two games each or eight games for each player Games were played at 10 minutes per clock per game.

In the first round, RBS/Americans were one short and they utilised Mike Jones of Barclays (who had managed to have an extra man) as a substitute. At the end of round 1 the missing Barclays man - no less than their top board David Moskovic 204 - arrived and for the rest of the tournament, Barclays were allowed to adopt their originally intended board order with Mike Jones retiring to the rank of spectator.

With these permutations, the teams, in draw order, were:

A - Athenaeum 2

B - ABI/Zurich

C - Barclays

D - Athenaeum 1

E - RBS/Americans

Round 1

Rounds 2-4

R.G. Wade

G. Copeland

G. Hermes

F. Cardeira

D.L. Barrett

M.C. Page

A.G.C. Paish

G. Callan

D. Lindner

R.K. Thomas

A. Hebron

J. Ward

C. Wismayer

P.K. Hopper

J. Smith

G. Parfett

I.N. Heppell

D. Tidmarsh

M.N. Jones (G)

D. Chambers

D. Moskovic

I.N. Heppell

D. Tidmarsh

D. Chambers

Athenaeum 1 began with a bang, winning all four of their first round game 1 encounters. They were, however, reminded that it was a contest in game 2 were they could only muster a further 1½. Still, 5½ points was sufficient to establish a clear lead after round 1 with Athenaeum 2, ABI/Zurich and Barclays all 1½ points adrift on 4 points, RBS/Americans 2½.

Athenaeum edged further ahead in round 2, but Barclays managed to restrict this advance to a mere half point, while ABI/Zurich shaded third place on 7 ahead of Athenaeum2 and RBS/Americans who each had 6½.

The contest, however, really came to the boil in round 3. Athenaeum 1 seemed to be bang on course to retain the trophy when scoring 3-1 in game 1, but once again the second of each pair of games brought them up short, yielding but ½ a point.  Barclays, meanwhile, got into their stride, scoring 2-2 and 3-1 in this round to join Athenaeum in the lead, each on 14½. The rest of the field were also neck-and-neck (virtually) with ABI/Zurich and RBS/Americans on 10½ and Athenaeum 2 on 10.

So to the final round with all to play for. Barclays struck the first blow, winning the first games 3-1 against Athenaeum 1's 2-2. In the second pair of games, Barclays hung on with honours even at 2-2 for both teams, so Barclays ran out winners on 19½/32 ahead of Athenaeum 1 18½.  Athenaeum 2 pulled their socks up to overtake the two teams ahead of them and finish 3rd on 15 and ABI/Zurich and RBS/Americans finished joint tail-gunners on 13½ (after a re-count).

Barclays are congratulated on a fine come-back; commiserations to Athenaeum 1.  Barclays only had one bad game (round 1, game 1, when they scored only 1-3) After that, they scored 2-2 twice and better than that in the other five game groups. Athenaeum 1, on the other hand, twice had losing score groups 1½-2½ (r1 g2 and r3 g2) and were three times held to 2-2.

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G

Round 1

Prog.

Round 2

Prog.

Round 3

Prog.

Round 4

Total

A - Athenaeum 2

1

1100

2

4

1000

1

6½

1010

2

10

1010

2

15

2

1100

2

½010

1½

0½10

1½

1110

3

B - ABI/Zurich

1

0011

2

4

0011

2

7

0001

1

10½

0001

1

13½

2

0011

2

0010

1

011½

2½

0011

2

C - Barclays

1

1000

1

4

1011

3

9

101½

2½

14½

1110

3

19½

2

1110

3

1010

2

1110

3

0101

2

D - Athenaeum 1

1

1111

4

5½

0101

2

11

1101

3

14½

0011

2

18½

2

½001

1½

½111

3½

0½00

½

1010

2

E - RBS/Americans

1

0010

1

2½

1100

2

6½

10½0

1½

10½

1100

2

13½

2

½010

1½

1100

2

101½

2½

0100

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Teams given in draw order with their team letters. Each pairing involved two games (Game 1 and Game 2 in the column headed "G"). The two columns under each round heading give: the score on each board in order (but not the opponents) followed by the totals and, in the next column, the progressive team score.
See table below for individual pairings.

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Pairings

ROUND 1

 

G1

G2

 

 

 

G1

G2

 

A1 R.G. Wade

1-0

1-0

D. Tidmarsh E2

A4 F. Cardeira

0-1

0-1

M.N. Jones E3

B2 M.C. Page

0-1

0-1

G. Copeland A2

B3 A.G.C. Paish

1-0

1-0

G. Hermes A3

C1 D. Lindner

1-0

1-0

D.L. Barrett B1

C4 J. Ward

0-1

0-1

G. Callan B4

D2 P.K. Hopper

1-0

0-1

R.K. Thomas C2

D3 J. Smith

1-0

0-1

A. Hebron C3

E1 I.N. Heppell

0-1

½-½

C. Wismayer D1

E4 D. Chambers

0-1

0-1

G. Parfett D4

ROUND 2

 

G1

G2

 

 

 

G1

G2

 

A1 R.G. Wade

1-0

½-½

C. Wismayer D1

A4 F. Cardeira

0-1

0-1

G. Parfett D4

B2 M.C. Page

0-1

0-1

I.N. Heppell E2

B3 A.G.C. Paish

1-0

1-0

D. Tidmarsh E3

C1 D. Lindner

1-0

1-0

G. Copeland A2

C4 J. Ward

1-0

0-1

G. Hermes A3

D2 P.K. Hopper

1-0

1-0

D.L. Barrett B1

D3 J. Smith

0-1

1-0

G. Callan B4

E1 D. Moskovic

1-0

1-0

R.K. Thomas C2

E4 D. Chambers

0-1

0-1

A. Hebron C3

ROUND 3

 

G1

G2

 

 

 

G1

G2

 

A1 R.G. Wade

1-0

0-1

R.K. Thomas C2

A4 F. Cardeira

0-1

0-1

A. Hebron C3

B2 M.C. Page

0-1

1-0

C. Wismayer D1

B3 A.G.C. Paish

0-1

1-0

G. Parfett D4

C1 D. Lindner

1-0

1-0

I.N. Heppell E2

C4 J. Ward

½-½

0-1

D. Tidmarsh E3

D2 P.K. Hopper

1-0

½-½

G. Copeland A2

D3 J. Smith

0-1

0-1

G. Hermes A3

E1 D. Moskovic

1-0

1-0

D.L. Barrett B1

E4 D. Chambers

0-1

½-½

G. Callan B4

ROUND 4

 

G1

G2

 

 

 

G1

G2

 

A1 R.G. Wade

1-0

1-0

D.L. Barrett B1

A4 F. Cardeira

0-1

0-1

G. Callan B4

B2 M.C. Page

0-1

0-1

R.K. Thomas C2

B3 A.G.C. Paish

0-1

1-0

A. Hebron C3

C1 D. Lindner

1-0

0-1

C. Wismayer D1

C4 J. Ward

0-1

1-0

G. Parfett D4

D2 P.K. Hopper

0-1

0-1

I.N. Heppell E2

D3 J. Smith

1-0

1-0

D. Tidmarsh E3

E1 D. Moskovic

1-0

0-1

G. Copeland A2

E4 D. Chambers

0-1

0-1

G. Hermes A3

The letters in bold print against each name give the player's team letter and board number. Players on the left of each pairing had white in the first game, black in the second.