e2e4 Uxbridge Premier & Young Masters

[Christopher Kreuzer]

All events are rated as swisses, unless every player plays every other player - in which case it's an all play all.

My point was that you could try and do swiss pairings for 10 players for 9 rounds where some of the players are absent. The colours might get very messed up at some point though. Anyway, as Alex says, let's hope this doesn't become a problem.

[Sean Hewitt]

All events are rated as swisses, unless every player plays every other player - in which case it's an all play all.

My point was that you could try and do swiss pairings for 10 players for 9 rounds where some of the players are absent. The colours might get very messed up at some point though. Anyway, as Alex says, let's hope this doesn't become a problem.

If you tried that, you would run into the very real risk in later rounds of having no legal set of pairings.

[Sean Hewitt]

All round 9 results and games are online www.e2e4.org.uk

Premier

Name Score Fed. M/F Rating TPR W-We Prize
GM Summerscale, Aaron P 7 ENG M 2419 2438 0.38 £625
IM Rudd, Jack 7 ENG M 2251 2416 1.89 £625
IM Buckley, Graeme N 6.5 ENG M 2397 2362 -0.13 £250
GM Arkell, Keith C 6 ENG M 2439 2335 -0.95 £100
Holland, James P 5.5 ENG M 2034 2273 2.36 £100
Foster, James M 5.5 ENG M 1961 2198 2.40 £100

James Holland qualifies for the 2011 British Championship by virtue of his TPR.

Adrian Ociepka and Paul McIntyre tie on sum of progressive scores for qualification as the highest placed non-qualified player and thus both qualify for the 2011 British Championship.

Young Masters

Name Score Fed. M/F Rating TPR W-We Prize
Messam-Sparks, Lateefah 6.5 ENG F 1928 1913 -0.01 £300
Juciute, Einora 6.5 LTU F 1843 2041 1.76 £300
Foord, Dominic 6 ENG M 2071 1863 -1.67 £16.67
Archer-Lock, Adrian 6 ENG M 1862 1934 0.63 £16.67
Nettleton, Charlie 6 ENG M 1824 1859 0.39 £16.67
Dias, Theodore 6 FRA M 1793 1861 0.71 £50

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Looking at the Young Masters results:

http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/20 ... asters.htm

Interesting to see how the two top scorers had different routes to reach their 6.5/9. Messam-Sparks started with four wins but finished with 2.5/5, including losing the last two rounds, while Juciute started with 2.5/5 and finished with 4/4. What you really need to assess the results, is a proper APA cross-table, but apparently it was a Swiss, not an APA...

Oh, here it is (the link was right there all along):

http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/20 ... table.html

There were 45 potential games (43 actual games):

37 wins
6 draws
1 default win
1 half-point bye paired with a full-point bye

The default win may have affected the final result. The += result will confuse people horribly in years to come. Is that percentage of draws (about 13%) what would be expected from a junior event?

Looking at the Premier results:

http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/20 ... remier.htm

Well, the 2 GMs and the 2 IMs took the first four places. But not quite in the order expected! Another win for Aaron Summerscale, an excellent result from Jack Rudd, but what looks like a tournament to forget for Keith Arkell (the last round loss to Graeme Buckley looks to have made things go from bad to worse - I wonder how much a win there would have changed things? A lot seemed to have been riding on that result). Looking at the TPRs, two excellent results from James Holland and James Foster. I see what Matthew (Turner) meant when he was contrasting playing in tournaments like that with playing in the World Youth Championships - was the timing of this tournament intentional in that respect?

There were 35*9 = 315 half-games (147 actual games):

50 draws
97 wins
11 half-point byes
2 entries marked '+'
8 entries marked '-'

Percentage of draws = 34%, which I think is about normal.

[Sean Hewitt]

What you really need to assess the results, is a proper APA cross-table, but apparently it was a Swiss, not an APA...

Oh, here it is (the link was right there all along):

http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/20 ... table.html

I don't make the rules. If you have a problem with FIDE's definition of an all play all (ie that all the players actually play each other), email them! But I'm glad you found the link to the crosstable. For your information, here's the link to the crosstable for the Premier http://e2e4.org.uk/international/2010/U ... table.html. Even though we have published a crosstable, I can confirm that the Premier wasn't an all play all either.