e2e4.org.uk Hinckley 2012

The end of Summer is closing fast and new season of chess tournaments and leagues will start soon. 

Sean Hewitt, the man behind the e2e4.or.uk

Taking the advantage of prolong weekend because of bank holidays, e2e4 organized another tournament of this series. This time in Hinckley Island Hotel near to Leicester.

Tournament has started Friday evening and will finish Monday evening, so player will play seven rounds.

Several players from Nottinghamshire as well as Lincolnshire are taking part in this tournament.

In Open section (in no particular order) these players are: FM Michael Barnes of Gambit Chess Club, Richard Truman and Steve Burke of Ashfield, and Sam Milson of Louth.

In Major section they are: Michael Fletcher of Nottingham H.S., Amy Milson of Louth, Tim Kendall of Gambit and Neil Graham of Ashfield.

In Minor section Graham Neil and George Muffet.

The winner will come very likely from top rated players like GM Arkell Keith, IM Jonathan Hawkins, IM Ameet Ghasi, IM Daniel Howard Fernandez.

So have a look at some games which have been already published on the e2e4.org.uk website.

An interesting game had played David Spence (2250) of Burry St. Edmunds with Black pieces against favoured GM Keith (2451). In Queen's Indian Defence GM Keith played safely, damaged his opponent's pawn structure and gained indisputable control over the c-file. However, the analysis shows, that it was not that easy to get full point.

In the first round, Sam Milson who likes to play French Defence with Black pieces himself, faced the problem how to play against French Defence as a White. His opponent, Jonathan Nelson of Sheffield Nomads was rated some 200 point higher and so Sam's task was not easy. In well know and rather theoretical line of Tarrasch Variation Jonathan employed a novelty 17...g5, capitalizing the control of semi-open f-file and weakness of f2-square. Sam defended himself against this sortie a bit passive and finally under the pressure he made a mistake. Jonathan did not take the advantage of that immediately (he could sacrifice the exchange on f3 right at this point) but he played waiting move. Sam not aware of dangerous made another mistake....Black obtained for exchange two pawns and massive attack.




Richard Truman of West Bridgford demonstrated against a stronger opponent (David Hall of Norich Dons) how to fight with rather annoying systems, which are quite popular especially on the club level, like London, Torre and Colle System. 
He gives a simple solution: Kingside fianchetto, King's Indian set-up and then the blow e5. Simple, straightforward and effective.



Ranking in the Open section after round 5 is as follows:

Rank	Name	Flags	Score	Fed.	M/F	Rating	TPR	W-We	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	IM Hawkins, Jonathan	4NCL Cheddleton	4.5	ENG	M	2507	2624	+0.58	1	1	1	½	1
2	GM Arkell, Keith C	4NCL Cheddleton	4.5	ENG	M	2451	2621	+0.93	1	1	1	½	1
3	IM Ghasi, Ameet K	4NCL e2e4	4.0	ENG	M	2418	2421	+0.17	1	1	1	1	0
4	Weaving, Richard	Solihull	4.0	ENG	M	2149	2406	+1.08	=	½	1	1	1
5	IM Fernandez, Daniel Howard	Marple	3.5	SIN	M	2370	2227	-0.73	1	1	0	1	0	=
6	Spence, David J	Bury st Edmunds	3.5	ENG	M	2250	2272	+0.12	1	1	0	1	½
7	Merry, Alan B	Bury St Edmunds	3.5	ENG	M	2210	2255	+0.21	=	1	1	0	1
8	Shaw, Peter	Wakefield	3.5	ENG	M	2168	2157	+0.04	0	1	1	1	½
9	Clarke, Brandon G I	Littlethorpe	3.5	ENG	M	2158	2236	+0.46	1	0	½	1	1
10	Pleasants, Allan J	Weymouth	3.5	WLS	M	2070	2124	+0.27	½	1	1	0	1
11	FM Barnes, Michael H	Gambit	3.0	ENG	M	2220	2082	-0.85	1	0	½	1	½
12	Nelson, Jonathan P	Sheffield Nomad	3.0	ENG	M	2205	2252	+0.30	1	1	0	1	0
13	Hasman, Cengiz	Wood Green	3.0	TUR	M	2132	2058	-0.48	½	½	1	½	½
14	Burrows, Martin P	Wigston	3.0	ENG	M	2120	1870	-1.16	0	½	½	1	1
15	Bonafont, Philip R	Hemel Hempstead	3.0	ENG	M	2051	2163	+0.65	1	0	½	1	½
16	Whitfield, Craig M	Cheddleton and	3.0	ENG	M	2020	2124	+0.68	0	1	1	0	1
17	Stewart, Ashley	Cambridge City	3.0	ENG	M	2013	2183	+1.15	0	½	1	1	½
18	Kreuzer, Christopher R L	London Deaf	3.0	ENG	M	1947	2173	+1.50	1	0	1	0	1
19	Hall, David E	Norich Dons	2.5	ENG	M	2103	2061	-0.23	0	½	1	0	1
20	Bennett, Dominic L	Clifton	2.5	ENG	M	2037	2002	-0.30	0	½	0	1	1
21	Harnett, Robert J	Drunken Knights	2.5	ENG	M	2013	2072	+0.23	=	=	½	1	0
22	Milson, Samuel A	Louth	2.5	ENG	M	2002	1940	-0.37	0	+	0	½	1
23	Craft, Isaac	France	2.5	ENG	M	1993	2150	+1.04	1	1	0	½	0
24	Abbott, Mark V	Exmouth	2.5	ENG	M	1968	1992	+0.10	=	0	1	0	½	=
25	Ganger, Rajan	Heathcote Arms	2.5	ENG	M	1965	2179	+0.75	1	0	½	=	=
26	Truman, Richard G	West Bridgford	2.5	ENG	M	1959	2036	+0.52	1	0	0	1	½
27	Malik, Faraz	South Birmingha	2.5	ENG	M	1846 *	2108	+0.50	=	1	0	1	0
28	Wang, Maria	Coley	2.5	ENG	F	1775	2079	+1.76	½	0	1	1	0
29	Stembridge, Ed		2.0	ENG	M	2059	1995	-0.44	=	½	1	0	0
30	Horspool, Philip J	Wigston	2.0	ENG	M	2051	1776	-1.07	=	½	½	0	=
31	Clark, Ian C	Wimborne	2.0	ENG	M	2050	1935	-0.58	½	0	0	1	½
32	Burke, Steven J	Ashfield	2.0	ENG	M	2041	1868	-0.92	1	0	=	0	½
33	Slinger, Tony J	Lady Anne Middl	2.0	ENG	M	2025	1910	-0.70	0	1	1	0	0
34	Stepanyan, Henrik	Sutton Coldfiel	2.0	ENG	M	2022	1933	-0.66	0	½	0	1	½
35	Gibson, Christopher A	Chess Mates Nor	2.0	ENG	M	1990	1846	-0.79	=	½	0	½	½
36	Hughes, Roy	Broadland	2.0	ENG	M	1982	2058	+0.46	½	½	½	0	½
37	Robinson, John K	Braunstone	2.0	ENG	M	1982	1919	-0.33	=	½	0	0	1
38	Messam-Sparks, Lateefah	West Notts	2.0	ENG	F	1947	1939	-0.07	=	½	0	½	½
39	Pritchard, David J	Walsall Kipping	1.5	ENG	M	2018	1828	-1.21	0	½	0	0	1
40	Grattage, Matthew		1.5	ENG	M	1986	1887	-0.65	0	½	1	0	0
41	Paul, Nathanael		1.5	ENG	M	1950 *	1835	1835	1	0	0	0	½
42	Conterno, Dominique	Northampton Che	1.5	ENG	M	1904	1901	-0.02	½	½	0	½	0
43	Wang, Xingliang Anna	Coley	1.5	ENG	F	1833	1286	-0.77	0	0	0	1	½
44	Tarhon, Brian	Sussex Junior	1.5	ENG	M	1787	1821	+0.14	=	½	½	0	0
45	Keen, Cosima C	Sussex	1.0	ENG	F	1694	1821	+0.45	0	½	½	0	0
46	See Arbiter		1.0		M	0 *	0	0	-	-	-	+	-	-
47	Collins, Andrew	Leamington	0.5	ENG	M	1716	1294	-0.55	0	0	=	0	0
48	Agnew, Alan	Warley Quinborn	0.0	ENG	M	2102	1212	-0.71	0	-	-	-	-	-
49	Welch, David		0.0	ENG	M	0 *	1098	0	-	-	-	0	-	-

(Adopted from e2e4.org.uk)

You can follow the Top Ten Games live here.
The tournament is going to finish later this afternoon.