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Last update: Tuesday February 24, 2004 16:11

CCF Open Rapidplay, 29th November 2003

A total of 46 players battled at Coulsdon today in the latest CCF Open Rapidplay Chess Competition and as usual, the field had a full range of players, in both age and strength. In all, 15 of the players went away with prize money, helped by ties for the Under 150, Under 125 and Under 100 grading brackets. Of the two favourites, it was IM Danny Gormally who came away victorious, having beaten fellow IM Graeme Buckley in the 4th round. Danny went on to register a maximum score (boosting his score in the British Chess Federation Grand Prix and also starting well in his first tournament in this year's Coulsdon Grand Prix) whilst Graeme finished a point behind along with Kingston player Chris Briscoe who jumped over higher graded players to take the Under 210 grading prize. The full list of prize winners was as follows:

Name

Club / Home

Score

Prize Won

Danny Gormally

SE London

6

1st: £80

Chris Briscoe

Kingston

5

u210: £40

Jinwoo Song

Kingston

4½

u180: £40

Michael Franklin

C and P

4½

 

Selina Khoo

Surrey Jr

4

u150 & u125: £23.35

Peter Lord

Hayes, Middl

4

u150 & u125: £23.35

Gerald Tredinnick

Beckenham

4

u150 & u125: £23.35

Naomi Miller

Cowley

4

u150: £10

Sarah Hegarty

Woking

4

 

Teresa Khoo

Weybridge

3½

 

Peter Williams

Basingstoke Juniors

3½

 

Robert Darby

Dulwich College

3

u100: £20

Peter Rhodes

Coulsdon

3

u100:£20

Lana Boztas

Ashtead

3

 

Joe Xuereb

C and P

3

 

Greg Charles

Sth Croydon

2

u70: £13-35

Chris Constable

Coulsdon

2

u70: £13-35

Ishan Ramdewar

Coulsdon

2

u70: £13-35

James Foster

CCF

2

u70: £13-35

M Periasamymanjula

Ashtead

2

 

Marissa Stenning

Chessington

2

 

Howart Curtis

C and P

2

 

David Everitt

Hayward Heath

2

 

Luke Shakerchi

Ashtead

1

 

Caroline Foster

CCF

1

 

The next event at Coulsdon is the Christmas Long Play Congress, to be held on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st December over 5 rounds. For information about tournaments or one of the best organised and most sociable chess clubs to play in, call us on 020-8645-0302 or email us on chess@ccfworld.com

Scott Freeman