Hampshire Chess Championship 2014 – Minor

The 2014 Hampshire Chess Championship was held at Eastleigh College between 7th and 9th November 2014. It was split into 3 sections with in total 63 players participating. The Major section saw Matthew Wilson win ahead of a number of Hampshire players.

Picture above of the playing hall from 2013, as no photos were taken in 2014. This gives a good representation of the congress at Eastleigh College.


Contents


For a list of the winners of the Hampshire Individual Championship and links to any articles I have written, the table on the Hampshire Individual Championship is the best place to look. In addition, the table on the Hampshire Tournaments will detail these and any other tournament articles I have completed. Both of these are available from the menu at the top of the site as well.


Tournament

The Hampshire Individual Chess Championship has used numerous formats in the last 90 odd years, from the Knockout format in 1930, qualifying sections e.g. 1932 to the current Swiss tournament held over three days. The format used for the 2014 Championship was a six round Swiss. Non Hampshire players were welcome to enter, but were not eligible for the Hampshire trophies.

Round 1

A few upsets in the first round, with probably Southampton’s David Murchie beating a young Paul Northcott (probably under 11). These days Paul is rated in excess of 2000 and plays board 2 for Hamble A. Coming into the tournament Paul had won the U120 Castle Chess Minor and was probably hoping to clean up in this tournament as well.

Michael Pope was held to a draw by the super solid Tony Roberts, as was John Davis by Stephen Gow (another player who improved since this tournament). These with John Carr holding Stephen Kitley were the other slight upsets in this round.

PlayerGradeResultPlayerGradeResult
Derek D Priestley1221Gabriel Tshabango1060
Don Creasey1050James A Barnett1201
Tony D Roberts101½Michael R Pope121½
Cornelius J Cornes1211Brian V Cochran1050
Jerry Ingamells1070Timothy S Allen1211
John E Davis120½Stephen Gow104½
Stephen P Kitley118½John W Carr101½
Paul Northcott1150David T Murchie961
James Wallman1091Wendy Carr0
Nick R Egleton0Tim G Cutter1171
David Jerome780Colin J Gardiner1141
Joseph Ingram½Bye
Alexander Cagnasso122½Bye

Round 2

Two players moved onto maximum points, with James Barnett beating David Murchie and James Wallman taking down the higher rated Timothy Allen. Very early days as there were seven players half a point behind

PlayerGradeResultPlayerGradeResult
Tim G Cutter117½Derek D Priestley122½
James A Barnett1201David T Murchie960
James Wallman1091Timothy S Allen1210
Colin J Gardiner114½Cornelius J Cornes121½
Michael R Pope1211Joseph Ingram0
Alexander Cagnasso1221Tony D Roberts1010
John W Carr101½John E Davis120½
Stephen Gow1040Stephen P Kitley1181
Jerry Ingamells1071David Jerome780
Gabriel Tshabango1060Don Creasey1051
Brian V Cochran1050Nick R Egleton1
Wendy Carr0Paul Northcott1151

Round 3

The two players on maximum points met and James Barnett won the battle of the “James” by defeating James Wallman with Black. This obviously meant he was in sole first place with 3 points and had a half point bye for the fourth round. Alexander Cagnasso, who took a bye in the first round beat Stephen Kitley to be the only player half a point behind, with a further 8 players on two points.

PlayerGradeResultPlayerGradeResult
James Wallman1090James A Barnett1201
Cornelius J Cornes121½Michael R Pope121½
Derek D Priestley122½Colin J Gardiner114½
John E Davis120½Tim G Cutter117½
Stephen P Kitley1180Alexander Cagnasso1221
Don Creasey1050Nick R Egleton1
Paul Northcott115½John W Carr101½
Brian V Cochran1051Gabriel Tshabango1060
David T Murchie961Stephen Gow1040
Joseph Ingram1Tony D Roberts1010
Wendy Carr1Controlller Bye
Jerry Ingamells107½Bye
Timothy S Allen121½Bye
David Jerome78Withdrawn

Round 4

Five players took a half point bye for the Saturday evening. Andreq Cagnasso drew level with James Barnett by coming out on top against David Priestly. Colin Gardiner and Michael Pope also won to finish round four on three points. The other winners were Paul Northcott, Stephen Gow and Don Creasy.

PlayerGradeResultPlayerGradeResult
Alexander Cagnasso1221Derek D Priestley1220
Colin J Gardiner1141David T Murchie960
Tim G Cutter117½Cornelius J Cornes121½
Michael R Pope1211James Wallman1090
John W Carr101½Timothy S Allen121½
Jerry Ingamells1070Paul Northcott1151
Stephen Gow1041Gabriel Tshabango1060
Brian V Cochran1050Joseph Ingram1
Don Creasey1051Wendy Carr0
Nick R Egleton½Bye
John E Davis120½Bye
Stephen P Kitley118½Bye
James A Barnett120½Bye
Tony D Roberts101½Bye

Round 5

The top board was between the two players on three and half points, whilst Michael Pope took a bye in the morning and therefore Paul Northcott had the upfloat to play Colin Gardiner. James Barnett won the board one game, whilst Colin Gardiner beat Paul. This meant these two winners would be paired for the final round.

The other winners in this round were Cornelius Cornes, James Wallman, Tim Cutter, David Muchie, Tony Roberts and Gabriel Tshabango.

PlayerGradeResultPlayerGradeResult
James A Barnett1201Alexander Cagnasso1220
Paul Northcott1150Colin J Gardiner1141
Nick R Egleton0Cornelius J Cornes1211
James Wallman1091John E Davis1200
Tim G Cutter1171Joseph Ingram0
Stephen Gow1040Jerry Ingamells1071
Derek D Priestley122½John W Carr101½
Timothy S Allen1210Don Creasey1051
David T Murchie961Stephen P Kitley1180
Tony D Roberts1011Brian V Cochran1050
Gabriel Tshabango1061Wendy Carr0
Michael R Pope121½Bye

Round 6

James Barnett managed to secure a draw with Black against Colin Gardiner which meant he won the Minor section of the Hampshire Congress. Colin Gardiner was joined in 2nd place by Michael Pope who bet Tim Cutter. David Murchie lost to Jerry Ingamells, but could be consoled by winning the Under-100 grading prize.

PlayerGradeResultPlayerGradeResult
Colin J Gardiner114½James A Barnett120½
Cornelius J Cornes121½Alexander Cagnasso122½
Don Creasey1050James Wallman1091
Michael R Pope1211Tim G Cutter1170
Nick R Egleton0Derek D Priestley1221
Jerry Ingamells1071David T Murchie960
Timothy S Allen1210Stephen Gow1041
John E Davis120½Stephen P Kitley118½
John W Carr101½Joseph Ingram½
Gabriel Tshabango1061Tony D Roberts1010
Brian V Cochran1051Wendy Carr0
Paul Northcott1150Withdrawn

Games

No games from the Minor section.


Minor Final Position Summary

As per the HCA Secretary John Wheeler’s report the Minor Section produced a close-fought contest, but James Barnett managed to hold on to a small lead to the end of the tournament. Colin Gardiner and Michael Pope shared 2nd place, and the Under-100 grading prize went to David Murchie.

As the basis of this is from the ECF rating site crosstable, which does not take into account byes the rankings do not match the final real positions. But to amend this I would have to recreate the numbers for each player, which I have not done. But the table can be sorted to allow you to do this.

RankNameGradeRd 1Rd 2Rd 3Rd 4Rd 5Rd 6Score
1Colin J Gardiner11424+3=7=9+13+2=4.5
2James A Barnett12011+9+4+bye =8+1=5
3Cornelius J Cornes12119+1=5=6=16+8=4
4James Wallman10923+21+2–5–18+11+4
5Michael R Pope12122=14+3=4+bye =6+4.5
6Tim G Cutter11716+7=18=3=14+5–3.5
7Derek D Priestley12220+6=1=8–10=16+3.5
8Alexander Cagnasso122bye =22+17+7+2–3=4
9David T Murchie9613+2–15+1–17+12–3
10John W Carr10117=18=13=21=7=14=3
11Don Creasey1052–20+16–23+21+4–3
12Jerry Ingamells10721–24+bye =13–15+9+3.5
13Paul Northcott1159–23+10=12+1–02.5
14Joseph Ingrambye =5–22+19+6–10=3
15Stephen Gow10418=17–9–20+12–21+2.5
16Nick R Egleton6–19+11+bye =3–7–2.5
17Stephen P Kitley11810=15+8–bye =9–18=2.5
18John E Davis12015=10=6=bye =4–17=2.5
19Brian V Cochran1053–16–20+14–22–23+2
20Gabriel Tshabango1067–11–19–15–23+22+2
21Timothy S Allen12112+4–bye =10=11–15–2
22Tony D Roberts1015=8–14–bye =19+20–2
23Wendy Carr4–13–bye +11–20–19–1
24David Jerome781–12–00000

HCA Summary

Hampshire’s Chess Association Secretary’s John Wheeler’s report on the 2014 Congress is below. Many thanks to John for sending all his reports for the HCA Archives, as although I had some of these, not being active in the HCA (or any Chess at this time I did not have this one).


Acknowledgements and Sources

  • Hampshire Chess Archives
  • English Chess Rating System
  • John Wheeler for HCA Report

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