Round 3 of the Twin City Chess Club Championship for 2011 was played on February 7, 2011, after being postponed on January 31st due to weather and attendance. Sixteen players were present. There is one pending prior request for a make-up game due to inability to attend.
Joe Alford continues a perfect record with 3.0 / 3.0. However, seven more players have a 2.0 / 3.0 score and are right on Joe’s heels. With the “worst result dropped” system, we are still looking at fierce competition for the overall prize.
One player rated Under 1200, Nikhil Pallem, is one of those seven with 2.0 / 3.0 score so far, and leads that trophy category at the moment. But six more players Under 1200 to unrated are sitting with a 1.0 score. Again, anything can still happen for the Under trophy.
The same is true of the Scholastic (Under 18) trophy. Nikhil and Hanson Hao are in the lead for that trophy at the moment, but there are many other players who can still contend for that prize.
Play continues next week on February 14th, 2011. We hope to see you there!
All tournament links are now available here, including links to unannotated games. Games annotated by Joe Alford will be available shortly.
Tournament crosstable follows the cut.
TCCC Championship 2011 Tournament Crosstable after Round 3, ONE POSSIBLE MAKE UP GAME TO PLAY. Players:OP Page 1 Please note: With the tournament rules dropping the worst result of the six rounds played it is not possible to calculate actual interim standings accurately. This crosstable is ranked by total points in tournament to date, and then scored by rating. These results are pending one request for a make up game, requested prior to the beginning of round 3. No. Name Rate Pts Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3 1 Alford,Joseph O 1900 3.0 W12 W17 W5 2 Karagianis,Petros 2262 2.0 --- W3 W4 3 Bonwell, Jonathan 1798 2.0 W21 L2 W17 4 Bourgerie,Dennis 1785 2.0 W14 W9 L2 5 Kopula, Suryapraka 1743 2.0 W23 W11 L1 6 Hao,Hanson * 1488 2.0 --- W16 W13 7 Scott, Garrett H 1429 2.0 --- W14 W8 8 Pallem,Nikhil *# 1185 2.0 W22 W21 L7 9 Kitson,Colley Eri 1580 1.0 W20 L4 --- 10 Smith, Jeffrey L 1417 1.0 --- W15 --- 11 Panneerselvam, Nir * 1394 1.0 W15 L5 --- 12 Thangadurai,Braga *# 711 1.0 L1 W22 --- 13 Kopula,Vishwanth *# 603 1.0 --- W20 L6 14 Arquette Iii, Ray # 566 1.0 L4 L7 W20 15 Boyle, Michael # 427 1.0 L11 L10 W22 16 Bishop,Michael # 1.0 D19 L6 D18 17 Morgan,Chris # 1.0 W18 L1 L3 18 Erickson,Darren # 890 0.5 L17 --- D16 19 Madugula, Nikhil *# 769 0.5 D16 --- --- 20 Arnold,Brian # 0.0 L9 L13 L14 21 Laudenslager,Wesley # 0.0 L3 L8 --- 22 Raut,Grishma *# 0.0 L8 L12 L15 23 Samhan,Soabhe A # 0.0 L5 --- --- Players with * after their names are eligible for scholastic prize. Players with # after their names are eligible for U1200-Unrated prize. All players are eligible for Champion (Open) prize.
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