2016 Christmas Lightning Competition

The 2016 Christmas Lightning event was held at the Leeming Primary School on Sunday 11th December. 16 players in 3 divisions participated in the 9 round event. The overall winner was Patrick Gong with perfect a score of 9.0. The full prize list is given below. Prizes consisted of Xmas stockings with a small cash bonus.

As done in previous years three rounds were played with Fisher time control, three with Bronstein time control and three with guillotine.

In each round there were novelty book prizes. The first win of the day was by Andrew Hardegen. George Carolyn-Unkovich won a prize for most time on the clock in the Fischer time control with 40 seconds more than he started with. The biggest upset went to Sebastian Vearncombe defeating George France rated nearly 1000 points higher. Some of the book prizes were won by winning with unusual openings such as f6 and every player won at least one book prize including a prize for best illegal move.

The event was followed by the CAWA presentations of Grand Prix awards and other major events held during 2016.

Thank you to all the players for joining in the day's activities. Everyone had an enjoyable day and will hopefully participate again in December 2017.

Report by Gordon Dunlop


Prize Winners


  Open
  Patrick Gong
  Andrew Hardegen
  Chirag Saroha

  Reserves (Under 1900)
  Edik Gilmetdinov
  Alex Janceski
  Ned Tomic

  Restricted (Under 1800)  
  Ben Hurst
  Andrey Lugovskoy
  Bernard Laugery


Final Standings


 Place Name                     Feder Rtg Loc  Score  M-Buch. Buch. Progr. 

 1     Gong, Patrick            WA        2180 9        35.5  45.5   45.0
 2-3   Hardegen, Andrew         WA        1982 6.5      32.5  43.5   33.0
       Saroha, Chirag           WA        2064 6.5      32.0  42.0   32.0
 4-9   Hurst, Benjamin          WA        1596 5        37.5  50.5   27.0
       Kelly, Adam              WA        2025 5        35.5  45.5   29.5
       Gilmetdinov, Edik        WA        1887 5        32.5  42.5   27.5
       Hardegen, Kathryn        WA        1949 5        31.0  42.0   23.5
       Janceski, Alex           WA        1873 5        26.5  32.5   21.0
       Tomic, Nedeljko          WA        1835 5        25.0  35.0   19.0
 10    Escalante, Lorenzo       WA        1832 4.5      29.0  37.5   20.5
 11    Shaw, Robin A            WA        1806 4        28.0  38.0   21.0
 12    Carolin-Unkovich, George WA        1874 3.5      34.5  45.5   23.0
 13-14 Lugovskoy, Andrey        WA        1722 2.5      32.5  40.0   13.5
       Laugery, Bernard         WA        1000 2.5      26.5  32.5   11.5
 15    France, George           WA        1621 2        30.5  38.0   11.0
 16    Vearncombe, Sebastian    WA        674  1        29.0  37.5    2.0


Cross Table


 No Name                     Feder Rtg  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    

 1  Gong, Patrick            WA         9:W  7:W  2:W  5:W  3:W  6:W  4:W 12:W 11:W
 2  Hardegen, Andrew         WA        13:W  4:W  1:L 12:W  5:W  3:L  6:W  7:D 15:W
 3  Saroha, Chirag           WA        10:W 12:W  5:L  4:W  1:L  2:W 13:W  6:D 16:W
 4  Hurst, Benjamin          WA         6:W  2:L  8:W  3:L  9:W 11:W  1:L  5:W 10:L
 5  Kelly, Adam              WA        11:W  8:W  3:W  1:L  2:L 12:D 16:W  4:L  6:D
 6  Gilmetdinov, Edik        WA         4:L 13:W 15:W  7:W 16:W  1:L  2:L  3:D  5:D
 7  Hardegen, Kathryn        WA        15:W  1:L 10:W  6:L  8:L  9:W 14:D  2:D 13:W
 8  Janceski, Alex           WA        16:W  5:L  4:L 11:L  7:W 10:W 15:L 14:W 12:W
 9  Tomic, Nedeljko          WA         1:L 15:L 16:W 13:W  4:L  7:L 12:W 10:W 14:W
 10 Escalante, Lorenzo       WA         3:L 14:W  7:L 15:W 13:D  8:L 11:W  9:L  4:W
 11 Shaw, Robin A            WA         5:L 16:W 12:L  8:W 14:W  4:L 10:L 13:W  1:L
 12 Carolin-Unkovich, George WA        14:W  3:L 11:W  2:L 15:W  5:D  9:L  1:L  8:L
 13 Lugovskoy, Andrey        WA         2:L  6:L 14:W  9:L 10:D 16:W  3:L 11:L  7:L
 14 Laugery, Bernard         WA        12:L 10:L 13:L 16:W 11:L 15:W  7:D  8:L  9:L
 15 France, George           WA         7:L  9:W  6:L 10:L 12:L 14:L  8:W 16:L  2:L
 16 Vearncombe, Sebastian    WA         8:L 11:L  9:L 14:L  6:L 13:L  5:L 15:W  3:L