The first ever WA Rapidplay Championships was held on the 12th and 13th October at North Woodvale Primary School and attracted 16 participants. The event was convincingly won by Patrick Gong with a perfect score of 9/9, granting him the title of 2019 WA Rapidplay Chess Champion. The minor placings were dominated by juniors with Jamie Laubbacher, Rebo Fu and Oscar Gao gaining second, third and fourth place respectively. The title of 2019 WA Womens Rapidplay Champion was awarded to Celine Ong. Report kindly provided by Jay Lakner. |
Open 1st: Patrick Gong 2nd: Rebo Fu U/1600 1st: Jamie Laubbacher 2nd: Oscar Gao U/1300 =1st: Francesco Dainese & Mike Nain |
Pos Pts ID Title NAME Rtg Fed Buc1 BucT 1 9.0 1 FM Gong,Patrick 2387 WA 41.5 44.5 2 7.0 10 Laubbacher,Jamie 1324 WA 40.5 43.0 3 6.5 2 Fu,Yihe (Rebo) 2044 WA 44.5 47.0 4 5.5 6 Gao,Oscar 1588 WA 43.0 45.0 5 5.0 8 Gough,Dylan 1523 WA 43.0 46.5 6 4.5 3 Tomic,Nedeljko 1720 WA 45.5 48.0 7 4.5 5 Ivankovich,Paul 1649 WA 42.0 44.0 8 4.5 12 Nairn,Mike 1259 WA 37.0 39.0 9 4.5 16 Dainese,Francesco 0 ITA 35.0 37.0 10 4.0 11 Pimenov,Alex 1314 WA 40.0 42.0 11 4.0 15 Ong,Celine 976 WA 29.0 31.0 12 3.5 14 Manasseh,Christopher 1018 WA 35.0 37.0 13 3.0 9 Donaldson,Gary 1490 WA 38.0 40.0 14 2.5 4 Wolstencroft,Alan 1701 WA 36.0 38.0 15 2.0 7 Gale,Brian 1577 WA 31.5 33.5 16 2.0 13 Nguyen,Minh 1066 WA 30.5 32.5 |
Pos NAME Rtg T Fed Pts | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | Buc1 BucT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Gong,Patrick 2387 FM WA 9.0 | +W13 +B4 +W2 +B6 +W7 +B3 +W5 +B8 +W10 | 41.5 44.5 2 Laubbacher,Jamie 1324 WA 7.0 | +W3 +B14 -B1 -W7 +B10 +W4 +B6 +W12 +W13 | 40.5 43.0 3 Fu,Yihe (Rebo) 2044 WA 6.5 | -B2 +W8 +B4 +W14 +B9 -W1 +B7 +W6 =B5 | 44.5 47.0 4 Gao,Oscar 1588 WA 5.5 | +B12 -W1 -W3 +B13 =W5 -B2 +B15 +W9 +B6 | 43.0 45.0 5 Gough,Dylan 1523 WA 5.0 | =B9 -W6 +B8 =W10 =B4 +W12 -B1 +W7 =W3 | 43.0 46.5 6 Tomic,Nedeljko 1720 WA 4.5 | =W10 +B5 +W11 -W1 +B14 +B7 -W2 -B3 -W4 | 45.5 48.0 7 Ivankovich,Paul 1649 WA 4.5 | +W16 =B11 +W10 +B2 -B1 -W6 -W3 -B5 +B15 | 42.0 44.0 8 Nairn,Mike 1259 WA 4.5 | -W14 -B3 -W5 =B16 +B15 +W11 +B9 -W1 +B12 | 37.0 39.0 9 Dainese,Francesco 0 ITA 4.5 | =W5 -B10 +W13 +B11 -W3 +B14 -W8 -B4 +W16 | 35.0 37.0 10 Pimenov,Alex 1314 WA 4.0 | =B6 +W9 -B7 =B5 -W2 +W16 -B12 +W15 -B1 | 40.0 42.0 11 Ong,Celine 976 WA 4.0 | +B15 =W7 -B6 -W9 =W12 -B8 -W13 +W16 +B14 | 29.0 31.0 12 Manasseh,Christopher 1018 WA 3.5 | -W4 -B13 +W16 +W15 =B11 -B5 +W10 -B2 -W8 | 35.0 37.0 13 Donaldson,Gary 1490 WA 3.0 | -B1 +W12 -B9 -W4 =B16 -W15 +B11 =W14 -B2 | 38.0 40.0 14 Wolstencroft,Alan 1701 WA 2.5 | +B8 -W2 +B15 -B3 -W6 -W9 -B16 =B13 -W11 | 36.0 38.0 15 Gale,Brian 1577 WA 2.0 | -W11 +B16 -W14 -B12 -W8 +B13 -W4 -B10 -W7 | 31.5 33.5 16 Nguyen,Minh 1066 WA 2.0 | -B7 -W15 -B12 =W8 =W13 -B10 +W14 -B11 -B9 | 30.5 32.5 |