The Portsmouth Individual Championship was played as a rapidplay at Emsworth Chess Club on Sunday 11 May. Several of our members entered, with notable successes for Remel Ramirez taking 2nd prize and Mike Spence the U1700 prize. Well done!
Congratulations to Vinuda Gunatilake on his 100% score clean sweep. An achievement not made within memory and an outstanding performance in a strong tournament field. En route to victory, Vinuda met, in round order, past champion Ian Richardson, Tom Howeson, Paul White, defending champion Andrew McDougall, fellow rising star Laurence Ellett and 3 times champion Jaimie Wilson. A challenging draw for sure and to win them all was a noteworthy achievement that will live long in the memory. Well done.
Runner up was Andrew McDougall with 5/6 losing only the single game to Vinuda.
Completing the podium, we have a crush for 3rd place with 4½/6 . Jaimie Wilson drew with Laurence Ellett in round 2 and each lost only a single game to Vinuda. An excellent tournament for these two. Steve Smith also scored 4½/6.
Congratulations to our Board 1 Jaimie Wilson on his second place in a field of 50 at the Fareham Rapidplay on 19 April.
All games need to be played by Monday 30th June at the latest.
A reminder that going forward all results from the box league games should now be forwarded to this email address chichesterchess.box@gmail.com. Please continue to copy Jamie Wilson in for grading purposes.
Well done to Graham Ellis who won the second round of the competition with an impressive 4 wins out of 4 games and now also leads the overall competition with 269.74 pts. He is closely followed by Jamie Wilson on 248.39pts and Rahul Leo Thomas on 225.93 pts.
For your diary. The 2025 Chichester Chess Club AGM will be held on August 11.
Draw for Round 6.
All matches to be played on (or before) Monday 28th April 2025.
| BoardNo | White | V | Black | Comments |
| 1 | Jaimie (4.5) | v | Vinuda (5) | |
| 2 | Andrew (4) | v | Lara (3.5) | |
| 3 | Steve S (4) | v | Bill E (3) | |
| 4 | Laurence (3.5) | v | Phil (3) | |
| 5 | Ian J (3) | v | Remel (3) | |
| 6 | Steve C (3) | v | Ryan (3) | |
| 7 | John H (3) | v | Adam (3) | |
| 8 | Mike W (3) | v | Mike E (2.5) | |
| 9 | Ian R (2.5) | v | Chris (2.5) | |
| 10 | Graham (2.5) | v | Alan (2) | |
| 11 | Tom (2) | v | Paul S (2) | |
| 12 | Mike S (2) | v | Rahul (1.5) | |
| 13 | Paul W (2) | v | Julz (1) | |
| 14 | Isaac (2) | v | Steve O (1) | |
| 15 | Vishal (2) | v | Francisco (0.5) | |
| 16 | Penny (1) | v | Kyall (1) | |
| 17 | Lucas (0.5) | v | Lloyd (1) |
Fantastic result from the team tonight, outrated by 170 points a board or so but winning on the board elimination rule. Well played everyone, we made the final! Thanks to all.
Jaimie
| 1 | 2097 | Wilson, JaimieG | ½ – ½ | G Bezuidenhout, Roland | 2418 |
| 2 | 1966 | McDougall, William MG | 1 – 0 | G Corkett, Anthony R | 2180 |
| 3 | 1950 | Pai, SidhanthG | ½ – ½ | G Gregory, Keith DF | 1989 |
| 4 | 1763 | Judd, Ian PG | 0 – 1 | G Wicken, Jack | 1967 |
| 5 | 1804 | Ramirez, RemelG | ½ – ½ | G Janota, Paul S | 1886 |
The League Committee has decided to run the Portsmouth Individual Championship as a Rapid event this year.
It will be held on Sunday May 11 at Emsworth Chess Club.
The winner will win the Portsmouth Individual Cup and a cash prize, other prizes include Grading and Junior.
This is the first such event and will only be viable if we have at least 20 entries, with a maximum of 40.
The entry form is in the link below, simply complete and press ‘Submit’.
Brilliant win by Andrew against John Wheeler in recent A team match versus Cosham A added to Games Section here
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