Customs Chess Club Championships 2003-04
5 round Swiss paired Tournament (first 2 rounds accelerated)
Time Control: All moves in 75 minutes
The Event column indicates the trophies for which each player is eligible. C=Championship, P=Plate (in the bottom half of draw), J=Junior (born after 31/8/1985)
Where games are defaulted, no colour is allocated.
| Name |
Event |
Grade |
No. |
Rd 1 |
Rd 2 |
Rd 3 |
Rd 4 |
Rd 5 |
| Mike McDowell |
C |
166 |
1 |
W |
7 |
B |
15 |
W |
18 |
B |
6 |
W |
2 |
| 0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
| Peter Walker |
C |
151 |
2 |
B |
8 |
W |
6 |
B |
3 |
W |
4 |
B |
1 |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
| Matt Jellett |
CJ |
135 |
3 |
|
11 |
B |
7 |
W |
2 |
B |
9 |
|
|
| 1wo |
2 |
2 |
3 |
|
| Nick Jellett |
CJ |
129 |
4 |
B |
13 |
W |
5 |
W |
12 |
B |
2 |
W |
7 |
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
| Daniel Hedges |
CJ |
122 |
5 |
W |
9 |
B |
4 |
W |
17 |
B |
21 |
|
|
| ½ |
½ |
|
|
|
| John Hart |
C |
118 |
6 |
B |
10 |
B |
2 |
W |
15 |
W |
1 |
|
|
| 1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
|
| Graham Walker |
C |
109 |
7 |
B |
1 |
W |
3 |
B |
16 |
W |
3 |
B |
4 |
| 1 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
| Frank Gulley |
C |
98 |
8 |
W |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 0 |
withdrawn |
| Melvin Pool |
C |
95 |
9 |
B |
5 |
W |
19 |
B |
10 |
W |
3 |
|
|
| ½ |
1½ |
2 |
2 |
|
| Mark Jones |
C |
93 |
10 |
W |
6 |
B |
18 |
W |
9 |
B |
15 |
|
|
| 0 |
1 |
1½ |
2 |
|
| Rhys Lloyd |
CPJ |
70e |
11 |
|
4 |
W |
20 |
void |
void |
B |
18 |
W |
16 |
| 0def |
1 |
|
|
2 |
| Tye Byram |
CPJ |
65 |
12 |
W |
17 |
|
w/o |
B |
4 |
B |
7 |
|
|
| 1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
| Adam Jellett |
CPJ |
63 |
13 |
W |
4 |
B |
17 |
W |
21 |
B |
20 |
|
|
| 0 |
|
1 |
|
|
| Lloyd Carter |
CPJ |
57 |
14 |
B |
18 |
W |
16 |
B |
20 |
bye |
|
|
|
| 0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
| Liam Raybould |
CPJ |
54 |
15 |
|
20 |
W |
1 |
B |
6 |
W |
15 |
|
|
| 1wo |
1 |
1 |
1½ |
|
| Kimberley Hirst-Jones |
CPJ |
43 |
16 |
|
19 |
B |
14 |
W |
7 |
B |
19 |
B |
11 |
| 0def |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Steve Raybould |
CP |
42 |
17 |
B |
12 |
W |
13 |
B |
5 |
|
|
|
|
| 0 |
|
|
|
|
| Chris Sheehan |
CPJ |
40e |
18 |
W |
14 |
W |
10 |
B |
1 |
W |
11 |
|
|
| 1 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
| Andrew Raybould |
CPJ |
38 |
19 |
|
16 |
B |
9 |
W |
11 |
|
|
|
|
| 1wo |
1 |
|
2 |
|
| Melissa Hirst-Jones |
CPJ |
27 |
20 |
|
15 |
B |
11 |
W |
14 |
W |
13 |
|
|
| 0def |
0 |
1 |
|
|
| Jack Sirkett |
CPJ |
73r |
21 |
|
|
|
hpb |
B |
13 |
W |
5 |
|
|
| 0 |
½ |
½ |
|
|
Round 1, 28th October 2003:
1. Mike McDowell (166) 0 - 1 Graham Walker (109)
2. Frank Gulley (98) 0 - 1 Peter Walker (151)
3. Daniel Hedges (122) ½ - ½ Melvin Pool (95)
4. Mark Jones (93) 0 - 1 John Hart (118)
5. Tye Byram (65) 1 - 0 Steve Raybould (42)
6. Chris Sheehan (40e) 1 - 0 Lloyd Carter (57)
7. Liam Raybould (54) 1 - 0 Melissa Hirst-Jones (27) (def)
8. Andrew Raybould (38) 1 - 0 Kimberley Hirst-Jones (43) (def)
9. Matthew Jellett (135) 1 - 0 (def) Rhys Lloyd (70e)
10. Adam Jellett (63) 0 - 1 Nick Jellett (129)
Round 2, 25th November 2003:
1. Peter Walker (1) 1 - 0 John Hart (1)
2. Graham Walker (1) 0 - 1 Matthew Jellett (1)
3. Nick Jellett (1) 1 - 0 Daniel Hedges (.5)
4. Liam Raybould (1) 0 - 1 Mike McDowell (0)
5. Tye Byram (1) 1 - 0 Frank Gulley (0)(Frank withdraws)
6. Chris Sheehan (1) 0 - 1 Mark Jones (0)
7. Melvin Pool (.5) 1 - 0 Andrew Raybould (1)
8. Rhys Lloyd (0) 1 - 0 Melissa Hirst-Jones (0)
9. Steve Raybould (0) v Adam Jellett (0)
10. Lloyd Carter (0) 0 - 1 Kimberley Hirst-Jones (0)
Round 3, 27th January 2004:
1. Matthew Jellett (2) 0 - 1 Peter Walker (2)
2. Nick Jellett (2) 1 - 0 Tye Byram (2)
3. Mark Jones (1) ½ - ½ Melvin Pool (1½)
4. Mike McDowell (1) 1 - 0 Chris Sheehan (1)
5. John Hart (1) 1 - 0 Liam Raybould (1)
6. Kimberley Hirst-Jones (1) 0 - 1 Graham Walker (1)
7. Andrew Raybould (1) v Rhys Lloyd (1)
8. Daniel Hedges v Steve Raybould
9. Adam Jellett (½) 1 - 0 Jack Sirkett (½)
10. Melissa Hirst-Jones (0) 1 - 0 Lloyd Carter (0)
Round 4 30th March 2004
1. Peter Walker (3) 1 - 0 Nick Jellett (3)
2. John Hart (2) 0 - 1 Mike McDowell (2)
3. Melvin Pool (2) 0 - 1 Matt Jellett (2)
4. Graham Walker (2) 1 - 0 Tye Byram (2)
5. Liam Raybould (1) ½ - ½ Mark Jones (1½)
6. Chris Sheehan (1) v Rhys Lloyd (1)
7. Melissa Hirst-Jones (1) v Adam Jellett (1)
8. Andrew Raybould (1) 1 - 0 Kimberley Hirst-Jones (1)
9. Jack Sirkett (½) v Daniel Hedges (½)
10. Lloyd Carter bye
Round 5.
1. Mike McDowell (3) 1 - 0 Peter Walker (4)
2. Nick Jellett (3) 0 - 1 Graham Walker (3)
3. Matt Jellett (3) v John Hart (2)
4. Mark Jones (2) v Andrew Raybould (2)
5. Tye Byram (2) v Melvin Pool (2)
6. Chris Sheehan (2) v Melissa Hirst-Jones (2)
7. Dan Hedges (1.5) v Liam Raybould (1.5)
8. Rhys Lloyd (1) 1 - 0 Kimberley Hirst-Jones (1)
9. Lloyd Carter (1) v Jack Sirkett (0.5)
10. Adam Jellett bye
Jellett,M - Walker,P [C31]
Club Championship Round 3
[Walker,Peter]
1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5
Falkbeer Counter Gambit
3.exd5
[ 3.fxe5 and White emulates the shortest Olympiad loss of all time, when former Rayleigh player John Cooper won on board 1 for Wales v Rigaud of the Dutch Antilles. 3...Qh4+ 4.g3 Qxe4+ 5.Kf2 Bc5+]
3...e4
The "Counter Gambit Par Excellence" (Tartakower and du Mont)
4.Bc4 [ 4.d3 Speilmann-Tarrasch 1923)]
4...Nf6 5.Ne2
Fritz, the Great Materialist, wants to get the pawn back at this point with Nxd5
5...Bc5
Stops castling
6.Nbc3 0-0 7.Na4
still d3 is an option
7...Qd6 8.d4 exd3 9.Qxd3 Re8
Black is determined that the White king will remain in the middle
10.h3
Understandable, but how does White develop his pieces?
10...Bd7
Black too has some development problems. His queen-side pieces are needed to help in the attack but, due to the white pawn on d5, good squares are hard to find.
11.Nac3
Taking the bishop seems preferable on the grounds that exchanges normally favour the defender. Even so, there are an awful lot of holes on the dark squares, particularly e3
11...Qb6 12.b3 [ 12.Na4] 12...Na6 13.a3 [ 13.Bxa6] 13...Bf2+
Now 0-0 and 0-0-0 are out of the question, but White is always likely to force exchanges, easing his problems.
14.Kd1 Nc5
Now Black has another active piece threatening the tangled White setup.
15.Qf3 Nce4 16.Bd3
For the first time, Fritz prefers Black, but only if he plays 16 ... Bd4
16...Bf5 [ 16...Bd4] 17.g4 Nxc3+ 18.Nxc3 Bxd3 19.Qxd3 Rad8
Now Black has completed his development while White is still trying to hang on.
20.Bd2 Qd4 [ 20...c6; 20...c6] 21.Qxd4 Bxd4
Black is winning his pawn back and maintaining the attack. However, White's 22nd move is calamitous.
22.Ra2 [ 22.Re1 Rxe1+ 23.Kxe1 Nxd5 24.Nxd5 Bxa1 25.Nxc7 Rc8 26.Nb5 -/+]
22...Bxc3 23.Bxc3 Nxd5
Wins material in all variations.
24.Kc1 Nxc3 25.Ra1 Ne2+ 26.Kb2 Nxf4 27.Raf1 g5 28.h4 Ne2 29.Rf3 Nd4 30.Rfh3 Re2 31.R3h2 Rxh2 32.Rxh2 Nf3 0-1
Mike has one of his rare outings with the Sicilian Defence.
Hart,J - McDowell,M [B23]
S&DCL
1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 e6 4.Nf3 a6 5.a4 Nge7 6.d4 cxd4 7.Nxd4 Nxd4 8.Qxd4 Nc6 9.Qf2 Bb4 10.Bd2 0-0 11.Bd3 d6 12.h4 Bc5 13.Qg3 Nb4 14.h5 Nxd3+
15.cxd3 f5 16.h6 g6 17.Ne2 Qb6 18.Bc3 Bd7 19.Kd2 Bb4 20.Rhb1 fxe4 21.dxe4 Bc6 22.Qd3 d5 23.exd5 Rad8 24.Ke1 Rxd5 25.Qh3 Kf7 26.Kf1 Rh5
27.Qxh5? [ White can play 27.Bd4 Qa5 28.Qg3 but he goes a pawn down.]
27...gxh5 28.Rd1 Bxc3 0-1
Walker,P - Jellett,N [C11]
Club Championship round 4.
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Nf3 c5 6.Bb5 Qb6 7.Bxd7+ Bxd7 8.0-0 Nc6 9.Na4 Qc7 10.Nxc5 Bxc5 11.dxc5 Nxe5 12.Nxe5 Qxe5
13.Re1 Qf5 14.a4 0-0 15.Ra3 Bc6 16.Rg3 Rfe8 17.Bh6 g6 18.Rf3 Qh5 19.Qd2 d4 20.Rh3 Qxc5 21.Qf4 Qf5 22.Qxd4 e5 23.Qh4 f6 24.g4 Qd7
25.Qxf6 Qxg4+ 26.Rg3 Qd7 27.h4 Qf7 28.Qg5 Qe7 29.Qxe7 Rxe7 30.f4 Bxa4 31.b3 Bd7 32.fxe5 Rae8 33.Rge3 Bf5 34.c4 Rc8 35.Rd1 Rce8
36.Rde1 Rc8 37.Bg5 Re6 38.Kf2 Rce8 39.Bf6 Ra6 40.Rg3 Kf7 41.h5 Ra2+ 42.Ke3 Ra6 43.hxg6+ hxg6 44.Kf4?? Rxf6 45.Rh1 g5+?? 46.Rxg5 Rb6
47.Rxf5+ Kg6 48.Rg5+ Kf7 49.Rh7+ 1-0
An exciting game. I blundered a piece on move 44 and Nick gave it back with interest on move 45.
Jellett,N - Walker,G [C01]
Club Championship rd 5
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 c5 5.dxc5 Bxc5 6.b3 Qb6 7.Qe2+ Be6 8.Qb5+ Nc6 9.Qxb6 Bxb6 10.Bb2 Nf6 11.Bxf6 gxf6 12.Bb5 Bg4 13.Nbd2 0-0-0
14.Bxc6 bxc6 15.0-0 Rde8 16.Rfe1 Ba5 17.Rxe8+ Rxe8 18.h3 Bc3 19.Rc1 Bh5 20.Kf1 f5 21.Nb1 Bb2 22.Re1 Kd7 23.Rxe8 Kxe8 24.Nh4 Bd1 25.Nd2 Bxc2
26.Ke2 Ke7 27.Nhf3 Kf6 28.Ne1 Be4 29.f3 Bc3 30.fxe4 fxe4 31.Nc2 Ke5 32.Nb1 Bb2 33.Ne3 f5 34.Nd2 Bd4 35.Nc2 c5 36.a4 Bc3 [ 36...f4] 37.Nb1 Ba5
38.Nba3 f4 39.Kf2 a6 40.Ke2 Bb4 41.Nxb4 cxb4 42.Nc2 a5 43.Kd2 d4 44.Ne1 d3 45.Nxd3+ exd3 46.Kxd3 Kd5 47.Ke2 Kd4 48.Kd2 h6 49.h4 h5 50.Ke2 Kc3
51.Kf3 Kxb3 52.Kxf4 Kc2 53.g4 b3 0-1
Another good one. Graham did not mean to get his bishop trapped, but the 4 dominating central black pawns were always going to demand extremely careful play by White.
Not playing this year:-
Jim Grigg
Ellen Walker
Heather Walker
Charles Bowering
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