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David Amior retains Championship lead

By Andrew Medworth, Hendon Club Captain
Sunday 14 July, 2024

On Thursday, the fourth round of our Club Championship took place. David Amior kept himself in the sole lead on 4/4 by defeating Armaan Nilim with the White pieces.

Both Lion Lebedev and I won our games, so the two of us are in joint second place on 3½/4 going into next Thursday’s fifth round, with Salvatore Pepe, David Ben-Nathan and Rob Willmoth half a point behind.

I’d like to remind all tournament participants that if you are not intending to play in a particular round of the Club Championship (or if you wish to withdraw from the tournament), you should please inform the arbiters as early as possible.

Ideally this should be done no later than 11pm the day before the round, as this ensures you are not paired with an opponent and allows the arbiters to give everyone else the best possible pairings.

However, even if you need to withdraw after that point, you should still inform the arbiters as soon as you can, as this allows them to organise re-pairings (as happened with Daniel and myself this round) or, in the worst case, to inform your opponent that they need not attend.

This courtesy ensures nobody has a wasted journey to the venue expecting to play against someone who does not turn up. Many thanks!

Games

White Black
1 David Amior 1920 1 - 0 Armaan Nilim 1748
2 Lion Lebedev 2007 1 - 0 Jonathan Samuel 1790
3 Alexander Funk 1845 ½ - ½ Sundip Tailor 1475
4 Shehab Alshehabi 1647 0 - 1 David Ben-Nathan 1813
5 Stanley G Jacobs 1414 0 - 1 Salvatore Pepe 1705
6 Kunal Ramchandani 1462 1 - 0 Chris S Rogal 1771
7 David Lewis 1416 0 - 1 Nick Murphy 1734
8 Tom Garcia 1692 0 - 1 Rohan Theo Barbier-Ramaiah 1472
9 Michael Paulins 1381 ½ - ½ Stephen C Pride 1630
10 Ben Horspool 1602 ½ - ½ Maximo Pollack 1367
11 Ben Assirati 0 - 1 Max Michener 1562
12 Callum Hill 1487 1 - 0 Djad Ben-Eshak 1137
13 Xuanyi Cai 0 - 1 Arun Mahtani 1339
15 Safa Alam 1 - 0 Jonathan Rosen-Webb 1346
16 Bahram Salehzehi 996 1 - 0 Assad Asil Companioni
17 Andrew Medworth 1743 1 - 0 Daniel Moosdeen Mui 1587

Byes

  • Full-point: Nick Goulbourne
  • Half-point: Robert F Willmoth; Jonathan Rubeck; Brendan O'Gorman; Riya Aude Barbier-Ramaiah; Marcus Gordon; Tony Artman; Damien Sobolevski; Mohammad Ali Salehzehi; Vadim Sobolevski
  • Zero-point: Pranav Kuckian; Gautam Sriram

Standings

  • 1: David Amior (4)
  • 2-3: Lion Lebedev, Andrew Medworth (3½)
  • 4-6: Salvatore Pepe, David Ben-Nathan, CM Robert F Willmoth (3)
  • 7-16: Armaan Nilim, Rohan Theo Barbier-Ramaiah, Sundip Tailor, Max Michener, Kunal Ramchandani, Nick Murphy, Jonathan Rubeck, Alexander Funk, Brendan O'Gorman, Callum Hill (2½)
  • 17-30: Jonathan Samuel, Stanley G Jacobs, Nick Goulbourne, Maximo Pollack, ACM Michael Paulins, Stephen C Pride, Shehab Alshehabi, Daniel Moosdeen Mui, Safa Alam, Vadim Sobolevski, Arun Mahtani, Ben Horspool, Damien Sobolevski, Marcus Gordon (2)
  • 31-37: Djad Ben-Eshak, Chris S Rogal, Ben Assirati, David Lewis, Tony Artman, Tom Garcia, Riya Aude Barbier-Ramaiah (1½)
  • 38-41: Bahram Salehzehi, Xuanyi Cai, Pranav Kuckian, Mohammad Ali Salehzehi (1)
  • 42-43: Assad Asil Companioni, Jonathan Rosen-Webb (½)
  • 44: ACM Gautam Sriram (0)