David Amior is the Club Champion!

By Andrew Medworth, Hendon Club Captain
Monday 29 July, 2024

The final round of the 2023/24 Club Championship took place last Thursday. Before the start, David Amior was in the clear lead with 4½/5, in front of Salvatore Pepe and Lion Lebedev on 4/5.

Lion took a bye, which meant that David (facing Salvatore with the White pieces) only needed a draw to guarantee outright first place. This he duly achieved, so David is our Club Champion: congratulations to him!

The David Jones trophy for the best performance by a player rated under 1675 goes on tie-break to Michael Paulins, who scored 4/6 with a rating performance near 1800. Congratulations to him as well!

Many thanks to Lance Leslie-Smith for running the tournament, and thanks to everyone who played!

Games

White Black
1 David Amior 1920 ½ - ½ Salvatore Pepe 1705
2 Jonathan Rubeck 1907 ½ - ½ Nick Murphy 1734
3 Brendan O'Gorman 1757 ½ - ½ Sundip Tailor 1475
4 Andrew Medworth 1743 0 - 1 Armaan Nilim 1748
5 Robert F Willmoth 2202 1 - 0 Kunal Ramchandani 1462
6 Michael Paulins 1381 1 - 0 David Ben-Nathan 1813
7 Ben Horspool 1602 1 - 0 Jonathan Samuel 1790
8 Daniel Moosdeen Mui 1587 0 - 1 Stephen C Pride 1630
9 Stanley G Jacobs 1414 ½ - ½ Djad Ben-Eshak 1137
10 Callum Hill 1487 1 - 0 Marcus Gordon 1413
11 Shehab Alshehabi 1647 1 - 0 Safa Alam
12 Bahram Salehzehi 996 0 - 1 Maximo Pollack 1367
13 Xuanyi Cai 0 - 1 Tony Artman 1300
14 Nick Goulbourne 1300 1 - 0 Vadim Sobolevski
15 Damien Sobolevski 1055 0 - 1 Ben Assirati
16 Assad Asil Companioni 0 - 1 Tom Garcia 1692

Byes

  • Full-point: Mohammad Ali Salehzehi
  • Zero-point: Jonathan Rosen-Webb; Lion Lebedev; Alexander Funk; Chris S Rogal; Max Michener; Gautam Sriram; Rohan Theo Barbier-Ramaiah; Riya Aude Barbier-Ramaiah; David Lewis; Arun Mahtani; Pranav Kuckian

Standings

  • 1: David Amior (5/6)
  • 2-3: Salvatore Pepe, Armaan Nilim (4½/6)
  • 4-12: ACM Michael Paulins, Sundip Tailor, Stephen C Pride, Ben Horspool, Lion Lebedev, CM Robert F Willmoth, Nick Murphy, Jonathan Rubeck, Brendan O'Gorman (4/6)
  • 13-15: Andrew Medworth, Stanley G Jacobs, Callum Hill (3½/6)
  • 16-26: Jonathan Samuel, David Ben-Nathan, Nick Goulbourne, Maximo Pollack, Djad Ben-Eshak, Ben Assirati, Kunal Ramchandani, Rohan Theo Barbier-Ramaiah, Daniel Moosdeen Mui, Shehab Alshehabi, Tony Artman (3/6)
  • 27-29: Max Michener, Alexander Funk, Tom Garcia (2½/6)
  • 30-37: Xuanyi Cai, Bahram Salehzehi, Safa Alam, Vadim Sobolevski, Arun Mahtani, Damien Sobolevski, Mohammad Ali Salehzehi, Marcus Gordon (2/6)
  • 38-41: David Lewis, Chris S Rogal, Assad Asil Companioni, Riya Aude Barbier-Ramaiah (1½/6)
  • 42: Pranav Kuckian (1/6)
  • 43: Jonathan Rosen-Webb (½/6)
  • 44: ACM Gautam Sriram (0/6)