I'm late for a very important date

Hello peoples! sorry i havent updated the blog. I was too tired Thursday night and ended up going to bed relatively early. And then Friday afternoon i was in an internet cafe typing up my Blog entry when the Internet explorer decided to die on me. I was not happy so they didn't charge me for using the internet.

The chess playing public not playing (or had finished their games) in the SIO were treated to a commentary by Smerdon on his draw against George Xie. There is a lot of things for chessplayers who are not in the tournament to participate in. Simuls, Large outdoor chess set, game commentary. or just watch from the sidelines.

Now to the chess:
Round four saw Antic and Timoshenko draw on top board, Bakre and Carlos Matamoros Franco draw on the third board and no less than ten other boards: IM Smerdon drew with IM Xie, Vincent Suttor drew with IM Guy West. Tredinnik against Voon, Max Illingworth had a "grandmaster draw" with Zhigen Lin, Paloma Gutierrez Castillo against Fedja Zufric, Contreras Nelson Munoz against Edwin Wu, Benjamin Harris against Jason Chan, Alexander Stanke against Kumar Uttam, Norm Greenwood against Ian Dickson and down on board 37 two Australian WIMs drew against each other: Narelle Szuveges and Laura Moylan

There were no less than 12 upsets. Biggest of all Manthan Chokshi defeating GM Sergei Shipov. Other Upsets: Gareth Oliver over Vladimir Smirnov, Lazarus defeated Bucher, Angelo Tsagarakis defeated "Dancing with the Stars" Stunner Ariane Caoili, Gene Nacauchi defeated Karenlampi, Rob Hvistendahl defeated Ilija Ilic, Johnathan Yuen defeated Tony Davis, Dennis Wan defeated Anthony Pickering, Jason Cohn defeated Sue Marora, Shirley Wu defeated Vaness Reid and Krishna Kumar defeated Ely tacorda.

Rogers took the lead in round five with a win over GM Murray Chandler.

There were thirteen draws and thirteen upsets in round five:
Draws: IM Garbett against GM Matamoros Franco, GM Bakre against IM Zhao, Sam Chow drew with englands Simon Ansell, Chris Wallis drew with Igor Goldenberg, Hilton Bennet confirmed that Shipov was having a bad tournament, Young ACT up and comer Andrew Brown drew against strong Victorian Dusan Stojic, Shon drew with Castillo Gutierrez, Hvistendahl drew with Moylan, I (Trent Parker) snatched a draw from the clutches of defeat when I was able to push my passed pawns up the board and in time pressure Ian offered a draw due to the threats of my pawns. Carla Wettstein drew with Anthony Pickering and Dhirendra Kumar drew with Korenevski.

Upsets were scored by Marc Rupplinger over IM Gary lane. Barak Atzmon Simons over Pinoy Jesse Sales, Greth Oliver steamed ahad by beating Steadman, Sydney Academy of chess Student Max Illingworth defeated Sydney Academy of Chess Coach Neil Wright, Tredinnik defeated Bernardino, Gregs father Mike Canfell defeated Tony Dowden, Leonardo Tenorio defeated Robert Gibbons, Gene Nakauchi defeated Vilestri, Antheny Lo defeated Dennis Holland Sue Maroroa lost to Carrie Evans, Sarah Anton defeated Sally Yu,Ido Tullic defated Gor Neegam.

So after five rounds we had Rogers on 5/5 as sole leader followed by Antic, Timoshenko and Smerdon on 4.5, Chandler, Toth Bakre, Matamoros Franco, Solomon, Zhao, Garbett, Chokshi, Oliver, Mikhalevski, Repplinger, Rej, Bjelobrk, Ly and Atzmon Simon all on 4/5. Further back in the pack are GM Johanson on 3.5 and top Seed Shipov on 3.


Now to Thursdays Rounds.

I missed my regular train on this day so i was rushing to the venue and arrived 3 minutes before forfeiture time! I always play too quickly when i arrive late. I hate arriving late I had an alright opening but i missed a combo that won a pawn. Oh well......

After my game I was lucky enough to get a seat to play against local player Adrian Rose in a Simul. I was the only one to beat him!

In round 6 the top board clash ended in a draw between Ian Rogers and GM Antic. Timoshenko defeated Smerdon and Mikhalevski defeated Moulthun Ly. FM Igor Bjelobrk kicked off the upsets by defeating GM Carlos Matamoros Franco, and Tomek Rej defeated IM Stephen Solomon.

Gareth Oliver continued his excellent run by drawing against IM Andras Toth. Other Draws for the round included Vincent Suttor against FM Igor Goldenberg, Ilia Zvedeniouk against GM Sergei Shipov, Eugene Shon against Angelito Camer, Julius Caesar Marquez against Anthony Pickering, Dhirendra Kumar against Michael Gearing, Mario Aisa against Milan Ninchich, Matthew Sweeney against David Evans.

Christopher Wallis had a huge win against Victorian IM Guy West. Other upsets include Ivan Zirdum over Jesse Sales, Svetosar Stojic over Michael Wei, Andrew Brown over Malcolm Tredinnik, Blair Mandla over Ilija Ilic and Alexandra Jule downed Alan Tankel.

Round 7 saw draws on 6 of the top 8 boards and upsets on the other two. GM Timoshenko drew with GM Rogers, GM Antic played against Mikhalevski's Grunfeld for a draw, Bakre - Chandler ended in a draw, Zhao Bjelobrk ended in a draw, IM Simon Ansell was defeated by Tomek Rej
Gareth Oliver was playing strong enough to defeat David Smerdon. GM Johansen drew with Chow, FM Smith drew with Andras Toth and Vladimir Smirnov was held to a draw by Vincent Suttor

On Lower boards draws were agreed upon by: Paul Broekhuyse against Marc Repplinger,WIM Moylan against Zhigen Lin, WIM Arianne Caoili drawing with Blair Mandla, Ian Dickson drawing with Tony Dowden, Eugene Shon drawing with Contreras Nelson Munoz, Edwin Wu drawing with WFM Helen Milligan, Joshua Christensen drawing with Oleg Korenevski, Dennis Wan against Sue Maroroa, Michael Gearing and Alexander Stanke drew, and Jean Watson and Justin Tan Drew.

Top Seed Sergei Shipov finally got a win against Svetozar Stojic.

After holing Shipov to a draw Ilia Zvedeniouk defeated IM Guy West. Other Upsets included:
Max Illingworth over Dusan Stojic, Fedja Zulfic over Jason Chan, Gordon Dunlop against Pirkka Karenlampi, David Lovejoy was defeated by johnathan Yuen, Gene Nakauchi defated Tony Davis, Vivian Smith defeated the doctor of the house Vasil Tulevski, Anthony Lo defeated Willian Forster, I defeated Vaness Reid's Bird like Dutch, Matt Sweeney defeated Ido Tulic and Karishma Kumar defeated Gor Neegam.

Will update round by round today.

So at the moment we have three equal first: Rogers Timoshenko and Rej all on 6 points, followed by Antic, Chandler, Bakre, Zhao, Xie, Mikhalevski, Oliver, Bjelobrk all on 5.5/6!