Top Board Graveyard

The top board has not been a happy hunting ground for our visiting GM's this tournament. In round two Samuel Chow was able to hold GM Shipov to a draw on the top board and in round three IM Simon Ansell defeated second seed GM Victor Mikhalevski.

One player who is performing outstandingly well is my mate Josh Christensen. I hope to post his third round win against Domagoj Dragicevic. Josh is now on 2.5/3 A excellent effort for a playerwith a rating of 1605.

Round two Upsets included:

Draws:
Manthon Chokshi against Z-Y Zhao
IM Paul Garbett could only draw against Jason Hu
Angelito Camer drew with FM Robert smith.
Milan Ninchich and Hamish Selnes
Dennis Holland drew against lower rated Jason Cohn
I (trent parker) drew a good game against Gary Bekker. at one stage i could have won.
Angelo Tsagarakis was only able to score a draw against Allen Setiabudi.
Alexander Stanke drew with the highly rated junior Edwin Wu

Defeats
Gareth oliver defeating FM Igor Bjelobrk
Robert Gibbons defeating Moulthoun ly
Marc Vietstra defeated Dusan Stojic
Alex Mendes da Costa defeated Armen Ayvazyan
Max Illinworth Defeated Malcom "Macavity" Pyke
Joshua Christensen over Uttam, Kumar Saha.
Leonardo Tenorio lost to Dhirendra Kumar

In round 3
draws were played by
Narelle Szuveges against Almario Marion Bernardino
Jason Cohn against Hamish Selnes
Ian Dickson v Yuen
Leong v Bekker

Wins were had by
Alexander Stanke againstMarquez
Korenski was defeated by Norm Greenwood
Gene Nakauchi defeating Lorenzo.

Another notable game for the round was Max Illingworth against Sergey Shipov. Will hopefully bring that game to the blog as well.

Laterz people!!! Day three is coming up!

You aint seen nothing yet!!