Mures wins first SuperBlitz!

Thursday 23 July, 2009

Hendon Chess Club’s first SuperBlitz champion is Cristian Mures! In a hard-fought tournament on Thursday evening, Cristian eventually came out top in the play-offs, closely followed by Adam Raoof and Michael Bennett.

Qualifying Group Results

The top two from each all-play-all qualifying group went through to the play-offs.

Note: group names were invented by Adam Raoof – all questions regarding these should be directed to him please! (Adam comments: I think that everyone enjoyed the evening – I will sort out the few technical problems for the next event so that you can enjoy it even more!)

“The Section of Doom”

  • Cristian Mures 4/5
  • David Ben-Nathan 3½/5
  • Jamie Goodwin 3/5
  • Vivian Cohen, Kwong Chai 2/5
  • Simon Samet ½/5

“The Big One”

  • Michael Bennett 6/7
  • Tomer Eden 5½/7
  • Graeme Lennard 4½/7
  • David Iwi 4/7
  • Ivan Valigurksyy, Malcolm Gesthuysen 3/7
  • Raj Bhalla, Jacob Cheyette 1/7

“The Walkover”

  • Adam Raoof 4.5/5
  • Petr Limonov 3/5
  • Chris Jones 2½/5
  • Salvatore Pepe 2/5
  • Kishan Pattni, Faye Ainscow 1½/5

Playoff Results

  • Cristian Mures 4/5
  • Adam (I beat Cristian!) Raoof, Michael Bennett 3½/5
  • Tomer Eden 3/5
  • David Ben-Nathan 1/5
  • Petr Limonov 0/5
No Name       1 2 3 4 5 6
1  Mures      x 0 1 1 1 1
2  Raoof      1 x 0 ½ 1 1
3  Eden       0 1 x 0 1 1
4  Bennett    0 ½ 1 x 1 1
5  Limonov    0 0 0 0 x 0
6  Ben-Nathan 0 0 0 0 1 x