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!
| 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 |