2020 Winter Cup – Round 4

Entries for the Spring Rapid will be going up soon. This will be 6 rounds of 25+5 Rapid in a single Grade.

We had a film crew in the Club getting some footage for a documentary on Club member Mike Steiner.

Vega Links: A Grade , B Grade

A Grade

Winter Cup A Grade Round 4 PGN by Ewen Green

A Draw on the top board between Alphaeus Ang and Bruce Watson means that Paul Garbett is now in the led by himself on 4 points out of 4.

On Row 2 Euan McDougall and Philli Park-Tamati continued their run of upset wins.

Upsets in A Grade Round 4

  • Anya Thurner beat Rauen Le Grange
  • Philli Park-Tamati beat Paul Macdonald
  • Euan McDougall beat Clinton Wells
  • Lewis Jordan drew with Daniel Runcan

B Grade

Alan Leach and Jacob Yuan are now the only undefeated players and share first place. Srenoy Pranav took advantage of a default to go into 3rd.

Upsets in B Grade round 4

  • Lanjun Liu beat Sai Vivan Somaraju
  • Anderson Chen beat Grayson Po’e-Tofaeono
  • Vincent Cai beat Tracey Tang
  • Eden Oshri beat Paul Kane
  • David Zhu beat Hunter Po’e-Tofaeono
  • Ethan Liu beat Sylvia McDougall