The 16th Heywood, Lancashire, Chess Congress
June 19-20 2010
16th Heywood Chess Congress keeps pulling them in
The sixteenth Heywood chess congress held at the Heywood Civic Hall continued to pull in top grade players to Heywood last weekend from locally, regionally and nationally, with participants from Peine in Germany, Zurich, Cornwall, London, Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Rhyl, Scunthorpe and Stratford.
The FRIENDS OF HEYWOOD OPEN was not totally dominated by Heywood’s Grandmaster Keith Arkell, as he had to share first prize with Alexey Slavin from London. Michael Rabbitte of Heywood was not far behind and won a grading prize.
First place in the DATA MATTERS MAJOR was shared between young Christoph Helmer of Peine, Mitchell Burke of 3C's and Richard Bryant of Chester. Uwe Schmidt of Peine gained a grading prize.
The ANTONIN WELEMINSKY INTERMEDIATE was shared between Clive Davies (Rose Forgrove) and Steven Jones (Padgate). But the fun was in the grading prizes – Heywood’s Jim Tennant-Smith shared with Peine regular Erhardt Hentzschel!
There was further good news for the Peine Chess Club in the ORB ASSOCIATES MINOR, where an excellent performance from Henrik Schmidt enabled him to take first prize.
The excellent news for Heywood was in the KUMON MATHS NOVICE, which was won by Alex Rabbitte of Heywood. Alex is the youngest of four chess playing Rabbitte brothers, and is clearly another one to watch.
Organiser Bill O’Rourke said "Besides my usual thanks to all the sponsors, I must congratulate the excellent performance of our German twin town counterparts. Besides having a great week with them, they have played very well this weekend and deserve all the prizes they have won."
Results
FRIENDS OF HEYWOOD CHESS CONGRESS OPEN
1st= Keith Arkell (Heywood) and Alexey Slavin (Kings Head) 4/5 £225 each
3rd= Don Mason (Shirley) and Mike Surtees (Bolton) 3.5/5 £40 each
Grading prize U183: Michael Rabbitte (Heywood) 3/5 £20
DATA MATTERS MAJOR
1st= Richard Bryant (Chester), Mitchell Burke (3C’s) and Christoph Helmer (Peine) 4/5 £133.67 each
Grading prizes U170: Uwe Schmidt (Peine) and Brendan Kane (Aigburth) 3/5 £10 each
ANTONIN WELEMINSKY INTERMEDIATE
1st= Clive Davies (Rose Forgrove) and Steven Jones (Padgate) 4/5 £120 each
3rd= Robert Clegg (Huddersfield) and Damien McCarthy (Padgate) 3.5/5 £20 each
Grading prizes U150: Jim Tennant-Smith (Heywood) and Erhardt Hentzschel (Peine) 2.5/5 £10 each
ORB ASSOCIATES MINOR
1st Henrik Schmidt (Peine) 4.5/5 £160
2nd= David Buckell (Pendle) and Paul Horman (Morecambe) 4/5 £60 each
Grading prizes:
130-122 Thomas Wenderhals (Peine), Neil Jerzynek (Oldham), David Scorer (Pendle) and Sri Sriharab (York Railway Institute) 3.5/5 £5 each
121-110 Matthew Fanning (Atherton) and Lee Baron (Bury) 3.5/5 £10 each
U110 Philip Green (Littlewoods), James Waddington (Bolton) and Gerry Whitehead (Salford) 2.5/5 £6.66 each
KUMON MATHS & ENGLISH NOVICE
1st Alex Rabbitte (Heywood) 4/5 £50
2nd Charles Williamson (Leyland) 3.5/5 £20
3rd Colin Friar (Prescot & Knotty Ash) 3/5 £10
Puzzle competition winner: Stephen Jacquest (Ormskirk) £10