OLTON CHESS CLUB

LATEST NEWS

News Archive 2022

Winter tournaments

The pre-covid tournaments were concluded, with Robert Reynolfds beating Richard Liszewski in the semi-final and then winning the final after tie-break match against Richard Reynolds in the final.

In the Minor section, Jim Gillespie beat Dave Reeves in the final.

Summer Tournament 2022

Standings

 No

NAME

Grade

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Pos

1

Warren Archibald 1565 1 2 2 2 2 3  

2

Akbar Khan -- 0 1 1 1 2 2 2

3

Jim Gillespie 1515 0 1 1 2 3 3  

4

Andy Cottom 1737 ½ ½ 4  

5

Richard Reynolds 1860 ½ 2 3 4  

6

Mark Cundy 1956 1

7

Robert Reynolds 1762 1 2  

8

Trevor Holt 1749 1 2  

9

Chris Pitt 1638 0 ½ 1 2  

10

John Asbury 1594 1 1 2 2 2  

11

Frank Jimenez 1638 0 0 0 0 w/d      

12

Karol Grzywaczewski 1677 0 ½ 2 3 3 4  

13

Richard Liszewski 1737 1 1 2 3  

14

John Clulee -- 0 0 0 1  

15

Kacper Drukarczyk 1675 0 0 1 1 1      

16

Phil Holt 2214 1 2  

17

Sam Hughes 1594 ½ ½ ½      
18 Tom Evans 1661 ½ 2


Round 1

Frank Jimenez 0-1 Robert Reynolds
John Asbury 1-0 Jim Gillespie
Andy Cottom ½-½ Richard Reynolds
Richard Liszewski 1-0 John Clulee
Akbar Khan 0-1 Warren Archibald
Mark Cundy 1-0 Chris Pitt
Karol Grzywaczewski 0-1 Trevor Holt
Kacper Drukarczyk 0-1 Phil Holt
Tom Evans ½-Bye  
Sam Hughes ½-Bye  

 

 

Round 2

Trevor Holt 1-0 John Asbury
Warren Archibald ½-½ Mark Cundy
Phil Holt 1-0 Richard Liszewski
Robert Reynolds 1-0 Andy Cottom
Richard Reynolds 1-0 Sam Hughes
Chris Pitt ½-½ Karol Grzywaczewski
Tom Evans 1-0 Kacper Drukarczyk
Jim Gillespie 1-0 Frank Jimenez
John Clulee 0-1 Akbar Khan



Round 3

Robert Reynolds ½-½ Trevor Holt
Tom Evans 0-1 Mark Cundy
Warren Archibald ½-½ Richard Reynolds
Richard Liszewski 1-0 Jim Gillespie
John Asbury 1-0 Akbar Khan
Sam Hughes 0-1 Andy Cottom
Frank Jimenez 0-1 Karol Grzywaczewski
Kacper Drukarczyk 1-0 John Clulee
Phil Holt ½-Bye  
Chris Pitt ½-Bye  

Round 4

Phil Holt 1-0 Robert Reynolds
Trevor Holt 1-0 Mark Cundy
Richard Reynolds 1-0 John Asbury
Richard Liszewski 1-0 Warren Archibald
Karol Grzywaczewski ½-½ Tom Evans
Andy Cottom 1-0 Kacper Drukarczyk
Jim Gillespie ½-½ Chris Pitt
Akbar Khan 0-1 Sam Hughes
John Clulee 1-Def Frank Jimenez

Round 5

Trevor Holt 0-1 Phil Holt
Richard Reynolds ½-½ Richard Liszewski
Mark Cundy 1-0 Andy Cottom
Warren Archibald 0-1 Robert Reynolds
John Asbury 0-1 Karol Grzywaczewski
Tom Evans ½-½ Jim Gillespie
Chris Pitt ½-½ John Clulee
Kacper Drukarczyk 0-1 Akbar Khan
Sam Hughes   Kacper Drukarczyk R6

Round 6

Phil Holt 1-0 Richard Reynolds
Robert Reynolds 1-0 Mark Cundy
Richard Liszewski 0-1 Trevor Holt
Andy Cottom 1-0 Karol Grzywaczewski
Akbar Khan 0-1 Tom Evans
Jim Gillespie 1-0 Warren Archibald
Chris Pitt ½-½ John Asbury
John Clulee 0-1 Sam Hughes
Sam Hughes R5   Kacper Drukarczyk

Round 7
Mark Cundy 1-0 Phil Holt
Tom Evans 1-0 Trevor Holt
Richard Liszewski 0-1 Robert Reynolds
Karol Grzywaczewski 1-0 Jim Gillespie
Sam Hughes 0-1 John Asbury
Akbar Khan 0-1 Chris Pitt
Warren Archibald 1-0 John Clulee
Kacper Drukarczyk ½-Bye  
Richard Reynolds ½-Bye  
Andy Cottom ½-Bye  

Phil Holt won the open section on tie-break

Tom Evans won the Minor section

Friendlies




Shirley v Olton 2022

 

BOARD SHIRLEY RESULT OLTON
1 Dave Thomas 0-1 Mark Cundy
2 Jonathan Dale 0-1 Richard Reynolds
3 Keith Ingram 0-1 Gary Hope
4 Chris McConkey ½-½ Robert Reynolds
5 Arnould Peace 0-1 Richard Liszewski
6 Fred Dickson ½-½ Chris Pitt
7 Frank Jimenez 0-1 Andy Cottom
8 Roger Ball 0-1 Barry Knee
9 John Asbury 1-Def Warren Archibald
    2-7  

 

Olton v South Birmingham 2022

 

Alan Lloyd

2134

0-1

Patrick Duncan

2128

Mark Cundy

1950

½-½

Bernard Chan

2075

Martin Smyth

1928

½-½

Cory Hazelhurst

2068

Richard Reynolds

1861

0-1

Kevin Hurney

2051

Robert Reynolds

1762

1-0

Neil Clarke

1943

Richard Liszewski

1737

1-0

David Thomson

1891

Andy Cottom

1737

0-1

Tim Lane

1834

Trevor Holt

1763

½-½

Jack Moss

1822

Chris Pitt

1639

0-1

Robert Glass

1778

Frank Jimenez

1632

0-1

Muhammad Oguz Isik

1693

John Asbury

1567

0-1

Matthew Little

1678

Sam Hughes

1598

0-1

Bruno Silva

1669

Warren Archibald

1565

0-1

Adidiya Vaidyanathan

1644

Jim Gillespie

1515

0-1

Paul Heeney

1505

Kacper Drukarczyk

1675P

½-½

Chris Moore

1483

Dave Reeves

1482

1-0

Andrei Antenov

1415

John Clulee

1113

0-1

Luke Lambert

----

Garry Evans

1670

½-½

Sathya Vaidyanathan

1414

 

 

5½-12½

 

 

The match took place at Olton's venue on Tuesday 6th September. With Martin Smyth playing for Olton, it took place over 18 boards. There were some goods wins and a few hard-fought draws, but the opposition were sstromger on the