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18/01/2024

Hope Valley Tournament 2024

 

This was held at the Sheffield Chess Centre, 329A Coleford Road, Sheffield, S9 5NF on Monday 20th May 2024.  The event was organised by Jonathan Arnott with Phill Becket as controller/arbiter.

 

Younger people will not remember Hope Valley Chess Club which used to meet in Hathersage (later Fox House), played in the Sheffield & DCA events, and ran an annual 5-minute tournament to which all and sundry from the S&DCA were invited.  The top four from the initial phase traditionally played off for the prizes.  If memory serves, this practice originated at a time when the initial phase consisted of “groups” producing finalists for a knock-out play-off for the prizes.  When Hope Valley Chess Club finally ceased to exist, the S&DCA took over running the cherished “Hope Valley” tournament.  These days there is one initial Swiss section from which, nevertheless, the top four play in the knockout phase as before.

 

The initial Swiss phase was won impressively by Thomas Carroll of Sheffield University with 5 out of 5, and he may have been bemused by the possibly odd-seeming further play-off phase which went as follows and was won by Peter Ackley:

 

Semi-Finals

Final

Game 1

Game 2

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3

Peter Ackley

˝

Miles Edwards Wright

0

Thomas Carroll

˝

Peter Ackley

˝

Peter Ackley

1

Miles Edwards Wright

˝

Peter Ackley

1

Thomas Carroll

1

 

 

Peter Ackley

˝

Thomas Carroll

˝

Thomas Carroll

0

Ewan Kershaw

0

 

 

The third game in the final was an Armageddon game - White having 5minutes, Black 4minutes, with a draw counting as a win for Black.

 

The preceding Swiss phase went as follows:

 

No

Name / Club

Rating

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

SPS

1

Thomas Carroll

2164

1

B

13

1

W

24

1

B

19

1

W

3

1

B

2

1

W

4

1

B

8

 

 

Sheffield University

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

 

5

 

 

6

 

 

7

 

28

2

Miles D Edwards-Wright

1925

1

B

21

1

W

20

1

B

11

1

W

7

0

W

1

˝

B

6

1

W

13

 

 

SASCA

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

24

3

Peter Ackley

2103

1

W

28

1

B

12

1

W

10

0

B

1

˝

W

5

1

B

7

1

W

6

 

 

Chesterfield

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22˝

4

Ewan Kershaw

1912

0

W

14

1

B

26

1

W

8

1

B

17

1

W

9

0

B

1

1

W

10

 

 

Sheffield University

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

 

4

 

 

5

 

19

5

Paul Fletcher

1859

1

B

15

1

W

29

0

B

7

1

W

10

˝

B

3

0

W

8

1

B

17

 

 

Hillsborough

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19˝

6

Thomas Wills

2043

0

B

20

1

W

21

1

B

22

1

W

12

1

B

19

˝

W

2

0

B

3

 

 

SASCA

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

 

 

 

 

19

7

Ayodeji Jeje

1976

1

W

9

˝

B

8

1

W

5

0

B

2

1

W

11

0

W

3

1

B

16

 

 

SASCA

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19

8

Mark S Allison

1635

1

B

23

˝

W

7

0

B

4

1

W

24

1

B

16

1

B

5

0

W

1

 

 

Woodseats

 

 

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19

9

Jamie Woodhouse

1564

0

B

7

1

W

23

1

B

24

1

W

11

0

B

4

˝

W

16

1

B

19

 

 

Woodseats

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

17

10

Byron Hemingway

0

1

-

bye

1

W

16

0

B

3

0

B

5

1

W

26

1

W

12

0

B

4

 

 

SASCA

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

 

4

 

18

11

Jim Davis

1894

1

W

26

1

B

14

0

W

2

0

B

9

0

B

7

1

W

22

1

B

23

 

 

Worksop

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

16

12

Miles T Hemingway

1648

1

W

30

0

W

3

1

B

29

0

B

6

1

W

14

0

B

10

1

W

21

 

 

SASCA

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

16

13

Jay Ryalls

1628

0

W

1

1

B

31

0

W

14

1

B

25

1

W

28

1

W

19

0

B

2

 

 

Woodseats

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

 

4

 

15

14

Rishab Cammanchery Krishnan

1470

1

B

4

0

W

11

1

B

13

0

W

16

0

B

12

1

W

24

1

B

27

 

 

SASCA

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

15

15

Brendan Stoneham

1251

0

W

5

0

B

18

0

B

21

1

W

27

1

B

29

1

W

26

1

B

20

 

 

Worksop

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

4

 

10

16

Andrew Allen

1832

1

W

31

0

B

10

1

W

28

1

B

14

0

W

8

˝

B

9

0

W

7

 

 

Worksop

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

17

17

Nathaniel Holroyd-Doveton

1741

0

B

22

1

W

25

1

B

20

0

W

4

˝

B

21

1

W

18

0

W

5

 

 

Rotherham

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14˝

18

W (Bill) Ward

1701

0

B

29

1

W

15

1

B

30

0

W

19

˝

B

20

0

B

17

1

W

28

 

 

Woodseats

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13˝

19

David WW Gunter

1897

1

B

25

1

W

22

0

W

1

1

B

18

0

W

6

0

B

13

0

W

9

 

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

17

20

Ian Barker

1586

1

W

6

0

B

2

0

W

17

1

B

30

˝

W

18

˝

B

21

0

W

15

 

 

Darnall & Handsworth

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

13˝

21

Tom Key

1517

0

W

2

0

B

6

1

W

15

1

B

23

˝

W

17

˝

W

20

0

B

12

 

 

SASCA

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

11˝

22

Benjamin Layton

1138

1

W

17

0

B

19

0

W

6

0

B

28

1

W

25

0

B

11

1

W

30

 

 

SASCA

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

11

23

Tadeusz Gumulka

0

0

W

8

0

B

9

1

-

bye

0

W

21

1

B

31

1

B

28

0

W

11

 

 

 

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

3

 

 

3

 

10

24

Oliver West

1711

1

W

27

0

B

1

0

W

9

0

B

8

1

W

30

0

B

14

˝

W

25

 

 

Woodseats

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

 

10˝

25

Seth Woozeer

1372

0

W

19

0

B

17

1

W

31

0

W

13

0

B

22

1

-

bye

˝

B

24

 

 

SASCA

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

 

26

Kirin Harrington

1341

0

B

11

0

W

4

˝

B

27

1

W

29

0

B

10

0

B

15

1

W

31

 

 

SASCA

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

˝

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

27

Pablo Ellis-Sanchez

1050

0

B

24

0

B

28

˝

W

26

0

B

15

1

-

bye

1

W

31

0

W

14

 

 

SASCA

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

˝

 

 

˝

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

28

Nigel Baxendale

1597

0

B

3

1

W

27

0

B

16

1

W

22

0

B

13

0

W

23

0

B

18

 

 

Worksop

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

10

29

Timor Antonio Stiller

954

1

W

18

0

B

5

0

W

12

0

B

26

0

W

15

0

B

30

1

-

bye

 

 

SASCA

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

8

30

Hugh Shipley

925

0

B

12

1

-

bye

0

W

18

0

W

20

0

B

24

1

W

29

0

B

22

 

 

SASCA

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

8

31

Chuanxi Wang

1180

0

B

16

0

W

13

0

B

25

1

-

bye

0

W

23

0

B

27

0

B

26

 

 

SASCA

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

 

1

 

4