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30th Annual Jack Taylor Memorial

Nov. 14-15, 2015

Victoria, BC

The 30th annual Jack Taylor Memorial took place in Victoria November 14-15, 2015. The 30th annual is a nice big round number that not many tournaments reach and happily, the turnout for this event was also an historically large number with a significant number making the trip from up island and from the mainland to Victoria. 28 people played which was a near record number, smaller than only the 1994 version which had 29 players. It could have been even higher as a few early entries withdrew due to concerns about a big storm that was moving into the area.

An important factor in the success in the event was the generous sponsorship of the descendants of Jack Taylor who are gratified to see that he is still remembered in the BC Chess world. In addition to sponsoring, some of the family made the trip to Victoria to visit the tournament and are pictured below. Carole Treloar (Jack's daughter) was good enough to bring Jack Taylor's gold medal for winning the 1930 BC Championship (photos below). By gold medal, we mean not just a first place finish but an actual gold medal. BC's resident historian, Stephen Wright, went "wow". He had known that the very early day's of the BC Championship had the practice of giving out a gold medal as well as the engraving on the championship perpetual trophy but had not known that this had continued to at least 1930. Those days are of course long behind us and current BC Champions make due with a modest cash prize and their photo in the BCCF bulletin.

Front and back of Jack Taylor's gold medal for his 1930 BC Championship victory. You might want to enlarge the image to view the engraving details on the back.

The Jack Taylor family. (not all of the family members sponsoring were able to make the trip)

Left to right at the back: Katherine Treloar (great daughter in law), Jason Treloar (grandson), Carole Treloar (daughter), Colleen (grand daughter), and in front Ava Treloar (great grand daughter).

As for the tournament itself, Jason Cao, the current BC champion, was the heavy favourite of course but spotted next in line Roger Patterson draw odds by taking an early bye. As their individual encounter was drawn, this proved to be the decisive margin of victory for Roger who took sole first with Jason taking 2nd. Newcomer to the island, Frank O'Brien of Nanoose Bay tied for 2nd but took home the U1800 prize. Rounding out the prize winners was Matthew Geng with the U1650 prize.

Thanks again to our sponsors, the Jack Taylor family. and the Cecilia Creek Eatery. Also thanks to our TD, Paul Leblanc.

Prize winners:

1st: NM Roger Patterson $275

2nd: FM Jason Cao $175

U1800: Frank O'Brien $175

U1650: Matthew Geng $175

The Victoria Rating System Crosstable: (note: CFC ratings were used for pairings and prizes) A link to the CFC crosstable will be posted when available.

No.	Name	Old Rtg	Perf	New Rtg	1	2	3	4	5	Score
1.	Patterson, Roger	2168	2288	2196	+20	+6	+10	=2	+4	4.5
2.	Cao, Jason	2298	2244	2298	B	+9	+13	=1	+6	4.0
3.	O Brien, Frank	1738	1889	1775	+26	=7	B	+5	+8	4.0
4.	Rinck, Michael	1944	2019	1964	+16	+18	B	+11	-1	3.5
5.	Geng, Matthew	1600	1882	1680	+22	+14	=11	-3	+15	3.5
6.	Tate, Bill	1722	1872	1746	+19	-1	+26	+7	-2	3.0
7.	McNichol, Paul	1592	1833	1667	+9	=3	=15	-6	+20	3.0
8.	Huang, Patrick	1674	1770	1704	-15	+19	+17	+16	-3	3.0
9.	Brown, Rod	1877	1752	1852	-7	-2	+23	+25	+11	3.0
10.	James, Rowan	1626	1974	1663	+21	+17	-1	B		2.5
11.	dos Santos, Nicolau	1684	1726	1697	+28	+15	=5	-4	-9	2.5
12.	Lee, Mau-Seng	1508	1684	1553	-17	+28	+18	-15	=13	2.5
13.	Hanrahan, Nigel	1734	1682	1726	+23	B	-2	=14	=12	2.5
14.	Stewart, Deron	1822	1641	1776	+25	-5	B	=13	=16	2.5
15.	Richardson, Ross	1891	1612	1810	+8	-11	=7	+12	-5	2.5
16.	Jones, Cliff	1675	1587	1660	-4	+27	+22	-8	=14	2.5
17.	Leblanc, Paul	1792	1531	1719	+12	-10	-8	=22	+25	2.5
18.	Cronin, Kent	1747	1470	1701	+27	-4	-12	B	+22	2.5
19.	Su, Ethan	1100	1410	1158	-6	-8	-25	+28	+26	2.0
20.	Deimert, Elroy	1537	1399	1516	-1	=23	B	+26	-7	2.0
21.	Lo, Michael	1100	1124	1101	-10	-26	+27	-23	T	2.0
22.	Bell, Jason	1292	1514	1341	-5	+25	-16	=17	-18	1.5
23.	Paulson, Stewart	1108	1454	1152	-13	=20	-9	+21		1.5
24.	Geng, Li	1553	1553	1555			+28			1.0
25.	Sullivan, Brian	1554	1229	1492	-14	-22	+19	-9	-17	1.0
26.	Milonas, Nikolas	1490	1126	1409	-3	+21	-6	-20	-19	1.0
27.	Huijbregts, Arun	1198	875	1149	-18	-16	-21	B	=28	1.0
28.	Xu, Anthony	1007	984	996	-11	-12	-24	-19	=27	0.5