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Results: 27th Annual Jack Taylor Memorial

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27th Annual Jack Taylor Memorial

Nov. 10-11, 2012

Victoria, BC

18 people took part in the 27th annual Jack Taylor Memorial, a typical number for this tournament. Pre-registration at 20 people plus a few late entries was promising to be a larger than usual crowd but a few no-shows and sickness cut down the number somewhat.

The winners were Constantin Rotariu and Paul Leblanc. The deciding game was eventful with Paul establishing a clear and decisive advantage but then things went horribly wrong.

(White: Rotariu, Black: Leblanc - going from memory so a pawn or two might be wrong)

Constantin found 1. Rg6 in time pressure but after 1......fg followed up with 2. f7+? Kf7 3. Ng5+ eventually drawing. Instead, 2. Ng5! is a pleasing crusher. The spectators were all very disappointed.

Good results were also turned in by many of the juniors who are moving up in the rankings.

A photo album has been posted by the TD on Facebook (tournament photos, historical photos relating to Jack Taylor and misc. other stuff)

Thanks to the winners Constantin & Paul for donating their prizes to Victoria Chess!

Thanks to Mark for his work as TD.

For a biography on Jack Taylor see http://www.chessville.com/vignettes/JackTaylor.htm

Organizer: Roger Patterson

TD: Mark S. Dutton, IA

Crosstable in VCC database:

No.	Name	Old Rtg	Perf	New Rtg	1	2	3	4	5	Score
1.	Rotariu, Constantin	1683	2084	1784	+19W	=4B	+11B	+7W	=2W	4.0
2.	Leblanc, Paul	1903	1981	1923	+15W	+3B	+5W	B	=1B	4.0
3.	Stewart, Deron	1789	1894	1822	+14B	-2W	+16B	+8W	=4W	3.5
4.	Patterson, Roger	2052	1810	2004	=6B	=1W	+13B	+5W	=3B	3.5
5.	Haines, Duncan	1686	1851	1729	+17B	+8W	-2B	-4B	+12W	3.0
6.	Ding, Jill	1627	1758	1664	=4W	-12W	+14B	+13W	=7B	3.0
7.	Richardson, Ross	1828	1726	1798	+13B	=11W	+12B	-1B	=6W	3.0
8.	Forman, Ken	1789	1592	1745	+16W	-5B	+10W	-3B	+14W	3.0
9.	Reny, Alex	0	1531	1531	-11B	-13W	+15B	+19W	+16B	3.0
10.	James, Rowan	1347	1627	1423	=12B	=15W	-8B	+16W	=11B	2.5
11.	Geng, Tian Tian	1767	1615	1725	+9W	=7B	-1W	=12B	=10W	2.5
12.	Tate, Bill	1688	1571	1656	=10W	+6B	-7W	=11W	-5B	2.0
13.	Peters, Nick	1465	1518	1477	-7W	+9B	-4W	-6B	+19B	2.0
14.	Huang, Patrick	1355	1339	1350	-3W	+19B	-6W	+17B	-8B	2.0
15.	Milonas, Nikolas	1510	1298	1474	-2B	=10B	-9W	B	+17W	2.0
16.	Edgar, Garth	1383	1174	1338	-8B	+17W	-3W	-10B	-9W	1.0
17.	Lathwell, Jordan	1001	1073	1007	-5W	-16B	+19W	-14W	-15B	1.0
18.	Catona, Dan	1889	1889	1889	F					0.0
19.	McFetridge, Robert	923	707	897	-1B	-14W	-17B	-9B	-13W	0.0