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The Bristol Spring Congress 2016 was held at  Bristol Grammar School (BGS)  Febr 26-28^th.  There were 76 players in total.   

  There were a couple of unusual features about this congress.  We had very equal distribution between our 3 sections, all between 22- 27.  And for the first time www.chess-results.com was used.  This allowed all pairings to be available in advance, as well as displaying results and grading performance.

  Next congress June 10-12^th followed by the Steve Boniface Memorial Aug 26-28^th.  And watch out for our new web site coming soon  www.bristolchesscongress.com

  FIDE rated OPEN-  This section ended in a tie for first place between our regular GM Keith Arkell and FM Ezra Kirk, teammates in the 4NCL, both with 4 ½.  Sole third place was won by Steven Meek on 3 ½.

    GM Arkell displayed to the watching crowd in the last round why he is considered a world class endgame specialist.  With just a few minutes each left (plus increment) he won a dramatic game in the last round.  As Keith said afterwards, “I went from being lost, to worse, to equal, to better, to won.”

   Third place Steven Meek won a 16 move miniature against the third seed, trapping his queen in the middle of the board.

   And 14 year old Max French upset American Daniel Malkiel to overcome 300 points grading difference.

  All games from the open can be found (shortly) on www.chessit.co.uk

1	1	GM	Arkell Keith C	ENG	2457	4ncl Cheddleton	4,5
	2	FM	Kirk Ezra G	ENG	2306	4ncl Cheddleton	4,5
3	11		Meek Stephen J	ENG	2012	South Bristol	3,5
4	4		Hill Alistair	ENG	2164	Battersea	3,0
	7		Dilleigh Stephen P	ENG	2072	Horfield & Redland	3,0
	8		Payne Matthew J	ENG	2029		3,0
	9	CM	Kirby Peter J	GCI	2015	Thornbury Bristol	3,0
	10		Mcdougall William M	SCO	2013	Chichester	3,0
	20		French Max	ENG	1839		3,0
	22		Ramprasad Cherupalli	IND	1615		3,0
11	3		Bicknell Carl	ENG	2208	Horfield & Redland	2,5
	6		Martin Lewis	ENG	2080	Bristol University	2,5
	12		Hatchett Paul D	WLS	1983	4ncl Rhyfelwyr Essylwg	2,5
	13		Hearne Rob	ENG	1981	Bath	2,5
	23		Pergantis Ilias-Nikolaos	GRE	1528		2,5
16	14		Appleby Stephen	ENG	1953	Burnley	2,0
	15		Perrin Brent	ENG	1923	Horfield & Redland	2,0
18	5		Malkiel Daniel Em	USA	2162	United States	1,5
	16		Sierra Jimenez Manuel	ESP	1895		1,5
	18		Price Andrew	ENG	1867		1,5
	21		Timmins Chris P	ENG	1773		1,5
22	17		Turner Joseph David	WLS	1894		0,5
23	19		Kramaley David	ENG	1844		0,0

  Major

   The Major was won by top seed Chris Purry with 4 points, despite taking a first round bye.  Chris has consistently played in the Open in recent years but his grade has now allowed him to play in the Major.  He is also an experienced arbiter at the Frome Congress in mid May.

   2^nd place was shared by 2 local players- James Hennefeld and Howard Millbank.  James is an occasional congress player and said this was his best result in 10 years.  Howard was one of the lowest seeds, but he has been at 160 in his prime.

1	1		Purry Chris S	ENG	154	Frome	4,0
2	8		Hennefeld James	ENG	141	Downend & Fishponds	3,5
	22		Millbank Howard K	ENG	125	Horfield & Redland	3,5
4	2		Radford Robert P	ENG	153	Keynsham	3,0
	4		Munn Andrew	ENG	151	Downend & Fishponds	3,0
	7		Radford Ben	ENG	144	Keynsham	3,0
	9		Williams Stephen	WLS	139	Cwmbran	3,0
	11		Belinger John	ENG	137	New Milton	3,0
	14		Manning Peter A	ENG	135	New Milton	3,0
	16		Williams Dave	ENG	133	Malpas	3,0
	17		Roebuck Derek J	AUS	132	Kings Head	3,0
	20		Carver Anthony Wr	ENG	129	Hanham Folk Centre	3,0
13	3		Snook-Lumb Chris	ENG	152	Swindon	2,5
	5		Papier Alan R	ENG	148	Bristol & Clifton	2,5
	13		Jones Timothy M	ENG	136	Bristol & Clifton	2,5
	15		Dimond Peter D	ENG	134	Bath	2,5
17	6		Borkowski J Andrew	ENG	145	Thornbury Bristol	2,0
	18		Alexander Ken Rd	ENG	131	Seaton	2,0
	19		Marston Alastair Jd	ENG	131	Bristol Cabot	2,0
	23		Mcclennon David	ENG	114	Peterborough	2,0
	24		Leroy Jason	ENG	91	Patchway	2,0
22	10		Macarthur Duncan M	ENG	138	Keynsham	1,0
	12		Fielding Michael	ENG	137	Patchway	1,0
	25		Le Feuvre Gwenole	FRA	80		1,0
25	21		Crouch Timothy J	ENG	128	Kings Head	0,0

  Minor

  The Minor was won by last minute entry Jason Blaxill, a local Bristol player.  2^nd place was shared by Geoff Ainsley and David Mc Geeney.  Interesting to note that the top 5 players were all within the top 6 seeds.

1	8		Blaxill Jason	ENG	117	South Bristol	4,5
2	1		Ainsley Geoff J	ENG	123	Calderdale	4,0
	2		Mcgeeney David B	SCO	123	Bristol Cabot	4,0
4	3		Sage Antony J	ENG	123	Bath	3,5
	5		Ko Edward	ENG	121	Bristol University	3,5
	18		Daly Grant	ENG	100	Downend & Fishponds	3,5
7	4		Balakrishnan Kathirvel	ENG	121	Solihull	3,0
	6		Mill-Wilson Graham A	ENG	120	Yate & Sodbury	3,0
	10		Collis Richard	ENG	111	Bristol Cabot	3,0
	11		Salim Demmas	ENG	108	Bristol University	3,0
	14		Maber Martyn J	ENG	104	Taunton	3,0
12	7		Porter Richard J	ENG	120	Bristol University	2,5
	9		Langmaid Kevin D	ENG	114	Yate & Sodbury	2,5
	12		Taplin William	ENG	106	Keynsham	2,5
	13		Wallman James	ENG	105	Dorset *	2,5
	22		Bonutto Stephen	WLS	91		2,5
	24		Clarke David A	ENG	87	Yate & Sodbury	2,5
18	15		Burnett Philip	ENG	103	Bristol Cabot	2,0
	16		Abecasis Lee A	ENG	101	Horfield & Redland	2,0
	17		Hughes Peter J	ENG	101	Mutual Circle	2,0
	19		Helbig Doreen J	ENG	99	Hanham Folk Centre	2,0
	23		Strickland Graham	ENG	91	Horfield & Redland	2,0
	25		Hunter Stephen G	ENG	85	Bath	2,0
24	20		Welch Hazel	ENG	99	Seaton	1,5
	21		Woodruff David G	ENG	94	Keynsham	1,5
26	26		Walsh Shaun	ENG	84	Downend & Fishponds	1,0
	28		Swann Deborah S	ENG	29	Clevedon	1,0
28	27		Thurley Hannah	ENG	60	Peterborough	0,5