King George of Chess 960!
On Tuesday (06/05/25), we revisited Chess 960 for our final “first Tuesday of the month” social event for the 24/25 season. For those not familiar, this involves the shuffling of the pieces on the back rank. The result is a fresh position, that invalidates all our finely developed opening theory!
With 20 players this was the biggest turnout for our events so far!
George Burdell won the tournament overall. He is obviously the master of this format as he won our inaugural Chess 960 event last November.
Given the popularity of this event I am certain this will be something that will be in next year’s schedule!
| -Rank - | - Name - | - Pts - |
| 1 | Burdell G | 4 |
| 2 | Retout Steve P | 3 |
| Kennedy Alan | 3 | |
| Hallam Conrad | 3 | |
| Smith David | 3 | |
| 6 | Rowbottom Jake | 2 |
| Caswell Matthew | 2 | |
| Williams David | 2 | |
| Johnson Terry | 2 | |
| Cockburn Andre | 2 | |
| Gallonia Josh | 2 | |
| Morrel Curtis | 2 | |
| Hallam Ed | 2 | |
| 14 | Dalley Kevin J | 1½ |
| O'donovan Tony | 1½ | |
| 16 | Wastie Asher | 1 |
| Longworth David | 1 | |
| Boyle Dylan | 1 | |
| 19 | Sahin Altunoz Yag | 0 |
| Alagram Sarah | 0 |
Full results are available here.
The starting positions of the four games are given below.
Each of our social event feeds into the “Friendly Shield” - which is handicapped based on player strength. This is now complete for the 24/25 season - there will be a separate news item on the overall results soon!
Kevin 07/05/25