MCC Allegro - 21st December

MCC Allegro - 21st December

Allegro, what is an Allegro - It usually represents the word faster or quicker. Well how do we link this with chess? Some will say its the god who made this link in heaven - as in a funny way or its dates back to chess gods in late 80's, who introduced this to the world. In chess, Allegro means 15min chess. It becomes more famous in the chess club to run Allegro games on the weekend, to attract more player to participate or join the club or to encourage new players to start playing chess.

Well here it comes, MCC - Melbourne chess club - Oldest and one of Australia's high rated players Den. MCC is open every given day in a calendar year from 6-pm to late night. MCC is simply one of classy and best club's in Melbourne - located at heart of Fitzroy (66 Leicester St, Fitzroy 3065). Melbourne chess club has many tournaments around the year, which attracts many top chess player in and outside Australia to compete. To name some from our den are IM Ari dale, IM Jame Morris, FM Bill Jordan and many more upcoming players in all age groups. Melbourne Chess club recently added A/C facility in the club to enhance better atmosphere during summer time for the players.

MCC & Allegro - is the two different words mare for each other. MCC Allegro is pretty famous in Melbourne and players never miss them on Saturday's. MCC conducts their Allegro every Saturday at their premises, which attracts minimum of 25-30 people. the event starts at 2pm and goes up to 6-7pm. Comprises 7 rounds in them. Event this Tornelo rated. To name some of the frequent visitors such as, Michael Baron, Rad Chmiel, Shane Lawson, Tony Tosevski, Ray yang, Chris Kolak and Tanya Kolak. There have 3 rated group prizes for 3 players in each of them. Mostly the position go for tough competition, but the open prizes No.1 spot goes to Michael Baron most of the time. MCC also has Allegro championship once a year to grab a title as champion and attractive prize money.

Following information and photos are from MCC club source www.melbournechessclub.org

 

  James Morris, one of Australia's youngest International Masters is a regular at the Allegro.

                                                                            As is FIDE Master Michael Baron, still one of Australia's highest rated players despite a relative hiatus from competitive chess 

in the last couple of years!             

There's no need to write down your moves, the games are played at a comfortable 15 minute rate, and the allegro is very welcoming to newcomers to chess and the Melbourne Chess club. With our "rating group" prizes, you stand a good chance of winning prize-money even if you're not at the top of the field.

• Where? The Melbourne Chess Club: 66 Leicester Street, Fitzroy, Victoria.
• When? Starts 2pm every Saturday of the year. (Be there at least 5 minutes before!) 
• What? It's a SWISS tournament. What that means is that your opponents are based on your results. If you lose your first round, in round 2 you'll play someone who also lost their first game, if you then win your second round you'll play someone who also has 1/2 points. Win that game- you'll play someone on 2/3, lose it, and you'll play someone who has also won 1/3 of their previous games. 
• How Long? You'll play seven 15 minute games, usually the event runs from about 2-6pm.
• Cost? The allegro costs $7 dollars for juniors, $10 for adults and $15 for non-members of the MCC ($12 junior non-members). You can find membership info here
• Who? Masters to novices, 10 year olds to Octogenarians!
• Parking? You can always find parking on Kay St just over Nicholson St: have at our parking guide by clicking on the link to the left.
• PRIZES? You can win good prize-money even if you're not in the top 3 of the tournament. There are 1st/2nd/3rd prizes in an "a" rating group and a "b" rating group, depending on how many show up for the allegro that week. This means that players are grouped in 3 tiers and it's possible to win your section and the prize money allotted to it.
• Ratings? After playing an allegro or two, you will get an official MCC Allegro rating. These are usually updated weekly (depending on how busy volunteers are!) The rating system is fairly simple: Your rating is created based on results in your first tournament or two. From then on, winning against a player rated higher than you mean your rating goes up, losing against a player rated lower than you mean it goes down. Likewise, a draw against a stronger player means an increase, and a draw against a lower rated player means a decrease. Finally, ; the bigger the rating gap between you a your opponent, the larger the change in rating will be. IE. if you are rated 1000 and you beat someone rated 2000, you will jump up quite a lot, but beating a player rated 1100 will result in a more modest gain.

Let's see one of the event of MCC - Allegro completed on 21st of December. It attracted 28 players in total and as always had 7 rounds and as always Michael Baron won this allegro.

↓	#	Name	Age<	M/F	Score	Tie.	Init. Rtg.	A.O.Rtg.	New Rating
Gold	1	Michael Baron	37	M	7	31	2315	1668	2318 3
Silver	2	Ray Yang	12	M	5	33	1687	1775	1728 41
Bronze	3	Abhinav Bathula		M	5	31	1660	1750	1921 0%
	4	Tony Tosevski		M	5	30½	1772	1715	1784 12
	5	Will Bakanursky		M	5	28	1682	1594	1691 9
	6	Rad Chmiel	42	M	5	27½	1714	1599	1722 8
	7	Goran Ilic		M	4½	29½	1693	1721	1708 15
	8	Nicholas Ilic	9	M	4½	26	1527	1567	1550 23
	9	Shane Lawson		M	4	27	1691	1624	1685 6
	10	Surjeet Singh		M	4	21	1374	1398	1389 15
	11	Sarah Anton	24	F	4	18½	1644	1582	1646 2
	12	Milutin Krunic		M	3½	29½	1627	1655	1632 5
	13	Chris Kolak		M	3½	29	2017	1619	1974 43
	14	Mukesh Krishnamurthy		M	3½	25	1549	1522	1550 1
	15	Milan Ilic		M	3½	24	1701	1498	1680 21
	16	Victor Fagundes		M	3½	23½	1478	1445	1479 1
	17	Vinicius Fagundes		M	3½	20	1208	1368	1216 8
	18	Daniel Dobos		M	3	28	1547	1683	1546 1
	19	Tanya Kolak		F	3	21	1556	1550	1543 13
	20	Alex Chen		M	3	20	1124	1364	1139 15
	21	Elizabeth Warren	63	F	3	18	1227	1323	1219 8
	22	David Stimson		M	2½	22	1490	1604	1491 1
	23	Dale Wright		M	2½	22	1253	1352	1248 5
	24	Bosko Tosevski		M	2	25	1397	1396	1377 20
	25	Eric Stober		M	2	18½	new	1373	1106 0%
	26	Oscar Chen		M	1½	16½	842	1291	839 3
	27	Jack Chen		M	1½	16	943	1285	954 65%
	28	Milan Brkljac		M	0	2½	1732	1490	1719 13

Thanks to the organizer for this event Elizabeth warren and Ray yang. And many thanks to tony who runs a BBQ outside the club and keeps us with tummy full of delicious BBQ. BBQ is open to anyone, does not have to be a member or players at MCC club.