MCC-Allegro - 18th January & 19th January - the PRODIGAL SON RETURNS

Well Well well, I have said enough of MCC and Allegro every week, but people always wanted to hear and read about games, who played , who won, how they won. This week we have one of our young guns returned to Allegro mood after some BIG Tourney. Its our Jack Puccini, the proud one man show of Brilliancy games submitter in every tournament he plays and he wins most of the time. Ya this week is all about Jack , He came back and won the allegro this week with a bang, sending the message to all others out there who have not played Allegro this week or played and lost to him.

	Name	Age<		Score
	1	Jack Puccini			7
	2	Michael Baron			5½
	3	Dimitry Partsi			5½
	4	Sylvester Urban			5
	5	Tony Tosevski			5
	6	Jack Hughes			4½
	7	Goran Ilic			4½
	8	Simon Schmidt			4
	9	Tanya Kolak			4
	10	Paul Cavezza			4
	11	Bosko Mijatovic			3½
	12	Milan Ilic			3½
	13	Nicholas Ilic			3½
	14	Rad Chmiel			3½
	15	Surjeet Singh			3½
	16	Geoff Barber			3½
	17	Deniz Tuncer			3
	18	Mohammad Cheema			3
	19	Bosko Tosevski			3
	20	Victor Fagundes			3
	21	Dale Wright			3
	22	Alex Chen			3
	23	Daniel Dobos			2½
	24	Vinicius Fagundes			2
	25	Matthew Chen			2
	26	Jack Chen			2
	27	Oscar Chen			1

27 players played Allegro on 18th Jan , some of them warming up before the cup weekender , some regulars who turn up only for allegro's. Some returned after Australian championship games, one of them is Jack Puccini. This unseen hurricane came like a wind , clean sweep all games and won like a sunshine & rain after the disaster and left impact like a tornado to every other regulars. People are in avenging mood next week.

here are list of Jack's Victims this week

Rnd.	Opponent	Opp. Rtg.	Color	Result	Game	Total
1	Oscar Chen	840	Black	Win		1
2	Paul Cavezza	1627	White	Win		2
3	Michael Baron	2304	Black	Win		3
4	Milan Ilic	1680	White	Win		4
5	Dimitry Partsi	2134	White	Win		5
6	Tony Tosevski	1748	Black	Win		6
7	Sylvester Urban	2074	White	Win		7

Micheal Baron and Dimitry has come second, leaving Urban in 3rd spot. They day will come when These name will not be in podium, people are fighting hard with top players every week.

Coming week there is a clash with Allegro which is our club's Cup weekender, but Allegro will continue as usual

Sundays Allegro 8 players played and Elizabeth Warren have won the 3rd Novice allegro. Congrats to her and other winners.

MCC-Allegro - 11th January & 12th January

Another weekend Allegro. Success is the other term I can use for MCC Allegro. Even Sundays game improved in total number players, this week12 people turned-up , 4 more than previous weeks Allegro. Thanks again to Elizabeth Warren & Sylvester urban for Saturday games and Paul Cavezza for Sunday's game. And of course our one and only Tony for Sausage sizzles.

20 people came for Saturdays Allegro and New champ for this week is Dimitry partsi. He was immortal this week with out any losses and only one draw against Micheal Baron where as Sylvester Urban & Baron have lost one game to Dimitry and Urban respectively. Micheal and Urban was on 5.5 / 7 so they shared second spot and Mukesh on third with 5 points.

Below is the full result table. unfortunately there are no pics are game ending for this week. 

↓ # Name Age< M/F Score Tie. New Rating Gold 1 Dimitry Partsi M 6½ 31½ 2150 16 Silver 2 Michael Baron 38 M 5½ 31½ 2291 13 Bronze 3 Sylvester Urban 28 M 5½ 27½ 2082 8 4 Mukesh Krishnamurthy M 5 27 1588 54 5 Chris Kolak M 4½ 31½ 1974 2 6 Jacek Klukowski M 4 28 1504 30% 7 Tony Tosevski M 4 27 1739 9 8 David Stimson M 4 26 1497 7 9 Matthew Chen M 4 16 1216 10 10 Jack Hughes 18 M 3 31½ 1566 5 11 Daniel Dobos M 3 28½ 1544 15 12 Tanya Kolak F 3 23½ 1514 22 13 Victor Fagundes M 3 23½ 1461 23 14 Vinicius Fagundes M 3 21½ 1272 14 15 Marcus Tosevski M 3 20 1157 6 16 Alex Chen M 3 19 1148 10 17 Elizabeth Warren 64 F 3 17 1247 5 18 Dale Wright M 1 20½ 1222 41 19 Oscar Chen M 1 20 842 2 20 Jack Chen M 1 19 959 95% Second rating group prize on Saturdays Allegro goes to Jacek Klukowski, the lone winner. Good and solid performance and his personal best. followed by david and Matthew chen. I wish  I remember my game against Jack Hughes in final round, its a beauty , I can say. I was full knight down( mistake) and sacked my rook(Novelty) for position and able to capture back all pieces by forced moves. with a queen ,rook ending with 7th rank pawn and clear win in a classical poised pawn Sicilian .
Sundays Allegro didn't see much change in podium 1, 2    position, where 3rd spot was given to Vinicius Fagundes
congrats to Nathan, Gilberto and Vinicius.
Hopefully coming week there will come cool games, pics of more players and games. since Australian championship has completed, we expect the number to be at least 30+ in both days event.

MCC-Allegro - 4th January & 5th January - Double bonanza

MCC Allegro has taken its step to the next level. Every Sunday's Novice Allegro for players who are rated less than 1300. So here, we have review, reports and results for both the days in this entertaining blog. This week Saturday's allegro attracted 22 players. Where as the newbie Sunday's allegro attracted 8 players, which ended up having 5 rounds. That is fairly a good start for Novice Allegro, and this will continue every week from here on every Sunday at MCC by 2pm

Here is the full Results table of Saturdays Allegro before we go into Deep digging

	#	Name			Score
	1	Michael Baron			6
	2	Dimitry Partsi			6
	3	Sylvester Urban			5½
	4	Jack Hughes			5
	5	Chris Kolak			4½
	6	Brian Fitzpatrick			4½
	7	Goran Ilic			4½
	8	Gilberto Temelloza			4
	9	Victor Fagundes			4
	10	Nicholas Ilic			3½
	11	Daniel Dobos			3½
	12	Max Hume			3
	13	Milutin Krunic			3
	14	Tony Tosevski			3
	15	Sarah Anton			3
	16	Tanya Kolak			3
	17	Bosko Tosevski			3
	18	Mukesh Krishnamurthy			3
	19	Vinicius Fagundes			2
	20	Elizabeth Warren			1½
	21	James Little			1½
	22	Jack Chan			0

Well what is the NEWS in this Allegro results table, the newly wedded groom is back with full knowledge base and bagged 3rd spot and also won against Micheal Baron in Round 5 to take the lead, its none other than MCC own Sylvester Urban.  Melbourne Chess Club and all the member's wish Urban a very happy married life.

New comer to MCC Gilberto Temelloza scored 4 points out of 7 rounds and placed 8th. Victor Fagundes and Nicolas llic in top 10 finishers in this allegro. These two players have shown a lot of courage and improvements, every week and able to win the game against some good and strong players

Here are some of the photos from Saturdays allegro: Sylvester urban in action after a break. BBQ Table is gearing up for sizzling sausage The one man show behind BBQ and make hungry chess players go for more sausage our  one and only Anthony Following are the list of players who atteneded Sunday's allegro 1) Nathan Chin 2) Giles Lean 3) Celine Macullen 4) Brentyn Stafford 5) Richard Snow 6) Gilberto Temelloza 7) Elizabeth Warren 8) Dale Wright Final standing as follows: Final standing as follows: Nathan Chin with 5 point out of 5 rounds, Gilberto with 4 and Elizabeth Warren with 3 points. I congratulate all winners ob behalf of MCC for make this event a grand success in Opening week. We expect more people to be back in MCC for weekend Sundays Allegro's since the last round for Australian chess championship is on Saturday.