CASTLEHILL THURSDAY NIGHT WEEKLY COMPETITION
Thurs 15th April 21 – 8:10pm to 9:40pm
Arena 51 The 1st Chess960 (Fischer Random) event
Time-Control – 5 minutes each player
Well this was a first playing this type of chess variant which completely wipesout chess opening theory for all players!” It was an interesting night and some exciting games along with, yes out of the ordinary starting positions, well more mind blowing to be honest!
Congratulations to Richard Polaczek IM (26pts) on becoming the first Castlehill Thursday night Chess960 winner! Well deserved indeed! Close, but not too close were Oggy Kolev (15pts) who finished runner-up and Euan Murray 914pts) taking the last podium place in third. Well played everyone!
The highest Junior was Josh Dickson J10 on 12 points in 4th place, just missing out on a podium place! Well played Josh!
This made a refreshing change and did take players out of their comfort zone! We shall do it again in the future so watch this space! Next week is the TAFCA Allegro Championship (St.Andrews) Series, the last one of the 6 events. I expect everybody that can should play in that (5 round Swiss, 15 minutes each player. I am not sure yet if we will run the Castlehill Thurs weekly event as most players will not be available!
For all the results, standing and games on the Chess960 and the past events, click the link below.