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2018 Lightning Tournament

: Created:12 Sep 2018 , by Alastair Johnstone

Ealing held the 23rd edition of its annual Lightning Tournament on Monday. As usual, the event featured some fierce competition but, happily, all conducted in an excellent spirit of fair play.

Overall winner for the second year running was the 12-year-old Christopher Tombolis, who finished on 8½/10 with only one loss to fellow Junior Haotian Wu. Raj Jhooti finished second with 7½/10 and was unlucky not to get in a final game before time was called.

In the under-150 section, Harry Symeonidis made a mockery of his grade to finish on a highly commendable 6½/9. Jason Obihara came close to challenging Harry but fell just short on 6/9.

Christopher Yapp triumphed in the under-25 section with 4/11 and also wins the endurace prize by playing the most games on the night.

Full details of the night's results can be found in the table within.

ECC Lightning Tournament, 2018                                      
                                         
      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17  
1 Tombolis, Christopher 178 * 1   1   1 1   ½ 0 1 1 1 1       8.5/10
2 Jhooti, Raj 155 0 *   1   0   1   1 1 ½   1   1 1 7.5/10
3 Symeonidis, Harry 125     * 0 1   0 1 ½   1 1   1   1   6.5/9
4 Colov, Hristo 162 0 0 1 * 0     1 1       1   1 1   6.0/9
5 Obihara, Jason 138     0 1 * 0     0   1   1   1 1 1 6.0/9
6 Wells, Tony 171 0 1     1 * ½ ½       1         1 5.0/7
7 Santos, Joao 160 0   1     ½ * ½     ½   0   1 ½ 1 5.0/9
8 Milewska, Agnieska 153   0 0 0   ½ ½ * 1   1 1 0   1     5.0/10
9 Winterbotham, Mark 150 ½   ½ 0 1     0 *   ½ ½ 1     1   5.0/9
10 Wu, Haotian 171 1 0               * 1       1 1   4.0/5
11 Yapp, Christopher 117 0 0 0   0   ½ 0 ½ 0 *     1   1 1 4.0/11
12 Healeas, Simon 149 0 ½ 0     0   0 ½     *   1     1 3.0/8
13 Loat, Martin 121 0     0 0   1 1 0       * 0 1     3.0/8
14 Housego, David 96 0 0 0               0 0 1 * 0 1 ½ 2.5/9
15 Winterbotham, Will 100       0 0   0 0   0     0 1 *   1 2.0/8
16 Tombolis, Glafcos 84   0 0 0 0   ½   0 0 0     0   * 1 1.5/10
17 Smith, Michael J 74   0     0 0 0       0 0   ½ 0 0 * 0.5/9