2006 LASCO National Championships

REPORT 5
By Peter Myers, Vp Jcf

ROWE TAKES LASCO CHESS CHAMPS
DAVY WALKS AWAY WITH PRESIDENTS CROWN

National Master Duane Rowe won the 2006 LASCO National Chess Championship, after scoring an easy final round victory over National Master Equitable at the Norman Manley Law School on Sunday. Rowe finished with nine points from ten games to claim his fourth hold on the National Champion title.

In second place was National Master Shane Matthews who finished on eight points, while third place was shared between National Master Russel Porter and last years winner FIDE Master Warren Elliott, who ended on seven points each. See table below for complete standings.

Rowe, who is an engineer at the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), will be leaving Jamaica at the end of September to go on one year study leave to pursue a second Masters Degree at the University of Cambridge, where he will be pursuing an M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development.

In the Presidents Invitational, which ran concurrently with the National Championships, Camperdown fifth former Damion Davy, took the top award after scoring 22 points from his ten games. Second prize was shared between Ramon Jackson - the 2001 Champion - and veteran Sidley Matthews, both of whom ended on 19 points. See table below for complete standings.

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REPORT 4
By Peter Myers, Vp Jcf

ROWE SET TO TAKE NATIONAL CHESS CROWN
LASCO CHESS CHAMPS

With only two rounds remaining, National Master Duane Rowe has regained the lead in the 2006 National Chess Championships and looks set to go all the way. Rowe chalked up wins over first time championship entrants Ian Wilkinson and Mark Henry at the Norman Manley Law School over the weekend, to increase his points tally to seven.

Hot on Rowes heels are National Masters Equitable Brown, Russel Porter and Shane Matthews, each on six points. Also in with the slimmest of mathematical chances is defending champion Warren Elliott, who is in fifth position on five points. Elliott would however have to hope for a series of unrealistic results if he is to regain the national crown.

Rowe, an engineer at the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), will be pressing hard to take the title, as he will be going on study leave at the end of September to pursue a second Masters Degree at the University of Cambridge, where he will be pursuing an M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development. He will therefore be out of action for at least a year.

Rowes task over the board will not be easy however, as he will face two of his closest rivals, Porter and Brown in the last two rounds scheduled for this Saturday and Sunday at the Norman Manley Law School beginning at 1 pm.

Complete points standings are Rowe, seven, Brown, Porter and Matthews, six each, Elliott, five, Deborah Richards and Andrew Mellace, four, Christopher Buchanan, three, Ian Wilkinson and Mark Holness, one and a half each, and Mark Henry, one.

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REPORT 3
By Peter Myers, Vp Jcf

BROWN TAKES OVER AS LASCO CHESS CHAMPS HEAT UP

 

After seven rounds of play, National Master Equitable Brown, who was recently awarded the National Master title by the Jamaica Chess Federation (JCF), sprung almost out of nowhere to take over the lead of the 2006 LASCO National Chess Championships, currently taking place at the Norman Manley Law School.

Brown, a twenty-four year old Mathematics and Information Technology teacher at Camperdown High School, found himself at the top of the standings after his more fancied opponents National Masters Duane Rowe and Shane Matthews lost on Saturday and Sunday respectively. Matthews defeated Rowe on Saturday, but then lost to JCF President Ian Wilkinson on Sunday.

Other matches on Saturday saw Russel Porter, Warren Elliott, Andrew Mellace and Equitable Brown defeating Mark Holness, Wilkinson, Mark Henry and Deborah Richards rewpectively. While on Sunday, Porter, Elliott, Brown and Richards registered victories over Mellace, Henry, Holness and Christopher Buchanan respectively.

These results blew the tournament wide open with Brown atop the standings on five and half points from six games, followed closely by Rowe and Porter on five, Matthews on four and a half and Elliott on four. They are followed by Richards, the lone female in the championships on three, Mellace and Buchanan on two, Wilkinson and Holness on one and a half and Henry on one point.

The main event continues this weekend with the playing of rounds 8 and 9. The feature match of round 8 on Saturday will be Rowe vs Porter, while on Sunday there are two feature matches in Brown vs Elliott and Porter vs Matthews.

In the Presidents Invitational, which runs concurrently with the National Champs, Camperdown High fifth former Damion Davy on eighteen points, has a commanding five point lead. Davys nearest rivals Allan Wilson of the Bank of Jamaica and Ramon Jackson of Jamaica Money Market Brokers are both tied on thirteen points.

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REPORT 2
By Peter Myers, Vp Jcf

NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FOR THE JAMAICA CHESS FEDERATION
DATE AUGUST 14, 2006


ELLIOTT, ROWE LEAD LASCO CHESS CHAMPS

(Leaders Fm Elliott shown (L) and Nm Rowe (R) in above picture)

After only two rounds of play in the 2006 LASCO National Chess Championships, defending champion FIDE Master (FM) Warren Elliott and National Master (NM) Duane Rowe have already separated themselves from the rest of the field. Both players are tied atop the standings with two points after two rounds of play.

During round one at the Norman Manley Law School on Saturday, Elliott, Rowe, NM Shane Matthews and NM Russel Porter registered victories over NM Mark Holness, Christopher Buchanan, Woman FIDE Master (WFM) Deborah Richards and Mark Henry respectively. The other round one game saw Equitable Brown and Ian Wilkinson playing to draw.

Round two action on Sunday saw wins being secured by Elliott, Rowe, Brown and Buchanan over Mellace, Richards, Henry and Wilkinson respectively. Matthews and Holness drew their round two encounter.

Complete standings after two rounds of play are as follows:
1. FM Warren Elliott (2/2), NM Duane Rowe (2/2), 3. NM Shane Matthews (1.5/2), Equitable Brown (1.5/2), 5. NM Russel Porter (1/1), Christopher Buchanan (1/2), 7. Ian Wilkinson (0.5/2), NM Mark Holness (0.5/2), 9. Andrew Mellace (0/1), WFM Deborah Richards (0/2) and Mark Henry (0/2.)

Rounds 3 and 4 will take place this Saturday and Sunday at the Norman Manley Law School starting at 1 P.M. The feature match on Saturday will see Porter challenge Brown, while on Sunday, the big match-up will be a titanic clash between four-time champion Elliott and seven-time champion Matthews.

PRESIDENTS INVITATIONAL

In the Presidents Invitational Tournament which is running concurrently with the National Championships, Wolmers Boys third former Stuart James and Allan Wilson of the Bank of Jamaica, are tied in first place on six points from two games. They are followed by six players who are all on 3 points, they include Damion Davy, Ramon Jacskon, Jared Lewis, Phillip Pryce, Andrew Robinson and Mikhail Solomon. David Lai, Sidley Matthews and Zachary Ramsay are yet to get off the mark.

The 2006 Presidents Invitational is the first chess tournament to be held in Jamaica, where a win will earn a player three points and a draw one point.

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REPORT 1

 

Pairing Table -National Chess Champs