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Club Lightning Handicap Tournament

The format of this event is similar to the Lightning Tournament except that handicaps are placed on each player as assessed on their performance in the Lightning Tournament. This event is therefore held in the week after the Lighting Tournament.

The handicaps are the differing amounts of time that each player has for all of their moves in each game they play. This time might vary between 3 minutes and say 7 minutes.

Aggregate points are awarded for performance in-group play.


2009 Club Lightning Handicap Tournament

For 2009, the Club Lightning Handicap Tournament was held as a Swiss Event.

Congratulations to the winner Leon Taylor




Final Standings


Place Name                Feder Rtg Loc  Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.

  1   Taylor, Leon M      WA        1831 5.5      22.0  30.0   24.5
 2-3  DeHeer, Alex        WA        1450 5        20.5  29.0   21.0
      McGregor, Mike      WA        1600 5        20.0  25.5   19.0
 4-7  Gilmetdinov, Edik   WA        1699 4.5      21.5  29.0   21.5
      Baumgartner, Robert WA        1746 4.5      20.0  27.5   16.5
      Cuellar, Chris      WA        1592 4.5      20.0  26.5   18.5
      Pilgrim, Robert E   WA        1442 4.5      19.5  26.0   19.0
8-11  Dunlop, Gordon      WA        1845 4        21.5  30.0   18.0
      Yeung, Evan         WA        1342 4        19.5  27.5   16.0
      Russell, Dave       WA             4        15.0  20.5   14.0
      Taylor, Kelvin      WA        1528 4        14.0  20.0   14.0
 12   Shaw, Robin A       WA        1739 3.5      20.0  26.0   16.0
13-16 McLean, Doug        WA        1437 3        19.0  25.5   15.0
      Knowles, Adelaide   WA             3        18.5  24.5   11.0
      O'Brien, Daniel P   WA        791  3        15.0  21.0    9.0
      Motu, Ben           WA        1278 3        12.5  18.0    7.0
 17   Doherty, Tom        WA        983  2        15.0  20.5    8.0
18-20 Gaby, Miles         WA             1        16.0  22.0    7.0
      Howard, Brian       WA        1167 1        15.5  21.0    3.0
      Bailey, Ben         WA        783  1        13.5  19.0    2.0


Cross Table


No Name                Feder Rtg  1    2    3    4    5    6    7  

1  Taylor, Leon M      WA        13:W  6:W  2:W  4:D  8:W  7:D  5:D
2  DeHeer, Alex        WA        14:W 12:W  1:L  9:W  4:W  5:L  8:W
3  McGregor, Mike      WA        15:W 18:W  4:L  8:L  6:W 11:W  7:W
4  Gilmetdinov, Edik   WA        17:W 10:W  3:W  1:D  2:L 12:D  6:D
5  Baumgartner, Robert WA         9:L 17:W 10:W  7:L 14:W  2:W  1:D
6  Cuellar, Chris      WA        20:W  1:L  9:W 12:W  3:L 13:W  4:D
7  Pilgrim, Robert E   WA         8:L 19:W 16:W  5:W 13:W  1:D  3:L
8  Dunlop, Gordon      WA         7:W  9:L 14:W  3:W  1:L 15:W  2:L
9  Yeung, Evan         WA         5:W  8:W  6:L  2:L 12:L 14:W 13:W
10 Russell, Dave       WA         0:W  4:L  5:L 18:W 11:L 17:W 20:W
11 Taylor, Kelvin      WA        18:L 15:W 13:L 19:W 10:W  3:L 12:W
12 Shaw, Robin A       WA        16:W  2:L 18:W  6:L  9:W  4:D 11:L
13 McLean, Doug        WA         1:L 20:W 11:W 17:W  7:L  6:L  9:L
14 Knowles, Adelaide   WA         2:L 16:W  8:L 15:W  5:L  9:L 19:W
15 O'Brien, Daniel P   WA         3:L 11:L 20:W 14:L 16:W  8:L 18:W
16 Motu, Ben           WA        12:L 14:L  7:L 20:W 15:L 19:W 17:W
17 Doherty, Tom        WA         4:L  5:L 19:W 13:L 18:W 10:L 16:L
18 Gaby, Miles         WA        11:W  3:L 12:L 10:L 17:L 20:L 15:L
19 Howard, Brian       WA         0:   7:L 17:L 11:L 20:W 16:L 14:L
20 Bailey, Ben         WA         6:L 13:L 15:L 16:L 19:L 18:W 10:L


Previous winners

1973    R. Pilgrim          1988    J. Story    
        N. Gillett          1989    W. Lubtschenko
        M. Segal            1990    F. Silas
1974    K. Cornish          1991   
1975	A. Stewart          1992    S. Fitzpatrick
1976	R. Di Renzo                 A. Haasse
        J. Nowak            1993    R. Sorensen        
1977                        1994
1978	M. Partis           1995
1979	C. Kinsman          1996
        G. Smyth            1997
1980    N. Khan             1998
1981                        1999    R. Lilly
1982    A. Regan            2000    A. Kuklinski  
1983    D. McLean           2001    A. Chin
        C. Kinsman          2002    L. Taylor
        R. Lilly            2003    A. Haasse
        J. Simpson          2004    L. Taylor
        R. Butcher          2005    L. Taylor
1984                        2006    N. Khan
1985                        2007    A. Kuklinski
1986                        2008    L. Taylor
1987	R. Lilly            2009    L. Taylor