Basildon Rapidplay 2015 The tournament took place on Thursday 2nd April 2015, with 16 competitors. The format was a 6 round Swiss tournament, with 10 minutes plus 5 seconds per move. After 6 hard fought rounds, and a few surprise results along the way, we ended with a 3 way tie between David Millward, Tye Byram and Sean Clarke.

The play-off took place on Thursday 14th May 2015 as an all-play-all with White and Black. As expected it was a close contest that eventually came down to the last game. The winner of Sean and Tye would win the trophy, but a draw would result in another 3-way tie. This was avoided when Sean prevailed, so it's congratulations to him and commiserations to David and Tye.

Thanks to everybody for participating, and particularly to David Millward for managing the Swiss pairings and Sean for organising the competition.

6 Round Swiss - 2nd April 2015
Pos Name Grade Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 SOPS
=1 Millward, David J A160 1 w11 2 b10 3 w2 b8 4 w3 b4 18
=1Byram, Tye A b150 1 b16 2 w5 2 b1 3 w12 b4 w9 16
=1Clarke, Sean A a172 ½ b7 w14 b13 3 w4 b1 w6 15½
=4Somogyi, Tamas ~170 1 w9 2 b12 w8 3 b3 w2 4 w1 16
=4Kraszewski, David a180 1 w15 1 b2 1 w9 2 b10 3 w12 4 b8 12
=6Gedvilas, Arunas C151 0 w12 ½ b11 w14 b9 w8 b3 11½
=6 Hardy-Wallace, Daniel A R a137 ½ w3 ½ b8 w11 b15 w9 b14 11
=8Laundy, Peter Ra155 1 b13 2 w7 b4 3 w1 3 b6 3 w5 14½
=8Reid, Alland134 0 b4 1 w16 2 b5 2 w6 3 b7 3 b2 11
=8Savin, Paul Aa164 1 b14 1 w1 1 b12 1 w5 2 b15 3 w13 9
11Rippon, William Tb112 0 b1 ½ w6 ½ b7 w13 w14 b16
=12Lakshmanan, Bharathe083 1 b6 1 w4 2 w10 2 b2 2 b5 2 w15 10
=12Hedaux, Tomb093 0 w8 1 b15 1 w3 1 b11 2 w16 2 b10 7
=12Hewitt, RobertA132 0 w10 0 b3 0 b6 1 w16 2 b11 2 w7 5
=12Axe, Neil Gc137 0 b5 0 w13 1 b16 1 w7 1 w10 2 b12 5
16Sajilal, AbhijeetD028 0 w2 0 b9 0 w15 0 b14 0 b13 0 w11 0

Play Off - 14th May 2015
Tye Byram (0/0) 0-1 David Millward (0/0)
David Millward (1/1) 0-1 Sean Clarke (0/0) Final Positions
Sean Clarke (1/1) ½-½ Tye Byram (0/1) 1st Sean Clarke 2½/4
David Millward (1/2) 0-1 Tye Byram (½/2) 2nd David Millward 2/4
Sean Clarke (1½/2) 0-1 David Millward (1/3) 3rd Tye Byram 1½/4
Tye Byram (1½/3) 0-1 Sean Clarke (1½/3)