A massive thank you to the Mind Sports Olympiad team for hosting us for this event yesterday at the JW3 in London and a special thank you to Alain Dekker for his indispensable support in running the event.
We were incredibly pleased at the turn-out and how much people enjoyed playing; we feel honoured that such high ranking Chess players took the time to enter. It was amazing to watch Colour Chess being played at such a high level, with incredibly complicated networks of inter-dependant threats being generated and seeing colour control being integrated so successfully into traditional Chess strategy.
A massive congratulations and thank you to all of our players and particularly to the first World Champion of Colour Chess, Martyn Hamer!
Final standings:
(Swiss pairing, 5 rounds of 12m + 5)
Colour Chess WC 2018 | |||
@MSO London | |||
1 | Martyn | Hamer | 4.5 |
2 | Ankush | Khandelwal | 4 |
3 | Saravanan | Sathyanandha | 4 |
4 | Natasha | Regan | 3 |
5 | David | Sedgwick | 3 |
6 | William | Taylor | 3 |
7 | Alain | Dekker | 3 |
8 | James | Heppell | 3 |
9 | Tim | Hebbes | 3 |
10 | Steven | Coles | 2 |
11 | Edmund | Smith (JNR) | 2 |
12 | William | Faulks | 2 |
13 | Nick | Faulks | 2 |
14 | Jake | Remus (JNR) | 2 |
15 | David | Jameson | 2 |
16 | Tai | Remus (JNR) | 1.5 |
17 | Ariella | Remus (JNR) | 1 |