George Trundle 2021 comprises 4 round robin tournaments with 10 players each held from 10th to 18th July at Auckland Chess Centre.

George Trundle 2021

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George Trundle 2021

George Trundle 2021 is a chess event comprising 4 separate individual single round robin tournaments. Held from Saturday 10th to Sunday 18th July 2021 at the Auckland Chess Centre. Each tournament has 9 rounds with 10 players each. Tournaments are the Masters, Qualifiers, Reserves and Talents.

Entry Details

Entry Fees

$100 per player.

Entry Instructions

Automatic entry to first 20 players.

Subsequent players would be placed in waiting list before being selected to be invited to enter.

Club account for payment:12-3011-0713528-00 (state name & “TrundleRR”).

Use online entry form to submit entry application.

Event Information

Summarised information available in printable PDF brochure. (when available)

Dates

Saturday 10th to Sunday 18th July 2021

Venue

Eligibility

Open to all players.

Non-NZL players must have FIDE ID issued by their chess federation.

NZL players without FIDE ID must provide full Date of Birth.

Automatic entry to first 20 players.

Subsequent players would be placed in waiting list before being selected to be invited to enter.

Format

4 separate 9 round Single Round Robin tournaments.

40 players would be sorted according to rating before being placed into each tournament. 1st 10 in Masters, 2nd 10 in Qualifiers, 3rd 10 in Reserves and final 10 in Talents. Ratings used would be July 2021 FIDE standard ratings. Players without FIDE standard ratings would be sorted with NZCF standard ratings then NZCF rapid ratings and finally other available ratings.

Players would be seeded at random within each tournament.

The format and composition of tournaments may change if the Masters becomes a Hybrid tournament with foreign players participating remotely at their venues in order to make player norms available.
Selection criteria for the 10 players in the Masters tournament would prioritise making player norms (eg. International Master norm) possible.

Time Controls

90 minutes each player plus 30 minutes at move 40, with 30 seconds increment per move from move one.

Schedule

	Start Time	Day & Date
Players meeting	1.45pm	Saturday 10th July 2021
Round 1	2pm	Saturday 10th July 2021
Round 2	2pm	Sunday 11th July 2021
Round 3	2pm	Monday 12th July 2021
Round 4	2pm	Tuesday 13th July 2021
Round 5	2pm	Wednesday 14th July 2021
Round 6	2pm	Thursday 15th July 2021
Round 7	2pm	Friday 16th July 2021
Round 8	2pm	Saturday 17th July 2021
Round 9	2pm	Sunday 18th July 2021

Prize Fund

	1st	2nd	3rd
Masters	$300	$200	$150
Qualifiers	$300	$200	$150
Reserves	$300	$200	$150
Talents	$300	$200	$150

Highest scoring NZ player in Masters wins the George Trundle Trophy for 2021.

PLEASE NOTE:

In the event of a tie, prize money will be shared.

Personnel

Chief Organiser: IO Mike Steadman

Chief Arbiter: IA Keong Ang

Results

First 20 Players sorted by Rating and Title

N	NAME	Fed	Origin	Title	Rtg	RtgF	RtgN
1	Ang, Alphaeus Wei Ern	NZL	AC	FM	2265	2265	2377
2	Garbett, Paul Anthony	NZL	NS	IM	2239	2239	2356
3	Xie, Felix	NZL	AC		2082	2082	2110
4	Milligan, Helen	NZL	NS	CM	1957	1957	2122
5	Zhang, Jasmine Haomo	NZL	AC	WIM	1954	1954	2112
6	Mistry, Prashant	NZL	HA		1841	1841	1971
7	Ning, Isabelle Yixuan	NZL	AC		1808	1808	1890
8	Nagorski, Alex	NZL	AC	CM	1794	1794	2029
9	Ha, Huy Minh (Timothy)	NZL	AC		1715	1715	1854
10	Lyall, Simon	NZL	AC		1653	1653	1903
11	Braganza, Nadia	NZL	NS	WCM	1650	1650	1811
12	Po`e-Tofaeono, Hunter	NZL	AC		1490	1490	1376
13	Somaraju, Sai Vivan Karthikeya	NZL	AC		1377	1377	1166
14	Yu, Zachary	NZL	NS		1360	1360	1347
15	Zhu, David Junyang	NZL	NS		1346	1346	1477
16	Zhang, Lifan Tim	NZL	NS		1226	1226	1388
17	Gan, Emily	NZL	NS		1214	1214	1297
18	Po`e-Tofaeono, Grayson	NZL	AC		1212	0	1212
19	Nimmakayala, Srirama Vikhyath	NZL			1006	1006	873
20	Liu, William Rui	NZL	NS (r)		605	0	605