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Last update: Friday April 28, 2006 15:34
STOP PRESS!
Daniel Hunt is leading the U11 section as the only player on 4 out of 4 points.
He is playing on board 1 and, technology permitting, his Round
5 game will be transmitted live on the internet (15:00 UK time on Friday
28 April).
Matt Hunt Reports:
What a day – exhausting. At least that is how the Responsible Adults feel about it, I think for The Players it comes down to how well they have done. It is not even finished, it is now 19:30 local time and half The Players are still at the boards in their second match of the day. Never mind chess ability, just on effort and focused concentration I’m glad it is them not me!
So
straight into the Chess bit:
Round 4 commences on time. The Players are easier and quicker to get to their
boards, the 
Responsible
Adults and team coaches leave the arena more promptly, and generally the logistics
are no longer an issue. It is now just a small matter of several hours chess!
The only drawback is that finally two England players have drawn each other:
Harry Streeter and Sharan Soni in the U15s. They played close to 2 hours before
agreeing a draw and sharing the point. In the meantime Joseph Quinn and Polly
Lambert return to winning form with good wins. Patrick Stevens fights long but
loses to a much better player. Samuel Franklin … hang on a second this
is getting ridiculous. You all know Samuel’s surname by now. Indeed all
The Players’ surnames. And if you didn’t they are in the 
results
chart below. So if it is okay by you I will just call The Players by their first
names from now on. Ok? I’ll take silence to be acceptance…
Samuel, up against yet another FIDE rated player, secured a draw. So with 6
out of 12 players out of
the hall, the England total is 3½ out of a possible 5 points (only 5
points given that Sharan and Harry played each other so England could only get
1 point from the two of them)!
It is nearly three hours before the next three players emerge: Ed V-R and Jessica both lose, but Dan maintains his 100% record with his 4th win.
| Section | England Player | Col | Opponent | Country | Rating | England Result | Total Points |
| U15 | Callum Kilpatrick (2052) | B | Pavlidis Anastiasios | GRE | 2127 | ˝ | 3 |
| Sharan Soni | W | Harry Streeter | ENG | ˝ | 1 | ||
| Harry Streeter | B | Sharan Soni | ENG | ˝ | 1 | ||
| Jessica Thiliganathan (1904) | B | Kourousis Epaminondas | GRE | 2060 | 0 | 2 | |
| Edward Venmore-Rowland | W | Iordanian Zoi | 1979 | 0 | 2 | ||
| U13 | Samuel Franklin | B | Konstantinidis Konstantinos | GRE | 1904 | ˝ | 3 |
| George O’Toole | W | Landman Richter | RSA | 1 | 3 | ||
| Patrick Stevens | W | Philippus Johannes Von Weileigh | RSA | 0 | ˝ | ||
| Ben Wetherfield | B | Barbagiannis Panagiotis | GRE | 0 | 2 | ||
| U11 | Daniel Hunt | B | Spyros Diasakos | GRE | 1 | 4 | |
| Polly Lambert | W | Tolias Athanasios | GRE | 1 | 2˝ | ||
| Joseph Quinn | W | Michalakos Panagiotti | GRE | 1887 | 1 | 3˝ |
We do not have time to post a Game of the Round but will catch up tomorrow.
| Section | England Player | Col | Opponent | Country | Rating |
| U15 | Callum Kilpatrick (2052) | W | Kourousis Epaminondas | GRE | 2060 |
| Sharan Soni | B | Danielle Le Roux | RSA | ||
| Harry Streeter | B | Jacobus Louis Meyer (Jnr) | RSA | ||
| Jessica Thiliganathan (1904) | W | Olarte Cesar Camilo Perez | COL | ||
| Edward Venmore-Rowland | B | Dutta Pallavi | IND | 1823 | |
| U13 | Samuel Franklin | W | George O’Toole | ENG | 1933 |
| George O’Toole (1933) | B | Samuel Franklin | ENG | ||
| Patrick Stevens | B | Zoe Meyer | RSA | ||
| Ben Wetherfield | W | Megalie Mendes | RSA | ||
| U11 | Daniel Hunt | W | Cankut Emiroglu | TUR | 2082 |
| Polly Lambert | B | Matt Pon | RSA | ||
| Joseph Quinn | B | Atilla Yuksel | TUR | 1762 |
P.S. I thought that you, beloved viewers, deserved an aerial photo of the Hotel complex that forms the venue here. At great personal risk I therefore leapt from a great height armed only with my trusty camera and a 2m x 2m cotton sheet to help slow my descent. Unfortunately you may spot in the picture some small flaws that you would not expect given the extremely high standard of photography you have come to expect. What can I say? I beg forgiveness and ask that you allow me some small failings this once – it was after all a one-shot-only photo opportunity. In mitigation, who would have thought that I would catch some bright refracted light from the Hubble telescope, or that several fragments of meteor would shoot past me as I fell leaving glowing red trails across the picture? Nonetheless, I believe that the photo – taken at about 3,500 feet and at a speed exceeding 650 mph - shows off not only the scale of the place but also some unique sky-diving skills. Enjoy!
