Masters of the Queen Pawn Openings
The World Chess Championship match may be in full flow, but on Tuesday (3/12/24) we held a slightly less serious competition. For our “first Tuesday of the month” social event we ran a themed tournament based around 1.d4 openings. It was played over four rounds with a different starting positions, all from queen’s pawn opening.
John Tompson came out as king of the queen pawn pushers with a 100% 4/4. The final standings are given below.
| - Rank - | - Name - | - Pts - |
| 1 | Tompson John C | 4 |
| 2 | Williams David | 3 |
| Weighill Carl | 3 | |
| Sharp Chris | 3 | |
| 5 | Smith David | 2 |
| Phiri Lee | 2 | |
| Smith Justin | 2 | |
| 8 | Cockburn Andre | 1 |
| Hooper Ollie | 1 | |
| Dalley Kevin J | 1 | |
| Hooper Ian | 1 | |
| Hooper James | 1 | |
| 13 | Wilson Bob | 0 |
The starting positions are given below (two separate ones for each round). The openings featured were:
Round 1: Queens Gambit
Round 2: King’s Indian Defence
Round 3: Dutch Defence
Round 4: Catalan
