If Only I Newsom One That Could Blow the Field Away

A grand total of 26 players took part in the final round of Tuesday Night Action 30. In the top section, on board one, Gary Newsom(2014) took on Grant Oen(2147) in a Nimzo-Indian Defense. Gary proceeded to play his pet line against it, the Saemisch, and proceeded to take down Grant and finished the tournament with a score of 4 1/2, which was enough the completely blow away the rest of the field. Case in point. On board 2, Patrick McCartney(2131) took on Aditya Shivapooja(1767) in a Queen's Gambit Declined. White proceeded to play the Rubinstein Variation and Black made a number of subtle inaccuracies where White gained an advantage by move 19 and proceeded to knock out the Black King execution style by move 30. This win put McCartney in clear second with a score of 3! A full point and a half behind the section leader!

The game can be viewed below.



Also in the top section, Dominique Myers(2117), with the Black pieces, quickly made mince meat out of Pradhy Kothapalli(1870) while Ali Shirzad(1695), also with Black, took down Vishnu Vannapalli(1975).

Meanwhile, the lower section was crowded this week with 9 games, and the standings were just as crowded as the room was. The result was a 5-way tie for first place with 3 points between the 5 winners of the first 5 boards below.

Carl McKern(1534) - David Blackwelder(1669): 0-1
Kiru Mendez(1640) - Sampath Kumar(1448): 1-0
Ivan Manchev(1528) - Corey Frazier(1404): 1-0
Daniel Boisvert(1089) - Hassan Hashemloo(1307): 0-1
Samuel Reiman(UNR) - Rithvik Prakki(1193): 0-1
Luke Harris(1585) - Marnzell Hand(1600): 1-0
Carlos Zuniga(1497) - Aarush Chugh(1322): 1-0
Richard Trela(1092) - Aditya Vadakattu(1062): 0-1
Andrew Jiang(1483) - Debs Pedigo(1340): 1-0

The current cross table can be viewed here.