Peter Przybycin, the Book Prize Tournament organiser, announces the pairings for Round 3.

Hi All,

All games in round two have now been completed.

Results so far:

Round 1

Rose Saunders  ½ – ½ Mike Henbury

Geoffrey Parish 0 – 1 Keven Lamb  

Rob Strachan 1 – 0 Don Creasey

Rob Sims 1- 0 Steve Dunleavy

John Kooner 1 – 0 Steve Saunders

Nobby George 1 – 0 Suzan Dunleavy

Round 2

Steve Dunleavy 0 – 1 Keven Lamb

Suzan Dunleavy 0 – 1 John Kooner

Rob Sims ½ – ½ Mike Henbury

Nobby George 0 – 1 Don Creasey

Geoffrey Parish 0 – 1 Rose Saunders

Rob Strachan 1 – 0 Steve Saunders

Round 3 pairings are as follows, with players’ current scores in brackets:

• John Kooner (2) v Don Creasey (1)
• Rob Sims (1½) v Rose Saunders (1½)
• Steve Dunleavy (0) v Geoffrey Parish (0)
• Steve Saunders (0) v Suzan Dunleavy (0)
• Rob Strachan (2) v Nobby George (1)
• Keven Lamb (2) v Mike Henbury (1)

As always, the player named first plays white. I am aware that some of you will be playing your third game in a row with the same colours. This will balance out during the course of the tournament.

Deadline for finishing round three games is Saturday 2^nd January 2021. As round two finished early it gives us a few extra days to play round three, which is just as well, with Christmas falling in this period.

Enjoy!

Peter

Rules Recap

• The Book Prize Tournament is an all-play-all contest, so with 12 players that makes 11 Rounds.
• Although players will sometimes play consecutive games with the same colour, each player will end up having played at least 4 games as white.
• Each Round should be completed within 3 weeks, but there can be some flexibility.
• The games are to be played online – on lichess.org.
• The time control is 90 minutes each per game.
• The winner (or white if drawn) should notify Peter of the result.