After a long hard night the tournament has finally broken into two groups. An exciting finish looms with eleven players disputing the bronze medal: 1998 Canberra Chess Club Championship after 7 of 9 rounds ------------------------------------------------------------------------ No Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 r/ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Ian Rout 1824 W16 W7 W4 W2 W5 W10 W3 7 43.8 2 Milan Grcic 1796 W11 W15 W14 L1 W3 W9 W8 6 11.3 3 Keith Robertson 1510 L19 W12 W15 W4 L2 W5 L1 4 16.8 4 Brian Butler 1738 W12 W19 L1 L3 L9 W14 W15 4 -19.8 5 Henk Doel 1682 W20 L14 W21 W13 L1 L3 W9 4 -12.5 6 Laura Moylan 1828 W17 D10 L8 L9 W18 W13 D7 4 -19.8 7 A. de Noskowski 1658 W21 L1 W17 W8 D10 xxxx D6 4 11.4 8 Mosaddeque Ali 1688 ?bye ?bye W6 L7 W11 W15 L2 4 0.0 9 Ken Creech 1791 L14 W20 D10 W6 W4 L2 L5 3? -16.8 10 Victor Bragin 1741 W18 D6 D9 W14 D7 L1 xxxx 3? -3.3 11 Erik Jochimsen 1332 L2 W22 L13 W21 L8 D19 W16 3? -2.1 12 Karl Galli 1323 L4 L3 W22 L16 W17 W20 D13 3? 7.8 13 John Alps 1532 ?bye ?bye W11 L5 W14 L6 D12 3? -2.3 14 Patrick Connell 1404 W9 W5 L2 L10 L13 L4 W19 3 24.6 15 Roger McCart 1423 W22 L2 L3 W20 W16 L8 L4 3 1.2 16 Tim Benham 1407 L1 L21 W19 W12 L15 W17 L11 3 -18.0 17 Suman Das 1355 L6 W18 L7 W19 L12 L16 bye 3 -11.4 18 Sunny Yoon 1195 L10 L17 L20 W22 L6 bye W21 3 -9.8 19 Shervin Rafizadeh 989 W3 L4 L16 L17 W21 D11 L14 2? 26.4 20 Gunnars Lamberts 1243 L5 L9 W18 L15 ?bye L12 W22 2? -5.3 21 Russell Brickhill 948 L7 W16 L5 L11 L19 W22 L18 2 -0.3 22 Rae Doel L15 L11 L12 L18 bye L21 L20 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Provisional draw for Round 8. This draw is subject to change. Moylan - Rout Grcic - Butler Robertson - Ali Doel H - de Noskowski Creech - Alps Jochimsen - Bragin Galli - McCart Yoon - Benham Connell - Das Lamberts - Brickhill Rafizedah - Doel R