2016 ACT Championship - Day 4

The second of the 2016 ACT Championship saw tournament favourites IM Junta Ikeda and IM Andrew Brown extend their leads over the rest of the field.   Junta Ikeda beat Fred Litchfield and Andrey Bliznyuk, whie Andrew Brown had a couple of long games against Alana Chibnall and Wenlin Yin. The round 6 games ran even longer than expected as their was a 45 minute break caused by a fire alarm at the venue.
Battling it out for the minor places are Fred Litchfield, who bounced back with a win in round 7, and Willis Lo. However both are up against the leaders in tomorrow mornings round, giving a couple of other players the chance to catch up.
Further down a number of players are still performing well above their seedings, including Tim Pearce, Matt Radisich and Athena Hathiramani. The final two rounds take place tomorrow, at Campbell High School, Trealor Crescent. The first round starts at 10:30 am, with the final round starting at 2:30 pm.
Results and games can be found here.


Pearce,Tim (1716) - Winkelman,Albert (1751)
2016 ACT Championship Canberra (6.6), 20.02.2016

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. cxd5 exd5 8. e3 O-O 9. Bd3 Re8 10. Ne2 Nc6 11. O-O c4 12. Bb1 Na5 13. Ra2 Bd7 14. Ng3 Bc6 15. Re2 b5 16. e4 Nb3 17. Bg5 h6 18. Bxf6 Qxf6 19. e5 Qd8 20. Qc2 g6 21. Nh5 Kh8 22. Nf6 Rf8 23. h4 Bd7 24. g4 Kg7 25. h5 Be8 26. Rh2 a5 27. hxg6 fxg6 28. g5 h5 29. Rxh5 Rxf6 30. gxf6+ Kg8 31. Rf2 Bf7 32. Rfh2 gxh5 33. Qh7+ Kf8 34. Qh8+ Bg8 35. Qg7+ Ke8 36. Bg6+ Bf7 37. Qxf7# 1-0