IM Junta Ikeda wins 2016 ACT Championship

IM Junta Ikeda has won the 2016 ACT Championship, with an almost perfect 8.5/9. After drawing with Victor Braguine in round 2, Ikeda reeled of 7 straight wins to finish 1.5 ahead of IM Andrew Brown in second place. Brown had been chasing Ikeda through the second half of the event, but a loss to third seed Andrey Bliznyuk left brown stuck on 7 points, and allowed Bliznyuk to take outright third on 6.5.
In the other rating categories, Tim Pearce and Albert Winkelman shared the Under 1700 (ACF) rating prize, while James Sheehan performed well above his pre tournament seeding to win the Under 1000 prize. Josh Walker continued his successful return to chess, winning the prize for highest scoreing FIDE unrated player.
Final tournament results are here, and you can also download the complete set of games from the tournament from the same page.


Ikeda,Junta (2393) - Chibnall,Alana (1884)
2016 ACT Championship Canberra (9.1), 21.02.2016

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Qa4+ c6 6. Qxc4 b5 7. Qc2 Bb7 8. a4 b4 9. d3 Nbd7 10. O-O c5 11. Nbd2 Be7 12. Nc4 Rc8 13. a5 O-O 14. e4 Nb8 15. Be3 Nc6 16. a6 Ba8 17. Qe2 Nd7 18. d4 cxd4 19. Nxd4 Nxd4 20. Bxd4 Nc5 21. Rfd1 Qc7 22. Bxc5 Bxc5 23. b3 e5 24. h4 Qe7 25. Bh3 Rcd8 26. Bg2 Bd4 27. Ra5 Rfe8 28. Kh2 Bc6 29. Rc1 Bc3 30. Bh3 f6 31. Bg2 Rd4 32. Ne3 Qd8 33. Ra2 Bxe4 34. Bxe4 Rxe4 35. Rd1 Qb6 36. Rd7 Rc8 37. Rxg7+ Kxg7 38. Nf5+ Kh8 39. Qxe4 Qc6 40. Qg4 Qd7 41. Ra5 Rc7 42. Qf3 Qe6 43. Rd5 Rc8 44. Qg4 Qf7 45. Nh6 Qxd5 46. Qxc8+ Kg7 47. Nf5+ Kf7 48. Qc7+ 1-0