2013 Club Ch – Rd 5!

The clock may have struck midnight on Abhinav Suresh’s Cinderella turn with his loss to John Stepp in Round 5.  Stepp downed the tournament leader in a sharp tactical game, opening the door for John Linscott to charge to the top of the leader board with his win over Steven Cusumano. 

Tony Dutiel and David Sparks join Suresh and Stepp in a large tie for second place at 3.5/5.  Dutiel defeated John Hartmann in a battle of the annotators after an opening surprise and a complicated middlegame.  Sparks continued his impressive run with a nice win over Dan Wolk.

Towards the bottom of the table, Eylon Caplan notched his first victory of the tournament with a win against Brendan Forsling.  Jon Reigenborn took advantage of some opening infelicities and defeated John McElderry, and Thomas Freed won against Rich Gruber with a crafty middlegame trap.

Bd    Scr    White    Scr    Black
101.    1.0    Stepp,John W (3.5,1782)    0.0    Suresh,Abhinav (3.5,1396)
102.    0.0    Cusumano, Steven J (2.5,1836)    1.0    Linscott,John (4.0,1821)
103.    1.0    Dutiel,Tony (3.5,1813)    0.0    Hartmann,John R (2.5,1730)
104.    1.0    Sparks,David  Owe (3.5,1328)    0.0    Wolk,Dan H (2.0,1385)
105.    0.0    Gruberiii, Richar (1.5,1371)    1.0    Freediii, Thomas (2.5,1330)
106.    1.0    Reigenborn, Jon (2.5,1214)    0.0    McElderry, John Pa (1.0,1146)
107.    0.0    Forsling, Brendan (1.0,810)    1.0    Caplan,Eylon (2.0,571)

No.    Name                         St Rate 1     2     3     4     5     Score

   1. Linscott,John (2)………….  NE 1821 W8    D4    D2    W3    W6      4.0

   2. Dutiel,Tony (3)……………  MO 1813 -H-   W6    D1    D5    W7      3.5
   3. Stepp,John W (4)…………..  NE 1782 W5    W12   D7    L1    W4      3.5
   4. Suresh,Abhinav (6)…………  NE 1396 W13   D1    W10   W7    L3      3.5
   5. Sparks,David  Owe (10)……..  NE 1328 L3    W11   W12   D2    W10     3.5

   6. Cusumano, Steven J (1)……..  NE 1836 -H-   L2    W14   W8    L1      2.5
   7. Hartmann,John R (5)………..  NE 1730 W9    W14   D3    L4    L2      2.5
   8. Freediii, Thomas (9)……….  NE 1330 L1    W13   -H-   L6    W12     2.5
   9. Reigenborn, Jonath (11)…….  NE 1214 L7    L10   D15   W14   W13     2.5

  10. Wolk,Dan H (7)…………….  NE 1385 L14   W9    L4    -X-   L5      2.0
  11. Caplan,Eylon (14)………….  NE  571 L12   L5    L13   -B-   W14     2.0

  12. Gruberiii, Richar (8)………  NE 1371 W11   L3    L5    -H-   L8      1.5

  13. McElderry, John Pa (12)…….  NE 1146 L4    L8    W11   -F-   L9      1.0
  14. Forsling, Brendan (13)……..  AK  810 W10   L7    L6    L9    L11     1.0
  15. Kerbow,Jeffrey (15)………..  TX nnnn -H-   -N-   D9    -U-   -U-     1.0