Heidenfeld Trophy 2016/17

L1m1tless

Just been confirmed. The match is being broadcast live.

cdeb

Excellent!

Do you know what link it'll be at yet? Or is there a different link for each live game ye do?

L1m1tless

It will be on www.Chessspectator.com

L1m1tless

Curragh 4 St.Benildus 4

cdeb

Regretting the request for live boards now after my performance!

Still, I know a few Benildus players enjoyed watching the games live, even if there were technical glitches on a couple of boards still. And a nice dramatic fightback from 3½-½ down too! Fair dues for setting it up; it's great.

(One suggestion which mayn't be practical is that maybe the in-venue screens should be set up a little bit further away from the playing area; players talking about the games creates extra noise, especially as other games finish and people are freer to talk - but the noise then carries through to the main room a bit)

L1m1tless

ah you had a tough opponent, our club champion in fact. Thanks for the suggestion. Usually there are not as many people, we just happened to have 2 matches at once so both rooms were being used.

cdeb

Still; definitely had him on the back foot until his knight jumped from c1 - where I thought I had it stuck defending - to d3 and to e5; I thought he was mad until I looked at the position again and realised he was saying my attack was nonsense! Never a nice thing to happen in a game.

Yeah, two games was busy alright. Still, a great little innovation.

L1m1tless

Thanks, it still needs some tweaks but its almost there, I look forward to your write up on the match.

cdeb

Here you go.

Huge result for us to fight back from 3½-½ down to take a draw obviously.

Here's a photo of the live game set-up for anyone curious - there's a mobile phone over each board taking photos of the board and transmitting the details -



Don't know how to resize I'm afraid!

Rathminor

Rathmines 5 Drogheda 3

L1m1tless

Draw Match between Curragh and Celbridge

cdeb

St Benildus 4-4 Elm Mount

Should be more or less assured promotion now

Rathminor

Inchicore 1.5 Rathmines 6.5

Rathminor

Rathmines 4.5 Malahide 3.5

flipsake

Bray 2-6 Inchicore

cdeb

Lucan 1-7 St Benildus.

The tightest 7-1 you're likely to see. Very harsh on Lucan

cdeb

St Benildus 5-3 Phibsoro

macelligott

It is a pity that the LCU site is so slow to update Heidenfeld results :-(

mikhail

macelligott wrote: »

It is a pity that the LCU site is so slow to update Heidenfeld results :-(

It's partly the captains' fault. The LCU's software requires results from both captains before it'll register it. The division controller sends periodic updates to the leagues controller who updates the website. Or so it went a few years ago. It wasn't really designed with response time in mind - when that software was first written, you might see a league table at Christmas, and again before the final round.

cdeb

The other option is for more captains to report results through the ICU ticker. So we can see Phibsoro beat Ballinasloe 6-2 and look to have done a lot to assure safety.

Any result from Elm Mount's round 9 match? If they failed to win, we're promoted. Think that might be the first confirmed promotion of the season?

macelligott

R9. Elm Mount 3.5-4.5 Celbridge

cdeb

Yay! Promoted!

oppenheimer1

macelligott wrote: »

It is a pity that the LCU site is so slow to update Heidenfeld results :-(

I thought that was just my computer. Very frustrating all right

L1m1tless

Inchicore 3 Curragh 5 good result considering we had to use 3 subs.

macelligott

L1m1tless wrote: »

Inchicore 3 Curragh 5 good result considering we had to use 3 subs.

Who is "we"? Which team had 3 subs? Not at all clear which team is posting!

L1m1tless

Well most know I'm from the Curragh

flipsake

L1m1tless wrote: »

Inchicore 3 Curragh 5 good result considering we had to use 3 subs.

Yeah well done to the Curragh today.
Other results from round 10 include: Malahide 2.5-5.5 Bray
Drogheda 3-5Elm Mount
Celbridge 5-3Lucan
Ballinasloe 3-4 Rathmines
Congrats to Benildus on promotion. All to play for on 23rd at the other end of the table.

Rathminor

Ballinasloe 3.5 Rathmines 4.5

L1m1tless

Curragh 8 Drogheda 0 ��

cdeb

Didn't ye do that two years ago as well?

L1m1tless

Well we won 8 games this year. No walkovers this time.

flipsake

We'll done to the Curragh on securing promotion again. Tough on Drogheda but their match vs Lucan gonna be crucial now. Caught a bit of today's game on www.chessspectator.com Getting better all the time

L1m1tless

Thanks very much, it will be an exciting final day

Rathminor

Rathmines 6.5 Bray Greystones 1.5

Don't know the other results yet

L1m1tless

A Big Congratulations to St.Benildus on a well deserved league victory!

cdeb

Cheers!

We won 7-1 against a weakened Ballinasloe. Did ye win in the end v Malahide? I saw it was 3.5-3.5.

Lucan beat drogheda 6-2, so drogheda and Malahide are relegated

flipsake

Elm Mount beat Inchicore 5.5 to 2.5 and I think Celbridge beat Phibsboro by the same score.

L1m1tless

Yes we won the last game, not that it made much difference.