Gold Coast Rapid championship, May 2005

Kevin Casey on 5.5/6 has deservedly won the Gold Coast Rapid Championship for 2005 on countback from Stephen Solomon. In third place was Phachara Wongwichit on 5/6 on countback from Anthony Lam, Nik Stawski and Matthew Sonter. Kevin is also the current holder of the Gold Coast Allegro Championship.
 
Ratings prizewinners were:
Rating Group A Yitao Lei
Rating Group B Wayne Fraser
Rating Group C Curtis Jack
Rating Group D Zacharie Dolan-Bowman
Rating Group E Jeremy Jansz
Encouragement prizes were also given to the following who performed well above their rating:
 
Gene Nakauchi, Sophie Tan, Caleb Eriksson, Alan Lam, Leoma Lee and Daniel Posner

72 players took part.

Check up on the results here: Gold Coast Rapid Championship

The winners, from the left: Zacharie, Stephen, Curtis, Wayne, Yitao, Kevin, Phachara and Jeremy

The champion Kevin Casey deep in thought

peace reigns . . . for a short time

Newcomer Peter Cafolla finds out how strong some of the juniors are

Not everyone can concentrate all the time . . .