It gives me great pleasure to report on some great performances from Seaton players in recent competitions. The first to report is Jon Underwood's great result of 2nd equal in the 5th Bournemouth Grand Open Congress, sharing the honours with a Fide Master and only being narrowly pipped for 1st by a Grand Master Daniel Gormally. Jon actually drew with Daniel in the last round and had a remarkable win against Billy Fellowes (weighing in with a rating of 2268), which Jon said "was the best he'd ever played!
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The game also caught the sight of GM Daniel Gornally who took the time to review the game on his YouTube blog so I would encourage you to watch Daniel go through this amazing game (without giving too much away, there's a queen sacrifice involved!)
The game is also on the website under the Games menu or follow the link here: Fellowes v Underwood 30 March 2025. Full results from the Bournemouth event can be found here.
I am also happy to report great results for Seaton players in the 2nd Bovey Tracey Rapidplay on the 5th April with Paul Hampton joint 1st in the Maestro section (results here) and Trevor Hurt joint first in the Improvers (results here). Click the links to see the full results.
