This tournament was first established in 1973 and named in honour of Allan Respini, first Club President, 1959. The competition remembers his contribution and efforts in establishing the club and developing its activities.
The format of this competition is 10 player round robins, run in three, four or five divisions but depending on participant numbers, a Swiss may be held in the lower divisions.
Initially the time limit was 90 minutes per player, however in recent years, with the introduction of digital clocks, all the divisions have 70 minutes with 30 second increments (Fischer time). All games are forwarded to the ACF for rating purposes with the 'A' & 'B' divisions also being FIDE rated.
The allocation of players into FIDE-rated divisions is determined by the first seven players by FIDE rating in a 10-player division, and remaining players by ACF. For non FIDE-rated divisions ACF is used.
Promotion into the higher division
As most spots in a division are filled by rating, the winner of the next-lowest division from the previous year, if not already qualified by rating, is invited to play up a division. If there were more than one winner, tiebreaks for promotion would be, in order:
From a round-robin division: Direct encounter, Sonneborn-Berger, most wins, coin flip.
From a Swiss division: Buchholz-cut1, Buchholz total, direct encounter, most wins, coin flip.
2024 Respini Tournament
This year's Respini Tournament will be held in three 9 player divisions (A, B & C) with A & B divisions also being FIDE rated.
Time control for each division is 70 mins + 30 sec increment.
A, B & C division cross tables & playing schedule is available from the following links:
The PGN file of all available games is available here: 2024 Respini PGN's
The playing schedules & PGN file above and cross tables below are believed to be correct, but if you find any errors or corrections and/or updates to be made please let the Web Site Admin know and they will be corrected asap.
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A Division
| Rank |
Name |
FIDE |
ACF |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
Score |
| 1 |
Ashvin Balavignan |
1959 |
2025 |
|
= |
0 |
= |
1 |
1 |
1 |
= |
1 |
5.5 |
| 2 |
Michael Kueh |
1957 |
2048 |
= |
|
= |
1 |
= |
= |
1 |
= |
= |
5.0 |
| 3 |
Saminda De Vas |
1905 |
2080 |
1 |
= |
|
1 |
= |
0 |
1 |
= |
1 |
5.5 |
| 4 |
Peter Roza |
1898 |
2097 |
= |
0 |
0 |
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4.5 |
| 5 |
Craig Kinsman |
1897 |
2077 |
0 |
= |
= |
1 |
|
= |
1 |
0f |
= |
4.0 |
| 6 |
David Ellis |
1850 |
2059 |
0 |
= |
1 |
0 |
= |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
5.0 |
| 7 |
Robert Baumgartner |
1808 |
1965 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
= |
1 |
1.5 |
| 8 |
Yonal De Vas |
1790 |
1802 |
= |
= |
= |
0 |
1f |
0 |
= |
|
1 |
4.0 |
| 9 |
Gordon Dunlop |
1789 |
1913 |
0 |
= |
0 |
0 |
= |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
1.0 |
B Division
| Rank |
Name |
FIDE |
ACF |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
Score |
| 1 |
David Barry |
1782 |
1913 |
|
= |
1 |
1 |
= |
1 |
= |
= |
1 |
6.0 |
| 2 |
Yuxuan Zhang |
1779 |
1800 |
= |
|
1 |
= |
0 |
= |
= |
1 |
1 |
5.0 |
| 3 |
Mike McGregor |
1720 |
1765 |
0 |
0 |
|
= |
0 |
= |
0 |
= |
0 |
1.5 |
| 4 |
Kobe Wu |
1711 |
1671 |
0 |
= |
= |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
= |
1 |
2.5 |
| 5 |
Derek Roebuck |
1702 |
1752 |
= |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
= |
= |
= |
1 |
6.0 |
| 6 |
Marcus Simonds |
1694 |
1733 |
0 |
= |
= |
1 |
= |
|
= |
1 |
0 |
4.0 |
| 7 |
Robin Christian |
1686 |
1759 |
= |
= |
1 |
1 |
= |
= |
|
= |
0 |
4.5 |
| 8 |
Nithuli Liyanage |
1570 |
1674 |
= |
0 |
= |
= |
= |
0 |
= |
|
1 |
3.5 |
| 9 |
Alex DeHeer |
1667 |
1659 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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3.0 |
C Division
| Rank |
Name |
ACF |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
Score |
| 1 |
Wallace Sheridan |
1627 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
8.0 |
| 2 |
Sjef de Jong |
1620 |
0 |
|
= |
= |
= |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4.5 |
| 3 |
Jaswanth Ram Sethuraman |
1539 |
0 |
= |
|
0f |
= |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5.0 |
| 4 |
Paul Moseley |
1535 |
0 |
= |
1f |
|
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
= |
5.0 |
| 5 |
Joe Klimczak |
1444 |
0 |
= |
= |
0 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
= |
4.5 |
| 6 |
Ben Motu |
1436 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
1 |
2.0 |
| 7 |
Joshua Williams |
1340 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
0 |
1 |
2.0 |
| 8 |
Michael Hartley |
1300p |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
0 |
3.0 |
| 9 |
Ryan Yao |
1300p |
0 |
0 |
0 |
= |
= |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
2.0 |
Previous Winners
Click here for a list of previous Respini Tournament winners.
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