2016 Zone 4.4 Individual Chess Championships - Round 8 Updates

 

In the penultimate round of the 2016 Zone 4.4 Individual Chess Championships on board one IM ADU Oladapo(Nigeria) played played 1.Nf3 against the in form CM BALOGUN Oluwafemi (Nigeria)and the game soon transposed into the latter's pet line , the Pirc defense which became very interesting after the FM gave up the exchange for the initiative however the game ended in a draw after a three fold repetition of moves on move 52, on board two  FM OSUNFUYI Abimbola (Nigeria ) with the black pieces  and employing the solid Caro kan defence defeated FM ANWULI Daniel , FM Daniel played the plain and straight forward exchange variation but soon ran into problems and ended up being  Checkmated on move 45 as he did not see the mating threat on board he went pawn grabbing on f7 with his queen and it was checkmate in one move !!     FM Osunfuyi played 45.... Qf1 Checkmate #

                                         
On board three FM KIGIGHA Bomo (Nigeria) with the black pieces defeated ADU JNR Lionel (Ghana) , on board  four ODEH Kenneth (Nigeria) using the Caro Kan as black beat FM DEGONDO Simplice Armel (Ivory coast ) , on board five veteran  player  Mr  ERHABOR David employed a samich formation against CM OYAMA Ekok in a very interesting attacking game which was full of cut and thrusts of chess tactics forcing  CM Oyama resigned on move 30 when it was obvious he was about to be checkmated. on board twelve hard fighting lady OFOWINO Toritsemuwa (Nigeria) lost with the white pieces to CM THOMPSON Edward Nii Lamptey (Ghana) in a London system set up. SEE FULL Result of  round 8 below courtesy Chess-results.com

Pairings/Results

Round 8 on 2016/04/04 at 16:00

Bo.	No.			Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg		No.
1	3		IM	ADU Oladapo	2281	6½	½ - ½	6	CM	BALOGUN Oluwafemi	2249		4
2	1		FM	ANWULI Daniel	2365	5	0 - 1	5	FM	OSUNFUYI Abimbola	2184		5
3	17			ADU JNR Lionel	1877	4½	0 - 1	5	FM	KIGIGHA Bomo	2363		2
4	7		FM	DEGONDO Simplice Armel	2140	4	0 - 1	4		ODEH Kenneth	2031		11
5	8			ERHABOR David	2104	4	1 - 0	4	CM	OYAMA Ekok	2000		13
6	15		CM	MENSAH Joseph Jamena	1980	4	0 - 1	4	FM	EBOSSE Kingue Victor Patrick	2047		10
7	14		IM	ANQUANDAH Francis Eric	1993	4	1 - 0	3½	CM	KAMARA Ansumana	2015		12
8	28			CHARLES Haji Kiadii	0	3½	0 - 1	3½	FM	ONOVUGHE Ochuko Emmanuel	2166		6
9	9			MANAN Yoboue Hermann	2104	3½	1 - 0	3½		HUSHIE Carlton	1761		21
10	22			SOSU Edward	1729	3½	0 - 1	3½	CM	EPHOEVI-GA Adama Mawulikplimi	1861		18
11	30			NKUM Michael	0	3	0 - 1	3½		ATTAH Elikem Kofi	0		27
12	20			OFOWINO Toritsemuwa	1793	3	0 - 1	3	CM	THOMPSON Edward Nii Lamptey	1890		16
13	31			THOMAS Saah	0	2½	1 - 0	2½		EBONGUE Emile	1802		19
14	32			TANDOH Charles Raymond Appiah	0	1	0 - 1	2½		JACOB Jallah	0		29
15	26			AKINLEYE Akinseye	0	2½	1 - 0	0		AYIKU Angela Naa Amerley	1523		24
16	25			BODJONA Abalou Bitchareou	1370	2	0 - 1	2		ARKO-DADZIE George Kweku	1560		23