Edward Dearing of Perth gained his final IM norm at the Smith and Williamson Young Masters tournament, July 10-17, 2002. Eddie needs to get his FIDE grade to 2400 to gain the International Master title.
Richard Palliser reports: A very close tournament saw a late burst from Eddie Dearing sufficient to gain him first equal with IM Karl Mah and also his third IM norm. Dearing and Mah made 3/3 with the English Opening against the Hungarian IMs Gergely Antal and Gabor Pinter which pushed them down the field to equal third along with Stewart Haslinger.
Dearing,E (2343) - Pinter,G (2381) [A26]
2002 S&WYM Millfield School, Street (8.1), 16.07.2002
1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 0-0 5.Nf3 d6 6.0-0 Nc6 7.d3 e5 8.Rb1 a5 9.h3 h6 10.e4 Be6 (=) 11.Nd5 Kh7 12.Be3 Nd7 13.d4 exd4 14.Nxd4 Nxd4 15.Bxd4 Bxd4 16.Qxd4 c5 17.Qd1 Ne5 18.b3 Nc6 19.Nc3 Nd4 20.Ne2 Nc6 21.Rb2 Qc7 22.Rd2 Rad8 23.f4 f5 24.exf5 gxf5 25.Re1 Rfe8 26.Qb1 Bc8 27.Nc3 Qg7 28.Nd5 Nd4 29.Kh2 Be6 30.Rd3 Kh8 31.Rde3 Rg8 32.Qd1 Rde8 33.Qd2 Qf7 (=) 34.Qd1 Rb8 35.Nc3 Rbe8 36.Ne2 Qg7 37.Nxd4 cxd4 38.Rd3 a4 39.Qa1 Bd7 40.Bxb7 Rxe1 41.Qxe1 Re8 42.Qf2 Re3 43.Rxe3 dxe3 44.Qxe3 Qb2+ 45.Kh1 Qb1+ 46.Qg1 Qxa2 47.Qd4+ Kg8 48.Bd5+ Kh7 49.bxa4 Qxa4 50.Kg2 Kg6 51.h4 Bc6 52.Kh3 Be8 53.h5+ Kh7 54.Qf6 1-0
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1 Dearing, Eddie SCO 2343 +17 = 2 = 6 - 8 +16 = 9 + 3 + 4 = 5 6.0 2476 2 Mah, Karl m ENG 2409 +19 = 1 = 4 + 3 = 7 = 8 =11 +10 = 6 6.0 2484 3 Antal, Gergely m HUN 2492 + 5 + 9 =18 - 2 + 6 = 4 - 1 = 8 +11 5.5 2437 4 Pinter, Gabor m HUN 2381 +13 = 6 = 2 +18 + 8 = 3 = 7 - 1 = 9 5.5 2438 5 Haslinger, Stewart ENG 2310 - 3 =16 =10 =19 =14 +13 +18 +12 = 1 5.5 2355 6 Palliser, Richard m ENG 2441 +14 = 4 = 1 = 7 - 3 +16 = 8 =11 = 2 5.0 2408 7 Skytte, Rasmus f DEN 2366 =12 +11 =20 = 6 = 2 =10 = 4 = 9 = 8 5.0 2400 8 Middelburg, Tom f NED 2382 =10 =20 +19 + 1 - 4 = 2 = 6 = 3 = 7 5.0 2408 9 Sinkevich, Petr f RUS 2337 +16 - 3 =11 =10 +20 = 1 =12 = 7 = 4 5.0 2381 10 Jones, Gawain C ENG 2237 = 8 =13 = 5 = 9 =18 = 7 +15 - 2 =14 4.5 2315 11 Gladyszev, Oleg m RUS 2388 +15 - 7 = 9 -16 +13 +18 = 2 = 6 - 3 4.5 2327 12 Addison, Bret ENG 2219 = 7 -18 -15 =17 +19 +14 = 9 - 5 +16 4.5 2269 13 Broomfield, Matthew ENG 2229 - 4 =10 +14 =20 -11 - 5 +19 +17 =15 4.5 2302 14 Erwich, Frank f NED 2330 - 6 =17 -13 +15 = 5 -12 =16 +20 =10 4.0 2236 15 Trent, Lawrence ENG 2246 -11 -19 +12 -14 +17 +20 -10 =16 =13 4.0 2227 16 Martyn, Rafe ENG 2201 - 9 = 5 +17 +11 - 1 - 6 =14 =15 -12 3.5 2233 17 Woodward, Timothy DM ENG 2211 - 1 =14 -16 =12 -15 +19 +20 -13 =18 3.5 2188 18 Koster, Ramon NED 2226 =20 +12 = 3 - 4 =10 -11 - 5 -19 =17 3.0 2192 19 Skjoldborg, Jesper DEN DEN 2201 - 2 +15 - 8 = 5 -12 -17 -13 +18 =20 3.0 2169 20 Williams, Simon m ENG 2421 =18 = 8 = 7 =13 - 9 -15 -17 -14 =19 2.5 2114 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
