Aidan Cox returns and wins the Launceston Open Lightning

It was fantastic to see Aidan Cox return to chess for this year’s Launceston Open Lightning. Aidan finished on 8/9, just edging out David Escobar, who also had an excellent tournament. Here’s the final crosstable:

Launceston Open Lightning 2019
Kings Meadows - 02/11/2019, 02/11/2019

 Cross Table

 Pos   N NAME                 Elo   T  Fed   Pts  |  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10 
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  1   2  Cox,Aidan            1848     TAS   8.0  |  *   1   1   0   1   1   1   1   1   1  
  2   9  Escobar,David           0     TAS   7.0  |  0   *   0   1   1   1   1   1   1   1  
  3   1  McMahon,Denis        1919     TAS   6.0  |  0   1   *   0   0   1   1   1   1   1  
  4   4  Djatschenko,Addison  1495     TAS   6.0  |  1   0   1   *   0   0   1   1   1   1  
  5   5  Patrick,John         1475     TAS   6.0  |  0   0   1   1   *   1   0   1   1   1  
  6   6  Beeton,Kerry         1449     TAS   5.0  |  0   0   0   1   0   *   1   1   1   1  
  7   3  Brown,Monty          1594     TAS   4.0  |  0   0   0   0   1   0   *   1   1   1  
  8   7  Beeton,Luwanna       1002     TAS   2.0  |  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   *   1   1  
  9   8  Beeton,Bayani         585     TAS   1.0  |  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   *   1  
 10  10  Kamat,Saurabh           0     TAS   0.0  |  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   *