The prize winners are:
 
Open – 1st Chris Morrison

Open – 2nd Johny Bolens  

Open – 3rd Paul Broekhuyse
 

Divisional Prizes

Under

1800 – 1st    Jeffery Young

1600 – 1st    Alex Mehan   

1600 – 1st    Allen Robinson

1400 – 1st    Barry Shearwood

1400 – 2nd   Damir Matasin

1200 – 1st    Phil Willis 

Lloyd Fell Shield Senior	Aurel-John Buciu
Lloyd Fell Shield Junior	Alex Mehan

Club Secretary Bill explains the procedure of playing against blind Alex Momot

a very cheery Phil Willis who scored a very good 3 and won the under 1200 section	Local character Barry Shearwood, after a break from chess of most the year (what is it with these people taking breaks from chess ?!) but nevertheless taking out 1st under 1400 (we should perhaps dock their pay if they have been away too long - but then that's not much incentive to come back after a while (except for the honour and the glory), or perhaps multiply their pay ... but we might go broke, so I guess we leave things as they are.	Damir showing how he beat the Director of Play on his own way to 2nd in the 1400 division
Alex - was it only a couple of years ago I Directed his first adult tournament in Toukley - scroll to the bottom of that report to see a then current photo this time around Alex scored equal 1st in the under 1600 division (and if we'd have had prizes for fourth place then equal 4th)	Allen - the fellow who makes sure our finances add up - and the chap who last year suggested the guaranteed prizes (and made that plan work). This year - equal First under 1600 (and =4th as mentioned 'above')	Jeff - First under 1800, scoring over 50% in such a tournament was indeed hard work, Jeff also helped out greatly at the Director's desk (while the DOP/Arbiter was pretending to play chess ( I thought I was playing the game - until looking now at my quality :-) Je4ff is also Gosford's current Champion.
Johny, after winning here the last 2 year's drew to 2nd place The Leaguews club says (I am sure) "come back soon Johny - the Poker machines need you".	Alex gets his name on the Lloyd Fell Junior Shield	Aurel-John Buciu (from Queensland) earns the Lloyd Fell Senior Shield

Now fellows, lest I be charged with fawning localism (and why not - it is not such a bad charge), let me explain. Paul was far too quick for the camera this year while he was picking up his prize and so here he is in 2005 when he came second - just behind Johny, and last year when he also came second (again behind Johny) and NSW Country Champ.

"I could have done it blindfold"           perhaps           or the winner caught napping

neither being the deserved caption for a very deserved win and popular winner

All the way from Bonnie Scotland - and taking a break from hectic Singapore if there hadn't have been rain on the Saturday Chris and son Duncan, who faced a tough field and scored a solid 3 points - particularly creditable given the opposition, we'd have lost them to the attractions of the local tennis scene. Chris had taken the last few years off chess - doing what else I have yet to fathom (my attitude being 'what else is there but chess !' still, there are other things I suppose), anyway after the break and an admittedly nervous day one Chris powered on, brushing aside both the current NSW Country Champon and last year's winner (Johny - who was also no doubt hoping to make it three years in a row), okay, Johny wasn't so much brushed aside it being a relatively quick and painless draw.