After 4 rounds of play in the 2007 LASCO National Chess Championships, FIDE Master Warren Elliott has widened the gap between himself and the rest of the field.
 
Elliott won both his games on the weekend against Peter Myers and National Master Mark Holness at the RBTT Bank Head Office in New Kingston, to remain perfect on four points from four games. Elliott’s nearest rival is surprisingly Mark Henry, the second lowest ranked competitor in the championship, who is on 2.5 points after defeating Stewart James on Saturday and losing to National Master Equitable Brown on Sunday.
 
Third place is now shared by seven competitors all on 2 points each, they include Daren Wisdom, Zachary Ramsay, Myers, National Masters Andrew Mellace, Brown, Russel Porter and Holness.
 
In tenth place is last year’s runner-up and seven-time National Champion National Master Shane Matthews on 1.5 and tied in eleventh place are Mikhail Solomon and James on 1 point each.
 
The President’s Invitational Tournament is currently being led by the President himself (Ian Wilkinson) and Alain Morais, who are both on 3.5 points from four games. Past President National Master John Powell is in third place on 3 points. See the tables below for the rest of the standings in the President’s Invitational.
 
The National Championships and the President’s take a break for the next two weeks for the Independence holiday weekend and to allow the Jamaica Chess Federation to focus on supporting approximately ten junior players who will be participating in junior tournaments in Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados during the period. When the Championship continues on August 19, it will take place at the Norman Manley Law School on the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies.
 
Attached are the games from the 2007 Nationals and President’s so far.