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Welcome to the eighth CAQ email
newsletter. Contained in this eighth edition of the CAQ
email newsletter.
Unauthorised withdrawal policy
CAQ Policy on unauthorised withdrawals
Upcoming CAQ Endorsed Tournament information:
1) 2010 CAQ Teams Competition (Interclub)
2) 2010 Queensland Open in Toowoomba
3) 2010 Bundaberg Weekender
As more rated weekend tournament information is received,
it will be added in date of play order to the above list. Organisers are
reminded that the earlier they can get their tournament information
supplied to CAQ, the earlier it will appear in the newsletter and on the
CAQ website: www.caq.org.au and
therefore more promotional opportunities for their tournament (s).
CAQ Affiliated club information.
Results
1) 2010 Qld Australia Day Weekender
2) 2010 Gold Coast Tin Cup
Upcoming non rated events-
These tournaments are organised by either chess clubs or
individual organisers. As they are non rated events, CAQ offers no
endorsement for these events. This information is only supplied for the
purpose of tournament information.
2010 Australian Championship/Major/Minor Results and
Reports
2010 Australian Junior Championship
2009 Australian Grand Prix Results
Other
information:
Unsubcribe information
Garvin Gray
CAQ President
CAQ
POLICY ON UNAUTHORISED WITHDRAWALS
I
think it is fair to say that one of the biggest banes of organisers
and arbiters alike is when players decide to not show for their final
round games without at least informing the arbiter that they will not be
present for the final round so the arbiter can at least take that
player out of the draw.
Not
only is this type of behaviour selfish and in poor form, but it is also
against the unauthorised withdrawal policy of the CAQ, which states:
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Unauthorised
Withdrawals:
d) Withdrawals. Any player who has completed the first
round of any tournament shall not withdraw from that tournament
without approval from the organiser or DOP. A player whose withdrawal has
not been approved by the organiser or DOP will be regarded as an
unapproved withdrawer. In such cases one or more of the following
penalties may be applied:-
- listing as an unapproved withdrawer in CAQ newsletters
and/or web site
- and/or suspension from the CAQ
The secretary may request a verbal or written explanation
in determining the appropriate course of action
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Players
who do not show for a tournament round without prior
explanation can expect a please explain letter in the mail from the CAQ
Council asking why they failed to show for their tournament game and why
one of the above listed actions should not be taken.
2010 CAQ TEAMS COMPETITION (INTERCLUB)
DATES AND VENUES:
Round 1: Saturday, March 6 Gardiner Chess Centre 11 Hardys
Road, Mudgeeraba
Round 2: Sunday, March 14 Banyo Library 284 St Vincents Road, Banyo
Round 3: Sunday, March 21 Queensland Contract Bridge Club 67 Ipswich
Road, Woolloongabba
Round 4: Sunday, March 28 Queensland Contract Bridge Club 67 Ipswich
Road, Woolloongabba
Round 5: Sunday, April 11 Banyo Library 284 St Vincents Road, Banyo
Round 6 Saturday, April 24 TBA
The CAQ Teams Competiton is the Premier teams competition in Qld. CAQ
Council has decided to retain last years format and CAQ Council is
wanting as many players as possible to participate. Each affiliated
club is certainly asked to field at least one team in each division.
Division One will be fide rated.
Complete information can be found
here: http://www.caq.org.au/htm/2010CAQTeamsCompetition.pdf
The 2010 Queensland Open is now a GP Class 4 event.
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2010 QUEENSLAND OPEN- A FIDE
RATED EVENT
2010
YULGILBAR-THINK BIG AUSTRALIAN CHESS GRAND PRIX CLASS 4 TOURNAMENT
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Dates
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Friday 2nd April - Monday 5th April
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Organiser
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CAQ
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Arbiter
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Fide Arbiter Garvin
Gray
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Venue
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MILLENIUM CENTRE HALL
TOOWOOMBA PREPARATORY SCHOOL
2 CAMPBELL STREET TOOWOOMBA EAST
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Forfeit time
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30 minutes from the start
of each session
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Prizes
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1st: $800
2nd: $500 3rd : $300 4th: $250 5th: $200
Rating Groups (minimum ten players per group)
Rating Group A: 1st: $150
Rating Group B: 1st $100
Other Rating Divisions: 1st $80
If more than 40 entries are received,
an extra $100 will be added to places 1 to 5,
plus the following extra place prizes will be awarded.
6th: $250
7th: $225
8th: $200
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Session times
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ENTRIES CLOSE: 10:30am Friday 2nd
April
2 April
(Fri): Round One:
11.00am Round Two: 4.00pm
3 April (Sat): Round Three: 10.00am
Round Four: 3.00pm
4 April (Sun): Round Five: 10.00am
Round Six: 3.00pm
5 April (Mon): Round Seven: 10.00am
Final Round: 3:00pm
Presentations 8pm
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Time controls
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90 minutes each clock
plus 30 seconds per move (Fischer mode)
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Entry fees
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Before Monday 22nd March: $60
After Monday 22nd March: $80
Third family
member:
Free entry
Players who register and enter on the day, add $10.
Players rated over 2200 on the March 2010 ACF Classical
Rating list will receive free entry
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Tournament Rules
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1. The 2010 Queensland Open will be FIDE, ACF and QJRL
rated.
2. All 2009 FIDE Laws of Chess will be enforced.
3. Without the permission of the arbiter, a player is forbidden to have
a mobile phone or other electronic means of communication in the
playing venue, unless they are completely switched off. If any such
device produces a sound, the player shall lose the game.
4. Two half point byes in total are available in first six rounds.
5. There will be no half point byes awarded in the final two rounds
6. March 2010 ACF rating list will be used to determine a players
rating.
7. Outright money prizes will be shared.
8. Tie breaks will be used to decide rating group prizes.
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Special conditions
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All Queensland players must be financial CAQ members -
list of financial members here.
Non-members add $10 annual subscription, or join online here.
Non-Queensland residents must be members of a state chess association.
Full tournament rules and entry conditions in the tournament flyer,
which can be downloaded here (100 Kb PDF file)
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Policy on
unauthorised withdrawals
- From the CAQ
code of conduct
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Any
player who has completed the first round of any tournament shall not
withdraw from that tournament without approval from the
organiser or DOP.
A player whose withdrawal has not been approved by the organiser or DOP
will be regarded as an unapproved withdrawer.
In such cases one or more of the following penalties may be applied:-
1. Listing
as an unapproved withdrawer in CAQ newsletters and/or web site
2. And/or
suspension from the CAQ
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The secretary may
request a verbal or written explanation in determining the appropriate
course of action.
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Entries/enquiries
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Cheques &c to:
Chess Association of Queensland Inc
3 Didsbury St
East Brisbane Qld 4169
Enquiries -
Garvin Gray
Tel 0422 993 062
email graygarvin@gmail.com
Direct bank deposit option:
Account name: Chess Association of Qld
A/c No: 20501 7068 BSB: 084-391
Quote as reference player’s name plus 2010 Qld Open
(allow three working days for interbank transfer)
and let us know you've done so via online entry form
(registration only - does not include online payment facility)
Online entry form here
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2010 BUNDABERG WEEKENDER
DATES: Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd August
VENUE: Central State School Hall, Crofton Street
Bundaberg
FORMAT: Six Round Individual Swiss, 3 Rounds Saturday, 3
Rounds Sunday
PRIZES:
1st $600 2nd $350 3rd $250
Major Prize money and other
prizes will be increased substantially on the tournament weekend if the
number of nominations received exceed twenty players!!! There
will be individual draws before the start of some rounds for non cash
prizes
The Chess Association of
Queensland Inc is financially supporting this event
Other Prizes
Best scoring rated player
under 1600 First Prize of $100
Second Prize of
$50
Best scoring rated
player under 1300
First Prize of
$100 Second Prize of $50
Best scoring rated player
under 1000 First Prize of $100
Second Prize of
$50
Best scoring unrated
player First Prize of $70 Second Prize of $30
TIME
CONTROL: 60 minutes per
player plus 10 seconds per move (Fischer)
FURTHER
INFORMATION: http://www.caq.org.au/htm/2010BundabergWeekender.pdf
2010 CAQ Affiliated Club information:
http://www.caq.org.au/htm/clubs.htm
The link provides a list of CAQ affiliated club information.
If you are wanting to join a club in your local area, feel free to
contact one of the clubs in your local area for further information, or
reply to this newsletter and contact me for further information.
In the next newsletter in two
weeks, I will provide a brief rundown of what each club offers and how to
join.
Club organisers that would like their information especially included are
encouraged to provide this information to me directly for inclusion.
Results from 2010 Qld Australia
Day Weekender
Further information can be found here: http://www.caq.org.au/htm/Results/2010ADW/2010QldAustraliaDayWeekender.html
No
Name
Loc Total 1 2
3 4 5
6 7
1 LESTER,
George 1864 6
20:W 2:D 7:W 11:W 4:W 8:D 6:W
2 BERBIC,
Mirsad 2000 5.5 8:W
1:D 3:W 4:D 6:D 9:W 13:W
3 NAKAUCHI,
Gene 1980 5
9:W 6:L 2:L 20:W 17:W 10:W 4:W
4 TAN,
Justin 1894
4.5 18:W 12:W 6:W 2:D 1:L 7:W
3:L
5 LALO,
Laurent
4.5 7:L 18:W 9:L 0:D 14:W 11:W 12:W
6 LOVEJOY,
David 1845 4
15:W 3:W 4:L 16:W 2:D 12:D 1:L
7 YOUNG, Nathanael 1549
4 5:W 13:D 1:L 14:W 16:W
4:L 9:D
8 TAN,
Kai
1530 4 2:L 22:W 21:W 17:W 10:D
1:D 0:L
9 DE VERE, Cameron 1524
4 3:L 15:W 5:W 13:W 0:D
2:L 7:D
10 GUTIERREZ, Rodrigo 1926 3.5
17:W 16:L 14:D 19:W 8:D 3:L 18:D
11 LIU,
Yi
1867 3.5 14:W 21:W 16:D 1:L 13:L 5:L 20:W
12 SELNES, Hamish
1726 3.5 23:W 4:L 17:L 21:W 18:W 6:D 5:L
13 AL ZAHER, Louay 1644
3.5 22:D 7:D 23:W 9:L 11:W 16:D 2:L
14 MILES,
Alex 1188 3.5
11:L 19:W 10:D 7:L 5:L 21:W 16:W
15 KOSPARTOV, Nick 1066
3.5 6:L 9:L 20:L 22:W 0:W 18:D 19:W
16 WELLER,
Tony 1736
3 19:W 10:W 11:D 6:L 7:L 13:D 14:L
17 GUO,
Charlie 1224
3 10:L 20:W 12:W 8:L 3:L 19:L 22:W
18 D'ARCY, Michael 1193
3 4:L 5:L 22:W 23:W 12:L 15:D 10:D
19 ROGERS,
Jim 849
3 16:L 14:L 0:W 10:L 23:W 17:W 15:L
20 COOPER, Matthew 1156
2.5 1:L 17:L 15:W 3:L 21:D 0:W 11:L
21 KOTTAHACHCHI, Anagi
2.5 0:W 11:L 8:L 12:L 20:D 14:L 23:W
22 ZELICH,
Ivan 678
2 13:D 8:L 18:L 15:L 0:D 23:W 17:L
23 SLATER-JONES, Tom 726
1 12:L 0:W 13:L 18:L 19:L 22:L 21:L
Results from 2010 Gold Coast Tin Cup
Further information can be found here: http://www.caq.org.au/htm/Results/2010GCTC/2010GoldCoastTinCup.html
No
Name
Loc Total 1 2
3 4 5 6
1 AL-ZAHAR,
Louay 1644 5.5 32:D
25:W 18:W 15:W 7:W 3:W
2 O'FLYNN,
Alexander 1597 5
40:W 5:L 25:W 19:W 20:W 10:W
3 WELLER,
Tony 1736
4.5 23:W 20:W 11:W 6:D 4:W 1:L
4 DUFFIN,
Mike 1646
4.5 27:W 10:W 14:W 5:W 3:L 8:D
5 JACK,
Martin 1349
4.5 48:W 2:W 16:W 4:L 14:W 9:D
6 WALKER,
Tyson 1590
4.5 41:W 47:W 8:W 3:D 9:L 17:W
7 SAAVEDRA,
Bernard 1711 4.5 33:W 17:W 15:D
12:W 1:L 22:W
8 CERVENJAK,
Mark 1314 4.5 43:W 22:W
6:L 16:W 15:W 4:D
9 STAHNKE,
Alexander 1701 4.5 25:L 32:W 33:W
21:W 6:W 5:D
10 JOHNSON,
Nicholas 1380 4
29:W 4:L 28:W 26:W 11:W 2:L
11 STOKES, Mark
C 1538
4 39:W 31:W 3:L 13:W 10:L 21:W
12 GILPIN,
Matthew 1612
4 28:W 18:D 22:W 7:L 16:D 24:W
13 GRAY,
Garvin 1230
4 36:W 16:L 39:W 11:L 26:W 20:W
14 PECK,
Robbie 1433
3.5 45:W 21:W 4:L 23:W 5:L 19:D
15 STEWART, Craig
A 1559 3.5 46:W
24:W 7:D 1:L 8:L 33:W
16 FORD,
Daniel 1612
3.5 35:W 13:W 5:L 8:L 12:D 31:W
17 UNDERWOOD,
Sean 1403 3.5
42:W 7:L 0:D 36:W 18:W 6:L
18 LAPITAN,
Daniel 1401 3.5
30:W 12:D 1:L 32:W 17:L 23:W
19 SANDS, Gary A
1123 3.5 31:L 44:W 34:W 2:L 35:W 14:D
20 ZHANG,
Daniel 1422
3 44:W 3:L 27:W 35:W 2:L 13:L
21 MILES,
Alex
1188 3 34:W 14:L 38:W 9:L 37:W 11:L
22 ZVONAR,
Frank 1624
3 26:W 8:L 12:L 45:W 25:W 7:L
23 NAKAUCHI,
Kenji 1093
3 3:L 30:W 31:W 14:L 36:W 18:L
24 MILLS,
Ross
1273 3 38:W 15:L 35:L 42:W 27:W 12:L
25 PYPER,
Matthew 1048
3 9:W 1:L 2:L 34:W 22:L 32:W
26 FOSTER,
Allan 1014
3 22:L 29:W 0:W 10:L 13:L 41:W
27 WEDD,
Tony
1041 3 4:L 42:W 20:L 29:W 24:L 40:W
28 MULLALY,
Jeremy 910
3 12:L 48:W 10:L 38:W 32:L 36:W
29 POMERENKE, Zachary
569 3 10:L 26:L 41:W 27:L 45:W 35:W
30 MILLS,
Gareth 578
3 18:L 23:L 46:W 33:L 39:W 37:W
31 VON PEIN,
Lachlan
2.5 19:W 11:L 23:L 39:W 33:D 16:L
32 HUBAND-LINT,
Kees 1014 2.5 1:D
9:L 40:W 18:L 28:W 25:L
33 KOSPARTOV,
Nick 1066 2.5
7:L 45:W 9:L 30:W 31:D 15:L
34 DEBOER,
Isaac 526
2.5 21:L 46:W 19:L 25:L 44:D 38:W
35 CERVENJAK, Matthew
846 2 16:L 43:W 24:W 20:L 19:L 29:L
36 HARMON,
Kieran 319
2 13:L 41:W 47:W 17:L 23:L 28:L
37 CHO,
Adrian
984 2 0: 0:
0: 43:W 21:L 30:L
38 HARMON,
Martin 451
2 24:L 40:W 21:L 28:L 46:W 34:L
39 MORAKHOVSKI, Alexander 754
2 11:L 49:W 13:L 31:L 30:L 48:W
40 JOHNSON,
Mitchell 817
2 2:L 38:L 32:L 44:W 42:W 27:L
41 SOUL,
David
814 2 6:L 36:L 29:L 48:W 43:W 26:L
42 PYPER,
Jake
635 2 17:L 27:L 49:W 24:L 40:L 46:W
43 NAKAUCHI,
Ray 476
2 8:L 35:L 44:W 37:L 41:L 45:W
44 LUKE-PAREDI,
Jack 680 1.5 20:L 19:L
43:L 40:L 34:D 49:W
45 DEIGHTON,
Tyler 718
1 14:L 33:L 48:W 22:L 29:L 43:L
46 LEE,
Isabelle 759
1 15:L 34:L 30:L 49:W 38:L 42:L
47 COOPER,
Matthew 1156
1 49:W 6:L 36:L 0:
0: 0:
48 JOHNSON,
Andrew 482
1 5:L 28:L 45:L 41:L 49:W 39:L
49 BUCKLEY,
Nikola
0 47:L 39:L 42:L 46:L 48:L 44:L
Upcoming non rated
events
For further information regarding non rated events,
please follow this link: http://www.caq.org.au/htm/Unrated%20events.htm
ACF
MEDALS
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Winners of ACF medals, announced during the presentation
of prizes following the 2010 Australian Championship at Norths Rugby
League Club, in Cammeray, Sydney, on 13 January.
Steiner
Medal – Australian Player of the Year for 2009
David Smerdon
Selectors: Greg
Canfell, David Ellis, Bill Gletsos, Denis Jessop, Amiel Rosario.
Nomination by ACT Chess
Association:
David
has had an outstanding chess year, winning numerous tournaments and
achieving the GM title. Relevant details are
1st:
Oceania Zonal
1st:
Queenstown Chess Classic (9 GMs, etc)
1st:
Australasian Match of the Decade (against Puchen Wang; score: 4-2).
1st:
NSW Open
1st:
Adelaide
Freytag Open
1st:
ANU Open
1st
=: Surfers Paradise Open
1st
=: Melbourne
Chess Club Anzac Day Weekender
1st:
Australian Chess Grand Prix.
David
received the Grandmaster title in June 2009.
He
represented Oceania in the 2009 World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia.
Knocked out in tie-breaks
in the first round. Other factors relevant to the nomination:
David
is both an excellent role model and mentor for younger players in the
ACT. Since moving to Canberra,
he has given generously of his time to work with and encourage several
of the promising junior players.
He
has also willingly given time to play in various simultaneous
exhibitions and local championships, in so doing supporting the
development and status of chess in the nation’s capital.
Nomination by NSW Chess
Association:
David
won the Integra NSW Open in June 2009 and in so doing achieved the required
number of points to be awarded the Grandmaster title, he being Australia’s
fourth GM. His current ratings are FIDE 2525 and ACF 2510.
David
was the 2009 Oceania Champion and won
the 2009 ANU Open. He competes in tournaments within Australia
and overseas, having participated recently in the FIDE World Cup. David
is currently leading the Grand Prix.
We
consider David Smerdon to be a worthy recipient of the Steiner Medal
for “Player of the Year” 2009.
Arlauskas
Medal – Australian Junior Player of the Year 2009 (incorporating the
2010 Romanas Arlauskas Award)
Bobby
Cheng
Selectors: Haydn
Barber, Roland Eime, Garvin Gray, Evelyn Koshnitsky, Charles
Zworestine.
Nomination by Chess Victoria:
12-years
old Balwyn
High School Bobby
Cheng is our first World Champion under 12 !
Fantastic
performance!
Bobby
increased his ELO rating by impressive 158 points(from 2098 to 2256) in
one year.
Amongst
his other notable results in 2009 we can mention:
equal
second in Oceania Zonal and FIDE
Master title
equal
third in Australasian Masters 2009
equal
first in Geelong
Open 2009.
Koshnitsky
Medal – Chess Administration
Allan
Wright
Selectors: Peter
Cassettari, Graeme Gardiner, Alan Goldsmith, Norm Greenwood, Jenni
Oliver.
Nomination by NSW Chess
Association:
Allan
Wright has been Ratings Officer for the NSW Junior Chess League since
he was elected to its Council in 1990.
He
has developed a rating system suited to the particular characteristics
of junior competitions (one challenge being to meaningfully rate the
many players who play only a few games). The current ratings list
contains over 7,000 junior players, of which nearly 3,000 are included
in the list published in the NSWJCL’s quarterly magazine. Allan
processes all the ratings himself and has to cope with thousands of
inter-school match result cards, many of which are incomplete,
inconsistent or have players’ names misspelt, and require considerable
detective work to decipher.
Allan’s
other main role for the NSWJCL is running the league’s inter-schools
competitions in the Hunter Region. He and his wife Dorothy have built
up the main Primary Schools Competition in this region to over 100
teams from nearly 50 schools. The league’s Primary Schools One-Day
tournaments have also been growing in popularity – the two Hunter
Region tournaments in this series now attract about 70 teams.
In
addition Allan runs the Newcastle
Junior Chess Club, which meets weekly. In the 1990s he used to travel
to Sydney to help arbit at the NSWJCL’s
school holiday tournaments, but now concentrates on running holiday
tournaments in Newcastle and helping
with tournaments on the Central
Coast.
All
in all, we consider Allan Wright to be a worthy recipient of the
Koshnitsky Medal for services to chess administration.
Gary Wastell
ACF Medals Selections Coordinator
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AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
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As reported in the special bulletin earlier this month,
GM Zong-Yuan Zhao is the new Australian Champion, scoring 10/11 and
equalling the record score for the modern era, in the Championship held
at Norths, Cammeray, NSW from 2nd to 13th January
2010.
IM George Xie came second with 9 (not 10 as mistyped in
the last bulletin) followed by regular visitor GM Gawain Jones of
England and multiple past winner GM Darryl Johansen.
The two leaders cleared out from the pack with three
rounds remaining and raced neck-and-neck until the last round when Xie
lost to defending Champion IM Stephen Solomon. Despite this setback Xie
has the consolation of scoring his second GM norm. He now needs one
more norm plus taking his rating to 2500 to become Australia’s next
grandmaster.
The other norm from the event was an IM norm for FM
Vladimir Smirnov, achieved with his tenth-round win against Gary Lane.
As this also is calculated to have pushed his rating past 2400 he needs
just one more norm for the IM title.
See the tournament site for
full results, bulletins, games in PGN and photographs. The full list of
prizewinners is as follows.
Championship
1st GM Zong
Yuan ZHAO GM (NSW) 10
2nd IM George
XIE (NSW) 9
3rd GM Gawain
JONES (Eng) 7.5
4th GM Darryl
JOHANSEN (Vic) 7
5th Equal IM
Stephen SOLOMON (Qld) 6.5
FM Vladimir
SMIRNOV (NSW) 6.5
CM Max
ILLINGWORTH (NSW) 6.5
8th Equal IM
Alex WOHL (NSW) 6
Junta IKEDA
(ACT) 6
IM
Gary LANE (NSW) 6
FM Douglas
HAMILTON (Vic) 6
Major
1st Equal
David GARNER (Eng) 9
Jason HU (NSW)
9
3rd Equal
Johnny BOLENS (NSW) 8
Kevin
SHELDRICK (SA) 8
Paul
BROEKHUYSE (NSW) 8
(also 1st
U1800) Alexander STAHNKE (Qld) 8
Senior
1st Brian
JONES FM (NSW) 7.5
Women
1st Equal WIM
Sue MAROROA (NZ) 6
WCM Vineetha
WIJESURIYA 1654 (Vic) 6
Rating Prize
Under 1600
1st Dawen SHI
(NSW) 6.5
Minor
1st Mark
STOKES (Qld) 9
2nd Equal Tim
LI (NSW) 8
Axel STAHNKE
(Qld) 8
4th Valsalan
KARAYI (NSW) 7.5
Rating Prizes
Under 1400
1st Equal
Laurie DALTON (Vic) 7
Patrick BEAHAN
(NSW) 7
Under 1200
1st Equal
Kenji NAUKAUCHI (Qld) 6.5
Stephen ROCHE
(NSW) 6.5
Jamie-Lee GUO
(ACT) 6.5
Junior
1st Daniel
ZHANG (NSW) 6.5
Norths Classic
1st Joshua
DALTON (Vic) 5.5
2nd Equal
Peter YANG (NSW) 5
Clive
LANE (NSW) 5
Elliott
RENZIES (Vic) 5
There are photographs
from the event at the tournament site,
and other taken by Steve Javor here.
The following
table showing the performances of the top players (over 50%) against
each other was compiled by Peter Parr, sponsor of the event and SMH columnist
(see SMH
link for Peter’s regular reports during the event).
Winners of the lucky draw prizes (for on-line entries)
were:
1st a top of the
range DGT-XL clock - donated by Chess Discount Sales -
winner Laurence Matheson;
2nd $100 cash courtesy of PayPal - winner Hamish Selnes;
3rd a copy of Fritz 12, RRP c. $95, courtesy of Chessbase
- winner Shan Shan Qiao.
4th, 5th and 6th prizes are all a recent copy of ChessBase magazine,
also donated by Chessbase
- winners Jasper Hong, Michael Dunn and Aran Sandrasegaran.
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AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
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The Junior
Championships have just concluded in Hobart, Tas with World Under 12
Champion FM Bobby Cheng (Vic) taking out the main section on 10/11 from
Andrew Brown (ACT) 9 and IM James Morris (Vic), Yi Yuan (ACT) and Yilun
Ding (Vic) 7. More details will follow in the next newsletter. Section
winners are
U18: FM Bobby Cheng (Vic) (youngest ever Australian
Junior Champion)
U18 Girls: Leteisha Simmonds (Qld)
U16: IM James Morris (Vic)
U16 Girls: Abbie Kanagarajah (Qld)
U14: Alex Stahnke (Qld)
U14 Girls: Megan Setiabudi (ACT)
U12: Andrew Pan (NSW) (with a Fischeresque 11/11).
U12 Girls: Savithri Narenthran (Vic)
U10: Peter Wallmueller (Vic)
U10 Girls: Kashish Christian (NSW)
U8: Ethan Lim (Vic)
U8 Girls: Yuvini Perera (Tas)
More
information at the official site
http://www.chesstasmania.org.au/AJCC/index.html
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2009 GRAND PRIX
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Section
winners of the Yulgilbar-Think Big Australian Grand Prix 2009 were as
follows
Open: GM David Smerdon (ACT)
U2000: Eugene Schon (Vic)
U1600: Andrew Pan (NSW)
Women: WFM Emma Guo (ACT)
Junior: CM Max Illingworth
(NSW)
Girls: Sally Yu (Vic)
See here for full GP scores or here for all the prize
winners.
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