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This
is the first issue after a break due to my northern tour. As a result there
is a bit to get through so this is a very short introduction - editorialising
can wait until some space needs filling. From
here we hope to revert to the intended schedule of fortnightly issues (second
and fourth Tuesdays). Ian
Rout Editor Note:
Links in light blue are to sections within the newsletter, those in grey are
external and orange links are to the archive of previous issues. |
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Nominations for ACF Medals All ACF
affiliates are reminded of the opportunity to nominate potential winners of
the following ACF medals, to be awarded in January 2010 in accordance with
the ACF Medals Procedures by www.auschess.org.au/constitution/ACF_Medals_Procedures.txt
Medals –
Steiner Medal – Australian ‘Player of the Year’ 2009 To be
awarded to the player who has made the greatest impact –
not necessarily the highest –
Koshnitsky Medal – Chess Administration This is a
lifetime achievement award, not limited to accomplishments or services during
a particular period, and cannot be awarded more than once to the same person.
It is awarded for an outstanding contribution to Australian chess administration
at national or state level. A link
[Chess Medals] to lists of previous ACF medal winners is at www.auschess.org.au/acfrec.htm Nominations Separate
documents containing the following should be provided in respect of each
nominee: ·
name (correctly spelt); ·
contact details (phone, email, postal address); ·
a citation describing relevant achievements, suitable
for reading and/or publication when the medal is presented; ·
anything else relevant to the
nomination. A person submitting a nomination
must retain at least one complete copy of each document submitted in
connection with the nomination and must phone (03) 9787 7974 or 0409 525 963
to confirm that it has been received if delivery has not been acknowledged 24
hours after expected delivery time. Nominations for the Koshnitsky medal must be sent to one
of the following addresses so as to be received on or before Friday 18 December 2009:
Nominations for the Steiner medal must be sent to one of
the above addresses as follows:
Presentations The announcement of winners and
presentation of medals will take place at 5pm Wednesday 13 January 2010 in
the Norths Celebrity Room, Distribution of This Notice Recipients of this notice are
asked to ensure that it is distributed as extensively as possible to maximize
nominations in respect of the most suitable nominees. Gary Wastell ACF Medals Selections
Coordinator Previous Notices The following notices from prior issues remain in
force 2010
Olympiad: Activity Requirement and Application Deadline - previously reported 09/09A |
Commonwealth Championship – ACF provisional
selections Nominated
entrant to receive twin share room and breakfast Max Illingworth Reserves in order: Ben Lazarus Emma Guo WIM Alex Jule Nominated
entrant to play in Commonwealth Open despite being under FIDE 2200 Ben Lazarus Reserves in order: Emma Guo WIM Alex Jule My thanks to the selectors who were: IA Charles
Zworestine, Ian Rout, IM Guy West, FM Geoff Saw. These selections will become final if no appeals
are received by 17 October. Kevin Bonham ACF Selections Director The
following is an update of a notice previously reported in Newsletter 09/09A 11th The 11th World University
Championships will be held in At this stage expressions of
interest have been received from about seven players, one of them female. Preliminary informal expressions
of interest are now sought from others who expect to be enrolled at an Australian
university in 2010 and are potentially interested in competing. Expressions of interest may be
submitted by groups from a particular university, or by individuals. On this
basis, the ACF may decide to conduct a selections process. This event was advertised in the
previous Newsletter but as we are still chasing up some details, the deadline
for expressions of interest is extended to October 23 (a decision is likely
to be made at or shortly after the ACF Council meeting scheduled for October
26). Expressions of interest
should be emailed to k_bonham@tassie.net.au. No information other than the names,
universities and email addresses of potentially interested players is
required. Kevin Bonham ACF Selections Director Position Vacant – ACF Advertising Manager The ACF
invites expressions of interest from any reader who might be willing to
oversee the appearance of suitable advertising material in ACF publications,
principally this Newsletter, and on the ACF website. For
additional information please email gwastell@netspace.net.au
with cc to secretary@nswca.org.au |
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2010
Australian Chess Championship Venue: norths, 2nd
to 13th January 2010 plus various supporting events: a major
Tournament, a Minor tournament, a shorter seven-round event and the
Australian Lightning Championship More
information at the official site Australian Primary and Secondary Schools The Australian Primary and
Secondary Schools Chess Team Finals 2009 will be held at The
event now has a web site at http://chess.geniusprophecy.com/astc/ |
2010
Australian Junior Chess Championships (the
following extracted from various sources) The
Tasmanian Chess Association will be hosting the Australian Junior 2010 in In
addition to the age group events there will be national rapid and lightning
championships and a problem solving competition. Details
were previously reported in newsletter 09/09A More information at the official
site |
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Death of ACF Life Member, John Hanks ACF Treasurer Norm Greenwood has
forwarded the following extract from Peter
Parr’s chess column in the Sydney Morning Herald
on 8 June. Australian Master John Hanks
died in Hanks beat Australian Master
John Purdy (twice Australian Champion) in the following brevity in the Aust
Championship. J. Hanks v J. Purdy Adelaide
1960 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4
d6 5.f4 c5 6.dxc5 Qa5 7.Bd2 Qxc5 8.Qe2 Bg4 9.Nf3 Nc6 10.Be3 Bxf3 11.Qxf3 Nd4
12.Bxd4 Qxd4 13.Rd1 Qc5 14.Be2 O-O 15.b3 Nd7 16.Nd5 e6
17.b4
wins the Queen 1-0. Hanks was one of Hanks represented Hanks was champion of Chess As Sport Oceania
President Gary Bekker has added to the growing number of Australian
organisers and players urging sporting and government authorities in Most
recent targets have been the Australian Olympic Committee and State Olympic
Councils in |
Arbiter Training Plans IA
Gary Bekker has applied to FIDE for authority to organize a number of arbiter
training seminars in The
move follows the decision by FIDE to require compulsory attendance at one
such seminar among the eligibility requirements for the awarding of FIDE and
International Arbiter titles. If
the application is successful, the first such seminar is likely to be held in
Forthcoming Publication:
‘Developing Chess Talent’ The
following are extracts from a recent press release announcing the publication
next year of a book which may be of interest to those providing chess
coaching for juniors. Parts of the book also deal with issues relating to
autism. The book ‘Developing Chess
Talent’ will be published in April 2010. The subtitle is ‘How to
create a chess culture by coaching, training, organization and
communication’. Authors are Karel van Delft and
IM Merijn van Delft.The foreword is by GM Artur Yusupov. The translation is
by Peter Boel. Publisher is KVDC (Karel van 'Developing Chess Talent' is a
translation of the Dutch book ‘Schaaktalent ontwikkelen’ (KVDC,
2008). A month before publication, a
preview with contents, parts of the text, the foreword by GM Artur Yusupov
and some pictures from the book will be made available. The book can be ordered via
Karel van Delft, karel@kvdc.nl. The price is 24,50
euros plus 3 euros for postage handling. Merijn van Delft and Karel van
Delft are both psychologists. They were co-founders of the Merijn van Delft is a
professional chess trainer, living in Hamburg, Beauty and the Geek Jeremy
Reading of Canberra is a contestant on the reality (= not very realistic at
all) TV show Beauty and the Geek, in which eight stereotypical geeks (chess
player, comic book collector, various species of scientist etc) are paired
with eight stereotypical airheads (tanning salon operative, model, V8 grid
girl, “aspiring actress” etc). In
Round 1 Jeremy won a guaranteed place in Round 2, courtesy of his
partner’s performance in a challenge where the Beauties had to teach a
class of primary school children smarter than themselves, but failed to see
one move ahead to where everybody was given free passage to Round 2. The
show continues for seven more Thursdays at 8:30pm on the Seven network. |
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Alexei Shirov at Surfers World-ranked
player Alexei Shirov visited the Surfers Paradise Open, delivering a lecture
and giving a simultaneous exhibition. He dropped only one draw, to local
junior Daniel Lapitan, in the 25-board simul. An
extensive report on the tournament and simul by Charles Zworestine appears in
the Tournament Reports
section.
Brian
Jones of ACE has
announced that that the SIO will go ahead in 2010 with funding from various
sources including the NSWCA and donations from the chess public. The
principal sponsor will be GM Murray Chandler (NZ), founder of Gambit Books
and author of How To Beat Your Dad At
Chess. A
press release from the organisers reads in part as follows: The
venue is again the historic Australian Young Masters The
Australian
Young Masters was organised by Vladimir Smirnov at the Andrew
Brown won the main event with 7.5/9 from Blair Mandla 6, Gene Nakauchi 5.5,
Allen Setiabudi and Oscar Wang 5. Sally
Yu ran away with the Junior Masters, scoring 7.5/9 ahead of Alister Cameron,
Nicholas Deen-Cowell and Kevin Tan 5.5. The
Girls’ Masters was won by Alana Chibnall 7.5/9 with Sophie Eustace and
Megan Setiabudi on 6.5. |
Recent GP weekend results Blayney Open, NSW (Sep
12-13)
Emma Guo 5.5/6 won by a clear point from Mosaddeque Ali, Romeo Capilitan, FM
Vladimir Smirnov, Angelito Camer, Allen Setiabudi, Paul Broekhuyse and Fritz
Van Der Wal. (47 players). Nell Van De Graaff
Classic, Gold Coast, Qld (Sep 19-20) IM Stephen Solomon won with
5.5/6 from Josu Tornay, Phachara Wongwichit and FM Gene Nakauchi 5. The teams
event was won by Alexander and Axel Stahnke, Phachara Wongwichit and Samuel
Mainwood. (49 players). Scores and
photos. Bendigo Surfers
Paradise Open, Gold Coast, Qld (Sep 26-27) Moulthun Ly won on tie-break from
Phachara Wongwichit, who scored a sensational win over GM David Smerdon, and Smerdon,
all on 5 just ahead of George Lester, IM Leonid Sandler and Jonas Muller 4.5
(42 players) Surfers Surfers Paradise Fun
Group (Sep 27) Curtis Jack
on 5.5/6 won this one-day section from Jake Pyper and Andrew Peck 4.5. (27
players) Ryde-Eastwood Open,
NSW (Oct 3-5) This heavyweight event was taken out by IM George Xie won with 6.5/7
from GM Zong-Yuan Zhao 6, with FM Vladimir Smirnov, Max Illingworth and GM
David Smerdon 5.5. (71
players) The Croydon Anand,
Vic (Oct 3-4) IM Guy West won with 4.5/5 from Justin Tan, Lawrence Bretag, IM
James Morris and Ian Birchall 4. (36
players) Adelaide Labour Day
Weekender, SA (Oct 3-4) Kevin Sheldrick and Alistair Cameron finished equal
first on 5/6 with Miguel ferro and Alexander Sykes on 4. (13 players) Wendy Terry Memorial,
Redcliffe, Qld (Oct 10-11) Moulthun Ly won with 5.5/6 from IM Stephen Solomon and
George Lester 5. (40 players) |
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Grand prix events Oct 24-25 Burnie Shines Weekender, Burnie,
Tas link Oct 30–Nov 3 Melbourne Cup Weekender,
Melbourne Vic link Oct 31–Nov 1 Gosford Open, Gosford, NSW link Nov 7-8 Fisher’s Ghost Open, Campbelltown,
NSW link Nov 28-29 Vikings Weekender, Tuggeranong, ACT Full GP calendar: link Gold Coast Allegro Gardiner Chess
Centre (GCC), Mudgeeraba. 18 October
link Junior Tournament GCC, Mudgeeraba. 19
October link Fernvale Junior Chess Tournament 20 October link Checkmate Challenege Cleveland. 25 October contact
Bundaberg Individual
Age Championships 27 October. Contact Allan Menham 4151 7469 |
Maryborough One Day
Event 14 November.
Contact Allan Menham 4151 7469. FNQ Individual Age Championships The Bishop Centre, Gold Coast Lightning
and Transfer GCC, Mudgeeraba. 22 November link Darling
Bunnings Sausage
Sizzle
MCC; 20 November 2009 link contact Victorian Blitz Ch MCC; from 21
November 2009 link
contact Please
notify forthcoming tournaments to auschessnews@gmail.com |
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The George
Trundle NZ Masters Tournament (26 Sep – 4 Oct) at the Auckland
Chess Centre was won by GM Gawain Jones (ENG) 7/9
from GM Darryl Johansen (AUS) and IM Stephen Solomon 6. FM Mike Steadman with
5 was the best of the Kiwis. Magnus
Carlen (NOR), who recently took on Garry Kasparov as his coach, scored an
astonishing 2.5 point victory at Najing Pearl Springs, China (28 Sep – 9 Oct) with
6 wins and four draws, including at least one win against every other
competitor. Also participating were Topalov, Wang Yue, Radjabov, Leko and
Jakovenko. A
concurrent women’s
Grand Prix tournament at the same venue was won by Xu Yuhua from Nana
Dzagnidze and Zhao Xue. FIDE
has announced that bids for the Anand v Topalov World Championship Match which is currently
scheduled for April 2010 were received from |
Bilbao Masters, The
World Women's Team Championship, Garry Kasparov and
Anatoly Karpov staged an exhibition match in Valencia, Spain (21-24 Sep) of four rapid and
eight blitz games to commemorate the 25th anniversary of their
controversial first World Championship match, which involved no rapid or
blitz games and was not held in Spain. Kasparov won 9-3, the easiest of his
match victories over Karpov. Gianluca
“Il Dottore” Sirci of Italy is reported to have won the inaugural
European heavyweight
chessboxing Championship in |
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For chess tourists The ACF receives information about a wide variety of chess
happenings in other parts of the world, and it is sometimes difficult to rank
the likely levels of interest among Australian players. The following is a summary of events
about which information has been received in recent times. In some cases,
additional information may be obtained by contacting the Editor or ACF
Councillor for your State Association. The date listed is the start date, see the link
for the full schedule. World Junior and
Girls’ Championships: 21 Oct 2009, Puerto Madryn, Czech Tour 2009/10: 24 Oct 2009, Asian Indoor Games: 30 Oct 2009, World Youth Championships: 11 Nov 2009, FIDE World Cup: 19 Nov 2009, Benidorm Chess Festival: 27 Nov 2009, Asian Schools Festival: 16 Dec 2009, Asian Teams Championship: 20 Dec 2009, Gibtelecom International Chess
Festival: 26 Jan 2010, Gibralter link
contact |
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New Chess Victoria Secretary CV
President Katrin Wills has reported that the previously vacant position of
Honorary Secretary has been filled by Ms Sonia Masini, who is currently
employed as an HR Manager with the Department of Premier and Cabinet. Players who attended the CV simultaneous
exhibitions in aid of the Victorian bushfire appeal may have already met
Sonia, who assisted with the presentation of the exhibitions. 2009 Lexus of Stewart
Booth and Mark Bruere jointly won the Victorian Country Championship in Castlemaine
on October 4-5. The Chess
Victoria AGM will reportedly be held on 29 November. Integra NSW State
Championship and Reserves organised by Greg Canfell is running from 30
September – 2 December at the Sydney Academy of Chess in Burwood. More
information at link The 2009 State associations are invited
to submit regular round-ups for inclusion, as are clubs and other bodies. |
State pages (links) The 2009 WA
Closed Championship at The 2009 Tasmanian
U18 Championships were held on Oct 10-11 in U18 – Alastair Dyer U16 – U14 – Mitchell Reid U12 – Harry Briant U10 – Oscar Brown U8 – Anurag Gillkum More information
at link The ACT Junior
Championship resulted in a three-way tie between Allen Stiabudi,
who won the title in a play-off, Alana Chibnall and Justin Chow. The ACT
Championship is in progress at Tuggeranong Vikings on Friday 4th
September. The event runs for nine rounds. |
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In ACF News 09/09A Peter Parr
outlined his proposal for an ACF Membership Scheme. Denis Jessop presents his
views on the proposal. I
noted with interest the ACF Membership Scheme proposed by Peter Parr in the
previous issue of the ACF Newsletter. As
Peter notes, there have in the past been ACF membership schemes that have
failed though not, I believe, because a box of cards was lost. There has also
been at least one recent public proposal for such a scheme. Thus
I read Peter's paper with some anticipation. Unfortunately, that was
misplaced. It turns out that Peter's scheme is not really for ACF membership
but for a restructuring of the ACF and State Associations financial
relations. ACF membership is but a small aspect and one not well conceived
either. I
do not propose to address the financial structure aspect in detail. It has
little to do with ACF membership and, as finances were restructured
relatively recently, has virtually no chance of acceptance by the ACF or the
States in my view. Moreover,
I believe that, among other things,
The
essence of the membership aspect is that chess players would pay a membership
fee to their State Association and, consequently they would become ACF
members. The States would pass on part of the fee to the ACF. I
would see such a concept as totally unacceptable to the ACF. Some fundamental
features of membership of an organisation are that -
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None
of those matters is in Peter's proposal. The
only aspect of Peter's proposal that is superficially attractive is the suggestion
that the ACF would need to be able to tell a prospective sponsor how many
members it had. This is misconceived. If so asked, the obvious answer is that
the ACF is a national umbrella body that does not have individual members but
it does maintain a national ratings list of active and inactive players. The
number of players on that list is X ( or A (active) and I (inactive) ). Moreover,
the kind of dual membership he proposes has fundamental flaws. What, for
example if the member commits some act in respect of which the State and the
ACF have differing views regarding discipline? And how are the membership
records to be maintained so that each relevant organisation, all of which are
incorporated associations, can comply with its statutory obligations? I
see no place for individual membership of the ACF as presently structured.
The concept is incompatible both with the present ACF/State structure and
with the position of the ACF in the Australian chess world. The ACF has
actual responsibility for a tiny percentage of Australian chess -
Critics
of the ACF too often confuse what they think its role should be with what it
actually is. The issues are not necessarily the same. Were the ACF a truly
national body in that it had responsibility for all Australian chess with the
State Associations replaced by branches of the ACF, national membership would
be a necessity. But while the States, as individual associations, remain
responsible for at least 95% of Australian chess, such membership is of no
point. I
mention that, although I am a Vice President of the ACF, the views expressed
above are mine and do not necessarily represent those of the ACF. Denis Jessop 7 October 2009 |
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The following is a list of
on-line Australian sources of chess news and comment know to the Editor. This
will be updated and republished from time to time. This does not include club
websites, which will be a separate project, except those in blog format (a
fine line, but the lists probably will ultimately be combined). Newspaper columns Ian Rogers (Byron Bay Echo) [warning – loads the whole
paper] |
Bulletin boards Blogs The Closet Grandmaster (Amiel Rosario) chessexpress (Shaun Press) Youth chess (Weng
Nian Siow) |
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From: Miles Patterson Dear Ian, Congratulations on taking up the
reins as editor of the Newsletter. I am sorry to have to start
with a complaint but I must question your decision to print the highly
offensive letter (from M. Sweeney) in the 8 September issue. Whatever the qualities of the ACF
executive, there is no excuse for such abuse. If the office
holders' shortcomings are so obvious to Mr Sweeney, he should have no
difficulty in presenting specific issues and providing constructive criticism
and alternatives. I have edited newsletters/magazines
in the past and am well aware of the editor's frequently desperate need for
contributions, but that does not mean everything submitted is fit to publish. Regards Miles Patterson |
From: Andrew Robinson Hi Ian I am a social chess player who plays
once a week at my local club, and is not interested in the political side of
chess. However, in the latest
newsletter I believe editorial authority should have been exercised
so that the letter written by Matt Sweeney not be published. Such unproductive vitriolic
language does nothing for Australian Chess. I don't believe adding a
disclaimer is enough when a wish is expressed for people to "give
each other HIV/AIDS", and there is talk of cadavers and cremations. Are
children on the subscription list? I believe such language and abuse
is common in some web forums, but it should not appear in the ACF's national
newsletter. Regards Andrew Robinson President The Gap Chess Club Inc. |
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Magic
Moulthun Meets Shining Shirov A
Report on the 2009 Surfers This report originally appeared
on the Kings of Chess web site. Well,
I told everyone in my report on this event last year that variety is the
spice of life; so tournament organiser Amir Karibasic decided to add even
more variety this year! One element of this was forced on him, as unlike last
year he had no public holiday and so only two playing days. This meant he had
to run the event at the standard weekender time controls of 60 minutes plus
10 seconds per move from the start (Fischer) – a 6 round event, just
like last year. But why only 6 rounds, when he could easily have fitted in 7
at this time control? Well, that was the other element of variety as compared
to last year – only this one was rather more exciting… For
the 2008 event, Super GM Alexei Shirov judged the brilliancy prize: a nice
feature of the event, which understandably proved very popular. But this
time, both Amir and Alexei did substantially better: Alexei showed up in
person! Yes, he made the long trip to It
was good for me too; getting to meet Shirov, a most charming and personable
man, and seeing some high standard chess made a welcome change, just like
last year, from my hectic university teaching commitments! (Remind me not to
take on four courses next term)… Staying with Sam Grigg’s family
was another change, and I can only thank them for their wonderful
hospitality; they breed them warm and friendly on the Gold Coast! So not
having to worry about practicalities, I could enjoy Amir’s 3
tournaments: the 6 round Open and Under 1600 events on both days, and the 6
round “fun tournament” on the Sunday. While not quite as strong
as last year, the Open event still featured our latest GM, David Smerdon, as
top seed; an IM, fourth seeded Leonid Sandler; a WIM, fifth seed Anastasia
Sorokina; and two FMs, second seed Vlad Smirnov and young Gene Nakauchi. Add
to this a former Australian Junior Champion, third seed Moulthun Ly, and we
knew were in for a fun event! Let’s see how it all went… After
the dust had cleared, it turned out there were no upsets in the Open event in
Round 1; but if you had been watching what I saw, you would have been as
amazed at that fact as I was! It all began with Smurf, who had an almighty
struggle against Tony Weller after failing to really refute Tony’s
interesting piece sacrifice; he was fortunate to win in the end after Tony
walked into a mate in two in mutual time pressure. Vlad Smirnov was also
lucky to beat Alex Stahnke, misplaying his ending after swapping queens on
move 3; at one stage his position looked inferior to me, but then he fought
back in typical fashion to end up a convincing winner in a rook ending a pawn
up. Ben Lazarus was the other lucky winner, as 8 year old Anton Smirnov made
it a very interesting round for the Smirnov family! Trying to grind the
youngster down in a rook, knight and opposite coloured bishop ending a pawn
up, Ben stunned us all by blundering a knight in time pressure just when he
looked to be making progress; he was fortunate that the inexperienced Anton
blundered another pawn, then sacrificed the piece back to swap into a lost
king and pawn ending where he lost his last pawn – a rook pawn too! {See
Smerdon-Weller in the Games section} No upsets in the first round of
the Under 1600 event either, except for Axel Stahnke losing to rising junior
Kees Huband-Lint. Meanwhile Kees’ coach, Sam Grigg, tried to bore Smurf
to death by swapping pieces on top board of the Open event in Round 2! As
usual, this failed; David showing GM technique to convert a positional
advantage of good knight vs bad bishop. Vlad Smirnov again played an eventful
game on Board 2, eventually beating Jonas Muller in a mutual time scramble
from a double edged position with three minor pieces against Jonas’
rook and bishop – and loose pawns all over the board! Anastasia
Sorokina fought back from a tough endgame the exchange for a pawn down to
finally trump Bruce Williams in time pressure – then promptly took a
Round 3 bye with Leonid Sandler to watch his beloved St. Kilda against Smurf
kept rolling on in Round 3, accounting for Justin Tan when his knight and
rook got in to the enemy position and cleaned up! Vlad Smirnov was not so
lucky, overlooking tactics to find himself splattered in an upset lost to
Phachara Wongwichit. Magic Moulthun won a positional game against Emma Guo,
taking advantage of his good knight vs her bad bishop in a locked position;
while Vinod Kumar won an even longer struggle to upset Ben Lazarus, his queen
and extra pawns eventually triumphing against Ben’s two rooks. Yi Liu
had a quick draw with Sam Grigg, while Sebastian Jule had a rather longer one
against David Spuler… The Under 1600 event saw more upsets, with Alex
O’Flynn being the latest victim of another underrated junior in Harry
Hughes. With Joe Delmastro taking advantage of a generous knight sacrifice in
a tricky bishop vs knight ending full of passed pawns to upset Craig Stewart,
this left three players jointly in the lead on 3/3: Doug Williams (1533), Joe
(1196) and Harry (just 806)! {See
Wongwichit-Smirnov in the Games section} So,
just 4 players on 3/3 going in to Round 4 of the Open – and what was in
the water on Saturday night? First Vlad Smirnov lost his second game in a
row, going down in another big upset to fast rising 12 year old Yi Liu; but
even this paled into insignificance compared to what happened on Board
1… In a much better position against Phachara, Grandmaster Smurf
decided to sacrifice a rook, thinking he won it back via a discovered check;
but in fact he only won back the exchange, so he ended up a piece down! This
miscalculation proved fatal, Phachara showing good technique to go on and
score a huge upset win. He was joined on 4/4 by Magic Moulthun, who attacked
well to beat Vinod Kumar; while Sorokina and Sandler, clearly worn out by
their AFL grand final exertions, had a very quick draw… The Under 1600
saw Joe Delmastro defeat Harry Hughes to share the lead on 4/4 with Doug
Williams, who beat {See
Wongwichit-Smerdon in the Games section} |
Round
5 saw Moulthun emerge from complications the exchange ahead to defeat Phachara
and claim the outright lead on 5/5. An even more intriguing game occurred on
Board 2 between Yi Liu and Anastasia Sorokina, the former turning it into a
tactical battle very early on which ran 28 fascinating moves before settling
into a perpetual check. Yi thus joined a log jam of players on 4/5, which
included Phachara, Smurf (beat Vinod Kumar), Sandler (who used two bishops
and initiative to score a crushing attacking win over Justin Tan), Jonas
Muller (upset Ben Lazarus) and Bruce Williams (beat Gene Nakauchi). The
latter was a time pressure upset, Gene being attacked and going down after
failing to find the best defense when short of time. {See
Liu-Sorokina and Ly-Wongwichit in the Games
section} The above draw meant an ideal last
round matchup between Smurf and Magic Moulthun to see if Smurf could catch MM
for equal first; and this the GM duly did, winning another interesting game
where his queen and two extra pawns proved too powerful for Moulthun’s
three minor pieces. This meant a three way tie for first on 5/6 after
Phachara converted pressure and a time advantage into an extra piece and the
full point against Bruce Williams. Leonid Sandler and Yi Li failed to join
them, Leonid drawing early with Jonas Muller after failing to secure an
opening advantage as White; and Yi mistakenly swapping from a drawish looking
rook ending into a lost king and pawn ending to go down to George Lester.
(Leonid later claimed that all this meant he had made the least number of
moves of all the players in the event; must mean his moves were very
powerful, he said…). Vlad Smirnov finally made something of his event
with a win against Anastasia Sorokina; while upsets in the time scramble at
the end were scored by Brodie McClymont over Gene Nakauchi, and Ryan Stevens
over Vinod Kumar. And
no, I have not forgotten about the Under 1600 event! Round 5 saw Doug
Williams finally end Joe Delmastro’s run to claim the outright lead on
5/5; but the top seed was breathing down his neck on 4.5/5 after winning a
piece to beat Harry Hughes. Alex O’Flynn was coming back into
contention too after his win over Joe Kingston; while Peter Haron upset Mark
Cervenjak… The final round then saw the cream come to the top, our top
seed Joerg entering a rook ending a pawn up and duly converting to beat Doug
Williams and take out first prize on 5.5/6. Alex O’Flynn had a tougher
fight against Joe Delmastro, his rook and two minor pieces eventually beating
Joe’s queen. This left Alex in equal second place with Doug on 5/6;
while the upset win by Kees Huband-Lint over Kingston snared him a share of
the Under 1200 prize with Delmastro. The
fun event on the Sunday attracted 22 players, and was won by Curtis Jack on
5.5/6. Second place was shared on 4.5/6 by Jake Pyper and Andrew Peck. It was
nice to see two adults playing in this Under 1000 event (Andrew was one of
them), meant to be tailor made “for parents and beginners”
– of course there were more junior “beginners” than
parents! There were many more draws than you might expect in such an event;
but then again, if you must stalemate with three extra queens, I guess that
is not too surprising… This is why it was called a beginner’s
event! More importantly, everyone did have fun in this event; that of course
was its main purpose… So
ended another successful Surfers Paradise event, except for the one more
exceptional feature this year: 26 brave souls facing up to Alexei Shirov for
their chance at simul glory! Apart from the usual crop of youngsters, this
included star Gold Coast organiser Graeme Gardiner – it was the first
time many of us had ever seen him actually play chess… A respectful
silence engulfed the playing hall as Shirov walked around; and it was amazing
to see how aggressively he attacked on practically every board! On one board,
he sacrificed his queen (admittedly for rook and bishop) to force a very
pretty mate or win it back with interest; on several other boards, he
sacrificed the exchange; and sometimes this was even in queenless endgames!
He was trying to create something pretty on almost every board; it was
incredible to watch… Anton
Smirnov was first to fall; Shirov obviously knows the dangers up and coming 8
year olds can pose, so he splattered him with a crushing attack on his king!
He later praised both Anton and Justin Tan, “for knowing when to
resign”… In the end, out of 25 boards, Shirov won 24, drawing
with another junior in Daniel Lapitan after Daniel calmly defended well in a
position where many club players would have panicked. Amin Fazel also came
close, as Shirov admitted afterwards he thought about offering a draw in
their game. Amin played for a win but lost in the end, as it was the Super GM
who better handled the pinning tactics… {See
Shirov-Lapitan in the Games section} Unfortunately I had to leave
before all games were over; but fortunately, Nenad Chelebichanin (thanks
Nenad) sent me a report (under the heading “Shirov simul: fire on many
boards”) on some of the other games! Ivan Zelich's game was the last to
finish, and was most attractive and interesting for the spectators. Shirov
sacrificed his queen for a mating attack; Zelich defended well, but found his
lone black queen was no match for a team of White pieces. Against a player
rated more than 2100 points higher, Zelich still played much better than his
607 Shirov
also gave a lecture on Saturday night, where he first presented a game of his
as Black in the complicated Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defense. He used
this to demonstrate how top players prepare for a game, trying to find
favourable transpositions to improve on the standard positions arising from
the opening. Then he showed something completely different: how he thought at
the board in a game where his position was not good, and managed to win the
game. Answering questions, he then revealed how he came up with his
“most amazing move”, Bh3; his g4 invention in a well known
opening variation. In short: learn from your losses, RYbka and your intuition!
Open Prizes: = 1st Moulthun Ly, Phachara Wongwichit, David Smerdon
5/6; = 4th Leonid Sandler, Jonas Muller, George Lester (the latter two = 1st
Under 2000) 4.5/6; = 5th (and all = 3rd Under 2000 except the first two)
Vladimir Smirnov, Ben Lazarus, Yi Liu, Brodie McClymont, Ian Rout, Ryan
Stevens, Justin Tan, Bruce Williams 4/6. Under 1600 Prizes: 1st Joerg Hackenschmidt-Uecker 5.5/6; = 2nd Doug
Williams, Alex O’Flynn 5/6; 4th Craig Stewart 4.5/6; = 5th Axel
Stahnke, Mark Cervenjak 4/6; = 1st Under 1200 Joe Delmastro, Kees Huband-Lint
4/6. Under 1000 (Fun Section) Prizes:
1st
Curtis Jack 5.5/6; = 2nd Jake Pyper, Andrew Peck 4.5/6; = Best Junior (latter
two also = Best Female) Alex Jack, Melanie Karibasic, Shelley Xing 4/6. |
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Smerdon,D (2535) - Weller,T
(1754) [B22] Surfers 1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 e6 3.c3 Nf6 4.e5 Nd5 5.d4 cxd4 6.cxd4 Nc6 7.Bc4 Nb6 8.Bd3 d5 9.Nc3 Be7
10.a3 a5 11.Bc2 Bd7 12.h4 Rc8 13.Rh3 f5 14.Bg5 h6 15.Bc1 Na7 16.Bd3 Nc4
17.Ne2 a4 18.Rg3 g5 19.Nh2 Qb6 20.Rb1 Nb5 21.Bc2 Nxd4 22.Nxd4 Bc5 23.b3 Nxa3
24.Bxa3 Bxd4 25.bxa4 Bxf2+ 26.Kf1 Qa7 27.Rxb7 Qxb7 28.Kxf2 Qb6+ 29.Kf1 Rc4
30.Rb3 Qa6 31.Bd3 Rf4+ 32.Nf3 Qa7 33.Qc1 Kf7 34.Bb5 Rc8 35.Qd2 Bxb5+ 36.axb5
Qa4 37.Rc3 Rxc3 38.Qxc3 Qd1+ 39.Kf2 g4 40.Qc7+ Kg6
41.h5+
Kxh5 42.Qf7# 1–0 Wongwichit,P (2055) - Smirnov,V
(2355)
[C10] Surfers 1.e4
Nc6 2.Nc3 e6 3.d4 d5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e5 Ne4 6.Bd3 Bb4 7.Bd2 Bxc3 8.bxc3 Nxd2
9.Nxd2 Na5 10.Qg4 g6 11.0–0 c5 12.c4 h5 13.Qf4 g5 14.Qe3 dxc4 15.Nxc4
cxd4 16.Qe4 Nc6 17.Nd6+ Ke7 18.f4 f5 19.fxg5 Qa5 [19...fxe4 20.Rf7#] 20.Qh4 Qxe5
21.Nxf5+ Kd7 [21...exf5 22.Rae1] 22.Rae1 Qc5 23.Ng7 Kc7 24.Rf7+ Kb8
25.Nxe6 Qd6 26.Qf4 Qxf4 27.Nxf4 Nd8 28.Rf6 Nc6 29.g6 Kc7 30.Nd5+ Kd8 31.g7
1–0 Liu,Y (1835) - Sorokina,A (2172)
[B45] Surfers 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bf4 e5 8.Nd5 Nxd5 9.exd5 Ne7 10.Bxe5 dxe5 11.d6 Qa5+
12.c3 Nf5 13.b4 Qb6 14.Nc7+ Kd8 15.Nxa8 Qc6 16.c4 Bxd6 17.Be2 Nd4
18.0–0 b6 19.c5 Bb7 20.Bf3 Nxf3+ 21.gxf3 bxc5 22.bxc5 Qxc5 23.Rb1 e4
24.Rxb7 Qg5+ 25.Kh1 Qf4 26.Rb8+ Ke7 27.Qxd6+ Kxd6 28.Rxh8
½–½ Ly,M (2308) – Wongwichit,
P (2055) [Bxx] Surfers 1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5 Bd7 4.Bxd7 Qxd7 5.c4 Nc6 6.d4 Qg4 7.d5 Qxe4 8.Be3 Nd4 9.Qa4
Kd8 10.Nbd2 Nxf3 11.Nxf3 Nf6 12.O-O h6 13.Rfe1 Qg4 14.h3 Qd7 15.Qa3 g5
16.Bxc5 dxc5 17.Ne5 Qe8
18.d6
exd6 19.Ng4 Ne4 20.Qf3 Qd7 21.Nf6 Nxf6 22.Qxf6 Kc7 23.Qxh8 Rd8 24.Qf6 Re8
25.Rxe8 Qxe8 26.Kf1 Qe6 27.Qxe6 fxe6 28.Rd1 Bg7 29.b3 Bd4 30.Ke2 Kc6 1-0 |
Wongwichit,P (2055) –
Smerdon, D (2535) [C11] Surfers 1.e4 e6
2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Nf3 c5 6.dxc5 Nc6 7.Bf4 Nxc5 8.a3 a6 9.Be2 b5
10.0–0 Be7 11.Re1 d4 12.Na2 g5 13.Bg3 g4 14.Nd2 h5 15.b4 Na4 16.Ne4 Bb7
17.c4 dxc3 18.Naxc3 Nxc3 19.Nxc3 Nd4 20.Bd3 Rc8 21.Be4 Rxc3 22.Bxb7 Qb6
23.Be4 Bg5 24.Ra2 h4 25.Qxg4 hxg3 26.Qxg5
26...Rxa3
27.Rxa3 gxf2+ 28.Kxf2 Nc2+ 29.Rae3 Nxe1 30.Kxe1 Qd4 31.h3 Kf8 32.Kf1 Qd2
33.Rg3 Qd1+ 34.Kf2 Qd4+ 35.Re3 Rg8 36.Qf6 Qd2+ 37.Re2 Qxb4 38.g4 Qd4+ 39.Kg3
b4 40.Rc2 Qd7 41.Rc6 1-0 Shirov,A – Lapitan, D
[B33] Surfers 1.e4 c5
2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Bxf6
gxf6 10.Nd5 Bg7 11.Bd3 0–0 12.c3 Re8 13.Nc2 f5 14.Qh5 f4 15.g3 Ne7
16.Ncb4 Bb7 17.gxf4 Nxd5 18.exd5 e4 19.Be2 Qf6 20.Rg1 Rf8 21.Rg4 Kh8
22.0–0–0 Qh6 23.Qxh6 Bxh6 24.Nc2 Rae8 25.Ne3 f5 26.Rh4 Bg7 27.Rg1
Bc8 28.Kd2 h6 ½–½ Reilly,T (2288) - Solomon,S
(2424) [E46] George Trundle NZ Masters (6),
01.10.2009 1.d4
Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 0–0 5.Nge2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.Nf4 Re8 8.b4 c6
9.Bb2 Nbd7 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Bd3 Bd6 12.0–0 Nf8 13.b5 Ng6 14.Nxg6 hxg6
15.g3 Bf5 16.bxc6 bxc6 17.Bxf5 gxf5 18.Na4 Ne4 19.Rc1 Re6 20.Rxc6
20...Bxg3
21.Rxe6 Bxh2+ 22.Kxh2 Qh4+ 23.Kg2 fxe6 24.Qf3 Qg5+ 25.Kh1 Nd2 26.Qg2
Qh5+ 0–1 Solomon,S (2424) - Jones,G
(2553) [A57] George Trundle NZ Masters (9),
04.10.2009 1.d4
Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.b6 g6 6.Nc3 Qxb6 7.e4 d6 8.Be2 Bg7 9.Nf3
0–0 10.Nd2 Nbd7 11.Nc4 Qb7 12.Bf4 Nb6 13.Ne3 Bd7 14.a4 Nc8 15.Qc2 Nxe4
16.Nxe4 Qb4+ 17.Kf1 f5 18.Nxc5 Qxc5 19.Qxc5 dxc5 20.Nc4 Bd4 21.h4 Nd6 22.Nxd6
exd6 23.Bxd6 Rf6 24.Bc7 Ra7 25.Bc4 Rb7 26.Re1 Rxb2 27.d6+ Kf8 28.Re7 Bxa4
29.Rh3 Rb1+ 30.Re1 Rxe1+ 31.Kxe1 Ke8 32.f4 Bb5 33.Bd5 h5 34.Ra3 Kd7 35.Kd2 c4
36.Bb7 c3+ 37.Kd1 Bd3 38.Bxa6 c2+ 39.Kd2 Bb2 40.Kxd3 c1Q 41.Bb5+ Ke6 0–1 Diagrams by http://www.chessvideos.tv/ |
Brown,A (1974) - Guo,E (1800)
[A57] Young Masters Rockdale (2),
07.10.2009 1.d4
Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.e3 d6 6.Nc3 g6 7.a4 axb5 8.Bxb5+ Bd7 9.Nge2
Bg7 10.0–0 0–0 11.Bxd7 Nbxd7 12.Nb5 Ne8 13.Nec3 Nc7 14.e4 Nb6
15.f4 Nxb5 16.Nxb5 Qd7 17.Nc3 Rfb8 18.e5 dxe5 19.fxe5 Bxe5 20.Qf3 Bf6 21.a5
Nc4 22.Ne4 Bd4+ 23.Kh1 Ne5 24.Qf4 Qxd5 25.Ra3 Rb3 26.Rxb3 Qxb3 27.Qh4 Qc4
28.Nd2 Qe6 29.Ne4 Qc4 30.Nd2 Qe6 31.h3 Nd3 32.Ne4 h5 33.Bg5 Re8 34.Bd2 Bxb2
35.Ng5 Bf6 [35...Qe2 36.Rxf7 Qd1+ 37.Kh2 Be5+] 36.Qa4 Qc8 37.Nxf7 Kxf7 38.Qc4+ Qe6 39.Qxd3 Kg7 40.Re1 Qf5 41.Qb5 Qc8
42.a6 Qa8 43.Re6 Rc8 44.Qd7 Kf7
45.Bc3
Rd8 46.Rxf6+ Kg8 47.Qe6+ 1–0 Xu,J (1568) - Yu,S (1716) [D02] Junior Masters Rockdale (6),
08.10.2009 1.Nf3
d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 c5 4.d4 Nc6 5.c3 Bf5 6.0–0 e6 7.Nh4 Bg4 8.h3 Bh5
9.Nf3 Bd6 10.Nbd2 0–0 11.Re1 Qb6 12.Nb3 Ne4 13.g4 Bg6 14.Nh4 cxd4 15.cxd4
Nf6 16.Nxg6 hxg6 17.e4 dxe4 18.Bxe4 Nxe4 19.Rxe4 Rad8 20.Re2 Be5 21.Be3 Bxd4
22.Nxd4 Nxd4 23.Rd2 e5 24.Rc1 Qb4 25.a3 Qb6 26.Rc4 Qa6 27.b3 Qxa3 28.Bxd4
Rxd4 29.Rdxd4 exd4 30.Rxd4 a6 31.Rd7 b5 32.Qd5 Qb4 33.Ra7 Qc3 34.Rxa6 Qxh3
35.Qxb5 Qxg4+ 36.Kh2 Kh7 37.Ra4 Qh5+ 38.Qxh5+ gxh5 39.Rc4 Rb8 40.b4 g5 41.Rc5
Kg6 42.b5 f6 43.Kg2 Rb6 44.Kg3 Rd6 45.Rc6 Rd3+ 46.Kg2 Rb3 47.Rb6 h4 48.Rb8 g4
49.b6 f5 50.b7 Kg7 51.Kh2 f4 52.Kg2
52...h3+
53.Kh2 Rb2 54.Kg1 g3 55.fxg3 fxg3 56.Kf1 g2+ 57.Kg1 Rb1+ 58.Kh2 g1Q+
0–1 Setiabudi,M (1347) - Chibnall,A
(1411) [C70] Girls Masters Rockdale (2),
07.10.2009 1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Bc5 5.d3 Nge7 6.0–0 0–0 7.c3 f5 8.exf5
Nxf5 9.Bxc6 bxc6 10.Nxe5 d6 11.d4 Bb6 12.Qb3+ d5 13.Nxc6 Qd6 14.Nb4 Be6
15.Nd3 Ne7 16.Nd2 Rab8 17.Qd1 Ng6 18.h3 c6 19.Nf3 Bc7 20.Nfe5 Bf5 21.f4 Rf6
22.Nxg6 Bxd3 23.Qxd3 hxg6 24.Qxa6 g5 25.Qd3 gxf4 26.Qf3 c5 27.dxc5 Qxc5+
28.Kh1 Re8 29.a4 Qd6 30.Bd2 Re4 31.Rfe1 g5 32.b4
32...Re3
33.Qf2 Rg3 34.a5 f3 35.Qg1 fxg2+ 36.Kh2 Rg4+ 0–1 |
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