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Editor’s notes A fair
bit has happened since the last newsletter in late December – some of
it is in this newsletter. Following
a suggestion from Guy West the format has changed with most items in a
single-column arrangement; responses to this proposal were not unanimous but
there was a general trend in favour of this arrangement. Remember
that tournament notices and other news do not place themselves in the
newsletter, if you have anything that people should know about it send it to auschessnews@gmail.com Ian
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Links in light blue are to sections within the newsletter, those in grey are
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Australian Junior Championships Chess in Fiji, by FA Dr Jashint Maharaj ChessClub.com.au, by David Cordover Medium watch This
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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 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: 1st: Queenstown Chess Classic (9 GMs, etc) 1st: Australasian Match of the Decade
(against Puchen Wang; score: 4-2). 1st: NSW Open 1st: 1st: ANU Open 1st =: Surfers 1st =: 1st: Australian Chess Grand Prix. David received the Grandmaster title in June
2009. He represented Oceania in the 2009 World Cup
in Khanty-Mansiysk, David is both an excellent role model and
mentor for younger players in the ACT. Since moving to 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 David was the 2009 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 12-years old 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 equal third in Australasian Masters 2009 equal first in 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 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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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 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 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
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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 |
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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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The following is a repeat of a
notice which was previously reported in Newsletter 09/09A 2010 Olympiad: Activity Requirement and Application Deadline The 2010 FIDE Olympiad will be held in
I am writing to advise strong players intending to apply
for the Olympiad teams for
The intended selection deadline is Wednesday 28 April. If any change to this is expected I will notify it to all sources where this notice has been published, but I do not expect it to change.
The 20 games rule requires each applicant for the Olympiad to have played 20 rated games in the previous year by the selection deadline (ie 28 April 2009 - 28 April 2010). The definition of a rated game includes any game rated by the ACF and/or FIDE that is not a rapid play game. A game rated by another federation (eg BCF) will also count where requested, provided that an adequate formula for converting that federation's ratings to either ACF or FIDE ratings exists. Of course, any game can only be counted once.
Prospective applicants are advised that some selectors believe applicants should play substantially more than 20 games in a year, and some selectors may rank applicants conservatively if they consider that the player has not played enough games to adequately demonstrate their current playing strength.
Kevin Bonham ACF Selections Director |
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Recent 2009 GP weekend results Canterbury Summer
Swiss, Box Hill CC, Vic (Dec 27-29) CM Max Illingworth won with 6/7 from Igor Dyment,
Domagoj Dragicevic and Leon Kempen 5.5. (60 players). Recent 2010 GP weekend results MCC Australia Day
Weekender, Melbourne, Vic (Jan 23-24) Jesse Jager with 6.5/7 won from Jack Shanks 5. (14
players). Australia Day
Weekender, Sydney, NSW (Jan 23-24) IM George Xie dominated this event with 7/7 ahead of CM
Max Illingworth, Jason Chan and Gareth Charles 5.5. (73 players). 2010 Newcastle Open (13-14 February) Venue
is PANTHERS NEWCASTLE (Corner of King & Union Streets, the old Newcastle
Workers Club). Train Travellers please note that your nearest station is
CIVIC. 10 minute walk to venue.
2010 Dubbo Open (20-21 March) When:
20 & 21 March 2010 Where:
Dubbo RSL Club Entry
fees: Adult $50, Concession $35, Junior $25 Prizes:
First $750; Pool exceeds $3000 Time
control: 1 hour + 10 sec Contact:
Alexander Aich 0408 200 564 alexander.aich@gmail.com Link to
Flyer on website: http://home.exetel.com.au/dubbochessclub/ |
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Grand Prix events Feb 6-7 Ranges Summer Sizzler [1], Upwey Vic link Feb 13-14 Launceston Cup [1], Launceston Tas link Feb 13-14 Newcastle Open [1], Newcastle,
NSW link Feb 20-21 Kingsley Open [1], Mar 6-8 Begonia Open [3], Ballarat, Vic link Mar 6-8 Tasmanian Championship[1], Mar 20-21 10th Anniversary
Dubbo RSL Open [3], Dubbo, NSW link
Apr 1-5 Doeberl Cup [5], Apr 2-5 Queensland Open [3], Toowoomba,
Qld link Apr 4-5 Gufeld Cup [1], Apr 7-11 Sydney International Open [5], Apr 24-26 Anzac Day Weekender [1],
Melbourne, Vic link
2010 GP calendar link Phoenix Invitational MCC, Feb 11 to Apr 15
(FIDE-rated round robins) link Australian Capital Territory ACT Lightning
Championship ANUCC,
Level 4 Queensland Gold Coast Tin Cup Gardiner Chess Centre,
Mudgeeraba; 13-14 February. Max 1750 ACF or QJ. link link Queensland
Interschools various
venues; February - March. link
Please
notify forthcoming tournaments to auschessnews@gmail.com |
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30 YEARS
ON ... by FA Dr Jashint
Maharaj The Fiji Chess Federation (FCF) celebrated its
30th year since inception this year and this article reflects on the journey
from humble beginnings to minor sport to international fame. In 1979 a group of frustrated yet highly
motivated chess enthusiasts formed a social network to promote the sport of
chess under the auspices of the Fiji Chess Federation. Competition was strong
and tournament champions were awarded with meagre prizes but still the sport
flourished and rapidly expanded into business houses and schools. After several slow years, the sport was on the
brink of collapse when a second revival with its past secretary Dr. Virgilio
De Asa at the helm saw the sport affiliate to both FASANOC and FIDE (the
world governing body of chess). This led to the national teams attendance in
the 1990, 1992 and 1994 World Chess Olympiad with moderate results. Experiencing an exodus of talented players in the
late ‘90s the Federation embarked on a drive to rejuvenate itself by
targeting schools to identify the chess-masters of the future. Considered by many to be a minor sport the search
was duly answered when the Federation managed to host the 2002 Oceania Zonal
Chess Championships in Sigatoka as a prelude for the region to the World
Chess Championships. This put chess in the forefront locally and saw the
emergence on many of today’s talent field. Dr. Virgilio De Asa
receiving the 2002 FASANOC Administrator of the Year award then also
highlighted the fact that this sport was slowly taking flight. In a bid to increase its international presence
the Federation then hosted its first international tournament in December
2003 where the icing on the cake was a win by local lad Manoj Kumar ahead of
an amazing field of international participants. Now a revamped Fiji Chess Federation saw an
increase in its local tournament participations thus deciding then to send
its first female team along with the open delegation to the 2004 Chess
Olympiad in The world of chess its oyster, the Federation
then tackled the Internet to establish its own website and strengthen
relations with other chess federations in the Asia-Pacific regions. 2006 was an exceptional year where Calvin Prasad
attained his Candidate Master (CM) title at the World Chess Olympiad in Italy
and was awarded the 2006 Fiji Sports Council National Male Athlete of the
Year honours. Not to be outdone on the technical side, Dr. Jashint Maharaj
attained his FIDE Arbiters (FA) title and was awarded the 2006 FASANOC
Technical Official of the Year honours. The next tier was the successful hosting of the
2007 Oceania Zonal Chess Championships in Nadi, making the event the largest
international chess tournament hosted locally to date. Persistent Manoj Kumar
dominated the local chess arena and he managed to scoop the 2007 Fiji Sports
Council National Male Athlete of the Year award. With so much development in the last few years it
seemed difficult to further the sport but Kumar continued to shock chess
critics by claiming his Candidate Master (CM) title at the 2008 World Chess
Olympiad in And so this year began where the preceding had
left, with the awarding of a Candidate Master (CM) title to Damien Norris. In
June, Dr. Sanmogam Goundar led a contingent to the pre World Championship
Zonal meet held in There were seventeen chess events held this year
culminating in one of the strongest national championships seen in a long
while. Chess events are held in several categories including primary schools,
secondary schools, female, open, blitz, allegro and closed events, all
successful through the tireless work of the voluntary committee members that
continually strive to bring chess into the forefront of local sports and the media. Sources from the committee are already talking
about plans to participate in more regional (ASEAN Chess Championships in Finally, having had such success at the local,
regional and international levels over the last three decades, it is a wonder
when chess will be deemed a major sport, perhaps when it eventually receives
major sponsorship or major awards. The next decade in Fiji Chess is just
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FIDE January ratings FIDE
ratings are now issued every two months (up to mid-2009 lists came out quarterly).
Leading players on the January list are Carlsen (Nor) 2810, Topalov (Bul) 2805,
and Anand (India) 2790. A
rating of 2643 is now required to make the top 100, and 2744 for the top ten. For the
FIDE ratings site see link For
more on regional ratings see the Oceania chess page.
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Leading Australian
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Corus The 2010 tournament is approximately half-way through at Wijk
aan The 117th NZ Chess Congress was held in Greenland, The 2009/10 edition of this historic event was held from 28th December 2009 to 5th
January 2010 in Russian Championship The superfinal of the Russian Championship (December 19 to 30 in
Alisa Galliamova 7.5/9 won the Women’s Championship from
Nadezhda Kosintseva 7. Spassky v Korchnoi Former World Champion Boris Spassky and former Challenger Viktor
Korchnoi played an eight-game match in 2009 World Teams Championship This event, contested by a mix of top Olympiad finishers,
Continental Champions and invitees, was won by Russia with 15 match points
from nine rounds, while USA took the silver on tie-break from India (both
13). The composition of the event in Magnus Carlsen news Magnus
Carlsen, world number one in the January 2010 FIDE ratings, was featured in Time magazine in December and then again in January. Meanwhile his father Henrik reports on
Chessbase that Carlsen has closed his old blog and runs a new blog on the site of his sponsor, Arctic Securities. Dodgy tournaments FIDE
has unrated some questionable tournaments “played” in Laos in
which Australian and English participants unknown to officials and players in
their home countries supposedly earned titles and high ratings. The previously unknown players drew attention to
themselves in part by one of them being so good as to be Australia’s
number 15 player and by apparently not having English as his first language,
judging by his correspondence enquiring about claiming his title. Had the
tournaments stood then less chimeric players could have in turn gained
ratings and titles by “playing” them. World Blitz Championship Preliminary stages are in progress for this event, the final of
which will be held in At the time of the 2009 World Blitz it was not obvious whether
the event was official but this one is definitely promoted on the FIDE site. See
here for the tournament
site. |
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For chess tourists The date listed is the start
date, see the link for the full schedule. (This list will be expanded in
future issues when the Editor is less busy). Bermuda
International Open: 5 Feb 2010, Southampton, Cappelle-la-Grande: 13 Feb 2010, 1st Novy
Bor Open: 13 Feb 2010, 26th
Budapest Spring Festival Open: 19 Mar 2010, World University
Chess Ch 2010: 4 Sep 2010, Universitätsstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland link |
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The Redlands Summer Cup allegro tournament (Redlands RSL Cleveland,
17 January) was won by Brian Thomas 6.5/7 from FM Gene Nakauchi 6 with George
Lester and Tony Weller 5.5 (40 players). See link
for full
scores. The 2010 ACT Lightning Championship will be held at the ANU
Chess Club, Level 4, Asian Studies Building at about 7:30pm (be early) on
Wednesday 3 February. 2010
calendars have been announced for ANU CC, Tuggeranong CC and Canberra CC and for ACTCA events. State associations are invited
to submit regular round-ups for inclusion, as are clubs and other bodies. State pages (links) |
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Back
from the dead @ ChessClub.com.au (by David Cordover) The
Victorian chess magazine, On The Move, is shortly to make a comeback thanks
to the efforts of webmasters at www.chessclub.com.au.
You are invited check out back issues or to subscribe from ChessClub.com.au.
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Solomon,Stephen (2428) - Jones,Gawain (2561) [B75] Australian
ch, Cammeray (7), 09.01.2010 1.e4
c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 a6 7.f3 Nbd7 8.Qd2 Bg7 9.g4
b5 10.g5 Nh5 11.a4 bxa4 12.Rxa4 Bb7 13.Kf2 0–0 14.Be2 Nc5 15.Ra3 Qc8
16.Nd5 Qh3 17.b4 Ne6 18.Nf5 gxf5 19.Nxe7+ Kh8 20.Nxf5 Nf6 21.gxf6 Bxf6 22.Bf1
Qh5 23.Nxd6 Rad8 24.Rd3 Bh4+ 25.Ke2 Rxd6 26.Rxd6 Bxe4 27.Qc3+ f6 28.Kd2 Bxf3
29.Rg1 Bg5 30.Rxe6 Qxh2+ 31.Rg2 Bxg2 32.Bxg5 Bxf1+ 33.Kc1 Kg8 34.Bxf6 a5
35.Kb2
Qf4 [35...axb4
36.Qb3] 36.bxa5 h5 37.Be5 Qg4 38.Re7 Rf7 39.Qb3 Bc4 40.Qb8+ Rf8 41.Qb7 Bf7
42.a6 Qa4 43.Qg2+ Qg4 44.Qxg4+ hxg4 45.a7 g3 46.Rxf7 Kxf7 47.Bxg3 Ra8 48.Bb8
Ke6 49.Kc3 Kd5 50.Kb4 Kc6 51.Kc4 Kb6 52.Kd5 Kb5 53.c4+ Kb6 54.Kd6 Kb7 55.c5
Kc8 56.Kc6 1–0 (This was
the winner of the Best Game prize in the Championship) Smirnov, Lane, Australian
ch, Cammeray (10), 12.01.2010 1.d4
Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 0–0 6.Bg5 Na6 7.Qd2 e5 8.d5 c6 9.f3
cxd5 10.cxd5 Bd7 11.g4 Qa5 12.Nh3 Rab8 13.Be3 h5 14.Nf2 b5 15.Bxa7 Rb7 16.Be3
b4 17.Ncd1 hxg4 18.fxg4 Nc5 19.Bxc5 Qxc5 20.g5 Nh7 21.Rc1 Qa7 22.Ne3 Nxg5
23.h4 Nh7 24.Nc4 Rc8 25.h5 Qxa2 26.Nxd6 Rxc1+ 27.Qxc1 Ra7 28.hxg6 fxg6
29.0–0 Qa5 30.Qe3 Rc7 31.Nc4 Qa7 32.Qg3 Nf8 33.Kg2 Bb5 34.b3 Qa2 35.Qd3
Rf7 36.Bg4 Rf4 37.Be6+ Nxe6 38.dxe6 Qa8 39.e7 Bf6 40.Rh1 Bc6 41.Nxe5 Be8
42.Neg4 Qc6 43.Kg3 g5
44.Rh6
Kg7 45.e5 Rxg4+ 46.Nxg4 Bxe5+ 47.Kf2 Qc5+ 48.Kg2 Bc6+ 49.Kh3 1–0 Morris,James (2305) – Atzmon-Simon,Barak (2182) [B09] Australian
ch, Cammeray (7) 09.01.2010 1.e4
d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 0–0 6.e5 Nfd7 7.h4 c5 8.h5 cxd4
9.hxg6 hxg6 10.Qxd4 Qb6 11.Nd5 Nc6 12.Qa4 Qd8 13.f5 e6 14.Bg5 f6
15.Qh4
gxf5 16.Qh7+ Kf7 17.exf6 Qa5+ 18.Bd2 Nxf6 19.Ng5+ Ke8 20.Qg6+ 1–0 |
Ingram,Ben (1944) – Stahnke,Alexander (1701) [E71] Australian
Major, Cammeray (10), 12.01.2010 1.d4
Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 0–0 5.Bg5 h6 6.Be3 d6 7.h3 Nbd7 8.Bd3 c5
9.d5 Ne5 10.Be2 Qa5 11.Bd2 g5 12.h4 g4 13.f4 Ng6 14.h5 Nxf4 15.Nb5
15...Nxe4
16.Bxa5 Nxg2+ 17.Kf1 Ne3+ 18.Ke1
18...Be5
19.Bd3 Bg3+ 20.Ke2 Nxd1 21.Bxe4 Nf2 22.Bg2 f5 23.Nc7 Rb8 24.Bc3 f4 25.Ne6
Bxe6 26.dxe6 f3+ 27.Nxf3 gxf3+ 28.Bxf3 Nxh1 29.Rg1 Rf5 30.Bxh1 Rg5 31.Bd2 Bf4
32.Rxg5+ Bxg5 33.Bxg5 hxg5 34.Kf3 Kg7 0–1 (This was
the winner of the Best Game prize in the Major) Garner,David (2178) – Tang,Jason (1996) [C11] Australian
Major, Cammeray (7), 09.01.2010 1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7
5.f4 c5 6.Nf3 Nc6 7.Be3 a6 8.Qd2 b5 9.Ne2 Bb7 10.g3 Rc8 11.Bh3 g6
12.0–0 cxd4 13.Nexd4 Nc5 14.Qe2 Ne4 15.Rad1 Na5 16.f5 gxf5 17.Nxf5 Nc4
18.Bd4 Rg8 19.b3 Na3 20.Ne3 b4 21.Nd2 Ng5 22.Qh5 Rg6 23.Nf3 Nxh3+ 24.Qxh3
Nxc2 25.Nxc2 Rxc2 26.Qxh7 Qc7 27.Ne1 Rxa2 28.Rc1 Qd7 29.Nc2 Rh6 30.Qd3 Bc6
31.Rf2 Bb5 32.Qf3 Rh7 33.Ne3 Rxf2 34.Qxf2 Rg7 35.Qf3 Be7 36.Ng4 Rg6 37.h4 a5 38.h5
Rg8 39.h6 Rh8 40.Nf6+ Bxf6 41.Qxf6 Rh7
42.Qg7 1–0 Hu,Jason (2113) – Chong,Chor Yuen (2055) [A21] Australian
Major, Cammeray (8), 10.01.2010 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d6 3.Nf3 f5 4.d4 e4 5.Ng5
Be7 6.Nh3 Nf6 7.e3 0–0 8.Be2 c6 9.Nf4 Na6 10.h4 Nc7 11.d5 Nd7 12.g4 Ne5
13.g5 c5 14.Qb3 Rb8 15.Bd2 a6 16.a4 b6 17.a5 b5 18.Na4 Bd7 19.cxb5 Bxb5
20.Nb6 Bxg5 21.hxg5 Qxg5 22.0–0–0 Bxe2 23.Nxe2 Nd3+ 24.Kb1 Nxf2
25.Rdg1 Qd8 26.Bc3 Rf7 27.Rh2 Ng4 28.Rhg2 Na8 29.Nf4 Nxb6 30.axb6 Rxb6 31.Qd1
Rbb7 32.Rxg4 fxg4 33.Qxg4 Qd7 34.Ne6 Rb3 35.Bxg7 Rxg7 36.Qxg7+ Qxg7 37.Rxg7+
Kh8 38.Rg3 Rb8 39.Ng5 Re8 40.Nf7# 1–0 See
here for comments by the players on
Morris v Atzmon-Simon. |
Laurie,Robert (1335) – Guo,Jamie Lee (943) [A05] Australian
Minor, Cammeray (9), 11.01.2010 1.Nf3
d6 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 g6 4.d4 Bg7 5.c3 0–0 6.Nbd2 c6 7.e4 Be6 8.0–0
Nbd7 9.Ng5 Nb6 10.Nxe6 fxe6 11.Qe2 Ne8 12.Nf3 Nc7 13.Bg5 h6 14.Bf4 g5 15.Be3
Qe8 16.e5 Qg6 17.Rae1 Rae8 18.Bc1 Nd7 19.h4 g4 20.Nh2 h5 21.Be4 Qf7
22.Nxg4
d5 23.Bc2 hxg4 24.Qxg4 Qf3 25.Qg6 Rf5 26.Bh6 Rf7 27.Qh7+ Kf8 28.Qh8#
1–0 (This was
the winner of the Best Game prize in the Minor) Parker, Stokes,Mark (1538) [E94] Australian
Minor, Cammeray (8), 10.01.2010 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 d6 4.Nc3 Bg7
5.e4 0–0 6.Be2 Nbd7 7.0–0 e5 8.d5 h6 9.Ne1 Ne8 10.Be3 f5 11.f3 f4
12.Bf2 Kh7 13.Nd3 Qe7 14.b4 g5 15.c5 Ndf6 16.cxd6 cxd6 17.Rc1 h5 18.Qc2 g4
19.Nb5 Bd7 20.Nxa7 gxf3 21.Bxf3 Ng4 22.b5 Nxf2 23.Qxf2 Bf6 24.b6 Bh4 25.Qc2 Nf6
26.Qb1 Rg8 27.Nxf4 Bg5 28.Nxh5 Nxh5 29.Bxh5 Be3+ 30.Kh1 Qg5 31.Bf3 Bxc1
32.Rxc1 Raf8 33.Rc7 Rg7 34.Qg1 Rxf3 35.Rxd7 Rc3 36.Rxg7+ Kxg7 37.Nb5 Rc1
38.Nxd6 Rxg1+ 39.Kxg1 Qd2 40.h3 Qe3+ 41.Kh2 Qxb6 42.Nf5+ Kf6 43.h4 Qb4 44.Ng3
b5 45.h5 Kg5 46.h6 Kxh6 47.d6 Qd2 48.Kh3 Kg5 49.Nf5 Qd3+ 50.g3 Qxe4 51.Ng7
Qh1# 0–1 Johansen,Darryl (2443) – Zhao,Zong Yuan (2572) [A70] Australian
ch, Cammeray (4), 06.01.2010 1.Nf3
Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.d4 c5 4.d5 d6 5.Nc3 exd5 6.cxd5 g6 7.e4 a6 8.h3 b5 9.Bd3 Bg7
10.0–0 0–0 11.a3 Re8 12.Re1 Bb7 13.Bf4 Qb6 14.b4 Nbd7 15.Qd2 Rac8
16.Rac1 Nh5 17.Bg5 Ne5 18.Nxe5 Bxe5 19.Be3 Nf6 20.Ne2 Nd7 21.f4 Bg7 22.Ng3
Qd8 23.Qf2 Qh4 24.Kh2 h5 25.Re2 c4 26.Bb1 a5 27.bxa5 Qd8 28.Bd4 Bxd4 29.Qxd4
Nc5 30.Rc3 h4 31.Nf1 Nb3 32.Qf2 Qf6 33.Rce3 c3 34.Rc2 Rc5 35.Ba2 Nd4 36.Rcxc3
Rxc3 37.Rxc3 Rxe4 38.Rd3 Rxf4 39.Qe3 b4! 40.Nd2 Ba6 41.Ne4 [41.Bc4 Bxc4 42.Nxc4 Nf3+ (42...Nc2)
43.gxf3 Rxc4]
41...Rxe4
[41...Qe5
42.Qxd4 Bxd3 43.Qxe5 dxe5] 42.Qxe4 Bxd3 43.Qxd3 Qe5+ 44.Kg1 Qe1+
45.Kh2 Nf5 [45...Ne2 46.Qe3]
46.axb4 [46.Qb1 Qg3+
47.Kg1 Qxa3] 46...Ne3 (comments by Ian Rogers) 0–1 For detailed
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