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AUSTRALIAN CHESS FEDERATION |
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OLYMPIAD
APPEAL - President’s Message
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The ACF
Executive committee is very pleased to report that membership of the
Australian Open and Women’s teams for the coming Olympiad in
Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, has now been finalised, with all but one of the
originally selected players having confirmed availability to represent
Australia in this great event. The
teams now registered are: Open Team 1. GM
Zong-Yuan Zhao (NSW) 2. GM
David Smerdon (ACT) 3. IM
George Xie (NSW) 4. GM
Darryl Johansen (Vic) 5. IM
Stephen Solomon (Qld) Captain
- IA Manuel Weeks (NSW) Women’s Team 1. WIM
Arianne Caoili (Qld) 2.
Giang Nguyen (SA) 3. WIM
Biljana Dekic (NSW) 4. WFM
Emma Guo (ACT) 5. WFM
Vaness Reid (NSW) Captain
- IM Leonid Sandler (Vic) While
the honour of representing one’s country at the chess equivalent of the
Olympic Games or the World Cup is certainly real, so are the sacrifices our
team members will make in the form of travel expenses, lost study time and/or
forgone earning opportunities. To
offset some if not all related expenses, the ACF has again launched the biennial
Olympiad Appeal and, as usual, contributions large and small will be
acknowledged and greatly appreciated. Because
this year’s Olympiad begins earlier than usual, a special request is
being made for earlier-than-usual contributions. The
Appeal is being coordinated once again by former Chess Association of
Queensland administrator Ian Murray, who has reconstructed the Appeal website
at http://www.acfappeal.aunz.org,
where convenient and secure methods of contributing include Paypal and other
on-line banking systems, and where donations are recorded and progress
towards the estimated target of $20,844 can be monitored. Using
the ACF’s traditional quota formula, contributions from each State to
meet this target would be:
In
addition to donations from individuals, the ACF is hoping once more for a
special effort by all affiliates to create fundraising opportunities such as
simultaneous exhibitions, blitz tournaments and the like, and for organisers
of coming school, club and State events to raise awareness of the appeal
during opening and prizegiving ceremonies. Any
reader able to contribute ideas, time, energy or funds to assist the Appeal
is most welcome to contact the coordinator, Ian Murray acfappeal@optusnet.com.au,
or his or her local State Association or ACF Council delegate, whose contact
information may be found via the ACF website at http://www.auschess.org.au
Australia
has a fine record of consistent performances at FIDE Olympiads and, with
three GMs in the line-up, we have a great chance of a best-ever result. With
your help, the same might be said of the appeal total. Gary Wastell (ACF President) A short appeal message
is available at the ACF web site as a landscape or portrait graphic which can be pasted into newsletters, as a PDF which can be cut into quarter-page handouts for clubs
or tournaments, or in HTML. The regular Olympiad update is below. |
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2012 Australian Championship –
Applications invited The ACF invites applications for authority to conduct the
Australian Championship and associated tournaments that would normally take
place during early January 2012. The principal event is the traditional tournament for the title
of Australian Champion, first recognised in 1885 and awarded more or less
biennially since 1922. In more recent times, successful applicants have provided for
the presentation of some or all of the following events in conjunction with
the Championship:
Australian Rapid-play Championship
Australian Lightning Championship
Australian Senior Championship
Australian Major Tournament
Australian Minor Tournament. The ACF Council’s standing requirements for organisers of
these events may be found on the ACF website at http://www.auschess.org.au/constitution/index.html, where the
following headings link to the relevant documents:
By-laws for ACF Tournaments
By-law No.1 – Australian Chess Championship & Australian
Major
Procedure for Allocating ACF Tournaments. Applicants other than ACF-affiliated Associations are advised to
consult their local Associations when formulating a submission, which should
incorporate as much as possible of the information provided for on a
Championships Application form, obtainable from State Associations and from
ACF Secretary, Tom Accola – tomaccola@optusnet.com.au . Gary Wastell (ACF President) 2011 Australian Open This event will run from 2 to 13 January at Norths, Cammeray. |
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Donations, which can be made quickly and easily by Paypal or
direct deposit as well as money order or cheque, will be acknowledged on the
web site and in the newsletter. The appeal total to 25 July stands at $5,135.10. $500
– CAQ, iSage Internet $250
– Gardner Chess, $200
– Ian Murray $100
– Mike Finch, Peter & Alison Bender, Tony
Hughes, Redcliffe Chess Club $50
– David Lovejoy, Jeremy Mullaly, Evan Pass $20.10
– New South Wales $500 - Charles Zworestine $200 - Robin Stokes $100 - Hweimeen Chai, Jeffrey
Plew, Amiel Rosario $80 - Livio Borghi, NSWJCL -
Zong-Yuan Zhao simul $50 - David Adler, Wolfgang
Brodesser, Vincent Chen, Clive Lane, Danny & Andrew Pan $20 - Nicholas Beare, Adrian
Chek, Barry Cox, Peter Dorhauer, Paul Sike, Rex Simmonds, Tom Tomas, Robert
Watson $15 - David Barker, Boris Ganke,
Oskar Hellmann, Stephen Myer, Colin Parsons, Fritz Van der Wal $10 - Horst Bleicher, Tom
Chisholm, Les Duffy, Roger Jeffreys, Greg Matthews, Les Porter, Domingo
Sanchez, Allan Tankel, Mark Tatam, Bruce Williams $5 - Richard Blake, Horst
Gabriel, Andrew Johnson, James Kosturas, Antuni Suryak, Graham Taylor, Nina
Vaysierre, Peter Zekic Victoria $200
– Peter Caissa $100
– Kevin Brown, Igor Goldenberg $50 –
Anon, Scott Humphreys, Met, Mustafa, Jean Watson, Guy West simul Australian Capital
Territory $100
– Gogulapati Ramakrishna $75
– Bill Egan, Denis Jessop $40
– Peter Johnston South Australia $150
– David Merrifield $75
– Dmitri Koulakov $100
– Kevin Bonham Northern Territory $50
– Mario Aisa |
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AusJCL Calendar
(National and International) See http://www.australian-junior-youth-chess.blogspot.com/
or the AusJCL
page for the calendar including ongoing changes and additional information. Australian Junior Chess Championships, 15-23 Jan 2011
Mooroolbark, Victoria See the tournament site at http://www.ajcc2011.com.au/
for details. Asian Youth Chess Championship
This event was played recently in Beijing.
Australia had 4 representatives: Chen Pengyu, 5/9 in the U14 Open; Caroline
Shan 4/9 in the U14 Girls; Jamie-Lee Guo 3.5/9 in the U10 Open; and Grace
Shan 1/9 in the U10 Girls. See the following links for full scores: U14 Open
U14 Girls
U10 Open
U10 Girls Bundaberg
Children’s Tournament Thursday 30 September - refer link or contact
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Bundaberg Weekender
(August 21-22) – change of venue Central State School, the intended venue for
the Bundaberg Weekender, has unexpectedly been closed for building works. A
new venue will be organised but this is still in progress. It is suggested
that any person planning to attend the Bundaberg Weekender should contact the
Club Secretary Allan Menham on 0417073094 or email menhamat@hotmail.com a few days before
the tournament to find out the new venue. Blayney Open cancelled The Blayney Open, scheduled for 11-12
September, has been cancelled for 2010 and beyond. 2010 Gold Coast
International Chess Festival The Kings of Chess club is presenting
this event from 26-30 December. The main event is the Gold Coast International
Chess Tournament, a nine-round FIDE-rated event. See Coming Events for more information. New chess club –
Prahran Market (Vic) The
Prahran Market is excited to announce it is launching a community Chess Club
which is proudly sponsored by Bendigo Bank Prahran Market Branch. Do you
want to help run the new Chess Club? Prahran Market is looking for Volunteers
to help run the Chess Club on Saturday mornings, starting September 18. A
love of the great game of Chess is a must! Email prahranmarket@chessclub.com.au Visit:
http://chessclub.com.au/2010/07/19/looking-for-volunteers/ David
Cordover Chess Media See link to view a new short
YouTube video produced by Chess Kids. The North Shore Times (NSW) apparently had
an item relating to a simul by GM Zong-Yuan Zhao,
unfortunately the link no longer works. |
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Recent GP weekend results ANU Open, Canberra, ACT (July 24-25) IM Andras Toth won with 6/7 from GM Zong-Yuan Zhao and FM Junta Ikeda 5.5 (35 players). ANU Minor, Canberra, ACT (July 24-25) Hweimeen Chai won with 6.5/7 from Trent Parker 5.5 followed by Mario Palma, Paul Campbell, Bill Egan, Stuart Mason, William Booth and Michael Kethro 5. (42 players).2010 NSW Rapid
Championship CM Max Illingworth won this event on 18 July
with 7/7 from Neil Wright 6 and Subramanian Singaram and Peter Abbott 5.5 in
a field of 45 players. |
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Grand Prix events August 7-8 North Queensland Open [1], Townsville, Qld link August 14-15 Hobart Weekender [1], Hobart, Tas link August 21-22 Bundaberg Weekender [2], Bundaberg, Qld (NB: new venue tba) link August 21-22 The Best in the West [1], Yarraville, Vic link 2010 GP calendar link Queensland Minor
Championship 31
July – 1 August link Mackay Open 14 – 15 August link Cairns Open 28 - 29 August link Queensland Women’s
Championship 2-3
October link Billanook College
Cup IV
Mooroolbark, 21 August. link New South Wales Rooty Hill Open: Rooty Hill RSL Club, 9 round Swiss Monday evenings from 2 August. 90m +
10spm. Enquiries Peter Cassettari
0403-775 476 pcass@iinet.net.au web http://www.rootyhillchess.org 2010
Queensland Minor Championship (July 31 – August 1) Dates: Saturday 31st July - Sunday 1st
August Arbiter: Fide Arbiter Garvin Gray Venue: Forfeit time: 30 minutes from the start of
each session Prizes: 1ST: $300 2nd: $250 3rd: $200
4th: $150. Rating Groups (based on 10 players per group) – 1st: $100 Entry fees: Before Monday 17th July:
Adults: $50 Pensioners/Students: $40. On or
after Monday 17th July: Adults: $60 Pensioners/Students: $50 Players
who enter on the day will be charged an extra $10. Entrants
must be financial members of the CAQ. Non-members add $10.00 CAQ Membership
fee. Entries close for Round 1: 9:00AM Sat July 31st. Players
entering after 9:30am Saturday will be paired for round 2 with a half-point
bye for Round 1. MORE INFORMATION: http://www.caq.org.au/forms/2010QldMinor.html 2010
Mackay Open (August 14 - 15) Date:
Saturday & Sunday, 14 & 15 August 2010 Venue: Snow
Johnson Sports Room, Arbiter: Ian
Murray Forfeit
time: 30 minutes from start of play Entry
fees: Adults: $40. Concession: $30. Juniors: $20. CAQ fees: $10 annual fee,
if not already a member. All
entries: due by 5pm Friday 13 August Rounds:
6 rounds, 60+10 Fischer time controls. Saturday: 9:30am, 12:30pm,
3:30pm. Sunday: 9:30am, 12:30pm, 3:30pm MORE INFORMATION: http://www.caq.org.au/htm/2010MackayOpen.pdf 2010
Hobart Weekender (August 14 - 15) Class One Yulgilbar-Think Big Australian Chess Grand Prix event.
Hosted by Hobart International Chess Club for the TCA. 2010
Best in the West (August 21-22)
Entries may be accepted at the venue up to a maximum of 32 participants. 2010
Gold Coast International Chess Festival (December 26-30)
The Gold Coast International Chess Tournament: 9 Round Swiss Event, Time Limit 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per
move; Two Rounds per day, one round on the final day; FIDE rated; 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw; Arbiter IA Garry Bekker; 30 minute default time; First and Second round Byes available (1 point for each); Leading boards games will be broadcast live through the Monroi system. In keeping with the Festival approach, a final day simultaneous
display, open to members of the public to play against an expert, a senior or
a junior, is being arranged. Limited special rate accommodation can be arranged through the
organiser. Book early and enjoy the final week of the year playing chess with
the sounds of the ocean lapping the shores of the fabulous Gold Coast, a
perfect way to end the year in the Perfect Place. Contact: Amir Karibasic 0061 – 07 55785872 mob 0061 - 0414 673 228 email: doors113@bigpond.com web www.kingsofchess.biz Please
notify forthcoming tournaments to auschessnews@gmail.com |
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Championship and major events Chess Olympiad: 19
Sep – 4 Oct, Oceania Zonal: 25
Jan 2011, Rotorua New See below for other events. Dortmund Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr) won the 38th
Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Dortmund,
Germany (six player double-round robin, 15 -25 July)
with 6.5/10 from Le Quang Liem (Vie) 5.5. See link for the
tournament site. For
chess tourists The date listed below
is the start date, see the link for the full
schedule. This is a small sample of world chess - see the FIDE calendar
for many more. See above for major and championship events. Arctic
Chess Challenge: 31 Jul, Tromso, Norway link
contact Politken
Cup:
31
Jul, Helsingor, Denmark link contact Minsk
Open:
3
Aug, Minsk, Belarus link contact Caribbean
Chess Carnival: 3 Aug, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago link contact Negroponte
International: 9 Aug, Chalkida, Greece link contact 46th
Akiba Rubinstein Memorial: 18 Aug, Polanica Zdroj, Poland link contact XII Open
Internacional de Sants: 20 Aug, Barcelona, Spain Link Contact Schwarzavh
Open:
21
Aug, Schwarzach, Austria link contact Baku Open: 22 Aug, Baku,
Azerbaijan link
contact 9th
Sunny Beach Open: 28 Aug, Sunny Beach, Bulgaria Link Contact Malaysian
Chess Festival: 28 Aug (Malaysian Open 1 Sep), Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia Link Contact 1st Tan
Sri Lee Loy Seng International Seniors Open: 1 Sep, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia Link Contact 21st
Bacsur Imre Memorial: 2 Sep, Oroshaza, Hungary Contact |
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From Tom Acccola, replying to a letter from Mary Wilkie We refer to your Letter to the Editor published in
the recent ACF Newsletter and advise that in regard to the 2011 Australian
Open Chess Championships to be held at norths chess club from 2 to 13 January
2011, the round commencement times will be 1pm except for round 1 instead of
11am. Look forward to seeing you there and enjoying a
cup of coffee and a chat. Kind regards. Yours sincerely, Tom Accola (ACF Secretary) |
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The
following was submitted by Allan Menham (Qld) – it is unclear whether it
is intended to be creative or autobiographical. Chess
poem for the wife or partner!! There’s something you must know About your mate And this game of chess For which I now confess Before, alas, it is too late. If suddenly you fear He’s stopped calling you dear His mind is elsewhere Alas! With a Queen. So then you tell him, The Queen, the only woman on the board Is the most powerful of them all Knights and bishops alike At her moves suffer their downfall. But remember this, ‘twas Henry the Eighth who played the game but not six wives could he tame as elsewhere he went to
play. So ask your mate When he returns where have you been? Come clean. And if he were to hesitate Just whisper in his ear: “Check mate!” And never again Will he be late! Chess
vows for the new bride!! You have today taken holy vows in wedlock. There’s something you must know About this game of chess For which I must now confess Before those present you must confirm your
allegiance to the Chess fraternity by taking these vows. (name of
bride)………. Will you say “I will” after each
declaration: Will you accept the chess wife’s ode? Will you be a dutiful chess wife? Will you acknowledge that chess comes first in his
life? (after his wife of course!!)? Will you allow him to continue his chess duties as
a Chess Club President or other Chess Office? Will you allow him to go to all his chess club
activities? Will you allow him to go to all chess tournaments? Will you praise him when he wins games? Will you console him when he loses games? Will you regularly polish his chess pieces to keep
them spic and span? Will you be ready to accompany him to all chess
activities if he so wishes you to do so? Will you always give him adequate money to enable
him to continue to enjoy chess? Having now committed yourself to the life of a
chess wife you are empowered as follows: When he returns home late Ask him: where have you been? Come clean. And if he were to hesitate Just quietly whisper in his ear: “Check mate!” And never again Will he be late! |
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Following
is a list of useful sites, please notify additions
or updates to the usual address. Newspaper columns Peter Parr
(Sydney Morning Herald) Bulletin boards Blogs The Closet Grandmaster (Amiel Rosario) chessexpress
(Shaun
Press) Coffee House
Chess (Carl Gorka) Gawain Jones [well almost Australian] Mailing lists Australian Chess Federation State Associations Australian Capital
Territory (inactive) (Also
see state sites for information on clubs without their own web sites.) Junior Chess Leagues and junior blogs Searching for
Magnus Carlsen (blog, includes AusJCL info) Correspondence chess |
NSW Clubs Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club CC
(blog) Victorian Clubs WA Clubs SA Clubs Tasmanian Clubs Burnie Chess
Club (blog) ACT Results |
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GM Zong-Yuan Zhao – IM Andras Toth [B98] ANU
Open (3), 2010 1.e4
c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 Nbd7 8.Qf3 Be7 9.Bc4
h6 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.0-0-0 Qb6 12.Nde2 Qc7 13.Bb3 Nc5 14.Ng3 g6 15.Rhf1 0-0
16.f5 Bd7 17.Kb1 Be5 18.Qe3 Kg7 19.Rf3 a5 20.Rdf1 Nxb3
21.cxb3 Qc5 22.Qd2 Bc6 23.f6+ Kh7 24.Nge2 g5 25.h4 g4 26.Rd3 b5 27.Nd4 Bd7
28.Nce2 b4 29.Rc1 Qb6 30.Ng3 Rac8 31.Rf1 Rc7 32.Nh5 Rfc8 33.Rd1 Rc5 34.Qe2
Qc7 35.a4 bxa3 36.Qxg4 Rg8 37.Qe2 axb2 38.Qxb2 a4 White
lost on time but his position is much worse and probably lost anyway. 0-1 |
FM Junta Ikeda – GM David Smerdon [A09] ANU
Open (5), 2010 1.Nf3
Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 g6 4.c4 d4 5.Qa4+ Bd7 6.Qc2 Nc6 7.a3 a5 8.d3 Bg7 9.Nbd2 0-0
10.b3 Qc8 11.h3 e5 12.Rb1 Re8 13.b4 axb4 14.axb4 Bf8 15.b5 Nb4 16.Qb3 c6
17.bxc6 bxc6 18.Ng5 Kg7 19.c5 Nfd5 20.Nge4 Qc7 21.Nc4 Reb8 22.0-0 f5 23.Ned6
Na6
24.Qb7 Rxb7 25.Rxb7 Qd8 26.Bxd5 Nxc5 27.Bh6+ Kxh6
28.Nf7+ Kg7 29.Nxd8 cxd5 30.Ne6+ Kf6 31.Nxc5 Bxc5 32.Nxe5 Kxe5 33.Rxd7 Ra2
34.Rc1 Bb4 35.Rc6 g5 36.Rd8 f4 37.Re8+ 1-0 Diagrams by |
Yijun Zhang – Trent Parker [C01] ANU Minor
(6), 2010 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Bd3 Bd6 5.c3
Nc6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Bg5 f6 8.Bh4 Nge7 9.Nbd2 Qd7 10.0–0 0–0–0
11.b4 g5 12.Bg3 h5 13.Qa4 b6 14.Bb5 Kb8 15.Rfe1 Be6 16.Rxe6 Qxe6 17.Bxc6 Nxc6
18.Qxc6 Qe2 19.Re1 Qd3 20.Re7 Bxg3 21.hxg3 Rc8 22.Qxf6 g4 23.Ne5 Qxd2 24.Qc6
Rhd8
25.Nd7+[25.Nf7 is best
(27…Rf8 28.Nd6); also winning is 25.Re8 and if 25…Qe1+ 26.Kh2
Qxf2 27.Nd7+ Rxd7 28.Rxc8+ Kxc8 29.Qa8#] 25...Rxd7 26.Rxd7 Qe1+ 27.Kh2
Qxf2 28.Qxd5 [28.Rh7 is
necessary] 28…h4 29.gxh4 Qxh4+ 30.Kg1 Qe1+ 31.Kh2 Rh8+ 0-1 |
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Archive: http://www.auschess.org.au/bulletins/acfbt.htm Thanks
to our contributors to this issue including ary Wastell, Tom Accola, Allan
Menham, David Cordover, Milan Ninchich, anyone else I overlooked and those
whose information I purloined from other sources. |