Australian Chess Federation | Newsletter - Issue No. 405, June 28, 2007

ACF by-laws and resolutions governing the conduct of these events may be seen on the ACF web site at www.auschess.org.au by following the link to Constitution and By-laws.

As most readers will be aware, the ACF has not yet received a firm and formal bid for the Australian Championships 2007-2008. There is no date or organiser yet appounted for the event. Some negotiations had taken place with interested parties in Sydney but they have to date not been fruitful. There have also been other indications of some interest in the event but none of these has yet led to a formal bid.

The ACF wishes to ensure that the Championships are held – after all the need to have a body to ythat end was the reason why the ACF was formed in 1922.

"That a final call for bids for the 2007/2008 Australian Championship is placed in the up coming newsletter with a closing date of 20th July and that we offer to cover any losses in the event up to an amount of $2000 with any profits from the event going totally to the organisers."
The purpose of the motion is not to discourage, but rather to encourage, any of those who mayhave been interested in bidding to pursue that couse quickly.
Bids should contain the information required by the By-laws for ACF Tournaments, by-laws 19 and 20 which are at http://www.auschess.org.au/constitution/By-laws_for_ACF_Tournaments.txt . A prepared form covering the matters in those by-laws is available from me denis.jessop@netspeed.com.au .

ACF Events 2008-2009
The ACF is also inviting expressions of interest from State Associations and others wishing to conduct one or more of the following events on behalf of the ACF:
- 2008 Australian Schools Teams Championships - normally in December;
- 2008/9 Australian Open Championship - normally late December/early January;
- 2009 Australian Junior Championship - normally in January.

WORLD SENIORS NOMINATIONS

IM Mirko Rujevic has been nominated to FIDE Oceania Zone for appointment as the Oceania Zone representative at the upcoming World Seniors. Reserve nominees are David Ellis and David Lovejoy in that order.

WIM Biljana Dekic was the only applicant for the female representative position and has also been nominated.

Kevin Bonham
ACF Selections Co-ordinator (Senior Events)

By way of explanation, Australia is not able to select its own representative for this event. A representative of the Oceania Zone is selected by the Zone President. Nominations from the federations comprising the Oceania Zone go to him for decision.[Ed.]

Asian Under-20 Championships – Open (Boys)
1 Raymond Song*
2 Gareth Oliver*
3 Vincent Suttor
4 Rengan Vijayakumar
5 Jamie Kenmure
6 John Wu

Asian Youth Championships Under-12 – Girls
1 Emma Guo
2 Abbie Kanagararajah
3 Leteisha Simmonds

Asian Youth Championships Under-10 – Girls
1 Clarise Koh
2 Mirakla Mithran

World Junior (Under-20) Championship – Open (Boys)
1 Dusan Stojic
2 Gareth Oliver
3 Vincent Suttor
4 Zhigen Wilson Lin
5 Jason Hu

World Youth Championships Under-18 – Open (Boys)
1 Dusan Stojic
2 Zhigen Wilson Lin

World Youth Championships Under-18 – Girls
1 Alexandra Jule
2 Jessica Kinder
3 Deborah Ng

World Youth Championships Under-16 – Open (Boys)
1 Zhigen Wilson Lin
2 Derek Yu

World Youth Championships Under-16 – Girls
1 Jessica Kinder
2 Tamzin Oliver*
3 Deborah Ng*
4 Alana Chibnall

* on tie-break

World Youth Championships Under-14 – Open (Boys)
1 Gene Nakauchi
2 Rengan Vijayakumar

World Youth Championships Under-12 – Open (Boys)
1 Gene Nakauchi

World Youth Championships Under-12 – Girls
1 Emma Guo
2 Abbie Kanagararajah
3 Leteisha Simmonds

World Youth Championships Under-10 – Girls
1 Clarise Koh
2 Mirakla Mithran

World Youth Championships Under-8 – Open (Boys)
1 Anton Smirnov
2 Sean Gu
3 Callum James Gray
4 Ethan Derwent

Team Managers are needed for both the World Youth and Asian Youth teams to coordinate arrangements both here and at the venue. In the World Youth Eunice Koh has already done some preliminary work and i believe has one or two helpers in NSW. But ideally a small management committee of concerned parents and the chief coach is needed. In the case of the Asian Youth there will need to be some quick decisions made about who actually wants to go and this will need to be coordinated by a team manager or teo here in Australia plus a team manager or a committee at the venue. Could any interested persons please let me know within the next few days.

WORLD YOUTH U16 OLYMPIAD 2007
The ACF Council has announced the selections for the World Youth u16 Olympiad to be held in Singapore from 4 to 12 August 2007. Preliminary organisation for this event has been taking place for some time on the basis that we would send the best u16 team we could muster and a girls team. Although there is no specific girls section, a number of leading u16 girls favoured this course. When applications for selection closed on 29 April there were in fact enough players for two extra teams and although some of the applicants have indicated in advance that they do not intend to go there are still enough for the two additional teams. The Council acted on information about those players who had said they did not intend going so that the list of players below includes only those known to be intending to go. the First team amd the Girls team have been selected as such although there is some scope for change in the board order. The remaining players have been selected on the basis that the composition of the two teams will be decided by the team management. The Council has appointed Jenni Oliver as Team Manager. The event rules provide for teams of 4 players plus a reserve. Only in the case of the First team has a fifth player been selected

1. That Team 1 for the World Youth u16 Olympiad 2007 is as follows;
Moulthun Ly
Raymond Song
Junta Ikeda
Zhigen Lin
Max Illingworth

2. That the Girls Team for that Olympiad is:
Angela Song
Emma Guo
Jessica Kinder
Tamzin Oliver

3. That the board order of the teams referred to in Motions 1 and 2 is not absolute and may be changed by the Team Manager in consultation with the players and the Head Coach, GM Ian Rogers.

4. That the following players are selected to form as many teams as practicable to compete in the Olympiad
Andrew Brown
Fedja Zulfic
Derek Yu
Joshua Lau
Isaac Ng Jun Shian
Alana Chibnall
Sathya Chituri
Abbie Kanagarajah

5. That the composition, including board order, of those teams be decided by the Team Manager in consultation with the Head Coach and, if necessary, applying the motion recently passed as follows “That if the number of selected players is insufficient to form a complete team after all other teams have been formed so that at least 2 selected players would be denied the opportunity to attend the event, Jenni Oliver is authorised to attempt to secure up to 2 players so as to enable the formation of the final team”. It is understood that the last provision will not now be needed as the two final teams can be made up from yhte players listed above.

GENERAL NOTICE
All applicants, both selected and not selected, for the above junior events are notified, as required by the ACF Selection Procedures By-Law, that they have a right of appeal under clause 9 of the By-law. The full text of the By-law is accessible here.

The Selectors for each of the events were GMs Ian Rogers and Darryl Johansen, IM Gary Lane and FM Geoff Saw.

Brian Jones informs us that Malaysian businessman Dato' Tan Chin Nam (co-sponsor of the Grand Prix) has written a memoir "Never Say I Assume", which tells the story of his early life in old Malaya, living through the 1942-45 Japanese occupation, his many business achievements including the revival of the Queen Victoria Building and World Square projects in Sydney, winning three Melbourne Cups (two with Saintly) and his extensive patronage of chess all over the world.

Please buy a copy to show appreciation of Dato Tan's generous sponsorship and to support chess in Australia.

This is now a Category 5 tournament, thanks to $10,000 sponsorship received from Justin Freytag and his company Australian Field Services P/L. The tournament will be split into two sections: an open section, and an under 1600 section. The prize list is shown below.

1st       $1500 1st       $400
2nd      $1000 2nd      $250
3rd       $750    3rd       $150
4th       $500    1st Under 1250           $200
5th       $400    2nd Under 1250          $150
6th       $300    3rd Under 1250           $100
7th       $250    Junior Prizes
1st Senior        $200    1st Boy Under 18       $100
1st Woman      $200    1st Girl Under 18        $100
1st Junior        $200    1st Boy Under 12       $100
1st Under 2000           $400    1st Girl Under 12        $100
2nd Under 2000          $300    1st Team of 4 $200
3rd Under 2000           $200
4th Under 2000           $100

Added to the $8150 in total prize money on offer, we have changed the venue. The old entry form stated that it would be held at the Chess Centre. It now appears as if it will be held at Adelaide University, and a catered dinner will be provided for the same low cost of $10 for players and $20 for non-players. SACA will also be offering financial incentives for GM and IM players. The current expectation is that GMs will be reimbursed for domestic air-fair to and from the venue (provided they buy the tickets early while the tickets are cheap), will be given free dinner and free entry, and will be guaranteed $300 prize money. IMs will have the same conditions as GMs but will be guaranteed $200 prize money instead of $300, and will not have their travel paid for. Conditions should be negotiated on a player by player basis. Contact Alex Saint (0411 598 314) or George Howard (0414 841 575) for details.

The tournament will be a seven round Swiss, with 60 minutes each plus 10 seconds per move from the start of play. Up to two half point byes may be requested at the start of the tournament.

Format :                      5 Round Swiss
Date :                          21 - 22 July
Venue :                        Court House Building ( upstairs )
                                    Corner Little Malop St & Gheringhap St
                                    ( Geelong railway station is nearby )

2007 Foundation Day Open - 6 Rounds
Played at Legacy House, South Perth on 03 & 04 June.

On the Queen's Birthday long weekend of 9th, 10th and 11th of June 2007, the NSW Chess Association ran one of their more successful NSW Open events: 107 players, with 50 in the Open event and 57 in the Under 1600. Held at Parramatta RSL in Sydney's west, the FIDE rated Open event was run at the standard Fischer time controls of 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per move from the start, and attracted top seeds GM Ian Rogers, GM Dejan Antic, IM Andras Toth and FM Igor Bjelobrk, as well as players from interstate (the ACT and Queensland) and even as far afield as Shanghai (Angela Song)! It was supplemented by the richest Under 1600 event in the country ($750 first prize), an event which also attracted players from the ACT and Queensland - and one player (Aiswerya Shankar) from as far away as India!

The titled players all won in Round 1, but there was a sensation already in Round 2 when Jason Hu drew a solid rook endgame with Ian Rogers. Antic convincingly beat Alex Mendes da Costa, but Toth was a bit lucky to beat Angela Song on time from the exchange down. Antic continued winning in Round 3, but Toth struggled again, taking forever to beat Junta Ikeda. Jason Chan, meanwhile, scored an upset win as White in a fairly long game against Igor Bjelobrk, who took a poisoned pawn and then could only watch as Jason got his rook to the seventh and caused devastation to his king and pawns. With a win over Brian Jones, Armen Ayvazyan joined Dejan, Andras and Jason in the lead on 3/3.

Antic and Toth were the only two left on 4/4 after Round 4, Antic beating Armen Ayvazyan in a nice tactical game while Andras won a long endgame against Jason Chan. Ian Rogers reached 3.5/4 by beating Gareth Charles on time (in a game where Gareth was always under pressure); while Igor Bjelobrk defeated Jason Hu in a game where Jason was a bit too passive. Antic then became the outright leader on 5/5 after beating Toth; the GM may have been worse, but he ended up winning on time... Ian Rogers won a rook ending against Ayvazyan, as did Bjelobrk against Mendes da Costa.

So to the Monday, where Ian Rogers accepted Dejan Antic’s draw offer in a slightly worse position as Black to leave Dejan still outright leader on 5.5/6. Ian was joined on 5/6 by Toth, who beat Bjelobrk in a rook and minor piece endgame. Toth then drew his last round game with Ian Rogers from a pawn up (but his extra pawn was doubled and isolated). When Antic kept solid to draw with Jason Hu, the Serbian GM was thus the 2007 NSW Open champion; while Jason could be very proud to have drawn with both GMs in the same event! Toth and Ian Rogers were equal second on 5.5/7, while a log jam of players shared the 4th and 5th prizes on 5/7.

Prize Winners: 1st Dejan Antic 6/7; = 2nd Ian Rogers, Andras Toth 5.5; = 4th Armen Ayvazyan, Igor Bjelobrk, Johny Bolens, Jason Hu, Neil Wright 5;

= 1st Under 2000–1850 Jason Chan, Alex Mendes da Costa 4; = 1st Under 1850–1700 Mos Ali, Arthur Huynh, Brendon Norman 4;

Joint top seeds here were Canberra Junior Emma Guo and Anthony Villanueva. Anthony lost to Mark Ryan in Round 1; while Emma lost to Matthew Koutnik in Round 2 – she had the two bishops but then let Matthew lock the position to make his knights superior, and he eventually won pawn, piece and game! Six players got to 3/3 after the first Sunday game - they were Leo Kang, Michael Tracey, Benjamin Cheung, Amir Karibasic, Danny Bisson and Bruce Harris - with Joshua Lau was the only player on 2.5/3. Leo and Michael drew a long rook and pawn ending in Round 4, and Bruce and Benjamin also drew; so Danny Bisson found himself the sole leader on 4/4 after he beat Amir Karibasic.

Danny lost his first game in Round 5, blundering into mate in two to lose to Benjamin Cheung; and suddenly we had three joint leaders on 4.5/5! Leo Kang (who beat Amir Karibasic) was one of them; Benjamin was another; and Bruce Harris was the third, and perhaps the luckiest! Having blundered a piece from a won position against Michael Tracey, he was fortunate to be able to queen his h pawn and win anyway. John Papantoniou joined Danny Bisson on 4/5 by breaking through in a king and pawn ending to beat Phil Bourke. Monday saw Leo Kang as our new outright leader on 5.5/6 after Round 6, winning exchange and game against Benjamin Cheung; but John Papantoniou was just half a point behind after surviving an attack to beat Bruce Harris. John was perhaps even luckier in Round 7, where Matthew Koutnik moved a rook en prise to lose a dead drawn position to him; and after Trent Parker beat Leo Kang in a nice game, the 13 year old Papantoniou was NSW Under 1600 Champion on 6/7! Four players had to share second on 5.5/7; of course, two of them were juniors...

Prize Winners: 1st John Papantoniou 6/7; = 2nd Benjamin Cheung, Tereza Grbin, Leo Kang, Trent Parker 5.5;

= 1st Under 1450–1300 Amir Karibasic, Mark Ryan 5; Best Unrated Kevin Zhou 4.5;

If you did not play you missed a wonderful tournament full of excitement and many upsets which featured some of our young and not so young players.

And brother Isaac Ng drew with Michael Placentino [450 rating points difference]There was a great escape by Leon Kempen v Joshua Dalton, The wonderful win by James Morris against IM Mirko Rujevic and the magnificient fight by Chris Wallis [ultimately unsuccesful] against IM David Smerdon.

Into the last round Chris Wallis was on 6/6 and David Smerdon was on 5.5/6, and would be paired to decide the tournament.

After 90 minutes the crowd around this board was huge, but well disciplined and quiet. Personally, I thought Chris had the situation under full control; even a draw would do.

However, with only 4 (out of 40 games) still to finish, David Smerdon emerged the winner of the game and the tournament. Chris Wallis was a highly creditable second.

Box Hill Chess Club President, Gladys Liu, introduced Gary Wastell, ACF President; Robert Clark, MLA; Dick Menting, Chairman of the Bendigo Bank board.

There were thanks to sponsors (and workers) and short speeches and then hands out to collect the prizes.

David Smerdon returned to the limelight for a very nicely constructed speech, and photo. op. for the dignitaries.

No Name                    Feder Loc Title Sex    Club
1. Smerdon, David                2468 im           1st $1000
5. Wallis, Chris                 2248              2nd $500
11. Dragicevic, Domagoj     A     2087              eq 3rd eq 1st A $110
12. Bourmistrov, Denis      A     2044              eq 3rd eq 1st A $110
13. Lojanica, Milenko       A     2040              eq 3rd eq 1st A $110
14. Morris, James           A     2035              eq 3rd eq 1st A $110
18. Kildisas, Victor        B     1884              eq 1st B $40
24. Yu, Derek               B     1847              eq 1st B $40
27. Antolis, Cedric         B     1807              eq 1st B $40
36. Hinton, Guy             U     1701             eq 1st Unr $20
37. Wallmueller, Joerg      U     1701              eq 1st Unr $20      3
39. Flude, David            D     1684              eq 1st C $60
41. Lawson, Shane           D     1652              eq 1st C $60
44. Chung, Francisco        U     1601              eq 1st Unr $20
52. Yu, Sally               E     1505              1st E $120
56. Dalton, Joshua          F     1440              1st F $120
67. Feng, Thomas            G     1197              eq 1st G $60
71. Podbury, Brendan        G     1079              eq 1st G $60
73. Lemmel, Oliver          H     897               eq 1st H $40
75. Yuan, Daniel            H     711               eq 1st H $40
77. Ng, Joshua              H     640               eq 1st H $40

The 2007 Tasmanian Open hosted by the Burnie Chess Club at Havenview Primary School attracted an excellent field of 32 players, matching the attendance for the Tasmanian Championships earlier in the year, although the field was slightly weaker. The field included thirteen juniors (four from Hobart, the rest from the north-west.) It was Dowden's first win of the Open and Bonham's fifth (the last three in succession, but two of those were ties.)

The higher-seeded players all won in round one, with the exception of a draw between Jamie Briant and unrated Andrew Kruup (seeded in the high 1400s on the basis of good HICC results). However a few of the seeds received scares, including Kevin Bonham meeting strong resistance from improving Burnie junior Kevin Hendrey. After both players had used forty minutes for their first nine (!) moves, the game became quite complicated, with Bonham at one stage missing a win of a piece, and then anything could have happened in a time scramble which only ended when Hendrey dropped a bishop to a rook check in an otherwise very drawn endgame.

The top three seeds got through round two without trouble, but the battle between the state's two strongest juniors, Alastair Dyer (the fourth seed) and Vincent Horton ended in a draw. On the lower boards Nina Horton (927) upset Noel O'Mara (1252).

In round three Dyer conceded another half-point, this time to veteran Neville Ledger who played a strong game and appeared to have a superior position at the time the draw was agreed. Ratings counted for little in this round with no fewer than five players beating higher-seeded opponents, including a rare case of an adult (Dylan Kuzmic) upsetting a higher-rated junior (Max Rintoul) after the latter blundered.

Going into round four, the top three seeds Dowden, Bonham and Frame led on 3/3. Dowden and Bonham had a 15-move draw in a sideline of the Advanced French while Frame beat Vincent Horton in a quickly-played game to take the outright lead. Dylan Kuzmic's good results continued with a draw with John O'Mara rated over 350 points higher - also drawing with higher-seeded opposition were Graham Richards with Neville Ledger, Andrew Fifield with Janice Martin, and Nina Horton with her dad! Milutin Ivkovic had a hugely lucky escape from the upset list, swindling Jamie Briant (who was to that point going like a train on 2/3) from four pawns down in the endgame.

The 43rd instalment of Bonham-vs-Frame was a transposed Rossolimo Sicilian in which Frame missed a win of a pawn early on, and then was punished for positional errors with Bonham's two knights far superior to two bad bishops. The board two game also saw one side with two bishops and the other with two knights, but Alastair Dyer turned up the tempo by sacrificing one of his bishops, leaving Dowden's king stranded in the centre and under an enormous attack that nobody watching could fathom. Eventually Dowden bailed out by giving back the exchange. The ending was subsequently (and quite sportingly on Dowden's part as Dyer was very short of time) agreed drawn, but not before both players failed to claim a triple repetition!

John O'Mara moved into the frame for minor placings by defeating Janice Martin, while Milutin Ivkovic went to 4/5 with a win over Nigel Lewis. Fifield had a close win over Kruup in an endgame many juniors would not have converted.

Bonham only had to defeat Ivkovic to win the tournament outright, but after strong resistance from the latter botched a won endgame and settled for a draw. Either Dowden or Frame could tie for first if they won, and Dowden did so with a spectacular high-class display of controlled aggression. Dyer (defeating Fifield) and John O'Mara (with a very well-played win against Vincent Horton) joined Ivkovic in the tie for third.

Recovering from an upset loss to Jamie Briant with three straight wins (in the final round defeating Martin), Dallas Fry took out the U1500 ratings prize half a point ahead of several other players including Dylan Kuzmic who performed about 250 points above his rating, and Graham Richards who had some nice attacking wins and played credibly in his only loss to Dowden.

Vincent Horton won the Under 12 junior prize, while other strong junior performances included those by Fifield (performing at over 1400 and likely to get a first rating over 1300), Nina Horton (performed nearly 300 points above her rating and could have done even better had she not missed an endgame win against Charlie Smith, who also had a good event).

A special feature of the presentation was $10 encouragement awards to every junior who won no other prize but scored 2/6 or more. Many juniors were thusly encouraged as this ended up being nearly all of them!

A most enjoyable tournament very efficiently run by the BCC in what to my mind are very picturesque surroundings. Tasmanian chess continues to grow both in the number of players and in the strength of the current injection of youth.

5 Tony Dowden 2010 Kevin Bonham 1984
4.5 John O'Mara 1548, Milutin Ivkovic 1514, Alastair Dyer 1696j
4 Nigel Frame 1800, Nigel Lewis 1507, Dallas Fry 1310
3.5 Vincent Horton 1421j, Neville Ledger 1503, Carey Kuzmic 1333, Dylan Kuzmic 1186, Andrew Fifield UNRj, Graham Richards 1305, Russell Horton 1311
3 Kevin Hendrey 1295j, Tony Sturges 1257, Charlie Smith 1069j
2.5 Janice Martin 1482f, James Briant 937j, Max Rintoul 1405j, Andrew Kruup UNR, Nina Horton 927fj
2 Leo Minol 1148, Noel O'Mara 1252, Ethan Duniam-Douglas 325j, Owen Short 990j, Nick Hunn UNRj, Harry Briant 367j
1.5 Geoff Russell 1355
1 Kieran Davis UNRj
0 Taran Duniam-Douglas UNRj

This game featuring an intuitive long-term piece sacrifice by the Tasmanian Junior Champion was the most exciting of the event. Dowden's position looked close to (if not) unsurvivable but he eventually managed to return the exchange and escape. Most of the ending was played with Dyer down to a minute or so (at one stage he dipped to 20 seconds) and Dowden with about 5 mins but playing fairly quickly. Note that neither player claimed the triple rep by 47.Kb2 - probably because at least one didn't notice!

White: Alastair Dyer 1696
Black: Tony Dowden 2010
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Be2 Nf6 8.f4 Bb4 9.Bf3 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 d6 11.0-0 e5 12.fxe5 dxe5 13.Nf5 Bxf5 14.exf5 e4 15.Bc5 Nd7 16.Bd6 Qb6+ 17.Kh1 exf3 18.Re1+ Kd8 19.Rb1 Qf2 20.gxf3 b5 21.Qd5 Qb6 22.Rbd1 Kc8 23.Bf4 Rd8 24.Re8 Ra7 25.Be3 Qb7 26.Rxd8+ Nxd8 27.Bxa7 Qxa7 28.c4 Qb7 29.Qxb7+ Nxb7 30.cxb5 axb5 31.Rd5 Nbc5 32.Kg2 Kc7 33.Kf2 Kc6 34.Rd1 g6 35.fxg6 hxg6 36.Ke3 Nf6 37.Kd4 Nd5 38.Rb1 b4 39.Kc4 Nd7 40.Kb3 Kb5 41.a3 Nc5+ 42.Kb2 Nc3 43.Re1 N3a4+ 44.Ka2 Nc3+ 45.Kb2 N5a4+ 46.Kb3 Nc5+ 47.Kb2 Nd5 48.axb4 Kxb4 49.Re5 Kc4 50.Re8 Na4+ 51.Kc1 Nac3 52.Rf8 f6 53.Rc8+ Kd4 54.Kd2 Nb1+ 55.Kc1 Nbc3 56.Kd2 g5 57.Rd8 Ke5 58.Rc8 Na4 59.Rc4 Nab6 60.Re4+ Kf5 61.c4 Nc7 62.c5 Nbd5 63.Kd3 Nf4+ 64.Kd4 Nfe6+ Agreed Drawn

Dowden ran amok in the final round, catching up to tie for first with this spectacular smash.

White: Tony Dowden 2010
Black: Nigel Frame 1800
1.c4 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 c6 5.e4 d6 6.d3 Nbd7 7.Nge2 Nb6 8.0-0 Bd7 9.h3 Qc7 10.Be3 e5 11.Qd2 h6 12.f4 exf4 13.Rxf4 g5 14.Rf2 Be6 15.Raf1 Nbd7 16.b3 Ng8 17.d4 f6 18.Rd1 Bf8 19.d5 Bf7 20.dxc6 bxc6 21.Nd4 0-0-0 22.Ncb5 cxb5 23.Nxb5 Qb7 24.e5 d5 25.Nxa7+ Kb8 26.e6 Bxe6 27.cxd5 Nb6 28.Nc6+ Qxc6 29.dxc6 Rxd2 30.Rfxd2 Nc8 31.b4 Kc7 32.Rd7+ 1-0

No|Name|Feder|Loc|Total

1|Chapman, Mark|SA|2444|4.5

2|Mdinaradze, Edgar|SA|1896|4.5

3|Zaric, Srboljub|SA|2144|4.5

4|Zulfic, Fedja|SA|1809|4.5

5|Garcia-Blanco, Miguel|SA|1699|4

6|Milton, Anthony|SA|1466|4

7|Sag, Andrew|SA|1256|3.5

8|Low, Brandon|SA|1319|3.5

9|Searle, Zachary|SA|912|3.5

10|Eustace, Sophie|SA|1391|3

11|Camm, Timothy|SA|773|3

12|Jelic, Mato|SA|1707|2.5

13|Turcaj, Pavel|SA|1560|2.5

14|Chambers, Thomas Edward|SA|1006|2.5

15|Staak, Eric|SA|1461|2.5

16|Bortsova, Natasha|SA|1029|2

17|Mishra, Aditya|SA|0|2

18|Mitra, Druva|SA|656|1.5

19|Mishra, Aashka|SA|0|1

20|Barber, Geoffrey|QLD|1497|1

This year's Tasmanian Lightning (held at Burnie on the same weekend as the Open) attracted 25 players, beating the previous record of 23 in Launceston, 1989.

The usual suspects were quick to stamp their authority on the 11-round swiss leading to the first significant clashes in round 3, where Tony Dowden beat Alastair Dyer and the game Bonham-Ivkovic was simply hilarious. Bonham was winning early, then being embarrassed off the board by a typical Ivkovic comeback, until Ivkovic attempted to move one of Bonham's pawns. He realised his error before he had pressed his clock, but then had to take the pawn with a rook, which perished. Bonham then returned the compliment by stalemating Ivkovic, completely needlessly and with over a minute left!

Dowden cleared out from the field by beating Frame easily in round 4 and Bonham in a somewhat tougher game in round 5. Frame seemed to have outright second sewn up after also beating Bonham (who made a fatal pawn blunder approaching the endgame) but a loss to Ivkovic in round 8 and a draw with Andrew Kruup in the last round allowed Bonham to tie - and allowed Dowden, with a picket fence score, to tie Frame's own record for the greatest winning margin.

A notable performance was recorded by Hobart junior Owen Short who despite being rated only 990 managed to score 6/11.

The ACF, NSWJCL and NSWCA cordially invite you to participate in the following events

Tournament Format: 10 player round robin, FIDE rated.
Time Limit:     90 minutes + 30 seconds per move from move 1 (FIDE time control).
Prizes:             1st       $300
                        2nd       $200
                        3rd        $100

Schedule:         Round 1           Tuesday 10th               10:00 am
                        Round 2                                               3:00 pm
                        Round 3           Wednesday 11th          10:00 am
                        Round 4                                               3:00 pm
                        Round 5           Thursday 12th             10:00 am
                        Round 6                                               3:00 pm
                        Round 7           Friday 13th                  10:00 am
                        Round 8                                               3:00 pm
                        Round 9           Saturday 14th               10:00 am

Entry fee: $30 per person, payable on the day, cheques to be made out to the NSW Junior Chess League.

Accommodation: Billet accommodation available for interstate players on request.

For more information, please contact Charles Zworestine.
Phone: (02)95563960 (Home); 0410563965 (Mobile).
Email: charlesz@ozemail.com.au

The winner of this tournament will qualify for the Australian Young Masters 2008*.
Time Limit:     90 minutes + 30 seconds per move from move 1 (FIDE time control).
Prizes:             1st       $200
                        2nd       $100
                        3rd        $ 50

Entry fee: $30 per person; payable on the day, cheques to be made out to the NSW Junior Chess League.

Accommodation: Billet accommodation available for interstate players on request.

For more information, please contact Charles Zworestine.
Phone: (02)95563960 (Home); 0410563965 (Mobile).
Email: charlesz@ozemail.com.au

The ACF has received invitations to send players to two events for juniors, one in Bangladesh very soon – entries close on 2 July - and one in Aviles, Spain from 4 to 12 August.

Full details of the Bangaldesh event are set out below. Please note that it is for students in Year 10 and below

A short summary of the Aviles event is also set out. I can supply fuller details. Please note that it is for 2250+ FIDE-rated players and numbers are limited.

Anyone who is interested in attending should contact me (Denis Jessop) as soon as possible and not later than 27 June for the Bangladeshi event and 29 June for the Aviles event. Shortage of time will almost certainly preclude a normal selection procedure according to ACF by-laws.

Denis Jessop
Editor
33 Cargelligo Street, Duffy, ACT 2611
Phone: 02 6288 1935
Mob. 0418 278 324