ACF NEWS: AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2008

The ACF has accepted a request from  the Parramatta RSL Chess Club, which is hosting the Championships, to lower the rating cut-off from 2150 to 2100. The reason is that the short notice might have affected the turn-out for the Championship. The ACF Selection Committee has also been authorised to to determine the number of and eligibility or otherwise of players who are neither Australian Citizens nor permanent residents. This is to allow a small some flexibility in the admission of overseas players to the Championship. The decision was made win the hope that the opportunity for local players to achieve title norms might be enhanced.

 Brief details of the Championships are:
Dates: 2 to 11 January 2008;
Rounds: 11 (2 rounds on each of 3 and 4 January; rest day/Lightning on 6 January;
Time Control: 90 minutes plus 30spm (Fischer);
Venue: Parramatta RSL Club
Events: Championship and Major, the latter incorporating Minor, Senior and Women's prizes;
Entry fees: Championship - $170 ($140 early), concession $140 ($110 early)
Major - $130 ($100 early), concession $110, ($80) early.

The official web site is at http://www.parramattachess.org/auschamps2008/index.html .

ACF OFFICE BEARERS

ACF OFFICE BEARERS

The following was in our last issue. There are as yet no relevant responses. Please consider.

The ACF Council re-appointed all Office Bearers except for the following:

• Editor Email Newsletter (content)
• Olympiad Appeal Coordinator
• Ergas Training Squad Coordinator

The ACF is seeking expressions of interest from anyone wishing to fill any of those positions. Please contact ACF Secretary, Jey Hoole jeydh4@hotmail.com or Jey.Hoole@affa.gov.au or ACF president, Gary Wastell gwastell@netspace.net.au  as soon as possible if you are interested.

I have informed the ACF President that I will finish up as Editor (Content) at the end of this month, that is,the next issue will be my last. If you want to see the Newsletter continue and feel you have the necessary ability please contact Gary Wastell or Jey Hoole urgently.

I should mention that the job is quite interesting and also is what you make it. I am not a natural journalist but my main reason for not continuing is that I have other ACF tasks that I see as more important and more suited to my qualifications. These are being neglected while I have to do the newsletter.

ACF SELECTIONS INFORMATION EMAIL LIST

Following suggestions from some of our leading players, I am currently running a backup email list of people interested in receiving calls for applications for selections when these are sent out. I may also use this list to send out advance information about upcoming events for which selections will be called, before the formal selections process has been determined. Players on the list will sometimes receive calls for applications before these have been published in the Newsletter, and it is recommended that all prospective Olympiad applicants for 2008 join this list.

To join this mailout list:

Simply email k_bonham@tassie.net.au  with "join selections mailout list" in the subject field of your email, and I will add you to the list for the next mailout. If you wish to join from a different or any extra email addresses, include a note to that effect. You can unsubscribe or change email address by emailing me at k_bonham@tassie.net.au  at any time.

The fine print:

This list is intended as a backup for the process of announcing calls for selection in ACF Newsletter only. Anyone with an interest in applying for ACF selections (adult or junior) is expected to subscribe to the ACF email newsletter and remain subscribed at all times to the best of their ability. All care will be taken with the upkeep of this list, but as email is not completely reliable and the list will be manually administered, no responsibility for delivery failures of emails sent to the address subscribed will be accepted. Subscribers are responsible for ensuring their email address remains current, and any address that bounces repeatedly will be dropped. This list will not cover junior events.

I hope this list will assist in ensuring more players are aware, well in advance, of upcoming opportunities to represent Australia.

Best regards to all,

Kevin Bonham

COMMONWEALTH CHAMPIONSHIPS

ACF Selections Coordinator, Kevin Bonham, notifies the following call for applications for selection for the Commonwealth Championships:

APPLICATIONS OPEN: COMMONWEALTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS, 2-10 DECEMBER 2007

The FIDE Commonwealth Chess Championships will be held by the All India Chess Federation in New Delhi from 2-10 December 2007.

Australia is eligible to field one official representatives in each of the following divisions: open male, open female, and one male and female in each of the following junior age groups: U20, U18, U16, U14, U12, U10, U8. Official representatives receive free boarding and lodging. Information on the event may be found in a prospectus which may be downloaded from http://www.indianchessfed.org/ .

Any player wishing to apply to represent Australia in any of these divisions (adult or junior) must email me at k_bonham@tassie.net.au  by the closing date for applications of 28 September 2007. Please phone (03)6224 8487 if your application has not been acknowledged within seven days of sending it. Please note that although I am not the Junior Selection Co-Ordinator, I have agreed to receive applications for this event pending the appointment of a new JSC.

Any junior player wishing to apply for the Open division or for an age group above their own, and/or any female player wishing to apply for a "male" division must explicitly state this in their application.

Applications must include all the information listed in Section 5.4 of the ACF Selections By-Laws which may be found at http://www.auschess.org.au/constitut...res_By-law.txt   . Applicants may provide information on their results and/or a supporting statement to the extent allowed by sections 5.6 and 5.7.

All applicants are encouraged to retain a copy of their application. Applications that are late because of claimed email transmission problems will not be considered unless accompanied by a copy of the original application email and a letter from the applicant's Internet Service Provider confirming that the application was sent in time.

Kevin Bonham
ACF Selections Co-Ordinator (Senior Events)

Further information on the event can be obtained at the official web site http://www.delhichess.com/

WORLD YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS

2007, Antalya, Turkey

There is now an official web site for this event. it is http://wycc2007.tsf.org.tr/

2008, Vung Tau, Vietnam, October 2008

FIDE has just published the following site report for the venue

PRESS RELEASE

A delegation consisting of the FIDE General Secretary Mr Ignatius Leong and Mr Geoffrey Borg visited Vung Tau in Vietnam between the 27th of August to the 29th of August to review and inspect the organisational setup for the forthcoming World Youth Championships to be held there in the latter part of October 2008.

A protocol visit was arranged with the Vice Chairman of People`s Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, Mr Vo Thanh Ky. Along with the Director of the Sports Committee, Mr Tran Phuc Loc and a number of other key people from the district, the main points required for the tournaments were discussed. The organising committee will be finalized after a visit to Turkey in November 2007.

The delegation accompanied by the Vietnamese Federation President and a representative from the Vung Tau Sports Council Mr Nguyen Thanh Duan, inspected the hotels in the area as well as the playing venues. The FIDE delegation was quite pleased with the support and preparation so far and a follow up visit was discussed for early 2008.

1. LOCATION

To get to the seaside resort of Vung Tau in Vietnam, the easiest way is to fly to Ho Chi Minh airport and from there via bus transfer to Vung Tau.

Vung Tau is a resort town 125 km from Ho Chi Minh. The town is a long strip approximately 14 km long and 6 km wide. Where the southern tip of town meets the ocean stand two famous mountains Nui Lon (Truong Ky) and Nui Nho (Tao Phung) or Large mountain and Small mountain.

Vung Tau is a very picturesque sea side city of around 300,000 people with some beautiful scenery and adequate entertainment and catering facilities. The place is very clean and safe and staff in hotels are English speaking and service levels are quite high. Weather is normally very warm in the region. In October, however the weather is expected to be clement but not warm enough for swimming in the sea.

The tournament has been acclaimed by the Vietnamese political authorities as being highly beneficial not only for the city but also for the country and therefore a lot of support is being given to a successful organisation of the event.

ASTC Web site

The web site for the Australian Schools Teams Championships is functional, albeit still under further construction - see www.caq.org.au/astc/index.htm .- the site can also be accessed via the link on the CAQ home page at www.caq.org.au .

AUSTRALIANS OVERSEAS

DATO ARTHUR TAN MALAYSIAN OPEN

A large contingent of Australian players entered this event. They included IM Gary Lane, WIM Laura Moylan, FMs Brett Tindall and Brian Jones and juniors Chris Wallis and Max Illingworth.

The event was won by 18 y.o. Li Chao (2529 but untitled) on 9/11 ahead of quite a few GMs and IMs. There were some good individual Australian results including Max Illingworth's draw againgst the winner and Gary Lane's win against GM Murray Chandler.

The best Australian resultes were

Gary Lane; Brett Tindall 6,
Chris Wallis 5.5,
Laura Moylan; Brian Jones 5, and
Max Illingworth 4.5.

Here are some Australian games.

Illingworth,Max (2137) - Li Chao (2529) [A00]
Round 1, Table 6 (1), 20.08.2007
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Ne4 5.cxd5 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Qxd5 7.Nf3 Bg7 8.e3 c5 9.Qb3 Qxb3 10.axb3 Be6 11.Nd2 Nc6 12.Be2 0-0 13.Bf3 cxd4 14.cxd4 f6 15.Bh4 g5 16.Bg3 f5 17.Bxc6 bxc6 18.Be5 Bxe5 19.dxe5 Rfb8 20.Ke2 Bxb3 21.Rhb1 Bd5 22.Rxb8+ Rxb8 23.Rxa7 Kf7 24.f3 Rb6 25.Kd3 g4 26.Ra4 h5 27.h3 g3 28.e4 fxe4+ 29.fxe4 Be6 30.Ra3 Bc8 31.Kc2 h4 32.Nf3 Rb4 33.Re3 c5 34.Nxh4 Bb7 35.Rxg3 Bxe4+ 36.Kc3 Bd5 37.Nf3 Rb3+ 38.Kc2 c4 39.Ng5+ Kg6 40.Ne4+ Rxg3 41.Nxg3 Kg5 42.Kc3 Kf4 43.Nf1 Bxg2 44.Nd2 Bxh3 45.Kxc4 Kxe5 46.Kd3 Kf4 47.Ke2 Bd7 48.Ke1 Bb5 49.Nb3 Ke3 50.Nc5 Bc4 51.Na4 Kd4 52.Kd2 e5 53.Nc3 Bb3 54.Ne2+ Ke4 55.Nc3+ Kf4 56.Ne2+ Kf3 57.Nc3 Bc4 58.Nd1 ½-½.

IM Lane,Gary W (2412) - GM Chandler,Murray (2540)
Round 6, Table 7 Kuala Lumpur MAS, 22.08.2007
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Be7 7.0-0 Nc6 8.Qg4 Nf6 9.Qxg7 Rg8 10.Qh6 Ne5 11.f3 b5 12.Nc3 Bb7 13.Qe3 Qc7 14.a3 Rg6 15.Ne2 Bd6 16.Nf4 Nxd3 17.cxd3 Bxf4 18.Qxf4 Qc2 19.Nd2 Qxd3 20.Rf2 d6 21.Nf1 e5 22.Qh4 Qb3 23.Bg5 Qe6 24.Rc1 Kd7 25.Rfc2 Ne8 26.Ng3 Rc8 27.Rxc8 Bxc8 28.Bd2 Bb7 29.Ba5 Qf6 30.Qxh7 d5 31.Qh3+ Qe6 32.Qh4 Qf6 33.Qxf6 Rxf6 34.exd5 Bxd5 35.Re1 Re6 36.Bc3 f6 37.Nf5 Nd6 38.Nxd6 Rxd6 39.h4 Ke6 40.Kf2 Rd7 41.g4 Bb7 42.Re3 Kf7 43.Kg3 Rd1 44.h5 Rg1+ 45.Kf2 Rd1 46.Kg2 Bc6 47.Kg3 Bb7 48.Kf2 Bc6 49.Ke2 Rh1 50.Kf2 Ra1 51.g5 Rh1 52.gxf6 Rxh5 53.Bxe5 Kg6 54.f4 Bd5 55.Rg3+ Kf5 56.Ke3 a5 57.Kd4 Bc4 58.Rg7 Rh8 59.Rg5+ Ke6 60.f5+ Kf7 61.Rg7+ Kf8 62.Bd6+ Ke8 63.Re7+ Kd8 64.Bc7+ Kc8 65.f7 1-0.

IM Irwanto Sadikin ( 2456) - WIM Moylan, Laura ( 2100)
Round 1  2007.08.20
1.d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Nf3 g6 5. cxb5 a6 6. bxa6 Bg7 7. Nc3 Bxa6 8. e4 Bxf1 9. Kxf1 d6 10. g3 Nbd7 11. Kg2 O-O 12. Re1 Ng4 13. h3 Nge5 14. Nxe5 Nxe5 15. f4 Nd7 16. Bd2 Qb6 17. Qc2 Rfb8 18. Rab1 Qa6 19. b3 Nb6 20. Re2 Ra7 21. Be1 Rba8 22. Kf3 Qc8 23. a4 Qxh3 24. Nb5 Rb7 25. Rh2 Qc8 26. Bc3 Bxc3 27. Qxc3 h5 28. Rbh1 Qg4+ 29. Kf2 Nxa4 30. bxa4 Rxa4 31. Na3 Rab4 32. Rh4 Qd7 33. Nc4 Qa4 34. Rc1 Rb3 35. Qc2 Rb2 36. Nxb2 Qd4+ 37. Kf3 Rxb2 38. Qxb2 Qxb2 39. Rhh1 Qb3+ 40. Kf2 Qd3 41. Rhe1 Qd2+ 42. Kf3 f5 43. exf5 Qxd5+ 44. Kf2 gxf5 45. Rcd1 Qb7 46. Rb1 Qd5 47. Rbd1 Qf7 48. Ra1 Kg7 49. Ra7 Kf6 50. Re2 Qe8 51. Ra6 Qc8 52. Ra7 Qd8 53. Rb2 c4 54. Rbb7 c3 55. Ke2 Qg8 56. Rc7 Qg4+ 57. Kf2 Qd1 58. Rxe7 Qd2+ 59. Kf3 c2 60. Rh7 Qd5+ 61. Ke2 Qd1+ 62. Kf2 Qd4+ 0-1

There is a good report of the event with some games and good photos of Max and Gary (and many others) at Chess Base http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4087 .

ASIAN YOUTH CHAMPIONSHIPS

These were played at Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, from 22 to 30 August 2007. initially quite a few Australian jnuiors applied for selection and were chosen. in the upshot all but one – Leteisha Simmonds in the u12 girls – withdrew for one reason or another. Leteisha did her best against tough opposition finishing in 21st place on 3.5, She was ranked 22 so her result was just about what could have been expected. The event was won by Priyanka Kumari (India; FIDE 1912) on 7.5.

800TH ANNIVERSARY LIVERPOOL OPEN

IM David Smerdon and FM Manuel Weeks are playing in this event in which David is ranked 16th. It is being played over 9 rounds from 3 to 9 September. At the time of writing (6 September) results show David with 4/5 along with 3 others and half a point behind the leader. David ibeat GM Hebden in round 4 and is drawn to play Stewart Haslinger (2468) who is a GM-elect in round 6.. Manuel Weeks is doing well on 3.

MYER TAN AUSTRALIAN CHESS GRAND PRIX

GM Dejan Antic has opened up a big lead in the Open section while Chris wallis and WIM Narelle Suveges have handy leads in the Junior and Women's sections respectively. For all the latest scores and the full calendar of events see http://www.chessaustralia.com.au/grandprix/index.cfm

Coming Events

2007 Ryde-Eastwood Open

The NSW Chess Association invites your participation in this Category 4 Grand Prix event with $3,200 in prizes.

Where: Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club
117 Ryedale Road, West Ryde NSW

When: Saturday 29th September, Sunday 30th September & Monday 1st October
Schedule: Saturday Sunday Monday

11am – 12:15pm Registration
12:30pm Round 1 11am Round 4 11am Round 6
3pm Round 2 2pm Round 5 2pm Round 7
5pm Round 3 (NRL Grand Final) 6:30pm Prize-giving

Prize Fund $3200 [based on 70 players]

Open: 1st $700 2nd $450 3rd $250 4th $225 5th $200 6th $170 7th $125

Rating Divisions: U1800-1600, U1600-1400 and U1400

1st $160 2nd $110 3rd $90 in each division

Time Control: 60 minutes plus 10 seconds per move

Entry Fees:
If registered by September 26th Adult: $62.00 Junior [U18]: $56.00 Aged Pensioner: $52
If registered after September 26th Adult: $80.00 Junior [U18]: $72.00 Aged Pensioner: $68
Full Time Students U25 can enter at the Junior rate.

Note for full time Student U25 discount, Student ID card must be produced on the day of the Tournament otherwise the applicable Adult entry fee will be charged.

Note for Aged Pensioner discount, Centrelink Aged Pension card must be produced on the day of the Tournament otherwise the applicable Adult entry fee will be charged.

4th Coffs Harbour Open

presented by Coffs Harbour Chess Club

http://www.coffsharbourchessclub.websyte.com.au/

is an Australian Grand Prix Category 3 Event

1st Prize $1000
Total Prize Fund $3,300

November 10th – 111h 2007

Director of Play: Charles Zworestine
Assistant DOP: John Maddix

Coffs Harbour Catholic Club
61a West High Street
Coffs Harbour

Timetable
Saturday 10th November
Registration 8.30 am
Entries close 9.00 am
Round 1 9.30 am (followed by lunch)
Round 2 12.30 pm
Round 3 3.00 pm
Round 4 5.30 pm
Sunday 11th November
Round 5 8.30 am sharp
Round 6 11.00 am (followed by lunch)
Round 7 1.45 pm

Presentations will be made at a free barbecue immediately following close of play.

Rate of play: 60 minutes plus 10 seconds per move from the start.

Pairings

The SwissPerfect pairing option, “Barred Pairings” will be used in the early rounds to greatly reduce the chance of players fromthe same club being paired. The discretion of the DOP will apply.

Prize Fund

(Players are eligible for only one cash prize) Prizes will be shared in the event of a tie

First $1000 (plus Trophy)
Second $600
Third $400
Fourth $200
Fifth $100

Rating Division Prizes
First $200
Second $100

The Rating Divisions will be determined by dividing the players into four equal groups with the above prizes awarded to the lowest three (of four) rating divisions. Unrated players will be placed in Rating

Divisions by the DOP based on their results in the first three rounds.

Top Junior (under 16) $100

Entry Fees
Adults $70
Juniors (U18) $50
Cadets (U14) $30

Entry fee includes free barbecue at the end of play on Sunday.

For further information phone:
John Maddix (02 66535113)

See the below web address for more details including accomodation.

Entry Form at http://www.coffsharbourchessclub.websyte.com.au/

Hobart Weekender 2007

Class One Myer Tan Australian Chess Grand Prix event
Hosted by Hobart International Chess Club for the TCA

VENUE: Migrant Resource Centre, 49 Molle St, Hobart

FORMAT: 6 round Swiss or Accelerated Swiss. 60 minutes plus 10 seconds per move per player.

ROUNDS START: Saturday 15th September 10:30 am, 1:45 pm, 4:00 pm, 7:15 pm
Sunday 16th September 9:30 am, 12:45 pm.

ENTRY FEES: $50 waged, $45 conc, $30 U18, $25 U12, $5 discount if rec/d by 1st Sep. Entries after Wednesday 12 Sep may be declined if there is insufficient equipment. Entries on the day, if accepted, will close 10:00 am sharp.

PRIZES: 1st c. 40%, 2nd c. 20%, 3rd, U1700, U1500 c. 10% of prize pool (subject to at least three entries per division), U18 prize $60, U12 prize $50. Prize pool is entry fees less running costs and levies.

ARBITERS: Graham Richards and assistants.

ENQUIRIES: Kevin Bonham ph. 6224 8487 email k_bonham@tassie.net.au

NOTES: FIDE Laws 2005 apply – ringing mobiles will incur automatic forfeit. Entrants agree to abide by all decisions of the organisers and arbiters. The organisers reserve the right to make any changes required.

Nell van der Graaf Classic – a Class 4 Grand prix Event

From organiser Peter Bender
Bounce away from winter and into spring by playing in the 2007 Nell van de Graaff Classic and teams event. 22nd and 23rd September at Somerset College Sports Pavillion on the Gold Coast. This category 4 event has individual, rating and team prizes. Enter with your own team or let us put you into a team. Full canteen facilities available and plenty of room for kids and parents to play and relax. Contact Peter Bender at outreachchess@bigpond.com

The main item that differentiates this tournament is that it also includes a teams event.

Prizemoney is as follows

Individual
1st $500
2nd $200
3rd $100
Ratings groups $100

Team prizes
1st $300
2nd $200
3rd $100

Players can win both Individual and Team prizes.

Brochure is available at

Completed Grand prix events

Tasmanian Junior individual titles 2007

Southern Junior Championships – from Kevin Bonham

This year's southern junior champs held today attracted a field of 30 players, of whom 26 contested the U12 tournament and four contested the Open division.

The turnout in the Open division was affected by an unavoidable date change to the southern highschool interschool qualifier due to a venue cancellation. The interschool qualifier is now tomorrow and some players may have been reluctant to play two days in a row.

The four Open division players played a double round-robin. The Jamie Briant - Owen Short match could have resulted in either player winning the tournament. However in the first game, Briant was easily winning but it all slipped away in mutual time trouble - eventually he reached a drawn ending with king, rook and doubled f-pawns vs king and rook, which then reduced to a drawn king and pawn vs king finish. In the complex second game, Short had queen and some dangerous pawns for rook and knight but allowed a perpetual check by doubled rooks on the seventh rank that could have been avoided, although some lines were rather tricky. Thus Owen and Jamie tied. In the match that decided third place Joel Reynolds beat Joshua Davis in the first game, but Joshua made it onto the scoreboard in the second when Joel was unable to convert KBN vs K.

5 Owen Short (U16 Southern Champion), James Briant (U14 Southern Champion)

1.5 Joel Reynolds (U14 Runner-Up Boy)

0.5 Joshua Davis

The under 12 tournament was very closely contested all day and also finished in a tie. The first upset came in the opening round when Joseph Griggs beat the only rated player in the tournament, Harry Briant. In round two, Sebastian Krasnicki almost defeated his sister Alina, which he has never got close to doing before. Sebastian had rook and three pawns for knight and pawn, but Alina managed to get a queen. Sebastian also queened, but Alina, moving first, was soon able to win the rook and one pawn. With queen and knight against queen and a rather dangerous rook's pawn, Alina appeared to have won when she skewered Sebastian's king and queen - but there was a catch, queen takes queen was stalemate! As any other move returned the initiative to the side with the dangerous pawn, that was exactly what was played.

After four rounds, home-schooled Mason Carter led the event on 4/4 from Alina Krasnicki 3.5 and Ella Thain, Harry Briant, Luke Robertson, Bradley Vince, Louis Mazur and five-year-old Shuqi Yu all on 3. The game between Alina and Mason featured opposite-sides castling with pawn storms by both players. Alina blundered a rook but opened the h-file and forced checkmate anyway to take the outright lead. Harry beat Ella very quickly after a defensive move that threatened mate was overlooked, and Shuqi played very well against Luke and was two pawns up at one stage ... until he overlooked a basic mate Luke had set up on the long diagonal.

In the round 6 top board game between Harry and Alina, Harry won a piece early, and could have gone a rook ahead in one position where both queens were en prise, but errors enabled Alina to fight back until she was the exchange in front. Just when it looked like Alina would pull off yet another comeback (she also won a few games from losing positions in getting 7/7 in a recent girls-only interschool) she too overlooked mate in one and Harry prevailed.

Mason beat Luke and so into the final round Mason and Harry were tied for the lead, and playing off for the tournament and the Under 10 title. After each player had made one blunder, the game was agreed drawn in the middlegame with Harry clearly better but both players content to share the title.

Mason Carter (unr) - Harry Briant (367)

1.e4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.d4 c5 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.dxc5 Bxc5 7.Bb5 d4 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.Na4 Bb6 (Any of ...Qe7+, ...Qa5+ or ...Bb4+ instead would save the pawn) 10.Nxb6 axb6 11.Nxd4 Qd6 12.Qe2+ Ne7 13.Nf5?? Bxf5 14.0-0 0-0 15.Bg5 Nd5 16.Bd2 Rfe8 17.Qh5 Bxc2 18.Qg4 Re4 19.Qg5 Ra5?? 20.Bxa5 bxa5 21.Rfe1 Rxe1+ 22.Rxe1 Nf6 Taking on a5 is stronger 23.Qe3 h6 24.h3 Draw Agreed.

This resulted in a four-way tie for the tournament after Alina and Louis defeated Bradley and Luke, thus tying for the under-12 title. Rather than use tiebreaks for first, extra medals were on hand so that the ties could stand.

5.5/7 Louis Mazur, Alina Krasnicki (= Southern U12 Champions), Harry Briant, Mason Carter (= Southern U10 Champions)

4.5 Bradley Vince (Southern U8 Champion), Bethany Davey (U12 Girl Runner-up), Ted Jeanneret (U10 Boy Runner-up)

4 Luke Robertson (U12 Boy Runner-up on tiebreak), Erica Davis (U10 Girl Runner-up), Shuqi Yu (U8 Boy Runner-up), Haki George, Ella Thain, Joseph Griggs, James Hogue

3 Olivia Deconinck, Jem Thain, Mark Robertson, Jack Riddock, Ben James, Sebastian Krasnicki

2.5 William Hinds, Zac Kalimnios

2 Morgan Baker (U8 Girl Runner-up), Nelson Hinds

1.5 Madison Bryson

1 Sophie Hinds

Event run by Ross George, Mellissa Harvey and Nigel Frame for the HIJCC with some arbiting assistance from Glen Gibbs and myself. The whole tournament had a very friendly and relaxed feel and many of the players got excellent experience in playing under tournament conditions (including scoring).

More games may appear shortly at http://www.chess.org.au/

UNTIL NEXT TIME...

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