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Box Hill and Canterbury Chess News 2011.41

NEWSLETTER DATE NOVEMBER 23 2011 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 41A

Calendar

November 29 Tuesday

Summer Swiss Round 3

7.45 PM start

Tuesday coaching 6 till 7.30

December 2 Friday

Allegro 5 rounds

7.45 PM start

December 4 Sunday

Term 4 Sunday coaching

2.00 to 3.30 PM

December 6 Tuesday

Summer Swiss Round 4

7.45 PM start

Tuesday coaching 6 till 7.30

December 9 Friday

Canterbury day nighter

round 1

December 10 Saturday

Canterbury day nighter

round 2, round 3

December 11 Sunday

Canterbury day nighter

round 4, round 5

December 12 Monday

Canterbury day nighter

round 6

December 13 Tuesday

club closed

December 16 Friday

losing points blitz

7.45 start

December 18 Sunday

Sunday tournament

12.30 start

December 20 Tuesday

Summer Swiss Round 5

Club rooms: 3 Rochester Road Canterbury 3126 mobile 0409 259 490

Friday Grades - Round 7 Standings 1 Jordan, Bill RG1 2256 4

2. Schön, Eugene RG1 2194 1st RG1 $30 5.5

3. Dale, Ari RG1 1922 eq2nd RG1 $10 4.5

4. Ng, Isaac RG1 1896 3.5

5. Kempen, Leon RG1 1872 eq2nd RG1 $10 4.5

6. Chmiel, Rad RG1 1733 4

7. Martinez, Octavio RG1 1712 2.5

8. Sharman, Scot A RG1 1700 2

9. Flude, David A RG2 1659 3

10. Brown, Kevin M RG2 1653 eq2nd RG2 $10 3.5

11. Cook, Geoff L RG2 1625 2.5

12. Wiatr, David RG2 1606 2.5

14. Doidge, Matthew RG2 1587 3

15. Chew Lee, Max RG2 1579 eq2nd RG2 $10 3.5

16. Hayman, Adam RG2 1561 3

17. D'Onofrio, Gus RG2 1549 1st RG2 $30 6.5

18. Choi, Ian RG3 1500 3

19. Ng, Joshua RG3 1454 2

20. Cannon, David RG3 1414 eq1st RG3 $25 4

21. Gluzman, Sam RG3 1386 eq1st RG3 $25 4

22. Ying, Jimmy RG3 1376 3.5

23. Foo, Kit Ming RG3 1341 3.5

24. Ni, John RG3 1337 3

25. Cannon, Jim RG3 1276 3

26. Lee, Dmitry RG3 1254 3

27. Hughes, Jack G RG4 1233 eq2nd RG4 $10 4.5

28. Chew, Jason RG4 1144 3.5

29. Neymanis, Eric RG4 1116 2.5

30. Guo, Steven RG4 1110 2

31. Fletcher, Bruce RG4 1050 2

32. Millington, Gar RG4 1050 2.5

33. Foo, May-Yi RG4 1047 3.5

34. Chew Lee, Adrian RG4 947 eq2nd RG4 $10 4.5

35. Chen, Steven RG4 943 4

36. Krstevski, Trist RG4 929 1st RG4 $30 6

37. Krstevska, Tanya RG5 897 3

38. Chin, Nicole RG5 864 3.5

40. Chew Lee, Alanna RG5 829 4.5

41. Chan, Kris RG5 757 1st RG5 $30 5.5

42. Loucas, Carl RG5 697 2nd RG5 $20 5

43. Chan, Luis RG5 688 4.5

44. Chin, Chloe RG5 605 3

45. Lai, Dominic RG6 534 eq2nd RG6 $10 3.5

46. Li, Oswald RG6 502 eq2nd RG6 $10 3.5

47. Yu, Bobby RG6 482 1st RG6 $30 4

48. Barry, Jack RG6 464 3

49. Lui, Chow RG6 401 2

50. Zhang, Tianli RG6 240 2

51. Lin, Emily RG6 217 2

52. Lu, Lilian RG6 201 1.5

53. Zhang, Emily RG6 201 .5

54. Ediriweera, Chakh RG6 167 1.5

The table on the left gives you the standings in start order which sorts the rating groups together albeit not in order within the group. Top result for a relaxed Eugene after a layoff. With good runner up results for Leon and Ari. Group 2 turned out a gimme for Gus 6.5 out of 7 Run-ners up Kevin Brown and Max Chew Lee were 3 points[!] behind him. Group3 was much more evenly con-tested with David Cannon and Sam Gluzman sneaking ahead by 1/2 point from the rest of the group. In group 4 a win for the much improved Tristan although his task was made easier by the last round non appearance of Jack Hughes who despite this handi-cap still came sec-ond with surprise packet Adrian

The 2 lower rating groups are always of special interest to me as they mainly contain the new starters and the novices. And so it was again this year. Only Tanya had strayed down to the lower group due to being grossly underrated.

The winners and runners up in group 5 and 6 were typical of what I meant

In group 5 there was Kris Chan on 5.5 with Carl Loucas on 5 and brother Luis not far behind. In group 6 there was Bobby Yu, first Friday night tournament and a winner. Bobby snuck in 1/2 point ahead of the more experienced Oswald Li and Dominic Lai and was pretty pleased with his result and why wouldn't he Overall interesting tournament plenty of computer selection oddities

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As Bobby Cheng got an invite for the Australasian Masters he is now unlikely to play. However Chris Wallis did not and therefore may be avail-

able. Entries are continuing albeit a slow pace 1. Wallis, Christopher 2308

2. Dragicevic, Domagoj 2234

3. Tan, Justin 2148

4. Matheson, Laurence 2076

5. Tang, Jason 2072

6. Zelesco, Karl 2038

7. Dale, Ari 1895

8. Flude, David A 1713

9. Brown, Kevin M 1677

10. Bekker, Gary D 1599

11. D'Onofrio, Gus 1566

12. Gibson, Kyle 1478

13. Chew Lee, Max 1465

14. Kenmure, Jamie 1433

15. Yung, Cameron 1354

16. Dale, Finley 1255

17. Ying, Jimmy 1234

18. Nowak, Ruben 1200

19. Chew, Jason 998

20. Warren,Elizabeth 795 fem

21. Chin, David 774

22. Chew Lee, Alanna 732 fem

23. Loucas, Carl 702

24. Chan, Kris 633

25. Chan, Luis 592

26. Yu, Bobby 376

27. Mendes, Amelia fem

28. Phuma, Orefile

So we had the final round on Sunday Not a great day for any of our Box Hill and Canterbury Junior teams. The division one standings

Division 2 Standings

Final standings

1.Melbourne Chess Club-1 16 points( 5 wins and 1 draw)

2.Elwood Chess Club 14 points( 4 wins and 2 draws).

3.Box Hill Dark Horse 9 points( 3 wins and 3 loses)

4.Canterbury Juniors 8 points( 2 wins,2 loses and 2 draws)

5.Noble Park Chess Club1 7 points(2 wins,3 loses,1 draw)

6-7. Box Hill CC and Melbourne Chess Club-2 3 points each( 1 win,5

loses)

Final Standings

1.Noble Park chess club 2 17 points

2.Box Hill Chess Club 2 14 points

3.Gelong Chess Club 13 points

4-5.Croydon CC and Ballarat Chess Club 11 points each

6.MCC 3 8 points

7.Dandenong Chess Club 3 points

8.City Of Yarra-- 0 points.

The competition was a shambles. I don’t think I have ever seen so many for-feits in one competition. In division one alone there were 2 whole team for-feits including I am sad to say our Box Hill no1 team. If the competition director had applied the forfeit rules half the players would

have been barred. The thing that was intriguing was that several teams claimed forfeits without either the forfeit receiver or the giver getting a men-tion. Surely that cannot be right. Chess Victoria with a newly elected commit-tee should have a serious look at both the format and the rules. Well perhaps

the rules were OK if they had been applied.

Final Rookies and Queens Cup tournament December 18

Due to the Canterbury Day-nighter on the 2nd Sunday of December, the final Rookies and Queens cup tournament will be held December 18 the 3rd Sunday

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Sunday coaching term 4

4-Dec Darryl, Rukman, Bobby, Laurence, Vineetha, Sue Frank, Greg, Peter

This is the coaching and reception panel as scheduled by Erika.

Some news from the committee

The committee at its meeting on Monday night

agreed with the proposal to build a stand alone

web site for the Canterbury Junior Chess Club.

The site will be template based and content man-

aged by a professional web designer. It is ex-

pected that the site will be operational prior to or

directly after Christmas.

With the exiting Chess Victoria meeting coming up

the committee is still looking for club delegates to

attend the CV AGM on Sunday December 4. We

are entitled to a total of 10 delegates. 6 for Can-

terbury Juniors and 4 for

BHCC. The club’s 2CV life

members [who have a

separate vote] are also

planning to attend

Box Hill Chess Club winning bids [some comments]

New Web master for BHCC web site Committee member Roger Croft has put up his hand for the job of looking after our web site

www.boxhillchess.org.au

In the last issue I briefly mentioned that when

submitting our bids President Peter Tsai and his

sidekick yours truly were quietly confident that

our submissions for the Vic Open and the Vic Jun-

ior would be highly competitive. And here are

some of the reasons for our confidence

Location, location, location. The Box Hill

venue is almost the exact geographic centre

of Melbourne it has ample parking, is very

close to Canterbury railway station and bus-

ses pass the front door

There is space for up to 120 players

5 working DGT boards. Almost unheard of in

this country

Good prize money due to the support we

have from the Bendigo Bank.

We saw the return of Jason

Tang to the coaching

group as a substitute for

the absent Rukman

Moderate entry fees.

A low key approach. This may sound a little

old fashioned but we believe that if you

looking for support for your submissions it

is not a good idea to antagonise those you

wish to impress.

Willingness to use the ACF approved swiss

draw system and the ACF rating system.

Tournament organisation skills. Our tourna-

ments generally run smoothly and the few

disputes we have, are quickly resolved

FIDE arbiters at the club. 3 of our members

have passed the FIDE arbiters exam. One of

whom is now titled

Last Sunday was my last duty turn for the year. It has been a fascinating

experience. Both Jason Tang and Rengan Vijayakumar returned to the

coaching group after a long absence It was good to meet again. I have a

reasonably up to date photo of Jason but Rengan is now a lot taller than

when I saw him last.

Round 6 of the Sunday coaching group tournament follows here

1 William Wang [3] .5:.5 Riana Mikael [3]

2 William Li [3] 1:0 Andrew E Lau [3]

3 Kelvin Wang [2.5] 0:1 Damian Picone [2.5]

4 Razi Mikael [2] .5:.5 Haotian Huang [2.5]

5 Ruimin Li [2] 1:0 Tyrone Chiovitti [2]

6 Lillian He [0] 0:1 Sharen Mahesan [2]

7 Ethan Natawidjaja [1.5] 1:0 Jonathon Zhang [1.5]

8 Andrew Bian [1] 1:0 Leon Paratz [1]

9 Allan Hu [1] 1:0 Lakni Weerasekera [1]

10 James Xu [1] 1:0 Daniel Bian [1]

11 Isabelle Viney [0] 0:1 Lilianne Natawidjaja [.5]

12 Claire Picone [0] 0:1 Adrian Wang [0]

Life member John Kable has

made a fine recovery after his

open heart surgery. He told

me that he did not remember

a thing about the operation

And so it came to pass

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We are especially encouraging those planning to stay in Geelong to book accommodation asap, as the event spans a peak demand accommodation period. Detailed information, including accommodation guide and details of special accommodation deals may be found at http://www.auschess.org.au/geelong/2012.pdf

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