ACF Bulletin No. 78 - 15 August 2000

TRIP AROUND AUSTRALIA 

As the ACF President continues his trip around Australia this bulletin is brought to you by ACF Deputy President, Robert Jamieson.

Graeme Gardiner's schedule in Melbourne will be a meeting with chess players on Thursday at the Cafe Nova in Brunswick Street at 6.30pm.

In Sydney he will be at St.Georges League's Club at 5pm next Saturday.

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OLYMPIAD TEAMS

The ACF is pleased to announce the Olympiad Teams as follows:

OLYMPIAD TEAM
1. I.Rogers
2. D.Johansen
3. A.Wohl
4. M.Gluzman
5. G.West
6. J-P.Wallace
1st reserve: Z.Zhao
2nd reserve V.Feldman

WOMENS OLYMPIAD TEAM
1. I.Berezina-Feldman
2. N.Phan-Koshnitsky
3. B.Dekic
4. L.Moylan
1st reserve: E.Rozycki
2nd reserve: N.Mills

Our congratulations to those players who were successful in being picked in the teams, and our thanks to all those players who applied.

The team captains will be announced shortly after the players have been consulted.


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OLYMPIAD APPEAL

Many thanks to all those who have supported the Olympiad Appeal both at state and national level . Please dig deep and show your support for our national team and send your donation to the ACF Treasurer Norm Greenwood, Unit 15, Horizon Towers, 208 Pacific Highway, Hornsby NSW 2077. Alternatively please advise of your pledge to ggardiner@somerset.qld.edu.au

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RESULTS OF THE GARRY KOSHNITSKY EVENTS IN ADELAIDE

The results of the Checkmate Tournament were:
6/7 S.Solomon
5 M.Chapman
4.5 E.Teichman, R.Cowley
4 Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky, A.Guthrie, T. Ayris, S.Zaric, Song Yang, A.Goldsmith, R.Valenti etc. 
(20 players).

The results of the Checkmate Weekender were:
6.5/7 I.Rogers
6 D.Johansen
5.5 Song Yang 
5 S.Solomon
4.5 G.Lane, M.Chapman, S.Zaric, K.Skeldric, E.Teichman etc.
(71 players)

Another good result for Ian Rogers but junior Song Yang was probably the outstanding performance of the tournament.

At the conclusion of the Koshnitsky Chess Festival in Adelaide there was a party attended by about 50 chess players which was in full swing when I rang for a report. Ian Rogers opened a huge bottle of champagne that was given to him when he achieved his first IM norm at Brisbane 1979.


EVELYN KOSHNITSKY BEAUTY PRIZE $500

Just a reminder that Evelyn has donated $500 for the most beautiful game played in the Garry Koshnitsky Memorial Festival which commenced back on 7 June. Entries close on Sunday 20th August. The entry fee has been waived to encourage more entries. Get your entry in to the judge Robert Jamieson, email to:auschess@iaccess.com.au

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AUSTRALIAN OPEN RAPID PLAY, MELBOURNE AUGUST 5/6.

This event attracted a very strong field of around 110 players and was played at Deakin University in Burwood.

Congratulations to David Cordover and Troy Edwards who did an excellent job in organising this event. David hopes to hold it again next year.

Here are some examples of interesting positions from the tournament.

D.Smerdon - C.Depasquale
/8,8,1R5p,2p2pk1,2Pr4,5PK1,7P,8,/

Smerdon has been defending an unfavourable rook ending and took a chance to swap off rooks. Play continuedŠ

1 h4+ (Ian Rogers suggested 1 Rc6 Rxc4 2 f4+ Kh5 3 h3=) 1 ŠRxh4 2 Rg6+ Kxg6 3 Kxh4 f4 4 Kg4 h5+ 5 Kxf4 Kf6 6 Ke4 Kg5 7 Ke5 h4 8 f4+ Kg6 9 Ke6 Kg7 10 Ke7 h3 11 f5 h2 12 f6+ Kg6 13 f7 h1=Q 14 f8=Q Qe4+ 15 Kd6 Qxc4 16 Qe8+ Kg5 =. 
Did you see where Depasquale missed a win? (answer at the end).

S.Solomon - L.Sandler
/6Q1,4q3,1p2p3,p1p1k3,P1P2p2,1P3P2,4K3,8,/

This is an absolute Solo classic! Solo is defending a queen ending a pawn down when his opponent decides to construct a help mate in the middle of the board.

1Š Kd4?? 2 Qh8+ e5 3 Kd2! Qg5 4 Qh1 1-0 (The threat is Qa1 mate).

A.Martin - D.Smerdon
/2q4r,p2Rnkpp,1p3p2,8,Q2N4,8,PP3KPP,8,/

Smerdon has been in big trouble after a bad opening and Martin finds a very pretty check to finish him off.

1 Nc6 (this allows the pretty combination but objectively best was 1 Qb3+ Kf8 2 Rxa7 +-) Re8? (1ŠQxd7 2 Ne5+ fxe5 3 Qxd7 Rc8 =) 2 Rxe7+ Rxe7 3 Qc4+!! Re6 (if 3 Š Kf8 4 Qg8+!!) 4 Ne5+ fxe5 5 Qxc8 and White won.

Answer:
Depasquale could have won with 8ŠKh6!

UNDER 1600
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score Buch. Progr.

1-2 Ellingford, Chris 1575 8 53.5 39.5
Bowen, Leon Uni 1588 8 51.0 41.5
3-8 Mahic, Amir 1595 6.5 54.5 37.5
Lee, Michelle U/10f 1534 6.5 52.0 34.0
Kaplan, Raf Uni 1340 6.5 50.5 32.0
Kudric, Mirko 1542 6.5 50.0 30.0
Prilleltensky, Matan U/14 1436 6.5 49.5 33.0
Palit, Vikram U/12 1276 6.5 45.5 29.5
9-11 Wen, Philip U/16 1541 6 50.5 35.0
Fletcher, Andrew 1393 6 46.0 32.0
McDonald, Julian U/16 1531 6 44.5 28.0
12-20 Fong, Kenny U/16 1314 5.5 49.5 33.0
Doidge, Matthew U/14 1545 5.5 49.5 32.5
Onufreichuk, Dimitri U/16 1532 5.5 46.5 30.5
Lau, Vincent U/16 1436 5.5 46.5 29.5
Lazarus, Anthony Uni 1325 5.5 44.5 29.0
Sucevic, Milic 1597 5.5 44.5 27.5
Cai, Matthew U/14 1116 5.5 42.5 25.0
Richter, Sally-Anne U/14f 1153 5.5 42.0 25.0
Jager, Jesse U/12 903 5.5 40.5 25.5
21-29 Veljanovski, Goran 1413 5 48.0 29.0
Sucevic, Andrew U/14 1474 5 47.5 31.5
Chowdhury, Mahmud U/18 1524 5 44.0 27.5
Walton, Andrew U/18 1230 5 42.5 25.0
Huver, Paul 1353 5 42.0 25.5
Beresnev, Greg Uni 1346 5 42.0 23.0
Truong, Lance U/14 1276 5 41.0 25.0
Ferris, Shaun U/14 1348 5 39.5 26.0
Hughes, Mark U/16 1189 5 38.5 20.0
30-35 Pispek, Peter 1494 4.5 47.5 28.0
Edwards, Troy Uni 1119 4.5 45.5 26.5
Taylor, Stephan 1502 4.5 44.0 25.0
Bennett, Stephen Uni 1140 4.5 41.0 19.0
Gunawan, Andy Uni 1385 4.5 37.0 21.5
Chu, Martin U/18 977 4.5 30.0 16.0
36-45 Cavka, Ivan 1564 4 43.0 24.0
Sabolski, Daniel U/18 1416 4 42.5 23.0
McKenzie, Mark 1272 4 38.0 19.0
Chee, Adrian U/8 1090 4 38.0 18.0
Yii, Winston U/14 1166 4 37.5 18.0
Aromataris, David U/12 1010 4 37.0 16.0
Lee, Melissa U/14f 1133 4 35.5 23.0
Alamanos, John 1444 4 35.5 20.0
Smith, Wendy f 1038 4 32.0 18.0
Carey, Jamie U/8 906 4 32.0 14.0
46-47 Schlossberg, Jonathan U/10 924 3.5 36.0 20.0
Vijayakumar, Rukman U/10 913 3.5 33.5 19.0
48-55 Carey, Ryan U/10 1364 3 39.5 20.0
Liu, Steven U/14 1087 3 37.5 16.0
Kucyn, Stephen 1424 3 36.5 18.0
Kushnir, Yvonne U/10f 748 3 32.5 11.0
Anonymous by request U/16 984 3 32.0 13.0
Vijayakumar, Rengan U/8 662 3 31.5 12.0
Mihalopoulos, Jason U/8 810 3 31.5 11.0
McArdle, Dean U/16 736 3 30.0 12.0
56-58 Jayanto, Jimmy 922 2.5 39.0 13.5
Yang, Zane U/10 843 2.5 30.0 11.5
Frantzeskos, Robert U/12 865 2.5 27.5 9.5
59-61 Hrysikos, James U/16 948 2 31.5 11.5
Donald, Jonathan U/8 910 2 27.5 8.0
Rozenblat, Vanja U/10f 939 2 25.0 7.0
62 Lauder, Natasha U/8f 761 1 31.0 2.0
63-65 Martin, David w/d 1044 0 6.0 0.0
Swedosh, William w/d 952 0 4.0 0.0
Papa, James w/d 1350 0 3.5 0.0

UNDER 2000
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score Buch. Progr.

1-2 Partsi, Dimitry 1806 7.5 51.0 37.5
Lojanica, Milenko 1981 7.5 50.0 40.0
3-4 Kolak, Chris 1932 6.5 48.0 32.5
Mesic, Kasim 1845 6.5 48.0 30.0
5 Dizdarevic, Mehmedalija 1925 6 51.0 33.0
6-10 Bourmistrov, Denis Jnr 1903 5.5 46.5 31.0
Pratsch, George 1892 5.5 46.0 30.0
Voon, Richard 1908 5.5 45.5 32.0
Dragicevic, Domagoj Jnr 1783 5.5 44.5 29.0
Jenkins, Keith 1671 5.5 39.0 24.0
11-14 Chow, Samuel Jnr 1827 5 48.5 29.0
Lushaj, Tahir 1806 5 40.0 26.0
Brodzky, Maren 1752 5 38.0 22.0
Sharman, Scot 1707 5 37.5 19.5
15-16 Kaplan, Alex 1600 4.5 38.5 21.0
Lugo, Ruperto Jnr 1602 4.5 37.0 21.0
17-22 Machet, Richard Jnr 1350 4 42.0 24.0
Kildisas, Victor 1851 4 40.0 21.0
Ali, Mosaddeque 1864 4 37.5 20.5
Ghobrial, Adel 1626 4 37.5 20.0
Narenthran, T. 1928 4 31.0 18.0
Malitis, Edwin 1861 4 30.5 20.0
23 Matelan, Anton 1631 3.5 44.5 22.0
24-28 Lawson, Shane 1674 3 40.0 18.0
Jago, Stephen 1658 3 37.5 14.0
Zivanovic, Andjelija Jnr f 1609 3 34.0 14.0
Miralem, Campara 1674 3 32.0 7.0
Power, Paul 1628 3 31.5 12.0
29 Grigyoran, Oleg 1723 1.5 25.0 7.0
30 Vats, Neerat Uni 745 1 31.5 6.0
31-32 Anderson, Alistair 1906 0 5.0 0.0
McBride, Kelvin 1921 0 2.5 0.0

OPEN Tournament
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score Buch. Progr.

1 Rogers, Ian 2587 7.5 47.5 39.5
2-4 Smerdon, David 2325 6 48.0 34.0
Johansen, Darryl 2527 6 48.0 28.0
Zhao, Zong-Yuan 2237 6 47.0 29.5
5-9 Solomon, Stephen 2362 5.5 45.5 32.5
Bjelobrk, Igor 2137 5.5 44.5 25.5
Depasquale, Chris 2294 5.5 44.0 32.5
Martin, Ben 2377 5.5 44.0 24.5
Rozycki, Robert 2133 5.5 38.0 23.0
10-12 Welling, Gerard 2364 5 47.0 26.5
Sandler, Leonid 2390 5 40.0 26.0
Yadao, Israel 2303 5 39.5 25.0
13-14 Saw, Geoffrey 2174 4.5 45.5 24.5
Nissen, Amir 1845 4.5 36.0 17.5
15-16 Low, Samuel 2086 4 39.0 18.5
Quinto, Eduardo 1700 4 32.0 18.0
17-20 Small, David 2160 3.5 37.0 21.5
Kempen, Leon 2148 3.5 35.5 17.0
Szuveges, Narelle f 1744 3.5 35.0 16.0
Kagan, Michael 2201 3.5 33.0 17.5
21 Stokie, Bill 1831 1 35.0 7.0
22-23 Enano, Ronald 1838 0 4.5 0.0
West, Guy 2401 0 3.0 0.0


Graeme Gardiner
President, Australian Chess Federation
C/- Somerset College, Somerset Drive, Mudgeeraba Q 4213
Phone 07 5530 3777 (w) 07 5530 5794 (h) Fax 07 5525 2676 (w)
Email: mailto:ggardiner@somerset.qld.edu.au http://www.auschess.org.au

Chess - the clever sport!

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