ACF Bulletin No. 100 - 21 January 2001
PROGRESS TOWARDS CHESS AS A SPORT
The ACF Secretary, PAUL BROEKHUYSE has heard from the Australian Olympic
Committee that the ACF is likely to be accepted as a 'recognised body'. This is
subject to the ACF supplying more information.During the week I had a meeting at Parliament House with Shadow Minister
of
Sport, KATE LUNDY. During the meeting I impressed on the Shadow Minister
that it wasn't sufficient for chess to be recognised as recreation. I gave
several reasons why chess needs to be recognised as a serious sport, one
of which is that in order to receive funding to conduct drug tests in line with
IOC regulations, the ACF needs to be recognised as a sport by the Australian
Sports Commission. For this to happen, it will require politicians in power
to change the laws under which the Australian Sports Commission is run by
civil servants. Senator Lundy advised me that this was a good time for our
meeting because she is in the process of forming the Labour Party's sports
policy for the Federal Election due later this year.
WINNERS OF ACF MEDALS
At the Australian Open Closing Ceremony, ACF Medals Coordinator, GARY
WASTELL announced the following winners for this year:
Steiner Medal (Player of the year) DARRYL JOHANSEN
Purdy Medal (Chess Journalism) DAVE ELLIS
Koshnitsky Medal (Chess Administration) RICHARD GASTINEAU-HILLS
Many congratulations to each of the above for their fine contribution to
Australian chess.
2001 AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR RAPID
1 Kuan-Kuan Tian (N) 2054 6.5
2 Sam Chow (V) 1893 6.5
3 George Xie (N) 2007 5.5
4 Arthur Huynh (N) 1480 5
5 Keiran Olm-Milligan (Q) 1502 5
6 Jonathon Humphrey (Q) 1673 5
7 Dusan Stojic (A) 1502 5
8 Michelle Lee (V) 1652 5
9 Svetozar Stojic (A) 1435 4.5
44 players
Progress scores in 2001 Australian Juniors after 8 rounds
Open Under 18
1 IM David Smerdon (Q) 2304 7
2 IM Zhao Zong-Yuan (N) 2297 6.5
3 Sam Chow (V) 1893 6
4 Jonathon Humphrey (Q) 1673 5.5
5 George Xie (N) 2007 5.5
6 Peter Jovanovic (A) 1842 5.5
7 Catherine Lip (N) 1801 5.5
8 Denis Bourmistrov (V) 1881 5.5
9 Julian McDonald (V) 1546 5.5
10 Kuan-Kuan Tian (N) 2054 5.5
11 Keiran Olm-Milligan (Q) 1503 5.5
12 WIM Laura Moylan (A) 1871 5.5
65 players
Open Under 12
1 Dusan Stojic (A) 1487 8
2 Casey Barnard (Q) 1508 7
3 Michael Wei (A) 1478 6
4 Louis Chu (N) 1099 5.5
5 Eugenia Sharomova (N) 1378 5.5
39 players
Girls' Under 18 (10 rounds)
Michelle Lee (V) 1652 8.5
Sally-Anne Richter (V) 1167 8
Shannon Oliver (A) 1390 7.5
Kateryna Moshnenko (Q) 1493 7.5
Juanita Lauer-Smith (S) 1239 6.5
Jade Lauer-Smith (S) 1093 6
13 player round robin
Girls' Under 12
1 Heather Huddleston (N) 1127 7
2 Casey Hickman (V) 869 6.5
3 Rebecca Harris (N) 967 5
4 Vaness Reid (N) 938 5
5 Amy Evans (Q) 985 5
20 players
Full details:
http://www.lexicon.net/ianandjan/Ian/Chess/AustralianJunior/Default.htm
A GAME FROM ALEX WOHL:
FOMINYH-WOHL
It's been so long since I won against a good player I have to share it with
you.
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Bb4 6.Nbd2 O-O 7.O-O Re8 8.a3 Bf8
9.b4 c5 10.Qb3 Nc6 11.d5 ed5 12. cd5 Nb8 13.e4 Na6 14.b5 c4 15.Qc4 Rc8
16.Qd4 Nc5 17.Re8 g6 18. Bb2 Bg7 19. Re3 d6 20. h3? Bd5 21. Rae1 Ba8 22.Nh2
Qd7 23. Ng4 Re6 24. Nf6 Bf6 25. Qb4 Bb2 26. Qb2 d5 27 ed5 Re3 28.Re3 Bd5
29.Bd5 Qd5 30.Nf3 Ne6 31. h4 Rc5 32.a4 Qd1 33. Kg2 Qa4 34. Qf6 draw offer
Rf5 35.Qe7 Qb5 36.Qa7 Qc6 37.Qa1 Qd5 O-1
PNG INTERNATIONAL OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP - GARY BEKKER:
The inaugural PNG International Open Chess Championship is open to all
players. Appearance money will be offered to foreign, FIDE-rated
competitors. Entries, or enquiries should be directed to Gary Bekker,
gbekker@mira.net. Webpage: http://www.auschess.org.au/oceania/pngopen.htm
Gary also notes that all current January 2001 ratings and ratings
calculations are available from his web site:
http://www.auschess.org.au/oceania/aus.htm
TOURNAMENTS IN HUNGARY
1. 3rd-16th of February - "FIRST SATURDAY" GM-IM-FM tmt, Budapest, organi=
zer
Nagy Laszlo,
2. 16th-24th of February, IM-closed tournament, Eger, /100 km North-East
from Budapest/, organizer: IM Ali Habibi, e-mail: europechess@web.de
3. 3rd-16th of March , FS IM-FM tmt, Budapest, org.: NL.,
4. 16th-24th of March, 17th Budapest Spring Festival, 9 rounds Swiss, org:
NL.,
5. 7th-19th of April, FS GM-IM-FM tmt, Budapest, org.: NL,
6. 5th-17th of May, FS, IM-FM tmt,
7. 21st of May - 1st of June, ELEKES memorial, Budapest, GM-IM-tmt, Org: IM
Zsinka Laszlo, mobile: /36/-20-9219197
8. 2nd-14th of June FS GM-IM-FM tmt, org: NL.,
9. 12th-26th of June, GM-IM tmt Szentgotthard /West of Hungary/, org. FM
Tomcsanyi, Peter, e-mail: tomcsany@mail.matav.hu
Regards: Nagy, Laszlo, International Chess Organizer, E-mail:
firstsat@elender.hu, www.elender.hu/~firstsat, phone-fax: (361)-263-28-59=
,
mobile: (36)-30-230-1914
CORRESPONDENCE
FM BOB SMITH, Organiser, 108th NZ Chess Congress
Just wondering if you could in the next ACF Bulletin correct the statement
made re CHRIS DEPASQUALE'S performance at the NZ Champs. The bulletin states
: "unfortunately for him the event was not quite strong enough for an IM
Norm". This was wrong. Chris did in fact score an IM Norm over the first 9
rounds (perhaps you just counted 11). He scored 7/9 with an average rating
of 2256.66 (counting the 1 unrated player he faced as 2000, as per FIDE
regulations). This conforms with a Category One tournament (2251-2275), in
which he needed 7/9.
So I think congratulations are in order for Chris Depasquale and a
correction! Hopefully you will oblige in the next bulletin. I would also
appreciate (as mentioned) acknowledgement that Sandler, Dive and Ker are IMs
and that Depasquale and Garbett are FMs.
All the best in chess
Graeme Gardiner
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Graeme Gardiner
President, Australian Chess Federation
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Chess - the clever sport!
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