ACF Bulletin No. 127 - 29 July
2001
IN THIS ISSUE
Asian Championships for Women, Corporate Sponsorship, Australian
Chess
Forum, 2002 Oceanic Zonal, Asia v Europe match, Zong Yuan Zhao,
Queensland
Inter Schools, 2001 Grand Prix, Australian Rapid Play
Championships, ANU
Club Championships, NSW Grade Chess, Around Australia
trip, Correspondence.
ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR WOMEN INCORPORATING
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
QUALIFYING TOURNAMENT 2 TO 12
SEPTEMBER
LAST CALL FOR
AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVES!
I understand from Robert Jamieson that we still do not, as
yet, have any
nominations for the position of Australian seeds at the above
event.
This will be held at Channai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India from 2 to
12
September. I have been advised that Australia is entitled to two
seeds.
Entry fee 200 Swiss Francs. Free board and lodging for seeds. Extra
players
and accompanying persons twin US$60 per day, single US$100 per day.
11
rounds. New FIDE time controls to be used. Prize fund to be
announced
shortly. Nominations for seeds to be in to Robert Jamieson
auschess@iaccess.com.au by this Friday
3 August latest please.
CORPORATE RELATIONS - PETER
WALLMAN
Former ACF President Peter Wallman is actively pursuing
corporate
sponsorship for Australian chess.
If you are able to give him any leads at all, especially by opening the
door
to top level corporate leaders, please email Peter with the information.
He
could also do with help with any or all of the following:
1. Names of famous chess players.
2.
Influential Australians who play chess.
3. Corporate Sponsors (and statements
if possible from them) in different
parts of the world.
4. Cartoons,
interesting photos, catchy jokes, sayings etc covering the
above.
AUSTRALIAN CHESS FORUM
Having just read the July edition of this excellent magazine, it occurred
to
me that I haven't given it a plug for a long time, if at all. This is one
of
the few 'hard copy' chess publications available in Australia. It is
a
serious record of Australian chess which is clearly editorially
independent.
Many thanks to Shaun Press and Paul
Dunn for their great work.
If you would like to subscribe at an annual cost of $44 incl GST (12
issues
per annum), the contact details are as follows:
Advertising rates: Full Page $110, Half Page $66, Quarter Page $44
(GST
incl) Deadline for advertising, news and copy: 14th of every month.
Letters
to the editor are encouraged but correspondents are asked to keep
them brief
and to the point.
2002 OCEANIC ZONAL
Assuming that there is no change in policy by FIDE, the 2002 Oceanic
Zonal
will be held from Monday 6 May to Saturday 11 May at the Warwick
Fiji
Hotel/Resort, a luxury hotel fronting the beach with many facilities. I
am
advised by the President of the Fiji Chess Association, Dr Virgilio de
Asa
that May is usually off peak for air travel. Dr de Asa has organised
the
special room rates of F$67.50 (F$135 per room) or single room at
F$125
inclusive of full buffet breakfast. The normal hotel/resort rooms
cost
between F$200 and F$280 for overseas guests ($1.00AUD = 1.16754FJD). Dr
de Asa
has provided a comprehensive package which I believe will be very
appealing
to players.
ASIA V EUROPE MATCH
This will be held in Georgia from 14 to 20 September 2001. The ACF
nominated
our two GMs, Ian Rogers and Daryl
Johansen. However, I am advised by Ignatius Leong
that, based on
ratings and the rule of one player per federation, Asia's six
men will be
Anand (or Sasikiran),
Kasimdzhanov, Ye, Vladimirov,
Adianto and
Dao. Ian Rogers is a
reserve.
As a matter of interest, I checked the FIDE ratings of the players
chosen,
which are as follows:
Anand 2797 India (Rapid 283)
Sasikiran 2589 India (No Rapid
Rating)
Kasimdzhanov 2704 Uzbekistan (Rapid 268)
Ye 2677 China (Rapid
266)
Vladimirov 2612 Kazikstan (Rapid 261)
Adianto 2598 Indonesia (Rapid
264)
Dao 2572 Vietnam (Rapid 255)
Rogers 2538 Australia 29th on Asian list (Rapid 260)
Johansen 2524
Australia 37th on Asian list (No Rapid Rating)
ZONG-YUAN ZHAO
Zong-Yuan promised to send me a regular report of his
European travels as
I'm sure that there are many in the chess community who
are keen to hear of
his progress. Here is his first note:
Hello Everybody,
Just a quick note to let you all know that everything is going fine and
my
result in the Smith & Willamson Young Masters. I managed to get 5.5/9
which
was enough for equal third with four other people out of a field of 22.
The
tournament was well organized and most enjoyable.
This Saturday I'm heading for Scarborough where I will be competing in
the
British Championships until the 11th of August.
All the best, Zong-Yuan Zhao
I also received this note from Stewart Reuben
regarding my error in Zong-
Yuan's score as reported in last week's bulletin:
"Calamity! Zong-Yuan Zhao scored 5.5/9 and came 3-7= in the Smith
&
Williamson Young Masters. He is thinking of suing you for libel."
Sorry Zong-Yuan!
QUEENSLAND INTERSCHOOLS - IAN
MURRAY
While no threat yet to the NSWJCL program, interschool chess in
Queensland
is expanding at a rate of knots. The Gold Coast regional
tournaments are the
trailblazers, with total players in the primary and
secondary events now
over 1000. CAQ is maintaining the thrust in Brisbane,
and is now running the
state titles as truly statewide events, with zonal
tournaments beyond the
established regions in the south-east corner of the
state.
While the Suncoast and Toowoomba clubs stage interschool events in
their
zones, this week CAQ is conducting zonals in Gladstone and Mackay.
Wide
Bay - Burnett follows at the end of August, then North Queensland and
Far
North Queensland in October. Western Queensland is also being targeted,
with
zonals in Charleville and Mt Isa if there is sufficient interest.
The
Brisbane zonals have been played, as have the first rounds of the Gold
Coast
zonals.
The state finals between the zonal primary and secondary winners
is
scheduled for late October, with the state winners going on to the
national
finals in Brisbane on 15-16 December.
Another initiative is the RNA Greater Brisbane Primary Schools
Interdistrict
Championships, being played over six days at the Brisbane
Exhibition (the
Ekka - cf the Royal Easter Show in Sydney). The Royal
National Association
is sponsoring the event, with the championships of two
education districts
being held on each of the first five days, culminating in
the interdistrict
final between the winning teams.
The thrust into north and outback Queensland is being helped in no
small
part by a $5000 grant from Sport and Recreation Queensland, an arm of
the
state government.
2001 GRAND PRIX
One new event this week. The Australian Rapid Play is a class 3 event
next
weekend.
Just a reminder that we welcome more details of Grand Prix events
for
publication in this bulletin.
There are now 41 events for 2001.
20-21/October Box Hill Whitehorse Festival Week-Ender VIC Cat 2
Trevor
Stanning trevors@bluep.com
NSW 15, Qld 9, Tas 4, SA 4, ACT 3, Vic 5, WA 1.
AUSTRALIAN RAPID PLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS 4/5 AUGUST -
DAVID CORDOVER
Deakin University will again be hosting the Australian
Rapid-Play
Championships over the weekend of 4/5 August.
$8000 in prize-money!!! Plenty of ratings prizes and special junior
prizes.
3 divisions, U/1600, U/2000 and Open. Prize money as follows:
Open 1st
$1,300.00 2nd $900.00 3rd $500.00 4th $250.00 Under 2150 $250.00
Under 2000
1st $600.00 2nd $400.00 3rd $200.00
Group A 1st $200.00 2nd $100.00 Group B
1st $200.00 2nd $100.00 Top Female
$100.00
Under 1600 1st $500.00 2nd $350.00 3rd $200.00 Group A 1st $200.00
2nd
$100.00 Group B $200.00 2nd $100.00
Junior Prizes
Best Junior $100.00 2nd $50.00 3rd $25.00
Best U16
$50.00 2nd $25.00
Best U14 $50.00 2nd $25.00
Best U12 $50.00 2nd
$25.00
Best U10 $50.00 3rd $25.00
U8 $25.00
Deakin Student Prizes 1st
$100.00 2nd $50.00
Unrated Prize $100.00
ANU CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS - NYE
GRIFFITHS
The ANU Club Championships just finished. Congratulations to
Andrew
Greenwood for winning!
Here is a copy of the final
standings.
1 Greenwood,
Andrew 1745
5.5
2 Wright,
Ian
1989 5
3 Press,
Shaun
1835 4.5
4-5 McCoy,
Tom
1526 4
Oliver,
Gareth
1484 4
6-7 Ridge,
Mike
1428 3.5
O'Connor,
Travis
1428 3.5
8-9 Griffiths,
Nye
1387 3
Doel,
Henk
1816 3
10 De Gier,
Jan
1989 2.5
11 Yoon,
Sunny
1400 2
12 Oliver,
Tony
1100 1
13 Lau,
Eddie
1619 0.5
NEWS OF ARIANNE CAOILI
Arianne, now aged 14,
has just finished playing in the Dortminud event where
she scored her 5th WIM
norm. She came 21st in a field of 110 scoring 7/11
and coming equal with GMs.
She had a performance rating of 2350. She is now
participating in the
Vlissingen International Open in Holland. She is hoping
to make a WGM
norm.
NSW GRADE CHESS - PETER
CASSETTARI
Open grade scores after 9 rounds:
1 St George Pl 32 Pts 21.0 65.63%
2 Koala Pl 32 Pts 20.5 64.06%
3
Wests Pl 32 Pts 19.0 59.38%
4 Fairfield Pl 32 Pts 14.5 45.31%
5 Canterbury
Pl 36 Pts 15.00 41.67%
6 North Sydney Pl 36 Pts 10.00 27.78%
AROUND AUSTRALIA TRIP
I will be in Sydney on 25/26 September, Perth from 27 September to
3
October, Adelaide on 4/5 October and Melbourne on 6/7 October. I very
much
hope to arrange open meetings in each of these states and will
advise
further in due course.
CORRESPONDENCE
PAUL MOORE
A big thank you to all of you who supported us in "Chess" the Rock
Musical,
which ran at Top Ryde in June/July. The season was a near sell-out
and
thoroughly enjoyable for all of us at ‘THE’ Theatre Company.
You may know that we marketed it via an unofficial two-day ‘Cold War’
Chess
Tournament at Chatswood which was well supported by NSW Chess
members.
Many people (from NSW Chess and various clubs) gave me great advice in
the
early days of its planning and eventually we went with Nick
Kordahi’s
guidance. Thanks to all of you and Nick, we were able to
hold two great days
of chess with 16 entrants, which turned out to be just
the right number for
the space allocated to us at Westfield Chatswood.
Thank you Nick, and to everyone either in or related to NSW
Chess
Association who either helped or participated. And to those of you who
came
to our show, I hope you enjoyed the performance!
Cold War Chess Tournament Results:
Overall Winner: Rob Goris $200 Overall 2nd (tied):
Johnny ($50) and Lachlan
Benson ($50)
Bottom Section:
Winner (tied) Aaron White ($85) and
Upul ($85) Third (tied) Ken Shen ($15)
and
Norm Greenwood ($15).
Congratulations to all winners, and many thanks again to all of you.
The
cast and directors thoroughly enjoyed ourselves during the
tournament,
especially during the final game which was played on the giant
chess board.
The tournament’s team results (USA vs USSR) turned out to be a
draw, as did
the final giant board match.
Regards, Paul Moore