Australian Chess Federation newsletter | |
No. 304, February 3, 2005
In this issue:
Oceania Zonal: Lots of Aussies are playing in the FIDE Oceania Zonal now under way in New Zealand - but a Kiwi is leading the event. The competition will determine who represents the region at the next FIDE World Championship "knockout" tournament. The games are now being broadcast live via the web page at http://www.auschess.org.au/oceania/zonal/tfd.htm. Further information, pairings, results and archived games are available from the main site at
http://www.globalchessenterprises.co.nz/.
2005 Oceania Zonal - scores after 6 rounds
2005 Oceania Women's Zonal - scores after 6 rounds
New Zealand's Anthony Ker has won the inaugural Oceania Lightning Championships.
Scores
FM Garbett, Paul -- FM Canfell, Greg 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.g3 Nc6 7.Bg2 Bd7 8.
O-O Be7 9.Nb3 a6 10.a4 O-O 11.a5 b6 12.axb6 Qxb6 13.Be3 Qc7 14.f4 Rfd8 15.
g4 Bc8 16.g5 Nd7 17.Qe2 Nb6 18.Kh1 Nb4 19.Na5!? Bf8 20.Rfd1 Rb8 21.Rd2 d5
22.Bxb6 Rxb6 23.exd5 Qxf4 24.Rf1 Qc7
Bjelobrk, Igor -- FM Watson, Bruce 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.e4 e5 5.Nf3 Be7 6.Be2 c6 7.O-O O-O 8.
Rb1 a5 9.Re1 Re8 10.Bf1 Bf8 11.b3 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.f3 g6 14.Be3 Bg7 15.
Qd2 Nh5 16.Red1 Qe7 17.Nde2 Be5 18.Bg5 f6 19.Bh4 g5 20.Bf2 Nf4 21.Nd4 Qg7
22.Kh1 h5 23.a3 Bd7 24.b4 axb4 25.axb4 Na4 26.Nxa4 Rxa4 27.c5!? d5 28.b5!?
dxe4 29.fxe4 Bg4
GM Johansen, Darryl -- FM Depasquale, Chris 1.d4 c5 2.d5 Nf6 3.Nf3 g6 4.c4 Bg7 5.Nc3 O-O 6.e4 d6 7.h3 e5 8.Bg5 h6 9.Be3 Kh7 10.g4 Ne8 11.Bd3 Na6 12.a3 Nac7 13.Qc2 Bd7 14.Ke2!?
23.Nh4! Bxg4+ 24.hxg4
FM Canfell, Greg -- Bjelobrk, Igor 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 d4 5.Nce2 d3!? 6.cxd3
IM Solomon, Stephen -- IM Lane, Gary 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Bc4 Be7 5.d3 d6 6.O-O Nf6 7.Ng5 O-O 8. f4 Bg4 9.Qe1 Nd4 10.h3 Bd7 11.Qf2 exf4 12.Bxf4 b5 13.Bb3 Nxb3 14.axb3 Nh5!
Rxc5!! 31.Qxc5 Bd5 -+ 32.R1a2 Bxa2 33.Qa5 Qc1+ 34.Kh2 Qf4+ 35.Kh1 Rc8! 0-1
Bjelobrk, Igor -- GM Johansen, Darryl 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Bb4+ 3.Nd2 c5 4.dxc5 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bxc5 6.e3 b6 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.O-O Qc7 9.a3 Be7 10.b4 d6 11.Bb2 Nbd7 12.Rc1 O-O 13.Qb3 Rac8 14.Rc2 Qb8 15.Rfc1 Qa8 16.Qa2 Rfe8 17.Qa1 Bf8 18.Be2 Rc7 19.Re1 Qd8 20.Rcc1 Qe7 21. Nd4 Ra8 22.Bf3 Bxf3 23.N4xf3 a6 24.Qb1 Rac8 25.Red1 Qe8 26.Qd3 Be7 27.h3 h6 28.Qb3 Ra8 29.Qd3 Rac8 30.Qb3 Bf8 31.Qd3 Ra8 32.Qb3 Qc8 33.Qd3 Qb7 34. Kh1 Rac8 35.Kg1 Be7 36.Kh1 Rd8 37.Kg1 Rcc8 38.Kh1 Nf8 39.Qb1 Ng6 40.Kg1 Nf8 41.Qa1 Ng6 42.Qb1 b5 43.cxb5 axb5 44.Nb3 e5 45.Na5 Qa6 46.Nd2 Rxc1 47. Rxc1 Rc8 48.Rc2 Bd8 49.Nab3 Ne7 50.Rxc8 Qxc8 51.Qd3 Qd7 52.Qc2 Nc8 53.Kf1 Nb6 54.Ba1 h5 55.Kg1 g6 56.Kf1 Kf8 57.Bb2 Ke8 58.Ba1 Nfd5 59.Bb2 Kf8 60. Bc1 Nc7 61.Na5 Ne6 62.Ne4 f5 63.Nc3 Nc7 64.Qd3 d5 65.f3 Bf6 66.e4 fxe4 67. fxe4 d4 68.Ne2 Ne8 69.Nb3 Nd6 70.Nc5 Qf7 71.Kg1 Kg8 72.Kh1 Bg7 73.Ng1 Qc4 74.Qd1 Nf7 75.Nf3 Bf6 76.Bd2 Be7 77.Qe1 Bxc5 78.bxc5 Qxc5 79.Bb4 Qc6 80. Qh4 Qe6 81.Qg3 Nd7 82.Ne1 Kg7 83.Nd3 Nf6 84.Qe1 Ng5 85.Nc5 Qc4 86.Kh2 Ne6 87.Nb7 Nf4 88.Nd6 Qc2 89.Qg3 Nxe4 90.Qf3 Nxd6 91.Bxd6 Qf5 92.Qb7+ Kh6 93. Qb8 Nd3 94.Bf8+ Kg5 95.Qd8+ Kf4!
Australian Championships 2005/2006 - Junior Championships 2006 - Call for Bids In April 2004 the ACF Council called for bids for the Australian Championships 2005/2006 and associated events, the Australian Junior Championships 2006 and the Australian Schools Teams Championships 2005. The only bid received was from the NSWCA/NSWJCL for the Australian Schools Teams Championships 2005. That bid was accepted at the ACF Council meeting on 11 October 2004. This leaves the other events without a formal bid. I am anxious to ensure that we have the situation clarified and any bids in a state suitable for acceptance at the next ACF Council meeting to be held at Easter. By then there will be only 9 months' lead time for the events. The purpose of this notice is to call formally (again) for bids for the Australian Championship 2005/2006 and/or the Australian Junior Championships 2006. Bids are to be submitted in writing (includes email) by 5pm on Thursday 10 March 2005 to Jey Hoole, ACF Secretary A form of application (in either PDF or Word format) that covers the matters required by the ACF By-laws to be addressed is available by e-mail from me. Should not all the required information be available by the deadline, as much as is available should be supplied. If any bid is submitted on the basis of the ACF running the event direct, rather than granting its running upon application by a State Association, attention is drawn to By-law 14 of the By-laws for ACF Tournaments which provides that "the Council shall determine the State where a tournament will be held with the approval of the State Association of that State". Any such application should also give particulars of the proposed organising committee as it is not to be assumed that the ACF would undertake that task.
Denis Jessop Some recent ACF decisions ... ACF decisions from the last two Council meetings and the National Conference have been noted in past issues of the ACF Newsletter. I feel that several of those items could benefit from some greater explanation. ACF Junior Chess Subcommittee The Council meeting of 11 October 2004 established a new ACF Junior Chess Subcommittee. If the Subcommittee functions as the proponents of it hope, this could be the single most significant ACF initiative in some years. Until now there has been a tendency - almost a regular practice - in the Council to make decisions affecting junior chess events and administration without prior consultation with those closest to junior chess. It even seems that some may have not recognised that the needs, and conditions of running, junior chess events are in several important ways quite different from those applying to senior events. This is especially so where very young or first-time competitors are involved. The new subcommittee will comprise a Presiding Member from the ACF Executive and members nominated by State Associations after consultation with relevant junior chess bodies in their State. It will have power to make recommendations relating to junior chess to the Council on any matter it thinks fit or on matters referred to it by the Council or by the President at the request of a State Association. We hope that the subcommittee will provide valuable input to the Council and also relieve the Council of a bit of its workload, though the latter is very much a secondary benefit. The establishment of the Subcommittee is a much better solution, in my view, than the establishment of an independent Australian Junior Chess League which had been mooted by some but which would have caused a lot of complications in Australian chess administration. Repeal of Cl.12 of the Constitution Clause 12 provided for the holding of a players' meeting once a year, if possible at the venue of the major tournament of the Federation in that year. It also allowed the Secretary to convene a meeting of State Presidents or of other special groups of persons with members of the Council. Any motions passed at those meetings were advisory only. For several years the necessary quorum for a players meeting has not been present. It was considered that the obligation on the Council to hold a players meeting was an unnecessary burden. With the repeal of cl. 12 it will still be possible for the Council or the organisers of a tournament to hold players meetings. Moreover, there is no doubt that specific provision to allow the other Special Meetings is unnecessary. Indeed, without cl. 12, the Council now has greater flexibility to hold players and other meetings should the need be seen to be there. Mt Buller Steering Committee With the possibility that the Mt Buller management would be interested in having the Australian Open and Australian Juniors events at Mt Buller again in 2006/2007, the Council established a Steering Committee to oversee negotiations with Mt Buller. To date George Howard and I (both of us being members of the Committee) have had some discussions with Mt Buller. As things now stand, we believe the next move is with Mt Buller to put details in writing to us regarding their proposals.
Denis Jessop
2004 Olympiad - Australian Women's Team - Captain's Report by IM Leonid Sandler:
The 36th Chess Olympiad took place in Calvia (Spain) from 14 to 31 October 2004.
Our women's team comprised: As you know we scored 20.5 points from 42 games and placed 47th/87. Our team was ranked 35th. We won six matches, drew one and lost seven. Our results:
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Board One
Board Two
Board Three
Board Four
Finally A low point for the girls came in the penultimate round against Norway. The match ended in a disappointing 1.5:1.5 draw. We still had a +1 score, but a very tough paring for the last round put us against very experienced opponents from Switzerland with former World candidate WGM T. Lematchko and board two WGM B. Hund, who went on to win a bronze medal. It was not our day when Irina with black outplayed her opponent, but could not win. Arianne lost an equal rook ending, and Ingela overpressed and lost from a good position.The score 0.5:2.5 meant that we finished in 47th place and Switzerland in 31st position.
Eleven of our 14 opponents finished ahead of us in the final standing:
The three opponents who finished behind us were: All team members paid a substantial portion of their expenses and took holidays from work to represent their country. They deserve applause and recognition. I hope, that in the not-too-distant future women's chess in our country will progress and strong tournaments for women will be held. We do have a lot of talented players and more are on the way. In conclusion I would like to say a big "thank you" to my friends Manuel Weeks and Gary Bekker, who helped me a lot before and during the Olympiad.
Captain of Women's team Bonham appointed Junior Selection Co-ordinator: Kevin Bonham has been appointed Junior Selection Co-ordinator for the term ending on 30 June 2005, in a unanimous decision by the ACF Council. Mr Bonham, an academic and secretary of the Tasmanian Chess Association, has taken on the job for a short period to attend to some urgent junior selection matters. IM Jovan Petronic - the Chairman of FIDE's Computer & Internet Chess Committee - has written an interesting article on FIDE Trainers Committee, and the training elite in chess. You can download the article in Word or PDF format, or view a slightly updated HTML on the internet Dear Paul I was just reading your most informative January newsletter. I have a question which you may be able to answer. I have undertaken to resume teaching chess at school after a long break I used to know an ingenious chess problem, there are only a few pieces and the main feature was that white has to mate in four moves. The mate is effected with white's (only?) remaining man, a mere pawn. I hoped to find it again so that I could set it for the students to solve. Do you know the position/solution and if so could you send to me by return email? Thanks in advance.
Cheers Sorry Joe - I don't know. Can anyone else help? Gibtele.com Masters: Leading scores after 8 rounds: Shirov, Areshchenko, Aronian, Efimenko, Sargissian, Sutovsky, Nakamura, Spraggett and Gormally 6.0 Site | View games Bermuda International: This year the tournament features the exciting young Ukrainian player Volokitin. Leading scores after 3 rounds: Gelfand, Vescovi 2.0; Volokitin, Dominguez, Harikrishna 1.0; Macieja 0.5. Site : View games Leko wins Corus: Hungary's Peter Leko has scored a great victory in the 2005 Corus tournament, finishing half a point ahead of Anand. Leko scored four wins - including a a nice victory over Anand - and did not lose any games. Karjakin won the B event and Georgiev the C tournament. Site | View games - A | B games | C games | Rounds 1-2 annotated Final scores, 13 rounds: 1. Leko, Peter g HUN 2749 8.5; 2. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2786 8.0; 3. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2757 7.5; 4. Polgar, Judit g HUN 2728 7.0; 5. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2710 7.0; 6. Adams, Michael g ENG 2741 7.0; 7. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2754 7.0; 8. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2679 6.5; 9. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2700 6.5; 10. Bruzon, Lazaro g CUB 2652 6.5; 11. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2735 6.0; 12. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2674 5.5; 13. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2741 4.5; 14. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2685 3.5. B scores: 1. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2599 9.5; 2. Smeets, Jan g NED 2475 8.5; 3. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2657 8.5; 4. Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2648 8.0; 5. Cheparinov, Ivan m BUL 2572 7.5; 6. Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2652 7.5; 7. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2553 7.0; 8. Stellwagen, Daniel m NED 2524 6.5; 9. Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2491 6.0; 10. Kosteniuk, Alexandra m RUS 2490 5.5; 11. Ernst, Sipke m NED 2509 5.0; 12. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2549 4.5; 13. Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2676 4.0; 14. Ramirez, Alejandro g CRC 2507 3.0. C scores: 1. Georgiev, Vladimir g MKD 2517 10.5; 2. Korotylev, Alexey g RUS 2603 10.0; 3. Zhukova, Natalia wg UKR 2465 10.0; 4. L'Ami, Erwin m NED 2531 9.0; 5. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2605 9.0; 6. Jonkman, Harmen g NED 2399 6.5; 7. Spoelman, Wouter NED 2381 6.5; 8. Negi, Parimarjan IND 2316 5.5; 9. Pliester, Leon m NED 2383 5.0; 10. Bosboom, Manuel m NED 2426 5.0; 11. Bosboom-Lanchava, Tea wg NED 2366 4.0; 12. Muhren, Bianca wm NED 2295 3.5; 13. Wempe, Joost NED 2265 3.5; 14. Mamedjarova, Zeinab wg AZE 2349 3.0. (Bosboom Lanchava withdrew due to illness after 10 rounds)
Grischuk, A (2710) -- Ponomariov, R (2700) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 Ng4 7.Bc1 Nf6
8.f3 Qb6 9.g4 Nc6 10.Nb3 e6 11.Qe2 Qc7 12.Be3 b5 13.O-O-O Nd7 14.Qf2 Be7
15.g5 Nce5 16.a3 Rb8 17.Rg1 Nb6 18.f4 Nec4 19.Bxc4 Nxc4 20.Bd4 O-O 21.Bf6
!!
Leko, P (2749) -- Bruzon, L (2652) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.
c3 O-O 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 cxd4 13.cxd4 Bd7 14.Nf1 Rac8
15.Re2 Nc6 16.a3 exd4 17.Nxd4 Rfe8 18.Ng3 d5 19.Nxc6 Bxc6 20.e5 Ne4 21.Bf4
g5?!
Mamedyarov, S (2657) -- Cheparinov, I (2572)
1.Nc3 c5 2.e4 Nc6 3.Nge2 g6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Bg7 6.Be3 d6 7.Qd2 Nf6
8.f3 O-O 9.g4
Nikolic, Pr (2676) -- Mamedyarov, S (2657) 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.O-O d5 6.Nbd2 b6 7.c4 e6 8.
cxd5 exd5 9.Nb3 Re8 10.Bf4 Ba6 11.Re1 Nh5 12.Bg5 Qd6 13.Rc1 h6 14.Be3 Nd7
15.Rc2
Sutovsky, E (2669) -- Arakhamia, K (2454) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qc7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Qd2 a6
8.O-O-O b5 9.Bf4 Qb7 10.e5 b4 11.exf6 bxc3 12.Qxc3 Nb4 13.Bc4 gxf6
Gormally, D (2472) -- Sutovsky, E (2669) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bc4 e6 7.Bb3 b5 8.
O-O Be7 9.Qf3 Qc7 10.Qg3 Nc6 11.Nxc6 Qxc6 12.Re1 Bb7 13.a3 Rd8 14.a4 O-O
15.axb5 axb5 16.Bh6 Ne8 17.Ra7 Ra8 18.Rxa8 Bxa8 19.Bf4 Nf6 20.Bh6 Ne8 21.
Bf4 b4 22.Na2 Nf6 23.Bh6 Nh5 24.Qg4 Qb5 25.f3 Bf6 26.Rb1 Bd4+ 27.Kh1 Bxb2
28.Bd2 Nf6 29.Qg3 d5 30.Bxb4 dxe4 31.c4 Qf5 32.Bxf8 Nh5 33.Qg4 exf3 34.
Qxf5 fxg2+ 35.Kg1 Bd4+ 36.Qf2 Nf4!! 0-1
Macieja, B (2618) -- Volokitin, And (2685) 1.c4 e5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 h6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.e4 Bxc3 6.bxc3 d6 7.Ne2 Be6 8.
d3 Qd7 9.h3 g5 10.f3 Na6 11.h4 O-O-O 12.hxg5 hxg5 13.Bxg5 Rxh1+ 14.Bxh1
Rh8 15.Kf2 Nh7 16.Bh4 f5 17.exf5 Bxf5 18.d4 Qe6 19.c5 Nf6 20.Qb3 Nd5 21.
Re1 Re8 22.Nc1
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