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No. 313, April 6, 2005
In this issue:
Mos Ali was elected ACTCA President at the AGM this week. He narrowly defeated Shaun Press in a secret ballot, 11 votes to 8
(with 2 abstentions). Former ACTCA President Denis Jessop, who is now ACF President, did not stand for re-election.
The rest of the ACTCA Committee were re-elected
unopposed; Roger McCart (Vice-President), Jey Hoole (Secretary), Paul Dunn
(Treasurer) and Shun Ikeda (Junior Chess Coordinator). - Jey Hoole
ICC star "Hawkeye" - GM Roland Schmaltz - in Australia: GM Roland Schmaltz from Germany, and his partner Nina Kissel who is a 1500 club player, have moved to Brisbane, and are likely to stay until at least the end of 2006.
Roland won the Brisbane Open without being troubled. His claim to fame is that he is the unofficial world bullet champion on ICC. He has also coached many of Germany's leading junior players. Check out his webpage at www.hawkeye.de.
- Graeme Gardiner
(Pic sourced from webpage)
World Juniors provisional selections:
These are the provisional selections for the World Juniors based on the
totals of the rankings provided by the five selectors. In each case the
first named player is the selected player in each division and the remaining
players are the reserves in order of priority.
My thanks to the selectors, IGM Ian Rogers, IM Stephen Solomon, IA Manuel
Weeks, FM Brett Tindall and FM Geoff Saw for their many hours of work on the
selections.
My thanks also to all the applicants for their interest in representing
Australia, and to all the parents, coaches and other connections who have
helped with applications.
Appeals may be made as per section 9 of the ACF selections by-laws which can
be found at http://www.auschess.org.au/constitution/con7.htm . The deadline
for appeals is April 6th.
If any appeals are received the affected candidates will be notified.
- Kevin Bonham
Open U18
Open U16
Open U14
Open U12
Open U10
Girls U18
Girls U16
Girls U14
Girls U12
Girls U10
P.S. Raymond Song and Angela Song have unfortunately had to decline their
places in the team for family work reasons, and have been replaced by Zhigen
Wilson Lin and Tamzin Oliver respectively. - Kevin Bonham
ACF Council Meeting: The next meeting will be on 11 April by telephone hook-up. Among the items to be discussed are proposals for the 2006 Grand Prix and clarification of matters concerning the schools' levy.
Match - Moulthun Ly v IM Stephen Solomon: 9/10 April and 16/17 April.
An 8-game match is about to start between 13 year old Moulthun Ly (the youngest ever Australian Junior Champion) and International Master Stephen Solomon who has represented Australia with distinction in many Olympiads.
Entrants in both the Queensland Women's Championship and the Gold Coast Junior Championship will have a special treat, as they will be able to watch two of Australia's finest players compete in an eight game match over the two weekends. There will be two games a day, with the first game starting at 10am and the second game starting one hour after the first finishes to allow time for analysis and refreshments. All eight games will be relayed live to the internet via www.gardinerchess.com (live chess).
Surfers Paradise Mind Games Promotion 28/29 May.
Last year this was a big event, and this year it promises to be bigger and better. There will be three chess events over the weekend.
Sat 28 May 11am to 3pm - Blitz
Sat 28 May 5 to 9pm - Transfer
Sun 29 May 10am to 5pm - Surfers Paradise Premier Rapid
Special Offer - Chess Mania - Enter all 3 events for $45 per person ($30 for juniors/pensioners)
Prizes for the Premier Rapid: 1st $1,000, 2nd $500, 3rd $250, Juniors 1st $300, 2nd $200, 3rd $100. Ratings Prizes: Under 2100 $100, Under 1800 $100, Under 1500 $100, Under 1200 $100, Under 1000 $100, Under 900 $100, Under 800 $100, Under 700 $100, Under 600 $100. Unrated 1st $120, 2nd $80, 3rd $60, 4th $40. Total $3,550.
Prizes for the Blitz and Transfer are yet to be announced.
- Graeme Gardiner
The top ten active Australians (country ranking 52nd out of 136 countries) on
the April 2005 World Rating List- GM I.Rogers 2576 (World No 199), GM
D.Johansen 2471 (No 912), IM G.Lane 2446 (No 1229), IM Z.Zhao
2442, T.Tao 2421, IM S.Solomon 2412, IM J.Wallace 2410, IM D.Smerdon 2409, IM
A.Wohl 2403, IM M.Gluzman 2403. Women - IM I.Berezina 2285, WM A.Sorokina
2230, WM A.Caoili 2207, WM N.Phan-Koshnitsky 2183, WM B.Dekic 2134.
The top ten are G.Kasparov (RUS 2812), V.Anand (IND 2785), V.Topalov (BUL
2778), P.Leko (HUN 2763), V.Kramnik (RUS 2753), V.Ivanchuk (UKR 2739),
M.Adams (ENG 2737), J.Polgar (HUN 2732), E.Bacrot (FRA 2731), P.Svidler (RUS
2725). - Peter Parr
Adelaide Uni Open:
Hi all,
My name is Alex Saint and I am the president of the Adelaide University Chess
Club (AUCC). I am writing about the Adelaide University Open National Chess
Tournament to be held on the 9th and 10th of July 2005. This will most
probably be the final University Open and we hope to make it the best yet.
The University Open is one of Australia's largest weekend chess tournaments
with entrants coming from all over Australia. This is a Category 3 Grand Prix
Event with $4000 in total prizes and $1000 top prize. Previous winners include
IM Stephen Solomon, GM Ian Rogers and IM Mark Chapman.
In its final year, we are very keen to get as many IMs and GMs to our event as
possible. Because of this, the University Open organisers have decided to
offer $200 against prizemoney for all IMs and GMs that compete. We hope,
particularly for the IMs, that you are satisfied with our recongition of your
abilities and service to Australian chess.
We are also very keen to get interstate players. This is why we have kept the
entry fees as low as possible ($50/40), provided cheap accommodation deals on
our website, put on a transfer tournament and provided a $5 full buffet dinner.
Please let me know if you or others would be interested in playing in the
University Open and whether you would like an entry form or multiple forms sent
to you.
For full details, go to our website- www.unichess.org
Cheers,
Dandenong Summer Swiss - report from Garry Lycett on the Chess Victoria newsletter:
The eighth and last round of the Dandenong Summer Swiss saw Malcolm Pyke
and Milenko Lojanica both win and emerge as the joint tournament winners
with 6.5 / 8.
Milenko finished unbeaten with 5 wins and 3 draws whilst Malcolm, who was
outright or equal leader for the whole event, had 6 wins, 1 draw and lost
the one game to Milenko in the penultimate round.
Both their last round games were interesting, Milenko played very well on
the Black side of a Kings Gambit to defeat Don Machell. Having seen the
result of that game Malcolm knew he had to win against Zdravko Lojanica,
and he managed to do just that in the second last game to finish.
Finishing on 3rd with 6 points was Mendel Armerman who performed well above
expectations in this event, wins against Miralem Campara and Abdulwahab
Rashid should be a boost to his rating. Frank Silas, Zdravko Lojanica and
Wilson Lin finished 4th - 6th on 5.5 points, with another 11 players
finishing on 5.
The U1600 Group was jointly won by three players; Bob Spiric, Bahri Senturk
and Matthew Potter all won their last round games to finish on 5 points.
They were half a point ahead of Peter Pispek who had led this group from
Round 4, but who finished with two very tough opponents in the final
rounds.
The U1400 Group had an interesting end, going into the last round three
players were tied on 3.5, Frank Drazzi, Craig Baxter and Philip Drew, with
a number of players on 3 and 2.5. Somehow everybody in this group managed
to lose and with one game left the standings remained the same. However in
this game Craig Baxter was playing Bob Parrot and had a winning position in
a rook and pawn ending. But Craig was running out of time and this caused
him to make a few mistakes, unfortunately for the other two he was good
enough to hang on in time pressure for a draw which was all he needed for a
well deserved 1st in this group on 4 points.
Final Standings
Paul,
an error in the Doeberl Cup results crept into
ACF Bulletin 312. Specifically I finished on 1.5 points, not 2.5 points, in the Premier division. I
lost to Tony Davis in the last round but somehow the crosstable (initially)
had us both with byes for the last round!? You may want to issue a
correction in the next bulletin.
Come to think of it maybe I should have kept quiet.........
Best Regards
(Here are the corrected results - Ed)
Premier - DOP: Shaun Press - 67 players - Final Scores after 7 rounds:
6.0 GM Ian Rogers (NSW), IM Aleksander Wohl (Qld)
7th United Insurance GM: In Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Dubai Open: Players include Motylev, Georgiev, Navara, Mamedyarov, Kobalia, Ni Hua, Aleksandrov, Volkov, Ghaem Maghami, Bu Xiangzhi, Sargissian, Miroshnichenko, Vladimirov, Efimenko, Iordachescu, Riazantsev, Kotsur, Sorokin, Zhang Zhong and Kacheishvili.
Leading scores after 3 rounds: Kacheishvili, Zhou and
Gagunashvili 3. Site :
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Radjabov grabs lead in Dos Hermanas: Illescas Cordoba beat Korneev in round 6. Radjabov beat Karjakin in round 5 to take the lead. Felgaer beat Harikrishna while Radjabov downed Illescas Cordoba in round 4. Karjakin beat Dominguez in round 3 to grab the sole lead. Felgaer beat Rustemov in the only decisive game of round 2. Scores after 6 rounds: 1. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2673 4.0; 2. Felgaer, Ruben g ARG 2593 3.5; 3. Azmaiparashvili, Zurab g GEO 2671 3.5; 4. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2635 3.5; 5. Rustemov, Alexander g RUS 2573 3.0; 6. Harikrishna, P g IND 2646 3.0; 7. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2705 2.5; 8. Korneev, Oleg g RUS 2611 2.5; 9. Illescas Cordoba, Miguel g ESP 2633 2.5; 10. Dominguez, Lenier g CUB 2658 2.0.
Site :
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April Ratings: FIDE has released its latest list. The retiring Kasparov goes out on top, having gained a few points. Also noteworthy is the re-appearance of Gata Kamsky in the list.
Kasparov 2812
French Team Championship: Players include Grischuk, Adams, Bacrot and Svidler. Site :
View games - A division :
View games - B division
Games: I have not got around to looking at the Doeberl Cup games yet ... hopefully nextt week - Ed.
Hansen, SuB (2553) -- Hutters, T (2445) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Be2 a6 7.O-O Be7 8.
f4 O-O 9.Kh1 Qc7 10.a4 Nc6 11.Be3 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 Bd7 13.e5 Ne8 14.Bf3 Bc6
15.Ne4 Rd8 16.Qc3 Bxe4 17.Bxe4 Rc8 18.Bd4 f5 19.exf6 Bxf6 (D)
20.Qh3!! Bxd4 21.Bxh7+ Kf7 22.Rfe1 Qd7 23.f5 e5 24.Bg6+ Ke7 25.Qh4+ Nf6 26.Qxd4! Rxc2 27.Rad1 Qc7 28.Qe3 Rc4 29.h3 Qc5 30.Qg5 Kd7 31.Bh5 Nxh5 32.Qxh5 Rf4 33.Qg6 R8xf5 34.Qxg7+ Rf7 35.Qg6 R7f6 36.Qg8 Rf8 37.Qb3 Rb4 38.Qg3 Rbf4 39.Kh2 R8f7 40.Qb3 Qb4 41.Qd5 Ke7 (D) 42.Rxe5+!! Kf8
Hansen, Cu (2633) -- Aagaard, J (2449) 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 c6 4.Nf3 e4 5.Nd4 Qb6 6.Nb3 d5 7.cxd5 cxd5 8.
d3 Nc6 9.Bg2 exd3 10.Be3 Qa6 11.exd3 Bg4 12.Qd2 Rd8 13.O-O Be7 14.Nc5 Qb6
(D) 15.Nd7!? Qa5 16.Nxf6+ Bxf6 17.Bg5 Bxc3 18.Rfe1+ Kf8 19. bxc3 f6 20.Qf4 Bh5 (D) 21.Bxf6!! gxf6 22.Qh6+ Kg8 23.Qxh5 Ne5 24.Qf5 Kg7 25.Rxe5 !! (D) 25...fxe5 26.Qxe5+ Kf7 27.c4 1-0
Hansen, Cu (2633) -- Aagaard, J (2449) 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 c6 4.Nf3 e4 5.Nd4 Qb6 6.Nb3 d5 7.cxd5 cxd5 8.
d3 Nc6 9.Bg2 exd3 10.Be3 Qa6 11.exd3 Bg4 12.Qd2 Rd8 13.O-O Be7 14.Nc5 Qb6
(D) 15.Nd7!? Qa5 16.Nxf6+ Bxf6 17.Bg5 Bxc3 18.Rfe1+ Kf8 19. bxc3 f6 20.Qf4 Bh5 (D) 21.Bxf6!! gxf6 22.Qh6+ Kg8 23.Qxh5 Ne5 24.Qf5 Kg7 25.Rxe5 !! (D) 25...fxe5 26.Qxe5+ Kf7 27.c4 1-0
Hansen, SuB (2553) -- Hansen, Cu (2633) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Be2 Be7 7.O-O Nc6 8.Kh1 O-O 9.f4 Bd7 10.Nb3 Qc7 11.Bf3 Rfd8 12.Qe2 Be8 13.Bd2 a6 14.Rae1 b5 15.Nd5
Hansen, SuB (2553) -- Hansen, Cu (2633) 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Be3 c6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Qd2 O-O 7.h3 b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.Bh6 c5 10.Bxg7 Kxg7 11.e5 Nfd7 12.Be4 Ra7 13.O-O dxe5 14.dxc5 b4 15. Na4 Qa5 16.a3!?
Felgaer, R (2588) -- Rustemov, A (2598) 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 Ne7 7.a4 Nbc6 8.Nf3 Qa5 9.Qd2 f6 10.Bb5 Bd7 11.exf6 gxf6 12.O-O O-O-O 13.Ba3 cxd4 14.Nxd4!
Nijboer, F (2549) -- Gouliev, N (2514) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.g4 h6 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.O-O-O Ne5 11.Bd3 b4 12.Nce2 d5 13.Bf4 Nxd3+ 14.cxd3 dxe4 15.dxe4 Bb7 16.Kb1 Be7 17.Qc2 Rc8 18.Qa4+ Qd7 19.Qb3 Nxe4!!
2005 Open - Tasmania: June 11-13; Burnie Chess Club; Room 25, Portside Building, Spring Street, Burnie. Contact: Neville Ledger, P.O. Box 837, Burnie, Tasmania 7320. Email
Hobsons Bay Community Event: April 9;
5 Round Swiss - 30mins + 10secs; Prize Money depends on entries; $30/$20; Contact Grant Bultman Email 0422744743 Website The 5th BCC Open is coming soon! It will be held May 19-23 at Regent Cha-Am Resort (www.regent-chaam.com) approx 200km from Bangkok. All tournament details can be seen in our website www.bangkokchess.com. You can register by using the online registration form, and a list of already-registered players will be on the website soon. Open Znojmo International Chess Festival: May 14-22; Znojmo, Czech Republic; part of Czech tour; Details Queenstown Chess Classic: Jan 15-24, 2006 with Rapid and Lightning events on Jan 25-26. Total prizefund over $NZ35,000. www.queenstownchess.com Confirmed entries from GM's Rogers and Chandler. NZ's largest ever chess event anticipated.
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