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2012 Australian Championship The Championship will
be held at the Sphinx Entertainment Centre, North Geelong, Vic from 27
December 2011 to 8 January 2012 (eleven rounds with rest days on 1 and 5
January). See here for the entry form and
other details. 2011 Oceania Seniors’
Championship Playing dates: From Friday 5 to Monday 8 August 2011 Entry Fees: $60. Free entry
for Grandmasters and International Masters. Age limit: 60 for men, 50 for women (as at 31 December 2011) More information: http://www.boxhillchess.org.au/e2011/e1108sozc/event.htm |
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Women’s Zonal playoff IM Irina Berezina and
WIM Emma Guo, who tied for first in the Oceania Women’s Zonal in Rotorua,
New Zealand in January, will play off for a place in the next Women’s
World Cup at Parramatta RSL Club on Sunday 17 July - see link for more information. New chess blog For young Australian
players, IM Andrew Brown, FM Moulthun Ly, FM Junta Ikeda and Fedja Zulfic,
have established a blog to chronicle their overseas travels - see http://figjamchess.blogspot.com/ 2011 NSW Rapidplay
Championship This
event was held at Parramatta RSL on 10 July with xx players at a time limit
of 20 minutes plus 10 seconds per move. IM George Xie won with 6/7 from FM
Max Illingworth and IM Gary Lane 5.5. 2011 Victorian
Championships and Reserves This event will be conducted as two 12-player round
robins. Entries close 17 July - see link for details. 2012 Australian Championship
(Geelong, 27 December 2011 – 8 January 2012) The entry form is now
available, see here for the entry form and here for accommodation options
including deals at the Mercure in Geelong. Note that the main body of the
accommodation information is on the second page. |
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AusJCL Calendar
(National and International) See http://www.australian-junior-youth-chess.blogspot.com/ or the AusJCL page for calendars, selection
details, etc. Note that events are often changed so it is advisable to check
frequently for updates. World
Youth Chess Championships format Siow Weng Nian 2012 Australian Junior
Championships This
event will be run at Spensley Street Primary School in the inner Melbourne
suburb of Clifton Hill between Saturday 14th January and Sunday 22nd January,
organised by the Melbourne Chess Club. See link
for information and
updates. |
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Recent GP weekend
results Checkmate Open July 9-10,
Adelaide, SA. Trevor Tao won with 6/7 from GM Darryl
Johansen 5.5 and FM Bobby Cheng, Ronald Scott and Alistair Cameron 5 (28
players). Checkmate
Challengers July 9-10, Adelaide, SA. Lachlan
Cameron and Jamie Kenmure tied on 5.5/7 followed by Sophie Eustace and Denny
Han 5 (26 players) |
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Grand Prix events July 9-10 Lidums Checkmate [4], Adelaide,
SA link July 16-17 Guy West Classic [2], Melbourne,
Vic link July 30-31 ANU Open [4], Canberra, ACT link August 6-7 Cairns Open [1], Cairns, Qld link August 13-14 Hobart Weekender [1], Hobart,
Tas link August 13-14 North Queensland Open [1], Townsville,
Qld link August 20-21 Best in the West [1], Melbourne,
Vic link August 27-28 Bundaberg Weekender [2], Bundaberg,
Qld link August 27-28 St George Leagues Weekender [2],
Sydney, NSW link 2011 GP calendar link 2011
Guy West Classic (July 16-17) A 2011 Yulgilbar-Think Big Australian Chess Grand Prix event -
Class 2 2011
ANU Open and ANU Minor (July 30-31) Part of the ANU
Chess Festival. Venue: Canberra School of Art, Building
105, ANU, Acton, ACT (Please see map at link and click on grid EF-32. Any
orange colour car park adjacent to Building 105 will be free on Saturday and
Sunday.). Prizes: See flyer below.
First prize $1000 guaranteed, total pool $3,000 dependent on entries. 2011
Billanook College Chess Championship Cup Northern Star Chess is conducting the BCCC series
of tournaments again in 2011. 2011
Bundaberg Weekender (August 27-28) A CAQ Approved
Event. A Yulgibar-Think Big Australian Grand Prix 2011 Class Two Tournament Venue: Central State School, 13 Crofton
Street, Bundaberg. Time limit: 60 mins + 10
secs/move from the start (Fischer mode) Entry: $55 adults, $30
juniors. Late entry fee $10. Prizes: See flyer below. $500,
$300, $200 plus rating group and upset prizes. Further information:
See
flyer - http://www.caq.org.au/htm/2011/2011BundabergOpen.pdf Please
notify forthcoming tournaments to auschessnews@gmail.com |
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Championship and major events Oceania Seniors: 5 August
2011, Melbourne, Australia link World Seniors: 14
November 2011, Opatija, Croatia link Queenstown Chess
Classic: 15 January 2012, Queenstown, NZ
[incorporates NZ Championship] link (Date
listed is date of commencement) 2011 Commonwealth Championships The 2011 Commonwealth
Championships were held in the City of Ekurhuleni in Gauteng, South Africa
from 25 June to 4 July. GMs Gawain Jones and Nigel Short (both Eng) tied for
first on 9.5/11, with Jones taking the title on tie-break. Australia was
represented by GM David Smerdon who came third with 9, and Thomas Feng and
Tristan Stevens both 7. Rowan and Kevin
Willathgamuwa played in the B section, scoring 8 and 7.5/11 respectively.
See link for the tournament site. 2011 World Open FM Junta Ikeda and FM Moulthun
Ly participated in the World Open, a large Swiss event in Philadelphia, USA
from 28 June to 4 July, scoring 5 (=28th) and 4.5/9 (=39th)
respectively. Prior to this event they also played in the Philadelphia
International where they both scored 5.5/9, finishing equal fourth. GM Gata
Kamsky (USA) and GM Michael Adams (Eng) tied for first in the World Open. See link for the tournament
site. Oceania Titles In addition to the Australian
players’ titles already reported in ACF News (IM Andrew Brown, FM
Moulthun Ly, FM Gareth Oliver, WIM Emma Guo and WFM Megan Setiabudi), FIDE
has approved the title of WFM to Nicole Tsoi (NZ) following the Zonal in
Rotorua this year. Swiss Juniors Former Australian
Junior Champion under 8(2008) and under 10(2010) Peter Wallmueller just won
Swiss under 12 Championship! Leonid Sandler French cheating case A court in Verailles, France has
suspended sanctions against GM Sebastien Feller and GM Arnaud Hauchard. The
two, along with IM Cyril Marzolo, had been accused by the French Chess
Federation of cheating in the 2010 Olympiad in Russia. A Disciplinary Committee
of the Federation had imposed suspensions which were then increased by an
Appeals Committee to which they had appealed. The court decision is not a
dismissal of the decision but a suspension of the sanctions pending a court
ruling on the case, and enables the players to continue playing in the
meantime. FIDE itself appears to have made no ruling on the issue - GM Feller
qualified to play in the next World Cup by virtue of his result in the recent
European Championship. See link for a report on chessvibes. Rybka disqualified Another computer cheating case
– but this time by a computer program rather than with one. The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has
disqualified and banned Rybka and its programmer Vasik Rajlich from the World
Computer Chess Championships for the four years 2007 to 2010 and demanded
that the program’s medals and prizes be returned. ICGA alleges that Rybka appropriated part of two other programs,
Crafty and Fruit, without acknowledgement, in violation of the rules of the
tournament. At this
stage there appears to be no response on the Rybka page – see link; also see link for a report on chessvibes or link for the ICGA page. The last two links include technical
documentation used in reaching the verdict. |
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The July
FIDE ratings were released earlier this month. The leading Australians
(active players only) are shown in the next column. Magnus
Carlsen (Nor) has regained top spot with 2821 followed by World Champion
Viswanathan Anand (Ind) 2817, Levon Aronian (Arm) 2805 and Sergey Karjakin
(Rus) 2788. Boris Gelfand (Isr), who will play Anand for the world title in
2012, has moved to number 12 on 2746. A
rating of 2764 is necessary to be in the top ten, and 2649 for the top
hundred. Australia’s top player, GM Zong-Yuan Zhao, at 2570 is number
339. See here for the FIDE ratings page. |
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Following
is a list of useful sites, please notify additions or updates to the usual
address. Newspaper columns Peter Parr (Sydney Morning Herald) On-line media Bulletin boards Blogs The
Closet Grandmaster (Amiel Rosario) chessexpress (Shaun Press) Coffee House
Chess (Carl Gorka) Gawain
Jones [well almost Australian] Mailing lists / Newsletters Box Hill CC (Vic) - subscribe Noble
Park CC (Vic) Gardiner Chess (Qld) Australian Chess Federation Oceania Chess Confederation State Associations (Also
see state sites for information on clubs without their own web sites.) Game collections Correspondence chess Correspondence Chess League of Australia Chess compositions |
Junior Chess Leagues/clubs and
junior blogs Searching for Magnus Carlsen (blog, includes AusJCL info) NSW Clubs Ryde-Eastwood
Leagues Club CC (blog) Victorian Clubs Queensland Clubs WA Clubs SA Clubs Tasmanian Clubs Burnie Chess
Club (blog) ACT Clubs |
GAMES
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Zelesco,Karl
(2038) – Smirnov,Anton
(1991) [C45] JETS
training camp, 09.07.2011 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4
Bc5 5.Nxc6 Qf6 6.Qf3 Qxf3 7.gxf3 bxc6 8.Be3 Bxe3 9.fxe3 Ne7 10.Rg1 0–0
11.f4 d5 12.Nc3 dxe4 13.Nxe4 Nd5 14.Kf2 Re8 15.Bd3 Bf5 16.Nf6+ Nxf6 17.Bxf5
Rab8 18.b3 Rb5 19.Bd3 Rh5 20.Rg2 Rh3 21.Re1 Nd5 22.c4 Nxf4 23.exf4 Rxe1
24.Bxh7+ Kxh7 25.Kxe1
25...Re3+ 26.Kf2 Rc3 27.Ke1 Rc1+
28.Kd2 Rf1 29.Ke3 Rd1 30.Ke4 g6 31.Ke5 Kg7 32.f5 Rf1 33.fxg6 fxg6 34.Ke6 Re1+
35.Kd7 c5 36.Kxc7 Re3 37.Kb7 a5 38.Rg5 Re2 39.a4 Rxh2 40.Rxc5 Rh5 41.Rxh5
gxh5 42.c5 h4 43.c6 h3 44.c7 h2 45.c8Q h1Q+ 46.Qc6 Qe1 47.Qc7+ Kf8 (White
won, remaining moves unavailable) 1–0 Diagrams by |
Tapera,Uzeni
(2028) – Smerdon,David
(2520) [B27] Commonwealth
ch (3), S Africa, 24.06.2011 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.e5 Bg7 4.c3 d6
5.d4 cxd4 6.cxd4 Nc6 7.Bb5 a6 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.0–0 h5 10.Bf4 Nh6 11.exd6
exd6 12.Re1+ Be6 13.Ng5 Qf6 14.Nxe6 fxe6 15.Bxd6 Ng4 16.Qe2 Rd8 17.Bc5 Bf8
18.Nc3 Bxc5 19.dxc5 0–0 20.Qxe6+ Qxe6 21.Rxe6 Rd2 22.f3 Nf6 23.b4 Rc2 24.Nd1
Nd5 25.a3 Nf4 26.Ne3 Rxg2+ 27.Nxg2 Nxe6 28.f4 Rd8 29.Re1 Kf7 30.Re2 Rd3
31.Re3 Rd2 32.Kf1 Nd4 33.h3 Kf6 34.Ne1 Nf5 35.Rd3 Ra2 36.Nf3 Ng3+ 37.Ke1 Ne4
38.Ne5 g5 39.Nxc6 gxf4 40.Nd4 Ra1+ 41.Ke2 Ra2+ 42.Kf3 Nf2 43.Rc3 Ke5 44.c6
Nxh3 45.Nc2
45...Ng5+ 46.Kg2 (46.Kf2
Ne4+ 47.Kf1 Nd6; 46.Ke2! f3+ 47.Ke3) f3+ 47.Kf2 Kf4 48.c7 Ne4+ 49.Kg1 Nxc3
50.c8Q Rxc2 51.Qc4+ Ke3 52.Qc5+ Kd2 53.Qf2+ Ne2+ 54.Kh1 Rc3 55.a4 Rb3 56.Qc5?
Ke1! 57.Qe5 Rc3 58.Qh2 f2 59.Qh4 Rc4 0–1 on time, but White is soon mated anyway. |
Kudrin,Sergey
(2543) – Ly,Moulthun
(2375) [B90] World
Open, Philadelphia, 2011 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4
Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.a4 e5 7.Nf3 Qc7 8.Bg5 Nbd7 9.Nd2 h6 10.Be3 b6 11.Bc4 Bb7
12.Qf3 Be7 13.g4 Nc5 14.Bxc5 Qxc5 15.h4
15...d5 16.exd5 Rd8
17.0–0–0 Nxd5 18.g5 hxg5 19.Nce4 Qb4 20.hxg5 Rxh1 21.Rxh1 Nf4
22.c3 Qxa4 23.Nf6+ gxf6 24.Qxb7 Qd7 25.Rh8+ Bf8 26.Qxd7+ Kxd7 27.gxf6 b5
28.Bb3 Nd3+ 29.Kc2 Nxf2 30.Bxf7 e4 31.Bh5 Ke6 32.f7 Kf6 33.Rg8 a5 34.Nf1 b4
35.cxb4 axb4 36.Ne3 Ke5 37.Ng4+ Nxg4 38.Bxg4 Kf6 39.Bh5 e3 40.Kb3 e2 41.Rg1
Rd1 ½–½ 42.Rxd1 (or
42.Rg6+ Kf5 43.Bxe2 Kxg6 44.Bxd1 Kxf7) 42...exd1Q+ 43.Bxd1 Kxf7 is a dead draw. |
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