In this issue:
In 2001 the ACF introduced a Public Liability Insurance Scheme for Australian chess bodies. The Scheme has not received as much publicity recently as perhaps it should have and we were reminded of its details by the presentation given by Chris Zuccala to the ACF Council meeting at Mt Buller on 6 January 2005.
The scheme provides competitive rates of insurance for the ACF, ACF-affiliated State and Territory Associations and Clubs affiliated with those Associations. Current Annual Premiums are:
ACF $644
The financial year of the policy, which is with Lumley General Insurance Ltd, is 1 September to 31 August. A club joining during the year pays pro rata for that year.
At present the ACF, 6 State and Territory Associations and 21 chess clubs, including the NSW and ACT Junior Chess Leagues have joined the scheme. The more clubs there are in the scheme the more likely it is that premium rates can be kept down.
In the current climate of increased tendency to litigate matters, clubs are urged to give serious consideration to joining the scheme. A club is not covered by the scheme merely because its State Association has joined. Moreover clubs that are located in, say, licensed leagues clubs and believe that they are covered by that leagues club's policy should ensure that that is in fact the case.
The policy covers only public liability. It does not cover property owned by the insured chess club. Separate arrangements are available for property cover for chess centres and for insurance cover for coaches.
Clubs wishing to join should contact Chris Zuccala of John Bernard & Associates Pty Ltd tel: (03) 9568 4822; e-mail: chris@johnbernard.com.au.
Footnote: Chris is a chess player having been a Committee member of Mentone Chess Club, Melbourne, in the past.
- Denis Jessop
The Hospitality Textiles Tony Colyer Pty Ltd Australian Junior has begun in Mt Buller. Details on the Mt Buller website.
Australian Junior U18 - leading scores after 7 rounds:
Girls U18 - leading scores after 7 rounds:
U12 Open - leading scores after 5 rounds:
U12 Girls - leading scores:
Ly, Moulthun 9.5/11
Australian Open 2005 - Report by DOP Charles Zworestine:
There are many who may consider an overall turnout of 73 players for an Australian Open to be very disappointing - and indeed the organisers were disappointed with the numbers for the inaugural Lidums Australian Open Chess Championships at Mount Buller. However, nobody could really complain about the playing strength for this event! Three GMs (Edvins Kengis, Hans-Joachim Hecht and local Darryl Johansen) were nicely complemented by four highly competitive IMs (Aussie David Smerdon and Italians Ennio Arlandi, Carlo D'Amore and Elena Sedina - the latter also a WGM). Three FMs (Igor (Iggy) Bjelobrk, George Xie and Bill Jordan) then rounded off the even top ten - and signified a rather top-heavy tournament. With time controls of 90 minutes each plus one minute per move from the start guaranteeing high quality chess, it was clearly going to be a highly competitive event!
And so it proved, as early as Round 1, when Bill Jordan was on the worse end of a lengthy upset draw against dangerous local junior Rukman Vijayakumar. The queen and pawn ending may well have been winning for Rukman at one stage! Noteworthy too was Angela Song's effort against Hecht: she held him for most of the game, was one of the last games to finish and even offered the GM a draw! The others in the top ten all won in Round 1; but not so in Round 2, where draws were achieved by Zvedeniouk against D'Amore, Dizdarevic against Sedina and Obst with Xie. The Italians were already discovering how dangerous and underrated the Aussies are - especially the youngsters!
The first of the meetings between the top seeds occurred in Round 3, with Hecht drawing a massive struggle with Kengis after the latter was winning but could not put the veteran German GM away. In the end Kengis' extra pawn meant nothing, as all the pawns were on the same side of the board. Johansen and Bjelobrk joined a group of four players in the lead on 3/3 with wins. They were joined there by junior Jason Hu, who stunned the Smurf (Smerdon) by fighting back from an inferior position to score an upset win. IM Arlandi also eventually joined the leading group, but only after a massive struggle with 10 year old Raymond Song: Ray was better and missed several opportunities to draw before finally going down.
Round 4 saw Bjelobrk continuing a trend by drawing with Johansen (apparently they draw the vast majority of their games). Kengis defeated Xie and D'Amore beat Jordan, but Sedina and Hecht were once more held to draws (by 20 year olds Jonathan Humphrey and Aaron Guthrie respectively). Arlandi halted Hu, while Smerdon somewhat stalled the charge of the juniors by winning a slugfest against Moulthun Ly. All this left Arlandi in the outright lead as the only player on 4/4. He could hardly have felt comfortable though, with two GMs (Johansen and Kengis), an IM (D'Amore) and an FM (Bjelobrk) breathing down his neck on 3½.
Kengis and Arlandi were the marathon men in Round 5, fighting for an incredible 7½ hours and 141 long moves before eventually agreeing to a draw! The GM missed several forced wins, with the Italian (clearly a fighter) eventually forcing an ending where his rook and pawn built a near fortress against the enemy queen and pawn. Opinions were (and still are!) divided as to whether this could be won or not; the final draw was probably more due to mutual exhaustion than anything else! Arlandi was hence joined by Johansen and Bjelobrk in the lead, as Darryl defeated D'Amore and Bjelobrk outplayed Smerdon. Raymond Song was thrilled to hold GM Hecht to a draw - until someone told him he missed chances to play for a win at the end!
Another long game saw Arlandi grind down Bjelobrk in Round 6, thus taking the outright lead again after Johansen drew with Sedina. A win by Kengis saw him still just half a point behind on 5/6 with Darryl, while D'Amore, Hecht and Xie all won to join Iggy on 4½. So to Round 7, where we wondered whether the leading players were tiring after all three top boards were drawn! Little change at the summit then, as Johansen drew with Arlandi, Kengis split the point with Iggy and Xie got his best result so far of half a point against IM D'Amore. Sedina and Hecht won to stay in contention on 5½, while wins by Smurf (5) and Jordan (4½) also kept them in the hunt.
Just when Arlandi was beginning to feel safe, he was shocked by Sedina in Round 8! His first loss thus toppled him from the lead, leaving Sedina and Hecht (who stunned Darryl) equal first on 6½/8. With Smurf scoring his best result so far by drawing with Kengis, the tournament was still wide open at this stage. Five players were on 6/8, just half a point off the lead: Arlandi, Kengis, D'Amore, Bjelobrk and Xie. As Johansen, Smerdon and Jordan were just a further half point back, the cream was starting to rise to the top.
Women's libbers were elated when Sedina took the outright lead with a shock win over Hecht in Round 9, the German GM's first loss. Mind you, she still had D'Amore to contend with, after the latter largely ended Iggy's chances of an IM norm with a win. Xie's draw with Arlandi was a blow to the chances of both, while Kengis' win over Jordan effectively ended the latter's tournament. Johansen and Smerdon also suffered major setbacks. Smurf was lucky Pecori offered him a draw when winning; while Darryl could not convert an extra exchange and had to settle for a draw against Domagoj Dragicevic.
More draws at the top in Round 10, as Sedina (8) held Kengis (7½) to maintain her outright lead after D'Amore (7½) drew with Arlandi (7). Hecht's win over Xie also got him to 7½, leaving George to wait for another time. Darryl was lucky to beat Aaron Guthrie from an inferior position after the latter blundered a piece, but thus remained in contention on 7 points. Dragicevic scored a stunning upset win over Smerdon to join Darryl. Pecori's draw with Bjelobrk also left the latter ruing lost opportunities.
All this left us with a thrilling finish, especially after Sedina drew with D'Amore to guarantee herself at least equal first. Could Kengis or Hecht catch her? A win by Kengis would have won him the event on countback; but Darryl played his best game of the event to inflict the Latvian GM's only loss and claim equal second on 8. Hecht could not shift the solid Arlandi, and ended up on the worse end of the drawn endgame. So Sedina won with 8½, while Hecht would still have been content with his equal second (as was D'Amore). Kengis and Arlandi had to settle for equal fifth on 7½ with Jordan, Dragicevic and Pecori, the latter two ending their sensational tournaments by drawing with Bjelobrk and beating Xie respectively. Smerdon defeated Zvedeniouk to share tenth place with Iggy, Aaron Guthrie, Tomek Rej and Raymond Song. - Charles Zworestine
Conference/Council Minutes: minutes from the recent ACF Conference and Council Meeting in Mt Buller can be viewed
on the ACF website
Correspondence charity match: AJEC (the French correspondence chess ssociation) with the help of Med Samraoui (ICCF Zonal Director for Asia and Africa) is organising a charity match "AJEC/Asia vs. Rest of the World". Details on the ACF website
Anand was interviewed by Peter Fitzsimmons in an interesting article in the Sydney Morning Herald recently. Fitzsimmons opened the Australian Open Chess Championships in Sydney about 10 years ago.
New Zealand News: Paul Garbett has won the New Zealand Grand Prix: 1st Paul Garbett (NS) 68.5 $500; 2nd Alexei Kulashko (AC) 64.5 $350; 3rd Anthony Ker (WN) 62.5 $250; 4th Stephen Lukey WN) 56 $200; 5th Leonard McLaren (NS) 54.5 $150. Details
And NZ is gearing up for the Oceania Zonal from 30 January to 4 February, with a prize-fund of $6600.
Venue: Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre. Enquiries: Paul Spiller.
Adams, Leko lead Corus supertournament:
Official Site |
View games - A |
B games |
C games |
Rounds 1-2 annotated
Scores after 4 rounds: Adams, Leko 3.0; Topalov, Ponomariov, Short, Grischuk 2.5; Bruzon, Van Wely, Kramnik, Polgar 2.0; Anand 1.5; Sokolov, Svidler 1.0; Morozevich 0.5.
B scores: Mamedyarov 3.5; Stellwagen 3.0; Carlsen, Stefanova, Karjakin, Cheparinov 2.5; Nielsen, Smeets, Nikolic 2.0; Ramirez, Kosteniuk, Onischuk 1.5; Nijboer, Ernst 0.5.
C scores: Alekseev 3.5; Korotylev, Spoelman, L'Ami, Georgiev 3.0; Zhukova 2.5; Jonkman, Bosboom-Lanchava 2.0; Pliester, Negi 1.5; Bosboom, Wempe 1.0; Muhren, Mamedjarova 0.5.
This tournament in Wijk Aan Zee, The Netherlands, is probably the strongest event of the year. Only Kasparov is missing from the line-up, which includes Anand, Topalov, Kramnik, Leko, Morozevich, Adams, Svidler, Polgar, Grischuk, Ponomariov, Sokolov, Van Wely, Short and Bruzon. It's a Category 19 event with an average rating of 2721. A strong "B" tournament features
top juniors Sergey Karjakin and Magnus Carlsen, female stars Antoaneta Stefanova and Alexandra Kosteniuk, along with
Predrag Nikolic, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Onischuk, Peter Heine Nielsen, Ivan Cheparinov, Friso Nijboer, Daniel Stellwagen, Sipke Ernst, Alejandro Ramirez and Jan Smeets. The "C" tournament features strong GMs Alekseev, Korotylev and Georgiev along with L'Ami, Zhukova, Bosboom, Jonkman, Pliester, Spoelman, Lanchava, Mamedyarova, Negi, Muhren and Wempe.
Judit Polgar, returning to chess after having a baby last year, beat Peter Svidler in round 1 after he allowed his bishop to become trapped. Topalov accepted Ponomariov's pawn sacrifices and won the ending. In the B tournament, Kosteniuk won a great game against Onischuk, beginning with a striking sacrificial attack and ending with rook and bishop triumphing over rook (theoretically drawn, but difficult to draw in practice).
Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov crushed world champion Vladimir Kramnik in just 20 moves in round 2. Kramnik snatched a pawn early, but then found himself tied in knots as he tried to save his embattled queen. In other surprises, Leko beat world No 2 Anand. Adams beat Morozevich while Ponomariov beat Polgar.
Round 3 saw Leko beat Svidler, while Sokolov lost to Ponomariov, and Morozevich fell to Grischuk. Polgar and Kramnik had an exciting draw.
Adams ended Topalov's run with an impressive positional win in round 4, as Kramnik caught Sokolov in a mating net and Svidler was lucky to escape against Anand. Morozevich lost again, this time to Short.
Kramnik, V (2754) -- Topalov, V (2757) 1.e4
Public liability insurance for chess clubs
Suttor leads Australian Junior
Ly wins Lightning
Charles Zworestine on the Aussie Open
Conference/Council Minutes
Correspondence charity match
Anand interviewed
New Zealand News
World News: Corus
Games
Notices
Grand Prix Tournaments
Other Events
International Tournaments
State and Territory Associations $426
A club with 100 or more members $378
A club with 50 to less than 100 members $281
A club with less then 50 members $208
President
Australian Chess Federation Inc.
Vincent Suttor 6.5;
Moulthun Ly 6.0
Peter Jovanovic 5.5
Chow, Yu, Ikeda, Wei, Lugo, Stojic, Stevens, Obst, Berggren, Jager, Oliver 5.0
Rebecca Harris 6.0
Alexandra Jule, Deborah Ng 5.0
Veronique Eldridge-Smith, Tamzin Oliver 4.5
Sam Grigg, William Xu, Rengan Vijayakumar, Sebastian Jule 4.5
Emma Guo, Molly McGarity 2.0
Abbie Kanagarajah 1.5
Yu, Ronald 9.0
Chow, Samuel 8.5
Hu, Jason; Ikeda, Junta; Stevens, Tristan; Vijayakumar, Rukman 8.0
Lugo, Ruperto; Muthusamy, Reubban; Lin, Zhigen Wilson 7.5
Obst, James; Stojic, Dusan; Oliver, Gareth; Huang, Justin; Anderson, Daniel C; Rice, Edward; Donaldson, Thomas; Kimura, Toshi; Yu, Derek 7.0
Wei, Michael; Van Dijk, Devrim; Jule, Alexandra; Brown, Andrew; Guo-Yuthok, Sherab; Wallis, Christopher; Chu, Louis; Harris, Benjamin; Behne-Smith, David; Chow, Justin 6.5
Berggren, Jonathon; Van Heerden, Daniel; Wu, Edwin; Morris, James; Ung, Thomas; Jule, Sebastian; Berggren, Markus; Parravicini, Matthew; Schon, Eugene; Wang, Zhengbo; Yuan, Yi; McGuirk, Michael; Guo, Emma 6.0
Choong, Yita; Humphries, Ryan; Kinder, Jessica; Rozenblat, Vanja; Sheng, Susan 5.5
Somaskanthan, Aingaran; Vijayakumar, Rengan; Xing, Edward; Yu, Sally; Glenton, Alan; Tang, Jason; Behne-Smith, Sarah; Ren, Jonathan; Baines, Casey; Eldridge-Smith, Veronique; Behne-Smith, Jonathan; Slack-Smith, Blair; Vann, Patrick; McGarity, Molly 5.0
Lee, Leoma; Taylor, Paul; Baker, Brendan; Lugo, Jerome; Ikeda, Miona; Lei, Yitao; Barrett, Daniel J (Somerset); Bhattacharya, Devraj 4.5
Berggren, Patrrik; Feng, Thomas; Young, Jack; Ng, Deborah; Wang, Shuyu; Xing, Benjamin; Nowak, Francis 4.0
Eldridge-Smith, Leif ; McCook, Jake; Bennett, Calvin; Grigg, Sam 3.5
Chibnall, Alana; Kimura, Mikio; McGuirk, Savannah; Qin, Tomson 3.0
Anderson, Todd 2.0
Kanagarajah, Abbie; Behne-Smith, Elizabeth 1.5.
Corus A (2) Wijk aan Zee NED
2005.01.16 0-1 B90
1...c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.
g4 h6 9.Qd2 b4 10.Na4 Nbd7 11.O-O-O Ne5!?
12.Qxb4
12...Bd7 13.Nb3?
13...Rb8 14.Qa3
14...Nxf3 15.h3 Nxe4 16.Be2 Ne5 17.Rhe1 Qc7 18.Bd4 Nc6 19.Bc3 d5 20.Nbc5
Qa7
0-1
Polgar, Ju (2728) -- Svidler, P (2735)
Corus A (1) Wijk aan Zee NED
2005.01.15 1-0 C89
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.g3 Bd6 13.Re1 Qd7 14.d3 Qh3 15.Re4 Nf6 16.Rh4 Qf5 17.Nd2 Re8 18.Ne4!?
- White hands back the pawn but gains the initiative
- A troublesome pin
- Now if the Rd8 moves, Bc5 wins
- ( 30.c4 Bxc4 31.Rxc4! bxc4 32.Bd5 +- A remarkably quick collapse! )
Anand, V (2786) -- Leko, P (2749)
Corus A (2) Wijk aan Zee NED
2005.01.16 0-1 B33
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6
8.Na3 b5 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.c3 Bg7 12.exf5 Bxf5 13.Nc2 O-O 14.Nce3
Be6 15.Bd3 f5 16.O-O Ra7 17.a4 Ne7 18.Nxe7+ Rxe7 19.axb5 axb5 20.Bxb5 d5
21.Ra6 f4 22.Nc2 Bc8 23.Ra8 Qd6 24.Nb4 Bb7 25.Ra7 d4 26.Ba6??
...Bxg2!! 27.
Bc4+
- ( 27.Rxe7 Qg6!! 28.f3 Bxf3+ 29.Kf2 Qg2+ 30.Ke1 Bxd1 31. Kxd1 f3 -+ )
- Ingenious defence
Kosteniuk, A (2490) -- Onischuk, Al (2652)
Corus B (1) Wijk aan Zee NED
2005.01.15 1-0 C65
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Bc5 5.c3 O-O 6.d4 Bb6 7.Bg5 h6 8.
Bh4 d6 9.Qd3 Bd7 10.Nbd2 a6 11.Bc4 exd4 12.cxd4 g5
13.e5!! gxh4 14.Qg6+
Kh8 15.Qxh6+ Nh7 16.Ne4! f5
- ( 16...Bf5 17.Nf6 Rg8 18.Nxh4 )
- Some graceful tactics by Kosteniuk
- The repositioned Bd6 limits the Rd3
- ( 72.Rxe8 b1=Q+ 73.Bxb1 Rb2+ )
- A theoretical draw, but the weaker side often (usually?) loses. White's aim is to force black's king to the edge of the board and set up mating threats
115.Ra1
- ( 115.Ra1+ wins )
Polgar, Ju (2728) -- Kramnik, V (2754)
Corus A (3) Wijk aan Zee NED
2005.01.17 1/2-1/2 B33
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6
8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.c3 Bg5 12.Nc2 O-O 13.a4 bxa4 14.Rxa4 a5
15.Bc4 Rb8 16.b3 Kh8 17.Qe2 f5 18.h4 Bf6 19.exf5 Bxf5 20.Nce3 Bd7 21.Bd3
Ne7 22.Nxe7 Qxe7 23.Nd5 Qf7 24.Rxa5 Bd8 25.Ra7 Qxd5 26.Rxd7 Rxb3 27.Qg4
Bf6 28.Qf5 Qg8 29.O-O Rxc3 30.Rxd6 Bxh4 31.Qxe5
Bxf2+!! 32.Rxf2 Rc1+ 33.
Kh2
- ( 33.Rf1!? Rfxf1+ 34.Bxf1 Qf8! and white is unable to defend both f1 and d6: a remarkable conception! )
- ( 33.Bf1 Rxf2 34.Kxf2 Qf8+ 35.Kg3 Rxf1 36.Qd4 Qb8! and ...Rf8 )
- Planning to meet 35 Bxh7! Qxh7 36 Qe8+ with Rf8
Kramnik, V (2754) -- Sokolov, I (2685)
Corus A (4) Wijk aan Zee NED
2005.01.18 1-0 C96
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 cxd4 12.cxd4 Bb7 13.d5 Rc8 14.Nbd2 Qc7 15. Bd3 Nd7 16.Nf1 Nc5 17.b3 f5 18.exf5 Bf6 19.Be4 Qf7 20.Ng3 Nxe4 21.Nxe4 Qxd5 22.Bd2! Nc6 23.Bg5! Nb4 24.Bxf6 gxf6 25.Nxd6! Qxd1 26.Rexd1 Bxf3 27. gxf3 Rc3 28.a4! Rxb3 29.axb5 axb5 30.Kh2!
- White has a surprisingly strong attack
- There's no answer to Ng3+
- ( 36.R1g4 b4 37.Ng3+ Rxg3 38.fxg3 b3 39.Rh4# )
Suttor, V (1904) -- Humphries, R (1495)
Under 18 Open (3.7) Mt Buller
2005 1-0
1.d4
- Vincent Suttor, who has been leading the Australian Junior, has produced some good games. Here are a few:
- Ineffectual. Black needs to hit back hard in the centre or he'll be slaughtered
- ( 17...g5!? )
- White's attack is very strong
Chow, S (2199) -- Suttor, V (1904)
Under 18 Open (4.1) Mt Buller
2005 0-1
1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.Nf3 Qd8 6.Qd2 Be7 7.Nc3 d6 8.O-O-O a6 9.h4 Nd7 10.Rh3 b5 11.Qf4 Bb7 12.Kb1 c5 13.dxc5 Nxc5 14.e5 d5 15.Rg3 Bf8 16.Nd4 Qe7 17.h5 O-O-O 18.Nb3 Nxb3 19.axb3 Rd7 20.Ne2 Rg8 21. Nd4 Rc7 22.Rdd3 Qe8 23.Rc3 Bc5 24.b4 Bb6 25.Be2 Kb8 26.Rxc7 Bxc7 27.Qe3 Qe7 28.Bxb5 Qxb4
- ( 28...axb5 29.Nxb5 Qxb4 30.Qa7+ Kc8 31.Nxc7 Kxc7 32.Rc3+ Kd7 33.Rb3 )
35. Rg3?? Qxb5 36.Qxb5+ Kxb5 37.Rf3 Rf8 38.Rg3 Bxf2 39.Rxg7 Bd4 40.Rh7 Be3 0-1
Suttor, V (1904) -- Yu, R (2092)
Under 18 Open (5.1) Mt Buller
2005.01.15 1-0
1.d4 g6 2.e4 c6 3.Bd3 Bg7 4.Nf3 d5 5.exd5 cxd5 6.O-O Nf6 7.Re1 O-O 8.c3 Nc6 9.Qc2 Bg4 10.Nbd2 Rc8 11.Qb3 Qc7 12.h3 Bf5 13.Bxf5 gxf5 14.Ne5 Nxe5 15.dxe5 Ne4 16.Nf3 e6 17.Bf4 f6 18.Nd4?!
- This looks risky to me
21.Nxe6 Qd6 22.Nxf8 exf4 23.Nxh7 Kxh7 24.Qh5+ Kg8 25.Rad1 Rf8 -/+
- This position looks much better for black, but white wins easily enough!
- ...Qc6 or a6 might be safer
Ng3?!
- ( 28...d3!? gives up a piece but keeps the white rooks and pawns under control, eg 29.fxe4 Qd4+ 30.Kh2 fxe4 31.a3 e3 ( 31...f3 32.gxf3 Qf2+ 33.Kh1 e3 34.Qd5+ Rf7 35.Qd8+ Bf8 36.Qg5+ Rg7 37.Qd5+ Kh8 38.Qh5+ Rh7 39.Qe5+ Kg8 40.Rg1+ Kf7 41.Qf5+ ) 32.Qf3 d2 33.Re2 Qd3 34.a4 Qb3 35.Qf1 Qxa4 -+ )
- ( 32...Ne2!? 33.Rxd2?? Qg1# )
- ( 38...Nc2 39.c7 Ne3 40.Rxd2 Bxd2 41.b6 Nf1+ 42.Kg1 Be3+ 43.Kxf1 Bxb6 44.Rb7 Bxc7 )
- ( 38...Nc2!? 39.b6 Rxc6 40.b7 Rb6 41.Ra8+ Kg7 42.b8=Q Rxb8 43.Rxb8 Ne3 44.Rbb1 +- )
- A great fight!
Olympiad Appeal - donations needed
The ACF Council encourages and urges chess players in Australia to donate to the Olympiad Appeal. Cheques/money orders should be made out to "Australian Chess Federation" and sent to: ACF Treasurer Norm Greenwood, P.O. Box 1840, Westfield Hornsby Post Office 1635. Corporations or business sponsors please call ACF President George Howard on 0414 841575.
Australia Day Open: Victoria; details
NSWCA January Weekender: January
29-30; North Sydney Leagues Club; Category 2; $2,300 in prizes; Phone Trent Parker 0419 469764; Email pcass@zeta.org.au; Website
Dubbo RSL Open: Class 1 GP; NSW; March 12-13; Dubbo RSL Club, Corner Brisbane and Wingewarra Streets; $325 first prize; Entry fees:
Adults $40, Concession $30, Juniors $20; Contacts:
Alexander Aich 02 6884 4561;
Trevor Bemrose 02 6882 2725.
Doeberl Cup: Category 3 GP; March 25-28; Italo-Australian Club, 78 Franklin Street, Forrest, Canberra, ACT;
$10,000 in prizes; Entry Fees: Premier $100/$60; Major/Minor $90/$50. Discount for early entry. Entries to:
Paul Dunn (Treasurer, Doeberl Cup), 20 Richmond St, Macquarie, ACT 2614. Please make cheques payable to ACTCA. Contact Roger McCart (Convener, Doeberl Cup) 02 6251 6190 Roger.McCart@anu.edu.au
Details, entry form, accommodation info
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
NSWCA Open: June 11-13; Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club, 117 Ryedale Rd, West Ryde; Category 3; $5000 in prizes; Open & U1600 divisions; Early Entry Fees: $80/$60 else $100/$70. Prizes: $1200/$700/$500/$400/$300. U2000 1st $250 2nd $150, U1800 1st $250 2nd $150. U1600 1st $750 2nd $500 3rd $350,
U1500 1st $250 2nd $150, U1400 1st $250 2nd $150, U1300 1st $250 2nd $150, Email Website
Port Macquarie PCYC Weekender: July 2-3; Cat 3; Four Points By Sheraton hotel, 2 Hay Street, Port Macquarie, NSW; Les Wells 0403 860100
Hakoah Chess Club events:
Hakoah Club, 61 Hall Street Bondi, NSW; Allegro - January 10; Lightning - January 17; Allegro January 24; Henry Greenfield Cup - February 7; Vladimir Feldman 0414 798503;Website
2005 Oceania Zonal: Jan 30 - Feb 4, 2005; Auckland, NZ, Details.
- Paul Spiller, Zonal organiser
Toukley U2000 Tournament: 19-20 February, Toukley RSL Club,
Holmes Avenue, Toukley, NSW, 7 rounds, Details: Brian Jones 02-9838-1529.
Peninsula Open: April 30-May 2, Queensland; Mark Stokes (07) 3205 6042
Website
Redclffe Challenge: October 15-16, Queensland; Mark Stokes (07) 3205 6042
Website
Hamarat versus The World: ICCF World Champion Tunc Hamarat - a player who has never lost a single game with White - has challenged the "Rest of the World" to a friendly 2-game match. He will have White in both games.
The games (one started with 1.e4 and one with 1.d4) will be played on the ICCF Webserver and started on 10th February 2005 with the rule "10 moves/70 days".
The players on the "Rest of the World" team will vote on each move. The move receiving the most votes will be selected. Should 2 or more moves receive the same number of votes, the "Rest of the World" will be given 2 more voting days to decide between the tied moves.
Participation in this event is open to all players who pay an entry fee of 5 EUR or $7.00 US dollars via their National CC Federation or the ICCF Direct Entry (DE) option.
All fees collected will be transferred to the ICCF Development Fund. The money will be used primarily for development and system support of the ICCF WebChess Server.
It will be possible to join the "Rest of the World" team at any stage of the game.
The games may be seen "live" by all players and other observers at www.iccf-webchess.com
Each player who voted for the selected move will receive 1 point per move.
The player(s) with the most points at the end of the games will receive an ICCF Gold Book.
The list of all entrants will be published on the ICCF webpage. - M. Samraoui
7th United Insurance & United Leasing Grandmasters Chess Tournament Dhaka, Bangladesh; 28th January to 7th February; GM, IM and +2300 rated players invited. $US500 GM appearance money; Free food & accommodation. Email. Details
Best wishes till next time
- Paul Broekhuyse
broekhuysep@bigpond.com
19 Gill Avenue, Avoca Beach, NSW 2251
02 4382 4525
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