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Noble Park Chess Club December 2012 Issue 9 Noble Park Chess Club 2013 Committee Paddy O'Donoghue Centre, 18-32 Buckley Street, Noble Park, Victoria 3174 President: FM Dusan Stojic Treasurer FM Domagoj Dragicevic Secretary: Mangalaganesh Balasubramanian Publicity/Newsletter Svetozar Stojic Junior Coaching Coordinator: Greg Dingfelder Tournament Director: President's message John Nemeth What an exciting year it has been for the club! We have for the first time in our Equipment/Webmaster: young history hosted a weekend tournament, the Northern Star Noble Park Classic. Phillip Drew The event was a resounding success. Fifty‐nine players from all over Melbourne, some of whom hadn’t visited the club before, came to play. We are committed to Website: http://www.nobleparkchess. hosting the event again next year, and we look forward to it becoming a permanent org.au/ fixture on our yearly calendar. The first real fruits of our Junior Coaching Program have started to show. This year Inside: we’ve implemented the Reserves membership program, which has enabled the President's message 1 juniors to be exposed to a real tournament atmosphere, before graduating to our Noble Park Classic 2 senior tournaments. We have had several juniors make the full journey already, Masters & Challengers 3 and some had even taken scalps from our seasoned veterans. Reserves Winter Swiss 4 Victorian Women's Champs 5 Throughout these changes, we have preserved the foundations that have worked World Youth Olympiad 6 well in the past. With more members, our weekly FIDE rated tournaments have CV Interclub 10 World Youth Champs 11 been as competitive as ever. The newsletters have been instrumental in providing a N Y Arbitering 12 nice narrative of our own tournaments as well as reporting on the success of our members outside the club. It’s been a real pleasure to see the club grow from humble beginnings six years ago. I am confident that as our family continues to grow, the club will become even more enjoyable and competitive to play in. I look forward to next year and many Proudly supported by years ahead! Dusan Stojic NPCC President Copyright © Noble Park Chess Club Inc. Noble Park Chess Club Page 2 of 14 Northern Star Noble Park Chess Club Marko Grabovac beating Ethan Lim, Vishal Bhat beating Classic Jason Chew, Milan Stojic beating Tanya Krstevska, Rebecca Strickland beating Carl Dingfelder, as well as nd rd another quota of draws. The top of the tournament saw The club's first ever weekender took place on 22 ‐23 another change, with Domagoj Dragicevic assuming the September in its venue and the club was delighted with lead after beating Justin Tan. The chasing pack grew larger the turnout with the event. 59 players in total came to after Mirko Rujevic beat James Morris and Miodrag play in the event. Milojevic beat John Ni to join Justin on 5/6. Here's the report from arbiter Kerry Stead. The final round saw Domagoj Dragicevic playing Mirko Rujevic for first place, while Justin Tan & Miodrag 59 players made the trek to Noble Park for the inaugural Milojevic fought it out for second (and a possible share of Noble Park Classic. Noble Park Chess Club has only started first). The top board clash went the distance, with Mirko in the last few years & in this time it’s gone a long way to seeming to have the better of a double rook endgame, establishing itself as one of the top chess clubs in until Domagoj managed to turn the tables in mutual time Melbourne (and arguably in the top 3 in Melbourne!), and trouble. Mirko's once‐active king went passive, while a weekender seemed like the next logical step for the Domagoj's king came to life & within an instant Mirko club. The tournament itself is very strong, with 2 IMs, 3 found himself faced with the prospect of losing a rook, or FMs & 11 players rated above 2000ACF! The early rounds seeing Domagoj have an extra queen, and resigned shortly also saw a few upsets, with Vishal Bhat beating Marcus afterwards, to make Domagoj Dragicevic the winner of the Raine in round 1, while Carl Dingfelder held Sylvester inaugural Noble Park Classic. Justin Tan won his game to Urban to a draw. Round 2 saw more upsets, with Jason take second place, while Carl Gorka beat Jack Puccini to Chew beating Miodrag Milosevic, Khadem Jahid beating secure third place. On the other boards there were the Thai Ly, Haran Salasan beating Jaime Yung & Lachlan usual share of upsets, with Tom Lea beating John Nemeth, Martin beating Denise Lim. Round 3 saw some normality Kris Chan beating Joseph Wong, Regan Crowley beating return, with the only upset being a draw between Rad Gary Lin, Ryan Kam beating Milic Sucevic, Alanna Chew Chmiel & Milic Sucevic.Round 4 saw two leaders emerge Lee beating Tanya Kolak, Haran Salasan beating Tristan from the pack, with Mirko Rujevic beating Dusan Stojic, Krstevski, as well as a few draws. while Justin Tan beat Chris Wallis. The upsets returned though, with Anurag Sannidhanam beating Marcus Raine, Prize‐winners are as follows: John Ni beating Rad Chmiel, Cameron Yung beating Bosko Mijatovic, Vishal Bhat beating Jamie Yung & Ryan Kam 1st Domagoj Dragicevic beating Jamie Kenmure. Tomorrow's first round sees 2nd Justin Tan Justin Tan & Mirko Rujevic battle it out for the lead, with 3rd Carl Gorka plenty of chasers hot on their heels! Rating group Under‐1800 The second day of the Noble Park Classic was full of 1st Tom Lea exciting chess, with a number of games going right down =2nd Kyle Gibson, Shane Lawson to the wire! Ultimately it was local favourite, Domagoj Dragicevic, who is the club treasurer, who was Rating group Under‐1300 triumphant, scoring an undefeated 6.5/7 to win the =1st Vishal Bhat, Alana Chew Lee, Ryan Kam, Denise Lim, tournament! Regan Crowley As had become usual in this event, round 5 saw a number Best junior Under‐1000 of upsets, with Svetosar Stojic beating John Nemeth, John =1st Rebecca Strickland, Lachlan Martin, Haran Salasan Ni beating Kyle Gibson, Carl Loucas beating Tanya Kolak, Rebecca Strickland beating Jamie Yung, as well as a large number of draws. At the top of the tournament, Justin Tan took the outright lead after beating Mirko Rujevic, while both James Morris & Domagoj Dragicevic were half a point behind after wins over Christopher Wallis & Dusan Stojic respectively. Round 6 also saw some upsets, with Copyright © Noble Park Chess Club Inc. Noble Park Chess Club Page 3 of 14 Noble Park Masters and Challengers pieces with all 5 games ending with victories to players with black pieces. In the Challengers, after round 4 we had This was club's third tournament of the year and once sole leader after Kris Chan defeated Luis Chan to move to again it attracted a great turnout with total of 34 players 4/4. He was followed by three players on 3/4 with Anurag across two divisions. The Masters tournament was a Sannidhanam, Franz Oswald and Ege Girgin in the chasing round‐robin tournament which consisted of 10 players pack. We also had upsets in this round with Regan whilst the Challengers tournament was a swiss Crowley defeating Milan Stojic, Rebecca Strickland tournament which consisted of 24 players. We also defeating Phong Huynh, and Baris Girgin holding Joseph Sy welcomed club’s newest members Anurag Sannidhanam, to a draw. Bill Yuan, Cassandra Lim and Christopher Lim. Round 5 Round 1 Christopher Wallis became a leader with 4/5 after In the five matches from the Masters tournament, three defeating Justin Tan. Three players only half a point of the matches were wins to white pieces with Laurence behind were Justin Tan, Dusan Stojic and Laurence Matheson defeating Domagoj Dragicevic, Karl Zelesco Matheson. After round 5 in Challengers, Kris Chan beating Jimmy Ying, Justin Tan beating John Nemeth. Chris maintained his lead after drawing with Anurag Wallis defeated David Hacche with black pieces whilst Sannidhanam. Only half a point behind was Ege Girgin Dusan Stojic and Svetozar Stojic played a draw. The big after recording a win over Kevin Cron. Probably the big story of round 1 in Challengers was the fact that all the story of the round was Jack Cron, who finally recorded his top three seeds lost. I don't recall seeing a tournament first ever win at the club. Jack has been playing at the club where the top three seeds lost in the first round. The for over a year now, and he has won his first game upsets included on board 1 Carl Dingfelder defeating defeating Christopher Lim. Anurag Sannidhanam, on board 2 Rebecca Strickland defeating Franz Oswald, and on board 3 Hamish Jones Round 6 defeating Kevin Cron. Quite an eventful round in the Masters with the leader Christopher Wallis losing against John Nemeth. Dusan Round 2 Stojic and Justin Tan took full advantage to move to 4.5/6 In the Masters section, three players moved to 2/2 with with share of the lead by defeating Karl Zelesco and Chris Wallis defeating Svetozar Stojic, Justin Tan defeating Laurence Matheson respectively. A major upset also Jimmy Ying and Karl Zelesco defeating David Hacche. In occured in the round with Jimmy Ying defeating Domagoj Challengers tournament, the round 2 continued with Dragicevic, with rating difference of 569 points. In the upsets. On board 1, Carl Dingfelder had a win over higher Challengers, after round 6 we had a new leader with Ege rated Phong Huynh, Hamish Jones defeated Milan Stojic. Girgin moving to 5/6 after defeating Kris Chan.
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