Business Name ABN 52 352 957 553 Box Hill and Canterbury Chess News 2011.17 NEWSLETTER DATE 05.05.2011 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 16
Club rooms: 3 Rochester Road Canterbury 3126 mobile 0409 259 490 Calendar 2011 Box Hill Championship update Provisional round two pairings May 3 Tuesday Winter Swiss rd1 1 Dale, Ari 1874 [1] : Cheng, Bobby 2350 [1] 2 Wallis, Chris 2331 [1] : Martinez, Octavio 1780 [1] 7.45 PM start. 3 Schön, Eugene 2219 [1] : Brown, Kevin M 1670 [1] 4 Liston, Howard 1701 [1] : Hamilton, Douglas 2114 [1] May 6 Friday 5 Cannon, David 1316 [1] : Chan, Michael 1879 [1] Club champion- 6 Bartnik, Robert 1910 [.5] : Chmiel, Rad 1701 .5] ship rd 2 7 Kempen, Leon 1880 [.5] : Devarajh, Joshua 1414 [.5] 8 Chew Lee, Max 1411 [.5] : Flude, David A 1670 [0] 7.45 PM start 9 Cross, Jamie 1646 [0] : Qin, Tomson 1438 [0] 10 Krishnan, Ganesh 1501 [0] : Beg, Mirza Khurum 1629 [0] May 8 Sunday 11 Croft, Roger 1629 [0] : Renzies, Elliott 1369 [0] Sunday tournament 12 Cook, Geoff L 1582 [0] : Donnelly, Liam 1361 [0] 12.30 start 13 Ni, John 1349 [0] : Lawson, Shane 1579 [0] 14 Cannon, Jim 1272 [1] : Chew, Jason 920 [1] 15 Foo, Kit Ming 1268 [1] : Chin, Nicole 900 [1] May 10 Tuesday 16 Chew Lee, Adrian 791 [1] : Dale, Finley 1257 [1] club closed 17 Gluzman, Sam 1209 [1] : Ngai, Kenny 713 [1] 18 Krstevski, Tanya 701 [1] : Hughes, Jack 1143 [1] May 13 Friday 19 Neymanis, Eric 1095 [1] : Loucas, Carl 688 [1] 20 Krstevski, Tristan 640 [1] : Guo, Steven 940 [.5] Club champion- 21 Lai, Dominic 501 [0] : Ruan, Max 1277 [0] ship rd 3 22 Fielder, Shaun 1098 [0] : Middleton, Jody 497 [0] 7.45 PM start 23 Ediriweera, Chakhila 451 [0] : Chew Lee, Alanna 634 [0] 24 Chin, Chloe 605 [0] : Chan, Kris 418 [0] May 15 Sunday 25 Barry, Jack 401 [0] : Cater, Grant 601 [0] 26 Cotton, Sam 601 [0] : Zhang, Emily 351 [0] Sunday coaching 27 Li, Oswald 319 [0] : Munawar, Mohammed 601 [0] term2 2,00 PM start 28 Zhang, Tianli 301 [0] : Chan, Luis 549 [0] 29 Sharman, Scot A 1661 [.5] : D'Onofrio, Gus 1597 [.5] May 17 Tuesday 30 Zelesco, Karl 1873 [1] .5:0 BYE 31 Foo, May-Yi 1011 [1] : BYE coaching term 2 6.00 PM start. After a very slow early bird entry period Winter Swiss rd 2 going up and up. The top half of the tourna- the entries perked up on the start day to a ment is permanently accelerated but it is 7.45 PM start. very good field of 60 plus and with the anticipated that after 2 rounds those on 2 option of more late entries. We are lucky points in the second group will float up to May 20 Friday to have 3 of our big four playing, 2009 those on zero points in the top half. Club champion- champion Laurence Matheson unfortu- There has been a change in the point allo- ship rd 4 nately not being available. Chris Wallis the cation method for the Joy Raine Grand prix 7.45 PM start. hero of The Sydney SIO is not the highest scheme ranked player this honour belongs to See page 3 for the changed information Bobby Cheng whose rating just keeps on May 22 Sunday Sunday coaching term2 2,00 PM start. Great Result for Chris Wallis in Sydney
May 24 Tuesday In the just completed Sydney international coaching term 2 Chris finished on 6.5 points in equal second 6.00 PM start. spot for a podium finish and a possible IM norm. On the way he beat Kevin Tan 1930 Winter Swiss rd 3 Willis Lo 1602 FM Vladimir Smirnov 2395, FM 7.45 PM start. Moulthun Ly 2381, IM Stephen Solomon 2398 and GM Darryl Johansen 2419 [this game is May 27 Friday featured on Michael page] He lost to FM Club champion- Khamparia Ahshat 2328 [the winner] and GM ship rd 5 Zong Yuan Zhao and drew with GM Andrei 7.45 PM start. Deviatkin 2419. Here is Chris’s picture once again CHESS RULES AUSTRALIA Rookies and Queens Cup Sunday May 8 Contact Antonette 0408 802 704 Our mothers day special Rookies Caterer and Sponsor There will be special mothers day presents for all www.zedchess.com.au mothers prepared to hang around with their offspring. Contact George Zaprudsky Last year the little presents were distributed by Senior tel.1300 364 033 Vice president Gladys Liu who has now unfortunately retired. This year we hope that Tanya Krstevski our Rookies Sponsor newly appointed secretary [a mother herself] will do the honours. Rookies and Queens Cup Sunday May 8 A tournament for Juniors and Seniors www.chesscoaching.com.au Junior Prizes : First $30 plus Rookies Cup trophy. Second $20. contact: Leonid Sandler 0412 201 891 Highest placed girl $20 plus Queen’s Cup trophy Northern Star is a Trophies for 1st in min. 4 ratings groups. sponsor of the 2011 Trophies for equal place getters decided on count back me- Vic Junior Champion- dallions for those missing out in the count back ships. Contact Senior prizes: $5 of each senior entry to go to the prize fund. Pearl Yung Enter: at the Club on Tuesdays or Fridays or by mail to 23 Chester Street Surrey Hills 3127 or Enter on the day by 12 at [email protected] the venue or go to the web site and pay on the day www.boxhillchess.org.au/junior Marcus Raine’s Dark Horse Chess Supplies Tournament: Format and ratings bookshop is open every Fri- 7 round SWISS tournament. 15 min. / player/game day during tournaments. he is All games are rated on the ACF national rapid play ratings always happy to advise you on suitable chess books. Mar- list. cus is the sponsor of the Joy Perpetual Junior Trophies: Highest placed junior to hold the Raine grand prix series and Rookies Cup until the next tournament. Highest placed girl the donor of our 3 latest DGT boards 2011 term 2 Sunday coaching details
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO There was a very good turn out for the first day of the Sunday coaching group with 25 regulars plus 5 novices turning up for the BOX HILL AND CANTERBURY first day. Here are the results 1 Max Chew Lee 1:0 Bobby Yu CHESS NEWS 2 Damian Picone 1:0 Andrew E Lau 3 Jack Barry 0:1 Bill Yuan 4 Kevin Dong 1:0 Rachel Chen Box Hill and Canterbury Chess News is 5 William Wang .5:.5 Vicki Dong distributed by email link to subscribers. To 6 Emily Li 0:1 James Davis become a subscriber follow this link: 7 Tristan Krstevski 1:0 Michelle Li http://www.boxhillchess.org.au/lists.htm 8 Allan Hu 0:1 Alanna Chew Lee 9 Oliver Chen .5:.5 Cameron Petty and submit the form. 10 Emmanuel Cheung 1:0 Tyrone Chiovitti The news sheet is free 11 Jonathon Zhang 0:1 Marc Grech 12 Amelia Mendes 0:1 Mayura Balachandran 13 Sharen Mahesan .5:0 BYE The novices played in a separate group 1 Tim Huang 1:0 Tara Petty 2 Claire Picone 1:0 Richard Yan 3 Mike Grech 1:0 BYE 2011 term 2 Tuesday coaching details
Our second term program in 2011 year. All from 6 to 7.30 May 3, 17, 24, 31. June 7, 21, 28. ACF news sheet subscription NOTE: The club will NOT be open on May 10,June 14 and July 5 and July 12. For all the latest news on Chess in Australia and More information from: Trevor Stanning telephone [03] 9898 7547 overseas. Follow this link Email: [email protected] club mobile: 0409 259 490 http://www.auschess.org.au/ and submit your email address. It is free BOX HILL AND CANTERBURY CHESS NEWS Page 2
The Joy Raine Grand Prix points scheme Box Hill Chess Club memberships First recapping the prize the Participating tournaments fund Autumn Cup weight 1.0 BHCC memberships are due Total GP amount $1600 Club Championship weight 1.4 on March 31 and over the first $375 Winter Rapids weight 0.8 next few weeks we will be second $250 Box Hill Open weight 1.2 making a fuss about the re- third $150 Summer Grades weight 0.8 newals and the new members fourth $100 Canterb. Summer Swiss weight 1.0 who have just joined or will be joining us. The list we publish fifth $75 Tuesday Box Hill Masters weight 1.0 is in date order. sixth $50 Then how the points will be Bill Kerr new seventh $35 awarded Liam Donnelly new eighth $25 Every player in the participating Kevin Brown renewal Rating group A U1600 tournament will be credited with one David Hacche new first $100 point for each win and 1/2 point for Gerrit Hartland LM renewal second $50 each draw. These points will be mul- Trevor Stanning LM renewal third $25 tiplied by the weight factor of the David Flude LM renewal Rating group B U1200 particular tournament. There will be Jamie Cross new first $100 2 bonus points for the winner of each Darryl Johansen new second $50 Tournament [One point if shared] Max Ruan new third $25 The tricky bit is going to be the rat- Geoff Cook renewal Rating group C U800 ing group awards as players will Renzies Elliott renewal first $100 move up the rating groups during the Peter Tsai renewal Scot Sharman renewal second $50 year [or in my case move down Leon Kempen renewal third $25 through the rating groups] Chris Wallis renewal Olgerts Bergmanis renewal The Tuesday Winter Swiss Round 1 John Kable LM renewal Laurence Matheson renewal 1 Marcus Raine 1923 1:0 Zhi Lin Guo 532 Howard Liston renewal 2 James Morrissey 481 0:1 Shane Lawson 1531 Deborah Chong new 3 David A Flude 1526 1:0 Zhi Xin Guo 478 Efrain Tionko renewal 4 Kevin Ren 301 0:1 Olgerts Bergmanis 1463 Gus D’Onofrio renewal 5 Jimmy Ying 1078 1:0 Max Han 290 Adam Hayman renewal 6 David Chin 774 1:0 Eric Neymanis 999 Sam Cotton new 7 Steven Guo 852 1:0 Phoebe Fan 201 Rad Chmiel renewal 8 Daniel Tate 601 0:1 James Brennan 817 Grant Cater new 9 Chris Fu 251 1:0 Brandon Ooi Shane Lawson renewal 10 Bryan Ooi 1:0 Vincent Wong 121 Bobby Cheng renewal 11 Roger Croft 1515 .5:.5 Dmitry Lee 853 Eugene Schon renewal Kenny Ngai renewal A good turn out for this the first round of our Winter Swiss. It seems a Octavio Martinez renewal little early to call it that, but I suppose it will still be winter when it fin- Mirza Khurum Beg new ishes. Still plenty of room for late entries Mohammed Nunawar new Doug Hamilton renewal Prahran Chess Club, Term 2, 2011 [advertisement] 11 Senior Oceania Zonal Starting this Saturday! Championship
A new Chess Club for players of all standards. We run a weekly chess We are seeking entries for this coaching group, which includes a lesson from experienced Chess Coaches - this the senior zonal to be held International Master Leonid Sandler and George Zaprudsky. in Australia in early August There will be many fun & educational activities, including Chess Puzzles, There are quite a few local ac- Chess Variants, Quizzes and other Exercises. tive senior players eligible for We will also undertake serious tournament preparation for those players this tournament. So far there are only 3 local getting ready for the Victorian Juniors at the end of Term 2. entries from DAY & TIME: Saturdays, 1pm-2.30pm Voon, Richard 1878 DATES: 7th May - 25th June Flude, David 1670 COST: $130 for the Term Renzies, Elliott 1369 VENUE: Prahran Community Learning Centre 40 Grattan St, Prahran 1st prize is a free entry and TEACHERS: International Master Leonid Sandler (0412 201 891) and accommodation at the world George Zaprudsky (0417 339 694) seniors. Can we have some entries A Brochure/Entry Form can be downloaded from www.chesscoaching.com.au please
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Vic Teams Championship The first round of the Vic Teams Championship will be held in our club at Box Hill on Sunday 15 May with the match starting at 4.30 pm. There will be a Cap- tain's meeting (ie Team Managers for us) at 3.30 pm to go through the rules etc.
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