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Date: 23 Sept, 2014

Volume 5 issue 20

Box Hill and Canterbury News

Page In This Issue Calendar 1 Calendar www.boxhillchess.org.au/calendar/ 1 Editorial 2 A Visit To The San Francisco Chess Club 2 Sunday Arvo Swiss Date Day Time Event Oct 24 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 3 3 Game Of The Week by David Flude Oct 26 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 4 Our Sponsors Oct 26 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss 4 Bits & Pieces Oct 31 Friday 7:30pm 5 round allegro 4 Venue Update Nov 02 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 5 IM Max Illingworth–How to analyze your chess games Nov 02 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss 9 Boxhill Open Update Nov-07 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 4 9 Northern Star Chess Cards Nov-09 Sunday 12:30pm Rookies Cup 10 Forthcoming Events Nov-14 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 5 10 November Rookies Nov-16 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 10 Results of October Rookies Nov-16 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss Nov-21 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 6 12 CJCC Group Coaching Details Nov-23 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 12 Sunday Coaching updates Nov-23 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss 13 Financial members Nov-28 Friday 7:30pm Club open Rd. 7 14 CV Girls Primary School inter-schools final Nov-30 Sunday 2pm Sunday Coaching 15 WYCC 2014 Experiences Nov-30 Sunday 3:45pm Sunday Arvo Swiss 16 Chess Victoria inter-schools finals 18 Australian Junior Chess League

How to subscribe to the Box Hill and Editorial Canterbury Chess News After a thin last issue we have a bit of a “bumper” this time around. We have the personal experiences of the WYCC2014 by Box Hill and Canterbury Chess News is one of our members. She also writes up the Secondary Schools distributed by email link to subscribers. It Girls & Open finals she competed in. One of our parents provides provides news and tournament details of the coverage of the girls primary schools final. Fludy annotates one of BHCC and CJCC chess clubs and chess his correspondence games and IM Max Illingworth provides a Victoria material when appropriate. To guide on how you can analyze your chess games and Peter Tsai become a subscriber email David Flude at: relates his experience at the San Francisco Chess Club. [email protected] with your name We have further updates on the venue for the future. The and email address and David will enter you on prospects look good, but until it’s all signed and sealed we can’t the news sheet data base. Your reveal full details just yet. entry will remain confidential. BHCC and CJCC venue: 3 Rochester Road Canterbury 3126 Page 1

A Visit To The San Francisco Chess Club (by Peter Tsai)

While I was in the US for a work conference, I took some time off and dropped into the San Francisco Chess Club, located in the Mechanics Institute (57 Post Street, San Francisco). The Mechanics' Institute is the oldest chess club in the United States. The chess club was running a Blitz tournament (Falconer Blitz Tournament). It was a 5 double-round Swiss tournament

The director of the blitz tournament was John Donaldson. John is an International Master as well as a FIDE Arbiter and is the director of the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club

There was a field of about 40 players with an entry fee of only $10, however the prize money of $750 was guaranteed because of the generous donation of Patrick Wolff. Patrick also played in the tournament. In addition, all players who entered the tournament received a book from Neil Falconer's library. The time control was 5 minutes + 2 sec increment from move 1. It was a very strong tournament by Australian standards with 4 GMs, 3 IMs and 3 FMs in the field. I decided to enter the tournament and was soundly beaten in most games & only managed 4 points. Most of the field were experienced players and the Arbiter did not have to intervene. The tournament was IM, FA John Donaldson IA Peter Tsai efficiently run & completed in only 2 & half hours.

Sunday Arvo Swiss.

On a mild Sunday in pleasant Melbourne, after you have read the Sunday papers, had a lovely Brunch in a sidewalk cafe, trimmed the ivy hedge so that there is not a leaf out of place,what next? That is an easy question, why you just mosey on down to the chess Club to play a serious game of chess in the Sunday ARVO Swiss that starts at 3.45 pm and finishes in the cool of the evening. That is what 12 good players did in round 1. You can join them in round 2 next Sunday.

No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total

1 Chmiel, Rad 1750 [0] 1:0 Neymanis, Eric 1139 [0] 2 Warren, Elizabeth 716 [0] 1:0 Lawson, Shane 1640 [0] 3 Flude, David A 1621 [0] 0:1 Tang, Jason 2156 [0] 4 Mendes, Amelia 673 [0] 1:0 Bergmanis, Olgerts 1515 [0] 5 Sucevic, Milic 1426 [0] 1:0 Wang, William 637 [0] 6 Soetanto, Brandon 688 [0] 0:1 Taylor, Stephan James 1225 [0]

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Game of the Week – Annotated PGN (by David Flude) [Event "AUS/C2014 (AUS)"] [Site "ICCF"] {During March I played at the Begonia Tournament at Ballarat. One of the [Date "2014.04.11"] locals commented to me that I always enjoy my games. At the time I thought. [Round "?"] " What is the point of playing if you do not enjoy it?" Afterwards I recollected [White "Dunlop, Gordon"] watching a game from a previous Begonia Tournament where a very strong [Black "Flude, David A"]

player was slowly outplayed. As his position deteriorated he became more [Result "1/2-1/2"] and more distraught. He not only lost the game but the game in the next [ECO "B77"] round as well. Now I am going to tell you the big secret of defence. It is not to [WhiteElo "2407"]

be found in any of my books on defence. You must learn to enjoy defending [BlackElo "2118"] difficult positions. In the following game played in The current Australian [Annotator "Flude,David"] Correspondence Chess Championship I get to employ a wide range of [PlyCount "73"] defensive techniques.} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 [EventDate "2014.??.??"] 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8. Qd2 O-O 9. Bc4 Rb8 {I have employed this move in a

number of correspondence games achieving a series of draws and one catastrophic loss.} 10. O-O-O Na5 {This is a mistake although I was following an over the board game.} 11. Be2 a6 12. h4 {Suddenly I realized that white would crash through on the kingside long before the black

queen side counter attack was underway. Nh5 {This is an attempt to turn the position into a yukky mess. This was a favourite defensive technique of sometime World Champion Emmanuel Lasker.} 13. Rh2 {White continues to build up his position. However this leaves the rook on h2 unprotected for one move. It took me a long time to see how I could take advantage of this.} e5 {According to which book you read on defence this is referred to blackmail or psychological blackmail. White is given the choice of winning the pawn on d6

or continuing the attack. I have no idea as to which was the better plan.} 14. Nb3 Be6 15. g4 {White continues to attack.} (15. Qxd6 Qxd6 16. Rxd6 Nxb3+ 17. axb3 {is the alternative approach. White has an extra pawn but the queenside pawns are a little weak. Winning the game would involve a lot of hard work by white and is anything but certain.}) 15... Nf4 16. Bf1 { The knight has a great position.} (16. Bxf4 exf4 17. Qxf4 $2 Be5 {takes advantage of the unprotected rook on h2.}) 16... Rc8 17. Kb1 Rc6 18. h5 b5 ( 18... Nxb3 {is an alternative.} 19. axb3 {What should black do in this position? I could not see a good plan for black.}) 19. Nd5 ({In an over the board game there would be the tempation to play} 19. hxg6 {hoping for} hxg6 $4

20. Nxa5 Qxa5 21. Nd5 {and black has a choice between losing his queen or getting checkmated.}) 19... Nxb3 20. axb3 Bxd5 21. exd5 Rc7 {This is another well known defensive technique giving up the exchange for a pawn. If white does not grab the exchange the rook will be redeployed along the second rank.} (21... Rc8 {is a very passive way to play.}) 22. hxg6 fxg6 23. Bb6 Rxc2 24. Bxd8 Rxd2 25. Rhxd2 Rxd8 26. Rc2 {Black has one pawn for the exchange but his pieces are not well coordinated.} e4 {here is yet nother defensive technique. Black sacrifices a pawn to increase the scope of the bishop.} 27. fxe4 Be5 28.Rc6 Ra8 29. Kc2 h5 {Now black is going to have an outside passed pawn with the knight and especially the bishop well placed to help it advance.} 30. gxh5 gxh5 31. Ra1 Kf7 32. Rcxa6 Rc8+ {I was unsure as to whether white should interpose the rook or move the King. If I could keep giving white choices possibly he would get one wrong.} 33. Rc6 Rg8 {The open file is the place for the rook.} ({ I spent many hours looking at} 33... Rh8 {It does not draw.}) 34. Rc7+ Kf6 35. b4 Rg1 36. Rc1 h4 37. Rh7 {At this point white offered the draw. He pointed out that after the inevitable exchanges of pieces a bishops of opposite ending would be reached where the black king could reach b8 and bishop would be on e5. White would have two or three extra pawns but be unable to make progress.} 1/2-1/2

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(by Trevor Stanning) Venue Update

The Committee of the Box Hill Chess Club and the Canterbury Junior Chess Club have authorised a proposal for both Clubs to move to a Follow us on Twitter: @NStarChess venue in Waverley. The plan for 2015 chess-activities will be Friday events and Sunday coaching (and events) in the one place in Waverley. Contracts have not been signed as yet but we have agreement in principle to move to planning our calendar to match availability of the Waverley venue. We have solved our storage problem for tables etc with the Do you have problems with PCs, Macs, laptops or assistance of David Flude’s offer to house our equipment that is broken iPads or iPhones? We give 20% off service surplus to short term requirements in 2015. fee to Box Hill and Canterbury Junior Chess Club members. More details on www.camelliait.com.au. The chess club anticipates the new venue will have some Wi-Fi Please con-tact [email protected] or access, and the DGT boards in operation. 0408 860 060 The new venue has excellent canteen facilities, better parking and some safe outdoor areas away from traffic. We anticipate our first event in the new venue will be the January Rookies, scheduled for 11th/January/2015 at 12.30am.

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How to Analyse Your Chess Games (by IM Max Illingworth)

The following is a sample from a document I prepared for this year’s JETS (Junior Elite Training Squad) Camp, on the subject of how to work on your chess (for the most rapid and permanent improvement possible). I should add that these tips apply mainly to more advanced players (inexperienced players haven’t had learned how to analyse and therefore should go through their games with someone who possesses this knowledge and applies it to

their games). Here I’m going to demonstrate how you can extract the absolute maximum learning from these games, in step by step format. These are largely taken from an FM’s website as I haven’t found any major improvements over what he suggests, and I suspect his ideas are largely from Aagaard’s own section on Analysing Your Own Games in ‘Excelling at Positional Chess’. I’ll modify them mainly to show how you can get the most from the game analysis with a coach.

1. Write down the clock times for both you and the opponent during the game. When you are going through the game with your coach, they should look at your time management in critical positions (which will be on

your scoresheet, in the case of a face-to-face lesson, but you can always insert them into your annotations on ChessBase for internet lessons) and point out where you should have spent more or less time, why you didn’t manage your time ideally on the move, and then come up with a plan to help you improve your time management in the future. But coaches aren’t perfect, so when they’re talking about a position for a while (indicating it is fairly critical), you should let them know how much time you spent on your decision, or if they already have that, ask them how they feel about the amount of time you spent on that move.

2. After the game, use a code (I find small dots easiest) indicating what you felt were the critical moments of the game. That way, you can check yourself how accurately you sensed the critical positions, how you handled them, and discuss with your coach how to identify such situations in the future or think more precisely with your time.

3. On the day you play the game, spend up to half an hour recording your thoughts and variations you saw during the game. If you had a post-mortem, you can include your opponent’s ideas, but make sure to focus on your own thought process, as that is what you’re trying to improve with this analysis. For a tournament with more than two games in a day, that will be hard though. I stress that you are not to use an engine to check your ideas during the game, unless your ‘chess understanding’ rating is already over 2600, and even then you’ll learn more from my method detailed here. In a tournament with one game a day, I’d also suggest quickly checking the opening theory so you know what to do if someone plays the same line against you again. The Shift+F5 shortcut in ChessBase is quick and effective. If your coach is at the tournament and not playing, you may find it helpful to look at the game with them so you are discussing it with all your thoughts ‘fresh’ in your head.

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4. Write down something new that you learned from the game. You’d get bored quickly if you had to write three new things you learned from every game, but as long as you play the games out to their natural

conclusion (no agreed draws!), there will always be at least one new thing you’ll learn. Even when I’m

coaching my beginner students, I’ll often think of some good idea or see some point I didn’t notice before, so you should also see every game as a learning opportunity. If you are stuck, you could send the game to your coach and ask what you could learn from the game.

5. Reconsider what you think are the critical moments from the game. You may be wondering what a critical moment is – it is when there is any significant change in the position or in your state of mind in the game. Obvious examples are when you are first out of book, when the queens come off the board, when the king is under attack, when the nature of the position changes sharply, when the pawn structure changes significantly, and when the game is near its end (and you don’t know/remember the relevant endgame theory), but there are many others. Your coach can give you this information, but you’ll learn more if you try and do this yourself before checking with the coach.

6. Analyse the critical positions you have identified. No, not with an engine – use your own head and look for things you might have missed in the heat of battle. In general, with game analysis you should only use an engine when you have given the game full and extended analytical attention and don’t think you can penetrate much deeper into the heart of the position. Also, when analysing these moments, you should keep analysing complicated variations until they come to a ‘simple’ or ‘settled’ position where you can evaluate the situation clearly. The coach can check for any moves you may have overlooked and the accuracy of your evaluations.

7. Check the opening/early middlegame theory in your game. So don’t finish with the Shift+F5 thing I mentioned before – looking up games is just the beginning! You should also try to find the causes of your mistakes in the opening phase and how you would fix them (e.g. don’t head into this pawn structure unless these factors are apparent in the position). Think about how you should play the middlegame that arose in the game (pawn placement, piece placement and best plans to support these). Ideally you will already know what pawn structures arise most often in your openings (from what I have suggested and will suggest), but if you haven’t, then this is also recommended. If your coach has a ‘chess understanding rating’ over 2500, they will be able to quickly give you the most important ideas or games in that type of position.

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8. Search for positional patterns in the game in ChessBase. I’m guessing most of you won’t know of this feature, but it’s very useful for understanding the correct way to play a certain position. In ChessBase 12, you can look for Similar Structures to see how to play the given pawn structure in front of you, or if you have an endgame (with no more than one piece for at least one side), you can search ‘Similar Endgames’ to see how strong players have handled similar positions. That is fairly easy to do, but it isn’t as easy to find what the right piece manoeuvres are in a position, unless you already have the understanding of those positions. The best way to do this is to ask your coach (who should have this understanding and confer it to you), but your coach may be away/busy and you’ll have to get your hands dirty. What I’d suggest is to go to the ChessBase search function in Mega Database (or whatever database you use), go to the position tab, set up the basic pawn structure (using all of the ‘Look for’, ‘Or’ and ‘Exclude’ tabs; it will be easier to understand them by playing around with them than by an explanation here), record the material balance in the ‘Material’ tab, and, if applicable, insert the manoeuvre you want to search for in the ‘Manoeuvres’ tab. You might have to play around with it to make it work as you like, but the trial and error method is your friend! Once you have the results, sort them by the highest Elo and play through master games in the system. You may also find it useful to play through similar games by the old masters, as these will often have clearer ideas than the modern GM games (as I’ve explained in prior sections and will explain later on).

9. Now analyse the game yourself, recording your ideas with both lines and words until you feel satisfied with the depth of analysis. There’s not much more to say on this, except that in the Russian school of chess, you were expected to have at least four pages of analysis for each game you play. That’s logical for a professional, but amateurs may not have the time, so do what you feel comfortable with. Also, chess games differ so much in content that it would be inflexible to give an exact page length that each game analysis should be. If you find it difficult to analyse a game by yourself for ages, I would recommend finding a study partner with a similar problem and analyse each other’s games together.

10. Before checking the analysis with a computer, check it with your coach, so that they are not influenced by the engine’s ideas. In my case, some of my students check parts of the game with an engine without it harming the analysis session, but this is because I have a lot of experience working with engines and therefore know both how to explain the crazy-looking ideas or tactics of the engine and where the engine is not giving the best continuation (and why). But most other coaches will find it hard to stay focused on learning from the game without getting ‘carried away’ by the computer.

11. After going through the game (or even better, all the games in a tournament), get your coach to identify the most critical mistakes you made, the cause of those mistakes, and a training plan to correct those mistakes. This is what I do with my students after a game analysis (and with my internet ones I generally put these conclusions in writing with the PGN file I send them). It’s especially useful to have diagrams of the mistakes made for this, so that you are reminded of the errors and know how not to repeat them (or at least are aware that you are more prone to oversights of such a nature). This training is best done with puzzles set by the trainer, but they may also know a good book giving you what you need to correct your mistake.

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12. Finally, check your analysis with the computer, particularly focusing on the areas with the biggest evaluation change, or where there is some creative idea you didn’t see before. In this way, you will sharpen your tactical vision, improve your imagination, and also it’s quite interesting to see how the ‘human’ approach of your coach differs from the analysis of the computer. After all, the computer can only give you moves and numerical evaluations, not the explanations of the moves, cause of the mistakes and how to fix them – that is why chess trainers are so important to the success of a player.

For the games of other players, you can use a modified, shorter version of this process, or cover up the moves with the ‘Training’ tab in ChessBase, so you try to guess the moves of at least one of the players. This is a great and fun way to train your decision-making, especially with annotated games. The disadvantage is that, for unannotated games, you may pick a stronger move than the one played in the game, but this will also encourage you to analyse the position, which will only be good for your game.

Hopefully I haven’t scared you off with this amount of detail (and for the game analysis you may find it easier to do a simplified version of the above, or get your coach to guide you through this in his game analysis), but if you apply this to your training, you will see results over time. Technically you can do it without a coach, but then it will be much harder and you may end up falling into bad habits (e.g. over-reliance on the computer for your positional understanding).

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2014 Box Hill Open Update (by Peter Tsai)

The Box Hill Open commenced 2 weeks ago with a field of 50 players. It will be one of the last tournaments to be played in our current premises in Canterbury. This is a 9 round Swiss tournament and the last round will be on Friday 13 December. We are due to vacate from Canterbury at the end of the year.

Ro und 1 saw a few upsets, with Tony Yu defeating Andrew Grkow. Unfortunately Andrew blundered & left his rook en prise. There were 3 other games where the higher ranked player was held to a draw by the following lower ranked players – Garry Millington, Paula Chen & Evan Choemuku-Huang.

Round 2 games went with the higher ranked player winning. However, Tanya Kolak held Hamish Jones to a draw in the only drawn game in round 2. Round 3 continues on Friday 24 October.

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Forthcoming Events at BHCC/CJCC

2014 Nov. 9th

Rookies Cup

SUNDAY CHESS TOURNAMENT

Location : 3 Rochester Road Canterbury Junior Prizes : Date : Nov. 9th, at 12.30 PM First $40 plus Rookies Cup trophy. Part of the 2014 Rookies Cup series. A tournament for Highest placed girl $25plus Queen’s Cup trophy. Juniors and Seniors Trophies for 1st in a minimum of 4 ratings groups.  Count back decides 1st place Entry fees : $15 BHCC, CJCC members and Chess Medallions for those missing out in the count back Australia students. $20 visitors Senior prizes: $5 of each senior entry goes to the prize fund, with $40 for 1st place

October Rookies (by Trevor Stanning)

We half-anticipated the October Rookies would be lightly attended as we had not done much publicity due to the Committee being distracted onto the ‘find-a-new-venue’ task. However a field in excess of 50 was an excellent turnout; it included 18 adults which is much appreciated. We particularly welcomed Shien Cheng and Xin Cheng, Connor Franes and Spencer Franes, Alyssa Jefferyes, Chuyue Angie Li, Talia Liebmann, Sharath Mohanakrishnan and Mohan Thandhi who attended for their first visit to 3 Rochester Rd. John Reid scored an excellent draw in round 1; and that was the start of many games not favouring the higher-rated player throughout the afternoon. At the prize ceremony it was good to see some new-comers sharing in the trophies. But best of all was Bob Bergmanis’ best-in-the-bottom-half of the adults section. Bob enjoys the Rookies event (he regulary describes it as the Crookies) even though his rating has taken a pounding from improving juniors over many years. I was advised a day later that the good turnout for the October Rookies may have been due to School Zonals hotting up at this stage of the year, and the Rookies is a good practice event. The November Rookies is Sunday the 9th at 12.30.

(next page for standings)

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Standings

Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Club Score

1 Milojevic, Miodrag a 1737 1st Adult $40 7 2 Chmiel, Rad a 1357 2nd Adult $20 6 3-9 Lawson, Shane a 1362 5 Martinez, Octavio a 1443 5 Bergmanis, Olgerts a 1190 1st Adult Bottom Half $20 5 Jiang, Bill j1 1699 1st Rookies Cup $40 5 Fletcher, Andrew a 1829 5 Chew Lee, Alanna j1f 1190 1st Queens Cup $25 5 Sucevic, Milic a 1198 5 10-13 Yao, Licia j1f 1117 Eq 1st J1 Trophy 4.5 Flude, David A a 1266 4.5 Croft, Roger a 1452 4.5 Lim, Christopher j1 1150 Eq 1st J1 Medallion 4.5 14-24 Zhao, Isaac j1 973 4 Singh, Surjeet a 1046 2nd Adult Bottom Half $10 4 Chen, Lachlan J3 450 Eq 1st J3 Trophy 4 Fu, Chris j2 794 Eq 1st J2 Trophy 4 Chew Lee, Adrian a 885 4 Wang, Ruicheng j1 961 4 Snow, Richard A a 791 4 Asaka, Samuel j3 601 Eq 1st J3 Medallion 4 Mendis, Shanaya j1f 872 4 Kolak, Tanya a 1217 4 Chen, Paula j2f 756 Eq 1st J2 Medallion 4 25-29 Fan, Alex j2 815 3.5 Warren, Elizabeth a 896 3.5 Franes, Connor j1 971 3.5 New, Andre j2 762 3.5 Wang, William j2 718 3.5 30-39 Thandhi, Mohan a 801 3 Mendis, Shevin j2 786 3 Franes, Spencer j2 801 3 Li, Oliver j4 201 Eq 1st J4 Trophy 3 Hooi, Ethan j3 614 3 Millington, Garry a 846 3 Cheng, Shien j3f 601 3 Li, Chuyue Angie j3f 401 3 Hooi, Kathleen j4f 100 Eq 1st J4 Medallion 3 Liebmann, Talia j4f 301 Eq 1st J4 Medallion 3 40-42 Reid, John a 540 2.5 Kahatapitiya, Mahen J3 401 2.5 Salvagno, Michael a 531 2.5 43-48 Fan, Renee j4f 359 2 Jones, Zoe j4f 252 2 Powell, Shalana j4f 391 2 Jefferyes, Alyssa j2f 691 2 New, Martine j3f 546 2 Lee, Lachlan J3 401 2 49-50 Cheng, Xin j4f 101 1.5 Milojevic, Milos j4 301 1.5 51-52 Wang, Adrian j4 147 1 Franes, Alex a 1 53 Mohanakrishnan, Sharath j4 101 0

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Canterbury Junior Chess Club Group Coaching Details.

Sunday Coaching. Sunday Coaching – Term 4, 2104

Target group : Beginners to Advanced Fees : Casual : $15 per session

Member : $12.50 per session Advanced Group Term Fees: Coach GM Non-Member : $105 When: from 2 till 3.30 Member : $85 Group sizes There is one group of maximum 10

Skill levels For advanced juniors with tournament skills Membership: $70 per family per year. and some theoretical knowledge $20 for the rest of 2014

Intermediate, Novice and beginners groups Dates : Oct 19, 26 Coach Canterbury junior chess club coaching group Nov 2, 16, 23, 30 When: from 2 till 3.30 Dec 7 Group sizes: Multiple small groups to care for all standards Time : 2pm – 3:30pm

Location : Canterbury Junior Chess Club, Students will be allocated to a class that is appropriate for their 3 Rochester Road, skill level and experience. Canterbury 3126

Contact Trevor Stanning ( Club Treasurer ) - Email: [email protected] club mobile: 0409 259 490

Sunday Coaching.

The Sunday coaching group resumed for term 4 on

19/October/2014, with 35 attending 6 classes. Jason Tang is now back full-time on the coaching panel as well as Darryl Johansen, Alanna Chew Lee, Laurence Matheson, Zachary Loh, Max Chew Lee, and Vineetha Wijesuriya. All classes for this term will be at 3 Rochester Rd Canterbury at 2pm on Sundays. Thanks to Peter Tsai attending for round 1 to handle the registrations and tournament set-up.

No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Cheng, Chao Xin [0] .5:.5 Mann, Henry [0] 2 Cheng, Chao Shien 583 [0] 0:1 Leong-La, Callista 638 [0] 3 Lo, Kendrick 601 [0] 0:1 Wang, William 555 [0] 4 Atukorala, Riveen 251 [0] 0:1 Shetty, Reah Ravi 454 [0] 5 Lo, Keith 251 [0] 0:1 Asaka, Samuel [0] 6 Cheong, Je-Rard [0] 1:0 Aumann, David 201 [0] 7 Gao, James 101 [0] 1:0 Edwards, Isaac [0] 8 Gao, Albert [0] 0:1 Gao, Daniel 101 [0] 9 Huang, Ilo 101 [0] 1:0 Huang, Christopher [0] 10 Huynh, Travis [0] 1:0 Valecha, Aadit 101 [0]

11 Wayne, Nathan 101 [0] 0:1 Kahatapitya, Mahen [0] 12 Li, Oliver [0] 1:0 Wang, Adrian 100 [0] 13 Wu, Jasmine 51 [0] 1:0 Liang, Iris [0] 14 Shetty, Rohan [0] 1:0 Wayne, Austen 10 [0] 15 Alagappan, Arjun [0] 0:1 Tao, Sophie [0] 16 Wang, Eva [0] 1:0 Atukorala, Jayan [0] 17 Wang, Melinda [0] .5:0 BYE BHCC and CJCC venue: 3 Rochester Road Canterbury 3126 Page 12

Financial CJCC Members. Family Name1 Name2 Name3 Salasan Haran Alex Family Name1 Name2 Name3 Shafaie Kian Aitken Xavier Lara Soetanto Brandon Atkinson Carly Tie Samuel Aumann David Tipirneni Shraddha Isha Beaumont Archer Fitzroy Yao Lisa Britz Xander Yu Tony Zou Brendan Edwin Cannon David Jonathan

Chan Kris Luis Chen Lachlan Audrey Chen Angus Cheng Chao Shien Cao Xin Cheung Oscar Chew Lee Max Alanna Chiverton Fergus Club Membership Choemuku-Huang Ellie Evan Choo Keayan BHCC memberships: Crowley Regan are from April to April Full fees per person $85 De Silva Oneli Pasadul Kovida Concessions fees per person $70 Deng Jimmy

Fan Alex Canterbury Junior Chess memberships: Guliev-Datsin Eric $70 per family per calendar year Guo Zhi Lin Zhi Xin Hooi Ethan Kathleen Financial BHCC Members. Jassal Xavier Asha Jones Hamish Zoe Bartnik, Robert Matheson, Laurence Lai Dominic Emmeline Bergmanis, Olgerts Millington, Garry Le Michael Chen, Paula Milojevic, Miodrag Lee Lachlan Chmiel, Rad Neymanis, Eric Leong-La Callista Cook, Geoff L Nothdurft, John Lin Emily Croft, Roger Renzies, Elliott Loh Zach Fletcher, Bruce Salvagno, Michael Loucas Carl Flude, David A Schmidt, Simon Grabovac, Marko Schon, Eugene Lu Lillian Grkow, Andrew Sharman, Scot A Mann Henry Hartland, Gerrit Snow, Richard Isaac Hua, George Stanning, Trevor Mendes Amelia Edwards Huang, Jimmy Stones, Rebecca Middleton Jody Kempen, Leon Sucevic, Milic Mikael Razi Riana Kolak, Tanya Taylor, Stephen Lawson, Shane Tsai, Peter Li, Luke Zelesco, Karl Lin, Gary Liston, Howard Martinez, Octavio

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Chess Victoria – Primary Schools Girls Final (by Richard Jones)

The Victorian state girls primary team event was played on Tuesday the14th of October at Lauriston Girls' School in Armadale. The day was shaping up as a very tight contest, with several schools looking capable of taking out the tournament based on performances during the year. St Andrews (last year's winner) and Mount View had beaten each other once during the year, and Waverley Christian College had come a close third behind them in Waverley's only tournament during the qualifiers. Several other teams with good depth and outside chances included Balwyn North, PLC and Deepdene. The top 4 rated girls at the primary school level in Victoria were all in attendance, Licia Yao from Lauriston, Emily Lin from St Andrews, Cassandra Lim from Waverley Christian College and Jody Middleton from PLC. All girls had several state and national titles between them, and their individual battles formed an exciting backdrop to the teams event. After two rounds, Balwyn North, St Andrews and Waverley Christian College had all got off to great starts. Mount View was lagging behind after a shaky first two rounds seeing only 1 of their 10 players remain undefeated, largely due to a hammering from Balwyn North in round 1, led by Oneli De Silva and Callista Leong-La, with Balwyn North winning 4 of their 5 pairings against Mount View players. The top 4 girls first started to meet in round 5, with Licia Yao beating Jody Middleton. Mount View who thanks partly to an easier draw after their early losses had slowly climbed back into contention, and by the end of round 5 found themselves leading half a point clear, with St Andrews, Waverley Christian College and Balwyn North all clustered very closely behind them. Round 6 saw more clashes between the top girls, with an exciting win from Emily Lin over her higher rated ex-team mate Licia Yao, keeping St Andrews in contention for the title. Cassandra Lim also had a good win over Jody Middleton, keeping Waverley Christian College in the hunt. At the end of the round the top teams were still closely bunched with Mount View having maintained their half point lead. Going into the final round there were at least 4 teams who could win, Mount View, St Andrews, Waverley Christian College and Balwyn North. Vital final round pairings between the contenders were Cassandra (Waverley) vs Emily (St Andrews), Zoe Jones (Mount View) vs Althea Wong (Waverley), Kaye Ng (Mount View) vs Shalese Tao (St Andrews) and Gloria Yew (Mount View) vs Rachel Woon (St Andrews). Cassandra won her board 1 battle with Emily. However, with Zoe , Kaye and Gloria all winning for Mount View, and wins in other round 7 games to Mount View players, Rhea Shetty, and Shalana Powell, Mount View had grabbed the title , jumping 3.5 points clear - a scoreline that did not reflect how close the competition had been all day. Balwyn North leapt into second spot, finishing half a point ahead of St Andrews and Waverley Christian College , with St Andrews awarded third place on count back. Cassandra won first place in the individual rankings on a perfect 7/7, a great achievement in a field of very strong girls. 5 girls finished on 6 points, with Emily Lin receiving the second place trophy on count back, and third place going to unrated surprise packet Morgan Gandolfo from Candlebark Primary School.

Congratulations to all the girls, and good luck to Mount View in the national finals, to be held in Adelaide over the weekend of the 6th-7th of December. Full results can be found by following the links below: Secondary Open results : http://www.chessvictoria.org.au/2014-cv-inter-school-secondary-open-final Secondary Girls results : http://www.chessvictoria.org.au/2014-cv-inter-school-secondary-girls-final Primary Girls results : Zoe http://www.chessvictoria.org.au/2014-cv-inter-school-primary-girls-final

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We are lucky to have as members of our club a number of Australian Junior champions. The under 16 Australian Girls champion, ZhiLin Guo, also represented Australia in this age group at the WYCC and relates for us her personal

experiences at that event.

WYCC 2014 Experiences (by ZhiLin Guo)

My WYCC experience didn’t exactly start off the way I wanted it to. After a 4-hour flight from Melbourne to Perth, and then an 11-hour flight from Perth to Johannesburg, staff at JHB airport told us that our luggage had been mistakenly sent ‘to the basement’. If they had informed us that earlier, we would have been fine, but we spent around an hour staring down our carousel for our bags to come out (which eventually didn’t) and missed our connecting flight from Johannesburg to Durban. To be honest, this whole incident was pretty terrifying; blindly running around (literally… I had my contact lenses in the luggage) in a foreign airport, not being able to communicate without confusion and not knowing where all our stuff was. On the other hand, when we (finally) arrived at our hotel, we were greeted by friendly hotel staff members and a wonderful view of the ocean. The hotel itself was located in a street running parallel to the Indian Ocean, and a short 5-minute drive from the playing venue, the International Convention Centre. You would be able to see freight ships dotted along the horizon as well as a beach that stretched for miles.

The tournament itself was well-organised; with security guards guarding almost every door, including the bathrooms and stairways that didn’t show any signs of being used in the past 10 years. The first round was a good start for the Australian team. We beat the lower-rated players, and I managed to get a draw in a completely winning position against a player from USA. I was exceptionally proud of the results that the Victorians had obtained in this 11-round tournament. In round 2, Licia produced an upset-win for our team by defeating a 1920-rated (China), and gaining 34 rating points (K=40). Cassandra also had a very nice win over a WCM (3rd seed) in the same round, gaining 34 points also. Christopher played and beat his only rated opponent (1681) in the last round, once again with a fantastic game. My best game would have been against a WFM from Belarus, I’m not really sure what happened but I somehow won and she stormed off without resetting the pieces.

From Queensland, Tom Maguire and James Kay also performed well. Tom had a performance of 1922 in the end, with 3 wins against 2000+ opponents. James was slightly unlucky as most of his opponents were unrated, and those who were rated were 2000+, however there was one 1500-rated opponent which he beat. Clarise and Cedric (both NSW) battled it out in the U18 age groups, Clarise ending up on 4 points and Cedric on 5 with a win over a 2000+. In the last round, what I found quite controversial was a ‘touchmove’ claim from Clarise’s opponent. Her opponent falsely claimed a touchmove which led to Clarise losing a piece, but what I found interesting was that a nearby arbiter also ‘saw’ it. In the younger age groups, Sebastian Bracks, Xander Leibert and Kevin Song all performed well above their FIDE ratings.

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After the last round, we thought that it would be nice to fully immerse ourselves in Africa’s rich culture and history. So we decided to go on Segways (because nup you don’t find those in Australia). There was an arena nearby which offered such

facilities, so we half walked half ran there (in fear of getting robbed) in about 15 minutes, if you don’t count the half an hour

where someone got side-tracked by street markets. As we were riding Segways along thecoastline, we did get some weird looks from locals, but it also made me realise that it is possible for a few bushes to be home to 10 monkeys. Most of us managed to not fall off within the first 30 seconds, and most of us managed to not to fall off AND not have the Segway whiz out of control onto the busy road at the same time (*cough* James). The closing ceremony commenced 2 hours after we finished Segway-ing. Licia and I decided to go, because why not? We just made it through the presentations for the Durban Open tournament but unfortunately Kirsan’s speech about who- knows-what was too much, so we left. Back at the hotel, instead of packing, Licia and I decided to pull a few pranks on some unsuspecting team mates. I called the hotel’s room service and requested toilet paper to be sent to Tom and Cedric’s room, but the joke ended quickly after they Caption: Tom covered his face with tattoos somehow traced our whereabouts which resulted in a half-eaten and ended up featuring on the Chessbase slice of pizza and a toilet roll being thrown into Licia’s face. As website. (fabulousness level 1000) well as this, a pile of 4 pillows, biscuits, magazines and a pizza box was dumped outside our room. In return we smeared honey on their door and left a vase of roses which were in their final stages of decomposing, coated with mustard and a bowl of green chilli sauce (ah, the weird things you can find in the halls of a hotel…) outside their room. I think we might have won that.

Chess Victoria Inter-schools Finals.(by ZhiLin Guo)

The Victorian Open Secondary Chess Championships was run once again at Brighton Grammar this year. The field consisted of 156 players, from 26 schools. However, this year, it was decided that there would be a 3-second increment. This time-control assured me that I could still play at the snail-pace I got used to in WYCC. For example, in the second round, my opponent played 1. g4 as White and I spent 5-6 minutes for the first 8 moves. I miraculously managed to not lose too many pieces in the opening, and won with a cheap queen skewer. Also, the updated ‘illegal move’ rule (FIDE) was used. It stated that when an illegal move was made (and then if the clock was pressed) a win can be claimed by the opponent. In the first round alone, 5 team mates won their games due this rule. In one of the earlier rounds, I saw Alanna play Max Chew Lee. She was nice enough to not completely demolish her brother, so she gave a draw. At the end of the day, I was really content with the results that my team had obtained- Ryan Lumpreiks had a nice win over Kris Chan, Tristan Krstevski drew with IM Ari Dale and Max Chew Lee, and finishing with 6 points (overall 3rd), and Karl Zelesco finishing 2nd overall. First place was taken by Kai Jie Soo (Box Hill High), finishing with an impressive 7/7. The final standings saw Melbourne High in first place (29 points, duh), Balwyn High in second (27 points) and Glen Waverly Secondary in third (25.5 points).

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Place Name ACF School Score 1 Kai Jie Soo 1750 Box Hill High 7 2 Karl Zelesco 2147 Balwyn High 6 3 Tristan Krstevski 1551 Balwyn High 6 4 Anurag Sannidhanam 1483 Melbourne High 6 5 Max Chew Lee 1786 Melbourne High 6 6 John Ni 1397 Melbourne High 6 7 Victor Fagundes Melbourne High 5.5 8 Ari Dale 2210 Melbourne High 5.5 9 Kevin E Fan 1634 Scotch College 5.5 10 Michael Chan 1989 Glen Waverly Secondary 5.5 Tristan v Ari, with Karl, Anurag & Zach in the background

The next day, state finals for secondary and primary girls commenced at Lauriston Girls’ School. In my last 2 years playing in girls’ state finals, I had always participated alone, so this time I was thrilled to have a team of 6. During this event, it was also nice to see some friends from PLC, Glen Waverley and Macrob. In the secondary section, most of the Box Hill Chess Club players managed to play each other, and draw those games. The final standings saw PLC in first place (28.5 points), Macrob second (24 points), Glen Waverley third (22.5 points), and 7 players tied for 1st. Balwyn High managed to come 4th, which I was extremely proud of since the only practice we did in the last few months would have been in the taxi on the way to the tournament.

Place Name ACF School Score 1 ZhiLin Guo 1462 Balwyn High 6 2 Denise Lim 1279 Billanook College 6 3 Alanna Chew Lee 1190 Camberwell Girls’ Grammar 6 4 May Yi Foo 1154 PLC 6 5 Grace Quah 567 MacRobertson Girls’ High 6 Alanna Zhi Lin In the primary section, we saw Mount View Primary come first (26 points), Balwyn North P.S second (22.5 points)

and St Andrews Christian College third (22 points). We also saw Box Hill Chess Club players claim 9 spots in the top 10, with Cassandra Lim finishing on a perfect 7/7 score.

Place Name ACF School Score 1 Cassandra Lim 1025 Waverley Christian College 7 2 Emily Lin 1056 St Andrews Christian College 6 3 Morgan Gandalfo Candlebark PS 6 Jodie v Cassandra 4 Licia Yao 1117 Lauriston Girls 6

5 Zoe Jones 323 Mount View PS 6

I hope you have enjoyed reading these articles from our correspondents at the CV interschools finals. Unfortunately at this time we do not have a correspondent attending the Primary Schools Open competition. If you attend and would like to see the event written up in the newsletter, I would encourage you to send in one or two

paragraphs. Jodie

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