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Correspondence Chess League of Australia Postal Address: GPO Box 2360, Sydney, NSW, 2001 Website Australian Correspondence Chess Quarterly Australia Post No PPn 230594/00010 Correspondence Chess League of Australia Postal Address: GPO Box 2360, Sydney, NSW, 2001 Website: www.iccf-australia.com May 2017 Vol. 70 No. 2 pp 25-48 $4.00 Editor: Shaun Press ISSN 819-7806 2 Auburn St, Amaroo, ACT, 2914 [email protected] In recent years the CCLA Council has done a lot of work to ensure the future of both Correspondence Chess in Australia, and the CCLA’s own role in supporting this. Realising that the future of CC is based on online chess, the CCLA has made a big effort to move most of its events to the ICCF server. Fortunately most of the membership has been able to go along with this move, allowing the CCLA to provide a better service for all. The flexibility of web based tournaments has allowed the CCLA to organise more events, more frequently. An example of this is the Interstate Teams Championship which is now growing into one of its strongest and most popular events. There is coverage of the 2016 tournament inside this issue, and the 2017 event is under way with a very strong field. The CCLA is also updating its web services, with the address of the new CCLA webserver listed on the masthead. Of course technology isn’t always perfect, and transferring the CCLA Ratings System across to the new server has resulted in missing CCLA ratings for this issue. The Council would also like to welcome Ryan Luey, who has taken on the role of Masterpoints Recorder. This has allowed for a change of roles for other councillors, which are noted in this issue. Finally, I would like to congratulate Tim Runting, who has been awarded Life Membership of the CCLA. Tim is the Immediate Past President of of the CCLA, and devoted a number of years to serving the CC community in this role. 26 27 Australian News CCLA Major Tournaments 2017 The 2017 Australian Championship and supporting events have all commenced. For the webserver events, the Australian Championship has 11 players, all ICCF rated over 2100. There are 7 players in the Reserves, 9 players in the Seniors, 2 players in the Juniors as well as State Championships for NSW (7), VIC (3), QLD (2), SA (2) and TAS (2). Postal events will be reported separately by Peter Maylott. Australian Interstate Team Championship With only a few games remaining, Queensland are the clear winners of the 2016 Australian Interstate Team Championship with 27.5/35 ahead of Victoria (22/33), NSW (22/35), Tasmania (15.5/35), WA (12/35), ACT (11.5/36) and SA (9.5/31). The 2017 Interstate Team Championship has commenced with 6-player teams and average ratings as follows: WA (2109), Queensland (2098), Victoria (2084), NSW (2058), Tasmania (2004), South Australia (1915) and ACT (1816). Other Australian CCLA events From 1 June 2017, the Tournament Organiser (TO) of all BICYCLE, FAST, STANDARD CCLA 6/1, STANDARD CCLA 4/2, CHESS 960 and other domestic events on the webserver (except Major Tournaments) will be Peter Maylott. Please send all entries to [email protected] Brian Jones CCLA International Secretary [email protected] 23 May 2017 28 International News Olympiad 21 Preliminaries playing for the Czech Friends team After 9 months of play in Section 2 in Division C6. of the 21st Olympiad Preliminaries, Australia is in =4th place with Africa Asia Team Championship 18.5/32 behind Iceland (23/39), The 1st Africa Asia Team Belarus (21.5/37) and Russia Championship started on 15 May (20.5/33). Two teams will qualify 2017 and comprised 14 teams of six for the Final. Individual scores so players with average ratings as far are as follows: GM Chris follows: Indonesia A (2223), Fenwick (2.5/4), IM Gordon Indonesia B (2200), India A (2179), Dunlop (2.5/4), SIM Stephen Kerr India B (2159), India C (2173), (3.5/7), IM John-Paul Fenwick Asian Barbarians (2157), South (4.5/7), SIM Tim Runting (3.5/6) Africa (2149), African Barbarians and Barrie Mulligan (2/3). (2147), Australia A (2130), Australia B (2126), Australia C PATT-7 (2122), Oceania (2121), ASEAN The Australia/New Zealand team (1947) and Cape Verde (1857). has made a slow start to the 7th Pacific Area Team Tournament and Esko Nuutilainen Memorial is currently in last place with 12/23 Team Tournament behind Russia (25.5/48), The preliminaries of the Esko USA/Mexico (23/44), Canada Nuutilainen Memorial team event (17/37), USA (16/30), will start in June. The tournament is Japan/Colombia/Indonesia (16/34) restricted to ICCF member and Peru (14.5/32). Individual federation teams of six players rated scores so far are as follows: IM below 2300. Australia has entered Gordon Dunlop (1.5/3), GM Mark one team as follows: 1. Brian Jones Noble (2/5), Barrie Mulligan (2/4), (2290) 2. Richard Egelstaff (2255) Derek Roebuck (5.5/9), Simon 3. Ryan Luey (2238) 4. Simon Jenkinson (0.5/1) and Max Willow Jenkinson (2234) 5. Garvin Gray (0.5/1). (2216) 6. Mike Gross (2203). ICCF Champions League World Championship Champions League 7 commenced Gordon Dunlop will shortly start in May 2017. Gordon Dunlop is play in the World Championship playing for the Chess Allies team in Semi-Final (WCCC41SF) which Division B4. Barrie Mulligan, starts 20 June 2017. Brian Jones Derek Roebuck and Brian Jones are and John Mulder are both currently 29 playing in the World Championship Barrie achieved Correspondence Preliminaries (WCCC41PR) which Chess Expert (CCE) at the end of started in March 2017. 2016 and Correspondence Chess Master (CCM) in March 2017 with Australian Masters norms achieved in the Malcolm The 2015 Australian Masters Peltz Memorial and the Australian tournament is now complete and the Masters 2016. winner is SIM Ken Holroyd (USA) who finished with 6/10, half a point Veterans World Cup ahead of SIM Olli Ylonen (FIN). The 10th Veterans World Cup is Leading the 2016 Australian open to all players who are 60 years Masters and 2016 Australian old or more at the start of the Candidate Masters are Finnish tournament on 1 September 2017. players Asko Havumaki (5.5/9) and The closing date for entries is 1 Tuomo Teeriaho (5.5/10) August 2017. respectively. The 2017 events start on 30 June 2017 with four New Chess Websites Australians in the Masters (CAT 3) Please note that Australia is no and five Australians in the longer in the North America/Pacific Candidates (CAT L). Zone – we are in the Africa Asia Zone. Australia also has a new WCCF Invitational website. Our new websites are as Jeff Plew finished 3rd on tiebreak in below - please visit regularly for the 1st Welsh Correspondence news and send feedback to me. Chess Federation Invitational event, scoring 7/12 behind Lars Milde CCLA Australia is at www.iccf- (GER) who was the clear winner australia.com with 7.5/12. Jeff now has one CCM Africa Asia Zone is at www.iccf- norm to add to his CCE norm. (A aa.com few other Australian players have Africa Asia free webserver is at scored CCE norms but more of this www.aa-webchess.com later when these tournament finish!) Brian Jones CCM Barrie Mulligan CCLA International Secretary Congratulations to Barrie Mulligan [email protected] who is the first Australian player to 23 May 2017 be awarded the new ICCF titles. 30 Games Column by IM John-Paul Fenwick We have two interesting games for Played in July 1971, when 9 Rb1 this issue. The first is a pre- was more usual. Now fast forward computer era game where White a year or so to August 1972, when neatly exploits Black’s failure to Spassky played 9 Nb3, followed by develop his pieces and secure his Bxf6 Be2, OO and Kh1, king. Notes by Bob Seaman unless subsequently winning in fine style noted. against Fischer in the 11th game of their legendary World White : Bob Seaman Championship. Of course I didn't Black : Alfred Kranzl know anything of this in 1971 ICCF Cup Intermediate Rounds when I played 9 Nb3. And the 1971-3. pundits in the Spassky-Fischer 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 match were quick to point out that Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Bg5 e6 7 f4 Fischer had played poorly (''… Qb6 8 Qd2 Qxb2 could be improved, to put it mildly", Cecil Purdy). But none of Today in 2017, accepting the this diminished my vicarious "poisoned pawn" in the Najdorf delight in 1972 at Spassky's win Sicilian is still considered ok. But using a similar line. black needs to tread carefully, particularly while behind in JPF: We have to remember that development. this game was played in the pre computer, pre database era. 9. Nb3 has largely fallen out of favour with 9. Rb1 Qa3 10. e5 h6 11. Bh4 de5 12. fe5 g5 being a popular line in correspondence which seems to eventually lead to a draw – hundreds of games have continued 13. ef6 gh4 14. Be2 Qa5 15. 0-0 Nd7 16. Kh1 Qg5 17. Rf4 e5 18. Nd5 ed4 19. Qd4 Kd8 20. Ne7 Qe5 21. Qd2 Be7 22. fe7 Qe7 23. Bg4 f5 24. Rf5 Re8 and despite Black’s king being stuck in the 9 Nb3 centre he has no problems defending. 31 9…Nc6 is hard to see White breaking through before Black completes his JPF: Most Correspondence players development and then the onus is these days would play 9…Qa3 on white to justify his pawn deficit which removes the possibility of which is one of the reasons 9.
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