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2007 Australian Junior Chess Championship Canberra Bulletin, Wednesday 24 January Chess Discount Sales Some awkward analysis news! Australia Day An ill-wind is blowing the Wellington Hurricanes Live 07 rugby team into the Hotel from Thursday 25 January. 25 January Australia Day Live 07 features our hottest stars in concert as Unfortunately the Hotel only realised in the days well as the announcement of the Australians of the Year. Held immediately before the event that there was a in our national capital on the lawns of Parliament House. double-booking of “our” analysis room. Be part of the live audience or catch all the action via the live On Wednesday evening the tables & sets will be broadcast on Network Ten and affiliate networks. moved to the recreation room in the dormitories. Australia Day Eve | Thursday 25 January 2007 Please make sure you have collected all of your property from the analysis room before the move. And Preshow entertainment from 3pm. Show starts at 5.30pm. on Thursday, please be considerate - in your use of the FREE! analysis/recreation room - of those children, families & groups who are actually staying in the dormitories and Featured Acts: The Whitlams Guy Sebastian using the recreation room. Damien Leith The Audreys TV Rock Thank you for your patience. Deborah Conway Kate Miller-Heidke & lots more! Libby Coach’s Rapid Coach’s Lightning 17 January 23 January Place Name Score Place Name Score 1 Rafizadeh, Shervin 7 1 Xie, Ken 7.5 2-3 Holland, Dennis 5 2 Smirnov, Vlad 7 Fedec, John 5 3 Lip, Michael 6 4 Feldman, Alex 4.5 4 Yu, Ronald 5 5 Yoon, Sunny 2.5 5 Sales, Jessie 4 6-7 Kumar, Dhirendra 2 6 Rafizadeh, Shervin 3.5 Karibasic, Amir 2 7 Stahnke, Axel 1.5 8 Leahy, Pascal 0 8 Fedec, John 1 9 Yoon, Sunny 0.5 Overall winner – Shervin Rafizadeh! Our bulletins are proudly printed by Toomanyforoneevent… A massive entry of 150 players in member of the group on 6/8, Thomas Feng misplayed their the Lightning meant too many for beating Penelope Hoey from a lost tactics. As if that was not enough, just one tournament – so the position a piece down after the we had four players on 6/8 too, with inevitable decision was made to latter let her queen a pawn. Yi being joined by Alex Stahnke and split the tournament into two, Taiyang Zhang (who both won) as Under 18 (74 players) and Under 12 We expected excitement at the top well as Laurence Matheson (who (76 players). The former was in the Under 12 Girls, with two joint drew with Ryan Sam). dominated by Junta Ikeda, clear leaders on 5.5/7 playing two players winner by a two point margin on on 5/7 – and they did not Things remained almost as 10.5/11; though he really should disappoint! Megan Setiabudi slowly interesting at the top in the Under have lost the one draw he conceded outplayed Caroline Shan, winning a 18 Open, despite Michael Wei’s to Derek Yu. There were clear girls pawn to a back rank mate threat stomachous attack against Joseph winners in both events as well, with and then making her central passed Nguyen resulting in mate and 7/8 Deborah Ng the new Australian pawns count. So the outright lead for Michael. It took much longer, Girls Lightning Champion on 7.5/11 for Megan on 6.5/8, but she could but Zhigen Lin was able to maintain and Leteisha Simmonds the leading not yet escape Clarise Koh (6/8) joint lead with Michael by beating Under 12 girl on 6.5/11. Gene after the latter’s win against Abbie Chris Wallis; Chris should probably Nakauchi and Yi Yuan found Kanagarajah – poor Abbie could themselves harder to separate, only quop after failing to refute a however, coming equal first on possibly unsound exchange 10/11 in the Under 12 event after sacrifice from Clarise, and ending up Gene won their individual game, falling victim to a crushing attack. but then suffered a back rank All this set up a crucial ninth round accident to lose to Bernard Chau game between Clarise and Megan, later on. Thus a playoff was possibly for the title. But even this is necessary, but that too finished at not sure, as Natasha Bortsova and 1-1; and only after the final playoff Alannah Byrne both won to join game with Yi (Black) having four Abbie on 5.5/8 – they are all near minutes to Gene’s five but draw enough if good enough… IA Charles Zworestine odds did Gene finally win to claim the Under 12 title. If anything, we are now even further from a clear winner than we were in have drawn, but fatigue caused him The day before had seen many the Under 12 Open, with the results to drop two pawns unnecessarily interesting things happen in the in Round 8 leaving the event even and fatally in their minor piece main events, not least of which was more wide open than it was before! ending. But with six players on 6/8 on top board in the Under 18 Girls The top board draw between James breathing down their necks, where Tamzin Oliver and Emma Guo Li and Gene Nakauchi was another Michael and Zhigen could hardly played a thriller! This resulted in topsy turvy struggle, with James’ feel safe! Apart from Chris, they still only the eighth draw of the entire opening advantage eventually had to worry about Junta Ikeda, Ben event, but no vocating from these netting him an extra pawn; but then Lazarus, Ganesh Viswanath, Andrew two – a mass exchange of pieces he allowed Gene into a pure Brown and William Xu. Junta won a saw Tamzin eventually better in a opposite coloured bishop ending, pawn and a tough rook endgame very complicated rook ending, but which was drawn after a few more against Eugene Schon; Ganesh won she could see no win and agreed a twists and turns. With Oscar Wang a piece to upset Thomas Donaldson; draw. This enabled Emma (7/8) to stunning Yi Yuan after the latter while James Morris should have maintain a full point lead, after Sally misplayed a complicated opening drawn with William Xu, but Yu reached 6/8 by mating Molly and found himself with not enough blundered in the end to drop McGarity after earlier winning two for his queen, we suddenly had four almost all his pawns and lose their pieces for a rook. Jessica Kinder was joint leaders on 6.5/8 and no idea minor piece ending. also on 6/8 when she won a pawn what was going to happen! The four and her rook ending against Sophie were Gene, Yi, Oscar and Vincent Eustace. Alana Chibnall was the final Horton, who won a rook when www.actjcl.org.au/ausjuniors2007/ Australian Junior Lightning Championship – Under 18 23 January 2007 No Name Feder Loc Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 Ikeda, Junta ACT 2114 10.5 43:W 16:W 15:W 10:W 3:W 18:W 11:W 6:D 2:W 4:W 7:W 2 Illingworth, Max NSW 2246 8.5 51:W 20:W 12:L 29:W 4:D 35:W 23:W 9:W 1:L 19:W 3:W 3 Lin, Zhigen Wilson VIC 1635 8 32:W 25:W 17:W 12:W 1:L 10:L 16:W 18:W 6:W 9:W 2:L 4 Lei, Yitao QLD 1490 8 65:W 60:W 5:W 23:L 2:D 8:W 13:D 11:W 10:W 1:L 9:W 5 Wallis, Christopher VIC 1932 8 31:W 30:W 4:L 36:W 9:L 29:W 19:L 28:W 15:W 24:W 14:W 6 Yu, Derek VIC 1609 7.5 58:W 17:L 41:W 8:W 16:W 53:W 18:W 1:D 3:L 7:L 20:W 7 Vijayakumar, Rengan VIC 1501 7.5 48:W 26:L 44:W 31:D 14:L 46:W 22:W 23:W 21:W 6:W 1:L 8 Ng, Deborah NSW 1464 7.5 52:W 46:D 24:W 6:L 31:W 4:L 14:D 36:W 43:W 12:D 21:W 9 Donaldson, Thomas WA 1435 7 34:W 49:W 11:L 17:W 5:W 13:W 10:W 2:L 24:W 3:L 4:L 10 Morris, James VIC 1592 7 39:W 36:W 26:W 1:L 20:W 3:W 9:L 12:W 4:L 14:L 19:W 11 Muthusamy, Reubban VIC 1642 7 41:W 29:W 9:W 18:L 19:W 12:W 1:L 4:L 20:D 25:D 30:W 12 Jule, Alexandra QLD 1491 7 63:W 55:W 2:W 3:L 25:W 11:L 36:W 10:L 27:W 8:D 13:D 13 Guo-Yuthok, Sherab ACT 1685 7 40:W 15:L 46:W 42:W 37:W 9:L 4:D 35:L 29:W 18:W 12:D 14 Guo, Emma ACT 1306 7 57:W 24:D 19:L 46:W 7:W 23:L 8:D 16:W 38:W 10:W 5:L 15 Haselgrove, Miles WA 1386 7 50:W 13:W 1:L 54:L 40:W 44:W 21:L 26:W 5:L 32:W 27:W 16 Gearing, Michael QLD 1427 7 45:W 1:L 39:W 26:W 6:L 42:W 3:L 14:L 31:W 43:W 25:W 17 Yu, Sally VIC 1351 7 70:W 6:W 3:L 9:L 44:L 55:W 32:W 25:L 54:W 26:W 24:W 18 Brown, Andrew ACT 1496 6.5 61:W 27:W 28:W 11:W 23:W 1:L 6:L 3:L 25:D 13:L 35:W 19 Ford, Daniel QLD 1406 6.5 71:D 38:W 14:W 53:D 11:L 26:W 5:W 21:D 35:W 2:L 10:L 20 Muller, Jonas QLD 1381 6.5 56:W 2:L 47:W 27:W 10:L 34:W 53:W 24:L 11:D 23:W 6:L 21 Van Dijk, Devrim VIC 1554 6.5 69:W 28:L 32:W 25:L 33:W 30:W 15:W 19:D 7:L 35:W 8:L 22 Xing, Edward ACT 1243 6.5 46:L 63:W 64:W 24:D 35:L 39:W 7:L 43:L 56:W 53:W 37:W 23 Dyer, Alastair TAS 1630 6 44:W 35:D 62:W 4:W 18:L 14:W 2:L 7:L 53:W 20:L 29:D 24 Schon, Eugene VIC 1546 6 47:W 14:D 8:L 22:D 43:W 28:W 25:W 20:W 9:L 5:L 17:L 25 Cameron, James VIC 1359 6 68:W 3:L 48:W 21:W 12:L 54:W 24:L 17:W 18:D 11:D 16:L 26 Smith, Kayleigh ACT 1242 6 67:W 7:W 10:L 16:L 38:W 19:L 54:W 15:L 47:W 17:L 44:W 27 Cohn, Jason NSW 1268 6 54:W 18:L 59:W 20:L 34:L 47:W 63:W 30:W 12:L 38:W 15:L 28 Lee, Leoma QLD 1336 6 59:W 21:W 18:L 37:L 62:W 24:L 69:W 5:L 40:D 55:W 38:D 29 Papantoniou, John NSW 1339 6 72:W 11:L 60:W 2:L 69:W 5:L 34:W 53:D 13:L 39:W 23:D 30 Kinder, Jessica QLD 1351 6 74:W 5:L 55:D 62:D 41:W 21:L 48:W 27:L 39:W 44:W 11:L 31 Chow, Justin ACT 1202 6 5:L 72:W 49:W 7:D 8:L 56:L 45:D 34:W 16:L 59:W 47:W 32 Reading, Michael ACT 1108 6 3:L 68:W 21:L 34:L 52:W 64:W 17:L 63:W 36:W 15:L 42:W 33 McGarity, Liam QLD 1239 6 64:L 52:W 54:L 50:W 21:L 48:L 65:W 61:W 37:D 36:D 45:W 34 Beilby, Kieton QLD 948 6 9:L 42:L 67:W 32:W 27:W 20:L 29:L 31:L 48:W 51:W 43:W 35 Chau, Adrian NSW 1320 5.5 66:W 23:D 53:L 55:W 22:W 2:L 56:W 13:W 19:L 21:L 18:L 36 Glenton, Alan VIC 1271 5.5 73:W 10:L 45:W 5:L 47:W 37:W 12:L 8:L 32:L 33:D 55:W 37 Sunder, Vijay VIC 1434 5.5 60:L 65:W 58:W 28:W 13:L 36:L 43:L 56:W 33:D 40:W 22:L 38 Grigg, Sam QLD 1435 5.5 55:L 19:L 68:W 61:W 26:L 62:W 44:W 42:W 14:L 27:L 28:D