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ISSUE 7 SpecialEdition June 2012 noble park chess club FEATURES: • Justin Tan’s publication in Chess Informant • Noble Park Club Championship • 2012 Doeberl Cup • Player Profile: Franz Oswald • JCP & Reserves program • CV Interclub Championships CONTENT EDITOR’S CORNER 2 Editor’s address 3 Justin’s Game 4 2012 Club Championship 7 2012 Doeberl Cup 8 Player Profile: Franz Oswald 10 JCP & Reserves 12 CV Interclub Championships Club Calendar Welcome to the 7th edition of the Noble Park Chess Club May 5 to Noble Park Open newsletter. Each edition has been bigger and better than Jun 23 the last one. This one is no different - starting and finishing with annotated games. It is a reflection of the hard work of Jun 30 Lightning the committee and the members of the club. On a personal basis, it has been incredibly fulfilling to have Jul 7 to Masters and Challengers contributed towards the growth of the club through this Sep 8 little newsletter. The readership has grown to the point whereby Noble Park Chess Club has had to increase the Jul 14 Lightning bandwidth of our club website. Very, very exciting... I’ve appreciated the many words of encouragement from Sep 15 Open Day club members and readers of the newsletter. However, all good things must come to an end. This will be my last newsletter as editor. Work and family commitments Sep 22-23 Noble Park Classic preclude me from being able to put aside the necessary time to support this activity. I urge you to continue to Sep 29 Lightning support the club as I will in my limited capacity. Oct 6 to Michael Loh Noble Park Swiss Nov 24 Editor Dec 1 AGM & Lightning Editor: Michael Loh Contributions: Justin Tan, Domagoj Dragicevic, Dusan Stojic, FOR MORE ON NOBLE PARK CHESS CLUB: VISIT WWW.NOBLEPARKCHESS.ORG.AU VISIT CLUB: CHESS PARK NOBLE ON MORE FOR Franz Oswald, Reginald Chong, Thai Ly, Omar Khaled, Michael Loh Template courtesy of designfreebies.org. All rights reserved. Reproduction in part or whole without permission is prohibited. - by the Rolls Royce engine of the brand new Boeing 787 Dreamliner 2 JUSTIN TAN’S GAME Noble Park Chess Club would like to start this [22... Nc4 23. Bxc4 Rxc4 24. b3 Rc5 25. newsletter with heartiest congratulations to Ng3 Nxg3 26. Rxg3 Rec8 27. Rgh3 e5 28. Rh4 Justin Tan who just had a game published in the exd4 29. Qh2 Kf8 30. Qxd6++- 1-0 J.Polgar - Chess Informant. Obviously, he is really pleased Kaidanov, Hilton Head Sicilian Theme 2010. ] since the Informant does not accept non-GM 23. Ng3 a5 A desperate counter-attack which submissions and apparently has approximately runs into a brilliant refutation (Rogers). FOR MORE ON NOBLE PARK CHESS CLUB: VISIT WWW.NOBLEPARKCHESS.ORG.AU VISIT CLUB: CHESS PARK NOBLE ON MORE FOR 5 times more games submitted than published. [23... Nxg3 24. Rxg3 Nc4 25. Qf2! e5 26. Well done, Justin. Nb5! Bxb5 (26... Rxb5 27. Bxc4 Rc5 28. Bxf7+! ) 27. Rgh3!+- (Informant) ] [Event “Australian Championships 2011”] 24. Ndf5!! (Rogers) [Site “Geelong”] [24. Nxh5!? gxh5 25. Nf5! Qg6 26. [Date “2011.12.31”] Nxd6+/- (Informant) ] [Round “5.10”] 24... exf5 25. Nxh5 gxh5 26. g6! (Rogers) Nxg6 [White “Tan, Justin”] 27. Qxd6! Suddenly Black is attacked from all [Black “McClymont, Brodie”] angles and cannot hold his position together [Result “1-0”] (Rogers). Be6 28. Qxc5 fxe4 29. Bxe6 Rxe6 30. [ECO “B78”] Qc8+ Qf8 31. Qxe6! fxe6 32. Rxg6+ Kf7 [WhiteElo “2160”] [32... Kh7 33. Rg5+- is no better ] [BlackElo “2049”] 33. Rf1+ Kxg6 34. Rxf8 Kg5 35. Kc1 [Annotator “GM Ian Rogers and Justin Tan”] 1-0 [PlyCount “69”] <Click here for playable games> This game was selected for publication this month in the prestigious magazine, Chess Informant (113), with annotations by GM Ian Rogers. Rogers also kindly published the game in his Sun Herald column on 8 Jan 2012. 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8. Qd2 O-O 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Ne5 12. Kb1 Re8 The modern main line of the sharp Dragon variation, used by Australia’s GM David Smerdon with success at the 2009 World Cup (Rogers - Sun Herald). I was very happy to see this because my coach (Hungarian IM Tibor Karolyi) and I had just recently worked on it and we had produced some new analysis together. 13. h4 h5 14. g4! (Rogers) hxg4 15. h5 Nxh5 16. Bh6 e6 17. Rdg1 Qf6 18. fxg4 Bxh6 19. Qxh6 Qg7 20. Qd2! 20.Qe3 had previously been thought best before this game (Rogers). Nf6 21. g5 Nh5 22. Nce2! (Rogers). All the moves until now had been part of my home analysis. As a result, by now I had gained 10 minutes on the clock! It is not surprising that in my database, White hasn’t lost a single game from this position. It was also funny that in the morning before the game, I had shown Domagoj the whole line Justin is also an accomplished gymnast as many until this point! Rc5 My opponent thought for a of you may know. Here’s a 1st place performance very long time before playing this move. In my on the pommel horse. analysis, I was also familiar with the following <Click here for YouTube video> game 3 2012 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP <Click here to download photos> Club record! Dusan to a draw on Board 1, improving Jason Chew defeated Laszlo and Karl drawing in a Franz Oswald and on board 14 By Domagoj Dragicevic and rescheduled game and Michael Baris Girgin defeated a higher- Michael Loh Chan losing to Richard Voon, in rated Jamie Yung. There were A recap from the previous one of the last games to finish also a few “upset” draws this newsletter - Omar reported a on the day. On Board 2, Bosko round with Jimmy Ying holding club record of 38 players for Mijatovic played an excellent Omar Khaled to a draw, Ari Dale the Club Championship. It is a game against FM Domagoj drew with Laurence Matheson healthy sign of a rejuvenated Dragicevic but lost the endgame on board 2, whilst Zachary club. Particularly pleasing due to an oversight. Loh had another good result, drawing with John Nemeth on is the broad spectrum of ROUND 3 new players including a board 4. This round did have quite a few number of Australian Junior ROUND 4 representatives - Laurence surprising results. The biggest FOR MORE GRAPHIC DESIGN FREEBIES: VISIT WWW.DESIGNFREEBIES.ORG VISIT FREEBIES: DESIGN GRAPHIC MORE FOR Matheson, Karl Zelesco, Ari Dale, upset of this round was on This round was the first time in Michael Chan and Zachary Loh. board 13 where a young Hamish the tournament where no-one Jones defeated the “intrepid took a bye so all the players FOR MORE ON NOBLE PARK CHESS CLUB: VISIT WWW.NOBLEPARKCHESS.ORG.AU VISIT CLUB: CHESS PARK NOBLE ON MORE FOR Round 1 of the Club reporter” Elliott Renzies. were there. This round saw the Championship pretty much Hamish was rated 649 points battle of top two seeds on board went according to ratings, with below his opponent. That win 1 where FM Domagoj Dragicevic a small number of byes. There gave Hamish the special prize defeated FM Dusan Stojic. It was were a few surprising results for the biggest upset of the not a “good loss” for top-seed in Round 2 with Zach holding tournament. On board 11, an Dusan as he was already half a 4 2012 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 2012 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP point behind. Svetozar Stojic 4.5/6 as did Laurence Matheson championship with a win over found himself on unfamiliar by defeating Karl Zelesco. Jason Ari Dale. On board 2, FM Dusan board 13 against Carl Dingfelder Chew is looking the goods Stojic defeated John Nemeth because he had been away for the Under-1600 prize with in an entertaining game. travelling in Europe for the first another good result (draw) Zachary Loh and Karl Zelesco 3 rounds. The biggest upset was against Laszlo Nemeth. have played each other many FOR MORE ON NOBLE PARK CHESS CLUB: VISIT WWW.NOBLEPARKCHESS.ORG.AU VISIT CLUB: CHESS PARK NOBLE ON MORE FOR Ege Girgin holding Richard Voon times. Zach prevailed this time ROUND 7 to a draw, with Richard being in a Grünfeld: Russian System rated over 450 points higher. A very lucky win for FM opening, thus moving on to 6 In the battle of the juniors on Domagoj Dragicevic against points from 8 matches. board 3, Ari Dale defeated Karl Zachary Loh moved him to 7/7 The game between Svetozar Zelesco. with a back-to-back title in sight. Stojic and Michael Chan was (Editor: Dom is usually the cool ROUND 5 interesting with Michael playing and collected player but this is 1...a6, which I have never seen FM Domagoj Dragicevic the first time I’ve seen him run to before, and ended up winning. continued his fine tournament the bathroom! :-)) Jason Chew continued his great by defeating Laurence In preparation for the Northern tournament with another upset, Matheson and moving to 5/5. Star Noble Park Chess Classic, this time against another up- Zachary Loh continued to Mike Loh blogged this game and-coming junior, Jimmy Ying. impress by defeating Ari Dale. and a couple of others live. Not to be outdone, Cameron Another improving junior over It was reminiscent of Kathy Yung defeated Laszlo Nemeth. the years, Kyle Gibson, produced Rogers “flying” between the an impressive result drawing ROUND 9 tournament and analysis rooms with top seed Dusan Stojic.
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