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ADVERTISING RATES Full page, $N245.00 The Canterbury Ches Club invites enties to this Class 2 Grand Prix event Half-page or tull columrL $N222.50 to be held at Labour Weekend. Half column, $N212.00 championship event FrDE-rated (1't $500, 2'd $300, 3'd $200 +th $too;. COPYDEADLINE Front Cover: Akbar Ashrafi and David Xu 'B' tournament NZCF rated. October issue, Monday October 20 face of at the 200i NZ Junior Championship hosted by llaitemata Chess Club at Green Bay entrry and regular up-dates our website: HOMEPAGE High School. For details, form visit hfi p//ourrcrtdconpuserveconfmmepagesft rrctress www.auschess.org.auloceania,/cantetb]ury I editor: [email protected] Organiser: wrights@xtr a.co.nz NZ Chess NZ Chess I 5 North Island Championships performance last year Jesse has come from down the secured the draw he required against Graeme by Hilton Bennett field to be the top NZ player. Spain to be outright North Island Champion for Round Seven 2003. Mark van der Hoom defeated William The 2003 North Island Championship and ings with IM Lane beating Wilson, Spain, van Lane continued on his way with a win over Lynn to be clear 3'd, while Reedy and Han de- Rapid Championship were held in the pleasant der Hoom, and Krstev winning against Nyberg, Nyberg, while the critical Board 2 game Wilson feated Charomova and Krstev respectively. Ny- surroundings of St Paul's Collegiate School, Rossiter, and Reedy respectively. Ben Giles v Lynn ended quickly with a blunder by Lynn, berg finished with a draw against Gino Thomton to Hamilton, from the l4th to l9n of July. This and Daniel Han drew a remarkable R+3 v R leaving Jesse Wilson with at least a share of the complete a good performance. has been the venue for most recent North Island ending with tripled f pawns, in an ingenious NI title with a round to spare. Krstev lost to van As expected Gary Lane was in an entirely dif- Championship events and thanks must go to the defensive performance from Daniel. der Hoom, Spain had a nice win over the solid ferent class, although it is disappointing that school for their support ofchess in the region. Round Three Caleb Wright, while Reedy, Giles and Han were more players did not offer some signihcant re- This is in no small part due to the efforts of St Gary Lane scored a relatively easy win over also winners. sistance against him. Jesse Wilson was ex- Paul's staffmember and Hamilton Chess Club Antonio Krstev, as black lost first an exchange Round Eight tremely impressive in his title victory, losing stalwart Gary Judkins, who has initiated con- and then a whole piece in a French. The most Gary Lane completed his "full house" with a only to IM Lane but never being in too much siderable chess activity at the school. This interesting match up was the local derby Lyrn quick win over Giles, while Jesse Wilson easily bother otherwise. Five pl year's Championship was a Global Chess En- v Spain, where Graeme overlooked a key de- 2 event, and was also FIDE fensive resource in time trouble to be beaten by terprises Class 1 Lane, c (IM) 2472 2400 I 17:W 2lW 14:W 3:W B:W 5:W 10:W 9:W pleased a Lynn. Most other rated. The Hamilton Club was very to very determined William 2 Wj-1son,.I 1765 6.5 26:W lzL 25:W 15:W 3:W 14 3W 8:w 5: D obtain the participation of IM Gary Lane and match ups were relatively one-sided, resulting 3 van der Hoorn, M 2156 2787 6 LB:w 2'l:W 15:W 1:L 2zL 7:W 14:W 8:W his wife WIM Nancy Lane from Australi4 who in wins for the higher ranked player. 4 Reedy, B 19:W 14:L 20:W 5:D 9:W 8:L 72:W 17:W were taking a short NZ holiday to coincide with Round Four 5 Spain, G 2202 2200 5 23:W 10:W 8:L 43D 6:w 1:L 16:W 2iD the event. Round 4 match ups saw Mark van der Hoom 6 Han, D 2025 s 16:D 9:D L8:W 73D 5:L 17:D 20:W 14:W 7Xu,D 1566 5 28iw 8:L 30:W 6:D 16:D 3:L 18:W 15:W While top level 2200 plus NZ players who playing the Vienna against Lane, and looking B Lynn, K 7828 4.5 20zW 7:W 5:W 9:D 1:L 43W 2:L 3:L might have challenged Gary more seriously in slightly surprised when someone pointed out 9 Giles, B 2005 1880 4.5 13:W 6:D 16:W 8:D AzL 77:.D 21 :W 1:L the event were largely absent, there were still a that Gary had written that book as well! Mark 10 Nyberg, M t'7 64 4.5 29iw 5:L 19:W 17:W 14:L 15:W 1:L 11:D number of surprises in store as has been the tried to pull off a save with a sacrificial flurry, 11 Thornton. c 1631 4.5 25:D 16:L l2tD 26:W 2OzW 9:D 17:D 10:D case in recent years.