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Jan '01 Newsletter Chess World Pty. Ltd. (Incorporating Chess Kids) ABN 76 087 995 364 Volume 3 Issue 1 Editor: David Cordover February 2001 Editorial This year may see the Chess Kids maga- zine in a new format. For a number of issues now I have been trying to create a magazine that is entertaining and infor- mative for competitive chess players, both adult and junior, and something that a lay-person can pick up at a fete or show and consequently become a little more involved with chess. This has been quite a task. The name alone seems to scare off about half the adult readers. If only they could read through the first few pages who knows, something might just grab their interest. IM David Smerdon vs IM Zong-Yuan Zhao. A strong friendly rivalry seems to be developing. Both with their coaches in the background. Keep on the lookout for new ways of catching the attention of an adult reader- ship. (Sorry, no pictures). Even the long standing RJ Shield is ready for a bit of a shake up this year. Due to demand we are going to be start- ing a Western Division of the Shield. Points will accumulate from every RJ Shield to build towards Cash Prizes at the end of the year. One of our main aims this year is to bring chess to the community. There are many recreational or social players in Australia who don’t get a chance to play anyone outside their immediate family or friends. This year expect to see a lot more chess exhibitions in parks and gardens across Melbourne. Perhaps we will even be able to establish a permanent facility for chess players to gather outdoors? Whatever your goals are this year, we wish you the very best. Keep playing! The Australian Girls Championships didn’t have enough players, so they -David Cordover had to get a bottle to play as well. This is Melissa Lee pondering the Schweppes Defence. Inside This Issue Australian Junior Pp 2-3 Club News Page 4 Digital Clocks Page 5 Australia Day Page 6 Australian Open Page 7 Interschool Finals Page 8 Coaching with Nick Speck Pp 10-11 Junior Rating List Pp 12-13 Chess Clubs Page 14 Calendar Of Events Page 15 Page 2 Chess Kids 11TH JANUARY 2001 TO 23RD JANUARY 2001 - CANBERRA Australian Junior 2001 -David Cordover Under 18 OPEN Tian,K (2054) - Smerdon,D (2304) 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.Na3 c5 4.Qf3 Nc7 5. XABCDEFGHY Favourites for the tournament were Inter- Bc4 e6 6.Nb5 Nxb5 7.Bxb5 a6 8.Ba4 national Masters David Smerdon and 8-+r+-+-+( Qh4 9.Bb3 c4 10.Ba4 Qd4 11.Qe2 c3 Zong-Yuan Zhao. Both had played ex- 7zpp+n+-zpk' tremely well in the recently concluded XABCDEFGHY Australian Open and stayed on in Can- 8rsnl+kvl-tr( 6-+-+R+ -+& berra to fight for the Junior Champion- 5+q+p+-+-% ships title as well. There was no doubt 7+p+p+pzpp' that these two were in a class well above 6p+-+p+-+& 4-+-wQ -vL-+$ the rest. The only thing that could stop 3+-tr-+-+-# one of them would be exhaustion from 5+-+-zP-+-% playing serious games every day for 2P+P+-zPPzP" nearly a month! 4L+-wq-+-+$ 1+-mKR+-+-! The first round showed that concerns of 3+-zp-+-+-# tiredness could be a problem: 2PzPPzPQzPPzP" xabcdefghy XABCDEFGHY IM David Smerdon - Sam Chow 8rsnl+-trk+( 1tR -vL-mK-sNR! White (to play) managed to keep his cool xabcdefghy against one of the trickiest players around. Eventually ending in a draw. The 7zpp+-+-vl-' Kuan-Kuan Tian - IM David Smerdon remaining moves are as follows... 22.Rd2 6-wqp+-sn-zp& After a crazy 11 moves Kuan-Kuan has R8c4 23.Qxd5 Rxc2+ 24.Kd1 Rc1+ 25. 5+-+pvL-zpP% lost a piece. He played on for many more Ke2 Re4+ 26.Kf3 Qxd5 27.Rxd5 Rxe6 moves, but could have resigned here. 28.Rxd7?! [28.Bxc1±] 28...Rc2 29.Rxb7 4-+-+p+-+$ Rxa2 30.h4 a5 31.g4 Ra4 ½-½ This game left Smerdon on 6/6 and Zhao 3+-sN-zP-+-# on 5/6, with the crucial meeting in the Julian McDonald hit a good patch in next round! rounds 7, 8 and 9 with wins over Dunne, 2PzPP+LzPP+" Zvediniouk and then Laura Moylan. 1+R+QsNRmK-! XABCDEFGHY 8r+-tr-+-+( XABCDEFGHY xabcdefghy 7zpp+k+pzpp' 8-+k+ -+-+( Shaun Ferris - IM Zong-Yuan Zhao 7+-+q+-zp-' Here Zhao thought he would win a pawn 6-+n+l+-+& and played 16...Nxh5. Shaun of course 5+-+-+-+-% 6-+l+nvlp+& continued with 17. Bxb8! and then 18. 5zp-+-zp-+-% Bxh5 and was a clear piece ahead. Zhao 4-+-sN-vL-+$ fought back well from the deficit and was 3+-+-+-+-# 4P+ -+-+-+$ still able to win the game. 3+P+-zp-sN-# David Smerdon, in his second round 2PzP-+-zPPzP" game faced a very tough challenge, only 1+-+RtR-mK-! 2-+-+Q+ -zP" just eeking out a win. 1+-sNR+-mK-! Both IM’s settled down a little after early xabcdefghy scares although by round 5 Zhao had IM Smerdon - IM Zhao xabcdefghy Black (McDonald) played ...Nf4? White dropped 2 half-points (to Tian and Xie). A draw was agreed in this position (black (Moylan) could have responded with to play). This draw was the start of a run Round 6 saw David Smerdon with the Qa6+ but chose the counter-blunder of draws for Smerdon. black pieces against a dangerous Kuan- Qf1?? Julian played the simple ...Nh3+ Kuan Tian. Next was his, perhaps lucky, draw against and Laura resigned! Black would win Sam Chow. Then a long draw with Denis without the scare if he had played ...Nd4! Bourmistrov in round 9. Chess Kids Page 3 This sent Julian McDonald up against TITLE WINNERS FINAL SCORES Smerdon in Round 10. He was punished OPEN GIRLS 1 Dusan Stojic (A) 1487 for his blunders with a loss in only 26 11 / 11 moves. Zong-Yuan Zhao (N) Under 18 Michelle Lee (V) 2 Casey Barnard (Q) Kuan-Kuan Tian (N) Under 16 Shannon Oliver (A) 1508 10.0 Zhao at this stage was quietly winning the 3 Michael Wei (A) 1478 games he needed to win and remained Samuel Chow (V) Under 14 Sally-Anne Richter (V) 9.0 only half a point behind Smerdon. His Dusan Stojic (A) Under 12 Heather Huddleston (N) 4 Eugenia Sharomova round 10 game was a chance to catch up, Khoi Huang (A) Under 10 Rochelle Ziffer (V) (N) 1378 7.5 however he could only draw a tricky 7 Nathanael Lim (V) 991 6.5 game with Sam Chow. 6 Michael Lip (N) 1984 7.5 7 Jonathon Humphrey (Q) 1673 7.0 9 Derek Yu (V) 852 6.5 The final round saw Sam Chow playing 8 Peter Jovanovic (A) 1842 7.0 16 Rukman Vijayakumar (V) 1222 6.0 Kuan-Kuan Tian. This was his 4th of the 9 Sam Chow (V) 1893 7.0 20 Kai Nagao (V) unr 5.5 top 4 seeds played in 4 rounds. He had 10 Denis Bourmistrov (V) 1881 7.0 24 Nathan Fell (V) 786 5.0 drawn with the two IM’s and beaten the 11 Keiran Olm-Milligan (Q) 1503 7.0 25 Thor Taylor (V) 708 5.0 4th seed. Sam needed a win to finish in 12 WIM Laura Moylan (A) 1871 7.0 26 Raymond Truong (V) unr 5.0 outright 3rd and certainly tried. Perhaps 13 John Nemeth (V) 7.0 28 Rengan Vijayakumar (V) unr 5.0 too hard, as he sacrificed a pawn for not 15 Julian McDonald (V) 1546 6.5 32 Daniel Cavanagh (V) unr 4.0 much and ended up losing the game. 28 Shaun Ferris (V) 1436 6.0 36 Andrew O'Connor (V) 374 3.5 37 Venkata Nalluri (V) unr 3.0 Denis Bourmistrov was the other out- 31 Richard Machet (V) 1442 6.0 standing Victorian performance. He was 35 Vincent Lau (V) 1452 5.5 Under 18 GIRLS undefeated for the first 10 games 37 Mark Hughes (V) 1217 5.5 Only 13 players chose to play in this (including a draw with IM Smerdon) but 38 Matan Prilleltensky (V) 1465 5.5 competition. This meant the organisers then lost to Zhao in the last round. 43 Lance Truong (V) 1307 5.0 49 Sam Fell (V) 1040 5.0 were forced to change the format to a 12 XABCDEFGHY 59 Daichi Nagao (V) 1199 4.0 game round-robin. The title in itself was 61 Martin Turley (V) unr 3.5 devalued a little because the top two girls 8r+-+-+k+( 63 Richard Martin (V) 551 3.0 (Laura Moylan and Catherine Lip) chose 7+-tr-+p+p' 65 Nanda Nalluri (V) unr 2.0 to play in the Open competition. 6p+-zp-+p+& However, it was a gruelling event with Under 12 OPEN nothing being clear until the last couple 5+-+PzP-wq-% of rounds. This tournament was a two-horse race. 4PzP-wQ-zp-+$ Dusan Stojic (A) and Casey Barnard (Q). 1 Michelle Lee (V) 1652 11.5 3+-sN-+P+l# It all came down to their individual game, 2 Shannon Oliver (A) 1390 10.5 which Stojic won. 3 Sally-Anne Richter (V) 1167 10.0 2R+-+-+PzP" 4 Juanita Lauer-Smith (S) 1239 9.5 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5 Kateryna Moshnenko (Q) 1493 9.5 1+-+-+RmK-! 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Bxc6 Bxc6 7.Bg5 Nf6 8.
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