Term 3 '99 Newsletter - Chess Kids...Sicilian Defence ———————————————— 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 The Accelerated Dragon. 5.Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3

Uni – Hawthorn on Sunday 25th July from 1pm to 5pm. Come along and sup-port the cause.

As of next issue this magazine will be provided as a combined publication

Editorial

The public in Melbourne are now able to be exposed to the best of both worlds. Chess World and Chess Kids have merged their activities to become one business. This will continue to trade as Chess World Pty Ltd using the business name of Chess Kids for its junior coach-ing.

This new entity will be able to provide quality coaching at schools, for indi-viduals or clubs, as well as offer the best prices in Australia for all chess equip-ment, books and products. Chess World will continue running RJ Shield events, chess parties and anything else you, your friends, your school or your family may need.

We welcome on board Nick Speck, as a brand new full-time chess coach. We wish him and his students all the best.

One of the first things that the combined Chess World will be doing is running a tournament to raise money for the Vic-torian children who will be representing Australia in the World Junior Champi-onships later in the year. The RJ Shield Fundraiser will be held at Melbourne

Volume 1 Issue 3 July 1999 Editor: David Cordover

Perfect Match

Inside This Issue

Vic Junior Championships Pp 2-4 RJ Shield Page 5-8

Top Rated Players Page 9 Ratings Pp 10-12

Secondary Interschool Pp 13-14 Primary Interschool Pp 15-18

Opening Preparation Page 19 Brain Strain Page 20

Player Profile Page 21 Brain Teaser Page 22

Chess World Pty. Ltd. (Incorporating Chess Kids) ACN 087 995 364

Denis Bourmistrov: 1999 Victorian Junior Champion

with Chess World Chatter. If you wish to be removed from the mailing list please e-mail [email protected].

-David Cordover

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Most likely your answer to this question would not be “at the Victorian Junior Chess Championships”.

There was a very disappointing turnout for the Under 18, 16 and 14 Age groups. Only 10 players. Consequently a 9 round round-robin was set up, of course 2 hours after the games started someone else tried to enter, unfortunately this would have caused more trouble than it was worth and his entry was refused.

As luck would have it the top two seeds met in the first round. ACF ratings are given, as well as Junior ratings in brack-ets.

Round 1

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Gordon Lindberg 1431 (1556)

Denis Bourmistrov 1607 (1532)

Sicilian Defence

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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6

The Accelerated Dragon. 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Qd2? Ng4 The very reason why you should play f2-f3 before play-

ing Qd2. 8.Bc4 Nxe3 9.fxe3 0-0 10.0-0-0 White is positionally lost and has no choice but to go crazy against his oppo-nent's King. 10...d6 11.h4 Ne5 12.Be2 h5 13.Rdg1 a6 14.Nf3 Ng4 15.Nh2 Gordon's plan was to bring his non-attacking Knight into the attack against Black's King. Even at the cost of the ex-

change. 15...Nf2 16.g4 hxg4 17.Nxg4 Nxh1 18.Rxh1 Be6!? ...Qa5 was best. Black must counter-attack and he will win in a short amount of time. ...Qa5

and ...Bxc3 would be a good plan. White doesn't have enough pieces near his Black's King to forge any real suc-cessful attack. 19.h5 White's attack gets going, but he is still material down. 19...Qd7 20.Nd5 If Black plays ...Bxg4, Bxg4 Qxg4, Nxe7+ Kh8, gxh6++! 20...Rae8 21.Qd1 f5 22.h6 Be5 23.exf5

Bxf5 24.Bc4 Kh7 25.Nxe5 dxe5 26.e4

Bg4 27.Qg1 Bh5??

XABCDEFGHY 8-+-+rtr-+( 7+p+qzp-+k' 6p+-+-+pzP& 5+-+Nzp-+l% 4-+L+P+-+$ 3+-+-+-+-# 2PzPP+-+-+" 1+-mK-+-wQR! xabcdefghy 28.Rxh5 b5 29.Bd3? 29.Rg5 and it is White who is winning. 29...e6 30.Ne3? Nb6 followed by moving the rook out of danger would have made Black's job very difficult. 30...gxh5 0-1

The beauty of many games is only seen in the analysis and never actually played.

Alexandra Colquhoun 1103p (1209)

Mark Hughes unr (unr)

XABCDEFGHY

8r+l+kvl-tr( 7zp-zp-wqp+p' 6-+pzp-+p+& 5+-+-+-+-% 4-+L+n+-+$ 3+-zP-+-+-# 2PzP-+-zPPzP" 1tRNvLQtR-mK-! xabcdefghy In this position Alex played 10.f3 trying to win the knight. Things went wrong with her open King and she ended up losing a rook and the game. What could have happened was:

10.Qa4! Bd7 (if 10...Kd7 11.Bd5!) 11.Rxe4 Qxe4 12.Bxf7+!! And White wins.

The most exciting game of the round was Basnayake – Magat which had both players in time trouble, twice! Eventu-ally the continued pressure from Magat saw Basnayake miss a number of wins before blundering outright and losing the game.

Round 2

Not much happened in Round 2. Mi-chael Magat had a queen for 3 pieces against Gordon Lindberg but ended up getting checkmated. Also a couple of hard fought draws were earned.

Round 3

The big upset of round 3 was Tiko Gawin defeating Gordon Lindberg.

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Tiko Gawin unr (1245)

King’s Gambit

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1.e4 e5 2.f4 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Bg4

Wednesday 30th June to

Sunday 4th July

Victorian Junior Championships

V I C T O R I A N C H E S S A S S O C I A T I O N I N C .

Where were

you between

30th June and

4th July?

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1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Qb6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Bd7 8.0-0 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4 10.Nc3 Qxe5 11.Re1 Qc7 12.Nb5 Bxb5 13.Bxb5+ Kd8

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-mk-vlntr( 7zppwq-+pzpp' 6-+-+p+-+& 5+L+p+-+-% 4-+-+-+-+$ 3+-+-+-+-# 2PzP-+-zPPzP" 1tR-vLQtR-mK-! xabcdefghy

White to play a brilliancy!

14.Qxd5+! Bd6 15.Bf4! Ke7 16.Rac1! Qb6 17.Bxd6+ Qxd6 18.Qxb7+ 1-0

Leading scores: 5/5 Denis Bourmistrov 4.0 Vincent Lau 3.5 Thilini Basnayake

Round 6

Mahmud Chowdhury didn’t show up this round, and eventually withdrew from the tournament.

The worst opening of the tournament goes to this game by Alex Colquhoun. After 7 moves she had this position. Needless to say she lost quickly.

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5.0-0 Nf6 6.Nc3 Be7 7.d3 0-0 8.Be3 exf4 9.Bxf4 Nd4 10.Be3 Nxf3+ 11.gxf3 Bh3 12.Rf2 Nd7 13.f4 Bh4 14.Rd2 Qf6 15.Qf3 Qg6+ 16.Kh1 Bg4 17.Qg2 Qh5 18.Rf1 c6 19.f5 d5 20.Bb3 Ne5 21.h3 Bf3 22.Rxf3 Nxf3 23.Qe2

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+-trk+( 7zpp+-+pzpp' 6-+p+-+-+& 5+-+p+P+q% 4-+-+P+-vl$ 3+LsNPvLn+P# 2PzPPtRQ+-+" 1+-+-+-+K! xabcdefghy 23...Bg5 24.Qg2 Bxe3 25.Rd1 Nh4 26.Qg3 Qf3+ 27.Qxf3 Nxf3 28.exd5 Rfe8 29.d6 Rad8 30.Ne4 Ng5 31.c3 Nxe4 32.dxe4 Rxe4 33.Bc2 Re5 34.Bb3 Rxf5 35.d7 Bf4 36.Kg2 Rf6 37.Re1 Kf8 0-1

Denis Bourmistrov defeated Michael Ma-gat to move to a perfect 3/3 and having played his two main rivals looks good to win the tournament.

Round 4

Denis continues his good form. Vincent Lau consolidates clear second with an-other win, now 3.5/4. However, he has yet to play the top seeds.

Round 5

The brilliancy prize of the tournament was won with the following game.

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Mahmud Chowdhury unr (1384)

French Defence

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No Name Rounds Total

Score

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

1 Mahmud Chowdhury w 10 0 w 2 .5 b 3 .5 w 4 0 b 5 0 w 6 0f b 7 0f w 8 0f b 9 0f 1

2 Alexandra Colquhoun w 9 0 b 1 .5 w 10 0 w 3 0 b 4 0 w 5 0 b 6 0 w 7 0 b 8 .5 1

3 Vincent Lau w 8 1 b 9 1 w 1 .5 b 2 1 w 10 .5 w 4 1 b 5 0 w 6 .5 b 7 .5 6

4 Thilini Basnayake w 7 0 b 8 .5 w 9 1 b 1 1 w 2 1 b 3 0 w 10 1 w 5 .5 b 6 0 5

5 Gordon Lindberg w 6 0 b 7 1 w 8 0 b 9 1 w 1 1 b 2 1 w 3 1 b 4 .5 w 10 1 6.5

6 Denis Bourmistrov b 5 1 b 10 1 w 7 1 b 8 1 w 9 1 b 1 1f w 2 1 b 3 .5 w 4 1 8.5

7 Michael Magat b 4 1 w 5 0 b 6 0 b 10 1 w 8 1 b 9 1 w 1 1f b 2 1 w 3 .5 6.5

8 Tiko Gawin b 3 0 w 4 .5 b 5 1 w 6 0 b 7 0 b 10 0 w 9 1 b 1 1f w 2 .5 4

9 Mark Hughes b 2 1 w 3 0 b 4 0 w 5 0 b 6 0 w 7 0 b 8 0 b 10 0 w 1 1f 2

10 Kenny Fong b 1 1 w 6 0 b 2 1 w 7 0 b 3 .5 w 8 1 b 4 0 w 9 1 b 5 0 4.5

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4-+-+l+-sN$ 3+-+-+P+P# 2PzPnwQP+P+" 1tRNvL-mKLtR-! xabcdefghy Alex Colquhoun – Gordon Lindberg

Round 7

Vincent Lau missed his chance to place in the tournament against Gordon Lindberg. He had 4 passed pawns against a knight, but then for apparently no reason lost them all, and lost the game.

Round 8

Vincent Lau this round was the first (and only) person to take any points off Denis Bourmistrov. He sacrificed a piece for an attack which ended in a purple check.

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Vincent Lau unr (1250)

Denis Bourmistrov 1607 (1532)

Modern Defence

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1.e4 g6 2.Nf3 Bg7 3.d4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 0-0 7.Bc4 c6 8.d5 cxd5 9.exd5 Qc7 10.Bb3 Na6 11.0-0 Nc5 12.Nb5 Qa5 13.c4 Bd7 14.Nbd4 g5 15.Bg3 Nfe4 16.Bc2 g4 17.Nh4 Nd2 18.Ndf5 h5 19.Nxe7+ Kh8 20.Re1 Nxc4 21.Nhg6+ fxg6 22.Nxg6+ Kg8 23.Ne7+ Kh8 24.Ng6+ ½-½

The ninth round wrapped things up with-out any surprises. And that was that.

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Name

Score New Rating

Change Perform. Rating

Prize

Samuel,Chow 8.5 1794 56.46 1539 1st Place

Ruperto,Lugo 8.0 1488 85.98 1517 1st U/10

James,Papa 6.5 1322 47.49 1316 2nd Place

Richard,Machet 6.0 1274 9.88 1249 2nd U/10

Ira,Grossman 6.0 1207 16.74 1118 1st Girl

Douglas,Lindberg 5.5 1379 26.10 1332 3rd Place

Simon,Mitchell 5.5 1302 10.16 1276

Michelle,Lee 5.5 1267 21.27 1223 1st Girl U/10

Reubban,Muthusamy 5.5 1234 65.37 1267 3rd U/10

Daichi,Nagao 5.0 1136 38.19 1052

Vikram,Palit 5.0 1198 3.18 1090

Jade,Hall-Kelly 5.0 1018 30.21 976

Tory,Colquhoun 5.0 974 15.30 962 2nd Girl

Vanja,Rozenblat 5.0 907 52.26 1027 2nd Girl U/10

Kai,Nagao 5.0 890 47.85 956

Thor,Taylor 5.0 933 18.24 893

Sanchi,Thavarajah 5.0 824 55.20 918

Sally-Anne,Richter 4.5 1153 38.52 1119 3rd Girl

Will,Heyward 4.5 1109 -1.90 976

Jonathan,Schlossberg 4.5 790 55.95 917

Michael,Raivars 4.0 845 846

Zane,Yang 4.0 755 17.43 820

Philip,Shao 4.0 647 53.34 746

David,Wang 4.0 895 14.96 856

Natasha,Lauder 4.0 748 23.52 777

Adrian,Chee 4.0 800 732

Jason,Mihalopoulos 3.0 752 -2.04 766

Maneesha,Weerasinghe 3.0 679 615

Lindsay,Ondracek 3.0 711 -4.14 621

Ben,Lucato 2.5 882 7.49 846

Arosha,Weerasinghe 2.5 622 580

Jesse,Fanthorpe 2.0 764 752

Stephanie,Wong 2.0 578 520

Emily,Tay 2.0 629 591

Kutay,Dal 1.5 505 479

Christopher,Noonan 1.0 467 452

Victorian Under 12’s

Final Results

Saturday 3rd July and

Sunday 4th July

Victorian Under 12 Championships

V I C T O R I A N C H E S S A S S O C I A T I O N I N C .

Another disappointingly small number of players attended the Under 12 Cham-pionships. Perhaps something to do with school holidays or perhaps a lack of publicity for the tournament? What-ever it was things will be better next year.

Runaway tournament winner was Sam Chow for the second (or is it third?) year in a row. His game against the sec-ond seed, Ruperto Lugo, was surpris-ingly poorly contested. Nobody really offered a real challenge, although James Papa did manage to take a draw.

Under 10 Champion, Ruperto Lugo‘s, experience shined through to consis-tently beat those players below him, al-though again his main challenger was James Papa.

Thor Taylor comfortably won the Un-der 8 title.

All the children on the top 8 boards were asked to record their games; this is one.

“As you asked me, I am sending you one of today's games that I liked. It was against Jade Hall-Kelly. He really made a bad move and blundered his Queen on the 13th move.

Here is the game: I was white.

1.e2-e4 e7-e5 2.Ng1-f3 Ng8-c6 3.Bf1-c4 Ng8-f6 4.Nb1-c3 Bf8--b4 5.a2-a3 Bb4-c5 6.d2-d3 Nf6-g4 7.0-0 Bc5xf2 8.Rf1xf2 Ng4xf2 9.Kg1xf2 Qd8-f6 10.Kf2-g1 d7-d6 11.Bc1-g5 Qf6-g6 12.Qd1-d2 Qg6-h5 13.Nf3-h4 Qh5xh4?? 14.Bg5xh4 Nc6-d4 15.Qd2-g5 h7-h6 16.Qg5xg7 Rh8-f8 17.Nc3-d5 Rf8-f7 18.Nd5xc7+ Rf7xc7 19.Qg7xc7 Nd4-e2+ 20.Kg1-h1 Ne2-f4 21.Bh4xf6 Bc8-e6 22.Qc7-e7++”

Thank you to Jason Mihalopoulos for E-mailing me that game.

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Name Score Change Performance Rating

Prize

Ryan,Carey 6.0 22.065 1229 1st Place Leon,Looi 6.0 24.375 1179 2nd Place

Leonard,Shan 5.0 8.745 1066 3rd Place

Byron,Fiske 4.0 -8.565 951 Louise,Dana 4.0 -14.655 973 Top Girl

Artem,Nikolayevsky 4.0 -7.305 968

Emily,Byrne 4.0 40.785 1052 Top Unrated

Matthew,Lindley 4.0 13.485 983 Richard,Knight 4.0 40.26 979

...16 players

Under 11’s


Prize

Matthew,Mack 6.0 17.76 1011 1st Place

Melanie,Chang 5.5 4.695 963 2nd Place

Jamie,Carey 5.0 7.38 958 3rd Place

Adam,Grinholz 5.0 35.52 919 Encourage-ment

Peter,Papas 4.0 30.6 861 Ray,Wang 4.0 12.12 770

Nicholas,Seeley 4.0 0.045 835 Top Unrated

...17 players

Under 10’s

Final Results


Prize

Taylor,McEvoy 7.0 40.95 979 1st Place

Jon,Schlossberg 6.0 30.465 894 2nd Place

Kevin,Rassool 4.0 6.765 665 1st U/7

Andrea,Chang 4.0 -12.24 672 Top Girl U/8 Stephen,Papas 4.0 5.4 670 3rd Place

Matthew,Gamble 4.0 -1.005 690 Top Unrated

Peter,Maunder 4.0 10.545 631 EA Jamal,Blakkarly 4.0 -0.9 610 EA

...15 players

Under 8’s & 7’s

Final Results

RJ Shield Chess Tournament

S U N D A Y M A Y 2 N D - G L A M O R G A N


Prize

Gordon,Lindberg 6.5 20.43 1609 1st Place Samuel,Chow 6.0 -0.3 1551 1st Under 14

Ruperto,Lugo 5.0 12.945 1457 1st Under 12

Douglas,Lindberg 4.5 2.085 1381 2nd Place

Reubban,Muthusamy

4.5 3.975 1190 2nd Under 14

James,McNaught 4.5 10.17 1199 2nd Under 12

Vincent,Lau 4.0 10.02 1328 3rd Place

Samuel,Fell 4.0 32.595 1174 3rd Under 14

Will,Heyward 4.0 6.87 1117 3rd Under 12 Timothy,Raines 4.0 6.24 1178 Encourage-

ment Andrew,Dana 4.0 -12.24 1089 Encourage-

ment Kenny,Fong 3.5 -8.505 1265

Lance,Truong 3.5 -12.6 1066

Daichi,Nagao 3.5 11.865 1138

...23 players

Open & Under 12’s

Final Results


Prize

Michelle,Yii 6.0 39.915 1035 1st Place

Ben,Lucato 6.0 35.19 1007 2nd Place

Vanja,Rozenblat 5.0 24.18 917 Top Girl Joshua,Raines 5.0 -3.12 901 3rd Place

Timothy,Chung 4.0 -1.635 854 Top Unrated

Kai,Nagao 4.0 6.45 871 Lachlan,Guthrie 4.0 -5.52 781

...18 players

Under 9’s

Final Results

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S U N D A Y M A Y 3 0 T H - H O L M E S G L E N T A F E


Prize

Vikram,Palit 6.0 6.94 1173 1st Place Melanie,Chang 5.0 33.99 1109 2nd Place

Jamie,Carey 5.0 22.44 1045 3rd Place

Leon,Looi 5.0 -1.55 1014 EA Nadav,Har-el 4.5 10.07 1042

Leonard,Shan 4.5 2.51 1024

David,Aronataris 4.5 0.30 1117 Top Unrated

Artem,Nikolayevsky 4.5 -7.68 943 ...24 players

Under 11’s

Final Results


Prize

Jade,Hall-Kelly 6.5 27.12 1079 1st Place

Nelson,Maccini 5.0 0.98 944 2nd Place

Ben,Lucato 5.0 11.16 903 3rd Place

Andrew,Cullen 4.5 7.65 884 Nicholas,Seeley 4.5 -1.27 825

J,Blennerhassett 4.0 6.76 832

William,Swedosh 4.0 9.50 850 Nick,Brookes 4.0 2.67 818

Lachlan,Bardwell 4.0 5.19 788

...18 players

Under 10’s

Final Results


Prize

Stuart,Butterworth 6.5 56.10 1104 1st Place Joshua,Raines 5.5 11.84 1013 2nd Place

Tyson,Bradshaw 5.0 1.82 972 3rd Place

Vanja,Rozenblat 4.5 11.85 902 Top Girl

Taylor,McEvoy 4.5 22.56 899 Jason,Mihalopoulos 4.0 7.92 815

Kingsley,Feng 4.0 -1.95 735

Catherine, 4.0 45.36 656 ...18 players

Under 9’s

Final Results


Prize

Zane,Yang 5.5 37.23 882 1st Place

Jon, 5.5 15.81 826 2nd Place Natasha,Lauder 5.0 19.08 819 1st Place U/7

Andrea,Chang 5.0 5.17 780 Top Girl U/8

Kevin,Rassool 4.5 23.40 755 3rd Place Matthew,Lara 4.0 -3.11 676

Mitchell,Woods 4.0 25.83 752

Derek,Eer 4.0 19.11 725 2nd Place U/7

Daniel,Lim 4.0 -1.01 693 Top Unrated ...17 players

Under 8’s & 7’s

Final Results

Name Score Change

Performance Rating

Prize

Samuel,Chow 6.5 7.31 1498 1st Place Gordon,Lindberg 6.0 4.95 1484 1st Place U/14

James,McNaught 5.0 43.86 1383 1st Place U/12

Ryan,Carey 5.0 8.74 1158 2nd Place

Shaun,Ferris 5.0 65.07 1270 2nd Place U/14 Michael,Magat 4.5 11.95 1353 3rd Place

Reubban, 4.0 14.12 1289 2nd Place U/12

Michael,Shafar 4.0 14.12 1268 3rd Place U/12 Robert,Shafar 4.0 9.91 1041 3rd Place U/14

Douglas,Lindberg 4.0 -28.83 1094

Daichi,Nagao 4.0 -5.52 1059

Muneaki,Tsuda 4.0 -11.93 1144 Holly,Bradshaw 4.0 6.87 1129 Top Girl

...26 players

Open & Under 12’s

Final Results

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Prize

Hannah,Rachmat 6.0 13.88 1105 1st Place

Leon,Looi 5.0 -3.12 1015 2nd Place

Richard,Knight 5.0 60.45 1053 3rd Place Jade,Hall-kelly 5.0 5.60 1016 EA

Leonard,Shan 5.0 -1.54 998 EA

David,Aromataris 5.0 29.37 983

Christian,Buchannan 4.0 21.21 844 Mikki,Palti 4.0 -7.30 817

Rama,Chockalingam 4.0 21.42 852

Stuart,Butterworth 4.0 -3.84 897 Matthew,Shearer 4.0 867 Top Unrated

...22 players

Under 11’s

Final Results


Prize

Jonathan,Yap 7.0 64.17 1114 1st Place

Ben,Lucato 6.0 35.01 1006 2nd Place

Jonathan,Loo 5.0 4.54 882 3rd Place Peter,Papas 4.0 33.60 842

Paul,Rosedale 4.0 9.60 852

James,Blennerhassett 4.0 -0.69 789

...11 players

Under 10’s

Final Results


Prize

Jocelyn,Eer 7.0 83.07 1144 1st Place Vanja,Rozenblat 5.5 16.65 959 2nd Place

Melford,Leong 4.5 10.17 860 3rd Place

Kingsley,Feng 4.0 12.33 845

Michelle,Yii 4.0 0.25 806 Top Girl Kai,Nagao 4.0 -4.68 810

...12 players

Under 9’s

Final Results


Prize

David,Loo 6.5 45.39 1025 1st Place Thor,Taylor 6.5 26.70 1015 1st Place

Farn-ling,Khung 5.0 59.40 867 2nd Place

Jayson,Lim 4.5 1.98 799 3rd Place Jamal,Blakkarly 4.5 11.22 688 EA

Eugene,Lim 4.0 -11.51 734

Stephen,Papas 4.0 14.43 729

Lindsay, 4.0 713 Top Unrated Matthew,Gamble 4.0 -2.05 684

Brendan,Canty 4.0 1.51 684 2nd U/7

...22 players

Under 8’s & 7’s

Final Results


S U N D A Y J U N E 2 7 T H - M E L B O U R N E U N I – H A W T H O R N


Prize

Gordon,Lindberg 6.5 10.04 1544 1st Place Michael,Magat 6.0 48.24 1472 2nd Place

Douglas,Lindberg 5.0 0.03 1345 1st U/14

Andrew,Dana 5.0 21.81 1291 2nd U/14

Tiko,Gawin 5.0 -3.96 1177 3rd Place Vikram,Palit 5.0 3.29 1192 1st U/12

Richard,Saw 4.5 -1.38 1221

Mahmud,Chowdhury 4.5 -8.10 1320 Keenan,Kennedy 4.5 19.83 1083 3rd U/14

Reubban,Muthusamy 4.0 2.67 1186 3rd U/12

Jan,Jarosinski 4.0 32.13 1171

Sanka,Kas... 4.0 -1.74 1063 Top Unrated Prasanga,Siripala 4.0 66.15 1138

Matthew,Cai 4.0 7.61 1091

Jamie,Carey 4.0 6.45 1017 3rd U/12

Open & Under 12’s

Final Results

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Essex Heights 23.5 Glendal Primary 19.0 Valkstone 14.0 Mt Waverley Nth 12.5

Stuart Butterworth 6.5 Andrew Cullen 4.5 J. Schlossberg 5.5 Taylor McEvoy 4.5

Jade Hall-Kelly 6.5 Nicholas Seeley 4.5 David Arontaris 4.5 Richard Knight 4.0

Vikram Palit 6.0 Vanja Rozenblat 4.5 J. Blennerhassett 4.0 Krista Verstraelen 4.0

Ryan Carey 5.0 Matthew Mack 4.0

May 30th School Results

Essex Heights 23.5 Glendal Primary 19.0 Glamorgan 12.5 Wesley College 12.0

Ryan Carey 6.0 Matthew Mack 6.0 Emily Byrne 4.0 Adam Ginholz 5.0

Leon Looi 6.0 Vanja Rozenblat 5.0 Ryan Kornhauser 3.0 Peta Rak 3.5

Michelle Yii 6.0 Peter Maunder 4.0 Arthur Moore 3.0 Brook Hornung 3.0

Melanie Chang 5.5 Nicholas Seeley 4.0 Andrew Suvoltis 2.5 Phoebe Linder 0.5

May 3rd School Results

Hilda O’Callaghan Perpetual Trophy

PREVIOUS WINNERS

October Essex Heights Primary

Nov Essex Heights Primary

March Glendal Primary

May 3rd Essex Heights Primary

May 30th Essex Heights Primary

June Balwyn Nth Primary

Balwyn Nth 23.0 Essex Heights 22.0 Glendal Primary 15.5 Mt Waverley Nth 15.0

Jonathan Yap 7.0 Jocelyn Eer 7.0 Vanja Rozenblat 5.5 Richard Knight 5.0

David Loo 6.5 Leon Looi 5.0 Kingsley Feng 4.0 Lindsay Ondracek 4.0

Jonathan Loo 5.0 Jade Hall-Kelly 5.0 Nicholas Seeley 3.0 Philip Shao 3.0

Melford Leong 4.5 Vikram Palit 5.0 Jacqueline Maunder 3.0 Peter Handscomb 3.0

June 27th School Results

$500 Prize for the school that wins the most

“Hilda O’Callaghan” Trophies in

1999 ANU Chess Festival 17-25 July

National Computer Chess Championship 17-18 July

ANU Schools Championships 21-22 July

University Co-op Bookshop Simul 23 July

Canberra Go Championship 24-25 July

ANU Open 24-25 July Fenner Hall, 210 Northbourne Ave, Canberra

A Class 5 Australian Chess Federation Grand Prix Event 7 Round Swiss Time limits: 1 hour + 10sec/move (DGTs) Entry fees: $50 adult, $35 concession, $30 junior Free entry for GMs and IMs. A late fee of $10 is charged for entries received after 16 July. Late entries close at 9:45am, Saturday 24 July. Play will be finished by 5:45pm, Sunday 25 July. A range of accommodation options is available on request. General Queries: Andrew Greenwood 02 62910385 (answering machine) [email protected] http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Shaun.Press/festival99.html

$3000 in prizes:

1st $1000 2nd $500 3rd $250

U/2000 $250 2nd U/2000 $150 U/1600 $200

2nd U/1600 $100 U/1200 $150

2nd U/1200 $50 Junior $150

� Send entries with payment to:

ANU Chess Festival PO Box 470 Erindale ACT 2903

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Tournaments processed include: RJ Shield

Cordover Challenge

Polgar Plate

Box Hill Junior Tournament

If you would like to submit your tournament for rating please email David Cordover.

Top Under 11 Ruperto,LUGO 90 1488 Douglas,LINDBERG 88 1379

James,PAPA 89 1322

Richard,MACHET 88 1274

Michelle,LEE 90 1267 Reubban,MUTHUSAMY 89 1234

Ira,GROSSMAN 88 1207

Peter,Kolokithas 88 1164

Rohan,SRIDHAR 88 1143

Michael,SHAFAR 90 1137

Brook,HORNUNG 89 1131

Olivia,SAARONI 88 1130

David,Aronataris 88 1118 Alex,HUTCHINSON 89 1111

Timothy,RAINES 88 1110

Top Under 12

Samuel,Chow 87 1794

Matthew,DOIDGE 87 1493

Ruperto,LUGO 90 1488 Douglas,LINDBERG 88 1379

James,PAPA 89 1322

Simon,MITCHELL 87 1302 Christian,TASSAKOS 87 1280

Richard,MACHET 88 1274


Ira,GROSSMAN 88 1207

James,McNAUGHT 87 1185

Peter,Kolokithas 88 1164

Chris,CALLAS 87 1162 Sally-Anne,RICHTER 87 1153

Jocelyn,EER +126 817

Richard,Knight +121 860

Vanja,Rozenblat +113 907

Michael,Magat +91 1345

Ruperto,LUGO +86 1488 Reubban,MUTHUSAMY +82 1234 Krista,VERSTRAELEN +80 828

Prasanga,Siripala +76 870

Shaun,Ferris +65 1056

Samuel,Chow +64 1794

Most Improved Players

Top Under 14 Samuel,Chow 87 1794

John,NEMETH 85 1677

Gordon,LINDBERG 85 1555 Denis,BOURMISTROV 86 1552

Matthew,DOIDGE 87 1493

Ruperto,LUGO 90 1488

Amir,NISSEN 85 1459

Chao,TAN 85 1402

Douglas,LINDBERG 88 1379

Thilini,BASNAYAKE 85 1365

James,PAPA 89 1322

Edward,HAIKAL 86 1316

Simon,MITCHELL 87 1302 Christian,TASSAKOS 87 1280

Richard,LANDER 86 1280

Top Under 18 Geoff,SAW 81 1798 Samuel,Chow 87 1794 Michael,CHOW 83 1697 John,NEMETH 85 1677 Sasha,SOLOVEYCHIK 84 1661 Ibrahim,OGADA-OSIR 81 1565 Gordon,LINDBERG 85 1555 Alina,FAINSHRAIBER 82 1555 Denis,BOURMISTROV 86 1552 Domagoj,DRAGICEVIC 82 1503 George,BALTATGIS 83 1494 Matthew,DOIDGE 87 1493 Ruperto,LUGO 90 1488 Dima,ONUFREICHUK 84 1475 Amir,NISSEN 85 1459

Thilini,BASNAYAKE 85 1365 Andjelija,ZIVANOVIC 84 1298

Michelle,LEE 90 1267 Gayanie,BASNAYAKE 82 1226

Ira,GROSSMAN 88 1207 Alexandra,COLQUHOUN 83 1184 Sally-Anne,RICHTER 87 1153

Melissa,LEE 86 1149

Olivia,SAARONI 88 1130 Stephanie, 84 1106

Louise,DANA 88 1066 Imogen,HAMEL-GREEN 84 1053

Hannah,Rachmat 88 1040

Top Girls Under 18

Holly,Bradshaw 88 1038 Jinushi,JAYAWARDANA 85 1031

Name DOB Rating Name DOB Rating

Ben,GRODECK 91 1013

Jamie,CAREY 92 980

Tyson,Bradshaw 92 968

Thor,TAYLOR 92 933

Taylor,McEvoy 91 796 Jonathan,Schlossberg 91 790

Jayson,Lim 93 789

Zane,Yang 91 755

Andrea,CHANG 91 754

Jason,Mihalopoulos 92 752

Top Under 9


Michelle,LEE 90 1267


Ryan,CAREY 90 1082

Daniel,GRINYOV 90 1074

Jade,HALL-KELLY 90 1018

Claire,HENLY 90 1013

Ben,GRODECK 91 1013

Nadav,HAR-EL 90 985

Jamie,CAREY 92 980

Top Under 10


James,PAPA 89 1322



Brook,HORNUNG 89 1131

Alex,HUTCHINSON 89 1111

Liam,DOIDGE 89 1103

Ryan,CAREY 90 1082

Daniel,GRINYOV 90 1074

Leon,LOOI 89 1047

Leonard,SHAN 89 1018

Jade,HALL-KELLY 90 1018

Claire,HENLY 90 1013

Ben,GRODECK 91 1013

Top Girls Under 9

Michelle,LEE 90 1267

Vanja,Rozenblat 90 907

Jocelyn,EER 90 817

Michelle,Yii 90 804

Andrea,CHANG 91 754

Natasha,LAUDER 92 748

Ann,Goh 90 745

Jenny,Yiu 90 738

Chloe,SPIEGEL 90 681

Yvonne,Kushnir 90 677

Top Under 8

Name DOB Rating

Jamie,CAREY 92 980

Tyson,Bradshaw 92 968

Thor,TAYLOR 92 933

Top Under 7

TOP VICTORIAN JUNIOR PLAYERS

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DANA Louise 88 1066 DAVEY Lucy 85 896 DAVIES John 85 935 DAVIES Zach 88 766 DAVIS Luke 88 1033 DAVIS Chris 89 843 Dawson Hamish 88 576 DEACON Dominic 80 1290 Deacon Alice 86 786 DEAN Anthony 83 1056 Della-Bosca Michael 89 773 DENHOM Angus 84 973 DESILVA Sujith 84 1220 DEVAPALASUNDARAM Aberna 86 984 Devitsakis Natalie 87 424 DEY Robin 83 763 Dickens Alex 00 697 Dickson Sam 89 410 DIMOS Stefan 90 656 DIRCKS Alex 87 742 DIXON Christopher 88 838 DOIDGE James 84 1335 DOIDGE Matthew 87 1493 DOIDGE Liam 89 1103 Donald Rachel 90 536 DONOGHUE Matthew 85 1049 Dow Tim 86 571 DOWNING Pip 84 895 DRAGICEVIC Domagoj 82 1503 DREYFUS Joseph 85 1122 Drummond James 88 726 DUDLEY Sam 90 845 DUNLAP Shannon 87 928 Dunn Isaac 00 824 DYMOWSKI Alicia 86 916 E Avi 89 730 EAREY Adam 84 1051 EER Jocelyn 90 817 Eer Derek 93 603 EIERWEIS Jonathan 89 733 ELDRIDGE David 88 884 ELIKHIS Leonid 85 1012 ELISHA Ruffy 84 1258 ELLIS Jamie 87 608 Ellis Miles 89 743 ENDEAN Reuben 83 1117 EUNSON James 88 784 EVANS Cora 86 798 EVANS Kimberley 89 501 EVERITT James 88 767 FABINY Robert 89 558 FACTOR Andrew 87 1078 FAINSHRAIBER Alina 82 1555 Fanthorpe Jesse 00 766 FARES Robbana 88 842 FAWCETT Angela 89 788 FAZIO Tim 87 942 FELDBERG Deon 87 768 FELL Samuel 87 963 FELL Nathan 89 670 Ferris Shaun 87 1056 Field Calum 91 437 FINE Katrina 84 776 FINEBERG David 87 907 FINKEL Alex 89 771 FINKEL Victor 87 1056 FISKE Emily 85 574 FISKE Byron 89 1002 FLEMMING Cameron 85 1045 FLETCHER David 82 1131 FLINTOFF Brett 86 1019 FOENANDER Tristan 86 845 FOENANDER Chantelle 89 757 FONG Kenny 85 1261 FORD Tim 84 1113 France Thomas 89 435 FRANGOULIS Julie 87 877 FRYDMAN Jason 89 722 FUNNELL William 87 1127 FURHOFF Ben 84 1034 Furner Shaun 89 623

Chambers Oliver 90 490 Chan Diane 82 843 CHAN Timothy 84 1058 Chan Joanne 89 634 CHAN Ashley 90 673 CHANG Melanie 89 984 CHANG Andrea 91 754 Chang Kelvin 93 414 CHARALAMBIDES Costa 89 723 Charlesworth Felix 90 494 CHATTO Alistair 85 794 CHEAH Foong 85 940 Chee Adrian 92 802 CHEONG Philip 88 953 CHERRY Cailum 86 504 CHEUNG Ada 80 1097 CHEUNG Jason 86 863 CHEUNG Ailsa 88 673 Chia Jonathan 89 699 CHIN David 83 1210 CHIN Luke 84 854 CHIN Jimmy 85 1041 Chin Christopher 88 648 CHINGAREV Alex 83 1455 Chockalingam Rama 88 751 Chong Geoff 00 1009 CHOONG Nicholas 89 819 CHOW Michael 83 1697 Chow Samuel 87 1794 CHOW Matthew 87 439 CHOW Jason 87 975 CHOW Edwin 87 1005 CHOWDHURY Mahmud 82 1326 CHU Kar Lu 85 949 CHU Alex 87 954 CHU Alvina 85 786 CHUA Rebecca 88 788 CIPANS Jack 88 1048 CIPANS Kate 89 602 Clayton Shaun 84 906 Clayton Kaela 89 576 CLENDINNEN Anastasia 86 1024 CLENDINNEN Gilchrist 89 774 CLIPSTONE Ben 90 613 COHEN Braham 88 928 Colautti Mark 89 392 COLES Sophie 86 696 COLL Liam 86 705 COLL Laurie 89 784 Collins Chris 85 716 Collins Josh 88 660 Collins Michael ? 956 Colquhoun Tory 87 974 COLQUHOUN Alexandra 83 1184 Comber Scott 82 1163 CONN Michael 84 841 CONNOLLY Joe 82 1269 CONNOLLY Marina 88 615 CONNON Francis 84 1038 CONNON Felicity 87 648 Cordover David 78 1499 CORK David 85 875 CORMICK Joshua 90 584 CORREA Thomas 83 1068 COSTER Kieran 87 709 Courtenay Charlotte 89 375 COURTOT David 86 748 CRAFTI James 85 757 Crawford Anthony 89 668 CREEDON Rowan 86 819 CRISP Brendan 86 772 CRUICKSHANK Edward 86 676 CUKIER Gary 84 891 CULLEN Andrew 89 841 CUMING Louise 88 871 Curmi Natasha 88 701 CURRY Austen 86 874 CZYDEL Timothy 88 864 DAL Kutay 00 505 D'ALOISIO Nicholas 84 591 DANA Andrew 86 1185

Ratings as at the 5th of July, 1999 include all RJ Shield, Cordover Challenge, Polgar Plate, Victorian Junior Cham-pionships and Box Hill Junior Tournaments. They do not in-clude results from Chess Ideas Tournaments as the manage-ment at Chess Ideas refused to submit them for processing. My apologies to the children involved, but there is nothing I can do. Should these tourna-ments be submitted in the fu-ture they will be processed.

Ratings allow players to accu-rately compare their playing ability. The more tournament games a player has played the more accurate their rating be-comes. It is also a good indica-tion of how much a player has improved.

Each player’s Year of Birth is given. If this information is not provided, or it is incorrect please talk to David Cordover to remedy this problem. At the end of 1999 all players who do not have their year of birth reg-istered will be removed from the rating list. SURNAME NAME Y R Abdelahad Matt 90 592 ABERSTEINER Chad 84 969 ABERSTEINER Shannon 86 1245 ACKROYD Christopher 88 774 ADAMS Andrew 84 1066 ADAMS Tristan 89 743 ADAMS Megan 86 756 ALBANTOW Andrew 89 886 ALEXANDER Melissa 85 1148 ALEXANDER Nelson 87 679 ALKEMADE Steven 86 838 ALLARDICE Scott 86 943 Allen John 89 263 ALLERTON Claire 88 693 AMOORE Kylie 85 931 ANG Megan 87 872 ANG Grace 87 718 Ang Samantha 89 854 ANGELATOS Alex 86 961 ANGSUWATJARAKORN Likit 862 ANTONIOU Greg 88 781 Appleton Victoria 90 473 Aristodemou Justin 86 694 ARNEJA Pavneet 88 916 ARNEY David 81 1192 Aronataris David 88 1118 Aronowicz Andrew 89 406 Arsenakis Yanni 90 572 Artlett Peta 91 541 ASHELFORD Taya 85 972 Ashkenazi Shaynie 89 521 ASHTON-BELL Tavis 86 1060 ATWOOD Alicia 85 676 AU YONG Tricia 87 521 AUGUSTI Alexi 88 587 AVENELL Phoebe 88 611

BACASH-POWER Xavier 87 716 BAILEY William 86 664 BAILLIEU Amy 86 818 BAINES Alister 86 882 BAINES Andrew 88 532 BALTATGIS George 83 1494 BANDARA James 89 639 BANKS Damien 86 910 BANKS Kyla 88 723 BARBER Bryce 84 978 Bardwell Lachlan 88 759 BASNAYAKE Gayanie 82 1226 Basnayake Nilmali 84 788 BASNAYAKE Thilini 85 1365 BASNAYAKE Malinda 87 833 BASSETT Robert 87 817 BASSETT Hamish 89 945 BEALE Joshua 87 986 BEIGLER Daniel 85 1015 BELL Chris 84 1054 BENNETT James 85 937 BENNETT Catherine 87 840 BENNETT Laura 89 823 BENTLEY Beau 83 1266 BHATIA Akhilesh 86 1095 BIRCH Allan 86 971 BIRCH Matthew 89 863 BLACK Sebastian 87 1044 BLUSZTEIN David 87 1117 BLUZER-FRY Daniel 88 1009 Bone Nathan 87 953 BONSEMA Zoe 82 871 Bounnhang Martin 90 412 BOURMISTROV Denis 86 1552 Bowen Leon 81 1403 BOWLES Emma 90 667 Bowyer Alexander 88 388 BOYD Justin 89 733 Bradshaw Holly 88 1038 Bradshaw Tyson 92 968 Breare Sarah 87 589 BRENNAN-CHONG James 85 586 Bresley Yoni 92 643 BRETT Andrew 85 1093 BRETT Charlotte 87 857 Brewin Guy 88 711 BRISCOE James 87 864 Broberg Joshua 90 590 BRODRIBB Alan 85 1085 Brodski Tania 89 906 BROOKES Jennifer 85 856 BROOKES Nick 89 803 BROSNAHAN Liam 87 964 BROWNE Stella 85 758 BRUKNER Charles 87 831 BRYSON Damien 86 966 BUCHANAN Christian 88 966 Buchannan Christian 87 744 BUHAGIAR Julien 81 1102 BURKE Andrew 88 857 BUTLER Andrew 84 1012 BUTLER Samuel 86 1101 BUTSON Pryce 88 740 BUTTER Lincoln 84 1151 BUTTERWORTH Stuart 90 920 BUTTFIELD-ADDISON Paris 86 688 BYRNE Joseph 80 1257 BYRNE Kathleen 86 815 Cadby Zoe 88 423 CAI Matthew 86 1048 CALLAS Chris 87 1162 CAMPBELL Whitney 86 865 Canty Matthew 87 727 Canty Brendan 92 676 CAREY Ryan 90 1082 CAREY Jamie 92 980 CARRABIN Marion 87 1000 CARRABIN Christof 89 608 CAVE Paul 84 1112 CERINI Ben 88 591 CHAI Shannon 84 1040

VICTORIAN JUNIOR RATINGS (AS OF JULY 5TH 1999)

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Furner Jason 90 688 FURST Hannah 88 728 Gamboni Charles 90 636 GAN Kuang 86 821 GAN Yang 90 668 Gao Frank 87 877 GARDNER Lachlan 88 630 GARTNER Daniel 89 715 Gauci-Seddon Ella 89 468 GAWIN Tiko 86 1246 GELFAND Richard 88 930 GEORGIOU Julian 86 911 Giling Darren 86 1002 GILLESPIE William 85 949 GILLESPIE David 86 916 GLEDHILL Melissa 85 836 Goh Ann 90 745 GOLDBERG Ari 87 847 GOODE Nathan 86 1103 Gould Matthew 87 847 GOULOPOULOS Mitch 87 667 GOWDIE Lucy 84 1131 GRANT Caitlyn 86 775 GRAYDEN Laura 86 813 Green Emma 89 524 GRIFFIN Sam 89 452 GRIFFITHS Michael 90 684 GRIGG William 86 796 GRIGG Patrick 89 739 Grinholz Adam 89 738 GRINYOV Daniel 90 1074 GRODEK Ben 91 1013 GROSSMAN Sasha 84 1411 GROSSMAN Ira 88 1207 Gruszka Martin 00 380 Gruszka Adam 00 947 GUAGAS Alexi 86 1122 Guiney Sebastian 88 960 GUMMERSALL David 84 1049 GUTHRIE Lachlan 90 813 HAIKAL Edward 86 1316 HAIKAL Stephanie 88 665 HAITAS Daniel 82 1126 HALKYARD Brett 88 947 HALL Anthony 83 911 HALL Sam 87 772 HALLIDAY Martin 86 845 HALL-KELLY Jade 90 1018 HAMEL-GREEN Imogen 84 1053 HAMEL-GREEN Miriam 87 876 HAMILTON Stuart 87 838 Handscomb Peter 91 601 HARE Peter 88 695 HAR-EL Dana 88 859 HAR-EL Nadav 90 985 Harrington Alex 88 494 HARRIS Benn 84 902 HARRIS Glenn 86 939 HART Ben 90 962 HARTLEY Owen 87 774 HAWARD Rebecca 86 890 HAWARD Christopher 89 912 HE Cheng 84 1070 HEALEY Nick 88 777 HELDRIDGE James 90 638 HEM Robert 84 1280 HENLY Alice 87 791 HENLY Claire 90 1013 Hensehel Christian 88 559 HERSCU Michael 87 809 HEYWARD Will 87 1109 Heyward Anna 90 451 HILL Matthew 90 710 HISCOCK Daniel 90 417 HOBBY Demian 86 904 HODGMAN Simon 86 866 Hoi Jimmy 84 818 Holt Nathan 89 549 HOPE Richard 84 1040 HOPF Toby 82 1446 HORNUNG Brook 89 1131


MARKHAM Katherine 88 745 MARKS Nicholas 88 926 MARTIN Camilo 84 1086 MARTIN Ingrid 85 616 MARTIN Joshua 86 1218 Martin Richard 88 610 MASTERS Nick 87 1083 MATHEOS Katrina 88 579 MATHEWS Scott 81 1189 MATHIESON Christopher 88 952 MAUNDER Evan 86 747 Maunder Jacqueline 88 639 Maunder Peter 91 574 MAYEVSKY David 88 835 McArdle Dean 00 789 MCASEY Dael 86 1036 McASEY Adrian 88 752 McDONALD Julian 84 1433 McDONALD Brendan 87 940 McDONALD Jason 88 925 McDONALD Hugh 88 709 McDONALD Felicity 89 621 McEvoy Taylor 91 796 McGhee David 86 738 McGhee Ross 89 544 McGORRERY Paul 86 783 McGREGGOR Alex 84 1045 Mckenzie David 89 751 McLAREN Fiona 85 829 McLAUGHLIN Ross 86 672 McLEAN Genevieve 86 771 McMASTER Hannah 88 1001 McNab Emma 83 833 McNAB Jessica 88 877 McNab Scarlett 91 631 McNAUGHT James 87 1185 McNEICE Keira 85 1004 McNEICE Rory 86 813 McNEICE Ned 90 615 McNULTY Ben 86 1029 McPhail Christopher 91 526 McQUEEN Sean 86 844 MEJHAIZEL Camille 85 870 MELLOW Phillip 88 1109 MENDES David 88 1048 Meyer Hannah 88 591 MICHALCZAK Arna 84 991 MICHELI Anthony 88 1001 Mihalopoulos Jason 92 752 MILLS Paul 86 618 MINAS James 86 792 MINTER Miles 88 664 Mirbagheri Maisam 81 1092 MIRMELSTEIN George 84 1307 MITCHELL Ashton 87 971 MITCHELL Simon 87 1302 MITROPOULOS Yianni 89 598 MIYAZAKI Hiroshi 81 1345 Mohamed Hanif 89 753 Moisidis Paris 00 850 MOORE Callum 88 766 MORRIS Raymond 87 1036 MORRIS Andrea 85 952 MORRISON Winston 87 906 MOUTZOURIS Nick 89 763 MROCKI Adam 84 987 MULLIGAN Anthony 87 675 MUNUSAMY Tejesh 88 853 MURPHY Luke 87 841 MURRAY Liam 88 960 MUTHUSAMY Reubban 89 1234 MUTTIAH Christine 87 693 MYERS Leah 86 671 Nagao Daichi 87 1136 Nagao Kai 90 890 Nash Vicki 87 777 NEMETH John 85 1677 Nemeth Kati 90 835 NEWBOLD Thomas 89 424 NEWNHAM Scott 88 723 NG Adrian 86 903

LAM Aaron 91 553 LAMB Joshua 88 829 LaMont Brodie 88 560 LANDER Richard 86 1280 Landy Tom 88 643 LANG Anthony 87 640 Lang Claire 89 538 Lara Matthew 91 693 Lara Lawrence 00 568 LASPATZIS Alex 88 611 LAU David 82 1231 LAU Vincent 84 1288 LAUDER Natasha 92 748 LAUERSTEIN Michael 85 856 LAVIS Darren 89 784 LAWRENCE Bryce 89 805 LAY Karen 85 664 LEE Jong-Ji 82 944 LEE Katherine 83 810 LEE Andrew 86 959 LEE Andrew 86 959 LEE Melissa 86 1149 LEE Stephanie 89 602 LEE Michelle 90 1267 Lee Joseph 88 382 LEEWORTHY Kyle 89 716 LEGGETT Seton 88 666 LEONG Paul 85 1078 LEONG Mark 87 1147 LEONTYEV Leon 81 1264 LESINSKIS Janis 87 1150 LEUNG Alex 85 1042 LEWINSKY Andrew 87 991 LIANG Douglas 87 966 LICHTBLAU Jarrod 88 920 LIGERIS Jaye 84 1087 LIGERIS Sophie 88 838 LIM Shaun 81 1107 Lim Eugene 90 805 Lim Jayson 93 789 Lim Florence 98 462 Lim Daniel 00 699 LINDBERG Gordon 85 1555 LINDBERG Douglas 88 1379 Linder Phoebe 90 523 LINDLEY Matthew 88 907 LISOV Anthony 89 644 LLOYD Huw 88 824 LO Kenneth 85 867 LOCK Taliah 88 461 Lockhart Eliza 89 733 LOKON Aria 89 720 LOMBARDY Marco 87 932 LOOI Leon 89 1047 LU William 84 851 Lu Xin 00 747 LUBERDA Mickey 89 777 LUCATO Ben 90 882 LUGO Ruperto 90 1488 LYNCH Murray 80 1083 LYNCH Darren 86 783 LYONS James 86 1134 MA Aidan 87 1053 Maccini Nelson 89 947 MACHET Richard 88 1274 Machet Stephen 90 409 Mack Matthew 89 912 Magat Michael 82 1345 MAH Andrew 86 971 MAH Yiling 86 660 MAH Zunyou 89 943 MAHENDREN Senthuren 86 1112 MAIOR Andrew 85 1009 MANOLAS Manos 82 1230 MANOLAS Nikos 87 1043 MANSFIELD Stephen 84 1025 MANSFIELD Cate 86 683 MARANO Rebecca 86 902 MARCUS Dean 90 955 MARCUS Daniel 87 963 MARETT Genevieve 87 661

HOURIGAN Daniel 88 911 HOWDEN Warren 84 1201 Huang Dennis 88 764 HUANG Gwendolyn 88 785 HUANG Sean 89 953 HUANG Andrew 90 546 HUDSON Andrew 86 487 Hughes Mark 00 1115 HUME Shawn 82 948 HUNG Garvin 89 620 HUNT James 90 499 HUQUE Naeem 85 1066 HUTCHINSON Alex 89 1111 HUXLEY Georgina 88 844 HUYNH Michael 88 777 HUYNH Martin 90 612 IAROSLAVSKI Theodor 86 1082 IP Joseph 85 1124 ITKIN Michael 86 1149 IVANOVS Ryan 89 888 JACKSON Brent 86 809 JACOBS Tim 88 1020 JAMES Iain 86 1049 JAN India 86 607 Jarosinski Jan 85 1043 JAYAKODY Changeeka 81 1219 JAYAWARDANA Jinushi 85 1031 JAYEMANNE Suren 86 1233 JEFFERY Tyson 88 892 JETTER Daniel 87 665 JOHNSON Phillip 85 864 JOSEM Mark 86 1014 JOSHI Sonia 88 532 KAADEN Lachlan 85 1107 KABIS Haider 85 1030 KACHRIMANIS James 82 934 KALENDERIAN Michael 85 922 KALKBRENNER Stephanie 84 1106 KALKBRENNER Megan 87 735 KALUS Justin 88 848 KAMIL Darren 87 870 KARIM Imran 85 1125 KARISTIANOS Rory 88 737 Kas... Sanka 00 1075 KASTORAS Adam 87 776 Kaurah Kishen 88 797 Kaurah Sonia 90 572 KEENE Sam 88 778 KEIL Daniel 85 1074 KEMP Andrew 86 735 KENNEDY Keenan 86 987 Kenny Christopher 00 873 KEON Nicholas 86 858 Kerr Phillip 85 753 Kerr Damien 89 525 KERR Stephen 86 951 KHAZANCHI Amit 84 995 Khoo Jade 92 482 KHOR Winston 84 991 KHOR Jenson 88 630 Khung Su-wei 89 777 Khung Farn-ling 91 677 KILIAS Nick 88 645 King Alison 00 368 KIRATZIS Nathan 85 694 KIRSNER David 87 810 Kitchen Chermain 89 770 KLADAKIS Catherine 83 1023 KLADAKIS Andrew 85 1270 KLEIN Marcus 84 1032 Knight Richard 88 860 KOADLOW Matthew 91 683 KOH Jermain 86 843 KOH ChongKee 84 1177 Kolokithas Peter 88 1164 KORNHAUSER Ryan 89 800 KOSTOS Zac 86 728 KRSTIC Edward 83 1217 Kushnir Yvonne 90 677 KUSNIERCZUK Simon 84 997 LAM Angela 89 756

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NG Shane 87 840 NG Elliot 88 730 NGUYEN Daniel 87 675 NGUYEN Long 88 611 NGUYEN Maria 89 719 NICLIS Jonathan 85 957 NIKOLAYEVSKY Artem 89 1006 NISSEN Amir 85 1459 NOONAN Tom 90 818 Noonan Christopher 00 467 NORTHEND Texas 87 671 NUGENT Robert 87 958 Nugraha Rian 89 618 Nunes Rudolph 87 760 O'BYRNE Luke 88 644 O'Byrne Thomas 90 677 O'CONNOR Chris 83 1289 O'Connor Catherine 91 476 O'DWYER Kate 84 942 OI Winston 85 1124 Ondracek Lindsay 00 711 ONG Christopher 85 1131 ONUFREICHUK Dima 84 1475 ORCHARD Morris 88 682 Owen Melissa 85 469 PADMONABHAN Siddarth 89 569 Pahoff Anton 91 765 PALMER Fiona 83 787 PALTI Mikki 88 883 PANG Michael 88 707 PAPA James 89 1322 Papas Peter 89 710 Papas Stephen 91 647 PAPIER Michael 83 905 PARKER Chris 85 1002 PARRENT Mark 84 825 PARSONS Aric 89 717 PATCHING Kiernan 90 668 PATERSON Andrew 85 740 PATERSON James 87 965 Paterson David 88 683 Paterson Max 88 899 PAUL Amaryah 87 521 Pauvert Guillaume 90 618 PAWLIK Adam 85 983 Pearce Roy 90 653 Pears Daniel 00 548 PEPI Anthony 84 815 Perkins Matthew 88 711 PETTIT Ashley 88 965 PETTIT Ben 86 949 PLATT Daniel 86 856 Polack Robbie 88 718 PORTELLI Daniel 88 780 Porter Stephen 599 POSNER Jeremy 89 891 POULTER Stephan 84 1046 PROCTOR Kristel 82 904 Ptasznik Danielle 88 636 QUIGLEY Tristan 87 713 QUINN Aidan 86 713 QUIRK Michael 88 659 QUIRK Michael 88 659 Rachmat Hannah 88 1040 Raines Joshua 90 950 RAINES Timothy 88 1110 Raivars Michael 00 849 Rak Peta 90 617 RANCE Christopher 86 928 RAO Gautam 84 1118 Rassool Kevin 92 632 RATHGEBER William 90 799 RATNAYAKE Ilmi 86 649 Raymond David 00 726 RAYNER Owen 85 878 REES Chris 87 933 REES Nicholas 89 743 REES-LEE Thomas 86 979 Regan Katharine 88 996 RENDA John 84 1041 RICHARDSON Christian 83 945

VU Tommy 88 703 VUJOVICH Jordan 85 949 WAKELY Jasmine 91 473 WALKER Patrick 85 699 WALKER Murray 86 738 WALTERS Dylan 86 767 WANG Ken 83 1114 Wang Ray 89 701 Wang David 00 903 WARREN Nicholas 85 1174 WEATHERHEAD James 84 1178 WEBB Sam 84 1053 WEBB Ellie 86 980 WEBER Adrian 90 712 WEBSTER James 89 956 Weerasinghe Arosha 00 623 Weerasinghe Maneesha 00 682 WELDON Victoria 89 743 WELLS Daniel 85 976 WENT Mathew 88 839 WESTFIELD Euan 85 939 WEZZBERGER Daniel 87 612 WHEATLAND Peter 87 872 WHITE James 85 1013 WHITE Tim 86 796 Wijegunaratne Arjuna 00 630 Wilkinson Tess 89 694 WILLDER Richard 89 832 WILLIAMS Nathan 86 924 Williams Ryan 89 563 Williams Charlotte 87 777 WILLIAMS Ben 90 902 WILLNIK Jan 85 815 Wilton Dominic 90 499 Wirawan Surya 87 907 WONG Chris 80 1244 WONG Timothy 81 945 WONG Simon 85 1026 WONG Aaron 86 855 Wong Daniel 89 667 Wong Stephanie 00 579 WOODALL Richard 85 996 WOODARD Luke 89 778 WOODS Mitchell 91 633 WORSNOP Andrew 88 694 WRIGHT Clancy 86 971 WULFSOHN Michael 85 1133 YAN Nathan 86 893 YAN Joshua 88 1109 Yang Zane 91 755 YEOH Jason 86 1075 YEOH Edward 90 965 YII Winston 87 1124 Yii Michelle 90 804 YIM Daniel 86 1265 Yiu Jenny 90 738 YONG Brian 83 1196 YONG Trevor 85 741 Young James 88 635 YUEN Ronnie 83 910 ZAVOD Zak 87 768 ZHAO James 85 928 Zhao Sean 88 1001 ZIEMER Randal 87 914 ZIVANOVIC Andjelija 84 1298

Ratings update available on the net after each event:

www.iaccess.com.au/chesskid/ C h e s s W o r l d P t y L t d (incorporating Chess Kids) calcu-l a t e s a n d p u b l i s h e s Victorian Junior ratings as a free service to the Victorian Chess As-sociation and the chess commu-nity.

SO Clinton 87 792 SOLOVEYCHIK Sasha 84 1661 SOON Jennifer 87 887 Spearritt Benno 00 785 SPIEGEL Chloe 90 681 SPRING Bridget 88 511 SPRING Lachlan 89 720 SRIDHAR Rohan 88 1143 STANLEY Dean 82 735 STANSFIELD Skye 88 611 STEED Matthew 88 749 Stephens Zoe 87 641 Stevenson Glen 88 723 STILES Chris 89 780 STOJCEVSKI Dwayne 87 768 STOKES Mark 87 850 STOKES-HORE Ricky 85 943 STONE Jason 88 819 STONE Adam 88 692 STONHAM Jarryd 88 902 STOWERS Blaise 83 543 STRAIN Andrew 85 723 STRAUCH Justin 87 804 Sucevic Andrew 86 1097 Sutherland Tom 88 505 Swedosh William 89 796 Swedosh Serena 92 389 SWINN Michael 86 876 SZOKOVSKI Ron 85 917 Szwarc Damien 91 725 TABRIZI Justin 89 716 TAI Frederick 86 1058 TALJ Elie 87 1152 TALJ Julien 88 893 TAM Matthew 84 930 TAN Chao 85 1402 TAN Christopher 89 440 Tan Jason 00 574 Tang Vincent 90 584 TARDOWSKI Michael 86 887 TASSAKOS Christian 87 1280 Tay Emily 00 629 TAYLOR Thor 92 933 TAYLOR-JONES Kerrie 88 688 Teh QuorYin 88 674 Teh QuorTen 91 544 Teh Andrew 00 400 Terasaka Madoka 00 388 TESCHER Paul 86 942 Thavarajah Sanchi 87 824 THOMAS Hamish 87 751 THOMAS Daniel 87 1021 THOMAS Christopher 87 803 THOMAS Stuart 88 792 Thompson Hugh 88 648 THOMPSON Nick 88 926 THORNTON Melissa 86 716 Tissai George 86 743 Tonkin Andrew 82 783 TRUONG Lance 87 1139 TRUONG Raymond 89 874 TSIFLITZIS Eugene 82 889 TSUDA Muneaki 81 1233 TSYKIN Sasha 88 667 TURNER Alice 84 1013 TWENTYMAN Lisa 84 725 TWENTYMAN David 86 885 TYSON Samantha 85 983 Tzaikou George 90 945 TZE Christopher 84 1235 UMBER Carl 85 1026 UMBER Luisa 82 941 URWIN David 88 837 VAN DEVENTER George 82 1163 VAN DUYN Nicholas 84 1005 VANDERLOO Luke 85 945 VERSTRAELEN Krista 88 828 VICTOR Rahul 89 691 Vosk Danielle 00 441 Voudiotis Athena 86 738

RICHTER Sally-Anne 87 1153 RICKARD Ben 86 962 Riley Fiona 89 617 Roberts David 88 612 ROBINSON Taiawa 85 972 ROGERS Katherine 86 653 ROJTER Eben 86 1180 ROSBIFFI Daniel 84 1085 ROSE Jules 88 1009 ROSE Eden 88 804 ROSEN Jeremy 85 957 Rosen Tim 88 596 ROSSIGNUOLO Pia 88 666 ROTHFIELD Emily 87 1012 ROTHFIELD Adam 85 918 ROWE Daniel 86 1073 ROWE Kacey 88 982 Rozenblat Vanja 90 907 Rubenstein Oscar 90 391 RUBIN Aron 88 779 RUDSTEIN Sam 89 930 RUKAVINA Sasha 83 968 RUSSELL Martin 86 747 RUST Darius 91 658 RYDER Ian 83 930 RYDER Liisa 85 886 RYDER Kevin 89 733 SAARONI Olivia 88 1130 Sabatini Luke 89 653 SAMAHA Tracey 89 520 Sandler Roman 91 568 SANFORD Stephen 88 908 SAW Geoff 81 1798 SAW Richard 84 1267 SCANE Stephanie 84 687 Schlossberg Jonathan 91 790 SCHMIDT Simon 87 1145 SCHNEIDER Tahlia 87 720 SCHOENFELD Julius 86 775 SCHULBERG Elliot 87 1005 SCOTT STOKES John 85 1013 SEELEY Steven 86 1019 Sekhar Hariharan 89 764 SELLAYAH Renishka 88 970 SELTON Cameron 86 549 SELTON Nathan 89 562 SEST Jonathon 88 808 Shafar Robert 86 985 SHAFAR Michael 90 1137 SHALEKOFF Warren 90 628 SHAMSUL Maryam 83 1196 SHAMSUL Imran 86 1022 SHAN Leonard 89 1018 Shantakumar Lakshman 87 885 Shao Philip 00 647 SHAPIRO Dion 90 811 SHARPE Martin 86 745 SHEARER Justin 85 978 Shearer Matthew 00 867 Sheridan Benjamin 88 699 Sheridan Joshua 92 546 SHEWARD Tim 88 922 SHIELDS Andrew 88 830 SIGMONT Alison 85 801 SILBERT Guy 88 965 SILVASICH Daniel 85 1115 Simpson Daniel 90 564 SIMPSON Daniel 90 564 SINGER Joshua 90 753 SINN Jason 87 993 SINN Vincent 89 810 Siripala Prasanga 86 870 Siripala Tisanka 90 376 Siripala Dilushani 00 387 SIU Emma 89 643 SKEELS Phillip 89 568 SLATER Jennifer 81 1006 SLIFIER Konrad 88 579 Smorgon Jake 87 890 SNEDDON Thomas 87 556 SNEDDON William 90 596

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Most schools this year elected to play in the one-day competition structure. The home & away series seems to be too much organisation for the teachers and students. However it is a preferred option for the schools to play in a weekly com-petition. That way the students are play-ing regular chess and have something to look forward to each week, rather than just an once a term, or even once a year game of chess.

Only a few zones remain for the year so if your school is interested in participating you will have to contact the Victorian Chess Association very soon.

Secondary

Interschool

No SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PLACINGS

1 Werribee Secondary "A" 9 2 7 5 13 5 8 8 15 9 2 11.5 11 12.5

2 Werribee Secondary "C" 10 1 13 1 3 3 7 3.5 8 5.5 1 7 6 7.5

3 Werribee Secondary "E" 11 0 4 0 2 2 10 3.5 9 4.5 8 5.5 7 5.5

4 Brauer College "A" 12 0 3 4 15 6.5 6 9.5 11 13.5 5 17.5 13 19.5 3rd

5 Westbourne Grammar "A" 13 3 10 7 11 11 16 14 12 16 4 16 15 20 2nd

6 Geelong Grammar "C" 14 2.5 16 3.5 7 6.5 4 7.5 10 11.5 15 11.5 2 15

7 Geelong Grammar "B" 15 2 1 3 6 4 2 7.5 14 10 16 10.5 3 14.5

8 Mowbray College "B" 16 1 14 3 9 4 1 5 2 7 3 10 10 12

9 Werribee Secondary "B' 1 2 15 3 8 6 12 6.5 3 9.5 14 12.5 16 12.5

10 Werribee Secondary "D" 2 3 5 3 14 3 3 5.5 6 5.5 11 5.5 8 7.5

11 Brauer College "C" 3 4 12 6.5 5 6.5 15 8.5 4 8.5 10 12.5 1 15.5

12 Brauer College "B" 4 4 11 5.5 16 6.5 9 10 5 12 13 12 14 16

13 Westbourne Grammar "B" 5 1 2 5 1 9 14 12.5 16 15.5 12 19.5 4 21.5 1st

14 Westbourne Grammar "C" 6 1.5 8 3.5 10 7.5 13 8 7 9.5 9 10.5 12 10.5

15 Geelong Grammar "A" 7 2 9 5 4 6.5 11 8.5 1 11.5 6 15.5 5 15.5

16 Mowbray College "A" 8 3 6 6 12 9 5 10 13 11 7 14.5 9 18.5 4th

WERRIBEE ZONE

Date: Friday 7th May Venue: Werribee Secondary College Teams to A-Grade Finals: Westbourne Grammar “B” & “A” Teams to B-Grade Finals: Brauer College & Mowbray College

Waverley Chess Club

Enquiries: David Cordover 0411-877-833 or 9578-6203

When? Friday 6:00 - 7:30pm.

Where? Wadham House,

52 Wadham Pde, Mt Waverley.

Cost? $30 per term or $5 per week casual.

Prizes, games, and 3 coaches each week!

Australian Junior

Championships

15.1.00 - 25.1.00

Last we heard the AJC Committee was discussing the pro’s and con’s of sending the tournament to Morwell.

With the failure of the Victorian Junior Championships it has been proven that the number of players willing to dedicate a lengthy period of time to chess is small. However, this small group of players are so dedicated that a trip to Morwell will be seen as a good thing (no parents, no bor-ing home, plenty of chess).

Luckily for us the decision has been made to hold the tournament in Morwell subject to certain sponsorship conditions being met. These are due to be presented to the committee on July 11th.

So, prepare yourselves for a two week holiday at the end of the year. Morwell here we come!

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1 Xavier College "A"

2 Xavier College "B"

3 Melbourne High "A"

4 Melbourne High "B"

5 Balwyn High School

6 Camberwell GS "A"

7 Camberwell GS "B"

8 Trinity Grammar "A"

9 Trinity Grammar "B"

10 BYE

KEW ZONE Round Robin, Home and Away.

No SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PLACINGS

1 MacRobertson Girls' "A" 5 2 4 6 9 9 6 11.5 8 15.5 7 17.5 2 21.5 2nd

2 Ivanhoe Girls' "C" 6 0.5 Bye 4.5 3 5.5 7 6.5 4 7.5 5 8.5 1 8.5

3 Penleigh Grammar 7 3 8 5 2 8 9 8 6 9 4 13 Bye 17

4 Ivanhoe Girls' "A" 8 1 1 1 5 2.5 Bye 6.5 2 9.5 3 9.5 6 9.5

5 Westbourne Grammar 1 2 7 4 4 6.5 8 7.5 Bye 11.5 2 14.5 9 16

6 MacRobertson Girls' "B" 2 3.5 9 4.5 8 8.5 1 10 3 13 Bye 17 4 21 3rd

7 Ivanhoe Girls' "B" 3 1 5 3 Bye 7 2 10 9 10.5 1 12.5 8 13.5

8 MacRobertson Girls' "C" 4 3 3 5 6 5 5 8 1 8 9 8 7 11

9 Glen Waverley Secondary Bye 4 6 7 1 8 3 12 7 15.5 8 19.5 5 22 1st

ALBERT PARK GIRLS’ ZONE

Date: Friday 21st May Venue: MacRobertson Girls’ High Teams to A-Grade Finals: Glen Waverley Secondary Teams to B-Grade Finals: MacRobertson Girls’ High

Elwood Chess School

Enquiries: David Cordover 0411-877-833 or 9578-6203

This Saturday morning chess preparation & coaching will renew your enthusiasm and

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What? 2 hours of chess coaching. Coaching is suitable for adults or juniors.

When? Saturday morning, 10:30am - 12:30pm.

Most every week of the year, school holidays included!

Where? Elwood Chess Club,

Elwood Learning Centre,

87 Tennyson St, Elwood. (Melway Ref. 67 D2)

Cost? Only $69 per term! $10 per week casual

Prizes: Trophies for best improvers. Edible morsels during each week.

12:30pm onwards every Saturday - Play at the Elwood club, or some social transfer!

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No SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PLACINGS

1 Mt Scopus "A" 8 2 10 4 15 8 4 11.5 3 14.5 2 16.5 9 19 2nd

2 PLC "A" 9 4 5 7 4 10 3 13 8 16.5 1 18.5 10 22 1st

3 Mt Waverley Nth "A" 10 2 11 5 7 9 2 10 1 11 8 14 14 17 3rd

4 Caulfield Grammar "A" 11 2 13 5.5 2 6.5 1 7 16 9 14 10 12 13.5

5 Knox Gardens "A" 12 4 2 5 8 5 11 7.5 7 9.5 9 10.5 6 13

6 Wheelers Hill "A" 13 1.5 15 2.5 12 5 10 6 11 7.5 16 9.5 5 11

7 Upwey Sth "A" 14 2 16 5 3 5 15 7.5 5 9.5 10 11.5 11 14

8 Mt Scopus "B" 1 2 14 5 5 9 9 12 2 12.5 3 13.5 15 16.5 4th

9 PLC "B" 2 0 12 3.5 13 7.5 8 8.5 10 11.5 5 14.5 1 16

10 Mt Waverley Nth "B" 3 2 1 4 14 7 6 10 9 11 7 13 2 13.5

11 Caulfield Grammar "B" 4 2 3 3 16 5 5 6.5 6 9 13 11 7 12.5

12 Knox Gardens "B" 5 0 9 0.5 6 2 13 2.5 14 3.5 15 4 4 4.5

13 Wheelers Hill "B" 6 2.5 4 3 9 3 12 6.5 15 8 11 10 16 11

14 Upwey Sth "B" 7 2 8 3 10 4 16 6 12 9 4 12 3 13

15 James Cook Primary 16 2 6 5 1 5 7 6.5 13 9 12 12.5 8 13.5

16 Mt Scopus "C" 15 2 7 3 11 5 14 7 4 9 6 11 13 14

Primary

Interschool

Half way through the interschool season and things are going well. This is the time to offer thanks to the many people who work behind the scenes to keep the com-petition running. So, thank you to Bill Collins, Gary Wastell and David Cor-dover for the efforts they are putting in to make the tournament a success.

Unfortunately one zone was cancelled, the Fitzroy Zone, due to a lack of interest, but another Zone, the Waverley Zone, had to be split to accommodate the large interest!

We now have venues confirmed for all remaining Zones:

Grade 3, Brighton, Brighton Primary

Grade 3, Toorak, Glamorgan

Caulfield Zone, Grimwade House

Hawthorn Zone, Bialik College

Croydon Zone, Yarra Rd Primary

Girls’ Zone, Fintona Girls’ School

Brighton Zone, Brighton Grammar

Progression to the Finals is based on this simple formula: ‘x’ divided by 4. Where ‘x’ is equal to the number of teams in the Zone. The result is always rounded down. If two teams finish on an equal score they both progress to the finals.

If things go according to plan for the rest of the year the A-grade finals will be a 10 team Round Robin event. The B-grade finals will be a more open tournament be-ing held as a 9 round swiss tournament.

WHEELERS HILL ZONE

Date: Tuesday 8th June Venue: Caulfield Grammar School – Wheelers Hill

Teams to A-Grade Finals: PLC “A” & Mt Scopus “A” Teams to B-Grade Finals: Mt Waverley Nth & Mt Scopus “B”

Having a good time at the Interschool Championships. Did you play?

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No SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PLACINGS

1 Mont Albert Primary "A" 5 4 4 7 14 11 2 14 3 17 10 20.5 12 24.5 1st

2 Ivanhoe Grammar "A" 11 4 9 8 3 11 1 12 4 14 14 15 5 19 3rd

3 Carey Grammar - Donvale 12 3.5 7 7.5 2 8.5 4 9.5 1 10.5 11 14.5 10 18.5

4 Camberwell Grammar 6 4 1 5 10 9 3 12 2 14 5 18 14 20 2nd

5 Mont Albert "B" 1 0 6 4 11 7.5 8 11.5 14 13 4 13 2 13

6 Boroondara Park "A" 4 0 5 0 Bye 4 11 5.5 15 8 8 10.5 13 13.5

7 Mary Immaculate "A" 13 3 3 3 15 5 10 5 Bye 9 12 9.5 11 11

8 Our Lady of Good Counsel 14 1 13 4.5 9 6 5 6 12 7 6 8.5 Bye 12.5

9 Fintona Girls' School Bye 4 2 4 8 6.5 12 8 10 8.5 13 12.5 15 14

10 Mont Albert "C" 15 3.5 14 5 4 5 7 9 9 12.5 1 13 3 13

11 Ivanhoe Grammar "B" 2 0 Bye 4 5 4.5 6 7 13 10.5 3 10.5 7 13

12 Carey - Donvale "B" 3 0.5 15 1.5 13 5 9 7.5 8 10.5 7 14 1 14

13 Mary Immaculate "B" 7 1 8 1.5 12 2 Bye 6 11 6.5 9 6.5 6 7.5

14 Balwyn Nth Primary 8 3 10 5.5 1 5.5 15 9.5 5 12 2 15 4 17

15 Mont Albert "D" 10 0.5 12 3.5 7 5.5 14 5.5 6 7 Bye 11 9 13.5

BALWYN ZONE

Date: Tuesday 1st June Venue: Boroondara Park Primary School Teams to A-Grade Finals: Mont Albert Primary Teams to B-Grade Finals: Camberwell Grammar & Ivanhoe Grammar

Graeme Gardiner

Australian Chess Federation President.

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Graeme visited Melbourne recently to present the Australian Chess Federa-tion’s new Development Plan. Mel-bourne chess officials and other inter-ested parties attended the meetings.

At these evenings confirmation was given that the National Schools Finals will be held in Canberra in mid-December. A place in the National Finals will be given to one team from each state in four categories.

Open Secondary

Girls’ Secondary

Open Primary

Girls’ Primary

Other plans include the establishment of a National Chess Academy at Somerset College in Qld. This is partly dependent on receiving funding from the Federal Government.

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Perplexing Puzzles Perplexing Puzzles Perplexing Puzzles Perplexing Puzzles

from page 20.from page 20.from page 20.from page 20.

Answers:

1.1.1.1. 1.Qxe8+ Nxe8 2.Rxe8++

2.2.2.2. 1.Qg8+ Rxg8 2.Nf7++

3.3.3.3. 1.Qxh7+ Kxh7 2.Rh5++

4.4.4.4. 1.Qxc6+ bxc6 2.Nxc7+ Rxc7

3.Rd8++

5.5.5.5. 1.Qxb7+ Kxb7 2.Ra7+ Kc8

3.Rc7++

6.6.6.6. 1.Re6 Kh4 2.Re3 Kh5 3.Rh3++

7.7.7.7. 1.Qxg7+ Kxg7 2.Rh7+ Kf8

3.Rh8+ Kf7 4.R1h7++

8.8.8.8. 1.Qxe6+ Kxe6 2.Bc4+ Kf6

3.R1d6+ Bex6 4.Rf7++

9.9.9.9. 1.Qe8+ Nxe8 2.Bd5+ Be6

3.Bxe6+ Kh8 4.Rf8++

Ruperto Lugo: Victorian Under 10 Champion and

Board 1 player for Essex Heights Primary

No SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PLACINGS

1 Essex Heights "A" 2 4 5 8 6 12 13 16 16 20 4 24 8 28 1st

2 Essex Heights "B" 1 0 14 4 9 7 5 8 8 12 3 16 6 18 2nd

3 Mt Waverley Nth "A" 8 3 6 3 5 4 12 8 11 12 2 12 9 13

4 Glendal Primary "A" 9 2 13 3 12 6.5 15 9.5 7 13.5 1 13.5 16 15.5

5 Camelot Rise "A" 12 4 1 4 3 7 2 10 9 13 6 14.5 13 15.5

6 Weeden Heights "A" 10 3.5 3 7.5 1 7.5 16 9.5 13 11.5 5 14 2 16 =4th

7 Mt View "A" 11 3.5 15 5.5 16 6.5 8 8.5 4 8.5 12 10.5 14 14.5

8 Mt Waverley Nth "B" 3 1 9 3 10 6.5 7 8.5 2 8.5 14 12.5 1 12.5

9 Glendal Primary "B" 4 2 8 4 2 5 11 9 5 10 13 11 3 14

10 Weeden Heights "B" 6 0.5 16 0.5 8 1 14 4 15 5.5 11 8.5 12 11.5

11 Mt View Primary "B" 7 0.5 12 1.5 14 4 9 4 3 4 10 5 15 5

12 Camelot Rise "B" 5 0 11 3 4 3.5 3 3.5 14 6.5 7 8.5 10 9.5

13 Essex Heights "C" 16 3 4 6 15 9 1 9 6 11 9 14 5 17 3rd

14 Mt Waverley Nth "C" 15 0 2 0 11 1.5 10 2.5 12 3.5 8 3.5 7 3.5

15 Weeden Heights "C" 14 4 7 6 13 7 4 8 10 10.5 16 12 11 16 =4th

16 Essex Heights "D" 13 1 10 4 7 8 6 10 1 10 15 12.5 4 14.5

WAVERLEY ZONE

Date: Tuesday 4th May Venue: Camelot Rise Primary School Teams to A-Grade Finals: Essex Heights “A” & “B” Teams to B-Grade Finals: Essex Heights “C”, Weeden Heights “A” & “C”

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MALVERN ZONE

Date: Tuesday 18th May Venue: Chadstone Park Primary School Teams to A-Grade Finals: Caulfield Grammar School Teams to B-Grade Finals: St Leonard’s – Glen Waverley

No SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PLACINGS

1 Caulfield Grammar "A" 2 3 7 7 11 10.5 3 14.5 9 18.5 8 21 10 25 1st

2 Caulfield Grammar "B" 1 1 9 3 7 3.5 Bye 7.5 11 10 3 11 6 15

3 Chadstone Park "A" 6 4 11 6 10 10 1 10 8 10 2 13 Bye 17

4 Valkstone Primary "A" 7 1 5 2 Bye 6 10 6 6 9.5 9 9.5 11 9.5

5 Solway Primary 10 1 4 4 9 4 6 7.5 Bye 11.5 7 11.5 8 11.5

6 Chadstone Park "B" 3 0 Bye 4 8 4.5 5 5 4 5.5 11 5.5 2 5.5

7 Valkstone Primary "B" 4 3 1 3 2 6.5 8 9 10 12 5 16 9 18 3rd

8 St Leonard's "A" 9 2.5 10 4.5 6 8 7 9.5 3 13.5 1 15 5 19 2nd

9 St Leonard's "B" 8 1.5 2 3.5 5 7.5 11 10 1 10 4 14 7 16

10 Caulfield Grammar "C" 5 3 8 5 3 5 4 9 7 10 Bye 14 1 14

11 St Leonard's "C" Bye 4 3 6 1 6.5 9 8 2 9.5 6 13.5 4 17.5

No SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PLACINGS

1 Essex Heights "A" 9 3 5 7 2 9.5 3 13.5 4 17.5 10 21.5 11 25.5 1st

2 Mont Albert "A" 10 3 12 7 1 8.5 9 11.5 8 15.5 3 19.5 4 23.5 2nd

3 Mt Waverley Nth "A" 11 2 13 5 4 7.5 1 7.5 12 11.5 2 11.5 7 15.5

4 Weeden Heights "A" 13 2.5 8 5.5 3 7 11 10 1 10 9 13 2 13

5 Kangaroo Ground PS Bye 4 1 4 6 5.5 8 6.5 7 7.5 12 9.5 10 10.5

6 Mt View Primary 8 1 11 3 5 5.5 7 8 9 8 Bye 12 12 14

7 Our Lady of Good Counsel 12 1 10 1 Bye 5 6 6.5 5 9.5 11 10.5 3 10.5

8 Yarra Rd - Croydon 6 3 4 4 11 5.5 5 8.5 2 8.5 13 11.5 9 11.5

9 Essex Heights "B" 1 1 Bye 5 10 9 2 10 6 14 4 15 8 19 3rd

10 Mont Albert "B" 2 1 7 5 9 5 13 7 Bye 11 1 11 5 14

11 Mt Waverley Nth "B" 3 2 6 4 8 6.5 4 7.5 13 10 7 13 1 13

12 OLGC "B" 7 3 2 3 13 4 Bye 8 3 8 5 10 6 12

13 Mont Albert "C" 4 1.5 3 2.5 12 5.5 10 7.5 11 9 8 10 Bye 14

GRADE 3 & UNDER – WAVERLEY ZONE

Date: Friday 18th June Venue: Mt Waverley Nth Primary School Teams to B-Grade Finals: Essex Heights

FEEDBACK

This year the Victorian Junior Champi-

onships did not attract a huge number of players, however there were two players who attempted to enter late. One tried en-tering only 3 hours late, the other more than 24 hours after the tournament started. Of course neither of these players were allowed a place.

Next year it is proposed to have a sepa-rate tournament for players who fail to enter on time. Our only worry is this tour-nament may be bigger than the real one!

Who would have thought that the Aus-

tralian Junior Championships could at-tract sponsorship in the amounts that are being offered by Morwell? Would you really pay to have a bunch of chess-players show up on your doorstep?!

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Many players seem to develop their pieces with no plan when they find themselves playing in a normal opening such as this one. Here I will give you one idea of what you can play so you have a plan when playing these common openings.

1. e4 e5

2. Nf3 Nc6

3. Bc4 Bc5

4. O-O d6

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The key is to leave your knight on g8 for as long as possible. This gives you the option of O-O-O. Bring the bishop out to pin White’s knight as soon as you can. Then you can add pressure to the pinned piece with moves like …Nd4 and …Qf6. Black can also develop the knight to f6 and when White plays Bg5 reply with …h6 then …g5 and castle Q-side. Even play …h6 and …g5 before the bishop comes out, then the knight can play to e7-g6-f4!

5. d3 Bg4

6. Nc3 Nd4

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7. Be3 Nxf3+

8. gxf3 Bh3

9. Re1 Bxe3

10. fxe3 Qg5+

11. Kf2 Qg2++

What to watch out for.

• Don’t play …Qf6 if White is going to play Nd5

and attack your Q and your c7 pawn at the same time.

• You will need to have your King safe if White

plays for a quick d4, opening up the centre.

• Watch for his bishop coming to g5. h6 and g5

help your attack anyway.

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Black wins a piece with …Bxf3.

Against 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3

Opening Preparation

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Player Profile

Denis BOURMISTROV

Denis is 1999 Victorian Junior

Champion. He finished =10th in

the 1996 World U/10 Champion-

ships. Denis is the 5th highest

ACF rated junior in Victoria.

Age:Age:Age:Age: 13

School:School:School:School: University High School

Junior Rating:Junior Rating:Junior Rating:Junior Rating: 1532 ACF RACF RACF RACF Rating: ating: ating: ating: 1607

When did you start playing chess?When did you start playing chess?When did you start playing chess?When did you start playing chess?

When I was 5.

What are you superstitious about?What are you superstitious about?What are you superstitious about?What are you superstitious about?

Knocking over your King in the middle of the game.

What song do you never want to hear again?What song do you never want to hear again?What song do you never want to hear again?What song do you never want to hear again?

I never want to hear TLC, No Scrubs because I have

heard it over 20 times!

What do you like least about chess?What do you like least about chess?What do you like least about chess?What do you like least about chess?

Takes up lots of time.

Which living player would you like to play?Which living player would you like to play?Which living player would you like to play?Which living player would you like to play?

I would like to play Kasparov and survive for 20

moves.

What is the most dangerous place your have ever What is the most dangerous place your have ever What is the most dangerous place your have ever What is the most dangerous place your have ever

visited?visited?visited?visited?

Melbourne Chess Club

Greatest chGreatest chGreatest chGreatest chess achievement?ess achievement?ess achievement?ess achievement?

Winning the Australian U/10 Championships.

Greatest nonGreatest nonGreatest nonGreatest non----chess achievement?chess achievement?chess achievement?chess achievement?

Getting into University High (accelerated program).

Funniest experience:Funniest experience:Funniest experience:Funniest experience:

When in Box Hill Chess Club. David Flude just lost

a won game and said to his opponent “I had you

busted.” His opponent thought that David has just

said “I had you, bastard.”

Other interests:Other interests:Other interests:Other interests:

Tennis, computer games, swimming.

Dana HAR-EL

Dana is a keen chess-player

who plays regularly at

school, in tournaments and

at interschool champion-

ships.

Age:Age:Age:Age: 10

School:School:School:School: Mt Scopus Memorial College

Junior Rating:Junior Rating:Junior Rating:Junior Rating: 877 ACF Rating: ACF Rating: ACF Rating: ACF Rating:

n/a

When did you start playing chess?When did you start playing chess?When did you start playing chess?When did you start playing chess?

At the end of 1996.

Who has influenced your game the most?Who has influenced your game the most?Who has influenced your game the most?Who has influenced your game the most?

My brother probably influenced me.

What ambitions do you have?What ambitions do you have?What ambitions do you have?What ambitions do you have?

To be a great swimmer.

Which footy team do you barrack for?Which footy team do you barrack for?Which footy team do you barrack for?Which footy team do you barrack for?

Melbourne Demons

What advice would you give to a young What advice would you give to a young What advice would you give to a young What advice would you give to a young

player wanting to improvplayer wanting to improvplayer wanting to improvplayer wanting to improve?e?e?e?

Just to try your hardest at all times and keep

on practicing then you’ll just keep on im-

proving.

What do you like best about chess?What do you like best about chess?What do you like best about chess?What do you like best about chess?

It’s fun to play and in the meantime you are

using your brain just playing a game of

chess.

Greatest nonGreatest nonGreatest nonGreatest non----chess achievement?chess achievement?chess achievement?chess achievement?

Winning a medal in the Jewish Swimming

Championships.

What do you like least about chesWhat do you like least about chesWhat do you like least about chesWhat do you like least about chess?s?s?s?

Whten people are watching you it makes

you feel nervous.

Other interests:Other interests:Other interests:Other interests:

Reading, swimming, playing the pieno, table

tennis, listening to the radio and playing bas-

ketball.

Term 3

Sunday, 25th July RJ Shield Tournament #5* Hawthorn

Sunday, 8th August Cordover Challenge/Polgar Plate Hawthorn

Sunday, 29th August RJ Shield Tournament #6* TBA

Sunday, 12th September Cordover Challenge/Polgar Plate TBA

Term 3 Holidays

September 20th - 26th Chess Kids Olympics TBA

Term 4

Sunday, 10th October Cordover Challenge/Polgar Plate TBA

Sunday, 24th October RJ Shield Tournament #7* Hawthorn

Sunday, 14th November Cordover Challenge/Polgar Plate Hawthorn

Sunday, 21st November RJ Shield Tournament #8* Hawthorn

Term 4 Holidays

January 15th - 25th Australian Junior Championships Morwell

* The RJ Shield runs over 8 tournaments and each player’s best 4 results go towards a final prize.

Special Activities

July 25th RJ Shield

Fundraiser for children going to World Junior Championships. All profits from this RJ Shield will go directly to Victorian chil-dren representing Australia overseas this year. Please sup-

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HHHHere is a listing of all the chess clubs ere is a listing of all the chess clubs ere is a listing of all the chess clubs ere is a listing of all the chess clubs

around Melbourne. Join a club, meet around Melbourne. Join a club, meet around Melbourne. Join a club, meet around Melbourne. Join a club, meet

new people, play games, get some pranew people, play games, get some pranew people, play games, get some pranew people, play games, get some prac-c-c-c-

tise and improve!tise and improve!tise and improve!tise and improve!

CLUB CONTACT PHONE MEETS

Albury Rob Simmons 02 6021-5851 Fri

Ballarat Patrick Cook 03 5331-6658 Thurs

Bendigo David Schepisi 03 5439-6459 Wed

Bosnia Amir Mahic 9562-4630 Tue

Box Hill Rolf Exner 9878-0550 Fri

Dandenong Don Maciulaitis 9791-3541 Wed

Doncaster Angus Dykes 9654-8011 ?

Elwood Stephan Taylor 9877-2581 Sat

Essendon David Stimpson 9338-3321 Wed

Frankston Jim Duncan 9783-6648 Thurs

Glenroy Peter Hindson 9305-3851 2 days

Geelong Ian Boasman 03 5224-1293 Mon

Hobson’s

Bay Peter Caissa 9397-1330

0411-710-900 Wed

Kew Geoff Hilliard 9819-3651 Fri

Melbourne Richard McCart 9416-3149 Daily

Mentone Harry Proctor 9584-9072 Thurs

Monash Sam Low 9560-6049 Mon-Fri

Serbian Danny Petrovic 9331-2102 Wed

Waverley David Cordover 0411-877-833 Fri

Adult Chess Clubs

CLUB CONTACT PHONE MEETS

Elwood David Cordover 9578-6203 Saturday

Brighton David Cordover 0411-877-833 Thurs

Bayswater Lesley James 9729-8912 Monday

Box Hill Gerrit Hartland 9878-3163 Friday

Waverley David Cordover 0411-877-833 Friday

Hobson’s Bay Peter Caissa 0411-710-900 Saturday

Internet Chess Always! www.chessclub.com

Junior Chess Clubs

INTERNET CHESS ON NEXUS

Play chess on the net!

Go to the ICON homepage:

www.icon.nexus.edu.au

Download Blitzin 1.5 from the Chess-boards page. Register and play online FREE! Get a rating, play at school or home against other Australian players.

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Brain Teaser

It is White’s turn to move. Have there been any pawns

promoted in this game?

- Muneaki Tsuda Black's King could not have been at g2 or e2 because White's pawns are there. It could not have been at f3 or g3 because White's pawns at row 2 are in their original position. It could not have been at e1 because White's King and rook cannot check Black at the same time. It could not have been at e3 be-cause it must have been out of check before that. The only possibilities in which it could have been out of check at e3 are:

a) if the bishop at c1 was not in diagonal with Black's King at e3. With pawn at b2, it is impossible.

b) If there was a piece at d2 that does not check the king at e3 but could have moved to either the current position on the board or to f2. This is also not possible.

It could not have been at g1 because it must have been out of check before that. Because of pawn at h2, that is not possible.

The only possibility is the remaining f1, and if it was at f1 there must have been a piece at g1 that does not check the king but later moves to either the current position on the board or to f2. Bishop at g1 is the only possibility. Two bishops are on the same color, and therefore one of them must have been promoted from White's pawn.

Last Moves: Black-King at e1 to f1 White-Bishop at g1 to f2 (check) Black-King at f1 takes on f2

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• Private Lessons

So, you want to become a better chess player? The fastest way to improve is to get coach-ing. Your coach can provide guidance and support as well as forcing you to actually prac-tice! Get coaching once a week, once a fortnight or even just occasionally to give you that extra confidence it requires to win matches!

Cost: $35 per hour at your place. $25 per hour at Chess Kids, 1/114 Neville St, Carnegie.

• Group Lessons

Get together some of your friends, or just let us know that you are interested in being part of our group coaching, and we can place you with other players of a similar standard.

Cost: From $10 per hour.

• School Chess

We are experienced at establishing chess clubs in a school. Our pleasant style ensures that the club will grow to make chess an integral part of school life. We coach at Essex Heights Primary School, who are the 1998 National Primary Schools Champions. Thanks to Chess Kids the club has grown from 20 to 80 players in the past year!

Chess is a useful enrichment activity. Chess Kids has some fabulous ideas about how chess can be used as a problem solving and lateral thinking game. We run some of our programs at G.A.T.E.WAYS as well as schools such as Glamorgan (Geelong Grammar), and Essex Heights.

Cost: From $50 per hour.

• Junior Chess Clubs

Brighton Chess Club Hampton Community Centre Thursday, 5:30 - 7:00pm

Waverley Chess Club Wadham House, Mt Waverley Friday, 6:00 - 7:30pm

Elwood Chess School 87 Tennyson St, Elwood Saturday, 10:30am - 12:30pm

• Exhibitions/Tournaments/Parties

We do blindfold displays, simultaneous exhibitions, and organize fundraisers where you can give the display! And if you are planning a tournament, someone from Chess Kids can organise it for you. Why not have a Chess Kids birthday party, with activities, games and fun for all ages.

Contact: David Cordover on 9578-6203 or 0411-877-833

See us on the Web:

www.iaccess.com.au/chesskid/

OPUS AMORIS

Phone: 9578-6203 or 9504-2830

Fax: 9578-6203

Mobile: 0411-877-833

Snail Mail: 1/114 Neville St, Carnegie 3163

E-Mail: [email protected]

Chess K

ids

Page 24 School Packages

No knowledge of the game Basic knowledge of the game For more advanced clubs

4 x Plastic Chess Sets $15.10 ea

4 x Vinyl Rollup Boards $6.15 ea

5 x Chess Made Easy books $6.95

Normally valued at $119.75 now

$105.00


4 x Vinyl Rollup Boards $6.15 ea

2 x Chess Clocks $69.00 ea

1 x Chess for Tomorrow's Champions book $24.95

Normally valued at $247.95 now $215.00


10 x Foldup Boards $15.79 ea

4 x Chess Clocks $69.00 ea

Normally valued at $584.90 now $539.00

In addition, the excellent teaching aid 'How to Play Chess' Video can be added for an extra $39.95 (normal price is $44.95)

Book Titles Price List*

Laws of Chess $2.95

Chess Made Easy $6.95

Chess for Beginners $14.95

Chess for Children $16.95

Disney’s Chess Guide $19.95

Chess for Children $24.95

First Steps in Chess $24.95

Chess for Tomorrow’s Champions $24.95

How to Win at Chess -10 Golden Rules $24.95

Chess Openings for Juniors $24.95

Chess Training in 5333 + 1 Positions $39.95

Play Winning Chess $34.95

Plastic Chess Sets (tournament size) $15.10 ea

Vinyl Rollup Boards (tournament size) $6.15 ea

Vinyl Foldup Boards (tournament size) $15.79 ea

'How to Play Chess' Video $44.95

Plastic Chess clocks $69.00

Wooden clocks $80.00

Digital Game Timers $99

Demonstration Boards $110.00

*Tax exempt

You can order any of the specific packages listed here, or put together your own package from the price list provided.

The simplest way to order is to fax your school purchase order to 9380 1399. Your order will be dispatched

by Australia Post the following business day.

Keep this page handy for future reference.

Documents

Term 3 '99 Newsletter - Chess Kids...Sicilian Defence ———————————————— 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 The Accelerated Dragon. 5.Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3