This soap story contined recently when the NSWCA sent Matthew Sweeney a letter stating that if, at the end of his 17 month suspension (which is due to end 31 December 06) then "an apology for your crude, foul and vulgar language and an assurance that there will be a cessation of such language in the future" should be received with the membership form. The "foul and vulgar language" refers to the now defunct Uber Chess Jihad forum that This Uber chess Jihad is now not much other than a shell of a forum with all the incriminating items deleted a long time ago.
Now, apparently the letter states that the "foul and vulgar language" is still evident on chess related websites. AFAIK the only website that Matt Sweeney now posts on is his Australian Chess Club Forum which is very civil and does not have foul or vulgar or crude language. I would like to know what "foul and Vulgar language" the NSWCA is Referring to.
This movement has Bill Gletsos written all over it. I do not believe that there had been a vote on this and if there was I would like to know what the result was. The councils last meeting was after the NSWCA AGM as it always is. If no reply is recieved i will be requesting to see the minutes for that meeting. Further evidence; When I was on council, Bill was suggesting to the Council that Matt's membership does not have to be accepted on many occasions. I just thought that Bill was having a bit of a joke. I did not think that Bill or the NSWCA would fall that low.
In my oppinion Matt done the supposed crime, he did the time.
When a prisoner comes out of doing his full term he is then does not have to serve another sentence.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
NSW Championship idea
I have had an idea for a little while for a better NSW Champs. This idea would need to have some sponsorship.
My idea came about when i was thinking about the schedule for 2007 for my home club, Campbelltown, I was thinking whether a South Western Sydney League would be worth investigating. I was thinking about inviting Liverpool chess club, and perhaps Mounties chess club. The format would be, say, 10 player round robins with participants split into divisions according to rating. As this thought was later in the year i decided to abandon this idea.
When thinking of the low turn out at the NSW State Champs I thought that the league system might work for a state champs.
Say the state is broken up into regions:
South West Sydney Region: Campbelltown, Liverpool, Mounties
Western Sydney Region: Rooty Hill, Parramatta.
Eastern Sydney Region: Manly, Nth Sydney and Hakoah
Southern Sydney Region: St George, Canterbury, Wollongong.
Central Sydney Region: Wests, Ryde Eastwood, Asquith.
Central Coast reigion: Gosford, Mingara, Toukley, Ettalong.
Newcastle Region: Newcastle, Cardiff, Maitland.
NSW Country region: all other chess clubs in country NSW.
Each region runs their own league except for the NSW Country Region. The top division of each region is the qualifying division for the state championship finals. The number of entries into the state championships depend on the percentage of players accross all the divisions in that league compared to that of other leagues.
Games are played on their club night.
The NSW Country Region representative(s) will be selected by a GP of Country weekenders comprising of Dubbo, Coffs Harbour, Laurieton and any other NSW Country region tournament that pops up.
Now there is the problem of when to play these Leagues. In sydney there is always some club based competition going on whether it be the Grade Matches or the Western Sydney Chess Premiership or Club champs etc etc. So in my opinion it would happen over an 18 week period starting in February thus allowing two weeks per league game. This would hopefully gel with the players playing in the WSCP and Grade matches. Now dont get me wrong, I support the WSCP but if it was not possible to play the games over the 18 weeks then perhaps Sydney could convert to only having one teams event in the Grade Matches and forgoing the WSCP to have some variety in the sydney chess scene!?
The State Champs Final
The state champs final will have at least 16 competitors, 9 round Swiss over 5 days. GM's, IM's, WGM's, WIM's recieve entry without having to qualify in the Regional leagues. If more than 8 positions are taken up by the titled players then every division will get one position in the State Champs final (thus potentially increasing the field). A couple of oversease IM's / GM's may be invited to play to make the event a possible norm producing tournament. These players would not be elligible for the title of State Champ.
Here is where the sponsorship needs to come in. I think for making it this far all divisional players must be rewarded with a cash prize. But with titled players now in the mix there is the chance that the qualifiers would miss out. So a cash prize for everyone in the Finals would be Ideal. Perhaps someone like Star City could be approached to hold the premium tournament there with some sponsorship and possibly some TV coverage. Maybe a weekly show covering the game of the round or something like that.
I'd like to know what others think of my Idea. Its a pipe dream, i know, but it is an idea!
My idea came about when i was thinking about the schedule for 2007 for my home club, Campbelltown, I was thinking whether a South Western Sydney League would be worth investigating. I was thinking about inviting Liverpool chess club, and perhaps Mounties chess club. The format would be, say, 10 player round robins with participants split into divisions according to rating. As this thought was later in the year i decided to abandon this idea.
When thinking of the low turn out at the NSW State Champs I thought that the league system might work for a state champs.
Say the state is broken up into regions:
South West Sydney Region: Campbelltown, Liverpool, Mounties
Western Sydney Region: Rooty Hill, Parramatta.
Eastern Sydney Region: Manly, Nth Sydney and Hakoah
Southern Sydney Region: St George, Canterbury, Wollongong.
Central Sydney Region: Wests, Ryde Eastwood, Asquith.
Central Coast reigion: Gosford, Mingara, Toukley, Ettalong.
Newcastle Region: Newcastle, Cardiff, Maitland.
NSW Country region: all other chess clubs in country NSW.
Each region runs their own league except for the NSW Country Region. The top division of each region is the qualifying division for the state championship finals. The number of entries into the state championships depend on the percentage of players accross all the divisions in that league compared to that of other leagues.
Games are played on their club night.
The NSW Country Region representative(s) will be selected by a GP of Country weekenders comprising of Dubbo, Coffs Harbour, Laurieton and any other NSW Country region tournament that pops up.
Now there is the problem of when to play these Leagues. In sydney there is always some club based competition going on whether it be the Grade Matches or the Western Sydney Chess Premiership or Club champs etc etc. So in my opinion it would happen over an 18 week period starting in February thus allowing two weeks per league game. This would hopefully gel with the players playing in the WSCP and Grade matches. Now dont get me wrong, I support the WSCP but if it was not possible to play the games over the 18 weeks then perhaps Sydney could convert to only having one teams event in the Grade Matches and forgoing the WSCP to have some variety in the sydney chess scene!?
The State Champs Final
The state champs final will have at least 16 competitors, 9 round Swiss over 5 days. GM's, IM's, WGM's, WIM's recieve entry without having to qualify in the Regional leagues. If more than 8 positions are taken up by the titled players then every division will get one position in the State Champs final (thus potentially increasing the field). A couple of oversease IM's / GM's may be invited to play to make the event a possible norm producing tournament. These players would not be elligible for the title of State Champ.
Here is where the sponsorship needs to come in. I think for making it this far all divisional players must be rewarded with a cash prize. But with titled players now in the mix there is the chance that the qualifiers would miss out. So a cash prize for everyone in the Finals would be Ideal. Perhaps someone like Star City could be approached to hold the premium tournament there with some sponsorship and possibly some TV coverage. Maybe a weekly show covering the game of the round or something like that.
I'd like to know what others think of my Idea. Its a pipe dream, i know, but it is an idea!
Chess Nuts Unite.....or should that be untie?
I came accross this site couple of weeks ago. Seems to be a pretty good site. Pity it appears to be not updated for a while. The Email address I used to send them an email bounced. Apparently one of the sites organisers plays on FICS. Maybe i might be able to speak to them on that medium......
Anyhow this site has different types of articles on chess. Also a database of the editors games (and others) as well as a database of openings and games of that opening.
Ever heard of the Chameleon Variation in the Sicilian?
Anyhow this site has different types of articles on chess. Also a database of the editors games (and others) as well as a database of openings and games of that opening.
Ever heard of the Chameleon Variation in the Sicilian?
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
New Beginnings
I've had some waning interst in chess of late and an increased interest in Poker. However i find that i spend more money at poker overall consiering i go to poker tournaments more than one or two times a week. I wan to cut back on my poker playing and increase my chess strength. So next year i think i'll only play poker once a week and study chess the other nights a week. Hey perhaps i'll go over the 1600 mark next year........??
I also want to blog often. More often than the inconsistent blog that i have at the moment.
2006 was a bit of a tragic year for me. With the death of my brother in april. I've had massive downs and little highs. On the 27th of December my extended family and I will be cruising to New Caledonia and Vanuatu for 13 nights. Leaving 2006 on a high note and keeping spirits high into what will be a happy 2007 a new year...... a new beginning.
One major issue with me is that i dont time manage very well. I am all over the place and i cannot seem to find a routine. My new years resolution is to manage my time more effectively. I think this will help me in many facets of life: finding work, improving my chess, losing weight, consistent blogging etc etc.........
Lets see if it works this time. C y'all soon!
I also want to blog often. More often than the inconsistent blog that i have at the moment.
2006 was a bit of a tragic year for me. With the death of my brother in april. I've had massive downs and little highs. On the 27th of December my extended family and I will be cruising to New Caledonia and Vanuatu for 13 nights. Leaving 2006 on a high note and keeping spirits high into what will be a happy 2007 a new year...... a new beginning.
One major issue with me is that i dont time manage very well. I am all over the place and i cannot seem to find a routine. My new years resolution is to manage my time more effectively. I think this will help me in many facets of life: finding work, improving my chess, losing weight, consistent blogging etc etc.........
Lets see if it works this time. C y'all soon!
Saturday, June 10, 2006
How to lose a winning game
Fair bloody dinkum.
I should write a book on how to lose a winning game. In my first game i was winning..... whould have won a piece..... instead i went the wrong way.... walked right into a clearly seeable tactic that lost me the exchange. Thats ok, i have N+4 pawns v R and 2 pawns..... I had an opportunity to draw but i thought i could get my pawns through. Nope i lost the knight. So I lost a game that i should have won, the game went for ages so i had about half an hour t'il the next game. I was stuffed already. Perhaps i should listen to my mother and go to bed a little bit earlier on tournament nights. In my second game i come up against someone again rated lower than me and again i stuffed up. I missed how she could win an exchange by threatening the knight and queen smother mate combination. Bugger me. What the hell is wrong with me?
I lose my first game and i feel quite down in the dumps. I lose my second game and i feel even more depressed. I've been feeling a bit more depressed lately since my brother died...... maybe i should see a counsellor or something. Anyhow thats not what we're here to talk about.
I do not know who is leading the tournaments because i was pissed off with my self and left the building. I will give everyone an update tomorrow morning before the round starts....
I should write a book on how to lose a winning game. In my first game i was winning..... whould have won a piece..... instead i went the wrong way.... walked right into a clearly seeable tactic that lost me the exchange. Thats ok, i have N+4 pawns v R and 2 pawns..... I had an opportunity to draw but i thought i could get my pawns through. Nope i lost the knight. So I lost a game that i should have won, the game went for ages so i had about half an hour t'il the next game. I was stuffed already. Perhaps i should listen to my mother and go to bed a little bit earlier on tournament nights. In my second game i come up against someone again rated lower than me and again i stuffed up. I missed how she could win an exchange by threatening the knight and queen smother mate combination. Bugger me. What the hell is wrong with me?
I lose my first game and i feel quite down in the dumps. I lose my second game and i feel even more depressed. I've been feeling a bit more depressed lately since my brother died...... maybe i should see a counsellor or something. Anyhow thats not what we're here to talk about.
I do not know who is leading the tournaments because i was pissed off with my self and left the building. I will give everyone an update tomorrow morning before the round starts....
Grade Matches
While i'm here i'll dicuss the Grade matches.
Under 1600
In round two the North sydney Grizzly Bears had to travel the long journey to Campbelltown.... And it must have had an effect on them. Campbelltown won 4-0. Our board one had a forfeit as the North Sydney board one thought that they had to play on the Tuesday instead of the monday. 1-0 to campbelltown.
Secondly Mick Rogosic won in his usual fianchettoing, axe wielding way. 2-0.
Then a while passed until i defeated Norm Greenwood in an interesting KR+7pawns v KR+7pawns endgame. My rook had the more dominant position which enabled my king to infiltrate norms position. My pawns were also more advanced than his. I picked off a pawn, then gave up two to clear a path for promotion. 3-0
Finally Peter Brennan had an interesting engame and was eventually able to block out the black king in order to promote his rooks pawn - the only other piece on the board other than the two kings. 4-0 Campbelltown
However, where the Grizzlies failed, the Brown bears took revenge. We lost on boards 1,2 and 4, and Peter Brennan was lucky to win on board 3.
This week coming we travel to St George to play Wollongong.
The Under 2000 team are doing reasonably well. They are currently coming 2nd behind St. george but only half a point in front of Parramatta and Manly.
Under 1600
In round two the North sydney Grizzly Bears had to travel the long journey to Campbelltown.... And it must have had an effect on them. Campbelltown won 4-0. Our board one had a forfeit as the North Sydney board one thought that they had to play on the Tuesday instead of the monday. 1-0 to campbelltown.
Secondly Mick Rogosic won in his usual fianchettoing, axe wielding way. 2-0.
Then a while passed until i defeated Norm Greenwood in an interesting KR+7pawns v KR+7pawns endgame. My rook had the more dominant position which enabled my king to infiltrate norms position. My pawns were also more advanced than his. I picked off a pawn, then gave up two to clear a path for promotion. 3-0
Finally Peter Brennan had an interesting engame and was eventually able to block out the black king in order to promote his rooks pawn - the only other piece on the board other than the two kings. 4-0 Campbelltown
However, where the Grizzlies failed, the Brown bears took revenge. We lost on boards 1,2 and 4, and Peter Brennan was lucky to win on board 3.
This week coming we travel to St George to play Wollongong.
The Under 2000 team are doing reasonably well. They are currently coming 2nd behind St. george but only half a point in front of Parramatta and Manly.
NSW OPEN! RU READY?
Hello all!
Sorry i haven't blogged for almost a month.
Today the NSW Open starts. I am here early so i thought i would cover the NSW in depth, round by round. There is a chess cafe right next to the venue that is slightly on the expensive side but not as expensive as the internet cafe at Victor Lodge at Canberra.
Well, IMHO it has been a pretty disappointing early entry list. I would have expected much more to enter. Perhaps it has something to do with the location. The NSW Open is being held at the Hakoah club in Bondi Beach. The rounds will finish so late that i have decided to get accomodation for a tournament in sydney. i would not be able to get home to have an adequate amount of sleep. I think this venue would be a turn off for a number of players from the west. I wonder how many rooty hill members will be playing in this tournament (Other than maybe Shane Burgess... who is really from Parramatta). I hope there is at least two. There will be at least two from Campbelltown, Myself and Jamie Boyce, who is a promising junior and generally plays above his rating. He came equal second with Johny Bolens in the 2005 Fischers Ghost tournament.
Anyhow i'm excited to be playing in this event.
Speak to y'all later.
Sorry i haven't blogged for almost a month.
Today the NSW Open starts. I am here early so i thought i would cover the NSW in depth, round by round. There is a chess cafe right next to the venue that is slightly on the expensive side but not as expensive as the internet cafe at Victor Lodge at Canberra.
Well, IMHO it has been a pretty disappointing early entry list. I would have expected much more to enter. Perhaps it has something to do with the location. The NSW Open is being held at the Hakoah club in Bondi Beach. The rounds will finish so late that i have decided to get accomodation for a tournament in sydney. i would not be able to get home to have an adequate amount of sleep. I think this venue would be a turn off for a number of players from the west. I wonder how many rooty hill members will be playing in this tournament (Other than maybe Shane Burgess... who is really from Parramatta). I hope there is at least two. There will be at least two from Campbelltown, Myself and Jamie Boyce, who is a promising junior and generally plays above his rating. He came equal second with Johny Bolens in the 2005 Fischers Ghost tournament.
Anyhow i'm excited to be playing in this event.
Speak to y'all later.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
St Lance of Tahmoor
Been such a long time since i have blogged :(
Anyhow the grade Matches started last night and Campbelltown under 1600 team had to travel to Manly for their first round encounter.
Now Let me set the situation up. The Previous Monday the campbelltown under 1600 team had arranged to get a lift with one of their original players. He had to withdraw from the team on the thursday and all of a sudden we had a problem. We were down a player and without a lift to manly. I do not drive, nor does one of the other players and another did not want to drive over to Manly. So..... we had to find a lift as well as another player. I emailed around to try to see if i could swap the round one and two draws to enable the U1600 team to travel to Manly with the U2000 team. After a day of begging and pleading Saint Lance of Tahmoor came to the rescue! He would drive and fill in Board 4. He was not really expected to win with his 1013 rating. It would have to be the other 3 boards that would have to perform.
The plan was to pick one guy up from near his home at minto at about 5.30.... the second guy near Brooks road onramp to the M5 motorway. Picked up the first player just a little earlier than schedule. Then we got to Brooks Road and..... no one was there.......
We then get a phone call.....
"where are ya"
"at Brooks Road, where you told me you were meeting us"
"s**t! i'm at Minto McDonalds" (we had originally planned on meeting there before hand but we decided to leave at about 5.30pm instead of 6.00pm, thus the first player's lift couldn't take him to the McDonalds so we picked him up from near his place.)
"ok we'll come and pick you up"
"ok i'll be near the roundabout."
We get to McDonalds..... nope he wasn't there..... Do a lap of the block...... no sight of him......
"Where are you?"
"i'm near minto station."
"Bugger, McDonalds side or other side"
"ok be there soon."
Get to Minto station....... no where to be seen!
"Where are you?"
"Just walked over the pedestrian bridge"
"well you can walk back over it! we are on the other side"
several minutes later we are all in the car heading towards Brookvale..... our half an hour earlier leaving time has now evaporated and were about ten minutes late.
As it turned out we ended up getting there about ten minutes early.
My game was an interesting Kings indian Defence which i think i might have misplayed. But was able to salvage a draw. Next thing i know our board one comes in and tells me that both our boards one and two have lost. "Damn we're looking at a 3.5-0.5 slaughter here.......and Lance is down on time. At this point i decided to go for a non alcoholic beverage. When i came back Lance was up on time! And Attacking! And the time control of 30 moves had just been played in the 75 minutes so they had 30 min each to finish the game. Lance won his opponents queen for a rook in a combination involving a pin, bishop on king. Lance had defeated his higher rated opponent!
Yes, our last minute ring in saved the day for us. We still lost 2.5-1.5 but it was now a respectable loss.... not a huge loss.
Anyhow the grade Matches started last night and Campbelltown under 1600 team had to travel to Manly for their first round encounter.
Now Let me set the situation up. The Previous Monday the campbelltown under 1600 team had arranged to get a lift with one of their original players. He had to withdraw from the team on the thursday and all of a sudden we had a problem. We were down a player and without a lift to manly. I do not drive, nor does one of the other players and another did not want to drive over to Manly. So..... we had to find a lift as well as another player. I emailed around to try to see if i could swap the round one and two draws to enable the U1600 team to travel to Manly with the U2000 team. After a day of begging and pleading Saint Lance of Tahmoor came to the rescue! He would drive and fill in Board 4. He was not really expected to win with his 1013 rating. It would have to be the other 3 boards that would have to perform.
The plan was to pick one guy up from near his home at minto at about 5.30.... the second guy near Brooks road onramp to the M5 motorway. Picked up the first player just a little earlier than schedule. Then we got to Brooks Road and..... no one was there.......
We then get a phone call.....
"where are ya"
"at Brooks Road, where you told me you were meeting us"
"s**t! i'm at Minto McDonalds" (we had originally planned on meeting there before hand but we decided to leave at about 5.30pm instead of 6.00pm, thus the first player's lift couldn't take him to the McDonalds so we picked him up from near his place.)
"ok we'll come and pick you up"
"ok i'll be near the roundabout."
We get to McDonalds..... nope he wasn't there..... Do a lap of the block...... no sight of him......
"Where are you?"
"i'm near minto station."
"Bugger, McDonalds side or other side"
"ok be there soon."
Get to Minto station....... no where to be seen!
"Where are you?"
"Just walked over the pedestrian bridge"
"well you can walk back over it! we are on the other side"
several minutes later we are all in the car heading towards Brookvale..... our half an hour earlier leaving time has now evaporated and were about ten minutes late.
As it turned out we ended up getting there about ten minutes early.
My game was an interesting Kings indian Defence which i think i might have misplayed. But was able to salvage a draw. Next thing i know our board one comes in and tells me that both our boards one and two have lost. "Damn we're looking at a 3.5-0.5 slaughter here.......and Lance is down on time. At this point i decided to go for a non alcoholic beverage. When i came back Lance was up on time! And Attacking! And the time control of 30 moves had just been played in the 75 minutes so they had 30 min each to finish the game. Lance won his opponents queen for a rook in a combination involving a pin, bishop on king. Lance had defeated his higher rated opponent!
Yes, our last minute ring in saved the day for us. We still lost 2.5-1.5 but it was now a respectable loss.... not a huge loss.
Thursday, May 11, 2006
Former NSW Chess Tournament site goes up in flames
Yesterday 150 year old St Barnabas Church was destroyed by a fire. The fire also effected the church's community hall which at one point before my time held chess tournaments.
So much Chess coming up! Olympiad / Mtel
Well where do i start. The first of the Australian Olympiad team fly off today. Gary Lane is visiting the UK before going on to the Torino Olympiad. Accourding to the Torino website there is 9 days 9.5 hours until the olympiad starts.
Good luck to the Australian Team!
The Turino 2006 website looks excellent. I just hope that they will be putting all the games live over the internet so that we Aussies can follow the progress of our team. If so I'll be watching :)
On the right hand side i noticed that there are odds for the Mtel masters that start today. Topalov leads the betting, paying $2.36, closely followed by Anand, $2.5, Svidler $13, Bacrot $30, Ponomariov good value at $13, and Kamsky $50. (I think all prices are in US Dollars)
Good luck to the Australian Team!
The Turino 2006 website looks excellent. I just hope that they will be putting all the games live over the internet so that we Aussies can follow the progress of our team. If so I'll be watching :)
On the right hand side i noticed that there are odds for the Mtel masters that start today. Topalov leads the betting, paying $2.36, closely followed by Anand, $2.5, Svidler $13, Bacrot $30, Ponomariov good value at $13, and Kamsky $50. (I think all prices are in US Dollars)
Monday, May 01, 2006
Ilyumzhinov and Bessel Kok join forces?
I don't know how accurate this is but the Ottawa Chess club message board has brought some speculation that KIrsan Ilyumzhinov and Bessel Kok have made a secret deal. Is this "the right move" for Kok?
A guy named Kevin wrote:
There appears to be nothing on this on the FIDE website and nothing on Chessbase.com.
Also there appears to be nothing on Bassel Kok's "the right move" website. In fact Bassel Kok's website has recently released two papers entitled:
POSITION PAPER - CHESS IN SCHOOLS 28.04.2006
POSITION PAPER - FIDE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 29.04.2006
So somehow i don't think Kirsan and Bessel are planning a truce. I could be proven wrong.
A guy named Kevin wrote:
The rumour of a Kirsan-Kok agreement to unite before the Fide election turns out to have a sound basis. It is believed that a secret agreement has been achieved which will have the two work together on various fide projects, save Kok's reputation, and have the fide congress merely 'confirm' Kirsan's continued position as fide president. This appears to imply that there will be no actual vote taking at the upcoming congress in Italy.
There appears to be nothing on this on the FIDE website and nothing on Chessbase.com.
Also there appears to be nothing on Bassel Kok's "the right move" website. In fact Bassel Kok's website has recently released two papers entitled:
POSITION PAPER - CHESS IN SCHOOLS 28.04.2006
POSITION PAPER - FIDE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 29.04.2006
So somehow i don't think Kirsan and Bessel are planning a truce. I could be proven wrong.
Congratulations Ray, Josh!
Congratulations to Raymond Song for winning the City of Sydney on an unbeaten score of 7.5/9!!!! This stunning victory included wins over IM elect FM George Xie and Tomek Rej.
Also Congratulations to Parramatta Chess Club member Joshua Christensen on winning the U1700 division of the City of Sydney. Joshua also won the Doeberl minor recently. A safe prediction: Joshua’s rating will be going upwards.
Also Congratulations to Parramatta Chess Club member Joshua Christensen on winning the U1700 division of the City of Sydney. Joshua also won the Doeberl minor recently. A safe prediction: Joshua’s rating will be going upwards.
My Doeberl Games - Comments welcome
I have decided that I’d analyse my Doeberl games and post them here. Suggestions welcome :D
Parker,T (1453) - Clark,D (1090) [D43]
Doeberl Minor 2006 Home, 30.04.2006
[Trent Parker]
1.Nf3 my favorite opening move at the moment. 1...d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 c6 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Qc2 b6 IMHO if Black intends to fianchetto his Queens Bishop then b6 should be played before the c pawn is moved. I think this is a little too slow. 8.cxd5 cxd5 9.Bb5 I thought this was a better place for the bishop instead of d3 at this point in time. However i did not take advantage of it..... 9...0–0 10.0–0?! [10.Bc6 Rb8 11.Bf4±] 10...Bb7 11.Bd3 Rc8 Now i'm I didn't want Ne4 to come. I decided to eliminate one knight and play my Queen to b1. However i did not want to block my Rook in 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.Ne5 If Ne4 now then f3 kicks it away from centre 13...g6 14.Rac1 a6 15.Qb1 Now if Ne4.... 15...b5 [15...Ne4 16.Nxe4 dxe4 17.Bxe4 Bxe4 18.Qxe4±] 16.a3 stopping black from playing b4 16...Qd6 ..... and now that black cannot play Ne4...... 17.f4 Nd7 18.Rf3 f6 To Sac or not to sac is the Question? I ended up sacking the Knight. 19.Nxg6 I should have sacked the Bishop instead: [19.Bxg6 fxe5 (19...hxg6) 20.Bxh7+ Kg7 (20...Kh8 21.Qg6 Rf6 22.Qh5 Nf8 23.Rh3) 21.Qg6+ Kh8 22.Bg8 Rf7 23.Rh3+ Rh7 24.Rxh7#] 19...Rf7 Why not take my Knight? [19...hxg6 20.Bxg6 f5ยต] 20.Nxe7+ Qxe7 21.Rg3+ trying to scam another pawn..... and it works 21...Rg7 22.Bxh7+ Kh8 23.Rxg7 Qxg7 24.Bd3 Rg8 25.Qc2 f5 26.Rf1 Now that i'm two pawns up i want to exchange pieces as much as possible. 26...Nf6 27.Rf3 Nh7 28.Rg3 Qf7 29.Rxg8+ Qxg8 30.Ne2 I had plans of going via c1 and b3 to c5. More direct might have been... [30.a4 bxa4 (30...b4 31.Na2) 31.Nxa4] 30...Nf6 31.Qc7 Infiltration!!!!! :D 31...Qg7 32.Qxg7+ Kxg7 33.h3 Nd7 34.g4 fxg4 35.hxg4 Nb6 I really cannot allow Black's knight to infiltrate my position.... 36.b3 onya bike 36...Nd7 37.Kg2 time to get the king into the action! 37...Nf6 38.Kg3 Bc8 What a bad bishop. Stuck to the defence of blacks pawns 39.g5 Ne8 40.Nc3 Deciding not to go to c5 but try to push e4 making black's e pawn isolated. 40...Bb7 41.Kf3 Nd6 42.e4 dxe4+ Now.... what to take with?... I decided to take with the Bishop because i correctly thought that my knight would be better than his bishop in this endgame..... unless he wanted to exchange everything.... lol 43.Bxe4 Nxe4 44.Nxe4 Kg6 45.Ke3 Bd5 46.b4 annoying music plays in my head..... "u can't touch this" 46...Kf5 47.Nc5 Bc4 48.Nxa6 Bd5 49.Nc7 Bc6 What the hell... I'll win if i can give up two of my pawns for his two pawns..... 50.g6 Kxg6 51.Nxe6 Kf6 52.Nc7 Kf5 53.d5 Bd7 54.d6 Bc6 55.Kd4 Kxf4 56.Kc5 and black resigned 1–0
Parker,T (1453) - Clark,D (1090) [D43]
Doeberl Minor 2006 Home, 30.04.2006
[Trent Parker]
1.Nf3 my favorite opening move at the moment. 1...d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 c6 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 Nbd7 7.Qc2 b6 IMHO if Black intends to fianchetto his Queens Bishop then b6 should be played before the c pawn is moved. I think this is a little too slow. 8.cxd5 cxd5 9.Bb5 I thought this was a better place for the bishop instead of d3 at this point in time. However i did not take advantage of it..... 9...0–0 10.0–0?! [10.Bc6 Rb8 11.Bf4±] 10...Bb7 11.Bd3 Rc8 Now i'm I didn't want Ne4 to come. I decided to eliminate one knight and play my Queen to b1. However i did not want to block my Rook in 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.Ne5 If Ne4 now then f3 kicks it away from centre 13...g6 14.Rac1 a6 15.Qb1 Now if Ne4.... 15...b5 [15...Ne4 16.Nxe4 dxe4 17.Bxe4 Bxe4 18.Qxe4±] 16.a3 stopping black from playing b4 16...Qd6 ..... and now that black cannot play Ne4...... 17.f4 Nd7 18.Rf3 f6 To Sac or not to sac is the Question? I ended up sacking the Knight. 19.Nxg6 I should have sacked the Bishop instead: [19.Bxg6 fxe5 (19...hxg6) 20.Bxh7+ Kg7 (20...Kh8 21.Qg6 Rf6 22.Qh5 Nf8 23.Rh3) 21.Qg6+ Kh8 22.Bg8 Rf7 23.Rh3+ Rh7 24.Rxh7#] 19...Rf7 Why not take my Knight? [19...hxg6 20.Bxg6 f5ยต] 20.Nxe7+ Qxe7 21.Rg3+ trying to scam another pawn..... and it works 21...Rg7 22.Bxh7+ Kh8 23.Rxg7 Qxg7 24.Bd3 Rg8 25.Qc2 f5 26.Rf1 Now that i'm two pawns up i want to exchange pieces as much as possible. 26...Nf6 27.Rf3 Nh7 28.Rg3 Qf7 29.Rxg8+ Qxg8 30.Ne2 I had plans of going via c1 and b3 to c5. More direct might have been... [30.a4 bxa4 (30...b4 31.Na2) 31.Nxa4] 30...Nf6 31.Qc7 Infiltration!!!!! :D 31...Qg7 32.Qxg7+ Kxg7 33.h3 Nd7 34.g4 fxg4 35.hxg4 Nb6 I really cannot allow Black's knight to infiltrate my position.... 36.b3 onya bike 36...Nd7 37.Kg2 time to get the king into the action! 37...Nf6 38.Kg3 Bc8 What a bad bishop. Stuck to the defence of blacks pawns 39.g5 Ne8 40.Nc3 Deciding not to go to c5 but try to push e4 making black's e pawn isolated. 40...Bb7 41.Kf3 Nd6 42.e4 dxe4+ Now.... what to take with?... I decided to take with the Bishop because i correctly thought that my knight would be better than his bishop in this endgame..... unless he wanted to exchange everything.... lol 43.Bxe4 Nxe4 44.Nxe4 Kg6 45.Ke3 Bd5 46.b4 annoying music plays in my head..... "u can't touch this" 46...Kf5 47.Nc5 Bc4 48.Nxa6 Bd5 49.Nc7 Bc6 What the hell... I'll win if i can give up two of my pawns for his two pawns..... 50.g6 Kxg6 51.Nxe6 Kf6 52.Nc7 Kf5 53.d5 Bd7 54.d6 Bc6 55.Kd4 Kxf4 56.Kc5 and black resigned 1–0
Off to a Great Start – Not
Yeah, I know I said “more on that tomorrow” and I didn’t deliver. Oh well. Something to continue on next year.
It may not happen overnight but it will happen. At least I have started a diet. I went to a Dr Higginbotham at Narellan who is a GP who specialises in Weight management.
It may not happen overnight but it will happen. At least I have started a diet. I went to a Dr Higginbotham at Narellan who is a GP who specialises in Weight management.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Anzac Day
Ahhh well
Today was Anzac Day 2006.
A day to remember those who fought and lost their lives during war, and those who have died who have fought in a war.
Today is the day back in 1915 that the ANZAC's landed on Gallipoli. It makes me wonder, being a chess buff and all. whether chess was played by the ANZACS at war.
A google search found this site which uses the word "chess board" as if it was a part of the battle ground at galipoli: http://www.anzacs.org/pages/AOfaddy.html
The Navy plays chess: here.
There is a picture of a chess tournament on board the HMAS ANZAC!
More on this tomorrow. I need sleep.
Today was Anzac Day 2006.
A day to remember those who fought and lost their lives during war, and those who have died who have fought in a war.
Today is the day back in 1915 that the ANZAC's landed on Gallipoli. It makes me wonder, being a chess buff and all. whether chess was played by the ANZACS at war.
A google search found this site which uses the word "chess board" as if it was a part of the battle ground at galipoli: http://www.anzacs.org/pages/AOfaddy.html
The Navy plays chess: here.
There is a picture of a chess tournament on board the HMAS ANZAC!
More on this tomorrow. I need sleep.
Loss and Chess
Some people may already knowthat I have recently lost a brother in a car accident two weeks ago last sunday... has it really been that long? Man time flies.
We had the Funeral on Thursday.
So what effect will that have on my chess?
Initually it had a horrendous effect on my chess as evident in my Doeberl Cup Minor division result of 3.5 out of 7 Losing to players hundreds of points lower than what i am. This tournament was only one week after what i call "the event" (I still cannot say the words "My brother's Death")
But what will it mean in the grand scheme of things for my chess?
Although It is a very sad occurance I have been inspired by my Brother, Jack Wayne Parker. Jack lived life to the fullest. Always had somewhere to be or something to do. Jack used the internet rarely. mainly to talk to friends on msn and to look stuff up. I have decided that I am going to spend less time on the computer and spend more time studying chess on an actual board rather than playing lightning on FICS.
Jack was one to practice things - Hell, he learnt how to do backflips on his bicycle by doing them. He stacked it time and time again but he eventually landed the trick.
Jacks passion was his bicycle, his motorbike, and his friends. My passion is chess and now I value my friends much more than before.I'm going to start myself on the 7 circles program from the book "Rapid Chess Improvement" There is also an article online that explains this system of training.
I think if i spend less time sitting on my rear end at the compture (except to do chess tactics puzzles) i will improve my chess. Maybe once every two to three days max.
One particular story that one of Jacko's mates told me will keep in my head and forever inspire me. Jacko and his mates were talking about a stabbing that happened near Picton train station A few days before the event happened. Jack apparently said to his mates "If someone harmed my brother i would kill that person; I would go to jail for my brother; I would die for my brother" and apparently he said it so passionately that I could tell that, when this friend was telling this to me, that it had inspired him as well.
So. I will not let Jack's death go in vain. I am going to lose my weight. Jack was always tall and trim. Well at least i can make myself trim. And this is the ultimate motivation to get the weith off. I am going to live life to the fullest. I am not going to get myself involved with this Sweeney Ban rubbish, or any other (excuse the french) Bullshit bickering that occurs online or offline.
I am going to write on this blog each time i log online i've decided. I have a bad habit of not finishing things. Now i'm going to make sure i start finishing things and continuing things.
Heres to Jack, my future life and better chess.
We had the Funeral on Thursday.
So what effect will that have on my chess?
Initually it had a horrendous effect on my chess as evident in my Doeberl Cup Minor division result of 3.5 out of 7 Losing to players hundreds of points lower than what i am. This tournament was only one week after what i call "the event" (I still cannot say the words "My brother's Death")
But what will it mean in the grand scheme of things for my chess?
Although It is a very sad occurance I have been inspired by my Brother, Jack Wayne Parker. Jack lived life to the fullest. Always had somewhere to be or something to do. Jack used the internet rarely. mainly to talk to friends on msn and to look stuff up. I have decided that I am going to spend less time on the computer and spend more time studying chess on an actual board rather than playing lightning on FICS.
Jack was one to practice things - Hell, he learnt how to do backflips on his bicycle by doing them. He stacked it time and time again but he eventually landed the trick.
Jacks passion was his bicycle, his motorbike, and his friends. My passion is chess and now I value my friends much more than before.I'm going to start myself on the 7 circles program from the book "Rapid Chess Improvement" There is also an article online that explains this system of training.
I think if i spend less time sitting on my rear end at the compture (except to do chess tactics puzzles) i will improve my chess. Maybe once every two to three days max.
One particular story that one of Jacko's mates told me will keep in my head and forever inspire me. Jacko and his mates were talking about a stabbing that happened near Picton train station A few days before the event happened. Jack apparently said to his mates "If someone harmed my brother i would kill that person; I would go to jail for my brother; I would die for my brother" and apparently he said it so passionately that I could tell that, when this friend was telling this to me, that it had inspired him as well.
So. I will not let Jack's death go in vain. I am going to lose my weight. Jack was always tall and trim. Well at least i can make myself trim. And this is the ultimate motivation to get the weith off. I am going to live life to the fullest. I am not going to get myself involved with this Sweeney Ban rubbish, or any other (excuse the french) Bullshit bickering that occurs online or offline.
I am going to write on this blog each time i log online i've decided. I have a bad habit of not finishing things. Now i'm going to make sure i start finishing things and continuing things.
Heres to Jack, my future life and better chess.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Australian Internet Junior Interstate Championships
Are well underway!
The first event that is currently well under way is the Australian Internet Junior Interstate Chess Championships, which sees teams of 12 battle it out to see who is the best chess playing state in the country over a time control of 1hr each.
Today, To start this blog i will review the past two rounds and preview the upcoming round.
6 teams are contending this interstate round robin competition.
Round 1 Draw put chess population Giants NSW against the relatively Smaller Tasmania, The Battle of the AFL states (South Australia v Victoria), and favorites ACT play QLD
NSW 11 v TAS 1
The Tasmanian Kids were outrated on every board. However Tasmania were able to pick off an upset with Nina Horton defeating Jordan Morris as White after 44 moves of a Four Knights game.
VIC 9 v SA 3
The game to watch out for in this round was the top board clash between Christopher Wallis (Vic) and James Obst (SA). One ratings point splits these two players so i was assured to be a tight game. James' Alekine defence lasted out until the 33rd move where he played a check that lost him the exchange and, later on, the game.
South Australia were outrated on every board. Upsets in this tie were:
Feldja Zulfic defeating Eugene Shon, Anthony Khoo defeating Cedric Antolis and James Griggs defeating Udit Thakur.
ACT 11 v QLD 1
For the third tie running one state has the higher rated players on all the boards. For the small population of the ACT the amount of highly rated juniors is astonishing.For this tie they only have one player rated below 1000. So the Queensland team, lead by Alex Jule (the 2006 Australian Girls Champion), had a battle on their hands.
All boards went according to rating except for Brock McIntyre who defeated Sherab Guo-Yuthok.
Round 2
the first match of the round saw the banana benders (QLD) play the kids from the Apple Isle {TAS}. South Australia v ACT was the second tie and NSW faced of with those kids south of the border (VIC).
TAS 5.5 - QLD 6.5
In the tightest match in the tournament so far, QLD pipped the lower rated Tasmanian side at the post. Upsets: Alastair Dyer (TAS) defeated the slightly higher rated Sam Grigg (QLD).
SA 1.5 : ACT 10.5
Junta''s team of Giants Rolled on over the top of the South Australians. ACT were higher rated on all the boards except for the top board. On the top board monkey business was the order of the day; Junta Ikeda could not detain James Obst's Orang Utan that wore down Junta's position in the endgame. South Australia's other half point game from Sophie Eustace, who drew with Andrew Brown in an opposite colour bishop endgame.
NSW 9.5 : VIC 2.5
One might Consider this the match of the round. With Ronald Yu and Christopher Wallis battling it out on the top board, Vincent Suttor, Dusan Stojic playing on the Second board and both teams having a long list of rated players, the tie promised to be an interesting contest.
On the top board Ronald Yu played a type of london system which led to an interesting game. Christopher Wallis sacrificed the exchange for a pawn, however, in the end it was not enough compensation for the exchange and Christopher went into the engame an exchange down. Even still. It took Ronald Yu 93 moves to compell his opponent to resign.
Meanwhile on the second Board Vincent Suttor's Dragon breathed fire.
Victoria Out rated their Norther counterparts on 5 of the 12 boards. So there were some upsets of NSW over Vic. These include Deborah Ng over Udit Thakur, John McMahon over Rocheleh Ziffer,Jordan Morris drawing with Yi Liu.
So Now its time to preview this round.
The first matchup tonight sees the battle of the Bass Straight (Vic v Tas), the Capital versus the first state is matchup number two which leaves South Australia To battle the Sunshine state (QLD)
On paper Victoria Outrate Tas on all the boards, so it appears that the battle of the bass straight will be won by the Victorians. However the Tasmanians will be throwing all they have at the Victorians
My pick for matchup for the day is the ACT v NSW clash of the titans. NSW have a the higher rated players in the top 5 boards (also the 12th) and the ACT have the upper hand on the next 6 boards. We could well see a 6-6 scoreline. NSW is currently 1 point behind ACT so they will be looking for a 6.5-5.5 or 7-5 win in this game to keep them in the hunt. The games to watch would be: Junta Ikeda v Ronald Yu and Gareth Oliver v Vincent Suttor.
Last but not least...
SA v QLD
Queensland out rate South Australia on 9 out of the 12 boards. Also South Australia have three unrated players who could possibly build up a surprise win.
The first event that is currently well under way is the Australian Internet Junior Interstate Chess Championships, which sees teams of 12 battle it out to see who is the best chess playing state in the country over a time control of 1hr each.
Today, To start this blog i will review the past two rounds and preview the upcoming round.
6 teams are contending this interstate round robin competition.
Round 1 Draw put chess population Giants NSW against the relatively Smaller Tasmania, The Battle of the AFL states (South Australia v Victoria), and favorites ACT play QLD
NSW 11 v TAS 1
The Tasmanian Kids were outrated on every board. However Tasmania were able to pick off an upset with Nina Horton defeating Jordan Morris as White after 44 moves of a Four Knights game.
VIC 9 v SA 3
The game to watch out for in this round was the top board clash between Christopher Wallis (Vic) and James Obst (SA). One ratings point splits these two players so i was assured to be a tight game. James' Alekine defence lasted out until the 33rd move where he played a check that lost him the exchange and, later on, the game.
South Australia were outrated on every board. Upsets in this tie were:
Feldja Zulfic defeating Eugene Shon, Anthony Khoo defeating Cedric Antolis and James Griggs defeating Udit Thakur.
ACT 11 v QLD 1
For the third tie running one state has the higher rated players on all the boards. For the small population of the ACT the amount of highly rated juniors is astonishing.For this tie they only have one player rated below 1000. So the Queensland team, lead by Alex Jule (the 2006 Australian Girls Champion), had a battle on their hands.
All boards went according to rating except for Brock McIntyre who defeated Sherab Guo-Yuthok.
Round 2
the first match of the round saw the banana benders (QLD) play the kids from the Apple Isle {TAS}. South Australia v ACT was the second tie and NSW faced of with those kids south of the border (VIC).
TAS 5.5 - QLD 6.5
In the tightest match in the tournament so far, QLD pipped the lower rated Tasmanian side at the post. Upsets: Alastair Dyer (TAS) defeated the slightly higher rated Sam Grigg (QLD).
SA 1.5 : ACT 10.5
Junta''s team of Giants Rolled on over the top of the South Australians. ACT were higher rated on all the boards except for the top board. On the top board monkey business was the order of the day; Junta Ikeda could not detain James Obst's Orang Utan that wore down Junta's position in the endgame. South Australia's other half point game from Sophie Eustace, who drew with Andrew Brown in an opposite colour bishop endgame.
NSW 9.5 : VIC 2.5
One might Consider this the match of the round. With Ronald Yu and Christopher Wallis battling it out on the top board, Vincent Suttor, Dusan Stojic playing on the Second board and both teams having a long list of rated players, the tie promised to be an interesting contest.
On the top board Ronald Yu played a type of london system which led to an interesting game. Christopher Wallis sacrificed the exchange for a pawn, however, in the end it was not enough compensation for the exchange and Christopher went into the engame an exchange down. Even still. It took Ronald Yu 93 moves to compell his opponent to resign.
Meanwhile on the second Board Vincent Suttor's Dragon breathed fire.
Victoria Out rated their Norther counterparts on 5 of the 12 boards. So there were some upsets of NSW over Vic. These include Deborah Ng over Udit Thakur, John McMahon over Rocheleh Ziffer,Jordan Morris drawing with Yi Liu.
So Now its time to preview this round.
The first matchup tonight sees the battle of the Bass Straight (Vic v Tas), the Capital versus the first state is matchup number two which leaves South Australia To battle the Sunshine state (QLD)
On paper Victoria Outrate Tas on all the boards, so it appears that the battle of the bass straight will be won by the Victorians. However the Tasmanians will be throwing all they have at the Victorians
My pick for matchup for the day is the ACT v NSW clash of the titans. NSW have a the higher rated players in the top 5 boards (also the 12th) and the ACT have the upper hand on the next 6 boards. We could well see a 6-6 scoreline. NSW is currently 1 point behind ACT so they will be looking for a 6.5-5.5 or 7-5 win in this game to keep them in the hunt. The games to watch would be: Junta Ikeda v Ronald Yu and Gareth Oliver v Vincent Suttor.
Last but not least...
SA v QLD
Queensland out rate South Australia on 9 out of the 12 boards. Also South Australia have three unrated players who could possibly build up a surprise win.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
You IIIIIIIIIIDIOT!!!!!!
Yes folks I am an Idiot
On the train home from Cardiff to Sydney, coming home from the Newcastle open, I lost my camera. So all those photos i took of the ADW and Newcastle open are now lost.
Cityrails lost and found proceedures are a load of BS. I called them the day after and i was told that items from central can take up to three days to get to the lost and found office..... which is stupid considering the office is opposite platform one at Central..... then i got the call back in a week several times. I am not happy.
On the train home from Cardiff to Sydney, coming home from the Newcastle open, I lost my camera. So all those photos i took of the ADW and Newcastle open are now lost.
Cityrails lost and found proceedures are a load of BS. I called them the day after and i was told that items from central can take up to three days to get to the lost and found office..... which is stupid considering the office is opposite platform one at Central..... then i got the call back in a week several times. I am not happy.
Naughty at Newcastle
Well so much for posting on that tuesday.......
Now a couple of comments from some of the tournaments i've played in.
Beep Beep! Beep Beep!
A chess players worst noise to hear when playing a tournament game.
At the newcastle open this year in the fifth round i forgot to turn mu mobile phone off before the start of the game..... and i received an sms from a friend of mine. I promptly resigned because i believe that the laws of chess should be strictly adhered to. The Arbiter was to far away to hear who's phone went off so had i not said anything the game whould have continued.
I would hope that if someone else breaks the rules and that their mobile phone goes off they would do the same.
Now a couple of comments from some of the tournaments i've played in.
Beep Beep! Beep Beep!
A chess players worst noise to hear when playing a tournament game.
At the newcastle open this year in the fifth round i forgot to turn mu mobile phone off before the start of the game..... and i received an sms from a friend of mine. I promptly resigned because i believe that the laws of chess should be strictly adhered to. The Arbiter was to far away to hear who's phone went off so had i not said anything the game whould have continued.
I would hope that if someone else breaks the rules and that their mobile phone goes off they would do the same.
Monday, February 06, 2006
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Australia Day Weekender Preview
This tournament is set to be a huge success with 70 Participants pre entering for this event!
I'll be taking photos. :D
Stay tuned
I'll be taking photos. :D
Stay tuned
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
President Jessop On the Future of the ACF
IN the recent Australian chess Bulletin Mr Dennis Jessop had the following to say abouthe future of the Australian Chess Federation:
I have to say what a greate job Brian Jones has done to get this Grand pPrix up and running. However i do have a few little things to pick on it...... I believe that the Categories should be of total Prizemoney and not just the open prizemoney. I suppose doing things this wayit attempts to get the top players playing in Australia. The second blemish is that I know for one the prizes for the under 1600 division is in fact less than the 2005 prizes. I know it could be a bit of a stretch but rather than offering a second Junior the opportunity to go to Malaysia to play chess, what about the u1600 or u2000 player who cannot realistically win the Open but is rewarded to win a divisional first prize in the GP.
I think that the ACF should steer way clear of David Cordover due to the dodgy dealings with SAJCL and also his contribution to the MT Buller Fiaco. But honestly I do not think it would be worth the ACF's money to sbsidise something that may not work considering that Chess in the NT has already been tried and failed.
I personally agree that the ACF should have individual membership. I know that this may not be acceptable to some state associations due to having some resposibilities taken off of the states. If my memory serves me correct the NSWCA at that point in time rejected Graeme Gardiners motion which included individual membership of the ACF.
I think individual membership of the ACF would be a good idea because it may enable the Grand prix to have more of a "tour" feel rather than just a whole conglomerate of tournaments Whenever. The ACF would be able to determine when tournaments are to take place.
The Short-term option
This option would involve a more positive role for the ACF within its existing structure. I deal with it first as it is of a practical and immediate nature and could be begun this year.
The ACF now has more funds available to devote to its constitutional object of fostering chess throughout Australia and so has some capacity actively to promote chess undertakings.
Possible projects that immediately come to mind are a Player Development Fund as an expansion of the present Ergas Junior Program and chess development in less-developed areas such as the Northern Territory already set out to us by David Cordover.
Careful consideration would need to be given to what funds are available to this end, what projects would be suitable for the use of those funds and what priorities are to be allocated to those projects.
Another consideration is the possibility of cooperation with commercial chess businesses to perform functions on behalf of the ACF as a business undertaking, that is for a fee. The first steps have already been taken here in respect of a well-established ACF event - the Grand Prix.
There is no reason why this could not be extended to other projects or to other ACF events such as the Australian Championships for which the ACF should be prepared to take responsibility instead of passing it to the States. Indeed, the ACF's traditional ducking of responsibility for the financial outcome of those events may be one reason for the Mt Buller shambles.
I have to say what a greate job Brian Jones has done to get this Grand pPrix up and running. However i do have a few little things to pick on it...... I believe that the Categories should be of total Prizemoney and not just the open prizemoney. I suppose doing things this wayit attempts to get the top players playing in Australia. The second blemish is that I know for one the prizes for the under 1600 division is in fact less than the 2005 prizes. I know it could be a bit of a stretch but rather than offering a second Junior the opportunity to go to Malaysia to play chess, what about the u1600 or u2000 player who cannot realistically win the Open but is rewarded to win a divisional first prize in the GP.
I think that the ACF should steer way clear of David Cordover due to the dodgy dealings with SAJCL and also his contribution to the MT Buller Fiaco. But honestly I do not think it would be worth the ACF's money to sbsidise something that may not work considering that Chess in the NT has already been tried and failed.
The Long-term Option
I believe that there needs to be a complete reconsideration of the structure of the ACF to reflect adequately its national character. Such things as individual membership and a reassessment of the role of State Associations would need to be addressed.
Australia may be unique in that it had a national championship before it was a nation. But the ACF was not formed until 1922 when it was a loose assemblage of State bodies to oversee the running of the Australian Championship. It remained in that general condition for 65 years until its incorporation in 1987. That incorporation had an effect that seems not to have been fully appreciated. Upon incorporation, a legal entity separate from the State Associations was created with nationally-expressed objectives. Unfortunately, the old concept of the new body merely as an assemblage of State Associations was preserved by the new Constitution. Thus we have a national body unable adequately to pursue its national objectives because of a dominance of State interests in matters that largely do not concern them. While State and Territory Associations and their affiliated clubs are responsible for the running of 90% or more of chess activities in Australia, there are national matters that are properly the responsibility of the national body as such, not of the States. Such a concept was recognised upon the establishment of the Australian Federal Government in 1901 but has yet to be recognised in the chess federation.
To achieve this end a considerable amount of re-education will be needed and that is why it is long-term.
I personally agree that the ACF should have individual membership. I know that this may not be acceptable to some state associations due to having some resposibilities taken off of the states. If my memory serves me correct the NSWCA at that point in time rejected Graeme Gardiners motion which included individual membership of the ACF.
I think individual membership of the ACF would be a good idea because it may enable the Grand prix to have more of a "tour" feel rather than just a whole conglomerate of tournaments Whenever. The ACF would be able to determine when tournaments are to take place.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Am i not pretty enough
It looks like the NSWCA Logo might get a facelift!
It currently looks like this:
It currently looks like this:
The arguements are that the A looks like a P. and also It should have when the NSWCA was founded rather than incorporated.
Finally i've figured it out! :D
Some of the pics of the presentation are a little dodgy.....
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Aus Champ Photos
Having a problem with putting the pics up here so i am creating a flickr account.
They will be available soon.
They will be available soon.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Aus Champ Pics
BTW peoples I do intend to post the photos i took at the Australian Champs earlier this month..... In time.....
Friday, January 13, 2006
Wijk aan Zee Starts Today
In my chess career one day i really would like to experience the Wijk Aan Zee tournament. As well as the Grandmaster's A, B and C events they also have an amateur's event which anyone can join.
Anyhow this tournament starts today and will be an interesting tournament. Kramnik and Topalov were confirmed entrants but now it seems that Kramnik has pulled out. Very very bad!
The contenders in the Top division are:
GM Veselin Topalov BUL 2801
GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2792
GM Levon Aronian ARM 2752
GM Peter Leko HUN 2740
GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2729
GM Boris Gelfand ISR 2723
GM Etienne Bacrot FRA 2717
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE
GM Michael Adams ENG 2707
GM Ivan Sokolov NED 2689
GM Gata Kamsky USA 2686
GM Sergey Tiviakov NED 2669
GM Sergey Karjakin UKR 2660
GM Loek van Wely NED 2647
Topalov Has to be the favorite However I would like Anand to win.
Anyhow this tournament starts today and will be an interesting tournament. Kramnik and Topalov were confirmed entrants but now it seems that Kramnik has pulled out. Very very bad!
The contenders in the Top division are:
GM Veselin Topalov BUL 2801
GM Viswanathan Anand IND 2792
GM Levon Aronian ARM 2752
GM Peter Leko HUN 2740
GM Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2729
GM Boris Gelfand ISR 2723
GM Etienne Bacrot FRA 2717
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE
GM Michael Adams ENG 2707
GM Ivan Sokolov NED 2689
GM Gata Kamsky USA 2686
GM Sergey Tiviakov NED 2669
GM Sergey Karjakin UKR 2660
GM Loek van Wely NED 2647
Topalov Has to be the favorite However I would like Anand to win.
An interesting comment
While i was away I recieved the following comment to one of my posts:
I'm glad that you have stumbled upon my blog! I will be adding a link to your site and blog.
From one chess nut to another best wishes for the new year!
I stumbled upon your blog and it was funny as you ... I stumbled upon your blog
and it was funny as you used the same name as my blog.Well not exactly the same
but with very similiar meaning.My blog is gilachess.blogpost.comGilaChess translates literally to Chess
Nut in Malay.Anyway, keep up the good work for Australia chess. Happy New Year
from another chess nut from Malaysia !!My official website:http://gilachess.com :)
I'm glad that you have stumbled upon my blog! I will be adding a link to your site and blog.
From one chess nut to another best wishes for the new year!
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Home Sweet home!
Well i'm back at home now.... back to the daily routine.
BTW i did have picks for the last round of the Championships:
Song - Rogers 0-1
Smerdon - Goldenburg 1-0
Solomon - Chandler 0-1
Wohl - Schmaltz 0-1
Ftacnik - Xie 1-0
Lane - Smirnov 1-0
Johansen - Canfell 1-0
Zhao - Pyke 1-0
Humphrey - Bjelobrk 0-1
Ly - Booth 1-0
Caoli - Guthrie 1-0
Bird - Dougherty 1-0
Frame Moylan 0-1
Wallis - Obst .5-.5
BTW i did have picks for the last round of the Championships:
Song - Rogers 0-1
Smerdon - Goldenburg 1-0
Solomon - Chandler 0-1
Wohl - Schmaltz 0-1
Ftacnik - Xie 1-0
Lane - Smirnov 1-0
Johansen - Canfell 1-0
Zhao - Pyke 1-0
Humphrey - Bjelobrk 0-1
Ly - Booth 1-0
Caoli - Guthrie 1-0
Bird - Dougherty 1-0
Frame Moylan 0-1
Wallis - Obst .5-.5
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh
Calm down now..... its only a loss..... calm down.....
I just played a crap game against Mos Ali.... Was very angry with myself.....
Anyhow My picks for round 10 of the championship....
Wohl - Smerdon 0-1
Rogers - Johansen 1-0
Chandler - Canfell 1-0
Schmaltz - Ftacnik .5-.5
Lane - Xie .5-.5
Goldenberg - Solomon 0-1
Song - Ly 1-0
Smirnov - Zhao 0-1
Pyke - Humphrey 1-0
Bjelobrk - Caoli 1-0
Obst - Bird .5-.5
Booth - Lakner 0-1
Dougherty - Wallis 1-0
Guthrie - Frame 1-0
I just played a crap game against Mos Ali.... Was very angry with myself.....
Anyhow My picks for round 10 of the championship....
Wohl - Smerdon 0-1
Rogers - Johansen 1-0
Chandler - Canfell 1-0
Schmaltz - Ftacnik .5-.5
Lane - Xie .5-.5
Goldenberg - Solomon 0-1
Song - Ly 1-0
Smirnov - Zhao 0-1
Pyke - Humphrey 1-0
Bjelobrk - Caoli 1-0
Obst - Bird .5-.5
Booth - Lakner 0-1
Dougherty - Wallis 1-0
Guthrie - Frame 1-0
Saturday, January 07, 2006
round 9 Picks
Wohl - rogers .5-.5
Solomon - Smerdon .5-.5
Schmaltz - Chandler .5-.5
Ftacnik - Lane 1-0
Xie - Goldenberg 1-0
Ly - Smirnov 1-0 I think Ly appreciated to rest day!
Johansen - Zhao .5-.5
Canfell - Bjelobrk 0-1
Walis - Song 0-1
Humphrey - Booth 1-0
Moylan - Caoli 1-0
Lakner - Dougherty 0-1
Frame - Obst 0-1
Bird Has the Bye.
Solomon - Smerdon .5-.5
Schmaltz - Chandler .5-.5
Ftacnik - Lane 1-0
Xie - Goldenberg 1-0
Ly - Smirnov 1-0 I think Ly appreciated to rest day!
Johansen - Zhao .5-.5
Canfell - Bjelobrk 0-1
Walis - Song 0-1
Humphrey - Booth 1-0
Moylan - Caoli 1-0
Lakner - Dougherty 0-1
Frame - Obst 0-1
Bird Has the Bye.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Tourney Report after round 4
Well I'm having a little bit disappointing tournament thus far.
I am on 2/4 which one loss was to the very strong junior Eliot Hoving and the other (which i should have at least drawn) was against Bender who is rated lower than what i am
Now my predictions for round 8 of the championship division:
Rogers - Schmaltz 1-0
Smerdon - Xie 1-0 (Smerdon for GM norm! Go Smerdon! But Xie is a good person I sort of also want Xie to win......)
Zhao - Chandler .5-.5
Bjelobrk - Ftacnik .5-.5
Smirnov - Johansen
Lane - Canfell 1-0
Song - Wohl .5-.5
Guthrie - Solomon 0-1
goldenberg - Humphrey .5-.5
Obst - Ly 0-1
Booth - Moylan 0-1
Lakner - Wallis 1-0
Bird - Pyke 1-0
Caoli - Frame 1-0
I am on 2/4 which one loss was to the very strong junior Eliot Hoving and the other (which i should have at least drawn) was against Bender who is rated lower than what i am
Now my predictions for round 8 of the championship division:
Rogers - Schmaltz 1-0
Smerdon - Xie 1-0 (Smerdon for GM norm! Go Smerdon! But Xie is a good person I sort of also want Xie to win......)
Zhao - Chandler .5-.5
Bjelobrk - Ftacnik .5-.5
Smirnov - Johansen
Lane - Canfell 1-0
Song - Wohl .5-.5
Guthrie - Solomon 0-1
goldenberg - Humphrey .5-.5
Obst - Ly 0-1
Booth - Moylan 0-1
Lakner - Wallis 1-0
Bird - Pyke 1-0
Caoli - Frame 1-0
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Round 7 picks
Chandler - Rogers 0-1
Xie - Schmaltz 0-1
Smerdon - Lane 1-0
Johansen - Ftacnik .5-.5
Bjelobrk - Zhao .5 -.5
Wohl - Smirnov 1-0
Solomon - Canfell 1-0
Humphrey - Guthrie
Obst - Song 0-1
Bird - Goldenberg 1-0
Moylan - Caoli .5-.5
Pike - Ly 0-1
Dougherty - Booth 1-0
frame - Lakner 0-1
BTW BOOOO HISSSSS at Levi's withdrawal! Off with his head! :D
Xie - Schmaltz 0-1
Smerdon - Lane 1-0
Johansen - Ftacnik .5-.5
Bjelobrk - Zhao .5 -.5
Wohl - Smirnov 1-0
Solomon - Canfell 1-0
Humphrey - Guthrie
Obst - Song 0-1
Bird - Goldenberg 1-0
Moylan - Caoli .5-.5
Pike - Ly 0-1
Dougherty - Booth 1-0
frame - Lakner 0-1
BTW BOOOO HISSSSS at Levi's withdrawal! Off with his head! :D
A little Late but......
These (honestly) were my picks for round 6
Ftacnick - Chandler Draw
Rogers - Smerdon 1-0
Schmaltz- Lane .5-.5
Bjelobrk - Johansen 0-1
Canfell - Wohl 0-1
Xie - Solomon 1-0
Zhao - obst 1-0
Smirnov - Moylan 0-1
Caoli - Humphrey 1-0
Goldenberg - Ly 0-1
Song Lakner 0-1
Booth - Pyke 1-0
Ftacnick - Chandler Draw
Rogers - Smerdon 1-0
Schmaltz- Lane .5-.5
Bjelobrk - Johansen 0-1
Canfell - Wohl 0-1
Xie - Solomon 1-0
Zhao - obst 1-0
Smirnov - Moylan 0-1
Caoli - Humphrey 1-0
Goldenberg - Ly 0-1
Song Lakner 0-1
Booth - Pyke 1-0
Monday, January 02, 2006
Happy New Year
Happy New Year everybody!
New years day was a rest day for all chessplayers
How did i go in round 4?
1.GM Chandler, Murray (3) .5-.5IM Lane, Gary (2.5) correct
2.GM Rogers, Ian (2.5) 1-0GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (2.5) Incorrect - Draw
3.IM Smerdon, David (2.5).5-.5 GM Johansen, Darryl (2) Incorrect Smerdon Won!
4.IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2) 1-0 WIM Moylan, Laura (2) Incorrect - Draw
5.IM Wohl, Alex (2) 1-0 Obst, James (2) Correct
6.IM Solomon, Stephen (2) 1-0 Ly, Moulthun (2) Correct
7.FM Goldenberg, Igor (2) .5-.5 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (2) Incorrect Bjelobrk wins.
8.Pyke, Malcolm (1.5) 0-1 GM Schmaltz, Roland (1.5) Correct!
9.FM Levi, Eddy (1) 0-1 FM Canfell, Greg (1) Correct!
10.FM Dougherty, Michael (1) 0-1 FM Xie, George (1) Correct!
11.Smirnov, Vladimir (1) .5-.5 FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1) Correct!
12.FM Guthrie, Aaron (1) 1-0 Lakner, Jay (1) Incorrect - Draw
13.WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) 1-0 Wallis, Christopher (0.5) Correct!
14.Frame, Nigel (0.5) .5-.5 Booth, Stewart (0.5) Incorrect Booth wins!
15.Song, Raymond (0.5) .5-.5 Bird, Andrew (0.5) Incorrect Song Wins!
A score of 8.....
Round 5 Picks:
1.GM Chandler, Murray (3.5) .5-.5 IM Smerdon, David (3.5)
2.GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (3) 1-0 IM Wohl, Alex (3)
3.IM Solomon, Stephen (3) 0-1 GM Rogers, Ian (3)
4.IM Lane, Gary (3) 1-0 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (3)
5.GM Schmaltz, Roland (2.5) 1-0 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2.5)
6.WIM Moylan, Laura (2.5) 0-1 FM Xie, George (2)
7.GM Johansen, Darryl (2) 1-0FM Goldenberg, Igor (2)
8.Ly, Moulthun (2) 1-0 M Canfell, Greg (2)
9.Obst, James (2) 0-1 FM Guthrie, Aaron (1.5)
10.FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1.5) 0-1Song, Raymond (1.5)
11.Lakner, Jay (1.5) .5-.5 Smirnov, Vladimir (1.5)
12.Booth, Stewart (1.5) 0-1 WIM Caoili, Arianne (1.5)
13.FM Dougherty, Michael (1) 1-0 Pyke, Malcolm (1.5)
14.Bird, Andrew (0.5) 1-0FM Levi, Eddy (1)
15.Wallis, Christopher (0.5) 1-0 Frame, Nigel (0.5)
Don't know if i will be able to put up regular predictions for now on that i will be in brisbane playing.....But i'll give it a shot!
New years day was a rest day for all chessplayers
How did i go in round 4?
1.GM Chandler, Murray (3) .5-.5IM Lane, Gary (2.5) correct
2.GM Rogers, Ian (2.5) 1-0GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (2.5) Incorrect - Draw
3.IM Smerdon, David (2.5).5-.5 GM Johansen, Darryl (2) Incorrect Smerdon Won!
4.IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2) 1-0 WIM Moylan, Laura (2) Incorrect - Draw
5.IM Wohl, Alex (2) 1-0 Obst, James (2) Correct
6.IM Solomon, Stephen (2) 1-0 Ly, Moulthun (2) Correct
7.FM Goldenberg, Igor (2) .5-.5 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (2) Incorrect Bjelobrk wins.
8.Pyke, Malcolm (1.5) 0-1 GM Schmaltz, Roland (1.5) Correct!
9.FM Levi, Eddy (1) 0-1 FM Canfell, Greg (1) Correct!
10.FM Dougherty, Michael (1) 0-1 FM Xie, George (1) Correct!
11.Smirnov, Vladimir (1) .5-.5 FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1) Correct!
12.FM Guthrie, Aaron (1) 1-0 Lakner, Jay (1) Incorrect - Draw
13.WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) 1-0 Wallis, Christopher (0.5) Correct!
14.Frame, Nigel (0.5) .5-.5 Booth, Stewart (0.5) Incorrect Booth wins!
15.Song, Raymond (0.5) .5-.5 Bird, Andrew (0.5) Incorrect Song Wins!
A score of 8.....
Round 5 Picks:
1.GM Chandler, Murray (3.5) .5-.5 IM Smerdon, David (3.5)
2.GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (3) 1-0 IM Wohl, Alex (3)
3.IM Solomon, Stephen (3) 0-1 GM Rogers, Ian (3)
4.IM Lane, Gary (3) 1-0 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (3)
5.GM Schmaltz, Roland (2.5) 1-0 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2.5)
6.WIM Moylan, Laura (2.5) 0-1 FM Xie, George (2)
7.GM Johansen, Darryl (2) 1-0FM Goldenberg, Igor (2)
8.Ly, Moulthun (2) 1-0 M Canfell, Greg (2)
9.Obst, James (2) 0-1 FM Guthrie, Aaron (1.5)
10.FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1.5) 0-1Song, Raymond (1.5)
11.Lakner, Jay (1.5) .5-.5 Smirnov, Vladimir (1.5)
12.Booth, Stewart (1.5) 0-1 WIM Caoili, Arianne (1.5)
13.FM Dougherty, Michael (1) 1-0 Pyke, Malcolm (1.5)
14.Bird, Andrew (0.5) 1-0FM Levi, Eddy (1)
15.Wallis, Christopher (0.5) 1-0 Frame, Nigel (0.5)
Don't know if i will be able to put up regular predictions for now on that i will be in brisbane playing.....But i'll give it a shot!
Saturday, December 31, 2005
So How am i doing...? Round 3 results and round 4 tips
Hmmm what unruly tips can i make at this our of the morning after 23.5hours with out sleep (and loving it.)
Firstly Round 3 Tips and results:
1.IM Lane, Gary (2) .5-.5 GM Rogers, Ian (2) Correct!
2.Obst, James (2) 0-1 GM Chandler, Murray (2) Correct!
3.GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (1.5) .5-.5 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2) incorrect - Ftacnik won
4.GM Schmaltz, Roland (1.5) 1-0 IM Smerdon, David (1.5) incorrect! - Smerdon scored an upset win!
5.GM Johansen, Darryl (1.5) .5-.5 IM Solomon, Stephen (1.5) correct!
6.FM Levi, Eddy (1) 0-1 IM Wohl, Alex (1) Correct!
7.FM Bjelobrk, Igor (1) 1-0 FM Dougherty, Michael (1) Correct
8.Lakner, Jay (1) 0-1 FM Goldenberg, Igor (1) Correct!
9.FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1) 0-1 WIM Moylan, Laura (1) Correct!
10.Ly, Moulthun (1) 1-0 FM Guthrie, Aaron (1) Correct!
11.FM Xie, George (0.5) 1-0 Smirnov, Vladimir (0.5) Incorrect! Drawn game!
12 Pyke, Malcolm (0.5) 0-1 WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) incorrect! Pike won
13 FM Canfell, Greg (0) .5-.5 Song, Raymond (0.5) Incorrect Canfell won!
14 Booth, Stewart (0) 1-0 Wallis, Christopher (0) incorrect Drawn game
15.Bird, Andrew (0) 1-0 Frame, Nigel (0) incorrect Drawn game!
So that Makes me....8 for this round
Round 1: 10
Round 2: 8
Round 3: 8
So My tips for round 4:
1.GM Chandler, Murray (3) .5-.5IM Lane, Gary (2.5)
2.GM Rogers, Ian (2.5) 1-0GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (2.5)
3.IM Smerdon, David (2.5).5-.5 GM Johansen, Darryl (2)
4.IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2) 1-0 WIM Moylan, Laura (2)
5.IM Wohl, Alex (2) 1-0 Obst, James (2)
6.IM Solomon, Stephen (2) 1-0 Ly, Moulthun (2)
7.FM Goldenberg, Igor (2) .5-.5 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (2)
8.Pyke, Malcolm (1.5) 0-1 GM Schmaltz, Roland (1.5)
9.FM Levi, Eddy (1) 0-1 FM Canfell, Greg (1)
10.FM Dougherty, Michael (1) 0-1 FM Xie, George (1)
11.Smirnov, Vladimir (1) .5-.5 FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1)
12.FM Guthrie, Aaron (1) 1-0 Lakner, Jay (1)
13.WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) 1-0 Wallis, Christopher (0.5)
14.Frame, Nigel (0.5) .5-.5 Booth, Stewart (0.5)
15.Song, Raymond (0.5) .5-.5 Bird, Andrew (0.5)
Firstly Round 3 Tips and results:
1.IM Lane, Gary (2) .5-.5 GM Rogers, Ian (2) Correct!
2.Obst, James (2) 0-1 GM Chandler, Murray (2) Correct!
3.GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (1.5) .5-.5 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2) incorrect - Ftacnik won
4.GM Schmaltz, Roland (1.5) 1-0 IM Smerdon, David (1.5) incorrect! - Smerdon scored an upset win!
5.GM Johansen, Darryl (1.5) .5-.5 IM Solomon, Stephen (1.5) correct!
6.FM Levi, Eddy (1) 0-1 IM Wohl, Alex (1) Correct!
7.FM Bjelobrk, Igor (1) 1-0 FM Dougherty, Michael (1) Correct
8.Lakner, Jay (1) 0-1 FM Goldenberg, Igor (1) Correct!
9.FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1) 0-1 WIM Moylan, Laura (1) Correct!
10.Ly, Moulthun (1) 1-0 FM Guthrie, Aaron (1) Correct!
11.FM Xie, George (0.5) 1-0 Smirnov, Vladimir (0.5) Incorrect! Drawn game!
12 Pyke, Malcolm (0.5) 0-1 WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) incorrect! Pike won
13 FM Canfell, Greg (0) .5-.5 Song, Raymond (0.5) Incorrect Canfell won!
14 Booth, Stewart (0) 1-0 Wallis, Christopher (0) incorrect Drawn game
15.Bird, Andrew (0) 1-0 Frame, Nigel (0) incorrect Drawn game!
So that Makes me....8 for this round
Round 1: 10
Round 2: 8
Round 3: 8
So My tips for round 4:
1.GM Chandler, Murray (3) .5-.5IM Lane, Gary (2.5)
2.GM Rogers, Ian (2.5) 1-0GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (2.5)
3.IM Smerdon, David (2.5).5-.5 GM Johansen, Darryl (2)
4.IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2) 1-0 WIM Moylan, Laura (2)
5.IM Wohl, Alex (2) 1-0 Obst, James (2)
6.IM Solomon, Stephen (2) 1-0 Ly, Moulthun (2)
7.FM Goldenberg, Igor (2) .5-.5 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (2)
8.Pyke, Malcolm (1.5) 0-1 GM Schmaltz, Roland (1.5)
9.FM Levi, Eddy (1) 0-1 FM Canfell, Greg (1)
10.FM Dougherty, Michael (1) 0-1 FM Xie, George (1)
11.Smirnov, Vladimir (1) .5-.5 FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1)
12.FM Guthrie, Aaron (1) 1-0 Lakner, Jay (1)
13.WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) 1-0 Wallis, Christopher (0.5)
14.Frame, Nigel (0.5) .5-.5 Booth, Stewart (0.5)
15.Song, Raymond (0.5) .5-.5 Bird, Andrew (0.5)
Friday, December 30, 2005
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How am i going? + Round 3 tips
Round 2:
My tips were:
1.IM Smerdon, David (1) .5:.5 GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (1) correct!
2.GM Rogers, Ian (1) 1-0 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (1) correct!
3.IM Solomon, Stephen (1) 0-1 GM Schmaltz, Roland (1) Incorrect - Drawn game
4.GM Chandler, Murray (1) 1-0 FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1) Correct!
5.IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (1) 1-0 Ly, Moulthun (1) Correct!
6.WIM Moylan, Laura (1) 0-1 IM Lane, Gary (1) Correct!
7.WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) 1-0 Obst, James (1) Incorrect Obst Won!
8.Song, Raymond (0.5) 0.5-0.5 GM Johansen, Darryl (0.5) Incorrect Johansen won
9.IM Wohl, Alex (0) 0-1 FM Xie, George (0.5) Incorrect Wohl won
10.FM Canfell, Greg (0) 1-0 Lakner, Jay (0) Incorrect Lakner won
11.FM Goldenberg, Igor (0) 1-0 Booth, Stewart (0) Correct!
12.FM Guthrie, Aaron (0) 0-1 Bird, Andrew (0) Incorrect Guthrie won
13.Wallis, Christopher (0) 0-1 FM Levi, Eddy (0) Correct!
14.Smirnov, Vladimir (0) 1-0 Pyke, Malcolm (0) Incorrect - drawn game
15.Frame, Nigel (0) 0-1 FM Dougherty, Michael (0) correct!
So How am i going?
Round 1: 10
Round 2: 8
I have to pick up my game......
Round 3 Picks
1.IM Lane, Gary (2) .5-.5 GM Rogers, Ian (2)
2.Obst, James (2) 0-1 GM Chandler, Murray (2)
3.GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (1.5) .5-.5 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2)
4.GM Schmaltz, Roland (1.5) 1-0 IM Smerdon, David (1.5)
5.GM Johansen, Darryl (1.5) .5-.5 IM Solomon, Stephen (1.5)
6.FM Levi, Eddy (1) 0-1 IM Wohl, Alex (1)
7.FM Bjelobrk, Igor (1) 1-0 FM Dougherty, Michael (1)
8.Lakner, Jay (1) 0-1 FM Goldenberg, Igor (1)
9.FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1) 0-1 WIM Moylan, Laura (1)
10.Ly, Moulthun (1) 1-0 FM Guthrie, Aaron (1)
11.FM Xie, George (0.5) 1-0 Smirnov, Vladimir (0.5)
12 Pyke, Malcolm (0.5) 0-1 WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5)
13 FM Canfell, Greg (0) .5-.5 Song, Raymond (0.5)
14 Booth, Stewart (0) 1-0 Wallis, Christopher (0)
15.Bird, Andrew (0) 1-0 Frame, Nigel (0)
My tips were:
1.IM Smerdon, David (1) .5:.5 GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (1) correct!
2.GM Rogers, Ian (1) 1-0 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (1) correct!
3.IM Solomon, Stephen (1) 0-1 GM Schmaltz, Roland (1) Incorrect - Drawn game
4.GM Chandler, Murray (1) 1-0 FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1) Correct!
5.IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (1) 1-0 Ly, Moulthun (1) Correct!
6.WIM Moylan, Laura (1) 0-1 IM Lane, Gary (1) Correct!
7.WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) 1-0 Obst, James (1) Incorrect Obst Won!
8.Song, Raymond (0.5) 0.5-0.5 GM Johansen, Darryl (0.5) Incorrect Johansen won
9.IM Wohl, Alex (0) 0-1 FM Xie, George (0.5) Incorrect Wohl won
10.FM Canfell, Greg (0) 1-0 Lakner, Jay (0) Incorrect Lakner won
11.FM Goldenberg, Igor (0) 1-0 Booth, Stewart (0) Correct!
12.FM Guthrie, Aaron (0) 0-1 Bird, Andrew (0) Incorrect Guthrie won
13.Wallis, Christopher (0) 0-1 FM Levi, Eddy (0) Correct!
14.Smirnov, Vladimir (0) 1-0 Pyke, Malcolm (0) Incorrect - drawn game
15.Frame, Nigel (0) 0-1 FM Dougherty, Michael (0) correct!
So How am i going?
Round 1: 10
Round 2: 8
I have to pick up my game......
Round 3 Picks
1.IM Lane, Gary (2) .5-.5 GM Rogers, Ian (2)
2.Obst, James (2) 0-1 GM Chandler, Murray (2)
3.GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (1.5) .5-.5 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (2)
4.GM Schmaltz, Roland (1.5) 1-0 IM Smerdon, David (1.5)
5.GM Johansen, Darryl (1.5) .5-.5 IM Solomon, Stephen (1.5)
6.FM Levi, Eddy (1) 0-1 IM Wohl, Alex (1)
7.FM Bjelobrk, Igor (1) 1-0 FM Dougherty, Michael (1)
8.Lakner, Jay (1) 0-1 FM Goldenberg, Igor (1)
9.FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1) 0-1 WIM Moylan, Laura (1)
10.Ly, Moulthun (1) 1-0 FM Guthrie, Aaron (1)
11.FM Xie, George (0.5) 1-0 Smirnov, Vladimir (0.5)
12 Pyke, Malcolm (0.5) 0-1 WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5)
13 FM Canfell, Greg (0) .5-.5 Song, Raymond (0.5)
14 Booth, Stewart (0) 1-0 Wallis, Christopher (0)
15.Bird, Andrew (0) 1-0 Frame, Nigel (0)
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Colours backwards
The list of games i had in my previous post are incorrect in that all colours are reversed. And the bolding didn't seem to do a very good job either.
So the results were
1.GM Ftacnik, Lubomir 1 - 0 FM Guthrie, Aaron (0)
2.FM Levi, Eddy 0 - 1 GM Rogers, Ian
3.GM Schmaltz, Roland 1 - 0 Smirnov, Vladimir
4.FM Dougherty, Michael 0 - 1 GM Chandler, Murray
5.GM Johansen, Darryl ½ - ½ WIM Caoili, Arianne
6.Lakner, Jay 0 - 1 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan
7.IM Lane, Gary 1 - 0 Booth, Stewart
8.Ly, Moulthun 1 - 0 IM Wohl, Alex
9.IM Smerdon, David 1 - 0 Bird, Andrew
10.Pyke, Malcolm 0 - 1 IM Solomon, Stephen
11.FM Bjelobrk, Igor 1 - 0 Wallis, Christopher
12.WIM Moylan, Laura 1 - 0 FM Canfell, Greg
13.FM Xie, George ½ - ½ Song, Raymond
14.Obst, James 1 - 0 FM Goldenberg, Igor
15.Humphrey, Jonathan 1 - 0 Frame, Nigel
So I score a total of 10/15 for the first round. Arianne Caoli drew with Johannsen in a Queen and pawn endgame where Caoli had an extra pawn. Moultin Ly (theres that name again.....) defeated International master Aleks Wohl. Fellow NSWCA councillor Laura Moylan defeated FM Greg Canfell. Well done Laura! And James Obst defeatedFM Igor Goldenberg. Young Raymond Song played out a draw with fellow Sydneyite (and soon to be IM) George Xie.
So Lets see the draw for round two:
1.IM Smerdon, David (1) .5:.5 GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (1)
2.GM Rogers, Ian (1) 1-0 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (1)
3.IM Solomon, Stephen (1) 0-1 GM Schmaltz, Roland (1)
4.GM Chandler, Murray (1) 1-0 FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1)
5.IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (1) 1-0 Ly, Moulthun (1)
6.WIM Moylan, Laura (1) 0-1 IM Lane, Gary (1)
7.WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) 1-0 Obst, James (1)
8.Song, Raymond (0.5) 0.5-0.5 GM Johansen, Darryl (0.5)
9.IM Wohl, Alex (0) 0-1 FM Xie, George (0.5)
10.FM Canfell, Greg (0) 1-0 Lakner, Jay (0)
11.FM Goldenberg, Igor (0) 1-0 Booth, Stewart (0)
12.FM Guthrie, Aaron (0) 0-1 Bird, Andrew (0)
13.Wallis, Christopher (0) 0-1 FM Levi, Eddy (0)
14.Smirnov, Vladimir (0) 1-0 Pyke, Malcolm (0)
15.Frame, Nigel (0) 0-1 FM Dougherty, Michael (0)
So the results were
1.GM Ftacnik, Lubomir 1 - 0 FM Guthrie, Aaron (0)
2.FM Levi, Eddy 0 - 1 GM Rogers, Ian
3.GM Schmaltz, Roland 1 - 0 Smirnov, Vladimir
4.FM Dougherty, Michael 0 - 1 GM Chandler, Murray
5.GM Johansen, Darryl ½ - ½ WIM Caoili, Arianne
6.Lakner, Jay 0 - 1 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan
7.IM Lane, Gary 1 - 0 Booth, Stewart
8.Ly, Moulthun 1 - 0 IM Wohl, Alex
9.IM Smerdon, David 1 - 0 Bird, Andrew
10.Pyke, Malcolm 0 - 1 IM Solomon, Stephen
11.FM Bjelobrk, Igor 1 - 0 Wallis, Christopher
12.WIM Moylan, Laura 1 - 0 FM Canfell, Greg
13.FM Xie, George ½ - ½ Song, Raymond
14.Obst, James 1 - 0 FM Goldenberg, Igor
15.Humphrey, Jonathan 1 - 0 Frame, Nigel
So I score a total of 10/15 for the first round. Arianne Caoli drew with Johannsen in a Queen and pawn endgame where Caoli had an extra pawn. Moultin Ly (theres that name again.....) defeated International master Aleks Wohl. Fellow NSWCA councillor Laura Moylan defeated FM Greg Canfell. Well done Laura! And James Obst defeatedFM Igor Goldenberg. Young Raymond Song played out a draw with fellow Sydneyite (and soon to be IM) George Xie.
So Lets see the draw for round two:
1.IM Smerdon, David (1) .5:.5 GM Ftacnik, Lubomir (1)
2.GM Rogers, Ian (1) 1-0 FM Bjelobrk, Igor (1)
3.IM Solomon, Stephen (1) 0-1 GM Schmaltz, Roland (1)
4.GM Chandler, Murray (1) 1-0 FM Humphrey, Jonathan (1)
5.IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan (1) 1-0 Ly, Moulthun (1)
6.WIM Moylan, Laura (1) 0-1 IM Lane, Gary (1)
7.WIM Caoili, Arianne (0.5) 1-0 Obst, James (1)
8.Song, Raymond (0.5) 0.5-0.5 GM Johansen, Darryl (0.5)
9.IM Wohl, Alex (0) 0-1 FM Xie, George (0.5)
10.FM Canfell, Greg (0) 1-0 Lakner, Jay (0)
11.FM Goldenberg, Igor (0) 1-0 Booth, Stewart (0)
12.FM Guthrie, Aaron (0) 0-1 Bird, Andrew (0)
13.Wallis, Christopher (0) 0-1 FM Levi, Eddy (0)
14.Smirnov, Vladimir (0) 1-0 Pyke, Malcolm (0)
15.Frame, Nigel (0) 0-1 FM Dougherty, Michael (0)
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
MY Aus Champ picks are in bold; games where there are no bolding are draw predictions.
1 FM Guthrie, Aaron : Ftacnik, Lubomir
2 GM Rogers, Ian : FM Levi, Eddy
3 Smirnov, Vladimir : Schmaltz, Roland
4 GM Chandler, Murray : FM Dougherty, Michael
5 WIM Caoili, Arianne : Johansen, Darryl
6 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan : Lakner, Jay
7 Booth, Stewart : IM Lane, Gary
8 IM Wohl, Alex : Ly, Moulthun
9 Bird, Andrew : IM Smerdon, David
10 IM Solomon, Stephen : Pyke, Malcolm
11 Wallis, Christopher : FM Bjelobrk, Igor
12 FM Canfell, Greg : WIM Moylan, Laura
13 Song, Raymond : FM Xie, George
14 FM Goldenberg, Igor : Obst, James
15 Frame, Nigel : FM Humphrey, Jonathan
1 FM Guthrie, Aaron : Ftacnik, Lubomir
2 GM Rogers, Ian : FM Levi, Eddy
3 Smirnov, Vladimir : Schmaltz, Roland
4 GM Chandler, Murray : FM Dougherty, Michael
5 WIM Caoili, Arianne : Johansen, Darryl
6 IM Zhao, Zong-Yuan : Lakner, Jay
7 Booth, Stewart : IM Lane, Gary
8 IM Wohl, Alex : Ly, Moulthun
9 Bird, Andrew : IM Smerdon, David
10 IM Solomon, Stephen : Pyke, Malcolm
11 Wallis, Christopher : FM Bjelobrk, Igor
12 FM Canfell, Greg : WIM Moylan, Laura
13 Song, Raymond : FM Xie, George
14 FM Goldenberg, Igor : Obst, James
15 Frame, Nigel : FM Humphrey, Jonathan
Under starter's orders
The Australian Junior Championships started at 9.30 today. There are supposed to be live games here. however it appears that either as of 10.22 they have not started or they are having teething problems with the DGT setup. Hopefully they will have it fixed by this afternoon
This afternoon at 3.30 The Australian Championships, with 5 grandmasters, start form 3.30, with live games at the above site. I have decided to make some picks for the Championship division. For the first round i expect them to go according to rating.
****Late edit***** It appears that the games on the site have started as of 10.26.
This afternoon at 3.30 The Australian Championships, with 5 grandmasters, start form 3.30, with live games at the above site. I have decided to make some picks for the Championship division. For the first round i expect them to go according to rating.
****Late edit***** It appears that the games on the site have started as of 10.26.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
GP pipe Dream
Wouldn't it be excellent if the GP could be organised to create a "tour of chess" perhaps incorporating a backpacking tour withchess?
For Example: Next year the Australian championships are to be held in Brisbane. A grand prix tour could then stop at the Gold coast for some relaxation and a tournament, say two weeks after the end of the Champs, Then on to Coffs Harbour where the chess players could work for a week and then have a chess tournament at the end of that week. Then on to Port Macquarie to work for a week followed by a tournament.
Then to Newcaste;
Then to Sydney and a weeks break sight seeing.
then on to Adelaide on the indian Pacific. Sightseeing/working in Adelaide followed by a tournament. Then travel to Ballarat for a weeks work and a tournament. Then on to melbourne for some sightseeing/work+chess tournament.
Then Albury
Finishing at Canberra For Doeberl Cup.
Then the second section of the grand prix could start at Doeberl and end up, say at a NSW Open. And so on.
It could also give an opportunity for places like Northern territory to get into the action and hold a tournament.
Perhaps Australian chess enterprises could have a child company "Australian Chess Tours" :D
Anyhow, you get my drift. I believe that something like this would attract more people to Australia to play chess. This idea combines the experience of backpacking with playing chess in tournaments.
For Example: Next year the Australian championships are to be held in Brisbane. A grand prix tour could then stop at the Gold coast for some relaxation and a tournament, say two weeks after the end of the Champs, Then on to Coffs Harbour where the chess players could work for a week and then have a chess tournament at the end of that week. Then on to Port Macquarie to work for a week followed by a tournament.
Then to Newcaste;
Then to Sydney and a weeks break sight seeing.
then on to Adelaide on the indian Pacific. Sightseeing/working in Adelaide followed by a tournament. Then travel to Ballarat for a weeks work and a tournament. Then on to melbourne for some sightseeing/work+chess tournament.
Then Albury
Finishing at Canberra For Doeberl Cup.
Then the second section of the grand prix could start at Doeberl and end up, say at a NSW Open. And so on.
It could also give an opportunity for places like Northern territory to get into the action and hold a tournament.
Perhaps Australian chess enterprises could have a child company "Australian Chess Tours" :D
Anyhow, you get my drift. I believe that something like this would attract more people to Australia to play chess. This idea combines the experience of backpacking with playing chess in tournaments.
Monday, December 26, 2005
Australian Grand Prix = 2005 Edition
As 2005 comes to a close we have the grand prix results wrap:
As Per the Australian Chess Federations Grand Prix rules, players can only win one prize.
Please note that these are not the official prizelist. Just an educated guess from the spreadsheets supplied by the ACF.
Therefore the prizes appear to be
Open:
1st: FM Igor Bjelobrk.
Igor Bjelobrk Has had an excellent year, winning several weekend tournaments. He has been quite prolific. He came close to winning the Doeberl Cup, coming third on a score of 5.5/7 to Grandmaster Ian Rogers and Aleks Wohl who both came equal first. Igor Scored 12 points at Doeberl.
At the next prestigious tournament, the NSW Open, Igor played excellently to win the tournament outright and win the 20 grand prix points over quality field such as Grandmaster Ian Rogers, IM Stephen Solomon and George Xie. At this tournament Igor defeated the Grandmaster!
Then came his tremendous battle with visiting FM Jesse Sales in a string of tournaments that took place in winter.
Firstly Igor overcame Sales to win the Fairfield Winter cup Scoring himself 20 points, Then on to the ANU open where Jesse defeated Igor to pick up first place, leaving Igor to claim Second and 15 grand Prix points. Sales went up to Sydney the next week to win the NSWCA June July Weekender and ended up 6th on the GP
Finally, Igor won the Ryde Eastwood Open, scoring himself another 20 points.
Well Done Igor!!
2nd: GM Ian Rogers
Australia's First grandmaster might have been expected to win the Grand Prix, after all....only your five best results count. Ian could only manage 4 GP tournaments this year in his busy schedule. Scoring Equal first with Wohl at Doeberl (17.5 points), winning outright the Gold Coast Open and the Caloundra Open scoring 20 points in these, and finally an equal third with 7 others at the NSW open.
Congratulations Ian!
3rd: Moultin Ly
Moultin Who? Moultin Ly, An obviously talented junior who appears to be taking the sunshine state (Queensland) by storm. Moultin Ly is also in contention for the first U2000 prize. So he will win whatever is highest. Like GM Ian Rogers Moultin only had 4 results in the GP - all of which were in Queensland. This year Moultin started his GP campaign at the Brisbane Open, where he only scored 7-8 points. But then came the Gold Coast Open and the Caloundra open, where he came outright second in both, and both tournaments he was behind GM Rogers. Finally, without GM Rogers Playing he scored a first in the Nell Van der Graaf Classic winning 20 GP points.
Congratulations Moultin.
4th: FM George Xie
Galavanting George Xie has not been as busy in the GP Scene this than last year. This soon to be IM scored Most of his points during the middle of the year in NSWCA tournaments. George won GP events a the Cat 2 May weekender where he scored 16 points and equal first at the Tuggeranong Vikings Weekender picking up 10.5points. His other points came from an outright second in the NSW Open (16points) half a point behind Bjelobrk, an equal third at Fairfield(9 points), behind Bjelobrk and Sales, and an equal fourth in the NSWCA July Weekender,
5th: Johny Bolens
The poor old Johny Bolens came second to Sales at the NSWCA July Weekender, Equal third at NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open, behind joint winners Bjelobrk and Armen Ayvazyan, won Gosford Open, and equal third at Coffs Harbour.
Under 2000
The top four in the u2000 division gets a prize:
1st - Moultin Ly
because Moultin Ly might be taking the Open 3rd Prize chances are 2nd place will take first prize in this division
2nd - Ben Ingram
A tough competitor whom i seem to come up against in every second or third tournament we both play in. He scored his points in the Fairfiel Winter Cup, NSWCA July Weekender, NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open and Gosford Open.
3rd - Jason Chan
The One minute Grandmaster scored his points in the following tournaments: NSW Open, Fairfield Winter Cup, Gosford Open and Ralph Seberry Memorial Open.
4th Raymond Song
This always improving junior kept going strong this year. I believe that Raymond Song is going to be a name to watch, for a long time into the future. Raymond scored his points at NSW Open, Fairfield Winter Cup, NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open and Coffs Harbour Open.
5th - Kevin O'Chee
Kevin will be hoping that Moultin Ly will take out the 3rd Open division so that Kevin will win the 4th place prize for U2000. Kevin received his points at NSWCA January Weekender, NSW Open and Ralph Seberry Memorial.
Under 1600
1st - Eliot Hoving
What an improvement! What an improvement Eliot Hoving has made to his game! He has gone from a low 1500's player to a low 1700's player within this year! A feat that i would like to emulate next year perhaps....
Eliot won his GP points at Fairfield Winter Cup, NSWCA July Weekender, NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open.
2nd - Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown recieved GP points for the following tournaments: Doeberl Cup, ANU Open,NSW Open and Tuggeranong Vikings Weekender.
3rd - Trent Parker (thats me! :D)
I play in alot of tournaments. The tournaments i got my gp points for are:
NSW Open, NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open, Gosford Open, Coffs Harbour Open and Ralph Seberry Weekender.
4th - Steven Cooke
The only Queenslander in the top 4! He got his points from Coffs Harbour Open, Gold Coast Open and Nell Van Der Graff Open.
Junior Prizes1
1st - Raymond Song
Who will probably win a different Prize
2nd - Moultin Ly
Who will also probably win a different Prize
3rd - Max Illingworth
4th - Kevin O'chee
(who could possibly take a different Prize)
5th - Ronald Yu
6th - Michael Morrris
Any of these 6 can win the 3 Junior Prizes
Womens Prize
1st - Jessica Kinder
Unrated Prize
1st - Liam McGarity
As Per the Australian Chess Federations Grand Prix rules, players can only win one prize.
Please note that these are not the official prizelist. Just an educated guess from the spreadsheets supplied by the ACF.
Therefore the prizes appear to be
Open:
1st: FM Igor Bjelobrk.
Igor Bjelobrk Has had an excellent year, winning several weekend tournaments. He has been quite prolific. He came close to winning the Doeberl Cup, coming third on a score of 5.5/7 to Grandmaster Ian Rogers and Aleks Wohl who both came equal first. Igor Scored 12 points at Doeberl.
At the next prestigious tournament, the NSW Open, Igor played excellently to win the tournament outright and win the 20 grand prix points over quality field such as Grandmaster Ian Rogers, IM Stephen Solomon and George Xie. At this tournament Igor defeated the Grandmaster!
Then came his tremendous battle with visiting FM Jesse Sales in a string of tournaments that took place in winter.
Firstly Igor overcame Sales to win the Fairfield Winter cup Scoring himself 20 points, Then on to the ANU open where Jesse defeated Igor to pick up first place, leaving Igor to claim Second and 15 grand Prix points. Sales went up to Sydney the next week to win the NSWCA June July Weekender and ended up 6th on the GP
Finally, Igor won the Ryde Eastwood Open, scoring himself another 20 points.
Well Done Igor!!
2nd: GM Ian Rogers
Australia's First grandmaster might have been expected to win the Grand Prix, after all....only your five best results count. Ian could only manage 4 GP tournaments this year in his busy schedule. Scoring Equal first with Wohl at Doeberl (17.5 points), winning outright the Gold Coast Open and the Caloundra Open scoring 20 points in these, and finally an equal third with 7 others at the NSW open.
Congratulations Ian!
3rd: Moultin Ly
Moultin Who? Moultin Ly, An obviously talented junior who appears to be taking the sunshine state (Queensland) by storm. Moultin Ly is also in contention for the first U2000 prize. So he will win whatever is highest. Like GM Ian Rogers Moultin only had 4 results in the GP - all of which were in Queensland. This year Moultin started his GP campaign at the Brisbane Open, where he only scored 7-8 points. But then came the Gold Coast Open and the Caloundra open, where he came outright second in both, and both tournaments he was behind GM Rogers. Finally, without GM Rogers Playing he scored a first in the Nell Van der Graaf Classic winning 20 GP points.
Congratulations Moultin.
4th: FM George Xie
Galavanting George Xie has not been as busy in the GP Scene this than last year. This soon to be IM scored Most of his points during the middle of the year in NSWCA tournaments. George won GP events a the Cat 2 May weekender where he scored 16 points and equal first at the Tuggeranong Vikings Weekender picking up 10.5points. His other points came from an outright second in the NSW Open (16points) half a point behind Bjelobrk, an equal third at Fairfield(9 points), behind Bjelobrk and Sales, and an equal fourth in the NSWCA July Weekender,
5th: Johny Bolens
The poor old Johny Bolens came second to Sales at the NSWCA July Weekender, Equal third at NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open, behind joint winners Bjelobrk and Armen Ayvazyan, won Gosford Open, and equal third at Coffs Harbour.
Under 2000
The top four in the u2000 division gets a prize:
1st - Moultin Ly
because Moultin Ly might be taking the Open 3rd Prize chances are 2nd place will take first prize in this division
2nd - Ben Ingram
A tough competitor whom i seem to come up against in every second or third tournament we both play in. He scored his points in the Fairfiel Winter Cup, NSWCA July Weekender, NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open and Gosford Open.
3rd - Jason Chan
The One minute Grandmaster scored his points in the following tournaments: NSW Open, Fairfield Winter Cup, Gosford Open and Ralph Seberry Memorial Open.
4th Raymond Song
This always improving junior kept going strong this year. I believe that Raymond Song is going to be a name to watch, for a long time into the future. Raymond scored his points at NSW Open, Fairfield Winter Cup, NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open and Coffs Harbour Open.
5th - Kevin O'Chee
Kevin will be hoping that Moultin Ly will take out the 3rd Open division so that Kevin will win the 4th place prize for U2000. Kevin received his points at NSWCA January Weekender, NSW Open and Ralph Seberry Memorial.
Under 1600
1st - Eliot Hoving
What an improvement! What an improvement Eliot Hoving has made to his game! He has gone from a low 1500's player to a low 1700's player within this year! A feat that i would like to emulate next year perhaps....
Eliot won his GP points at Fairfield Winter Cup, NSWCA July Weekender, NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open.
2nd - Andrew Brown
Andrew Brown recieved GP points for the following tournaments: Doeberl Cup, ANU Open,NSW Open and Tuggeranong Vikings Weekender.
3rd - Trent Parker (thats me! :D)
I play in alot of tournaments. The tournaments i got my gp points for are:
NSW Open, NSWCA Ryde Eastwood Open, Gosford Open, Coffs Harbour Open and Ralph Seberry Weekender.
4th - Steven Cooke
The only Queenslander in the top 4! He got his points from Coffs Harbour Open, Gold Coast Open and Nell Van Der Graff Open.
Junior Prizes1
1st - Raymond Song
Who will probably win a different Prize
2nd - Moultin Ly
Who will also probably win a different Prize
3rd - Max Illingworth
4th - Kevin O'chee
(who could possibly take a different Prize)
5th - Ronald Yu
6th - Michael Morrris
Any of these 6 can win the 3 Junior Prizes
Womens Prize
1st - Jessica Kinder
Unrated Prize
1st - Liam McGarity
This CD will self destruct in.......
The Mt Buller Debacle.
In Early 2005 The Australian Open was held in Mt buller. At the venue they were not able to deliver the "Buller-tins" to the subscribers due to printing problems. So near the events end they decided they would offer a compact disk with the buller-tins on them.
I was to be a recipient of one.
Now recently in the Australian Chess Federation News Bulletin we find out that people who were to get the cd's will be re imbursed for the outlay.
It took almost all year to finally get a result. After various stuff ups and things going wrong.
I hope the ACF now goes after the directors of Mt Buller Chess Inc. Which i think is only George Howard. I had only met George for the first time at Mt Buller and he seemed like a reaonable person. I really enjoyed MT Buller , and i think others did too. However under the pleasantry i think is a lot of uglyness. Mt Buller will never happen again.
In Early 2005 The Australian Open was held in Mt buller. At the venue they were not able to deliver the "Buller-tins" to the subscribers due to printing problems. So near the events end they decided they would offer a compact disk with the buller-tins on them.
I was to be a recipient of one.
Now recently in the Australian Chess Federation News Bulletin we find out that people who were to get the cd's will be re imbursed for the outlay.
It took almost all year to finally get a result. After various stuff ups and things going wrong.
I hope the ACF now goes after the directors of Mt Buller Chess Inc. Which i think is only George Howard. I had only met George for the first time at Mt Buller and he seemed like a reaonable person. I really enjoyed MT Buller , and i think others did too. However under the pleasantry i think is a lot of uglyness. Mt Buller will never happen again.
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Eat, Drink and Be Merry!
Happy Christmas everybody!
Chiristmas today was at home with relos coming over my place. Had an excellent time.
Eat, Drink, and be merry - the Parker Christmas Motto.
Chiristmas today was at home with relos coming over my place. Had an excellent time.
Eat, Drink, and be merry - the Parker Christmas Motto.
Friday, December 23, 2005
Lucky Me!
What have i done today?
I went down to the main shopping area of Picton, had some beautiful grapes for lunch, went to the Australia Post, Sent a money order express post to Gardiner Chess for entry into the Australian Minor. (Due to my mother's Credit Card being maxed out... before Christmas shopping.... will she ever learn....?) I bump into my Father in the Post Office, pretty happy, had spent the morning with his mother, my grandmother (who unfortunately wont be having christmas with the family.... the first time since.... before i was even born....) Anyhow... back to the story at hand. With the christmas spirit my father gave me $50 towards the entry fee!
Eeeexcellent!
It gets Better!
My father had completed his business for the day and all i needed to do was to go up to the train station and make a booking for my Brisbane adventure. So he decided to give me a lift up to the station to get my tickets.
Now i'm at the Ticket window waiting for the guy at the window to get off the phone. (well i wasn't expected and the next scheduled train was in about two hours....) But i get along well with this guy at the station. He catches alot of the trains that i do when he has duty at another station.
Now, I have a Person with Vision Impairment Pass. This entitles me to one free return Countrylink journey within NSW per calendar year. Which means that i had to pay the journey from the NSW/QLD border to Brisbane.
So i handed the warrant for the journey (from Sydney to the border) to the guy at the counter, he relayed my details and journey to the countrylink person on the phone. A couple of minutes later the ticket is faxed to Picton Station. They had made an error! Countrylink had given me the whole journey for free!
All in all... a very money saving day for myself.
Bring on Australian Minor!
I went down to the main shopping area of Picton, had some beautiful grapes for lunch, went to the Australia Post, Sent a money order express post to Gardiner Chess for entry into the Australian Minor. (Due to my mother's Credit Card being maxed out... before Christmas shopping.... will she ever learn....?) I bump into my Father in the Post Office, pretty happy, had spent the morning with his mother, my grandmother (who unfortunately wont be having christmas with the family.... the first time since.... before i was even born....) Anyhow... back to the story at hand. With the christmas spirit my father gave me $50 towards the entry fee!
Eeeexcellent!
It gets Better!
My father had completed his business for the day and all i needed to do was to go up to the train station and make a booking for my Brisbane adventure. So he decided to give me a lift up to the station to get my tickets.
Now i'm at the Ticket window waiting for the guy at the window to get off the phone. (well i wasn't expected and the next scheduled train was in about two hours....) But i get along well with this guy at the station. He catches alot of the trains that i do when he has duty at another station.
Now, I have a Person with Vision Impairment Pass. This entitles me to one free return Countrylink journey within NSW per calendar year. Which means that i had to pay the journey from the NSW/QLD border to Brisbane.
So i handed the warrant for the journey (from Sydney to the border) to the guy at the counter, he relayed my details and journey to the countrylink person on the phone. A couple of minutes later the ticket is faxed to Picton Station. They had made an error! Countrylink had given me the whole journey for free!
All in all... a very money saving day for myself.
Bring on Australian Minor!
Andrew Bird - 2005 NSW Champion!
Congratulations to Andrew Bird on winning the NSW Championship!
Andrew Bird has defeated Max Fuller in a four game playoff for the title at the rate of one game per day to be played at the Sydney Academy of Chess at Strathfield, in Sydney's West. The end result was 2.5 - 1.5 with some exciting play.
Game One: Fuller - Bird
Game Two: Bird - Fuller
Andrew Bird has defeated Max Fuller in a four game playoff for the title at the rate of one game per day to be played at the Sydney Academy of Chess at Strathfield, in Sydney's West. The end result was 2.5 - 1.5 with some exciting play.
Game One: Fuller - Bird
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. f4 e6 7. Nf3 Nge7 8. O-O O-O 9. Be3 b6 10. d4 Ba6 11. Rf2 Qc7 12. Rd2 Rad8 13. d5 exd5 14. Nxd5 Nxd5 15. exd5 Na5 16. b3 Rde8 17. Bf2 Bxa1 18. Qxa1 f6 19. g4 Qg7 20. c4 Bc8 21. h3 Re7 22. Qc1 Nb7 23. Be1 Rfe8 24. Rf2 h5 25. g5 f5 26. Bc3 Qf7 27. Bf1 Kh7 28. Bf6 Rc7 29. a4 Na5 30. Qc3 Re4 31. Nd2 Re1 32. Re2 Rxe2 33. Bxe2 Bd7 34. Bd3 Rc8 35. Bc2 Re8 36. Kf2 Bc8 37. h4 Qc7 38. Nf1 a6 39. Ng3 Qf7 40. Bd3 Nb7 41. Qc2 Na5 42. Qc3 Bd7 43. Qc2 Ra8 44. Bc3 Nb7 45. Bf6 Qe8 46. Nxf5 Bxf5 47. Bxf5 gxf5 48. Qxf5+ Qg6 49. Qd7+ Kg8 50. Qxb7 Re8 51. Qd7 Qc2+ 52. Kf1 Qd1+ 0-1
Game Two: Bird - Fuller
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. f4 e6 7. Nf3 Nge7 8. O-O O-O 9. Be3 b6 10. d4 Ba6 11. Rf2 Qc7 12. Rd2 Rad8 13. d5 exd5 14. Nxd5 Nxd5 15. exd5 Na5 16. b3 Rfe8 17. Bf2 Bxa1 18. Qxa1 f6 19. g4 Qg7 20. c4 Bc8 21. h3 Re7 22. Qc1 Nb7 23. Be1 Rde8 24. Rf2 h5 25. g5 f5 26. Bc3 Qf7 27. Bf1 Kh7 28. Bf6 Rc7 29. a4 Na5 30. Qc3 Re4 31. Nd2 Re1 32. Re2 Rxe2 33. Bxe2 Bd7 34. Bd3 Rc8 35. Bc2 Re8 36. Kf2 Bc8 37. h4 Qc7 38. Nf1 a6 39. Ng3 Qf7 40. Bd3 Nb7 41. Qc2 Na5 42. Qc3 Bd7 43. Qc2 Ra8 44. Bc3 Nb7 45. Bf6 Qe8 46. Nxf5 Bxf5 47. Bxf5 gxf5 48. Qxf5+ Qg6 49. Qd7+ Kg8 50. Qxb7 Re8 51. Qd7 Qc2+ 52. Kf1 Qd1+ 0-1
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Objection! Your Honour
In my previous post I said:
In fact it does make sense to me now. What what i thinking?
Now, I personally would be lenient and let a person who wishes to join the NSWCA on the day of the AGM.However it has come to my attention that if a meeting is lenient and accepts a membership once the meeting has been brought to order Then there could be objections from the attendees at the agm and would be able to take the matter to the Department of Fair Trade. It may be viewed as Favoritism on the part of the chair.
In fact it does make sense to me now. What what i thinking?
My take on the NSWCA AGM
On the 28th of November a portion of the NSW chess members turned out to
what promised to be an interesting AGM.
Beforehand there was talk of
Jason Lyons and Peter Parr, as well as others taking positions on the NSWCA
council. I think Jason Lyons may have mistakenly assumed after having a chat
with Bill Gletsos (the current President) that bill would not contest the
Presidents position
When I arrived on the day (Late due to catching a
later train than i would have liked) i walked into a largerAgm than the previous
year however when i looked around the roomI noticed that Lyons and Parr was not
there.
I later learnt that when the meeting was called to order Jason
Lyons was not a member and thus was not eligible to run for President. So
because of this Lyons, Parr and whomever was with them decided to up and leave.
Now, I have heard various versions of the event. Apparently Jason's first attempt to Join the Association when the meeting was
called to order. Now, I personally would be lenient and let a person who wishes
to join the NSWCA on the day of the AGM.
HOWEVER, however i would not
let him be President. According to the NSWCA Registrar he has not been a member
since his tenure as registrar has started...... which was back in 1991! Now i
know that Jason Has Arbited a few tournaments and run some excellent tournaments
before I was involved in the chess community, but i really think a person who
wants to be the President of the NSWCA must support the NSWCA beforehand. Even
if it is only with paying the $25 membership fee earlier in the year or perhaps
even more than one year. I mean what are people to think? A person who is
friends with a chess shop owner tries to obtain the presidents job without
supporting the NSWCA in previous years it may make one wonder whether he is just
a puppet for the chess shop owner
Also Peter Parr, the chess shop owner,
was planning on going for the Vice Presidents job. And I can tell you... there
would have been a tough fight for that position if Jason Lyons got in. There was
a reasonable sized contingent at the AGM woul were going to nominate and support
another person in the event that Jase got the Job.
There were two trains
of thought in this matter. There was one arguement that Peter Parr may have had
a conflict of interest being on the executive of the council. Another Argument
was that between Lyons and Parr, they control half of the Executive positions,
and could possibly make decisions that may be beneficial to themselves due to
the executives being able to carry out business between meetings.
Now make a comment on a couple of things:
Quoting BG from chesschat.org (Australia's Chess community forum):
Well Jase join the Association. You might discover what i do. I
admit i may not exactly be a publicity whiz but at lease i am paying my
membership and contributing to the association the past few
years.
And from the Closet Grandmaster
Anyhow congratulations to the new members of council Andrew Bird( vice president), Brett Tindall (Tournaments Officer), Laura Moylan (communications officer), Rick Keuning (club liason officer) and Gareth Charles (member without portfolio)
For the first time in years the NSWCA has a full council!
what promised to be an interesting AGM.
Beforehand there was talk of
Jason Lyons and Peter Parr, as well as others taking positions on the NSWCA
council. I think Jason Lyons may have mistakenly assumed after having a chat
with Bill Gletsos (the current President) that bill would not contest the
Presidents position
When I arrived on the day (Late due to catching a
later train than i would have liked) i walked into a largerAgm than the previous
year however when i looked around the roomI noticed that Lyons and Parr was not
there.
I later learnt that when the meeting was called to order Jason
Lyons was not a member and thus was not eligible to run for President. So
because of this Lyons, Parr and whomever was with them decided to up and leave.
Now, I have heard various versions of the event. Apparently Jason's first attempt to Join the Association when the meeting was
called to order. Now, I personally would be lenient and let a person who wishes
to join the NSWCA on the day of the AGM.
HOWEVER, however i would not
let him be President. According to the NSWCA Registrar he has not been a member
since his tenure as registrar has started...... which was back in 1991! Now i
know that Jason Has Arbited a few tournaments and run some excellent tournaments
before I was involved in the chess community, but i really think a person who
wants to be the President of the NSWCA must support the NSWCA beforehand. Even
if it is only with paying the $25 membership fee earlier in the year or perhaps
even more than one year. I mean what are people to think? A person who is
friends with a chess shop owner tries to obtain the presidents job without
supporting the NSWCA in previous years it may make one wonder whether he is just
a puppet for the chess shop owner
Also Peter Parr, the chess shop owner,
was planning on going for the Vice Presidents job. And I can tell you... there
would have been a tough fight for that position if Jason Lyons got in. There was
a reasonable sized contingent at the AGM woul were going to nominate and support
another person in the event that Jase got the Job.
There were two trains
of thought in this matter. There was one arguement that Peter Parr may have had
a conflict of interest being on the executive of the council. Another Argument
was that between Lyons and Parr, they control half of the Executive positions,
and could possibly make decisions that may be beneficial to themselves due to
the executives being able to carry out business between meetings.
Now make a comment on a couple of things:
Quoting BG from chesschat.org (Australia's Chess community forum):
He then went on to discuss the other existing members of Council. He
pointed out
he wasnt interested in having Trent remaining on Council.
Well Jase join the Association. You might discover what i do. I
admit i may not exactly be a publicity whiz but at lease i am paying my
membership and contributing to the association the past few
years.
And from the Closet Grandmaster
I will leave the last word to Jason Lyons: "I'll continue to support ACFMate, we never had you! You never had a membership. I really hope you will reconsider your stance, Join the NSWCA and perhaps run next year?
initiatives, the GP if I can help in some way, Olympiad Appeals and the
like,
and Junior Chess. But these blokes have lost me."
Anyhow congratulations to the new members of council Andrew Bird( vice president), Brett Tindall (Tournaments Officer), Laura Moylan (communications officer), Rick Keuning (club liason officer) and Gareth Charles (member without portfolio)
For the first time in years the NSWCA has a full council!
Hope no one held their breath...
hmm yeah i'm really going well at the moment aren't i......
I promise to do better........
I promise to do better........
Friday, December 02, 2005
Yet another bloggy revival
Gunna revive my blog again.
Stay tuned for items on
NSW AGM
And maybe something about chess on the board.....
Stay tuned for items on
NSW AGM
And maybe something about chess on the board.....
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
My Exchange Sacrifice Doesnt Pay Off!
..... And i end up a full rook down.......
I played in the 2005 Rooty Hill open played at the Rooty Hill RSL Club hoping that i may be able to advertise the Fisher's ghost Open tournament starting the Monday after the long Weekend. I received some fliers from the campbelltown collegians chess club and forgot to put them out on the 6th week due to being late. Last Night (which was the last round of the tournament) i forgot to put the fliers in my bag. I wanted to make an announcement before commencement of play but i was told i couldn't because it would be against the clubs interest as they had their club championships starting that week. I was not happy. I sacrificed playing in my own clubs championship to go all the freakin' way to Rooty Hill for 7 weeks to make an attempt at advertising The FG Open. Well.... What can i say..... We learn from our mistakes...... Playing in the Rooty Hill Open for me was a mistake.....I will not be playing in that tournament for the forseeable future. (Ummm i'll also mention that i played badly only scoring 2/6)
OH And Congratulations to Lee and Brian Jones who came 1st and 2nd respectively in the Rooty Hill Open.
I played in the 2005 Rooty Hill open played at the Rooty Hill RSL Club hoping that i may be able to advertise the Fisher's ghost Open tournament starting the Monday after the long Weekend. I received some fliers from the campbelltown collegians chess club and forgot to put them out on the 6th week due to being late. Last Night (which was the last round of the tournament) i forgot to put the fliers in my bag. I wanted to make an announcement before commencement of play but i was told i couldn't because it would be against the clubs interest as they had their club championships starting that week. I was not happy. I sacrificed playing in my own clubs championship to go all the freakin' way to Rooty Hill for 7 weeks to make an attempt at advertising The FG Open. Well.... What can i say..... We learn from our mistakes...... Playing in the Rooty Hill Open for me was a mistake.....I will not be playing in that tournament for the forseeable future. (Ummm i'll also mention that i played badly only scoring 2/6)
OH And Congratulations to Lee and Brian Jones who came 1st and 2nd respectively in the Rooty Hill Open.
Blog revival
Hello peoples. I have been a bit slack in updating my blog these last few months...... Will try to enter one post per day. Anyhow onto the next story....... I've got plenty of them at the moment.......
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