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