2008 Autumn Cup
The tournament that starts in summer but finishes in autumn

Early bird entry fees are about to finish. Where is every one? Details of this important tournament with web entry forms are now available on our web site www.boxhillchess.org.au Entries so far are also on show

One of the attractions this year will be live broadcast of board one games via our newly acquired DGT board [now also with connected timer]

Tuesday Events

The start of the Tuesday coaching group was a great success with over 30 players of various ages, various skill levels, and various sizes attending. Our 3 coaches were in great form eager to pass on their knowledge and experience. I hope the students are listening.

Coming Tuesday we have the start of the New Season Swiss. I expect a good turn out

New season Swiss

A 7 round Swiss tournament in starting February 6

Details:

• Visitors’ welcome.
• Clocks start 7:45 pm.
• Rate of play: 60 min. plus 30 seconds per move from move 1
• ACF rated.
• Entry fee $15.
• Visitors fee $15 for non-BHCC or CJCC members.
• 7 rounds

Playing nights:

     Rd 1, February 5              Rd 2, February 19             Rd 3, February 26      Rd 4, March 4            

     Rd 5, March 18             Rd 6, March 25             Rd 7 April 1

Club closed nights: February 12, March 11

 Prize fund:   $5 of each entry received will go to the prize fund.

Minimum guaranteed prize fund $100

Entry forms are available at the club and on the website

Sunday Coaching about to start

All first term coaching details are now on view on the club website complete with on line entry forms Payments may be made by cheque by mail or with cash when we next meet.

08 Australian Junior

As reported in our last bulletin a group of our players competed in the Australian Junior Championships. Feedback that I am receiving indicates that this was a very well organised and administered tournament. In particular the internet website was excellent providing round by round draws and results as well as games in a format so that they can be played through on the internet.
UNDER 18 OPEN.
Our players all acquitted themselves well in what was a very strong tournament. Brief notes follow.

Chris Wallis [BHCC club champion 07 Vic Junior Champion]

 8 points final position 4-5 overall

 Chris led the tournament until losing to the eventual winner Junta Ikeda. This was a very difficult long game and Chris lost the following game as well but finished the tournament strongly.

Sam Dalton [07 Under 14 Vic runner up]– 7.5 points final position 6-9 overall, 2-3 under 16
A tremendous performance by Sam including beating Chris Wallace
Cedric Antolis [07 rookies cup winner] – 7 points final position 10-16 overall, 3-4 under 14
This is very good performance by Cedric especially bearing in mind that some of the entrants were several years older.
Eugene Schon – 7 points final position 10-16 overall 3-4, under 14
The same comments apply as to the performance of Cedric. Eugene was clearly winning against Junta Ikeda, the eventual winner of the tournament, but allowed him to escape with a draw in a rook and pawn endgame.
Derek Yu – final position 10-16 overall 4-7 under 16
A very good solid performance.
Joshua Dalton 5.5 points - final position 36-48
A sound performance
Micah Dalton 3.5 points -final position overall 74-78
Tried hard
UNDER 18 – GIRLS
This was a 13 round robin which made it a very tough tournament.
Sally Yu- [Under 18 Vic Girls Champ] 11 points - final position 2 Under 16 Girls Champion
Sally came second a half point behind the winner who she beat in her individual game. Sally played fighting chess throughout the tournament as is shown by her results – eleven wins two losses and no draws. In my opinion she should give serious consideration to playing in the open next year

Stephanie Ang [Under 14 Vic Girls Champ]  4 points overall position 11
Stephanie played above her rating.

UNDER 12 OPEN
We had a large number of entrants in this tournament that all acquitted themselves well.
Lawrence Matheson  [07 under 12 Vic champ] 9.5 points Under 12 champion
An excellent all round performance by Lawrence.
Yi Liu – 9 points 2nd overall

Yi played at Box Hill until his family moved to Queensland. The move into banana bender territory does not appear to have had a negative impact on his chess.
Anurag Sannidhanam - 4-5 overall 1-2 under 10 [lost the title play-off]
Another really good performance
Michael Chan 6-13 overall 3rd under10
A very good performance
Andrew Gurevich [07 under 10 Vic Champ] 6.5 points 14-19 overall
very solid result.
Isaac Ng 6.5 points 14-19 overall
As with Andrew a very solid result.
Joshua Ng 6 points 20-24 overall
A good result. The Ng brothers performed well.
Peter Wallmueller 5.5 points Under 8 champion.
Scoring fifty percent in the tournament and winning the under eight prize is a tremendous achievement.
Joshua Devarajh. 5 points 33-41 overall
Another player in the under ten category who scored reasonably despite there being older players in the tournament.
Daniel Yuan. [07 under 8 Vic Champ]. 4.5 points 42-45 overall 2 under 8
Another youngster who performed really well

09 Australian Junior

Last week I wrote Chess Victoria’s ambitious plans to have the 2009 Australian Junior Championships held in Melbourne at the Box Hill Chess Club’s Rochester Road venue suffered a serious set back when the ACF council rejected the submission canning the venue, the administrators and the submission. Some one queried the meaning of the term to can. Folks it means to rubbish something or someone and that is what they did. Mind you it took them almost 6 months to convey their displeasure

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Issue 2008.03 – January 24

Club re-opens

 The club is open again on JANUARY 25 after closure due to electrical improvements to supply facilities. No tournaments yet on Fridays until the start of the Autumn Cup on February 8

2008 Autumn Cup
The tournament that starts in summer but finishes in autumn

Details of this important tournament with web entry forms are now available on our web site www.boxhillchess.org.au

One of the attractions this year will be live broadcast of board one games via our newly acquired DGT board [now also with connected timer]

Remember the early bird entry fee discounts.

Tuesday Events

The Tuesday club opens again on January 29 with Tuesday coaching from 6 to 7.30 and a 5 round allegro tournament starting at 7.45. The week after we have the start of the New Season Swiss

New season Swiss

A 7 round swiss tournament in starting February 6

Details:

• Visitors welcome.
• Clocks start 7:45 pm.
• Rate of play: 60 min. plus 30 seconds per move from move 1
• ACF rated.
• Entry fee $15.
• Visitors fee $15 for non-BHCC or CJCC members.
• 7 rounds

Playing nights:

     Rd 1, February 5              Rd 2, February 19             Rd 3, February 26      Rd 4, March 4            

     Rd 5, March 18             Rd 6, March 25             Rd 7 April 1

Club closed nights: February 12, March 11

 Prize fund:

  $5 of each entry received will go to the prize fund.

Minimum guaranteed prize fund $100

Entry forms are available at the club and soon will be available on the website

2008 Coaching at the club

All first term coaching details are now on view on the club website complete with on line entry forms Payments may be made by cheque by mail or with cash when we next meet.

08 Australian Junior

We had hoped to present an evaluation of BHCC and Canterbury Junior members participating in the 2008 Australian Junior Championships but this will have to wait till next week as the tournament is yet to finish Meanwhile check our members progress
http://www.nswjcl.org.au/AustralianJ...2008/index.htm.

09 Australian Junior

Chess Victoria’s ambitious plans to have the 2009 Australian Junior Championships held in Melbourne at the Box Hill Chess Club’s Rochester Road venue suffered a serious set back when the ACF council rejected the submission canning the venue, the administrators and the submission

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Issue 2008.02 – January 15

Canterbury Summer Swiss
Full details of this tournament are now available on the club’s web site www.boxhillchess.org.au Smiling photos of the prize winners [Well most of them] are available on the arbiter’s web site http://gerryhartland.netfirms.com Modesty compelled me to omit the prize giver from the photos. You may see an occasional handshake but no secret ones.

Here are the standings with the prizewinners

Place Name                 Feder Rtg Loc  Club                  Score  1   Wallis, Christopher  A         2172 Eq.1st. $375          6    

  2   Dalton, Samuel       B         1747 Eq. 1st. $375         6    

  3   Yu, Derek            B         1854 3 rd $150             5.5  

  4   Sandler, Leonid      A         2312                       5    

  5   Lindberg, Douglas    A         1942                       5    

  6   Szuveges, Narelle S  B         1710 1st rat. gr.B $100    5    

  7   Matheson, Laurence   D         1547 1st rat.gr. D $100    5    

  8   Sharman, Scot A      C         1682 Eq.1st. rat. gr.C $50 5    

  9   Lawson, Shane        C         1691 Eq.1st. rat. gr.C $50 5    

 10   Davis, Tony J        B         1858                       4.5  

 11   Cheng, Bobby         A         1905                       4.5  

 12   Frost, Peter         B         1702                       4.5  

 13   Flude, David A       C         1660                       4.5  

 14   Chmiel, Rad          B         1713                       4.5  

 15   Schön, Eugene        A         1912                       4    

 16   Tang, Jason          C         1627                       4    

 17   Tan, Justin          D         1521                       4    

 18   Podvorac, Zeljko     C         1657                       4    

 19   Hopkins, Rhys        D         1575                       4    

 20   Vijayakumar, Rengan  B         1719                       4    

 21   Yu, Sally            D         1573                       4    

 22   Potter, Christopher  D         1511                       4    

 23   Croft, Roger         C         1652                       4    

 24   Antolis, Cedric      B         1810                       4    

 25   Sannidhanam, Anurag  C         1687                       4    

 26   Lau, Aaron           F         864  1st rat. gr. F $100   4    

 27   Dalton, Joshua       D         1452                       3.5  

 28   Cook, Geoff L        B         1745                       3.5  

 29   Feng, Thomas         E         1198 Eq 1st rat. gr. E $25 3.5  

 30   Potter, Matthew      C         1651                       3.5  

 31   Potter, Daniel       E         1404 Eq 1st rat. gr. E $25 3.5  

 32   Trott, Timothy       D         1472                       3.5  

 33   Ng, Isaac            E         1262 Eq 1st rat. gr. E $25 3.5  

 34   Suwama, Makoto       E         1247 Eq 1st rat. gr. E $25 3.5  

 35   Dalton, Laurie       E         1313                       3    

 36   Omeragic, Jusuf      E         1426                       3    

 37   Oswald, Franz        D         1566                       3    

 38   Gurevich, Andrew     E         1059                       3    

 39   Yuan, Daniel         F         778                        3    

 40   Renzies, Elliott     E         1416                       3    

 41   Ang, Stephanie       F         972                        3    

 42   Ng, Joshua           F         820                        3    

 43   Gibson, Kyle         F         760                        3    

 44   Hamilton, Liam       G         651  Eq 1st rat. gr. G $35 3    

 45   Stewart, Matthew     G         601  Eq 1st rat. gr. G $35 3    

 46   Deverajh, Joshua     G         451  Eq 1st rat. gr. G $35 3    

 47   Lemmel, Oliver       F         973                        2.5  

 48   Laksman, Vinay       G         601                        2.5  

 49   Huang, Dominic       F         709                        2.5  

 50   Narenthran, Savithri G         532                        2.5  

 51   Ng, Ben              G         510                        2.5  

 52   Wong, Joseph         F         801                        2    

 53   Ni, John             G         651                        2    

 54   Bull-Quijano, Damar  G         601                        2    

 55   Loh, Zachary         G         451                        2    

 56   Ferguson, John       E         1001                       2    

 57   Xu, Leon             G         351                        2    

 58   Cutter, Sean         G         301                        1.5  

 59   Potter, Michael      D         1575                       1.5  

 60   Yeong, Ian           G         401                        1    

 61   Mazzocca, Tony       G         401                        0    

 62   Leyzerman, Almog     G         451                        0    

 63   Yuan, Dong           G         621                        0    

2008 Canterbury Summer SWISS. Bulletin by Trevor Stanning

This was the second year for this new event for Victoria, catering for chess-players at a bit of a loose end in the first week of January.

In its first year, January 2007, the tournament promoter was Geoff Saw from the Dark Horse Chess Club. For 2008, Geoff passed on the opportunity to run the event and instead the Canterbury Junior Chess Club responded to many requests to run an event that prepared juniors for the forthcoming 2008 Australian Juniors in Sydney. Sponsorship money was also available to attract some strong seniors to enter the event, and the opportunity to play against Leonid Sandler proved to be very attractive to seniors who were on holidays over the period.

More than 50 players took advantage of the substantial (25% off) early-bird discount

Many senior players commented on the pleasantness of the 2-round/day schedule, which gave them the opportunity to wander around Canterbury’s tree-lined streets and gardens between rounds. On the other hand this is a bit of a downer for juniors who finish their games earlier and require some supervision by parents between the morning round and the afternoon round. The enjoyment of all seemed apparent over the four days.

A new feature on board 1 was an electronic-sensing-chess-board, called a DGT board, which automatically tracked moves and fed the signal from the board to computers in a viewing area and outwards to the Internet web site for the Club. This feature proved to be good publicity as I was advised by players from other Clubs that they followed (remote from the playing Hall) the progress of board 1 games throughout our tournament.

My many thanks go to Shaun Fielder for extensive work he carried out to set-up the computer facilities. I believe we can quickly activate this facility for all future major events at the Club.

And so to the games, in round 1 the major surprise result was Laurence Matheson’s win over Cedric Antolis.  In round 2 Peter Frost ceded 610 rating points to the top seed, but achieved a draw; this may be Peter’s finest result. As it was a board 1 game the moves were displayed in real-time to the viewing lounge, and to the Internet. Leonid Sandler’s loss of a half-point elevated Sam Dalton and Douglas Lindberg to the top board and at the end of round 3 Douglas was the sole player on 3/3. This earned Douglas a pairing against Leonid Sandler, which looked like being the most significant pairing of the tournament; Leonid won the full point. After 4 rounds Sam Dalton, the 9^th seed, was on 2/2 and you could have got long odds on him featuring at the prize giving. Jason Tang had a nice upset win against Eugene Schon, and Rhys Hopkins did similar against Cedric Antolis. In round 5 Thomas Feng had a good win against Timothy Trott, but most games went according to ratings.

So to round 6, we had two players on 4.5/6 and paired on board 1; all eyes in the viewing lounge watched with disbelief as Wallis moved both knights twice in the first 6 moves, and Sandler played N(g1)-f3, N(f3)-g1, N(g1)-f3 in the first 6 moves; the ultimate cat and mouse. Just as an extremely complex position developed a series of exchanges reduced the game to a dull bishops ending. There were parallels to Melbourne weather with a storm build-up; a quick front moves through, and then benign conditions after the change. 1/2  - 1/2 was the outcome. Sam Dalton could have been paired in this round against seeds 3, 4, or 19; the computer was kind and arranged 19 as Sam’s opponent. Sam duly won the game against Zeljko Podvorac and is the way of pairings rules that matched Sam against Leonid Sandler in the final round. Surely too hard a task for Sam.

Sam Dalton v Leonid Sandler was the game piped into the viewing lounge and out to the Internet, via the DGT board. It proved to be an intensely competitive offering. Sam came out of the opening better, then totally squandered the advantage and then suddenly had it won again. I will get David Flude to annotate this game and present on our web site in the next week. Two locals were overall winners on 6/7; Chris Wallis and Sam Dalton. Full winners list for each division are available at http://www.boxhillchess.org.au/e2008/e0801cso/standings.htm

The prize giving was a social affair and it is clear this January event fills a need in the chess calendar. Congratulations to our captain Gerrit Hartland on a successful event, and thanks to Roger Croft who attended early each day to help with the equipment set-up.

2008 Calendar
The calendar and tournament information on the web site is now available. Hard copies of our complete 2008 calendar are also available at the club from now on in

2008 Coaching at the club

All first term coaching details are now on view on the club website complete with on line entry forms Payments may be made by cheque by mail or with cash when we next meet.

Victorian Blitz Championship

The tournament was dominated by FM  Michael Baron who won with a picket fence score of 11 / 11 He was followed by Dimitry Partsi with 8.5 / 11. The closest club member was Sally Yu who came third with a score of 8 / 11

Australian Champion
I had a call this morning from Frank Solomon the proud father of Stephen Solomon the newly crowned 2008 Australian Champion. Frank rang to remind me that Stephen started his chess career at the Box Hill Chess Club as a small boy in the sixties. What spurred him on to become a chess player was the gift of a chess book from the club library by the then secretary John Illingworth a book which Stephen apparently still has. Frank’s call started me thinking about the achievements of the many young players we have had at the club since it was formed in 1952. Although Stephen is the only Australian Champion who got his start at BHCC, there are a few Australian Junior champions who got going at the club.

1954 Don Robson

1964/65 Bill Kerr

1980 Stephen Solomon
2004 Denis Bourmistrov

Stephen’s 1^st tournament I am not sure of but one of his first wins was against stalwart member Arthur Cottingham whom he beat in 9 moves. Arthur who was the most generous of losers was very proud of the game [!] and showed it to us many times over

08 Australian Junior

There are quite a few Box Hill and Canterbury Junior members playing in the Sydney Australian Junior Championships. You can follow their progress on the web site

http://www.nswjcl.org.au/AustralianJ...2008/index.htm. Members spotted so far in the Under 18 open Chris Wallis, Eugene Schon, Cedric Antolis, Anurag Sannidhanam Derek Yu, Sam, Joshua, and Micah Dalton, Justin Tan.

In the under 12 Michael Chan, Laurence Matheson, Isaac and Joshua Ng, Daniel Yuan, Peter Walmueller, Andrew Gurevich,

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