Just a short post to welcome our visitors to the Hobsons Bay chess club site. Please browse around and get in touch with any comments (or use the contact form under Contact Us to ask a question). Please use the Follow button alongside here so that future posts will be delivered to your inbox. We meet near Altona beach (see About). All Junior info is found here. Note that the Junior club has had to be disbanded since Feb 2020.We also wish to thank our sponsors Bendigo Bank and Barry Plant for their previous and continuing support. You should also be aware of our Hobsons Bay Chess Club Privacy Policy, and the Junior Participation Agreement.
Chess to resume in 2021
Just a quick note that we are planning to restart chess on the 2 Feb 2021, while holding on the 19th January the Annual General Meeting for 2020. Stay tuned for more exciting announcements and a 2021 event calendar!
Peter Caissa Memorial Page
We have created a new page here, to provide more information about Peter Caissa. Peter was a long-standing president and junior coach of the club and also a friend and mentor to its members.
Chess cancelled for the remainder of 2020
Update on COVID-19 impact on chess
Online chess tournament to start
Club activities suspended
- Today’s Government recommendation that people stay 1.5 metres apart. The chess club cannot operate in such conditions.
- The ban on indoor meetings of groups over 100 and even though we are well below this number, such a ban indicates that meeting indoors is not advisable.
- Similar suspensions for the majority of Victorian Chess Clubs.
Chess still operating, for now…
- Players who experience flu-like symptoms stay away from chess until the matter is cleared with your doctor;
- If any player has contact with a person that is suspected to have Corona, stay away until either you complete a 14 day quarantine period OR the person who was suspected of infection receives a negative test result; and
- If returning from oversees, the now mandatory 14 day quarantine will include absence from chess during this period.
Lightning #1 for 2020
The first 9 round, 5-minute ‘skittles’ event was held on Tuesday. David Beaumont won on 7.5/9 from a close field, with 17 people scoring 50% or better! We start the 5 round Purdy Cup next week.
Final standings
Pos N NAME | Rtg PRtg Fed | Pts Buc1 BucT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 29 Beaumont,David | 0 273 VIC | 7.5 46.0 2 1 Gusain,Daniel | 0 220 VIC | 7.0 45.5 3 4 CM Davis,Tony J | 0 220 VIC | 7.0 44.5 4 31 Enano,Ronald | 0 95 VIC | 6.0 45.5 5 5 Humphreys,Scott | 0 125 VIC | 6.0 40.5 6 6 Ilic,Milan | 0 80 VIC | 5.5 45.0 49.0 7 2 Hogg,Dean | 0 80 VIC | 5.5 45.0 48.5 8 28 Zhang,Eric | 0 80 VIC | 5.5 40.5 9 9 Richards,Derek | 0 80 VIC | 5.5 36.0 10 12 Mullen,Chris | 0 43 VIC | 5.0 48.0 11 11 McIntyre,Julian | 0 43 VIC | 5.0 42.0 12 7 Hogan,Steven | 0 43 AUS | 5.0 38.5 13 10 Saric,Sergey | 0 43 VIC | 5.0 36.0 14 8 Whitford,Matthew | 0 0 VIC | 4.5 43.0 15 25 Annapureddy,Rheyansh | 0 0 AUS | 4.5 38.0 16 17 Clerk,Max | 0 0 VIC | 4.5 37.5 17 15 Kurian,Maksym | 0 0 VIC | 4.5 37.0 18 13 Paul,Cijo | 0 0 VIC | 4.0 44.0 19 20 Pethe,Abi | 0 0 VIC | 4.0 34.5 35.0 20 26 Condick,Peter | 0 0 | 4.0 34.5 35.0 21 19 Nawar,Mena | 0 0 AUS | 4.0 34.0 22 14 Jing,Lang | 0 0 VIC | 4.0 32.5 23 23 Minic,Branislav | 0 0 VIC | 3.0 36.0 24 16 Shelev,Petar | 0 0 VIC | 3.0 33.5 25 22 Zhang,Benjamin | 0 0 VIC | 3.0 32.5 26 18 Clerk,Felix| 0 0 VIC | 2.0 34.0 27 24 Watson,Nicolas
| 0 0 VIC | 2.0 28.5 28 21 Bejjanki,Pranav Sai
| 0 0 VIC | 1.5 29.5 29 27 Deng,Tina | 0 0 VIC | 1.0 26.5
March 2020 Ratings updated
The latest updated ACF ratings (and current FIDE rating) for our members are available, listed here.
It is also pleasing to see that Tina Deng has now achieved an ACF rating (160)! She has been coming to the club since April 2018, but only recently scored a result, allowing her to get an ACF (and presumably FIDE) rating. She played 34 rateable games between September 2018 rating period and the December 2019 rating period. This is a great example of perseverance and dedication to improve, even though she scored zero and (usually) had a bye in each event she entered.
Honourable Bob – final standings
Please see attached the final round and standings for the Honourable Bob. Congratulations to Tony for winning, and thus qualifying the end of year club championship. And also this event was a good result (4/5) for Cijo and Julian.
Pos N NAME | Rtg PRtg Fed | Pts Buc1 BucT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 CM Davis,Tony J | 0 800 VIC | 4.5 12.5 2 14 Paul,Cijo | 0 240 VIC | 4.0 14.5 3 12 McIntyre,Julian | 0 240 VIC | 4.0 13.0 4 1 Beaumont,David | 0 193 VIC | 3.5 14.0 5 6 Salanowski,Mark | 0 149 VIC | 3.5 12.5 6 11 Saric,Sergey | 0 193 VIC | 3.5 10.5 7 5 Humphreys,Scott | 0 149 VIC | 3.5 10.0 8 8 Whitford,Matthew | 0 72 VIC | 3.0 12.0 13.0 9 9 Richards,Derek | 0 72 VIC | 3.0 12.0 12.5 10 10 Nowak,Ruben | 0 72 VIC | 3.0 11.0 11 4 Enano,Ronald | 0 95 VIC | 3.0 10.5 12 15 Matijas,Dejan | 0 72 VIC | 3.0 9.5 13 3 WIM Szuveges,Narelle S | 0 0 VIC | 2.5 13.5 16.5 14 17 Shelev,Petar | 0 0 VIC | 2.5 13.5 14.5 15 7 Hogan,Steven | 0 0 VIC | 2.5 12.5 16 21 Clerk,Felix | 0 0 VIC | 2.5 10.5 17 31 Pethe,Abi | 0 125 VIC | 2.5 10.0 18 13 McIntyre,Charlie | 0 0 VIC | 2.0 11.5 19 20 Waadhwa,Ehsaas | 0 0 VIC | 2.0 11.0 20 30 Zhang,Eric | 0 0 VIC | 2.0 10.5 21 22 Nawar,Mena | 0 0 VIC | 2.0 9.5 22 27 Deng,Tina | 0 0 VIC | 2.0 7.0 23 18 Annapureddy,Dhruthin Redd | 0 0 VIC | 1.5 12.0 24 25 Watson,Nicolas | 0 0 VIC | 1.5 11.5 25 23 Bejjanki,Pranav Sai | 0 0 VIC | 1.5 11.0 26 32 Brokies,Alwyn | 0 0 VIC | 1.5 10.0 27 26 Condick,Peter | 0 0 VIC | 1.5 9.5 28 19 Clerk,Max | 0 0 VIC | 1.0 11.0 29 29 Zhang,Benjamin | 0 0 VIC | 1.0 10.0 30 24 Minic,Branislav | 0 0 VIC | 1.0 8.5 31 28 Waadhwa,Rakesh | 0 0 VIC | 0.5 10.5 32 16 McIntyre,Cameron| 0 0 VIC | 0.5 10.0 33 33 Kurian,Maksym | 0 0 VIC | 0.5 9.0