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Looking forward to 2024!

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Just a short note about the changes coming in 2024, following our recent Annual General Meeting.

Cheaper: Membership fees are reduced by $20 for adult and $25 for Juniors. Revised fees can be found on the membership page. Event entry fee is cheapest when paying online to Tornelo.

Names/rates: Blitz replaces Lightning (9 rounds of 5 minutes + 2 seconds per move); Rapid replaces Allegro (5 rounds of 15 minutes + 10 seconds per move).

Dates: The regular calendar has been updated here. Stay tuned for a revised junior calendar.

Chat: Results of our events and promotional material will be posted on chesschat.org so that a much wider audience can see what we are up to and participate.

Best: The Best in West will be returning on 31 Aug – 1 Sep: Our premier weekender event!

All rounder event – completed

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The all round championship concluded last night with Rheyansh taking out both the evening and the overall tournament. Terrific effort Rheyansh! Proving yourself as a very capable juniors who may win plenty of tournaments in the near future (and whose future rating will show considerable improvement). The top three standings were:

  • 1st – Rheyansh (38.5 out of 47 possible)
  • 2nd – Julian (32.5)
  • 3rd – Scott (30.5).

Detailed summary scores were:

From our illustrious President:

Likely start-back date (subject to AGM) will be Tuesday 18 January. That will involve informal activities with tournament play to commence the following week.

Wishing you each a very merry Christmas if I don’t see you beforehand. Hope to see you when we start back in 2022!
Regards, Steve

Details for chess resuming on 9 November

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The event will run over 5 weeks, with a variety of game lengths. Players will accumulate points from each game, with the winner being the player gaining the highest number of points. The lengths of the games, and number of points attached is each is as follows:

  • Blitz – 9 rounds – 1 evening – 5 + 3 secs delay – 1 point per game
  • Short length – 5 rounds – 1 evening – 10 mins + 5 secs delay 2 points per game
  • Medium length – 4 rounds – 1 evening – 20 mins + 10 secs delay 3 points per game
  • Long – 4 round – 2 evenings – 30 mins + 15 secs delay 4 points per game

The dates of the games will be as follows:

  • 9 Nov – Medium length games
  • 16 Nov – Long games (night 1)
  • 23 Nov – Long games (night 2)
  • 30 Nov – Short Length Games
  • 7 Dec – Blitz

The Medium Length and Long games will be paired as one single event for the purpose of determining the pairings. Therefore, players will play different opponents across the 3 initial evenings. The Short length and blitz rounds will be paired as separate tournaments.
Players may take 1 of the first 3 rounds as byes, and will receive half the points available for the evening they are away.

As the event is unrated, it is free for members of the club. Normal tournament fees will apply otherwise.

Please note the winner(s) will receive a medal at presentation night for the event, however the decision was taken not to rate the event in acknowledgement of the time since we’ve been able to play in a competitive manner. Also, the event won’t decide a club champion for the year. Unfortunately the club championship and Peter Caissa Cup can’t be awarded this year.

Ladies and gents – please start your (chess) engines!

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Just wishing to build some momentum, as we look very likely to be able to have face-to-face chess resuming at Altona on 9th November! As mentioned in the previous post, this will be 5 rounds of medium, long, long, short and blitz time frame games, over 5 weeks.

Games would nominally start at 7.30pm, but please arrive by 7:15pm at the latest so we can organise the entries, pairings.

Sorry, chess engines will NOT be allowed, just what sits between your ears.

Fischer Random results

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Another set of strange starting positions for our last rapid play event for 2019. Daniel came out on top with 5/5, with commendations for Mark and Sergey!

Crosstable

  1 Gusain,Daniel        1965     VIC  5.0 | +B8   +W5   +B4   +W2   +B6    |   13.0    15.0 
  2 Salanowski,Mark      1550     VIC  4.0 | +B13  +W6   +B14  -B1   +W5    |   12.5    14.0 
  3 Saric,Sergey         1238     VIC  4.0 | +B7   -W4   +B8   +W10  +B9    |    9.5    11.5 
  4 Humphreys,Scott      1598     VIC  3.0 | +W9   +B3   -W1   -B5   +W11   |   14.0    16.0 
  5 Hogan,Steven         1451     VIC  3.0 | +B11  -B1   +W12  +W4   -B2    |   14.0    15.5 
  6 Whitford,Matthew     1401     VIC  3.0 | +W15  -B2   +W7   +B14  -W1    |   13.0    13.5 
  7 Waadhwa,Ehsaas          0     AUS  3.0 | -W3   +BYE  -B6   +W8   +B10   |   11.0    12.5 
  8 Clerk,Max             791     VIC  2.0 | -W1   +B15  -W3   -B7   +W14   |   13.0    13.5 
  9 Clerk,Felix           695     VIC  2.0 | -B4   +W11  -B10  +W15  -W3    |   11.0    11.5 
 10 Richards,Derek       1454     VIC  2.0 | -W12  +B13  +W9   -B3   -W7    |   10.0    11.5 
 11 Brockies,Alwyn          0          2.0 | -W5   -B9   +W13  +B12  -B4    |    9.5    11.0 
 12 Watson,Nicolas        311     VIC  2.0 | +B10  -W14  -B5   -W11  +BYE   |    8.5     9.5 
 13 Nawar,Mena            460     VIC  2.0 | -W2   -W10  -B11  +BYE  +B15   |    8.5     9.0 
 14 Paul,Cijo            1400          1.5 | =BYE  +B12  -W2   -W6   -B8    |   11.5    13.0 
 15 Deng,Tina               0     AUS  1.0 | -B6   -W8   +BYE  -B9   -W13   |    8.5     9.5

Hobsons Bay Rapid, final round.

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Due to some computer issues for our Arbiter, I do not have the round 7-9 results. But round 10 is below. Congratulations to Mohammad on his tournament win with 8.5 / 10! Next Tuesday is an allegro evening, with the Grunfeld defence as the theme (starting moves 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5)

The following week will be the commencement of the 7 round Koshnitsky Cup. The event calendar is here.

No Name               Loc  Total  Result   Name                  Loc  Total

 1 Cheema, Mohammad   1728 [7.5]    1:0    Russo, Guy            1450 [4.5]
 2 Hibberd, Nathan    1812 [6.5]    1:0    Hogan, Steven         1610 [6]  
 3 Enano, Ronald      1777 [6.5]    1:0    Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [5.5]
 4 Minichelli, Phil        [4.5]    0:1    Hibberd, Aaron        832  [4.5]
 5 Saric, Sergey      550  [4.5]   .5:.5   Liu, Jim                   [4.5]
 6 Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [4]      0:1    Gusain, Daniel             [4.5]
 7 Salanowski, Mark   1574 [4]      1:0    O'Leary, Mike         449  [3.5]
 8 Richards, Derek    1512 [4]     .5:.5   Papac, Luka           1637 [3.5]
 9 Shelev, Petar           [2]      0:1    Bejjanki, Pranav           [2.5]
10 Liu, William            [2.5]   .5:0    BYE

Hobsons Bay Rapid, rounds 5 and 6

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Please see the results below for rounds 5 and 6. With Mohammad beating Dean in round 6, he is in the box seat for future rounds.

Round 5

No Name                  Loc  Total  Result   Name               Loc  Total

 1 Cheema, Mohammad      1728 [3.5]    1:0    Nowak, Ruben       1435 [3]  
 2 Hibberd, Nathan       1812 [3]      0:1    Hogg, Dean         2036 [3]  
 3 Russo, Guy            1450 [3]      0:1    Enano, Ronald      1777 [3]  
 4 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [2.5]    1:0    Salanowski, Mark   1574 [2.5]
 5 Mullen, Chris         1382 [2]      0:1    Hogan, Steven      1610 [2.5]
 6 Gusain, Daniel             [2]      0:1    Richards, Derek    1512 [2]  
 7 O'Leary, Mike         449  [2]      0:1    Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [2]  
 8 Hibberd, Aaron        832  [1.5]    0:1    Saric, Sergey      550  [1.5]
 9 Doust, Aidan               [1]      0:1    Ramos, Tony        1487 [1.5]
10 Liu, Jim                   [1]      0:1    Minichelli, Phil        [1]  
11 Liu, William               [.5]     1:0    Liu, Tina               [.5] 
12 Papac, Luka           1637 [0]      1:0    Bejjanki, Pranav        [.5] 
13 Shelev, Petar              [1]     .5:0    BYE

Round 6

No Name               Loc  Total  Result   Name                  Loc  Total

 1 Hogg, Dean         2036 [4]      0:1    Cheema, Mohammad      1728 [4.5]
 2 Hogan, Steven      1610 [3.5]    1:0    Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [3.5]
 3 Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [3]      0:1    Hibberd, Nathan       1812 [3]  
 4 Richards, Derek    1512 [3]     .5:.5   Russo, Guy            1450 [3]  
 5 Nowak, Ruben       1435 [3]      1:0    Salanowski, Mark      1574 [2.5]
 6 Saric, Sergey      550  [2.5]    1:0    Ramos, Tony           1487 [2.5]
 7 Mullen, Chris      1382 [2]      0:1    Gusain, Daniel             [2]  
 8 Minichelli, Phil        [2]      1:0    O'Leary, Mike         449  [2]  
 9 Hibberd, Aaron     832  [1.5]    1:0    Liu, William               [1.5]
10 Doust, Aidan            [1]      0:1    Papac, Luka           1637 [1]  
11 Bejjanki, Pranav        [.5]    .5:.5   Liu, Jim                   [1]  
12 Enano, Ronald      1777 [4]     .5:0    BYE                             
13 Shelev, Petar           [1.5]   .5:0    BYE                             
14 Liu, Tina               [.5]    .5:0    BYE

Rapid Play rounds 3 and 4

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Two more rounds have been played (5 nights or 10 rounds in total). it is still a very tight event. Results are below, and a preliminary draw for round 5.
Round 3

No Name                  Loc  Total  Result   Name               Loc  Total

 1 Cheema, Mohammad      1728 [2]     .5:.5   Enano, Ronald      1777 [2]  
 2 Russo, Guy            1450 [2]     .5:.5   Hogg, Dean         2036 [1.5]
 3 Hibberd, Nathan       1812 [1.5]    1:0    Ramos, Tony        1487 [1.5]
 4 Ilic, Milan           1609 [1.5]    0:1    Nowak, Ruben       1435 [1.5]
 5 Gusain, Daniel             [1]     .5:.5   Hogan, Steven      1610 [1]  
 6 Liu, Jim                   [1]      0:1    Salanowski, Mark   1574 [1]  
 7 Richards, Derek       1512 [1]      +:-    Saric, Sergey      550  [1]  
 8 O'Leary, Mike         449  [1]      0:1    Mullen, Chris      1382 [1]  
 9 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [.5]     1:0    Bejjanki, Pranav        [0]  
10 Hibberd, Aaron        832  [0]     .5:.5   Shelev, Petar           [0]  
11 Withers, Jeremy            [0]      0:1    Doust, Tim              [0]  
12 Doust, Aidan               [0]     .5:.5   Liu, William            [0]  
13 Minichelli, Phil           [0]      0:1    Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [0]  
14 Liu, Tina                  [0]     .5:.5   BYE

Round 4

No Name               Loc  Total  Result   Name                  Loc  Total

 1 Enano, Ronald      1777 [2.5]   .5:.5   Hibberd, Nathan       1812 [2.5]
 2 Nowak, Ruben       1435 [2.5]   .5:.5   Russo, Guy            1450 [2.5]
 3 Richards, Derek    1512 [2]      0:1    Cheema, Mohammad      1728 [2.5]
 4 Hogg, Dean         2036 [2]      1:0    Mullen, Chris         1382 [2]  
 5 Salanowski, Mark   1574 [2]     .5:.5   Gusain, Daniel             [1.5]
 6 Hogan, Steven      1610 [1.5]    +:-    Ilic, Milan           1609 [1.5]
 7 Ramos, Tony        1487 [1.5]    0:1    Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [1.5]
 8 Doust, Tim              [1]      0:1    O'Leary, Mike         449  [1]  
 9 Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [1]      1:0    Liu, Jim                   [1]  
10 Liu, Tina               [.5]     0:1    Hibberd, Aaron        832  [.5] 
11 Shelev, Petar           [.5]    .5:.5   Doust, Aidan               [.5] 
12 Liu, William            [.5]     0:1    Minichelli, Phil           [0]  
13 Bejjanki, Pranav        [0]     .5:.5   Withers, Jeremy            [0]  
14 Saric, Sergey      550  [1]     .5:0    BYE

Round 5 (preliminary draw)

No Name                  Loc  Total  Result   Name               Loc  Total

 1 Cheema, Mohammad      1728 [3.5]     :     Nowak, Ruben       1435 [3]  
 2 Hibberd, Nathan       1812 [3]       :     Hogg, Dean         2036 [3]  
 3 Russo, Guy            1450 [3]       :     Enano, Ronald      1777 [3]  
 4 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [2.5]     :     Salanowski, Mark   1574 [2.5]
 5 Mullen, Chris         1382 [2]       :     Hogan, Steven      1610 [2.5]
 6 Gusain, Daniel             [2]       :     Richards, Derek    1512 [2]  
 7 O'Leary, Mike         449  [2]       :     Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 [2]  
 8 Hibberd, Aaron        832  [1.5]     :     Saric, Sergey      550  [1.5]
 9 Doust, Aidan               [1]       :     Ramos, Tony        1487 [1.5]
10 Minichelli, Phil           [1]       :     Doust, Tim              [1]  
11 Liu, Jim                   [1]       :     Shelev, Petar           [1]  
12 Bejjanki, Pranav           [.5]      :     Liu, Tina               [.5] 
13 Liu, William               [.5]    .5:0    BYE                          
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Rapid play rounds 1 and 2

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The rapid play event has commenced at our new venue (108 Queen Street). Please see the results for round 1 and 2 and draw for the first round next week.
Round 1

No Name                  Loc  Total  Result   Name             Loc  Total

 1 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [0]     .5:.5   Hogg, Dean       2036 [0]  
 2 Hibberd, Nathan       1812 [0]     .5:.5   Nowak, Ruben     1435 [0]  
 3 Hibberd, Aaron        832  [0]      0:1    Enano, Ronald    1777 [0]  
 4 Cheema, Mohammad      1728 [0]      1:0    Saric, Sergey    550  [0]  
 5 O'Leary, Mike         449  [0]      0:1    Hogan, Steven    1610 [0]  
 6 Ilic, Milan           1609 [0]      1:0    Bejjanki, Pranav      [0]  
 7 Doust, Aidan               [0]      0:1    Salanowski, Mark 1574 [0]  
 8 Richards, Derek       1512 [0]      1:0    Doust, Tim            [0]  
 9 Gusain, Daniel             [0]      0:1    Ramos, Tony      1487 [0]  
10 Russo, Guy            1450 [0]      1:0    Liu, William          [0]  
11 Liu, Jim                   [0]      0:1    Mullen, Chris    1382 [0]

Round 2

No Name             Loc  Total  Result   Name                  Loc  Total

 1 Enano, Ronald    1777 [1]      1:0    Richards, Derek       1512 [1]  
 2 Salanowski, Mark 1574 [1]      0:1    Cheema, Mohammad      1728 [1]  
 3 Hogan, Steven    1610 [1]      0:1    Russo, Guy            1450 [1]  
 4 Ramos, Tony      1487 [1]      0:1    Ilic, Milan           1609 [1]  
 5 Mullen, Chris    1382 [1]      0:1    Hibberd, Nathan       1812 [.5] 
 6 Nowak, Ruben     1435 [.5]     1:0    Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 [.5] 
 7 Hogg, Dean       2036 [.5]     1:0    Hibberd, Aaron        832  [0]  
 8 Saric, Sergey    550  [0]      1:0    Doust, Aidan               [0]  
 9 Liu, William          [0]      0:1    O'Leary, Mike         449  [0]  
10 Bejjanki, Pranav      [0]      0:1    Gusain, Daniel             [0]  
11 Doust, Tim            [0]      0:1    Liu, Jim                   [0]