Tomorrow night, from 7pm, is our end of year function for awards presentation, festive fun and food followed by our Annual General Meeting. Please come along for some cheer and at the AGM we will be deciding on our event schedule and the time controls for our events.
The club will then be in recess until the end of January 2019. To all my readers, have a safe and happy break, and may your chess rating losses be little ones.
Just a quick reminder about coming to chess when you are paired to play! Some players travel considerable distance to play at the club, therefore in fairness to players who attend we need to make sure that they get a game, preferably against their paired opponent.
All games get underway by 7:30pm, with a 30 minute forfeit period.
Please ensure that Steven is advised either by email or phone if you can’t attend on a night that you are paired to play (phone only if notifying on the day of the game). If he is notified he will try to contact your opponent. In addition, if you know in advance that you cannot attend a round, Steven should be advised as soon as possible so that the computer can allocate requested byes.These policies are in place to make every effort to ensure that all players attending the club actually get to play.
At the 2017 AGM we adopted the following policy for failure to attend without previous advice:
We conducted a ballot on whether future rated tournaments would remain at 60 minutes + 30 seconds a move as per the Purdy Cup or revert to 75 minutes + 30 seconds a move. The results of the ballot were clear, with 19 votes cast for the former and 9 for the latter. Therefore, tournaments will use the 60 minutes + 30 seconds a move time control for at least the remainder of 2018. This can be re-visited at the AGM at year end.
Personally, I don’t think the chess quality has suffered unduly, but the shorter time frame gives us all an opportunity for a slighter earlier night.
As we have had a few comings and goings to our club member (seniors) list, I thought I should update the ACF ratings list on the ratings page. Bruce Williams and his partner Regina Edwards have had to return to sunny Qld; we will all be sad to see them go. Some new names to the club include Max and Felix Clerk, Kevin Deraniyagala, Alex Hell, Randy Tagala, Daniel Sheen, Zac Royston, Branislav Minic. Welcome all! Apologies if I have left someone out.
The club is in recess now. An updated 2018 calendar is live on the site. Casual chess will kick off 2018 on the 23rd January. All welcome!
Congratulations to Dean for winning this fun event (well, not fun for all of us, but certainly not serious!). Placings below.
Next week is the start of the Western Masters. If you are unable to make Round 1 and would like to play, please advise Steven as the tournaments are round robins, so games can be caught up.
Also, welcome to Andrew Fletcher, a new player visiting the club.
Placings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Hogg, Dean 2038 6.5 22.5 32.0 27.0
2 Humphreys, Scott 1771 5.5 21.5 31.0 22.0
3-4 Williams, Bruce 2128 5 21.0 30.5 21.0
Gusain, Daniel 1654 5 17.5 26.0 19.0
5 Davis, Tony 1869 4.5 19.0 28.5 19.0
6-8 Fletcher, Andrew 1696 4 19.5 28.0 18.0
Nowak, Ruben 1512 4 18.5 25.5 16.0
Mullen, Chris 1370 4 15.0 23.5 14.0
9-11 Salanowski, Mark 1663 3.5 21.5 29.5 17.0
Richards, Derek 1446 3.5 18.5 25.5 12.0
Jing, Lang 3.5 14.0 18.5 10.5
12-14 Hogan, Steven 1600 3 20.0 26.5 16.0
Edwards, Regina 1364 3 16.0 22.5 10.0
Kostakakis, Angelo 1044 3 13.5 19.5 8.0
15-16 Whitford, Matthew 775 2.5 17.0 24.5 12.0
Hu, Timothy 870 2.5 14.0 19.5 6.0
17-18 Liu, Jim 461 2 17.0 22.5 11.0
Minichelli, Phil 1264 2 14.0 18.5 7.0
19 Liu, William 311 1.5 13.5 17.5 5.0
20 Castles, Tommy 0.5 14.0 19.5 3.0
Well, games in round 4 went mostly according to rating, except Steven keeps doing really well, drawing against Dean! The cross table is below. Note chess will next be on 18 April. Finally, welcome to new players Joel, Finn and Tommy, great to have you guys playing.
Round 4 results
1 Hogan, Steven 1576 1532 [3] .5:.5 Hogg, Dean 2000 1999 [3] 2 Williams, Bruce 2020 2060 [3] 1:0 Nowak, Ruben 1564 1476 [2] 3 Hibberd, Nathan 1942 1977 [2] 1:0 Gusain, Daniel 1725 1562 [2] 4 Salanowski, Mark 1559 1668 [2] 0:1 Davis, Tony 1873 1892 [2] 5 Richards, Derek 1445 1483 [2] 0:1 Humphreys, Scott 1703 1724 [2] 6 Enano, Ronald 1705 1741 [1.5] 1:0 McIntyre, Charlie 1404 1444 [2] 7 Harris, Alexander 1367 1387 [1] -:+ Saric, Sergey 1422 875 [1.5] 8 Edwards, Regina 1512 1363 [1] 1:0 O'Leary, Mike 271 [1] 9 Whitford, Matthew 1417 708 [1] -:+ Wootten, Rory 1426 1255 [1] 10 Bejjanki, Pranav 409 [.5] +:- Doust, Aidan 503 [1] 11 Mullen, Chris 1577 1390 [.5] .5:.5 Liu, Jim 528 [0] 12 Liu, William 257 [0] 0:1 Castles, Tommy [0] 13 Strijker, Finn [0] 0:1 Trofimovs, Joel [0]
Current cross table
1. Williams, Bruce 2020 12:W 8:W 6:W 11:W 2. Hogg, Dean 2000 13:W 7:W 3:W 9:D 3. Hibberd, Nathan 1942 14:W 11:W 2:L 8:W 4. Davis, Tony 1873 15:W 9:L 5:W 7:W 5. Enano, Ronald 1705 16:W 18:D 4:L 12:W 6. Humphreys, Scott 1703 17:W 25:W 1:L 10:W 7. Salanowski, Mark 1559 19:W 2:L 14:W 4:L 8. Gusain, Daniel 1725 20:W 1:L 15:W 3:L 9. Hogan, Steven 1576 21:W 4:W 18:W 2:D 10. Richards, Derek 1445 18:L 22:W 16:W 6:L 11. Nowak, Ruben 1564 24:W 3:L 13:W 1:L 12. McIntyre, Charlie 1404 1:L 24:W 25:W 5:L 13. Mullen, Chris 1577 2:L 19:D 11:L 20:D 14. Harris, Alexander 1367 3:L 20:W 7:L 18:- 15. Edwards, Regina 1512 4:L 21:W 8:L 23:W 16. Wootten, Rory 1426 5:L 23:W 10:L 19:+ 17. Dogaris, George 1368 6:L :- 22:- : 18. Saric, Sergey 1422 10:W 5:D 9:L 14:+ 19. Whitford, Matthew 1417 7:L 13:D :D 16:- 20. Liu, Jim 8:L 14:L 23:L 13:D 21. Doust, Aidan 9:L 15:L 24:W 22:- 22. Bejjanki, Pranav :D 10:L 17:- 21:+ 23. O'Leary, Mike 25:L 16:L 20:W 15:L 24. Liu, William 11:L 12:L 21:L 27:L 25. Thomas, Geoff 23:W 6:L 12:L : 26. Trofimovs, Joel : : : 28: 27. Castles, Tommy : : : 24:W 28. Strijker, Finn : : : 26:L
Yes, the break is over, the holidays but a distant memory, the wait is over, now it is time for chess at Hobsons Bay once again! So saddle up, and get along to the club in Altona on Tuesdays for 7:30pm chess.
The club is having a casual night tomorrow to ease (no saddle sores!) yourself into the chess again. Gidday up!
The club is in recess until 24 Jan 2017. Have a safe and happy break.
Below are the results for the Grunfeld themed allegro night. Well done to Dean, closely followed by Nathan and Julio. There also seem to be some new names I have not seen before, so welcome to Julio, Alvin and Peter.
This Tuesday is the start of the Koshnitsky cup, which will decide qualification for the club championship, which is very tight after 3 tournaments.
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Hogg, Dean 2036 4.5 7.5 13.0 13.0
2-3 Hibberd, Nathan 1812 4 10.0 16.0 14.0
Labrin, Julio 1600 4 8.5 14.0 11.0
4-5 Kissoon, Alvin 1700 3.5 7.0 13.0 11.0
Saric, Sergey 550 3.5 6.5 10.5 8.0
6-8 Ravichandren, Niruthi 1443 3 8.5 14.0 10.0
Richards, Derek 1512 3 8.0 13.5 12.0
Wolf, Peter 1850 3 6.5 11.5 7.0
9-11 Wang, Kayson 1705 2.5 9.0 15.0 8.5
Russo, Guy 1450 2.5 8.0 14.0 7.5
Gusain, Daniel 2.5 7.5 13.0 6.0
12 Bejjanki, Pranav 2 5.5 9.0 5.0
13-18 Salanowski, Mark 1574 1.5 10.0 15.0 7.0
Kostakakis, Angelo 1157 1.5 9.5 14.0 4.5
Hogan, Steven 1610 1.5 8.0 14.5 7.0
O'Leary, Mike 449 1.5 7.5 12.5 2.0
Liu, Jim 1.5 7.0 12.0 4.5
Liu, William 1.5 6.5 10.0 3.0
19 Liu, Tina 0.5 5.0 9.0 1.5
