Our very own Club Champion for 2022, 8-year-old Rheyansh Annapureddy from Point Cook suburb, is featured in an article at THE AGE website!
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From our President, Steven Hogan, following the recent AGM.
Firstly thanks to the many who attended presentation night (and well done to award winners) and also for those who contributed to the AGM. Pictures from presentations will shortly be on the facebook page.
The senior calendar for 2023 has been drafted, with chess to start back on 31 January.
Significant outcomes from the AGM were as follows:
Commitee for 2023 is below. Great to see many people on board, and helping out with various aspects of an expanding club
Major AGM Decisions:
Wishing you each a merry Christmas, thank you for 2022 and looking forward to the year ahead. Regards Steve
As we wind down for 2022, here is something for those that track or are concerned about such matters, I have updated the page of member’s ACF ratings here. You can also see the full and detailed June lists on the ACF web site.
Congratulations to the adult winners: Rheyansh Annapureddy (Championship), Anirudh Krishnan (Reserves), and to the junior winners: Anjana Reddy Arumalla (Championship), Sumay Kothari (Reserves).
The full junior standings can be found here.
The 2022 AGM will be held next Tuesday 6th Dec at 7pm (party and prize giving, and resolutions), with the club re-opening on the 17th January.
Adult Championship cross table
NAME Pts | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ---------------------------------------------------------- Paul,Cijo 4.0 | * 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 Annapureddy,Rheyansh 6.5 | 1 * 1 ½ 1 + 1 1 McIntyre,Julian 1.5 | 0 0 * 0 ½ 0 1 0 Hogan,Steven 4.5 | 1 ½ 1 * 1 ½ 0 ½ Matijas,Dejan 0.5 | 0 0 ½ 0 * 0 0 0 Saric,Sergey 2.5 | 0 - 1 ½ 1 * - 0 Davis,Tony J 5.0 | 1 0 0 1 1 + * 1 Whitford,Matthew 3.5 | 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 0 *
Adult Reserves standings
Pos Name Score TB1 TB2
1 Krishnan,Anirudh 7.0 26.5
2 Lacson,Joemar 6.0 29.0
3 Paul,Nikash 5.0 26.5
4 Davis,Sophie 5.0 25.5
5 Ilic,Milan 4.5 23.5
6 Kirk,Ian 4.0 20.0
7 De Rooy,Samuel 4.0 19.5
8 Palyam,Pranshiv 4.0 16.0
9 Pramod,Rishaan 3.5 28.0
10 Lingineni,Khushal 3.5 27.0
11 Richards,Derek 3.5 26.5
12 Nowak,Ruben 3.5 24.5
13 Picone,James 3.5 24.0 27.0
14 Hari,Dhruv 3.5 24.0 25.0
15 De Rooy,Jack 3.5 22.0
16 Condick,Peter 3.5 18.0
17 Wilkinson,Greg 3.0 23.0 26.0
18 Kostakakis,Angelo 3.0 23.0 24.0
19 Kothari,Sumay 3.0 21.0
20 Clerk,Max 2.0 23.5
21 Majety,Rohan 2.0 22.0
22 Sharma,Annika 2.0 18.0
23 Moreta,Simon 2.0 16.0
24 Liu,Tina 1.0 21.0
25 Gopalan,Pradyun 1.0 20.5 22.0
26 Nadella,Hitansh 1.0 20.5 20.5
With only 1 round to go, the leaders are becoming clearer in both of these events. Reyansh is half a point ahead of Tony and Cijo, while Anirudh is a full point ahead of Joemar. Please see attached the pairings for the final round of both tournaments.
Please note that the final round will be played on Tuesday 29 November (in a fortnight). Next week there is NO CHESS apart from the following catch up games in the club championship.
Championship round 7 pairing
1 = Hogan,Steven (3.5) - Whitford,Matthew (3.0)=4-8 2 = Matijas,Dejan (0.0) - McIntyre,Julian (1.0)=5-3 3 = Saric,Sergey (2.0) - Annapureddy,Rheyansh (4.5)=6-2 4 = Davis,Tony J (4.0) - Paul,Cijo (4.0)=7-1
Reserves round 7 pairings
1 = Krishnan,Anirudh (6.0) - De Rooy,Jack (3.5)= 5-24 2 = Davis,Sophie (4.0) - Lacson,Joemar (5.0)=23- 1 3 = Nowak,Ruben (3.5) - Paul,Nikash (4.0)= 3- 4 4 = Richards,Derek (3.5) - Ilic,Milan (3.5)= 7- 2 5 = Lingineni,Khushal(3.5) - Kirk,Ian (3.0)=16- 6 6 = Picone,James (3.0) - Hari,Dhruv (3.0)=13- 8 7 = De Rooy,Samuel (3.0) - Kostakakis,Angelo (3.0)=25-12 8 = Palyam,Pranshiv (3.0) - Wilkinson,Greg (3.0)=20-22 9 = Condick,Peter (2.5) - Sharma,Annika (2.0)= 9-21 10 = Kothari,Sumay (2.0) - Clerk,Max (2.0)=15-11 11 = Gopalan,Pradyun (1.0) - Moreta,Simon (1.0)=14-26 12 = Nadella,Hitansh (0.0) - ( bye ) (0.0)=19- 0 13 = Pramod,Rishaan (3.5) - ( not paired ) 14 = Majety,Rohan (2.0) - ( not paired ) 15 = Liu,Tina (1.0) - ( not paired )
Fresh from his win of the U/8 division of the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Bali, Rheyansh was also interviewed. See the link below. Thanks to Casey for the link.
Now we are 4 rounds into the 7 round events, it’s time for an update!
Club championship
Six of the eight players are on a score of 2 after 4 rounds. So it is still too early to see any front runners. Round 4 results are below.
1 = Whitford,Matthew (1.0)-Saric,Sergey (2.0)= 8- 6 = 1-0 2 = Davis,Tony J (1.0)-Matijas,Dejan (0.0)= 7- 5 = 1-0 3 = Paul,Cijo (2.0)-Hogan,Steven (1.0)= 1- 4 = 0-1 4 = Annapureddy,Rheyansh (1.0)-McIntyre,Julian (1.0)= 2- 3 = 1-0
Club reserves
Anirudh is a point ahead of his nearest rival, but still 3 rounds to go. Round 4 results:
1= Krishnan,Anirudh (3.0)-Lacson,Joemar (3.0)= 5- 1=1-0 2= Ilic,Milan (2.0)-Pramod,Rishaan (2.0)= 2-10=½-½ 3= Wilkinson,Greg (2.0)-Nowak,Ruben (2.0)=22- 3=0-1 4= Paul,Nikash (2.0)-Picone,James (2.0)= 4-13=1-0 5= Hari,Dhruv (2.0)-Davis,Sophie (2.0)= 8-23=0-1 6= De Rooy,Jack (2.0)-Richards,Derek (1.5)=24- 7=0-1 7= Kirk,Ian (1.5)-Clerk,Max (1.0)= 6-11=1-0 8= Lingineni,Khushal (1.0)-De Rooy,Samuel (1.0)=16-25=½-½ 9= Kostakakis,Angelo (1.0)-Sharma,Annika (1.0)=12-21=1-0 10= Palyam,Pranshiv (1.0)-Gopalan,Pradyun(1.0)=20-14=1-0 11= Majety,Rohan (1.0)-Kothari,Sumay (1.0)=18-15=1-0 12= Nadella,Hitansh (0.0)-Condick,Peter (0.5)=19- 9=0-1 13= Liu,Tina (0.0)-( bye )
A big congratulations to our own junior Rheyansh, who has continued his excellent overseas form, winning the U/8 division of the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Bali.
The tournament result page link is below. Well done Rheyansh, we’re all very proud of your achievements!! Keep aiming and flying high!
He previously played in our club’s juniors tournaments organized by Tony Davis and now has graduated to playing in the club’s open category. Rheyansh is on target for the Candidate Master title (which will be made permanent once he reaches 2000 rating).
Please see the crosstable attached for the recent lightning event. Well done to David Beaumont for taking out the event!
This week we played a Fischer Random themed Allegro, ahead of the club championship starting the following week.
Standings
N NAME Pts| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Ogada-Osir,Ibrahim 5.5|+B14 -W8 +B13 +W4 +B3 =W2 +B10 2 Beaumont,David 6.5|+W15 +B11 +W8 +B3 +W7 =B1 +W4 3 Paul,Cijo 4.0|+B16 +W10 +B20 -W2 -W1 +B23 -W7 4 Hogan,Steven 5.0|+W17 +B13 +W25 -B1 +W8 +B6 -B2 5 Saric,Sergey 4.5|+B18 -W20 +B14 =W10 -B6 +W11 +B12 6 Nowak,Ruben 4.5|+W19 -B25 +W15 =B11 +W5 -W4 +B20 7 Paul,Nikash 5.0|-B20 +W22 +B17 +W23 -B2 +W12 +B3 8 Krishnan,Anirudh 4.0|+W21 +B1 -B2 +W20 -B4 -W10 +B17 9 Richards,Derek 2.0|-B22 +W18 -B23 -W17 -B14 +W21 -B24 10 Hari,Dhruv 4.5|+W23 -B3 +W19 =B5 +W11 +B8 -W1 11 Matijas,Dejan 3.5|+B24 -W2 +B22 =W6 -B10 -B5 +W19 12 De Rooy,Jack 3.0|-W25 -B19 +W21 +B24 +W17 -B7 -W5 13 De Rooy,Samuel (W)1.0|+B26 -W4 -W1 -- -- -- -- 14 Clerk,Max 3.0|-W1 +B21 -W5 -B25 +W9 +B15 -W23 15 Picone,James 3.0|-B2 +W24 -B6 +W22 -B20 -W14 +B16 16 Eldridge,Dylan 1.0|-W3 -B23 -W24 -B21 +BYE -B19 -W15 17 Goh,Casey 3.0|-B4 +W26 -W7 +B9 -B12 +W22 -W8 18 Goh,Nicholas 2.5|-W5 -B9 +W26 =B19 +W21 -W20 -B22 19 Keenan,Liam 2.5|-B6 +W12 -B10 =W18 -B23 +W16 -B11 20 Lingineni,Khushal 4.0|+W7 +B5 -W3 -B8 +W15 +B18 -W6 21 Liu,Tina 2.0|-B8 -W14 -B12 +W16 -B18 -B9 +BYE 22 Majety,Rohan 3.0|+W9 -B7 -W11 -B15 +W24 -B17 +W18 23 Micallef,Reuben 4.0|-B10 +W16 +W9 -B7 +W19 -W3 +B14 24 Nadella,Hitansh 3.0|-W11 -B15 +B16 -W12 -B22 +BYE +W9 25 Ruaya,Chris (W)3.0|+B12 +W6 -B4 +W14 -- -- -- 26 Ruaya,Rohan (W)1.0|-W13 -B17 -B18 +BYE -- -- --
Rheyansh is currently competing in the World Youth Chess Championships in Georgia, ranked as the 4th seed in the U8s. Rheyansh has won his first 2 games, below is a link to his 3rd match tonight (subsequent rounds can also be found in due course).
Go Rheyansh!! HBCC is very proud of how far your chess has come. All the best in this exciting opportunity!
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