Archived tournament reports for 2004

Humble Pawn Teams Tournament - 17 November to 15 December

Humble Pawn Teams [pictures below]

 

The Coomera Crushers finished strongly, and the undefeated Tallai Titans were heavily defeated in the last round by the Robina Rooks. The result was a three-way tie for first between the Coomera Crushers, the Burleigh Bishops and the Tallai Titans, with the teams finishing in that order on tie-break.

 

Final standings:

 

Coomera Crushers	7/9 team points	37 individual points
Burleigh Bishops	7	32.5
Tallai Titans	7	31
Robina Rooks	6	31
Carrara Cannons	5	26
Broadbeach Brains	3.5	26.5
Tweed Tornadoes	3.5	24.5
Southport Sharks	2.5	22.5
Nerang Knights	2	20
Mudgeeraba Marauders	1.5	18.5

          

                                 

Board Prizes:

 

1     Craig Duxbury

2     Nik Stawski

3     Cameron Thompson

4     Yitao Lei

5     Jayden Fisher

6     Vaso Dakovic

Final results: Humble Pawn Individuals 2004; Humble Pawn Teams 2004

 

Photos

 

Custodians of the Humble Pawn for 2004 Nik Stawski, Sean Underwood, Craig Duxbury, Jessica Kinder, David Esmonde & Scott Underwood

Board prizes

Craig Duxbury	Nik Stawski

Cameron Thompson	Yitao Lei

Jayden Fisher	Vaso Dakovic

 

 

Gold Coast Transfer Championship - 7 November, am

Dion Sampson and Sean Karita showed themselves to be the masters of transfer by winning the junior-dominated Gold Coast Transfer Championship with a picket fence 13/13. Steven Cooke and Kelvin Finke shared second place with Toshi Kimura and Phachara Wongwichit on 11/13. The 'sibling supremos' - brother and sister team of Liam McGarity and Molly McGarity did well to score 8 alongside brothers Jayden and Nathan Fisher.

 

It was an excellent turn-out for a very wet Sunday where many roads in the area were flooded - a total of 26 teams competed. Full results at Transfer, Nov 2004

Gold Coast Lightning Championship - 7 November, pm

Phachara Wongwichit convincingly won the Gold Coast Lightning on 11/13, ahead of Mark Robertson and Casey Barnard on 9.5. Kevin Sheldrick from Adelaide, holidaying on the coast, held the lead at one stage, but finished on 9 alongside Oleg Korenevski who again finished well ahead of his rating. Anthony Lam recovered from a horror start to have a strong influence in the final rounds.

1^st Phachara Wongwichit

2^nd Mark Robertson

3^rd Casey Barnard

 

Rating Group A Oleg Korenevski

Rating Group B Cameron Thompson

Rating Group C Maxine Tan

Rating Group D Anna Songkhunawej

 

Encouragement Awards: Liam McGarity, Maxine Tan, Patama Songkhunawej and Nicola Robertson

56 players participated.

 

Full results at GC Lightning - November 2004

 

Gold Coast Allegro Championship

This event was full of upsets, and the lead changed hands several times. At the end of it all, there was a triple tie between Kevin Casey, Phachara Wongwichit and Moulthun Ly on 7.5/9. Kevin won the title on countback. Nik Stawski was leading by half a point going into the last round, but lost to Phachara Wongwichit and finished out of the places.

1st Kevin Casey $150
2nd Phachara Wongwichit $100
3rd Moulthun Ly $50

Rating Group A Nathan Davidson $50
Rating Group B Zane Adams $50
Rating Group C Molly McGarity $50
Rating Group D Daniel Durden $50
Rating Group E Caleb Eriksson $50

Full results at Gold Coast Allegro 2004

 

 

Rating group winners: (from left) Zane Adams, Daniel Durdan, Molly McGarity, Caleb Erikssen & Nathan Davidson	The winners: (from left) Phachara Wongwichit (2nd), Moulthun Ly (3rd) & Kevin Casey (1st)

Queensland Girls' Championships 2004

The dozen girls competing in this two day, seven round, event had some tough battles on their hands but each seemed to enjoy the challenges they faced. The winners were:

Alex Jule    - $150

Luthien Russell - $100

Kieran Lyons & Jessica Kinder - $25 each

U18    Alex Jule

U16    Luthien Russell

U14    Jessica Kinder

U12    Molly McGarity

U10    Abbie Kanagarajah

U8      Ulani Powell

Results can be found here

Alex receives her awards from Gail Young	Gail and Luthien Russell
Alex Jule, Luthien Russell, Jessica Kinder & Molly McGarity
The players, along with Graeme Gardiner & Gail Young (hiding)

2004 Medal Event - 26 September

This ten-round Swiss tournament was organised specifically for juniors who are either unrated, or have a junior rating of less than 1,000. There were 36 players in all, one of them being only four and a bit years of age - and he lasted the full 10 rounds!

The medal winners were:

1st Daniel Durden

2nd Daniel Torise

3rd Calvin Zhang

Encouragement awards went to Luke Toda, Alex Arase, Caleb Eriksson, Elliott Richards and 4-year-old Tommy Van Der Weegen (pictured below)

 

Our youngest, serious chess player . . . Watch out for Tommy Van Der Weegen!

 

Little chess-obsessed Tommy pictured in action in June this year, while still a three-year-old

Black and White Cup

Sam Grigg (aged 11) on 7/8 has won the Black and White Cup with a convincing margin of 1.5 points. In the last round he defeated Alex Ruddy 2-0, winning the second game from a losing position. Fred Rosenow finished second on 5.5 and Alex Ruddy third on 5. Well done Sam!

Full results: Black and White Cup 2004

Nell Van De Graaf Classic [see the picture gallery below] See also report by IA Charles Zworestine

Stephen Solomon has won the Nell Van De Graaff Classic with a score of 6.5/7. He was in trouble in his first game against Oleg Korenevski (a rook down), and hung on for a draw against Arianne Caoili in round 5. Arianne finished second on 6 with Khalimzhan Abylkassov, Phachara Wongwichit and Ben Lazarus third on 5.5.

The ratings prize winners were:

A Ben Lazarus 5.5,
B Kelvin Finke, Alex Jule, Jim Laky and Ric Kaspar 4
C Yitao Lei 5
D Colin Xiao 4.5
E Oliver McCarthy, Jordan Messenger and Leoma Lee 3

The event also doubled as a teams event, with teams limited to a maximum rating of 1500 (increased from 1400 as the lower figure of 1400 became mathematically unworkable). The winning team on 17.5 was the Lazarus team comprising Ben Lazarus, Brock McIntyre, Michael Gearing and Colin Xiao. Second on countback was the Grey Lake Boys team and third the Formidable team.

Nell Van De Graaff participated in the event, giving her usual whole-hearted performance. She gave a very gracious speech at the prize-giving ceremony. The event was previously named the Gold coast Classic, but was renamed in recognition of the wonderfully positive influence Nell has been on Gold Coast chess for the last 12 years.

Full details at: Nell Van De Graaff Classic 2004

Picture Gallery

 

Nell Van De Graaff (after whom the tournament is named) coincidentally wins the random prize	Stephen Solomon receives the trophy from Ronnie Gaviola, a guest from The Philippines
Just a few of the winners of prizes in the Nell Van de Graaff Classic

Hardys FIDE Rated Classic

Craig Duxbury has convincingly won the 2004 Hardys FIDE Rated Classic with a score of 8/9. Second was Nik Stawski on 7 and third Peter Cormick on 6.5. John Alkin was impressive on 5 and 10-year-old Kelvin Finke had a good first effort on 3.5.

School tournaments

Gold Coast Primary Schools Finals

Worongary Primary have won the Gold Coast Primary Schools Teams Championship once again with a convincing four point margin. Their team of Kelvin Finke, Sam Grigg, Jayden Fisher and Lachlan Pedersen-Lee scored 20.5/24 ahead of Somerset College (Thompson) on 16.5, Somerset College (Wu) on 13.5 and Mudgeeraba Creek on 13. This was a particularly good effort by Mudgeeraba Creek, who were playing in the Championship Grade for the first time.

Best of luck to the top four teams who go on to represent the Gold Coast at the state finals at Brisbane Grammar School on the weekend of 9/10 October.

The state winners compete at the nationals at Mt Buller on the weekend of 4/5 December.

Worongary also won most of the individual prizes in this grade, with Kelvin Finke, Sam Grigg and Jayden Fisher winning their respective board prizes. Brendan Baker picked up the other board prize.

Winners of the other grades were:

South A Teams - Mudgeeraba Creek (Flego) Individual: Yitao Lei
South B Teams - Somerset College (Arase) Individual: Daniel Arase
South C Teams - Somerset College (Engwirda) Individual: Kento Ikoma
South D Teams - Silkwood Steiner (Reid) Individual: Claire Sun
North A Teams - Guardian Angels (Jack) Individual: Curtis Jack
North B Teams - Helensvale (Doran) Individual: Jake Turner
North C Teams - Coomera (Popata) Individual: Jordan Api

 

North Zone results: Grade A; Grade B & Grade C

South Zone results: Grade A; Grade B, Grade C  & Grade D Championship Grade - teams Championship Grade - individuals

Gold Coast High Schools Teams Queensland Qualifier 2004

Somerset College have again won this event, this time with a score of 24.5/28. Second came the TSS team with 19.5 on countback from the second Somerset team also on 19.5. Merrimac High became the fourth team to qualify for the state finals at Brisbane Grammar on 9/10 September with a score of 18.

The winning team from Somerset College comprised Phachara Wongwichit, Toshi Kimura, Chris Page and Steven Cooke. The second placed team from TSS comprised Jason Lam, Paul Ma, Sean Underwood and Andy Lau. The third placed team from Somerset comprised Ric Kaspar, Dylan Bourke, Shaun Chen and Nicholas Webb. 124 players from 31 teams participated.

Chris Page, Toshi Kimura, Chris Hardy, Daniel Ford and James Orevich all scored the maximum 7/7. Board prize winners were: Board 1 Chris Hardy, Board 2 Toshi Kimura, Board 3 Chris Page and Board 4 Andy Lau.

Junior Masters - term 3 - from Monday 19 July, for 8 weeks

This tournament commenced on Monday 19 July and ran for a total of 8 weeks. We have changed the day of the masters this term to Mondays to enable those juniors unable to participate on a Tuesday to enjoy this unique event.

Junior Masters Term Three

Daniel Ford has won the term three junior masters after a tense final round. Yitao Lei defeated Shaun Curtis fairly quickly, and Daniel Ford had a convincing win over Cameron Thompson. Sam Grigg tried very hard to defeat Lachlan Pedersen-Lee, but couldn't break through and the game was drawn.

Daniel Ford played faultless chess in the lightning play-off, defeating Yitao Lei 2-0 to win his second Junior Masters.

The Final Standings were:

Daniel Ford and Yitao Lei 6.5/8
Sam Grigg 6
Lachlan Pedersen-Lee 5.5
Nigel Thomas and Nicholas Webb 5

Full results for Term 3 at: Junior Masters

President's Cup - from Wednesday 21 July, for 4 weeks

Despite a penultimate round loss to Jayden Fisher, David Richards won the President's Cup on 6/8, half a point ahead of Alex Ruddy on 5.5 with Jayden Fisher third on 5.

Tweed City Shopping Centre Tournament 

The field of 57 was a little disappointing as these shopping centre events go.

However, Casey Barnard, Phachara Wongwichit, Moulthun Ly and Toshi Kimura had a rivetting battle for the $200 first prize. Casey proved that he is  the current master of these events by scoring 7.5/9 followed by Moulthun Ly, Phachara Wongwichit and Toshi Kimura on 7 (in that order on countback). This is the third straight shopping centre event won by Casey.

Upset results included a win by Sam Grigg over Moulthun Ly, and draws by Jessica Kinder and Nathan Fisher with Toshi Kimura.

Prizes:

1st Casey Barnard $200
2nd Moulthun Ly $30
Under 1800 Daniel Ford $30 
Under 1100 Erik Moren $30
Under 800 Ryan Sanche $30
Under 700 Jacob Lummus $30
Unrated 1st Alex Stahnke $30
Unrated 2nd Gene Nakauchi $30
Unrated 3rd Joel Smith $30
Unrated 4th Christopher Cohen $30
Highest Upset Points Bryan West $30 

Border Schools Tournament - Tuesday 3 August 2004

Participating schools this year were Hillcrest Christian College, St Andrews and St Michael's (combining with St Vincent's). The organiser, John Bassett, advises that invitations were also extended to Lakeside Christian College and Lindisfarne Anglican School.

Last year St Michael's got home by just one point, but on this occasion Hillcrest got home by just 2.5 points.

Overall scores: Hillcrest (6 teams) 102.5, St Michael's/St Vincent's (6 teams) 100.0 and St Andrews (4 teams) 55.0.

The Hillcrest Kobeleff team won the high schools section with 24 points ahead of St Michael's Williams on 23 and the Hillcrest Tay team on 19.5. The St Vincent's Richards team won the primary section on 22.0 from Hillcrest Weitenberg on 18.0 and St Andrews Podesta on 17.5.

Joshua Kobeleff won the high schools individual trophy on 7/8 ahead of Chris Williams on tie-break, with Nathan Kobeleff third on 6. Elliott Richards won the primary schools individual trophy on 6/7 ahead of Sam Grima on tie-break, with Zane Weitenberg third on 5.5.

Full results at: Border Schools 2004

Green and Gold Cup

Sam Grigg has won the Green and Gold Cup with a score of 10.5/13. This was a convincing win from Sam who is only eleven years old. He won the $150 first prize. The Worongary connection dominated the placings with Kelvin Finke ($100) in second and Jayden Fisher ($50) third. Luthien Russell won the $50 under 1000 prize and Joshua Rose the $50 under 800 prize.

Gold Coast Women and Girls

Alex Jule ($75) won this event with 7/7. She was never in any trouble and cruised to victory ahead of Kieran Lyons ($62.50), Ingrid Thompson ($50) and Molly McGarity ($62.50) who each scored 5/7. Kieran and Molly shared the Girls Trophy. The under 700 prize was won by Charis Chan.

Women's Trophies: 1st Alex Jule, 2nd Ingrid Thompson, 3rd Charis Chan.

Girls' Trophies: 1st= Kieran Lyons and Molly McGarity, 3rd Kristen Curtis.

Sam Grigg	Kelvin Finke & Henry MacLennan	Molly McGarity & Keiran Lyans
Alex Jule & Bruce Harris	Ingrid Thompson & Bruce Harris	Charis Chan & Bruce Harris

Queensland Vets and Disabled

Bernie Saavedra ($100) convincingly won this event with a score of 4.5/5. Second was Wendy Terry ($100) and third Vasile Buciu ($50).

Qld Vets: 1st Bernie Saavedra, 2nd= Wayne Fraser ($50) and Bob Goodwin (also 1st under 1400, $50).

Qld Disabled: 1st Wendy Terry, 2nd Vasile Buciu.

Winter Regional Teams Championships - from 14 June

The Winter Regional Teams concluded on Monday 12 July, with Mudgeeraba convincingly winning the event. They defeated all the other teams on the way. Alex Jule was the only player to win all five of her games. Awards will be presented at the first round of the President's Cup which is scheduled to commence next Wednesday 21 July commencing at 7pm.

Full Results: Winter Regional Teams (Ind) 2004; Winter Regional Teams 2004

Earlier rounds:

The David Richards-led Mudgeeraba burst into the lead at the end of round two of the inaugural Winter Regional Teams event. GM Ian Rogers was a surprise late inclusion in the Robina team, Matt Sonter on board one for the Southern Suburbs team being the sacrificial lamb. Peter Cormick's Nerang team are, as usual, very competitive and are nicely placed in second position, just two countback points off the pace. The board one results were wins to Ian Rogers and Justin Pengelley over Matt Sonter and David Richards respectively, and a draw between Peter Cormick and Alex Ruddy.

Team Standings after Round Two:

	Team Points	Individual Points
Mudgeeraba	2	10.5
Nerang	2	8.5
Eastern Suburbs	1	6.5
Robina	1	5.0
Northern Suburbs	0	3.0
Southern Suburbs	0	2.5

There were some lopsided results in round one of the Winter Regional Teams event held at the chess centre on Monday evening. Nerang defeated Southern Suburbs 5-1, Eastern Suburbs defeated Robina 5.5-0.5 and Mudgeeraba defeated Northern Suburbs 5.5-0.5.

On board one, Matt Sonter defeated Toshi Kimura, David Richards defeated Alex Ruddy and Justin Pengelley defeated Terry Munro.

Gold Coast Junior Championships

Phachara Wongwichit, who won the Queensland Junior Championship in 2002, has finally won the Gold Coast Junior Championship - he will no longer be eligible for this tournament. Phachara deservedly won the event on 6.5, conceding just a draw to second placed Sam Grigg, who also had a fine tournament. Their game can be accessed here.

The prize-winners were:

1st - $150 + Trophy	Phachara Wongwichit
2nd - $50 + Trophy	Sam Grigg
Under 16 - $40 + Trophy	Alexandra Jule
Under 14 - $40 + Trophy	Daniel Ford
Under 12 - $40 + Trophy	Kelvin Finke
Under 10 - $40 + Trophy	Oliver McCarthy
Under 8 - $40 + Trophy	Steve Charalambous
Unrated - $40	Victoria Sawyers-White

Ruth Coxhill Memorial FIDE-Rated Event 2004

Scores at: Ruth Coxhill Memorial