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Somerset College wins 2005 Australian Primary Schools Teams Chess Championship |
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| Parent and Child Tournament | |
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Gold Coast Transfer and Lightning Championship results and photos |
Silkwood Steiner School Tournament |
| Mudgeeraba Creek Intra-School Tournament | Marymount tournament results |
| Gold Coast Allegro | Yeronga State championships |
| Queensland Inter-School Finals - primary and high schools results | St Hilda's Year 3 and Year 4 Championships |
| Broadbeach Mall Event - results | Brisbane Individual Age Championships |
| Moulthun wins the Nell Van de Graaff Classic photos, report and results here |
Gold Coast Individual Age Championship Results All results |
| Junior Masters Term 3 report and results |
2005 Medal Event results & photos |
| Beaudesert & District Primary Schools Finals report & results |
The Ruth Coxhill FIDE-rated tournament winner is Matt Sonter |
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Gold Coast High Schools Finals results |
Gold Coast Primary Schools Finals Results and pictures of the winners and the chess players in action Report |
| Queensland Girls' Chess Championships - results & photos |
Gold Coast Primary
Schools Teams Championships Round 2
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| Gold Coast Open - report and results | |
| Surfers Paradise Mindgame winners | |
| June 2005 Gold Coast Annual Festival of Chess | |
| School chess around the regions Beaudesert | |
| Wide Bay High Schools; Wide Bay Primary Schools | |
| Central Qld High Schools |
Gold Coast High School Championship R2 results |
| Central Qld Primary Schools | |
| Gold Coast Rapid Championship Result and Report |
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NSW have smashed Queensland by 53 points to 29 in the annual state of origin chess match. This year the organiser, Queensland supremo Dr David Richards, was unable to bring out of his hat his usual bag of wizardry. No amount of match fixing or team switching could save Queensland from this ultimate humiliation. Indeed, there were calls for the NSW team to be drug tested after their awe inspiring display, which was epitomised in this 'shirt front' by Fred Rosenow over David Richards.
White: Fred Rosenow Black: David Richards (Queen's Gambit Reversed Shirtfront) 1.d4 d5 2.Bg5 c5 3.dxc Qa5 4.Nc3 Qxc5 5.Qxd5 e6???????? 6.Qd8!!!!!!!!
Ex-Queenslanders Amy Evans, Sam Grigg and Alexandra Jule headed the NSW effort, scoring 12/12 for their newly-adopted state. They are unlikely to be given a ticker-tape welcome upon their return to Queensland. Spencer Richards was the best Queensland performer with 6, putting his father David (3), the Queensland captain, to shame.
Gold Coast Club Championships - from 11 May.
Round 6Peter Cormick defeated Matt Sonter in round 6 to throw the club championship wide open. With two rounds to play, Matt Sonter, Manfred Rosenow and Peter Cormick lead on 4.5 from David Richards and Alex Jule on 4, with Alex Ruddy and Bernie Saavedra on 3.5.
Round 5
Matt Sonter and Alex Jule drew their top board clash in round five of the club championship. With three rounds to go, Matt Sonter now leads on 4.5/5 from Fred Rosenow, Peter Cormick and Alex Jule.
Round 4
Matthew Sonter took a one point lead at the halfway point in the club championship with a convincing win over David Richards. Fred Rosenow and Alexandra Jule are in equal second place. A group of seven players, including Peter Cormick, David Richards, Terry Munro, Amy Evans, Thimos Mastorakis, Kelvin Finke and Bernie Saavedra, are on 2.5.
Final scores at: Gold Coast Club Championship 2004
Mudgeeraba Creek State School Fair Tournament
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Fifteen hardy young souls braved the elements to play in this fun tournament. It started with unseasonably hot sun slanting in to the 'shade' tent - but soon the heat was replaced with slanting heavy rain. Unfortunately the tent was merely shade cloth and soon the chess pieces were almost swimming. Despite these drawbacks the players all enjoyed the challenge and the McGarity kids came up smiling, Molly taking first place and Liam second alongside Pattama Songkhunawej. The results, which are being sent for Queensland rating, are here. The organisers of the Creek Fair are to be congratulated for putting together such a fun day for both kids and adults. The rain didn't dampen anyone's spirits. |
Graeme Gardiner ready for action |
Around 600 entrants participated in the inaugural Surfers Paradise Mind Games Festival. Events included Chess, Bridge, Euchre, 500, Scrabble, Kaleidoscope and others. Numbers exceeded the organisers’ target of 500. The Surfers Paradise Management Association is hopeful of renewing the grant from the Queensland Events Corporation in 2005.
On each of the three evenings, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, play was followed by impressive fireworks displays.
All in all everyone had a great time, and we are delighted that this is likely to be an annual event.
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Surfers Paradise Premier Rapid
Chess Tournament was held on Saturday 29 May and a field of 137
assembled under an airy and well-lit marquee right next to the beach on
the Esplanade. Very nice! Darryl
Johansen was pushed by IMs Stephen
Solomon and Alex Davidovic
but ended up a convincing winner on 7.5/8. All eyes (right)
are on the top table as tension mounts. Full results at Surfers Paradise Premier Rapid |
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were 29 participants in the Social Family Competition, which was won by Barry
Full results: Social Family Comp - 29 May 04
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 Gene Nakauchi |
The
Fischerandom tournament attracted
a field of 21. Lee Jones took
out first place with 6/8 on tie-break and first prize of $125. Toshi
Kimura took second on 6/8 $85 and Moulthun
Ly also 6/8 took third and $50. The five ratings group prizes of $30
each, went to Matt Sonter, Robert Hvistendahl, Michael Gearing, Leoma Lee and
Dave Wright (NZ).
Full results: Fischerandom - 30 May 2004 |
Queensland Women's & Girls' Championships
Alex Jule, Amy Evans and Debbie Jenkins
This was held at the Gardiner Chess Centre from 22 to 23 May. The new Queensland Women’s Champion is Amy Evans who scored a picket fence 6/6. Well done Amy! Equal second on 4 were Debbie Jenkins and Alexandra Jule. The junior prize winner was Kieran Lyons and the cadet winner was Luthien Russell. Ingrid Thompson and Irene Doo shared the women's under 1200 prize.
Full results: Qld Women's Champs 2004
Gold Coast v Bullwinkle Inter-Club Match, 17 May 2004
A Grade Gold Coast 1.5-2.5 Bullwinkle
Sonter, Matthew 1:0 Stawski, Nik V Stahnke, Axel 0:1 Davidovici, Michael Saavedra, Bernard 0.5:0.5 Davidson, Nathan P Ruddy, Alex
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Kalokerinos, Paul N B Grade Gold Coast 1.5-2.5 Bullwinkle
Rosenow, Manfred 0.5:0.5
Stewart, Craig A Harris, Bruce 0:1 Van Pelt, Michael Bender, Peter G 1:0 Disteldorf, Jessica Haron, Peter 0:1 Grenfell, Regina
Gold Coast Rapid Championships
IM Alex Davidovic from Adelaide has won the Gold Coast Rapid Championship. He was never in trouble in any of his games, and took a draw in the final round to ensure victory on 5.5/6. This was his first event since 1998 and the first time he had used the digital clock with increments. Dr Davidovic is on the coast for term two enjoying a sabbatical. He is coaching at local schools and coaches a few students at the centre.
Final results:
1st Alex Davidovic $125 + Trophy
2nd Ben Lazarus $85 + Trophy
3rd Moulthun Ly $50 + Trophy
Ratings Prizes:
Rating Group A John O'Brien $30
Rating Group B Steven Cooke $30
Rating Group C Yitao Lei $30
Rating Group D Jonas Muller $30
Rating Group E Jordan Messenger $30
The Random Prize - a chess set - was won by Kantley Wu
The field of 42 was well down on the usual numbers, almost certainly due to the unwise choice of Mother's Day for the event. We'll try and plan a little better for this tournament next year.
Full results at: Gold Coast Rapid Champs 2004
Bridge
Congress - Mudgeeraba Novice Swiss Pairs
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first bridge congress was an outstanding success, with 64 enjoying a full day
of competition. The players came from all
over
Championship: 1st Garry Smith and Marleen Beak - $180 2nd Bo Bijker and Bill Hill - $120 3rd Geoffrey Roberts and Kevin Dean - $60 Plate: 1st Krystyna Honik and Jeanette Pecenicic - $50 2nd Anka Verhoeven and Carolyn Bullock - Wine Best Mudgeeraba Pair: Leanne Kiesling and Pauline Willetts - Wine
Thanks to John
Dennis and Shirley Mazzer for directing
this successful congress.
Here are some photos of the players.
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Gold Coast Active Championships
81 players participated in the Gold Coast Active Championships. Fears of overcrowding proved unfounded in the new Gardiner Chess Centre.
Arianne Caoili finished first on 6.5/7 ahead of Stephen Solomon and Anastasiya Sorokina on 6. Natalie Mills finished 4th. How good to see three women in the top four. At one stage Stephen Solomon was the only male on the top two boards. Arianne defeated Anastasiya in round 5 and Stephen in round 6 before agreeing a draw with Natalie in round 7.
Moulthun Ly, aged 11, came 5th confirming that he is an outstanding prospect.
Hit the results button for the full standings, cross table and ratings performance list.
Gold Coast Primary Schools Teams Championships
Gardiner Chess Centre gets a mention in Parliament!
See page 11172 of Hansard on Thursday 6 February at the following site:
Margaret May MP has been assisting Graeme in the push to have chess recognised as a sport over the last four or five years.
Gold Coast Junior Championships 26/27 April 2003
Fifty-nine players took part in the Gold Coast Junior Championships with time controls of 60 minutes plus 10 seconds a move (Fischer).
Arianne Caoili deservedly won the event on 6.5/7, although she was given some tough competition and some scares along the way. Moulthun Ly again showed that he is already one of the top players by defeating Ben Lazarus, although he then showed that he was human by losing to Chris Page in 13 moves.
C Page v Moulthun Ly
1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Nd2 Bb7 5. f4 Be7 6. Bf6 Bf6 7. Ngf3 O-O 8. Bd3 d6 9. Ne4 Be7 10. Nfg5 d5 11. Nf6 gxf 12. Qh5 Bb4 13. Kd1 1-0
Winners:
Under 18 1st Arianne Caoili, 2nd Phachara Wongwichit, 3rd Chris Page.
Under 16 1st Ben Lazarus, 2nd Chris Hardy, 3rd Ric Kaspar.
Under 14 1st Steven Cooke, 2nd Cameron Thompson, 3rd Alex Jule.
Under 12 1st Moulthun Ly, 2nd Daniel Ford, 3rd Sam Grigg-Tondeleir.
Under 10 1st Kelvin Finke, 2nd Jian Blundell, 3rd Leoma Lee.
Under 8 1st Oliver McCarthy, 2nd Ben Tondeleir, 3rd Shaun Mah.
Cash Prizes:
U18 Arianne Caoili $250, U16 Ben Lazarus $50, U14 Moulthun Ly $50, U12 Cameron Thompson $50, U10 Kelvin Finke $50, U8 Oliver McCarthy $50. Rating Group A Daniel Ford $30, B Lyle Hardwicke $30, C Steven Hodgson $30, D Leoma Lee $30, E Charis Chan $30.
Players to pick up ratings points included Kelvin Finke, Moulthun Ly, Daniel Ford, Sam Grigg-Tondeleir, Ashley Chynoweth, Paolo Bantegui, Jessica Layton, Shaun Curtis, James Yang, Nicholas Beresford, Luthien Russell, Christina Webb, Mitchell Wilkinson-Foster and Molly McGarity.For results see Gold Coast Junior Championships>>
The Pines Shopping Centre One Day Junior Tournament, 24 April 2003
130 players participated in this tournament.
Chris Hardy won the event and $200 on countback from Philip Ee $30 and Arianne Caoili. All three scored 7/8, with Phachara Wongwichit, Shaun Chen and Sam Long scoring 6.5/8.
The big upset of the day was the defeat of WIM Arianne Caoili (ACF Rapid 2296) by Moulthun Ly (ACF Rapid 764)! Arianne recovered to defeat Phachara Wongwichit in the last round but the damage had already been done. Moulthun finished in a large bunch of talented juniors on 6/8. Chris Hardy appeared to have an easier path through to the final round, but he came through well after dropping a game to Shaun Chen.
Rating Group winners ($30 each) were:
A Shaun Chen
B Kevin Zhu
C Nathan Fisher
D Rui Hoshino
E Daniel Lui
F Dominic AsleyUnrated 1st Ben Boulter $40, 2nd Xander Leicht $30, 3rd Timothy Stanley $20.
Only two local schools competed for The Pines Schools Teams Event. Elanora Primary and St Andrews shared the trophy, both scoring 13.5.
See The Pines Shopping Centre One Day Event April 03>> for the results.
Easter Weekender at the Gardiner Chess Centre
Phachara Wongwichit and Peter Cormick shared equal first place in the Easter Weekender held at the Gardiner Chess Centre on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 April. Third place went to David Lovejoy who was equal on points with Chris Hardy (who took the group A rating prize). Other ratings prizes were won by Kelvin Finke and Moulthun Ly (B), Sam Grigg-Tondeleir (C) and Deborah Jenkins (D). Fifty-six players took part.Top seed Anastasiya Sorokina never quite got going. She drew with Nenad Chelebichanin and Justin Pengelley and lost to Phachara Wongwichit.Players who picked up rating points were Ric Kaspar, Jian Blundell, Nigel Thomas, Ashley Chynoweth, Rishabh Bhandari, Daniel Ford, Alex Buciu, Ashley Fisher, Oliver McCarthy, Udit Talpade, Curtis Jack, Shaun Curtis, Maxine Tan and Luthien Russell.Unrated players who defeated rated players were Charis Chan, Danny McCarthy and Clarence Tan.For a look at some of the games go to Easter Weekender>>
Ruth Coxhill Memorial FIDE-rated Event
