Upcoming tournments for
your diary:
On Wednesday 13 September we are holding the
primary schools finals at the Carrara Basketball
Stadium. This is a great local venue which is
able to cater for nearly 1000 juniors of all
grades who will be battling for supremacy over
the boards!
This one day event will be held at the
Queensland Contract Bridge Club, 67 Ipswich Road,
Woolloongabba
Nell van de Graaff Classic
- Gold Coast
23rd
and 24th September
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Category 4 Grand Prix (highest Grand
Prix event left on the 2006
Calendar)
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Incorporates the popular teams event
which is sponsored by National
Rides.
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Some free accommodation available
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Somerset College Sports Pavilion,
Somerset Drive, Mudgeeraba - 200m
west of Somerset College.
Arianne Caoili
in Dancing with the
stars
Tuesday 26 September
Watch out for Chess
Champ Arianne taking on
various celebrities on
the dance floor . . .
she features in this
week's New Idea
magazine along with the
other contestants.
Brisbane
and Gold Coast
School Holiday
Camps
2-4 and 6 October
We will be holding
our usual camps in
the second week of
the September school
holidays. The Brisbane camp will be held
at the Marymac
Centre, Annerley and
the Gold Coast camp
will be held at the
chess centre,
Mudgeeraba. Go to
www.gardinerchess.com
(calendar for 2006,
scroll down to 2
October, and click
on the link).
Broadbeach
Mall Junior
Tournament
Thursday 5 October
This event is one of
our favourites for
the year, situated
under the sails in
Broadbeach Mall.
What a great venue,
and some of Queensland’s best juniors' names have appeared
on the trophy over
the years.
These include
Max
Leskiewicz
(Aust Junior
Champion),
Charles Pizzato
(Aust Junior
Champion),
David Smerdon
(Aust Junior
Champion),
Moulthun Ly
(Aust Junior
Champion) and
Arianne
Caoili
(Aust Olympiad
team).
All juniors will
benefit from playing
in this event, and
there are prizes
even for unrated
players. Go to
www.gardinerchess.com
(calendar for 2006,
scroll down to 5
October, and click
on the link).
Wendy
Terry Memorial
Sat and Sun, 7 and 8
October
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Venue: Grace Lutheran College, Rothwell
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Play commences
at 10am Saturday
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6 rounds 60 mins
a side plus 10
secs a move
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Gold Coast
Allegro
Championships
Sunday 22 October
Gold Coast
Inter-Schools
Individual
Age
Championships
Tues or Wed
17 or 18
October
(day depends
on date of
birth)
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Venue: Robina Town Centre Community Centre
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Schools
submit
entries
on
behalf
of
individuals
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Cost is
$10 per
player
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Players
only
play
others
born in
the same
calendar
year
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Tues 17
Oct
players
born
1996-2001
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Wed 18
Oct
players
born
1988-1995
Queensland
Interschools
Statewide
Competition
14-15
October
Only the third and final rounds of the Greater Brisbane and Gold Coast zonal championships and the Sunshine Coast zonal remain to be played in the 2006 Queensland Interschool Championships, completing the qualification process for the state finals (primary and secondary) at Brisbane Grammar.
Qualifying schools so far:
Secondary Schools
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Toowoomba Grammar School (Darling Downs)
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Aldridge State High School, Maryborough (Wide Bay/Burnett)
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Gladstone State High School (Central Qld)
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Sarina State High School (Mackay Whitsundays)
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Kirwan State High School, Townsville (North Qld)
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Trinity Anglican School, Cairns (Far North Qld)
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Stanthorpe State High School (Southern Downs)
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Miles State High School (South Qld)
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Charleville State High School (South West Qld)
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Longreach School of Distance Education (Central West Qld)
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Good Shepherd Catholic College, Mt Isa (N W Qld)
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Matthew Flinders Anglican College (Sunshine Coast)
Primary Schools
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Mater Dei Primary School, Toowoomba (Darling Downs)
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Wallaville State School (Wide Bay/Burnett)
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Gladstone West State School (Central Qld)
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Andergrove State School, Mackay (Mackay Whitsundays)
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Townsville Grammar Junior School (North Qld)
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Trinity Anglican School, Cairns (Far North Qld)
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Applethorpe State School (Southern Downs)
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St John’s Primary School, Roma (S Qld)
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St Mary’s Primary School, Charleville (SW Qld)
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Longreach School of Distance Education (Central W Qld)
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Townview State School, Mt Isa (N W Qld)
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Matthew Flinders Anglican College (Sunshine Coast)
Details at www.caq.org.au/htm/results plus reports and photos via the Results page at www.gardinerchess.com.
Brisbane Interschools Individual Age Championships
Wed 25 October
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Venue: Marymac Centre, Annerley
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Schools submit entries on behalf of individuals
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Cost is $10 per player
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Players only play others born in the same calendar year
The Queensland Interschool Girls' Teams Championships (primary and secondary) will be played in parallel with the state finals, with the winning girls' teams joining the winners from the finals at the Australian Schools Teams Championships in Canberra on 11-12 December
(see www.actjcl.org.au/astc2006/index.php).
Note: Any school can enter the girls' qualifying event which will be held on Sunday 15 October at Brisbane
Grammar School.
We now have a group of 28 flying to
Canberra for this important annual event. There are a few others making their own travel and accommodation arrangements who will be joining our group for coaching etc.
Gardiner Chess has organised a complete package deal. We will be flying with Virgin on 13 January and returning on 27 January, which is just before the start of term one on 29 January. All
Queensland
juniors are welcome to be part of our 'team'. The package includes return air fares, accommodation at Sundown Motel Resort, Narrabundah www.sundownvillage.com.au/, insurance, all meals (mostly home-cooked), entry fees to the main, rapid and lightning events and excursions (eg movies, ice skating etc). Our accommodation is 5-10 mins walk from the playing venue at Hotel Heritage. Parents are welcome to stay as part of the team.
Prices: Kids $1,500, Adults $1,300.
Optional Extra: For best results, daily preparation by one of our coaches is highly recommended. Each coach will be responsible for coaching approximately 8 juniors. Each of them is guaranteed a minimum of 8 hours 'one-on-one' coaching during the event. The cost of this optional coaching is $300. This needs to be booked at the same time as the package, as we have to know how many coaches to take as part of our team.
The full amount is payable by 30 November at the latest. Payment can be made at the chess centre, or via our webpage.
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Chess Coaches
required in Regional Queensland!
Ian
Murray and Graeme Gardiner
have just returned from Northern Queensland where
they were running the inter-schools finals in
Mackay, Townsville and
Cairns. It is
clear from conversations with teachers that they
would welcome the provision of ongoing chess
coaching services similar to that already offered in
many schools in South East Queensland.
Since it is
impossible for our organisation to extend our
services any further outside our current boundaries,
we have established a franchise arm named IQ
Chess. We offer our franchisees
comprehensive training, a large arsenal of resources
and opportunities for great personal development.
For this reason
we are seeking individuals with the following
attributes to commence an IQ Chess franchise in
various regions of Queensland:
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Ambitious/confident/business-minded
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Capable of
teaching and communicating with primary students
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Reasonably
strong, keen chess player
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Confident in
the use of computer programmes like MS Excel and
Word
Unlike many
franchises, this is a low cost operation, with a
modest initial outlay and service charges, that can
easily be operated from home. There is the potential
for excellent job satisfaction and good income. If
you are interested, please call us on (07) 5522
7221.
School visit from
Nanyang
Primary School,
Singapore
2 to 11 December
Gardiner Chess
will be hosting
Nanyang
Primary School
students for chess coaching at the Centre during the
first week of December. This keen chess-playing
school in Singapore has national champions in
various age groups, and will be bringing about 20
students rated around 1,000 to 1,800.
During the week
they will receive coaching each day from IM
Peter Froehlich and Kerry Corker.
They will also attend after school chess each day to
meet, play against and socialise with local
students. On the final day there will be a 20 board
match between Nanyang and the best local students.
On-going tournaments - results to date:
With one round to play, David Lovejoy
is assured of first place, with Hamish
Selnes, Oleg Korenevski
and Yitao Lei fighting
it out for second place.
Alex O’Flynn defeated
Yi Liu in the final round of the
Brisbane Young Champions. Yi Liu came second
with Lachlan
van den Bergh third. Any Brisbane
juniors keen to advance their chess who are
rated 800+ will be most welcome to join this
event in term 4.
Junior Masters Events for Term 3
With two rounds to go, likely winners in the
three events are:
Super Junior Masters Gene Nakauchi
Junior Masters Aki Matsui
Junior Masters A Rhys Davies
Any Gold Coast juniors keen to advance their
chess who are rated 800+ will be most welcome to
join this event in term 4.
Kerry Corker
is continuing with his Master of the Endgame
Course on Friday evenings at the chess centre.
Kerry advises that 28 of the 30 students
currently doing the course went up in rating on
the latest list. A small number of places are
available to join the course for the start of
term 4. Numbers for term 4 are being limited to
12 - so get in quick!
Why Lasker Matters
by Andrew Soltis. Batsford Chess. 320 pages.
This book
has just about everything! You can use it as
a chess course in the following way. As an
opening manual it supplies the latest theory
of the time and an update to present day
chess. You learn a bit about openings from
1889 to 1936 from the text and look up
similar relevant games on Chess Assistant 9.
You then incorporate the interesting updates
on the opening supplied by GM Soltis with
the historical data gained from the game
itself and your database. Mix this with the
various opening duels that Lasker had over
the years, and you have a good guide to any
of the modern openings you chose to play.
From the
middle-game we get our chess psychology
lesson. In fact the book’s main purpose is
to reveal how Lasker played chess. If we can
understand this then we can work out how he
stayed world champion for 27 years and was
the strongest player in history over 70
years until Kortchnoi.
My own
observation is that he slowly but surely
moved a group of his pieces from one side of
the board to the other and then mated the
King! It sounds simplistic, until you try to
apply it to your own games. The endgames are
a great example of a master technician at
work. He doesn’t appear flashy in the
endgame – just methodical and correct. Any
chess coaches rushing to a lesson without
anything planned (tsk, tsk!) have only to
open this book on any page and start
reading. The lesson has begun!
Starting Out Chess Series by
Everyman Chess. Various titles such as
Starting Out: The Scotch Game, Rook Endings,
The French, The Nimzo-Indian etc.
The
authors include the crème-de-la-crème of
English Grandmasters who can really write
and relate chess information to their chosen
audience. GMs Emms, Ward, Gallagher, Flear,
McDonald and IMs Jacobs and Shaw are but a
few of the top writers. See the Gardiner
Chess Centre webpage for more titles and
authors.
These
books provide a solid background on many
different aspects of chess. If you know
nothing about the French but keep losing to
it – or nothing about the Scotch but would
like to play it, then this series will save
you a lot of time. They all come with a good
introduction and clear index. Games by the
World’s top GMs feature throughout the
series. A lot of these books have been
generated by the repertoires of players such
as Kasparov, Short, Anand etc. Themes are
used extensively so that you don’t have to
simply memorise. The Modern variation of the
French for instance has: The Introduction,
The Modern Main Line, The Tarrasch
Treatment, The Greek Gift - all extensively
annotated. At the end of each section you
have illustrative games to reinforce what
has been learned.
All books
come with a good index of variations at the
back to track down a line quickly. The skull
and crossbones are a pointer to dangerous
moves or situations as they appear. When
building your own repertoire, books like
Winning Chess Openings
by Seirawan are a very good starter, to be
followed by one of the Starting Out series
for an in-depth look.
If
you wish to subscribe to the CAQ newsletter,
please contact Bill Powell on
wpo32528@bigpond.net.au
Reports and tournament notices are most
welcome for inclusion in this bulletin.
Please email
info@gardinerchess.com.
Webpage
There are a number of upcoming
events promoted in this bulletin.
Entry leaflets can be downloaded and
printed from our webpage at
www.gardinerchess.com.
All Gardiner Chess events, and some
other events, can be entered online
with your credit card number using
the secure 'pay online' button.
All the very best in chess
Graeme and Wendy Gardiner
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