Gardiner Chess Newsletter No. 52
7 January 2007
In This Issue

School Holiday Chess Programmes, Queensland Junior Ratings list, Australian Schools Teams Finals, Queensland Teams League, Australian Junior Champonships, Australian Open, Gibraltar Masters, Qld Clubs Teams Championships, Qld Lightning Championships and AGM, Visit from Nanyang Primary School from Singapore, Gold Coast Tin Cup, Gold Coast Junior Masters, Master of the Endgame Course, After-School Chess, IQ Chess Franchise Opportunities, CAQ Newsletter, Reports and Tournament Notices, Webpage, Unsubscribe.
 
Summer School Holidays at the Chess Centre

As usual, we have a couple of weeks of chess for the kids at the centre during the summer school hols.

Our summer rapid chess comps are held every morning and afternoon (9.30am to 12.30pm and 1.30 to 4.30pm) for the week commencing Monday 15 January. There are half day, day and week rates. Each competition is Queensland Junior rated, so provides a great opportunity for the kids to improve their chess and their rating.

Our 4 day daytime chess camp will be held from Monday to Thursday, 22 to 25 January, from 9am to 5pm each day. This involves a substantial chess coaching component, as well as rated competitions, and chess and non-chess activities. There are full day and individual day rates available.

Full details can be found at www.gardinerchess.com.
 

January 2007 Queensland Junior Ratings List

Dr David McKinnon has published the latest list with 2368 players. This is a mammoth undertaking which David and Dr Patrick Byrom regularly perform on a purely voluntary basis - Queensland juniors are indeed indebted to them for this incredible service. Thanks guys!

 Top 10 most improved on the new list were:

1 Ly, Moulthun 121 2378
2 Kay, James 113 641
3 Toda, Luke 103 1093
4 Begaud, Elijah 96 641
5 Tai, Taka 95 667
6 Beilby, Kieton 92 1368
7 Jule, Sebastian 91 1351
8 Randall, Vijay 88 821
9 Miles, Alex 84 1003
10 Harding, Henry 82 689

The top 30 most improved for 2006 were:

1 Anderson, Kaidon 533 GC
2 Davies, Rhys 492 GC
3 Peck, Robbie 400 B
4 Louie, Ryan 400 B
5 Nakauchi, Gene 366 GC
6 Miles, Alex 365 GC
7 Parrag, Justin 354 GC
8 Stahnke, Alexander 340 GC
9 Dobroskok, Vlad 315 GC
10 Hughes, David 307 GC
11 Jo, Timothy 304 GC
12 Begaud, Bradley 295 GC
13 Cullen, Jamie 285 GC
14 Luke, Zane 278 GC
15 Beilby, Kieton 277 GC
16 Randall, Vijay 269 GC
17 Jack, Martin 265 GC
18 Simmonds, Leteisha 265 B
19 Liu, Yi 258 B
20 Kinder, Danielle 244 GC
21 Ravindran, Arul 239 B
22 Karibasic, Melanie 238 GC
23 Leggett, Brandon 236 B
24 Louie, Jared 225 B
25 Pyper, Matthew 221 GC
26 Karibasic, Sabin 219 GC
27 Shinnie, Robert 213 GC
28 Lapitan, Daniel 208 GC
29 Byrne, Alannah 206 B
30 Barrett, Sam 205 GC

For the full lists go to www.gardinerchess.com.

Australian Schools Teams Finals held in Canberra

Congratulations to Somerville House who have won the Australian Schools Teams (Primary, All Girls) competition at the Australian Schools Teams Finals. The winning team was Abbie Kanagarajah, Leteisha Simmonds, Vanessa Hu and Georgia Bennett.

The standard of play continues to rise. To give some idea, the top two boards from the winning team in the primary open competition were James Morris (ACF 1927) and Eugene Schon (ACF 1795).

Complete results were:

Open Secondary:

Balwyn, Vic - 15.5
Knox, NSW 11.5
St Peter's, SA - 11
Somerset, Qld - 10
Radford, ACT 8
Applecross, WA - 4

Open Primary

Essex Heights, Vic 20
Somerset, Qld 13.5
Summer Hill, NSW 11.5
Ainslie, ACT 6.5
St Peters, SA 6
Midland, WA 2.5

Girls Secondary

Nth Sydney Girls, NSW 19.5
Alfred Deakin, ACT 12.5
Merrimac, QLD 10
Wilderness, SA 6

Girls Primary

Somerville, Qld 14
Kaleen, ACT 13.5
Essex Heights, Vic 11.5
Curtin, ACT 8.5
Summer Hill, NSW 8.5
Wilderness, SA 4

Queensland Teams League

Round one of this competition commences on Sunday 25 February. The organiser, CAQ Deputy President John Surridge, has put a lot of work into organising this important addition to the Queensland scene, and thoroughly deserves to succeed. Don't let him down, make sure you get your club properly organised to enter teams in the various divisions.
Full details at http://members.optusnet.com.au/loganchess/

Australian Juniors

Only a week to go and our party of 40, comprising one organiser, 4 coaches, 10 parents and 25 players is ready to go. We also have 10 players coming in for coaching each day. Our party includes players from Gold Coast and Brisbane, and even a couple from Sydney. So let's see how these young players go. The official website is at www.actjcl.org.au/ausjuniors2007/details.php.



 

Australian Open

At the time of writing, Zong Yuan Zhao is leading the Australian Open by a full point on 7/8. Tony Truscott, Oleg Korenevski and Alexander Jule are the best placed Queenslanders in the open event with 3.5/8. Unfortunately IM Stephen Solomon and Moulthun Ly are not playing this time. Brian Thomas is joint leader of the Australian Major on 4.5/5 with one round to go. http://www.actjcl.org.au/ausopen2006/index.html.

Gibraltar Masters

I understand that Moulthun Ly will be playing in the Gibraltar Masters from 23 Jan to 1 Feb and aiming for his third IM norm. At the time of writing 32 GMs have entered for this event, including 11th seed Victor Korchnoi and 25th seed Ian Rogers. IM David Smerdon will also be playing and chasing another GM norm. Full details at www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/Gib2007/Home.html.

Queensland Clubs Teams Championship

This was held at The Gap SHS on Sunday 3 December. Club Bullwinkle won the adult event from Logan City and Brisbane, whilst Gold Coast won the junior event from Brisbane, with Gold Coast 2 and 3 sharing third place.

Queensland Lightning Championship and AGM

Bill Powell was elected as President of the CAQ at the AGM. Bill has ambitious plans for 2007, including a big commitment to the development of regional chess right around Queensland. We wish you all the best Bill. The other council members elected were Vice President John Surridge, Secretary Brian Thomas, Treasurer Ian Murray, Membership Secretary Gail Young, Ratings officer Patrick Byrom, Development Officer Dion Sampson, Publicity Officer Bill Powell, Regional Liaison Officer Beng Goh.

The AGM was preceded by the CAQ Lightning Championships, won once again by IM Stephen Solomon. Kevin Casey came second, and Jacob Edwards third.

Visit from Nanyang Primary School, Singapore

We had a thoroughly enjoyable week entertaining 16 students and 3 staff from Nanyang Primary School, Singapore to a chess immersion programme. They are eager to return, and perhaps will encourage more schools from the South East Asia region to come here. The students were coached by GM Dejan Antic, IM Peter Froehlich and Kerry Corker - all did a great job. Some of their students returned to Singapore to participate in the 2nd Asian Schools Chess Festival, with Jordan Yap winning the under 11s, and Daniel Chan coming 2nd in the under 13s. Full details at www.gardinerchess.com  and www.singaporechess.org.sg/ 

Gold Coast Tin Cup 2007 (for players rated under 1750)

  • Saturday & Sunday 17 & 18 February 2006
  • Venue: Somerset College Sports Pavilion
  • Prizes: 1st $500 + Perpetual Trophy 2nd $200; 3rd $100, 5 ratings groups: 1st $100, 2nd $60
  • Organiser: Peter Bender, Outreach Chess, 6 Georgina St, Oxenford. Ph 5556 0434 Email: outreachchess@bigpond.com.

Gold Coast Junior Masters

The Gold Coast Junior Masters for Term One 2007 will commence on Monday 12 February. We are trialling an earlier start at 4.30pm, with an optional advanced lesson commencing at 4pm. An indication of minimum rating is QJ 800, although very keen players in the high 700s could be accepted. During this year we hope more players will attain a FIDE rating, and that some will get an ACF rating of over 2000. The overall aim of the programme is to give suitable opportunities for those who wish to become champion players.

Master of the Endgame Course

Kerry Corker's course recommences on Friday 2 February (6 to 7.30pm). Many of the players who have completed Kerry's course have gone on to become champions. Kerry takes students very thoroughly through all aspects of endgame play in a structured form, although, paradoxically, he mixes his lessons up in a most enterprising and inspiring way.

After-School Chess at the Chess Centre

This recommences on Tuesday 30 January. There will be no after-school chess at the centre on Mondays to make way for the Junior Masters competition. However, please note that Christine Broadway will be running a small 'all girls' group on Mondays.

IQ Chess franchise opportunities

We are pleased to advise that we have signed up our first franchisee for IQ Chess. David Cowland-Cooper, a former captain of Somerset College chess, will be commencing the Far North Queensland franchise based in Cairns at the start of term one, 2007. We couldn't have hoped for a better individual to commence our first franchise operation, and we wish David all the very best in this new initiative.

Gardiner Chess is looking to set up chess coaching operations in the various regional centres of Queensland. We are looking for people with a good knowledge of chess, who like teaching, and who would like to develop a successful business. Please contact Graeme on ggardiner@gardinerchess.com if this interests you.

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