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UPCOMING
TOURNAMENTS
Next weekend!
Sunday 18 May - Gold Coast
Rapid Championship
Saturday to Sunday, 31 May to 1
June - Broadbeach Cup
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This is an
Australian Grand Prix event.
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6 rounds 60 mins
+ 10 secs Fischer.
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Excellent prizes.
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Venue Old
Broadbeach surf Club, Cnr Chelsea Ave and Broadbeach
Bvde.
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Full details
here
Wednesday 25 June - Grandmaster Ian
Rogers simul.
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In my experience
GM Rogers is extremely difficult to defeat in simuls...he
drops very few losses, or even draws.
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Come along and
get your scoresheet signed by the Australian legend.
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Pay $10 on the
night...includes tea and coffee, or soft drink for
the kids.
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All most welcome
to play Australia's top-ranking chess player, now
retired from competitive chess.
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7pm at the Chess
Centre, Mudgeeraba
Saturday to Sunday, 28 to 29 June - Gold Coast
Open
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This has been
regarded for several years now as one of Australia's
top 4 weekend chess tournaments.
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It is an
Australian Grand Prix Category 5 event.
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There are over
$5,000 in prizes.
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7 rounds, 60 mins
+ 10 secs Fischer.
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Venue Carrara
Community Sports Centre.
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Full details
here
Tuesday to Friday, 1 to 4 July
- Queensland Junior Championships
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at the Chess
Centre, Mudgeeraba.
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Under 14, 16 and
18 - 4 days Tues to Friday.
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Under 10 and 12 -
2 days Thursday and Friday.
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Under 8s Tuesday
only (note under 8s may also play in the under 10s
if they wish).
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There is a
separate novice event on Wednesday only.
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GM Ian Rogers
will be analysing games and providing lots of
encouragement for our juniors.
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Note: We will endeavour to arrange billet
accommodation for any Queensland regional players
wishing to participate.
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Billets wanted in the Gold
Coast region for this tournament
- can you help?
Click
here for flier.
Sunday 6 July -
Logan Day of Knights
Rapid Tournament
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7 rounds 15 mins
+ 5 secs Fischer.
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Very big prizes
for a one day event 1st $750, 2nd $500, 3rd
$250...plus a host of rating group prizes.
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Venue Riverlakes
Tavern, Cornubia.
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Full details
here
Mon to Wed and Fri 7-9 and 11 July -
School Holiday Chess
Camp
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9am to 5pm
daily.
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We always
get an excellent turnout for our daytime chess
camps. We have had kids from as far afield as
Melbourne and Cairns attending. We have beginner,
intermediate and advanced groups on each day.
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There is a
fun mix of coaching, exercises, activities, rated
tournament chess and break times.
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Juniors who
come along to the camp aiming to learn will
significantly improve their game.
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Kids
can attend
every day, or on single days.
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brochure
here
Thursday 10 July -
Runaway Bay Shopping
Village Junior Chess Tournament
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This event
has been running now for several years.
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We normally
have a turnout of well over 100 kids.
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There is a
first prize of $200, with 10 rating group prizes of
$30 each. 8 rounds, 25 mins a side.
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With the
ratings groups, every child can win a prize if they
score well enough, even beginners who are unrated.
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here is the
brochure
Wednesday 23 July -
Ruth Coxhill Memorial FIDE Rated event
NEWS
Queensland InterSchools Teams
Chess Championships
Our intrepid Tournament Director, Ian Murray has
already run round two tournaments in the coastal regions
- Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Rockhampton, Gladstone,
Bundaberg and Maryborough. Results are shown on the left
hand sidebar on our frontpage
www.gardinerchess.com.
For school entry forms for all regions click
on one either for
emailing (openable in Word) or
faxing (a pdf file).
For the latest
schools' bulletin, giving information for interschool
chess this term (including a few changes of venue) and
the results from Term 1 - click
here.
RECENT EVENTS
Grandmaster Gawain Jones Simul
Ninety-two year old
Nell Van De Graaff scored a surprise draw with
the young English Grandmaster - sufficiently noteworthy
for GM Rogers to devote his Sun Herald
column to the achievement. The column is well worth a
read (see
www.gardinerchess.com/games/nell&gawain.JPG).
WIM Alexandra Jule defeated Jones, whilst Sam
Grigg and Sebastian Jule scored well-earned
draws. Jones, who was billeting with the Jule family,
was good-naturedly rueful of his defeat by Alex Jule,
knowing that she has bragging rights for years to come!
Club Championship
We have had 4 rounds (of 8) in the club championship at
the chess centre.
Fred Rosenow leads on 4/4, followed by Joe
Delmastro, Peter Bender and Martin Jack
on 3. Chess takes a break on State of Origin night.
This event finishes on Wednesday 18 June.
Gold Coast
Junior Championships
Gene Nakauchi has won the 2008 Gold Coast Junior
Championships with a picket fence 7/7. He was rarely
troubled, and played some great chess. Well done Gene.
Sam Grigg came outright second on 5.5, and gave
Gene a good fight in their individual game.
Other winners were:
Under 16 Caleb
Eriksson 5
Under 14 Robbie Peck 5
Under 12 Martin Jack 5
Under 10 Daniel Lapitan 4.5
Under 8 Jason Dinh 3
Unrated David Cvelbar 3
Redcliffe
Peninsula Open
Gene Nakauchi has won the Redcliffe Peninsula
Open and the $600 first prize, scoring 6/7. His only
defeat was to his good friend Alex Stahnke.
Congratulations Gene! Second was a regular visitor to
the chess centre from Byron Bay, David Lovejoy,
on 5.5.
Chess
Coaches Required
Leaving school and
going to uni? Need part-time income whilst studying?
Consider working for Gardiner Chess as a coach in
schools in your region. Contact us by phone or
email. We need coaches in all areas, but particularly in the Southern areas and Northern
areas of Brisbane - ie Redcliffe, Caboolture, Samford, Logan
and Forest Lake areas.
Gardiner Chess employs many coaches (mainly casual
part-time) around South East Queensland and Northern
NSW. Because increasing numbers of schools are keen to
introduce chess programmes we always are on the lookout
for more coaching staff. While many of our staff are uni
students, others are older and just want to supplement
their income. Generally quite strong players are
required for high schools, but the playing strength for
primary students is not so important, because the vast
majority are beginners. The ability to teach and relate
well to young people is the most important attribute we
are looking for. We provide our coaches with extensive
resources plus assistance in training methods and
support. Additionally, we hold professional development
seminars twice a year. Please contact Graeme Gardiner
if you are interested:
ggardiner@gardinerchess.com or 5522 7221.
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.
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INFORMATION
Gardiner Chess - Group chess trips
2 to 13 January 2009 -
Australian Junior Championships,
Adelaide
This
important event will be held at St Ignatius School
in Athelstone, Adelaide, South Australia. Graeme
Gardiner will be leading a group from Gardiner Chess,
and package details are shown
here.
We are flying Virgin, and staying at Majestic Old
Lion apartments, North Adelaide
www.majestichotels.com.au/ola_overview.htm.
Please note that all Queensland juniors are welcome to
join our group, as are parents if they wish. Players
with our group have enjoyed significant success over the
last few years, enhanced by the excellent work of our
coaching team.
Registrations of interest are welcome to Graeme Gardiner
at
ggardiner@gardinerchess.com.
15 to 24 January 2009 -
2009 Queenstown Open, NZ
There will
be a top class international field, but this is an open
event, and anyone can enter.
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Prizes
totalling NZ$50,000 (A$45,000 approx) are
guaranteed. There are prizes for the lower rating
groups (eg Under 2000 $500, Under 1800 $500, Under
1600 $500, Under 15 years of age $125, Under 12
years of age $125).
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The playing
venue at the Millennium Hotel is excellent.
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Games don't
start until 3pm each day, which means there is
plenty of time earlier in the day to do all sorts of
things.
Gardiner Chess
took a group to this event on the South Island of NZ in
2006. Surely this must be one of the most exquisite
locations for a chess tournament in the world.
Queenstown is an awesome place, with heaps to see and
do, and views to die for. For example, the exhilarating
jetboat trip we did out into the mountainous wilderness
along the Dart River was indescribably beautiful and
heaps of fun for all of us.
There was an interesting innovation at the 2006 event
where Cathy Rogers brought along a very challenging
10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and set it up just outside
the tournament hall. It had the fantastic effect of
bringing everyone together socially at various times
over several days doing this mammoth jigsaw. We even saw
a certain well-known Aus Grandmaster who was in the
middle of his game on board one standing outside with a
group doing the puzzle. It was finally completed on the
final day after the last round had finished, and there
was not one piece missing despite some mysterious
'sabotage' that occurred overnight. We understand that
Cathy has ordered a special puzzle from Thailand for the
2009 event.
Full details at
www.newzealandchess.co.nz/queenstownchess/. We will
be flying Air New Zealand, and staying at the Queenstown
Lodge (www.qlodge.co.nz/).
We can highly recommend this accommodation because we
stayed there last time. Gardiner Chess package details
here.
Justine Jule,
who hails from Kiwiland, but has never been to
Queenstown (shame on her!), will be leading the group.
Registrations of interest most welcome to Justine Jule
at Gardiner Chess on
jjule@gardinerchess.com.
As there is only
one day between the Australian Juniors and Queenstown
Open, we have made special arrangements for players who
wish to play in both events to enable them do so. We
already have flight reservations from Adelaide to
Queenstown, via Melbourne and Christchurch.
Planning and organising these trips are not easy. You
can help us by making an early booking, or at least
registering your interest. Bookings close on 30th June.
Junior Masters, Term 2
Live games on the top
three boards can be viewed each Monday afternoon from
4.45 pm
here.
ERGAS Squad &
World Juniors Selections
Congratulations to the following Queenslanders who have
been selected to join the ERGAS National Junior Training
Squad:
Abbie
Kanagarajah
Leteisha
Simmonds
Sam Grigg
Ben
Lazarus
Alannah
Byrne
and to play
in the World Juniors:
Boys
under 14 - Gene Nakauchi
Boys
under 12 - Yi Liu
Girls
under 12 - Leteisha Simmonds
Girls
under 20 - WIM Alex Jule
Olympiad Appeal
Pick the Teams Competition
www.caq.org.au/olympiad/teams.html
After the World Championship, the Chess Olympiad is
the most important event in the international chess
calendar. It is certainly the most important teams event
in the calendar. It is held every two years. This year
it will be held in Dresden, Germany from 12th to 25th
November. The official site is at
http://f0246.futris02.de/cms/cms/english/.
Unlike most competing nations, the Australian teams
receive no government support and must pay their own
way, a burden compounded by the distance involved from
Australia to Germany and the corresponding high air
fares. The costs increase with every Olympiad. They
can't do it alone, but depend on the support of the
Australian chess community.
We ask you all to reach for the hip pocket, and give
what you can to the ACF Olympiad Appeal. No donation is
too large or too small - all will get the teams that
much closer to Germany and will be acknowledged on this
site:
www.caq.org.au/olympiad/index.htm.
All donors to the last Olympiad Appeal received email
bulletins from the players direct from Turin. A similar
thank-you gesture for donors is anticipated from the
players in Dresden.
Ian Murray, who has been a volunteer chess administrator
in Queensland for some 30 years is the Olympiad Appeal
Coordinator for 2009. Thanks Ian!
Chess
Blogs
Two good Australian blog sites are
There are many
overseas sites, which include (for example)
Keen on Chess?
Here are some sites to visit, where you will find a wealth of
information:
Chess Shop at Gardiner Chess
For a complete range of chess goods, including sets,
clocks, books, DVDs etc, please visit us at the chess
centre at Mudgeeraba, or online at
www.gardinerchess.com.
CAQ Newsletter
If you wish to subscribe to the CAQ newsletter, please
contact Brian Thomas on
brian_thomas_au@yahoo.com.au
Reports and Tournament Notices
Reports and tournament notices are most welcome for
inclusion in this bulletin. Please email
info@gardinerchess.com.
JOBS
IQ Chess
Franchise Opportunities
Our aim is to provide schools throughout
Queensland with ongoing chess coaching services.
David Cowland-Cooper is already running an excellent
franchise in Cairns.
If you are passionate about chess, can teach primary
students, have good communication and business skills,
then an IQ Chess franchise might be for you. Please
contact Graeme Gardiner to discuss. Email
ggardiner@gardinerchess.com or phone 5522 7221.
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All the very best in chess
Graeme and Wendy Gardiner
Gardiner Chess
11 Hardys Road Mudgeeraba Qld 4213
Phone +61 7 5522 7221
Fax +61 7 5522 7760
Email
ggardiner@gardinerchess.com
Webpage
www.gardinerchess.com
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