Junior Masters, Super Junior Masters
and Brisbane Young Champions - 2006

 

Term 1 results

 

Brisbane Young Champions

Junior Masters &
Super Junior Masters

Term 2 results

 Brisbane Young Champions Super Junior Masters Junior Masters Junior Masters A

Term 3 results

 Brisbane Young Champions Super Junior Masters Junior Masters Junior Masters A
Term 4 results cancelled Super Junior Masters Junior Masters
       

 

Gold Coast - Term 4 Report

Gene Nakauchi has put in another awesome performance in the Super Junior Masters, scoring 8/8 against most of the top juniors on the Gold Coast.

Gene has been dominant in this event right throughout 2006: Term 1 1st with 7.5/9, Term 2 2nd (behind guest adult Craig Duxbury) with 6/8, Term 3 1st with 8/9 and Term 4 1st with 8/8. Extremely impressive!

Molly McGarity also put in a very impressive performance scoring 6/8, two points ahead of the third placegetters Brendan Baker, Eric Ng and Liam McGarity. Keith Chan also performed well above his rating.

In the Junior Masters, Tomotaka Onoda came through with a series of good results towards the end, to snatch victory with a win over Curtis Jack, to win by a point on 6.5/8. Curtis, Alex Arase and Zac Clarkson faltered towards the end. Kaidon Anderson, Zac Clarkson, Kenji Nakauchi, Sabin Karibasic and Melanie Karibasic were big improvers during the event.

Gene Nakauchi the clear winner,
alongside GM Dejan Antic and Graeme Gardiner		 Happy winners Kenji Nakauchi, Tomo Onoda and Gene Nakauchi - the others unfortunately missed the presentation
Alex Jule demonstrates her baseball handling technique to Robert Shinnie while her brother Seb hides behind a cricket bat - of course they were also showing their support for the Junior Masters . . .

 

Gold Coast - Term 3

Super Junior Masters

1st Gene Nakauchi 8.5/9,

2nd Daniel Ford 7,

3rd Sam Grigg 6.5.

What a fantastic performance by Gene against tough competition.
10 player round robin.

Junior Masters


1st Aki Matsui 8.5/9,

2nd Keith Chan 6.5,

3rd Robert Shinnie 6.

 

Aki has been one of the big improvers on the Gold Coast, and Keith is one of the up and coming young players.
11 players.

Junior Masters A


1st Rhys Davies 9/9,

2nd Kenji Nakauchi 5.5,

3rd Zac Clarkson 5.5.

A picket fence to Rhys Davies, who is also one of the big improvers on the Gold Coast.
13 players.
 
The winners of the three Junior Masters tournaments - at front from left: Gene Nakauchi, Kenji Nakauchi & Aki Matsui, 2nd row: Rhys Davies (eyes closed!), Keith Chan & Daniel Ford
with coach and analyst Peter Froehlich at the back.		 Proud Mr Nakauchi!

Brisbane Young Champions Term 3

Alex O'Flynn defeated Yi Liu in the last round to take out the Brisbane Young Champions term 3 event.

1st Alex O'Flynn 6,
2nd Yi Liu 5.5,
3rd Lachlan van den Bergh 5.
 

The term 4 event will commence on Monday 16 October.

Term 2 winners
  Brisbane Young Champions Gold Coast Junior & Super Junior Masters

 

The success of the Junior Masters program on the Gold Coast has encouraged us to start a similar one in Brisbane - namely the Brisbane Young Champions.  This program is being held at Café Checocho, 69 Hardgrave Road, West End. Owners of the café, Halim Nataprawira and Birgit Stein, have kindly made this venue available to us. Our coach Phachara Wongwichit is running the competition and, as in the Gold Coast model, is providing after-chess analysis to the players.

In term 2 the Gold Coast Super Juniors had two strong adults in their midst - Craig Duxbury and Axel Stahnke - who have bravely consented to become sacrificial lambs! This strengthened the field even further and added great interest to the players. Because the number of players has grown so steadily, we divided the Junior Masters into two grades according to their ratings to give them closer games. The players in the competitions for Term 2 were:

 

Super Junior Masters Junior Masters Junior Masters A Brisbane Young Champions
Daniel Barrett Alexander Arase Zac Clarkson Jack Brailsford
Kieton Beilby Daniel Arase Rhys Davies Trent Dalgleish
Craig Duxbury Keith Chan Jay Kaspar Liam Gunn-Schrader
Daniel Ford Caleb Eriksson Danielle Kinder Yarran Gunn-Schrader
Jessica Kinder Shaun Mah Alan Lam Abbie Kanagarajah
Leoma Lee Aki Matsui Henry Leef Yi Liu
Jonas Muller Robert Medland Kenji Nakauchi Nozomi Nakagawa
Gene Nakauchi Keishu Nagano Tomotaka Onoda Jonathan Ng
Alex Stahnke Erich Ng Joshua Radford Alexander O'Flynn
Axel Stahnke Robert Shinnie Matthew Radford Daniel Posner
Cameron Thompson Brody Seignior Jonathan Ringrose
Kantley Wu Luke Toda Leteisha Simmonds
Lachlan van den Bergh
 

 

The Super Juniors play a ten player round robin. Players in this competition cannot miss a game; we merely re-schedule their game in the event of sickness or through unavailability. 

In term 2 our highly-experienced coaching team included IM Peter Froehlich, who has recently joined Gardiner Chess, having coached for some years in Melbourne, and Toshi Kimura.

Past winners in the Gold Coast Junior Masters and the Super Junior Masters: