Daniel Ford has won the term 2 junior masters by half a point from FM Gene Nakauchi, whom he defeated in round 3. Daniel has played in the junior masters every term bar one since the commencement in 2003. He has won the event on five occasions. Well played Daniel.

 

Jamie Cullen won the B Grade on countback from Matthew Pyper and Daniel Arase. C Grade was won by Jesse Payton with a picket fence from Isaac Deboer who was playing in his first junior masters.

 

The term 3 junior masters commences on Monday 21 July.

FM Gene Nakauchi has won the term one junior masters with a perfect score of 7/7. Well done Gene! Second was Jonas Muller with 5, and third Sam Grigg with 4.5. Sebastian Jule continued his big improvement by defeating Jonas Muller in the last round. Martin Jack, fresh from his victory over Kevin Casey on Sunday, nearly defeated Sam Grigg, ending up with a very commendable draw. Both Martin Jack and Daniel Lapitan proved in this event that they are very big prospects.

 

In B Grade, Zac Clarkson, who has never even won C Grade, won the event with a win in every game he played. With the half point bye earlier in the event, he finished on 6.5/7. This was a great result by Zac, and demonstrates his considerable improvement in recent months. Well done Zac! Luke Toda finished second on 4.5, with several players finishing on 4.

 

In C Grade, Kees Huband-Lint was the very convincing winner on 6/5/7. Kees also has been a very big improver over the last few months. Well done Kees! Timothy Jo finished second on 5.5, with Sam Barrett third on 4.5.

 

In total, 41 students participated in the term one junior masters.

A big thank you to our coaches - Peter Froehlich, Nicole Kunze and Alex Jule - and to the patient parents who had some long waits for their kids!