David Cordover will be taking a swag of juniors to the Ballarat Open tournament and the Doeberl Cup, in Canberra. The experience gained from these will be invaluable.

It is great to see Chess Kids students wanting to join in these adult tournaments. Some have even joined adult chess clubs to practice on a regular b a s i s . ( S e e Wave r l e y You t h Championships advertisement on page

continue in chess is what it is all about. It is good to see players like Geoff becoming very successful at a senior level. This should provide inspiration to some of our younger players.

The VCA X-Mas Swiss attracted 52 players, of which 25 of them were juniors. Gordon Lindberg, rated only 1300, defeated Mirko Rujevic, rated 2200! While this was the most notable upset there were many others.

Editorial

There has never been a more active time in Victor ia fo r junior chess. Tournaments are running almost every week, children are learning by the droves in schools and parents are struggling hard to keep up with their children.

The re cen t Aus t r a l ian Jun ior Championships were held in Hervey Bay, yet 23 Victorian players made the effort to take a two week vacation in Queensland. What dedication!

Geoff Saw, Victoria’s best junior, has been offered the opportunity to play in the Zonal Championships. The winner of the Zonal is given a place in the Inter-Zonal and the winner of that a place in the World Championship cycle.

It is a fantastic opportunity for Geoff to raise his International ranking. Also there are chances of becoming an International Master. Should he score 6/9 the title is his! A very achievable score of 4.5/9 would give him the title of FIDE Master.

The aim of junior chess organisations should be two-fold. Chess is very much like music and art, a great activity which will enrich a child both in mind and in spirit. For this reason every child should be exposed in some way to chess.

The second aim is to persuade junior players to become adult players. The transition to adult chess is very difficult. Bridging this gap, or creating the desire in current junior players to want to

Volume 1 Issue 1 March 1999 Editor: David Cordover

Chess Is The Winner

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Inside This Issue

Australian Junior Pp 2-4 Adult Tournaments Page 5

Junior Masters Page 6 RJ Shield Page 7

Cordover Challenge Page 8 Junior Games Page 9

VJCL Rating List Pp 10-14 Interschool Championships Pp 15-21

Club Directory Page 22 Calendar for 1999 Page 24

At the Australian Junior Championships: (l-r) Casey Barnard, Daniel Bluzer-Fry, Julian McDonald, Will Heyward, Craig

Barnard, David Smerdon, Lance Truong, Peter Kolokithas.

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The Australian Junior Championships were held in Hervey Bay, the stepping stone to Fraser Island, in Queensland.

23 Victorian players made the long trip to compete in the two week tournament. It was a fantastic experience for all of them. For many it was the first time that they had the opportunity to play games which were considered serious and lasted so long. In the Under 12s the games lasted anywhere up to 4 hours, and in the Under 18s they could go for up to 6 hours per game!

Most Victorian children travelled up with parents to make a nice family holiday. Some didn’t, and for them it was a nice holiday from their family!

David Smerdon, from Qld (see page 1), comfortably won the tournament. He drew only one game, to Laura Moylan, and never really looked challenged in any of his games. Laura Moylan (ACT) finished in second place after co-leading the tournament for a long time.

Victorian players Julian McDonald and Leon Bowen performed very well for their ratings.

The Girls Championships was a small event eventually ending in a 3-way tie for first place. There will be a playoff organised to determine the champion.

Open Under 18 Championships

Player Rating Total 1 SMERDON David U16Q 1975 10.5 2 MOYLAN Laura U16A 1778 8.5 3 TAN Justin U14N 1717 8 4 SOLOVEYCHIK Sasha U16V 1816 8 5 SONTER Matthew U18Q 1484 7.5 6 SAINT Andrew U18S 1302 7 7 CASTOR David U18N 1385 7 8 DAVIES Shaun U18N 1588 7 9 BOURMISTROV Denis U14V 1629 7 10 LIP Michael U16N 1739 7 11 RAPOSIO Robert U18N 1776 7 12 ZONG-YUAN Zhao U14N 1793 7 13 MCDONALD Julian U16V 1187 6.5 14 URBAN Sylvester U14N 1427 6.5 15 POON Nick U18Q 1504 6.5 16 REJ Tomek U14N 1545 6.5 17 AYLING Simon U18W 1560 6.5 18 NEMETH Janos U14V 1607 6.5 19 KINGSTON Robert U16Q 1124 6 20 WONGWICHIT Phachara U14Q 1124 6 21 TAYLOR Leon U16W 1512 6 22 MCKAY Chris U18W 1543 6 23 BOWEN Leon U18V unr. 5.5 24 GUTHRIE Aaron U18S 1052 5.5 25 ZVEDENIOUK Ilya U14N 1097 5.5 26 ROVERE Crispin U14W 1174 5.5 27 LAM Anthony U16Q 1180 5.5 28 GOWOR Jacob U16A 1229 5.5 29 NISSEN Amir U14V 1274 5.5 30 RAFIZADEH Shervin U14A 1408 5.5 31 RICHARDS Allan U18T 1448 5.5 32 CHEUNG Justin U18N 1487 5.5 33 CHARLES Gareth U16N 1861 5.5 34 CARMICHAEL Stuart U16Q 1110 5 35 O'SULLIVAN Richard U16W 1220 5 36 CUELLAR Chris U18W 1270 5 37 FITZPATRICK Andrew U16A 1280 5 38 MCKAY Andrew U16W 1371 5 39 POON Timbi U14Q 1421 5 40 TAN Chao U14V 1508 5 41 LAU Vincent U16V unr. 5 42 GOULD Gary U16Q 637 4.5 43 BECKETT Joel U16Q 992 4.5 44 TAYLOR Finley U14Q 1019 4.5 45 CAREY Mitchell U14Q 1100 4.5 46 POULTON Chris U14A 1215 4.5 47 RAKAUSKAS Rhys U16Q 1278 4.5 48 ONUFREICHUK Dima U16V 1401 4.5 ....58 players

r1999 National Junior Openr

7.4.99 - 9.4.99

Come to Canberra in April... Play in the 1999 Doeberl Cup then play in the

Inaugural National Junior Open!!

When: April 7th - 9th. Round times: 10am, 1pm and 3:30pm daily. Where: The (Mr) Burns Club, Kett St, Kambah, Canberra. Format: 9 Round, ACF-rated tournament, played with one hour each on the clock. There will be two sections, an Open and a Reserves. Entry to the Open is for all chess players born in 1978 or later. Entry to the Reserves is restricted to chess players born in 1978 or later who have an ACF rating of less than 1200.

Entry Fees: $30 to play in the Open, $20 to play in the Reserves. Prizes: Open: 1st - $300, 2nd - $200, 3rd - $100 plus trophies. Reserves: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - trophies. Other prizes will be given based on numbers.

For further enquiries please call Geoff Butler on (02) 6258-7383 or e-mail

acjtjc@interact.net.au. An entry form can be sent to you on request.

Peter Kolokithas concentrating hard against Daniel Van Heerden in round 3.

Girls Under 18 Championships

Player Rating Total 1 NORRIS Shiloh U18Q 1342 9.5 2 LIP Catherine U14N 1350 9.5 3 LAUER-SMITH Jasmine U18S 1550 9.5 4 PIZZATO Chiara U14Q 1019 7 5 ROSE Allinta U16Q 1147 6.5 6 CONSTANTINOU Andrea U16Q 1085 6 7 KONG Holly U18N 1215 6 8 CHU Winnie U14N unr. 6 9 JOVANOVIC Marija U16A 1234 5.5 10 DISTELDORF Jessica U16Q 1273 5.5 11 LEE Melissa U14V unr. 5.5 12 YOUAKIM Krystal U14A 798 4.5 13 CASSIDY Kelly U16W 846 3.5 14 MCNAB Alexandra U14V unr. 2.5 15 MCNAB Emma U16V unr. 1

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The Under 12 Championships was far stronger than last year. Firstly, junior chess in Australia is getting stronger and secondly, because the effort required to travel to Hervey Bay was significant so only the really good players attended.

Victorians did very well with Sam Chow finishing in 2nd place and Matthew Doidge coming in 3rd.

Ruperto Lugo played well to finish equal first in the Under 10s along with Casey Barnard (Qld).

First time player Lance Truong was right up with the leaders for a while and finished on a very credible 6 out of 11.

The Girls Under 12s was a 10 player round-robin, which although small was very strong. Jade Lauer-Smith (sister of the U/18 winner) finished first. Michelle Lee convincingly won the Under 10 Girls title.

World Junior Championships Under 18, 16, 14, 12 and 10 in boys and girls.

Spain - October or November 1999

According to new FIDE laws a country may enter an

unlimited number of players to the World Junior and Under

Age Championships. The ACF has an open policy on this so

anyone wishing to participate is able. If you think you

would like to play contact David Cordover (0411-877-833).

Congratulations and good luck to those children who have

already elected to participate; Ruperto Lugo, Michelle Lee,

Richard Machet, Matthew Doidge and Sasha Soloveychik.

We wish you all the best in your respective age groups.

The tournament is traditionally an 11-round event held over

Open Under 12 Championships

Player Rating Total 1 JOVANOVIC Peter U12A 1668 10 2 CHOW Samuel U12V 1500 9.5 3 DOIDGE Matthew U12V 1426 9 4 XIE Ken U12N 1179 7 5 MACHET Richard U12V 1045 7 6 BARNARD Casey U10Q 1234 6.5 7 LUGO Ruperto U10V 1147 6.5 8 BUDIHARDJO Timothy U12N 978 6.5 9 TRUONG Lance U12V unr. 6 10 WEI Michael U10A unr. 6 11 HENG Jonathan U12S unr. 6 12 GOWOR Roman U12A 1107 6 13 KASPAR Ric U12Q 874 6 14 WRIGLEY Andrew U10A 820 5.5 15 LAU David U12Q 826 5.5 16 KOLOKITHAS Peter U12V unr. 5.5 17 CHU Louis U10N unr. 5.5 18 VAN HEERDEN Daniel U12W unr. 5.5 19 KIMURA Toshi U12Q unr. 5 20 LAZARUS Ben U10Q unr. 5 21 BLUZER-FRY Daniel U12V unr. 5 22 PAGE Chris U12Q 1356 5 23 BARNARD Craig U10Q 1092 5 24 WONGWICHIT Chatpong U12Q 1009 5 25 CHRISTY Rhys U12Q 862 5 26 UMAPATHYSIVAM Mahesh U12S792 5 27 HEYWARD Will U12V 832 4.5 28 DOIDGE Liam U10V 940 4.5 29 LEE Dylan U12S unr. 4.5 30 YOUAKIM James U12A 740 4 31 SKORIC Anthony U12Q unr. 4 32 DORRINGTON Alexander U12Q unr. 2 33 INNES Blake U12Q unr. 2 34 CAREY Blake U8Q unr. 1

Girls Under 12 Championships

Player Total 1 LAUER-SMITH Jade U12S 9 2 GILLETT Robyn U12Q 8 3 LEE Michelle U10V 7 4 JOHNSEN Jenna U12Q 6 5 WRIGLEY Alison U12A 4 6 McNAB Jessica U12V 4 7 REID Vaness U10N 3.5 8 DAVIDOVIC Diana U8S 2.5 9 McNAB Scarlett U8V 0.5 10 UMAPATHYSIVAM Priya U8S 0.5

Lance, Peter, Nick and Will. Exhausted on the boat home from Fraser Island.

Lance, Daniel, David & Will. Preparing hard for Qld.

We wish all players the best of luck in the upcoming Australian Junior to be held in

Melbourne in January 2000.

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White to play and win a piece.

The game finished 31.Rc1 Qxa1 32.Rc2 Qb1 33.Rc1 Qa2 =.

Everyone can fall for an opening trap once in a while.

Bowen, Leon - Rej, Tomek

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Qh4 5.Qd3 Nf6 6.Nxc6 dxc6 7.e5 Ng4 8.g3 Qh5 9.c4 Bc5 10.Be2 Bxf2+ 11.Kf1 Qh3# 0-1

Who said all opposite color bishop endings are drawn? If there are Q’s on the board the player with the attack wins. Leon (Black), vs C.Cuellar, somehow managed to get an attack going and win!

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XABCDEFGHY 8-vl-+-trk+( 7+p+-+-zpp' 6p+-+-+-+& 5wQ-+-+-+-% 4-+-tR-zp-+$ 3zP-+P+-trq# 2-zP-+-+-zP" 1+-+R+-+K! xabcdefghy In this position Vincent Lau made the blunder of the tournament. 34...Rg2 doesn’t look that terrible, but what should he have played? He went on to lose the game.

Vincent wasn’t all blunders as you can see from this game! Lau, Vincent - Carey, Mitchell 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.Be3 Be7 7.Nf3 Be6 8.Bd3 Nd7 9.c3 0-0 10.Qc2 g6 11.h4 f5 12.h5 Nf6 13.hxg6 fxg6 14.Ng5 Bd7 15.Qb3+ Kg7 16.Nxh7 Rh8 17.Bh6+ Kxh7 18.Bf8+ Nh5 19.Qf7# 1-0

Julian McDonald played Nf5 here threatening mate. It can be defended and Black played on a few moves here before resigning. What move would make Black resign immediately?

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White to play and win.

Simon Ayling, White, has been crushing Julian all game. He could win a piece here, but let Jules off with a draw.

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Easy Chess! A new game… See page 21.

We note with regret the passing of David Mendes (age 11).

We wish to convey our deepest sympathy to his family, relatives and friends.

He was a charming child w h o ’ s d e m e a n o u r w a s a l w a y s

pleasant and bright.

Games from the Australian Junior

I will attempt show some of the interesting games from the Australian Junior. The first is a not-so-good game, but one that was fun.

Youakim, James - Heyward, Will

1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf3 g5 5.h3 Bg3# 0-1 A simple opening trap. But a fun game if you are Black!

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In this game Daniel keeps attacking, even when he is running out of pieces! Eventually he gets a draw for his perseverance.

Bluzer-Fry, Daniel - Wei, Michael

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Bc4 Bf5 6.Bf4 e6 7.Nf3 Nbd7 8.a3 c6 9.Ne5 Be7 10.0-0 0-0 11.g4 Nxe5 12.Bxe5 Bxg4 13.Qd2 Nd5 14.f3 Bf5 15.Rf2 Nxc3 16.Rg2 f6 17.Qh6 g6 18.bxc3 Qxc3

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Play in an Adult Chess Tournament

37th Doeberl Cup - Canberra

(A Category 5 Grand Prix Event)

Date: Friday 2 April to Monday 5 April 1999

Venue: Fenner Hall, 210 Northbourne Ave, Canberra, ACT

Schedule: Entries close: 12.00 noon, Opening: 1.15 pm Fri 1.30 pm Round 2: Fri 7.00 pm Round 3: Sat 10.00 am Round 4: Sat 3.00 pm Round 5: Sun 10.00 am Round 6: Sun 3.00 pm Round 7: Mon 9.00 am, Prizegiving at 1.45 pm

Controls: Open section (FIDE rated) 32/90 then 24/30 followed by 20 seconds per move. Major/minor section 40/90 then 30/30 followed by 20 seconds per move. DGT's will be used.

Entries: Adult $85.00 (GM's, IM's free); FM's & Under 18's $45 A $20/$10 discount applies if entry received by 26/3/99; a $20.00 surcharge applies for Under 2000 non- FIDE rated entries to Open. Players must be ACT or State Association members.

General: NB Dress is neat, casual attire. Entries to Paul Dunn (Treasurer), 20 Richmond St, Macquarie 2614 (ph 02 6251 1360). Enquiries to Roger McCart (Convenor) or telephone 02 6251 1360. There is a list of accommo- dation options availabe on request. No smoking at venue.

Prizes: Open First $2200 Second $1100 Third $600 Fourth $400 Fifth $300 Under 2150 $300 Best Junior $200 Major (Under 2000 only) First $1000 Second $700 Third $500 1700-1799 $300 Under 1700 $250 Junior $100

Waverley Youth Championships

Enquiries: David Cordover 0411-877-833 or 9578-6203

What? 7 Round Swiss Tournament over 3 weeks. All moves in 1/2 hour.

When? Friday nights, 7:30pm start - 9:30pm finish.

March 12th, 19th, 26th.

Where? Waverley Chess Club,

Wadham House,

52 Wadham Pde, Mt Waverley. (Melway Ref. 70 E1)

Cost? $12 full, $10 concession (junior, student, unemployed)

Prizes: 1st $100 + trophy

2nd $50 + trophy

3rd $20 + trophy

Trophies for top in age & rating groups!

9:30pm till late every night - Free coaching, social chess, transfer, lightning and more!

Chess Kids Junior Club 6:00pm - 7:30pm.

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A disappointing 22 players turned up to play in the VJCL 2-Day tournament in September. Serious players really should be making a serious attempt to play in longer tournaments as when you get to a State, National or even World level a single game can last for up to 6 hours!

Many juniors are now playing long games against adults, which is undoubtedly the best way to improve. Remember, practice makes perfect.

Even so, the weekend was very competitive with some good chess played. Everyone who came enjoyed themselves. Hopefully more will attend

Final Results - 3rd Group

Name Score

1. James McNaught 6.0 $25

2. Jamie Carey 6.0 $25

3. Joshua Lamb 4.0

4. Tory Colquhoun 3.0

5. Etienne Yap 3.0

6. Charlotte Brett 2.5

7. Joshua Saddick 2.0

Can you beat the champions?

This puzzle is called a helpmate. The idea is for Black to assist White in getting the checkmate. It is tradition that Black moves first in these puzzles, therefore both players get the same number of moves.

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This puzzle was composed by Pal Benko, a famous player and composer of beautiful endgame puzzles.

Strange, with so few pieces that it is so hard. It is said that Botvinnik took over an hour to solve this! And Fischer couldn’t solve it at all. I am sceptical about that as I solved it in around 30 min.

Final Results - 1st Group

Name Score

1. Dima Onufreichuk 8.0 $50

2. Julian McDonald 7.5

3. Leon Bowen 6.5

4. James Papa 6.0

5. Dominic Deacon 5.0

6. Alex Colquhoun 3.0

7. Michelle Lee 3.0

8. Sujith De Silva 2.5

9. Warren Howden 2.0

Prize Winners Open 1st L.Bowen $50 2nd A.Nissen $25 3rd M.Chowdhury Top Girl S.Kalkbrenner Under 14 1st R.Lugo $25 2nd C.Tan 3rd J.Lesinskis Under 12 1st R.Machet $25 2nd M.Cai $25 3rd T.Gawin Under 10 1st L.Doidge 2nd P.Kolokithas 3rd A.Nikolayevsky Under 8 1st K.Waidyaratne 2nd T.Taylor 3rd R.Truong

The format of the Junior Masters was a coaching session in the morning, given by Ry Curtis, Simon Rutherford and David Cordover, followed by 3 games at 1/2 hour each. This should have given enough time to put into practice some of the ideas learned during the coaching morning.

Some players couldn’t make it every single day so we made the round-robin a flexible format giving the opportunity to play on only 2 of the 3 days.

When: 8th, 9th & 10th July Where: Glen Eira College

Format: 9-Round Round-robin, 1/2 hour per player

Players: 29 Players

2-Day Tournament

When: 5th & 6th September

Where: Melbourne Uni - Hawthorn Format: 7-Round Swiss tournament, 1 hour per player Players: 22 Players

Final Results - 2nd Group

Name Score

1. Vincent Lau 9.0 $25

2. Nick Masters 9.0 $25

3. Andrew Brett 7.0

4. Ryan Carey 7.0

5. Melissa Lee 5.5

6. Will Heyward 4.5

7. Simon Wong 4.0

8. Iain James 3.0

9. Timothy Jacobs 3.0

10. Dana Har-el 2.5

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Month Open Under 12 Under 11 Under 10 Under 9 Under 8 Under 7

July, 26th Douglas Lindberg

Michael Itkin Marrion Carrabin

Louise Dana Artem Nikolayevsky

Michael Shafar

Thor Taylor

August, 23rd

Geoff Saw (Master) Warren Howden (Open)

Andrew Dana

Christopher Callas

Timothy Raines

Jade Hall-Kelly & Byron Fiske

Jamie Carey Jayson Lim

October, 25th

Samuel Chow

Simon Mitchell

Will Heyward

Peter Kolokithas

Ben Grodeck Michelle Yii Natasha Lauder

November, 29th

Samuel Chow

Matthew Cai Michael Shafar

Sebastian Guiney

Byron Fiske & Thor Taylor

George Tzaikou

Tyson Bradshaw

RJ Shield Tournament

The RJ Shield is named after International Master Robert Jamieson. He was probably the most influential player and organiser in the late 70’s and 80’s.

Not only was Robert a great organiser and player (in fact still the 3rd highest rated player in Australia), he was also an inspirational coach.

Robert coached many of today's top players and to honour his work through the years the RJ Shield was started in November 1995.

Since then this tournament has become perhaps the single most successful event ever to be held in Australia. Regular attendance has been between 100 and 170 players.

During the past year attendance has

dropped down to just over 100 players. It is just that there are many more junior tournaments being held these days, (and notice the format of all these is based on that of the RJ Shields. What higher form of flattery than being copied!)

I am reaching out to you, the reader, and asking you to help make sure that this tournament continues to grow as the best tournament in the country.

RJ Shields have earned the reputation of being well organised, challenging and above all a great social event. Many people have made friends through this tournament and attend not only for the chess, but to see these new friends.

With trophies in every age-group from Under 7 upwards everyone has a chance to win something.

The winners of previous RJ age groups are moved into higher age-groups to give the better players more of a challenge and even out the tournaments. Some young players have been known to work their way up from the Under 8’s to the Under 14’s! This should be seen as a real honour if you are one of the promising players to be selected to move up an age group.

It is too hard to mention the names of all the parents who help at the RJ Shield tournaments, but without their help in organising entries, shifting furniture and arbiting various age groups the RJ Shield would never be so successful. Parents interested in helping should approach David.

(left) David Cordover with some of his chess trophies. David organises all the RJ Shield tournaments, runs his own business & coaches some of the best players in the state. No wonder he doesn’t get much time to shave! (right) Daniel Bluzer-Fry, only 11, is collecting trophies fast!

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i n a l l a d u l t tournaments, but traditionally in

junior events prizes are awarded by age.

By awarding prizes in ratings groups children are rewarded for outstanding personal performance. Everyone is competing for prizes with people their own standard, regardless of age.

An added point of interest is that David Cordover (former Australian Junior Champion and all round chess guru) also plays in the tournament. Players lucky enough to play David are given a special cash prize if they win or draw. To make things more even David is at a severe time handicap. In the first tournament David lost 2 games!

# Name Rating Score Performance Rating

1 Olivia,Saaroni 1130 7.0 1183

2 Melanie,Chang 947 5.0 997

3 Megan,Wilson 1017 5.0 1018

4 Katharine,Regan 996 5.0 1001

5 Athena,Voudiotis 738 4.0 788

6 Grace,Ang 734 4.0 800

7 Chermain,Kitchen 770 4.0 845

8 Natasha,Lauder 682 4.0 776

9 Peta,Rak 545 3.5 704

10 Andrea,Chang 815 3.0 739

11 Vanja,Rosenblat 702 3.0 603

12 Quor Yin,Teh 686 3.0 612

13 Sonya,Kaurah 527 3.0 540

14 Cate,Mansfield 683 2.5 591

15 Florence,Lim 474 2.5 495

16 Quor Ten,Teh 447 2.0 473

17 Natalie,Devitsakis 424 2.0 437

18 Lucie,Jacobs 561 0.5 274

# Name Rating Score Performance Rating

1 Samuel Chow 1711 6.0 1633

2 Sasha Soloveychik 1599 6.0 1603

3 Amir Nissen 1410 5.0 1540

4 Leon Bowen 1403 5.0 1523

5 Douglas Lindberg 1392 5.0 1417

6 Chao Tan 1402 5.0 1417

7 David Cordover 1500 5.0 1386

8 Gordon Lindberg 1531 4.5 1279

9 Andrew Sucevic 1082 4.5 1198

10 Tiko Gawin 1245 4.0 1307

11 Dima Onufreichuk 1483 4.0 1221

12 Jade Hall-Kelly 992 4.0 1188

13 Cameron Fleming 1013 4.0 1016

14 Will Heyward 1108 4.0 987

15 Timothy Jacobs 1015 3.5 1150

16 Thor Taylor 907 3.5 1106

17 Jien Goh 987 3.5 1046

18 Ang Papageorgiou 782 3.5 932

19 Artem Nikolayevsky 998 3.0 1137

20 Warren Howden 1189 3.0 1119

21 Daichi Nagao 1030 3.0 994

22 Stephen Mansfield 1025 3.0 995

23 Kishen Kaurah 810 3.0 821

24 Surya Wirawan 897 3.0 916

25 George Papageorgiou 811 2.5 904

26 Prasanga Siripala 794 2.5 814

27 Kai Nagao 720 2.5 783

28 Jason Mihalopolous 737 2.0 809

29 Ian Charles 788 2.0 797

30 Jason Furner 688 1.5 712

31 Byron Fiske 978 1.0 1109

32 Shaun Furner 623 1.0 642

Results - Cup Day Coaching

Name Score

1. Gordon Lindberg 8.0

2. Chao Tan 8.0

3. Leon Bowen 6.0

4. Mahmud Chowdhury 6.0

5. Douglas Lindberg 5.0

6. Alex Colquhoun 3.5

7. Lance Truong 3.0

8. Jamie Carey 2.5

9. Raymond Truong 2.0

10. Will Heyward 1.0

The Cordover Challenge and the Polgar Plate are new tournaments that were trialed in November 1998. By all respects they were heralded as successful.

The Cordover Challenge is the first junior tournament to award prizes according to ratings. This is not a new idea, it happens

The Polgar Plate recognises that because many more boys play chess girls can be intimidated, or even not start playing in tournaments. A girls’ only tournament, such as the Polgar Plate, is a good opportunity for girls to challenge each other in a competitive environment (and a good social event!).

This is named after Judit Polgar, the best woman player in the world who now refuses to play in female only tournaments because she feels girls and boys should compete on equal footing. The Polgar Plate is restricted to girls only for social reasons, not for reasons of ability.

Polgar Plate

Cordover Challenge

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Junior Games

Black delays development and castling. This is a common mistake by juniors, but this time it is the junior player who exploits the error made by his experienced opponent. Gordon gets coached at Chess World and at the Melbourne Junior Chess Club.

G.Lindberg (1392) - M.Rujevic (2208)

Christmas Swiss, 1998

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Nf3 Qxd5 4.Be2 e5

5.Nc3 Qa5 6.0-0 e4 7.Nd4 Qe5 8.Ndb5

c6 9.d4 Qe7 10.Na3 b5

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11.Naxb5!? This is an example of an intuitive sacrifice. Although White doesn't get full compensation for the piece in material terms, or any immediate tactical opportunities, he reasons that his lead in development and chances against Black's King will compensate. 11...cxb5 12.Bxb5+ Bd7 13.Bg5 Bxb5

14.Nxb5 a6? 14...Qb7 was better, with chances for both sides. 15.Nc3 Nbd7 16.Nxe4 Qd8 16...Qxe4 loses to 17.Re1 17.Re1 Be7 18.d5! The winning move, and not the easiest to find, as White had several tempting alternatives. White relies on his strategy of keeping the Black King under constant fire in the centre of the

board. 18...Nxe4 19.Rxe4 f6 20.d6 Ne5 20...fxg5 21.Rxe7+ Kf8 22.Qd5 wins for White. 21.Rxe5! fxe5 22.Bxe7 Qa5 22...Qd7 23.Qh5+ g6 24.Qxe5 is also winning

for White. 23.Qg4! Threatening Qe6. Every White move from this point is a forceful hammer-blow, making a major threat or giving check, thereby limiting

Black's defensive possibilities. 23...Qd5

24.Rd1! h5 The wily Rujevic finds the most testing defences. 25.Qg6+ Qf7 26.

Qe4 Threatening the Rook on a8. 26...Kd7 27.Qb7+ Ke6 28.Qd5+ Black resigned, as his queen is lost.

Juniors don’t always win! Here the junior player makes the mistake of opening up his king, and his experienced opponent deals a quick punishment. Dimitry Partsi - John Beckman

Victorian Reserves

1.Nc3 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.f4 b6 4.Nf3 Bb7 5.

d3 White should develop his Bishop first. 5...e6 6.f5 This doesn’t work so well when the bishop isn’t developed. It just opens up White’s King. 6...exf5 7.exf5 Bxc3+ 8.bxc3 Qf6! 9.fxg6 hxg6 Now the rook can participate in the attack too. 10.Be2 Ne7 11.0-0 Qxc3 12.Bg5 Nbc6 13.

d4 0-0-0 Sensibly getting his King safe and allowing his other rook to join the

attack. 14.Ne5 Nxe5 15.Bxe7 Qe3+ And finally the weakness created by moving the f-pawn is exploited. 16.Rf2

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Find the killing move for Black.

16...Rxh2! with the idea of Kxh2, Qxf2 followed by Rh8. 0-1

Australian Junior

Chess Championships 15.1.00 - 25.1.00

To be held in Melbourne!

The competition is an 11 round swiss tournament, held in a different state each year. It was last held in Melbourne in 1993. Don’t pass up this opportunity to compete against Australia’s best with a home ground advantage!

Previous Champions 1994 Ry Curtis (now Vic) 1995 Charles Pizzato (Qld) 1996 David Cordover (Vic) 1997 Max Leskiewicz (Qld) 1998 Geoff Saw (Vic) 1999 David Smerdon (Qld) 2000 Anyone notice a pattern? (Vic??)

A classic example of attacking on opposite sides of the board. A display of natural ability by Lance.

Van Heerden, D - Truong, L

Australian Junior - U12, 1999

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 d5 Transposing into a French Defence. 4.f3? c5 5.e5

Nfd7 6.Bb5 a6 7.Bxd7+ Bxd7 8.Nge2

Be7 9.Be3 c4 10.a3 0-0 11.Qd2 Nc6

12.0-0-0 White castles Q-side hoping to launch an attack on Black. Unfortunately Black has much more space on the Q-side

and his attack comes through first. 12...b5 13.Qe1 Qb6 14.Qg3 Rfb8 15.Bh6 g6 16.

Bg5 Bf8! And now White’s attack is finished.

XABCDEFGHY 8rtr-+-vlk+( 7+-+l+p+p' 6pwqn+p+p+& 5+p+pzP-vL-% 4-+pzP-+-+$ 3zP-sN-+PwQ-# 2-zPP+N+PzP" 1+-mKR+-+R! xabcdefghy 17.Na2 a5! Preparing the pawn break. 18.Nac3 b4 19.Nb1 bxa3 Once Black has an open file nothing can be done. 20.Kd2

Qxb2 21.Nbc3 Nb4 22.Rc1 a2 23.Ke3

Nxc2+ 24.Kf2 a1Q 25.Rxa1 Nxa1 26.

Bc1 Qc2 27.Be3 Nb3 0-1 Black is enough ahead!

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Top Under 11 LINDBERG Douglas 11 1392 LUGO Ruperto 9 1368 PAPA James 10 1305 GROSSMAN Ira 11 1207 MACHET Richard 11 1192 LEE Michelle 9 1180 MUTHUSAMY Reubban 10 1166 KOLOKITHAS Peter 11 1164 SRIDHAR Rohan 11 1143 HORNUNG Brook 10 1143 RAINES Timothy 11 1140 SAARONI Olivia 11 1130 SHAFAR Michael 9 1128 HUTCHINSON Alex 10 1111 MELLOW Phillip 11 1109

Top Under 12 CHOW Samuel 12 1712 DOIDGE Matthew 12 1513 LINDBERG Douglas 11 1392 LUGO Ruperto 9 1368 PAPA James 10 1305 MITCHELL Simon 12 1288 TASSAKOS Christian 12 1280 GROSSMAN Ira 11 1207 MACHET Richard 11 1192 LEE Michelle 9 1180 LESINSKIS Janis 12 1175 MUTHUSAMY Reubban 10 1166 KOLOKITHAS Peter 11 1164 CALLAS Chris 12 1162 RICHTER Sally-Anne 12 1160 TALJ Elie 12 1152 LEONG Mark 12 1147 SCHMIDT Simon 12 1145 SRIDHAR Rohan 11 1143 HORNUNG Brook 10 1143

Top Girls Under 12 GROSSMAN Ira 11 1207 LEE Michelle 9 1180 RICHTER Sally-Anne 12 1160 SAARONI Olivia 11 1130 DANA Louise 11 1066 McMASTER Hannah 11 1027 HENLY Claire 9 1013 ROTHFIELD Emily 12 1012 CARRABIN Marion 12 1000 ROWE Kacey 11 999 SELLAYAH Renishka 11 970 BRADSHAW Holly 11 961 COLQUHOUN Tory 12 959 CHANG Melanie 10 947 DUNLAP Shannon 12 928

Top Under 14 CHOW Samuel 12 1712 NEMETH John 14 1677 BOURMISTROV Denis 13 1552 LINDBERG Gordon 14 1530 DOIDGE Matthew 12 1513 NISSEN Amir 14 1410 TAN Chao 14 1402 LINDBERG Douglas 11 1392 BASNAYAKE Thilini 14 1381 LUGO Ruperto 9 1368 HAIKAL Edward 13 1316 FONG Kenny 14 1315 PAPA James 10 1305 MITCHELL Simon 12 1288 LANDER Richard 13 1280

Top Under 18 SAW Geoff 18 1798 CHOW Samuel 12 1712 CHOW Michael 16 1697 NEMETH John 13 1677 SOLOVEYCHIK Sasha 15 1599 OGADA-OSIR Ibrahim 18 1565 FAINSHRAIBER Alina 17 1555 BOURMISTROV Denis 13 1552 LINDBERG Gordon 14 1530 DOIDGE Matthew 12 1513 DRAGICEVIC Domagoj 17 1503 BALTATGIS George 16 1494 ONUFREICHUK Dima 15 1483 CHINGAREV Alex 16 1455 HOPF Toby 17 1446 MCDONALD Julian 15 1433 GROSSMAN Sasha 15 1411 KOVALENKO Andrei 18 1411 NISSEN Amir 14 1410 BOWEN Leon 18 1403

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Top Under 8 GRODEK Ben 8 1029 TAYLOR Thor 7 907 CAREY Jamie 7 872 CHANG Andrea 8 815 KOADLOW Matthew 8 683 LAUDER Natasha 7 682 RUST Darius 8 658 LAM Aaron 8 553 ARTLETT Peta 8 541 WAKLEY Jasmine 8 473

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VICTORIAN JUNIOR RATINGS (AGE UNDER DURING ‘99)

Surname Name Age Rating Surname Name Age Rating Surname Name Age Rating

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COHEN Tammy 539 COHEN Daniel 626 COLAUTTI Lauren 569 COLES Sophie 86 696 COLL Liam 86 705 COLL Laurie 89 784 COLLINS Josh 660 COLLINS Chris 716 COLLUSSI Mark 946 COLQUHOUN Alexandra 83 1209 COLQUHOUN Tory 87 959 COMBER Scott 1163 CONN Michael 84 841 CONNOLLY Joe 82 1269 CONNOLLY Marina 88 615 CONNON Felicity 87 648 CONNON Francis 1038 COONEY Sarah 755 CORK David 875 CORMICK Joshua 90 584 CORREA Thomas 83 1068 COSTER Kieran 87 709 COURTOT David 748 COUTIE James 401 COUTIE Michael 486 CRAFTI James 85 757 CRAWFORD Anthony 89 668 CREEDON Rowan 86 819 CRISP Brendan 772 CROSBIE-WATTERS Alexander 894 CRUICKSHANK Edward 86 676 CUKIER Gary 84 891 CULLEN Andrew 89 833 CUMING Louise 88 871 CURMI Natasha 88 701 CURRY Austen 874 CZYDEL Tim 88 864 DACRUZ Simone 540 D'ALOISIO Nicholas 84 591 DANA Andrew 86 1171 DANA Louise 88 1066 DAVEY Lucy 85 896 DAVIES John 85 935 DAVIES Zach 88 766 DAVIES Adam 978 DAVIS Luke 88 1064 DAVIS Chris 89 843 DAWES Toppy 517 DE LA CRUZ David 731 DE WINTER Phillip 875 DEACON Alice 786 DEAN Anthony 83 1056 DELLA-BOSCA Michael 89 773 DENHOM Angus 84 973 DESILVA Sujith 84 1220 DEVAPALASUNDARAM Aberna 86 984 DEVITSAKIS Natalie 424 DEY Robin 83 763 DICKSON Sam 403 DICKSON Andrew 821 DIMOS Stefan 656 DINSDALE Luke 586 DIRCKS Alex 87 742 DIXON Christopher 88 838 DJORGONOSKI Nicholas 602 DOIDGE James 84 1335 DOIDGE Matthew 87 1513 DOIDGE Liam 89 1103 DOIDGE Brendan 503 DONALD Rachel 90 536 DONOGHUE Matthew 85 1049 DONOVON Patrick 810 DORMAN Andrew 831 DOW Tim 571 DOWNIE Owen 1092 DOWNING Pip 84 895 DRAGICEVIC Domagoj 82 1503 DREYFUS Joseph 85 1122 DREYFUS Thomas 814 DRUMMOND James 88 726 DUDLEY Sam 90 845

BROSNAHAN Liam 87 964 BROSNAHAN Nathan 458 BROWNE Stella 85 758 BRUKNER Charles 87 831 BRUKNER Joseph 750 BRYSON Damien 86 966 BUCHANNAN Christopher 88 966 BUHAGIAR Julien 81 1102 BURKE Andrew 87 857 BUTCHER Evan 749 BUTLER Andrew 84 1012 BUTLER Samuel 86 1101 BUTSON Pryce 88 740 BUTTER Lincoln 84 1151 BUTTERWORTH Stuart 90 868 BUTTFIELD-ADDISON Paris 86 688 BYRNE Kathleen 86 815 BYRNE Emily 741 CADBY Zoe 88 423 CAI Matthew 1073 CALLAS Chris 87 1162 CAMPBELL Whitney 86 865 CANIL Raman 680 CANTY Brendan 674 CANTY Matthew 727 CAREY Ryan 90 1103 CAREY Jamie 92 872 CARRABIN Marion 87 1000 CARRABIN Christof 89 608 CAVE Paul 84 1112 CERINI Ben 88 591 CHAI Shannon 84 1040 CHAMBERS Oliver 490 CHAN Timothy 84 1058 CHAN Ashley 90 673 CHAN Joanne 634 CHAN Luigi 760 CHAN Diane 843 CHANG Melanie 89 947 CHANG Andrea 91 815 CHARALAMBIDES Costa 88 723 CHARLES Ian 788 CHATTO Alistair 85 794 CHEAH Yew-Hwan 846 CHEAH Jewhwan 969 CHEAH Yewhwan 1222 CHEAH Foong 85 940 CHEONG Philip 88 976 CHERRY Cailum 86 504 CHEUNG Jason 86 863 CHEUNG Ailsa 88 673 CHIA Jonathan 699 CHIN Luke 84 854 CHIN Luke 84 983 CHIN Christopher 648 CHIN Jimmy 1041 CHIN David 1210 CHINGAREV Alex 83 1455 CHOCKALINGAM Rama 88 705 CHOONG Nicholas 89 819 CHOW Michael 83 1697 CHOW Matthew 87 439 CHOW Jason 87 975 CHOW Edwin 87 1005 CHOW Samuel 87 1712 CHOWDHURY Mahmud 83 1384 CHU Alvina 85 786 CHU Kar Lu 85 949 CHU Alex 87 954 CHUA Rebecca 88 788 CHUA Thiam 898 CICUTTO Andrew 1025 CIPANS Jack 88 1048 CIPANS Kate 89 602 CLARKSON Adrian 763 CLAYTON Kaela 89 576 CLAYTON Shaun 906 CLENDINNEN Anastasia 86 1024 CLENDINNEN Gilchrist 89 774 CLIPSTONE Ben 90 613 COHEN Braham 88 928

VJCL Ratings allow players to accurately compare their playing ability. The more tournament games a player has played the more accurate their rating becomes. It is also a good indication of how much a player has improved.

The ratings must take into account all tournaments that are played if they are to be truly representative.

The following ratings include all RJ Shield, Cordover Challenge, Rookies Cup, Queens Cup, Box Hill Novice Tournament & other results that have been submitted in 1998.

In the future only results submitted in electronic format will be processed by the VJCL. If you need assistance in getting them to the VJCL on disk, or via e-mail, please let someone know. Results must be submitted within 2 weeks of the completion of the tournament.

Each player’s Year of Birth is given. If this information is not provided, or it is incorrect please talk to David Cordover to remedy this problem. At the end of 1999 all players who do not have their year of birth registered will be removed from the rating list.

SURNAME NAME Y R ABERSTEINER Chad 84 969 ABERSTEINER Shannon 86 1245 ACKROYD Christopher 88 774 ADAMS Andrew 84 1066 ADAMS Megan 86 756 ADAMS Tristan 89 781 ADLER Nathan 749 ADLER Nikki 836 ALBANTOW Andrew 89 886 ALEXANDER Melissa 85 1148 ALEXANDER Nelson 87 679 ALKEMADE Steven 86 838 ALLARDICE Scott 86 943 ALLERTON Claire 88 693 AMOORE Kylie 85 931 ANDERSON David 813 ANG Grace 87 734 ANG Megan 87 753 ANG Samantha 89 787 ANGELATOS Alex 961 ANGSUWATJARAKORN Likit 862 ANGSUWATJARAKORN Tospal 989 ANNABELL Lucas 780 ANNABELL Paul 893 ANTHONY Damien 642 ANTONIOU Greg 88 781 APPLETON Victoria 90 473

ARISTODEMOU Justin 694 ARNEJA Pavneet 88 916 ARNEY David 81 1192 ARONOWICZ Andrew 89 406 ARSENAKIS Yanni 572 ARTLETT Peta 91 541 ARUNOTHAYARA Sandeep 913 ASHELFORD Taya 85 972 ASHKENAZI Shaynie 89 521 ASHTON-BELL Tavis 86 1060 ASTEN Paul 889 ATTWOOD Alicia 85 676 AU YONG Tricia 87 521 AUGUSTI Alexi 88 587 AVENELL Phoebe 88 611 BACASH-POWER Xavier 87 716 BAILEY William 86 664 BAILLIEU Amy 86 818 BAINES Alister 86 882 BAINES Andrew 88 532 BAKER Fabien 882 BALBIN Joshua 1066 BALTATGIS George 83 1494 BANDARA James 89 639 BANKS Damien 86 910 BANKS Kyla 88 723 BANNAN Dean 600 BANNAN Vivienne 733 BARBER Bryce 84 978 BARDWELL Lachlan 88 753 BARNES Rosie 762 BARRING Edwina 821 BASNAYAKE Gayanie 82 1226 BASNAYAKE Thilini 85 1381 BASNAYAKE Malinda 87 853 BASNAYAKE Nilmali 788 BASSETT Robert 87 817 BASSETT Hamish 89 945 BASSETT Andrew 770 BATH Thomas 833 BATHERN Cailin 574 BEALE Josh 87 986 BEARE Sarah 661 BEIGLER Daniel 85 1015 BELL Chris 84 1054 BENNETT Catherine 88 890 BENNETT Laura 89 823 BENNETT James 937 BENTLEY Beau 83 1266 BEST Graeme 731 BHATIA Akhilesh 86 1095 BIRCH Allan 86 971 BIRCH Matthew 89 863 BLACK Sebastian 87 1044 BLACK Kieran 782 BLANKFIELD Judith 572 BLUSZTEIN David 87 1117 BLUZER-FRY Daniel 88 1003 BOGISRCH Nicholas 780 BOK Jasmin 863 BONSEMA Zoe 82 871 BOOTH Poppy 664 BOURMISTROV Denis 86 1552 BOWEN Leon 1403 BOWLES Emma 90 667 BOYD Justin 89 733 BRADSHAW Holly 88 961 BRADSHAW Tyson 950 BRASH Anthony 820 BREARE Sarah 87 589 BRENNAN-CHONG James 85 586 BRESLEY Yoni 643 BRETT Andrew 85 1093 BRETT Charlotte 87 857 BRIGHAM Atticus 876 BRISCOE James 87 854 BRODERICK Adam 495 BRODRIBB Allan 85 1085 BRODSKI Tania 89 906 BROOKES Jennifer 85 856 BROOKES Nick 89 800

VICTORIAN JUNIOR RATINGS (AS OF FEBRUARY 1ST 1999)

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DUFTON Luke 898 DUNLAP Shannon 87 928 DYMOWSKI Alicia 86 916 E Avi 89 730 EAREY Adam 84 1051 EBERT Andrew 627 EDWARDS Amelia 686 EER Jocelyn 90 709 EIERWEIS Jonathon 89 733 ELDRIDGE David 88 884 ELIKHIS Leonid 85 1012 ELISHA Ruffy 84 1258 ELLIOTT David 997 ELLIS Jamie 87 608 ENDEAN Reuben 83 1117 EUNSON James 88 784 EVANS Cora 86 798 EVANS Kimberley 89 501 EVERITT James 767 FABINY Robert 89 558 FACTOR Andrew 87 1078 FAHEY Joshua 444 FAINSHRAIBER Alina 82 1555 FARES Robbana 88 842 FARRELL Michael 1220 FAWCETT Angela 89 788 FAZIO Tim 87 969 FELDBERG Deon 87 768 FELL Samuel 87 925 FELL Nathan 89 613 FERRIS Shaun 978 FILER Eve 549 FINCHER Andrew 550 FINE Katrina 84 776 FINEBERG David 87 907 FINKEL Victor 87 1056 FINKEL Alex 89 771 FIRTH Alastair 88 1052 FISKE Emily 85 574 FISKE Byron 89 978 FITZ-GIBBON Kate 810 FLANAGAN Sam 517 FLEMING Cameron 1013 FLEMMING Cameron 85 1045 FLETCHER David 82 1131 FLINTOFF Brett 86 1019 FOENANDER Tristan 86 845 FOENANDER Chantelle 89 757 FONG Kenny 85 1315 FORBES Ben 764 FORD Tim 84 1113 FOX Charlotte 779 FRANCE Thomas 89 435 FRANGOULIS Julie 877 FREED Timmy 613 FREEDMAN Raf 838 FRENKIEL Michael 597 FRYDMAN Jason 722 FUNNELL William 87 1127 FURET Dominique 863 FURHOFF Ben 84 1034 FURNER Shaun 623 FURNER Jason 688 FURST Hannah 88 728 GALIABOVITCH Elena 786 GAMBONI Charles 636 GAN Kuang 86 821 GAN Yang 90 668 GANESHALINGAN Nanren 525 GAO Frank 87 883 GARDNER Lachlan 88 630 GARTNER Daniel 89 715 GAUCI-SEDDON Ella 468 GAWIN Tiko 86 1245 GELFAND Richard 88 930 GELFAND Alex 457 GEORGIOU Julian 86 911 GIANNIKOS Tony 1060 GIBSON Robert 980

VICTORIAN JUNIOR RATINGS (AS OF FEBRUARY 1ST 1999)

KERR Damien 525 KERR Phillip 753 KHAZANCHI Amit 84 995 KHOR Jenson 88 630 KHOR Winston 991 KHUNG Farn-ling 585 KHUNG Su-wei 820 KILIAS Nick 645 KIPP Michael 751 KIRATZIS Nathan 85 694 KIRSNER David 87 810 KITCHEN Chermain 770 KLADAKIS Catherine 83 1023 KLADAKIS Andrew 85 1270 KLEIN Marcus 84 1032 KLEIN Ben 749 KLEINER Dane 870 KNIGHT Richard 673 KOADLOW Matthew 91 683 KOH ChongKee 84 1177 KOH Jermain 86 843 KOLOKITHAS Peter 88 1164 KOLOKITHAS Nikos 840 KOPPENS Greg 81 1124 KORAB Tomaz 81 1073 KORNFELD Jules 767 KORNHAUSER Ryan 89 818 KOSTOS Zac 86 728 KOTROS Nicholas 81 1232 KOVALENKO Andrei 81 1411 KOVALENKO Kirill 564 KRSTIC Aleksandar 81 1104 KRSTIC Edward 83 1217 KUSHIR Yvonne 575 KUSHNIR Yvonne 90 677 KUSHNIR Ivonne 531 KUSNIERCZUK Simon 84 997 LACEY James 692 LAM Aaron 91 553 LAM Melissa 598 LAM Angela 756 LAM Eugenia 777 LAM Ronald 1018 LAMB Joshua 88 863 LAMBA Khalid 1060 LAMONT Brodie 88 560 LANDER Richard 86 1280 LANDY Tom 88 643 LANG Anthony 87 640 LARA Matthew 690 LASPATZIS Alex 88 611 LAU David 82 1231 LAU Vincent 84 1240 LAUDER Natasha 92 682 LAUERSTEIN Michael 85 856 LAVIS Darren 89 784 LAWRENCE Bryce 89 805 LAY Karen 664 LEE Jong-Ji 82 944 LEE Katherine 83 810 LEE Andrew 86 992 LEE Melissa 86 1149 LEE Stephanie 89 602 LEE Michelle 90 1180 LEE Andrew 982 LEE Bryan 1004 LEEWORTHY Kyle 716 LEGGETT Seton 88 666 LENNIE William 569 LEONG Paul 85 1078 LEONG Mark 87 1147 LEONG Melford 784 LEONTYEV Leon 81 1264 LESINSKIS Janis 87 1175 LEUNG Alex 1042 LEUNG Jeremy 1044 LEWINSKY Andrew 87 991 LIANG Douglas 87 966 LICHTBLAU Jarrod 88 920 LIGERIS Jaye 84 1087 LIGERIS Sophie 88 838

HOBBY Demian 86 904 HODGES Russell 1191 HODGMAN Simon 86 866 HOI Jimmy 818 HOLLANDS Peter 879 HOLT Nathan 549 HOOPER Matthew 871 HOPE Richard 84 1040 HOPF Toby 82 1446 HORNUNG Brook 89 1143 HOUNSLOW Thomas 880 HOURIGAN Daniel 88 911 HOWDEN Warren 84 1189 HUANG Dennis 88 764 HUANG Gwendolyn 88 785 HUANG Sean 89 953 HUANG Andrew 90 546 HUBREGTSE Derek 1256 HUDSON Andrew 86 487 HUI Michael 925 HUITFELD Anders 756 HUME Shawn 82 948 HUNG Garvin 89 620 HUNT James 90 499 HUQUE Naeem 85 1066 HUTCHINSON Alex 89 1111 HUXLEY Georgina 856 HUYNH Michael 88 773 HUYNH Martin 90 612 IAROSLAVSKI Theodor 86 1082 IP Joseph 1124 ITKIN Michael 86 1149 IVANOVS Ryan 89 888 JACKSON Brent 86 809 JACKSON Emma 806 JACOBS Tim 88 1015 JACOBS Lucie 561 JACOBS Pauline 745 JACOBS Phillip 781 JAGER Jesse 714 JAMES Iain 86 1049 JAMES Nicholas 721 JAN India 86 607 JAROSINSKI Jan 1011 JAYAKODY Changeeka 1219 JAYAWARDANA Jinushi 85 1031 JAYEMANNE Suren 86 1233 JEFFERY Tyson 88 892 JEGANATHAN Sean 667 JEGANATHAN Jason 733 JETTER Daniel 87 665 JOHNSON Phillip 85 864 JOHNSON Ben 574 JOHNSTON Nick 618 JOSEM Mark 1014 JOSEPH Angie 595 JOSHI Sonia 88 532 KAADEN Lachlan 85 1107 KABIS Haider 85 1030 KACHRIMANIS James 934 KAH Cassandra 443 KALENDERIAN Michael 85 922 KALKBRENNER Stephanie 84 1098 KALKBRENNER Megan 87 735 KALUS Justin 88 848 KAMIL Darren 87 870 KAPLAN Rafael 81 1381 KARIM Imran 85 1125 KARISTIANOS Rory 88 737 KARPIN Josh 708 KASTORAS Adam 87 776 KATSOURANIS Chris 973 KAURAH Sonya 527 KAURAH Kishen 810 KEENE Sam 88 778 KEIL Daniel 85 1074 KEMP Andrew 735 KENNEDY Keenan 86 951 KENNY Daniel 846 KEON Nicholas 86 858 KERR Stephen 86 951

GILING Darren 1002 GILLESPIE William 85 949 GILLESPIE David 86 916 GIRGIS Christopher 772 GLEDHILL Melissa 836 GOH Jien 987 GOLDBERG Ari 87 847 GOLDSWORTHY Michael 621 GOODE Nathan 86 1103 GOSPER Casey 720 GOULD Sarah 600 GOULOPOULOS Mitch 87 667 GOULPOULAS Sophie 651 GOWDIE Lucy 84 1131 GRANT Caitlyn 86 775 GRAYDEN Laura 86 821 GREEN Jessica 642 GREGORY Cecielia 637 GRIFFIN Sam 89 452 GRIFITHS Michael 684 GRIGG William 86 796 GRIGG Patrick 89 739 GRINHOLZ Adam 89 623 GRINYOV Daniel 90 1074 GRODEK Ben 91 1029 GROSSMAN Sasha 84 1411 GROSSMAN Ira 88 1207 GROZOUBINSKI Dimitry 1148 GUAGAS Alexi 86 1122 GUIDICE Hamish 825 GUIDICE Michael 827 GUINEY Sebastian 1010 GUMMERSALL David 84 1049 GUTHRIE Lachlan 90 821 HAGEN Oliver 466 HAIKAL Edward 86 1316 HAIKAL Stephanie 88 665 HAITUS Daniel 82 1126 HALKYARD Brett 88 947 HALL Anthony 85 911 HALL Sam 87 772 HALLIDAY Martin 86 845 HALL-KELLY Jade 90 992 HALSALL Jacinta 562 HAMEL-GREEN Imogen 84 1053 HAMEL-GREEN Miriam 87 876 HAMILTON Stuart 87 838 HANKIN Penny 700 HANSKY Ben 532 HANSKY Justin 717 HARE Peter 88 695 HAR-EL Dana 88 883 HAR-EL Nadav 90 936 HARRINGTON Alex 88 494 HARRIS Benn 84 902 HARRIS Glenn 86 939 HARRIS Lachlan 865 HARRIS James 1057 HARRISON Lee 516 HART Ben 90 878 HARTLEY Owen 87 774 HARVEY Edwina 684 HAWARD Rebecca 86 797 HAWARD Christopher 89 905 HE Cheng 1070 HEALEY Nick 777 HELDRIDGE James 90 638 HEM Robert 84 1280 HENLY Alice 87 791 HENLY Claire 90 1013 HENSEHEL Christian 88 559 HENSHAW Kristian 446 HERSCU Michael 87 809 HEY Christopher 859 HEYMANN Devorah 650 HEYWARD Will 87 1108 HEYWARD Anna 90 451 HILL Matthew 90 710 HISCOCK Daniel 417 HJORTH Ben 1100

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VICTORIAN JUNIOR RATINGS (AS OF FEBRUARY 1ST 1999)

LIM Shaun 81 1107 LIM Florence 474 LIM Jon 710 LIM Jayson 787 LIM Eugene 816 LIM Darren 1054 LIM Ben 1260 LINDBERG Gordon 85 1530 LINDBERG Douglas 88 1392 LINDER Phoebe 549 LINDLEY Matthew 88 893 LISLE Jordan 501 LISOV Anthony 644 LLOYD Huw 88 824 LO Kenneth 85 867 LOBOVICH Alex 1086 LOCK Taliah 88 461 LOCKHART Eliza 89 733 LOKON Aria 89 720 LOMBARDY Marco 87 932 LOO David 828 LOO Jonathan 858 LOOI Leon 1026 LOUEY Gregory 742 LOUEY Rebecca 829 LOZA Igor 1060 LU William 84 851 LUBERDA Mickey 89 773 LUCATO Ben 90 802 LUCISANO Joshua 689 LUGO Ruperto 90 1368 LYNCH Darren 86 783 LYONS James 86 1134 MA Aidan 87 1048 MACHET Richard 88 1192 MACHET Stephen 409 MACINTOSH Ashleigh 727 MACK Matthew 873 MAGAT Michael 1163 MAH Yiling 86 660 MAH Andrew 86 971 MAH Zunyou 89 943 MAHENDEN Senthuren 86 1112 MAIOR Andrew 85 1009 MAJTLIS Bradley 933 MANOLAS Manos 82 1230 MANOLAS Nikos 87 1043 MANSFIELD Stephen 84 1025 MANSFIELD Cate 86 683 MANTEL Christopher 453 MARANO Rebecca 86 902 MARCUS Daniel 87 963 MARCUS Dean 90 955 MARETT Genevieve 87 661 MARKHAM Katherine 88 745 MARKS Nicholas 88 926 MARTIN Camilo 84 1086 MARTIN Joshua 86 1218 MARTIN Richard 88 577 MARTIN Ingrid 616 MASTERS Nick 87 1083 MATHEOS Katrina 88 579 MATHEWS Scott 81 1189 MATHIESON Chris 88 952 MAUNDER Evan 86 747 MAUNDER Jacqueline 88 575 MAUNDER Peter 517 MAYEVSKY David 88 835 MAYEVSKY Ari 645 MCASEY Dael 86 1036 MCASEY Adrian 88 752 MCDERMOT Tom 801 MCDONALD Julian 84 1433 MCDONALD Brendan 87 940 MCDONALD Jason 88 925 MCDONALD Felicity 89 621 MCDONALD Hugh 709 MCEVOY Taylor 692 MCGHEE Ross 89 544 MCGHEE David 738 MCGORRERY Paul 86 783

QUINN Aidan 86 713 QUIRK Michael 88 659 QUIRK Michael 88 915 RACHMAT Hannah 1037 RAINES Timothy 88 1140 RAINES Joshua 941 RAK Peta 545 RANCE Christopher 86 928 RANCE Chris 848 RANDALL Perri 536 RAO Gautam 84 1118 RASSOOL Michelle 419 RASSOOL Kevin 620 RATHGERBER William 89 799 RATNAYAKE Ilmi 649 RAYNER Owen 85 878 REES Chris 87 933 REES Nicholas 89 743 REES-LEE Thomas 86 979 REGAN Katharine 996 RENDA John 84 1041 REUBEN Samy 1080 RICHARDSON Christian 83 945 RICHTER Sally-Anne 87 1160 RICKARD Ben 86 962 RIVERE Chelsea 810 ROBBANA Ismail 704 ROBERTS David 88 612 ROBINSON Taiawa 85 972 ROBINSON James 727 ROBINSON Anthony 727 ROGERS Katherine 86 653 ROGERS Jamie 86 1054 ROJTER Eben 86 1180 ROMIG Joshua 685 ROONEY David 820 ROSBIFFI Daniel 84 1085 ROSE Eden 88 804 ROSE Jules 88 1009 ROSEDALE Paul 788 ROSEN Jeremy 85 957 ROSEN Tim 596 ROSENBLAT Vanja 702 ROSENTHAL Patrick 532 ROSOOL Kevin 659 ROSS Alex 524 ROSSIGNUOLO Pia 88 666 ROTHFIELD Adam 85 918 ROTHFIELD Emily 87 1012 ROWE Daniel 86 1073 ROWE Kacey 88 999 ROWE Max 752 RUBENSTEIN Dylan 454 RUBIN Aaron 88 779 RUDSTEIN Sam 89 930 RUKAVINA Sasha 83 968 RUSH Brendan 504 RUSSELL Martin 86 747 RUSSO Greg 685 RUST Darius 91 658 RYAN Paul 686 RYDER Ian 83 930 RYDER Liisa 85 886 RYDER Kevin 89 733 RYNIA Elise 668 SAARONI Olivia 88 1130 SABATINI Luke 653 SADDICK Joshua 89 684 SALEM Hadi 618 SAMAHA Tracey 89 520 SANDERS Glen 601 SANDLER Roman 568 SANFORD Stephen 88 908 SARAVANAMUTHU Rachel 815 SAW Geoff 81 1798 SAW Richard 84 1268 SCANE Stephanie 84 687 SCHELTUS Ben 952 SCHIFTON Jeremy 687 SCHMIDT Simon 87 1145 SCHNEIDER Talia 87 720

NGUYEN Maria 89 719 NICHOLA Daniel 623 NICHOLA Anthony 751 NICLIS Jonathan 85 957 NIKOLAYEVSKY Artem 89 998 NISSEN Amir 85 1410 NISSEN Edan 706 NIZZARI Simona 752 NOLAN Mark 807 NOONAN Tom 90 881 NORDEN Bradley 781 NORTHEND Texas 87 671 NUGENT Robert 87 958 NUNES Rudolph 760 O'BRIEN Kate 776 O'BRIEN Anne-Marie 783 O'BYRNE Luke 638 O'CONNOR Chris 83 1289 O'CONNOR Catherine 91 431 O'DWYER Kate 84 942 OGADA-OSIR Ibrahim 81 1565 OI Winston 85 1124 O'NEILL Joel 850 ONG Christopher 85 1131 ONUFREICHUK Dima 84 1483 OOI Chi-Sze 705 ORCHARD Morris 88 682 OVERS Elliot 592 OWEN Melissa 469 PADMONABHAN Siddharth 89 569 PAGE Jason 651 PAGE Rowan 774 PAHOFF Anton 765 PALANISWAMI Murugan 830 PALMER Fiona 83 787 PALTI Mikki 88 890 PANG Michael 88 707 PAPA James 89 1305 PAPAGEORGIO Ang 782 PAPAGEORGIOU George 811 PAPAS Peter 636 PAPIER Michael 83 905 PARKE Kitty 439 PARKER Chris 1002 PARRENT Mark 84 825 PARSONS Aric 717 PARTSI Dimitry 1397 PATCHING Keirnan 90 668 PATEN Myles 585 PATERSON Andrew 85 740 PATERSON James 87 965 PATERSON David 88 683 PATTERSON Max 88 899 PAUL Amaryah 87 521 PAUVERT Guillame 618 PAWLIK Adam 983 PEAKE Ben 945 PEARCE Roy 653 PEARCE Glen 722 PEEL Georgina 544 PELOZA Alex 645 PEPI Anthony 84 815 PERERA Kavinda 841 PERKINS Matthew 88 732 PERLOZA-HUERTAS Alex 609 PETROU Renos 801 PETTIT Ben 86 949 PETTIT Ashley 88 965 PICKUP Robert 844 PLATT Daniel 86 856 PORTELLI Daniel 88 780 PORTER Stephen 599 PORZ Claire 786 POSNER Jeremy 89 902 POTTER Emily 477 POULTER Stephan 84 1046 PROCTOR Kristel 904 PROIETTO Rebecca 508 PTASZNIK Danielle 88 636 QUAH Cain 799 QUIGLEY Tristan 87 713

MCGREGGOR Alex 84 1045 MCKENZIE David 751 MCLAREN Fiona 85 829 MCLAUGHLIN Ross 86 672 MCLEAN Genevieve 86 771 MCMASTER Hannah 88 1027 MCNAB Jessica 88 877 MCNAB Scarlett 631 MCNAB Emma 833 MCNAB Alexandra 963 MCNAUGHT James 87 1101 MCNEICE Keira 85 1004 MCNEICE Rory 86 813 MCNEICE Ned 90 615 MCNULTY Ben 86 1029 MCPHAIL Christopher 526 MCQUEEN Sean 87 844 MEJHAIZEL Camille 870 MELLINA Robert 807 MELLOW Phillip 88 1109 MENDES David 88 1048 MENDEZ Racheal 681 MEYER Hannah 88 591 MICHALCZAK Arna 84 991 MICHELI Anthony 88 1001 MIHALOPOLOUS Jason 737 MILLER Leigh 899 MILLS Paul 86 618 MINAS James 86 792 MINTER Miles 88 664 MIRABELLA Peter 512 MIRBAGHERI Maisam 1092 MIRMELSTEIN George 84 1307 MIRMILSTEIN Daniel 885 MITCHELL Ashton 87 971 MITCHELL Simon 87 1288 MITCHELL Bradley 518 MITCHELL Peter 721 MITCHELL Colin 780 MITROPOULOUS Yianni 89 598 MIYAZAKI Hiroshi 81 1345 MOORE Callum 88 766 MORIATY Michael 586 MORRIS Andrea 85 952 MORRIS Raymond 87 1036 MORRISON Winston 87 906 MOUTZOURIS Nick 89 763 MROCKI Adam 84 987 MUELLER Ellen 654 MUIR Ashley 462 MULLIGAN Anthony 87 675 MUNRO Bill 977 MUNUSAMY Tejesh 88 853 MURPHY Luke 87 841 MURPHY Andrew 768 MURRAY Liam 88 960 MURRAY Amy 685 MUTHUSAMY Reubban 89 1166 MUTTIAH Christine 87 693 MYER William 574 MYER Hannah 964 MYERS Leah 86 671 NAGAO Daichi 87 1030 NAGAO Kai 720 NASH Vicki 87 777 NASH Patrick 728 NEMETH John 85 1677 NEMETH Kati 835 NEVILLE Roshelle 514 NEVILLE Courtney 734 NEWBOLD Thomas 89 424 NEWEY Simon 709 NEWNHAM Scott 88 723 NEWNHAM Peter 590 NEWTON Simon 801 NG Adrian 86 903 NG Shane 87 840 NG Elliot 88 730 NGAU Jacki 928 NGUYEN Daniel 87 675 NGUYEN Long 88 611

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Brighton Junior Chess Club

Hampton Community Centre Willis St, Hampton Thursday 5:30 - 7:00pm $50 per term

Waverley Chess Club

Wadham House, Wadham Pde, Mt Waverley Friday 6:00 - 7:30pm $30 per tem

For details of club dates or coaching programs call:

David Cordover

0411-877-833 or 9578-6203

VICTORIAN JUNIOR RATINGS (AS OF FEBRUARY 1ST 1999)

SCHOENFELD Julius 86 775 SCHRAMPF Christian 853 SCHULBERG Eliot 87 1005 SCHWARZ Andrew 839 SCOTT STOKES John 85 1013 SCOTT-WARREN Hugh 641 SEARES Kirsty 81 795 SEELEY Steven 1019 SELLAYAH Renishka 88 970 SELLITO Thomas 816 SELTON Cameron 86 549 SELTON Nathan 89 562 SEST Jonathon 88 808 SHACKELL Amy 699 SHAFAR Michael 90 1128 SHAFAR Robert 938 SHALEKOFF Warren 90 628 SHAMSUL Maryam 83 1196 SHAMSUL Imran 86 1022 SHAN Leonard 89 1029 SHANDLER Jonathon 720 SHANDLER Stephen 871 SHANTAKUMAR Lakshman 882 SHAPIRO Dion 90 811 SHARMA Ashish 825 SHARPE Martin 86 745 SHAW Robert 735 SHAW Charles 737 SHEARER Justin 85 978 SHERIDAN Benjamin 88 699 SHERIDAN Joshua 546 SHEWARD Tim 88 922 SHIELDS Andrew 88 830 SIETO Stephanie 814 SIGMONT Alison 85 801 SILBERT Guy 88 965 SILVASICH Daniel 85 1115 SINCLAIR Thomas 543 SINGER Joshua 90 753 SINN Jason 87 993 SINN Vincent 89 810 SIRIPALA Prasanga 794 SIU Emma 89 643 SKEELS Phillip 89 568 SLATER Jennifer 81 1006 SLIFIER Konrad 88 579 SMITH Katheryn 438 SMITH Annelie 517 SMORGON Jake 87 890 SNEDDON Thomas 87 556 SNEDDON William 596 SO Clinton 87 792 SOLOVEYCHIK Sasha 84 1599 SOON Jennifer 87 887 SPENCER Matthew 935 SPIEGEL Chloe 90 681 SPRING Bridget 88 511 SPRING Lachlan 89 720 SPRING Virginia 677 SRIDHAR Rohan 88 1143 STANLEY Dean 82 735 STANLEY Amanda 733 STANSFIELD Skye 88 611 STANTON Anina 800 STANTON Isabelle 988 STEED Matthew 88 749 STEPHENS Zoe 87 641 STEVENSON Glen 88 723 STILES Chris 89 780 STOCKDALE Isabella 592 STOJCEVSKI Dwayne 87 768 STOKES Mark 87 850 STOKES-HORE Rikky 85 943 STONE Adam 88 692 STONE Jason 88 819 STONHAM Jarryd 88 902 STOWERS Blaise 83 543 STRAIN Andrew 723 STRAUCH Justin 87 804 SUCEVIC Andrew 1082 SULLIVAN Tom 1059

WONG David 1013 WOOD Thomas 693 WOODALL Richard 85 996 WOODARD Luke 88 778 WOODS Mitchell 594 WORSNOP Andrew 694 WRIGHT Clancy 86 971 WULFSOHN Michael 1104 XU Charles 1156 YAN Nathan 86 893 YAN Joshua 88 1109 YEOH Jason 86 1075 YEOH Edward 89 990 YETJIA Pei 895 YII Winston 87 1139 YII Michelle 759 YIM Daniel 86 1265 YONG Brian 83 1196 YONG Trevor 85 741 YUEN Ronnie 910 ZAVOD Zac 781 ZEVALLOS Frank 985 ZHAO James 85 928 ZHU Jasmine 780 ZIEMER Randal 87 914 ZIFFER Rochelleh 640 ZIVANOVIC Andjelija 84 1298

Ratings available on the net:

VAN DEVENTER George 82 1163 VAN DUYN Nicholas 84 1005 VANDERLOO Luke 85 945 VANSTRIEN James 821 VERSTEEGEN Thomas 659 VERSTRAELEN Krista 88 729 VICTOR Rahul 89 691 VISILYEV Andrew 894 VOUDIOTIS Athena 738 VU Tommy 88 703 VUJOVICH Jordan 85 949 WAKLEY Jasmine 91 473 WAKSBERG Avi 731 WALKER Patrick 85 699 WALKER Murray 738 WALKER Joel 864 WALLACE Brent 543 WALTERS Dylan 86 767 WANG Ken 83 1114 WANG Ray 689 WARD Robert 898 WARREN Nicholas 85 1174 WATERS Darren 822 WATSON Alice 523 WAYWOOD Nicholas 1036 WEATHERHEAD James 84 1178 WEBB Sam 84 1053 WEBB Ellie 86 980 WEBBERLY Aidan 681 WEBER Adrian 90 712 WEBSTER James 89 926 WELDON Victoria 743 WELLERMANN David 641 WELLS Daniel 85 976 WELSH Duncan 89 500 WENT Matthew 88 839 WESTFIELD Euan 85 939 WEZZEBERGER Daniel 87 612 WHEATLAND Peter 87 872 WHITE James 85 1013 WHITE Tim 86 796 WHITE Jacob 857 WIGHT Glenn 657 WIGHT Glen 855 WILLDER Richard 89 832 WILLIAMS Charlotte 87 777 WILLIAMS Ben 90 902 WILLIAMS Ryan 563 WILLIAMS Nathan 924 WILLNIK Jan 85 815 WILSON Megan 1017 WIRAWAN Surya 87 898 WONG Timothy 81 945 WONG Simon 85 1026 WONG Aaron 87 855

SUTHERLAND Tom 88 505 SWEDOSH William 781 SWINN Michael 86 876 SZOKOVSKI Ron 85 917 SZWARC Damien 725 TABRIZI Justin 716 TAI Frederik 86 1058 TALJ Elie 87 1152 TALJ Julien 88 893 TAM Matthew 84 930 TAMBLYN Simon 582 TAMBLYN Luke 937 TAN Chao 85 1402 TAN Christopher 440 TANG Vincent 584 TARDOWSKI Michael 86 887 TASSAKOS Christian 87 1280 TAYLOR Thor 92 907 TAYLOR Ashley 441 TAYLOR Max 644 TAYLOR-BARTEL Jordan 455 TAYLOR-JONES Kerrie 88 688 TEH QuorYin 88 686 TEH QuorTen 447 TESCHER Paul 86 942 THAVARAJAH Sanchi 768 THOMAS Hamish 87 751 THOMAS Daniel 87 1053 THOMAS Stuart 88 792 THOMAS Christopher 803 THOMAS Ryan 1019 THOMPSON Nick 88 926 THOMPSON Hugh 648 THOMPSON Alex 824 THORNTON Melissa 86 716 TISSAI George 743 TONKIN Andrew 783 TRUONG Lance 87 1100 TRUONG Raymond 89 867 TSIFLITZIS Eugene 82 889 TSUDA Muneaki 81 1245 TSYKIN Sasha 88 667 TURNER Alice 84 1013 TURNER Ben 984 TWENTYMAN Lisa 84 725 TWENTYMAN David 86 885 TYSON Samantha 85 983 TYSON Alexander 865 TZAIKOU George 945 TZE Christopher 84 1235 UMBER Luisa 82 941 UMBER Carl 85 1026 URWIN David 837 VAN DE VEN Robert 651

CHESS COACHING:

Melbourne Junior Chess Club

WHERE? The Melbourne Chess Club - 66 Leicester St, Fitzroy, 3065

WHEN? Every Saturday between 11am - 1pm

COST? $10 per child

Chess coaching has been proven to be the most effective way of improving one’s game. We cater for complete beginners to the best in Australia. Our staff are very experienced with numerous years of coaching experience. Players such as Gordon & Douglas Lindberg regularly attend this coaching.

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Zone Venue Winner R-Up Board 1 Board 2 Board 3 Board 4

Waverley Camelot Rise

Essex Heights

Mt View PS Ruperto Lugo

Kasun Waidyaratne

Joshua Raines

Winston Yii

Southern Brighton PS Brighton PS Mentone GS Shaun Ferris Daniel Bluzer-Fry

James McNaught

Justin Griggs

Outer-East Carey - Donvale

Carey - Donvale

Kangaroo Ground PS

Andrew Dana

Jamie Ellis Louise Dana Daniel Thomas

Northern Boroondara Park PS

Mont Albert PS

Ivanhoe GS Matthew Doidge

Simon Mitchell Liam Doidge Jason Mihalopolou

Malvern Chadstone Park PS

Caulfield Grammar

Chadstone Park

Suren Jayemanne

Christian Tassakos

William Funnel

Andrew Lee

Grade 3’s Brighton PS Mont Albert Gandel Besen House

Liam Doidge Raymond Truong

Edward Yeoh

Clay Williams

Grade 3’s - B’s

Brighton PS = 1st Gandel

= 1st Caulfield GS

Girls’ Mt Waverley Nth PS

PLC Essex Heights

Michelle Lee Renishka Sellayah

Jasmine Bok Rachel Savaranamuthu

Caulfield Bialik College

=1st Bialik College

=1st St. Finbar’s

Richard Machet

Melissa Lee / Hannah Myer

Rowan Page Mikki Palti

City Melbourne Chess Club

Comet Hill PS

Lee St PS Douglas Lindberg

Chris Bird Ross Bicknel Brenton Millard

It is worth noting that the Grade 3’s competition had an amazing 26 teams!

The Primary Interschool Championships were successful, yet disappointing at the same time.

The number of teams participating did not increase significantly from last year. In fact the number of schools participating actually dropped. Secondary Interschool showed a big increase and with the increased number of primary schools receiving coaching one would have thought that there would be a whole host of new schools wanting to get involved in the Interschool Championships.

There were only 10 zones, based loosely on geographical regions. Schools in the area were invited, with usually 8-12 teams per zone. Many schools entered two teams. It was good to see at least one team from country Victoria enter a team. We would like to see more country teams playing.

The winning school will receive a

pennant for last year’s competition this year. All members of the winning team, and the best individual scorers were awarded medallions.

Winners from each of the zones progressed to the State Finals, and runners-up were given the opportunity to play in the B-grade Finals.

In 1999 the Interschool Championships are being run by the Victorian Chess Association. Entry fees will be $35 per team with $4 of that going to the Australian Chess Federation for running the National Competition, $4 will go to the ACF to establish a Junior Development Fund and $2 will be donated to a respected national charity.

Make sure your school participates in the Interschool Championships this year. If every school that has an interest in chess fields a team it will not be long before the Victorian competition is as large as the

All your chess requirements can be satisfied at Chess World.

Contact Megan Williams for details of

school packages.

Located at:

681 Nicholson St

Carlton North 3054

Phone/Fax 9380-1399

E-mail chesswd@ozemail.com.au

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~chesswd/

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Zonal Results

NSW championships (1000 teams).

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SCHOOL Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

PLACINGS

1 Mont Albert Primary 1513 7 3 2 3 11 7 12 10 5 14 9 17 3 18 4 21.5 2nd

2 Essex Heights Primary 1378 8 3 7 7 5 10.5 3 14.5 9 18.5 12 22.5 4 26 10 29.5 1st

3 Caulfield Grammar 1280 9 2 4 5 7 8 2 8 10 10 8 14 1 17 5 21 3rd

4 Bialik College 1192 10 1.5 3 2.5 6 3.5 11 5.5 8 6.5 7 10.5 2 11 1 11.5

5 PLC 1160 11 3 6 7 2 7.5 9 8.5 1 8.5 10 12.5 12 14 3 14

6 Carey Grammar - Donvale 1135 12 2 5 2 4 5 10 6 7 7.5 11 10.5 9 13.5 8 17.5

7 Grimwade House 1083 1 1 10 3 3 4 8 6 6 8.5 4 8.5 11 11 12 13

8 Mont Albert Primary 990 2 1 11 2.5 12 3 7 5 4 8 3 8 10 8 6 8"Grade 3 & Under"

9 Brighton Primary 996 3 2 12 5 10 8 5 11 2 11 1 12 6 13 11 15

10 Comet Hill Primary Unrated 4 2.5 7 4.5 9 5.5 6 8.5 3 10.5 5 10.5 8 14.5 2 15

11 St Finbar's Unrated 5 1 8 3.5 1 3.5 4 5.5 12 5.5 6 6.5 7 8 9 10

12 Trinity Grammar Unrated 6 2 9 3 8 6.5 1 7.5 11 11.5 2 11.5 5 14 7 16

A-Grade Finals

round put them close, but not close enough to Mont Albert Primary who held out to finish second by half a point.

Obviously every team that made it into the finals played well just to get there. I would like to thank all the players, teachers and parents for making the tournament a success.

It was good to see some publicity come from the day, with photos in The Age and local papers.

Winning team: Essex Heights Primary

Ruperto Lugo 7/8 James Papa 8/8 Michelle Lee 7/8 Winston Yii 7.5/8

School Coach:

David Cordover & Chess Kids.

rest, but nobody expected Essex Heights to finish first in such a comfortable fashion. For the second year in a row too!

What had been keyed up to be the crucial match was played in the second round. Mont Albert vs. Essex Heights. An easy 4-0 for Essex Heights. After that Essex Heights didn’t look back. 4-0 wins against 3rd seeds Caulfield Grammar in the fourth round gave them a 3.5 point lead over the rest of the field. After that the lead just extended to a massive 8 points at the finish!

Congratulations to Mont Albert - Grade 3’s who were the top scorers against Essex Heights, and that was winning 1 game in the first round.

Caulfield Grammar rallied in the last few rounds to create an exciting finish in the race for second place. A 3-1 win against Mont Albert and then a 4-0 win in the last

The A-Grade Primary Finals were held at the Glen Eira Town Hall. A marvellous room with a viewing gallery around the outside to keep the spectators away from the players. Many thanks to the City of Glen Eira for letting us use their venue.

Although this is a very big event it was unfortunately built up by some to be too big a thing. Some kids were under a great deal of pressure, this is one thing that I am trying to avoid. The game should be enjoyable, winning and losing are not important. The children should be learning sportsmanship, how to win and lose gracefully, team spirit and generally how to behave in a competitive situation. Parents and coaches who put too much emphasis on winning, or on the result undermine much of what the children should be learning from playing in a competition like this.

The top three teams were well above the

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SCHOOL Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

PLACINGS

1 Carlton Nth - Lee St 1324 7 0.5 11 3.5 2 5.5 12 7.5 5 8.5 10 9.5 9 11 4 12"Melbourne Magic"

2 Mt View Primary 1265 8 2 12 4 1 6 9 8 7 10 3 11.5 11 15.5 6 17.5"Mayhem"

3 Essex Heights Primary 1124 9 3 10 5.5 5 9.5 8 10.5 4 12 2 14.5 6 17 7 20 1st*

4 Caulfield Grammar 1122 10 1 9 3.5 6 6.5 7 8.5 3 11 8 13 12 17 1 20 2nd

5 Gandel Besen House 1074 11 4 7 7 3 7 10 8 1 11 6 14 8 16 12 18

6 Kangaroo Ground Primary 1027 12 1.5 8 2 4 3 11 6 9 8 5 9 3 10.5 2 12.5"Chessnuts"

7 Chadstone Park Primary 1009 1 3.5 5 4.5 8 6.5 4 8.5 2 10.5 11 13.5 10 16.5 3 17.5

8 Ivanhoe Grammar 948 2 2 6 5.5 7 7.5 3 10.5 10 13 4 15 5 17 9 18

9 Mentone Grammar 887 3 1 4 2.5 11 5.5 2 7.5 6 9.5 12 13.5 1 16 8 19 3rd"A Team"

10 Wesley College 831 4 3 3 4.5 12 7.5 5 10.5 8 12 1 15 7 16 11 17.5"Elsternwick"

11 Essex Heights Primary 815 5 0 1 1 9 2 6 3 12 5 7 6 2 6 10 8.5"Girls"

12 Mentone Grammar Unrated 6 2.5 2 4.5 10 5.5 1 7.5 11 9.5 9 9.5 4 9.5 5 11.5"B Team"

The B-grade Finals was perhaps the most exciting competition of the year! Nobody knew the winner until the last round, and even then we weren’t sure!

The lead changed time and time again. And the fight for minor places was just as tough.

After 3 rounds Essex Heights was in the lead, having just defeated Wesley and GBH. Ivanhoe Grammar and Wesley College were placed in second.

Round 4 saw Ivanhoe Grammar beat Essex Heights to allow the three teams, Essex, Ivanhoe and Wesley to draw level on 10.5 points.

Ivanhoe Grammar snuck into the lead with a 2.5-1.5 win over Wesley in the 5th round. Essex Heights lost 1.5-2.5 to Caulfield Grammar. This left Caulfield Grammar and GBH only 2 points behind the lead. Chadstone Park Primary was

another 1/2 point down.

Wesley was able to draw level with a 3-1 win over Carlton Nth - Lee St in the 6th round. Ivanhoe was equal first on 15 points after their 2-2 draw with Caulfield Grammar.

The penultimate round was a nail biter. Essex Heights only scored 2.5 against Kangaroo Ground while Ivanhoe Grammar came back with a 3-1 win against GBH. Caulfield Grammar had a 4-0 win putting them all on 17 points. 3 teams equal first going into the last round!! Wesley took a 1-3 loss to Chadstone Park to drop behind the pace.

The last round was a disaster for Wesley, losing their match 1.5-2.5 against lowly ranked Essex Heights Girls. Same went for Ivanhoe Grammar with a 1-3 loss to Mentone Grammar, leaving them in 4th position. Essex Heights and Caulfield

Grammar won 3-1 against Chadstone Park and Lee St respectively to leave them equal on 20 points. Mentone Grammar rocketed into 3rd place by defeating Ivanhoe 3-1.

After a countback system was employed Essex Heights was declared the winner by 140 to 128. Thus taking out the double, A and B Finals winners!

Top board scorers were:

Douglas Lindberg (Lee St), Michael Shafar (GBH), Timothy Jacobs (Ivanhoe) and Melanie Chang (Essex Height).

Winning school: Essex Heights Primary Ryan Carey, Leon Looi, Leonard Shan, Melanie Chang.

School coach: David Cordover & Chess Kids

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Zone Venue Winner R-Up 3rd Place

Western Werribee SC Westbourne Grammar Geelong Grammar Brauer College

Central Melbourne Chess Club Melbourne High University High Princes Hill Secondary

Southern Mentone Grammar Mentone Grammar Brighton Grammar “A” Brighton Grammar “B”

Waverley Glen Waverley SC Glen Waverley SC Mazenod College Doncaster SC

Monash Monash Secondary Nazareth College Mt Waverley SC Monash SC

South-East Cleeland Secondary Haileybury College Springvale Secondary Gleneagles College

Girls’ Melbourne Chess Club Glen Waverley SC MacRobertson Girls’ MacRobertson Girls’

Kew Home & Away Camberwell Grammar Xavier College Camberwell GS “B”

North Home & Away University High Northcote High Melbourne Grammar

No SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 7

PLACINGS

1 University High 8 3 12 7 3 11 11 14 2 17 7 21 9 25 1st

2 Scotch College 9 2.5 11 4.5 7 7 12 9 1 10 5 14 8 16

3 Melbourne High Bye 2 9 6 1 6 5 10 8 12 11 14 12 16

4 Westbourne Grammar 10 3 7 5 5 7.5 8 7.5 9 7.5 Bye 9.5 6 11.5

5 Mt Waverley Secondary 11 2 13 5 4 6.5 3 6.5 7 8.5 2 8.5 Bye 10.5

6 Mentone Grammar 12 1 8 3 11 3 10 5.5 Bye 7.5 13 8.5 4 10.5

7 Camberwell Grammar 13 2.5 4 4.5 2 6 9 8 5 10 1 10 10 12

8 Haileybury College 1 1 6 3 10 7 4 11 3 13 12 14.5 2 16.5 2nd

9 Glen Waverley Secondary 2 1.5 3 1.5 Bye 3.5 7 5.5 4 9.5 10 13 1 13

10 Nazareth College 4 1 Bye 3 8 3 6 4.5 13 6.5 9 7 7 9

11 Springvale Secondary 5 2 2 4 6 8 1 9 12 10.5 3 12.5 13 16.5 3rd

12 Melbourne Grammar 6 3 1 3 13 7 2 9 11 11.5 8 14 3 16

13 Mazenod College 7 1.5 5 2.5 12 2.5 Bye 4.5 10 6.5 6 9.5 11 9.5

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A-Grade State Finals

Zonal Results

SECONDARY InterschoolSECONDARY InterschoolSECONDARY InterschoolSECONDARY Interschool

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No SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PLACINGS

1 Geelong G rammar 9 0 1 1 1 Bye 3 8 3 1 2 5 1 6 6 6 7.5

2 Brauer Co llege 1 0 1 1 4 3.5 9 7.5 7 8.5 1 1 10.5 8 12.5 1 5 12.5

3 Princes H ill Secondary

4 Brighton G rammar 1 1 3 7 4 1 4 6 6 10 5 13 1 5 14 1 3 14

5 G len W averley Secondary 1 2 4 1 3 5 1 1 8 1 0 9 4 10 9 12.5 7 13.5

6 Highvale Secondary 1 3 0 8 2 1 6 5 4 5 Bye 7 1 2 10 1 12.5

7 Monash Secondary 1 4 2.5 4 5.5 1 3 7.5 2 10.5 1 5 11.5 1 0 13.5 5 16.5

8 Doncaster Secondary 1 5 0 6 2 1 2 5 1 9 1 4 9 2 11 Bye 13

9 Eum emmering Secondary 1 4 1 5 4.5 2 4.5 Bye 6.5 1 6 9.5 5 11 1 2 15

10 G leneag les Secondary 2 3 1 6 7 1 5 8.5 5 11.5 1 3 13.5 7 15.5 1 4 18.5 3rd

11 G len W averley Secondary 4 1 1 4 5 5 1 4 7 2 9 Bye 11 1 6 14"G irls"

12 W erribee Secondary 5 0 Bye 2 8 3 1 6 5 1 7 6 8 9 8

13 Xavier Co llege 6 4 5 7 7 9 1 5 11 1 0 13 1 4 16 4 20 2nd

14 Scotch Co llege "B" 7 1.5 2 3 4 5 1 1 7 8 11 1 3 12 1 0 13

15 Northcote H igh 8 4 9 7.5 1 0 10 1 3 12 7 15 4 18 2 22 1st

16 MacRob H igh School Bye 2 1 0 2 6 3 1 2 5 9 6 1 9 1 1 10

W I T H D R A W N

A-Grade Finals (see page 18)

The A-Grade Finals were won convincingly by University High School who drew away from the field in the early rounds. It appeared that their depth combined with the power of their Board 1 player was unbeatable, although a surprise upset in round one saw David Lau (Haileybury) win against Denis Bourmistrov (Uni High). The future looks bright for Uni High as 3 of their players are in year 7 and one in year 9!

Second place was the real battle with a host of schools able to snatch 2nd in the last round. Haileybury College and Springvale Secondary both finished on 16.5 points. The first countback (sum of opponents scores) resulted in a tie so a second system was employed (progressive score) with Haileybury winning by 66 to 62.5. Special mention of David Lau from Haileybury for scoring

6.5 / 7 against a very strong field.

University High will be travelling to Sydney in December to compete in the first National Schools Championships.

Winning Team: University High School

Denis Bourmistrov Gordon Lindberg Andjelija Zivanovic James Doidge

B-Grade Finals (see above)

Northcote High lead the B-Grade Finals from the start of the day. A late push from Gleneagles and Xavier didn't bother them and they cruised into another finals victory.

Monash Secondary did particularly well as they only had 3 of their 4 players present on the day. Perhaps they could

have been a real challenge had everyone been available.

Xavier nosed in front of Gleneagles in the penultimate round and was able to hang onto second place.

W inning Team: Northcote High School

Chris Wong Zimin Tan Peter Lim Jerry Zhao Shun Xu Liang Fang It was great to see a number of people who play interschool becoming involved in other , individual, tournaments. Some even made the effort to join their local chess club. See elsewhere in this magazine for the club closest to you.

B-Grade Finals

SECONDARY InterschoolSECONDARY InterschoolSECONDARY InterschoolSECONDARY Interschool

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National Interschool Finals Sydney Grammar School

12th & 13th December

AUST. SCHOOLS TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPS 1998 DRAW FOR THE FINALS

High Schools

Somerset College (Qld) 1½ - 2½ Sydney Grammar (NSW) 1. Matthew Sonter 0 - 1 Michael Lip 2. Anthony Lam 0 - 1 Kuan-Kuan Tian 3. Rhys Rakauskas 1 - 0 Justin Cheung 4. Robert Kingston ½ - ½ Marlon Chan

University High (Vic) 1 - 3 Prince Alfred College (SA) 1. Denis Bourmistrov 1 - 0 Andrew Saint 2. Gordon Lindberg 0 - 1 Eshan Wijeyekoon 3. James Doidge 0 - 1 Anthony Nguyen 4. Daniel Cameron 0 - 1 Alex Saint Canberra Grammar (ACT) 3½ - ½ New Town Boys High (Tas) 1. Sebastian Dunne 1 - 0 Daniel Clarke 2. James O’Brien ½ - ½ Lionel Nicholls 3. Michael Fisher 1 - 0 Martin Wagg 4. Andrew Whittingham 1 - 0 Robert Hazell

Primary Schools

Essex Heights Primary (Vic) 3 - 1 Somerset College (Qld) 1. Ruperto Lugo 1 - 0 Christopher Page 2. James Papa 1 - 0 Mitchell Carey 3. Michelle Lee 1 - 0 James Littlejohn 4. Winston Yii 0 - 1 Finley Taylor Eastwood Public School (NSW) 3 - 1 Linden Park Primary (SA) 1. Tomek Rej 1 - 0 Anand Thiyagarajah 2. Daniel Marton 1 - 0 Wassim Vitols 3. Eddie Liu 1 - 0 Daniel O’Reilly 4. Andrew Yu 0 - 1 Prakash Thiyagarajah

St. Monica’s Primary (ACT) has the bye.

THE AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS THE AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS THE AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS THE AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPSTEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPSTEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPSTEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPS

The inaugural championships were held at Sydney Grammar School on the weekend of 12/13 December 1998. The results were as follows:

Over 12.000 students nationwide participated in the event during the year. The finals were an outstanding success with good media interest and tremendous enthusiasm from the participants.

Agreement in principle was reached at a meeting held on Sunday 13 December for the event to be held on the same weekend in 1999 in Canberra with a similar format and some modifications.

The challenge now is for each state to expand their qualifying competition statewide and to steadily increase the number of participants.

The finals weekend itself ran very well. Both Primary and Secondary teams played a round-robin competition with the top two playing off in a single game grand-final match. Minor places were determined in the same fashion.

In the High-schools competition the finals didn’t alter the results at all with Sydney Grammar having a convincing win over Somerset College.

The Primary Championships were different with Essex Heights, who finished second in the round-robin, taking the match from Somerset College and winning the first National Schools Finals!

High Schools Primary Schools

1.Sydney Grammar (NSW) 1.Essex Heights Primary (VIC)

2.Somerset College (QLD) 2.Somerset College (QLD)

3.Prince Alfred College (SA) 3.Eastwood Public School (NSW)

4.University High (VIC) 4.Linden Park Primary (SA)

5.Canberra Boys Grammar (ACT) 5.St Monica’s Primary (ACT)

6.New Town Boys High (TAS)

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Louise Dana - Kacey Rowe Interschool - Outer East Zone 1.e4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Nc3 b6? Black is making too many pawn moves in the opening and not developing enough pieces. 4.d4 f5 You should never move your f-pawn this early in the game. Especially now as Black has no pieces

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Qd6+ Kg7 22.Qxb8 Kh6 23.Qf4+ Kh5

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Greedy. The quicker you get checkmate the better. 26...Kh4 27.Re4+ Kg5 28.

Qd5+ Kf6 Can you find mate in 1 again? 29.Re6+ Kg7 30.Qd7+ Kxh8 31.Re8# 1-

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Clue: It may look like a chessboard, and maybe it IS a chessboard, but that isn’t the answer.

Brain teaser

The last “Brain Teaser” was solved by Darren Gilling of Weeden Heights Primary School.

His answer was as follows:

“It’s White’s move because the two White knights are on different colored squares which means they have had an even number of moves plus the King who has moved a square across from E1 to D1 makes an odd number of moves. Black has its knights on the same coloured squares which means they have had an odd number of moves plus the Rook moving from H8 to G8 and the King has moved from E8 to D8 which means that they had had an odd number of moves. So it is White’s move because they have had the same amount of moves and White went first.”

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