Editorial

The Australian Masters Chess Tourna-ment is the apex of chess in Australia. A 12-player invitational event which gives players the rare opportunity to improve their International ranking and score In-ternational Master or Grand Master re-sults, eventually leading to a title.

This year the event was won by Chess Kids coach IM Guy West with a score of 8.5/11. This was his 10th Interna-tional Master performance, but who’s counting (3 performances get you the IM title)!

The media focused mainly on 15 year old Arianne Caoili who was playing un-der the Philippine flag. She was leading the tournament for most of the way, but stumbled in the last couple of rounds and finished in 3rd position. Her result got her one step closer to the Women Grandmaster title!

Chess has had a lot of media coverage in the past few weeks with ABC TV ‘Stateline’ doing a story on David Cor-dover, The Age printing a number of chess stories and SBS TV featuring a one-hour program on the FIDE Chess Grand Prix from Dubai.

If you missed any of these and would like to see them, Chess World has cop-ies available to borrow.

What a busy time this has been. Inter-school competitions, USA exchange, Victorian Junior Championships, Aus-tralian Masters and the list goes on.

It doesn’t look like getting any quieter either with Term 3 offering more inter-school chess competitions, RJ Shield’s, State Interschool Finals and much more.

-David Cordover

Volume 4 Issue 2 July 2002 Editor: David Cordover

Inside This Issue

RJ Shield Page 2 Grading Badges Page 3

Victorian Junior Page 4 USA Exchange Page 5

Interschool Page 7 Coaching Page Page 8

Puzzle Page Page 9 Junior Rating List Pp 10-11

Chess World Pty. Ltd. (Incorporating Chess Kids) ABN 76 087 995 364

Nick Devine struggles to beat Skippy. The long planned USA Exchange Trip; 6

kids and 3 adults from Colorado on a chess/cultural visit.

15 year old sensation, Arianne Caoili finished 3rd in the Australian Masters

Chess Tournament and achieved a Women Grandmaster result.

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RJ Shield Chess Tournament 2 0 T O U R N A M E N T S I N 2 0 0 2 - B E S T S C O R E S W I N C A $ H P R I Z E S

Score out of 7

Feb May Jul Oct Apr Jun Aug Nov Mar May Aug Oct Mar X X X Apr Jun Sep Dec

Name YOB 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 BEST 4 # played

Artem,Nikolayevsky 89 5 6 6 5 22.0 4

Jamie,Carey 92 6.36 6 4 4 20.4 4

William,Swedosh 89 4 7 5.09 4 4 20.1 5

Jonathan,Schlossberg 91 4.5 4.5 5.09 3 17.1 4

Adrian,Chee 92 2 4 3 6.5 3 16.5 5

David,Kerksal 90 2 4 3.5 3.5 5.5 16.5 5

Gyula,Jakab 90 4 3 3.5 5 15.5 4

Kevin,Nguyen 91 3 7 4 14.0 3

Elena,Galiabovitch 89 3 3 3 4 13.0 4

Derek,Yu 92 3.5 4 5.5 13.0 3

Jesse,Jager 88 6 7 13.0 2

Peter,Carey adult 6.36 6 12.4 2

Ryan,Carey 90 7 5.09 12.1 2

Yvonne,Kushnir 90 4 3.5 4 11.5 3

Brendan,Linke 88 5 6 11.0 2

Jason,Tang 93 4.45 6.36 10.8 2

Anthony,Hain 91 5.09 5.09 10.2 2

Nanda,Nalluri 88 4.5 4 8.5 2

Mike,Smith adult 3 5 8.0 2

Udit,Thakur 94 3.5 4.5 8.0 2

Michael,Eisfelder 91 4.45 3.18 7.6 2

Nathan,Deutscher 00 4 3.5 7.5 2

Melissa,Karakaltsas 88 4 3 7.0 2

Keyi,Ren 00 3 4 7.0 2

Sam,Broder 89 3.82 3 6.8 2

Noah,Brash 93 3.18 3.18 6.4 2

Bradley,Hain 93 3.18 3.18 6.4 2

RJ Shield GRAND PRIXCentral Eastern Western NorthernTransfer

Top Under 7’s MATHESON Laurence 96 737 BASS Trystan 95 647 LIU Kelvin 96 617 BRERETON Thomas 95 590 AIZIK Joshua 95 532 ALM-PANDEYA Alexander 95 472

Top Under 8’s THAKUR Udit 94 925 MORRIS James 94 885 HANSON John 94 851 KLIRIS Luka 94 843 YU Sally 94 802 SHAN Bernard 94 761

Top Under 9’s EER Derek 93 936 THAKUR Udit 94 925 HO Leonard 93 901 VIJAYAKUMAR Rengan 93 886 MORRIS James 94 885 KLIRIS Luka 94 843

Top Under 10’s CAREY Jamie 92 1082 SOLER Rumpell 92 1045 CHEE Adrian 92 1043 YU Derek 92 1021 TAYLOR Thor 92 945 EER Derek 93 936

Top Under 11’s LIM Nathanael 91 1265 LEVIN Joshua 91 1198 SCHLOSSBERG Jonathan 91 1162 NGUYEN Kevin 91 1149 CAREY Jamie 92 1082 LOO David 91 1055

Top Under 12’s LUGO Ruperto 90 1551 LEE Michelle 90 1364 LIM Nathanael 91 1265 VIJAYAKUMAR Rukman 90 1201 LEVIN Joshua 91 1198 SHAFAR Michael 90 1166

Top Under 14’s LUGO Ruperto 90 1551 LINDBERG Douglas 88 1383 LEE Michelle 90 1364 DOUR Nicolas 88 1273 LIM Nathanael 91 1265 PALIT Vikram 88 1251

Top Under 18’s CHOW Samuel 87 1955 BOURMISTROV Denis 86 1861 NEMETH John 85 1687 STOJIC Svetozar 00 1677 LINDBERG Gordon 85 1558 LUGO Ruperto 90 1551 PRILLELTENSKY Matan 87 1423

Top Girls Under 9 SHAN Jocelyn 94 733 WAN Olivia 94 658 WILDASH Freya 93 583 LAUDER Chloe 94 546 WEBB LIDDLE Miranda 94 523 HUANG Caitlyn 93 493

Top Girls Under 18 LEE Michelle 90 1364 RICHTER Sally-Anne 87 1230 CHANG Melanie 89 1096 SELLAYAH Renishka 88 1042 HAWARD Rebecca 86 1020 GALIABOVITCH Elena 89 1018 EER Jocelyn 90 992

Top Improvers (over 6 months)

Jesse Jager +178 Dunstan Kua +177 Jason Diep +176 Sally Yu +176 Leo Pasukov +163 Victor Xie +119 Jonathan Lim +111 Kevin Nguyen +102 William Swedosh +97 Thomas Stansfield +94 Farn-ling Khung +91 Active player rating list on Page 10.

Top Junior Ratings

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2002 Calendar Of Events RJ SHIELD

Central Zone Eastern Zone Transfer Team Northern Zone

July 28 August 11 August 25 September 22

October 27 October 13 November 24 December 1

* Venue for Central Zone RJ Shield is Glen Eira College, Cnr Booran & Neerim Rds, Caulfield Sth. (Melway 68 D3)

* Venue for Eastern Zone RJ Shield is Monash University, Clayton Campus, Build-ing 60, Clayton. (Melway 475 Bld60)

* Venue for Central Zone RJ Shield is Glen Eira College, Cnr Booran & Neerim Rds, Caulfield Sth. (Melway 68 D3)

* Venue for Northern Zone RJ Shield is Ivan-hoe Girls Grammar School, Marshall St, Ivanhoe. (Melway 31 G7)

Points from all tournaments count towards end of year Grand Prix CASH prizes. We will attempt to keep venues as advertised, however it is wise to confirm, and enter, from our website www.chesskids.com.au prior to the tournament date.

TOURNAMENTS Australian Junior January 11 - January 25, Adelaide

Tournament Terror Winners

Gold - Artem Nikolayevsky ,

Jesse Jager

Silver- Brendan Linke, Kai Nagao,

Patrick Tan, Alexander Wood, Vic-

tor Xie

Bronze- Nanda Nalluri, Derek Yu,

Kevin Nguyen, Gyula Jakab, David

Kerksal, Adrian Chee, Jonathan

Schlossberg, William Swedosh, Ja-

mie Carey, Dunstan Kua, Farn-ling

Khung, Lachlan Paine, Trystan Bass,

Luka Kliris, Lewis Vits, Daniel Ur-

bans

Tournament Terror - Black Badge

Mini-Master - Aqua Blue Badge

Improve-a-Nova - Dark Blue Badge

Mini-Master Winners

Gold - (over 1400)

Laurence Matheson, Udit Thakur,

Ruperto Lugo, Michelle Lee

Silver- (over 1300)

Kelvin Liu, James Morris, Luka Kliris

Derek Eer, Leonard Ho, Sally Yu,

Jamie Carey, Rumpell Soler, Adrian

Chee, Derek Yu, Joshua Levin,

Jonathan Schlossberg, Kevin

Nguyen, Rukman Vijayakumar

Bronze- (over 1200)

Under 7 - Trystan Bass, Jonathan

Foo, Bernard Shan, Christian Bivi-

ano, Victor Xie, Jocelyn Shan, Mi-

chael Tan, Amrith Eldridge, Rengan

Vijayakumar, Ben Needleman, Jona-

than Donald, Kelvin Chang, Thor

Taylor, Rocheleh Ziffer, Jason Mi-

halopoulos, David Loo, Michael

Shafar, Ryan Carey

Improve-a-Nova Winners

Gold - None

Silver- Sally Yu, Jesse Jager,

Dunstan Kua, Jason Diep

Bronze- Leo Pasukov

The above players have won the

Badges over the past 6 months.

This is a larger list than usual be-

cause this is the first time the

Mini-Master badges have been

awarded. These 3 badges are the

most difficult of all to achieve, so

well done to all players won have

succeeded!

How many badges do you have?

The other badge categories are:

Checkmate, Attack, Defense, End-

game, Trapster

and Speed.

Grading Badges

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This year’s Victorian Juniors’ was an exciting four days out in Springvale. Denis Bourmistrov won the chess ti-tle, while the badminton title is still undecided. This author also discov-ered that the synergy of lemon tarts and Milo can provide sufficient nutri-tion for three out of four days’ arbit-ing.

The action started hotting up in round four with Nicolas Dour producing the first upset over Dusan Stojic. Nicolas, the tournament’s dark horse, was on fire over the four days claiming 1st Under 14. Along the way he drew with Girl’s Champion Michelle Lee.

Shaun Ferris proved stamina to be an integral part of the modern player, tempting his flag to fall time and again. Late on day two, with barely three seconds left on his clock Shaun produced the comeback of the tourna-ment over Avto Frodiashvili, keeping his Championship hopes alive.

The brothers Stojic, Svetozar and Du-san, turned in excellent performances. Svetozar’s play was inventive throughout culminating in his epic round fiver with Vikram Palit. He found his way through a very blocked Spanish Zaitsev with an inspired knight sac for two passed pawns and an endgame the complications of which were too much for Vikram. A last round quick win over Matan Pril-leltensky in a classic Fischer-Sozin saw Svetozar come from behind to take second place.

Top seed Sam Chow was undefeated on the top board until his fifth round clash with Denis Bourmistrov, who led for the rest of the tournament. Overall a wonderful tournament and a privilege to arbiter Victoria’s top jun-iors playing some of their best chess.

2002 Victorian Junior Championships

� Mono Hasselman

Place Name Age Group Rating Total Perf New Rating Change Comment

1 Denis Bourmistrov Under 16 1852 7 1801 1861 9.36 1st

2 Sam Chow Under 16 1958 6.5 1727 1955 -3.54 =1st U/16

3 Svetozar Stojic Under 16 unr 6.5 1664 1676 =1st U/16

4 Shaun Ferris Under 16 1353 5.5 1535 1388 34.80 2nd U/16

5 Nicolas Dour Under 14 1232 5.5 1437 1273 41.04 1st U/14

6 Matan Prilleltensky Under 16 1389 5 1550 1423 34.20 3rd U/18

7 Andrew Smith Under 16 unr 5 1329 1334

8 Vikram Palit Under 14 1247 5 1275 1251 3.12 2nd U/14

9 Daichi Nagao Under 16 1259 5 1228 1264 4.56 3rd U/16

10 Dusan Stojic Under 14 unr 5 1225 1232 3rd U/14

11 John Nemeth Under 18 1711 4.5 1416 1687 -23.94

12 Philip Wen Under 18 unr 4.5 1408 1409

13 Michelle Lee Girls Under 14 1367 4.5 1334 1364 -3.06 1st U/18 Girl

14 Jesse Jager Under 14 1164 4 1349 1188 24.6

15 Devrim van Dijk Under 14 unr 4 1250 1246

16 Elena Galiabovitch Girls Under14 982 4 1208 1018 35.88 1st U/16 Girl

17 Avto Frodiashvili Under 14 unr 4 1120 1127

18 William Hu Under 18 unr 4 1081 1087

19 Casey Hickman Girls Under 14 1209 4 1139 1198 -10.92 1st U/14 Girl

20 Matthew Potter Under 14 unr 4 1033 1044

21 Lance Truong Under 16 1290 4 1138 1283 -7.095

22 Artem Nikolayevsky Under 14 1241 4 1092 1217 -24.24

23 Jesse Cohen Under 16 unr 4 1454 1459

24 Sam Broder Under 14 903 4 1049 918 15

25 Shu Xiang Under 14 unr 4 905 912

26 Elina Ayzenberg Girls Under 14 unr 3.5 886 889

27 Daniel Liston Under 14 unr 3.5 1011 1013

28 Jonathan Donagan Under 14 unr 3.5 921 924

29 Nanda Nalluri Under 14 1073 3 854 1049 -23.28

30 Matthew Boisdore Under 14 unr 3 954 955

31 Rodney Regan Under 14 unr 3 825 825

32 Tom Xu Under 14 unr 3 841 841

33 David O'Connor Under 14 unr 2 945 938

34 Nicholas Devine Under 16 unr 2 654 647

35 James Rose Under 14 unr 1 524 516

Place Name Age Group Rating Total Perf New Rating Change Comment

1 Rukman Vijayakumar Under 12 1155 7 1381 1201 45.48 1st Place

2 Jonathan Schlossberg Under 12 1156 6.5 1205 1162 6.42 2nd U/12

3 Christopher Wallis Under 12 1051 6.5 1214 1080 29.04 3rd U/12

4 Jason Mihalopoulos Under 10 869 6 1014 904 34.44 1st U/10

5 Kevin Nguyen Under 12 1151 5.5 1130 1149 -1.74

6 Jamie Carey Under 10 1083 5.5 1076 1082 -0.90 2nd U/10

7 Michael Shafar Under 12 1174 5.5 1069 1166 -8.34

8 Rocheleh Ziffer Girls Under 10 876 5.5 1041 915 39.60 1st U/10 Girl

9 Derek Yu Under 10 1022 5.5 1004 1021 -0.30 3rd U/10

10 Gyula Jakab Under 12 741 5.5 1024 816 75.36

11 Vanja Rozenblat Girls Under 12 935 5.5 954 939 3.66 1st U/12 Girl

12 Rengan Vijayakumar Under 10 856 5 988 886 29.88

13 Natasha Lauder Girls Under 10 862 5 965 882 19.80

14 Thor Taylor Under 10 947 5 930 945 -2.40

15 Wilson Lin Under 10 unr 5 959 959

16 Sally Yu Girls Under 8 773 5 909 802 29.40 1st U/8 & U/8 Girl

17 Samuel Dalton Under 10 unr 4.5 952 952

18 Zane Yang Under 12 953 4.5 876 941 -12.30

19 Udit Thakur Under 8 936 4.5 840 925 -10.62 2nd U/8

20 Kingsley Feng Under 12 962 4.5 897 961 -0.54

21 Yvonne Kushnir Girls Under 12 977 4.5 824 959 -18.3

22 Patrick Rogers Under 12 602 4.5 749 636 34.32

23 James Morris Under 8 885 4 888 885 0.48 3rd U/8

24 Belinda Mary Banaszak Girls Under 12 894 4 869 890 -4.32

25 Richard Owen Under 10 763 4 792 767 3.24

26 Raphael Symons Under 10 678 4 810 704 25.8

27 Joshua Dalton Under 12 unr 4 892 893

28 Samuel Symons Under 12 613 4 749 629 15.96

29 Adrian Chee Under 10 1076 4 839 1043 -33.24

30 Jocelyn Shan Girls Under 8 709 4 830 733 23.88

31 Aingaran SomaskanthanUnder 10 760 4 753 759 -1.2

32 Jason Tang Under 10 766 4 816 775 8.52

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Melbourne was host to some 6 students and 3 adults from the USA. Out here on a 10-day cultural exchange organised by Chess Kids and Chess For Juniors (Colorado).

A great big thanks must be given to the host families in Melbourne. So thank you to Carey, Truong, Ferris, Pyke and Morris families.

Day 1 - Off the plane and straight to watch Geelong crush Richmond at the MCG. One USA kid promised to sup-port the Tigers and was given a free cap!

Day 2 - William Rickett and Heales-ville Sanctuary. A day in the hills and the first time for many of the Ameri-cans to see our native animals.

Day 3 - Visited the city, the Aquarium, Southbank and of course shopping!

Day 4 - Our mini-trip to Ballarat to visit Sovereign Hill and find some gold! At night freeze to death watching “Blood on the Southern Cross”.

Day 5 - Thanks to the Ballarat Chess Club for providing a BBQ and some lightning chess at the Wildlife park. We even got to play chess against the kangaroos!

Day 6 to 9 - Victorian Junior Championships. Plus in the eve-nings we entertained ourselves with various dinners, Sidetracked, movies, and Luna Park.

Day 10 - A bit of shopping in the morning then off to Phillip Island to see the penguins.

Anyone who wishes to come with us to visit Colorado, California and perhaps some other places for 2 weeks in July next year should contact David Cor-dover with an “expression of interest”. The final group will be chosen and tick-ets booked in December 2002.

The cost will be approximately $2500.

USA - Australia X-change

� David Cordover

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Wood Oliver 00 328 Woon Arnold 93 575 Wright Alexander 93 493 Wu Kenneth 00 531 Wu Kevin 00 449 Wyngaarden Orlando 72 1190 Xiang Shu 00 912 Xie Victor 94 741 Xie Philip 00 540 Xu Tom 00 841 Yang Zane 91 941 Yap Jonathan 89 984 Yeoh JoDee 00 301 Yii Michelle 90 954 Yiu Perri 00 648 Youakim Krystal 00 922 Yu Derek 92 1021 Yu Sally 93 802 Yu Paul 00 687 Zajcew Tristan 87 888 Zeng Chris 00 841 Zeng Brian 92 732 Zhao Henry 00 490 Zhao Larry 00 366 Zheng Winston 93 740 Zheng Brian 92 675 Zheng Glen 00 417 Zho Hao Ghan 00 745 Zhu Jason 89 738 Ziffer Rocheleh 92 915 Zou Michael 00 794

Full list at chesskids.com.au

Vits Christina 92 473 Vits Lewis 94 377 VOSK Damien 88 911 Vosk Danielle 91 761 Vosk Adrian 94 450 Vun Jeremy 89 829 Wagner Matthew 90 383 Walker Dom 00 617 Walker Jack 00 490 Walker Dominic 91 354 Wallis Christopher 90 1080 Walsh Luke 00 518 Wan Olivia 94 658 Ward Benjamin 00 559 Ward Steven 00 454 Webb Liddle Miranda 94 523 Wen Philip 00 1408 White Matthew 00 776 Wijegunaratne Arjuna 91 630 Wilcock David 88 731 Wildash Freya 93 583 Willocks Emily 00 761 Wilson Liam 00 625 Wilson Connor 00 618 Winston Rhett 00 815 Wirawan Surya 87 893 Wodgar Alistair 00 518 Wong Darren 00 636 Wong Marcus 00 550 Wood Marcus 94 433 Wood Alexander 00 406

Taylor Nick 00 693 Taylor Chris 00 600 Taylor Jade 00 567 Tcherkasov Igor 00 567 Teh Jeremy 91 774 Teh QuorTen 91 604 Teh Amy 88 577 Teh Andrew 88 477 Teichert Ian 00 655 Thakur Udit 94 925 Thermos Michael 00 392 Thomas Rhys 91 540 Till James 00 727 Tiong Sabuti 00 978 Toh Andrew 00 854 Tonkin Brooke 00 395 Torriero Jarrod 91 809 Torriero Joshua 91 707 Truman Alistair 00 340 TRUONG Lance 87 1283 TRUONG Raymond 89 863 Tsitridis George 00 566 Turley Martin 88 890 Turley Brenden 86 831 Unger Ross 93 769 Urbans Daniel 00 515 Vandenberg Andrew 93 544 VandenBosch Eelco 90 423 vanDijk Devrim 00 1246 Vijayakumar Rukman 90 1201 Vijayakumar Rengan 93 886

Every now and then, chess masters will go on a promotional tour challenging scores of amateurs in the game of chess. Such public display of their chess strength is termed simultaneous display.

The chess master will usually be given the advantage the white pieces against all his opponents.

Let’s take a look at my own experience challenging Malaysia’s No. 1 player, International Master Mas Hafizulhilmi, in a simultaneous display.

Mas Hafizulhilmi - Edwin Lam

Simul, Kuala Lumpur 1998

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 Black's decision to ac-cept White's gambit f-pawn is a primi-tive way of playing against the King's Gambit. Besides accepting the gambit pawn, Black can also continue in a sacri-ficial mood with the Falkber-Counter

gambit: 2...d5 3.Nf3 In the 1924 New York International Chess Tournament, one of the most famous tournaments of all times, Tartakower sprang a surprise here with 3.Be2!? against Alekhine and Capablanca. Here, White is prepared to forego castling and move the King to f1 in certain variations. According to Alekhine, Black's best reply would be 3... 3...f5 4.exf5 Qh4+ 3...Nf6 4.Nc3 4.e5!? Nh5 5.Qe2 Be7 6.d4 0–0 7.g4! fxg3 8.hxg3 Nxg3 9.Qh2 Nxh1 10.Bd3 Bron-

stein - Petrosian, Tiflis 1963. 4...Bb4 5.Bc4 d5?! 6.Nxd5 Nxd5 7.Bxd5 c6?!

Wasting time! Castling immediately is a better alternatively. 8.Bb3 0–0 9.0–0

Bg4 10.c3 Be7 11.d4 Nd7 12.h3 Bh5

13.Bxf4

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will be too strong. 15.Rae1 White seems to invite Black to give up two mi-nor pieces for a Rook and pawn. 15...Nh5 If Black were to take the e4 pawn, let's take a look at the following varia-tions: 15...Nxe4 16.Rxe4 Bxe4 (16...Re8 17.Ne5!) 17.Qxe4 A) 17...Bf6 18.

Bc2 g6 19.Bh6 Re8 20.Ne5 Bxe5 21.dxe5 Qd7 22.Bb3 Re6?! (22...Re7? 23.Bg5) 23.Qg4!; B) 17...h6 18.Bxh6! gxh6 19.Qg6+ Kh8 20.Qxh6+ Kg8 21.Ne5!!

16.Bh2 Bd6 17.Qd2 Unpinning the e4 pawn. White is already preparing to push the e-pawn forward. 17...Ng3 18.Bxg3 Bxg3 Black gained a small concession here by forcing White to give up the

Bishop pair. 19.Re2 Kh8 20.Qg5 Bc7

Black is willing to exchange Queens. However, instead of trading Queens on square g5: 20...Qxg5 21.Nxg5 f6 (21...h6 22.Nxf7+) 22.Ne6 Rfe8 23.Rf3 Bd6 24.e5 which would have given a strong advantage to White, Black is willing to

exchange Queens on square d8. 21.e5? Blundering the exchange! 21...Bd3! 22.Ref2 Bxf1 23.Rxf1 h6? 24.Qh5 Qe7 25.

Nh4 White's advantage has grown in magnitude. The game is lost for Black. 25...Bd8 26.Nf5?! White's move is slightly inaccurate. The immediate: 26.Rxf7! is decisive, 26...Qxh4 (26...Qe8 27.Rxf8+ Qxf8 28.Ng6+) 27.Rxf8+ Kh7 28.Bc2+ g6 29.Qxg6# 26...Qg5 27.Bxf7

Qxh5 28.Bxh5 Kh7 29.Be2 g6 30.Nd6

Rxf1+ 31.Kxf1 Bg5 32.Ke1 Rf8 33.Bf3

Bc1 34.b3 Bb2 35.Kd2 b5 36.e6 Ba3

37.b4 a5 38.e7 Rb8 39.e8Q Rxe8 40.

Nxe8 axb4 41.Bxc6 b3 42.axb3 b4 43.

c4 Bb2 44.Kd3 Bc1 45.Be4 Bg5 46.c5

h5 47.c6 1–0

‘Simultaneous Displays’ � Edwin Lam

Stevenson Dougall 92 760 Stojic Svetozar 00 1677 Stojic Dusan 00 1232 Strange Tristian 00 668 Suderson Sunilson 00 1365 Sufra Matthew 90 469 Sun David 00 537 Sunder Soma 00 1043 Sunder Vijay 00 642 Swedosh William 89 1052 Swedosh Serena 92 651 Symons Raphael 93 704 Symons Samuel 91 629 TAI Frederick 86 1066 Tamar Sahil 00 451 Tambasco Jean-Luc 93 595 Tamlin Giles 95 455 Tamvakis Alex 00 466 Tan Patrick 02 915 Tan Daniel 91 742 Tan Michael 94 730 Tan Jason 91 669 Tan Koon-Siong 93 656 Tan Laura 90 622 Tan Lachlan 00 523 Tan Leedelle 00 401 Tang Jason 93 775 Taranto Paul 00 447 Tarling Jamie 86 734 Tassigiannakis Nicolas 00 324 TAYLOR Thor 92 945

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� David Cordover

Interschool Competitions S O C I A L T O U R N A M E N T S F O R S C H O O L S

Venue: Ivanhoe Primary School

Date: 24th JunePlace Name School Rating Total Perf New Rating Change

1 Martin Looi Doncaster Gardens unr 7.0 1791 962

2 Samuel Foo Beverley Hills unr 6.0 931 930

3 Steaven Cheung Beverley Hills unr 5.5 710 713

4 Larry Zhao Ivanhoe PS 366.13 5.0 729 436 69.9

5 Shaun Goh Doncaster Gardens unr 5.0 803 805

6 Nicole Sabljak Beverley Hills 543.02 5.0 745 586 43.02

7 Nicholas Marshall Ivanhoe PS unr 5.0 668 668

8 Masih Ahmadi Ivanhoe PS unr 4.5 712 712

9 Amberley Bremner IGGS 463.53 4.5 624 496 32.43

10 Alannah Bryant Morang South 576.21 4.5 656 587 11.22

11 Benjamin Ward Ivanhoe PS 559.1 4.5 590 563 4.395

12 Sherylyn Curtis Ivanhoe PS unr 4.5 584 584

13 Paul Taranto Morang South 447.07 4.5 593 475 28.23

14 Joshua Perez Morang South 598.3 4.5 558 593 -5.37

Northern Zone Interschool Chess

Place

Name

Score

1BEVERLEY H

ILLS PRIM

ARY SCHOOL

20.5

10 players

2IVANHOE PRIM

ARY SCHOOL

19

23 players

3DONCASTER G

ARDENS PRIM

ARY

19

4 players

4MORANG SOUTH PRIM

ARY SCHOOL

17.5

10 players

5IVANHOE G

IRLS G

RAMMAR

12

4 players

Venue: Wesley College - Prahran Campus

Date: 25th JunePlace Name School Rating Total Perf New Rating Change

1 Joshua,Hetzel Wesley - E 677.07 7 1798 762 84.96

2 Thomas,Stansfield Mentone Grammar 475.68 6 902 569 93.6

3 Dougall,Stevenson Wesley 756.1 5 783 760 3.495

4 Marcus,Spaull Glamorgan unr 5 774 780

5 Kyran,McDonnell Wesley - E 660.04 5 753 673 12.63

6 Alex,Roberts Mentone Grammar unr 5 773 788

7 Ronan,McDonnell Wesley - E 496.81 5 726 548 50.79

8 James,Ramanathan Mentone Grammar unr 4.5 695 705

9 Luke,Rana St Paul's unr 4.5 804 813

10 Harry,Jin Mentone Grammar unr 4.5 779 788

11 Justin,Prentice Mentone Grammar 516.66 4.5 682 551 33.9

12 Jason,Nguyen St Peter's unr 4.5 726 730

13 Zebedee,Nicholls Wesley - Prep unr 4.5 680 695

Central Zone Interschool Chess

Place

Name

Score

1MENTONE G

RAMMAR SCHOOL

20

11 players

2WESLEY - E

17

3 players

3ST PAUL'S

16

8 players

4WESLEY - P

REP

16

6 players

5ST PETER'S

14

6 players

6WESLEY

14

4 players

7GLAMORGAN

8.5

2 players

8ELSTERNWIC

K6

3 players

Venue: Berwick Primary School

Date: 27th JunePlace Name School Rating Total Perf New Rating Change

1 Kingsley Feng Glendal 942.96 7.0 1747 962 18.6

2 Leonard Ho Glendal 877.90 7.0 1698 901 23.22

3 Jason Diep Glendal 543.96 6.0 923 622 77.64

4 Ben Seeley Glendal 606.06 6.0 857 648 42.15

5 Andrew Toh Keysborough Park unr 6.0 843 853

6 Paul Yu Donvale 686.78 5.5 788 700 12.78

7 Dale Reith Glendal unr 5.0 739 751

8 Jason Tan Glendal 654.83 5.0 754 669 13.785

9 Phillip Chan Donvale 460.01 5.0 697 507 46.8

10 Gokhan Seyyar Keysborough Park unr 5.0 742 751

11 Bianca Pratt Bimbadeen Heights unr 5.0 702 692

12 Darren Wong Glendal unr 5.0 631 635

13 Perri Yiu Glendal unr 4.5 647 648

14 Stephen Hayes Berwick PS unr 4.5 609 611

15 Sarah Lowe Knox Gardens 502.88 4.5 543 509 5.76

16 Luke Walsh Keysborough Park unr 4.5 516 518

Eastern Zone Interschool Chess

Place

Name

Score

1GLENDAL

26

10 players

2KEYSBOROUGH PARK

19.5

14 players

3DONVALE

18

9 players

4BIM

BADEEN H

EIG

HTS

17

8 players

5BERWIC

K PS

14

10 players

6KNOX G

ARDENS

13.5

10 players

7COATESVILLE

10

3 players

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Victorian Junior, 1996

Ladislav Zeve 1762

David Cordover 1845

Sicilian Defence, Pelikan Variation _________________________________________________

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4

Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.

Na3 b5 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.exf5

Bxf5 12.c3 Bg7 13.Nc2 0–0 14.Nce3

Be6

All this is pretty standard opening the-ory. White has chosen a lesser known line.

15.Bd3 f5 16.Qh5 e4? Playing e4 is a little premature here, as it leaves the ‘f4’ square very weak.

17.Bc2 h6?! 18.Nf4

Making use of the weak square. 18...Qf6?? Totally missing his threat.

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19...Rf7 20.Nf4 b4! I probably should resign, but decided to play on, sacrificing more material to gain a small initiative. The initiative is a very powerful weapon and should never be underestimated. 21.Bb3 bxc3 22.Qxf7+ Greedily taking all the material offered.

22...Qxf7 23.Bxf7+ Kxf7 24.Rb1

Already Black has some threats. If White captures the pawn on c3 then Bxc3, Ke2, Nd4+ will win the entire rook back.

24...Be5 25.g3?! The intermezzo has now created holes all over the white camp.

25...cxb2 26.Nc4 Bc3+ 27.Kf1 Nd4 28.

Nxb2? It is unnecessary to sacrifice material, but that is the problem that the person with a material advantage has. He has to decide if the initiative is strong enough to warrant a counter-sacrifice to take off some of the pressure. Here White felt that the pawn on b2 was quite a menace.

28...Rb8 29.Kg2 Rxb2!

You shouldn’t swap pieces as a rule when you have a material disadvantage, but at the same time, don’t be afraid to swap. The initiative can be particularly useful in the endgame. 30.Rxb2 Bxb2 31.Rb1 Ba3 32.Rb6 a5

33.Ra6 Bb4 34.Nd5 Ke6 35.Nxb4

axb4 36.Rb6 Nc2 White has managed to totally nullify any chances that Black formerly had. But now the endgame is here White plays poorly. 37.Rb5 d5 38.Rb6+ Ke5 39.Rxh6

Gaining material, but losing a lot of time in doing so. Three tempi are worth one pawn. 39...d4 40.Kf1 d3 41.Rb6 Kd4 42.h4

Kc3 43.h5 Nd4 Still lost for Black, but his pawns are creating counter chances. 44.Rd6! The only move. Now if Black plays d3-d2 White will win instantly with Rxd5!! Can you see how he will subsequently win the king and pawn ending?

44...Nb5 45.Rc6+ Kb2 46.h6 Nd4 47.

Rc4? Rooks work best from a distance. The rook should be sitting as far away as

possible.

47...Nf3 48.h7??

Why give up the rook when you don’t have to? He was a little too eager to get a new Queen.

48...Nd2+ 49.Ke1 Nxc4 50.h8=Q+

Kxa2 Again the material balance is way in favour of White. But never forget about the initiative! If you learn anything from this game it is simply to never give up. The smallest initiative can blow out into quite a force.

51.Qc8 Kb3 52.Qxf5 Kc3 53.Qxe4 b3

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White has taken plenty of material, but lost a lot of TIME. The black pawns now create enough threats to draw! Who would have thought that in the dia-gram White could only draw?? 54.Qb7 Kc2 55.Qd5 Kc3 56.Qb5 b2

57.g4 Na3 58.Qe5+ Kb3 59.Qb8+ Kc3

60.Qh8+ Kb3 61.Kd2?

White should just take the perpetual check.

61...Nc4+! 62.Kxd3 b1=Q+ 63.Ke2

Qe4+ 64.Kd1?? Nb2+ 65.Kd2 Qd3+

66.Ke1 Qd1# 0-1

An unfortunate way to loose, as 64.Kg1 would probably still have held a draw.

Chess Kids Coaching “Never Give Up”

What can you learn from this game?

• Never, ever give up!!

• Initiative is more valuable than material in many cases. Use it wisely.

• A pawn is equal to approximately 3 moves.

• Don’t go grabbing material if you have to waste lots of time to do so.

• Don’t counter-sacrifice material. The more material you have, the easier it is to win.

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Blunders by the Masters (answers below)

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IM Gluzman - FM Levi Levi just played ...Kxa2. What can

White play to threaten mate in 3

moves?

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see how White uses a fork to

win the game?

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IM Rujevic - FM Canfell How can White use a pin to

win material?

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loses a piece. How?

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IM Gluzman - Guthrie Can you pick the worst move for

Black? Clue: It allows checkmate

in one move!

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Guthrie - FM Teichmann White to play and win.

Clue: Some nice forks

and discovered attacks!

IM Gluzman - FM Levi 1.Kc3! (Threatening 2.Rxa6+ Kb1 3.

Nd2+ Kc1 4.Ra1++) so Black had to

play 1...Nb8 and lose a piece for no

reason.

WIM Caoili - FM Teichmann 1.Qd8+ Kh7 2.Rxe7 Rxe7 3.Qxe7+

and White is a rook up.

IM Rujevic - FM Canfell 1.b3! And the knight can’t move

away because of 2.Rxc7.

IM Gluzman - FM Lukey 1.Ne3! attacks the queen on g4 and

the White queen discovers an at-

tack on the bishop on b2.

IM Gluzman - Guthrie Guthrie played the move 1...Rxb7??

Gluzman replied with Rg6-e6++

Guthrie - FM Teichmann 1.Bxh6 gxh6 2.Nxc7! Bxc7 3.Bxf7

Qxf7 and then 4.Qxa8 and White

is plenty of material ahead.

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VICTORIAN JUNIOR RATINGS (PLAYERS ACTIVE SINCE JANUARY 2001) Surname Name YOB Rating

Abanilla Eugene 00 540 Abdelrahman Youssef 00 682 Adams Luke 00 829 Agar Benjamin 85 1149 Agarwal Hamant 91 309 Ahmadi Masih 00 712 Ahmadzai Farhad 87 981 Aizik Joshua 95 532 Akula Priyanka 87 901 Akula Vasudha 00 524 Alm-Pandeya Alexander 95 472 Anandaganeshan Nivae 93 594 Anstis Jamie 89 829 Anthakis Mario 88 930 Antolini Michael 93 563 Aral Topaz 90 754 Arifoglou Mehmet 00 337 Aromataris David 88 1068 Artlett Peta 91 581 Assawa Philan 00 700 Assawa Phillip 00 629 Ayzenberg Elina 00 889 Baker Callun 00 639 Ball Alex 00 593 Ball Nicholas 00 387 Baltas Mitch 00 620 Banaszak Belinda-Marry 90 890 Bankes Jackson 00 484 Barbaric Steven 00 617 Barboutov George 00 467 Barnes David 90 573 Bass Trystan 95 647 Battiston Michael 00 325 Beckett Stephen 00 503 Beckett Caitlyn 00 448 Berg Joshua 92 696 Berry Ashley 00 581 Bhasim Kunaal 00 421 Bhasin Sahil 00 722 Bien Mitchell 91 813 Billing Daniel 00 385 Birkett Bethany 90 714 Biviano Christian 94 745 Blakkarly Jamal 91 696 Blakkarly Jarni 94 502 Blennerhassett James 89 798 Boisdore Matthew 00 955 Bolonis Stephen 00 550 Bone Nathan 87 901 Bonetti Robbie 00 475 Bonney Asha 91 687 Borg Rebecca 00 433 BOURMISTROV Denis 86 1861 Bower George 00 403 Box James 00 450 BRASH Anthony 86 825 Brash Noah 93 795 Braun Adam 00 373 Bremner Amberley 00 464 Brereton Thomas 95 590 Bridgeman Nicholas 00 361 Bridson Matthew 00 435 Britto Roger 00 672 Broadbent-Hogan Perri 91 492 Broder Sam 89 918 Brook Leigh 00 440 Brown Tallen 00 566 Brown Adam 87 466 Brown Emily 00 436 BRUKNER Joseph 00 748 Bryant Alannah 00 576 Bull Lewis 00 644

Busslemann Anita 00 487 Butterworth Matthew 93 700 CAI Matthew 86 1088 Campbell Bethany 00 309 Canty Brendan 92 699 Carey Peter adult 1242 CAREY Ryan 90 1134 CAREY Jamie 92 1082 Carey Danielle 00 402 Carter Benjamin 94 380 Caruana Justin 91 535 Castles Anastasia 00 793 Cattermole Jonathan 94 600 Ceglia Robert 90 615 Chambers Thomas 00 633 Chan Keith 00 596 Chan Winter 91 552 Chan Samuel 91 489 Chan Phillip 00 460 Chan Jonathan 91 449 Chandrasekhar Sanjay 00 556 CHANG Melanie 89 1096 CHANG Andrea 91 898 Chang Kelvin 93 821 Chao Justin 00 545 Chaves Jeremy 91 638 Chee Adrian 92 1043 Chee Aaron 97 407 Chen Clifford 00 501 Cheong Brendon 92 703 Cheung Steaven 00 713 Chiu Enoch 92 449 Chiuchiarelli Daniel 00 669 Chong Alan 89 563 Chow Samuel 87 1955 Chua Gabriel 87 933 Cinnamon Daniel 00 432 Clarke Alex 00 706 Clarke Cassie 00 474 Cocks James 89 871 Cohen Emmanuel 92 507 Coleman Hugh 00 443 Cook Bradley 00 793 Cooper Maddie 00 539 Costello Kane 00 592 Coulet Brendan 00 331 Coulthard Ashley 84 633 Coutie Michael 89 481 Couttie Michael 00 495 Cross Timothy 00 519 Csernatony Zolika 00 605 Cummins JJ 93 643 Curtis Sherylyn 00 584 Cuss Braden 00 695 Cuss Arlen 00 524 D'Alessandro Michele 00 391 Dalton Samuel 00 953 Dalton Joshua 00 892 Danks Thomas 94 488 De Cruz Simone 90 467 Deitch Christopher 459 Deitch Jessica 00 357 Deken Alex 00 456 Desilva Jannik 92 573 Deutscher Nathan 00 955 Devine Nicholas 00 647 Diaz David 92 414 DiBattista Daniel 00 430 Dickens Alex 88 1164 Dickie James 00 682 Diep Jason 91 622 Difabrizio Simon 00 470 Dillon Justin 00 383

Diment James 89 951 Dinning James 90 776 Donagan Jonathan 00 924 Donald Jonathan 93 825 Donoghue William 89 583 Douglass Katelyn 00 590 Dour Nicolas 88 1273 Driscoll Paul 00 441 Dunlop Lachlan 00 340 Duong Dixon 00 421 Dutka Ania 89 757 Dutka Tomasz 91 718 Dutta Sanjay 00 571 Eddington Lachlan 00 525 EER Jocelyn 90 992 Eer Derek 93 936 Efe Ebru 94 337 Egan Eliza 90 535 Einsiedel Lewis 00 565 Eisfelder Michael 91 623 Elder Harry 84 1127 Eldridge Ayrton 91 766 Eldridge Amrith 94 709 Elsbury Mitchell 91 544 Emery Glynn-Jakeb 00 587 Enano Ronald old 1510 Ergec Ugur 00 473 Faiman Joshua 90 662 Farquhar Leateasha 00 331 FELL Samuel 87 1033 FELL Nathan 89 852 Feng Kingsley 90 961 Feng Thomas 00 737 Ferris Shaun 87 1388 Field William 00 619 Fiorenti-Caliste Stefan 00 406 Fiorenti-Caliste Daniel 00 343 Floate Alexander 91 581 Flood James 00 468 Flynn Jasper 00 423 FONG Kenny 85 1348 Foo Samuel 00 930 Foo Jonathan 94 796 Foo Benjamin 91 686 Formosa Ariane 00 570 Formosa Georgia 00 430 Frantsezkos Robert 88 885 Frantzeskos Andrew 93 490 Fraser Laura 00 487 Frey Declan 00 367 Frisken Luke 00 397 Frodiashvili Avto 00 1128 Frost Christian 89 694 GALIABOVITCH Elena 89 1018 Gamble Matthew 91 676 Gan Zhong-Hao 00 895 Ganeshalingam Naren 85 774 Gangi Mason 94 549 Gardiyawasam Pulomaja 00 613 Gardiyawasam Voharika 00 610 Garow Conrad 91 470 GAWIN Tiko 86 1251 Geusenteit Shafae 00 560 Gevaux Rhys 00 517 Gibbons Daniel 89 804 Gilbertson John 00 748 Goh Shaun 00 805 Gordan Joshua 00 450 Goricane Alicia 00 625 Grant Joshua 00 877 Green Benjamin 00 700 Green Anthony 00 670 Greene Jack 90 647

Gross Max 86 771 Gross Zac 00 728 Gross Ella 89 713 Gruszka Adam 87 920 Gruszka Philip 89 578 Gruszka Martin 88 388 Grzywna Maciej 00 394 Gu Conway 00 532 Gullapalli Nikhil 92 448 Gunasekara Thamara 87 814 Gupta Ankush 90 524 Hain Anthony 91 803 Hain Bradley 93 473 Hamilton Evelyn 92 598 Hansen Lachlan 00 367 Hanson John 94 851 Harris Timothy 90 634 Harrison Jess 00 706 Harrison Daniel 00 433 HAWARD Christopher 89 1067 HAWARD Rebecca 86 1020 Hawkins Lewis 00 699 Hawkins Walter 00 534 Hayes Stephen 00 611 Hayward William 00 642 Hayward Will 00 636 Hayward Robbie 00 560 Healy Diarmuid 00 736 Hede Nick 00 429 Hehir Charlotte 00 696 Henderson Ryan 94 399 Henshaw Rebecca 00 363 Herd Jack 92 323 Hettige Meyvan 91 629 Hetzel Joshua 93 762 Hirons Nick 00 454 Hitchcock Stewart 00 636 Ho Leonard 93 901 Ho Simon 93 649 Hoen Nicholas 90 717 Hogan Steven 85 970 Hogan Nicolas 00 327 Holdsworth Darcy 93 544 Honda Minami 93 546 Hore Aaron 00 653 Hore Andrew 00 519 HOWDEN Warren 84 1217 Hrysikos James 85 910 Hu William 00 1088 Huang Mark 91 556 Huang Caitlyn 93 493 Hughes Mark 84 1205 Hughes Stephen 90 857 Hui Joseph 92 428 Hull Cameron 90 700 Infanti Tyson 00 668 Ingleby Richard old 1082 Ingleby Joseph 90 904 Irish Andrew 00 402 Jackson Nicholas 92 638 Jager Jesse 88 1188 Jakab Gyula 00 741 Jansz Owen 00 455 Jayasuriya Michelle 93 308 Jenei Nicholas 92 588 Jin David 89 809 Jin Harry 00 788 Jin Samuel 00 464 Joel Nathan 92 587 Johnson Brodie 00 422 Jones Kent 91 776 Jones Daniel 92 693 Jones Benjamin 93 686

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