Originally Posted by Zeitgeist
Titles in Junior Events are significant milestones in a players career.
C Antolis and S Yu have just achieved permanent recognition with special wins in the Australian Junior titles for 2009.
Chess Victoria should make an all-out effort to test the current crop of youngsters in the midyear Victorian junior Championships. This is another of the titles that will mark a players place in honor roles.
Top players include
2153! 17 VIC Wallis, Christopher
2085!! 10 VIC Cheng, Bobby
2009! 14 VIC Dalton, Samuel
1931!! 13 VIC Schon, Eugene
1889! 13 VIC Antolis, Cedric
1826!! 11 VIC Matheson, Laurence
1811! 15 VIC Yu, Derek
1791! 14 VIC Tang, Jason
1739! 9 VIC Chan, Michael
Others may emerge in the next 5 months since improvement is rapid among top juniors.
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This list sort of provokes the question which players have already stamped their position in history with a title and in particular the U18 Title.
The CV web-site is remarkably quiet on this score as far as I can see.
So, a little research among bulletin boards reveals this first stanza.
2004 Victorian Junior Titles.
Victorian Junior Champion Denis Bourmistrov
Victorian Under-16 Champion Dusan Stojic
Victorian Under-14 Champion Ruperto Lugo
Victorian Girls Champion Casey Hickman
Victorian Under-16 Girls Champion Elena Galiabovich
Victorian Under-14 Girls Champion Vanja Rozenblat
Victorian Under-12 Champion Rengan Vijayakumar
Victorian Under 10 Champion Eugene Schön
Victorian Under-12 Girls Champion Sally Yu
Victorian Under-10 Girls Champion Shuyu Wang
Winner Under-8 Laurence Matheson
To the best of my knowledge all these still play in Australia except for Casey Hickman and Ruperto Lugo.