August Rookies Cup. Sponsored by Zed chess:
www.zedchess.com.au
Contact coach George Zaprudsky
A tournament for Juniors and Seniors
Junior Prizes
First $30 plus Rookies Cup trophy. Second $20.
Highest placed girl $20 plus Queen’s Cup trophy
Trophies for first and second in minimum 3 ratings groups.
Trophies for equal place getters now decided on count back
Senior prizes
$5 of each senior entry to go to the prize fund.
Tournament entry:
$10 for CANTERBURY JUNIOR members, BOX HILL members, students from CHESS RULES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD and Zedchess
$15 for visitors
Venue: Box Hill Chess, Canterbury Junior Chess, Emulation Hall 3 Rochester Road
Enter at the Club on Tuesdays or Fridays or by mail to 6 Andrew Street Forest Hill 3131 or Enter on the day by 12 at the venue or go to
http://www.boxhillchess.org.au/junior to enter via the web site and pay on the day
Canterbury Junior Chess open day Sponsored by Telstra
Open Day on August 31 From 1.00 till 5.30 for newcomers to our club
Come and visit and find out more about
:
• Chess and chess competitions
• The Box Hill Chess Club
• The Canterbury Junior Chess Club
• Our coaching groups for novices
• Our elite coaching groups for advanced Juniors
Join the simuls by some of our top juniors and the lectures by our coaches
2008 Ergas Training Camp
All the participants in the National Ergas training camp are now presumably safely home. Russell Horton one of the parents wrote an interesting bulletin on the event. The link given in the previous issue did not work. Try this one
http://www.boxhillchess.org.au/junio...ergas/news.htm
Grades Tournaments
Round 2 of the Friday Grades turned out to be a disaster No fewer than 8 players required a bye due in part by the unexpected arrival of the City of Yarra B team [accompanied by their A team] who expected to play round 3 of the Interclub but stayed to play the round 1 postponed game with unfortunate consequences for CJCC B team who lost 3 – 1.
After considerable thought on how to get the tournament back on track I decided to give those missing players a ½ point bye and add another round on the 12 September for everyone
The games for round 1 of Tuesday tournament proceeded much more peacefully
Here is round 2, which will answer some questions.
o Name Feder Loc Total Result Name Feder Loc Total
1 David A Flude rg1 1665 [1] : Elliot Renzies rg1 1312 [1]
2 Eric Neymanis rg1 1241 [.5] : Adam Hayman rg1 1101 [.5]
3 Raymond Chan rg1 807 [.5] : Andrew Mezei rg1 881 [.5]
4 Daniel Yuan rg1 889 [0] : Oliver Lemmel rg1 1056 [0]
5 Joash Arulprakasam rg2 536 [1] : Robin Zhou rg2 401 [1]
6 Dinesh Arulprakasam rg2 164 [1] : Stephen Liu rg2 501 [1]
7 Murphy Guo rg2 800 [0] : Oswald Li rg2 164 [0]
8 Ryan Tan rg2 100 [0] : David Chen rg2 601 [0]
How will Elliott go NOT having to play a micro junior?
How will Flude go having divulged all his end game strategies
The answers in the next issue
The
2008 CV Winter Interclub competition.
With round 3 coming up on Friday August 1 our lower rated teams are again challenged by much higher ranked teams with the only meaningful match between Canterbury D and Box Hill D2. Here are the matches:
Grade A 1 City of Yarra-Box Hill, 2 Elwood -Noble Park 3 Croydon-Canterbury Juniors
Grades B, C, D. 1 Box Hill B -Canterbury Juniors C, 2 Box Hill C1 -Canterbury B,
3 Croydon
City of Yarra B, 4 Box Hill D1-Box Hill C2, 5 Croydon D-Ranges C,
6 Canterbury D-Box Hill D2
Here are our teams:
A GRADE
Box Hill A 1 Darryl Johansen 2431 2 Omar Bashar unr.
3 Douglas Lindberg 2011 4 Marcus Raine 1943
Canterbury jun A 1 Chris Wallis 2153 2 David Hacche 2127
3 Eugene Schön 1960 4 Bobby Cheng 1958
B GRADE
Box Hill B 1 David Flude 1665 2 Jason Tang 1647
3 Rad Chmiel 1654 4 Roger Croft 1612
Canterbury B 1 Rengan Vijayakumar 1757 2 Laurence Matheson 1686
3 Michael Chan 1616 4 Isaac Ng 1474
C GRADE
Box Hill C1 1 Andrew Whittick 1367 2 Elliott Renzies 1312
3 Tim Feng 1225 4 Linden Lyons 1168
Box Hill C2 1 Laurie Dalton 1316 2 Sam Elbrish 1356
3 Eric Neymanis 1241 4 Oliver Lemmel 1056
Canterbury Jun. C 1 Thomas Feng 1314 2 Gene Lai unr.
3 Jenny Fan 1027 4 Joshua Ng 998
D GRADE
Box Hill D1 1 Daniel Yuan 889 2 James Brennan unr.
3 Zachary Loh unr. 4 Nivedita Anguswamy unr.
Box Hill D2 1 Jim Cannon unr. 2 Raymond Chan 807
3 Joash Arulprakasam 536 4 Enoch Fan unr.
Canterbury Jun. D 1 Joseph Wong 1020 2 Liam Hamilton 866
3 Dominic Huang 735 4 John Ni 420
Some extracts from a bulletin from the National Junior Chess League.
2008 ASTC
The South Australian organizers have confirmed the dates of 6th and 7th December. The venue is Rostrevor College and there will be on-site accommodation.
2009 Aus Juniors
There is now a website for this
http://www.sajuniorchess.org/AustJunior2009/index.html
World Juniors
Two Australian representatives here. Gareth Oliver in the Open U20 and Sarah Anton in the Girls U20.
{Sarah Anton is a former Queens cup winner
Tournament starts on 3rd August in Gaziantep, Turkey.
U16 Youth Olympiad
The team is
Thomas Feng Isaac Ng Alex Grossman Joshua Ng
This starts on 17th August in Mersin, Turkey
Almost a BHCC exclusive
Coaching Term 3
Details for the third term of the Tuesday coaching and the Sunday coaching are now available in the Canterbury Junior Section of the BHCC web site
http://www.boxhillchess
Tuesday Coaching started last Tuesday. Sunday coaching started Sunday July 20
Lost property
Over the past few weeks we have had a peak number of players and visitors to events at our venue 3 Rochester Rd.
The lost property section has accumulated 13 unclaimed items clothing/bags/caps/scarves/etc.
Please claim your items by 1 August 2008 as after that time we will donate to a charity. Extended to August 14
Fludey’s endgame hints
Rules of thumb for the endgame
Use your king in the endgame to attack opposition pawns or support
your own pawns.
When you are one or more pawns ahead swap pieces not pawns.
When you are one or more pawns behind swap pawns not pieces.
When you are pawns ahead remember King and pawn endings are easiest
to win, then minor piece endings, queen endings are much more
difficult and rook endings give lots of chances to the defender.
Use your rook actively, put it behind passed pawns. If there are no
passed pawns try and put a rook on the seventh rank so that it can
gobble opposition pawns.
If you have the advantage try and keep pawns on both sides of the board.
Passed pawns should be advanced as quickly as possible.
A bishop is usually better than a knight but a queen and knight will
often beat a queen and bishop if the knight is supported by a pawn and
is close to the opposition king.
Bishops of opposite colours and no other pieces tends to be very
drawish. However Queens and bishops of opposite colour is anything but drawish.
Put your pawn on the opposite colour to your bishop so that the
bishop can move between the pawns.
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