MCC Allegro 2009 - OzChess

**Firegoat7** · 03-15-2009, 06:59 PM

"Mirko Rujevic has won the fourth MCC allegro of 2009! Rujevic won the round robin
event with 8/8 after beating Michael Baron in the first round. Baron finished 2nd on 7 and
Chris Kolak third on 6... Steve Werthein won the B prize with 3 points. Garry Conyers and
Alister Henry were both competitive in their first tournaments. Full results are as follows:
8/8 Mirko Rujevic (IM)
7 Michael Baron (FM)
6 Chris Kolak
4 Tony Tosevski
Mahmud Chowdhury
3 Steve Wurthein
2 Garry Conyers
1.5 Paul Cavezza
.5 Alister Henry

**Just2Good** · 03-15-2009, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

Mirko Rujevic has won the fourth MCC allegro of 2009!

He really seems to be on quite a roll lately! Congratulations Rujevic!

**MOZ** · 03-15-2009, 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

"Mirko Rujevic has won the fourth MCC allegro of 2009! Rujevic won the round robin
event with 8/8 after beating Michael Baron in the first round. Baron finished 2nd on 7 and
Chris Kolak third on 6... Steve Werthein won the B prize with 3 points. Garry Conyers and
Alister Henry were both competitive in their first tournaments. Full results are as follows:
8/8 Mirko Rujevic (IM)
7 Michael Baron (FM)
6 Chris Kolak
4 Tony Tosevski
Mahmud Chowdhury
3 Steve Wurthein
2 Garry Conyers
1.5 Paul Cavezza
.5 Alister Henry

Have not seen Mahmud Chowdhury for ages. Nice to see him still in chess; a valuable player.

**Just2Good** · 03-16-2009, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by MOZ

Have not seen Mahmud Chowdhury for ages. Nice to see him still in chess; a valuable player.

Its always a good feeling seeing players of yesteryear returning to play.

**Firegoat7** · 03-22-2009, 08:00 AM

MCC Allegro gets 18 players!!

The MCC allegro had a great week, attracting 18 players this week, after fields of 8, 11, 8
and 9 in previous weeks. The big difference for the tournament now that we have larger
numbers, is that we can have a Swiss rather than a round robin.... Anyway, the tournament
was won by Michael Baron and David Beaumont who drew with eachother and gobbled up
everything else in sight. They both scores 6.5/7..... Tony Tosevski was third after beating
Chris Kolak in the final round..... The B division was won by Alex Kaplan who scored 3.5
after a first round loss. Equal second in group B were Sara Anton, Garry Conyers and Paul
Cavezza all on 3 points. Juniors Ari Dale and Jack Puccini are continuing to match it with
the adults scoring 3 and 2.5 respectively. Both also became MCC members on the day - welcome
aboard boys! Another player to impress was Elizabeth Warren who scored 2.5 in was seems to
be a breakout tournament for her. She beat 2 players rated over 1500! New MCC member Tristan
Rayson-Hill was also competitive in his first tournament, scoring 2 points... Good to see
Sara Anton playing in her first allegro, and the return of Milutin Krunic who used to play
allegro every week back in my day.....

6.5 Michael Baron (FM)

David Beaumont

5 Tony Tosevski

4 Chris Kolak

Milan Brkljac

Steve Wertheim

3.5 Milutin Krunic

Kam Lee

John Wildes

Alex Kaplan

3 Ari Dale

Sara Anton

Garry Conyers

Paul Cavezza

2.5 Jack Puccini

Elizabeth Warren

2 Tristan Rayson-Hill

0/4 Johnny Yiannakou

**Just2Good** · 03-22-2009, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

MCC Allegro gets 18 players!!

The MCC allegro had a great week, attracting 18 players this week, after fields of 8, 11, 8
and 9 in previous weeks. The big difference for the tournament now that we have larger
numbers, is that we can have a Swiss rather than a round robin.... Anyway, the tournament
was won by Michael Baron and David Beaumont who drew with each other and gobbled up
everything else in sight. They both scored 6.5/7..... Tony Tosevski was third after beating
Chris Kolak in the final round..... The B division was won by Alex Kaplan who scored 3.5
after a first round loss. Equal second in group B were Sara Anton, Garry Conyers and Paul
Cavezza all on 3 points. Juniors Ari Dale and Jack Puccini are continuing to match it with
the adults scoring 3 and 2.5 respectively. Both also became MCC members on the day - welcome
aboard boys! Another player to impress was Elizabeth Warren who scored 2.5 in was seems to
be a breakout tournament for her. She beat 2 players rated over 1500! New MCC member Tristan
Rayson-Hill was also competitive in his first tournament, scoring 2 points... Good to see
Sara Anton playing in her first allegro, and the return of Milutin Krunic who used to play
allegro every week back in my day.....

6.5 Michael Baron (FM)

David Beaumont

5 Tony Tosevski

4 Chris Kolak

Milan Brkljac

Steve Wertheim

3.5 Milutin Krunic

Kam Lee

John Wildes

Alex Kaplan

3 Ari Dale

Sara Anton

Garry Conyers

Paul Cavezza

2.5 Jack Puccini

Elizabeth Warren

2 Tristan Rayson-Hill

0/4 Johnny Yiannakou

Well done Dave!

Well done Michael!

**Firegoat7** · 03-22-2009, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by Arrogant-One

Well done Dave!

Well done Michael!

Thanks AO

**Firegoat7** · 04-01-2009, 11:05 PM

ALLEGRO 6

Only 9 players turned up for allegro this week - which was a bit dissappointing after 18
last week - so get down to the MCC and play allegro next Saturday!!! Baron was back to his
usual self with a lazy 8/8 and taking home the money.....

8/8 Michael Baron

6 Chris Kolak

5.5 Milan Brkljac

5 Tony Tosevski

Kozo Simutanyi

3 Milutin Krunic

1.5 J Sumargo

1 Elizabeth Warren

Steve Werthein

It is great to see so many people supporting the allegro, and we have had lots of new
members sign up over the past few weeks during the Saturday allegro.... Welcome aboard
Mahmud, Ari, Jack, Tristan, Thai and Kozo!

**Firegoat7** · 04-10-2009, 09:45 PM

Message from Prez...

Allegro is on this Saturday despite the Easter weekend.... So if you are not playing
in Canberra, come down and play in the allegro. Treasurer Pano Skiotis has said that he will
be playing, so if you want to play against Pano (or a number of other players), come down
and play. The carpets were steam cleaned today and look amazing - so playing conditions have
improved significantly.... For those of you who like these quick time control events, Friday
night blitz will be starting soon.... See you all on Saturday...."

**Firegoat7** · 04-12-2009, 01:56 AM

"MCC Allegro number 8, by Grant Szuveges

The 8th allegro attracted a field of 13 players and was once again won by Michael Baron who
scored 7/7.... The strange thing about this tournament was that nobody other than Baron and
David Beaumont managed to play consistently for the whole tournament, with numerous players
floating down to play players on lower scores and then losing to them! When the smoke
cleared, Baron came first, Beaumont second and then Milutin Krunic came third, despite being
elligeble for the rating prize!!! Krunic took the 3rd prize meaning that David Stimson got
the rating prize with his 4 points. Davids best result of the tournament was his first round
win against Chris Kolak - first time he has ever beaten him apparently! Second in the rating
group were Paul Cavezza and Steve Wertheim who both donated their prize money to the
building fund. Thanks guys, and thankyou also to David Stimson who donated another $50 to
the fund today, bringing the total to $2750....

7/7 Michael BARON

5.5 David BEAUMONT

4.5 Milutin KRUNIC

4 Brian FITZPATRICK

Chris KOLAK

Tony TOSEVSKI

David STIMSON

3.5 Milan BRKLJAC

3 Bosco MIJATOVIC

Steve WERTHEIM

Paul CAVEZZA

2 Tristan RAYSO

HILL

1.5 Jack PUCCINI

A special thankyou also goes out to MCC member Paul Cavezza, who has supported the allegro
since it was relaunched. This was Pauls final allegro, as he is leaving for a year in France
teaching English. Paul has also been an active participant at the club, coming to the
endgame study group, donating to the building fund, coming in on Tuesdays for the novices
evening and promoting the club on the chesschat forum - including some great email
argy-bargy with Michael Baron! At the club, Paul will play blitz or longer games with
anyone, analyse games with anyone and creates a positive, uplifting vibe around the place
whenever he is there! Running a chess club can be difficult at times, but if chess clubs all
had 20 Paul Cavezza's in their ranks, chess would be thriving. I think that it is fair
to say that Paul would be a very welcome addition to the MCC committee when he returns from
France.... Good luck Paul, have a great time in France and wherever else your trip takes
you. You will be greatly missed by the members of the Melbourne Chess Club, and we look
forward to your return - whenever that may be!"

thanks guys, Grant

**Firegoat7** · 04-21-2009, 11:10 PM

Here is an allegro report....

MCC ALLEGRO 9

Michael Baron continued his form by winning yet another allegro. He scored 6.5/7 with his
only draw coming in round 5 against Carl Gorka. Chris Kolak and Bosko Mijatovic came equal
second with 5 points. Group B was won by John Wildes and David Stimson with 4 points, with
David Wiatr coming 3rd in B with 3.5 points..... Good to see 3 new players playing.
Brothers Alistair and James Macaulay and Isaac Zhao were all competitive in their first
allegros.......

6.5/7 Michael BARON

5 Chris Kolak

Bosko MIJATOVIC

4.5 Carl Gorka

4 Milutin KRUNIC

John WILDES

David STIMSON

3.5 David WIATR

3 Tony TOSEVSKI

Jack PUCCINI

2.5 Milan BRKLJAC

2 Alistair MACAULAY

James MACAULAY

0/4 Isaac ZHAO

Allegro will be on next weekend despite the weekender. If players playing in the ANZAC day
weekender wish to play allegro also, they can have a half point bye in the second round so
that they can play allegro too! One player who will not be having a half point bye is IM
David Smerdon who will be wanting to win the ANZAC day tournament and will be doing a simul
at 7pm on the Sunday night after the tournament. It costs $20 to play, with all money going
to the building fund. So come down to the MCC next weekend for allegro, the ANZAC day
weekender, the David Smerdon simul and the Friday night blitz - or all 4 events!

cheers, Grant

**Just2Good** · 04-22-2009, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

MCC ALLEGRO 9

Michael Baron continued his form by winning yet another allegro. He scored 6.5/7 with his
only draw coming in round 5 against Carl Gorka.

6.5/7 Michael BARON

5 Chris Kolak

Bosko MIJATOVIC

4.5 Carl Gorka

A wonderful performance by Michael winning the event outright and by Carl in securing a draw against such a competitive player in good form!

**Calvin** · 04-22-2009, 08:01 PM

The whole event was well run and very top class chess on many boards. I really enjoyed myself. Dave please check your private messages, I send you a PM.

**Firegoat7** · 04-28-2009, 11:56 PM

"Hi everyone, Allegro number 10 was a huge success equalling our biggest field so
far... In fact, it had almost the same numbers as the weekender... (see MCC ANZAC Day
thread). 3 players even took half point byes for round 2 of the weekender so that they could
play! It was good to see IM Mirko Rujevic playing this week, and of course FM Michael Baron.
(Maybe one day we could even have norms in the allegro!?) At one point, we even had 9 titled
players in the building at the same time (4 in the weekender, 2 in allegro and 3 hanging
out)...
Now for the important stuff... Baron won the event (as usual) with 6.5/7 getting revenge on
Rujevic for a previous allegro... Baron's only draw came in round 6 against Milutin
Krunic (rated 1685) - well done Milutin! Equal second on 5.5 points, were Mirko Rujevic and
Dimitri Partsi...
Group B was won by Endre Simon and David Wiatr on 4 with junior Ari Dale and James Macaulay
equal third on 3.5 point... Ari was very unlucky not to beat Chris Kolak in the final round
which wouldve given him the outright first prize in group B...
It was great to see 4 juniors playing in the allegro and even better to see that they were
all competitive! Nicholaas Schroeder was playing his first allegro today and Jack Puccini
did well scoring 3 points. We hope to see more kids playing in the allegro in future and of
course more adults too! First timer Alban De Maupeou from France scored a credible 2
points...

6.5/7 Michael BARON (FM)
5.5 Mirko RUJEVIC (IM)
Dimitri PARTSI
5 Chris KOLAK
4.5 Milutin KRUNIC
4 Sherif TUGLACI
David WIATR
Endre SIMON
3.5 Ari DALE
James MACAULAY
3 Tony TOSEVSKI
Milan BRKLJAC
Jack PUCCINI
2 Elizabeth WARREN
Alistar MACAULAY
Alban DE MACAULAY
1 Tristan RAYSO

HILL
Nicholaas SCHROEDER

See you all next week for Allegro Number 11 - one of these days we will top 20 players -
hopefully YOU are one of them!

Grant"

Once again, under message from the pres

**Just2Good** · 04-29-2009, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

"Hi everyone, Allegro number 10 was a huge success equalling our biggest field so far.

Great work Dave

This is further evidence that when chess officials stay clear of bickering and arguments, great results for the game can be achieved.

03-15-2009, 06:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
Firegoat7 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Getting owned by White in the Dragon and trying to recover lost positions from shock paralysis OTB Posts: 2,044 ICC Handle: guest	MCC Allegro 2009 "Mirko Rujevic has won the fourth MCC allegro of 2009! Rujevic won the round robin event with 8/8 after beating Michael Baron in the first round. Baron finished 2nd on 7 and Chris Kolak third on 6... Steve Werthein won the B prize with 3 points. Garry Conyers and Alister Henry were both competitive in their first tournaments. Full results are as follows: 8/8 Mirko Rujevic (IM) 7 Michael Baron (FM) 6 Chris Kolak 4 Tony Tosevski Mahmud Chowdhury 3 Steve Wurthein 2 Garry Conyers 1.5 Paul Cavezza .5 Alister Henry __________________ "...What I meant? Dear Mr Ian Rout (ACF news publisher) could you please put Ozchessforum in the next news letter! There is no reason to hide this forum from the Australian chess public. What they meant? Sorry, No english!- Amir Karibasic

03-15-2009, 07:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,233 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Originally Posted by Firegoat7 Mirko Rujevic has won the fourth MCC allegro of 2009! He really seems to be on quite a roll lately! Congratulations Rujevic! __________________ . "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ~ Isaiah Berlin ~

03-15-2009, 08:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
MOZ Volunteer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Ozchess is the marginalised cyber-spot where cc-Mods choose to engage with cc-banned posters. Posts: 3,541	Originally Posted by Firegoat7 "Mirko Rujevic has won the fourth MCC allegro of 2009! Rujevic won the round robin event with 8/8 after beating Michael Baron in the first round. Baron finished 2nd on 7 and Chris Kolak third on 6... Steve Werthein won the B prize with 3 points. Garry Conyers and Alister Henry were both competitive in their first tournaments. Full results are as follows: 8/8 Mirko Rujevic (IM) 7 Michael Baron (FM) 6 Chris Kolak 4 Tony Tosevski Mahmud Chowdhury 3 Steve Wurthein 2 Garry Conyers 1.5 Paul Cavezza .5 Alister Henry Have not seen Mahmud Chowdhury for ages. Nice to see him still in chess; a valuable player. __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game.

03-16-2009, 09:16 PM	#4 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,233 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Originally Posted by MOZ Have not seen Mahmud Chowdhury for ages. Nice to see him still in chess; a valuable player. Its always a good feeling seeing players of yesteryear returning to play. __________________ . "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ~ Isaiah Berlin ~

03-22-2009, 08:00 AM	#5 (permalink)
Firegoat7 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Getting owned by White in the Dragon and trying to recover lost positions from shock paralysis OTB Posts: 2,044 ICC Handle: guest	MCC Allegro gets 18 players!! The MCC allegro had a great week, attracting 18 players this week, after fields of 8, 11, 8 and 9 in previous weeks. The big difference for the tournament now that we have larger numbers, is that we can have a Swiss rather than a round robin.... Anyway, the tournament was won by Michael Baron and David Beaumont who drew with eachother and gobbled up everything else in sight. They both scores 6.5/7..... Tony Tosevski was third after beating Chris Kolak in the final round..... The B division was won by Alex Kaplan who scored 3.5 after a first round loss. Equal second in group B were Sara Anton, Garry Conyers and Paul Cavezza all on 3 points. Juniors Ari Dale and Jack Puccini are continuing to match it with the adults scoring 3 and 2.5 respectively. Both also became MCC members on the day - welcome aboard boys! Another player to impress was Elizabeth Warren who scored 2.5 in was seems to be a breakout tournament for her. She beat 2 players rated over 1500! New MCC member Tristan Rayson-Hill was also competitive in his first tournament, scoring 2 points... Good to see Sara Anton playing in her first allegro, and the return of Milutin Krunic who used to play allegro every week back in my day..... 6.5 Michael Baron (FM) David Beaumont 5 Tony Tosevski 4 Chris Kolak Milan Brkljac Steve Wertheim 3.5 Milutin Krunic Kam Lee John Wildes Alex Kaplan 3 Ari Dale Sara Anton Garry Conyers Paul Cavezza 2.5 Jack Puccini Elizabeth Warren 2 Tristan Rayson-Hill 0/4 Johnny Yiannakou __________________ "...What I meant? Dear Mr Ian Rout (ACF news publisher) could you please put Ozchessforum in the next news letter! There is no reason to hide this forum from the Australian chess public. What they meant? Sorry, No english!- Amir Karibasic

03-22-2009, 11:12 AM	#6 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,233 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Originally Posted by Firegoat7 MCC Allegro gets 18 players!! The MCC allegro had a great week, attracting 18 players this week, after fields of 8, 11, 8 and 9 in previous weeks. The big difference for the tournament now that we have larger numbers, is that we can have a Swiss rather than a round robin.... Anyway, the tournament was won by Michael Baron and David Beaumont who drew with each other and gobbled up everything else in sight. They both scored 6.5/7..... Tony Tosevski was third after beating Chris Kolak in the final round..... The B division was won by Alex Kaplan who scored 3.5 after a first round loss. Equal second in group B were Sara Anton, Garry Conyers and Paul Cavezza all on 3 points. Juniors Ari Dale and Jack Puccini are continuing to match it with the adults scoring 3 and 2.5 respectively. Both also became MCC members on the day - welcome aboard boys! Another player to impress was Elizabeth Warren who scored 2.5 in was seems to be a breakout tournament for her. She beat 2 players rated over 1500! New MCC member Tristan Rayson-Hill was also competitive in his first tournament, scoring 2 points... Good to see Sara Anton playing in her first allegro, and the return of Milutin Krunic who used to play allegro every week back in my day..... 6.5 Michael Baron (FM) David Beaumont 5 Tony Tosevski 4 Chris Kolak Milan Brkljac Steve Wertheim 3.5 Milutin Krunic Kam Lee John Wildes Alex Kaplan 3 Ari Dale Sara Anton Garry Conyers Paul Cavezza 2.5 Jack Puccini Elizabeth Warren 2 Tristan Rayson-Hill 0/4 Johnny Yiannakou Well done Dave! Well done Michael! __________________ . "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ~ Isaiah Berlin ~

03-22-2009, 02:58 PM	#7 (permalink)
Firegoat7 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Getting owned by White in the Dragon and trying to recover lost positions from shock paralysis OTB Posts: 2,044 ICC Handle: guest	Originally Posted by Arrogant-One Well done Dave! Well done Michael! Thanks AO __________________ "...What I meant? Dear Mr Ian Rout (ACF news publisher) could you please put Ozchessforum in the next news letter! There is no reason to hide this forum from the Australian chess public. What they meant? Sorry, No english!- Amir Karibasic

04-01-2009, 11:05 PM	#8 (permalink)
Firegoat7 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Getting owned by White in the Dragon and trying to recover lost positions from shock paralysis OTB Posts: 2,044 ICC Handle: guest	A message from the prez.... ALLEGRO 6 Only 9 players turned up for allegro this week - which was a bit dissappointing after 18 last week - so get down to the MCC and play allegro next Saturday!!! Baron was back to his usual self with a lazy 8/8 and taking home the money..... 8/8 Michael Baron 6 Chris Kolak 5.5 Milan Brkljac 5 Tony Tosevski Kozo Simutanyi 3 Milutin Krunic 1.5 J Sumargo 1 Elizabeth Warren Steve Werthein It is great to see so many people supporting the allegro, and we have had lots of new members sign up over the past few weeks during the Saturday allegro.... Welcome aboard Mahmud, Ari, Jack, Tristan, Thai and Kozo! __________________ "...What I meant? Dear Mr Ian Rout (ACF news publisher) could you please put Ozchessforum in the next news letter! There is no reason to hide this forum from the Australian chess public. What they meant? Sorry, No english!- Amir Karibasic

04-10-2009, 09:45 PM	#9 (permalink)
Firegoat7 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Getting owned by White in the Dragon and trying to recover lost positions from shock paralysis OTB Posts: 2,044 ICC Handle: guest	message from Prez Message from Prez... Allegro is on this Saturday despite the Easter weekend.... So if you are not playing in Canberra, come down and play in the allegro. Treasurer Pano Skiotis has said that he will be playing, so if you want to play against Pano (or a number of other players), come down and play. The carpets were steam cleaned today and look amazing - so playing conditions have improved significantly.... For those of you who like these quick time control events, Friday night blitz will be starting soon.... See you all on Saturday...." __________________ "...What I meant? Dear Mr Ian Rout (ACF news publisher) could you please put Ozchessforum in the next news letter! There is no reason to hide this forum from the Australian chess public. What they meant? Sorry, No english!- Amir Karibasic

04-12-2009, 01:56 AM	#10 (permalink)
Firegoat7 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Getting owned by White in the Dragon and trying to recover lost positions from shock paralysis OTB Posts: 2,044 ICC Handle: guest	message from Prez "MCC Allegro number 8, by Grant Szuveges The 8th allegro attracted a field of 13 players and was once again won by Michael Baron who scored 7/7.... The strange thing about this tournament was that nobody other than Baron and David Beaumont managed to play consistently for the whole tournament, with numerous players floating down to play players on lower scores and then losing to them! When the smoke cleared, Baron came first, Beaumont second and then Milutin Krunic came third, despite being elligeble for the rating prize!!! Krunic took the 3rd prize meaning that David Stimson got the rating prize with his 4 points. Davids best result of the tournament was his first round win against Chris Kolak - first time he has ever beaten him apparently! Second in the rating group were Paul Cavezza and Steve Wertheim who both donated their prize money to the building fund. Thanks guys, and thankyou also to David Stimson who donated another $50 to the fund today, bringing the total to $2750.... 7/7 Michael BARON 5.5 David BEAUMONT 4.5 Milutin KRUNIC 4 Brian FITZPATRICK Chris KOLAK Tony TOSEVSKI David STIMSON 3.5 Milan BRKLJAC 3 Bosco MIJATOVIC Steve WERTHEIM Paul CAVEZZA 2 Tristan RAYSOHILL 1.5 Jack PUCCINI A special thankyou also goes out to MCC member Paul Cavezza, who has supported the allegro since it was relaunched. This was Pauls final allegro, as he is leaving for a year in France teaching English. Paul has also been an active participant at the club, coming to the endgame study group, donating to the building fund, coming in on Tuesdays for the novices evening and promoting the club on the chesschat forum - including some great email argy-bargy with Michael Baron! At the club, Paul will play blitz or longer games with anyone, analyse games with anyone and creates a positive, uplifting vibe around the place whenever he is there! Running a chess club can be difficult at times, but if chess clubs all had 20 Paul Cavezza's in their ranks, chess would be thriving. I think that it is fair to say that Paul would be a very welcome addition to the MCC committee when he returns from France.... Good luck Paul, have a great time in France and wherever else your trip takes you. You will be greatly missed by the members of the Melbourne Chess Club, and we look forward to your return - whenever that may be!" thanks guys, Grant __________________ "...What I meant? Dear Mr Ian Rout (ACF news publisher) could you please put Ozchessforum in the next news letter! There is no reason to hide this forum from the Australian chess public. What they meant? Sorry, No english!- Amir Karibasic

04-21-2009, 11:10 PM	#11 (permalink)
Firegoat7 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Getting owned by White in the Dragon and trying to recover lost positions from shock paralysis OTB Posts: 2,044 ICC Handle: guest	message from the Prez Here is an allegro report.... MCC ALLEGRO 9 Michael Baron continued his form by winning yet another allegro. He scored 6.5/7 with his only draw coming in round 5 against Carl Gorka. Chris Kolak and Bosko Mijatovic came equal second with 5 points. Group B was won by John Wildes and David Stimson with 4 points, with David Wiatr coming 3rd in B with 3.5 points..... Good to see 3 new players playing. Brothers Alistair and James Macaulay and Isaac Zhao were all competitive in their first allegros....... 6.5/7 Michael BARON 5 Chris Kolak Bosko MIJATOVIC 4.5 Carl Gorka 4 Milutin KRUNIC John WILDES David STIMSON 3.5 David WIATR 3 Tony TOSEVSKI Jack PUCCINI 2.5 Milan BRKLJAC 2 Alistair MACAULAY James MACAULAY 0/4 Isaac ZHAO Allegro will be on next weekend despite the weekender. If players playing in the ANZAC day weekender wish to play allegro also, they can have a half point bye in the second round so that they can play allegro too! One player who will not be having a half point bye is IM David Smerdon who will be wanting to win the ANZAC day tournament and will be doing a simul at 7pm on the Sunday night after the tournament. It costs $20 to play, with all money going to the building fund. So come down to the MCC next weekend for allegro, the ANZAC day weekender, the David Smerdon simul and the Friday night blitz - or all 4 events! cheers, Grant __________________ "...What I meant? Dear Mr Ian Rout (ACF news publisher) could you please put Ozchessforum in the next news letter! There is no reason to hide this forum from the Australian chess public. What they meant? Sorry, No english!- Amir Karibasic

04-22-2009, 12:27 PM	#12 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,233 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Originally Posted by Firegoat7 MCC ALLEGRO 9 Michael Baron continued his form by winning yet another allegro. He scored 6.5/7 with his only draw coming in round 5 against Carl Gorka. 6.5/7 Michael BARON 5 Chris Kolak Bosko MIJATOVIC 4.5 Carl Gorka A wonderful performance by Michael winning the event outright and by Carl in securing a draw against such a competitive player in good form! __________________ . "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ~ Isaiah Berlin ~

04-22-2009, 08:01 PM	#13 (permalink)
Calvin Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Melbourne Posts: 268	The whole event was well run and very top class chess on many boards. I really enjoyed myself. Dave please check your private messages, I send you a PM.

04-28-2009, 11:56 PM	#14 (permalink)
Firegoat7 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Getting owned by White in the Dragon and trying to recover lost positions from shock paralysis OTB Posts: 2,044 ICC Handle: guest	number 10 "Hi everyone, Allegro number 10 was a huge success equalling our biggest field so far... In fact, it had almost the same numbers as the weekender... (see MCC ANZAC Day thread). 3 players even took half point byes for round 2 of the weekender so that they could play! It was good to see IM Mirko Rujevic playing this week, and of course FM Michael Baron. (Maybe one day we could even have norms in the allegro!?) At one point, we even had 9 titled players in the building at the same time (4 in the weekender, 2 in allegro and 3 hanging out)... Now for the important stuff... Baron won the event (as usual) with 6.5/7 getting revenge on Rujevic for a previous allegro... Baron's only draw came in round 6 against Milutin Krunic (rated 1685) - well done Milutin! Equal second on 5.5 points, were Mirko Rujevic and Dimitri Partsi... Group B was won by Endre Simon and David Wiatr on 4 with junior Ari Dale and James Macaulay equal third on 3.5 point... Ari was very unlucky not to beat Chris Kolak in the final round which wouldve given him the outright first prize in group B... It was great to see 4 juniors playing in the allegro and even better to see that they were all competitive! Nicholaas Schroeder was playing his first allegro today and Jack Puccini did well scoring 3 points. We hope to see more kids playing in the allegro in future and of course more adults too! First timer Alban De Maupeou from France scored a credible 2 points... 6.5/7 Michael BARON (FM) 5.5 Mirko RUJEVIC (IM) Dimitri PARTSI 5 Chris KOLAK 4.5 Milutin KRUNIC 4 Sherif TUGLACI David WIATR Endre SIMON 3.5 Ari DALE James MACAULAY 3 Tony TOSEVSKI Milan BRKLJAC Jack PUCCINI 2 Elizabeth WARREN Alistar MACAULAY Alban DE MACAULAY 1 Tristan RAYSOHILL Nicholaas SCHROEDER See you all next week for Allegro Number 11 - one of these days we will top 20 players - hopefully YOU are one of them! Grant" Once again, under message from the pres __________________ "...What I meant? Dear Mr Ian Rout (ACF news publisher) could you please put Ozchessforum in the next news letter! There is no reason to hide this forum from the Australian chess public. What they meant? Sorry, No english!- Amir Karibasic

04-29-2009, 11:51 AM	#15 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,233 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	Originally Posted by Firegoat7 "Hi everyone, Allegro number 10 was a huge success equalling our biggest field so far. Great work Dave This is further evidence that when chess officials stay clear of bickering and arguments, great results for the game can be achieved. __________________ . "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." ~ Isaiah Berlin ~

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