2011 Australasian MASTERS - OzChess

**MOZ** · 11-26-2011, 05:58 PM

Pairings for Australasian Masters 2011

1.Eddy Levi---FIDE Master,Australia---FIDE rating 2138

2.Mirko Rujevic---International Master,Australia--- 2302

3.Lee Wang Sheng---Singapore--2248

4.David Garner---England---2149

5.James Morris---International Master,Australia---2364

6.Stephen Solomon---International Master,Australia---2384

7.Max Illingworth---FIDE Master,Australia--2401

8.Bobby Cheng----FIDE Master,Australia--2345

9.Omar Khaled---Bangladesh--2010

10.Michael Ginat---USA ---2190

International Master norm 7 points from 9 games.

Details for the event.

The dates---December 10-18.

Venue Box Hill Chess Club(3 Rochester Road,Canterbury)

Here is the preliminary schedule

round 1---Saturday Dec 10---3-00 pm

round 2---Sunday Dec 11---3-00 pm

round 3---Monday Dec 12---7-00 pm

round 4---Tuesday Dec 13---4-00 pm

round 5---Wednesday Dec 14--4-00 pm

round 6--Thursday Dec 15---4-00 pm

round 7---Friday Dec 16--4-00 pm

round 8--Saturday Dec 17--3-00 pm

round 9--Sunday Dec 18----TBA

Arbiters for the tournament Peter Tsai and Leonid Sandler

Prizes.

1.$1000

2.$500

3.$300

plus $500 to the best Victorian player who also will get Victorian Master 2011 title.

Sponsored by Chess Victoria

Hallsteen PTY LTD(Director Eddy Levi)

Geelong Chess Club member Bill Stokey.

Time control

90 minutes per game plus 30 seconds per move from move 1.

Forfeit time---30 minutes.

**MOZ** · 11-26-2011, 06:01 PM

The tournament shaping up to be a ripper with 4 candidates(Solomon,Cheng,Illingworth,Morris) to play in Chess Olympiad 2012 for Australian National Team will have to impress the selectors.

Also its nice to see former NSW Champion Michael Ginat returning to tournament chess after long absence.

We hope that someone will be able to make IM norm result.

First round pairings

Levi-Omar

Rujevic-Lee Wang Sheng

Garner-Morris

Solomon-Illingworth

Ginat-Cheng

**Firegoat7** · 11-26-2011, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by MOZ

Venue Box Hill Chess Club(3 Rochester Road,Canterbury)

Let me guess....This one didn't go for tender, it was decided by secret ballot?

**MOZ** · 11-26-2011, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

Let me guess....This one didn't go for tender, it was decided by secret ballot?

This one has not been a CV event. It has always been run by various privateers in my memory.
It is an Invitational.

**Firegoat7** · 11-26-2011, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by MOZ

This one has not been a CV event. It has always been run by various privateers in my memory.
It is an Invitational.

I do not think this is correct. It really is no big deal, please correct me if I am wrong, but Leonid was the main organiser for this event.

**MOZ** · 11-26-2011, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

I do not think this is correct. It really is no big deal, please correct me if I am wrong, but Leonid was the main organiser for this event.

I don't know the full history of which privateers have run it.
And I don't think it has been tracked on the chat-boards much even though it has run for 15 years. I would expect that Chess World has run it, and from memory Noble Park had it as an initiative in their first year, and recently Leonid has put the field together.

CV has been willing since 2000 to be a co-sponsor so that the winner of this event receives the title of Victorian Master, and more importantly Victorians have a norm opportunity. In a recent year, a major sponsor was F.I.D.E.

**MOZ** · 11-29-2011, 09:09 AM

Received from the Tournament Organiser

----------------------------------------------------------
Please find the revised pairings for Australasian Masters 2011

1.Eddy Levi---FIDE Master,Australia---FIDE rating 2138

2.Mirko Rujevic---International Master,Australia--- 2302

3.Lee Wang Sheng---Singapore--2248

4.David Garner---England---2149

5.Omar Khaled---Bangladesh--2010

6.Stephen Solomon---International Master,Australia---2384

7.Dusan Stojic

8.Bobby Cheng----FIDE Master,Australia--2345

9.James Morris---International Master,Australia---2364

10.Michael Ginat---USA ---2190

International Master norm 7 points from 9 games.

Time control 90 minutes per game plus 30 seconds per move from move 1.

Forfeit time --- 30 minutes.

I will provide the latest ACF ratings for all participants on December 1st.

Please see the details for the event.

The dates---December 10-18.

Venue Box Hill Chess Club(3 Rochester Road,Canterbury)

Here is the schedule

round 1---Saturday Dec 10---3-00 pm------( 1-10, 2-9, 3-8, 4-7, 5-6)

round 2---Sunday Dec 11---3-00 pm--------(10-6, 7-5, 8-4, 9-3, 1-2)

round 3---Monday Dec 12---7-00 pm-------( 2-10, 3-1 ,4-9, 5-8 ,6-7)

round 4---Tuesday Dec 13---4-00 pm------( 10-7,8-6, 9-5, 1-4, 2-3)

round 5---Wednesday Dec 14--4-00 pm---( 3-10,4-2,5-1,6-9,7-8)

round 6--Thursday Dec 15---4-00 pm----( 10-8,9-7,1-6,2-5,3-4)

round 7---Friday Dec 16--4-00 pm--------( 4-10,5-3,6-2,7-1,8-9)

round 8--Saturday Dec 17--3-00 pm------( 10-9,1-8,2-7,3-6,4-5)

round 9--Sunday Dec 18----TBA ----------( 5-10,6-4,7-3,8-2,9-1)

Arbiters for the tournament Peter Tsai and Leonid Sandler

Prizes

1.$1000

2.$500

3.$300

plus $500 to the best Victorian player who also will get Victorian Master 2011 title.

**the morris man** · 11-29-2011, 01:17 PM

Why were the starting pairings change? It would suffice just to swap Illingworth for Stojic, not rearrange the entire pairings.

**MOZ** · 11-29-2011, 01:56 PM

Originally Posted by the morris man

Why were the starting pairings change? It would suffice just to swap Illingworth for Stojic, not rearrange the entire pairings.

There was an error in the initial pairings declared yesterday. That led to the new post on this thread, early.
Max withdrew later this morning, and Dusan accepted the invitation to play. So Dusan's name was subbed in for max.

regards
MOZ

**MOZ** · 12-02-2011, 08:33 AM

Please see the latest ACF ratings for the players.

1.Eddy Levi---FIDE Master,Australia---FIDE rating 2138-----ACF rating 2129

2.Mirko Rujevic---International Master,Australia--- 2302----ACF 2299

3.Lee Wang Sheng---Singapore--2248---ACF 2240

4.David Garner---England---2149----ACF 2077

5.Omar Khaled---Bangladesh--2010---- ACF 1937

6.Stephen Solomon---International Master,Australia---2384----ACF 2387

7.Dusan Stojic---FIDE Master,Australia--2287----ACF 2277

8.Bobby Cheng----FIDE Master,Australia--2345----ACF 2364

9.James Morris---International Master,Australia---2364-------ACF 2289

10.Michael Ginat---USA ---2190-----ACF 2018

**santa** · 12-11-2011, 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by MOZ

I don't know the full history of which privateers have run it.
And I don't think it has been tracked on the chat-boards much even though it has run for 15 years. I would expect that Chess World has run it, and from memory Noble Park had it as an initiative in their first year, and recently Leonid has put the field together.

CV has been willing since 2000 to be a co-sponsor so that the winner of this event receives the title of Victorian Master, and more importantly Victorians have a norm opportunity. In a recent year, a major sponsor was F.I.D.E.

It's been going longer than 15 years. I think you might find a report on it for one year in OTM, assuming David's archived them all on one of his websites.

I recall Jammo and Ostrowski playing one year.

**Firegoat7** · 12-11-2011, 11:28 PM

Greetings,

Moz you are getting slack. How about posting some games on Ozchess, so that when the Tournament finishes we can still view the games?

James "The Man" Morris, any chance of an annotating one of your better games?

cheers,

**MOZ** · 12-12-2011, 07:05 AM

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

Greetings,

Moz you are getting slack.

OMGoodness!
You mean I have Cooper's Droop?

Originally Posted by Firegoat7

How about posting some games on Ozchess, so that when the Tournament finishes we can still view the games?

I have not been at the Club for the Masters, so my access was your access; i.e.we could see DGT display via Net.

cheers,

And cheers to you also.

**Ian Rogers** · 12-12-2011, 07:38 AM

Originally Posted by santa

It's been going longer than 15 years. I think you might find a report on it for one year in OTM, assuming David's archived them all on one of his websites.

I recall Jammo and Ostrowski playing one year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Masters_(chess) gives some info.

**MOZ** · 12-12-2011, 08:38 AM

Winners

1987 Darryl Johansen
1989 Stephen Solomon Guy West
1990 Stephen Solomon
1991 Stephen Solomon
1992 Anthony Miles
1993 Michael Gluzman
1994 Leonid Sandler
1995 Tu Hoang Thong
1996 Nguyen Anh Dung
1997 Stephen Solomon
1998 Chris Depasquale
1999 Gary Lane
2000 Adam Hunt
2001 Guy West Darryl Johansen
2002 Guy West Michael Gluzman
2003 Stephen Solomon
2004 David Smerdon Darryl Johansen
2005 Jesse Sales
2006 George Xie
2008 Vladimir Smirnov
2009 Stephen Solomon
2010 Stephen Solomon

11-26-2011, 05:58 PM	#1 (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	2011 Australasian MASTERS Pairings for Australasian Masters 2011 1.Eddy Levi---FIDE Master,Australia---FIDE rating 2138 2.Mirko Rujevic---International Master,Australia--- 2302 3.Lee Wang Sheng---Singapore--2248 4.David Garner---England---2149 5.James Morris---International Master,Australia---2364 6.Stephen Solomon---International Master,Australia---2384 7.Max Illingworth---FIDE Master,Australia--2401 8.Bobby Cheng----FIDE Master,Australia--2345 9.Omar Khaled---Bangladesh--2010 10.Michael Ginat---USA ---2190 International Master norm 7 points from 9 games. Details for the event. The dates---December 10-18. Venue Box Hill Chess Club(3 Rochester Road,Canterbury) Here is the preliminary schedule round 1---Saturday Dec 10---3-00 pm round 2---Sunday Dec 11---3-00 pm round 3---Monday Dec 12---7-00 pm round 4---Tuesday Dec 13---4-00 pm round 5---Wednesday Dec 14--4-00 pm round 6--Thursday Dec 15---4-00 pm round 7---Friday Dec 16--4-00 pm round 8--Saturday Dec 17--3-00 pm round 9--Sunday Dec 18----TBA Arbiters for the tournament Peter Tsai and Leonid Sandler Prizes. 1.$1000 2.$500 3.$300 plus $500 to the best Victorian player who also will get Victorian Master 2011 title. Sponsored by Chess Victoria Hallsteen PTY LTD(Director Eddy Levi) Geelong Chess Club member Bill Stokey. Time control 90 minutes per game plus 30 seconds per move from move 1. Forfeit time---30 minutes. __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game. Last edited by MOZ : 11-29-2011 at 09:13 AM Reason: Pairings changed. See later post in thread.

11-26-2011, 06:01 PM	#2 (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	The tournament shaping up to be a ripper with 4 candidates(Solomon,Cheng,Illingworth,Morris) to play in Chess Olympiad 2012 for Australian National Team will have to impress the selectors. Also its nice to see former NSW Champion Michael Ginat returning to tournament chess after long absence. We hope that someone will be able to make IM norm result. First round pairings Levi-Omar Rujevic-Lee Wang Sheng Garner-Morris Solomon-Illingworth Ginat-Cheng __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game.

11-26-2011, 10:41 PM	#3 (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 MOZ Venue Box Hill Chess Club(3 Rochester Road,Canterbury) Let me guess....This one didn't go for tender, it was decided by secret ballot? __________________ "...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

11-26-2011, 10:47 PM	#4 (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 Let me guess....This one didn't go for tender, it was decided by secret ballot? This one has not been a CV event. It has always been run by various privateers in my memory. It is an Invitational. __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game.

11-26-2011, 11:01 PM	#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	Originally Posted by MOZ This one has not been a CV event. It has always been run by various privateers in my memory. It is an Invitational. I do not think this is correct. It really is no big deal, please correct me if I am wrong, but Leonid was the main organiser for this event. __________________ "...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

11-26-2011, 11:11 PM	#6 (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 I do not think this is correct. It really is no big deal, please correct me if I am wrong, but Leonid was the main organiser for this event. I don't know the full history of which privateers have run it. And I don't think it has been tracked on the chat-boards much even though it has run for 15 years. I would expect that Chess World has run it, and from memory Noble Park had it as an initiative in their first year, and recently Leonid has put the field together. CV has been willing since 2000 to be a co-sponsor so that the winner of this event receives the title of Victorian Master, and more importantly Victorians have a norm opportunity. In a recent year, a major sponsor was F.I.D.E. __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game.

11-29-2011, 09:09 AM	#7 (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	Revised pairings and Stojic subs for Illingworth Received from the Tournament Organiser ---------------------------------------------------------- Please find the revised pairings for Australasian Masters 2011 1.Eddy Levi---FIDE Master,Australia---FIDE rating 2138 2.Mirko Rujevic---International Master,Australia--- 2302 3.Lee Wang Sheng---Singapore--2248 4.David Garner---England---2149 5.Omar Khaled---Bangladesh--2010 6.Stephen Solomon---International Master,Australia---2384 7.Dusan Stojic 8.Bobby Cheng----FIDE Master,Australia--2345 9.James Morris---International Master,Australia---2364 10.Michael Ginat---USA ---2190 International Master norm 7 points from 9 games. Time control 90 minutes per game plus 30 seconds per move from move 1. Forfeit time --- 30 minutes. I will provide the latest ACF ratings for all participants on December 1st. Please see the details for the event. The dates---December 10-18. Venue Box Hill Chess Club(3 Rochester Road,Canterbury) Here is the schedule round 1---Saturday Dec 10---3-00 pm------( 1-10, 2-9, 3-8, 4-7, 5-6) round 2---Sunday Dec 11---3-00 pm--------(10-6, 7-5, 8-4, 9-3, 1-2) round 3---Monday Dec 12---7-00 pm-------( 2-10, 3-1 ,4-9, 5-8 ,6-7) round 4---Tuesday Dec 13---4-00 pm------( 10-7,8-6, 9-5, 1-4, 2-3) round 5---Wednesday Dec 14--4-00 pm---( 3-10,4-2,5-1,6-9,7-8) round 6--Thursday Dec 15---4-00 pm----( 10-8,9-7,1-6,2-5,3-4) round 7---Friday Dec 16--4-00 pm--------( 4-10,5-3,6-2,7-1,8-9) round 8--Saturday Dec 17--3-00 pm------( 10-9,1-8,2-7,3-6,4-5) round 9--Sunday Dec 18----TBA ----------( 5-10,6-4,7-3,8-2,9-1) Arbiters for the tournament Peter Tsai and Leonid Sandler Prizes 1.$1000 2.$500 3.$300 plus $500 to the best Victorian player who also will get Victorian Master 2011 title. __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game. Last edited by MOZ : 11-29-2011 at 10:39 AM

11-29-2011, 01:17 PM	#8 (permalink)
the morris man mr. snrub Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: some place far away Posts: 100	Why were the starting pairings change? It would suffice just to swap Illingworth for Stojic, not rearrange the entire pairings. __________________ no longer in need of a nickname

11-29-2011, 01:56 PM	#9 (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 the morris man Why were the starting pairings change? It would suffice just to swap Illingworth for Stojic, not rearrange the entire pairings. There was an error in the initial pairings declared yesterday. That led to the new post on this thread, early. Max withdrew later this morning, and Dusan accepted the invitation to play. So Dusan's name was subbed in for max. regards MOZ __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game.

12-02-2011, 08:33 AM	#10 (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	Please see the latest ACF ratings for the players. 1.Eddy Levi---FIDE Master,Australia---FIDE rating 2138-----ACF rating 2129 2.Mirko Rujevic---International Master,Australia--- 2302----ACF 2299 3.Lee Wang Sheng---Singapore--2248---ACF 2240 4.David Garner---England---2149----ACF 2077 5.Omar Khaled---Bangladesh--2010---- ACF 1937 6.Stephen Solomon---International Master,Australia---2384----ACF 2387 7.Dusan Stojic---FIDE Master,Australia--2287----ACF 2277 8.Bobby Cheng----FIDE Master,Australia--2345----ACF 2364 9.James Morris---International Master,Australia---2364-------ACF 2289 10.Michael Ginat---USA ---2190-----ACF 2018 __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game.

12-11-2011, 01:38 AM	#11 (permalink)
santa Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Meadow Springs wa Posts: 64 FICS Handle: johncs	Originally Posted by MOZ I don't know the full history of which privateers have run it. And I don't think it has been tracked on the chat-boards much even though it has run for 15 years. I would expect that Chess World has run it, and from memory Noble Park had it as an initiative in their first year, and recently Leonid has put the field together. CV has been willing since 2000 to be a co-sponsor so that the winner of this event receives the title of Victorian Master, and more importantly Victorians have a norm opportunity. In a recent year, a major sponsor was F.I.D.E. It's been going longer than 15 years. I think you might find a report on it for one year in OTM, assuming David's archived them all on one of his websites. I recall Jammo and Ostrowski playing one year.

12-11-2011, 11:28 PM	#12 (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	Greetings, Moz you are getting slack. How about posting some games on Ozchess, so that when the Tournament finishes we can still view the games? James "The Man" Morris, any chance of an annotating one of your better games? cheers, __________________ "...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

12-12-2011, 07:05 AM	#13 (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 Greetings, Moz you are getting slack. OMGoodness! You mean I have Cooper's Droop? Originally Posted by Firegoat7 How about posting some games on Ozchess, so that when the Tournament finishes we can still view the games? I have not been at the Club for the Masters, so my access was your access; i.e.we could see DGT display via Net. cheers, And cheers to you also. __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game.

12-12-2011, 07:38 AM	#14 (permalink)
Ian Rogers Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 15	Originally Posted by santa It's been going longer than 15 years. I think you might find a report on it for one year in OTM, assuming David's archived them all on one of his websites. I recall Jammo and Ostrowski playing one year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Masters_(chess) gives some info.

12-12-2011, 08:38 AM	#15 (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	Winners 1987 Darryl Johansen 1989 Stephen Solomon Guy West 1990 Stephen Solomon 1991 Stephen Solomon 1992 Anthony Miles 1993 Michael Gluzman 1994 Leonid Sandler 1995 Tu Hoang Thong 1996 Nguyen Anh Dung 1997 Stephen Solomon 1998 Chris Depasquale 1999 Gary Lane 2000 Adam Hunt 2001 Guy West Darryl Johansen 2002 Guy West Michael Gluzman 2003 Stephen Solomon 2004 David Smerdon Darryl Johansen 2005 Jesse Sales 2006 George Xie 2008 Vladimir Smirnov 2009 Stephen Solomon 2010 Stephen Solomon __________________ FReedom though Fischer-Random chess to enjoy the whole game.

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