The past 10 weeks have been a hard slog for our juniors spread over 3 divisions in ‘all-play-all’ competition.  Congratulations to those with great stamina and skill who came out on top!
The full results and crosstables are here.
Tony Davis, the club’s Junior Director, has indicated that an a new venue and time is being planned as an addition to the existing Saturday morning Junior meeting. This would begin in term 1 of 2017. Stay tuned for further announcements and details.
Round 3 results and next week’s draw are below.
Results from round 3:
Championship:
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Cheema, Mohammad 1764 [0] -:+ Salanowski, Mark 1609 [0] 2 Wang, Kayson 1698 [1] 1:0 Richards, Derek 1504 [0] 3 Hogg, Dean 2038 [2] 0:1 Hibberd, Nathan 1913 [2] 4 Szuveges, Narelle S 1683 [2] 0:1 Davis, Tony J 1889 [1]
Reserves: Ruben and Charlie were undefeated, but they drew and so they are now joined by Daniel as the joint leaders, closely followed by 6 other players within a point.
No Name Rtg Loc Total Result Name Rtg Loc Total 1 McIntyre, Charlie 1452 [2] .5:.5 Nowak, Ruben 1426 [2] 2 Gusain, Daniel 944 [1.5] 1:0 Hogan, Steven 1615 [1.5] 3 Ilic, Milan 1601 [1] 1:0 Saric, Sergey 726 [1] 4 Liu, William [1] 0:1 Buzdar, Rashid 1551 [1] 5 Liu, Jim [1] 0:1 Mullen, Chris 1377 [1] 6 Doust, Aidan [.5] 1:0 O'Leary, Mike 432 [0] 7 Bejjanki, Pranav Sai [0] -:+ Kostakakis, Angelo 1165 [0] 8 Mark, Schoenfisch [0] 1:0 Hibberd, Aaron 832 [0] 9 Ramos, Antonio 1512 [1] .5:0 BYE
Round 4 draw:
Championship:
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Cheema, Mohammad 1764 [0] : Richards, Derek 1504 [0] 2 Salanowski, Mark 1609 [0] : Hibberd, Nathan 1913 [2] 3 Wang, Kayson 1698 [1] : Davis, Tony J 1889 [1] 4 Hogg, Dean 2038 [2] : Szuveges, Narelle S 1683 [2]
Reserves:
No Name Rtg Loc Total Result Name Rtg Loc Total 1 Gusain, Daniel 944 [2.5] : McIntyre, Charlie 1452 [2.5] 2 Buzdar, Rashid 1551 [2] : Nowak, Ruben 1426 [2.5] 3 Mullen, Chris 1377 [2] : Ilic, Milan 1601 [2] 4 Ramos, Antonio 1512 [1.5] : Doust, Aidan [1.5] 5 Hogan, Steven 1615 [1.5] : Mark, Schoenfisch [1] 6 Liu, Jim [1] : Kostakakis, Angelo 1165 [1] 7 Saric, Sergey 726 [1] : Liu, William [1] 8 Hibberd, Aaron 832 [0] : O'Leary, Mike 432 [0] 9 Bejjanki, Pranav Sai [0] .5:0 BYE
Round 2 has been completed. Please see the results below.
Championship round 2:
No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc Total 1 Cheema, Mohammad 1764 [0] -:+ Hibberd, Nathan 1913 [1] 2 Richards, Derek 1504 [0] 0:1 Davis, Tony J 1889 [0] 3 Salanowski, Mark 1609 [0] 0:1 Szuveges, Narelle S 1683 [1] 4 Wang, Kayson 1698 [1] : Hogg, Dean 2038 [1]
Reserves: round 2
No Name Rtg Loc Total Result Name Rtg Loc Total 1 McIntyre, Charlie 1452 [1] 1:0 Ilic, Milan 1601 [1] 2 Nowak, Ruben 1426 [1] 1:0 Ramos, Antonio 1512 [1] 3 Hogan, Steven 1615 [.5] 1:0 Liu, William [1] 4 Buzdar, Rashid 1551 [.5] .5:.5 Mullen, Chris 1377 [.5] 5 Kostakakis, Angelo 1165 [0] 0:1 Gusain, Daniel 944 [.5] 6 Saric, Sergey 726 [0] 1:0 Bejjanki, Pranav Sai [0] 7 O'Leary, Mike 432 [0] 0:1 Liu, Jim [0] 8 Doust, Aidan [0] .5:0 BYE
The club championship (8 players, round robin) and club reserves (7 round swiss) kicked off last Tuesday. Results and second round draw below.
Results
No Name Result Name 1 Wang, K (1) +:- Cheema, M (8) 2 Hogg, D (2) 1:0 Salanowski, M (7) 3 Szuveges, N (3) 1:0 Richards, D (6) 4 Davis, T (4) 0:1 Hibberd, N (5) No Name Rtg Loc Total Result Name Rtg Loc Total 1 Mullen, Chris 1377 [0] .5:.5 Hogan, Steven 1615 [0] 2 Ilic, Milan 1601 [0] 1:0 Kostakakis, Angelo 1165 [0] 3 Gusain, Daniel 944 [0] .5:.5 Buzdar, Rashid 1551 [0] 4 Ramos, Antonio 1512 [0] 1:0 Saric, Sergey 726 [0] 5 Bejjanki, Pranav Sai [0] 0:1 McIntyre, Charlie 1452 [0] 6 Nowak, Ruben 1426 [0] 1:0 Liu, Jim [0] 7 Liu, William [0] 1:0 O'Leary, Mike 432 [0]
Well done to Tony on winning this one night event. Next week is the start of the club championship and reserves.
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Davis, Tony 1889 4.5 9.0 15.0 13.5
2-4 Cheema, Mohammad 1764 4 9.0 15.0 12.0
Wang, Kayson 1698 4 8.5 15.0 14.0
Russo, Guy 1364 4 6.0 11.0 10.0
5 Bhat, Vishal 2019 3.5 8.0 14.0 10.5
6-8 Salanowski, Mark 1609 3 7.5 11.5 8.0
Minichelli, Felice 1400 3 6.5 12.5 8.0
Buzdar, Rashid 1551 3 6.5 10.0 8.0
9-10 Hogan, Steven 1615 2.5 10.5 17.0 10.5
McIntyre, Charlie 1452 2.5 8.0 13.0 7.5
11-16 Ilic, Milan 1601 2 11.0 16.5 7.0
Richards, Derek 1504 2 10.0 16.0 8.0
Kostakakis, Angelo 1165 2 8.5 13.5 7.0
Saric, Sergey 726 2 6.5 10.5 5.0
Doust, Aidan 2 6.0 9.0 5.0
Wootten, Rory 1254 2 5.5 9.5 4.0
17 Gadiyar, Lekha 1.5 8.0 12.5 4.5
18-19 Bejjanki, Pranav 1 6.5 10.5 3.0
Bhat, Anika 301 1 6.0 8.0 2.0
20 O'Leary, Mike 432 0 5.0 9.0 0.0
Well done to Mohammad for winning with 6/7.
Next week is allegro, theme is the Botvinnik variation of the slav, opening moves 1: d4 d5 2: c4 c6 3: Nf3 Nf6 4: Bg5 dxc4 white to play.
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1 Cheema, Mohammad 1764 6 19.5 28.0 22.5
2 Hibberd, Nathan 1913 5.5 20.0 29.5 23.0
3 Wang, Kayson 1698 5 20.0 28.5 19.0
4 Hogan, Steven 1615 4.5 19.0 25.0 19.0
5 Kissoon, Alvin 1800 4 16.5 24.5 15.0
6-9 Gusain, Daniel 944 3.5 21.5 30.0 14.5
Richards, Derek 1504 3.5 20.0 28.5 15.0
Buzdar, Rashid 1551 3.5 18.5 25.0 15.5
Saric, Sergey 726 3.5 17.5 25.0 13.5
10 Salanowski, Mark 1609 3 18.0 24.5 13.5
11-13 Kostakakis, Angelo 1165 2.5 16.0 22.0 8.5
Hibberd, Aaron 832 2.5 15.5 21.0 8.5
Wootten, Rory 1254 2.5 14.5 19.0 8.5
14 Liu, William 2 15.5 20.0 7.5
15 Liu, Tina 0.5 15.0 21.5 3.0
The following people have qualified for the club championship. Well done to each of you! The championship will be a 7 game round robin, with each player playing everyone once. The remaining players will contest the reserves championship over the same period.
Dean Hogg, Tony Davis, Nathan Hibberd, Narelle Szuveges, Mohammad Cheema, Derek Richards, Kayson Wang, Mark Salanowski
The Wyndham City Council is running its annual chess tournament in November, and registrations open today! This is FREE, so I would recommend registering soon to avoid disappointment. Please see our page for further details.
It would be great for our younger members (or non-members) aged 6-13 to attend. The Tournament will be held on Friday 18 November at 6pm-9pm, at the Wyndham Civic Centre, 45 Princes Hwy, Werribee.
Nathan and Dean were our joint winners of this event. Congratulations! Final standings and last round results are below.
Final Standings:
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr.
1-2 Hibberd, Nathan 1838 1812 6 22.5 32.0 23.0
Hogg, Dean 2000 2036 6 22.5 30.5 26.0
3 Davis, Tony 1910 1930 5.5 24.0 33.5 23.5
4-5 Szuveges, Narelle 1765 1654 5 19.5 26.5 22.0
Salanowski, Mark 1531 1574 5 19.0 27.0 19.0
6-7 Ramos, Antonio 1531 1487 4.5 18.0 25.0 17.0
Richards, Derek 1426 1512 4.5 16.0 22.5 17.0
8-9 Wang, Kayson 1677 1705 4 21.0 29.0 19.5
Cheema, Mohammad 1749 1728 4 19.5 28.5 17.0
10-14 Gusain, Daniel 3.5 21.5 30.0 18.0
Minichelli, Felice 1408 3.5 20.0 27.5 16.0
Nowak, Ruben 1556 1435 3.5 18.5 26.5 17.0
Dogaris, George 1319 793 3.5 17.0 24.0 14.5
Hogan, Steven 1614 1610 3.5 16.5 22.0 14.0
15-20 Hibberd, Aaron 832 3 17.5 26.0 12.0
O'Leary, Mike 449 3 16.0 22.0 10.0
Saric, Sergey 550 3 14.5 20.5 12.0
McIntyre, Charlie 1352 1399 3 13.5 20.5 10.0
Schoenfisch, Mark 3 13.5 18.0 10.0
Shelev, Petar 3 12.0 16.5 9.0
21-24 Kostakakis, Angelo 1243 1157 2 16.0 24.0 9.0
Bejjanki, Pranav 2 14.0 19.0 9.0
Doust, Aidan 2 12.0 18.0 5.0
Liu, Jim 2 11.5 16.0 6.0
25-28 Withers, Jeremy 1 17.5 25.0 6.0
Liu, Tina 1 16.5 22.0 2.5
Batra, Vedant 1 13.5 19.5 2.0
Liu, William 1 13.5 19.0 3.0
Round 7 results:
No Name Rtg Loc Total Result Name Rtg Loc Total 1 Szuveges, Narelle 1765 1654 [4.5] .5:.5 Davis, Tony 1910 1930 [5] 2 Wang, Kayson 1677 1705 [4] 0:1 Hibberd, Nathan 1838 1812 [5] 3 Hogg, Dean 2000 2036 [5] 1:0 Nowak, Ruben 1556 1435 [3.5] 4 Salanowski, Mark 1531 1574 [4] 1:0 Minichelli, Felice 1408 [3.5] 5 Richards, Derek 1426 1512 [3.5] 1:0 Dogaris, George 1319 793 [3.5] 6 Ramos, Antonio 1531 1487 [3.5] 1:0 Gusain, Daniel [3.5] 7 Cheema, Mohammad 1749 1728 [3] +:- Hibberd, Aaron 832 [3] 8 Hogan, Steven 1614 1610 [2.5] 1:0 Schoenfisch, Mark [3] 9 Saric, Sergey 550 [2] 1:0 Kostakakis, Angelo 1243 1157 [2] 10 Bejjanki, Pranav [2] -:+ O'Leary, Mike 449 [2] 11 Shelev, Petar [2] 1:0 Withers, Jeremy [1] 12 Batra, Vedant [1] 0:1 Doust, Aidan [1] 13 Liu, Jim [1] 1:0 Liu, William [1] 14 Liu, Tina [.5] .5:0 BYE