Norths Term 2 Resumes 28 April, Autumn Boot Camp Results and the FIDE World Chess Championships

[Emma Guo]

Dear all

Please find below the latest bulletin, which includes:

• Information regarding North Junior Chess Club 2023 Term 2 resumption - https://www.trybooking.com/CHSPP
• 2023 Autumn Boot Camp Results
• FIDE World Chess Championships - follow the event live!

North Junior Chess Club 2023 Term 1 resumes - Friday 28 April

Norths Term 1 is resuming Week 1 of Term 2, Friday 28 April at Radford College (Room R0G01). If you are interested in joining, please register your child(ren) via the following TryBooking link 

The schedule is as follows and the club runs during the Public School Term:

4:00-4:15pm	Participants arrive and can play social games (if they wish). Please do not drop children off before 4pm without adult supervision.
4:15-5:00pm	Group coaching (children are grouped according to ability level and/or age)
5:00-5:45pm	Children are paired against each other and when their games are finished they participate in the puzzle competition. Children are picked up at 5:45pm.

Fees​

Term fees for North Junior Chess Club is $120 per child.  In addition to joining the club, all participants need to be an ACT Junior Chess League member.  The ACTJCL annual membership fee is $15 for individual or $20 for family (ie more than one player).  To become a member, please proceed to the following link.

2023 Autumn Boot Camp Results

To conclude the action-packed month of chess in the ACT, the ACT Junior Chess League hosted the Autumn Boot Camp in the second week of the school holidays. For some juniors, this was their third straight week of competing in major events (Doeberl Cup and Oceania Junior Chess Championships) and yet they still had plenty of enthusiasm and energy which was great to see.  Our juniors had the opportunity to get coached by some of ACT's best coaches and engage in various formats of tournament play. I want to thank our wonderful coaches, including Shaun Press and Jamie-Lee Guo and all participants who joined us for the week. 

Over the course of the four days, there was a consistent group of top performers and a special mention goes to Masaki Horikawa, Oscar Wu, Olamide Fasakin, Olaoluwa Fasakin, Owen MacMullin and Scott Hancock for being our most consistent performers. The full standings from the events can be found attached to this email.

I'd like to make a special note of thanks to Campbell High School for being such great hosts and the wonderful parent volunteers who helped make all these events possible. 

Make sure you check out the ACTJCL 2023 Calendar to ensure you don't miss any of our future events https://actjcl.org.au/actjcl/calendar.php.

Autumn Boot Camp Day 1 (Coaching and Blitz)

First - Masaki Horikawa 8/9 (Marist College)

Second - Oscar Wu 7/9 (Canberra Grammar)

Best Under 600 - Scott Hancock 5.5/7 (Gold Creek School)

Best UNR - Aaron Wu 4.5/9 (Canberra Grammar)

Coaches' awards

Owen MacMullin (Red Hill Primary School)

Rex Shen (Burgmann Anglican School)

Rhys Marsh (Holy Spirit Nicholls)

Autumn Boot Camp Day 2 (Allegro)

First - Olaoluwa Fasakin 6/7 (Brindabella Christian College)

Second - Nivin Vinothkuma 5.5/7 ((Monash Primary School) on tiebreak over Masaki Horikawa (Marist College)

Best under 600 - Scott Hancock 5.5/7 (Gold Creek School) on tiebreak Christopher Gilbert (Gold Creek School) , Mahi Hedge (Majura Primary) and Monty Trudgian (Lyneham Primary)

Best UNR - Ehan Sharif 3.5/7 (Garran Primary)

Autumn Boot Camp Day 3 & 4 (LT Tournament) 

First - Connor Amoore 6.5/7 (Lyneham High School) 

Second - Reyansh Ahuja 6/7 (Majura Primary School)

Best under 500 - Owen MacMullin 4.5/7 (Red Hill Primary) 

Best UNR - Lucas Lang 4/7 (Kaleen High School) - on tiebreak over Scott Hancock (Gold Creek School) and Sanat Hedge (Majura Primary) 

FIDE World Chess Championships 

The 2023 FIDE World Championships is taking place in Kazhakstan between GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren. The winner of the best of 14 matches will take the title over the GM Magnus Carlsen who opted to not participate in the event this year. After 9 games, the score is currently 4-5 in favour of GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (first to 7.5 wins the match).  The matches are being played at 1900 AEST and has a range of options to watch the games with commentary from some of the world's best. I encourage everyone to tune into the range of broadcast options, such as the Chess.com coverage (with adult supervision). 

Kind regards

Emma