Reminder: 2022 ACT Junior Lightning Chess Championship, Super Prizegiving Ceremony & Results from ACTJCL v SAJCL Online Tournament
Kate Woodley
2022 ACT Junior Lightning Chess Championship
Sunday 27th February, 12.45pm - approx. 4.30pm
Campbell High School Hall (Confirmed)
Masks must be worn whilst inside the venue. No pizza lunch will be available and no entries will be taken other than via Trybooking (see link above). Entries are set to close at 12.45pm on Sunday 27th February.
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ACTJCL Super Prizegiving Ceremony
12pm Sunday 27th February,
Campbell High School Hall
Our super prizegiving ceremony will go ahead at Campbell High School Hall at 12pm on Sunday 27th February (prior to the Lightning Championship).
Everyone attending the ceremony must wear a mask.
If you are listed below, please try to make the ceremony (or have a family member, teacher or friend attend or drop into Campbell High to collect your prize during the Lightning Championship, which will finish at approximately 4.30pm).
2021 u14/u16 Championships Prize-winners
1st & Under 16 Champion - Joshua Liang
2021 ACTJCL Open Invitational Prize-winners (Medals)
Charles Huang - 1st
Eshaan Extross - 2nd
Masaki Horikawa - 3rd
ACTJCL Holiday High Point Scorer - Open Division
Joshua Liang
2021 ACT Interschool Finals Prize-winners (school trophy plus individual trophies for the top four scorers for each listed team).
Primary Open
Majura Primary - 2nd (Connor Amoore, Aaron Morris, Mahi Hegde, Akshay Annamalai)
Secondary Open (first place trophies already awarded)
Radford College - 2nd (Eshaan Extross, Dexuan Kong, Thomas Gatzen-O'Keefe, Kevin Wong)
Gungahlin College - 3rd (Mingyuan Chen, Kellan Landy, Yelimali Adam, Lily Koeford)
Secondary Girls (first place trophies already awarded)
Merici College - 2nd (Saffron Archer, Hannah David-Hoole, Mary David-Hoole, Grace Barber)
Canberra Grammar School - 3rd (Mat Roszkowski, Sara Singh, Jessica Li, Katherine Stewardson)
2021 Australian Schools Teams Championships (school trophy plus individual trophies for each team member)
Lyneham High School - 2nd place, Secondary Girls Division (Shriya Karthik, Erin Milne, Sami Le, Luu Ha Tran)
Sami Le - Board 3 prize
Luu Ha Tran - Board 4 prize
Turner School - 3rd place, Primary Open division (Minchen Yang, Somon Vos, Nomon Vos, Shakthi Karthik, Thomas Eleutherios)
Nomon Vos - Board 3 prize
2022 Summer Bootcamp Lightning
3rd Owen MacMullin (Medal)
ACT Junior Chess League vs South Australia Junior Chess League Teams Online Tournament
The ACT wins (just)!
On Sunday 20th February, an eighteen strong ACT representative junior team played a South Australian representative junior team in an online tournament.
The event ran for six rounds with a 15 minute plus 5 second time control. Under the scoring system, every player contributed to their teams final standings.
Although the ACT team took a commanding lead in the early rounds, the South Australian team made a strong comeback in the second half of the event, resulting in a narrow ACT victory (59-53). The true value of the tournament lay in our juniors being able to face strong juniors who they wouldn’t normally encounter, under supervised tournament conditions. This, of course, has been difficult in recent years with event cancellations and border closures.
Thanks to all of the junior players who took part in this event. Thank you to SAJCL President Alan Goldsmith for organising the South Australian team and to Alan and Eric Staak for being arbiters at the Chess Centre of South Australia. Thank you also to our Chief Arbiter, Shaun Press.
Congratulations to our ACT representative team (see team listing below) and to Minchen Yang and South Australian junior James Boyd-Norman who finished equal first in the tournament on 5.5/6.
The South Australian Junior Chess League has proposed a rematch, which I hope will happen in the middle of the year.
If your child would like to participate in events like this, please sign them up for an ACTJCL membership. Membership costs $15 per year for individuals and $20 per year for families. Members receive a $5 discount per tournament on our over-the-board events, and we will be able to send you information about special members-only events. For novice juniors (particularly under 12 juniors) seeking to improve their chess, we also sell memberships bundled with Chesskid.com yearly gold memberships.
You can join the ACTJCL here: https://www.trybooking.com/BWJU
Team ACTJCL
Connor Amoore
Akshay Annamalai
Saffron Archer
Jerry Cheng
Larry Cheng
Masaki Horikawa
Tomoki Horikawa
Romeo Hou
Richard Ji
Dexuan Kong
Phong Huynh
Sami Le
Annie Li
Joshua Liang
Pinipa Liyanage
Dev Raichura
Hunter Sanchez
Minchen Yang
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Thanks,
Kate
Secretary, ACT Junior Chess League