Australian Junior Chess League July 2012 Bulletin
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Australian Junior Chess League July 2012 Bulletin
In this bulletin:
New format for Girls event in the Australian Junior Chess Championships
The 2013 Bond University Australian Junior Chess Championships, on the Gold Coast, 19th to 27th of January 2013, is launching a new Girls format over the last 5 days of the tournament. Please see the schedule for Open and Girls events:
http://www.gardinerchess.com/ausjuniors2013/ausjunschedule.htm
Extensive information about the tournament, including accommodation hints, is available on:
http://www.gardinerchess.com/AusJunChessChamps2013.htm
If you know you are going then it helps out the organiser if you register early.
Picket fence for NSW and VIC Junior Championship winners
In NSW and VIC, both Andrew Pan and IM James Morris won their respective U18 state junior championships with a picket fence score of 9 out of 9. Enoch Fan also won the U12 VIC Junior Championship with a picket fence score of 7 out of 7.
Other state championship results include:
NSW
World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad
Australia is sending 3 teams to the World Youth U16 Chess Olympaid in Istanbul, Turkey between 28 August - 9 September. The juniors going are:
Team 1
1. Bobby Cheng
2. Justin Tan
3. Yi Liu
4. Laurence Matheson
5. Pengyu Chen
Team 2
1. Ari Dale
2. Savithri Narenthran
3. Leteisha Simmonds
4. Mirakla Mithran
Team 3
1. Andrew Pan
2. Megan Setiabudi
3. Jack Puccini
4. Shirley Gu
This is a great opportunity for these juniors, most of whom will still be eligible to compete in the U16 Olympiad for the next year or two. It should be noted that Australia does not send a team to this competition very often, only when there is considerable strength and depth in the U16 squad. Team one is a bit of a super team and should be very competitive in this event. Teams 2 and 3 are of equal strength and have been selected to give the kids experience.
For more information about the World Youth 16 Chess Olympiad see:
http://wyco2012.tsf.org.tr/en
Report on Johns-Putra JETS Camp 2012 by GM Ian Rogers
The annual camp for the 2012 Australian Junior Elite Training Squad, sponsored by Johns-Putra Limited, was held at Box Hill Chess Club from July 2-7. 31 of of Australia's most promising players, mostly aged between 10 and 14, were selected from applicants from all States and territories except Tasmania and the Northern Territory. Only juniors who had competed in a national championship tournament in January (or the Queenstown Open) were eligible to apply. One sign of the current depth of Victorian chess was that more than half of the squad were Victorians. The youngest member of the squad was 7-year-old Emily Lim.
The camp featured three days of intensive training following by a three day training tournament and a simultaneous exhibition by Australian number one, Grandmaster Zhao Zong Yuan. The coaches for the camp included GMs Zhao, Johansen and Rogers, IMs Solomon and Jamieson and FMs Cheng and Ikeda. (At age 15, Cheng was the youngest ever JETS coach). The squad was divided into four groups of six and one of seven for a series of three hour sessions.
Later the coaches voted on the most impressive student from each group, with the winners being: Carlsen group – Kyle Gibson, Kramnik group – Stuart Nicholls, Anand group – Jason Chew and Savithri Narenthran – Polgar group – Zoe Harrison, Hou group – Nicole Chin.
The training tournament was convincing won by Ari Dale with fellow Victorian Savithri Narenthran in clear second place. (See scores below.)
Zhao Zong Yuan's simultaneous exhibition, featuring the talented ring-in Karl Zelesco, finished with 27 wins for the Grandmaster, draws against Chew, Narenthran and Jamie-Lee Guo, and losses against Zachary Loh and Matthew Pyper. Pyper actually beat Zhao twice – when his first win was found to have depended on a misplaced piece, the game was restarted from the (highly unclear) position where the illegality occurred and Pyper proceeded to win again.
A highlight of the 2012 camp was a visit to the Anderson Collection at the Melbourne State Library which is now the third largest chess book collection in the world. The JETS squad were introduced to both the recent and old books, including a page from Caxton's The Game and Playe of Chesse from the 15th century, as well as being shown and read extracts from books more than 400 years old. (Coach Robert Jamieson had luckily given the squad an introduction to chess history during his coaching classes so the students were able to answer many of the presenter's questions.)
Thanks are due to many, including: Geraldine Johns-Putra for sponsoring the squad, Weng Nian Siow for organising the selections and the billets, Mike Loh and the many volunteers who stocked and manned the canteen during the camp, the families who provided billets, Trevor Stanning who made the Box Hill Chess Club available and assisted in many ways, Allan Richards who organised the JETS t-shirts and Des Cowley of the State Library of Victoria who made the Anderson Collection tour possible.
2012 Johns-Putra JETS Training Tournament final scores:
1 |Dale, Ari |VIC |2046| |6
2 |Narenthran, Savithri |VIC |1609| |5.5
3-6 |Loh, Zachary |VIC |1959| |5
|Chew Lee, Max |VIC |1755| |5
|Jack, Martin |QLD |1649| |5
|Cannon, David |VIC |1486| |5
7-8 |Puccini, Jack |VIC |1668| |4.5
|Kethro, Michael |ACT |1644| |4.5
9-14 |Pyper, Matthew |QLD |1362| |4
|MacAdam, Alex |SA |1622| |4
|Chew, Jason |VIC |1551| |4
|Harrison, Zoe |VIC |1252| |4
|Qi, Glen |ACT |1384| |4
|Girgin, Ege |VIC |1489| |4
15-18|Ying, Jimmy |VIC |1610| |3.5
|Gibson, Kyle |VIC |1800| |3.5
|Carolin-Unkovich, George|WA |1686| |3.5
|Dale, Finley |VIC |1395| |3.5
19-25|Nicholls, Stuart |SA |1619| |3
|Slater-Jones, Tom |QLD |1485| |3
|Lin, Emily |VIC |436 | |3
|Guo, Jaime-Lee |ACT |1624| |3
|Guo, Zhilin |VIC |1149| |3
|Chin, Nicole |VIC |916 | |3
|Zhong Junhao, Tony |QLD |1216| |3
26-27|Derwent, Ethan |ACT |1645| |2.5
|Song, Kevin |QLD |1066| |2.5
28-30|Shen, Fiona |NSW |581 | |2
|Chin, Chloe |VIC |703 | |2
|Chew Lee, Alana |VIC |1061| |2
31 |Mendes, Amelia |VIC |523 | |1.5
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- Access on your phone, tablet or computer
- Easily embed annotated games (or a database) into a website
- Quick sharing of games or databases with your coach or students
- Import/export PGN
- Annotate games
All AusJCL news readers receive a FREE 6-month Premium subscription - just follow this link to sign up today!
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Please forward this email bulletin on to anybody else who you may think will be interested. Also feel free to ask other chess parents if they know about the AusJCL bulletin.
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Australian Junior Chess League
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Australian Junior Chess League July 2012 Bulletin
In this bulletin:
- New format for Girls event in the Australian Junior Chess Championships
- Picket fence for NSW and VIC U18 Championship winners
- World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad
- Report on Johns-Putra JETS Camp 2012 by GM Ian Rogers
- Microbase promotional launch
- How to subscribe to the bulletin
New format for Girls event in the Australian Junior Chess Championships
The 2013 Bond University Australian Junior Chess Championships, on the Gold Coast, 19th to 27th of January 2013, is launching a new Girls format over the last 5 days of the tournament. Please see the schedule for Open and Girls events:
http://www.gardinerchess.com/ausjuniors2013/ausjunschedule.htm
Extensive information about the tournament, including accommodation hints, is available on:
http://www.gardinerchess.com/AusJunChessChamps2013.htm
If you know you are going then it helps out the organiser if you register early.
Picket fence for NSW and VIC Junior Championship winners
In NSW and VIC, both Andrew Pan and IM James Morris won their respective U18 state junior championships with a picket fence score of 9 out of 9. Enoch Fan also won the U12 VIC Junior Championship with a picket fence score of 7 out of 7.
Other state championship results include:
NSW
- Under 18 (31 players, 9 rounds) :- Andrew Pan 9, Methew Yan 7, Pasan Perera 6.5.
- Under 12 (24 players, 10 rounds) :- Kashish Christian 9, Kerry Lin 7.5, Luke Watson, Henry Xu 6.5.
- Under 18 (54 players, 9 rounds) :- James Morris 9, Karl Zelesco 7, Ari Dale 6.5
- Under 12 (121 players, 7 rounds) :- Enoch Fan 7, David Cannon, Ethan Lim, Kris Chan, Tristan Krstevski, Gary Lin 6
- Under 18 (25 players, 8 rounds) :- Yi Liu 7, Gene Nakauchi
6.5, Martin Jack 6
- Under 12 (33 players, 7 rounds) :- Kevin Song 6, Leon Lee,
Elijah McNamara 5.5
World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad
Australia is sending 3 teams to the World Youth U16 Chess Olympaid in Istanbul, Turkey between 28 August - 9 September. The juniors going are:
Team 1
1. Bobby Cheng
2. Justin Tan
3. Yi Liu
4. Laurence Matheson
5. Pengyu Chen
Team 2
1. Ari Dale
2. Savithri Narenthran
3. Leteisha Simmonds
4. Mirakla Mithran
Team 3
1. Andrew Pan
2. Megan Setiabudi
3. Jack Puccini
4. Shirley Gu
This is a great opportunity for these juniors, most of whom will still be eligible to compete in the U16 Olympiad for the next year or two. It should be noted that Australia does not send a team to this competition very often, only when there is considerable strength and depth in the U16 squad. Team one is a bit of a super team and should be very competitive in this event. Teams 2 and 3 are of equal strength and have been selected to give the kids experience.
For more information about the World Youth 16 Chess Olympiad see:
http://wyco2012.tsf.org.tr/en
Report on Johns-Putra JETS Camp 2012 by GM Ian Rogers
The annual camp for the 2012 Australian Junior Elite Training Squad, sponsored by Johns-Putra Limited, was held at Box Hill Chess Club from July 2-7. 31 of of Australia's most promising players, mostly aged between 10 and 14, were selected from applicants from all States and territories except Tasmania and the Northern Territory. Only juniors who had competed in a national championship tournament in January (or the Queenstown Open) were eligible to apply. One sign of the current depth of Victorian chess was that more than half of the squad were Victorians. The youngest member of the squad was 7-year-old Emily Lim.
The camp featured three days of intensive training following by a three day training tournament and a simultaneous exhibition by Australian number one, Grandmaster Zhao Zong Yuan. The coaches for the camp included GMs Zhao, Johansen and Rogers, IMs Solomon and Jamieson and FMs Cheng and Ikeda. (At age 15, Cheng was the youngest ever JETS coach). The squad was divided into four groups of six and one of seven for a series of three hour sessions.
Later the coaches voted on the most impressive student from each group, with the winners being: Carlsen group – Kyle Gibson, Kramnik group – Stuart Nicholls, Anand group – Jason Chew and Savithri Narenthran – Polgar group – Zoe Harrison, Hou group – Nicole Chin.
The training tournament was convincing won by Ari Dale with fellow Victorian Savithri Narenthran in clear second place. (See scores below.)
Zhao Zong Yuan's simultaneous exhibition, featuring the talented ring-in Karl Zelesco, finished with 27 wins for the Grandmaster, draws against Chew, Narenthran and Jamie-Lee Guo, and losses against Zachary Loh and Matthew Pyper. Pyper actually beat Zhao twice – when his first win was found to have depended on a misplaced piece, the game was restarted from the (highly unclear) position where the illegality occurred and Pyper proceeded to win again.
A highlight of the 2012 camp was a visit to the Anderson Collection at the Melbourne State Library which is now the third largest chess book collection in the world. The JETS squad were introduced to both the recent and old books, including a page from Caxton's The Game and Playe of Chesse from the 15th century, as well as being shown and read extracts from books more than 400 years old. (Coach Robert Jamieson had luckily given the squad an introduction to chess history during his coaching classes so the students were able to answer many of the presenter's questions.)
Thanks are due to many, including: Geraldine Johns-Putra for sponsoring the squad, Weng Nian Siow for organising the selections and the billets, Mike Loh and the many volunteers who stocked and manned the canteen during the camp, the families who provided billets, Trevor Stanning who made the Box Hill Chess Club available and assisted in many ways, Allan Richards who organised the JETS t-shirts and Des Cowley of the State Library of Victoria who made the Anderson Collection tour possible.
2012 Johns-Putra JETS Training Tournament final scores:
1 |Dale, Ari |VIC |2046| |6
2 |Narenthran, Savithri |VIC |1609| |5.5
3-6 |Loh, Zachary |VIC |1959| |5
|Chew Lee, Max |VIC |1755| |5
|Jack, Martin |QLD |1649| |5
|Cannon, David |VIC |1486| |5
7-8 |Puccini, Jack |VIC |1668| |4.5
|Kethro, Michael |ACT |1644| |4.5
9-14 |Pyper, Matthew |QLD |1362| |4
|MacAdam, Alex |SA |1622| |4
|Chew, Jason |VIC |1551| |4
|Harrison, Zoe |VIC |1252| |4
|Qi, Glen |ACT |1384| |4
|Girgin, Ege |VIC |1489| |4
15-18|Ying, Jimmy |VIC |1610| |3.5
|Gibson, Kyle |VIC |1800| |3.5
|Carolin-Unkovich, George|WA |1686| |3.5
|Dale, Finley |VIC |1395| |3.5
19-25|Nicholls, Stuart |SA |1619| |3
|Slater-Jones, Tom |QLD |1485| |3
|Lin, Emily |VIC |436 | |3
|Guo, Jaime-Lee |ACT |1624| |3
|Guo, Zhilin |VIC |1149| |3
|Chin, Nicole |VIC |916 | |3
|Zhong Junhao, Tony |QLD |1216| |3
26-27|Derwent, Ethan |ACT |1645| |2.5
|Song, Kevin |QLD |1066| |2.5
28-30|Shen, Fiona |NSW |581 | |2
|Chin, Chloe |VIC |703 | |2
|Chew Lee, Alana |VIC |1061| |2
31 |Mendes, Amelia |VIC |523 | |1.5
Microbase promotional launch
If you are not already doing it keeping electronic records of your games is an important part of your chess development. There is a new local product just released to help you do this online. AusJCL do not endorse this product, but we are mentioning it here because it is a significant local development, and the founders have offered a free 6 month premium subscription. The base package is free. Below is the announcement from the Microbase founders:
"ANNOUNCING your free 6-month Premium Subscription to ChessMicrobase.com
Save, annotate and share your chess games!
Perfect for bloggers, chess coaches or your own personal game collection.
Features:
- Enter, save and annotate your own games
- Chess engine in your game viewer for tactical analysis
- Access on your phone, tablet or computer
- Easily embed annotated games (or a database) into a website
- Quick sharing of games or databases with your coach or students
- Import/export PGN
- Annotate games
All AusJCL news readers receive a FREE 6-month Premium subscription - just follow this link to sign up today!
http://www.chessmicrobase.com/
How to subscribe to the bulletin
Please forward this email bulletin on to anybody else who you may think will be interested. Also feel free to ask other chess parents if they know about the AusJCL bulletin.
To subscribe to this FREE bulletin please send an email to the bulletin editor, Simon Dale (s...@thecrag.com), titled 'AusJCL bulletin subscription request' OR subscribe directly to the AusJCL Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/ausjcl
Please note that Google Groups do not allow me to add you directly, so I have to invite you to be part of the group, whereby an invitation email will be sent to you which you must accept before you become part of the group.
Simon Dale
Bulletin Editor
Australian Junior Chess League
http://www.australianjuniorchess.org.au/
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