Australian Junior Chess League September 2011 Bulletin
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Australian Junior Chess League September 2011 Bulletin
In this bulletin:
Upcoming reminder dates
ACT U/10 Championship; September 18 2011
http://www.actjcl.org.au/actjcl/results/2011/2011_Under_10.pdf
NSW Girls Championship (U/18); Sydney; 29-30 September 2011
http://www.nswjcl.org.au/ComingEvents/2011/Spring/NSWGirlsChampionships.htm
ACT Championship (U/20); Canberra; 5-7 October 2011
City of Sydney Junior Championships (U/18, U/15, U/12); Sydney; 5-7 October 2011
http://www.nswjcl.org.au/ComingEvents/2011/Spring/CityOfSydneyJuniorChampionships.htm
Adelaide Junior Championships (U/12 – U/18); Adelaide; 6-7 October 2011
ACT Championship (U/12); Canberra; 23 October 2011
World U/16 Olympiad; Sanliurfa, Turkey; 23 October - 1 November 201
World Youth Championship (U/8 to U/18); Caldas Novas, Goias, Brazil; 12-22 November 2011
http://www.wycc2011.com/
Australian Schools Championships
The Australian Schools Teams Championships details are as follows:
Australian Young Masters
The Australian Young Masters is going ahead in Adelaide this year, December 7-11, at the South Australian Chess Centre. It consists of 3 events:
Australian Junior Performances in Adult Competitions
Every couple quarter Scott Colliver produces a news article about top junior performances in adult competitions. Here are some highlights from the August edition:
http://www.australianjuniorchess.org.au/news.html
2012 junior championships update
There are now 20 entries, almost half from Victoria. For a bit of fun, the organizers this year are keeping track of which schools the kids are representing.
http://www.2012ausjuniorchamps.com/schools
The competition has had several significant non-financial sponsorship offers from chess businesses which should help next year's competition run smoothly and be very rewarding for the players and parents. These include:
September ACF ratings
The September ACF ratings are out.
http://www.auschess.org.au/ratings/acfrate.htm
Top Under 20
2442!! 18 NSW Illingworth, Max [FM]
2397!! 19 QLD Ly, Moulthun [IM]
2372!! 19 ACT Ikeda, Junta [FM]
2354!! 13 VIC Cheng, Bobby [FM]
2309!! 16 VIC Morris, James [IM]
Top Under 16
2354!! 13 VIC Cheng, Bobby [FM]
2156!! 13 NSW Chen, Pengyu
2156!! 13 VIC Tan, Justin
2141!! 14 VIC Matheson, Laurence
2114!! 13 QLD Liu, Yi (1997)
Top Under 12
2104!! 9 NSW Smirnov, Anton
1894!! 11 VIC Zelesco, Karl
1866!! 11 NSW Gu, Sean
1766!! 11 VIC Loh, Zachary
1734! 11 QLD Lapitan, Daniel
State championship results
2011 SA Junior Championships (U12 -U18)
U20 World Juniors
Here is a blog put together by a group of Australian junior chess players with some interesting posts on the U20 World Juniors.
http://figjamchess.blogspot.com/2011/08/world-juniors-days-1-2_04.html
http://figjamchess.blogspot.com/2011/08/world-juniors-wrap-up.html
The following is an article on the World Junior U/20 Championships by Ian Rogers (from the Canberra Times).
The World Junior (Under 20) Championships have always been a tough ask for Australian representatives. At 18 or 19, most Australian players have just finished their most difficult school years and compete against players who have been playing professionally for 5 years or more. In the modern era, many teenagers have become Grandmasters and Magnus Carlsen managed to reach number one on the world rankings at a time when he was still eligible for the World Junior.
In 2011 Australian sent a record five juniors to Chennai, India, to test their skills against many of the world's best juniors in an event made trickier by the presence of dozens of underrated but expertly prepared local players.
Canberra's Junta Ikeda did manage to break out of the pack and, had he won his final game would have become the first Australian to finish in the top 20 for more than a decade. Ikeda needed enormous resilience just to reach his final score of 7/13, twice holding out higher ranked opponents in marathon games, one of which exceeded 150 moves. The high point for Ikeda came in his eleventh round defeat of Peruvian Grandmaster Jorge Cori.
Canberra also had Australia's top scorer in the girls division, with 16-year-old Emma Guo not overawed by her older opponents.
Australian Scores:
Open
Ikeda 7/13
Ly 6.5
Zulfic 4
Girls
Guo 5.5
Narenthran 4
To see article in the paper and the game between Ikeda ad Cori go to the following link:
http://www.echo.net.au/node/82987
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' and include your name and email address OR subscribe directly to the AusJCL Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/ausjcl
Simon Dale
Bulletin Editor
Australian Junior Chess League
http://www.australianjuniorchess.org.au/
Australian Junior Chess League September 2011 Bulletin
In this bulletin:
- Upcoming reminder dates
- Australian Schools Team Championships
- Australian Young Masters
- Australian Junior Performances in Adult Competitions
- 2012 junior championships update
- September ACF Ratings
- State championship results
- U20 World Juniors
- How to subscribe to the bulletin
Upcoming reminder dates
ACT U/10 Championship; September 18 2011
http://www.actjcl.org.au/actjcl/results/2011/2011_Under_10.pdf
NSW Girls Championship (U/18); Sydney; 29-30 September 2011
http://www.nswjcl.org.au/ComingEvents/2011/Spring/NSWGirlsChampionships.htm
ACT Championship (U/20); Canberra; 5-7 October 2011
City of Sydney Junior Championships (U/18, U/15, U/12); Sydney; 5-7 October 2011
http://www.nswjcl.org.au/ComingEvents/2011/Spring/CityOfSydneyJuniorChampionships.htm
Adelaide Junior Championships (U/12 – U/18); Adelaide; 6-7 October 2011
ACT Championship (U/12); Canberra; 23 October 2011
World U/16 Olympiad; Sanliurfa, Turkey; 23 October - 1 November 201
World Youth Championship (U/8 to U/18); Caldas Novas, Goias, Brazil; 12-22 November 2011
http://www.wycc2011.com/
Australian Schools Championships
The Australian Schools Teams Championships details are as follows:
Dates: December 3 and 4.
Venue: Knox Grammar School in
Sydney's north, address 7 Woodville Avenue Wahroonga.
We wish each school good luck in qualifying to represent their State.
We wish each school good luck in qualifying to represent their State.
Australian Young Masters
The Australian Young Masters is going ahead in Adelaide this year, December 7-11, at the South Australian Chess Centre. It consists of 3 events:
- the Australian Young Masters (AYM), an elite 10 player round robin event by invitation only for the top Under 20s in the country;
- the Australian Junior Masters, a supporting event, another 10
player round robin event for those Under 20s who do not quite
make it into the AYM; and
- the Australian Girls Masters, an elite 10 player round robin event by invitation only for the top Under 20 girls in the country.
Australian Junior Performances in Adult Competitions
Every couple quarter Scott Colliver produces a news article about top junior performances in adult competitions. Here are some highlights from the August edition:
- Pengyu Chen won the St George Club Championship on 8.5/9.
- Thomas Feng won gold in the 2011 Under 16 Commonwealth Championships.
- Kevin Wallathgamuwa won gold in the 2011 Under 8 Commonwealth Championships.
- IM James Morris won the Melbourne Chess Club Open on 8.5/9.
- FM Bobby Cheng scored an IM norm in the 2011 George Trundle Masters held in NZ
http://www.australianjuniorchess.org.au/news.html
2012 junior championships update
There are now 20 entries, almost half from Victoria. For a bit of fun, the organizers this year are keeping track of which schools the kids are representing.
http://www.2012ausjuniorchamps.com/schools
The competition has had several significant non-financial sponsorship offers from chess businesses which should help next year's competition run smoothly and be very rewarding for the players and parents. These include:
- Chess Kids have donated 3 experienced arbiters for the
championships.
- Tornelo has offered a couple of ipads their management system for logging games for the bulletin (there also should be a couple of volunteers logging the top boards so parents can see the games semi-live on the Internet).
- Leah's Den has donated 10 hand crafted boards and chess sets
for non-financial prizes.
September ACF ratings
The September ACF ratings are out.
http://www.auschess.org.au/ratings/acfrate.htm
Top Under 20
2442!! 18 NSW Illingworth, Max [FM]
2397!! 19 QLD Ly, Moulthun [IM]
2372!! 19 ACT Ikeda, Junta [FM]
2354!! 13 VIC Cheng, Bobby [FM]
2309!! 16 VIC Morris, James [IM]
Top Under 16
2354!! 13 VIC Cheng, Bobby [FM]
2156!! 13 NSW Chen, Pengyu
2156!! 13 VIC Tan, Justin
2141!! 14 VIC Matheson, Laurence
2114!! 13 QLD Liu, Yi (1997)
Top Under 12
2104!! 9 NSW Smirnov, Anton
1894!! 11 VIC Zelesco, Karl
1866!! 11 NSW Gu, Sean
1766!! 11 VIC Loh, Zachary
1734! 11 QLD Lapitan, Daniel
State championship results
2011 SA Junior Championships (U12 -U18)
SA Junior Champion Lachlan Cameron
Under 16 Champion Stuart Nicholls
Under 15 Champion Ted Wachtel
Under 14 Champion Eddie Han
Under 13 Champion Ethan Lim and Jason Huyhn jointly
Under 12 Champion Peter Gregoric
U20 World Juniors
Here is a blog put together by a group of Australian junior chess players with some interesting posts on the U20 World Juniors.
http://figjamchess.blogspot.com/2011/08/world-juniors-days-1-2_04.html
http://figjamchess.blogspot.com/2011/08/world-juniors-wrap-up.html
The following is an article on the World Junior U/20 Championships by Ian Rogers (from the Canberra Times).
The World Junior (Under 20) Championships have always been a tough ask for Australian representatives. At 18 or 19, most Australian players have just finished their most difficult school years and compete against players who have been playing professionally for 5 years or more. In the modern era, many teenagers have become Grandmasters and Magnus Carlsen managed to reach number one on the world rankings at a time when he was still eligible for the World Junior.
In 2011 Australian sent a record five juniors to Chennai, India, to test their skills against many of the world's best juniors in an event made trickier by the presence of dozens of underrated but expertly prepared local players.
Canberra's Junta Ikeda did manage to break out of the pack and, had he won his final game would have become the first Australian to finish in the top 20 for more than a decade. Ikeda needed enormous resilience just to reach his final score of 7/13, twice holding out higher ranked opponents in marathon games, one of which exceeded 150 moves. The high point for Ikeda came in his eleventh round defeat of Peruvian Grandmaster Jorge Cori.
Canberra also had Australia's top scorer in the girls division, with 16-year-old Emma Guo not overawed by her older opponents.
Australian Scores:
Open
Ikeda 7/13
Ly 6.5
Zulfic 4
Girls
Guo 5.5
Narenthran 4
To see article in the paper and the game between Ikeda ad Cori go to the following link:
http://www.echo.net.au/node/82987
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' and include your name and email address OR subscribe directly to the AusJCL Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/ausjcl
Simon Dale
Bulletin Editor
Australian Junior Chess League
http://www.australianjuniorchess.org.au/
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