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Archive for December, 2009
2009 Yulgilbar-Think Big Australian Chess Grand Prix
0767 days
Final results have just been released and Victorians were well represented in the winners of the 2009 Chess Grand Prix series.
How are your tactics?
0768 days
The most common mistake from players in the 1200 – 2000 rating range is blunders. One of the techniques coaches often use for improving students tactical ability is visualisation training.
What color is b7?
Can a bishop move from c2 to h5?
Can you play a blindfold game?
Canterbury Summer Swiss
0768 days
A great end to the 2009 chess year with another excellent tournament at the Box Hill Chess Club. The only disappointment was that a NSW visitor walked away with the 1st prize!
Tournament winner Max Illingworth (NSW)
1st Max Illingworth $500
=2nd Igor Dyment, Leon Kempen, Domagoj Dragicevic $133 each
Ratings prize winners plus games from the event …
Qld lightning champion
0769 days
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Here’s a game from the final round of the Queensland Lightning Championships. Thanks to Kevin Casey (the eventual tournament winner) for sending us the game. It features a deep queen sac, followed by a neat knight sac, after which White is a whole queen up, but totally helpless to prevent mate. Amazing game!
Canterbury Summer Swiss
1770 days
What a great turnout to the Canterbury Summer Swiss – one of the biggest weekenders of the year! It is a credit to the BHCC and Canterbury (with lots of junors playing). A great mix of experience and newbies with 9 players rated over 2000 and 9 players rated under 500! As always plenty of good ratings prizes give lots of opportunities for everyone to share in the $1500 prize fund.
Pairings and results (and live games when the DGT boards work) are being kept updated very promptly at the Box Hill Chess Club website. It is easy to see how Box Hill has become the best club in Australia with reporting like this.
The excitement from the first day was the second round loss by the top seed, Sam Chow. To view the annotated game (more…)
Back issues of OTM
0771 days
by David Cordover
in On The Move
Victorian Champion again!
As promised, here are some back issues of OTM to flick through:
May/June ’93 – On The Move No 52
March/April ’93 – On The Move No 51
More to follow…
Back from the dead
0772 days
by David Cordover
in On The Move
Oops, wrong day… that’s in April.
Seriously though — we’re resurrecting “On The Move”!! Do you remember the old VCA newsletter? I’ll find some back issues and post them here for you to read – I only hope we can aspire to the same high level of quality as back then.
MCC Australia Day Weekender
0773 days
by David Cordover
in Upcoming
January 23rd and 24th
Format 7 round Swiss, ACF rated
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MCC "Boxing Day" Allegro
0773 days
by David Cordover
in Upcoming
As always, the MCC allegro will be held this Saturday (no breaks for Boxing Day) at 2pm. The event is a 7 round Swiss and costs only $5 for MCC members and $10 for non-members. For more details please phone Grant Szuveges, 0401-925-075
ChessClub.com.au goes live
0773 days
by David Cordover
in Uncategorized
A couple of last minute updates and we’re live!
New features include:
- ACF Standard, Rapid and FIDE ratings (searchable)
- Puzzle of the day (2 of them in fact!)
- Our first bloggist is starting to put together his first blog post
- Calendars working well — just need to get some clubs updating the data!
Merry Christmas to everyone – don’t forget to give us some feedback about any new features you’d like to see here at ChessClub.com.au; pretty much anything is possible!
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