Burnie Chess Club

Robert Isted Draw

2011-09-24T23:08:00.001-07:00

2011 Robert Isted Draw

Round 1

1 Jack Gray 0:1 Dragan Radosavljevic

2 Cohen James 0:1 Reg Harvey

3 Russell Horton 1:0 Lenard Lange

4 Zen Zero 0:1 Fred Duiker

5 Carey Kuzmic .5:.5 R Neville Ledger

6 Dylan Kuzmic .5:.5 Nigel Lewis

7 David Hughes : BYE

Round 2

1 R Neville Ledger : Dylan Kuzmic

2 Fred Duiker : Carey Kuzmic

3 Lenard Lange : Zen Zero

4 Reg Harvey : Russell Horton

5 Dragan Radosavljevic : Cohen James

6 David Hughes : Jack Gray

7 Nigel Lewis : BYE

Round 3

1 Cohen James : David Hughes

2 Russell Horton : Dragan Radosavljevic

3 Zen Zero : Reg Harvey

4 Carey Kuzmic : Lenard Lange

5 Dylan Kuzmic : Fred Duiker

6 Nigel Lewis : R Neville Ledger

7 Jack Gray : BYE

Round 4

1 Fred Duiker : Nigel Lewis

2 Lenard Lange : Dylan Kuzmic

3 Reg Harvey : Carey Kuzmic

4 Dragan Radosavljevic : Zen Zero

5 David Hughes : Russell Horton

6 Jack Gray : Cohen James

7 R Neville Ledger : BYE

Round 5

1 Russell Horton 1:0 Jack Gray

2 Zen Zero 0:1 David Hughes

3 Carey Kuzmic 1:0 Dragan Radosavljevic

4 Dylan Kuzmic 0:1 Reg Harvey

5 Nigel Lewis 0:1 Lenard Lange

6 R Neville Ledger 1:0 Fred Duiker

7 Cohen James : BYE

Round 6

1 Lenard Lange : R Neville Ledger

2 Reg Harvey : Nigel Lewis

3 Dragan Radosavljevic : Dylan Kuzmic

4 David Hughes : Carey Kuzmic

5 Jack Gray : Zen Zero

6 Cohen James : Russell Horton

7 Fred Duiker : BYE

Round 7

1 Zen Zero : Cohen James

2 Carey Kuzmic : Jack Gray

3 Dylan Kuzmic : David Hughes

4 Nigel Lewis : Dragan Radosavljevic

5 R Neville Ledger : Reg Harvey

6 Fred Duiker : Lenard Lange

7 Russell Horton : BYE

Round 8

1 Reg Harvey : Fred Duiker

2 Dragan Radosavljevic : R Neville Ledger

3 David Hughes : Nigel Lewis

4 Jack Gray : Dylan Kuzmic

5 Cohen James : Carey Kuzmic

6 Russell Horton : Zen Zero

7 Lenard Lange : BYE

Round 9

1 Carey Kuzmic : Russell Horton

2 Dylan Kuzmic : Cohen James

3 Nigel Lewis : Jack Gray

4 R Neville Ledger : David Hughes

5 Fred Duiker : Dragan Radosavljevic

6 Lenard Lange : Reg Harvey

7 Zen Zero : BYE

Round 10

1 Dragan Radosavljevic : Lenard Lange

2 David Hughes : Fred Duiker

3 Jack Gray : R Neville Ledger

4 Cohen James : Nigel Lewis

5 Russell Horton : Dylan Kuzmic

6 Zen Zero : Carey Kuzmic

7 Reg Harvey : BYE

Round 11

1 Dylan Kuzmic : Zen Zero

2 Nigel Lewis : Russell Horton

3 R Neville Ledger : Cohen James

4 Fred Duiker : Jack Gray

5 Lenard Lange : David Hughes

6 Reg Harvey : Dragan Radosavljevic

7 Carey Kuzmic : BYE

Round 12

1 David Hughes : Reg Harvey

2 Jack Gray : Lenard Lange

3 Cohen James : Fred Duiker

4 Russell Horton : R Neville Ledger

5 Zen Zero : Nigel Lewis

6 Carey Kuzmic : Dylan Kuzmic

7 Dragan Radosavljevic : BYE

Round 13

1 Nigel Lewis 0:1 Carey Kuzmic

2 R Neville Ledger .5:.5 Zen Zero

3 Fred Duiker .5:.5 Russell Horton

4 Lenard Lange 1:0 Cohen James

5 Reg Harvey 1:0 Jack Gray

6 Dragan Radosavljevic 1:0 David Hughes

7 Dylan Kuzmic : BYE

New Players Rampant in Robert

2011-09-14T18:47:00.000-07:00

New members Lenard Lange (j) and Jack Gray both made good starts to the Robert Isted 2011 tournament. This is a round robin event played over 60'+10" with 13 players, playing one match each Wednesday. Lenard has 2 points with a win over Cohen James and a major upset over Nigel Lewis (unfortunate blunder). Jack after his first win in the last tournament, played a good game against Russell, getting himself out of a tangle and 2 pawn deficit to almost snatch a win but for an oversight. Carey Kuzmic and Dragan Radosavljevic played an entertaining game with Carey mounting a massive attack, refusing a piece sacrifice with only 90 seconds left for the thrill of the mating hunt and eventual point 15 moves later.
Next week:
1 Jack Gray : Dragan Radosavljevic
2 Cohen James : Reg Harvey
3 Russell Horton : Lenard Lange
4 Zen Zero : Fred Duiker
5 Carey Kuzmic : R Neville Ledger
6 Dylan Kuzmic : Nigel Lewis
7 David Hughes : BYE

Lindsay Atkinson Draw

2011-07-25T04:42:00.001-07:00

Round 1

1 R Neville Ledger 1:0 Jack Gray

2 Dragan Radosavljevic 0:1 Fred Duiker

3 David Hughes 1:0 Lenard Lange

4 Russell Horton 1:0 Zen Zero

5 Nigel Lewis 0:1 Cohen James

6 Reg Harvey 1:0 Dylan Kuzmic

Round 2

1 Jack Gray 0:1 Dylan Kuzmic

2 Cohen James 0:1 Reg Harvey

3 Zen Zero 0:1 Nigel Lewis

4 Lenard Lange 0:1 Russell Horton

5 Fred Duiker 1:0 David Hughes

6 R Neville Ledger .5:.5 Dragan Radosavljevic

Round 3

1 Dragan Radosavljevic 1:0 Jack Gray

2 David Hughes 1:0 R Neville Ledger

3 Russell Horton : Fred Duiker

4 Nigel Lewis 1:0 Lenard Lange

5 Reg Harvey 1:0 Zen Zero

6 Dylan Kuzmic 1:0 Cohen James

Round 4

1 Jack Gray 0:1 Cohen James

2 Zen Zero 0:1 Dylan Kuzmic

3 Lenard Lange 0:1 Reg Harvey

4 Fred Duiker : Nigel Lewis

5 R Neville Ledger 0:1 Russell Horton

6 Dragan Radosavljevic 0:1 David Hughes

Round 5

1 David Hughes : Jack Gray

2 Russell Horton : Dragan Radosavljevic

3 Nigel Lewis : R Neville Ledger

4 Reg Harvey : Fred Duiker

5 Dylan Kuzmic : Lenard Lange

6 Cohen James : Zen Zero

Round 6

1 Jack Gray : Zen Zero

2 Lenard Lange : Cohen James

3 Fred Duiker : Dylan Kuzmic

4 R Neville Ledger : Reg Harvey

5 Dragan Radosavljevic : Nigel Lewis

6 David Hughes : Russell Horton

Round 7

1 Russell Horton : Jack Gray

2 Nigel Lewis : David Hughes

3 Reg Harvey : Dragan Radosavljevic

4 Dylan Kuzmic : R Neville Ledger

5 Cohen James : Fred Duiker

6 Zen Zero : Lenard Lange

Round 8

1 Jack Gray 0:1 Lenard Lange

2 Fred Duiker 1:0 Zen Zero

3 R Neville Ledger : Cohen James

4 Dragan Radosavljevic .5:.5 Dylan Kuzmic

5 David Hughes : Reg Harvey

6 Russell Horton 0:1 Nigel Lewis

Round 9

1 Nigel Lewis : Jack Gray

2 Reg Harvey : Russell Horton

3 Dylan Kuzmic : David Hughes

4 Cohen James : Dragan Radosavljevic

5 Zen Zero : R Neville Ledger

6 Lenard Lange : Fred Duiker

Round 10

1 Jack Gray 0:1 Fred Duiker

2 R Neville Ledger : Lenard Lange

3 Dragan Radosavljevic 1:0 Zen Zero

4 David Hughes : Cohen James

5 Russell Horton 1:0 Dylan Kuzmic

6 Nigel Lewis 0:1 Reg Harvey

Round 11

1 Reg Harvey : Jack Gray

2 Dylan Kuzmic : Nigel Lewis

3 Cohen James : Russell Horton

4 Zen Zero : David Hughes

5 Lenard Lange : Dragan Radosavljevic

6 Fred Duiker : R Neville Ledger

Burnie Chess Club Championships round 3

2011-02-20T00:52:00.000-08:00

Pairings: Round 3 next

Board Name Result Name
1 Hughes, David (1) Zero, Zen (0)
2 Radosavljevic, Dragan (0.5) Kuzmic, Carey (0)
3 Kuzmic, Dylan (2) Duiker, Fred (0)
4 Harvey, Reg (0) Ledger, R Neville (0.5)
5 Lange, Lenard (0) Lewis, Nigel (1)
6 Donnelly, Philip W (1) Horton, Russell (1)
home

Burnie Xmas - Youth vs Wisdom

2010-12-09T02:31:00.000-08:00

last chance of teh year for young uns to whop the oldies. 7pm start.
Check out these games from Phil http://members.dodo.com.au/phild707/

Launceston vs Burnie Match

2010-12-09T02:27:00.000-08:00

What a turn out! At least Lawrence was bedecked in a smart dinner suit, black shirt and tie, with white shoes. A great outfit appropriate for dining on ham sandwiches and Tim Tams and all the better to play chess in. Well almost - Lawrence's winning game soured to tramp's rags when Dylan found a comeback to recover his bishop and then to force a perpetual check. Lawrence checked his team mate's progress before deciding to accept the draw over a dubious king run in faint hope of survival.

Nigel was ecstatic about his salvation against new Tasmanian, Charlie Fourie, to halve points.

Reg was disappointed and disappointing missing many moves and never really got into his game against Launceston captain, Mike Baldini.

My game finished early against George Hambley. 15 moves of quiet play by George allowed rampant attack in the centre.

Phil played Marcus in the best game of the night. Unfortunately the time controls dictasted play in the middle game where ascendancy passed from Phil to Marcus. Marcus incredibly managed to wriggle from a restricted position to force an innovative combination with only 3 minutes remaining and Launcetsone wins 3-2!

Board 1 Marcus Bretag 1 (Launceston) vs Phil Donnelly 0 (Burnie)

Board 2 Reg Harvey 0 (Burnie) vs Mike Baldini 1 (Launceston)

Board 3 Lawrence Bretag 1/2 (Launceston) vs Dylan Kuzmic 1/2 (Burnie)

Board 4 Nigel Lewis 1/2 (Burnie) vs Charlie Fourie 1/2 (Launceston)

Board 5 George Hambly (Launceston) 0 vs Russell Horton 1 (Burnie)

Launceston 3 beats Burnie 2

Calendar for rest of 2010

2010-11-25T19:54:00.000-08:00

Dec 1st Burnie Chess Club Lightning Championships - 5'/player - all welcome. Entries start at 6:45pm, close at 7pm.
Dec 8th Burnie plays Launceston at Havenview Primary. Early start 6:30pm for a 6:45pm match. Top seeded players present will be slelected to represent Burnie. Other players will play rated games. 60'+10"

Chess 960

2010-11-25T19:46:00.000-08:00

A asmall field contesteded the Chess 960. Carey wa sexteremly unlucky not to win teh tournament, losing precious seconds hunitng for a queen against Reg (borrowed by Russell) to end in a draw. For teh record teh psoitions were 748, 552, 042, 929, 740, 000. Reg won with 3.5/5, Andrew and Carey 2nd with 3, Russell 3rd with 2.5.

High School Chess - two weeks free

2010-10-28T02:54:00.000-07:00

Burnie Chess Club invites all high school players to free chess nights. Opening traps, coaching and competitive games.

Wednesday at 6:45 -8:45pm

November 3rd and 10th

Havenview Primary School

Allegro Placings Decided

2010-10-28T02:52:00.000-07:00

Reg has streeted teh field with a 10 zip win and can't be caught with only two games left. Vincent also finishes second (7 with 1 to play) and Nigel 3rd (6.5) without any changes to placings despiet two games remaining. Dylan vs David; Vincent vs David for honour only.

Last Week of Allegro

2010-10-26T13:50:00.000-07:00

Reg has had a clear run so far defeating all before him and leads with 9 points and 1 game remaining.
Draw for tonight:
Russell vs Phil; Nigel vs Andrew; Zac vs Dylan; Vincent vs David;
Dylan vs Carey; Nigel vs Reg; Vincent vs Fred;
Dylan vs David; Carey vs Andrew;
Dylan vs Andrew; Vincent vs Carey
Colours to be drawn at the board.

Allegro and Geronimo

2010-10-13T03:54:00.000-07:00

Moving quick brings a special set of problems. You would think that 15 minutes per player would be enough to easily make 10 opening moves, 20 middle game moves to gain an advantage and then clean up or win in the end game. Not so, BCC players miss one move tactics, become befuddled with complicated combinations and react either efficiently or terribly under pressure. Tonight we had a few illegal moves - warning only - and many a game won on time or by the surprising stroke of a one move #. David threatened to give up and never come back, Dylan played on a Q down wishing for stalemate, Phil moved into check, Nigel called and illegal move on me which wasn't but it took a while to check, post match could have beens were loudly defended. Geronimo jumps off the chess cliff - why do players resort to such ordinary chess in Allegro? My one win tonight beating Vincent convincinlgy aftre some ordinary other games.
The leaders are Nigel 4.5/5, Vincent 4/5.

Entries for Weekender in 10 days now being accepted - details below.

I misted the Isted

2010-10-04T02:55:00.000-07:00

Last week saw the final games played in the Robert Isted club tournament. The cards had fallen with me (6) requiring one win to secure equal first with Vincent (7) and Reg (7). David played Andrew and won without consequence on the final standings. My final game was against Vincent where he casually asked if I had been doing some preparation against him (ie his usual response to d4). The game went 1. d4 f5 and very Dutch - by move 5 we were in a weird position with my h4 looking to be a good aggressive move. Unfortunately this plan petered out and after some wriggling he managed to move into an endgame. Vincent offered a draw which I politely declined (even though worse now), desperately fighting for a win which didn't even raise it's head for a chance.
Final results
Vincent 1st, Reg 2nd, Russell 3rd.

Next week we start the Allegro - 15 minute games over 4-5 weeks.
Sure to be fun especially for new players and juniors. No recording.

Be sure to play in the Burnie Shines weekender - what better than a weekend of chess 23 and 24 October.

Robert Isted - 11 Moves

2010-09-08T22:30:00.000-07:00

Dylan was satisfied with his f5 on move 5 and hopped up from the table to have a wander. What a surprise when he returned - N x e5!! A run of checks and pawn captures soon gave Vincent the advantage and mate followed on move 11.White Horton, Vincent. Black Kuzmic, Dylan. Result 1-0
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 h6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. d3 f5 6. Nxe5 dxe5 7. Qh5+ Kd7 8. Qxf5+ Kc6 9. Qxe5 a6 10. Be3 Qd6 (10... Nf6 $18 11. Qg3 (11. d4 b6) 11... b5 12. e5 Kb7 13. exf6 Bxf6 14. Bd5+) 11. Bb5+ (11. Qb5+ axb5 12. Bxb5#) 11... axb5 12. Qxb5# 1-0

Phil continued his mixed results with a win this week against Fred after a loss last week to David due to a shortage of time. This week he had plenty on the clock and Reg and I (observers) were entertained by the myriad of possibilities for tactics with knight running amuck mid game.
No Name Total #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14

1. Fifield, Andrew 3.5 * D D W - L W - L D

2. Horton, Russell 6 D * L W W L - W L W - W D

3. Harvey, Reg 7 D W * W W - L D W W W

4. Loveric, Paul 0 L * L L -

5. Kuzmic, Dylan 3 L L * W - L W L L W

6. Lewis, Nigel 5 L W L L * - W L W W - W L

7. Lucas, Peter 1 - - - W - - * - - - - - - -

8. Cameron, Owen 0 L L - * L - L

9. Horton, Vincent 7 W W W W - W * W W - L L

10. Kuzmic, Carey 3.5 L W D L L - L * W - L W

11. Hughes, David 3 L W W L - L L * - W L

12. Hendrey, Kevin 1 - - L - W - - - - - - * - -

13. Donnelly, Phil 4 W L L L - W W L - * W

14. Duiker, Fred 5 D D L L W - W W L W - L *

Tasmanian Junior Championships - L'ton Sept

2010-09-08T22:12:00.000-07:00

U18 Tasmanian Junior Championships 2010
U18 Champion Alastair Dyer, 2nd Kevin Hendrey, 3rd Lawrence Bretag and Marcus Bretag
U16 Champion Vincent Horton
U14 Champion Mason Carter

1 Dyer, Alastair TAS 4
2 Hendrey, Kevin TAS 3.5
3-4 Bretag, Lawrence TAS 2.5
Bretag, Marcus TAS 2.5
5 Horton, Vincent TAS 1.5
6 Carter, Mason TAS 1

Results U18 Lightning – Double Round Robin
1st Alastair Dyer 7/10
2nd Vincent Horton 6/10
3rd Marcus Bretag 5.5/10
4th Lawrence Bretag 5/10
5th Mason Carter 4.5/10
6th Kevin Hendrey 2/10

U12 Championships 2010
U12 Champion Oscar Brown, 2nd Kyle Clarke
U10 Champion Lenard Lange, 2nd Bradley Vince, 3rd Nathan Williamson
U10 Girls Yuvini Perera, 2nd Teagan Lee

Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score Berg. Wins

1 Brown, Oscar 7
2 Lange, Lenard 6
3 Vince, Bradley 5
4 Perera, Yuvini 4
5-6 Williamson, Nathan 2.5
Clark, Kyle TAS 500 2.5
7 Lee, Teagan TAS 500 1

U12 Lightning
1st Oscar Brown 6/6
2nd Bradley Vince 3.5/6
3rd Yuvini Perera 1.5/6
4th Lenard Lange1/6

North West Junior Chess Event

2010-08-23T14:04:00.000-07:00

Ulverstone Primary: Sunday 29 August 12:30-4:30pm
Primary and Secondary 7-12 Competition
Prizes, lessons, newcomers welcome. $7 entry on the day from 12pm
Contact: Russell Horton nwchess@gmail.com

Go Marcus

2010-08-22T02:03:00.000-07:00

Last weekend in Hobart Marcus Bretag played Vladimir Smirnov (overall winner) in the last round and scored a draw against the FM! A small field contested the event with Alastair Dyer (4/6 equal 3rd), Vincent Horton (3/6) and myself (3/6) the only players from the NW.
Last week at the Burnie Club, Phil returned from an overseas holiday in Poland. He played Vincent who had the upper hand but was beaten by a tactic. Paul lost to Peter. Reg df Dylan. Carey upset David. Nigel was looking 2 pawns down and I suffered from a bit of complacency. Nigel quickly found a queen trap and the game was lost.
Next week the tournament continues and players will play either tournament games or rated games outside of the tournament.

Cancellations

2010-08-10T14:02:00.000-07:00

A number of players have pulled out of the tournament and several have been away, therefore the draw is looking messy.
Last week Fred 1 vs David 0; Owen 0 vs Russell 1; Andrew 1 vs Carey 0.
Its not too late to enter Hobart Weekender

Draw for rounds 7 and 8

2010-07-31T01:47:00.000-07:00

Robert Isted next rounds
Round 7 (Phil absent - all players to attend and play earlier rounds)
1 Paul Loveric (4) : Fred Duiker (14)
2 Dylan Kuzmic (5) : Reg Harvey (3)
3 Nigel Lewis (6) : Russell Horton (2)
4 Peter Lucas (7) : Andrew Fifield (1)
5 Owen Cameron (8) : Phil Donnelly (13)
6 Vincent Horton (9) : Kevin Hendrey (12)
7 Carey Kuzmic (10) : David Hughes (11)

Round 8
1 Fred Duiker (14) : David Hughes (11)
2 Kevin Hendrey (12) : Carey Kuzmic (10)
3 Phil Donnelly (13) : Vincent Horton (9)
4 Andrew Fifield (1) : Owen Cameron (8)
5 Russell Horton (2) : Peter Lucas (7)
6 Reg Harvey (3) 1:0 Nigel Lewis (6)
7 Paul Loveric (4) : Dylan Kuzmic (5)

Tasmanian Chess History

2010-07-31T01:44:00.000-07:00

Chess stalwart, Neville Ledger has published another volume of chess tournaments in Tasmania. Results and comments on all Tas events dating back to 1890. The latest volume 5 is $5 and available from Neville Ledger, PO Box 837, Burnie, Tas, 7320.

Hobart Weekender

2010-07-31T01:40:00.000-07:00

Hobart Weekender 2010
Class One Yulgilbar-Think Big Australian Chess Grand Prix event. Hosted by Hobart International Chess Club
VENUE: Migrant Resource Centre, 49 Molle St, Hobart
FORMAT: 6 round Swiss or Accelerated Swiss. 60 minutes plus 10 seconds per move per player.
ROUNDS START: Saturday 14th August 10:30 am, 1:30 pm, 4:00 pm, 7:15 pm. Sunday 15th August 9:30 am, 12:45 pm.
ENTRY FEES: $50 waged, $45 conc, $30 U18, $25 U12, $5 discount if entry received by 6th Aug. Entries on day close 10 am. If considering entering on day, please let us know.
ENQUIRIES: Kevin Bonham ph. 0421 428 775 email k_bonham@tassie.net.au
HALF POINT BYES: One per player maximum, Saturday only, if requested in writing with entry or before the day for round 1, or before the start of previous round for rounds 2-4. Not available if player has already received a bye or forfeit.

Games and results update

2010-07-31T01:37:00.000-07:00

Fred and Nigel with their Bronze medals from the very hotly contested Lindsay Atkinson.

Robert Isted Results
Fred 1 vs Vincent 0
Russell 0 vs Reg 1. (I was thrashing Reg, with an exchange, two pawns and Reg's king under attack. In an attempt to drive the knife deeper I kept the Queens on. 10 moves later completely lost.)
Andrew 1 vs Nigel 0
Vincent 1 vs Carey 0 (Exchange up and won on time).
Russell vs David 0. (David struggled in the opening and was continually cramped. I missed a chance to win a piece and but gained an exchange to easily round up the lose pawns).
Reg 1 vs Fred 0. (Reg attacked ferociously, later Fred fought back and mounted his own ferocity. Reg checkmated while Fred was threatening mate in 1).
Dylan 1 vs Nigel 0. (Dylan played a King's Gambit, pushed his kingside pawns with his two rooks supporting).
Fred 0 vs Carey 1
David 0 vs Vincent 1 (Vincent was up an early exchange and then David gave away his Bishop :-(
Russell 1 vs Dylan 0 (We played familiar territory with the English Defence and Dylan nearly repeated Bb7xe4, but settled for Nf6 and so stymied his f5 breakout. With f3 blocking the bishop I pushed a dubious h4. The oncoming pawns looked too much for Dylan so he exchanged his bishop for 2 nointers. I found breaking through tricky and was down to low time before I secured a mate with knight on h8 and f6).
Reg 1 vs Nigel 0 (The Stonewall strikes again, a hot sac Bxf7 got things going for Reg).

All good games!?

2010-07-08T13:59:00.000-07:00

When we looked at the draw for round 3 most games looked to be interesting with strong tussles to eventuate. The surprises encountered in earlier games are posted here http://members.dodo.com.au/phild707/
Reg won a piece to a two move tactic, but Andrew managed to wriggle out with a draw.
Dylan went down to Kevin
Nigel returned to club form and defeated David to be very pleased with himself.
Owen had a tough time against Vincent.
Carey v Phil was a symmetrical English for a while until white, noticing that black on the point of launching a Q side pawn offensive, correctly counterattacked in the centre. Carey 1st sac'ed a pawn then a knight to gain a crushing grip on e6 and f7 and all the initiative. Unfortunately, particularly after such an enterprising game by Carey, he got engrossed in the position, forgot to watch the clock and his flag fell. Bad luck as he deserved at least a draw. (Notes from Phil)
In my game against Fred - I had a crushing attack, won an exchange and tried to get too much out of the position, ran short on time, dropped a few quick pawns and accepted a draw with 80 secs left. Fred kept on hanging in and remarked afterwards, "Why is everyone's rating so low in this club?"

Robert Isted Draw

2010-07-01T14:18:00.000-07:00

Round 3 {Berger number ( )}
1 Russell Horton (2) : Fred Duiker (14)
2 Reg Harvey (3) : Andrew Fifield (1)
3 Paul Loveric (4) : Phil Donnelly (13)
4 Dylan Kuzmic (5) : Kevin Hendrey (12)
5 Nigel Lewis (6) : David Hughes (11)
6 Peter Lucas (7) : Carey Kuzmic (10)
7 Owen Cameron (8) : Vincent Horton (9)

Round 4
1 Fred Duiker (14) : Vincent Horton (9)
2 Carey Kuzmic (10) : Owen Cameron (8)
3 David Hughes (11) : Peter Lucas (7)
4 Kevin Hendrey (12) : Nigel Lewis (6)
5 Phil Donnelly (13) : Dylan Kuzmic (5)
6 Andrew Fifield (1) : Paul Loveric (4)
7 Russell Horton (2) : Reg Harvey (3)

Round 5
1 Reg Harvey (3) : Fred Duiker (14)
2 Paul Loveric (4) : Russell Horton (2)
3 Dylan Kuzmic (5) : Andrew Fifield (1)
4 Phil Donnelly (13) 0:1 Nigel Lewis (6)
5 Peter Lucas (7) : Kevin Hendrey (12)
6 Owen Cameron (8) : David Hughes (11)
7 Vincent Horton (9) : Carey Kuzmic (10)

Surprise Sacrifice

2010-07-01T14:10:00.000-07:00

Recently Andrew has been playing the odd sacrifice and Wednesday against Russell was no exception. Andrew used an offbeat Bg5 and f4 Sicilian and black was better. On move 13 he surprisingly sacked his Knight on e6, it looked a mistake, Queens were swapped and I was looking better. Unfortunately according to my German analyst there was only one good move for black and this wasn't the one I chose. Andrew's remaining pieces swarmed in, tied Black up, attacked the king and Black was losing. Maybe Andrew was trying to get too much out of the position but we managed to swap pieces off, to be 5 pawns and R vs 4 P and R and a draw resulted.
Carey played Nigel and had some early initiative, winning an exchange. Nigel defended strongly before Carey's pieces broke through but he was running short of time and Nigel gained the upperhand and a win.
Fred played newcomer Owen. Owen lost some pawns early but managed to create some counter play for a while before falling to his first smother mate.
David played Dylan. 1. e4 e6, 2. d4 b6. Dylan was on the backfoot early and David managed to get a Knight into d6 and then a pawn on the same square which became a thorn in Dylan's side. Dylan castled long and David enjoyed a Q-side march of his pawns to win.
Phil played Reg and was a pawn up and better, although short on time. Other players thought that swapping Qs suited Reg 0-1.

BCC Rules

2010-07-01T05:05:00.000-07:00

Interesting games are the usual fare at BCC due to the evenness in ability of most players. With Alastair tucked away studying, just about anyone can hold their own against most of the club players. This results in unusual results, and contesting of Minor placings. The BCC rule, "No countbacks, we like giving out ,medals," has resulted in some 6 way ties for bronze and silver medals. Russell, Carey, David, Reg, Dylan and Kevin (absent) show off their medals.

Phil enjoys the moment - two trophies in one year - more to come?

Robert Isted Draw?

2010-06-29T15:07:00.000-07:00

The numbers were pulled out last week and using the same order I have unofficially paired players.
Fred vs Owen
Vincent vs Peter
Carey vs Nigel
David vs Dylan
Kevin vs Paul
Phil vs Reg
Andrew Russell

RI Surprises

2010-06-24T05:11:00.000-07:00

Has Andrew Fifield lost his form from the Tas Open, or had Fred found form? Andrew's early sac didn't pay off and a draw resulted.1/2/-1/2
Did Reg really beat Kevin? Kevin struggled to find the a good square for his f8 bishop, Reg had a strong Knight on e4 and a kingside attack looming. 1-0
Paul in his first club tournament game held his own against David for a while, but was an exchange down with a Queen headbutting his ramparts. 0-1
Dylan plays dad and dad (Carey) misses his chance for a perpetual. Son was left grinning allover. 1-0
I was surprised that Phil played the Benoni against me after our encounter in the club championships. He found the improvement and b7 looked tempting a few times. Nevertheless the e4 push resulted in an advantage from the opening. 1-0
[White "Horton, Russell"] [Black "Donnelly, Phil"
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. Bf4 Bg7 8. Qa4+ Bd7 9. Qb3 Qc7 10. Nf3
This looks tempting, but loses 10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. Qxb7 Qb6 $19)
10... O-O 11. Bd3 Re8 12. O-O a6 13. e5 Now or never, b5, c4 are coming dxe5 (13...Nh5 14. exd6 Qc8 15. Be3) 14. Bxe5 $1 Rxe5 (14... Qc8 is also losing) 15. Nxe5 b5 (15... Qxe5 16. Qxb7 Ng4 17. g3 Qh5 18. h4 Ne5 19. Be2 Bg4 20. Qxa8 Bxe2 21. Qxb8+) 16. d6 $1 Qxd6 17. Qxf7+ Kh8 18.Rfe1 Nc6 19. Qxd7 (Attacking the king looks promising but doesn't appear to go anywhere} 19. Nxg6+ hxg6 20. Qxg6 Re8) 19... Qxd7 (19... Nxd7 20. Nf7+ Kg8 21. Nxd6) 20. Nxd7 Nxd7 21. Be4 Nde5 22. Rad1 Rf8 23. Bxc6 Nxc6 24. Rd6 Ne5 25. Rd5 Re8 26. Kf1 b4 27. Na4 c4 28. f4 (28. Nc5 Kg8 29. Nxa6) 28... Rf8 29. Rdxe5 Bxe5 30. Rxe5 Rxf4+ 31. Ke2 Rd4 32. Rc5 Kg7 {White is running low on time} 1-0

Nigel had the upper hand in the opening against Vincent, before V's pieces started to work late in the game. A lost pawn and then a mistake led to a loss. 0-1
Newcomer Owen plays his first game next week.

Alastair Double Stamp

2010-06-22T04:52:00.000-07:00

Alastair Dyer claimed the dual crowns of Tasmanian Open winner and Tas Lightning Champion in the one weekend. This adds to his Tas Champion title won earlier in the year and sets him above the rest of the field. He intends to contest the upcoming weekenders but is unlikely to play in the Burnie Club events as he concentrates on his year 12 studies. Another Burnie junior player to do well was Andrew Fifield who beat both Kevin Bonham and Nigel Frame. He also managed to go into a drawn endgame against Alastair but lost. In a very instructive game for myself, Andrew slowly gained the upperhand against a pathetic Q-side push in his KID to overrun me totally. Vincent Horton also had a return to chess and 3.5 points to share the U1700 rating prize.
Lindsay Atkinson tournament finishes - Phil Donnelly wins despite losing his last three games while half the field finishes in equal second on 5/9.
Robert Isted underway
Entries close tomorrow for the RI tournament which is 60'+10". Nigel and Phil flipped for colours and Nigel as black showed a return to form.

Tas Open Entries

2010-06-09T02:48:00.000-07:00

Alastair Dyer, Nigel Frame, Jamie Bryant (junior), Harrison Bryant (junior), Owen Short, Robert Jiang (junior), Bill Cheng (junior), Shuqi Yu (junior), Graham Richards, Andrew Fifield (junior), Adam Carter, Mason Carter (Jnr), Kevin Bonham, Marcus Bretag, Lawrence Bretag, Russell Horton, Vincent Horton, David Hughes, Nigel Lewis, Phil Donnelly, TonySturges, Dallas Fry, Dylan Kuzmic, Tony Dowden
Late Entries up 'til 10:00am
VENUE: Havenview Primary School

FORMAT: 6 round Swiss 90 mins + 15 secs/move

ROUNDS START: Saturday 12th June 10:30 am, 2:30 pm, 6:45 pm.

Sunday 13th June 9:30 am, 1:45 pm,

Monday 14th June 9:00 am

ENQUIRIES: David Hughes david.gareth.hughes@gmail.com 03 6423 5669 Mob: 0433 062 200

Lightning Championships: Sunday 13th June, 7:00 pm entries close at 6:45 pm. $10 entry.

Beauty and the Geek -

2010-06-01T03:43:00.000-07:00

Make contact for your chance to win if you are the goods (or the God!)
Hello Russell,

...I have been asked to pass this on to our recipients.
I have received a request from the tv show Beauty and the Geek 2 to ask if there would be any interested people in 'having a go' at being a contestant on this TV show.
In the first version, Canberran chess player Jeremy Reading won first place and $50,000 approx. I have also attached documents that might be helpful for interested people.
From the producers-
We are looking for very intelligent guys with interesting hobbies, who can teach a thing or two to the beauties on the show! It would be a great chance for them to meet some great people and have an amazing experience. Last years contestants all really loved it and are actively recommending it to anyone thinking about getting involved this year.
Any help you could give me would be incredible. I have attached a flyer – as well as information about the casting in Brisbane on Sunday 6th June from 8am to 12pm.
All the information is also on www.beautyandthegeek.com.au
If anyone wants to contact me directly – they are very welcome to email or phone me as well.
Thank you so so much again. Please do let me know if you have any questions.
Katie

New members and event update

2010-05-29T03:35:00.000-07:00

Welcome to new members Paul and Louise, who attended their first night with BCC and played some casual games. We look forward to their company. The club meet weekly on Wednesdays at 6:45pm at Havenview primary School in Marriott St, Burnie. New players are welcome.
June 2 Complete Lindsay Atkinson
June 9 Complete Lindsay Atkinson and casual games
June 12,13,14 Tas Open at Burnie and Tas Lightning Championships (entry details below).
June 16 Casual Games, entries taken for Robert Isted tournament.
June 23 Robert Isted starts, 1 game per night at 60'+10", Round Robin.
October BCC Allegro
October Burnie Weekender
Dec BCC Lightning

David's Tigers Come Home

2010-05-29T03:27:00.000-07:00

David pictured here with his son's discarded Richmond cap three weeks ago. later he was to wear the Tigers beanie. He had faith and finally today they ran out winners in AFL over Port Adelaide. Other players, Nigel, Fred and Phil, sit bemused as they ready for their games.

So far Phil, current club champion, is making easy work of this tournament winning all games except last week's encounter with Reg. Material was about even but Phil had a blocked Bishop. Despite it being a rapid game, Reg gave up his Knight for pawns on the queenside which proved unstoppable.

The previous week Phil routed me completely with a brevity showing that my change to e4 has a long way to go. Next week should almost complete the tournament.

2009 Club Champion and 2010 Tasmanian Champion, Alastair presents the 2010 Burnie Club Champs honour board to Phil. Below we have Phil with his gold and Andrew and Russell with bronze in club champs. 2nd placed Kevin was absent.

Lindsay Atkinson underway

2010-05-19T01:07:00.000-07:00

Phil defeated Andrew due to Andrew missing something he thought was very good.
Nigel lost to Russell. The game was quickly equalised inteh opening and it wasn't until Nigel let go of g4 that was Russell able to quickly convert the better psoition to a win in the quicker time controls.
David wore his donated Richmond cap from a disgruntled fan. This did little for him as he went down like the Tigers to carey's French defence with an entertaining ending Q vs 3 pawns.
Fred beat Reg and put it down to lady luck smiling at last.
In other games
Reg and Russell played a lacklustre opening which turned intoan enthralling middlegame - Reg won.
Carey used a Reti to scare Andrew who thought it may have been a Yeti to take away 2 wins for the night.
Fred scored his second win in a row over David - his luck and David's cap!
Enter now for Tas Open and Tas Lightning

Tas Open and Lightning Championships

2010-05-03T03:33:00.000-07:00

2010 Tasmanian Open and

Tasmanian Lightning Championships

Class One Yulgilbar-Think Big Australian Chess Grand Prix event
Hosted by Burnie Chess Club for the TCA
VENUE: Havenview Primary School
FORMAT: 6 round Swiss 90 mins + 15 secs/move
ROUNDS START: Saturday 12th June 10:30 am, 2:30 pm, 6:45 pm.
Sunday 13th June 9:30 am, 1:45 pm,
Monday 14th June 9:00 am
ENTRY FEES: $55 waged, $50 conc, $30 U18, $25 U12, $5 discount if received by 28th May. Entries on day close 10:00 am (subject to room and equipment). If considering entering on day, please let us know.
PRIZES: 1st c. 40%, 2nd c. 20%, 3rd, U1700, U1400 c. 10% of prize pool, U18 prize $70, U12 prize $50 (subject to at least three entries per division). Prize pool is entry fees less running costs and levies.
ARBITERS: To be appointed.
ENQUIRIES: David Hughes david.gareth.hughes@gmail.com 03 6423 5669 Mob: 0433 062 200

Lightning Championships: Sunday 13th June, 7:00 pm entries close at 6:45 pm. $10 entry.
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ENTRY FORM
Name:
Address: Phone: Email (optional):
DOB if under 18:
Tick here if you would like your entry acknowledged by email: ____
Please detach this form and post it with payment to:
Neville Ledger, PO Box 837, Burnie, Tas, 7320.Cheques and money orders to be made payable to Burnie Chess Club.

Lindsay Atkinson Commences

2010-05-02T00:37:00.000-07:00

New and former club members are all wlecome for the start of the Lindsay Atkinson memorial. It will eb a round robin and last for about 8-10 weeks. There will be 2-3 games per night at rapid rate. It will either be 25+5 or 25+0. The first game sstart on Wednesday 5th May but players can join later the following week provided they haev entered to either myslef or David by May 5th.

Club Champion Finalised

2010-04-30T00:55:00.000-07:00

Phil's notes in Black. My comments in Blue.
After last week's Benoni (Debacle var.) against Russell blew up in my face I reverted to the more reliable KI against Dylan's 1.d4.
Dylan didn't get the usual white counterplay on the Q side allowing black the unusual situation of having iniative on both wings.
In the middle game the position got very tactical with both players missing many best lines before Black was able to liquidate into a winning R+B+extraP v R+N.
Short of time Black's play was not accurate and white missed at least one clear chance to equalise this ending but ultimately black was able to sac a B to force a pawn through to Queen.

I didn't see the end of the other games but I thought that Andrew's KI looked a bit dubious when he had to retreat his N to b8 but he seemed OK against you after that later in the game. This line is known but e6 is more usual than e5 to which dxe gives white a better position than the way the game turned out. With Andrew making backward development I considered a K-side pawn storm but opted for a slower Q side advance. I had a slight advantage and an easy plan but then Andrew came up with a surprising move (or one I had overlooked) whereby I lost a pawn but gained e4 for a mighty Knight. Andrew's King was more exposed and I thought I had a way to break through with several weak points to attack - unfortunately I was now running out of time and had lost my 20 minute advantage. The game then descended into a time scramble which was unfortunate given the possibilities for both sides. Andrew made it easy with a bad mistake under time pressure to lose a very even game.

Carey had Kevin absolutely on the ropes but Kevin some how survived and when I left Carey was lost. Kevin managed to exchange pieces and slowly get out of danger.

Reg was the exchange up for a couple of pawns against Peter. I thought Peter had good chances to draw this one. Reg went out for a smoke and Peter thought he coudl get some time back and so he moved quickly only to lose teh exchnage. Reg then later gave away a piece and the game.

My tally for the tournament placings is
Phil Club Champion 8/10
Kevin 2nd 7.5/10
Russell and Andrew =3rd 6.5/10.
David to confirm final standings.

Quick games

2010-04-22T03:27:00.000-07:00

This week 3 of the four games were quickly completed, much to the surprise of everyone. Neville returned to the club after his knee operation and played some casual games against Carey.
Despite 75'+30" three games finished by 8:15pm.
Peter played a QGD against David. Peter created many threats - if David dared to capture on d4 with the simple Bxh7+. David was left with little chance and succumbed to losing a piece or mate. This game marks a turning point in Peter's play with a return good form.
Kevin had Dylan's king under pressure early and his pieces combined well down the e-file and on f7. Late in the opening, a pawn fork on d5 won a piece and the attack intensified. A quick result between two evenly matched players.
I played Phil and played slightly offbeat/dodgy Benoni line, holding back my e-pawn to gain a move and create pressure on d6. Phil's error saw the early loss of two pawns and a stranded king. White soon rounded up a piece and swapped queens. Despite this loss Phil is still ensured of 1st place. His next game and the results of Kevin and Andrew will determine who shares with him.
In the final game Nigel had an opprtunity to swap into an even ending N+B+ an extra pawn vs B+B but he continued to fight for more. Nigel eventually lost a piece and the game.

Remaining Draw

2010-04-19T14:56:00.000-07:00

April 20
Russell vs Phil
Andrew vs Carey
Peter vs david
Kevin vs Dylan
Nigle vs Reg

April 27
Russell vs Andrew
Reg vs Peter
Kevin vs carey
Dylan vs Phil

May 5
Dylan vs Fred
Peter vs Carey or Nigel.

Phil edges closer to title

2010-04-19T14:55:00.000-07:00

Phil's win over Kevin has virtually sealed the result of the club championships and it looks as though he will finally see his name engraved alone on the coveted sheild. (A previous joint champion, he is now looking at outright first.) In the game, Kevin as black was bogged down, badly constricted with his Queen isolated on the far wing and his major pieces in hiding on the second and first rank. Despite this material winning position, Phil found the best move by threatening mate with a Queen sacrifice - "Ah, I see", murmered Kevin. The White Bishop on f7 was dominant. While defending this threat he was unable to protect f6 and an eventual mate allowing Phil a masterful finish to the game.
Andrew now remains the only player with a faint hope of reaching Phil and he scored a win over Carey. Carey was 2 pawns down and looking into the eyes of a pawn march, but found some counter play to force Andrew into defence. Andrew quickly readjusted and swapped off material to go into the ending with winning pawns.
David defeated Reg playing the Vienna.
Nigel played without error and beat myslef.
Peter as black defeated Fred.

Easter BCC results and catch up

2010-04-11T03:09:00.000-07:00

Easter Results
Nigel lost to Phil and Fred lost to Carey.
Catch-Up
Some time ago I may have misreported some games. Today I found the following comments.
Kevin's Sicilian defeated Fred, "I lost!", seemed to indicate it was one way for Kevin.
Peter vs Carey provides an interesting commentary - "On move 7 we had several exchanges and then after I castled on move 16, I realsied something was not right!" Indeed, Carey discovered he was a Knight down. (Two years ago, late at night, this bemusing phenomenon happened between Carey and myself, with Carey the beneficiary.)
David snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, a pawn up and an attack, but in going for checkmate,opened his king up to find himself lost. - Please edit and include your opponent.

2010 TCA Calendar

2010-04-04T18:22:00.000-07:00

Tas Champs: 6-8 Mar Hobart (Princes St Primary) confirmed
Rapid Series I: 17 Apr Hobart (Princes St Primary)
Rapid Series II: Late May Ulverstone (TBA)
Tas Open: 12-14 June Burnie (Havenview Primary)
Rapid Series III: July Launceston (to be confirmed)
Hobart Weekender: 14-15 August Hobart (Migrant Resource Centre)
Tas Junior Champs: 4-5 Sept Launceston (TBA)
Burnie Shines: 23-24 Oct Burnie (Havenview)

2010 Tasmanian Rapid Chess Series

2010-04-04T18:20:00.000-07:00

Tournament 1 Hobart
Hosted by the Hobart International Junior Chess Club for the TCA

This series of 3 tournaments was introduced in 2009 to encourage competition between adult and junior players. Each of the zones, South, North and North West will host a tournament throughout the year.

Date : April 17th 1pm – 7pm
Venue : Princes Street Primary School, Randall St, Sandy Bay.
Format : 5 rounds. 25 minutes + 5 seconds per move.
Cost : $30 Adults, $25 Concession, $15 Juniors.
Prizes : to be determined on the day. Prizes will include Open, u18, u12 and girls divisions, subject to at least three entries per division

All games will be rapid rated.
Entries will be taken on the day by 12.30pm.

Enquiries : Nigel Frame Ph 042183052 framebna@hotmail.com

Kevin making a claim on BCC title

2010-04-04T17:12:00.000-07:00

Kevin racked up another win over Dylan by winning a pawn early, dominating with his pieces, winning a second pawn and rolling through the game. He now sits on top of the leader board with only one loss and one draw. Phil has a similar points loss but has several more games to play - their clash in Round 10 will likely decide the BCC Champion.
Meanwhile I had an interesting battle with Reg's Colle system. Reg launched a premature King-side attack and I accpeted control of the d file. There was no easy way for either player to break through. Reg launched a typical g4 thrust and teh game see-sawed with good possibilities for both players. Unfortunately Reg made a serious mistake late in the game to end the even tussle.
Carey, David, Fred and Andrew all played but I'm not sure of teh results.
April 7th teh club will be open and Nigel and Fred play. Otehr catch up games can also be arranged. Round 10 proper commences on April 14.

Too much pondering!

2010-03-29T00:36:00.000-07:00

I am late writing this Blog since I have been flailing myself about pondering over nuances in my game against David. After ekeing out a small edge with a simple plan - protected passed pawn + good bishop vs bad bishop - I slid into equality before overlooking a simple piece trap seen a few moves earlier. So devestated I sulked! Unable to come to grips with the fact that 24 moves of careful play had resulted in a tiny edge, which I had thrown away 12 moves later, I played on hoping David would have a massive brain explosion and give me back my piece, and have been ruminating since.
Much better chess was played on the other boards!
Phil and Andrew had an interesting game with Phil commanding space and an attack, Andrew had a chance to strike back (i think) but missed it and the attack came alive.
Reg with black seemed to have a massive cannon against Dylan's King. A return to the board saw Dylan's Bishop and Rook in dominating positions, defence solid and then like a bolt of lightning his Queen flew across the board to force checkmate.
Carey beat Nigel - someone said Nigel played too fast.
Fred and Peter were both absent.
Next week - Fred plays Andrew, Peter vs carey, Nigle vs Phil, Reg vs Russell, Kevin vs Dylan.
April 7 is a break from play.

Round 7 in Club Champs

2010-03-19T13:26:00.000-07:00

The 2010 Club Champion is a 3 way tussle between Phil, Kevin and Andrew with myself and David outside chances. Andrew is having his best tournament. This week's notes by Phil.
For once I had a quick game yesterday evening and had the time to take notice of what was going on in other boards:
Phil v Peter (1-0)was a Steinitz defence that started quietly.
Peter left his King in the centre and was caught out by a thrust of the white e pawn which broke up the black pawn structure.
White was soon throwing a mating net around the black K.

Andrew v Dylan (1-0) Dylan blundered his dark squared Bishop on move 9 after which it was only a question of time.

The other three games were rippers.
Nigel v Kevin (0-1) In an orthodox …e6 type Sicilian Nigel fianchettoed his light squared B in his castled kingside position.
However he allowed it to be traded off for a knight and black’s bishop pair teamed up powerfully on diagonals to open up the white K position.
The King was forced to take a walk on the wild side, and shortly after when he had to give up a Rook for a queening pawn it was time to pass round the cigars.

David v Carey (1-0) with kings castled on opposite wings and neither of them looking at all secure it was nail biting stuff to watch.
I thought that Carey, with big crossfire along open lines on the enemy K, might have had the best chances to breakthrough, but running low on time he grabbed a poisoned pawn walking into a R pin on his Q against his K.

Reg v Fred (Still going when I left at 10pm) In a congested pawn centre Reg managed to get a R in behind enemy lines and picked off a backward pawn securing a passed e pawn.
Meanwhile on the other side of the pawn mass Fred got his Q and R lined up such that it looked like he could force perpetual by harassing the white Q on the 1st and 2nd ranks with his R.
However Reg calmly left the Q en prise and pushed the pawn! I couldn’t tell who was going to win this one but whatever the result both players fought well.

Cheers
Phil.

Round 6 - bunching up

2010-03-12T01:15:00.000-08:00

Andrew (4.5/6) remains in good form taking a draw against another in form player - Kevin (4.5/6).
I had the slight advantage agianst Carey in a marathon 73 move game. A pawn centre advance didn't produce the advantage I hoped and his defence was too solid. I couldn't find the better moves to convert active pieces, settling for half point (4.5/6).
Nigel played quickly and when the game got complicated found the correct line to come away with more pieces in a combination against Dylan.
David omce again did better with the black pieces to score a hard fought win over Fred. Fred has been playing well but alas mistakes cost dearly. He will be one to watch later in the tournamet as his board vision returns.
Cohen and Anthony have withdrawn from the tournament.

Peter returns to form

2010-03-04T01:34:00.000-08:00

This week Peter ,top seed, returned to form with a clear win over Dylan.
Andrew continued his excellent form, a possible by-product of his play and coaching at the recent Aust Jnr, with a win over Nigel.
Phil and Reg fought an even game. A pawn sac to gain compensation by Reg, petered out, and a late error turned the game over to Phil.
I had a lead in development over Fred but in the middle of piece manoeuvring Fred won an exchange from a simple tactic. With a mixture of bluff and pressure I was fortunate to tie down Fred's pieces and win an attack on the king.
Players away: David - unable to drive; Anthony, Cohen and Kevin school work.
Meanwhile we wish Neville a speedy knee recovery and look forward to his return.
Sadly it looks as though no Burnie players will be going to Hobart for the 2010 Tasmanian Championships.

Burnie Club Champs Update

2010-02-28T01:05:00.000-08:00

Things have been slow while I recover email and chess files after a HDD failure. Keep checking as I hope to have things moving along weekly. David put up the draw on the last Club Champs post see comments.
Last week
Phil and David were locked in an even struggle as we headed out the door at 9:20pm. Was the better outpost for David's Black Knight going to be enough? Did Phil have purchase on the e5 pawn?
Carey looked lost against Reg defending against back row threats but he used his queen to run wild rounding up pawns - and looked to have cleverly escaped. Cohen used his knowledge of the Slav (courtesy David's prep) to play a good opening before losing a piece to Russell.
Andrew was an exchange up against Fred, and had magnificent mating tricks which kept
allowing him to win pawns as the back row couldn't be left unguarded.
Kevin played his usual Vienna and Peter saw an opportunity for a winning combination - it looked good and that's where it ended. The calculation failed and Kevin now has 3/4 against some good opponents.
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Launceston Cup

2010-02-14T01:32:00.000-08:00

Alastair (BCC) won the weekender outright with 5/6. Thomas H (BCC) finished equal 2nd after losing his final game on time. Vincent (BCC) finished equal second on 4/6, inlcuding a zero point bye. Others on 4/6 were Lawrence B, Kevin B, Nigel F. Andrew (BCC) continues to play well and shared the U1500 rating prize (3/6).

Burnie Club Championhisp underway

2010-02-14T01:24:00.000-08:00

The first two round have been played and noone has a perfect score! Two regular juniors, Alastair (current club champion) and Vincent (Robert Isted, Lightning), aren't playing and the opportunity remains for Phil or David to put their stamp on the tournament. Last week David prepared well to outplay Kevin's Vienna. Phil escaped with a draw after looking better during the opening but lost a piece for pawns mid game. Carey ran short of time and wasn't accurate enough. Andrew surprised with a great upset against Peter. Dylan (with b4) and Russell had a ding dong battle with constant pressure. All set for week 3.

round 10

2010-01-29T21:56:00.000-08:00

round 10

Report on Aus Juniors 2010

2010-01-29T20:12:00.001-08:00

Alastair's game against Alistair was a ripper in round 10. From move 30 there was some tense heavy piece moving. From being equal at move 33 things changed quickly to be winning for black (Alastair), and reversed a few moves later and reversed again. Check this game and several others at www.chesstasmania.org.au/AJCC. Alastair had 5/6 when he met 2009 World U12 Champion, Bobby Cheng on board 1. Then followed IM James Morris on the rebound! Alastair played some ripper games but it was round 11 before he was rewarded with some points.

Charlie had a solid tournament (4 points) with a major upset (500 points) in round 1 over Michael Chan. Andrew played some good chess and long games without much reward until the later part of the tournament (4.5). Mitchell Reid slowed down hi splay and improved considerably and was pleased with his win over Brett D. Vincent had a slow start to the tournament losing some easy (?) matches before coming home on fire with a great game over Seb J in round 11, to finish tied for third place in U14 on 6 points.

Kevin gave away too many pawns for nothing and then fought back amazingly in many entertaining games to finish on 5.5. His games are worth looking at.

Other Tasmanians who featured were Harry and Mason in U12. Both on 6.5 to be equal 8th.

In the lightning Vincent scored well despite a non-functioning clock to win a silver in U14 Open with 6/10.

Players and adults were treated to a simul with GM Ian Rogers. Nigel F playing next to me had an interesting game while I plodded through a Slav (surely not possible). Ian 25 - Challengers 0!

Welcome 2010

2010-01-29T19:48:00.000-08:00

Officials for Burnie Chess Club

President: Carey, Sec/Tres: Neville, Vice Pres: Nigel, Director of Play: David, Auditor: Dylan.

Play starts Feb 3rd.

Calendar

Feb 3rd- May: Club Championships 75'+30" and Reserve Championships. Rules 3 weeks of postponements allowed. 1 week break following Easter.

June - July: Lindsay Atkinson 25'+10"

June 12-14: Tas Open Weekender

July: Youth vs Wisdom

August -Oct: Robert Isted 60'+10"

October 23 -24: Weekender 60'+10"

November: Allegro

December: Lightning

Alastair plays world champion

2010-01-19T22:32:00.000-08:00

Today Alastair played Bobby Cheng the 2009 U12 World Champion on Board 1.

Alastair was in 2nd position in the U18 Open Australian Junior Championships with 5/6. With white Alastair faced a French (not his favoured option for the mire of tactics he enjoys). By about move 20 teh queens were off and the position equal. Alastair kept seeing tactics that didn't work and defending aginast these his pieces became awkward and he then lost to a rook trapping tactic. He now heads into round 8 with 5/7.

Other Bunrie players had a better day, Andrew scored his second win (3/7), Charlie and Kevin drew agaunst each other, Mitchell yet to win a game is now playing solidly and not leaving pieces en prise, Vincent scored a win (3.5/7).

Burnie AGM

2010-01-12T14:42:00.000-08:00

Wednesday 28th January for a casual night of chess and a brief meeting.
The following week the club championships will commence.
This week the Australian Junior Championships starts in Hobart. Burnie club players to keep an eye on are Alastair, Kevin, Vincent, Andrew, Charlie and Mitchell. Visit the TCA website for further information.

The final night of 2009 ended with a 5 round Swiss playing the following openings: Bishop, Elephant Gambit, Monkey's Bum Gambit, Latvian Gambit, Blackburne Shilling Gambit.

Allegro for Alastair at Last

2009-12-09T21:02:00.000-08:00

Alastair won his first BCC Allegro with 15.5 points with one loss to Nigel, a draw and 15 wins! Nigel had his best tournament of 2009 as desperately unlucky not to finish in the medals. A win against an out of form Carey on the last night was all that was needed. Carey didn't oblige and Nigel was lucky to force a draw in losing position with 3x repetition.
As usual, the final night of Allegro (quick play 15 minutes/player) produced its run of escapologists and could have beens! Kevin was winner on the board against Neville who managed a perpetual check with seconds remaining. Sewer Rat (David) traded off all pawns to leave Neville to check mate him with Knight and Bishop in 3 minutes- DRAW!! Kevin losing 5 pawns down, boxed his king in and tried to give his rook away for a draw against Russell, but missed once to narrowly lose on time. David missed an in between move on a sacrifice against Russell to lose a piece and later an exchange to be looking sad until Russell traded a Rook for a pawn to everyone's amazement. Some scrambling form Russell scored a draw. Dylan got caught up worrying time away about possible attack and wen into a pawn and bishop ending without enough time to get checkmate after queening.
Meanwhile Reg was using his wisdom to quietly move through the field.
Final draft standings from 17 games - David hopefully will update.
Alastair 15.5, Vincent 14, Reg 13, Nigel 12.5, Russell 11.5.

5 way tie for Launceston Rapid

2009-11-30T01:06:00.000-08:00

Tony D, Marcus B, Alastair D, Kevin B and surprise packet Owen S shared first prize in round 3 of the Tas rapid Series. Plenty of juniors took part 14 and 10 oldies. Three of the top five were juniors! Not surprising given they usually love quick play against the grey brigade.
The 3 event series for U18 juniors was won by Marcus B, second went to Lawrence (?) and third to Alastair D. U12 mason C first, Lenard 2nd.
Highlights of the event were the addition of new players from Launceston and some extra juniors.

World Chess Federation - FIDE

2009-11-30T01:05:00.000-08:00

World Chess Federation - FIDE: "7.4a.If during a game it is found that an illegal move, including failing to meet the requirements of the promotion of a pawn or capturing the opponent’s king, has been completed, the position immediately before the irregularity shall be reinstated. If the position immediately before the irregularity cannot be determined the game shall continue from the last identifiable position prior to the irregularity. The clocks shall be adjusted according to Article 6.13. The Articles 4.3 and 4.6 apply to the move replacing the illegal move. The game shall then continue from this re-instated position.
b.After the action taken under Article 7.4.a, for the first two illegal moves by a player the arbiter shall give two minutes extra time to his opponent in each instance; for a third illegal move by the same player, the arbiter shall declare the game lost by this player. However, the game is drawn if the position is such that the opponent cannot checkmate the player’s king by any possible series of legal moves."

World Chess Federation - FIDE

2009-11-30T00:57:00.000-08:00

World Chess Federation - FIDE: "A player may stop the clocks only in order to seek the arbiter’s assistance, for example when promotion has taken place and the piece required is not available.
c.The arbiter shall decide when the game is to be restarted in either case.
d.If a player stops the clocks in order to seek the arbiter’s assistance, the arbiter shall determine if the player had any valid reason for doing so. If it is obvious that the player had no valid reason for stopping the clocks, the player shall be penalised according to Article 13.4.
6.13If an irregularity occurs and/or the pieces have to be restored to a previous position, the arbiter shall use his best judgement to determine the times to be shown on the clocks. He shall also, if necessary, adjust the clock’s move counter."

World Chess Federation - FIDE

2009-11-30T00:49:00.000-08:00

World Chess Federation - FIDE: "During the game each player, having made his move on the chessboard, shall stop his own clock and start his opponent’s clock. A player must always be allowed to stop hisclock. His move is not considered to have been completed until he has done so, unless the move that was made ends the game. (See the Articles 5.1.a, 5.2.a, 5.2.b, 5.2.c and 9.6)
The time between making the move on the chessboard and stopping his own clock and starting his opponent‘s clock is regarded as part of the time allotted to the player.
b.A player must stop his clock with the same hand as that with which he made his move. It is forbidden for a player to keep his finger on the button or to ‘hover’ over it.
c.The players must handle the chess clock properly. It is forbidden to punch it forcibly, to pick it up or to knock it over. Improper clock handling shall be penalised in accordance with Article 13.4."

World Chess Federation - FIDE

2009-11-30T00:46:00.000-08:00

World Chess Federation - FIDE: "A player forfeits his right to a claim against his opponent’s violation of Article 4 once he deliberately touches a piece."

Mitchell stuns older players

2009-11-30T00:40:00.000-08:00

Mitchell managed three wins from his four games against Carey, Dylan and Neville!
Vincent was a piece up in a time scramble with Phil and called out illegal move but didn't know the rules! On the second illegal move he paused the clock and none of us were too clear on the exact rule. See FIDE notes located here.
More fun this week. Gemma away.

Alastair's Allegro Hunt Begins

2009-11-19T01:58:00.000-08:00

Alastair has won each of the BCC's regular events except the Allegro. He had a great start Wednesday night with 4 wins against some of the top players in the field Vincent, Phil and Reg. This event is a round robin with 18 players and continues for the next 3 weeks.

What are the favourite TV shows of old chess players? The Eagle, Unit 1, Spiral...

Early Bird entry closes at the end of the month for Australian Junior Championships - 81 players have currently entered.

Saturday 28 Nov is the event in the Rapid Series: Launceston 11-5pm.

Picket Fence in Burnie Lightning

2009-11-12T02:17:00.000-08:00

Vincent scored a remarkable and possible record 11 straight wins with a bit of luck and some manners. At least four opponents were better over the board at some stage in their games against him but he was able to move quickly, recover time, pressure and score a few wins on illegal moves. Against Russell he won a quick exchange, then lost to a neat tactic, went into a lost endgame with 20 seconds/13 secs and the pressure saw Russell move into check. Against Phil he lost a piece, won it back, won an exchange before Phil also moved illegally. For those opponents where he thought they had outplayed him he generously apologised, "Sorry about that."
Other games also saw a comedy of unusual errors: Neville's Super Bishop; Gemma claiming a win on time after her clock had flagged; Russell thinking he had checkmate and claiming an incorrect win; Andrew upsetting/outplaying many; Dragan unable to manage the time; Mitchell playing his best tournament; Dragan missing a free queen...
Phil vs Vincent
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cd 4. Nd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Be2 o-o 9. o-o b5 10. f4 Be6 11. f5 Ba3 12. ab3 Nc6 13. Qd2 b4 14. Nd5 Nxe4 15. Nxe7+ Qxe7 16. Qd5 Nf6?? (Nd4 = 17. Bxd4 Nf6 18. Qf3 exd4 19. Bxa6) 17. Qxc6 Rfc8 18. Qb6? (18. Rxa6!! +-) Nd5 19. Qa5 Nxe3 20. Rfc1 Qa7 21. Bxa6 Nxc2+ (here white didn't notice teh discovered check and moved his queen to d5 automatically losing and black also has forced mate 21... Nd1+ 22. Kh1 Nf2+ 23. Kg1 Nh3+ 24. Kh1 Qg1 25 Rxg1 Nf2#

Scores 11 games Vincent 11, Phil 8.5, Andrew 7.5, Nigel 7, Dylan 7, Russell 6.5, Kevin 6.5, reg 6, Carey 6, Neville 5.5, David 5, Mitchell 5, Dragan 4, Anthony 2, Gemma 1.5, Zen 1, Lenard 1.

Next week Allegro - no late entries

Calendar

2009-11-08T00:37:00.000-08:00

BCC Lightning Tournament - Nov 11

BCC Allegro - Nov 18. Entries on the night. Continues for Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 9 and Dec 16 if needed.

Launceston Rapid Nov 28 - new date

Chess Camp - Fri Dec 11 - Sun Dec 13, $50, Lea Scout Camp

Burnie holds Fischer Chess

2009-11-08T00:23:00.000-08:00

Burnie Chess Club held a Fischer Random tournament lats week. Queens and bishops in the corners dominated four of the five positions selected. In most games players struggled to build a centre. The value of pieces was vastly different as it was difficult to get some into action early and trade downs were sometimes better especially with 10 minute time controls. Reg took out 3rd with 3.5/5, while David and Russell tied for first with 4/5. There were plenty of Bronze medals given out for 3/5.

Robert Isted Finished

2009-10-25T03:09:00.000-07:00

Due to absences teh tournaments were drawn out, however the final game in the RI Champs, between father and son (Russell vsVincent) was an important medal decider! A win by myself would earn a bronze under the BCC rules - give out as many medals as possible! It would also ensure Phil and Vincent joint first place and David second. I approached the game with plenty of optimism, knowing the opening lines which woudl be followed. For 35 moves I was better and Vincent was on the receiving end. Slowly the tide turned, black pieces gained better placement and a mire of tactics emerged for both sides. Here I fell foul and all it took was the loss of a tempi. Vincent 1st 8.5, Phil 2nd 7.5 and David 3rd 7.

The reserves were marred by absenteeism but Anthony 1st, Mitchell 2nd and Cohen 3rd.

BCC Calendar

2009-10-25T03:01:00.000-07:00

October 28 Wed Wisdom vs Youth. Wisdom captain is David and Youth Captain is Kevin H. 3 games against different opponents: 20 +10; 15'; 5'. Can Wisdom hold the trophy?

Lesson by Vincent at 6:45pm.

November 4th Chess 960 or Fischer Random. 5 games at 10' Swiss

November 11, 18, 25 and ? BCC Allegro Championships 15 round Swiss or RR at 15'.

Blog is back old and recent news

2009-10-25T02:06:00.000-07:00

After a few busy weeks with work, chess and running I have some catch up news. See below for Burnie Shines, Robert Isted - BCC, BCC Calendar, Tas Junior
Burnie Shines - Weekender Yuglibar(?) and Think Big Grand Prix Today.

A small field of 20 contested the 6 round event with David H capably performing DOP and struggling to beat players over 1900 but still giving tehm a run for their money! Top seed Tony D went undefeated with 4 wins and two draws to tie for first with Alastair D. Marcus B was going well on day 1 with his opponents losing games for him inlcuidng second seed Kevin B. Jackson J returned to competitive chess and scored an early upset over Dallas F. Mason C gave the "Oh no" look and I walked straight into a free pawn lose a piece tactic. Dragan R also returned with typical unorthodx gritiness to have 3.5 on day 1. Mason notched up a solid Q, R, and 5p end-game win over Phil. Vincent H played a fun attack against Peter L's Sicilian to be 2 R vs K & B and then Peter's pawns started to roll! Tactics from both players saw a 65 move marathon swing both ways before the last tactic gave Vincent 3 points to finish Day 1.

On Day 2 the oldest competitor, Dragan, played Mason (64 years junior) and after a lot of holding on, and pawn blockages, Dragan was unable to stem the tsunami. Tony S played an entertaining Grob and caused me a lot of trouble to vindicate his most improved rating listing. Tony D outplayed Vincent and drew with Kevin to finish equal first. Alastair and Marcus played out a lot of exchanges into a draw.

Placings
1st Alastair D and Tony D 5/6

3rd and U12 Mason C 4.5/6

U1700 Russell H 4/6; U1400 Carey K

U18 Marcus B; 2nd U18 Vincent H and Lawrence B.

Toilet cleaning prize! pictured (my unfortunate job last year!)

Go Gemma & Game for History

2009-10-08T22:36:00.001-07:00

It was wonderful to have so many people playing this evening.
Gemma played well to score two wins as black against Cohen and as White against Anthony. Cohen redeemed himself with a win over Mitchell to reverse the results of earlier games between the pair.
Game for History Vincent (possible leader) and David (leader on paper) entertaining game. "Vincent's game with David Hughes was quite simply hair raising. Can you imagine a position where both players seemed to have and seemed to NEED a draw by perpetual check. Vincent allowed this by responding immediately and his 11 seconds left turned into a fat comfortable two minutes. Almost beyond belief David checked Vincent's King so far across the chessboard that Vincent's King played a vital role when David was subsequently checkmated. So, short of time Vincent quite rightly stopped recording his moves... I found as a spectator that the game was so exciting and so unusual that I would like to include it in my next "Chess - Tasmanian Records"... David...was a most gracious loser" said Neville.

Neville v. Andrew according to Neville, "I made a complete mess of the opening but somehow got equality later and we were both happy with my offer of a draw. "
Phil was pleased the rub went his way after being in so many winning positions and g/drawing he was in a worse position but managed a win over Russell. Russell effectively changed plans to remove Phil's good bishop and won a pawn, then mixed up a tactic to be even, but squandered valuable time working out a the end game.
Peter beat Nigel.
Charlie has withdrawn.

See last week's post for the draw.

Meanwhile Juniors are off to Hobart for the Tas Jnr Championships.

Late news for Robert Isted

2009-10-06T02:08:00.000-07:00

Kevin's lesson about a recent online game with some entertaining tactics.
David continued his form with an impressive win against Carey. Dylan finished his tournament with a win over Andrew. Neville wasn't sure of his rook sacrifice and went in all or nothing to score a perpetual check and half a point against Phil. Russell spent too much time looking at a possible kingside attack before going into an endgame, impossibly low on time against Reg's solid endgame. Vincent had Nigel tied down and walked a pawn to High St. Kevin defeated Charlie in another good attacking game.
Lenard defeated Zen, Anthony df Lenard, Anthony df Cohen.

Draw for last few weeks
Oct 7 Andrew vs Neville; Vincent vs David; Russell vs Phil; Charlie vs Reg; Nigel vs Peter
Oct 14 Charlie vs Carey; Reg vs Vincent; Phil vs Andrew; Peter vs David
Oct 21 Kevin vs Andrew; Charlie vs Nigel; Russell vs Vincent
Oct 28 Youth vs Wisdom
Reserves
Gemma vs Mitchell; Cohen vs Mitchell; Gemma vs Anthony;
Mitchell vs Cohen; Anthony vs Mitchell; Anthony vs Gemma
Mitchell vs Anthony; Cohen vs Gemma

Kevin shows style

2009-09-24T01:00:00.000-07:00

In round 8 of the Lindsay Atkinson, Kevin showed his form against Neville's Caro Kann. Neville had done some preparation but was faced with imaginative play by Kevin and found himself completely outplayed. Neville said he has no intention of playing the Caro Kann again!
Carey had the better over his son, Dylan, but couldn't battle time pressure and agreed to a draw with a few minutes remaining. Afterwards dad was shown the mate he missed and how to stop the pawns he feared.
Phil played solidly against an ambitious Vincent in the King's Indian. Phil launched two surprises - h4 and a queen side castle - leaving Vincent exposed on his kingside and underdeveloped. Vincent was able to reorganise and launch a mating attack but just needed one more move. Phil stopped this with his own mating attack and won the game.
David shot to the lead with another win (7/9), this time against Andrew who gave away a knight on move 10 and later another piece - too easy!
Charlie was at a memorial dinner and unavailable.
Sadly the reserves were depleted through homework and illness and no tournament games were played.
Zen, Lenard, Russell, Nigel, Peter and Mitchell played some fun games.

Next week:
Vincent vs Nigel; Andrew vs Dylan; Phil vs Neville; Russell vs Reg; David vs Carey; Kevin vs Charlie
Reserves multiple games!

NW Junior Chess Championships

2009-09-20T02:30:00.001-07:00

Conducted by Russell Horton for TCA.
Sunday October 4, 12 -5pm,
Ulverstone Primary School, $10/player
Medals for winner and runner up U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 - Boys and Girls

Players can qualify to play in the Tasmanian Junior Championships October 10 and 11 in Hobart.

Prizes for interesting games – recording moves encouraged but not required.

Games will be played in separate divisions if sufficient entries (e.g. U10 boys, combined U8, U10 and U12 girls).

Entries: Please send name and D.O.B to nwchess@gmail.com or 11:30 on the day.

Leaders slug it out

2009-09-16T15:51:00.000-07:00

David and Phil played a tough even game and finished with a draw in a rook ending to share the lead in the Robert Isted.
Russell walked into a trap against Nigel and spent 30 minutes extracting his king to safety and getting his pieces out. Despite a huge time deficit a passed pawn and an attack on f2 helped Russell over the line.
Carey saw too much! The knight sacrifice looked good but he saw a line of defence but in later analysis Andrew missed this and Carey would have secured a brilliant attacking win. Nevertheless points went to Carey.
Dylan secured a win over Kevin.
In the Reserves - Gemma couldn't defend after dropping a piece against Anthony but secured a draw with Cohen. Anthony df Cohen.
Next Week
Dylan vs Charlie; Kevin vs Neville; Andrew vs David; Phil vs Vincent
Gemma vs Anthony; Mitchell vs Cohen; Anthony vs Mitchell; Cohen vs Gemma
Missing game yet to play from previously published list: Russell vs Phil

Nigel storming home in Robert Isted

2009-09-13T22:13:00.000-07:00

After a slow start Nigel is storming home by scoring another win last week. This time over tournament leader David Hughes! Dylan has been showing some form but Neville scored the point. Kevin defeated Carey. A number of players were absent and the draw is looking pretty loose.
Draw for 16th is Neville vs Charlie; Dylan vs Carey; David vs Phil; Kevin vs Andrew; Nigel vs Russell.
All players in reserves to play. Reg and Vincent away this week.
Progress scores to date (Points/games):
Charlie 1/4; Neville 1.5/7; Carey 2/7; Kevin 2/7; Andrew 3/6; Dylan 4/8; Nigle 4.5/8; Reg 4.5/8; Vincent 4.5/6; Phil 4.5/6; Russell 5/7; David 5.5/7.
Reserves: Mitchell is the current leader with 3 points, with Cohen and Anthony on 2 and Gemma trailing. These scores have been affected by the withdrawal (?) of Ashton and are tentative.

Remaining games in Robert Isted and Reserves

2009-09-05T20:42:00.001-07:00

See the remaining games in the comments
See cross tables inteh comments

David hits the lead

2009-09-04T00:47:00.000-07:00

Round 8 RI
David has 5.5 out 6 games and is the only undefeated player in the tournament. He rose to this status after an interesting game against Russell. Both players were far to cautious in playing the Najdorf and after some trading Russell fell to some simple tactics in time pressure.
Vincent and Kevin played the game of the night with some long combinations and tactics - a win to Vincent.
Phil sacked a piece but Nigel found the defence to emerge victorious.
Dylan confirmed his rating rise with a win over Reg.
Carey beat Neville.
Anthony defeated Cohen and Mitchell won a seesawing game over Anthony.

The REVISED new draw for next week is:
Next week Andrew, Vincent, Russell, Mitchell and Anthony are away.
Phil vs Neville David vs Carey Charlie vs Kevin
Gemma vs Cohen

Chesskids tournament packed!
114 players contested regional final today at West Ulverstone Primary. WUPS won the primary section and UHS won the secondary on countback from St Brendan's Shaw College. Several schools weren't able to enter due to the full field.

I have the medals to give away at NW Junior Championships
U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 Boys and girls.
Be ready for Sunday, October 4th 12-4:30 pm. Entries on the day.

Junior Coaching at Ulverstone Primary School
with Russell 28 Sept, 5 Oct - 3:30-5pm

Robert Isted round 7

2009-08-27T04:58:00.000-07:00

Last week Neville entertained us with his short coaching and history session before play commenced. It wasn't as exciting this week as we adopted an interim code of conduct to set the foundation for a fair and enjoyable playing environment.
Games
Reg summed up his win over Carey, "You won it and then you lost it." Despite and early two pawn advantage Carey got low on time and let Reg in the door.
Charlie played solidly against Phil to enter an even (!?) endgame with a rook each and 4/5 pawns. Charlie couldn't find a way to hold it and resigned at the stare of defeat.
Vincent faced an agressive f5 from Dylan and some early tactics lost their sting for both players when Queens left for lunch - even draw. Kevin was struggling to against Russell, when the latter suffered a case of planning a line and forgetting - quite serious as the queen was quickly shut in by Kevin. Despite a rook down play continued and Russell's horses ran well - Kevin was unlucky. Nigel a piece and a 7th rank pawn down found a way of drawing which only had one way out. Look for all checks and captures!
Round 8 - 2 September 2009
1 Vincent Horton : Kevin Hendrey 2 Philip W Donnelly : Andrew Fifield
3 Reg Harvey : Dylan Kuzmic 4 R Neville Ledger : Carey Kuzmic
5 Charlie Smith : Nigel Lewis 6 David Hughes : Russell Horton
Reserves - game against all comers

Robert Isted Week 5 and 6

2009-08-22T00:33:00.000-07:00

A little behind but we have two weeks of news.
This week Nigel finally got back on the winners trail defeating much improved and in form Kevin. Vincent quickly showed his knowledge of English attack and wasn't troubled by Andrew's queen side pawns. David confirmed his spot a sleadre with a win over Charlie. Phil defeated Dylan during the middle game. Neville had Reg "wrapped up like a box of chocolates" with a crushing attack it seemed - but stoic defence by Reg and a late blunder by Neville saw Reg emerge from the endgame victorious. Mitchell showed the ebnefit of slower play and accounted for Gemma.

Round 5 saw Carey 0 : 1 Phil; Dylan = : = David (a boring game accoridng to Dylan) ; Charlie Smith 1 : 0 Vincent Horton (dropped rook); Andrew Fifield 0 : 1 Russell Horton; Reg Harvey 1 : 0 Nigel Lewis;
Kevin Hendrey : R Neville Ledger (need to check my files).

Robert Isted Week 4

2009-08-08T21:37:00.000-07:00

Flu wiped out 4 players from Wednesday and soem last minute arrangemnts were made. "Never say draw" (Reg) was left with little choice in his game against Phil. Phil held a supported passed pawn but could do little with his king held at bay by Reg's rook and passed pawn. Draw.
Charlie (King's Indian Defence) sacked a bishop for a promising attack against Russell who was expecting the raking bishop on g7 would pick up the loose c3 knight. This lapse made defecne easy and a win to Russell.
Andrew kept his good form with a win over Nigel.
In the Reserves there was only one game with Mitchell dominating before panicking aginst Cohen's two passed pawns. Mitchell chose to swap and simplify and lost his advantage and the game.

Robert Isted Draw

2009-08-08T21:31:00.000-07:00

Burnie Chess Club 2009 Robert Isted Tournament 60’ +10”
The draw will be updated and juggled as we proceed. Draft draws for the entire tournament can be obtained by emailing me.
Round 5 - 12 August 2009
1 Carey Kuzmic : Philip W Donnelly
2 Dylan Kuzmic : David Hughes
3 Charlie Smith : Vincent Horton
4 Andrew Fifield : Russell Horton
5 Reg Harvey : Nigel Lewis
6 Kevin Hendrey : R Neville Ledger

Round 6 - 19 August 2009
1 Nigel Lewis : Kevin Hendrey
2 Russell Horton : BYE
3 Vincent Horton : Andrew Fifield
4 David Hughes : Charlie Smith
5 Philip W Donnelly : Dylan Kuzmic
6 BYE : Carey Kuzmic
7 R Neville Ledger : Reg Harvey

Round 7 - 26 August 2009
1 Carey Kuzmic : Reg Harvey
2 Charlie Smith : Philip W Donnelly
3 Andrew Fifield : David Hughes
4 Vincent Horton : Dylan Kuzmic
5 Kevin Hendrey : Russell Horton
6 Nigel Lewis : R Neville Ledger

Round 8 - 2 September 2009
1 Vincent Horton : Kevin Hendrey
2 Philip W Donnelly : Andrew Fifield
3 Reg Harvey : Dylan Kuzmic
4 R Neville Ledger : Carey Kuzmic
5 Charlie Smith : Nigel Lewis
6 David Hughes : Russell Horton

Round 9 - 9 September 2009
1 Dylan Kuzmic : R Neville Ledger
2 Charlie Smith : Reg Harvey
3 Philip W Donnelly : Vincent Horton
4 Kevin Hendrey 0:1 David Hughes
5 Nigel Lewis : Russell Horton
6 Carey Kuzmic : Andrew Fifield

NW Junior Chess Championships

2009-08-04T03:47:00.000-07:00

Junior Chess Club on Monday nights from 4pm – 5:30 pm at UPS for the last 3 weeks of August 17, 24,31.
NW Individual Chess Championships
October 4, $10/player, Ulverstone Primary 12 -5pm.
Medals U8, U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 - Boys and Girls
Entries: nwchess@gmail.com or at 11:30 on the day.
Other events:
· Tasmanian Junior Championships October 10 and 11 in Hobart
Hobart, Jan 14-25, 2010.
Website: http://www.chesstasmania.org.au/AJCC/index.html

Robert Isted Week 3

2009-08-02T04:19:00.000-07:00

Robert Isted
David is playing well it seems (dft Neville!) but I have no idea how the game went as Dylan had me thinking overtime. The first 12 moves for both of us took 40 minutes in a most unusual opening with a lot of tension continuing throughout the game. After fighting off an attack and being optimistic, a series of unexpected and unplanned forks by Dylan gave him the game. Vincent and Carey played another unusual game with Vincent scoring the exchange but giving Cary equality with a strong battery on the long diagonal. Vincent pieces were gradually forced to the backline before he broke free and did the same to Carey. Normality returned and the resulting end game was much easier for Vincent. Reg defeated Andrew, Phil defeated Kevin and Ashton defeated Cohen.
This week
Nigel vs Andrew; Russell vs Charlie; Vincent vs Dylan; David vs Carey; Phil vs Neville; Kevin and Reg have byes although at this stage Carey is looking doubtful due to illness. I will ring and update players with byes if necessary. All reserves division players please attend.

Tas Rapid Series 2 at Ulverstone

2009-08-02T04:16:00.001-07:00

Tasmanian Rapid Series 2.
An interesting cross section of players was attracted to the Ulverstone event. Juniors playing sport missed the event but players from Hobart, St Mary’s, Launceston and the NW made a field of 22. Alastair Dyer was stop seed and went through untroubled and undefeated to finish on five from five. Two other juniors secured equal second, Kevin Hendrey and Lawrence Bretag, with their improved play rewarded. Overall the play was dominated by juniors with Carey Kuzmic, equal 4th, the only adult in the first six. New players, Kimberley and Peter Tongue (juniors), Lenard Lange (J), Jesse Howard and Zen Zero enjoyed the day of their first open tournament. The final event of the Rapid Series will be in Launceston on November 21.

Week 2 Roberts Isted

2009-07-25T15:14:00.000-07:00

Andrew Fifield was on fire in Round 2.

Lindsay Atkinson Round 2! White won all games!! Despite giving up a piece early, Andrew regrouped and went on to win against his highly rated opponent and caused the biggest upset of the new tournament. Peter blames too much 5 minute chess for his poor play!
Welcome to new junior player Liam who played his first competition game against Gemma in the Reserves (0-1). Mitchell surprised with a win over Anthony.

In A Grade, Carey banked that Russell would play d4 and he was prepared with a few lines but chose different to his intention. White had comfortable play and black suffered poor development and restricted play. A Police interruption caused Carey to lose concentration and drop a piece and the game.
Neville prepared the Najdorf against Vincent who quickly seized the initiative and a few pawns followed before Neville resigned.
Dylan was on a high after beating Dragan last week, but the chess gods weren’t with him and Nigel scored a comfortable win.
David and Reg played an interesting game. David looked to have a badly blocked bishop and Reg looked to have counter play on the kingside. When I next looked back David has a might pawn on 7th rank and Reg had lost material and any semblance of attack (1-0).
Dragan and Fred have withdrawn.
Next week: Neville vs David; Carey vs Vincent; Dylan vs Russell; Reg vs Andrew; Peter vs Kevin; byes Nigel, Alastair, Charlie.
Reserves: determined on the night – all players attend.

Rapid on Saturday at Ulverstone Primary School enter by 10:45.

Robert Isted gets underway

2009-07-18T13:43:00.000-07:00

The first round got underway on Wednesday 15 July but with several players absent games from different rounds were played.
First Grade
Kevin featured in a surprsing upset over Reg in an end game. Reg's technique is highly regarded but Kevin's advanced pawns created the edge he needed.
Dylan has come close to beating Dragan on several occassions and this time he outplayed Dragan in an end game to score the point. Carey was a piece up but with only 40 seconds left, Nigel made him work hard for the point. Andrew gratefully accepted the piece from Fred in the opening and Fred said goodnight. Neville had an edge over myslef in the opening, with the opportunity for a kingside assault, however play on the Q-side saw my black pieces better, before Neville miscalculated. At this stage current club champion Alastair Dyer hasn't been confirmed as a starter. Charlie, Vincent and Phil were absent.
Tenative draw for next week is
Kevin vs Andrew, Dragan vs Charlie, Nigle vs Dylan, Russell vs Carey, Vincent vs Neville, David vs Reg, Alastair vs Fred.
Reserves
This will be a double round robin. Grazyna, Gemma, Mitchell, Cohen, Anthony and Ashton are starters - new players welcome. Cohen defeated Gemma and Anthony won over Ashton. Next week's games will be Mitchell vs Anthony, Ashton vs Cohen , Gemma bye.
Coaching
Each week a club member will conduct a brief discussion or demonstration from 6:45-7:00pm to provide insight and coaching to fellow members.

NW Junior chess events

2009-06-13T23:50:00.000-07:00

Tasmanian Rapid Chess Series 2009, Round 2,
July 25 Ulverstone Primary School, Short St Ulverstone
Saturday 11am – 5pm, 5 rounds 25’ + 5”.

Other events at Ulverstone Primary 12 midday start.
· NW Primary School Team Competition, Sunday 19 July, $5/player
· NW High School Team Competition, Sunday 19 July, $5/player
· NW Individual Championships Aug 16, $10/player

Robert Isted Tournament

2009-06-13T22:09:00.000-07:00

There about three or four more weeks to go to complete the Lindsay Atkinson. Once this is finished the Robert Isted will commence. Possibly as early as Wed 8 July. Playing conditions will be 60'+10" per player; there will be two divisions - experienced and novice. Play starts at 6:45pm and will run until the end of September. Players are permitted to have a maximum of 3 absences, however priority for catching up games is given to those in medal contention.

Lindsay Atkinson

2009-06-13T14:22:00.000-07:00

The Burnie Chess Club is currently conducting a rapid event - Lindsay Atkinson Memorial. There are 19 players ranging form novice to 1600. Rate of play 25'+5".