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.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Robert Isted Draw
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
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
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
NW Junior Chess Championships
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
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
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Robert Isted Week 3
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.
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
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.
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.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Week 2 Roberts Isted
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.
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.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Robert Isted gets underway
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.
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.
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