NW Junior Chess Championships

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

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

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

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

David hits the lead

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

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

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).