Burnie Xmas - Youth vs Wisdom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.