Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Palmerston North Chess News
Palmy Champion GM Mark Noble had a recent article in last Saturday's Manawatu Standard here is the link to the online version http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/6403195/Grand-Master-coaches-as-he-beats-the-lot. Although Susan Polgar also had the article on her website some days ago my blogging is not quite as timely. Mark is also leading the New Zealand correspondence championship with only Peter Goffin having a chance of passing him or most likey getting an equal score. Here is the crosstable.
The opening night of the Palmy Chess Club is tonight Wednesday 15th 7:30pm at the hearing house 435 Church street. The AGM is scheduled for next week with the Blitz championship to follow the week after, all are welcome.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Queenstown Chess Classic 2012
Final Ranking after 9 Rounds
Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 GM Johansen Darryl K AUS 2403 7.5 0.0 7 4 Claims trophy on tie break
2 GM Li Chao B CHN 2693 7.5 0.0 6 5
3 GM Zhao Jun CHN 2569 7.5 0.0 6 4
4 IM Akshat Khamparia IND 2414 7.0 0.0 6 5
5 GM Rozentalis Eduardas LTU 2592 7.0 0.0 6 4
6 Tao Trevor AUS 2422 7.0 0.0 6 4
7 GM Hansen Sune Berg DEN 2572 7.0 0.0 5 4
8 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2639 7.0 0.0 5 4
9 GM Bojkov Dejan BUL 2553 6.5 0.0 6 5
10 FM Ikeda Junta AUS 2349 6.5 0.0 6 5
11 Bird Andrew AUS 2216 6.5 0.0 6 5
12 FM Steadman Michael NZL 2258 6.5 0.0 6 5 New Zealand Champion
13 WGM Sukandar Irine Kharisma INA 2325 6.5 0.0 6 4
14 Dragicevic Domagoj AUS 2277 6.5 0.0 6 4
15 FM Illingworth Max AUS 2388 6.5 0.0 5 5
16 FM Cheng Bobby AUS 2375 6.0 0.0 6 5
17 FM Smith Robert W NZL 2273 6.0 0.0 6 5
18 Zelesco Karl AUS 1990 6.0 0.0 6 4
19 FM Stojic Dusan AUS 2294 6.0 0.0 6 4
20 GM Bischoff Klaus GER 2537 6.0 0.0 5 5
21 IM Dive Russell John NZL 2345 6.0 0.0 5 5
22 IM Morris James AUS 2354 6.0 0.0 5 4
23 GM Zhao Xue CHN 2551 6.0 0.0 5 4
24 GM Jones Gawain C B ENG 2653 6.0 0.0 5 4
25 IM Solomon Stephen J AUS 2375 6.0 0.0 5 4
26 IM Ly Moulthun AUS 2376 6.0 0.0 4 5
27 IM West Guy AUS 2323 6.0 0.0 4 4
28 IM Garbett Paul Anthony NZL 2290 5.5 0.0 5 5
29 IM Van Riemsdijk Herman C BRA 2401 5.5 0.0 5 5
30 WGM Nadig Kruttika IND 2234 5.5 0.0 5 5
31 GM Haznedaroglu Kivanc TUR 2455 5.5 0.0 5 5
32 Pyke Malcolm AUS 2132 5.5 0.0 5 5
33 FM Hartvig Ove Weiss DEN 2210 5.5 0.0 5 5
34 Tang Jason AUS 2030 5.5 0.0 5 5
35 FM Wallis Christopher AUS 2259 5.5 0.0 5 4
36 IM Xie George Wendi AUS 2459 5.5 0.0 5 4
37 WGM Gu Xiaobing CHN 2244 5.5 0.0 5 4
38 Drummond Matthew AUS 2227 5.5 0.0 5 4
39 Schon Eugene AUS 2188 5.5 0.0 5 4
40 Matheson Laurence AUS 2167 5.5 0.0 4 5
41 Li Zuhao Luke NZL 2165 5.5 0.0 4 4
42 Dordevic Ivan NZL 2060 5.0 0.0 5 5
43 FM Lukey Stephen G NZL 2261 5.0 0.0 5 5
44 Bennett Hilton NZL 1965 5.0 0.0 5 5
45 Chen Pengyu AUS 2056 5.0 0.0 5 4
46 Pinic Noel NZL 2066 5.0 0.0 5 4
47 Dale Ari AUS 1994 5.0 0.0 5 4
48 Liu Yi AUS 2072 5.0 0.0 5 4
49 Shen Daniel NZL 2182 5.0 0.0 5 4
50 IM Brown Andrew AUS 2215 5.0 0.0 4 5
51 Repplinger Marc GER 2241 5.0 0.0 4 5
52 WIM Lauterbach Ingrid ENG 2053 5.0 0.0 4 5
53 Kempen Leon AUS 1999 5.0 0.0 4 5
54 Burns Christopher John NZL 2022 5.0 0.0 4 5
55 Koerber Matthias GER 1916 5.0 0.0 4 4
56 Goodhue Nathan NZL 1945 5.0 0.0 4 4
57 FM Jones Brian AUS 2092 5.0 0.0 4 4
58 Setiabudi Allen AUS 1966 5.0 0.0 4 4
59 Ansell Alan NZL 2079 5.0 0.0 3 4
60 FM Reilly Tim AUS 2266 5.0 0.0 3 4
61 Armstrong Malcolm J ENG 2016 5.0 0.0 3 4
62 WFM Milligan Helen NZL 1979 4.5 0.0 4 5
63 WIM Guo Emma AUS 2010 4.5 0.0 4 5
64 King Mathew NZL 1961 4.5 0.0 4 5
65 Fuatai Fuatai NZL 2031 4.5 0.0 4 5
66 Lovejoy David AUS 1939 4.5 0.0 4 5
67 Mitchell Robert NZL 1672 4.5 0.0 4 5
68 Safarian Alek AUS 2036 4.5 0.0 4 4
69 Machdoem Andhika NZL 2129 4.5 0.0 4 4
70 Fairbairn Stephen CAN 2052 4.5 0.0 4 4
71 IM Ker Anthony F NZL 2359 4.5 0.0 4 4
72 Johnson Quentin J F NZL 2127 4.5 0.0 4 4
73 Lester George E AUS 2008 4.5 0.0 4 4
74 Benson Christopher NZL 1924 4.5 0.0 4 4
75 Li William Xiang Wei NZL 1672 4.5 0.0 3 5
76 WIM Maroroa Sue NZL 2020 4.5 0.0 3 5
77 Selnes Hamish AUS 1904 4.5 0.0 3 5
78 Cekulis Maris AUS 1640 4.5 0.0 3 5
79 Duneas John NZL 2087 4.5 0.0 3 4
80 WGM Smokina Karolina MDA 2167 4.5 0.0 3 4
81 Stuart Peter NZL 1991 4.5 0.0 3 4
82 Holland Dennis AUS 1958 4.5 0.0 3 4
83 Simmonds Leteisha AUS 1643 4.5 0.0 3 4
84 Louie Ryan AUS 1677 4.5 0.0 3 3
85 Ilic Ilija AUS 2010 4.5 0.0 3 3
86 Gao Hans NZL 1924 4.5 0.0 2 5
87 Mcdonald John NZL 2068 4.0 0.0 4 5
88 Tsagarakis Angelo AUS 1883 4.0 0.0 4 5
89 Seabrook Roy NZL 1873 4.0 0.0 4 4
90 Voon Richard AUS 1933 4.0 0.0 4 4
91 Zhang William Jie Wen NZL 1849 4.0 0.0 4 4
92 Watharow Sean AUS 1929 4.0 0.0 3 5
93 Rains Edward NZL 1872 4.0 0.0 3 5
94 Zhang Leo NZL 1587 4.0 0.0 3 5
95 Hughes Jack AUS 1351 4.0 0.0 3 5
96 WFM Tsoi Nicole NZL 1715 4.0 0.0 3 4
97 Guo Jamie-Lee AUS 1379 4.0 0.0 3 4
98 Davies Geoff NZL 1943 4.0 0.0 3 4
99 Vuglar Shanon AUS 1581 4.0 0.0 3 4
100 Brown Kevin M AUS 1728 4.0 0.0 2 5
101 Flitney Adrian AUS 1959 4.0 0.0 2 4
102 WIM Andersson Christin SWE 2123 4.0 0.0 2 4
103 Holt Kenneth AUS 1914 4.0 0.0 2 4
104 Forster William NZL 1910 4.0 0.0 2 4
105 WFM Setiabudi Megan AUS 1755 4.0 0.0 2 4
106 Jackson L Ross NZL 1947 3.5 0.0 3 5
107 Clarkson Robert NZL 1529 3.5 0.0 3 5
108 Ayaz Hacer TUR 1846 3.5 0.0 3 5
109 Nijman Arie J NZL 1834 3.5 0.0 3 5
110 Tionko Efrain AUS 1865 3.5 0.0 3 4
111 Lim Kian Hwa MAS 1922 3.5 0.0 3 4
112 Press Harry AUS 1884 3.5 0.0 3 4
113 Yao Winston Yow-Jen NZL 1807 3.5 0.0 3 4
114 Judkins Gary NZL 1619 3.5 0.0 3 4
115 WFM Smith Vivian J NZL 1752 3.5 0.0 3 4
116 Rains Timothy NZL 1737 3.5 0.0 3 4
117 Gold Hamish NZL 1830 3.5 0.0 3 4
118 Booth Anthony NZL 1834 3.5 0.0 3 4
119 Holdaway Stewart NZL 1746 3.5 0.0 2 5
120 Ang Alphaeus Wei Ern NZL 1643 3.5 0.0 2 5
121 Liu Brian NZL 1825 3.5 0.0 2 5
122 Aldridge Alan L NZL 1945 3.5 0.0 2 5
123 Millikan Erlend USA 1760 3.5 0.0 2 4
124 WFM Fairley Natasha NZL 1798 3.5 0.0 1 4
125 Davis Justin NZL 1985 3.0 0.0 3 5
126 Renzies Elliott AUS 1668 3.0 0.0 3 5
127 Cooper Nigel NZL 1802 3.0 0.0 3 4
128 Shierlaw Hamish NZL 1495 3.0 0.0 2 5
129 Kay Bruce NZL 1823 3.0 0.0 2 5
130 Nicholls Leighton NZL 1618 3.0 0.0 2 4
131 Pieri Enzo ITA 1771 3.0 0.0 2 4
132 Watson Jean AUS 1571 3.0 0.0 1 4
133 Stromer Kurt NZL 1640 2.5 0.0 2 5
134 Brockway Andrew NZL 1848 2.5 0.0 2 5
135 Janisz Andrew NZL 1989 2.5 0.0 2 5
136 Gloistein Bruce H NZL 1787 2.5 0.0 2 5
137 Beckman John AUS 1719 2.5 0.0 2 5
138 Dong Olivia NZL 1114 2.5 0.0 2 5
139 Yeten Huseyin CYP 1781 2.5 0.0 2 4
140 Brockman Roland AUS 1703 2.5 0.0 1 5
141 Roura Federico NZL 1850 2.5 0.0 1 5
142 Louie Jared AUS 1230 2.5 0.0 1 4
143 Frater Dylan NZL 0 2.0 0.0 2 5
144 Her Seong-June NZL 1385 2.0 0.0 2 5
145 Clayton Ben NZL 0 2.0 0.0 1 4
146 Marks Joe AUS 1221 1.5 0.0 1 5
147 Capper David NZL 1802 1.5 0.0 1 4
148 van Rooyen Carlssen NZL 1003 0.5 0.0 0 4
Saturday, January 7, 2012
2012 Australian Championship
Congratulations to GM Darryl Johansen on winning the Aussie Champs in great style.
Final Standings
Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts.
1 GM Johansen Darryl K AUS 2403 8.5
2 GM Zhao Zong-Yuan AUS 2564 7.5
3 IM Smirnov Vladimir RUS 2401 7.5
4 IM Xie George Wendi AUS 2440 7.5
5 IM Solomon Stephen J AUS 2384 7.5
6 IM Ly Moulthun AUS 2376 6.5
7 IM Wohl Aleksandar H AUS 2404 6.5
8 FM Ikeda Junta AUS 2349 6.5 67.0
9 FM Khamparia Akshat IND 2414 6.0
10 Dragicevic Domagoj AUS 2247 6.0
11 Tan Justin AUS 2160 6.0
12 IM Morris James AUS 2364 5.5
13 FM Stojic Dusan AUS 2287 5.5
14 FM Cheng Bobby AUS 2345 5.5
15 Smirnov Anton AUS 2063 5.5
16 Liu Yi AUS 2039 5.5
17 FM Wallis Christopher AUS 2268 5.5
18 FM Jordan William AUS 2267 5.5
19 McClymont Brodie AUS 2049 5.0
20 FM Nakauchi Gene AUS 2116 5.0
21 Muller Jonas AUS 2023 5.0
22 FM Illingworth Max AUS 2401 4.5
23 FM Steadman Michael NZL 2269 4.5
24 Bird Andrew AUS 2216 4.5
25 Zulfic Fedja AUS 2087 4.5
26 Tang Jason AUS 2008 4.0
27 Zelesco Karl AUS 1976 4.0
28 Matheson Laurence AUS 2126 3.5
29 Ferozkohi Ihsan GER 2125 3.5
30 Chen Pengyu AUS 2094 2.5
Final Standings
Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts.
1 GM Johansen Darryl K AUS 2403 8.5
2 GM Zhao Zong-Yuan AUS 2564 7.5
3 IM Smirnov Vladimir RUS 2401 7.5
4 IM Xie George Wendi AUS 2440 7.5
5 IM Solomon Stephen J AUS 2384 7.5
6 IM Ly Moulthun AUS 2376 6.5
7 IM Wohl Aleksandar H AUS 2404 6.5
8 FM Ikeda Junta AUS 2349 6.5 67.0
9 FM Khamparia Akshat IND 2414 6.0
10 Dragicevic Domagoj AUS 2247 6.0
11 Tan Justin AUS 2160 6.0
12 IM Morris James AUS 2364 5.5
13 FM Stojic Dusan AUS 2287 5.5
14 FM Cheng Bobby AUS 2345 5.5
15 Smirnov Anton AUS 2063 5.5
16 Liu Yi AUS 2039 5.5
17 FM Wallis Christopher AUS 2268 5.5
18 FM Jordan William AUS 2267 5.5
19 McClymont Brodie AUS 2049 5.0
20 FM Nakauchi Gene AUS 2116 5.0
21 Muller Jonas AUS 2023 5.0
22 FM Illingworth Max AUS 2401 4.5
23 FM Steadman Michael NZL 2269 4.5
24 Bird Andrew AUS 2216 4.5
25 Zulfic Fedja AUS 2087 4.5
26 Tang Jason AUS 2008 4.0
27 Zelesco Karl AUS 1976 4.0
28 Matheson Laurence AUS 2126 3.5
29 Ferozkohi Ihsan GER 2125 3.5
30 Chen Pengyu AUS 2094 2.5
Saturday, December 31, 2011
2012 Queenstown Chess Classic
A strong Palmy Club contingent is heading to Queenstown where their will be more Grandmasters in New Zealand than has been seen in many years.
2012 Queenstown Chess Classic,
Queenstown,
New Zealand
15th-23rd January 2012
Incorporating the official NZCF 119th NEW ZEALAND CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS
A cash prizefund of NZ $30,000 is guaranteed
Complete info here
Entries so far (January 2012 FIDE ratings; italic are NZCF national ratings):
1 2693 GM Li Chao (CHN)
2 2653 GM Gawain Jones (ENG)
3 2639 GM Surya Ganguly (IND)
4 2592 GM Eduardas Rozentalis (LTU)
5 2572 GM Sune Berg Hansen (DEN)
6 2569 GM Zhao Jun (CHN)
7 2553 GM Dejan Bojkov (BUL)
8 2551 GM Zhao Xue (CHN)
9 2537 GM Klaus Bischoff (GER)
10 2459 IM George Xie (AUS)
11 2455 GM Kivanc Haznedaroglu (TUR)
12 2422 Trevor Tao (AUS)
13 2414 IM Akshat Khamparia (IND)
14 2403 GM Darryl Johansen (AUS)
15 2401 IM Herman Van Riemsdijk (BRA)
16 2388 FM Max Illingworth (AUS)
17 2376 IM Moulthun Ly (AUS)
18 2375 IM Stephen Solomon (AUS)
19 2375 FM Bobby Cheng (AUS)
20 2359 IM Anthony Ker (NZL) NZ Champion
21 2354 IM James Morris (AUS)
22 2349 FM Junta Ikeda (AUS)
23 2345 IM Russell Dive (NZL)
24 2325 wgm Irene Sukandar (INA)
25 2323 IM Guy West (AUS)
26 2294 FM Dusan Stojic (AUS)
27 2290 IM Paul Garbett (NZL)
28 2277 Domagoj Dragicevic (AUS)
29 2273 FM Bob Smith (NZL)
30 2266 FM Tim Reilly (AUS)
31 2261 FM Stephen Lukey (NZL)
32 2259 FM Chris Wallis (AUS)
33 2258 FM Mike Steadman (NZL)
34 2244 wgm Xiaobing Vivian Gu (CHN)
35 2241 Marc Repplinger (GER)
36 2234 wgm Kruttika Nadig (IND)
37 2216 Andrew Bird (AUS)
38 2215 IM Andrew Brown (AUS)
39 2210 FM Ove Hartvig (DEN)
40 2188 Eugene Schon (AUS)
41 2182 Daniel Shen (NZL)
42 2167 wgm Karolina Smokina (MDA)
43 2167 Laurence Matheson (AUS)
44 2167 Yi Liu (AUS)
45 2165 Luke Li (NZL)
46 2132 Malcolm Pyke (AUS)
47 2129 Andy Machdoem (NZL)
48 2127 Quentin Johnson (NZL)
49 2123 wim Christin Andersson (SWE)
50 2092 FM Brian Jones (AUS)
51 2087 John Duneas (NZL)
52 2079 Alan Ansell (NZL)
53 2068 John McDonald (NZL)
54 2066 Noel Pinic (NZL)
55 2060 Ivan Dordevic (NZL)
56 2056 Pengyu Chen (AUS)
57 2053 wim Ingrid Lauterbach (ENG)
58 2052 Stephen Fairbairn (CAN)
59 2036 Alek Safarian (AUS)
60 2031 Fuatai Fuatai (NZL)
61 2030 Jason Tang (AUS)
62 2022 Chris Burns (NZL)
63 2020 wim Sue Maroroa (NZL)
64 2016 Malcolm Armstrong (ENG)
65 2010 wim Emma Guo (AUS)
66 2008 George Lester (AUS)
67 1999 Leon Kempen (AUS)
68 1994 Ari Dale (AUS)
69 1991 Peter Stuart (NZL)
70 1990 Karl Zelesco (AUS) 71 1989 Andrew Janisz (NZL)
72 1985 Justin Davis (NZL)
73 1979 wfm Helen Milligan (NZL)
74 1965 Hilton Bennett (NZL)
75 1961 Mathew King (NZL)
76 1959 Adrian Flitney (AUS)
77 1958 Dennis Holland (AUS)
78 1947 Ross Jackson (NZL)
79 1945 Nathan Goodhue (NZL)
80 1939 David Lovejoy (AUS)
81 1933 Richard Voon (AUS)
82 1924 Chris Benson (NZL)
83 1924 Hans Gao (NZL)
84 1922 Kian Hwa Lim (MAS)
85 1916 Matthias Körber (GER)
86 1914 Kenneth Holt (AUS)
87 1910 Bill Forster (NZL)
88 1908 Hamish Selnes (AUS)
89 1884 Harry Press (AUS)
90 1883 Angelo Tsagarakis (AUS)
91 1873 Roy Seabrook (NZL)
92 1872 Edward Rains (NZL)
93 1865 Efrain Tionko (AUS)
94 1850 Federico Roura (NZL)
95 1849 William Zhang (NZL)
96 1848 Andrew Brockway (NZL)
97 1846 (?) Hacer Haznedaroglu (TUR)
98 1834 Tony Booth (NZL)
99 1834 Arie Nijman (NZL)
100 1830 Hamish Gold (NZL)
101 1823 Bruce Kay (NZL)
102 1807 Winston Yao (NZL)
103 1802 David Capper (NZL)
104 1802 Nigel Cooper (NZL)
105 1798 wfm Natasha Fairley (NZL)
106 1787 Bruce Gloistein (NZL)
107 1781 Huseyin Yeten (CYP)
108 1771 Enzo Pieri (ITA)
109 1760 Erlend Millikan (USA)
110 1752 wfm Viv Smith (NZL)
111 1746 Stewart Holdaway (NZL)
112 1737 Tim Rains (NZL)
113 1728 Kevin Brown (AUS)
114 1719 John Beckman (AUS)
115 1715 wfm Nicole Tsoi (NZL)
116 1703 Roland Brockman (AUS)
117 1677 Ryan Louie (AUS)
118 1672 William XW Li (NZL)
119 1672 Bob Mitchell (NZL)
120 1668 Elliott Renzies (AUS)
121 1643 Leteisha Simmonds (AUS)
122 1643 Alphaeus Ang (NZL)
123 1619 Gary Judkins (NZL)
124 1618 Leighton Nicholls (NZL)
125 1587 Leo Zhang (NZL)
126 1581 Shanon Vuglar (AUS)
127 1571 Jean Watson (AUS)
128 1529 Robert Clarkson (NZL)
129 1495 Hamish Shierlaw (NZL)
130 1385 Seong-June Her (NZL)
131 1006 Brian Liu (NZL)
132 1003 Carlssen van Rooyen (NZL)
133 unrated Maris Cekulis (AUS)
134 unrated Ben Clayton (NZL)
135 unrated Jamie-Lee Guo (AUS)
136 unrated Jack Hughes (AUS)
137 unrated Jared Louie (AUS)
2012 Queenstown Chess Classic,
Queenstown,
New Zealand
15th-23rd January 2012
Incorporating the official NZCF 119th NEW ZEALAND CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS
A cash prizefund of NZ $30,000 is guaranteed
Complete info here
Entries so far (January 2012 FIDE ratings; italic are NZCF national ratings):
1 2693 GM Li Chao (CHN)
2 2653 GM Gawain Jones (ENG)
3 2639 GM Surya Ganguly (IND)
4 2592 GM Eduardas Rozentalis (LTU)
5 2572 GM Sune Berg Hansen (DEN)
6 2569 GM Zhao Jun (CHN)
7 2553 GM Dejan Bojkov (BUL)
8 2551 GM Zhao Xue (CHN)
9 2537 GM Klaus Bischoff (GER)
10 2459 IM George Xie (AUS)
11 2455 GM Kivanc Haznedaroglu (TUR)
12 2422 Trevor Tao (AUS)
13 2414 IM Akshat Khamparia (IND)
14 2403 GM Darryl Johansen (AUS)
15 2401 IM Herman Van Riemsdijk (BRA)
16 2388 FM Max Illingworth (AUS)
17 2376 IM Moulthun Ly (AUS)
18 2375 IM Stephen Solomon (AUS)
19 2375 FM Bobby Cheng (AUS)
20 2359 IM Anthony Ker (NZL) NZ Champion
21 2354 IM James Morris (AUS)
22 2349 FM Junta Ikeda (AUS)
23 2345 IM Russell Dive (NZL)
24 2325 wgm Irene Sukandar (INA)
25 2323 IM Guy West (AUS)
26 2294 FM Dusan Stojic (AUS)
27 2290 IM Paul Garbett (NZL)
28 2277 Domagoj Dragicevic (AUS)
29 2273 FM Bob Smith (NZL)
30 2266 FM Tim Reilly (AUS)
31 2261 FM Stephen Lukey (NZL)
32 2259 FM Chris Wallis (AUS)
33 2258 FM Mike Steadman (NZL)
34 2244 wgm Xiaobing Vivian Gu (CHN)
35 2241 Marc Repplinger (GER)
36 2234 wgm Kruttika Nadig (IND)
37 2216 Andrew Bird (AUS)
38 2215 IM Andrew Brown (AUS)
39 2210 FM Ove Hartvig (DEN)
40 2188 Eugene Schon (AUS)
41 2182 Daniel Shen (NZL)
42 2167 wgm Karolina Smokina (MDA)
43 2167 Laurence Matheson (AUS)
44 2167 Yi Liu (AUS)
45 2165 Luke Li (NZL)
46 2132 Malcolm Pyke (AUS)
47 2129 Andy Machdoem (NZL)
48 2127 Quentin Johnson (NZL)
49 2123 wim Christin Andersson (SWE)
50 2092 FM Brian Jones (AUS)
51 2087 John Duneas (NZL)
52 2079 Alan Ansell (NZL)
53 2068 John McDonald (NZL)
54 2066 Noel Pinic (NZL)
55 2060 Ivan Dordevic (NZL)
56 2056 Pengyu Chen (AUS)
57 2053 wim Ingrid Lauterbach (ENG)
58 2052 Stephen Fairbairn (CAN)
59 2036 Alek Safarian (AUS)
60 2031 Fuatai Fuatai (NZL)
61 2030 Jason Tang (AUS)
62 2022 Chris Burns (NZL)
63 2020 wim Sue Maroroa (NZL)
64 2016 Malcolm Armstrong (ENG)
65 2010 wim Emma Guo (AUS)
66 2008 George Lester (AUS)
67 1999 Leon Kempen (AUS)
68 1994 Ari Dale (AUS)
69 1991 Peter Stuart (NZL)
70 1990 Karl Zelesco (AUS) 71 1989 Andrew Janisz (NZL)
72 1985 Justin Davis (NZL)
73 1979 wfm Helen Milligan (NZL)
74 1965 Hilton Bennett (NZL)
75 1961 Mathew King (NZL)
76 1959 Adrian Flitney (AUS)
77 1958 Dennis Holland (AUS)
78 1947 Ross Jackson (NZL)
79 1945 Nathan Goodhue (NZL)
80 1939 David Lovejoy (AUS)
81 1933 Richard Voon (AUS)
82 1924 Chris Benson (NZL)
83 1924 Hans Gao (NZL)
84 1922 Kian Hwa Lim (MAS)
85 1916 Matthias Körber (GER)
86 1914 Kenneth Holt (AUS)
87 1910 Bill Forster (NZL)
88 1908 Hamish Selnes (AUS)
89 1884 Harry Press (AUS)
90 1883 Angelo Tsagarakis (AUS)
91 1873 Roy Seabrook (NZL)
92 1872 Edward Rains (NZL)
93 1865 Efrain Tionko (AUS)
94 1850 Federico Roura (NZL)
95 1849 William Zhang (NZL)
96 1848 Andrew Brockway (NZL)
97 1846 (?) Hacer Haznedaroglu (TUR)
98 1834 Tony Booth (NZL)
99 1834 Arie Nijman (NZL)
100 1830 Hamish Gold (NZL)
101 1823 Bruce Kay (NZL)
102 1807 Winston Yao (NZL)
103 1802 David Capper (NZL)
104 1802 Nigel Cooper (NZL)
105 1798 wfm Natasha Fairley (NZL)
106 1787 Bruce Gloistein (NZL)
107 1781 Huseyin Yeten (CYP)
108 1771 Enzo Pieri (ITA)
109 1760 Erlend Millikan (USA)
110 1752 wfm Viv Smith (NZL)
111 1746 Stewart Holdaway (NZL)
112 1737 Tim Rains (NZL)
113 1728 Kevin Brown (AUS)
114 1719 John Beckman (AUS)
115 1715 wfm Nicole Tsoi (NZL)
116 1703 Roland Brockman (AUS)
117 1677 Ryan Louie (AUS)
118 1672 William XW Li (NZL)
119 1672 Bob Mitchell (NZL)
120 1668 Elliott Renzies (AUS)
121 1643 Leteisha Simmonds (AUS)
122 1643 Alphaeus Ang (NZL)
123 1619 Gary Judkins (NZL)
124 1618 Leighton Nicholls (NZL)
125 1587 Leo Zhang (NZL)
126 1581 Shanon Vuglar (AUS)
127 1571 Jean Watson (AUS)
128 1529 Robert Clarkson (NZL)
129 1495 Hamish Shierlaw (NZL)
130 1385 Seong-June Her (NZL)
131 1006 Brian Liu (NZL)
132 1003 Carlssen van Rooyen (NZL)
133 unrated Maris Cekulis (AUS)
134 unrated Ben Clayton (NZL)
135 unrated Jamie-Lee Guo (AUS)
136 unrated Jack Hughes (AUS)
137 unrated Jared Louie (AUS)
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Palmerston North Chess Club Championship
Congratulations to GM Mark Noble on winning Palmerston North's strongest ever Club Championship.
Click on table to enlarge
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
4th Gordon Hoskyn Memorial
Grandmaster Clash
The debate for the title of "Strongest Chess Club in New Zealand" hotted up yesterday at the 4th Gordon Hoskyn Memorial Rapid in Palmerston North.
Palmerston North Star players have been dominating NZ Chess of late. Wellington Club fearing Palmy top players GM Mark Noble and FM "Big Ben" Hague, sparing no expense cunningly brought in a ringer, a big ringer, former World Champion no less! former World junior under 20 Champion GM Helgi Gretarrsson (2462) from Iceland !
This brought an very exciting Grandmaster vs Grandmaster Clash with palmy's own local GM, in small little outback palmy, a place regarded as an intellectual backwoods by the big centres, a mighty battle unfolded. If this wasn't exciting enough two more titled players had also shown up including the Current New Zealand Champion IM Ker.
Sadly absent was one of Palmy's best FM "Big Ben" Hague rumored to have been kidnapped by NZ Grand Prix staff in order to avoid giving him Grand Prix points.
Prize winners
A-Grade
1st GM Helgi Gretarrsson (2462)
2nd IM Anthony Ker (2375)
3rd= FM Scott Wastney (2283)
John McDonald (2029)
Michael Nyberg (2026)
B-Grade
1st= Ross Jackson
Justin Davis
Mathew King
Bill Forster
Jack James
Chris Smith
James Stewart
C-Grade
1st Jack James
2nd= Layla Timergazi
Nicholas Moore
Brent Cooze
"17 out of 22 players received prizes including grade and upsets prizes"
More results to follow.
The debate for the title of "Strongest Chess Club in New Zealand" hotted up yesterday at the 4th Gordon Hoskyn Memorial Rapid in Palmerston North.
Palmerston North Star players have been dominating NZ Chess of late. Wellington Club fearing Palmy top players GM Mark Noble and FM "Big Ben" Hague, sparing no expense cunningly brought in a ringer, a big ringer, former World Champion no less! former World junior under 20 Champion GM Helgi Gretarrsson (2462) from Iceland !
This brought an very exciting Grandmaster vs Grandmaster Clash with palmy's own local GM, in small little outback palmy, a place regarded as an intellectual backwoods by the big centres, a mighty battle unfolded. If this wasn't exciting enough two more titled players had also shown up including the Current New Zealand Champion IM Ker.
Sadly absent was one of Palmy's best FM "Big Ben" Hague rumored to have been kidnapped by NZ Grand Prix staff in order to avoid giving him Grand Prix points.
Prize winners
A-Grade
1st GM Helgi Gretarrsson (2462)
2nd IM Anthony Ker (2375)
3rd= FM Scott Wastney (2283)
John McDonald (2029)
Michael Nyberg (2026)
B-Grade
1st= Ross Jackson
Justin Davis
Mathew King
Bill Forster
Jack James
Chris Smith
James Stewart
C-Grade
1st Jack James
2nd= Layla Timergazi
Nicholas Moore
Brent Cooze
"17 out of 22 players received prizes including grade and upsets prizes"
More results to follow.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Palmy Players Dominate NZ Chess
Over the past few months it is clear Palmerston North Chess has had a certain chess explosion.
All results are in more detail here http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/results.html
Palmerston North Players are in bold.
September 24th-25th 2011 - Interschools Finals, Mount Maunganui.
Secondary
1st Auckland Grammar (26) Hans Gao (6/7) Daniel Shen (7/7), Luke Li (7/7), Alex Huang (6/7) 2nd Macleans College (18) Leo Zhu (3/7) Alan Chen (4.5) Henry Jiang (6/7) Bill Li (4.5)
3rd Palmerston North Boys High (16.5) Jack James (3) Michael Yuan (4.5) Daniel Yuan (3.5) Sam Li (5.5)
A great achievement for Palmy Boys High considering the level of competition faced
Special mention to James, Jack who is NZ under-14 Rapid Champion
October 8th 2011 - Kapiti Rapid, Kapiti.
A-Grade
1st Ben Hague (2292) 5½/6
2nd= Mark Noble & Anthony Ker 4½
B-Grade
1st= Michael Yuan & Daniel Yuan 4½
3rd= David Paul, Jack James & Itay Ben-Dom 4
C-Grade
1st= Henry Li & Layla Timergazi
3rd= Robert List, John Gillespie, Dylan Frater & Nicholas Moore
October 16th 2011 - Hamilton Chess Club Mooving Rapid, Hamilton.
1st Ben Hague with 6/6.
October 29th - 30th 2011 - Merv Morrison, Auckland. Open:
1st= John Duneas and Ben Hague 5½/7
This latest win for FM Ben Hague at the Merv Morrison was a fine achievement. Coming into the final round Ben needed a win against one of New Zealand's most active FM's Michael Steadman to guarantee first prize. Here is the result.
Hague,B (2292) - Steadman,M (2269) [A80]
Merv Morrison (7), 30.10.2011
1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.d5!?
Not a very popular move which seems to take the game away from normal Dutch type positions. FM Steadman seemed surprised by this move judging by his play over the next few moves.
All results are in more detail here http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/results.html
Palmerston North Players are in bold.
September 24th-25th 2011 - Interschools Finals, Mount Maunganui.
Secondary
1st Auckland Grammar (26) Hans Gao (6/7) Daniel Shen (7/7), Luke Li (7/7), Alex Huang (6/7) 2nd Macleans College (18) Leo Zhu (3/7) Alan Chen (4.5) Henry Jiang (6/7) Bill Li (4.5)
3rd Palmerston North Boys High (16.5) Jack James (3) Michael Yuan (4.5) Daniel Yuan (3.5) Sam Li (5.5)
A great achievement for Palmy Boys High considering the level of competition faced
Special mention to James, Jack who is NZ under-14 Rapid Champion
October 8th 2011 - Kapiti Rapid, Kapiti.
A-Grade
1st Ben Hague (2292) 5½/6
2nd= Mark Noble & Anthony Ker 4½
B-Grade
1st= Michael Yuan & Daniel Yuan 4½
3rd= David Paul, Jack James & Itay Ben-Dom 4
C-Grade
1st= Henry Li & Layla Timergazi
3rd= Robert List, John Gillespie, Dylan Frater & Nicholas Moore
October 16th 2011 - Hamilton Chess Club Mooving Rapid, Hamilton.
1st Ben Hague with 6/6.
October 29th - 30th 2011 - Merv Morrison, Auckland. Open:
1st= John Duneas and Ben Hague 5½/7
This latest win for FM Ben Hague at the Merv Morrison was a fine achievement. Coming into the final round Ben needed a win against one of New Zealand's most active FM's Michael Steadman to guarantee first prize. Here is the result.
Hague,B (2292) - Steadman,M (2269) [A80]
Merv Morrison (7), 30.10.2011
1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.d5!?
Not a very popular move which seems to take the game away from normal Dutch type positions. FM Steadman seemed surprised by this move judging by his play over the next few moves.
3...Be7
It seems many moves are possible here but Be7 I don't think is best.3...exd5 4.Qxd5 d6 5.g3 Nf6 6.Qb3 Na6 7.Be3 d5 8.Bg2 c6 9.c4 dxc4 10.Qxc4 Bb4+ 11.Nbd2 Qd5 12.0-0 Qxc4 13.Nxc4 Bc5 14.Rfd1 Bxe3 15.Nxe3 Ke7 16.Nd4 g6 17.Nc4 Nc5 18.Na5 Ne6 19.Nxe6 Kxe6 20.Rd3 Re8 21.Rad1 Kf7 22.Kf1 Re5 23.Nc4 Rc5 24.b3 Nd5 25.Bxd5+ cxd5 26.Rxd5 Rxd5 27.Rxd5 Be6 28.Rd4 Kf6 29.Ke1 b5 30.Na3 Rb8 31.Rd6 a5 32.Nc2 Ke7 33.Ra6 a4 34.Nd4 Bd7 35.Kd2 Rc8 36.Rb6 Rc5 37.e3 axb3 38.axb3 Kf7 39.b4 Rd5 40.h4 Kg7 41.Ke2 Kh6 42.Nb3 Re5 43.Nc5 Be8 44.Re6 Rxe6 45.Nxe6 Bf7 46.Nf4 Bc4+ 47.Kd2 g5 48.hxg5+ Kxg5 49.Ng2 Kf6 50.f4 Ke6 51.Nh4 Bf1 52.Kc3 Bh3 53.Kd4 Kd6 54.Nf3 Bg2 55.Ng5 h5 56.Nf7+ Ke6 57.Ne5 Kd6 58.Nd3 Bf3 59.Nc1 Bg2 60.Ne2 Bf3 61.Nc3 Bc6 62.Kd3 Ke6 63.Kd4 Kd6 64.Nb1 Bf3 65.Nd2 Bc6 66.Kd3 Ke6 67.Nb3 Kd5 68.Nc5 Kd6 69.Kd4 Bg2 70.e4 fxe4 71.Nxe4+ Ke6 72.Nc3 Kf5 73.Nd5 Bf3 74.Ne3+ Kf6 75.Kc5 Be2 76.Nc2 Bf1 77.Nd4 Bd3 78.Nxb5 Kf5 79.Nd6+ 1-0 Vachier Lagrave,M-Vaisser,A/Mulhouse FRA 2011
3...Bd6!? 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Qxf6 7.e4 Bb4 8.e5 Qe7 9.Bd3 0-0 10.0-0 Bxc3 11.bxc3 exd5 12.c4 dxc4 13.Bxc4+ Kh8 14.Re1 Nc6 15.Qd5 a5 16.a4 Nb4 17.Qd2 Qc5 18.Bb3 Ra6 19.h4 Rg6 20.h5 Rg4 21.e6 dxe6 22.Ne5 Rd4 23.Ng6+ Kg8 24.Qe3 Nd5 25.Bxd5 Rxd5 26.Nxf8 Qxe3 27.Rxe3 Kxf8 28.Rd3 Rxd3 29.cxd3 Bd7 30.Rc1 c6 31.f3 Ke7 32.d4 Be8 33.Kf2 Bxh5 34.Rb1 b5 35.axb5 cxb5 36.Rxb5 a4 37.Rb7+ Kf6 38.Rb8 Ke7 39.Ke3 Be8 40.Rb6 g5 41.d5 exd5 42.Kd4 h5 43.Kxd5 f4 44.Ke5 Bd7 45.Rg6 a3 46.Rg7+ Ke8 47.Rxg5 1-0 Yermolinsky,A-Poehlmann,R/San Francisco 2003
4.dxe6 dxe6 5.Qxd8+ Bxd8 6.e4! Nc6
6...fxe4 7.Ng5 Nc6 The computer still gives this position as equal but why give yourself a weak pawn on e6.
7.exf5 exf5 8.Bc4 Nf6 9.0-0
9...h6?!
The position looks deceptively drawish,black has certain problems with development and King position he must solve and this move helps neither. Better is 9...Bd7 10.Nc3 Be7 11.Bf4 0-0-0 White has only a small edge.
10.Re1+ Be7 11.Bf4 Kd8 Black is now clearly worse, it is hard to believe Steadman has done anything really wrong to deserve being on the edge of defeat.
12.Nc3 g5?
This is already the losing move! h6 and g5 have done nothing for black's position while white has made clear quiet but forceful moves directly helping his position. Black has huge development problems, note white's rooks are ready to infiltrate black's camp while black's rooks haven't moved and have no clear way to enter the game. [12...Bb4 13.Ne5 Nxe5 14.Bxe5 Bd7 15.Rad1 Rf8±]
13.Ne5! Nxe5
13...gxf4 14.Nf7++-
14.Bxe5 Rh7
Better is 14...Rf8
15.Nb5?!
This is still winning but white could mop up the game even quicker with... 15.Rad1+ Bd7 16.Be6 White is winning a piece at minimum here.
15...Bd7 16.Bxc7+
16.Rad1 This is stronger again.
16...Ke8 17.Bd6 Rc8 18.Bxe7
1-0
White is winning an exchange as well as having an enormous positional advantage.
These comments were made by the arbiter on chess chat about this game.
Steadman looked drained of energy to me after round6 where he had a short draw. Recall he even needed a nap before round7. Probably not helped by warm stuffy conditions in the tournament hall and the neighbour building a garden shed with loud metal grinder noise. Certainly not conducive for a chess tournament.
Quite a pathetic argument. Ben travelled 500+ kilometers to play in this tournament which is in Steadman's back yard and Ben had the same tournament condition's as everyone else. The reality is he got caught out in an opening he didn't really know and simply got crushed by a very Strong opponent. It happens to all of us.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Palmerston North Chess Club Championship
The palmy champs are slowly moving in the direction of the finish line and at this point Ben Chris and Mark are the favourite's to win. This coming Wednesday will see the two top players Ben and Mark face off where if Ben is able to win would put him firmly in the driver's seat for first.
One of the big upsets of the tournament was Jack James 1784 win over John McDonald 2114
The following position is from their game White(John) to move
John tried 17. d5? and lost after 14 odd moves in a rather unusual game. The position is quite tricky anyway but white's best chance was 17.Ne4!? when 17...Nxd1 runs into Nxd6+ followed by Rb3 when white is better so black's best is 17...Bf8 keeping the position balanced if tricky.
This next position is from last week's game Chris Burns - Mark Noble black to move.
Black with more time on his clock now than at the start of the game played the shocker 41...Rd7? and simply resigned after 42.Rxc5! when black cannot recapture because of the Bb3 threat to pin the Queen to the King. Better is 41...Kh7 or Qe7 and we have a pretty equal endgame.
One of the big upsets of the tournament was Jack James 1784 win over John McDonald 2114
The following position is from their game White(John) to move
John tried 17. d5? and lost after 14 odd moves in a rather unusual game. The position is quite tricky anyway but white's best chance was 17.Ne4!? when 17...Nxd1 runs into Nxd6+ followed by Rb3 when white is better so black's best is 17...Bf8 keeping the position balanced if tricky.This next position is from last week's game Chris Burns - Mark Noble black to move.
Black with more time on his clock now than at the start of the game played the shocker 41...Rd7? and simply resigned after 42.Rxc5! when black cannot recapture because of the Bb3 threat to pin the Queen to the King. Better is 41...Kh7 or Qe7 and we have a pretty equal endgame.
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