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Australian Junior Championships Report
Cameron McGowan is the 2020 Australian Junior Champion.
The Australian Junior Chess Championships have concluded for 2020. In total, there were 362 players in the main events, 144 players in the Blitz and 102 Juniors competed in the problem solving.
Under 18 Open:
1st – Cameron McGowan (NSW)
2nd – Michael Ostapenko (QLD)
3rd – Sravan Renjith (QLD)
Under 16 Open:
1st – Ryder Testolin (VIC)
2nd – James Spencer (NSW)
3rd – Daniel Melamed (NSW)
Under 14 Open:
1st – Alexavier Ly-Liu (QLD)
2nd – Yihe (Rebo) Fu (WA)
3rd – Seth Peramunetellike (NSW)
Under 12 Open:
1st – Jayden Ooi (QLD)
2nd – Archit Kannan (VIC)
3rd – Arthur Gao (VIC)
Under 10 Open:
1st – Jayden Ooi (QLD) via play-off
2nd – Zerui Xing (QLD)
3rd – Joel Leong (QLD)
Under 8 Open:
1st – Lachlan Wang (QLD)
2nd – Harvey Zhu (QLD)
3rd – Calen Tang (QLD)
Under 12 – 18 Girls was a combined tournament
with the following trophies awarded.
Under 18 Girls:
1st – Lillian Lu (VIC)
2nd – Emily Lin (VIC)
3rd – Eva Ge (NSW)
Under 16 Girls:
1st – Athena Hathiramani (ACT) (2nd overall)
2nd – Myiesha Maunders (VIC)
3rd – Jennifer Morrison (VIC)
Under 14 Girls:
1st – Elizaveta Gratchev (QLD)
(via play-off with Athena-Malar Retnaraja)
2nd – Ekaterina Gratchev (QLD)
3rd – Dhwani Patel (NSW)
Under 12 Girls:
1st – Athena-Malar Retnaraja (SA)
(after play-offwith Elizaveta Gratchev)
2nd – Damaris Augustine (VIC)
3rd – Ethena Qiang (QLD)
Under 10 Girls:
1st – Darline Augustine (VIC) (via play-off)
2nd – Chanya Rupasinghe (NSW)
3rd – Emily Zhang
Under 8 Girls:
1st – Vidushi Dissanayake (VIC)
2nd – Xintong Zhang (QLD)
3rd – Manyata Sindhi (VIC)
Full standings and cross-tables are available at AJCC-2020 Results

Fun CAQ Teams of 6 Chess Day
It was another epic day of Team Chess in more ways than one on Sunday December 15 in the spacious hall of St Joseph’s Primary School in Bracken Ridge. When the third seeded team Epic Epicness defeated Gold Coast Team 1, the second seeds, by 5.5 to 0.5, a buzz went round the room. What was in the flowers around their necks, perhaps a performance enhancing perfume? When they later drew their match 3 all with the Number 1 seeds Bullwinkle Team 1, victory seemed assured. However, Redcliffe Team 1 looked a possible giant killer in the final round when they looked to be doing quite well on at least 3 of the six boards. But Charles Tsai came back from the dead against Mark C Stokes and the other close games fell Epic Epicness’ way and a very deserved Division 1 Teams of 6 Queensland Championship was theirs for the first time by just 1 match point! Division 2 was also decided by 1 match point, with Bullwinkle 3 taking it out in a very close contest. The day was full of fun and very well run by Arbiter Max Kershaw, with up to date Team Match points and individual board score points on display for one and all from round 1 to round 9! Max certainly deserved the big round of applause he received from all 60 players at the prize giving ceremony! But Tyson Walker and Epic Epicness deserve the biggest applause for an outstanding, epic performance, winning 48 games, drawing 3 games and losing just 3 games on the day! What was in those flowers????
The 10 teams entered are:
Bullwinkle 1 (average rating for the 6 boards is 2120)
Gold Coast 1 (2064)
Excessive Epicness (2012)
Bullwinkle 2 (1798)
Redcliffe 1 (1507)
Logan-Redlands (1452)
Bullwinkle 3 (1208)
Gold Coast 2 (1123)
All Juniors (1095)
Redcliffe 2 (1037)
It is a full round robin, with all play all. There are two divisions being contested for both the Open and a divisional winner as well as individual board prizes.
Team winners on the day were:
Division 1.
1st Excessive Epicness 1 on 17 match points.
2nd Gold Coast 1 on 16mps.
3rd Bullwinkle 1 on 15 mps.
The Excessive Epicness team have been runners up in this event for the past few years and were worthy winners this year. The team members were: Board 1 Eliot Soo-Burrows; 2 Hughston Parle; 3 Sravan Renjith; 4 Charles Tsai; 5 Tyson Walker and 6 Andrew Mather. Out of the 54 games that they contested they only lost 3 and drew 3.
Division 2 winners were:
1st Bullwinkle 3 on 7 mps.
=2nd were Logan-Redlands and All Juniors on 6mps.
The Bullwinkle 3 team members were Board 1 Jayden Ooi; 2 Michael D’Arcy; 3 Jason Chan; 4 Regina Edwards; 5 Keon Poon and 6 Keenan Poon.

Charm City Motel Open – 2019
GM Timur Gareyev is the Charm City Motel Open 2019 champion!
Charm City Motel Open – Round 6
Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr. 1 Timur Gareyev (1) USA 2588 6 15.0 23.0 21.0 2-3 Brodie McClymont (3) QLD 2387 5 16.0 25.0 19.0 Heather Richards (4) QLD 2216 5 12.5 18.5 15.0 4-12 Stephen Solomon (2) QLD 2398 4 16.0 25.0 17.0 Ben Atia (14) QLD 1423 4 15.0 21.5 13.5 Jayden Ooi (8) QLD 1654 4 14.5 23.5 14.5 Timothy Harris (6) QLD 1860 4 13.5 20.5 17.0 Aiden Brady (9) QLD 1610 4 13.5 19.5 14.5 Martin Post (7) QLD 1700 4 13.0 20.0 15.0 Craig Stewart (12) QLD 1452 4 12.5 19.5 14.0 Tony Weller (10) QLD 1572 4 12.5 18.5 13.0 Raphael Atia (26) QLD 1052 4 12.5 17.0 11.0 13-16 Patrick Harris (18) QLD 1290 3.5 14.5 22.5 12.0 Andrew Lin (24) QLD 1088 3.5 12.0 18.5 11.0 Keith MacLeod (17) QLD 1297 3.5 11.5 17.5 12.0 Mark Stokes (13) QLD 1431 3.5 11.0 18.5 11.5 17-25 Karl Rochford (16) QLD 1309 3 14.5 21.0 15.0 Peter Bender (22) QLD 1158 3 14.5 21.0 13.0 Orson Van Der Byl (19) QLD 1236 3 14.5 19.0 12.0 Andrew Van Der Meer (21) QLD 1208 3 12.5 19.0 9.0 Joshua McCorkell (41) 3 12.5 18.0 9.0 Louis Willemse (20) QLD 1226 3 11.5 18.0 9.0 Khush Patel (15) QLD 1352 3 11.0 17.5 11.0 John Harris (11) QLD 1540 3 10.5 15.0 13.0 Elizabeth Williams (33) QLD 639 3 9.0 14.5 6.0 26-28 Luka Hart (35) QLD 557 2.5 13.0 17.0 8.0 Shubh Patel (31) QLD 804 2.5 11.0 16.5 9.0 Indruh Lawrence (32) QLD 732 2.5 9.5 15.0 5.0 29-35 Joel Knight (30) QLD 830 2 12.5 18.0 6.0 Martin Carter (29) QLD 868 2 12.5 17.0 8.0 William Ilka (27) QLD 1018 2 12.0 16.5 8.0 Sarah Knight (36) QLD 548 2 12.0 16.5 3.0 Alexander Ilka (25) QLD 1055 2 11.5 17.0 8.0 Philip Mulholland (23) QLD 1112 2 11.5 17.0 7.0 Scott Hoens (34) QLD 606 2 8.0 11.5 5.0 36-37 Himanshu Patel (28) QLD 893 1.5 12.0 17.5 8.0 Joshua Lee (39) 1.5 11.5 16.5 5.0 38-39 Jeeva Praveen (42) 1 11.0 16.5 6.0 Timothy McCorkell (40) 1 9.5 14.5 3.0 40-42 Biljana Dekic (5) NSW 1975 0 4.0 4.0 0.0 Lucas Bern (37) 0 2.0 7.0 0.0 Simon Knight (38) QLD 0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Cross Table
No Name Feder Rtg Loc Title 1 2 3 4 5 6 1. Timur Gareyev USA 2588 gm 18:W 13:W 8:W 16:W 3:W 2:W 2. Stephen Solomon QLD 2398 im 19:W 15:W 9:W 3:L 10:W 1:L 3. Brodie McClymont QLD 2387 im 20:W 14:W 12:W 2:W 1:L 6:W 4. Heather Richards QLD 2216 wim 21:L 24:W 23:W 15:W 16:W 7:W 5. Biljana Dekic NSW 1975 wim 22:L :L : : : : 6. Timothy Harris QLD 1860 23:W 17:W 11:W 7:L 19:W 3:L 7. Martin Post QLD 1700 25:W 16:L 20:W 6:W 22:W 4:L 8. Jayden Ooi QLD 1654 26:W 21:W 1:L 14:D 18:D 19:W 9. Aiden Brady QLD 1610 27:W 22:W 2:L 18:D 14:D 41:W 10. Tony Weller QLD 1572 29:L 32:W 21:W 17:W 2:L 22:W 11. John Harris QLD 1540 30:W 42:W 6:L 22:L 25:W 14:L 12. Craig Stewart QLD 1452 33:W 29:W 3:L 19:L 24:W 16:W 13. Mark Stokes QLD 1431 35:W 1:L 22:L 30:W 27:W 18:D 14. Ben Atia QLD 1423 36:W 3:L 26:W 8:D 9:D 11:W 15. Khush Patel QLD 1352 37:W 2:L 25:W 4:L 41:L 27:W 16. Karl Rochford QLD 1309 40:W 7:W 28:W 1:L 4:L 12:L 17. Keith MacLeod QLD 1297 41:W 6:L 27:W 10:L 35:D 25:W 18. Patrick Harris QLD 1290 1:L 33:W 29:W 9:D 8:D 13:D 19. Orson Van Der Byl QLD 1236 2:L 35:W 42:W 12:W 6:L 8:L 20. Louis Willemse QLD 1226 3:L 36:W 7:L 28:W 26:L 23:W 21. Andrew Van Der Meer QLD 1208 4:W 8:L 10:L 35:L 28:W 29:W 22. Peter Bender QLD 1158 5:W 9:L 13:W 11:W 7:L 10:L 23. Philip Mulholland QLD 1112 6:L 37:W 4:L 41:L 40:W 20:L 24. Andrew Lin QLD 1088 :D 4:L 30:W 31:W 12:L 35:W 25. Alexander Ilka QLD 1055 7:L 39:W 15:L 29:W 11:L 17:L 26. Raphael Atia QLD 1052 8:L 41:W 14:L 42:W 20:W 31:W 27. William Ilka QLD 1018 9:L 40:W 17:L 34:W 13:L 15:L 28. Himanshu Patel QLD 893 :D 31:W 16:L 20:L 21:L 32:L 29. Martin Carter QLD 868 10:W 12:L 18:L 25:L 42:W 21:L 30. Joel Knight QLD 830 11:L 34:W 24:L 13:L 33:L :W 31. Shubh Patel QLD 804 :D 28:L 33:W 24:L 39:W 26:L 32. Indruh Lawrence QLD 732 :L 10:L :D 39:L 34:W 28:W 33. Elizabeth Williams QLD 639 12:L 18:L 31:L 36:W 30:W 39:W 34. Scott Hoens QLD 606 : 30:L 37:W 27:L 32:L 40:W 35. Luka Hart QLD 557 13:L 19:L 40:W 21:W 17:D 24:L 36. Sarah Knight QLD 548 14:L 20:L 41:L 33:L :W 42:W 37. Lucas Bern 15:L 23:L 34:L : : : 38. Simon Knight QLD : : : : : : 39. Joshua Lee : 25:L :D 32:W 31:L 33:L 40. Timothy McCorkell 16:L 27:L 35:L :W 23:L 34:L 41. Joshua McCorkell 17:L 26:L 36:W 23:W 15:W 9:L 42. Jeeva Praveen :W 11:L 19:L 26:L 29:L 36:L

TopChess Christmas Weekender
Starts: December 21, 2019
Ends: December 22, 2019
Location: Buranda State School, 24 Cowley St, Woolloongabba QLD 4102, Australia
What better way to finish the year with a final tournament! This is also a perfect opportunity to drop the kids off and go do the Christmas shopping, and there is a canteen available on-site!
With 3 rounds on each day, the schedule is very friendly. There are two half point byes allowed (except final round), with the time control being 60 minutes + 20 seconds per move added.
CAQ Membership is required, however this will roll over into 2020.
Get involved for some last minute Australian Junior practice 🙂

Queensland Championships 2019 Under 1600 Report
Oliver McCarthy is the 2019 Queensland Under 1600 Champion!

Queensland Women’s and Girl’s Championships Report
Queensland has a new Woman’s Chess Champion – 7 year old Elizabeth Williams!

Nell Van de Graaff Classic
FM Gene Nakauchi won with a picket fence 7 from 7!
2nd IM Stephen Solomon and 3rd GM Moulthun Ly.