State U11-8 and October Tournaments – Take2!!

Updated October 16th, 2019

THE FIRST DAY OF THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS – MONDAY 16th DECEMBER 2019

This year’s State Under 11-8 Championships and the associated October 25 and October 60 Tournaments were disrupted totally around 9:15AM on the second day by a fire in the Fire Exit stairwell. Fortunately all the players and parents etc evacuated the building within 90 seconds and the fire brigade was just a few minutes away.

The Chess Centre itself was not damaged apart from a lot of smoke and soot and while most of that has been cleaned up, the carpets will need to be either steam-cleaned or replaced and some minor painting done. It was wonderful that no-one was hurt and very lucky that we were there at the time it happened else the entire building could have gone up.

 

The final day of the tournaments however will be be played on the first day of the Summer School Holidays – Monday 16th December – hopefully before any of the competitors fly off overseas or interstate etc. Those that cannot play will be compensated and prizes will be awarded depending on their standings at the end of the first day.

So, please find the current standings for all 3 tournaments – it should be an exciting finish! 

The Players will not need to buy pizzas etc as all that has been paid for.

 

 

SA Under 11-8 Championship

Cross Table at round 5

Pos T NAME Rtg Fed Pts 1 2 3 4 5 Buc1 BucT
1   Retnaraja,Athena-Mal 1099 SA 5.0
1
21
1
19
1
5
1
14
1
3
 14.0 17.0
2   Maria,Alistair 872 TAS 5.0
1
20
1
15
1
12
1
6
1
13
 13.0 16.0
3   Cerny,Sophie 425 SA 4.0
1
32
1
13
1
25
1
4
0
1
 14.5 16.0
4   Liyanage,Dewmi 618 SA 4.0
1
22
1
18
1
7
0
3
1
14
 14.0 17.0
5   Vuong,Clynton 585 SA 4.0
1
42
1
10
0
1
1
16
1
17
 14.0 15.0
6   Fang,Pink 537 SA 4.0
1
48
1
31
1
8
0
2
1
12
 13.5 14.0
7   Liu,Ian 1054 SA 4.0
1
36
1
26
0
4
1
9
1
18
 13.0 15.0
8   Do,Dan 685 SA 3.5
1
24
1
43
0
6
1
23
½
10
 13.0 14.0
9   Chen,Jackson 731 SA 3.5
1
38
½
25
1
11
0
7
1
26
 12.5 14.5
10   Sherman,Fergus 0 SA 3.5
1
BYE
0
5
1
33
1
15
½
8
 12.5 14.5
11   Balachander,Keshav 671 SA 3.5
½
16
1
46
0
9
1
20
1
25
 12.0 13.0
12   Nacov,Mark 661 SA 3.0
1
45
1
23
0
2
1
24
0
6
 15.0 16.0
13   Yue,Jayden 872 SA 3.0
1
33
0
3
1
22
1
37
0
2
 14.0 16.0
14   Cirami,Oliver 528 SA 3.0
1
29
1
17
1
30
0
1
0
4
 14.0 16.0
15   Errington,Grace 487 SA 3.0
1
40
0
2
1
29
0
10
1
34
 12.0 13.5
16   Eimery,Ilya 0 AUS 3.0
½
11
½
27
1
35
0
5
1
31
 12.0 13.5
17   Tran,Quan 0 AUS 3.0
1
46
0
14
1
39
1
19
0
5
 12.0 13.0
18   Turaka,John 0 AUS 3.0
1
44
0
4
1
36
1
30
0
7
 12.0 13.0
19   Cirami,Amelia 470 SA 3.0
1
52
0
1
1
34
0
17
1
29
 12.0 12.0
20   Yu,Isaac 0 AUS 3.0
0
2
1
42
1
44
0
11
1
33
 11.5 12.5
21   Chen,Jacky 0 SA 3.0
0
1
0
29
1
40
1
45
1
37
 10.5 11.5
22   Fernandez,Hannah 0 SA 3.0
0
4
1
32
0
13
1
43
1
30
 10.5 11.5
23   Muir,Charlie 236 SA 3.0
1
37
0
12
1
47
0
8
1
32
 10.0 10.5
24   Earnest,Enesi 0 SA 3.0
0
8
1
47
1
41
0
12
1
35
 9.5 10.0
25   Tang,Charles 450 SA 2.5
1
34
½
9
0
3
1
28
0
11
 13.5 15.5
26   Koh-Buckland,Sze-Yon 481 SA 2.5
1
41
0
7
½
28
1
27
0
9
 12.5 14.0
27   Caruso,Connor 525 SA 2.5
0
28
½
16
1
31
0
26
1
43
 10.0 11.0
28   Lee,Alex 0 SA 2.5
1
27
0
30
½
26
0
25
1
44
 9.5 10.5
29   Karthikeyan,Manav 0 AUS 2.0
0
14
1
21
0
15
1
39
0
19
 12.0 14.0
30   Connor,Isaac 730 SA 2.0
1
39
1
28
0
14
0
18
0
22
 11.5 13.5
31   Fuller,Leo 0 AUS 2.0
1
35
0
6
0
27
1
38
0
16
 11.5 13.0
32   Sanghavi,Aarnav 0 AUS 2.0
0
3
0
22
1
BYE
1
44
0
23
 11.0 12.0
33   Cochrane,Zephram 0 AUS 2.0
0
13
1
40
0
10
1
42
0
20
 10.5 11.5
34   Nguyen,Joshua 0 AUS 2.0
0
25
1
38
0
19
1
48
0
15
 10.5 11.0
35   Gong,Danny 0 AUS 2.0
0
31
1
BYE
0
16
1
36
0
24
 10.0 11.5
36   Chen,Lucas 0 AUS 2.0
0
7
1
41
0
18
0
35
1
45
 10.0 11.0
37   Tran,Hai 0 AUS 2.0
0
23
1
45
1
43
0
13
0
21
 10.0 11.0
38   Cook,Sebastian 0 SA 2.0
0
9
0
34
1
48
0
31
1
42
 8.5 9.0
39   Dileesh,Asmit 0 AUS 2.0
0
30
1
52
0
17
0
29
1
47
 7.5 7.5
40   Mahanama,Kinindu 0 AUS 1.5
0
15
0
33
0
21
1
52
½
46
 9.0 9.0
41   Muir,Harry 0 SA 1.5
0
26
0
36
0
24
½
46
1
52
 8.5 8.5
42   Fromentin,William 0 AUS 1.0
0
5
0
20
1
46
0
33
0
38
 11.0 12.0
43   Pang,Luke 339 SA 1.0
1
47
0
8
0
37
0
22
0
27
 11.0 11.5
44   Nguyen,Anthony 126 SA 1.0
0
18
1
48
0
20
0
32
0
28
 10.0 10.5
45   Errington,Jude 0 AUS 1.0
0
12
0
37
1
52
0
21
0
36
 10.0 10.0
46   McLachlan,Dougal 218 SA 1.0
0
17
0
11
0
42
½
41
½
40
 9.5 10.5
47   Shah,Shlok 0 SA 1.0
0
43
0
24
0
23
1
BYE
0
39
 9.0 9.5
48   Golla,Shikhar 0 AUS 1.0
0
6
0
44
0
38
0
34
1
BYE
 9.0 9.0
49   Fletcher,Harry 281 SA 0.0
0
BYE
         9.0 10.0
50   Lam,Isaac 0 AUS 0.0           9.0 10.0
51   Thomas,Nomika 131 SA 0.0           9.0 10.0
52   Nguyen,Jessica 0 SA 0.0
0
19
0
39
0
45
0
40
0
41
 8.0 9.0

October 25

Cross Table at round 5

Pos T NAME Rtg Fed Pts 1 2 3 4 5 Buc1 BucT
1   Commisso,Anthony 324 SA 5.0
1
8
1
2
1
4
1
3
1
9
 13.0 15.5
2   Vuong,Lachlyn 785 SA 4.0
1
16
0
1
1
15
1
5
1
4
 12.0 13.0
3   Tang,Caleb 968 SA 3.5
1
7
1
6
½
5
0
1
1
11
 14.0 15.5
4   Harding,Gabriel 563 SA 3.0
1
11
1
15
0
1
1
7
0
2
 13.5 14.5
5   Xu,Andrew 0 AUS 3.0
1
10
1
14
½
3
0
2
½
6
 13.0 14.5
6   Koh-Buckland,Sze-Sio 475 SA 3.0
1
12
0
3
½
9
1
8
½
5
 11.5 13.0
7   Carrigan,William 0 SA 3.0
0
3
1
12
1
10
0
4
1
13
 10.5 12.0
8   Lee,Sebastian 753 SA 2.5
0
1
½
13
1
14
0
6
1
12
 11.0 12.5
9   Wu,Yifan 566 SA 2.5
0
15
1
16
½
6
1
13
0
1
 10.5 11.5
10   Barreto,Sebastian 541 SA 2.5
0
5
1
11
0
7
½
12
1
16
 9.0 10.0
11   Welling,Oscar 0 AUS 2.0
0
4
0
10
1
BYE
1
15
0
3
 10.0 11.0
12   Zeng,Jack 0 AUS 1.5
0
6
0
7
1
16
½
10
0
8
 11.0 12.0
13   Gilhotra,Bal 601 SA 1.5
½
14
½
8
½
BYE
0
9
0
7
 10.5 12.0
14   Sean,Alex 0 AUS 1.5
½
13
0
5
0
8
0
16
1
15
 8.0 9.0
15   Turaka,Andrew 0 AUS 1.0
1
9
0
4
0
2
0
11
0
14
 11.0 12.5
16   Dong,David 0 AUS 1.0
0
2
0
9
0
12
1
14
0
10
 10.5 12.0
17   Lam,Sofia 0 AUS 0.0           9.0 10.0
18   Sanghavi,Arnold 0 AUS 0.0           9.0 10.0
19   Maria,Alistair 872 AUS 0.0           9.0 10.0

October 60

Cross Table at round 2

Pos T NAME Rtg Fed Pts 1 2 Buc1 BucT
1   Retnaraja,Ethan 1371 SA 2.0
1
6
1
4
 1.0 2.0
2   Wang,Willian 0   2.0
1
5
1
3
 1.0 2.0
3   Liu,Ethan Yi 1150 SA 1.0
1
7
0
2
 2.0 2.0
4   Pattison,Hamish 1130 SA 1.0
1
8
0
1
 2.0 2.0
5   Kosgallana,Dimandiw 947 SA 1.0
0
2
1
7
 2.0 2.0
6   Balachander,Tharan 766 SA 1.0
0
1
1
8
 2.0 2.0
7   Hilangkovan,Sreeram 663 SA 0.0
0
3
0
5
 1.0 2.0
8   Parekh,Nirmit 0 SA 0.0
0
4
0
6
 1.0 2.0

Thursday Oct 10th – Friday Oct 11th 2019

Played at the Chess Centre, 10 Ranelagh St Adelaide 5000 

The SAJCL is offering juniors the choice of 3(!) tournaments these holidays – The October 60 Tournament is for older juniors and is played at a time rate of 60 minutes +10 secs per move (only 5 rounds – 2 on Thursday and 3 on Friday)  or the October 25 Tournament where the games are shorter – only 25 minutes each + 10 secs per move (10 games, 5 on Thursday, 5 on Friday). The State Under 11 – 7 Championships will all be played at 25 minutes + 10 sec/move.

The players’ ages are those on the 1st July 2019. If they are 8 or younger on 1st of July, they should play in the Under 9; if they are 9, they should play in the Under 10 and if they are 10, they should play in the Under 11 State Championships. Players who are 11 or older should play in either the October 60 minute +10 spm tournament starting or the October 25 minute +10 spm event.

The Chess Centre will be open from 8.30am on all days to allow parents to drop off youngsters before work. The sessions will all be finished by 3.30 pm, except the October 60 on the Friday may go to 5.15pm.

SA U11-U8 and the Oct 25 Tournaments: 5 games daily

Schedule: 9:30am, 11am, LUNCH at 12 noon,12:30pm, 1:30pm and 2:30pm;

The October 60 Tournament times will be: Thursday  10am, LUNCH at 12 noon and 12:30pm & Friday: 10am, 12 NOON lunch, 12.30pm & 3pm with all games finished by 5pm

Lunches will be from 12 NOON and Pizza can be ordered each day for $5

Special one-day tournaments will be organised for those who can play for just one day.

Prizes:

1st in U11, U10, U9, U8 & U7 – $50, 2nd: $25; 3rd $15. The Prizes for the October Tournaments will be decided on entries but as always, will be generous.

Entry Fee – $35 which covers both days but a $5 discount applies if you send an email to Alan Goldsmith or ring or text  Alan Goldsmith on 0401 67 2481 before Wednesday 9th October 2019. You can enter on the day but must do so at 9am.  The Entry for a one-day event is $15. 

 

2019 Wrap-Up events – Girls only Tournament & Open Tournament

Updated October 16th, 2019

Wrap Up Tournaments for Inter-School Matches – 6th December 2019

These will make for a great excursion!

a) Evelyn Koshnitsky Girls Only Tournament

b) Open Tournament  for Girls & Boys

Friday – 9:30am – 12:30pm

These events are played during school time – the Friday morning.

Cost: Just $10 per student

Venue: The Chess Centre, 10 Ranelagh St. Adelaide 5000

Primary and Secondary – lots of prizes for different year levels. Chocolates.

The Chess Centre will be open from 8:30am to allow parents to drop off their students before work.

The students will play 5 or 6 games and learn how a tournament is run, discover the use of chess timers and have lots of fun.

Depending on the numbers, there will be separate tournaments for Primary and Secondary and probably separate year Levels.

The students can be beginners or experts and can be any year level.

To register your students, please contact Alan Goldsmith on 0401 672 481 or email alang@knightsandbytes.com.au with your list

2019 Secondary Girls Teams Championship

Updated October 16th, 2019

This competition will take place at the Chess Centre on Wednesday 6th November 2019 between 4PM and 6:30PM and will involve teams of 4 Secondary/Middle School girls playing 4 matches with all players having 20 minutes each per game. Each game can therefore take 40 minutes so 4×40=160 minutes, so it should all be done in around 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Schools that took part in the SAJCL Competitions are invited to send teams of 4 girls, possibly more than 1 team per school, and the winning team will earn the right to represent SA in the Australian Schools Teams Championship which will take place in Canberra on Saturday 30th November  and Sunday 1st December. 

The SAJCL will give each team that represents us in the ASTC $800 to help with expenses.

Schools wishing to enter a team should message or ring Alan Goldsmith on 0401 67 2481 to indicate their intention to take part.