Updated April 19th, 2021
Inter-school Matches
A big REMINDER that this year’s inter-school matches start on the 30th April – so please ensure you have teams entered by Wednesday 28th April. Simply ring Alan Goldsmith or message him on 0401 672 481.
City of Adelaide Junior Championships
And .. The City of Adelaide Junior Championships took place from the 14th-16th April 2021, a week earlier than normal, but still attracting a good crowd of around 80 juniors.
There were 6 tournaments held:
The City of Adelaide U21
The main event, the Under 21 Championship, was played with a time limit of 60 mins + 10 sec increment per player and took place over 3 days. It attracted a dozen players and needed in a tie for first between Alistair Maria and Ethan Retnaraja – they will share the title. Third was Raad Rahman.
The City of Adelaide U15
This event was an 8 round swiss with each player having 25 minutes + 10 sec on the clock and was run over 2 days. The winner, without losing a game was Athena-Malar Retnaraja, ahead of in 2nd place Yutian You and 3rd Callum Dundas.
The City of Adelaide – one-day Allegro
This was a 7-round Allegro with the players having 15 minutes each on the clock It was also won by Athena-Malar ahead of in 2nd place Anthony Commisso and third Callum Dundas.
The City of Adelaide U12
This event attracted 22 players and saw 12 games played over 3 days, with a time limit of 25 minutes + 10 sec increment per player. It was won very convincingly by Jackson Chen, ahead of 2nd Jayden Yue and third was Sophie Cerny.
The City of Adelaide U10 – Wednesday
The first of the one-day Allegros for the Under 10s had 7 rounds and was won by Manav Karthikeyan ahead of Oliver Cirami in second place. Equal third were Luke Pang, Lucas Chen and Jeremy Xu.
The City of Adelaide U10 – Thursday
The second of the Under 10s Allegro had 8 rounds and was won Oliver Cirami, ahead of in 2nd place Manav Karthikeyan and third Lucas Chen
The City of Adelaide U10 – Friday
The third of the Under 10s Allegro had 9 rounds and ended in a tie for first between Manav Karthikeyan and Connor Caruso with Oliver Cirami third.
The overall winner for the City of Adelaide Under 10 was Manav with 22 points, 2nd Oliver 20 and 3rd Lucas 16.5
And congratulations to all who took part – the atmosphere was great, the games very good and it was all a lot of fun..
The next events are in the July Holidays and please note the dates:
State Girls’ Championships Monday and Tuesday 12th & 13th July
State U18-U12 Championships Wednesday – Friday 14th-16th July
July Junior (for U10s) – 3 separate events Wednesday – Friday 14th-16th July 2021
Here are the crosstables:
2021 City of Adelaide Junior U21
Cross Table at round 6
Pos | T | NAME | Rtg | Fed | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Buc1 | BucT |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Maria,Alistair | 1355 | SA | 4.5 |
1
BYE
|
1
6
|
½
2
|
1
4
|
0
3
|
1
7
|
19.0 | 21.5 | |
2 | Retnaraja,Ethan | 1550 | SA | 4.5 |
1
8
|
½
4
|
½
1
|
1
5
|
½
6
|
1
3
|
18.0 | 20.0 | |
3 | Rahman,Raad | 1453 | SA | 4.0 |
½
5
|
1
9
|
½
4
|
1
6
|
1
1
|
0
2
|
18.5 | 21.5 | |
4 | Balachander,Tharan | 1299 | SA | 3.5 |
1
13
|
½
2
|
½
3
|
0
1
|
1
10
|
½
6
|
18.0 | 18.0 | |
5 | Gibbons,Timothy | 516 | SA | 3.5 |
½
3
|
½
8
|
½
10
|
0
2
|
1
11
|
1
13
|
15.0 | 15.0 | |
6 | Stevens,Ben | 1027 | SA | 3.0 |
1
10
|
0
1
|
1
11
|
0
3
|
½
2
|
½
4
|
18.5 | 20.5 | |
7 | Whyte,Alastair | 629 | SA | 3.0 |
1
13
|
1
9
|
1
8
|
0
1
|
15.5 | 15.5 | |||
8 | Hilangkovan,Sreeram | 786 | SA | 2.5 |
0
2
|
½
5
|
1
BYE
|
1
10
|
0
7
|
0
9
|
17.5 | 19.5 | |
9 | Kumar,Sid | 0 | SA | 2.5 |
½
BYE
|
0
3
|
0
BYE
|
0
7
|
1
13
|
1
8
|
16.0 | 16.0 | |
10 | Woolcock,Ben | 0 | SA | 2.5 |
0
6
|
1
13
|
½
5
|
0
8
|
0
4
|
1
11
|
14.0 | 14.0 | |
11 | Newbold,Charles | 0 | AUS | 1.5 |
0
BYE
|
½
BYE
|
0
6
|
1
13
|
0
5
|
0
10
|
15.0 | 15.0 | |
12 | Commisso,Anthony (W) | 329 | SA | 0.5 |
½
BYE
|
13.5 | 15.0 | ||||||
13 | Sureshkumar,Nevon | 0 | SA | 0.0 |
0
4
|
0
10
|
0
7
|
0
11
|
0
9
|
0
5
|
16.5 | 18.5 |
2021 City of Adelaide Junior U15
Cross Table at round 8
Pos | T | NAME | Rtg | Fed | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Buc1 | BucT |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Retnaraja,Athena-Malar | 1099 | SA | 8.0 |
1
7
|
1
2
|
1
4
|
1
6
|
1
3
|
1
8
|
1
5
|
1
10
|
27.0 | 28.0 | |
2 | Yu,Yutian | 0 | SA | 6.5 |
1
BYE
|
0
1
|
½
3
|
1
5
|
1
4
|
1
7
|
1
8
|
1
6
|
30.5 | 32.5 | |
3 | Dundas,Callum | 0 | SA | 6.0 |
½
4
|
1
5
|
½
2
|
1
7
|
0
1
|
1
6
|
1
9
|
1
8
|
31.0 | 33.0 | |
4 | Tang,Caleb | 1039 | SA | 4.5 |
½
3
|
1
8
|
0
1
|
1
10
|
0
2
|
1
5
|
0
6
|
1
7
|
30.5 | 31.5 | |
5 | Gill,Angad | 0 | SA | 3.0 |
1
6
|
0
3
|
0
7
|
0
2
|
1
10
|
0
4
|
0
1
|
1
9
|
34.0 | 35.0 | |
6 | Connor,Isaac | 661 | SA | 3.0 |
0
5
|
1
10
|
1
8
|
0
1
|
0
9
|
0
3
|
1
4
|
0
2
|
33.5 | 34.5 | |
7 | Bian,Zi Yuan | 0 | SA | 3.0 |
0
1
|
1
BYE
|
1
5
|
0
3
|
0
8
|
0
2
|
1
10
|
0
4
|
32.5 | 33.5 | |
8 | Rohin,Jani | 0 | SA | 2.5 |
½
10
|
0
4
|
0
6
|
1
BYE
|
1
7
|
0
1
|
0
2
|
0
3
|
32.5 | 33.5 | |
9 | Commisso,Anthony | 329 | SA | 2.0 |
1
6
|
1
10
|
0
3
|
0
5
|
27.0 | 28.0 | |||||
10 | Dang,Liam | 386 | SA | 1.5 |
½
8
|
0
6
|
1
BYE
|
0
4
|
0
5
|
0
9
|
0
7
|
0
1
|
28.0 | 30.0 |