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25.01.2022 The 2020 Junior Future Star Chess Tournament was held in UWA Ezone on the 15th of November. A whopping 85 promising young chess players turned up in what was one of the biggest WA junior events in recent years. Given the impact of COVID-19, it was extremely pleasing to see many fresh new faces coming and attempting in their ever tournament. As our very first tournament, things didn't quite go according to planned (it never does!). An unexpected road closure struck, causing ...a few children to arrive late. As a direct result, the tournament started 30 minutes behind our initial schedule. However, once we got the tournament rolling it was a great success. The day saw many nail-biting games with close competition across all three divisions (Advanced, Intermediate and Beginner). Given the recent popularity surrounding the Netflix series 'Queen's Gambit', it is an encouraging sign to see quite a few girls participating, as well as two girls managing to topple their respective divisions. Congratulations to all the prize winners (and for everyone involved)! Advanced: Celine Ong (6.5/7) Eu Jin Khaw (6/7) Jayden Arav (4.5/7) Merit Award: Angus Chen (4), Ethan Nguyen (4) Intermediate: Daryoush Rafiei Darani (7/7) Jerry Wu (6/7) Callan Arav (5.5/7) Merit Award: Jayden Song (5.5), Jaswanth Ram Sethuraman (5), Nithuli Liyanage (5), Eu Ming Khaw (5), Nathan Arav (5), Christopher Loh (5), Ezra Levine (4.5), Marcus Van Der Berg (4.5) Beginner: Jasmine Wu (6.5/7) Terry Wu (5/7) Harrison Palmer (5/7) Merit Award: Oscar Storey (5), Avan Chung (4.5), Nicholas Cooper (4.5), Asher Nissen (4.5), Mwansa Chansongo (4.5) Special mention to our enthusiastic organiser Shirley Sun, who acted as the event photographer and took over 250 photos. Many memorable moments of joy and laughter was captured and we hope to see many kids returning for our future events! The report is provided by Patrick Gong
24.01.2022 The CAWA calendar of events is now published on the website. You can see it here: http://www.cawa.org.au/january.html Please check out the dates for the official tournaments we are running this year. Considering the success of junior events in 2020 we expect the WA Junior Championships and School Chess league to be very popular this year!... CAWA will run all the traditional weekenders and WA State Championships. For adult players and advanced juniors there are plenty of opportunities to play ACF and FIDE rated events at Perth chess clubs: Southern Suburbs Chess Club http://www.southernsuburbschessclub.org.au/ Perth Chess Club http://www.perthchessclub.org.au/ Metropolitan Chess Club http://www.metrochessclub.org.au/ We are happy to see many new juniors getting interested in the game of chess. Apart from official CAWA junior events, there are plenty of events and coaching ran by other chess organisations in Perth. Check out this list of junior chess clubs: http://www.cawa.org.au/juniorclubs.html Many junior events are run by independent chess organisations in Perth. These clubs run open events regularly, check out info on upcoming events on their websites and pages: Lakner Chess https://laknerchess.com.au/ Total Chess http://totalchess.com.au/ Future Chess Stars https://www.facebook.com/Futurestarchess We wish you great games in 2021 and only brilliant moves on your board!
23.01.2022 WA'S FIRST EVER CHESS GRAND MASTER The game of 'chess' has never been more popular... but, for one Perth man, it's always been in vogue. Temur Kuybokarov is WA'...s first-ever chess grandmaster - the title bestowed on only the best chess players. But, as Claire Dearle reports, his future in Australia is in limbo. See more
22.01.2022 The game of chess keeps receiving a lot of media attention (thank's to the Queen's Gambit TV show). Today, state chess champion FM Patrick Gong gave an interesting interview on a morning radio show "Mornings with Gareth Parker". You can enjoy it here: https://omny.fm//sexy-chess-is-booming-across-perth-thanks
22.01.2022 2020 WA School Chess League continues this Sunday 25th of October with a tournament in Corpus Christi College, WA. We invite all the young chess enthusiasts to play and represent their schools! SCC is an interschool competition; any primary or secondary WA school can participate Any school can participate in any number of qualifiers - the more you play, the more chances to get to the finals! There will be just one more tournament before the finals. Any number of players... can represent a school in the competition Even one player from a school can play in competitions and fight for individual prizes! Here's a registration link for the Corpus Christy College tournament https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=665691& ------- Three qualification tournaments have already been played and here's a list of the schools qualified for the finals: Primary Division: Carmel Primary School Rosalie Primary School Nedlands Primary School Christ Church Grammar School Victoria Park Primary School Saint Paul's Primary School Secondary division: Perth Modern School Wesley College Methodist Ladies' College All the information about WA School Chess League including schedule and current standings can be found here https://sites.google.com/view/2020-wa-school-chess-league/
19.01.2022 The new 2021 chess year starts with a very interesting and unprecedented chess event in Perth - "Check Mate! Courtyard Chess Tournaments". It's run by State Theatre Centre Of WA and CAWA. Please check out the details and get tickets at the official website here: http://www.ptt.wa.gov.au//check-mate-courtyard-chess-tourn Here's the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2894005957486549
18.01.2022 Today's issue of the West Australian paper features a nice introductory course on how to play chess! If you got interested in chess after watching Netflix's Queen's Gambit and wanted to learn how to play - this eight-page liftout might be a great place to start!
17.01.2022 Perth Modern School and Nedlands Primary School became 2020 WA School Chess Champions. The state finals were played today at Perth Modern School. -- This is a flash report, more details to be published later on cawa.org.au --... In the primary division, after six rounds of highly competitive games with many unpredictable results, Nedlands Primary School emerged on top and preserved its title of the State Chess Champion. The final standings are: Nedlands Primary School Oberthur Primary School Carmel Primary School 4. Victoria Park Primary School 5. Rosalie Primary School 6. Saint Paul's Primary School 7. Christ Church Grammar School Individual board prises were won by: Firs board prize: Oscar Gao (Oberthur Primary) Second board prize: Emily Zhang (Nedlands Primary) Third board prize: Nizam Majidi (Nedlands Primary) Forth board prize: Kobe Wu (Rosalie Primary) In the secondary division, the tournament was played using a modified Scheveningen system (each player of one team played three players from other two teams). The tournament was dominated by Perth Modern players and the school became state chess champion for the second time in a row! The final standings were: Perth Modern School Wesley College Corpus Christi College Individual board prises were all won by Perth Mod students: Firs board prize: Jamie Laubbacher (PMS) Second board prize: Ben Hurst (PMS) Third board prize: Chas Underwood (PMS) Forth board prize: Christopher Manasseh (PMS) Perth Modern and Nedlands Primary will represent WA in the Australian Interschool Chess Finals that will be played online on 5th and 6th of December. We want to thank all the schools, teachers, parents, volunteers and students for participating in the 2020 WA Chess School League. We hope to see you all back next year! Special thank you goes to Jay Lakner for organising the whole 2020 Interschool Championships cycle!
16.01.2022 The third qualifier of the 2020 School Chess League was played yesterday at Nedlands Primary School. Almost 60 students representing 17 schools participated in the event. A special mention goes to South Bunbury PS who brought ten students to the tournament. This was their first interschool tournament, kids got invaluable experience and had lots of fun! Congratulations to the winners - Nedlands Primary School and Perth Modern School! Primary division top schools:... Nedlands Primary School - 21,5 points Rosalie Primary School - 18,5 points Christ Church Grammar School - 16,5 points Secondary division top schools: Perth Modern School - 19,5 Methodist Ladies' College - 7 Wesley College - 5 After the third qualifier here are the schools that made it to the finals so far: Primary division: Carmel Primary School Rosalie Primary School Saint Paul's Primary School Christ Church Grammar School Victoria Park Primary School Nedlands Primary School Secondary division: Perth Modern School Wesley College ----------- In the individual competition of Primary division, Issa Majidi and Aarnav Gupta finished on the same score of 6,5/7 (drawing only each other and winning all the rest of the games). There was a tie break blitz game which Issa won and claimed the first place! Top three players in the primary division: Issa Majidi (NPS) 6,5/7 Aarnav Gupta (Vic Park PS) 6.5/7 Emily Zhang (NPS) 5.5/7 In secondary division, Alex Pimenov finished first with a perfect score of 7/7 Top three players in the secondary division: Alex Pimenov (Perth Mod) 7/7 Shannon Koh (Wes Col) 5/7 Anoushka Gupta (Perth Mod) 4,5/7 All the results from the tournament are here: https://tornelo.com//lakner-c/events/2020-wa-scl-west-zone There are two more interschool qualifiers to come in October, see the information on the School Chess League website here https://sites.google.com/v/2020-wa-school-chess-league/home
16.01.2022 The 2020 Future Star Christmas Chess Tournament was held in UWA Ezone on the 12th of December. With Christmas just around the corner, and Saturday being traditionally dominated by extra-curriculum activities, it was fantastic seeing 62 young chess players turning up for our last event of 2020. With only a small number of entrants in the Advanced division, we had a combined Intermediate-Advanced division. However, the tournament remained a very closely fought affair, with var...ious Intermediate players managed to defeat their advanced counterparts. The day passed with no major incidents (Shout out to our amazing arbiters Josh, Danush, Alan, Paul and Georgina). A big Thank You must also go out to all the parents for adhering to the tournament rules. Without your support, the tournament wouldn’t have been made possible. Congratulations to our prize winners (and for everyone involved!): Advanced Daryoush Rafiei Darani (6/7) Eu Jin Khaw (5.5/7) Eamon Harris (5/7) Merit Award: Eu Ming Khaw (5) Intermediate Jayden Song (6/7) Jerry Wu (5/7) Noah Taylor (5/7) Merit Award: Matthew Chang (4.5), Stefan Veselinovic (4), Annalise Taylor (4), Oliver Tran (4), Jaswanth Ram Sethuraman (4), Thomas He (4), Jasmine Wu (4), Asten Sulak (4), Dario Manzi (4) Beginner Timofey Klimenko (7/7) Toma Lassmann (5.5/7) Avan Chung (5/7) Merit Award: Harrison Palmer (5), Sebastian Gough (4.5), Nicholas Cooper (4.5), Emily Liu (4), Asher Nissen (4) Special mention goes out to Eu Jin and Eu Ming, for coming 1st in our Puzzles Solving competition, as well to Adan and Mack, for coming 2nd on time. For Full Results please go to https://tornelo.com//futur/events/2020-future-star-christm The event photos are kindly provided by Shirley Sun and are not to be used for commercial purposes
15.01.2022 2020 Junior Future Star Chess Tournament will be played on Sunday 15th November at UWA's EZONE. The tournament is organised by UWA Chess Association and WA State Chess Champion FM Patrick Gong. All juniors with ratings below 1400 are invited to participate! Please see the flyer for the details.... It is a fantastic opportunity for WA juniors to participate in one of the last tournaments of the year. We hope to see you all there!
15.01.2022 The registration for 2020 Junior Future Star Chess Tournament on Sunday 15th November is now CLOSED. The organisers received an overwhelming response and the limits are reached now. ------- For those who want to play in a tournament with classical time control, there is a great opportunity to participate in Kingsley Open that will be held at Perth Chess club on Sundays 15th and 22nd. Please see the attached flyer.
11.01.2022 Southern Suburbs Chess Club wins in every division in a 2020 Harris Interclub Competition! With this victory, Southern Suburbs Chess Club becomes the first club to win six successive Harris Interclub Competitions. Congratulations to the winners! The 2020 Harris Interclub Competition was held over two Sundays in Leeming Primary School. The competition was very successful with 12 teams competing (57 players in total) -- three teams from Southern Suburbs Chess Club, thre...e teams from Perth Chess Club, three teams from UWA Chess Association, one team from Metropolitan Chess Club and two teams from Chess Emperor. As the organiser Andrew Hardegen says, it was the largest Harris Interclub Competition that he has seen in 22 years as a chess player in WA. Here are the quick results: Division A (Open) Southern Suburbs A: 11.0/16 Perth A: 8.5/16 UWA A: 4.5/16 Division B (all players rated below 1900 ACF) Southern Suburbs B: 9.5/16 Perth B: 7.5/16 Metro B: 7.0/16 Division C (all players rated below 1500 ACF) Southern Suburbs C UWA C1 Chess Emperor C1 Please find the full report on CAWA website here http://www.cawa.org.au/harrisedwardes.html Full individual results for all rounds are posted here: http://southernsuburbschessclub.org.au/2020-harris-shield.h
09.01.2022 Happy new year to all the chess lovers in WA! Thank you for playing chess with us in 2020! Here's a final list of WA champions of 2020: 2020 WA Women's Chess Champion: WFM Kathryn Hardegen... 2020 WA Chess Champion: FM Patrick Gong 2020 WA Seniors' Chess Champion: Tim Hare 2020 WA Reserves Chess Champion: Yihe (Rebo) Fu 2020 WA Blitz Champion: FM Patrick Gong 2020 WA Women's Blitz Champion: WFM Kathryn Hardegen 2020 WA Seniors' Blitz Champion: Tim Hare 2020 WA Allegro Champion: GM Temur Kuybokarov 2020 WA Girls' Joined State Chess Champions: Celine Ong & Emily Zhang 2020 WA Junior Chess Champion: Yihe (Rebo) Fu The 2020 Harris Interclub Competition winner (Open division): Southern Suburbs Chess Club 2020 WA Secondary Interschool Champions: Perth Modern School 2020 WA Primary Interschool Champions: Nedlands Primary School 2020 WA Secondary Interschool Girls Champions: Perth Modern School 2020 WA Primary Interschool Girls Champions: Nedlands Primary School Congratulations to all the winners of titles and to all who participated in various competitions in 2020! You can find details on these tournaments on our website here: http://www.cawa.org.au/pasttournaments.html
07.01.2022 2020 Junior Future Star Chess Tournament will be played on Saturday 12th December at the University of Western Australia The event is designed to engage beginner to intermediate level juniors from a rating of 600-1500 (3 divisions). We hope to bring junior chess players around WA together and create a fun and exciting environment for juniors to develop their interest and passion for chess. It is a fantastic opportunity for WA juniors to participate in one of the last tournaments of the year. We hope to see you all there!
07.01.2022 The last tournament of the year! On Monday, 28th December the Chess Association of WA is holding a one day Rapid Play tournament at the North Woodvale Primary School. The entry cost is $20 and it is open to all chess players rated under 1400.... The time control is 25 minutes plus 5 seconds increments. It's a great opportunity for all the juniors to play more thoughtful and higher quality games! If you do not have a rating then this would be your chance to get one! Please see the attached flyer
07.01.2022 The first WA junior chess camp successfully finished today at Oberthur Primary School. It was a not-for-profit event organised by CAWA with tremendous help from WA's active chess community. Over 40 junior chess players of different levels enjoyed learning from various chess coaches, participating in puzzle competitions and playing against each other. It was great to see many new faces who got interested in chess just recently and wanted to improve their game! We were very h...appy to see both Australian Chess Champion GM Temur Kuybokarov and WA State Chess Champion FM Patrick Gong participating in the chess camp. Three of the strongest chess players in WA FM Patrick Gong, Ihsan Ferozkohi and Andrew Hardegen found time in their busy schedules to coach WA's top juniors and gave an inspirational talk about FIDE and ACF ratings. We were very fortunate to have GM Temur Kuybokarov over for a simultaneous exhibition. He played on 36 boards against enthusiastic young chess players. The simul went for almost four hours and Temur won 35 out of 36 games. The only player who managed to win against the grandmaster was Jamie Laubbacher. Congratulations to Jamie for such a great result! We want to say a huge thank you to Oberthur Primary School for hosting the event, all the volunteers who helped to run it and all the parents for unconditional support for the kids and their love for chess! Special thank you goes to the chess camp organisers: Jeng Kong, Joli Mendez, and Alan Wolstencroft. Special thanks to Paul Harris for his tremendous support in reaching out to many junior chess players regarding chess camp, assisting with equipment setup and two full days in the chess camp as a volunteer. To WA's active chess players and coaches who stepped in and conducted the sessions: Alan Wostencroft, Norbert Muller, David Ellis, Dennis Holland, Andrew Hardegen, Ihsan Ferozkohi, John Pimenov, FM Patrick Gong and GM Temur Kuybokarov. We hope kids had fun and learn some new skills! We hope all the junior chess players had fun and learned some new skills! Hope to see you all again next time!
07.01.2022 CAWA is looking for a new Junior Vice President and Property Manager! Shai Levin resigned as Junior Vice-President for personal reasons. Shai contributed much to the WA Junior Chess scene in particular the success of the State Junior Championships held in July this year. Applicants for the position of Junior Vice-President should contact CAWA President: Alan Wolstencroft by Friday 30th October.... The position of Property Manager for CAWA has been open for some time. The ideal applicant should be a fairly frequent tournament player so that they can assist in the distribution of CAWA trophies. Other work includes loaning out equipment to new chess clubs, in particular Junior Chess clubs and providing refreshments for CAWA tournaments. This post can be split into two separate roles; a Property Manager who assists solely in Junior Chess matters and another who focuses solely on Senior Chess Club matters. If you are interested please also contact CAWA President: Alan Wolstencroft. Contacts to apply can be fund here http://www.cawa.org.au/cawacouncil.html
06.01.2022 2020 WA School Chess League continues this Sunday 27th of September with a tournament in Nedlands Primary School. Quick info about School Chess League: SCC is an interschool competition; any primary or secondary WA school can participate... Any school can participate in any number of qualifiers - the more you play, the more chances to get to the finals! There will be two more tournaments. Any number of players can represent a school in the competition Even one player from a school can play in competitions and fight for individual prizes! You can find all the details and register for the Nedlands tournament here https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=661272 All the information about WA School Chess League including schedule and current standings can be found here https://sites.google.com/view/2020-wa-school-chess-league/ Let us know id you have any questions!
06.01.2022 The fourth qualifier of the 2020 School Chess League was played yesterday at Corpus Christi College, WA. It was a great event with lots of interesting games and unexpected twists. The event attracted 45 students from 13 primary and secondary schools. This time a special mention goes to Wesley College and particularly one student Shannon Koh who alone represented his school in almost all of the qualifying events so far and singlehandedly earned his school a ticket to the final...s! Great job Shannon! Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 SCL South Zone - Oberthur Primary School and Perth Modern School! Primary division top schools: Oberthur Primary School - 18,5 points Rosalie Primary School - 15,5 points Nedlands Primary School - 15 points Secondary division top schools: Perth Modern School - 24,5 Corpus Cristy College - 12,5 Wesley College - 5 After the fourth qualifier here are the schools that made it to the finals so far: Primary division: Carmel Primary School Rosalie Primary School Saint Paul's Primary School Christ Church Grammar School Victoria Park Primary School Nedlands Primary School Oberthur Primary School Secondary division: Perth Modern School (Secondary Division) Wesley College Methodist Ladies' College Corpus Christi College ----------- In the individual competition of Primary division, there were no surprises - the tournament favourite Oscar Gao finished with the perfect score 7/7 Top three players in the primary division: Oscar Gao (OPS) 7/7 Aarnav Gupta (Vic Park PS) 6/7 Eu Jin Khaw (HPS) 5.5/7 In secondary division, Perth Mod students dominated the field and won top 4 places. As Heidi Gstaettner and Anoushka Gupta finished on equal 6 points with the equal countback of 22,5 the play-off match was played to decide who gets 2nd and 3rd places. Anoushka was victorious this time: Alex Pimenov (Perth Mod) 6,5/7 Anoushka Gupta (Perth Mod) 6/7 Heidi Gstaettner (Perth Mod) 6/7 You can find the full standings and results of all the games here: https://tornelo.com//events/2020-wa-scl-south-zone/pairings
01.01.2022 Australian national chess team won FIDE 2020 Asian Online Nations Cup. This is an incredible achievement! Congratulations to the team! Here is a nice report on the final round where the Australian team managed to beat India (one of the strongest teams in the world and recent online Olympiad co-winner). https://chessbase.in/news/Asian-Nations-Online-Finals-report
