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2010 News
Hello everyone Time to register It is again time to register your teams for this year's interschool competitions. To do so, you can either:
* reply to me with an email specifying the names of your teams, their grade and venues .. or ..
More venues As usual, we are still on the lookout for more venues so if you think you can help, please let me know - ideally we need to be able to seat 40 students (8 teams of 5) or multiples thereof! :)
So, please register soon - I will confirm that I have received your teams and update the website with the successful team registrations frequently - we will try to accommodate as many teams and schools as possible but can't guarantee that all will fit. End of term competitions Also, please think about bringing a team to our end of term competitions - they are a real treat for the students and can be a great boost for chess in the school. We have deliberately kept the entry fees for these competitions low - just $10 - and qualifiers for the Final in December can play in that free. President's Report for 2009 This year's Champion Primary School trophy, the Evelyn Koshnitsky Shield was won once again by the all conquering Magill PS team, which also won the Primary A grade and Primary B Finals. Its A team for the EK Shield consisted of Natasha Bortsova, Callum Horan, Ted Wachtel, William Horan, Joel Lee and the B Section for the second round were Arsha Anvar, Kee-An Seet, Nirodh Perera, Umar Khasanov and Edward Tan and in the third Arshia Anvar, Denton Phosavgnh, Timothy Gan, Natalie Gan and Veda Mitra. The State Junior Championships The Under 18 ended in a tie for first between Anthony Milton and Alistair Cameron - they will take part in a 2 game playoff to see who wins the title. The U16 Champion is Stephen Daenke, while Lachlan Cameron won the U15 Title. The U14 Champion is James Bowditch and Stuart Nicholls the U13 Champion. The U12 Championship was won by Punala Kiripitige; 2nd was Joel Lee, 3rd Alyona Chizhova, 4th Aaron Ridgway and 5th Jemma Wang. The City of Adelaide Junior The Under 21 Championship was won by Alistair Cameron with the mighty score of 9 out of 10, just losing to the ever-dangerous Malcolm Borg in the last round; second with 8 points was Stephen Daenke and equal third were Victor Wen-Sweeney and Fabian Ivancic. The Under 12 was won by Callum Horan, while the Under 10 was won by William Horan - obviously a very talented family! Others We had several other major events, in particular the Freytag Checkmate Tournament and the Under 1600 Checkmate Challenge at Rostrevor College and these attracted over 80 players, many of them juniors. The full results can be found at www.sachess.org but Alistair Cameron (Mercedes), Zac Searle (Concordia) and Anthony Milton (PAC) all did very well in the very strong Open, while Malcom Borg (St Ignatius') tied for second in the Challenger with 5.5 points; Punala Kiripitige (Blackfriars) and Sophie Eustace (St Peter's Girls) tied in equal fourth and Stephen Daenke (St Peter's) and Lachlan Cameron (Mitcham PS) finished equal 8th. Aashray Gupta (St Peter's), George Trumble (Mercedes), James Bowditch (Walkerville), Stuart Nicholls (Parkside PS), Elee Mayo (Marryatville HS), Ned Nelson (St Ignatius') all scored 3.5 points while Victor Wen-Sweeney (St Ignatius, Veda Mitra (Magill PS), Adam Rybenski (Nazareth College), Alyona Chizhova (Clovelly Park PS), Christos Karykis (PAC), all impressed. Others to watch are Anto Peter, Declan Reiner (Nazareth) and Lachlan Man (St Peter's).
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