1st Floor Courthouse,
cnr Lt Malop St and Gheringhap St.
Monday evenings except public holidays and a break over Christmas see programme
To register 7:30pm
Start 8:00pm
Web: geelongchess.com
Email: geelongchessclub@gmail.com
PO Box 2118
Geelong 3220
Australian Chess Federation www.auschess.org.au
Commencing on Monday the 13th February 2012, time 6pm to 7pm, at the 1st Floor Courthouse cnr Gheringhap and Lt Malop St. Entrance is from Lt Malop St.
Gold coin donation.
Geelong reaches 3rd place in the Victorian Inter Club B division after a shaky start.
Cross table
| No | Name | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | total |
| 1 | Melbourne CC 3, | * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 2 | Noble Park CC 2, | 3 | * | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
| 3 | Ballarat, | 3 | 1 | * | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 4 | Box Hill 2, | 3 | 1 | 1 | * | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 14 |
| 5 | Dandenong, | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | * | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Croydon, | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | * | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 7 | Yarra, | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | * | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Geelong, | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | * | 13 |
Michael Sugrue wins club championship for 2011.
Closely followed by three equal second Stephen Fletcher, Oleg Grygoryan and Andrew Wemyss.
Yes, we are moving back to the Courthouse as of 28th November 2011, cnr of Lt Malop Street and Gheringhap St.
Well folks it appears he’s not coming, Li Chao b that is, saint nicholas is still on track. So GM norms are off for the moment.
With three grandmasters entered in the event it gives local players the opportunity to gain grandmaster and international master norms.
The annual general meeting has been rescheduled to the 19th December 2011.
The AGM is to be held on the 12th December.
According to 15.1.2 of Constitution, nominations for positions on the committee shall be delivered to secretary not less than 7 days before the AGM.
15.1.1 says they shall be in writing, signed by 2 members and accompanied by written consent of the candidate.
GM Li Chao of China has entered the tournament as a stopover before going to Queenstown NZ. With a rating of 2700 he ranks amongst the top 100 players internationally. In 2007, he became China’s 23rd grandmaster at the age of 18. As of April 2009, he is the sixth highest rated junior player and is China’s fifth highest rated player.
This is what GM Yuan had to say on hearing of the entry of Darryl Johansen.
“I just quickly checked my database for head to head encounters. We have played ten times at classical time controls. Darryl leads with four wins, one loss and five draws. Probably we haven’t played each other quite so many times because we live in different states and are of a different generation. I seem to meet Darryl at the Australian Open or the Australian Championships. I am obviously hoping to keep improving my overall score.
I have learned a lot through the years by watching Darryl play, particularly at Olympiads he really puts on some maestro performance. I remember a game he showed me I Sokolov – Johansen (Nimzo-Indian) which has made a deep impression on me. I really admire his deep sense of strategy and positional play. I believe in this arena he is still the man to look up to in Australian chess for players in the younger generations.”
