The last several months
have seen the completion
of two major tournaments
at St George Chess Club,
as well as the traditional
yearly match up with the North Sydney
Chess Club.
The St George Swiss was won
by Hani Malik, with a score of 8/9. Hani
was on 8/8 with one round to go and it
seemed he would make it a clean sweep,
but he was upset by Sean Watharow, who
had undertaken extensive opening preparation
for the game. Special thanks to Aina
Musaeva for running the tournament - it
was her first time as director of play and
she did an excellent job.
North Sydney came to St George with the
scores level after St George did well at
North Sydney earlier in the year. However,
North Sydney did not bring enough strong
players with them on the return leg and
were comfortably defeated by 10 games.
Recently the St George Summer Open was
won by Jamie Roberts with a score of 6/7.
The last round was all set up for fireworks,
with four people in the running for first
place: Angelito Camer and Hani Malik,
both on five points, were playing on board
two and Jamie Roberts and Henk Jens
were playing on board one, on 5.5 and
five points respectively. However, Angelito
and Hani agreed to an early draw, leaving
Jamie only needing a draw to win the
tournament, which he secured. No fireworks
in the end. I would also like to note
the excellent performance of Cedric Koh,
our youngest member - only 8 years old -
who scored a remarkable 4.5/7, defeating
two strong players and drawing against
two others.
Cedric Koh and his sister Clarise Koh also
recently competed in the Australian Junior
Chess Championships. Clarise is now the
girls under-10 champion of Australia.
May all your pawns become queens.
Jamie Roberts, Chess Club President
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