Issue 2007.20  June 6.

SUNDAY TOURNAMENT June 17

There are great plans for food and refreshments at the June 17 Rookies cup it is believed Antoinette’s group 
is going to practice. Will this ruin the fun? I am sorry to be away in Canberra it promises to be an exiting afternoon.
 Have a good time folks Gerry

2007 Box Hill Championship. Bulletin for round 7

Board 2, Wallis v Schön, was expected to be a battle of well-read preparation. Wallis’ choice of the Tarrasch 
French should have been a known well-worn track for Eugene, but it is a variation with a premium on getting 
move orders correct. Chris sacrificed the white-squared bishop as early as 13 and Black’s king-side was 
can-opened immediately. The game was all over by move 18 and the pair adjourned to the analysis room 
to sift through the alternative ways for Black to lose.

Reubban Muthusamy v Jason Tang on board 7 began with a Petrov Defence set-up that was well played by 
White as he found a pseudo-piece_sacrifice causing the Black King to get stuck in the centre, and behind 
pinned bishops. The position reminded me of one of those training book exercises where White has an 
advantage, but must find some clever moves to convert to a win. Reubban found a magical knight manoeuvre 
via a5 to settle on c4 and protect everything (of his) and fork nearly everything (of Jason’s). How early Reubban 
saw the possibility would be a point of interest. All over in 25 moves, and surprising little time used by White.

Readers of this column will know that George Umber is in solid form lately. On board 6 he had the white pieces 
against Scott Sharman, and succeeded with his opening strategy to ‘enter quiet waters’. But Scott was well 
prepared with an exchange variation of the Slav Defence and won a pawn with sharp play. Then comes the 
problem of how to convert the advantage to a win. George seemed to have no counter-play immediately available 
on the Q-side, so Scott had the opportunity to re-organise the placement of his rooks and aim to open first the 
f-file, and mobilize in the centre. Instead, Scott allowed the c-file to open and got extended trying to protect an 
advanced pawn. With his pieces not working in harmony, and the white pieces suddenly getting active, it was time 
for Scott to agree to George’s draw offer.

Board 1, Leon Kempen v Zhigen Wilson Lin, may be the tournament-defining game. If Zhigen wins then his hold 
on the lead could be unassailable; if Leon wins then it turns into a match race for four players.

Leon offered the Nimzovitch opening, and Zhigen obliged with 4. … BxN(f3). This gave Leon the bishop pair in a 
closed position, and a semi-open e-file.; he skilfully used these advantages to cause Zhigen to organise his forces 
with a queen-side assault but without the pawn-lever to able to open the position. Slowly, Leon used each pause 
in the sparring to group his pieces for king-side action behind advancing pawns. The extra pawn on the f-file 
(given to Leon by Zhigen’s fourth move) assisted in this space-gaining exercise. As Nimzovitch himself indicated…
positional advantages eventually yield the opportunity for an effective combination. 1-0, and instructive.

In Chmiel v Croft on board 9, Black must have known he had erred when his 5^th was Ne8; this spells ‘cramp’. 
Rad used the superior room masterly to eventually invade with a rook to c7. An opportunistic tactic wins on 
white’s 35^th.

The scoresheet of board 15, Isaac Ng v Zhong Hao Gan was so neatly written I was drawn to review the game. 
Started as an English Opening, but transposed into a sort of Queens Indian, with its perennial problem of how to 
get the a8-h1 diagonal cleared so that the bishop on b7 looks like more than an over-rated pawn. The play between 
these two juniors was impressive until Zhao Hao’s simple blunder on the 45^th gave Isaac his biggest win to date.

Finally from round 7, I saw the surprise result in the game Lyndon Lyons v Elliott Renzies. The game was the 
dangerous Kings gambit and Elliott took his time regaining the pawn on d5. Now the risk with this strategy is that 
White has plenty of time to consider different ways of ‘losing’ this pawn and there is a chance that the resulting 
position down-track may have a hidden sting in the tail. When the smoke cleared, as well as all the heavy pieces, 
Lyndon had a well-placed black-squared bishop versus a knobbled knight. He also had a mating attack on g7. Too
late for Elliott’s much higher rating to count for anything. 1-0.

I had occasion to review he game on board 7 (from round 5), Efrain Tionko v Dirk Vielsaeker, and I watched 
with interest because both have been regular attenders of Grand Master Darryl Johansen’s elite coaching 
workshops on Sunday mornings. What had they learnt? The game was an advanced French Defence with an 
early cute manoeuvre of Black’s queen bishop causing White to castle ‘by hand’ to g2. This is a different point 
of tension from the normal d4 difficulty suffered by White in the Advanced French. Some trades down the opened 
c-file were very well played by both players, and eventually a knight v (king)-bishop end game with equal pawns.
 I thought Dirk had chances because his a-pawn was passed and remote, but progress seemed too risky and
hostilities finished with an agreed draw.
Just a reminder that the Club has a one evening event next Friday (8 June 2007) as organisers prepare for the 
big Queens Birthday weekender (the Victorian Open over 3 days of play).

David Flude annotated this Game from round 5

TUESDAY COACHING

The term 2 coaching tournament has now been completed with Murphy Guo running out a comfortable winner 
finishing with 6/7 There were several equal second place getters on 5 points, amongst them Robin Zhou 
who missed the fist round and only lost to Murphy runners up Christian Albrecht, Aaron Mok, Raymond Louey, 
Thomas Ducker, and the afore mentioned Robin Zhou. Full results will be on the web site www.boxhillchess.org.au 
in a few days Term 3 coaching dates are set out below. Bookings are already heavy and it may be necessary to 
book your place

June 26            July 17             July 24             July 31

Aug 14             Aug 21             Aug 28             Sept 4

The club is closed June 12, July 10 August 7

The Victorian junior championships are on July 5

ELITE SUNDAY MORNING COACHING

The arrangements and the program for the second half of the year are now in place and available as a flyer at 
the club with entry forms and fees. Last week we published the dates and the program. This week the promo

A further chess improvement opportunity.

The Sunday morning coaching program for the first half of 2007 was made possible by the Boroondara Council 
and the Balwyn Rotary $1500 seeding grant to the Box Hill/Canterbury Chess Clubs to develop high quality 
chess coaching in the Canterbury area.

The two chess clubs have now decided to continue the program till the end of 2007 and continue to offer
subsidized coaching from Grand-Master Darryl Johansen in a second series of workshops at what still are 
very competitive rates

 Therefore, this should be regarded by YOU as a one-off chance to be taught by the only Grand-Master living in 
Victoria.

Class sizes will be limited to 15.

We have the adult class running fortnightly for 10 sessions in the second half of 2007. In the alternate fortnight, 
a junior class will cover similar material.

The sessions will run 1½ hour and be held at the Club premises on Sunday mornings.

Feed back from Laurie Dalton who attended all the first term classes?

"Darryl is not only a great Australian grandmaster - he is also a master communicator with a sincere passion for sharing 
his incredible knowledge and insights. Darryl's teaching sessions have been not only extremely challenging but also full of 
practical and encouraging advice. I only wish I had the benefit of these sessions years ago."

 TUESDAY AUTUMN SWISS

Tournament favourite Bergman is has indeed come  home. However the appeal against the arbiter’s ruling for a the awarding of a half point bye to players in the top half of the draw may if successful alter the result. Daniel Yuan has remaind clear for the best junior. There has  an unfortunate number of no shows in the last 2 rounds. Final results as follows 

No Name                   Feder Loc  Total  1    2    3    4    5    6    7

1  Bergmanis, Bob               1607 6     13:W  7:W  5:W  2:D  3:W  4:W  6:D

2  Flude, David                 1682 6      0:   6:W 10:W  1:D  9:W  8:W  5:W

3  Neymanis, Eric               1270 5      0:  19:W  8:W  0:D  1:L  9:W  7:W

4  Sayers, Craig                1003 4.5    0:   8:L 17:W 15:W  7:W  1:L  9:W

5  Renzies, Elliott             1576 4     19:W 14:W  1:L  9:L  6:W 10:W  2:L

6  Zacharczenko, Vladimir       1126 4     21:W  2:L 15:W  7:D  5:L 11:W  1:D

7  Yuan, Daniel                 501  3.5   15:W  1:L 11:W  6:D  4:L 16:W  3:L

8  Thomas, James                1201 3      0:   4:W  3:L 10:D 13:W  2:L  0:-

9  Chan, Raymond                680  3     14:L 21:W 14:W  5:W  2:L  3:L  4:L

10 Kulshitsky, Dmitry Snr       1201 3     16:W  0:D  2:L  8:D 11:W  5:L  0:-

11 Huang, Dominic               301  3      0:  13:W  7:L 12:W 10:L  6:L 16:W

12 Lin, Sean                    501  3      0:   0:  19:W 11:L 15:W  0:L 13:W

13 Jiang, Jeffrey               489  3      1:L 11:L 21:W 22:W  8:L 17:+ 12:L

14 Yuan, David                  401  3      9:W  5:L  9:L 16:L 19:L 19:W 15:W

15 Anderson, Bill               804  2      7:L 16:W  6:L  4:L 12:L 21:+ 14:L

16 Guo, Murphy                  502  2     10:L 15:L 22:W 14:W 17:L  7:L 11:L

17 Nayar, Rick                  1300 2      0:   0:   4:L 19:W 16:W 13:-  0: 

18 Stanning, Trevor             1524 1      0:   0:   0:   0:   0:   0:  22:W

19 Kulshitsky, Dmitry Jnr       601  1      5:L  3:L 12:L 17:L 14:W 14:L  0:-

20 Hartland, Gerrit             1397 1      0:   0:   0:  21:W  0:   0:   0: 

21 Li, Oswald                   502  .5     6:L  9:L 13:L 20:L 22:D 15:-  0:-

22 Lin, Leon                    401  .5     0:   0:  16:L 13:L 21:D  0:L 18:L

UPCOMING TOURNAMENTS AT 3 ROCHESTER ROAD.

See the CV website http://chessvictoria.netfirms.com for details.
Now is the time for senior and junior members to put in their entries for the competitions below.

The flyers are on the table the treasurer is available: so lets go

Victorian open Championship 

Dates June 9, June 10, June 11. 7 rounds.

The entries so far have not been all that great; quality wonderful, with today’s number

standing at 52. However we may see the return to tournament chess of former Box Hill Open Champion and club member Denis Bourmistrov. Will he be able to match it with the top players? All will be revealed this weekend. Come and play. If you cannot play, come and watch and make a donation, or help out 

Victorian Junior Championships 

Under 18, Under 16, Under 14, Boys and Girls
9 rounds. Dates July 2, July 3, July 4, and July 5.

Under 12, Under 10, Under 8, Boys and Girls June 30, July 1.

Entries are coming along really nicely. Still time for the eaerly bird discounts

Victorian winter interclub competition
Eastern Zone: on 5 Fridays: June 29, July 13, July 27, August 10, August 24.
A 6-team competition:  A grade, B Grade, C grade, and D grade.
The Box Hill Chess Club and Canterbury Junior Chess are each entitled to one team in each grade, so there may be a 
squeeze for places. Enter early if you are interested. The entry fee is $15 per player.

APPEAL FOR FUNDS

The Box Hill Chess Club and Canterbury Junior Chess are appealing for donations to help with the financing 
of the Victorian Open Championship and the Victorian Junior Championships, which are held at the club. 
We will acknowledge all donations in this newssheet with your name or a nom de plume if you wish.

Marieke Van Dijk                   $100

Gerrit Hartland                         $100

Nicholas Liu’s dad                   $50

William Sitch’s dad                   $100

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