Auckland Chess Centre

Weekender and Easter Tournaments

Thursday, March 11th, 2010 | News | Comments Off

The ACC Weekender tournaments held between the 5th and 7th of March attracted around 35 players and saw some good results from ACC players.

Full results and photos are on the 2010 Weekender page.

Following the success of the Weekender tournament the ACC is taking advantage of a gap in the Calender and organising a 7 Round Swiss Open Tournament over the Easter Weekend. The entry form provides some details and further information will be posted soon.

ACC Weekender: Rnd 1 results, Rnd 2 draw

Saturday, March 6th, 2010 | Results | Comments Off

Results from Round 1

Open

1 Robert Smith (1)        1:0   Richard Taylor (12)
2 Eachen Chen (13)       .5:.5  Daniel Han (2)
3 Lindsay Cornford (3)    +:-   Don Eade (14)
4 Ingo-Carsten Kurre (15) 0:1   Bruce Wheeler (4)
5 Andrea Rivas (7)        0:1   Andrew Michael (16)
6 Luke Li (18)            0:1   Jeremy Browne (8)
7 Edward Tanoi (9)        1:0   Phillip Mukkattu (20)
8 Daniel-Ioan Runcan (21) 0:1   Caleb Wright (10)
9 Hans Gao (11)           1:0   Nicole Tsoi (22)
10 John Duneas (5)       .5:0   BYE
11 Helen Milligan (6)    .5:0   BYE
12 Jason Bryan (17)      .5:0   BYE
13 Robert Mitchell (19)  .5:0   BYE

U-1700

10 Simon Lyall (1)        1:0   David Rong (8)
11 Andrew ( Geng ) Li (9) 0:1   Ajit Pendharkar (2)
12 William Li (3)         -:+   Hristo Kolev (11)
13 Jason Hoseason (12)    0:1   Michael Budd (5)
14 Stefan Kolev (6)       1:0   Johnson Chen (13)
15 Eric Han (14)          0:1   William Zhang (10)
16 Moktar Chin Foo (7)   .5:0   BYE
17 Pat Young (4)         .5:0   BYE

Draw for Round 2

Open

1 Caleb Wright (10)     : Robert Smith (1)
2 Andrew Michael (16)   : Lindsay Cornford (3)
3 Bruce Wheeler (4)     : Edward Tanoi (9)
4 Jeremy Browne (8)     : Hans Gao (11)
5 Daniel Han (2)        : Jason Bryan (17)
6 John Duneas (5)       : Eachen Chen (13)
7 Helen Milligan (6)    : Robert Mitchell (19)
8 Phillip Mukkattu (20) : Andrea Rivas (7)
9 Richard Taylor (12)   : Luke Li (18)
10 Don Eade (14)        : Daniel-Ioan Runcan (21)
11 Nicole Tsoi (22)     : Ingo-Carsten Kurre (15)

U-1700

10 William Zhang (10)   : Simon Lyall (1)
11 Ajit Pendharkar (2)  : Stefan Kolev (6)
12 Michael Budd (5)     : Hristo Kolev (11)
13 Pat Young (4)        : Moktar Chin Foo (7)
14 William Li (3)       : Jason Hoseason (12)
15 David Rong (8)       : Eric Han (14)
16 Johnson Chen (13)    : Andrew ( Geng ) Li (9)

Summer Cup Rnd 4 Results and A & B Grades Rnd 5 Draw

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 | News | Comments Off

Results from Monday 1st March

A-Grade
Keith Ward 0 – 1 Eachen Chen
Don Eade 0 – 1 Bruce Wheeler
Richard Taylor 1 – 0 Mark Brimble
Bill Wu 1 – 0 Edward Tanoi

B-Grade
Pat Young 0.5 – 0.5 Dr John Tseung
Hans Gao 0 – 1 Simon Lyall
Karl Holdo 0 – 1 Luke Li
William Li 1 – 0 Andrew Michael

C-Grade
Ajit Pendharkar 1 – 0 Chin Fu Mokiar
Alan Merry 0.5 – 0.5 Mike Steiner
Lawrence Leow 0 – 1 Paul Zhang
George Chen 1 – 0 Tom Powlesland
Peiwin Du 1 – 0 Kevin Lu
Cathy Fan 1 – 0 Leon Zhang
Sean Tang 0.5 – 0.5 Andrew (Geng) Li
Paul Heaslip 1 – 0 Gavin Holm
Mike Foley 1 – 0 Mike Merry
Leo Zhang 1 – 0 Alan Fan
Brogan Powelsland 1 – 0 Harrison Zhang (default)
Jennifer Chen BYE
Scott Butland BYE
David Merry BYE

Round 5 Draw Monday 8th March

A-Grade
M. Brimble vs B. Wu
B. Wheeler vs  R. Taylor
E. Chen vs D. Eade
E. Tanoi vs K. Ward

B-Grade
A. Michael vs P. Young
L. Li vs W. Li
S. Lyall vs K. Holdo
J. Tseung vs H. Gao

Auckland Open

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 | News | Comments Off

The following players have committed to the Auckland Open tournament over Easter Weekend (April 2 – 5). Players are welcome to enter up until the cut-off (9.30am on Good Friday).

Gino Thornton
Edward Tanoi
Eachen Chen
Richard Taylor
Daniel Runcan
Jason Bryan
Simon Lyall
David Rong

ACC Bulletin – 1 March 2010

Monday, March 1st, 2010 | News | Comments Off

The bulletin features games played during Round 3 of the Summer Cup on February 22nd

A reminder that the ACC Weekender tournament is coming up on the weekend of the 5th-7th of March.

Game of the week

Luke Li vs Hans Gao in B grade. Annotated by Ewen Green

(7) Li,Luke – Gao,Hans [D08]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 d4 4.Nf3 Nc6 Now the “official” moves are g3, Nbd2, or a3. Luke chooses a rarely-played sideline. 5.Bg5 f6!? The most effective move in practice – White has a minus score from 13 games. 6.exf6 Nxf6 7.e3 Never been played before… 7…Bb4+ 8.Nbd2 dxe3?! Allowing White’s dark-squared bishop a safe retreat. [8...0–0!? 9.a3 Be7!?] 9.Bxe3 Bg4?! 10.Be2 Qd7?! Black should be castling short here – trying use his space and extra file to create a weakness or to dominate. His hoped-for kingside pawnstorm is nowhere near as fast as White’s on the queenside. 11.0–0 0–0–0 12.a3 Be7 13.Ng5 This forces some exchanges, but is not actually necessary. [13.b4!? is direct and very dangerous for Black.] 13…Bxe2 14.Qxe2 Rhg8 Ehhh? 15.Rad1 Qf5 16.Ndf3?! This should lose most of White’s advantage – Qf3 or b4 are both very good. 16…Rde8?! Avoiding exchanges is sensible when behind in material – provided it does not cost too much in time or co-ordination. Here it costs time and misses an opportunity to mess with White’s co-ordination. Part of the trouble with being behind in material is that the side with the extra material has an extra type of threat available – namely, offering equal exchanges of pieces. This explains a lot of Black’s later moves in the game – he simply has to keep pieces on the board. [16...h6!? is natural - pushing White's minor pieces onto unnatural squares. Black needs to find an unexpected move to make this work, though. 17.Nh4 Qg4! Unexpected and very useful. 18.Qxg4+ Nxg4 19.Ngf3 Nxe3 20.fxe3 Bf6 21.b4 Bb2! equalising. This is actually a typical Albin Counter Gambit scenario - White's queenside pawns becoming exposed and harassed.] 17.b4 From here, White dominates completely. 17…Nd7? Trying to create a threat…better was …h6 anyway. 18.Nh4! Qf6 19.Rxd7! Well spotted – a very nasty shot! White is now winning. 19…h6 Now White can gain two minor pieces for his rook, or support it in its dominating position. 20.Rfd1!? hxg5 21.Qg4 Kb8 22.Nf3 Ne5 23.Nxe5 Qxe5 24.R7d5 Qc3 25.R5d3 Qf6 26.Qd4 Qa6 27.Qd7 Bf6 28.Qd5 Qa4 29.Bxg5 Bxg5 30.Qxg5 a6 31.h3 Qc6 32.Qd5 Qf6 33.b5 g5 34.bxa6 Qxa6 35.Qb5 Qf6 Black avoids exchanges – but his King may object. 36.Rb1 b6 37.c5 Ka7 Black’s king is severely at risk here. Not surprisingly, there is a tactical killer available to White – but he does not need it, with all his other advantages. 38.cxb6+!? [38.Rd6! wins directly] 38…Qxb6 39.Qxb6+ cxb6 40.Rd6 Rb8 Black’s rooks are sorry fellows – but he must hang on to his pawns somehow, because White does not yet have a passed pawn. 41.Rb5 Rg7 42.Rf5 Rc8 43.Rdd5 Rcg8 44.Rd4 Rc8 45.Rdd5 Rcg8 46.Rd4 Rc8 47.Rg4 Rcg8 48.Rf3 Rc8 49.Rfg3 Rc1+ 50.Kh2 Rc2 51.Rxg5 Rxg5 52.Rxg5 Rxf2 53.h4 Rf8 54.h5 Rh8 55.g4 Kb7 56.Kg3 Kc7 57.Rg6 Ra8 58.h6 Rxa3+ 59.Kh4 Ra8 60.h7 Rh8 61.Rg7+ Kd6 62.g5 Ke6 63.g6 Black resigns 1–0

Highlighted games

(1) Taylor,Richard – Wu,Bill [C91]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 d6 7.d4 b5 8.Bb3 Bg4 9.c3 0–0 10.d5 Na5 11.Bc2 c6 12.dxc6 Nxc6 13.Be3 £d7 14.Nbd2 Rfb8 15.Rc1 Bd8 16.Nf1 h6 17.Re2 Bxf3 18.gxf3 Bb6 19.Rd2 Bxe3 20.fxe3 Rd8 21.Ng3 Ne7 22.Kh1 Rac8 23.Bb3 Rc6 24.£g1 a5 25.a3 g6 26.Rcd1 Rb6 27.Nf5 Nxf5 28.Qxg6+ Ng7 29.Qxf6 Kh7 30.Bxf7 Black resigns 1–0

(6) Michael,Andrew – Holdo,Karl [B50]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Nc6 4.c3 Nf6 5.£e2 a6 6.0–0 e6 7.d4 cxd4 8.cxd4 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nc3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Be7 12.Bf4 0–0 13.Rfd1 Bf6 14.Qe4 Re8 15.Ne5 Bd7 16.Bd3 g6 17.Ng4 Bg5 18.Qe3 Bxf4 19.Qxf4 Kg7 20.Re1 g5 21.Qg3 h5 22.Ne5 Nxe5 23.Qxe5+ Qf6 24.Qe4 Qf5 25.Qe2 Qg4 26.Qe5+ f6 27.Qc7 e5 28.dxe5 fxe5 29.Rxe5 Rxe5 30.Qxe5+ Kf7 31.Re1 Re8 32.Qd5+ Be6 33.Qxb7+ Re7 34.Qe4 Qxe4 35.Rxe4 Rc7 36.Re3 Bxa2 37.Bxa6 Ra7 38.Be2 Bd5 39.Bxh5+ Kf6 40.h3 Black resigns 1–0

ACC players at 2010 BOP Rapid

Sunday, February 28th, 2010 | News | Comments Off

On Saturday the 27th of February 2010 several ACC players made the 2 hour trip to Mt. Maunganui for the Bay of Plenty Rapid Tournament. The tournament was a 25 minute + 5 seconds format with an “A” Grade of 18 players over 1700 rating and a “B” grade of 26 players.

ACC Players Don Eade and Hans Goa both went up a grade to the “A” Grade with agreement from the organisers and Hans Goa managed 3 points ( 4 draws, 1 win, 1 loss) to share a grade prize.

I the “B grade” ACC Player Luke Li came first with 5 points (4 Wins, 2 draws) . Neil Cruden got 4 points while Simon Lyall and Johnson Chen had 3 points with Johnson Chen sharing a grade prize.

2010 Congress – Final Results

Friday, January 15th, 2010 | News | Comments Off

Results for all competitions at the 2010 New Zealand chess congress. Details and crosstables are available on the congress page.

New Zealand Chess Championship

Winner: Anthony Ker
2nd: Nicholas Croad
3rd Daniel Shen
4th= Bruce Watson and Michael Steadman

Major Open

1st: Alan Ansell
2nd= Henry Vital, Hans Gao, Edward Tanoi

Grade 1
1st= James Cater and Brett Rider

Grade 2:
1st: Luke Li
2nd= Brian Liu and George Chen

New Zealand Woman’s Championship

1st: Shirley Wu
2nd= Eachen Chen and Sharon Wu

New Zealand Rapid Championship

1st: Nicholas Croad
2nd: Daniel Han
3rd=: Michael Steadman, Anthony Ker, Matthew Barlow, Brian Nijman

Grade 1
1st= Benjamin Lim, Alan Ansell, Peter Fraemohs, Mike Duffin, Han Gao

Grade 2
1st= Luke Li, Nicole Tsoi, Andrew Michael

New Zealand Lightning Championship

Championship Division
1st: Ralph Hart
2nd: Michael Steadman
3rd: Anthony Ker

Reserve Division
1st: Daniel Han
2nd= Stephen Lukey, Gino Thornton, Mario Krstev

2010 Congress – Results after last round

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Results after the last round. Further details will be posted on the 2010 New Zealand Chess Congress page.

Championship 

Place Name                 Feder Rtg  Loc  Score

  1   Ker, Anthony         NZL   2321 2423 8.5
  2   Croad, Nicholas      NZL   2271 2332 8
  3   Shen, Daniel         NZL   2142 2221 7.5
  4   Watson, Bruce        NZL   2270 2297 7
  5   Steadman, Michael    NZL   2263 2337 7
  6   Han, Daniel          NZL   2200 2200 6.5
  7   Thornton, Gino       NZL   2167 2214 6.5
  8   Smith, Robert        NZL   2289 2368 6.5
  9   McLaren, Leonard     NZL   2227 2258 6.5
 10   Depasquale, Chris    AUS   2274 2274 6
 11   Davis, Justin        NZL   1939 2035 6
 12   Hart, Ralph          NZL   2244 2276 5.5
 13   Steffenello, Leonard BRA   2184 2184 5.5
 14   Milligan, Helen      NZL   1972 2018 5.5
 15   Garbett, Paul        NZL   2302 2350 5.5
 16   Krstev, Mario        NZL   2103 2122 5.5
 17   Barlow, Matthew      NZL   2161 2144 5.5
 18   Nijman, Brian        NZL   2165 2168 5.5
 19   Fuatai, Fuatai       NZL   2022 2020 5
 20   Krstev, Antonio      NZL   2040 2057 4.5
 21   Gunn, Neil           NZL   2040 2064 4.5
 22   Nyberg, Michael      NZL   1955 2033 4
 23   Stuart, Peter        NZL   2041 2057 4
 24   Marner, Gavin        NZL   2039 2071 4
 25   Bennett, Hilton      NZL   2003 2089 4
 26   Lim, Benjamin        NZL   2075 2069 3.5
 27   Jackson, Ross        NZL   2008 2013 3.5
 28   Fraemohs, Peter      NZL   1981 2028 3    

Major Open

Place Name                     Feder Loc  Score

  1   Ansell, Alan             NZL   1922 8.5
  2   Vital, Henry             NZL   1953 8
  3   Gao, Hans                NZL   1843 8
  4   Tanoi, Edward            NZL   1976 8
  5   Evans, David             NZL   1908 7.5
  6   Casilang, Arthur         NZL   1900 7
  7   Cater, James             NZL   1768 7
  8   Power, Wayne             NZL   1909 7
  9   Rivas Villanueva, Andrea CHI   2049 7
 10   Rider, Brett             NZL   1768 7
 11   Wu, Shirley              NZL   1670 6.5
 12   Vosloo, Johan            NZL   1746 6.5
 13   Forster, William         NZL   1963 6.5
 14   Eade, Don                NZL   1905 6.5
 15   Taylor, Richard          NZL   1913 6.5
 16   Li, Luke                 NZL   1498 6.5
 17   Mitchell, Robert         NZL   1703 6
 18   Booth, Anthony           NZL   1784 6
 19   Liu, Brian               NZL   1572 6
 20   Chen, Eachen             NZL   1928 6
 21   Chen, George             NZL   1403 6
 22   Wu, Sharon               NZL   1671 6
 23   Mukkattu, Philip         NZL   1629 6
 24   McNally, Ian             NZL   1983 5.5
 25   Tsoi, Nicole             NZL   1614 5.5
 26   Michael, Andrew          NZL   1829 5.5
 27   Hair, Philip             NZL   1928 5
 28   Seabrook, Roy            NZL   1854 5
 29   MacLeod, Hugh            NZL   1734 5
 30   Holdo, Karl              NZL   1714 5
 31   Li, William (Xiang Wei)  NZL   1579 5
 32   Lyall, Simon             NZL   1626 5
 33   Rong, David              NZL   1070 5
 34   Chen, Thomas             NZL   1546 4.5
 35   Pakenham, John           NZL   1760 4.5
 36   Garland, Mana            NZL   1535 4.5
 37   Ansell, John             NZL   1278 4.5
 38   Li, Andrew Geng          NZL   1159 4.5
 39   Cooper, Nigel            NZL   1747 4
 40   Yao, Winston (Yow-Jen)   NZL   1535 4
 41   Li, Jiapeng              NZL   1410 4
 42   Stracy, Don              NZL   1791 4
 43   Tang, Sean               NZL   1355 3.5
 44   Cruden, Neil             NZL   1712 3.5
 45   Zhang, William           NZL   1189 3.5
 46   Fan, Cathy               NZL   1285 3
 47   Rudkins, Lynton          NZL   1236 2.5
 48   Dong, Olivia             NZL   893  1

2010 Congress – Round 11 results

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Results from the final Round held on Tuesday the 12th of January 2010

Championship results

No Name              Result   Name               

 1 Anthony Ker         1:0    Robert Smith
 2 Chris Depasquale    ½:½    Nicholas Croad
 3 Bruce Watson        ½:½    Daniel Shen
 4 Leonard McLaren     ½:½    Michael Steadman
 5 Gino Thornton       1:0    Ralph Hart
 6 Daniel Han          1:0    Helen Milligan
 7 Mario Krstev        ½:½    Paul Garbett
 8 Justin Davis        1:0    Peter Stuart
 9 Hilton Bennett      ½:½    Leonard Steffenello
10 Brian Nijman        1:0    Michael Nyberg
11 Gavin Marner        ½:½    Fuatai Fuatai
12 Matthew Barlow      1:0    Peter Fraemohs
13 Ross Jackson        1:0    Antonio Krstev
14 Benjamin Lim        ½:½    Neil Gunn          

Major Open results

No Name                     Result   Name                  

 1 Alan Ansell                ½:½    Henry Vital
 2 Edward Tanoi               1:0    David Evans
 3 Hans Gao                   ½:½    Arthur Casilang
 4 Andrea Rivas Villanueva    1:0    Shirley Wu
 5 Eachen Chen                0:1    Brett Rider
 6 Johan Vosloo               ½:½    Richard Taylor
 7 Wayne Power                1:0    George Chen
 8 Luke Li                    ½:½    Don Eade
 9 James Cater                1:0    Brian Liu
10 William Forster            1:0    Ian McNally
11 Anthony Booth              1:0    Nicole Tsoi
12 Philip Hair                0:1    Sharon Wu
13 Roy Seabrook               0:1    Robert Mitchell
14 Philip Mukkattu            1:0    Karl Holdo
15 Andrew Michael             1:0    John Pakenham
16 Thomas Chen                0:1    Simon Lyall
17 Nigel Cooper               0:1    William (Xiang Wei) Li
18 Hugh MacLeod               1:0    Jiapeng Li
19 David Rong                 1:0    Olivia Dong
20 Andrew Geng Li             1:0    Neil Cruden
21 Mana Garland               1:0    William Zhang
22 Sean Tang                  ½:½    Winston (Yow-Jen) Yao
23 John Ansell                1:0    Lynton Rudkins

2010 Congress – Round 11 Draw

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Draw for Round 11 on Tuesday the 12th of January at 1pm.

Prizegiving will take place after completion of the round – approx 6pm

Championship Draw

No Name              Result   Name               

 1 Anthony Ker          :     Robert Smith
 2 Chris Depasquale     :     Nicholas Croad
 3 Bruce Watson         :     Daniel Shen
 4 Leonard McLaren      :     Michael Steadman
 5 Gino Thornton        :     Ralph Hart
 6 Daniel Han           :     Helen Milligan
 7 Mario Krstev         :     Paul Garbett
 8 Justin Davis         :     Peter Stuart
 9 Hilton Bennett       :     Leonard Steffenello
10 Brian Nijman         :     Michael Nyberg
11 Gavin Marner         :     Fuatai Fuatai
12 Matthew Barlow       :     Peter Fraemohs
13 Ross Jackson         :     Antonio Krstev
14 Benjamin Lim         :     Neil Gunn          

Major Open draw

No Name                     Result   Name                  

 1 Alan Ansell                 :     Henry Vital
 2 Edward Tanoi                :     David Evans
 3 Hans Gao                    :     Arthur Casilang
 4 Andrea Rivas Villanueva     :     Shirley Wu
 5 Eachen Chen                 :     Brett Rider
 6 Johan Vosloo                :     Richard Taylor
 7 Wayne Power                 :     George Chen
 8 Luke Li                     :     Don Eade
 9 James Cater                 :     Brian Liu
10 William Forster             :     Ian McNally
11 Anthony Booth               :     Nicole Tsoi
12 Philip Hair                 :     Sharon Wu
13 Roy Seabrook                :     Robert Mitchell
14 Philip Mukkattu             :     Karl Holdo
15 Andrew Michael              :     John Pakenham
16 Thomas Chen                 :     Simon Lyall
17 Nigel Cooper                :     William (Xiang Wei) Li
18 Hugh MacLeod                :     Jiapeng Li
19 David Rong                  :     Olivia Dong
20 Andrew Geng Li              :     Neil Cruden
21 Mana Garland                :     William Zhang
22 Sean Tang                   :     Winston (Yow-Jen) Yao
23 John Ansell                 :     Lynton Rudkins