NSW Grade Matches Results So Far

Ryde-Eastwood Chess Club
Performance Grade Results

(NB:Ryde-Eastwood players highlighted in bold
- note that the names highlighted in bold
DOES NOT MEAN these players have White)

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Under 1800

Liu, Steven Hern (1779) v Talum (?), Lito (u/r) 1-0
Escalante, Lorenzo (1742) v Mejzini, Jack (1607) 0-1
Zielinski, Konrad (1679) v Foong, Tze Weng (1621) 1-0
Christensen, Joshua (1651) v Greenwood, Norman (1530) 1-0

Club Standings
Place Name Score
1 RYDE EASTWOOD 3 pts
2-3 MANLY, NORTH SYDNEY 2.5 pts
4-5 ST GEORGE DRAGONS, ST GEORGE SAINTS 2 pts

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Under 1600

Hickey, James (1594) v Ruan, Jack (1557) 0-1
Hale, Dennis (1591) v Papantoniou, John (1629) 0-1
Mikolajczyk, Les (1473) v Ruan, Harry (1459) 0-1
Chiara, Vince (1389) v Gu, Sean (1361) 0-1


Club Standings
Place Name Score
1-2 ROOTY HILL, ST GEORGE SAINTS 4 pts
3 MANLY 3 pts
4-5 NORTH SYDNEY BROWN BEARS, NORTH SYDNEY GRIZZLIES 2 pts
6 PARRAMATTA 1 pts
7-8 BONNYRIGG, RYDE EASTWOOD 0 pts

to play against Bonnyrigg tomorrow (Wed) at Ryde-Eastwood RSL at 7.30pm

Likely Opponents from Bonnyrigg

Blazeski, Krste (1647), Todorovski, Marjan (1587), Banovic, Milko (u/r)

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Under 1400

to play against St George Dragons tomorrow (Wed) at Ryde-Eastwood RSL at 7.30pm

Participants
Douglas Eyres (1222), Simon Parker (u/r), Greig Edwards (u/r) and Chee Tan (u/r) with first reserve: Luke Farrugia (u/r)

Likely Opponents from St George Dragons
Taric, Omar (1361), Keuning, Patrick J (1358), Ollivain, Thierry (1342), Johansson, Par (Peter) (1335)

Out Of Shape, Out Of Touch

Boy, am I not only out of touch with chess, I am also badly out of shape.

I logged onto FICS and promptly got caned in 10 successive games.

Fun, fun, fun.....

Tomorrow I intend to take my module exams for module 3 and 5. The end of my school term is fast approaching and I cannot be lax now with the final hurdle and graduation from this class just 5-6 weeks away.

As for chess, I need to rework from basics all over again. I've forgotten some of the lines I played in response to 1.d4 and 1.e4 and I suddenly found myself ho-humming just 4 moves into the some of the games.

The problem herein I feel is that after studying chess, not all of it gets into long-term memory so I would need to re-train my brain when the time comes.

That means on Wednesday morning and lunch-time at work, I need to cram in my opening repertoire and sharpen my tactical and positional skills again.

I need to start playing blitz the odd while so that I can remember the moves.

On a separate note, dk and Phaedrus have started a collaboration on a global eBook for middlegames. If you are interested and have the necessary time to help them out, please drop them a note on the link. It's a massive undertaking and I sincerely hope that this project becomes successful.

That's all for now.

Update On Grade Matches

Les Mikolajczyk has replied to my email regarding my participation in the Grade Matches. So instead of moving to the U-1600, I'm now shuffling between 2 divisions, both the U-1400 and the U-1600. It looks like there were players who either could not travel or could not play on those dates. So I got drafted in. In addition, Les also mentioned that I might be asked to fill in in case some people cannot make it.

So now my updated schedule looks like this:

U-1400: 28 May (Wed): Ryde Eastwood vs St George Dragons
U-1400: 02 Jun (Mon): Rooty Hill vs Ryde Eastwood
U-1600: 03 Jun (Tue): North Sydney Grizzlies vs Ryde Eastwood
U-1400: 11 Jun (Wed): Ryde Eastwood vs North Sydney
U-1600: 17 Jun (Tue): St George Dragons vs Ryde Eastwood (or)
U-1400: 17 Jun (Tue): St George Saints vs Ryde Eastwood
U-1400: 25 Jun (Wed): Ryde Eastwood vs Manly
U-1400: 02 Jul (Wed): Ryde Eastwood vs Parramatta
U-1600: 08 Jul (Tue): Nth Syd Brown Bears vs Ryde Eastwood

Well, I obviously can't play on both boards simultaneously against St George on 17th June so one board will have to give.

I'm a bit worried on that day as well. The final exam for my studies is some 5 weeks away so it would be around that time for both my final theory and final exam (after that, it's no more studies for me). I'll just have to see how it goes.

In the U-1600 group, my club didn't play well unfortunately on Tuesday. Vince Chiara, Dennis Hale, James Hickey and Les all lost against the players from St George.