Editorial

Some exciting developments for Chess Kids in the first part of 2006 with a company restructure and revised busi-ness plan focusing on nation-wide growth.

The Chess Kids goal has always been to provide an opportunity for every child in Australia to learn and play chess.

This year we have taken some big steps in that direction (ie. away from the south-eastern states) by taking on some of the most challenging areas of growth - Western Australia and North-ern Territory. Because of their geo-graphic isolation the opportunities in these remote areas for children to play chess have been virtually non-existent.

For me this has been an exciting time— not just seeing how quickly chess is be-ing embraced by kids in these areas. But also the travel through Broome, Perth, Albany, Darwin, Alice Springs, Kakadu as well as the Tasmanian areas of Strahan, Ulverstone, Forth, Burnie, Hobart and Launceston.

We look forward to 2007 when we will finally be offering programs in every state and territory.

To enable us to continue to offer quality chess coaching and tournaments around Australia we have developed a very re-warding franchise system. We have lim-ited opportunities available NOW for anyone who has an interest in teaching chess, either working as an employee or running their own Chess Kids franchise.

To find our more please contact us on 1300 424 377.

-David Cordover

Volume 6 Issue 1 May 2006 Editor: David Cordover

Inside This Issue

Chess Kids Elite Page 2 Puzzle Page Page 3

Smothered Checkmates Page 4 Australian Chess History Page 5

Victorian News Page 6 National Interschool Finals Page 6

Northern Territory Page 7 Sick Of Your Job? Page 8

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The Chess Kids Elite program is for junior players who demonstrate their talent for chess in competition play. Having done so, we try to provide them with a structured pathway and support for any wishing to attain National or International success.

The general rule is that anyone who can finish in the Top 10% of players in their region will be accepted for the program.

Chess Kids Elite provides additional coaching programs with Master Coaches as well as chess training camps and support to play in Open (adult) events.

Eventually comes selection and qualifi-cation to State and National Individual Championships.

Planning is underway for our trip to the 2007 Australian Junior Championships (January 14-26, 2007) in Canberra. Chess Kids can only take 40 players from around Australia and there are al-ready over 200 in the Elite program.

Study hard, practice plenty and I wish you good luck getting selected for the 2007 Canberra team!

Endgame Homework

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White to move

Play this position out for yourself at home. Play against yourself, a friend, a family member or even your computer. Think carefully about each move and what you should play. After you’ve done that take a look at the way the game actually ended. Was your plan of attack close to that which the

Grandmasters played in their game? Actual continuation of

the game as follows:

1.h5! Rh4+?! 2.Kg1

Rxh5 3.Rd2 f4 4.Rd7

Rxe5 5.Rxa7 g5 6.b4 g4

7.Kf2 Re3 8.a4 g3+ 9.

Kf1 Re4 10.Rc7? If 10.a5 bxa5 11.b5 Rxc4 12.b6 Rc8 13.b7 Rb8 14.Ra8 10...h5 11.a5 bxa5 12.

b5! h4 13.b6 h3 14.gxh3

f3 15.b7 g2+ 16.Kf2

Re2+ 17.Kxf3 g1Q 18.

b8Q+ Re8 19.Qxe8# 1-0

Chess Kids Elite

Zones Players TOTAL Average

Boroondara 2 11.5 5.75

Monash 8 32.5 4.06

Glen Eira 15 54.5 3.63

Whitehorse 4 12.5 3.13

Dandenong Ranges 1 3.0 3.00

Brimbank 1 3.0 3.00

Gippsland 7 20.0 2.86

Geelong 6 17.0 2.83

Manningham 13 34.0 2.62

Whittlesea 1 2.5 2.50

Bayside 5 10.5 2.10

Stonnington 6 12.5 2.08

Maroondah 4 7.5 1.88

Mornington 7 13.0 1.86

Kingston 1 1.5 1.50

Yarra Ranges 2 2.5 1.25

Darebin 8 8.0 1.00

Mildura 2 2.0 1.00

Casey 4 2.5 0.63

Seed Names Surname Points Zone

1 Adrian Hutchinson 6.0 Hobart East

2 Rhys Kilpatrick 6.0 Hobart Nth

3 Dylan Moores 6.0 Hobart SC

4 Jem Thain 5.5 Hobart Sth

5 Max Rintoul 5.0 Hobart Nth

6 Cody Nelson 5.0 Hobart Nth

Seed Names Surname Points Zone

1 Dion Philips 6.0 Hobart East

2 Ella Thain 5.0 Hobart Sth

3 Luke Bombardieri 5.0 Kingston

4 Reo Dante Lazaro 4.5 Hobart Nth

5 Olivia Hay 4.0 Kingston

8 Olivia Deconinck 4.0 Kingston

Group A

Group B

Players in the Hobart Elite Program

Left: 2005 Victorian

zone-by-zone rankings

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White to play and mate in 2.

2. �������� � + + +r0k� �+q+n+p�rp� �p+ +p6N 1Q� �+p+l+ + � � + + +R+� �+ + + �P � P�P +P�P �P" #+ +R+ 0K % &'()*+,-./

White to play and mate in 2.

3. �������� �r+l+ 0k �r� ��pp�pp1q + � � + + 6N �p� �+ + �P +Q� � + +P�P +� �+L+ + + � P�P + + �P" #6n +K+ �R % &'()*+,-./

White to play and mate in 2.

4. �������� � + �r �rk+� ��pp+ +p�pp� � + �pn+ +� �+q�pN+ + � � + + �PP+� ��P + + �PQ� �PP+ + +" #+K+R+ + % &'()*+,-./

White to play and mate in 3.

5. �������� �r+l+ 1qr0k� ��pp+ +p+p� � + +p�Pp1Q� �+ + + + � � + + + +� �+ + +N+ � P+ + �PP�P" #+ +R+ 0KR% &'()*+,-./

White to play and mate in 3.

6. �������� � + �rk4l �r� ��p �Rn�pp�pp� � + + + +� �+ + + + � �Q+ 4LP+ +� �+ +L+ +P� P+P1q �PP+" #+ + +R0K % &'()*+,-./

White to play and mate in 3.

7. �������� �r+l+k4l �r� �+ +p6np�pp� �p+p+ + 6n� �1qp+ + 6N � � + +P+ +� ��PQ+ + + � L+ + �PP�P" #+ 1qR+ 0K % &'()*+,-./

White to play and mate in 3.

8. �������� �r+ + + +� ��pp+l�pk6n � � + �p �rp1Q� �+ �pP1q + � � +P+P+ �R� �+ 6N + + � P�P +L+P+" #+ 0K + +R% &'()*+,-./

White to play and mate in 4.

9. �������� �r+ 1qk+ +� �+ + +p+p� �p+ + + 1Q� �+N+ �pP+ � � + 6n + +� �+ +L6N + � l�PP+ �r �P" #+ 0KR+ +R% &'()*+,-./ Black to play and (smother) mate in 2.

Need some Brain Exercise? (Answers on Page 7)

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Smothered Checkmate #1

An unusual smothered mate because it uses a Queen and not the Knight.

This was the shortest game ever played between 2 Grandmasters. It is possible to finish a game in as little as 2-moves, or use the 4-move checkmate. Of course a Grandmaster will never fall for any-thing like that though.

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nd2

This looks like a good move, it keeps the King safe, develops a piece and helps to control e4 (the centre). But...

2...e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.h3

On face value this looks fine, white at-tacks the Knight and chases him back. But...

4...Ne3!

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5.fxe3 Qh4+ 6.g3 Qxg3# 0-1

And the final position (see diagram) shows that although White looks like he

is safe, with lots of pieces surrounding the King he is actually smothered by his own pieces and it is checkmate!

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Final position #1

Smothered Checkmate #2

This opening is known as the Caro-Kann defence.

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5

Black sets up a Pawn Chain into the centre, while white goes for a more at-tacking Pawn Wall.

3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7

Looks good, he wanted to develop the knight of the back rank, but didn’t want to go to a6 (on the edge of the board). Much better, or so he thought, to go to the centre. But...

5.Qe2 Ngf6

And just watch out...Black is about to fall of his chair with surprise at the next, unexpected move! After all, he looks so safe. His King is surrounded com-pletely by his own pieces, what could possibly go wrong?

6.Nd6# 1-0

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Final position #2

Smothered Checkmate #3

I am proud of this because it is one of my very few smothered checkmates!

1.e4 c5 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Nf6 4.Bc4

Nbd7

Notice anything yet?

5.dxc5 Qa5+ 6.Nc3 Qxc5 7.Qe2 Qc7 8.

Nb5 Qa5+ 9.Bd2 Qd8

Black is sick of his Queen being at-tacked so decides to retreat home.

10.Nd6!# Checkmate!

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Chess Kids Coaching “Smothered Checkmate”

• The enemy King looks safe

• The enemy King is surrounded by his own soldiers

• Usually a Knight delivers the Smothered Checkmate because he can ‘jump’ the defences

• This is the most surprising (and rarest) of all checkmates!

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Australian Chess History

Born 28 May 1862 Hull, England. Died 1 June 1916 Sydney.

Being the son of a noted lexiconogra-pher and growing up in the chess-rich city of Hull (four clubs and a thriving competition), when he learned to play in early 1877, Jacobsen (JJ) advanced rap-idly in the game.

By 1878 he had become a club cham-pion. In 1879, he defeated the amiable master Henry Bird 4-2=1 and was noted by Steinitz as the “boy champion of England”. By 1881, he was able to de-feat the leading English amateurs, Skip-worth and Thorold.

Then . . . he decided to travel. After a stint in South Africa, he arrived in Bris-bane at the end of 1886, possibly drawn there by relatives already settled. De-spite no competition since leaving Eng-land, he was able to win the 1887 State title. He then helped to form the Bris-bane School of Arts Chess Club.

In November 1889, JJ moved to Syd-ney, probably for health reasons and took a job in the Postal service. He joined the Sydney School of Arts Chess Club, the SSACC, and promptly won his first tournament there.

This placed him second to Crane, the reigning Australian champion. Crane won the club championship in 1891. Jacobsen won it in 1892 and 1893 with Crane absent. When Wallace arrived in

1893, Jacobsen helped him to prepare for his title match.

Jacobsen’s turn came in 1897 when Crane returned from Warrnambool. Now a chess professional - tutoring and writing a chess column - he challenged and defeated Crane 7-1=1.

In turn, he was challenged by William Jonas who had a moderate record both in Sydney and in his original city of Glasgow. Wallace now challenged. Jonas however insisted on his right to play his match and was defeated 1-7=5.

Then negotiations for the Wallace match began. The cordiality from the Wallace - Crane match had become a rivalry between Wallace of the Sydney Club and Jacobsen of the SSACC. This degenerated into dislike as the terms of the match were being argued. Wallace, fearing adverse publicity wanted the press excluded from the match and the games owned by the players.

Ultimately JJ had had enough. He re-signed the title. Wallace immediately responded by dropping all preconditions but it was too late. JJ did not relent. The split between the two clubs soured chess in Sydney for many years.

They eventually met in competition in the first official NSW State champion-ship. It was no contest. After three rounds, JJ led with 3 while Wallace tailed the field on 0. JJ won with 8½ /9.

Wallace had recovered to tie with Jonas for second on 5½.

JJ now retired from play to concentrate on his mar-riage and his new busi-ness - a saw mill and a col-liery agent. He remained playing in the telegraphic matches until 1915. His score of 10-5=6 included a golden run of 8-0=3 from 1900 against the best inter-state players.

W Crane - J Jacobsen

Sydney School of Arts 1895

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 Be7 7.Nbd2 OO 8.Nf1 Ne8 9.Bb3 Na5 10.Bc2 f5 11.Ne3 f4 12.Nd5 Bg4 13.Ne7 Qe7 14.d4 ed4 15.Qd4 Nc6 16.Qd3 Ne5 17.Ne5 de5 18.Bb3 Kh8 19.f3 Qh4 20.Kf1 Rd8 21.Qe2 Nf6 22.Qe1 Qh5 23.Qf2 Rd3 24.Bc4 Ne4 25.fg4 Qg4 26.Bd3 Qd1 27.Qe1 Ng3 28.Kf2 Nh1 29.Kf1 Qd3 30.Kg1 f3 31.gf3 Qf3 32.Bg5 Nf2 . 0-1

J Jacobsen - W Jonas

Game 7 Match 1898

1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 Nf6 4.fe5 Ne5 5.d4 Ng6 6.e5 Ng8 7.Nf3 d5 8.Bd3 Bb4 9.OO Bc3 10.bc3 Be6 11.Rb1 Qc8 12.Ng5 Bg4 13.e6

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F Esling (VIC) - J Jacobsen (NSW) Board 1 Telegraphic match 1901

1.d4 d5 2.e3 Nf6 3.Bd3 Nc6 4.f4 Bg4 5.Nf3 e6 6.c3 Ne4 7.OO Bd6 8.Qc2 Bf5 9.a3 Be7 10.c4 Bg6 11.cd5 Qd5 12.Ne5 Nd6 13.Nc3 Bd3 14.Qd3 Ne5 15.fe5 Qc4 16.Qd1 Nf5 17.Qf3 OO 18.Bd2 c5 19.g4 Nh4 20.Qf2 f5 21.Qe2 Qe2 22.Ne2 fg4 23.Be1 Nf3 24.Kg2 Bg5 25.Bf2 Nd2 26.Rfd1 Nc4 27.Rd3 Rf3 28.Ng1 Ne3 29.Be3 Re3 30.Re3 Be3 31.dc5 Rd8 32.b4 Rd2 33.Kg3 h5 34.Rb1 g5 0-1

Julius Jacobsen 1897

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finals, 3 zone wins give 10 places and the maximum 12 places for a school that can win 4 zones!

For Term 2 entries & more details go to

interschool.chesskids.com.au/victoria/

Victorian Events T E R M 2 E V E N T S * 1 1 T H A P R I L - 1 4 T H J U N E 2 0 0 6 *

The Commonwealth Games disruption to Term 1 mean that it was so short only 4 interschool events were played.

A total of 229 players (average 76.3 per day) is a positive start to the year.

Funnily enough the winning schools in each zone were mostly reigning State Champions - so perhaps their teams haven’t been weakened so much by the passing into another school year.

The first teams into the State Finals in Victoria are Melbourne High (Open Secondary), Brighton Grammar (Junior Secondary), Mt View (Primary) and also Brighton Grammar (Primary). It is a pleasure to welcome back Brighton Grammar to the Primary events after they did not participate in 2005.

To make up for the quiet Term 1 we have scheduled 39 Zones for Term 2, the largest number in a single term of all time! (30 zones in Term 3, 2005 was the

previous re-cord).

It is also great to see a few new Regional areas being exposed. We welcome aboard events in Albury, Echuca, Colac, Sheppar-ton and various G i p p s l a n d regions.

It is harder to qualify more than 5 players to the State Finals this year because of the lack of Term 1 zones. Remember you are not limited to playing in your own Zone, you are wel-come to travel and to play in many zones each term. A school that wins 2 Zone Events qualifies 8 players for the

Reigning National Champions - Scotch College

Junior Secondary Division

All details will be posted on

www.interschool.chesskids.com.au

Dates: Monday/Tuesday 4/5 December

Venue: Monash University, Clayton

A school qualifies to the National Finals in one of a number of places available (in each Division) as follows:

3 schools from: NSW & VIC 2 schools from: ACT, NT, QLD, SA, TAS & WA 2 schools from: The Host State 5 schools: Wildcard Entry

Qualification: Generally schools will qualify based on results in their respec-tive State Finals.

States without an endorsed State Finals may still enter a team. In 2006 State places from QLD, NSW and ACT to the

National Finals will be Open by Applica-tion.

Wildcards: A limited number of Wild-card entries will be provided. These will be based on applications received.

Some possible reasons you might apply and receive a Wildcard entry:

• Schools who 'only just' miss out on the State Place.

• Geographically challenged schools.

• Schools with limited opportunities to play chess.

• Students have demonstrated they are 'SO KEEN' that they might explode if they can't play.

Applications: Applications for Wildcard entry and for ACT, QLD and NSW teams open on June 1, 2006.

Schools will be notified by August 1 (at the latest) the status of their application.

Grants: Chess Kids provided $14,550 in grants last year to teams participating in the National Finals to assist with accom-modation, meals, coaching and transport. We expect to provide similar or greater amounts again in 2006. Grants available are a maximum of $1500 per school.

Grant Applications must be received be-tween September 1 and October 31, 2006. Grants will be allocated on November 1.

Entries: The Entry Fee for this event in-cludes accommodation, food, private coaching for each player, airport transfers for 5 students and 1 supervisor. Fees will be known by July 1 but is expected to be in the order of $1100 per school team.

All enquiries to David on 1300-424-377.

National Interschool Finals 4 T H & 5 T H D E C E M B E R , 2 0 0 6 * M E L B O U R N E *

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Venue: Casuarina Senior College

Date: 22nd March

Place Name Score

1 DARWIN HIGH 27 11 players

2 CASUARINA SENIOR COLLEGE 21.5 14 players

3 MANUNDA TERRACE PRIMARY 20.5 8 players

4 GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN 19.5 7 players

5 CASUARINA ST PRIMARY 19.5 10 players

6 MACFARLANE PRIMARY 18 10 players7 MOIL PRIMARY TEAM 2 18 10 players

8 MOIL PRIMARY 17 10 players

9 DURACK PRIMARY 16.5 15 players

10 ST JOSEPH'S 16.5 12 players

11 MIDDLE POINT PRIMARY 16 8 players

12 ST ANDREWS PRIMARY 16 14 players

13 KARAMA PRIMARY 15.5 11 players

14 ST JOSEPH'S -HS 7 2 players

Place Name Score

1 Darryl Sabado Darwin High 7.0

2 Joseph Yuen Darwin High 7.0

3 David Williams Darwin High 7.0

4 Scott Boyle Darwin High 6.0

5 Rocky Mo Casuarina Senior College 6.0

6 Christopher Williams Darwin High 6.0

7 Josh Miles Casuarina Senior College 5.5

8 A'bel Williams Casuarina St Primary 5.5

9 Michael Ferrer Manunda Terrace Primary 5.510 Stephen Caraher Casuarina Senior College 5.0

11 Kieran Gillespie Manunda Terrace Primary 5.0

12 Joseph Hodgson Good Shepherd Lutheran 5.0

13 Jordan Coonan Good Shepherd Lutheran 5.0

14 Sam Newbury Moil Primary 5.0

15 Liam Stuart Manunda Terrace Primary 5.0

16 Christian Caluza Casuarina Senior College 5.0

17 Christopher Pilling Casuarina Senior College 5.0

18 Adam Gravenall Casuarina St Primary 5.0

19 Chris Ewian MacFarlane Primary 5.0

20 Lisa Fraser Good Shepherd Lutheran 5.0

21 Brendan Morrison MacFarlane Primary 5.0

22 Abi Gabbi Manunda Terrace Primary 5.0

23 Damian Williams Casuarina St Primary 5.0

24 Beau Cubillo Moil Primary Team 2 5.0

25 Michael Bennett Manunda Terrace Primary 5.0

Darwin Zone

Interschool Chess

Northern Territory A N A U S T R A L I A N F I R S T

For the first time in history the Northern Territory has been included in a Na-tional Chess Event!

Two regional Interschool Zone events were held; one in Darwin and the other in Alice Springs.

As well as the Interschool Champion-ships Chess Kids also provided some coaching programs, free demonstrations and chess challenges!

Because of the geographic difficulty in coordinating a unified State Champion-

ship Finals it was agreed that the two NT places in the National Finals would be shared - one for the Darwin Cham-pion and one for the Alice Springs Champion.

So, congratulations to the first teams around Australia to qualify for the Na-tional Interschool Championship Finals.

Darwin Primary Champion

Manunda Terrace Primary

Darwin Secondary Champion

Darwin High School

Alice Springs Primary Champion

Bradshaw Primary

Alice Springs Secondary Champion

Alice Springs High School

The even better news is that the Alice Springs schools have already booked their tickets to Melbourne - so we are sure that this year will be the FIRST year ever with full National representa-tion at the finals!

Until next year, when the events in the Territory will be bigger and better!

Venue: Alice Springs High School

Date: 24th March

Place Name Score

1 ALICE SPRINGS HIGH 21.5 15 players

2 OLSH SECONDARY 19.5 9 players

3 BRADSHAW PRIMARY 17 8 players

4 GILLEN PRIMARY 17 5 players

5 OLSH PRIMARY 14.5 10 players

6 STEINER SCHOOL 5.5 6 players

Place Name Score

1 Dwayn Schultz Alice Springs High 6.5

2 Patrick Cole-Manolis Gillen Primary 6.0

3 Cindy Schultz Alice Springs High 6.0

4 Conor MacGillivray OLSH Secondary 5.5

5 Sebastian Randall Bradshaw Primary 5.0

6 Daniel McCormick Bradshaw Primary 5.0

7 Hayden Quabba OLSH Secondary 5.0

8 Regan Lawton OLSH Secondary 4.5

9 Vithan Thillairajah Gillen Primary 4.5

10 Jonathan Grant OLSH Secondary 4.5

11 Adam Ericksen OLSH Secondary 4.5

12 Brendan Grant OLSH Secondary 4.5

13 Connor Skoss Alice Springs High 4.5

14 Ziggy Vincent Alice Springs High 4.5

Alice Springs Zone

Interschool Chess

Brain Exercise - Answers

1. 1.Qh8+ Bxh8 2.Rxh8++

2. 1.Qxh7+ Rxh7 2.Rxg8++

3. 1.Qxh6+ Rxh6 2.Rg8++

4. 1.Ne7+ Kh8 2.Qxh7+ Kxh7 3.Rh1++

5. 1.Ng5! Qxh6 2.Nxf7++

If… 1...Rg7 2.Rd8 Bd7 3.Qxg7++

6. 1.Qxd7+ Rxd7 2.Rc8+ Rd8 3.Bb5++

7. 1.Qxf7+ Nxf7 2.Bxf7+ Kd8 3.Ne6++

8. 1.Qxg7+ Kxg7 2.Rh7+ Kf8 3.Rh8+ Kf7 4.R1h7++

9. 1...Rxc2+ 2. Bxc2 Ne2++

If… 2. Nxc2 Nb3++

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