• 22/12/2005 - Your committee wishes you all a very happy Christmas and all the best for 2006. See you in the new year. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 19/12/2005 - Tonight we end our club year with our Christmas Party. A small quantity of drink and snacks will be provided by the club. Additional drinks or food will need to be purchased by members. The intention is to play a "Canadian Pairs" 15 minutes each Allegro tournament with revolving partners. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 18/12/2005 - Minutes of the 2005 club AGM are available on request from Tom Accola, our Secretary. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 18/12/2005 - Many thanks to our webmaster this year, Tze Weng Foong, for his great work on the web site. Tze Weng will be a way for a few weeks on a well-deserved break in the USA. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 18/12/2005 - Final placings for the Spring Tournament: 1st Michael Morris, 2nd Stephen Liu, 3rd = Graham Dick and Jonathan Adams, 5th Steve Vegh. Handicap Tournament placings: 1st Jonathan Adams (tournament winner and second placegetter ineligible; winner lowest rated player on 9 points), 2nd Graham Dick, 3rd Tom Accola, 4th Peter Vidler. The winner of the upset prize was Alex Papp. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 13/12/2005 - The club's AGM was held last night. The year's prizes were presented (see ClubPictures), President's and Treasurer's reports given, and the following committee was elected: President - Gordon Miller, Vice President - Gordon Struk, Treasurer - Norman Greenwood, Secretary - Tom Accola, Games Captain - Jonathan Adams, Web Master - Tze Weng Foong, Delegate to Leagues Club - Ken Shaw Committee Member - Chris Dimock, Committee Member - Michael Morris Committee Member - Ruth Zalai. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 12/12/2005 - Tonight is our AGM and Prize-giving for the year and next week will be our Christmas party. If you have unplayed games from the Manly Spring tournament you can play them on either night. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 05/12/2005 - The ACF December 2005 Ratings List is now out. See their web site at http://www.auschess.org.au/ratings/acfrate.htm. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 04/12/2005 - Tomorrow night is the last round of our Spring tournamant. There are still a number of unplayed games. It would be appreciated if these could all be played before the end of our year. On both the AGM night (12 Dec) and the Christmas party night (19 Dec) there will be opportunity to play these games. Jonathan Adams?
  • 29/11/2005 - Pawn or Queen - Aussie Chess player beauty queen. {Tze Weng Foong?}
  • 24/11/2005 - For those of you who are tennis fans as well, here is an interesting article Quote : "Federer played chess. He accepted all comers. Played and won." - {Tze Weng Foong?}
  • 03/11/2005 - Some very sad news. One of our members, Tu Huynh, died at the weekend. Tu's funeral is tomorrow at 2.30 PM and the venue is the Camellia Chapel, New Macquarie Park Crematorium, corner Delhi & Plassey Road, Macquarie Park/ Ryde. Paul Burke, Bruce Douglas and I will be attending and if anyone else is able to come it would be great to see you there. Note no flowers by request – instead donations to the Spastic Centre. Tu had been coming regularly for the majority of this year. We will miss him. RIP. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 27/10/2005 - Please note that each of the next 6 weeks will be rounds of the Spring Tournament. If you cannot play on a scheduled night it is your responsibility to arrange an alternative time with your opponent. See the club program in this web site. [Jonathan]
  • 20/10/2005 - Many thanks to both those who played, and those who turned up prepared to play but were not required, against North Sydney for the "Little Board Match" last Monday night. Although we lost the match it was an excellent evening and great to see so many chess players at the club. And because there were so many more from Manly than Nth Sydney, some of our dual members played for North Sydney. [Jonathan]
  • 10/10/2005 - I have just seen Peter Parr’s column in today’s SMH, p. 26 We must also congratulate David Webster, who finished third in the NSW Junior Championships, Under 18 division. Well done David! [Jonathan]
  • 04/10/2005 - Congratulations to Michel Lu, who finished 2nd = in the NSW Girls Under 12 Championship. Well done, Michel! [Jonathan Adams]
  • 30/09/2005 - This coming Monday is a catch-up night for the Spring Tournament. You can also play friendly games. Round 4 will be played on 10 October and on 17 October we host North Sydney for the "Little Board" return match. Let me know if you can play for Manly and have yet to tell me so. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 14/09/2005 - For a good recent story on Bobby Fischer, now resident in Iceland, read http://sport.guardian.co.uk/chess/story/0,15873,1450442,00.html. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 14/09/2005 - A field of 32 players has entered the Spring Tournament. Watch this web site each weekend to see the latest results and the draw for the forthcoming round. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 13/09/2005 - Are you a turtle too? I was.. Probably still am .. - http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/fun/chess.html { Tze Weng Foong }
  • 07/09/2005 - Our hard-working Treasurer Norman Greenwood convincingly won the club Allegro 15/15 tournament with 10.5 out of 12. Second equal were Vice President Gordon Struk and Martin Lakeland. See the results link for full details. Entries are still being accepted for the "Spring Tournament and Handicap Championship" Spring Tournament Swiss tournament starting next Monday 12 September. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 04/09/2005 - Norman Greenwood is leading the club Allegro 15/15 tournament with 7 out of 8. Gordon Struk is coming second with 6 out of 8. The last 4 rounds will be played tomorrow night. The club's Spring Tournament will follow the Allegro starting on Mon 12 Sep. and I am now accepting entries for it. Note that this will be a "Swiss" toournament and there will be a handicap prize together with place prizes. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 27/08/2005 - Last night at a very successful dinner for members and partners the club presented our President GORDON MILLER with life membership in honour of his 25 years of dedicated and selfless service for the club on the committee and for many of those years as President. Gordon was presented with a plaque to mark this honour. Tze Weng Foong has added photos he took at the dinner to this web site under the ClubPictures link. Thanks, Tze Weng. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 27/08/2005 - On Monday 29 August we will have rounds 5 to 8 of the club Allegro 15/15 tournament. It is possible to join in if you missed the first night. Social chess can also be played. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 21/08/2005 - Tomorrow night we start the club Allegro(15/15) Championship. This will run over 3 consecutive nights, with 4 games each night. I will be the Director of Play, using Norman Greenwood's laptop. I am also now accepting entries for the club's Spring Tournament which will follow the Allegro. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 21/08/2005 - Congratulations to the folowing prize-winners from the 30/30 Winter Tournament: 1st Steven Liu (16.5/20, strike rate 0.825 converted to 16/16 = strike rate of 1 as the best 16 rounds are counted); 2nd Steve Vegh (13.5/24 converted to 13.5/ 16), converted strike rate 0.84; 3rd Tze Weng Foong (13/18), converted to 13/16, converted strike rate 0.72; Handicap Prizewinner for U 1500 or unrated was new member Jacob Graham (10.5/18), converted to 10.5/16, converted strike rate 0.66. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 15/08/2005 - Tonight is the last night of the 30/30 Winter Tournament. The current leader who has played enough games to reach the required 16 games by the end is Steven Lu. On Monday 22 August we will start the club Allegro (15/15) Championship. This will run over 3 consecutive nights, with 4 games each night. I will be the Director of Play, using Norman Greenwood's laptop. I am also now accepting entries for the club's Spring Tournament which will follow the Allegro. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 15/08/2005 - Norman Greenwood won the U1600 prize in the NSW Rapid Play tournament held on Sunday 14 August 2005. See the NSWCA website for Arbiter's Report and results. I.e. www.nswca.org.au. [Tom Accola]
  • 13/08/2005 - The final outcome of the club championships A grade is now known. Mark de Groen won and is club champion, and 3 players were second equal. They are Aram Sandalciyan, David Webster and Steven Liu. Congratulations to those players! [Jonathan Adams]
  • 08/08/2005 - Tonight is the second last night of the 30/30 Winter Tournament. Current leaders who have played enough games to reach the required 126 by the end are Gordon Struk and Steven Lu. On Monday 22 August we will start the club Allegro (15/15) Championship. This will run over 3 consecutive nights, with 4 games each night. I will be the non-playing Director of Play, using Norman Greenwood's laptop. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 05/08/2005 - Gordon Struk is organising a dinner for club members and partners on Friday 26 August from 7 PM. The club will subsidise each person $5 of the $20 cost for the Thai banquet. People pay for their own drinks. Gordon will advise more details on request. Phone him on 9913 8898. [Jonathan]
  • 05/08/2005 - Charles Bleyer (U1800) and Graham Dick (U1600) are definite Grade Match Board Prize Winners. There is a possibility that our hard-working captain Chris Dimock, who finished with 6/7 (>71%) in the U 1600, may also be awarded a board prize. Seventy percent of 11 games is 7.7 and it depends whether this is rounded down to 7 as to whether he qualifies for a board prize. [Jonathan]
  • 02/08/2005 - That U 1600 match was drawn 2-2, but Graham Dick won on Board 3 to give him a score of 7.5/ 8 which should mean a board pize. Well done, Graham! [Jonathan Adams]
  • 01/08/2005 - Last Monday our U 1600 team had a good 3-1 win against Canterbury. Tonight we finish the competition by playing the Rooty Hill Knights at home. Let's hope we finish strongly. There will also be another 2 rounds of 30/30 chess tonight. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 27/07/2005 - Guess what I found on the internet.. In the tournament where Michael Morris Got =6 our Norman Greenwood beat a 2000+ rated player.. this so impressed, that someone wrote about it and put it up. Here it is, enjoy. Norman's Victory {Tze Weng Foong?}
  • 25/07/2005 - Congratulations to our U 1800 team who finished 5th and our U 1400 team who finished 8th in their respective divisions of the inter-club Grade Matches. Our U 1600 team has 2 matches still to play, both at home. They are coming 8th currently. Tonight we play Canterbury. Also, a warm welcome back from overseas to our President, Gordon Miller. For those not involved in the U 1600 Norman Greenwood will run another 2 rounds of the 30/30 tonight. [Jonathan]
  • 22/07/2005 - Congratulations to Michael Morris who finished 6= in the Fairfield RSL Winter Cup. See the latest ACF email newsletter for details. You can subscribe to this weekly letter through http://www.auschess.org.au. [Jonathan]
  • 19/07/2005 - A mixed bag of results last night with Rooty Hill. Our U 1800 team drew 2-2 with the R H Knights, our U 1600 team lost 1-3 to the R H Rooks and our U 1400 team had a great 3.5-0.5 victory over another Rooty Hill Rooks team. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 18/07/2005 - In today's chess column in the SMH it is reported that David Webster and Max Illingworth came equal second with three other players on 6 points in the Under 18 Division of the NSW Junior Championship conducted in the School holidays. There were 24 players, nine rounds and the winner gained 6.5 points, 0.5 ahead of David and Max. Well done David and Max! [Tom Accola]
  • 18/07/2005 - In the inter-club competitions all 3 of our teams are playing Rooty Hill teams tonight. the U 1800 and U 1600 teams are playing at Rooty Hill (against the Knights and Rooks respectively) and the U 1400 is at home to the Knights. Good luck to all our teams. For those not involved Gordon Struk will run the 30/30 tonight as Norman has an ACF Council meeting. [Jonathan]
  • 15/07/2005 - This week our U 1600 team drew 2-2 and our U 1400 team lost 1.5-2.5. Our U 1800 team had the bye.[Jonathan]
  • 14/07/2005 - In the ACF Newsletter No. 326 13 July 2005, (http://www.auschess.org.au), the ACF Grand Prix Prizes 2004 - preliminary list are announced and Max Illingworth came first in the U1600 Division with 68.1 points. He also came third in the Junior Division with 50.4 points. Congratulations again, Max! [Tom Accola]
  • 10/07/2005 - All 3 of our teams drew 2-2 with their opposition last week. Tomorrow night our U 1400 team is at home against Canterbury and there are a further 2 rounds of the Manly 30/30. Our U 1600 team is away this week and the U 1800 team has the bye. [Jonathan]
  • 04/07/2005 - Our NSW Chess Association Grade Matches results last week were: U 1800 won 2.5-1.5 against Croatia Sydney; U 1600 lost 1.5-2.5 against North Sydney Grizzlies and U 1400 lost 1-3 against North Sydney. Best wishes to all our teams this week. The 30/30 tournament being run by Norman Greenwood continues tonight with another 2 rounds. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 21/06/2005 - A mixed bag of results for us in the NSW Chess Association Grade Matches last night. Our U 1800 team won 3-1 (including 2 by forfeit), our U 1600 team drew 2-2 and our U 1400 tream lost 4-0. See the link to the Inter-club matches above for full results. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 16/06/2005 - Updated our Website!! Hope you guys like the new Sandy Beach theme..!! Editing it should be easier as well. Expect some changes in the next few days .. I will probably be tweeking it over the weekend.. Let me know if anything is broken. You can put your comments here?. Remember you can always play in the SandBox. or create your own home page in the Member Pages? section of this web site. {tzeweng?}
  • 16/06/2005 - The NSW Open was held over the recent long weekend. There were 56 players in the Open Division and 58 in the U1600 Division. Congratulations to Norman Greenwood who came equal first in the U1600 with 6/7. Doug Moore also played in the U1600 and scored 4/7. Max Illingworth played in the Open and came up against Ian Rogers, Australia's top GM in Round 3. Henning Muller also played in the Open. The results are on the NSWCA website. (http://www.nswca.org.au). {Tom Accola?}
  • 15/06/2005 - Commiserations to our teams, who all lost to strong St. George teams. Better luck next week! [Jonathan]
  • 14/06/2005 - Best wishes to all 3 of our teams (U1800, U1600 and U1400) who all travel to St George tonight. [Jonathan]
  • 10/06/2005 - Congratulations to our U 1600 team, which which drew 2-2 with Wollongong in the inter-club matches on Wednesday night. Good luck to all our teams next week. I am hoping some club champs games get played this coming Monday. A reminder that there are no 30/30 rounds. Plenty of opportunity for social chess for those who have played all their club champs games. [Jonathan]
  • 07/06/2005 - Congratulations to our U 1400 team, which won 3-1, and to our U 1800 team, which drew 2-2, in the inter-club matches last night. [Jonathan]
  • 06/06/2005 - The inter-club Grade matches continue this week. Best wishes to all 3 of our teams. In Round 3 both our Under 1800 team and our Under 1400 team are at home tonight - against North Sydney and Wests respectively. On Wednesday our U 1600 team has a ”home” match against Wollongong, which (like all matches against Wollongong) will be played at St George Leagues Club. (We will be White on Boards 2 and 4 as if it was a normal home match.) Once again tonight, the smaller room will be used for the inter-club matches and the larger one for all other chess. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 06/06/2005 - The club's Rapid Play (30/30) tournament continues this Monday with Rounds 5 and 6 for those not involved in Inter-club Grade matches. This is a tournament where you don't have to play every week, so inter-club team members can still play. The winner is determined by strike rate out of players who have played at least 16 games out of a possible 24. There will also be a handicap prize. The Director of Play is Norman Greenwood. Rounds 7 and 8 will be played on Monday 20 June. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 06/06/2005 - There are still a few postponed games from the club championships (A and C Grades only) to be played. The list of postponed games is on the web site . Next Monday night, being the Queen’s Birthday Weekend holiday, would be a great time to play these games, if possible. Please make contact with your opponent to arrange this. If you can’t play then you will need to arrange a mutually convenient time and place with your opponent. One possibility is a Tuesday night at the North Sydney club or one of the Mondays at the same as (and in the same room as) the 30/30 games. Don’t forget the club champs time control is 90 moves for the game + 30 seconds per move. Setting 23 on the Fischer clocks with an increment of 30 seconds. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 06/06/2005 - All club championships games that have been played to date were submitted to the NSWCA for the June ratings list, which is now out. See www.auschess.org.au. Before too long we hope that all Manly players’ ratings will be on our own site. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 05/06/2005 - Congratulations to our U 1600 team, captained by Chris Dimock, who had a great 3-1 victory against Ryde-Eastwood last week. Unfortunately our U 1800 and U 1400 teams lost their matches. See the NSWCA web site for detailed results. http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/scarratt/allgrade.htm [Jonathan]
  • 01/06/2005 - The ACF June 2005 ratings are on the website www.auschess.org.au. Congratulations to Ken Shaw who made the Improvers list. [Tom Accola and Jonathan]
  • 31/05/2005 - Congratulations to Max Illingworth! Max came second, half a point behind the winner, in the Mingara May Major 2005 held in the NSW Central Coast over the last weekend. [Tom Accola and Jonathan]
  • 30/05/2005 - The final placings for the Club Championship B Grade are now known and full details can be found under "Manly 2005 Chess Club Championships". First was Norman Greenwood, second John McParland and third Tze Weng Foong. Congratulations, guys! We won't know who has finished second behind winner Mark de Groen in the A Grade, nor who has finished third behind winner Alex Papp and second placed Tom Accola in the C Grade, until the postponed games have been played. [Jonathan]
  • 30/05/2005 - Good luck to our U 1800 team at Home tonight, our U 1600 team away to Ryde Eastwood on Wed and our U 1400 team away to St. George Saints on Tues![Jonathan]
  • 27/05/1005 - Congratulations to our U 1800 and U 1600 teams who have both begun with 2.5 - 1.5 victories. Commiserations to our U 1400 team who lost their first round match. See the NSWCA web site for detailed results. http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/scarratt/allgrade.htm [Jonathan Adams]
  • 22/05/2005 - The 2005 NSW Inter-club Grade Matches begin this week. In Round 1 our Under 1800 team is away on Wednesday night to Ryde Eastwood, our Under 1600 team at home on Monday night against Wests, and our Under 1400 team away on Monday night against Rooty Hill Knights. We wish all our teams every success. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 22/05/2005 - The club's Rapid Play (30/30) tournament starts this Monday (2 rounds per night) for those not involved in Inter-club Grade matches. This is a tournament where you don't have to play every week, so inter-club team members can still play. The winner is determined by strike rate out of players who have played at least 16 games out of a possible 24. There will also be a handicap prize. The Director of Play will be Norman Greenwood. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 19/05/2005 - Our Club Member's Ratings? can be accessed from Member Pages? in the Side Bar on the right of this page.
  • 19/05/2005 - Our wonderful President, Gordon Miller, is on holiday overseas for 2 months (primarily in Scotland). Your committee has nominated him for Life Membership of the MW Rugby League Club, on the grounds of exceptional service on the committee, most of the time as President, for the MWRLC Chess Club. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 17/05/2005 - Congratulations to all the winners in the club championships. A Grade, Mark De Groen; B Grade, Norman Greenwood (automatic entry to A Grade next year); and C Grade, new school-boy member Alex Papp (automatic entry to B Grade next year). Note that Mark has also been club champion in the past. Full results (minus as yet unplayed games) will be on this web site by next Monday. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 16/05/2005 - The 2005 NSW Inter-club Grade Matches are starting soon. Manly has entered 3 teams. The respective captains are: Under 1800, Aram Sandalciyan; Under 1600, Chris Dimock; Under 1400, Tom Accola. If you wish to play for Manly in the Grade matches and have not yet advised the relevant captain(s) of your availability, please let the captain(s) know asap. Go Manly! We are doing pretty well in the rugby league too! [Jonathan Adams]
  • 16/05/2005 - Congratulations to Mark De Groen, who has won the club championship with a round to spare. Mark and Gunbritt will soon be returning to Europe. We wish them all the very best for their travels. [Jonathan Adams]
  • 14/05/2005 - Forthcoming lectures at North Sydney: Following the very successful lecture series by Simon Easterbrook-Smith in 2001, 2003 and 2004 and by Robert Goris in 2002, Robert and Simon have agreed to make a joint presentation this year. The lecture material for previous years can be downloaded from the Chess Club's Website. Subject to confirmation from the presenters, a series of five lectures will be held on Thursday nights during May, June and July in the Celebrity Room (Auditorium) from 19 May 2005 commencing 7.30pm It is intended to increase the scope of the lectures this year to meet the needs of members with more advanced chess-playing skills (up to 1850 rating strength is suggested) as well catering for members with lower ratings who have been regular attendees at lectures in previous years. So if you wish to receive expert guidance on how to improve and enhance your chess playing skills now is your chance! If you wish to attend please enter your name below. The cost of each lecture is $5 ($25 for the series of 5). [Norman Greenwood]
  • 27/04/2005 - More congratulations! Peter Parr's SMH column on Monday contained the item that 242 players participated in the NSWJCL's two day tournament. Max Illingworth and David Webster shared second place with two other boys on 8 points from 10, 0.5 behind the winner. [Tom Accola and Jonathan Adams]
  • 27/04/2005 - Tze Weng Foong has put up to date files for the club championships into this web site. [Jonathan]
  • 26/04/2005 - Congratulations to Don Van Eldyck, who made the "Top Improvers" List for the March ACF ratings. Don's latest rating is 1246, an increase of 90 over the last ratings. See http://www.auschess.org.au/ratings/acfrate.htm, then "Most Improved". [Jonathan]
  • 25/04/2005 - Tonight is a catch-up night for the club championships. There will also be the opportunity for quiet, social games. [Jonathan]
  • 25/04/2005 - On Tues 3 May Manly plays North Sydney at North Sydney for the Little Board Match starting at 7.30 PM. We hope to have at least 20 boards against oponents of approximately equal ratings. If you are available and have not already indicated the fact, please email Norman Greenwood at ng208@dodo.com.au. [Jonathan]
  • 16/04/2005 - There will be a committee meeting after Round 8 this Monday. The main purpose is to finalise the Manly entries for the Inter-Club Grade Matches. [Jonathan]
  • 03/04/2005 - With this week being Motor Neuron's Disease Recognition week, I thought we should recognise the excellent effort by Paul Burke over the last 2 years of winning a number of games against higher rated opponents. Well done, Paul! [Jonathan]
  • 29/03/2005 - Congratulations to Michael Morris who finished 1st= in the Major of the Doeberl Cup in Canberra. Full cross tables can be seen at http://www.netspeed.com.au/ianandjan/IansPage/results/weekenders/2005DoeberlCup.htm [Jonathan]
  • 28/03/2005 - As per Peter Parr's column of today, Max has won his fourth "Warm-Up" tournament on the NSWJCL calendar. He is participating in the Doeberl Cup in Canberra (and so are Michael Morris, Ian Walsh and Norman Greenwood), but the final results are not on the website as yet. Also, Tze Weng has put Round 5 of our club champs up on our web site. [Jonathan]
  • 21/03/2005 - Max Illingworth has done it again - twice! In today's SMH, Peter Parr reports that Max has won two more of the NSWJCL "warm-up" tournaments. Normanhurst and Lidcombe, both 9.5/11. Jonathan?
  • 20/03/2005 - Tze Weng has added the results for Round 4 and progress scores to the Manly 2005 Chess Club Championships page. Jonathan?
  • 16/03/2005 - Congratulations again to Max Illingworth. Max came first in the NSWJCL tournament recently held at Rockdale. There were 25 players and Max scored 9.5 from 11. Jonathan?
  • 03/03/2005 - The March ACF ratings are out. Take a look at http://www.auschess.org.au/ratings/acfrate.htm, especially the "Active Players" tab, then NSW which comes after ACT. [Jonathan]
  • 02/03/2005 - Tze Weng has added the results for Round 2 and progress scores to the Manly 2005 Chess Club Championships page. Jonathan?
  • 22/02/2005 - Jonathan Adams has a new mobile number. You can reach him on 0425 304 187. [Jonathan]
  • 20/02/2005 - Thanks to Tze Weng Foong the link to the Club Championships now includes up to date results plus the full round robin draw for each grade. Round 2 is this Monday, 21 Feb. Let me know if you can't make it on 0411 447 219. Thanks. Jonathan Adams?
  • 13/02/2005 - The following players have been chosen to contest the A Grade of the Club Championships. In order drawn by lot they are: Steve Vegh (1625); David Webster (automatic qualifier as he won B Grade last year, 1482); Gordon Miller (1609); John Radovan (1561); Jonathan Adams (1610); Hans Schwandl (1629); Aram Sandalciyan (1708); Gunbritt De Groen (1634); Max Illingworth (1839); Gordon Struk (1627); Mark De Groen (2003); Steven Hern Liu (1701 Provisional). Note that sadly Michael Morris is not available to defend his title. All 3 Grades will commence tomorrow, 14 Feb. Jonathan Adams?
  • 09/02/2005 - Congratulations to Max Illlingworth who finished 2nd = in the strong Newcastle Open: A 7-round Swiss held on the February 5-6 weekend. See latest ACF newsletter of today's date. And don't forget the Manly club championships in 3 grades start next Monday night.Jonathan Adams?
  • 09/02/2005 - Michael Morris won the lightning championship with 16 out of 16, 2nd was Max Illingworth (15), 3rd Aram Sandalciyan and 4th Jonathan Adams.Jonathan Adams?
  • 01/02/2005 -There will be a short committee meeting after the last round of the lightning championship. on Mon 7 Feb. Jonathan Adams?
  • 26/01/2005 - Club Lightning Championship 2005 (5 minutes for each player for the whole game) will be held on Jan 31 and Feb 7 (8 rounds each night). Entries are now being taken for the club chamionships (time control 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per move for each player for the whole game) which begin on 14 February. Jonathan Adams?


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