CM DAVID BEAUMONT, the top seed, leads the 2023 Mike Dyer Memorial all by himself on 3.5/4, after drawing a close battle in round 4 against Allan Fossey. With 2 rounds to go, another 4 players are just half a point behind David, all on 3/4:

Allan Fossey, Sophia Xu, Nikola Maljkovic and Max Phillips.

We wish all our Redcliffe Members playing in this weekend’s 2023 Qld Womens and Girls Chess Championship all the very best of luck and we wish James ChengYi Xia all the very best in the FIDE World U8 Chess Championship in Egypt.

Our current Queensland Chess Champion, Yi Liu, is playing now in the very strong Qatar Masters, where Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura are the top two seeds! Go Yi! Current Australian Chess Champion Temur Kuybakarov, is also playing in the Qatar Masters. Go Temur! Check Chess.com for updates on this event or Chess24 for live games.

Tony Weller is also about to leave Australia on Saturday to play in the FIDE Asian Seniors in the Philippines and we hope Tony has a great time there too!

The CAQ Inc Qld Seniors is also on soon, on Saturday Nov 11 and Sunday November 12, at Bracken Ridge and we wish our Redcliffe Senior members all the best in this – See the flyer for the Qld Seniors on the CAQ Website under Coming Events: www.caq.org.au

You can also find details of the upcoming Bundaberg Classic on Saturday November 18 and Sunday November 19 on the CAQ Inc Website too.

Remember to check our own Redcliffe Chess Club Inc Website too – it has lots of current news from editor Kerry Corker:

Cheers  Mark C Stokes    0431 419 136

PS  See some great games from the Schools State Finals: https://livechess.aunz.net/