| ACF MEDALS & AWARDS – NOMINATIONS INVITED
Australian Players-of-the-Year 2023
Nominations are invited for potential winners of the following medals, to be awarded to Australian players who have made the greatest impact during 2023.
Recipients are offered financial assistance to participate in significant forthcoming national or international events.
Steiner Medal and Steiner-Holt Award – Australian Player of the Year 2023
This medal is to be awarded to the Australian player who has made the greatest impact, not necessarily the highest-rated – it is for the most notable achievement during 2023.
There is no limit to the number of times the Steiner medal or the Viner medal may be won by the same player.
Viner Medal & Award – Australian Senior Player of the Year 2023
On the same basis as the Steiner Medal, the Viner Medal is limited to nominees born in or before 1973.
Arlauskas Medal & Romanas Arlauskas Award – Australian Under-16 Player of the Year 2023
The Arlauskas Medal, also awarded on the same basis as the Steiner Medal, is limited to nominees born in or after 2007.
The Arlauskas Medal and Romanas Arlauskas Award may not be won by the same person more than twice. Previous recipients are listed at https://auschess.org.au/honour-boards
Service & Achievement Medals
Nominations are also invited for the following medals in recognition of services or contributions at a national or state level. These are lifetime achievement awards, not limited to accomplishments or services during a particular period and may not be awarded more than once to the same person.
Links to lists of previous recipients may be seen at: https://auschess.org.au/honour-boards
Koshnitsky Medal
Awarded annually for outstanding contributions to Australian chess administration at a national or a state level.
Whyatt Medal
Awarded quadrennially for outstanding services and/or achievements in chess problem composition.
Nominations
Nominations need not be from among a State’s own members or residents. A separate document or message containing the following should be provided in respect of each nominee:
• name in full (correctly spelt);
• contact details (phone, email, postal address);
• a citation describing relevant achievements, suitable for reading when the medal is presented and/or publication thereafter;
• anything else relevant to the nomination
Please address email nominations to: awards@auschess.org.au
Deadlines
Koshnitsky & Whyatt medal nominations – Friday 1 December 2023.
Player-of-the-Year medals & awards – Tuesday 2 January 2024.
Nominators must retain copies of documents submitted and phone 0409 525 963 or (03) 9787 7974 if not acknowledged 24 hours after expected delivery time.
2023 AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVE INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR CHESS TOURNAMENTS
The ACF Official 2023 Australian Representative International Junior Chess Tournaments Register is available at:
https://docs.google.com/…/1kyT2UVovzOZWftgI99xuboW…/
Any inquiries can be sent to Australian Junior Chess Coordinator, Henry Slater-Jones, at henryslaterjones@gmail.com.
2023 AUSTRALIAN SCHOOLS TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIPS
To be held at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, SA, on the first weekend of December – 2nd and 3rd December 2023.
2023 AUSTRALIAN ALLEGRO CHAMPIONSHIP
To be held at Glenelg, SA, on Boxing Day – 26th December 2023
2024 AUSTRALIAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
Tuesday 2nd January – Thursday 11th January 2024
An 11-round event – 2 double-round days – Wednesday 3rd and Friday 5th January 2024 with the National Conference on Saturday 6th January 2024.
To be played at Glenunga International High School, 99 L’Estrange St, Glenunga SA 5064.
2024 AUSTRALIAN JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
To be held at Glenunga International High School, 99 L’Estrange St, Glenunga SA 5064 from Saturday 13th through to Sunday 21st January 2024.
FIDE ID NUMBER REGISTRATION
FIDE has issued a warning that they will not accept tournaments for FIDE rating where those tournaments contain players who do not have FIDE ID numbers. Although new Australian players can be registered by the ACF FIDE Ratings Officer, this does not apply to new players from overseas. Therefore, organisers should not immediately accept the entries of overseas players who lack FIDE ID numbers to FIDE rated tournaments; instead, those players should be required to first obtain a FIDE ID from their own national federation.
Tournaments submitted that include foreign players who do not have ID numbers end up not being FIDE rated.
Organisers need to confirm prior to the start of the tournament that all players without a FIDE ID number are either Australian citizens or have a permanent residency visa.
Players without ID numbers should only be submitted as Australian if they are citizens or are a permanent residency visa holder; if a player is registered under the wrong country they may incur transfer costs later. For further information/clarification contact the ACF FIDE Ratings Officer Bill Gletsos via fide_ratings@auschess.org.au |
