City of Redcliffe Chess Club Inc.

R2 CROSSTABLE Mike Dyer Mem, Flyers for LWM, QLD CHAMPS , AUST CHAMPS JAN 2025 inMelbourne

September 20, 2024 by Rohan Pyne

It’s time! It’s time to enter the 2024 Leo Wilkinson Memorial run by Redcliffe Chess Club Inc here at Rothwell on Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22.

2024 Redcliffe Chess Club Inc Members can enter for just $20 – an absolute bargain basement entry fee for an ACF and QJ rated Week Ender! Other players are paying $60 or $80 to enter. Enter the LWM now! See the attached entry form for full entry details.

You can also see attached the flyer for the Upcoming CAQ Inc U1600 ACF Qld Chess Championship at the Acacia Ridge Hotel from 6:30pm on Friday October 4 to Monday afternoon October 7. This is a 7 round FIDE, ACF and QJ rated event.

I have also attached flyers for the Qld Seniors on Saturday November 16 and Sunday November 17 here at Rothwell and for the 2025 Australian Chess Championship and U1700 ACF Australian Chess Championship in Melbourne in January.

If you are playing in the 2024 Nell Van De Graaff Classic at the Gold Coast this weekend, Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15, we wish you the very best of luck! See the CAQ Inc Website under Coming Events for full details of the NVDG Classic: www.caq.org.au You still have time to enter but no entries will be taken on Saturday.

You can also view the entry forms for the 2024 Bundaberg Classic on Saturday November 2 and Sunday November 3 and for the FIDE, ACF and QJ rated Christmas Special on here at Rothwell on Saturday December 14 and Sunday December 15 on the CAQ Inc Website now. See the link above.

We have 5 players on a perfect 2 out of 2 in our current Wednesday night 7 round ACF and QJ rated Swiss Tournament, the 2024 Mike Dyer Memorial – Austin Hamilton, Rohan Pyne, Jai Turner, Tony Weller and Marcos Diaz – See the attached crosstable for all players scores so far. Rohan Pyne has placed some interesting games from this event up on the Redcliffe Chess Club Inc Website – www.redcliffechessclub.com.au

Australia has made a winning start in R1 of the FIDE Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary last night with the Open Team winning 3 to 1 over Saudia Arabia although our GM Bobby Cheng rated 2588 suffered a shock loss to a player rated just 2117 and the Women’s Team winning 4-0 over Brunei Darussalam. R2 games start at 11 pm tonight ( The Open Team is playing Zimbabwe and the Womens Team is playing Azerbaijan ) and you view games live on various sites and on You Tube. Go Australia! Go you good things!

Chess.com has good reports on the Olympiad. See www.Chess.Com

See you all next Wednesday night September 18 for R3 of the 2024 Mike Dyer Memorial, which will start at 7:45pm. If you cannot make it for R3, please let Mark C Stokes know by text message on 0431 419 136 before 7:30pm on Wednesday night! If you have missed R1 and R2, you can still join in next Wednesday night for R3 – we will give you 2 half point byes for R1 and R2!

And please also remember to enter the LWM on Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22 asap!

Cheers Mark C Stokes 0431 419 136 markcstokes@hotmail.com