2010 Putra-Johns JETS (AusJCL) JUNE 2010 HOMEWORK

Readers will know that AusJCL runs an annual week-long training camp for promising junior chess players. Participants go through a tough selection process. This year there were 59 applicants for only 30 places. The Camp is happening from July 5th-10th in Sydney.

GM Ian Rogers has been coordinating the programme for years and this year's as well. To provide some pre-Camp motivation, he has prepared some Homework (Arrrggghhh!!! the dreaded H-word!!!). This goes out (and did go out) to all successful applicants as well as those on the Reserves List.

The Challenge
However to whet the appetite of those who narrowly missed out on selection to the 2010 Putra-Johns JETS, GM Rogers has kindly agreed to allow me to publish part of his June Homework on this blog. And here it is:

JETS JUNE 2010 HOMEWORK

Opposite Bishops Endings

Opposite bishops endings are much trickier than they look – as is shown by the examples below where top players failed to find the correct plan.

When answering these questions, always include variations to back up your answer. However sometimes you may wish to use words to show the best defensive plan, or the winning idea.

Sofia World Championship Match 2010
Game 8
White: V.Topalov
Black: V.Anand



(Position check: White Kg5, Be5, Pa5, b2, d6, f3, g2 Black Kf7, Be8, Pa6, b7, e6, h7, h5)

A position from the recent World Championship match.
If it is White to move, can White win? How?
If it is Black to move, can Black draw? How?

So, have you got what it takes to get into the 2011 Putra-Johns JETS? You can post your answer in Comments (if you know how to use White-out to prevent spoilers) or check back here regularly when I post the solution.

ChessTV_World Chess News

Here is what you can do with a video camera, some verve, dedication and hard work: ChessTV. So what is it?

The profile of WCN

The show has a fresh and young attitude, sometimes even a bit cocky, attracting the attention of crowds that are not usually associated with the ”typical chess player”. The optimistic attitude that flows through the show is just one small fragment of its unique concept, and was created because of that the WCN team wanted the show to carry a message to people, saying that if you fight and work hard you will succeed.

Almost from the very first episode, prof. Dr. Arne Johansson, president of “Schackets kulturhistoriska sällskap” (the Cultural-Historical Association of Chess) has had his own part of WCN, contributing with chess-historical episodes that are widely appreciated.

WCN receives information and material from organizers of chess events from all over the world, making the content current and interesting for an international audience as well. The show was however originally created for the Swedish audience, which is why the spoken language is Swedish, but since the beginning of 2007, English subtitles are put on the versions of WCN that reach international viewers.

Since the start of WCN the spread has been incredible. Not only has this resulted in the show being aired in more media, but it has also resulted in articles about WCN, radio- and newspaper interviews with the WCN team, and loads of Internet publications on the subject of WCN.

See here.

Check out the latest episode.

The team behind WCN

The WCN team consists of five siblings from Stockholm, Sweden, currently in the ages between 21 and 14. Adriana, Antonia and Amelia Krzymowska (21-17) and Alfred and Albert Krzymowski (16 and 14) created the idea and concept of the show.

Seizing the opportunities of their generation; with advanced computers, the Internet and digital cameras, they learned all of the technical and editorial aspects of producing a news show, and have done that ever since (They write the scripts, set the lights, adjust the sound, record the shows, edit the material, air and market WCN).

But WCN is in a constant process of evolution, and the team has since the start perfected a lot of details, making the show better and better for every episode. Not even now, with more than 200 produced episodes, the team considers the show “done”.

The siblings produce and market the show on their spare time, while managing their academic carriers and competitive chess. Adriana studies law at Stockholm’s University, hoping to achieve the Swedish Master of Laws Degree by the end of 2010. Antonia and Amelia are both in upper secondary school, attending Östra Reals Gymnasium with a law-alignment, and the brothers are in compulsory school.

And the Mission?

World Chess News – WCN

World Chess news is a half-hour long TV-show about chess, aired weekly on local channels in Sweden and on the Internet. Since autumn 2007 WCN is also a partner of the expanding Dream TV Systems, which brings the TV-show to the American audience. The Idea behind WCN was to spread chess news all over the world, to show chess players that the effort they put into chess is noticed, and to show non-chess players that chess inspires and engages all kinds of people: chess is so much more than just an ancient board-game.

WCN was started as a protest to the negligence of chess by the Swedish media, and it is run by a non-profit organization that survives through private donations.

Chess is not only a beautiful and fascinating board-game, chess is a popular movement. FIDE, the World Chess Federation has over 40 million registered competitive chess players. But that is only a small fraction of all the people in the world that know how to play chess, and an even smaller part of those who know what chess is. Surveys from the mid 90’s show that almost a third of Sweden’s population knows how to play chess, a number that is expected to have grown rapidly since then.

In today’s society chess is associated with strategical thinking, intelligence and success. Features that are currently considered fashionable among the wide public. Not to mention that multiple researches have shown that chess has extremely good character-building effects on children. It teaches them strategical planning, that actions have consequences, to create goals and to make up plans in order to achieve those goals, and much more. In the light of these results projects are started in more and more countries around the world to make chess into a school subject, thus spreading the game even more.

Their Future?

WCN – The TV-program

World Chess News is the first and only TV-show in Sweden about chess. It was started in the spring of 2004, and the first episode was aired on the 2nd of August in 2004. Since then a fresh episode has been aired every week, making it 200 episodes in May 2008.

The lack of interest for the game within the Swedish media resulted in the WCN team creating a TV-show in their own way.

Having no knowledge about TV-producing, filming or redactional work, the creators used qualities acquired from playing chess, such as strategical planning, logical thinking and hard work, knowing that if you only apply yourself enough, you can make anything happen. And just a couple of months later they had turned the dream into reality

The established media claimed that the audience that would be interested in chess was too small, but WCN has proved them wrong. Three and a half years after the first aired episode, over 15.000 people download their productions from the Internet, a day. And that’s just from the sources that WCN can measure. The local Swedish channels that WCN is aired on reach over 380.000 Swedish households (these channels do not provide specific viewer numbers), and Dream TV Systems are constantly expanding, spreading WCN all over the world.

The goal is to spread the concept of WCN to every country of the world, making WCN accessible to everyone and anyone.

So, Aussie Juniors, Join the Revolution!!!

18th Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament (2010)

Regular readers of this Blog will know that I keep an eye on up and coming junior chess players round the world. One who has been featured (here, here, here and here)is the young 15 year old Nepalese-Russian and now Dutch-representative player and regular Chessbase commentator, GM Anish Giri. Anish is playing in the 18th annual Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament as the top-rated player in Nordic coolness of Malmo, third city in Sweden which I visited last year with my family. Here is the website for Sigemans.

The Limhamn Chess Club is proud to invite the players, the chess audience, the media and the sponsors to the 18th annual Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament. The tournament will take place at the classical Hipp Theater in central Malmo, for the thirteenth time. As in the previous year, six players play each other in a round-robin tournament.

This year's tournament is, to a large extent, a Nordic competition, with only one player from outside the Nordic region. Once again, the home team contains Tiger Hillarp Persson, one of Sweden's best chess players, and the most interesting young Swedish player, the 16-year-old Nils Grandelius. Add to that Pia Cramling, who has not played in the Sigeman Chess Tournament since 2001, and Jonny Hector, who probably has never been better than now. The Swedish players face young Norwegian Jon Ludvig Hammer, who has made a name for himself, despite having to compete with his fellow countryman Magnus Carlsen, with a number of impressive results during the last two years. Last, but not least, we have Holland's latest chess star and the world's youngest grandmaster, 15-year-old Anish Giri, who, in addition to being the youngest, is the tournament's highest rated player.

Tournament Schedule
Round 1 Wednesday 26 May 14.00-21.00
Round 2 Thursday 27 May 14.00-21.00
Round 3 Friday 28 May 14.00-21.00
Round 4 Saturday 29 May 14.00-21.00
Round 5 Sunday 30 May 12.00-19.00

Here is the write-up about Anish Giri:

GM Anish Giri
Holland (2642)

When it comes to Anish Giri, the word prodigy is hard to avoid. At fifteen, he is a chess grandmaster, he speaks four languages (among those Japanese) and also does well in school. Another word that also suggests itself is "youngest": Giri is currently the world's youngest grandmaster, he is the youngest player to have played in the German Bundesliga, and he is the youngest participant in this year's Sigeman Chess Tournament. In the last three years, he has improved his rating with about 300 points.

Those who think he is here just to learn will be mistaken, though. He is the tournament's highest rated player and he recently won the "B" Group in the Corus Chess tournament, one of the world's largest and most prestigious chess tournaments. He thereby qualified for next years "A" Group, where he will face the world's best players for the first time. This year's Sigeman Chess Tournament will be an important step in preparing for his life's greatest challenge as a chess player.

Anish is part of a truly cosmopolitan family. Together with his two sisters, his Nepalese dad and Russian mother, he has lived in St Petersburg in Russia and Osaka in Japan, and the family now lives in Holland. An odd effect of moving is that Anish became a grandmaster without ever having been an international master. He had five qualifying results when he needed only three, but by then he had left Russia. The results were never registered, and suddenly he had become a grandmaster instead. After moving to Holland he has also won the Dutch Championship, and despite working hard in school he keeps improving steadily with each tournament he plays.

Here is Anish Round 1 win over GM Pia Cramling (longtime Sweden best woman player and one of the very first woman GM in the world):

Also from Round 1, here is an interesting game with the Slav Defence and it seems an important theoretical novelty by White on move 12 (pawn sacrifice).

Dylan and I also visited Limhamn SK last year and Dylan played in a junior tournament organised by Limhamns (and Connie Holst) where he came second in his age group. Here is link to Limhams SK and here for the tournament Dylan played in.

Games from the 2010 US Championships

From Round 2 of the Quad Final, here is an interesting game with a nice combination/mating net involving an exchange sacrifice. I think this means Nakamura's chances of retaining his US Chess Champion title has just been sunk!

The 2010 US Championships_more games ......

From Rd 3, here is a game featuring GM Onischuk with the Black pieces. When GM Sergey Kudrin played 16 Bd7, can you find the continuation as did Onischuk, allowing the exchange sacrifice?

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Finally, here is Nakamura on his mission to rehabilitate old and ancient openings (but don't try this at moment!!! have a look at how Nakamura manoeuvre his king and queen):

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The 2010 US Championships_IM Irina krush

The 2010 US Chess Championship is about to finish/has finished and I wish to focus on the games of IM Irina Krush (I like her fighting spirit as well as her blogs). Irina is also the youngest ever US Women Chess Champion at the age of 14 years old. She has one GM norm in the bag and has been seeking her second for some time. She has come very close in the past couple of years and the fact that she is still chasing the norm is evidence of her perseverance and fighting spirit.

Irina Krush began well defeating GM Gregory Kaidonaov in Rd 1. In Rd 3, Irina missed a win in the endgame epic game of 113 moves against GM Varuzhan Akobian (no stranger to Australia).

Here is the game for you to replay. Can you find where Irina went wrong?

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Krush’s king march was a carbon copy of the most famous king march in history, Short-Timman, Tilburg, 1991. Here is that game:

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Then in Rd 4, Irina (with Black pieces) played Ray Robson and had this position after Ray played 66 Rc5. Firstly, do you think a Rook + Bishop vs a Rook is winning? What would you play as Black?



Here is the entire game for you to replay. I think the endgame is instructive. Irina missed the win and allowed Ray to escape with a cute swindle of a stalemate.

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She has now played 12 hours and 206 chess moves in the last two rounds.

After her loss yesterday, Krush said she received lots of thoughtful emails from chess friends. She said she wanted to fight hard today to validate her support group. After the game Krush reminisced about her missed chances and how a few different moves could have allowed her to win all four games. “I still love chess,” she said without any hint of insincerity.

2010 World Youth Championships Halkidiki, Greece Oct 19-31

I have further news relating to the 2010 World Youth Chess Championships in Halkidiki, Greece Oct 19-31. I have managed to contact someone from the organising committee, actually the Tournament Director WYCC 2010 IM George Mastrokoukos, and he assured me the official information will be released in a couple of weeks and the website will be going live soon. For the time being, here are some information:

1) The date of arrival is 19 October and departure on 31 October.

2) The closing date for registrations and bookings is 19 September.

3) Hotel accommodation cost per person, per day with full board (3 meals daily) in the 5-star Porto Carras resort:

a) FREE for invited players and the invited chief of each delegation (in double and triple rooms),

b) For additional players and other accompanying persons of each national delegation: 59 euros in a triple room, 68 euros in a double room, 89 euros in a single room.

4) Organising fee for each player (invited + additional), chief and accompanying person: 100 euros

5) Entry fee for each player to be paid directly to FIDE: 70 euros (or 140 euros for each additional player).

I also enquire about the security issues and here is what IM Mastrokoukos said:

There is no need to worry. The demonstrations took place in Athens, the capital of the country, which is more than 600 km away from Halkidiki.

The financial crisis and the demonstrations in Athens are not affecting the event in any way (and from the view of an insider: it is not as terrible as the media present it :))

In addition, GM Ian Rogers has suggested that Australians may think of actually flying to Sofia, Bulgaria and then travelling from there to Halkidiki.

BTW, IM Mastrokoukos and the organisers are the same team which organised the World Youth CC in 2002 and 2004. Perhaps some of those who were in WYCC 2002 and 2004 can care to comment on the events?

2010 World Youth Championships Haikidiki, Greece Oct 19-31

Dear All,

There has been some concerns voiced in recent days about the situation in Greece. Those who had actually began planning their trip will have check the Australian Government's DFAT website on advisory on Greece for travellers (see here). As viewed today (updated by Government officials on Thursday, 01 April 2010), it says "Exercise Caution":

This advice has been reviewed and reissued. It contains new information in the Summary and under Safety and Security: Civil Unrest/Political Tension (increase in bomb attacks). The overall level of the advice has not changed.

Summary
We advise you to exercise caution and monitor developments that might affect your safety in Greece because of the risk of terrorist attack.
Pay close attention to your personal security and monitor the media for information about possible new safety or security risks.
Bombings against government, commercial and other buildings, have increased. Some have resulted in death and/or injury. See the Civil Unrest/Political Tension section for further details.
Violent rioting can break out in Greek cities with little warning. Australians should exercise particular care in the centre of Athens, Thessaloniki and other major cities. You should avoid all protests and demonstrations as they may turn violent.
Strikes are occurring more frequently in Greece. Transport, including flights, could be affected. You should monitor the media and be prepared to change your travel plans in case of disruptions.
Australian/Greek dual nationals should be aware the Greek Government introduced a new series of passports in 2007. Holders of old-style Greek passports should contact the nearest Greek Embassy or Consulate as soon as possible to obtain a new passport.
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 has spread throughout the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) provides useful information for individuals and travellers on its website. For further information and advice to Australians, including on possible quarantine measures overseas, see our travel bulletin on Pandemic (H1N1) 2009.
Be a smart traveller. Before heading overseas:
organise comprehensive travel insurance and check what circumstances and activities are not covered by your policy
register your travel and contact details, so we can contact you in an emergency
subscribe to this travel advice to receive free email updates each time it's reissued.

For the parents/juniors concerned, you should subscribe to the advisory for updates by email (as stated above).

I still have no further information except that the events is still listed on Fide's Calendar for 2010 (see here). There is no website for the event as yet (that I know of). I have asked GM Ian Rogers, AusJCL Vice-President, to enquire on this matter.

Amazing achievement ......

I am still very much tied down with all the stuff connected with AusJCL International Events selections and the upcoming AusJCL Putra-Johns JETS camp. hence I have not delivered as yet on my promised articles on computer and chess and chess development and pre-teen juniors. My apologies.

But here is another story to encourage juniors especially Australian girl juniors. This is taken from Chesscafe and the Scholastic Chess column by Steve Goldberg.

A Scholarship for Rochelle

Rochelle Ballantyne played for Elizabeth Vicary's IS 318 team the past few years, and is now a ninth grader at Brooklyn Tech. She takes her chess seriously.

"I study chess almost every day, approximately an hour and thirty minutes," she said. "I study openings, chess tactics and sometimes I look at chess lectures. Then at other times I help my brother prepare for his tournaments.

"When I went to nationals with IS 318 last year I worked with Greg Shahade. He went over my games and gave me some helpful tips and ideas for the next time I play. Now that I have graduated from 318 I have joined a program called Chess-In-The-Schools. They gave me the opportunity to now work with a grandmaster named Alexander Stripunsky."

Her hard work has been paying off. At the recent All-Girls National Championship in Columbus, Ohio, she tied for first place with Danni Chen, who is a freshman at Ohio State University. Rochelle was awarded the first place trophy on tiebreaks, and more importantly, won an Academic Distinction Scholarship to the University of Texas at Dallas, valued at approximately $68,000.

Asked if she prepared in any special manner for the national tournament, Rochelle said, "Not really, I just did what I normally do. If I study more than usual, I tend to do worse at tournaments, so I just try to relax and have as much fun as possible at nationals!"

She was accompanied by about half a dozen other kids from her school, from all grades. "I had a great time!" she exclaimed. "I was happy that Nationals was in Ohio because I have never been there so I was able to explore new places. I was extremely happy that Girls Nationals and High School Nationals were at the same place because I was able to have fun with my friends.

"My favorite game was against Anna Matlin. This is because she was first board and there was some speculation as to whether or not I would be able to beat her. At the time, I got hurt before my round against Anna started, so my head hurt a lot and nobody thought I was in the condition to play against Anna, but I really wanted to play her. I guess it was because I really wanted the scholarship. The scholarship was my motivation and I wasn't going to give it up, injury or not. I ended up drawing with her."

Regarding future tournaments she plans to play in, she said, "I'm not sure … I think I am just going to enjoy this amazing victory and maybe play in some Marshall Club tournaments. Basically, I'm going to focus more on my schoolwork and be a regular teenager, but I'm not going to retire. I enjoy chess too much."

What advice would she give to other young chess players? "I'm not the greatest advice-giver when it comes to chess," she admitted. "But I would tell my brother, who is an aspiring chess player, to take his time; chess is just a game so don't get too mad when you lose. If you want to be a great chess player, you need to study a lot and really be passionate about chess. And most importantly, have fun. Chess is an amazing game - it can really help you in the future, and the people you meet while playing chess are really great also."

AusJCL and International Selections

Appeals

This is to inform that I have not received any appeals to AusJCL Selections for 2010 International Events released on 2nd May 2010 by the appeals deadline of 10th May 2010.

Can everyone who is selected as primary selection please confirm your selection ASAP and in particular for the Asian Youth as the deadline for the submission of entries is 1st June 2010.

Please note that entries have to be submitted as a group and Australian juniors travelling overseas must travel as a Team and compete in International Events as a Team.

VIII International Chess Tournament_"Young Stars of the World"

The VIII "Young Stars of the World" International Chess Tournament has begun in the Kirishi Leningrad Oblast in the Palace of Culture Ltd(Leningrad). I have previously blog about this tournament here.

The tournament is also in the memory of a very young junior player, Vanya Somov, who despite his young age was a member of World Chess Champion GM Alexander Khalifman's World Cup winning team. The tournament website is here (in Russian but use Google Translator to translate the page into acceptable English).

The tournament's objectives can be read here. It includes the laudable aim to "popularise chess sports, improving sports skills for the tournament and their athletic skills, a tribute to one of the strongest young chess players Leningrad region Vanya Somov" and the strongest young chess players the world are invited to the tournament.

This year the participants, mainly Russians juniors (including one girl junior) with 4 foreigners, are:
GM Yaroslav Zherebukh (UKR 2567)
GM Aleksandr Shimanov (RUS 2544)
GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (ARM 2523)
GM Daniil Lintchevski (RUS 2503)
IM SP Sethuraman (IND 2493)
Vladimir Belous (RUS 2471)
FM Ivan Bukavshin (RUS 2435)
IM Ulvi Bajarani (AZE 2422)
IM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (UKR 2402)
FM Oparin Grigoriy (RUS 2348)
WGM Alina Kashlinskaya (RUS 2346)
Alexander Ganichev (RUS 2126)

This is the type of tournament that an Australian junior can only dream of participating in. Our highest junior (U20 in Fide terms), Queensland Moulthun Ly (b 1991) with Elo 2322, is only ranked 12th. The next two top juniors, ACT's Junta Ikeda (b 1991 and Elo 2305) and NSW's Max Illingworth (b 1992 and Elo 2304) are also ranked 12th. The best bet, if such opportunity ever arise (calling Alexander Khalifman, Gennady Nesis !!!), I think lies with our one and only World Champion, Bobby Cheng (b 1997 and Elo 2290). (But note that the 10th seed, FM Grigorily Oparin (2362) is 13 years old (b1997).) is Any chessic fairy godmother out there? Perhaps we should offer a sacrifice to Diana/Artemis/Athena?

In any event, I think the games should be of the highest quality and should be looked at by any promising and ambitious Australian juniors, even if only to see what is possible and achievable. Games can be followed here.

In Rd 1, play has been pretty much according to rankings and ratings with only one slight upset, Ukrainian Bernadskiy defeating Azerbajaini Bajarani rated 20 Elo points higher.

AusJCL_Selection for International Events

AusJCL Selections for the 2010 International Junior Events

These are the selections for the 2010 International Junior Events. The players are listed in order of selection, the * indicates that this player is the primary selected player in that category (and whose name is also in bold).

Important: Please read the Notes at the end of the list of selection.


June 4–13
Asean+ Age Group Championships
Subic Bay, Phillipines

Under 14 Open
Cedric Koh*

Under 12 Open
Cedric Koh*

Under 10 Open
Jamie-Lee Guo *
Mishael Chellappah

Under 8 Open
Ethan Lim*

Under 16 Girls
Emma Guo*
Clarise Koh

Under 14 Girls
Mirakla Mithran*
Clarise Koh

Under 12 Girls
Denise Lim*

July 8-18
Asian Youth Chess Championships
Beijing, China

Under 14 Open
Chen PengYu*
Yi Liu
Isaac Ng
Cedric Koh
Joshua Ng

Under 12 Open
Sean Gu*
Cedric Koh

Under 10 Open
Jamie-Lee Guo*
Noah Gong
Mishael Chellappah

Under 8 Open
Noah Gong*

Under 16 Girls
Emma Guo*
Clarise Koh

Under 14 Girls
Leteisha Simmonds*
Mirakla Mithran
Clarise Koh
Caroline Shan

Under 12 Girls
Savithri Narenthran*

Under 10 Girls
Grace Shan*

July 24-Aug 1
World Youth U/16 Chess Olympiad
Turkey,Antalya

No selections as there was insufficient interest to form a team

Aug 2-17
World Junior (U/20) Open Ch and Girls Ch
Chotowa Czarna, Poland

U/20 Open
Sherab Guo Yuthok*

U/20 Girls
Emma Guo*
Tamzin Oliver
Abbie Kanagarajah

Oct 19-31
World Youth Championships
Haikidiki, Greece

Under 18 Open
Sam Grigg*

Under 14 Open
Isaac Ng*
Cedric Koh
Joshua Ng
[note: Bobby Cheng withdrew his application.]

Under 12 Open
Sean Gu*
Zachary Loh
Cedric Koh
Ethan Derwent
Peter Wallmueller

Under 10 Open
Peter Wallmueller*
Jamie-Lee Guo
Mishael Chellappah

Under 16 Girls
Emma Guo*
Clarise Koh

Under 14 Girls
Leteisha Simmonds*
Abbie Kanagarajah
Mirakla Mithran
Clarise Koh


Notes

All players have the right to appeal. See http://www.auschess.org.au/constitution/Selection_Procedures_By-law.txt

9. Appeals

9.1 An applicant may appeal the results of a selection within 7 days after having been informed, pursuant to clause 8, of the results of the selection.

9.2 Appeals shall given to the Selections Director and shall be accompanied by a $200 appeal fee which shall be refunded if the appeal is upheld.

9.3 Appeals shall be on the basis that either:

9.3.1 There was a material error or omission in the selection process that has disadvantaged the applicant.

9.3.1.1. Paragraph 9.3.1 does not apply to an alleged material error or omission relating to the eligibility of an applicant for selection, other than the eligibility requirement in paragraph 4.3.1.

9.3.2 That the applicant was clearly ranked such that no selectors could have reasonably given the applicant that ranking based on the information supplied to the selectors.

Note: It is not sufficient to appeal on the basis that a player thinks that he/she should have been selected. The ranking of the selectors has to be clearly incorrect and unreasonable.

9.4 On receipt of an appeal all players involved in the selection which is subject to the appeal shall be advised that the appeal has been lodged.

9.5 Each player against whose selection an appeal has been lodged shall be given a copy of the appeal and an opportunity to state in writing, within 7 days after having been given the appeal, his or her case with respect to the appeal.

10 Appeals Tribunal

10.1 The Council shall appoint a person known as the ACF Appeals Tribunal Convenor (ATC) who shall be an ACF Honorary Life Member, a former ACF President or an eminent person with appropriate knowledge of chess and of the issues involved in the appeal.

10.2 The ATC shall appoint two other persons, each being either an ACF Honorary Life Member, a former ACF President or Deputy President or an eminent person as described in clause 10.1 to form a three person tribunal with the ATC. (available from http://www.auschess.org.au/constitut...b%202008.p df online)

Appeals will close on Monday 10th May 2010.


Additional Notes/Instructions

Players selected for World Youth and World Junior events!!

A. If you have a * next to your name and your names in bold, let me know on or before Friday 14th May 2010 whether or not you are accepting your selection (sooner is better, as I can then pass the selection down to the next person on the list). If I do not hear from you on or before the Friday 14th May 2010, I will presume you are not going and the next person on the ranked list will be offered the primary selection.

B. If you do NOT have a * next to your name, let me know by on or before Friday 14th May 2010 one of the following three responses:

1) confirm you will be going regardless of whether or not you have the primary selection;
2) confirm you will not be going regardless of whether or not you have the primary selection;
3) confirm you will only be going if and when offered primary selection.

All other players

I will be giving you the email addresses of all people wishing to attend the events you are playing, as well as sending you the information (when it is put up by FIDE) and you can organise it amongst yourself - if there is free food/accom for a player in an age group, then it is the individual with the * next to their name who will get it. You may contact me for advice if needed.

Everyone!!!

Check your email daily, as I will be emailing you if there are any appeals regarding your selection, or if you are a person without a * and you become someone with a * (due to the fact the person(s) above you turned down their selection) to let you know this has happened.

Please note

U8-U18 divisions are held AT THE SAME TIME therefore you CANNOT be a player in multiple divisions in the one tournament. If you have a * next to your name in more then one division of the World Youths, let me know which of these divisions you wish to play in.