Happy New Year! and in a few weeks time, Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year!! Have a mighty powerful Dragon Year!!!
(Hmmmmm! wonder if we will see a revival of the Dragon in top level chess this year :):))
The premier junior chess event/tournament in Australia begins today and the Melbourne Chess Club together with Simon Dale et al have been working hard. They have a record number of entries, 273 entries in total. Well done. The organisers have been quite innovative in "luring" juniors and parents, offering prizes etc to register entries before the deadlines.
The website is here. The pairings, results and standings can be followed here.
There is a complicated schedule of the various age tournaments. Follow it through the website by clicking on "Schedule". The U16, U18, U8 and U10 Open and Girls begin at 11 am. There is only one round per day for the U18 and U16 (except for tomorrow, Sunday) but three rounds for the U8 and U10.
You can also follow on ChessChat here or on Facebook here..
Please note that a sizeable contingent of Australian juniors are playing across the Tasman in the 2012 Queenstown Chess Classic. Website is here.. Queenstown begins tomorrow with Round 1 at 3 pm.
If you are really still not sated with chess, the premier chew event in the world, the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee begins tonight with Round 1 at 10:30 pm AEST. Website is here. I am cheering for English Matthew Sadler making his comeback to tournament chess and staking a claim as the world's strongest amateur player. Wijk aan Zee will be his 3rd major chess tournament and he is playing in Group C. Actually he will have been playing in Group B if he began his comeback a little earlier. He did a fantastic interview with Chessvibes and I will blog about that later in the day.
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