What a fantastic event is has been! Please find below all category winners for 2016! Congratulations everyone. Under 18 Open Ari Dale (VIC) 9/9 Under 16 Open David Cannon (VIC) 7/9 Under 14 Open Bobby Yu (VIC) 7/9 Under 12 Open Michael Ostapenko (QLD) 8/9 Under 10 Open Brandon Soetanto (VIC) 8/9 (won playoff…
Category: Notices
Australian Junior Elite Training Squad 2016 Application Form
2016 Johns-Putra Australian Junior Elite Training Squad (JETS) Application form for the Australia Junior Chess League’s 2016 JETS Training Squad sponsored by Geraldine Johns-Putra. The Australian Junior Chess League is pleased to invite applications from talented Australian juniors (U/18) for the national junior training squad. The JETS Squad is Australia’s premier development squad, aimed at…
Selection Information
For information about national and international selection, please contact the Australian Chess Federation’s selection coordinator Tom Saltmarsh selections_director@auschess.org.au
Second and third place trophies for ASTC
AusJCL will soon be posting out 2nd and 3rd place trophies for the 2015 ASTC.
Australian U/18 Junior Champions
For a list of Australian Junior Champions, please see the Honour Board on this site.
Player names are now available on ASTC webpage
We have received all player names for the Australian Schools Teams Chess Championship and they are now available on the ASTC website. https://australianjuniorchess.org/astc/2015-astc/ Please note that the board order is provisional and is subject to change before the event starts. Board order should be based on player strength. Once the tournament starts the board order…
ASTC – some schools need to provide player names
The ASTC starts Sat 5th Dec. All representing schools are obligated to provide player names in board order. Board order should be based on players strength. The competition cannot run without these names. The following schools have not provided their player names: * ACT: Canberra Grammar School * ACT: Caroline Chisholm School * ACT: Lyneham…
2015 World Youth Results
The FIDE World Youth & Cadets Championship 2015 was played in Porto Carras, Halkidiki. The players from India dominated the event, winning as many as 11 medals, among them 5 gold. Russia and USA took 4 medals each, but none of them was gold. Iran, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Germany, Greece, Uzbekistan and Vietnam have one gold medal…
November 2015 FIDE Ratings for Australian Juniors
1.IM Anton Smirnov (NSW) 2463 2. IM Justin Tan (Vic) 2446 3. IM Bobby Cheng (Vic) 2419 4.IM Rishi Sardana (India) 2385 5. IM Ari Dale (Vic) 2348 6. FM Yi Liu (Qld) 2306 7. FM Pengyu Chen (NSW) 2289 8. FM Karl Zelesco (Vic) 2272 9. FM Gene Nakauchi (Qld) 2265 10. Laurence Matheson…
ASTC
The Australian Schools’ Teams Championships (ASTC) is generally held in the first week of December and is overseen by the Australian Chess Federation. Please contact president@auschess.org.au for more information.