The cross table from January's Allegro Open tournament is now on its Tournament page. The winner: Ashvin Balavignan (7.5/8).

Report from Rob Maris:

Congratulations to the top scorers in each group:

A: Michael Selby (4.5/5), Robert Stortz (3.5/5)
B: Drew Brand and Gabriele Fokaite (3.5/5)
C: Alex Janceski (4.0/5), Derek Roebuck (3.0/5)
D: Suhail Sheikh (4.0/5), Dylan Gough and Wolfgang Leonhardt (3.5/5)
E: Ashley Michael (4.5/5), Abhay Bhatia (4.0/5)
F: Jeremy Lowson (4.0/5), Sebastian Gough (3.5/5)
G: Mark Howard (4.0/5), Gavin Brophy and Jason Tyler (3.0/5)
H (Swiss): Seth Kereopa (5.0/6), Bruce Lanham (4.5/6), Darren Powell and David Frankland (4.0/6)

These results will be included in the ACF March ratings. Thanks to Dylan for organising, Daniel and Ashley for entering the games, plus David Barry for uploading to the website.

Gabriele Fokaite and Leon Taylor are the joint winners of this year's Club Blitz Championship, on a score of 6.0/7.

Report from Rob Maris:

Congratulations to our 2026 Club Champion Jacob Gibson who won the title with an impressive 7.5/9! Jacob was a point ahead of equal-second-placed Drew, Gabriele, Jet and Rob on 6.5/9. This means that our 2026 Reserves Champion (top scorer U1800) is Jet Mahanidis; as can be seen from the cross-table, he played a very strong range of opponents. Equal 6th on 6 points were five players: Dylan, Kingsley, Mark (Hagendoorn), Ned and Saminda.

It has been terrific to have so many of you competing with a great attitude, to make this an interesting and enjoyable 9-round swiss. A special thank you to Gyula for generously organising and rewarding the most interesting game of each round. Also a big thanks to Dylan for his effort in organising this tournament, plus Daniel and Ashley for spending time to enter the PGNs, which David Barry puts onto the club website. This tournament will be included in the June ACF & FIDE ratings.

Most interesting game prizes:
Round 1: Hannah Lamb v Kingsley Kofi Ketor
Round 2: Ashley Michael v Derek Elkington
Round 3: Jacob Gibson v Eric Deng
Round 4: Sebastian Gough v Geoff Owen
Round 5: Amila Hapugala v Rob Maris
Round 6: Eric Deng v Mark Hagendoorn
Round 7: Alan Wolstencroft v Ernest Boswarva
Round 8: Dave O'Shaughnessy v Ashley Michael

1st: Derwent Maggs (7.5/8), =2nd: Leon Taylor, Alex Janceski & Abhinav Verma (6.0/8)

Winners:
A: Jacob Gibson & Daryoush Rafiei (4.0/5)
B: Abhinav Verma (4.0/5)
C: Raf Adel (4.0/5)
D: Joshua Williams (5.0/5)
E: Grant Porteus (4.0/5)
F: Ahmad Dawoud (4.5/5)

Noor Rahmani won the Club Blitz Championship with a score of 6.0/7.

Report from Rob Maris:

Congratulations to Victor Spirin who drew his last round game with Daryoush to become Club Champion. Besides many wins, Victor was also held to a draw by Jacob in round 4. Jacob defeated Abhinav in the last round to finish second, half a point ahead of Noor, Daryoush and Derek Elkington.

For the Reserves Champion title (highest scorer U1700), Amila was triumphant following wins over much higher rated opponents in the last 3 rounds (Dave, Alan, Chirag). Martin defeated Charles in the final round to finish half a point behind Amila.

This 9-round swiss tournament had a great turnout of 47 players and was very well organised by Dylan, with Daniel and Ashley kindly entering the games for the club website.

The format had higher and lower rated players paired together (playing alternate moves against their opposing pair), in an 8-round swiss with 10 mins plus 3 secs per move.

Report from Rob Maris:

The 49 player Fred Maris Cup finished last night. Congratulations to the winners of each group:

A: Gyula Plaganyi 5.5/6,
B: Amila Hapugala 3.5/5,
C: Mark Howard 4/4,
D: Jeremy Lowson (J) 5/5,
E: Ayun Batahena (J) 5/5,
F: Brian Overste & Manfred Young 4/5.

Thanks to Dylan for organising, plus Daniel and Ashley for doing the pgn's, all games are on the club website.

The club Rapid Championship was won by Ashvin Balavignan with a perfect 7/7.

Report from Rob Maris:

Thank you to those 51(!) players that competed in these two swiss tournaments that Dylan kindly organised. Winners:

Wolfgang Leonhardt Cup: Michael Selby and Rob Maris (5.5/7)
John Brooke Cup: John Brooke and Colin Walker (6.0/7)

Thanks also to Daniel and Ashley for making the games available to play over on the club website.

The first half of the Bernard Anton Shield match between Perth Chess Club and Metro Chess Club was played on 4th June at the Perth Chess Club. From these 36 games played in four rating groups, Perth led 21.5 to 14.5.

The second half of the match was played at Metro Chess Club on 11th September. Here the score was Metro 20 to Perth 16.

The total score over the two matches was therefore close with Perth 37.5 and Metro 34.5.

Details of the scores in each of the rating groups for all matches since 2007 is on the Metro Club website.

Details about Bernard Anton are on this website's Members page.

The Perth Club Allegro Championship was held over 8 and 15 October, and was won by Gyula Plaganyi on 6.5/8. Equal second were Leon Taylor and Gabriele Fokaite (6.0/8).

The final round of the Norbert Muller Cup that many (51) of you played in was completed last night. Congratulations to the winners of the 7 fascinating groups that Dylan organised:

A: Ashvin Balavignan (4.5/5)
B: Robert Stortz (3.5/5)
C: Derek Roebuck, Dylan Gough, and Robin Shaw (3.0/5)
D: Amila Hapugala (4.0/5)
E: Zachary Fernandez (5.0/5)
F: Douglas Smith and Mohammed-Nabil Richi (4.0/5)
G: Sebastian Gough (6.0/6)

Photos from the trophy presentation for 2025 are now on the Photos page.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Mary Thomson Cup was well supported by club players with 48 competing. Tournament organiser Dylan Gough allocated players into really well matched groups and Daniel Clarke arranged for the games to go onto the club website.

Derek Elkington made a successful return to the club after a break since 2021. Even though he was the lowest rated player in the A group, he played strongly to score 4/7; this included a last-round difficult draw against an in-form Jacob Gibson! This draw meant that Jacob finished 2nd on 5 points, just half a point behind 1st placed Rob Maris.

The B group was convincingly won by Ashvin Balavignan on 6/7. Ashvin has also had very impressive results recently at the Perth International Open and the Metro Club Championship, so is well on his way to a rating around 2000! The other junior in the B group was the lowest rated Eric Deng; he finished 2nd on 5 points, with Derek Roebuck only half a point behind.

The C group was the closest scoring group – only 1 and a half points separated 6 players! The other two players were Franz Oswald and Gerard Akers, who both played strongly to share 1st place with 5 and a half points – well ahead of their younger opponents!

In the D group Charles Knight scored 6/7 to triumphantly take 1st place, with Martin Leech and Tristan Weijermars equal 2nd on 4 and a half points. Mark Hagendoorn did well on his return to the club after a long break, scoring 4 points and equal 4th with improving Raf Adel.

The E group was a 16-player 7-round swiss. The top-rated player Max Otis has improved a lot recently, so he won the group with a dominant 7/7! Bruce Lanham was the best of the rest, achieving 2nd place on 5 points. Grant Porteus played much better in the later part of the tournament to finish 3rd on 4.5 points; this included a last round victory over an improving Ahmad Dawoud.

The Perth Chess League was won by the Perth Chess Club B team that Gyula organised. See the CAWA website for details.

Report from Dylan Gough:

The recently played 2024 Perth Club Championships (10th April – May 22) saw some high-quality chess played across two divisions, an Open Division in a round-robin format for the top 8 players and a Swiss 7-round format for all others.

A great tournament from Victor Spirin saw him emerge as the clear winner in the open group with a flawless score of 7 out of 7. His win ensures that he is crowned the Perth Club Champion for 2024 – Well done Victor. In second place with a score of 4.5 was Daniel Clarke who played well and got some great results to finish in clear second place – Well done Daniel. Rounding out the podium was Jacob Gibson with a score of 3.5. This was a tough field and the quality of chess was high. Well done to all players who turned up week after week to ensure the competition ran smoothly and successfully.

In the Reserves section the tournament outcome literally came down to the last game, where the result from youngsters Daryoush Darani and Eric Deng would decide the title. In the end it was Daryoush who emerged victorious and who then became the 2024 Perth Club Reserves Club Champion with a score of 6 out of 7. Eric was second with a fantastic score of 5.5 and rating mover Max Otis came up with the same score 5.5 to share second with Eric. Well done guys for all the great games.

A big thank you to Rob Maris, Marc Saxon, Daniel Clarke and Charles Knight for their support week in, week out and for consistently ensuring the accuracy of the score sheets and their availability to all on the website over the span of the tournament. And thanks to all the players who played competitive and fair throughout the tournament, turning up every week in good spirits and playing as true sportsmen and women. It has been such a joy organising this tournament with such a great bunch of people.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Perth Allegro Championship was an 8-round Swiss played over two Wednesdays with 40 players taking part.

The surprise winner with 6.5/8 was our hard working tournament organiser Dylan Gough. On the second Wednesday he scored wins over Michael Selby, Lennon Kerr and Rob Maris, with a final round draw against Ashvin Balavignan to secure 1st place.

Top junior Ashvin was equal second with Jacob Gibson and Derek Elkington. Jacob achieved equal second by defeating club President Marc Saxon in the last round. Derek finished equal second by winning against impressive Wolfgang in the last round.

It was great to see so many players competing, including some strong new players to the club: Noor Rahmani, Gabriele Fokaite, Nimesh Shamalka. In a pleasant warm atmosphere there were plenty of enjoyable and interesting games played by all.

Winners:
A: Gyula Plaganyi (3.5/5)
B: Noor Rahmani (4.0/5)
C: Gabriele Fokaite and Dylan Gough (3.5/5)
D: Charles Knight (3.5/5)
E: Martin Leech (5.0/5)
F: Grant Porteus (5.0/5)

The Swiss tournaments have now concluded.

Wolfgang Leonhardt Cup:

=1st (5.0/7) Gabriele Fokaite and Noor Rahmani
=3rd (4.5/7) Rob Maris, Derek Elkington, Daniel Clarke

John Brooke Cup:

1st (6.5/7) Ashley Michael
2nd (6.0/7) Raf Adel
=3rd (4.5/7) David Hounsome and Bruce Lanham

Report from Rob Maris:

Perth Chess Club had one team in each of the three divisions of the Harris Interclub that was played over the last 2 Sundays.

Congratulations to our Perth Club team (Ashvin Balavignan, Victor Spirin, Jacob Gibson and Gyula Plaganyi) that won the Open division - against much higher rated players that represented the Southern Suburbs club.

Well done by all Perth Chess Club Players, there were many great results as shown on the CAWA website, including Ashvin's (ACF 2025) remarkable victory against IM Patrick Gong (ACF 2589)!!

Winners:
A: Marc Saxon and Ashvin Balavignan (6.0/7)
B: Robert Stortz and Chirag Doshi (5.0/7)
C: Abhinav Verma (5.0/7)
D: Sebastian Gough (6.0/7)

1st (3.5/4) Ned Curthoys & Dylan Gough
=2nd (3.0/4) Gabriele Fokaite & Wolfgang Leonhardt, Victor Spirin & Brian Overste, Alan Wolstencroft & Lennon Kerr, Chirag Doshi & Martin Leech, Marc Saxon & Leo Ross.

Photos from the trophy presentation for 2024 are now on the Photos page.

The Club Spirit Award was won by Dylan and the Most Improved Player (Dec 2023 to Dec 2024 ACF rating) was won by Ashvin just ahead of Max.

Report from Dylan Gough:

Wednesday the 22nd March saw the conclusion of the 2023 Mary Thomson Cup. This year there was a record number of players (54) over six playing groups, all of which were closely contested right down until the last games were played. Below is a list of the final results.

Congratulations to the final six winners:

Group A: Jay Lakner
Group B: Ross List and David Barry
Group C: Dylan Gough
Group D: Ashley Michael
Group E: Kobe Wu and Jean Michel Maujean
Group F: John Brooke

Congratulations to these players having topped their division despite some tough opposition.

Also a thank you and acknowledgement goes out to those members who diligently put together and collated the PGN's every week. These are (as usual) available on the Perth website.

The club continues to grow and it was ever so promising to see a record number of entrants into our first tournament of the year. Thank you again to all involved, your ethical play, your willingness to accommodate and your brilliant chess. It is truly the great sign of a healthy club. I look forward to the next one and working with you all again soon.

Report from Dylan Gough:

The 2023 Perth Club Championships have completed for another year and this year saw the greatest turnout ever. The tournament saw a record 54 entrants participate in 7 rounds of high quality chess.

The winner of the tournament literally came down to the last game of the final night on board 1, where newcomer and welcome member Victor Spirin defeated an in-form Iker Hernandez Mendez to secure first place with a fantastic score of 6 out of 7. A win from Jamie Laubbacher in the last round helped him to leapfrog Iker for second place and Iker secured third place with some impressive chess over all the weeks. Well done to these three guys.

This year for the first time we will be introducing a reserves prize for the best performance of any player 1600 in rating and below. This year that prize goes to Lennon Kerr, one of our youngest players and one of a collection of many fast-improving juniors in today's game. Well played Lennon, keep up the good work. (Calan Curtis was a joint Reserves winner, overlooked in the original report.)

A tournament like this is never possible without all the work behind the scenes in addition to coming along and playing. Special mention must go to Rob Maris and the crew who help with setup and pack away every week, often being the first to arrive and the last to leave. Also for the diligent team of Daniel Clarke, Dave Barry and others who consistently ensure that the games are PGN'd and placed onto the website for all to enjoy.

Thank you and congratulations to everybody for making this tournament a success. See you again next year.

Report from Dylan Gough:

As we enter into the second half of 2023, our club continues to grow both in numbers and in standard. Our tournaments continue to attract a greater number of players and our external events such as the Harris/Edwardes Trophy and Bernard Anton Shield currently place us as the premium adult club in Perth.

This is largely due to the immense amount of hard work that we as a club put into these specialised events. From the players, to the committee, to you the players and all those behind the scenes, the continued success of Perth Chess Club is a welcome testament to you all. Thank you.

Perth Chess Club has recently completed its third major tournament of the year, the prestigious Fred Maris Cup. Forty-four people over 6 closely contested groups played high-quality chess over a number of weeks. Groups A-E were played in round-robin format between 6 players, whilst group F played a fourteen-person swiss tournament over 6 rounds.

Below are the final standings for each group:

Group A:

1st: 4.0/5 Derwent Maggs
2nd: 3.5/5 Rob Maris
3rd: 2.5/5 Jay Lakner

Group B:

1st: 4.0/5 Ned Curthoys
2nd: 3.0/5 Daniel Clarke
3rd: 2.5/5 Dylan Gough

Group C:

1st: 4.0/5 Abhay Bhatia
=2nd: 3.0/5 Lennon Kerr
=2nd: 3.0/5 Franz Oswald

Group D:

1st: 5.0/5 Carter Kerr
=2nd: 3.0/5 Martin Leech
=2nd: 3.0/5 Justin Massam

Group E:

=1st: 3.0/5 David Hounsome
=1st: 3.0/5 Colin Walker
=1st: 3.0/5 John Brooke
=1st: 3.0/5 Grant Porteus

Group F:

1st: 6.0/6 Calan Curtis
=2nd: 4.0/6 David Frankland
=2nd: 4.0/6 Lindsay Bordas
=2nd: 4.0/6 Leo Ross

Well done to all the winners. Games are available for viewing and download (PGN) on the tournament page, along with the cross-tables.

The Perth Chess Club defeated the Metro Chess Club 44-28 in this year's interclub match. A photo of most of the Perth team at the Metro home leg, and some family members, is available on the Photos page.

Report from Dylan Gough:

Perth Chess Club has recently completed its annual Wolfgang Leonhardt and John Brooke Cups for 2023.

Firstly, the Wolfgang Leonhardt cup saw 24 people play 7 rounds of chess with a rating level of 1600 or higher. At the end of the seven rounds the results showed an equal place finish at the top of the leader board by the two highest ranked players in the competition.

Derwent Maggs and Jay Lakner both scored 6 points out of 7 with some brilliant chess playing and were only separated at the end of the tournament by 0.5 tiebreak points, indicating the quality and level both gentlemen played.

In third place CM Gyula Plaganyi finished with a commendable 5 out of 7. Newcomer Michael Selby finished strongly with some great results to finish outright 4th with 4.5 out of 7.

Thank you to all for your commitment and flexibility to make this tournament a success.

In the John Brooke Cup a last game save from Calan Curtis against veteran player Mark Howard, who played such a great game, resulted in a draw after many movers and handed the outright win to Calan with 6 points out of 7.

Very well played by Calan, who played well above his rating to win the division. Second place was shared between Mark Howard, Martin Leech and young Jaswanth Ram Sethuraman who also played above his rating to finish on 5 out of 7.

The John Brooke cup consisted of 29 players and was played over 7 rounds.

Much thanks go to Rob Maris, Daniel Clarke and Marc Saxon for their assistance and support throughout the tournament.

Our next classical tournament will take place on Wednesday 11th of October when players will be competing against other players of similar rating levels in the final classical tournament of the year, the Norbert Muller Cup. I hope to see you there.

At a recent club night, Carter Kerr presented a win of his at the Harris-Edwardes interclub tournament; the game is now available to view.

Report from Dylan Gough:

The last Perth Chess Club tournament of the year has recently concluded. The Norbert Muller Cup was played over 4 divisions (A-D) with A-C being 8-person round-robins and D being an all-in 7-round Swiss.

A total of 43 players entered and some great and exciting chess was played in all divisions. In a couple of cases the final results for placings were not decided until the final games.

Well done to all winners below.

Group A
Finishing 1st was Gyula Plaganyi, who played excellent chess and was consistently producing great results to win with a score of 5 out of 7. Equal 2nd was shared between Marc Saxon and Rob Maris, the latter finishing strongly after a slow start.

Group B
The runaway winner of this division was also the youngest member, Ashvin Balavignan, who nearly clean swept the competition with 5 wins and two draws. One draw was with the highest seed Dylan Gough, and the other was with the eldest member of the group and second place getter, 94-year-old Wolfgang Leonhardt, who finished on a remarkable 5.5. Third place went to a tremendous result from Ashley Michael who finished with 4.

Group C
1st place went to Gerard Akers, whose consistency and resurgent chess has produced great results and a win in this tournament. He was followed closely by Calan Curtis, who finished on a respectable 5 out of 7. Justim Massam finished in 3rd place with 4.5.

Group D
This was a 7-round swiss tournament which produced some interesting upsets and results. It was eventually won by relative club newcomer Raf Adel, closely followed by a resurgent Charles Knight, half a point back on 5.5, and a junior who had the tournament of his chess life to date in Sebastian Gough, who finished on 5/7.

Games are available for viewing and download (PGN) on the Tournament page.

A big thank you to all involved in the club this year and me and my family wish you all a great and safe Christmas and a prosperous and successful New Year. I look forward to seeing you all in 2024 for more great chess.

Photos from the trophy presentation for 2023 are now on the Photos page. As well as the tournament trophies, there is also Rob Maris winning the inaugural Club Spirit Award. From his nomination: "Rob is usually the first to arrive and last to leave each week. He opens up and takes on the biggest role in setting up the tables, chairs and boards; as well as also packing them all away at the end of the night."

Report from Rob Maris:

The MT Cup consisted of 34 players that were allocated into 4 rating groups.

A feature of this tournament was the games being available to view on the tournament page, with thanks to Daniel Clarke and David Barry.

The "A" was a 10 player swiss that was won by Derwent Maggs on 6.5/7, his only draw being to Gyula Plaganyi. Gyula finished third just behind Rob Maris on 5.

In the "B" Chirag Doshi triumphed with 5.5/6, his only draw to Dylan Gough. Dylan shared 2nd place with Tristan Weijermars on 3.5/6.

The top two players in the "C" are clearly improving players: 1st was Ashley Michael on 6/7 with Charles Knight 2nd on 5/7.

Before the last round of the "D", only 1.5 points (4/6 to 2.5/6) separated all 8 players! In the final round Norbert Muller triumphed to finish 1st on 5/7 with Manfred Young 2nd on 4.5.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Fixed Openings tournament had a different opening for each of the 5 rounds, thanks to organiser Alan Wolsencroft. Marc Saxon had an impressive victory over Derwent Maggs in the last round to finish first.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Lightning Championship had 29 players competing in a 7 round swiss with 5 mins plus 2 secs per move. Derwent Maggs finished first on 6/7 ahead of Rob Maris and Alex Janceski.

Report from Rob Maris:

An excellent turn out of 41 players took part in the Perth Club Championship, a 7-round swiss that is also FIDE rated.

This is the only normal rated tournament where players are in one swiss, so it gives members the chance to play those they don't usually meet (leading to plenty of upsets).

Derwent Maggs is the club champion after defeating Marc Saxon in the final round to score 6.5/7.

Jacob Gibson was an impressive second after winning against Alex Janceski in a instructive endgame.

Equal third were Marc Saxon, David Barry and Yonal De Vas, with Alex Janceski 6th.

As can be seen from the cross-table, a few of the other players that performed far above their rating: Ernest Boswarva scored 4 points, including a win over Ross List, plus draws with Dylan Gough and the out of form Rob Maris. Kuol Garang started with 3/3 which included early wins over Robert Stortz and Ross List, so faced a tough field. Sebastian Gough, although rated 40th, was able to win 3 games.

With thanks to Daniel Clarke and David Barry, the games are available to play on the tournament page.

This tournament is included in the June ratings; only one new player (Ahmad) does not yet have a FIDE rating.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Allegro Championship was an 8-round swiss held over 2 weeks at the time control of 15 mins plus 3 secs per move.

Derwent was sole leader on 4/4 after the first week. However, in round 5 Marc Saxon defeated him to take the lead. Then in round 6 Marc was held to a draw by Alex Janceski, so Derwent was able to catch him up. Then in the final round Marc was beaten by Saminda De Vas who finished 2nd with him, whilst Derwent came 1st. Alex Janceski shared equal 4th with Josh Davoll and Vasil Nikolov. This tournament attracted 32 players, who competed in a good atmosphere and the tournament will be ACF Quick rated.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Fred Maris Cup had 40 players competing in six rating groups with a time control of 50 mins plus 30 secs per move.

The "A" group was a 6-round swiss consisting of 16 players. In round 5 Marc Saxon defeated Iker Hernandez Mendez in an exciting game to go a point clear. However, in the last round Jacob Gibson defeated Marc whilst Iker defeated Daniel Clarke. This resulted in Marc and Iker sharing first place on 4.5/6, with Jacob third and Daniel equal fourth with an unbeaten Derek Roebuck. Stephen Phillip made an outstanding return to competitive chess, joining the "A" group in round 4 to score 2.5/3.

The final game of the "B" group between Yonal and Steven decided the winner. Yonal triumphed to win with 4/5; his only loss was to Charles Knight, who is also improving and finished second on 3.5/5.

Miles Sowden was leading the "C" group with 3/4 going into the last round. However, he was beaten by Justin Massam, so Martin Leech was able to overtake Miles to win the group with 3.5/5.

Going into the last round of the "D" group, Jake Watson and Darren Powell were both on 4/4. Darren was victorious to win the group, plus as the only player to win all of his games, Darren is the winner of the Fred Maris Perpetual Trophy. In his first rated tournament at the club, 11-year-old Dominic Davoll played impressively and scored 3/5 to finish third.

Ridge Kwenda went into the last round of the "E" group a point clear on 4/4. However, young Senudi defeated Ridge to share first place with him on 4/5.

The games are on the tournament page; Daniel has kindly been entering these each week.

On Thursday 7th July 2022, two chess teams from across the city competed in an exciting night chess, as Perth Chess Club travelled to the home of Metro Chess Club for the first leg of the annual Bernard Anton Shield.

The event pitted four teams of three players against each other in a round robin format, at a time control of 20m+3s, with rating divisions this year being chosen by Metro Chess Club.

In the Open division, a strong Metro team defeated Perth 6-3. Perth held a narrow lead of 5-4 in the U2000 division, thanks a clean sweep to come from behind in the final round. The U1750 division also had a strong 3-0 final round to come out on top with a 6.5-2.5 advantage. Rounding out the competition, Perth finished with a dominating 6-3 lead in the U1550 division.

Overall, with a score of 20.5-15.5, Perth takes a 5 point advantage into the return leg, which will be hosted at Perth Chess Club in October. Let’s see if we can maintain our lead when the competition resumes.

Thanks and well done to all players who participated, and special thanks to Alan Wolstencroft for his work in organising Perth’s team. A photo of the winning Perth team at the Metro home leg is available on the Photos page.

Report from Dylan Gough:

The Wolfgang Leonhardt Cup and John Brooke Cup events are now concluded and there has been some quality chess played.

As we now journey into follow up events, let me fill you in on the standings in both events.

Firstly, the Wolfgang Leonhardt Cup. Going into round 7, a number of possibilities on the top boards could have brought about a different result but in the end, when the dust settled the top 3 placings were as follows:

1st, 5.5/7: Saminda De Vas
2nd, 5.5/7: Iker Hernandez Mendez

A strong win against Marc Saxon in the last round was enough to secure third place for Derwent Maggs (5.0/7) on countback ahead of Jacob Gibson (also 5.0/7).

Well done to all the players and to the three place getters, well played.

In the John Brooke Cup, after the final round there was a standout winner with 6 out of 7 points. Well done to Thomas Browning.

Only one point behind on 5 out of 7 and clear 2nd was Darren Powell.

Third after countback with a great tournament was Justin Massam on 4.5 out of 7.

Well done to all players and congratulations to the three place getters. Well played.

The Perth Chess Club has won the B and C divisions of this year's Harris-Edwardes Interclub tournament! Southern Suburbs won the A division, with Perth finishing third. Games from all divisions are available for viewing and download (PGN). Full results are on the CAWA website.

Report on the B Division:

Perth B1 finished top of Group 1 with a dominating 9.5/12 points, while Perth B2 took out Group 2 with 7/12 points. This gave us an all-Perth final round, which saw Perth B2 come out on top with a score of 2.5-1.5.

Thanks to all players from both teams who ensured that the B Division trophy would be making it's way back up to Perth Chess Club for the first time in over 10 years!

Report from Dylan Gough:

Last Wednesday saw the conclusion of the 2022 Norbert Muller Cup. Whilst some of the results may not be a good representation of the quality of chess played, this is no reflection on the closeness of the games that were played week in, week out and played in great spirit. All results are now in and are listed below. However in summary these are the final winners for each division.

Division A: A consistent, no loss effort from Derwent Maggs saw him fend off a late challenge from Jay Lakner to finish first and second respectively. Third place was a 3 way tie and testament to the high quality chess being played involving Gyula Plaganyi, Alan Wolstencroft and Rob Maris.

Division B: The standout winner in division B was Dave O'Shaughnessy who didn't lose a game to register an almost perfect total to win the event with a round or 2 to spare. Great chess was played as this closely contested group were well matched and each game was a challenge. 2nd place with a great score of 4.5 was Chirag Doshi securing second place, half a point ahead of club veteran Wolfgang Leonhardt.

Division C: Division C was possibly the closest contested group, with the final placings only decided in the last round. Congratulations to Stephen Hintz for coming out on top, keeping his nerve, playing great chess and securing a half point victory over Franz Oswald and a further half point back to the youngest player Yonal De Vas in third.

Division D: Player of the tournament across all divisions with the mercurial score of 7 wins from 7 games came from this group with Justin Massam achieving this outstanding result.
Such were Justin's results over the course of the tournament that the biggest fight in the final 2 weeks came to be the battle for second which ended as a two way tie between Jean-Michel Maujean and young Senudi De Vas on 5 out of 7.

Congratulations and thank you to all players for your conduct and attitude over the past 7 rounds. You have made my job so much more efficient with your diligence and efforts to make all playable games actionable. It has been a pleasure to see the games and to interact with you each week and I look forward to continuing it bigger and better next year. Well done to the winners over all divisions and I look forward to seeing you all next week as we wind up the year's proceedings with trophy/medallion presentation and a handicap blitz tournament.

Also a big thank you and acknowledgement to both Daniel Clarke for his consistency, accuracy and diligence in ensuring the pgn's of all games are available on the website for viewing each week, and to Rob Maris for his support to me in this new role and being my voice of reason and accountability in recent months. I truly appreciate all the support and feel well received at Perth Chess Club.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Allegro Championship was an 8-round swiss held over two weeks (13 & 20 Jan). This attracted an excellent turn-out of 40 players, that enjoyed plenty of games after the Christmas break.

We ended up with a 3-way tie for equal first on 6.5/8: Yihe Fu (Rebo), Saminda De Vas, Derek Elkington. Just half a point behind them were Derwent Maggs and Jamie Laubbacher.

The Allegro seems to be a popular tournament to start off the new year and helps to assess the appropriate rating group for players new to the club.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Mary Thomson Cup consisted of 40 players that were split into 4 groups: the "A" was a 16 player 7 round swiss, whilst the "B", "C", "D" were all-play-all groups of 8 players.

"A": Derwent Maggs showed why he is rated about 2200 with a convincing performance to secure 1st place on 6.5/7. Derwent was 1.5 points clear of Chirag Doshi and Rob Maris in equal 2nd. Marc Saxon made a welcome return to tournament chess after a break of over 10 years, he achieved 50% despite playing against the top 3 scorers. New member Marcus Ingram-Halford was also impressive scoring 4/7. Highly rated Rebo found playing at two clubs too tiring and withdrew after draws with Kelly Ristovsky and David Barry and a loss to John Barber.

"B": New member Daniel Clarke triumphed in some level looking endgames to win all 7 games. Thomas Browning and Mark Howard shared 2nd place with 4.5.

"C": Ernest Boswarva was on fine form to finish 1st on 5.5, his only loss was to new member Brandon Barry. Brandon was second on 5 after being held to a draw in the last round by improving junior Yonal De Vas. Ernest's only draw was to another new member Matt Carroll who came 3rd with 4.5.

"D": Brian Overste was successful in taking out 1st place, also with 5.5/7. Brian was just half a point ahead of Mike Rennie and Gordon Lucas.

Report from Rob Maris:

The 2021 Perth Chess Club Championship had 38 players competing in a 7 round swiss that was also FIDE rated. With the swiss format this gave players the opportunity to play against those they do not usually meet in the all-play-all tournaments.

In round 6 Marc Saxon achieved a draw with black in a long game against Derwent Maggs. This meant that Derwent went into the final round with black against David Barry who was sharing the lead. Derwent triumphed to finish 1st on 6/7 with Marc and Derek Elkington in equal 2nd place.

Amongst the other impressive performers, with wins and draws against higher rated players, were Marcus Simonds, Iker Hernandez Mendez, John Brooke and Darren Powell.

Report from Alan Wolstencroft:

Great result last Wednesday versus the Metro Chess Club. Our Club won 22 to 14 which puts us in good stead for the away match against Metro on Thursday, 8th July.

After the first round on Wednesday we were losing 5.5 to 6.5. The second round we won 6.5 to 5.5. So going into the last round both teams were on 12. Somehow or other our team dominated the last round which we won 10 to 2, giving us an overall score of 22 to Metro’s 14.

Congratulations a terrific result!!!

Report from Rob Maris:

The first Fred Maris Trophy rated tournament attracted 34 players, a really good turn-out for a Winter tournament. It was pleasing to see Ross List and Norbert Muller making a welcome return to a rated tournament at the club. There were 4 all-play-all groups of 6 players and the "A" group was a 10-player 5-round swiss.

The winner of the Fred Maris Trophy with 5/5 was Yonal de Vas. The top scoring player in each group was: "A" Rob Maris 4.5/5, "B" Daniel Clarke 4.5/5, "C" Yonal de Vas 5/5, "D" Darren Powell 4/5, "E" Geoffrey Owen 4.5/5.

Each of the all-play-all groups was won by the second highest rated player. In the "A" swiss there were many draws, including Robert Stortz drawing every game.

Report from Alan Wolstencroft:

Perth Chess Club retained the Bernard Anton Shield with a convincing win over the Metro Chess Club 21.5 to 14.5, a very similar result to that of the earlier home match in June. The combined 2021 score was 43.5 (Perth Chess Club) to 28.5 (Metro Chess Club).

As usual there was a friendly spirit during the match despite the intensity of some of the games.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Wolfgang Leonhardt Cup & John Brooke Cup attracted a total of 38 players. This consisted of 14 players in the higher rated Wolfgang Leonhardt Cup and 24 players in the John Brooke Cup.

In the Wolfgang Leonhardt Cup, Marc Saxon was impressive winning his first 6 games. Marc was held to a draw in the final round by Peter De Yaak who came 2nd on 4.5/7. Two of the lowest rated players, Daniel Clarke and Marcus Ingram-Halford, performed well above their rating scoring 3.5 and 3 respectively.

In the John Brooke Cup it was a close fascinating battle at the top with the lead changing from Justin Massam to Miles Sowden then to Steven Hintz. Steven finished 1st on 6/7 with Yonal De Vas 2nd on 5.5 and Kuol Garang 3rd on 5/7. Three new members competed: Martin Leech 4/7, Matthew Dudek 4/7, Ridge Kwenda 2/7. Martin and Matthew will also gain a FIDE rating, as will Charles Knight and Ashley Michael.

Report from Rob Maris:

The first Norbert Muller Cup was extremely well supported by members with 39 participating in a friendly and competitive manner. The B, C and D groups consisted of 8-player all-play-all groups, whilst the A group was a 7-round swiss of 15 players.

In the A group Derwent Maggs scored a perfect 7/7, 2.5 points clear of equal 2nd place that was shared between unrated Josh Davoll, Rob Maris and improving junior Iker Hernandez Mendez.

The last round of the B group saw Ernest Boswarva defeat Steven Hintz to finish equal first with him on 5.5/7, a point ahead of 3rd placed Franz Oswald who joined the club from Melbourne.

In the C group top-rated Colin Walker was 1st with 6.5/7 conceding a draw to Ashley Michael. Ashley was the lowest rated player in this group, but is clearly improving as he scored 4.5/7 to finish 3rd with John Brooke. New member Morgan Larkin from USA came 2nd on 5/7.

Manfred Young was highest scorer in the D group with 6/7, his only loss coming in the last round to new member Jake Watson who was 2nd on 5.5/7. Another newish member Ridge Kwenda was equal 3rd with young Senudi De Vas on 4.5/7.

Congratulations to the highest scoring player Derwent Maggs; he is the first player to have his name engraved on the Norbert Muller Cup.

Photos from the trophy presentation for 2021 are now on the Photos page.

Report from Rob Maris:

The first tournament of 2020 was an 8 round Allegro (15mins each) held over two weeks that attracted 36 players. Equal 1st on 6/8 were Juan Rodriguez, Ned Tomic and 90 year old Wolfgang Leonhardt!

2019 was a successful year at the club with the five rated tournaments attracting an average of 33 players.

Report from Rob Maris:

In 2020 the rated groups tournament attracted a record 39 players, who were split into 4 groups with players of similar strength.

The 'A' group consisted of 10 players rated over 1750 (including 3 of WA’s top juniors) and was run as a 7 round swiss. All players scored at least 2/7 and the winner Juan Rodriguez scored 5.5/7 (loss to Chirag Doshi, draw with Jamie Laubbacher). The 'B' was an 8 player all-play-all, but 2 players had to withdraw after 2 games. Kelly Ristovsky was half a point ahead of Jacob Gibson before they played in the last round. Kelly won to finish on 4.5/5 (draw with Justin Massam). The 'C' was a very close 8 player all-play-all. New member Miles Sowden was 1st on 5.5/7 (loss to another new member Ben Knox and draw with Jayden Huynh). Besides Jayden, who withdrew on 0.5/4, all other players scored at least 2.5/7. The 'D' was a 13 player 7 round swiss. This group also consisted of well-matched players and the top score again was 5.5/7 with new member Ben Colman and Bruce Lanham sharing first place.

Report from Rob Maris:

The 6 player divisions tournament consisted of 3 all-play-all divisions of 6 players and 1 swiss division of 10 players. The two juniors dominated the "A" with Rebo 1st on 4.5/5 after drawing a long endgame with Jamie who was 2nd on 3.5/5. In the "B" Alan scored 5/5 and improving Kelly was 2nd on 4/5. The "C" was won by new member Abhay on 5/5 with Mark 2nd on 4/5. The "D" was won by Bruce on 5/5 after a last round victory with black against 2nd placed David Frankland.

The players, including Wolf, seemed to enjoy playing rated games again after the break: the hall was warm enough and the quicker time-control 50mins plus 30secs per move led to most games finishing prior to 10pm.

Report from Alan Wolstencroft:

The first leg of the Bernard Anton Interclub match with Metro Chess Club was held at Metro Chess Club on Thursday, 9th July. It was a close fought match. Going into the last round with Perth leading by one point, strong performances by the Open and Under-1550 divisions secured a three-point victory, 19.5 to 16.5.

Report from Rob Maris:

The second leg was held at Perth Chess Club on 22nd July. Both clubs made just 2 changes to their teams, but the results were not as close as the first leg with Perth winning by 24.5 to 11.5. The total result was a Perth victory with 44 points versus Metro’s 28 points.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Wolfgang Leonhardt Cup (over 1500) & John Brooke Cup (under 1500) had 32 players in these FIDE-rated 7 round swiss tournaments.

In the Wolfgang Leonhardt Cup, Derwent Maggs had a successful return to tournaments with an unbeaten 5.5/7 (including a draw with Wolfgang!), which enabled him to finish joint first with Rebo.

In the John Brooke Cup, congratulations to Mark Howard and David Hounsome who were joint first on 5.5/7.

Please see the Tournament page for the cross-tables for both tournaments, plus you can play through a wild and very entertaining game between Alan and Derek.

Report from Rob Maris:

34 players competed in the 2020 Mary Thomson Cup, our final rated tournament of the year.

The 'A' group was a 7 round swiss consisting of 10 players rated over 1700, whilst the 'B', 'C, 'D' groups were 8 player all-play-all groups.

Derwent Maggs won the 'A' group on 5/7 with Chirag Doshi 2nd on 4.5 then David Barry and Rob Maris equal 3rd on 4.

In the 'B' group there were many draws in the early rounds that helped enable Miles Sowden to lead on 4.5/5. But Miles was overtaken by John Barber, Steven Hintz and Derek Roebuck who were equal 1st on 5/7.

The 'C' was won by junior Iker Hernandez with 6.5/7, his only draw with Victor Markou. Iker impressed both with his play and taking his time throughout his games. Another new member Zachary Fernandez was 2nd on 5 despite a forfeit and Colin Walker was 3rd on 4.5.

There was a clear top 3 in the 'D' with Geoffrey Owen sharing 1st with junior Yonal De Vas (aged just 10) on 6/7. In 3rd was David Pires on 5 who was defeated in his last round by Mike Rennie.

This free 9 rounds, 15 minutes each player per game, which ran for 2 weeks from 16 January to 23 January, is completed. Placegetters were 1st Derwent Maggs 8.5/9, 2nd Steve Jones 7/9 and Juan Rodriguez 6.5/9.

This rated, 7 rounds, tournament in 8 player ratings groups is completed. Report from DOP Rob Maris:

A record 36 players played in 4 groups, the winners were:
`A' Juan Rodriguez 6.5/7 (only draw to Wolfgang Leonhardt, 2nd Derwent Maggs 5.5),
`B' Leonard Mechlowski 6/7 (draws with 2nd Brian Gale 5.5 & 3rd Ben Hurst 5),
`C' Tom Browning 5/7 (2nd Kelly Ristovsky 4.5, others all 2.5 or more!),
`D' Meath Gale & Kaustav Bhowmick 6/7 (3rd Darren Powell 5.5, out of 12 players).

This free, unrated 6 rounds, 25 minutes each per game, Swiss tournament, which ran from 27 March to 3 April, is completed. Placegetters were: 1st Juan Rodriguez, 5.5/6; =2nd Wolf Leonhardt, Robin Shaw, and Chirag Doshi, 4.5/6.

This 7 rounds, ACF and FIDE rated, Swiss tournament, which ran from 10 April to 22 May, is completed. The time control was 70 minutes plus 30 seconds per move. Report from Director of Play, Rob Maris:

The Perth Club Championship was a 7 round swiss that attracted 31 players competing in a pleasant atmosphere. This was won by Juan and Rob on 6 points just ahead of Derwent on 5.5. 1st U1700 was Chirag with 5 (wins against Alex, Ned, Robin). Equal 1st U1200 was Ernest (draws with Wolf and Ben), Jamie (win against Marcus), Brian Overste (win against Tom). As a result of this tournament new players Chirag, Kelly and Bruce will gain their first ACF ratings, plus several players will also obtain a FIDE rating. Ratings will be updated for all active players in early June and be used to allocate players into the 6 player divisions.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Bernard Anton home match was played on 29th May against the Metro Chess Club. The result was a significant win for the Perth Chess club winning 24.5 to 11.5. This is the first time the club has won their home match in four years. The return leg will be held at the Metro Chess Club on Thursday, 11th July, when no doubt Metro will make a concerted effort to retain the Bernard Anton Shield.

The 6 player divisions rated tournament attracted 30 players that were grouped into 5 divisions based on ratings. The winners were:
“A” Juan Rodriguez,
“B” Chirag Doshi,
“C” Tom Browning,
“D” Jamie Laubbacher,
”E” Geoff Owen.

Report from Rob Maris:

The Bernard Anton away match was played on 11th July at the Metro Chess Club. Many games were closely fought but in the end Perth Chess club prevailed by the narrowest of margins 18. 5 to 17.5. As usual a sporting camaraderie prevailed throughout the match. After four years the club has regained the Bernard Anton Shield with an overall win of 43 to 29.

The Fixed Openings tournament was held over two weeks in July. This was a 6 round swiss with 25 mins each player per game with the openings selected by Alan Wolstencroft. Equal first with 5/6 were Juan Rodriguez and Ross List. The six openings were;-
1. Vienna game: 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d3
2. Torre Attack (Tartakower variation) 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Nf3 d5
3. Grob’s Attack 1. g4 d5 2. Bg2
4. Queen’s Gambit Declined 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 c5 5. e3 Nc6
5. Pirc Austrian Attack 1. e4 d6 2 d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. F4 bg7 5. 5 Nf3 0-0 6. Bd3
6. Reti Opening 1. Nf3 f5 2. e4

The Perth Chess Club Mary Thomson Cup attracted 36 players in 4 groups.

The “A” group was won by Juan Rodriguez on 6/7 just half a point ahead of new club member Jay Lakner, even though Jay won their match. The last game to finish in round 7 saw Alan hold Jay to a draw.

The “B” group ACF rating order was interesting: 3 older players, then 3 young adults, then 2 juniors. This close group was won by Kelly Ristovsky on 5/7 just half a point ahead of Brian Gale and Justin Massam.

The “C” group saw the return of former member Mick Nairn who had been residing in Albany for many years. Mick finished first with 6/7 a point ahead of Colin Walker. Although Colin defeated Mick, he lost to Mark Howard and David Hounsome.

The “D” group was a 12 player 7 round swiss. New young adult Jayden Huynh had a loss in round 2 but went on to win with 5.5/7, closely followed by Darren Powell and David Frankland. In the last round David was held to a draw by 4th placed Bruce Lanham in a bishop and pawns endgame.

This free, unrated, 3 rounds, 30 minutes each player per game, tournament in 7 divisions (!), A-G, is concluded. Placegetters by division were:
"A" 1st Derek Elkington 2/3; = 2nd Steve Jones & Wolf Leonhardt 1.5/3.
"B" 1st Alex Janceski 2.5/3; 2nd Ross List 1.5/3; = 3rd Robin Shaw & Alan Wolstencroft 1/3.
"C" 1st Natalie Maris 2.5/3; 2nd Brian Gale 1.5/3; =3rd Fred Maris & Kuol Awang 1/3.
"D" 1st John Brooke 3/3; 2nd Colin Walker 2/3; 3rd David Hounsome 1/3.
"E" =1st Jack O'Reilly & Tom Browning 2/3; =3rd Justin Massam & Darren Powell 1/3.
"F" 1st David Franklin 3/3, 2nd Marcelle Masque-Salgardo 2/3; 3rd Lindsay Bordas 1/3.
"G" =1st Brian Overste & Craig 2/3; =3rd Mike Rennie & Gordon Lucas 1/3.

This rated, 5 rounds, 60 minutes plus 30 seconds per move, tournament, which ran from Jan 17, 24, Feb 7, 14, 21*, 28 (* catch up) is completed. Placegetters were:
"A" - 1st Derwent Maggs, 5/5; 2nd Rob Maris, 4/5; = 3rd Ned Tomic & Juan Rodriguez, 2/5.
"B" - 1st Robin Shaw, 4/5; 2nd Alex Janceski, 3.5/5; 3rd Alan Wolstencroft, 3/5.
"C" - 1st David Barry, 5/5; 2nd David Hounsome, 3.5/5; 3rd John Brooke, 2.5/5.
"D" - 1st Marcel Salgardo, 5/5; 2nd Jarvis Wileman, 4/5; = 3rd Gordon Lucas, Geoff Owen, Brian Overste & Lindsay Bordas, 3/5.

This free, unrated, 7 rounds lightning Swiss tournament, open to members and non-members, was played on 31 January. The time control was 5 minutes each. The Director of Play was Steve Jones. Placegetters were: 1st Yihe Fu (Rebo) 7/7; =2nd Juan Rodriguez, Wolfgang Leonhardt & Ross List, 5/7.

This free, unrated, 25 mins each, 3 rounds, 4 player divisions, tournament for those not playing a Six Player Divisions catch up game has concluded. Report from the Director of Play, Rob Maris:

It was a very good turn-out last night with 12 members playing rated games (so no forfeits so far!), plus 18 players that had 3 games at 25 mins each last night and a couple of casual players. The 18 players were split into 4 groups, the players were well-matched with no-one winning all three games!:
“A” Derek, Rob, Ross =1st 2 points, Alan 4th 0 points.
“B” Bob, Brian G, Fred =1st 2 points, Vic 4th 0 points.
“C” David H, John Brooke = 1st 2 points, Marcel 3rd 1.5 points, Tom 4th 0.5 points.
“D” Brian O, Darren, Xin, Yibo =1st 2 points, Ernest 5th 1 point, Mike 6th 0 points.

This 7 rounds, FIDE rated, Swiss tournament, which ran from Wednesday 7 March through to 18 April, is completed.

Report from the Director of Play, Rob Maris:

A very good entry of 33 players played in this 7 round swiss that will be FIDE rated on 1st May and ACF rated on 1st June.

Placegetters were:
=1st Derek Elkington & Alex Janceski, 6/7; 2nd Yihe Fu (Rebo) 5.5/7.
=1st U1800 Brian Gale, Fred Maris, Justin Massam, 4.5/7.
1st U1400 Mark Howard 4/7, 2nd Tom Browning 3.5/7, = 3rd Victor Markou, John Brooke, Marcel Salgardo, Su-Ann Lee, Geoff Owen and Darren Powell, 3/7
=1st U1200 Su-Ann Lee, Geoffrey Owen and Darren Powell, 3/7.

This free, unrated, 9 rounds tournament, played on 25 April (ANZAC Day), with time control of 5 minutes each, is completed. Placegetters were: 1st Yihe Fu (Rebo) 8/9; 2nd Derwent Maggs 7/9 and 3rd Alex Janceski 6.5/9.

Round 1 of the Bernard Anton Shield against Metropolitan Chess Club was played this Wednesday May 2 at the Perth Chess Club. The time control for this free, unrated, 3 rounds, team tournament was 30 minutes each. There were 3 players in 4 rating groups: Open, U1950, U1650 and U1500. Alan Wolstencroft was our Team Captain and here is his report:

"Last Wednesday the first round of the Bernard Anton match was played at the Perth Chess Club. Now in its twelfth year it is still as fiercely contested as ever. Perth's Open team did very well, but this was overshadowed by the strong performance by Metro's under 1650 and under 1500 teams. Metro won 21 to 15, leaving Perth plenty of work to catch up in the return match at Metro on Thursday 2nd August".

This free, unrated, 3 rounds tournament, was played on Wednesday May 2 at the Perth Chess Club. The time control was 30 minutes each. The Director of Play was Rob Maris. Here is his report:
"`A' Robin/Rob 3, Derek 2, Tom 1, Jarvis 0;
`B' Colin 3, David H & John Brooke & Marcel 1;
`C' Lindsay 3, Geoff & Gordon & Mike 1."

This rated, 7 rounds, tournament in 8 player ratings groups has been concluded. Placegetters were:
Division A: 1st Juan Rodriguez, 7/7; 2nd Derek Elkington, 4.5/7 & =3rd Rob Maris & Steve Jones, 4/7.
Division B: =1st David Barry & Brian Gale, 6/7; =2nd Kuol Garang & Fred Maris, 4/7.
Division C: =1st Colin Walker, Tom Browning & David Hounsome, 5/7.
Division D: =1st Brian Overste & Geoff Owen, 6/7; 2nd Herve Dutrenit, 5/7.

This free, unrated, 25 minutes each, 3 rounds, in three ratings divisions, tournament for those not playing an Eight Player Divisions catch up game is completed. Results were:
"A" Juan Rodriguez & Peter De Yaak, 2/3, Derek Elkington & Alan Wolstencroft, 1/3.
"B" Brian Gale 3/3; Fred Maris, Kuol Grang & Victor Markou, 1/3.
"C" Colin Walker, 3/3; John Brooke & Jarvis Wileman, 2/3; Geoff Owen, 1.5/3; David Hounsome 0.5/3 & Lindsay Bordas, 0/3.

This free 8 rounds Swiss tournament which ran for 3 weeks from 4 to 18 July is completed. Placegetters were 1st Derek Elkington, 6.5/8; =2nd Alan Wolstencroft and Rob Maris, 6/8.

This FIDE rated, 7 rounds Swiss tournament, being played from 25 July to 5 September, is completed. Placegetters were:
=1st Derek Elkington & Juan Rodriguez, 6/7; 2nd Ross List, 5.5/7.
=1st Under 1800, Marcus Simonds & Fred Maris.
1st Under 1400, Ernest Boswarva.
=1st Under 1100, Brian Overste and David Frankland.

From the DOP Rob Maris:

Congratulations to Ross who came third in his first rated tournament for several years. Very well done too by Tom and Lindsay on their wins against much higher rated players, they along with Ernest will gain a FIDE rating on 1st October. Thanks to each of the 35 players on making this a pleasant tournament.

This free 9 rounds, 15 mins each player per game, tournament is completed. Placegetters were: 1st Rob Maris, 8/9; 2nd Derwent Maggs, 7/9; =3rd Chirag Doshi and Wolf Leonhardt, 6.5/9. From Rob Maris: "It was great to have Lennard playing for the first time this year, plus new players Tim Gilbertson and Rob Ruse.nAnother very well-supported tournament of 34 players. Thanks to Lindsay for being Director of Play."

This 7 rounds rated tournament in 8-player ratings groups, which ran from 26 September to 14 November with a time control of 75 minutes plus 10 seconds per move, is completed. Placegetters by divisions were:
"A" 1st Juan Rodriguez, 6/7, 2nd Steve Jones, 5.5/7 & 3rd Rob Maris, 4.5/7.
"B" 1st Ben Hurst, 5/7, 2nd Marcus Simonds, 4.5/7 & 3rd John Barber, 4/7.
"C" = 1st John Brooke, Robert Ruse & Colin Walker, 5.5/7.
"D" 1st Darren Powell, 6/7, 2nd Ernest Boswarva, 5.5/7 & 3rd Lindsay Bordas, 5/7.

This free 3 rounds Rapid Play tournament was played while the Mary Thomson catch up games were being played. The time control was 25 minutes per player, per game, in 4 player all-play-all groups. Results were:
"A" Steve Jones 3, Philip Schulz 1.5, Juan Rodriguez 1 and Wolf Leonhardt 0.5.
"B” Alan Wolstencroft, Brian Gale and Bob Van Emden, 2, Fred Maris 0.
“C” David Hounsome 3, Victor Markou 2, John Brooke 1 and Justin 0.
“D” Tom Browning 2.5, Geoff Owen 2, Brian Overste 1 and Ernest Boswarva 0.5.

This free, unrated 6 rounds, 25 minutes each per game, Swiss tournament, which ran on 21 and 28 November, is completed. Placegetters were: =1st Ben Hurst, Rob Maris, Derek Elkington and Ross List, 5/6.

Trophies presented were:

• Ernest Boswarva FIDE U1400
• David Frankland FIDE U1100
• Bob Ruse Mary Thomson Cup `C'
• Marcel Salgardo Six Player `D'
• Su-Ann Lee Club Championship U1200
• Tom Browning Eight Player `C'
• John Brooke Mary Thomson Cup `C'
• David Hounsome Eight Player `C'
• Mark Howard Club Championship U1400
• Justin Massam Club Championship U1800
• Ben Hurst Mary Thomson Cup `B'
• Marcus Simonds FIDE U1800
• Robin Shaw Six Player `B'
• Alex Janceski Club Championship 1st
• Derwent Maggs Six Player `A'
• Brian Overste FIDE U1100 & Eight Player `D'
• Geoff Owen Club Championship U1200 & Eight Player `D'
• Darren Powell Club Championship U1200 & Mary Thomson Cup `D'
• Colin Walker Eight Player `C' & Mary Thomson Cup `C'
• Fred Maris Club Championship U1800 & FIDE U1800
• David Barry Six Player `C' Eight Player `B' & Most improved player
• Brian Gale Club Championship U1800 & Eight Player `B'
• Derek Elkington Club Championship 1st & FIDE 1st
• Juan Rodriguez Eight Player `A', FIDE 1st & Mary Thomson Cup `A'.

Perpetual trophies presented were:

• Perth Club FIDE trophy: Juan Rodriguez & Derek Elkington.
• Mary Thomson Cup: Juan Rodriguez.
• Lightning: Yihe Fu (Rebo).
• Allegro: Rob Maris.
• Fixed Opening: Derek Elkington.
• Club Championship: Derek Elkington & Alex Janceski.
• Chess clock: Club Champions.

Immediately following the prize-giving was a free, 5 rounds, Doubles Rapid, Swiss tournament in teams of 2 high and low rated players, with a time control of 5 minutes plus 10 seconds per move. Placegetters were:

1st Chirag & Su, 4/5; 2nd Ben & David Frankland, 3.5/5; =3rd Bob & Justin, Derwent & Mike, Jamie & John, and Steve & Brian, 3/5.

Some photos from the trophy presentation for 2018 are now on the Photos page.

This free 6-round Swiss tournament is completed. Placegetters were 1st George Carolin-Unkovich, 5.5/6; =2nd Steve Jones, Derek Elkington & Ross List, 4.5/6.

This rated 7 rounds tournament in 8-player ratings divisions is completed. Placegetters were:
Division A: 1st Derwent Maggs 7/7; 2nd Derek Elkington 5/7; and =3rd Rob Maris & Peter De Yaak 4/7.
Division B: 1st Lennard Mechlowski 6/7; 2nd John Barber 5/7 and =3rd Ken Gomez, Brian Gale, Fred Maris & Bob Van Emden, 3.5/7.
Division C: 1st John Brooke 6.5/7; =2nd Victor Markou, Justin Massam & Kuol Awan Garang, 5/7.

This 3 games each player in three all-play-all 4-player groups, 25 minutes each player per game, tournament was run on 8 March for those not playing in the Eight Player Divisions catch up night. Winners were: Steve & Derek; Rob & Ross; and Kuol, Justin, Lindsay & Jarvis.

Report from Team Captain, Alan Wolstencroft:

This was the eleventh year of the Bernard Anton Match with the first leg as usual played at the Perth Chess Club on Wednesday, 22nd March. There were many closely fought and intense games amongst the 36 gamesbplayed. After two rounds Metro Chess club were slightly ahead. In the final round Metro pulled further ahead and won 20 to 16. Still everything to play for Perth in the return match on Thursday, 3rd August at the Metro Chess Club.

Results by divisions were:

This 7 rounds, FIDE rated, Swiss tournament is completed. Placegetters were: = 1st Rob Maris & Derwent Maggs, 6/7 and 3rd Brian Gale, 5/7. Brian was also 1st under 1600 and Justin Massam was 1st under 1300.

This free 3 rounds, 4 player groups all-play-all, 30 mins each player per game tournament, is completed. Results were:

In the top rated group Lennard and Ben were equal 1st on 2/3, Brian Gale 3rd on 1.5, Steve 4th 0.5.

In the second group Bob 1st on 3/3, John Brooke and Kuol equal 2nd on 2, Victor 4th on 0.

In the third group Justin was 1st on 3/3, Lindsay 2nd on 2, Su 3rd on 1, David Frankland 4th on 0.

In the 4th group, visitor Reza Zamani was 1st on 3/3, Anthony 2nd on 2, Brian Overste 3rd on 1, Mike 4th on 0.

This free, 9 rounds, 15 mins each player per game, tournament, which ran from May 24 to 31, is completed. Placegetters were 1st Derwent Maggs 9/9; 2nd Steve Jones 7/9; =3rd Ned Tomic and Lennard Mechlowski 6/9.

This 5 rounds, rated (not FIDE), four 6-player divisions tournament which ran from 7 June-12 July (except 21 June when the Club venue was unavailable), is completed. Place-getters were:
Division A. 1st Peter De Yaak, 4/5; 2nd Steve Jones, 3.5/5 & 3rd Derek Elkington, 3/5.
Division B. 1st Kuol Garang, 4/5; =2nd Brian Gale & Victor Markou, 3/5.
Division C. 1st Justin Massam, 5/5, 2nd David Hounsome, 4/5, 3rd Colin Walker, 2.5/5.
Division D. 1st Jarvis Wileman, 4.5/5; 2nd Jack O'Reilly, 3.5/5, =3rd Geoff Owen, Solly Smith & Anthony Nesbitt, 2/5.

This free, unrated 4 rounds Swiss tournament is completed. Each round consisted of two games, White and Black, against the same opponent. To enable the SwissPerfect program to pair opponents, 1 round was input as the total of each pair of White and Black games, divided by 2. So 2 wins by one of the paired players = 1, 1 win each = 0.5, 2 draws = 0.5 and 2 losses by a paired player = 0. A win plus a draw was 1 and 0 for the opponent. Any odd half-points would be used at the end of the tournament as tie breakers. Placegetters were: 1st Derwent Maggs, 4/4; 2nd Ben Hurst, 3.5/4 and =3rd Ross List and Juan Rodriguez, 3/4.

This interclub tournment played at the North Woodvale Primary School on Sundays 30th July and 6th August is completed. Final results were: Southern Suburbs A1 defeated Southern Suburbs A2 4.0-0.0 for 1st and 2nd place; Perth A drew with Kingsley Juniors 2.0-2.0 for 3rd and 4th place.

Round 2 of the Bernard Anton Shield against Metropolitan Chess Club was played last Thursday 3rd August at the Metro Club, Drabble House, behind the Nedlands Public Library, 2 Webster St, Nedlands. There were four teams in rating groups =< 1950, =< 1750, =< 1550 and =< 1350. Alan Wolstencroft was our Team Captain. In the first round Perth managed a gain of one point and looked like there may be a possibility of pulling back the four point lead Metro gained from the first leg in March 2017. However this promising start was not continued with Perth eventually losing 14 to 22 with an overall loss of 30 to 42. Congratulations to Metro who continued their winning streak from last year!

This FIDE rated, 7 rounds Swiss tournament is completed. Placegetters were:
1st Robert Maris, 6.5/7; 2nd Derek Elkington 5.5/7, and =3rd Kuol Garang and Alan Wolstencroft, 5/7.
1st under 1600 was Kuol Garang.
=1st under 1300 were Ruben Kruger, Lindsay Bordas, Su-Ann Lee and Jack O'Reilly.

This free, unrated, 3 rounds tournament, in 4-player ratings divisions, played on 27 September, with a time control of 25 minutes each, is completed. There were 30 players in 6 divisions each with four player all-play-all and the top division was a six player 3 rounds swiss. Placegetters were:
"A” 1st Juan Rodriguez 3, 2nd Alex Janceski 2 and =3rd Ned Tomic and Ross List 1.5.
“B” 1st Yihe Fu (Rebu) 3; = 2nd Benjamin Hurst, Natalie Maris & John Barber 1.
“C” =1st Brian Gale, Davood Pirmoradian & Rob Maris (replaced Kuol) 2.
“D” 1st Bob Gale 3; 2nd Victor Markou 2, and 3rd John Brooke 1.
“E” =1st Colin Walker, David Hounsome & Mayur Patel 2.
“F” 1st Jarvis Wileman 2.5, 2nd David Frankland 1.5, =3rd Lindsay Bordas & Su-Ann Lee 1.
“G” 1st Geoffrey Owen 3; 2nd Brian Overste 2; 3rd Gordon Lucas 1.

This free, unrated, 9 rounds tournament, played on 4 October, a time control of 5 minutes each, is completed. Placegetters were: 1st Davood Pirmoradian, 8/9; 2nd Derwent Maggs, 7.5/9 and 3rd Juan Rodrigeuz, 6.5/9.

Photos from the trophy presentation for 2017 are now on the Photos page.

The Perth Chess Club’s Open Lightning tournament on 13th January attracted 22 players. A great return to the club by Peter De Yaak saw him win this tournament with 6 out of 7, a point clear of Ross List, Alex Janceski, Benjamin Hurst, Stephen Jones all equal second.

The Perth Chess Club Rapid Play tournament was a 6 round swiss held over two weeks (20 & 27 January). Played at the time control of 20 minutes, plus 10 seconds added per move, there was a great turn-out of 30 players the first week for the rounds 1 to 3. In round 3 the last game to finish was a draw on top board between Robin Shaw and Derwent Maggs. The leaders at the half-way stage on 3/3 were George Carolin-Unkovich and Ned Tomic.

The second half of the Perth Chess Club Rapid Play tournament was held on 27th Jan. In round 4 George defeated Ned to lead on 4/4, but George was defeated by Derwent in round 5 who then led by half a point from five players. In the final round Derwent won against Fred to finish first, whilst Derek defeated Wolf to come second, Peter and George drew the last match to finish and shared equal third. 32 players took part in the second week including a pleasing number of players new to the club. This was good experience for them as they prepare for the rating divisions tournament starting on Wednesday 3rd Feb.

This 7 rounds rated tournament in three ratings divisions is now completed. Placegetters were:
Division A: 1st Derwent Maggs 6/7, 2nd Derek Elkington 4.5/7 and 3rd Steve Jones 4/7.
Division B: 1st Benjamin Hurst 5/7, 2nd Brian Gale 4.5/7 and =3rd Ken Gomez, Bob Van Emden and Graeme Mcquilkin 4/7.
Division C: 1st Eddie Ottschoffski 6.5/7, 2nd David Hounsome 6/7 and 3rd Colin Walker 5/7.

This 9 rounds Swiss tournament is completed. Placegetters were: =1st Derwent Maggs & Rob Maris 8/9; =3rd Alex Janceski & Steve Jones 6/9. Derwent Maggs won 1st place in a play-off with Rob Maris.

Report from Alan Wolstencroft:

It was a closely fought Bernard Anton Shield match with the Metro last Wednesday. The Metro Chess Club being the eventual winners by one point 18.5 to 17.5. Their win can be attributed to the fact their Open team played very well and for most of the match and they were only one player short (an unusual occurrence for Metro for their away match). Full credit to all our club players in particular those of the Under 1900 and Under 1500 who got very good team scores. The return match is on Thursday, 4th August. We only have to win by 19 to 17 or better to retain the Shield for another year so there is still plenty to play for.

Results by divisions were:

For non-Bernard Anton Shield players. Winners were:
A division: John Barber, 2.5/3;
B division: David Frankland, 3/3;
C division: Justin Massam and Geoffrey Owen 2/3.

This 7-round FIDE rated Swiss tournament is completed. There was a three-way tie for first place, with Rob Maris, Steve Jones and Peter de Yaak each 5.5/7.

Other placegetters were:
Under 1700: =1st David Hounsome & Victor Markou, =3rd Ben Hurst & Fred Maris.
Under 1300 =1st David Frankland, Ruben Kruger, Justin Massam & Dave Combrink.

This 9-round, 15-minutes each per game, unrated tournament is completed. There was another three-way tie for first, with Steve Jones, Alan Wolstencroft and Ned Tomic each on 7/9.

This 7-round rated tournament in 3 ratings groups has concluded. Placegetters were:
Group A: =1st Rob Maris and Alex Janceski 5/7, 3rd Derek Elkington 3.5/7.
Group B: =1st Brian Gale and John Barber 5/7, =3rd Fred Maris and David Hounsome 4/7.
Group C: 1st Dave Combrink 5/7, =2nd Matt Carroll and Lindsay Bordas 4.5/7..

This is a belated report on the 2016 WA Open Chess Championship which concluded on 24 July. The tournament was won by the defending State Champion Yita Choong with a perfect 7/7. Yita was 1.5 ahead of Tristan Boyd and Igor Butsenko in equal 2nd. Congratulations to our Alex Janceski who was the highest scoring PCC player with 4/7 and is now the 2016 WA Seniors (aged over 60) Champion and also the joint 2016 WA Reserves Champion (under 1950) along with Ramudu Rathnayake. Natalie Maris is again the 2016 WA Women’s Champion.

This 8 (4x2) round Swiss tournament is completed. Each player played the same 4 fixed openings as both White and Black. To enable the SwissPerfect program to pair opponents, 1 round was input as the total of each pair of White and Black games, divided by 2. So 2 wins by one of the paired players = 1, 1 win each = 0.5, 2 draws = 0.5 and 2 losses by a paired player = 0. A win plus a draw was 1 and 0 for the opponent. Any odd draws could be used at the end of the tournament as tie breakers.

Placegetters were: 1st Derwent Maggs, 3.5/4 = 2nd Ned Tomic, Ross List, Steve Jones, Ben Hurst and Alan Wolstencroft 3/4.

Report from Alan Wolstencroft:

Metro Chess Club won the second leg of the Bernard Anton match 27.5 to 8.5. They are convincing winners of the Bernard Anton Shield for the second time since its inception in 2007. Full credit to a Metro team that gave a strong and polished performance throughout all four team divisions.

Results by divisions were:

This 7 round FIDE rated Swiss tournament is completed. The prize winners were:
1st Ihsan 6.5/7, 2nd Derwent 5.5/7, 3rd Peter 5/7.
U1600 1st Brian 4/7, =2nd 3.5/7 were 6 players: Ben, Bob, Fred, John Brooke, Kenneth and Victor.
U1300 1st Justin 4, 2nd David Combrink 3.5, 3rd Ruben 3.

Five more players will gain FIDE ratings in the October list: Brian, Colin, Derwent, Peter and Steve..

This free social 6 round swiss (3 games each evening) tournament over 2 weeks (5th & 12th October), is completed. Placegetters were =1st Wolf Leonhardt, Ben Hurst, Alex Janceski & Steve Jones 4.5/6.

This 7 rounds rated tournament in 3 ratings divisions, is completed. Placegetters were:
Division A: 1st Derwent Maggs 6/7; =2nd Derek Elkington and Ned Tomic, 5/7.
Division B: 1st Ben Hurst, 5.5/7; =2nd Brian Gale and John Barber, 4.5/7.
Division C: 1st Victor Markou, 5/7; 2nd Hermann Scheidler, 4.5/7 and =3rd Justin Massam, John Brooke and Dave Combrink, 4/7.

This free, 5 rounds Swiss tournament, the Club's last event of 2016, is completed. Teams of 2 were chosen comprising the highest and lowest rated player, the second highest and second lowest rated player, and so on. Placegetter teams were: 1st Brian Gale & Ruben Kruger, 4.5/5; 2nd John Brooke, 4/5; and =3rd Vic Markou, Steve Jones & Geoff Owen, and Igor & Brian Overste 3/5.

The 2016 Wind-up, including prize-giving, was held at the Club on the last club night of the year, Wednesday 14th December. After the prizegiving a free 9-rounds, 5 minutes each per game, lighting tournament was held. Placegetters were: 1st Peter de Yaak, 7/9; =2nd Derwent Maggs and Benjamin Hurst, 6.5/9.

This FIDE rated 7-round Swiss open tournament is concluded. Prize-winners were:
= 1st Derek and Steve Jones 6/7; =3rd Alex and Steven Hintz 5/7;
U1600 =1st: Bob, Brian, Fred, Sahil 4/7;
U1400 1st Gurpartap (GP) 3.5/7; =2nd Lindsay and Victor 3/7.

See photos of this event on the Photos page.

The result of the second Bernard Anton Shield match of 2015 against Metropolitan Chess Club at the latter's club on Thursday 7 August, was a 23 – 13 win by Perth Chess Club. Combining this with the April 2015 first match at Perth Club, which we won 22.5 – 13.5, means that the Perth Chess Club won the 2015 Bernard Anton Shield 45.5 - 26.5!

See a photo of Perth's winning team on the Photos page.

This 9-round, 15-minutes each per game tournament is now completed. Place-getters were: =1st Wolf Leonhardt & Ned Tomic 7/9, =3rd Alex Janceski & Steve Jones 6/9.

This rated tournament in 3 ratings divisions, over 7 rounds, is now complete for all three divisions.

Prizewinners in Division A were: 1st Derwent Maggs, 5.5/7; 2nd & 3rd, Rob Maris & Alan Wolstencroft, 4.5/7.

In Division B: 1st Fred Maris, 5/7; 2nd and 3rd, Guy Craft & Benjamin Hurst, 4.5/7.

And in Division C: 1st John Brooke & Pranav Kumar, 5.5/7; 2nd & 3rd, Ruben Kruger, Athanasios Athanasiadis & Raghav Kumar, 4/7.

12 teams played the inaugural Doubles Rapid (5 mins plus 10 secs per move) on 2nd December 2015. It was a 5 round Swiss with teams of 2 comprising highest and lowest rated players, the second highest and second lowest rated players, and so on. The results were: 1st Steve Jones & Lindsay Bordas 4.5/5; 2nd Benjamin Hurst & Su-Ann Lee 3.5/5, and =3rd Brian Gale & David Frankland, and Derwent Maggs & Alex Savkovs 3/5.

The 2014 Fixed Opening Tournament is over. Congratulations to the winner Robert Maris; even a last round defeat couldn't stop him.

The final results of the 2014 Mary Thomson Cup are now available. Congratulations to all those who finished in a winning position.

The final club event of another busy tournament year, the December Free Lightning has finished.

See photos of the club windup on the Photos page.

The 2013 Perth Club Rapidplay is over. Congratulations to our winner Wolfgang Leonhardt with a great score of 7.5/9. Equal second on 6.5 points were Derek Elkington and Robin Shaw.

The 2013 Perth Club Championship has finished and we have a new club champion for 2013. Congratulations to Derek Elkington who finished undefeated on 6/7. Second was Robert Maris on 5.5 and then a chasing pack equal third on 5.

The 2013 Perth Open was held over the weekend of the 13th and 14th of April. It was well attended with 39 entries. Congratulations to Tristan Boyd, the top seed, who won with a score of 5.5/6.

Perth Chess Club players were successful in the first round of the 2013 Bernard Anton Shield. The results of all divisions are up on the result page. Unless my arithmetic has failed me, the final score for the round was a 24 - 12 win for Perth over Metro, who were handicapped by not fielding players in a couple of teams. Lets hope we can use that advantage to win the overall competition when we meet Metropolitan again later in the year.

While strictly speaking this was not a Perth Chess club event, the results and crosstable are available here.

The return match was held last Thursday at the Metropolitan Club at Drabble House in Nedlands. After some hard fought chess, the score on the evening was 18-18. Metro had a very strong open team but our under 1900, under 1750 and under 1500 teams more than made up for the strength of the Metro open team. A good solid result on the night. From what I saw, there was some good fighting chess played at all levels.

Given that we won the earlier match, that means that Perth Chess Club wins this years Bernard Anton Shield. Well done all.

Congratulations are due to Robert and Alex for their shared first place, and the chasing pack of three who shared third place.

Our final event for 2013, the Time Handicap Tournament, is finished and with that our 2013 program. Congratulations to our three winners - Derek, Ned and Steve.

The winners were Marc Nichols (a visitor from Germany) & Andrezej Patron, 2nd place was Wolgang Leonhardt and 3rd place went to Derek Elkington, Alex Janceski & Ned Tomic.

The winner of the Club Championship was Robert Maris, 2nd place went to Ned Tomic & 3rd place was shared by Natalie MAris, Wolgang Leonhardt & Derek Elkington.

The winner was Derek Elkington, 2nd place was sharded by Robert Maris & Ned Tomic and 3rd place went to Gabriel Nhial.

1st place was a tie between, Leon Taylor & Peter De Yaak, 2nd place went to Lennard Mechlowski and 3rd place was shared by Alan Wolstencroft & Ross List.

The winner was Robert Maris, 2nd place was shared by Fred Maris & Ned Tomic, with 3rd place being sharded by Wolfgang Leonhardt, Ross List & Peter De Yaak.

The winner was Tom Donaldson, with 2nd place going to Natalie Maris and 3rd place being shared by, Robert Maris, Walter Stassen, Wolfgang Leonhardt & Ned Tomic.

The winner was Wolfgang Leonhardt, 2nd place went to Ian Sutton & 3rd place went to Robert Maris.

Division 1 winner was Robert Maris, 2nd Peter De Yaak & 3rd was shared by Ross List & Fred Maris. Division 2 winner was sharded by Jonathan Smith & Alan Wolstencroft, 2nd was Sam Cunningham and 3rd place went to Jacques Meyer. Division 3 winner was Scott Plyer, 2nd was David Frankland and 3rd place went to John Brooke.

The winner was Peter De Yaak, 2nd place was sharded by Alan Wolstencroft, Robert Maris & Natalie Maris, 3rd place was shared by Victor Markou, Edward Ottschoffski & Ned Tomic.

The tournament was won by Andrew Patron (10pts); in second place was Natalie Maris (9pts) and in third place Wolfgang Leonhard (7pts).

A healthy turnout of 27 players competed in this 7 round swiss with 90 minutes flagfall (7.30pm to 10.30pm) per player per game. The 2010 Perth Club Championship was won by Alex Janceski after his last round defeat over Andrzej Patron.

In round 4 Andrzej became sole leader after his triumph over Wolfgang Leonhardt and he maintained the lead after drawing with Rob Maris. Andrzej also drew with Dennis Holland in round 6, whilst Alex defeated Rob to share the lead half a point clear of Dennis and Fred Maris.

Despite his last round defeat, Andrzej shared in a 4-way tie for 2nd place with Dennis and Fred who drew their match and Ross List who defeated Wolfgang. Alex’s only draws were to 5th place getters Lennard Mechlowski and Mike Nairn. Also in 5th place was Steven Hintz (1417) who drew with Lennard, Ross and Grant Bultman before defeating Rob in round 7.

Norbert Muller kindly organised the tournament and ensured that it ran smoothly. Thanks also to John Brooke for organising the opening and closing of the club each week.

The winner of Rapid Play Tournament was Jonathan Smith who scored 8.5 points. Jonathan won 8 games and drew only one with Fred Maris. Second was Wolfgang Leonhardt who scored 7 points and third was Alan Wolstencroft who scored 6.5 points.

The Rapid Play Handicap Tournament was won by Fred Maris who scored 6 points, second was Derek Elkington who scored 5.5 points and third Ross List who also scored 5.5 points.

This tournament was won by Wolfgang Leonhardt who scored 5.5/7. Second was Lennard Mechlowski 5.0/7 and third Gabriel Nhial who scored also 5.0/7. Second and third location was determined by "small points: Median Buchholz, Progress, Number of Wins, Full Buchholz.

Congratulations to Tristan Boyd, Thomas Donaldson and Yita Choong who shared first place with score 5.0/6.

This tournament was won by Rob Maris who scored 10/11 points. Second was Wolfgang Leonhardt: 9/11 and third Alex Janceski: 8/11.

Perth Chess Club lost to Metropolitan Chess Club overall by 1 point, final score is: Metro 27.5 and Perth 26.5.

Overall tournament winners are 1. David Hounsome 90%, 2nd Mick Nairn 79%, 3rd David Frankland 70%

Support for Perth Chess Club steadily increased during 2008 from 16 players in the Club Championship at the start of 2008, up to 24 players in the handicap tournament in November. The further increase to 32 players in the 2009 Perth Club Championship was a most welcome surprise.

The 2009 Club Championship finished in a triple tie for 1st place between Wolfgang Leonhardt, Ross List, and Rob Maris on 5.5/7. Peter Dix was unfortunate not to come 1st since he led with 5/5 after a convincing victory over Rob. However, in round 6 Peter was black against Wolfgang who had only dropped half a point so far (to Martin Curtis). Wolfgang took the lead after gaining victory over Peter in a game he dominated with central pawns and active pieces. In the final round Rob played the Danish Gambit leaving Wolfgang 2 pawns ahead but unable to develop his King side pieces. So Wolfgang castled long but fell victim to a decisive attack involving a rook sacrifice (see game). Peter had a slight advantage against Ross for most of their last round encounter, but after much solid defence Ross won a piece and the game.

Peter shared 4th place with Ned Tomic and Andrew Patron. Ned won his round 7 game against Natalie Maris with some tricky tactics whilst Natalie had been trying find a way to capture Ned’s trapped rook. Andrew won his round 7 game against Martin Curtis who left himself too short of time. Douglas Tunmer and Gabriel Nhial were the highest scorers of the unrated players, whilst Jacques Meyer did very well as he played 7 much higher rated players.

Thankyou to Norbert Muller and Joe Klimczak for an enjoyable well organised tournament.

Report courtesy of Senior Clubs Newsletter, March 2009. See photos of this event on the Photos page.

2009 Perth Chess Club Lighting Tournament was won by Wolfgang Leonhardt and Andrzej Patron who scored 10 points each. Third was Ned Tomic (9.5 points).

2009 Ten Minutes Handicap Tournament was won by Wolfgang Leonhardt who scored 9 out of 11 points, second was Gabriel Nhial (8.5 points) and third Alan Wolstencroft who scored 8 points.

Rapid Play Tournament was won by Wolfgang Leonhard who scored 6.5 points, second was Robert Maris (6 points) and third Alan Wolstencroft (5.5 points). Congratulations to winners, especially for Wolfgang for his hat-trick.

Mary Thomson Cup was won by Wolfgang Leonhardt who scored 6.5 out of 7 points, second came Rob Maris (5.5 points) and third was Derek Elkington and Grant Bultman who scored 5 points each.

In this year first round of Harris Shield Competitions both our teams: B and C lost to Metropolitan Chess Club: Perth "B" 1.5 - 2.5 Metro "B", and Perth "C" 0.5 - 3.5 Metro "C"

2009 Perth Open was won by Yita Choong who scored 6.5 points, second was Rob Maris (6 points) and third Thomas Donaldson and Denis Holland (5 points each).

The Allegro Tournament winners are:

Group A: 1. Wolfgang Leonhard, 2. Jonathan Smith, 3. Marin Curtis & Lennard Mechlowski
Group B: 1. Natalie Maris, 2. Mick Nairn, 3. Victor Markou
Group C: 1. Colin Walker & Lee Harris-Brown, 3. John Brooke

Congratulation to the winners.

The Best Rating Tournament has been won by Douglas Tunmer and Andrzej Patron who achieved score of 100%.

Former player Bernard Anton was for many years a member of Perth Chess Club and then Metro Chess Club. A wooden chess board has been engraved with ‘Bernard Anton Shield’ and ‘Perth - Metro Challenge’.

The 2009 Perth - Metro Challenge consisted of one series of games played at the Metro club followed by a second series the following week at the Perth club - a total of 54 games. 9 players represented each club on the two nights: there were 3 players from Metro club and 3 players from Perth club in each of the 3 rating divisions. All players had 3 games per night against opposing club players in the same rating division (30mins each player per game). On the second night colours were reversed, so those that played on both nights had white 3 games and black 3 games against players of similar ratings. The first half of this match was held on 13th May at Perth club, the second half was played on 13th August at Metro club.

Despite having plenty of members, Metro struggled to organise strong enough teams to visit Perth. In each division Perth were victorious over Metro by the same score (6.5 - 2.5), so Perth had a massive 19.5 - 7.5 lead. For their home match Metro brought into their ‘A’ team the highly rated Tristan Boyd and Stephanus Kurniwan to join with Gordon Dunlop. Metro’s hopes of recovery were dashed in their first home round as Perth’s ‘B’ and ‘C’ teams were triumphant and their ‘A’ team gained a draw. Although Metro’s ‘A’ team won 6 - 3 at home, their ‘B’ and ‘C’ teams were again beaten. The score at the Metro club was very close indeed: Perth 14, Metro 13, however, the overall score was Perth 33.5, Metro 20.5.

Report courtesy of Senior Clubs Newsletter, September 2009.

This tournament was won by Rob Maris who scored 11.5 points, second was Natalie Maris (10.5 points) and third Martin Curtis 9.5 points.

For each round players had two games (30 mins each player per game) with a set opening against the same opponent - one game with white and the other game with black. The results in the cross table are based on the score over the two games (2 wins or 1 win and 1 draw = 1 point). However, for players on the same score the results of all games were used to determine placings and this method determined that Rob finished first.

Martin Curtis again kindly organised interesting openings for each round.

This tournament was won by Natalie Maris who scored 6 points out of 7, second and third were Wolfgang Leonhardt and Jacques Meyer who scored 5 points each. This was a very well supported tournament and the time handicap resulted in a number of close games with players such as Jacques, John and Victor scoring more than some of the higher rated players. This is shown in the cross-table below with the players in rating order.

The players had 30 minutes for each round plus / minus 1 minute for every 100 rating points difference between the opponents (organised by Norbert and Joe).

Next year this handicap tournament should be even more interesting with players having 30 minutes plus / minus 1 minute for every 50 rating points difference between the opponents.

Nedeljko Tomic convincingly won the 2008 Perth Club Championship with 6.5/7 - 1.5 points clear of 2nd placed Peter Dix and Rob Maris. Ned’s impressive score was achieved against a tough field with 6 players rated over 1700. Of these, Peter was the only one to avoid defeat - Peter was close to beating Ned before he got into time trouble. In the last round Ross List had played well to get a pawn up on Ned, but later on Ross self-destructed giving Ned a piece and consequently the game.

Ned and Natalie showed signs of improvement in their play with each gaining fine victories over both top rated players: Rob and Wolfgang. Martin Curtis also managed to beat Wolfgang, but in the last round Martin lost to unrated Rik Kort. Rik had previously proved his capabilities by achieving draws with Natalie and Ross and reaching a level endgame with Rob.

This 7 round swiss had many interesting and close games, for example Colin Walker drew all three games from rounds 4 to 6.

A big thankyou to John Brooke for opening the club up around 7pm and locking up at the end. Also many thanks to Norbert Muller and Joe Klimczak for running the event in an efficent and pleasant manner. With games beginning promptly at 7.30, the 90 mins flagfall led to the last games being completed by a ‘not too late’ 10.30.

See photos of this event on the Photos page.

Metro have taken the narrowest of leads (14-13) over Perth in the 2008 Bernard Anton Challenge played at Metro club on 8th May. The three players in each team played the three players in the opposing team (same division) with each player having 30 minutes per game.

In the U2000 division the Metro team (Marc Vlietstra, Leon Taylor, Richard Lilly) and Perth team (Rob Maris, Wolfgang Leonhardt, Ross List) shared the points 4.5 each. In the U1750 division the Metro team (Robert Baumgartner, Ray Johnstone, Wally Lubtschenko) scored 3.5 points and the Perth team (Natalie Maris, Peter Dix, Andrew Patron) scored 5.5 points. In the U1500 division the Metro team (Alex DeHeer, Dougal McLean, Graeme McQuilkin) scored 6.5 points and the Perth team (Rik Kort, Jacques Meyer, David Frankland) scored 2.5 points. In this division black won 8 games and nearly won the 9th!

Thanks to Norbert Muller and Garry Taylor for organising the teams. The second match will be played at Perth Chess Club on 13th of August.

See photos of this event on the Photos page.

The 1st Mary Thomson Cup tournament was won by Peter Dix and Rob Maris. Both players scored 6 points. Third was Natalie Maris & Tomic Nedeljko who scored 5 points each. Congratulations to the winners.

2008 Perth Open was hosted this year by our club, on behalf of the Chess Association of Western Australia. The tournament was played over 7 rounds. Congratulations to joint winners: Stephanus Kurniawan & Marc Vlietstra (5.5) with David Ellis & Thomas Donaldson (5.0) sharing third place.

On his recent visit to WA, Australian Grand Master Darryl Johansen gave a simultaneous exhibition at Perth Chess Club. Darryl offered to play one game blindfold whilst playing 20 games simultaneously. As he went around the room making moves he also made entertaining observations about the games.

Of the 20 simultaneous games Darryl had no losses winning against 18 opponents, but was held to draws in two games: Perth Chess Club President Wolfgang Leonhardt achieved a well deserved draw and visitor Leon Taylor also managed a draw in a blocked endgame. Peter Dix took up the blindfold game and soon had Darryl in trouble, Peter did not allow Darryl to recover and defeated the Grand Master.

See photos of this visit on the Photos page, courtesy of Natalie Maris.

Andrzej Patron won the tournament scoring 8 points out of 9. He lost only one game - to Rob Maris. Second was Alex Janceski who scored 7.5 points and third Rob Maris with 6.5 points. Congratulations to the winners!

The 2008 Harris/Edwardes Tournament was held at the Metropolitan Chess Club on the 24th of July. Perth won both B and C divisions, defeating Metro B (2.5-1.5) and Metro C (2.5-1.5). Full results are available from CAWA.

The tournament was played over 7 weeks started on Wednesday 23rd July. Tournament was played in Robin format, in 3 rating groups.

The second match between Metropolitan Chess Club and Perth Chess Club was won by Perth Chess Club.

For each round players had two games (30 mins each player per game) with a set opening against the same opponent - one game with white and the other game with black. The results in the cross table are based on the score over the two games (2 wins or 1 win and 1 draw = 1 point). However, for players on the same score the results of all games were used to determine placings and this method determined that Natalie finished first.

Martin Curtis organised the openings for each round and chose interesting lines where one side sacrificed a pawn in order to gain some form of compensation, such as a lead in development:

Round 1: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 b5
Round 2: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5
Round 3: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 c5 7. dxc5 dxc5 8. Qxd8 Rxd8 9. Bxc5 Nc6
Round 4: 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. e4 c5 4. e5 Ng8 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. d4 cxd4 7. Nxd4 Nxe5
Round 5: 1. d4 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. f3 exf3 5. Nxf3 e6
Round 6: 1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6. Bc4 a6 7. O-O Nf6
Round 7: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. c3 dxc3 5. Nxc3 Nf6 6. Bc4 d6

Tournament was won by Natalie Maris who scored 5.5 rounds points and 11 games points. The second was Rob Maris with 5.5 rounds points and 10 games points. Third was Martin Curtis who scored 4.5 rounds points and 9 games points. Congratulations to winners!

The players had 30 minutes for each round plus / minus 1 minute for every 100 rating points difference between the opponents (organised by Norbert and Joe). This was a very well supported tournament and the time handicap resulted in many close games with plenty of players scoring more than some of the higher rated players.

Tournament was won by Natalie Maris who scored 6 points, second was Ross list and third Mike Nairn who scored 5 points each. Fourth & fifth were Andrzej Patron and Nedeljko Tomic who scored also 5 points each. Congratulations to winners, especially to Natalie who won second tournament in the row.

1st Rob Maris, 2nd Wolfgang Leonhardt, 3rd Martin Curtis
U1700 =1st Joe Klimczak & Norbert Muller, 3rd Tony Bannan

The Perth Chess Club (based in North Woodvale) recently defeated the Metro Chess Club (Nedlands) in first Bernard Anton Shield challenge match consisting of 54 games. The clubs were competing for the Bernard Anton Shield - Bernard had been a member of both clubs for many years and so this challenge match was considered a fitting tribute to him.

This challenge match was played over two evenings, firstly at the Metro club then at Perth club. The final scores for Perth players were 34 wins, 5 draws, and 15 losses. The top scorers for Perth with 5 wins out of 6 games were achieved by tournament organiser Norbert Muller and Edwin Nie the only junior.

Hopefully a similar format in future years will bring players from these clubs together for some friendly rivalry and more enjoyable games. Thanks to Norbert Muller and Garry Taylor for organising the teams.

Report by Rob Maris. See photos of this event on the Photos page. More details of this event can be found in the September 2007 Senior Clubs Newsletter.

PRIZES

CAWA newsletter, June 2002:

Members of the former North Suburban Club have - on the initiative of Norbert Muller, President of the Junior Chess Association of WA - resurrected the Perth Club to the delight of players living in the Northern parts of the Metro area.

The Perth club, which had been defunct for some time because of the dwindling number of members due to parking difficulties in the club room, hopes to also attract a number of former Perth club members.

The “New” Perth Chess club meets Wednesday evenings in the library of the North Woodvale Primary School, Tappers drive corner Chichester drive as from 7pm. Various tournaments include the Club Championship, a Club Allegro and Lightning competitions, 30 Minute Rapid play as well as social games for players of all strengths and sexes are planned until the end of the year.

On Tuesday evenings junior players meet at the same venue as from 7pm. new members are always welcome.

Although the new Perth Chess Club does not meet in the city, The council of the CAWA has unanimously approved the use of the name “Perth Chess Club” by the newly formed club, and hopes that it will carry on the tradition of WA’s oldest club, originally founded in 1896 [sic: read 1891].

Former prominent Perth club member and eight times WA State Champion, Wolfgang Leonhardt, has taken over the Presidency of the Club. For further information phone John Brooke or Wolfgang.

(2026-04-25) First rated tournament held at the club's new venue in Woodvale; Martin Curtis was the winner. Tournament data from the ACF list of tournaments rated, December 2002.