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A small number of AUS players appear to have qualified for norms or conditional titles as a result of the Zonal. These have been added but noted...

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Here is this week's board 1 game, Wallis - E.Hooi. Mostly White defended accurately, except for the oversight on move 31 (which turned out not to be...

Please remember to communicate any bye requests by Tuesday evening. Noble Park Club Championship: Pairing of round 3, at 15:00 of 23/02/2019 ...

I agree with this. Luigi is doing an excellent job.

I'm not completely sure about this. I know the points needed for the norm must all be scored over the board, so (for instance) 5/8 played plus a win...

Next Bay of Plenty Rapid: Early next years' Bay of Plenty Rapid is on one of those hard-to-forget calendar dates. Well worth a quick look:...

Sri Lanka beats South Africa again!

Random question: if I had forfeited the last round (which I nearly did by mistaking the start time), would that have precluded me from the WFM title?...

Hi Luigi, Bug fixing done in a timely manner means that that others who may not yet have expierienced the problem don’t get the issue at all. ...

Provisional Round 4 Pairings: 1 = Fossey,Allan ( 3.0) - Devarajh,Joshua ( 3.0) = 2 - 28 = ... ...

Round 3 Results: 1 = Stewart,Craig A ( 2.0) - Fossey,Allan ( 2.0) = 16 - 2 = 0 - 1...

Hello, unfortunately/fortunately this program is used by many Federations. Sometimes I get a request to modify some feature (a report, or...

AUSTRALIAN DIRECT TITLE WINNERS The Australian Chess Federation pays for all FM/WFM and IM/WIM titles earned by players registered to AUS. The...

Results have just gone up, just as I was trying to work out if that was enough information to identify the FM-qualifiers. So, unofficially I get:...

There may be a very special event on Monday 18th March - to be confirmed

Are you saying that by increasing prizes you can negatively affect the numbers? Really??

Congratulations Becky!

So little birdy is bringing some big news from the recently concluded zonal. There are 3 new FM title holders (subject to 2100 rating). One is...

J.R. I totally agree with that! - however ... Why change a format that is working and attracting more players 3 years in a row? We could...

Round 3 Pairings: 1 = Stewart,Craig A ( 2.0) - Fossey,Allan ( 2.0) = 16 - 2 = ... ...

Round 2 Results: 1 = Atia,Ben ( 1.0) - Kitikov,Oleg ( 1.0) = 23 - 1 = ½ - ½...

His comments about enjoying the successes of his students more than his own resonate well with me, plus he hasn't necessarily made the decision to be...

That's a shame. Onto bigger and better things, I hope.

I wasted ten minutes of my life (that I'm never getting back) trying to figure out who the hell CCM is. It's Civic Chess Man (Rowan Wood). I don't...

I have received unconfirmed reports that David Smerdon intends on playing

All further discussion of Max's retirement announcement that is not specifically related to the Zonal should go here: ...

Maybe the prize money could be bumped up ( because of the extra numbers).

This Rapid Event format is looking to be a very popular in current times in Sydney. Currently 84 entries for tomorrow. Looking at previous...