2022 Kingsley Club Championships

Book Prizes were also presented to the winners of each division, except for A division - that book was given to 2nd place Ning to help him at the 2023 Australian Junior Chess Championships - good luck Ning!

A division: The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
B division: Logical Chess - Move by Move
C division: Chess Strategy for Kids

Club Champion - Division A, 1st Place - Eamon Harris

Division A, 2nd Place - Ning Xiaozhou

Division A, 3rd Place - Lucas Lee

Division B, 1st Place - Amion Aucamp

Division B, 2nd Place - Mikhail Aucamp

Division B, 3rd Place - Datis Dadras

Division C, 1st Place - Jonathan Zhan

Division C, 2nd Place - Arianne Koay

(To be presented after the holidays)

Division C, 3rd Place - Henry Schmitt

Calendar for Tournament

Oct 11 Week 1 Usual club meet

Oct 18 Week 2 Usual club meet

Oct 25 Week 3 Start of tournament - all play all

Nov 1 Week 4 Continued tournament - all play all

Nov 8 Week 5 Continued tournament - pairings restricted to divisions

Nov 15 Week 6 Division A and C decided

Nov 22 Week 7 No tournament (players away)

Nov 29 Week 8 Division B decided

Tournament Format

All club players were divided into 3 divisions.

When a player was beaten by another in the same division, it was marked against that player.

3 losses against 3 different players in the same division, and they were out.

Once the number of players was down to 3 or 4, a round-robin was played to decide the final placings.

For the first two weeks (wk 3 and 4), all played all (ignoring divisions), as per usual club meets.

Third week (wk 5), pairings were restricted to divisions to finish the knockouts.

Week 6, play-offs were held for Div A and C.

Week 7, Div B players were away so we couldn't continue

Week 8, Div B play-offs were held for Div B.

Division A Details

Initial Players

Dominic Davoll

Eamon Harris

Flynn Williams

Harvey Heys

Henry De Gaye

Jack Finchett

Leon Hunter

Lucas Lee

Marshall Dunstan

Ning Xiaozhou

Survivers

Dominic Davoll

Eamon Harris

Lucas Lee

Ning Xiaozhou

Play-off (round robin, 10+2)

Eamon vs Lucas --> Eamon won

Eamon vs Dominic --> Eamon won

Ning vs Eamon --> Eamon won

Ning vs Dominic --> Ning won

Lucas vs Ning --> Ning won

Dominic vs Lucas --> Lucas won

Points after Play-off

0 Dominic Davoll

3 Eamon Harris

1 Lucas Lee

2 Ning Xiaozhou

Result

1st Eamon Harris

2nd Ning Xiaozhou

3rd Lucas Lee

Division B Details

Initial Players

Aaron Tun

Amion Aucamp

Brody Dunstan

Datis Dadras

Emile Aucamp

Hank Louw

James Kroger

Josua Spies

Lionel Nguyen

Mikhail Aucamp

Mohammad Alhendawi Almasalma

Muhammad Nirbaan

Yahia Malahefji

Survivers

Amion Aucamp

Brody Dunstan

Datis Dadras

Mikhail Aucamp

Play-off 1 (round robin, 10+2)

Mikhail vs Datis --> Mikhail won

Amion vs Brody --> Amion won

Mikhail vs Brody --> Brody won

Datis vs Amion --> Amion won

Amion vs Mikhail --> Mikhail won

Brody vs Datis --> Datis won

Points after Play-off 1

2 Amion Aucamp

1 Brody Dunstan

1 Datis Dadras

2 Mikhail Aucamp

Play-off for 1st and 2nd

Mikhail vs Amion --> Amion won

Play-off for 3rd

Datis vs Brody --> Datis won

Result

1st Amion Aucamp

2nd Mikhail Aucamp

3rd Datis Dadras

Division C Details

Initial Players

Arianne Koay

Artin Rahnama

Asa Chong

Colin Louw

Cormac Kellett

Dev Aakash Selvaraj

George Portman

Haoyang Lu

Henry Zhan

Henry Schmitt

Jasper Deng

Jonathan Zhan

Kale Bellot

Reuben Fischer

Sebastian Oliver

Serena Liu

Survivers

Arianne Koay

Henry Schmitt

Jonathan Zhan

Play-off 1 (round robin, 10+2)

Jonathan vs Arianne --> Arianne won

Henry vs Jonathan --> Jonathan won

Arianne vs Henry --> Henry won

Points after Play-off 1

1 Arianne Koay

1 Henry Schmitt

1 Jonathan Zhan

Play-off 2 (round robin, 5+0)

Arianne vs Jonathan --> Jonathan won

Jonathan vs Henry --> Jonathan won

Henry vs Arianne --> Arianne won

Points after Play-off 2

1 Arianne Koay

0 Henry Schmitt

2 Jonathan Zhan

Result

1st Jonathan Zhan

2nd Arianne Koay

3rd Henry Schmitt