Tuesday, January 26, 2010

2009/2010 Australian Junior Chess Championships

The 2009/2010 Australian Junior Chess Championships was played from January 14th-25th, 2010 at The Hutchins School, Sandy Bay, Hobart. The turnout was reasonably strong, with 47 players playing in the U14-U18 tournament. The top seed was IM-elect James Morris (2196).

Here are the final results:

1st FM-elect Bobby Cheng (2193) with 10/11
2nd Andrew Brown (1991) with 9/11
3rd-5th Yi Yuan (2128), IM-elect James Morris and Yilun Ding (1934) with 7.5/11

Click here for the final standings and crosstable to the 2009/2010 Australian Junior Chess Championships.

The Australian Junior Girls Chess Championships was won by Abbie Kanagarajah (1221, higher countback) and Leteisha Simmonds (1323) with 8/11.

Tournament results can be found at the 2009/2010 Australian Junior Chess Championships website.

The champions list after playoffs:

U18 FM-elect Bobby Cheng
U16 IM-elect James Morris
U14 Alex Stahnke
U12 Andrew Pan
U10 Peter Wallmueller
U8 Ethan Lim
GU18 Leteisha Simmonds
GU16 Abbie Kanagarajah
GU14 Megan Setiabudi
GU12 Savithri Narenthran
GU10 Kashish Christian
GU8 Yuvini Perera

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