12/11/07
1) Now accepting enrolments for the December 2007 Holiday Program.
Click here for program information.
2) And don’t forget the zedChess sponsored Box Hill Rookies Cup, coming up on Sunday, Dec 9. Website: http://www.boxhillchess.org.au/junior/2007/e0712wrc.htm.
18/10/07
Unprecedented scenes in Chennai as Indian Grandmaster and new World Champion, Vishy Anand, returns home. The airport is jam packed with people welcoming the new champion with signs and placards. Anand is flanked by fans, journalists and marching bands while being driven home through the streets in a chariot!
30/09/07
Russian Vladimir Kramnik has been dethroned as World Chess Champion! The new Champion is Vishy Anand, the only world champ in history from India, the country where chess originated.
28/08/07
The good news: Australia’s Grandmaster ranks could be swelling (sort of) with 23 year old International Master David Smerdon having achieved his 3rd Grandmaster Norm in the Czechoslovakia Open. This means that he now only needs to increase his rating to the magical 2500 figure to become Australia’s 3rd locally bred Grandmaster. Go David! In other GM news, Serbian Grandmaster Dejan Antic has settled in Sydney, and one of the world’s best Blitz players, German Grandmaster Roland Schmaltz, continues his extended stay on the Gold Coast.
08/08/07
The bad news: Australia’s number 1 player for over 20 years, Grandmaster Ian Rogers, announces his retirement from competitive chess. He ends his career on a positive note, having just won the very strong Lidums Checkmate Open chess tournament with a score of 6/7.
16/04/07
The strongest chess tournament in Australian history, the Sydney International Open, exceeds all expectations. The joint winners are visiting Grandmasters, Georgy Timoshenko (Ukraine) and Dejan Antic (Serbia and Montenegro).
Click here for a lighthearted report and photos from the tournament.
Click here for full results.
06/04/07
The April Holiday Program finished with many tired children, plenty of prizes and trophies given away and many lessons learned. A mix up at the trophy shop meant that the trophies were double their normal size! There weren’t too many complaints about that. For the latest photos, see the Photo Gallery.
08/02/07
zedChess Director, George Zaprudsky, appears on a taping of Channel 9’s,
1vs100 television show in the ‘Chess Players’ Pod. Watch the show to see
how George did. Episode to be screened in approximately 8 weeks.
01/02/07
zedChess is proud to announce its sponsorship of the Canterbury Junior Chess Club’s Queens & Rookies Cup Tournaments for 2007. Information and entry form can be viewed here.
zedChess students who are not Box Hill/ Canterbury Club members are not required to pay the $5 visitors’ fee.