September 2006 Newsletter

Dear Chess Friends,

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10th (1st WS) HK Correspondence Chess Championship (Double-round)

Average rating: 2078

Start date: 18/7/2005

Time Limit: 10/60

TD: Leung Hin-sing (Henry)

After 14-month play, 71% of the games have been finished with only 21

games remaining. Michael Spooner, Barnard Helman and Christopher Sham

are at the top of the event-table. The current standings are as

follows:

1.Spooner 12/14 (2), 2.Helman 10.5/12 (4), 3.Sham 7/10 (6), 4.Acosta

6/12 (4), 5.Naach 5.5/8 (8), 6.Johnston 4.5/8 (8), 7.Luk 2.5/12 (4),

8.Bau 2/10 (6), 9.Yeung 1/16.

At present, Michael Spooner(+10=4) and Barnard Helman(+9=3) are unde-

feated. Michael has last 2 games vs Sham; Helman has last 3 (vs Sham,

Naach and Johnston); and Sham(+5=3-1) 6 games left including 2 vs

Michael, 1 vs Helman, 2 vs Naach and 1 vs Johnston. In addition, Raja

Naach(+4=3-1) is playing as a black horse, he still has a chance

advancing to the top positions, depending on the results of games vs

Sham and Johnston.

Here is the English opening (A34) game, which new comer Barnard

Helman drew against former champion Michael Spooner, with some

positional ideas:

White: Michael Spooner

Black: Barnard Helman

1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nb4 6.Bc4 Be6

7.Bxe6 Nd3+ 8.Kf1 fxe6 9.Ng5 Qb6 10.Qf3 c4 11.b3 h6

12.bxc4 Ne5 13.Qh3 hxg5 14.Qxh8 Nbc6 15.Rb1 Qc5

16.Qh5+ g6 17.Qxg5 O-O-O 18.g3 Qxc4+ 19.Kg2 Bg7 20.h3 Rd3

21.Rb3 b5 22.Ba3 a5 23.Qf4 b4 24.Na4 Qb5 25.Nc3 Qc4

26.Na4 Qb5 1/2-1/2

For more details and updated information of our championship or

the webchess, please visit: www.iccf-webchess.com (Tables and results

- National Federation Events)

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XVII (1st WS) CC Olympiad-Preliminary round (section 1)

Start date: 10/1/2006

Time Limit: 10/60

TD: IA Daniel Finkelstein (ARG)

HK Team members: (board order)

1.SM Geoffrey Wise 2481

2.Chris Champion 2415

3.IM James Henri 2335 (Australian CC IM, now is working in HKU)

4.Allan Johnston 2182

5.Christopher Sham 2204

6.Luk Luen-wah 1905

TC: Leung Hin-sing (Henry)

This is the first Web Server event of the ICCF Olympiad, including 52

teams playing in 5 sections. Hong Kong is arranged in Section 1 with 10

other teams: Austria, Brazil, Cuba, Isolated Chess Players, Israel,

Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Russia.

At present, HK Team has finished 20 games from total 60; gained 9

points, performed really good until now, always keep its position

around 3rd to 5th places. We applaud to all team members for their ex-

cellent performances and every effort.

Current standings: 1.Poland 12.5, 2.Lithuania 11.5, 3-4.Norway/Brazil

9.5, 5.Hong Kong 9.

Below are two games analysed by SIM Geoff Wise:

"Here are two games which I played as White in Olympiad XVII Section1, and which are worth knowing if you want to secure a secure draw against an opponent who has a much higher rating to you and who is prepared, as Black, to go along with 1. e4 e5, 2. Nf3 Nc6, probably expecting 3.Bb5, i.e. the Ruy Lopez. Instead, I played 3.Bc4 which might have encouraged my opponent in Game A below, Luis Almiron of Brazil with an ELO rating of 2608 (127 more than my 2481), to think he had good chances of defeating a fairly modest Giuoco Piano (Italian Game) opening. So, the game proceeded with 3......Bc5, 4.c3 Nf6, 5.d4 ed 6.cd Bb4+ which, once upon a time, White would have answered with 7.Nc3 leading to the Moller Attack (which I used to play with much success when I was a schoolboy in London, way back in the mists of time, but which has since been discredited by comprehensive analysis). However, I played the much safer 7. Bd2 which almost inevitably leads to what some chess books refer to as a "Grandmaster Draw" (apparently 'cos quite a few Grandmasters have used this ploy in tournament play in order to finish their games in a few minutes and get the rest of the day off to play tennis or whatever.....). I reckon that what's good for an OTB GM should also be good enough for a humble CC SIM and, by Move 15, Senor Almiron and I had agreed to share the score (you'll soon see why if you play through Game A below which ends in a repetition of moves).

White: IM Luis Almiron 2608 (BRA)

Black: SM Geoff Wise 2481 (HKG)

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Bd2 Bxd2

8.Nbxd2 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Qb3 Na5 11.Qa4+ Nc6 12.Qb3 Na5 13.Qa4+ Nc6

14.Qb3 Na5 15.Qa4+ Nc6 16.Qb3 Na5 1/2-1/2

But, does Black have to follow all of these Game A moves or does he have any other way to try breaking down White's resistance? Game B below is one that I played against Dov Rozenberg of Israel with an ELO rating of 2579 in this same Olympiad XVII. His rating is "only" 98 more than mine, so I should be ashamed to admit that I broke my own unwritten rule to only play for a certain draw against opponents whose ratings are at least 100 higher than me, but then I thought "What the heck......98 more is ALMOST 100 more so let's go for it......"). Dov's 10th move in Game B, i.e. 10......Nce7, is regarded as just about the only worthwhile alternative to Almiron's 10.....Na5 in Game A. but in my opinion the end result is just as inevitable given accurate play on each side. Play through Game B if you think you could force a result other than the draw by repetition of moves which we finally agreed on by Move 35.

White: SM Dov Rozenberg 2579 (ISR)

Black: SM Geoff Wise 2481 (HKG)

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Bf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4 Bb4+ 7.Bd2 Bxd2+

8.Nbxd2 d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Qb3 Bg4 11.0-0 0-0 12.Rfe1 c6 13.Ne4 Qb6

14.Nc3 Qxb3 15.Bxb3 Bg4 16.Nxd5 Nxd5 17.Bxd5 cxd5 18.Re7 f6

19.Rxb7 Rfb8 20.Rxb8 Rxb8 21.b3 Bxf3 22.gxf3 Rc8 23.Re1 Kf7 24.Re2 Rc1+

25.Kg2 Rc3 26.f4 g6 27.Re3 Rc2 28.a4 h5 29.f5 gxf5 30.Rh3 Kg6

31.Rg3+ Kf7 32.Rh3 Kg6 33.Rg3+ Kf7 34.Rh3 Kg6 35.Rg3+ 1/2-1/2

Remember, the above variations are pretty well guaranteed to gain half a point for White, BUT it's very unlikely that you'll ever get a full point with 7.Bd2 against a good CC player."

For more details, please visit www.iccf-webchess.com (tables and

results - ICCF Olympiads)

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5th Pacific Area Team Tournament (PATT-V)(Double-round)

Start date: 15/9/2006

Time Limit: 10/50

TD: Peter L. Coleman (ENG)

Hong Kong Team members: (board order/AR)

1.(2456)TC Leung Hin-sing (Henry) 2371

2.(2331)Christopher Sham 2253

3.(2282)Raja Naach 2126

4.(2162)Luk Luen-wah 1886

5.(2060)Nohmar Acosta 1880

6.(2189)Graeme Hall (new comer - now is playing in the 2nd WS Open and

match vs England)

The tournament is comprised of six teams - United States(AR: 2320 incl-

uding 2 IMs), Hong Kong(2103), Canada(2352), Mexico(2202/1 GM/1 IM),

Japan(2206/1 SM), and a combined team Australia/New Zealand(2295/1 SM/

1 IM).

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Champions League (CL) / 4-player team tournament

Start date: 1/12/2004

Hong Kong Team is playing in the email League D Group 5 with ten other

teams mainly from different countries (average ratings in brackets):

Russia (2330), Czech (2272), Poland (2217), Belgium (2125),

Spain-A (2082), Germany-A (2019), Italy (1959), Hong Kong (1936),

Canada (1912), Spain-B (1872), Germany-B (1857).

Board 1 (2271)

TC Allan Johnston 2242: won v Yetman 2247 CAN, drew v Ograbek POL 2352.

Board 2 (2045)

Luk Luen-wah 1903: drew vs Schumacher GER-A 1987.

Board 3 (1965)

Christopher Sham 1800: drew against - Romitsin RUS 2243, Adam BEL 2226,

Maldonado-Pacheco ESP-B 1800 and Rueppel GER-A 1800.

Board 4 (1929)

Nohmar Acosta 1800: won 4 games vs L-Ayllon 1800 ESP, Picarella 1881

ITA, A-Quintana 1734 ESP and Selschotter 1800 BEL; drew vs Shcehbenyuk

2210 RUS. Nohmar performed quite good with 4.5 out of 8, two games

remaining.

The present score of our team is 8.5/36 (4).

For more details, please visit -

http://tables.iccf.com/email/ChLeague/2004/tables/cldgr5.htm

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New ICCF Ratings (1 October 2006)

This time we have two players gained their fixed ratings - Barnard

Helman and Nohmar Acosta; and Michael Spooner has obvious increase in

his rating points. Congratulations!

Below are ratings of Hong Kong active CC players who finished at least

12 ratable games and whose results (as of 30/6/2006) were reported to

the Ratings Commissioner. One will have a fixed rating after finishing

30 ratable games.

Main list:

780025 SM 2486 142 Wise, Geoff +05

780057 2422 75 Champion, Chris +02

780016 2370 140 Leung, Hin-sing (Henry)

780024 2337 49 Carless, David

030083 IM 2335 182 Henri, James

780063 2253 24 Subramanian, Sujey

780006 2188 212 Spooner, Michael +32

780069 2154 43 Sham, Christopher

780068 2136 14 Naach, Raja +10

780049 2115 48 Raynes, Paul

513254 2098 32 Helman, Barnard fixed

780001 2095 32 Schepel, Kaarlo

780038 2066 111 Kuo, Tso-chi

780012 2048 223 Johnston, Allan

780042 2046 151 Turner, Glenn M.

780071 2005 42 Acosta, Nohmar fixed

780029 1974 58 Latumbo, Mario

780047 1943 20 Rickett, Nick

780064 1940 24 Subramanian, Saran

780020 1903 254 Luk, Luen-wah +17

590045 1843 46 Bau, Lawrence

780027 1812 54 Jones, Laurence

780066 1803 14 Fan, Douglas

780056 1779 24 Bridges, Chris

780070 1704 14 Law, Ho-lim

780058 1592 97 Yeung, Chun-keung

Women list:

780017 1875 57 Ho, Mrs. Yin-ping

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Friendly team matches - HK vs other countries/clubs (2 games per bd)

Organiser/Team Captain: Chris Champion

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Hong Kong - England

AR: 2039 - 2153

Time Limit: 10/50

TC: Chris Champion - Barry Sheppard

TD: Ralph Marconi (CAN)

Start: 15/8/2006

It is Hong Kong's first biggest ever team match - 21 boards! including

1 SIM, 1 IM,(England has 3 IMs) 2 Fide rated players and 11 active CC

players; and 6 new comers! Welcome to join the community of HK Corres-

pondence Chess!

Hong Kong Team - Board 1.SM Geoff Wise 2481, 2.Chris Champion 2420, 3.

Henry Leung 2371, 4.IM James Henri 2335, 5.Allan Johnston 2162, 6.Chau

Sau-ming 2161, 7.Michael Spooner 2156, 8.Christopher Sham 2156, 9.Tsang

Hon-ki 2128, 10.Raja Naach 2126, 11.Barnard Helman 2017, 12.Lawrence

Bau 1990, 13.Luk Luen-wah 1886, 14.Nohmar Acosta 1880, 15.Yeung Chun-

keung 1740, 16.Graeme Hall, 17.Sen Naach, 18.Tsang Kim-fung, 19.Lee

Kowk-suen, 20.Lung Shun-wai, 21.Lau Kwok-cheung.

There are also two new matches going to start in the near future, one

with Portugal and the other with Romania.

For more details, please visit -

http://www.iccf-webchess.com/ (tables and results - Friendly Matches)

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Hong Kong - Ecuador

AR: 1992 - 1952

TC: Chris Champion - Pavao Bjazevic

TD: IA Pedro Hegoburu (ARG)

Start: 29/8/2005

Our team is leading with a score 7-5, 4 remaining games - we need 1.5

to win the match, and one point for a draw. Luk Luen-wah and Barnard

Helman won both games, Michael Spooner gained one point in two drawn

games, and Allan Johnston and Raja Naach have won one game on their

own board.

Hong Kong Team - Board 1.Henry Leung 2379, 2.Allan Johnston 2237, 3.

Michael Spooner 2158, 4.Luk Luen-wah 1958, 5.Raja Naach, 6.Barnard

Helman, 7.Yeung Chun Keung 1806, 8.Tsang Kim-fung.

For more details, please visit -

http://www.iccf-webchess.com/ (tables and results - Friendly Matches)

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Hong Kong - Catalonia

AR: 2018 - 2148

Start: 6/2/2005

Close: 1/5/2006

This match has been finished with a score 6.5 - 16.5, Chris Champion,

Henry Leung, Allan Johnston, Barnard Helman and Tsang Hon-ki drew both

games against their opponents; and Michael Spooner, Christopher Sham

and Raja Naach drew one. Below is the game played by Michael Spooner

with comment:

"At one stage (around move 20), I thought I might even get a win!"

[Event "Friendly match Hong Kong vs. Catalonia"]

[Site "ICCF"]

[White "Mart?Pericot, Juan Manuel"]

[Black "Spooner, Michael"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[WhiteElo "2316"]

[BlackElo "2152"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6

6.Bg5 Qb6 7.Nb3 e6 8.Qd2 a6 9.O-O-O Be7 10.Kb1 O-O

11.f3 Rd8 12.Be3 Qc7 13.Qf2 Nd7 14.g4 b5 15.g5 Nce5

16.Rg1 Bb7 17.a3 Nc4 18.Bxc4 bxc4 19.Nd4 Rab8 20.Ka2 Qa5

21.h4 d5 22.h5 Ba8 23.Bc1 Bb4 24.Nce2 e5 25.g6 fxg6

26.hxg6 h6 27.Bxh6 gxh6 28.Qe3 Nf6 29.Nf5 Bc5 30.Nxh6+ Kf8

31.Qc1 Bxg1 32.Rxg1 Qb6 33.Nc3 Ke7 34.Na4 Qb5 35.Qg5 Qxa4

36.Qxe5+ Kd7 37.Qxf6 Qxc2 38.Nf7 Qb3+ 1/2-1/2

Another game played by Barnard Helman as white with an entertaining

opening:

[Event "ICCF Hong Kong v Catalonia"]

[Site "ICCF"]

[White "Helman, Barnard"]

[Black "Armengol Mateo, Jaume"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

[WhiteElo "1800 provisional"]

[BlackElo "2303"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.e4 dxe4 4.f3 exf3 5.Nxf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bh5 7.g4 Bg6 8.Ne5 e6 9.Qf3 c6 10.g5 Nh5 11.Bd3 Qxd4 12.Nxg6 hxg6 13.Rf1 Qe5+ 14.Ne2 Qc7 15.Be3 Qe7 16.Bc5 Qxc5 17.Qxf7+ Kd8 18.Bxg6 Qb4+ 19.c3 Qh4+ 20.Rf2 Kc8 21.Qxe6+ Kc7 22.Qg4 Qxg4 23.hxg4 Nf6 24.gxf6 Rh1+ 25.Rf1 Rxf1+ 26.Kxf1 gxf6 27.Nd4 Nd7 1/2-1/2

For more details, please visit -

http://www.iccf-webchess.com/ (tables and results - Friendly Matches)

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Hong Kong - Denmark

AR: 2055 - 2104

Start: 21/6/2004

Close: 25/1/2006

Hong Kong Team finished with a score 9.5-12.5

Ho Yin-ping (2), Chris Champion (1.5), Raja Naach (1.5) and Nohmar

Acosta (1.5) performed really good in this match ; David Carless and

Christopher sham gained one point respectively for our team; and

Henry Leung and Allan Johnston drew one.

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Hong Kong - Poland

AR: 2048 - 2163

Start: 15/2/2004

Close: 2/11/2005

This match ended with a score 5-14, in which the average rating of

Poland was 115 higer than Hong Kong. The best individual score

belonged to Christopher Sham who won both games vs Grzegorz 1985;

Chris Champion and Raja Naach gained one point respectively against

Lubas 2438 and Zygfryd 2093; and Henry Leung and Allan Johnston

managed to draw one game on each seperate board.

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Individual tournaments:

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1.TCCMB Invitational

Start: 1 Dec 2003

Category X

SM 7.5 / IM 7

Final result: 8.5/14 (SM and IM norm archived) (+4=9-1)

Position: 4th

As reported early this year, Chris Champion completed this high level

tournament with excellent result and archived his first SM and IM norm.

Congratulations!

Below is the game Chris played as white against GM Arno Nickel:

[Event "TCCMB 5 Year - group A"]

[White "Champion, Chris"]

[Black "Nickel, Arno"]

[Result "1/2-1/2"]

1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nh3 0-0 6.Nc3 d6 7.d5 Na6 8.0-0 Nc5 9.Qc2 e5 10.dxe6 c6 11.b4 Nxe6 12.Bb2 Ng4 13.e3 Ne5 14.Ne2 a5 15.a3 Qe7 16.Nd4 Bd7 17.Nb3 axb4 18.axb4 Rfe8 19.Nd4 Nc7 20.Rfc1 Rxa1 21.Rxa1 Na6 22.b5 Nc5 23.Ra7 Rc8 24.Nf4 Qe8 25.Nb3 Ne4 26.b6 Nxf2 27.Qxf2 Ng4 28.Qd2 Bxb2 29.h3 Qxe3+ 30.Qxe3 Nxe3 31.Rxb7 Nxc4 32.Rxd7 Nxb6 33.Rxd6 Kf7 34.Na5 Be5 35.Rxc6 Rxc6 36.Nxc6 Bd6 37.Kf2 Kf6 38.Kf3 Nc4 39.Nd5+ Ke6 40.Kf2 Bc5+ 41.Ke2 Bd6 42.Nd4+ Kf7 43.g4 fxg4 44.hxg4 Ne5 45.Nb5 Be7 46.Bh3 h5 47.gxh5 gxh5 1/2-1/2

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2.World Championship Semi-final

29th (1st WS)

Start: 1 Mar 2005

Category 7

Chris Champion has gained 6 points out of 11, one game remaining.

Won the games against two IMs, and drew 8 games including two SMs;

only lost one to the 1st placed player.

Here is the game Chris won as Black against the Swiss IM with his

own comment:

"A bit of a wild ride this one. In a way the result is unfair

because my opponent was the more creative and brave."

[Event "WCCC29SF03(WS)"]

[White "Baumgartner, Ulrich"]

[Black "Champion, Chris"]

[Result "0-1"]

[WhiteElo "2301"]

[BlackElo "2408"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nc3 O-O

6.Be3 a6 7.Qd2 Nc6 8.Nge2 Re8 9.h4 h5 10.O-O-O b5

11.Nd5 bxc4 12.Nxf6+ exf6 13.g4 hxg4 14.h5 gxf3 15.Nf4 g5

16.h6 Bh8 17.Nh5 Rxe4 18.Bxc4 d5 19.h7+ Kf8 20.Bd3 Rg4

21.Qf2 f5 22.Qxf3 Nxd4 23.Bxd4 Rxd4 24.Bxf5 Rc4+ 25.Kb1 Rb8

26.Rd2 Rcb4 27.b3 Rf4 28.Nxf4 Bxf5+ 29.Nd3 Qf6 30.Kc2 Rb4

31.Qxd5 Rd4 32.Qc5+ Rd6 33.Rc1 Bxh7 34.b4 Qf3 0-1

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3.IM Simon Fitzpatrick (AUS) Memorial

Start: 21/8/2005

Category: 4

Leung Hin-sing drew one game against IM Noble 2342 NZL, with 10

games remaining. Another 11 players completing in this invita-

tional are: Morgan 2343 AUS, Dibley 2213 AUS, Carpentier 2306

FRA, Burne 2359 ENG, IM Luzuriaga 2369 ARG, IM Borwell 2251 SCO,

Murden 2369 AUS, IM Henrich 2391 GER, IM Eckert 2384 USA, Sutton 2260

AUS, Rowley 2327 AUS.

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4.World Cup XV Prelim.

Start: 15/11/2006

Entry close: 20/9/2006 (local)

This Cup Tournament will open to all levels of players, if you wish to

participate in this popular ICCF event, contact Henry Leung at:

<leung33@pacific.net.hk> for details. At present, Hong Kong partici-

pants include IM James Henri, Allan Johnston and Luk Luen-wah.

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5.Afro/Asian Championship

7th AA Final

Start: 5/9/2005

AR: 2177

13-player section

As reported early this year, Allan Johnston won as 2nd in the Prelim,

and was promoted to the final. There are 9 players with ratings, the

highest rated is Dikmen 2365 TUR, follows are: Smuts 2287 RSA,

Balabaev 2286 KAZ, Johnston 2237 HKG, Ball 2206 RSA, Mrs. Livinenko

2185 KAZ, Goze 2076 TUR, Timkin 2057 KAZ, Bester 1896 RSA, and 4 with

provisional ratings.

8th AA (WS) Prelim.

Start: 15/1/2005

11-player section

Christopher Sham currently has gained 7 out of 9 at 3rd place with 2

games left. Compare the present status with the top four players, Sham

still has possibility to advance to the 2nd or 1st place:

1.Fourie RSA 8(0), 2.Esen TUR 7.5(2), 3.Sham HKG 7(2), 4.Horchler TOG

7(1).

9th AA (WS) Prelim.

Start: 15/1/2006

16-player section

Nohmar Acosta currently has gained 6.5 out of 10 at 5th place with 5

games left. The highest rated player in this section is SM Peli 2415

ISR, others mainly with provisional ratings, and there are 10 players

from Turkey.

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6.Promotion tournaments

NAPZ Higher Class

Start: 31/12/2005

7-player section

Barnard Helman, Nohmar Acosta and Luk Luen-wah are playing in the

same group. Their scores are as follows: Helman 3/3(3), Acosta 2.5/4

(2), Luk 1/1(5).

NAPZ Open Class

Start: 3/4/2006

7-player section

Luk Luen-wah with highest rating in this group, is playing with 5

American players and 1 Canadian player.

ICCF Open Class

Start: 9/9/2006

7-player section

Yeung Chun Keung has finished two sections this year, and this is the

third one in which the highest rated player is Gruber 2086 fide AUT.

ICCF 2nd Webchess Open

Start: 15/6/2006

7-player section

This is the first CC tournament of Graeme Hall. In this group, the

highest rated player is SM Satici 2356 TUR, the second one D-Moreno

2249 ESP.

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7.Thematic tournaments

Sokolsky Opening A00 (1.b4)

Start: 10/9/2006

6-player section

Normally, this is a double round robin tournament and games unrated.

Yeung Chun Keung is playing against two rather strong players -

Vegjeleki 2313 AUT and Backstrom 2298 SWE, and three from Turkey,

Italy and Norway.

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ICCF

1.World Championship

From 1/1/2006, Preliminary stage has been added into the World Champ-

ionship. We have 2 quota per year to nominate local players to the

Championship, whose ratings less than 2400 shall be allocated to Prel-

iminaries; and 2400 above to the Semi-finals.

2.New World Champions

The newest champion has been announced recently, he is GM Christope

Leotard of France with a score +5=7 in the 19th Final; another champion

was produced early this year, the Norwegian GM Ivar Bern.

3.New time control

As mentioned early this year, from 1/1/2006, the standard time control

for 10 moves is 50 days.

4.New Officials (1/1/2006)

The chairmen of 9 commissions are as follows:

1.Frank Geider (FRA) - Tournaments

2.Witold Bielecki (POL) - Tournament Rules

3.Gerhard Radosztics (AUT) - Playing Rules

4.Gerhard Binder (GER) - Rating Rules

5.Ragnar Wikman (FIN) - Appeals (Playing Rules)

6.George Pyrich (SCO) - Appeals (Other Rules)

7.Richard V.M. Hall (ENG) - Arbitration

8.Claudio Goncalves (ARG) - Marketing

9.Med Samraoui (ALG) - President's

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Hong Kong Correspondence Chess Club

A full-member of HKCC Club is entitled to enter as many sections (start

-ing during the year) as one wishes without any extra charges except

entry fees; and one will also receive up-to-date local and ICCF CC

information including this newsletter and bulletins periodically.

Annual membership fee (HKD150 Adult/75 Student - cheque payable to

"Hong Kong Correspondence Chess Club") could be sent by post to me

using the address at the end of this newsletter or pay directly to our

bank (HSBC) account 048-377352-001 and advising me.

The financial status (2005-2006) of our club will be sent later to all

chess friends concerned.

Once again, I send my sincere thanks to those who provided various

kinds of support to HK CC Club in the past year(05-06). Particularly,

Chris Champion as organiser and team captain for the overseas team

matches; Allan Johnston as team captain for the Champions League; my

thanks also to Yeung Chun Keung, Chris Champion and Raja Naach for

introducing new friends to Hong Kong CC, and Jackson Li as web-masters.

With best regards,

Leung Hin-sing (Henry)

Organiser, HKCC Club

ICCF-HKG Delegate

Postal address: Flat A, 13th Floor, 33 Cross Street, Hong Kong.

Phone: 25731859

Email address: <leung33@pacific.net.hk>