The 2017 WA Junior Chess Championships was held over 4 days from the 2nd to 5th of October at Leeming Primary School and attracted a strong field of 81 entrants across 6 divisions; with the new Under 8 Championship commencing at this years event. The Under 14/16/18s and the Under 8/10/12s were combined, which led to strong fighting chess as players were forced to compete against those in higher divisions. The Under 18 tournament was convincingly won by Brent Geronimo (6.5/7), who defeated his main rivals Sri Krishna Dharmapuri (1st Under 16) and Rebo Fu (2nd Under 16) early on to secure at least 1st place with a round to spare. The Under 14 title was won by Kundan Dharampuri (5/7), who showed no fear of playing above his age and was impressive in more then holding his own against many of the states top Under 18s. The WA girls title was won by Celine Ong (4/7). The Under 12 tournament was won by newcomer Yehe (Rebo) Fu with a perfect score (9/9). Rebo dominated the event start to finish and wrapped up the title with a round to spare. The Under 10s was won by Harry Geronimo (7.5/9), with the Under 8s to be decided at a later date following a playoff between Yonal de Vas and Oscar Gao (both 6/9). Despite some issues with noise in the playing hall, there were still relatively few disputes and the games were all played in good spirit. I would like to thank all of the players for graciously accepting all of the decisions that were made by myself as DOP, and hope to see them participating again in the future. Report by: George Carolin-Unkovich DOP |
Junior Championships Open (Under 18) 1st Brent Geronimo (State Junior Champion) 2nd Aidan McGinty 3rd Joel Retief Open (Under 18) Girls 1st Celine Ong (State Junior Girls Champion) Under 16 1st Sri Krishna Dharmapuri 2nd Yehe (Rebo) Fu 3rd Ethan Richards Under 14 1st Kundan Dharmapuri 2nd Alex Pimenov 3rd Jacob Gibson Under 12 1st Yehe (Rebo) Fu 2nd Kundan Dharmapuri 3rd Alex Pimenov Under 10 1st Harry Geronimo 2nd Tien Dao Nguyen 3rd Aidan Tan Under 8 =1st Yonal de Vas & Oscar Gao (Playoff to be held) 3rd Jamie Richards Lightning Championship Open Under 18 1st Brent Geronimo Under 16 1st Aidan McGinty Under 14 1st Kundan Dharmapuri Under 12 1st Harry Geronimo Under 10 1st Oscar Gao |
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Club Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr. 1 Geronimo, Brent WA 2130 U14 6.5 20.5 28.5 26.5 2-3 Dharmapuri, Kundan WA 939 U14 5 20.0 29.0 21.0 Dharmapuri, Sri Krishna WA 1681 U16 5 20.0 28.5 21.5 4-5 Fu, Yihe (Rebo) U14 4.5 21.5 31.0 22.0 McGinty, Aidan WA U18 4.5 19.5 26.5 15.5 6-8 Pimenov, Alex WA 1173 U14 4 20.0 29.5 17.0 Retief, Joel WA U14 4 17.0 23.5 14.5 Ong, Celine WA U14G 4 14.0 20.0 12.5 9-10 Richards, Ethan WA 272 U14 3.5 20.0 28.5 14.5 Gibson, Jacob WA U14 3.5 17.0 23.5 14.5 11-12 Retief, Johannes WA U14 3 21.0 30.5 15.0 Smith, Stacey WA U16G 3 15.0 19.5 12.0 13-14 McGinty, Sean WA U18 2.5 17.5 24.5 9.0 Quadros, Isaac WA U14 2.5 15.0 22.0 9.5 15-16 Richards, David WA U14 2 11.0 15.0 4.5 Srikanth, Tejass WA U14 2 6.0 13.0 6.0 17 Van Burgel, Bradley WA U18 1.5 7.5 13.5 4.0 18 Nick, Ley WA U14 1 18.0 25.0 6.0 19 Chia, Cayden WA U14 0.5 2.0 8.0 1.0 20-22 Richards, Jamie WA U14 0 12.0 17.5 0.0 Chia, Clement WA U14 0 4.0 10.5 0.0 Chia, Celine WA U14G 0 3.5 10.5 0.0 |
No Name Feder Rtg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1. Geronimo, Brent WA 2130 11:W 6:W 3:W 2:W 5:D 4:W 10:W 2. Fu, Yihe (Rebo) 12:W 18:W 5:W 1:L 11:W 3:D 14:L 3. Dharmapuri, Sri Krishna WA 1681 13:W 17:W 1:L 4:W 14:W 2:D 5:D 4. Pimenov, Alex WA 1173 14:D 20:W 10:W 3:L 6:D 1:L 18:W 5. Dharmapuri, Kundan WA 939 15:W 19:W 2:L 6:W 1:D 11:W 3:D 6. Richards, Ethan WA 272 16:W 1:L 15:W 5:L 4:D 14:L 13:W 7. Chia, Cayden WA 17:L 13:D 19:L : : : : 8. Chia, Celine WA 18:L 12:L 20:L : : : : 9. Chia, Clement WA 19:L 15:L 16:L : : : : 10. Gibson, Jacob WA 20:D 14:W 4:L 11:L 13:W 22:W 1:L 11. Retief, Johannes WA 1:L 16:W 18:W 10:W 2:L 5:L 12:L 12. Retief, Joel WA 2:L 8:W 17:W 14:L 16:D :D 11:W 13. McGinty, Sean WA 3:L 7:D 14:L 17:W 10:L :W 6:L 14. McGinty, Aidan WA 4:D 10:L 13:W 12:W 3:L 6:W 2:W 15. Nick, Ley WA 5:L 9:W 6:L : : : 16:L 16. Ong, Celine WA 6:L 11:L 9:W 18:W 12:D 21:D 15:W 17. Quadros, Isaac WA 7:W 3:L 12:L 13:L 21:D 18:L :W 18. Smith, Stacey WA 8:W 2:L 11:L 16:L 22:W 17:W 4:L 19. Srikanth, Tejass WA 9:W 5:L 7:W 20:- : : : 20. Van Burgel, Bradley WA 10:D 4:L 8:W 19:- : : : 21. Richards, David WA : : : 22:W 17:D 16:D : 22. Richards, Jamie WA : : : 21:L 18:L 10:L : |
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr. 1 Fu, Yihe (Rebo) U10 9 44.0 57.0 45.0 2-3 Dharmapuri, Kundan U12 1656 7.5 43.0 56.5 38.5 Geronimo, Harry U10 1598 7.5 40.5 54.0 37.5 4 Pimenov, Alex U10 1655 7 40.5 53.5 35.0 5 Nguyen, Tien Dao U10 950 6.5 31.5 41.5 27.5 6-12 Manhokaran, Darshevin U12 6 42.5 56.5 38.0 Ad.Tan, Aiden U10 1376 6 42.0 53.5 34.0 Gao, Oscar U8 6 41.0 51.5 31.0 Kito, Nao U12 1475 6 38.0 51.5 34.0 Richards, Ethan U10 1326 6 36.5 48.0 30.0 Retief, Joel U12 6 34.0 45.0 29.0 De Vas, Yonal U8 6 33.5 42.5 29.0 13-17 Nguyen, Minh U10 1305 5.5 37.5 50.5 32.0 Ar.Gupta, Arnav U10 1200 5.5 35.5 47.0 28.0 Cho, Ian U10 1175 5.5 32.0 41.5 27.0 Quadros, Isaac U12 991 5.5 31.5 40.5 28.0 Mugge, Harrison U10 908 5.5 29.5 37.5 24.5 18-25 Murray, Max U10 1392 5 38.0 50.0 31.0 Richards, David U12 1030 5 37.5 47.5 27.0 Ong, Celine U12 824 5 37.0 47.0 29.0 Stanborough, Drew U10 1079 5 36.0 44.0 27.0 Ley, Nick U12 5 34.0 44.5 25.0 Richards, Jamie U8 949 5 34.0 44.5 24.0 Adams, Sterling U10 1322 5 33.5 42.0 27.0 An.Gupta, Anoushka U10 1014 5 29.5 39.0 26.0 26-33 Bennison, Paxton U10 876 4.5 35.0 45.0 26.0 Freitag, Tom U8 4.5 34.5 45.5 23.0 Jung, Alex U12 1064 4.5 33.5 44.0 25.5 IB U10 4.5 31.0 40.0 23.5 Mann, Leon U10 1135 4.5 30.5 38.5 23.5 Hassan, Alex U12 4.5 28.5 37.5 19.5 Hydnman, Connor U12 4.5 25.5 32.5 15.0 Lees, Beau U10 4.5 24.5 32.5 14.5 34-41 Kuzmin, Maxim U12 4 32.0 41.5 19.0 Sirithat, Kritchanat U10 4 30.5 38.0 22.0 Brandes de Roos, Oliver U12 4 29.5 37.5 19.0 Martin, Thibault U10 4 29.0 37.5 16.0 Lim, Isaac U8 893 4 28.5 35.0 22.0 Van Zyl, Owen U12 4 28.0 36.5 20.0 Manolas, Jasmine U12 4 27.0 32.5 14.5 Robinson, Nate U10 4 25.5 33.0 16.0 42-48 Osorio, Carl U12 3.5 33.0 42.0 20.5 Saravanaperumal, Archana U12 3.5 31.5 40.5 19.5 Mirfield, Skye U10 3.5 31.0 39.5 14.5 An.Tan, Annabelle U8 3.5 28.0 36.0 18.5 Anuj, Miranda U8 3.5 26.0 33.5 19.0 Williams, Luke U10 3.5 24.5 30.5 16.0 Maheswaran, Mahe U8 3.5 22.5 27.5 11.0 49-53 Parveen Siddique, Aanisha U10 3 29.5 38.0 18.0 Scaddan, Rivah U12 3 28.0 36.5 17.0 King, Lachlan U10 3 27.5 37.0 12.5 Krishna, Aravind U8 3 24.5 31.0 14.0 Cheng, Joseph U8 3 23.0 28.0 13.5 54-56 Lloyd, Coen U10 2.5 25.5 32.5 11.0 Krishnan, Rishi U10 2.5 25.5 31.5 13.5 Blatchley, Byron U10 2.5 24.5 32.5 15.5 57 Lloyd, Niah U8 1 24.5 32.0 5.0 58-59 Nguyen, Anika U10 0 9.5 9.5 0.0 Selsmark, Ben U10 0 3.0 10.5 0.0 |
No Name Feder Rtg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1. Dharmapuri, Kundan U12 1656 30:W 18:W 13:W 6:W 31:L 5:W 3:D 7:W 2:W 2. Pimenov, Alex U10 1655 31:L 38:W 51:W 19:W 15:W 23:W 32:W 44:W 1:L 3. Geronimo, Harry U10 1598 32:W 19:W 14:W 31:L 13:W 6:W 1:D 40:W 44:W 4. Kito, Nao U12 1475 33:W 23:W 17:W 5:W 44:L 32:L 15:W 31:L 10:W 5. Murray, Max U10 1392 34:W 20:W 16:W 4:L 14:W 1:L 44:L 19:W 29:L 6. Ad.Tan, Aiden U10 1376 35:W 25:W 29:W 1:L 17:W 3:L 23:W 32:W 31:L 7. Richards, Ethan U10 1326 36:W 26:W 31:L 44:L 38:W 16:W 29:W 1:L 40:W 8. Adams, Sterling U10 1322 37:W 29:L 27:W 21:W 32:L 17:W 40:L 23:L 38:W 9. Nguyen, Minh U10 1305 38:W 44:L 30:W 20:W 16:W 22:W 31:L 10:D 18:L 10. Ar.Gupta, Arnav U10 1200 39:W 31:L 32:L 37:W 50:W 25:W 51:W 9:D 4:L 11. Cho, Ian U10 1175 40:W 50:W 44:L 22:D 23:L 49:W 18:L 24:W 30:W 12. Mann, Leon U10 1135 41:W 51:L 33:W 23:L 53:D 57:W 22:L 29:L 49:W 13. Stanborough, Drew U10 1079 42:W 56:W 1:L 25:W 3:L 29:L 27:W 51:L 21:W 14. Jung, Alex U12 1064 43:W 53:W 3:L 29:W 5:L 51:L 25:D 33:L 56:W 15. Richards, David U12 1030 44:L 40:W 36:W 51:W 2:L 30:W 4:L 21:W 32:L 16. An.Gupta, Anoushka U10 1014 45:W 57:W 5:L 58:W 9:L 7:L 30:L 49:W 46:W 17. Quadros, Isaac U12 991 46:W 59:W 4:L 56:W 6:L 8:L 38:W 30:D 22:W 18. Nguyen, Tien Dao U10 950 47:W 1:L 49:D 32:L 35:W 53:W 11:W 22:W 9:W 19. Richards, Jamie U8 949 48:W 3:L 50:W 2:L 40:L 20:W 56:W 5:L 27:W 20. Mugge, Harrison U10 908 49:W 5:L 53:W 9:L 57:D 19:L 37:W 25:W 33:W 21. Lim, Isaac U8 893 50:L 42:W 52:W 8:L 51:L 54:W 58:W 15:L 13:L 22. Bennison, Paxton U10 876 51:L 39:W 57:W 11:D 49:W 9:L 12:W 18:L 17:L 23. Ong, Celine U12 824 52:W 4:L 54:W 12:W 11:W 2:L 6:L 8:W 51:L 24. Anuj, Miranda U8 53:L 41:D 43:W 49:L 59:W 40:L 57:W 11:L 39:L 25. IB U10 54:W 6:L 59:W 13:L 56:W 10:L 14:D 20:L 53:W 26. Blatchley, Byron U10 55:W 7:L 58:L 38:L 37:D 41:W 49:L 39:L 57:L 27. Brandes de Roos, Oliver U12 56:L 46:W 8:L 40:L 47:W 52:W 13:L 50:W 19:L 28. Cheng, Joseph U8 57:L 43:D 35:D 50:L 39:W 58:L 46:L 52:L 42:W 29. De Vas, Yonal U8 58:W 8:W 6:L 14:L 54:W 13:W 7:L 12:W 5:W 30. Freitag, Tom U8 1:L 45:W 9:L 52:W 58:W 15:L 16:W 17:D 11:L 31. Fu, Yihe (Rebo) U10 2:W 10:W 7:W 3:W 1:W 44:W 9:W 4:W 6:W 32. Gao, Oscar U8 3:L 47:W 10:W 18:W 8:W 4:W 2:L 6:L 15:W 33. Hassan, Alex U12 4:L 48:W 12:L 54:L 45:D 47:W 53:W 14:W 20:L 34. Hydnman, Connor U12 5:L 49:L 45:W 53:L 46:L 39:D 41:W 57:W 47:W 35. King, Lachlan U10 6:L 52:L 28:D 43:W 18:L 45:D 54:L 36:L :W 36. Krishna, Aravind U8 7:L 55:W 15:L 57:L 52:L 42:W 50:L 35:W 58:L 37. Krishnan, Rishi U10 8:L 54:L 42:W 10:L 26:D 59:W 20:L 53:L 43:L 38. Kuzmin, Maxim U12 9:L 2:L 46:W 26:W 7:L 50:W 17:L 58:W 8:L 39. Lees, Beau U10 10:L 22:L 47:D 59:D 28:L 34:D 43:W 26:W 24:W 40. Ley, Nick U12 11:L 15:L 55:W 27:W 19:W 24:W 8:W 3:L 7:L 41. Lloyd, Coen U10 12:L 24:D 56:L 47:L 43:W 26:L 34:L :W 59:L 42. Lloyd, Niah U8 13:L 21:L 37:L 45:L :W 36:L 59:L 43:L 28:L 43. Maheswaran, Mahe U8 14:L 28:D 24:L 35:L 41:L :W 39:L 42:W 37:W 44. Manhokaran, Darshevin U12 15:W 9:W 11:W 7:W 4:W 31:L 5:W 2:L 3:L 45. Manolas, Jasmine U12 16:L 30:L 34:L 42:W 33:D 35:D 52:W 56:L 54:W 46. Martin, Thibault U10 17:L 27:L 38:L :W 34:W 56:L 28:W 54:W 16:L 47. Mirfield, Skye U10 18:L 32:L 39:D 41:W 27:L 33:L :W 59:W 34:L 48. Nguyen, Anika U10 19:L 33:L : : : : : : : 49. Osorio, Carl U12 20:L 34:W 18:D 24:W 22:L 11:L 26:W 16:L 12:L 50. Parveen Siddique, Aanisha U10 21:W 11:L 19:L 28:W 10:L 38:L 36:W 27:L 52:L 51. Retief, Joel U12 22:W 12:W 2:L 15:L 21:W 14:W 10:L 13:W 23:W 52. Robinson, Nate U10 23:L 35:W 21:L 30:L 36:W 27:L 45:L 28:W 50:W 53. Saravanaperumal, Archana U12 24:W 14:L 20:L 34:W 12:D 18:L 33:L 37:W 25:L 54. Scaddan, Rivah U12 25:L 37:W 23:L 33:W 29:L 21:L 35:W 46:L 45:L 55. Selsmark, Ben U10 26:L 36:L 40:L : : : : : : 56. Sirithat, Kritchanat U10 27:W 13:L 41:W 17:L 25:L 46:W 19:L 45:W 14:L 57. An.Tan, Annabelle U8 28:W 16:L 22:L 36:W 20:D 12:L 24:L 34:L 26:W 58. Van Zyl, Owen U12 29:L :W 26:W 16:L 30:L 28:W 21:L 38:L 36:W 59. Williams, Luke U10 :W 17:L 25:L 39:D 24:L 37:L 42:W 47:L 41:W |
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Club Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr. 1 Geronimo, Brent WA 2130 U14 11 56.0 69.0 66.0 2 Dharmapuri, Kundan WA U12 9 53.5 67.5 50.5 3 McGinty, Aidan WA 1500 U16 8 57.0 70.0 50.0 4-5 Dharmapuri, Sri Krishna WA 1681 U16 7 57.5 70.5 44.0 Fu, Yihe (Rebo) WA 1900 U14 7 55.0 67.0 35.0 6 Geronimo, Harry WA 1600 U10 6.5 54.5 68.5 41.0 7-9 Gao, Oscar WA U10 6 52.5 66.5 34.0 Retief, Joel WA U12 6 48.0 60.0 35.0 McGinty, Sean WA U12 6 46.0 58.0 34.0 10-11 Nguyen, Tuan Dao WA U14 5 52.0 61.0 34.0 Gibson, Jacob WA U14 5 44.5 56.5 24.0 12 Ley, Nick WA U12 4.5 44.5 56.5 30.5 13-15 Ong, Celine WA U12G 4 47.5 59.5 28.0 Retief, Johannes WA U14 4 42.0 52.0 31.0 Quadros, Isaac WA U12 4 39.5 49.5 26.0 16 IB WA U10 3 44.0 54.0 19.0 17 Nguyen, Tien Dao WA U10 2 43.5 52.5 10.0 18 Miranda, Anuj WA U10 1 41.5 50.5 2.0 |
No Name Feder Rtg Total 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1. Geronimo, Brent WA 2130 11 9:W 8:W 4:W 5:W 3:W 7:W 17:W 2:W 11:W 10:W 14:W 2. Fu, Yihe (Rebo) WA 1900 7 10:W 5:L 7:L 11:L 9:W 14:W 18:W 1:L 12:W 3:W 4:W 3. Dharmapuri, Sri Krishna WA 1681 7 11:W 17:W 5:L 8:W 1:L 12:W 4:W 7:L 14:W 2:L 13:W 4. Geronimo, Harry WA 1600 6.5 12:W 14:W 1:L 7:D 8:W 5:L 3:L 10:W 16:W 6:W 2:L 5. McGinty, Aidan WA 1500 8 13:W 2:W 3:W 1:L 12:W 4:W 7:L 17:W 8:L 11:W 10:W 6. IB WA 3 17:L 15:L 11:L 13:W 10:L 18:W 8:W 16:L 9:L 4:L 7:L 7. Dharmapuri, Kundan WA 9 15:D 9:W 2:W 4:D 16:W 1:L 5:W 3:W 17:W 8:W 6:W 8. Gao, Oscar WA 6 16:W 1:L 14:W 3:L 4:L 15:W 6:L 9:W 5:W 7:L 12:W 9. Gibson, Jacob WA 5 1:L 7:L 18:W 14:L 2:L 13:W 10:W 8:L 6:W 12:L 15:W 10. Ley, Nick WA 4.5 2:L 13:W 15:D 12:L 6:W 16:W 9:L 4:L 18:W 1:L 5:L 11. McGinty, Sean WA 6 3:L 16:L 6:W 2:W 15:W 17:L 13:W 12:W 1:L 5:L 18:W 12. Nguyen, Tuan Dao WA 5 4:L 18:W 17:W 10:W 5:L 3:L 15:W 11:L 2:L 9:W 8:L 13. Nguyen, Tien Dao WA 2 5:L 10:L 16:L 6:L 18:W 9:L 11:L 14:L 15:W 17:L 3:L 14. Ong, Celine WA 4 18:W 4:L 8:L 9:W 17:L 2:L 16:W 13:W 3:L 15:L 1:L 15. Quadros, Isaac WA 4 7:D 6:W 10:D 16:L 11:L 8:L 12:L 18:W 13:L 14:W 9:L 16. Retief, Johannes WA 4 8:L 11:W 13:W 15:W 7:L 10:L 14:L 6:W 4:L 18:L 17:L 17. Retief, Joel WA 6 6:W 3:L 12:L 18:W 14:W 11:W 1:L 5:L 7:L 13:W 16:W 18. Miranda, Anuj WA 1 14:L 12:L 9:L 17:L 13:L 6:L 2:L 15:L 10:L 16:W 11:L |