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Here you will find all the information you need regarding chess in Western Australia. The site primarily caters for registered CAWA chess players be they Senior or Junior. But if you are an unregistered player, casual player or even an interested visitor feel free to look around. Perhaps after viewing the CAWA site you may wish to join the CAWA. By becoming a member you are then eligible to participate in ratified tournaments and obtain an official rating.

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2017 WA CLOSED & RESERVES CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS - ROUND 5 (26/06/17)

Round 5 Results

Closed
Igor Butsenko           1–0     Andrew Hardegen 
Robert Maris            0–1     Nedeljko Tomic
Yita Choong             ½-½     Tim Hare

Games played early
Tim Hare                ½-½     Ihsan Ferozkohi  (Round 6)

Reserves
Craig  Kinsman          1–0     James Rutherford
Lennard Mechlowski      0–1     Gordon Dunlop
David Barry             0–1     Robin Shaw
Brian Gale              0–1     Alex Janceski	
Fred Maris              0–1     Natalie Maris
Victor Markou          1f–0f    Sebastian Vearncombe
Lindsay Bordas          BYE

Please click on the links below to obtain results, pairings, round draws & PGN's:

2017 WA Closed Chess Championship Pairings	2017 WA Reserves Chess Championship Draw
2017 WA Closed Chess Championship PGN's	2017 WA Reserves Chess Championship PGN's

2017 SOUTH WEST OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP (21/06/17)

The 2017 South West Open Chess Championship was played in Boyup Brook on the 17th & 18th of June.

Congratulations to the winner: Andrew Hardegen

Full results can be found in the the Calendar of Events or the Recent Results section.

2017 HARRIS EDWARDES COMPETITION (12/06/17)

The 2017 Harris Edwardes Competition will be held at North Woodvale Primary School on Sun 30th July & Sun 6th August.

Please click on the link below to obtain the format of this years event:

2017 Harris Edwardes Competition

For further information, please contact the organiser: Gordon Dunlop Ph: 9368 6412 Mob: 0409 812129

2017 WA CLOSED & RESERVES CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS - ROUND 4 (12/06/17)

Round 4 Results

Closed
Tim Hare                ½-½     Igor Butsenko
Andrew Hardegen         1–0     Nedeljko Tomic
Derwent Maggs           1–0     Yita Choong
Ihsan Ferozkohi         1–0     Robert Maris

Catch-up games played
Robert Maris            1-0     Tim Hare         (Round 1)
Yita Choong             1-0     Ihsan Ferozkohi  (Round 3)

Reserves
Alex Janceski           0-1     Craig Kinsman
Robin Shaw              0–1     James Rutherford
Lennard Mechlowski      1–0     Fred Maris
Gordon Dunlop           1–0     Lindsay Bordas
Sebastian Vearncombe    0–1     David Barry
Brian Gale              1–0     Victor Markou
Natalie Maris           BYE

2017 JUNE CAWA NEWSLETTER (10/06/17)

The June Edition of the CAWA Newsletter is now available.

Please enjoy!!!!

For those wishing to contribute anything to the next edition please send your submission to the Newsletter Editor: Mike McGregor by the 31st of July 2017.

2017 WA CLOSED & RESERVES CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS - ROUND 3 (07/06/17)

Round 3 Results

Closed
Robert Maris            0–1     Andrew Hardegen
Nedeljko Tomic          0–1     Tim Hare
Igor Butsenko           1-0     Derwent Maggs 

Games played early
Ihsan Ferozkohi         0-1     Derwent Maggs    (Round 5)
Andrew Hardegen         ½-½     Yita Choong      (Round 6)
Ihsan Ferozkohi         0-1     Andrew Hardegen  (Round 7)


Reserves
Craig Kinsman           1-0     Robin Shaw 
James Rutherford        ½-½     Alex Janceski 
David Barry             ½-½     Gordon Dunlop 
Lindsay Bordas          ½-½     Lennard Mechlowski 
Fred Maris              1-0     Sebastian Vearncombe 
Natalie Maris           ½-½     Brian Gale 
Victor Markou           BYE

2017 WA CLOSED & RESERVES CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS - ROUND 2 (29/05/17)

Round 2 Results

Closed
Tim Hare                1–0     Andrew Hardegen
Yita Choong             1–0     Robert Maris
Ihsan Ferozkohi         ½-½     Igor Butsenko
Derwent Maggs           1–0     Nedeljko Tomic

Reserves
Lennard Mechlowski      0-1     Craig Kinsman 
Sebastian Vearncombe    0-1     Robin Shaw
Gordon Dunlop           ½-½     James Rutherford 
Alex Janceski           1-0     Natalie Maris 
Brian Gale              ½-½     Fred Maris 
Victor Markou           0-1     David Barry 
Lindsay Bordas          BYE

2017 WA CLOSED & RESERVES CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS (23/05/17)

The 2017 WA Closed & Reserves Chess Championships have now commenced.

Round 1 Results

Closed
Nedeljko Tomic          0-1     Ihsan Ferozkohi 
Igor Butsenko           ½-½     Yita Choong
Andrew Hardegen         0-1     Derwent Maggs

Reserves
Natalie Maris           ½-½     Gordon Dunlop
Craig Kinsman           1-0     Brian Gale
Fred Maris              ½-½     Alex Janceski
Robin Shaw              1-0     Victor Markou
David Barry             0-1     Lennard Mechlowski
James Rutherford        1-0     Lindsay Bordas
Sebastian Vearncombe    BYE

2017 STATE LIGHTNING CHAMPIONSHIP (26/04/17)

The 2017 State Lightning Championship was held at Leeming Primary School on the 23rd of April.

Congratulations to the winner: Tristan Boyd.

Full results and a nice report provided by Andrew Hardegen can be found in the Calendar of Events or the Recent Results section.

2017 GUFELD CUP (19/04/17)

The 2017Gufeld Cup was held at Leeming Primary School on the 15th & 16th of April.

Congratulations to the joint winners: Gordon Dunlop, Andrew Hardegen & Ignatius Yap

Full results can be found in the the Calendar of Events or the Recent Results section.

2017 SECONDARY STUDENTS' CHAMPIONSHIP (16/04/17)

The 2017 Secondary Students' Championship was held at Leeming Primary School on the 11th & 12th of April.

Please click on the link below to view a nice report kindly provided by George Carolin-Unkovich.

2017 Secondary Students' Championship

2017 PRIMARY STUDENTS' CHAMPIONSHIP (10/04/17)

The 2017 Primary Students' Championship was held at Leeming Primary School on the 9th of April.

Please click on the link below to view a nice report kindly provided by Yita Choong.

2017 Primary Students' Championship

2017 FIDE LAWS Of CHESS (09/04/17)

There is an updated version of the FIDE Laws of Chess, which will take effect from 1st July 2017. The soon-to-be new rules can be viewed here: http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=207&view=article

The current rules will continue to apply for the full duration of any tournaments starting prior to 1st July 2017 that continue.

2017 STATE ALLEGRO CHAMPIONSHIP (27/03/17)

The 2017 State Allegro Championship was held at Leeming Primary School on the 19th of March.

Congratulations to the winner: Tristan Boyd

Full results can be found in the the Calendar of Events or the Recent Results section.

2017 PERTH OPEN (22/02/17)

The 1st Weekender for 2017 - the 2017 Perth Open was held at Leeming Primary School on the 18th and 19th of February.

Congratulations to the joint winners: Ihsan Ferozkohi & Andrew Hardegen

Full results can be found in the the Calendar of Events or the Recent Results section.

2017 OCEANIA ZONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS _ WA PLAYER RESULTS (25/01/17)

The 2017 Oceania Zonal Chess Championships was played in Auckland, NZ from the 14th-20th of January. The Oceania Zonal is open to all players from the different Oceania federations, with the winners of each tournament (Open & Women's) qualifying for places at the next respective World Cup knockout events. Zonal tournaments also give players opportunities to earn direct FIDE titles and title norms.

WA was represented by Yita Choong and FM Patrick Gong in the Open event, and by Kathryn Hardegen in the Women's event.

The Open Championship was won by 15-year-old Australian IM Anton Smirnov (7.5/9). Yita Choong finished =5th with 6.5/9, and in doing so, earned his FM title with a round to spare. Patrick Gong finished =12th with 6.0/9 -- this score would have earned Patrick an FM title, had he not already recently received the title as a result of his performance in the Australian Young Masters in December 2016.

The Women's Championship was won by another 15-year-old: New Zealand's WFM Layla Timergazi (7.5/9). Kathryn Hardegen finished =2nd with 6.5/9 (+5, =3, -1) and was the only player to defeat Timergazi. Kathryn will receive the WFM title and a 9-game WIM norm.

Congratulations to all of the above players.

In the past 2 months, 3 WA players have met the requirements for FIDE titles, and I hope that this is part of an increasing trend. Prior to these 3 players, the most recent WA player to earn a FIDE title was Tristan Boyd in 2009.

Full results (and a few games) can be viewed here (Open and Women's):

http://www.newzealandchessco.nz/Vega2017/wwwOceaniaZonalOpen/crosstablescore.html

http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/Vega2017/wwwOceaniaZonalWomens/crosstablescore.html

The event's Facebook page has plenty of nice photos:

https://www.facebook.com/oceaniazonals2017

Report kindly provided by Andrew Hardegen.

2017 AUSTRALIAN OPEN & AUSTRALIAN JUNIORS (25/01/17)

The 2017 Australian Chess Open was played at Anglican Church Grammar School, Oaklands Parade, East Brisbane QLD from the 2nd to 12th of January.

First place was shared by Temur Kuybokarov, Max Illingworth, Kanan Izzat and Liu Yi all on 8.5/11.

WA's best players all performed well with Tristan Boyd and Patrick Gong coming =13th on 7 and Yita Choong =29th on 6 (103 competitors).

Full results can be found at: 2017 Australian Chess Open

The 2017 Australian Junior Chess Championships was also played at Anglican Church Grammar School, Oaklands Parade, East Brisbane QLD. from the 14th to 22nd of January.

Congratulations to the 2017 Australian Junior Champions: Ray Yang (VIC) and Yifan Eva Wang (VIC)

Results for WA players:

U/16 Open - Ignatius Yap - 5.5/9 (=6th), U/14 Open - Ramudu Rathnayake - 5.5/9 (=6th), U/10 Open - Alex Pimenov - 5.5/9 (=14th) & Ethan Richards - 5/9 (=24th), U/8 Open - Jamie Richards - 3/9 (=29th)

Full results can be found at: 2017 Australian Junior Chess Championships

CAFE CHESS (10/01/12)

If you are interested in casual chess, you can play at Cafe Di Mondo in Midland from 10am till 12 noon on Sundays. Cafe Di Mondo is situated in the centre of the Midland Farmers Markets. It has been going for about 6 months now and has a great friendly atmosphere. It's free and with some nice wooden chess sets available for people to use.

Cafe chess is great fun and quite popular in other places around the world. It would be great to see it take off in Perth.

For more information please check out the Crobs Coffee & Chess flyer.

2017 WA Closed & Reserves Chess Championships - Round 5

2017 South West Open Chess Championship

2017 Harris Edwardes Competition

2017 WA Closed & Reserves Chess Championships - Round 4

2017 June CAWA Newsletter

2017 WA Closed & Reserves Chess Championships - Round 3

2017 WA Closed & Reserves Chess Championships - Round 2

2017 WA Closed & Reserves Chess Championships

2017 State Lightning Championship

2017 Gufeld Cup

2017 Secondary Students' Championship

2017 Primary Students' Championship

2017 FIDE Laws of Chess

2017 State Allegro Championship

2017 Perth Open

2017 Oceania Zonal Championships - WA Player Results

2017 Australian Open & Australian Juniors

Cafe Chess

15/16 Jul
2017 WA School Chess League Finals

30 Jul
2017 Harris Edwardes Competition

06 Aug
2017 Harris Edwardes Competition

19/20 Aug
2017 Willetton Open

27 Aug
2017 WA Junior Allegro Championship

Recent Results

Previous tournament results can be found in Archives Section under the Past Tournaments heading.

2017 South West Open

2017 State Lightning Championship

2017 Gufeld Cup

2017 Secondary Students' Championship

2017 Primary Students' Championship

2017 WA Allegro Championship

2017 Perth Open

2017 Australian Chess Open

2017 Australian Junior Chess Championships

2016 Christmas Lightning

2016 Christmas Open

2016 ASTC