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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
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Congratulations to David Cannon (Vic) and Cassandra Lim (Vic) - 2018 Australian Junior Champion & 2018 Junior Girls' Champion respectively.
Western Australia was represented by many players in this year's Championships (scores below) with Yihe (Rebo) Fu claiming the Under 12 Open title and Brent Geronimo coming 2nd in the Under 14 Open.
WA players results:
U/8 Open: Yonal Devas (4.0/9)
U/10 Open: Harry Geronimo (6.0/9), Oscar Gao (5.5)
U/12 Open: Yihe (Rebo) Fu (8.5/9) - Australian Under 12 Champion, Harry Geronimo (6.0), Alex Pimenov (5.0), Isaac Quadros (1.5), Arivathiththan Aarivuchelvan (1.5)
U/14 Open: Brent Geronimo (7.5/9) - Runner-up Under 14 Open
The Championship was won by Max Illingworth (10.0/11), with Anton Smirnov (9.0) 2nd & Ari Dale (8.5) 3rd.
The Reserves was won by Nguyen Mai Chi Phan (9.0/11) with Willis Lo (8.5) 2nd.
The Classic was won by David Lovejoy (6.5/7) with Daniel Melamed (6.0) 2nd.
The Blitz was won by Brandon Clarke (10.5/11) with Moulthun Ly (9.5) (Australian Blitz Champion) 2nd.
Western Australia was represented by Ihsan Ferozkohi (5.0) & Andrew Hardegen (4.5) in the Championship and Richard Lilly (5.0) in the Reserves. Ihsan also participated in the Blitz Tournament and scored 7.0.
Please click on the link below to obtain the final results from this year's CAWA Grand Prix, which were kindly provided by Grand Prix Organiser - David Ellis.
The 2018 South West Open was to be played on the weekend of 24 & 25 March in Mt Barker but now has been cancelled due to a lack of entrants.
The 2018 Gufeld Cup was to be played on the Easter weekend - 1st & 2nd of April, but owing to unforseen circumstances has had to be postponed. New playing dates and venue for this event will be advertised when they become available.
The 2018 Annual General Meeting of the Chess Association of WA will be held on Wednesday 31st January 2018 at North Woodvale Primary School (Corner of Trappers Drive and Chichester Drive) starting at 7:30 pm.
