Thursday 16 August 2007

Under 16 Olympiad - Silver for Junta

The World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad finished in Singapore last week, with India narrowly finishing first, ahead of Hungary. The Australia 1 team finished a very impressive 5th, with Junta Ikeda picking up a Silver Medal for his performance on Board 2. Games and bulletins can be found on the Singapore CF website, while standings can be found here.
No doubt Junta will be asked (required?) to show off his medal at the next Belconnen High School assembly, as the school is very proud of having 2 Australian representatives in the tournament (Alana Chibnall was the other). Well that's what a friend of mine who teaches at Belconnen High told me.
Here are two games, one each from the Belconnen High School players.

Ikeda,J - Tran Ngoc,L [D45]
World U/16 Olympiad, 08.2007

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Be7 7.g4 Nxg4 8.Rg1 f5 9.h3 Ngf6 10.Rxg7 Ne4 11.Bd2 Ng5 12.Nxg5 Bxg5 13.cxd5 Qf6 14.Rxg5 Qxg5 15.e4 Qf6 16.e5 Nxe5 17.dxe5 Qxe5+ 18.Ne2 Qxd5 19.0-0-0 Qxa2 20.Bc3 Rg8 21.Qd3 Kf7 (D)
22.Qd4 e5 23.Qxe5 Be6 24.Nf4 Qa1+ 25.Kd2 Rad8+ 26.Bd3 Rxd3+ 27.Nxd3 Qa2 28.Qc7+ Ke8 29.Bb4 1-0


Keonhee,K - Chibnall,A [C50]
World U/16 Olympiad, 08.2007

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.0-0 d6 5.h3 Nge7 6.c3 0-0 7.d4 exd4 8.cxd4 Bb6 9.d5 Ne5 10.Nxe5 dxe5 11.Re1 Ng6 12.Nc3 f5 13.exf5 Bxf5 14.Qf3 Bd7 15.Qd3 Bxf2+ 16.Kf1 Bxe1+ 17.Kxe1 Qh4+ 18.Kd1 Nf4 19.Qe4 Nxg2 20.Qxg2 Qxc4 21.Bh6 Qf1+ 22.Qxf1 Rxf1+ 23.Kc2 Bf5+ 24.Kb3 Rxa1 25.Bd2 Bxh3 26.Nb5 c6 27.Nc7 Rc8 28.Ne6 Bxe6 29.dxe6 Re8 30.Be3 a5 0-1

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations to Junta and well done all the other aussie kids who represented Australia so well.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations

Nice games

Anonymous said...

Junta of course has 2 medals to show off - his silver for Board 2 (with an amazingly strong performance) and his 5th place team medal.

I do have a very nice photo of Junta with medals if you want it.

Jenni

Alana Chibnall said...

One question Shaun, WHO is the teacher you know from Belco?