Students learn chess is not for squares16/09/2008 4:00:00 AM STUDENTS were given the chance to build their mental muscles during the national Chess Kids championship yesterday. More than 200 primary school students in the Mount Alexander and Goldfields region...
3rd Mt. Alexander Cluster Chess Tournament
This was recently posted by our friends from Australia 3rd Mt. Alexander Cluster Chess Tournament Schools chess is ‘big’ in Castlemaine. And when they built the Old Castlemaine Gaol 150-odd years ago, nobody thought one day it would be...
Girls only!
Check it out! No boysDanielle Crowe13 Aug 08 GIRLS at Doncaster Gardens Primary School are kings of the castles and rooks and pawns. The school hosted the first girls-only division of the Chess Kids National Interschool Championships. Young champions...
Australia announces Olympiad teams
Australia announces Dresden 2008 Chess Olympiad teamsGM Zong-Yuan Zhao and IM Irina Berezina lead the teamsReport by http://www.chessdom.com/ Official Olympiad website: http://www.dresden2008.org/ This week the Australian chess federation has announced the Dresden 2008 Chess Olympiad team. After the multiple...
Chess and Education in Australia
Our friends from Australia just brought us this wonderful news about chess and education over there: Students at Maryborough Education Centre, in the Goldfields Region of Central Victoria (Australia), are fast becoming proficient chess players. Harry Poulton from Castlemaine...
Akobian clear first in Australia
2008 O2C Doeberl Cup (Canberra, Australia) Final Standings: 1. GM Akobian (USA, 2599) 7.5 points in 9 games 2-8. GM Zhang Zhong (CHN, 2617), GM Ganguly (IND, 2579), GM Jones (ENG, 2562), GM Gagunashvili (GEO, 2553), GM Antic (YUG,...
Flashback
The Polgar clan in Sydney – Australia is one of my favorite countries to visit Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
The Ten Tenors
I just saw The Ten Tenors tonight. They’re kind of a Rock Opera group and they’re really good. In addition to some well known Operas, they also did various stuff from Queen, the Bee Gees, Simon & Garfunkel, etc....
Australia’s newest part time Grandmaster
At 21, he’s our new chess grandmaster blaster Dylan WelchJanuary 31, 2008 – 2:45PM A 21-year-old Sydney pharmacy student has become the nation’s third chess grandmaster, and he’s done it in record time and at a record age. Part-time...
All aboard the Chess Bus
All Aboard In CastlemaineThe Castlemaine Chess In Schools Project- Chess-Squared- has formed a partnership with The Golden Hope Foundation- a local youth foundation promoting mental health. The Golden Hope Foundation has recently purchased four 1970’s double decker buses to...