No. 648
11 October 2025
Editorial
by Miles Patterson
Welcome to the October 2025 ACF Newsletter. Thanks for all the contributions for this issue. Please note the ACF request for nominations for the 2025 awards and medals, and the deadlines, especially for the Koshnitsky medal nomination. More tournament reports, especially with photos, are always welcome.
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ACF Notices
ACF MEDALS & AWARDS - NOMINATIONS INVITED
Australian Players-of-the-Year 2025
Nominations are invited for potential winners of the following medals, to be awarded to Australian players who have made the greatest impact during 2025. Recipients are offered financial assistance to participate in significant forthcoming national or international events.
Steiner Medal and Steiner-Holt Award – Australian Player of the Year 2025
This medal is to be awarded to the Australian player who has made the greatest impact, not necessarily the highest-rated – it is for the most notable achievement during 2025. There is no limit to the number of times the Steiner or the Viner medal may be won by the same player.
Viner Medal & Award – Australian Senior Player of the Year 2025
On the same basis as the Steiner Medal, the Viner Medal is limited to nominees born in or before 1975.
Arlauskas Medal & Romanas Arlauskas Award – Australian Under-16 Player of the Year 2025
The Arlauskas Medal, also awarded on the same basis as the Steiner Medal, is limited to nominees born in or after 2009. The Arlauskas Medal and Romanas Arlauskas Award may not be won by the same person more than twice.
Previous recipients are listed at https://auschess.org.au/honour-boards/
Koshnitsky Medal
Nominations are also invited for the Koshnitsky medal, awarded annually for outstanding contributions to Australian chess administration at a national or a state level. The medal is a lifetime achievement award, not limited to accomplishments or services during a particular period and not awarded more than once to the same person. Links to lists of previous recipients may be seen at: https://auschess.org.au/honour-boards/
Nominations
Nominations need not be from among a State's own members or residents. A separate document or message containing the following should be provided in respect of each nominee:
• name in full (correctly spelt); • contact details (phone, email, postal address);
• a citation describing relevant achievements, suitable for reading when the medal is presented or published thereafter;
• anything else relevant to the nomination.
Please address email nominations to awards@auschess.org.au
Deadlines
Koshnitsky medal nominations – Saturday 1 November 2025.
Player-of-the-Year 2025 medals & awards – Monday 5 January 2026.
Nominators must retain copies of documents submitted and phone 0409 525 963 or (03) 9787 7974 if not acknowledged 24 hours after expected delivery time.
COMING INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
Please address registrations of interest and other inquiries concerning forthcoming events to selections_director@auschess.org.au and phone 0499 996 559 or 0409 525 963 if not acknowledged within 48 hours. Copies of inquiries relating to events limited to Junior, Youth, Cadet or other under-age categories must also be sent to juniors_coordinator@auschess.org.au
To enable time for local selection procedures and related purposes, ACF application deadlines can be significantly earlier than deadlines indicated in organisers’ published regulations.
AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVE INTERNATIONAL JUNIORS CHESS TOURNAMENTS
Any inquiries can be sent to ACF Juniors Coordinator, Mr Hui Lam Teh tehhuilam@gmail.com, with cc to ACF Selections Director Tom Saltmarsh selections_director@auschess.org.au.
2026 AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Dates: 5th to 15th of January. Venue: The University of Sydney (On-site accommodation available. More details here
FIDE RATING SUBMISSIONS
Note that events for FIDE ratings that are completed in the last seven days of the month need to be submitted to ACF FIDE Ratings Officer Bill Gletsos for ratings immediately so that any issues with them can be resolved in time for events to be rated in that month. Also note that intended changes of names or dates of FIDE-rated events need to be notified immediately as they may affect the event's rating status. Note also that all FIDE rated events must be submitted for ACF ratings – no exceptions.
FIDE RATED EVENT REGISTRATION
Australian tournaments to be FIDE rated must be advised to the ACF FIDE Ratings Officer at least 40 days prior to the start of the tournament for tournaments where norms are available and at least 7 days prior to the start of the tournament for all other tournaments. Where these conditions are not met, the decision whether to register it or not is solely at the discretion of the ACF FIDE Ratings Officer.
FIDE ID NUMBER REGISTRATION
FIDE has issued a warning that they will not accept tournaments for FIDE rating where those tournaments contain players who do not have FIDE ID numbers. Although new Australian players can be registered by the ACF FIDE Ratings Officer, this does not apply to new players from overseas. Therefore, organisers should not immediately accept the entries of overseas players who lack FIDE ID numbers to FIDE rated tournaments; instead, those players should be required to first obtain a FIDE ID from their own national federation.
Tournaments submitted that include foreign players who do not have ID numbers end up not being FIDE rated. Organisers need to confirm prior to the start of the tournament that all players without a FIDE ID number are either Australian citizens or have a permanent residency visa.
Players without ID numbers should only be submitted as Australian if they are citizens or are a permanent residency visa holder; if a player is registered under the wrong country, they may incur transfer costs later. For further information/clarification contact the ACF FIDE Ratings Officer Bill Gletsos via fide_ratings@auschess.org.au.
ACF FUNDING SUPPORT PROGRAM
The application deadline for activities commencing between 1 March 2026 and 30 August 2026 is 31 December 2025. Application forms and related information are available on request to executive@auschess.org.au.
News from the States / Territories
Australian Capital Territory
Australian Capital Territory Chess Association (ACTCA)
Recent Events
2025 ACT Junior Chess Championship
By Shaun Press (chessexpress)
Congratulations to Sanat Hegde for winning the 2025 ACT Junior Chess Championship. He scored an amazing 8.5/9, with ACT Girls Junior Champion Sahasra Selva the only player to take a half point off him. Amazingly, Hegde was eligible for the Under 8 section (having turned 8 this year). He won the ACT Under 10 Championship the previous weekend (it was a combined Under 8/10 event), but curiously, was runner up in the Under 12 Championship. Masaki Horikawa finished 2nd in the championship (winning the Under 16 title), with Nivin Vinothkumar 3rd and Owen MacMullin 4th.
Upcoming Events
2025 Vikings Weekender
21-23 November at Erindale. Details to come.
2026 Australian Junior Chess Championships
17-25 January, St Edmund's College, Canberra. More information here
Street Chess
Every Saturday. From 10.45 to 2.30. King O’Malley’s in Civic.
More information here and results/photos here
New South Wales
New South Wales Chess Association Inc (NSWCA)
Recent Events
2025 NSWCA October Weekender
1st Bayasgalan Khishigbaatar, 2nd Igor Bjelobrk, =3rd & 1st U2000 Arthur Huynh, Michael Kethro and Saisiddhart Naraharasetty.
Under 2000 – 1800: =2nd Huang,Yuan, Taifeng (Matt) Lyu, John Stuart Plant, Ted Power, Jean Rusakov and Rudra Verma.
Under 1800 – 1600: =1st Rupert Coy, Oladoyin Fasakin, Olamide Fasakin, Toby Huey, Leo Kuncoro, Aidan Malcolm and Anup Kumar Siva Sankaran.
Under 1600- 1400: =1st Callan Arav, Jonathan Si Seng Ong, Matthew Ottley, Joey Su, Alexander Thuaux.
Under 1400: =1st Ariye Daniel, Karunya Gorantla, Joshua Steinthal, Krishnan Suresh, Isaac (Yijun) Wang, Leo Xie, Lucas Yik and Clara Zhou.
NSW Seniors Championship
1st IM Gary Lane 5.5/6, 2nd= FM Angelito Camer, CM Ian Parsonage, Jose Escribano, 4.5, 30 players
Upcoming Events
2025 Gosford Open Weekender
25-26 October at Parkview Room, Central Coast Leagues Club, Gosford NSW 2250
2025 NSW Blitz Championship
23 November, Burwood.
2026 Australian Chess Championships
5 - 15 January 2026, Belinda Hutchinson Building of the University of Sydney's Business School. More information here
2026 Sydney International Open
Dates: Wednesday 8th April to Sunday 12th April 2026
Venue: Conference Rooms 5 & 6 at Novotel West HQ
Northern Territory
Northern Territory Chess Association
Queensland
Chess Association of Queensland
Recent Events
2025 Leo Wilkinson Memorial
=1st (5.5/6) - IM Brodie McClymont, Ruilin Qi
=3rd (5/6) - CM Joel Leong, David Pando
Rating Group A: 1st (4.5/6) - Calen Tang
Rating Group B: =1st (4/6) - Andrew Van Der Meer, Yuwei Wang
Rating Group C: 1st (4/6) - Louis Yang, Rating Group D: 1st (3.5/6) - Shane Stanton
Rating Group E: 1st (3.5/6) - Chris Cong, Rating Group F: 1st (3/6) - Noah Zi
Best Unrated: 1st (2.5/6), Best Female: 1st (4/6) - Abigail Rowe
Best Senior 65+: 1st (4/6) - Mark C Stokes
Upcoming Events
The Bundaberg Classic
November 1 - 2, Middle School, St Luke’s Anglican School, Mezger Street, Kalkie, Bundaberg. More details here
2025 Christmas Special
13-14 December, Grace Lutheran College, Buchanan St, Rothwell. Enquiries: Text / phone / email Gail YOUNG on 0411 704 815 / qwclqwcl@gmail.com
Oceania Junior and Youth Championship 2025
13-17 December, Brisbane. More details here
South Australia
South Australian Chess Association Inc (SACA)
Recent Events
City of Adelaide 2025
1st Place: CM Tarush Jindal, =2nd Place: Ethan Retnaraja, James Boyd-Norman, Ayman Almutawa
Best U1600: Gabriel Harding, Best U1350: Raghavendran Kasinathan
Upcoming Events
October 14 Pennant Teams Competition 2025
October 16 October Blitz #1 2025
October 21 Pennant Teams Competition 2025
October 23 October Allegro #2 2025
National Arbiter Seminar
Adelaide, 1-2 November 2025
Attend arbiter training and become a chess arbiter.
Learn the rules of chess.
Help out at your local club.
Run or help at tournaments.
Get an ACF & FIDE recognised certification.
Tasmania
Tasmanian Chess Association Inc (TCA)
Recent Events
2025 Tasmanian Junior Classical Chess Championships
Under 18 Open: 1st Himash Keerthiratne 5.5/7, 2nd Dan 5.5, 3rd Alex 4.5
Under 16 Open: 1st Esteban Prieto 5/7, 2nd Eric Foster 5, 3rd Yusuf Khodjaev
Under 14 Open: 1st Jethro Sih 4.5/7 2nd Luca 4.5 3rd Amartya 4.5
Under 12 Open: 1st Le Nguyen 5.5/7 2nd Karl Lee 5.5 3rd Vivaan Gupta-Devdia 5.5
Under 10 Open: 1st Bevin Jayathilake 6.5/7 2nd Dylan Zhang 5, 3rd Zachary Wright 4.5
Under 8 Open: 1st Nikita Yemstov 6/7, 2nd Sebastian Thiessen 4.5, 3rd Jamie Li & Max Htay 3.5
Under 16 Girls: 1st Jessica Hu 3.5/7. Under 14 Girls: 1st Adeline Roberts 2/7
Under 12 Girls: 1st Mary Khodjaeva 4.5/7, 2nd Clara Elson 3, 3rd Dara Dang 2
Under 10 Girls: 1st Zoe Meredith 5/7, 2nd Zoe Leuhr 4, 3rd Matilda Crawford 2
Under 8 Girls: 1st Louise Nguyen 4/7
Upcoming Events
Huon Chess Festival
6-9 November 2025, Scout and Guide Hall, 8 Heron Street, Huonville, TAS
Victoria
Recent Events
2025 Victorian Women’s Championship
1st Vidushi Dissanayake 2025 5.5/6 Victorian Women’s Champion, 2nd Deethya Sai Katakam 5, 3rd Chloe Wang 4.5, 30 players
Age Group Prizes:
U20 VWCC Champion - Vidushi Dissanayake, U18 VWCC Champion - Deethya Sai Katakam, U12 VWCC Champion - Chloe Wang, U10 VWCC Champion - Aadhya Sai Katakam, U8 VWCC Champion - Mishleen Kaur (winner by playoff)
Upcoming Events
Melbourne Great Ocean Lions Club Youth Charity Chess Tournament 2025
Venue: The Herzl Club (222 Balaclava Road, Caulfield North VIC 3161)
When: Sunday, 19th October at 12:30pm. All rounds will start at 12:30 pm
Format: 7 round one day Swiss, you play all rounds. More details here
2025 Geelong Open
Date: 15th to 16th November 2025, St Joseph’s College, Geelong, 135 Aphrasia St, Newtown VIC 3220.
Format: 5 Round Swiss (no tiebreaks). More details here
2025 Victorian Championship for Players with Disabilities
Venue: Dandenong Chess Club (Men’s Shed Endeavour Hills)
Dates 6th and 7th of December. More details here
2025 Australasian Masters
Looking for potential players. Once again we are organising our traditional Australasian Masters IM Norm round robin tournament in Melbourne. 12th to 20th December at Melbourne Chess Club. Webpage with more details here. If you are interested in taking part please let the organiser, Leonid Sandler, know via email leonidsandlerchess@gmail.com
2025 Victorian Blitz Championship
21st December at Melbourne Chess Club. After the Australasian Masters! 2026 Melbourne International Open April 14 to 19, 2026 at Melbourne Chess Club. The 2026 MIO consists of a 9-round classic, a 9 round rapid, and a 9-round blitz tournament. The classic is broken into two divisions with the Masters division being a norm event. More details here
Western Australia
Chess Association of Western Australia Inc (CAWA)
Recent Events
2025 Perth International Open
1st: Zhi Zhang (China) (6.5/7). 2nd: FM Rui Gen Teh (6.0/7). =3rd: Andras Szijarto (Hungary), Hui Huang (5.0/7). =5th: CM Ashvin Balavignan, Zhong Kai Tan (Singapore), =5th and 1st U1800 (FIDE): Austin Hamilton (QLD) Issa Majidi (4.5/7). =1st Senior (50+): CM Tony Davis (VIC,) Alan Tankel (NSW), David Ellis (4.0/7) =2nd U1800 (FIDE): Jacob Bumbak, Yuqi (Ricky) Huang (4.0/7). 1st Female: Kobe Wu (3.5/7). 38 players
2025 Perth Minor
=1st: Roland Brockman (VIC), Yi Zhe Lim (Malaysia), Wallace Sheridan (5.5/7). =1st U1200 (ACF): Dhruv Sanjay, Samyar Kazemian, Gia Bao Ho (4.5/7). =1st Unrated: Joshua Bartlett, Nikhil Vijay Rodrigues (India) (4/7). Honourable Mentions: Wa Ching David Chu (Singapore), Lyndon While, Florentyna Rithauddin (5.0/7)
Upcoming Events
2025 Kingsley Open
18th & 19th of October 2025 at North Woodvale Primary School. More details here
New Zealand
New Zealand Chess News (newzealandchess.nz)
Recent Events
6-7, 13-14 September Auckland Double Weekends September 2025
1st: FM Alphaeus Ang
24-27 September South Island Championships 2025
1st: CM Isabelle Yixuan Ning 6th equal: CM Edward Rains (South Island Champion)
27 September I Love Chess Rapid September 2025
1st: Eric Chen
28 September South Island Rapid 2025
1st equal: CM John Stark (South Island Rapid Champion) 1st equal: Richard Jingjie Liu
Upcoming Events
10-12 October NZ Women’s Championship 2025
25-27 October Merv Morrison Memorial 2025
25-27 October Capital Chess Classic 2025
2 November Summit Rapid Championship 2025
7-9 November NZ Senior Championship 2025
16 November I Love Chess Rapid November 2025
22 November NZ Fischer-Random Championship 2025
2-11 January ACC Chess Festival 2026
2-12 January NZ Chess Congress 2026
15-21 January Bob Wade Masters 2026
24-26 January Auckland Anniversary Weekender 2026
6-8 February Auckland Waitangi Weekender 2026
28 February 20th Bay of Plenty Rapid 2026
International News
Chess in Papua New Guinea
By Shaun Press
After 48 years away (no, really) I went back to Port Moresby (albeit for a short visit). Catching up with the chess organisers in Port Moresby was great fun, and important, and I’m pleased to say, things are on the move.
The first day, I was invited to play some games at Chess In Da Hood which is an outdoor chess meetup in Gerehu. A couple of tables were set up under a very bright streetlight, and around 12 players turned up to play. The quality of chess was quite good (around 1600 or about the halfway seeding at Canberra Street Chess) and I spent most of my games fighting off attacks from gambit openings. I faced King’s Gambits, Albin Counter Gambits, Scotch Gambits and even in the more solid openings (Ruy Lopez and Quiet Italians) I still had to deal with some early h4 attacks. Tactically my opponents were pretty sharp, but I was able to survive due to better king safety and having more sound positions.
PNG Street Chess
Next day, I gave an Arbiters/Organisers seminar, with about 30 attendees. On the Sunday, with the assistance of PNGCF President Tom McCoy, I ran a small rapid play event in Port Moresby. Despite the very short notice (24 hours) a good field of 24 players turned up to play. The venue was the South Pacific Motor Sports Club, which provided excellent facilities for the event. As most players did not have ratings it was seeded based on volunteered chess.com ratings. As it turned out the estimates were pretty good, based on the finishing positions.
It was a seven-round event, with a time limit of G/10m. The winner was Victor Ahulo who finished on 6/7. In 2nd was Adrian Chamilou on 5.5, with Jireh Mileng, Liberty Joku and Nickson Lahui tied for 3rd on 5. Adrian was the best placed junior, while Liberty was the best female player.
The quality of chess was quite good. I played a casual game against one of the local juniors, who had arrived too late for the event, and was lucky to escape with a draw.
2025 PNG Car Club Classic
All in all, this is quite promising for upcoming events. There are a couple of goals for PNG chess in 2026. A revamped national championship is on the cards, and hopefully a 2026 PNG Open will be organised around August/September. The PNGCF plan to send players to the Oceania Youth Championship in Brisbane later this year, while potential teams for the 2026 Chess Olympiad are taking shape. With the large number of female players taking part in events, PNG should be able to enter a female team for the first time.
Upcoming Events
6th ASEAN+ Individual Chess Championships 2025, 2-10 November, Misamis Occidental, Philippines. Details here Commonwealth Chess Championship 2025, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 8-17 November. More details here Hong Kong International Open 2025, 23-29 December
Check details via the FIDE Chess Calendar
Study of the Month
White to play and win
Solution at the end of the newsletter.
Book Review
By IM Gary Lane
The How to Study Chess on Your Own Workbook, Volume 3
Exercises and Training for Ambitious Chess Players by Davorin Kuliasevic, published by New In Chess, 232 pages.
A training course devised with the ability of a 2100 player who wants to be even better.
This might be volume 3 in a series of How To Study Chess on Your Own, but you don’t have to read the other titles because they are aimed at different levels of ratings such as beginners and club players.
The Croatian author in his latest work is aiming for high level studies to test and tease his audience. The plan is to target typical weaknesses at that level which he pinpoints as “short-sighted plans, not proficient with pawn structures and their transformations, simplifying positions to their detriment, not using prophylactic thinking enough..” If that sounds familiar then you don’t even need to be rated 2100 to enjoy and value the insights on how to be good.
The chapter headings such as ‘Typical Mistakes of Ambitious Tournament Players’ and ‘Visualization Bootcamp’ give a hint that this is next level analysis rather than a series of checkmate in two puzzles.
Kulijasevic likes to show a training position full of possibilities and then deeply annotate them with calculations, but also plenty of observations. The latter is important because plenty of prose to explain the right plan of attack and defence is interesting. I found the middlegame training chapter particularly illuminating with the chat about ‘Find a Mini-plan (FMP) a useful way of negotiating tricky positions which require immediate action.
There are various exercises dotted around the chapters to keep the reader entertained. The difference is that instead of a short solution featuring a couple of moves, it is replaced by a chess investigation on how to understand the position in order to flag which plan to adopt.
A masterclass on how to improve your chess.
Looking Back
The Original & the Repro ACF Chessmen
By Bob Meadley
When the original WW2 Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) chessmen went out to the troops in 1943 the “Made in Australia” brand was low key but now we look for it on all antiques.
The patent-holder and designer, the late Karl Bittman (The Transponder Company) was driven out of Austria by the Anschluss in 1938 and had copied from a German set made by the sculptor Ludwig Zacherl. If the set has a claim to fame it is with the Knights that have a merged neck and body very rare in the design of this piece (see below). The others are fairly standard with a King 5.5cm in height.
C.J.S. Purdy bought the remnants from the army in 1946 (in wooden boxes) and sold them to youngsters and families at 85c/set. The sturdy cardboard box is 16.5 cm long, 6 cm high and 10.2cm wide with 2 compartments for the white and black men. The Kings do not have the “ACF” initials under their bases as shown on the ACF website but the sets given to the troops had those initials on them. Either way the design is the same and it may be postwar the sets were sold without initials. There are 3 sets known, one in New Zealand (No ACF under the bases), another in Melbourne (with ACF under the bases and a box initialed ACF.) and mine (missing 2 BP’s) in Narromine which was bought for $102.50 last week. (See left scan)
I bought the Repro set from Chess Bazaar India a few months earlier for $330 and the scans show the large size of the men (WK 9 cm) with the Knight keeping the merged neck & body form. They are well finished in 2 woods: Sheesham (dark) & Boxwood (white). They came very well packed in foam and a box was made to hold them in standing position. They have ACF under the Kings only and are classy pieces for the modern market.
The box below has the words “Modern Chessmen” on the top of the cover but very badly faded.
This set is an original 1943/5 set sent to the troops. It was in Melbourne.
WW2 ACF Knight on the left (4cm high). Bazaar Knight on the right (6.2 cm high).
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For details and links of NSW chess clubs, see: NSW Chess Association (nswca.org.au) chess clubs
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ACF COUNCIL
State Association Delegates
NSWCA Delegate: Richard Gastineau-Hills nswcouncillor@auschess.org.au
CV Delegate: Walter Wolffs walterwolffs.ca@gmail.com
CAQ Delegate: Michael D’Arcy michaeldarc@gmail.com.au
SACA Delegate: Misheck Muza sacouncillor@auschess.org.au
TCA Delegate: Tom Saltmarsh tascouncillor@auschess.org.au
ACTCA Delegate: Cam Cunningham actcouncillor@auschess.org.au
CAWA Delegate: Tim Hare wacounsellor@auschess.org.au
NTCA Delegate: Chris Depasquale agechess@ozemail.com.au
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President: Gary Wastell president@auschess.org.au
Deputy President: Bill Gletsos deputy president@auschess.org.au
Vice-President: Kevin Bonham vice president1@auschess.org.au
Vice-President: Andrew Hardegen vice president2@auschess.org.au
Secretary: Rob Watson secretary@auschess.org.au
Treasurer: Bob Keast treasurer@auschess.org.au
COUNCIL-APPOINTED PERSONNEL
Arbiter Training Director: Peter Tsai chess@t-s-a-i.com
Archives Director: Mahesh Kulkarni sellaus14@gmail.com
Assistant Secretary: Mahesh Kulkarni sellaus14@gmail.com
Assistant Treasurer: Bill Gletsos asst treasurer@auschess.org.au
Auditor: Ross Hamilton auditor@auschess.org.au
Equipment Coordinator: Bob Keast equipment officer@auschess.org.au
FIDE Delegate & Admin Officer: Dr. Kevin Bonham fide delegate@auschess.org.au
FIDE Ratings Officer: Bill Gletsos fide ratings@auschess.org.au
Government Relations Director: Kuanysh Batyrbekov Kuanysh.Batyrbekov@anz.com
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Solution to Study of the Month
White to play and win
Solution:
1 Nd4 Qa1 2 Nb5+ Kb2 3 Nd6 Rd1 4 Nc4+ Kc1 5 e8(N) d5 6 Ned6 dxc4 7 Nxc4 Ra3 8 Ne5 Any 9 Nd3 mate
(Tigran Gorgiev, 1967)
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