Hi folks,
It’s been a few days. I have been rested due to flu but I trust you have been keeping up with the Australian teams results via the official site. The internet at our Hotel has also been patchy. Well, off for two days, then patchy. So far we have won three matches, lost one and drawn one. Below is my Game from round 4 against [...]
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Round 4 Game
Hi folks,
It’s been a few days. I have been rested due to flu but I trust you have been keeping up with the Australian teams results via the official site. The internet at our Hotel has also been patchy. Well, off for two days, then patchy. So far we have won three matches, lost one and drawn one. Below is my Game from round 4 against [...]
My round one game
Hi everyone,
I had hoped for a more inspiring start to the Olympiad but at least the team beat Namibia 3-1. Our Women did even better, whitewashing Malta 4-0. I posted a story about the opening ceremony on my personal blog ( www.doubleroo.blogspot.com) and if you wish to watch the games live, go to http://www.chessolympiadistanbul.com/livegam [...]
Introducing Lizzy
I teach at Somerville house on Wednesdays and recently we have played some training simultaneous games. After the games we do a post-mortem to see where we could have improved our play. This week we ran out of time for Lizzy’s game.
We left it for last because she played the best game, having a winning position at one point. Would you [...]
Newsletter
Hi everyone!
I am now going to try to add another block to our Doubleroo Chess Academy edifice. The dissemination of information has not been…ahem….perfected yet so.
To begin with we will take the liberty of subscribing you to our Newsletter. You need to confirm that you wish to receive it by clicking once on the link provided. If [...]
Academy Update
Dear Chess-friends,
Monday after school chess.
A group is forming on Monday afternoons and a few students have already signed up. Doors open at 3.30pm, lesson starts at about 4pm or when everybody has arrived. Different chess activities continue until about 6pm.
Sunday advanced group.
Do not be intimidated by the name. This group is concurren [...]
New Challenges, New Ideas
Challenges
If you have tried to call since Tuesday, oops 🙁
We thought nobody loved us but in fact our landline had been disconnected due to a clerical error. It has now been reconnected but now we need to wait for a technician to re-configure our system. Meanwhile I have diverted our number 1300 79 76 75 to my mobile. If that doesn’t wo [...]
Welcome to our website
First I would like to thank all the people who have helped us get our Academy started. Gaurav Chhabra is an amateur chessplayer and an IT expert. He has patiently waited for us to provide content which he expertly and quickly transformed into the website you are now looking at.
David Esmonde, another amateur chessplayer, helped with all the h [...]
Queensland Junior Championship
Emmanuel College hosted the Queensland junior championships this week. Tuesday the under eight’s fought it out. All the results with excellent reports from the Arbiter, Charles Zworestine, are on the Gardiner Chess website
The medalwinners were..
U8
1 Chan, Jason 11/11
2 Durden, Sam 9/11
3 Brut [...]
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