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The 2020 Harris Interclub Competition was held at Southern Suburbs Chess Club (Leeming Primary School) on Sundays 13th and 20th September. The competition was very successful with 12 teams competing (57 players in total) -- 3 teams from Southern Suburbs Chess Club, 3 teams from Perth Chess Club, 3 teams from UWA Chess Association, 1 team from Metropolitan Chess Club and 2 teams from Chess Emperor. The 12 team entries constitutes the largest Harris Interclub Competition that I have seen in my 22 years as a chess player in WA. I hope that the competition will continue to grow and attract more teams from all clubs. Division A (Open) Division A (Open) was won by Southern Suburbs Chess Club. Congratulations to the winning team members: FM Tristan Boyd, Tim Hare, WFM Kathryn Hardegen, Andrew Hardegen (captain), and Dominador Andador. With this victory, Southern Suburbs Chess Club becomes the first club to win six successive Harris Interclub Competitions. The final standings are as follows: Southern Suburbs A: 11.0/16, Perth A: 8.5/16, UWA A: 4.5/16 Division B (all players rated below 1900 ACF) Division B was won by Southern Suburbs Chess Club. Congratulations to the winning team members: Ben Dagza, Voon Choon Leong, Oscar Gao, Ian McAteer (captain), Dylan Gough and Whamid Al-Shabib. This ended up being a very closely contested division. Southern Suburbs and Metro conceded a lead to Perth in the opening week, but Southern Suburbs were able to fight back strongly in the second week and secure a narrow victory. The final standings are as follows: Southern Suburbs B: 9.5/16, Perth B: 7.5/16, Metro B: 7.0/16 Division C (all players rated below 1500 ACF) Division C was won by Southern Suburbs Chess Club. Congratulations to the winning team members: Christopher-Jack Andrew (captain), Bekzod Rasulov, Steve Milovanovic, Joel Octaviano, Whamid Al-Shabib and Emily Zhang. The final standings are as follows: 1st: Southern Suburbs C (won playoff 3.5-0.5 against UWA C1), 2nd: UWA C1, 3rd: Chess Emperor C1 (won playoff 3-1 against Perth C), 4th: Perth C, 5th: UWA C2 (won playoff 3-1 against Chess Emperor C2), 6th: Chess Emperor C2 The standings from the preliminary rounds (Rounds 1-3) were as follows: Group 1 Southern Suburbs C: 12.0/12, Chess Emperor C1: 4.0/12, UWA C2: 2.0/12 Group 2 UWA C1: 9.5/12, Perth C: 7.5/12, Chess Emperor C2: 1.0/12 Full individual results for all rounds are posted at: http://southernsuburbschessclub.org.au/2020-harris-shield.htm Trophies for this year's Harris Interclub Competition will be presented at the annual CAWA Presentations which, this year, will be held on Sunday 13th December. Congratulations to the winning teams from Southern Suburbs Chess Club, and to all participants. Thank you to Alan Wolstencroft for his invaluable help, and to all participants who arrived early and stayed late on each day to help set everything up and pack everything away. The players' conduct and patience ensured that the competition was able to run smoothly without incident. Well done to the many club members and team captains who organised teams for this year's competition. Report kindly provided by Andrew Hardegen. |