2023 Annual Simul with IM Gary Lane

Please note you must be a current financial member of the Chess Club and the West HQ to play in the Simul.

For financial juniors, a parent must also be a member of West HQ.

Please check your email for the entry link.

Rules for the Simul: 30 players only.

Starts at 7:00 pm sharp 6th of June

1. No chess clocks are used. 

2. Gary will be white on all boards. 

3. Gary walks from board to board. 

4. Each player is expected to make a move when Gary arrives at the board. 

5. When Gary arrives at your Board, you are allowed to say pass and not make a move on ONE occasions ONLY.  

6. Gary has the right to change his move up until the moment he makes his move on the next board.

7. Once down to the last 3 players, his opponents will have 5 minutes on a clock to finish their games.

8. Any players who defeat Gary in the simul will receive a book/DVD price of their choice that is available at the night

2020 Annual Simul with IM Gary Lane – Monday 10 February

Many thanks to Gary for making this possible and congratulations to Alaina and Peter for winning and receiving a signed book prize.

No Name         Result  Name 
                   
 1 Gary W Lane   1:0    Arjun Anand             
 2 Gary W Lane   1:0    Vihaan Anup Kumar       
 3 Gary W Lane   1:0    Elmaz Iljazi            
 4 Gary W Lane   1:0    Bill Herreros           
 5 Gary W Lane   1:0    Edward Hu               
 6 Gary W Lane   1:0    Zeid Komer              
 7 Gary W Lane   1:0    Jingni Liao             
 8 Gary W Lane   1:0    Cameron McGowan         
 9 Gary W Lane   1:0    Edward P Ombina         
10 Gary W Lane   1:0    Renee Yang Pan          
11 Gary W Lane   1:0    Albert Parengkuan       
12 Gary W Lane   1:0    John Yao                
13 Gary W Lane   1:0    Anup Kumar Siva Sankaran
14 Gary W Lane   1:0    Johnny Miranda Teves    
15 Gary W Lane   0:1    Peter Tomlinson         
16 Gary W Lane   0:1    Alaina Vincent          
17 Gary W Lane   1:0    Alvin Vincent           
18 Gary W Lane   1:0    Eddie Quesada           
19 Gary W Lane   1:0    Jonathan Yap       

Simul by IM Gary Lane (30 boards) – Monday 11 February

No Name          Result  Name  
                   
 1 Gary W Lane   .5:.5   Cameron McGowan           
 2 Gary W Lane    0:1    Anup Kumar Siva Sankaran 
 3 Gary W Lane    1:0    Steven Stipic            
 4 Gary W Lane    1:0    Andrew Roseby            
 5 Gary W Lane    1:0    Elmaz Iljazi             
 6 Gary W Lane    1:0    John Yao                 
 7 Gary W Lane    1:0    Winston Zhao Chen        
 8 Gary W Lane    1:0    Baby Joseph              
 9 Gary W Lane    1:0    Alaina Vincent           
10 Gary W Lane    1:0    Jonathan Adams           
11 Gary W Lane    1:0    Bill Herreros            
12 Gary W Lane    1:0    Lou Damaschino           
13 Gary W Lane    1:0    Alwin Joseph             
14 Gary W Lane    1:0    Yifu Wu                  
15 Gary W Lane    1:0    Jeffrey Chandy           
16 Gary W Lane    1:0    Eddie Quesada            
17 Gary W Lane    1:0    Soliman Soliman          
18 Gary W Lane    1:0    Matthew Rostami          
19 Gary W Lane    1:0    Shaheel Faizal           
20 Gary W Lane    1:0    Simon Kellett            
21 Gary W Lane    1:0    Vihaan Anup Kumar        
22 Gary W Lane   .5:.5   Reynante Calixto         
23 Gary W Lane    1:0    Albert Joseph            
24 Gary W Lane    1:0    Jonathan Yap             
25 Gary W Lane    1:0    Victor Flindall          
26 Gary W Lane    1:0    Terry Gao                
27 Gary W Lane    1:0    Peter Tomlinson          
28 Gary W Lane    1:0    Magesh Ravichandran      
29 Gary W Lane    0:1    Erwin Plaza              
30 Gary W Lane    1:0    Lucas Tabone            

Simul by IM Gary Lane (32 boards) – Monday 5 February

No Name       Result Name                     
1 Gary Lane   0:1   Jesson Montenegro          
2 Gary Lane  .5:.5  Cameron Mcgowan            
3 Gary Lane   1:0   Yama Mahmoodi              
4 Gary Lane   1:0   Anup Kumar Siva Sankaran     
5 Gary Lane   1:0   Shane E Dibley            
6 Gary Lane   1:0   Jayath Kulathunga        
7 Gary Lane  .5:.5  Ryan Lane              
8 Gary Lane  .5:.5  Phillip Eltakchi     
9 Gary Lane   1:0   Elmaz Iljazi             
10 Gary Lane   1:0   Steven Stipic                
11 Gary Lane   1:0   Bill Herreros            
12 Gary Lane   1:0   Ken Macgillivray   
13 Gary Lane  .5:.5  Jonathan Adams           
14 Gary Lane   1:0   Winston Zhao Chen      
15 Gary Lane   1:0   Eddie Quesada   
16 Gary Lane  .5:.5  Yifu Wu              
17 Gary Lane  .5:.5  Alwin Joseph          
18 Gary Lane   1:0   Alfredo Velis       
19 Gary Lane   1:0   Albert Joseph                
20 Gary Lane   1:0   Andrew Roseby    
21 Gary Lane   1:0   Aiden Wen      
22 Gary Lane   1:0   Jamie Richmond        
23 Gary Lane   1:0   Victor Flindall   
24 Gary Lane   1:0   Vihaan Anup Kumar            
25 Gary Lane   1:0   Shanay Panicker             
26 Gary Lane   0:1   Samir Bajrami      
27 Gary Lane   1:0   Jose Cyriac          
28 Gary Lane   1:0   Muhamed Buza        
29 Gary Lane   1:0   Jamie Marshall    
30 Gary Lane   1:0   Lucas Tabone                 
31 Gary Lane   1:0   Peter Tomlinson   
32 Gary Lane   1:0   Allan Goldsmith

On Monday 6 February IM Gary Lane (FIDE r2394 and ACF 2453) played the annual Simul against 25 opponents.

Gary won 20, drew 2 and lost 3 resulting in a total score of 21 out of 25.

Congratulations to the three winners Jesson, Cameron and Romeo, who all won a book prize provided by Australian Chess Enterprises. Kazam and John both drew their game against Gary.

No  Name                ACF   Score
1. Jonathan Adams      1544  0
2. Kazem Ata           1519  0.5 
4. David Beveridge     1369  0
5. Glynn Curran        1715  0
6. Shane E Dibley      1599  0
7. Victor Flindall     831   0
8. Allan Goldsmith     1092  0
9. Bill Herreros       1463  0
10. Baby Joseph         1537  0
11. Ryan Lane           1582  0
12. Vincent Lee         259   0 
13. Manoji Manoharan    unr   0
14. Deves Manoji        unr   0   
15. Cameron McGowan     1624  1
16. Jesson Montenegro   1873  1
17. Edward P Ombina     1547  0 
18. Eddie Quesada       1349  0
19. Romeo Regidor       unr   1
20. Steven Stipic       1630  0
21. Orion Thompson      unr   0
22. Alfredo Velis       1184  0  
23. Adam Wilkes         1570  0
24. Yifu Wu             1298  0
25. John Yao            1678  0.5