Jack Rodgers Chess Coaching

Team Australia's Olympiad Wrap: Australia Has A New Chess Master!

Team Australia's Olympiad Wrap: 5 Things To Celebrate Australia's Open and Women's teams concluded their Open and Women's campaigns on Sunday after 11 grueling rounds and I'd like to take this opportunity to showcase some of the key takeaways from the event... starting with an extraordinary individual performance... 1. Australia has a new master - WFM....

Though we were able to beat New Zealand, England proved too difficult a task for the Australian chess team. 2.5-1.5 was the final score against the old enemy and now we're the favourites heading into our round 6 clash with Kyrgyzstan

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The Australian Open and Women's teams, proudly sponsored by Integral Diagnostics (IDX) and DGT both comfortably won their first rounds at the Olympiad in Budapest. Check out my report ahead of our round two matches later today!

Debutants Shine For Australia In Round 1 Team Australia, proudly sponsored by Integral Diagnostics (IDX) and DGT, kicked off the 2024 FIDE Olympiad in style by posting round 1 wins over Saudi Arabia and Brunei Darussalam. All three debutants, IM Rishi Sardana, Zhiyuan Shen, and Alaina Vincent all played and won their first-ever Olympiad ga...