Scores at half way stage below show that Fremantle's highly rated squad should get home final in Div 1 - 2nd place looks to be close. Midland B and Metro B2 should battle for home advantage in Div 2. The Junior CC team (all aged U14) should get home advantage in div 3 :
Division 1 Metro A 1.5 Fremantle 2.5, Midland A 2 Metro A 2, Fremantle 2.5 Midland A 1.5
Fremantle 5
Midland A 3.5
Metro A 3.5
(teams and likely squads)
Fremantle (Mandic 2197, Partis 2115, McCamon 2157, Boucek 2044, Haasse 1953, Davison 1943, Silas 1882),
Metro A (Roza 1964, Chin 1950, Ellis 1938, Butcher 1934, Lilly 1912, Leonhardt 1855),
Midland A (Farber 2092, Boyd 2019, Wilkins 1974, Galvin 1866, Maris 1939).
Division 2 : Metro B1 0.5 Metro B2 3.5, Midland B 2 Metro B1 2, Metro B2 1 Midland B 3
Midland B 5
Metro B2 4.5
Metro B1 2.5
Division 3 :Metro C 3 Womens & Girls 1, Midland C 1 Junior CC 3, Midland C 2 Metro C 2, Junior CC 3 Womens & Girls 1, Metro C 1 Junior CC 3, Womens & Girls 3 Midland C 1
Junior CC 9
Metro C 6
Womens & Girls 5
Midland C 4

1999 Division 1 Midland A 17 Fremantle 12 Metro A 10.5 Midland B 8. After clearly winning the B division for the last few years Midland B replaced Perth in the A grade. The scores above show how convincingly Midland A dominated this division. The 4 Midland players Danny Dwyer, Timo Farber, Tristan Boyd, Rob Maris all won their board prizes. Fremantle used about 10 players and so only just finished above Metro A and Midland B.
Division 2 scores : Perth A 10.5, Metro B 9.5, Midland C 4. Disappointingly only 3 teams competed with Perth A just edging out Metro B.
Division 3 scores : Womens & Girls 12.5, Metro C 11.5 Junior Chess Council 10 Perth B 9.5 Westrac 8.5 Midland D 8. This extremely close division could have been even closer. In the last round Midland D were missing their top 2 players and so went down 4-0 to the Womens & Girls team who finished 1st. A great division of 6 very well matched teams.

1998 Division 1 Midland A 16 Fremantle 15 Perth 10 Metro 7 it should be noted that this includes the round 4 forfeit win by Perth over Metro. Fremantle have got the strongest squad : Partis McCamon Mandic Boucek Davison Silas Saffen. Midland do not have their top 3 players from last year with Barber in London and Farber and Ellis now playing for Perth, however their squad : Dwyer Wilkins(M) Boyd Dempster Maris(R) finished first. Metro are similar to last year : Hazelton Saroingsong Roza Butcher Lilly but usually only have 1 of their top 2 players available otherwise they would be somewhat better. The Perth team : Farber Ellis Dibden Curtis are only marginally behind Midland onrating and so have potential.
Division 2 scores : Midland B 13.5 Westrac 6.5 Metro B 4 the inconsistent availability of some Fremantle players meant they had to withdraw. The new team of Westrac, organised by Robert Ivaldi, surprisingly did better than Metro B, however Midland B : Lakner Galvin Wilkins(T) Maris(F) were much too good.
Division 3 scores : Metro C 14.5 Perth 12.5 Womens & Girls 11.5 Midland C 9.5 clearly this is the closest division 3 we have had which made for a very interesting time for all concerned but Metro C have an average rating 200 points above the other teams.

1997 Division 1 Midland A 13.5 Fremantle 13 Metro A 11.5 University 10 Final : Midland A 2.5 Fremantle 1.5
Division 2 Midland B 10.5 Perth 8 Metro B 5.5 Final : Midland B 3 Perth 1
Division 3 Midland C 19 Metro C 14 Womens & Girls 11.5 Midland D 3.5 Final : Midland C 3.5 Metro C 0.5
Midland easily won divisions 2 & 3 but in division 1 all teams were of similar strength and the Fremantle v Midland match was the strongest in WA history.
Fremantle : McCamon, Mandic, Partis, Boucek.
Midland : Barber, Farber, Ellis, Maris.

Bunbury Chess Club : Thursdays 7.30 Bunbury Croquet Club http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/alanglo/ Bridge Club Tel. David Pike 9791 3127.
Fremantle Chess Club : Tuesdays 7.30 Stan Reilly SCC 94 South Terrace Fremantle Tel. Denis McMahon 9339 3679.
Metro Chess Club : http://sites.netscape.net/girmao/metro.htm Thursdays 7.30 Drabble House cnr Stirling Hwy & Webster St Nedlands Tel. Garry Taylor 9277 8559.
Midland Chess Club : Fridays 7.30 Ascension Church Hall, Spring Park Road, Midland Tel. Rob Maris 9378 3269.
Perth Chess Centre : Wednesdays 7.30 4th Floor Kings Perth Hotel Hay St Perth.
Junior Chess Clubs : Norbert Muller 9409 9579.
Womens & Girls Chess Council : Wendy Naunton 9446 3108. Webpage Contact : gloryrob@icenet.com.au

State Lightning :

1st Bozidar Mandic
=2nd Tristan Boyd,
Daniel Dwyer,
Adam Haasse

State Championships :

1st Michael Wilkins
2nd Stewart Byrne
3rd Tristan Boyd,
Reserves 1st Petar Rados
Michael was undefeated with 8 wins and a draw to Stewart. Tristan (still just 16) also drew to Stewart. High seeds Timo Farber, Adam Haasse and David Ellis faired below par. Jay Lakner and Gordon Dunlop scored well against top players and would gain the most rating points.

State Juniors :
U18 Andrew Hardegan, U14 Zhengbo Wang, Daniel Van Heerdon, U12 Yuhan Goh, Mark Chapman, U10 Yita Choong.

Perth Open : Timo Farber, Michael Wilkins.

Midland Club :
Rob Galvin, Tristan Boyd.

Metro 2000 :
Peter Roza, Michael Kueh.

South West Open :
Daniel Dwyer,
=2nd Tristan Boyd, Albert Chin, Julian Painter, Mike Partis, Michael Wilkins,
=7th Stewart Byrne, David Ellis, Wolfgang Leonhardt, Rob Maris, Jack Saffen, =12th Louise Bosnyak, Rob Galvin, Andrew Hardegan, Adam Haasse, Frank Silas, Leon Taylor.