ACT Under 16's

 With the ACT currently under Covid restrictions, the ACT Junior Chess League is organising the Under 16 Championship as an online, Zoom supervised event. Borrowing heavily from the Online Olympiad (and similar international tournaments), 32 players are taking part in the tournament. It is a 7 round swiss with a time limit of 30m+30s. 

As one of the arbiters, I can say it has gone pretty well. The two main issues are essentially the same as in any normal junior event, with the players taking too little time over their moves, and parents not understanding the tournament process. 

The quality of play is a little mixed (mainly do to the rushed moves), but when they slow down, the games can be quite hard fought. Here is one such game from the 2nd round, with the winner being the youngest player in the event (at 6 years old).

StonkfishPro (1748) - devraichura (1255) [B73]
ACT U14-U16 Championships https://lichess.org/HlV5xWsc, 28.08.2021

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O Nc6 9. Qd2 a6 10. Rad1 Qc7 11. f4 Bg4 12. h3 Bd7 13. Kh1 b5 14. Bf3 Rfb8 15. Nce2 a5 16. Kh2 Nd8 17. g4 a4 18. Ng3 Nc6 19. Nxc6 Bxc6 20. Bd4 Ra6 21. e5 Bxf3 22. Rxf3 dxe5 23. Bxe5 Qb7 24. Re3 Rc8 25. Rc3 Rac6 26. g5 Rxc3 27. Bxc3 Ne8 28. Bxg7 Nxg7 29. Rc1 Ne6 30. Qf2 Qc7 31. Ne2 Rd8 32. Kg3 Rd2 33. Qe3 Rxe2 34. Qxe2 Qxf4+ 35. Kg2 Qxg5+ 36. Kf3 Nd4+ 0-1