While the Australian Schools Teams Championships is typically a congregation of four teams from each State and Territory across the country, this year it is starkly different. Due to the onset of COVID-19, the Australian Chess Federation (ACF) realised that such a tournament would be impossible to run in the orthodox fashion given the unprecedented circumstances. Consequently, we, the ACF, decided that since such a tournament has such a fundamental importance to the development of chess in Australia, that we ought to host the tournament in an online capacity. Hence, after months of deliberations on how we ought to run such an event, we have created the first Australian Championship event to be hosted online.
Please direct any questions regarding the tournament to Australian Junior Chess Co-Ordinator, Hughston Parle at hughstonparle@gmail.com