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New series starts Sunday 15 June at 9pm on ABC iview and ABC TV. Diane Kruger, Jo Joyner, Ben Bailey Smith, Shelley Conn, Emily Taaffe, JJ Feild, Stephen Campbell Moore, Patrick Baladi
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- News.com.au
Australian chess prodigy Reyaansh Chakrabarty reveals grandmaster ambitions
For 11-year-old chess prodigy Reyaansh Chakrabarty, the hit Netflix show The Queen's Gambit sparked a love for the game that now takes him around the world on a quest to become Australia's first world champion. 'During the pandemic, I watched it a little bit, it's one of the things that got me interested in chess,' he told NewsWire this week in an exclusive interview. 'I didn't really know what chess was but I found it quite amusing, the pieces. 'She (Beth Harmon) is like looking up on the ceiling and watching the pieces move.' Like the fictional hero of the smash-hit show, Reyaansh imagines chess games in his head. 'I see pieces kind of everywhere,' he said. Reyaansh, from western Sydney, is a FIDE master with a classical rating of 2346 and his sharp rise has the Australian chess world excited. 'He is showing a lot of promise at a young age,' Australian Chess Federation publicity director Paul Power told NewsWire. The next level is international master, which generally means a rating of 2400 and three 'norms' or performance benchmarks a player needs to hit to gain the title. And then there is the rarefied world of grandmaster, a huge achievement that takes years of dedicated practice, study and ambition. Australia has only produced 10 grandmasters from a global field of about 2000. 'It's hard to predict that he is necessarily going to become a grandmaster, but he is certainly going about it the right way,' Mr Power said. 'Should he get to the GM title, Australia would be very pleased. It would be a feather in the cap, not just for Reyaansh and his family but for Australia.' Reyaansh's ambitions go even further and he dreams about becoming world champion. 'It's a huge call but right now I'm focused on improving step-by-step,' he said. It's an ambition that might seem extraordinary for an 11-year-old, but chess is a young person's game. The world champion is 18-year-old Indian wonder Gukesh Dommaraju, who ascended the throne in 2024 after beating Chinese GM Ding Liren in Singapore. Before Gukesh, the title was held by Norwegian legend Magnus Carlsen, widely credited as one of the greatest players in history alongside Garry Kasparov and controversial American icon Bobby Fischer. Mr Carlson became world champion at the age of 22. Reyaansh, a year 6 student at Strathfield South in Sydney's inner west, trains about five hours a day during the week, one hour before school and then four hours in the afternoon, and then for eight hours on Saturdays and Sundays. 'My school is very supportive of my chess, so I don't have much homework to do,' he said. 'But of course you still have to go to school and complete whatever you have to do.' He practises tactics and openings, or the first few moves in chess that dictate the development of a game, and constantly analyses his games looking for errors. Reyaansh also studies with Polish grandmaster Jacek Stopa through the Sydney Chess Academy, with face-to-face classes. 'He teaches me how deeply you need to prepare to get to the GM level,' he said. 'At the end of the class I'm very tired. The puzzles he gives me are very tough, like grandmaster level.' For black, Reyaansh loves the Caro-Kann and Queen's Gambit Declined defences. For white, he loves the Italian and Ruy Lopez openings. Russian champion Boris Spassky and Mr Fischer are his favourite players. 'I think he (Spassky) was very strong but also a nice guy. Bobby Fischer because he was a genius, one of the best players to ever live.' Reyaansh was born in Kolkata in India and immigrated to Australia at the age of two with his parents Sounak and Tapasri, both of whom support his chess dreams. Reyaansh has already beaten GMs, including Australian heavyweight Darryl Johansen at a match in Melbourne. 'It was the first GM I defeated,' Reyaansh said. 'It was a good game, it was probably heading towards a draw but he blundered and I won it.' Mr Johansen was gracious in defeat. 'He was a bit disappointed, but we discussed some moves after the game,' Reyaansh said. But there was no time to celebrate. 'I had two games the next day, so I had to kind of forget about it and prepare for the next time.' The youngster, who likes to read JK Rowling and the Dog Man comic books, has also interacted with legends of the game, including former world champion Vishy Anand, whom he met in Singapore. 'It was like a dream come true. He gave me advice on staying patient,' Reyaansh said. He returned to Sydney last week after competing in a tournament in Norway and has travelled to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Belgium, Switzerland and Singapore to play against the best players in the world. When asked what he found really special about chess, he emphasised the intensity of the game and the mental focus it took to win. 'Even if you play perfectly the whole game, if you make one mistake, it's over,' he said. 'You need to focus from start to finish. You can't ever let you guard down.' Chess is in the midst of a popularity boom, triggered in part by The Queen's Gambit and the rising visibility of grandmasters on social media. Netflix claims more than 62 million people watched the show in its first 28 days on the streaming platform. Mr Power has also witnessed a growing number of youngsters trying out the game. 'The enthusiasm of primary level students is refreshing,' he said. For Reyaansh, finding a 'love for the game' is the first step children should take in their own chess pursuits. 'You have to find your love for the game,' he said. 'Otherwise, you'll kind of feel it is a chore. If you don't love it, you'll feel bored with it.'
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AFL Geelong Cats star Jeremy Cameron drops Bailey Smith truth bomb after big win, Brownlow betting plunge
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After that chat, and a week off for a hamstring issue, the blond midfielder returned with 41 disposals, six clearances and 760 metres gained in the Cats' 23.13 (151) to 8.8 (56) annihilation of the Bombers at the MCG. After the game, Cats spearhead Jeremy Cameron – who booted six goals for the night – was asked on Fox Footy how Smith handled 'being most talked about player in the game'. 'I think he handles it pretty well, doesn't he?' Cameron replied. 'He's got a good spot there at home when he gets away and when he's at the football club, what he's done for us as players has been absolutely amazing. Bailey Smith of the Cats takes a selfie with fans after Geelong's demoltion of Essendon. (Photo by) 'We've got his back right through whatever it is during the week. We'll always have his back and back him in to do what he does. 'He's brilliant out here on the field, but inside the locker room he's even better, which is hard to believe but it's true. 'We look forward to seeing what he can do in the back half of the year.' Smith and his new midfield teammate Max Holmes are forming a devastating partnership around the ground, with the latter contributing 36 possessions, eight clearances and 871 metres gained of his own. Fox Footy were keen to push the 'Dash brothers' tag on the emerging duo and Holmes had a cheeky dig at Smith when asked about him post-match. Smith had 41 disposals against the Bombers. (Photo by) One half of Geelong's 'Dash Brothers', Max Holmes had 36 touches himself.. (Photo by) 'I shook my head because he came off with 39 (disposals) and he wasn't supposed to go back on,' Holmes said. 'Clearly he was thinking about my 40 last week, so he wanted to out do me. Little so and so there. 'He cops it in the media and pretty unfairly a lot of the time. 'It's great to see him just shut out the noise on game day and play good footy. 'With Bailey in the side hopefully we're a better team than last year.' During the week, Dillon reiterated to Smith his importance as a role model after some of his recent acts had overstepped the mark. But his coach Chris Scott felt like it should be viewed in a positive light and nothing to generate negative talk. 'I don't think (Smith) felt like there was focus on him,' Scott said. 'I understand that there were questions around it, but I thought it was more the interest in something that's a bit unusual, like a conversation around the fire that didn't really light very well. 'It's rare for an AFL CEO to do that with a young player. 'We appreciated it, it was a step in the right direction, but maybe I misread it and I don't follow much of that stuff, but I didn't feel like it was a negative that would've put pressure on him. AFL CEO Andrew Dillon (right) met with Bailey Smith at his home last week. (Photo by) 'If there's a bit of a sense that there's some controversy in a negative sense towards him, I don't think we're feeling it, or I'm not seeing it anyway, but sometimes coaches are the last to know.' As is always the case with the 24-year-old Smith, he drew a wide range of comments online after his latest impressive display on the field. One tweet declared: 'Bailey Smith is gonna win the Brownlow isn't he.' Another said: 'Bailey Smith is easily the best player in the league right now, bar none!' A third agreed, saying: 'Bailey Smith might actually be a lock for the Brownlow.' Smith is now a $3 favourite for the Brownlow Medal with Sportsbet, ahead of Adelaide's Jordan Dawson ($3.75) and Collingwood's Nick Daicos ($5.50). Smith had odds as long as $51 with some bookies pre-season. Jeremy Cameron kicked another bag of goals to lead the Coleman Medal. (Photo by Michael Willson/AFL Photos via Getty Images) Yet others weren't quite so convinced about his stats and overall impact. 'Bailey Smith the master of the stat pad. Handballs to someone under pressure to get the handball receive every single time,' came one observation. 'Even though he's so impactful, it feels like Bailey Smith wanders around and gets lost within the game,' suggested another. 'Bailey Smith would average 150 if he could kick,' offered a SuperCoach fan. Sitting second on the ladder, the Cats next face a huge Friday night clash with reigning premiers Brisbane in Geelong on June 20. - with NewsWire Originally published as Geelong teammates support Bailey Smith amid mammoth betting plunge
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Darwin's first 'Queer Youth Prom' gives Top End teenagers an inclusive high-school formal experience this pride month
Fancy dress, a balloon arch and a red carpet to strut down along to the beat served up by a live DJ — it sounds a lot like the formal many of us had to commemorate our time in high school. But this event is a little different, because it's dedicated to the many LGBTQIA+ people who don't have fond memories of that key coming-of-age milestone. Attendees aged 15 to 26 can wear what makes them feel confident, bring whoever they wish as their date and enjoy an event that celebrates who they are, with a choir that sings Chappell Roan, a series of drag performers and an array of volunteers who know what it means to live a queer life with pride. For Jules, the 19-year-old co-organiser of the event, being openly out as queer at her private Catholic high school was an isolating experience with there being a "big stigma" around homosexuality. "I knew that a lot of teachers had their opinions on queer people, and if they thought it was right or wrong or whatever it was, and that's a lot to hear as a young person trying to figure yourself out," she says. When it came to the highly-anticipated formal night, Jules brought her then-same-sex partner Kesh as her date but felt "really alone" among her private school peers. "What was supposed to be one of the happiest days of my life ... it felt really uncomfortable, it wasn't a good time. I went home crying," Jules says. Kesh — who was assigned female at birth but identifies as a man — says he and Jules were the only queer couple that showed up together, and they both felt like they were "disconnected from everybody" at the event. "We just felt like we didn't have a community," he says. "And leading up to the graduation as well, it was like, 'Who's even on our side? Where are our people?' "Just because we had come out as queer things changed — we weren't the same for them anymore. "But you know what they say, 'you have to sacrifice your old life to build your new one'". Knowing their experience wasn't unique the couple decided it was a time to create an event that was catered for Darwin's young queer people. "It hasn't been done before and usually we find that Top End Pride events are more geared towards older people, which is great," says Jules. Chair of Top End Pride, Becky Tidman says events like the Queer Youth Prom are an important part of building young queer people up by giving them a space to be "comfortable in their own skin" and role-models to look up to. "It's just so amazing [for them] to see adults living their life as queer people ... as lawyers and artists and teachers. And so it's that idea that actually they deserve this space," says Ms Tidman. Ms Tidman says when it comes to the wellbeing of young people, hearing the announcement from the NT government earlier this year that it would look to wind back some of the territory's anti-discrimination laws was "heartbreaking". In particular, Ms Tidman referenced a change that would allow for religious schools to refuse to hire people outside of that faith. "To not to have those role models, it makes it so much harder for kids in school ... and then [they] are having to be in the closet because it's not a safe and accepting space within the education system," she says. Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby said at the time the proposed changes would "restore religious freedoms to religious schools". Speaking to a 15-year-old attendee of the Queer Youth Prom, who the ABC has chosen not to name, the teen says they know all too well the struggle of having nowhere to be their authentic selves. "[At school] they keep bullying me because [of my sexuality] and I've dressed as my aesthetic ... and I never really tell people my sexuality in public because I get a lot of negative backlash," they say. "And I can't really say anything at home either, because [my parents] are heavily Christian. One of the key drag performers for the night, Prawn Cracker Spice, says it was heartwarming to see that things had changed since they were a teenager. "When I think of my prom and coming here today, it's just such a different energy and a different support and love," she says.
