Welcome to the future of chess! Only 48hrs after the iPad was released in Australia the RJ Shield took advantage of the new technology. Thanks to web based chess tournament management Swiss Tournament players were able to touch their own results in after every game, see instant rating updates and the arbiters able to mingle with the players and still have the entire tournament at their fingertips!

There were actually 4 RJ Shield events running in different locations today; Ormond, Doncaster, Frankston and Mildura. With the events running online we were able to sneak a peak at other results in progress during the day.

Thumula Gamage took out the Ormond event (full results) and Karl Zelesco the Doncaster event (full results) with a perfect score.

And yes, I am writing this report from my iPad too!