International Round Up 5/4/11

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LozCooper

International Round Up 5/4/11

Post by LozCooper » Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:50 am

International Round-up 5/4/11

European Individual Chess Championship Aix les Bains France 21 March - 3 April
http://www.aixlesbains2011.fr/Default.aspx?Cat=160
http://chess-results.com/tnr45941.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000

The final scores were as follows: Luke McShane 7.5/11, Gawain Jones 7, Stuart Conquest, Jovanka Houska & Peter Wells 6, Glenn Flear and Matthew Webb 5 & Terry Chapman 4.5. Luke had a 2684 performance, Gawain 2653 (including a last round win against David Navara rated 2722), Peter 2535 and Jovanka 2491. There were twenty-three qualifying places for the World Cup and despite a last round loss Luke claimed one of the places. He actually finished 24th on tie-break but some of the players above him had already qualified.

First Saturday Chess Tournament Series Budapest, Hungary April 2011
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/
http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1104/gm.htm
http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1104/fma.htm
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr47287.a ... -1&wi=1000

Lorin D’Costa is playing in the GM tournament and Isaac Sanders is in the FM A Tournament. Lorin requires 7/9 for a GM norm. After three rounds Lorin is on 1.5 and Isaac is on 2.

Jersey Congress 18-20th March
http://www.jerseychessclub.com/1cc2011results.html

Krzysztof Belzo of Jersey won with 5/6 ahead of Louis Jonault, Toby Brookfield and Christopher Archer-Lock who all scored 4.

Bad Woerishofen Chess Festival 24th March-1st April 2011

In the Seniors event Steve Berry came second with a score of 7.5/9, David Guttridge scored 4.5, Alan Collins 4/9 and Ray Kearsley 3/9. A total of 128 played..
Tim Spanton played in the Open which had 198 players and finished with 5/9.
My thanks to Ken Norman for e-mailing me the results.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic856.html

I encourage players to send me details of events they or others are playing in abroad and I will do my best to include them in my round-up. There is a list of international tournaments at home and abroad listed here: http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2372

Lawrence Cooper,
Director of International Chess 5/4/11

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Re: International Round Up 5/4/11

Post by LozCooper » Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:55 am

Results from the Cork Congress:

http://www.corkchess.com/index.php?page=results

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Re: International Round Up 5/4/11

Post by Mike Truran » Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:12 pm

A bit surprising how few English players played?!

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Re: International Round Up 5/4/11

Post by Roger de Coverly » Thu Apr 07, 2011 1:18 am

Mike Truran wrote:A bit surprising how few English players played?!
It's not really on the publicity radar. Bunratty is rather better known.

Perhaps (see another thread) the presumed need to supply your own chess equipment is a disincentive.

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Re: International Round Up 5/4/11

Post by LozCooper » Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:03 am

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Mike Truran wrote:A bit surprising how few English players played?!
It's not really on the publicity radar. Bunratty is rather better known.

Perhaps (see another thread) the presumed need to supply your own chess equipment is a disincentive.
I play Bunratty every year and have played most of the other Irish tournaments once. I prefer Bunratty (and Kilkenny) because the majority of players stay at the venue and it makes for a much better atmosphere. At events in Dublin for example the majority of players commute and this also seemed true in Cork. The year I played at Cork the hotel bar was relatively deserted in the evenings :cry:

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Re: International Round Up 5/4/11

Post by Mick Norris » Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:33 am

I see Adams is playing McShane today in the Bundesliga

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