International Round Up 7/6/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 7/6/11

French League 26th May - 6 June 2011
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Equipes.aspx?Groupe=2
http://www.europe-echecs.com/actualites ... -3317.html
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/e ... op-12-2011

Simon Williams played for Rueil Malmaison and started off with a twenty move win with black against Radoslaw Wojtaszek rated 2721 followed by a round three demolition with white of Pavel Eljanov rated 2712 who was as high as 2761 only last September. He finished with 6/11 against an average of 2620 whilst Simon’s girlfriend, Aly Wilson, also played for the same team and was in contention for a WIM norm before finishing on 5/11 against an average of 2170.

Michael Adams played for Evry Grand Roque and scored 3/5 against an average of 2589 after playing in rounds 6-10.

l'open de Guichen France 2nd June 2011
http://cd.echecs35.fr/node/488

Meri Grigoryan scored 5/7 in the one day rapidplay and won the best female prize. She won five games and lost only twice against two of the joint winners.

FSIM June Budapest HUN Sat 4th Jun 2011 - Tue 14th Jun 2011
http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1106/im.htm
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr51017.a ... ES&flag=30

Mark Lyell is on 1.5/2.

Future events:

e2e4 London Gatwick Congress 17th - 19th June 2011
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/gatwick/jun2011/index.htm

Sean Hewitt’s latest congress has a FIDE rated open and major as well as an unrated minor section. The open includes GMs Simon Williams, Peter Wells and Keith Arkell.

2nd Big Slick International 25th June - 3rd July 2011
http://www.gingergm.com/2011/05/11/2nd- ... f-players/

The event is being held at the Big Slick Poker Club in Purley, Croydon and there are three 10 player 9 round all-play-alls being organised with one offering GM norms, a second offering IM norms and a third rated event. There are still places available in each section. Please contact Lawrence Cooper [email protected] for details on how to enter.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic865.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 7/6/11

[Alasdair MacLeod]

The English Deaf Chess Association are organising the following chess tournaments;

20th ICSC European Club Team Deaf Chess Championship

1st ICSC Open Deaf Club Team Chess Tournament

[ICSC = International Committee of Silent Chess]

Venue: Merseyside Society for Deaf People, Liverpool L13 0DJ
Date: 8-13 June 2011

Some of the best deaf chess players in the world will be taking part in this team competition amongst around 100 players. They include 2 Grandmasters, 2 International Masters and 1 FIDE Master;

GM Yehuda Gruenfeld (Bat Yam, Israel)
GM Zlatko Klaric (Zagreb, Croatia)
IM Milan Orsag (Prague, Czech Rep)
IM Segey Salov (Hamburg, Germany)
FM Bogdan Bozinovic (Zagreb, Croatia)

There will be 7 rounds of chess from 9-12 June 2011. It will be the first ever major European deaf sporting event held in Liverpool.

Arbiters: Peter Purland (International Arbiter); Ian Campbell (ECF Arbiter)

Spectators are welcome.

For more information on the event please feel free to browse around our website;

http://www.edcc2011.co.uk/

Forumite Christopher Kreuzer will be participating.

Alasdair MacLeod,
Secretary, English Deaf Chess Association

[IM Jack Rudd]

Future event: Yeovil Chess Congress 24-26 June. Two FIDE rated sections.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Forumite Christopher Kreuzer will be participating.

And am now safely on the train to Liverpool, and posting from the train just because I can (though I'm sure people have posted from more exotic locations)! A question about Liverpool has occurred to me, but I'll post that in another thread.