International Round Up 12/7/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 12/7/11

39th World Open 2011 (Philadelphia USA) 28th June - 4th July 2011
http://www.worldopen.com/

Michael Adams was joint winner on 7/9 with Gata Kamsky but lost the blitz play-off for the title whilst Steve Barrett finished on 4.

Alexander Hardwick scored 5/9 in the U1800 section.

Irish Championships 2nd-10th July 2011
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/ireland/

Mark Josse and Michael Prizant played in the Seniors which despite its name was the top section, not an event for players over 60! Sean Hewitt was the organiser and arbiter. Mark finished on 5.5 whilst Michael scored 5. FM Stephen Brady finished first with 7.5/9, half a point clear of John Redmond.

86th Paris Championship IdF 2nd - 10th July 2011
http://idf-echecs.com/pages/images/stor ... ts/FGa.htm
http://idf-echecs.com/pages/cht-de-pari ... 2011-.html

Nathan Alfred scored 5/9.

FSIM July Budapest HUN Sat 2nd Jul 2011 - Tue 12th Jul 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr52400.aspx? ... =1&flag=30
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/
http://chess-results.com/tnr52403.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

Mark Lyell finished on 4.5/10 in the IM section which was a six player double round all-play-all. Mark Patrickson scored 7/10 in the FM C Section while Diana Mihajlova finished on 1.

XXXIV Open Barbera del Valles Int "A" 4-12 July 2011
http://www.ajedreznd.com/2011/BARBERA.html
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr49550.a ... 0&wi=10000

Ian Thompson played in the A section and finished on 4/9.

5th Leiden Chess Tournament July 7-17 2011
http://www.leidenchess.nl/live2011/
http://www.leidenchess.nl/

David Howell, Julian Farrand, Keith Richardson and Ray Edwards are all playing. After four rounds David is on 4/4, whilst Julian is on 3 and Keith and Ray are on 2.

8th South Wales International 9th-14th July 2011
http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/

The English entry includes Grandmasters Peter Wells and Keith Arkell, International Master Jack Rudd as well as FIDE Masters David Eggleston and Rafe Martyn.

Congratulations to Martin Brown who defeated grandmaster Marijan Petrov rated 2534 in round 1.

118th Scottish Chess Championships 9th-17th July 2011
http://www.sncl.org.uk/scotchamps2011/index.html
http://www.sncl.org.uk/scotchamps2011/C ... index.html

Julian Way is on 2/3.

Science Park Amsterdam Chess Tournament 9-17 July 2011
http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=en/blog-en
http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=nl/live
http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=nl/groep_a
http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=nl/groep_c

Stewart Haslinger is on 2.5/3 in Group A whilst Kevin White is on 1 and Ravi Haria, Isaac Sanders and Graham Burton are on 0.5. Mike Haslinger is on 2.5/3 in Group C.

Open OBERWART 2011 Turnier A 9-17 July 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr46593.aspx?lan=0

Daniel Cotterill is on 1/3.

Rethymno International Open 11th-18th July 2011
http://www.daor.gr/index.php?id=164,0,0,1,0,0

Paul Townsend is on 1/1 whilst Tim Adams and Gabrielle Dawson are on 0.

3rd International Tournament "Artemis Cup" Leros 12-19 July 2011
http://www.leroschess.gr/Participants2010.aspx

Stephen Gordon, Adam Hunt and Max Devereaux are all playing.

Future events:

XIII Sant Marti International Open 13-21 July 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr47209.aspx? ... turdet=YES
http://www.cesantmarti.com/index.php/to ... marti-2001

Ian Thompson is playing.

SECOND International Chess Festival Vaujany 14-22 July 2011
http://promoechecs.free.fr/Vaujany/Prin ... al_FR.html

Daniel Bisby is playing.

Czech Open 2011 Pardubice 14th July - 31st July 2011
http://www.czechopen.net/en/

29th Andorra International Open 16th-24th July 2011
http://www.escacsandorra.com/openprev/en_jugadors.php

Malcolm Winter is playing.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic870.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 12/7/11

[Paul Cooksey]

Namecheck for David on chessbase: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7356

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Namecheck for David on chessbase: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7356

That Chessbase report includes a picture of Jan Timman, who I wouldn't have recognised at all if the report hadn't identified him.

[Phil Makepeace]

Namecheck for David on chessbase: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7356

Ray Edwards is in the foreground of the third picture down.

There's a large English contingent going to the Czech Open:

Bogdan Lalic, Tom Wiley and Mark Lyell are playing in the A section.
Myself, Dominic Foord, Grant Bucher, Matthew Lunn and Peter Andreev are playing in the B section.
Gunnar Mallon, Tom Slater and Arun Ganesan are playing in the C section.
Alex Conway and Alex Gray are playing in the E section.

There are many Scots and Irish playing too which should add to the social scene!

[Alex Holowczak]

There are many Scots and Irish playing too which should add to the social scene!

Sounds like the prelude to an Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman joke...

[Phil Makepeace]

Perhaps an Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman piss-up, yes.

[LozCooper]

Excellent results for both Isaac Sanders and Ravi Haria in Amsterdam. Ravi has just beaten a 2136 and 2200 in the last two rounds whilst Issac has just beaten a 2139 and a 2219.

[LozCooper]

8th South Wales International 9th-14th July 2011
http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/ht ... table.html

Congratulations to English Grandmaster Peter Wells who won the tournament with 7.5/9, ahead of GM Keith Arkell with 7 (the third year in a row he’s finished outright second with 7/9!) and 3rd place was shared between David Eggleston, James Cobb, Hjorvar Gretarsson and Bulgarian GMs Marijan Petrov and Julian Radulski.
Other notable English performances were Joseph McPhillips scoring 6 and Martin Brown 5.5 including a win against grandmaster Marijan Petrov rated 2534 in round 1.

[LozCooper]

Adam Hunt plays top board in the last round of 3rd International Tournament "Artemis Cup" Leros 12-19 July 2011
http://www.leroschess.gr/home.aspx# http://chess-results.com/tnr52579.aspx? ... =1&fed=ENG
Adam is currently joint leader on 6.5/8 whilst Stephen Gordon is on 5.5 and Maxim Devereaux, no live games sadly.

[Matthew Turner]

I guess Adam might need to win his last game (against a 2415 GM) for a GM norm?

[LozCooper]

I guess Adam might need to win his last game (against a 2415 GM) for a GM norm?

Sadly his average is only 2321 http://chess-results.com/tnr52579.aspx? ... ENG&snr=10 even when rounding up his lowest rated player to 2250 but in any case he has played seven Greeks and you can only play a maximum of six players from one federation. But the rating points will be very useful and hopefully some prize money too.

[Alan Walton]

With a score of 7/9 you need to play a minimum avg rating of 2380 for a GM norm, considering Adam wins and on 7.5 his opponents avg rating will be around 2340 (including uplifting 2 opponents to 2200), I think he might be a tad short around a 2580-2590 performance

[LozCooper]

With a score of 7/9 you need to play a minimum avg rating of 2380 for a GM norm, considering Adam wins and on 7.5 his opponents avg rating will be around 2340 (including uplifting 2 opponents to 2200), I think he might be a tad short around a 2580-2590 performance

You can only round-up one player up to 2250 though, not two. A good last round result and rating points (currently gaining about 12) will be a big boost as he seeks his final norm and 2500 rating though.

[Alan Walton]

With a score of 7/9 you need to play a minimum avg rating of 2380 for a GM norm, considering Adam wins and on 7.5 his opponents avg rating will be around 2340 (including uplifting 2 opponents to 2200), I think he might be a tad short around a 2580-2590 performance

You can only round-up one player up to 2250 though, not two. A good last round result and rating points (currently gaining about 12) will be a big boost as he seeks his final norm and 2500 rating though.

True it is only one but here are the new regulations

1.46c For the purposes of norms, the minimum rating (adjusted rating floor) for the opponents shall be as follows:

Grandmaster 2200
International Master 2050
Woman Grandmaster 2000
Woman International Master 1850

1.46c1 No more than one opponent shall have his rating raised to this adjusted rating floor. Where more than one opponent are below the floor, the rating of the lowest opponents shall be raised.

[LozCooper]

I've just heard that Adam drew in round 9 so he finished 1st=