International Round Up 19/7/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 19/7/11

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

Congratulations to David Howell who had a 2689 performance and finished 2nd= with GM Predrag Nikolic on 7/9 half a point behind GM Sergey Tiviakov. Keith Richardson scored 5, Julian Farrand 4.5 and Ray Edwards 4.

3rd International Tournament "Artemis Cup" Leros 12-19 July 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr52579.aspx? ... =1&fed=ENG
http://adamhuntchess.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to Adam Hunt who finished 1st= on 7/9 with a rating performance of 2523. Stephen Gordon scored 6.5 and Maxim Devereaux 6.

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

English Grandmaster Peter Wells 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.

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

Congratulations to thirteen-year-old Isaac Sanders who had a great tournament with a 2288 performance which could have been even better had he converted a very promising position in round 7.
Stewart Haslinger also played in Group A and scored 6/9 whilst Ravi Haria, Kevin White and Graham Burton all scored 3.
Mike Haslinger scored 6.5 in Group C to finish 3rd= just half a point behind the two winners.

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 scored 3.5/9. Congratulations to Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant who won the championship with 7/9.

10th Condom Open, France 9th-16th July 2011
http://www.chess32.tonsite.biz/
http://www.chess32.tonsite.biz/open/index.php

Rufus Duff scored 6/9.

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

Daniel Cotterill scored 3.5/9.

48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 9th-17th July 2011
http://monroi.com/pinnacle-48th-canadia ... sults.html

David Cummings finished 4th= on 6.5/9, half a point behind the winners.

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

Paul Townsend scored 5.5/9, Tim Adams 4 and Gabrielle Dawson 1.

I Goi Mailako GM Donostia, Spain 13-20 July 2011
http://chess-results.info/tnr52877.aspx ... turdet=YES
http://www.grosxake.com/

Glenn Flear is on 4/8 in the six player, double round all-play-all.

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 on 3.5/6.

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

Daniel Bisby is on 3/5.

34th Taminco Open, Ghent, Belgium 16th-20th July 2011
http://www.kgsrl.be/

Richard McMichael & Andrew Stone 4.5/7, Mark Davey 4, Gerald Parfett, Peter Grant-Ross & Alistair Morton 2, Ronald Crooks 1.5.

Biel International Chess Festival 18-29 July 2011
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/mast ... ment/#c267

Isaac Sanders is playing in the Master tournament and started with a draw against IM Andreas Heimann rated 2498.

Future events:

NK Dutch Open 19-28 July 2001
http://onk.schaakbond.nl/toernooien/deelnemers/open-nk

Peter Sowray is playing in the open.

4th INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT OF PALEOHORA 20-27 July
http://www.chaniachess.gr/International ... ex_en.html

David Spence, Edmund Player, David Whitehead and Craig Hadrych are all registered.

Czech Open 2011 Pardubice 22nd July - 30th July 2011
http://www.czechopen.net/en/
http://www.czechopen.net/en/live-games/

Tom Wiley and Mark Lyell are playing in the A section. Phil Makepeace, 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.

Darwin Strategic Limited Championship of the British Isles 24th July - 6th August
http://www.britishchess2011.com/

The main events start on the 26th July.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic871.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 19/7/11

[Roger de Coverly]

10th Condom Open, France 9th-16th July 2011
http://www.chess32.tonsite.biz/
http://www.chess32.tonsite.biz/open/index.php

Rufus Duff scored 6/9.

Not a name I'm familiar with, but he would appear to be a French resident junior with a valid French License to Play. Quite why the ECF believes it can instruct FIDE to remove his rating history is entirely another question. He's not on the ECF grading list even as an inactive player.

[Alex McFarlane]

Since it was the Condom Open perhaps the ECF considers it to be Safe (s)ex traction from the list.

Sorry that's bad even by my standards.