International Round Up 31/7/11

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International Round-up 31/7/11

Darwin Strategic Limited Championship of the British Isles 24th July - 6th August
http://www.britishchess2011.com/results_pairings.htm
http://www.britishchess2011.com/
http://www.britishchess2011.com/live_games.htm
http://www.2seeitlive.com/british/briti ... 7a/tfd.htm
http://www.mattywebbchess.com/

Mickey Adams, Nigel Short & Gawain Jones lead the championship with 5/6, half a point ahead of David Howell, Stuart Conquest, Simon Williams, Peter Wells & Jovanka Houska. Round 7 pairings as follows: Short v Jones, Adams v Williams, Wells v Howell & Conquest v Houska.

Results from other sections:

Junior events:

Under 16: 1st Craig Whitfield 6/7
Under 13: 1st Ananthanarayan Balaji 5.5/7
Under 11: 1st Yang-Jian Zhou 6/7
Under 9: 1st Anthony Zhang 6/7
Under 8: 1st Aditya Verma 5.5/6

Rapidplay 1: 1st Danny Gormally 5.5/6
Rapidplay 2: 1st James Adair 5.5/6
5 Day Morning Week 1: 1st Akash Jain 4.5/5
5 Day Afternoon Week 1: Christopher Doran 4/5
Under 180: 1st= James M Foster & Jasper Tambini 4/5
Under 140: 1st= Richard Bowman & Simon Watson 4.5/5.

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

Thirteen-year-old Isaac Sanders played in the Master tournament and started with a draw against IM Andreas Heimann rated 2498. He finished on 4.5/11.

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

Peter Sowray scored 5/9 in the open.

4th INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT OF PALEOHORA 20-27 July
http://chess-results.com/tnr53222.aspx? ... ES&flag=30
http://www.chaniachess.gr/International ... ex_en.html

David Spence finished on 5.5/9, Edmund Player & David Whitehead 4.5 & Craig Hadrych 4.

Czech Open 2011 Pardubice 22nd July - 30th July 2011
http://www.czechopen.net/en/
http://www.czechopen.net/en/live-games/
http://chess-results.com/tnr52962.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

A Section: Tom Wiley 5/9 and Mark Lyell 2.5.
B Section: Grant Bucher 5/9, Phil Makepeace, Peter Andreev & Dominic Foord 4.5 & Matthew Lunn 4.
C Section: Arasu Ganesan 6/9 and Gunnar Mallon 2.
D Section: Tom Slater 4/9.
E section: Alex Gray 3.5/9.

26e Open International Avoine, France 23-31 July 2011
http://echecsavoine.free.fr/20102011/op ... oineGa.htm
http://echecsavoine.free.fr/20102011/op ... neFide.htm
http://echecsavoine.free.fr/

Meri Grigoryan scored 5.5/9.

Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament, Vlissingen, Netherlands 30 July - 6August
http://www.hztoernooi.nl/hz/index.php/en/participants

Malcolm Armstrong is on 2/2.

Politiken Cup 30th July - 7th August 2011
http://www.ksu.dk/politiken_cup/turneri ... 1&aar=2011
http://www.ksu.dk/politiken_cup/turneri ... 1&aar=2011

Peter Sowray is on 2/2.

Lawrence Cooper,
Director of International Chess 31/7/11