International Round Up 6/8/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 6/8/11

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.mattywebbchess.com/
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7437

Mickey Adams and Nigel Short shared first place on 8.5/11 with Mickey winning the two game rapid play-off for the title 1.5-0.5. Gawain Jones and Jonathan Hawkins finished on 8 and Danny Gormally, David Howell and Nick Pert finished on 7.5. Jovanka Houska became British and English Womens Champion with 7/11 whilst David Howell became British Under 21 Champion.

Results from other sections:

Seniors: 1st David Anderton 6.5/7
Under 16: 1st Craig Whitfield 6/7
Under 14: 1st Roy Zhang 5.5/7
Under 13: 1st Ananthanarayan Balaji 5.5/7
Under 12: 1st Matthew Wadsworth 7/7
Under 11: 1st Yang-Jian Zhou 6/7
Under 10: 1st Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 6/7
Under 9: 1st Anthony Zhang 6/7
Under 8: 1st Aditya Verma 5.5/6

Major Open: 1st= Arne Hagesaether, John Sugden & Nicholas Tavoularis 8/11
5 Day Morning Week 1: 1st Akash Jain 4.5/5
5 Day Afternoon Week 1: 1st Christopher Doran 4/5
5 Day Morning Week 2: 1st= David Graham, Stephen Mitchell & Andrew Smith 4/5
5 Day Afternoon Week 2: 1st Andrew Smith 5/5
Under 180: 1st= James M Foster & Jasper Tambini 4/5
Under 160: 1st= Roger Greatorex & Mark Reynolds 4.5/5
Under 140: 1st= Richard Bowman & Simon Watson 4.5/5.
Under 120: 1st= Shirdel Khosroabadi 4.5/5
Weekend Atkins: 1st= John Carleton, Robert Newton & Stephen Orton 4/5
Weekend Soanes (U150/1700): 1st Richard Desmedt 5/5
Weekend Yates (U125/1450): 1st Pavan Murali 4.5/5
Rapidplay 1: 1st Danny Gormally 5.5/6
Rapidplay 2: 1st James Adair 5.5/6

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

Malcolm Armstrong is on 4.5/8.

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 5/8.

Huitième Open International de Plancoët 31 July - 6 August 2011
http://opendeplancoet.blogspot.com/p/ap ... ltats.html
http://dl.free.fr/cn4rnvZlx

Meri Grigoryan is on 4/6.

US Open Orlando, Florida 30 July - 7 August 2011
http://www.uschess.org/tournaments/2011/usopen/
http://www.alchess.com/chess/11/usopen/

John Duggan is on 5/7.

9th European Union Youth Chess Championship, Mureck, Austria, 2-11 August
http://www.jugendschsch.at
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr53697.a ... =0&flag=30

Scores after three rounds:

U8 Douglas Claridge~Hansen (Playing in the Styrian) 0, Oliver Howell 1.5, Tai Remus~Elliot 1.
U10 Gautan Jain 1.5, Luke Remus Elliot 0.
U12 William Claridge~Hansen 3.
U14 James Bowler 1.

Thanks again to Peter Turner for arranging the English entry and to Neil McDonald and Tom Eckersley~Waites for coaching.

Future events:

9th Davos Open, Switzerland, 7-13 August 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr49043.aspx?lan=1
http://www.sinchess.com/davos/

Matthew Turner, Mark Ferguson, Andrew Bigg, Chris Briscoe and Brian Smith are all playing.

Riga Technical University Open, Latvia, 9-14 August 2011
http://www.sahafederacija.lv/?p=712

Craig and James Hanley are playing.

e2e4 Sunningdale International 10th - 14th August 2011
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/20 ... /index.htm

Grandmasters Simon Williams, Danny Gormally and Keith Arkell are amongst the grandmasters playing in the 10 player all-play-all events with IM, WGM and WIM norms available.

[Phil Makepeace]

Myself and Rafe Martyn are playing in the 10-player City of Dublin IM Norm APA from August 26-30. The rest of the line-up consists of 6 Irishmen and 2 Scots.

[Jon D'Souza-Eva]

Lots of British players playing at Olomouc in the Czech Republic at the moment.

Alan Collins, David Guttridge and Raymond Kearsley in the Old Codgers' tournament:
http://chess-results.com/tnr54145.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

Tom Wiley in one of the ten player all-play-alls:
http://chess-results.com/tnr54142.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

Ian Happell, Richard Truman and Tim Spanton in the Open:
http://chess-results.com/tnr54144.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

[LozCooper]

Lots of British players playing at Olomouc in the Czech Republic at the moment.

Alan Collins, David Guttridge and Raymond Kearsley in the Old Codgers' tournament:
http://chess-results.com/tnr54145.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

Tom Wiley in one of the ten player all-play-alls:
http://chess-results.com/tnr54142.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

Ian Happell, Richard Truman and Tim Spanton in the Open:
http://chess-results.com/tnr54144.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

Many thanks.

[Paul Bielby]

And, as usual, Paul Townsend and Tim Adams are playing in Crete - the 7th annual Gazi-Iraklio Tournament in Iraklion

[LozCooper]

And, as usual, Paul Townsend and Tim Adams are playing in Crete - the 7th annual Gazi-Iraklio Tournament in Iraklion

Thanks Paul
http://gazi2011.gazichess.gr/content/pa ... 03-08-2011

[Kevin Thurlow]

Ian Heppell, shurely?

[Leonard Barden]

US Open Orlando, Florida 30 July - 7 August 2011
http://www.uschess.org/tournaments/2011/usopen/
http://www.alchess.com/chess/11/usopen/

John Duggan is on 5/7.

John Duggan finished the US Open yesterday with a superb result for a 180-ish Kent club player, scoring 6.5/9. He was only one point behind the winners who included Hikaru Nakamura, and he drew in the final round with former world senior champion Larry Kaufman. His round 8 and round 9 games can be found on TWIC and on chessgames.com.