International Round Up 9/8/11

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International Round Up 9/8/11

Post by LozCooper » Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:39 am

International Round-up 9/8/11

Darwin Strategic Limited Championship of the British Isles 24th July - 6th August
http://www.britishchess2011.com/prizewinners_2011.htm
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 (second GM norm) 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, Yang-Fan Zhou under 18 champion and Sheila Dines under 18 girls 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

In addition, the following prizes were awarded within the sections above:

Under 16 girl: Megan Owens & Ali Roy
Under 15 open: Oscar A Hackner & Marcus Harvey
Under 15 girl: Radha Jain
Under 14 girl: Louise Head & Katherine Shepherd
Under 13 girl: Cosima Keen
Under 12 girl: Cosima Keen
Under 11 girl: Eva Ressel & Beatrice Steele
Under 10 boy: Anthony Y Zhang
Under 9 girl: Stephanie du Toit
Under 8 girl: Aishwarya Lutchman-Singh

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

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 six rounds:

U8 Oliver Howell 2.5, Tai Remus~Elliot 3
U8-12 Douglas Claridge~Hansen 0.5, .
U10 Gautan Jain 2.5, Luke Remus Elliot 1.
U12 William Claridge~Hansen 3.5.
U14 James Bowler 2.

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

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 scored 6.5/9.

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

Malcolm Armstrong finished on 5/9.

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 scored 6.5/10.

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 finished on 4/7.

Olomouc Chess Summer 3-11 August 2011
http://www.a64.cz/tournaments/olomouc2011/
http://chess-results.com/tnr54142.aspx? ... =1&flag=30
http://chess-results.com/tnr54144.aspx? ... =1&flag=30
http://chess-results.com/tnr54145.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

Tom Wiley is on 2.5/6 in the IM 1 section, Ian Heppell is on 3.5, Tim Spanton 3 and Richard Truman 2.5 in the open and whilst Alan Collins, David Guttridge and Raymond Kearsley are all on 2.5 in the “Open Seniori D” section.

7th Open Chess Tournament Gazi-Heraklion 6-13 August 2011
http://gazi2011.gazichess.gr/

Paul Townsend and Tim Adams are both on 2.5/4.

FSIMA Aug 2011 Budapest HUN Sat 6th Aug 2011 - Mon 15th Aug 2011
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/
http://chess-results.com/tnr54284.aspx? ... ES&flag=30
http://chess-results.com/tnr54289.aspx? ... ES&flag=30
http://chess-results.com/tnr54295.aspx? ... ES&flag=30

Mark Lyell is on 1/3 in the IM A section and Sam Franklin is on 2/3 in IM B. Diana Mihajlova is on 2/3 in FM C.

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.

Future events:

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/entrants_int.htm
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.

Vienna Chess Open 13th-21st August 2011
http://www.vienna-chess-open.at/viennachess.html?&L=3
https://chess-results.com/anmeldung.asp ... n=1&art=10

Andrew Stone, Nicholas Moloney, Dr Jeremy Fraser-Mitchell, Daniel Cotterill, Chris Majer, John Hickman, Kevin Winter, Tim Thurstan and Barry Morris are all registered.

1st Metropolitan International August 17th-21st 2011 in Los Angeles, California
http://www.metrochessla.com/players.php

Michael Adams will play.

2011 Gibraltar Junior International Chess Festival 18-23 August 2011
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/g ... ional.html

XIII OPEN INTERNACIONAL D'ESCACS DE SANTS, HOSTAFRANCS I LA BORDETA 19-28 August 2011
http://www.cotxeres.org/open/
http://www.cotxeres.org/open/inscrits11.htm

Matthew Sadler, Peter Sowray, David Eggleston and Graham Burton are playing.

Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 20-28 August 2011
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/

5th Leyland Chess Congress 27-29 August 2011
includes a FIDE rated open with £250 1st prize http://www.leylandchess.org.uk/congress e-mail: [email protected] Congress Director David Clayton

FIDE World Cup 2011 28th August - 20th September 2011
http://chess.ugrasport.com/

Mickey Adams is England’s sole representative.

CCF Late Summer LP Congress [inc. FIDE Open] 3-4 September 2011
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/

61st DCCA Paignton Congress 4-10 September 2011
Email: [email protected]

Oslo Chess International 2nd- 9th October 2011
http://www.bergensjakk.no/oslointernational/

Matthew Sadler, Adam Hunt and Robert Bellin are all registered.

15th Unive Tournament, Netherlands 15-22 October 2011
http://www.univechess.nl/toernooi-2011/deelnemers/open

Stewart Haslinger is playing in the open.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic874.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 9/8/11
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Re: International Round Up 9/8/11

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:41 am

LozCooper wrote: Darwin Strategic Limited Championship of the British Isles 24th July - 6th August

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, Yang-Fan Zhou under 18 champion and Sheila Dines under 18 girls champion.
Has it been confirmed yet whether Hawkins gained a GM norm, and was it a 10-round one or an 11-round one? And any news on who the qualifiers are from the Major Open? Looks like quite a lot this time round.

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Re: International Round Up 9/8/11

Post by LozCooper » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:48 am

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
LozCooper wrote: Darwin Strategic Limited Championship of the British Isles 24th July - 6th August

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, Yang-Fan Zhou under 18 champion and Sheila Dines under 18 girls champion.
Has it been confirmed yet whether Hawkins gained a GM norm, and was it a 10-round one or an 11-round one? And any news on who the qualifiers are from the Major Open? Looks like quite a lot this time round.
Yes, 10 and 11 round norm. Not sure about how many qualified and until the website is updated with the complete list of prize winners I'm not 100% sure I have all the junior prizes correct.

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Re: International Round Up 9/8/11

Post by Alex McFarlane » Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:40 pm

List of Champions I can oblige with.

2011 Sheffield
Champion: Mickey Adams (3)
Women's : Jovanka Houska (4)
Senior: David Anderton (5)
Under 21: David Howell
Under 18: Yang-Fan Zhou
Under 16: Craig Whitfield
Under 15: Oskar Hackner, Marcus Harvey
Under 14: Roy Y Zhang
Under 13: Ananthanarayan Balaji
Under 12: Matthew Wordsworth
Under 11: Yang-Jian Zhou
Under 10: Akshaya Kalaiyalahan
Under 9: Anthony Zhang
Under 8: Aditya Verma
Under 18 Girl: Shiela Dines
Under 16 Girl: Megan Owen, Ali Roy
Under 15 Girl: Radha Jain
Under 14 Girl: Louise Head, Katherine M Shepherd
Under 13 Girl: Cosima C Keen
Under 12 Girl: Cosima C Keen
Under 11 Girl: Eva Ressel, Beatrice Steele
Under 10 Boy: Anthony Y Zhang
Under 9 Girl: Stephanie du Toit
Under 8 Girl: Aishwarya Lutchman-Singh
Under 180: James M Foster, Jasper Tambini
Under 160: Roger Greatorex, Mark A Reynolds
Under 140: Richard L Bowman, Simon Watson
Under 120: Shirdel Khosroabadi

LozCooper

Re: International Round Up 9/8/11

Post by LozCooper » Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:46 pm

Many thanks for that. I made an error with the U10s which I've now corrected. Wordsworth should read Wadsworth in your list.

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Re: International Round Up 9/8/11

Post by David Sedgwick » Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:49 pm

Alex McFarlane wrote:List of Champions I can oblige with.

2011 Sheffield
Champion: Mickey Adams (3)
Women's : Jovanka Houska (4)
Senior: David Anderton (5)
Are the numbers in brackets supposed to be the number of Championships that each has won.

If so, why count shared Championships for David Anderton but not for Mickey Adams?

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Re: International Round Up 9/8/11

Post by Alex McFarlane » Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:18 pm

Waxing too lyrical with Wadsworth - sorry!

Doesn't 3 + 1 = 3 for Mickey? Oops.

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Re: International Round Up 9/8/11

Post by Stewart Reuben » Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:38 pm

The English Champions have been left out.
Michael Adams (2), Nigel Short (2)
Jovanka Houska (4)

I see the 2011 ECF YearBook has a mistake regarding the 2008 English Champion. Correct is Keith Arkell, Stuart Conquest.
Keith's name has been omitted.

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Re: International Round Up 9/8/11

Post by Matthew Turner » Mon Aug 15, 2011 11:52 am

Final Scores from Davos
1st Matthew Turner 6.5/7
2= Mark Ferguson, Bjorn Tiller 5
5th= Andrew Bigg, David James 4.5
12th Chris Briscoe 4
39th brian Smith 1.5

Lots and lots of mountian walking and beautiful alpine scenery, we even awoke one morning to a dusting of snow. Before getting the impression that it was totally idyllic, you should know beer was £7 a pint (and Fergie's G&T a mere £12).