International Round Up 30/8/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 30/8/11

XIII OPEN INTERNACIONAL D'ESCACS DE SANTS, HOSTAFRANCS I LA BORDETA 19-28 August 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr54832.aspx? ... =1&flag=30
http://www.cotxeres.org/open/open2011/a ... pa2011.htm

Matthew Sadler finished first with 8.5/10 and a performance of 2758 in his first rated event since 1998. Peter Sowray & David Eggleston scored 6 and Graham Burton 4.5.

47th Berks and Bucks Congress 27-29 August 2011
http://results.tournamentdirector.co.uk ... &Year=2011

15-year-old Peter Williams won the FIDE rated Championship with 5/6, ahead of Paul Girdlestone 4.5/6 (British Championship Qualifier).
Challengers A 1st = John Wager, Paul Janota and Liam Varnam all with 4/5.
Challengers B 1st= 14-year-old Chantelle Foster and 12-year-old Guy Moss 4.5/6.

4th Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 20-28 August 2011
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Results/2 ... tional.htm
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chessway/jg4.htm
http://www.jessiegilbert.com/

Keith Arkell won the the 4th Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival Open with 8/9 finishing two points clear of Bogdan Lalic and had a performance of 2627. Chris W Baker and Michael Healey finished 4th equal on 5.5.

FIDE World Cup 2011 28th August - 20th September 2011
http://livegames.fide.com/km2011/round.php
http://chess.ugrasport.com/?page_id=261
http://chess.ugrasport.com/wp-content/u ... 250711.pdf

Mickey Adams won game 1 with black in round 1 against Mark Paragua and then drew a hard fought 111 move game 2 to qualify for the second round where he will play Peter Heine Nielsen.

BDO Chess Tournament, Haarlem Netherlands 20-28 August 2011
http://www.bdochess.nl/live/
http://www.bdochess.nl/en/premier/standings/
http://www.bdochess.nl/en/challenger/stand/
http://www.bdochess.nl/en/bdo-open/open-a/

In the Premier all-play-all, which had GM norms available, Stewart Haslinger finished on 4.5/9 and Lorin D’Costa 2. In the Challengers IM norm all-play-all Peter Poobalasingam scored 2.5/9 and James Jackson 2. In the Open A Sarah Hegarty scored 5/9 and Gareth Haslinger 3.5 whilst in the Open B Hannah Dale & Mike Haslinger finished on 5.5/9.

XXIII Festival Internazionale del Fermano -Porto San Georgio - Italy 21-28 Aug
http://www.scacchirandagi.com/PSG2011/wwwPSG2011OpenA/

Kevin White scored 5.5/9 and Alan Trent finished on 2.

Leinster Chess Union’s IM Norm Tournament 26-30 August 2011
http://leinsterchess.com/blog/games/
http://www.guthanphobail.net/fic/lcu2011a.htm

Rafe Martyn scored 4.5/9 and Phil Makepeace 0.5 in the ten player IM norm all-play-all. Sam Collins won the tournament with 6.5/9.

5th Leyland Chess Congress 27-29 August 2011
http://www.leylandchess.org.uk/congress ... esults.htm

Ali Jaunooby won with 6/6 ahead of Mike Surtees & Martin Goodger with 4.5.

10th Sunny Beach Open, Bulgaria 27th Aug - 4th Sept 2011
http://www.sunnybeach-chess.com/2011_results.html
http://www.sunnybeach-chess.com/2011_standings.html

Gary Quillan has 2.5/3 and Glenn Charleshouse has 2.

Future events:

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]

European Youth Chess Championship U8 – U18 Albena, Bulgaria 10-21 Sep 2011
http://www.eycc2011.eu/

e2e4 Sunningdale Congress : 16-18 September 2011
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/sunningdale/Sept2011/index.htm

European Club Cup Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia 23 Sep - 1 Oct 2011
http://ecc2011.sahohlacnik.com/

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic877.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 30/8/11