International Round Up 9/9/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 9/9/11

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

The event is a 128 player knockout with the early rounds being played over two games with extra rapid and blitz games if the scores are still level.

Mickey Adams won 1.5-0.5 against Mark Paragua in round 1 but was eliminated by the Danish grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen in round 2. The standard play games were both drawn and after a draw in the first rapid play game Mickey then lost with white in game 4 thereby losing 1.5-2.5.

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 scored 6.5/9 and Glenn Charleshouse 4.5.

CCF Late Summer LP Congress [inc. FIDE Open] 3-4 September 2011
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Results/2011-09-04_LP.htm

Marcus Osborne won with 4.5/5 and also qualified for the 2012 British. Giampiero Amato, Robin Haladane and Julian Way shared second on 3.5.

1st Barclays International Chess Festival 4-11 Sept 2011
http://www.circoloscacchivitinia.net/ww ... nding.html
http://www.circoloscacchivitinia.net/ww ... index.html
http://raksy.dyndns.org/mato/vitinia/to ... bboard.swf
http://pakchess.org/tournament-news/bar ... live-italy

Gawain Jones is on 4/6.

61st DCCA Paignton Congress 4-10 September 2011
http://www.chessdevon.co.uk/HTML/congre ... n/base.htm
http://www.mattywebbchess.com/latest-news/

Sixteen times champion Keith Arkell is half clear after five rounds on 4.5/5 after beating Steve Berry who had been leading with 4/4 after a win against Colin Crouch.

FSIM September Budapest HUN Sat 3rd Sep 2011 - Mon 12th Sep 2011
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/
http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1109/im.htm
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr55691.a ... ES&flag=30

Mark Lyell is on 4.5/6. IM norm is 7.5/10.

Future events:

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

England is represented by the following players:

Under 18: James Foster and Abigail Pritchard
http://chess-results.com/tnr55709.aspx?art=0&lan=1
http://chess-results.com/tnr55703.aspx?lan=1
Under 16: Marcus Harvey & Chantelle Foster
http://chess-results.com/tnr55708.aspx?lan=1
http://chess-results.com/tnr55702.aspx?lan=1
Under 14: Ananthanarayan Balaji, Henry Broadley, Tarun Malhotra & Louise Head
http://chess-results.com/tnr55707.aspx?lan=1
http://chess-results.com/tnr55701.aspx?lan=1
Under 12: Harry Croasdale
http://chess-results.com/tnr55706.aspx?lan=1
Under 10: Arul Gupta & Asha Jina
http://chess-results.com/tnr55705.aspx?lan=1
http://chess-results.com/tnr55699.aspx?lan=1

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

Entrants include grandmasters Nick Pert, Mark Hebden, Peter Wells and Keith Arkell. As with all e2e4 weekenders there will be a FIDE rated open and major.

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

Both White Rose and e2e4.org.uk are playing from England.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic878.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 9/9/11

[Peter Turner]

Euroyouth Bulgaria 2011

Hope the England team have settled in to their accommodation and ready for round 1 today. All the very best to everyone.
With thanks to Phil Thomas (I hope he doesn't me copying from the Chess Scotland site) I noticed the following:-

by Phil Thomas » Sun Sep 11, 2011 6:53 am

Best of Luck to all. First round starts at 15.00 local time = 13.00 UK

Web site claims 60 live boards will be running. Allowing 120 players to appear live = around 12 % of competitors.

Not known yet if any Scots have a live game today.

Good quality links to each section are on the home page.

Below are links for the live games
http://www.eycc2011.eu/games/live1

http://www.eycc2011.eu/games/live2

http://www.eycc2011.eu/games/live3

[Peter Turner]

European Youth
The pairings are published. Show Louise on board 2, so could be a live game with White v WFM Nicolas Zapata Irene 2112