International Round Up 16/9/11

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LozCooper

International Round Up 16/9/11

Post by LozCooper » Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:03 am

International Round-up 16/9/11

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

Congratulations to Keith Arkell who won the event for the seventeenth time, scoring 6/7. Steve Berry finished second with 5.5 whilst Colin Crouch, Johan Henriksson, Dave Ledger and Francis Rayner shared third with 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 scored 6.5/9 to finish equal second, half a point behind the winner, grandmaster Yuri Solodovnichenko.

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 finished on 4.5/10.

European Youth Chess Championship U8 – U18 Albena, Bulgaria 10-21 Sep 2011
http://www.eycc2011.eu/
http://chess-results.com/tnr55709.aspx? ... =ENG&lan=1

After five rounds the England scores are as follows:

Under 18 boys: James Foster 1.5
Under 18 girls: Abigail Pritchard 1.5
Under 16 boys: Marcus Harvey 2
Under 16 girls: Chantelle Foster 2.5
Under 14: Ananthanarayan Balaji & Tarun Malhotra 2.5, Henry Broadley 1.5
Under 14 girls: Louise Head 2.5
Under 12 boys: Harry Croasdale 1
Under 10: Arul Gupta 2
Under 10 girls: Asha Jina 2

Circolo Scacchistico Amos Cusini Livigno 12-18 September 2011
http://www.livignoscacchi.it/eng/?pag=126
http://www.livignoscacchi.it/eng/?pag=90
http://www.livignoscacchi.it/eng/?pag=129

Adam Hunt and Callum Kilpatrick are on 4/6.

Future events:

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

Entrants include grandmasters Nick Pert, Simon Williams, 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/twic879.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 16/9/11

Jon D'Souza-Eva

Re: International Round Up 16/9/11

Post by Jon D'Souza-Eva » Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:30 am

LozCooper wrote:61st DCCA Paignton Congress 4-10 September 2011

Congratulations to Keith Arkell who won the event for the seventeenth time, scoring 6/7.
Good grief, that must surely be a record? I can't think of anyone who's even won their Club Championship that many times!