International Round Up 22/11/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 22/11/11

World Youth Championships 2011 Caldas Novas, Brazil 18-26 Nov 2011
http://www.wycc2011.com/
http://chess-results.com/tnr58156.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

The scores after round 4 are as follows:

Under 18B: Yang-Fan Zhou 2.5/4
Under 16B: Brandon Clarke 2/4
Under 16G: Jennifer Ehr 2.5/4
Under 14B: William Foo 3.0/4
Under 14G: Katherine Shepherd 2/4
Under 12B: Ravi Haria 3.5/4
Under 12G: Cosima Keen 2.5/4
Under 10B: Anthony Zhang 1.5/4
Under 10G:Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 2.5/4

The coaches are Jovanka Houska, Andrew Martin and Simon Williams. Good luck to all the players representing England.

Max Euwe Mem Gp2 Amsterdam (NED), 14-20 November 2011 cat. X (2500)
http://en.euwetoernooi.nl/matches/ranking/
http://en.euwetoernooi.nl/matches/pairings/

Stuart Conquest played in a four player, double round all-play-all event against Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, Robin Van Kampen and Monika Socko. He finished in third place on 2/6.

2nd Brno Open takes place 12th-18th November 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr59693.aspx? ... ES&flag=30

Tim Spanton scored 5/9, David Guttridge 4, Raymond Kearsley 3.5 and Alan Collins 1.5.

Future events:

Voivoda Cup Poland 24-30 November 2011
http://www.szachy.lca.pl/

Adam Hunt will play.

e2e4 Brighton Congress 25th - 27th November 2011
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/brighton/Nov2011/index.htm

Entries include grandmaster Keith Arkell.

London Chess Classic 3-12 December 2011
http://www.londonchessclassic.com/

This year’s Classic is the strongest yet with Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and David Howell playing in the same section as Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik and Hikaru Nakamura.

The FIDE rated open includes grandmasters Nick Pert, Simon Williams, Mark Hebden, Peter Wells, Aaron Summerscale and Keith Arkell.

The women’s invitational includes Dagne Ciuksyte, Susan Lalic, Ingrid Lauterbach and Meri Grigoryan.

European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship, Warsaw Poland 16-18 Dec 2011
http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2011/en/

Gawain Jones, Tom Wiley, Malcolm Armstrong and Leo Keely have all entered.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic889.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 22/11/11