International Round Up 24/11/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 24/11/11

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 of the English players with two rounds to go are as follows:

Under 18B: Yang-Fan Zhou 5.5/7
Under 16B: Brandon Clarke 4/7
Under 16G: Jennifer Ehr 3/7
Under 14B: William Foo 3.5/7
Under 14G: Katherine Shepherd 3.5/7
Under 12B: Ravi Haria 5.5/7
Under 12G: Cosima Keen 4.5/7
Under 10B: Anthony Zhang 3.5/7
Under 10G:Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 4/7

The coaches are Jovanka Houska, Andrew Martin and Simon Williams.

Bundesliga 19-20 November 2011
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ligen/ru ... spieltag=4
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ligen/ru ... spieltag=5
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ligen/ru ... u=inactive
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ligen/ra ... u=inactive

Luke McShane scored 1.5/2 on board 3 for Werder Bremen in his first rated games since the European Individual in March including a win against the Swedish grandmaster Hans Tikkanen. His team won both matches.

Mickey Adams fresh from his gold medal on board 1 for England at the European Team scored two draws on top board for Baden Baden who won on both days.

David Howell and Stephen Gordon both played for SG Trier and scored 0.5/2 and 1.5/2 on boards 2 and 5 respectively. The team won on Saturday but lost on Sunday.

Werder Bremen and Baden Baden both have eight match points out of a possible ten and lead the table along with SC Epping whilst SG Trier have three match points.

After two weekends the players have the following score and performance:

Michael 2/5/5 2601
Luke 1.5/2 2752
Gawain 1.5/3 2620
David 2/5 2611
Stephen 2.5/4 2611

Finnish Chess League
http://www.shakki.net/liiga/liiga1112.htm
http://www.shakki.net/kerhot/MatSK/

Richard Palliser has scored 3.0/4 for MatSK, Espoo. His team have won four and drawn one of their five matches this season.

Voivoda Cup Poland 24-30 November 2011
http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje/20 ... tb=1_&rd=2_
http://www.szachy.lca.pl/

Adam Hunt drew his first round game.

Future events:

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

Entries in the FIDE rated open include grandmaster Keith Arkell, IM Arghyadip Das and FM Peter Sowray. There is also a FIDE rated major for players rated below 2000 or below ECF 170 if unrated.

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 Gawain Jones, 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, David Howell, Tom Wiley, Lawrence Cooper, Malcolm Armstrong and Leo Keely have all entered from England. A reminder to anyone wishing to play that the deadline is Friday 25th November. Applications should be sent by e-mail to [email protected] no later than on the 25th of November 2011. The application must contain the player’s name, rating, birth date.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic890.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 24/11/11

[LozCooper]

Kilkenny Open 25-27 November 2011
http://www.icu.ie/misc/games/sm/kilkenn ... index.html
http://www.icu.ie/misc/games/live/tfd.htm

Gawain Jones is on 4/4. There are six GMs and 4 IMs playing in the Masters.

[LozCooper]

Round 5 live games include Cheparinov - Gawain Jones: http://www.icu.ie/misc/games/live/tfd.htm

Updated pairings are here: http://www.icu.ie/misc/games/sm/kilkenn ... index.html

[LozCooper]

Gawain drew and Mark Hebden won so they lead with 4.5/5 and will play in the final round