International Round Up 27/11/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 27/11/11

Kilkenny Masters 25-27 November 2011
http://www.icu.ie/misc/games/sm/kilkenn ... index.html

Gawain Jones continued his great run of form by winning the Masters with 5.5/6, defeating fellow English GM Mark Hebden in the last round. Gawain played 2 GMs and 2 IMs whilst Mark played 3 GMs and an IM and finished 2nd= with GMs Baburin, Cheparinov & Maze and FM Colm Daly on 4.5.

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 English players final scores (out of nine) were as follows:

Under 18B: Yang-Fan Zhou 6.5
Under 16B: Brandon Clarke 5
Under 16G: Jennifer Ehr 3
Under 14B: William Foo 5
Under 14G: Katherine Shepherd 4
Under 12B: Ravi Haria 7
Under 12G: Cosima Keen 4.5
Under 10B: Anthony Zhang 5
Under 10G:Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 5

A special mention for Ravi Haria who was in contention for a medal going into the last round. He drew with the player who subsequently took the gold medal and finished 3rd= (sixth on tie-break) half a point behind the two joint winners. He also gained 20 rating points.

Yang-Fan Zhou also had a good performance, a loss in round 8 put him out of medal contention but a last round win meant he finished in equal fifth place (sixth on tie-break).

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

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

Congratulations to Keith Arkell who won the FIDE rated Open with 4.5/5, half a point clear of Peter Sowray and David Norton. Wiatt Ropp won the FIDE rated Major with 4.5/5 whilst Adam C Taylor shared 2nd on 4 with Paul Smith and Darrell Watson.

Voivoda Cup Poland 24-30 November 2011
http://www.chessarbiter.com/turnieje/20 ... ?l=en&pr=8_
http://adamhuntchess.blogspot.com/

Adam Hunt is on 2/5 in the ten player all-play-all with GM norm opportunities.

Future events:

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.

North American Open 26-29 December 2011
http://chesstournamentservices.com/cca/ ... ican-open/
http://www.chesstour.com/nao11.htm
http://adamhuntchess.blogspot.com/

Adam Hunt will play.

Hastings International Chess Congress 28 Dec 2011 - 5 Jan 2012
http://www.hastingschess.com/
http://www.hastingschess.com/?page_id=347
http://www.hastingschess.com/?page_id=11

London Christmas Congress & Junior Chess Championship 28-30 Dec 2011
http://www.ljcc.co.uk

Lawrence Cooper,
Director of International Chess
English Chess Federation 27/11/11

[Roger de Coverly]

You didn't mention the recently concluded Malta Open as reported by Chessvibes at
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/bryne ... malta-open

The organisers website is http://www.chessorg.de/malta.php which lists an unusually high number of English players
http://www.chessorg.de/Listen2011/tourn ... ipants.htm

The organisers ChessOrg Hoffmann Reisen GmbH are a German equivalent to e2e4 in the sense that they offer complete packages of Hotel and Tournament. With the German liking for chess tourism, not all their events are in Germany.

[LozCooper]

You didn't mention the recently concluded Malta Open as reported by Chessvibes at
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/bryne ... malta-open

The organisers website is http://www.chessorg.de/malta.php which lists an unusually high number of English players
http://www.chessorg.de/Listen2011/tourn ... ipants.htm

The organisers ChessOrg Hoffmann Reisen GmbH are a German equivalent to e2e4 in the sense that they offer complete packages of Hotel and Tournament. With the German liking for chess tourism, not all their events are in Germany.

Thanks Roger. The reason I didn't look for the results was because I was told the event had been cancelled