International Round Up 30/11/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 30/11/11

London Chess Classic 3-12 December 2011
http://www.londonchessclassic.com/
http://www.londonchessclassic.com/class ... irings2011
http://www.livechess.co.uk/classic/2011 ... index.html
http://www.livechess.co.uk/classic/2011 ... index.html

This year’s Classic is the strongest yet with Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and David Howell taking on Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik and Hikaru Nakamura. The pairings are now available online and the first round pairings are as follows: Adams-Anand, Aronian-McShane, Carlsen-Howell, Kramnik-Nakamura with Nigel Short in the commentary room.

The FIDE rated open includes grandmasters Gawain Jones, Nick Pert, Simon Williams, Mark Hebden, Peter Wells, Aaron Summerscale and Keith Arkell. There are also several English IMs playing with a realistic chance of a GM norm.

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

There will be live games from each of the three events on the tournament website.

Play starts on Saturday 3rd December with the Classic starting at 14:00 and the other nine round events at 14:30.

Malta Open 20-26 November 2011
http://www.chessorg.de/Listen2011/tourn ... anking.htm
http://www.chessorg.de/malta.php
http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/bryne ... malta-open

English scores as follows:

Craig Hanley & Keith Richardson 6, Julian Farrand, Gary Quillan & David Spence 5.5, Graham Burton, Daniel Ellis, Ray Edwards, Andrew Fleming, Gary Hinchcliffe, Martin Sheard & Ian Wallis 4.5, John Baker & Derek Sheppard 4.

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

Adam Hunt scored 5/9 in the ten player all-play-all with a rating performance of 2464 and finished with two wins including a win against a Czech grandmaster in round 9.

Future events:

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

Northern California International Jan 2-8 2012
http://dotq.org/chess/
http://adamhuntchess.blogspot.com/

Adam Hunt is registered.

CCF New Year LP Congress (inc. FIDE Open) 7-8 Jan 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/

74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament: 13 - 29 January 2012
http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tournamen ... 12/group/3

Matthew Sadler will play in Group C. Sadly Luke McShane was unable to take his place in Group A because of work commitments.

Golden State Open California 13-16 Jan 2012
http://www.goldenstateopen.net/
http://www.chesstour.com/gso12.htm
http://adamhuntchess.blogspot.com/

Adam Hunt will play.

4NCL Hinckley Island & Wychwood Park 14-15 Jan 2012
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/index.htm

2012 Queenstown Chess Classic, Queenstown, New Zealand 15th-23rd January 2012
http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/queenstownchess/
http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/queens ... tries.html

Gawain Jones, Ingrid Lauterbach and Malcolm Armstrong are all playing.

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 24 Jan - 2 Feb 2012
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/w ... asters.htm

Michael Adams and Nigel Short are playing along with Adam Hunt, Craig Hanley and Jovanka Houska.

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 30/11/11