International Round-up 17/1/12
4NCL Hinckley Island & Wychwood Park 14-15 Jan 2012
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/index.htm
Wood Green beat Guildford 5.5-2.5 to lead Pool 1A after four rounds with a maximum eight match points. David Howell beat Nigel Short, Jonathan Rowson beat Tony Kosten and Nick Pert beat David Smerdon whilst the other five boards were drawn. From an English perspective the pick of the other results was a draw with black for Stephen Gordon against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
Cheddleton, Barbican and White Rose head Pool 1B with six match points. Whilst Barbican had a 4.5-3.5 win over White Rose, Cheddleton suffered a shock 4.5-3.5 defeat against Oxford.
Pandora’s Box and Poisoned Pawns head Pool 2A with 7 match points, AMCA Dragons top 2B with eight. North East England lead Division 3 North with eight whilst Wessex and KJCA Kings top the South Division with eight.
37th Seville Open 7th-15th January 2012
http://www.fsajedrez.com/
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr63295.a ... ilen=99999
Stewart Haslinger scored 7/9 to finish equal second whilst his brother Gareth finished on 5.5 and his father Mike on 4.5.
Golden State Open California 13-16 Jan 2012
http://www.goldenstateopen.net/
http://chesstournamentservices.com/cca/ ... standings/
http://adamhuntchess.blogspot.com/
Adam Hunt scored 4/6.
74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament: 14 - 28 January 2012
http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tournamen ... 12/group/3
http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tournament/livegames
Matthew Sadler is in Group C and is on 2.5/4. Sadly Luke McShane was unable to take his place in Group A because of work commitments.
2012 Queenstown Chess Classic, Queenstown, New Zealand 15th-23rd January 2012
http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/queenstownchess/
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr63826.aspx?lan=1
http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/queens ... games.html
Gawain Jones is on 2.5/3, Ingrid Lauterbach 2 and Malcolm Armstrong 1.5.
Prague Open 13-20 Jan 2012
http://www.czechtour.net/prague-open/results-and-games/
http://chess-results.com/tnr63755.aspx? ... ag=30&m=-1
Peter Constantinou is on 3.5/5.
Future events:
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 24 Jan - 2 Feb 2012
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/w ... asters.htm
Michael Adams, Nigel Short and David Howell are playing along with Adam Hunt, Craig Hanley, Jovanka Houska, Gary Quillan and Simon Ansell.
In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic897.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=3795
Lawrence Cooper,
Director of International Chess 17/1/12