International Round-up 21/2/12
Bunratty Chess Festival 17-19 February 2012
http://www.bunrattychess.com/latest.html
http://icu.ie/articles/display.php?id=343
Michael Adams, Nigel Short and Gawain Jones finished equal first on 5/6 with their individual games all ending in hard fought draws. A subsequent play-off for the title between Michael and Nigel (but not Gawain) ended in a 1.5-0.5 victory for Michael. Other leading English scores as follows: Keith Arkell 4.5, Simon Ansell & Malcolm Pein 4, Mark Hebden, Simon Williams, Lawrence Trent & Thomas Rendle 3.5, Lawrence Cooper & Natasha Regan 3. There were ten grandmasters and also ten international masters amongst the forty-four players.
Michael Adams also won the blitz tournament, beating Mark Hebden in the final. Despite the event having no prize money six grandmasters and five international masters took part.
e2e4 Brighton International & Seniors 15-19 February 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/brighton/Feb2012/mastersA.htm
http://e2e4.org.uk/brighton/Feb2012/index.htm
In the Masters Nicolas Croad of New Zealand took first place with 6.5/9 and another IM norm to add to the one he achieved at the 2011 Big Slick International. Peter Sowray scored 6 performing at 2412 and missing a norm by half a point, Jack Rudd & Michael White scored 5.5, Andrew Bigg scored 5, Alex Longson 3.5 and Robert Willmoth 3.
Challengers A: Paul Roberts 7.5/9, Ravi Haria & Ashley Stewart 6.5.
Challengers B: Rob Bodicker 7, Isaac Craft 6.
Major A: Jonathan Wells & Matthew Payne 6.5.
Major B: Darrell Watson 7.5, Shyam Kalairajah 6.5.
Major C: Timothy Crouch 6, Jonathan Melsom & Robert Sisoev 5.5.
Major D: Barry Miles 6.5, Alicia Mason 6.
Major E: Lee Bullock 7.5, Charles Holcombe & Peter Kearns 7.
26th Cannes Chess Festival 13-19 February 2012
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Resultat.aspx ... &Action=09
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Resultat.aspx ... &Action=09
http://www.chessdom.com/26th-cannes-chess-festival
Rufus Duff scored 4.5/9 and Isaac Sanders 3 in the A section whilst Gavin Lock scored 6.5, Graham Burton, Ray Edwards, Julian Farrand, Harry Lamb & Keith Richardson scored 6, Kevin Bailey 5.5, Steve Crick 5 and Ian Lamb 2 in the B section.
3rd Pfalz Open 2012 Neustadt an der Weinstrasse GER 17th-21st Feb 2012
http://pfalzopen.de/index.php?option=co ... 26&lang=en
Tom Wiley scored 6, Lorin D’Costa & Edmund Player 5.5, Alan Merry 4.5 & David Whitehead 4.
10th international Chess Festival of "Meurthe et Moselle" Nancy, France 20-26 Feb
http://echecs54.free.fr/festival2012/ap ... ivalLs.htm
http://echecs54.free.fr/festival2012/ap ... airing.htm
http://echecs54.free.fr/festival2012/ap ... airing.htm
http://echecs54.free.fr/festival2012/ap ... airing.htm
Nathan Alfred is in Group B, Philip Tozer Group C and Meri Grigoryan Group E. Each event is a ten player all-play-all. Scores after three rounds: Nathan 0, Philip 1.5, Meri 1.
Future events:
4th Batavia Chess Tournament, Amsterdam 24th Feb - 4 Mar 2012
http://batavia1920.nl/chess/
Mark Hebden and Keith Arkell are playing in the ten player all-play-all.
Bundesliga 25th-26th February 2012
http://bundesliga.liveschach.net/
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ligen/ra ... u=inactive
Junior 4NCL Weekend 3 Barcelo Hotel, Hinckley Island 3rd-4th March 2012
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/jn_competition_rules.htm
Cappelle La Grande International Open 3-10 March 2012
http://www.cappelle-chess.fr/en2/default.php
First Saturday Budapest Hungary 3-13 March 2012
http://firstsaturday.hu/firstsat_progra ... 1_2012.htm
Reykjavik Open 6-13 March 2012
http://skaksamband.is/?c=webpage&id=490/
e2e4 High Wycombe Congress 16-18 March 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/high_wycombe/Mar2012/index.htm
European Individual Championship Plovdiv, Bulgaria 19th March - 1st April 2012
http://www.eicc2012.eu/
Gawain Jones, David Howell, Adam Hunt and Andrew Ledger have all entered.
Cork Congress 23-25 March 2012
http://www.corkchess.com/index.php?page=cork-congress-2
British Blitz Championship Saturday 24th March, 2012 at the Quinborne Community Centre, Ridgacre Road, Quinton, West Midlands B32 2TW
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/?page_id=15530
Chief Organiser: Alex Holowczak – [email protected]
In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic902.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 21/2/12