International Round-up 4/4/12

[LawrenceCooper]

International Round-up 4/4/12

European Individual Championship Plovdiv, Bulgaria 19th March - 1st April 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr66864.aspx? ... =30&snr=60
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr66864.a ... =1&flag=30
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr66864.aspx?lan=1
http://www.eicc2012.eu/

Congratulations to Gawain Jones who qualified for the World Cup (being held in Tromso, Norway from 10th August to 5th September 2013) with a rating performance of 2760 and a score of 7.5/11 to finish in fifteenth place out of three hundred and forty eight players. He was sixtieth seed and gained nineteen rating points.

David Howell won his last three rounds to finish with 7/11, Adam Hunt scored 5 and Andrew Ledger finished on 4.5.

4NCL Divisions 1, 2, 3 North & South 31 March - 1st April 2012
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/tbs_1112.htm
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/index.htm

After rounds seven and eight the standings are as follows:

Division One Championship Pool: Wood Green Hilsmark 1 8/8, Cheddleton 6, Guildford 1 & Barbican 1 5, White Rose, Jutes of Kent, Barbican 2 and e2e4.org.uk 2 pts.

Division One Demotion Pool: Cambridge University 1 8, The ADs 6, Blackthorne Russia 5, WGHK 2 4, Guildford 2 & Oxford 3, Bristol 2, Anglian Avengers 1.

Division Two Promotion Pool: AMCA Dragons 8/8, Pandora’s Box Grantham & South Wales Dragons 5, White Rose 2 & Warwickshire Select 4, Sambuca Sharks 3, Kings Head 2, Poisoned Pawns 1.

Division Two Demotion Pool: Rhyfelwyr Essyllwg 7, Barbican Youth 6, Spirit of Atticus & Bradford A 5, 3Cs & Cambridge University 2 4, FCA Solutions 1 & Brown Jack 0.

Division Three Leaders:

KJCA Kings & North East England 14/16, AMCA Rhinos 13, Wessex, e2e4.org.uk 2 & Anglian Avengers 2 12, Cambridge University 3 and Guildford 3 11.

European Senior Team Chess Championship Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia 27 March - 4 April 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr67565.aspx? ... =1&flag=30
http://chess-results.com/tnr67565.aspx? ... =30&snr=17
http://chess-results.com/tnr67565.aspx? ... ilen=99999
http://sent2012.sahohlacnik.com/

England 1 finished in fourteenth place with 11 match points comprising five wins, 1 draw and 3 losses, England 2 scored ten (4 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses) whilst England 3 scored seven (two wins, three draws and four losses).

The individual scores of the English teams were as follows:

England 1: Anthony Stebbings 4.5/9, Geoffrey James 3/9, Kenneth Norman 3.5/9 and Michael Yeo 8/9.
England 2: Anthony Ashby 3.5/9, Paul Habershon 6/9, John Quinn 6.5/9 & Stewart Reuben 3/9,
England 3: James Scholes 4.5/9, Paul Kendall 4.5/8, Roger Scowen 2.5/7, Peter Wood 5.5/9 & Dinah Norman 0.5/3.

28th Budapest Spring Budapest HUN Mon 26th Mar 2012 - Tue 3rd Apr 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr69300.a ... =30&snr=11

Mark Lyell played in rounds two to seven scoring four points from his six games.

35th San Sebastian Open 31st March - 7 April 2012
http://www.fgajedrez.org/open-de-san-se ... esultados/
http://www.fgajedrez.org/open-de-san-sebastian/

Maxim Devereaux is on 5/6.

Future events:

6th annual Philadelphia Chess International Open 4th - 8th April 2012
http://www.chesstour.com/po12.htm

e2e4 Dublin International 5-9 April 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/dublin/index.htm

Doeberl Cup Canberra, Australia 5-9 April 2012
http://www.doeberlcup.com.au/

David Garner is playing.

CCF Easter International 6-7 April 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Adult%20C ... Easter.htm

Delft 6-8 April 2012
http://www.delftseschaaksite.nl/toernoo ... le&id=2049

Stewart Haslinger is playing in the A Group, David Gilbert and Brendan O'Gorman are playing in the B Group and Tim Allen in the C group.

Southend-on-Sea Easter Congress 6-9 April 2012
http://southendchess.awardspace.biz/clu ... gress.html

Surrey Easter Congress (Open and Major sections) April 6-9 April 2012
http://www.surreychesscongress.co.uk

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic908.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 4/4/12

[David Sedgwick]

European Senior Team Chess Championship Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia 27 March - 4 April 2012

http://sent2012.sahohlacnik.com/

Michael Yeo [scored] 8/9.

This was a tremendous result by Michael - the best individual score in the entire event. The second best, 7½/9, was obtained by a certain Victor Korchnoi.

For details, go to the above link and click on "Best players - Rd 9".

Many congratulations to Michael.