International Round-Up 17/8/12

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International Round-Up 17/8/12

Post by LawrenceCooper » Fri Aug 17, 2012 12:41 pm

International Round-up 17/8/12

World Junior Under 20 Athens, Greece 1-16 August 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76324.a ... ES&flag=30
http://www.athens2012.org/

Final scores:

Callum Kilpatrick & Yang-Fan Zhou 7/13, Ravi Haria 5.5, William Jones 4.5 & Henrik Stepanyan 4.5 in the boys/open event and Anna York-Andersen & Megan Owens 5.5/13, Lateefah Messam-Sparks 5 & in the girls. Mark Hebden and Lawrence Cooper were the coaches.

14th IBCA World Chess Olympiad for Blind & Visually Impaired Chennai, India 10-19 Aug 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr78816.aspx? ... ES&flag=30
http://www.aicfb.in/

The United Kingdom team of Colin Crouch, Chris Ross, Stephen Hilton, David Hodgkins and John Gallagher won its first four matches and is currently on 8 match points from six rounds. Colin and Chris have 5/6, Stephen 1/5, David 2/4 and John 0.5/3. Each team is allowed a squad of five and four play in each match.

First Saturday IM-B 4-14 Aug 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr78522.a ... =1&flag=30
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr78519.a ... =1&flag=30
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr78519.a ... g=30&snr=1

Anya Corke finished second with a score of 7/11 in the IM B Section while Mark Lyell scored 5. Anya had a 2400 rating performance and gained 29 points ahead of her England Olympiad debut later this month. Diana Mihajlova scored 1.5/9 in the FM B Section.

2012 US Open Championship, Vancouver, Washington 4-12 August 2012
http://www.alchess.com/chess/12/usopen/

Ian Thompson scored 7/9.

10th Davos Open 5-11 August 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr68587.a ... ES&flag=30
http://www.sinchess.com/davos/

Brian Smith scored 2/7.

Future events:

European Youth Chess Championship Prague 17-25 August 2012
http://www.eycc2012.eu/
http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/meet ... pionships/

Under 10 girls: Meytal Cohen & Laura Davidson.
Under 12 girls: Akshaya Kalaiyalahan, Eva Ressel & Beatrice Steele.
Under 16 girls: Amy Hoare, Chantelle Foster & Katherine Shepherd
Under 8 boys: Aditya Verma, Joshua Altman, Leo Sanitt.
Under 10 boys: Zheming Zhang
Under 12 boys: Arul Gupta, Girinath Haridas, Dion Huang, Yang-Jian Zhou.
Under 14 boys: Ravi Haria, Tarun Malhotra, Ananthanarayanan Balaji, Conor Murphy, Rohan Shiatis, Adam C Taylor, Leo Tsoi.
Under 16 boys: Patrick Smith & Martin Oliver.
Under 18 boys: Yang-Fan Zhou, Sam Franklin, Adrian Archer Lock, James Foster & Gordon Scott.

5th Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 16-26 August 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/

Manhattan Open 17-19 August 2012
http://chesstournamentservices.com/cca/manhattan-open/

Alexander Hardwick is playing in the U2100 section.

e2e4 London Gatwick International 18th - 22nd August 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/gatwick/Aug2012/index.htm

12th European Seniors Championship Kaunas Lithuania 18-26 August 2012
http://www.escc2012.eu/
http://www.escc2012.eu/images/stories/O ... cc2012.pdf

48. Międzynarodowy Festiwal Szachowy im. Akiby Rubinsteina - Grupa B‏ 18-26 August
http://rubinstein.polanica.pl/

Jonathan Kay is playing.

e2e4 Hinckley Congress 24-27 August 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/hinckley/Aug2012/index.htm

Berks & Bucks Congress 25-27 August 2012
Email: [email protected]

6th Leyland Chess Congress 25-27 August 2012
http://www.leylandchess.org.uk/congress/index.htm

World Chess Olympiad 28th August - 9th September 2012
http://istanbul2012.tsf.org.tr/en/

England teams:
Open: 1 Michael Adams, 2 Gawain Jones, 3 Nigel Short, 4 David Howell, 5 Nick Pert.
Captain: Peter Wells.

Women: WGM 1. Anya Corke, 2. Maria Yurenok, 3. Sarah Hegarty, 4. Sabrina Chevannes, 5. Kanwal Bhatia. Captain: Stephen Gordon.
The event is being held from 28th August to 9th September in Istanbul, Turkey.

WORLD YOUTH UNDER-16 CHESS OLYMPIAD 28 August - 06 September 2012 Istanbul, Türkiye (Turkey)
http://wyco2012.tsf.org.tr/en/regulations

CCF Late Summer Long Play Congress (incl FIDE Open) 1-2 September 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Adult%20C ... s_info.htm

62nd Annual Congress Paignton 2nd-8th September 2012
http://www.chessdevon.co.uk

Leek Chess Congress 7-9 September 2012
Email: [email protected]

A FIDE-rated open for players rated under 2350.

Hampstead FIDE Chess Congress 22-23 September 2012
http://www.hampsteadchess.blogspot.co.uk/

Under 2200 /unrated must be under ECF 190 on 22-23 September 2012. (The September 1st FIDE list, and the July ECF list will be to determine eligibility. FIDE rating takes precedence.)

Leicester Chess Congress (H E Atkins Memorial) 28-30 September 2012
http://www.leicesterchess.co.uk

4NCL Rapidplay 29-30 September 2012
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/download/2012-201 ... ELINES.pdf

e2e4 High Wycombe Chess Congress 12-14 October 2012
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/high_wycombe

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic927.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 17/8/12