International Round-up 12/6/12
7th Mikhail Tal Memorial Moscow, Russia 7th to 19th June, 2012
http://www.chessdom.com/teimour-radjabo ... -memorial/
http://www.chessdom.com/tal-memorial-2012-live/
Luke McShane is on 1.5/4 after a win with black against world number two Levon Aronian and a draw with Hikaru Nakamura with white to follow his round one and two losses to Alexander Grischuk & Teimour Radjabov. The other players are Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich and Evgeny Tomashevsky.
Luke scored 3/9 in the blitz tournament with the same ten players (played to determine colours for the main event) with wins against Kramnik & Tomashevsky and draws with Aronian & Caruana.
e2e4 London Diamond Jubilee Congress 2nd - 6th June 2012
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/gatwick/jun2012/index.htm
Open: 1st= Andrey Sumets & Yuri Vovk 7.5/9, 3rd= Vilka Sipila & David Eggleston 6.5.
IM norms: Martin Brown & David Eggleston.
Challengers: 1st Stephen Cairns 6/7 2nd= Eric Bennett & John Tobisch.
Major: 1st Michael Meadows 6/7, 2nd= Alex Bullen, Vladimirs Bovtramovics & Athar Mehmood 5.5.
French League 31st May - 10th June 2012
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Visualiser.as ... Interclubs
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Actus/6049/Jo ... 2_2012.pdf
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Equipes.aspx?Groupe=2
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Actu.aspx?Ref=6049
Jovanka Houska scored 2/5 playing for Deauville who were subsequently relegated.
Caissa, Kecskemet,Hungary IM All-play-all 19-27 May 2012
http://ratings.fide.com/view_source.phtml?code=66471
Mark Lyell scored 3.5/9.
4th Capo d'Orso Open International Palau, Sardinia 2nd-9th June 2012
http://raksy.dyndns.org/mato/portomannu ... nding.html
Matthew Peat scored 6/9, Kevin Engelbrecht 4.5 and David Lettington 4.
First Saturday IM B Section, Budapest, Hungary 2nd-12th June 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr74447.a ... =1&flag=30
http://firstsaturday.hu/1206/imb.htm
http://firstsaturday.hu/1206/index.htm
Mark Lyell scored 5.5/9.
1st Grand Europe Open Golden Sands, Bulgaria 4-12 June 2012
http://golden-sands-2012.chessmix.com/standings.html
http://golden-sands-2012.chessmix.com/results.html
Adam Hunt finished on 5/9 whilst Elizabeth and George Ivanov both scored 2.
XV. Rhein-Main-Open 6th-10th June 2012
http://www.rhein-main-open.de/chronik/2 ... ameset.php
Ian Thompson scored 5/7.
26th Pula Open Croatia Sat 9th Jun 2012 - Sat 16th Jun 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr72217.aspx? ... =30&snr=72
http://chess-results.com/tnr72217.aspx? ... ES&flag=30
http://www.skpula.hr/index.htm
http://silex.hr/live/Pula2012/!LiveA/li ... p?Zoom=Out
Alan Byron is on 4/4 and Ron Watson is on 2.
Future events:
e2e4 Buxton Chess Congress 29 June - 1st July 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/calendar/index.htm
40th annual World Open Philadelphia July 1-8 2012
http://www.philadelphiachess.com/
119th Scottish Championship Saturday 7th – Sunday 15th July
http://www.chessscotland.com/membership ... ottish.htm
Danny Gormally, Mark Hebden, Jonathan Hawkins, Andrew Greet, Martin Mitchell and Martin Brown are all registered.
9th South Wales International Open 8-13 July 2012
http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/html/players.html
Keith Arkell, Peter Wells and Jack Rudd are amongst the early entries.
99th British Championship North Shields 22nd July - 4 August 2012
http://britishchesschampionships.co.uk/
World Junior Under 20 Athens, Greece 1-16 August 2012
http://www.athens2012.org/
Yang-Fan Zhou, Callum Kilpatrick, William Jones, Ravi Haria and Henrik Stepanyan will play in the boys/open event and Lateefah Messam-Sparks and Anna York-Andersen will play in the girls. Mark Hebden and Lawrence Cooper will be the coaches.
European Youth Chess Championship Prague 16-26 August 2012
http://www.eycc2012.eu/
12th European Seniors Championship Kaunas Lithuania 18-26 August 2012
http://www.escc2012.eu/
http://www.escc2012.eu/images/stories/O ... cc2012.pdf
5th Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 18-26 August 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/
e2e4 Leicestershire Chess Congress 24-27 August 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/calendar/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 27th August - 10th September 2012
http://istanbul2012.tsf.org.tr/en/
CCF Late Summer Long Play Congress (incl FIDE Open) 1-2 September 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Adult%20C ... s_info.htm
In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic918.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 12/6/12