International Round-up 19/6/12
7th Mikhail Tal Memorial Moscow, Russia 7th to 19th June, 2012
http://russiachess.org/news/all/magnus_ ... rial_2012/
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/e ... al-round-9
Luke McShane scored 4/9, performing at 2741, including wins against world number two Levon Aronian, world number three Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Morozevich as well as draws with Hikaru Nakamura and Evgeny Tomashevsky. He could also have shared first place with a last round win but lost to world number one Magnus Carlsen.
1st Magnus Carlsen 5.5/9, 2nd= Fabiano Caruana & Teimour Radjabov 5, 4th= Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Vladimir Kramnik & Alexander Morozevich 4.5, 8th= Luke McShane & Hikaru Nakamura 4, 10th Evgeny Tomashevsky 3.5.
26th Pula Open Croatia Sat 9th Jun 2012 - Sat 16th Jun 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr72217.aspx? ... ES&flag=30
http://silex.hr/live/Pula2012/!LiveA/li ... p?Zoom=Out
Ron Watson scored 5.5/9 and Alan Byron finished on 4 from seven rounds after a 4/4 start.
1st Scottish Blitz 16th June 2012
http://www.scottishblitz.com/Standings.pdf
http://www.scottishblitz.com/BlitzCrosstable.pdf
Danny Gormally scored 9/11 to finish in second place behind Sabino Brunello of Italy. Keith Arkell & Simon Williams scored 8, Andrew Greet 7.5 and Charlie Storey finished on 5.5.
Cerrado GM All-play-all Spain,18th-23rd June 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr75065.aspx? ... =ENG&snr=6
Adam Hunt is on 0.5/1.
Future events:
e2e4 Buxton Chess Congress 29 June - 1st July 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/calendar/index.htm
The latest event organised by the ECF’s Alternate Director of International Chess, Sean Hewitt, has FIDE rated open and major sections with grandmasters Mark Hebden and Keith Arkell top seeds in the open.
40th annual World Open Philadelphia July 1-8 2012
http://www.philadelphiachess.com/
Leiden Chess Tournament 5-15 July 2012
http://www.leidenchess.nl/
David Howell, Isaac Sanders and Roger de Coverley are all playing in Group A while Monica Vann plays in Group B.
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/
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
5th Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 18-26 August 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/
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 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/twic919.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 19/6/12