International round-up 3/7/12

[LawrenceCooper]

International Round-up 3/7/12

e2e4 Buxton Chess Congress 29 June - 1st July 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/buxton/Jun2012/index.htm
http://e2e4.org.uk/entrants_buxton.htm

Open: 1st Keith Arkell 4/5/5, 2nd= Daniel Fernandez, Mark Hebden & Alan Merry 4.

Major: 1st= Maurice Lawson & Leo Tsoi 4.5/5, 3rd Mitchell Burke 4.

Minor: 1st= Douglas Bramley, Graham Neil, Keith Osborne, Roger Walker & Andrew Wiggins 4.

Oslo 22-26 June 2012
http://tournamentservice.com/standings. ... kSjakklubb
http://tournamentservice.com/pairings.a ... kSjakklubb

Mark Hebden scored 7/9 to finish 2nd= with a rating performance of 2620 after a last round win with black against Norwegian grandmaster Jon Ludvig Hammer rated 2642.

7th Edmonton Chess Festival 27th June - 2nd July 2012
http://www.albertachess.org/2012EICF-Standings.html
http://www.albertachess.org/2012EICF-Int..html

Nigel Short recovered from a surprise first round loss to score 7/9 or 20/30 (three points for a win) in the ten player all-play-all.

4th Carlos I Open Sanxenxo ESP Sat 23rd Jun 2012 - Sun 1st Jul 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr74234.aspx? ... ENG&snr=28
http://chess-results.com/tnr74234.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1
http://ajedrezcarlosprimero.tumblr.com/

Phil Adams scored 6/9.

3th International chess CHAMPIONSHIP of Vojvodina, Serbia 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76166.a ... ES&flag=30
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76166.a ... ES&flag=30

Andrew Stone is on 3.5/6.

Future events:

Leiden Chess Tournament 5-15 July 2012
http://www.leidenchess.nl/
http://www.leidenchess.nl/SwissMaster/H ... index.html
http://www.leidenchess.nl/SwissMaster/H ... index.html
http://www.leidenchess.nl/SwissMaster/H ... index.html

David Howell, Isaac Sanders and Roger de Coverley are all playing in Group A while Monica Vann plays in Group B.

Rethymno International Open, Crete 7-14 July 2012
http://www.daor.gr/index.php?participations

Simon Ansell, Daniel Bisby, Paul Townsend and Maria Yurenok are all registered.

119th Scottish Championship Saturday 7th – Sunday 15th July
http://www.chessscotland.com/membership ... ottish.htm

Mark Hebden, Danny Gormally, Jonathan Hawkins, Andrew Greet, Angus Dunnington, Paul Cooksey and Martin Brown, Jason McKenna, Graham Bolt, Paul Isherwood have all entered.

9th South Wales International Open 8-13 July 2012
http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/html/players.html

Peter Wells, Keith Arkell, Jack Rudd, Chris Duncan, Ali Jaunooby, Jeremy Menadue, Justin Horton, Angus French, Ilya Iyengar, Robert Thompson, Adrian Elwin, William Phillips, John Waterfield, Femi Adebajo, Richard Bryant, Brian Gosling, John Hickman, Michael E White, Jonathan Bryant are all registered.

99th British Championship North Shields 22nd July - 4 August 2012
http://britishchesschampionships.co.uk/

Gawain Jones, David Howell, Stephen Gordon, Danny Gormally, Simon Williams and Keith Arkell are all confirmed for the Championship along with British Women’s Champion Jovanka Houska and fellow English IMs Jonathan Hawkins, Richard Palliser and Jack Rudd. The junior entry includes Martin Brown, Marcus Harvey, William Foo, Jean-Luc Weller, Peter Batchelor, Matthew Wadsworth, Amy Hoare and Radha Jain.

EU Youth Championship Mureck, Austria 31st July -9th August 2012
http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/meet ... 12-mureck/

Under 8 – Ieysaa bin-Suhayl, Under 10 – Tess Weaver, Under 12 – Theo Slade & Ibraheem bin-Suhayl, Under 14 – Lauren Weaver & Yousuf bin-Suhayl.
Coaches – Dave Regis & Tom Rendle.

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/
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.

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/

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

Women (Board order to be confirmed): WGM Anya Corke, WFMs Maria Yurenok, Sabrina Chevannes, Kanwal Bhatia, Sarah Hegarty. Captain: Stephen Gordon.

The event is being held from 28th August to 9th September in Istanbul, Turkey.

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

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

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic921.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 3/7/12

[Matthew Lunn]

Several English players are playing in this summer's Czech Open in Pardubice (20th-29th July):

A (>2200) Section: Lorin D'Costa
B (>1800) Section: David Grant, Phil Makepeace, Dominic Foord, Rhys Cumming, Grant Bucher, Matthew Lunn, Will Taylor
C (<2200) Section: Donny Muter, Arasu Ganesan, Tom McFaul
D (<2000) Section: John Sargent, Gunnar Mallon
E (<1800) Section: Alex Conway, Rob Hewitt

David, Rhys, Will, John, Gunnar, Alex and Rob are also playing in various FIDE rated Blitz/RP events taking place on the 18th/19th July.

[LawrenceCooper]

11th ROC Nova College Chess Tournament, Haarlem 6-8 July 2012
http://www.novacollegechess.nl/en/toern ... ournament/
http://www.novacollegechess.nl/en/participants/

Matthew Sadler, Stewart Haslinger, Gareth Haslinger and Mike Haslinger are all registered.

[Neville Belinfante]

Junior entrants for the British Championships include James M Foster and Matthew Grattage, as well as the players that Loz listed above.

The entry form for the 47th Berks and Bucks Congress is at http://www.buckschess.org.uk/Downloads/ ... m_2012.pdf.

[LawrenceCooper]

I've edited the above round-up as I'd reported that Neil Graham was 1st= at Buxton when it was, in fact Graham Neil!

[Jonathan Rogers]

Scottish Ch underway then, and first round results include

Mitchell 1- 0 Hebden
Hawkins draw Holmes
Greet 0-1 Green

Do these Scots not know their place? Or perhaps they know it too well, and there is such a thing as home advantage after all?

Incidentally Hawkins v Holmes is well worth playing through.

[LawrenceCooper]

Scottish Ch underway then, and first round results include

Mitchell 1- 0 Hebden
Hawkins draw Holmes
Greet 0-1 Green

Do these Scots not know their place? Or perhaps they know it too well, and there is such a thing as home advantage after all?

Incidentally Hawkins v Holmes is well worth playing through.

Hawkins 2499 going into this tournament so reaching 2500 is hopefully not far away.

[Alex McFarlane]

Don't worry Loz, we were aware of that and will provide documentry evidence if it is needed.

For those unaware. to become a GM you need 3 norms and for your rating to have reached 2500 at some point. That point could be during the Scottish.

[Jonathan Rogers]

It seems to me that JH is over 2500 as of this afternoon. But presumably he still needs another norm.

[Alex McFarlane]

Jonathan Hawkins win takes him to +0.48 so I agree. If his score isn't still above 0.10 at the end we will give him the cross tables to that point.

[Paul Dargan]

Alex - I agree that he's over 2500 now. Some rapid maths (and upgrading his 19xx opponent to 2200) suggests that a win against the Gorm in Round 8 would give him a 2587 performance after round 8 - so sadly it looks like he needs 2/2 against 2GM's to clinch his final norm from the Scottish too.

(A draw against Gorm would give him 2529 after 8 rounds)

Paul

[Alex McFarlane]

We're going to do the number crunching tomorrow but my initial calculation agrees with yours.

Unfortunately I've just heard that Donald Holmes has withdrawn on medical advice.

[Paul Dargan]

Well that's got to have been a tough decision for him, when he's so close to a norm too - he's way ahead of the requirement (~2560 or so based on a quick glance). I'm sure everyone wishes him well.

Paul

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Well that's got to have been a tough decision for him, when he's so close to a norm too - he's way ahead of the requirement (~2560 or so based on a quick glance). I'm sure everyone wishes him well.

You mean having to beat two GMs (if the pairings work out that way) instead of beating one and drawing with one? If you look at Hawkins' results so far:

http://www.chessscotland.com/scottishch ... /p011.html

He has drawn with an FM, an IM and a GM, and beaten an IM. You would hope that most GM norms would involve beating a GM at some stage, so it is not entirely surprising that he still needs at least that, albeit twice for 2/2. He is certainly capable of it as his results have shown.

I would have also thought he has more chance of getting his third GM norm at the British (he is currently fifth seed on the list of entrants, thought the Scottish Championships have 10 GMs and the entrant list for the British for 2012 currently only has four). But is this event (in Scotland) intended to be the 'foreign' norm requirement? By this, I mean 1.43f "At least one of the norms has to be achieved under normal foreigner requirement." and 1.43 "Federations of opponents: At least two federations other than that of the title applicant must be included, except for 1.43a-1.43e. Even then see 1.43f."

I've never been quite clear what this means in terms of UK chess and norms relating to the 4NCL and the British Chess Championships. Does it mean that the federations of the opponents have to be checked when looking at the norms?

PS. Surely several others at the Scottish must have GM norm chances as well?

[Paul Dargan]

@ Chirs - the comment you quoted refers to Holmes withdrawal and his IM norm opportunity.

wrt to Jonathan - he needs to play 2 GMS in the last 2 rounds to satisfy the 3 GM's rule - the issue is that the relatively low rating of some of his earlier opposition means he would need 2/2 against them to meet the TPR requirement.

He already has two norms that do not meet the foreigner requirement (British and 4NCL) but are allowed as they are national chamionships (team or individual both are OK). For the title you need at least one of the three norms that does meet the foreigner requirements, so this was a good shot. I suspect he will face too many ENG opponents in North Shields - though of course I'd be delighted if somehow he played enough people like Rudd, Cobb, etc who have different federations.

Paul