International round-up 3/7/12

[LawrenceCooper]

@ 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

Isn't Rudd English?

[Mick Norris]

http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=405736

Yes

[LawrenceCooper]

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

England Olympiad captain grandmaster Peter Wells scored 7/9 to finish second equal with Bulgarian grandmaster Marijan Petrov. Pete lost his last round game to Boris Chatalbashev (also a Bulgarian grandmaster) who overtook him to finish first on 7.5.

Other English scores:

Keith Arkell, Justin Horton, James Jackson, Peter Poobalasingam & Jack Rudd 6.
Ali Jaunooby, Jeremy Menadue & John Waterfield 5.5.
Brian Gosling, John Hickman & Ilya Iyengar 5.
Jonathan Bryant, Richard Bryant, Chris Duncan, Angus French 4.5.
Adrian Elwin, William Phillips & Michael White 4.
Robert Thompson 3.5.
Hamish Pitkeathley 3.

49th Canadian Open Chess Championship U2000 (Victoria) 8-13 July 2012
http://monroi.com/2012-cocc-results.html

David Gates scored 3/9.

XXXII International Benasque Open, Spain 5th-14th July 2012
http://openajedrezbenasque.com/
http://chess-results.com/tnr76514.aspx? ... ilen=99999
http://www.openbenasque.com/retrans/directo/tfd.htm

Gawain Jones scored 7.5/10 missing out on first place after losing to the outright leader, Israeli grandmaster Dan Zoler, in the last round when half behind. Jana Bellin finished on 6, Bret Addison 5.5 and Chris Bellin 4.5.

Rethymno International Open, Crete 7-14 July 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76626.aspx?lan=2
http://www.daor.gr/index.php?id=164,0,0,1,0,0

Simon Ansell & Daniel Bisby scored 6/9, Paul Townsend 5 and Maria Yurenok 4.5.

[Paul Dargan]

[quote="LawrenceCooper"]

Isn't Rudd English?

My bad - for some reason I thought he played for T&T or similar.

Paul

[Jonathan Rogers]

David Howell just needs a draw tomorrow to win Leiden outright (and is guaranteed first = even if he loses)

[Mick Norris]

Howell playing live now

http://www.leidenchess.nl/live2012/

[LawrenceCooper]

Howell playing live now

http://www.leidenchess.nl/live2012/

"David Howell is loose .." according to the translation of the dutch website http://www.leidenchess.nl/

[Mick Norris]

Howell playing live now

http://www.leidenchess.nl/live2012/

"David Howell is loose .." according to the translation of the dutch website http://www.leidenchess.nl/

You might be right, although he looks happy enough in the picture here
http://www.leidenchess.nl/live2012/

[IM Jack Rudd]

Isn't Rudd English?

My bad - for some reason I thought he played for T&T or similar.

Paul

This is a long and complex saga. At the moment I am in the process of attempting to gain T&T citizenship, which may prove useful in transferring my allegiance for FIDE purposes.