International Round-up 11/7/12
11th ROC Nova College Chess Tournament, Haarlem 6-8 July 2012
http://www.novacollegechess.nl/en/toern ... ournament/
http://www.novaprojecten.nl/novaschaak/ ... fdlive.htm
Congratulations to Stewart Haslinger who scored 5/6 to finish first equal in Group A with fellow grandmasters Erwin L’Ami and Robin Van Kampen. His brother Gareth scored 2.5 whilst his father Mike finished on 3/6 in Group B.
3rd International chess CHAMPIONSHIP of Vojvodina, Serbia 29 June - 5 July
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76166.a ... ES&flag=30
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76166.a ... ES&flag=30
Andrew Stone finished on 5.5/9.
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 is on 5.5/6, Bret Addison & Jana Bellin 3.5 and Chris Bellin 2.
Leiden Chess Tournament 6-15 July 2012
http://www.leidenchess.nl/SwissMaster/H ... index.html
http://www.leidenchess.nl/SwissMaster/H ... index.html
http://www.leidenchess.nl/live2012/
In Group A David Howell is on 4/5, Isaac Sanders 2.5 and Roger de Coverly 1.5 while Monica Vann is on 1.5 in Group B.
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 is on 3.5/5, Daniel Bisby, Paul Townsend and Maria Yurenok 3.
119th Scottish Championship Saturday 7th – Sunday 15th July
http://www.chessscotland.com/scottishch ... index.html
http://www.chessscotland.com/scottishch ... egames.php
http://www.chessscotland.com/scottishchampionship2012/
Angus Dunnington, Danny Gormally, Andrew Greet, Jonathan Hawkins & Mark Hebden 3/4, Graham Bolt, Paul Cooksey & Jason McKenna 2.5, Martin Brown 2 and Paul Isherwood 1.5.
Aarhus, Denmark 7th-15th July 2012
http://www.chesshouse.dk/im-wim/im-2012.htm
David Eggleston is on 2.5/4 in the IM all-play-all section.
First Saturday Budapest, Hungary 7-17 July 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76777.a ... ES&flag=30
http://firstsaturday.hu/1207/results.html
Diana Mihajlova is on 2/4 in the FM B tournament.
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
Jack Rudd & Peter Wells 4.5/5.
Keith Arkell & James Jackson 4.
Chris Duncan, Justin Horton & Jeremy Menadue 3.5.
Angus French, Ilya Iyengar, Ali Jaunooby, William Phillips, Peter Poobalasingam, Robert Thompson & John Waterfield 3.
Jonathan Bryant, Richard Bryant, Adrian Elwin, Brian Gosling & Michael E White 2.5.
John Hickman, Hamish Pitkeathley 2.
Canadian Open Championship 8-13 July 2012
http://monroi.com/2012-cocc-results.html
David Gates is on 0.5/4 in the U2000 event.
22nd Heart of Finland Open 9th-15th July 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr76881.aspx?lan=1
http://www.hof2012.fi/index.php/en-AU/
Tim Spanton is on 1.5/3 and Alan Collins 1.
Turkish Chess League 10th-22nd July 2012
http://www.chessdom.com/turkish-chess-league-2012/
Michael Adams is taking part.
Future events:
35ste Taminco Open Gent, Belgium 14-18 July 2012
http://www.e-kgsrl.be/?q=en/node/2408/registrations
Ronald Crooks, Mark Davey, Peter Grant-Ross, Kevin Huntley, Richard McMichael, Alistair Morton, Gerald Parfett, Mark Ruston and Andrew Stone are all registered.
2nd Science Park Amsterdam Chess Tournament 14-22 July 2012
http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=en/home_en
http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=en/node/126
Stewart Haslinger, Keith Richardson and Julian Farrand are in Group A, Graham Burton and Ray Edwards are in Group B, Mike Haslinger in Group C and Howard Lewis in Group D.
Glorney, Jessica Gilbert, John Robinson & Bernadette Stokes Cups 18-20 July 2012
http://www.glorneycupchess.org/
England teams:
Glorney Cup: Brandon Clarke, Rufus Duff, Peter Lalic, Daniel Hunt, Craig Whitfield.
Gilbert Cup: Chantelle Foster, Jennifer Ehr, Cosima Keen,
Robinson Cup: Roman Mitra, Jonathan Pein, Niall Garner, Simon Leung, Sam Herring,
Hajane Anbukumar.
Stokes Cup: Theo Slade, Gautam Jain, Matthew McLachlan, Ashwin Kalyana, Callum Brewer, Taylor Pearson.
The England coaches will be Nick Pert and David Levens.
Czech Open, Pardubice 20-29 July 2012
http://www.czechopen.net/en/results-and-games/
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
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, James Foster, Matthew Grattage, 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/
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76324.a ... ES&flag=30
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76325.aspx
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.
Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament, Vlissingen, Netherlands 4-11 August 2012
http://www.hztoernooi.nl/hz/index.php/en
http://www.hztoernooi.nl/hz/index.php/en/participants
Stewart Haslinger, Pete Sowray, Gareth Haslinger and Mike Haslinger have all entered.
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
The registration deadline is 1st August.
5th Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 18-26 August 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/
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 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: 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
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/twic922.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 11/7/12