International round-up 15/7/12

[LawrenceCooper]

International Round-up 15/7/12

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/

Congratulations to David Howell who scored 7.5/9 with a 2750 performance to finish first in Group A ahead of eleven other grandmasters. Isaac Sanders scored 5 and Roger de Coverly 4.5 while Monica Vann finished on 4 in Group B.

Aarhus, Denmark 7-15 July 2012
http://www.chesshouse.dk/im-wim/im-2012.htm

David Eggleston scored 7/9 to win the IM all-play-all section by a clear point and made yet another IM norm but more importantly he gained valuable rating points as he aims to get to 2400 for his IM title.

119th Scottish Championship 7–15 July 2012
http://www.chessscotland.com/scottishch ... index.html
http://www.chessscotland.com/scottishchampionship2012/

Jonathan Hawkins finished equal first on 7/9 which takes him over 2500 and means he needs one more GM norm to complete his GM title. He shared first place with grandmasters Jacob Aagaard from Denmark, Momchil Nikilov from Bulgaria, Vitaly Teterev from Belarus and IM Bragi Thorfinnsson from Iceland.

Other English scores: Danny Gormally 6.5, Andrew Greet & Mark Hebden 6, Martin Brown & Angus Dunnington 5.5, Paul Cooksey 5, Paul Isherwood & Jason McKenna 4.5, Graham Bolt 4.

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.

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.

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.

Paris Open 7-15 July 2012
http://idf-echecs.com/pages/images/stor ... r9/FGa.htm
http://idf-echecs.com/pages/images/stor ... zFideA.htm

Yang-Fan Zhou scored 5.5/9, Lorin D’Costa & Callum Kilpatrick 5 and Edmund Player 4. Fifteen year old Ezra Kirk, who is transferring from France to England, scored 4.5 with a rating performance of 2404.

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

David Gates scored 3/9.

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 finished on 5/9 and Alan Collins 3.

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 4/8 in the FM B tournament.

Turkish Chess League 11th-22nd July 2012
http://satrancligi2012.tsf.org.tr/
http://satrancligi2012.tsf.org.tr/tr/co ... ew&kid=156
http://live3.tsf.org.tr/

Michael Adams is representing İstanbul İSEK Aquamatch Spor Kulübü who include former world FIDE champion Rustam Kazimdzhanov and Judit Polgar in their squad.
Mickey has 2/4 and was rested in round five. His team have lost four matches and won one.

Each team consists of ten boards; the first six boards are mainly titled players, followed by a female junior (U-20), a junior player (U-20), U15 girl, U 15 junior.

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
http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=en/node/127
http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=en/node/128
http://www.amsterdamchess.com/?q=en/node/129

Stewart Haslinger has 2/2, Keith Richardson 1 and Julian Farrand 0 in Group A, Graham Burton 2/2 and Ray Edwards 1.5 in Group B and Mike Haslinger 1/2 in Group C.

35ste Taminco Open Gent, Belgium 14-18 July 2012
http://home.scarlet.be/~ping6819/opento ... nde_3.html
http://sec.e-kgsrl.be/taminco-open-live.html

After three rounds the English scores are as follows: Andrew Stone 2.5, Richard McMichael & Mark Ruston 2, Ronald Crooks, Mark Davey, Peter Grant-Ross, Barry Morris & Gerald Parfett 1, Kevin Huntley 0.5, R Blackman & Alistair Morton 0.

Dortmund Open A 14-22 July 2012
http://www.dortmunder-schachschule.de/Schachtage/2012/

Laurence Webb is on 2/2 in the Open A section.

Future events:

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.

Riga International, Latvia August 6-12 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr66578.aspx?lan=1
http://www.sahafederacija.lv/?p=1846

Isaac Sanders, Tim Spanton, Kevin Winter and Alan Collins are all registered.

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.

5th Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 16-26 August 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/

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.

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 28th August - 9th 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 15/7/12

[AustinElliott]

Though he's not British, another notable contestant at Rethymno who's playing his domestic chess in the UK at the moment in the UK is 16 yr old Singaporean IM Daniel Fernandez, currently based in the Stockport area. He scored 5.5/9 in Rethymno, including 2.5/5 in five games against GMs (+1 -1 =3). Word is Daniel will be in the Singapore team for the upcoming Olympiad.

[Mick Norris]

Word is correct

http://register.chessolympiadistanbul.com/countries

[Jonathan Rogers]

continuing my therme of noting Scottish and Irish successes, Ryan Rhys Griffiths was among the leading pack on 5/7 in Paris and finished with a 2526 performance. I should hope that this is a norm notwithstanding that the vast majority of his opponents were French. In fact the event seemed to attract relatively few non-French entrants altogether.

[LawrenceCooper]

continuing my therme of noting Scottish and Irish successes, Ryan Rhys Griffiths was among the leading pack on 5/7 in Paris and finished with a 2526 performance. I should hope that this is a norm notwithstanding that the vast majority of his opponents were French. In fact the event seemed to attract relatively few non-French entrants altogether.

Ryan was incredibly unlucky to play so many French players. I think I counted 25 foreign out of 63 so one would hope that would have enabled him to play three foreigners and be able to get a norm. His only hope would be if the event was exempt from the different nationalities rule along the lines of 4NCL & the British.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

continuing my therme of noting Scottish and Irish successes, Ryan Rhys Griffiths was among the leading pack on 5/7 in Paris and finished with a 2526 performance. I should hope that this is a norm notwithstanding that the vast majority of his opponents were French. In fact the event seemed to attract relatively few non-French entrants altogether.

Ryan was incredibly unlucky to play so many French players. I think I counted 25 foreign out of 63 so one would hope that would have enabled him to play three foreigners and be able to get a norm. His only hope would be if the event was exempt from the different nationalities rule along the lines of 4NCL & the British.

I thought the reasoning behind that rule was to ensure the player aiming for a norm played people outside their own country? i.e. To stop a French player getting a norm just by playing mostly French players. As Ryan is from Ireland (IRL), I would have thought the restriction doesn't apply to playing French players even if the event is in France? (i.e. He is already playing players from a federation other than his own). Or at least it shouldn't. Does anyone know why this requirement was added in the first place? Think about it this way: if a French player had been going for a norm, playing Ryan would have helped them, but not Ryan. That would be crazy.

[Alex Holowczak]

continuing my therme of noting Scottish and Irish successes, Ryan Rhys Griffiths was among the leading pack on 5/7 in Paris and finished with a 2526 performance. I should hope that this is a norm notwithstanding that the vast majority of his opponents were French. In fact the event seemed to attract relatively few non-French entrants altogether.

Ryan was incredibly unlucky to play so many French players. I think I counted 25 foreign out of 63 so one would hope that would have enabled him to play three foreigners and be able to get a norm. His only hope would be if the event was exempt from the different nationalities rule along the lines of 4NCL & the British.

I thought it may have counted under this:

1.4 The GM, IM, WGM, WIM titles can also be gained by achieving norms in internationally rated tournaments played according to the following regulations: [...]

1.43e Swiss System tournaments in which the competitors include at least 20 FIDE Rated players, not from the host federation, from at least 3 federations, at least 10 of whom hold GM, IM, WGM or WIM titles. Otherwise 1.44 applies.

If it has 25 non-French players, from at least 3 different federations. Unfortunately, if I've counted right, it only has 6 people holding those titles (Fedorchuk, Strikovic, Guliyev, Zhou, D'Costa, Vuillemier). So it doesn't.

[E Michael White]

Swiss System tournaments in which the competitors include at least 20 FIDE Rated players, not from the host federation, from at least 3 federations, at least 10 of whom hold GM, IM, WGM or WIM titles. Otherwise 1.44 applies.

Does he not meet the whole of 1.44 ? [Ed.Looks to me like he does.]

[Alex Holowczak]

Swiss System tournaments in which the competitors include at least 20 FIDE Rated players, not from the host federation, from at least 3 federations, at least 10 of whom hold GM, IM, WGM or WIM titles. Otherwise 1.44 applies.

Does he not meet the whole of 1.44 ?

I don't know. It seemed from what Jonathan Rogers and Loz Cooper said that he needed some sort of exemption from 1.44, so I didn't bother to check.

[Alan Walton]

From the table in 1.7, a player can only play a maximum of 6 players from one federation in a 9 round tournament

[Alex Holowczak]

From the table in 1.7, a player can only play a maximum of 6 players from one federation in a 9 round tournament

That's right:

1.44a A maximum of 3/5 of the opponents may come from the applicant’s federation and a maximum of 2/3 of the opponents from one federation. For exact numbers see the table in 1.7.

And, having just checked, Griffiths played 7 Frenchmen.

[Sean Hewitt]

From the table in 1.7, a player can only play a maximum of 6 players from one federation in a 9 round tournament

That's right:

1.44a A maximum of 3/5 of the opponents may come from the applicant’s federation and a maximum of 2/3 of the opponents from one federation. For exact numbers see the table in 1.7.

And, having just checked, Griffiths played 7 Frenchmen.

Correct. As a result of this he did not get an IM norm in Paris.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

From the table in 1.7, a player can only play a maximum of 6 players from one federation in a 9 round tournament

That's right:

1.44a A maximum of 3/5 of the opponents may come from the applicant’s federation and a maximum of 2/3 of the opponents from one federation. For exact numbers see the table in 1.7.

And, having just checked, Griffiths played 7 Frenchmen.

Correct. As a result of this he did not get an IM norm in Paris.

I had forgotten that the rules not only specify opponent's from the applicant’s federation (understandable) but also the number from any one single federation. I'm not so sure the latter makes as much sense. Can anyone explain the reasoning behind this rule? And am I right in thinking that with this 3/5 and 2/3 rule (1.44a) you can get situations where pairing two norm seekers of different federations together means you deny one of them the chance of a norm while meeting the conditions for the other one? That, as I said before, seems strange. The aim should be to maximise people from different federations playing each other, to make the norms and titles truly international. I suppose that is in a way a reason for the 2/3 stipulation in 1.44a - you want people to get norms by playing a mix of nationalities, not mostly a single nationality. OK, it begins to make sense now, but still a bit rough on the norm seeker in this case.

[Jonathan Rogers]

It is rough but a reasonably diligent organiser could spot the danger in adavnce, say by ensuring that foreigner norm seekers met other non-French players in the early rounds, unless he was being so narrow minded as to insist that he would never deviate from computer generated pairings. Would this be likely to happen in an English swiss, I am curious to know? Have we had disgruntled foreigners leaving Lloyds Bank/Hastings etc muttering "paid lots of money for the chance, exceeded the other requirements by miles but just played too many %%%*** Englishmen?"

[Paul Dargan]

@ Jonathan - much easier with manual pairings ... if you manipulate the draw to maximise norm chances, then there's every chance of invalidating all norms achieved in the event sadly.

Paul Dargan