International Round-up 5/8/12
99th British Championship North Shields 22nd July - 4 August 2012
http://britishchesschampionships.co.uk/live-games/
http://results.britishchesschampionship ... h/SMWSite/
http://results.britishchesschampionship ... O/SMWSite/
http://britishchesschampionships.co.uk/
Congratulations to both Gawain Jones and Stephen Gordon who finished on 9/11 with Gawain winning the play-off for the title of British Champion. Gawain had a 2687 performance and Stephen 2655. David Howell finished third with 8.5 whilst Danny Gormally, Jonathan Hawkins and Keith Arkell shared fourth with 7.5.
Jovanka Houska retained the women’s title whilst Radha Jain won the under 18 title with a 2070 performance gaining around 35 points.
James Holland made an eleven round IM norm. Other notable performances relative to their own rating were Marcus Osborne who performed at 2415, Marcus Harvey 2368, William Foo 2323, Dominic Mackle 2377, James Jackson 2336, Jean-Luc Weller 2264, Peter Bachelor 2277, Clive Waters 2212, Liam Varnom 2216, Sue Maroroa 2141 and Matthew Grattage 2160.
British Senior Championship: 1st Norman Hutchinson 6/7, 2nd Roger Emerson 5.5.
Under 14: 1st Tarun Malhotra 6/7, 2nd Adam C Taylor & Andrew Horton 5.5. Girls: Akshaya Kalaiyalahan, Cosima Keen & Jessica Wen 3.5.
Under 12: 1st Anthony Zhang 6.5/7, 2nd Joshua Higgs 5. Girls: Eva Ressel & Monica Espinosa 4.
Under 10: 1st Charlie McLaren 6/7, 2nd Adam Averbukh & Gabriel Malouka Myers 5.5. Girls: Anita Somton 3.5.
Major Open: Pierre Weller 9.5/11, David Henderson & Simon McCullough 7.5.
Rapidplay 29th July: 1st Mike Surtees 5/6, Martin Brown & Chris Archer-Lock 4.5.
Week 2 AM: 1st David Graham 4.5/5, 2nd= Michael Grove & FM Ioan Rees 4.
Week 2 PM: 1st Jamie Hookham 4.5/5, 2nd= Peter Hempson, Jamie Horton & Ken Neat 4.
U160: 1st Harry Li 4.5/5, 2nd= Martin Bush, Neil Jones & Daniel O’Dowd 4.
U120: 1st= Stephen Crockett, Gordon Glover, Peter Harrington & Gwilym Price 4/5.
Charleroi Open 2012 Charleroi BEL Sat 28th Jul 2012 - Sat 4th Aug 2012
http://www.tipc.be/en/standing_o.html
http://www.tipc.be/en/news.html
Tom Wiley finished equal third with 7/9.
Washington International 28th July - 1 August 2012
http://mdchess.com/index.php?option=com ... &Itemid=40
http://washingtoninternationalchess.org/
Adam Hunt finished on 6/9 sharing fifth place while Sabrina Chevannes & Ian Thompson scored 4.
Dutch Open 24th July - 2nd August 2012
http://onk.schaakbond.nl/toernooien/2012/open-nk
Peter Sowray scored 5.5/9.
Biel Masters Tournament 23 July - 3 August 2012
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/mast ... standings/
Ingrid Lauterbach finished on 5.5/11.
EU Youth Championship Mureck, Austria 31st July -9th August 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr77319.a ... =ENG&lan=0
http://www.jugendschach.at/
http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/meet ... 12-mureck/
Scores after four rounds:
Under 8 – Ieysaa bin-Suhayl 3, Under 10 – Tess Weaver 1, Under 12 – Theo Slade 2.5 & Ibraheem bin-Suhayl 0.5, Under 14 – Stephen Whatley 2.5, Lauren Weaver & Yousuf bin-Suhayl 1.5.
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
Scores after three rounds:
Yang-Fan Zhou 1.5, Callum Kilpatrick 1, William Jones 0.5, Ravi Haria and Henrik Stepanyan 0 in the boys/open event and Lateefah Messam-Sparks & Megan Owens 1.5 and Anna York-Andersen 0.5 in the girls. Mark Hebden and Lawrence Cooper are the coaches.
Future events:
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
62nd Annual Congress Paignton 2nd-8th September 2012
http://www.chessdevon.co.uk
Leek Chess Congress 7-9 September 2012
Email: [email protected]
A FIDE-rated open for players rated under 2350.
Hampstead FIDE Chess Congress 22-23 September 2012
http://www.hampsteadchess.blogspot.co.uk/
Under 2200 /unrated must be under ECF 190 on 22-23 September 2012. (The September 1st FIDE list, and the July ECF list will be to determine eligibility. FIDE rating takes precedence.)
Leicester Chess Congress (H E Atkins Memorial) 28-30 September 2012
http://www.leicesterchess.co.uk
4NCL Rapidplay 29-30 September 2012
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/download/2012-201 ... ELINES.pdf
e2e4 High Wycombe Chess Congress 12-14 October 2012
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/high_wycombe
In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic925.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 5/8/12