International Round-up 23/7/12
Glorney, Jessica Gilbert, John Robinson & Bernadette Stokes Cups 18-20 July 2012
http://www.glorneycupchess.org/
Congratulations to England who retained the Glorney and Under 12s and regained the Faber/Gilbert title but there was a surprise result in the Under 14s where Wales, coached by Sabrina Chevannes and Adam Hunt, took outright first place ahead of Scotland by virtue of winning the final game. The England teams were coached by David Levens and Nick Pert.
Glorney Cup (u18): England 22, Wales 13, Scotland & Ireland 12.5.
Jessica Gilbert Cup (girls u18): England 11, Scotland 10, Ireland 8, Wales 7.
John Robinson Cup (u14): Wales 20, Scotland 19, England 17.5, Ireland 15.5.
Bernadette Stokes Cup (u12): England 27, Scotland 18, Ireland 14, Wales 13.
Individual England scores (out of six):
Glorney Cup: Brandon Clarke 4.5, Rufus Duff 4.5, Peter Lalic 5, Daniel Hunt 4, James Bowler 4.
Gilbert Cup: Chantelle Foster 4.5, Jennifer Ehr 3.5, Cosima Keen 3.
Robinson Cup: Roman Mitra 3.5, Jonathan Pein 3.5, Niall Garner 3, Simon Leung 4, Sam Herring 3.5 Hajane Anbukumar 0.
Stokes Cup: Theo Slade 4.5, Gautam Jain 4.5, Matthew McLachlan 3, Ashwin Kalyana 5, Callum Brewer 5, Taylor Pearson 5.
First Saturday Budapest, Hungary 7-17 July 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76777.a ... ES&flag=30
Diana Mihajlova finished in equal fourth place just half a point behind the three winners with a score of 7/11 in the FM B tournament.
35ste Taminco Open Gent, Belgium 14-18 July 2012
http://home.scarlet.be/~ping6819/opento ... nde_6.html
http://sec.e-kgsrl.be/taminco-open-live.html
Final scores after nine rounds: Richard McMichael 6.5, Andrew Stone 6, Mark Davey 5, Barry Morris & Alistair Morton 4, Gerald Parfett 3.5, Ronald Crooks & Peter Grant-Ross 3, Kevin Huntley & Mark Ruston 2.5, R Blackman 2.
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 scored 6/10 for İstanbul İSEK Aquamatch Spor Kulübü who included former world FIDE champion Rustam Kazimdzhanov and Judit Polgar in their squad.
The team lost eight matches and won five.
Each team consisted 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
Stewart Haslinger scored 5.5/9, Keith Richardson 3 and Julian Farrand 2.5 in Group A, Graham Burton 6/9 and Ray Edwards 5 in Group B and Mike Haslinger 4.5/9 in Group C.
Dortmund Open A 14-22 July 2012
http://www.dortmunder-schachschule.de/Schachtage/2012/
Laurence Webb finished on 6/9 in the Open A section.
Czech Open, Pardubice 20-29 July 2012
http://www.czechopen.net/en/results-and-games/
http://chess-results.com/tnr76991.aspx? ... =1&flag=30
A (>2200) Section: Lorin D'Costa 2.5/4.
B (>1800) Section: David Grant 3/4, Peter Andreev, Grant Bucher & Will Taylor 2.5, Dominic Foord, Matthew Lunn & Phil Makepeace 2, Rhys Cumming 1.5.
C (<2200) Section: Donny Muter 3.5/4 & Arasu Ganesan 3.
D (<2000) Section: Gunnar Mallon 1/4.
E (<1800) Section: Alex Conway 3.5/4, Rob Hewitt 2.
99th British Championship North Shields 22nd July - 4 August 2012
http://britishchesschampionships.co.uk/
http://results.britishchesschampionship ... h/SMWSite/
http://britishchesschampionships.co.uk/live-games/
Gawain Jones, David Howell, Stephen Gordon, Danny Gormally, Stuart Conquest 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.
Future events:
Dutch Open 24th July - 2nd August 2012
http://onk.schaakbond.nl/toernooien/2012/open-nk
Peter Sowray will play.
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/twic924.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 23/7/12