International Round-up 12/8/12
EU Youth Championship Mureck, Austria 31st July -9th August 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr77322.a ... 0&fedb=ENG
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr77319.a ... =ENG&lan=0
http://www.jugendschach.at/
Congratulations to Ieysaa Bin-Suhayl who scored 7/9 in the Under 8s taking the bronze medal and finishing only half a point behind the winner.
Other English scores:
Under 10 – Tess Weaver 3/9,
Under 12 – Theo Slade 4.5 & Ibraheem Bin-Suhayl 3/9
Under 14 – Yousuf Bin-Suhayl & Stephen Whatley 4.5, Lauren Weaver 3/9.
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
Scores after nine rounds:
Callum Kilpatrick 5, Yang-Fan Zhou 4.5, William Jones & Henrik Stepanyan 3.5, Ravi Haria 2.5 in the boys/open event and Megan Owens 3.5, Lateefah Messam-Sparks & Anna York-Andersen 2.5 in the girls. Mark Hebden and Lawrence Cooper are the coaches.
Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament, Vlissingen, Netherlands 4-11 August 2012
http://www.hztoernooi.nl/hz/index.php/en
http://www.hztoernooi.nl/SMWSite/
Stewart Haslinger and Pete Sowray finished equal third on 7/9, Gareth Haslinger 5 and Mike Haslinger 3.5. Stewart had a performance of 2602.
38th Badalona Open A 1-9 August 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr69821.aspx? ... ES&flag=30
http://www.cesantjosep.com/open/eng/index.htm
Laurence Webb scored 5/9.
Riga International, Latvia August 6-12 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr66578.aspx?lan=1
http://www.sahafederacija.lv/?p=1846
Tim Spanton finished on 4/9, Isaac Sanders & Kevin Winter scored 3.5.
Future events:
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/twic926.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 12/8/12