International Round Up 25/08/09

[IM Jack Rudd]

Ketevan's been registered for Scotland for a while now - she got her final GM norm playing for Scotland in the last Olympiad.

[Jonathan Rogers]

oh yes! Silly me

[LozCooper]

I tried to find results and/or games of the IM tournament on the confusing Dieppe website but was unsuccessful. Can anybody do better? It should be remarked that Yang-Fan Zhou has apparently chosen to try for his second IM norm there rather than play for the £2,000 first prize at the date-clashing UK Chess Challenge, where he and Ynojosa would have been joint favourites.

Somewhat belatedly I have found some results on the site. For the open:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/philippe.do ... 2009Ga.htm
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/philippe.do ... 200908.htm

and for the Masters:

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/philippe.do ... Berger.htm
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/dieppeechec ... DE%202.htm

of for the general index: http://www.chess-and-strategy.com/

and for coverage of Sarah Hegarty's match: http://pokemonchess.blogspot.com/ although I found out via facebook that Sarah won the match 3-1 so congratulations to her.

Apologies for the belated information.

Lawrence

[Adam Raoof]

Dieppe certainly has a chaotic website!

It ought to be mentioned that if BERSOULT gets 0/9 (or anyone got 9/9) it invalidates the tournament for APA norms - it will be a swiss norm if anyone were fortunate enough to get the points.

[IM Jack Rudd]

Dieppe certainly has a chaotic website!

It ought to be mentioned that if BERSOULT gets 0/9 (or anyone got 9/9) it invalidates the tournament for APA norms - it will be a swiss norm if anyone were fortunate enough to get the points.

Does that matter any more? As I understand it, you now need 27 games' worth of norms, no matter what type of norms they are - APA and Swiss norms count equally.

[LozCooper]

I'm pleased to report a good week so far for English players abroad:

Dieppe Masters: Mark Hebden is 2 points clear of the all-play-all on 7/8 with one round to play. http://pagesperso-orange.fr/philippe.do ... Berger.htm

Dieppe Open: Glenn Flear and Simon Williams lead with 6.5/8 and play tomorrow. http://pagesperso-orange.fr/philippe.do ... 2009Ga.htm

Dieppe Match: Congratulations to Sarah Hegarty who won her challenge match 3-1 against the young French girl Salome Neuhauser. http://pokemonchess.blogspot.com/

XXI FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE OPEN A PORTO SAN GIORGIO: Lawrence Trent is joint leader on 6.5/8 and plays GM Epishin tomorrow who is one of 3 joint leaders. http://www.italychess.eu/public/manifes ... sstbl.html

XI INTERNATIONAL CHESS OPEN DE SANTS, HOSTAFRANCS & LA BORDETA: Peter Sowray is on 6.5/8 and well placed for an IM norm. http://www.cotxeres.org/open/

[LozCooper]

Update from abroad:

Dieppe Masters: Mark Hebden won the IM all-play-all with 8/9. http://pagesperso-orange.fr/philippe.do ... Berger.htm

XXI FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE OPEN A PORTO SAN GIORGIO: Lawrence Trent finished 1st= on 7/9. http://www.italychess.eu/public/manifes ... score.html

[Jonathan Rogers]

That's a fantastic performance from Lawrence! Admittedly he always does extremely well in this event (sometimes better even than this) but this is rather special, since it immediately followed the British and the Staunton - and he looked so unwell at the end of the Staunton that I had half expected the air line not to allow him aboard on the flight to Italy!

Meanwhile, quite an Indian summer all round from Hebden.

[Jonathan Rogers]

Gosh, this is a very nice five minutes. First, I see Lawrence's report, now I see that Arsenal lead Man U ...!

[Jonathan Rogers]

(Two hours later) If only I knew how to edit my earlier posts .....

[Simon Spivack]

(Two hours later) If only I knew how to edit my earlier posts .....

Hard to tell whether this is rhetorical or literal (who can divine the mind of an East Saxon? ). If the latter just click on the "edit" button at the bottom right hand corner of the germane message. If you delete everything the message should vanish, a bit like Arsenal's lead.

[LozCooper]

September 2009 rating list now on the FIDE site:

http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?ina=1&country=ENG

# Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year
1 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2706 10 1965
2 Adams, Michael g ENG 2682 25 1971
3 Howell, David W L g ENG 2624 30 1990
4 McShane, Luke J g ENG 2615 10 1984
5 Conquest, Stuart C g ENG 2563 11 1967
6 Jones, Gawain C B g ENG 2553 29 1987
7 Williams, Simon K g ENG 2545 29 1979
8 Pert, Nicholas g ENG 2541 0 1981
9 Gordon, Stephen J g ENG 2535 20 1986
10 Haslinger, Stewart G g ENG 2529 19 1981
11 Speelman, Jon S g ENG 2525 0 1956
12 Parker, Jonathan F g ENG 2523 0 1976
13 Turner, Matthew J g ENG 2508 9 1975
14 Hebden, Mark L g ENG 2503 29 1958


# Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year
1 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2452 0 1978
2 Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2381 20 1980
3 Ciuksyte, Dagne m ENG 2344 0 1977
4 Lalic, Susan K m ENG 2310 11 1965
5 Corke, Anya wg ENG 2284 1 1990
6 Regan, Natasha K wm ENG 2170 0 1971
7 Lauterbach, Ingrid wm ENG 2163 8 1960
8 Bellin, Jana wg ENG 2151 11 1947
9 Grigoryan, Meri wf ENG 2122 0 1977
10 Tidman, Sophie E wf ENG 2110 0 1984
11 Forbes, Cathy wm ENG 2106 0 1968
12 Hegarty, Sarah N ENG 2096 19 1988
13 Chevannes, Sabrina L wf ENG 2062 7 1986
14 Bhatia, Kanwal K ENG 2058 0 1981