English Chess Forum

International Round Up 16/9/09

4th Kolkata Open Kolkata IND (IND), 1-10 ix 2009:
http://www.indianchessfed.org/

Nigel Short played his first tournament since taking over as English number one and finished 4th= with 7/10.

European Youth:
http://www.euroyouth2009.com/euroyouth_ ... &TypeInf=1

After the ninth and final round the English scores were as follows:

Boys Under 18: Richard Lobo 4/9
Boys Under 16: James Foster 4/9
Boys Under 14: Brandon Clarke 4.5/9
Boys Under 12: Roy Zhang 5/9
Boys Under 10: Matthew Wadsworth 6/9
Girls Under 18: Jessica Thilaganathan 3.5/9
Girls Under 16: Sheila Dines 4.5/9
Girls Under 14: Amelia Hoare 4.5/9
Girls Under 12: Katherine Shepherd 3/9.

Paignton Ron Bruce Premier:
http://www.chessdevon.co.uk/HTML/congre ... n/base.htm

Keith Arkell was winner (for the 15th time!) with 6/7. Richard Almond finished second with 5.5 and Stephen Berry was 3rd on 5. Sarah Hegarty finished on 3.5/7.

Castione Presolana:
http://www.puntoesclamativo.org/bratto2009/site/

Adam Hunt finished on 5.5/9.

First Saturday Tournaments in Budapest:
http://firstsaturday.freeweb.hu/0909/im.htm

In the IM A Tournament David Moskovic has 4.5/9 and Mark Lyell has 4/8. David defeated Mark in their round 1 encounter.

Future tournaments:

Uxbridge Chess Congress 18-20 September
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/uxbridge/index.htm

Sean Hewitt's latest event comprises a FIDE rated open and U165 and U140 sections. The venue is De Veres Denham Grove Hotel, Tilehouse Lane, Denham, Buckinghamshire, UB9 5DU There are three Grandmasters playing: Simon Williams, Keith Arkell and Alexander Cherniaev.

KECSKEMET INTERNATIONAL FIDE ROUND ROBIN TOURNAMENTS FOR IM NORM
http://www.caissachessbooks.com/node/en ... ournaments
19-28 September IM norm + rated tournaments.

In addition to the individual tournament websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic775.html

Lawrence Cooper
Alternate Director of International Chess 16/9/09
[email protected]

I must echo the poster in another thread who wonders why there is no announcement yet about our teams in the European team chs. The teams have been selected, after all. But for some reason we must go to the tournament website itself in order to find out who is representing us.

Not, you understand, that I am particularly bothered to discuss the various selections - but it is always interesting to see the official press release which gives reasons why some players are missing, and some details of the achievements of those who are playing.

Jonathan is absolutely right. Both the England men's and women's teams for the European team championship have been named, are published on a non-English site, yet the ECF has been totally silent. This never occurs in other serious sports and, for starters, it seems an implicit ECF responsibility given the government grant.

Similarly in junior selections there has been no announcement by the ECF office, by Peter Purland or by Andrew Martin of the names of those representing England in next month's World Junior Championship at Mar del Plata, Argentina, (even though David Howell's name, together with Nigel Short's name as second, has been published elsewhere) or in the forthcoming World Youth Championships.

I think this state of affairs is quite unacceptable to the chess public and to the chess media. I ask Chris Major, John Philpott and any others who read this forum with influence on the ECF to take this up and correct it as a matter of urgency.

Leonard Barden wrote:I think this state of affairs is quite unacceptable to the chess public and to the chess media. I ask Chris Majer, John Philpott and any others who read this forum with influence on the ECF to take this up and correct it as a matter of urgency.

You post here Leonard should be sufficient to kick the ECF site and it's webmaster into gear

Carl Hibbard wrote

You post here Leonard should be sufficient to kick the ECF site and it's webmaster into gear

If there is any implicit criticism here of the webmaster I think that it is uncalled for. I have found him extremely efficient in turning round in short order requests to upload or amend documents. If something is missing that should be on the website, the problem is more likely to be that the relevant ECF Officer has not yet passed the information to the webmaster.

Leonard Barden wrote

I ask Chris Majer, John Philpott and any others who read this forum with influence on the ECF to take this up and correct it as a matter of urgency.

Now added to a depressingly long to do list!

John Philpott wrote:Carl Hibbard wrote

You post here Leonard should be sufficient to kick the ECF site and it's webmaster into gear

If there is any implicit criticism here of the webmaster I think that it is uncalled for. I have found him extremely efficient in turning round in short order requests to upload or amend documents. If something is missing that should be on the website, the problem is more likely to be that the relevant ECF Officer has not yet passed the information to the webmaster.

Sorry yes I could have worded it better, it was "meant" to ackowledge the fact that I know the ECF office browse this site even if it is considered a no-go area

I hope eventually that the ECF open up the CMS a little more to allow some of us (with the experience and sufficient level of trust...) to add things to the main site thus easing the load on the webmaster

We can but hope

The delay was certainly not down to the ECF webmaster. The ECF decided not to announce the teams until all players had confirmed and yesterday was the official deadline although the provisional team lists had to be sent in by 4th September. I only had the teams confirmed to me last night by the current International Director Stewart Reuben hence the hurried announcement that will appear on the ECF site today.