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International Round Up 6/10/09

World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad
http://wyco2009.tsf.org.tr/content/view/8/15/lang,en/

England was represented by Zhou Yang-Fan, Akash Jain, Saravanan Sathyanandha and Sam Walker. The team was seeded 9th out of 22 and finished with 4 wins, 1 draw and 5 losses. Clearly, there were huge differences in strength between many of the countries, resulting in several matches finishing 4-0. Yang-Fan Zhou was the star of the England team scoring 6/10 on board 1 and qualifying for his FM title after winning in round 9. Akash scored 5 whilst Saravanan & Sam both finished with 4.

Round 1: England 4 Libya 0
Round 2: India 4 England 0
Round 3: England 2.5 Greece 1.5
Round 4: S Africa 0 England 4
Round 5: England 1.5 Azerbaijan 2.5
Round 6: Armenia 3 England 1
Round 7: Turkey 2 England 2
Round 8: Georgia 4 England 0
Round 9: England 4 Turkmenistan 0
Round 10: England 0 Uzbekistan 4

Isle of Man Congress
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/index.ph ... &Itemid=50

Stewart Haslinger finished 2nd= with Jovica Radovanovic on 3.5/5, half a point behind the winner GM Piotr Bobras from Poland. The grading prizes were won by Brandon Clarke, Roger Williamson and Ian Heppell. Somewhat bizarrely, there were only 8 players in the tournament and 7 won prizes!

George Trundle Masters
http://www.aucklandchesscentre.co.nz/20 ... tournament

Gawain bounced back from a surprise loss in round 2 to Mike Steadman to win outright with 7.5/9 after winning his last round with black against IM Stephen Soloman who was half behind going into the last round. Gawain's tournament performance was 2581. My thanks to him for providing daily updates on msn due to the total lack of activity on the tournament website. I'm hopeful they will update the site once the tournament has finished.

European Club Cup
http://www.ecc2009.com/eng.htm
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr25841.a ... -1&wi=1000

England are represented by White Rose who are seeded 46th out of 54 teams. Their teams consists of: Jan Willem Van de Griendt, Stephen Barrett, peter Gayson, Paul Townsend, Ihor Lewyk, Richard Archer and Matthew Webb.

Round 1: (19) Utrecht 4.5 White Rose 1.5. Jan Willem defeated Lorin D'Costa on board 1 and Paul Townsend drew on baord 4 versus a 2426.
Round 2: (38) CE De Sprenger Echternach 3.5 White Rose 2.5. Paul Townsend & Richard Archer both won and Ihor Lewyk drew.

Also playing are Michael Adams for OSG Baden-Baden on board 5 and Lorin D'Costa for Utrecht on board 2. Michael is on 2/2 and Lorin is on 0.

Michael's round by round results:

Rd. SNo Name Rtg FED Pts. Res.
1 289 FM Kniest Oliver 2324 GER 0,0 w 1
2 128 IM Meszaros Tamas 2434 HUN 0,5 w 1

Lorin's round by round results:

Rd. SNo Name Rtg FED Pts. Res.
1 118 FM Van De Griendt Jan Willem 2352 NED 1,0 w 0
2 160 GM Fedorchuk Sergey A 2643 UKR 1,0 s 0

9th Winterthur Chess Week 2009
http://www.schachwoche.org/indexEngl.html

Simon Ansell is on 2.5/3 annd Maria Yurenok is on 0.5.

In addition to the individual tournament websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic778.html

Lawrence Cooper
Alternate Director of International Chess 6/10/09

I was just looking at the results for the European Club Cup: Jan Willem Van De Griendt had a great start with 2/3 and a 2600 perf. but didn't play in round 4 or 5. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you need to play at least 7 games to get a norm, and with his start he was surely in with a shout of getting an IM norm.
Also, great to see Mickey Adams back on form: 4/4 so far.

benedgell wrote:I was just looking at the results for the European Club Cup: Jan Willem Van De Griendt had a great start with 2/3 and a 2600 perf. but didn't play in round 4 or 5. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you need to play at least 7 games to get a norm, and with his start he was surely in with a shout of getting an IM norm.
Also, great to see Mickey Adams back on form: 4/4 so far.

I'm beginning to think Jan was only there for the first three rounds or has fallen ill but no doubt all will be revealed. My lousy maths suggests that 7 players could play 6 rounds if they wanted to give everyone an even number of games but obviously he can only play a max of 5 now.

Good to see Mickey on 5/5. Hopefully he can take that form into the European Team.

benedgell wrote:I was just looking at the results for the European Club Cup: Jan Willem Van De Griendt had a great start with 2/3 and a 2600 perf. but didn't play in round 4 or 5. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you need to play at least 7 games to get a norm, and with his start he was surely in with a shout of getting an IM norm.
Also, great to see Mickey Adams back on form: 4/4 so far.

Just heard that their board one was only there for the first 3 rounds so that should make team selection easier for the remaining rounds!

Did Adams finish on 6.5/7 in the end? Must surely get a board medal for that. Although the last round game was a bit of a gimme.

benedgell wrote:Did Adams finish on 6.5/7 in the end? Must surely get a board medal for that. Although the last round game was a bit of a gimme.

Yes, he scored 6.5/7. I think the only other player to equal this was on board 6 and against much lower opposition. I'm not sure what medals are given or where he ranked in the best rating performance but he must be close to the best. Also pleased to see White Rose finally win a match in the last round.

Looks like Adams did indeed get the gold medal for board 5

http://www.ecc2009.com/pic/oct10cc/cc40.jpg

Adams' TPR was 2863 - behind only Svidler, Volokitin and Gashimov. Good to see Mickey getting back on form in the build-up to London in December.