English Chess Forum

International Round Up 20/10/09

World Junior Championship:

David Howell is representing England in this prestigious event from 21st October to 4th November and is being seconded by Nigel Short. I hope to be able to provide a website address next week but there doesn't appear to be an official site that I can find. Hopefully there will be some coverage on the ECF site and also via TWIC and chessbase.

European Team Championship:
http://www.eurons2009.com/eng.htm
http://chess-results.com/tnr24908.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000

The European Team Championship starts this Thursday in Novi Sad, Serbia and comprises two nine round events, one is the open event and the other is the womens event. In each section matches are played over four boards with each team having a squad of five from which to choose their team each round. England is represented by the following players:

Open Event:
Board 1: GM Michael Adams
Board 2: GM Luke McShane
Board 3: GM Stuart Conquest
Board 4: GM Simon Williams
Board 5: GM Stephen Gordon
Womens Event:
Board 1: IM Jovanka Houska
Board 2: WIM Ingrid Lauterbach
Board 3: WIM Natasha Regan
Board 4: WFM Meri Grigoryan
Board 5: WFM Sabrina Chevannes

Unive Tournament Hoogeveen:
http://www.univechess.nl/

Stewart Haslinger is currently on 3.5/4 with a 2665 performance.

Bundesliga:
http://schachbundesliga.de/index.php?la ... u=inactive
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5843

Luke McShane and Stephen Gordon were in action in the Bundesliga playing board one for Bremen and board four for SG Trier respectively. Luke drew with GM Robert Rabiega rated 2531 and IM Arnd Lauber rated 2519. Stephen drew with IM Ilja Zaragatski rated 2480, GM Pavel Tregubov rated 2644 (on board 2) and lost to GM Robert Ruck rated 2553. Luke's team have won their two matches whilst Stephen's have lost all three.

French League:
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Equipes.aspx?Groupe=25

Although my limited French (which doesn't extend beyond Arsenal players and a few basic phrases) has made navigating the site more difficult I've been informed of the following results: Simon Williams won both games against Nikolai Noniv rated 2532 and Ismael Karim rated 2410. Simon Ansell won both against Pierre Villegas rated 2236 and Bogomil Andonov rated 2294.

VI Calvia International Amateur Open:
http://www.calviafestival.com/articulo.php?id=47
http://chess-results.com/tnr26302.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000

Congratulations to David Spence who finished second equal with 7/9. Paul Hutchinson and Alan Walton scored 5.5, Peter Tart 5, Graham Burton and Norman Hutchinson 4.5.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic780.html

Apologies in advance if next week's round-up is somewhat briefer. I'll include anything I miss out in the following week's round-up when I'm back from Serbia.

Lawrence Cooper
Director of International Chess 20/10/09

Good stuff as always, Loz, thanks.

One thing to add - the Guernsey Festival (18-24 Sep) is in progress. At the official home page - www.guernseychessclub.org.gg/festival - you can follow the round-by-round results. In fact, you can follow the results for the entire 35 years of the event using the website's superb online database - a statistician's delight. This year three GMs - Tiger Hillarp Persson (SWE 2577), Oleg Korneev (RUS 2554) and Bojan Kurajica (BIH 2517) - and one IM - Robert Bellin (ENG 2388) - are taking part. Latest: after three rounds, Hillarp Persson, Kurajica, Samuel Franklin (ENG 2131) and Wolfgang Mack (GER 2257) are all on 3/3. The round featured two shocks, as Mack beat GM Korneev and 15-year-old Samuel Franklin beat IM Bellin. No game downloads available as yet - no doubt these will appear shortly after the tournament. (If anyone is suffering from deja vu, it is probably because I have also posted this message at the BCM website)

I cannot find a website for the World Junior - pretty poor if you ask me. Chessdom have the pairings for round 2, which show David won round 1 and faces a 2475 in round 2

Howell - Yilmaz (Tur) 2475

I'd be interested if anybody else has more up-to-date results

According to this site http://www.ajedrez.com.ar/ their server has collapsed. They tried to do live games yesterday under the "paritdas en vivo" section yesterday but I wasnt able to see any moves. The site was OK this morning for getting the basic results but I just tried to click the link for Round 3 pairings but it was broken. Very disappointing.

Haslinger on the brink of a great result at Hoogeveen....

Leaders after 8 rounds:

Rank Name Score Fed. M/F Rating TPR W-We 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 GM Haslinger, Stewart 7.0 ENG M 2529 2765 +1.99 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1
2 GM Nijboer, Friso 6.0 NED M 2540 2595 +0.64 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 0
3 GM Friedel, Joshua E 5.5 USA M 2555 2508 -0.35 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 ½ 1
4 GM Ulibin, Mikhail 5.5 RUS M 2533 2492 -0.23 0 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½
5 GM Brodsky, Michail 5.5 UKR M 2530 2575 +0.54 1 1 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½
6 GM Romanishin, Oleg 5.5 UKR M 2515 2495 -0.10 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 0 ½
7 GM Kasparov, Sergey 5.5 BLR M 2488 2540 +0.63 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½
8 GM Gruenfeld, Yehuda 5.5 ISR M 2474 2485 +0.20 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 ½ ½
9 GM Genov, Petar 5.5 BUL M 2470 2447 -0.12 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1
10 IM Riemersma, Li 5.5 NED M 2431 2401 -0.20 1 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 1
11 IM Caspi, Israel 5.5 ISR M 2404 2476 +0.92 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 ½
12 GM Kraai, Jesse 5.0 USA M 2526 2399 -1.20 1 1 0 0 1 ½ ½ 1
13 IM Slingerland, Fred 5.0 NED M 2395 2442 +0.51 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
14 IM Willemze, Thomas 5.0 NED M 2391 2441 +0.65 1 1 1 0 0 1 ½ ½
15 IM Van Delft, Merijn 5.0 NED M 2374 2361 -0.11 0 1 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½
16 IM Grooten, Herman 5.0 NED M 2328 2394 +0.74 1 ½ 1 0 0 ½ 1 1

Using James Coleman's link, it looks like David Howell is on 2.5 after 3 rounds. Anyone read Spanish?

Yes, I can, thanks! What needs translating?

One interesting point - they are not using FIDE's zero default time rule in the World Junior. It says quite clearly "Start / Comienzo 17:00 am - Tolerance/Tolerancia 15 minutes". I'm pretty sure that means you get 15 minutes to get to the board after start time.

The best way to follow the results is to use the excellent chess-results.com website - click here for the latest standings. David does indeed have 2½/3.

And I see Samuel Franklin continued his excellent performance at Guernsey with 5.5/7 for 2=, including a draw with GM Tiger Tillap-Persson today.