International Round Up 05/01/10

[LozCooper]

International Round Up 05/01/10

Hastings Masters 2009-10 28th December - 5th January

http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/2010/pairings.htm

http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/2010/SMWSite/index.html

The main event finished in a tie for first place on 7/9. Congratulations to GMs Mark Hebden, David Howell, Romain Edouard & Andrei Istratescu who finished half a point clear of GMs Danny Gormally & Yuri Drozdovskij, IM Dennis Breder and WGM Natalia Zdebskaya. David finished with a 2645 performance and Mark 2612.

Congratulations to Jonathan Hawkins who gained his final IM norm after a win in round 9. I believe he has also gone above 2400 during the event so he has fulfilled all the requirements of the IM title (subject to confirmation).

On the junior front, Peter Williams scored 5.5 and performed at 2353 gaining 57 points whilst David Grant also scored 5.5 performing at 2329 and gaining 46 points.Amy Hoare scored 3/8 with a performance of 2013 and gained another 28 elo points to add to the 51 she gained on the last list.

Rilton Cup 2009-10
http://www.rilton.se

Congratulations to Luke McShane who finished 1st= on 6.5/9 with fellow GMs Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Eduardas Rozentalis and Igor Lysyi and IM Pavel Ponkratov. Luke's rating performance was 2683.

Zurich Weihnachtsopen

http://www.kradolfer-informatik.ch/schach/wop/

Matthew Turner shared 1st with 6 other players on 5.5/7. The other co-winners were Leonid Milov, Yannick Pelletier, David Baramidze, Pawel Jaracz, Milos Pavlovic and Falko Bindrich.

January 2010 FIDE Rating List

English men:

1 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2696 7 1965
2 Adams, Michael g ENG 2694 17 1971
3 McShane, Luke J g ENG 2616 16 1984
4 Howell, David W L g ENG 2606 20 1990
5 Jones, Gawain C B g ENG 2561 4 1987
6 Haslinger, Stewart G g ENG 2559 9 1981
7 Conquest, Stuart C g ENG 2551 18 1967
8 Williams, Simon K g ENG 2548 16 1979
9 Pert, Nicholas g ENG 2541 0 1981
10 Hebden, Mark L g ENG 2532 9 1958
11 Gordon, Stephen J g ENG 2527 5 1986
12 Speelman, Jon S g ENG 2525 0 1956
13 Flear, Glenn C g ENG 2514 3 1959
14 Turner, Matthew J g ENG 2508 0 1975
English women:
1 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2452 0 1978
2 Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2401 18 1980
3 Lalic, Susan K m ENG 2298 9 1965
4 Corke, Anya wg ENG 2284 0 1990
5 Lauterbach, Ingrid wm ENG 2158 9 1960
6 Regan, Natasha K wm ENG 2152 14 1971
7 Bellin, Jana wg ENG 2151 0 1947
8 Grigoryan, Meri wf ENG 2125 6 1977
9 Forbes, Cathy wm ENG 2106 0 1968
10 Hegarty, Sarah N ENG 2067 0 1988
11 Bhatia, Kanwal K ENG 2062 3 1981
12 Chevannes, Sabrina L wf ENG 2022 14 1986

Australian Chess Championships 2010
http://www.australianchesschampionship. ... in.Results
http://chess-results.com/tnr28954.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000

Gawain Jones is on 2/3 in the open in Sydney.

Bethune Christmas Open
http://www.bethunechess.com/Accueil/frenchindex.htm

Gary Quillan finished on 5.5/9.

Groningen Chess Festival 2009
http://www.schaakstadgroningen.nl/index ... Itemid=111

Ian Thompson finished on 4/9 and Mark Lyell on 3.5 in Group A.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic791.html

Lawrence Cooper
Director of International Chess
English Chess Federation 05/01/10

[Matthew Turner]

Loz,
Any English players at the Zurich Winter Open? I hear it is a very nice event?

[LozCooper]

Loz,
Any English players at the Zurich Winter Open? I hear it is a very nice event?

Sorry about the omission. A timely reminder when using TWIC that searching for ENG is never enough! Do feel free to let me know when you are playing abroad in the future in case I miss the result.

[Matthew Turner]

Loz,
I was just having a joke. It is brilliant the way you keep us up to date will all the results. Keep it up.

[LozCooper]

It's nice being spoilt for choice in reporting tournament wins for English players. Let's hope it carries on like this.