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International Round Up 20/07/10

Completed tournaments:

Canadian Open Chess Championship 10-18 July
http://monroi.com/2010-cocc-results.html
http://www.chess.ca/canopen.shtml
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6526

Congratulations to Luke McShane who won with 8/9 performing at 2780. Adam Ashton & Alan Walton also played and finished on 6.5 and 6 respectively.

Scottish Championship 11-17 July
http://www.scottishchesschampionship.co ... Games.html

Congratulations to Andrew Greet who won with 7.5/9. David Patrick and Tarun Malhotra both finished on 5.

Turkish Is Bank Chess League 29 June - 8 July
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/e ... eague-2010

Michael Adams played board 2 for ISEK AQUAMATCH S.K. scoring 8.5/9 and performing at 2857. Despite this his team finished 3rd on 18 match points from 13 games whilst the two winners both scored 25! One feature of the league is that a number of boards are reserved for female and junior players.

FSIM July Budapest (HUN), 5-13 July
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr35829.aspx?lan=1

Mark Lyell finished on 5/10 in the IM section.

Swiss Championship Main Event 8-16 July
http://schachbund.ch/turniere/sem.php

Simon Williams finished 5th= with 6.5/9 whilst Aly Wilson finished on 5.

7th South Wales International 10-15 July
http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/home.html

Vladimir Georgiev of Macedonia won the event with 7.5/9, half ahead of Keith Arkell with 7. Peter Wells was 3rd= with Krasimir Rusev from Bulgaria on 6.5. Yang-Fan Zhou, Ali Jaunooby, Jeremy Menadue and Allan Pleasants were amongst the group of players on 5.5.

Second International Chess Tournament "Rethymnon 13-20 July
http://www.daor.gr/index.php?id=129,0,0,1,0,0

Lorin D’Costa, Peter Poobalasingam, Paul Townsend, Sarah Hegarty, Selina Khoo, Ravi Haria and Tim Adams are all played. Lorin, Peter & Ravi finished on 5.5, Paul & Sarah 5, Selina 4 & Tim 3.5. Ravi, in particular, can be very pleased with his performance and he won the Under 12 trophy as well as gaining 27 rating points.

15th Annual Pacific Coast Open California 15-18 July
http://www.chesstour.com/pco10r.htm

Simon Ansell finished 2nd= on 4.5/6 whilst Maria Yurenok finished on 3.5/6 gaining another 9 rating points to continue her excellent form.

2nd International Tournament "Artemis Cup" Leros 13-20 July
http://www.leroschess.gr/

Dagne Ciuksyte is playing her first tournament since the 2008 Olympiad and is currently on 5 out of 8.

43rd Biel International Chess Festival 19-29 July
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/
http://live.bielchessfestival.ch/

David Howell is playing in a 10 player all-play-all where the oldest player is aged just 22. He is currently on 0/1.

Heini Olsen Memorial 20th -26th July 2010
http://chess-results.com/tnr34467.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000
http://www.faroechess.com/

Gawain Jones is playing in the all-play-all event and is currently on 1/1.

Helmut Kohls It Dortmund (GER), 15-25 July
http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/ ... rnier.html

Laurence Webb is on 1.5/3.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic819.html

I encourage players to send me details of events they or others are playing in abroad and I will do my best to include them in my round-up.

Lawrence Cooper
Director of International Chess
English Chess Federation 20/07/10

Without wanting to be too critical of a guy who's about a million points higher rated then me, can anyone explain Howell's 10. Kf1 in his first round game at Biel?

benedgell wrote:Without wanting to be too critical of a guy who's about a million points higher rated then me, can anyone explain Howell's 10. Kf1 in his first round game at Biel?

Probably not. This is what ChessBase (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6529) had to say about it - "This move is close to incomprehensible, and one is forced to wonder whether the player didn't accidentally let go of the piece while intending to castle. Needless to say, the usual move here is 0-0."

Ian Thompson wrote:

benedgell wrote:Without wanting to be too critical of a guy who's about a million points higher rated then me, can anyone explain Howell's 10. Kf1 in his first round game at Biel?

Probably not. This is what ChessBase (http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6529) had to say about it - "This move is close to incomprehensible, and one is forced to wonder whether the player didn't accidentally let go of the piece while intending to castle. Needless to say, the usual move here is 0-0."

An attempt at castling manually while keeping the rook on h1 in order push the h-pawn? It strikes me as rather slow compared to the normal 0-0 and f4-f5.

Is it too late for David to withdraw and enter the British instead?

Fans favourite , Max Rodshtein... the master..

Hope he wins it!