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International Round Up 7/8/10

British Championship 25 July - 7 August
http://www.britishchess2010.com/
http://www.britishchess2010.com/live_games.htm

Congratulations to Mickey Adams who won the 2010 British Championship (and is therefore also English champion) with a score of 9.5/11 and a 2757 performance. Nick Pert finished second on 8 with a 2612 performance whilst Stuart Conquest, Andrew Greet, Jonathan Hawkins, Adam Hunt, Richard Pert & Alexei Slavin all finished equal third on 7.5. Congratulations to Adam Hunt who secured his 2nd GM norm with a 2624 performance over eleven rounds.

Jovanka Houska finished on 6.5 and is the British (and English) women’s champion, ahead of Lateefah Messam-Sparks who scored 4.5 and becomes British Girls Under 18 champion and had a 2082 performance and Sheila Dines who finished with 3.5.

James Jackson won the Under 21 title with 5.5 and Ryan Rhys Griffiths the Under 18 title with 6.5. Both titles were part of the Championship.

British Under 16: 1st= Brandon Clarke & Gordon Scott 6/7.
As both winners are under 15, the under 16 title was awarded to Adrian Archer-Lock and Sebastien Muheim whilst Brandon & Gordon received the Under 15 title.
Girls Under 16: Abigail Pritchard 3.
Girls Under 15: Megan Owens, Ali Roy and Maria Wang all scored 3.5.

British Under 14s: 1st Marcus Harvey 6.5/7.
Girls: Radha Jain 4.5.

British Under 13: 1st Ravi Haria 6/7.
Girls: Katherine Shepherd scored 4.

British Under 12: 1st Tarun Malhotra 6/7.
Girls: Anna Wang 5.

British Under 11: Anna Wang & Rohan Shiatis 6/7.
Girls: Anna Wang 6.

British Under 10: Ashwin Kalyana 6/7.
Girls: Akshaya Kalaiyalahan & Imogen Turvey-Cross 4.

British Under 9: Zheming Zhang 6/7.
Girls: Akashaya Kalaiyalahan 4.5

British Under 8: Zheming Zhang 6/6.
Girls: Isabelle Gilbert 3.5.

British Seniors: Paul Byway 6/7.

Major Open: Paul Talsma (Netherlands) 8.5/11,
2nd: Angus French 8
3rd= Arne Hagesaether (Norway) & Roger De Coverley 7.5.

A full list of prize winners can be found here: http://www.britishchess2010.com/prizewinners_2010.htm

Pamplona Open 26 July - 1 August
http://torneo2009archivo.blogspot.com/
http://chess-results.com/tnr34215.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000

Michael Yeo finished on 5.5/9 whilst Julian Farrand scored 5 and Ray Edwards 3.5.

8th WCh-Corr w Final (Postal), 2007-10 cat. XIV
http://www.iccf-webchess.com

Mary E Jones finished on 5.5/10 in the Women’s World Championship held between 2007-10.

Current events:

Arctic Chess Challenge Tromso, Norway 31 July - 8 August
http://arcticchess.org/acc/
http://www.sjakk-live.com/

Matthew Turner, Mark Ferguson, Peter Sowray, Maxim Devereaux, Peter Poobalasingam, Nathan Alfred, Chris Briscoe, Philip Taylor-Bowd, Steven Barr & Brian Smith are all playing.
After seven rounds Matthew & Maxim are on 5, Chris, Mark, Nathan, Peter P & Peter S 4, Philip 3, Steven 2 and Brian 1.5.
Sam Collins, from Ireland, is on 5.5/7 and performing over 2600.

XVII International Chess Tournament "City of Montecatini Terme " 1 to 8 Aug
http://www.montecatiniscacchi.com/

Gawain Jones is 1st on 6.5/7.

World Junior and Girls U20 Championship Chotowa Poland 2-17 August
http://www.wjcc2010.pl/en/gry-on-line
http://www.chessarbiter.to.pl/turnieje/t_3905/
http://www.chessarbiter.to.pl/turnieje/t_3906/

Yang-Fan Zhou is playing in the junior and Anya Corke in the girls. Both will be coached by Mark Hebden. Yang-Fan is currently on 2/4 and Anya is on 2.5.

XXXVI Open Internacional d'Escacs "Ciutat de Badalona" Grup A 2-10 Aug
http://chess-results.com/tnr32550.aspx? ... 000&snr=69

Ian Reynolds is on 0/4.

As always, apologies for any omissions or errors. Please contact me direct via a private message or e-mail rather than via a forum post as I'm being kept busy with visa applications for the Olympiad and preparations for the Uxbridge event next Wednesday.

Lawrence Cooper

Great result in Tromso for Forumite GM Matthew Turner, sharing third place with 7/9 in a strong field and defeating 2600-rated GM Berg in the final round this afternoon.

Leonard Barden wrote:Great result in Tromso for Forumite GM Matthew Turner, sharing third place with 7/9 in a strong field and defeating 2600-rated GM Berg in the final round this afternoon.

Sam Collins also had a great tournament and scored 6/9 and a 2597 performance but sadly I think he missed out on a GM norm despite performing at well over 2600 for the majority of the tournament. Matthew's performance was 2598 and as you say he had a great tournament finishing with a win over a 2600+ GM.

Does, the rule about allowing to uplift two players to 2250 for GM norms push his overall performance up over 2600, or was that already taken into account

It's one player and 2200 now.

Alan Walton wrote:Does, the rule about allowing to uplift two players to 2250 for GM norms push his overall performance up over 2600, or was that already taken into account

Alan, yes you may be right. I think it makes his average 2488 as opposed to 2461. In that case 6/9 would be enough.

Hopefully Alan is right. An encouraging sign is that the website had said that Sam only needed a draw in the last round (which he got) so one trusts that all this had already been checked.

And knowing Sam, if he had needed a win, or had there been any lingering doubt about whether a draw sufficed, then the last round result would been decisive, one way or the other ....

If so, it is Sam' s second norm, though he is still some way from the 2500 rating which he would need to acquire in order to become Ireland's first home-born GM.

An excellent tournament altogether for the two Barbican players, and a welcome return to form for Max too.

If confirmed, this is excellent news. Every step towards a homegrown GM is fantastic news for Irish Chess.

I can confirm that Sam got a GM norm (his second). He had to suffer somewhat for the draw in the final round, but the result was much deserved. He had a dominating position against Sandipan in round 8, but rejected a line which would have left him a clear pawn up in a position which was almost unlosable. He opted to win an exchange instead and things rapidly went a bit wrong. It was a great performance to bounce back from this.
Sam is playing in an all-play-all in Dublin at the the end of August and his final GM must be a distinct possibility.