International Round Up 24/8/10

[LozCooper]

International Round Up 24/8/10

Completed events:

NH Chess Tournament Rising Stars vs. Experience 12-22 August
http://www.nhchess.com/

David Howell was part of the ‘Rising Star’ team. He finished on 4.5/10 with wins against Ljubojevic, Nielsen & Van Wely. The average of his opponents was 2684. There is also a video clip on the website where David talks through his round 9 victory against Peter Heine Nielsen.

17th International Open Summer Nice
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Resultat2.asp ... &Action=Cl

Harry Lamb scored 6, Callum Kilpatrick 5.5 and Steve Crick 4.5. Harry also won the Over 60s prize.

U14 8th European Union Youth Championship 3-11 August
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr36410.a ... -1&wi=1000

10 English juniors played in events ranging from Under 10 to Under 14. Scores as follows:

Under 10s: Adarsh Vani 5, John James Daley 4, Isobel Sanders 3
Under 12s: Isaac Sanders 6, William Claridge -Hansen 5
Under 14s: Henry Broadley 5, James Bowler, Eugene Daley, Jennifer Ehr 4, Amol Vani 3.

Okay, I know it’s not international but……

British Land UK Chess Challenge Terafinal 21-22 Aug
http://www.ukchesschallenge.com/TFResults10.shtml

Congratulations to Felix Ynojosa who won the first prize of £2000 on tie-break from James Adair, Martin Brown and Samuel Milson. All four scored 15/18 (3 points for a win). Lateefah Messam-Sparks won the girls prize and £1000 with 12/18 ahead of Anna Wang and Amy Milson who scored 11. David Redman scooped the U11 prize and Zheming Zhang won the U9 prize.

Events in progress:

Dun Laoghaire Chess Festival Ireland 20-29 August
http://icu.ie/articles/display.php?id=270
http://www.icu.ie/games/list.php?date=2 ... vent=Dun+L

Mark Hebden is playing in the GM all-play-all and Simon Ansell is in the IM all-play-all. Mark is currently on 2/3 and Simon is on 2.5/3.
Gawain Jones won the weekend tournament with 5/5 and Gavin Wall finished second with 4.

XII International Open Chess Sants Barcelona 20-29 August
http://www.cotxeres.org/open/empa2010.htm

Lorin D’Costa, Peter Sowray, David Eggleston, Ian Thompson, Chris Briscoe, Donny Muter, Michael White, Graham Burton & Tobias Stock are all playing. After four rounds their scores are as follows:

Lorin, Peter, David, Ian 3 Chris, Donny, Michael, Graham 2 & Tobias 1.5.

The 3rd JESSIE GILBERT Celebration International Chess Festival 21-30 Aug
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Results/2 ... tional.htm
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chessway/jg_int_3/jg10.htm

Events include a GM norm swiss, as well as rated all-play-alls, a junior event on 25th and rapid and blitz on the 30th.

Colin McNab leads the GM norm event with 3/3. Aaron Summerscale & Bogdan Lalic are both on 2.5.

Caissa International Chess Tournament Kecskemet Hungary 21-29 August
http://www.caissachessbooks.com/node/en ... ournaments

Meri Grigoryan is playing but sadly there are no results on the site.

Events this week:

46th Berks & Bucks Chess Congress 28-30 August
Contact: Nigel Dennis Email: [email protected]

Both the Championship and Challengers will be FIDE rated.

4th Leyland Chess Congress - 28 to 30 August
http://www.leylandchess.org.uk/congress/index.htm

There is a FIDE rated open alongside unrated U170 and U135 events.

Future events:

Diamond Jubilee Congress Paignton 5-11 September
http://www.chessdevon.co.uk/

There will be numerous events including a FIDE rated Premier, U180, U150, U125 from 5-11 as well as a junior international from 4th-9th.

11th World University Chess Championship Zurich, Switzerland - Sep 5-12
http://www.fisu.net/en/Chess-2010-1703.html

e2e4 Sunningdale Chess Congress 10-12 September
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/sunningdale/Sept2010/index.htm

Events include a FIDE rated open and major.

World Chess Olympiad 2010 Khanty-Mansiysk Siberia 21 Sep - 3 Oct
http://www.ugra-chess.ru/eng/index.htm

e2e4 Runcorn Congress 24-26 September
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/runcorn/Sep2010/index.htm

Guernsey 17th -23rd October
http://www.guernseychessclub.org.gg/fes ... mation.htm

e2e4 Uxbridge Premier & Young Masters 24-28 October
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/20 ... /index.htm
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/20 ... /index.htm

4NCL Rounds 1 and 2 6-7 November
http://www.4ncl.co.uk

e2e4 Brighton Chess Congress : 12th - 14th November
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/brighton/index.htm

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic824.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 24/8/10

[Eoin Devane]

17th International Open Summer Nice
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Resultat2.asp ... &Action=Cl

Harry Lamb scored 6, Callum Kilpatrick and Steve Crick 4.5. Harry also won the Over 60s prize.

Callum scored 5.5.

[LozCooper]

17th International Open Summer Nice
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Resultat2.asp ... &Action=Cl

Harry Lamb scored 6, Callum Kilpatrick and Steve Crick 4.5. Harry also won the Over 60s prize.

Callum scored 5.5.

Oops, thanks for pointing that out, I'll amend it and inform the ECF site

[Jonathan Rogers]

The Nice tournament was rather weak overall, in comparison with previous years; maybe they lost a sponsor (quite likely; the Club itself seemed to have lost their regular premises when I visited in July).

Callum's TPR is very low but I've noticed before that the French have a funny way of calculating these.