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International Round Up 31/8/10

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

Congratulations to Mark Hebden who won the GM all-play-all with 6/9 and to Simon Ansell who won the IM all-play-all with 7/9.

Gawain Jones won the weekend tournament with 5/5 and Gavin Wall finished second with 4. http://icu.ie/articles/display.php?id=271

Vadsø jacket 30 years NVGP Norway 28-29 August
http://vadsosjakk.no/vds/10/index.php?page=result

Jovanka Houska finished 2nd= on 4/5 half a point behind GM Sergei Tiviakov who she drew with in round 3.

Honor Division CECLUB 2010 23-28 August
http://www.feda.org/clasificacion.php?id=82
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr37376.a ... 000&snr=13
http://chess-results.com/tnr37532.aspx? ... 000&snr=13

Nigel Short played on board 3 for C.A. Naturgas Sestao. The team finished in 5th place and he scored 1.5/3 in the initial group stage and then 1.5/2 in the play-off.

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

GM Colin McNab finished first on 6.5/9, ahead of GMs Aaron Summerscale & Bogdan Lalic on 6 and Keith Arkell, John Hodgson and Ian Snape on 5.5.

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

The final English scores were: Michael White 6.5/10, Peter Sowray, David Eggleston & Ian Thompson 6, Chris Briscoe & Graham Burton 4.5, Tobias Stock 4.
Donny Muter 4/7 Lorin D’Costa 3/6.

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

Congratulations to Alan Walton who won the FIDE rated open with 5/6, defeating his two nearest rivals Mike Surtees and Ali Jaunooby in the last two rounds. Chris Doran, Dominic Rabbitte and Mike Surtees finished 2nd= with 4.5.

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

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic825.html

I also 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 31/8/10

22-29 August
6th Open Chess tournament Heraklion-Gazi 2010
Paul Townsend (6.5/9) was 3rd=, whilst Tim Adams' score of 5.5/9 won him the top PERFORMANCE-RATING prize.

Thanks Paul.

46th Berks & Bucks Chess Congress 28-30 August

Championship:

Peter Roberson won with 4.5/6 and retained the trophy he won last year. He qualifies for the British Championship next year in Sheffield. Joint second were James Adair, Nicolas Croad, Andrew P Smith, Peter A Williams and Robert Willmoth with 4/6.

Challengers:

Winner was Nigel Fleming with 4.5/6. Joint second were John Wager, Anthony Milnes and Giampiero Amato with 4/6

The junior international at Paignton has been cancelled, sadly.

The side events taking place during the congress are a talk by Peter Purland on Monday at 7.30pm, a simul by Mickey Adams on Tuesday at 7pm, a civic reception hosted by the President of DCCA on Weds at 8pm, and a blitz tournament on Thurs at 7.30pm.

http://www.chessdevon.co.uk/HTML/congre ... n/base.htm has all of the information for the congress on one page.

It was hard for me to see how a junior event could get a lot of entries, when it took up the first week of a new school year. I couldn't quite see the thinking behind it. I hope the rest the event goes really well and it is nice to see Mickey returning to his West Country roots.

Yes, strange that. I noticed this tournament and assumed that schools go back after 9th September in some parts of the country.

Matthew Turner wrote:It was hard for me to see how a junior event could get a lot of entries, when it took up the first week of a new school year. I couldn't quite see the thinking behind it. I hope the rest the event goes really well and it is nice to see Mickey returning to his West Country roots.

The problem was that it was hoping for a considerable international entry, which didn't happen seemingly because Britain is too expensive. It was heavily advertised at the events the National Junior Squad attends.

Rob Thompson wrote:

Matthew Turner wrote:It was hard for me to see how a junior event could get a lot of entries, when it took up the first week of a new school year. I couldn't quite see the thinking behind it. I hope the rest the event goes really well and it is nice to see Mickey returning to his West Country roots.

The problem was that it was hoping for a considerable international entry, which didn't happen seemingly because Britain is too expensive. It was heavily advertised at the events the National Junior Squad attends.

Was it advertised internationally? Does continental Europe (for example) have different term times to the UK?

Yes, and I don't know, but probably. I know continental Europe (or at least large parts of it) start their academic years from Jan 1st, so their term times are probably different as well. However, i have done no research into this so cannot be sure