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International Round-up 26/7/11

Glorney & Faber Cup Dublin 20-22 July
http://www.glorneycup.com/?page_id=16
http://www.welshchessunion.org.uk/index.html

England won the Glorney, Robinson (Under 14) and Stokes (Under 12) tournaments whilst Scotland won the Faber/Gilbert. The England teams comprised:
Glorney team: Victor Jones 4/6, William Jones 4/6, Richard Weaving 6/6, Sam Walker 5/6 & Jean Luc Weller 4.5/6.
U14 team: Robert Fitzgerald 1/6, Patrick Smith 4/6, Adam C Taylor 6/6, Leo Tsoi 4/6, Nishant Bombay 4.5/6 & Rohan Bansal 4.5/6.
U12 team: William Claridge-Hansen 5/6, Aloysius Lip 4.5/6, Akito Oyama 5/6, Ryan Wong 2.5/6, Michael Ashworth 5.5/6 & Ashwin Kalyana 5/6.
Faber/Gilbert: Chantelle Foster 1.5/6, Abigail Pritchard 3/6 & Jennifer Ehr 4.5/6.

31st Villa de Benasque Open Spain 7-16 July 2011
http://www.openbenasque.com/Open.htm
http://chess-results.com/tnr52562.aspx? ... ES&flag=30

English scores were as follows: Jana Bellin & Erik Teichmann 6.5/10, Angus French 6, Jonathan Bryant, Chris Bellin and Justin Horton 5 & Thomas Crossland 2.5. English based Grandmaster Bogdan Lalic scored 7.5.

I Goi Mailako GM Donostia, Spain 13-20 July 2011
http://chess-results.info/tnr52877.aspx ... turdet=YES
http://www.grosxake.com/

Glenn Flear finished on 4.5/10 in the six player, double round, all-play-all.

XIII Sant Marti International Open 13-21 July 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr47209.aspx? ... turdet=YES
http://www.cesantmarti.com/index.php/to ... marti-2001

Ian Thompson scored 5.5/9.

SECOND International Chess Festival Vaujany 14-22 July 2011
http://promoechecs.free.fr/Vaujany/Prin ... ipalGa.htm

Daniel Bisby finished on 5.5/9.

10th Bergamo Open Bergamo ITA Fri 15th Jul 2011 - Sun 17th Jul 2011
http://www.scacchibergamo.altervista.or ... nding.html
http://www.scacchibergamo.altervista.org/index.html

Simon Buckley and Edmund Player scored 3.5/6 whilst David Spence scored 3.

34th Taminco Open, Ghent, Belgium 16th-20th July 2011
http://www.kgsrl.be/

Richard McMichael finished on 6/9, Andrew Stone 5.5, Mark Davey 5, Gerald Parfett & Alistair Morton 4, Peter Grant-Ross & Ronald Crooks 3.

XXIX Obert Internacional d'Escacs d'Andorra 16-24 July 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr53373.aspx? ... =1&fed=AND

Grandmaster David Norwood, who now represents Andorra, finished on 6/9.

Biel International Chess Festival 18-29 July 2011
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/mast ... standings/
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/mast ... ment/#c267

Isaac Sanders is playing in the Master tournament and started with a draw against IM Andreas Heimann rated 2498. He is currently on 2/7.

NK Dutch Open 19-28 July 2001
http://onk.schaakbond.nl/toernooien/deelnemers/open-nk

Peter Sowray is on 2.5/6 in the open.

4th INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT OF PALEOHORA 20-27 July
http://chess-results.com/tnr53222.aspx? ... ES&flag=30
http://www.chaniachess.gr/International ... ex_en.html

Edmund Player & David Whitehead are on 3.5/6, David Spence & Craig Hadrych 3.

Czech Open 2011 Pardubice 22nd July - 30th July 2011
http://www.czechopen.net/en/
http://www.czechopen.net/en/live-games/
http://chess-results.com/tnr52962.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

Tom Wiley is on 1/4 and Mark Lyell 0.5 in the A section. Phil Makepeace is on 2.5/4, Peter Andreev, Grant Bucher & Matthew Lunn 2 and Dominic Foord 1.5 in the B section. Arasu Ganesan is on 2.5/3 and Gunnar Mallon 1 in the C section. Tom Slater is on 1/3 in the D section and Alex Gray is on 1/3 in the E section.

Handicap Blitz Tournament, Rennes, France 21st July 2011
http://open.echecs35.fr/node/137

Meri Grigoryan scored 5/9.

26e Open International Avoine, France 23-31 July 2011
http://echecsavoine.free.fr/20102011/op ... oineGa.htm
http://echecsavoine.free.fr/20102011/op ... neFide.htm
http://echecsavoine.free.fr/

Meri Grigoryan is on 1/3.

Darwin Strategic Limited Championship of the British Isles 24th July - 6th August
http://www.britishchess2011.com/results_pairings.htm
http://www.britishchess2011.com/

The FIDE rated events started on the 25th July. Round 1 result are available on the website.

Future events:

Politiken Cup 30th July - 7th August 2011
http://www.ksu.dk/politiken_cup/turneri ... 1&aar=2011

Peter Sowray is playing.

9th Davos Open 7-13 August 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr49043.aspx?lan=1
http://www.sinchess.com/davos/

Matthew Turner, Mark Ferguson, Andrew Bigg, Chris Briscoe and Brian Smith are all playing.

e2e4 Sunningdale International 10th - 14th August 2011
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/20 ... /index.htm

Grandmasters Simon Williams, Danny Gormally and Keith Arkell are amongst the grandmasters playing in the 10 player all-play-all events with IM, WGM and WIM norms available.

1st Metropolitan International August 17th-21st 2011 in Los Angeles, California
http://www.metrochessla.com/players.php

Michael Adams will play.

2011 Gibraltar Junior International Chess Festival 18-23 August 2011
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/g ... ional.html

XIII OPEN INTERNACIONAL D'ESCACS DE SANTS, HOSTAFRANCS I LA BORDETA 19-28 August 2011
http://www.cotxeres.org/open/
http://www.cotxeres.org/open/inscrits11.htm

Matthew Sadler and Graham Burton are both playing.

Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 20-28 August 2011
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/

5th Leyland Chess Congress 27-29 August 2011
includes a FIDE rated open with £250 1st prize http://www.leylandchess.org.uk/congress e-mail: [email protected] Congress Director David Clayton

CCF Late Summer LP Congress [inc. FIDE Open] 3-4 September 2011
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/

61st DCCA Paignton Congress 4-10 September 2011
Email: [email protected]

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic872.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. There is a list of international tournaments at home and abroad listed here: http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2372

Lawrence Cooper,
Director of International Chess 26/7/11

Grandmaster David Norwood, who now represents Andorra

That is rather interesting. How and why has that happened?

Matthew Turner wrote:Grandmaster David Norwood, who now represents Andorra

That is rather interesting. How and why has that happened?

I had an e-mail maybe two or three months ago requesting permission for him to transfer. I did wonder if it was a hoax but I contacted Dave and he confirmed it was genuine. He now lives there and may play for them in future olympiads.

Surely within the FIDE rules he would have to pay a massive amount to transfer?

Matthew Turner wrote:Surely within the FIDE rules he would have to pay a massive amount to transfer?

Nothing that he couldn't afford

David has given hundreds and thousands of pounds to support English chess and he has now decided to pay a very substantial sum to leave the ECF. What a shame.

Maybe some other players will change nationalities to avoid taxes

Matthew Turner wrote:David has given hundreds and thousands of pounds to support English chess and he has now decided to pay a very substantial sum to leave the ECF. What a shame.

The reason he has changed nationalities is not a political protest, and I am sure that he will continue to be a donor to English chess.

Matthew Turner wrote:David has given hundreds and thousands of pounds to support English chess and he has now decided to pay a very substantial sum to leave the ECF. What a shame.

It may have cost only €250 as he actually lives in Andorra. The high fees are there to stop flags of convenience transfers.

Bob Clark wrote:According to the FIDE website it actually cost €5000

But only if the player doesn't satisfy the residency criteria: http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook?id=19&view=category

I think it is the amount that was actually paid (to FIDE), but just that specified as "Transfer Fee". It doesn't include the standard €250 "Notification Fee", or the "Compensation Fee", to be paid to the former federation (if relevant).

David would have been resident in Andorra for less than a year (or not provided evidence to the contrary to FIDE) in order to be required to pay €5000. The total cost however, would be €5000 + €250 (Notification) + €10,000 (Compensation fee payable from AND to ENG, can be waived by ENG).

Bob Clark wrote:Ok - I was just looking at the page below, I assumed the figure quoted was the amount to be paid.

http://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2011

I think you also need to look at the dates. I think the transfer fee is only payable if the player represents the new federation before the "Date starting from which a player can represent the new federation fee free" (28 April 2012). The only unavoidable fee is the "notification fee".

I notice that Felix Ynojosa is also on the list. He's transferred from England to his native country and it'll cost him 500 euro if he wants to represent Venezuela before 29 April 2013.

That's interesting. I guess it'll teach the ECF to stop praising foreign juniors (and maybe giving them free coaching money) because they can transfer back to their country of origin if they feel like it.

Mark Howitt wrote:That's interesting. I guess it'll teach the ECF to stop praising foreign juniors (and maybe giving them free coaching money) because they can transfer back to their country of origin if they feel like it.

The reality is rather different. The family only returned to Venezuela when the father lost his job and they couldn't afford to stay in the country. Had that not happened they would still be here and contributing to England chess by being ECF members and paying entry fees whenever they played. His sister, Angelica, hasn't yet transferred but that may be down to finance. There was also a younger brother that played as well. I'm still in contact with the family and I know Felix would love to still be living over here and part of the junior squad but sadly events out of his control meant it was no longer possible.

They lived here for four years and whilst you may consider them foreign they were very popular with the people who were lucky enough to get to know them.

Gens Una Sumus

But, even if you wanted to be parochial, super-strong foreign juniors mixing with our own juniors improves our standards.