International Round-Up 26/8/12

[LawrenceCooper]

International Round-up 27/8/12

European Youth Chess Championship Prague 17-25 August 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr79011.aspx? ... NG&flag=30
http://chess-results.com/tnr79016.aspx? ... =1&flag=30
http://www.eycc2012.eu/
http://www.eycc2012.eu/games/live-coverage

Congratulations to Joshua Altman who took the bronze medal in the under eights by scoring 7/9 and finishing half behind the gold and silver medallists. Aditya Verma finished eighth with a score of 6.5.

Under 10 girls: Laura Davidson 4 & Meytal Cohen 3.
Under 12 girls: Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 6, Beatrice Steele 4.5 & Eva Ressel 3.
Under 16 girls: Amy Hoare 4.5, Chantelle Foster & Katherine Shepherd 3.5.
Under 8 boys: Joshua Altman 7, Aditya Verma 6.5, Leo Sanitt 3.5.
Under 10 boys: Zheming Zhang 4.5.
Under 12 boys: Girinath Haridas 4.5, Arul Gupta & Dion Huang 3.5, Yang-Jian Zhou 2.5.
Under 14 boys: Ravi Haria 5, Rohan Shiatis & Adam C Taylor 4.5, Ananthanarayanan Balaji, Tarun Malhotra & Conor Murphy 4, Leo Tsoi 3.5.
Under 16 boys: Martin Oliver & Patrick Smith 3.5.
Under 18 boys: Yang-Fan Zhou 5.5, Sam Franklin 5, James Foster & Gordon Scott 4, Adrian Archer Lock 3.5.

e2e4 London Gatwick International 18th - 22nd August 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/gatwick/Aug2012/index.htm

Congratulations to Ameet Ghasi who secured his third and final IM norm to complete his IM title. Peter Roberson also made an IM norm after winning his first eight games.

Masters A: Peter Roberson 8/9 (IM norm).
Masters B: Ameet Ghasi 7/9 (final IM norm).
Challengers C: Michael Healey 6/9.
Major D: Robert Kane & Stephen Pride 5.5/8.
Major E: Jason Obihara 7/9.
Major F: Reuben Balouka-Myers 6/8.

Gibraltar Junior International 17-20 August 2012
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/j ... le_u16.htm
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/j ... le_u12.htm

Under 16: 1st= Benjamin Glendora (Hungary) & Garcia De Lomas Guerrero (Spain) 5.5/6. 3rd= James Bowler, Henry Broadley, Jonathan Burch & Jonathan Pein 4.5.

Under 12: 1st Alejandro Perez Garcia (Spain) 5.5/6, 2nd= Pablo Biedma Nunez, Celia Gillis Onieva, Victor Melado Barba & Alberto Pavon Martinez (all Spain) 4.5. Highest placed English: Max French 4, Joshua Higgs & Asha Jina 3.5.

12th European Seniors Championship Kaunas Lithuania 18-26 August 2012
http://www.escc2012.eu/index.php?option ... =4&lang=en

Ivan Myall scored 5/9.

5th Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 16-26 August 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Results/2 ... tional.htm

Open: Alexander Berelovitch, Bogdan Lalic & Jack Rudd shared first with 6.5/9.
A event: 1st Henry Cove 4/5.
B event: 1st Dominic Gibbs 5/5.
C event: 1st Riccardo Vocaturo 7/7.
Junior event: 1st Francsesco Bernardini & Boris Pastukhov 4.5/5 Jay & Xavier Chitnavis 4.

27th Schwarzacher Open MAIN TOURNAMENT 18-26 August 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr76593.aspx? ... turdet=YES
http://www.schachinsalzburg.at/

Andrew Stone finished on 5/9.

48. Międzynarodowy Festiwal Szachowy im. Akiby Rubinsteina - Grupa B‏ 18-26 August
http://rubinstein.polanica.pl/
http://rubinstein.polanica.pl/index.php ... Itemid=104

Kevin Millward and Jonathan Kay both scored 4/9 in Group B.

e2e4 Hinckley Congress 24-27 August 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/hinckley/Aug2012/index.htm

Jonathan Hawkins won the open with 6/7 whilst Ameet Ghasi and Keith Arkell shared second with 5.5. Chino Nwachukwu won the Major with 6.5/7 whilst Ken Alexander won the Minor with 6/7.

Berks & Bucks Congress 25-27 August 2012
http://results.tournamentdirector.co.uk/

Liam Varnom won the Championship with 5/6 ahead of John Wager on 4.5 whilst Paul Gibbons and Majed Jeffries shared the Challengers with 4.5/6.

6th Leyland Chess Congress 25-27 August 2012
http://www.leylandchess.org.uk/congress/index.htm

No results published yet.

Future events:

World Chess Olympiad 28th August - 9th September 2012
http://istanbul2012.tsf.org.tr/en/

England teams:
Open: 1 Michael Adams, 2 Gawain Jones, 3 Nigel Short, 4 David Howell, 5 Nick Pert.
Captain: Peter Wells.

Women: WGM 1. Anya Corke, 2. Maria Yurenok, 3. Sarah Hegarty, 4. Sabrina Chevannes, 5. Kanwal Bhatia. Captain: Stephen Gordon.

The event is being held from 28th August to 9th September in Istanbul, Turkey.

WORLD YOUTH UNDER-16 CHESS OLYMPIAD 28 August - 06 September 2012 Istanbul, Türkiye (Turkey)
http://wyco2012.tsf.org.tr/en/component ... ew&kid=207

England are sending one team comprising Marcus Harvey, Oskar Hackner, Amy Hoare, Roy Zhang, Daniel Noel with Glenn Flear as coach.

CCF Late Summer Long Play Congress (incl FIDE Open) 1-2 September 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Adult%20C ... s_info.htm

62nd Annual Congress Paignton 2nd-8th September 2012
http://www.chessdevon.co.uk

Leek Chess Congress 7-9 September 2012
Email: [email protected]

A FIDE-rated open for players rated under 2350.

Hampstead FIDE Chess Congress 22-23 September 2012
http://www.hampsteadchess.blogspot.co.uk/

Under 2200 /unrated must be under ECF 190 on 22-23 September 2012. (The September 1st FIDE list, and the July ECF list will be to determine eligibility. FIDE rating takes precedence.)

Leicester Chess Congress (H E Atkins Memorial) 28-30 September 2012
http://www.leicesterchess.co.uk

4NCL Rapidplay 29-30 September 2012
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/download/2012-201 ... ELINES.pdf

e2e4 High Wycombe Chess Congress 12-14 October 2012
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/high_wycombe

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic928.html

There is a list of international tournaments at home and abroad listed here: http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3795

Lawrence Cooper,
Director of International Chess 27/8/12

[Neville Belinfante]

Leading scores from the 48th Berks & Bucks congress so far are

FIDE rated Championship - Kumar Dixit, Liam Varnam and John Wager 3/4
FIDE rated Challengers - Paul Gibbons and Majid Jeffries 3.5/4

Full details are at http://results.tournamentdirector.co.uk/

[Neville Belinfante]

Almost a clean sweep for Maidenhead chess club at the end of the Berks & Bucks congress.

FIDE rated Championship - 1st Liam Varnam, 2nd John Wager, 3rd Matthew Wadsworth (all Maidenhead)
FIDE rated Challengers - 1st = Paul Gibbons (Berkshire *) and Majid Jeffries (Maidenhead)
Reserves A - 1st= Father and son Tom and Scott Borland (Sussex)
Reserves B - 1st Tamil Matilal (Oxford)
Reserves C - 1st= David Stallan (Crowthorne) and Paul Collis (Guildford)

Full details are still at http://results.tournamentdirector.co.uk/