International Round Up 4/8/09

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International Round Up 4/8/09
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 09:37 British Chess Championships 2009

http://www.britishchess09.com/results_pairings.htm

After the first week at the British in Torquay David Howell and Gawain Jones lead the Championship with 5/6, a half point clear of Stephen Gordon, Simon Williams, Peter Wells, Danny Gormally, Mark Hebden and Lawrence Trent. Jovanka Houska is the leading woman on 4/6 with Susan Lalic on 3 and Sarah Hegarty and Sheila Dines on 2.

Congratulations to the following winners in the junior events:

Under 16s Martin Brown 5.5/7. Sheila Dines won the Under 16s girls title with 4/7.

Under 15s (part of Under 16 competition) Akash Jain 5.5/7 Abigail Pritchard won the Under 15 girls with 3.5/7.

Under 13s Felix Ynojosa 6/7. Radha Jain & Maria Wang shared the Under 13s girls title with 4.5/7.

Under 11s Tarun Malhotra 6/7. Anna Wang won the Under 11 girls title with 5.5/7.

Under 9s Rohan Shiatis 6.5/7. Nandaja Narayanan won the Under 9 girls title with 3/7.

Under 8s Ryan Nathan Au 5.5/6. Imogen Turvey-Cross won the Under 8 girls with 4/6.

Danny Gormally and Gawain Jones won the first rapidplay with 5.5/6 and Alexander Cherniaev won the second with 5.5/6.

In other events Dave Ledger leads the Major Open with 5.5/6 and Craig Hanley won both the am pm and 5 round week 1 events. Alexander Cherniaev also played in the pm event but a last round loss to Alexandra Wilson saw him finish outside the prizes.

Finally, Sabrina Chevannes continued her comeback but a last round loss in the weekend open meant she missed out on first place. However, a tournament performance of 184 should give the England selectors a timely reminder of her talent. The crosstable of the event is at: http://www.britishchess09.com/events/atkins.htm

Full results and latest scores can be found on the website. Live coverage is a vailable every day at: http://www.britishchess09.com/live.htm

Czech Open Pardubice

http://chess-results.com/tnr24001.aspx? ... ilen=99999

http://chess-results.com/tnr24002.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

In the Grandmaster Open Lorin D’Costa finished with 6/9, Adam Ashton and Richard Almond scored 4.5. In the Rating Open Alex Longson & David Spence scored 6.5, Donny Muter 6, Alan Walton and David Whitehead 5.5.

17ème Open International de Saint-Affrique

http://echecs.saintaffrique.free.fr/aut ... grille.pdf

Glenn Flear finished on 7/9, half a point behind the winners and performed at 2490. Rufus Duff finished on 4.5/9 and had a rating performance of 1850.


2nd Open Paleohora (GRE), 21-28 vii 2009

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr23946.aspx?lan=1

Adam Hunt scored 6/9 whilst Callum Kilpatrick and Daniel Hunt both scored 5. Callum had no draws and his wins included Saptarshi Roy, a 2413 rated IM. Daniel had an excellant tournament, performing art 2171 and his best result was a draw against Mladen Vucic, an IM rated 2358.

Kavala Open Chess Tournament

http://www.chesskavala.gr/

Adam Hunt and Simon Ansell are on 2/3 whilst Maria Yurenok is on 0.

Arctic Chess Challenge

http://arcticchess.org/2009/

Matthew Turner is on 2/3 whilst Peter Poobalasingham and Brian Smith are on 1.5/3.

In addition to the individual tournament websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic769.html

Lawrence Cooper
Alternate Director of International Chess 4/8/09