International Round Up 13/04/10

[LozCooper]

International Round Up 13/04/10

European Chess Solving Championship 2010
http://www.bstephen.me.uk/ecsc2010/

I am pleased to report that Great Britain are now the European Champions and Dr John Nunn is the European Individual Champion.

Sydney International Open 7-11 April
http://www.chessaustralia.com.au/index.cfm?site=open

Congratulations to GM Gawain Jones who finished 1st= with GMs Dejan Bojkov & Zhao Zong-Yuan on 7/9 with a performance of 2668 gaining 15 rating points. He played 5 GMs and 2 IMs and was undefeated throughout the event. Erik Teichmann scored 6 and Gary Lane finished on 5.5.

Coulsdon International 5-9 April
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Results/2 ... tional.htm

Yang-Fan Zhou came close to an IM norm but was unable to win against David Eggleston in the last round with black and finished 3rd= with David and Richard Tozer whilst Meri Grigoryan scored 3, Peter Williams 2 and Dominic Gibbs 1.5. The winner of the event was Bogdan Lalic who scored 7.5/9.

William Jones won the Challengers with 8/9 a point clear of Victor Jones.

Bundesliga 10-11 April Rounds 14 &15
http://www.godesbergersk.de/bundesliga- ... =sort&id=4
http://schachbundesliga.de/ligen/runden ... &menuid=72

Michael Adams, Luke McShane and Stewart Haslinger were in action in the final Bundesliga weekend of the season. Michael was representing the leaders Baden-Baden on board 3, Luke was playing board 2 for Bremen and Stewart was board 3 for SG Trier. Baden-Baden recorded two convincing victories to win the league with Michael scoring 1.5/2, Luke drew both games as Bremen won both matches including a crucial 5.5-2.5 victory over Solingen which allowed Bremen to overtake their opponents to finish in second place. Stewart scored 0.5/2 as SG Trier finished in 10th place out of 16 teams.

The English scores for the season were as follows:

Michael Adams scored 5/8 against an average of 2531,
Luke McShane scored 3.5/7 against an average of 2570,
Stewart Haslinger scored 3.5/7 against an average of 2496 and
Stephen Gordon scored 5/9 against an average of 2506.

Welsh Championship:
http://www.welshchessunion.org.uk/welsh ... _2010.html

Richard Jones won with 6.5/7, one and a half points clear of 2nd placed Tom Brown and Sven Zeidler who both scored 5. Olivia Smith was the highest placed women player on 3.5, half ahead of Suzie Blackburn. There were four English players amongst the 26 player field, David Sands and David Roberts who scored 4, Olufemi Adebajo who scored 3.5 and Ernest White who finished with 2.5.

First Saturday Chess Tournament Budapest
http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1004/im.htm

Sam Franklin and Mark Lyell are playing in the IM Tournament and after nine rounds Sam and Mark are both on 3/9.

Future events:

10th Wellington College International 14-18 April
http://intranet.wellingtoncollege.org.u ... px?id=4972

This event is a nine round rated swiss event and there are still places available, in particular Non-English players are encouraged to contact John Rawlinson today at [email protected] if they are interested in playing.

Bangkok Open 14-20 April
http://bangkokchess.com/?page_id=409

England’s number two Nigel Short is top seed whilst Simon Ansell, Ian Thompson, Malcolm Armstrong and Maria Yurenok are also playing in the open whilst Mark Ruston, Peter Darby, David Cork, David Gates, Nigel Johnson and Stephen Curry all play in the Challenger event.

2010 World Universities' Chess Championship 4-12 September Zurich
http://www.buca.org.uk/news/2010-world- ... ampionship

If any eligible students are interested in playing in the event above please contact Alex Holowczak at [email protected] for further details.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic805.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 13/04/10

[David Sedgwick]

10th Wellington College International 14-18 April
http://intranet.wellingtoncollege.org.u ... px?id=4972

This event is a nine round rated swiss event and there are still places available, in particular Non-English players are encouraged to contact John Rawlinson today at [email protected] if they are interested in playing.

This event is in urgent need of arbiting support. Please could any arbiter available to help on one or more of Thursday 15th, Friday 16th or Saturday 17th April contact John Rawlinson (as above) or David Sedgwick.

Edit: My email address now removed.