International Round-Up 9/8/10

[LozCooper]

International Round Up 9/8/10

GRENKE Rapid World Championship
http://www.chesstigers.de/ccm10/tournam ... 1&round=11

English scores were as follows: David Howell 8.5/11, Nigel Davies 8, Tom Wiley 6.5, Malcolm Pein 6. 701 players played and the winner was Gata Kamsky with 10/11, ahead of Gashimov, Aronian & Bareev with 9.5. Ingrid Lauterbach scored 5/11 in the women’s event. Apologies for any English omissions, of the 701 players the majority aren’t labelled by country so it’s possible I’ve missed some.

World Junior and Girls U20 Championship Chotowa Poland 2-17 August
http://www.wjcc2010.pl/en/gry-on-line
http://www.chessarbiter.to.pl/turnieje/t_3905/
http://www.chessarbiter.to.pl/turnieje/t_3906/

Yang-Fan Zhou is playing in the junior and Anya Corke in the girls. Both will be coached by Mark Hebden. Yang-Fan is currently on 2/5 and Anya is on 3.

XVII International Chess Tournament "City of Montecatini Terme " 1 to 8 Aug
http://www.montecatiniscacchi.com/

Congratulations to Gawain Jones who finished 1st with 7.5/9. After winning his first six he drew his last three to finish half a point clear of the field which included four other grandmasters.

Arctic Chess Challenge Tromso, Norway 31 July - 8 August
http://arcticchess.org/acc/
http://www.sjakk-live.com/

Matthew Turner finished 3rd= on 7/9 with a 2598 performance, half a point behind the two winners GMs Mikhail Kobalia & Manuel Leon Hoyos. His results can be found here: http://tournamentservice.com/playerdeta ... up=&snr=20

Chris Briscoe, Maxim Devereaux, Nathan Alfred & Peter Poobalasingam scored 5.5, Mark Ferguson & Peter Sowray 4.5,
Philip Taylor-Bowd 3.5,
Steven Barr & Brian Smith 3.

Congratulations to Sam Collins, from Ireland, who achieved a well deserved second GM norm. He finished on 6/9 and had a 2597 performance. However, under the rule that allows one low rated player to count as 2200 he was comfortably over the average required and drew a tense last round game a pawn down in a rook ending. He had also been performing at well over 2600 throughout the event and scored 3.5/6 against the GMs he played from rounds 3-8! His results can be found here: http://tournamentservice.com/playerdeta ... up=&snr=37

XXXVI Open Internacional d'Escacs "Ciutat de Badalona" Grup A 2-10 Aug
http://chess-results.com/tnr32550.aspx? ... 000&snr=69

Ian Reynolds is on 2/6.

Hogeschool HZ Zeeland Chess Tournament August 7-14
http://www.hztoernooi.nl/hz/index.php/en/home-en

Stewart and Mike Haslinger and Rob Thompson are all playing. Stewart has 2/2 and Rob & Mike are on 1.

Events starting this week:

e2e4 Uxbridge Autumn International 11-15 August
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/20 ... /index.htm

There are 2 IM and 1 WIM norm tournaments as well as several rated events. Please contact Sean Hewitt at [email protected] for further information or myself at [email protected] regarding the WIM event.

NH Chess Tournament Rising Stars vs. Experience 12-22 August
http://www.nhchess.com/

David Howell will be part of the ‘Rising Star’ team.

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 9/8/10

[Ben Purton]

Great game today by Matt Turner, i was a bit like what the hell in opening, but after Bxa7 , he destroyed a 2600 gm, really impressive.