International Round Up 29/06/10

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International Round Up 29/06/10

3rd Sveins Memorial, Oslo
http://sveins3minneturnering.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to Mark Hebden who finished 1st= with the highly rated Norwegian Jon Ludvig Hammer on 7/9. Mark registered another 2600+ performance (this time 2610) and gained another 9 rating points.

French Cup Final
http://www.echecs.asso.fr

Mickey Adams scored a crucial win for his French club Evry Grand Roque as they won the cup final against Metz Fischer.

Upper Hutt Rapidplay near Wellington, New Zealand

Gawain Jones won with 5.5/6 ahead of Ben Thomas on 5 and IMs Anthony Kerr & Russell Dive as well as his girlfriend WIM Sue Maroroa on 4.5.

HSG Open Hilversum (NED), 26 vi-4 vii 2010
http://www.hsgopen.nl/

Graham Burton is currently on 1/3.

Future events:

World Open 2010 June 29-July 5, 2010, Valley Forge, PA

Kanwal Bhatia will play in the above event.

43rd Biel International Chess Festival
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/

David Howell will be playing in a 10 player all-play-all where the oldest player is aged just 22.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic816.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 29/06/10