International Round Up 16/11/10

[LozCooper]

International Round Up 16/11/10

e2e4 Brighton Congress 12-14th November
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/brighton/open.htm
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/brighton/major.htm

Congratulations to Grandmaster Keith Arkell who won the open with 4.5/5 but the real story was 11 year old Ravi Haria from Elstree who finished 2nd= with 4/5 including a draw with Keith in the last round. Ravi gained 28 rating points performing at 2468 and again showed the enormous promise he has. My thanks to Sean for staging these events and giving so many players the opportunity to play rated games. Equal second with Ravi were FMs Jovica Radovanovic and Dave Ledger as well as Roger Wiilliamson.

Sydney Jacob of Lewisham won the FIDE rated major with 4.5/5, ahead of Daniel Staples, Matthew Payne and Othman Musthapha who all scored 4.

Bundesliga 12-14 November
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ligen/ru ... u=inactive
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ligen/ru ... u=inactive
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/staticsi ... u=inactive

England had five grandmasters playing in the latest weekend; Michael Adams played for OSG Baden-Baden on board 2, Luke McShane was board 3 for Werder Bremen, David Howell was board 2 for SG Trier who also fielded Stewart Haslinger on board 5 and Stephen Gordon on 6.

Michael scored 2.5/3 with wins against Tiviakov & Spoelmann whilst Luke scored 1/3. David scored 2.5/3 on his Bundesliga debut which included a win against French GM Laurent Fressinet rated 2718 with black! Stewart scored 1 out of 2 whilst Stephen just played the one game but by beating GM Zbynek Hracek rated 2633 with black made it a very worthwhile trip.

After 5 rounds Michael’s team OSG Baden-Baden lead the league with 9 match points out of 10 whilst Werder Bremen (Luke’s team) are in second place despite their surprise defeat to SG Trier, mainly due to David and Stephen’s impressive victories who have 6 points.

FSIM November Budapest HUN Sat 6th Nov 2010 - Wed 17th Nov 2010
http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1011/im.htm
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr40075.a ... 1000&snr=9

Mark Lyell is on 4 out of 9.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic836.html

ECF Live Games Calendar
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/?page_id=5052

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 16/11/10

[Sean Hewitt]

International Round Up 16/11/10

e2e4 Brighton Congress 12-14th November
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/brighton/open.htm
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/brighton/major.htm

Congratulations to Grandmaster Keith Arkell who won the open with 4.5/5 but the real story was 11 year old Ravi Haria from Elstree who finished 2nd= with 4/5 including a draw with Keith in the last round. Ravi gained 28 rating points performing at 2468 and again showed the enormous promise he has. My thanks to Sean for staging these events and giving so many players the opportunity to play rated games. Equal second with Ravi were FMs Jovica Radovanovic and Dave Ledger as well as Roger Wiilliamson.

Ravi aslo took the British Championship qualifying place.