International Round Up 20/12/10

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 20/12/10

European Blitz Chess Championship 17th December 2010
http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2010/ ... laces.html
http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2010/ ... _z$32.html

Gawain Jones was 34th seed but scored 17.5/26 to finish 14th whilst David Moskovic scored 14/26. The event was a double round event and 10 of Gawain’s opponents were GMs including Ivanchuk, Gashimov and Movesesian who are all rated over 2700. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won with 22/26, whilst Vassily Ivanchuk finished 2nd with 20 and Ruslan Ponomariov was third with 19.5.

European Rapid Chess Championship 18-19 December 2010
http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2010/ ... laces.html
http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2010/ ... _z$58.html

Gawain Jones finished on 9/13 after a last round loss to GM Baadur Jobava rated 2707. He played a great tournament though including a win against GM Sergei Rublevsky rated 2678. David Moskovic finished on 8.5, defeating English resident IM Roland Berzinsh from Latvia in the last round. First place was shared between GMs Zoltan Almasi, Vassily Ivanchuk, Vugar Gashimov, Anton Korobov and Alexei Shirov on 10.5.

7ème OPEN INTERNATIONAL DE VANDOEUVRE 19-23 December
http://www.vandoeuvre-echecs.com/tournois.php

Adam Hunt, Nathan Alfred and Sabrina Chevannes are playing in Tournoi A. After round 4 Adam has 3.5 (including a black win against GM Tornike Sanikidze rated 2558 and a draw against GM Tigran Gharamian rated 2650), Nathan has 2 and Sabrina has 1.5.

Future events:

Hastings Congress 28th December - 5th January 2011
http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/

The English challenge is led by David Howell, Mark Hebden and Simon Williams.

53rd Reggio Emilia 2010-11 28th December - 6th January 2011
http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/tornei_c ... efault.asp

Nigel Short plays in the 10 player all-play-all where Vassily Ivanchuk is top seed.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic841.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 20/12/10