International Round Up 23/12/10

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International Round-up 23/12/10

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

Adam Hunt, Nathan Alfred and Sabrina Chevannes played in Tournoi A. Adam finished on 5 (including a black win against GM Tornike Sanikidze rated 2558 and a draw against GM Tigran Gharamian rated 2650), Nathan scored 4.5 and Sabrina 3.

Future events:

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

The English challenge includes GMs David Howell, Mark Hebden, Simon Williams, Danny Gormally and Aaron Summerscale as well as IMs Richard Pert and Thomas Rendle who both have 1 GM norm.
England’s leading scorer at the 2010 Olympiad, 22 year old Sarah Hegarty, also plays as do two of our leading Under 21 girls, 18 year old Lateefah Messam-Sparks and 14 year old Amy Hoare.
There are also a number of talented England juniors playing including Yang-Fan Zhou, Peter Williams, Ravi Haria and Tarun Malhotra.

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.

London Junior Chess Championships (LJCC ) 28th-30th December
http://www.ljcc.co.uk

There is a FIDE rated open which includes prizes for the highest placed Under 21 and 18 as well as junior events with Under 16, 12 and 8 age groups.

British Championship 2011 25th July - 5 August 2011 Sheffield
http://www.britishchess2011.com

The list of qualifying rules for the British Championships and the qualifiers to date are at the British Championships 2011 website at http://www.britishchess2011.com. The list of qualifiers was updated yesterday to include all qualifiers up to the end of November.

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 23/12/10