International Round Up 8/3/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 8/3/11

27th Capelle La Grande International Open 26th February - 5th March 2011
http://www.cappelle-chess.fr/en2/default.php
http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2707
http://cappelle-chess.fr/fr2/default.php?page=3935

Mark Hebden, Sam Franklin, Sarah Hegarty, Lateefah Messam-Sparks and Gerald Parfett all played. Mark finished on 6, Sam 5, Lateefah & Sarah 4.5 & Gerald 3.5.

My thanks to Peter Turner for arranging the trip and helping to provide Lateefah, Sam and Sarah with coaching from Mark Hebden.

World Youth Qualifier Results:

Congratulations to the following players who qualified to play in the 2011 World Youth in Brazil in November after this weekend‘s trial held in Newport Pagnell:

Under 18 Boys: Yang-Fan Zhou & Victor Jones 4/5 Yang-Fan qualifies (11 players).
Under 16 Boys: Brandon Clarke & James Holland & 3/5 Brandon qualifies (6 players).
Under 14 Boys: William Foo 4/5 (8 players).
Under 12 Boys: Ravi Haria 4.5/5 (11 players).
Under 10 Boys: Gorak Rajesh 4/5 (6 players).

Under 18 Girls: Sheila Dines 1.5/2 (3 players)
Under 16 Girls: Jennifer Ehr (2 players)
Under 10 Girls: Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 2/2 (3 players)

FSIM March Budapest HUN Sat 5th Mar 2011 - Tue 15th Mar 2011. Ave: (2270)
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr45634.aspx?lan=1
http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1103/im.htm
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/

Mark Lyell is playing in the IM Tournament and is on 0.5/2.

15th INTERNATIONAL OPEN Guingamp 9th CMB BREIZH MASTERS 5-12 March
http://www.guingampechecs2011.com/ext/h ... 78141.html
http://www.guingampechecs2011.com/ext/h ... 78130.html

Meri Grigoryan is playing in the ten player all-play-all. She is currently on 1/4.

British Championship update from Neville Belinfante:

“The conditions and entry form for the British Championship are now available at
http://www.britishchess2011.com/conditi ... ryform.htm.
Also the latest list of qualifiers for the British up to the middle of February is at http://www.britishchess2011.com/qualifi ... s_2011.htm.
The latest qualifier that I have only just been notified about is Jude Lenier (15) who qualifed through his TPR of 2302 at the FIDE Masters A tournament at Brighton.”

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic852.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 8/3/11