International Round Up 16/3/11

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International Round-up 16/3/11

71st Daniel Noteboom Tournament Netherlands 4-6 March 2011
http://www.lsg-leiden.nl/noteboom/2011/ ... m2011.html
http://www.lsg-leiden.nl/noteboom/2011/stand2011.html
http://www.lsg-leiden.nl/noteboom/2011/stand2011.html#B
http://www.lsg-leiden.nl/noteboom/2011/stand2011.html#C
https://picasaweb.google.com/bpogorman/ ... feat=email#

Stewart Haslinger finished in equal second place on 5/6 with a tournament performance of 2596, half a point behind Dutch GM Jan Smeets in Group A.

In Group B Brendan O’Gorman scored 3.5/6 whilst Mike Haslinger scored 2.

In Group C Tim Allen scored 2.5/6.

MP Reykjavik Open 9-16 March 2011
http://chess-results.com/tnr41690.aspx?lan=1
http://skaksamband.is/?c=webpage&id=410 ... tion=links
http://skaksamband.is/?c=webpage&id=467

Final scores after the nine rounds were as follows: Luke McShane 6.5/9 (2666 performance), Gawain Jones 6.5 (2620 performance), Simon Williams 5.5 (2544 performance), Alan Byron & Maxim Devereaux 5, Daniel Bisby & Martin Burrows 4.5, David Gates 2.5.

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 played in the IM Tournament and scored 3/10.

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 played in the ten player all-play-all and finished on 3/9.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic853.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 16/3/11