International Round Up 17/4/11

[LozCooper]

International Round-up 17/4/11

Bangkok Open 2011 11th - 17th April 2011
http://bangkokchess.com/events-calendar ... -open-2011
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr48109.a ... =1&wi=1000
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr48199.a ... =1&wi=1000

Congratulations to Nigel Short who finished 1st= on 7.5/9 with fellow GMs Jan Gustafsson and Francisco Vallejo Pons. Lateefah Messam-Sparks and Mark Ruston finished on 4 and Peter Darby on 3.

In the challengers Andrew Horton-Kitchlew finished in second place with 6/9, Mark McCready and David Gates scored 3.5 Nigel Johnson 2.5 whilst Martin Greenwood scored 0/2.

First Saturday Chess Tournament Series Budapest, Hungary 2-13 April 2011
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/
http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1104/gm.htm
http://www.freeweb.hu/firstsaturday/1104/fma.htm
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr47287.a ... -1&wi=1000

Lorin D’Costa played in the GM tournament and Isaac Sanders in the FM A Tournament. Lorin finished on 4.5/9 whilst Isaac finished on 7 with a 2168 rating performance gaining 34 points. This was another excellent performance by one of our most promising juniors.

11th European Seniors Championship Courmayeur 6-14 April 2011
http://www.scacchivda.com
http://scacchivda.com/escc_2011/escc_paarings.html

Mihai Suba won the tournament with 7.5/9 and was crowned European Seniors Champion for 2011. Antonio Rosino scored 6.5/9 to win the Italian Seniors Title.

Ken Norman finished on 5.5/9, Oliver Jackson 5 and Dinah Norman 4.5. Ken’s only loss was against Russian GM Oleg Chernikov and he drew with the tournament Winner GM Mihai Suba and Russian WGM Elana Fatalibekova. Oliver went through the tournament without a single draw!

13th Dubai Open 10th-19th April 2011
http://www.dubaichess.ae/default.aspx?lang=en
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr47759.a ... 30&wi=1000

John Bennett, Paul Dargan and James Coleman are all playing. After seven rounds James has 3, John 2.5 and Paul 2.

COULSDON "EASTER" INTERNATIONAL SUN 17 - THU 21 APRIL 2011
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Results/2 ... tional.htm

English players include Yang-Fan Zhou who is looking for his final IM norm, Chris Briscoe, Jude Lenier and IM Jack Rudd. The grandmasters are Aaron Summerscale, Bogdan Lalic and Alexander Cherniaev. GM, IM, WGM and WIM norms are all available.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic857.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. There is a list of international tournaments at home and abroad listed here: http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=2372

Lawrence Cooper,
Director of International Chess 17/4/11