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International Round-up 20/12/11

European Blitz Chess Championship, Warsaw Poland 16 Dec 2011
http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2011/ ... laces.html
http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2011/blitz/

Gawain Jones scored 17.5/26, David Howell 17, Lawrence Cooper 15 and Malcolm Armstrong 11.5. Notable English results included Gawain Jones beating Judit Polgar and David Howell winning against Sergei Movsesian.

Three players scored 20 points. After a play-off, Hrant Melkumyan of Armenia won gold, Aleksey Dreev of Russia silver and Radoslaw Wojtaszek of Poland bronze.

The time limit used was 3 minutes plus two second increment. Each player played their opponent twice so there was a total of twenty-six games on the 16th. Three hundred and seventy nine players took part.

European Rapid Chess Championship, Warsaw Poland 17-18 Dec 2011
http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2011/ ... laces.html
http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2011/rapid/

David Howell scored 9.5/13, Gawain Jones 9, Lawrence Cooper 8.5, Tom Wiley 8, Malcolm Armstrong and Leo Keely 7. Tom lives in Brussels whilst Leo is based in Gdansk. David’s results included a win against Judit Polgar with black in round 8.

Baadur Jobava of Georgia won the gold medal with 11/13, whilst Sanan Sjugirov of Russia and Robert Kempinski of Poland, who both scored 10.5, took silver and bronze after a seven player play-off.

The time limit used was 15 minutes plus 10 second increment with eight rounds played on the 17th and five rounds on the 18th. In total, seven hundred and forty seven players played at least one of the rounds.

Bundesliga 10-11 December 2011
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/schach/s ... topmenu=56
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/staticsi ... u=inactive
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ligen/kr ... u=inactive
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ligen/ru ... u=inactive

Stephen Gordon drew both games for SG Trier to remain undefeated with 3.5/6 with a performance of 2548 from his six games. His team won both matches to move to seven match points out of fourteeen.

Open Mundial de Leon I Champions League Leon 16-18 December 2011
http://www.openmundialdeleon.com/index.php/en/
http://chess-results.com/tnr62266.aspx? ... turdet=YES

Jon Speelman scored one out of three in the four player veteran rapid all-play-all which comprised Robert Hubner, Ljubomir Ljubojevic and Gyula Sax. The time limit was thirty minutes plus five second increment. He then scored 8/8 for the Teachers Team as his team of eight GMs, 1 IM and 1 WIM easily outscored the other eight teams that had a maximum of one titled player.

Future events:

North American Open 26-29 December 2011
http://chesstournamentservices.com/cca/ ... ican-open/
http://www.chesstour.com/nao11.htm
http://adamhuntchess.blogspot.com/

Adam Hunt will play.

Hastings International Chess Congress 28 Dec 2011 - 5 Jan 2012
http://www.hastingschess.com/
http://www.hastingschess.com/?page_id=347
http://www.hastingschess.com/?page_id=11

The English contingent includes grandmasters David Howell, Nicholas Pert, Mark Hebden, Simon Williams, Glenn Flear and Keith Arkell and our leading female player Jovanka Houska.

London Christmas Congress & Junior Chess Championship 28-30 Dec 2011
www.ljcc.co.uk

Northern California International Jan 2-8 2012
http://dotq.org/chess/
http://adamhuntchess.blogspot.com/

Adam Hunt is registered.

CCF New Year LP Congress (inc. FIDE Open) 7-8 Jan 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/

74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament: 13 - 29 January 2012
http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tournamen ... 12/group/3

Matthew Sadler will play in Group C. Sadly Luke McShane was unable to take his place in Group A because of work commitments.

Golden State Open California 13-16 Jan 2012
http://www.goldenstateopen.net/
http://www.chesstour.com/gso12.htm
http://adamhuntchess.blogspot.com/

Adam Hunt will play.

4NCL Hinckley Island & Wychwood Park 14-15 Jan 2012
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/index.htm

2012 Queenstown Chess Classic, Queenstown, New Zealand 15th-23rd January 2012
http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/queenstownchess/
http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/queens ... tries.html

Gawain Jones, Ingrid Lauterbach and Malcolm Armstrong are all playing.

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 24 Jan - 2 Feb 2012
www.gibraltarchesscongress.com
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/w ... asters.htm

Michael Adams and Nigel Short are playing along with Adam Hunt, Craig Hanley and Jovanka Houska.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic893.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 20/12/11

Just out of interest, what happened to "LozCooper"??

I had problems with my old account. I was only able to log in by exceeding the number of log in attempts and then typing an answer to a question anyone would know. Either my password was incorrect and anyone could access my account or there was a fault that Carl couldn't locate.

LawrenceCooper wrote:I had problems with my old account. I was only able to log in by exceeding the number of log in attempts and then typing an answer to a question anyone would know. Either my password was incorrect and anyone could access my account or there was a fault that Carl couldn't locate.

That's a relief to hear. I thought for a moment you had disappeared from the forum with others in the heat of recent debates. But then noticed from your report that you had been busy at the board in Poland.

Good to have the valuable international round-up resumed.

Pictorial report from Poland here:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7769

Mick Norris wrote:Pictorial report from Poland here:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7769

And there's a charming rant from Sergey Tiviakov about a tournament held in a Bogota shopping centre here http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7768

LawrenceCooper wrote:I had problems with my old account. I was only able to log in by exceeding the number of log in attempts and then typing an answer to a question anyone would know. Either my password was incorrect and anyone could access my account or there was a fault that Carl couldn't locate.

I did try my best and failed to see why you were having a problem to be honest

Steve Rooney wrote:

Mick Norris wrote:Pictorial report from Poland here:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7769

And there's a charming rant from Sergey Tiviakov about a tournament held in a Bogota shopping centre here http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7768

Yes, read that one with interest as I saw a client last week who has family there