International Round Up 11/8/09

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International Round Up 11/8/09

British Chess Championships 2009
http://www.britishchess09.com/results_pairings.htm

Congratulations to David Howell who won the 2009 British with 9/11. David also wins the Tony Miles English Championship 2009 and the British Under 18 and U21 titles. Second place was shared between Mark Hebden & Simon Williams with 8.5, Richard Palliser finished 4th with 8/11 and Stuart Conquest and Danny Gormally finished with 7.5. Jovanka Houska retained the womens title scoring 6/11, ahead of Susan Lalic on 5.5, Sarah Hegarty on 4.5 and Sheila Dines on 3. Sarah was the highest placed Under 21 girl and Sheila won the Under 18 girls.
Congratulations to David Eggleston on his third and final IM norm and also to Jonathan Hawkins on his first. Both players achieved 10 round norms. My understanding is that David must now achieve a 2400 rating for the IM title.

Full results can be found on the website.

Congratulations to the following winners in the junior events:
Under 21s (part of Championship) David Howell 9/11. Sarah Hegarty was the highest place Under 21 girl with 4.5/11.
Under 18s (part of Championship) David Howell 9/11. Sheila Dines won the Under 18 girls with 3/11.
Under 16s Martin Brown 5.5/7. Sheila Dines won the Under 16's Girls with 4/7.
Under 15s (part of Under 16 competition) Akash Jain 5.5/7 Abigail Pritchard won the Under 15 Girls with 3.5/7.
Under 14s Felix Ynojosa 6/7. Megan Owens won the Under 14 Girls with 4.5/7.
Under 13s Felix Ynojosa 6/7. Radha Jain & Maria Wang shared the Under 13s Girls with 4.5/7.
Under 12s Radha Jain & Adam Taylor 5.5/7. Radha Jain also won the Under 12s Girls with 5.5/7.
Under 11s Tarun Malhotra 6/7. Anna Wang won the Under 11 Girls with 5.5/7.
Under 10s William Claridge-Hansen and Matthew Wadsworth 5.5/7. Anna Wang and Yasmin Giles shared the Under 10 Girls with 4.5/7.
Under 9s Rohan Shiatis 6.5/7. Nandaja Narayanan won the Under 9 Girls with 3/7.
Under 8s Ryan Nathan Au 5.5/6. Imogen Turvey-Cross won the Under 8 Girls with 4/6.
There was a three way tie in the British Seniors between David Anderton, Anthony Ashby and Geoffrey James who all scored 5/7.
Bob Eames was the winner of the Major Open with 9.5/11, half a point ahead of Dave Ledger and Oliver Jackson.

Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament '09
http://howardstaunton.com/hsmt2009/Home.html
http://www.2seeitlive.com/viewer_registration.php

This year's Staunton tournament started on Saturday 8th August, just a day after the end of the British. The Scheveningen event features two teams of five with England facing Netherlands in a double round format. England are represented by Adams, Short, McShane, Howell and Jones. I believe this to be the first time that our top four players have played together for an England team. I hope this will happen soon in an Olympiad or European Team.
The all play all event features five English and 5 foreign players. Lawrence Trent will be our GM norm hope whilst Terence Chapman will be trying for an IM norm. Simon Williams and Peter Wells also play, just a day after finishing the British and the fifth English player is Nigel Davies.
Live coverage is being offered for the first time and requires payment of £5 for online registration. So far the coverage appears to have worked okay, with the welcome addition of the all-play-all games from round 2 onwards. The system does seem to have a problem with credit cards though and I eventually had to pay by paypal. I would recommend anyone else looking to register does the same.

Results are as follows:

Scheveningen:

Round 1:

GM Adams GM Van Wely 0.5 - 0.5
GM Short GM Werle 1 - 0
GM Howell GM Smeets 0.5 - 0.5
GM McShane GM Sokolov 0 - 1
GM Jones GM L’Ami 0 - 1

Round 2:

GM Werle GM Adams 0 - 1
GM Van Wely GM Jones 1 - 0
GM L’Ami GM McShane 0.5 - 0.5
GM Sokolov GM Howell 0.5 - 0.5
GM Smeets GM Short 0 - 1
Round 3:
GM Adams GM Smeets 0 - 1
GM Short GM Sokolov 1 - 0
GM Howell GM L’Ami 0.5 - 0.5
GM McShane GM Van Wely 1 - 0
GM Jones GM Werle 0.5 - 0.5
England 8 Netherlands 7. Nigel Short has 3/3

All-play-all:

Round 1:

GM Korchnoi GM Cherniaev 0 - 1
IM Trent GM Wells 0.5 - 0.5
GM Davies GM Williams 0.5 - 0.5
IM Hendricks GM Timman 0 - 1
Chapman GM Wiersma 0 - 1

Round 2:

GM Timman Chapman 1 - 0
GM Cherniaev IM Wiersma 1 - 0
GM Williams IM Hendriks 1 - 0
GM Wells GM Davies 1 - 0
GM Korchnoi IM Trent 1 - 0
Round 3:
IM Trent GM Cherniaev 0.5 - 0.5
GM Davies GM Korchnoi 0.5 - 0.5
IM Hendriks GM Wells 0.5 - 0.5
Chapman GM Williams 0 - 1
IM Wiersma GM Timman 0 - 1
Jan Timman has 3/3, Cherniaev & Williams 2.5.

European Union Youth Championships
http://chess-results.com/tnr23968.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000
http://www.lorinsworld.com/euyouthchmureck.htm

England has 11 juniors playing in the different age-groups which comprise U8s, U10s, U12s and U14s. For latest scores and for Lorin's excellent coverage please use the links above. After six rounds the leading English scorers are Brandon Clarke on 5/6 and Aidan Giff is on 4 in the Under 14s and Isobel Sanders is on 4/6 in the Open U8/U10. Our highest scoring U12s are Heney Broadley and Isaac Sanders on 3.5/6.

Kavala Open Chess Tournament
http://www.chesskavala.gr/

Simon Ansell finished on 5.5/9, Adam Hunt on 5 and Maria Yurenok on 3. Their rating performances were 2324, 2383 and 1777 respectively.

Arctic Chess Challenge
http://arcticchess.org/2009/

Matthew Turner finished on 6/9, Peter Poobalasingham on 5.5 and Brian Smith on 2.5. Their rating performances were 2414, 2337 and 1424 respectively.

First Saturday Tournament Budapest
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/

Mark Lyell finished on 5/9 in the IM Tournament performing at 2362. A. Diana Mihajlova is on 0.5/10.

In addition to the individual tournament websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic770.html

Lawrence Cooper
Alternate Director of International Chess 11/8/09