International Round-up 29/7/12

[LawrenceCooper]

International Round-up 29/7/12

99th British Championship North Shields 22nd July - 4 August 2012
http://britishchesschampionships.co.uk/live-games/
http://results.britishchesschampionship ... h/SMWSite/
http://results.britishchesschampionship ... O/SMWSite/
http://britishchesschampionships.co.uk/

Championship leaders after round six:

Gawain Jones 5.5/6, Stephen Gordon & David Howell 5, Keith Arkell & Jonathan Hawkins 4.5. Jovanka Houska is the highest placed woman on 4.

The accelerated pairings led to a number of early clashes between the top players. In round three Gawain Jones beat Keith Arkell whilst David Howell defeated Jonathan Hawkins whilst in round four Gawain beat Stephen Gordon and David drew with Danny Gormally. In round six Gawain beat Matthew Turner to retain his half point lead and faces David Howell in round seven.

Notable junior results included James Holland with wins against Jovanka Houska and David Eggleston and draws with Danny Gormally and Gawain Jones, James Adair drawing with black against David Howell and then beating IM Dietmar Kolbus from Germany and Marcus Harvey beating Danny Gormally. Radha Jain beat both Graham Oswald (rated 310 points above her) and Don Mason (rated 376 points above her).

James Holland has a 2567 performance, Marcus Harvey has a 2392 performance and James Jackson 2468. All three have four points. Marcus Osborne is performing at 2450 and Dominic Mackle 2424 on 3.5, Peter Bachelor 2299, William Foo 2254 and Radha Jain 2150 on 3.

Major Open week 1 leaders: Pierre Weller 5.5/6, Richard Webster 5, David Henderson 4.5.

Final scores from week 1:

Under 16: 1st=Oskar Hackner (U16 Champion) Henry Broadley & Adam C Taylor (U15 Champions) all 5/7. U16 Girls champion: Chantelle Foster 4.5, U15 Girls Champion Louise Head 3.
Under 13: 1st Akito Oyama 6/7, 2nd= William Claridge-Hansen & Anna Wang (girls champion) 5.
Under 11: 1st Arul Gupta 6/7, 2nd Girinath Haridas 5.5. Girls champion: Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 5.
Under 9: 1st Sacha Brozel 6.5/7, 2nd Joshua Altman 6. Girls champion: Mahima Raghavendra 5.
Under 8: 1st Aditya Verma 5.5/6, 2nd Joshua Altman & Leo Sanitt 5. Girls champion: Arushi Ramaiya 4.5.
Rapidplay 22nd July: 1st Danny Gormally 6/6, 2nd James Adair 5.
Week 1 AM: 1st= Chris Howell & James McDonnell 4/5.
Week 1 PM: 1st Samuel Walker 4.5/5, 2nd= Richard Bryant & Mark Szymanski 4.
U180: 1st= David Openshaw & Mick Riding 4/5.
U140: 1st= Syringa Camp, Daniel Jazdzewski, Owen Robson, Clive Pemberton & David Walshaw 4/5.
Weekend Atkins: 1st= John Carleton & Peter Mercs 4.5/5, Marco Campini & Paul Dargan 4.
Weekend Yates: 1st Andrew Clark 4.5/5, 2nd= Iain Hope & Leszek Rewak 4.
Weekend Soanes: 1st Ian MacKay 4.5/5, James Friar & David Gilbert 4.

Czech Open, Pardubice 20-29 July 2012
http://www.czechopen.net/en/results-and-games/
http://chess-results.com/tnr76991.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

A (>2200) Section: Lorin D'Costa 5.5/9.
B (>1800) Section: Dominic Foord & Phil Makepeace 6/9, Peter Andreev, Grant Bucher & David Grant 5, Matthew Lunn & Will Taylor 4.5 & Rhys Cumming 4.
C (<2200) Section: 3rd= Donny Muter 7/9 & Arasu Ganesan 6.
D (<2000) Section: Gunnar Mallon 3.5/9.
E (<1800) Section: 2nd= Alex Conway 7.5/9, Rob Hewitt 5.5.

VI Open Internacional A.D. San Juan 23-29 July 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr74676.aspx? ... =1&flag=30

Michael Yeo scored 5.5/9.

Washington International 28th July - 1 August 2012
http://mdchess.com/index.php?option=com ... &Itemid=40
http://washingtoninternationalchess.org/
http://mdchess.com/index.php?option=com ... &catids=48

Adam Hunt scored 6.5/12 and Sabrina Chevannes 6 in the blitz.

Dutch Open 24th July - 2nd August 2012
http://onk.schaakbond.nl/toernooien/2012/open-nk

Peter Sowray is on 2/5.

Biel Masters Tournament 23 July - 3 August 2012
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/en/mast ... standings/

Ingrid Lauterbach is on 3/6.

Future events:

EU Youth Championship Mureck, Austria 31st July -9th August 2012
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr77319.a ... =ENG&lan=0
http://www.jugendschach.at/
http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/meet ... 12-mureck/

Under 8 – Ieysaa bin-Suhayl, Under 10 – Tess Weaver, Under 12 – Theo Slade & Ibraheem bin-Suhayl, Under 14 – Lauren Weaver & Yousuf bin-Suhayl.
Coaches – Dave Regis & Tom Rendle.

World Junior Under 20 Athens, Greece 1-16 August 2012
http://www.athens2012.org/
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76324.a ... ES&flag=30
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr76325.aspx

Yang-Fan Zhou, Callum Kilpatrick, William Jones, Ravi Haria and Henrik Stepanyan will play in the boys/open event and Lateefah Messam-Sparks and Anna York-Andersen will play in the girls. Mark Hebden and Lawrence Cooper will be the coaches.

Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament, Vlissingen, Netherlands 4-11 August 2012
http://www.hztoernooi.nl/hz/index.php/en
http://www.hztoernooi.nl/hz/index.php/en/participants

Stewart Haslinger, Pete Sowray, Gareth Haslinger and Mike Haslinger have all entered.

Riga International, Latvia August 6-12 2012
http://chess-results.com/tnr66578.aspx?lan=1
http://www.sahafederacija.lv/?p=1846

Isaac Sanders, Tim Spanton, Kevin Winter and Alan Collins are all registered.

European Youth Chess Championship Prague 16-26 August 2012
http://www.eycc2012.eu/
http://englishchess.org.uk/Juniors/meet ... pionships/

Under 10 girls: Meytal Cohen & Laura Davidson.
Under 12 girls: Akshaya Kalaiyalahan, Eva Ressel & Beatrice Steele.
Under 16 girls: Amy Hoare, Chantelle Foster & Katherine Shepherd

Under 8 boys: Aditya Verma, Joshua Altman, Leo Sanitt.
Under 10 boys: Zheming Zhang
Under 12 boys: Arul Gupta, Girinath Haridas, Dion Huang, Yang-Jian Zhou.
Under 14 boys: Ravi Haria, Tarun Malhotra, Ananthanarayanan Balaji, Conor Murphy, Rohan Shiatis, Adam C Taylor, Leo Tsoi.
Under 16 boys: Patrick Smith & Martin Oliver.
Under 18 boys: Yang-Fan Zhou, Sam Franklin, Adrian Archer Lock, James Foster & Gordon Scott.

5th Jessie Gilbert Celebration International Festival 16-26 August 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/

e2e4 London Gatwick International 18th - 22nd August 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/gatwick/Aug2012/index.htm

12th European Seniors Championship Kaunas Lithuania 18-26 August 2012
http://www.escc2012.eu/
http://www.escc2012.eu/images/stories/O ... cc2012.pdf

The registration deadline is 1st August.

48. Międzynarodowy Festiwal Szachowy im. Akiby Rubinsteina - Grupa B‏ 18-26 August
http://rubinstein.polanica.pl/

Jonathan Kay is playing.

e2e4 Hinckley Congress 24-27 August 2012
http://e2e4.org.uk/hinckley/Aug2012/index.htm

Berks & Bucks Congress 25-27 August 2012
Email: [email protected]

6th Leyland Chess Congress 25-27 August 2012
http://www.leylandchess.org.uk/congress/index.htm

World Chess Olympiad 28th August - 9th September 2012
http://istanbul2012.tsf.org.tr/en/

England teams:

Open: 1 Michael Adams, 2 Gawain Jones, 3 Nigel Short, 4 David Howell, 5 Nick Pert.
Captain: Peter Wells.

Women: WGM 1. Anya Corke, 2. Maria Yurenok, 3. Sarah Hegarty, 4. Sabrina Chevannes, 5. Kanwal Bhatia. Captain: Stephen Gordon.

The event is being held from 28th August to 9th September in Istanbul, Turkey.

WORLD YOUTH UNDER-16 CHESS OLYMPIAD 28 August - 06 September 2012 Istanbul, Türkiye (Turkey)
http://wyco2012.tsf.org.tr/en/regulations

CCF Late Summer Long Play Congress (incl FIDE Open) 1-2 September 2012
http://www.ccfworld.com/Chess/Adult%20C ... s_info.htm

62nd Annual Congress Paignton 2nd-8th September 2012
http://www.chessdevon.co.uk

Leek Chess Congress 7-9 September 2012
Email: [email protected]

A FIDE-rated open for players rated under 2350.

Hampstead FIDE Chess Congress 22-23 September 2012
http://www.hampsteadchess.blogspot.co.uk/

Under 2200 /unrated must be under ECF 190 on 22-23 September 2012. (The September 1st FIDE list, and the July ECF list will be to determine eligibility. FIDE rating takes precedence.)

Leicester Chess Congress (H E Atkins Memorial) 28-30 September 2012
http://www.leicesterchess.co.uk

4NCL Rapidplay 29-30 September 2012
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/download/2012-201 ... ELINES.pdf

e2e4 High Wycombe Chess Congress 12-14 October 2012
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/high_wycombe

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at
the following link: http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic924.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=3795

Lawrence Cooper,
Director of International Chess 29/7/12