International Round Up 17/03/10

[LozCooper]

International Round Up 17/03/10

European Individual:
http://www.eurorijeka2010.com/home
http://chess-results.com/tnr29567.aspx? ... -1&wi=1000

English GMs Michael Adams, David Howell and Keith Arkell are all playing in the world championship qualifier. After the eleventh and final round David finished on 7.5, Michael 7 and Keith 6. At the time of writing, I believe David will be involved in a tie-break play off for the world championship qualifying places. His performance over the eleven games was 2642 and he finished equal eleventh with 29 other players. A superb effort for the 80th seed! Michael lost in round 10 and despite a last round win he finished half a point off the play off places. His tournament performance was 2691.

Sadly David lost 1.5-0.5 to GM David Navara in the first round of the play-offs. He can still be very proud of his performance though.

Dos Hermanas XI Qualifier
http://tomato.chessclub.com/tom/reg/mp1134_grid.html
http://www.chessclub.com/activities/dos ... ualifier10

Gawain Jones finished 1st= in the Internet Chess Club qualifying event and defeated GMs Alexander Fier and Gata Kamsky in the final two rounds. Gawain’s ICC handle is VerdeNotte and the names of the other players are towards the bottom of the page on the first link.

First Saturday Chess Tournament Series Budapest, Hungary
http://firstsaturday.freeweb.hu/1003/im.htm
http://firstsaturday.freeweb.hu/1003/fmb.htm

Mark Lyell played in the IM tournament and scored 4/11. Diana Mihajlova played in the FM B event and scored 3.5/9.

Ballaret Begonia Open Australia
http://www.ballaratchess.com/events/201 ... egonia.htm

Erik Teichmann won with 6.5/7, playing three IMs of which he defeated Stephen Soloman and Guy West and drew with Leonid Sandler. Carl Gorka scored 5 and Brian & Lee Jones finished on 4.5.

Future event:

Uxbridge Congress : 19th - 21st March 2010
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/uxbridge/Mar2010/index.htm

Sean Hewitt is organising three different sections, an Open, Major and Minor. Unusually, both the Open and Major are FIDE rated. Any player over 1900 (ECF 155) can play in the Open whilst players rated under 2000 FIDE or unrated players under 170 are able to play in the Major. The Minor is open to players graded under 140. Full details are available on the website. Please contact [email protected] with any questions about the event.

In addition to the individual websites the latest international chess news can be found at the following link:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic801.html

Lawrence Cooper
Director of International Chess
English Chess Federation 17/03/10