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London Chess Classic, 8-15 Dec [24/11/09]

Click here for further infoMalcolm Pein reports: The London Chess Classic takes place from 8-15 December 2009 at the Olympia Conference Centre. It will be the highest level tournament in London for 25 years and will be the first in a series of events designed to increase enthusiasm for chess in the UK and promote the game and its undoubted educational benefits in schools and communities. England's four leading grandmasters; Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and David Howell will be pitched against a world-class field that comprises: former world champion Vladimir Kramnik; 18-year-old Magnus Carlsen, ranked world number two, now coached by Garry Kasparov and widely seen as a future holder of the world crown; one of China's finest players, Ni Hua; and the US Champion Hikaru Nakamura. Adult tickets are £10 per day or £50 for all seven rounds. Official website: http://www.londonchessclassic.com/Latest (24/11/09): Open tournament entries include HAMMER, Jon Ludvig, 2588g (NOR); CONQUEST, Stuart C, 2563g (ENG); WILLIAMS, Simon K, 2550g (ENG); HEBDEN, Mark L, 2522g (ENG); WELLS, Peter K, 2489g (ENG); SUMMERSCALE, Aaron P, 2449g (ENG); MCDONALD, Neil, 2412g (ENG); Viktor Korchnoi will be the guest of honour at the tournament. Click here for further details - and apply to play Korchnoi in a simultaneous display. Plus full details of the FIDE Open tournament and other subsidiary events to be held alongside.
 


2010 Gibtelecom Festival [24/11/09]

The 8th Gibtelecom Chess Festival runs from Tuesday 26 January 2010 to Thursday 4 February 2010 at the Caleta Hotel in Gibraltar. The Gibtelecom Masters line-up grows ever stronger... the latest big name to enter is former world championship runner-up Gata Kamsky. Top names: Sergei Movsesian (SVK, 2718g), Francisco Vallejo Pons (ESP, 2711g), Michael Adams (ENG, 2698g), Gata Kamsky (USA, 2695g), Nikita Vitiugov (RUS, 2694g)... the women's contingent is also impressive: Humpy Koneru (IND, 2603g), Nana Dzagnidze (GEO, 2547g), Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL, 2541g), Pia Cramling (SWE, 2525g), World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk (RUS, 2517g). There are now comprehensive lists of all players entered in the tournament on the official website - http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com ... STOP PRESS... win FREE entry to the Gibtelecom Festival in the November ICC Blitz Qualifier!! Click here for details... and more... Gibtelecom / The Times Chess Competition 2009/10 - The organisers of the Gibtelecom Chess Festival are offering Times (UK) readers two FREE five-day trips, including a double room in the Caleta Hotel during the 2010 Gibtelecom Chess Festival. Click here for more information...


London Chess Classic Women's Invitational [08/11/09]

Lawrence Cooper reports: I have at least one spare place in the London Chess Classic Women's Invitational which takes place from 8-15 December at the London Olympia Conference Centre in Kensington. It is a ten-player, nine-round all-play-all and WIM norms will be available. Please apply to Lawrence Cooper for further details. Entry fee is £100 and includes access to the The Classic which includes world number two Magnus Carlsen, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik as well as England's top four players.


World Junior Championship, Puerto Madryn (ARG) 22 Oct - 4 Nov [04/11/09]

David Howell, seconded by Nigel Short, represented England in this prestigious but gruelling 13-round Swiss system event which was held in Argentina. The official website was not great but the admirable chess-results.com site kept us up to date with the round-by-round results. Final: 1-2 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA 2718g, gold medal on tie-break), Sergei Zhigalko (BLR 2646g) 10½/13, 3-5 Michal Olszewski (POL 2544g, bornze medal on tie-break), Ivan Popov (RUS 2582g), Alex Lenderman (USA 2542m) 9. David Howell (ENG 2624g) won his final two games to finish 10th= on 8/13. The girls championship was won by Swaminathan Soumya (IND 2297wg) on tie-break from Deysi Cori Tello (PER 2361wm) and Betul Cemre Yildiz (TUR 2224wm), all with 9½/13.


European Team Championship, Novi Sad, 22-30 Oct [31/10/09]

The 17th European Team Championships were held in Novi Sad, Serbia. England, Scotland and Wales have entered teams in the open competition, and England also has a team in the women's competition. Official Website: http://www.eurons2009.comdetailed resultsEnglandScotlandWalesEngland Women. Final Scores: 1 Azerbaijan 15/18, 2 Russia 14, 3 Ukraine 13, 4 Armenia 13... in the final round, an endgame blunder by Dutchman Daniel Stellwagen allowed Vugar Gashimov to win and snatch the gold from the Russians...
12 England 10 (3-1 win against Monaco, 1½-2½ loss to Azerbaijan, 2½-1½ victory over the fourth seeds Bulgaria (including Delchev's mobile phone loss to Stuart Conquest), 1-3 loss to France, 2-2 draw with Romania, 2½-1½ win v Austria, 1½-2½ loss to Switzerland, 2-2 draw with Norway, and a last-round 3½-½ win against FYR Macedonia allowed England to move up to a respectable place in the table)...
35 Wales 6 (Wales's team performed well above expectation though only finishing where they might have expected; in round 2 Wales did well to score 1½-2½ against an all-GM Bulgarian team, including Alan Bennett (2108) beating Dejan Bojkov (2528g); in round five they beat Scotland 2½-1½, round six 2-2 draw with Montenegro, including Richard Jones' win against a GM, in round eight an excellent 3-1 win against Iceland who fielded four IMs, with Richard Jones winning for the third time in four games; disappointing 0-4 loss to Belgium in the final round)...
37 Scotland 2 (scored 2-2 draws against Belgium and Monaco. Scored a creditable 1½-2½ versus Bosnia - incidentally, Jim Stevenson didn't miss an easy win in his game - the inputters got the score wrong - his opponent played 41...Re7, not 41...Rc7)...
Women's Competition final: 1 Russia 16/18, 2 Georgia 16, 3 Ukraine 12, 4 Azerbaijan 12...
17 England women 8 (lost 1½-2½ to Bulgaria, drew 2-2 Finland, lost 1-3 to Greece, drew 2-2 with Montenegro, won 3½-½ versus Norway, lost 1½-2½ to Croatia, lost 1½-2½ to Italy, beat FYR Macedonia 3-1 and a 3-1 win against Turkey gave the team a respectable final position).

 

Here's the round three Delchev phone incident, courtesy of a Europe Echecs video. It's about 2:40 into the video. Topalov and Cheparinov look daggers at their careless team mate.

 


4NCL, Sunningdale, 24-25 Oct [24/10/09]

The 2009/10 4NCL (British Team League) season started on 24 October. There is live coverage here. Official website: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/


Guernsey Festival, 18-24 Oct [24/10/09]

The 35th Guernsey Festival finished on 24 October. At the official home page - www.guernseychessclub.org.gg/festival - you can follow the round-by-round results. In fact, you can follow the results for the entire 35 years of the event using the website's superb online database - a statistician's delight. This year three GMs - Tiger Hillarp Persson (SWE 2577), Oleg Korneev (RUS 2554) and Bojan Kurajica (BIH 2517) - and one IM - Robert Bellin (ENG 2388) - took part. Final: Tiger Hillarp Persson (SWE) was first by a clear point, scoring 6½/7 - exactly as he did in 2008. It was his third consecutive victory in Guernsey and his fifth in all. 1 Hillarp Persson 6½/7 (draw with Samuel Franklin in the final round), 2-5 Bojan Kurajica (BIH), Oleg Korneev (RUS), Samuel Franklin (aged 15, ENG 2131), Jan Havenaar (NED) 5½. Round three featured two shocks, as German player Wolfgang Mack beat GM Korneev and Samuel Franklin beat IM Bellin. No game downloads available as yet - no doubt these will appear shortly after the tournament.


ECF Book of the Year Award 2009 [21/10/09]

Kasparov vs Karpov 1975-85 Garry Kasparov (Everyman) pp424Once again, Kasparov has won the English Chess Federations's Book of the Year award. Here is the judges' citation (Ray Edwards, Julian Farrand and David Friedgood):
"Kasparov vs Karpov 1975-85 Garry Kasparov (Everyman) pp424
"Excellent though the other books on the short list were, the judges had no difficulty in selecting the winner this year. This volume is the second in the series Kasparov is writing on the development of chess since the 1970s. The first, Revolution in the 70s (Everyman) concentrated on developments in opening theory during that time. The second and third volumes concentrate on Kasparov’s five(!) epic matches with Karpov for the world title. The volume under consideration covers the first two, the first of which involved no fewer than 48 games and was unfinished, the second a mere 24,which finally established Kasparov as world champion.
   "Kasparov has written earlier in the 1980s about some of these matches. But here, he writes in the preface “I now see many situations more deeply, through the prism of my life experience... My commentaries have become more frank, and far more accurate. But the evaluation of individual moves will take into account the psychology of the struggle!” All this is reflected in the book, plus lengthy descriptions of the background to the matches and in particular Kasparov’s views of the controversial first match termination.
   " The book can be read on several levels - as a dramatic story, or as providing insights into opening theory, or as great games enhanced by deep analytical annotations. Kasparov succeeds triumphantly in illuminating every aspect of this historic struggle. He is establishing as formidable a reputation as an author, as he did as a player.
    "Finally, Everyman have produced the book to the same high standards they have used throughout the series."


World Memory Championship, 12-14 Nov [21/10/09]

The World Memory Championship takes place 12-14 November at the Strand Palace Hotel, London. The tournament requires voluntary staff as 'arbiters' from 11am-5pm (training) on 11 November and 9am-6pm on 12-14 November. Skills required: reading, writing and recognising playing cards. Recompense: £125 total including own refreshments. Further details: http://www.worldmemorychampionships.com • contact


Uxbridge Congress, 18-20 Sept [19/10/09]

Last month's Uxbridge Congress was organised by Sean Hewitt (see his www.e2e4.org.uk website) at the Denham Grove Hotel. The Open attracted 66 players and was won jointly by FM Alexei Slavin and James Adair of Reading with 4½/5 ahead of GM Keith Arkell, GM Alexander Cherniaev and IM John Cox on 4. Major: 1 Matthew Ward (Guildford) 4½/5. Minor: 1 Barry Sandercock (Bucks, aged 78!) 4½/5. View/Download Uxbridge Open Games (from britbase.co.uk). My thanks to Sean Hewitt for the games.


Isle of Man Congress, 25-27 Sep [13/10/09]

The Isle of Man Congress took place at the Cherry Orchard ApartHotel in Port Erin from 25-27 September. Open: 1 Piotr Bobras (POL) 4/5, 2-3 Stewart Haslinger (ENG), Jovica Radovanovic (SRB) 3½. Full results may be found at http://www.iomchess.com/View/Download Isle of Man Open/Major/Minor Games (my thanks to Glenn Cross for supplying the games).


Paignton Congress, 6-12 Sept [25/09/09, *02/10/09]

Keith Arkell won the 'Ron Bruce' Premier at the 59th Paignton Congress (held in the same room in the same venue - Oldway Mansion - as at every congress since 1951). Next year the Paignton Congress celebrates its 60th instalment and local chess historian Bob Jones is planning to publish a book on the subject. He is always on the look-out for information relating to the congress's history - Arkell victories are almost as traditional as the congress itself! Scores: 1 Keith Arkell 6/7, 2 Richard Almond 5½, 3 Steve Berry 5. Challengers: 1 P Isherwood 6/7. Intermediate: 1-2 P Smith, D Rogers 5½/7. Minor: 1 A Billings 6/7. American: 1 NW Dennis 5½. Morning: 1-2 P Isherwood, E Key 4½/5. View/Download Paignton Premier Games (Britbase - *game scores corrected 02/10/09) • Chess Devon website report.


Kasparov beats Karpov: Valencia, Spain, 21-24 Sept [25/09/09]

Old rivals Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov met again in a rapidplay/blitz match in Valencia, Spain, to commemorate their first major matchplay contest in 1984, when they played for five months, only for the match to be declared null and void by the president of the World Chess Federation. The event, which was subtitled 'Valencia: Cradle of Modern Chess' (Valencia was where it is claimed the modern rules of the game were established), consisted of four rapidplay games followed by eight blitz games.
    The match generated a huge amount of press coverage in the UK. The Channel Four TV clip below features BCM's editor (at 1:24 and 2:36) expressing the (slightly ignoble) desire to see, once again, grandmasters behaving badly. GM Ray Keene's comments start at 3:27.
   Official website: http://www.matchkarpovkasparov.com/View/Download Games (Britbase) • The GuardianDaily TelegraphBBCGuardian (Leonard Barden)Guardian (Live). There are many other reports to be found online - publicity for the match was huge and took the chess world rather by surprise. News: Kasparov won the match by 9-3 overall, taking the rapidplay match 3-1 and the blitz series 6-2. At least the out of form Karpov avoided a whitewash; he won the third game of the rapidplay series and led the blitz series 1½-½ before Kasparov hit back to score four wins on the bounce.
 

 


Uxbridge Congress, 18-20 Sept [20/09/09]

The Uxbridge Congress is in progress this weekend. The Open has a strong line-up including GMs Arkell and Cherniaev. Follow progress via this link.


†John Littlewood (1931-2009) [16/09/09]

John Littlewood (1931-2009)English FIDE Master John Littlewood has died aged 78. He was one of the finest British chessplayers of the 1950s and 1960s who, though never titled higher than FIDE Master, was a strong enough amateur player to impress at least two legends of the game. At the 1961/62 Hastings Congress he launched a dangerous attack against Mikhail Botvinnik’s Sicilian Dragon which posed the reigning world champion considerable problems (Botvinnik thought enough of the encounter to include it in his book of best games). Some of his published analysis drew approving comments from Bobby Fischer in My Sixty Memorable Games... [more... funeral arrangements added 18/09/09]

 


Short vs Efimenko, 20-26 September 2009 [14/09/09]

Nigel Short, newly restored as England no.1 with a rating of 2706, is due to meet 24-year-old Ukrainian GM Zahar Efimenko (rated 2654) in a six-game match in Mukachevo, Ukraine, from 20-26 September. The match is being supported by Universal Event Promotion GmbH. Live coverage: http://live.uep-chess.com/live.htm • Website Universal Event Promotion: http://www.uep-chess.com/cms_english/ • Chess Club Mukachevo 32x64: http://www.chess32x64.org/

 


Chess in Trafalgar Square, 19-23 September 2009 [09/09/09]

Chess in Trafalgar Square, 19-23 September 2009Chess plays the centrepiece of this year's London Design Festival from 19-23 September in Trafalgar Square. 'The Tournament', an art installation created by Spanish designer, Jaime Hayón will consist of a gigantic chess set, with 2m high ceramic chess pieces designed by Hayón on a specially created mosaic glass chessboard. The installation, set between the two fountains in Trafalgar Square, will be in situ from Saturday 19 – Wednesday 23 September... [more]




 


2nd Jessie Gilbert Celebration International, 22-30 Aug [30/08/09]

The second Jessie Gilbert Celebration International took place at the Coulsdon Chess Fellowship, 84-90 Chipstead Valley Road, Coulsdon CR5 3BA. The main event was a ten-player all-play-all with IM norms available, headed by Keith Arkell (ENG, 2521g) and Colin McNab (SCO, 2474g). Scores: 1 Alexei Slavin (RUS) 6½/9 (IM norm), 2-3 Keith Arkell (ENG) Colin McNab (SCO) 6, 4-5 Peter Poobalasingam (ENG), Peter Vas (ENG) 5½, etc. Challengers: 1 John Hodgson (ENG) 7½/9. Official WebsiteView/Download Games (Britbase) • View/Download Games (official site, with photos).


Big Slick Open, 26-28 Jun [19/08/09]

The game scores of the 1st Big Slick Open, played at the Big Slick Poker Club in Purley, 26-28 June, and won by Jonathan Rowson, are now available at Britbase. Click here for details: http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/


7th Staunton Memorial Tournament, Simpsons in the Strand, 8-17 Aug [17/08/09]

The 7th Staunton Memorial Tournament takes place from 8- 17 August at Simpsons in the Strand. There are two events this year: a a double-cycle Scheveningen System match-tournament between five players representing the UK and the Netherlands, plus, new this year, a category 9 ten-player all-play-all. The UK team in the Scheveningen event is Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane, David Howell and Gawain Jones while the Netherlands are represented by Ivan Sokolov, Loek van Wely, Jan Smeets, Erwin L'Ami and Jan Werle. Amongst the all-play-all line-up are Viktor Korchnoi and Jan Timman. Official website: http://howardstaunton.com/hsmt2009/Home.htmlLatest: The UK beat the Netherlands by 26½-23½. Nigel Short finished on 8/10 (a 2900+ TPR), Adams, Howell 5, McShane 4½, Jones 4. For the Netherlands the scores were Smeets 6/10, Sokolov 5½, Van Wely 5, L'Ami 4½, Werle 2½. In the all-play-all Jan Timman won with 7/9 ahead of Alex Cherniaev 6½, Viktor Korchnoi 6, Davies 5, Hendriks, Wiersma, Williams 4½, Wells 4, Trent 2, Chapman 1. View/Download all GB-NED games View/Download all GM event games (BritBase)


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Uxbridge Internationals, 12-16 Aug [17/08/09]

Six all-play-all (and similar) tournaments were held at the De Veres Denham Grove Hotel from 12-16 August, organised by Sean Hewitt. Group A: 1 I Rausis (CZE) 7½/9, 2 MC Panchanathan (IND) 7, 3 V Tiruchirapalli (IND) 6½ (IM norm achieved). Group B: 1 Arun Prasad (IND) 7½/9, 2-3 B Lalic (CRO), V Doncea (ROU) 7, 4 Peter Poobalasingam (ENG) 6½ (IM norm achieved). Group C: 1 D Gormally (ENG) 8/9, 2 K Arkell (ENG) 7, Alan Byron (ENG) 6. Group D: 1 Akash Jain (ENG) 7½/9. Group E: 1 David Turner (ENG) 6/9. Group F: 1 Philip Makepeace (ENG) 7½/9. View/Download all games (BritBase).

 


British Championships, Torquay, 26 July - 8 August [08/08/09]

David Howell: British ChampionThe 96th British Chess Championships took place at the Riviera Centre, Torquay, from 26 July to 8 August. Official websitelive gamesList of British Champions 1904-2008 (BritBase) • English Chess ForumBritish Championship Blog (Bob Jones) • View/Download all games (BritBase). Latest: David Howell (pictured left) won the championship with 9/11. At 18, he is the second youngest ever British Champion (after Michael Adams). He also won the British Under 21, British Under 18 and English Championship titles. Second equal wereSimon Williams and Mark Hebden on 8½. Jovanka Houska retained her British Women's Championship title.

Photo © 2009 John Saunders


1st Big Slick Chess Tournament [05/07/09]

Big Slick Tournament

This new tournament, organised by GM Simon Williams, is called the 1st Big Slick Tournament and is a five-round FIDE Open, held at the Big Slick Poker Club (Unit 10, Royal Oak Centre, Brighton Road, Purley, Surrey CR8 2BG). The web address is http://www.gingergm.com/big-slick-chess/. The international invitation tournament is a category 6 ten-player all-play-all (Keith Arkell 2517g, Danny Gormally 2487g, Luis Galego 2454g, Alex Cherniaev 2423g, Simon Ansell 2394m, Gudmundur Kjartansson 2388f, Jack Rudd 2357m, Bob Eames 2312f, Alexei Slavin 2308, Peter Poobalasingam 2240), running 27 June - 5 July • View/Download games from the 1st Big Slick GM Tournament (all games) • Final Scores: 1-2 Cherniaev, Arkell 6½, 3 Slavin 5½, 4-5 Poobalasingam, Galego 5, 6 Gormally 4½, 7 Rudd 4, 8 Ansell 3½, 9 Kjartansson 2½, 10 Eames 2. Keith Arkell won his final two games by default (against Ansell and Galego).
   In the FIDE-rated open (27-28 June), GM Jonathan Rowson headed the open tournament entrant's list ahead of IM Gavin Wall. Latest: Jonathan Rowson and Mark Rich both finished on 4½/5 in the Open, with Rowson winning the blitz play-off (but only after his opponent missed mate in one!).


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