Gawain Jones

Category: Games

  • Barclays International – Last Round and Round Up

    I arrived back at home in London at 1am this morning so this is the first time I’ve had to write an update. The last round was a 10am start, and after a few hours sleep, breakfast, a quick bit of preparation and packing I managed to arrive at the board just 15 minutes late.…

  • World Cup and Botvinnik Memorial

    Hello everyone. I’m off to Rome shortly, via Windsor to stay with the very hospitable Manuel + Brigitta before Manuel drives me to Heathrow for a very early flight. It should be an interesting tournament; with the new September rating list I’m actually top seed (alphabetically as Khenkin is also 2624) but with ten of…

  • How to beat a 2700+…

    With the Killer Dutch?? Here GM Simon Williams or GingerGM beat Radoslaw Wojtaszek (2721) ###pgn###1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.c4 d6 7.Qc2 a5 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.b3 e5 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.Rd1 Qe8 12.Nb5 Qh5 13.Nxc7 f4 14.Nxa8 Bc5 15.Rd5 Nb4 16.Rxe5 Nxc2 17.Rxh5 Nxh5 18.Rb1 fxg3 19.hxg3 Nxg3 20.Rb2 Bf5 0-1%%%pgn%%%…

  • Gelfand victorious in Kazan!

    In my last write up I left the Candidates Matches with two Classical games to go and my forecast was rather bleak for entertainment value. Out of the 28 games played at a normal time control there had been 26 draws and just 2 wins (both with Black!). Recently Silvio Danailov, the current ECU President…

  • Round 5 Ennis GAME

    Here is the annotated Game between Gawain and GM Vlad Jianu – Hopefully we will be able to upload the video of their endgame in the next week! Press the speech bubble to see the annotation. I noticed that Vlad was exclusively a Dragon player (and always played this rather odd …Qc7) so I decided…

  • Candidate Matches – Final!

    A lot has happened since I wrote about the Candidates matches. I was right that Aronian and Kramnik were the favourites but that doesn’t mean they were guaranteed to progress. Kramnik duly survived scraping through the blitz although Radjabov can count himself unlucky as after going one up in the rapids it looked he was…

  • Ennis Open: A success

    Sue has already recounted the games step by step but I’ll do a quick roundup of the whole event. We arrived on Thursday lunchtime and were picked up from the airport by Gerry Casey who was also our host for the weekend. We spent the afternoon walking round Ennis, me occasionally remembering the directions and…

  • How to Beat the Sicilian Defence: An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White

    How to Beat the Sicilian Defence: An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White

    Hi All, I believe Gawain’s new book is available to buy right now! Here’s the link to the amazon page so you can check out what’s inside and trust me it’s a great book to buy!(Not that I’m biased or anything). See this win against Top Moldovian player GM Victor Bologan from the 2011 European…

  • Norwegian Open – The Finale

    Round 8 I played White against the solid and well prepared Michael Richter. I’d looked him up and seen he had recently gained a lot of rating points and was now closing in on the GM title so I knew the game would be tough. I decided to surprise his French with 3.Nc3 (rather than…

  • Okay,New favourite game 🙂

    I guess I spoke too early when I asked Ga to let me know his favourite game. He was pleased with his first round result but it doesn’t quite compare to this Round 6 win against GM Viktor Bologan. Utilizing his book (How to beat the Sicilian) Gawain deployed his pieces to create a bind…

  • Gawain’s fave game (so far)

    This is Ga’s Round 1 game against the Albanian Sahitaj. We noticed a few rounds back that his rating had increase for Round 2 to be 2235! A first for Gawain. ###pgn###[Event “12th European Invidividual Championship”] [Site “Aix-les-Bains FRA”] [Date “2011.03.22”] [EventDate “2011.03.22”] [Round “1.104”] [Result “0-1”] [White “Naim Sahitaj”] [Black “Gawain Jones”] [ECO “E60”]…

  • Jones vs Fedorchuk

    This is a very nice win by Ga during the Corsican Masters. Unfortuntely he is very busy at the moment so there aren’t any annotations and I won’t bore you with my thoughts but it’s a very nice game with the f3 Nimzo-Indian Defence against Fedorchuk who was rated 2671. Doesn’t it look easy? Well…