Category: Leagues
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Spanish Chess League
Gawain will be playing an early morning last round tomorrow in the Spanish League, I think it starts 9.30am (!!) local time. His team Sestao Bizkaialdehas won the title with one round to spare. You can watch the games live on chess24. Gawain headed to Linares last Sunday and we went via London where we…
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4NCL and My Birthday
This year I had to play a game on my 26th Birthday, I can’t actually remember the last time that happened. I’ve heard more often than not people don’t like playing on their birthday but I wont this year so it was fine :-). We arrived back from sunny Bali early on Wednesday morning and…
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4NCL & Holiday time in Malaysia and Indonesia
After a few days at home we headed to Northampton for Round 5 & 6 of the 4NCL. We missed rounds 3 & 4 while in Wijk, and our teams played each other in Round 3. White Rose lost but we managed to get some points off them! This was our first time playing in…
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Oberliga
After a few days of much needed time at home, we flew on Saturday morning to Munich to play for our team, Munich 1836 (you can follow their tweets here). When we landed back in Doncaster from Amsterdam/Wijk Gawain needed a few days of R&R after such a long tournament. It’s impressive how your body…
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A successful two weeks
On Saturday 9th April I headed back to Munich. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to play much for Munich 1836 this year but at least could drop in en-route to Dubai for the last round. We were in second place, ahead of the other Munich team (Tarrasch) by just one and a half board points, and…
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4NCL This weekend Rd 3 & 4
We are currently at the Holiday Inn Birmingham Airport waiting for our pairings for the 3rd & 4th round of the Four Nations Chess League. My team White Rose will be facing the Sambuca Sharks today and Gawain playing for Guildford will be facing Blackthorne. In the first weekend held in November Guildford 1 (who…
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4NCL Final Weekend
The final weekend of the Four Nations Chess League (otherwise known as the 4ncl) always falls on the first May bank holiday. This time the venue was Hinckley Island Hotel in Leicestershire. The last two weekends have moved to the Holiday Inn Birmingham Airport where all Division 1 &2 will be played next season. I…
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4NCL – A Success
NB: I wrote this on the 8th of May but Gawain hasn’t yet proofread it.. so now I am attempting to 🙂 So last week, my team captain Paul Townsend sent me an email saying he did some calculations and thought that I was on for a WGM norm. Ga & I were walking back…
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4NCL Round 7 & 8
White Rose has been performing well in the 4NCL. I put it down to good team spirits. This is the second time I have played for White Rose, the first being in 2008 when I was a replacement for Anya Corke who had a family emergency. Since then I’ve switched teams every year, playing for…
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Icelandic League February – March 2014
Wednesday evening I returned to Iceland for the second half of the Icelandic league. The first half of the season had gone very well, see http://gawainjones.co.uk/return-to-iceland/ and we were fighting for the top couple of places and qualification for the European Club Cup which will be in Bilbao in October. I want to start this update…
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Holiday Blues & 4NCL
So now we are back in the UK. We arrived at Heathrow on Thursday afternoon then we had a day to rest before coming up to Hinckley Island for the 4NCL. Am I looking forward to playing? I think so, but let’s see how I get on in my games. Yesterday at 2pm I was…
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Return to Iceland
The first half of the Icelandic League was played a couple of weeks ago and Sue and I made the trip over to play for our team GM Hellir. When I started playing the team was Matar which then merged with Godinn. Just before the start of this season we made another merger and we’re…
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4ncl season 2012-2013
As usual normal day-to-day living has got in the way of this update but I’ll try and write a few words on the 4ncl season and see if I can get some photos from Sue. This year I joined the Guildford team and we were looking to challenge Wood Green’s hegemony. The 4ncl (Four Nations…
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Italian Team Championships 2013 – Bratto
I recently played in the Italian Team Championships for the second year. Last time I got a disappointing 3/7 and so was hoping to improve on that. Then there were only 2 spots for the European Club Cup with only 19GMs competing but this year there were over 20 and so 3 qualifying spots. Last…
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4NCL Final Round Today!
Today is a bank holiday and it’s also the final round of the Four Nation Chess League. Guildford play Wood Green Hilsmark in what is the match we have all been waiting for! Here’s the lineup for today. In the demotion pool we have another Guildford vs Wood Green Hilsmark line up! You can watch…