Category: Tournaments
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Site Changes and Benasque Open
Sorry if today you tried to check out the website but failed, I changed a password which meant the Web Host Server got confused! You’ll see some website changes over the next week and hopefully you’ll enjoy the layout more. Fingers cross there won’t be any problems with the website and it’ll be a smooth…
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What’s On
MAY 2012 TWIC is very good at keeping up to date with the latest tournaments on calendars, but there are some that are still missed. From now on, at the beginning of each month, I’ll include a list of up and coming tournaments that you should keep an eye out on. This will be mainly…
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Express update
Today is Round 6 and again Gawain is on the top board facing with the white pieces, French GM Laurent Fressinet. Laurent is actually married to pro poker player and IM Almira Skripchenko.You can watch the live games here. Here they are together with their young daughter. So far there has been many upsets in…
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Tomorrow is the last Round..
Here are tomorrow’s pairings. Play starts earlier at 13:00 Local time (which is also the same timezone as London). Round 9 on 2012/03/13 at 13:00 Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No. 1 6 GM Hou Yifan 2639 6½ 7 GM Caruana Fabiano 2767 1 2 5 GM Sokolov Ivan 2653 6½…
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Nearly halfway through the Open…
Gawain’s currently on 4/4 in the strong Reykjavik Open. I flew back to warm London on Wednesday and have been very busy juggling my three jobs. I’m sorry that there wasn’t a game of the month for March. Gawain’s schedule has been hectic as he’s juggling his travels plus his chess publishing. He’s got a…
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Bunratty Weekender
Last weekend Sue and I made the trip over to Shannon airport to play in one of the big two Irish weekend tournaments (the other is Kilkenny). Thanks to Gary O’Grady’s very generous sponsorship this year’s tournament was the strongest weekender I’ve ever seen and must have been the strongest ever tournament in Ireland. Nigel…
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Game of the Month – February 2012
While Sue’s been busy writing on our road trip I haven’t forgotten about my Game of the Month (actually I had but Sue emailed me to remind me!). I decided to choose one of my own games. Overall the tournament was a bit of a disaster from a rating point of view, losing to Chris…
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Back in New Zealand!
Hello again everybody. After a few days in Malaysia eating delicious noodles and pork buns, we arrived into New Zealand very early Wednesday morning. A day spent with Andrew, Sue’s brother in the Sylvia Park shopping mall and some Burger Fuel before Sue and I flew to Wellington for the start of our roadtrip down…
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Game of the Month January 2012
Welcome to this year’s first GOTM! This was a tricky one to choose as so many tournaments are being played currently. I was also not very up to date as had not been online for ten days or so over Christmas. However I found the following very interesting. Before we move on to the game…
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European Blitz and Rapid Championships
After a couple days off desperately writing my Chesspublishing update and annotating a couple of games for Chessbase I headed to Warsaw for the annual European Blitz and Rapid Championships. This year David Howell, Loz Cooper and Malcolm Armstrong also played which made it more of a social event than last year. The trip started…
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The London Classic – A delayed posting
UPDATE: Sue figured out the problem and now we have a pgn viewer back. I’d be in a lot of trouble without her! EDIT: At the moment I can’t get any of my pgn viewers to work so I’ll have to wait for my admin (Sue) to get back from work. Please bear with me!…
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London Chess Classic
The London Chess Classic started yesterday and Gawain won his 1st round game, today he plays against a Norweigen junior which can be dangerous! This event is on until the 12th of December and I would highly recommend checking it out. The main event of this tournament is of course the all play all which…
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Kilkenny Masters
(I wrote this offline and hadn’t seen Sue’s upload of Gerry’s repeat. Hence I repeat some of the same things but hopefully you’ll be interested in my perspective.) This weekend I had a quick trip across over to Ireland to play the Kilkenny Masters. The Kilkenny tournament has now been running for 35 years and…
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Kilkenny and Reykjavik Open 2012
Gawain has headed over the Irish Sea via plane this time to play the Kilkenny Masters held in Kilkenny, Ireland. This year’s event included more or less the same players from the 2010 Kilkenny Masters with players such as Ivan Cheparinov, Sebastian Maze and Mark Hebden. Hopefully we’ll be able to check out the live games if…
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European Team Championships – Porto Carras
Hello all. Apologies for not updating during the tournament but I had very little time and the internet was sporadic at best. I started this before the last round, which I didn’t think I was going to play, but the situation changed and in the end I played all nine. I had the 4ncl straightaway…