Category: Tournaments
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Snow,snow,snow! Currently stranded in Poland.
There is now a new European Blitz as well as a Rapid Champion and it’s not Gawain. The rapid started well with 5/5 and a win over Rublevsky but a combination of things started to happen and things went wrong. Gawain should be very happy and proud of his performance in Warsaw especially just playing…
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European Blitz and Rapid Chess Championship, Warsaw
Gawain finished the London Chess Classic with a score of 7.5/9 which resulted in coming 1st= with GM Simon Williams. Ga was aware in the last round that if he lost he’d finish somewhere 3rd= (with lots of other players) tough sometimes being a professional. Now Ga is in Poland playing this Blitz & Rapid…
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Kilkenny Final Results
The last 2 rounds on the Sunday was a disaster for the Frenchman leading the tournament with 4/4. Round 5 saw Mazé paired against Gawain where Mazé tried too hard to win and ended up losing meaning he played top seed Ivan Cheparinov in the last round. Round 6 saw Gawain paired with IM Sam…
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Kilkenny 2010 -Arrival, Round 1 & Tips for tourists!
Here we are in Ireland for another fun tournament in Kilkenny. This year we see GM Ivan Cheparinov (Second to GM Veselin Topalov) visit the tournament and there’s 7 GMs visiting. Kilkenny is a lovely town about 2hours drive south of Dublin. I’m not playing this weekend so will be playing tourist though I do…
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British Rapidplay
So Friday morning we left sunny London to go to play in the British Rapidplay Championship. Cold is what I thought of the North and I wasn’t disappointed. If you ever go we recommend you take the Grand Central trains which offers free wifi and the oppurtunity to play chess in their carriages! Yorkshire is…
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Sunningdale Congress (in Prague atm)
Lucky for us there’s a direct train from Waterloo to Sunningdale taking a grand total of 50minutes. There we were with our luggage and supplies waiting to play our first games since Dun Laoghaire. Sunningdale is run by Sean Hewitt of e2e4 chess and there are various weekenders and congresses runnign through the year. The…