Gawain Jones

Category: Updates

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • London Chess Classic: FIDE Open

    Round 9 tomorrow for the Fide Open! Sorry for the lack of update but I’ve been busy running around and cooking for my lovely Gawain. Ga is currently leading with 7/8 alongside Simon Williams. He’s feeling in the zone and playing GM Neil McDonald tomorrow lunchtime. You can check out the games here. After a…

  • 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…

  • Kilkenny Round 2,3,4

    Leading the tournament is Grandmaster Sébastien Mazé from France with 4/4. Gawain is playing him currently in the 5th Round. 3 Rounds were played yesterday in which Ga drew against IM Mark Heidenfield and GM Ivan Cheparinov (known as the second to GM Veselin Topalov and beat IM Mark Quinn using his book “How to…

  • 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…

  • Mini Update – Feeling guilty…

    Wow! It’s been too long since we’ve written a report on. I’m very jealous of Mickey Adam’s website which is done with the help of his lovely wife (and webmistress) Tara! I’m not very technolgized but that makes no excuse for not updating very often. I do have some excuses such as settling into London,…

  • London

    What a city. We trained down from Bolton breaking the journey in Stafford using London Midland trains which offers cheap trains from Stafford to London (£7.90 2 adults + railcards) the journey took an extra hour going via Northampton but how can one complain when the fare was so cheap. So we made it in…

  • The Joyce Weekender, Vikings and Anglo-Saxons

    Dun Laoghaire was an overall success for Gawain at least. Ga finished on 5/5 in the Joyce Weekender and had no real trouble in the blitz winning all games in his group and then winning the knock-out final against IM Valery Atlas 2-1. I on the otherhand finished with 2/5 in the weekender! I didn’t…

  • Update – Off to Dublin on Friday

    We’re in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland still enjoying the hospitality of the Jones family. On Friday we shall start our travels again and make our way down to Dublin. Down there is a tournament the Joyce Weekender in Dun Laoghaire (Dun Lerry) from the 21st-22nd of August held at the Boylan Community Centre. The Joyce Weekender…

  • Sue’s Back

    Sorry for the (very!) big delay in writing. It’s Sue again so I’ll try and be a bit more consistent with the updates. We’ve moved from the Southern Hemisphere and now are settling in Europe. The last month or so has been hectic with travelling and playing chess tournaments and now we’ve settled in one…

  • Catch up

    Hi everyone. A special treat for you, it’s me Gawain writing an update for a change We’ve both been really busy recently; Sue is doing her nannying course which takes up all of her time, whilst I’ve been writing my chesspublishing updates, coaching and recently signed a contract to write a book “How to Beat…

  • 2 Rapids & 2 Simuls

    It has been such a long time since I have written (I even tried to get Gawain to write some words but he’s too busy). I have started my course since I last wrote (which is the reason why Gawain is is New Zealand), we’ve played in the Bay Of Plenty Rapid, Gawain did a…

  • Oopsy Daisy

    I thought I updated at least once on our trip but I didn’t! Aren’t I bad? And now there won’t be news for a while as Ga’s next tournament is over Easter again in Australia Doeberl/Sydney International Open.  I thought i updated at least once on our trip but I didn’t! Aren’t I bad? And…

  • Australia Time

    Happy New Years! NZ is one of the first countries to see the sun rising across the horizon. We’ll probably be up to catch a taxi for our 6am flight across the Tasman. We spent the last few days having a bbq at a bach the first day was horrible weather, cold, windy and rainy…

  • Test chess game

    [Event "Wellington Open"] [Site "Wellington, NZ NZD"] [Date "2009.12.27"] [Round "1"] [White ""] [Black ""] [CBBWhiteId "*"] [CBBBlackId "*"] [Result "1-0"] [Setup "1"] [FEN "Test"] 1. e4 d6 2. c3 Nf6 3. d3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Be2 O-O 6. h3 c5 7. Nbd2 Nc6 8. Qc2 Rb8 9. Nf1 b5 10. Ne3 b4…