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I am taking a week out to visit Lucca, where we used to live, to hopefully catch-up with some good friends.

Sunday 27th July – Saturday 9th August See the official pairings and results here: www.britishchess08.com

A full account is available here: reports.chessdom.com/doeberl-2008/final-report

October 2006, Calvia Chess Festival, Mallorca, Spain. Went to this tournament with Thomas Rendle, another young English IM. It was nice to get away from the cold to this warm venue 🙂 I was pleased with my performance (2595) but narrowly missed out on a 9 round gm norm. I need a 10 round gm…

October 2006, European Club Championships, Fuegen, Austria. An exceptionally strong tournament with many of the best players in the world playing. I was top board for Slough Sharks and managed 5.5/7 achieving my 2nd gm norm and my highest ever rating performance at 2673. Our team also finished above our seeding on 3/7. We rented…

October 2006, Galway Congress, Ireland. I returned here as joint winner from last year and went into the last round in the lead again but lost an interesting game to Alex Baburin and finished on 4.5/6, half a point behind the leaders. Another enjoyable weekend though.

September 2006, European Union Championships, Liverpool. 2nd= and my 1st gm norm, only need 2 more 🙂 The official website is http://www.liverpoolchessinternational.co.uk/. My favourite game was my round 6 against Klaus Bischoff, check it out! I also managed a draw with black against Nigel Short who won the tournament and gained 21 rating points.

August – September 2006, Hereford International, England. This was a closed tournament with gm and im norm chances. I came 2nd with 5.5/9 losing only to top seed Danny Gormally who won the tournament. This was Max Devereaux’s first tournament as an organiser and it went very smoothly. The website is: http://www.deversoft.co.uk/hict/

August 2006, British Championships, Swansea, Wales. Here I managed my best ever performance in the British and came 3rd= with 7.5/11 and also won the U18 title (due to a recent rule change I wasn’t able to win the U21). I started off slowly with 3.5/6 losing to GMs Nick Pert and Jonathan Parker but…

June 2006, South African Open, Port Elizabeth. This was my first tournament after my final Leaving Certificate exams and my last days of school ever! I went to this tournament more for a holiday than for the chess. I travelled over with a couple of friends and we managed to see some of Africa, a…

 May 2006, Four Nations Chess League, England. The last three rounds of the 4NCL were played on the May bank holiday weekend. I was challenging for a GM norm but unfortunately lost to GM Matthew Turner on the Saturday. I finished the tournament with 7/11 and my team Slough Sharks came 3rd in division one. …

April 2006, North Munster Championships, Ireland. This was played in Ennis, my local town and so I was able to play without having to travel. I won the tournament for the second time in a row scoring 4.5/5.  

March 2006, Cork, Ireland. This was a weekend tournament held in the centre of Cork. I was top seed and won it with 5.5/6. 

February 2006, Bunratty, Ireland. This is perhaps the most well known of the Irish tournaments. Again it was held over a weekend. I got 3.5/6, losing to top seed John Nunn GM and then lost to Simon WIlliams an English IM from a promising position when I went low on time. This tournament strangely had…

January 2006, Cork, Ireland UCC Mulcahy Cup. This was another small weekend tournament. I stayed with a friend and enjoyed the weekend. I came 1st= again here with 5.5/6 drawing with Alex Lopez the other winner of the tournament (and incidentally the guy I was staying with).  

December 2005, Dublin, Ireland. Leinster Chess Championships. This was another strong tournament held over a couple of days. I came 3rd with 4/6 losing to Alex Baburin, Ireland’s top rated player and drawing two other games. The tournament was disappointingly small however.