Category: Updates
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Gibraltar Masters
Sue’s been writing so magnificently on the website but I better write a post or two or we should change the address to suemaroroa.co.uk 🙂 Hastings went very well for me and I managed to get 7.5/10 with the old Soviet model of drawing my blacks and winning my whites (with one exception, beating Vocaturo…
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London Chess Classic – A personal retrospective
Now we’ve had a bit over a week since the end of the London Classic I decided it was the right moment to look back at the tournament and take stock. My final score was somewhat disappointing; my aim was to pick up at least one win and, while I knew it would be difficult…
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Ginger GM Christmas Party
Ginger GM/Drunken Knights (non London) merge into one for me as two very important men are central to both groups! Si Williams aka Ginger GM and Gary O’Grady are the support for it all. Both these guys alongside their support crew have worked extremely hard to produce the best DVDs available and in no way…
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Happy Birthday to Gawain and Vishy
Today Gawain turns 25 (halfway to 50) and Vishy turns 43! Last night we were out celebrating the end of the LCC with a dinner at Simpson’s full of potential donors and the players. The players did a simul with ended 12-6 in favour of the other players (I personally blame a certain World Number…
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Round 3: The Defender King!
I’m now back at work so my updates may be briefer than normal but I did manage to be at Olympia for the start of the round and took some photos. The light in the auditorium isn’t fantastic so my photos are a bit dark. I don’t know much about photography but my camera is…
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Round 2 – 313 moves. You’re getting your money’s worth 🙂
All games were still playing at 7.30pm and I was getting very nervous and hungry. Gawain’s opening didn’t go to plan as such and he’d been defending a worse position for the majority of the game and I feared déjàvu especially when Judit started to repeat position twice several times but Gawain held the position…
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Round 1 – Explosions and two very long endgame.
For the opening ceremony, we had two musicians,Jason Kouchak on piano and Alf Wilheim Lundberg who played an eight string guitar, played some lovely tunes for us. I figured out that Alf’s interpretation of a Christmas song was “Silent Night” where as Gawain thought it was “Away in the Manger”. The ceremony was broadcast live this year…
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England’s newest member (I think)
Hi guys, I’m now officially “English” for chess purposes. Having lived in England for the last 2 and a half years as well as being here (in Europe) for the future it made sense to change federation. I also wanted to challenge myself to get better and I felt that if I stayed with the…
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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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British Chess Championship 2012
I’m pleased to announce that Gawain will participate in the British Chess Championship to be held in North Shields, Tyneside this year. For the latest news and updates, please check out their website. Accommodation has been difficult to find, so if you are planning on entering. I would do so now. The easiest bet is…
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ECF Player of the Year 2012
I’m pleased to announce that after flying in from our Wedding week in South Africa, Gawain beat GM Robert Hess in their head-to-head with a score of 17.5-13.5. The match started off shaky for Ga but he managed to bounce back with the faster time control to score a decisive victory. Ga would be the…
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Jones VS. Hess Death Match Today!!
Hello, This is a super quick update as we have just flown in from South Africa after having a lovely wedding (which we will write an update and share a few pictures with you as we have been internet free for the last few weeks). We flew Johannesburg to Amsterdam and landed at London City…
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Danish Team Rapidplay
Today, we are in Odense, Denmark where Gawain makes his debut for the Philidor Chess Club. It’s the newest formed club which like most clubs in Denmark or like the London league dont meet on a regular basis but instead catch up to play for the Danish league. Gawain’s teammates include GM Nils Grandelius, IM…
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Game of the Month – May/June
Hey guys, As we’re halfway through the month, and considering I really doubt I’ll manage a GOTM from June what with getting married and all, I decided to combine the two. In the past month we’ve had two big matches. First there was the Kramnik-Aronian friendly match. As they weren’t playing for a title they…