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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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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…
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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 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…
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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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Drunken Knights 1 vs Athenaeum
I believe Ga’s team were unfortunately beaten at their London League match earlier this evening. Ga played Eddie Dearing but the game ended in confusion (maybe some arguments) due to his opponent claiming Article 10.2. As there was no arbiter present the game has been sent of for adjudication. In the final position Ga had 14minutes to Eddie’s…
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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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4NCL Daventry
Off we went for a lovely weekend to Daventry(nearest train station Rugby 12miles). Fortunately for us Round 1 starts at 2pm. The Four Nations Chess League (otherwise known as 4NCL) is a team tournament held at various venues throughout England. Gawain’s current team is Pride and Prejudice. Round 1 Round 2 Gawain started his debut…
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Jones vs Fedorchuk
This is a very nice win by Ga during the Corsican Masters. Unfortuntely he is very busy at the moment so there aren’t any annotations and I won’t bore you with my thoughts but it’s a very nice game with the f3 Nimzo-Indian Defence against Fedorchuk who was rated 2671. Doesn’t it look easy? Well…
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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,…
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Fundraising Dinner
At the request of Sue I’m writing a guest blog about the Fundraising Dinner held at Simpsons on the Strand. This was organised very efficiently by the English Chess Federation President CJ de Mooi. He managed the impressive task of bringing over the two players who dominated chess for 30 years, Anatoly Karpov and Garry…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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