Author: Sue Maroroa
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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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32nd Benasque Open
I’m pleased to announce that Gawain is playing into XXXII Benasque Open held in Benasque, Spain from the 5th until the 14th of July. After conferring with his fellow grandmasters this was the winner this year but there are many summer tournaments this year including Leiden in the Netherlands and Rethymos in Crete, Greece, Benasque is…
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2012 Ennis Open
Gawain returns this year to Ennis, Ireland to defend his title. This weekender is held from the 18th-20th May in the Auburn Lodge. Ennis is one of Gawains former hometowns. He lived there from 16 until the age of 18. He sat his final exams at St Flannas where he had an offer to study…
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4NCL Final Weekend, Round 9,10 & 11
The final weekend of the Four Nations Chess League otherwise known as 4ncl was held this past bank holiday weekend. For those of you not from the UK , a bank holiday is effectively a public holiday and is called that as it was traditionally when the banks shut shop. Firstly we should congratulate 3 players who…
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What’s On
MAY 2012 TWIC is very good at keeping up to date with the latest tournaments on calendars, but there are some that are still missed. From now on, at the beginning of each month, I’ll include a list of up and coming tournaments that you should keep an eye out on. This will be mainly…
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Italian League 27th of April until 1st of May
Gawain is now in Arvier, where he’ll make his debut for Chieti in the Italian League. No, I haven’t made a mistake – it’s not like the famous red wine which is Chianti. Chieti is a city not far from Rome with a population of about 55,000 (wiki). The football team S.S Chieti Calcio play in…
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A reader’s questions answered!
Hi everyone, We are still awaiting final confirmation but according to the final standings published on Chess Results, Gawain finished in 15th place therefore qualifying for the 2013 World Cup. This is an amazing achievement and I’m sure he’ll be working hard to play in Tromsø. These questions were asked by Colin Patterson last December and Gawain has…
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Express update
Today is Round 6 and again Gawain is on the top board facing with the white pieces, French GM Laurent Fressinet. Laurent is actually married to pro poker player and IM Almira Skripchenko.You can watch the live games here. Here they are together with their young daughter. So far there has been many upsets in…
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London to Sofia to Plovdiv
I arrived into Bulgaria earlier on today after a hectic week, I worked yesterday from 9am until 11pm then tried to sleep around 12am (Friday) but kept stirring. I find it so difficult to sleep when I know I need to get up in only a few hours time but then I make myself even more tired…
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Horses and Sharks..
This time our trip to Iceland was more relax. As Gawain mentioned in his last post, we both flew over early to play in the Icelandic chess league. Its size and depth is amazing for such a small country. I always feel at home in Iceland, even if the weather is greyer and colder then…
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Bundesliga Round 12 and 13
Gawain’s currently in Dresden, Germany playing in this weekends Bundesliga. His team just won their first match, in another must win situation. They will play again tomorrow so you should check out the Live games . Gawain drew his game against IM Rene Stern (2506) after it looked a bit troublesome but most likely it was…
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European Individual Championsip
It’s time again for this super strong tournament. Last year, Gawain was 104th seed!! Here’s the starting list for the 2012 edition where there are 15 2700+ players and the Top 200 players are 2450+! It’s a very tough tournament, where you need to be well prepared as there is so much strong opposition.
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Tomorrow is the last Round..
Here are tomorrow’s pairings. Play starts earlier at 13:00 Local time (which is also the same timezone as London). Round 9 on 2012/03/13 at 13:00 Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No. 1 6 GM Hou Yifan 2639 6½ 7 GM Caruana Fabiano 2767 1 2 5 GM Sokolov Ivan 2653 6½…