Author: Sue Maroroa
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Kilkenny and London Chess Classic
Gawain has confirmed his attendance for another Irish Weekender. Having been over to Ireland for Bunratty,Ennis as well as Galway this year (and I believe coming 1st in all of them..). Kilkenny has a strong line up including GMs Ivan Cheparinov, Sebastien Maze,Fabien Libiszewski, Alex Baburin and Mark Hebden. Next up will be the London…
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Grand Prix is back..
Well not played by Gawain but by Vugar Gashimov of Azerbajin against Bulgaria’s Ivan Cheparinov. I read somewhere that this was also the opening Luke McShane used a few years ago to beat Cheparinov! ###pgn###[Event “European Team Championship”] [Site “Porto Carras GRE”] [Date “2011.11.09”] [EventDate “2011.11.03”] [Round “7”] [Result “1-0”] [White “Vugar Gashimov”] [Black “Ivan…
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Full English Breakfast and November Ratings
Episode 14 One Year Anniversay: Bilbaolicious News is ready for listeners! You should really support these guys who are always up for a good laugh. It is especially for the readers who don’t keep up to date with the latest Chess News from Chessvibes or Chessbase. I’m pleased to announce that Gawain is currently Number…
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European Team Chess Championship
Currently Gawain is in Greece, representing England alongside (in board order) 1. GM Mickey Adams 2. GM Nigel Short 3. GM David Howell 4. GM Gawain Jones 5. GM Nick Pert Yesterday, England beat Latvia 2.5-1.5 and today they face the home team Greece. Here you can view the live games, as long as they…
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Glacier Walk,Lobster Soup and (Errant) Northern Lights
Our tour started at 11.30am and would finish roughly 12 hours later. It was a long day, but an amazing adventure. Our guide was Jon, who was very friendly and extremely knowledgeable about all things especially geology. He is also one of Iceland’s rescue guides (Good to know!). I had a lot of questions especially…
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Bundesliga
Gawain is playing for SC Remagen who today are playing SC Solingen. There are 3 games over this weekend, one starts today at 4pm (local time UTC + 2) a game on Saturday and the last game on Sunday. Check out the live games here.
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Iceland from a tourist’s point of view
Expect the chess update from Gawain in a few days but I’ll just say he finished on a score of 3.5/4! Our team ended up on 11 points, 7th on the table but with all to play for in the next weekend which is just before the Reykjavik Open. Now that the chess is over,…
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Icelandic Adventures
We arrived Midnight Thursday night after a delayed departure from Heathrow Airport. We were kind enough to be picked up by one of our team mates (Arnar). We didn’t make any firm plans after hearing we play 4 rounds over Friday (evening), Saturday (double rounds) and Sunday (morning). Yesterday, the weather was lovely with clear…
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Galway Chess Congress
Gawain is currently on 3/3 with one more round to play today starting at 7pm local time. You can check out the live games here, though they are down at the moment. I can’t seem to find a results page but will try and keep you updated with what I know. It’s a tough schedule of 6 rounds…
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Enniskillen to Galway – Distance:137miles Time: 6hours
Hi everyone. Just a very quick update to let you know I’m still kicking! Just in Northern Ireland at my parents’ place now but about to head down to Galway where I’m doing a simul this evening and then playing the weekender which starts on the Friday. Check previous updates for the links. I managed…
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European Team Championship
I’m pleased to announce that Gawain will be participating in the European Team Championship. Open: GM Michael Adams GM Nigel Short GM David Howell GM Gawain Jones GM Nick Pert Captain: To be confirmed. Women: IM Jovanka Houska IM Dagne Ciuksyte WFM Maria Yurenok WFM Kanwal Bhatia WFM Sarah Hegarty Captain: Glenn Flear Dates: 3rd-11th…
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Corsican Masters
Gawain will return to Corsica to participate in the Corsican Circuit from the 22nd until the 30th of October. Last year he reached the quarter finals where he unfortunately lost to the eventual winner, Shak Mamedyarov. I remember last year, we were confused about the format of the event but now we know how it’s played. There…
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Round 1
Gawain managed to drag our his winning position into a very long endgame and had to eat McDonalds for dinner! Today is a Monday so hopefully shops will be open and his game won’t last very long.. If you want to see the live games this is the best site http://raksy.dyndns.org/mato/vitinia/torneo1/turno2/webboard.swf although if you watch the next…
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Barclays International Chess Festival
Gawain left early this morning and he is now currently playing his 1st Round game against WIM Vesna Rozic is some kind of French. Live games are available to watch. The website is here and it should be updated in due course. Hope you enjoy the games 🙂
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Cymru(Wales): Part 1
Of we went, for a trip over the imaginary border to Wales. We had no real plans except to visit Caernarfon in North Wales. A lovely place to visit, even with grey weather and the Castle was amazing (be warned there is a lot of climbing). This is in fact an English Castle built to…
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RSS Feeder (and bits and pieces!)
Thanks to the request of one of our readers we have activated our RSS Feeder.. (though I think YOU have to subscribe..) and I don’t know too much about it. If you have any hints, let me know and hopefully I can make the website more user friendly. After a sojourn at the Grandparents in the Lancashire…