Author: Sue Maroroa
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Couch to 5 Kilometres! (C25K)
Week 1 of the C25K Programme completed and done :). Tara MacGowran (wife to English Number 1 Mickey Adams) recommended this while we were being wags while our boys were playing at the British. She told me that it takes you literally from no exercise to being able to run 5 kilometres in 9 weeks.. Since Ga…
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Mind Sports Olympiad
Mind Sports Olympiad started on the 20th until the 28th of August in Central London. They have everything to play – like poker, backgammon, scrabble – all boardability! Check it out if you are in London town.
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Galway Congress 2011
Gawain returns back to Ireland after winning in 2007. The Galway Chess Congress(there are many Irish Weekenders.. Bunratty, Ennis, Kilkenny..) starts on the Friday 3oth of September until Sunday 2nd of October with 6 games are played over 3 days. I unfortunately won’t be joining him or watching him while he drinks at the Pub.…
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Game of the Month
I am pleased to announce that GM Gawain Jones will be annotating his favourite game of the month every month for you readers starting the 1st of September. These games will be from a variety of tournaments some from the Elite “Super GM circuit” or just simply an entertaining game! IM Thomas Rendle will occasionally…
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Full English Breakfast: Episode 012
Latest episode from IM Lawrence Trent, GM Steven Gordon (who is taking over Adam Hunt’s teaching position!) and produced by Macauley Peterson. It’s the British Chess Championship Special. Below is the full (uncut) interview with Mickey Adams! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvnfwc7hZzw
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at prize giving 🙂
Prize giving has just started. gawain if you watched had a mammoth game of 144 moves and 8 hours!! After a night of relaxing in dheffield nightlife we were promptly kicked out around 2am! And off to sleep we went. promise to write a proper update soon, once we get a breather!
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British Chess Championship – Round 6
Ok.I apologise in advance but I’m typing this during a very bumpy taxi ride out into the countryside. Terry Chapman had kindly invited us to dinner at his hotel this evening along with a few other chess players. All participants won their games with the host Terry drawing with GM Aaron Summerscale – good luck…
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British Chess Championship – Round 5
CHESS: I think we can call today’s game a success. I returned to my beloved Dragon and Mickey played the positional 9.0-0-0. I tried 15…Be6!? which hasn’t been seen so much in over-the-board play but Timofeev did use it to beat the Kalmykian prodigy Sjugirov while a fair few Correspondence players have tried it. Mickey…
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British Chess Championship – Round 3
Yesterday Gawain drew with GM Stuart Conquest in an opening started out as 1Nf3 c5 2 c3. It was only 25 moves but don’t let that make you think it was a quick and easy draw. It was quite a complicated game and Gawain strayed a bit and was a pawn down in the final…
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British Chess Championship – Round 2
Gawain was in fine form today and his preparation worked well with a good advantage in the opening and managed to convert without too many problems. Something funny that happened is a finger fehler which I haven’t heard of before but it’s when your hand and brain don’t quite coordinate and your hands plays different…
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British Chess Championship – Round 1
Arrived safely at Sheffield and we’re about 5minutes walk away from the venue which is great. The first round started yesterday and the Top 4 managed to win 😉 – I mean, it is strange these accelerated pairings (Never can predict who you are playing) when the Top 4 are still playing after 5 and…
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British Championships
As I write this I’m on the train (First Class! Having such an organised manager to book all my tickets a long way in advance certainly helps) to Sheffield where the chess starts tomorrow. It’s a very strong British this year, much stronger than any I’ve ever played in before and perhaps the strongest ever.…
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Place your bets..
Ok – well if you know me, you would know that I’m not the kind of woman to bet and if you know my husband to be, you’d know that he’d bet on anything and everything (with my watchful eye hovering over him of course). Here’s Simon Williams interesting odds on who’s to win the…
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Rome & Corsica
Gawain the history buff will be back in Italy early September for the 1st edition of the Barclay’s International Tournament. Barclays is what I thought was an English bank but after a quick Wiki session I see that they are in over 50 countries! After that he’s booked to return back to Corsica where he reached the quarter…
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Simultaneous Exhbition
Gawain is back (YAY!) and has a pretty cool trophy which I can take a photo and upload later. Right now, we are in Lincoln, Lincolnshire for Gawain to do a simul which coincides with the Lincolnshire County Championship. There are 28 players playing and will take place from 4:30 pm and will run for approximately…
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Review: Bobby Fischer against the World
A while ago, Gawain and I went to see a preview of the new Bobby Fischer documentary “Bobby Fishcer against the World” in which we met fellow chess player GM Carlsen who Gawain had a quick fire interview with. Here below is Gawain’s review on the documentary which is having it’s London Premiere as we…