Author: Sue Maroroa
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2011 Commonwealth Champion
Gawain Jones aged 23 from Yorkshire, England is now the 2011 Commonwealth Chess Champion. He ended up with 9.5 points out of 11 alongside former World Contender OBE GM Nigel Short but had a better tie break and hence won Gold Medal with Nigel coming 2nd with Silver. The Commonwealth Championship was held in Gauteng,…
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Round 9
Gawain is playing defending Commonwealth Champion GM Laxman but sadly the games have gone down so I can’t see what is happening. I’m pleased to announce that Gawain has crossed that 2600 barrier mark after quite a long time (probably due to me and us living in New Zealand). Here’s England’s Top 100 players. Since…
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Round 7
Gawain had a flying start with 6/6 and facing the young and talented IM Sahaj Grover in the 7th round with the white pieces. Gawain’s position looked good but Sahaj defended well and the point was split. The next 2 boards were also drawn and now Gawain is leading with 6.5/7 with four rounds to…
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Lucca Finale
The start of the game against Efimov didn’t bode well for a decisive result. As black I countered 1.Nf3 with …e6 when he played 2.e4 and offered me a draw. Such a passive way of playing doesn’t make sense; granted I’m top seed but he’s got White and a GM himself, while a draw would…
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Round 5
You can watch the Round 5 games live here. There has been a few upsets but there are still 17 people on 4/4. Gawain this round is playing WGM Subbaraman Meenakshi from India. Pairings are available from Chess-Results. Gawain has now received a dongle (mobile broadband stick) but there was a problem with setting it up.…
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South Africa Open Blitz Champion
After a few days of safarying (and without internet or mobile access) Gawain is now back in Johanneburg playing in the Commonwealth Championship. He started off with an 100% score with 1/1 in the main draw and 9/9 in the blitz, including beating GM David Smerdon, IM Sahai Grover. The blitz was a marathon event…
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Photos and Update in Italiano..
Check out this link and check out the photos or read it if you speak italian (google translate helps me!). Gawain has arrived safely in South Africa and is on his way up to meet the organizer Grahame Jurgensen and other players including our friend GM David Smerdon at a Safari Park. Hopefully he has…
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Campione di scacchi (de Lucca)
Gawain’s currently on a plane back home to London. Inbetween the final round (which he drew) and going to the airport I managed to have a quick chat with him and he duly informed me that he won the tournament – not with an outright score but tied with 4 others on 4/5. In Italy…
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OPEN A – XXIII° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE “CITTA’ DI LUCCA”
Gawain is currently on 3/3 in the Lucca Open. I have topped up my dongle so now I’m able to use the web freely until we get internet all set up here. I can’t seem to find a site with results and the Lucca website seems to have been infested with malware. I have seen…
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Lucca
Gawain left earlier this morning to catch a flight back to Pisa, Italy where he’ll be playing in Lucca. Please bear with me for the time being as we’re in the process of moving (who knew we had so much stuff) so updates may be infrequent. Gawain has very busy schedule flying back Sunday evening…
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Bundesliga
I am pleased to announce that Gawain will be playing for SC 1950 Remagen in this coming season’s Bundesliga. Players who played for this team in previous seasons include GM Vassily Ivanchuk and GM Sergey Fedorchuk. The team is based in Remagen (hence the name) which is 30minutes drive south of Bonn. Gawain looks forward…
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2nd Big Slick International
2nd Big Slick International 25th June – 3rd July 2011 I am pleased to announce the 2nd Big Slick International will take place from the 25th June to the 3rd July at the following address: BIG SLICK, UNIT 10 ROYAL OAK CENTRE, BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, SURREY CR8 2BG Unlike the 1st event held in June…
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How to Beat the Sicilian
I’ve just received an email from the men from Everyman stating that How to beat the Sicilian had been sent to the wrong distributors (which has only ever happened once before in the last 10 years!) and will actually arrive in the correct warehouse on Monday, and be released on Tuesday. So if you haven’t…
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How to beat a 2700+…
With the Killer Dutch?? Here GM Simon Williams or GingerGM beat Radoslaw Wojtaszek (2721) ###pgn###1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.c4 d6 7.Qc2 a5 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.b3 e5 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.Rd1 Qe8 12.Nb5 Qh5 13.Nxc7 f4 14.Nxa8 Bc5 15.Rd5 Nb4 16.Rxe5 Nxc2 17.Rxh5 Nxh5 18.Rb1 fxg3 19.hxg3 Nxg3 20.Rb2 Bf5 0-1%%%pgn%%%…
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Video of Round 5
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB7cgcd-N9U Video of the critical round five clash between English Grandmaster Gawain Jones and Romanian Grandmaster Vlad Jianu. This complex game was full of drama and excitement as the advantage seem to go back and forth at various stages. In the end, a tense time scarmble saw Gawain Jones win a very entertaining and tense…
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Round 5
I just had a quick win against Peter Cafolla (rated 1976). It went down the a6 line of the Grand Prix, he lost a pawn and then another plus I had the dominating bishop pair!###pgn###[Event “Ennis Open”] [Site “?”] [Date “2011.05.??”] [Round “5”] [White “Maroroa, S.”] [Black “Cafolla, P.”] [Result “1-0”] [ECO “B23”] [WhiteElo “1999”]…