Gawain Jones

Author: Sue Maroroa

  • British Chess Championship 2012

    I’m glad to confirm, Gawain’s participating at the British this year. The Championships are being held in Sheffield from the 24th of July until the 6th of August. More details here.

  • Round 8,9,10 and 11

    The rest day was inbetween Round 7 & 8. We played tennis with Terry Chapman and Matthew Webb (a fellow Yorkshireman). After playing a few hours of tennis we ran to the Grand Port for an afternoon boat tour on the lake. We noticed that the Circus was in town and not having been for…

  • Last night in Aix les bains

    I’m just about to have a nap before our 6am bus to Geneva. I’m sorry for not writing up but I’ve been caught up with different things (namely 1 minute on ICC – I’ve reached over 2000 without a mouse) but I will write up a full report once back. Just on a quick note,…

  • Round 6 & 7

    Round 6 consisted of the win against Bologan. That evening we had a lovely dinner with our friends Fiona & Vlad and perhaps too much limoncello and giggles! We got back quite late (2am) and the next day Ga had to play GM Korobov on the stage. Unfortunately, he went into a worse endgame(maybe even…

  • Okay,New favourite game 🙂

    I guess I spoke too early when I asked Ga to let me know his favourite game. He was pleased with his first round result but it doesn’t quite compare to this Round 6 win against GM Viktor Bologan. Utilizing his book (How to beat the Sicilian) Gawain deployed his pieces to create a bind…

  • Gawain’s fave game (so far)

    This is Ga’s Round 1 game against the Albanian Sahitaj. We noticed a few rounds back that his rating had increase for Round 2 to be 2235! A first for Gawain. ###pgn###[Event “12th European Invidividual Championship”] [Site “Aix-les-Bains FRA”] [Date “2011.03.22”] [EventDate “2011.03.22”] [Round “1.104”] [Result “0-1”] [White “Naim Sahitaj”] [Black “Gawain Jones”] [ECO “E60”]…

  • Dessert

    This is such a yummy pear tart – with caramelized noisettes and lovely pastry ! C’est la meilleure!

  • Round 5

    Mamedov played a sideline of the Sicilian, Ga equalised and offers a draw then played an inaccuracy and although Mamedov was pressing, Gawain held the position then claimed three fold repetition and the his opponent proceeded to storm off! Under a bit of pressure but held 🙂 The people in this town again are very kind and always helpful.…

  • Round 3&4

    Round 3 meant Gawain was playing on the stage but the playing conditions there aren’t so great – cramped and if you wanted to go toilet you had to walk up 4 flights of stairs to and you would come across a smelly bathroom. Gawain’s game against Iordachescu unfortunately ended in a lost – Ga felt…

  • Round 2

    Gawain has made it to Board 13 so we are rewarded with a look at his game here. He is playing GM ViorelIordachescu today after managing to beat his fellow Englishman Terry Chapman yesterday. Allez Gawain!

  • Non players not allowed to watch Boards 20-100..

    So I just dropped into one of the two venues (Centre des Congrès(top 100 boards play in 3 different rooms) as well as the Casino Grand Cercle) to see Gawain’s game but I was prompty kicked out by one of the arbiters. Yesterday, I was free to roam into his playing hall (with many other spectators)…

  • Round 1 Sahitaj vs Jones 0-1

    Naim Sahitaj was Ga’s 1st round opponent who at the moment has no rating on the FIDE list. Where did they get a rating of 2193 from especially who had a rating of 1562 just a year ago! A young junior you may think but that’s not the case here. Mr Sahitaj is from Albania,…

  • Aix-les-bains, France – European Individual Chess Championship 2011

    After a hectic journey from London to Aix les bains including the Northern liane having severe delays, the plane coming was late as well as a uneven passenger count and just catching the bus from Geneva Airport, we made it last night around 7pm. Eating some dinner was at the top of our list but…

  • London Town

    Back home after the 13 hour trip consisting of walk, bus, taxi, ferry, train, train, train, tube and walk.  I have a few days here before departing to Iceland for the MP Reykjavik Open 2011.  I see already, players arriving to play in the Icelandic League with some results here but I’ll leave it up…

  • 4NCL Round 5&6- Wokefield Park

    Pride and Prejudice played Pandora’s Box Grantham whose players had an average rating of 2159. Kev McCarthy our good friend is their team captain and the team have yet to win a match. Last weekend they lost 8-0 to our Round 6 opponents: Barbican 1. The team felt we should also achieve a similar feat…

  • London League – Athenaeum vs. Ilford

    Athenaeum played Ilford last Wednesday at home and proceeded to win 9-2. Gawain beat FM Rafe Martyn with the black pieces in a Old India (I’m not sure what this is). Next up is 4NCL before heading to Ireland for Bunratty and a visit to Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. By the way check out the latest…