Category: Updates
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Back Cover!
Here’s a view of the back cover. I’ve confirmation the book is out and available in the US but not quite yet in the UK.. fingers crossed it’ll be out soon and we can see what the readers think! We’re off to Ennis, Ireland tomorrow. Here is more info about the simul from –http://ennischessclub.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/gm-jones-simultaneous-o-keeffes-pub-19th-january As…
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How to Beat the Sicilian Defence: An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White
Hi All, I believe Gawain’s new book is available to buy right now! Here’s the link to the amazon page so you can check out what’s inside and trust me it’s a great book to buy!(Not that I’m biased or anything). See this win against Top Moldovian player GM Victor Bologan from the 2011 European…
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Candidates Matches Topalov and Mamedyarov out!
Hello again to you all. First of all just letting you know that the poll that Sue wrote about in the below post was pulled as the voting went haywire – there were no controls on who was allowed to vote; only one vote per i.p. address and so it was unlikely to reflect public…
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ECF Player of the Year Award
It’s time again to vote for the English Chess Federation Player of the Year. I see there is an online poll currently lead by Yang Fan Zhou with 31.27% of the Vote. I don’t believe this vote is accurate – just perhaps a vote to see public opinion as only ECF members have a vote.…
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May 2011 Rating List
GM Matthew Sadler pops into 4th by playing a few games in the Dutch League. I believe he is also making a long play tournament comeback by playing in the Oslo International. Gawain is still yoyoing having gained 17.5 on the last list but 4NCL will be rated on the next list and at the…
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Pride and Prejudice, Winners of the Four Nation Chess League
The final round of the 4NCl was a close match between the top 2 seeds Pride and Prejudice and Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher. Whilst watching the game, the wags and our spare GM Chris Ward (over) analysed each board and all sorts of variation. A combination of nerves and uncertainty was felt but our feelings were quickly…
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4ncl: Round 9 and 10
Gawain as semi predicted played IM Richard Palliser (yes- the organizer from the York Simul) and although the game looked shaky, Gawain prevailed to take the full point. Pride and Prejudice beat White Rose 7-1 with 2 draw including my fellow Kiwi FM Nic Croad(White Rose) drawing with GM Glenn Flear(P&P). Yesterday the team played…
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York Simul and 4NCL Final Weekend
Gawain played 32 people and finished with 2 loses, 9 draws and the rest wins! This was a tough field considering they were all club players and roughly around 1900 (ELO) strength! The weather has been lovely over Summer and that day in York was no different. Gawain is originally from Yorkshire and is proud…
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London League versus Kings Head
In the lovely weather, Gawain decided to walk over for his London League game on the 27th of April against Kings Head. He was a bit sore all over due to us visiting our friends FM Manuel Weeks and his lovely girlfriend Brigitta Holland as well as GM Stuart Conquest the day before where we…
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Norwegian Open – The Finale
Round 8 I played White against the solid and well prepared Michael Richter. I’d looked him up and seen he had recently gained a lot of rating points and was now closing in on the GM title so I knew the game would be tough. I decided to surprise his French with 3.Nc3 (rather than…
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Norwegian Open – Round Seven Black vs Leif
Not much to say about today’s game really. Black against Leif Johannessen a Norwegian GM, he surprised me in the opening playing the Four Pawns Attack against my Kings Indian playing in a positional style with capturing on c5. Actually I played a move order that I thought prevented this but couldn’t remember my analysis…
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Norwegian Open Rounds 5+6
Apologies for no update yesterday, I found myself snowed under with work (checking the English for the ChessVibes Openings (check www.chessvibes.com) and then I had a deadline for ChessBase to annotate a couple of games from the European Championships. I eventually finished the work at 2.30am! Round Five I was paired with the scarily improving…
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Norwegian Open – Rounds Three and Four
Today was a double round day so up and early for a 9am start. I was paired against another Norwegian 2100, Victor Hansen. After a rather offbeat opening (1.Nf3 d6 2.c4 e5 3.d3 f5) I equalised comfortably and could have taken the advantage before things again started going wrong. I set up this tactic (cheapo)…
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Norwegian Open – The Arrival Round 1&2
We ended up home around 2.30am from the simul at the RAC club. Luckily Sue had thought ahead (as always) and packed for me so I could curl up and get a quick couple hours sleep before getting up at 4.30 to start my trek over to Norway. Actually the trip was quite painless (except for…
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RAC Simul
Yesterday the RAC Simul took place, Gawain along with the other Grandmasters each followed a format of playing 3 teams (one after the after) each with 10 Boards. Ga was paired with quite a tough pairing ECF Junior Select (9.5) Oxford/Cambridge Varsity (9) and RAC 1 (8.5) with a total score of 27 and no…
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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…