Category: Updates
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Roadtrip… Wellington to Queenstown.
Day 1: Fly Auckland to Wellington We were greeted by our good friends Bill and Maria who will put us up and feed us. There is lots of Kapiti Ice-cream in the house for me.. (P.s I love ice-cream) Day 2: Wellington to Christchurch via Picton on the ferry We stopped at the Store (http://www.the-store.co.nz/)…
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Bye bye New Zealand…
Hi all, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. If we have any Chinese readers Xin Nian Kuai Le( it won’t show the characters!)Now that we are getting married, I don’t receive any ang pau anymore 🙁 and now will have to give but oh well. I’m in…
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A quick note from the IPad
Having received the iPad as a Christmas present I have now taken to my new toy. It is very gadgety and highly addictive. The pros are that it is easy to use especially when you are travelling and the batlay lasts an amazing long time. There are some cons that come with the device such…
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Back in New Zealand!
Hello again everybody. After a few days in Malaysia eating delicious noodles and pork buns, we arrived into New Zealand very early Wednesday morning. A day spent with Andrew, Sue’s brother in the Sylvia Park shopping mall and some Burger Fuel before Sue and I flew to Wellington for the start of our roadtrip down…
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Game of the Month January 2012
Welcome to this year’s first GOTM! This was a tricky one to choose as so many tournaments are being played currently. I was also not very up to date as had not been online for ten days or so over Christmas. However I found the following very interesting. Before we move on to the game…
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Happy New Year and Top 100!
We would like to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year for 2012. It will be a very busy year for us as we plan on getting married. I’m pleased to announce that Gawain has cracked the Top 100 list for the first time. You can check out the January 2012 Top 100…
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European Blitz and Rapid Championships
After a couple days off desperately writing my Chesspublishing update and annotating a couple of games for Chessbase I headed to Warsaw for the annual European Blitz and Rapid Championships. This year David Howell, Loz Cooper and Malcolm Armstrong also played which made it more of a social event than last year. The trip started…
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Game of the Month (just squeezing into December!)
Hi guys, As I wrote earlier I forgot to do the Game at the start of the month but here’s my game against Slavin as promised. I finished it a couple of days ago but was waiting for Sue to fix the pgn problem. I hope you enjoy and an update about the European Blitz…
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The London Classic – A delayed posting
UPDATE: Sue figured out the problem and now we have a pgn viewer back. I’d be in a lot of trouble without her! EDIT: At the moment I can’t get any of my pgn viewers to work so I’ll have to wait for my admin (Sue) to get back from work. Please bear with me!…
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European Individual Blitz and Rapidplay
Gawain left for Poland and this time there were a few English players also participating! The live games seem very touch and go and the pairings aren’t always updated first thing but you can try and check out the website for the latest information. Last year, I recalled there was a feature of a GM…
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Need more time!
Dear Readers, I would like to sincerely apologize for the delay in an update and also for the lack of a GOTM! We both totally forgot! Now of course, Ga is playing in the London Chess Classic FIDE Open so won’t be able to analyse until the tournament is over. After that he’ll be off to Poland…
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Kilkenny Masters
(I wrote this offline and hadn’t seen Sue’s upload of Gerry’s repeat. Hence I repeat some of the same things but hopefully you’ll be interested in my perspective.) This weekend I had a quick trip across over to Ireland to play the Kilkenny Masters. The Kilkenny tournament has now been running for 35 years and…
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Kilkenny Congress by Gerry Graham
Kilkenny Congress by Gerry Graham (November 2011) The annual Kilkenny Chess Congress took place over the weekend of November 25th to 27th in the two venues of The Club House Hotel and Butler House, in the heart of Kilkenny city. This year it attracted it’s largest turnout in many a year, a total of 205 players…
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Kilkenny and Reykjavik Open 2012
Gawain has headed over the Irish Sea via plane this time to play the Kilkenny Masters held in Kilkenny, Ireland. This year’s event included more or less the same players from the 2010 Kilkenny Masters with players such as Ivan Cheparinov, Sebastian Maze and Mark Hebden. Hopefully we’ll be able to check out the live games if…
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British Rapidplay Champion!
After the mad dash following the European Championships and then 4ncl, I took it fairly easy. I made my debut for Wood Green in the London League on Wednesday, defeating Tiruchirapalli Venkataraman in a long battle that went down to mutual time trouble. The team didn’t have as much trouble and we’re currently 11-0 up…
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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…