Category: Updates
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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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Return to Lucca (Part 1&2)
On Thursday morning I left rainy England from London Stansted and a couple hours later arrived in a roasting Pisa. An old friend of mine, Luca Bernardini, met me at the airport and kindly drove me what should be only 30km or so to Lucca. Unfortunately, whilst trying to avoid the centre of Pisa he…
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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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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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A Classical Trip
Hello again everybody. On June 1st I headed off to Greece to do some work and only got back yesterday evening. It was hard work but enjoyable and hopefully it’ll come in handy. I only got out a couple of times but I managed to see a few sights. Shortly after arriving we went…
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Chesspublishing
I’m sad to announce that the June update will be my last 1.e4… until at least February 2012. I hope all subscribers have enjoyed my column as I throughly enjoyed annotating the games. The reason behind my depatures is my need to focus on my own chess (novelties, playing e.t.c) and unfortunately Chesspub is just too time…
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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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Gelfand victorious in Kazan!
In my last write up I left the Candidates Matches with two Classical games to go and my forecast was rather bleak for entertainment value. Out of the 28 games played at a normal time control there had been 26 draws and just 2 wins (both with Black!). Recently Silvio Danailov, the current ECU President…
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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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Candidate Matches – Final!
A lot has happened since I wrote about the Candidates matches. I was right that Aronian and Kramnik were the favourites but that doesn’t mean they were guaranteed to progress. Kramnik duly survived scraping through the blitz although Radjabov can count himself unlucky as after going one up in the rapids it looked he was…
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Ennis Open: A success
Sue has already recounted the games step by step but I’ll do a quick roundup of the whole event. We arrived on Thursday lunchtime and were picked up from the airport by Gerry Casey who was also our host for the weekend. We spent the afternoon walking round Ennis, me occasionally remembering the directions and…
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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”]…
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Round 2,3,4
Hello, Well yesterday was a tough day! 3 games in a roll and then of course a few pints after (and perhaps during the game) meant a late evening. The day got of shaky for Ga, who managed to convert 3 drawing positions plus a slightly worse endgame into wins so he is on 4/4.…
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Round 1, Ennis Open.
Last night, Gawain was paired with Gabriel Mirza rated 1514. Gabriel played a very offbeat opening in which he was very cramped. Gawain grabbed space, broke through, won material and the game. I on the other hand was playing on Board 6 (to my surprise) and had the white pieces against Barry Foran rated 1466.…
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Alternate Move Simultaneous Exhibition,Ennis
Made it safe to Ireland, with the Queen’s visit(the first Monarch in over 100 years) to Ireland we didn’t think anything would happen and we’re okay :). We’re back in (one of) Gawain’s hometown, Ennis in Ireland. He lived here during his high school years at sat his Leaving Certificiate(A levels,IB,NCEA Level 3) here before…