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Barclays International Round 1+2
Hello from Rome! As I type this we’ve played two rounds and about to head off for round three. The internet a bit slow so not sure if I’ll be able to post before the game but I’ll try. The weather here is very hot but the organisers have done their best with fans everywhere…
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Corsican Masters
Gawain will return to Corsica to participate in the Corsican Circuit from the 22nd until the 30th of October. Last year he reached the quarter finals where he unfortunately lost to the eventual winner, Shak Mamedyarov. I remember last year, we were confused about the format of the event but now we know how it’s played. There…
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Round 1
Gawain managed to drag our his winning position into a very long endgame and had to eat McDonalds for dinner! Today is a Monday so hopefully shops will be open and his game won’t last very long.. If you want to see the live games this is the best site http://raksy.dyndns.org/mato/vitinia/torneo1/turno2/webboard.swf although if you watch the next…
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Barclays International Chess Festival
Gawain left early this morning and he is now currently playing his 1st Round game against WIM Vesna Rozic is some kind of French. Live games are available to watch. The website is here and it should be updated in due course. Hope you enjoy the games 🙂
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Cymru(Wales): Part 1
Of we went, for a trip over the imaginary border to Wales. We had no real plans except to visit Caernarfon in North Wales. A lovely place to visit, even with grey weather and the Castle was amazing (be warned there is a lot of climbing). This is in fact an English Castle built to…
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World Cup and Botvinnik Memorial
Hello everyone. I’m off to Rome shortly, via Windsor to stay with the very hospitable Manuel + Brigitta before Manuel drives me to Heathrow for a very early flight. It should be an interesting tournament; with the new September rating list I’m actually top seed (alphabetically as Khenkin is also 2624) but with ten of…
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Game of the Month:September 2011
WHO: Galkin,Alexander(2598) – Kramnik,Vladimir(2781) Kramnik surely needs no introduction, known for his magnificent positional play, he reigned as World Champion from 2000-2007. Currently running at number 4 in the live ratings. Galkin – Born 1979, Won the 1999 World Junior championship. Not much is known about his life but I am lead to believe he’s more…
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RSS Feeder (and bits and pieces!)
Thanks to the request of one of our readers we have activated our RSS Feeder.. (though I think YOU have to subscribe..) and I don’t know too much about it. If you have any hints, let me know and hopefully I can make the website more user friendly. After a sojourn at the Grandparents in the Lancashire…
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Couch to 5 Kilometres! (C25K)
Week 1 of the C25K Programme completed and done :). Tara MacGowran (wife to English Number 1 Mickey Adams) recommended this while we were being wags while our boys were playing at the British. She told me that it takes you literally from no exercise to being able to run 5 kilometres in 9 weeks.. Since Ga…
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Mind Sports Olympiad
Mind Sports Olympiad started on the 20th until the 28th of August in Central London. They have everything to play – like poker, backgammon, scrabble – all boardability! Check it out if you are in London town.
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Galway Congress 2011
Gawain returns back to Ireland after winning in 2007. The Galway Chess Congress(there are many Irish Weekenders.. Bunratty, Ennis, Kilkenny..) starts on the Friday 3oth of September until Sunday 2nd of October with 6 games are played over 3 days. I unfortunately won’t be joining him or watching him while he drinks at the Pub.…
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Game of the Month
I am pleased to announce that GM Gawain Jones will be annotating his favourite game of the month every month for you readers starting the 1st of September. These games will be from a variety of tournaments some from the Elite “Super GM circuit” or just simply an entertaining game! IM Thomas Rendle will occasionally…
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Full English Breakfast: Episode 012
Latest episode from IM Lawrence Trent, GM Steven Gordon (who is taking over Adam Hunt’s teaching position!) and produced by Macauley Peterson. It’s the British Chess Championship Special. Below is the full (uncut) interview with Mickey Adams! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvnfwc7hZzw
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British Championships – best game contenders!
As promised, here is a shortlist of interesting games from the Championships. This list isn’t anything like comprehensive, I didn’t see all the games and don’t mean to offend anyone who isn’t here and who felt they played a fantastic game; I probably just didn’t see it! This is just a personal snippet of the…
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British Chess Championship – Final words
Well it’s been a week and so I decided it was time for a write-up about the British Championships overall. Before I get into too much depth on that I should say a few words about my last round. I realised that there was a possibility that there was no difference in the tournament standings…
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at prize giving 🙂
Prize giving has just started. gawain if you watched had a mammoth game of 144 moves and 8 hours!! After a night of relaxing in dheffield nightlife we were promptly kicked out around 2am! And off to sleep we went. promise to write a proper update soon, once we get a breather!
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