-
2nd Big Slick International
2nd Big Slick International 25th June – 3rd July 2011 I am pleased to announce the 2nd Big Slick International will take place from the 25th June to the 3rd July at the following address: BIG SLICK, UNIT 10 ROYAL OAK CENTRE, BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, SURREY CR8 2BG Unlike the 1st event held in June…
-
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…
-
How to beat a 2700+…
With the Killer Dutch?? Here GM Simon Williams or GingerGM beat Radoslaw Wojtaszek (2721) ###pgn###1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.c4 d6 7.Qc2 a5 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.b3 e5 10.dxe5 dxe5 11.Rd1 Qe8 12.Nb5 Qh5 13.Nxc7 f4 14.Nxa8 Bc5 15.Rd5 Nb4 16.Rxe5 Nxc2 17.Rxh5 Nxh5 18.Rb1 fxg3 19.hxg3 Nxg3 20.Rb2 Bf5 0-1%%%pgn%%%…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Round 5 Ennis GAME
Here is the annotated Game between Gawain and GM Vlad Jianu – Hopefully we will be able to upload the video of their endgame in the next week! Press the speech bubble to see the annotation. I noticed that Vlad was exclusively a Dragon player (and always played this rather odd …Qc7) so I decided…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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”]…
-
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.…
-
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.…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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.…
Got any book recommendations?