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Friday 10 August, 2007 9:45 AM
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CHESS NEWS • News Archive: 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007BCM Blog Latest: "Traffic Jam in Great Yarmouth" (10 August): http://bcmchess.blogspot.com/ • editor British Championships, 30 July - 10 August [09/08/07]
5th Staunton Memorial, Simpsons, London, 7-18 August [09/08/07]
• View/download
games (rounds 1-3) thanks to Ray Keene and Steve Giddins Congratulations, Mickey and Tara! [08/08/07]Tucked away in a page on the Staunton Memorial tournament's website, comes the news that Britain's no.1 chessplayer Mickey Adams has married his long-time girlfriend Tara MacGowran at a ceremony in Taunton on 4 August. Congratulations to both of them. His honeymoon will be spent playing chess in the Staunton tournament (see here). BBC Quiz Show: Call for Entrants [03/08/07]
Liverpool 800th Anniversary Summit Match: UK v China, 4-9 Sept [30/07/07]
16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International, 22-30 September 2007 [27/07/07]
Haslinger Scores Final GM Norm*, South Wales International, 7-12 July [20/07/07]The 4th South Wales International took place at Caerleon College, near
Newport in Gwent, Wales, from 7-12 July. Four GMs - M Dzhumaev (UZB, 2500g),
V Dobrov (RUS, 2504g), M Pavlovic (SRB, 2541g), P Wells (ENG, 2517g) -
did battle with IM Stewart Haslinger, James Cobb, Charles Cobb, etc. Final
Scores: 1st M Dzhumaev (UZB) 8/9 (£1,000), 2nd S Haslinger
(ENG) 7½ (£600), 3rd P Wells (ENG) 7 (£300). Haslinger
beat GM Dobrov in the last round to gain his final GM norm. *But I am
reliably informed that he is still ten points short of the rating threshold
(which is 2500) so he needs a good run of form to get him over the line.
Richard Jones and Ioan Rees won the prize for the highest-placed Welsh
players with 6 points. Official website: http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/home.html
- the games are now available (my thanks to Jack Rudd) • View/download
games • Thanks to Mark Adams. Scottish Championships 7-15 July [19/07/07]The 114th Scottish Championships are being held in Cumbernauld from 7-15
July. The championship itself is being held as a ten-player all-play-all,
with only three players rated above 2250.
Official Website (which has the games in text format). Final
Scores : 1st Andrew Muir 8/9 (his first Scottish title), 2-3 Alan
Grant, Colin McNab 7, 4 Douglas Bryson 6½, etc. View/download
games Middlesex vs Young England, 9-13 & 16-19 July [19/07/07]A group of nine young English players is taking on a strong Middlesex
side in a nine-round Scheveningen format tournament (each of nine players
on each team players each member of the other team once). The tournament
is being sponsored by Edexcel, Popularis and the John Robinson Trust.
The Middlesex team includes GMs Bogdan Lalic and Aaron Summerscale and
IMs Cox and Crouch. Latest: Middlesex lead 40½-31½
with one of the nine rounds to go. This event is being held in celebration
of Middlesex County Chess Association's centenary. Tournament coverage
and games are available here.
I would like to tell you the venue of the match but it appears to be
a closely-guarded secret, unmentioned in any press releases and reports
that I have seen other than a general reference to the Strand. Irish Open Championship, 30 Jun - 8 Jul [13/07/07]This year's Irish Championship, sponsored by Island Oil & Gas and
held at the Royal Dublin Hotel, O'Connell Street, Dublin, from 30 June
to 8 July, was held as an open swiss of nine rounds for the first time.
Thus non-Irish players were able to compete with the locals for the money
prizes while only Irish-registered players were eligible to win the Irish
Championship title. Four foreign grandmasters competed: Eduardas Rozentalis
(LTU) and Mark Hebden, Stuart Conquest and Nick Pert (all ENG). BCM for July [06/07/07]
Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup [06/07/07]The Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup (http://worldcup.pivdenny.com/ru/)
takes place in Odessa, Ukraine, from 4-6 July. Ten leading players (including
five 2700+ super-GMs) meet in an all-play-all rapidplay event, with three
games played per day (time control: 20 mins + 10 second increments. The
tournament was being dominated by the two 'Chuks... Grischuk had a perfect
day 1 (3/3, including a win over Ivanchuk), but Ivanchuk equalled his
achievement with a perfect 3/3 on day 2. Final Scores: 1 Ivanchuk
7/9, 2 Grischuk 6½, 3-4 Radjabov, Shirov 4½, 5 Gelfand 5,
6 Drozdovskij 4, 7 Bacrot 3½, 8 Korchnoi 3, 9-10 Smirin, Tukmakov
2½ • View/download
games Internet Chess Club Features [04/07/07] The Internet
Chess Club, in conjunction with Chess Tigers, organizers of the Mainz
Chess Classic in Germany, are offering a unique chance to play in a free
online qualifier to win a round trip ticket, 600 Euro ($811) cash, hotel
room and breakfast at the Hilton Mainz Hotel from 15-20 August (5 nights
and 6 days!). The winner also receive an automatic seat into two of the
biggest and most prestigious series of rapid chess tournaments in the
world, playing alongside many of the game's top grandmasters: the 6th
FiNet Open, the world's biggest Chess960 (FischerRandom) tournaments,
and the 14th ORDIX Open, one of the biggest and strongest rapid tournaments
in the world. While there, you will also have the best seats in the house
for the main evening attraction of two intriguing 6-game matches: Anand
vs. Kasimdzhanov for the Grenkeleasing World Rapid Championship, and Levon
Aronian vs. Etienne Bacrot, for the FiNet Chess960 World Rapid Championship.
To win, you will need to play in a series of Chess960 ICC online qualifiers
from 7-12 July, with the final 32-player KO running 14-15 July - further
details here. This event is only open to ICC members and for those
who sign up NOW for a free trial membership of the ICC - details
here. Hastings Chess Club Celebrates its 125th Anniversary [30/06/07]
Dortmund, 23 June - 1 July [01/07/07]The Dortmund Sparkassen tournament is a hugely strong (category event)
featuring eight elite players: Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand, Shak Mamedyarov,
Peter Leko, Boris Gelfand, Magnus Carlsen, Evgeny Alabekseev and Arkady
Naiditsch. Play starts at 2pm GMT. Follow the action online via the official
website, http://www.playchess.com/
(where Yasser Seirawan provides commentary: it costs about 1 euro a day)
and the Internet
Chess Club (where there is also live audio commentary). Aerosvit-Foros, 17-30 June [30/06/07]This impressive tournament in Crimea, Ukraine, features 12 GMs with an
average rating of 2693: Peter Svidler, Vasyl Ivanchuk, Dmitry Jakovenko,
Alexei Shirov, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, Krishnan Sasikiran, Pavel Elyanov,
Sergey Karyakin, Sergey Rublevsky, Lenier Dominguez, Loek Van Wely and
Alexander Onischuk. Follow the action online via the official
website and the Internet
Chess Club FIDE World Championship Tournament, Mexico, 13-29 Sept [13/06/07]This year, as in 2005, the World Chess Federation (FIDE) is holding a
tournament to decide the world championship. Hopefully this will be the
last time they employ this unsatisfactory format to decide the supreme
title. The tournament will be held in Mexico City from 13-29 September
2007, with tie-breaks (what a horrible thought) on 30 September. The tournament
format is double-cycle all-play-all (i.e. each player plays all the others
once with White and once with Black). The eight-player line-up: Vladimir
Kramnik (RUS, reigning world champion); Viswanathan Anand (IND, world
rated no.1); Alexander Morozevich (RUS); Levon Aronian (ARM); Peter Leko
(HUN); Peter Svidler (RUS); Boris Gelfand (ISR); Alexander Grischuk (RUS).
Prize fund: $1.3 million. Official website: http://www.chessmexico.com/.
FIDE World Championship Candidates, Elista, 27 May - 13 June [13/06/07]
† Lady Thelma Milner-Barry (1921-2007) [05/06/07]Lady Thelma Milner-Barry, widow of the renowned British chessplayer and
wartime cryptanalyst Sir Stuart Milner-Barry (1906-1995), sadly died on
2 June 2007, aged 85 (born 10 August 1921). More... FIDE vs Short [09/05/07]Following the report that FIDE intends to summon Nigel Short before the
FIDE Ethics Commission regarding comments he is alleged to have made about
the activities of FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos and FIDE
VP Zurab Azmaiparashvili, the English
Chess Federation has responded with a strongly-worded reply and prospective
counter-charge against Makropoulos and Azmaiparashvili. ECF
letter to FIDE • Malcolm
Pein's Telegraph report • BCM
Blog Britbase Bonanza [24/04/07]It's a good day to replenish your chess database with games old and new.
Either click here for the main Britbase
page, or click on the following links. We've got the games from the recent
Welsh Championships, the Southend Easter Open and then, going back in
time, the 1st Lloyds Bank Masters tournament from 1977 and, even further,
the 7th Islington Open in 1971. My thanks to everyone involved in keying
the games and making them available • Welsh
Championship 2007 • Southend
Open 2007 • Lloyds
Bank Masters 1977 • Islington
1971 Susan Polgar on UK TV [16/04/07]UK readers: look out for former women's world champion Susan Polgar on
British TV on Tuesday night. She appears on the science news programme
'Horizon' on BBC2 at 9pm (Tuesday 17 April). The programme investigates
ways of measuring intelligence and puts seven high fliers in their fields
to various tests of intelligence. It will be interesting to see how she
fares in competition with a musical prodigy, a quantum physicist, an artist,
a dramatist, an RAF fighter pilot and a Wall Street trader • Susan
Polgar blog • BBC
Horizon website Easter Congresses [15/04/07] Round-up of the Easter Congress action - more...
Anand Charity Online Simul [13/04/07]The Indian chess superstar gave an online simul on ICC on Saturday 21
April more... 31st Blackpool Congress, 16-18 March [11/04/07]The Blackpool Congress took place over the weekend of 16-18 March and
was won by the Norwegian player Harald Borchgrevink with 4½/5 ...
more ... Coulsdon Easter Internationals, 31 Mar - 4 Apr [08/04/07]Two ten-player all-play-alls were held at the Coulsdon Chess Fellowship
in the five days preceding Easter. ... more... Liverpool 2007: 800th Anniversary Match [13/03/07]The city of Liverpool is going to celebrate its 800th year of existence
with a highly prestigious summit chess match over six rounds from 4-9
September 2007... more ... Varsity Match, Oxford vs Cambridge, 10 March [11/03/07]The 125th annual Varsity Match, the world's oldest regular chess fixture,
sponsored by Vantis and Henry Mutkin, took place at the RAC Club, Pall
Mall, London, on 10 March. Oxford University, led by super-GM Luke McShane
and Ukrainian WIM Olena Boytsun were widely expected to beat Cambridge,
who has only one player with a 2200+ rating, but it was the Light Blues
who pulled off a surprise win ... more
... BCM Blog Has Moved [13/02/07]Note that the BCM Editor's blog has moved to http://bcmchess.blogspot.com/
- it has just been updated with a slightly naughty story entitled 'No
Draws in Pasadena'. Britbase is 10 years old... [10/02/07]
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The British Chess Championships are being held at Great Yarmouth College in Norfolk this year and as usual the main tournament is an 11-round swiss event, starting 30 July and finishing 10 August, with a rest day next Sunday. The 
The Staunton Memorial tournament, once again hosted by Simpsons in the Strand, has a strong line-up again this year.
The BBC called up the BCM to ask if we would run a trailer for an upcoming quiz show. Well, as old-timers in the media, we always like to help out promising young media companies. And it sounds like it could be right up the street of chessplayers, with our much-vaunted memory power and strong track record in TV quizzes... so here is that plug:
Click on the above link for details of a superb chess event in Liverpool in September: a match between 'Team UK' and 'Team China' at the prestigious St George's Hall in Liverpool. Each team will consist of eight players, and a specially adapted six-round Scheveningen format is being used for this six-day competition. Six leading players will play against the leading six players of the other team, and two further leading women players will play each of their opposite numbers three times each. The two teams announced are:
Another current feature at the Internet Chess
Club... for the next seven days you can hear the latest 'John Watson on
Books' interview on 
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qualified players travelled to Elista, Kalmykia, to compete for four places
in the FIDE World Championship tournament in Mexico City later in the
year. The round one pairings were Aronian (ARM) vs Carlsen (NOR), Adams
(ENG) vs Shirov (ESP); Ponomariov (UKR) vs Rublevsky (RUS), Grischuk (RUS)
vs Malakhov (RUS); Leko (HUN) vs M Gurevich (TUR), J Polgar (HUN) vs Bareev
(RUS); Gelfand (ISR) vs Kasimjanov (UZB); Bacrot (FRA) vs Kamsky (USA).
