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What’s new in the Eurozone? See here … - from Gerry Jepps 155 players entered and winners were: Open Read on — Frome Chess Congress May 11-13 The event was held at Bootham Junior School on 13th May and results were as follows:- Year 9 and under Read on — School Chess Championships in York Congratulations to Grandmaster Alex Cherniaev and FM Peter Sowray on winning the FIDE rated Golders Green Rapidplay chess tournament this weekend! FM John Richardson and Tom Villiers were third. Imanol Segura won the FIDE rated Major Under 170, Charlie Nettleton won the Minor Under 145 and Walter Thorpe the Amateur Under 120. 91 played, and the FIDE rated sections had a record 50 players between them! Read on — Golders Green Rapidplay, 12 May 2012 [original article/photo: Newcastle Journal - http://www.journallive.co.uk/ (http://www NULL.journallive NULL.co NULL.uk/)]
Zheming is just one of 100 pupils from Royal Grammar School in Newcastle who attend the weekly chess club, run by Paul Bielby. Mr Bielby, a retired teacher who has also competed at national level, said: “Zheming is quite an exceptional chess player. He is already the best junior player of his age in the country by quite some margin. He won the under-8s British Junior Championship and the under-9s, and he recently competed at a trial in Liverpool which he won quite comfortably.” Read on — Zheming Zhang in the Newcastle Journal The Lady Herbert Trophy for the 2011-12 British Ladies Correspondence Chess Championship has been retained by Toni Halliwell of Keighley on 3½/4 from Valerie Craven of Leeds (2½) and Stephanie Lawrence of Cheslyn Hay (0). Toni also took on the men in the Candidates section of the British Correspondence Chess Championships, finishing 4= out of 13 with 7½/12. She has also scored 4½/7 so far in the Ladies World Correspondence Chess Championship semi-final. Valerie Craven and Catherine Hiley of Rugeley have already entered for the 2012-13 BLCCC. Entries should reach the tournament director, Keith Escott at 43 Orchard Road, Erdington, Birmingham B24 9JB by the closing date of 30th September 2012 (Entry fee £7. Please make cheques payable to British Federation for Correspondence Chess). Candidate sections will be organised if entries permit. Play is by post unless both players agree to play by email, which is the most popular method nowadays. Any woman or girl resident in the British Isles except the Irish Republic can enter. - Keith Escott 5-7 May 2012 Hinckley Island – report from Lawrence Cooper The final weekend of the 2011-12 season was hosted by the Barcelo Hotel, Hinckley Island who provided good playing conditions and accommodation. For an excellent suite of photographs from this event by Dr John Upham, click here (http://johnupham NULL.smugmug NULL.com/chess) Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher 1 powered to the Division One Championship Pool title finishing with maximum points and five points clear of second place. Round 9 saw them demolish Jutes of Kent 7.5-0.5, Cheddleton only managed one game point in round 10 whilst Barbican managed a creditable five draws in round eleven but wins for Michael Adams, Nick Pert (who scored 8/9 overall) and Pia Cramling ensured their one hundred per cent record was maintained. Luke McShane, David Howell and Jonathan Rowson were among the many other grandmasters that contributed to the team’s success. Read on — 4NCL 2011-2012 final weekend 8th World School Individual Chess Championship Iasi, Romania 28 April – 6 May Read on — International Round-Up — from Lawrence Cooper |
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