16th January 2012
The 4NCL Second Weekend by John Carleton
The weekend of 14th-15th
January saw the return to Hinckley Island, a
venue with warm memories for us for it was here
that we clinched promotion to Division 2.
Despite our setbacks of the first weekend we headed into
play in buoyant mood and the revival of those pleasant memories when we saw
Bradford, who pipped us on tie break [points scored] receive the Division 3
Championship trophy at the start of play of round 3 of the current campaign
did no harm to our mood. [More]
4th
Jan 2012
Spirit of Atticus in Chester/ Spirit of Chester
by John Carleton
Over the Summer 2011 we decided that we should be playing
more chess and looked at some alternatives. Should we form a new club?
Should we join an existing club that would take the five or six of us
available? Once we decided against the first option [plenty of time for that
when we start to get old] and a serious attempt at joining a Merseyside club
fell by the wayside, I decided to take up an offer to play for Chester Chess
Club in the Chester and District Chess League. [Read
more]
4th
Jan 2012
Hastings Congress 2011-12
Favourite Wang Yue led throughout and won with 7½/9 half
a point clear of Andrei Istratescu, Babu Lalith, M.R.Sundar M.Shyam,
The Hastings Masters is a traditional nine round
accelerated Swiss tournament which took place 28th December 2011 - January
5th 2012. . Other events included a Christmas Tournament, a Weekend Congress
and New Year events. The Weekend Open was scrapped because of budget cuts.
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1st Jan 2012
Carlsen 30 points clear
TWIC -
The January 2012 FIDE Rating list has been
released. Magnus Carlsen has opened up a 30
point lead over his closest rivals after picking
up points in the Tal Memorial and London. Levon
Aronian moves up to 2nd after gaining points in
the European Teams and Tal Mem but losing in
London.
Kramnik more than made up losses at the Tal with his win
in London to go 3rd. World Champion Anand drops 12 points to 4th after
lacklustre perfomances in both of these events likely to be his last before
his World Title match in May
... more.
14th December 2011
London Classic 2011
TWIC -
Vladimir Kramnik drew comfortably in his final
round game against Levon Aronian to take clear
first place in the 3rd London Chess Classic.
Kramnik beat the four English players and drew
with the rest. Magnus Carlsen could have caught
his points total but he was held to a draw by
Nigel Short.
Luke McShane was drained from the effort of the day
before and took a quick draw against Viswanathan Anand who said he would
almost immediately be starting to prepare for his match in May against
Gelfand. He called his recent results a "disaster" for which he had no
explanation. Hikaru Nakamura took a lot of risks using the King's Gambit
against Michael Adams but after the latter missed a win in time trouble
Nakamura brought home the full point to finish second.
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17th November 2011
The 4NCL First Weekend by John Carleton
The memories of a year
earlier when the 4NCL adventure began for the
Spirit of Atticus came flooding back when we
were greeted this year, as then, by a beautiful
sunny November morning.
The butterflies in the stomach that were in place in
anticipation of the unknown last year were active this time with the
prospect of upgrading ourselves from medium sized fish in a small pond to
life in the big pool.
And what opponents were likely to be more fearsome than
our first round opponents, the Sharks? [Read
John's report in full]
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