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Sanjoy
Banerjee
(left)
and Vojtech
Fiser
Joint
Club
Championship
Winners
2007/8 |
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19th Dec
2008
Club
Championship
Sanjoy and Vojtech (pictured left) receive
the Mike Price Memorial trophy for 2007/8, both players scoring an
excellent 7½ to share first place. Already this season, Vojtech has taken an early lead with a win
over Chris Wentworth. The championship tournament takes
place each
Monday
starting at
around
7.30pm and
will run
from
September
2008 to April 2009.
It's open to
all members
... more.
18th Dec
2008
Xmas
Meal
This took
place at The
Master Chef
in Renshaw
Street on
Wed 17th Dec. Many
thanks to
Dave and
Chris for
organising
everything
and we all
enjoyed some
great food,
drink and
conversation.
16th Dec
2008
Bob
Wade
The funeral of
Bob Wade
(1921-2008) was
held at Eltham
Crematorium on
Tuesday 16
December at
10.15am. There
was a very large
turn out of
people. John
Saunders of BCM
took some photos
of those who
went along. Wade died on Saturday 29 November
2008 in the early hours at the age of 87. More information
here on
Chessbase,
BCM,
TWIC with an
obituary on ECF by Stewart Reuben.
1st Dec
2008
British
Rapidplay
Championship
2008
GM David
Howell won
this event
impressively
with 10½/11,
2nd= GM Mark
Hebden and
FM Jonathan
Hawkins with
8½, 4th IM
Lawrence
Trent 8. The
event was
held at the
Halifax
Leisure
Centre on 29
& 30th
November.
Each player had thirty
minutes to complete the game. More
information,
photos and
games at
www.british-rapidplay.org.uk.
30th Nov
2008
Dresden
Olympiad
2008
Armenia won
the men's
gold medal
scoring 19
points and
winning nine
matches. GMs
Vladimir
Akopian and
Gabriel
Sargissian
finished
with
performance
ratings over
2800. Israel
finished
second.
England
finished
15th with 15
points,
Scotland
53rd with 12
points,
Wales 81st
with 11.
Further
details
available
for
individual
players here.
Georgia
defeated
Serbia 3-1
in round 11
to take gold
in the
women's
event. They
finished
tied with
Ukraine but
won on
tiebreaks.
Top board GM
Maia
Chiburdanidze
performed
over 2700
and she will
also win an
individual
bronze.
The Olympiad
took
place from
November
12th -
25th,
in the
Congress
Hall in
Dresden,
Germany.
Atticus
player
Jonathan
Blackburn Elo 2175
was there
representing
Wales
scoring 2/7.
Official
website
•
Live Games
and results,
Men
•
Live Games
and results,
Women •
Details and
Results
•
ChessBase
reports
•
Internet
Chess Club.
Games from
all sections
in PGN can
be
downloaded
here.
30th Nov
2008
'Carry on up the Armageddon' by BCM editor John
Saunders
A fascinating article for Chessbase featuring video footage from
the Women's World Championships. Very instructive particularly
if you're an arbiter or wannabe
... more.
31st October
2008
Atticus Summer (handicap) Tournament
Andrej Stancak
has won
this event; well
done to him. See
the final table,
match reports
and
... more.
Carlo is getting
the trophy
engraved and a
presentation
will be
organised some
time soon
together with
one for the Club
Championship
... more.
30th October
2008
World
Championship
2008
The
Anand-Kramnik
match
started on
Tues 14 Oct,
is scheduled
to be played
over 12
games under
classical
time
controls and
finishes on
31 Oct. If a
tiebreak is
required it
will be
played on 02
Nov. The
prize fund,
to be split
equally
between the
players, is
1½ million
Euro (about
$2.1
million).
The match is
taking place
at the
Art and
Exhibition
Hall of
the Federal
Republic of
Germany in
Bonn. Games
start daily
at 15.00
local time
(14.00 GMT)
and will be
covered live
on
Playchess
and
ICC.
Anand won
his World
title in
Sept 2007 at
the
tournament
in Mexico
City.
Kramnik, who
was
undefeated
in his three
world
championship
matches,
came second
in that
double round
robin event.
The match
takes place
under the
patronage of
the German
Finance
Minister
Peer
Steinbrück
and the main
sponsor is
Evonik
Industries.
Further
details
available at
the
official
website.
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GM Viswanathan Anand |
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GM Vladimir Kramnik |
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2772
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View the games
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| Game 12 was not played as the match was the first to reach 6½ pts. |
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6th October
2008
4NCL 2008/9
The new season started this weekend, 4th/5th October.
Some Atticus players competed and
results have now been published on the
4NCL site.
28th August
2008
Glorney and Faber Cups 2008
Liverpool
John
Moores
University
IM
Marsh
campus
hosted
this
prestigious
and
famous
tournament
from
July
22nd–25th
2008.
In
1948
a
Dublin
businessman
created
the
Glorney
Cup
(for
boys)
and
it
was
joined
twenty
years
later
by
the
Faber
Cup
(for
girls).
Results
and
photos
here
28th August
2008
Wallasey and Atticus met
last night for the annual pre-season Challenge Trophy friendly. The match,
held this year at Wallasey's venue New Brighton Cricket Club was played
over 23 boards in a friendly and competitive spirit as always.
Play started promptly at 7.30pm and the rate was 35
moves in 1hr 15mins with an additional 15mins to complete the game.
Many thanks to both captains
for the impeccable organisation and special thanks to all spectators and
players and to Wallasey CC for their kind hospitality.
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Challenge Trophy pre-season friendly 2008 |
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Wallasey |
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Atticus |
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Taylor, Edward H A147 |
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Carleton, John J A197 |
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Rennie, John E157 |
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James, David J A177 |
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Ball, David S D139 |
0-1 |
Redmond, John A169 |
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Povall, T Jeff A135 |
0-1 |
Robertson, David J C167 |
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Taylor, Edward A A131 |
0-1 |
Boumphrey, Luke S A155 |
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Welch, David A130 |
0-1 |
Connor, Stephen J B162 |
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Wolszczak, Leon A123 |
1-0 |
Bimpson, Tom C179 |
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Spriggs, Mark LJ A116 |
0-1 |
Boyd, Frank C147 |
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McLoughlin, Stefan C115 |
0-1 |
Noonan, Richard C146 |
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Farley, Dave J C113 |
1-0 |
Ewart, Brian R B134 |
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Rennie, R Duncan A106 |
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Driscoll, Mike F E145 |
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Abel, Tony D98 |
0-1 |
Rabadan, Pasquale C135 |
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Heath, Graham A90 |
1-0 |
Wiseman, Jim K C115 |
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Fidal, James B87 |
0-1 |
Hopkins, Phil D114 |
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Rees, Colin D86 |
0-1 |
Wadsworth, Mark S E141 |
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Fidler, David C86 |
1-0 |
Burge, Steve J B99 |
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Manson, John D74 |
1-0 |
Hurley, Dave D90 |
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Clare, S ug |
1-0 |
Cotterall, Alan E D88 |
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Love, E ug |
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Banerjee, Sanjoy J B89 |
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Appleyard, Bennett C43 |
0-1 |
Jones, Geoff C56 |
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*Malkeson, Sean ug |
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Wentworth, Chris B123 |
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Cook, Dudley L B73 |
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Hobro, Nigel ug |
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Jackson, Samuel C58 |
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Bessant, Gareth E56 |
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The
Wallasey Atticus Challenge Trophy |
The 2009 return match will
take place at the Adelphi also in August.
10th August 2008
British Championships 2008
This took place
in St George’s Hall, Sunday 27th
July - Saturday 9th August.
See all the results, photos and videos on the
official site.
Local players performed particularly well
...more
10th July 2008
Club
Championship
Following Vojtech's draw with Phil Hopkins and Sanjoy's win over Mark Wadsworth two players shared first place with an excellent score of 7½ pts.
The event was very exciting with fighting chess throughout. Both players will share the trophy and it will be awarded sometime during the summer to Vojtech and Sanjoy. The Mike
Price memorial
trophy is a recent award organised by
Atticus club captain John Carleton. More information about it is on the
tournament page.
9th June 2008
MCA Team Lightning Tournament
Congratulations to Waterloo 1 winners of this year's event with 16pts followed by Atticus 1 with 15½.
Richard Noonan and Nick Wall both
scored 5½/6.
Photos with a report by John Carleton.
5th June 2008
2007/8 season -
congratulations
to Atticus teams
Atticus 1
won the
Division 1 title
with 22 points and receive the Silver Rook trophy.
Congratulations
to Dave James
and all the team
players. Atticus
2 were 2nd
with 21 points. In Division 2 Atticus 4 came 2nd with 20 points, Atticus 3 came 3rd with 16. In Division 4 Atticus 5 came 4th with 10 points and in Division 5 Atticus 6 came 4th with 16
points. Congratulations to all concerned.
Blackpool Conference 2008
Four short videos of last minute time scrambles
from the Open section now
uploaded. Several Atticus
players competed; results and scores all available from the crosstables in brackets; Jonathan (Open), Luke (Challengers),
John Lambert (Major), Farad and Vojtech (Intermediate)
and Sanjoy (Minor). Photos, PGN files (open
games) and
reports are available here.
12th Feb
2008
Frodsham Weekend Congress 2008
This took place on 8th, 9th and
10th February at Frodsham Community
Centre, Fluin Lane, Cheshire, WA6
7QN. Three sections - Major (U170),
Intermediate (U130) and Minor (U90).
Part of the ECF Grand Prix. Details
of results will be posted as soon as
possible. Luke Boumphrey came third
in the Major.
5th Feb
2008
The 6th Gibtelecom Chess Festival was held from 22nd -
31st January 2008 at the
Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar, one of
their best hotels. The Masters line-up looked very
impressive and included 2007 world championship
contender
Alexander Grischuk,
Viktor Bologan, Kiril Georgiev, Hikaru Nakamura, two
members of the Chinese team that competed in
Liverpool Zhang Pengxiang and Ni Hua plus many other
excellent GM’s. The full list
of
entrants was regularly updated. This year John
Saunders,
BCM editor, was responsible for the official
website on which all the information
and results with game downloads can be found.
