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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.

 

18th Nov 2007

Aronian and Carlsen win Corus

This fantastic tournament was held from 11th - 27th January 2008 in Wijk aan Zee, Holland. Five of the top six in the world went head to head. Mickey Adams is playing in the A group and Nigel Short in the B group. Latest: (courtesy of BCM) Round 12 - Magnus Carlsen beating Vladimir Kramnik was the game of the day. He has rejoined Aronian in the lead. Scores: 1-2 Aronian, Carlsen 7½/12, 2-3 Anand, Radjabov 7. View/download games.  • click here for Steve Giddins' round reports.

 

18th Nov 2007

British Rapidplay Championships 2007

This event took place on Saturday and Sunday 17th - 18th November at the North Bridge Leisure Centre, Halifax in association with the English Chess Federation. Further details of the event including winners are on the official site.

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1st Oct 2007

Monarch Assurance International 2007

The Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International took place at the Ocean Castle Hotel, Port Erin, from 22nd-30th September and featured a very strong masters event, plus major and minor sections. Sadly, this was to be the last Isle of Man International to be sponsored by Monarch Assurance but it will continue under different sponsors.

 

The line-up was headed by GM Krasenkow and 2006 winner Alexander Areshchenko. From the UK there was Jon Speelman, Mark Hebden, Peter Wells, David Howell, Danny Gormally, Stewart Haslinger amongst others. The women's line-up included German IM Elisabeth Paehtz Elo 2457. The official website had games, results, reports and photos from the event with regular daily updates.

 

30th Sept 2007

Anand is undisputed World Champion

A straightforward 20-move draw against Peter Leko was enough to give Indian GM Viswanathan Anand the title of undisputed World Champion 2007. The tournament was held in Mexico City. Kramnik beat Aronian in an excellent game to move into second place.

 

The final column of the table shows the tiebreak scores, according to Sonneborn-Berger. A player's SB score is calculated by adding the sum of the conventional scores of the players they have defeated to half the sum of the conventional scores of those they have drawn against. According to this system Vladimir Kramnik is second, beating Boris Gelfand by 0.25 SB points.

The World Championship 2007 took place from September 12th to 30th in the Sheraton Centro Histórico Hotel in Mexico City. Eight players qualified – the tournament was a double round robin. The prize fund was US $1.3 million.

 

Download all games in PGN. Excellent photo and round by round reports on Chessbase.

 

John Saunders, BCM Editor, 'In many ways the tournament turned out the way widely predicted. Kramnik won his last game to make a score of +2, which is usually enough to win Dortmund - or indeed his match against Garry Kasparov in 2000 - but it was never likely to be enough to win a tournament of this length. Most pundits expected Anand to score better than that and he did so by scoring +4. However purists will argue that four games won against four non-champions in the bottom half of the table is not what a proper world chess championship is all about. Let's hope that the prospective match between Anand and Kramnik happens in 2008 as envisaged and that the traditional matchplay formula will thus be resumed and maintained'. Hooray to that!

 

24th Sept 2007

4NCL Season starts

Divisions 1, 2 & 3 started over the weekend of 15th-16th Sept at the De Vere Venues, Sunningdale. See some photos (more added 18/9). Match results, tables and PGN games available on the official site.

 

23rd Sept 2007

Atticus prize-winners

Club captain John Carleton (left) presents the Atticus Internal Tournament Cup 2007 to Steve Burge winner of the event with 6 points. Details here.		Chris Wentworth receives his 1st place trophy for winning this year's Summer Tourney. Details here.
		photos: Izzy Abuleela

25th August 2007

IBCA Euro Championships, St. Aidan’s College, Durham

The tournament takes place between 13th - 24th August 2007 at St Aidan’s College, Windmill Hill, Durham (part of Durham University). This event is played over nine rounds. Games start daily at 13.45 BST. There are 6 IM's, 4 FM's and 1 WM taking part in a total list of 76 players.

 

20th August 2007

Atticus and Wallasey met last night for their annual pre-season Challenge Trophy friendly. This year the match was held at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool and played over 20 boards in a friendly, competitive spirit as always. Following the amusing exchange of team lists, play started at 7.30. The rate of play was 35 moves in 1hr 15mins with an additional 15mins to complete the game.

 

Special thanks to Wallasey CC and to those of you from both clubs, who kindly turned up but were unable to get a game.

 

Challenge Trophy Match 2007
		Atticus	v	Wallasey
1	b	Carleton, John J  B208	1-0	D166  Farley, Andrew M	w	1
2	w	James, David J  B191	1-0	C154  Roberts, Richard	b	2
3	b	Lawson, David  E180	1-0	A145  Taylor, Edward H	w	3
4	w	Connor, Stephen J  B171	1-0	B142  Gray, Gary	b	4
5	b	Boumphrey, Luke S  A161	1-0	A142  Povall, T Jeff	w	5
6	w	Stuttard, David  B147	½-½	A135  Latham, Chris	b	6
7	b	Ewart, Brian R  A129	0-1	A132  Brine, Phil A	w	7
8	w	Noonan, Richard  D145	1-0	A126  Taylor, Edward A	b	8
9	b	Chard, Marcus Cuan  D125	1-0	A120  Spriggs, Mark LJ	w	9
10	w	Wiseman, Jim K  B117	0-1	A113  Wolszczak, Leon	b	10
11	b	Sleeman, Howard D  C132	0-1	A112  Rennie, R Duncan	w	11
12	w	Wentworth, Chris  C114	½-½	A111  Farley, Dave J	b	12
13	b	Burge, Steve J  C103	1-0	Default	w	13
14	w	Lawton, Thomas    B97	1-0	C106  McLoughlin, Stefan	b	14
15	b	Hurley, Dave    C92	½-½	A104  Hargreaves, Martin	w	15
16	w	Fiser, Vojtech LJM    D96	1-0	E89    Rees, C	b	16
17	b	Malkeson, Sean     UG	0-1	A87    Heath, Graham	w	17
18	w	Banerjee, Sanjoy J    D77	1-0	A81    Fidal, James	b	18
19	b	Lawton, John    D94	1-0	A61    Cockerill, Martin	w	19
20	w	Jones, Geoff    C51	1-0	Default	b	20
			14½ - 5½

Atticus Captain John Carleton (right) accepts the Challenge Trophy from Graham Heath on behalf of his victorious team.
Dave James v Richard Roberts and Andrew Farley v John Carleton.		On board 3 David Lawson v Edward H Taylor. A close game but black's endgame skills proved decisive.
Chris Latham v Dave Stuttard and Jeff Povall considering his reply to Luke Boumphrey's move.		Edward A Taylor v Richie Noonan and Brian Ewart v Phil Brine (white shirt).
Dave Farley v Chris Wentworth and Duncan Rennie v Howard Sleeman.		Leon Wolszczak v Jim Wiseman and next to Jim, Marcus Chard.
Vojtech Fiser v C Rees.		Tom Lawton v Stefan McLoughlin.
Graham Heath v Sean Malkeson and forefront, Sanjoy Banerjee v James Fidal (age 15).		There was even time for some friendly games for those not involved in the match.
The Challenge Trophy

 

The 2008 return match will take place at New Brighton Cricket Club also in August.

 

9th July 2007

Another Atticus win at the 4NCL

Atticus player and FIDE Master Charlie Kennaugh beat former England Olympiad team member and GM Danny Gormally at the 4NCL weekend in May. Playing for North West Eagles 1 [more]

 

9th July 2007

Irish Championships 2007, Dublin

John Redmond scored 5/9 at the Irish Championships in Dublin, 30th June - 8th July. He beat Lithuanian GM Eduardas Rozentalis 2551 in round 2. The game was long (70 moves) with John out-manoeuvring his opponent in determined style. He then drew with GM Mark Hebden in round 5. See that game here. Further details, results and final standings can be found on the Irish Union website.

 

19th June 2007

MCA Team Lightning 2007

Atticus hosted the MCA Lightning Event on Monday 18th June at the Adelphi. Twelve teams of four players competed over 6 rounds. Atticus 2 won the competition with 17½ points with Prescot and Atticus 1 coming joint 2nd with 15½. More details and a short photo report are here. See Luke's nice last round win here.

 

5th June 2007

MCA Player of the Year 2006/7

Congratulations to John Carleton for winning the Division 1 MCA Player of the Year title with a magnificent 11/14 on board 1 for Atticus 2. His performance rating was 208 against an opponent average of 180. Vojtech Fisher won the Division 5 title with an impressive 10½/12 playing for Atticus 5 and is one of our club’s most improved players.

 

3rd June 2007