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British Chess Championships

held in Liverpool 28th July - 8th August 2008

The British Chess Championships are currently being held at the St Georges Hall venue in Liverpool with a number of 3Cs players taking part. Players taking part are - in the Open Championship IM Stephen Gordon, Major Open - Mitchell Burke - U16 Championship Mitchell Burke and Thomas Clements - U11 Championship Daniel Lea. Some of our players will also be taking part in different tournaments through the second week of the championships. For a full breakdown of the results please go to the website http://www.britishchess08.com You can also check on the live games and watch the games as they are played.

The Czech Open

held in Pardubice 18th July - 26th July

Two of our 3Cs senior players FM Adam Ashton and CM Alan Walton travelled to the Czech Republic to take part in the Czech Open to participate in the A Tournament which had 339 Players in their section of which over half of them were titled FM to GM. They travelled their with a number of British players who took part in the A and B Tournaments. Adam played 7 titled players and Alan 5 titaled players they had mixed results as follows:

FM Adam Ashton - Rating 2303 - Results each Round: ½, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, ½, 0 ,1 - Total Score 5/9 - Rating Performance 2434

CM Alan Walton - Rating 2220 - Results each Round - 0, 1, 0, ½, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0 - Total Score 2.5/9 - Rating Performance 2071

For a full breakdown of their results visit the following website: http://chess-results.com

EPSCA England Trials

A number of 3Cs players participated in the England Team Trials this year with Daniel Lea pre-selected and scoring 4.5 in the closed section. Jacob Manton did well and scored 3.5 and was selected to represent thee England team.

There was disappointment for Phoebe Price and Alan Truman who unfortunately did not qualify but did well to get the chance to attend the trials.

Bolton Easter Congress 2008

 

Playing in the U120 Section Mitchell scored 4/5 (3 wins and 2 draws) which place =2nd winning £40.
In the busy persons he scored 4.5/8 ( 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses) which included a draw against Jill Barber and against a 170 grade. I managed to tie with Martin Peim for the 125-106 GP so I got another £10.
 

Other 3Cs player results:

Jade Stirrup - U120 scored 2.5/5 and 3.5/8 in the Busy Persons.
  Sam Towse - U120 scored 3.5/5 winning the U100 Grading Prize

Ali Juanooby - OPEN scored 3/5 and 5/8 in the Busy Persons.

Report from Mitchell Burke.

 

Blackpool Congress 2008

 

Report on Mitchell Burkes results from the Blackpool Congress. Mitchell entered the Challengers (under-175) section as he wanted to begin his quest for a FIDE rating and finished the tournament undefeated with a score of 3 out of 5 (1 win and 4 draws). His scores were as follows:
 
Round 1 v. Ian Kingston  (West Nottingham) (155)  Draw
Round 2 v. David Wedge (Hebden Bridge)  (153)  Draw
Round 3 v. Richard Bryant (Telepost,Shrewsbury) (156) Won
Round 4 v. John Gorman (Caergwle, Wales) (155)  Draw
Round 5 v. Dominic Rabbitte (Heywood) (155) Draw
 
Therefore Mitchell ended with a tournament grade of 165 and got a part FIDE rating of 1958 (that will mean more to you and him than it does to me of course !) He also certainly made sure he got his money's worth at the event as all five matches lasted more than 3 1/2 hours.

 

We had a large group of juniors entering the tournaments which were taking place with Jade Stirrup finishing in 2nd place in her tournament on 4.5/5, Sam Towse got off to a fine start on 3/3 but unfortunately lost his last two games.

If any other of our juniors would like to give me their results I would be pleased to publish them on our website.
 

BWCA National Girls' Championships & Women's Rapidplay 2008 - 9-10th February 2008

Congratulations to Phoebe Price in winning the BWCA National Girls U11 Championship at this annual girls tournament.

Nine new champions emerged at this year’s National Girls’ Championships held by the British Women’s Chess Association in the unique Art Nouveau surroundings of the Elmbank Hotel in York on the 9th and 10th February.

Winners & Champions

Women’s Rapidplay: 1st = Sarah Hegarty and Amy Officer,

Under 21 Champion: Sarah Hegarty
Under 16 Champion: Amy Officer
Under 14 Champions: Evie Hollingworth and Abigail Pritchard
Under 12 Champion: Jennifer Ehr
Under 11 Champion: Phoebe Price
Under 10 Champion: Katherine Shepherd
Under 9 Champion: Fiona Howard
Under 8 Champion: Rebecca Swestun

10th York Rapidplay - 26 January 2008

Jacob Manton (Three C's & St Chads Primary School Uppermill) entered the Junior Section of the York Rapidplay and came first unfortunately I don't have his score.

The junior section had 30 entries which was played over six rounds and Jacob was the clear winner.

Gibraltar Masters Tournament 2008

Alan Walton one of our first team players has just returned from playing in this very strong tournament scoring 4.5/10 and finishing in equal 114 in a tournament where 204 players participated.

Alan played 2 GM's, 2 IM's, 1 WGM, 1 WIM and 1 FM in the tournament and his results are listed as follows:

Rnd 1 WGM Shen, Yang (F) 2429 (China) 0 - 1 (White) - Rnd 2 Hansen, Linda Marie (F) 0 *  (Norway) 1 - 0 (Black) - Rnd 3 Helin, Mikael 1935 (Sweden) ½ - ½ (White) -  Rnd 4 GM Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel 2455 (Spain) 0 - 1 (Black) - Rnd 5 WIM Greef, Melissa (F) 2025 (RSA) 1 - 0 (White) - Rnd 6 GM Zhu, Chen (F) 2548 (Qatar) 1 - 0 (Black) - Rnd 7 IM Bradford, Joseph M 2419 (USA) 0 - 1 (White) - Rnd 8 IM Dimitrov, Pavel 2448 (Bulgaria) ½ - ½  (Black) - Rnd 9 FM Wintzer, Joachim 2349 (Germany)  0 - 1 (White) - Rnd 10 Strand, Haakon 2045 (Norway) ½ - ½ (Black)

Our congratulations should also go to ex-3Cs 4NCL female player IM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant finishing with a score of 6.5/10 and sharing the ladies prize with three other players in the Masters Tournament.

5th Yorkshire Girls Open Championships

Prize winners - click for larger image

The 5th Yorkshire Girls Open Championships produced the highest standards so far seen. This year’s entry of 33 was a little down on last year but as usual all the old rivals from Yorkshire and Lancashire lined up to chase the £100 first prize and the title of Yorkshire Girls Open Champion. Last Year’s winner Kiruthika Rajeswaran came to defend her title, but she knew it was going to be tough with Evie Hollingworth in good form, great friend and rival Amanda Hipshon fresh from her England Girls U18 joint title, Lancashire maestro Rachel Cass and the ever dangerous and also in hot form Jade Stirrup. There were also several dark horses snapping at their heels as well as the age group trophies to contest. For the first time this year a novice section was introduced for girls playing their first tournament and this proved very enjoyable for the little newcomers taking part.

Jade v Evie - click for larger imageThere was some fantastic attacking play all round and the first of the heavy weight contests started in round 3 as Evie Hollingworth defeated Jade Stirrup. In round 4 Amanda scored her first ever victory over Rachel Cass and Evie defeated last year’s winner Kiruthika to set up a meeting with Amanda in round 5. Again, Amanda scored her first ever win over Evie to at least secure the trophy, and then went on to beat Jade in the final round to claim first place outright.Novice Section - click for larger image

In the Novices little Hephzi Leatherbarrow put a marker down for the future with 5½/6. Runner-up in the championship was Evie with Kiruthika 3rd. The U18 trophy was awarded to Jade Stirrup, the U14 to Rachel Cass, the U12 to Isobel Cotogni, the U11 to Phoebe Price, the U10 to Lara Buckley, U9 to Lucy Towse and Under 8 to Hannah Harrison.

West Yorkshire County trophies were also awarded in three categories:

U18 Amanda Hipshon, U14 Amy Greenhough, U11 Eleanor Westwood

The best game prize was awarded to Natalie Cass and Yasmin Niksaz for their final round draw which had seen Yasmin attack with her usual ‘caution to the wind’ approach and Natalie hang on for grim death to almost grab the win at the end.

A very big well done to all girls for taking part in a great day of chess. Let’s hope we can try to attract even more new faces next year.

Yorkshire Girls Open Championship
Pos Number Name   Section Grade County 1 2 3 4 5 6 Points Prize
1 2 Amanda Hipshon U18 95 WY 16+ 9+ 8+ 4+ 1+ 3+ 6 Open Champion
2 1 Evie Hollingworth U14 96 SY 23+ 6+ 3+ 5+ 2- 4+ 5 Runner Up
3 5 Kiruthika Rajeswaran U18 91 WY 18+ 12+ 7+ 1- 8+ 23+ 5 3rd Place
4 4 Rachel Cass U14 85 L 21+ 22+ 6+ 2- 7+ 1- 4 U14 Trophy
5 3 Jade Stirrup U18 85 L 19+ 14+ 1- 17+ 12+ 2- 4 U18 Trophy
6 7 Isobel Cotogni U12 71 L 24+ 29+ 5- 28+ 4- 18+ 4 U12 Trophy
7 23 Phoebe Price U11 47 L 1- 15+ 14+ 9+ 17+ 5- 4 U11 Trophy
8 9 Amy Greenhough U12 68 WY 27+ 2- 25+ 23- 19+ 14+ 4  
9 6 Rebekah Brown U14 69 WY 15+ 1- 4- 24+ 21+ 12+ 4  
10 8 Yasmin Niksaz U14 75 WY 25+ 28+ 2- 19+ 5- 16d 3.5  
11 12 Sarah Ryder U14 54 L 26+ 5- 24+ 16+ 3- 6- 3  
12 14 Lara Buckley U10 0 L 13+ 3- 23- 25+ 11+ 9- 3 U10 Trophy
13 18 Mollie Hesketh U10 42 L 5- 26+ 21+ 11- 29+ 7- 3  
14 29 Hannah Harrison U8 0 L 37- 7- 28- 13+ 17+ 3 3 U8 Trophy
15 21 Olivia Harrison U10 37 L 4- 37+ 18- 22+ 6- 27+ 3  
16 11 Hannah Kong U12 56 SY 22- 24- 27+ 18+ 14- 19+ 3  
17 13 Amber Bailey U12 51 WY 14- 19- 26+ 21- 22+ 28+ 3  
18 15 Eleanor Westwood U11 33 WY 6- 23- 37+ 26d 24+ 23- 2.5  
19 16 Natalie Cass U10 46 L 2- 25+ 19- 12- 28+ 8d 2.5  
20 28 Lucy Towse U9 40 L 17+ 8- 29+ 7- 16- 13- 2 U9 Trophy
21 19 Francesca Fozard U12 37 WY 3- 13+ 16+ 8- 9- 11- 2  
22 17 Jennifer Keighley U10 47 WY 28- 27+ 22+ 3- 23- 29- 2  
23 22 Amelia Collins U11 16 WY 11+ 4- 17- 21- 13- 37+ 2  
24 24 Jenita Punnoose U10 33 NY 7- 11+ 12- 6- 15- 26+ 2  
25 27 Hannah Priest U10 24 WY 9- 17- 11- 37+ 26+ 21- 2  
26 25 Emily Paton U11 35 WY 8- 16- 6- 14- 37d 14+ 1.5  
27 26 Kathryn Willis U11 0 WY 12- 18- 13- 15d 27- 24- 0.5  
28 37 Claire Dowey U14 0 WY 29- 21- 15- 27- 25d 22- 0.5  
 
Novice
Pos Number Name   Section Grade County 1 2 3 4 5 6 Points
1 36 Hephzi Leatherbarrow Novice 0 WY bye 34d 35+ 32+ 33+ 34+ 5.5
2 35 Rachel Brown Novice 0 WY 32+ bye 36- 33+ 34- 32+ 4
3= 33 Charlotte Laycock Novice 0 WY 34d 32+ bye 35- 36- bye 3.5
3= 34 Jessica Priest Novice 0 WY 33d 36d 32d bye 35+ 36- 3.5
5 32 Sally Paton Novice 0 WY 35- 33- 34d 36- bye 35- 1.5

EPSCA Quickplay - Broad Green, Liverpool 19th January 2008

Here are some results provided by Phil Adams from the EPSCA Quickplay held on Saturday:

U11A: Phoebe Price  3.5 (Norm) - Lara Buckley 2 - Jacob Manton 3.5 (Norm) - Alan Truman 3 (Norm) - Lance Fox  3.5 (Norm) - Callum McEvilly  1.5 - Aaron Rogers 2.5 

U10A: Lewis Barlow 3 - Charlie Maslen 4 - Bradley Cruse 4 - Dominic Kerrison 3 - Harry Aaronson 4.5 - Vipram Srivastara 1 - Mark Williams 3. 

U9A: Leah Nuttall 5  - 2nd - Lucy  Towse 3 - Daniel Manton 4 - Roshan Srivastava 1.5 - Dhamandra Pindsha 3.5 -

U8: Lucas Casey  3.5 - Zidane 4 - Arvind Sivashankar 3.5 - Matthew Downey 3.5 - Sam Clutton 4.5 - Lydia Entwistle 4.5 

U11 B: Jack Bottomley 5 - 2nd place - Shelby Homan 3.5 - Clare Kertan 3 - Dominic Lowe 2.5

U10B: Becky Kerton 3 - Emma Butler 2.5 - Kyra Homan 3.

U9B: Courtney Tunnicliffe 3 - Shaquille Miah 2 - Bradley Doran 3 - Fraya Upton 1.5 - Sid Paul 3.5 - James Gartside 3.5 - Jason Lu 3.5 - Ben Knightly 2 - Cecilie Thompson 3 - Connor Webster - Green 3.5

Although no actual winners a good showing from our players in this strong annual junior tournament.

Heywood Rapidplay 2008 - 20th January 2008

Two Reports from 3Cs players at the Heywood Rapidplay:

Michael Compston Reports:

A successful tournament from my perspective, scoring 4/6 in the Major Tournament, with a 100% unbeaten record. I scored 2/3 with both the white and the black pieces. I managed to net myself a £20 grading prize, which makes the weekend that bit more worthwhile, Thomas Clements won the Minor Tournament pocketing about £130. I also entered a 3C's Team into the competition which we won, the prize being a clock which is currently being looked after by Mitchell.

Mitchell Burke reported: 

I managed to score 2 1/2 out of 6 at the Heywood Rapidplay Open Tournament. Key players who I played include - Stewart Haslinger GM in Round 2,  Ali Juanooby in Round 3, and Nathan Taylor in Round 6. Stewart Haslinger GM came 1st scored 6/6, Nigel Davies GM scored 4-1/2/6 and Ali Juanooby came 3rd with 4/6.

This was a successful tournament for our 3Cs and ex 3Cs 4NCL players coming away with prizes in the three main tournament.

One unhappy event at the tournament Jade's mum Bev fell down the stairs and damaged her ligaments in her leg, we wish her all the best and to get well soon.

If any of our other players would like to provide a report I would be happy to publish it on our website.

Stephen Gordon IM Selected to play for England  in the Nordic Challenge

England ACCEPTS the Nordic Challenge! Ten of England's top chess players will represent the country against teams from Norway, Sweden and Latvia in a competition to take place in Oslo from 15th to 17th February.
The matches will take place over ten boards:- five men and five women. The event has been organised by the Norwegian Chess Federation as preparation for future international competitions, such as the Olympiad which will be played in Dresden in November.
The England team will be:
Men:
Gawain Jones Grandmaster 2562
David Howell Grandmaster 2528
Peter Wells Grandmaster 2520
Stephen Gordon International Master 2501
Stewart Haslinger Grandmaster 2495


Women:
Harriet Hunt Woman Grandmaster 2457
Sabrina Chevannes Woman FIDE Master 2074
Kanwal Bhatia 2054
Sarah Hegarty 1974
Amisha Parmar 1995

The event will see six players make their debuts for the full England team. The competition promises to be fierce with the teams very closely matched on paper. ECF International Director Peter Sowray said "I am delighted that so many of our top players have an opportunity to stake their claims for places in the Olympiad team. I am grateful to the Norwegian Federation for organising such an exciting event."

Congratulations should also go to Stewart Haslinger and ex 3Cs 4NCL player who will be joining Stephen in this event.

3Cs Oldham 4NCL - 12th August 2007

A consensus of the players in the 4NCL team came to a decision to withdraw our team from the 4NCL chess league. This was due to the moving of venues to the southern locations which caused major problems for the players in transport and having to take additional working days off to play.

If in the future changes are made then it may be that 3Cs will enter a team in the 4NCL league once more.

The players decided that alternative options for the players were entering more international tournaments where title norms could still be won and also FIDE ratings improved.

Some of the players who do not mind playing in the 4NCL will arrange to play for other teams but that is up to the individual players.

British Chess Championships 2007 - Great Yarmouth College, Great Yarmouth

Sunday 29th July - Saturday 11th August -

News of 3Cs players at the British championships:

British Championship 2007 - Stephen Gordon IM was our only entrant from the club tournament this year and was aiming to achieve his third GM Norm. This he failed to do after going into the final round on Board 1 against GM Tony Kosten Stephen required a win for the title and to get his rating above 2500. Stephen unfortunately was only able to manage a draw after coming so close to winning.

In the end he finished equal 2nd (the leading English player) with last years winner GM John Rowson whom he beat in a previous round, The British Championship title went to IM Jacob Aagaard whom Stephen also beat in the previous round. By finishing in equal 2nd place Stephen became the U21 and English Champion, let us hope he can gain his GM title in the coming months.

Stephen's results:

Round 11 - Gordon, Stephen 2487  (7½)  ½ - ½  Kosten, Anthony C. 2508   (7)
Round 10 - Aagaard, Jacob 2467  (7½)  0 - 1  Gordon, Stephen 2487  (6½)
  Round 9 - Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468  (6½)  ½ - ½  Gordon, Stephen 2487   (6)
  Round 8 -   Gordon, Stephen 2487 (5)  1 - 0  Rowson, Jonathan W. 2599   (5)
  Round 7 - Lalic, Susan 2350 (4)  0 - 1  Gordon, Stephen 2487   (4)
  Round 6 - Gordon, Stephen 2487 (3½)  ½ - ½  Ward, Chris G. 2439  (3½)
  Round 5 -  Oswald, Graeme 2147 (3)  ½ - ½  Gordon, Stephen 2487   (3)
Round 4 - Gordon, Stephen 2487 (2)  1 - 0  Buckley, Graeme 2379   (2)
Round 3 -  Barrett, Stephen J. 2219 (2)  1 - 0  Gordon, Stephen 2487   (2)
Round 2 - Gordon, Stephen 2487 (1)  1 - 0  Rendle, Thomas 2416   (1)
Round 1 -  Walker, Martin G. 2262 0 - 1  Gordon, Stephen 2487
 

3Cs 4NCL Players - Although 3Cs Oldham have withdrawn from 4NCL league two of our players from last season played in the tournament with Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant successully defending her British Women's title for the 4th time and Stewart Haslinger, who gave Stephen a run for his money in Round 9. Stewart gained his Grand Master title in the tournament when he succeeded in getting his rating above 2500.

Congratulations must go to both of them.

Stewart's results:

Round 11 - Hebden, Mark 2540   (7)  ½ - ½  Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468   (7)
Round 10 - Kosten, Anthony C. 2508   (6)  1 - 0  Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468   (7)
  Round 9 - Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468  (6½)  ½ - ½  Gordon, Stephen 2487   (6)
  Round 8 - Aagaard, Jacob 2467  (6½)  0 - 1  Haslinger, Stewart G.2468  (5½)
  Round 7 - Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468  (4½)  1 - 0  Gormally, Daniel 2509  (4½)
  Round 6 - Conquest, Stuart 2546  (3½)  0 - 1  Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468  (3½)
  Round 5 - Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468  (2½)  1 - 0  White, Michael J R. 2246  (2½)
  Round 4 - Lyell, Mark 2187  (1½)  0 - 1  Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468  (1½)
  Round 3 - Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468   (1)  ½ - ½  Constantinou, Peter 2173   (1)
Round 2 - Pert, Nicholas 2536   (1)  1 - 0  Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468   (1)
Round 1 - Haslinger, Stewart G. 2468  1 - 0  Mason, Don 2251
 

Ketevan's results:

Round 11 - Fowler, Simon 2204   (6)  0 - 1  Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418   (6)
Round 10 - Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418  (5½)  ½ - ½  Lewis, Andrew P. 2284  (5½)
  Round 9 - Bellin, Robert 2403   (5)  ½ - ½  Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418   (5)
  Round 8 - Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418   (4)  1 - 0  Wu, Li 2314   (4)
  Round 7 - Howell, David W L. 2519   (4)  1 - 0  Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418   (4)
  Round 6 - Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418  (3½)  ½ - ½  Hebden, Mark 2540  (3½)
  Round 5 - Rendle, Thomas 2416  (2½)  ½ - ½  Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418   (3)
  Round 4 - Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418   (2)  1 - 0  Snape, Ian L. 2255   (2)
  Round 3 - Storey, Charles 2218   (1)  0 - 1  Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418   (1)
Round 2 - Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418   (½)  ½ - ½  Poobalasingam, Peter 2133   (1)
Round 1 - James, Russell 2238  ½ - ½  Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan 2418

British U14 Championship 2007 - Mitchell Burke (Grade 118) was our only entrant in the U14's this year and finished the tournament with a score of 4/7 losing in Round three to the eventual Championship winner Akash Jan (Graded 162). Mitchell's tournament grade was 130.

Mitchell's opponents:
 
  Round 7 - Burke, Mitchell 118A  (3)  1 - 0  Sivakumar, Athman 116A (2½)
Round 6 -   3 Adair, James 150A  (3)  1 - 0  Burke, Mitchell 118A  (3)
Round 5 - Exton, Oliver 126A (2½)  ½ - ½  Burke, Mitchell 118A (2½)
Round 4 - Burke, Mitchell 118A (1½)  1 - 0  Tambini, Jasper 88D (1½)
Round 3 - Jain, Akash 162A (1½)  1 - 0  Burke, Mitchell 118A (1½)
Round 2 - Burke, Mitchell 118A  (1)  ½ - ½  Rabbitte, Michael J. 142A  (1)
Round 1 - McDonald, MaryAnn 44e 0 - 1  Burke, Mitchell 118A

British U13 Championship 2007 - Thomas Clements (Grade 100) was our only entrant in the U13's and finished the tournament with a score of 2.5/7. Thomas finished with a tournament grade was 85

Thomas's opponents:
 

Round 7 - Clements, Thomas 100B (2)  ½ - ½  Pritchard, Abigail 97A (2½)
Round 6 - Iyengar, Ilya  137A (2)  1 - 0  Clements, Thomas 100B (2)
Round 5 - Clements, Thomas 100B (1)  1 - 0  Slater, Benjamin 91A  (1)
Round 4 - Clements, Thomas 100B (1)  0 - 1  Schofield, Oliver 108A (1½)
Round 3 - Kanagaraj, Tharshan 45 (0)  0 - 1  Clements, Thomas 100B (0)
Round 2 - Clements, Thomas 100B (0)  0 - 1 McDonald, MaryAnn 40d (0)
Round 1 - Teng, Yinglun 144E 1 - 0  Clements, Thomas 100B