Archive for Gawain Jones
Friday, March 30, 2012 13:29
Reykjavik, Chess boxing FIDE, Gawain gunning for London, Cheparinov, chess etiquette. Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #19 is out!
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Monday, March 26, 2012 10:01
Going into the first (and only) rest day, a group of 10 grandmasters is sharing first place at the European Championship in Plovdiv: Sergei Azarov, Laurent Fressinet, Ernesto Inarkiev, Gawain Jones, Denis Khismatullin, Anton Korobov, Yuriy Kuzubov, Maxim Matlakov, Arkadij Naiditsch and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. 7 players lost by default in round 6...
Friday, March 23, 2012 22:01
Gawain Jones is the only player with a 100% score after four rounds at the European Championship in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The English grandmaster, who runs a blog that can be read here at ChessVibes, is half a point ahead of a group of twenty grandmasters.
Gawain Jones leads in Plovdiv | Photo © John Saunders; all other photos by Svoboda Chankova, ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 19:36
Fabiano Caruana finished sole first at the Reykjavik Open with a score of 7.5/9. The Italian grandmaster, who was the top seed in the Icelandic capital, remained unbeaten and finished half a point ahead of Ivan Sokolov, David Navara, Gawain Jones, Boris Avrukh, Hou Yifan, Sebastien Maze and Henrik Danielsen.
The Blue Lagoon, one of the most famous...
Friday, March 09, 2012 20:39
After four rounds at the Reykjavik Open, GMs Fabiano Caruana, David Navara, Ivan Sokolov, Ivan Cheparinov, Gawain Jones and Robert Hess are still on 100%. Outside it's cold, with very unpredictable and changeable weather, while inside the playing hall things are heating up, with GMs facing GMs already in round 4.
The sun shines through the playing...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 15:18
I wanted to make the best tournament, at the best possible place.
This is how Murray Chandler explained his decision to choose Queenstown as the place of the Classic tournament, an extremely rare event in the chess calendar which takes place every three years.
Event
Queenstown Chess Classic | Games in PGN via TWIC
Dates
January 15th-23rd, 2012...
