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September / October 2006
Smith & Williamson
British Championships 2006
NEWSLETTER OF THE ENGLISH CHESS FEDERATION
£1.50
Jonathan Rowson receiving the British Trophy from Smith &
Williamson Chairman Gareth Pearce. Photograph by Peter Purland
Chairman of Smith & Williamson Gareth Pearce with IM Ketevan
Arakhamia-Grant - 2nd in the British Championship & British
Ladies Champion. Congratulations on being the 1st female British
Championship runner-up. Photograph by Peter Purland
This year’s event was held at Swansea University in a spacious area, which was split in to three, one for the British
Championship, one for the junior events and one for the other adult events. There were also a good selection of side
rooms where analysis, commentary, bookstall and subsidiary events could be held. Perhaps the only drawbacks were
the lack of toilets on the same level as the playing areas and the fact that the place could be likened to a rabbit warren.
I don’t think any one lost on time through failing to find their way back to the playing area and the arbiters of the
Seniors were kind to the player who got stuck in the lift! A total of 750 entrants were recorded, up on 2005 but down on
the previous year. Certainly in the junior sections this was as a result of the lower graded English players not entering,
possibly they need to be an accredited international to cross the Severn Bridge! This did not lead to a lessening of the
standard and the results were truly British with trophy winners coming from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. One
of our trophy winners was wearing a kilt when he received his cup.
The refreshments were above average with a good hot breakfast, choice of a hot or cold lunch and pastries and
sandwiches at “Au Boulanger” (excuse my French) until 7pm each day. At the opening we were greeted with “Croeso
i’r Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe” and when I said the next sentence in Welsh the juniors showed great consternation!
However the welcome was warm (and long from one of the speakers) and the play hard. The weather was also kind to
us and one second week player on being asked where he had been to get his tan said “Swansea – I just didn’t play last
week.” As well as the chess the grass outside led to much soccer and, apart from one Scot who was impaled on a nail,
there were no broken metatarsals or the like. The local pitch and putt also proved very popular as did the beaches of
Mumbles and the Gower whilst the Potters Wheel was a great draw for some more mature (can I still use this word?)
players. All in all an enjoyable time was had and Great Yarmouth 2007 will already be in most people’s diaries.
Peter Purland, Principal Arbiter
British Champions
2006
British – Jonathan Rowson
British Ladies – Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
British Senior – John Littlewood
British U21 – Stephen Gordon
British U18 – Gawain Jones
British U18 Girls – Anya Corke
Major Open – Jonathan Hawkins
British U175 – Richard Bryant & Gordon
Stables
British U150 – Raymond Gamble,
Jonathan Lai, Michael Lally & Nicola
Thomas
British U125 – Nicholas Carding &
Michael Gunn
British U100 – John Constable, Dinesh
Jain, David Langridge & Lynsey Shovlin
British U16 – Daniel Hall & Joseff Thomas
British U15 – Calum MacQueen
British U15 Girls – Lateefah Messam-
Sparks
British U14 – Connor Woods
British U14 Girls – Sheila Dines & Lateefah
Messam-Sparks
British U13 – George Salimbeni
British U13 Girls – Sheila Dines
British U12 – Akash Jain
British U12 Girls – Megan Owens
British U11 – Robert White
British U11 Girls – Megan Owens & Maria
Wang
British U10 – Thomas Senior
British U10 Girls – Maria Wang
British U9 – Ram Mohan
British U9 Girls – Radha Jain
British U8 – Robert Fitzgerald
British U8 Girls – Katherine Shepherd
5 Day Open AM Week 1 – Stephen
Connor & David Sully
5 Day Open AM Week 2 – Jamie Valmana
Canto
5 Day Open PM Week 1 – Norman
Stephenson & Michael Healey
5 Day Open PM Week 2 – Richard Bryant
Weekender Atkins – Nigel Blades
Weekender Soanes – Neil Coward, Richard
Desmedt, Stephen Pride, Matthew Shaw &
Paul Smith
Weekender Yates – Stephen Wright
Rapidplay 6th August – Andrew Greet
Rapidplay 13th August – Bogdan Lalic &
Jaime Valmana Canto
I would like to add my
thanks to the Control
Team and to all the other
Officials. I was very pleased
with the atmosphere at
the event. Information was
posted quickly, both on
the notice boards and on
the web, bulletins came
out on time and Andrew
Martin managed to contend
with some famous names
in the audience of the
Commentary Room. I would
especially like to thank the
ECF Office Staff, who took
over the secretarial duties
following the untimely
death of John Robinson. I
do know how much of an
extra burden this has placed on them and I hope you will understand if we take a little
longer than usual to finish off the little jobs that always remain after a congress is over.
Gareth Pearce of Smith & Williamson attended our Prizegiving. I would like to thank
him for all the assistance that has been given to the Congress over the last 10 years.
David Welch, Congress Manager
Photographs by Stephen Connor
Editorial
I attended the 4NCL weekend at Sunningdale
for Divisions 1, 2 and 3 to take in ECF
Memberships for those
players who had not
already joined the ECF.
Just before play started
in the main playing
hall I was asked to
accompany David Welch
(Arbiter) to the front
of the hall where I was
presented with a Welsh Dragon (the subtlety
did not go unnoticed – dragon to dragon) on
behalf of all the office staff at Battle. This was
in appreciation for the extra work in processing
entries for the British Championships at
Swansea. Thanks David.
Cynthia Gurney, Editor
ECF BATSFORD
Congratulations to the July/August Winner
Carl Portman from Ardley, Nr Bicester
The Correct Answers are: 1. Qb5
Colin Vaughan
1st Prize, Chess, 1949
White to play and mate in
COMPETITION
Contents
British Championships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FC & 2
ECF News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 & 4
International News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Junior News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 - 10
Littlewood’s Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Grand Prix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 & 14
Results Round-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 & 15
Grand Prix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Copy Deadline 10th November 2006
2006 BritishChess
Magazine Catalogue
now available
www.bcmchess.co.uk
Please send your answer (just the first move
is sufficient) on a postcard to the
ECF Office, The Watch Oak,
Chain Lane, Battle, East Sussex TN33 0YD
The first correct entry drawn on 10th November
2006 will win a Batsford voucher for any
book on their current list.
CHESSMOVES – SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2006
The following candidates have been nominated.
Elections will take place at the Annual General Meeting on 21
October in Bristol.
Candidate
Gerry Walsh
Brian Driscoll
Post
President
President
Nominations for Election at
ECF Awards 2006
some excellent submissions we
the ECF AGM, 21 October 2006
Club of the Year
- FromChess Club, Oldham). Founded in
selected 3C’s (Children’
ECF News
Nominated By
Gerry Walsh - President
Martin Regan - Cheshire & North Wales
Robert Richmond - Nottinghamshire
Roy Heppinstall
Chief Executive
Cyril Johnson - Acting CEO/Director of Junior
Chess
Martin Regan
Chief Executive
Martin Regan - Cheshire & North Wales
Robert Richmond - Nottinghamshire
Geoff Steele
Director of Finance
Cyril Johnson - Acting CEO/Director of Junior
Chess
Robert Richmond Director of Finance
Martin Regan - Cheshire & North Wales
Robert Richmond - Nottinghamshire
Sean Hewitt
Director of Home Chess
Gordon Christie - Warwickshire
Julie Johnson - MCCU
Jim Bingham - Leicestershire
Peter Sowray
Director of International Chess
Martin Regan - Cheshire & North Wales
Robert Richmond - Nottinghamshire
Claire Summerscale Director of Junior Chess & Education Brian Smith - London Chess League
Andrew Moore
Director of Junior Chess & Education Gordon Christie - Warwickshire
Ray Collett - Worcestershire
Peter Wilson
Director of Marketing
Francis Bowers - Lincolnshire
Gary Cook - North Circular Chess League
Robert Gurney - Direct Members’
Representative
David Jarrett - Trustee
Cyril Johnson
Director of Marketing
Julie Johnson - MCCU
Cyril Johnson - Acting CEO/Director of Junior
Chess
Mike Truran
Non-Executive Director
Mike Truran - Non-Executive Director
John Wickham
Non-Executive Director
John Wickham - Non-Executive Director
Gerry Walsh
FIDE Delegate
Gerry Walsh - FIDE Delegate
Nigel Short
FIDE Delegate
Martin Regan - Cheshire & North Wales
Robert Richmond - Nottinghamshire
Mike Adams
Chairman Finance Committee
John Philpott - Chairman of Finance
Committee
Ray Clark
Finance Committee
John Philpott - Chairman of Finance
Committee
Alan Martin
Finance Committee
John Philpott - Chairman of Finance
Committee
David Rowe
Finance Committee
John Philpott - Chairman of Finance
Committee
John Philpott
Finance Committee
Gerry Walsh - President
John Dunleavy
Chairman of Governance Committee John Dunleavy - Chairman of Governance
Committee
Richard Haddrell Governance Committee
John Dunleavy - Chairman of Governance
Committee
Andrew Leadbetter Governance Committee
John Dunleavy - Chairman of Governance
Committee
John L Paines
Governance Committee
John Dunleavy - Chairman of Governance
Committee
John A Philpott
Governance Committee
John Dunleavy - Chairman of Governance
Committee
1978 by three teachers who thought that children in Oldham
should aspire to something to be proud of, the club now has
something to shout about. As well as running nine teams in
the local leagues, they have 2 in the 4NCL and have produced
British champions through all age groups at the British Chess
Championships.
Small Club of the Year
- Of some very good submissions the
best and most comprehensive was from Salisbury Chess Club.
Despite a relatively small membership Salisbury manage to
run several events and engage with the local community. We
were impressed with the range of activities, including some
charitable, and some for juniors.
Magazine of the Year
- Out of four very good publications we
selected “The Problemist”, the magazine of the British Chess
Problem Society. The editor of “The Problemist” is John Rice.
Website of the Year
- The award, once again, attracted a lot of
interest. The standard of websites has improved considerably
giving the awards committee a difficult job. Our selection was
www.penrithchess.org.uk and as well as its overall coverage we
were impressed with the excellent links page. The webmaster
is Bob Challis.
Presidents Awards
- Three awards to:
Dr Jill Barber from Manchester
Zoe Ryle from Middlesex
Paul Habershon from Bedford Modern School..
Congratulations to those receiving the awards and to those
who did not succeed this year, we will be advertising next
years awards towards the end of the year, so keep an eye on
the ECF Website and ChessMoves
John Wickham,
Chairman, Awards Committee
Player of the
Year 2006
In recognition of her special
achievement Jovanka Houska
was presented with a crystal
bowl by Gerry Walsh at the
British Championships in
Swansea. Well done Jovanka!
Rapidplay
Grading List
ECF will be producing a half-year Rapidplay Grading List in
February or thereabouts. This will be an experiment, which
if successful, ECF will consult with Unions, leagues and
congresses as whether to introduce six-monthly lists for
Standard play as well.
Contact the ECF Office for further details 01424 775222
CHESSMOVES – SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2006
ECF CLUB AND CONGRESS INSURANCE
FOR 2006/7 NOW AVAILABLE
County Match Controller
Vacancy
The English Chess Federation (ECF) is seeking to appoint a
County Match Controller, reporting to the Director of Home
Chess. The duties of the post are given in the following job
description. Reasonable expenses incurred in fulfilling the
duties of the post will be reimbursed.
Anyone wishing to discuss this post should contact the
Director of Home Chess, Chris Majer (01438 812781 or email:
cemajer@aol.com)
Job Description
The County Match Controller is responsible to the ECF Director
of Home Chess. The duties of the County Match controller are
set out below:
1. Ensure the smooth running of the National Counties Team
Championships. This involves the following competitions: Open,
Minor, U175, U150, U125 and U100. Note: the Unions run the
regional qualification stages, while the ECF runs the national
stages, which consist of a preliminary round, quarterfinals, semi-
finals and finals for each section.
2. This requires the jobholder to
• Liaise with the Union organizers to establish the number of
entrants from each Union and maintain an up to date list of
contact details for county captains.
• Do the draw for the competition.
• Inform county captains and Union organizers of the draw for
each round.
• Liaise with county captains and Union organizers to obtain the
results of matches.
• Ensure that the ECF Office, Union websites and the Grading
Officer receive copies of the match results including all individual
results.
• Deal with any disputes that may arise (with an appeal to the
Home Chess Director if necessary).
• Organize the finals (note: all counties finals are held at a single
central venue).
• Keep the Director of Home Chess informed of the progress of
competitions.
• Assist the Director of Home Chess with any redrafting of the rules
of the competition that may be necessary from time to time.
3. The jobholder must have email.
4. The jobholder must have experience of organizing county
matches and preferably should be an ECF Arbiter
5. The job entails a significant workload in the period March to
June and, given the tight time schedule, the jobholder will need
to respond promptly (i.e. normally within a couple of days) to
enquiries during this period.
Book of the Year 2006 Short List
Our choice this year features two books where the quality of
the writing is the distinguishing feature of the book. The other
two books are first, the final volume in the best and most
comprehensive chess history ever written and secondly one of
the most entertaining books the judges have seen in years.
Chess for Zebras Jonathan Rowson (Gambit) pp 55
£17.99
Three times British Champion, Rowson is a skilled writer
and deliberately chose a startling title to catch the reader’s
attention. Using his formidable academic erudition Rowson
explores in depth various aspects of chess playing and
thinking. This is a book that is simultaneously challenging,
stimulating, instructive and interesting.
My Great Predecessors PartV Garry Kasparov (Everyman)
pp 80 £5.00
In the fifth and final volume of his epic series on the world
champions and their challengers, Kasparov considers just
two players, Victor the Terrible (Korchnoi) and Anatoly the
Twelfth (Karpov). As before the book is authoritative and
comprehensive and particularly good on the three matches
played between Korchnoi and Karpov. He clearly respects
not only their chess talent but also their formidable, practical
playing strength and resilience.
The King Chess Pieces J H Donner (New in Chess) pp 91
£18.95
The Dutch grandmaster (1927-1988) was a chess writer,
annotator, reporter and journalist famous for his humour,
wit, irreverence and self mockery. The New in Chess team
have collected all Donner’s lifetime writings to Dutch chess
magazines and news papers. All chess life (and much else) is
covered in Donner’s inimitable style. It is no wonder that an
eminent chess editor chose The King as his “desert island” book.
Van Perlo’s Endgame Tactics (New in Chess) pp 79 £18.95
Dutch correspondence grandmaster collected over 30 years
tactical endgame positions that appealed to him. Von Perlo
had a good chess eye, but above all he relishes and writes with
wicked glee about the various misfortunes lying in wait for an
unsuspecting player. The 1105(!) positions have been collated
and edited by the New in Chess team. The result: great chess
entertainment.
R B Edwards J Farrand J Toothill
6th September 2006
Book of the Year 2005
HAMPSHIRE CHESS ASSOCIATION
2006 CONGRESS
Venue: Eastleigh College, Eastleigh, Hants.
th
th
Friday 10 November 2006 to Sunday 12 November 2006
Open Tournament with U-160 and U140 Prizes
U-125 Tournament with U-100 Prize
Details/Entry Forms from M Clarke, 9, Cherry Tree Court,
Leigh Road, Eastleigh, Hants SO50 9SN
Tel: 02380 615903
www.hampshirechess.co.uk
Photo by John Saunders: Garry receiving his award on 24 July 2006
from Julian and Ray.
CHESSMOVES – SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2006
International
News
More Women Represent England
Seven of England’s top women players, all in the top ten, have represented their
country and the ECF this year so far, more than for many years. Starting with
Jovanka Houska at the Women’s World Championship in March, representation
continued with her and Jessie Gilbert at the European Women’s Individual
Championship in April, then with Jovanka, Heather Richards and Sabrina
Chevannes at the European Women’s Rapidplay Championship in May, followed
by Jovanka, Jessie, Jana Bellin and Sopie Tidman at the Olympiads in May-
June. All these events are covered on the ECF website. Finally, Harriet Hunt played
for England at the Women’s Chess Cup in July, which she reports in this issue.
Later in July came the shocking news of Jessie’s tragic death. She will be much missed.
It seems fitting to conclude with the last game she played for England, annotated by
Mark Hebden.
Susan McFarland
the one hand, this meant that a number
of the world’s top women players, from
Russia, China and Georgia among others,
were automatically excluded by their
countries’ failure to qualify for the football
finals. At the other end, a number of the
non-European countries where the profile
of chess and particularly women’s chess
is very low, including Angola, Ivory Coast,
Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Japan, were
unable to send a representative. As far as
possible the German Federation replaced
these with additional German players, but
a number of the groups were played with
only 3 competitors. Despite this, it was still
an impressive field, including Susan Polgar
(USA), Pia Cramling (Sweden), Monika
Socko (Poland) and Elisabeth Paehtz
(Germany) among others.
The drawing of lots for colours involved
a penalty shoot-out against a goal-wall
between Susan Polgar and Jana Jackova
(Czech Republic). After a performance
which made England’s 1/3 strike rate
against Portugal look like a success, Jana’s
better footwear finally won the day and the
tournament got under way. We played in
the café on the top floor of the department
store Karstadt, providing an unexpected
spectacle for the local shoppers pausing to
enjoy their kaffee und kuchen.
I managed to top my group with a win over
Pia Cramling, before facing Monika Socko
in the second round. The knockout stages
were played as 2-game mini-matches, and
after squandering an excellent position
with White in the first game, I only drew the
second game as Black and went out 1.5-0.5.
As expected, Susan Polgar progressed
competently through the bottom half
of the draw, to meet local star Elisabeth
Paehtz in a tense final. Elisabeth had
overcome Pia Cramling, Ketino Kachiani-
Gersinska (Germany/ ‘Ivory Coast’) and
Marie Sebag (France) in typically gritty
style, and played resourcefully to draw the
first game against Polgar, but her resistance
was finally broken in the second game, an
interesting Dutch defence that went to
80 moves. Susan Polgar was therefore the
well-deserving winner of the ?5,000 first
prize and trophy.
I’d like to thank the German Chess
Federation and Dresden organising
committee for their fantastic hospitality
– they really treated us like special guests.
The organisers succeeded in generating
massive publicity for this event and for
the forthcoming European Individual
Championship 2007 and Olympiad 2008 in
Dresden – so I hope to return soon.
Harriet Hunt
(1) Gilbert,Jessie LC (2144) - Rantanen,T (2123) [D12]
37th Olympiad w Turin ITA (13), 04.06.2006
[Mark Hebden]
It was with great shock and sadness that I heard of Jessie’s death.I give below her
final round game from the 2006 Turin Olympiad where I was there as captain and
coach of the England womens team and Jessie was our board 2.The team had
performed to about par but all were still up for playing the last match even tho’ it
was a morning game.
1.d d5 .c c6 .Nf Nf6 .e Bf5 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Qb Qc8
[6...Qc7 is the more normal continuation]
7.Bd!
Jessie immediately spots the right
plan...down the c-line
7...a6?!
Black should be thinking about developing some
pieces rather than weakening crucial squares on the queen-side
8.Nc e6 9.Rc1
Nc6 10.Na
Jessie highlights the error of Black’s 7th move
10...Rb8?
[10...Nd7
11.Ne5 Ndxe5 12.Nb6 Qb8 13.dxe5 Ra7 14.Be2 Be7
(14...Qxe5 15.Nc8 Ra8 16.Qxb7)
15.Nxd5 exd5 16.Rxc6 Qxe5 17.Bc3 Qe4 18.0-0 0-0 19.Rc7 Bd6 20.Rxb7 Rxb7 21.Qxb7]
11.Bxa6!!
For sure Jessie’s greatest strength was her tactical ability
11...Bd6
[11...
bxa6 12.Rxc6 Rxb3 13.Rxc8+ Kd7 14.Rxf8 is the point]
1.Rxc6 bxc6
[12...Qxc6
13.Bb5]
1.Bxc8 Rxb 1.axb Bd 15.Ne5 Bxe5 16.dxe5 Ng 17.Nc5 Bb5 18.Bc
1-0
Women’s World Chess Cup
Dresden, 7th- 8th July 2006
The German Chess Federation
marked the country’s hosting of the
football World Cup with a rapid chess
tournament for women in Dresden,
the venue for the next Chess
Olympiad in 2008. The tournament
format paralleled, as far as possible,
that of the football: a representative
was invited from each of the same 32
countries, to compete in group and
knock-out stages, with an attractive
total prize-fund of £15,000. There
is clearly no direct correspondence
between the strength of a country’s football side and its women chess players, however! On
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