Hastings Chess Congress (2007)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games) Gawain Jones, Viacheslav Ikonnikov, Milos Pavlovic, Bogdan Lalic, Mikheil Gagunashvili, Mark Hebden, Valery Neverov, Nicholas Pert, Zvulon Gofshtein, Stewart Haslinger, Simon Kim Williams, Farhad Tahirov, Alexander Cherniaev, John Anderson, Colin A McNab, Felix Graf, David J Eggleston, Srinath Narayanan, Andrew Greet, Arkadi Eremeevich Vul, Willy Hendriks, Dagne Ciuksyte, Jovanka Houska, Simon Ansell, John Paul Wallace, Thomas E Rendle, Herman Grooten, Simon J B Knott, Marcel Peek, Vladimir Prosviriakov, Jack Rudd, Andreas Huss, Adam Ashton, Ryan Rhys Griffiths, Petr Marusenko, Petra Schuurman, Peter Poobalasingam, Robert Eames, David Leslie Haydon, David Ledger, Alan J Norris, Alexander Kulago, Bernard Cafferty, Richard Britton, Boris Furman, Ian Snape, Simon Fowler, Francis Rayner, Alan Grant Kerr, Akash Jain, Felix J Kwiatkowski, John N Sugden, Donny Muter, Hans Groffen, Christopher Briscoe, Oliver Jackson, Stephen Mulligan, Arne Hagesaether, Richard J Webster, George E O'Toole, Richard Almond, James Mansson, George Dickson, Stewart Reuben, Damir Vrban, George P Salimbeni, Nigel P Donovan, Malcolm Armstrong, Norman Hutchinson, Jerry Humphreys, Rasa Norinkeviciute, Chris B Rice, Jens Henrichsen, Sabrina Chevannes, Alexandra Wilson, David Fryer, Dominic Foord, Patrick Goldsworthy, Adrian O Pickersgill, John Hickman, Timothy Spanton, Timothy Lunn, David Ian Calvert, Nigel Dennis, David Barron, Christoph Gibson, Rhys Cumming, Elliott Auckland, John Rety, Amisha Parmar, J Fraser, Andrew Tucker, Lateefah Messam Sparks, Jessica Thilaganathan, J Snowden, Ronnie Cohen, James S Macrae, Scott Kenyon, Michael Van de Laar, Mark Weidman

page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. G O'Toole vs N Hutchinson   0-1 35 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B10 Caro-Kann 2. R Britton vs W Hendriks   0-1 28 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B08 Pirc, Classical 3. O Jackson vs S Knott   0-1 35 2006 Hastings Chess Congress C19 French, Winawer, Advance 4. F Graf vs M Peek   0-1 42 2006 Hastings Chess Congress A81 Dutch 5. D Muter vs R Eames   0-1 42 2006 Hastings Chess Congress E10 Queen's Pawn Game 6. A Hagesaether vs B Furman 0-1 18 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B60 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer 7. J Rety vs A Kulago   0-1 59 2006 Hastings Chess Congress C60 Ruy Lopez 8. R Norinkeviciute vs R Webster   0-1 38 2006 Hastings Chess Congress A03 Bird's Opening 9. J Snowden vs J Henrichsen   0-1 28 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B25 Sicilian, Closed 10. T Spanton vs E Auckland   0-1 33 2006 Hastings Chess Congress D01 Richter-Veresov Attack 11. D Barron vs J S Macrae   0-1 45 2006 Hastings Chess Congress D01 Richter-Veresov Attack 12. M Van de Laar vs M Weidman   0-1 52 2006 Hastings Chess Congress D02 Queen's Pawn Game 13. A Greet vs Cherniaev   0-1 72 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B30 Sicilian 14. M Weidman vs S Reuben   0-1 18 2006 Hastings Chess Congress E30 Nimzo-Indian, Leningrad 15. L Messam Sparks vs A Tucker   0-1 31 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B30 Sicilian 16. R Cumming vs T Lunn   0-1 65 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B22 Sicilian, Alapin 17. A Tucker vs R Almond   0-1 22 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B01 Scandinavian 18. P Goldsworthy vs S Chevannes   0-1 57 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange 19. M Van de Laar vs D Haydon   0-1 16 2006 Hastings Chess Congress D02 Queen's Pawn Game 20. T Rendle vs V Ikonnikov 0-1 29 2006 Hastings Chess Congress B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 21. S Narayanan vs A Greet   0-1 35 2006 Hastings Chess Congress C55 Two Knights Defense 22. J Mansson vs V Prosviriakov   0-1 54 2006 Hastings Chess Congress C78 Ruy Lopez 23. A Kulago vs J Rudd 0-1 24 2006 Hastings Chess Congress A35 English, Symmetrical 24. J Hickman vs G O'Toole   0-1 58 2006 Hastings Chess Congress C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 25. E Auckland vs A Wilson   0-1 75 2006 Hastings Chess Congress D87 Grunfeld, Exchange  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Dec-29-06    yanez: <Chessgames.com> what is the official site link for this page? If there is one. Dec-29-06    Karpova: Official site: http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/ Dec-30-06    yanez: thanks Dec-31-06    Wild Bill: Some results today: Involving the four players with 3 points each: Williams ½-½ Gagunashvili Gofshtein ½-½ Cherniaev Involving palyers with 2½ points each: Tahihov 0-1 Ansell Vul 0-1 Pavlovic Pert ½-½ Rendle Games with results unreported involving players with 2½ points: Greet - Houska Jones - Eames (2 points) It's getting crowded at the top after four rounds. Dec-31-06    GBKnight: Williams-Gagunashvili was an interesting game - a sacrificial attack from williams which eventually ended in perpetual check. Worth a look when its uploaded, or you could link here : http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/gam... Dec-31-06    euripides: <GB> I looked after you posted and thought Williams was winning a masterpiece. I was surprised it ended in a perpetual. Jan-01-07    Captain Scarlet: a great shame for Williams. He played superbly for 3/4 of the game and then blew it. He can't quite make it to GM status - maybe this game illustrates why. Jan-01-07    luzhin: Can anyone recall a Hastings Congress more lamentable than this one? Not a single young player of interest-- indeed scarcely a single interesting player of any age. And most of the games posted on this site are dross, not worthy of a tournament with such a tremendous history. If this is the best that the British Chess Federation can provide then the future of the game in the UK is bleak. Jan-01-07    NimzoKing: What about N.Pert? Jan-01-07    GBKnight: Indeed the future is bleak, but lets give credit to the Hastings organisers for not letting this tournament disappear completely. How long did the great GLC tournaments of the 1980s last for? The Lloyds Bank Masters? All those huge London congresses of the 1970s/80s? The Folkestone Easter Congress ? All long gone. The ECF do not organise it by the way. Jan-02-07    Sneaky: <What about N.Pert?> The drummer for "Rush" ? Jan-02-07    KKDEREK: He plays with astouning agression! check on the above link: http://www.neilpeart.net/ Jan-02-07    JointheArmy: Flo Mountier destroys Neil Peart. Jan-02-07    KKDEREK: <Flo Mountier destroys Neil Peart.> Agreed. And Art Blakey destroys everybody. Imagine a match btw Fischer X Art Blakey !! Jan-03-07    wasspwot: You say <Luzhin> that there are no interesting young players but there is Ryan Rhys-Griffiths from Ireland who is young: apparently only took up the game at Christmas 2004 and is now rated 2100. I played a tournament in Dublin with him this time last year when he was rated 1400 or so, so thats an incredible rate of progress. Jan-03-07    Karpova: Ikonnikov won with the black pieces today. The endgame was quite interesting with his opponent - Hendriks (2439) being in time trouble. Gagunashvili won against Gofshtein today. Jan-04-07    Thrajin: <KKDEREK: <Flo Mountier destroys Neil Peart.> Agreed. And Art Blakey destroys everybody.> Then you obviously haven't heard Virgil Donati. ;-) Jan-05-07    Sneaky: < <Flo Mountier destroys Neil Peart.> Agreed. And Art Blakey destroys everybody. Imagine a match btw Fischer X Art Blakey !!> BUDDY RICH FOR ME!! But how did we get talking about drummers anyhow? I guess it's all my fault.... Jan-05-07    John Saunders: No interesting young players, eh? How about Srinath Narayanan, world under-12 champion. 5½/9, TPR of 2448. Beat a GM (admittedly a genuinely ailing one). Not bad for a pre-teen. Jan-08-07    Shajmaty: Gagunashvili-Pert, draw after 3; Cherniaev-Ikonnikov, draw after 11; Gofshtein-Pavlovic, draw after 10... too many short draws in the ninth (and last) round! The only win at the top tables, by Neverov, who shared first with Gagunashvili. Disappointing performance by Mark Hebden: +3 =5 -1. Jan-08-07    Shajmaty: Even worst by Farhad Tahirov, seeded number 4, with +2 =3 -2... and who left Hastings after 7 rounds. Jan-08-07    John Saunders: Farhad Tahirov was genuinely ill for several rounds before he withdrew, and his medication was making him sleepy. Jan-09-07    Shajmaty: <John Saunders: Farhad Tahirov was genuinely ill for several rounds before he withdrew, and his medication was making him sleepy.> Thanks for the info, John. I was not aware of this fact! Jul-22-07    bettermove: What is going on with this game: Gagunashvili-Pert, draw after 3 moves!?? This is poor IMHO- was there a valid reason for this? Otherwise top class chess is up for ridicule if short agreed draws materialize like this! Whatever the reason perhaps in a top competition the rules should be changed to say no agreed draws within 25 moves -so PLAY!

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