West London Chess Club

After what was a very close and exciting end to the seson, West London's London League team ended up top in the London League. This ensures promotion into Division 2. Check out the league table -well don team!

If you missed out on qualifying for this year's British Land UK Chess Challenge Megafinal, there is still a chance to do so on Saturday, 19th April. The tournament is open to children under 18 years of age on 1st September 2007.

Download the entry form here.

Ultimo Ernest Ignatovich 5/5 U12
1. Venson Pangven 4/5 U10
2. Samul Swanie 3.5/5 U9
3. Ben Murphy 3/5 U9
4= Joshua Crook 2.5/5 U9
Conrad Barclay 2.5/4 U9
6= Kinan Patel 2/5 U9
Fraser Barclay 2/5 U7
8. Peter Tuxen 0.5/5 U11
9. Jeremy 0/5 U12

The title of the West London Junior Champion goes to Ryyan Winter, since Ernest is the eldest in this category.

1. Ernest Ignatovich 5/5
2. Ryyan Winter 4.5/5
3. Teddy Anthony 4/5
4. Connor Williamson 3.5/5
5= Conrad Barclay 3/5
     Venson Pangven
     Peter Tuxen
     Owen Williamson
     Benjamin Tiemann
9= Thomas Russel 2.5/5
     Daniel Supple
11= Patrick Cocker 2/5
     Elodie White
     Aran Chandran
14= Lackshmi Chandran 1.5/5
     Kinan Patel
     Fraser Barclay
     Dacre Bradley

 

West London's second team in the Middlesex League are now the champions elect of Division 3! The championship was secured by winning at Barnet Knights' home venue last night, reaching a points total of 7.5, which cannot be surpassed by any other team.

The team will now be promoted to the second division. Congratulations to captain Adrian Barron and everyone who has played in the team this season.

Dunkerque

In the north of France at the heart of maritime Flanders, Cappelle-la-Grande is located at the crossroads of the coastal motorway and a Dunkerque-Leon-Paris motorway. The town belongs to the Dunkerque urban community and is on the outskirts of inland Flanders. The town is build on an area of 546 hectares. It has a population of 9000, and has an extensive areas of land for expansions for both housing and business needs. In the beginning of last century Cappelle was just a small farming town with a few thousand inhabitants. For over 30 years now the municipality has been striving to achieve an overall balance between housing, business and search land leisure facilities and to encourage Flemish style architecture.

Now the main challenge that faces the municipality could be summoned up in two words “living together”. This is why the town has build numerous facilities enabling the people of La Cappelle to meet, to debate and to welcome others through sport, culture, leisure and social projects.

La Cappelle has two sport centres. The oldest of which bears the name of Albert Denver. It offers weight training, tennis, table-tennis, and basketball as well as a multi-purpose room. The more recent Roger Gouvert (who was the governor of the town in 1960's) centre offers judo, boxing, gymnastics, a climbing wall, two multi-purpose rooms and a reception room. These facilities are fully equipped and provide optimal conditions for sport and complimented by two football pitches, one rugby pitch, an athletic stadium, where it's possible to practice Olympic disciplines. It has a swimming pool, a shooting range, a horse riding centre and more. In all sixty different sports are offered here. It also has a Planetarium! Culture is not left out, thanks to the Palais des Arts et des Loisirs, where chess players meet continually for 24 years.

The playing venue: Palais des Arts et des Loisirs

The secretary of the tournament Sylvie Templeur and vice-president of Cappele-la-Grande chess association Stéphane Gouvart

“Cappelle-la-Belle”

The rhyming flock has taken me
To breezy Dunkerque by the sea.
Cappelle-la-Grande is not far away,
Six hundred pawns for Kaissa play.

On my first day I really did feel
It's not all for nothing with words to seal
The motto of FIDE I cannot conceal:
“Genus Una Sumus”, we all have the same thrill!

They all are here with no fear,
Thirteen from Britain but where is Glenn Flear?
You can see names like Mark, Anthony
And even old wolf, Gulko Boris
Who is trying to quench his long lost thirst!
So many belles like les femmes fatale
Thrashing potential Petrosyan and Tal!

The rhyming fairy takes her appeal
To most kind arbiters with which they can deal
Let her protégée jot down her thoughts
She likes to play with some sharp words.

Let her daydream and be at ease
For better poems she will seize...
All know her, she is no chess pro,
During her games – a creative blow,
In turns they come and suddenly go,
She must maintain her status quo!

Heard enough of the striking note?
Then take a look on the perky report,
Can you guess who won the event's jack-pot?!

 And the winners are...

1. Vugar Gashimov AZE 7/9

2. David Arutiunian GEO 7/9

3. Sergey Fedorchuk UKR 7/9

Take a look at the complete list of the participants and the winners

Boris Gulko of the USA, the winner of the veterans' prize

David Arutinian of Georgia: came 2nd on tie-break

Thomas Luther of Germany

Tigran Petrosyan of Armenia

Vasilios Kotronias of Greece

Vladimir Belov of Russia

Vugar Gashimof of Azerbajan: won 1st place on tie-break

The photos of the chess Goddesses are in the alphabetical order, for we are not to judge their beauty...

Alina Motoc of Roumania

Anastazia Karlovich of Ukraine

Anna Rudolf of Hungary

Anna Zozulia of Beligium

Bella Igla of Israel

Carolina Lujan of Argentina

Donna Schut of The Netherlands

Elena Boric of Ukraine

Elena Dembo of Hungary

Elina Danielian of Armenia:the regular winner of the ladies' prize, alas, not this time...

Iona Smaran-Padurariu of Roumania

Iozefina Paulet of Roumania

Julia Kochetkova of Russia

Lisa Schut of the Netherlands

Manuela Mader of Germany

Marie Boyarchenko of Luxemburg

Martha Fierro Baquero of Ecuador

Melanie Ohme of Germany

Mihaela Sandhu of Roumania

Nelli Tovmasian of Germany

Spice Grils of Georgia

Ginger: Nino Khurtsidze

Baby: Nana Dzagnidze the winner of the ladies' prize

Sporty: Solome Melia

Posh: Nino Maisuradze

Sarah Hoolt of Germany

Sylvia Johnson of Norway

Turkan Mamedjarova of Azerbajan

Vita Chulivskaja of Ukraine

Zeinab Mamedjarova of Azerbajan

 

"O, Cappelle, wherefore you're not the heart, the belle...

For Beethoven's tune in one of your kirk bells

Makes us all sing “Ode to Joy” and bid farewell..."

 

Under 9's

1. William Winterbotham 4.5/5

2. Arian Amiri 4/5

3. Peter Tuxen 3.5/5

4. Conrad Barclay 3.5/5

5.= Owen Williamson, Samuel Swanie, Kinan Patel, William Saunter 3/5

9.= Thomas Russel, Venson Pang 2/5

11. = Evie White, Oscar Driver, Phoebe Brooks 1.5/5

Under 8's

1. Fraser Barclay 4/5

2. Connor Williamson 4/5

3. Adam Lomas 3.5/5

4.= Patrick Cocker , Elodie White, Chloe Korn 3/5

7.= Andrew Earlan, Oscar Paterson 2/5

9. Anna Saunter 1.5

10.= Kiran de Silva, Tom Korn, Louis Ryan 1/5

The first team in the Middlesex League have had a challenging time, scoring only 3 out of 7 points. That said, many of the matches were very close. The second team in Division 3 are doing exceptionally well, scoring 5 points out of 6! Three of the remaining four matches are being held at home, so there is good chance for promotion to Division 2 if we keep winning.

In the London Leage, the first team is doing reasonably well, scoring 2.5 out of 4, but there are 7 matches left. In the new fun division, the second team have scored only 1 from 4, but that's OK since it's only for fun

The European Team Championship took place in the small town of Hersonissos, which is 25 km away from Crete's capital Heraklion. There were 40 teams in the open section and 29 in the women section. Since Mark Lyell has been reporting for the BCM's website (www.bcmchess.co.uk) I will only cover the photo report part.

Hotel Creta Maris

Hotel Creta Maris

Round 1

Scotland vs England

England vs Poland

Russian vs Sweden

Bulgaria vs Lithvania

Round 2

Playing hall

England vs Ukraine

England vs Czech Republic

Armenia vs Russia

Scotland vs Austria

Round 3

Austria vs England

Finland vs England

Russia vs Bulgaria: Battle of the Sleeping Beauties

Round 4

Israel vs England

David Navara

The 4 Ks of Russia

Morozevich vs Belyavski

F.Y.R.O.M. vs Ukraine

Round 5

England vs Romania

England vs Spain

Free day in Knossos

Knossos Palace

If you know the name of this reconstracted place then let me know.

Southern chambers

The storage room

Throning room (original)

Sarunas Sulskis in front of reconstructed Western gate

Gerry Welsh looking into my camera

The Armenians: Liana, Gabriel and Siranush

The inhabitant of the Konossos Palace

On the way back we stopped in Heraklion

Morosini Fountain on Venizelou square in Heraklion, built in 1628 during Venetian Era (1204 - 1669)

Pomegranate souvenirs are popular not only in Armenia but also in Greece

And some photos of our evening activities...

Ingrid Lauterbach, Michael Adams and wife Tara

Mark Hebden, Nick Pert and Mark Lyell

Gawain Jones: don't give me that look, Mr!

Levon Aronian and Gabriel Sargsian enjoying their game, while Lilit Mkrtchian watches

Gawain Jones, Sabrina Chevannes, Peter Wells, Mark Lyell and Mark Hebden

Sabrina's having fun with the Dutch team

Stewart Conquest is in a dancing mood and so is Ivan Sokolov

There are many but Tea Lanchava is more "centralised"

The Armo & Co: Nelly Aghinian, Liana Aghabekian, Siranush Andriasian and Tigran Nalbandian

Even the loud music can make you sleepy

A Greek Godess shouting out for mercy from Poseidon... And nobody cares to rescue Tea Lanchava and Edwin L'Ami from sinking...

... and even Gabriel Sargisian on "a1" and Vladislav Nevedenichy on "h8" can't hear a thing

Gabriel: "If I can't hear anything then I will cry out loudly" . And guess which girl has got so long arms?

If you can't work out who is who on this sweet snap then you can at least now tell me who the girl is with so long arms, right?

Unfortunatelly there are no photos of round 6 and 7.

Round 7 (mobile phone photo by Emilia Horn)

England vs Sweden: Ingrid and Meri

Round 8

Lithuania vs England

Georgia vs England

Azerbaijan vs Armenia

Karen Asrian and Gabriel Sargsian

Slovenia vs Israel

Russia vs The Netherlands

Poland vs Armenia

Germany vs Spain

French Silvia Collas and Sophie Milliet

Maya Chiburdanidze without her trademark hat!

Vladimir Akopian

Vasilij Ivanchuk and Sergej Karyakin

Alex Shirov (single again!)

Round 9

Happy Peter Svidler shows off his T-shirt!

The Ukrainians

England vs Ukraine

Levon Aronian

Gabriel Sargissian

Michael Adams

Emil Sutovsky

Armenia vs Israel

Russia vs Bulgaria

Closing Ceremony

They all danced well but...

but Spano-Georgian group did better!

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The audience

Russians came first

Armenians second, hang on where is Aronian?

Always on last minute!

The Armenians: Now we have the whole team!

Azeris came 3rd

Russia's 5 Ks won the gold

Strictly come in suits: Poland 2nd place

Jolly happy Armenian girls won the bronze

Do I have to mention their names?

You should know them by now!

People were strugling to recognise the two guys on right, do you?

Board 2 winners

Board 3 winners

Board 4 winners: I know only Nana Dzagnidze how about you?

Board 5: I get 2/3 in this game of guess who is who

The English Team

Aren't they all photogenic? I love this capture! Swedish girls posing with Shirov and with you tell me who

And yet again we all relax ...

Levon Aronian

Aronian and Aghabekian in Armenian dance mood

Siranush, Lilit and Anna Motoc

David, Siranush and Lilit

Love, Love, Love, all you need is Love...

Cheers: I wish you all success but above all love and happiness!

Will be seeing you, Meri Grigoryan-Lyell.