Category: Leagues
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Bundesliga Season 2012-2013
The German Bundesliga was played over 7 weekends from October to April. Unfortunately last year my team, Remagen, got relegated and so I was obliged to find a new team. Luckily Solingen were happy to take me on board. Solingen is a city on the West side of Germany famous for its steel, a bit…
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Bundesliga Round 11 and 12
Gawain is at Bundesliga again, today he had a boring draw today against his last FIDE rated opponent from the Icelandic league (also a draw), Tomi Nyback who is the top Finnish player. Gawain is playing for Solingen who unfortunately lost today’s match to Werder Bremen It was a very close match with the final…
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Icelandic League Final Weekend
I left you on Wednesday with the completion of the Reykjavik Open. We went out for a nice meal at Gandhi, an Indian restaurant (obviously) followed by a few beers in the English Pub and Obladi-Oblada, a bar with three chess boards and clocks which were obviously used for some wind down blitz. Thursday was…
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Bundesliga
After Gib, Gawain flew into Heathrow where I managed to see him for 2 hours then he was off to Dusseldorf for Bundesliga. Unfortunately, he loss yesterday to an up and coming junior. Sometimes things just don’t click. You can follow the live games here. He plays for Solingen and is Board 3 against Polischuk. Games…
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4ncl Round 3 and 4 Update
We left Friday evening to make it up to Daventry but while we were on the train we realized we weren’t sure which hotel we were going to. Since we don’t have smart phones we couldn’t just google it so we had to call up our flatmates and learnt it was the De Vere hotel…
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4NCL Round 3 and 4 This Weekend
Follow the live boards at the main 4ncl website. Gawain’s team Guilford is in Division 1, Pool B. Here are the pairings below. I on the otherhand will be playing in Division 2 for North East England. A lot of female players play in Division 1 as the rules state “In Division 1 each match shall be…
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4ncl Guildford Debut
The Four Nations Chess League started this weekend. This season I’m playing for Guildford and we had a good start, winning the first match 7-1 against Warwickshire Select and the second 6.5-1.5 against Barbican’s second team. In round one I had Black against IM Ameet Ghasi. Ameet is the same age as me and was…
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Icelandic Chess League
Gawain now plays for the newly merged Godinn Matar chess club. We had both previously played for Matar in Iceland for the last season but unfortunately Matar was relegated from the division but fortunately for us we now have the best of both world and the most awesome and helpful team. I would like to…
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4NCL 2013/14 Season
I’m pleased to announce that Gawain has been recruited to play for Guilford in this year’s 4NCL season. After Pride and Prejudice breaking down, he switched back to his childhood team White Rose for last’s year season where they managed to finish 3rd=. I on the other hand will be playing for North East England,…
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Italian Club Championships 2012
Hello dear readers, Don’t worry the game of the month is on its way, but for now I’ll give a brief recap of my most recent tournament – the Italian Club Championships in Arvier, Val d’Aosta. This was my first time playing in the top division, Serie Master, and I made my debut for Chieti.…
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Italian League 27th of April until 1st of May
Gawain is now in Arvier, where he’ll make his debut for Chieti in the Italian League. No, I haven’t made a mistake – it’s not like the famous red wine which is Chianti. Chieti is a city not far from Rome with a population of about 55,000 (wiki). The football team S.S Chieti Calcio play in…
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Bundesliga 2011/ 2012 Round-Up
Apologies again for a long break between posting but again I’ve been very busy. I promise to update as much as possible now while I have a bit of time at home. This year I made my debut for SC Remagen in the German Bundesliga. The top division is composed of 18 teams with 8…
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Bundesliga Round 12 and 13
Gawain’s currently in Dresden, Germany playing in this weekends Bundesliga. His team just won their first match, in another must win situation. They will play again tomorrow so you should check out the Live games . Gawain drew his game against IM Rene Stern (2506) after it looked a bit troublesome but most likely it was…
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Icelandic Club Championships – March 2012
Thursday evening we headed over to Heathrow for a flight to Keflavik, Iceland. The flight was a little delayed and, with very windy weather over Iceland, very bumpy but we arrived safely and were at the hotel by 2am Friday morning. Simon Williams was on the same flight but couldn’t make it onto the bus to…
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Bundesliga Round 10/11
Gawain and his team are playing host this round. They are in last place in the league and need to win this weekend. Today they are up against Werder Bremen which is a formidable team (bottom board is GM Babula 2572). Here are the pairings 10th round: Saturday, 25th of February 2012, 2pm SC Remagen…
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Dissapointing Bundesliga 🙁
Gawain flew back into London Heathrow early Friday morning, 5.25am then we left in the afternoon for Bundesliga. Bundesliga this weekend was held in Solingen a town famous for it’s steel. Gawain’s team unfortunately didn’t win a match this weekend. In the 8th Round of the league they drew 4:4 with Dortmund. The final game…