Early June I played in the Swiss Rapid Chess Masters, a well organised one day tournament in Pfaffikon on Lake Zurich. I received a pleasant surprise on arrival with a gift of a bag of Swiss chocolates waiting for me in my room. The weather was re...
So my intention was to write a tournament update for each of my tournaments played since the Icelandic League but that isn't really viable so I've decided to round it all up in one update. Going back to March I played the Reykjavik Open. I starte...
Wednesday evening I returned to Iceland for the second half of the Icelandic league. The first half of the season had gone very well, see http://gawainjones.co.uk/return-to-iceland/ and we were fighting for the top couple of places and qualificati...
Last year I was unable to play Bunratty as it clashed with my time in Iceland but with the dates moved to earlier in February this year Sue and I were able to return to Ireland's premier weekend tournament. I had been over at my parents' and took ...
Hello all. I'm writing this from Auckland, in the pleasant New Zealand Summer, at my in-laws. I decided to try and give you some Christmas reading with an update on the London Classic http://www.londonchessclassic.com/super16.table.htm from my poi...
You can read this update and many more at my website gawainjones.co.uk The first half of the Icelandic League was played a couple of weeks ago and Sue and I made the trip over to play for our team GM Hellir. When I started playing the team was Ma...
