Commonwealth Chess 2011

03/04/2011 by Nikita

If you’re a chess player still wanting to take part in the Commonwealth Chess Tournament, in South Africa, then you are lucky as you still have time to enroll till April, 8. The tournament takes place from 25th June 2011 – 3rd July 2011. If you click HERE you will find an online entry form to complete. A PDF document with all the details is linked here too. Links will open in new windows. I do hope to have time to follow this tournament and have a few entries about it- so, keep watching this space! There are about 7 Grandmasters and IM’s also taking part and these articles can also be read on the official South African site: chessa.co.za On the following link you can see more photos and details from other GM’s and IM’s from other countries who have entered for the CC2011.

http://www.chessa.co.za/tournament_websites/CWCC2011/player_profile.html

We are delighted to announce that top English Grandmaster Nigel Short (MBE) has confirmed his participation in the 2011 Commonwealth & South African Open Championships!

Nigel is a three times past champion and will be bidding to become the first player to win the title on 4 separate occasions. He has previously won the tournament in 2004, 2006 and 2008!

Having first attracted media attention by defeating GM Viktor Korchnoi as a 10-year-old, Nigel went on to become (at the time) the you8ngest International Master in chess history. In the process he broke the record previously held by no less than Bobby Fischer! He earned the Grandmaster title in 1984 (age nineteen), to become the youngest grandmaster in the world at the time.

Nigel is a former world number 3 and is possibly best known for his World Chess Championship match against Garry Kasparov in London 1993. He has been a chess professional for more than 25 years and yet continues to enjoy international success as a player. Still ranked in the top 100 players in the world, he is a highly regarded chess columnist and commentator.

He has also coached a number of the world’s best known players including GM Pentala Harikrishna, GM Sergey Karjakin, GM David Howell and GM Parimarjan Negi.

Nigel, we look forward to hosting you at the tournament.

English Grandmaster Gawain Jones has become the second British based Grandmaster to confirm his entry to the tournament. Gawain began playing chess at the age of four, and hit the headlines in 1997 when he became the youngest player in the world ever to beat an International Master in an official tournament game. He has represented England at the World Junior and World Youth Championships on many occasions and also represented England at the Chess Olympiads of 2008 (Dresden) and 2010 (Khanty-Mansiysk).

Gawain has lived in Italy, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, but now lives in London, where he is focusing on his chess career and related projects. An active player on the tournament circuit, he secured his grandmaster title in 2006. He helped make history in 2009 when he competed in the South African Open from Australia, using the online chess servers of ChessCube.com. He eventually placed second in this event, behind IM (now GM) Amon Simutowe.

Gawain has published a book on The Grand Prix Attack and is recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on the The Benoni and The Benko Gambit. He publishes blogs of his travels on his website http://gawainjones.co.uk/wp/?page_id=2

Results – Female section – Anzel Solomons in 2nd position

Results: Open Section- Deon Solomons in 4th Position

On the next image: RESULTS of the Open Section of the Commonwealth Chess Games 2011 – Top 20

Posted in Chess, Chess South Africa, Commonwealth Chess Tournament 2011 | Tagged Anzel Solomons, Chess, Chess Commonwealth 2011, Chess South Africa, Chess Tournaments 2011, Deon Solomons, Gawain Jones, Grandmasters Chess, Nigel Short, Results Chess Commonwealth championships 2011, South African chess players | 14 Comments

14 Responses

on 03/04/2011 at 13:20 Commonwealth Chess 2011 « Chessalee | Chess IQ

[…] this link: Commonwealth Chess 2011 « Chessalee Filed Under: Chess, General Tagged With: chess, commonwealth, enroll-till, player-still, […]
on 12/04/2011 at 16:36 Dan

Dang, I missed it!
on 13/04/2011 at 10:23 Nikita

🙂 too bad! but always worth trying!
on 13/04/2011 at 20:07 Dan

Actually, I was disqualified because I’m not from a Commonwealth country, despite the fact that we were once part of the British Empire.
on 13/04/2011 at 23:10 Nikita

oh cuku-makranka! The British!! lol
on 13/04/2011 at 23:37 Nikita

something else…you understand French? Listen to this song.
on 14/04/2011 at 07:57 Connie

Hi Nikita

Goeie nuus! een van die 2ling is gekies vir die SA span wat November Brazilie toe moet gaan. Die ander een het net uitgeval maar is volgende in lyn as daar iemand ontrek.

Altwee gaan ook Commonwealth toe.
on 14/04/2011 at 10:16 Nikita

hi Corrie! Dis fantastiese nuus! BAIE geluk!! Jy voel seker baie trots, he! Gaan jy saam Brazilie toe of haar ma? Sjoe, dis sommer lekker om dit te hoor. Jy sal my moet voorsien van foto’s en nuus! 🙂
- on 14/04/2011 at 10:49 Connie
  
  Ek gaan saamgaan. Al nadeel is Chessa borg nie die spelers nie en ouers moet alles self betaal 😦 Help maar dink aan maniere om ged in te samel asb. Kostes beloop ‘n astronomiese R50 000
on 14/04/2011 at 12:12 Nikita

hi Connie!Sjoe!!!!! Dis ‘n hoop geld hoor! Dis jammer dat Chessa nie ‘n ondersteunings-fonds het [waartoe mense kan bydrae – skenkings ens.] wat hulle dan kan aanwend om mense te help – al is dit teen ‘n ‘terugbetaling’-ooreenkoms met ‘n laer rentekoers. [of iets dergliks]. Ek sou nooit daardie bedrag kon bymekaarmaak vir my kind as dit my kind was nie. Ek hoop julle gaan dit kan maak! Sterkte! Dit is een astronomiese bedrag, soos jy se!
on 15/04/2011 at 15:00 johann vanderwwatt

Hallo daar!
Wil net se ek’s die onnie in ide Afrikaans-Afrikaans stukkie wat Lidani afgerig en o.a sypaadjiemense geskryf het. Dit was nou lekker om toevallig op dit af te kom. Ek’s op Facebook (Johann van der Watt) Loer gerus
on 15/04/2011 at 21:04 Nikita

Hallo my ou skool Onderwyser! 🙂 Dis goed om so ‘n boodskap hier te kry. Daardie liedjie is pragtig! Dankie, FB bladsy gekry! Ek wonder of jy nog die staptoer na die Drakensberge onthou – met Oom Jannie. Ek het iewers op my blog ‘n inskrywing daaroor.
on 21/04/2011 at 13:46 Leon de Beer

Hi Can you please write something about our new series of online tournaments. They will start on 3 May 2011 on http://www.chesstournaments.co.za The nice thing about these tournaments is the huge prize fund for the 5 tournaments, one each day, the total prize fund is R88 000. The number of places that can win money in the 5 th one is like the top 50! if you can make it up to 50th place you can win at least R350 and the entry fee for this tournament is only R170.

I will be very thank full if you could publish something about this. Rista de Beer, my wife and me orginized the SA Open 2010 last year and you supported us greatly! thanks for that. i also want to mention that we are the owners of the chess game stands that we put into school. Is saw that you wrote something about that also. thanks.
Kind regards
Leon
on 21/04/2011 at 18:56 Nikita

hi Leon, Welcome to my blog and thank you for your message, but unfortunately, I won’t have the time now to create more blog entries as I have TONS of school work to finish before Tuesday next week – not just marking and preparation, but tons of other admin-school-related work too. Also, I prefer not to blog about online-games. The best I can suggest is to use your twitter account and to tag it with #chess and ask chesscube to send out tweets too. I will tweet about it too. On chess.com you can create your own blog-entries – if you have a profile -and you can also advertise it in the chess-forums, I think you will then have a chess-audience to have access to it, as my blog is not just about chess, meaning the majority readers are def not just chess-visitors. If I blog more chess tournaments, I do have more chess visitors, but time is an issue. I’m sorry!