Just a quick post to let you know that Ginger GM Simon Williams is commentating live on the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Congress daily until Wednesday 1 February. Players include Svidler, Shirov, Mamedyarov, Short, Adams, Polgar, Almasi, Le and many more! Games start at 3pm local time.
The direct link to the live video streaming commentary is http://www.livestream.com/gibchess2012. Interaction via twitter and livestream is encouraged!
One of the most fun chess events to play in, is without a shadow of doubt, the four nations chess league.
This is often a great weekend, where friends can catch up to have a nice meal, some beer and maybe a little bit of chess.
I am lucky enough to play for one of the most social teams in the event, ‘The Jutes of Kent’, a great bunch of people with fantastic team spirit. Before I move onto my games from the weekend I thought that it would be a bit of fun to introduce the players in the team, to the readers of gingergm…
Grandmaster, Nick Pert is organising and running the 1st Wellington College rapidplay and training weekend. This will run on the weekend of Saturday and Sunday 4th and 5th of February 2012.
Both days are open to adults and juniors of all levels
The Rapidplay will take place on Saturday 4th February from 10.00 am to 6.30 pm
The Training Day on Sunday 5th February from 10 am to 5 pm. ESTIMATED PRIZE FUND: £900*
There will be a number of titled players teaching on the Sunday, Nick Pert will be one such GM and myself Simon Williams should also be in attendance. For more information read below.
Just the other day I was visiting my parents house and I noticed a rather interesting picture hanging up on the wall.
Apparently, it was a photo taken of a simultaneous display by J.R.Capablanca, at the opening of the new premises of the Imperial chess club.
The photo also stated that the simultaneous took place at the premises of the Imperial chess club in Guildford and the photo was taken on October the 7th, 1922.
Last Tuesday the Drunken Knights, Surrey branch, was due to play against it’s main rivals, Sandhurst.
Sandhurst had dominated the Border league for a couple of years now, but this year they had some serious competition.
Gary O’Grady, captain and chief commander of the Drunken Knights, Surrey branch, had quite possibly, pulled together the strongest team to ever grace the border league.
In the next couple of weeks gingergm will have a new range of chess DVD’s ready for purchase.
All of these DVDs are ready for pre-order in our shop and we are even offering some special promotions up to Christmas! http://www.gingergm.com/shop/offers/
I will give a quick break down of those DVDs in this post.
I was rather surprised to see that a new book with the ‘Killer’ title is due for release in December 2011.
Someone in the gingergm team had kept very quiet about that.
Hold up a minute, it is due for release by a company called ‘Everyman’!
A company that I have written a number of books for.
Well, I suppose it is a good name but also a rather cheeky decision by the company.
As you may have heard from reading the ECF forum thread http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3494. The tournament that myself and Adam Hunt were due to play in was cancelled http://www.ajedrezcalamillor.com/en/open.php.
Unfortunately, we only found out about 4 days before we were due to play and obviously by that stage we had paid for our flight and accommodation (there were no conditions).
Another crazy idea from the twisted mind of Gary (let’s ship it to Russia) O’Grady!
It all started as it often does, down the pub on a quiet Sunday afternoon. As usual we were pretending to take part in a very civilised gingergm ‘meeting’.
Before I realised what I had agreed to, Gary had arranged a American tour and two world record attempts!
Well, I say arranged. These ideas rarely lead to anything. The problem is that when Gary’s is involved, these things often do lead to the real deal!
Anyway some more details of the crazy ‘Armageddon Tour’ are given below…
(the picture is a draft and was designed/copyrighted by David Trumble)
January 28th, 2012 | Author: 