Welsh Chess Union | International

European Seniors (Over 60) Team Championship 2012 will be held Slovenia 26^th March to 5^th April 2012

Wales will be represented by:

Iolo Jones (Captain)

John Thornton

Rudy van Kemenade

Richard Miles

Colin Gilbert

The rules of this competition place no limit on the number of teams representing Wales or a part of it that can be entered. But, as in 2011, the number of players expressing an interest was insufficient to enable us to enter more than one team.

The Tradewise Gibraltar Festival

January 24th-February 2nd

John Thornton and David Jameson played in the prestigious Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. The Masters was won by Nigel Short after a play-off against Hou Yifan.

David Jameson also played in the Challengers 1 event and came Jnt 17th. David James came 57th out of 85 players.

International Werner-Ruisinger-Memorial Meisterturnier

Richard Jones, Ioan Rees and Tim Kett played in a 10-player round robin event in Augsburg, Germany over New Year.

Team announcement

The Tradewise Gibraltar Festival

International Werner-Ruisinger-Memorial Meisterturnier

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