Tuesday
Nov302010
London Warmups
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 11:01PM
The modestly (but probably appropriately) named London Chess Classic gets underway next week, and two of the English players got in a little chess action this past weekend, with varying results. Nigel Short came to the U.S. and played in a very strong open tournament in St. Louis. Four GMs tied for first, and he wasn't one of them! Meanwhile, in , the very small (but strong) Remco Heite chess tournament was won by Luke McShane with 3.5 out of 5, half a point ahead of Anish Giri and Erwin L'Ami, with Bartlomiej Macieja at 2.5 and Loek van Wely and Peter Heine Nielsen in the caboose with 1.5.
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Looking forward to see Anand and Carlsen in action.
And Van Wely announced after the tournament he'll be taking a sabbatical year !
Van Wely announced his sabbatical starting Jan of 2011 as far back as april 2010. Notice he's not on the Corus list?
Van Wely is playing at least one tournament in January, the Berkeley International:
http://dotq.org/chess/players
Late addition about van Wely, from a Dutch newspaper chess column that appeared today: Yes, his sabbatical will start after "being active in the American circuit" (several events?), but he will keep playing in the Dutch, German, French and Spanish team competitions. Still he wants to do some other things next year, for example (if he can qualify) participate in the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon.