Taking these in order, we start with the 4th AD San Juan International in Pamplona, Spain. Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Laurent Fressinet tied with 6.5/9, with Wojtaszek coming in first thanks to better tiebreaks. Startlingly, even taking his recent inactivity into account, pre-tournament favorite Alexander Morozevich scored only 4 points, putting him in a tie for 5th-7th in this 10 player event. Hopefully the poor result will stir him back into active play, to eliminate the bitter taste of this failure.
Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, the Politiken Cup got underway on Sunday. A number of 2600+ players are in this open swiss, and the top seed is 2755-rated Pavel Eljanov, the world's number eight by rating. Alongside this event is a four-day match (or two two-day matches, if you prefer) between Peter Svidler and Peter Heine-Nielsen. On Monday and Tuesday they'll play a series of 6 rapid games, and on Wednesday and Thursday they'll play blitz. About the blitz, there's good news and bad news. The good news it that they will honor Bent Larsen; the bad news is that they'll do it by making them play 1.b3 in all the games that day. (Yawn.) Anyway, they're both excellent rapid players, so the match should be entertaining and well-played.
The British Championship had a rest day on Sunday; on Saturday, Michael Adams was finally nicked for a draw. Nicholas Pert had the black pieces, but still drew very easily in a Rossolimo Sicilian. None of Adams' closest pursuers won either, so his 5.5/6 is still good for a full-point lead over the next group. That group grew, and includes Pert, Stephen Gordon, Stuart Conquest, Simon Williams, Danny Gormally, Jovanka Houska and Adam Hunt. As for early hero Jack Rudd, he lost again and has fallen to 50%.