Gawain Jones

I couldn’t update that about the 4NCL during the weekend as that would have given away that Gawain and I were in Sunningdale about to play! There was still snow at the venue (have you seen the temperatures in Europe?) but at least London is now a nice and balmy 7degrees. 4NCL saw both of [...]

Gawain flew back into London Heathrow early Friday morning, 5.25am then we left in the afternoon for Bundesliga. Bundesliga this weekend was held in Solingen a town famous for it’s steel. Gawain’s team unfortunately didn’t win a match this weekend. In the 8th Round of the league they drew 4:4 with Dortmund. The final game [...]

Round 8 and 9 of the German Bundesliga has started earlier today. You can check out the live games here but I think there might be a slight delay on the server. Gawain’s team plays Hansa Dortmund and tomorrow will play SV Wattenscheid. If you didn’t know how the Bundesliga teams work – 4 teams play [...]

While Sue’s been busy writing on our road trip I haven’t forgotten about my Game of the Month (actually I had but Sue emailed me to remind me!). I decided to choose one of my own games. Overall the tournament was a bit of a disaster from a rating point of view, losing to Chris [...]

Day 1: Fly Auckland to Wellington We were greeted by our good friends Bill and Maria who will put us up and feed us. There is lots of Kapiti Ice-cream in the house for me.. (P.s I love ice-cream) Day 2: Wellington to Christchurch via Picton on the ferry We stopped at the Store (http://www.the-store.co.nz/) [...]

Hi all, I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.  If we have any Chinese readers Xin Nian Kuai Le( it won’t show the characters!)Now that we are getting married, I don’t receive any ang pau anymore and now will have to give but oh well. I’m in Malaysia [...]

Having received the iPad as a Christmas present I have now taken to my new toy. It is very gadgety and highly addictive. The pros are that it is easy to use especially when you are travelling and the batlay lasts an amazing long time. There are some cons that come with the device such [...]

Hello again everybody. After a few days in Malaysia eating delicious noodles and pork buns, we arrived into New Zealand very early Wednesday morning. A day spent with Andrew, Sue’s brother in the Sylvia Park shopping mall and some Burger Fuel before Sue and I flew to Wellington for the start of our roadtrip down [...]

Welcome to this year’s first GOTM! This was a tricky one to choose as so many tournaments are being played currently. I was also not very up to date as had not been online for ten days or so over Christmas. However I found the following very interesting. Before we move on to the game [...]

We would like to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year for 2012. It will be a very busy year for us as we plan on getting married. I’m pleased to announce that Gawain has cracked the Top 100 list for the first time. You can check out the January 2012 Top 100 [...]