Other Results
Among his other notable results are first at Terrassa in 1991, joint first at Dos Hermanas in 1995 (with Kamsky and Karpov), joint first at Dortmund in 1998 (with Kramnik and Svidler) and clear first at Dos Hermanas in 1999, ahead of Kramnik, Anand, Svidler, Karpov, Veselin Topalov, Judit Polgár and others.
In more recent times, he won the fifth Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament in August 2007, achieving a score of 8½/11 (six wins, five draws), picking up the top purse of £1000. Adams, the highest seeded player in the tournament by 45 Elo points, finished a full point ahead of Dutch Grand Masters Ivan Sokolov and Loek van Wely. The tournament, played in London, is an annual memorial to the British chess master Howard Staunton. Prior to the start of the tournament, on 4 August, Adams married his longtime girlfriend, the actress Tara MacGowran, at a ceremony in Taunton, close to where they live.
In September 2007, Adams took part in a match between United Kingdom and China, held in Liverpool, England. Playing alongside Adams was former World Championship challenger GM Nigel Short. This chess event was the first time in almost 15 years that the two GMs had played chess together on British soil. Overall, he scored 3½/6, conceding one loss to GM Zhang Pengxiang (ELO 2649, at time of match) in round four. The UK team lost the match to China, 20–28, who had also defeated a Russian chess team a few weeks before.
Adams won the 2nd Ruy Lopez Masters tournament held in Mérida, Spain, 4–13 April 2008, scoring 5½/7 to finish a half point ahead of Zhang Pengxiang. The tournament was an eight-player round-robin with an average rating of 2616 (FIDE category 15). In August 2008, there was a second successive victory in the Staunton Memorial. Adams finished on 8/11, ahead of Loek Van Wely (7½/11) and Jan Smeets (7/11). He followed this with a share of second place at the 4th EU Individual Open Chess Championship in Liverpool, joining Viktor Laznicka and Nigel Short on 7½/10 (after winner Jan Werle, 8/10).
After topping a strong open tournament in Gibraltar in 2010, he convincingly won the 2010 British Chess Championship, held in Canterbury, with an undefeated score of 9.5/11.
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