THE WEEK IN CHESS 354 20th August 2001 by Mark Crowther
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Contents
1) Introduction
2) Lostboys Open
2001
3) Villarobledo International Open rapidplay
4) SuperGM in Wijk aan Zee and Moscow
5)
World Junior Chess Championships
6) 3rd Asian Individual
Championships
7) American Continental
Championships
8) Montreal International
9) Togliatty Open
10) First Saturday
August
11) US Open
12) 76th French
Championships
13) Slovakian Team Championships
14) Spanish Team Championships 2nd Division
15) Summer in Olomouc
16) XV Sanlucar
Open
17) Slavonija 2001
18) Third
Saturday in Belgrade
19) Presov Chess Festival
20) Bergen Chess International
21)
Obituaries
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Games section
Lostboys Open 2001 194 games
World Juniors 152 games
3rd Asian Individual 409 games
American Continental 420 games
Montreal International 6 games
Togliatty Open 440 games
First Saturday August 52 games
US Open 453 games
76th French Championships 60 games
Slovakian Team Championships 528 games
Spanish Team 2nd Division 304 games
Summer in Olomouc 354 games
XV Sanlucar Open 14 games
Slavonija 2001 126 games
Third Saturday in Belgrade 6 games
Bergen Chess corrections 9 games
3527 games
My thanks to Ron Henley, Andy McFarland, Vadim Emelyanov, Laszlo Nagy,
Martin Dlouhy, Ian Rogers, Mihajlo Savic, Vladica Andrejic, Hal Terrie, Raj
Tischbierek, Antonio Bento, Eirik Gullaksen, Lahcene Chemali, Pierre
Barthélémy, Magyar István, John Hillery, Jakub Fuksik, Don
Wedding, Marco Bergsma, David Llada, George Mirijanian, Stewart Reuben and all
those who helped with this issue.
This week the Lost Boys Open and the continental championships of Asia
and America head the news. I'm strongly in favour of these Continental events
which could be the long term solution to making the FIDE Championships
themselves less unwieldy. A reduction of the number of players to 32 in the
finals of the championships and a subsequent strengthening of these continental
qualification events would make them even more attractive and allow longer
knockout matches in the finals or even a different format altogether. Having
only 32 players in the FIDE final would I believe make it much easier to cover
for the media in general and increase the chances of publicity.
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
The ninth Lost Boys International open tournament took place August
10th-19th 2001 in Amsterdam. Mikhail Gurevich, Loek Van Wely, Ivan Sokolov,
Jeroen Piket, Pavel Tregubov Emil Sutovsky, Boris Avrukh, Jan Timman and Friso
Nijboer headed the field of 85 players. Loek Van Wely took clear first by a
point on 7.5/9 a point clear of Emil Sutovsky, Ivan Sokolov, Jeroen Piket and
Jan Timman.
Internet coverage: http://chess.lostcity.nl/lostboys2001/
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Lost Boys Open Amsterdam NED (NED), 10-19 viii 2001
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1. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2695 7.5 51.0 42.25 2793 +1.20
2. Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2651 6.5 51.0 35.75 2663 +0.20
3. Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2659 6.5 49.5 33.75 2657 +0.11
4. Piket, Jeroen g NED 2630 6.5 45.0 31.75 2599 -0.25
5. Timman, Jan g NED 2597 6.5 44.0 30.75 2605 +0.11
6. Van den Doel, Erik g NED 2607 6.0 49.5 31.0 2578 +0.06
7. Gershon, Alik g ISR 2553 6.0 49.0 29.5 2628 +1.14
8. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2551 6.0 47.0 27.5 2602 +0.96
9. Tregubov, Pavel V g RUS 2617 6.0 46.5 29.75 2553 -0.48
10. Jonkman, Harmen m NED 2468 6.0 43.5 28.75 2456 -0.12
11. Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav g RUS 2552 6.0 42.5 28.5 2455 -1.11
12. Shchekachev, Andrei g RUS 2546 5.5 48.5 25.5 2598 +0.82
13. Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2598 5.5 48.5 24.5 2529 -0.78
14. De Vreugt, Dennis g NED 2429 5.5 48.0 26.75 2493 +0.91
15. Gustafsson, Jan m GER 2535 5.5 47.5 27.25 2530 +0.01
16. Ernst, Sipke m NED 2440 5.5 46.5 26.0 2491 +0.73
17. Roobol, Martin NED 2261 5.5 45.0 26.5 2441 +2.80
18. Gurevich, Mikhail g BEL 2633 5.5 41.5 23.25 2438 -1.88
19. Afek, Yochanan m ISR 2381 5.5 41.5 23.0 2387 +0.19
20. Van Blitterswijk, Stefan f NED 2380 5.5 41.0 24.25 2391 +0.28
21. Bosboom-Lanchava, Tea wm NED 2338 5.5 38.5 21.25 2353 +0.82
22. Hendriks, Willy NED 2321 5.0 46.0 24.0 2479 +2.03
23. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2498 5.0 45.5 26.25 2456 -0.52
24. Solleveld, Maarten m NED 2427 5.0 44.0 22.25 2444 +0.23
25. L'Ami, Erwin NED 2275 5.0 43.5 22.25 2424 +2.03
26. Stellwagen, Daniel NED 2337 5.0 42.5 19.25 2448 +1.67
27. Michiels, Bart BEL 2113 5.0 40.5 21.75 2358 +3.29
28. Grooten, Herman m NED 2374 5.0 40.5 19.0 2354 +0.05
29. Krnic, Zdenko m YUG 2389 5.0 38.5 20.25 2354 -0.49
30. De Jong, Migchiel f NED 2273 5.0 38.5 19.75 2380 +2.03
31. Vedder, Richard NED 2220 5.0 36.0 17.75 2356 +2.39
32. Handke, Florian m GER 2384 4.5 48.5 22.0 2393 +0.72
33. Wintzer, Joachim f GER 2378 4.5 46.5 21.75 2364 -0.09
34. Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan m GEO 2446 4.5 45.0 20.25 2389 -0.63
35. Witt, Rob f NED 2280 4.5 42.0 20.25 2358 +1.53
36. Bezemer, Arno NED 2296 4.5 41.0 18.5 2372 +1.26
37. Gohil, Harry GER 2307 4.5 40.5 18.0 2354 +0.99
38. Blees, Albert m NED 2377 4.5 40.5 17.25 2314 -0.72
39. Sinz, Bernhard GER 2188 4.5 40.0 17.25 2341 +2.25
40. Bachofner, Andreas AUT 2261 4.5 39.5 19.5 2356 +1.53
41. Dutreeuw, Marc m BEL 2390 4.5 39.0 18.75 2261 -1.53
42. Smeets, Jan NED 2311 4.5 39.0 14.75 2309 +0.09
43. Nep, Ron NED 2424 4.5 37.0 16.5 2267 -1.71
44. Nemet, Ivan g SUI 2427 4.5 36.0 15.5 2307 -1.53
45. Ree, Hans g NED 2421 4.5 34.5 16.25 2277 -1.86
79 player
The Villarobledo International Open rapidplay tournament took place
18th-19th August 2001. It was a 25 minutes rapidplay competition with Anand,
Shirov, Vallejo, Beliavksy, Tiviakov, Milov, Rustemov, Chernin etc. Viswanathan
Anand won the event on tie-break from Alexei Shirov both of whom finished on
7.5/9. Games from the top boards will be available next week.
Live coverage: http://www.ajedrezvillarrobledo.com
Leading Final Standings
1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2794 7.5 52.5 58.00
2. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2706 7.5 52.0 57.00
3. Kolev, Atanas g BUL 2571 7.0 49.5 53.50
4. Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g YUG 2548 7.0 49.5 53.00
5. Agrest, Evgenij g SWE 2529 7.0 48.5 48.50
6. Lalic, Bogdan g ENG 2528 7.0 47.5 50.50
7. Collas, Didier m FRA 2378 7.0 47.0 51.00
8. Chernin, Alexander g HUN 2601 7.0 46.5 50.50
9. Milov, Vadim g SUI 2614 6.5 49.5 53.50
10. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2630 6.5 48.5 53.00
11. Moreno Carnero, Javier m ESP 2514 6.5 48.5 52.50
12. Palac, Mladen g CRO 2578 6.5 48.0 52.50
13. Franco Ocampos, Zenon g ESP 2515 6.5 48.0 51.00
14. Oratovsky, Michael m ISR 2493 6.5 47.0 47.00
15. Magem Badals, Jordi g ESP 2513 6.5 46.5 51.00
16. Khenkin, Igor g GER 2579 6.5 46.0 50.50
17. Gofshtein, Zeev-Alon g ISR 2518 6.5 46.0 49.50
18. Garcia Ilundain, David g ESP 2479 6.5 45.5 45.50
19. De La Riva Aguado, Oscar m AND 2508 6.5 45.0 49.00
20. Saldano, Horacio f ARG 2422 6.5 40.0 41.50
21. Minzer, Claudio Javier m ARG 2371 6.5 39.0 42.50
22. Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2659 6.0 48.5 52.50
23. Kurajica, Bojan g BIH 2566 6.0 48.0 50.00
24. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2618 6.0 47.5 52.00
25. Komljenovic, Davor g CRO 2478 6.0 47.5 51.50
26. Romero Holmes, Alfonso g ESP 2455 6.0 47.0 51.00
27. San Segundo Carrillo, Pablo g ESP 2528 6.0 46.5 50.50
28. Suba, Mihai g ROM 2538 6.0 45.5 49.50
29. Lazarev, Vladimir g RUS 2459 6.0 45.5 48.50
30. Stefanova, Antoaneta (IM) wg BUL 2459 6.0 45.0 48.00
31. Pelletier, Yannick g SUI 2531 6.0 44.5 48.50
32. Dolezal, Cristian f ARG 2392 6.0 43.5 45.50
33. Bertona, Fernando ARG 2411 6.0 43.0 45.50
34. Tyomkin, Dimitri g ISR 2461 6.0 42.5 45.00
35. Aleksieva, Silvia wg BUL 2360 6.0 41.5 44.50
36. Llobel Cortell, Enrique ESP 2400 6.0 40.5 41.50
The dutch chess-magazine "Schaaknieuws" reports that the Chairman of
the Corus Chess Commitee Dolf Vos has announced there will be another
tournament organised in 2003 ending speculation that the 2002 event might be
the last.
He added that the 2002 Corus Tournament will be a Category 18 or 19
event. Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik will participate along with Dutch
players Van Wely, Jeroen Piket and Jan Timman. There will be other players and
Mikhail Gurevich the winner of the B Group last year. The event will run
11th-27th January 2002.
According to a report on Dutch Teletext (15th August 2001) Vladimir
Kramnik, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov will play in a tournament in
December to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Botvinnik in
Moscow subject to agreeing a contract to be signed in September. The idea is
that they will play each other four times for a prize-fund of around $600,000.
I haven't had confirmation of this second event, presumably it will
happen if the contracts get signed.
91 boys and 62 girls are competing in the 2001 World Junior U20 Chess
Championships which take place August 16-29 in Athens, Greece. After 4 rounds
Emanuel Berg and Sergei Azarov in the boys and Nadezhda Kosintseva and Gu
Xiaobingare in the girls are on 100%.
Internet coverage: http://www.greekchess.com/pagosmio
Round 4 Standings
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WJun Athens GRE (GRE), 16-14 viii 2001
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1. Berg, Emanuel m SWE 2496 4.0 9.5 3010 +1.12
2. Azarov, Sergei BLR 2461 4.0 9.0 3042 +1.48
3. Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2553 3.5 11.0 2767 +0.82
4. Izoria, Zviad m GEO 2486 3.5 10.5 2654 +0.58
5. Gagunashvili, Merab m GEO 2444 3.5 7.0 2971 +0.90
6. Ni Hua f CHN 2568 3.0 7.5 2502 -0.28
7. Miton, Kamil m POL 2516 3.0 8.0 2563 +0.20
8. Sargissian, Gabriel m ARM 2514 3.0 8.0 2538 +0.12
9. Roiz, Michael m ISR 2511 3.0 7.5 2500 -0.04
10. Navara, David m CZE 2491 3.0 10.0 2555 +0.32
11. Postny, Evgeny m ISR 2486 3.0 7.5 2485 +0.00
12. Korobov, Anton UKR 2470 3.0 7.5 2473 +0.00
13. Sedlak, Nikola m YUG 2457 3.0 6.0 2505 +0.24
14. Schenk, Andreas GER 2455 3.0 6.5 2507 +0.24
15. Stryjecki, Marek m POL 2441 3.0 9.0 2505 +0.32
16. Neiksans, Arturs LAT 2435 3.0 6.0 2342 -0.34
17. Kapnisis, Spyridon GRE 2373 3.0 6.5 2625 +0.91
18. Zhao Zong-Yuan m AUS 2359 3.0 9.0 2619 +1.04
19. Mahesh Chandran, P IND 2339 3.0 10.0 2595 +1.04
20. Gomez,Jean Paul ---- 3.0 9.5 2625 +1.00
21. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2562 2.5 8.0 2416 -0.70
22. Shaposhnikov, Evgeny m RUS 2519 2.5 10.5 2508 -0.06
23. Acs, Peter g HUN 2514 2.5 7.0 2401 -0.58
24. Markos, Jan SVK 2479 2.5 9.5 2395 -0.42
25. Pert, Nicholas f ENG 2475 2.5 7.5 2373 -0.37
26. Karttunen, Mika m FIN 2466 2.5 10.0 2459 -0.06
27. Simutowe, Amon m ZAM 2462 2.5 8.5 2335 -0.51
28. Kristjansson, Stefan f ISL 2380 2.5 5.0 2274 -0.37
29. Thorfinnsson, Bragi ISL 2371 2.5 9.5 2523 +0.62
30. Du Shan f CHN 2352 2.5 8.5 2471 +0.48
31. Palliser, Richard f ENG 2337 2.5 11.0 2541 +1.10
32. Potkin, Vladimir m RUS 2530 2.0 7.5 2203 -1.28
33. Bunzmann, Dimitrij m GER 2509 2.0 8.0 2336 -0.92
34. Vajda, Levente m ROM 2507 2.0 11.0 2356 -0.80
35. Bakre, Tejas m IND 2462 2.0 5.5 2244 -1.12
36. Berkvens, Joost NED 2444 2.0 8.5 2358 -0.31
37. Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios GRE 2435 2.0 9.5 2403 -0.13
38. Flores, Diego ARG 2425 2.0 9.0 2422 +0.00
39. Schneider, Dmitry f USA 2405 2.0 9.0 2320 -0.48
40. Alvarez, Johan VEN 2382 2.0 5.0 2170 -1.08
91 players
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WJun Women Athens GRE (GRE), 16-14 viii 2001
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1. Kosintseva, Nadezhda wf RUS 2319 4.0 9.0 2883 +1.36
2. Gu Xiaobing CHN 2300 4.0 8.0 2940 +1.35
3. Xu Yuanyuan wf CHN 2431 3.0 9.5 2413 -0.08
4. Kosintseva, Tatiana wf RUS 2390 3.0 9.5 2432 +0.16
5. Paehtz, Elisabeth wm GER 2383 3.0 10.0 2392 -0.01
6. Koneru, Humpy wm IND 2387 3.0 12.0 2446 +0.28
7. Mkrtchian, Lilit wg ARM 2376 3.0 9.5 2407 +0.16
8. Radziewicz, Iweta wg POL 2375 3.0 10.5 2463 +0.44
9. Dzagnidze, Nana f GEO 2321 3.0 9.0 2398 +0.36
10. Khukhashvili, Sopiko wm GEO 2295 3.0 10.5 2483 +0.96
11. Calotescu, Cristina wf ROM 2283 3.0 7.5 2375 +0.44
12. Charkhalashvili, Inga wf GEO 2278 3.0 9.0 2484 +1.08
13. Aarthie, Ramaswamy wm IND 2249 3.0 7.0 2317 +0.26
14. Meenakshi, S IND 2245 3.0 8.0 2521 +1.10
15. Hryhorenko, Nataliya UKR 2128 3.0 9.0 2489 +1.01
16. Jackova, Jana wm CZE 2350 2.5 10.0 2307 -0.26
17. Reizniece, Dana wg LAT 2312 2.5 7.5 2228 -0.42
18. Zimina, Olga wm RUS 2312 2.5 9.0 2351 +0.18
19. Kaps, Darja wf SLO 2221 2.5 6.0 2019 -0.52
20. Khamrakulova, Iroda UZB 2217 2.5 10.0 2330 +0.45
21. Zuriel, Marisa wf ARG 2202 2.5 4.5 2050 -0.20
62 players
3rd Asian Individual Championships take place 9th-18th August, 2001 in
Calcutta. Zhang Zhong leads a strong Chinese challenge at the Gorky Sadan,
Calcutta. The event was won by Xu Jun on 8.5/11, Saidali Iuldachev finished in
2nd place on 8 and Surya Shekhar Ganguly took third on tie-break from Zhang
Pengxiang, Alexei Barsov and Ehsan Ghaem Maghami all of whom finished on
7.5.
Nine Round Norms: P.Hariksishna (Ind) - Gm Norm (3rd Norm) Ghaem
Maghami Eshan (Iri) - Final Gm Norm Vakhidov Tahir (Uzb) - Gm Norm Zang
Pengxiang (Chn) - Final Gm Norm Surya Shekhar Ganguly (Ind) - Gm Norm Sriram
Jha (Ind) Final Im Norm Nolte Rolando (Phi) - Im Norm Mahjoob Morteza (Iri) -
Im Norm Mallahi Amir (Iri) - Im Norm Wang Yue (Chn) - Im Norm
Ten Round Norms: Final Im Title : Sriram Jha (Ind) Gm Norms : Surya
Shekhar Ganguly (Ind) Ghaem Maghami Eshan (Iri) Li Wenliang (Chn) Im Norms :
Wang Yue (Chn) Nolte Rolando (Phi) Mahjoob Morteza (Iri)
Internet coverage: http://www.asianchess2001.com/
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Asian Championships Calcutta IND (IND), 9-17 viii 2001
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1. Xu Jun g CHN 2646 8.5 Gold $ 12,000
2. Iuldachev, Saidali g UZB 2508 8.0 Silver $ 10,000
3. Ganguly, Surya Shekhar m IND 2464 7.5 25251 Bronze $ 5,750
4. Zhang Pengxiang m CHN 2487 7.5 25158 $ 5,750
5. Barsov, Alexei g UZB 2495 7.5 25054 $ 5,750
6. Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan m IRI 2509 7.5 24953 $ 5,750
7. Barua, Dibyendu g IND 2499 7.0 25304 $ 1,555
8. Li Wenliang m CHN 2494 7.0 25277 $ 1,555
9. Al-Modiahki, Mohamad g QAT 2492 7.0 25024 $ 1,555
10. Harikrishna, P m IND 2522 7.0 24959 $ 1,555
11. Safin, Shukhrat g UZB 2529 7.0 24827 $ 1,555
12. Yu Shaoteng m CHN 2517 7.0 24631 $ 1,555
13. Nguyen Anh Dung g VIE 2533 7.0 24493 $ 1,555
14. Odeev, Handszar m TKM 2479 7.0 24388 $ 1,555
15. Kostenko, Petr m KAZ 2494 7.0 24102 $ 1,555
16. Vakhidov, Tahir m UZB 2474 6.5 25335 $ 555
17. Zagrebelny, Sergey g UZB 2466 6.5 24893 $ 555
18. Dzhumaev, Marat g UZB 2497 6.5 24805 $ 555
19. Vladimirov, Evgeny g KAZ 2612 6.5 24624 $ 555
20. Wang Zili g CHN 2557 6.5 24607 $ 555
21. Wu Wenjin g CHN 2560 6.5 24525 $ 555
22. Torre, Eugenio g PHI 2541 6.5 24442 $ 555
23. Magai, Vladimir m KGZ 2537 6.5 24345 $ 555
24. Kazhgaleyev, Murtas g KAZ 2585 6.5 24281 $ 555
76 players
The American Continental Championships take place in Cali Colombia
9th-20th August 2001. The event is an 11 round Swiss and is also a qualifier
for the FIDE Championships for which there are seven qualification places.
After 10/11 rounds Alex Yermolinsky leads with 8/10 half a point clear of
Alexander Goldin, Lenier Dominguez, Boris Gulko and Alonso Zapata.
Internet coverage:
http://galeon.com/continental_cali/partidas.htm
(also finger Americas2001 on ICC).
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I American Continental Cali COL (COL), 9-20 viii 2001
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1. Yermolinsky, Alex g USA 2571 8.0 63.5 49.50 46.5 2684 +1.30
2. Goldin, Alexander g USA 2594 7.5 67.0 49.25 47.5 2699 +1.30
3. Dominguez, Lenier m CUB 2585 7.5 65.0 47.75 44.5 2675 +1.10
4. Gulko, Boris F g USA 2602 7.5 64.5 47.50 42.0 2627 +0.30
5. Zapata, Alonso g COL 2530 7.5 60.0 44.50 42.0 2601 +0.80
6. Gurevich, Dmitry g USA 2550 7.0 62.5 40.50 43.5 2603 +0.70
7. Ivanov, Alexander g USA 2573 7.0 63.0 42.50 42.0 2588 +0.20
8. Leitao, Rafael g BRA 2571 7.0 62.5 41.75 42.0 2598 +0.30
9. Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2581 7.0 64.5 43.25 41.5 2613 +0.40
10. Campora, Daniel H g ARG 2506 7.0 64.5 43.00 41.5 2577 +0.90
11. Arencibia, Walter g CUB 2548 7.0 61.0 41.25 40.5 2535 -0.10
12. Morovic Fernandez, Ivan g CHI 2565 7.0 63.5 42.75 40.5 2553 -0.10
13. Lima, Darcy g BRA 2543 7.0 59.0 38.00 40.5 2538 -0.10
14. Ricardi, Pablo g ARG 2545 7.0 62.5 41.75 40.0 2534 -0.10
15. Abreu, Aryam m CUB 2488 7.0 58.5 39.75 39.0 2513 +0.30
16. Hoffman, Alejandro g ARG 2481 7.0 54.0 36.00 38.5 2518 +0.42
17. Nogueiras, Jesus g CUB 2525 7.0 58.5 39.50 38.5 2488 -0.40
18. Cabrera, Alexis m CUB 2415 7.0 59.0 38.00 38.5 2566 +1.86
19. Szmetan, Jorge m ARG 2406 7.0 56.5 36.75 36.5 2504 +1.14
20. Garcia, Gildardo g COL 2490 6.5 63.5 38.00 41.0 2520 +0.40
21. Cuartas, Jaime Alexander COL 2362 6.5 55.5 30.50 35.5 2457 +1.06
22. Gamboa, Nelson m COL 2354 6.5 53.0 29.25 34.5 2361 +0.10
23. Mosquera, Miguel COL 2344 6.5 56.0 32.25 34.5 2446 +1.27
24. Leyva, Hector m ESA 2428 6.5 55.0 34.50 34.5 2398 -0.35
25. Echavarria, Johann COL 2372 6.5 50.0 28.75 33.5 2361 -0.14
26. Garcia, Alvaro COL COL 2260 6.5 49.0 29.75 32.0 2297 +0.25
27. Acosta, Alejandro COL m COL 2300 6.5 51.0 30.00 31.0 2303 +0.00
28. Cueto, J f BOL 2363 6.5 45.5 29.25 30.5 2403 +0.25
29. Shabalov, Alexander g USA 2574 6.0 67.0 37.25 42.0 2545 -0.40
30. Bruzon, Lazaro g CUB 2573 6.0 64.0 36.00 39.0 2480 -1.20
31. Zarnicki, Pablo g ARG 2487 6.0 61.0 34.25 37.5 2457 -0.40
32. Castro, Oscar H m COL 2364 6.0 59.5 32.00 37.0 2438 +0.86
33. Clavijo, Jorge m COL 2375 6.0 63.5 37.00 36.5 2497 +1.49
34. Estrada Nieto, Julian m MEX 2348 6.0 58.5 32.00 36.5 2453 +0.98
35. Oblitas, Carlomagno m PER 2411 6.0 57.0 31.75 36.0 2406 -0.13
36. Cuartas, Carlos m COL 2302 6.0 54.0 27.50 34.0 2341 +0.34
37. Van Riemsdijk, Herman C m BRA 2358 6.0 53.5 26.50 34.0 2371 +0.16
38. Uribe, Mauricio COL 2337 6.0 56.0 30.00 34.0 2377 +0.50
39. Araque, Rafael COL 2388 6.0 52.0 27.00 34.0 2332 -0.64
40. Ruiz, Pablo COL 2290 6.0 53.5 27.00 33.0 2241 -0.40
41. Rodriguez, Andres g URU 2504 6.0 50.0 29.25 31.5 2328 -2.10
42. Valderrama,Gilberto ---- 6.0 50.5 29.25 31.0 2347 +1.00
43. Vittorino, Carlo COL 2257 6.0 53.0 28.00 31.0 2408 +1.48
146 players
The Category 9 Montreal International took place August 2nd-13th 2001.
Alexandre Lesiege won the event with a score of 8/11 half a point clear of
Tomas Oral, Vladimir Kosyrev and Eduardas Rozentalis. Information Ron
Henley.
Internet coverage: http://fqechecs.qc.ca
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It Montreal CAN (CAN), 2-14 viii 2001 cat. IX (2456)
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1. Lesiege, Alexandre g CAN 2564 * = 0 = = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 2621
2. Oral, Tomas g CZE 2540 = * = 1 = = 1 = 1 1 = = 7.5 2581
3. Kosyrev, Vladimir g RUS 2554 1 = * = = = 1 = = 1 1 = 7.5 2579
4. Rozentalis, Eduardas g LTU 2588 = 0 = * = 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 7.5 2576
5. Turov, Maxim g RUS 2550 = = = = * 1 = = = = 1 1 7.0 2549
6. Barbeau, Sylvain f CAN 2365 = = = 0 0 * 0 1 = 1 1 1 6.0 2500
7. Zugic, Igor m CAN 2440 0 0 0 = = 1 * = 1 = 1 = 5.5 2457
8. Charbonneau, Pascal CAN 2405 0 = = 0 = 0 = * 1 = 0 1 4.5 2395
9. Krush, Irina m USA 2421 0 0 = = = = 0 0 * 1 1 0 4.0 2357
10. Mikanovic, Goran f CAN 2273 0 0 0 0 = 0 = = 0 * = 1 3.0 2297
11. Hebert, Jean m CAN 2427 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 = * 1 3.0 2283
12. Goldenberg, Danny f CAN 2343 0 = = 0 0 0 = 0 1 0 0 * 2.5 2255
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The 7th Stage of the Russian Cup took place in Togliatty 8th-16th Aug
2001. The event saw Andrei Belozerov and Evgeniy Najer finish on 7/9 half a
point clear of four players on 6.5. My thanks to Vadim Emelyanov for the
information.
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1. Belozerov, Andrei m RUS 2507 +68 =47 +41 +40 =19 =11 = 9 +18 + 7 7.0 2650
2. Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2599 -18 +80 =16 +49 +46 =17 +20 +32 + 9 7.0 2602
3. Kurnosov, Igor RUS 2361 +85 =20 +36 = 4 = 7 +14 +11 = 9 =10 6.5 2604
4. Akhmetov, Artiom f RUS 2466 +37 =46 +44 = 3 +61 = 6 = 8 +22 = 5 6.5 2594
5. Zakharstov, Viacheslav V m RUS 2496 +39 =41 =47 +54 =29 +35 +10 = 7 = 4 6.5 2587
6. Popov, Valerij g RUS 2559 +49 +25 =17 =48 +50 = 4 - 7 +35 +23 6.5 2588
7. Kokarev, Dmitry m RUS 2463 =58 +28 +73 =46 = 3 +44 + 6 = 5 - 1 6.0 2480
8. Alekseev, Evgeny m RUS 2544 =55 =31 +57 +47 +20 = 9 = 4 =23 =13 6.0 2540
9. Yandemirov, Valeri g RUS 2486 =62 +27 +51 +45 +48 = 8 = 1 = 3 - 2 6.0 2547
10. Burmakin, Vladimir g RUS 2593 +53 =30 =20 +25 =12 +48 - 5 +45 = 3 6.0 2517
11. Vorobiov, Evgeny E g RUS 2503 +64 +35 =45 =50 +33 = 1 - 3 =16 +30 6.0 2480
12. Meister, Yakov m RUS 2461 +66 +43 =33 =13 =10 -18 =46 +38 +34 6.0 2527
13. Yevseev, Denis m RUS 2530 =31 +55 +60 =12 =30 =29 =18 +43 = 8 6.0 2500
14. Alavkin, Arseny m RUS 2466 +56 +34 =50 =33 =17 - 3 =16 +61 +29 6.0 2493
15. Iljushin, Alexei g RUS 2529 +57 +74 -48 =35 -34 +31 +51 =29 +41 6.0 2507
16. Ayupov, Damir RUS 2313 -19 +91 = 2 =21 +92 +54 =14 =11 +32 6.0 2522
17. Tunik, Gennady m RUS 2451 +80 +18 = 6 =19 =14 = 2 -22 +44 =21 5.5 2534
18. Geller, Jakov RUS 2355 + 2 -17 +93 =36 +40 +12 =13 - 1 =22 5.5 2525
19. Nikitin, Andrey g RUS 2535 +16 +79 =40 =17 = 1 =30 =45 =34 =26 5.5 2474
20. Shinkevich, Vitaly m RUS 2456 +83 = 3 =10 +38 - 8 +33 - 2 =27 +51 5.5 2495
21. Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina wg RUS 2507 =27 =62 =64 =16 =63 =49 +31 +46 =17 5.5 2400
22. Loginov, Valery A g RUS 2507 =28 +52 =30 -29 +69 +61 +17 - 4 =18 5.5 2409
23. Grebionkin, Vladimir f RUS 2465 +59 -33 =62 =63 +70 +50 +38 = 8 - 6 5.5 2447
24. Kornev, Alexei RUS 2525 +77 -45 =31 +56 -44 -51 +69 +39 +37 5.5 2387
25. Chuiko, Alexander m RUS 2414 +91 - 6 +39 -10 +64 =37 =44 =28 +52 5.5 2406
26. Skatchkov, Pavel m RUS 2458 +67 -50 +68 -61 +77 +53 =29 =37 =19 5.5 2418
27. Iljin, Artem RUS 2272 =21 - 9 +78 -60 =75 +86 +54 =20 +45 5.5 2381
28. Utnasunov, Alexander RUS 2279 =22 - 7 =72 +90 +79 -45 +74 =25 +48 5.5 2459
29. Doroshkievich, Vladimir K m RUS 2401 =73 =42 +59 +22 = 5 =13 =26 =15 -14 5.0 2400
30. Solovjev, Nikolay RUS 2166 +76 =10 =22 +43 =13 =19 -32 +53 -11 5.0 2486
31. Mikheev, Stanislav RUS 2310 =13 = 8 =24 =32 +36 -15 -21 +76 +60 5.0 2512
32. Zakharevich, Igor g RUS 2477 =52 +58 -46 =31 +57 +34 +30 - 2 -16 5.0 2372
33. Bocharov, Dmitry m RUS 2385 +84 +23 =12 =14 -11 -20 +56 -41 +63 5.0 2408
34. Zamruk, Aleksandar RUS 2389 +75 -14 =69 +73 +15 -32 +60 =19 -12 5.0 2391
35. Mirovshchikov, Sergey RUS 2394 +89 -11 +67 =15 +60 - 5 +40 - 6 =36 5.0 2455
36. Ovetchkin, Roman m RUS 2511 +63 =51 - 3 =18 -31 +62 =49 +70 =35 5.0 2372
37. Kniazev, Alexander V RUS 2243 - 4 +94 =74 +51 =45 =25 +48 =26 -24 5.0 2434
38. Panarin, Michail RUS 2377 -93 +82 +92 -20 +39 +41 -23 -12 +68 5.0 2321
39. Zangiev, P RUS 2266 - 5 +71 -25 +42 -38 +87 +50 -24 +61 5.0 2329
40. Khismatullin, Denis RUS 2446 +82 +93 =19 - 1 -18 +69 -35 +55 =43 5.0 2362
41. Piraev, Philip RUS 2404 +96 = 5 - 1 =64 +87 -38 +57 +33 -15 5.0 2361
42. Lushenkov,Mikhail ---- =54 =29 -61 -39 +91 +68 -53 +77 +65 5.0 2353
43. Sidorov, Anatoly RUS 2370 +95 -12 +86 -30 +67 =46 +47 -13 =40 5.0 2334
44. Yashtylov, Anatolij RUS 2373 +98 =60 - 4 +62 +24 - 7 =25 -17 +64 5.0 2410
45. Akselrod, Vladislav m RUS 2415 +88 +24 =11 - 9 =37 +28 =19 -10 -27 4.5 2396
46. Shomoev, Anton RUS 2397 +94 = 4 +32 = 7 - 2 =43 =12 -21 =53 4.5 2407
47. Khamatgaleev, Alexej m RUS 2412 +72 = 1 = 5 - 8 =52 +63 -43 =67 =49 4.5 2343
48. Karpeshov, Oleg m RUS 2437 +81 +86 +15 = 6 - 9 -10 -37 +58 -28 4.5 2341
49. Torbin, Kirill RUS 2323 - 6 =76 +58 - 2 +73 =21 =36 =60 =47 4.5 2380
50. Rodin, Mihail RUS 2387 +97 +26 =14 =11 - 6 -23 -39 =56 +67 4.5 2353
51. Nachev, Stanislav f RUS 2401 +92 =36 - 9 -37 +58 +24 -15 +75 -20 4.5 2331
52. Kadatsky, Alexander RUS 2258 =32 -22 +65 =53 =47 -60 +73 +74 -25 4.5 2372
53. Alikhanov, Felix RUS 2326 -10 =88 +87 =52 +72 -26 +42 -30 =46 4.5 2233
54. Bryzgalin, Kirill f RUS 2391 =42 =87 +83 - 5 +80 -16 -27 +62 =57 4.5 2226
55. Silivanov, Sergej RUS 2316 = 8 -13 -66 +88 =62 =76 +83 -40 +71 4.5 2277
56. Ananchenko, Igor RUS 2248 -14 +75 =79 -24 +66 =74 -33 =50 +83 4.5 2333
57. Akimov, Ivan RUS 2300 -15 +90 - 8 +66 -32 +72 -41 +91 =54 4.5 2337
58. Startsev, Vladimir RUS 2231 = 7 -32 -49 +94 -51 +81 +92 -48 +70 4.5 2280
59. Salakhova, Gulnar wm RUS 2234 -23 +84 -29 -92 =89 -73 +94 +78 +75 4.5 2096
60. Arbakov, Valentin g RUS 2454 +69 =44 -13 +27 -35 +52 -34 =49 -31 4.0 2297
61. Feoktistov, Alexey A m RUS 2377 -86 +81 +42 +26 - 4 -22 +64 -14 -39 4.0 2244
62. Krassilnikov, Evgeni RUS 2266 = 9 =21 =23 -44 =55 -36 +86 -54 +91 4.0 2307
63. Frolyanov, Dmitry RUS 2286 -36 =78 +76 =23 =21 -47 +82 =65 -33 4.0 2287
64. Shkliar, Alexander RUS 2268 -11 +89 =21 =41 -25 +85 -61 +72 -44 4.0 2254
65. Kolesnikov, Evgeny f RUS 2361 =87 -73 -52 =76 +78 +80 =67 =63 -42 4.0 2078
66. Razuvajeva, Juli RUS 2223 -12 =95 +55 -57 -56 +89 -75 +73 =77 4.0 2137
67. Khamidulin, Viacheslav f RUS 2213 -26 +97 -35 +71 -43 +79 =65 =47 -50 4.0 2267
68. Rodchenkov, Vitaly RUS 2272 - 1 +96 -26 -72 +71 -42 +87 +80 -38 4.0 2137
69. Riabtsev, Konstantin RUS 2212 -60 +98 =34 +74 -22 -40 -24 =88 +86 4.0 2274
70. Shamugia, Shavlegi GEO 2272 . -92 +95 +84 -23 =75 +78 -36 -58 3.5 2107
71. Kirpichnikov, Vladimir ---- . -39 +85 -67 -68 =90 +96 +82 -55 3.5 2147
72. Petukhov, Dmitry RUS 2095 -47 =77 =28 +68 -53 -57 +79 -64 =81 3.5 2221
73. Kazantsev, Valery ---- =29 +65 - 7 -34 -49 +59 -52 -66 +93 3.5 2214
74. Murzin, Lenar m RUS 2403 +78 -15 =37 -69 +86 =56 -28 -52 =85 3.5 2116
75. Magrifin,Ilianor ---- -34 -56 =81 +96 =27 =70 +66 -51 -59 3.5 2163
76. Franchini, Gabriele ITA 2152 -30 =49 -63 =65 +95 =55 =77 -31 =79 3.5 2194
77. Iliushkin, Evgen RUS 2296 -24 =72 +88 =79 -26 =92 =76 -42 =66 3.5 2141
78. Zaletov,Yury ---- -74 =63 -27 +82 -65 +94 -70 -59 +88 3.5 2158
79. Blatov, Igor RUS 2409 +90 -19 =56 =77 -28 -67 -72 +95 =76 3.5 2152
80. Kharashkina, Bairta wf RUS 2186 -17 - 2 +89 +93 -54 -65 +85 -68 =84 3.5 2150
81. Malin, Denis RUS 2152 -48 -61 =75 =95 =93 -58 +89 =84 =72 3.5 2046
82. Chupin, Vitalij RUS 2185 -40 -38 =94 -78 +88 +84 -63 -71 +92 3.5 2058
83. Kineva, Ekaterina wf RUS 2205 -20 +85 -54 -86 =84 +93 -55 +92 -56 3.5 2076
84. Neshkov,Vladislav ---- -33 -59 +96 -70 =83 -82 +90 =81 =80 3.5 2130
85. Ten,Valery ---- - 3 -83 -71 +97 +90 -64 -80 +94 =74 3.5 2108
86. Pulnikov,Sergey ---- +61 -48 -43 +83 -74 -27 -62 +87 -69 3.0 2157
87. Sudarikov,Sergey ---- =65 =54 -53 +91 -41 -39 -68 -86 +97 3.0 2110
88. Simachev, Victor RUS 2135 -45 =53 -77 -55 -82 +98 +93 =69 -78 3.0 2069
89. Limonnikov,Gennady ---- -35 -64 -80 +98 =59 -66 -81 =90 +96 3.0 2067
90. Alekseev, Alexandr RUS 2274 -79 -57 +98 -28 -85 =71 -84 =89 +95 3.0 1984
91. Zverev, Artem RUS 2103 -25 -16 +97 -87 -42 +96 +95 -57 -62 3.0 2018
92. Kober, Mikhail ---- -51 +70 -38 +59 -16 =77 -58 -83 -82 2.5 2113
93. Rudnev,Yury ---- +38 -40 -18 -80 =81 -83 -88 +98 -73 2.5 2040
94. Kolmykov, Aleksandr ---- -46 -37 =82 -58 +97 -78 -59 -85 +98 2.5 1977
95. Sbitnev, Viacheslav ---- -43 =66 -70 =81 -76 +97 -91 -79 -90 2.0 1997
96. Gorbunova,Anna ---- -41 -68 -84 -75 +98 -91 -71 +97 -89 2.0 1866
97. Masiagutova,Liasan ---- -50 -67 -91 -85 -94 -95 +98 -96 -87 1.0 1727
98. Sapojnikov,Evgeny ---- -44 -69 -90 -89 -96 -88 -97 -93 -94 0.0
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Laszlo Nagy reports: There were three main First Saturday tournaments in
August. One GM event and two IM events. In the GM event Csaba Balogh of Hungary
achieved a 9 games IM norm and the winner IM Zoltan Medvegy scored a GM norm.
Helmut Kummer won the IMA event and also made an IM norm.
Internet coverage: http://w3.enternet.hu/vlagyus/fs0801.htm
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FSGM August Budapest HUN (HUN), 4-14 viii 2001 cat. VII (2413)
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1. Medvegy, Zoltan m HUN 2430 * = = 1 = 1 = = 1 1 1 1 = 1 10.0 2622
2. Breder, Dennis m GER 2411 = * = 1 1 = 1 = = = 1 = 1 1 9.5 2587
3. Sundararajan, Kidambi IND 2421 = = * 0 = = = = = 1 = = 1 1 7.5 2469
4. Varga, Zoltan g HUN 2518 0 0 1 * 1 = = 1 0 = = = 1 1 7.5 2461
5. Bhat, Vinay S m USA 2404 = 0 = 0 * = = = 1 = 1 = 1 1 7.5 2470
6. Lukacs, Peter g HUN 2432 0 = = = = * = 1 = = = 1 1 0 7.0 2440
7. Fogarasi, Tibor m HUN 2449 = 0 = = = = * = = 1 = 1 0 = 6.5 2410
8. Dembo, Yelena wm HUN 2391 = = = 0 = 0 = * 1 = = = = 1 6.5 2414
9. Balogh, Csaba f HUN 2347 0 = = 1 0 = = 0 * = 1 = 1 = 6.5 2417
10. Drazic, Sinisa g YUG 2480 0 = 0 = = = 0 = = * = 1 1 1 6.5 2407
11. Szeberenyi, Adam m HUN 2417 0 0 = = 0 = = = 0 = * = 1 1 5.5 2355
12. Arnold, Lothar m GER 2408 0 = = = = 0 0 = = 0 = * 0 1 4.5 2303
13. Rajlich, Vasik G f USA 2330 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 = 0 0 0 1 * 1 4.0 2278
14. Castaneda, Nelson f USA 2341 0 0 0 0 0 1 = 0 = 0 0 0 0 * 2.0 2122
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1. Kummer, Helmut f AUT 2386 * 0 1 = 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 = 8.0 2443
2. Borisek, Jure SLO 2258 1 * = 0 = 1 1 1 0 1 = 1 7.5 2413
3. Zimmerman, Yuri m HUN 2346 0 = * 1 0 = 1 1 = 1 1 1 7.5 2405
4. Cooke, Eric USA 2237 = 1 0 * 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 6.5 2347
5. Turzo, Attila m HUN 2372 0 = 1 1 * 0 0 = = 1 = = 5.5 2270
6. Erdelyi, Zombor HUN 2230 = 0 = 1 1 * = 0 = = 0 1 5.5 2283
7. Sinkovics, Peter m HUN 2301 0 0 0 0 1 = * 1 1 = = 1 5.5 2276
8. Moloney, Nicholas ENG 2208 = 0 0 0 = 1 0 * 1 0 1 1 5.0 2249
9. Paci, Cedric FRA 2275 0 1 = 1 = = 0 0 * 0 1 0 4.5 2213
10. Bognar, Csaba f HUN 2238 0 0 0 0 0 = = 1 1 * 0 1 4.0 2180
11. Pirisi, Gabor m HUN 2288 0 = 0 0 = 1 = 0 0 1 * 0 3.5 2144
12. Tournier, Pascal FRA 2204 = 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 1 0 1 * 3.0 2110
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1. Seres, Lajos m HUN 2427 * 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 10.0 2637
2. Schneider-Zinner, Harald f AUT 2329 0 * = 1 1 1 0 = = 1 1 1 7.5 2396
3. Philippe, Christophe f FRA 2298 = = * = = 0 = 1 1 1 = 1 7.0 2368
4. Dearing, Eddie SCO 2274 0 0 = * 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 = 7.0 2370
5. Kun, Gabor HUN 2274 0 0 = 1 * = 1 = = 1 1 = 6.5 2333
6. Resika, Nathan A f USA 2203 0 0 1 0 = * 0 1 = 1 = 1 5.5 2274
7. Kahn, Evarth m HUN 2278 0 1 = 0 0 1 * = 0 = = 1 5.0 2232
8. Eperjesi, Laszlo m HUN 2255 0 = 0 0 = 0 = * 1 = 1 = 4.5 2205
9. Balogh, Viktor HUN 2234 0 = 0 0 = = 1 0 * = 0 1 4.0 2170
10. Schmitt, Fabien FRA 2146 = 0 0 0 0 0 = = = * 1 = 3.5 2147
11. Jamrich, Gyorgy HUN 2246 0 0 = 0 0 = = 0 1 0 * 1 3.5 2138
12. Hoenig, Alexander GER 2263 0 0 0 = = 0 0 = 0 = 0 * 2.0 2007
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The 102nd Annual US Open took place in Framingham (near Boston) August
4th-12th 2001. Alex Wojtkiewicz, Joel Benjamin, Fabian Doettling and Alexander
Stripunsky all finished on 7.5/9. Games from rounds 1-8 now available. My
thanks to Visweswaran Kameswaran for his help.
Official coverage:http://www.uschess.org/tournaments/usopen/
Final Standings:
1 GM Alex Wojtkiewicz 2702 7.5 46.5 52.5 37.0 276.5
2 GM Joel Benjamin 2664 7.5 46.0 55.5 39.0 306
3 IM Fabian Doettling 2587 7.5 45.5 54.5 39.0 291.5
4 GM Alexander Stripunsky 2627 7.5 44.5 55.0 38.5 296.5
5 IM Michael Mulyar 2476 7.0 48.5 57.0 39.5 298
6 GM Alexander Fishbein 2578 7.0 48.0 59.0 40.0 308
7 GM Leonid G Yudasin 2673 7.0 47.0 58.0 39.5 309
8 GM Sergey Kudrin 2627 7.0 46.0 56.5 40.0 304.5
9 GM Alexander Kalinin 2612 7.0 46.0 56.0 38.0 301.5
10 GM John Fedorowicz 2607 7.0 44.5 53.0 36.0 292
11 Yury Lapshun 2516 7.0 44.5 52.0 37.5 280
12 IM John Donaldson 2525 7.0 44.5 51.0 37.5 280
13 Alex Kalikshteyn 2366 7.0 44.0 53.0 37.0 282
14 Alexander Danilovic 2499 7.0 44.0 48.5 35.5 261.5
15 GM Suat Atalik 2654 7.0 43.5 53.5 37.0 284.5
16 Josef Friedman 2200 U 7.0 43.5 52.0 36.0 271
17 Igor Schneider 2119 7.0 43.5 51.0 34.5 270.5
18 Igor Foygel 2552 U 7.0 43.0 53.0 38.0 290
19 IM Larry Kaufman 2441 7.0 43.0 52.0 36.0 270.5
20 GM Roland Schmaltz 2549 7.0 43.0 48.0 36.5 253.5
21 GM Maurice A Ashley 2580 7.0 42.5 53.0 37.0 286
22 GM Sam Palatnik 2573 7.0 42.5 52.5 36.5 278.5
23 IM Greg Shahade 2501 7.0 42.5 52.0 36.5 282
24 Mikhail Perelshteyn 2482 7.0 42.5 52.0 36.0 280
25 IM William Paschall 2506 U 7.0 41.5 51.0 36.5 278
26 Stanislav Ritvin 2310 7.0 41.5 49.5 34.0 261
27 William Kelleher 2417 U 7.0 40.5 48.5 36.0 267
28 GM Gennady Sagalchik 2561 6.5 46.5 56.5 39.0 303.5
29 Emory A Tate 2409 6.5 46.0 55.5 36.5 280.5
30 Stanislav Kriventsov 2470 6.5 45.5 54.0 36.5 280.5
31 Daniel Rensch 2275 6.5 43.0 52.0 34.0 272
32 IM Hikaru Nakamura 2414 6.5 42.5 49.5 35.5 262
33 Renard Anderson 2273 S 6.5 42.0 50.0 33.5 256
34 IM Guillermo Rey 2423 C 6.5 41.0 50.0 33.0 254
35 Louis Mercuri 2378 S 6.5 41.0 49.0 32.0 252
36 Rodion Rubenchik 2366 6.5 40.5 50.0 31.0 259.5
37 GM Arthur Bisguier 2318 6.5 40.0 48.0 34.5 262.5
38 John Readey 2388 6.5 40.0 47.5 35.0 264
39 Milisav Danilovic 2231 6.5 40.0 46.5 31.5 238
40 Carl Haessler 2226 C 6.5 39.5 47.0 33.0 249
41 Jayson Gonzales 2370 6.5 39.0 39.0 34.0 197.5
42 Thomas J Bartell 2195 6.5 38.0 42.0 33.5 225.5
43 John W. Cole 2180 6.5 34.5 34.5 29.5 181.5
487 players
The 76th French Championships take place in Marseille 12th-25th August
2001. The players were split into two groups of 8 for all-play-alls the leaders
qualifying for the later stages. The top four from each group qualified for the
next stages. They were, from group A Jean-Marc Degraeve, Anatoli Vaisser,
Andrei Sokolov and Robert Fontaine (the big shock was the failure to Joel
Lautier to qualify, he drew all his games) and in group B Etienne Bacrot,
Christian Bauer, Eloi Relange and Josif Dorfman. The players qualified in this
order after Relange beat Dorfman 2.5-1.5 in a tie-break blitz match) according
to the French Chess Federation site Igor-Alexandre Nataf refused to take part
in this match and so he misses out on the second stage.
Internet coverage: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/
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ch-FRA Gp A Marsailles FRA (FRA), 13-19 viii 2001cat. XIII (2556)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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1. Degraeve, Jean-Marc g FRA 2602 * = = = = 1 1 1 5.0 2707
2. Vaisser, Anatoli g FRA 2556 = * = 1 = = = 1 4.5 2658
3. Sokolov, Andrei g FRA 2604 = = * = = = = 1 4.0 2599
4. Fontaine, Robert m FRA 2452 = 0 = * = 1 = 1 4.0 2621
5. Lautier, Joel g FRA 2675 = = = = * = = = 3.5 2539
6. Hauchard, Arnaud g FRA 2513 0 = = 0 = * 1 = 3.0 2512
7. Belkhodja, Slim m FRA 2531 0 = = = = 0 * 0 2.0 2402
8. Koch, Jean-Rene m FRA 2518 0 0 0 0 = = 1 * 2.0 2403
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1. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2653 * = = = 1 = 1 1 5.0 2703
2. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2576 = * 1 = = = = 1 4.5 2658
3. Nataf, Igor-Alexandre g FRA 2527 = 0 * 1 = 1 = = 4.0 2613
4. Relange, Eloi g FRA 2472 = = 0 * = = 1 1 4.0 2621
5. Dorfman, Josif D g FRA 2602 0 = = = * = 1 1 4.0 2602
6. Apicella, Manuel g FRA 2524 = = 0 = = * = 1 3.5 2563
7. Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2606 0 = = 0 0 = * 0 1.5 2322
8. Chabanon, Jean-Luc m FRA 2511 0 0 = 0 0 0 1 * 1.5 2335
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Relange, Eloi g FRA 2472 0 1 = 1 2.5 2697
Dorfman, Josif D g FRA 2602 1 0 = 0 1.5 2385
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The Slovakian team championships took place 21st October 2000 to 18th
March 2001. The winners were Slovan Bratislava A team. My thanks to Martin
Dlouhy for his help.
Sources for the Slovakian team championships 2000-2001:
http://www.chess.sk
http://www.sachovespravy.szm.sk/
ExtraLiga http://www.sachovespravy.szm.sk/liga.htm
Final table http://www.chess.sk/ligy/extra/extra.html
Results of rounds http://www.chess.sk/ligy/extra/vysled.html
Games http://www.chess.sk/ligy/extra/sprav.html
Players: http://www.chess.sk/ligy/extra/supisky.html
http://www.chess.vadium.sk/
Ligy
na Slovensku (English version)
http://www.chess.vadium.sk/news/2000/leagues/premier/index.php?lang=eng
Final Standings
1. Slovan Bratislava A 11 10 0 1 64.0:24.0 30
2. Nove Zamky 11 7 2 2 51.5:36.5 23
3. Slovan Bratislava jun 11 7 1 3 48.5:39.5 22
4. Hlohovec 11 5 3 3 45.0:43.0 18
5. Tatran Presov 11 5 2 4 47.0:41.0 17
6. Hydina Kosice 11 5 1 5 44.5:43.5 16
7. Dubnica n/V 11 3 4 4 43.0:45.0 13
8. Slovan Levice 11 3 3 5 39.5:48.5 12
9. Laurex Lucenec 11 3 3 5 38.0:50.0 12
10. Banik Prievidza 11 3 1 7 34.5:53.5 10
11. Rajecke Teplice 11 2 2 7 38.5:49.5 8
12. Radegast Bratislava 11 1 2 8 34.0:54.0 5
The 2nd Division of the Spanish Team Championships took place in Vila
Real August 13th-19th 2001. The top three teams are promoted to next year's
first division. The next four stay in second. All others must pre-qualify in
regional events. First division will be held in October.
Leading final scores: 1. Caja Insular de Ahorros (from the Canary
Islands) 19.5/28 2.CA COFIMAN Mancha Real 18.5; 3.Iber Caja Zaragoza 18; 4eq.
Unio Gracienca D'Escacs, Caja Gral Ahorros, CA Alzira Hilaturas Presencia 17;
7eq. CA Oberena, C.Univ. De Oviedo 16.5. Leading scorers: 1.Cabezas Ayala 6.5/7
2. Bellon Lopez, Carrasco Martinez 6.
Teams:
http://www.feda.org/institucional/campeonatos/espana_equipos_club.htm
The traditional chess festival Olomouc Chess Summer 2001 took place
August 1st-9th, 2001 in the Czech Republic. Four all-play-alls and an open made
it a huge event in all 268 players from 25 countries played. There were 5 IM
norms in the all-play-all events: Gaby Livshits (ISR), Stefan Kristjansson
(ISL), Marcin Szymanski (POL), Alberto Andres Gonzalez (ESP), Vincent Colin
(FRA) and one IM norm in the open tournament by Radoslaw Jedynak (POL). My
thanks to Jakub Fuksik.
Website: http://www.proclient.cz/a64
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Valoz Cup Olomouc CZE (CZE), 2-9 viii 2001 cat. IV (2326)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1. Sergeev, Vladimir m UKR 2498 * 1 = = 0 = 1 1 = 1 1 1 8.0 2484
2. Livshits, Gaby ISR 2272 0 * 1 = 0 = 1 1 1 1 = 1 7.5 2463
3. Estremera Panos, Sergio m ESP 2401 = 0 * 1 1 = = = 1 0 1 1 7.0 2420
4. Pedersen, Nicolai Vesterbaek DEN 2382 = = 0 * = 1 = 1 1 0 1 1 7.0 2422
5. Hardarson, Robert f ISL 2268 1 1 0 = * = = 0 0 1 = 1 6.0 2366
6. Simacek, Pavel f CZE 2404 = = = 0 = * 0 0 1 1 1 1 6.0 2354
7. Dambrauskas, Virginijus m LTU 2319 0 0 = = = 1 * = 0 1 1 1 6.0 2362
8. Calzetta, Monica wm ESP 2308 0 0 = 0 1 1 = * 1 = = 0 5.0 2291
9. Bazant, Petr jr CZE 2337 = 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 * 1 = 1 5.0 2288
10. Jirka, Jiri CZE 2292 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 = 0 * 1 1 4.5 2263
11. Lindgren, Fredrik SWE 2227 0 = 0 0 = 0 0 = = 0 * = 2.5 2123
12. Llaneza Vega, Patricia wf ESP 2198 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 = * 1.5 2028
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1. Kristjansson, Stefan f ISL 2380 * = = 1 = 1 = = = 1 1 1 8.0 2475
2. Szymanski, Marcin f POL 2362 = * = = = 1 = = 1 1 1 1 8.0 2476
3. Maryasin, Boris m ISR 2394 = = * = = 0 1 1 1 1 = 1 7.5 2431
4. Pieniazek, Artur m POL 2403 0 = = * 1 = = = 1 1 1 1 7.5 2431
5. Kasparov, Sergey m BLR 2494 = = = 0 * = = = = = 1 1 6.0 2325
6. Kim, Sergei KAZ 2219 0 0 1 = = * 1 = = 0 1 = 5.5 2314
7. Obsivac, Josef CZE 2361 = = 0 = = 0 * 1 1 1 0 = 5.5 2301
8. Tupy, Martin CZE 2290 = = 0 = = = 0 * = 0 = 1 4.5 2243
9. Thorarinsson, Pall A ISL 2149 = 0 0 0 = = 0 = * = = 1 4.0 2219
10. Plasgura, Petr CZE 2234 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 1 = * = 0 3.5 2180
11. Husted, Peter DEN 2171 0 0 = 0 0 0 1 = = = * = 3.5 2186
12. Medunova, Vera wm CZE 2225 0 0 0 0 0 = = 0 0 1 = * 2.5 2103
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1. Tibensky, Robert m SVK 2451 * = = = = 1 1 = = 1 1 1 8.0 2490
2. Jurek, Josef m CZE 2329 = * 0 = 1 = = 1 = 1 1 1 7.5 2459
3. Andres Gonzalez, Alberto f ESP 2407 = 1 * = 1 = 0 = = = 1 1 7.0 2421
4. Dudas, Jan SVK 2238 = = = * 0 = = 0 1 1 1 1 6.5 2399
5. Skytte, Rasmus f DEN 2342 = 0 0 1 * = = = 1 = 1 = 6.0 2361
6. Gunnarsson, Jon Viktor m ISL 2404 0 = = = = * 1 0 = 1 = 1 6.0 2355
7. Sluka, Radek CZE 2339 0 = 1 = = 0 * 1 1 0 0 1 5.5 2325
8. Dvorak, Tomas CZE 2250 = 0 = 1 = 1 0 * = 0 = 1 5.5 2333
9. Krejci, Jakub CZE 2319 = = = 0 0 = 0 = * 1 1 = 5.0 2291
10. Bjornsson, Sigurbjorn ISL 2297 0 0 = 0 = 0 1 1 0 * 1 1 5.0 2293
11. Krupa, Monika wm POL 2307 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 = 0 0 * = 2.5 2117
12. Blodig, Reinhard GER 2238 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 = * 1.5 2025
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Mipap Cup Olomouc CZE (CZE), 2-9 viii 2001 cat. IV (2326)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1. Tolstikh, Nikolay m RUS 2436 * 1 = = 1 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 9.5 2624
2. Colin, Vincent FRA 2327 0 * 0 1 = 1 1 1 = 1 = 1 7.5 2458
3. Salai, Ladislav m SVK 2418 = 1 * 0 = = = 1 = 1 1 = 7.0 2419
4. Kholmov, Ratmir D g RUS 2427 = 0 1 * = = = 1 = = = 1 6.5 2381
5. Tokmachev, Mikhail RUS 2313 0 = = = * = 0 1 1 = 1 1 6.5 2392
6. Jasny, Stanislav CZE 2301 0 0 = = = * 1 = 1 = 0 1 5.5 2328
7. Jedryczka, Krystian POL 2330 0 0 = = 1 0 * 0 0 1 1 1 5.0 2289
8. Sawadkuhi, Massoud Amir GER 2317 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 * = 1 1 1 5.0 2290
9. Wiley, Tom E f ENG 2263 0 = = = 0 0 1 = * = = 0 4.0 2229
10. Krapivin, Vladislav f RUS 2339 = 0 0 = = = 0 0 = * = 1 4.0 2222
11. Brustkern, Juergen f GER 2273 0 = 0 = 0 1 0 0 = = * 1 4.0 2228
12. Balabaev, Farit KAZ 2167 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 * 1.5 2031
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Open Olomouc CZE (CZE), 2-9 viii 2001
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1. Swicarz, Maciej POL 2309 7.5 37.5 52.0 2204
2. Johansson, Jan m SWE 2370 7.0 41.0 57.0 2265
3. Biolek, Richard m CZE 2434 7.0 39.5 55.5 2227
4. Jedynak, Radoslaw POL 2347 7.0 39.0 55.0 2255
5. Berezjuk, Sergej m CZE 2420 7.0 38.0 53.5 2260
6. Chytilek, Roman CZE 2411 7.0 37.5 52.5 2225
7. Sosna, Jan CZE 2411 7.0 37.0 51.5 2203
8. Shushpanov, V RUS 2427 7.0 37.0 50.5 2240
9. Gavrilov, Alexei m RUS 2438 7.0 35.0 51.0 2213
10. Cvek, Robert m CZE 2411 7.0 34.5 50.5 2151
11. Bebchuk, Leonid ISR 2125 7.0 33.0 45.5 2092
12. Sikora-Lerch, Jan m CZE 2308 6.5 36.0 48.5 2183
13. Lundvik, Jonas SWE 2223 6.5 32.0 47.5 2070
14. Walinder, Lars SWE 2127 6.5 30.5 44.0 2085
220 players
The XV Sanlucar Open (Spain) was a seven round Swiss System event that
took place August 6th-12th 2001. Alexander Veingold and Javier Garcia Ramos
both finished on 6/7 with the former taking first on tie-break.
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1. Veingold, Aleksandr m EST 6.0 29.0 31.5 26.0 26.25
2. Garcia Ramos, Javier f ESP 6.0 25.0 28.0 22.0 24.00
3. Rahal, Michael m ENG 5.5 29.0 33.0 24.0 24.75
4. Razmyslov, Alexander UKR 5.5 29.0 31.5 24.0 21.00
5. Hernando Rodrigo, Jose Maria ESP 5.0 31.0 34.0 24.5 22.25
6. Oliva Lobato, Pedro ESP 5.0 28.0 31.0 21.0 21.50
7. Escobar, Dominguez D ESP 5.0 28.0 30.0 22.5 19.25
8. Gomez Calle,J ESP 5.0 26.0 29.0 20.5 18.75
9. Ramirez Dominguez, Agustin ESP 5.0 26.0 28.5 21.0 18.75
10. Palma Macias, Jose Alberto ESP 5.0 25.5 28.5 21.5 18.50
11. Garcia Jimenez, Francisco Javier ESP 5.0 23.5 26.0 17.5 17.25
72 players
Mihajlo Savic reports: There was an interesing event in Croatia which
took place 2nd-11th August 2001. 24 players competed in all-play-all events in
four towns in Croatia (Vukovar, Borovo, Djakovo and Vinkovci). Four groups,
with 6 players each, played a robin round system event, and then all the
players continued the tournament in Vukovar with six rounds using the swiss
system pairing.
Feletar Darko and Stevic Hrvoje won with 8.5/11 ahead Szuhanek Ranko
with 7.5 points. They all got GM norms. Brkic Ante, Novakovic Dragan and Jusic
Zdenko got IM norms. The Chief arbiter was Ivan Bazaj.
Note that the official scores of Mato Damjanovic and Esad Goric were
half a point less and Zoran Jovanovic and Vjekoslav Zivkovic more than can be
derived from the games, I have no idea how to fix this disparity.
All-play-alls
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Slavonija Dakovo CRO (CRO), 4-6 viii 2001 cat. VII (2408)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1. Stevic, Hrvoje m CRO 2485 * = = 1 1 = 3.5 2541
2. Kirov, Nino g BUL 2422 = * 0 1 1 1 3.5 2554
3. Vukic, Milan g YUG 2471 = 1 * 0 1 = 3.0 2467
4. Vargic, Drago f CRO 2275 0 0 1 * 0 1 2.0 2362
5. Kovacevic, Blazimir m CRO 2443 0 0 0 1 * 1 2.0 2329
6. Njirjak, Josip f CRO 2353 = 0 = 0 0 * 1.0 2179
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Slavonija Borovo CRO (CRO), 4-6 viii 2001 cat. VI (2380)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1. Szuhanek, Ranko m ROM 2435 * = 1 1 1 1 4.5 2735
2. Kosanovic, Goran A g YUG 2430 = * = 1 1 1 4.0 2610
3. Milu, Romeo Sorin m ROM 2475 0 = * = 1 1 3.0 2433
4. Novakovic, Dragan f YUG 2388 0 0 = * 1 1 2.5 2378
5. Savic, Mihajlo f YUG 2294 0 0 0 0 * = 0.5 2031
6. Lukic, Milutin f CRO 2258 0 0 0 0 = * 0.5 2038
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Slavonija Vinkovci CRO (CRO), 4-6 viii 2001cat. III (2320)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1. Jusic, Zdenko f CRO 2426 * = = = 1 1 3.5 2448
2. Damjanovic, Mato g CRO 2305 = * = = = = 2.5 2323
3. Goric, Esad BIH 2300 = = * = = = 2.5 2324
4. Hodak, Stevo CRO 2288 = = = * = = 2.5 2326
5. Bertok, Mario m CRO 2297 0 = = = * = 2.0 2252
6. Ozanic, Marijan CRO 2305 0 = = = = * 2.0 2251
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Slavonija Vukovar CRO (CRO), 4-6 viii 2001 cat. VI (2389)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1. Feletar, Darko m CRO 2441 * = 1 1 1 1 4.5 2744
2. Drasko, Milan g YUG 2509 = * 1 = = 1 3.5 2513
3. Brkic, Ante CRO 2331 0 0 * 1 1 1 3.0 2472
4. Jovanovic, Zoran CRO CRO 2407 0 = 0 * = 1 2.0 2312
5. Zivkovic, Vjekoslav CRO 2356 0 = 0 = * = 1.5 2246
6. Mladenovic, Velisa CRO 2287 0 0 0 0 = * 0.5 2042
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Official Final Standings
1-2 Feletar, Darko CRO 2441 8.5 51.5 64.0 53.5 6
Stevic, Hrvoje CRO 2485 8.5 48.0 63.5 51.5 6
3 Szuhanek, Ranko ROM 2435 7.5 53.5 67.0 55.0 5
4-5 Vukic, Milan YUG 2471 7 41.5 66.0 53.0 4
Novakovic, Dragan YUG 2388 7 37.5 57.5 47.0 6
6-8 Kosanovic, Goran A YUG 2430 6.5 44.0 68.0 56.0 3
Drasko, Milan YUG 2509 6.5 42.5 69.0 57.5 2
Kirov, Nino BUL 2422 6.5 41.0 69.0 56.0 4
9-10 Jusic, Zdenko CRO 2426 6 42.5 62.0 50.5 2
Brkic, Ante CRO 2331 6 35.0 62.0 50.0 4
11-12 Milu, Romeo Sorin ROM 2475 5.5 36.5 69.0 57.0 2
Damjanovic, Mato CRO 2305 5.5 32.0 53.5 43.5 1
13-16 Jovanovic, Zoran CRO 2407 5 32.5 63.5 52.0 2
Goric, Esad BIH 2300 5 32.0 60.5 49.0 1
Vargic, Drago CRO 2275 5 29.5 58.5 47.0 4
Bertok, Mario CRO 2297 5 27.5 55.5 45.0 1
17-20 Hodak, Stevo CRO 2288 4.5 29.0 55.0 45.0 1
Kovacevic, Blazimir CRO 2443 4.5 28.5 61.5 50.0 3
Zivkovic, Vjekoslav CRO 2356 4.5 23.5 55.5 44.0 1
Njirjak, Josip CRO 2353 4.5 21.5 57.0 45.5 1
21-22 Ozanic, Marijan CRO 2305 3 20.5 55.0 45.0 0
Mladenovic, Velisa CRO 2287 3 12.0 58.5 47.0 1
23-24 Lukic, Milutin CRO 2258 0.5 1.5 30.0 19.0 0
Savic, Mihajlo YUG 2294 0.5 1.5 29.0 18.0 0
Crosstables from games
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Slavonija Swiss Vukovar CRO (CRO), 2-11 viii 2001
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1. Stevic, Hrvoje m CRO 2485 +19 =16 = 4 = 7 +15 =13 + 8 +12 = 6 + 3 +17 8.5 2621
2. Feletar, Darko m CRO 2441 = 6 +11 +17 +22 +20 = 3 = 4 = 8 = 7 + 9 +13 8.5 2624
3. Szuhanek, Ranko m ROM 2435 +23 + 5 +13 +24 = 8 = 2 + 7 = 6 = 9 - 1 =14 7.5 2535
4. Vukic, Milan g YUG 2471 -15 + 7 = 1 +19 =16 +18 = 2 + 5 =13 = 6 =12 7.0 2500
5. Novakovic, Dragan f YUG 2388 +24 - 3 - 8 =13 +23 +17 +10 - 4 =14 +11 +21 7.0 2466
6. Drasko, Milan g YUG 2509 = 2 +22 +11 =20 =17 = 7 = 9 = 3 = 1 = 4 = 8 6.5 2473
7. Kirov, Nino g BUL 2422 +16 - 4 +15 = 1 +19 = 6 - 3 +18 = 2 = 8 =11 6.5 2470
8. Kosanovic, Goran A g YUG 2430 =13 +24 + 5 +23 = 3 = 9 - 1 = 2 =17 = 7 = 6 6.5 2477
9. Jusic, Zdenko f CRO 2426 +21 +14 =18 =10 =12 = 8 = 6 =13 = 3 - 2 =19 6.0 2420
10. Damjanovic, Mato g CRO 2305 =18 =12 =14 = 9 =21 =11 - 5 =16 +19 +15 =22 6.0 2371
11. Brkic, Ante CRO 2331 +20 - 2 - 6 +17 +22 =10 =13 +19 =12 - 5 = 7 6.0 2429
12. Goric, Esad BIH 2300 =14 =10 =21 =18 = 9 =19 +15 - 1 =11 =13 = 4 5.5 2372
13. Milu, Romeo Sorin m ROM 2475 = 8 +23 - 3 = 5 +24 = 1 =11 = 9 = 4 =12 - 2 5.5 2387
14. Bertok, Mario m CRO 2297 =12 - 9 =10 =21 =18 =20 -16 +22 = 5 =17 = 3 5.0 2314
15. Vargic, Drago f CRO 2275 + 4 -19 - 7 +16 - 1 +21 -12 -17 +18 -10 +20 5.0 2339
16. Njirjak, Josip f CRO 2353 - 7 = 1 -19 -15 = 4 =22 +14 =10 =20 =21 =18 4.5 2292
17. Jovanovic, Zoran CRO CRO 2407 +22 =20 - 2 -11 = 6 - 5 =21 +15 = 8 =14 - 1 4.5 2308
18. Hodak, Stevo CRO 2288 =10 =21 = 9 =12 =14 - 4 +20 - 7 -15 =22 =16 4.5 2280
19. Kovacevic, Blazimir m CRO 2443 - 1 +15 +16 - 4 - 7 =12 +22 -11 -10 =20 = 9 4.5 2299
20. Zivkovic, Vjekoslav CRO 2356 -11 =17 =22 = 6 - 2 =14 -18 +21 =16 =19 -15 4.0 2255
21. Ozanic, Marijan CRO 2305 - 9 =18 =12 =14 =10 -15 =17 -20 -22 =16 - 5 3.0 2159
22. Mladenovic, Velisa CRO 2287 -17 - 6 =20 - 2 -11 =16 -19 -14 +21 =18 =10 3.0 2191
23. Savic, Mihajlo f YUG 2294 - 3 -13 =24 - 8 - 5 . . . . . . 0.5 2031
24. Lukic, Milutin f CRO 2258 - 5 - 8 =23 - 3 -13 . . . . . . 0.5 2038
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The Third Saturday Tournament in Belgrade takes place 16th-26th August
2001. My thanks to Vladica Andrejic for the games.
Info: http://www.beochess.org.yu/english.htm
TSIM August Belgrad YUG (YUG), 16-26 viii 2001cat. II (2294)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Furhoff, Johan f SWE 2281 ** =. .. .. 1. .. 1.5 2379
2 Divljan, Igor CAN 2192 =. ** .. .. .. 1. 1.5 2463
3 Sahovic, Dragutin g YUG 2420 .. .. ** =. .. 1. 1.5 2537
4 Simic, Radoslav g YUG 2430 .. .. =. ** =. .. 1.0 2300
5 Savic, Marijana wf YUG 2180 0. .. .. =. ** .. 0.5 2162
6 Stankovic, Marija YUG 2259 .. 0. 0. .. .. ** 0.0
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The Prešov Chess Festival (Slovakia) took place 11th-18th August
2001. Dusan Radovanovic won the event. No games available.
Internet coverage:
http://www.chess.vadium.sk/presov/2001/a/index.php?lang=eng
Leading Final Standings:
1 Radovanovic, Dusan 2321 YUG 7.5 47.0 35.5 2518 2.02
2 Hasangatin, Ramil m 2482 RUS 7.0 52.5 36.5 2543 0.61
3 Mikrut, Dariusz 2354 POL 7.0 39.5 30.5 2406 0.48
4 Priehoda, Vítezslav m 2411 SVK 6.5 50.0 36.5 2463 0.56
5 Kotán, Ladislav f 2347 SVK 6.5 49.5 37.5 2475 1.55
6 Maník, Mikulás m 2414 SVK 6.5 49.0 33.5 2449 0.38
7 Del Rio, Gabriel m 2484 ESP 6.5 45.0 30.0 2406 -0.16
8 Maryasin, Boris m 2394 ISR 6.5 44.5 30.0 2399 0.11
9 Kupreichik, Viktor g 2443 BLR 6.5 43.0 31.0 2409 -0.34
10 Barwinski, Dionizy f 2232 POL 6.0 49.0 35.0 2434 2.40
11 Balogh, Tomás m 2366 SVK 6.0 49.0 32.5 2379 0.15
12 van Wissen, Michiel 2232 NED 6.0 46.0 30.5 2441 2.58
13 Petrán, Peter m 2364 SVK 6.0 45.0 32.0 2367 -0.03
14 Likavský, Tomás m 2410 SVK 6.0 44.5 29.5 2367 -0.48
15 Mrkonjic, Nenad f 2328 CRO 6.0 43.5 27.0 2327 -0.03
16 Volodin, Viktor m 2311 RUS 6.0 43.0 29.0 2329 0.24
17 Lajthajm, Borko f 2440 YUG 6.0 40.5 25.5 2312 -0.82
112 players
GMs Arthur Kogan (ISR 2517) and Evgenij Agrest (SWE 2529) shared first
place in the second Bergen Chess International, played in Norway 4th-12th
August 2001. There is a correction to last week's games. The player 'Henrik
Sørensen' is NOT the Danish FM by the same name, but a Norwegian junior
player without FIDE ELO. He will now get a FIDE ELO of about 2166 so will be in
the rating list next time. I've renamed him Sorensen,H NOR in the PGN file of
his games and removed the rating. My thanks to Eirik Gullaksen.
Internet coverage: http://eirikgu.home.online.no/bergen2001/
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1. Agrest, Evgenij g SWE 2529 +49 =42 +46 +29 + 4 +25 = 2 + 7 +11 8.0 2730
2. Kogan, Artur g ISR 2517 +63 +21 +32 +55 + 6 +16 = 1 + 9 = 4 8.0 2752
3. Johannessen, Leif Erlend m NOR 2426 =44 +35 -28 +50 +46 = 6 +12 +32 +10 7.0 2502
4. Brynell, Stellan m SWE 2486 +41 +26 =33 +34 - 1 =36 +30 +19 = 2 6.5 2508
5. Schandorff, Lars g DEN 2551 +15 -31 +49 +40 -19 +42 =23 +24 +16 6.5 2492
6. Gausel, Einar g NOR 2520 +39 +59 +53 =18 - 2 = 3 =29 +21 +23 6.5 2535
7. Djurhuus, Rune g NOR 2474 +83 +14 +31 -16 =12 +53 +24 - 1 +32 6.5 2539
8. Mitkov, Nikola g MKD 2547 =61 -40 +57 +39 -21 +51 +56 +25 +17 6.5 2412
9. Salmensuu, Olli m FIN 2431 =50 +89 +56 =33 +51 +19 =17 - 2 +18 6.5 2478
10. Stefanova, Antoaneta m BUL 2459 =40 +50 -55 +62 +34 =29 +33 +17 - 3 6.0 2407
11. Pedersen, Steffen m DEN 2453 =62 +73 =37 +26 =17 =21 +41 +36 - 1 6.0 2412
12. Carlsson, Pontus SWE 2330 =73 +81 =22 +41 = 7 =20 - 3 +67 +28 6.0 2373
13. Lindberg, Bosse SWE 2248 -70 +58 -41 +38 +54 -30 +50 +53 +36 6.0 2326
14. Hansen, Torbjorn R NOR 2244 +84 - 7 -51 +77 +58 +59 -18 +30 +29 6.0 2390
15. Moen, Andreas NOR 2218 - 5 +75 -20 +93 -30 +58 +59 +37 +31 6.0 2402
16. Georgiev, Vladimir g BUL 2584 +67 +30 =17 + 7 +18 - 2 =36 =23 - 5 5.5 2496
17. Holmsten, Aleksei m FIN 2436 +38 +47 =16 +28 =11 +32 = 9 -10 - 8 5.5 2454
18. Berg, Emanuel m SWE 2496 +48 +60 +36 = 6 -16 -23 +14 +46 - 9 5.5 2433
19. Dworakowska, Joanna wg POL 2350 -28 +43 +52 +60 + 5 - 9 +20 - 4 =22 5.5 2394
20. Thorhallsson, Throstur g ISL 2456 =35 =71 +15 =31 +47 =12 -19 =29 +46 5.5 2330
21. Gunnarsson, Arnar ISL 2263 +54 - 2 +69 =53 + 8 =11 =25 - 6 +40 5.5 2452
22. Sprotte, Norbert GER 2240 +76 =23 =12 -36 =43 +87 =31 +33 =19 5.5 2316
23. Fyllingen, Roy Harald m NOR 2389 +92 =22 -40 +73 +56 +18 = 5 =16 - 6 5.5 2422
24. Porper, Eduard m ISR 2436 +51 =56 -34 +54 +67 +28 - 7 - 5 +49 5.5 2336
25. Ostenstad, Berge m NOR 2439 -52 +87 +83 +37 +55 - 1 =21 - 8 +47 5.5 2352
26. Hagesaether, Paal Vegard NOR 2250 +78 - 4 +91 -11 =52 =35 +74 =40 +43 5.5 2274
27. Hersvik, Daniel NOR 2241 -57 +90 -54 -58 +75 =71 +72 +44 +52 5.5 2175
28. Ekeberg, Carl Fredrik NOR 2117 +19 =29 + 3 -17 +31 -24 =53 +45 -12 5.0 2405
29. Nilssen, John Arni FAI 2333 +43 =28 +71 - 1 +40 =10 = 6 =20 -14 5.0 2344
30. Schmidt-Schaeffer, Sebastian GER 2323 +86 -16 +38 -51 +15 +13 - 4 -14 +67 5.0 2314
31. Bjarnason, Saevar m ISL 2281 +93 + 5 - 7 =20 -28 +63 =22 +41 -15 5.0 2325
32. Heim, Sverre f NOR 2371 +58 +69 - 2 +64 +33 -17 +37 - 3 - 7 5.0 2382
33. Trygstad, Kristian NOR 2323 +75 +57 = 4 = 9 -32 +64 -10 -22 +63 5.0 2329
34. Eriksson, Jonas SWE 2245 =72 +74 +24 - 4 -10 +52 -46 +51 =35 5.0 2285
35. Landgren, Philip SWE 2193 =20 - 3 +89 +45 -53 =26 =42 +64 =34 5.0 2339
36. Lie, Kjetil A NOR 2347 +90 +70 -18 +22 +80 = 4 =16 -11 -13 5.0 2388
37. Tjomsland, Stig NOR 2269 =91 +66 =11 -25 +61 +80 -32 -15 +65 5.0 2308
38. Andersson, Fredrik2 SWE 2173 -17 +84 -30 -13 +91 =57 =54 +58 +55 5.0 2215
39. Sagafos, Magne NOR 2208 - 6 +78 +74 - 8 -87 +82 +86 -47 +72 5.0 2213
40. Stokstad, Petter G NOR 2195 =10 + 8 +23 - 5 -29 =45 +60 =26 -21 4.5 2369
41. Olsson, Linus SWE 2196 - 4 +65 +13 -12 +60 +55 -11 -31 =42 4.5 2282
42. Johannessen, Svein m NOR 2269 +88 = 1 -80 =44 +48 - 5 =35 =63 =41 4.5 2290
43. Sorsa, Miitrei FIN 2111 -29 -19 +84 +69 =22 -56 +57 +61 -26 4.5 2212
44. Borchgrevink, Harald NOR 2163 = 3 -55 +82 =42 -64 =81 +87 -27 +56 4.5 2191
45. Gabrielsen, Stig f NOR 2280 -71 =86 +79 -35 +65 =40 =61 -28 +70 4.5 2112
46. Glenne, Bjorn Erik NOR 2223 =81 +82 - 1 +70 - 3 +73 +34 -18 -20 4.5 2261
47. Tallaksen, Geir S NOR 2239 +85 -17 =70 +88 -20 =50 =51 +39 -25 4.5 2219
48. Adnoy, Hallvard V NOR 2197 -18 -54 +81 +72 -42 -70 =66 +88 +73 4.5 2128
49. Gabrielsen, Trond NOR 2217 - 1 +93 - 5 +75 -59 =54 +73 +70 -24 4.5 2243
50. Pluemer, Detlef GER 2168 = 9 -10 +95 - 3 +88 =47 -13 =59 +64 4.5 2270
51. Toma, Katarzyna wf POL 2174 -24 +76 +14 +30 - 9 - 8 =47 -34 =59 4.0 2264
52. Plachkinova, Tatjana Georgieva BUL 2190 +25 -53 -19 +57 =26 -34 +71 =56 -27 4.0 2210
53. Manne, Per NOR 2386 +77 +52 - 6 =21 +35 - 7 =28 -13 -60 4.0 2223
54. Karlsen, Terje NOR 2068 -21 +48 +27 -24 -13 =49 =38 -60 +89 4.0 2193
55. Lauridsen, Jesper CHI 2223 +80 +44 +10 - 2 -25 -41 -67 +74 -38 4.0 2255
56. Miellet-Bensan, Yves FRA 2243 +65 =24 - 9 +71 -23 +43 - 8 =52 -44 4.0 2218
57. Andersen, Preben DEN 2041 +27 -33 - 8 -52 +66 =38 -43 +86 =77 4.0 2173
58. Valaker, Ole J NOR 2134 -32 -13 +68 +27 -14 -15 +76 -38 +81 4.0 2126
59. Bachmann, Andreas f GER 2303 +79 - 6 +77 -80 +49 -14 -15 =50 =51 4.0 2209
60. Johansson, Thomas SWE 2250 -68 -18 +61 -19 -41 +77 -40 +54 +53 4.0 2188
61. Christenson, Flemming NOR 2218 = 8 =72 -60 +91 -37 +65 =45 -43 =78 4.0 2129
62. Wallin, Dennis SWE 2192 =11 -80 +78 -10 -74 =76 +84 =72 =66 4.0 2133
63. Ofstad, Per NOR 2205 - 2 =88 -73 +79 +82 -31 +78 =42 -33 4.0 2153
64. Myhrvold, Rune NOR 2248 =74 +91 +72 -32 +44 -33 =70 -35 -50 4.0 2104
65. Sorensen, Henrik NOR DEN ---- -56 -41 +90 +83 -45 -61 +77 +69 -37 4.0 2163
66. Weighell, Mark ENG 2119 =82 -37 -88 =81 -57 +93 =48 +71 =62 4.0 2070
67. Matras, Agnieszka wm POL 2218 -16 =79 +86 +87 -24 =74 +55 -12 -30 4.0 2190
68. Holder, Hovard NOR 2027 +60 -83 -58 -76 =85 +95 =89 +90 -69 4.0 2067
69. Lahlum, Hans Olav NOR 2227 +95 -32 -21 -43 +93 -72 +81 -65 +68 4.0 2052
70. Stokke, Kjetil NOR 2016 +13 -36 =47 -46 =71 +48 =64 -49 -45 3.5 2151
71. Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2084 +45 =20 -29 -56 =70 =27 -52 -66 +86 3.5 2139
72. Saevareid,Ove NOR ---- =34 =61 -64 -48 +83 +69 -27 =62 -39 3.5 2139
73. Vestly, Jan NOR 2109 =12 -11 +63 -23 +78 -46 -49 +87 -48 3.5 2147
74. Edvardsen, Ragnar NOR 2023 =64 -34 -39 +89 +62 =67 -26 -55 =75 3.5 2118
75. Guzik, Jolanta POL 2095 -33 -15 +76 -49 -27 +83 =82 =81 =74 3.5 2063
76. Svensen,Tarjei Joten NOR ---- -22 -51 -75 +68 =92 =62 -58 =82 +88 3.5 2048
77. Haugsdal, Arn Tore NOR 2144 -53 +85 -59 -14 +84 -60 -65 +91 =57 3.5 2064
78. Crapis, Frederic FRA 2030 -26 -39 -62 +92 -73 +89 -63 +83 =61 3.5 2100
79. Stam, Bart NED 2088 -59 =67 -45 -63 -86 =85 =91 +92 +87 3.5 2066
80. Lobzhanidze, Davit m GEO 2501 -55 +62 +42 +59 -36 -37 . . . 3.0 2267
81. Ellingsen,Ronny NOR ---- =46 -12 -48 =66 +90 =44 -69 =75 -58 3.0 2049
82. White, Kevin ENG 2075 =66 -46 -44 +86 -63 -39 =75 =76 =84 3.0 1999
83. Harestad, Hans Krogh NOR 2196 - 7 +68 -25 -65 -72 -75 +85 -78 +93 3.0 2003
84. Hersvik, Anita NOR 2007 -14 -38 -43 +85 -77 +90 -62 =89 =82 3.0 2000
85. Otterlei,Olav NOR ---- -47 -77 -93 -84 =68 =79 -83 +94 +95 3.0 1962
86. Flaata, Alexander R NOR 2097 -30 =45 -67 -82 +79 +88 -39 -57 -71 2.5 1988
87. Metzger, Jimmy USA ---- =89 -25 +92 -67 +39 -22 -44 -73 -79 2.5 2024
88. Martinsen, Stig K NOR 2076 -42 =63 +66 -47 -50 -86 +92 -48 -76 2.5 1993
89. Soh, Edmund ENG 2104 =87 - 9 -35 -74 +95 -78 =68 =84 -54 2.5 1920
90. Hansen, Victor NOR 2086 -36 -27 -65 +95 -81 -84 +93 -68 =91 2.5 1920
91. Gorczyca, Dominika POL 2069 =37 -64 -26 -61 -38 =92 =79 -77 =90 2.0 1960
92. Haveland, Bjorn NOR 2145 -23 =95 -87 -78 =76 =91 -88 -79 =94 2.0 1852
93. Zimny, Joanna wf POL 2087 -31 -49 +85 -15 -69 -66 -90 +95 -83 2.0 1929
94. Normann,Oyvind NOR ---- . . . . . . +95 -85 =92 1.5 2048
95. Solaroli,Riccardo NOR ---- -69 =92 -50 -90 -89 -68 -94 -93 -85 0.5 1649
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21) Obituaries
Claude F. Bloodgood III July 14th 1924 - August 4th 2001
Don Wedding has written an obituary of the chessplayer Claude F.
Bloodgood who spent most of his career in jail. His hope is that people who
read this might send any documents that they have pertaining to him to the John
G. White collection at the Cleveland Public Library. Bloodgood was once rated
second in the US ELO list showing the weakness of the system. Similar use of
restricted playing pools have been exploited in the FIDE rating list. The USCF
didn't act quickly and found Bloodgood at number two and FIDE haven't acted
either if there is anything to learn from his life it is something needs to be
done about this.
Don Wedding writes:
The chess world lost one of its most colorful figures on August 4, 2001
with the passing of Claude F. Bloodgood from lung cancer at the age of 77. He
was born Klaus Frizzell Bluttgutt III on July 14, 1924 in La Paz, Mexico to
German nationals. He learned chess from his father at a young age. Both his
skill and love for the game grew quickly, and soon became a passion that
followed him throughout his life.
Claude spent most of his early chess career earning money as a hustler.
During this time, he developed a taste for unorthodox (and generally unsound)
openings filled with traps and aggressive lines. These openings were, of
course, ideally suited to both his chosen profession and also to his style of
play. He continued to play these openings throughout his life.
Bloodgood’s tournament chess career began in 1957 when he started
conducting monthly Norfolk USO invitational chess tournaments until 1961.
During that time span, Claude won over half of all the USCF rated tournaments
in the state of Virginia. These tournaments included:
Virginia Open (1957, 1958)
Norfolk Open (1958, 1959, 1960, 1961).
Norfolk Chess Club Championship (1957, 1958, 1959, 1961).
Norfolk USO
Invitational (36 of 60 monthly tournaments)
Camp Elmore Championship
(1957).
FMFLant Championship (1957).
Oceana NAS Open (1959).
In addition to his over the board play, Claude was also an avid postal
chess player. This passion for postal chess inspired Claude to set up the All
Service Postal Chess Club (ASPCC) tournament in 1958, which continues to
operate to this day.
Sadly, Claude’s chess career never had a chance to flourish due to
numerous problems with the law. During the 1960’s he was in prison from
1962 to 1964 and from 1965 to 1967 for 4th degree burglary. Upon being released
he was imprisoned again from 1968 to 1969 for forgery. In 1970, he was
convicted of murdering his stepmother and was sentenced to death in
Virginia’s electric chair. While on death row, Claude spent virtually all
of his time playing postal chess, and because he was on death row, the State of
Virginia paid his postage. At one time, Claude was playing as many as 2000
games simultaneously. This is probably a record. Claude spent the remainder of
his time writing about chess. He wrote numerous articles for various chess
publications and also wrote the first of his three published chess books, The
Tactical Grob. To this day, this book is considered to be a classic by fans of
unorthodox chess openings.
In 1972, Claude’s death sentence was commuted to life in prison.
As he was no longer on death row, the State of Virginia no longer paid his
postage, so Claude’s postal career came to an abrupt end. His prison chess
career, however, was only beginning. Claude began organizing chess tournaments
within the prison walls with outsiders being permitted to come in and compete.
With "Fischer chess fever" still at its height, these tournaments gained a
considerable amount of good publicity for the prison system. Claude was soon
allowed to organize chess tournaments outside the prison walls. To this day,
people wonder how Claude, a convicted killer, fresh off of death row, was
allowed to leave prison virtually unguarded to set up chess tournaments. Claude
was always vague on this point. He would only smile and say that anything was
possible if you knew how the prison bureaucracy worked.
During one of these outings, Claude and another prisoner, Lewis
Capleaner, were forced to escape by a prison guard named George Winslow who was
escorting them to a tournament. According to Bloodgood, George Winslow had
serious financial problems and tried to coerce Bloodgood and Capleaner to rob a
local gambling house for him while they were on the furlough. Although
Bloodgood and Capleaner refused, Winslow was insistent. The situation ended
with Winslow getting handcuffed to a bed while Bloodgood and Capleaner escaped
with their respective girlfriends, seven dollars in cash, and no place to go.
With no plan and no money, Bloodgood and Capleaner were soon recaptured, and
George Winslow was arrested for his involvement in the escape.
As fantastic as this story sounds, it is probably an accurate account,
especially considering how meticulously Bloodgood orchestrated the prison to
allow him furloughs to play chess and how poorly planned the actual escape was.
Bloodgood never denied his intention to use his prison chess furloughs as a
means of escape, but he always denied that he intended to escape at that
particular moment, with that particular inmate, and with only a few dollars in
his pocket.
Bloodgood’s escape and the details behind it, and the fact that
the Virginia prison system was allowing convicted murderers to leave prison
practically unguarded to set up chess tournaments proved somewhat embarrassing
to the State of Virginia. As a result Bloodgood’s chances for parole
became nonexistent. Another consequence was that the Virginia Penitentiary
(VAPEN) Chess program was dismantled.
Bloodgood continued to play offhand chess games within the prison walls
throughout the 1980’s, and by the early 1990’s decided to re-form the
VAPEN Chess club. This sparked yet another controversy that again drew national
chess attention to Bloodgood. During this time, Bloodgood held tournaments
inside of Powhatan Correctional Center. These tournaments uncovered a serious
flaw in the United States Chess Federation (USCF) rating system. It turned out
that the USCF provisional ratings formulas along with the ratings floors caused
serious ratings inflation if a small group played numerous games within a
closed pool. This is precisely what happened at the VAPEN chess club. As the
VAPEN chess club was, what might euphemistically be called, a "captive
audience" with not much else to do, Bloodgood and about twenty or so of his
fellow inmates started playing several rated games a day. This group had
members that were playing literally thousands of games a year. This caused
their ratings to jump to extremely high levels.
When it became obvious to Claude and VAPEN that the ratings formula was
flawed, they alerted the USCF. Unfortunately, the USCF could not correct the
problem quickly, and soon Claude Bloodgood was ranked second in the United
States with a rating of 2702. This triggered an outcry from some members of the
United States Chess Federation who alleged numerous unfair and untrue
allegations that Bloodgood was committing ratings fraud. This was, of course,
not the case as Bloodgood had alerted the USCF to the problem long before he
ever reached the stratospheric level of 2702. Bloodgood was also quick to admit
to anyone who would bother asking that he was over rated. His true ability at
that time in his life was probably high expert class to low master level. At
his prime, in the early 60’s, he was probably close to senior master
strength.
During this period of Claude’s life, he penned several more books
on his beloved unorthodox openings. Two of these were published by Chess
Digest, Inc.: the Nimzovich Attack: The Norfolk Gambits and the
Blackburne-Hartlaub Gambits. Bloodgood has the manuscripts of several other
books also written, but they have not yet been published.
By 1997, Bloodgood’s health had deteriorated so drastically, that
he was transferred to the prison medical unit where he was to live out the
remaining years of his life. Fortunately after his transfer, the Veterans
Administration awarded him benefits amounting to approximately 90 a month. With
this money, Claude was able to resume his postal chess career. During these
final years, Claude played as many as 200 postal chess games at any given time.
Claude continued to play postal chess at this phenomenal rate up until the
final three months of his life. By that point, his health and his chess ability
deteriorated to where he could no longer continue. No matter how poor his
health, however, Claude was always mentally alert even until his final day.
On a personal note, I knew Claude for close to a decade and became good
friends with him. I found him to have a brilliant mind, a great sense of humor,
to be a loyal friend, and to be kind and generous with others. Even though he
had only limited finances, for example, he was always quick to share what
little he had with other inmates, particularly when it came to promoting prison
chess. Claude was always quick to send his own money to a fellow prisoner who
needed money for a membership to the USCF or a postal chess club. He would also
send money to inmates who needed chess sets, chess clocks, or needed chess
books. He was also a great chess player of master to senior master strength who
played fanatically throughout his life. His chess style came from the old
school, and might even be described by the romantic chess players of nineteenth
century as "speculative" and perhaps a bit "too aggressive". The chess world
will be less interesting without him. I will miss him very much.
Claude Bloodgood’s papers will go to the Cleveland Public Library
All of Claude’s papers (including the drafts of his unpublished
books) will be donated to the John G. White collection of the Cleveland Public
Library that has the largest collection of chess literature in existence.
Claude was thrilled and honored that they wanted his papers. If anyone wishes
to donate any material related to Claude Bloodgood, please contact the
Cleveland Public Library. The library web site link is www.cpl.org and it has a
link to the John G. White collection. In addition, donations can be made to the
All Service Postal Chess Club (ASPCC) to assist prisoners who wish to play
postal chess, but are financially unable to do so.
Carmine Nigro dies at 91
Carmine Nigro a former president of the Brooklyn Chess Club died at the
age of 91 last week. He was one of Bobby Fischer's earliest teachers and he
dedicated his first book "Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess" to Nigro. He died on
August 16th 2001.
Nigro led a varied life as a musician, chess and golf teacher as well
as stockbroker. He moved to Miami in 1956 and then to Peachtree City in Georgia
in 1986.
Forthcoming Events and Links
18th World Microcomputer Chess Championships
The 18th World Microcomputer Chess Championships take place in
Maastricht August 18th-23rd 2001. The event is a 9 rounds swiss-system, 60
moves in 2 hours, rest in 30 minutes. 18 programs including Shredder, Ferret,
Quest, Deep Junior, Rebel, Chess Tiger Gandalf, Crafty etc
Internet coverage: http://www.vrichey.de/ccc2001/
Kieler Open 2001
The Kieler Open 2001 takes place 18th-24th August 2001.
Internet coverage:
http://home.t-online.de/home/KielerSg/default.htm
IV Pyramiden-Franken-Cup
The IV Pyramiden-Franken-Cup takes place in the ''Hotel-Pyramide''
Fürth 18th-25th August 2001. Ildar Ibragimov, Oleg Romanishin, Jonny
Hector, Klaus Bischoff, Roland Schmaltz, Eric Lobron, Arkadij Naiditsch and
Fabian Doettling are in the field of 137 players.
Internet coverage:
http://www.steffanklaus.de/pyramide/index1.htm
Rubinstein Memorial
The Rubinstein Memorial Festival takes place in Polanica Zdrój
13th-25th August 2001. There is no super-GM tournament this year. There are
several open events. Vladimir Baklan, Robert Kempinski, Vadim Malakhatko,
Tomasz Markowski and Spartak Vysochin all compete in the Open A which has a
total of 139 players.
Internet coverage: http://rubinstein.netgate.com.pl/
Pilsen Chess Festival
The Schneider Bohemia Open in Pilsen incorporating the Czech
Championship 2001 takes place 18th-26th August 2001. Marek Vokác Michal
Konopka David Gross (CZE) Petr Neuman Nikolaj Tolstich Jiri
Lechtýnský Robert Cvek Roman Chytilek and Serguei Vesselovsky are
all in the field of 112 players.
Internet coverage: http://www.volny.cz/pmarik/
Two New Books in German
There are two new books in German are out. Both are written by famous
chess players.
Svetozar Gligoric and Sinisa Joksic have produced a book in German
about the King's Indian Defence. The title is "Gligoric-variante" and it is in
German. It is the story of the Mar del Plata variantion which Gligoric played
first in 1953 and afterwards played and analysed a lot. The last games included
in the book from May and June 2001.
More info: http://avala.yubc.net/~yuchess/engleski/index.htm
The Exzelsior Verlag Berlin has just just published (in German) the
only story by Emanuel Lasker: "Wie Wanja Meister wurde". A Hardcover book of
184 pages is costs DM 29.90. Further information
Redaktion_Schach@compuserve.com.
International Open "San Agustín"
The VI International Open "San Agustín" (José Ramón
Memorial) for u-18 players takes place in Avilés, 18th-25th August 2001.
Jan Werle, Alexander Mista and Gabor Pinter are in the field of 112
players.
Internet coverage: http://www.ajedrezaviles.com
July FIDE List Study
Chess Siberia http://www.chessib.com/ an article "Study of
the July 2001 FIDE Rating List. Part I" (By Boris Schipkov, 15.08.2001).
Bethune Tournament
The 22nd International chess Tournament takes place in Bethune (North
of France) 26th-30th December 2001 7 rounds, 40 moves in 2 hours plus one hour
K.O, first prize 10000 Francs (about 1500 $)
For more information: http://bethunechess.free.fr
E-mail :bethunechess@aol.com
Groningen 2001-2
40th International Chess Tournament Groningen and 3rd European Chess
Championships take place in Groningen 19th December 2001 - 5th January 2002.
The event is organised by Stichting Schaak Groningen.
Website: http://www.groningenchess.nl/
Shirov Exhibition
Alexei Shirov will be giving an exhibition using a new TV Internet set
top box. He will play a man-machine event as well as human opposition at part
of the Funkaustellung in Berlin. Galaxis is a Luebeck company and is launching
their "x-treme" set top box at the exhibition. The event takes place 31st
August 2001 at 18.00 CET.
Internet coverage: http://www.galaxis.de
Bundesliga 2001-2
The team lists for next Bundesliga season are out. The first round is
on October 6th-7th 2001 with Porz-Luebeck being one of the top fixtures.
Internet coverage:
http://schach.com/bundesliga/2001-2002/bl2001mannschaften.html
and http://www.schach.com
44th World Congress of Chess Composition
The 44th World Congress of Chess Composition was held at Wageningen,
Netherlands from 28th July to 4th August. The highlight of the week's program
was the 25th World Chess Solving Championship, which took place on 31st July
and 1st August.
Internet coverage:
http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/pccc/2001pccc.html
Panormo Open, Greece
OAA Heraklio Chess Club, Epimenidis Cultural Company and the Greek
Chess Federation are announcing the 2001 Panormo open tournament, part of the
2001 European Grand-Prix.
The tournament will be held in sunny Crete, Greece from October
20th-27th 2001 with a total prize fund of more than 3000 Euros (1st prize: 1000
Euros).
More information is available through the official website of the
event: http://www.greekchess.com/panormo
Kavala 2001
The 1st European Chess Grand-Prix 10th International Tournament Of
Kavala takes place August 21st-29th 2001. Entry info:
http://www.chess.gr/kavala/2001/enter.html
Web coverage: http://www.chess.gr/kavala/index.html
and http://www.chess.gr/kavala
European Youth Championships
Information on the European Youth Chess Championships (August 30th -
September 10th 2001) and F.I.D.E. Congress (September 4th to 10th) is now
on-line.
Internet coverage: http://www.sportmeeting.org/
Hawaii International Chess Festival Postponed
The Hawaii International Chess Festival has been postponed until 2003.
It will have the first World Families Chess Championships. Pro (2000+), Mixed,
and Amateur (all players under 2000). Prizes for all sorts of combinations of
family members. Information: hawaii@chessworks.com.
British Rapidplay Championships
The British Rapidplay Chess Championships 2001 take place 20th-21st
October 2001 at Bradford City Football Club, Valley Parade, Bradford.
Further details: http://www.british-rapidplay.org.uk/
Swiss Chess Tour 2001
The 2nd Chess Summer in Bern
Bern: International Chess Festival for everybody August 4th-12th. Hotel
Ambassador (****) Special chess-rate!
The 5 Tornaments: Ambassador Open: August 4th-12th 2001. Open to all, 9
rounds, Swiss system. Time control: 2 hours for 40 moves + one hour to complete
the game.
Prizes: 2.000/1.500/1.000/800/600/500/400/300/2x250/5x200 SF. Entry
fee: 140 SF (juniors+FM 70 SF); GM, IM free.
Summernights Open: August 5th –11th 2001. Open to all, 7 rounds,
Swiss System. Time control 30 moves for 1.30 hours + 30 minutes until the end.
Games start from 18.00-22.00 each days. Prizes: 1.000/800/600/500/400/300/4x200
SF: Entry fee: 110 SF (juniors+FM 55 SF); GM, IM free.
Junior Open: August 5th – 11th 2001. Open to junior born 1981 and
jounger, till 2000 rating. Rounds 7, Swiss system. Time control: 2 hours for 40
moves + one hour to complite the game. Games start 11.00-17.00 each days.
Senior Open. August 5th – 11th 2001. Open to all born 1941 and
before, 7 rounds, Swiss system. Time control: 2 hours for 40 moves + one hour
to complite the game. Games start 11.00-17.00 each days.
Blitz tournament: August 4th 2001. start at 13.00 p.m. Time 5 minutes;
11 rounds Swiss system. Entry fee 30 SF (juniors 10 SF)
Playing room with air-conditioning.
More information: http://www.beochess.ch Robert Spoerri,
Tiergarten 33, CH-3400 Burgdorf, tel: 00/41/34/4240106; Fax: 00/41/34/4240107
E-mail: info@beochess.ch
Miercurea Ciuc
The Caissa 2001 tournaments in Miercurea Ciuc (Romania) takes place
20th-30th August and 20th-30th September 2001. There will be chess tournaments
for IM, wIGM and wIM norms as well as an ELO event.
Further details: http://www.topnet.ro/caissa
The organiser is Sandor Biro E-mail : caissa@topnet.ro Tel+Fax :
(+40)-66-116712
World Junior Chess Championships
About 150 players from 55 countries (99 boys and 56 girls) are expected
to participate in the 2001 World Junior U20 Chess Championship, August 16-29 in
Athens, Greece. This is an increase of over 50% compared with the previous
year, when a total of 92 players participated.
Internet coverage: http://www.greekchess.com/pagosmio
Website for the Championships:
http://www.greekchess.com/pagosmio
Champions League 2001
The European Club Cup finals take place in 22th-30th SEPTEMBER 2001.
More than 300 chess players, the best in the world, will come to Crete
in order to claim the Champions League Title. The Games will be held via Swiss
system of 7 rounds and the teams will use 6 players and the right to use two
substitutes.
Live coverage: http://www.venizelia.gr
Corsica Open
The Corsica International Open takes place October 28th-31st 2001. 600
000 F of prices (91 500 euros). For more details (Schedule, prizes, travels) :
http://www.opencorsica.com
Malbork Castle Cup (Poland)
The 4th Malbork Castle Cup (Poland) takes place 8th-9th September 2001.
1st prize 1200 PLN (600DM) for more detailed information (English,
German and Polish) see the Internet site:
http://skoraf.republika.pl/index.htm
Tiviakov reports
Sergey Tiviakov's site http://www.tiviakov.demon.nl/ has his
reports on the European Championship in Ohrid (Macedonia) and the Dutch
Championships in Leeuwarden.
Bucharest IM
SC Lasker in Bucharest, Romania is organising an IM tournament 5th-19th
August 2001. The event will be Category 2 to 4 and have 12-16 players.
Entry fees: <= 2150 400 DM 2151-2200 300 DM 2201-2250 250 DM
2251-2300 200 DM 2301-2400 150 DM >= 2401 100 DM
Accommodation 100-150 DM in private rooms or apartments for all the
period of the tournament. Starting date: 5th august 2001. Opening ceremony
14°° in the Chess Club "Sah Astral", Mendeleev street N° 36-38.
Time limits: 40 moves / 2 hours, then 1 hour for 20 moves + 30 minutes
KO. The games will be played every day from 1430-2130.
Prizes: declared before the 3rd round.
Address in Bucharest: Romanian Chess Federation, Ion Campineanu street,
no. 20, phone: 312.70.56, fax: 312.19.44; Central Chess Club: Otetari Street,
no. 2, phone 314.68.13. Organizer: FIDE Master Emil Pessi: O.P. 38-C.P. 80,
72.250 Bucharest-Romania, phone 0040-1-240.07.00; fax: 0040-1-312.19.44 (if
contacted he assures the reception of the players). E-mail:
rchirila@hotmail.com or ggg@dnt.ro
Organizer FIDE Master Emil Pessi
Yin Hao+ vs. World Team (The Rematch)
Tom Hendricks reports: On July 5, 2001, Chinese IM Yin Hao (2576) will
begin play against the World Team in an Internet correspondence chess game.
This will be a rematch of the game they played last year. That game, which
began July 5th, 2000 and ended January 18, 2001, was a 44-move struggle ending
in a draw. This time colors will be reversed with Yin Hao now being white and
the World Team black. As he was in the first game, Yin Hao will be assisted by
U.S. correspondence player Richard Fleming (2404). The first game attracted
World Team players from Brazil, Canada, England, Germany, the Netherlands, New
Zealand, Poland and the United States. Most of these players first came
together during the Kasparov vs. The World game held in 1999. The upcoming game
is open to anyone who wishes to play and is willing to follow the basic
guidelines of the World Team. Players of all skill levels are welcome. General
game topics and specific strategy are discussed at a moderated board found at:
http://boards.gamers.com/messages/overview.asp?name=WTChess&page=1
Visit the site and review the Game Rules and Move Selection Rules. To
participate you must both register with gamers.com AND click on 'Request
Password' at the top of the strategy board page. Registration with gamers.com
is the process of selecting your UserName and Password. When you click on
'Request Password' you will be e-mailed another password that is specific to
the strategy board. You will need to enter it only the first time that you post
to the board. Those of you who participated in the first game with Yin Hao need
not request the board password - it remains the same.
Book prizes and ICC (Internet Chess Club) memberships will be awarded
throughout the game to lucky members of the World Team. So come and join the
fun. Additional information can be obtained by writing to tahiv@hotmail.com
Global Chess Computer 2001
There is a match between many strong computers and players on the
Internet. More information (english/french)
http://www.chesslines.com/rebelvsnet/globalchesscomputer.html
Ron Banwell Masters
The Ron Banwell Masters, incorporating the Commonwealth Championships
will take place 18th-27th August 2001. It will be part of the 5th Mind Sports
Olympiad (London). It will take place at South Bank University, Faculty of the
Built Environment, 202 Wandsworth Road, London SW8 2JZ. Entry is open to
anybody from anywhere. It will be free to the first two nominees of each
Commonwealth federation. Entry is also free to disabled players. It will be
possible to gain international honours in this 10 round Swiss.
Entrants so far for the Ron Banwell MSO Masters include: gms Barua,
Kunte, McDonald, McNab, Thipsay, with the likely participation of Agnos. ims
include Aikhoje, Crouch. Females include Houska, Richards, Wilson and the wives
of Barua and Thipsay. Since the event includes the Commonwealth Championship,
considerable interest has been expressed by other Indian players and
Harakrishna, Lanka and Mishra are likely contestants if they can get their
visas in time. Several players hope to arrive after the first round as they are
taking part in the Asian Championship. The event is part of the Mind Sports
Olympiad at South Bank University. Play in the Masters takes place at 16.00
18th-27th August. It is not too late to enter. Further details
MSO@tcs-demon.co.uk
Krkonose Open 2001
The 2nd Krkonose International Open which is part of the Czech Tour
2001/2002 takes place 1st-8th November 2001 in Snezkou, Czech Republic. The 9
round Swiss at a time rate of 40 moves per 2 hours and half an hour for each
player to finish the game. Prize fund: altogether 20.000 CZK
Further information http://www.proclient.cz/czechtour
6th International Chess Open San Agustín (under 18)
The José Ramón Memorial takes place in Avilés,
18th to 25th of August 2001. Prizemoney 660,000 pesetas distributed in up to 30
prizes. 1st 100,000 pesetas, 2nd 90,000 pesetas, 3rd 80,000 pesetas etc
Players under 18 years old. Born after January 1st 1983.
Entry fee: 3,000 pesetas, including an invitation to the closing dinner
which will take place on August 25th at 22:00 hours.
Further information: http://www.ajedrezaviles.com
Elbow Beach Bermuda
There will be several invitational GM and IM Tournaments in the Five
star Elbow Beach Hotel in Bermuda prior to their traditional 5 round Open, 17th
January to 4th February 2002. There will also be a nine round GM Open.
Contact Nigel Freeman at cadilly@ibl.bm or see the site
http://www.bermuda.bm/chess
Glyfada Open 2001
3rd International Chess Tournament "Glyfada 2001" that will take place
from August 31st-September 8th 2001 in Glyfada, Athens, Greece.
Further information at the new Web site of "Zeno Chess Club" :
http:\\www.zinonchess.gr
VI Paks Cup
The VI Paks Cup Hungary, GM, IM, and FM tournaments take place 18th-28th
August 2001. The GM and IM events are 11 rounds and the FM group is 9 rounds, 7
days and there is no entry fee. Accomodation: 5-11 EURO/day Info: Videki Sandor
videkisn@axelero.hu
Znojmo Open
The Znojmo Open (CZE) 2001 will take place 7th-14th October 2001.
Contact: Dr. Jan Mazuch, Festival Director of CZECH OPEN 2001 -
j.mazuch@avekont.cz CZECH OPEN - International Chess Festival -
http://www.proclient.cz/czechopen
CZECH TOUR - International Chess Tournaments Series -
http://www.proclient.cz/czechtour
International Chess Calender - http://www.avekont.cz/calender.htm
Bourgogne weekender
There is a weekend tournament in Bourgogne 6th-7th October 2001. 70 000
Frs in prizes. Venue: Grande salle de l’Hexagone 1st blitz tournament -
Saturday 6/10 at 14 h 30 10 000 Frs de prix – 1er 3000, 2000, 1000, 800 et
prix par cat. élo II
2nd 5th Open International - Sunday 7th October 9h. 9 rondes : 3 x 10
min,2 x 15 min, 4 x 20 min. 60 000 Frs de prix garantis Général :
1er 5500 F, 2ème 4000, 3ème 3000,( 15 prix ) Spécial
Féminines :1ère 2000 F, 2ème 1500, 3ème 1000
Tranches élo :0/1500, 1501/1700,1701/1900 et 1901/2100 et 2101 /2300 1er
1200 F, 2ème 900, 3ème 600, 4ème 300
Vétérans : 1er 1000 F, 2ème 600, 3ème 400. Jeunes :
1er 600 F
Contact: M. LOUIS Tél 03 85 82 55 75- Fax 03 85 82 59 96 e.mail
: M.LOUIS@wanadoo.fr F. THIBAUDET Tél/fax 03 85 82 68 72 –
THIBAUDETF@AOL.com
6th Wichern Open
The 75th Anniversary of the Barmbek Chess Club in Hamburg will see the
6th Wichern Open take place 13th-21st October 2001. Playing venue: Sports Hall
of Wichern Schule in Hamburg (same place as in 1999).
Jubilee Open: 9 rounds Swiss, 7 hours of play (2h/40, 1h/20,
30min/rest). No double rounds. Open for all players. Entry fee: without Elo:
150 DM, Elo less than 2200: 100 DM, ELO higher than 2199: 50 DM, GM/IM free.
Prizes 2500 DM / 2000 DM / 1500 DM, many more prices planned depending on
number of participants.
Barmbek Open: Limited to players with German national rating (DWZ) less
than 1800. 9 rounds Swiss, 5 hours of play (2h/40, 30min/rest). Entry fee: 80
DM, juniors: 40 DM. Prizes: 500 DM/300 DM/200 DM.
For further details: email rolf_sander@magicvillage.de
5th Open International Bavarian Masters
The 5th Open International Bavarian Masters takes place in Bad Wiessee,
27th October - 4th November 2001. Prize-funds: DM 42.000
Details and online-inscription at:
http://www.schach-am-tegernsee.de/oib2001
III Sants Hostafrancs i La Bordeta International Open
10 round Swiss System open. Venue Barcelona (Spain) 1st-10th September
2001.
Further details: http://www.secretariat.org/open
VII Tatry Open in Slovakia
VII Tatry Open 2001 in Tatranské Zruby 29 September - 6 October
2001.
Further information: http://www.chess.sk/turnaje/turnaje.html
GREECE WILL HOST THE 2001 WORLD JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
The Municipality of Peristeri in Athens, Greece will organize the 2001
World Junior Chess Championship for boys & girls up to 20 years old.
The games will be played during August 16-29 in the Exhibition Center
of Peristeri, Athens. It is the first major FIDE event to be organized in
Greece after the 1998 Zonal Tournament 1.5 in Panormo, Crete. It is also the
first major chess event which will be organized in Athens, the host city of the
2004 Olympic Games.
The games will be covered through the Internet by Greek Chess Online
http://www.greekchess.com/pagosmio
- the official website.
An official invitation will be soon delivered to all federations.
IM George Mastrokoukos Greek Chess Federation Presidential Board Member
Italian Events including European and World over 60s
21st Chess Festical in Bratto, Italy takes place August 22nd-30th 2001.
Full details: http://www.maskeret.com/bratto
Over 60 events in Italy: The European Championships for over 60s take
place in Saint-Vincent, September 15th-23rd 2001 and the World Championships
for over 60s take place in Arco (Trento), October 15th-28th Details in
"calendario" section of Italian Federation's site:
http://www.infcom.it/fsi
VI International Chess Festival in Cesenatico
The VI International Chess Festival in Cesenatico takes place 9th-16th
September 2001. Open events etc.
Internet coverage: http://www.antiquascom.it/
Pilsen Open
The 7th International Chess Festival "Festival Schneider Bohemia "
Pilsen 2001, takes place 18th-26th August 2001 at the "Strelecky stadion"
Pilsen Lobzy (The Czech Republic). The main tournament of this Festival is the
International Open Czech Championship. (1st prize 20 000 CZK, sum of prizes 81
000 CZK). For detailed information look at
http://www.volny.cz/pmarik/
International Championships of Slovakia
International Championships of Slovakia 2001, which will be hold as
tournament A of Presov Chess Festival 2001: Presov Chess Festival 11.8 -
19.8.2001 (9 rounds) A) International Championship of Slovakia 2001 (OPEN) -
1st prize 30 000 Sk (about 1500 DEM) - total prize fund 114 000 Sk (about 5500
DEM) B) National Open - 1st prize 7 000 Sk (about 350 DEM) - total prize fund
31 000 Sk (about 1500 DEM) Venue: Presov, SPS Strojnicka school (next to hotel
Saris) Accomodation: College of SPS Strojnicka - 2-beds room 10 DEM / person /
night - 1-bed room 13 DEM / person / night Boarding: SPS Strojnicka 10 DEM per
day Registration deadline 15.7.2001 Further information:
http://www.chess.vadium.sk/presov
Weihnachts-Open 2001
The Weihnachts-Open 2001 takes place in Strausberg (Berlin) Germany from
27.12.2001 to 30.12.2001. The tournament will be ELO and DWZ rated. First prize
: 500 DM entry fee : 30 DM
Further information: http://www.weihnachtsopen.de