THE WEEK IN CHESS 558 18th July 2005 by Mark Crowther

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Contents

1) Introduction
2) Dortmund 2005
3) Biel GM Tournament
4) 2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup
5) Milan Vidmar Memorial
6) Canadian Open
7) 2nd Amsterdam Chess Tournament
8) Politiken Cup
9) Ikaros Chess Festival
10) XXIII Open Andorra
11) VIII Republica Argentina Chess Masters
12) Swedish Chess Championship
13) First Saturday July
14) North Urals Cup
15) Zepter 2005
16) Scottish Chess Championship
17) Maccabiah Games
18) 25th Anniversary Benasque
19) Magistral Salamanca
20) San Bernardo Tournament
21) CEZ Chess Trophy 2005
22) 4th Condom Open
23) 57th Championship of Montenegro
24) Mielo Open
25) Australian Masters
26) Friendship Tournament in Cartak CZE
27) Zonal 4.1
28) 34th Greek Teams Championship
29) 6th Kurass Memorial
30) 2nd South Wales International
31) Dunav-Drava-Sava League 2005
32) 16th Ljubljana Open
33) 2nd Summer Competition for Russian Pupils
34) 4th Dubai Junior Open
35) Denker Memorial
36) Paris Championship
37) Anand Charity Simul
38) Costa Rican National Championship
39) World Open
40) ACP Tour 2004-2005: Final Report
41) Forthcoming Events and Links


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Games section

Dortmund 2005                             25 games
Biel GM Tournament                         6 games
2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup                      37 games
Milan Vidmar Memorial                     35 games
Canadian Open                             34 games
2nd Amsterdam Chess Tournament           100 games
Ikaros Chess Festival                     70 games
XXIII Open Andorra                        90 games
VIII Republica Argentina Masters          20 games
Swedish Chess Championship                35 games
First Saturday July                       15 games
North Urals Cup                           10 games
Zepter 2005                               30 games
Scottish Chess Championship               63 games
Maccabiah Games                           15 games
25th Anniversary Benasque                 45 games
Magistral Salamanca                       45 games
San Bernardo Tournament                   45 games
CEZ Chess Trophy 2005                      2 games
4th Condom Open                          275 games
57th Championship of Montenegro          126 games
Mielo Open                               130 games
Australian Masters                        90 games
Friendship Tournament in Cartak CZE       86 games
Zonal 4.1                                 83 games
34th Greek Teams Championship            267 games
6th Kurass Memorial                      453 games
2nd South Wales International            218 games
Dunav-Drava-Sava League 2005              22 games
16th Ljubljana Open                      225 games
2nd Summer Russian Pupils                306 games
3003 games

1) Introduction

My thanks to Jürgen Daniel, Olivier Breisacher, Roberto Alvarez, Spiros Ilandzis, Yannick Pelletier, Oscar de la Riva, Mihajlo Savic, Lawrence Tamarkin, Thomas Henrich, Gérard Demuydt, Laszlo Nagy, Arasu Israel Arul, Argiris Kotsis, Mark Adams, Dimitris Skyrianoglou, Tarjei J. Svensen, Goran Tomic, Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr, Roberto Alvarez, Yin Hao, Amador de la Nava, Jeff Mallett, Milen Petrov, Milan Ninchich, Ian Rogers, Douglas Bryson, Micah Hughey, Hector Walsh, Georges Bertola and everyone else who helped with the issue.

The main event was the conclusion of the Dortmund tournament and the surprise win by 19 year old Arkadij Naiditsch. The favourites Topalov, Leko, Kramnik, Svidler and Bacrot all struggled to find their best form. Kramnik in particular seems to be in crisis. This is another huge edition, I even left some material for next week. We're really into the chess summer of 2005.

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) Dortmund 2005

The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place 8th-17th July 2005 (rest day 13th) in the Civic Theatre. The shock winner was local player 19 year old Arkadij Naiditsch. He finished in clear first half a point clear of Topalov, Bacrot, Van Wely and Svidler. In spite of finishing in second Topalov lost rating points but not as many as the bottom five in the field. Vladimir Kramnik is obviously not going to recapture his form anytime soon and was defeated in the final round to finish on 50%.

Official site: http://www.chessgate.de/do2005/

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It Dortmund GER (GER), 7-17 vii 2005                  cat. XIX (2709)
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                                       1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Naiditsch, Arkadij     g GER 2612  * 0 = = = = = 1 1 1  5.5  2799 
 2. Topalov, Veselin       g BUL 2788  1 * = 1 = 0 0 1 = =  5.0  2743 
 3. Bacrot, Etienne        g FRA 2729  = = * 0 = 1 1 = 1 0  5.0  2749 
 4. Van Wely, Loek         g NED 2655  = 0 1 * = = 1 0 1 =  5.0  2758 
 5. Svidler, Peter         g RUS 2738  = = = = * = = 1 = =  5.0  2748 
 6. Kramnik, Vladimir      g RUS 2744  = 1 0 = = * = = 0 1  4.5  2705 
 7. Adams, Michael         g ENG 2719  = 1 0 0 = = * = = 1  4.5  2707 
 8. Leko, Peter            g HUN 2763  0 0 = 1 0 = = * = 1  4.0  2660 
 9. Sutovsky, Emil         g ISR 2674  0 = 0 0 = 1 = = * =  3.5  2632 
10. Nielsen, Peter Heine   g DEN 2668  0 = 1 = = 0 0 0 = *  3.0  2588 
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Round 5 (July 12, 2005)

Naiditsch, Arkadij    -  Van Wely, Loek        1/2   60  B42  Sicilian Paulsen
Bacrot, Etienne       -  Topalov, Veselin      1/2   93  E90  King's Indian Classical
Svidler, Peter        -  Sutovsky, Emil        1/2   29  B31  Sicilian Rossolimo
Kramnik, Vladimir     -  Adams, Michael        1/2   58  C91  Ruy Lopez
Nielsen, Peter Heine  -  Leko, Peter           0-1   60  E05  Catalan

Round 6 (July 14, 2005)

Naiditsch, Arkadij    -  Kramnik, Vladimir     1/2   58  C42  Petroff's Defence
Topalov, Veselin      -  Svidler, Peter        1/2   40  B46  Sicilian Paulsen
Van Wely, Loek        -  Sutovsky, Emil        1-0   71  D89  Gruenfeld Alekhine
Adams, Michael        -  Nielsen, Peter Heine  1-0   27  C42  Petroff's Defence
Leko, Peter           -  Bacrot, Etienne       1/2   41  C92  Ruy Lopez Chigorin

Round 7 (July 15, 2005)

Bacrot, Etienne       -  Adams, Michael        1-0   53  E15  Queens Indian
Svidler, Peter        -  Leko, Peter           1-0   41  B31  Sicilian Rossolimo
Kramnik, Vladimir     -  Van Wely, Loek        1/2   37  B41  Sicilian Paulsen
Sutovsky, Emil        -  Topalov, Veselin      1/2   45  B45  Sicilian Classical
Nielsen, Peter Heine  -  Naiditsch, Arkadij    0-1   58  E04  Catalan

Round 8 (July 16, 2005)

Naiditsch, Arkadij    -  Bacrot, Etienne       1/2   23  C42  Petroff's Defence
Van Wely, Loek        -  Topalov, Veselin      0-1   47  C02  French Advance
Kramnik, Vladimir     -  Nielsen, Peter Heine  1-0   51  C42  Petroff's Defence
Adams, Michael        -  Svidler, Peter        1/2   20  B46  Sicilian Paulsen
Leko, Peter           -  Sutovsky, Emil        1/2   67  A26  English Sicilian Attack

Round 9 (July 17, 2005)

Topalov, Veselin      -  Leko, Peter           1-0  106  B33  Sicilian Sveshnikov
Bacrot, Etienne       -  Kramnik, Vladimir     1-0   56  E21  Nimzo Indian 4.Nf3
Svidler, Peter        -  Naiditsch, Arkadij    1/2   21  C88  Ruy Lopez Closed
Sutovsky, Emil        -  Adams, Michael        1/2   51  C85  Ruy Lopez Steenwijker Defence
Nielsen, Peter Heine  -  Van Wely, Loek        1/2   49  E04  Catalan

3) Biel GM Tournament

The Category 16 Biel GM Tournament takes place 16th-29th July 2005. Boris Gelfand leads with 1.5/2.

In addition to the main event there is the the 'ACCENTUS' 2005 women's event with Inna Gaponenko (Ukraine, 29, 2439 points Elo), Almira Skripchenko (France, 29, 2437), Elisabeth Pähtz (Germany, 28, 2421), Elena Sedina (Italy, 37, 2402), Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (India, 26, 2414) and Ekaterina Korbut (Russia, 20 ans, 2409).

Further info: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch

Round 1 (July 17, 2005)

Pelletier, Yannick  -  Gelfand, Boris      1/2   28  E15  Queens Indian
Nakamura, Hikaru    -  Carlsen, Magnus     1/2   25  C91  Ruy Lopez
Volokitin, Andrei   -  Bauer, Christian    1/2   24  B01  Centre Counter

Round 2 (July 18, 2005)

Carlsen, Magnus     -  Pelletier, Yannick  1/2   25  C18  French Winawer
Volokitin, Andrei   -  Nakamura, Hikaru    1/2   41  C80  Ruy Lopez Open
Bauer, Christian    -  Gelfand, Boris      0-1   43  D45  Anti-Meran Variations


GM Biel SUI (SUI), 17-12 vii 2005             cat. XVI (2638)
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                                  1  2  3  4  5  6 
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1 Gelfand, Boris      g ISR 2724 ** =. .. .. .. 1.  1.5  2815
2 Pelletier, Yannick  g SUI 2603 =. ** =. .. .. ..  1.0  2626
3 Carlsen, Magnus     g NOR 2528 .. =. ** =. .. ..  1.0  2631
4 Nakamura, Hikaru    g USA 2660 .. .. =. ** =. ..  1.0  2599
5 Volokitin, Andrei   g UKR 2671 .. .. .. =. ** =.  1.0  2650
6 Bauer, Christian    g FRA 2641 0. .. .. .. =. **  0.5  2504
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4) 2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup

The 2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup takes place in Tiayuan, China 8th-17th July 2005.

Official site: http://sports.sina.com.cn

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2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup Tiayuan CHN (CHN), 9-20 vii 2005      cat. XV (2601)
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                                       1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 
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 1. Harikrishna, P        g IND 2645  * 0 1 = . . 1 1 1 1 1 1  7.5  2861 
 2. Motylev, Alexander    g RUS 2675  1 * . . = = 1 1 1 = = 1  7.0  2812 
 3. Bu Xiangzhi           g CHN 2632  0 . * = 1 = . = = = 1 1  5.5  2671 
 4. Wang Yue              g CHN 2576  = . = * = = 1 = = 1 . 0  5.0  2636 
 5. Karjakin, Sergey      g UKR 2645  . = 0 = * 1 0 = 1 . = 1  5.0  2644 
 6. Ni Hua                g CHN 2629  . = = = 0 * . = 0 1 1 1  5.0  2638 
 7. Petrosian, Tigran L   g ARM 2581  0 0 . 0 1 . * 0 = = 1 1  4.0  2553 
 8. Zhang Zhong           g CHN 2608  0 0 = = = = 1 * . 0 = .  3.5  2533 
 9. Zhang Pengxiang       g CHN 2616  0 0 = = 0 1 = . * . 1 0  3.5  2528 
10. Wang Hao                CHN 2512  0 = = 0 . 0 = 1 . * 0 1  3.5  2524 
11. McShane, Luke J       g ENG 2625  0 = 0 . = 0 0 = 0 1 * .  2.5  2449 
12. Zhao Xue             wg CHN 2470  0 0 0 1 0 0 0 . 1 0 . *  2.0  2392 
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Round 4 (July 12, 2005)

Harikrishna, P       -  Zhang Zhong          1-0  110  A87  Dutch Leningrad
Motylev, Alexander   -  Zhao Xue             1-0   37  C68  Ruy Lopez Exchange
Bu Xiangzhi          -  Zhang Pengxiang      1/2   27  D77  Gruenfeld 3.g3
Wang Yue             -  Wang Hao             1-0   37  D12  Slav Defence
Ni Hua               -  Karjakin, Sergey     0-1   34  C67  Ruy Lopez Berlin
Petrosian, Tigran L  -  McShane, Luke J      1-0   59  E67  King's Indian Fianchetto

Round 5 (July 13, 2005)

Karjakin, Sergey     -  Wang Yue             1/2   60  B33  Sicilian Sveshnikov
Zhang Zhong          -  Petrosian, Tigran L  1-0   50  B52  Sicilian Rossolimo
Zhang Pengxiang      -  Ni Hua               1-0   49  B33  Sicilian Sveshnikov
Wang Hao             -  Harikrishna, P       0-1   20  C45  Scotch Game
McShane, Luke J      -  Motylev, Alexander   1/2   30  C42  Petroff's Defence
Zhao Xue             -  Bu Xiangzhi          0-1   33  C01  French Exchange

Round 6 (July 14, 2005)

Motylev, Alexander   -  Zhang Zhong          1-0   40  C67  Ruy Lopez Berlin
Bu Xiangzhi          -  McShane, Luke J      1-0   43  E94  King's Indian Classical
Wang Yue             -  Harikrishna, P       1/2   64  D85  Gruenfeld Defence
Karjakin, Sergey     -  Zhang Pengxiang      1-0   26  B48  Sicilian Paulsen
Ni Hua               -  Zhao Xue             1-0   33  C69  Ruy Lopez Exchange
Petrosian, Tigran L  -  Wang Hao             1/2   71  C07  French Tarrasch

Round 7 (July 15, 2005)

Harikrishna, P       -  Petrosian, Tigran L  1-0   34  B07  Pirc Defence
Zhang Zhong          -  Bu Xiangzhi          1/2   39  B76  Sicilian Modern Dragon
Zhang Pengxiang      -  Wang Yue             1/2   40  B30  Sicilian Rossolimo
Wang Hao             -  Motylev, Alexander   1/2   49  C89  Ruy Lopez Marshall
McShane, Luke J      -  Ni Hua               0-1   76  C03  French Tarrasch
Zhao Xue             -  Karjakin, Sergey     0-1   60  D45  Anti-Meran Variations

Round 8 (July 16, 2005)

Motylev, Alexander   -  Harikrishna, P       1-0   37  C67  Ruy Lopez Berlin
Bu Xiangzhi          -  Wang Hao             1/2   16  D10  Slav Defence
Wang Yue             -  Petrosian, Tigran L  1-0   49  D34  Tarrasch Defence, Main Line
Karjakin, Sergey     -  McShane, Luke J      1/2   52  B07  Pirc Defence
Ni Hua               -  Zhang Zhong          1/2   33  C45  Scotch Game
Zhang Pengxiang      -  Zhao Xue             0-1   47  C45  Scotch Game

Round 1 (July 17, 2005)

Ni Hua               -  Motylev, Alexander   1/2   31  C42  Petroff's Defence

Round 9 (July 18, 2005)

Harikrishna, P       -  Bu Xiangzhi          1-0   36  B23  Sicilian Closed
Petrosian, Tigran L  -  Motylev, Alexander   0-1   52  B56  Sicilian Defence
Zhang Zhong          -  Karjakin, Sergey     1/2   26  D43  Anti-Meran Gambit
Wang Hao             -  Ni Hua               0-1   56  B30  Sicilian Rossolimo
McShane, Luke J      -  Zhang Pengxiang      0-1   44  B20  Sicilian Wing Gambit
Zhao Xue             -  Wang Yue             1-0   72  D17  Slav Defence

5) Milan Vidmar Memorial

The 16th International GM Chess Tournament Dr. Milan Vidmar Memorial took place July 9th-17th 2005 in the Hotel Bernardin, Pororoz, Slovenia. Alexander Beliavsky took clear first place with 6/9 half a point clear of Luka Lenic and Nikola Djukic.

Official site: http://www.sah-zveza.si/mv/16/

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XVI Vidmar Mem Portoroz SLO (SLO), 9-17 vii 2005        cat. XII (2533)
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                                         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Beliavsky, Alexander G   g SLO 2599  * = 1 0 = = = 1 1 1  6.0  2651 
 2. Lenic, Luka              m SLO 2463  = * = = 0 = 1 1 = 1  5.5  2621 
 3. Djukic, Nikola             SCG 2521  0 = * 1 = = 0 1 1 1  5.5  2614 
 4. Pavasovic, Dusko         g SLO 2566  1 = 0 * = = = = 1 =  5.0  2572 
 5. Predojevic, Borki        g BIH 2543  = 1 = = * = = 0 = =  4.5  2532 
 6. Mihalcisin, Adrian       g SLO 2526  = = = = = * = = = =  4.5  2534 
 7. Baramidze, David         g GER 2535  = 0 1 = = = * = 0 =  4.0  2490 
 8. Sermek, Drazen           g SLO 2532  0 0 0 = 1 = = * = 1  4.0  2490 
 9. Borisek, Jure            m SLO 2509  0 = 0 0 = = 1 = * 1  4.0  2493 
10. Bartel, Mateusz          g POL 2540  0 0 0 = = = = 0 0 *  2.0  2312 
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Round 3 (July 11, 2005)

Beliavsky, Alexander G  -  Bartel, Mateusz         1-0   26  E34  Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Pavasovic, Dusko        -  Sermek, Drazen          1/2   29  C66  Ruy Lopez Berlin
Mihalcisin, Adrian      -  Lenic, Luka             1/2   23  E76  King's Indian Four Pawns
Baramidze, David        -  Djukic, Nikola          1-0   39  B48  Sicilian Paulsen
Borisek, Jure           -  Predojevic, Borki       1/2   14  C41  Philidor's Defence

Round 4 (July 12, 2005)

Beliavsky, Alexander G  -  Mihalcisin, Adrian      1/2   19  D41  Semi-Tarrasch Defence
Lenic, Luka             -  Pavasovic, Dusko        1/2   72  D45  Anti-Meran Variations
Predojevic, Borki       -  Baramidze, David        1/2   33  B12  Caro Kann Advanced
Sermek, Drazen          -  Borisek, Jure           1/2   34  C51  Evans Gambit
Bartel, Mateusz         -  Djukic, Nikola          0-1   51  B01  Centre Counter

Round 5 (July 13, 2005)

Djukic, Nikola          -  Predojevic, Borki       1/2   13  A07  Barcza System
Pavasovic, Dusko        -  Beliavsky, Alexander G  1-0   36  B22  Sicilian Alapin
Mihalcisin, Adrian      -  Bartel, Mateusz         1/2   22  B19  Caro Kann
Baramidze, David        -  Sermek, Drazen          1/2   14  B01  Centre Counter
Borisek, Jure           -  Lenic, Luka             1/2   25  C65  Ruy Lopez Berlin

Round 6 (July 14, 2005)

Beliavsky, Alexander G  -  Borisek, Jure           1-0   21  D24  QGA
Lenic, Luka             -  Baramidze, David        1-0   28  D79  Gruenfeld 3.g3
Mihalcisin, Adrian      -  Pavasovic, Dusko        1/2   31  C42  Petroff's Defence
Sermek, Drazen          -  Djukic, Nikola          0-1   44  B01  Centre Counter
Bartel, Mateusz         -  Predojevic, Borki       1/2   42  B33  Sicilian Sveshnikov

Round 7 (July 15, 2005)

Djukic, Nikola          -  Lenic, Luka             1/2   32  C78  Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Pavasovic, Dusko        -  Bartel, Mateusz         1/2   32  C06  French Tarrasch
Predojevic, Borki       -  Sermek, Drazen          0-1   46  B01  Centre Counter
Baramidze, David        -  Beliavsky, Alexander G  1/2   72  C55  Two Knights Defence
Borisek, Jure           -  Mihalcisin, Adrian      1/2   21  C92  Ruy Lopez Chigorin

Round 8 (July 16, 2005)

Beliavsky, Alexander G  -  Djukic, Nikola          1-0   30  E97  King's Indian Classical
Lenic, Luka             -  Predojevic, Borki       0-1   42  D93  Gruenfeld 5.Bf4
Pavasovic, Dusko        -  Borisek, Jure           1-0   50  B22  Sicilian Alapin
Mihalcisin, Adrian      -  Baramidze, David        1/2   55  B54  Sicilian Rauzer
Bartel, Mateusz         -  Sermek, Drazen          0-1   48  B20  Sicilian Wing Gambit

Round 9 (July 17, 2005)

Djukic, Nikola          -  Mihalcisin, Adrian      1/2   15  C92  Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Predojevic, Borki       -  Beliavsky, Alexander G  1/2    9  C85  Ruy Lopez Steenwijker Defence
Baramidze, David        -  Pavasovic, Dusko        1/2   50  C42  Petroff's Defence
Sermek, Drazen          -  Lenic, Luka             0-1   47  B22  Sicilian Alapin
Borisek, Jure           -  Bartel, Mateusz         1-0   35  C03  French Tarrasch

6) Canadian Open

The Canadian Open took place July 9th-17th, 2005 in Edmonton. Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexei Shirov, Mark Bluvshtein, Viktor Bologan and Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury finished in a tie on 8/10.

Official site: http://www.edmontonchess.org/CdnOpen2005/

Leading Final Round 10 Standings: 
Canadian Open Edmonton CAN (CAN), 9-17 vii 2005
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1   Ivanchuk, Vassily          2792 gm    8   
2   Shirov, Alexei             2745 gm    8   
3   Bluvshtein, Mark           2529 gm    8   
4   Bologan, Viktor            2740 gm    8   
5   Chowdhury, SR              2421 im    8   
6   Ganguly, SS                2636 gm    7.5 
7   Quan, Zhe                  2396 fm    7.5 
8   Kidambi, S.                2524 im    7.5 
9   Kunte, Abhijit             2601 gm    7.5 
10  Krnan, Tomas               2462 fm    7.5 
11  Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas    2417 im    7.5 
12  Moiseenko, Alexander       2704 gm    7   
13  Nataf, Igor-Alexandre      2623 gm    7   
14  Tyomkin, Dmitri            2549 gm    7   
15  Venkatesh, MR              2475 im    7   
16  Gentes, Kevin              2331 fm    7   
17  Reeve, Jeff                2364       7   
18  Chanda, Sandipan           2600 gm    7   
19  Haessel, Dale              2230       7   
20  Pechisker, Alfred          2190       7   
21  Mohota, Nisha              2343 wgm   7   
22  Huber, Greg                2310 fm    7   
23  Sasata, Robert             2323       7   
24  Pechenkin, Vladimir        2263       7   
25  Grumic, Sasha              2087       7   
26  Gardner, Robert            2221       7   
27  Gokhale, Anupama           2243 wim   7   
28  Krush, Irina               2492 im    6.5 
29  Lawson, Eric               2373 im    6.5 
30  Nguyen, Kim                2060       6.5 
31  Ghate, Swathi              2281 wgm   6.5 
32  Henry, Liam                2062       6.5 
33  Campbell, Brett            2250       6.5 
34  Zaczek, Jonathon           1991       6.5 
35  Klein, Felix               2148       6.5 
36  Graves, Charles            2000       6.5 
37  Yam, Alex                  2048       6.5 
38  Tegzes, Laszlo             2109       6.5 
39  Schulz, Waldemar           2029       6.5 
222 players

7) 2nd Amsterdam Chess Tournament

The 2nd Amsterdam Chess Tournament takes place 16th-24th July 2005.

Further details: http://home.hccnet.nl/w.haggenburg/act05/eng.html

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ACT Open Amsterdam NED (NED), 16-24 vii 2005
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                                                   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9 
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  1. Akopian, Vladimir             g  ARM 2705  + 62 + 60   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
  2. Timman, Jan H                 g  NED 2625  + 59 + 67   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
  3. Van Leent, Dmitri                NED 2261  + 56 + 65   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
  4. Erenburg, Sergey              g  ISR 2595  + 80 + 38   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
  5. Smeets, Jan                   g  NED 2537  + 84 + 39   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
  6. Sokolov, Ivan                 g  NED 2691  + 81 + 50   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
  7. Al-Modiahki, Mohamad          g  QAT 2570  + 99 + 52   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
  8. Megaranto, Susanto            g  INA 2499  + 92 + 46   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
  9. Siebrecht, Sebastian          m  GER 2487  + 95 + 44   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
 10. Stellwagen, Daniel            g  NED 2533  +100 + 51   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
 11. Vazquez, Renier               m  ESP 2496  + 96 + 41   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
 12. Zhu Chen                      g  CHN 2494  + 90 + 37   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   2.0       
 13. Avrukh, Boris                 g  ISR 2652  + 70 = 20   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2585 
 14. Eljanov, Pavel                g  UKR 2639  + 55 = 29   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2583 
 15. Gullaksen, Eirik              m  NOR 2382  + 69 = 19   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2614 
 16. Ivanov, Jordan                m  BUL 2347  + 64 = 21   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2574 
 17. Khenkin, Igor                 g  GER 2610  + 68 = 28   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2543 
 18. Timofeev, Artyom              g  RUS 2661  + 58 = 26   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2593 
 19. Cheparinov, Ivan              g  BUL 2634  + 79 = 15   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2544 
 20. Jonkman, Harmen               g  NED 2454  + 78 = 13   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2462 
 21. Rogers, Ian                   g  AUS 2569  + 85 = 16   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2512 
 22. Van Delft, Merijn             m  NED 2369  + 77 = 31   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2604 
 23. Bellin, Robert                m  ENG 2399  = 35 + 71   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2404 
 24. Martyn, Rafe                  f  ENG 2340  = 34 + 72   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2400 
 25. Wells, Peter K                g  ENG 2529  = 36 + 75   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2464 
 26. Belkhodja, Slim               g  TUN 2468  + 91 = 18   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2638 
 27. D'Costa, Lorin                f  ENG 2352  + 93 = 30   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2580 
 28. Dambacher, Martijn               NED 2388  + 94 = 17   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2603 
 29. Ernst, Sipke                  m  NED 2457  + 87 = 14   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2625 
 30. Huzman, Alexander             g  ISR 2577  + 86 = 27   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2519 
 31. Kharlov, Andrei               g  RUS 2619  + 88 = 22   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2536 
 32. Pliester, Leon                m  NED 2378  = 71 + 74   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2397 
 33. Williams, Simon               m  ENG 2461  = 72 + 73   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.5  2415 
 34. De Saegher, Chris                NED 2187  = 24 = 47   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2364 
 35. Spence, David                    ENG 2218  = 23 = 48   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2383 
 36. Van der Poel, Henk            f  NED 2280  = 25 = 49   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2518 
 37. Burg, Twan                       NED 2218  + 54 - 12   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2397 
 38. Bezemer, Arno                 f  NED 2364  + 66 -  4   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2397 
 39. Hartoch, Rob                  m  NED 2272  + 63 -  5   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2528 
 40. Hoffmann, Michael1            m  GER 2475  = 42 = 45   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2233 
 41. Pruijssers, Roeland              NED 2261  + 61 - 11   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2498 
 42. Schoorl, Rob                     NED 2239  = 40 = 43   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2471 
 43. Senff, Martin                 m  GER 2467  = 45 = 42   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2233 
 44. Visser, Henk-Jan                 NED 2221  + 53 -  9   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2447 
 45. Wempe, Joost                     NED 2228  = 43 = 40   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2471 
 46. Wunnink, Michael                 NED 2223  + 57 -  8   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2459 
 47. Afek, Yochanan                m  ISR 2389  = 73 = 34   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2202 
 48. Van de Oudeweetering, Arthur  m  NED 2368  = 74 = 35   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2210 
 49. Van der Wiel, John            g  NED 2508  = 75 = 36   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2271 
 50. Al Sayed, Mohamad N           m  QAT 2478  + 82 -  6   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2465 
 51. Purnama, Tirta Chandra           INA 2337  + 76 - 10   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2355 
 52. Vrenegoor, Taco               f  NED 2349  + 83 -  7   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2383 
 53. Ansell, Simon                 m  ENG 2407  - 44 + 95   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2235 
 54. Baquero, Luis A                  COL 2301  - 37 + 93   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2208 
 55. Beckhuis, Gernod              f  GER 2324  - 14 + 87   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2432 
 56. Bellini, Fabio                m  ITA 2501  -  3 + 97   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2272 
 57. Bosboom, Manuel               m  NED 2419  - 46 + 92   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2241 
 58. Buckley, Simon T                 ENG 2333  - 18 + 98   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2451 
 59. De Boer, Sybolt                  NED 2320  -  2 + 89   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2422 
 60. Holzke, Frank                 m  GER 2478  + 98 -  1   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2473 
 61. Janssen, Ruud                 m  NED 2501  - 41 + 96   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2260 
 62. Koster, Ramon                 f  NED 2335  -  1 + 90   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2477 
 63. L'Ami, Erwin                  m  NED 2519  - 39 +100   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2281 
 64. Lyell, Mark                   f  ENG 2194  - 16 + 86   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2323 
 65. Nijboer, Friso                g  NED 2529  + 97 -  3   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2272 
 66. Overeem, Marc                 f  NED 2199  - 38 + 99   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2331 
 67. Peng Zhaoqin                  g  NED 2405  + 89 -  2   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2422 
 68. Van Beek, Alexander           f  NED 2312  - 17 + 94   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2410 
 69. Van der Plas, Rob                NED 2209  - 15 + 88   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2349 
 70. Wong Zi Jing                  f  MAS 2330  - 13 + 91   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   1.0  2441 
 71. Hansen, Kay                      AUT 2205  = 32 - 23   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2195 
 72. Markus, John Raymond             NED 2227  = 33 - 24   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2207 
 73. Breivik, Lars                    NOR 2217  = 47 - 33   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2232 
 74. Drost, Peter                     NED 2203  = 48 - 32   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2180 
 75. Narings, Niek                    NED 2263  = 49 - 25   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2325 
 76. Bachofner, Andreas            f  AUT 2177  - 51 = 85   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2121 
 77. Giddins, Stephen              f  ENG 2204  - 22 = 80   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2144 
 78. Koehler, Adalbert                GER 1886  - 20 = 79   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2194 
 79. Halay, Taufik                 f  INA 2320  - 19 = 78   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2067 
 80. Schmitz, H NED                   NED 2306  -  4 = 77   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2206 
 81. Timman, Ton                      NED 2335  -  6 = 82   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2272 
 82. Van Eekhout, David               NED 2240  - 50 = 81   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2213 
 83. Van Oosterom, Chiel              NED 2197  - 52 = 84   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2127 
 84. Vogel, Jaap                   f  NED 2291  -  5 = 83   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2174 
 85. Witt, Rob                     f  NED 2292  - 21 = 76   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.5  2180 
 86. Bakker, Sven                     NED 2300  - 30 - 64   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 87. Bensdorp, Marlies             wm NED 2225  - 29 - 55   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 88. Bitalzadeh, Ali                  NED 2317  - 31 - 69   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 89. Blanchard, Jack                  NED 2219  - 67 - 59   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 90. Doggers, Peter                   NED 2249  - 12 - 62   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 91. Gavin Roche, Enrique             ESP 2230  - 26 - 70   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 92. Monteban, Martijn                NED 2260  -  8 - 57   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 93. Odink, Karel                     NED 2198  - 27 - 54   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 94. Riemens, Albert                  NED 2210  - 28 - 68   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 95. Ruijgrok, Dennis                 NED 2249  -  9 - 53   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 96. Slingerland, Fred                NED 2259  - 11 - 61   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 97. Spaan, Tigran                 f  NED 2284  - 65 - 56   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 98. Van Gool, Henk                   NED 2242  - 60 - 58   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
 99. Van den Berg, Ad                 NED 2298  -  7 - 66   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
100. Van der Elburg, Freddie          NED 2290  - 10 - 63   .    .    .    .    .    .    .   0.0       
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8) Politiken Cup

The Politiken Cup part of the Copenhagen Chess Festival and 27th Copenhagen Open takes place July 16th-24th 2005. I will round up the results and games upon the conclusion of the event. Full coverage at the official site.

Official site: http://www.politikencup.dk/

Leaders after 3 rounds: 
1-15    1   Konstantin Sakaev           GM RUS  3
1-15    3   Viktor Korchnoi             GM SUI  3
1-15    4   Sune Berg Hansen            GM DEN  3
1-15    5   Rodrigo Vasquez             GM CHI  3
1-15    7   Igor Kurnosov               GM RUS  3
1-15    9   Jonny Hector                GM SWE  3
1-15   11   Henrik Danielsen            GM DEN  3
1-15   12   Anton Shomoev               GM RUS  3
1-15   17   Arseny Kargain              IM RUS  3
1-15   18   Christian Kyndel Pedersen   FM DEN  3
1-15   19   Torben N. Sørensen             DEN  3
1-15   25   Torstein Bae                FM NOR  3
1-15   30   Christian Bleis                GER  3
1-15   33   Dan Henry Andersen             DEN  3
1-15   39   Søren Boeck Petersen           DEN  3
16-31  10   Lars Schandorff             GM DEN  2½
16-31  13   Arkadi Eremeevich           GM RUS  2½
16-31  14   Pavel Cech                  IM CZE  2½
16-31  15   Carsten Høi                 GM DEN  2½
16-31  16   Ole Jakobsen                IM DEN  2½
16-31  21   Sigurbjorn Bjornsson        FM ISL  2½
16-31  23   Niclas Hjelm                FM SWE  2½
16-31  27   Per Andreasen               FM DEN  2½
16-31  29   Jan Magnus                  FM DEN  2½
16-31  48   Lars Månsson Limhamns          SWE  2½
16-31  49   Rasmus Thestrup                DEN  2½
16-31  53   Helgi Dam Ziska Havnar         FAI  2½
16-31  63   Kenneth Gvein                  NOR  2½
16-31 103   Simon Marder                   SWE  2½
16-31 104   Espen Forså                    NOR  2½
16-31 214   Omar Elsayed Hassan            EGY  2½
32-88   2   Curt Hansen                 GM DEN  2
32-88   6   Nick E. de Firmian          GM USA  2
32-88   8   Murray G. Chandler          GM ENG  2

9) Ikaros Chess Festival

The Ikaros Chess Festival takes place 9th-22nd July 2005. Dmitry Svetushkin leads after 6 rounds.

This year's events include the traditional open international tournament "Open Aegean Championship" (12th-20th July) as well as plenty of other side events such as Junior, Ladies, Veteran, blitz, rapid and simultaneous exhibition events, blindfold chess, chess lectures and many others.

Official site: http://www.chess.gr/ikaros/

Leading Round 6 Standings:
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Aegean Open Agios Kirykos GRE (GRE), 12-20 vii 2005
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 1. Svetushkin, Dmitry          g  MDA 2514 5½
 2. Turov, Maxim                g  RUS 2527 5
 3. Nikolaidis, Ioannis         g  GRE 2522 5
 4. Slavina, Irina              m  RUS 2391 5
 5. Lekic, Dusan                m  SCG 2355 5
 6. Koukoufikis, Alexandros        GRE 2281 5
 7. Margaritis, Fotios             GRE 2190 5
 8. Khurtsilava, Inga           wm GEO 2281 5
 9. Melich, Jindrich               CZE 2056 5
10. Exizoglou, Dimitrios           GRE 2189 5
11. Zakarian, David                ARM 2339 4½
12. Obodchuk, Andrei            m  RUS 2438 4½
13. Nikolaou, Georgios             GRE 2288 4½
14. Georgiadis, Ioannis            GRE 2205 4½
15. Kokolias, Konstantinos         GRE 2106 4½
16. Panagiotopolous, Alexandros    GRE 2137 4½
141 players

10) XXIII Open Andorra

The XXIII Andorra Open took place 9th-17th July 2005.Fernando Peralta and Branko Damljanovic finished on 7/9. My thanks to Oscar de la Riva for news of the event.

Official site: http://www.feva.ad/

Leading Round 9 Standings:
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Andorra Open Andorra la Vella AND (AND), 9-17 vii 2005
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 1. Peralta, Fernando                 g  ARG 2553  7,0
 2. Damljanovic, Branko               g  SCG 2612  7,0
 3. Campos Moreno, Javier B           g  CHI 2443  6,5
 4. Maze, Sebastien                   m  FRA 2494  6,5
 5. Gurevich, Mikhail                 g  BEL 2669  6,5
 6. Perez Candelario, Manuel          m  ESP 2504  6,5
 7. Kallio, Heikki                    g  FIN 2507  6,5
 8. Fluvia, Jordi                        ESP 2443  6,5
 9. Conquest, Stuart                  g  ENG 2503  6,5
10. Asis Gargatagli, Hipolit          f  ESP 2395  6,0
11. Spraggett, Kevin                  g  CAN 2592  6,0
12. Postny, Evgeny                    g  ISR 2559  6,0
13. Hauchard, Arnaud                  g  FRA 2490  6,0
14. Berkovich, Mark A                 m  ISR 2400  6,0
15. Fluvia Poyatos, Joan              m  ESP 2458  5,5
16. Arizmendi Martinez, Julen L       g  ESP 2504  5,5
17. Oms Pallise, Josep                m  AND 2476  5,5
18. De la Riva Aguado, Oscar          g  AND 2548  5,5
19. Pogorelov, Ruslan                 g  UKR 2442  5,5
20. Fernandez Aguado, Enrique         f  ESP 2356  5,5
21. Tratar, Marko                     m  SLO 2419  5,5
22. Gonzalez Arribas, Vidal Alejandr     ESP 2252  5,5
23. Lacasa Diaz, Jose Antonio         m  ESP 2420  5,5
24. Comas Fabrego, Lluis              g  ESP 2513  5,5
25. Sakelsek, Tadej                   m  SLO 2390  5,5
26. Gallego Eraso, Patxi              m  ESP 2389  5,5
27. De la Villa Garcia, Jesus M       g  ESP 2472  5,5
28. Womacka, Mathias                  m  GER 2405  5,5
29. Zamarbide Inarrea, Borja             ESP 2180  5,5
85 players

11) VIII Republica Argentina Chess Masters

The Mercosur Cup - 100 years of Vicente Lopez County. takes place July 14th-25th, 2005. Venue: Cículo Médico de Vicente López (CMSalud) D.F.Sarmiento 1755,Olivos (a leading Medical Center) On July 14th, there would take place the press conceference, presentation of the participants and the drawing of lots, all this in CENARD (Centro Nacional de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo)

Four main events: - Mercosur Cup (GMs tournament) 100 years of Vicente Lopez County. Confirmed players till now: GM Andres Rodríguez (Uruguay), GM Oscar Panno, GM Sergio Slipak, MI Diego Valerga, MI José F. Cubas (Paraguay), MI Pablo Lafuente, MI Salvador Alonso, MI Daniel Mieles (Ecuador) COMP Shredder 9.0 (Germany)

Website: http://www.ajedrezmartelli.org.ar

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Mercosur Cup Vicente Lopez ARG (ARG), 14-25 vii 2005      cat. VII (2415)
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                                         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 
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 1. Lafuente, Pablo          m ARG 2435  * . . 1 . . . 1 = = .  3.0  2526 
 2. Valerga, Diego           m ARG 2499  . * . = . . = . = 1 .  2.5  2418 
 3. Alonso, Salvador         m ARG 2457  . . * . = 0 . 1 . 1 .  2.5  2568 
 4. SHREDDER                       ----  0 = . * . . 1 . . . 1  2.5  2558 
 5. Fernandez, Daniel        f USA 2406  . . = . * 1 . = . . .  2.0  2614 
 6. Rodriguez, Andres        g URU 2523  . . 1 . 0 * . . . . 1  2.0  2568 
 7. Cubas, Jose Fernando     m PAR 2451  . = . 0 . . * . 1 . .  1.5  2288 
 8. Slipak, Sergio           g ARG 2489  0 . 0 . = . . * . . 1  1.5  2354 
 9. Scarella, Enrique        m ARG 2367  = = . . . . 0 . * . .  1.0  2336 
10. Mieles Palau, Daniel     m ECU 2476  = 0 0 . . . . . . * =  1.0  2271 
11. Garcia Palermo, Carlos   g ARG 2467  . . . 0 . 0 . 0 . = *  0.5  2050 
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12) Swedish Chess Championship

The Swedish Chess Championship took place 2nd-17th July 2005. Stellen Brynell won the event with 9/13.

Official site: http://www.schacksm.se/

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ch-SWE Goeteborg SWE (SWE), 2-15 vii 2005                      cat. VIII (2441)
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                                         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 
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 1. Brynell, Stellan         g SWE 2484  * = = = 1 = 1 1 = 1 0 1 1 =  9.0  2578 
 2. Hermansson, Emil         m SWE 2430  = * = 0 = 0 1 1 = = 1 1 1 1  8.5  2551 
 3. Hillarp Persson, Tiger   g SWE 2511  = = * 0 = = = = 1 1 1 = 1 1  8.5  2545 
 4. Cramling, Pia            g SWE 2494  = 1 1 * = 1 0 = = 1 = = = =  8.0  2523 
 5. Ernst, Thomas            g SWE 2459  0 = = = * = = 1 1 = 1 1 1 0  8.0  2526 
 6. Berg, Emanuel            g SWE 2539  = 1 = 0 = * = = 0 1 1 1 = 1  8.0  2520 
 7. Agrest, Evgenij          g SWE 2592  0 0 = 1 = = * = = = 1 1 1 1  8.0  2516 
 8. Akesson, Ralf            g SWE 2466  0 0 = = 0 = = * 1 = 1 1 1 1  7.5  2495 
 9. Carlsson, Pontus         f SWE 2394  = = 0 = 0 1 = 0 * 1 = = 1 =  6.5  2444 
10. Olsson, Anders           m SWE 2416  0 = 0 0 = 0 = = 0 * 1 = = 1  5.0  2355 
11. Lindberg, Bosse            SWE 2359  1 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 = 0 * = 1 1  4.5  2337 
12. Tikkanen, Hans             SWE 2316  0 0 = = 0 0 0 0 = = = * = 1  4.0  2309 
13. Andreasson, Ingvar         SWE 2341  0 0 0 = 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 = * 1  3.0  2237 
14. Ong, Kezli                 SWE 2371  = 0 0 = 1 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 *  2.5  2195 
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13) First Saturday July

The First Saturday July tournament takes place 2nd-14th of July 2005. Zlatko Ilincic won the event with 7/9.

Official site: http://www.firstsaturday.hu

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FSGM July Budapest HUN (HUN), 2-12 vii 2005               cat. VII (2425)
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                                         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 
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 1. Ilincic, Zlatko          g SCG 2470  * = = = 0 1 1 1 = 1 1  7.0  2569 
 2. Kristjansson, Stefan     m ISL 2459  = * 0 = 1 = = 1 = 1 =  6.0  2493 
 3. Chernyshov, Konstantin   g RUS 2548  = 1 * 0 = 0 = 1 1 = 1  6.0  2484 
 4. Fogarasi, Tibor          g HUN 2490  = = 1 * = = = = 1 0 =  5.5  2454 
 5. Jakab, Attila            m HUN 2451  1 0 = = * = = 0 1 = 1  5.5  2458 
 6. Manca, Federico          m ITA 2390  0 = 1 = = * = = = = =  5.0  2428 
 7. Boros, Denes             m HUN 2443  0 = = = = = * = 1 = =  5.0  2423 
 8. Bindrich, Falko          f GER 2391  0 0 0 = 1 = = * = 1 1  5.0  2428 
 9. Dearing, Eddie           m SCO 2420  = = 0 0 0 = 0 = * 1 1  4.0  2353 
10. Lorscheid, Gerhard       f GER 2285  0 0 = 1 = = = 0 0 * 0  3.0  2290 
11. Thorfinnsson, Bragi      m ISL 2328  0 = 0 = 0 = = 0 0 1 *  3.0  2285 
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14) North Urals Cup

The North Urals Cup took place July 3rd-14th in Krasnoturinsk, Russia. This is the 3rd time that Krasnoturinsk city has hosted this women's Chess Tournament. Humpy Koneru of India took clear first with 6/9 half a point clear of Xu Yuhua and Alexandra Kosteniuk.

Official site: http://www.northuralscup.ru/

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North Urals Cup Krasnoturinsk RUS (RUS), 4-14 vii 2005      cat. X (2491)
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                                           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Koneru, Humpy             g IND 2531  * = = 1 1 1 = = = =  6.0  2611 
 2. Xu Yuhua                 wg CHN 2480  = * 1 = 0 1 = = 1 =  5.5  2571 
 3. Kosteniuk, Alexandra      g RUS 2516  = 0 * = 1 = = 1 = 1  5.5  2567 
 4. Kosintseva, Nadezhda      m RUS 2490  0 = = * = = = 1 = 1  5.0  2533 
 5. Kosintseva, Tatiana       m RUS 2477  0 1 0 = * 1 0 0 1 1  4.5  2492 
 6. Galliamova, Alisa         m RUS 2453  0 0 = = 0 * 1 1 = 1  4.5  2494 
 7. Chiburdanidze, Maia       g GEO 2509  = = = = 1 0 * 0 = =  4.0  2445 
 8. Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina   m RUS 2471  = = 0 0 1 0 1 * = =  4.0  2449 
 9. Zhukova, Natalia         wg UKR 2478  = 0 = = 0 = = = * 0  3.0  2367 
10. Stefanova, Antoaneta      g BUL 2501  = = 0 0 0 0 = = 1 *  3.0  2364 
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15) Zepter 2005

The "Zepter 2005" tournament was a 6 player double round robin. IM Kostic Vladimir took clear first place with 9/10 (only 2 draws). Chief arbiter: Mihajlo Savic, IA , deputy Dragan Popovic.

Further info: http://www.chessdiagonals.com

Zepter Valjevo SCG (SCG), 15-19 vi 2005         cat. VII (2403)
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                                    1  2  3  4  5  6 
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1 Kostic, Vladimir      m SCG 2439 ** =1 =1 11 11 11  9.0  2761
2 Maksimovic, Branimir  m SCG 2385 =0 ** == == == 01  4.5  2370
3 Vojinovic, Goran      m SCG 2475 =0 == ** == == ==  4.5  2352
4 Bozic, Milan            SCG 2394 00 == == ** == ==  4.0  2332
5 Brkljaca, Ante        m SCG 2392 00 == == == ** ==  4.0  2333
6 Orlov, Pavle          m SCG 2332 00 10 == == == **  4.0  2345
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16) Scottish Chess Championship

This year’s Scottish Chess Championships, held in Oban High School from the 2nd to 10th July, were dedicated to the memory of Oban businessman Alan Murphy who passed away in late November last year.

The event was won comfortably by Jacob Aagaard with a score of 8/9. However, Jacob does not yet satisfy the residential requirements necessary to win the title. The competition for the title between the other entrants was very much a battle of youth over experience. After a tense final round Craig Pritchett became the 2005 Scottish Chess Champion.

Official site: http://www.chessscotland.com/

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ch-SCO Oban SCO (SCO), 2-10 vii 2005
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                                           1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 
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 1. Aagaard, Jacob          m  DEN 2442  + 7 + 5 + 3 + 6 + 2 + 8 - 4 +10 + 9  8.0  2575 
 2. Pritchett, Craig W      m  SCO 2288  +14 = 6 + 5 = 3 - 1 - 4 + 7 +12 +11  6.0  2314 
 3. Grant, Jonathan            SCO 2273  +11 =13 - 1 = 2 + 4 + 6 +10 = 9 - 5  5.5  2276 
 4. Muir, Andrew J          m  SCO 2322  - 6 + 8 = 9 +13 - 3 + 2 + 1 - 5 +14  5.5  2287 
 5. Spencer, Edwin             SCO 2204  +12 - 1 - 2 +11 + 9 - 7 = 6 + 4 + 3  5.5  2283 
 6. McGowan, Daniel            SCO 2094  + 4 = 2 +13 - 1 =10 - 3 = 5 =14 +12  5.0  2250 
 7. Tweedie, Steven            SCO 2172  - 1 = 9 =11 +14 = 8 + 5 - 2 +13 =10  5.0  2241 
 8. Bryson, Douglas M       m  SCO 2371  = 9 - 4 =10 +12 = 7 - 1 +14 =11 +13  5.0  2205 
 9. Kafka, Graeme              SCO 2104  = 8 = 7 = 4 =10 - 5 +11 =12 = 3 - 1  4.0  2191 
10. Burnett, Andrew            SCO 2191  -13 +14 = 8 = 9 = 6 +12 - 3 - 1 = 7  4.0  2134 
11. Stevenson, James           SCO 2089  - 3 =12 = 7 - 5 +14 - 9 +13 = 8 - 2  3.5  2092 
12. MacDonald, Christopher     SCO 2049  - 5 =11 +14 - 8 +13 -10 = 9 - 2 - 6  3.0  2034 
13. Tate, Alan                 SCO 2030  +10 = 3 - 6 - 4 -12 +14 -11 - 7 - 8  2.5  2014 
14. Jamieson, Ian              SCO 2064  - 2 -10 -12 - 7 -11 -13 - 8 = 6 - 4  0.5  1734 
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17) Maccabiah Games

The Maccabiah games take place in Jerusalem, July 10th-20th 2005. An Invitational Tournament (over 2500 Elo Rating) includes: GM Smirin Ilia, GM Najer Evgeniy, GM Felgaer Ruben. Games from the first three rounds only available.

Official site including live coverage: http://www.maccabiah-chess.co.il

Maccabiah GM Jerusalem ISR (ISR), 10-20 vii 2005      cat. IV (2346)
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 1 Porat, Shi              m ISR 2416 * . . . 1 1 . . . 1  3.0      
 2 Zilberman, Yaacov       g ISR 2442 . * = 1 . . . . 1 .  2.5  2665
 3 Szuhanek, Ranko         m ROM 2444 . = * . . = . . 1 .  2.0  2477
 4 Grunberg, Mihai-Lucian  m ROM 2418 . 0 . * . . 1 1 . .  2.0  2466
 5 Axelrod, Arie             ISR 2234 0 . . . * . = 1 . .  1.5  2332
 6 Igla, Bella            wg ISR 2299 0 . = . . * . . . =  1.0  2263
 7 Gershkowich, David        ISR 2340 . . . 0 = . * . = .  1.0  2197
 8 Drori, Dan                ISR 2242 . . . 0 0 . . * . 1  1.0  2194
 9 Braslavskij, Alex         UKR 2315 . 0 0 . . . = . * .  0.5  2135
10 Fichmanas, Ricardas       LTU 2306 0 . . . . = . 0 . *  0.5  2046
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18) 25th Anniversary Benasque

There were two major tournaments in Benasque 6th-15th July 2005. The first was a 25th Anniversary Champions trophy which saw Alexksandar Delchev and Elizbar Ubilava finish on 6/9 (according to the game file). The other was an open which was led by Krishnan Sasikiran going into the last round but I have no results from that round (or any games).

Official site: http://www.turismobenasque.com/spain/ajedrez/

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25th Ann Champions Benasque ESP (ESP), 6-15 vii 2005        cat. XI (2524)
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 1. Delchev, Aleksander         g BUL 2656  * = 1 1 = 0 = = 1 1  6.0  2634 
 2. Ubilava, Elizbar            g ESP 2519  = * = 1 = = 1 1 1 0  6.0  2649 
 3. Korneev, Oleg               g RUS 2594  0 = * 0 = 1 1 1 1 =  5.5  2595 
 4. Rivas Pastor, Manuel        g ESP 2445  0 0 1 * = = = 1 = 1  5.0  2575 
 5. Marin, Mihail               g ROM 2537  = = = = * = = = = =  4.5  2522 
 6. Suba, Mihai                 g ROM 2520  1 = 0 = = * = 0 = =  4.0  2481 
 7. Psakhis, Lev                g ISR 2542  = 0 0 = = = * = = 1  4.0  2478 
 8. Movsziszian, Karen          g ARM 2439  = 0 0 0 = 1 = * = =  3.5  2453 
 9. Cifuentes Parada, Roberto   g ESP 2512  0 0 0 = = = = = * 1  3.5  2445 
10. Komljenovic, Davor          g CRO 2473  0 1 = 0 = = 0 = 0 *  3.0  2404 
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Round 9 of 10 Standings
 Place  Name                                       Feder Rtg  Loc  Title Score
   1    Sasikiran, Krishnan (1)                    IND   2652      gm    8.5  
  2-3   Roiz, Michael (2)                          ISR   2593      gm    7.5  
        Oratovsky, Michael (11)                    ISR   2529 2557 gm    7.5  
 4-17   Hracek, Zbynek (3)                         CZE   2591      gm    7    
        Golod, Vitali (5)                          ISR   2582      gm    7    
        Jansa, Vlastimil (13)                      CZE   2511      gm    7    
        Zagrebelny, Sergey (14)                    UZB   2510      gm    7    
        Kovchan, Alexander (15)                    UKR   2508      gm    7    
        Farago, Ivan (17)                          HUN   2499      gm    7    
        Herraiz Hidalgo, Herminio (23)             ESP   2471 2472 im    7    
        Neelotpal, Das (25)                        IND   2467      im    7    
        Mamedov, Nidjat (26)                       AZE   2463      im    7    
        Fernandez Garcia, Jose Luis (27)           ESP   2456 2456 gm    7    
        Babaev, Rashad (30)                        AZE   2449      im    7    
        Mateo, Ramon (33)                          DOM   2434      im    7    
        Collas, Didier (37)                        FRA   2425      im    7    
        Horvath, Peter (39)                        HUN   2420      im    7    
 18-37  Baklan, Vladimir (4)                       UKR   2584      gm    6.5  
        Burmakin, Vladimir (6)                     RUS   2558      gm    6.5  
        Krivoshey, Sergei (16)                     UKR   2500      im    6.5  
        Lalic, Bogdan (19)                         ENG   2491      gm    6.5  
        Rizouk, Aimen (20)                         ALG   2482      im    6.5  
        Al Sayed, Mohamad (21)                     QAT   2478      im    6.5  
        Gonzalez Garcia, Jose (22)                 MEX   2478      im    6.5  
        Castellanos Rodriguez, Renier (32)         CHI   2442      im    6.5  
        Barrientos Chavarriada, Sergio (34)        COL   2433 2461 fm    6.5  
        Escobar Forero, Alder (40)                 COL   2416 2416 im    6.5  
        Llanes Hurtado, Miguel (41)                ESP   2415 2396 fm    6.5  
        Csiszar, Csaba (42)                        HUN   2412      im    6.5  
        Roeder, Mathias (43)                       GER   2393      im    6.5  
        Sieiro Gonzalez, Luis (45)                 CUB   2392      im    6.5  
        Westerinen, Heikki (47)                    FIN   2388      gm    6.5  
        Hernandez Onna, Roman (49)                 CUB   2373      gm    6.5  
        Baches Garcia, Guillermo (52)              ESP   2355 2361 im    6.5  
        Villavicencio Martinez, Adalberto (61)     ESP   2333 2326 fm    6.5  
        Lopez Gracia, Fernando (65)                ESP   2323 2343 fm    6.5  
        Lymar, Irina (67)                          UKR   2316      wgm   6.5  

19) Magistral Salamanca

The Magistral Salamanca took place 10th-18th July 2005. Boris Zlotnik won the event on Sonnen-Berger tie-break from Aurelien Dunis and Alfonso Romero Holmes all of whom finished on 6/9.

Official site: http://usuarios.lycos.es/ajedrezsalamanca/

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Magistral Salamanca ESP (ESP), 10-18 vii 2005               cat. VII (2419)
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 1. Zlotnik, Boris A             m RUS 2434  * 1 0 = = 1 1 = 1 =  6.0  2541 
 2. Dunis, Aurelien              m FRA 2485  0 * 1 = = = 1 = 1 1  6.0  2536 
 3. Romero Holmes, Alfonso       g ESP 2503  1 0 * = = 1 = = 1 1  6.0  2534 
 4. Gomez Esteban, Juan Mario    g ESP 2467  = = = * = 0 1 = 1 1  5.5  2493 
 5. Galego, Luis                 g POR 2501  = = = = * = = = 1 1  5.5  2489 
 6. Vasilev, Milen               m BUL 2419  0 = 0 1 = * 0 1 1 1  5.0  2461 
 7. Sanz Alonso, Francisco J     m ESP 2368  0 0 = 0 = 1 * 1 1 1  5.0  2467 
 8. Ibarra Jerez, Jose Carlos    m ESP 2439  = = = = = 0 0 * 1 1  4.5  2416 
 9. Garcia Garcia, Ruben         f ESP 2343  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 1  1.0  2075 
10. Lopez Rodriguez, Jose Luis     ESP 2226  = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 *  0.5  1995 
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20) San Bernardo Tournament

The ITT tournament took place in San Bernardo, Argentina (360 kms. south Buenos Aires). July, 4th-12th 2005. Luis Bronstein took clear first place with 7/9.

Official site: http://www.utopiasdepinamar.com.ar/costa.htm

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ITT San Bernardo ARG (ARG), 4-12 vii 2005                cat. III (2304)
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 1. Bronstein, Luis          m ARG 2342  * = = 1 1 = 1 = 1 1  7.0  2519 
 2. Fernandez, Daniel        f USA 2406  = * = 0 = 1 1 1 1 1  6.5  2458 
 3. Valiente, Cristobal      m PAR 2328  = = * = = = = 1 = =  5.0  2344 
 4. Santos, M.V.M            f BRA 2353  0 1 = * = 1 0 0 1 1  5.0  2341 
 5. Frenklakh, Valery        f USA 2296  0 = = = * 1 1 = 0 =  4.5  2304 
 6. Cubas, Jose Fernando     m PAR 2451  = 0 = 0 0 * 1 1 1 =  4.5  2287 
 7. Rodi, Luis Ernesto         ARG 2242  0 0 = 1 0 0 * 1 = 1  4.0  2267 
 8. Zapata, Karen           wm PER 2156  = 0 0 1 = 0 0 * 0 1  3.0  2195 
 9. Pingas, Blas             f ARG 2241  0 0 = 0 1 0 = 1 * 0  3.0  2186 
10. Lopez Gonzalez, Daniel     ESP 2225  0 0 = 0 = = 0 0 1 *  2.5  2146 
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21) CEZ Chess Trophy 2005

The CEZ Chess Trophy 2005 saw a 2-games match between the Czech No. 1 GM David Navara and ex-WCh GM Anatoly Karpov which was held in Prague, July 15-16th 2005. Both games were drawn.

In addition on July 14th the was a 12-game exhibition blitz match between David Navara - Sergei Movsesian (SVK) On July 17th, Simultaneous exhibition of Anatoly Karpov against 25 Czech top managers

The time control of the match was 90 mins for the game + 30 s addition for each move. The main arbiter was Pavel Votruba, the commentators were Genna Sosonko and Lubomir Kavalek. The match will be FIDE rated. The main sponsor was the Czech energetic company CEZ.

Related links:

http://www.promopro.cz/ - live coverage

http://www.sachinfo.cz/ - news coverage (czech only)

http://www.praguechess.cz/ / the organizer's page (czech only)

Navara, David    -  Karpov, Anatoly  1/2   67  B17  Caro Kann
Karpov, Anatoly  -  Navara, David    1/2   48  D76  Gruenfeld 3.g3

CEZ Trophy Match Prague CZE (CZE), 15-16 vii 2005
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Karpov, Anatoly g  RUS 2672    =   =   1.0  2663
Navara, David   g  CZE 2663    =   =   1.0  2672
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22) 4th Condom Open

The 4th Condom open took place 9th-16th July 2005. Sergey Feorchuk won the event on tie-break from Viesturs Meijers both of whom scored 7.5/9. Alongside was an IM event won by Petar Velikov.

Further details : http://echecs.condom.free.fr

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Open Condom FRA (FRA), 9-16 vii 2005
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  1. Fedorchuk, Sergey A       g  UKR 2571  7,5  30  45,5  2641  2636
  2. Meijers, Viesturs         g  LAT 2479  7,5  30  43,5  2619  2632
  3. Sulypa, Alexandre         g  UKR 2465  7    28  44    2564  2567
  4. Genov, Petar              g  BUL 2469  6,5  27  45,5  2477  2469
  5. Van Elst, Andreas            FRA 2263  6,5  27  39,5  2369  2362
  6. Bogdan, Dan               m  ROM 2455  6    27  43,5  2381  2370
  7. Levieux, Pascal              FRA 2049  6    27  39,5  2271  2308
  8. Zarrouati, Pierre            FRA 2171  6    27  37    2146  2141
  9. Wallart,Francois             FRA ----  6    27  35    2052  2104
 10. Froeyman, Helmut          f  BEL 2332  6    26  41    2315  2305
 11. Lemeaux, David               FRA 2213  6    26  40,5  2258  2261
 12. Schuermans, Robert           BEL 2274  6    26  39,5  2270  2270
 13. Venner, Laurent              FRA 2077  6    26  34,5  2149  2149
 14. Simonenko, Sergei         m  TKM 2431  6    25  41    2349  2320
 15. David, Vincent            f  FRA 2277  6    25  37,5  2314  2314
 16. Leygue, Dominique            FRA 2322  5,5  25  42    2294  2294
 17. Gaubil, Olivier              FRA 2101  5,5  25  38,5  2129  2156
 18. Marciniak, Gerard            FRA 2154  5,5  25  37    2206  2206
 19. Thet,Sylvain                 FRA ----  5,5  25  35    2088  2102
 20. Lapeyre, Pierre              FRA 2086  5,5  25  30,5  2078  2077
 21. Zimmerman, Yuri           m  RUS 2375  5,5  24  43,5  2361  2357
 22. Fejzovski, Enver             FRA 2160  5,5  24  38    2220  2220
 23. Beaurain, Jerome             FRA 2109  5,5  24  37    2093  2090
 24. Vilpoux, Jeremie             FRA 2090  5,5  24  36    2125  2125
 25. Saada, Julien                FRA 2257  5,5  23  37    2196  2196
112 players

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IM Condom FRA (FRA), 9-18 vii 2005                   cat. VI (2398)
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1. Velikov, Petar          g BUL 2422  **  1=  ==  =1  1=  11   7.5  2585 
2. Cioara, Andrei Nestor   m ROM 2403  0=  **  11  10  =1  11   7.0  2545 
3. Solodovnichenko, Yuri   m UKR 2535  ==  00  **  11  =1  1=   6.0  2442 
4. Housieaux, David          FRA 2329  =0  01  00  **  0=  =1   3.5  2301 
5. Bijaoui, Manuel           FRA 2338  0=  =0  =0  1=  **  00   3.0  2260 
6. Beudaert, Xavier        f FRA 2358  00  00  0=  =0  11  **   3.0  2256 
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23) 57th Championship of Montenegro

The 57th Championship of Montenegro took place in Cetinje 8th - 16th July. GM Dragisa Blagojevic won the event on tie-break from Dragan Kosic, both made 6.5/9.. Arbiter: Jasna Sakotic. News: Goran Tomic.

Official site: http://sah.paracin.co.yu/SSCG/index.htm

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57th ch-Montenegro Cetinje SCG (SCG), 8-16 vii 2005
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                                         1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 
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 1. Blagojevic, Dragisa   g  SCG 2551  +23 = 7 = 6 = 4 +12 +13 = 5 = 2 +10  6.5  2525 
 2. Kosic, Dragan         g  SCG 2489  =20 +16 =13 +21 =10 = 4 + 3 = 1 + 5  6.5  2501 
 3. Miljanic, Boro        m  SCG 2435  + 9 +11 = 4 -10 +23 + 7 - 2 = 5 +12  6.0  2466 
 4. Kontic, Djordjije     m  SCG 2340  +27 +18 = 3 = 1 = 5 = 2 =10 + 7 = 8  6.0  2512 
 5. Kalezic, Blazo        m  SCG 2448  =14 +17 = 7 +11 = 4 +10 = 1 = 3 - 2  5.5  2417 
 6. Djukanovic, Sreten    f  SCG 2314  = 8 +20 = 1 =22 =13 =11 =12 =10 +14  5.5  2381 
 7. Krivokapic, Marko        SCG 2338  +21 = 1 = 5 =13 +22 - 3 +15 - 4 +11  5.5  2365 
 8. Rmus, Anto            m  SCG 2429  = 6 +14 -10 =23 = 9 +27 =11 +13 = 4  5.5  2332 
 9. Mijovic, Stefan          SCG 2135  - 3 =24 +26 =16 = 8 -21 +20 +18 +17  5.5  2282 
10. Ivanovic, Bozidar     g  SCG 2438  +15 =13 + 8 + 3 = 2 - 5 = 4 = 6 - 1  5.0  2423 
11. Brajovic, Radovan     f  SCG 2296  +22 - 3 +15 - 5 +16 = 6 = 8 +19 - 7  5.0  2337 
12. Nikac, Predrag           SCG 2360  =26 =19 =16 +20 - 1 +23 = 6 +17 - 3  5.0  2309 
13. Popadic, Dragan          SCG 2281  +28 =10 = 2 = 7 = 6 - 1 +21 - 8 =18  4.5  2322 
14. Vujacic, Igor            SCG 2146  = 5 - 8 -22 =24 +25 =20 +23 +15 - 6  4.5  2202 
15. Abramovic, Dragoljub     SCG 2136  -10 +28 -11 +17 =18 +19 - 7 -14 +23  4.5  2224 
16. Bukvic, Mihailo       f  SCG 2235  +25 - 2 =12 = 9 -11 -17 +26 =21 =19  4.0  2154 
17. Radoman,Milan            SCG ----  =19 - 5 =20 -15 +24 +16 +18 -12 - 9  4.0  2196 
18. Savic, Miomir            SCG 2266  +24 - 4 -21 +25 =15 +22 -17 - 9 =13  4.0  2070 
19. Draganic, Veljko         SCG 2311  =17 =12 -23 =27 +21 -15 +22 -11 =16  4.0  2116 
20. Milonjic, Mihajlo        SCG 2215  = 2 - 6 =17 -12 +28 =14 - 9 =22 +26  4.0  2129 
21. Ljubisa, Mitar           SCG 2080  - 7 +25 +18 - 2 -19 + 9 -13 =16 -28  3.5  2148 
22. Ralevic,Zoran            SCG ----  -11 +27 +14 = 6 - 7 -18 -19 =20 =25  3.5  2140 
23. Cvorovic, Marto          SCG 2229  - 1 +26 +19 = 8 - 3 -12 -14 +28 -15  3.5  2195 
24. Scekic, Veljko           SCG 2049  -18 = 9 -27 =14 -17 +28 =25 -26 +29  3.5  2003 
25. Vesovic,Nebojsa          SCG ----  -16 -21 +28 -18 -14 =26 =24 +29 =22  3.5  2018 
26. Nisic, Harun             SCG 2110  =12 -23 - 9 +28 -27 =25 -16 +24 -20  3.0  2021 
27. Mihaljevic, Mitar        SCG 2095  - 4 -22 +24 =19 +26 - 8  .   .   .   2.5  2149 
28. Anastasijevic,Marko      SCG ----  -13 -15 -25 -26 -20 -24 +29 -23 +21  2.0  1902 
29. BYE                          ----   .   .   .   .   .   .  -28 -25 -24  0.0       
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24) Mielo Open

The "Mielesnak Perla Baltyku" open took place in Mielo, 10th-19th June 2005. Vadim Malkhatko won, Vitali Koziak and Vladimir Malaniuk finished 2nd and 3rd.

Further details: http://www.hetman.man.koszalin.pl/index.php?turn=20060610&plk=wyniki

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Open Mielo POL (POL), 10-19 vi 2005
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 1. Malakhatko, Vadim      g  UKR 2562  +16 + 8 = 2 = 4 = 3 = 7 +12 + 6 +13 +14  8.0  2583 
 2. Koziak, Vitali         m  UKR 2485  +22 + 7 = 1 = 3 = 8 = 4 +10 +12 = 5 +11  7.5  2518 
 3. Malaniuk, Vladimir P   g  UKR 2480  =12 + 9 +17 = 2 = 1 = 6 + 7 + 8 = 4 = 5  7.0  2491 
 4. Shishkin, Vadim UKR    m  UKR 2519  +11 +10 +15 = 1 -12 = 2 = 8 + 7 = 3 +13  7.0  2467 
 5. Bugalski, Michal          POL 2204  =17 -12 - 6 +26 +22 +11 =13 +16 = 2 = 3  6.0  2346 
 6. Mielczarski, Miroslaw     POL 2276  -24 =18 + 5 =13 +16 = 3 +15 - 1 =14 =10  5.5  2305 
 7. Gryniakow, Jaroslaw       POL 2264  +23 - 2 +21 =15 +17 = 1 - 3 - 4 +16 = 9  5.5  2352 
 8. Kulesza, Mateusz          POL 2301  +21 - 1 +19 +11 = 2 =12 = 4 - 3 - 9 +24  5.5  2357 
 9. Gumula, Daniel            POL 2291  =18 - 3 +25 =14 +19 -13 -16 +20 + 8 = 7  5.5  2315 
10. Szymanski, Andrzej2       POL 2257  +26 - 4 +18 -12 +21 +14 - 2 -13 +15 = 6  5.5  2286 
11. Motyka, Michal            POL 2229  - 4 +26 +24 - 8 =13 - 5 +19 +17 +12 - 2  5.5  2294 
12. Szczepinski, Michal       POL 2219  = 3 + 5 +14 +10 + 4 = 8 - 1 - 2 -11 -19  5.0  2356 
13. Szymczak, Zbigniew     m  POL 2315  +19 -15 =22 = 6 =11 + 9 = 5 +10 - 1 - 4  5.0  2283 
14. Pinkas, Karol          m  POL 2325  =25 +24 -12 = 9 +15 -10 =17 +22 = 6 - 1  5.0  2247 
15. Korosciel, Aneta          POL 2074  +20 +13 - 4 = 7 -14 =17 - 6 +24 -10 +25  5.0  2282 
16. Brzeski, Maciej           POL 2249  - 1 -21 +26 +18 - 6 +24 + 9 - 5 - 7 +23  5.0  2199 
17. Hnydiuk, Aleksander       POL 2304  = 5 +25 - 3 +22 - 7 =15 =14 -11 =18 +26  5.0  2213 
18. Panocki, Adrian           POL 2160  = 9 = 6 -10 -16 +23 =20 -22 +19 =17 =21  4.5  2193 
19. Sokolowski, Ryszard       POL 2205  -13 +20 - 8 +24 - 9 =21 -11 -18 +26 +12  4.5  2163 
20. Adamski, Michal           POL 2287  -15 -19 -23 =25 +26 =18 +21 - 9 =24 +22  4.5  2104 
21. Ferenc, Jozef             POL 2161  - 8 +16 - 7 +23 -10 =19 -20 -26 +25 =18  4.0  2122 
22. Litwin, Jozef             POL 2221  - 2 +23 =13 -17 - 5 +25 +18 -14 -23 -20  3.5  2127 
23. Gajdzica, Maciej          POL 2044  - 7 -22 +20 -21 -18 +26 =24 -25 +22 -16  3.5  2070 
24. Tokarski, Lukasz          POL 2067  + 6 -14 -11 -19 +25 -16 =23 -15 =20 - 8  3.0  2070 
25. Jakubowski, Jaroslaw      POL 2208  =14 -17 - 9 =20 -24 -22 -26 +23 -21 -15  2.0  1934 
26. Tokarski, Bartosz         POL 1969  -10 -11 -16 - 5 -20 -23 +25 +21 -19 -17  2.0  1974 
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25) Australian Masters

The Australian Masters took place 29th June - 8th July 2005. Jesse Noel Sales won the event with 7/9. At the same time the Junior Masters was taking place in Sydney which was won by Zhao Zong-Yuan with a perfect 9/9.

Further details: http://www.chesschat.org/showthread.php?t=2589&page=4&pp=15 and http://users.tpg.com.au/adsl2b58/AustYoungMasters/youngmast.htm

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 1. Sales, Jesse Noel   f PHI 2340  * 1 = 0 = 1 1 1 1 1  7.0  2483 
 2. Froehlich, Peter    m GER 2367  0 * = 1 1 = = 1 1 1  6.5  2426 
 3. West, Guy           m AUS 2350  = = * 1 = 0 = 1 1 1  6.0  2387 
 4. Rujevic, Mirko      m AUS 2268  1 0 0 * 1 = 1 0 1 1  5.5  2351 
 5. Gorka, Carl           ENG 2086  = 0 = 0 * 1 1 1 1 =  5.5  2371 
 6. Levi, Eddy          f AUS 2252  0 = 1 = 0 * = = 0 =  3.5  2193 
 7. Depasquale, Chris   f AUS 2337  0 = = 0 0 = * 0 1 1  3.5  2183 
 8. Lee Wang-Sheng        SIN 2278  0 0 0 1 0 = 1 * 0 =  3.0  2145 
 9. Jordan, William     f AUS 2304  0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 * 1  3.0  2142 
10. Pecori, Ascaro        AUS 2129  0 0 0 0 = = 0 = 0 *  1.5  2013 
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Australian Junior Masters Sydney AUS (AUS), 29 vi-8 vii 2005
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                                       1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Zhao Zong-Yuan         m AUS 2442  * 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  9.0       
 2. Rej, Tomek               AUS 2231  0 * 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 1  7.0  2347 
 3. Xie, George Wendi      f AUS 2364  0 0 * 1 0 1 1 1 = 1  5.5  2193 
 4. Ikeda, Junta             AUS 1999  0 = 0 * = = 1 1 1 1  5.5  2233 
 5. Suttor, Vincent          AUS 2071  0 0 1 = * = = 1 = =  4.5  2145 
 6. Zvedeniouk, Ilya         AUS 2160  0 = 0 = = * 0 = = 1  3.5  2055 
 7. O'Chee,Kevin             AUS ----  0 0 0 0 = 1 * 0 1 1  3.5  2073 
 8. Wongwichit, Phachara     AUS 2030  0 0 0 0 0 = 1 * 1 =  3.0  2025 
 9. Song, Raymond            AUS 2085  0 0 = 0 = = 0 0 * 1  2.5  1978 
10. Morris,Michael           AUS ----  0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 *  1.0  1802 
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26) Friendship Tournament in Cartak CZE

The Friendship Tournament in Cartak CZE took place 18th-26th June 2005. Pavel Simacek won the GM event with 5.5/8. Martin Petr won the IM event with 8.5/11.

Official site: http://www.friendshiptournament.com

Friendship GM Cartak CZE (CZE), 18-26 vi 2005cat. VII (2412)
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                                1  2  3  4  5 
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1 Simacek, Pavel    m CZE 2421 ** =1 == 01 11  5.5  2550
2 Jirka, Jiri       m CZE 2383 =0 ** 10 10 11  4.5  2461
3 Vokac, Marek      g CZE 2454 == 01 ** == ==  4.0  2401
4 Plachetka, Jan    g SVK 2448 10 01 == ** 00  3.0  2315
5 Cernousek, Lukas    CZE 2352 00 00 == 11 **  3.0  2339
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Friendship IM Cartak CZE (CZE), 18-26 vi 2005             cat. I (2268)
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                                     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 
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 1. Petr, Martin           CZE 2293  * = 1 = 0 1 1 = 1 1 1 1  8.5  2476 
 2. Starostits, Ilmars   m LAT 2450  = * = 1 1 = 0 1 = 1 1 1  8.0  2426 
 3. Jurek, Josef         m CZE 2374  0 = * 1 1 = = 1 1 = = 1  7.5  2391 
 4. Kanovsky, David        CZE 2338  = 0 0 * 1 0 = 1 1 = 1 1  6.5  2326 
 5. Malinovsky, Karel      CZE 2316  1 0 0 0 * 1 = = 1 = = 1  6.0  2299 
 6. Petran, Peter        m SVK 2332  0 = = 1 0 * 0 = 1 1 = 1  6.0  2298 
 7. Volodin, Viktor      m RUS 2245  0 1 = = = 1 * = 0 = 1 0  5.5  2269 
 8. Obsivac, Josef       f CZE 2334  = 0 0 0 = = = * = 1 = 1  5.0  2225 
 9. Biolek, Richard jr     CZE 2135  0 = 0 0 0 0 1 = * = 1 1  4.5  2214 
10. Kulovana, Eva          CZE 2153  0 0 = = = 0 = 0 = * 1 =  4.0  2176 
11. Pachta, Paul           AUT 2159  0 0 = 0 = = 0 = 0 0 * =  2.5  2066 
12. Hodova, Lucie          CZE 2085  0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 = = *  2.0  2022 
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27) Zonal 4.1

Zonal 4.1 took place in Taza (Morocco) 21st-28th June 2005. Hichem Hamdouchi beat Slim Belkhodja in a two game match for the World Title place after they tied on 7.5/9.

Further details: http://maroc-echecs.palamede.net/ma/article.php3?id_article=157

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zt 4.1 Taza MAR (MAR), 21-28 vi 2005
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                                              1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 
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 1. Belkhodja, Slim            g  TUN 2471  = 7 + 6 +13 + 2 = 3 + 9 = 4 + 5 + 8  7.5  2611 
 2. Hamdouchi, Hichem          g  MAR 2559  + 6 +12 = 3 - 1 + 5 +13 + 8 + 4 +11  7.5  2621 
 3. Arab, Adlane                  ALG 2371  +14 +13 = 2 + 5 = 1 - 4 +12 +11 = 6  6.5  2524 
 4. Doghri, Nabil              f  TUN 2338  + 9 +11 - 5 + 7 + 8 + 3 = 1 - 2 +12  6.5  2525 
 5. Tissir, Mohamed            m  MAR 2442  +10 + 8 + 4 - 3 - 2 +11 + 9 - 1 +16  6.0  2435 
 6. Ali, Sebbar                   MAR 2276  - 2 - 1 +18 +14 +15 - 8 + 7 + 9 = 3  5.5  2366 
 7. Asabri, Hassan                LBA 2230  = 1 +10 =12 - 4 -11 +15 - 6 +18 +14  5.0  2304 
 8. Sebih, Kamel               m  ALG 2318  +17 - 5 +14 = 9 - 4 + 6 - 2 +10 - 1  4.5  2305 
 9. Idrissi, Chafik               MAR 2215  - 4 +16 +17 = 8 +12 - 1 - 5 - 6 +18  4.5  2241 
10. Adnani, Moklis             f  MAR 2228  - 5 - 7 +16 -13 +17 =12 +18 - 8 +15  4.5  2201 
11. Belouadah, Saad            m  ALG 2297  +16 - 4 +15 -12 + 7 - 5 +13 - 3 - 2  4.0  2264 
12. Chahrani, Ibrahim          f  LBA 2329  +15 - 2 = 7 +11 - 9 =10 - 3 +17 - 4  4.0  2227 
13. Bengafer, Moh                 LBA 2296  +18 - 3 - 1 +10 +14 - 2 -11 -16 +17  4.0  2195 
14. Laouini, Sami                 TUN 2218  - 3 +17 - 8 - 6 -13 +18 +16 +15 - 7  4.0  2144 
15. Gueroui, Nasreddine           ALG 2200  -12 +18 -11 +16 - 6 - 7 +17 -14 -10  3.0  2050 
16. Moulay Brahim,Ould Hammam         ----  -11 - 9 -10 -15 =18 =17 -14 +13 - 5  2.0  1990 
17. Kreiked,Ali Mokhtar               ----  - 8 -14 - 9 =18 -10 =16 -15 -12 -13  1.0  1849 
18. Moulay,Sidi Ahmed                 ----  -13 -15 - 6 =17 =16 -14 -10 - 7 - 9  1.0  1833 
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Hamdouchi, Hichem  -  Belkhodja, Slim    1/2   49  B32  Sicilian Labourdonnais
Belkhodja, Slim    -  Hamdouchi, Hichem  0-1   47  B85  Sicilian Scheveningen

zt 4.1 Playoff Taza MAR (MAR), 28-28 vi 2005
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                                 1   2 
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Hamdouchi, Hichem g  MAR 2559    =   1   1.5  2664
Belkhodja, Slim   g  TUN 2471    =   0   0.5  2366
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28) 34th Greek Teams Championship

Spiros Ilandzis reports: The 34th Greek Team Championship took place July 4th-11th 2005, at the resort of Ermioni in Peloponnese, in southern Greece. Apart from the top Greek Players [GMs Kotronias (2587), Papaioannou (2578), Mastrovasilis D. (2563), Banikas (2548), Halkias (2548), Nikolaidis (2522), Grivas (2515), Mastrovasilis Ath. (2495) and Skembris (2436), IM Vouldis (2524), IM Tzermiadianos (2447), WGMs Dembo (2428), Botsari (2297), Makropoulou (2287) and Kouvatsou (2208)], several top-GMs were also included in the line-up: Azmaiparashvili (GEO, 2672), Volokitin (UKR, 2671), Navara (CZE, 2663), Avrukh (ISR, 2652), Socko (POL, 2615), Gustafsson (GER, 2614), Asrian (ARM, 2611), Izoria (GEO, 2606), An. Sokolov (FRA, 2603), Macieja (POL, 2593), Rozentalis (LTU, 2567), Chuchelov (BEL, 2562), Solak (YUG, 2557), Bojkov (BUL, 2522), Svetushkin (MDA, 2514), WGM Trabert (GER, 2291), WIM Bosboom-Lanchava (NED, 2363) etc. - the ratings are these announced by FIDE on July 1st

It is considered to be one of the most exciting championships in Europe,. There were 16 teams participating (the last three were relegated to B’ division) and they played in 12 boards: Men in the first 5, a lady on 6th, girls (under 18 and under 14) on the 7th and 8th and boys (U-18, U-16, U-14 & U-12) on the 9th-12th. Two foreigners were allowed to every team. The games were being held on a daily basis, July 4th to July 11th.

During 9 tense rounds, the main favourites (title-holders of “Kydon” Hania, S.O. Kavalas and E.S. Thessalonica) vied for the top-places. Finally, S.O. Kavalas won the gold medal, with 16 p. (8 wins, one loss – to “Kydon” Hania, in the last round). The strongest players of the team were An. Sokolov, Kotronias, Halkias, Skembris, Markidis and Botsari. The team of E.S. Thessalonica (featuring Avrukh, D. & Ath. Mastrovasilis and Tea Bosboom-Lanchava) was second, also with 16 p. (8 wins, one loss – to S.O. Kavalas); the fact that S.O. Kavalas had won the outright match with runners-up E.S. Thessalonica (and by a clear margin: 8.5 – 3.5!) decided the issue of the champion. Last year’s winners, “Kydon” Hania (the team which boasted five consecutive titles, from 2000 to 2004!) was third, with 15 p. (7 wins, one draw and one loss), despite being the only team that won against S.O. Kavalas. Top-rated players for “Kydon” Hania were: Azmaiparashvili, Papaioannou, Banikas, Nikolaidis and Grivas.

Official site: http://www.chessfed.gr/teams2005/

29) 6th Kurass Memorial

The 6th Kurass Memorial, Kiev took place 21st-29th June 2005. Timofey Galinsky won the event with 7.5/9. There may be some naming problems in the game file, sadly whatever ELO ratings they were using in the tables they weren't FIDE.

Official site: http://ukrchess.org.ua/turnir/t056u.html

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6th Kurass Memorial Kiev UKR (UKR), 21-29 vi 2005
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  1. Galinsky, Timofey      m  UKR 2427  7.5  53.0  42.75  40.0  2411 2532 +1.20
  2. Kernazhitsky, Leonid   m  UKR 2345  7.0  53.5  39.50  39.0  2368 2467 +1.06
  3. Semenova, Lidia K      wg UKR 2271  7.0  53.0  39.25  39.0  2306 2472 +1.78
  4. Golichenko, Ilija         UKR 2283  7.0  51.5  39.25  35.5  2294 2423 +1.42
  5. Nazarevich, Vitaly        UKR 2346  6.5  54.0  37.75  35.5  2341 2426 +1.01
  6. Nikulenkov, Anatoly       UKR 2251  6.5  50.0  36.00  30.5  2207 2443 +2.07
  7. Nogin, Nikolai            UKR 2321  6.5  47.5  32.25  33.5  2286 2321 +0.38
  8. Zakharchenko, Arnold   m  UKR 2279  6.5  44.5  31.00  30.5  2309 2255 -0.52
  9. Levenko,Pavel                 ----  6.5  43.5  28.00  31.5  2127 2321 +2.36
 10. Solomaha, Andrey          UKR 2384  6.0  52.0  32.75  33.0  2377 2319 -0.66
 11. Moiseev, Igor             UKR 2280  6.0  50.5  32.25  32.5  2292 2302 +0.06
 12. Belezky, Sasha         m  UKR 2372  6.0  49.0  31.00  32.0  2360 2285 -0.84
 13. Karnaukh, Anatolij        UKR 2253  6.0  48.0  31.00  32.0  2227 2282 +0.54
 14. Grinev, Valeriy           UKR 2222  6.0  48.0  29.25  33.5  2189 2289 +1.23
 15. Kliun,Bogdan                  ----  6.0  48.0  28.75  31.0  2279 2290 +0.06
 16. Grigorchuk, Sergey        UKR 2239  6.0  47.5  29.00  31.0  2241 2260 +0.24
 17. Kosikov, Andrey           UKR 2158  6.0  47.5  28.75  30.5  2182 2265 +0.96
 18. Vdovichenko,Vladislav         ----  6.0  41.5  27.50  26.0  2174 2192 +0.15
 19. Slobodeniuk,Nikolai           ----  6.0  41.0  24.50  26.0  2141 2202 +0.69
106 players

30) 2nd South Wales International

The 2nd South Wales International took place in Caerleon 9th-14th July 2005. Vladimir Dobrov took clear first with 7.5/9.

Official site: http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/home.html

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2nd S Wales Int Caerleon WLS (WLS), 9-14 vii 2005
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 1. Dobrov, Vladimir         g  RUS 2535  7.5  2598
 2. Barsov, Alexei           g  UZB 2530  7.0  2559
 3. Mikhalevski, Victor      g  ISR 2572  6.5  2513
 4. Radovanovic, Jovica      f  SCG 2357  6.5  2505
 5. Marusenko, Petr          m  UKR 2344  6.0  2378
 6. Broomfield, Matthew         ENG 2288  6.0  2383
 7. James, Russel               ENG 2219  6.0  2238
 8. Varley, Peter               WLS 2198  6.0  2308
 9. Ziatdinov, Raset         g  USA 2450  5.5  2420
10. Cobb, Charles               ENG 2405  5.5  2392
11. Cobb, James              f  WLS 2343  5.5  2333
12. Allicock, Rawle Anthony     ENG 2303  5.5  2307
13. Dunn, Andrew                ENG 2197  5.5  2227
14. Taylor, Robert Graham       WLS 2060  5.0  2199
15. Jones, Richard S         f  WLS 2325  5.0  2258
16. Collier, David              ENG 2122  5.0  2177
17. Trevelyan, John             WLS 2196  5.0  2292
18. Truman, Richard G           ENG 2016  5.0  2150
19. Player, Edmund C            ENG 2127  5.0  2209
20. Helbig, Paul                ENG 2184  5.0  2181
21. Rees, Ioan                  WLS 2230  5.0  2199
22. Bernhardsson, Sten          SWE 2138  5.0  2169
52 players

31) Dunav-Drava-Sava League 2005

The team Dallas Vinkovci (CRO) was the winner of the International league "Dunav-Drava-Sava 2005" which took place in Spa Dvorovi( 5.km from Bijeljina- BIH) from 03- 07.july .Eight teams participated in the League. 3 from Croatia, 4 from Bosnia and Herzegovina and 1. from Serbia.

The first place took Dallas from Vinkovci(CRO), second Tusanj from Tuzla(BiH), the third was Osijek(CRO). The team Dallas was: IM Novakovic Dragan(2323), FM Saric Sinisa(2323, - champion of Vojvodina), Cengija Vanja (2197) and Radulovic Bojan(2205). Arbiters: Vlado Stojanovic, IA and Semsudin Cengic and Mustafa Redzepovic, both NA.

Further info: http://www.chessdiagonals.com

32) 16th Ljubljana Open

The 16th Ljubljana Open took place 9th-15th July 2005.

Official site: http://www.sah-zveza.si/rez/0507/ljopen/

Leading Round 9 Standings:
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16th Open Ljubljana SLO (SLO), 9-15 vii 2005
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 1. Fercec, Nenad          m  CRO 2500 7.0  45.0
 2. Kovacevic, Aleksandar  g  SCG 2537 7.0  43.0
 3. Runic, Zoran           m  BIH 2413 7.0  42.5
 4. Ivanisevic, Ivan       g  SCG 2577 7.0  40.5
 5. Jovanic, Ognjen        m  CRO 2447 7.0  40.0
 6. Sax, Gyula             g  HUN 2568 6.5  44.5
 7. Sebenik, Matej         m  SLO 2407 6.5  42.5
 8. Jelen, Igor            m  SLO 2334 6.5  41.5
 9. Ushenina, Anna         wg UKR 2389 6.5  41.0
10. Krumpacnik, Domen      m  SLO 2379 6.5  40.5
11. Groszpeter, Attila     g  HUN 2525 6.5  38.0
12. Jakovljevic, Vlado     m  SCG 2402 6.0  42.0
13. Zorko, Jure            f  SLO 2335 6.0  39.5
14. Babataeva, Indira      wf KAZ 2141 6.0  39.5
15. Kopczynski, Michal        POL 2147 6.0  38.5
16. Nikolov, Sasho         m  BUL 2400 6.0  38.0
17. Gjuran, Denis          f  SLO 2340 6.0  38.0
18. Barle, Janez           m  SLO 2408 6.0  36.5
19. Dizdarevic, Emir       g  BIH 2521 6.0  36.5
20. Fucak, Emilijo         f  CRO 2302 6.0  36.0
21. Soln, Primoz           m  SLO 2351 6.0  36.0
22. Bratovic, Blaz         f  SLO 2350 6.0  34.5
23. Sedlak, Nikola         g  SCG 2518 6.0  34.5
24. Kukovec, Borut            SLO 2198 6.0  33.5
25. Sitnik, Igor              SLO 2303 6.0  33.0
126 players

33) 2nd Summer Competition for Russian Pupils

The 2nd Summer competition for Russian Pupils took place in Satka 27th June - 6th July 2005.

Official site: http://fgala.boom.ru/spart/sparta.htm

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2nd RUS Pupils Summer Boys Satka RUS (RUS), 27 vi-12 vii 2005
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 1. Nechepurenko, Roman V  f  RUS 2402  6.5  2518 
 2. Ponkratov, Pavel          RUS 2378  6.5  2488 
 3. Popov, Ivan RUS        m  RUS 2464  6.5  2517 
 4. Sirotine, Konstantin   f  RUS 2370  6.0  2497 
 5. Papin, Vasily          f  RUS 2440  6.0  2473 
 6. Chadaev, Nikolai       f  RUS 2434  6.0  2456 
 7. Lanin, Alexsej         f  RUS 2407  5.5  2390 
 8. Konovalov, Nikolay     f  RUS 2416  5.5  2397 
 9. Reshetnikov, Alexey    f  RUS 2355  5.5  2325 
10. Ivanov, Andrew            RUS 2239  5.5  2324 
11. Matlakov, Maxim           RUS 2401  5.0  2388 
12. Trofimov, Sergey P        RUS 2410  5.0  2365 
13. Matsenko, Sergei          RUS 2284  5.0  2391 
14. Moskalenko, Alexander  f  RUS 2355  5.0  2311 
15. Kiselev, Vitaliy2         RUS 2250  5.0  2369 
16. Klimov, Anton          f  RUS 2319  4.5  2331 
17. Chernobay, Artem          RUS 2270  4.5  2324 
18. Malchikov, Anton          RUS 2185  4.5  2294 
19. Filatov, Dmitry           RUS 2294  4.5  2288 
20. Airapetian, Gor           RUS 2179  4.5  2298 
21. Rakhmanov, Aleksandr      RUS 2237  4.5  2249 
22. Levin, Evgeny A           RUS 2269  4.5  2299 
23. Khaustov, Vladimir        RUS 2107  4.0  2206 
24. Mozharov, Mikhail         RUS 2272  4.0  2280 
25. Zacurdajev, Dmitry        RUS 2242  4.0  2171 
26. Lovkov, Roman          f  RUS 2351  4.0  2227 
27. Zacurdajev, Mikhail       RUS 2314  3.5  2223 
28. Mikhalchenko, Petr        RUS 2258  3.5  2198 
29. Kharitonov, Egor          RUS 2188  3.5  2164 
30. Fatkulin, Andrey          RUS 2235  3.5  2168 
31. Nozdrin, Alexander V      RUS 2187  3.5  2114 
32. Piskunov, Yury            RUS 2172  3.5  2147 
33. Darmin, Dmitry         f  RUS 2287  3.0  2141 
34. Tkachenko, Evgeniy     f  RUS 2263  3.0  2089 
35. Gerasimov, Yuri           RUS 2302  3.0  2045 
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2nd RUS Pupils Summer Girls Satka RUS (RUS), 27 vi-12 vii 2005
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 1. Malysheva, Polina         wm RUS 2301 7.5
 2. Gunina, Valentina         wf RUS 2340 6.5
 3. Ivakhinova, Inna          wf RUS 2175 6.5
 4. Girya, Olga                  RUS 2103 6.0
 5. Kim, Aleksandra V         wf RUS 2128 6.0
 6. Ambartsumova, Karina      wf RUS 2171 6.0
 7. Kublashvili, Etery        wf RUS 2069 5.5
 8. Karibaeva, Elvira         wf RUS 2237 5.5
 9. Chernova, Anastasia          RUS 2081 5.5
10. Egorova, Ekaterina        wf RUS 2104 5.0
11. Savina, Anastasia            RUS 1984 5.0
12. Drozdova, Dina               RUS 2189 5.0
13. Kuzevanova, Evgenia          RUS 2124 5.0
14. Utkina, Natalia              RUS 1959 5.0
15. Meleshko, Anna            wm RUS 2259 5.0
16. Ivanova, Tatiana             RUS 2043 5.0
17. Zarivkina, Viktoria       wf RUS 2165 5.0
18. Prudnikova, Ekaterina     wf RUS 2150 4.5
19. Korchenkova, Irina           RUS ---- 4.5
20. Kharashuta, Ekaterina     wf RUS 2162 4.5
21. Vazirova, Karina          wf RUS 2113 4.5
22. Miloserdova,Irina            RUS ---- 4.5
23. Minina, Veronika             RUS 2059 4.0
24. Cherepovskaya, Margarita     RUS 2075 4.0
25. Andrianova,Margarita         RUS ---- 4.0
26. Gvilava, Maya                RUS 2022 4.0
27. Girfanova, Almira            RUS 1933 4.0
28. Fakhretdinova, Margarita  wf RUS 2151 3.5
29. Malykh, Kristina             RUS 2061 3.5
30. Larina, Marija               RUS 2081 3.5
31. Cherepova,Barbara                ---- 3.5
32. Sadykova, Alsu               RUS 2173 3.0
33. Melnichuk, Elena             RUS 2055 3.0
34. Meleshko, Tatiana            RUS 2172 2.5
35. Kindinova,Ekaterina              ---- 2.0
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34) 4th Dubai Junior Open

The 4th Dubai Junior Open took place 3rd-12th July 2005. Eltaj Safarli won the event with 8/9.

Official site: http://www.arabfide.com/Dj05/

Leading Final Round 9 standings: 
 1 Safarli Eltaj          FM AZE 2335 8.0 42.0
 2 Khademi Mohammad Miran    IRI 2092 7.5 36.0
 3 Darini Pouria             IRI 2110 7.0 39.0
 4 Saeed Ishaq            FM UAE 2120 7.0 38.0
 5 Hemant Sharma (del)       IND 1975 7.0 37.5
 6 Prasanna R. Rao           IND 2027 7.0 37.0
 7 Grower Sahaj              IND 1955 7.0 35.5
 8 Priyadharshan K.          IND 2054 6.5 36.0
 9 Udeshi Aditya             IND 2092 6.5 34.5
10 Salem A. R. Saleh      FM UAE 2044 6.5 34.0
11 Badjarani Ulvi            AZE 0    6.5 32.5
12 Ghattour Mosab            SUI 0    6.5 32.0
13 Yarlo Amir Homayoun       IRI 0    6.5 30.5
14 Gupte Meghan              IND 2092 6.0 35.0
   Dhruv Hingorani           IND 1901 6.0 35.0
16 Khalaji Hanieh            IRI 0    6.0 33.0
17 Lin Zhigen Wilson         AUS 2029 6.0 32.0
18 Ali Khamis                UAE 1873 6.0 31.5
19 Khouri Ibrahim Mohamed FM UAE 2062 6.0 31.0
20 Ashyrov Ashyr             TKM 0    6.0 29.0
21 Abdullah Hussain          UAE 0    6.0 28.5
22 Eidani Pouya              IRI 0    6.0 28.0
23 Mirzaei Saleh             IRI 1978 5.5 34.0
24 Srinath N.                IND 2084 5.5 32.0
25 Sariyev Riad              AZE 0    5.5 31.5
26 Schaefer Alexander        GER 1994 5.5 30.5
   Abdulnoor Abdulmalik      UAE 0    5.5 30.5
28 Dasgupta Natun            IND 1796 5.5 30.0
   Rishi Thariani            IND 1785 5.5 30.0
30 Abdulaziz Ibrahim         UAE 0    5.5 29.0
   Naser Mohammed            UAE 0    5.5 29.0
32 Atabayev Maksat           TKM 0    5.5 28.5
33 Kowsarinia Amir           IRI 0    5.5 26.5
34 Khaled Mona               EGY 0    5.5 25.0
35 Afshar Niusha             IRI 0    5.5 24.5
   Karmustaji Abdulaziz      UAE 0    5.5 24.5
122 players

35) Denker Memorial

The Chess4Less Denker Memorial takes place at the Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, July 9, 10, 11, 16 & 17. Live coverage of some of the game son ICC. http://www.chessclub.com. Hopefully I'll be sent all the games on the conclusion of the event.

Standings after round 7 of 9
1-3  Julio Becerra   g USA 2559 5.5  
     Renier Gonzalez m USA 2483 5.5  
     Blas Lugo       m USA 2406 5.5  
  4  Marcel Martinez f USA 2418 4.0 6 games
  5  Nick Thomas       ENG 2234 3.5  
  6  Jeff Haskel       USA 2223 3.0  
7-8  Eric Moskow       USA 2229 2.5  
     Emilio Pupo     m COL 2368 2.5  
  9  Mario Marshall    JAM 2130 1.0 6 games
 10  Francois Buchs    SUI 2115 1.0  

36) Paris Championship

The Championship of Paris took place 9th-17th July 2005. Alberto David won on tie-break from Artur Kogan both finished on 7/9. Hopefully games in PGN will become available. Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman made a GM norm.

Official site: http://www.idf-echecs.com/

Leading Final Standings:
 1  David Alberto            g  LUX  2579  7   51,5  2722
 2  Kogan Artur              g  ISR  2580  7   51    2728
 3  Kazhgaleyev Murtas       g  KAZ  2619  6,5 50,5  2622
 4  Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman m  IND  2414  6,5 49,5  2655
 5  Gouliev Namig            m  AZE  2555  6   53    2644
 6  Fressinet Laurent        g  FRA  2627  6   52,5  2605
 7  Sadvakasov Darmen        g  KAZ  2610  6   51,5  2617
 8  Landa Konstantin         g  RUS  2609  6   50,5  2585
 9  Yakovich Yuri            g  RUS  2560  6   49    2570
10  Malakhatko Vadim         g  UKR  2556  6   48,5  2568
11  Moradiabadi Elshan       g  IRI  2485  6   47,5  2604
12  Drasko Milan             g  SCG  2516  6   47    2568
13  Bagheri Amir             g  FRA  2537  6   46,5  2560
14  Ghaem Maghami Ehsan      g  IRI  2603  6   46    2520
15  Kengis Edvins            g  LAT  2534  6   45,5  2548
16  Perez Rodney             m  CUB  2442  6   44    2560
17  Tregubov Pavel V.        g  RUS  2607  5,5 50    2533
18  Apicella Manuel          g  FRA  2553  5,5 46    2488
19  Sher Miron N             g  USA  2420  5,5 45,5  2507
20  Sriram Jha               m  IND  2437  5,5 45,5  2485
21  Meinhardt Maximilian     f  GER  2324  5,5 43,5  2540
22  Paredes Galan Angel      f  ESP  2334  5,5 43,5  2507
23  Shchekachev Andrei       g  RUS  2570  5,5 43    2442
24  Hess Robert L               USA  2278  5,5 41,5  2458
25  Garcia Castro Pablo         ESP  2377  5,5 40,5  2443
90 players

37) Anand Charity Simul

The Internet Chess Club (ICC), hosted a charity event featuring Viswanathan Anand. The Indian Grandmaster is a spokesperson for Vidyasagar, a non-profit organization that strives for inclusion of children with autism and cerebral palsy (http://www.vidyasagar.co.in).

ICC auctioned off ten seats in a simultaneous exhibition with Anand and the proceeds go to a wonderful charity.

The event took place Saturday, July 16th with matches beginning at 19.00 IST (India Standard Time)/9:30a.m. ET (Eastern Time). Ten winning bidders were only available to players under the rating of 2200 and they played with the black pieces. Anand will also be played 54 boards live in the city of Chennai, India at the same time.

Details: http://www.chessclub.com/anand

38) Costa Rican National Championship

The Costa Rican National Chess Championships takes place 2nd-18th July 2005. I will wait until next week for the games as those from rounds 6 and 7 are currently missing.

Daily coverage: http://www.tablerotico.com

Standings Round 11 of 13
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LXVIII ch-CRC San Jose Julio CRC (CRC), 2-14 vii 2005
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 1. Valdes, Leonardo               m CRC 2362   9.5 
 2. Gonzalez, Bernal               m CRC 2405   9.5 
 3. Hernandez Basante, Francisco   m CRC 2265   7.5 
 4. Minero Pineda, Sergio          m CRC 2440   7.5 
 5. Granados, Carlos                 CRC 2225   7.0 
 6. Murillo, Alexis                m CRC 2362   7.0 
 7. Arias Santana, Mauricio        f CRC 2238   6.0 
 8. Bermudez, Sergio               f CRC 2223   5.5 
 9. Arias, Rodolfo                   CRC 2173   5.0 
10. Ugalde, Ronald                   CRC 2174   4.0 
11. Leandro, Johnny                  CRC 2133   4.0 
12. Castro Madrigal,Randall          CRC ----   1.5 
13. Alfaro, Carlos                   CRC 1931   1.5 
14. Ruiz Blais,Sebastian             CRC ----   1.5 
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39) World Open

The World Open took place June 30th - July 4th 2005 in Philadelphia. GM Kamil Miton beat Magesh Panchanathan in a blitz playoff to take the title after both finished on 7.5/9. Games are starting to appear the website advises not archiving the games until they've finished the game file which will hopefully be by next week.

Official site: http://www.worldopen.com

Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
 
33rd World Open: Open Section
                                  US
#   Name                          Rtng St   Tot
1   GM Kamil Miton *              2660 NY   7.5
2   Magesh C Panchanathan         2497 TX   7.5
3   GM Hikaru Nakamura            2756 NY   7.0
4   GM Ildar Ibragimov            2683 CT   7.0
5   GM Varuzhan Akobian           2646 CA   7.0
6   GM Sandipan Chanda            2608 IND  7.0
7   GM Alexander Onischuk         2685 MD   6.5
8   GM Alexander Shabalov         2649 PA   6.5
9   GM Sergey Kudrin              2644 CT   6.5
10  GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly      2603 IND  6.5
11  GM Alexander Fishbein *       2592 NJ   6.5
12  FM Emilio Cordova             2522 PER  6.5
13  GM Gata Kamsky                2696 NY   6.0
14  GM Julio J Becerra            2664 FL   6.0
15  GM Leonid G Yudasin *         2664 NY   6.0
16  GM Abhijit Kunte              2661 IND  6.0
17  GM Giorgi Kacheishvili        2647 GEO  6.0
18  GM Alexander Ivanov           2638 MA   6.0
19  GM Alexander Stripunsky       2630 NY   6.0
20  GM Aleks Wojtkiewicz          2630 MD   6.0
21  GM Joel Benjamin              2628 NJ   6.0
22  GM Gregory Serper             2611 WA   6.0
23  IM Sundara Rajan Kidambi      2591 IND  6.0
24  GM Dmitry Gurevich            2582 IL   6.0
25  GM John P Fedorowicz          2580 NY   6.0
26  GM Vladimir Georgiev          2579      6.0
27  IM Eugene Perelshteyn         2576 MA   6.0
28  IM Marani Rajendran Venkatesh 2535 IND  6.0
29  GM Gildardo J Garcia          2522 CT   6.0
30  FM Lev Milman                 2517 NY   6.0
31  GM Michael A Rohde *          2512 NY   6.0
32  FM Joshua E Friedel           2502 NH   6.0
33  IM Pascal Charbonneau         2492 CA   6.0
34  IM Dmitry Schneider           2480 NY   6.0
35  FM Alex Lenderman             2444 NY   6.0
36  FM John Bartholomew           2444 MN   6.0
37  IM Blocker * Calvin           2442 OH   6.0
38  FM Emory A Tate Jr *          2419 IN   6.0
39  Salvijus Bercys               2416 NY   6.0
205 players

40) ACP Tour 2004-2005: Final Report

The first ACP Tour is over. Congratulations to the winner Viswanathan Anand! The Indian star not only won by a big margin but also dominated the race thanks to an exceptional season. His 5 best results over the season bring him to 1598 points, but if we were to add the other 3 events he took part in, the total would amount to 2045 points! Second place goes to Peter Leko (1196 out of 4 tournaments), while Boris Gelfand ended up third (916 out of only 3 events). It was predicted that the tournaments taking place during the last period would somehow upset the standings. Still in the Top-8 on June 15th, Farukh Amonatov and Etienne Bacrot lost their place in favour of Teimour Radjabov and Ivan Sokolov. Thanks to his silver medal at the European Individual Championship and 432 points earned there, Radjabov jumped to 4th place. Ivan Sokolov's result was more modest, but the 63 points he got in Poland were still enough to reach place 8.

Final Standings of the ACP Tour 2004-2005:

 1. Anand      1598 (5)
 2. Leko       1196 (4)
 3. Gelfand    916  (3)
 4. Radjabov   884  (3)
 5. Bologan    865  (3)
 6. Kramnik    839  (4)
 7. Morozevich 709  (3)
 8. I.Sokolov  654  (4)
 9. Bacrot     612  (4)
10. Amonatov   600  (4)
 

Five other tournaments were rated during this period, but they did not significantly change the standings. Congratulations to V.Anand for his win in Leon, to Z.Almasi for his victory in Paks, to V.Zakhartsov who won in Voronezh, and to K.Miton and M.Panchanathan who ended up joint winners at the World Open in Philadelphia. A special mention finally goes to Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu who won the European Individual Championship in Warsaw - Zegrze Poludniowe.

Conclusions:

This first major project of the Association has been approved and supported by tournament organizers and generated great interest among chess players. Despite long negotiations with potential partners, a sponsor for the 'Masters', the final tournament of the cycle, has not been found yet. Considering the very complicated current situation in the chess world, finding a company that would be willing to invest into a new large-scale project is no easy task. However, this quest obviously remains our priority, as well as the development of the whole ACP Tour project.

The second ACP Tour started on the 1st of July 2005. The new Regulations are published on the ACP website. We took into consideration some of the suggestions made during the first season.

With best wishes, ACP Board

Reference: http://www.chess-players.org/eng/news/viewarticle.html?id=405

41) Forthcoming Events and Links

First Saturday August

The next First Saturday GM, IM and FM closed tournaments take place 6th-18th of August Budapest. Some vacancies, first comes-first served. One GM, 2-3 IM and 2-3 FM sections planned. Contact: Nagy Laszlo FIDE International Chess Organizer e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net http://www.firstsaturday.hu or http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat Phone-fax: (+36)-1-263-28-59 Mobile: (+36)-30-230-1914

Bulgaria vs Turkey Match

There will be a Friendly Match between Bulgaria and Turkey on 20th and 21st July in Svilengrad (Bulgaria).

Each team will consists of 5 men and 4 women. There will be 2 rounds.

Official site: http://www.bulgaria-turkey.chessbg.com and also on playchess.com playing server.

Lausanne Young Masters

The 6th Edition of the Lausanne Young Masters 2005 with 8 of the best under-20 players in the world will be held September 14th-19th, 2005, at the Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne Players: Pentala Harikrishna Hikaru Nakamura, Andrei Volokitin, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Nana Dzagnidze and Elisabeth Paehtz.

Alongside will be an Invitational Event "Maîtres contres Espoirs" including Vladimir Tukmakov and Florin Gheorghiu (Romania) will play several young Swiss talents.

Also a General Open, total prize money CHF 14'500.-, CHF 3'000.- for the winner, will be held at the same location from September 16th-19th, 2005. 7 rounds,

Information: René Kesselring, phone ++41 21 701 38 63 and ++41 79 342 44 15 Email: rkesselring@bluewin.ch

Internet http://www.lausanneyoungmasters.com

15th Heart of Finland Open

The 15th Heart of Finland Open takes place in Jyväskylä, July 18th-24th 2005. The tournament will be a 10 round Swiss system.

Official website: http://www.shakki.net/turnaukset/hof05/en/

World Youth Chess Championship

The World Youth Chess Championship 2005 takes place in Belfort, France 18th-29th July 2005.

Official site: http://www.belfort-echecs.com

Prague Chess Holiday

The XV International Chess Holiday 2005 and VIII Professor Jaroslav Pelikán Memorial takes place in Prague. Three dates: 16th-23rd July 2005, 23rd-30th July 2005 and 30th July - 6th August 2005.

http://www.schach-prag.de/

I Villa Benaojan Rapid

I Villa Benaojan Sunday 24th July 2005 15 minutos per player Contact capanegra63@hotmail.com or ajedrezbenaojan@yahoo.es for further info.

28th Ghent Open

The 28th Ghent Open takes place 16th-20th July 2005.

The summer tournament of the Benelux! 9 round Swiss tournament.

Official site: http://www.kgsrl.be/

IX Open The "Battle Of Senta 1697"

The IX Open The "Battle Of Senta 1697" takes place 15th-22nd July 2005. A and B Groups and also Rapid and Blitz tournaments. Senta is in Serbia and Montenegro.

Details: http://www.scgchess.org/2005/event/0507sen.htm

Brno Fair Trade Chess Festival

The Fair Trade Chess Festival 2005 in Brno has 2 closed GM groups, 1 closed IM group, open A (FIDE), open B (national) 28th August - 7th September 2005. Contact: IM Petr Pisk -GM and IM groups (petr.pisk@centrum.cz) or go to the website below.

Further details: http://volny.cz/skduras

Malaysian Chess Federation Calendar

The Malaysian Chess Federation has a calendar at: http://tcn.sourceforge.net. The event includes: the 2nd Arthur Tan Malaysian Open takes place 19th-26th August 2005, - Open Swiss with Prize Fund of US$ 15,000 27 Aug - 1 Sep Merdeka Team Chess Championship 2005 - Team event Prize Fund US$ 10,000 2 - 12 Sept Zone 3.3 (East Asia Zone) Championship. Contact: Hamid Majid email: aham@pc.jaring.my

Official site: http://tcn.sourceforge.net

Senior World Championship

The Senior Chess World Championship takes place 27th September - 10th October 2005 in the Lignano Sabbiadoro, Udine, Italy, just one hour car far away from Venice.

The tournament is open to both men and women, and is an 11 round Swiss. Time rate: 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 15 minutes until the end of the game. with a 30 second increment from move 1.

Official site: http://www.vacanzesport.com

3rd Abe Yanofsky Memorial

The 3rd Abe Yanofsky Memorial takes place 3rd-5th September 2005. The event takes place in Winnipeg Canada. The tournament is a six-round open Swiss, FIDE-rated, over the Labour Day weekend. Entry fee by July 15th 2005: $80 Cdn.

Russian GM Sergey Shipov and Canadian GM Mark Bluvshtein have confirmed their participation in the Abe Yanofsky Memorial.

This year's tournament will have 50 per cent more in prizes than 2004, with $6,000 guaranteed, including class prizes.

Further details: http://www.chessmanitoba.com

Iranian Team Championship

The Iran Super League (Ligue 84) the 12 club team event started on 30th May 2005. The Double round robin sees 6 GMs, 12 IMs and a total of 28 titled players participate.

Official site: http://www.iranchess.com/indexen.htm

World Amateur Chess Championship Cancelled

The World Amateur Chess Championship 2005 due to take place in Piestany (Slovakia), July 31st - August 12th 2005 has been cancelled due to lack of entires.

Further information: http://www.wacc2005.chess.sk

Peter Leko Official Site

Peter Leko now has a web site. http://www.lekochess.com/

Liepajas rokade

Liepajas rokade, the biggest chess festival in the Baltics takes place from 11th to 14th of August 2005 in Liepaja Latvia.

English http://www.liepajniekiem.lv/?doc=19684 and Latvian http://www.liepajniekiem.lv/?doc=19681

CC-Calendar

CC-Calendar. Now 8.092 official computer chess tournaments since 1990. 726 games from older official computer chess tournaments up to 1990. Arena Chess GUI http://www.playwitharena.com Selection: CC-Calendar New are two computer chess tournaments. CIPS (Italy), chess program Delfi won 5th International CSVN tournament (Netherland), chess program Shredder won. AnMon won the 7th French programmers tourney in Massy.

Bratto Open

The 25th International Chess Festival "Conca della Presolana" will takes place in Bratto (Italy), 20-28 August 2005. The Festival includes: Tournament A (players with Elo Fide > 1999), Tournament B, Tournament C and Promotion Tournament (for beginners). Swiss system, 9 rounds. Time control: 100 minutes for 40 moves + 50 minutes; all move played get 30 seconds bonus (Fischer mode). Prizes: in the tournament A: 1st 1500 Euros, 2nd 1000 Euros, 3rd 700 Euros .. ... 16th-20th 200 Euros.

Info: gpp@hotelmilano.com

Official Internet coverage: http://www.scaccobratto.com/2005.shtml

Jiraskuv Memorial

The Jiraskuv Memorial takes place 6th-13th August 2005 in Rakovnik (Czech Republic - 60 km west from Prague).

Further details: http://www.czfree-ra.net/~sachy

Hungarian Tournaments July - December 2005

1. 2nd-14th of July FIRST SATURDAY /FS/ GM-IM-FM round robins, 9 -13 games, norm possibilities, in Budapest, Hungarian Chess Federation, Falk Miksa Str.10. 2nd floor. Organisation: Nagy Laszlo, FIDE International Chess Organizer /NL/, E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net Website: http://www.firstsaturday.hu Other website: http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat Phone-fax: (361)-2632859, cellphone: (36)-30-230-1914 From 12:00 a.m. until midnight - Central European Time - GMT+1 hour

2. 15th -23rd of July, SZOMBATHELY SUMMER Open 9 rounds Swiss, organizer FM Korpics, e-mail: korpicschess@axelero.hu

3. 24th of July - 1st of August, AGRIA Open /EGER, 100 km North-East from Budapest/, organizer: Rauch Ferenc, e-mail: rauch@freemail.hu

4. 6th-18th of August, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest org.:NL

5. 21st-31st of August, PAPP BELA memorial GM closed tmt, Torokbalint, 10 km from Budapest, info: Nagy Laszlo, firstsat@hu.inter.net

6 3rd-15th of September FS GM-IM-FM Budapest, org: NL

7. 1st-13th of October, FS GM-IM-FM, Budapest L

8. 5th-17th of November, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest

9. 3rd - 15th of December, FS GM-IM-FM.

Chess Classic Mainz

The Chess Classic Mainz takes place August 9th-14th 2005.

The field of participants for all top events of the Chess Classic Mainz (August 9 - 14) is complete. Following his twofold victory in the open tournament, Alexander Grischuk (Russia) will challenge Viswanathan Anand (India), serial winner in the Rheingoldhalle, for the world title in rapid chess. In Chess960, World Champion Peter Svidler (Russia) will meet Zoltan Almasi (Ungarn). Four legends of chess will get together to celebrate the 80th birthday of Wolfgang Unzicker. In addition to the Grandmaster from Munich, Anatoly Karpov (Russia), Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) and Boris Spassky (France) will play.

Official site: http://www.chesstigers.de/

9th Offene Internationale Bayerische Schach Meisterschaft

9th Bayerische International Chess Open, takes place in Bad Wiessee takes place 29th October - 6th November 2005.

Further details: http://www.oibm-bad-wiessee.de/

US Championship

The U.S. Chess Championship returns to San Diego from February 22nd - March 5th 2006 and will be held at its new permanent home at NTC Promenade.

The tournament will feature a 64-player field, composed of 19 seeded players (as determined by the October 2005 U.S.C.F Rating List), 43 tournament qualifiers (two of which being online) and 2 wild cards selected by the AF4C. The seeded players include the defending U.S. Champion, Hikaru Nakamura; Women's Champion, Rusudan Goletiani; the 2004 Chess Café.com Grand Prix winner, Aleks Wojtkiewicz; the 2005 U.S. Junior Champion; the 2005 U.S. Senior Champion; 8 top-rated Overall players, and 6 top-rated female players from the rating list. A new, innovative qualifying process will see one spot decided by the player who - while not qualifying directly- accumulates the highest score from playing in as many (or all!) of the qualifying tournaments. After each tournament, the latest placing for this Qualifier Grand Prix will be posted on the dedicated U.S. Championship website.

Details:http://www.uschesschampionship.com

Obrenovac Open

The Obrenovac Open takes place 22nd-30th November 2005. The event takes place in Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro. 9 rounds Swiss, Prize found: 5250 EURO. First prize: 1000 EURO Info contact: IO Nagy Laszlo, e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net

Lugano International Open

The Lugano International Open takes place 18th-20th November 2005. in the Hotel Meister, Via San Salvatore 11, 6902 Lugano-Paradiso 6 round Swiss Schweizer System 36 moves in 90 Mins + 30 Mins for the rest of the game.

Further details: http://luganoscacchi.ch/

Euro Chess Tournament and Stork Young Masters

The 2005 Euro Chess Tournament, will be played in Hengelo (Netherlands) August 8th-13th 2005. The Euro Chess Tournament is organised by the Caïssa Foundation and the Royal Dutch Chess Federation.

The Euro Chess Tournament includes the 32nd Dutch Open Youth Championship groups U10, U12, U14, U16 and U20. In the Open we expect in between 600 and 700 players from all over Europe. The Dutch Open is a perfect mix of chess for recreation and top level

The second tournament played in the same week is the Stork Young Masters, a 20 player invitation group which will play 9 rounds Swiss. The topplayers in the group will be 5 GM's, all under 20 years old. We are still looking for some players for the Stork Young Masters. Please contact tournament director Albert Vasse (albert.vasse@home.nl) if you have candidates to participate.

All information on the tournament is available in English, German, French and Dutch at http://www.onjk.nl

Enrollment is also through this website.

2nd Samba Cup

The 2nd Samba Cup will take place 14th to 23rd October 2005 in Skanderborg, Denmark.

A-group will be at least cat. 16. B and C-group will be cats. 8/9 and 3/4 if played. All groups 10 players round-robin. Interested players for any group are welcome to contact organiser Michael Andersson at gm@skanderborgskakklub.dk.

Web site is under construction but will be http://www.skanderborgskakklub.dk/gm2005

17th Cannes Summer International Open

The 17th Cannes Summer International Open takes place July 25th-31st 2005.

Rated FFE and FIDE - Participation of GMI - Tournament A for 2100 or more - Tournament B for 2000 or less - Players between 2000 et 2100 can choose their tournament - 9 rounds - Time Control 1 h 40 for 40 moves + 20 min with 30 seconds added by move - Check-in obligatory Monday 25 from 10 h to 14 h - Special prizes for categories

Further details: http://www.cannes-echecs.org

Olomouc Chess Summer

8th International Chess Festival Olomouc Chess Summer 2005 which is part of the 5th International Chess Festivals Series CZECH TOUR 2005/2006. The event takes place in Olomouc (Czech Republic) 3rd-11th August 2005.

Round-robin GM and IM tournaments, FIDE open, seniors tournament, open tournament in active chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival.

Further details: http://www.czechtour.net

15th European Team Championship

The 15th European Team Championship takes place July 29th-August 8th 2005 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Official site: http://www.goteborgchess2005.se/

FIDE Trainers Committee

IM Jovan Petronic. Chairman, FIDE Computer & Internet Chess Committee has written about the FIDE Trainers Committee. Link to his article below. In 1998 FIDE formed a powerful Committee comprising of leading chess trainers around the chess globe. Accordingly, it was named the FIDE Trainers Committee, and below, I will try to summarize the immense useful information for the readers, current major chess training activities and appeals of the Committee, etc. The number of certified FIDE Trainers has grown and they are now (in alphabetical order) - none other than: Alburt Lev (USA), Asanov Bolat (Kazahstan), Azmaiparashvili Zurab (Georgia), Boensch Uwe (Germany), Beliavsky Alexandr (Slovenia), Chernin Alexandr (Hungary), Dorfman Iossif (France), Dvoretsky Mark (Russia), Gelfer Israel (Israel), Georgadze Tamaz (Georgia), Gulko Boris (USA), Illescas Miguel (Spain), Kuzmin Alexey (Katar), Khodarkovsky Michael (USA), Leong Ignatius (Singapore), Mikhalcishin Adrian (Slovenia), Marjanovic Slavoljub (Serbia & Montenegro), Mohr Georg (Slovenia), Nikitin Alexandr (Russia), Petrosjan Arshak (Armenia), Polgar Zsuzsa (USA), Postovsky Boris (USA), Psakhis Lev (Israel), Razuvaev Yuri (Russia), Seirawan Yasser (USA), Sosonko Genna (Netherlands), Schmidt Wlodzimerz (Poland), Tukmakov Vladimir (Ukraine), Ubilava Elizbar (Georgia), Vladimirov Evgeny (Kazahstan), Zapata Alonso (Columbia) and Xie Yun (China).

Read the article: http://www.jovanpetronic.com/fidetrainerscommittee.htm and an update: http://www.jovanpetronic.com/fidetrainerscommittee2.htm

Instructional Tactics

There is an instructional tactical site at: http://www.chesstactics.org compiled by Ward Farnsworth.

Queenstown Chess Classic 2006

The Queenstown Chess Classic 2006 takes place on the South Island of New Zealand January 15th-24th 2006 followed by the NZ Rapid and Blitz Championship on Jan 25th & 26th. This event is being sponsored by NZ GM Murray Chandler and promises to be NZ's largest ever Open International event. The total prize fund is in excess of NZD $35,000. It is endorsed by the NZ Chess Federation and will incorporate the NZ Championship. Entries so far include GM's Chandler, Rogers and Hecht.

Further information: http://www.queenstownchess.com

Kasparov on his retirement

Kasparov's website: http://www.chesschamps.com gives a diary entry on the reasons for his retirement: http://www.chesschamps.com/diary07.html

Correspondence Chess - Romanian Chess Federation - 80 Years

Therer will be a CC tournament "Romanian Chess Federation - 80 Years"? which will be one of the strongest CC events of the year 2005 with 4 ICCF-GMs and 4 ICCF-SIMs among the 13 participants.

Every 2-3 months there will be reports on the tournament wrote by GM Dorian Rogozenko, IM Mihai Ghinda, IM Mircea Pavlov, IM Constantin Lupulescu and FM Marius Ceteras including comments around the games in progress (this is something new in CC).

A promo pdf booklet of the event is available in Romanian chess pages www.romanianchess.org , in the section dedicated to this event http://www.romanianchess.org/rcf80 The booklet contains the introduction of the players, their best games and a short history of the Romanian correspondence chess. Short link for download the promo booklet (archived pdf file) http://www.romanianchess.org/rcf80/rcf80.zip

The tournament will be played at ICCF webserver ( http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=278 ) .

II Calvia Chess Festival

The 2nd Calvià Chess Festival offers a varied programme with tournaments for different categories covering all ages. Takes place October 21st-November 5th 2005.

http://www.calviafestival.com

VII Sants Open

The VII Sants Open in Barcelona takes place 27th August - 4th September 2005.

Further details: http://www.cotxeres.org/open2005 This tournament is part of the Catalan Grand Prix http://www.fcde.org/circuit/oberts.html

9th Essent Chess Tournament

The 9th Essent Chess Tournament (Hoogeveen) takes place 21st-29th October 2005.

Last year the event was covered at: http://www.essentchess.nl

Computer Chess News

There have been recent computer events. See the Computer Chess Calendar at: http://www.playwitharena.com

Ratings Article

Jean-Claude Templeur on ratings manipulation: http://www.chessmile.com/articles.php?id=30

Final of the WCBCSC 2004-2005

Brian Stephenson of the British Chess Problem Society reports. The Final of the WCBCSC 2004-2005 took place at Oakham School on Saturday 19th February. It was a resounding success for solving GM and Ex-World Champion Jonathan Mestel, who came ahead of two other ex-world champions. The event was sponsored by Winton Capital Management: http://www.wintoncapital.com/

The full results can be found at my website. Follow this link for the final table: http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/0405/finaltable.html and this for the problems used: http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/0405/final_diag.html

British Chess Problem Society: http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/

Swiss Chess Tour Davos Festival 2005

The "Swiss Chess Tour 2005" will continue in Davos with Chess Festival, the first time, besides "Open Davos", will be separate "Senior Open Davos", "Junior Open Davos" and "Summer-night open".

Davos is one of the most popular tourist places in Europe (summer and winter). Last year when all Europe caught by high tropical temperature at Davos was 20-25 degrees Celsius, always with a cupful of mountain wind. Next year, 2006, Davos will host European Individual Senior Championship.

Main event, the 4th "Sunstar Park Hotel Open", July 30th - August 7th 2005. "Sunstar Park Hotel" (4 stars) will be host festival in the new, comfortable "Congress Center". Swiss system, 9 rounds and the games will last a maximum of 6 hours (40 moves for 2 hours and 60 minutes till the end). Valid for FIDE titles and FIDE rating. Prize are: 1.500 SF, 1.200, 900, 700, 500, 400, 300, 250, 200 and 150 SF. From 11.- 20. places natural prizes. Special prizes for best Lady, best local player. Entry fee 140 SF, FMs and juniors 70 SF, at the door 10 SF more, GMs and IMs free. Time table: Rounds 1 16.00-22.00 July 30th; Round 2/8 14.00-20.00 July 31st- August 6th; Round 9 10.00-16.00 August 7th.

"Senior Open" July 31st - August 6th, senior 1945, 7 rounds and the games last of 5 hours (40 moves 2 hours and 30 minutes till the end). Valid for FIDE titles and FIDE rating. Prize is: 500/400/300/2x200/2x150 SF. Natural prizes for players with 4 points. Entry fee 70 SF, at the door 10 SF more. Time table 9.30 - 14.30 every day.

"Junior Open", born 1985 and younger. Exactly the same like "Senior Open" except, juniors lodging at "Sunstar Park Hotel" don't pay enter-fee. (Hotel pays for them).

"Summer-night Open", 7 rounds, 45 minutes for game; time-table 21.15-22.45 every day; natural prizes for all players with 4 points; enter fee 10 SF.

Venue: "Sunstar Park Hotel" (4 stars). Closing ceremony August 8th, half-hour after the last game. Unbelievable chess-rates. Info: Beochess +41+34+424-01-06 (Robert Spoerri) or info@beochess.ch

Alushta Diary 2005

Leonid Galperin sends a calendar of planned events in Alushta, Ukraine 2005.

GM Norm events: 6 17.06-27.06. 1.09-11.09 25.09-5.10 7.10-17.10 Rating tournament 5.06 - 13.06 Open tournament (under 16 years) First prize - 200 $ 14.06 - 22.06 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Blitz tournament 28.06 12.09 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Open tournament (rapid chess) 29 - 30.06 13-14.09 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Open tournament First prize 1000 $ First prize (woman) 500$ 2.07-10.07 15.09-23.09 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Session of school of Gennadi Kuzmin 5.06-14.06 25.09-4.10 Alushta Individual and group studying

Further information: http://www.kaissa.com.ua phone +38 (06560)5-05-32 (for Russian speaking) + 38 050 669-26-04 (for English speaking) e-mail: info@kaissa.com.ua

Harald Malmgren 100 years Correspondence

31st Dec 2004 saw the start of the first Grandmaster tournament on the ICCF Webserver. The tournament is the "Harald Malmgren 100 years". The occasion is to commemorate the 100:d birthday of Harald Malmgren, Tierp in Sweden. Malmgren was runner up after Cecil Purdy in ICCF's first World Championship and earned his GM title in the event. Malmgren passed away in 1957. In his career he was also second in IFSB Championship 1939 and won the Swedish CC Championship in 1942. Malmgren was a true chess enthusiast and issued a book in 1953 "Mina bästa partier" (My best games) with only CC games he had played.

There are 13 participants and you will be able to follow the results on http://www.schack.se/SSKK/palview/res/malmgren.htm and as soon as about 10 moves are made in every game, SSKK will open a page for "live" games. That is games according to the ICCF CoC regulations for live games. The Category of the event is 10 which means that all norms are available.The tournament has two sponsors, Schackakademin and Svenska Schackbutiken AB.

The players are: IM Jan Bennborn, Sweden, IM Sture Olsson, Sweden, IM Rune Bergquist, Norway, IM Ervin Liebert, Estonia, IM Taisto Koskela, Finland, IM Leif Åhman, Sweden, SIM Jón A Pálsson, Iceland, SIM Josef Mrkvicka, Czech Rep, GM Matthias Rüfenacht; Switzerland, IM Gary S Benson, Australia, SIM John Pugh, England, Phillippe Chopin, France and Mads Smith Hansen, Denmark. The withdrawing ICCF President keeps playing CC and starts this event on his very last day in office.

Tomas Carnstam, Jonas Dahlgren, Robert Ericsson, Sebastian Nilsson and Per Söderberg wedish Correspondence Chess Federation (SSKK) Board members.

38th Biel International Chess Festival

38th Biel International Chess Festival Dates: 16th-29th July 2005 with, in particular: - the Grandmaster tournament (17th-27th July 2005) - the Accentus Ladies Tournament 17th-27th July 2005) - the active chess tournament (16th and 17th July 2005) - the Master Open (18th-29th July 2005, last round in the morning) - the General Open (20th-29th July 2005, last round in the morning) - the Blitz tournament (23th July 2005)

Further details: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch

Hamarat Challenge Match

The ICCF World Champion Tunc Hamarat (AUT) who has never lost a single game with White, has challenged the "Rest of the World" to a friendly 2-game match. He will have White in both games. The games (one will start with 1.e4 and one with 1.d4) will be played on the ICCF Webserver and started on 10th February 2005 with the rule "10 moves/70 days".

The players on the "Rest of the World" team will vote on each move. The move receiving the most votes will be selected. Should 2 or more moves receive the same number of votes, the "Rest of the World" will be given 2 more voting days to decide between the tied moves. Participation in this event is open to all players who pay an entry fee of 5 EUR or $7.00 US dollars via their National CC Federation or the ICCF Direct Entry (DE) option. All fees collected will be transferred to the ICCF Development Fund. The money will be used primarily for development and system support of the ICCF WebChess Server. It will be possible to join the "Rest of the World" team at any stage of the game.

The games may be seen "live" by all players and other observers at http://www.iccf-webchess.com

Each player who voted for the selected move will receive 1 point per move. The player(s) with the most points at the end of the games will receive an ICCF Gold Book. The list of all entrants will be published on the ICCF webpage.

1st ICCF Webchess Open Tournament

The ICCF have announced the 1st WebChess Open Tournament and invites every player worldwide to participate in the event. The event is to be played on the ICCF dedicated Webserver http://www.iccf-webchess.com. This tournament is open to all correspondence chess players worldwide, also for those without any previous ICCF experience. Multiple entries are allowed. The tournament will be played in three stages - preliminaries, semifinal and final.

Details: http://www.iccf-webchess.com/Message.aspx?message=19

Russia vs ROW Correspondence

The Russian Chess Federation is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is using this occasion to challenge the rest of the world to a match over 64 boards with 2 games for each and the start is 15.02 2004. Players include Joop van Oosterom

http://www.mychessweb.com/Tables/Internationale/Play/russia-world.htm

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