THE WEEK IN CHESS 71 18/02/96 Mark Crowther
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1) Introduction
2) The ACM Man Machine Challenge.
3) Zsuzsa Polgar on the verge of taking the Women's World Title
4) Belgrade
5) Keres Memorial Tournament by Mart Tarmak
6) Calcutta 1-10 February
7) Arnold Eikrem RIP
8) Hallsberg Correction
9) Florencio Campomanes sues Borjal by Bobby Ang
10) PCA
11) Linares 1996
12) Kasparov Simultaneous Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro
13) Rio de Janeiro-Brasil the "III Magistral Naval Club Chess tournament
14) Bern Chess Tournament by Jo Zahner
GAMES SECTION
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1) Introduction
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My thanks to Bosko Grove, Jo Zahner, Adriano Von Pfuhl Rodrigues,
Jonathan Tisdall, Ian Rogers, Jason Luchan, Bobby Ang,
Jon Speelman, Bob Wade, Mart Tarmak, TASC, Arthur J. Bieker
and the IBM www site for the ACM Man Machine challenge.
This was one of those issues where even another day would not have
been enough to complete satisfactorily. So forgive some rather
rough edges. I certainly wanted to spend longer on the The ACM Man
Machine Challenge and much of the Bern material has had to be held
over. Also I need more time on the Arnold Eikrem obituary, his
passing will have a major effect on Scandinavian chess and the
large number of regular visitors to his Gausdal Tournaments.
Mark Crowther.
2) The ACM Man Machine Challenge.
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Philadelphia USA (USA), II 1996.
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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Kasparov, Gary g RUS 2775 0 1 = = 1 1 4.0
Deep Blue ---- 1 0 = = 0 0 2.0 2650
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Kasparov eventually asserts his authority against Deep Blue.
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"John Henry says to the Captin,
A man ain't noth'en but a man,
But before I let the steam drill beat me down,
I will die with a hammer in my hand, (Lawd Lawd}... ."
The "Story of John Henry" is a traditional American Ballad wherein
John Henry dies after winning a contest against a steam drill. *
Kasparov was quoted after game 4.
"I'm tired from these games and if I was playing a normal
human match my opponent would also be exhausted, but here I have
something that is not exhausted and it's playing with the same
strength."
At this point it seemed almost cruel to allow Kasparov to go on!
Kasparov was very complimentary of the strength of Deep Blue
after winning the match. He was clearly struggling against
it until game 5. His draw offer during game 5 seemed to
suggest an over respect for the computer and perhaps tiredness
on his part.
It is hard to judge whether this is a major improvement in
computing or not. Certainly Kasparov has had his critics
who have suggested that his play was rather naive early in
the match.
"I think Garry Kasparov had a problem. He was playing Deep
Blue as if he wanted to play normal chess. And in my opinion
this was a big mistake."
Nigel Short in the Observer 18/2/96
GM David Norwood (writing after just 3 games) was even more
forthright.
"My conclusion is that man machine matches are still something
of a chirade. Computers are prepared for humans but we are
not really ready for our artificial opponents. Once grandmasters
start to know more about the way machines think, the pendulum
should swing back in their favour."
Yasser Seirawan was more upbeat:
"I think it was a brilliant match. I think that DEEP BLUE was a very,
very legitimate contender."
Kasparov was also very complimentary:
"I have no doubt that
it's just the first match among many of them
that will take place in the future. I strongly
believe that competition man versus machine
could be a crucial part not only for the world
of chess but also for those that would like to
see how the future relations between man and
computer will develop.
I would like first to congratulate IBM team for
its outstanding achievement because it's a
serious opponent. It's a really serious
opponent. I won this match 4 to 2, but it was
as tough as a world championship match and,
believe me, I played very very seriously."
From my point of view Kasparov's game 1 loss probably in the end
favoured him. The event got a large quantity of publicity
for IBM but perhaps even more it brought Kasparov's name
further into the public's mind. This advertising will
no doubt stand him in good stead over the next few years.
The Contest
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It must have come as a tremendous relief to the programmers that
Deep Blue functioned well in game 1. The Deep Blue project has
been around since 1988, in 1989 an early version played an
exhibition match against Kasparov and was soundly beaten. Technical
gliches having a bad effect on game 1 of that earlier match.
There were in fact technical problems during the match. In the
second game Deep Blue lost contact with its opening repertoire
a problem caused by a missing file. In game 3 the operator
made a typo causing confusion for several minutes. Kasparov's
mental processes were somewhat interupted by the system freezing.
The games themselves saw Kasparov eventually provoke Deep Blue
in the middlegame in game two and take advantage over 35 moves
of his long range advantage.
The two draws in games 3 and 4 saw Kasparov very much surprised
be Deep Blue's decisions. Certainly the machine was better (but
not winning) at the end of the forth game.
Kasparov who was tiring badly after four games seemed to not
be very confident. He offered a draw in game 5 but this was
rejected. This seems entirely sensible as this is supposed to
be a test of the machinary and the game wasn't completely dead.
The Deep Blue program responded by playing very mysteriously
indeed, in what was an open position it simply ran its position
down over the next few moves. The programmers said afterwards
that they would have to study the game at length to understand
what went wrong. In a hopelessly lost position the human minders
stepped in.
The final game saw Kasparov beat the computer very soundly indeed.
If he had been playing a human, Kasparov would undoubtably
mentioned his draw offer in game 5 of this match as the
decisive turning point.
The ACM Congress
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The sponsors of the match are "The Association for Computing" and
the occasion is both their annual Congress and the 50th Anniversary
of ENIAC being shown for the first time. This is the start of an
18 month long celebration of this anniversary which will include
exhibitions, symposia by leading figures on the future of computing
in a variety of fields and of course the Congress itself which
coincided with the match.
Deep Blue, Designers and Technical Specifications
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Programmers and developers of the program
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Feng-Hsiung Hsu who has been a research staff member of the
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center since 1989. He is the
architect and principal designer of DEEP BLUE.
Jerry Brody, A. Joseph Hoane, Jr. and Murray Campbell have also
been working on Deep Blue project for at least five years.
The manager of the project and seior manager of the Parallel System
Platforms Department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in
Yorktown Heights, New York. He has been involved in technical and
managerial activities in the areas of design automation,
optimising compilers, and parallel processing.
Deep Blue
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Deep Blue itself only officially came into existence 3 days before
the match commenced. Before that it was only known as Deep Blue
prototype. The parallel processing techniques were tried on
fewer than the 32 parallel proccessors used here. IBM officially
call this system the RISC System/6000 Scalable POWER parallel
Systems (SP) high-performance computer. Each node of the SP2
employs a single microchannel card containing 8 dedicated VLSI
chess processors, for a total of 256 processors working in tandem.
Deep Blue's programming code is developed in C and runs under the AIX
operating system. The net result is a scalable, highly parallel
system capable of calculating 50 to 100 billion moves within 3 minutes.
The computer array used in this match is only 1/16th of the size
of the largest commercial computer of this type shipped.
Deep Blue is augmented by endgame tablebases of positions with
limited material. For instance Kasparov would have been sure
to practice the basic ending Queen and King vs Rook and King
as it has been shown that Grandmasters struggle to win this
ending against tablebases it used to be regarded as a regulation
win.
Deep Blue played in Hong Kong against a number of microcomputers
and failed to win. The main reason for its failure was its
opening repertoire. Chess experts try and construct an opening
repertoire which avoid positions which are not handled well by
the computer or which are known to be poor. Semi-open and Open
positions are likely to be the best choice, it is clear that
in some cases computers are massively superior to human's here.
In addition Deep Blue never accepts a draw so there is also
a Grandmaster Joel Benjamin who is there to help the programmers
to decide whether to accept a draw or not.
Rules
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The most interesting regulations were those relating to the computer
and its operators. In general they follow normal chess rules and
the rate of play chosen was: 40 moves in 2 hours, 20 in 1, 30 minutes
for the remaining moves.
The exceptional rules for this match were:
No postponements, if either side fails to show the game would be
defaulted.
The operator must behave in a non-distracting manner at all times
especially when it is Kasparov's turn to move. The operator may
be replaced whilst it is the computer's turn to move. Technical
problems shall also be solved whilst it is the computer's turn to
move. A real chess clock is to be used and that is to be pressed
by the computer operator on the completion of the move. In the
event of an error by the operator, in communicating the moves
to Deep Blue or playing the moves on the board, the clocks will
be reset back as close as possible to the original times and
the game shall continue from the point of the mistake. In the event
of a power failure then the clocks shall be stopped. This is a
rough summary of the rules Kasparov and IBM have a detailed contract
which it is suggested contains a full set of contingencies.
The Prizemoney is $500,000. 80% to the winner, 20% to the loser.
50% each in the case of a draw.
Media Coverage
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From Radio to Television, from the USA to England to Spain the
Kasparov versus Deep Blue has caught the media's attention.
On Monday and Tuesday (11th-12th Feb) there were large articles
in all the mainstream press in the UK. All four of the broadsheet
newspapers have carried large feature pieces, the Guardian using
three quarters of the back (sports) page to do so. Whilst there
has been a good degree of serious reporting, it is also the case
that no opportunity for humour has been resisted.
"It calculates 1 billion chess moves every second, but it's still
not as bright as you" headlined William Hartston in the Independent
on Tuesday, "Man draws level with Monster" countered the Guardian
on the same day. The Times also used monster in its headlines and
also highlighted the switching on of Eniac again on its 50th
anniversary on Wednesday. It didn't managed to mention ACM the actual
sponsors of the event though. The Guardian in common with a number
of papers used the opportunity for a leader and it at least
highlighted the ACM congress and the way the computer might impact
on the future. Probably the mainstream (non-chess) media's major
hook for the stories was a kind of techno-fear of computers taking
over. Perhaps best typified by the cartoon in the Telegraph. Talking
over the fence were two housewives. "My husband lost to the toaster
at draughts [checkers] this morning".
Radio and television reports really continued the theme, but TV
footage of Kasparov`s shocked reaction to 20. Rcb1 in Game 3
will probably be my lasting impression. Kasparov got up from
the board and looked confident. This confidence was severely shaken
by the Rcb1 which was played in just one second.
IBM seem to be grabbing the large share of the publicity for the event
with an IBM engineer and Malcolm Pein doing a piece together on
Radio 5 Live last night. There were a number of technical details
there, especially from the rather humourless IBM official. He
stressed the non-commercial nature of the program in response to
questions about systems crashes and that it would have more bells
and whistles if it were commercial.
The level of coverage will have made registered with the general public
and changed their perception of chess. My guess is that they will
already think that computers are better at chess than humans.
As mentioned last week the www coverage was excellent and I used
it to find the technical facts for this coverage. Last weekend
they had over 5 million hits to the site and were getting 1200
attempts to connect per second in order to find the moves live.
They split the site so that the moves could be got from a variety
of places, and certainly during the last game I had few problems.
* Thanks to Arthur J. Bieker for quoting this on the chess-l.
3) Zsuzsa Polgar on the verge of taking the Women's World Title
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Jaen ESP (ESP), I-II 1996.
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Polgar, Zsuzsa g HUN 2550 0 = = 1 1 = 1 1 = = 1 0 . . . . 7.5 2625
Xie Jun g CHN 2530 1 = = 0 0 = 0 0 = = 0 1 . . . . 4.5 2463
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Xie Jun is on the verge of losing her title to Zsuzsa Polgar.
She won the title in 1991 when she beat long time Champion
Maia Chiburdanidze. She defended it successfully against
Nana Ioseliani in Monaco in 1993. In fact Ioseliani had been
very much a surprise qualifier for that match as it was generally
expected that Zsuzsa Polgar would beat her in the match that
acted as qualifier. Now Zsuzsa Polgar who has been the best women's
player competing for the title for some time only requires one
point out of the remaining 4 games. Xie Jun's victory in game
12 will surely only restore some respectablity to the score.
4) Belgrade
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Belgrade YUG (ISR), I-II 1996 cat XVI (2639)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2645 * = 1 = 1 1 4.0 2878
2 Salov, Valery g RUS 2670 = * = 1 = = 3.0 2705
3 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2770 0 = * = = 1 2.5 2613
4 Leko, Peter g HUN 2625 = 0 = * = 1 2.5 2642
5 Popovic, Petar g YUG 2570 0 = = = * = 2.0 2581
6 Ilincic, Zlatko g YUG 2555 0 = 0 0 = * 1.0 2416
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The double round tournament in Belgrade was abandoned at
the half way stage. Probably due to financial problems.
Another Tournament was held at a different venue with
almost the same players, again it was 5 rounds.
Belgrade - Stara Pazova
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Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2770 12 23.05.51 3.5
Salov, Valery g RUS 2670 11 26.05.64 2.5
Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2645 9 21.11.66 2.5
Rajkovic, Dusan g YUG 2485 23 17.06.42 2.5
Ivkov, Borislav g YUG 2455 53 12.11.33 2.5
Ilincic, Zlatko g YUG 2555 41 10.05.68 1.5
5) Keres Memorial Tournament by Mart Tarmak
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The Paul Keres memorial tournament was played in Parnu.
My thanks to Mart Tarmak for his coverage and a complete
collection of the games. Below are the tables and results
from the three tournaments.
Round 1 (1996.02.02)
Short, Nigel D - Khalifman, Alexander 1/2 19 B40 Sicilian
Oll, Lembit - Hracek, Zbynek 1-0 48 B65 Sicilian
Sokolov, Ivan - Ehlvest, Jaan 1/2 31 E32 Nimzo indian
Round 2 (1996.02.03)
Short, Nigel D - Oll, Lembit 1-0 32 B01 Scandinavian
Khalifman, Alexander - Ehlvest, Jaan 1/2 16 D43 Queen's gambit
Hracek, Zbynek - Sokolov, Ivan 1-0 81 C88 Ruy Lopez
Round 3 (1996.02.04)
Ehlvest, Jaan - Hracek, Zbynek 1/2 13 A17 English; 1.c4
Oll, Lembit - Khalifman, Alexander 1/2 13 E15 Nimzo indian
Sokolov, Ivan - Short, Nigel D 1/2 29 E11 Bogo indian
Round 4 (1996.02.05)
Ehlvest, Jaan - Oll, Lembit 1/2 16 D63 Queen's gambit
Hracek, Zbynek - Short, Nigel D 0-1 62 B48 Sicilian
Sokolov, Ivan - Khalifman, Alexander 1/2 44 A57 Wolga gambit
Round 5 (1996.02.06)
Short, Nigel D - Ehlvest, Jaan 1/2 17 C86 Ruy Lopez
Khalifman, Alexander - Hracek, Zbynek 1-0 30 C80 Ruy Lopez
Oll, Lembit - Sokolov, Ivan 1/2 16 D91 Gruenfeld indian
Round 6 (1996.02.08)
Khalifman, Alexander - Short, Nigel D 0-1 60 E12 Nimzo indian
Ehlvest, Jaan - Sokolov, Ivan 1/2 41 C88 Ruy Lopez
Hracek, Zbynek - Oll, Lembit 1-0 34 B81 Sicilian
Round 7 (1996.02.09)
Ehlvest, Jaan - Khalifman, Alexander 1/2 24 B12 Caro-Kann
Oll, Lembit - Short, Nigel D 1/2 13 C01 French; Exchange
Sokolov, Ivan - Hracek, Zbynek 0-1 36 E11 Bogo indian
Round 8 (1996.02.10)
Short, Nigel D - Sokolov, Ivan 1/2 17 C89 Ruy Lopez
Khalifman, Alexander - Oll, Lembit 1/2 24 D85 Gruenfeld indian
Hracek, Zbynek - Ehlvest, Jaan 0-1 40 C92 Ruy Lopez
Round 9 (1996.02.11)
Short, Nigel D - Hracek, Zbynek 0-1 102 B32 Sicilian
Khalifman, Alexander - Sokolov, Ivan 1-0 44 E61 Kings indian
Oll, Lembit - Ehlvest, Jaan 1/2 22 C92 Ruy Lopez
Round 10 (1996.02.13)
Ehlvest, Jaan - Short, Nigel D 0-1 40 B93 Sicilian; Najdorf
Hracek, Zbynek - Khalifman, Alexander 1/2 11 C90 Ruy Lopez
Sokolov, Ivan - Oll, Lembit 1-0 22 D00 Queen's pawn
Parnu EST (EST), II 1996. cat. XVII (2655)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2665 ** =1 =1 10 1= == 6.5 2763
2 Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2650 =0 ** == 1= == =1 5.5 2692
3 Ehlvest, Jaan g EST 2660 =0 == ** =1 == == 5.0 2654
4 Hracek, Zbynek g CZE 2650 01 0= =0 ** 01 11 5.0 2656
5 Oll, Lembit g EST 2640 0= == == 10 ** =0 4.0 2586
6 Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2665 == =0 == 00 =1 ** 4.0 2581
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Round 1 (1996.02.02)
Kveinys, Aloyzas - Sepp, Olav 1/2 35 E68 Kings indian
Kengis, Edvins - Westerinen, Heikki M J 1/2 41 A07 Reti (1.Pf3)
Veingold, Aleksandr - Epishin, Vladimir 1/2 14 E05 Nimzo indian
Liiva, Riho - Gyimesi, Zoltan 1-0 61 C28 1.e4 e5
Rytshagov, Mikhail - Kulaots, Kaido 1/2 29 B48 Sicilian
Round 2 (1996.02.03)
Kveinys, Aloyzas - Kengis, Edvins 1/2 9 B02 Alekhine defence
Kulaots, Kaido - Veingold, Aleksandr 1/2 33 D01 Queen's pawn
Sepp, Olav - Epishin, Vladimir 0-1 44 B92 Sicilian; Najdorf
Gyimesi, Zoltan - Rytshagov, Mikhail 1/2 27 D82 Gruenfeld indian
Westerinen, Heikki M J - Liiva, Riho 0-1 44 C30 Kings gambit
Round 3 (1996.02.04)
Epishin, Vladimir - Kulaots, Kaido 1-0 48 D26 Queen's gambit; Exchange
Kengis, Edvins - Sepp, Olav 1-0 58 E62 Kings indian
Veingold, Aleksandr - Gyimesi, Zoltan 1-0 24 D21 Queen's gambit; Exchange
Liiva, Riho - Kveinys, Aloyzas 0-1 38 B43 Sicilian
Rytshagov, Mikhail - Westerinen, Heikki M J 1/2 46 B01 Scandinavian
Round 4 (1996.02.05)
Kveinys, Aloyzas - Rytshagov, Mikhail 1/2 46 B81 Sicilian
Kengis, Edvins - Liiva, Riho 1-0 73 D11 Slav defence
Sepp, Olav - Kulaots, Kaido 0-1 69 B20 Sicilian
Gyimesi, Zoltan - Epishin, Vladimir 1-0 45 E46 Nimzo indian
Westerinen, Heikki M J - Veingold, Aleksandr 1/2 16 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Round 5 (1996.02.06)
Epishin, Vladimir - Westerinen, Heikki M J 1-0 39 D20 Queen's gambit; Exchange
Veingold, Aleksandr - Kveinys, Aloyzas 1/2 13 D63 Queen's gambit
Kulaots, Kaido - Gyimesi, Zoltan 1/2 12 C45 Scottish
Liiva, Riho - Sepp, Olav 1/2 46 C48 Four knights
Rytshagov, Mikhail - Kengis, Edvins 1-0 39 B56 Sicilian
Round 6 (1996.02.08)
Kveinys, Aloyzas - Epishin, Vladimir 1/2 40 B12 Caro-Kann
Kengis, Edvins - Veingold, Aleksandr 1/2 12 A05 Reti (1.Pf3)
Liiva, Riho - Rytshagov, Mikhail 1/2 17 B52 Sicilian
Sepp, Olav - Gyimesi, Zoltan 1-0 40 B50 Sicilian
Westerinen, Heikki M J - Kulaots, Kaido 1/2 76 C36 Kings gambit
Round 7 (1996.02.09)
Epishin, Vladimir - Kengis, Edvins 1/2 34 E15 Nimzo indian
Veingold, Aleksandr - Liiva, Riho 1/2 56 D52 QGD; Cambridge Springs
Kulaots, Kaido - Kveinys, Aloyzas 1/2 28 B51 Sicilian
Rytshagov, Mikhail - Sepp, Olav 1/2 41 C92 Ruy Lopez
Gyimesi, Zoltan - Westerinen, Heikki M J 1/2 14 D02 Queen's pawn
Round 8 (1996.02.10)
Kveinys, Aloyzas - Gyimesi, Zoltan 1-0 37 C48 Four knights
Kengis, Edvins - Kulaots, Kaido 1/2 30 A04 Reti (1.Pf3)
Liiva, Riho - Epishin, Vladimir 1/2 34 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Rytshagov, Mikhail - Veingold, Aleksandr 1/2 17 B80 Sicilian
Sepp, Olav - Westerinen, Heikki M J 1/2 62 A07 Reti (1.Pf3)
Round 9 (1996.02.11)
Epishin, Vladimir - Rytshagov, Mikhail 1-0 39 D85 Gruenfeld indian
Veingold, Aleksandr - Sepp, Olav 1/2 19 E94 Kings indian; Classical
Kulaots, Kaido - Liiva, Riho 1/2 12 C48 Four knights
Gyimesi, Zoltan - Kengis, Edvins 1/2 9 E14 Nimzo indian
Westerinen, Heikki M J - Kveinys, Aloyzas 0-1 27 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Parnu EST (EST), II 1996. cat. X (2486)
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1 Epishin, Vladimir g RUS 2645 * = = = 1 = 1 1 0 1 6.0 2592
2 Kveinys, Aloyzas g LTU 2500 = * = = = 1 = = 1 1 6.0 2608
3 Kengis, Edvins g LAT 2570 = = * = = 1 0 1 = = 5.0 2519
4 Veingold, Aleksandr m EST 2425 = = = * = = = = 1 = 5.0 2535
5 Kulaots, Kaido m EST 2400 0 = = = * = = 1 = = 4.5 2495
6 Liiva, Riho EST 2425 = 0 0 = = * = = 1 1 4.5 2492
7 Rytshagov, Mikhail m EST 2495 0 = 1 = = = * = = = 4.5 2484
8 Sepp, Olav m EST 2440 0 = 0 = 0 = = * 1 = 3.5 2410
9 Gyimesi, Zoltan m HUN 2545 1 0 = 0 = 0 = 0 * = 3.0 2353
10 Westerinen, Heikki M J g FIN 2410 0 0 = = = 0 = = = * 3.0 2368
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The C Tournament was won by Johanna Paasikangas of Finland
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Parnu EST (EST), II 1996. cat. II (2277)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1 Paasikangas, Johanna wm FIN 2200 * 1 0 0 1 1 = 1 0 1 5.5 2365
2 Eidelson, Rakhil wg BLR 2370 0 * = 1 = 0 = 1 1 = 5.0 2309
3 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina wm RUS 2335 1 = * = 0 = = = = 1 5.0 2313
4 Laesson, Tuulikki wm EST 2245 1 0 = * = = = 1 = = 5.0 2323
5 Litinskaya, Marta I wg UKR 2355 0 = 1 = * = 1 = = = 5.0 2311
6 Tsiganova, Monika wm EST 2280 0 1 = = = * = = 1 = 5.0 2319
7 Piarnpuu, Leili wm EST 2245 = = = = 0 = * = 0 1 4.0 2237
8 Dubinka, Inna wm UKR 2235 0 0 = 0 = = = * 1 = 3.5 2201
9 Fomina, Tatyana wm EST 2305 1 0 = = = 0 1 0 * 0 3.5 2193
10 Stjazhkina, Olga wg RUS 2200 0 = 0 = = = 0 = 1 * 3.5 2205
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6) Calcutta 1-10 February
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My thanks to Jon Speelman and Bob Wade for news of
this 11 round Swiss tournament in Calcutta.
Sponsored by the Goodrich tea Company (which is part
of the Duncan Lawrie Banking Group who have sponsored
English Olympiad teams over a number of years) which
operates in Darjeeling and Assam.
Nenashev, Alexander g UZB 2595 64 25.08.62 8 /11
Novikov, Igor A g UKR 2590 62 23.05.62 8
Speelman, Jonathan S g ENG 2625 6 02.10.56 8
Sherbakov, Ruslan g RUS 2565 39 14.09.69 7.5
Slobodjan, Roman m GER 2525 33 01.01.75 7.5
Volzhin, Alexander m RUS 2485 29 02.02.71 7.5
Dolmatov, Sergey g RUS 2610 18 20.02.59 7.5
Ravi, Lanka m IND 2390 13 14.07.62 7.5
Howell, James C g ENG 2490 76 17.05.67 7
Norms achieved:
Kunte, Abhijit IND 2345 28 03.03.77 IM NORM
Sareen, Vishal IND 2300 9 01.01.73 IM NORM
Shankar, Roy IND 2295 22 10.04.76 IM NORM
72 players
7) Arnold Eikrem RIP
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Arnold Eikrem one of the great chess organisers in the World
died on Sunday. Although his name is not well known to casual
followers of the game he was the organiser of the Gausdal
tournaments and other events in Scandinavia. He was respected
Worldwide and his death is immensely sad and a massive loss to
chess.
If anyone has any memories of Arnold I know someone who is
hoping to put together a tribute for him and if you could
get in touch with me I will pass on your address.
I will provide a fuller obituary in a later issue.
8) Hallsberg Correction
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The tournament in Hallsberg, Sweden was the 31st in a series of junior
events, which has expanded to include three GMs for title purposes.
I erroneously placed it in Norway in the last issue of TWIC.
9) Florencio Campomanes sues Borjal by Bobby Ang
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Last 07 February 1996, Florencio Campomanes filed a Fifty Million Peso
lawsuit (this would be around US $1.9 Million) against Art Borjal for
criminal libel.
As evidence he attached the following to his complaint :
1. Xerox copies of 22 articles written by Borjal in his daily column
("The Jaywalker") which he described as "smear campaign, vituperative and
brutal". In particular he singled out one article which referred to
Campomanes as the "baton master and conductor" of the 300 Million Pesos
(around US $11.5 million) financial scam that allegedly attended the 1992
Chess Olympiad in Manila.
2. A sworn statement from the sports editor of a popular daily newspaper
detailing Borjal's so-called "smear campaign" against Campomanes via
overseas call from Manila to Paris during the 66th FIDE Congress in Paris.
10) PCA
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Jason Luchan who posted the initial report points out that the PCA
tournament which will act as an eliminator.
A new PCA Rating list has become available. It shows Kasparov
as World number one still but the closeness between the
top three is confirmed.
PCA World Chess Rankings
For all players rated 2500 and higher
Results up to December 31 1995
Produced Vladimir Dvorkovich, Chess Union International with ChessBase GmbH
Columns: rank, name, nationality, rating, variance.
The last column, variance, gives the tendency of players to be
solid or vary in their performance. The average variance for
top players is 180. Higher numbers denote players who tend to
vary more, lower numbers are players who are solid and reliable.
1. Kasparov,Gary RUS 2780 157
2. Kramnik,Vladimir RUS 2775 147
3. Karpov,Anatoly RUS 2770 147
4. Anand,Viswanathan IND 2766 160
5. Kamsky,Gata USA 2754 166
6. Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR 2740 158
7. Topalov,Veselin BUL 2700 186
8. Polgar,Judit (GM) HUN 2694 194
9. Ehlvest,Jaan EST 2683 138
10. Gelfand,Boris BLA 2675 181
11. Shirov,Alexei LAT 2662 169
12. Sokolov,Ivan BIH 2662 170
13. Khalifman,Alexander RUS 2661 137
14. Salov,Valery RUS 2650 181
15. Bareev,Evgeny RUS 2648 149
16. Almasi,Zoltan HUN 2647 172
17. Short,Nigel D ENG 2644 190
18. Svidler,Peter RUS 2642 170
19. Adams,Michael ENG 2641 195
20. Yusupov,Artur GER 2639 115
21. Morosevic,Alexander RUS 2634 209
22. Kosashvili,Yona ISR 2633 194
23. Korchnoi,Viktor SUI 2632 172
24. Illescas Cordoba,Miguel ESP 2628 178
25. Speelman,Jonathan S ENG 2627 157
26. Krasenkov,Mikhail RUS 2627 187
27. Kharlov,Andrei RUS 2626 158
28. Rublevsky,Sergei RUS 2623 171
29. Seirawan,Yasser USA 2623 188
30. Leko,Peter HUN 2621 150
31. Akopian,Vladimir ARM 2621 151
32. Dreev,Alexey RUS 2617 154
33. Nikolic,Predrag BIH 2616 198
34. Epishin,Vladimir RUS 2616 161
35. Lputian,Smbat G ARM 2615 202
36. Granda Zuniga,Julio E PER 2614 214
37. Vladimirov,Evgeny KAZ 2611 163
38. Timman,Jan H NED 2610 167
39. Huzman,Alexander UKR 2609 148
40. Oll,Lembit EST 2609 189
41. Georgiev,Kiril BUL 2609 182
42. Nunn,John D M ENG 2608 174
43. Hansen,Curt DEN 2607 180
44. Hracek,Zbynek TCH 2607 147
45. Christiansen,Larry M USA 2605 181
46. Yudasin,Leonid ISR 2605 149
47. Zvjaginsev,Vadim RUS 2604 144
48. Magerramov,Elmar RUS 2604 188
49. Tiviakov,Sergei RUS 2604 197
50. Glek,Igor V RUS 2603 168
51. Huebner,Robert GER 2602 157
52. Beliavsky,Alexander G UKR 2602 178
53. Andersson,Ulf SWE 2601 142
54. Filippov,Valerij RUS 2600 146
11) Linares 1996
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It is reported that Linares 1996 is almost certainly cancelled.
12) Kasparov Simultaneous Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro
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by Adriano Von Pfuhl Rodrigues.
Here are the games Kasparov 5 X 1 Brazilian team
My considerations about the simultan games:
Game #1 Kasparov, G 1/2-1/2 GM Milos 27 B 48
Kasparov dont want more complications in the final position and probaly black is slight better.
Game #2 Lima,D 1/2-1/2 Kasparov,G 20 E 94
The game dont have emotion .Is not a saloom GM draw because Lima is not (yet) GM.
Game #3 Kasparov,G 1-0 Vescovi, G 48 E 93
Vescovi play active but Kasparov controlled all and win easily.
Game #4 Toth,C 0-1 Kasparov, G 43 D35
Toth play the game thinking in draw...Kasparov no!!
Game #5 Kasparov 1-0 Gouveia,C 46 B 31
Gouveia dont lost in the middlegame but in the endgame with Kasparov better the result is Kasparov win!
Game #6 Miranda,M 0-1 Kasparov,G A46
The WC play here! Playing against 6 strong players , Kasparov kill Miranda.
13) Rio de Janeiro-Brasil the "III Magistral Naval Club Chess tournament
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It was held in Rio de Janeiro-Brasil the "III Magistral Naval Club Chess tournment"
,from February 3 to 10. Eduardo Limp won his third tournment on a row playing always
against the best Brazilian players. The organization was impecable and IA Alfred Salomon
and Francisco Figueiredo were the arbiters.
Player Rating R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 Pts
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1 Limp,E 2320 +27 =18 +25 =2 +9 =8 +5 5,5
2 Rodrigues,A 2270 +14 =3 +11 =1 =5 +6 =8 5,0
3 Alvim,A 2175 +15 =2 =8 =7 +18 =9 +13 5,0
4 Prates,F 2240 =17 -25 +28 +26 =7 +18 +9 5,0
5 Loureiro,L 2370 =25 +17 +18 =9 =2 +10 -1 4,5
6 Guimaraes,W 2270 +16 +12 -9 =10 +25 -2 +15 4,5
7 Dumont,S 2305 +20 =11 =10 =3 =4 =13 +14 4,5
8 Rios,H 2345 -10 +28 =3 +20 +13 =1 =2 4,5
9 Metello,M 2205 +23 +13 +6 =5 -1 =3 -4 4,0
10 Teixeira,E unrated +8 =19 =7 =6 +12 -5 =11 4,0
11 Chaves,J 2205 +26 =7 -2 -25 +21 +16 =10 4,0
12 Ferreira,O 2165 +21 -6 +22 -13 -10 +24 +18 4,0
13 Souza,W 2285 +22 -9 +16 +12 -8 =7 -3 3,5
14 Cantarino,M unrated -2 +15 =27 -18 +26 +25 -7 3,5
15 Marcolino,A unrated -3 -14 +23 +27 =16 +21 -6 3,5
16 Carvalho,C unrated -6 +21 -13 +19 =15 -11 =22 3,0
17 Madeu,F unrated =4 -5 -20 -24 +23 =22 bye 3,0
18 Okamura,M 2250 +24 =1 -5 +14 -3 -4 -12 2,5
19 Azevedo,K 2230 =28 =10 N.E. -16 =22 =20 =23 2,5
20 Mercadante,R unrated -7 =26 +17 -8 -24 =19 =21 2,5
21 Susini,M unrated -12 -16 bye +22 -11 -15 =20 2,5
22 Borensztajn,D unrated -13 +23 -12 -21 =19 =17 =16 2,5
23 Lima,N unrated -9 -22 -15 +28 -17 bye =19 2,5
24 Campos,W unrated -18 =27 -26 +17 +20 -12 **** 2,5
25 Coutinho,R 2060 =5 +4 -1 +11 -6 -14 **** 2,5
26 Santos,A unrated -11 =20 +24 -4 -14 **** **** 1,5
27 Silva,D unrated -1 =24 =14 '-25 **** **** **** 1,0
28 Mello,P unrated =19 -8 -4 -23 **** **** **** 0,5
14) Bern Chess Tournament by Jo Zahner
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The Bern Chess Festival had numerous events including a match, rapidplay
tournament and at least two strong Swiss system events.
Bern SUI (SUI), II 1996.
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Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2645 1 1 1 = = 1 5.0 2783
Brunner, Lucas g SUI 2510 0 0 0 = = 0 1.0 2372
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Viktor Korchnoi annihilated Lucas Brunner in a match. (I believe
this was at the start of the festival but am just guessing. MC)
I will cover the International Opens and Cups in nexts week's TWIC.