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1) Introduction
2) GM Norm for Tal Shaked in Cannes
3) First Saturday March Tournament.
4) German Bundesliga and Cup Results.
5) 52nd Yugoslav Chess Championships by Sinisa Joksic
6) News from Argentina by Roberto Alvarez
7) Varsity Match
8) Cup of Russia
9) News in Brief
10) Theoretical Corner By Marco R. Martini (ITA)
52nd Yugoslav Championships 15 games open Cappelle la Grande FRA 1997 203 games Russia Cup 4th Stage 33 games Oxford v Cambridge London ENG 1997 8 games open St Heliers JER 1997 159 games FSIM A March Budapest HUN 1997 5 games FSIM B March Budapest HUN 1997 5 games open Villa Martelli ARG 1996 41 games open General Pico City ARG 1996 143 games
My thanks to everyone who helped with this issue. Gerald Schendal, John Henderson, Chess Assistant, Laszlo Nagy, Sinisa Joksic, Christophe Bouton, Adam Raoof, Fré Hoogendoorn of Schaaknieuws, Roberto Alvarez, Adam Raoof, Bob Wade, Luis Santos, Bobby Ang, Jeroen Van den Berg and Marco R. Martini.
Back and fit but to one of the quietest for top class chess I have known. Next week there is a tournament in Ter Apel Holland a Category 17 event with Shirov, Khalifman, Van Wely, Jussupow, Huebner and Andersson from the 16th of March. As you will read in this issue there are a number of events coming up in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
Emerging American talent Tal Shaked scored a second GM norm in Cannes France. The event ended in a four way tie between Michele Godena, Andrei Sokolov, Xie Jun and Drazen Sermek.
Cannes (FRA), II-III 1997
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1 Godena, Michele g ITA 2545 6.5
2 Sokolov, Andrei g RUS 2580 6.5
3 Xie Jun g CHN 2500 6.5
4 Sermek, Drazen g SLO 2575 6.5
5 Shaked, Tal m USA 2445 6.0
6 Bukal, Vladimir m CRO 2395 6.0
7 Aleksieva, Silvia wm BUL 2285 6.0
8 Rotstein, Arkadij g UKR 2455 6.0
9 Gallagher, Joseph G g SUI 2545 6.0
10 Zelcic, Robert m CRO 2455 6.0
11 Xu Jun g CHN 2515 5.5
12 Pavasovic, Dusko m SLO 2460 5.5
13 Skripchenko, Almira wg MDA 2385 5.5
50 players.
After 7 rounds Jan Pinski leads the GM event of the First Saturday tournament in Budapest. Here is the key game from round 7.
First Saturday IM A event.
Budapest (HUN), III 1997 cat. III (2309)
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1 Pinski, Jan POL 2245 * . . = = 1 . 1 1 . 1 = 5.5 / 7 2538
2 Belotelov, Dmitri RUS 2225 . * 1 . 0 = . 1 1 . = 1 5.0 / 7 2485
3 Hasangatin, Ramil m RUS 2490 . 0 * . . 1 1 . 1 1 . = 4.5 / 6 2468
4 Szabo, Zsolt HUN 2355 = . . * 1 . = 0 = . 1 1 4.5 / 7 2407
5 Somlai, Laszlo HUN 2360 = 1 . 0 * . = = . . = 1 4.0 / 7 2340
6 Horvath, Adam HUN 2275 0 = 0 . . * = . = 1 1 . 3.5 / 7 2322
7 Vadasz, Laszlo g HUN 2365 . . 0 = = = * = = = . . 3.0 / 7 2271
8 Bock, Juergen GER 2220 0 0 . 1 = . = * . 0 . 1 3.0 / 7 2237
9 Czebe, Attila m HUN 2325 0 0 0 = . = = . * 1 . . 2.5 / 7 2209
10 Schlusnik, Nandor HUN 2225 . . 0 . . 0 = 1 0 * = . 2.0 / 6 2218
11 Zemerov, Vladimir m RUS 2385 0 = . 0 = 0 . . . = * . 1.5 / 6 2087
12 Mashinskaya, Iulia wf RUS 2240 = 0 = 0 0 . . 0 . . . * 1.0 / 6 2042
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First Saturday IM B Event
Budapest (HUN), III 1997 cat. II (2288)
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1 Eperjesi, Laszlo m HUN 2340 * . = . . = 1 1 1 . 1 1 6.0 / 7 2623
2 Ellers, Holger GER 2260 . * . = 1 . = = 1 . 1 1 5.5 / 7 2503
3 Haub, Thorsten-Michael f GER 2365 = . * = 0 = . 1 1 . 1 . 4.5 / 7 2385
4 Farago, Sandor m HUN 2250 . = = * . = 0 1 . 1 . 1 4.5 / 7 2402
5 Peredy, Ferenc HUN 2200 . 0 1 . * = = . . = . 1 3.5 / 6 2364
6 Kahn, Evarth m HUN 2370 = . = = = * . . 0 = 1 . 3.5 / 7 2275
7 Jovanovic, Sasa D f CRO 2385 0 = . 1 = . * 0 . = . = 3.0 / 7 2203
8 Bokros, Albert HUN 2260 0 = 0 0 . . 1 * . 1 . = 3.0 / 7 2245
9 Gara, Anita HUN 2285 0 0 0 . . 1 . . * 1 . . 2.0 / 5 2237
10 Wiechert, Hans GER 2210 . . . 0 = = = 0 0 * = . 2.0 / 7 2132
11 Ladanyi, Tibor HUN 2280 0 0 0 . . 0 . . . = * 1 1.5 / 6 2107
12 De Santis, Alessio f ITA 2255 0 0 . 0 0 . = = . . 0 * 1.0 / 7 1973
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The next First Saturday event is 5th of April.
The Budapest Spring Festival is a 9 round Swiss Open taking place between 13th until 21st of March has no 112 players registered, 14 IM-s, 54 % FIDE rated, players from 14 nations. If anyone wishes to play they can arrive as late as Wednesday, he/she is welcome. Just contact Laszlo Nagy.
News from Laszlo Nagy the organiser of the First Saturday events.
Tel-fax: '00-(361)-263-28-59
E-mail address: 100263.1700@compuserve.com
web site: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/chess_first_saturday_hu/
The tenth and eleventh rounds of the German Bundesliga took place over the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of March. The event is being lead by Solingen whose solid line-up includes Michael Adams, Artur Jussupow and Jeroen Piket. One of the more notable results is that of Rafael Vaganian. He has scored so far in this edition of the Bundesliga. Rounds 12 and 13 will be held 12th-13th April 1997. My thanks to Gerald Schendel for the results.
Hamburger SK 5 - 3 SK Passau USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ SV Erfurt West Solinger SG 5 - 3 SCA St. Ingbert PSV Wuppertal 3½-4½ SC Eppingen SV Werder Bremen 5 - 3 Dresdner SC SK Delmenhorst 2 - 6 SV Empor Berlin SG Koln Porz 3½-4½ SG Bochum Turm Duisburg 4 - 4 Castrop Rauxel Hamburger SK 5 - 3 SK Passau 1 Wahls 1 : 0 Schlosser 2 2 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Smejkal 3 3 Mueller ½ : ½ Wells 4 4 Movsziszian ½ : ½ Pichler 6 5 Michaelsen 1 : 0 Gross 8 7 Loeffler 0 : 1 Baumhus 9 10 Heinemann 1 : 0 Schlingensie 11 11 Sievers ½ : ½ Goetz 12 USC Magdeburg 5½-2½ SV Erfurt West 1 Onischuk 1 : 0 Votava 2 2 Slobodjan 1 : 0 Casper 3 3 Rogozenko ½ : ½ Kuczynski 5 5 Naumann 1 : 0 Voekler 6 6 Proehl 0 : 1 Mueller 8 7 Stolz ½ : ½ Troyke 10 8 Kapischka 1 : 0 Brueggemann 11 9 Darnstaedt ½ : ½ Fuhrmann 12 Solinger SG 5 - 3 SCA St. Ingbert 1 Adams ½ : ½ Dautov 1 2 Yusupov ½ : ½ Bauer 3 4 Piket 1 : 0 Kohlweyer 4 5 Gabriel ½ : ½ Kachiani-Ger 6 7 Bischoff 1 : 0 Werner 7 9 Lau 1 : 0 Gross 8 10 Podzielny 0 : 1 Becker 9 11 Schaefer ½ : ½ Kummerow 10 PSV Wuppertal 3½-4½ SC Eppingen 1 Conquest 0 : 1 Gyimesi 1 2 Emms ½ : ½ Kabatianski 2 6 Schebler 0 : 1 Arnold 3 7 Hausrath 1 : 0 Miltner 4 8 Hetey ½ : ½ Schneider 9 9 Kinsman 1 : 0 Bosbach 10 12 Kern 0 : 1 Dudek 12 15 Florath ½ : ½ Staiger 13 SV Werder Bremen 5 - 3 Dresdner SC 1 Hracek 0 : 1 Almasi 1 2 Kindermann ½ : ½ Teske 3 3 Knaak 1 : 0 Lanka 4 4 Blatny 1 : 0 Uhlmann 5 5 Meins ½ : ½ Maiwald 6 6 Heissler ½ : ½ Borriss 7 10 Hedke 1 : 0 Heinatz,T 9 12 Meyer ½ : ½ Starck 12 SK Delmenhorst 2 - 6 SV Empor Berlin 1 Rogers ½ : ½ Hickl 7 2 Stohl 0 : 1 Boensch 8 4 Breutigam 0 : 1 Tischbierek 9 5 Beckemeyer 0 : 1 Luther 10 7 Lauber ½ : ½ Volke 11 8 Reefschlaege 0 : 1 Poldauf 12 9 Hermann 0 : 1 Muse 13 10 Jugelt 1 : 0 Kimpinsky 18 SG Koln Porz 3½-4½ SG Bochum 2 Lutz 0 : 1 Glek 1 3 Huebner 0 : 1 Georgiev 2 4 Hort ½ : ½ Nijboer 4 5 Christiansen 0 : 1 Schmittdiel 5 6 Vaganian 1 : 0 Bosch 6 7 Stangl ½ : ½ Ankerst 8 8 Van Wely 1 : 0 Backwinkel 9 9 Vogt ½ : ½ Kitte 12 Turm Duisburg 4 - 4 Castrop Rauxel 1 Khalifman ½ : ½ Van der Ster 1 9 Keitlinghaus ½ : ½ Hoffmann 4 11 Enders 0 : 1 Watson 5 12 Kraut ½ : ½ Appel 6 13 Thesing 1 : 0 Libeau 7 14 Pirrot 0 : 1 Brendel 11 15 Prang 1 : 0 Hennig 12 16 Schmitz ½ : ½ Lemmers 15
SK Passau 4 - 4 USC Magdeburg SV Erfurt West 5½-2½ Hamburger SK SCA St. Ingbert 5 - 3 PSV Wuppertal SC Eppingen 2 - 6 Solinger SG Dresdner SC 4 - 4 SK Delmenhorst SV Empor Berlin 2½-5½ SV Werder Bremen SG Bochum 5 - 3 Turm Duisburg Castrop Rauxel 2½-5½ SG Koln Porz Detailed results. SK Passau 4 - 4 USC Magdeburg 2 Schlosser ½ : ½ Onischuk 1 3 Smejkal ½ : ½ Slobodjan 2 4 Wells 1 : 0 Rogozenko 3 6 Pichler 1 : 0 Naumann 5 8 Gross ½ : ½ Proehl 6 9 Baumhus 0 : 1 Stolz 7 11 Schlingensie 0 : 1 Kapischka 8 12 Goetz ½ : ½ Darnstaedt 9 SV Erfurt West 5½-2½ Hamburger SK 2 Votava 1 : 0 Wahls 1 3 Casper ½ : ½ Ftacnik 2 5 Kuczynski ½ : ½ Mueller 3 6 Voekler ½ : ½ Movsziszian 4 8 Mueller 1 : 0 Michaelsen 5 10 Troyke ½ : ½ Loeffler 7 11 Brueggemann ½ : ½ Heinemann 10 12 Fuhrmann 1 : 0 Sievers 11 SCA St. Ingbert 5 - 3 PSV Wuppertal 1 Dautov 0 : 1 Conquest 1 3 Bauer 1 : 0 Emms 2 4 Kohlweyer 1 : 0 Schebler 6 6 Kachiani-Ger 1 : 0 Hetey 8 7 Werner ½ : ½ Kinsman 9 8 Gross 1 : 0 Sukharisingh 10 9 Becker ½ : ½ Kern 12 10 Kummerow 0 : 1 Kistella 17 SC Eppingen 2 - 6 Solinger SG 1 Gyimesi 0 : 1 Adams 1 2 Kabatianski ½ : ½ Yusupov 2 3 Arnold 0 : 1 Piket 4 4 Miltner 0 : 1 Gabriel 5 9 Schneider 0 : 1 Bischoff 7 10 Bosbach 0 : 1 Lau 9 12 Dudek 1 : 0 Schaefer 11 13 Staiger ½ : ½ Reeh 12 Dresdner SC 4 - 4 SK Delmenhorst 1 Almasi ½ : ½ Rogers 1 3 Teske 1 : 0 Stohl 2 4 Lanka ½ : ½ Breutigam 4 5 Uhlmann 1 : 0 Beckemeyer 5 6 Maiwald ½ : ½ Lauber 7 7 Borriss ½ : ½ Reefschlaege 8 9 Heinatz,T 0 : 1 Hermann 9 12 Starck 0 : 1 Jugelt 10 SV Empor Berlin 2½-5½ SV Werder Bremen 7 Hickl 0 : 1 Hracek 1 8 Boensch ½ : ½ Kindermann 2 9 Tischbierek ½ : ½ Knaak 3 10 Luther 0 : 1 Blatny 4 11 Volke ½ : ½ Meins 5 12 Poldauf ½ : ½ Heissler 6 13 Muse ½ : ½ Hedke 10 18 Kimpinsky 0 : 1 Meyer 12 SG Bochum 5 - 3 Turm Duisburg 1 Glek ½ : ½ Khalifman 1 2 Georgiev 1 : 0 Keitlinghaus 9 4 Nijboer 1 : 0 Enders 11 5 Schmittdiel 0 : 1 Kraut 12 6 Bosch 1 : 0 Thesing 13 8 Ankerst 0 : 1 Pirrot 14 9 Backwinkel ½ : ½ Prang 15 12 Kitte 1 : 0 Schmitz 16 Castrop Rauxel 2½-5½ SG Koln Porz 1 Van der Ster 1 : 0 Lutz 2 4 Hoffmann ½ : ½ Huebner 3 5 Watson 0 : 1 Hort 4 6 Appel 1 : 0 Christiansen 5 7 Libeau 0 : 1 Vaganian 6 11 Brendel 0 : 1 Stangl 7 13 Sehner 0 : 1 Van Wely 8 17 Hille 0 : 1 Vogt 9
1. Solinger SG 11 55 :33 22- 0 2. SG Koln Porz 11 55 :33 17- 5 3. SV Empor Berlin 11 54 :34 16- 6 4. SG Bochum 11 45½:42½ 15- 7 5. SV Werder Bremen 11 48 :40 14- 8 6. SCA St. Ingbert 11 45 :43 13- 9 7. Turm Duisburg 11 45 :43 11-11 8. Castrop Rauxel 11 44½:43½ 11-11 9. Dresdner SC 11 43½:44½ 11-11 10. Hamburger SK 11 43½:44½ 9-13 11. SV Erfurt West 11 39 :49 9-13 12. USC Magdeburg 11 41 :47 7-15 13. SK Passau 11 39½:48½ 7-15 14. PSV Wuppertal 11 35 :53 6-16 15. SK Delmenhorst 11 35½:52½ 5-17
The quarter-finals of the German team cup were held on the 22nd February 1997.
Hamburger SK 1830 - SV Werder Bremen 1899 1-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heinemann, TH. - Kindermann, St. 1/2 Muller, K. - Babula, V. 1/2 Gustafsson, J. - Blatny, P. 0-1 Meyer, F. - Heissler, J. 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SG Porz - Godesberger SK 1929 4-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gelfand, B. - Lautier, J. 1-0 Van Wely, L. - Gurevich, M. 1-0 Dr. Huebner, R. - Kengis, E. 1-0 Vaganian, R. - Gawehns, K. 1-0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SC Forchheim - SF Neukoelln 03 1-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Heidrich, M. - Movsesian, S. 0-1 Bartsch, B. - Polzin, R. 1/2 Dores, H.-J. - Bunzmann, D. 1/2 Lang, St. - Berndt, St. 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SV Tuebingen 1870 - VfL Sindelfingen 1862 2,5-1,5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zeller, F. - Dittmar, P. 1/2 Frick, Ch. - Dr. Fahnenschmidt, G. 1-0 Bachler, R. - Stoll, F. 0-1 Schwierskott, M. - Huber, A. 1-0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
SV Werder Bremen 1899, SF Neukoelln 03, SV Tuebingen 1870 and SG Porz are qualified for the final in Koeln-Porz on March 15-16.
Source: Kurt Schlapper. Cup Tournament Director of the German Chess Federation
The 52nd Yugoslav Championships in Niksic ended in a four way tie. This tie will be resolved in the second half of April with a play-off held in either Novi-Sad or in Belgrade. Ivanisevic is still a Candidate master. He has one IM norm but not an IM or NM title. The tournament was very exciting with the lead changing in almost every round. That is very rare for Round Robin tournament. Many of the players had the chance for victory. This is probably the reason why many of the games finished with unexpected results, mistakes and blunders. The quality of the games was not the highest but there were a lot of new ideas.
Round 10 (1997.03.03)
Popovic, Petar - Gligoric, Svetozar 1/2
Markovic, Miroslav - Pikula, Dejan 1-0
Kosic, Dragan - Ivanisevic, Ivan 0-1 45 A45 Queen's pawn
Kovacevic, Aleksandar - Velimirovic, Dragoljub 1/2
Pavlovic, Milos - Stamenkovic, Zoran 1-0
Ilincic, Zlatko - Marinkovic, Ivan 1-0
Drasko, Milan - Petronic, Jovan 0-1
Blagojevic, Dragisa - Damljanovic, Branko 1/2
Round 11 (1997.03.04)
Damljanovic, Branko - Drasko, Milan 1-0
Ivanisevic, Ivan - Kovacevic, Aleksandar 1/2 45 A66 Modern Benoni
Velimirovic, Dragoljub - Markovic, Miroslav 1/2
Petronic, Jovan - Kosic, Dragan 1/2
Marinkovic, Ivan - Pavlovic, Milos 1/2
Gligoric, Svetozar - Ilincic, Zlatko 0-1 51 E94 Kings indian; Classical
Pikula, Dejan - Popovic, Petar 1/2
Stamenkovic, Zoran - Blagojevic, Dragisa 1/2
Round 12 (1997.03.06)
Ivanisevic, Ivan - Petronic, Jovan 1/2
Popovic, Petar - Velimirovic, Dragoljub 1/2
Kosic, Dragan - Damljanovic, Branko 1-0 44 A45 Queen's pawn
Kovacevic, Aleksandar - Markovic, Miroslav 0-1
Pavlovic, Milos - Gligoric, Svetozar 1-0
Ilincic, Zlatko - Pikula, Dejan 1-0
Drasko, Milan - Stamenkovic, Zoran 1/2
Blagojevic, Dragisa - Marinkovic, Ivan 0-1
Round 13 (1997.03.07)
Damljanovic, Branko - Ivanisevic, Ivan 1/2
Velimirovic, Dragoljub - Ilincic, Zlatko 1-0
Petronic, Jovan - Kovacevic, Aleksandar 1/2
Markovic, Miroslav - Popovic, Petar 0-1
Marinkovic, Ivan - Drasko, Milan 1-0
Gligoric, Svetozar - Blagojevic, Dragisa 1-0
Pikula, Dejan - Pavlovic, Milos 0-1
Stamenkovic, Zoran - Kosic, Dragan 0-1
Round 14 (1997.03.08)
Ivanisevic, Ivan - Stamenkovic, Zoran 1/2
Petronic, Jovan - Damljanovic, Branko 0-1
Kosic, Dragan - Marinkovic, Ivan 1/2
Kovacevic, Aleksandar - Popovic, Petar 1/2
Pavlovic, Milos - Velimirovic, Dragoljub 0-1
Ilincic, Zlatko - Markovic, Miroslav 0-1
Drasko, Milan - Gligoric, Svetozar 1/2
Blagojevic, Dragisa - Pikula, Dejan 1/2
Round 15 (1997.03.09)
Damljanovic, Branko - Kovacevic, Aleksandar 1-0
Velimirovic, Dragoljub - Blagojevic, Dragisa 1/2
Popovic, Petar - Ilincic, Zlatko 1-0
Markovic, Miroslav - Pavlovic, Milos 1-0
Marinkovic, Ivan - Ivanisevic, Ivan 1/2
Gligoric, Svetozar - Kosic, Dragan 1/2
Pikula, Dejan - Drasko, Milan 1/2
Stamenkovic, Zoran - Petronic, Jovan 1/2
Niksic YUG (YUG), II-III 1997 cat. X (2498)
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1 Damljanovic, Branko g YUG 2540 *=0111011==010=1 9.0 2567
2 Ivanisevic, Ivan YUG 2450 =*0==11=1==1==== 9.0 2573
3 Velimirovic, Dragoljub g YUG 2485 11*===0=1==10==1 9.0 2571
4 Popovic, Petar g YUG 2545 0==*=1=====1==11 9.0 2567
5 Petronic, Jovan m YUG 2455 0===*1===1=011== 8.5 2551
6 Markovic, Miroslav m YUG 2520 00=00*=11=011111 8.5 2547
7 Kosic, Dragan g YUG 2515 101===*1===00==1 8.0 2518
8 Kovacevic, Aleksandar m YUG 2485 0====00*==11=1=1 8.0 2520
9 Pavlovic, Milos g YUG 2505 000==0==*=11=111 8.0 2519
10 Marinkovic, Ivan m YUG 2495 ====0====*=01=1= 7.5 2498
11 Gligoric, Svetozar g YUG 2465 =====1=00=*0==1= 7.0 2479
12 Ilincic, Zlatko g YUG 2565 10001010011*=10= 7.0 2473
13 Drasko, Milan g YUG 2555 0=1=001==0==*=== 6.5 2444
14 Pikula, Dejan m YUG 2495 1===00=00==0=*== 5.5 2403
15 Blagojevic, Dragisa m YUG 2485 ===0=0==0001==*= 5.5 2404
16 Stamenkovic, Zoran m YUG 2415 0=00=0000======* 4.0 2329
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Average elo: 2498 <=> Category: 10
gm = 10.05 m = 7.05
International Master Alejandro Hoffman won the 3rd. step of the "CLARIN" newspaper Gran Prix, with 7,5 points /9 rounds, thanks to a better tie-break system over FM Jorge Rosito. Hoffman played in a good level, remained unbeaten after the 9 rounds. 125 players, including 3 IGM, 15 IM and 7 FMs played this time, being a record for the annual CLARIN Gran Prix.
The tournament was hold in one of the main chess clubs : Villa Martelli, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires city, which wished to call this event "in memorian Horacio Garcia", who was a very good local chess player.
Villa Martelli open - October 9 to 20, 1996. Swiss system, 9 rounds
01.Hoffman,Alejando IM 7,5 02.Rosito,Jorge FM 7,5 03.German,Gustavo 7,0 04.Panno,Oscar GM 7,0 05.Spangenberg,Hugo GM 7,0 06.Schweber,Samuel IM 6,5 07.Rodriguez,Andres IM 6,5 08.Quinteros,Miguel GM 6,5 09.Szmetan,Jorge IM 6,5 10.Tempone,Marcelo IM 6,5 11.German,Sergio 6,5 12.Valerga,Diego IM 6,5 13.Fiorito,Fabian IM 6,0 14.Fucek,Claudio FM 6,0 15.Llanos,Guillermo IM 6,0 16.Bronstein,Luis IM 6,0 17.Paglilla,Carlos IM 6,0 18.Gomez Baillo,Jorge IM 6,0 19.Maurino,Lucio 6,0 20.Perez Pietronave,C 6,0 21.Filgueira,Hernan FM 6,0 22.Farah,Rodolfo 6,0 23.Dos Santos,Ramiro FM 5,5 24.Madina,Martin 5,5 25.Ginzburg,Maximiliano IM 5,5 26.Garcia,Raimundo IM 5,5 27.German,Pablo 5,5 28.Scarella,Enrique FM 5,5 29.Caramia,Javier 5,5 30.Bielicki,Carlos IM 5,5 31.Van Riemsdijk,Herman IM 5,5 32.Juarez,Carlos E 5,5
Russian Grand Master Maxim Sorokin won the 4th and last step of the CLARIN newspaper Gran Prix, which was hold on General Pico City, 40.000 people, the second city of La Pampa province, Argentina.
The 9 round, swiss system was played from November 9 to 17th, in the rooms of "Palacio Municipal", with 4 GM, 18 IM, 4 FMs of only 40 players.
The leading players who qualified from the fourth stage will play in a "final" closed tournament. They are: IM Alejandro Hoffman, Gustavo German, IGM Pablo Zarnicki, IM Hugo Spangenberg, IM Maxim Sorokin, IM Fernando Braga, FM Jorge Rosito, IM Fabian Fiorito and IGM Maxim Sorokin.
01.Sorokin,Maxim GM 7,0 02.Braga,Fernando IM 6,5 03.Valerga,Diego IM 6,0 04.Tempone,Marcelo IM 6,0 05.Rodriguez,Andres IM 6,0 06.Fiorito,Fabian IM 6,0 07.Hoffman,Alejandro IM 5,5 08.Panno,Oscar GM 5,5 09.Slipak,Sergio IM 5,5 10.Garcia Palermo,C GM 5,5 11.Bronstein,Luis IM 5,5 12.Rosito,Jorge FM 5,5 13.Sorin,Ariel GM 5,0 14.Giaccio,Alfredo IM 5,0 15.Llanos,Guillermo IM 5,0 16.Gomez Baillo,Jorge IM 5,0 17.Pierro,Facundo IM 5,0 18.Toloza,Pablo IM 5,0 19.Soppe,Guillermo IM 5,0 20.Quiroga,Facundo FM 4,5 21.Kanefsck,Gustavo FM 4,5 22.Navarro,Nelson IM 4,5 23.Servat,Roberto IM 4,5 24.Andres,Miguel IM 4,5 ....40 players
The longest running series of chess matches is that between Oxford and Cambridge. On Saturday 1st March this year's event took place in the RAC Club in Pall Mall sponsored by Watson, Farley and Williams.
The event was won by Cambridge whose overall strength especially in depth has been too much for Oxford in recent years. The arbiter was Bob Wade who I thank for send the games.
Oxford were white on the odd numbered boards.
1) Kumaran, Dharshan - Parker, Jonathan 1/2 63 A13 English; 1.c4 2) Turner, Matthew - Rowson, Jonathan 0-1 48 A04 Reti (1.Nf3) 3) Ovaknine,J - Ferguson, Mark 0-1 53 C41 Philidor defence 4) Cohen, Aron - Lewis, Alex 1-0 26 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3) 5) Devereux,Maxim - Hassabis, Demis 1-0 32 B32 Sicilian 6) Cristinacce, David - Savage,Benjamin 1-0 46 B06 Modern 7) Blake,Christopher - Rosenberg, Daniel 0-1 74 B23 Sicilian; Closed 8) Orton,Louisa - Little,Susan 1-0 24 C50 Giuoco piano
My thanks to Konstantin Kodinets of Chess Assistant for the games from round 9 of the Perm tournament. The new ChessAssistant site is at:
http://www.demon.co.uk/convekta/
The Perm event was in fact the fourth event in the Cup of Russia event. The final of the Grand Prix should be in September in Sochi.
Events:
1 St.Peterburg November 1996
2 Moscow 28.11-6.12.1996
3 Omsk 13-22.12.1996
4 Perm 2-10.02.1997
Ekaterinburg 13-21.02.1997
Projected tournaments in the series
6 Krasnodar 11-19.03.1997
7 Kstovo 1-10.05.1997
8 Smolensk 2-11.06.1997
9 Novgorod 14-22.06.1997
10 Tomsk 1-10.07.1997
Information from 64 Chess Review.
http://www.online.ru/sp/chess/english.html
Diana de Évora/ Delta Cafés beat Boavista FC in the final of the Super-Cup of Portugal by 5.5-2.5 reports Luis Santos.
You can check outhis www site at:
John Henderson sends news of various events from the UK.
Here is John Henderson's report to the event given last week. In addition he has sent most of the games from the event. He points out that the final round game of Julian Hodgson contains some errors which can't easily be corrected. I have cut off the game at move 40.
A total of 92 players, competed for the £5,000 prize money in the Delottie & Touche Jersey Chess Festival, held at the Hotel de Normandie, St.Heliers, Jersey from16-23 February.
IM Andrew Webster from Sutton was the shock winner of the Jersey Chess Festival, picking up the first prize of £1,500, following a last round win over WGM Susan Lalic. Webster, who ended the tournament with four straight victories following his round three defeat to tournament front-runner GM Bogdan Lalic, clinched the prize after the top board clash between GM's Lalic and Ward ended, strangely, in a 29 move draw. The result came as a bit of a shock as many thought that the Croatian GM had the better position and everything to play for and nothing to lose.
Ironically, Lalic's wife, Susan, decided to follow the same variation as her husband used to defeat Webster in the third round. Susan decision to exchange queens in an unbalanced position, where her husband elected to keep on, proved to be decisive. Webster's compensation for the sacrificed material proved more than sufficient in the resulting ending.
Webster's performance was all the more impressive as he was there in an official capacity as the coach to the ten strong BCF Youth Squad, only making a last minute decision to play in the tournament! His duties during the week involved, holding a 2.5 hr coaching session every morning, in the evenings help to prepare the squad for potential opponents and the general welfare and social activities of the squad.
Being pleased with the outcome of this years tournament, Deloitte & Touche, in conjunction with Channel Hotels and Jersey Tourism, have announced that next years tournament will have a total prize-fund of £7,000 (up £2,000 from this year). The first prize for the Open next year, which will be held one week later to coincide with the end of Cappelle la Grande, will be £2,500, compared to £1,500 this year.
Final scores:
1 IM Andrew Webster (£1,500) 6/7 2-3 GM Julian Hodgson, GM Bogdan Lalic (£450 each) 5.5 4-6 Martin Simons, GM Chris Ward, Kiernan Smallbone 5. Best Game prize (£100): Leighton Williams for his fourth round victory over Susan Lalic.
3rd round results:
Barbican 3-3* Ilford Bedford 4-2 Hull Bradford Chess Club 0.5-5.5 Crowwood Cardiff 5-1 Gloucester Edinburgh West 2.5-3.5 Slough Charlton 3-3* Crowthorne; Southbourne 1-5 Guildford Wood Green 3.5-2.5 Cambridge University. * indicates a win on board count. Quarter-Final draw: Crowthorne vs Wood Green Crowwood vs Ilford Guildford vs Cardiff Slough vs Bedford. To be played by 20th April.
The final line-up for the Category 5 IM tournament, the Carlton Park Masters, to be held at the Carlton Park Hotel in Rotherham, South Yorkshire 17-21 March.
There will also be a six game challenge match between English Grandmaster Julian Hodgson and Scottish International Master Jonathan Rowson, from 17-22 March at the same venue. One game per day, The winner receives 3500 and the loser 1500!
The event is part of the Leigh Grand Prix and has been given financial assistance by the Friends of Chess and the British Chess Federation. It is hoped to have an event of this level in Yorkshire every year if a suitable sponsor can be found.
There are also two rounds of the Four Nations Chess League on 22-23 March at the hotel - a festival of chess!
The schedule for the IM event is rounds at 9.30am and 4.30pm, and the players are given below with pin numbers - pairings as per Berger.
1 Richardson 2360 2 IM Bryson 2385 3 Daly 2310 IRL 4 Houska, M 2260 5 IM Dunnington 2445 6 Aagard 2440 DEN 7 Shaw 2330 8 IM Ferguson 2385 9 Woerdeman 2305 GER 10 Wall, T 2305
The Bulgarian top-grandmaster Veselin Topalov, 6th in the latest world ranking, is one of the eight participants in the Jubilee Crown Group of the 5th Lost Boys Chess Tournament in Antwerp. His Elo-rating of 2725 makes him the favorite to win this special group.
The other participating grandmasters are the winners of the previous four Lost Boys Tournaments: Loek Van Wely (Holland, 2645), Jeroen Piket (Holland, 2640), Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland, 2635), Ivan Sokolov (Bosnia, 2615), Igor Novikov (Ukraine, 2580), Rongguan Ye (China, 2520) and Paul van der Sterren (Holland, 2515).
The quoted Elo-ratings are those of the Fide-list of the 1st of January 1997. The average rating is 2609, which makes the tournament Category 15 in the system used by the world chess federation FIDE.
Apart from the Jubilee Crown Group the habitual Open Tournaments are also scheduled. There are again three groups, with several renowned grandmasters participating in the A-group. The total prize fund of these open tournaments is 1 million Belgian Francs.
Last year more than 350 chess players participated in the pleasant ambiance of the Zuiderpershuis at the Waalse Kaai in Antwerp. This number is expected to be surpassed at the upcoming Jubilee Tournament.
The fifth Lost Boys Chess Tournament will take place from the 1st untill the 10th of August 1997.
The winners of the previous Lost Boys Chess Tournaments are:
1993 Piket, Korchnoi
1994 Van der Sterren
1995 Sokolov, Novikov
1996 Piket, Van Wely, Ye.
For more information you can contact the tournament office, phone: 31.76.5141114
or press officer Jeroen van den Berg, phone: 31.20.6833753.
You can also find information at the internet pages of Lost Boys:
My thanks to Fré Hoogendoorn of Schaaknieuws for the information .
Judit Polgar (Hungary), Vasily Smyslov (Russia), Loek van Wely (Netherlands) and Emil Sutovsky (Israel) have been invited to the Hoogeveen City Hall to play a 4-player double round robin from 11 to 17 October 1997. This will take place during the first VAM Chess Tournament, a new event that the foundation VAM Fonds and the Hoogeveen municipality will add to the Dutch chess calender.
Unique to this tournament is that the four grandmasters will be playing with glass chess pieces in a glass décor. The chess pieces and décor will be especially created for the tournament by Cees van Olst (glass artist and director of the Hoogeveen Glass Museum). Van Olst will make the chess pieces to the exact specifications of the official Staunton model. The idea for having a tournament using glass pieces originates with 'Glas-In', an annual event in October, during which all of Hoogeveen celebrates glass, glass technology, and glass art. The tournament will be held in October to emphasize the connection to the 'Glas-In' event.
Alongside the 4 player event, a Swiss Open Tournament will be held. A number of grandmasters will participate in this Open by invitation. Furthermore, a Swiss Open for club players and home players will be held. The prize fund for the 4 player will total 25.000 guilders (10.000 for the winner, 7.500 for second place, 5.000 for third place and 2.500 for fourth place). The winner will also receive an extra prize: a glass chess set, made by Cees van Olst. The VAM Tournament is made possible by a donation from the VAM Fund. Should the tournament be successful, then VAM has the intention of sponsoring similar events in 1998 and 1999. Other sponsors of the first event are: the Hoogeveen Municipality, Brink Assurantiën, Bouwbedrijf Bosman and Ruma Rubber."
The Far East Bank open is actually a misnomer, because it is not an open -you have to qualify for it via several regional tournaments all over the Philippines. This year 5 GMs (Torre, Wojtkiewicz, Djuric, Antonio and Balinas) joined 6 IMs (Mariano, Barcenilla, De Guzman, Bancod, Nadera and Ramos) and all the top guns of Philippine chess plus the regional qualifiers to vie for the P200,000 first prize (around US $7,700).
This tournament is usually held in November but last year's edition was postponed because the Philippines was hosting the Asian-Pacific Economic Council summit (APEC). GM Eugenio Torre is the defending champion.
Steigenberger MAXX Hotel May 17th - May 25th, 1997
GM Tournament Cat. XII May 17th - May 25th, 1997
Vice-WM GM Viktor Kortschnoi
GM Igor Glek
GM Zoltan Almasi
GM
Konstantin Sakaev
GM Oleg Romanishin
GM Valeri Beim
GM Zigurds
Lanka
U-12 WM IM Etienne Bacrot
and Austrian players IM Markus Wach
and IM Harald Casagrande
Open Steigenberger MAXX Hotel****
Location: Steigenberger MAXX Hotel**** Am Winterhafen 13 4020 Linz/AUSTRIA
Mode: 9 Rounds swiss system FIDE-rules,
time limit:2 hours 40 moves, 1 hour for 20 moves and 30 min for the rest.
Fee: ATS 650,-- Juniors, Students ATS 350,-- GM and IM free
Opening address: Saturday, May 17th, 1997 1:30 p.m.
Time: May 17th-19th, 1997, 2:00 p.m.
May 20th-23th, 1997, 4:00 p.m.
May 24th, 1997, 2:00 p.m.
May 25th, 1997, 10:00 a.m.
End of periode
of registration: Saturday, May 17th, 1997, 1:00 p.m.
Arbitor: Werner Stubenvoll
Tournament director: Harald Obran
PRIZE FUND
1st ATS 25.000,-- 6th ATS 6.000,--
2nd ATS 20.000,-- 7th ATS 4.000,--
3rd ATS 15.000,-- 8th ATS 2.000,--
4th ATS 10.000,-- 9th ATS 1.000,--
5th ATS 8.000,-- 10th ATS 1.000,--
Categorie 2000 - 2300 Elo: Winner: ATS 5.000,-- Categorie under 2000 Elo: Winner: ATS 3.000,--
Ranking by rating of Buchholz. Prizes are divided by the Hort-system.
Announcement and Information:
Harald Obran
A-4020 Linz, Glimpfingerstraße 27
Telephon/Fax (+43 732) 33 04 33
Mobile telephon (+43 663) 07 80 83
I.M. János Rigó
H-1182 Budapest, Véménd u. 3.
Mobile telephon (+36) 30 33 25 33
Fax (+36) 12 90 28 04
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