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1) Introduction
2) Dos Hermanas Tournament Spain
3) Will Kasparov-Karpov go ahead?
4) Lars Bo Hansen dominates Danish Championships
5) 6th Leg of the Russian Grand Prix
6) 18th Chess Festival Bled 97 - 18th Chess Festival
7) Cannes Chess Festival
8) International Tournament in Rotherham
9) US Masters by William B. Wright
10) IM Title for Luke McShane by John Henderson
11) 4NCL in Rotherham
12) Leinster Chess Union Tournament
13) Upcoming events
14) Belgian Team Championships
15) News from Australia by Ian Rogers
16) FIDE Congress not in Norway
17) Passau 1997 by Philipp Schlosser)
18) Theoretical Corner by Marco R. Martini
(ITA)
ch-DEN, Esbjerg 1997 30 US Masters 1997 3 1st Carlton Park Masters 45 4NCL 47 Leinster CU 10 Russia Cup Krasnodar 144 18th Cannes Open A 113 18th Cannes Open B 157 Bled Open 157 Belgian Teams 1996-7 517
My thanks to Christophe Bouton, Chess Assistant, John Henderson, Lars Zwisler, Marco R. Martini, Nigel Johnson, Chess Federation of Slovenia, Brian Stephenson, Chris Williams, William B. Wright, William B. Wright, Philipp Schlosser, John Hurley, Marcel Lafosse and Ian Rogers.
Dos Hermanas starts tomorrow and as usual there will be full coverage on these pages. Plenty of chess in this issue too.
Hope you enjoy this issue Mark
The Category 19 Dos Hermanas tournament in Spain gets underway tomorrow, Tuesday 1st April 1997. The event will be a Category 19 event with an average ELO rating of 2702. As predicted the mercurial genius Vassily Ivanchuk has withdrawn from the event and is to be replaced by Nigel Short. There will be daily reports on my www pages.
The participants are:
Anand, Viswanathan...............g IND 2765 9 Karpov, Anatoly..................g RUS 2760 52 Kramnik, Vladimir................g RUS 2740 41 Topalov, Veselin.................g BUL 2725 44 Gelfand, Boris...................g BLR 2700 52 Short, Nigel D...................g ENG 2690 22 Shirov, Alexei...................g ESP 2690 49 Salov, Valery....................g RUS 2665 11 Polgar, Judit (GM)...............g HUN 2645 58 w Illescas Cordoba, Miguel.........g ESP 2635 26
I have rewritten the article that appeared on my pages a few days ago to take account of new information from the Chess Planet page and especially to clarify the original article's intention, which was not an attack on the Chess Planet report.
The proposed match between Anatoly Karpov and Gary Kasparov is unlikely to go ahead due to lack of sponsorship. The match would have produced an undisputed World Chess Champion. The regulations for the match were broadly agreed in discussions between the two players during the chess Olympiad in Yerevan last year.
There have been two title-holders since 1993 when Kasparov took his World title match against Short outside the international chess federation, FIDE's control. FIDE responded with a title match of their own which was won by Karpov. For most of the time since Kasparov has been recognised as the strongest player in the World and Karpov the second strongest. In these circumstances a high profile and lucrative match seemed very possible especially as the only tournament that both played in, Linares 1994, was won clearly by Karpov.
However after the two players came to an agreement they also decided to play in a tournament together. The Las Palmas tournament in December 1996 brought together the top six players in the World. The result of the event cast doubt on the commercial value of a match. Kasparov was an impressive winner whilst Karpov finished last. The result was Karpov's second consecutive poor result. The impression that Kasparov was playing his best chess for many years was confirmed by his victory in the Linares tournament this year. Karpov did not compete as he was standing for election to the Russian parliament.
There have been reports in recent weeks that the match would be held in the Municipality of Compiegne in France. The stories started in Liberation a French newspaper but gained international currency through their reporting on the Chess Planet www page. That article gave some details. The match would be in Napoleon's Palace with a prize fund of $3,000,000 starting on October 21st. It was not that I thought Chess Planet was making the story up just that there seemed too few details (the phrase "lack of substance" in my original article can be misinterpreted) and that the likelihood of it being the venue was pretty small. There have been a number of reports of potential sponsors for the match that have come to nothing. In Willy Iclicki's article of the 31st March he sited the organiser Mr. Stroe as the source of the article rather than the French media in the first article which was really rather vague. Mr Stroe has subsequently been in touch with Karpov's lawyer, Kasparov's new manager and FIDE itself. He wishes to hold the match under FIDE's auspices (because this will make it easier to raise the money) which he admits is likely to cause complications both with Karpov and Kasparov who have agreed to a match explicitly outside any organisation.
Since the original article a number of chess magazines have published the details from the Chess Planet article. Raymond Keene of the Times having not seen the original brief report went as far as to say that the match had been announced. He seems to have got a garbled version that had been translated from French, to English, to German before being returned to English. The chess correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, Malcolm Pein, brought the Keene article to Kasparov's attention.
"When asked about the possible venue for the match, he laughed the idea off, commenting: "I'd like to thank the Telegraph for informing me of this development, otherwise I would have missed the match!" He explained that there were no basis for this story which was just another fabrication from "the friends of Karpov", the idea being that when it is called off: "They will blame me for it." He further explained that, as yet, there are still no funds for the match." [Source: John Henderson Channel 4 Teletext]
Whilst the details from Willy Iclicki do make it clear that Compiegne is trying to put together a bid (not a fabrication as Kasparov would have it) the obstacles still seem to me insuperable. Kasparov clearly doesn't believe that the match will take place.
Starting on March 31st there will be an international tournament in Dos Hermanas, Spain. The competitors will include most of those who played in Linares excluding Kasparov. If Karpov were to win convincingly there then belief in his chances against Kasparov might return. If he plays badly I see no prospect of a reunification match happening at all.
Lars Bo Hansen was the convincing winner of the Danish Championships in Esbjerg which finished on Sunday. He was already assured of first place with a round to go and he finished a point and a half clear of the rest of the field. ELO favourite Curt Hansen was amongst three players on 5 points in joint second. It was nice to see that Bent Larsen had such an acceptable result tying with Hansen and Peter Heine Nielsen.
Information from Lars Zwisler. He had a web page at:
There was in additional coverage in Danish
Round 3 (1997.03.24)
Hansen, Curt - Nielsen, Peter Heine 1-0 56 A77 Modern Benoni
Hansen, Sune Berg - Kristensen, Bjarke 1/2 30 C60 Ruy Lopez
Mortensen, Erling - Hansen, Lars Bo 0-1 60 C65 Ruy Lopez
Schandorff, Lars - Ochsner, Thomas 1-0 51 E32 Nimzo indian
Danielsen, Henrik - Larsen, Bent 1-0 55 B20 Sicilian
Round 4 (1997.03.25)
Hansen, Lars Bo - Hansen, Curt 1/2 18 A04 Reti (1.Nf3)
Larsen, Bent - Hansen, Sune Berg 1/2 60 B51 Sicilian
Schandorff, Lars - Danielsen, Henrik 1-0 49 A81 Dutch defence
Kristensen, Bjarke - Mortensen, Erling 1/2 21 C19 French; Winawer
Ochsner, Thomas - Nielsen, Peter Heine 0-1 60 B14 Caro-Kann
Round 5 (1997.03.26)
Hansen, Curt - Kristensen, Bjarke 1/2 42 A87 Dutch defence
Nielsen, Peter Heine - Hansen, Lars Bo 1/2 11 E14 Nimzo indian
Hansen, Sune Berg - Schandorff, Lars 1-0 41 B92 Sicilian; Najdorf
Mortensen, Erling - Larsen, Bent 1-0 55 B74 Sicilian; Dragon
Danielsen, Henrik - Ochsner, Thomas 1/2 41 A03 Bird (1.f4)
Round 6 (1997.03.27)
Larsen, Bent - Hansen, Curt 1-0 56 B66 Sicilian
Schandorff, Lars - Mortensen, Erling 0-1 41 E94 Kings indian; Classical
Kristensen, Bjarke - Nielsen, Peter Heine 1/2 41 B14 Caro-Kann
Danielsen, Henrik - Hansen, Sune Berg 1-0 40 E17 Nimzo indian
Ochsner, Thomas - Hansen, Lars Bo 0-1 50 C45 Scottish
Round 7 (1997.03.28)
Hansen, Lars Bo - Kristensen, Bjarke 1/2 35 E81 Kings indian; Saemisch
Hansen, Curt - Schandorff, Lars 1/2 51 D32 Queen's gambit
Nielsen, Peter Heine - Larsen, Bent 0-1 38 B36 Sicilian
Hansen, Sune Berg - Ochsner, Thomas 1/2 29 C96 Ruy Lopez
Mortensen, Erling - Danielsen, Henrik 1-0 43 C41 Philidor defence
Round 8 (1997.03.29)
Larsen, Bent - Hansen, Lars Bo 0-1 42 D36 Queen's gambit
Hansen, Sune Berg - Mortensen, Erling 1/2 19 B57 Sicilian
Schandorff, Lars - Nielsen, Peter Heine 1/2 23 E32 Nimzo indian
Danielsen, Henrik - Hansen, Curt 1-0 25 E90 Kings indian; Classical
Ochsner, Thomas - Kristensen, Bjarke 1/2 47 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Round 9 (1997.03.30)
Hansen, Lars Bo - Schandorff, Lars 1/2
Hansen, Curt - Hansen, Sune Berg 1/2
Nielsen, Peter Heine - Danielsen, Henrik 1-0
Mortensen, Erling - Ochsner, Thomas 1/2
Kristensen, Bjarke - Larsen, Bent 0-1
Esbjerg DEN (DEN), III 1997 cat. X (2487)
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1 Hansen, Lars Bo g DEN 2545 * = 1 = = 1 = = 1 1 6.5 2646
2 Hansen, Curt g DEN 2605 = * 0 1 = 1 = = 0 1 5.0 2516
3 Larsen, Bent g DEN 2520 0 1 * 1 = 0 = 1 0 1 5.0 2525
4 Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2525 = 0 0 * = 1 = = 1 1 5.0 2525
5 Hansen, Sune Berg m DEN 2505 = = = = * = 1 = 0 = 4.5 2484
6 Mortensen, Erling m DEN 2450 0 0 1 0 = * 1 = 1 = 4.5 2490
7 Schandorff, Lars g DEN 2510 = = = = 0 0 * = 1 1 4.5 2483
8 Kristensen, Bjarke m DEN 2415 = = 0 = = = = * = = 4.0 2451
9 Danielsen, Henrik g DEN 2490 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 = * = 4.0 2443
10 Ochsner, Thomas DEN 2300 0 0 0 0 = = 0 = = * 2.0 2287
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Krasnodar was the venue of the 6th stage of the Cup Russia Grand Prix. The tournament ended in a three way tie between Pavel Tregubov, Sergey Dolmatov and Sergei Rublevsky on 6.5. Sharing 4th on 6 points were 9 players including child prodigy Ruslan Ponomariov. Alexander Morozevich who at one time promised so much was one of the players tied for 13th place. My thanks to Chess Assistant for supplying the material on the event. Their new homepage is at:
http://www.demon.co.uk/convekta/
Krasnodar RUS 11th-19th March 1997
1 Tregubov, Pavel V g RUS 2525 6.5 48.5 2670 +1.73 Dolmatov, Sergey g RUS 2560 6.5 47.0 2646 +1.01 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2645 6.5 46.0 2664 +0.20 4 Aleksandrov, Aleksej m BLR 2615 6.0 50.0 2651 +0.42 Giorgadze, Giorgi g GEO 2595 6.0 52.0 2678 +0.96 Fedorov, Alexei g BLR 2580 6.0 51.0 2655 +0.87 Yakovich, Yuri g RUS 2575 6.0 44.5 2584 +0.06 Landa, Konstantin g RUS 2570 6.0 46.0 2556 -0.21 Ponomariov, Ruslan f UKR 2565 6.0 42.0 2559 -0.12 Galkin, Alexander m RUS 2510 6.0 47.5 2637 +1.50 Vaulin, Alexander g RUS 2490 6.0 46.5 2622 +1.59 Asrian, Karen m ARM 2440 6.0 47.5 2654 +2.58 13 Malaniuk, Vladimir P g UKR 2610 5.5 43.0 2558 -0.62 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2595 5.5 50.5 2579 -0.17 Sherbakov, Ruslan g RUS 2580 5.5 42.5 2529 -0.62 Ulibin, Mikhail g RUS 2555 5.5 45.5 2514 -0.44 Burmakin, Vladimir g RUS 2530 5.5 47.5 2572 +0.55 Tseshkovsky, Vitaly g RUS 2510 5.5 38.5 2451 -0.71 Zakharevich, Igor m RUS 2505 5.5 39.0 2477 -0.30 20 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2575 5.0 44.0 2495 -1.03 Volzhin, Alexander m RUS 2505 5.0 32.0 2336 -1.54 Volkov, Sergey RUS 2480 5.0 41.5 2478 -0.04 Zhelnin, Vladimir V m RUS 2475 5.0 47.5 2530 +0.68 Drozdov, Igor m RUS 2455 5.0 39.0 2404 -0.67 Prokopchuk, Evgeny m RUS 2440 5.0 44.0 2488 +0.41 Turov, Maxim m RUS 2425 5.0 37.0 2419 -0.13 Obukhov, Alexander m RUS 2415 5.0 41.5 2451 +0.41 Petrushin, Alexander I m RUS 2415 5.0 41.5 2474 +0.68 Popov, Roman RUS 2365 5.0 43.0 2523 +1.68 68 players
The Chess Federation of Slovenia (http://www.sah-zveza.si/szs.html) reports that the 18th Bled Chess Festival held between the 15th and 23rd of March was won by Emil Sutovskij.
18. Chess Festival Bled - OPEN A Final standings. 1 Sutovskij, Emil g ISR 2560 7.5 /9 2703 2 Zelcic, Robert m CRO 2455 6.5 /9 2611 3 Tukmakov, Vladimir B g UKR 2585 6.5 /9 2567 4 Kurajica, Bojan g BIH 2545 6.5 /9 2591 5 Rotstein, Arkadij g UKR 2455 6.0 /9 2590 6 Kozul, Zdenko g CRO 2590 6.0 /9 2541 7 Stohl, Igor g SVK 2580 6.0 /9 2532 8 Sveshnikov, Evgeny g RUS 2560 6.0 /9 2547 9 Bezold, Michael m GER 2500 6.0 /9 2535 10 Mikhalchishin, Adrian g SLO 2515 6.0 /9 2507 11 Sosonko, Gennadi g NED 2515 6.0 /9 2482 12 Lipinsky, Fabian GER 2290 6.0 /9 2469 13 Golubovic, Boris m CRO 2450 6.0 /9 2385 14 Delchev, Aleksander m BUL 2515 5.5 /9 2426 15 Drazic, Sinisa m YUG 2430 5.5 /9 16 Tratar, Marko m SLO 2420 5.5 /9 17 Priehoda, Vitezslav m SVK 2425 5.5 /9 2376 18 Richter, Michael GER 2315 5.0 /9 2467 19 Zelic, Mladen f CRO 2275 5.0 /9 2485 20 Rogic, Davor m CRO 2455 5.0 /9 2435 21 Glienke, Manfred f GER 2390 5.0 /9 2376 22 Gaprindashvili, Nona g GEO 2350 5.0 /9 2472 23 Cebalo, Miso g CRO 2540 5.0 /9 2379 24 Soln, Primoz SLO 2320 5.0 /9 2351 25 Nikolov, Sasho m BUL 2370 5.0 /9 62 players. Bojan Hribar scored 7.5/9 to win the B event above 58 players Vladimir Ivacic scored 7.5/9 in the seniors section to win above 31 players.
Christophe Bouton has sent a number of the games from the Cannes Chess Festival as reported a number of weeks ago. The event was a particularly fine result for Michele Godena and Xie Jun who shared first with Andrei Sokolov and Drazen Sermek. Tal Shaked scored a GM norm.
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.
Rotherham was the venue for the 1st Carlton Park Masters. My thanks to Brian Stephenson for sending the games which were typed in by Chris Williams of Rotherham. The table below is from the games (I have no independent confirmation) and shows that John Shaw and Jacob Aagaard both scored IM norms whilst winning the event.
Rotherham (ENG), III 1997 cat. V (2354)
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1 Shaw, John f SCO 2345 * = 1 1 0 1 0 1 = 1 6.0 2479
2 Aagaard, Jacob DEN 2440 = * = = 1 = = = 1 1 6.0 2468
3 Bryson, Douglas M m SCO 2385 0 = * 1 1 1 = 0 1 0 5.0 2393
4 Houska, Miroslav ENG 2260 0 = 0 * = = 1 1 = 1 5.0 2406
5 Wall, Tim f ENG 2305 1 0 0 = * 1 = 0 = 1 4.5 2358
6 Woerdemann, Martin GER 2305 0 = 0 = 0 * 1 1 = 1 4.5 2358
7 Dunnington, Angus J m ENG 2445 1 = = 0 = 0 * 0 = 1 4.0 2300
8 Ferguson, Mark m ENG 2380 0 = 1 0 1 0 1 * = 0 4.0 2307
9 Richardson, John R f ENG 2360 = 0 0 = = = = = * 0 3.0 2227
10 Daly, Colm IRL 2310 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 * 3.0 2233
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GMs Alexander Shabalov, Dmitry Gurevich and Suat Atalik shared 1st-3rd with 6-1 scores in a 130 player field finishing on March 9th. Only those players who were USCF 2200 and higher (or had once been so rated) were invited, along with about a dozen junior players. The tournament was at the Hyatt Regency Oak Brook, a suburb of Chicago, IL. They won $3333 each. I have paper copy of the games in round bulletins. Since they were selling the bulletins at the event, the person inputting games said that they will not be distributed in disk format for a while. Nevertheless, certainly the key games should be reported and given in the games section.
British Chess Wunderkind, Luke McShane of Clapham, south London, regard as the UK's most promising junior since Nigel Short, has, at 13-years and two months become the youngest Briton to achieve the title of International Master of Chess. McShane scored his third and final IM performance at the Gelsenkirchen masters in Germany, over the Easter weekend, with one round to spare. After eight of the nine rounds, McShane had 5.5 points that included 2/4 against Grandmasters and 3.5/4 against weaker opponents.
His first IM norm was achieved in Scotland at the Caledonian Masters held in Edinburgh last December. The youngest player to achieve the International Master title was Judit Polgar, of Hungary, who achieved the accolade in 1989 when she was just 12 years and one month old. McShane's performance beats the record for youngest Briton to gain the title- held by Matthew Sadler- by more than a year. His career to date has been prodigious and he seems destined for the "glittering prize" of being a future contender for Gary Kasparov's crown. His performances have been vastly superior to those of Nigel Short at the same age.
Taught at the age of four by his grandfather, Luke won the British Under-Nine and World Under-10 titles before his ninth birthday. He was the youngest Briton to qualify for a world ranking and to beat a grandmaster. He has already competed twice with great success in the senior British championships'. His ambition is to become a grandmaster himself and avenge Short's 1993 horrific World championship defeat by Kasparov, whom McShane has already played twice. The first occasion was a speed game in 1993. The second, an Internet game last year, when he caught the world champion out, and from a superior position, blundered the game away. Afterwards Kasparov acknowledged that: "Luke was the brightest hope in British chess and has a far better chance of winning my title than Nigel Short". He is sponsored to the tune of 12,000 (sterling) per year by the hand-held computer company Psion, which has funded his travel to foreign tournaments, but more importantly, paid for the specialist chess coaching required IN HIS PROGRESSION towards a future World title bid.
McShane is one of four OUTSTANDING prodigies in his age group; which includes Lev Aronian of Armenia, and Ruslan Ponomarov of the Ukraine. But perhaps the best of all is Etienne Bacrot of France, who only last week at the tender age of just 14 years and 2 months entered the annals of chess history by becoming the youngest player to achieve the title of Grandmaster. Like Luke, he also learned chess aged just four and was a member of his local chess club at five. Success quickly followed in his trail, when in 1995, he won the World Under-12 title in Brazil and became an International Master last May.
Rounds 9 and 10 of the 4 Nations Chess League were held in Rotherham Yorkshire last weekend. Nigel Johnson sends the results and a selection of games.
Slough South Wales Dragons
1 w M. Adams 2695 1 - 0 G. Botterill 2370
2 b A. J. Miles 2630 ½:½ C Morris 2215
3 w B. Lalic 2565 1 - 0 S Zeidler 2265
4 b M. Hennigan 2450 ½:½ David James 2260
5 w A. Summerscale 2500 1 - 0 A. Spice 2185
6 b R. M. Webb 2290 ½:½ P. Richmond 2185
7 w Miroslav Houska 2265 1 - 0 J. Thornton
8 b R. Hennigan 2225 ½:½ J. Richmond 2180
6 - 2
Guildford Midland Monarchs
1 w N. Povah 2375 0 - 1 J. Parker 2470
2 b A. Kinsman 2400 0 - 1 M. Hebden 2530
3 w I. Thompson 2300 0 - 1 K. Arkell 2545
4 b C. Kennaugh 2290 ½:½ A. Webster
5 w M. Singleton 2175 ½:½ M Turner 2425
6 b A. Punnett 2090 0 - 1 M. Ferguson 2385
7 w A. Ashby 2110 0 - 1 H. Hunt 2315
8 b P. Nunn 2080 0 - 1 L. Cooper 2335
1 - 7
Wessex Invicta Knights
1 w P. Rossiter 2370 0 - 1 C. Ward 2460
2 b A. Corkett 2285 ½:½ N. McDonald 2500
3 w J. Poulton 2360 ½:½ D Gormally 2300
4 b D. Neil 2295 ½:½ P. Morris 2375
5 w M. Yeo 2205 ½:½ C. Cooley 2255
6 b I. Upton 2235 ½:½ A. Mack 2275
7 w R. Noyce 2205 ½:½ L. Gurr 181
8 b E. Howard 163 ½:½ S Howell 159
3½:4½
B.C.M. Bristol
1 w D. Norwood 2520 0 - 1 C. Beaumont 2300
2 b M. Chandler 2550 0 - 1 G. Burgess 2290
3 w J. Mestel 2510 ½:½ G. Copeland 2335
4 b R. Bellin 2375 0 - 1 K. Mah 2245
5 w B Cafferty 2240 ½:½ D. Collier 2225
6 b D. Anderton 2200 0 - 1 R. Phillips 2120
7 w J. Bellin 2215 1 - 0 S. Buckley 161
8 b C Wilman ½:½ M. Buckley 2040
2½:5½
Wood Green Barbican
1 w J. Emms 2500 1 - 0 C. Crouch 2375
2 b K. Arakhamia-Grant 2455 ½:½ C. Pritchett 2325
3 w P. Littlewood 2440 ½:½ A. Plueg 2310
4 b A. Law 2370 0 - 1 S. Dishman 2300
5 w P. Sowray 2350 0 - 1 K. Bowden 2355
6 b J. Grant 0 - 1 J. Rogers 2300
7 w C. Maduekwe 1 - 0 M Twyble 2310
8 b S. Jackson 2150 ½:½ H. Lang 2065
3½:4½
Celtic Knights Witney
1 w L. Williams 2135 0 - 1 S Taulbut 2400
2 b C. Walsh 2180 ½:½ R. Haydon 2220
3 w A. Borg 0 - 1 P. Cooksey 2150
4 b J. Gibert 2150 ½:½ M. Rose
5 w A. Musson 162 0 - 1 T. Dickinson 2165
6 b Mark Adams 2100 0 - 1 J. Houska 2115
7 w A. Sheehan 0 - 1 N. Jones 167
8 b J. Wilson ½:½ C Moxley 161
1½:6½
Richmond Na Fianna
1 w R. Bates 2315 1 - 0 J Aagaard
2 b S. Williams 2350 1 - 0 S. Berry
3 w A Trifunovic 2250 ½:½ R. McMichael 2200
4 b G Wall 2305 1 - 0 C. MacKenzie 187
5 w M. Franklin 2255 ½:½ R. Pearce 185
6 b B. Beake 189 ½:½ S. Connelly 155
7 w I. Galloway 0 - 1 M. O'Siochru 160
8 b A Default 0 - 1 J. McVicar
4½:3½
Croydon Hertford
1 w J. Wilson 2285 ½:½ S. Swanson 2265
2 b C Dunworth 2335 ½:½ C. Duncan 2340
3 w A. Harley 2265 1 - 0 D. Coleman 2280
4 b G Moore 2250 0 - 1 P. Byway 2230
5 w D. Gunter 2155 1 - 0 E. Dearing 2185
6 b J. McGrath 186 ½:½ J. Denton 176
7 w R. Coatup 186 1 - 0 D. Boyes
8 b S. Turvey 128 1 - 0 J. Badger 143
5½:2½
North West Eagles Northumbria Vikings
1 w J. Littlewood 2275 ½:½ C. McNab 2465
2 b G. Quillan 2320 0 - 1 A. Ledger 2415
3 w D. Bryson 2380 0 - 1 T. Wall 2320
4 b D. Tebb 2320 0 - 1 J. Shaw 2345
5 w B. Lund 2260 ½:½ I. Timmermans 2275
6 b D. Knox 0 - 1 D. Ledger 2235
7 w R. Sheldon 2230 ½:½ J. Nelson 2250
8 b D. R. James 2250 1 - 0 K. Bhatia 147
2½:5½
ROUND 10
BCM Witney
1 w D. Norwood 2520 0 - 1 S Taulbut 2400
2 b M. Chandler 2550 1 - 0 R. Haydon 2220
3 w J. Mestel 2510 1 - 0 M. Rose
4 b R. Bellin 2375 1 - 0 P. Cooksey 2150
5 w B Cafferty 2240 ½-½ J. Houska 2115
6 b J. Bellin 2215 0 - 1 T. Dickinson 2165
7 w D. Anderton 2200 ½-½ C Moxley 161
8 b C Wilman 1 - 0 N. Jones 167
5 - 3
Wood Green Slough
1 w P. Littlewood 2440 ½-½ M. Adams 2695
2 b J. Emms 2500 0 - 1 J. Hodgson 2550
3 w K. Arakhamia-Grant 2455 ½-½ B. Lalic 2565
4 b P. Sowray 2350 ½-½ A. J. Miles 2630
5 w A. Law 2370 1 - 0 A. Summerscale 2500
6 b J. Grant 1 - 0 M. Hennigan 2450
7 w S. Jackson 2150 0 - 1 R. M. Webb 2290
8 b C. Maduekwe 0 - 1 R. Hennigan 2225
3½-4½
Invicta Knights Midland Monarchs
1 w J Nunn 2605 ½-½ K. Arkell 2545
2 b C. Ward 2460 ½-½ J. Parker 2470
3 w N. McDonald 2500 ½-½ M. Hebden 2530
4 b Ivanov A 2435 ½-½ A. Webster 2415
5 w D Gormally 2300 1 - 0 A. Dunnington 2445
6 b P. Morris 2375 0 - 1 M. Turner 2425
7 w N. Dickenson 2305 1 - 0 M. Ferguson 2385
8 b S Howell 159 0 - 1 H. Hunt 2315
4 - 4
South Wales Dragons Hertford
1 w D. Cummings 2375 1 - 0 S. Swanson 2265
2 b S Zeidler 2265 1 - 0 C. Duncan 2340
3 w C Morris 2215 1 - 0 P. Byway 2230
4 b David James 2260 0 - 1 D. Coleman 2280
5 w P. Richmond 2185 ½-½ E. Dearing 2185
6 b J. Richmond 2180 0 - 1 J. Denton 176
7 w A. Spice 2185 1 - 0 J. Angus
8 b J. Thornton ½-½ J. Badger 143
5 - 3
Richmond North West Eagles
1 w R. Bates 2315 1 - 0 D. Bryson 2380
2 b S. Williams 2350 0 - 1 J. Littlewood 2275
3 w A Trifunovic 2250 0 - 1 G. Quillan 2320
4 b G Wall 2305 1 - 0 B. Lund 2260
5 w M. Franklin 2255 ½-½ D. Tebb 2320
6 b B. Beake 189 1 - 0 R. Sheldon 2230
7 w I. Galloway ½-½ W. Giblin 2130
8 b A Default 0 - 1 D. R. James 2250
4 - 4
Guildford Barbican
1 w A. Kinsman 2400 ½-½ C. Pritchett 2325
2 b N. Povah 2375 ½-½ C. Crouch 2375
3 w C. Kennaugh 2290 0 - 1 A. Plueg 2310
4 b I. Thompson 2300 ½-½ S. Dishman 2300
5 w A. Punnett 2090 ½-½ D. Sands 2260
6 b M. Singleton 2175 0 - 1 M Twyble 2310
7 w P. Nunn 2080 ½-½ J. Moore 2065
8 b A. Ashby 2110 1 - 0 H. Lang 2065
3½-4½
Bristol Celtic Knights
1 w C. Beaumont 2300 ½-½ L. Williams 2135
2 b G. Burgess 2290 1 - 0 J. Gibert 2150
3 w K. Mah 2245 1 - 0 A. Musson 162
4 b R. Phillips 2120 ½-½ C. Walsh 2180
5 w D. Collier 2225 1 - 0 A. Borg
6 b F. Appleton ½-½ Mark Adams 2100
7 w S. Buckley 161 1 - 0 A. Sheehan
8 b M. Buckley 2040 0 - 1 J. Wilson
5½-2½
Na Fianna Wessex
1 w S. Berry 1 - 0 D. Neil 2295
2 b C. O'Shaugnessy 0 - 1 J. Poulton 2360
3 w R. McMichael 2200 0 - 1 P. Rossiter 2370
4 b C. MacKenzie 187 0 - 1 A. Corkett 2285
5 w R. Pearce 185 0 - 1 M. Yeo 2205
6 b S. Connelly 155 ½-½ I. Upton 2235
7 w M. O'Siochru 160 ½-½ R. Noyce 2205
8 b A. Default 0 - 1 E. Howard 163
2 - 6
Northumbria Croydon 1859
1 w C. McNab 2465 1 - 0 J. Wilson 2285
2 b J. Shaw 2345 ½-½ C Dunworth 2335
3 w A. Ledger 2415 0 - 1 A. Harley 2265
4 b T. Wall 2320 1 - 0 G Moore 2250
5 w I. Timmermans 2275 1 - 0 D. Gunter 2155
6 b D. Ledger 2235 ½-½ J. McGrath 186
7 w J. Nelson 2250 1 - 0 R. Coatup 186
8 b K. Bhatia 147 1 - 0 S. Turvey 128
6 - 2
4NCL R9 R10 P W D L MP GP
Midland Monarchs 7.0 4.0 10 9 1 0 19 55.5
Invicta Knights 4.5 4.0 10 9 1 0 19 52.5
Slough (deducted 1 MP) 6.0 4.5 10 8 1 1 16 52.5
Northumbria 5.5 6.0 10 7 2 1 16 47.5
Barbican 4.5 4.5 10 7 1 2 15 46.0
BCM 2.5 5.0 10 7 0 3 14 44.5
Wood Green 3.5 3.5 10 5 0 5 10 44.5
Bristol 5.5 5.5 10 5 0 5 10 37.0
South Wales Dragons 2.0 5.0 10 5 0 5 10 36.0
North West Eagles 2.5 4.0 10 4 1 5 9 42.0
Richmond 4.5 4.0 10 4 1 5 9 39.5
Wessex 3.5 6.0 10 4 0 6 8 40.0
Croydon 1859 5.5 2.0 10 3 0 7 6 34.0
Guildford 1.0 3.5 10 3 0 7 6 31.5
Witney 6.5 3.0 10 2 0 8 4 32.5
Hertford 2.5 3.0 10 2 0 8 4 30.5
Na Fianna 3.5 2.0 10 2 0 8 4 30.0
Celtic Knights 1.5 2.5 10 0 0 10 0 22.0
The Leinster Chess Union is running the Leinster International Masters at the Teachers Club, Dublin March 25-31. John Hurley sends news of the first two rounds.
Round 1 (1997.03.25)
McDonald, Neil R - Summerscale, Aaron 1-0 47 B07 Pirc
Etchegaray, Patrice - O'Cinneide, Mel 1-0 37 D27 QGA;
Ryan, Joseph - Gillen, Stephen 1/2 71 A47 Queen's pawn
Brady, Stephen - Lehtivaara, Petri 1/2 23 C50 Giuoco piano
Daly, Colm - Gillen, Adrian 0-1 42 E14 Nimzo indian
Round 2 (1997.03.25)
Lehtivaara, Petri - Gillen, Adrian 1-0 41 D36 Queen's gambit
Brady, Stephen - McDonald, Neil R 1/2 24 C06 French; Tarrasch
Gillen, Stephen - Daly, Colm 0-1 35 E60 Kings indian
Summerscale, Aaron - Etchegaray, Patrice 1/2 39 A45 Queen's pawn
O'Cinneide, Mel - Ryan, Joseph 0-1 45 A21 English; 1.c4 e5
Dublin IRL (IRL), I-V 1997 cat. IV (2329)
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1 Lehtivaara, Petri f FIN 2365 * . . . = 1 . . . . 1.5 2470
2 McDonald, Neil R g ENG 2490 . * . . = . . . 1 . 1.5 2605
3 Etchegaray, Patrice m FRA 2275 . . * . . . . . = 1 1.5 2570
4 Ryan, Joseph IRL 2245 . . . * . . . = . 1 1.5 2465
5 Brady, Stephen f IRL 2325 = = . . * . . . . . 1.0 2427
6 Gillen, Adrian IRL 2230 0 . . . . * 1 . . . 1.0 2337
7 Daly, Colm IRL 2310 . . . . . 0 * 1 . . 1.0 2260
8 Gillen, Stephen IRL 2290 . . . = . . 0 * . . 0.5 2084
9 Summerscale, Aaron m ENG 2500 . 0 = . . . . . * . 0.5 2189
10 O'Cinneide, Mel IRL 2255 . . 0 0 . . . . . * 0.0
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The New York Open starts on April 2nd with 51 Grandmasters entered already. It promises to be a great event.
The European Team Championships in May will be covered at this excellent site.
Marcel Lafosse sends news of the final standings of the Belgian team championships. The event was close until the end with Rochade playing Tessenderlo in the final match of the season. Although the final score was overwhelming in favour of Rochade the match itself was tense and the result did not really reflect the closeness of the match.
Tessenderloo 1 Rochade 1 1,5 6,5
Motwani, P Glek, I 0 1
Van Mil, J Gourevitch, M 0 1
Van de Plachsse, B Chuchelov, V 0 1
Den Boer, B Gobulev, M 0 1
Van Beers, E Kishnev, S 0 1
Meulders, R Ahn, M 0,5 0,5
Van Schaardenburg, M Schneider, B 1 0
Toeng, P Meessen, R 0 1
Final league standings (subject to final confirmation)
Division 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1. Rochade 1 : - 6½ 5½ 3 4½ 7 5 5½ 6½ 5 6 6 60½ 10
2. Tessenderlo 1 : 1½ - 3½ 6 7 6 5½ 5½ 4 5 6 6 56 8½
3. Leuven 1 : 2½ 4½ - 5 4 4½ 6 4 4½ 4½ 3½ 6 49 8
4. K.G.S.R.L.1 : 5 2 3 - 3½ 5 6 4½ 4 4½ 5 5½ 48 7½
5. Eupen 1 : 3½ 1 4 4½ - 4 3 4½ 6½ 5 4 4 44 6
6. Mons 1 : 1 2 3½ 3 4 - 4 4½ 5½ 6 5 4½ 43 6
7. Hoboken 1 : 3 2½ 2 2 5 4 - 3 4½ 4½ 5 6 41½ 5½
8. C.R.E.B.1 : 2½ 2½ 4 3½ 3½ 3½ 5 - 3½ 5½ 3½ 4 41 3
9. Anderlecht 1 : 1½ 4 3½ 4 1½ 2½ 3½ 4½ - 3 4½ 5 37½ 4
10. Jean Jaurès 1 : 3 3 3½ 3½ 3 2 3½ 2½ 5 - 4½ 4 37½ 2½
11. Boitsfort 1 : 2 2 4½ 3 4 3 3 4½ 3½ 3½ - 3½ 36½ 2½
12. M.S.V.1 : 2 2 2 2½ 4 3½ 2 4 3 4 4½ - 33½ 2½
My thanks to GM Ian Rogers for news of these two events.
1. S.Solomon 8.5/9 2. Sermek 7.5 3. P.Garbett 5.5 4. V.Small 4.5 5. R.Smith, T.Reilly 4 7. A.Kulashko, E.Levi, L.McLaren 3 10 E.Green 2
Stephen Solomon tried for more than 5 hours to beat tailender Ewen Green in the final round and so achieve a perfect score, but without success. I am not sure of the category so I don't know if Paul Garbett scored his final IM norm.
153 players
Open Division
1.I.Rogers 6 /7 2.D.Johansen, J-P.Wallace 5.5 4.M.Gluzman 5 5.S.Agdestein, B.Martin, A.Allen, M.Weeks, O.Raychmann 4.5 10.I.Eriksson, S.Byrne, J.Curtis, B.Tindall,A.Bliznyuk 4
Simen Agdestein lost his first round with White to Sydney junior Brett Tindall in 20 moves and also lost to Darryl Johansen in the last round. Ian Rogers drew with Agdestein and Mikhail Gluzman and beat Johansen.
The FIDE Congress due to be held in Norway has been cancelled. The Norwegian Federation were sceptical about the merits of holding the Congress especially as Morten Sand's standing within FIDE was lowered after the politics of the Yerevan Olympiad. Sand however was committed to the Congress and had raised much of the money required to hold the Congress. Nevertheless the Federation decided against hosting it and FIDE will decide in the next couple of months where the new venue will be.
Philipp Schlosser sends the results of the 5th Internationales Dreifluesse-Schachopen Passau'. 28th-31st March 1997
By defeating last year's winner Jan Votava in the final round Sergej Kalinitschev decided this year's edition of this tournament in his favour. Chistopher Lutz could have joined him if he had managed to convert his advantage against Ognjen Cvitan.
Points Buchholz 1. Kalinitschev Sergej IM 2520 GER 6.5/7 35.0 2. Miezis Normunds IM 2555 LAT 6.0/7 36.5 3. Cvitan Ognjen GM 2550 CRO 6.0/7 35.5 4. Lutz Christopher GM 2555 GER 6.0/7 34.0 5. Baklan Vladimir IM 2530 UKR 6.0/7 33.0 6. Teske Henrik GM 2500 GER 6.0/7 33.0 7. Tseitlin Michail GM 2455 RUS 6.0/7 31.5 8. Meduna Eduard GM 2460 CZE 6.0/7 31.5 9. Ftacnik Lubomir GM 2595 SVK 6.0/7 31.0 10. Enders Peter IM 2520 GER 6.0/7 31.0 11. Martinovic Slobodjan GM 2495 YUG 6.0/7 30.0 12. Markovic Miroslav IM 2520 YUG 6.0/7 29.5 13. Stohl Igor GM 2580 SVK 5.5/7 34.0 14. Jansa Vlastimil GM 2490 CZE 5.5/7 33.0 15. Gipslis Aivars GM 2465 LAT 5.5/7 32.5 16. Bischoff Klaus GM 2550 GER 5.5/7 30.5 17. Euler Gerd FM 2360 GER 5.5/7 30.5 18. Stripunski Alexander IM 2455 UKR 5.5/7 30.5 19. Vidonyak Roman IM 2410 UKR 5.5/7 30.0 20. Ristic Nenad IM 2475 YUG 5.5/7 28.5 21. Kargoll Boris 2245 GER 5.5/7 26.5 (12 GM, 19 IM, 355 players)
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