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1) Introduction
2) Anand and Kramnik joint first in Dos Hermanas
3) FIDE KO Tournament to start in the Netherlands.
4) First Saturday Tournaments April. 2 on 100%
5) Golden Cleopatra-Cairo-Egypt
6) Aegon tournament by Eric van der Schilden
7) German Bundesliga Rounds 12 and 13
8) Perenyi Memorial
9) 50th Yugoslav Women Championship by Sinisa Joksic
10) The Open Championships of Sweden by Carl Fredrik
Johansson
11) Easter Tournament in Cologne by Juergen Gather
12) New York Open
13) Ukraine U 20 Final by Gerald Schendel
14) The Open Norwegian Championship 1997
15) Upcoming Tournaments
"Comunidad de Madrid" Tournament
Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in Malmoe Sweden
16) Theoretical Corner by Marco R. Martini (ITA)
Games Section
It Dos Hermanas ESP 1997 20, #1 NY Open New York USA 1997 84, #21 GM A Cairo EGY 1997 19, #105 GM B Cairo EGY 1997 18, #124 Open-ch Gotland SWE 1997 116, #142 FSGM April Budapest HUN 1997 19, #258 FSIM April Budapest HUN 1997 13, #277 Easter Cologne GER 1997 10, #290 Open-ch Gausdal NOR 1997 30, #300 ch-U20 Ukraine 199 10, #330
My thanks to Gerald Schendel, Steven Rix, Chess Planet, Eric van der Schilden, Sinisa Joksic, Carl Fredrik Johansson, Juergen Gather, Luis Santos, Marco R. Martini (ITA), Laszlo Nagy, Johan Sigeman, Rune Djurhuus, Michael Atkins, Jasan Luchan, Andy Ansel, Sam Sloan and all those who helped with this issue
This week the news is dominated by the Dos Hermanas Tournament and the April 8th agreement that has taken the FIDE knockout Championship to Groningen in the Netherlands. In a way they are connected as the true purpose of a Championship is to find the best player in the World. The Dos Hermanas tournament suggests that Anand and Kramnik are the best of the rest behind Kasparov and that Karpov's star is falling after 25 years as number one or number two in the World. This is not to rule Karpov out, as age increases it is consistancy that goes first and Karpov can come back but severe surgery on a very tired opening repertoire is required. Lots to enjoy. Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
Viswanathan Anand took first prize from Vladimir Kramnik on tie-break after grinding down Judit Polgar in the final round. Anand's 3.5/4 with the white pieces formed the basis for his good score but with black he had a number of difficult moments. Against Kramnik in the first round he was the exchange down for a pawn. Although Anand showed that the position was hard to win the impression is that Kramnik did not make the best of his chances. His game against Topalov was very hard to understand but he was definitely at least a little worse at some stage, Short found a position where two pawns up was insufficient to win and he needed a perpetual check to save the day against Karpov.
Kramnik finished first equal (losing only the trophy on tie-break) and gave the impression of not exerting himself excessively. He had fine wins against Karpov, lllescas and Polgar (in this last game he used the French defence) and near miss against Anand were rather frustratingly backed with 5 rather bloodless draws.
Only three of the ten players performed below their ratings. The back markers Short and Illescas and Anatoly Karpov who finished in a tie for third place. Karpov is and always will be a great chess player. His problems are to do with age. He is now 46 years of age and he can't command his full playing strength all the time yet he can never be discounted. His main problems are those of time-trouble errors and an opening repertoire which has become extremely stale. These problems only manifest themselves in tournaments of the highest category such as this and Las Palmas. He might very well be able to motivate himself for more work if a match against Kasparov can be organised but the years spent as World Number one and World Number two seem behind him.
Valery Salov was the most combative player in the event. He won three but lost two games and has once again shown that he belongs in events such as these. After his tremendous results of last year Veselin Topalov seems to have slipped back just slightly. It was probably unreasonable to expect such progress to continue unabated. Here his big problem was his lack of penetration with the white pieces, just one win, but here he may be taking the long view, he is playing Queens pawn openings as well as his more successful 1. e4 repertoire.
Gelfand, Shirov and Polgar all finished on 50% and gained rating points. Judit Polgar looked to be unfortunate in a couple of games, she surely was winning against Topalov (perhaps the bizarre computer inspired suggestion of 40. f4 was the key) and pressurised her opponents in a number of endings. After getting a bad ending against Anand she put up a lot of resistance in the final round too. All three players got their wins from the two back markers.
Short and Illescas will both hope to forget the tournament as soon as possible. Neither got going and both proved very accident prone.
More analysis from Luis Santos of the fascinating ending between Kramnik and Illescas.
Kramnik,V (2740) - Illescas Cordoba,M (2635)[A17]
It, Dos
Hermanas ESP (05), 1997
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.a3 Bxc3 6.Qxc3 b6 7.g3 Bb7 8.Bg2 c5 9.b4 d6 10.0-0 Nbd7 11.Bb2 Qe7 12.d3 Rfc8 13.b5 a6 14.a4 axb5 15.axb5 Qf8 16.e4 Rxa1 17.Rxa1 Ra8 18.Qc1 Rxa1 19.Qxa1 Qa8 20.Qxa8+ Bxa8 21.Nd2 Ne8 22.Nb1 Bb7 23.f4 f6 24.Nc3 Kf7 25.Na4 Ke7 26.d4 Kd8 27.d5 exd5 28.exd5 Nc7 29.Bh3 Na8 30.Be6 Nf8 31.f5 Bc8 32.Kf2 Bd7 33.g4 Ke7 34.g5 Nxe6 35.fxe6 Be8 36.gxf6+ gxf6 37.Ke3 Bg6 38.Kd2 Be4 39.Bc1 Bg2 40.Kc3 Bf1 41.Bh6 Bg2 42.Bf4 Bf1 43.Nb2 Nc7 44.Nd1 Bg2 45.Ne3 Be4 46.Bh6 Ne8 47.Kd2 Nc7 48.Ke2 Ne8 49.Kf2 Nc7 50.Kg3 Bd3 51.Kg4 Ne8 52.Kf4 Bb1 53.Nf5+ Kd8 54.Bf8 Bd3 55.Be7+ Kc7 56.Ne3 Kc8 57.Kg4 Kc7 58.Kh5 Ng7+ 59.Kh6 Ne8 60.h4 Kc8 61.h5 Kc7 62.Ng2 Kc8 63.Nf4 Bc2 64.Bxf6 Nxf6 65.Kg7 Ne8+ 66.Kf7 Nc7 [66...Kd8 67.e7+! Kd7 68.Ne6 Bd1 69.Nf8+ Kc8 70.h6 Bh5+ 71.Kg8 Nf6+ (71...Kc7 72.Nxh7 Kd7 73.Kf8+-) 72.Kg7 more direct than Kh8 72...Ne8+ 73.Kxh7 Bf7 74.Kh8 A) 74...Kc7 75.Ne6+ Kd7 76.Ng7 Nf6 (76...Kxe7 77.Nxe8!+-) 77.Nf5 Ne8 78.h7 Kc7 (78...Bh5 79.Ng7+-) 79.Ng7+-; B) 74...Bh5 75.Ne6! Kd7 76.Ng7 Nf6 (76...Kxe7 77.Nxe8+-; 76...Bg6 77.Nxe8+-) 77.Nf5! (77.Nxh5? Nxh5 78.Kg8 Kxe7 79.h7 Nf6+ 80.Kg7 Nxh7 81.Kxh7 Kf7) B1) 77...Bg4 78.Kg7! Nh7 (78...Ne8+ 79.Kg6) 79.Ne3+-; B2) 77...Ne8 78.Kg8 Bg6 (78...Nf6+ 79.Kg7 Ne8+ 80.Kf8 Bg6 81.Ng7 Nf6 82.e8Q+ Bxe8 83.Nxe8 Nh7+ 84.Kf7 Ng5+ 85.Kg6) 79.h7 Nf6+ 80.Kg7 Bxh7 81.Kxf6 Bxf5 82.Kxf5 Kxe7 83.Kg6+-] 67.e7 h6 68.Ne6 Bd1 69.Kg6 Ne8 70.Nf8 Be2 71.Kxh6 Bxc4 72.Kg6 Bxd5 73.h6 c4 74.h7 Be4+ 75.Kf7 Bxh7 76.Kxe8 Bg8 77.Nd7 c3 1-0
Round 6 (1997.04.08)
Karpov, Anatoly - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 34 D20 QGA;
Gelfand, Boris - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 38 E92 Kings indian; Classical
Polgar, Judit - Kramnik, Vladimir 0-1 44 C01 French; Exchange
Short, Nigel D - Salov, Valery 1-0 63 B01 Scandinavian
Illescas Cordoba, Miguel - Shirov, Alexei 0-1 60 E81 Kings indian; Saemisch
Round 7 (1997.04.09)
Anand, Viswanathan - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 23 B92 Sicilian; Najdorf
Kramnik, Vladimir - Short, Nigel D 1/2 25 D11 Slav defence
Salov, Valery - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 25 A33 English; 1.c4 c5
Topalov, Veselin - Illescas Cordoba, Miguel 1-0 40 E15 Nimzo indian
Shirov, Alexei - Polgar, Judit 1/2 61 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Round 8 (1997.04.10)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Shirov, Alexei 1/2 24 A30 English; 1.c4 c5
Gelfand, Boris - Salov, Valery 0-1 42 E13 Nimzo indian
Polgar, Judit - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 82 C78 Ruy Lopez
Short, Nigel D - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 39 B12 Caro-Kann
Illescas Cordoba, Miguel - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 33 C68 Ruy Lopez; Exchange
Round 9 (1997.04.11)
Anand, Viswanathan - Polgar, Judit 1-0 72 E97 Kings indian; Main line
Salov, Valery - Illescas Cordoba, Miguel 1-0 41 D17 Slav defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 63 D46 Semi-Slav
Topalov, Veselin - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 28 D46 Semi-Slav
Shirov, Alexei - Short, Nigel D 1-0 50 C66 Ruy Lopez
Dos Hermanas (ESP), IV 1997 cat. XIX (2702)
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1 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2765 * = 1 = = = 1 1 = = 6.0 2819
2 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2740 = * = 1 = = = 1 = 1 6.0 2822
3 Salov, Valery g RUS 2665 0 = * = 1 1 = = 0 1 5.0 2748
4 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2760 = 0 = * = = 1 = 1 = 5.0 2738
5 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2725 = = 0 = * = = = 1 1 5.0 2741
6 Gelfand, Boris g BLR 2700 = = 0 = = * = = 1 = 4.5 2701
7 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2690 0 = = 0 = = * = 1 1 4.5 2702
8 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2645 0 0 = = = = = * 1 1 4.5 2707
9 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2690 = = 1 0 0 0 0 0 * 1 3.0 2577
10 Illescas Cordoba, Miguel g ESP 2635 = 0 0 = 0 = 0 0 0 * 1.5 2435
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FIDE are to co-operate with the organisers of the Groningen Chess Festival in the Netherlands over their knockout event that is to be held at the end of the year.
The Republic of Kalmykia, over which FIDE President Kirsan Iljumzhinov rules were granted the rights to hold the event. In return for this they promised to guarantee the prize money. If the entire event had been held in Kalmykia it could have had very serious affects on Dutch Chess. The traditional events of Groningen and of Wijk aan Zee were both threatened by the participation of many of the best players in the FIDE event. Johan Zwanepol (director of the Groningen foundation) entered into the kind of negotiations that brought the PCA qualifier (their approximate equivalent of the Interzonal) to Groningen in 1993. Zwanepol offered Groningen as a venue and promised to meet the organisational costs. Also involved in the negotiations was Joop Haasbroek of the Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee tournament. They were obviously very keen to safeguard the Hoogovens tournament in January. The event in Wijk aan Zee is celebrating its 60th anniversary. The FIDE event will finish no later than January 9th to allow players to travel to that event.
Groningen will host all the stages of the FIDE event up to and including the quarterfinals.
About the FIDE KO Championships
Here are the details, as I understand them:
Dates: 17th December 1997 event starts in Groningen. 9th January 1998 Closing ceremony Elista in Kalmykia. There is the possibility that the semi-finals or finals could be contested in Lausanne Switzerland. This is as a product of the ongoing negotiations between FIDE and the International Olympic Committee which might see chess being included in the Olympic games [Indeed it is possible to envisage how the FIDE model might be adapted to produce an Olympic event].
Sponsors: The Russian Republic of Kalmykia guaranteed the prize money but in the press conference Kirsan Iljumzhinov stated that the whole amount would be met by sponsors who will soon be announced. This is the last key area as the money will be the supreme motivation for the players to enter the event. There will have to be some indication that it exists before people sign up.
To start event will consist of a series of two game matches. The schedule is very tight and it seems that each round will take place over two days. They will be using a time rate which is slightly faster than the normal 7 hour session. In the event of a tie in any of the two game matches there will be a series of speed playoffs on the same day. If Kasparov and Karpov don't play then there will be seven rounds and the semi-final stages will be over four games. The final will be over six games in any event.
The first round will consist of Zonal qualifiers who would have played in the Interzonal tournament that has been cancelled. There will be other players such as the World Junior Champion, Women's World Champion and invitees. In the second round these will be joined by leading players determined by their ratings and players determined by their position in the last FIDE cycle. The third round will see one additional player enter. That will either by Gata Kamsky or if not then Valery Salov based on their position in the last FIDE cycle. If either Kasparov or Karpov choose to play then they will enter at the semi-final stage. Contracts for invitees to the event will be issued in June and the players will have a few weeks to consider their participation, additional reserves will be called up if the number of places is not filled up.
Details of the distribution of the $5,000,000 in prize money. [This is on the basis of an 8 round event. I have no information on what happens if there is a round less if Kasparov and Karpov don't play.]
Losers in round 1. $6,000
Losers in round 2. $12,000
Losers in round 3. $24,000
Losers in round 4. $48,000
Losers in round 5. $96,000
Losers in the quarter-finals. $192,000
Losers in the semi-finals. $375,000
Losing finalist $768,000
Champion $1,370,000
The idea of a knockout World Championships has been around for a few years now amongst some FIDE officials. The replacement of Florencio Campomanes with Kirsan Iljumzhinov allowed them the opportunity to float the idea again and he has taken to the idea with enthusiasm. The World Chess Championships gradually became the most important element of FIDE finance during Campomanes' reign as president. The importance of this income lead to Campomanes trying to reduce the influence of the players over choice of venue for these matches. The economic crisis of the early 1990's put severe pressure on this. When FIDE had to reduce the prize fund of the Short-Kasparov match from that which had been expected the percentage that FIDE took of the money became an issue. This was the prime reason Nigel Short wanted to hold his match outside FIDE. He was pushing at an open door with Kasparov who was intending to split from FIDE after his match with Short anyway.
The split of the authority of the World Championship title between the PCA title of Gary Kasparov and the FIDE title lead to financing problems in both cycles. Kasparov called his match against Anand a disaster in financial terms, FIDE had even less interest in holding their World title match between Karpov and Kamsky which was only resolved when the event was held in Kirsan Iljumzhinov's own home state. FIDE's lack of income has precipitated a dreadful financial crisis. FIDE had already tried to move from matches every three years to match every two years before.
The Knockout Championships were envisaged as an annual event although this doesn't seemed to have been stressed in the recent press conferences. If an annual event can be organised then it might be the solution FIDE's financial problems. In this first Championships they have additional problems. They hope to reunify any claims to the title. They have offered semi-final places to Kasparov and Karpov with the guarantee of $375,000 for even taking part. There are other restraining factors such as they need the support of the players to hold the Championships and they have a lot of players qualified for an Interzonal that is no longer taking place. In the past players entered the World Championships because winning it was the ultimate achievement, now there will be many winners, many opportunities but it is not an event to establish the best player definitively. FIDE hope that the event will attract mass publicity for chess (a reason for holding it over Christmas and New year is that it will not clash with other sporting events) and that the format will produce exciting chess. It also answers the objections of those who question the balance of prize money in previous World Championship cycles (a huge disparity between the winner and those who are eliminated just a few stages earlier) with good money throughout the event. However it is certain to produce decisive results but to the purist seems guaranteed to produce chess of very poor quality.
The first event has unique problems as explained above, in future cycles the prize fund and number of players may be smaller. Iljumzhinov has opened the possibility of changes in consultation with Jan Timman a players representative. However it is still hard to imagine that sponsors will be found year in year out for an event of such cost.
Kasparov meanwhile has had suggestions of his own. Firstly he and Karpov are trying to find funding for an 18 game match which they want to hold. The winner to be recognised as World Champion. Kasparov clearly believes that he is the only World Champion but neatly gets round the question of Karpov's World Title status by simply stating that the winner of their match will be champion. Kasparov has suggested that really there are only a small number of players who could realistically have claims play him in a match (Kramnik, Anand, Topalov, Ivanchuk and Kamsky) and that they could play an elimination tournament to decide who plays him. Earlier he even suggested that anyone with the money for such a match could approach him and he would take him on. Luis Rentero has suggested that the next Linares tournament could invite Kasparov, Topalov, Kramnik and Anand for a quadruple round all-play-all event, a kind of unofficial World Championship. He has suggested this status for his tournament before but also note he has fallen out with Karpov and can't bring himself to invite him.
I would like to see Kasparov and Karpov play so that there is one title and then a World Title Cycle organised such that it is a correct test of strength, in other words a system close to or exactly the same as there has been for 50 years. I believe that the problems in raising profile and money in recent years have been because of the split, not through any fundamental problems with the system before. My own feeling is that the respect there was for the cycle actually gained it more publicity than otherwise would have been the case. Sadly, I do not see a way of this happening. We will see over the next few years whether FIDE's strategy is correct.
Source for the latest news of the FIDE press conferences the FIDE site http://www.chessweb.com/
A remarkable situation has occurred after round 8 of the two main first Saturday tournaments. In the GM event fm Peter Acs is on 8/8 in the IM event Hafizulhelmi Mas is also on 8/8! Acs needs a half from three for his first GM norm but the result also represents his third IM norm and Mas already has the IM norm in the pocket. Information from the organiser Laszlo Nagy. You can contact him in the following ways:
Postal address: H-1101 Budapest, Hungaria krt. 5.-7. XI.ep.I.em.7. Tel-fax: int-(361)-263-28-59
E-mail address: chess_first_saturday_hu@compuserve.com or 100263.1700@compuserve.com
Web site: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/chess_first_saturday_hu/
First Saturday GM Tournament April
Budapest (HUN), IV 1997 cat. VII (2409)
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1 Acs, Peter f HUN 2420 * 1 1 1 . . 1 . 1 1 1 1 8.0 / 8
2 Agrest, Evgenij m RUS 2460 0 * . = = = = 1 1 . 1 . 5.0 / 8 2502
3 Cao, Sang m VIE 2465 0 . * = . 1 = 1 1 . = = 5.0 / 8 2496
4 Stocek, Jiri m CZE 2450 0 = = * 1 . = 0 . 1 1 . 4.5 / 8 2449
5 Almasi, Istvan m HUN 2415 . = . 0 * 0 . 1 = = 1 1 4.5 / 8 2436
6 Lukacs, Peter g HUN 2470 . = 0 . 1 * = 0 1 1 . . 4.0 / 7 2463
7 Csom, Istvan g HUN 2460 0 = = = . = * . = . = 1 4.0 / 8 2413
8 Lengyel, Bela m HUN 2375 . 0 0 1 0 1 . * = = . 1 4.0 / 8 2418
9 Vadasz, Laszlo g HUN 2365 0 0 0 . = 0 = = * 1 . . 2.5 / 8 2286
10 Hoang Thang Trang m VIE 2355 0 . . 0 = 0 . = 0 * = 1 2.5 / 8 2255
11 Ooi Chern Ee MAS 2305 0 0 = 0 0 . = . . = * = 2.0 / 8 2231
12 Kahn, Evarth m HUN 2370 0 . = . 0 . 0 0 . 0 = * 1.0 / 7 2090
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GM norm 8,5, IM-norm 6,5 points last day 16th of April
First Saturday IM Tournament April
Budapest (HUN), IV 1997 cat. I (2252)
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1 Mas, Hafizulhelmi f MAS 2315 * 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 8.0
2 Eperjesi, Laszlo m HUN 2340 0 * = . 1 1 1 1 1 1 6.5 2482
3 Farago, Sandor m HUN 2250 0 = * = 1 . 1 1 = 1 5.5 2400
4 Czebe, Attila m HUN 2325 0 . = * 1 1 = 0 = 1 4.5 2274
5 Grabics, Monika wm HUN 2255 0 0 0 0 * 1 . 1 1 1 4.0 2251
6 Kiss, Gedeon HUN 2190 0 0 . 0 0 * 1 1 1 0 3.0 2172
7 Pinski, Jan POL 2245 0 0 0 = . 0 * 1 = 1 3.0 2164
8 Szeberenyi, Adam HUN 2225 . 0 0 1 0 0 0 * 1 1 3.0 2159
9 De Santis, Alessio f ITA 2255 0 0 = = 0 0 = 0 * . 1.5 2017
10 Gudat, Alfons GER 2115 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 . * 1.0 1946
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IM-norm 7 points, last day 14th of April
Khaled Hassan and Laszlo Nagy send news of this, the first in a series of events to be held in Egypt.
In the first series there were two GM events both 12 player round robins and a 10 round Swiss open which had 54 players , 26 rated , 14 foreign (GER-AUT-HUN-MAR-SYR-JOR-LIB-UKR-TUN-EGY-SVK) The two GM all-play-all events were won by players from the Ukraine. Igor Novikov won the A tournament and Georgy Timoshenko won the B event. Please note that upon receiving the final tables I found the result of the Magdy Georg-Fouad El-Taher was given the wrong way round last week. Below are the final results of the event.
Cairo (EGY), III-IV 1997 cat. VII (2402)
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1 Novikov, Igor A g UKR 2580 * 1 = = 1 = 1 1 1 = 1 = 8.5 2596
2 Horvath, Csaba g HUN 2485 0 * = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 2569
3 Szekely, Peter g HUN 2455 = = * = = = = = = 1 1 1 7.0 2499
4 El Ghazali, Youssef M m EGY 2275 = = = * 1 = 1 0 1 1 = 0 6.5 2478
5 Krizsany, Laszlo m HUN 2435 0 = = 0 * 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 6.0 2435
6 El Taher, Fouad m EGY 2445 = = = = 0 * 1 = 0 = = 1 5.5 2398
7 Georg, Magdy EGY 2345 0 0 = 0 1 0 * 1 0 1 1 = 5.0 2371
8 Hassan, Sayed Barakat m EGY 2390 0 0 = 1 0 = 0 * = 1 0 1 4.5 2338
9 Kaabi, Majdi m TUN 2345 0 0 = 0 0 1 1 = * = = 0 4.0 2305
10 Ahmed, Esam Aly m EGY 2395 = 0 0 0 1 = 0 0 = * = 1 4.0 2300
11 Rahman, Yehya m EGY 2345 0 0 0 = 0 = 0 1 = = * 1 4.0 2305
12 Repkova, Eva wg SVK 2330 = 0 0 1 0 0 = 0 1 0 0 * 3.0 2233
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Cairo (EGY), III-IV 1997 cat. VII (2402)
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1 Timoshenko, Georgy g UKR 2510 * = = 0 = 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 2567
2 Csom, Istvan g HUN 2460 = * = 1 = = 1 = 1 = = 1 7.5 2529
3 Horvath, Jozsef g HUN 2535 = = * 1 = 1 = = = = 1 1 7.5 2523
4 Mohamed, Esam Ahmed Nagib m EGY 2340 1 0 0 * = = 0 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 2509
5 Poldauf, Dirk m GER 2470 = = = = * = = = 1 1 = 0 6.0 2431
6 Afifi, Assem m EGY 2340 0 = 0 = = * 1 1 0 = = 1 5.5 2407
7 Yasseen, Aly m EGY 2370 = 0 = 1 = 0 * 1 0 = 1 0 5.0 2369
8 Himdan, Maher m EGY 2350 0 = = 0 = 0 0 * = 1 1 1 5.0 2370
9 Hakki, Imad m SYR 2395 0 0 = 0 0 1 1 = * = = 0 4.0 2300
10 Mohamed, Farag Amrou f EGY 2365 0 = = 0 0 = = 0 = * = = 3.5 2272
11 Hamed, Ahmed m EGY 2330 0 = 0 0 = = 0 0 = = * 1 3.5 2275
12 Sarwat, Walaa m EGY 2360 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 = 0 * 3.5 2272
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Chess Grand Masters Jan Timman and Vishy Anand will open the 12th Aegon Computer Chess Tournament on Wednesday afternoon, April 16, 1997.
They will play (clock) simultaneous exhibitions against six chess computer programs. Timman and Anand will be challenged by a powerful computer team consisting of six top programs The King, Kallisto, Rebel, Fritz, Genius and Hiarcs.
The outcome promises to reveal the superior computer chess player. The opening event of the tournament will be broadcast live on the Internet.
Participants
The AEGON Computer Chess Tournament has been the premier world computer chess event for many years. More than a mere spectacle of skills, this annual event has become an established rendezvous for chess comrades from around the globe.
This year's tournament will be attended by 50 players from 15 countries with many a Grand Master and Master primed to pit their skills against the 50 specially selected computer programs. Participants include Grand Master David Bronstein (winner of the 1992 and 1993 AEGON Tournament), Lembitt Oll (a chess whiz from Tallinn) and Dutch players Hans Ree, John van der Wiel and Frieso Nijboer. Yasser Seirawan, winner of the 1996 AEGON Computer Chess Tournament, will also participate in this year's competition.
Other players include; Sofia Polgar (one of three celebrated Polgar sisters), Larry Christiansen, Roberto Cifuentes Parada, Jonathan Speelman, Gennadi Timoshchenko, Rob Hartoch and Gert Ligterink.
The Internet
As was the case last year, this year's most important games will be broadcast live, move-by-move, on the Internet. The web site is located at
As from Wednesday April 16, up to and including April 23, the lobby at AEGON Insurance headquarters at 50 Mariahoeveplein will be transformed into a veritable chess battle arena. There will be no competition on Saturday and Sunday.
Participants will each play six rounds, commencing daily at 19.00 hours (CET). The games will be timed by means of the "Fischer Clock". Each player will be allocated 1 hour and 30 minutes per game, with 30 extra seconds for each move. Grand Master Vlastimil Hort and Master Herman Grooten will provide a running commentary using the analysis of computer program The King. They will be assisted by Theo van der Storm, Board Member of the Computer Chess Association of the Netherlands.
Gerald Schendel sends results from the German Bundesliga from April 12th and 13th. One notable result was the draw between Uhlmann and Vaganian in round 12. It was his first draw after starting with 11/11. He was back with another win in round 13 though.
German Bundesliga round 12 SK Passau 5 - 3 SG Bochum SV Erfurt West 4 - 4 Castrop Rauxel Dresdner SC 2 - 6 SG Koeln Porz SV Empor Berlin 4½-3½ Turm Duisburg SCA St. Ingbert 4½-3½ SV Werder Bremen SC Eppingen 3 - 5 SK Delmenhorst Hamburger SK 2½-5½ Solinger SG USC Magdeburg 4½-3½ PSV Wuppertal SK Passau 5 - 3 SG Bochum 1 Ribli 1 : 0 Glek 1 2 Schlosser ½ : ½ Nijboer 4 3 Smejkal ½ : ½ Schmittdiel 5 4 Wells 1 : 0 Bosch 6 7 Klebel ½ : ½ Ellers 10 8 Gross 1 : 0 Buenermann 11 11 Schlingensie 0 : 1 Kitte 12 12 Goetz ½ : ½ De Gleria 13 SV Erfurt West 4 - 4 Castrop Rauxel 2 Votava 0 : 1 Van der Ster 1 3 Casper ½ : ½ Gallagher 2 4 Renner ½ : ½ King 3 5 Kuczynski 1 : 0 Appel 6 8 Mueller 0 : 1 Dinstuhl 10 10 Troyke 1 : 0 Brendel 11 11 Brueggemann 0 : 1 Hennig 12 12 Fuhrmann 1 : 0 Lemmers 15 Dresdner SC 2 - 6 SG Koeln Porz 1 Almasi ½ : ½ Lutz 2 2 Bologan 0 : 1 Huebner 3 3 Teske ½ : ½ Christiansen 5 5 Uhlmann ½ : ½ Vaganian 6 6 Maiwald 0 : 1 Stangl 7 7 Borriss 0 : 1 Van Wely 8 8 Goldberg 0 : 1 Vogt 9 9 Heinatz,T ½ : ½ Van Der Wiel 10 SV Empor Berlin 4½-3½ Turm Duisburg 8 Boensch ½ : ½ Keitlinghaus 9 9 Tischbierek 1 : 0 Unzicker 10 10 Luther ½ : ½ Enders 11 11 Volke ½ : ½ Kraut 12 15 Thinius 0 : 1 Thesing 13 16 Kleeschaetzk ½ : ½ Pirrot 14 17 Meissner 1 : 0 Prang 15 18 Kimpinsky ½ : ½ Schmitz 16 SCA St. Ingbert 4½-3½ SV Werder Bremen 1 Dautov ½ : ½ Hracek 1 2 Martinovic 0 : 1 Kindermann 2 5 Ristic 0 : 1 Knaak 3 6 Kachiani-Ger ½ : ½ Meins 5 7 Werner 1 : 0 Heissler 6 8 Gross 1 : 0 Hedke 10 9 Becker ½ : ½ Meyer 12 10 Kummerow 1 : 0 Linke 17 SC Eppingen 3 - 5 SK Delmenhorst 1 Gyimesi ½ : ½ Rogers 1 3 Arnold 0 : 1 Stohl 2 5 Mann 0 : 1 Beckemeyer 5 6 Donev 1 : 0 Borik 6 9 Schneider 0 : 1 Lauber 7 11 Reinhardt 1 : 0 Reefschlaege 8 12 Dudek 0 : 1 Jugelt 10 13 Staiger ½ : ½ Schlemermeye 11 Hamburger SK 2½-5½ Solinger SG 1 Wahls 0 : 1 Adams 1 2 Ftacnik ½ : ½ Yusupov 2 3 Mueller 1 : 0 Gabriel 5 4 Movsziszian 0 : 1 Chandler 6 5 Michaelsen ½ : ½ Bischoff 7 7 Loeffler 0 : 1 Podzielny 10 10 Heinemann ½ : ½ Schaefer 11 11 Sievers 0 : 1 Reeh 12 USC Magdeburg 4½-3½ PSV Wuppertal 1 Onischuk 1 : 0 Conquest 1 2 Slobodjan 1 : 0 Emms 2 3 Rogozenko ½ : ½ Ward 4 5 Naumann ½ : ½ Schebler 6 6 Proehl ½ : ½ Hausrath 7 7 Stolz ½ : ½ Hetey 8 8 Kapischka 0 : 1 Kinsman 9 9 Darnstaedt ½ : ½ Schiffer 13 German Bundesliga round 13 SG Bochum 3½-4½ SV Erfurt West Castrop Rauxel 5 - 3 SK Passau SG Koeln Porz 6 - 2 SV Empor Berlin Turm Duisburg 3½-4½ Dresdner SC SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ SC Eppingen SK Delmenhorst 2 - 6 SCA St. Ingbert Solinger SG 4½-3½ USC Magdeburg PSV Wuppertal 4 - 4 Hamburger SK SG Bochum 3½-4½ SV Erfurt West 1 Glek ½ : ½ Votava 2 4 Nijboer ½ : ½ Casper 3 5 Schmittdiel 1 : 0 Renner 4 6 Bosch ½ : ½ Kuczynski 5 10 Ellers 1 : 0 Mueller 8 11 Buenermann 0 : 1 Troyke 10 12 Kitte 0 : 1 Brueggemann 11 13 De Gleria 0 : 1 Fuhrmann 12 Castrop Rauxel 5 - 3 SK Passau 1 Van der Ster ½ : ½ Ribli 1 2 Gallagher ½ : ½ Schlosser 2 3 King 0 : 1 Smejkal 3 6 Appel 1 : 0 Wells 4 10 Dinstuhl 1 : 0 Schmidt 5 11 Brendel ½ : ½ Pichler 6 12 Hennig ½ : ½ Klebel 7 15 Lemmers 1 : 0 Gross 8 SG Koeln Porz 6 - 2 SV Empor Berlin 2 Lutz ½ : ½ Boensch 8 3 Huebner 1 : 0 Tischbierek 9 5 Christiansen ½ : ½ Luther 10 6 Vaganian 1 : 0 Volke 11 7 Stangl ½ : ½ Thinius 15 8 Van Wely 1 : 0 Kleeschaetzk 16 9 Vogt 1 : 0 Meissner 17 10 Van Der Wiel ½ : ½ Kimpinsky 18 Turm Duisburg 3½-4½ Dresdner SC 10 Unzicker 0 : 1 Almasi 1 11 Enders 1 : 0 Bologan 2 12 Kraut 1 : 0 Teske 3 13 Thesing 1 : 0 Uhlmann 5 14 Pirrot 0 : 1 Maiwald 6 15 Prang ½ : ½ Borriss 7 16 Schmitz 0 : 1 Goldberg 8 20 Groth 0 : 1 Heinatz,T 9 SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ SC Eppingen 1 Hracek ½ : ½ Gyimesi 1 2 Kindermann 1 : 0 Arnold 3 3 Knaak 0 : 1 Mann 5 5 Meins 1 : 0 Donev 6 6 Heissler 1 : 0 Schneider 9 10 Hedke ½ : ½ Bosbach 10 12 Meyer 0 : 1 Reinhardt 11 17 Linke ½ : ½ Staiger 13 SK Delmenhorst 2 - 6 SCA St. Ingbert 1 Rogers 0 : 1 Dautov 1 2 Stohl ½ : ½ Martinovic 2 5 Beckemeyer 0 : 1 Ristic 5 6 Borik 0 : 1 Kachiani-Ger 6 7 Lauber 0 : 1 Werner 7 8 Reefschlaege ½ : ½ Gross 8 10 Jugelt 0 : 1 Becker 9 11 Schlemermeye 1 : 0 Kummerow 10 Solinger SG 4½-3½ USC Magdeburg 1 Adams ½ : ½ Onischuk 1 2 Yusupov ½ : ½ Slobodjan 2 5 Gabriel ½ : ½ Rogozenko 3 6 Chandler 1 : 0 Naumann 5 7 Bischoff 0 : 1 Proehl 6 10 Podzielny ½ : ½ Stolz 7 11 Schaefer ½ : ½ Darnstaedt 9 12 Reeh 1 : 0 Schnabel 11 PSV Wuppertal 4 - 4 Hamburger SK 1 Conquest 1 : 0 Wahls 1 2 Emms ½ : ½ Ftacnik 2 4 Ward ½ : ½ Mueller 3 6 Schebler 1 : 0 Movsziszian 4 7 Hausrath 0 : 1 Michaelsen 5 8 Hetey 1 : 0 Loeffler 7 9 Kinsman 0 : 1 Heinemann 10 12 Kern 0 : 1 Sievers 11 standings: 1. Solinger SG 13 65 :39 26- 0 2. SG Koeln Porz 13 67 :37 21- 5 3. SV Empor Berlin 13 60½:43½ 18- 8 4. SCA St. Ingbert 13 55½:48½ 17- 9 5. SV Werder Bremen 13 56 :48 16-10 6. SG Bochum 13 52 :52 15-11 7. Castrop Rauxel 13 53½:50½ 14-12 8. Dresdner SC 13 50 :54 13-13 9. SV Erfurt West 13 47½:56½ 12-14 10. Turm Duisburg 13 52 :52 11-15 11. Hamburger SK 13 50 :54 10-16 12. USC Magdeburg 13 49 :55 9-17 13. SK Passau 13 47½:56½ 9-17 14. PSV Wuppertal 13 42½:61½ 7-19 15. SK Delmenhorst 13 42½:61½ 7-19 16. SC Eppingen 13 41½:62½ 3-23 Source: http://members.aol.com/SchachBL/BED/bl13.htm
The headers of the games to the event given in last week's issue should have read the Perenyi mem not the Bela mem.
The event was dedicated to the memory of IM Bela Perenyi, who was killed in a car crash in November 1988. Several people pointed this out to me last week. In addition Steven Rix wondered about the venue also Gyula as this is also a persons name.
Played in Pozarevac (86 km. south of Belgrade) from March 29 to April 12, 1997.
The third time in a row, Natasa Bojkovic won. This time it was really easy. She managed two and half points ahead the second, Suzana Maksimovic, with Fischer's percentage 84.6%. It's pity Alisa Maric didn't play, because she is making preparation for Women's Candidates Tournament, supposed to start the first days of June. The first six got the right to play the next championships. The organization was very good.
Final standings:
1. Bojkovic,Natasa g 2405 11 points out of 13 games
2. Maksimovic,Suzana m 2290 8.5
3. Kostic,Maja m 2215 8
4-5. Vuksanovic,Sanja m 2260 7.5
Petrovic,Marija m 2300 7.5
6. Zivkovic,Vesna m 2135 7
7. Maric,Mirjana g 2305 6.5
8. Markov,Vesna f 2140 6
9-10. Nikolin,Zorica m 2305 5.5
Jovanovic,Sanja m 2285 5.5
11-12. Stankovic,Marija 2115 5
Lazic,Marina m 2220 5
13. Vujic-Katanic,Branka 2145 4.5
14. Relic,Rajna 2095 3.5
The Open Championships of Sweden was held on Gotland Island in Sweden. The winner was ELO favourite Stellan Brynell. The junior Championships was won by Anders Olsson with 7 points from Michael Backman and Robin Johansson.
Gotland (SWE), III 1997
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1 Brynell, Stellan m SWE 2445 +11 + 9 - 7 + 3 + 5 + 2 + 6 +12 +13 8.0 2563
2 Sandstrom, Ludvig SWE 2345 +15 + 3 +21 + 7 + 6 - 1 +12 = 4 - 5 6.5 2361
3 Evertsson, Kristian SWE 2020 +14 - 2 +22 - 1 = 8 +10 +17 + 6 + 7 6.5 2364
4 Berg, Emanuel SWE 2205 +10 -21 + 8 = 6 +13 -12 + 7 = 2 + 9 6.0 2373
5 Johansson, Mikael SWE 2310 + 8 - 7 +13 + 9 - 1 - 6 +23 +17 + 2 6.0 2285
6 Lind, Jan-Olov SWE 2315 +23 +18 +17 = 4 - 2 + 5 - 1 - 3 +12 5.5 2201
7 Kallgren, Mikael SWE 2150 +24 + 5 + 1 - 2 -12 + 9 - 4 +18 - 3 5.0 2205
8 Johansson,Ch ---- - 5 +19 - 4 +25 = 3 =17 =18 +14 =10 5.0 2098
9 Johansson, Carl Fredrik SWE 2240 +16 - 1 +18 - 5 +21 - 7 +22 +13 - 4 5.0 2025
10 Jonsson,K ---- - 4 +25 -12 +19 =14 - 3 +20 +15 = 8 5.0 2000
11 Jiretorn,I ---- - 1 =15 +24 =14 -16 -19 +26 +22 +21 5.0 2121
12 Nylen, Anders SWE 2225 =20 =13 +10 =21 + 7 + 4 - 2 - 1 - 6 4.5 2222
13 Nilsson, Ove SWE 2215 +22 =12 - 5 +17 - 4 +21 +16 - 9 - 1 4.5 1919
14 Andersson, Goran SWE 2205 - 3 +23 =15 =11 =10 -18 +19 - 8 +26 4.5 1862
15 Ohlzon, Nils-Johan SWE 2090 - 2 =11 =14 =16 -22 +25 +21 -10 +24 4.5 2082
16 Hernback,Ma ---- - 9 =24 =20 =15 +11 =22 -13 =19 =17 4.0 1908
17 Larsson,Ve ---- +25 +20 - 6 -13 +18 = 8 - 3 - 5 =16 4.0
18 Olsson,La ---- +26 - 6 - 9 +20 -17 +14 = 8 - 7 =19 4.0 2034
19 Lundgren,Vi ---- -21 - 8 +23 -10 +26 +11 -14 =16 =18 4.0
20 Norevall, Ulf --- ---- =12 -17 =16 -18 +24 -23 -10 +26 +25 4.0 2225
21 Olsson,Le ---- +19 + 4 - 2 =12 - 9 -13 -15 +25 -11 3.5 2027
22 Madison,Si ---- -13 +26 - 3 =24 +15 =16 - 9 -11 =23 3.5 1948
23 Larsson,Ha ---- - 6 -14 -19 +26 +25 +20 - 5 -24 =22 3.5
24 Ekstrom,M ---- - 7 =16 -11 =22 -20 =26 =25 +23 -15 3.0
25 Kovaniemi,Ti ---- -17 -10 +26 - 8 -23 -15 =24 -21 -20 1.5
26 Ericson,B ---- -18 -22 -25 -23 -19 =24 -11 -20 -14 0.5
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Cologne Easter-Open 1997, 29.03 - 06.04.97
GM Victor Kupreijchik was participated in this years Cologne Easter-Open, a 9 round swiss tournament (2h/40,1h rest) organised by the "Klub Koelner Schachfreunde". In the last round GM Kupreijchik managed to win whilst his main rival Dieter Morawietz, who was ahead half a point for almost the whole of the tournament, was held to a draw - so both tied for 1st place.
Leading final standings:
1 GM Kuprejchik,Victor 2476 8.0 / 9 2 Morawietz, Dieter 2440 8.0 / 9 3 Walter, Kurt 2138 6.5 / 9 4 Steinbrecht, Ralf 2111 6.0 / 9 5 Goy, Udo 2137 6.0 / 9 6 IM Schoen, Wolfram 2422 6.0 / 9 7 Herzwurm, Robert 1910 6.0 / 9 8 Bonnmann, Reinhard 2171 5.5 / 9 9 Hogenacker, Jaques 2311 5.5 / 9 10 Kautz, Stefan 5.5 / 9 11 Schaffarth, Peter 2061 5.5 / 9 12 Hubert, Ralf 2363 5.5 / 9 13 Heuser, Philip 1929 5.5 / 9 14 Braslavskij, Alex. 2155 5.5 / 9 15 Becher, Helmut Dr. 2135 5.5 / 9 ... 58 players
Complete results and rating changes at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/eph/kksoster.htm
My thanks to Michael Atkins for sending games from the New York Open.
Sam Sloan's report last week brought some comment both to me and on Compuserve. Sam didn't appear to understand the "no winning chances" rule exactly. The rule is that if a player is very short of time and his claim that no winning attempt is being made by his opponent is accepted he is allowed a delay of five seconds per move (not an ADDITIONAL five seconds per move) on his clock. Five seconds being plenty of time if the position is just dead drawn.
The problem in this case does not seem to have been the interpretation of the rule but Tate's attitude. Carol Jarecki on compuserve made clear what was happening from their point of view
"Tate was drinking scotch (or something of the same color) throughout the match. He was, according to a couple of observers, "giving an ongoing clinic on abusive and obnoxious behavior" throughout the game. His foreign opponent took it calmly. Neighboring players took draws just to get away.
When he made the claim he understood the rule well enough. It was his non-English-speaking Israeli opponent who did not. Moore was trying to explain the procedure and Tate kept up his insulting and abusive manner. He was finally forfeited by Moore which he refused to accept. Then he was again forfeited by me, as chief TD, and we all left to work on prize distribution calculations since it was the last game of the last round and others were waiting for results."
A number of small corrections from last week from the earlier rounds have been included. Either the wrong result or round have been corrected. My thanks to Jasan Luchan and Andy Ansel for a short list of corrected games. The excellent web site for the the New York Open is still worth a look. In the past it has been hard to follow some of the big opens in the States.
Sam Sloan sends the results of the 3rd Annual NYC BLITZ Championships on April 6, 1997. A 14 round Swiss system. Two games against each of seven opponents
Standings
{CODE: $ means won both games; & means won one and drew one; W means won one and lost one; D means drew one and lost one and L means lost both games}
Name rating rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 rd 5 rd 6 rd 7 TOT 1 GM Ehlvest, Jan.......2695 W 32 W 34 $ 27 $ 11 & 10 W 8 $ 15 10 1/2 2 GM Dlugy, Maxim.......2694 $ 30 $ 18 $ 20 W 8 $ 4 D 3 W 6 10 1/2 3 GM Milov, Vadim.......2660 $ 61 $ 39 $ 52 W 4 W 8 & 2 W 7 10 1/2 4 GM Kharlov, Andrei....2641 $ 43 $ 25 $ 53 W 3 L 2 $ 21 & 8 10 1/2 5 GM Smirin, Ilya.......2671 $ 41 L 21 $ 61 & 24 D 9 $ 33 $ 16 10 6 GM Alexandrov, Aleksei2655 $ 42 $ 22 W 21 W 13 W 7 $ 14 W 2 10 7 GM Bologan, Victor....2625 $ 44 $ 17 W 10 W 21 W 6 $ 13 W 3 10 8 GM Epishin, Vladimir..2644 $ 28 $ 23 $ 24 W 2 W 3 W 1 D 4 9 1/2 9 GM Sherzer, Alex I....2559 $ 47 W 19 $ 56 D 10 & 5 D 15 $ 20 9 1/2 10 GM Van Wely, Loek.....2699 $ 40 $ 16 W 7 & 9 D 1 W 20 W 12 9 11 GM Gurevich, Dmitry...2635 W 34 & 32 $ 19 L 1 W 22 & 26 $ 24 9 12 Reprintsev, Alexander.2509 $ 66 L 53 $ 28 W 26 W 16 $ 41 W 10 9 13 IM Weinstein, Norman..2467 W 54 $ 51 $ 31 W 6 W 21 L 7 $ 38 9 14 Perdoma, Carlos.......2380 B--- B--- B--- $ 40 $ 56 L 6 $ 32 9 15 GM Krasenkow, Michael.2665 $ 33 L 24 $ 18 $ 23 W 20 & 9 L 1 8 1/2 16 Tate, Emory A.........2499 $ 45 L 10 & 43 $ 39 W 12 $ 38 L 5 8 1/2 17 Cooke, Eric N.........2322 $ 63 L 7 $ 59 W 52 D 19 W 29 $ 40 8 1/2 18 Marques, Vinicis......2265 $ 49 L 2 L 15 W 36 $ 57 $ 35 & 28 8 1/2 19 Gonzales, Jayson......2248 $ 59 W 9 L 11 $ 45 & 17 W 24 W 23 8 1/2 20 GM Blatny, Pavel......2614 $ 35 $ 26 L 2 $ 53 W 15 W 10 L 9 8 21 Zamora, Jorge Hasb....2473 $ 62 $ 5 W 6 W 7 W 13 L 4 W 22 8 22 Eisen, Lewis..........2403 $ 36 L 6 W 29 & 32 W 11 & 34 W 21 8 23 Marquez, Raul G.......2391 $ 50 L 8 $ 30 L 15 W 42 $ 47 W 19 8 67 players
Gerald Schendel writes:
The final of the Ukrainian junior championship U 20 was held in Simferopol (Crimea) 7-15 March 1997.
It was a strong tournament, but not strong enough for the best Ukrainian players of that age: FM (or IM?) Ruslan Ponomariov (2565, born 11 October 1983) and IM Vladimir Baklan (2530, born 30 May 1978).
I have selected 10 exciting games of the complete (printed) collection with 45 games which Alexander Wassjakin, director of the chess club "Dynamo" in Simferopol, has sent to me (thanks!).
In addition Gerald points out that we have a new Anatoly Karpov born in 1978.
U20 Final / UKR in Simferopol (Crimea) 7-15 March 1997
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
1 Subarev,Alexander 2380 * ? ? 1 1 ? 1 ? 1 1 7.0
2 Belichev,Nikolai 2280 ? * 1 ? 1 0 ? 1 ? 1 6.0 25.00
3 IM Goloshapov,Alexander 2455 ? 0 * ? 1 ? 1 ? 1 1 6.0 23.25
4 IM Ovsseevich,Sergei 2445 0 ? ? * ? 1 1 0 1 1 5.5
5 IM Kozel,Roman 2435 0 0 0 ? * 1 1 1 ? 1 5.0
6 NM Malakhatko,Vadim 2405 ? 1 ? 0 0 * 0 1 1 ? 4.5 18.00
7 FM Fedorchuk,Sergei 2255 0 ? 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 1 4.5 14.00
8 Fukhs,Sergei 2290 ? 0 ? 1 0 0 0 * 0 ? 2.5
9 Gajnutdinov,Rostislav 0 ? 0 0 ? 0 0 1 * 0 2.0 8.00
10 Karpov,Anatoly 0 0 0 0 0 ? 0 ? 1 * 2.0 5.50 *
* Anatoly Karpov (Berdjansk, born 12 April 1978)
The winner, Alexander Subarev, comes from Saporoshje (born 17 December
1979).
The final results from the Open Norwegian Championship 1997 played at Gausdal Høifjellshotell March 31 - April 6 1997. Ties are broken after Norwegian rules. Report first appeared on Rune Djurhuus's page address:
http://www.ifi.uio.no/sjakk.hmtl
Pl. Navn ELO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Poeng 1 Ole Chr. Moen 2182 +34 +12 +06 +21 +05 +10 =02 =03 =04 7.5 2 Frode Elsness 2333 +24 +40 +08 =10 +21 +05 =01 +07 =03 7.5 3 Einar Gausel 2526 +42 -04 +30 +08 +29 +11 +10 =01 =02 7.0 4 Kristian Trygstad 2100 +23 +03 -21 +40 +12 =06 =07 +10 =01 6.5 5 Arne Hugo Bøe 1833 +36 +16 +46 +07 -01 -02 +21 =06 +13 6.5 6 Per Johansson 2110 =19 +38 -01 +20 +17 =04 +14 =05 =08 6.0 7 Lars E.Andersen 2016 +27 +33 =15 -05 +43 +12 =04 -02 +17 6.0 8 Bo Hedlund 2167 +35 +30 -02 -03 +37 =29 +18 +16 =06 6.0 9 Øyvind Pedersen 1856 +48 =29 +16 =22 =11 -14 +31 =15 +19 6.0 10 Stig Tjomsland 2166 +26 +46 +41 =02 +31 -01 -03 -04 +21 5.5 11 Ellen Hagesæther 1925 +28 =22 =29 +32 =09 -03 -13 +24 +23 5.5 12 Arild Johansen 1862 +33 -01 +14 +15 -04 -07 =29 +30 =18 5.0 13 Leif Kverndal 1764 +25 =15 =18 -31 -14 +43 +11 +20 -05 5.0 14 Bo Olsson 1729 =22 =34 -12 +26 +13 +09 -06 -17 +29 5.0 15 Jonny Slemmestad 1690 +39 =13 =07 -12 +40 =21 =22 =09 =16 5.0 16 Erik Lie 1793 +37 -05 -09 +30 =38 +36 +32 -08 =15 5.0 17 Gro Ferkingstad 1918 -18 =31 +42 +47 -06 +38 =19 +14 -07 5.0 18 Atli Hilmarsson 1671 +17 -21 =13 +41 =22 =32 -08 +29 =12 5.0 19 Karl A. Skare 1671 =06 =32 -40 =36 +24 +41 =17 +22 -09 5.0 20 Patrick Siegbahn 1942 -40 =36 +44 -06 =30 +37 +25 -13 +31 5.0
The "Comunidad de Madrid" Tournament (Category 17) is to be played in Madrid (Spain) between May 21st and June 1st. Games start at 15-30 local time. The rest day is on May 28th and on that day there will be an open Blitz Tournament (750.000 pesetas in prizes)
Games will be available on the Internet at http://www.elpais.es
The players are:
Topalov, Veselin.................g BUL 2725 44 Shirov, Alexei...................g ESP 2690 49 Short, Nigel D...................g ENG 2690 22 Salov, Valery....................g RUS 2665 11 Beliavsky, Alexander G...........g SLO 2665 48 Akopian, Vladimir................g ARM 2655 32 Polgar, Judit (GM)...............g HUN 2645 58 w Piket, Jeroen....................g NED 2640 50 Illescas Cordoba, Miguel.........g ESP 2635 26 San Segundo, Pablo...............g ESP 2505 46
Johan Sigeman sends new of Sweden's Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament in Malmoe Sweden is in its 5th edition and is going to be a Category 12 event. It will be held June 9-18, 1997. The tournament is a ten-player round robin. Previous winners are: Ferdinand Hellers (1993 and 1994), Curt Hansen (1994 with Hellers), Ivan Sokolov (1995) and Victor Kortchnoi (1996).
The participants this year are Grandmasters Jan Timman, Ivan Sokolov, Eduardas Rozentalis, Vassilij Smyslov, Curt Hansen, Ferdinand Hellers, Pia Cramling, Jonny Hector, Ralf Åkesson and IM Johan Hellsten.
The tournament can be followed from the official homepage (to be announced).
Special section in the games section Email: avvmartini@mailbox.icom.it WWW : http://www.icom.it./user/scac