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1) Introduction
2) Biel Chess Festival
3) Hostdans Veterans vs Ladies tournament
4) World Junior Championships in Zagan Poland
5) Gunadarma Open
6) Koge Open
Denmark
7) 2nd Mechanics GM invitational San Francisco
8) Balatontourist Open, Hungary
9) 1st Brasilia Chess Club Cup
10) Julian Hodgson wins Canadian Open 1997 by Cecil Rosner
11) News from the USA
12) News from Germany by Gerald Schendel
13) Theoretical Corner by Marco R. Martini (ITA)
Games Section
Credit Suisse, Biel SUI 1997 18 Credis, Biel SUI 1997 10 Hostdans, Copenhagen DEN 1997 25 Canadian Open, Winnipeg CAN 1997 272 Karlsruhe 1997 60 It, Brasilia BRA 1997 56 Open, Las Vegas USA 1997 4 SCCF State Ch., Irvine USA 1997 28 Extra Games Section World Juniors, Zagan POL 1997 484 World Junior (Women)1997 390
My thanks to Gerald Schendel, Cecil Rosner, Ken Horne, Jack Peters, Antonio Bento, Laszlo Nagy, Lost Boys, World Junior www site, Lothar Karrer, the organisers of the Biel Chess Festival and all those who helped with this issue.
Exciting chess from Biel and the World Junior Championships form the basis of this issue. Tal Shaked's win in the World Junior Championships is a great achievement. The winners generally go on to be strong players, although not invariably so it will be interesting to follow his career from now on. Harriet Hunt's win in the women's event will come as no surprise to those Brits who have played her in the last few years. Perhaps she will be invited to play in the Veterans vs Ladies which concluded this week next year.
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
The Biel Chess Festival started 21st July with a bang. Anand playing a spectacular (but perhaps highly theoretical) game against Joel Lautier. There have been a lot of decisive games in the first week mostly because of the mixed strength of the players. Karpov and Anand lead after 7 rounds with 5 points each. Anand lost against Milov in the 7th round. A full roundup of games and results next week. My thanks to the organisers and tonight Lothar Karrer for information from the event.
Internet coverage at:Biel Chess Festival
Round 1 (1997.07.21)
Anand, Viswanathan - Lautier, Joel 1-0 25 B01 Scandinavian
Milov, Vadim - Gelfand, Boris 0-1 50 E41 Nimzo indian
Pelletier, Yannick - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 38 E12 Nimzo indian
Round 2 (1997.07.22)
Gelfand, Boris - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 19 A15 English; 1.c4
Milov, Vadim - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 18 E41 Nimzo indian
Lautier, Joel - Pelletier, Yannick 1/2 41 B63 Sicilian
Round 3 (1997.07.23)
Anand, Viswanathan - Gelfand, Boris 1-0 37 B90 Sicilian; Najdorf
Karpov, Anatoly - Lautier, Joel 1-0 40 D39 Queen's gambit
Pelletier, Yannick - Milov, Vadim 0-1 43 E32 Nimzo indian
Round 4 (1997.07.25)
Karpov, Anatoly - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 41 D46 Semi-Slav
Lautier, Joel - Milov, Vadim 1-0 42 D16 Slav defence
Pelletier, Yannick - Gelfand, Boris 0-1 42 E32 Nimzo indian
Round 5 (1997.07.26)
Anand, Viswanathan - Pelletier, Yannick 1-0 37 B63 Sicilian
Gelfand, Boris - Lautier, Joel 1/2 21 E12 Nimzo indian
Milov, Vadim - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 80 E41 Nimzo indian
Round 6 (1997.07.27)
Karpov, Anatoly - Pelletier, Yannick 1-0 51 D45 Semi-Slav
Gelfand, Boris - Milov, Vadim 1/2
Lautier, Joel - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 34 B87 Sicilian
Round 7 (1997.07.28)
Anand, Viswanathan - Milov, Vadim 0-1 61 A30 English; 1.c4 c5
Karpov, Anatoly - Gelfand, Boris 1/2
Pelletier, Yannick - Lautier, Joel 1/2
Biel SUI (SUI), VII 1997 cat. XVII (2661)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2765 ** =. 1. =0 11 1. 5.0 2800
2 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2745 =. ** == =. 1. 11 5.0 2783
3 Gelfand, Boris g BLR 2695 0. == ** 1= =. 1. 4.0 2714
4 Milov, Vadim g SUI 2635 =1 =. 0= ** 0. 1. 3.5 2684
5 Lautier, Joel g FRA 2660 00 0. =. 1. ** == 2.5 2545
6 Pelletier, Yannick m SUI 2465 0. 00 0. 0. == ** 1.0 2391
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The B Tournament is being dominated by top seed Alexander Onischuk.
Round 1 (1997.07.21)
Hertneck, Gerald - Onischuk, Alexander 0-1 37 A80 Dutch defence
Forster, Richard - Kobalija, Mihail 1/2 22 A07 Reti (1.Nf3)
Jenni, Florian - Gallagher, Joseph G 0-1 35 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Round 2 (1997.07.22)
Onischuk, Alexander - Jenni, Florian 1-0
Kobalija, Mihail - Gallagher, Joseph G 1/2 35 B87 Sicilian
Forster, Richard - Hertneck, Gerald 1/2
Round 3 (1997.07.23)
Gallagher, Joseph G - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 12 C48 Four knights
Hertneck, Gerald - Kobalija, Mihail 0-1 34 A12 English; 1.c4
Jenni, Florian - Forster, Richard 1-0 69 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Round 4 (1997.07.25)
Onischuk, Alexander - Forster, Richard 1-0
Gallagher, Joseph G - Hertneck, Gerald 1/2
Jenni, Florian - Kobalija, Mihail 1/2
Round 5 (1997.07.26)
Kobalija, Mihail - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 77 C55 Two knights
Hertneck, Gerald - Jenni, Florian 1-0 59 E97 Kings indian; Main line
Forster, Richard - Gallagher, Joseph G 1/2 21 B96 Sicilian; Najdorf
Round 6 (1997.07.27)
Onischuk, Alexander - Hertneck, Gerald 1-0
Kobalija, Mihail - Forster, Richard 1-0
Gallagher, Joseph G - Jenni, Florian 1/2
Round 7 (1997.07.28)
Gallagher, Joseph G - Kobalija, Mihail 1/2
Hertneck, Gerald - Forster, Richard 1/2
Jenni, Florian - Onischuk, Alexander 0-1
Biel SUI (SUI), VII 1997 cat. X (2482)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Onischuk, Alexander g UKR 2625 ** =. =. 11 1. 11 6.0 2744
2 Kobalija, Mihail g RUS 2495 =. ** == 1. =1 =. 4.5 2584
3 Gallagher, Joseph G g SUI 2525 =. == ** =. =. 1= 4.0 2495
4 Hertneck, Gerald g GER 2525 00 0. =. ** == 1. 2.5 2390
5 Forster, Richard f SUI 2460 0. =0 =. == ** 0. 2.0 2334
6 Jenni, Florian SUI 2260 00 =. 0= 0. 1. ** 2.0 2382
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Andrei Kharlov leads after 7 rounds in the Master Open
1. GM Kharlov (RUS) 5,5,
2.- 4. GM Adianto (INA), GM Tischbierek (GER), GM Sturua (GEO) 5
5.-21. GM GM Glek (RUS), GM Ibragimov (RUS), GM Chernin (HUN),
IM Podgaets (UKR), IM Siegel (GER), IM Agrest (SWE),
GM Lputian (ARM), GM Cvitan (KRO), IM Jaracz (POL),
IM Kovacevic (YUG), IM Skomorokhin (RUS), GM Tukmakov (UKR),
GM Pavlovic (YUG), GM Romanishin (UKR), IM Levin (UKR),
GM Tseitlin (ISR), IM Seul (GER) 4,5
The Veterans scored a convincing victory over the ladies in this annual fixture by 27 points to 23. The Veterans have come back in the last couple of years and now they are level at 3-3 in the series hosted by the Association Max Euwe. The game scores stand at 183½ to 182½ over all competitions.
The teams tend to be closely matched and this has again produced an interesting event. Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant was the top women's scorer and needed a win in the final round against Spassky to secure a GM norm. However Spassky isn't the ideal player to have to win against and she lost for Spassky's only win in the event. The two teams were almost unchanged from last year's Foxtrot event in London with only one change with Zhu Chen coming in for Sofia Polgar. Portisch and Smyslov were top scorers last year with 6.5 points a very similar result to last year. Internet coverage was by Lost Boys at Lost Boys Site for Veterans v Ladies.
Hostdans Copenhagen DEN 1997
------------------- Smyslov,V 2480 6.5
| --------------- Portisch,L 2610 6.0
| | ----------- Hort,V 2510 5.5
| | | ------- Taimanov,M 2425 4.5
| | | | --- Spassky,B 2550 4.5
| | | | | Total 27.0
1 Arakhamia,K 2430 11 01 0= 1= =0 5.5
2 Cramling,P 2520 == == =0 1= == 5.0
3 Xie Jun 2505 00 1= =1 =0 1= 5.0
4 Zhu Chen 2515 00 00 =1 1= == 4.0
5 Ioseliani,N 2520 0= 0= =0 =0 =1 3.5
Total 23.0
The World Junior Championships took place in Zagan, Poland between 13th-27th July 1997. The event again showed the strength in depth in junior chess with the top seeds in both the men's and women's events being some way off the pace at the end. The boys's event was very close. Tal Shaked and Hristos Banikas were level going into the final rounds. Tal was black against Sergei Movsesian. He was offered a draw on move 14 but he had a difficult decision to make. A draw would produce a 4th and final GM norm Tal had been seeking. Also although the winner of the World Juniors gets a GM norm automatically if they were clear winners, it was not clear that a norm would be offered to a winner on tie-break. On the other top board there was an interesting situation. Mirumian had a better position against Banikas but an inferior tie-break to Tal also by winning Mirumian would score a GM norm so he did not lack motivation. After a thought of about half an hour Tal agreed a draw and had to await the result of the game. As it was Mirumian beat Banikas making Tal the winner of the title. Tal's second was John Watson who also worked with the US participant in the women's event. According to Tal's father Moshe his help was indispensable. One of the prizes for winning the event is a place in the FIDE World KO Championships in Groningen later in the year.
Things were also close in the women's event. Before the last round Harriet Hunt was clear leader by half a point. She had black against Anna Zatonskih of the Ukraine. Her victory on time just before the first time-control gave her guaranteed first place. Hunt has been an improving talent in England over recent years and her victory doesn't come as a total surprise. Top seed Corina Peptan scored 7/13.
The gamescores were produced very quickly day by day. However this led to a number of errors in the moves so the games should be treated with caution. Nevertheless I was very impressed with the professional nature with which the bulletin was compiled, often it takes hours to sort out the headers for the games (the players, adding round numbers etc) which were done exceptionally well in this bulletin.
The event was covered by an on-line website:
http://www.zagan-97.chess.gnet.pl/chess/index.htm
Under 20 Boys 1 16 IM SHAKED, Tal USA 2500 - 9.5 29415 2 17 IM MIRUMIAN, Vigen ARM 2490 - 9.5 28900 3 23 IM BANIKAS, Hristos GRE 2450 - 9.0 69.5 4 3 GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei CZE 2555 - 9.0 65.0 5 19 IM ZHANG, Zhong CHN 2475 - 9.0 58.0 6 14 IM NAJER, Evgeniy RUS 2515 - 8.5 30230 7 20 IM MACIEJA, Bartlomiej POL 2470 - 8.5 29710 8 15 IM IORDACHESCU, Viorel MDA 2500 - 8.5 29285 9 7 IM KASIMDZHANOV, Rustam UZB 2545 - 8.5 29100 10 9 GM KEMPINSKI, Robert POL 2530 - 8.5 28925 11 11 GM DAO, Thien Hai VIE 2525 - 8.0 64.0 12 1 GM MOROZEVICH, Alexander RUS 2590 - 8.0 63.5 13 12 GM GYIMESI, Zoltan HUN 2525 - 8.0 62.5 14 49 FM LI, Shilong CHN 2335 - 8.0 55.5 15 21 IM STOJANOVIC, Mihajlo YUG 2470 - 8.0 49.5 16 30 FM SAVIC, Miodrag R YUG 2430 - 8.0 46.5 17 2 IM BAKLAN, Vladimir UKR 2570 - 7.5 59.5 18 8 FM IVANISEVIC, Ivan YUG 2540 - 7.5 56.5 19 13 IM BAUER, Christian FRA 2525 - 7.5 54.5 20 27 IM VAN DEN DOEL, Erik NED 2440 - 7.5 54.0 21 25 IM VAJDA, Levente ROM 2445 - 7.5 54.0 22 5 GM AVRUKH, Boris ISR 2550 - 7.5 53.5 23 31 KUNTE, Abhijit IND 2430 - 7.5 53.0 24 10 IM KRAKOPS, Maris LAT 2530 - 7.5 52.5 25 4 IM PONOMARIOV, Ruslan UKR 2555 - 7.0 60.5 26 18 IM ROWSON, Jonathan SCO 2490 - 7.0 56.5 27 6 IM KACHEISHVILI, Giorgi GEO 2550 - 7.0 53.5 28 26 FM FLOREAN, Andrei ROM 2445 - 7.0 53.5 29 28 IM SOCKO, Bartosz POL 2435 - 7.0 51.5 30 40 BALOGH, Tomas SVK 2390 - 7.0 51.0 31 52 BAGHERI, Amir IRI 2300 - 7.0 48.0 32 37 IM DELEMARRE, Jop NED 2395 - 7.0 47.5 33 36 IM GOLOSHCHAPOV, Alexander UKR 2400 - 7.0 44.0 34 24 IM MALAKHATKO, Vadim UKR 2445 - 7.0 44.0 35 33 FM TIHONOV, Jurij BLR 2415 - 7.0 43.5 36 39 JIROVSKY, Petr CZE 2395 - 7.0 43.0 37 34 ANTONIEWSKI, Rafal POL 2405 - 6.5 56.0 38 42 ZULFUGARLI, Magomed AZE 2385 - 6.5 53.5 39 32 IM GERSHON, Alik ISR 2420 - 6.5 50.0 40 22 IM PEREYRA ARCIJA, Diego ARG 2460 - 6.5 44.0 41 38 FONTAINE, Robert FRA 2395 - 6.5 43.0 42 54 PODKRIZNIK, Gregor SLO 2295 - 6.5 43.0 43 48 HO, Andrew CAN 2340 - 6.5 37.5 44 47 BATES, Richard ENG 2345 - 6.0 49.0 45 44 BUNZMANN, Dimitrij GER 2370 - 6.0 46.0 46 41 KELLY, Bryan IRL 2390 - 6.0 46.0 47 50 IBRAEV, Nurlan KAZ 2320 - 6.0 44.0 48 56 CARRASCO, Martinez Juan M ESP 2280 - 6.0 42.5 49 51 SCHNEIDER, Stefan SWE 2305 - 6.0 42.0 50 45 BRATANOV, Zsivko BUL 2355 - 6.0 41.5 51 57 REZAN, Sasa CRO 2250 - 6.0 40.5 52 46 MYC, Marcin POL 2350 - 6.0 40.0 53 73 KOVALJOV, Denis EST - 6.0 39.0 54 43 IM HENNI, Mohamed ALG 2375 - 6.0 38.0 55 55 SARAKAUSKAS, Gediminas LTU 2295 - 6.0 35.5 56 69 BLANCO, Cristobal Jose VEN 2090 - 6.0 34.5 57 53 PEDERSEN, Nicolai Vesterb DEN 2300 - 5.5 45.0 58 29 FM SZABO, Zsolt Jozsef HUN 2435 - 5.5 42.5 59 35 IM BLEHM, Pawel POL 2400 - 5.5 39.0 60 63 BIRCHER, Roland SUI 2185 - 5.5 37.5 61 62 PETRY, Croife BRA 2195 - 5.5 33.5 62 64 PIHLAJASALO, Hannu FIN 2185 - 5.5 33.0 63 59 BAE, Torstein NOR 2200 - 5.5 29.5 64 65 DE WACHTER, Matthias BEL 2175 - 5.0 35.5 65 61 MOREIRA, Jairo ECU 2200 - 5.0 35.0 66 67 KARNER, Christoph AUT 2155 - 5.0 35.0 67 60 DANTAS, Carlos POR 2200 - 5.0 31.5 68 71 DWYER, Daniel AUS - 5.0 28.5 69 72 GASSOUMA, Mohamed TUN - 5.0 28.0 70 58 PUTKA, Verner LAT 2220 - 4.5 41.0 71 74 MALIKGULYEW, Vepa TKM - 4.5 36.5 72 77 MORRISON, Graham RSA - 4.5 33.5 73 66 ZERDO, Mirza BIH 2175 - 4.5 26.5 74 68 GUTHRIE, David NZL 2140 - 4.5 23.5 75 78 NABIL, Adel Nasser LBA - 4.0 26.5 76 70 KUCUMENLER, Tarkan TUR 2035 - 4.0 24.5 77 76 MEJIA ESPINAL, Miguel PUR - 2.0 12.5 78 75 MATSUZAWA, Taisuke JPN - 2.0 9.5 Under 20 Girls 1 8 WGM HUNT, Harriet ENG 2360 -10.5 70.5 2 12 WIM DWORAKOWSKA, Joanna POL 2305 - 9.5 72.5 3 3 WGM VASILEVICH, Tatjana UKR 2390 - 9.5 62.5 4 10 WIM ZIELINSKA, Marta POL 2335 - 9.0 5 21 WFM RADZIEWICZ, Iweta POL 2220 - 8.5 62.5 6 18 WIM HAGAROVA, Zuzana SVK 2255 - 8.5 62.5 7 14 WIM SUBBARAMAN, Vijayalakshmi IND 2275 - 8.5 60.5 8 13 WIM CIUKSYTE, Dagne LTU 2295 - 8.0 63.5 9 7 WGM BOBROWSKA, Monika POL 2360 - 8.0 62.0 10 11 WIM ZATONSKIH, Anna UKR 2325 - 8.0 62.0 11 15 MEDVEGY, Nora HUN 2275 - 8.0 56.5 12 6 WIM VAJDA, Szidonia ROM 2375 - 8.0 55.5 13 34 WFM REIZNIECE, Dana LAT 2110 - 8.0 51.0 14 29 WFM DARCHIA, Diana GEO 2150 - 8.0 51.0 15 4 WGM DANIELIAN, Elina ARM 2380 - 7.5 64.0 16 2 WIM LAKOS, Nikoletta HUN 2415 - 7.5 56.5 17 23 WIM RATCU, Tatiana BRA 2215 - 7.5 42.5 18 9 WGM LOMINEISHVILI, Maia GEO 2350 - 7.0 63.5 19 17 LE, Thi Phuong Lien VIE 2265 - 7.0 56.5 20 16 POLOVNIKOVA, Ekaterina RUS 2270 - 7.0 55.5 21 5 WIM PITAM, Ela ISR 2375 - 7.0 52.5 22 24 WFM SMOKINA, Karolina MDA 2205 - 7.0 51.5 23 22 WERNER, Isabel GER 2220 - 7.0 50.5 24 20 GRABARSKA, Barbara POL 2235 - 7.0 50.0 25 1 WGM PEPTAN, Corina ROM 2460 - 7.0 48.0 26 19 WFM LI, Ruofan CHN 2245 - 7.0 48.0 27 31 FRENKLAKH, Jennie USA 2135 - 7.0 46.5 28 56 MARTINEZ, Aleidi Josefina VEN - 7.0 45.0 29 49 BEKKER-JENSEN, Anne DEN - 7.0 36.0 30 28 WFM SERGEEVA, Maria KAZ 2160 - 6.5 56.5 31 44 KUCYPERA, Anna POL 2050 - 6.5 46.5 32 27 WIM NGUYEN, Thi Tuong Van VIE 2160 - 6.5 45.5 33 35 LLANEZA, Patricia ESP 2110 - 6.5 44.5 34 25 HITZGEROVA, Gabriela CZE 2195 - 6.5 44.5 35 46 CHAPELLE, Emilie FRA 2005 - 6.5 40.0 36 48 AROUCHE, Farida ALG - 6.5 38.0 37 30 MOVSISIAN, Naira ARM 2145 - 6.0 46.0 38 37 TETENKINA, Irina BLR 2105 - 6.0 42.5 39 32 WFM BENDERAC, Ana YUG 2130 - 6.0 41.0 40 39 WFM MONCAYO, Evelyn ECU 2085 - 6.0 40.5 41 61 VARK, Liina EST - 6.0 37.5 42 40 MIHALINCIC, Irena CRO 2075 - 6.0 34.0 43 60 TEMIROVA, Aykamar TKM - 5.5 46.5 44 33 GORSHKOVA, Irina UZB 2120 - 5.5 43.0 45 26 AKSIUCZYC, Monika POL 2180 - 5.5 42.5 46 45 HAGESAETHER, Ellen NOR 2045 - 5.5 41.0 47 42 ZIELINSKA, Danuta POL 2060 - 5.5 37.0 48 55 HORN, Emilia SWE - 5.5 35.5 49 43 STUMBERGER, Tania SLO 2055 - 5.5 34.5 50 36 LEONE, Juliana ARG 2105 - 5.5 34.0 51 58 NIKOLOVA, Nevena BUL - 5.5 33.5 52 38 WFM CHU, Stefanie CAN 2095 - 5.5 31.5 53 47 WFM BLANCO, Maria Carolina VEN - 5.0 34.0 54 52 GARCIA, Edit MEX - 5.0 33.5 55 54 HASURDZIC, Mirna BIH - 5.0 31.5 56 41 LANG, Heather SCO 2060 - 5.0 31.0 57 59 SZUVEGES, Narelle AUS - 4.5 25.5 58 50 EROGLU, Elif TUR - 4.0 30.5 59 57 MURRAY, Gisela PUR - 4.0 29.0 60 51 FRANK, Alitha RSA - 4.0 26.5 61 53 GIL, Carla POR - 3.5 22.5
The Gunadarma Open Chess Tournament took place after the World Cities Championships in Jakarta finished on July 14th. The nine round Swiss System event finished on July 23rd and was won by Russian Sergei Tiviakov with a score of 7.5/9, the first prize was $4,000. 2nd= were Nenashev and Savchenko taking away $2,500. There were 3 IM norms including that of Simanjuntak. The event was sponsored by Gunadarma University.
Final Standings
1 Tiviakov, Sergei g RUS 2590 22 14.02.73 7.5
2 Nenashev, Alexander g UZB 2585 43 25.08.62 7
Savchenko, Stanislav g UKR 2565 39 21.01.67 7
4 Shneider, Aleksandr g UKR 2570 13 22.05.62 6.5
Chiong, Luiz f PHI 2355 21 15.03.57 6.5
Saltaev, Mihail g UZB 2490 13 19.11.62 6.5
7 Timoshenko, Georgy g UKR 2570 45 01.06.66 6
Iuldachev, Saidali g UZB 2525 37 31.01.68 6
Nguyen, Anh Dung m VIE 2485 24 17.03.76 6
Tu, Hoang Thong m VIE 2475 0 . . 6
Juswanto, Denny m INA 2435 7 21.01.59 6
Bancod, Ronald m PHI 2405 6 . . 6
Mahmud, Syarif f INA 2325 0 08.02.60 6
Simanjuntak, Sebastian INA 2275 7 11.03.63 6
At the same time as the Veterans vs Ladies tournament a big open took place in Denmark. Lembit Oll and Jan Timman shared first place. Games will follow next week.
http://www.lostcity.nl/chess/hostdans/koges.html
Final Standings 1. Oll,Lembit (-) 6½ 46½ 2. Timman,Jan (-) 6½ 44 3. Hansen,Lars Bo (-) 6 42½ 4. Mortensen,Erling (-) 6 42 5. Sadler,Matthew (-) 5½ 46½ 6. Kengis,Edvins (-) 5½ 43½ 7. Rozentalis,Eduard (-) 5½ 41½ 8. Adams,Michael (-) 5 45½ 9. Hillarp Persson,T.(-) 5 43½ 10. Danielsen,Henrik (-) 5 43 11. Aleksandrov,Alekse(-) 5 42½ 11. Antonsen,Mikkel (-) 5 42½ 13. Yakovich,Yuri (-) 5 42½ 14. Volzhin,Alexander (-) 5 41½ 15. Sokolov,Ivan (-) 5 40½ 16. Hector,Jonny (-) 5 38½ 17. Brinck-Claussen,B.(1) 5 36 18. Drazic,Sinisa (-) 4½ 45 19. Holmsgaard,Henrik (1) 4½ 37 20. Bang,Andreas (1) 4½ 37 21. Salmensuu,Olli (1) 4½ 36½ 22. El-Kher,Henrik (1) 4½ 32½ 23. Hald,Jens Erik (1) 4½ 31 24. Christensen,Bo Gar(1) 4 41 25. Bekker-Jensen,D. (1) 4 35 26. Fuglsang,Flemming (1) 4 34½ 27. Malekian,Babak (1) 4 31½ 54 players
Alexander Baburin took first place in the category 7 2nd Mechanics institute tournament in San Francisco. He was undefeated and he beat a couple of his closest rivals. Victor Frias and Aleksander Wojkiewicz finished joint second. Wojkiewicz arrived late and had to play his rounds one and two games later in the event. Both were drawn.
San Francisco USA (USA), VII 1997 cat. VII (2408)
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1 Baburin, Alexander g IRL 2570 * 1 = 1 = 1 1 = 1 = 7.0 2610
2 Frias, Victor J m CHI 2515 0 * 1 = = 1 0 1 1 1 6.0 2521
3 Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander g POL 2575 = 0 * = = = 1 1 1 1 6.0 2514
4 Fedorowicz, John P g USA 2510 0 = = * = 0 1 1 1 1 5.5 2476
5 Donaldson, John W m USA 2430 = = = = * = 0 1 0 1 4.5 2405
6 Rey, Guillermo m USA 2310 0 0 = 1 = * = = 1 = 4.5 2418
7 Wolski, Thomas f GER 2300 0 1 0 0 1 = * 1 1 0 4.5 2420
8 Lobo, Richard ENG 2340 = 0 0 0 0 = 0 * = 1 2.5 2249
9 Stein, Alan USA 2295 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 = * 1 2.5 2254
10 Bhat, Vinay S USA 2235 = 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 0 * 2.0 2207
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Laszlo Nagy reports that there was an international open chess tournament in Budapest from 18th - 26th of July. The 1st BALATONTOURIST OPEN was held in the Hungarian Chess Federation's tournament hall. There were 82 players in the event, one woman IM, 3 International masters, 6 FIDE masters, 67 % were FIDE rated. There are players from 8 countries, as HUN, CRO (1), RUS (1), SLO (1), NOR (3), DEN (1), FRA (3), ISR (2). The organizer was Joszef Parej.
26th of July 1. IM Borocz,I. /HUN/ - Kovacs, G. /HUN/ 1:0 2. Szuk,B./HUN/ - Jamrich,Gy /HUN/ 1:0 3. Vukovic, I. /CRO/ - IM Dudas,J./HUN/ draw 4. Schlusnik,N. /HUN/ - Trygstad,K. /NOR/ draw 5. Ladanyi,T. /HUN/ - Horvath,G. /HUN/ 1:0 6. Hagesaether,P./NOR/ - Harmatosi,J./HUN/draw 7. IM Orso,M./HUN/ - Nemethne,Csom E. /HUN/1:0 8. Kun,G./HUN/ - Nogradi,V./HUN/ draw 9. Belotelov,/RUS/ - Kis,B./HUN/ 1:0 10.Nagy,Z. /HUN/ - Ivan,Z. /HUN/ draw Leading final standings 1st place: IM Borocz,Istvan /HUN/ 8 points 2nd : IM Dudas,J. /HUN/ 6.5 3rd : FM Szuk,B. /HUN/ 6.5 4th : Jamrich,Gy./HUN/ 6.5 5th : Ladanyi,T /HUN/ 6.5 9 players reached 6 points.
Balatontourist is a Hungarian Travel agency specialising in trips to the Hungarian coast, Balaton lake and so on. (contact address veszprem@balatontourist.hu)
Laszlo Nagy has produced issue 8 of his magazine on Hungarian Chess life which is available at his www page: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/chess_first_saturday_hu/. In addition there are some places for those who want to play in the August edition of his IM and GM tournaments (start August 2nd) You can contact Laszlo Nagy 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
The first Brasilia Chess Club Cup was covered on the internet at :
http://srv3.persocom.com.br/bcx/xbsb1.htm
The event saw some very heavy scoring at the top of the event with the event being won by Darcy Lima. My thanks to Antonio Bento for the games and results for the event.
Brasilia BRA (BRA), VII 1997
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1 Lima, Darcy m BRA 2475 ** 01 == 11 11 =1 11 11 11.5 2503
2 Pelikian, Jefferson BRA 2385 10 ** == 11 1= =1 11 11 11.0 2473
3 Trindade, Sandro m BRA 2345 == == ** =1 1= 11 11 11 11.0 2437
4 De Andrade, Waldomido BRA 2285 00 00 =0 ** 1= == 11 11 7.0 2164
5 Valle, Adriano BRA 2225 00 0= 0= 0= ** == 11 11 6.5 2121
6 Silveira,M ---- =0 =0 00 == == ** 10 11 6.0 2194
7 Lima,F ---- 00 00 00 00 00 01 ** 10 2.0
8 Ramacciotti,J ---- 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ** 1.0
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A record number of grandmasters to play in a Canadian tournament came to Winnipeg from July 12-20 to play in the Canadian Open Chess Championship.
In the spacious Winnipeg Convention Centre, they joined 180 others in a 10-round battle for $16,000 in prizes. When it was over, former British champion Julian Hodgson claimed sole possession of first place with a score of 8.5 out of 10. He earned $3,000 for his effort, and players began snapping up his new series of books on attacking in chess.
The pre-tournament favourite was U.S. grandmaster Alexander Shabalov, fresh from his victory at the World Open in Philadelphia. Shabalov showed up unannounced about an hour before registration closed, and immediately took his seat at top board with a rating of 2618. He played strong chess, but failed to take advantage of good positions in some of his encounters, and finished in a tie for third place a point behind the leader. Despite his performance, he said the tournament reminded him of a European-style event and provided good training for the upcoming U.S. championship
Canadian champion Kevin Spraggett, who had won the Canadian Open for the past two years, had a chance to make it three in a row in his last round game against Hodgson. Needing a win to overtake the leader, he achieved a superior game. But Hodgson found good resources, and Spraggett eventually offered a draw. That guaranteed him clear second place at 8 points and a prize of $1,500. While he admitted to some shaky play at the beginning,
Spraggett said he improved later on and was pleased with his final result. Lev Psakhis, a two-time Soviet champion who now lives in Israel, had a chance to tie for second place, as did Jakov Murey of Israel. But they agreed to a draw in the last round on Board 2, sharing third place with Shabalov, Cuban champion Reynaldo Vera, and Icelandic grandmasters Johann Hjartarson and Hannes Stefansson. Each player won $462.50.
The tournament was so tough that a number of high profile grandmasters and IM's found themselves out of the money. Jesus Noguieras of Cuba, one of the top players in the world during the 1980's, struggled to finish with 7 points. Ilya Smirin, formerly of Minsk and now Israel's top board at the Olympiad, also just managed 7 points, as did fellow Israeli grandmaster Leonid Gofshtein. Canadian IM's Deen Hergott and Bryon Nickoloff kept each other from winning money by drawing in the final round as well.
One of the most fascinating players to watch was Krishnan Sasikiran, the British Commonwealth Under-18 champion. Sasikiran, 16, travelled to North America specifically for the Canadian Open, and held his own against strong competition, scoring 7 points. A native of Madras, he is already the fourth highest rated player in India, and has his eye set on an eventual GM title.
Coverage on the internet is at http://www.escape.ca/~woodbury/co-rd10.htm
Cyrus Lakdawala of San Diego scored an undefeated 5.5-1.5 to win the 1997 Southern California Championship, the invitational state championship for the chess state of Southern California. The tournament, organized annually since 1989, is the only round robin run by the Southern California Chess Federation. This is the third state championship title for Lakdawala. He tied for first in the 1995 Southern California Open, and he achieved the best result in the history of the Southern California Championship when he scored 6.5-1.5 in the 1994 event.
Levon Altounian also went undefeated, but yielded four draws. Jack Peters needed a last-round victory to catch Lakdawala, but lost an exciting game against Andrey Krasnov. Both Krasnov and Valdis Saulespurens played very strongly against some of the prizewinners, and they lack only consistency to contend for first place.
Longtime master Stephen Jones had a fair performance, but he probably hoped for more after his 2-0 start. On the second weekend, he played three long, difficult endgames. Neither Ilya Sterin nor Charles Van Buskirk got many breaks. Sterin should have notched his first win in the final round against Jones, but erred in the second time control (40/120, then SD/60). Van Buskirk had Peters in serious trouble, and even rejected a drawing variation, but overlooked counterplay that turned the game around.
Mike Carr did an excellent job of running the tournament for the Southern California Chess Federation.
Full crosstable from the event
There were 17 players in a five round weekend swiss, in Las Vegas, Nevada, over 18-20 July 97. In this tournament we had two 2300 masters, two 2200 masters. David Vigorito the top player with a 2359 rating got a well derived first place. He beat all three of the other masters to get his 5-0 record. Below are four games between the masters. Note the elos are Unites States Chess Federation ratings
One of the masters was Patrick Hummel, 2232, who is the fourth highest rated player under 13 in the United States. His progress has been as follows: Sep 94-1565, Oct 94-1555, Dec 94-1586, Feb 95-1639, Apr 95-1741, Jun 95-1779, Aug 95-1818, Oct 95-1864, Dec 95-1829, Feb 96-1958, Apr 96-1975, Jun 96-1972, Aug 96-2001, Oct 96-2033, Dec 96- 2145, Feb 97-2209, Apr 96-2218, Jun 97-2198, latest-2232.
1) The regional chess association in Pforzheim ("Schachbezirk Pforzheim") has organized the 1st Elo tournament. Ten players from clubs around Pforzheim were invited (24-31 May).
This tournament was considered as "training" for the organizers (in 1998 the Schachbezirk Pforzheim has the 50th anniversary, and next year an IM tournament will be organized), and 3 players are qualified for the IM tournament next year: Boris Kargoll as the winner, Hans-Peter Remmler and FM Oliver Guenthner as the best players of the Schachbezirk Pforzheim.results:
Teilnehmer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Pkt. SoBerg 1 Kargoll,Boris 2245 * = 1 1 = 0 = 1 = 1 6.0 25.75 2 Hoffmann,Hans FM 2205 = * = 0 = 1 1 1 1 = 6.0 24.75 3 Schulze,Ulrich IM 2355 0 = * 1 1 = = = 1 1 6.0 24.00 4 Schlager,Thomas 2325 0 1 0 * = = = 1 0 1 4.5 19.00 5 Remmler,Hans-Peter 2310 = = 0 = * = 1 0 = 1 4.5 19.00 6 Guenthner,Oliver FM 2290 1 0 = = = * = = = = 4.5 20.25 7 Schneider,Bernd FM 2245 = 0 = = 0 = * 1 1 0 4.0 17.00 8 Hanisch,Joerg ---- 0 0 = 0 1 = 0 * 1 = 3.5 14.25 9 Schneider,Michael 2150 = 0 0 1 = = 0 0 * = 3.0 13.50 10 Gebigke,Martin 2130 0 = 0 0 0 = 1 = = * 3.0 12.50
The games can be found now at the Homepage of the Schachbezirk Pforzheim
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Hajo_Bott/elo-main.htm
2) The chess program "Dark Thought", created by Markus Gille and Dipl.-Inform. Ernst A. Heinz at the Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (University of Karlsruhe; Research Group: Programming Systems / Prof.Dr.W.F.Tichy) has a homepage now:
http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/Tichy/DarkThought/
In April 1997 "Dark Thought" scored 3.5 points out of 6 games at the 12th AEGON Man vs. Machine (2x win, 3x draw, 1x loss) - win against IM Sofia Polgar, draw with GM Cifuentes Parada, sole loss against IM Johan van Mil.
On June 7, 1997, during the first "Karlsruher Uni-Schau" (a public university show day), DarkThought played an exhibition match against the official student chess team from the University of Karlsruhe. While facing strong opposition by Steffen Birk (ELO 2305), Volker Duschek (ELO 2245), Boris Kargoll (ELO 2245), and Volker Klein (ELO 2225), DarkThought won the match 3.0 : 1.0 without loosing any of the four 60-moves-in-60-minutes games. The games are available at:
http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/Tichy/DarkThought/node6.html
Ernst A. Heinz: " (...) This 'man vs. machine' event took place shortly after the 'IBM Deeper Blue vs. Garry Kasparov' rematch and drew a crowd of knowledgeable spectators who were fascinated by frequent high-quality play on all four boards. Interestingly, DarkThought ran on slower computers in the games it won than in the games it only drew! (...)"
3) The traditional 4 states match ("Vierlaenderkampf") with teams from North Rhine-Westfalia (NRW), Lower Saxony, Hesse and Baden was held in the sport school Schoeneck (Karlsruhe/Baden/GER) this year.
Results - round 1: Baden - NRW 5.5:4.5; Hesse - Lower Saxony 5:5
- round 2: Baden - Hesse 7:3; NRW - Lower Saxony 6:4
- round 3: Lower Saxony - Baden 5.5:4.5; Hesse - NRW 5:5
Standings: 1. Baden 4:2 17
2. North Rhine-Westfalia 3:3 15.5
3. Lower Saxony 3:3 14.5
4. Hesse 2:4 13
The winning team from Baden: IM Georg Siegel (2480), IM Guenther Beikert (2435), IM Rolf Schlindwein (2410), Joerg Schwalfenberg (2320), FM Wolfgang Gerstner (2385), FM Lothar Arnold (2375), FM Fabian Doettling (2310), FM Peter Zuse (2340), FM Hartmut Metz (2265) and Johannes Rudolph (2250).
The top scorer with 3/3: IM Sebastian Siebrecht (NRW/board 1), FM Wolfgang Gerstner (Baden/5) and FM Peter Zuse (Baden/8).
Gerald Schendel
Press officer Badischer Schachverband
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