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1) Introduction
2) Lost Boys Chess Festival
3) Michael Adams favourite for the British Chess
Championships
4) The 1997 Quebec Open
5) After GP Mladi Category 10 event.
6) 1997 US Open Championships
7) Stockholm International Chess Tournament
8) Gausdal Chess Festival
9) News from Hungary
10) Stork Open Dutch Youth Tournament, Hengelo
11) International Youth Tournaments
12) Simul Record Query
13) Corinthos Open Greece
Games section
Lost Boys Crown Antwerp BEL 1997 16 ch-GBR Hove ENG 1997 24 After GP Mladi Olomouc CZE 1997 36 It Stockholm SWE 1997 36 Lost Boys Open Antwerp BEL 1997 82 Open Biel SUI 1997 265 Arnold mem Gausdal NOR 1997 137 U20 NED 1997 405
My thanks to Robert Spörri, My thanks to Lost Boys, Jon Tisdall, Laszlo Nagy, Anjo Anjewierden, Robert Ericsson and all those who helped with this issue.
Topalov won the strongest event of the week in Antwerp. His performance in the Crown Group of the Lost Boys event was very impressive, as was the return to form of Victor Korchnoi. The British Championships is just hotting up (as is the weather here) and should produce some interesting chess next week.
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
The Zuiderpershuis in Antwerp was the venue for the 5th in the series of chess tournaments sponsored by Lost Boys. The festival took place between August 1st-10th. There were three open groups of various strengths as well as a "Crown Group" an eight player all-play-all event. The was internet coverage daily including live games at:
http://www.lostcity.nl/chess/antwerp97/games.html
The Crown group was won comfortably by ELO favourite Topalov. Topalov needed a very high score to retain his rating and his 2800+ result was even better than that. He conceded only 3 draws, two with black and was obviously the class act in the field. Victor Korchnoi has had a rough year and this marked a return to form, he only lost one game, to the winner Topalov (a complicated Benko Gambit where he went astray before the first time control after being better) the only other player to have a + result in terms of rating was Ye Rongguang who was the only player to hold Topalov with Black.
Round 1 (1997.08.01)
Topalov, Veselin - Van der Sterren, Paul 1-0 55 C95 Ruy Lopez
Korchnoi, Viktor - Novikov, Igor A 1-0 44 A06 Reti (1.Nf3)
Sokolov, Ivan - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 20 D39 Queen's gambit
Piket, Jeroen - Ye Rongguang 1/2 31 D02 Queen's pawn
Round 2 (1997.08.02)
Ye Rongguang - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 14 A48 Queen's pawn
Piket, Jeroen - Korchnoi, Viktor 1/2 35 D23 QGA;
Novikov, Igor A - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 23 E81 Kings indian; Saemisch
Van der Sterren, Paul - Sokolov, Ivan 1-0 45 A35 English; 1.c4 c5
Round 3 (1997.08.04)
Topalov, Veselin - Piket, Jeroen 1-0 35 C83 Ruy Lopez
Korchnoi, Viktor - Ye Rongguang 1-0 30 B10 Caro-Kann
Sokolov, Ivan - Novikov, Igor A 1-0 34 D43 Semi-Slav
Van Wely, Loek - Van der Sterren, Paul 1-0 65 D37 Queen's gambit
Round 4 (1997.08.05)
Korchnoi, Viktor - Topalov, Veselin 0-1 47 A57 Benko gambit
Ye Rongguang - Van der Sterren, Paul 1/2 61 D37 Queen's gambit
Piket, Jeroen - Sokolov, Ivan 1-0 39 E11 Bogo indian
Novikov, Igor A - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 27 A65 Modern Benoni
Round 5 (1997.08.07)
Topalov, Veselin - Ye Rongguang 1/2 23 C42 Petroff defence
Sokolov, Ivan - Korchnoi, Viktor 1/2 45 D27 QGA;
Van Wely, Loek - Piket, Jeroen 1-0 45 E94 Kings indian; Classical
Van der Sterren, Paul - Novikov, Igor A 1/2 60 D47 Semi-Slav
Round 6 (1997.08.08)
Topalov, Veselin - Sokolov, Ivan 1/2 36 C82 Ruy Lopez
Korchnoi, Viktor - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 48 E98 Kings indian; Main line
Ye Rongguang - Novikov, Igor A 1/2 26 D00 Queen's pawn
Piket, Jeroen - Van der Sterren, Paul 1/2 55 D53 QGD;
Round 7 (1997.08.10)
Sokolov, Ivan - Ye Rongguang 1/2 59 D07 Chigorin
Van Wely, Loek - Topalov, Veselin 0-1 35 A70 Modern Benoni
Novikov, Igor A - Piket, Jeroen 1/2 55 D38 Queen's gambit
Van der Sterren, Paul - Korchnoi, Viktor 0-1 39 D77 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6
Antwerp BEL (BEL), VIII 1997 cat. XV (2615)
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1 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2745 * 1 = = 1 1 = 1 5.5 2826
2 Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2610 0 * 1 = = 1 1 1 5.0 2773
3 Ye Rongguang g CHN 2500 = 0 * = = 1 = = 3.5 2631
4 Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2635 = = = * 0 = 1 0 3.0 2562
5 Piket, Jeroen g NED 2630 0 = = 1 * 0 = = 3.0 2562
6 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2655 0 0 0 = 1 * = 1 3.0 2559
7 Novikov, Igor A g UKR 2590 = 0 = 0 = = * = 2.5 2516
8 Van der Sterren, Paul g NED 2555 0 0 = 1 = 0 = * 2.5 2521
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The Open A Section was won by Belgian star Mikhail Gurevich with 7.5/9 clear from a group which included Predrag Nikolic and Rafael Vaganian. ErikVan den Doel also on 7 points scored his first GM norm. 18 year old WGM Antoaneta Stefanova scored her third Men's IM norm and should get the title later in the year. Willy Hendriks and Henk Vedder both scored IM norms. Mellegers won the B Open and Johan Segers the C Group.
Rank Name Points Buchholz Median S.B. Kashdan 1 Gurevich Michael 7½ 55.50 33.00 45.00 30 2 Nikolic Predrag 7 54.50 32.50 40.75 28 3 van den Doel Erik 7 51.50 31.50 38.25 28 4 Vaganian Rafael 7 51.00 29.00 38.25 29 5 Avrukh Boris 7 50.00 29.00 36.25 29 6 Shchekachev Andrei 6½ 49.00 29.00 33.50 27 7 Lobron Eric 6½ 48.50 28.00 32.75 28 8 Georgiev Kiril 6½ 46.50 28.50 33.50 27 9 Gershon Alik 6½ 43.50 24.50 31.50 28 10 Stefanova Antoaneta 6 50.00 29.50 29.25 26 11 Ljubojevic Ljubomir 6 48.00 27.00 30.50 25 12 Ree Hans 6 45.50 26.50 28.25 26 13 van de Mortel Jan 6 45.50 26.50 27.25 26 14 Barsov Alexei 6 43.50 26.00 28.00 26 15 Vedder Henk 6 41.50 25.00 24.00 25 16 Nijboer Friso 5½ 54.00 32.00 29.75 25 17 Hendriks Willy 5½ 48.00 29.50 27.25 24 18 Sack Uriel 5½ 47.50 28.50 27.50 23 19 Barua Dibyendu 5½ 46.50 27.50 25.50 25 20 Roeder Mathias 5½ 46.50 26.50 26.50 23 21 Delemarre Jop 5½ 46.00 29.50 22.50 24 22 van Mil Johan 5½ 46.00 27.00 24.75 25 23 Wells Peter 5½ 44.00 25.00 25.00 24 24 Eliet Nicolas 5½ 43.50 26.00 24.00 25 25 Shirazi Kamran 5½ 42.00 24.00 24.25 25 26 Jonkman Harmen 5½ 41.50 23.50 22.50 25 27 Dutreeuw Marc 5½ 39.50 23.00 21.00 24 28 van Beek Lucien 5½ (8) 35.50 19.00 22.75 24 29 Grooten Herman 5½ (8) 33.50 18.00 22.00 24 104 players
The strongest British Chess Championships in many years is taking place in Hove England from August 4th-15th. A good turnout has been ensured by Smith & Williamson the new sponsors of the event but it is also a good social event and this has undoubtably helped the turnout also. Michael Adams made a confident start with his expected rivals hitting trouble early on. He currently shares the lead with Aaron Summerscale.
There is live coverage of some games and full results pages at at:http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~peterwalker/bcf/frame.htm
Leading standings. 1 ADAMS,Michael............ gm 2680 5 6 5 2417 4.92 0.08 2 SUMMERSCALE,Aaron........ im 2420 5 6 5 2488 2.46 2.54 3 ANSELL,Simon............. im 2390 4½ 6 4½ 2427 2.70 1.80 4 CONQUEST,Stuart.......... gm 2500 4½ 6 4½ 2343 4.26 0.24 5 HEBDEN,Mark.............. gm 2575 4½ 6 4½ 2383 4.50 0.00 6 KOSTEN,Tony.............. gm 2530 4½ 6 4½ 2381 4.20 0.30 7 LEDGER,Andrew............ im 2415 4½ 6 4½ 2437 2.82 1.68 8 MARTIN,Andrew............ im 2425 4½ 6 4½ 2446 2.82 1.68 9 MILES,Tony............... gm 2600 4½ 6 4½ 2381 4.68 -0.18 10 SADLER,Matthew........... gm 2665 4½ 6 4½ 2377 5.04 -0.54 11 WARD,Chris............... gm 2505 4½ 6 4½ 2323 4.44 0.06 12 EMMS,John................ gm 2530 4 6 4 2374 4.26 -0.26 13 GALLAGHER,Joe............ gm 2525 4 6 4 2345 4.44 -0.44 14 HOUSKA,Miroslav.......... 2360 4 6 4 2321 3.30 0.70 15 HUNT,Harriet............. wg 2360 4 6 4 2235 4.02 -0.02 16 MCSHANE,Luke............. im 2455 4 5 3 2435 2.65 0.35 17 PEIN,Malcolm............. im 2430 4 5 3 2389 2.80 0.20 18 SASHIKIRAN,Krishnan...... fm 2430 4 6 4 2317 3.90 0.10 19 TURNER,Matthew........... im 2445 4 6 4 2457 2.88 1.12
The 1997 Quebec open was won by soon to be GM Alexandre Lesiege. The event took place between 23 July - August 2nd 1997 hopefully there will be games available next week. See the sites below for further coverage.
8.0: IM (GM) Alexandre Lesiege (Montreal)
7.0: GM Leonid Gofshtein (Israel)
6.5: GM Reynaldo Vera (Cuba)
Michael Schleifer (Montreal)
6.0: GM Jesus Nogueiras (Cuba)
IM Jean Hebert (Montreal)
http://132.206.45.67/chess/index.htm
The After GP Mladi tournament takes place in Olomouc in the Czech Republic between August 5th-15th. The event will be covered on-line http://www.proclient.cz/a64/
Round 1 (1997.08.05)
Polak, Tomas - Votava, Jan 1/2 71 A41 Queen's pawn
Manik, Mikulas - Kalod, Radek 0-1 42 B97 Sicilian; Najdorf
Movsesian, Sergei - Biolek, Richard 1-0 24 B01 Scandinavian
Stohl, Igor - Oral, Tomas 1-0 23 E05 Nimzo indian
Mokry, Karel - Berzinsh, Roland 1-0 53 C88 Ruy Lopez
Balinov, Ilija - Babula, Vlastimil 0-1 50 B85 Sicilian
Round 2 (1997.08.06)
Kalod, Radek - Votava, Jan 1/2 29 B42 Sicilian
Babula, Vlastimil - Stohl, Igor 1/2 17 D97 Gruenfeld indian
Manik, Mikulas - Balinov, Ilija 1-0 32 B61 Sicilian
Biolek, Richard - Mokry, Karel 0-1 26 C29 1.e4 e5
Oral, Tomas - Movsesian, Sergei 1/2 26 B40 Sicilian
Berzinsh, Roland - Polak, Tomas 0-1 38 B17 Caro-Kann
Round 3 (1997.08.07)
Polak, Tomas - Biolek, Richard 1-0 43 A87 Dutch defence
Movsesian, Sergei - Babula, Vlastimil 1/2 42 B31 Sicilian
Stohl, Igor - Manik, Mikulas 0-1 37 A53 Benoni
Mokry, Karel - Oral, Tomas 1/2 19 B47 Sicilian
Votava, Jan - Berzinsh, Roland 1/2 34 A17 English; 1.c4
Balinov, Ilija - Kalod, Radek 0-1 46 B85 Sicilian
Round 4 (1997.08.09)
Kalod, Radek - Berzinsh, Roland 1-0 40 A17 English; 1.c4
Babula, Vlastimil - Mokry, Karel 1-0 25 A41 Queen's pawn
Manik, Mikulas - Movsesian, Sergei 1/2 20 B47 Sicilian
Biolek, Richard - Votava, Jan 1-0 35 C02 French; Advance
Oral, Tomas - Polak, Tomas 0-1 37 D35 Queen's gambit
Balinov, Ilija - Stohl, Igor 0-1 57 B85 Sicilian
Round 5 (1997.08.10)
Polak, Tomas - Babula, Vlastimil 1/2 11 D14 Slav defence
Movsesian, Sergei - Balinov, Ilija 1/2 24 B56 Sicilian
Stohl, Igor - Kalod, Radek 1/2 18 B39 Sicilian
Mokry, Karel - Manik, Mikulas 1/2 50 B66 Sicilian
Votava, Jan - Oral, Tomas 1-0 51 B47 Sicilian
Berzinsh, Roland - Biolek, Richard 0-1 81 C55 Two knights
Round 6 (1997.08.11)
Kalod, Radek - Biolek, Richard 1/2 41 C64 Ruy Lopez
Babula, Vlastimil - Votava, Jan 1/2 17 D43 Semi-Slav
Manik, Mikulas - Polak, Tomas 1/2 46 B17 Caro-Kann
Stohl, Igor - Movsesian, Sergei 1/2 33 D15 Slav defence
Oral, Tomas - Berzinsh, Roland 1-0 36 C69 Ruy Lopez; Exchange
Balinov, Ilija - Mokry, Karel 1/2 12 D14 Slav defence
Olomouc CZE (CZE), VIII 1997 cat. X (2491)
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1 Polak, Tomas m CZE 2470 * . = = . . . = 1 1 . 1 4.5 2661
2 Kalod, Radek m CZE 2430 . * . 1 . = . = = . 1 1 4.5 2685
3 Babula, Vlastimil m CZE 2545 = . * . = = 1 = . . 1 . 4.0 2652
4 Manik, Mikulas m SVK 2465 = 0 . * = 1 = . . . 1 . 3.5 2570
5 Movsesian, Sergei g CZE 2555 . . = = * = . . 1 = = . 3.5 2553
6 Stohl, Igor g SVK 2565 . = = 0 = * . . . 1 1 . 3.5 2555
7 Mokry, Karel g CZE 2500 . . 0 = . . * . 1 = = 1 3.5 2532
8 Votava, Jan m CZE 2515 = = = . . . . * 0 1 . = 3.0 2455
9 Biolek, Richard m CZE 2410 0 = . . 0 . 0 1 * . . 1 2.5 2428
10 Oral, Tomas m CZE 2435 0 . . . = 0 = 0 . * . 1 2.0 2382
11 Balinov, Ilija BUL 2560 . 0 0 0 = 0 = . . . * . 1.0 2237
12 Berzinsh, Roland m LAT 2440 0 0 . . . . 0 = 0 0 . * 0.5 2059
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The 98th US Open Championships are underway in Orlando Florida. More coverage next week, the format with its multi-entries and busy man formats means that understandings the standings early on is practically impossible. The event started on August 3rd but only on August 11th were the last entries to accelerated schedules accepted. More news next week.
http://www.store2.com/uschess/news/usopen97.html
The Stockholm International Chess Tournament takes place between 4-15 of August.
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1236/stock.html
After 6 rounds the event is being led by Helgi Olafsson, Tarvo Seeman and Mikhail Rytshagov. Perhaps the greatest talking point might be what was going on in Patrick Lyrberg's mind during his round 6 game. A 3 move loss, the bulletin states
"We have spoken to Patrik Lyrberg concerning his game against Ralf Akesson. Patrik apologises the incident to all the players in the tournament, especially Ralf. It is a shame the incident occured in a tournament but we h have decided that Patrik should continue to participate. However we will report the incident to the Swedish Rules and Arbiter Committee to decide what further actions should be taken. Tournament organisers"
I've seen such games when people are having a bad tournament but this didn't seem to be the case here. Very strange.
Round 1 (1997.08.04)
Seeman, Tarvo - Karlsson, Lars 1/2 35 A08 Reti (1.Nf3)
Agrest, Evgenij - Olafsson, Helgi 1/2 22 A28 English; 1.c4 e5
Akesson, Ralf - Engqvist, Thomas 1-0 32 E05 Nimzo indian
Lyrberg, Patrik - Sjoberg, Mats 1/2 16 E00 Nimzo indian
Wallace, John Paul - Laveryd, Peter 1/2 61 A40 Queen's pawn
Hultin, Johan - Rytshagov, Mikhail 0-1 28 E15 Nimzo indian
Round 2 (1997.08.05)
Seeman, Tarvo - Lyrberg, Patrik 1-0 25 A07 Reti (1.Nf3)
Rytshagov, Mikhail - Wallace, John Paul 1-0 38 B80 Sicilian
Karlsson, Lars - Olafsson, Helgi 1/2 13 A21 English; 1.c4 e5
Sjoberg, Mats - Hultin, Johan 1-0 47 D17 Slav defence
Laveryd, Peter - Akesson, Ralf 1/2 36 B89 Sicilian
Engqvist, Thomas - Agrest, Evgenij 1/2 9 B08 Pirc; Classical
Round 3 (1997.08.06)
Olafsson, Helgi - Engqvist, Thomas 1-0 33 A17 English; 1.c4
Agrest, Evgenij - Laveryd, Peter 1/2 38 E71 Kings indian
Akesson, Ralf - Rytshagov, Mikhail 1/2 35 D85 Gruenfeld indian
Lyrberg, Patrik - Karlsson, Lars 1/2 8 A43 Queen's pawn
Wallace, John Paul - Sjoberg, Mats 1/2 41 B42 Sicilian
Hultin, Johan - Seeman, Tarvo 0-1 50 E81 Kings indian; Saemisch
Round 4 (1997.08.07)
Seeman, Tarvo - Wallace, John Paul 1-0 38 A04 Reti (1.Nf3)
Rytshagov, Mikhail - Agrest, Evgenij 1/2 49 B09 Pirc; Austrian
Karlsson, Lars - Engqvist, Thomas 1-0 39 A30 English; 1.c4 c5
Sjoberg, Mats - Akesson, Ralf 1-0 28 E39 Nimzo indian
Lyrberg, Patrik - Hultin, Johan 1-0 28 D31 Queen's gambit
Laveryd, Peter - Olafsson, Helgi 0-1 43 B12 Caro-Kann
Round 5 (1997.08.08)
Olafsson, Helgi - Rytshagov, Mikhail 1/2 65 A34 English; 1.c4 c5
Agrest, Evgenij - Sjoberg, Mats 1-0 41 A53 Benoni
Akesson, Ralf - Seeman, Tarvo 1/2 75 D94 Gruenfeld indian
Wallace, John Paul - Lyrberg, Patrik 0-1 41 C16 French; Winawer
Hultin, Johan - Karlsson, Lars 1/2 63 A81 Dutch defence
Engqvist, Thomas - Laveryd, Peter 0-1 38 E69 Kings indian
Round 6 (1997.08.09)
Seeman, Tarvo - Agrest, Evgenij 1/2 41 B40 Sicilian
Rytshagov, Mikhail - Engqvist, Thomas 1-0 31 B17 Caro-Kann
Karlsson, Lars - Laveryd, Peter 1-0 49 A21 English; 1.c4 e5
Sjoberg, Mats - Olafsson, Helgi 0-1 64 A32 English; 1.c4 c5
Lyrberg, Patrik - Akesson, Ralf 0-1 3 A45 Queen's pawn
Hultin, Johan - Wallace, John Paul 1/2 46 E91 Kings indian; Classical
Stockholm SWE (SWE), VIII 1997 cat. VIII (2437)
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1 Olafsson, Helgi g ISL 2505 * . = = = . 1 . 1 . . 1 4.5 2641
2 Seeman, Tarvo EST 2395 . * . = = = . 1 . 1 1 . 4.5 2627
3 Rytshagov, Mikhail m EST 2525 = . * . = = . . . 1 1 1 4.5 2624
4 Karlsson, Lars g SWE 2445 = = . * . . . = 1 . = 1 4.0 2538
5 Agrest, Evgenij m SWE 2505 = = = . * . 1 . = . . = 3.5 2497
6 Akesson, Ralf g SWE 2520 . = = . . * 0 1 = . . 1 3.5 2484
7 Sjoberg, Mats m SWE 2420 0 . . . 0 1 * = . = 1 . 3.0 2444
8 Lyrberg, Patrik m SWE 2430 . 0 . = . 0 = * . 1 1 . 3.0 2414
9 Laveryd, Peter SWE 2440 0 . . 0 = = . . * = . 1 2.5 2389
10 Wallace, John Paul m AUS 2350 . 0 0 . . . = 0 = * = . 1.5 2234
11 Hultin, Johan SWE 2355 . 0 0 = . . 0 0 . = * . 1.0 2154
12 Engqvist, Thomas m SWE 2355 0 . 0 0 = 0 . . 0 . . * 0.5 2089
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Arnold Eikrem who died last year continues to be commemorated in these opens which were so much his life. The nine round event saw a shared first between Einar Gausel and Nigel Davies (no tie-break information is available). The event took place between August 1st- 10th. My thanks to Jon Tisdall for the information.
Leading final standings
1 GM Gausel.E 7.0
GM Davies. N 7.0
3 GM Thorhallsson. Th 6.0
GM Rausis. I 6.0
GM Tisdall. J 6.0
GM Ivanov. M 6.0
IM Kristensen. B 6.0
Behrhorst. F 6.0
FM Bjerke. R 6.0
FM Bergstroem. R 6.0
IM Kozakov. M 6.0
12 IM Oestenstad. B 5.5
IM Fyllingen. R 5.5
Elsness. F 5.5
Groenn. A 5.5
16 Malinarski. Y 5.0
GM Westerinen. H 5.0
Karlsson. A 5.0
FM Burgess. G 5.0
Laszlo Nagy sends news from Hungary including from the August First Saturday event. He has produced another issue of his news from Hungary internet page which can be accessed at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/chess_first_saturday_hu/
The August First Saturday GM event was a category VII event. IM Alex Mikhalevski of Israel scored his 2nd GM norm at the event. He is a 39 year old who is rated 2470 and a junior chess trainer in Beer Sheva. This Russian recently emigrated to Israel, his brother, Mikhalevski, Victor is a GM. He plays for the club belonging to Eliyahu Levant , the world famous chess organizer from Beer Sheva. Laszlo Nagy mentions the possibility that he may take his First Saturday events to the Kasparov Chess Academy in Israel with the possibility of 3rd Saturday opens as well.
Round 3 (1997.08.04)
Mikhalevski, Alexander - Turov, Maxim 1/2
Almasi, Istvan - Vadasz, Laszlo 1/2
Acs, Peter - Csom, Istvan 1/2
Arnold, Lothar - Lukacs, Peter 1/2
Karatorossian, David - Madl, Ildiko 0-1
Round 4 (1997.08.05)
Turov, Maxim - Karatorossian, David 1-0
Lukacs, Peter - Almasi, Istvan 1/2
Csom, Istvan - Madl, Ildiko 1-0
Acs, Peter - Arnold, Lothar 1-0
Vadasz, Laszlo - Mikhalevski, Alexander 0-1
Round 5 (1997.08.06)
Mikhalevski, Alexander - Lukacs, Peter 1/2
Almasi, Istvan - Acs, Peter 1-0
Madl, Ildiko - Turov, Maxim 1/2
Arnold, Lothar - Csom, Istvan 1/2
Karatorossian, David - Vadasz, Laszlo 1-0
Round 6 (1997.08.07)
Lukacs, Peter - Karatorossian, David 1-0
Csom, Istvan - Turov, Maxim 1/2
Acs, Peter - Mikhalevski, Alexander 0-1
Vadasz, Laszlo - Madl, Ildiko 1/2
Arnold, Lothar - Almasi, Istvan 1/2
Round 7 (1997.08.08)
Mikhalevski, Alexander - Arnold, Lothar 1-0
Turov, Maxim - Vadasz, Laszlo 1/2
Almasi, Istvan - Csom, Istvan 1/2
Madl, Ildiko - Lukacs, Peter 1/2
Karatorossian, David - Acs, Peter 1/2
Round 8 (1997.08.09)
Almasi, Istvan - Mikhalevski, Alexander 1/2
Lukacs, Peter - Turov, Maxim 1/2
Csom, Istvan - Vadasz, Laszlo 1/2
Acs, Peter - Madl, Ildiko 1-0
Arnold, Lothar - Karatorossian, David 1-0
Round 9 (1997.08.10)
Mikhalevski, Alexander - Csom, Istvan 1/2
Turov, Maxim - Acs, Peter 1-0
Vadasz, Laszlo - Lukacs, Peter 1/2
Madl, Ildiko - Arnold, Lothar 1-0
Karatorossian, David - Almasi, Istvan 1/2
Budapest HUN (HUN), VIII 1997 cat. VII (2414)
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1 Mikhalevski, Alexander m ISR 2470 * = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 2627
2 Turov, Maxim m RUS 2415 = * = = = 1 = = 1 1 6.0 2538
3 Almasi, Istvan m HUN 2430 = = * = = 1 = 1 = = 5.5 2491
4 Lukacs, Peter g HUN 2520 = = = * = 1 = = = 1 5.5 2481
5 Csom, Istvan g HUN 2460 = = = = * = = 1 = 1 5.5 2488
6 Acs, Peter f HUN 2460 0 0 0 0 = * 1 1 1 = 4.0 2365
7 Vadasz, Laszlo g HUN 2320 0 = = = = 0 * = 1 0 3.5 2343
8 Madl, Ildiko m HUN 2375 0 = 0 = 0 0 = * 1 1 3.5 2337
9 Arnold, Lothar f GER 2350 0 0 = = = 0 0 0 * 1 2.5 2254
10 Karatorossian, David ARM 2335 0 0 = 0 0 = 1 0 0 * 2.0 2202
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There is a second IM event which continues.
2nd-12th of August First Saturday IM chess tournament, Budapest
Standings after 9 rounds
1 1 1
Name des Spielers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 Pkte SB_I
1 Schneider, Attila * 0 1 0 1 1 1 « 1 1 6.5 24.50
2 Kahn,Evarth 1 * « « « « « « 1 « 5.5 25.00
3 Farago, Sandor « * « « 1 0 « « 1 1 5.5 21.50
4 Dudas,Janos « « * 0 « « « 1 1 1 5.5 19.50
5 Nezar,Mustapha 0 « « 1 * 1 0 1 « « 5.0 22.00
6 Mifsud,Timothy 1 0 « 0 * 1 « 1 0 1 5.0 20.25
7 Philippe, Christophe 0 « 1 « 0 * « 1 « 1 5.0 19.00
8 Murzin,Lenar 0 « « 1 « * 0 « 1 1 5.0 18.50
9 Pirisi, Gabor 0 « « « 0 « 1 * « « 4.0 18.75
10 Resika, Nathan « 0 0 « 0 0 « « * 1 3.0 13.25
11 Ladanyi, Tibor 0 0 0 1 « 0 « 0 * 1 3.0 10.50
12 Antal, Gergely 0 « 0 0 « 0 0 0 0 * 1.0 5.25
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 Dutch Youth Championships took place in Henglo 4th-9th August. The A event was won by Jan Gustafsson. Full results from the www sites:
http://www.dgtprojects.com/chess/onjk97/onjk.htm
or http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/usr/anjo/onjk.htm
My thanks to Anjo Anjewierden for the games.
There are two major youth events which are taking place at the moment.
Tallinn 9-18 August 1997 which is the European Youth Championships. An individual event with many sections for girls and boys.
http://www.infonet.ee/~novell/chess/tln97.htm
http://www.estpak.ee/~iivoches/
The World Team Under 26 championships are taking place in Roque Saenz Pena, Argentina. There are two site covering this event.
http://www.ecomchaco.com.ar/ajedrez/
http://www.adrian-roldan.com./
My thanks to all those who sent the answer in to this query. Robert Ericsson gave the following reply (as did a few others)
"GM Ulf Andersson, Sweden, played a simul in Alvsjo, Sweden, on the 6th of January 1996 over 310 boards. His result was +268 =40 -2 and all in all the simul took 15 hours and 23 minutes to play.
The former record was held by Dmitrije Bjelickas who played 301 players in Sarajevo in 1982.
Ulf Andersson´s record was observed by a arbiter from The Guiness Book of Records.
There is an open tournament in Corinthos Greece between 3rd-11th August. There will be web coverage.