THE WEEK IN CHESS 230 - 5th April 1999 by Mark Crowther
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4th Stage of Cup Russia, Novgorod 76 games
XXX Mar del Plata International Open 206 games
First Saturday, April 17 games
Danish Chess Championships 30 games
Korchnoi-Spassky Match 4 games
Indian National Championships 44 games
5th Werther Schloß Open 148 games
My thanks to Jan Mußgnug, Laszlo Nagy, John Saunders, GM School,
Michael Atkins, Arne Moll, Venkatachalam Saravanan and all those who helped
with this issue.
A quieter week (a number of events have had to be held over too whilst I get
final information) will cheer up with the start of potentially the most
exciting tournament of the year. The mixture of the Linares crew (Anand,
Kramnik, Svidler, Adams and Topalov) with an exciting mix of adventurers and
experience (Karpov, Morozevich, Judit Polgar, Illescas and Korchnoi) could
prove explosive, lets hope so!
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
After a year off the Dos Hermanas tournament returns as a Category 19 event.
Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik will start as favourites for the event,
but the field as a whole is interesting seeing Alexander Morozevich return to
top class chess and also Judit Polgar's first important tournament for a long
time, they should guarantee plenty of decisive games. Anatoly Karpov too plays
his first really important event for six months. Adams, Svidler, Topalov,
Korchnoi and Illescas make up the rest of the field. The official site is:
http://www.teleline.es/ajedrez/doshermanas99/index.html
The 4th stage of the Russia Cup is in Novgorod took place March 19-27th.
Pavel Kotsur won with 8/10. Mihail Kobalija and Alexander Volzhin finished in
second on 7. The final two rounds of games are now available. There was
coverage at: http://www.ruschess.com and
at http://chess.novgorod.ru
Novgorod RUS (RUS), iii 1999
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1 Kotsur, Pavel g KAZ 2511 +56 +19 +33 =15 = 2 +24 +12 = 5 +14 = 3 8.0 /10 2758
2 Kobalija, Mihail g RUS 2537 +52 =50 +58 + 9 = 1 = 5 = 3 +22 + 6 =11 7.5 /10 2707
3 Volzhin, Alexander g RUS 2548 +59 +75 =16 =17 +20 =15 = 2 +19 + 5 = 1 7.5 /10 2671
4 Volkov, Sergey g RUS 2587 +45 +12 -15 =36 =10 -35 +38 +18 +20 +22 7.0 /10 2642
5 Kharlov, Andrei g RUS 2600 +53 + 6 =17 +22 =15 = 2 + 7 = 1 - 3 =10 6.5 /10 2634
6 Burmakin, Vladimir g RUS 2534 +31 - 5 =40 +47 +29 +16 +15 =14 - 2 = 9 6.5 /10 2623
7 Zakharevich, Igor m RUS 2532 =61 +72 =29 =14 +18 +17 - 5 =27 +24 = 8 6.5 /10 2580
8 Malaniuk, Vladimir P g UKR 2552 +49 =39 +54 =24 =16 =34 =11 =25 +33 = 7 6.5 /10 2640
9 Kharitonov, Andrei Y g RUS 2562 =38 +61 +39 - 2 =13 +45 =10 =12 +35 = 6 6.5 /10 2575
10 Galkin, Alexander g RUS 2507 +70 -33 =49 +40 = 4 +58 = 9 =11 +17 = 5 6.5 /10 2605
11 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2640 =47 -18 +69 =58 +54 +39 = 8 =10 +15 = 2 6.5 /10 2546
12 Loginov, Valery A g RUS 2532 +66 - 4 +37 +44 =14 +33 - 1 = 9 =19 +28 6.5 /10 2615
13 Yevseev, Denis m RUS 2503 +67 =25 -24 +49 = 9 -14 +44 +42 +41 =16 6.5 /10 2558
14 Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2639 =60 +37 =23 = 7 =12 +13 +20 = 6 - 1 =19 6.0 /10 2578
15 Sorokin, Maxim g ARG 2551 +73 +30 + 4 = 1 = 5 = 3 - 6 =33 -11 +43 6.0 /10 2592
16 Dolmatov, Sergey g RUS 2589 =58 +46 = 3 +23 = 8 - 6 +41 =17 =28 =13 6.0 /10 2568
17 Lastin, Alexander g RUS 2558 +42 +41 = 5 = 3 =34 - 7 +29 =16 -10 +35 6.0 /10 2578
18 Goloshchapov, Alexander m UKR 2446 =34 +11 =28 =19 - 7 =27 +59 - 4 +44 +33 6.0 /10 2610
19 Voitsekhovsky, Stanislav m RUS 2558 +40 - 1 +45 =18 =35 +63 +34 - 3 =12 =14 6.0 /10 2555
20 Galliamova-Ivanchuk, Alisa m RUS 2558 -37 +57 +35 +41 - 3 +26 -14 +60 - 4 +39 6.0 /10 2513
21 Sargissian, Gabriel f ARM 2390 -25 =67 +61 =27 =41 +50 =28 =36 =26 +34 6.0 /10 2523
22 Vaulin, Alexander g RUS 2547 =64 +62 +50 - 5 =26 +60 +24 - 2 +25 - 4 6.0 /10 2546
23 Beshukov, Sergei g RUS 2511 +63 =24 =14 -16 -38 +48 -45 +64 +54 +37 6.0 /10 2479
24 Dvoirys, Semen I g RUS 2562 +43 =23 +13 = 8 +28 - 1 -22 +39 - 7 =26 5.5 /10 2544
25 Sherbakov, Ruslan g RUS 2559 +21 =13 -26 +60 -39 +43 +37 = 8 -22 =30 5.5 /10 2502
26 Iskusnyh, Sergei m RUS 2486 =72 +38 +25 -34 =22 -20 =51 +40 =21 =24 5.5 /10 2476
27 Ibragimov, Ildar g RUS 2602 =46 =60 -44 =21 =37 =18 +58 = 7 =43 +36 5.5 /10 2472
28 Yemelin, Vasily g RUS 2550 +48 =29 =18 +63 -24 =38 =21 +45 =16 -12 5.5 /10 2474
29 Yandemirov, Valeri g RUS 2475 +65 =28 = 7 =33 - 6 +40 -17 -37 +49 +45 5.5 /10 2460
30 Karpatchev, Aleksandr g RUS 2477 +71 -15 -63 -59 +67 +31 -42 +48 +38 =25 5.5 /10 2355
31 Loginov, Anton RUS 2320 - 6 -45 +70 -46 +56 -30 =65 +71 +50 +60 5.5 /10 2353
32 Popov, Valerij m RUS 2582 =44 -58 -64 -48 +75 =66 +67 +73 =45 +42 5.5 /10 2317
33 Poluljahov, Aleksandr g RUS 2566 +54 +10 - 1 =29 +36 -12 +35 =15 - 8 -18 5.0 /10 2497
34 Nenashev, Alexander g UZB 2616 =18 +47 =36 +26 =17 = 8 -19 -35 +46 -21 5.0 /10 2489
35 Iljushin, Alexei m RUS 2484 =57 +55 -20 +65 =19 + 4 -33 +34 - 9 -17 5.0 /10 2425
36 Lugovoi, Aleksei g RUS 2510 =55 +64 =34 = 4 -33 +44 =39 =21 =37 -27 5.0 /10 2439
37 Filipenko, Alexander V m RUS 2360 +20 -14 -12 +72 =27 +47 -25 +29 =36 -23 5.0 /10 2485
38 Ivanov, Timur m RUS 2390 = 9 -26 =68 +52 +23 =28 - 4 =46 -30 +58 5.0 /10 2460
39 Prokopchuk, Evgeny m RUS 2489 +68 = 8 - 9 +64 +25 -11 =36 -24 +59 -20 5.0 /10 2464
40 Feoktistov, Alexey A m RUS 2390 -19 +70 = 6 -10 +66 -29 +50 -26 +47 =41 5.0 /10 2444
41 Kalugin, Sergei RUS 2355 +74 -17 +52 -20 =21 +62 -16 +51 -13 =40 5.0 /10 2410
42 Akobian, Varuzhan ARM 2359 -17 =56 -57 +71 =65 +55 +30 -13 +60 -32 5.0 /10 2292
43 Chuprov, Dmitry m RUS 2400 -24 -63 +71 =66 +64 -25 +70 +47 =27 -15 5.0 /10 2372
44 Sambuev, Bator RUS 2409 =32 +76 +27 -12 +57 -36 -13 +66 -18 =53 5.0 /10 2445
45 Nadanian, Ashot m ARM 2413 - 4 +31 -19 +68 +55 - 9 +23 -28 =32 -29 4.5 /10 2428
46 Dokutchaev, A RUS 2443 =27 -16 =59 +31 -63 =70 +62 =38 -34 =52 4.5 /10 2370
47 Akhmadeev, Vadim m RUS 2467 =11 -34 +56 - 6 +49 -37 +57 -43 -40 +65 4.5 /10 2301
48 Shvedov, Sergey f RUS 2331 -28 =68 -65 +32 =53 -23 +55 -30 =57 +71 4.5 /10 2267
49 Bratchenko, Alexander m RUS 2342 - 8 +74 =10 -13 -47 +61 =54 +53 -29 =51 4.5 /10 2367
50 Polovodin, Igor A m RUS 2468 +69 = 2 -22 =57 =62 -21 -40 +63 -31 +64 4.5 /10 2256
51 Hovhanisian, Mher m ARM 2395 -75 -69 -66 +61 +72 +65 =26 -41 =52 =49 4.5 /10 2172
52 Malinin, Yuri RUS 2324 - 2 +53 -41 -38 +69 =54 -73 +70 =51 =46 4.5 /10 2321
53 Chepukaitis, Genrikh RUS 2415 - 5 -52 +74 =55 =48 -57 +56 -49 +66 =44 4.5 /10 2233
54 Iliushkin, Evgen RUS 2405 -33 +66 - 8 +67 -11 =52 =49 +57 -23 =56 4.5 /10 2307
55 Tuturin, S RUS 2248 =36 -35 +76 =53 -45 -42 -48 +72 =62 +59 4.5 /10 2338
56 Tetradze, N RUS 2090 - 1 =42 -47 +76 -31 =64 -53 +75 +73 =54 4.5 /10 2314
57 Levada,I ---- =35 -20 +42 =50 -44 +53 -47 -54 =48 =62 4.0 /10 2352
58 Yarovik, Yu RUS 2415 =16 +32 - 2 =11 +73 -10 -27 -59 +63 -38 4.0 /10 2404
59 Strukov, Robert RUS 2325 - 3 =65 =46 +30 -60 +73 -18 +58 -39 -55 4.0 /10 2314
60 Vokarev, Sergey m RUS 2462 =14 =27 +75 -25 +59 -22 +63 -20 -42 -31 4.0 /10 2344
61 Driamin, D RUS 2267 = 7 - 9 -21 -51 +71 -49 -74 +68 +70 =66 4.0 /10 2239
62 Danielian, Elina wg ARM 2353 =76 -22 =67 +69 =50 -41 -46 =65 =55 =57 4.0 /10 2200
63 Kondenko, Alexey RUS 2254 -23 +43 +30 -28 +46 -19 -60 -50 -58 =75 3.5 /10 2318
64 Krasilnikov, Evgeny RUS 2130 =22 -36 +32 -39 -43 =56 +68 -23 =65 -50 3.5 /10 2274
65 Nalesny,I ---- -29 =59 +48 -35 =42 -51 =31 =62 =64 -47 3.5 /10 2253
66 Pavlov, Aleksandr RUS 2308 -12 -54 +51 =43 -40 =32 +75 -44 -53 =61 3.5 /10 2269
67 Shomoev, Anton RUS 2105 -13 =21 =62 -54 -30 +72 -32 +74 -71 =69 3.5 /10 2165
68 Gavrilov, Andrei RUS 2251 -39 =48 =38 -45 -70 +69 -64 -61 +77 =72 3.5 /10 2121
69 Osoblivy,G ---- -50 +51 -11 -62 -52 -68 -71 +77 +74 =67 3.5 /10 2148
70 Ovod, Evgenija wm RUS 2290 -10 -40 -31 +74 +68 =46 -43 -52 -61 +77 3.5 /10 2184
71 Makovetsky,B ---- -30 =73 -43 -42 -61 +77 +69 -31 +67 -48 3.5 /10 2149
72 Kofanov,S ---- =26 - 7 =73 -37 -51 -67 +77 -55 +75 =68 3.5 /10 2161
73 Iljinsky, Yaroslav RUS 2340 -15 =71 =72 +75 -58 -59 +52 -32 -56 -74 3.0 /10 2084
74 Kazakov, Vladimir RUS 2046 -41 -49 -53 -70 +77 -75 +61 -67 -69 +73 3.0 /10 2062
75 Sazhin,M ---- +51 - 3 -60 -73 -32 +74 -66 -56 -72 =63 2.5 /10 2109
76 Grechihin, Valery g RUS 2556 =62 -44 -55 -56 . . . . . . 0.5 / 4 1953
77 BYE ---- . . . . -74 -71 -72 -69 -68 -70 0.0 / 6
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The XXX Mar del Plata International Open took place March 27th - 4th April.
There was a five way tie on seven points and the event was won by Sergio Slipak
on tie-break from Gilberto Milos, Gilberto Hernandez, Oscar Panno and Andres
Rodriguez. There were US$ 13.500 worth of prizes. Web site:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Cockpit/9356/open.htm
Leading final standings:
1. SLIPAK SERGIO m ARGENTINA 7.0 51.0 44.00
2. MILOS GILBERTO g BRASIL 7.0 49.5 42.50
3. HERNANDEZ GILBERTO g MEXICO 7.0 46.5 39.50
4. PANNO OSCAR g ARGENTINA 7.0 45.0 39.00
5. RODRIGUEZ ANDRES g URUGUAY 7.0 44.5 38.00
6. SPANGENBERG HUGO g ARGENTINA 6.5 49.5 43.00
7. GIACCIO ALFREDO m ARGENTINA 6.5 49.5 42.50
8. ALONSO SALVADOR C.F. 6.5 48.5 41.50
9. PISCICELLI DANIEL f MDP 6.5 48.5 41.50
10. PIERROT FACUNDO m ARGENTINA 6.5 48.0 41.50
11. CRISTOBAL RUBEN MDP 6.5 47.5 41.00
12. FIORITO FABIAN m ARGENTINA 6.5 47.5 40.50
13. KANEFSCK GUSTAVO m MDP ARG 6.5 46.5 39.50
14. RUBINETTI JORGE m ARGENTINA 6.5 45.0 39.00
15. SOPPE GUILLERMO m ARGENTINA 6.5 44.5 37.50
16. HOFFMAN ALEJANDRO g ARGENTINA 6.5 42.0 36.50
17. SZMETAN JORGE m ARGENTINA 6.5 40.0 35.50
18. GIARDELLI SERGIO m ARGENTINA 6.0 47.0 40.50
19. FELGAER RUBEN f CAP. FED. ARG 6.0 46.5 40.00
20. BRAGA FERNANDO m ARG-ITA / MDP 6.0 46.0 40.00
21. LESKOVAR MARIO m ARGENTINA 6.0 43.5 36.50
22. PERALTA FERNANDO m BS. AS. ARG 6.0 43.0 37.00
23. AMURA CLAUDIA g S.LUIS FEM 6.0 41.5 35.00
24. JIMENEZ JOAQUIN ARG S/2200 6.0 40.5 34.00
25. MOREDA LUCAS f ZAR S/20 S/2200 6.0 38.0 30.00
26. CLAVERIE RAUL PINAMAR S/20 S/220 6.0 37.5 32.00
148 players
Laszlo Nagy reports: There are four events taking place in Budapest in April
as part of the First Saturday events. There is one GM event, two IM events and
an ELO event.
FSGM After two rounds
Round 1 (April 3, 1999)
Balinov, Ilija - Salmensuu, Olli 1-0 56 B50 Sicilian
Nguyen Anh Dung - Hoffmann, Michael 1/2 29 D93 Gruenfeld indian
Zontakh, Andrey - Schebler, Gerhard 1-0 23 B15 Caro-Kann
Horvath, Csaba - Csom, Istvan 1/2 15 D36 Queen's gambit
Bu Xiangzhi - Seres, Lajos 1-0 26 A43 Queen's pawn
Riazantsev, Alexander - Hausrath, Daniel 1/2 35 E81 Kings indian; Saemisch
Roeder, Mathias - Hoang Thanh Trang 1/2 56 A87 Dutch defence
Round 2 (April 4, 1999)
Hausrath, Daniel - Bu Xiangzhi 1-0 33 A11 English; 1.c4
Hoffmann, Michael - Roeder, Mathias 1-0 50 B92 Sicilian; Najdorf
Csom, Istvan - Riazantsev, Alexander 1-0 39 A42 Queen's pawn
Zontakh, Andrey - Horvath, Csaba 1/2 70 B33 Sicilian; Sveshnikov
Hoang Thanh Trang - Balinov, Ilija 1/2 33 D85 Gruenfeld indian
Seres, Lajos - Nguyen Anh Dung 0-1 35 E19 Nimzo indian
Schebler, Gerhard - Salmensuu, Olli 0-1 55 A30 English; 1.c4 c5
Budapest HUN (HUN), iv 1999 cat. VIII (2443)
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1 Balinov, Ilija BUL 2434 * . . . . . . = . 1 . . . . 1.5 2642
2 Hausrath, Daniel m GER 2400 . * . . . . . . 1 . = . . . 1.5 2569
3 Hoffmann, Michael m GER 2407 . . * . = . . . . . . 1 . . 1.5 2659
4 Csom, Istvan g HUN 2455 . . . * . . = . . . 1 . . . 1.5 2648
5 Nguyen Anh Dung m VIE 2485 . . = . * . . . . . . . 1 . 1.5 2610
6 Zontakh, Andrey g UKR 2530 . . . . . * = . . . . . . 1 1.5 2674
7 Horvath, Csaba g HUN 2524 . . . = . = * . . . . . . . 1.0 2492
8 Hoang Thanh Trang wg VIE 2450 = . . . . . . * . . . = . . 1.0 2441
9 Bu Xiangzhi CHI 2365 . 0 . . . . . . * . . . 1 . 1.0 2414
10 Salmensuu, Olli m FIN 2449 0 . . . . . . . . * . . . 1 1.0 2436
11 Riazantsev, Alexander f RUS 2387 . = . 0 . . . . . . * . . . 0.5 2234
12 Roeder, Mathias m GER 2448 . . 0 . . . . = . . . * . . 0.5 2235
13 Seres, Lajos m HUN 2428 . . . . 0 . . . 0 . . . * . 0.0
14 Schebler, Gerhard m GER 2439 . . . . . 0 . . . 0 . . . * 0.0
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FSIMA After two rounds
Round 1 (April 3, 1999)
Neumeier, Klaus - Ganaus, Hannes 1/2 11 B33 Sicilian; Sveshnikov
Zimmerman, Yuri - Farago, Sandor 0-1 60 E76 Kings indian
Klicnar, Martin - Lengyel, Bela 1-0 53 C98 Ruy Lopez
Mossong, Hubert - Bawart, Markus 0-1 57 B26 Sicilian; Closed
Wallner, Joachim - Wagener, Claude 0-1 31 C00 French
Round 2 (April 4, 1999)
Farago, Sandor - Mossong, Hubert 1-0 29 B32 Sicilian
Ganaus, Hannes - Wallner, Joachim 1-0 21 D61 QGD;
Klicnar, Martin - Neumeier, Klaus 0-1 45 B70 Sicilian; Dragon
Wagener, Claude - Zimmerman, Yuri 0-1 76 B07 Pirc
Lengyel, Bela - Bawart, Markus 0-1 54 B32 Sicilian
Budapest HUN (HUN), iv 1999 cat. II (2292)
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1 Farago, Sandor m HUN 2314 * . . . 1 . . . 1 . 2.0
2 Bawart, Markus f AUT 2333 . * . . . . . 1 1 . 2.0
3 Neumeier, Klaus f AUT 2248 . . * = . 1 . . . . 1.5 2457
4 Ganaus, Hannes AUT 2279 . . = * . . . . . 1 1.5 2462
5 Zimmerman, Yuri m RUS 2374 0 . . . * . 1 . . . 1.0 2265
6 Klicnar, Martin CZE 2250 . . 0 . . * . 1 . . 1.0 2299
7 Wagener, Claude LUX 2216 . . . . 0 . * . . 1 1.0 2332
8 Lengyel, Bela m HUN 2350 . 0 . . . 0 . * . . 0.0
9 Mossong, Hubert f LUX 2270 0 0 . . . . . . * . 0.0
10 Wallner, Joachim AUT 2290 . . . 0 . . 0 . . * 0.0
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FSIMB After two rounds
Round 1 (April 3, 1999)
Cooke, Eric - Jamrich, Gyorgy 1-0 44 D07 Chigorin
Schneider, Attila - Serrer, Christoph 1-0 23 D11 Slav defence
Leskiewicz, Maksymilian - Pham Minh Hoang 1/2 49 A65 Modern Benoni
Eperjesi, Laszlo - Kahn, Evarth 1/2 12 A07 Reti (1.Nf3)
Khechumyan, Gagik - Dolgener, Tobias 1/2 45 D85 Gruenfeld indian
Round 2 (April 4, 1999)
Kahn, Evarth - Khechumyan, Gagik 1-0 43 D80 Gruenfeld indian
Pham Minh Hoang - Cooke, Eric 0-1 29 E66 Kings indian
Jamrich, Gyorgy - Eperjesi, Laszlo 1/2 57 B12 Caro-Kann
Dolgener, Tobias - Schneider, Attila 0-1 45 B50 Sicilian
Bodrogi, Mihaly - Leskiewicz, Maksymilian 0-1 43 B24 Sicilian; Closed
Budapest HUN (HUN), iv 1999 cat. II (2285)
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1 Cooke, Eric USA 2169 * . . . . 1 1 . . . . 2.0 / 2
2 Schneider, Attila m HUN 2374 . * . . . . . 1 . . 1 2.0 / 2
3 Kahn, Evarth m HUN 2296 . . * . = . . . 1 . . 1.5 / 2 2543
4 Leskiewicz, Maksymilian AUS 2223 . . . * . = . . . 1 . 1.5 / 2 2460
5 Eperjesi, Laszlo m HUN 2329 . . = . * . = . . . . 1.0 / 2 2284
6 Pham Minh Hoang VIE 2357 0 . . = . * . . . . . 0.5 / 2 2003
7 Jamrich, Gyorgy HUN 2273 0 . . . = . * . . . . 0.5 / 2 2056
8 Dolgener, Tobias GER 2275 . 0 . . . . . * = . . 0.5 / 2 2180
9 Khechumyan, Gagik ARM 2372 . . 0 . . . . = * . . 0.5 / 2 2092
10 Bodrogi, Mihaly HUN 2177 . . . 0 . . . . . * . 0.0 / 1
11 Serrer, Christoph f GER 2285 . 0 . . . . . . . . * 0.0 / 1
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You can contact Laszlo Nagy about his First Saturday events. E-mail:
firstsat@elender.hu webpages: http://www.elender.hu/~firstsat and
http://www.illawarra.net.au/chesscentral/
Tel-fax: (361)-263-28-59
The Danish Chess Championships are taking place in Aarhus. There are ten
players in this nine round all-play-all event starting 27th March and was won
Peter Heine Nielsen on tie break from Sune-Berg Hansen, both scored 6.5/9
There is live coverage on the internet at:
http://mmm.uni-c.dk/~dm99/english.htm
Danish Championships (DEN), iii-iv 1999 cat. X (2492)
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1 Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2515 * = = = 1 = = 1 1 1 6.5 2655
2 Hansen, Sune Berg g DEN 2499 = * = = = = 1 1 1 1 6.5 2657
3 Hansen, Curt g DEN 2608 = = * = 1 1 = 0 1 1 6.0 2604
4 Hansen, Lars Bo g DEN 2565 = = = * = = = 1 1 1 6.0 2609
5 Mortensen, Erling m DEN 2424 0 = 0 = * = 1 = 1 1 5.0 2542
6 Schandorff, Lars g DEN 2527 = = 0 = = * 0 = 1 1 4.5 2488
7 Larsen, Bent g DEN 2532 = 0 = = 0 1 * 1 0 = 4.0 2444
8 Fries-Nielsen, Jens Ove m DEN 2447 0 0 1 0 = = 0 * = 0 2.5 2331
9 El-Kher, Henrik DEN 2338 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 = * = 2.0 2289
10 Borge, Nikolaj m DEN 2466 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 = * 2.0 2275
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The Casino Conte in St Petersburg was the venue for a 10 game rapidplay
match (60 minutes for all moves) between Victor Korchnoi and Boris Spassky. The
match was organised by the St. Petersburg Chess Federation as a part of a
celebration of the 275 year jubilee of St. Petersburg University. The match ran
27th March - 1st April. March 30th was a rest day.
Grandmaster Chess School covered the event live at:
http://www.gmchess.spb.ru/classic.htm.
You can see some game annotations there too.
Korchnoi eventually managed to assert his opening superiority and win the
match 6-4. In the early part of the match he ruined a couple of games in time
trouble. However the play was spirited from both all the way through.
Spassky, Boris V - Korchnoi, Viktor 1-0 40 C02 French; Advance
Korchnoi, Viktor - Spassky, Boris V 1-0 38 D85 Gruenfeld indian
Spassky, Boris V - Korchnoi, Viktor 0-1 40 C02 French; Advance
Korchnoi, Viktor - Spassky, Boris V 0-1 45 D85 Gruenfeld indian
Spassky, Boris V - Korchnoi, Viktor 1/2 40 C66 Ruy Lopez
Korchnoi, Viktor - Spassky, Boris V 1-0 28 D70 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6
Spassky, Boris V - Korchnoi, Viktor 1/2 34 C33 Kings gambit
Korchnoi, Viktor - Spassky, Boris V 1-0 41 A59 Benko gambit
Spassky, Boris V - Korchnoi, Viktor 1/2 42 C48 Four knights
Korchnoi, Viktor - Spassky, Boris V 1/2 24 A87 Dutch defence
St Petersburg RUS (RUS), iii-iv 1999
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Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2673 0 1 1 0 = 1 = 1 = = 6.0 2621
Spassky, Boris V g FRA 2549 1 0 0 1 = 0 = 0 = = 4.0 2601
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Venkatachalam Saravanan reports: The National A Championships are being held
March 22-Aprill 11, in Nagpur, central India. The participants include all of
India's top players except Anand and Barua. Participants include Thipsay,
Sashikiran and Kunte etc. There is an official website at:
http://www.bpclnationalchess.findhere.com
Sashikiran leads with 9/11 in this massive 18 player all-play-all.
Indian Championships (IND), iii-iv 1999 cat. VII (2404)
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1 Sashikiran, Krishnan m IND 2525 * 0 = 1 . 1 1 . . . 1 1 . = 1 1 . 1 9.0 2648
2 Kunte, Abhijit m IND 2455 1 * . 0 = . . = 1 . . 1 = = . 1 1 1 8.0 2589
3 Ramesh, R.B m IND 2391 = . * 1 = 0 . 1 . . . = 1 1 . 1 = 1 8.0 2580
4 Thipsay, Praveen M g IND 2467 0 1 0 * . 1 0 = 1 = 1 . 1 1 . . . . 7.0 2514
5 Prakash, G B IND 2403 . = = . * = = = = 1 = . = . 1 . 1 . 7.0 2502
6 Suvrajit, Saha IND 2335 0 . 1 0 = * = . . . 1 0 . = = = . 1 5.5 2398
7 Ravi, Thandalam Shanmugam f IND 2336 0 . . 1 = = * . . . 1 = . 1 0 = = 0 5.5 2399
8 Prasad, Devaki V m IND 2435 . = 0 = = . . * = = = . 0 . 1 . 1 = 5.5 2415
9 Konguvel, Ponnuswamy m IND 2436 . 0 . 0 = . . = * = . = = . = 1 = 1 5.5 2403
10 Saravanan, V IND 2393 . . . = 0 . . = = * . 0 0 = 1 = 1 1 5.5 2399
11 Neelotpal, Das IND 2436 0 . . 0 = 0 0 = . . * 1 . = . 1 = 1 5.0 2360
12 Bakre, Tejas m IND 2333 0 0 = . . 1 = . = 1 0 * . = = 0 . . 4.5 2335
13 Deshmukh, Anup IND 2430 . = 0 0 = . . 1 = 1 . . * . 0 0 = 0 4.0 2307
14 Koshy, Varugeese m IND 2368 = = 0 0 . = 0 . . = = = . * = = . . 4.0 2298
15 Mishra, Neeraj-Kumar m IND 2363 0 . . . 0 = 1 0 = 0 . = 1 = * . 0 . 4.0 2297
16 Rathore, S.K IND 2372 0 0 0 . . = = . 0 = 0 1 1 = . * . . 4.0 2301
17 Hegde, Ravi Gopal m IND 2397 . 0 = . 0 . = 0 = 0 = . = . 1 . * 0 3.5 2273
18 Shankar, Roy IND 2394 0 0 0 . . 0 1 = 0 0 0 . 1 . . . 1 * 3.5 2282
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Jan Mußgnug reports on the 5th Werther Schloß Open. 142 chess
players took part in the 5th Werther Schloß Open which ran from March
26th - 28th. 60 participants played in the A-group (Rating >1800 ), 82 in
the B- group. Games now available.
The tournament was won by IM Alexandre Sulypa due to the better tie-breaker.
He shared places 1-3 with R.Seger and D.Bunzmann (all on 4,5/5). The B group
was dominated by S.Raicich who took 1st place alone with 5/5. The event was
sponsored by the Sparkasse Halle/Westf.
Further information: http://www.wadewitz.de/skwerther/
There is a Campaign in the UK to have chess recognised as a sport. This
cause now has a number of supporters in Parliament including Charlotte Atkins
MP (Labour) and Dr Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat). Dr Harris succeeded in
arranging an adjournment debate in the Commons on ' Government Support for UK
Chess ' and the Minister for Sport, Tony Banks, a particularly charismatic
politician, answered for the government. Mr Banks had already gone on the
record as saying he thought chess should be recognised as a sport and a very
well informed and sometimes entertaining, debate ensued. You can see the full
transcript in Hansard, which is on the net at:
Full debate at:http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/cgi-bin/htmhl?WORDS
=chess&STYLE=s&COLOR=Red&STEMMER=stem&URL=/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/
cm990315/debtext/90315-41.htm#90315-41_spnew0
Dorian Rogozenko (rated number 2 in the Romanian ELO list) writes about the
problems of the ELO list, which although he refers to problems in Romania has
an impact on all chess players.
Open letter to FIDE
Dear Sirs,
In this open letter I want to give publicity to some facts concerning three
tournaments in Romania, which after the Presidential Board meeting in Ankara,
Turkey (13-14 March 1999), are to be investigated. After these tournaments the
Romanian Alexandru Crisan jumped from Elo rating 2530 to 2635. The whole
subject makes an extremely bad image for all Romanian players and given the
fact that I recently moved to Bucharest and changed the Federation, I'm
directly affected by the situation.
Now let me tell you some facts which are recorded documentary: from
November 1996 till February 1997, A.Crisan had an ELO of 2530 (this rating
certainly needs an explanation, but that's another story) "played"
several matches in a competition created by himself based on knockout system.
The semi-finals of that competition took place in different cities at the same
time and had the same arbiter(!), which, by the way, later officially denied
that he ever refereed those events. One of the semi-final matches was won by
Crisan with an incredible score 10,5:1,5 against an International Master. There
were 12 games planned in the match, so why it didn't stop after 7 games when
the score was already 6,5:0,5 remains a mystery. The final match Crisan won
even more convincingly - 14,5:1,5 (16 games were planned, after 9 games the
score was 8,5:0,5) against another IM with Elo 2405. That tournament was not
counted yet for the July 1997 Elo list, so Crisan could do "the big
jump" at once for January 1998. From 28.06.97 till 13.07.97 there was
another event, where Crisan proved his clear superiority and increasing power.
It was a double round robin tournament ( FIDE cat. 9) in which A.Crisan made a
result in Morozevich´s style - 13 out of 14! Not bad, but let us see those
spectacular games! The few people who saw some scoresheets said that the games
were spectacular indeed...
After these "competitions" Crisan appeared on the 1.01.1998 Elo
list with a new rating 2635 and was placed on 33rd position in the world top
100. Of course this fact was immediately observed by the international chess
media. The Romanian Chess Federation (RCF) had to do something and sent to FIDE
a demand to exclude the above mentioned tournaments from the Elo calculation
and FIDE did it. After that RCF suspended A.Crisan for 2 years from chess
activity. Everything looked relatively normal at that time, but important
things happened since then and the situation is completely different these
days.. I'll be brief and will mention here the main points:
1.A.Crisan started a fight against RCF and even sued some officials from
RCF. 2.The President and General Secretary of RCF changed after multiple
pressures from Sport Ministry (!) 3.RCF has now a different position regarding
the whole story and tries to re-establish Crisan´s rating.
One should say that A. Crisan has got considerable support from different
Romanian officials. All these dirty games played by some Romanian office
workers create, I repeat, a very bad image for us, players. I want to point out
that all leading Romanian players dislike the situation and disagree with RCF
about the case. The players in Romania know the real strength of Crisan and now
its hard to understand why such an obvious case has to be investigated. I mean
the problem is that its almost impossible to prove that someone bought points
(although in this particular case the rules are obviously broken several
times). And if you can't prove it, what happens? Give the guy back everything
he bought? Imagine I arrange (not play!) a match with an IM and win it 20:0
(why not?) - I gain a lot of rating points. You'll never prove I didn't play
that match. The only way to appreciate my real strength is to see me playing
other tournaments. But if I never do it (like Crisan), then what? I'm sure that
in the whole system of calculating rating points some changes should be done.
Maybe one should lose his rating after one or two years of inactivity, maybe
there should be a limit of gaining rating points per tournament. Perhaps there
must be stricter ways of controlling tournaments and in case of arranged
tournaments, if discovered, there should be punishment for arbiters too, and,
why not, for the National Federations!? A. Crisan´s case is very clear to
everybody who knows the facts and it is a reflection of an aged system of
rating points calculation which needs improvement. The new rule of gaining at
most 100 rating points in one time period is a beginning, but certainly not
enough to stop the problem of arranged results. A.Crisan, who doesn't have a
single game during the last 10 years in chess databases and who hasn't played
any official Romanian and international tournaments in that period, pretends to
be the best Romanian chess player. There is definitely something wrong in the
state of Romania, but if FIDE is going to accept it and to restore
Crisan´s rating, there are big problems with FIDE too.
Dorian Rogozenko International Grandmaster Bucharest, Romania 1.04.1999
Michael Atkins has covered the Foxwoods open taking place from April 1-5.
The Continental Chess Association's Foxwoods Open will take place at Foxwoods
Resort Casino & Hotel (World's largest casino). The $50,000 tournament will
had 8 sections.
There will be a full report next week however Michael Atkins reports that
the Foxwoods Open ended in a 6 way tie for first at 5.5/7 among GMs Alexander
Goldin, Gregory Kaidanov, Igor Novikov, Alexander Yermolinsky, Alek
Wojtkiewicz, and IM (official in July I understand) Angelo Young. The 77 player
Open section joined 7 other section to bring 460 chessplayers to the worlds
largest casino on the grounds of the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Reservation.
Foxwoods Resort and Casino had the finest playing conditions for any tournament
that this reporter has seen in 25 years in chess and that was the general
opinion. The luxory was all over in the soon to be rated 5-star resort.
Coverage at: http://www.wizard.net/~matkins/fox/foxwoods.htm
The "Redbus Chess Knock-out" took place alongside the Southend
Chess Congress. Cliff Stanford, founder of Demon Internet and now Redbus
Investments, put up £7,400 worth of prize money with the aim of promoting
British Chess. [Redbus have
recently launched an independent facility located in London's Docklands
specialising in the secure management and siting of internet servers]
The main event was a four round knockout event with 16 leading British
players. They played two games a day at 100 minutes + 30 seconds per move
followed by various rapidplay games to resolve ties over the Easter Weekend
2-5th April.
Full coverage next week, but the results in the first three rounds were:
Round 1 (April 2nd) Speelman 1.5-0.5 Ward; Levitt 0.5-1.5 Davies; Lalic (won
the playoff 2-0) 1-1 Pert; Sheldon 1-1 Rowson (won the playoff 2-0) ; Plaskett
1-1 Miles (won after a second series of playoffs); Chandler 1-1 McNab (won
after a second series of playoffs); King 0-2 Pein; Ledger 0.5-1.5 Emms
Round 2 (April 3rd) Speelman 1.5-0.5 Davies; Lalic 1.5-0.5 Rowson; Plaskett
(won after a second series of playoffs) 1-1 McNab; Pein 1.5-0.5 Emms;
Round 3 (April 4th) Lalic beat Speelman; Plaskett beat Pein.
Dortmund
As reported last week he 27th Dortmund Chess Days will be held from July 9th
to July 18th in the Grand Opera House (City Center of Dortmund). The Chess Days
event will have a Super-Tournament from July 10th to July 17th (eight
Grandmasters - category 19). Another Master-Tournament and a Big Open will be
held at the same time. The main sponsor will be "Stadtsparkasse".
The soLett Chess Open 1999
The soLett Chess Open 1999 will take place 1-5 April in SKELLEFTEÅ,
SWEDEN. Coverage at: http://www.surf.to/schackinorr
Participants include: Ildar Ibragimov, Andrei Kharlov, Tiger
Hillarp-Persson and Vaidas Sakalauskas.
German "Damen-Bundesliga"
The German "Bundesliga" for women has finished reports Gerhard
Hund. oThe team of Elberfeld won the championships.
Further information at:
http://TeleSchach.com/berichte/bundes-d.html
TWIC CD is in final testing.