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Games section
Third Broekhuis Tournament 30 games St. Petersburg vs Beer Sheva 10 games Rebel vs Rohde 1 game Ostrava Women's Zone 1.4 123 games 13th Open in Pula 244 games Krush vs Shaked Challenge Match 4 games First Saturday, June GM 10 games First Saturday, June IM 10 games
My thanks to TASC, Eric Van der Schilden, Vladimir Talla, Romanov Oleg Gennadievich, Laszlo Nagy, Scott Pendergrast, Anatoly Lisenko and Konstantin Maliszewski, Suat Atalik, Michal Krasenkow and all those who helped with this issue.
The major announcement of the week was that of a match between Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan for a match for the "Ultimate World Chess Championships". It ends months of speculation after Luis Rentero failed to find financing for the WCC World Championships last year. After Kasparov's convincing performances in Wijk aan Zee, Linares and Sarajevo Anand's main job between now and the match (probably October) will be to in some measure catch up in terms of opening preparation. Kasparov has set new standards there.
Elsewhere its been a quietish week on the international chess front but there are a number of events starting next week.
Finally the TWIC CD is out now!!
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
After week's of speculation and negotiation Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand signed an agreement to play a match for the "Ultimate World Chess Championships". The agreement was reached early last week with firstly Anand signing with the organisers and then Kasparov followed suit. The organiser is Serge Grimaux who is a well known organiser in Canada of events involving celebreties such as The Rolling Stones and Luciano Pavarotti. Behind him is an organising committee of Bessel Kok, GM Fridrik Olafsson and Dr. William Wirth.
Sixteen games will be played. In the case of a draw GM Kasparov will retain his title. The Prize Fund will be of US$3,000,000. In addition the signatories to the agreement have agreed to format where there will be a new Challengers Cycle in 2000 the winner of which will be nominated the Challenger for the next Wold Championship title scheduled for 2001. There will be no re-match in the case of Garry Kasparov losing the match.
Further details, almost certainly including the venue (either the US, Czech Republic or London are regarded as the most likely choices) and the sponsor will be announced in July 10, 1999, in Prague in the Czech Republic. This is alongside the EuroTel Trophy 1999 match, featuring GM Alexei Shirov against GM Judith Polgar.
Shirov's presence in Prague is interesting. He was certainly angry at the possibility of Anand taking his place in a match against Kasparov in an interview with Ian Rogers in May. [See http://www.ozemail.com.au/~chesswd/ianr1605.html ] It may be that guarantee's over his position in the next cycle and the match against Polgar are a measure of compensation.
Anand's form over the last year ought to make him the best challenger, he had his first weak tournament in some time in Linares but he has otherwise been consistantly the closest challenger to Kasparov. Nevertheless the new level of preparation from Kasparov shown in his victories in Wijk aan Zee, Linares and Sarajevo must make him a strong favourite for victory.
Anand plays Karpov in an Advanced Chess Match later this week. Kasparov and Anand play in the Frankfurt Giants event later this month (Anand won the event last year) and then Anand will play in the Dortmund event that follows it. These I believe will be their only appearances before the match takes place, probably in October.
For the third consecutive time Rotterdam is hosting the event. The event takes place May 29 until June 10. Predrag Nikolic leads with 6.5/8 a point clear of Dimitri Reinderman and Jeroen Piket on 5.5.
Internet coverage:http://www.nkschaken.nl
Round 4 (June 1, 1999) Piket, Jeroen - Nikolic, Predrag 1/2 11 A13 English; 1.c4 Van Wely, Loek - Sokolov, Ivan 1-0 24 A34 English; 1.c4 c5 Van der Sterren, Paul - Van der Wiel, John 1/2 58 A21 English; 1.c4 e5 Van den Doel, Erik - Janssen, Ruud 1-0 30 B52 Sicilian Cifuentes Parada, Roberto - Peng Zhaoqin 1/2 25 D26 QGA; Nijboer, Friso - Reinderman, Dimitri 1/2 67 B39 Sicilian Round 5 (June 3, 1999) Nikolic, Predrag - Van den Doel, Erik 1/2 40 D79 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6 Reinderman, Dimitri - Van der Sterren, Paul 1-0 33 E54 Nimzo indian Van der Wiel, John - Cifuentes Parada, Roberto 1/2 50 B37 Sicilian Sokolov, Ivan - Piket, Jeroen 1/2 41 D46 Semi-Slav Peng Zhaoqin - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 51 D93 Gruenfeld indian Janssen, Ruud - Nijboer, Friso 1/2 57 E97 Kings indian; Main line Round 6 (June 4, 1999) Piket, Jeroen - Peng Zhaoqin 1-0 30 D45 Semi-Slav Van Wely, Loek - Van der Wiel, John 1/2 64 D46 Semi-Slav Van den Doel, Erik - Sokolov, Ivan 1/2 34 C65 Ruy Lopez Cifuentes Parada, Roberto - Reinderman, Dimitri 0-1 31 A48 Queen's pawn Nijboer, Friso - Van der Sterren, Paul 1/2 38 C43 Petroff defence Janssen, Ruud - Nikolic, Predrag 0-1 79 D25 QGA; Round 7 (June 5, 1999) Nikolic, Predrag - Nijboer, Friso 1-0 47 E63 Kings indian Reinderman, Dimitri - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 33 B93 Sicilian; Najdorf Van der Wiel, John - Piket, Jeroen 1/2 19 C99 Ruy Lopez Van der Sterren, Paul - Cifuentes Parada, Roberto 1-0 66 A13 English; 1.c4 Sokolov, Ivan - Janssen, Ruud 1-0 55 E12 Nimzo indian Peng Zhaoqin - Van den Doel, Erik 1-0 60 E32 Nimzo indian Round 8 (June 6, 1999) Nikolic, Predrag - Sokolov, Ivan 1/2 15 D71 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6 Piket, Jeroen - Reinderman, Dimitri 1/2 18 A52 Benoni Van Wely, Loek - Van der Sterren, Paul 1/2 75 D37 Queen's gambit Van den Doel, Erik - Van der Wiel, John 0-1 36 D15 Slav defence Nijboer, Friso - Cifuentes Parada, Roberto 0-1 50 B60 Sicilian Janssen, Ruud - Peng Zhaoqin 1-0 42 A09 Reti (1.Nf3) Rotterdam NED (NED), v-vi 1999 cat. XII (2549) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2633 * . = 1 . 1 = = 1 . 1 1 6.5 2805 2 Reinderman, Dimitri g NED 2541 . * = 1 = 1 1 . 1 0 = . 5.5 2695 3 Piket, Jeroen g NED 2619 = = * . = . = = . 1 1 1 5.5 2674 4 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2632 0 0 . * = = 1 1 . 1 . 1 5.0 2631 5 Van der Wiel, John g NED 2526 . = = = * = . 1 = 1 0 . 4.5 2587 6 Van der Sterren, Paul g NED 2535 0 0 . = = * = . 1 1 = . 4.0 2556 7 Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2624 = 0 = 0 . = * = = . . 1 3.5 2515 8 Van den Doel, Erik g NED 2535 = . = 0 0 . = * . 0 1 1 3.5 2512 9 Cifuentes Parada, Roberto g NED 2529 0 0 . . = 0 = . * = 1 1 3.5 2490 10 Peng Zhaoqin m NED 2452 . 1 0 0 0 0 . 1 = * . 0 2.5 2404 11 Nijboer, Friso g NED 2515 0 = 0 . 1 = . 0 0 . * = 2.5 2404 12 Janssen, Ruud NED 2445 0 . 0 0 . . 0 0 0 1 = * 1.5 2316 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
After a 36-36 draw between the two teams in Israel in 1988 there is an informal 10 round Scheveningen system match between Beer-Sheva and the Petersburg Kings taking place in St. Petersburg 5-15th June 1999. There have been two rounds so far and after wins of 3.0-2.0 and 3.5-1.5 in the first two rounds the Russian team looks in control.
Daily internet coverage at: http://www.gmchess.spb.ru
Round 1 (June 5, 1999) Greenfeld, Alon - Aseev, Konstantin N 1/2 34 C67 Ruy Lopez Huzman, Alexander - Khalifman, Alexander 1/2 13 D38 Queen's gambit Avrukh, Boris - Lugovoi, Aleksei 1-0 67 D36 Queen's gambit Tseitlin, Mark D - Yemelin, Vasily 0-1 54 A13 English; 1.c4 Mikhalevski, Victor - Ivanov, Sergey 0-1 34 D44 QGD; Botwinnik Round 2 (June 6, 1999) Yemelin, Vasily - Greenfeld, Alon 1-0 37 B66 Sicilian Ivanov, Sergey - Huzman, Alexander 1/2 35 D85 Gruenfeld indian Khalifman, Alexander - Avrukh, Boris 1/2 67 B63 Sicilian Lugovoi, Aleksei - Tseitlin, Mark D 1-0 46 D97 Gruenfeld indian Aseev, Konstantin N - Mikhalevski, Victor 1/2 55 C82 Ruy Lopez
American GM Michael Rohde played a one off game live on ICC against the computer program REBEL (programmer Ed Schröder ). The event took place on May 22nd 1999 and was won by Rohde. According to Schröder 17. e3 was the start of the problems for the computer and 26. f4 (instead of 26. Bg2) should have been played. Rohde brought home the full point slowly but extremely surely.
Vladimir Talla sends details of Zonal tournament 1.4. (POL, CZE, SVK, HUN, BUL, ROM) that ran 22nd-30th May 1999 in Ostrava (CZE). As reported last week Corina Peptan won with 6.5/9 and here was a playoff between four players on 6 points for three further places. Nikoletta Lakos won the playoff with Marta Zielinska and Joanna Dworakowska also qualifying, Margarita Voiska missed out.
Details at: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/1672/w14zone99/index.htm
Ostrava CZE (CZE), v 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Peptan, Corina m ROM 2427 = 7 + 5 + 8 = 2 + 4 +13 =10 = 9 = 6 6.5 2512 2 Dworakowska, Joanna wg POL 2323 +23 =17 +12 = 1 = 7 - 4 +13 = 5 +10 6.0 2459 3 Voiska, Margarita wg BUL 2364 +24 =11 = 7 -13 = 9 +22 = 6 +14 + 4 6.0 2451 4 Zielinska, Marta wm POL 2327 +26 +14 + 9 =17 - 1 + 2 = 7 + 8 - 3 6.0 2448 5 Lakos, Nikoletta wm HUN 2350 =21 - 1 +23 =14 +15 =10 +17 = 2 + 9 6.0 2441 6 Madl, Ildiko m HUN 2409 - 8 +16 =19 +11 =17 = 9 = 3 + 7 = 1 5.5 2393 7 Hagarova, Zuzana wg SVK 2297 = 1 +20 = 3 +15 = 2 =17 = 4 - 6 +13 5.5 2441 8 Velcheva, Maria wm BUL 2283 + 6 +10 - 1 = 9 -13 +12 +24 - 4 +17 5.5 2438 9 Vajda, Szidonia wg ROM 2340 +25 +15 - 4 = 8 = 3 = 6 +11 = 1 - 5 5.0 2375 10 Krupkova, Petra wm CZE 2349 +16 - 8 =13 +22 =12 = 5 = 1 +17 - 2 5.0 2374 11 Grabics, Monika wm HUN 2310 +13 = 3 -17 - 6 +21 +18 - 9 =12 +22 5.0 2369 12 Cosma, Elena Luminita wg ROM 2365 =20 +21 - 2 +19 =10 - 8 =14 =11 +18 5.0 2321 13 Bobrowska, Monika m POL 2440 -11 +24 =10 + 3 + 8 - 1 - 2 +20 - 7 4.5 2307 14 Brustman, Agnieszka wg POL 2379 +19 - 4 -15 = 5 =18 +21 =12 - 3 +23 4.5 2280 15 Radziewicz, Iweta wg POL 2384 +22 - 9 +14 - 7 - 5 -24 =23 +25 +20 4.5 2248 16 Goczo, Melinda HUN 2191 -10 - 6 =26 =23 =20 -19 +25 +21 +24 4.5 2217 17 Foisor, Cristina Adela m ROM 2370 +18 = 2 +11 = 4 = 6 = 7 - 5 -10 - 8 4.0 2275 18 Sikorova, Olga wm CZE 2216 -17 =23 =21 =20 =14 -11 +26 +19 -12 4.0 2210 19 Jicman, Ligia wm ROM 2236 -14 +26 = 6 -12 -22 +16 =20 -18 +25 4.0 2210 20 Saljova, Silvie wm CZE 2212 =12 - 7 =22 =18 =16 +25 =19 -13 -15 3.5 2198 21 Pokorna, Regina wm SVK 2196 = 5 -12 =18 +24 -11 -14 +22 -16 =26 3.5 2184 22 Genova, Ruzka wm BUL 2238 -15 +25 =20 -10 +19 - 3 -21 +26 -11 3.5 2177 23 Cedikova, Katerina CZE 2082 - 2 =18 - 5 =16 -25 =26 =15 +24 -14 3.0 2132 24 Jackova, Jana wm CZE 2202 - 3 -13 +25 -21 +26 +15 - 8 -23 -16 3.0 2120 25 Ciganikova, Andrea SVK 2139 - 9 -22 -24 +26 +23 -20 -16 -15 -19 2.0 2004 26 Dojkova, Galina BUL 2131 - 4 -19 =16 -25 -24 =23 -18 -22 =21 1.5 1930 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Romanov Oleg Gennadievich of the Belarus Chess Federation reports the results of the Women's World Championship Zonal tournament (zone 1.8) which was held in Minsk (Belarus) from May 17th-30th. The Chief arbiter was Tamara Golovey.
1. Lagvilava Genrietta (BLR) 2264 WIM 9,5/ 13 2. Eidelson Rakhil (BLR) 2267 WGM 9,0 3. Susterman Anja (MDA) 2241 WGM 8,0 4. Popova Natalija (BLR) 2170 8,0 5. Babaeva Fanara (AZE) 2060 8,0 6. Agababean Naira (MDA) 2352 WGM 7,5 7. Petrenko Svetlana (MDA) 2227 WIM 7,5 8. Mamedjarova Zeinab (AZE) 2000 7,5 9. Alieva Elmira (AZE) 2148 WFM 6,0 10. Tetenkina Irina (BLR) 2085 5,5 11. Stotskaja Elena (BLR) 2025 5,5 12. Partac Elena (MDA) 2088 4,5 13. Mamedova Nargis (AZE) 2000 2,5 14.Basrasiant Marianna (MDA) 2057 2,0
The 13th Open in Pula is taking place May 29th - June 8th 1999. Palac, Kozul, Tukmakov, Romanishin and Sax are amongst the players. After eight of the nine rounds Vladimir Malaniuk, Dusko Pavasovic, Vladimir Tukmakov and Vladimir Burmakin all have 6.5 points.
Daily information at: http://www.gradpula.com/sport/chess
Round 8 standings: Pula Open (CRO), v-vi 1999 --------------------------------------------------- 1 Malaniuk, Vladimir P g UKR 2552 6.5 /8 2626 2 Pavasovic, Dusko m SLO 2502 6.5 /8 2640 3 Tukmakov, Vladimir B g UKR 2581 6.5 /8 2710 4 Burmakin, Vladimir g RUS 2534 6.5 /8 2642 5 Stevic, Hrvoje m CRO 2465 6.0 /8 2635 6 Sermek, Drazen g SLO 2540 6.0 /8 2557 7 Sax, Gyula g HUN 2524 6.0 /8 2570 8 Zelcic, Robert g CRO 2554 5.5 /8 2568 9 Romanishin, Oleg M g UKR 2572 5.5 /8 2543 10 Hulak, Krunoslav g CRO 2493 5.5 /8 2533 11 Fercec, Nenad m CRO 2495 5.5 /8 2465 12 Dizdar, Goran g CRO 2563 5.5 /8 2521 13 Cebalo, Miso g CRO 2511 5.5 /8 2489 ....90 players --------------------------------------------------
US Women's Chess Champion Irina Krush and GM Tal Shaked (1997 World Junior Champion) drew a challenge match match 2-2 that took place May 28th-31st. 15-year old Krush (the highest rated player U-18 in the USA), had White in the odd-numbered games.
The match event held in the Holiday Inn Palo Verde in Tucson, Arizona. It was sponsored by the WWW Chess Superstore (http://www.smartchess.com) and the Southern Arizona Chess Association (SACA) (http://www.sazchess.org).
Krush, Irina - Shaked, Tal 0-1 64 E34 Nimzo indian Shaked, Tal - Krush, Irina 1/2 21 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3) Krush, Irina - Shaked, Tal 1-0 71 E94 Kings indian; Classical Shaked, Tal - Krush, Irina 1/2 30 A29 English; 1.c4 e5 Tuscon, Arizona (USA), v 1999 ----------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 ----------------------------------------------------- Krush, Irina USA 2375 0 = 1 = 2.0 2477 Shaked, Tal g USA 2477 1 = 0 = 2.0 2375 -----------------------------------------------------
Anatoly Lisenko and Konstantin Maliszewski report: The 7th Kiev Cup, a Junior team tournament took place in Kiev May 25-31. Around 120 young chess-players represented teams from the Ukraine and Belarus. Initial information in TWIC234. The final standings of this 9 round event were:
1 "DARNITSA" (Kiev, coach Nicolaev Leonid) - 23.5; (Nikolaeva Maria, Lepekha Ivan, Soloshenko Vladimir, Mikhailyk Ruslan) 2 Centre of juniors (Kiev, Shystariov Sergei) - 23.0; (Sheremet Sergei, Steklov Alexey, Bogma Evgeny, Petrov Evgeny) 3 National Centre of Chess and Checkers (Minsk, Stepanov Vladimir) - 22.0; (Khromenkov Yury, Pecherskikh Yury, Ldov Konstantin, Tselinina Olga) 4 ENERGODAR (Zaporizhzhya region, Krivolapov Konstantin) - 21.0; 5 "AVANGARD" (Kiev, Yeshchenko Vadim) - 21.0; 6 "DZHERELO" (Kiev, Lisenko Anatoly) - 20.5; 7 "TETEREV" (Korostyshev, Zhytomir region, Dobrynetsky Pavel) - 20.0; 8 "DNEPROVETS" (Kiev, Levchenko Irina) - 19.5; 9 "OBOLON" (Kiev, Shystariov Sergei) - 19.0; 10 "PECHERSK" (Kiev, Nekrasova Elena) - 19.0; ... 21 teams.
The individual event "Chess Hopes" (for players born in 1989 or later) finished as follows:
Grom Oksana (1988, Gorodok, Lviv region) - 8,0 (outside of contest); 1 Rudovska Regina (1989, Kiev, "Dneprovets") - 7,0; 2 Bozhyk Vasyl(1989, Gorodok, Lviv region) - 6,5; 3 Kmit Igor (1990, Gorodok, Lviv region) - 6,0; 4 Volkov Nikita (1989, Kiev, "Pechersk") - 6,0; 5 Korniuk Maria (1992, Kiev, "Dneprovets") - 6,0; 6 Golichenko Ilya (1991, Kiev, "Dzherelo") - 6,0; ... 33 players.
Further information: http://chess-sector.odessa.ua/
Laszlo Nagy reports: The June First Saturday events started June 5th in Budapest. The main event is an 11 player Category IX GM tournament. There is also a Category I IM event. Two rounds have been played in each event.
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
FSGM June Round 1 (June 5, 1999) Nguyen Anh Dung - Hoffmann, Michael 1-0 43 A34 English; 1.c4 c5 Maiwald, Jens-Uwe - Seres, Lajos 1/2 32 A08 Reti (1.Nf3) Hoang Thanh Trang - Varga, Zoltan 1/2 15 D26 QGA; Lorscheid, Gerhard - Czebe, Attila 0-1 15 B00 1.e4 Llanos, Guillermo - Anastasian, Ashot 0-1 60 E38 Nimzo indian Round 2 (June 6, 1999) Anastasian, Ashot - Lorscheid, Gerhard 1/2 58 A45 Queen's pawn Varga, Zoltan - Llanos, Guillermo 1-0 49 B03 Alekhine defence Zontakh, Andrey - Hoang Thanh Trang 1-0 72 C12 French; Macutcheon Czebe, Attila - Nguyen Anh Dung 0-1 33 B30 Sicilian Hoffmann, Michael - Maiwald, Jens-Uwe 1/2 80 A05 Reti (1.Nf3) Budapest HUN (HUN), vi 1999 cat. IX (2454) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Nguyen Anh Dung m VIE 2485 * . . . 1 . . . . 1 . 2.0 / 2 2 Anastasian, Ashot g ARM 2529 . * . . . . . . = . 1 1.5 / 2 2573 3 Varga, Zoltan g HUN 2518 . . * . . . . = . . 1 1.5 / 2 2636 4 Zontakh, Andrey g UKR 2530 . . . * . . . 1 . . . 1.0 / 1 5 Czebe, Attila m HUN 2420 0 . . . * . . . 1 . . 1.0 / 2 2404 6 Maiwald, Jens-Uwe m GER 2467 . . . . . * = . . = . 1.0 / 2 2417 7 Seres, Lajos m HUN 2428 . . . . . = * . . . . 0.5 / 1 2467 8 Hoang Thanh Trang wg VIE 2450 . . = 0 . . . * . . . 0.5 / 2 2331 9 Lorscheid, Gerhard f GER 2323 . = . . 0 . . . * . . 0.5 / 2 2281 10 Hoffmann, Michael m GER 2407 0 . . . . = . . . * . 0.5 / 2 2283 11 Llanos, Guillermo m ARG 2437 . 0 0 . . . . . . . * 0.0 / 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FSIM June Round 1 (June 5, 1999) Eperjesi, Laszlo - Peterson, Emery 1-0 32 A48 Queen's pawn Vadasz, Laszlo - Dembo, Yelena 1-0 44 D78 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6 Belotelov, Denis - Khechumyan, Gagik 1-0 37 A41 Queen's pawn Magyar, Otto - Berces, Csaba 1-0 47 E60 Kings indian Szirmai, Eduard - Lengyel, Bela 1/2 13 A09 Reti (1.Nf3) Round 2 (June 6, 1999) Vadasz, Laszlo - Eperjesi, Laszlo 1/2 16 E54 Nimzo indian Lengyel, Bela - Belotelov, Denis 1/2 51 A43 Queen's pawn Khechumyan, Gagik - Magyar, Otto 1/2 94 E11 Bogo indian Peterson, Emery - Szirmai, Eduard 1/2 58 B07 Pirc Dembo, Yelena - Berces, Csaba 1/2 36 B86 Sicilian Budapest HUN (HUN), vi 1999 cat. I (2261) --------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 --------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Eperjesi, Laszlo m HUN 2329 * = . . . . . 1 . . 1.5 2422 2 Vadasz, Laszlo g HUN 2287 = * . . . . . . . 1 1.5 2447 3 Belotelov, Denis f RUS 2262 . . * . = . 1 . . . 1.5 2554 4 Magyar, Otto f HUN 2300 . . . * . . = . 1 . 1.5 2452 5 Lengyel, Bela m HUN 2350 . . = . * = . . . . 1.0 2235 6 Szirmai, Eduard HUN 2208 . . . . = * . = . . 1.0 2261 7 Khechumyan, Gagik ARM 2372 . . 0 = . . * . . . 0.5 2088 8 Peterson, Emery GER 2172 0 . . . . = . * . . 0.5 2075 9 Berces, Csaba HUN 2146 . . . 0 . . . . * = 0.5 2047 10 Dembo, Yelena ISR 2180 . 0 . . . . . . = * 0.5 2023 ---------------------------------------------------------------
Two open letters raising issues that concern them follow.
Last month I played in La Habana in a tournament. It was a category 12 event, but the players were not provided with appearance fees. The fact that even in closed tournaments appearance fees are settled in accordance with bargaining even though I am not the only player against this cheap bargaining business. But this was not the least of the problems for the players there. The prize fund came out after the 4th round, and it was not sufficient. These two factors might lead you to expect that the conditions would be better as a compensation. No way! We stayed in an hotel under serious reconstruction. We were woken up by a terrrible noise at around 8.00am and unable to sleep until around 3.00am These problems broke everybody's nerves. The demands of construction attained such a level that sometimes I had electricity on in one half of my room and sometimes on in the other, they had even destroyed the reception and closed the main entrance to the hotel so finding a way to or from your room became really difficult. Coming to the food in the hotel, it was even more depressing. Almost all of the players got seriously poisoned, and some of them still haven't fully recovered. If one thinks about Cuba as a very touristic place it is not the case. Dirt, poverty, disturbance by the local people on the street almost forcing you to buy Cigars, rum or even women are not easy to handle. That is why I recommend to any serious chess players to NEVER GO to CUBA! Now one may sympathise with Cubans and like the Cubans who love chess but they simply don't have enough financial support. This is not an excuse for the pros, my opinion is simply that if they do not have enough money they should not organize. Instead they went for 4 tournaments at the same time. These type of problems have started to occur more and more frequently. It is true that people forget these things easily, look at Kusadasi 1990. The so called organizer did not pay the prizes of such a high caliber open in my country and not only ran away with the money he has even managed to keep himself in Turkey's chess circles. Recently two of my friends GM Anthony Miles and GM Alexander Baburin did not get paid with the starting fees promised by the organizers in India. Instead they received a ridiculous answer like 'Don't you trust me I am FIDE's vice-president. ' Well my resolution is not to play in notorious places after experiencing such incidents. However something should be done. As FIDE obviously cannot protect professional players rights in the way it is supposed to be done a Union of Professional Chessplayers or Grandmasters is necessary. LET'S FIGHT THOSE PEOPLE! GM Suat Atalik, Istanbul
Some strange things are happening with the FIDE World Championships. Although all the entitled players did get the text of undertaking and the list of participants, it seems that most of them will not be able to take part in the Championship (and therefore it will not take place). The reason is simple: the players (as well as their seconds and other accompanying persons) will not get entry visas to the US. According to the regulations of the Championship and the circular letter FIDE sent to the national federations, the USCF (the host of the event) shall issue the invitations required for getting the visas. Meanwhile, all our attempts to contact them have been met with dead silence so far. What's the matter? Does USCF support the alternative (Kasparov's) world championship and therefore wants to upset the official one? Has USCF withdrawn from FIDE already?
[Note since this was passed on to the USCF Krasenkow, Krassenkova, Tsechkovski, and Macieja should have received their invitations today according to the USCF. An incorrect fax number in the letterhead of the Polish Chess Federation was the reason given by Barbara A. DeMaro, Executive Assistant, USCF. I received notes to this effect after twic came out tonight. ]
The Anatoly Karpov vs Viswanathan Anand Advanced Chess Match takes place June 11-14th in Leon, Spain. The players use computer programs and databases to aid their play.
Official coverage: http://www.ajedrezdelfuturo.com (Spanish) http://www.advancedchess.com (English).
The is an international Club match between the Petersburg Kings of Russia and Beer Scheva of Israel. is underway in St. Petersburg, Russia. The match takes place June 5-16 1999. Players include: A. Khalifman, V. Emelin, S. Ivanov, K. Aseev and A. Lugovoy (Petersburg Kings) and B. Avrukh, A. Khuzman, V. Mikhalevski, A. Greenfeld and M. Tseitlin (Beer Sheva). Internet coverage at: http://www.gmchess.spb.ru
The prize fund for this year's Mind Sports Olympiad has been set at 100,000 pounds. There may also be some additional prizes to be announced later. In addition to the cash prizes the leading players will also receive the traditional MSO gold, silver and bronze medals. There will be additional medals for the leading juniors in each tournament. The prize funds for some of the games are listed below. All figures are in pounds sterling.
Chess £20,000; Bridge £10,000; Go £8,500; 10x10 Draughts £8,000; Othello £7,000; Chinese Chess £6,000; Scrabble £6,000; Shogi £5,000; Stratego £5,000; 8x8 Draughts £4,000; Memory Skills £3,000; Cribbage £2,000; Dominoes £2,000; Intelligence £2,000
Prize funds for other games will be announced in due course. The detailed tournament schedule will be announced on their web site http://www.mindsports.co.uk/ in early June and printed entry forms will be available shortly thereafter.
Heiner Matthias reports: The next World Computer Chess Championships are to be held in Paderborn, Germany, 14-20. June 1999. Participants are all top commercial progams including Fritz, Hiarcs, Rebel etc. and in addition a few programs like Cilkchess or ZUGZWANG running on multi-processor-systems. On the last day (20.06.99) there will be a man-machine contest, where the top 4 programs of the World Championship will be matched against 4 invited GM's (Christopher Lutz, Loek van Wely, Raphael Waganian and Ivan Sokolov). All the games are relayed live on the net. For further information, the address of our web site is: http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~wccc99/
July 13th-15th see's an international youth team event with teams from Israel, Germany and the Netherlands takes place in Apeldoorn (Netherlands).
Further information http://www.connection1.nl
The Greek Chess Federation are organising the 1999 European Youth Chess Championships (categories U10-18 for boys & girls). They will be held in Litohoro of the Olympus Riviera (Sept. 3-11). For further information information: http://euro99.chess.gr
INTCHESS Asia (Ignatius Leong) are organising the World Cities Team Championship and Asian Team Championship 1999. The two events will be held in Shenyang (China). The World Cities October 3rd-10th and Asian Teams 11th-20th.
Contact info: Ignatius Leong (INTCHESS ASIA) Block 160, Yishun Street 11 #04-208 Singapore 760160. Tel : (65) 96337946, 97310498, 97980596. Fax : (65) 7535346, 3529691. Email : intchess@pacific.net.sg or ignatiusleong@pacific.net.sg