THE WEEK IN CHESS 243 - 5th July 1999 by Mark Crowther
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Contents 1) Introduction
2) Frankfurt Chess Classic 1999
3) World Open
4) Dortmund Chess Days
5) Karpov not yet committed to playing Las Vegas
6) Garry Kasparov vs the World
7) Ljubljana Open-99
8) First Saturday, June
9) FIDE July Rating list
10) Forthcoming Events and Links
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Games section
Siemens Giants 24 games
Frankfurt-West Masters 66 games
Ordix Open 43 games
Anand-Fritz 4 games
World Open 130 games
Ljubljana Open 226 games
First Saturday July 12 games
My thanks to My thanks to Ales Drinovec, Lost Boys, Scott Pendergast,
Daði Örn Jónsson, Malcolm Pein, Laszlo Nagy, Martin Bennedik
and all those who helped with this issue.
Plenty of interest this week. The four Kasparov-Karpov clashes might
conceivably be the last between these two rivals. All were hard fought games
with Kasparov winning their fourth and possible final game. Kasparov took first
place in Frankfurt. At a press conference afterwards Karpov further distanced
himself from FIDE by saying that he believed their World Championships should
not be called that but the World Cup or something... At the event he also said
he hadn't yet come to agreement with FIDE over his participation in their
championships and certainly hadn't signed a letter that appeared on the FIDE
website.
Next weekend sees the start of the Polgar-Shirov Eurotel match and the
Dortmund Chess days events.
The new FIDE rating list again looks to have errors in it, although FIDE
seem to have made it clear it is only a first version and that there will be
subsequent versions. The first version of the top 100 is below.
More Women's World Championship news. According to one source the Xie Jun -
Galliamova match has been delayed at least until July 27 and Galliamova is
looking for a Russian host for the first half of the match (deja vu) and if she
fails the whole match will begin in China in early August.
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
The Frankfurt Chess Classic 1999 ran June 29- July 4th. Garry Kasparov won
the main Siemens Giants event ahead of Anand, Kramnik and Karpov. The
Frankfurt-West Masters was won by the computer program Fritz 6. The program won
the Ordix Open to qualify in the first place. The players were very slow to
adapt to the style of the computer, only on the last day did they start to
master it somewhat. In the last round Topalov had a half point lead over the
computer but he lost to Leko whilst the computer beat Judit Polgar. The Ordix
Open was won by Dutchman Loek Van Wely. Anand played Fritz in a challenge match
last year, he played it again and he drew games 1,2 and 4 and won game 3.
The event is the brainchild of Hans-Walter Schmitt one of the most
formidable chess organisers in the World today. Every year he has improved the
tournament with stronger fields and a larger scope. This year the Siemens
Giants had four Karpov-Kasparov games as well as the top three players in the
World, in addition the Frankfurt-West Masters. I'm sure that next year, with
Fritz 6 in the Giants he will come up with more innovation, although he can
hardly increase the strength of the event he has staged the last two years. I
gather six players in the Giants may be an idea.
Siemens Giants
Day 1: There were draws in the first two rounds before Kasparov beat Anand and
Kramnik beat Karpov in round 3.
Day 2: Kasparov drew with Karpov and Kramnik with Anand at the start of day
2. Kramnik and Kasparov drew their game whilst Karpov defeated Anand with black
in round 5. Round 6 saw an exciting draw between Kasparov and Anand whilst
Karpov and Kramnik drew briefly.
Day 3: There was one decisive game per round on day three. Anand beat
Kramnik in round 7, Kasparov beat Kramnik in round 8 and Kramnik beat Karpov in
round 9. Kasparov led by a point from Kramnik with three rounds to go.
Day 4: Kasparov beat Karpov in their final game, after three hard fought draws
he finally broke through in their fourth game together and made almost certain
of first place. He drew out the rest of the event, Anand beat Karpov in the
final round.
Kasparov-Karpov (11). Malcolm Pein saw the fourth and only decisive
game between these two old rivals. Once again Karpov's clock handling was poor.
he thought and thought and thought over what appeared to be a very typical
position in the 4. Qc2 Nimzo Indian. Kasparov's 12. Be2 seemed to come as a
surprise to Karpov.
Later Kasparov characteristically shook his head and stared upwards after
19. ...Nxd5 (times remaining Kasparov 19-20, Karpov 11-27). It wasn't clear
whether he was berating himself for missing a variation or berating Kramnik on
the neighbouring board who by then had spoiled a great position. In any event I
suspect that it was better for White to keep both pairs of knights on the board
somehow Karpov blundered after allowing 24. Qxa5 (12-11 left for to Kasparov,
5-32 to Karpov) 24...Bb5 was better but by now Kasparov was clearly better.
Perhaps Karpov overlooked that after 24.Qxa5 24. ...Be2 followed by 25...Bxd1
26.Rexd1 doubles rook onto the d-pawn.
With 28. e4 Kasparov blew open the position, and even if this was not
objectively the best move it was fiendishly difficult to meet in practice with
only 3-40 on the clock and so must have been right. Kasparov was clearly
enjoying the final moments of the game. He thought for over 3 minutes before
playing the obvious and completely crushing Bg4 ( All I could of was Zonk!!
Kapow!! as Batman used to say in my childhood comics as he beat the living
daylights out of someone).
Even in a disgusting position with no time left Karpov showed his class by
spotting a number of cheapos that prolonged the game. Most normal people would
lost a piece immediately suchwas the domination of Kasparov's rooks and bishops
but the champ cleverly forced a trivially won endgame with two connected passed
pawns and the A pawn was a runner. It was a great win for Kasparov it must have
meant a lot to him, I felt I was watching possibly the last game ever between
the two and that a chapter of chess history was closing even if it was just a
25 minute game.
Kasparov took first place by a point and a half, clear of Anand and Kramnik
who have both regularly outperformed him in rapid chess events in the past.
Karpov took last place, mostly due to some very strange clock handling, he was
in time pressure in almost every game (although good in that phase, for
instance see his win against Anand earlier in the event).
Frankfurt-West Masters
The Frankfurt-West Masters was a double round robin event with 7 players and a
computer program (Fritz6) competing. Fritz6 won the event by half a point from
Veselin Topalov and qualifies for next years Giants event. The players were
starting to get to grips with Fritz 6 towards the end and on the final day it
looked at one stage that the computer would not win the event. In the final
round Polgar blundered in the opening against the computer but gradually
outplayed the machine only to fall into a clever tactic towards the end. The
organiser has guaranteed that the computer will play in the Giants next year
(last year it won the Ordix open qualifying for this event) in spite of the
difficulties it might make in the willingness of the best players to take part
in the event.
Press Conference
The final press conference was late and chaotic. However there were some
interesting comments.
Karpov said that the FIDE Championships shouldn't be called the World
Championships but the World Cup or something... Kasparov's face was a picture
when he heard this comment.
Kasparov said that he had bumped into a chess player on the streets of
Frankfurt and after asking a couple of questions he said "What are you
doing in Frankfurt?", he bemoaned the lack of publicity for chess.
About next years participation of Fritz 6 in the Giants next year Kasparov
said that he didn't have a problem with the participation of the computer but
computer-human games shouldn't be played on the same day as human-human games.
Further information at:
http://www.schach-daniel.com/Turniere/Frankfurt/frankfurt.html
Frankfurt Giants
Round 1 (June 29, 1999)
Anand, Viswanathan - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 19 C42 Petroff defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 38 D77 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6
Round 2 (June 29, 1999)
Kasparov, Gary - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 24 B66 Sicilian
Karpov, Anatoly - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 41 E15 Nimzo indian
Round 3 (June 29, 1999)
Anand, Viswanathan - Kasparov, Gary 0-1 26 D97 Gruenfeld indian
Kramnik, Vladimir - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 32 D26 QGA;
Round 4 (June 30, 1999)
Kasparov, Gary - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 49 E32 Nimzo indian
Kramnik, Vladimir - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 49 E34 Nimzo indian
Round 5 (June 30, 1999)
Anand, Viswanathan - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 30 C42 Petroff defence
Kramnik, Vladimir - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 36 D85 Gruenfeld indian
Round 6 (June 30, 1999)
Kasparov, Gary - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 28 C45 Scottish
Karpov, Anatoly - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 18 D46 Semi-Slav
Round 7 (July 1, 1999)
Anand, Viswanathan - Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 27 C42 Petroff defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 48 D12 Slav defence
Round 8 (July 1, 1999)
Kasparov, Gary - Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 36 B66 Sicilian
Karpov, Anatoly - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 26 E15 Nimzo indian
Round 9 (July 1, 1999)
Anand, Viswanathan - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 16 D97 Gruenfeld indian
Kramnik, Vladimir - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 52 D27 QGA;
Round 10 (July 2, 1999)
Kasparov, Gary - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 43 E32 Nimzo indian
Kramnik, Vladimir - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 34 E16 Nimzo indian
Round 11 (July 2, 1999)
Anand, Viswanathan - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 45 C42 Petroff defence
Kramnik, Vladimir - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 25 D36 Queen's gambit
Round 12 (July 2, 1999)
Kasparov, Gary - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 22 E34 Nimzo indian
Karpov, Anatoly - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 42 D46 Semi-Slav
Frankfurt Chess Classic, Siemens Giants (GER), vi-vii 1999cat. XXI (2764)
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1 2 3 4
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1 Kasparov, Gary g RUS 2812 **** 1=== ==1= ===1 7.5 2842
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2781 0=== **** ==1= =0=1 6.0 2757
3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2751 ==0= ==0= **** 1=1= 6.0 2767
4 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2710 ===0 =1=0 0=0= **** 4.5 2694
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Frankfurt-West Masters
Round 1 (June 29, 1999)
Fritz 6 - Leko, Peter 1/2 40 B45 Sicilian
Topalov, Veselin - Adams, Michael 1/2 51 E32 Nimzo indian
Lutz, Christopher - Svidler, Peter 0-1 36 B93 Sicilian; Najdorf
Morozevich, Alexander - Polgar, Judit 0-1 48 C42 Petroff defence
Round 2 (June 29, 1999)
Leko, Peter - Morozevich, Alexander 1-0 45 C11 French; Classical
Svidler, Peter - Polgar, Judit 0-1 66 B43 Sicilian
Lutz, Christopher - Topalov, Veselin 0-1 81 B08 Pirc; Classical
Adams, Michael - Fritz 6 1/2 51 B01 Scandinavian
Round 3 (June 29, 1999)
Fritz 6 - Lutz, Christopher 1-0 74 B84 Sicilian
Topalov, Veselin - Svidler, Peter 0-1 34 C88 Ruy Lopez
Polgar, Judit - Leko, Peter 1/2 37 B33 Sicilian; Sveshnikov
Morozevich, Alexander - Adams, Michael 1/2 68 C51 Evans gambit
Round 4 (June 30, 1999)
Topalov, Veselin - Fritz 6 0-1 49 D37 Queen's gambit
Svidler, Peter - Leko, Peter 1-0 78 B18 Caro-Kann
Lutz, Christopher - Morozevich, Alexander 1-0 40 C11 French; Classical
Adams, Michael - Polgar, Judit 0-1 71 B46 Sicilian
Round 5 (June 30, 1999)
Fritz 6 - Svidler, Peter 1-0 55 D92 Gruenfeld indian
Leko, Peter - Adams, Michael 1/2 53 B01 Scandinavian
Polgar, Judit - Lutz, Christopher 0-1 75 B88 Sicilian
Morozevich, Alexander - Topalov, Veselin 0-1 75 B80 Sicilian
Round 6 (June 30, 1999)
Fritz 6 - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1 68 C01 French; Exchange
Topalov, Veselin - Polgar, Judit 1-0 25 E97 Kings indian; Main line
Svidler, Peter - Adams, Michael 1/2 41 B01 Scandinavian
Lutz, Christopher - Leko, Peter 0-1 50 C65 Ruy Lopez
Round 7 (June 30, 1999)
Leko, Peter - Topalov, Veselin 1-0 40 B07 Pirc
Polgar, Judit - Fritz 6 0-1 47 A22 English; 1.c4 e5
Morozevich, Alexander - Svidler, Peter 1/2 46 B80 Sicilian
Adams, Michael - Lutz, Christopher 0-1 43 B50 Sicilian
Round 8 (July 1, 1999)
Leko, Peter - Fritz 6 0-1 49 C96 Ruy Lopez
Svidler, Peter - Lutz, Christopher 1-0 49 B35 Sicilian
Polgar, Judit - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1 34 B05 Alekhine defence
Adams, Michael - Topalov, Veselin 0-1 48 B90 Sicilian; Najdorf
Round 9 (July 1, 1999)
Fritz 6 - Adams, Michael 1-0 30 B17 Caro-Kann
Topalov, Veselin - Lutz, Christopher 1-0 38 B81 Sicilian
Polgar, Judit - Svidler, Peter 1-0 28 C65 Ruy Lopez
Morozevich, Alexander - Leko, Peter 1/2 51 B12 Caro-Kann
Round 10 (July 1, 1999)
Leko, Peter - Polgar, Judit 1-0 40 B80 Sicilian
Svidler, Peter - Topalov, Veselin 0-1 36 B90 Sicilian; Najdorf
Lutz, Christopher - Fritz 6 1/2 48 C84 Ruy Lopez
Adams, Michael - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1 27 C03 French; Tarrasch
Round 11 (July 2, 1999)
Fritz 6 - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 69 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Leko, Peter - Svidler, Peter 1/2 45 C92 Ruy Lopez
Polgar, Judit - Adams, Michael 1/2 44 C88 Ruy Lopez
Morozevich, Alexander - Lutz, Christopher 0-1 64 B80 Sicilian
Round 12 (July 2, 1999)
Topalov, Veselin - Morozevich, Alexander 1-0 54 D07 Chigorin
Svidler, Peter - Fritz 6 1-0 57 A00 Irregular
Lutz, Christopher - Polgar, Judit 0-1 69 B82 Sicilian
Adams, Michael - Leko, Peter 0-1 104 B13 Caro-Kann
Round 13 (July 2, 1999)
Leko, Peter - Lutz, Christopher 1/2 36 B90 Sicilian; Najdorf
Polgar, Judit - Topalov, Veselin 0-1 50 B90 Sicilian; Najdorf
Morozevich, Alexander - Fritz 6 1/2 62 A00 Irregular
Adams, Michael - Svidler, Peter 1/2 39 C78 Ruy Lopez
Round 14 (July 2, 1999)
Fritz 6 - Polgar, Judit 1-0 44 B12 Caro-Kann
Topalov, Veselin - Leko, Peter 0-1 38 C65 Ruy Lopez
Svidler, Peter - Morozevich, Alexander 1/2 51 C12 French; Macutcheon
Lutz, Christopher - Adams, Michael 1-0 63 B01 Scandinavian
Frankfurt Chess Classic, Masters (GER), vi-vii 1999 cat. XV (2604)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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1 Fritz 6 ---- ** =1 1= 10 11 1= 0= =1 9.5 2823
2 Leko, Peter g HUN 2694 =0 ** 11 0= =1 1= 1= =1 9.0 2693
3 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2700 0= 00 ** 01 11 11 11 =1 9.0 2692
4 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2713 01 1= 10 ** 00 11 == == 7.5 2617
5 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2677 00 =0 00 11 ** 01 10 1= 6.0 2543
6 Lutz, Christopher g GER 2610 0= 0= 00 00 10 ** 11 11 6.0 2553
7 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2723 1= 0= 00 == 01 00 ** =1 5.5 2507
8 Adams, Michael g ENG 2716 =0 =0 =0 == 0= 00 =0 ** 3.5 2395
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Ordix Open
Frankfurt Chess Classic, Masters (GER), vii 1999
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1 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2632 9.5
2 Milov, Vadim g SUI 2633 9.0
3 Ulibin, Mikhail g RUS 2552 9.0
4 Movsesian, Sergei g CZE 2650 9.0
5 Adams, Michael g ENG 2716 9.0
6 Giorgadze, Giorgi g GEO 2609 8.5
7 Volkov, Sergey g RUS 2587 8.5
8 Boidman, Yuri f GER 2418 8.5
9 Jussupow, Artur g GER 2641 8.5
10 Epishin, Vladimir g RUS 2578 8.5
11 Vaganian, Rafael A g ARM 2605 8.5
12 Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2679 8.5
13 Schmidt, Peter m GER 2412 8.5
14 Bischoff, Klaus g GER 2521 8.5
15 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2713 8.0
16 Gofshtein, Leonid D g ISR 2517 8.0
17 Teske, Henrik g GER 2500 8.0
18 Schmaltz, Roland m GER 2502 8.0
19 Lobron, Eric g GER 2553 8.0
20 Tischbierek, Raj g GER 2531 8.0
21 Lutz, Christopher g GER 2610 8.0
22 Gleizerov, Evgeny g RUS 2518 8.0
23 Agrest, Evgenij g SWE 2533 8.0
24 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab g GEO 2681 8.0
25 Seul, Georg m GER 2443 8.0
26 Krasenkov, Mikhail POL 2570 8.0
27 Kindermann, Stefan g GER 2541 8.0
28 Meduna, Eduard g CZE 2493 8.0
29 Ragozin, Evgeni m RUS 2486 8.0
30 Kekelidze, Mikheil m GEO 2439 8.0
31 Miezis, Normunds g LAT 2525 8.0
There were 26 players on 7.5 including Jan Smejkal,
Thomas Luther, Mihail Kobalija, Igor Glek, Vlastimil
Hort and Semen Dvoirys. In 58th and 59th place
Igor Khenkin and Yuri Yakovich finished on 7.0.
...445 players
Siemens Man-Machine rematch
Fritz 6 - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 65 C54 Italian game
Anand, Viswanathan - Fritz 6 1/2 33 D34 Queen's gambit
Fritz 6 - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 45 C54 Italian game
Anand, Viswanathan - Fritz 6 1/2 22 D34 Queen's gambit
Frankfurt Chess Classic, Siemens Man-Machine Re-match (GER), 3-4 vii 1999
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1 2 3 4
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Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2781 = = 1 = 2.5 2095
Fritz 6 ---- = = 0 = 1.5 2694
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The 27th Annual World Open, with $200,000 worth of prizes is underway in
Philadelphia. This sprawling event has a number of time schedules within the
main open so it is very difficult to tell who is leading until they merge at
the end of the event. In addition there have been a number of side events
including on June 26th-27th 1999 the "Warm up" event (won by Igor
Novikov with 3.5/4) and the "Tournament of Champions" (completed with
Vladimir Akopian and Jaan Ehlvest scoring 4/5). The World Open itself kicked
off with players starting the two weekend option of playing, alongside this was
the World Open Major, where there was a four way tie for first between Novikov,
Timoshenko, Blatny and Bisguier all on 4.5/6, the event ran June 28th-30th
1999.
With two round to go in the main section Jaan Ehlvest, Joel Benjamin and
Alexander Ivanov all have 6/7. To simplify the task of sorting the games from
the event, the games section has combined all the games from the different
schedules and assumed they have been played over nine consecutive days. The
event finishes today.
Leading round 7 standings:
1 Jan Ehlvest 2721 6.0
2 Joel Benjamin 2658 6.0
3 Alexander Ivanov 2572 6.0
4 Boris Gulko 2706 5.5
5 Artashes Minasian 2705 5.5
6 Igor Novikov 2692 5.5
7 Alex Yermolinsky 2684 5.5
8 Anthony J Miles 2669 5.5
9 Victor Bologan 2655 5.5
10 Suat Atalik 2644 5.5
11 George Timoshenko 2625 5.5
12 Alexander Shabalov 2624 5.5
13 Gregory Serper 2615 5.5
14 Benjamin Finegold 2604 5.5
15 Pavel Blatny 2599 5.5
16 Vladimir Akopian 2724 5.0
17 Giorgi Kacheishvili 2637 5.0
18 Alberto David 2633 5.0
19 A Hauchard 2624 5.0
20 John P Fedorowicz 2617 5.0
21 Alexande Fishbein 2589 5.0
22 Alex I Sherzer 2580 5.0
23 Enrico Sevillano 2556 5.0
24 Gennady Sagalchik 2545 5.0
25 Jorge Sammour-Hasbun 2536 5.0
26 A Payen 2515 5.0
27 Julio Ostos 2430 5.0
28 William Paschall 2414 5.0
29 Stephen Muhammad 2385 5.0
30 Alexander Goldin 2711 4.5
31 Alek Wojtkiewicz 2683 4.5
32 Larr Christiansen 2663 4.5
33 Dmitry Gurevich 2601 4.5
34 Gildardo Garcia 2591 4.5
35 Alexander Stripunsky 2580 4.5
36 Boris Kreiman 2577 4.5
37 Aaron Summerscale 2540 4.5
38 Rashid Ziatdinov 2520 4.5
39 Jorge Szmetan 2503 4.5
40 Michael A Mulyar 2495 4.5
41 Norik Kalantarian 2481 4.5
42 Kamuil Miton 2481 4.5
43 Jay Bonin 2476 4.5
44 Angelo Young 2469 4.5
45 Ronald W Burnett 2466 4.5
46 Anatoly Y Lein 2465 4.5
47 Edward W Formanek 2401 4.5
48 Andrew Karklins 2385 4.5
49 John A Curdo 2367 4.5
50 Khaled Sharafuddin 2362 4.5
51 Guillermo Ruiz Gonzalez 2359 4.5
52 Yegeniy Gershov 2350 4.5
53 Sean Nagle 2327 4.5
54 Jose A Torres 2315 4.5
55 Ilye Figler 2295 4.5
56 Alexander Betaneli 2284 4.5
57 Zakhar Fayvinov 2281 4.5
58 Cristobal Blanco 2272 4.5
59 Renard W Anderson 2201 4.5
60 Rafael Furdzik 2200 4.5
...228 players
Results:
Warm Up Event June 26th-27th
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1 Novikov, Igor 2692 3½
2 Miton, Kamil 2480 3
3 Privman, Boris 2295 2½
4 Ilfeld, Etan J 2257 2½
5 Ying, Victor 2121 2½
6 Hathaway, John F 1970 2½
7 Steigman, A J 2214 2
8 Mazock, Michael J 2193 2
9 Mays, Shelly 2049 2
10 Rust, Lary F 1821 1½
11 Lunenfeld, Richard 2214 1
12 Denson, Nolan J 1960 1
13 Merickel, James G 1315 ½
Tournament of Champions June 26th-27th
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1 Akopian, Vladimir...........2724 4.0
2 Ehlvest, Jan................2721 4.0
3 Minasian, Artashes..........2705 3.5
4 Wojtkiewicz, Alek...........2683 3.5
5 Timoshenko, George..........2625 3.5
6 Burnett, Ronald W...........2466 3.5
7 Kacheishvili, Gior..........2637 3.0
8 Shabalov, Alexande..........2624 3.0
9 Blatny, Pavel...............2599 3.0
10 Ardaman, Miles F............2450 3.0
11 Ziatdinov, Rashid...........2520 2.5
12 Winer, Steven...............2352 2.5
13 Rubenchik, Rodion...........2298 2.5
14 Hummel, Patrick A...........2408 2.0
15 Formanek, Edward W..........2401 2.0
16 Voelker, James..............2269 2.0
17 Mc Clelland, Shearwood......2264 2.0
18 Barash, Dmitriy F...........2228 2.0
19 Rosario, Salvador...........2097 2.0
20 Appelman, Harris B..........2005 2.0
21 Fink, Stanley Will..........2222 1.5
22 Hoekstra, Matthew...........2219 1.5
23 Chapman, Nancy Lyn..........1209 1.0
24 Flores, Efren R.............2062 0.5
World Open Major, June 28-30 - 40 point Grand Prix
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1 Novikov, Igor 2692 4½ $335
2 Timoshenko, George 2625 4½ $335
3 Blatny, Pavel 2599 4½ $335
4 Bisguier, Arthur B 2401 4½ $335
5 Koroljow, Walter 2159 4 $150
6 Ying, Victor 2121 4 $150
7 Wojtkiewicz, Alek 2683 3½
8 Ziatdinov, Rashid 2520 3½
9 Kalantarian, Norik 2481 3½
10 Ardaman, Miles F 2450 3
11 Mays, Shelly 2049 3
12 Pugh, Lawrence B 2028 3
13 Hagerling, Isaac 1736 3 $66.67
14 Mc Gary, R Shane 1630 3 $66.67
15 Kier, Leon 1602 3 $66.67
16 Ilfeld, Etan J 2257 2½
17 Thompson, Donald A 2048 2
18 Lowery, Thomas A 1645 2
19 Merickel, James G 1315 2
20 Randolph, Donald E 1269 2
21 Coraretti, Ron 1840 1
22 Maxwell, Jason 1223 1
23 Briggs, David W 1294 0
This week sees the start of the Category 19 27th Dortmund Chess Days event.
Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, Anatoly Karpov, Michael Adams, Veselin
Topalov, Peter Leko, Jan Timman and Ivan Sokolov play in the 8 player single
round robin event. The Super Tournament will run 10th to 17th July (round
robin) the other events include a Master Tournament (cat. 9/10) and an Open
from 9th to 18th July. Venue the Main Opera House in Dortmund City Center.
Karpov will also play World Computer Champion Shredder in Dortmund.
Those interested in playing in the Open can contact (0049-231-2009265) for
registration information, there is a www site at:
http://www.dortmund.de/chess
Additional coverage of the GM-tournament, Master, Open A and Open B at
http://teleschach.com/berichte/dortmd99.htm
by Gerhard Hund.
A strange story this week was the appearance of a letter, supposedly signed
by Anatoly Karpov on the FIDE Website. (as off this evening it is still there
at:http://www.data.ru/fide/news/karpov.htm).
There is now no link to the letter but it was discovered by, amongst others,
Daði Örn Jónsson's who put a link to the letter on his
"Chess in Iceland" (http://www.vks.is/skak/indexe.html)
page. He saw a link to the letter (an announcement from FIDE Champion Anatoly
Karpov) and although the link was broken, it was pretty obvious which URL is
referred to.
The letter says: "In the past months, I had made certain statements
regarding the 1999 World Chess Championship and the role of FIDE and its
officials in respect of this event and other matters. I have since found out
that my comments have caused a lot of hurt to FIDE and some of the individuals
members of FIDE, who are genuinely working with me in every sense, to promote
the game of Chess in the World. In order to clear all misconceptions and enable
us move forward with our work for the greater good orf [sic] Chess, FIDE and
the Olympic Movement, I have today decided to end all diputes with FIDE and to
participate in the 1999 World Chess Championship at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.
"
I wasn't especially surprised, an agreement between Karpov and FIDE was
necesary for his participation. However when presented with the letter in
Frankfurt he said he hadn't signed it and that an agreement with FIDE wouldn't
happen until closer to Dortmund. Its unclear whether they will come to an
agreement but it is clear that Karpov won't sign a letter of the type above.
The Garry Kasparov vs. the World chess tournament. The event continues, you
can follow the game at: http://zone.msn.com/. It allows players to
consult in choosing which move is played against Kasparov. Players can vote for
one of the suggested moves or for their own recommended move. The move with the
most votes will be chosen as the world team's move. There is a team of coaches
Etienne Bacrot, 16, Florin Felecan, 19, Irina Krush, 15, and Elisabeth
Pähtz, 14 who will aid the choice of moves and GM Danny King will act as
moderator during the match. Moves so far 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4.
Bxd7+ Qxd7 5. c4 Nc6 6. Nc3 Nf6 7. 0-0 g6.
The 10th Ljubljana Open took place in the Grand hotel Union and included 125
players including 11 GMs and 8 IMs among them. The event ran June 25th-July 3rd
1999 . Marjan Semrl scored an IM norm.
Official site: http://www.sah-zveza.si/lj/lj99
10th Ljubljana Open (SLO), vi 1999
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1 Kozul, Zdenko g CRO 2585 7 44.5 55.5 0.48
2 Sveshnikov, Evgeny g RUS 2563 7 43.0 55.5 0.48
3 Kogan, Artur g ISR 2507 7 42.0 53.0 0.72
4 Kurajica, Bojan g BIH 2536 7 41.5 52.5 0.40
5 Volzhin, Alexander g RUS 2548 7 41.0 52.0 0.88
6 Zelcic, Robert g CRO 2554 7 40.0 51.0 0.08
7 Nevednichy, Vladislav g ROM 2505 6.5 42.5 54.5 0.44
8 Sax, Gyula g HUN 2524 6.5 42.0 53.5 0.22
9 Podlesnik, Bogdan m SLO 2409 6.5 41.0 51.5 1.64
10 Vojko, Zorman f SLO 2318 6.5 38.5 50.0 0.94
11 Farago, Ivan g HUN 2533 6.5 38.5 49.0 -0.42
12 Sermek, Drazen g SLO 2540 6.5 37.0 47.0 -1.38
13 Filipovic, Branko m YUG 2434 6 40.5 51.5 -0.04
14 Mohr, Georg g SLO 2476 6 40.0 51.5 -0.20
15 Sibarevic, Milenko f YUG 2363 6 40.0 50.5 0.92
16 Semrl, Marjan SLO 2206 6 39.5 49.0 2.92
17 Roskar, Robert SLO 2242 6 39.0 49.0 1.27
18 Basagic, Zlatko m SLO 2316 6 38.0 48.5 1.49
19 Fercec, Nenad m CRO 2495 6 37.5 47.5 -0.20
20 Gazarek, Danko f CRO 2335 6 35.5 46.0 -0.12
21 Tratar, Marko m SLO 2450 6 34.5 44.5 -1.56
22 Ceko, Jovan f YUG 2215 6 33.5 44.0 1.10
23 Barle, Janez m SLO 2384 6 32.5 42.0 -1.40
24 Novkovic, Stojan SLO 2120 6 30.5 39.0 0.74
125 players
Laszlo Nagy reports: The July First Saturday event started June 3rd in
Budapest. The Category II IM event has just started.
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 July
Round 1 (July 3, 1999)
Pham Minh Hoang - Kiss, Gedeon 1-0 37 E98 Kings indian; Main line
Friedrichs, Klaus - Husari, Sate 1-0 32 A97 Dutch defence
Toth, Andras - Farago, Sandor 1/2 0
Szeberenyi, Adam - Krutti, Valer 0-1 56 A70 Modern Benoni
Balogh, Csaba - Serrer, Christoph 1/2 38 B19 Caro-Kann
Vadasz, Laszlo - Aumann, Welf 0-1 28 A05 Reti (1.Nf3)
Fordan, Tibor - Schebler, Gerhard 0-1 42 E97 Kings indian; Main line
Round 2 (July 4, 1999)
Krutti, Valer - Friedrichs, Klaus 1-0 46 E13 Nimzo indian
Schebler, Gerhard - Balogh, Csaba 1-0 33 A46 Queen's pawn
Aumann, Welf - Szeberenyi, Adam 1/2 40 A28 English; 1.c4 e5
Serrer, Christoph - Pham Minh Hoang 1/2 32 A30 English; 1.c4 c5
Toth, Andras - Vadasz, Laszlo 1/2 0
Husari, Sate - Fordan, Tibor 1-0 48 D34 Queen's gambit
Farago, Sandor - Kiss, Gedeon 0-1 21 E63 Kings indian
Budapest HUN (HUN), 5-15 vii 1999 cat. II (2287)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
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1 Krutti, Valer m HUN 2354 * . . . 1 . . . . 1 . . . . 2.0
2 Schebler, Gerhard m GER 2439 . * . . . . . . . . 1 . . 1 2.0
3 Pham Minh Hoang VIE 2357 . . * . . = 1 . . . . . . . 1.5 2465
4 Aumann, Welf GER 2299 . . . * . . . . . = . . 1 . 1.5 2480
5 Friedrichs, Klaus GER 2144 0 . . . * . . . 1 . . . . . 1.0 2329
6 Serrer, Christoph f GER 2285 . . = . . * . . . . = . . . 1.0 2246
7 Kiss, Gedeon HUN 2259 . . 0 . . . * . . . . 1 . . 1.0 2335
8 Toth, Andras HUN 2301 . . . . . . . * . . . = = . 1.0 2300
9 Husari, Sate SYR 2305 . . . . 0 . . . * . . . . 1 1.0 2194
10 Szeberenyi, Adam HUN 2287 0 . . = . . . . . * . . . . 0.5 2133
11 Balogh, Csaba HUN 2135 . 0 . . . = . . . . * . . . 0.5 2169
12 Farago, Sandor m HUN 2314 . . . . . . 0 = . . . * . . 0.5 2087
13 Vadasz, Laszlo g HUN 2287 . . . 0 . . . = . . . . * . 0.5 2107
14 Fordan, Tibor HUN 2245 . 0 . . . . . . 0 . . . . * 0.0
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The FIDE rating list for July 1999 is now out. Kasparov extends his lead as
World number one. The January 1999 rating is given first followed by the new
July rating.There are no major changes in the positions of the top players with
only two players entering the top 10, Gelfand at 6 and Leko at 10. Kasparov's
rating has risen to 2841 whilst World numbers 2 and 3, Anand and Kramnik, have
fallen. Morozevich is now World number 4. There looks to be a few events
missing and these lists may be due a correction. At first sight Sarajevo and
the Karpov-Piket match are amongst the events that should have been included.
Source http://www.data.ru/fide/ratings/index.html
and a full rating list is available from there, although the name
(alph9907.txt) suggests that the list is not going to be the final version.
No Name Title NAT ja99 ju99 gms dob
1 Kasparov, Gary.................. g RUS 2812 2841 27 13.04.63
2 Anand, Viswanathan.............. g IND 2781 2771 36 11.12.69
3 Kramnik, Vladimir............... g RUS 2751 2760 36 25.06.75
4 Morozevich, Alexander........... g RUS 2723 2751 17 18.07.77
5 Shirov, Alexei.................. g ESP 2726 2722 13 04.07.72
6 Gelfand, Boris.................. g ISR 2691 2713 24 24.06.68
7 Karpov, Anatoly................. g RUS 2710 2709 9 23.05.51
8 Adams, Michael.................. g ENG 2716 2705 48 17.11.71
9 Ivanchuk, Vassily............... g UKR 2714 2702 27 18.03.69
10 Leko, Peter..................... g HUN 2694 2699 14 08.09.79
11 Topalov, Veselin................ g BUL 2700 2695 36 15.03.75
12 Short, Nigel D.................. g ENG 2697 2689 16 01.06.65
13 Svidler, Peter.................. g RUS 2713 2684 36 17.06.76
14 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab.......... g GEO 2681 2681 0 16.03.60
15 Dreev, Alexey................... g RUS 2639 2679 38 30.01.69
16 Bareev, Evgeny.................. g RUS 2679 2679 0 21.11.66
17 Korchnoi, Viktor................ g SUI 2673 2676 16 23.03.31
18 Timman, Jan H................... g NED 2670 2675 28 14.12.51
19 Smirin, Ilia.................... g ISR 2652 2671 31 21.01.68
20 Polgar, Judit (GM).............. g HUN 2677 2671 9 23.07.76 w
21 Sokolov, Ivan................... g BIH 2624 2666 31 13.06.68
22 Almasi, Zoltan.................. g HUN 2665 2663 33 29.08.76
23 Rublevsky, Sergei............... g RUS 2684 2660 8 15.10.74
24 Movsesian, Sergei............... g CZE 2650 2659 37 03.11.78
25 Fedorov, Alexei................. g BLR 2648 2659 20 27.09.72
26 Shipov, Sergei.................. g RUS 2662 2658 9 17.04.66
27 Epishin, Vladimir............... g RUS 2578 2657 80 11.07.65
28 Onischuk, Alexander............. g UKR 2646 2657 18 03.09.75
29 Salov, Valery................... g RUS 2670 2656 9 26.05.64
30 Seirawan, Yasser................ g USA 2643 2653 10 24.03.60
31 Zvjaginsev, Vadim............... g RUS 2658 2652 17 18.08.76
32 Georgiev, Kiril................. g BUL 2659 2650 19 28.11.65
33 Tkachiev, Vladislav............. g FRA 2634 2648 24 . .
34 Sakaev, Konstantin.............. g RUS 2649 2648 17 13.04.74
35 Krasenkow, Michal............... g POL 2643 2647 35 14.11.63
36 Akopian, Vladimir............... g ARM 2640 2646 37 07.12.71
37 Gurevich, Mikhail............... g BEL 2627 2643 38 22.02.59
38 Nikolic, Predrag................ g BIH 2633 2641 9 11.09.60
39 Lautier, Joel................... g FRA 2596 2638 33 12.04.73
40 Jussupow, Artur................. g GER 2641 2636 15 13.02.60
41 Khenkin, Igor................... g GER 2641 2633 46 21.03.68
42 Van Wely, Loek.................. g NED 2632 2629 52 07.10.72
43 Hracek, Zbynek.................. g CZE 2615 2629 24 09.09.70
44 Khalifman, Alexander............ g RUS 2616 2628 20 18.01.66
45 Sadler, Matthew................. g ENG 2667 2626 42 15.05.74
46 Milov, Vadim.................... g SUI 2633 2626 29 01.08.72
47 Piket, Jeroen................... g NED 2619 2625 44 27.01.69
48 Lputian, Smbat G................ g ARM 2614 2625 20 14.02.58
49 Andersson, Ulf.................. g SWE 2623 2623 12 27.06.51
50 Bologan, Viktor................. g MDA 2608 2620 41 14.12.71
51 Chernin, Alexander.............. g HUN 2604 2619 32 06.03.60
52 Aleksandrov, Aleksej............ g BLR 2609 2619 14 11.05.73
53 Beliavsky, Alexander G.......... g SLO 2650 2618 35 17.12.53
54 Gulko, Boris F.................. g USA 2620 2618 4 09.02.47
55 Vaganian, Rafael A.............. g ARM 2605 2617 21 15.10.51
56 Ponomariov, Ruslan.............. g UKR 2609 2616 18 11.10.83
57 Kharlov, Andrei................. g RUS 2600 2615 80 20.11.68
58 Korneev, Oleg................... g RUS 2583 2615 54 25.07.69
59 Novikov, Igor A................. g UKR 2601 2614 29 23.05.62
60 Kozul, Zdenko................... g CRO 2585 2612 23 21.05.66
61 Tiviakov, Sergei................ g RUS 2627 2611 39 14.02.73
62 Kaidanov, Gregory S............. g USA 2606 2611 12 11.10.59
63 Palac, Mladen................... g CRO 2589 2610 42 18.02.71
64 Christiansen, Larry M........... g USA 2581 2610 24 27.06.56
65 Tregubov, Pavel V............... g RUS 2570 2609 37 21.12.71
66 Pigusov, Evgeny................. g RUS 2602 2609 17 31.03.61
67 Morovic Fernandez, Ivan......... g CHI 2613 2608 17 24.03.63
68 Hansen, Curt.................... g DEN 2608 2607 24 18.09.64
69 Adianto, Utut................... g INA 2607 2607 0 16.03.65
70 Filippov, Valerij............... g RUS 2574 2605 53 28.11.75
71 Hodgson, Julian M............... g ENG 2565 2605 37 25.07.63
72 Granda Zuniga, Julio E.......... g PER 2605 2605 0 25.02.67
73 Kruppa, Yuri.................... g UKR 2561 2603 35 21.06.64
74 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam............ g UZB 2606 2603 31 05.12.79
75 Goldin, Alexander............... g ISR 2585 2602 49 27.02.65
76 Giorgadze, Giorgi............... g GEO 2609 2602 29 10.10.64
77 Sturua, Zurab................... g GEO 2605 2602 11 08.06.59
78 Stohl, Igor..................... g SVK 2573 2600 35 27.09.64
79 Minasian, Artashes.............. g ARM 2594 2600 29 21.01.67
80 Dolmatov, Sergey................ g RUS 2589 2600 21 20.02.59
81 Illescas Cordoba, Miguel........ g ESP 2585 2600 18 03.12.65
82 Huebner, Robert Dr.............. g GER 2585 2599 15 06.11.48
83 Atalik, Suat.................... g TUR 2593 2598 77 10.10.64
84 DeFirmian, Nick E............... g USA 2610 2598 33 26.07.57
85 Nunn, John D.M.................. g ENG 2600 2598 18 25.04.55
86 Speelman, Jonathan S............ g ENG 2601 2597 51 02.10.56
87 Dautov, Rustem.................. g GER 2598 2597 17 28.11.65
88 Bunzmann, Dimitrij.............. GER 2555 2596 24 21.02.82
89 Dorfman, Josif D................ g FRA 2596 2596 0 01.05.53
90 Baburin, Alexander.............. g IRL 2586 2593 26 19.02.67
91 Ye, Jiangchuan.................. g CHN 2564 2593 25 20.11.60
92 Yakovich, Yuri.................. g RUS 2565 2592 69 30.11.62
93 Ehlvest, Jaan................... g EST 2593 2592 45 14.10.62
94 Bacrot, Etienne................. g FRA 2561 2592 27 22.01.83
95 Landa, Konstantin............... g RUS 2542 2591 62 22.05.72
96 Baklan, Vladimir................ g UKR 2552 2591 51 25.02.78
97 Lutz, Christopher............... g GER 2610 2591 32 24.02.71
98 Dvoirys, Semen I................ g RUS 2562 2590 46 02.11.58
99 Ftacnik, Lubomir................ g SVK 2585 2589 52 30.10.57
100 Eingorn, Vereslav S............. g UKR 2592 2589 19 23.11.56
EuroTel Trophy
The EuroTel Trophy will take place in Prague, the Czech Republic, from 10th
to 18th July 1999. The EuroTel Trophy ´99 is presented by the world
champion Garry Kasparov - the winner of EuroTel Trophy ´98. The match will
be between Judit Polgar and Alexei Shirov. The first game will start on Sunday
11th July 1999 at 2: 30 p.m. CET, and will be played with the time control of
40 moves in 2 hours, followed by 20 moves in 1 hour, followed by 30 minutes for
the rest of the game. World and Czech Chess Grandmasters will provide the match
commentary. Internet coverage at: http://www.iol.cz. The six games will take place
on July 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18 1999. EuroTel Praha Ltd is a joint venture of
SPT TELECOM Inc. (51%) and Atlantic West B.V. (49%). Atlantic West B.V. is
equally owned by Bell Atlantic (NYSE:BEL) and MediaOne International, which is
a part of MediaOne Group (NYSE:UMG).
3rd Mind Sports Olympiad
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.
Politiken Cup
The Politiken Cup started in Copenhagen on July 3rd, the event runs through
until July 11th. Official coverage at:
http://inet.uni-c.dk/~kbhsu/index.htm
Nick DeFirmian, Alexander Baburin, Sune Berg Hansen, Lars Schandorff,
Henrik Danielsen, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Chris Ward and Luke McShane are
amongst the 163 players competing.
European Club Cup 1999 for women
Nova Gorica is the venue for the European Club Cup 1999 for Women which is
currently underway. Results and games at:
http://www.sah-zveza.si/rez/eu99cupw.htm
Ikaria island, Greece
Eight GMs and other strong players will participate in the Ikaros Chess
Festival, 10-23 of July, Ikaria island, Greece. Among them are: Igor Novikov
(GM, 2601, Ukr.), Normunds Miezis (GM Lat), Eygeni Ermenkov (GM Bulg.), Milko
Popchev (GM Bulg.), Krum Georgiev (GM Bulg.), Milos Pavlovic (GM Yugosl.),
Stanimr Nikolic (GM Yugosl.), Silvia Aleksieva (WGM, Bulg.), Karsten Rasmussen
(IM Denmark), Bojan Vuckovic (IM Yugosl.), Pavlos Gesos (IM Greece), Ruzka
Genova (WIM, Bulg.)
Seven tournaments will be held in Ikaria in this period. The main event is
the Aegian Championship, a 9 rounds swiss system international tournament. For
more details in English, French or Greek you can visit the site:
http://www.chess.gr/tourn/1999/ikaros99.html