THE WEEK IN CHESS 555 27th June 2005 by Mark Crowther
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Hydra vs Michael Adams Match 6 games
III Marx György Memorial 90 games
6th European Individual Championship 916 games
European Individual Women's Championship 362 games
III Open Bajada de la Virgen 300 games
Jan Timman vs Andrei Volokitin in Leon 4 games
9th Chess Festival Voronezh 225 games
Accoona Toolbar Match 1 game
19th Pula Open 163 games
Pinamar International 20 games
Torch Real Estate Cup China Chess League 264 games
Suduroy International 45 games
NAO win the French Team Cup 4 games
Berman Hillman Tournament 45 games
Alushta Summer 66 games
Salsomaggiore Chess Festival 194 games
Jerry Spann Memorial 30 games
Iranian Team Championship 120 games
Bray Rapidplay 1 game
2866 games
My thanks to Mogens Nielsen, Eric Birmingham, Tarjei J. Svensen, Thomas
Henrich, Leonid Galperin, Alfonso Romero Holmes, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, Rodolfo
Arias Formoso, John Rødgaard, Fernando Gomez, Frank K Berry, Doug Bake,
Pat Reynolds, Chris Bird, Dmitry V. Borisenkov, Luis Rodi, Luis Blasco de la
Cruz, Stan Kriventsov, Mikhail Golubev, Adolivio Capece, Krzysztof Pytel,
Aleksander Czerwo, Giorgio Gozzi and everyone else who helped with the
issue.
A huge amount of chess this week. The Michael Adams against Hydra match
turned out to be a gross embarrassment for the english number 1 and world
number 7. Clearly underprepared he tried to play normal chess against Hydra and
was comprehensively demolished. Its hard to rate Hydra's performance because
Kramnik and Kasparov prepared for months for their matches against computers. I
think we can expect a big payday for one of Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand to take
on the machine. Korchnoi's good performance at the Paks tournament was spoiled
by the final rounds and he finished 2nd in the end behind Almasi. Still a great
performance for a player of his great age. The European Individual Championship
is heating up there is a three way tie going into the final rounds in what
should be an exciting finish.
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
Michael Adams played a six game match against the Hydra Chess Computer
at the Wembley Centre in London, 21st-27th (rest day 24th) June 2005, for a
prize fund of $150,000 (£80,000). Adams clearly didn't prepare properly
for the match and was duly hammered (Kasparov and Kramnik spent months
preparing for matches against Deep Fritz and Junior).
Official site for the program: http://www.hydrachess.com
Further
info on the programmers aims
PR for the match:
http://www.rainierpr.co.uk/chess
HYDRA - Adams, Michael 1-0 33 C42 Petroff's Defence
Adams, Michael - HYDRA 1/2 65 B47 Sicilian Paulsen
HYDRA - Adams, Michael 1-0 28 C91 Ruy Lopez
Adams, Michael - HYDRA 0-1 50 B23 Sicilian Closed
HYDRA - Adams, Michael 1-0 41 C87 Ruy Lopez
Adams, Michael - HYDRA 0-1 43 B42 Sicilian Paulsen
Man-Machine London ENG (ENG), 21-27 vi 2005
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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HYDRA ---- 1 = 1 1 1 1 5.5
Adams, Michael g ENG 2737 0 = 0 0 0 0 0.5
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The 3rd Marx György tournament took place in Paks, Hungary
12th-22nd June 2005. Zoltan Almasi won the even, half a point clear of Viktor
Korchnoi. Ralf Akesson won the open.
Further details: http://www.ase.hu/marxgy
Round 9 (June 21, 2005)
Korchnoi, Viktor - Almasi, Zoltan 0-1 47 E15 Queens Indian
Berkes, Ferenc - Sutovsky, Emil 1-0 49 D87 Gruenfeld Botvinnik
Acs, Peter - Sasikiran, Krishnan 0-1 42 C99 Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Round 10 (June 22, 2005)
Almasi, Zoltan - Acs, Peter 1/2 14 C96 Ruy Lopez
Sasikiran, Krishnan - Berkes, Ferenc 1/2 32 D63 Queens Gambit Main Line with 7.Rc1
Sutovsky, Emil - Korchnoi, Viktor 1/2 30 C80 Ruy Lopez Open
III Marx Gyorgy Paks HUN (HUN), 12-22 vi 2005 cat. XV (2616)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2628 ** =1 =0 1= =1 1= 6.5 2723
2 Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2619 =0 ** == 10 1= 11 6.0 2687
3 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2642 =1 == ** == 0= =1 5.5 2646
4 Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2617 0= 01 == ** =1 == 5.0 2615
5 Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2665 =0 0= 1= =0 ** =0 3.5 2496
6 Acs, Peter g HUN 2525 0= 00 =0 == =1 ** 3.5 2524
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Marx Gyorgy Open Paks HUN (HUN), 14-22 vi 2005
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1. Akesson, Ralf g SWE 2461 7½
2. Erdos, Viktor m HUN 2480 7
3. Paschall, William M m USA 2400 7
4. Sikula, Vaszilij m UKR 2457 6½
5. Videki, Sandor m HUN 2405 6
6. Tancsa, Robert HUN 2253 6
7. Krumpacnik, Domen m SLO 2370 6
8. Fodor, Tamas jr f HUN 2269 6
9. Zakarias, David HUN 2265 6
10. Gal, Peter1 HUN 2065 6
11. Papp, Tamas1 HUN 2221 5½
12. Ianov, Viktor m UKR 2381 5½
13. Nagy, Daniel HUN 2189 5½
14. Balazs, Gabor2 HUN 2142 5½
15. Blazsik, Zoltan sr HUN 2086 5½
52 players
The Warsaw Foundation for Chess Development and Sports Club Polonia
Warsaw organise the 6th European Individual Chess Championship which take place
June 17th - July 3rd 2005, in Warsaw - Zegrze Poludniowe. Full coverage live on
the website now available. 8 rounds available. Carlsen-Sargissian round 8 looks
a bit suspicious. After 9 rounds Sergey Karjakin, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and
Vassily Ivanchuk lead with 7/9.
Official site: http://www.warsawchess.pl
Leading Round 9 Standings:
Place Name Rating Score Median Buchholz Wins Prog
Int Buchholz
1 Karjakin Sergey 2635 7 41.5 53 6 39
2 Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter 2670 7 41.5 52.5 5 37
3 Ivanchuk Vassily 2739 7 40 51.5 5 35
4 Milov Vadim 2653 6.5 41.5 52 5 37.5
5 Volkov Sergey 2634 6.5 40.5 52.5 4 34
6 Dreev Alexey 2705 6.5 40 51.5 4 36
7 Radjabov Teimour 2673 6.5 40 51 5 34.5
8 Beliavsky Alexander G 2630 6.5 37.5 48 4 34
9 Najer Evgeniy 2615 6.5 37.5 48 4 33.5
10 Tiviakov Sergei 2631 6.5 37 48 4 32.5
11 Moiseenko Alexander 2665 6.5 37 47.5 5 32
12 Asrian Karen 2611 6.5 35.5 45.5 5 34.5
13 Aronian Levon 2693 6 41 52.5 3 33
14 Krasenkow Michal 2672 6 41 51.5 4 35
15 Parligras Mircea 2560 6 40.5 50.5 3 31
16 Pantsulaia Levan 2496 6 40 52 4 33
17 Jakovenko Dmitry 2608 6 38.5 49 3 31
18 Rublevsky Sergei 2645 6 38 49.5 4 31.5
19 Eljanov Pavel 2641 6 37.5 48 3 31.5
20 Balogh Csaba 2531 6 37.5 45 3 31
21 Malakhov Vladimir 2670 6 36.5 46.5 3 29.5
22 Movsesian Sergei 2628 6 36 47.5 4 30
23 Kotronias Vasilios 2578 6 36 45.5 4 32.5
24 Popov Valerij 2568 6 35.5 45 4 28.5
25 Fedorov Alexei 2602 6 35 44 4 29
26 Efimenko Zahar 2620 6 34.5 44.5 3 30.5
27 Cheparinov Ivan 2621 6 34 44 3 29.5
28 Areshchenko Alexander 2595 6 34 43.5 3 30.5
29 Sokolov Ivan 2662 6 33.5 43 4 28
30 Jobava Baadur 2637 6 33.5 43 3 29
31 Gurevich Mikhail 2630 6 33 43 5 28.5
32 Iordachescu Viorel 2609 6 30.5 39 4 26.5
33 Bocharov Dmitry 2574 6 27.5 37.5 5 25.5
34 Naiditsch Arkadij 2626 5.5 40 51.5 4 32.5
35 Cao Sang 2536 5.5 38.5 46.5 3 30
36 Sakaev Konstantin 2672 5.5 38 48.5 3 29.5
37 Carlsen Magnus 2548 5.5 37.5 47 3 28
38 Alekseev Evgeny 2597 5.5 36.5 47 3 31.5
39 Smirnov Pavel 2624 5.5 36 46.5 4 31.5
40 Babula Vlastimil 2584 5.5 36 46.5 3 28.5
41 Mastrovasilis Dimitrios 2562 5.5 36 45 4 28.5
42 Guseinov Gadir 2573 5.5 35.5 45.5 3 29.5
43 Fressinet Laurent 2638 5.5 35.5 45.5 3 28
44 Motylev Alexander 2680 5.5 35.5 45.5 3 27
45 Sargissian Gabriel 2630 5.5 34.5 44.5 2 29.5
46 Van Wely Loek 2687 5.5 34.5 44 3 28
47 Riazantsev Alexander 2608 5.5 34 44 3 29
48 Izoria Zviad 2602 5.5 34 44 3 27.5
49 Brkic Ante 2477 5.5 34 42.5 3 26
50 Kobalia Mikhail 2644 5.5 33.5 43 3 27
51 Andreikin Dmitry 2495 5.5 33.5 42.5 3 25
52 Palac Mladen 2574 5.5 33.5 42 3 30
53 Gritsak Orest 2537 5.5 33.5 42 3 27.5
54 Azarov Sergei 2572 5.5 33 43 4 27
55 Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2569 5.5 33 42.5 5 28.5
56 Ftacnik Lubomir 2540 5.5 33 40.5 3 29
57 Dizdar Goran 2524 5.5 32.5 41 4 24
58 Aleksandrov Aleksej 2635 5.5 31.5 40.5 5 24
59 Gdanski Jacek 2544 5.5 30.5 39.5 4 27
60 Kornev Alexei 2565 5.5 29.5 39 5 27.5
61 Nevednichy Vladislav 2566 5.5 28 36.5 4 24.5
62 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2646 5 38 48.5 4 31
63 Bologan Viktor 2700 5 37.5 48 3 29
64 Portisch Lajos 2525 5 37 47 4 26.5
65 Stefansson Hannes 2573 5 37 46 3 29.5
66 Tregubov Pavel V 2612 5 36.5 45.5 2 28.5
67 Potkin Vladimir 2552 5 36 44 3 27
68 Iljushin Alexei 2543 5 35.5 44.5 3 27.5
69 Wells Peter K 2525 5 35.5 44 3 25.5
70 Postny Evgeny 2556 5 35 45 5 28
71 Winants Luc 2535 5 35 43 3 27.5
72 Timofeev Artyom 2622 5 34.5 45 2 28
73 Gagunashvili Merab 2547 5 34.5 43.5 3 26
74 Kuzubov Yuriy 2558 5 34.5 43 3 28.5
75 Macieja Bartlomiej 2613 5 34 43.5 3 27.5
76 Huzman Alexander 2577 5 33.5 43 3 28
77 Inarkiev Ernesto 2612 5 33.5 41.5 3 24.5
78 Mista Aleksander 2497 5 33 42.5 4 22
79 Galego Luis 2493 5 33 42 3 22
80 Jaracz Pawel 2530 5 32.5 43 2 24.5
81 Georgiev Kiril 2666 5 32.5 42 3 26
82 Pavlovic Milos 2475 5 32.5 41.5 3 24.5
83 Filippov Valerij 2621 5 32.5 41 3 23.5
84 Minasian Artashes 2597 5 32 42.5 5 26
85 Korneev Oleg 2611 5 32 41 4 25
86 Pelletier Yannick 2610 5 32 41 2 26
87 Shomoev Anton 2540 5 31.5 40.5 3 25.5
88 Romanishin Oleg M 2559 5 31.5 40.5 2 25.5
89 Kempinski Robert 2627 5 31 39 3 23
90 Pavasovic Dusko 2593 5 31 39 2 23.5
91 Nijboer Friso 2553 5 30.5 39.5 3 24.5
92 Nyback Tomi 2551 5 30 39.5 4 24
93 Markus Robert 2584 5 30 39 3 22
94 Roiz Michael 2579 5 30 39 2 26
95 Markowski Tomasz 2560 5 30 39 2 25
96 Fedorchuk Sergey A 2577 5 29.5 38 4 22.5
97 Stocek Jiri 2585 5 29.5 38 2 22
98 Zelcic Robert 2514 5 29 38.5 4 20.5
99 Gouliev Namig 2526 5 29 37 3 21
100 Nalbandian Tigran 2508 5 28.5 37 2 22.5
101 Sulskis Sarunas 2545 5 28.5 36.5 3 24
102 Lupulescu Constantin 2546 4.5 38.5 47.5 2 28
103 Kritz Leonid 2549 4.5 37.5 46.5 2 27.5
104 Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel 2488 4.5 37 46.5 4 25
105 Stevic Hrvoje 2514 4.5 37 43.5 2 25
106 Maze Sebastien 2470 4.5 35.5 45.5 3 22.5
107 Kurnosov Igor 2550 4.5 35 44.5 4 26
108 Kozul Zdenko 2591 4.5 34.5 44.5 3 27.5
109 Nataf Igor-Alexandre 2559 4.5 34.5 44 3 26.5
110 Neverov Valeriy 2566 4.5 34.5 44 2 26
111 Bobras Piotr 2501 4.5 34 44 3 23.5
112 Dautov Rustem 2609 4.5 33 43 2 25
113 Prusikin Michael 2540 4.5 33 42 3 25.5
114 Hulak Krunoslav 2534 4.5 32.5 41 2 23
115 Nielsen Peter Heine 2653 4.5 32 41.5 2 25.5
116 Gajewski Grzegorz 2396 4.5 32 41.5 2 21.5
117 Kharlov Andrei 2628 4.5 32 41 4 23.5
118 Graf Alexander 2632 4.5 31.5 40.5 3 23
119 Navara David 2647 4.5 31.5 40 2 22.5
120 Iljin Artem 2484 4.5 31 40 3 22
121 Lputian Smbat G 2640 4.5 31 39.5 4 23
122 Cvitan Ognjen 2481 4.5 31 39.5 1 22
123 Chuchelov Vladimir 2571 4.5 30.5 40.5 3 22.5
124 Del Rio Angelis Salvador G 2495 4.5 30.5 40 4 20.5
125 Moranda Wojciech 2452 4.5 30.5 39 2 21.5
126 Halkias Stelios 2549 4.5 30 40 3 22.5
127 Gaprindashvili Valeriane 2415 4.5 30 39.5 3 19
128 Evdokimov Alexander A 2503 4.5 30 39 2 20.5
129 Godena Michele 2527 4.5 29.5 39 2 20.5
130 Khismatullin Denis 2572 4.5 29.5 38.5 4 22
131 Grabarczyk Miroslaw 2487 4.5 29 37.5 3 20
132 Guliev Sarhan 2481 4.5 29 34.5 2 22
133 Frolyanov Dmitry 2505 4.5 28.5 37.5 3 19
134 Mastrovasilis Athanasios 2473 4.5 28.5 37 3 21.5
135 Perunovic Milos 2549 4.5 28.5 37 3 20
136 Socko Bartosz 2583 4.5 28 36 2 21
137 Erenburg Sergey 2575 4.5 27.5 35.5 4 18.5
138 Andersson Ulf 2579 4.5 27.5 35.5 0 22.5
139 Anastasian Ashot 2574 4.5 26 36 4 22.5
140 Czarnota Pawel 2478 4.5 26 35 3 19
141 Bartel Mateusz 2511 4 36.5 46.5 3 23
142 Firman Nazar 2471 4 35 44 2 22
143 Siebrecht Sebastian 2438 4 34.5 44.5 3 25.5
144 Romanov Evgeny 2437 4 34 43 2 20
145 Loeffler Stefan 2429 4 33 42 3 20
146 Baramidze David 2542 4 33 41.5 3 22.5
147 Kovacevic Blazimir 2510 4 32.5 41.5 3 22.5
148 Guseinov Elmir 2391 4 32.5 41.5 2 20.5
149 Grigoriants Sergey 2553 4 32.5 41 2 22.5
150 Kovchan Alexander 2488 4 32 41.5 3 21.5
151 Dziuba Marcin 2429 4 31.5 39.5 2 19.5
152 L'ami Erwin 2515 4 31 41.5 2 21
153 Smeets Jan 2518 4 31 39.5 3 20
154 Mchedlishvili Mikheil 2518 4 31 39.5 2 22
155 Urban Klaudiusz 2497 4 30.5 40 2 20
156 Mamedov Rauf 2511 4 30 39 1 19.5
157 Warakomski Tomasz 2384 4 30 36.5 2 17
158 Zaja Ivan 2489 4 29.5 39 1 19.5
159 Thorfinnsson Bragi 2442 4 29.5 38 2 16
160 Khairullin Ildar 2517 4 29 38 1 19
161 Haznedaroglu Kivanc 2440 4 29 37.5 2 18
162 Lagowski Patryk 2393 4 28.5 35.5 3 17.5
163 Heberla Bartlomiej 2454 4 28 36 4 16
164 Atakisi Umut 2439 4 27.5 35.5 3 16.5
165 Bagheri Amir 2518 4 27 36 3 16.5
166 Karlsson Lars 2472 4 27 35.5 2 16.5
167 Zawadzka Jolanta 2383 4 27 34.5 3 15.5
168 Esen Baris 2287 4 26.5 34.5 2 16
169 Reinderman Dimitri 2509 4 26.5 34 1 19
170 Jones Gawain C 2439 4 25.5 34 1 16.5
171 Tzermiadianos Andreas 2453 3.5 33.5 41 2 22
172 Tazbir Marcin 2322 3.5 33 42 2 18.5
173 Abergel Thal 2456 3.5 33 41.5 2 17.5
174 Khmelniker Ilya 2458 3.5 32.5 41 2 19
175 Petrosian Tigran L 2599 3.5 32 40.5 1 21
176 Williams Simon 2466 3.5 31.5 39 2 19
177 Ibrahimov Rasul 2514 3.5 31 40 2 19
178 Bakalarz Mieczyslaw 2408 3.5 31 39 2 17
179 Kuljasevic Davorin 2408 3.5 31 38.5 2 18
180 Babujian Levon 2386 3.5 30.5 38.5 3 17
181 Erturan Yakup 2277 3.5 30 38.5 2 17.5
182 Mazi Leon 2365 3.5 29 38.5 2 17
183 Magalashvili Davit 2445 3.5 29 38 1 15
184 Kristjansson Stefan 2461 3.5 28.5 35 3 18
185 Kuraszkiewicz Michael 2300 3.5 28.5 34 3 14.5
186 Luch Michal 2417 3.5 28 35 2 13
187 Guadalpi David 2317 3.5 27.5 36 3 17.5
188 Matras Agnieszka 2280 3.5 26.5 33.5 2 13
189 Dworakowska Joanna 2383 3.5 26.5 33 3 15.5
190 Berescu Alin 2439 3.5 26 33.5 2 14.5
191 Erdogdu Mert 2414 3.5 26 33.5 1 14
192 Galazewski Tomasz 2137 3.5 25.5 32.5 2 14
193 Van Der Weide Karel 2472 3.5 25 31 3 14.5
194 Michalczak Thomas 2369 3 32.5 42 2 19
195 Olszewski Michal 2387 3 31 39 2 14.5
196 Leniart Arkadiusz 2279 3 29.5 39 1 16.5
197 Sergeev Vladimir 2458 3 29.5 36.5 2 18
198 Marzolo Cyril 2388 3 29.5 36.5 1 16
199 Kadziolka Beata 2311 3 29 37 0 14.5
200 Szoen Dariusz 2444 3 28.5 37 2 13.5
201 Maier Christian 2387 3 28.5 37 1 14
202 Neubauer Martin 2457 3 28.5 35.5 2 17
203 Lanzani Mario 2356 3 28 37 0 16
204 Murtez Hondozi 2354 3 28 35 1 13
205 Krysztofiak Marcin 2401 3 27 34.5 2 14
206 Kachur Alexander 2281 3 27 33.5 2 13
207 Bugajski Robert 2218 3 26.5 33.5 2 13.5
208 Godlauskas Kazys 2193 3 25.5 32.5 2 10.5
209 Bleis Christian Dr 2258 3 25.5 32 2 11.5
210 Bruno Fabio 2374 3 25 31.5 2 13.5
211 Rutkowski Maciej 2346 3 25 31.5 2 13
212 Praszak Michal 2261 3 24.5 31.5 2 11
213 Bednarek Sylwester 2321 3 20 26.5 3 8
214 Bente Bjoern 2218 2.5 32.5 41.5 2 18.5
215 Stoma Pawel 2295 2.5 32.5 41 1 16.5
216 Skurski Jan 2299 2.5 28.5 37.5 0 13
217 Asauskas Henrikas 2357 2.5 28.5 36.5 1 12.5
218 Citak Selim 2351 2.5 28 35 1 12
219 Kopczynski Michal 2150 2.5 27 34 1 14.5
220 Sliwinski Marcin 2186 2.5 25.5 32.5 2 10.5
221 Swiercz Dariusz 2136 2.5 25 32 1 10
222 Krasiewicz Robert 2056 2.5 24 31 1 7
223 Gluszko Tomasz 1977 2.5 23.5 29.5 1 11.5
224 Wojcicki Lukasz 1833 2 23 30.5 1 8
225 Krzymowski Alfred 2034 2 22.5 28.5 2 8
226 Szewczak Andrzej 1995 2 22.5 28 1 5
227 Azimi Reza 2144 1.5 21 27 1 6.5
228 Majewski Karol 0 1 30.5 39 0 9
229 Krzymowska Adriana 0 1 23 29 0 8
The European Individual Women's Chess Championship took place in
Chisinau, Moldova 10th-25th June 2005. Excellent daily coverage from the
official site. Kateryna Lahno won
the event ahead of Nadezhda Kosintseva after a playoff.
Official site: http://eiwcc2005.chisinau.md/
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6th ch-EURw Chisinau MDA (MDA), 11-23 vi 2005
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Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Pts BH. BH. vict Rp
1 4 IM Lahno Kateryna 2467 UKR 9 77 92 6 2588
2 7 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2459 RUS 9 72 86½ 6 2562
3 26 IM Dembo Yelena 2402 GRE 8½ 66 80 5 2478
4 37 WGM Collas Silvia 2381 FRA 8½ 70 83½ 5 2501
5 29 WGM Zaiatz Elena 2398 RUS 8½ 73 87 5 2525
6 21 IM Danielian Elina 2415 ARM 8½ 68½ 82½ 6 2486
7 18 IM Khurtsidze Nino 2418 GEO 8 75 89½ 5 2480
8 10 IM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan 2452 GEO 8 73 87½ 6 2475
9 27 IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2400 ARM 8 71½ 85½ 5 2495
10 20 WGM Kononenko Tatiana 2416 UKR 8 70 83½ 4 2456
11 32 GM Peng Zhaoqin 2392 NED 8 69½ 83½ 7 2451
12 53 WGM Houska Jovanka 2334 ENG 8 69 81 6 2460
13 8 IM Radziewicz Iweta 2457 POL 8 69 81 5 2431
14 13 WGM Matveeva Svetlana 2423 RUS 8 68½ 83 4 2476
15 23 IM Paehtz Elisabeth 2407 GER 8 67 80½ 5 2472
16 61 Purtseladze Maka 2311 GEO 8 66½ 79½ 6 2446
17 5 IM Socko Monika 2464 POL 8 64½ 77½ 5 2413
18 19 IM Sebag Marie 2417 FRA 8 64½ 76 5 2434
19 16 WGM Zielinska Marta 2419 POL 8 64 76½ 7 2418
20 6 IM Cmilyte Viktorija 2459 LTU 7½ 74 89 6 2482
21 1 IM Kosintseva Tatiana 2486 RUS 7½ 72½ 86½ 5 2447
22 12 WGM Javakhishvili Lela 2430 GEO 7½ 71½ 86½ 5 2471
23 49 WIM Vasilevich Irina 2347 RUS 7½ 71½ 85 5 2466
24 65 IM Ovod Evgenija 2305 RUS 7½ 69½ 83 5 2390
25 51 WGM Zdebskaja Natalia 2344 UKR 7½ 69 83 5 2423
26 28 WGM Korbut Ekaterina 2399 RUS 7½ 68 80½ 7 2391
27 30 IM Lomineishvili Maia 2396 GEO 7½ 67 81 6 2425
28 9 IM Skripchenko Almira 2453 FRA 7½ 67 81 5 2406
29 24 IM Foisor Cristina Adela 2406 ROM 7½ 66 78 6 2399
30 46 WGM Ushenina Anna 2350 UKR 7½ 65 79 6 2433
31 22 IM Slavina Irina 2415 RUS 7½ 63 75 4 2378
32 40 WGM Bojkovic Natasa 2371 SCG 7½ 62 75 6 2422
33 15 IM Sedina Elena 2422 ITA 7½ 61½ 73½ 5 2337
34 25 IM Jackova Jana 2406 CZE 7½ 61 73½ 5 2371
35 38 WGM Matnadze Ana 2376 GEO 7½ 60 71 5 2333
36 57 WGM Shumiakina Tatiana 2316 RUS 7 74½ 87½ 3 2413
37 54 WGM Grabuzova Tatiana 2327 RUS 7 73½ 86½ 4 2413
38 47 WGM Stepovaia Tatiana 2348 RUS 7 70 83 5 2378
39 2 IM Dzagnidze Nana 2482 GEO 7 69 83 6 2394
40 31 IM Vasilevich Tatjana 2395 UKR 7 69 83 5 2400
41 36 IM Hagarova Zuzana 2386 SVK 7 65½ 79 5 2352
42 44 WGM Pogonina Natalija 2355 RUS 7 65½ 78 4 2373
43 34 IM Klinova Masha 2391 ISR 7 65 77½ 3 2312
44 75 WGM Vozovic Oksana 2288 UKR 7 64½ 77 6 2346
45 92 WGM Calzetta Monica 2254 ESP 7 64 76½ 6 2362
46 68 WGM Melnikova Yana 2301 RUS 7 63½ 75 5 2350
47 35 IM Vajda Szidonia 2391 HUN 7 63 76 5 2369
48 80 WIM Sharevich Anna 2278 BLR 7 62 73 6 2341
49 58 Molchanova Tatjana 2315 RUS 7 62 73 6 2332
50 43 WGM Ciuksyte Dagne 2356 LTU 7 61½ 74 5 2320
51 87 Guseva Marina 2264 RUS 7 60½ 72½ 5 2316
52 17 IM Kachiani-Gersinska Ketino 2418 GER 6½ 72½ 87½ 4 2397
53 72 WIM Hryhorenko Nataliya 2294 UKR 6½ 72½ 83½ 4 2379
54 90 WGM Zakurdjaeva Irina 2260 RUS 6½ 70 82½ 4 2407
55 82 WIM Tsereteli Tamara 2273 GEO 6½ 69½ 78½ 3 2335
56 3 IM Gaponenko Inna 2482 UKR 6½ 68½ 82½ 5 2343
57 11 IM Peptan Corina-Isabela 2435 ROM 6½ 67½ 82 6 2349
58 124 Charochkina Daria 2183 RUS 6½ 67 80½ 5 2396
59 116 Rudolf Anna 2210 HUN 6½ 66 77 6 2334
60 112 WIM Srebrnic Ana 2221 SLO 6½ 65½ 78½ 4 2381
61 63 WGM Rohonyan Katerina 2309 UKR 6½ 65½ 78 4 2332
62 93 WGM Ionescu Irina 2252 ROM 6½ 64½ 76½ 4 2362
63 39 WGM Pokorna Regina 2374 SVK 6½ 63½ 75½ 4 2308
64 60 WIM Kochetkova Julia 2311 RUS 6½ 63½ 75½ 4 2346
65 88 Andriasian Siranush 2263 ARM 6½ 63 75½ 6 2301
66 67 WIM Nebolsina Vera 2302 RUS 6½ 62½ 75 5 2341
67 56 WGM Milliet Sophie 2319 FRA 6½ 59 71½ 6 2257
68 94 WIM Doluhanova Evgeniya 2251 UKR 6½ 58 70 5 2267
69 74 WIM Nill Jessica 2290 GER 6½ 56 67 5 2251
70 78 WGM Makropoulou Marina 2285 GRE 6½ 51 62½ 6 2198
71 59 WIM Kostiuk Tatiana 2313 UKR 6 71 83½ 5 2333
72 66 WGM Velikhanli Firuza 2303 AZE 6 70½ 84½ 4 2350
73 50 WGM Demina Julia 2346 RUS 6 70½ 84 4 2327
74 70 WIM Kursova Maria 2300 RUS 6 69 80½ 4 2345
75 48 IM Petrenko Svetlana 2348 MDA 6 66½ 79½ 2 2301
76 106 Dolzhikova Kateryna 2232 UKR 6 66 79 3 2334
77 89 WIM Chulivska Vita 2262 UKR 6 62½ 75 5 2238
78 95 WGM Susterman Anja 2250 MDA 6 62½ 75 4 2313
79 77 WGM Mamedjarova Zeinab 2286 AZE 6 61½ 73½ 5 2249
80 71 WGM Bogza Adina-Maria 2297 ROM 6 60½ 73 4 2244
81 113 WIM Tsiganova Monika 2211 EST 6 60 73 4 2300
82 148 Paulet Iosefina 2051 ROM 6 60 71½ 6 2266
83 91 WIM Galojan Lilit 2256 ARM 6 59½ 71½ 5 2276
84 14 IM Moser Eva 2422 AUT 6 59½ 70 4 2232
85 100 WIM Czarnota Dorota 2244 POL 6 59 71 5 2236
86 97 WIM Fakhiridou Ekaterini 2247 GRE 6 59 71 3 2286
87 69 WIM Malysheva Polina 2301 RUS 6 58 70 5 2243
88 114 Alexanian Nelli 2211 RUS 6 58 70 5 2252
89 96 WIM Makka Ioulia 2250 GRE 6 57 69 5 2228
90 42 WGM Muzychuk Anna 2363 SLO 6 57 68½ 4 2232
91 64 WGM Smokina Karolina 2307 MDA 6 56½ 68 2 2200
92 55 WGM Goreskul Alyona 2323 UKR 6 56 68 4 2210
93 33 WGM Repkova Eva 2392 SVK 6 55½ 66 3 2187
94 84 WIM Calotescu Ana-Cristina 2268 ROM 6 55 67 5 2225
95 137 Lupik Marina 2123 RUS 6 55 65½ 4 2245
96 99 WIM Ionica Iulia-Ionela 2245 ROM 6 54½ 65 4 2208
97 86 WFM Szczepkowska Karina 2264 POL 6 47 60 4 2161
98 79 WIM Gvetadze Sopio 2283 GEO 5½ 68 79½ 4 2295
99 146 WFM Muzychuk Mariya 2059 UKR 5½ 66 79½ 2 2310
100 102 WIM Dragomirescu Angela 2241 ROM 5½ 64 77 4 2278
101 52 IM Zozulia Anna 2343 UKR 5½ 63 75½ 4 2288
102 41 WGM Chelushkina Irina 2369 SCG 5½ 62 75 3 2232
103 111 WIM Mamedjarova Turkan 2221 AZE 5½ 61½ 73½ 3 2249
104 85 WIM Tarasova Viktoriya 2268 RUS 5½ 61 73 2 2251
105 105 WIM Bensdorp Marlies 2232 NED 5½ 61 72½ 3 2211
106 62 WIM Voicu Carmen 2310 ROM 5½ 60½ 74 3 2228
107 110 WIM Burtasova Anna 2223 RUS 5½ 60 68 5 2205
108 128 WFM Iodo Anna 2176 RUS 5½ 58½ 69½ 4 2201
109 104 WGM Mirzoeva Elmira 2232 RUS 5½ 58 69½ 4 2198
110 120 WIM Meshcheriakova Evgenia 2193 RUS 5½ 58 69½ 2 2243
111 98 WIM Laesson Tuulikki 2246 EST 5½ 57½ 70 4 2174
112 119 Ivanova-Skripova Tatiana 2205 RUS 5½ 56 68 5 2180
113 117 WIM Sirotkina Nina 2206 RUS 5½ 55½ 66½ 5 2183
114 81 WGM Ptacnikova Lenka 2277 ISL 5½ 52 63 3 2130
115 130 Van Weersel Arlette 2158 NED 5½ 51½ 59 4 2152
116 103 Gheorghe Corina 2234 ROM 5 63½ 76 2 2209
117 109 WIM Koskoska Gabriela 2230 MKD 5 60½ 71½ 4 2191
118 121 WGM Partac Elena 2190 MDA 5 60 72½ 3 2221
119 127 Sarakauskiene Zivile 2177 LTU 5 59½ 71 4 2230
120 76 FM Schuurman Petra 2288 NED 5 59 71 4 2159
121 132 Padurariu Ioana-Smaranda 2153 ROM 5 59 71 3 2240
122 108 WIM Cherednichenko Svetlana 2230 UKR 5 57½ 70 3 2152
123 131 WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2156 TUR 5 57½ 68½ 3 2156
124 122 Khudaverdieva Afag 2187 AZE 5 55½ 67½ 3 2165
125 45 WGM Olarasu Gabriela 2353 ROM 5 55½ 65½ 1 2153
126 136 Kuzevanova Evgenia 2124 RUS 5 53½ 63 2 2153
127 107 WGM Lematschko Tatjana 2231 SUI 5 53 65 2 2109
128 83 WGM Eidelson Rakhil 2268 BLR 5 53 64½ 2 2112
129 115 Foisor Sabina-Francesca 2210 ROM 5 52½ 60½ 4 2100
130 139 WFM Seps Monika 2116 SUI 5 51 61 4 2110
131 134 WIM Ankerst Milka 2124 SLO 5 49 59 4 2052
132 144 Kucherenko Olena 2079 UKR 5 48½ 57½ 5 2107
133 133 WFM Butuc Maria 2147 MDA 5 45½ 56 2 2026
134 147 Minina Veronika 2059 RUS 4½ 61 73 3 2163
135 155 Lazo Xenia 2001 MDA 4½ 57½ 68½ 4 2122
136 153 Kalinina Olga 2022 UKR 4½ 57 68 3 2165
137 125 Stiri Alexandra 2181 GRE 4½ 57 67½ 3 2126
138 138 WIM Mar Karmen 2119 SLO 4½ 54 64½ 3 2131
139 141 WFM Topel Zehra 2085 TUR 4½ 54 64½ 3 2104
140 118 WIM Bashkite Viktoria 2205 EST 4½ 53 63 3 2098
141 156 Cherednichenko Elena 1969 UKR 4½ 51 62 3 2106
142 101 WIM Hamelink Desiree 2244 NED 4½ 51 61½ 2 2026
143 149 Bulmaga Irina 2046 MDA 4½ 50½ 60 2 2064
144 126 Kalinina Larisa 2177 UKR 4½ 49 59 3 2062
145 129 Golubenko Valentina 2171 FID 4½ 49 58½ 3 2048
146 145 WFM Grishina Alexandra 2065 RUS 4½ 49 58½ 3 2090
147 157 WFM Bayrak Asli 1949 TUR 4½ 45 52½ 3 2043
148 123 WFM Doibani Lilia 2185 MDA 4½ 43½ 54 3 1955
149 151 WIM Cinar Corlulu Nilufer 2037 TUR 4 51½ 61 3 2041
150 143 Cicariova Elena 2081 MDA 4 51 62½ 3 2075
151 158 Vartic Irina 1948 MDA 4 51 59½ 2 2049
152 163 Babei Angelica 1843 MDA 4 49½ 59½ 2 2010
153 142 Andronic Iulia 2085 MDA 4 46 55½ 2 1977
154 160 Vetrila Sanda 1911 MDA 4 44 53 2 1956
155 150 WFM Harbuz Daniela 2040 MDA 4 42 52 2 1938
156 159 Foisor Mihaela-Veronica 1930 ROM 3½ 47½ 54½ 2 1975
157 140 WFM Coimbra Margarida 2098 POR 3½ 46½ 54 2 1910
158 135 WFM Vasilieva Maria 2124 MDA 3½ 44 55 2 1906
159 152 Apanaviciute Kristina 2028 LTU 3½ 41 47½ 2 1842
160 161 Iurascu Mihaela 1906 MDA 3½ 40½ 49 1 1869
161 162 Baciu Diana 1870 MDA 3½ 39½ 47 2 1863
162 154 Talmazan Olga 2013 MDA 3 40½ 47½ 1 1801
163 164 Antoshkiv Anastasija 0 UKR 1 40 47 0 1387
164 73 WIM Semenova Irina 2292 RUS 0 60 72 0
Champion Tie-break Match
Name 15 min + 10 sec 5 min + 2 sec 5/4 min Final result
c 1st c 2nd c 1st c 2nd c
1 IM Lahno Kateryna b 1 w 1 2
2 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda w 0 b 0 0
Tie-break match for bronze medal Round 1
Name 15 min + 10 sec 5 min + 2 sec 5/4 min Final result
c 1st c 2nd c 1st c 2nd c
3 WGM Zaiatz Elena b ½ w 0 ½
6 IM Dembo Yelena w ½ b 1 1½
4 WGM Collas Silvia b ½ w 1 1½
5 IM Danielian Elina w ½ b 0 ½
Tie-break match for bronze medal Round 2
Name 15 min + 10 sec 5 min + 2 sec 5/4 min Final result
c 1st c 2nd c 1st c 2nd c
IM Dembo Yelena w 1 b 1 2
WGM Collas Silvia b 0 w 0 0
WGM Zaiatz Elena w 1 b 0 w ½ b ½ b ½ 2½
IM Danielian Elina b 0 w 1 b ½ w ½ w ½ 2½
Tie-break matches for qualification
Name 15 min + 10 sec 5 min + 2 sec 5/4 min Final result
c 1st c 2nd c 1st c 2nd c
20 IM Cmilyte Viktorija b 0 w 0 0
35 WGM Matnadze Ana w 1 b 1 2
22 WGM Javakhishvili Lela b 0 w 1 w 1 b 1 3
34 IM Jackova Jana w 1 b 0 b 0 w 0 1
23 WIM Vasilevich Irina b ½ w ½ w 1 b 0 b 0 2
33 IM Sedina Elena w ½ b ½ b 0 w 1 w 1 3
24 IM Ovod Evgenija b 1 w 0 w ½ b ½ b 0 2
32 WGM Bojkovic Natasa w 0 b 1 b ½ w ½ w 1 3
25 WGM Zdebskaja Natalia b 0 w 0 0
30 WGM Ushenina Anna w 1 b 1 2
27 IM Lomineishvili Maia b 0 w 1 b 0 w 0 1
28 IM Skripchenko Almira w 1 b 0 w 1 b 1 3
Tie-break matches for qualification - 2nd round
Name 15 min + 10 sec 5 min + 2 sec 5/4 min Final result
c 1st c 2nd c 1st c 2nd c
WGM Matnadze Ana w 0 b 1 w ½ b ½ b 0 2
IM Skripchenko Almira b 1 w 0 b ½ w ½ w 1 3
WGM Javakhishvili Lela w ½ b ½ b 0 w 0 1
WGM Ushenina Anna b ½ w ½ w 1 b 1 3
IM Sedina Elena w 0 b ½ ½
WGM Bojkovic Natasa b 1 w ½ 1½
The III Open Bajada de la Virgen 2005, took place in the Salones of
Club Nautico, in Santa Cruz de La Palma 13th-19th June 2005.
Kamil Miton of Poland won the event after defeating Branko Dalmjanovic
in a crazy endgame in the final round. Norms: GM Norm Sergei Krivoshey, IM Norm
Pontus Carlsson, Roberto Mogranzini and Adalberto Villavicencio. It was the
most important tournament in Canary Islands in 10 years with 26 GMs 12 IMs 3
FMs 2 WGMs 1 WFM 44 titled players from 21 Countries , 94 Players , 81 had FIDE
Ratings. Games from rounds 1-7 now available.
Official site: http://www.ajedrezlapalma.com
Leading Final Standings:
1 MITON, Kamil (6) POL 2592 7.0 36.0 42.0 52.5
2 KOLEV, Atanas (19) BUL 2524 2553 6.5 37.0 42.0 53.5
3 DAMLJANOVIC, Branko (7) SCG 2588 2583 6.5 36.5 41.0 52.0
4 FRIDMAN, Daniel (11) LAT 2562 6.5 36.5 40.0 50.0
5 KRIVOSHEY, Sergei (24) UKR 2493 6.5 36.5 40.0 49.5
6 SPASOV, Vasil (15) BUL 2543 6.5 36.5 39.0 49.5
7 AVRUKH, Boris (1) ISR 2642 6.5 32.5 37.5 48.5
8 GLEIZEROV, Evgeny (9) RUS 2572 6.0 33.5 37.0 48.0
9 AGREST, Evgenij (8) SWE 2579 6.0 31.5 38.0 48.5
10 MORENO CARNERO, Javier (22) ESP 2500 2495 6.0 31.5 37.5 48.0
11 PERALTA, Fernando (13) ARG 2556 2551 6.0 31.5 37.0 47.0
12 BERG, Emanuel (18) SWE 2531 6.0 31.0 38.0 49.0
13 KOGAN, Artur (5) ISR 2592 2578 6.0 30.5 37.0 48.0
14 VOTAVA, Jan (21) CZE 2511 6.0 30.0 35.5 46.0
15 KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim (20) UZB 2514 2507 6.0 30.0 35.5 44.5
16 STEFANOVA, Antoaneta (23) BUL 2495 6.0 30.0 34.0 44.5
17 DELCHEV, Aleksander (2) BUL 2614 6.0 29.5 37.5 48.5
18 MIRZOEV, Azer (14) AZE 2545 5.5 31.0 36.5 46.5
19 ULIBIN, Mikhail (17) RUS 2536 5.5 30.0 35.0 46.0
20 FELGAER ZIEGLER, Ruben (4) ARG 2593 2594 5.5 29.5 36.0 46.5
21 KOHLWEYER, Bernd (31) GER 2429 5.5 29.0 35.0 43.0
22 TISSIR, Mohamed (30) MAR 2442 5.5 28.5 38.5 48.5
23 RODRIGUEZ GUERRERO, Enrique (28) ESP 2449 2436 5.5 28.5 33.0 42.5
24 ROEDER, Mathias (35) GER 2404 5.5 28.0 35.0 44.0
25 MIEZIS, Normunds (10) LAT 2564 5.5 27.5 35.0 45.0
26 SRIRAM, Jha (29) IND 2445 5.5 26.5 34.5 45.0
27 VILLAVICENCIO, Adalberto (41) ESP 2333 2321 5.5 26.5 34.5 44.0
28 VEHI BACH, Victor (33) ESP 2425 2420 5.5 25.5 32.5 40.5
29 STRIKOVIC, Aleksa (27) SCG 2465 2461 5.0 30.5 38.0 47.0
30 VAN DEN DOEL, Erik (12) NED 2558 5.0 30.0 37.5 47.5
31 KURAJICA, Bojan (16) BIH 2539 5.0 30.0 37.0 48.0
32 KHENKIN, Igor (3) GER 2610 5.0 29.5 39.5 49.5
33 JONKMAN, Harmen (32) NED 2428 5.0 27.5 40.0 50.5
34 CARLSSON, Pontus (36) SWE 2401 5.0 27.0 36.5 46.0
35 VIJAYALAKSHMI, Subbaraman (34) IND 2412 5.0 27.0 34.5 43.5
36 FERNANDEZ GARCIA, Jose Luis (26) ESP 2468 2450 5.0 26.5 35.0 46.0
37 MOGRANZINI, Roberto (37) ITA 2363 5.0 26.0 34.5 43.0
38 SANZ ALONSO, Francisco Javier (38) ESP 2361 2365 5.0 26.0 34.0 42.0
39 DJINGAROVA, Emilia (43) BUL 2290 5.0 26.0 32.5 41.0
40 LUJAN, Carolina (40) ARG 2336 5.0 25.0 33.0 42.5
NEBOISA, Illijin (46) ROM 2244 5.0 25.0 33.0 42.5
42 HERNANDO RODRIGO, Jose Maria (39) ESP 2348 2331 5.0 23.0 29.5 37.0
43 GUTIERREZ OLIVARES, Daniel (66) ESP 2082 1986 5.0 22.0 31.0 40.5
94 players
Jan Timman played Andrei Volokitin in a 4 game match in Leon (Spain) on
24th June 2005. The match took place on Friday 24th in Pub Haddock. It
consisted of 4 games at 20 minutes + 10 seconds (not accumulative).
Fernando Gómez reports: The young Ukranian GM won 2,5-1,5. On the
1st and 3rd games, Andrei won with white pieces against Timman's French Winawer
that he had already prepared for his recent match against Bruzon in
Curaçao. Andrei always had the initiave and the upper hand in both games
scoring an spectacular short victory in the 3rd one. On the 2nd game Timman
played a Rossolimo Attack and Volokitin answered sacrificing a pawn for some
activity, Andrei reached a rook ending but could not win despite being a pawn
up. On the 4th game Timman played an Open Sicilian and Volokitin soon had a
very comfortable game, but the experienced Dutch GM drove the game into a
double rook ending that was able to win with good technique. The match was
followed by many spectators in the playing area and outside it thanks to
several screens installed for that purpose. After the games, there was a press
conference where the public asked many questions to those two great players.
Volokitin won the Open event that followed with 7/8. Games may
follow.
Official site: http://www.editorialchessy.com
Volokitin, Andrei - Timman, Jan H 1-0 43 C18 French Winawer
Timman, Jan H - Volokitin, Andrei 1/2 55 B31 Sicilian Rossolimo
Volokitin, Andrei - Timman, Jan H 1-0 25 C18 French Winawer
Timman, Jan H - Volokitin, Andrei 1-0 52 B46 Sicilian Paulsen
Rapid Match Leon ESP (ESP), 24-24 vi 2005
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1 2 3 4
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Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2679 1 = 1 0 2.5 2702
Timman, Jan H g NED 2607 0 = 0 1 1.5 2592
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Leading Final Round 8 Standigns Open
1 Volokitin, Andrei 2679 UKR 7
2 Vazquez Igarza, Renier 2478 ESP 6.5
3 Timman, Jan 2607 NED 6.5
4 Damljanovic, Branko 2588 SCG 6.5
5 Gonzalez Menendez, Ivan 2354 ESP 6.5
6 Zlotnik, Boris 2433 RUS 6
7 Guerrero Olmos, Sergio 2245 ESP 6
8 Caselas Cabana, Jacobo 2407 ESP 5.5
9 Oral, Tomas 2559 CZE 5.5
10 Llaneza Vega, Marcos 2346 ESP 5.5
11 Sande Edreira, Jose 2273 ESP 5.5
12 Andres Gonzalez, Alberto 2427 ESP 5.5
13 De Prado Rodriguez, Oscar 2216 ESP 5.5
14 Longa Yauca, Javier 2366 PER 5.5
15 Cruz-Lopez Claret, Carlos 2305 ESP 5.5
16 Strikovic, Aleksa 2465 SCG 5
17 Santos Santos, Pablo 2299 ESP 5
18 Paunovic, Dragan 2502 SCG 5
19 Cruz Condori, Alfredo 2287 BOL 5
20 Suarez Real, Alberto 2355 ESP 5
21 Cruz, Filemon 2379 PER 5
22 Bajo Gutierrez, Ignacio 2291 ESP 5
23 Perez, Yovanny 2303 CUB 5
24 Escobar Forero, Alder 2401 COL 5
25 Gomez Esteban, Juan Mario 2473 ESP 5
The 9th Chess Festival Voronezh 2005 took place 10th-21st June 2005.
Viacheslav Zakhartsov took clear first place with 7/9. My thanks to Dmitry
Borisenkov.
Official site: http://www.relex.ru/~xuser/voronezh_open/
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Open Voronezh RUS (RUS), 12-21 vi 2005
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1. Zakhartsov, Viacheslav V m RUS 2518 7.0 47.5 35.50 36.0 2662 +1.60
2. Shaposhnikov, Evgeny g RUS 2550 6.5 50.5 36.00 35.0 2622 +0.83
3. Lastin, Alexander g RUS 2590 6.5 49.0 35.00 31.5 2606 +0.20
4. Chuprov, Dmitry m RUS 2454 6.5 47.5 32.00 36.0 2594 +1.64
5. Vorobiov, Evgeny E g RUS 2550 6.5 47.5 33.25 33.0 2613 +0.74
6. Obukhov, Alexander m RUS 2522 6.5 47.5 35.25 30.0 2570 +0.56
7. Zaitsev, Vladimir m RUS 2435 6.5 45.0 32.25 32.5 2573 +1.64
8. Novikov, Stanislav g RUS 2512 6.5 43.5 30.75 30.0 2559 +0.56
9. Sergienko, Sergey m RUS 2456 6.0 48.5 29.75 32.5 2553 +1.14
10. Amonatov, Farrukh g TJK 2599 6.0 48.0 31.50 30.5 2577 -0.30
11. Brodsky, Michail g UKR 2532 6.0 46.5 30.25 31.5 2572 +0.42
12. Yandemirov, Valeri g RUS 2503 6.0 45.5 28.50 32.5 2530 +0.33
13. Geller, Jakov m RUS 2496 6.0 44.5 28.00 32.0 2572 +0.87
14. Okun, Leonid f RUS 2259 6.0 43.5 26.50 28.0 2547 +3.48
15. Savchenko, Boris m RUS 2480 6.0 42.5 26.00 30.0 2540 +0.69
16. Zubarev, Alexander g UKR 2514 6.0 39.5 26.25 26.5 2469 -0.48
17. Chuprikov, Dmitry RUS 2416 5.5 44.0 23.25 26.5 2471 +0.73
18. Golovin, Leonid RUS 2403 5.5 43.5 21.50 28.0 2402 +0.02
19. Skorchenko, Dmitriy m RUS 2476 5.5 42.5 23.50 29.0 2470 -0.08
20. Zakharevich, Igor g RUS 2505 5.5 42.5 24.25 27.0 2420 -0.98
21. Eraschenkov, Denis m RUS 2378 5.5 42.5 23.25 24.5 2449 +0.91
22. Chernyshov, Konstantin g RUS 2531 5.5 42.0 22.50 28.0 2458 -0.80
23. Voitsekhovsky, Stanislav g RUS 2499 5.5 39.5 22.50 26.0 2411 -0.98
24. Chebotarev, Oleg RUS 2480 5.0 51.5 25.50 34.5 2514 +0.41
25. Kobylkin, Evgeni f UKR 2418 5.0 51.0 27.00 30.0 2533 +1.40
26. Smirnov, Alexey RUS 2335 5.0 51.0 27.50 27.5 2551 +2.57
27. Harutjunyan, Gevorg ARM 2392 5.0 46.5 23.75 28.5 2483 +1.13
28. Kurenkov, Nikolai m RUS 2455 5.0 46.5 23.25 28.5 2491 +0.41
29. Papin, Vasily f RUS 2440 5.0 46.0 22.25 25.5 2427 -0.22
30. Tarlev, Konstantin UKR 2384 5.0 45.0 20.75 26.5 2448 +0.77
31. Arakelov, Ilya RUS 2417 5.0 44.5 22.00 28.5 2480 +0.77
32. Ulko, Jaroslav m RUS 2478 5.0 44.5 21.50 28.5 2436 -0.58
33. Alavkin, Arseny m RUS 2501 5.0 44.5 23.25 27.5 2420 -1.03
34. Petrushin, Alexander I m RUS 2467 5.0 43.5 21.00 26.5 2417 -0.67
35. Bryzgalin, Kirill f RUS 2464 5.0 43.0 23.50 25.0 2411 -0.67
36. Novikov, Maxim m RUS 2524 5.0 42.5 22.50 25.5 2437 -1.12
37. Slugin, Sergey f RUS 2355 5.0 36.5 16.75 19.5 2360 +0.05
38. Aleshin, Oleg m RUS 2436 5.0 35.5 19.25 23.0 2362 -0.94
39. Sharma, Dinesh K m IND 2381 5.0 35.0 17.00 19.5 2349 -0.40
40. Burmakin, Vladimir g RUS 2552 4.5 46.0 23.75 26.5 2460 -0.94
41. Kostin, Alexey m RUS 2388 4.5 42.0 18.00 25.5 2358 -0.36
42. Smolkov, Igor UKR 2288 4.5 41.5 16.75 23.5 2399 +1.35
43. Korochenskiy, Alexey RUS 2262 4.5 41.5 14.75 20.5 2311 +0.54
44. Kim, Alexey g RUS 2449 4.5 41.0 16.50 24.5 2386 -0.81
45. Sidorov, Anatoly RUS 2374 4.5 41.0 18.50 20.5 2379 +0.09
46. Provotorov, Ivan f RUS 2339 4.5 39.0 17.00 20.0 2294 -0.54
47. Jakovenko, Igor RUS 2031 4.5 38.5 17.25 21.5 2368 +3.42
48. Sambuev, Bator m RUS 2505 4.5 37.0 20.25 22.5 2359 -1.50
49. Kislov, Sergey f RUS 2347 4.5 35.5 13.00 19.5 2321 -0.36
50. Riabtsev Sergey RUS 2236 4.5 34.0 12.75 17.5 2267 +0.30
88 players
FIDE Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov played an exhibition game against the
Accoona Toolbar, driven by a Fritz 9 prototype, in the ABC Times Square
studios. 300 hundred spectators and a dozen television cameras watched the
game.
Details: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2466
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam - ACCOONA TOOLBAR 1/2 42 C97 Ruy Lopez
Chris Bird reports: The 2005 National Open Chess Tournament was won
jointly by GM Dmitry Gurevich, GM Nick De Firmian and GM Dashzeveg Sharavdorj
and IM Ben Finegold, all scoring 5/6. Dmitry Gurevich took the much coveted
Edmondson Cup and title of National Open Champion after a round robin blitz
playoff.
A correction from last week from Chris Bird: "The list of US
Championship qualifiers from the 2005 National Open should have included IM
Stanislav Kriventsov and not IM Eugene Perelshteyn as originally reported.
Also, Kelly Cottrell-Finegold qualified as the top female. Apologies for any
confusion this may have caused."
Official site: http://www.64.com
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National Open Las Vegas USA (USA), 10-12 vi 2005
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1. De Firmian, Nick E g USA 2549 5.0
2. Finegold, Benjamin m USA 2522 5.0
3. Gurevich, Dmitry g USA 2515 5.0
4. Sharavdorj, Dashzeveg g MGL 2453 5.0
5. Ibragimov, Ildar g USA 2611 4.5
6. Akobian, Varuzhan g USA 2556 4.5
7. Perelshteyn, Eugene m USA 2507 4.5
8. Anka, Emil g HUN 2447 4.5
9. Gonzalez, Renier m USA 2483 4.5
10. Schneider, Dmitry m USA 2466 4.5
11. Kriventsov, Stanislav G m USA 2409 4.5
12. Vigorito, David m USA 2360 4.5
13. Donaldson, John W m USA 2407 4.0
14. Rensch, Daniel f USA 2360 4.0
15. Manukian, Garuch ARM 2293 4.0
16. Ginsburg, Mark m USA 2354 4.0
17. Kretchetov, Alexandre f RUS 2350 4.0
18. Lu Xiaosha wm CHN 2262 4.0
19. Chase, Christopher f USA 2330 4.0
20. Yanayt, Eugene USA 2221 4.0
21. Feinstein, Michael USA ---- 4.0
22. Small, Greg USA 2249 4.0
23. Burgess, Jon L ENG 2196 4.0
107 players
The 19th "Pula Open 2005" in Croatia took place 19th-26th June 2005.
Suat Atalik took clear first place with 7.5/9. Games from the final round not
yet available.
Official site: http://www.skpula.hr
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19th Open Pula CRO (CRO), 19-26 vi 2005
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1. Atalik, Suat g BIH 2561 7,5 44,5
2. Kveinys, Aloyzas g LTU 2539 7,0 42,5
3. Predojevic, Borki m BIH 2549 7,0 42,0
4. Jovanic, Ognjen m CRO 2435 7,0 41,5
5. Jovanovic, Zoran CRO m CRO 2481 7,0 40,5
6. Dizdarevic, Emir g BIH 2521 7,0 39,0
7. Fercec, Nenad m CRO 2504 7,0 39,0
8. Riff, Jean-Noel f FRA 2438 7,0 38,5
9. Medak, Bojan CRO 2283 7,0 37,0
10. Sedlak, Nikola g SCG 2514 7,0 36,0
11. Savic, Miodrag R g SCG 2521 6,5 44,0
12. Rogic, Davor m CRO 2499 6,5 43,5
13. Jankovic, Alojzije m CRO 2480 6,5 41,0
14. Cebalo, Miso g CRO 2507 6,5 39,5
15. Feletar, Darko m CRO 2389 6,5 38,5
16. Philippe, Christophe m FRA 2392 6,5 38,0
17. Mikac, Matjaz m SLO 2376 6,5 38,0
18. Bosiocic, Marin f CRO 2345 6,5 36,5
19. Sutkovic, Damir BIH 2251 6,5 32,5
20. Saric, Ante m CRO 2472 6,0 43,5
21. Franic, Milan m CRO 2390 6,0 41,0
22. Michielsen, Joost NED 2281 6,0 40,5
23. Ljubicic, Filip m CRO 2407 6,0 40,5
24. Tratar, Marko m SLO 2417 6,0 40,0
25. Rukavina, Josip m CRO 2426 6,0 39,0
26. Stokke, Kjetil NOR 2226 6,0 38,0
27. Wiley, Tom E f ENG 2238 6,0 37,5
28. Kekki, Petri f FIN 2355 6,0 37,0
29. Plenkovic, Zdenko f CRO 2302 6,0 36,5
30. Nordahl, Helge m NOR 2402 6,0 36,0
31. Orak, Ljubomir f CRO 2300 6,0 35,0
32. Paci, Cedric FRA 2266 6,0 35,0
33. Cherin, Diego ITA 2268 6,0 34,0
34. Preiss, Martin f GER 2309 6,0 33,5
35. Mandekic, Ivan CRO 2238 6,0 32,0
36. Medic, Mirjana wg CRO 2247 6,0 31,5
207 players
The Pinamar International takes place June 22nd-30th 2005. Pablo Della
Morte and Juan Pablo Hobaica lead on 3.5/5.
Official site: http://www.utopiasdepinamar.com.ar/soles.htm
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ITT Cinco Soles Pinamar ARG (ARG), 22-30 vi 2005 cat. III (2305)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Della Morte, Pablo f ARG 2285 * . 0 = . . 1 1 1 . 3.5 2469
2. Hobaica, Juan Pablo ARG 2312 . * . = = = 1 . . 1 3.5 2445
3. Fernandez, Daniel USA f USA 2406 1 . * = 1 . 0 . = . 3.0 2360
4. Cubas, Jose Fernando m PAR 2387 = = = * . = . . 1 . 3.0 2390
5. Duarte, Leonardo ARG 2298 . = 0 . * 1 . = . 1 3.0 2393
6. Bronstein, Luis m ARG 2362 . = . = 0 * . = . 1 2.5 2304
7. Rodi, Luis Ernesto ARG 2243 0 0 1 . . . * = . 1 2.5 2305
8. Valiente, Cristobal m PAR 2335 0 . . . = = = * = . 2.0 2211
9. Cornejo, Max f PER 2229 0 . = 0 . . . = * = 1.5 2171
10. Walsh, Hector ARG 2191 . 0 . . 0 0 0 . = * 0.5 1922
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The Torch Real Estate Cup China Chess League first phase took place
April 20th-28th 2005 in Jinan. The 2nd phase took place May 8th-14th, 2005 in
Wuxi, Jiangsu and the 3rd phase June 20th-25th, 2005 in Xiapu, Zhejiang. This
was the first league with 19 teams (male and female players). Games from round
14-18 in Xiapu now available. I had some problems with the names of players as
I didn't have an easy time checking pairings. Hebei won the event. Below are
the final standings with extremely approximate translations of the names.
Further details: http://www.64.net.cn/,
http://ccl.sports.cn/ and
http://www.chende.net
Rank Team Gam. + = - MP Pts.
1 Hebei Tianwei Education 18 13 4 1 30 58.5
2 Jiangsu 18 11 6 1 28 57.5
3 Shandong Evening News 18 11 4 3 26 61.0
4 Shanghai Construction 18 9 8 1 26 55.5
5 Beijing Patriots 18 11 3 4 25 57.0
6 Zhejiang Medical 18 10 5 3 25 54.5
7 Wenzhou Legal 18 10 3 5 23 52.0
8 Guangdong 18 6 10 2 22 54.0
9 Chongqing Communications 18 9 3 6 21 50.5
10 Tianjin 18 8 4 6 20 47.0
11 Wuxi Real Estate 18 6 7 5 19 50.0
12 Shenzhen 18 7 3 8 17 49.0
13 Shandong Torch 18 6 4 8 16 45.0
14 Heilongjiang Pharmaceuticals 18 4 7 7 15 44.0
15 Hubei 18 4 6 8 14 44.0
16 Tianjin 18 2 3 13 7 33.0
17 Sichuan 18 2 2 14 6 30.0
18 Qingdao Jiangsu Elementary School 18 1 0 17 2 12.5
19 Australia (Aomen) 18 0 0 18 0 0.0
The Suduroy International took place in the Faroe Islands 18th-25th June
2005. Two players made IM-norms. The first was by the winner 21 year old Hans
Kr. Simonsen and the second was by 17 year old danish junior champion Jacob
Vang Glud. Both made 6.5/9.
Further info:
http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/asp/turniere.asp?tnr=2381&lan=1
and http://www.faroechess.com
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Suduroy Tvoroyri FAI (FAI), 18-25 vi 2005 cat. II (2284)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Simonsen, Hans Kristian FAI 2317 * 1 0 = = = 1 1 1 1 6.5 2446
2. Glud, Jacob Vang DEN 2319 0 * 1 = = = 1 1 1 1 6.5 2446
3. Hermansson, Emil m SWE 2432 1 0 * = = 1 = 1 = 1 6.0 2392
4. Rodgaard, John m FAI 2331 = = = * = = = = 1 1 5.5 2358
5. Shaw, John m SCO 2454 = = = = * = = = 1 1 5.5 2345
6. Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe FAI 2238 = = 0 = = * = = = 1 4.5 2289
7. Nilssen, John Arni f FAI 2372 0 0 = = = = * = 1 1 4.5 2274
8. Vovk, Oksana wm DEN 2122 0 0 0 = = = = * = = 3.0 2176
9. Thorsteinsson,Sjurdur FAI ---- 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 = * = 2.0 2095
10. Simonsen, Olavur FAI 2254 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = * 1.0 1936
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NAO Chess Club won the French Team Cup. The match took place in Le Senat
in Paris on June 26th 2005. The match finished 2-2 but if I understand the
Federation's website correctly Evry made an error in their team's composition
and so lost the match.
Further details; http://www.nao-cc.com/naocc/index.html,
http://www.evry-grandroque.com/,
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/(xfzwjmzqkcrx5ii5io3jafmw)/Default.aspx
Final (June 26, 2005)
Degraeve, Jean-Marc EVR - NAO Vallejo Pons, Francisco 1-0 47 B13 Caro Kann Exchange
Bacrot, Etienne NAO - EVR Relange, Eloi 1-0 40 E93 King's Indian Classical
Lautier, Joel NAO - EVR Sebag, Marie 1-0 63 A29 English Four Knights
Bergez, Luc EVR - NAO Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 1-0 23 B22 Sicilian Alapin
The Berman Hillman Tournament took place 7th-12th June 2005. Julio
Granda Zuniga won the event with 7.5/9.
Official site: http://www.torre64.com/
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Berman Hillman Santa Cruz BOL (BOL), 7-12 vi 2005 cat. II (2297)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Granda Zuniga, Julio E g PER 2599 * 1 = = 1 = 1 1 1 1 7.5 2536
2. Molina, Jorge f BOL 2226 0 * = 1 1 1 = = 1 1 6.5 2471
3. Leskovar, Mario m ARG 2366 = = * 1 = 0 = 1 1 1 6.0 2414
4. Zambrana, Oswaldo m BOL 2472 = 0 0 * = 1 1 1 1 0 5.0 2320
5. Vera, Kelver PER 2270 0 0 = = * 1 = = 0 1 4.0 2257
6. Pacheco, Daniel f ARG 2343 = 0 1 0 0 * 0 1 0 1 3.5 2212
7. Campero, Ronald BOL 2244 0 = = 0 = 1 * = 0 = 3.5 2223
8. Ferrufino, Boris BOL 2228 0 = 0 0 = 0 = * 1 1 3.5 2224
9. Anez, Jorge BOL 2166 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 * = 3.5 2231
10. Robles, Gustavo BOL 2057 0 0 0 1 0 0 = 0 = * 2.0 2103
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There were two Alushta Summer events that took plce 17th-27th June 2005.
The Category VII event was won by Vladimir Belikov and Orazly Annageldyev who
finished on 7.5/11. I will cover the other event next week as I have a problem
with the result of one of the game. That was category I.
Further info: http://www.kaissa.com.ua
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III Summer Alushta UKR (UKR), 17-27 vi 2005 cat. VII (2423)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1. Belikov, Vladimir g RUS 2517 * = = 1 = = = = = 1 1 1 7.5 2547
2. Annageldyev, Orazly m TKM 2483 = * 0 1 = = = = 1 1 1 1 7.5 2550
3. Zinchenko, Yaroslav m UKR 2460 = 1 * = 1 = = = = 0 1 1 7.0 2521
4. Feoktistov, Alexey A m RUS 2434 0 0 = * 1 1 = = 0 1 1 1 6.5 2486
5. Kovalev, Andrei g BLR 2567 = = 0 0 * 1 1 = = 1 0 1 6.0 2445
6. Ajrapetjan, Yuriy m UKR 2395 = = = 0 0 * = 1 0 1 1 1 6.0 2461
7. Tolstikh, Nikolay m RUS 2375 = = = = 0 = * = 1 = = = 5.5 2427
8. Tukhaev, Adam UKR 2419 = = = = = 0 = * 1 = 1 0 5.5 2423
9. Kuzmin, Gennadi P g UKR 2510 = 0 = 1 = 1 0 0 * = = 1 5.5 2414
10. Belosvetov, Nikolaj UKR 2340 0 0 1 0 0 0 = = = * 1 = 4.0 2328
11. Semiev, Suhrab TKM 2287 0 0 0 0 1 0 = 0 = 0 * = 2.5 2224
12. Annaberdiev, Baba TKM 2285 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 = = * 2.5 2224
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The Salsomaggiore Chess Festival took place 20th-22nd May 2005. Yves
Ranola edged out Rolly Martinez and Roland Salvador to first place, all scored
5/6.
Official site: http://www.salsoscacchi.3000.it/
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Open Salsomaggiore ITA (ITA), 4-16 vi 2005
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1. Ranola, Yves m PHI 2467 5.0 22.0
2. Martinez, Rolly PHI 2414 5.0 21.5
3. Salvador, Roland f PHI 2360 5.0 19.0
4. Luciani, Valerio ITA 2241 4.5 21.5
5. Efimov, Igor g ITA 2458 4.5 20.5
6. Giretti-Kanev, Jasen ITA 2166 4.5 19.0
7. Molina, Fabrizio f ITA 2257 4.5 18.5 3.0
8. Barletta, Mauro ITA 2252 4.5 18.5 2.5
9. Mrdja, Milan m CRO 2373 4.5 18.0
10. Scalcione, Michelangelo f ITA 2242 4.5 17.0
11. Aldrovandi, Costantino m ITA 2246 4.0 19.5 2.5
12. Di Paolo, Raffaele f ITA 2284 4.0 19.5 1.0
13. De Santis, Alessio f ITA 2248 4.0 17.5
14. Gasperi, Fosco ITA 2168 4.0 17.0 2.0 4
15. Cottarelli, Franco ITA 1930 4.0 17.0 2.0 3
66 players
The Jerry Spann Memorial and 60th Oklahoma State Championship took
place in Norman, Oklahoma 18th-19th June 2005.
Movses Movsisyan won the Oklahoma State Championship title with a score
of 4.5 from 5 games at the Oklahoma University Student Union in Norman,
Oklahoma held June 18-19, 2005. Sergey Galant came in 2nd with 4 pts followed
by Jake Ferguson with 3.5. The Reserve section was won by Marvin Lee with 4.5
pts from 5. Alex Relyea directed. Time rate: G-120 + 10 sec. Event sponsored by
Oklahoma Chess Foundation. News Frank K. Berry
Official site: http://www.okchess.org
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Jerry Spann Mem Norman USA (USA), 18-19 vi 2005
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1. Movsisyan, Movses USA 2300 4.5
2. Galant, Sergey USA 2211 4.0
3. Ferguson,Jake USA ---- 3.5
4. Braunlich, Tom USA 2200 3.0
5. Lee,Wellington USA ---- 3.0
6. Berry, James E USA 2184 3.0
7. Graham,Shaun USA ---- 3.0
8. Harper,Warren USA ---- 2.5
9. Claassen,Chris USA ---- 2.5
10. Dennison,Jerry USA ---- 2.0
11. Berry, Frank K USA 2033 2.0
12. Hall,Odell USA ---- 1.5
13. Liao,Arnold USA ---- 1.0
14. Tubbs,Mike USA ---- 1.0
15. Carbonell,Ross USA ---- 1.0
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The Iran Super League (Ligue 84) the 12 club team event started on 30th
May 2005. The Double round robin sees 6 GMs, 12 IMs and a total of 28 titled
players participate.
Official site: http://www.iranchess.com/indexen.htm
Rk. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 TB1
1 Taid Water, Hormozgan * 3½ 3 6.5
2 Petroshimi, Bandar Imam * 3 3 6.0
3 Sanat Naft, Abadan * 2½ 2 4.5
4 Ararat, Tehran * 2 2½ 4.5
5 Rah Ahan, Tehran 2 * 2½ 4.5
6 Farhangsara Honar 1 * 3½ 4.5
7 Saipa, Tehran ½ * 3½ 4.0
8 Payam Ertebat, Gilan 1½ * 2 3.5
9 Palayesh Naft, Abadan 1½ 2 * 3.5
10 Khazra, Mazandaran 2 ½ * 2.5
11 Zoghal Sang, Kerman 1 1 * 2.0
12 Naft O Gaz, GachSaran 1½ ½ * 2.0
70 players contested the 2005 Bray Rapidplay held on June 18. Stephen
Brady defeated 2004 winner Sam Collins in the penultimate round on his way to
clear first place. Tournament controller Herbert Scarry.
Further details and crosstable at http://www.brayrapidplay.com and at
http://www.icu.ie
Final Standings:
1 Stephen Brady IRL 2320 f 5.5 17.0 25.5 20.5
2-7 Colm Daly IRL 2358 f 5 15.0 23.5 19.5
Joe Ryan IRL 2328 f 5 15.0 21.5 17.0
Gerard O'connell IRL 2134 5 14.0 21.0 17.0
Karl Mcphillips IRL 2235 5 14.0 20.0 17.0
Simon Jeffares IRL 2077 5 13.5 21.0 17.0
Gerard Macelligott IRL 2145 5 13.0 19.5 15.0
8 Anthony Fox IRL 2123 4.5 12.5 18.5 14.0
9-18 Sam Collins IRL 2400 m 4 19.0 27.0 18.0
Semyon Mkrtchyan IRL 4 15.5 23.5 16.0
Mark Heidenfeld IRL 2344 m 4 15.0 23.0 16.5
Thomas Brezing IRL 4 15.0 22.0 16.0
Martin Crichton IRL 1996 4 14.0 21.5 12.0
Seamus Duffy IRL 4 13.5 21.0 15.5
Laszlo Horvath HUN 2272 4 13.5 20.5 16.0
Pawel Madynski POL 2178 4 13.5 20.5 16.0
Adam Kelly IRL 4 12.5 19.0 12.5
Gordon Freeman IRL 2101 4 11.5 19.0 13.0
Canadian Open
The Canadian Open takes place July 9th-17th 2005.
Players include: GM Vassily Ivanchuk 2739 GM Alexei Shirov 2737 GM
Viktor Bologan 2700 GM Alexander Moiseenko 2665 GM Alexander Shabalov 2631 GM
Igor-Alexandre Nataf 2603 GM Dmitri Tyomkin 2549 GM Mark Bluvshtein 2529 IM
Pascal Charbonneau 2527 IM Irina Krush 2466 IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon 2425 IM
Eric Lawson 2373 IM Martha Fierro 2330. Shirov will give a lecture during the
event.
The official website is:
http://www.edmontonchess.org/CdnOpen2005/
North Urals Cup
The North Urals Cup takes place July 3rd-14th in Krasnoturinsk, Russia.
This is the 3rd time Krasnoturinsk city will host the strongest Women's Chess
Tournament.
Players;
1. Maia Chiburdanidze
2. Koneru Humpy
3. Antoaneta Stefanova
4. Alexandra Kosteniuk
5. Tatiana Kosintseva
6. Natalia Zhukova
7. Xu, Yuhua
8. Ekaterina Kovalevskaya
9. Alisa Galliamova
10. Nadezhda Kosintseva
Further info at:
http://www.northuralscup.ru/participants_eng.shtml
Official site: http://www.northuralscup.ru which will
have live games, game downloads, interviews, standings and lots of photos.
Costa Rican National Championships
The Costa Rican National Chess Championships have just seen the
conclusion of the preliminaries. 8 qualifiers from that event will be joined by
6 seeded players in a 14 players round robin final. The seeded are
international masters Sergio Minero (current champion), Bernal González,
Leonardo Valdés, Alexis Murillo and Francisco Hernandez, and fide master
Mauricio Arias. That event starts June 28th 2005.
GM Alejandro Ramírez will not take part, as he has decided to
retire from chess to pursue studies in a Dallas University, after his last
place in Wijn aan Zee group B.
Further details: http://www.tablerotico.com
Norwegian Championship
The Norwegian Championship takes place in Sandnes, Norway July 2nd-9th
2005.
Players include: GM Agdestein, GM Carlsen, GM Johannessen, GM Djurhuus
and GM Lie in the 9 round swiss.
Live games expected at http://www.rogaland-sjakk.org
Pivdennyi Bank Chess Tournament
The Pivdennyi Bank Chess Tournament - Efim Geller Memorial takes place
in Odessa (Ukraine) in their Music Comedy Theater 1st-3rd July 2005.
Ten participants will compete in the round-robin rapid chess
tournament: GM Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine) 2695, born 1983 GM Viktor Korchnoi
(Switzerland) 2619, born 1931 GM Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukraine) 2517, born 1984 GM
Mikhail Golubev (Ukraine) 2517, born 1970 GM Valery Beim (Austria) 2512, born
1950 IM Mikhail Podgaets (Ukraine) 2487, born 1947 GM Nikolay Legky (Ukraine)
2455, born 1955 IM/WGM Masha Klinova (Israel) 2391, born 1968 IM Dmitry
Fingerov (Ukraine) 2361, born 1982 Stanislav Bogdanovich (Ukraine), 2128, born
1993
Schedule: June 30: The opening ceremony July 1: Rounds 1-3 July 2:
Rounds 4-6 July 3: Rounds 7-9, closing ceremony.
All games will be played with a time control 20 minutes per game.
Official site: http://www.chesspro.ru
Fire on board trophy 2005
The match between Alexey Shirov and Viktor Korchnoi for the "Fire on
board trophy 2005" due to be 24th-26th June 2005 in Eschweiler Germany is
reported to have been postponed until September.
Official site: http://www.fireonboard.com
Friendship Tournament in Cartak CZE
The Friendship Tournament in Cartak CZE takes place 18th-26th June 2005.
7th international chess festival A) round-robin grandmaster tournament (10-12
players) B) round-robin master tournament (10-12 players) C) open FIDE (swiss
system of 9 round). Hopefully I can round up results and games next week.
Official site: http://www.friendshiptournament.com
World Amateur Chess Championship Cancelled
The World Amateur Chess Championship 2005 due to take place in Piestany
(Slovakia), July 31st - August 12th 2005 has been cancelled due to lack of
entires.
Further information: http://www.wacc2005.chess.sk
Brno 2005
There are GM, IM and Open tournaments in Brno, Czech Republic 30th June
- 10th July 2005.
Due to withdrawals there are places in the GM event. E-mail -
petr.pisk@centrum.cz Phone - Petr Pisk, +420- 731 465 344 if you are interested
in this or any of the other events.
Information: Internet - http://volny.cz/skduras
First Saturday July
The First Saturday July tournament takes place 2nd-14th of July 2005.
If you want to play contact Nagy Laszlo e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net
Phone-fax: (+36)-1-263-28-59 Websites; http://www.firstsaturday.hu and
http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat
FSGM IGM CHERNYSHOV, Konstantin (RUS), IGM ILINCIC, Zlatko (SCG), IGM
FOGARASI, Tibor (HUN), BINDRICH, Falko (GER), LUDWIG, David Joseph (USA), IM
BOROS,Denes (HUN), IM DEARING, Eddie (SCO), FM LORSCHEID, Gerd (GER), IM
KRISTJANSSON, Stefan (ISL), IM THORFINSSON, Bragi (ISL), IM MAHJOOB, Morteza
(IRI), IM MANCA, Federico (ITA), IM PASCHALL, William (USA). Reserves: FM
GONDA, L szl¢ (HUN), IM TURZ , Attila (HUN), IM JAKAB, Attila (HUN),
FSIM IM LENGYEL, Bela (HUN), IM FARAGO, Sandor (HUN), IM GALYAS,
Mikl¢s (HUN), IM CHETVERIK, Maxim (RUS), IM PETRAN, Pal (HUN), IM JAKAB,
Attila (HUN), SIMAKOV, Vladislav (RUS), WGM PTACNIKOVA, Lenka (ISL), WGM IGLA,
Bella (ISR), MARTINI, Balazs (HUN), KATSUHARA, Osamu (JPN), IM KAHN, Evarth
(HUN), FM CARUANA, Fabiano (USA), REYHAN, Dogan (TUR).
There are also FM events.
Peter Leko Official Site
Peter Leko now has a web site. http://www.lekochess.com/
Liepajas rokade
Liepajas rokade, the biggest chess festival in the Baltics takes place
from 11th to 14th of August 2005 in Liepaja Latvia.
English http://www.liepajniekiem.lv/?doc=19684
and Latvian http://www.liepajniekiem.lv/?doc=19681
CC-Calendar
CC-Calendar. Now 8.092 official computer chess tournaments since 1990.
726 games from older official computer chess tournaments up to 1990. Arena
Chess GUI http://www.playwitharena.com Selection:
CC-Calendar New are two computer chess tournaments. CIPS (Italy), chess program
Delfi won 5th International CSVN tournament (Netherland), chess program
Shredder won. AnMon won the 7th French programmers tourney in Massy.
Bratto Open
The 25th International Chess Festival "Conca della Presolana" will
takes place in Bratto (Italy), 20-28 August 2005. The Festival includes:
Tournament A (players with Elo Fide > 1999), Tournament B, Tournament C and
Promotion Tournament (for beginners). Swiss system, 9 rounds. Time control: 100
minutes for 40 moves + 50 minutes; all move played get 30 seconds bonus
(Fischer mode). Prizes: in the tournament A: 1st 1500 Euros, 2nd 1000 Euros,
3rd 700 Euros .. ... 16th-20th 200 Euros.
Info: gpp@hotelmilano.com
Official Internet coverage:
http://www.scaccobratto.com/2005.shtml
Jiraskuv Memorial
The Jiraskuv Memorial takes place 6th-13th August 2005 in Rakovnik
(Czech Republic - 60 km west from Prague).
Further details: http://www.czfree-ra.net/~sachy
Hungarian Tournaments July - December 2005
1. 2nd-14th of July FIRST SATURDAY /FS/ GM-IM-FM round robins, 9 -13
games, norm possibilities, in Budapest, Hungarian Chess Federation, Falk Miksa
Str.10. 2nd floor. Organisation: Nagy Laszlo, FIDE International Chess
Organizer /NL/, E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net Website:
http://www.firstsaturday.hu Other
website: http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat
Phone-fax: (361)-2632859, cellphone: (36)-30-230-1914 From 12:00 a.m. until
midnight - Central European Time - GMT+1 hour
2. 15th -23rd of July, SZOMBATHELY SUMMER Open 9 rounds Swiss,
organizer FM Korpics, e-mail: korpicschess@axelero.hu
3. 24th of July - 1st of August, AGRIA Open /EGER, 100 km North-East
from Budapest/, organizer: Rauch Ferenc, e-mail: rauch@freemail.hu
4. 6th-18th of August, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest org.:NL
5. 21st-31st of August, PAPP BELA memorial GM closed tmt, Torokbalint,
10 km from Budapest, info: Nagy Laszlo, firstsat@hu.inter.net
6 3rd-15th of September FS GM-IM-FM Budapest, org: NL
7. 1st-13th of October, FS GM-IM-FM, Budapest L
8. 5th-17th of November, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest
9. 3rd - 15th of December, FS GM-IM-FM.
China - France Youth Match
The China-France youth match takes place in Shenzheng, China June 28th -
July 6th 2005.
French players: Robert Fontaine g 2539, Maxime VachierLagrave g
2525, JeanPierreLe Roux m 2466, Natasha Benmesbah 2113. Chinese players:
Zhao Jun g 2531, Zhao Xue wg 2478, Zhou Jianchao m 2473, Hou Yifan f 2158
28th Ghent Open
The 28th Ghent Open takes place 16th-20th July 2005.
The summer tournament of the Benelux! 9 round Swiss tournament.
Details: http://www.kgsrl.be/
Chess Classic Mainz
The Chess Classic Mainz takes place August 9th-14th 2005.
The field of participants for all top events of the Chess Classic Mainz
(August 9 - 14) is complete. Following his twofold victory in the open
tournament, Alexander Grischuk (Russia) will challenge Viswanathan Anand
(India), serial winner in the Rheingoldhalle, for the world title in rapid
chess. In Chess960, World Champion Peter Svidler (Russia) will meet Zoltan
Almasi (Ungarn). Four legends of chess will get together to celebrate the 80th
birthday of Wolfgang Unzicker. In addition to the Grandmaster from Munich,
Anatoly Karpov (Russia), Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) and Boris Spassky
(France) will play.
Official site: http://www.chesstigers.de/
9th Offene Internationale Bayerische Schach Meisterschaft
9th Bayerische International Chess Open, takes place in Bad Wiessee
takes place 29th October - 6th November 2005.
Further details: http://www.oibm-bad-wiessee.de/
15th Heart of Finland Open
The 15th Heart of Finland Open takes place in Jyväskylä, July
18th-24th 2005. The tournament will be a 10 round Swiss system. Tournament is
ELO-rated and there are possibilities to reach FIDE title norms. Venue:
IT-Dynamo, street address Piippukatu 2, Lutakko, Jyväskylä.
Prizes: Total prize fund approximately 7000 EUR, 1st prize 1500 EUR,
lots of rating group prizes.
Registration / Info: Sami Hämäläinen +358 9 791140,
mobile +358 40 5123864, email aurifera@kolumbus.fi
Official website: http://www.shakki.net/turnaukset/hof05/en/
IX Open The "Battle Of Senta 1697"
The IX Open The "Battle Of Senta 1697" takes place 15th-22nd July 2005.
A and B Groups and also Rapid and Blitz tournaments. Senta is in Serbia and
Montenegro.
Details: http://www.scgchess.org/2005/event/0507sen.htm
World Youth Chess Championship
The World Youth Chess Championship 2005 takes place in Belfort, France
18th-29th July 2005.
Official site: http://www.belfort-echecs.com
US Championship
The U.S. Chess Championship returns to San Diego from February 22nd -
March 5th 2006 and will be held at its new permanent home at NTC Promenade.
The tournament will feature a 64-player field, composed of 19 seeded
players (as determined by the October 2005 U.S.C.F Rating List), 43 tournament
qualifiers (two of which being online) and 2 wild cards selected by the AF4C.
The seeded players include the defending U.S. Champion, Hikaru Nakamura;
Women's Champion, Rusudan Goletiani; the 2004 Chess Café.com Grand Prix
winner, Aleks Wojtkiewicz; the 2005 U.S. Junior Champion; the 2005 U.S. Senior
Champion; 8 top-rated Overall players, and 6 top-rated female players from the
rating list. A new, innovative qualifying process will see one spot decided by
the player who - while not qualifying directly- accumulates the highest score
from playing in as many (or all!) of the qualifying tournaments. After each
tournament, the latest placing for this Qualifier Grand Prix will be posted on
the dedicated U.S. Championship website.
Details:http://www.uschesschampionship.com
Obrenovac Open
The Obrenovac Open takes place 22nd-30th November 2005. The event takes
place in Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro. 9 rounds Swiss, Prize found: 5250 EURO.
First prize: 1000 EURO Info contact: IO Nagy Laszlo, e-mail:
firstsat@hu.inter.net
Lugano International Open
The Lugano International Open takes place 18th-20th November 2005. in
the Hotel Meister, Via San Salvatore 11, 6902 Lugano-Paradiso 6 round Swiss
Schweizer System 36 moves in 90 Mins + 30 Mins for the rest of the game.
Further details: http://luganoscacchi.ch/
Neuhausen Open
The Neuhausen Open took place 26th-29th May 2005.
Details:
http://www.wnet24.de/sc-neuhausen/Open%202005/a-opentabelleframe.html
Euro Chess Tournament and Stork Young Masters
The 2005 Euro Chess Tournament, will be played in Hengelo (Netherlands)
August 8th-13th 2005. The Euro Chess Tournament is organised by the Caïssa
Foundation and the Royal Dutch Chess Federation.
The Euro Chess Tournament includes the 32nd Dutch Open Youth
Championship groups U10, U12, U14, U16 and U20. In the Open we expect in
between 600 and 700 players from all over Europe. The Dutch Open is a perfect
mix of chess for recreation and top level
The second tournament played in the same week is the Stork Young
Masters, a 20 player invitation group which will play 9 rounds Swiss. The
topplayers in the group will be 5 GM's, all under 20 years old. We are still
looking for some players for the Stork Young Masters. Please contact tournament
director Albert Vasse (albert.vasse@home.nl) if you have candidates to
participate.
All information on the tournament is available in English, German,
French and Dutch at http://www.onjk.nl
Enrollment is also through this website.
2nd Samba Cup
The 2nd Samba Cup will take place 14th to 23rd October 2005 in
Skanderborg, Denmark.
A-group will be at least cat. 16. B and C-group will be cats. 8/9 and
3/4 if played. All groups 10 players round-robin. Interested players for any
group are welcome to contact organiser Michael Andersson at
gm@skanderborgskakklub.dk.
Web site is under construction but will be
http://www.skanderborgskakklub.dk/gm2005
17th Cannes Summer International Open
The 17th Cannes Summer International Open takes place July 25th-31st
2005.
Rated FFE and FIDE - Participation of GMI - Tournament A for 2100 or
more - Tournament B for 2000 or less - Players between 2000 et 2100 can choose
their tournament - 9 rounds - Time Control 1 h 40 for 40 moves + 20 min with 30
seconds added by move - Check-in obligatory Monday 25 from 10 h to 14 h -
Special prizes for categories
Further details: http://www.cannes-echecs.org
Politiken Cup 2005
The Politiken Cup part of the Copenhagen Chess Festival and 27th
Copenhagen Open takes place July 16th-24th 2005. Entries include: 1 GM Curt
Hansen 2 GM Viktor Korchnoi 3 GM Petr Kiriakov 4 GM Sune Berg Hansen 5 GM Igor
Kurnosov 6 GM Nick E. de Firmian 7 GM Murray Chandler 8 IM Davor Palo 9 GM
Jonny Hector 10 GM Lars Schandorff 11 GM Arkadi Eremeevich Vul 12 FM Christoph
Wisnewski 13 IM Ole Jakobsen
Details: http://www.politikencup.dk/
Olomouc Chess Summer
8th International Chess Festival Olomouc Chess Summer 2005 which is
part of the 5th International Chess Festivals Series CZECH TOUR 2005/2006. The
event takes place in Olomouc (Czech Republic) 3rd-11th August 2005.
Round-robin GM and IM tournaments, FIDE open, seniors tournament, open
tournament in active chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival.
Further details: http://www.czechtour.net
2nd European Amateur Chess Championship
2nd European Amateurs Championship was transferred to Pardubice (CZE)
and will take place on 20.-31.7. 2005 within the frame of CZECH OPEN 2005
festival. The registration deadline without additional charge is prolonged till
30.6. 2005.
Detailed information at:
http://www.czechopen.net/news/index.php,
other information about the festival at http://www.czechopen.net.
Ikaros Chess Festival
The Ikaros Chess Festival will take place 9th-22nd July 2005. The
Festival has been held for the last 27 years on Ikaria island.
This year's events include the traditional open international
tournament "Open Aegean Championship" (12th-20th July) as well as plenty of
other side events such as Junior, Ladies, Veteran, blitz, rapid and
simultaneous exhibition events, blindfold chess, chess lectures and many
others.
Details: http://www.chess.gr/ikaros/
15th European Team Championship
The 15th European Team Championship takes place July 29th-August 8th
2005 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Official site: http://www.goteborgchess2005.se/
FIDE Trainers Committee
IM Jovan Petronic. Chairman, FIDE Computer & Internet Chess
Committee has written about the FIDE Trainers Committee. Link to his article
below. In 1998 FIDE formed a powerful Committee comprising of leading chess
trainers around the chess globe. Accordingly, it was named the FIDE Trainers
Committee, and below, I will try to summarize the immense useful information
for the readers, current major chess training activities and appeals of the
Committee, etc. The number of certified FIDE Trainers has grown and they are
now (in alphabetical order) - none other than: Alburt Lev (USA), Asanov Bolat
(Kazahstan), Azmaiparashvili Zurab (Georgia), Boensch Uwe (Germany), Beliavsky
Alexandr (Slovenia), Chernin Alexandr (Hungary), Dorfman Iossif (France),
Dvoretsky Mark (Russia), Gelfer Israel (Israel), Georgadze Tamaz (Georgia),
Gulko Boris (USA), Illescas Miguel (Spain), Kuzmin Alexey (Katar), Khodarkovsky
Michael (USA), Leong Ignatius (Singapore), Mikhalcishin Adrian (Slovenia),
Marjanovic Slavoljub (Serbia & Montenegro), Mohr Georg (Slovenia), Nikitin
Alexandr (Russia), Petrosjan Arshak (Armenia), Polgar Zsuzsa (USA), Postovsky
Boris (USA), Psakhis Lev (Israel), Razuvaev Yuri (Russia), Seirawan Yasser
(USA), Sosonko Genna (Netherlands), Schmidt Wlodzimerz (Poland), Tukmakov
Vladimir (Ukraine), Ubilava Elizbar (Georgia), Vladimirov Evgeny (Kazahstan),
Zapata Alonso (Columbia) and Xie Yun (China).
Read the article:
http://www.jovanpetronic.com/fidetrainerscommittee.htm
and an update:
http://www.jovanpetronic.com/fidetrainerscommittee2.htm
Biel GM Tournament
The field of the Biel GM Tournament is now known. The event takes place
16th-29th July 2005.
Further info: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch
Biel Grandmaster Tournament 2005:
Boris Gelfand ISR Elo 2713
Andrei Volokitin UKR 2679
Hikaru Nakamura USA 2657
Christian Bauer FRA 2640
Yannick Pelletier SUI 2610
Magnus Carlsen NOR 2548
Category 16, Elo 2641
Dortmund 2005
The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting takes place 8th-17th July 2005
(rest day 13th) in the Civic Theatre Vladimir Kramnik plays in this event which
is a 10 player all-play-all.
Participants: Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Veselin Topalov, Peter
Svidler, Michael Adams, Etienne Bacrot, Loek van Wely, Peter Heine Nielsen,
Emil Sutovsky, Arkadij Naiditsch.
Pairings: 1. Round: Fri 08.07. Leko - Van Wely Adams - Topalov Naiditsch
- Sutovsky Kramnik - Svidler Nielsen - Bacrot 2. Round: Sat 09.07. Van Wely -
Bacrot Topalov - Naiditsch Sutovsky - Kramnik Svidler - Nielsen Leko - Adams 3.
Round: Sun 10.07. Adams - Van Wely Kramnik - Topalov Nielsen - Sutovsky Bacrot
- Svidler Naiditsch - Leko 4. Round: Mon 11.07. Van Wely - Svidler Topalov -
Nielsen Sutovsky - Bacrot Leko - Kramnik Adams - Naiditsch 5. Round: Tue 12.07.
Naiditsch - Van Wely Bacrot - Topalov Svidler - Sutovsky Nielsen - Leko Kramnik
- Adams 6. Round: Thur 14.07. Van Wely - Sutovsky Topalov - Svidler Leko -
Bacrot Adams - Nielsen Naiditsch - Kramnik 7. Round: Fri 15.07. Kramnik - Van
Wely Sutovsky - Topalov Svidler - Leko Bacrot - Adams Nielsen - Naiditsch 8.
Round: Sat 16.07. Van Wely - Topalov Leko - Sutovsky Adams - Svidler Naiditsch
- Bacrot Kramnik - Nielsen 9. Round: Sun 17.07. Nielsen - Van Wely Topalov -
Leko Sutovsky - Adams Svidler - Naiditsch Bacrot - Kramnik
In addition is the Sparkassen Open which is divided into two classes:
Open A (Open ELO Tournament) and Open B (Amateur Open). The venue will be the
town hall (Rathaus) of the City of Dortmund at Friedensplatz. Each day play
begins at 11 a.m.. The conditions for the Open Tournaments, with information on
registration, may be found on the internet under
http://www.schachfreunde-brackel.de
as well as on the official organizers’ homepage
http://www.chessgate.de/do2005.
Official site: http://www.chessgate.de/do2005/
4th Condom Open
The 4th Condom open takes place 9th-16th July 2005. (south-west of
France) Prizes found 7000 € - 1st :1100 €.
Possibilities for GM and IM norm. Economical accommodation (boarding school) /
campings / hotels. E-Mail contact: echecs.condom@free.fr
Further details : http://echecs.condom.free.fr
XXIII Open Andorra
The XXIII Andorra Open takes place 9th-17th July 2005.
Official site: http://www.feva.ad/
Instructional Tactics
There is an instructional tactical site at:
http://www.chesstactics.org compiled
by Ward Farnsworth.
Queenstown Chess Classic 2006
The Queenstown Chess Classic 2006 takes place on the South Island of
New Zealand January 15th-24th 2006 followed by the NZ Rapid and Blitz
Championship on Jan 25th & 26th. This event is being sponsored by NZ GM
Murray Chandler and promises to be NZ's largest ever Open International event.
The total prize fund is in excess of NZD $35,000. It is endorsed by the NZ
Chess Federation and will incorporate the NZ Championship. Entries so far
include GM's Chandler, Rogers and Hecht.
Further information: http://www.queenstownchess.com
20th North Sea Cup
The 20th North Sea Cup takes place in Esbjerg, Denmark, 2nd-9th July
2005. 9 Swiss Open, time control: 40 moves 2 H + ½ H rest Prize fund:
DKK 65000,- = 8800 Euro
The organiser is Jens Nielsen Tel: 0045 75123975 Email:
Jerneif@get2net.dk. Fax: 0045 75123975 Address: Storegade 66, 6700 Esbjerg
Chief Arbiter: IA Lars Lindhard Deputy Arbiter: Aksel Hansen, Kim Schmidt,
Karsten Jakobsen
Official site: http://www.northseacup.dk
Kasparov on his retirement
Kasparov's website: http://www.chesschamps.com gives a diary
entry on the reasons for his retirement:
http://www.chesschamps.com/diary07.html
Correspondence Chess - Romanian Chess Federation - 80 Years
Therer will be a CC tournament "Romanian Chess Federation - 80 Years"?
which will be one of the strongest CC events of the year 2005 with 4 ICCF-GMs
and 4 ICCF-SIMs among the 13 participants.
Every 2-3 months there will be reports on the tournament wrote by GM
Dorian Rogozenko, IM Mihai Ghinda, IM Mircea Pavlov, IM Constantin Lupulescu
and FM Marius Ceteras including comments around the games in progress (this is
something new in CC).
A promo pdf booklet of the event is available in Romanian chess pages
www.romanianchess.org , in the section dedicated to this event
http://www.romanianchess.org/rcf80
The booklet contains the introduction of the players, their best games and a
short history of the Romanian correspondence chess. Short link for download the
promo booklet (archived pdf file)
http://www.romanianchess.org/rcf80/rcf80.zip
The tournament will be played at ICCF webserver (
http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=278
) .
II Calvia Chess Festival
The 2nd Calvià Chess Festival offers a varied programme with
tournaments for different categories covering all ages. Takes place October
21st-November 5th 2005.
http://www.calviafestival.com
VII Sants Open
The VII Sants Open in Barcelona takes place 27th August - 4th September
2005.
Further details: http://www.cotxeres.org/open2005
This tournament is part of the Catalan Grand Prix
http://www.fcde.org/circuit/oberts.html
Prague Chess Holiday
The XV International Chess Holiday 2005 and VIII Professor Jaroslav
Pelikán Memorial takes place in Prague. Three dates: 16th-23rd July
2005, 23rd-30th July 2005 and 30th July - 6th August 2005.
http://www.schach-prag.de/
2nd Amsterdam Chess Tournament
The 2nd Amsterdam Chess Tournament takes place 16th-24th July 2005.
Further details:
http://home.hccnet.nl/w.haggenburg/act05/eng.html
9th Essent Chess Tournament
The 9th Essent Chess Tournament (Hoogeveen) takes place 21st-29th
October 2005.
Last year the event was covered at: http://www.essentchess.nl
Computer Chess News
There have been recent computer events. See the Computer Chess Calendar
at: http://www.playwitharena.com
Ratings Article
Jean-Claude Templeur on ratings manipulation:
http://www.chessmile.com/articles.php?id=30
Final of the WCBCSC 2004-2005
Brian Stephenson of the British Chess Problem Society reports. The
Final of the WCBCSC 2004-2005 took place at Oakham School on Saturday 19th
February. It was a resounding success for solving GM and Ex-World Champion
Jonathan Mestel, who came ahead of two other ex-world champions. The event was
sponsored by Winton Capital Management: http://www.wintoncapital.com/
The full results can be found at my website. Follow this link for the
final table: http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/0405/finaltable.html
and this for the problems used:
http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/0405/final_diag.html
British Chess Problem Society:
http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/
Swiss Chess Tour Davos Festival 2005
The "Swiss Chess Tour 2005" will continue in Davos with Chess Festival,
the first time, besides "Open Davos", will be separate "Senior Open Davos",
"Junior Open Davos" and "Summer-night open".
Davos is one of the most popular tourist places in Europe (summer and
winter). Last year when all Europe caught by high tropical temperature at Davos
was 20-25 degrees Celsius, always with a cupful of mountain wind. Next year,
2006, Davos will host European Individual Senior Championship.
Main event, the 4th "Sunstar Park Hotel Open", July 30th - August 7th
2005. "Sunstar Park Hotel" (4 stars) will be host festival in the new,
comfortable "Congress Center". Swiss system, 9 rounds and the games will last a
maximum of 6 hours (40 moves for 2 hours and 60 minutes till the end). Valid
for FIDE titles and FIDE rating. Prize are: 1.500 SF, 1.200, 900, 700, 500,
400, 300, 250, 200 and 150 SF. From 11.- 20. places natural prizes. Special
prizes for best Lady, best local player. Entry fee 140 SF, FMs and juniors 70
SF, at the door 10 SF more, GMs and IMs free. Time table: Rounds 1 16.00-22.00
July 30th; Round 2/8 14.00-20.00 July 31st- August 6th; Round 9 10.00-16.00
August 7th.
"Senior Open" July 31st - August 6th, senior 1945, 7 rounds and the
games last of 5 hours (40 moves 2 hours and 30 minutes till the end). Valid for
FIDE titles and FIDE rating. Prize is: 500/400/300/2x200/2x150 SF. Natural
prizes for players with 4 points. Entry fee 70 SF, at the door 10 SF more. Time
table 9.30 - 14.30 every day.
"Junior Open", born 1985 and younger. Exactly the same like "Senior
Open" except, juniors lodging at "Sunstar Park Hotel" don't pay enter-fee.
(Hotel pays for them).
"Summer-night Open", 7 rounds, 45 minutes for game; time-table
21.15-22.45 every day; natural prizes for all players with 4 points; enter fee
10 SF.
Venue: "Sunstar Park Hotel" (4 stars). Closing ceremony August 8th,
half-hour after the last game. Unbelievable chess-rates. Info: Beochess
+41+34+424-01-06 (Robert Spoerri) or info@beochess.ch
12th Echternach International Open
The 12th Echternach International Open takes place 25th-26th June 2005.
Seniors should also note the following dates: 2nd Open (rapid chess) for young
seniors (aged 50 and above) 13th-14th August 2005. 5th Open-seniors (aged 60
and above) 15th-21st August 2005.
Further info: http://www.desprenger-echternach.lu/
Alushta Diary 2005
Leonid Galperin sends a calendar of planned events in Alushta, Ukraine
2005.
GM Norm events: 6 17.06-27.06. 1.09-11.09 25.09-5.10 7.10-17.10 Rating
tournament 5.06 - 13.06 Open tournament (under 16 years) First prize - 200 $
14.06 - 22.06 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Blitz tournament 28.06 12.09 Alushta Swiss
9 rounds Open tournament (rapid chess) 29 - 30.06 13-14.09 Alushta Swiss 9
rounds Open tournament First prize 1000 $ First prize (woman) 500$ 2.07-10.07
15.09-23.09 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Session of school of Gennadi Kuzmin
5.06-14.06 25.09-4.10 Alushta Individual and group studying
Further information: http://www.kaissa.com.ua phone +38
(06560)5-05-32 (for Russian speaking) + 38 050 669-26-04 (for English speaking)
e-mail: info@kaissa.com.ua
Harald Malmgren 100 years Correspondence
31st Dec 2004 saw the start of the first Grandmaster tournament on the
ICCF Webserver. The tournament is the "Harald Malmgren 100 years". The occasion
is to commemorate the 100:d birthday of Harald Malmgren, Tierp in Sweden.
Malmgren was runner up after Cecil Purdy in ICCF's first World Championship and
earned his GM title in the event. Malmgren passed away in 1957. In his career
he was also second in IFSB Championship 1939 and won the Swedish CC
Championship in 1942. Malmgren was a true chess enthusiast and issued a book in
1953 "Mina bästa partier" (My best games) with only CC games he had
played.
There are 13 participants and you will be able to follow the results on
http://www.schack.se/SSKK/palview/res/malmgren.htm
and as soon as about 10 moves are made in every game, SSKK will open a page for
"live" games. That is games according to the ICCF CoC regulations for live
games. The Category of the event is 10 which means that all norms are
available.The tournament has two sponsors, Schackakademin and Svenska
Schackbutiken AB.
The players are: IM Jan Bennborn, Sweden, IM Sture Olsson, Sweden, IM
Rune Bergquist, Norway, IM Ervin Liebert, Estonia, IM Taisto Koskela, Finland,
IM Leif Åhman, Sweden, SIM Jón A Pálsson, Iceland, SIM
Josef Mrkvicka, Czech Rep, GM Matthias Rüfenacht; Switzerland, IM Gary S
Benson, Australia, SIM John Pugh, England, Phillippe Chopin, France and Mads
Smith Hansen, Denmark. The withdrawing ICCF President keeps playing CC and
starts this event on his very last day in office.
Tomas Carnstam, Jonas Dahlgren, Robert Ericsson, Sebastian Nilsson and
Per Söderberg wedish Correspondence Chess Federation (SSKK) Board members.
38th Biel International Chess Festival
38th Biel International Chess Festival Dates: 16th-29th July 2005 with,
in particular: - the Grandmaster tournament (17th-27th July 2005) - the
Accentus Ladies Tournament 17th-27th July 2005) - the active chess tournament
(16th and 17th July 2005) - the Master Open (18th-29th July 2005, last round in
the morning) - the General Open (20th-29th July 2005, last round in the
morning) - the Blitz tournament (23th July 2005)
Further details: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch
Hamarat Challenge Match
The ICCF World Champion Tunc Hamarat (AUT) who has never lost a single
game with White, has challenged the "Rest of the World" to a friendly 2-game
match. He will have White in both games. The games (one will start with 1.e4
and one with 1.d4) will be played on the ICCF Webserver and started on 10th
February 2005 with the rule "10 moves/70 days".
The players on the "Rest of the World" team will vote on each move. The
move receiving the most votes will be selected. Should 2 or more moves receive
the same number of votes, the "Rest of the World" will be given 2 more voting
days to decide between the tied moves. Participation in this event is open to
all players who pay an entry fee of 5 EUR or $7.00 US dollars via their
National CC Federation or the ICCF Direct Entry (DE) option. All fees collected
will be transferred to the ICCF Development Fund. The money will be used
primarily for development and system support of the ICCF WebChess Server. It
will be possible to join the "Rest of the World" team at any stage of the game.
The games may be seen "live" by all players and other observers at
http://www.iccf-webchess.com
Each player who voted for the selected move will receive 1 point per
move. The player(s) with the most points at the end of the games will receive
an ICCF Gold Book. The list of all entrants will be published on the ICCF
webpage.
1st ICCF Webchess Open Tournament
The ICCF have announced the 1st WebChess Open Tournament and invites
every player worldwide to participate in the event. The event is to be played
on the ICCF dedicated Webserver http://www.iccf-webchess.com. This
tournament is open to all correspondence chess players worldwide, also for
those without any previous ICCF experience. Multiple entries are allowed. The
tournament will be played in three stages - preliminaries, semifinal and final.
Details: http://www.iccf-webchess.com/Message.aspx?message=19
Russia vs ROW Correspondence
The Russian Chess Federation is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is
using this occasion to challenge the rest of the world to a match over 64
boards with 2 games for each and the start is 15.02 2004. Players include Joop
van Oosterom
http://www.mychessweb.com/Tables/Internationale/Play/russia-world.htm
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