THE WEEK IN CHESS 559 25th July 2005 by Mark Crowther
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Prague Chess Festival 328 games
Irish Championship 90 games
3216 games
My thanks to Sami Hämäläinen, Roberto Alvarez, Manuel
Rodríguez García, Hans Groffen, Thomas Henrich, Jovan Petronic,
Milen Petrov, Mikhail Golubev, Jon Haskel, Patrick Van der Voort, Jan Mazuch,
David Clayton, Martin Crichton, Dimitris Skyrianoglou, Amador González
de la Nava, Boris Hristov, Jakub Fuksik, Jovan Petronic, Yin Hao, George
Mirijanian, Per Bromann, Rodolfo Arias Formoso, Karel Novak, Laszlo Nagy,
Martin Pribyl, Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr and everyone else who helped with the
issue.
Another busy summer week and another 3000 games played. Up and coming
star Andrei Volokitin leads the main event in Biel with 5/8 with two rounds to
go. This performance so far will come as a relief to him after his disaster in
his last major tournament in Sarajevo. Elsewhere Pavel Eljanov took clear first
place in the Amsterdam Chess Tournament, Konstantin Sakaev in the Politken Cup
and Pentala Harikrishna in the Sanjin Hotel Cup.
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
The Category 16 Biel GM Tournament takes place 16th-29th July 2005.
Andrei Volokitin leads the event with 5/8 with two rounds to go.
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
Further info: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch
Round 3 (July 19, 2005)
Nakamura, Hikaru - Bauer, Christian 1-0 78 B56 Sicilian Defence
Gelfand, Boris - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 29 E12 Queens Indian Petrosian
Pelletier, Yannick - Volokitin, Andrei 1/2 29 E94 King's Indian Classical
Round 4 (July 20, 2005)
Gelfand, Boris - Nakamura, Hikaru 1/2 20 D17 Slav Defence
Pelletier, Yannick - Bauer, Christian 1-0 49 A73 Benoni
Carlsen, Magnus - Volokitin, Andrei 0-1 37 B46 Sicilian Paulsen
Round 5 (July 21, 2005)
Volokitin, Andrei - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 26 B93 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.f4
Nakamura, Hikaru - Pelletier, Yannick 1-0 52 C02 French Advance
Bauer, Christian - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 36 D30 Queen's Gambit (without Nc3)
Round 6 (July 23, 2005)
Gelfand, Boris - Pelletier, Yannick 1/2 38 E16 Queens Indian
Bauer, Christian - Volokitin, Andrei 1/2 56 E67 King's Indian Fianchetto
Carlsen, Magnus - Nakamura, Hikaru 1/2 30 D17 Slav Defence
Round 7 (July 24, 2005)
Nakamura, Hikaru - Volokitin, Andrei 1/2 41 B46 Sicilian Paulsen
Gelfand, Boris - Bauer, Christian 1/2 71 A40 Unusual Replies to 1.d4
Pelletier, Yannick - Carlsen, Magnus 1-0 15 E34 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Round 8 (July 25, 2005)
Volokitin, Andrei - Pelletier, Yannick 1-0 28 B48 Sicilian Paulsen
Bauer, Christian - Nakamura, Hikaru 1-0 41 D47 Queens Gambit Meran
Carlsen, Magnus - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 26 B96 Sicilian Najdorf
GM Biel SUI (SUI), 17-12 vii 2005 cat. XVI (2638)
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1 Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2671 ** == =. =1 == 1. 5.0 2727
2 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2660 == ** =. 1. 10 == 4.5 2668
3 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2724 =. =. ** == 1= == 4.5 2652
4 Pelletier, Yannick g SUI 2603 =0 0. == ** 1. =1 4.0 2643
5 Bauer, Christian g FRA 2641 == 01 0= 0. ** =. 3.0 2568
6 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2528 0. == == =0 =. ** 3.0 2573
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Accentus Ladies Biel SUI (SUI), 17-12 vii 2005 cat. VII (2420)
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1 Skripchenko, Almira m FRA 2437 ** == 1. =1 =. 11 6.0 2612
2 Gaponenko, Inna m UKR 2439 == ** == 1= 1. 1. 5.5 2560
3 Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman m IND 2414 0. == ** 0. 11 =1 4.5 2462
4 Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2421 =0 0= 1. ** == =. 3.5 2379
5 Sedina, Elena m ITA 2402 =. 0. 00 == ** 01 2.5 2279
6 Korbut, Ekaterina wg RUS 2409 00 0. =0 =. 10 ** 2.0 2227
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MTO Open Biel SUI (SUI), 18-29 vii 2005
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1. Kobalia, Mikhail g RUS 2614 5.0 24.5
2. Tseshkovsky, Vitaly g RUS 2599 5.0 24.0
3. Milov, Vadim g SUI 2645 5.0 23.0
3. Bocharov, Dmitry g RUS 2574 5.0 23.0
5. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2625 4.5 22.5
5. Golod, Vitali g ISR 2582 4.5 22.5
5. Kritz, Leonid g GER 2544 4.5 22.5
8. Cvitan, Ognjen g CRO 2491 4.5 21.5
9. Raetsky, Alexander m RUS 2453 4.5 20.5
10. Cebalo, Miso g CRO 2511 4.5 19.5
10. Pavlovic, Milos g SCG 2471 4.5 19.5
12. Nemet, Ivan g SUI 2353 4.0 21.0
13. Roiz, Michael g ISR 2593 4.0 20.0
14. Dvoirys, Semen I g RUS 2589 4.0 19.5
15. Benkovic, Petar m SCG 2431 4.0 19.5
16. Ulibin, Mikhail g RUS 2529 4.0 19.0
17. Meijers, Viesturs g LAT 2479 4.0 18.0
18. Wohl, Aleksandar H m AUS 2403 4.0 18.0
19. Sriram, Jha m IND 2437 4.0 18.0
20. Huss, Andreas m SUI 2329 4.0 18.0
21. Zollbrecht, Josef f GER 2304 4.0 18.0
22. Peschlow, Patrick f GER 2318 4.0 17.5
23. Ermeni, Avni SCG 2301 4.0 17.0
24. Giertz, Niklaus f SUI 2247 4.0 16.5
98 players
The 2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup took place in Tiayuan, China 8th-20th July
2005. Pentala Harikrishna wins with 8.5/11 a point clear of Motylev who was
defeated in the final round.
Official site: http://sports.sina.com.cn
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2nd Sanjin Hotel Cup Tiayuan CHN (CHN), 9-20 vii 2005 cat. XV (2601)
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1. Harikrishna, P g IND 2645 * 0 = 1 = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.5 2808
2. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2675 1 * = 0 = = 1 1 1 = 1 = 7.5 2727
3. Wang Yue g CHN 2576 = = * = = = 1 = = 1 0 1 6.5 2668
4. Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2632 0 1 = * = 1 0 = = = 1 1 6.5 2663
5. Ni Hua g CHN 2629 = = = = * 0 = 0 = 1 1 1 6.0 2634
6. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2645 = = = 0 1 * 0 1 = 0 1 = 5.5 2597
7. Petrosian, Tigran L g ARM 2581 0 0 0 1 = 1 * = 0 = 1 1 5.5 2603
8. Zhang Pengxiang g CHN 2616 0 0 = = 1 0 = * = 1 0 1 5.0 2563
9. Zhang Zhong g CHN 2608 0 0 = = = = 1 = * 0 = = 4.5 2535
10. Wang Hao CHN 2512 0 = 0 = 0 1 = 0 1 * 1 0 4.5 2544
11. Zhao Xue wg CHN 2470 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 = 0 * = 3.0 2438
12. McShane, Luke J g ENG 2625 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 0 = 1 = * 3.0 2424
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Round 10 (July 19, 2005)
Wang Yue - Motylev, Alexander 1/2 35 E15 Queens Indian
Bu Xiangzhi - Petrosian, Tigran L 0-1 43 E97 King's Indian Classical
Ni Hua - Harikrishna, P 1/2 19 D10 Slav Defence
Karjakin, Sergey - Wang Hao 0-1 58 C11 French Defence
Zhang Pengxiang - Zhang Zhong 1/2 39 C45 Scotch Game
Zhao Xue - McShane, Luke J 1/2 132 A16 English Opening
Round 11 (July 20, 2005)
Harikrishna, P - Karjakin, Sergey 1/2 34 D28 QGA
Motylev, Alexander - Bu Xiangzhi 0-1 34 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Petrosian, Tigran L - Ni Hua 1/2 65 B51 Sicilian Rossolimo
Zhang Zhong - Zhao Xue 1/2 52 C85 Ruy Lopez Steenwijker Defence
Wang Hao - Zhang Pengxiang 0-1 50 B45 Sicilian Classical
McShane, Luke J - Wang Yue 0-1 81 B51 Sicilian Rossolimo
The 2nd Amsterdam Chess Tournament took place 16th-24th July 2005. Pavel
Eljanov won the event with 7/9 half a point clear of the field.
Official site: http://www.alldata.nl/act
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ACT Open Amsterdam NED (NED), 16-24 vii 2005
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1. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2639 + 71 = 14 + 39 + 36 = 2 + 21 = 3 = 13 + 9 7.0 2760
2. Rogers, Ian g AUS 2569 + 52 = 16 + 23 + 6 = 1 - 4 + 32 = 18 + 30 6.5 2647
3. Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2705 + 74 + 27 = 15 + 22 = 32 + 7 = 1 = 9 = 13 6.5 2709
4. Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2634 + 43 = 46 + 60 = 17 + 5 + 2 - 9 = 8 + 20 6.5 2659
5. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2533 + 42 + 38 + 9 = 10 - 4 = 22 = 28 + 27 + 18 6.5 2666
6. Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2661 + 55 = 17 + 14 - 2 + 29 + 32 = 8 = 19 + 21 6.5 2651
7. Khenkin, Igor g GER 2610 + 31 = 33 + 40 = 15 + 62 - 3 + 26 = 14 + 17 6.5 2636
8. L'Ami, Erwin m NED 2519 - 58 + 42 + 77 + 53 + 81 = 10 = 6 = 4 + 19 6.5 2603
9. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2691 + 67 + 51 - 5 + 12 = 20 + 24 + 4 = 3 - 1 6.0 2657
10. Timman, Jan H g NED 2625 + 30 + 57 + 62 = 5 = 21 = 8 = 19 = 17 = 14 6.0 2603
11. Huzman, Alexander g ISR 2577 + 54 = 23 = 33 = 41 + 40 = 26 = 27 = 28 + 37 6.0 2528
12. Williams, Simon m ENG 2461 = 96 + 63 + 13 - 9 + 16 - 19 + 55 + 44 = 26 6.0 2590
13. Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2652 + 77 = 60 - 12 + 88 + 33 = 20 + 15 = 1 = 3 6.0 2590
14. Ernst, Sipke m NED 2457 + 98 = 1 - 6 + 50 = 38 + 59 + 36 = 7 = 10 6.0 2590
15. Megaranto, Susanto g INA 2499 + 80 + 82 = 3 = 7 = 18 = 44 - 13 + 47 + 41 6.0 2601
16. Ivanov, Jordan m BUL 2347 + 81 = 2 - 36 + 76 - 12 + 82 + 35 = 24 + 32 6.0 2531
17. Belkhodja, Slim g TUN 2468 + 92 = 6 + 28 = 4 = 19 + 62 = 18 = 10 - 7 5.5 2612
18. Erenburg, Sergey g ISR 2595 + 50 + 53 - 32 + 57 = 15 + 35 = 17 = 2 - 5 5.5 2540
19. Al-Modiahki, Mohamad g QAT 2570 + 79 + 45 - 22 + 56 = 17 + 12 = 10 = 6 - 8 5.5 2553
20. Bellini, Fabio m ITA 2501 - 59 + 85 + 30 + 45 = 9 = 13 = 44 + 33 - 4 5.5 2546
21. Smeets, Jan g NED 2537 + 68 + 58 + 59 = 32 = 10 - 1 = 22 + 23 - 6 5.5 2533
22. Siebrecht, Sebastian m GER 2487 + 65 + 93 + 19 - 3 = 26 = 5 = 21 - 30 + 48 5.5 2520
23. D'Costa, Lorin f ENG 2352 + 72 = 11 - 2 + 73 = 25 = 37 + 29 - 21 + 44 5.5 2533
24. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2508 = 97 = 64 + 71 = 33 + 41 - 9 + 40 = 16 = 28 5.5 2458
25. Hoffmann, Michael1 m GER 2475 = 34 = 95 = 58 + 70 = 23 = 45 = 41 + 38 = 31 5.5 2390
26. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2529 + 85 - 59 + 70 + 46 = 22 = 11 - 7 + 45 = 12 5.5 2496
27. Holzke, Frank m GER 2478 + 94 - 3 + 48 - 81 + 43 + 53 = 11 - 5 + 46 5.5 2482
28. Van Delft, Merijn m NED 2369 + 84 = 44 - 17 + 49 = 36 + 85 = 5 = 11 = 24 5.5 2515
29. Bosboom, Manuel m NED 2419 - 82 + 80 = 34 + 64 - 6 + 81 - 23 + 49 + 50 5.5 2381
30. De Boer, Sybolt NED 2320 - 10 +100 - 20 + 63 = 60 + 76 + 57 + 22 - 2 5.5 2486
31. Van Beek, Alexander f NED 2312 - 7 + 91 - 35 - 95 + 86 + 88 + 81 + 60 = 25 5.5 2387
32. Vazquez, Renier m ESP 2496 + 47 + 61 + 18 = 21 = 3 - 6 - 2 + 52 - 16 5.0 2512
33. Dambacher, Martijn NED 2388 + 91 = 7 = 11 = 24 - 13 + 42 + 49 - 20 = 35 5.0 2492
34. Schoorl, Rob NED 2239 = 25 = 37 = 29 - 40 = 67 + 51 = 62 + 66 = 39 5.0 2471
35. Janssen, Ruud m NED 2501 - 61 + 47 + 31 + 74 = 44 - 18 - 16 + 55 = 33 5.0 2426
36. Wells, Peter K g ENG 2529 = 64 + 97 + 16 - 1 = 28 = 55 - 14 = 40 + 71 5.0 2419
37. Senff, Martin m GER 2467 = 95 = 34 + 61 - 44 + 71 = 23 = 45 + 43 - 11 5.0 2406
38. Purnama, Tirta Chandra INA 2337 + 76 - 5 = 73 + 51 = 14 = 57 = 39 - 25 + 65 5.0 2419
39. Bellin, Robert m ENG 2399 = 83 + 99 - 1 = 58 = 42 + 48 = 38 = 50 = 34 5.0 2354
40. Pliester, Leon m NED 2378 = 99 + 87 - 7 + 34 - 11 + 65 - 24 = 36 + 59 5.0 2418
41. Van de Oudeweetering, Arthur m NED 2368 = 87 = 83 + 82 = 11 - 24 + 73 = 25 + 59 - 15 5.0 2396
42. Van der Elburg, Freddie NED 2290 - 5 - 8 + 92 + 83 = 39 - 33 + 84 = 62 + 60 5.0 2425
43. Halay, Taufik f INA 2320 - 4 = 86 = 63 + 93 - 27 + 96 + 85 - 37 + 62 5.0 2366
44. Kharlov, Andrei g RUS 2619 + 89 = 28 = 46 + 37 = 35 = 15 = 20 - 12 - 23 4.5 2427
45. Vrenegoor, Taco f NED 2349 + 49 - 19 + 69 - 20 + 88 = 25 = 37 - 26 = 52 4.5 2382
46. Gullaksen, Eirik m NOR 2382 + 88 = 4 = 44 - 26 = 58 - 47 + 80 + 73 - 27 4.5 2386
47. Slingerland, Fred NED 2259 - 32 - 35 = 91 + 87 + 66 + 46 = 60 - 15 = 53 4.5 2390
48. Baquero, Luis A COL 2301 - 73 + 72 - 27 = 84 + 69 - 39 + 82 + 57 - 22 4.5 2312
49. Van Oosterom, Chiel NED 2197 - 45 = 68 + 89 - 28 + 61 + 56 - 33 - 29 + 74 4.5 2346
50. Schmitz, H NED NED 2306 - 18 = 84 + 86 - 14 = 75 + 78 + 63 = 39 - 29 4.5 2289
51. Al Sayed, Mohamad N m QAT 2478 + 75 - 9 = 64 - 38 = 82 - 34 + 95 + 68 = 54 4.5 2314
52. Witt, Rob f NED 2292 - 2 = 76 + 99 = 60 - 57 + 95 + 53 - 32 = 45 4.5 2360
53. Bezemer, Arno f NED 2364 + 69 - 18 + 78 - 8 + 96 - 27 - 52 + 85 = 47 4.5 2337
54. Bakker, Sven NED 2300 - 11 - 81 + 94 - 82 = 87 = 61 + 88 + 76 = 51 4.5 2284
55. Buckley, Simon T ENG 2333 - 6 + 94 - 81 + 80 + 95 = 36 - 12 - 35 + 78 4.5 2362
56. Afek, Yochanan m ISR 2389 = 63 = 78 + 93 - 19 - 85 - 49 + 96 = 58 + 73 4.5 2265
57. Peng Zhaoqin g NED 2405 +100 - 10 + 95 - 18 + 52 = 38 - 30 - 48 + 80 4.5 2353
58. Hartoch, Rob m NED 2272 + 8 - 21 = 25 = 39 = 46 - 60 = 77 = 56 = 66 4.0 2389
59. Van Leent, Dmitri NED 2261 + 20 + 26 - 21 - 62 + 74 - 14 + 71 - 41 - 40 4.0 2392
60. Jonkman, Harmen g NED 2454 + 86 = 13 - 4 = 52 = 30 + 58 = 47 - 31 - 42 4.0 2281
61. Pruijssers, Roeland NED 2261 + 35 - 32 - 37 = 67 - 49 = 54 = 78 = 69 + 84 4.0 2277
62. Zhu Chen g CHN 2494 + 90 + 73 - 10 + 59 - 7 - 17 = 34 = 42 - 43 4.0 2321
63. Breivik, Lars NOR 2217 = 56 - 12 = 43 - 30 + 90 + 67 - 50 = 74 = 70 4.0 2296
64. Van der Poel, Henk f NED 2280 = 36 = 24 = 51 - 29 = 84 = 74 - 66 = 86 + 81 4.0 2285
65. Ruijgrok, Dennis NED 2249 - 22 - 66 = 79 + 91 + 70 - 40 = 74 + 77 - 38 4.0 2303
66. Ansell, Simon m ENG 2407 - 93 + 65 - 88 = 97 - 47 + 98 + 64 - 34 = 58 4.0 2203
67. Timman, Ton NED 2335 - 9 = 75 = 96 = 61 = 34 - 63 = 83 = 84 + 86 4.0 2199
68. Vogel, Jaap f NED 2291 - 21 = 49 = 84 = 69 - 73 + 87 = 76 - 51 + 83 4.0 2227
69. Overeem, Marc f NED 2199 - 53 + 79 - 45 = 68 - 48 - 77 + 98 = 61 + 89 4.0 2261
70. Martyn, Rafe f ENG 2340 = 78 + 96 - 26 - 25 - 65 = 83 = 75 + 90 = 63 4.0 2244
71. Beckhuis, Gernod f GER 2324 - 1 + 98 - 24 + 90 - 37 + 75 - 59 + 81 - 36 4.0 2325
72. Odink, Karel NED 2198 - 23 - 48 - 90 = 92 = 91 - 89 +100 + 96 + 85 4.0 2222
73. Burg, Twan NED 2218 + 48 - 62 = 38 - 23 + 68 - 41 + 79 - 46 - 56 3.5 2276
74. Koster, Ramon f NED 2335 - 3 + 90 + 83 - 35 - 59 = 64 = 65 = 63 - 49 3.5 2239
75. Van Eekhout, David NED 2240 - 51 = 67 - 76 + 99 = 50 - 71 = 70 = 89 = 77 3.5 2232
76. Bachofner, Andreas f AUT 2177 - 38 = 52 + 75 - 16 + 97 - 30 = 68 - 54 = 79 3.5 2218
77. Wong Zi Jing f MAS 2330 - 13 + 92 - 8 - 96 = 98 + 69 = 58 - 65 = 75 3.5 2232
78. De Saegher, Chris NED 2187 = 70 = 56 - 53 - 85 + 94 - 50 = 61 + 95 - 55 3.5 2225
79. Van den Berg, Ad NED 2298 - 19 - 69 = 65 = 86 + 93 = 84 - 73 = 83 = 76 3.5 2135
80. Monteban, Martijn NED 2260 - 15 - 29 +100 - 55 = 83 + 97 - 46 + 82 - 57 3.5 2249
81. Lyell, Mark f ENG 2194 - 16 + 54 + 55 + 27 - 8 - 29 - 31 - 71 - 64 3.0 2243
82. Wunnink, Michael NED 2223 + 29 - 15 - 41 + 54 = 51 - 16 - 48 - 80 = 92 3.0 2230
83. Spence, David ENG 2218 = 39 = 41 - 74 - 42 = 80 = 70 = 67 = 79 - 68 3.0 2199
84. Giddins, Stephen f ENG 2204 - 28 = 50 = 68 = 48 = 64 = 79 - 42 = 67 - 61 3.0 2178
85. Spaan, Tigran f NED 2284 - 26 - 20 + 98 + 78 + 56 - 28 - 43 - 53 - 72 3.0 2217
86. Koehler, Adalbert GER 1886 - 60 = 43 - 50 = 79 - 31 = 92 + 97 = 64 - 67 3.0 2185
87. Drost, Peter NED 2203 = 41 - 40 = 97 - 47 = 54 - 68 = 94 = 92 = 96 3.0 2159
88. Van der Plas, Rob NED 2209 - 46 + 89 + 66 - 13 - 45 - 31 - 54 = 94 = 90 3.0 2231
89. Bitalzadeh, Ali NED 2317 - 44 - 88 - 49 - 98 =100 + 72 + 93 = 75 - 69 3.0 2133
90. Doggers, Peter NED 2249 - 62 - 74 + 72 - 71 - 63 = 93 + 99 - 70 = 88 3.0 2157
91. Riemens, Albert NED 2210 - 33 - 31 = 47 - 65 = 72 =100 = 92 = 97 = 94 3.0 2137
92. Gavin Roche, Enrique ESP 2230 - 17 - 77 - 42 = 72 = 99 = 86 = 91 = 87 = 82 3.0 2098
93. Visser, Henk-Jan NED 2221 + 66 - 22 - 56 - 43 - 79 = 90 - 89 = 98 +100 3.0 2198
94. Van Gool, Henk NED 2242 - 27 - 55 - 54 +100 - 78 = 99 = 87 = 88 = 91 3.0 2135
95. Wempe, Joost NED 2228 = 37 = 25 - 57 + 31 - 55 - 52 - 51 - 78 = 99 2.5 2184
96. Markus, John Raymond NED 2227 = 12 - 70 = 67 + 77 - 53 - 43 - 56 - 72 = 87 2.5 2160
97. Narings, Niek NED 2263 = 24 - 36 = 87 = 66 - 76 - 80 - 86 = 91 = 98 2.5 2101
98. Bensdorp, Marlies wm NED 2225 - 14 - 71 - 85 + 89 = 77 - 66 - 69 = 93 = 97 2.5 2145
99. Hansen, Kay AUT 2205 = 40 - 39 - 52 - 75 = 92 = 94 - 90 =100 = 95 2.5 2109
100. Blanchard, Jack NED 2219 - 57 - 30 - 80 - 94 = 89 = 91 - 72 = 99 - 93 1.5 1991
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The Politiken Cup part of the Copenhagen Chess Festival and 27th
Copenhagen Open took place July 16th-24th 2005. Konstantin Sakaev won the event
with 8/10 half a point clear of 12 players headed by Viktor Korchnoi.
Official site: http://www.politikencup.dk/
Official Leading Standings
Nr. Navn/name PO BU
1 Sakaev,Konstantin 8 56
2 Korchnoi,Viktor 7½ 56
3 Shomoev,Anton 7½ 55½
4 Kurnosov,Igor 7½ 55
5 Danielsen,Henrik 7½ 53½
6 Hansen,Curt 7½ 53
7 Hector,Jonny 7½ 52½
8 Hansen,Sune Berg 7½ 51
9 Schandorff,Lars 7½ 50½
10 Chandler,Murray G. 7½ 49½
11 Bjornsson,Sigurbjorn 7½ 49
12 Ziska,Helgi Dam 7½ 48
13 De Firmian,Nick E 7½ 47½
14 Vasquez,Rodrigo 7 54½
15 Cech,Pavel 7 53
16 Brinck-Claussen,Bjor 7 46½
17 Andersen,Dan 7 46
18 Richards,Heather 7 46
19 Tjomsland,Stig 7 45
20 Nielsen,Max 7 45
21 Trygstad,Kristian 7 43½
22 Sorensen,Torben 6½ 52
23 Petersen,Soren B. 6½ 50
24 Hjelm,Niclas 6½ 49
25 Vul,Arkadi E. 6½ 49
26 Sigfusson,Sigurdur 6½ 49
27 Marzano,Carlo 6½ 49
28 Hoi,Carsten 6½ 48½
29 Stokke,Kjetil 6½ 48
30 Solberg,Joachim 6½ 46½
31 Bae,Torstein 6½ 46
32 Romsdal,Trond 6½ 45½
33 Vikulov,Alexander 6½ 44½
34 Asgeirsson,Heimir 6½ 44
35 Holst,Conny 6½ 43½
36 Ochtman,Henk 6½ 43
37 Laursen,Niels N. 6½ 41½
Crosstable
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1. Sakaev, Konstantin g RUS 2669 + 72 + 36 + 40 = 4 = 15 + 22 + 8 + 3 = 2 = 13 8.0 2636
2. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2615 + 67 + 80 + 19 + 38 = 3 = 5 + 15 = 4 = 1 = 7 7.5 2606
3. Kurnosov, Igor g RUS 2549 + 99 + 53 + 50 + 31 = 2 + 6 = 4 - 1 + 22 = 10 7.5 2578
4. Shomoev, Anton g RUS 2514 +135 +149 + 24 = 1 + 11 + 14 = 3 = 2 = 7 = 9 7.5 2616
5. Hector, Jonny g SWE 2534 + 65 + 37 + 30 + 41 = 14 = 2 - 38 + 25 = 11 + 23 7.5 2498
6. Danielsen, Henrik g DEN 2511 +124 + 74 +132 + 17 + 9 - 3 = 7 + 39 = 10 = 8 7.5 2556
7. Hansen, Curt g DEN 2613 +146 + 34 - 17 + 98 + 25 + 18 = 6 + 38 = 4 = 2 7.5 2493
8. Schandorff, Lars g DEN 2519 + 83 = 42 +100 + 25 = 22 + 24 - 1 + 45 + 47 = 6 7.5 2439
9. Hansen, Sune Berg g DEN 2568 +104 + 54 + 29 = 22 - 6 = 49 +133 + 12 + 38 = 4 7.5 2465
10. Chandler, Murray G g ENG 2542 +181 = 46 = 42 +115 + 45 + 29 = 39 + 23 = 6 = 3 7.5 2448
11. Bjornsson, Sigurbjorn f ISL 2346 +150 = 71 + 75 + 46 - 4 = 30 + 58 + 70 = 5 + 26 7.5 2403
12. Ziska, Helgi Dam FAI 2177 +140 + 94 = 15 - 39 + 85 + 72 + 28 - 9 + 43 + 27 7.5 2447
13. De Firmian, Nick E g USA 2555 +125 + 95 - 25 +149 + 92 = 28 + 41 = 26 + 15 = 1 7.5 2459
14. Vasquez, Rodrigo g CHI 2558 + 87 + 20 + 32 + 44 = 5 - 4 = 21 + 18 = 26 = 16 7.0 2460
15. Cech, Pavel m CZE 2416 +114 + 60 = 12 + 56 = 1 + 50 - 2 + 51 - 13 + 24 7.0 2438
16. Brinck-Claussen, Bjorn m DEN 2348 +127 = 93 = 52 + 61 = 47 + 34 - 23 + 95 + 76 = 14 7.0 2332
17. Andersen, Dan DEN 2245 +165 +109 + 7 - 6 = 69 - 35 = 93 +121 + 71 + 39 7.0 2343
18. Tjomsland, Stig NOR 2257 +136 -132 +141 +155 + 20 - 7 + 30 - 14 + 95 + 47 7.0 2344
19. Nielsen, Max DEN 2244 +161 +101 - 2 +137 = 72 = 69 + 52 - 22 + 42 + 38 7.0 2317
20. Richards, Heather wm ENG 2150 +197 - 14 +108 +158 - 18 + 98 = 29 = 28 + 44 + 40 7.0 2346
21. Trygstad, Kristian f NOR 2304 =108 +178 =103 =132 + 93 + 74 = 14 = 27 = 46 + 51 7.0 2312
22. Sorensen, Torben DEN 2355 +102 +115 +105 = 9 = 8 - 1 + 54 + 19 - 3 = 29 6.5 2413
23. Hjelm, Niclas f SWE 2333 +128 = 75 + 82 - 92 + 71 + 36 + 16 - 10 + 32 - 5 6.5 2324
24. Marzano, Carlo ITA 2201 +131 +111 - 4 + 48 + 44 - 8 +105 = 43 + 31 - 15 6.5 2365
25. Petersen, Soren Boeck DEN 2217 +164 + 64 + 13 - 8 - 7 +155 + 53 - 5 + 99 = 28 6.5 2393
26. Vul, Arkadi Eremeevich g RUS 2425 +141 =100 + 55 + 77 = 39 = 41 + 40 = 13 = 14 - 11 6.5 2398
27. Hoi, Carsten g DEN 2404 +118 = 55 + 71 = 81 - 32 + 75 + 35 = 21 + 41 - 12 6.5 2267
28. Sigfusson, Sigurdur f ISL 2344 =106 = 73 +181 + 52 + 81 = 13 - 12 = 20 + 53 = 25 6.5 2258
29. Stokke, Kjetil NOR 2233 +158 +155 - 9 + 64 + 70 - 10 = 20 = 71 + 48 = 22 6.5 2290
30. Solberg, Joachim NOR 2171 +169 +145 - 5 +104 = 43 = 11 - 18 + 89 = 69 + 84 6.5 2246
31. Bae, Torstein f NOR 2316 +159 + 68 + 48 - 3 -133 +103 = 46 + 37 - 24 + 74 6.5 2258
32. Romsdal, Trond NOR 2204 +139 + 89 - 14 +101 + 27 - 38 = 69 + 96 - 23 + 79 6.5 2315
33. Vikulov, Alexander f RUS 2333 = 73 +106 = 93 +103 - 50 + 63 - 95 + 68 = 49 + 46 6.5 2198
34. Holst, Conny SWE 2160 +123 - 7 =136 +124 +111 - 16 = 48 = 92 +109 + 70 6.5 2224
35. Asgeirsson, Heimir ISL 2118 +152 - 38 =113 +112 +116 + 17 - 27 - 40 +106 + 76 6.5 2243
36. Ochtman, Henk NED 2166 +209 - 1 = 97 +114 +107 - 23 - 96 + 72 + 78 + 69 6.5 2232
37. Laursen, Niels Norskov DEN 2134 +185 - 5 =112 = 73 + 97 =178 + 72 - 31 +107 + 77 6.5 2214
38. Kargin, Arseny m RUS 2408 +142 + 35 + 69 - 2 + 51 + 32 + 5 - 7 - 9 - 19 6.0 2385
39. Jakobsen, Ole m DEN 2385 + 97 = 52 + 79 + 12 = 26 +133 = 10 - 6 = 40 - 17 6.0 2325
40. Nordenbaek, Jan DEN 2246 +112 + 90 - 1 + 62 = 74 + 60 - 26 + 35 = 39 - 20 6.0 2278
41. Bleis, Christian GER 2271 + 86 + 63 +110 - 5 + 54 = 26 - 13 + 79 - 27 = 61 6.0 2309
42. Struch, Thomas DEN 2083 +147 = 8 = 10 = 94 + 87 = 43 - 45 + 67 - 19 + 99 6.0 2258
43. Andreasen, Per f DEN 2306 +130 = 82 + 85 = 70 = 30 = 42 + 80 = 24 - 12 = 60 6.0 2182
44. Pedersen, Christian Kyndel f DEN 2364 +120 + 61 + 78 - 14 - 24 + 82 + 49 - 47 - 20 +103 6.0 2228
45. Willumsen, Henrik DEN 2208 + 91 - 78 + 83 + 96 - 10 +101 + 42 - 8 = 64 = 55 6.0 2213
46. Gvein, Kenneth NOR 2135 +162 = 10 +119 - 11 = 98 +118 = 31 +134 = 21 - 33 6.0 2290
47. Lonborg, Morten DEN 2188 + 84 -110 +135 + 89 = 16 = 92 +102 + 44 - 8 - 18 6.0 2229
48. Thomassen, Thomas NOR 2035 +184 +133 - 31 - 24 + 91 = 56 = 34 + 54 - 29 + 95 6.0 2229
49. Erichsen, Dan DEN 2167 +153 - 70 +130 = 87 +109 = 9 - 44 +105 = 33 = 64 6.0 2215
50. Nilsson, Anders1 SWE 2181 +154 +129 - 3 +110 + 33 - 15 - 70 =101 = 85 +111 6.0 2198
51. Aabling-Thomsen, Jakob DEN 2208 +163 - 69 +142 +105 - 38 + 64 + 92 - 15 + 65 - 21 6.0 2201
52. Bogdanov, Dimitri DEN 2108 +172 = 39 = 16 - 28 +150 + 94 - 19 - 65 +108 +118 6.0 2197
53. Nohr, Finn DEN 2146 +191 - 3 = 86 +120 = 78 + 73 - 25 +113 - 28 +127 6.0 2180
54. Schultz-Pedersen, Jesper DEN 2157 +171 - 9 +165 + 99 - 41 + 67 - 22 - 48 +102 + 92 6.0 2187
55. Norton, Craig ENG 2122 +202 = 27 - 26 = 86 - 73 + 91 + 83 = 84 +120 = 45 6.0 2163
56. Ostergaard, Rasmus DEN 2184 +160 = 92 +117 - 15 = 75 = 48 +109 = 99 = 70 = 62 6.0 2151
57. Brondum, Eric DEN 2200 =138 +156 =137 = 78 = 90 = 89 + 62 = 69 = 61 = 63 6.0 2123
58. Jorgensen, Dennis DEN 2168 =156 +138 - 98 =117 + 83 + 78 - 11 =107 = 90 + 97 6.0 2123
59. Hvenekilde, Jorgen DEN 2227 +113 =107 = 62 = 90 =132 = 96 = 89 = 82 =103 + 98 6.0 2135
60. Nielsen, Jan Mose DEN 2123 +144 - 15 =131 +126 +138 - 40 - 99 +159 +104 = 43 6.0 2145
61. Brekka, Hanus FAI 2105 +199 - 44 +176 - 16 +128 - 70 +142 +102 = 57 = 41 6.0 2183
62. Hansen, Rene Rauer DEN 2084 =192 +157 = 59 - 40 =108 +138 - 57 +136 + 81 = 56 6.0 2176
63. Olesen, Poul Erik Norgaard DEN 2022 +194 - 41 =151 +157 = 77 - 33 +128 = 66 +134 = 57 6.0 2232
64. Frisk, Hans SWE 2056 +215 - 25 +154 - 29 +145 - 51 +112 +133 = 45 = 49 6.0 2130
65. Hansen, Morten Lyck DEN 2002 - 5 +191 -134 =162 =156 +160 +149 + 52 - 51 +122 6.0 2212
66. Looijmans, Karel NED 2191 +176 =117 - 92 -111 =151 +145 +178 = 63 = 82 + 96 6.0 2076
67. Pallesen, Jacob DEN 2024 - 2 +209 +190 -133 +196 - 54 +153 - 42 +149 +100 6.0 2200
68. Martinez de Miguel, Pedro ESP 2101 +198 - 31 -164 +154 -178 +196 + 97 - 33 +150 +113 6.0 2090
69. Bjornsson, Sverrir Orn ISL 2054 +180 + 51 - 38 + 88 = 17 = 19 = 32 = 57 = 30 - 36 5.5 2243
70. Hassan,Omar Elsayed EGY ---- +201 + 49 = 77 = 43 - 29 + 61 + 50 - 11 = 56 - 34 5.5 2233
71. Penalver, Osmani SWE 2108 +190 = 11 - 27 +113 - 23 +114 + 77 = 29 - 17 = 86 5.5 2219
72. Nilsson, Lars Kjoller DEN 2031 - 1 +169 +173 + 76 = 19 - 12 - 37 - 36 +163 +140 5.5 2193
73. Berg,Runar ISL ---- = 33 = 28 = 80 = 37 + 55 - 53 +155 = 93 =122 = 82 5.5 2197
74. Olafsson, Thorvardur ISL 2131 +148 - 6 +161 +164 = 40 - 21 - 87 +135 +101 - 31 5.5 2169
75. Malmberg, Mio SWE 2103 +187 = 23 - 11 +139 = 56 - 27 =135 +114 - 84 +142 5.5 2157
76. Petersen, Peter Birk DEN 2186 +151 -105 +102 - 72 = 99 +108 +132 + 87 - 16 - 35 5.5 2095
77. Lindfeldt, Jan Magnus f DEN 2293 +189 +121 = 70 - 26 = 63 =132 - 71 + 94 + 93 - 37 5.5 2123
78. Agdestein, Emil NOR 2052 +211 + 45 - 44 = 57 = 53 - 58 +143 = 81 - 36 +136 5.5 2179
79. Fredericia, Louise DEN 2121 =116 +126 - 39 +131 = 94 +152 =134 - 41 + 87 - 32 5.5 2135
80. Andersen, Ib Hother DEN 2160 +186 - 2 = 73 = 97 +135 +110 - 43 =106 = 96 = 83 5.5 2121
81. Mansson, Lars SWE 2184 +196 = 98 +107 = 27 - 28 -105 +125 = 78 - 62 +135 5.5 2137
82. Nielsen, Borge Hjerrild DEN 2095 +179 = 43 - 23 +151 =134 - 44 +150 = 59 = 66 = 73 5.5 2204
83. Frank-Nielsen, Marie DEN 1913 - 8 +147 - 45 +185 - 58 +156 - 55 +153 +115 = 80 5.5 2164
84. Borg,Flemming DEN ---- - 47 +210 =109 - 85 =124 +115 +117 = 55 + 75 - 30 5.5 2125
85. Erice Alonso, Santiago ESP 2092 =193 +167 - 43 + 84 - 12 = 86 =120 +178 = 50 = 91 5.5 2092
86. Friesen,Bas NED ---- - 41 +179 = 53 = 55 =137 = 85 -101 +170 +110 = 71 5.5 2128
87. Rosenkilde, Alexander DEN 2017 - 14 +186 +182 = 49 - 42 +180 + 74 - 76 - 79 +134 5.5 2192
88. Molvig, Henrik DEN 2227 =126 =116 +118 - 69 -104 =158 +139 =110 +129 = 90 5.5 2031
89. Milligan, Helen wf SCO 2052 +210 - 32 +170 - 47 +176 = 57 = 59 - 30 =140 +147 5.5 2135
90. Henrichsen, Jens DEN 2075 +208 - 40 +160 = 59 = 57 -134 =176 +179 = 58 = 88 5.5 2174
91. Ertbjerg,Andreas Lund DEN ---- - 45 -206 +179 +205 - 48 - 55 +157 +155 +132 = 85 5.5 2096
92. Forsaa, Espen NOR 2040 +183 = 56 + 66 + 23 - 13 = 47 - 51 = 34 =100 - 54 5.0 2210
93. Soraas, Torben NOR 2102 +170 = 16 = 33 =134 - 21 +163 = 17 = 73 - 77 =114 5.0 2182
94. Madland,Kristoffer NOR ---- + 96 - 12 +129 = 42 = 79 - 52 + 98 - 77 =117 =104 5.0 2100
95. Skjoldan, Benjamin DEN 2147 +166 - 13 -158 +160 +141 +104 + 33 - 16 - 18 - 48 5.0 2146
96. Ferreiro, Manuel ESP 2064 - 94 +153 +140 - 45 +136 = 59 + 36 - 32 = 80 - 66 5.0 2115
97. Johansen, Johnny Holler DEN 1982 - 39 +172 = 36 = 80 - 37 +123 - 68 +171 +121 - 58 5.0 2119
98. Marder, Simon SWE 2043 +213 = 81 + 58 - 7 = 46 - 20 - 94 +143 +123 - 59 5.0 2147
99. Bekker-Jensen, Anne DEN 2008 - 3 +197 +184 - 54 = 76 +183 + 60 = 56 - 25 - 42 5.0 2149
100. Joensson, Krister SWE 2124 +174 = 26 - 8 =136 +142 -102 +118 =104 = 92 - 67 5.0 2094
101. Skovgaard, Tom DEN 2062 +203 - 19 +123 - 32 +158 - 45 + 86 = 50 - 74 =106 5.0 2083
102. Schmidt, Horst Hubert DEN 1955 - 22 +152 - 76 +148 +115 +100 - 47 - 61 - 54 +169 5.0 2122
103. Schmied, Andreas GER 2085 =119 +192 = 21 - 33 +159 - 31 =136 +163 = 59 - 44 5.0 2148
104. Mortensen, Henrik DEN 2023 - 9 +171 +206 - 30 + 88 - 95 +116 =100 - 60 = 94 5.0 2136
105. Andersen, Daniel DEN 2034 +200 + 76 - 22 - 51 +164 + 81 - 24 - 49 -113 +160 5.0 2130
106. Lovik, Lasse Ostebo NOR 1943 = 28 - 33 -157 =144 +170 +147 +137 = 80 - 35 =101 5.0 2109
107. Bering, Anders DEN 2055 +206 = 59 - 81 +119 - 36 =143 +152 = 58 - 37 =130 5.0 2087
108. Wurtz,Jacob DEN ---- = 21 =134 - 20 +199 = 62 - 76 =119 +182 - 52 +168 5.0 2114
109. Eriksson, Christian DEN 2065 +204 - 17 = 84 +167 - 49 +139 - 56 +154 - 34 =120 5.0 2039
110. Werner, Gert DEN 2047 +182 + 47 - 41 - 50 +123 - 80 =179 = 88 - 86 +151 5.0 2102
111. Nielsen, Morten DEN 2053 +207 - 24 =116 + 66 - 34 =153 -113 +151 +128 - 50 5.0 2073
112. Hansen, Henrik Damgaard DEN 1901 - 40 +194 = 37 - 35 +157 =121 - 64 =119 =162 +170 5.0 2063
113. Joensen,Helgi FAI ---- - 59 +203 = 35 - 71 +194 =137 +111 - 53 +105 - 68 5.0 2086
114. Thomassen, Joachim NOR 1984 - 15 =144 +166 - 36 +162 - 71 +138 - 75 +179 = 93 5.0 2089
115. Mathiesen, Erik DEN 2111 +173 - 22 +145 - 10 -102 - 84 +183 +161 - 83 +164 5.0 2045
116. Strand,Hakon NOR ---- = 79 = 88 =111 +121 - 35 =117 -104 -150 +158 +159 5.0 2048
117. Oe, Oluf DEN 2048 +195 = 66 - 56 = 58 =153 =116 - 84 +160 = 94 =131 5.0 2054
118. Abrahamsson, Daniel SWE 1983 - 27 +174 - 88 +186 +149 - 46 -100 +169 +133 - 52 5.0 2130
119. Pettersen,Joar G NOR ---- =103 +122 - 46 -107 -139 +126 =108 =112 +178 =133 5.0 2020
120. Larsen, Andreas NOR 1968 - 44 =199 +144 - 53 =166 +171 = 85 +132 - 55 =109 5.0 2087
121. Lauritsen, Martin Lee DEN 2085 +168 - 77 =139 -116 +182 =112 +127 - 17 - 97 +161 5.0 2026
122. Harstad, Christian NOR 2114 =157 -119 +156 -138 -143 +172 +167 +130 = 73 - 65 5.0 2000
123. Tofte,Sondre Waage NOR ---- - 34 +146 -101 +181 -110 - 97 +195 +125 - 98 +150 5.0 2029
124. Tandrup, Michael DEN 1995 - 6 =185 +193 - 34 = 84 =154 =169 =186 =145 +153 5.0 2013
125. Petersen, Nils DEN 2012 - 13 =166 =185 -153 +144 +151 - 81 -123 +191 +162 5.0 2073
126. Forsmann, Henning NOR 1803 = 88 - 79 +168 - 60 -180 -119 =188 +187 +157 +149 5.0 2059
127. Helin, Mikael SWE 1950 - 16 -170 +172 -152 +199 +166 -121 +194 +137 - 53 5.0 2065
128. Halvarsson,Peter GER ---- - 23 -190 +198 +173 - 61 +191 - 63 +152 -111 +171 5.0 2051
129. Pedersen, Bent O DEN 2040 +205 - 50 - 94 +140 -152 -176 +166 +156 - 88 +154 5.0 2007
130. Stangeland,Karle NOR ---- - 43 +198 - 49 =180 =193 =182 +148 -122 +186 =107 5.0 2064
131. Marcussen,Claus DEN ---- - 24 +207 = 60 - 79 -183 -168 +210 +184 +141 =117 5.0 2047
132. Vea, Odin Blikra NOR 2085 +175 + 18 - 6 = 21 = 59 = 77 - 76 -120 - 91 +186 4.5 2138
133. Peschardt, Soren DEN 2181 +143 - 48 +159 + 67 + 31 - 39 - 9 - 64 -118 =119 4.5 2094
134. Goriainov, Vladimir f RUS 2314 =178 =108 + 65 = 93 = 82 + 90 = 79 - 46 - 63 - 87 4.5 2013
135. Bryn, Thomas NOR 1989 - 4 +188 - 47 +147 - 80 +140 = 75 - 74 +139 - 81 4.5 2092
136. Rasmussen,Henning DEN ---- - 18 +175 = 34 =100 - 96 +193 =103 - 62 +180 - 78 4.5 2046
137. Hansen, Jesper DEN 2075 =167 +193 = 57 - 19 = 86 =113 -106 +180 -127 =145 4.5 1977
138. Andersen,Harry NOR ---- = 57 - 58 +192 +122 - 60 - 62 -114 +183 -142 +184 4.5 2029
139. Pedersen, Christopher DEN ---- - 32 +211 =121 - 75 +119 -109 - 88 +167 -135 +179 4.5 2031
140. Faggiani,Marco ITA ---- - 12 +201 - 96 -129 +190 -135 +193 +146 = 89 - 72 4.5 2002
141. Wiecker, Stefan DEN 1985 - 26 +148 - 18 +209 - 95 =169 -154 +174 -131 +180 4.5 2014
142. Nielsen, Carl-Otto DEN 1978 - 38 +202 - 51 +191 -100 +209 - 61 =147 +138 - 75 4.5 2058
143. Sjol,Henrik NOR ---- -133 -184 =204 +168 +122 =107 - 78 - 98 +175 =146 4.5 2011
144. Hansen,Norman Asger DEN ---- - 60 =114 -120 =106 -125 +198 -161 +195 =181 +178 4.5 1950
145. Ziska, Andrias FAI 1795 +214 - 30 -115 +206 - 64 - 66 =162 +185 =124 =137 4.5 2046
146. Jensen, Soren2 DEN 2031 - 7 -123 -152 -179 +208 +175 +191 -140 +166 =143 4.5 2025
147. Traustason,Ingi Tandri ISL ---- - 42 - 83 +200 -135 +213 -106 +181 =142 +165 - 89 4.5 1950
148. Jensen,Mads DEN ---- - 74 -141 +210 -102 +201 =159 -130 -165 +204 +181 4.5 1955
149. Munksgerd, Dennis DEN 2127 +188 - 4 +163 - 13 -118 +164 - 65 +158 - 67 -126 4.0 2008
150. Rasmussen, Jens DEN 1950 - 11 -173 +187 +174 - 52 +186 - 82 +116 - 68 -123 4.0 1993
151. Bergersen,Robert NOR ---- - 76 +200 = 63 - 82 = 66 -125 +173 -111 +172 -110 4.0 1988
152. Blikra,Per NOR ---- - 35 -102 +146 +127 +129 - 79 -107 -128 -161 +200 4.0 1944
153. Rasmussen,Bent DEN ---- - 49 - 96 +212 +125 =117 =111 - 67 - 83 +182 -124 4.0 1955
154. Kenyon, Scott ENG 1671 - 50 +205 - 64 - 68 +175 =124 +141 -109 =159 -129 4.0 1964
155. Nielsen, Jens Holm DEN 2062 +212 - 29 +196 - 18 +161 - 25 - 73 - 91 -171 +183 4.0 1988
156. Weber,John DEN ---- = 58 - 57 -122 +192 = 65 - 83 +187 -129 -168 +198 4.0 1971
157. Aagedal,Geir Ole NOR ---- =122 - 62 +106 - 63 -112 =195 - 91 +200 -126 +201 4.0 1914
158. Kleinjan, Pim NED 1927 - 29 +212 + 95 - 20 -101 = 88 =182 -149 -116 +190 4.0 2022
159. Overmark, Ole DEN 1937 - 31 +187 -133 +190 -103 =148 +168 - 60 =154 -116 4.0 1965
160. Lauritzson,Peter SWE ---- - 56 +183 - 90 - 95 +173 - 65 +190 -117 +194 -105 4.0 1977
161. Nielsen, Palle DEN 1893 - 19 +208 - 74 +175 -155 -179 +144 -115 +152 -121 4.0 1991
162. Nielsen, Martin Skovso DEN ---- - 46 -181 +195 = 65 -114 =192 =145 +197 =112 -125 4.0 1911
163. Van der Meer,Jeroem NED ---- - 51 +180 -149 =183 +167 - 93 +184 -103 - 72 =174 4.0 1983
164. Seidenfaden,Borge DEN ---- - 25 +215 + 68 - 74 -105 -149 =174 =168 +173 -115 4.0 2000
165. Moller, Arne DEN 1900 - 17 +204 - 54 -182 +174 =184 -180 +148 -147 =167 4.0 1968
166. Nielsen,Jorgen Kamp DEN ---- - 95 =125 -114 +204 =120 -127 -129 +193 -146 +194 4.0 1941
167. Haarr,Jon Kristan NOR ---- =137 - 85 +189 -109 -163 +185 -122 -139 +197 =165 4.0 1943
168. Jacobsen, Per DEN ---- -121 =189 -126 -143 +210 +131 -159 =164 +156 -108 4.0 1901
169. Eiholdt,Bjarne DEN ---- - 30 - 72 =194 =211 +203 =141 =124 -118 +192 -102 4.0 1940
170. Munkholm,Christoffer DEN ---- - 93 +127 - 89 -178 -106 +213 +196 - 86 +177 -112 4.0 1915
171. Drageberg,Rogvi FAI ---- - 54 -104 -180 +212 +187 -120 +200 - 97 +155 -128 4.0 1947
172. Christensen,Uffe S DEN ---- - 52 - 97 -127 +200 =181 -122 =177 +196 -151 +195 4.0 1944
173. Traerup,Jorgen DEN ---- -115 +150 - 72 -128 -160 +211 -151 +201 -164 +192 4.0 1937
174. Printzlau,Jacob DEN ---- -100 -118 +213 -150 -165 +206 =164 -141 +203 =163 4.0 1922
175. Jensen,Jonbert DEN ---- -132 -136 +177 -161 -154 -146 +213 +209 -143 +191 4.0 1896
176. Marshall,Michael O DEN ---- - 66 +195 - 61 +184 - 89 +129 = 90 . . . 3.5 2066
177. Lynge,Steffen J GRO ---- . -182 -175 +208 -179 =204 =172 +198 -170 =187 3.5 1920
178. Pedersen, Steen DEN 1930 =134 - 21 =199 +170 + 68 = 37 - 66 - 85 -119 -144 3.5 2003
179. Jensen,Paul Johan NOR ---- - 82 - 86 - 91 +146 +177 +161 =110 - 90 -114 -139 3.5 1902
180. Carlsen,Jasper DEN ---- - 69 -163 +171 =130 +126 - 87 +165 -137 -136 -141 3.5 1873
181. Fant, Goran SWE 2007 - 10 +162 - 28 -123 =172 =194 -147 +190 =144 -148 3.5 1978
182. Stangeland,Maren NOR ---- -110 +177 - 87 +165 -121 =130 =158 -108 -153 =197 3.5 1887
183. Lovik, Havard NOR ---- - 92 -160 +188 =163 +131 - 99 -115 -138 +185 -155 3.5 1912
184. Lode,Marius Skjefstad NOR ---- - 48 +143 - 99 -176 +189 =165 -163 -131 +196 -138 3.5 1875
185. Hansen,John Laurids DEN ---- - 37 =124 =125 - 83 =195 -167 +203 -145 -183 +205 3.5 1874
186. Zyde,Fadhal DEN ---- - 80 - 87 +203 -118 +211 -150 +192 =124 -130 -132 3.5 1909
187. Auchenberg,Ejnar DEN ---- - 75 -159 -150 +207 -171 +205 -156 -126 +210 =177 3.5 1869
188. Meijer,Yoram NED ---- -149 -135 -183 -195 +212 =203 =126 -192 =205 +206 3.5 1881
189. Lynge, Torben DEN 1913 - 77 =168 -167 -193 -184 -210 +205 -203 +207 +204 3.5 1919
190. Gerstoft,Phillip USA ---- - 71 +128 - 67 -159 -140 +207 -160 -181 +193 -158 3.0 1851
191. Christensen,Svend Ib DEN ---- - 53 - 65 +207 -142 +205 -128 -146 +211 -125 -175 3.0 1867
192. Einarsson,Einar Gunnar ISL ---- = 62 -103 -138 -156 +197 =162 -186 +188 -169 -173 3.0 1867
193. Stilou,Frank DEN ---- = 85 -137 -124 +189 =130 -136 -140 -166 -190 +210 3.0 1858
194. Marcussen,Johnni DEN ---- - 63 -112 =169 +197 -113 =181 +209 -127 -160 -166 3.0 1839
195. Skage,Oystein Aagedal NOR ---- -117 -176 -162 +188 =185 =157 -123 -144 +199 -172 3.0 1855
196. Dahl,Hans Christian NOR ---- - 81 +213 -155 +201 - 67 - 68 -170 -172 -184 +211 3.0 1888
197. Joensen,Hjalmar FAI ---- - 20 - 99 =211 -194 -192 +201 +204 -162 -167 =182 3.0 1866
198. Pedersen,Kaj Vinding DEN ---- - 68 -130 -128 =210 =204 -144 +207 -177 +211 -156 3.0 1861
199. Schonberg,Pauli DEN ---- - 61 =120 =178 -108 -127 -200 -211 +213 -195 +203 3.0 1846
200. Vesterli,Sten DEN ---- -105 -151 -147 -172 +216 +199 -171 -157 +208 -152 3.0 1854
201. Hein,Jacob DEN ---- - 70 -140 +216 -196 -148 -197 +212 -173 +202 -157 3.0 1851
202. Vesterli,Michael DEN ---- - 55 -142 -205 -203 -207 +208 =206 =210 -201 +212 3.0 1861
203. Jensen,Jan Erik DEN ---- -101 -113 -186 +202 -169 =188 -185 +189 -174 -199 2.5 1804
204. Snaehre,Stig Allan NOR ---- -109 -165 =143 -166 =198 =177 -197 +206 -148 -189 2.5 1794
205. Vea, Tormund Blikra NOR ---- -129 -154 +202 - 91 -191 -187 -189 +212 =188 -185 2.5 1769
206. Hansen,Ejlif Trier DEN ---- -107 + 91 -104 -145 -209 -174 =202 -204 +216 -188 2.5 1794
207. Lie,Terje NOR ---- -111 -131 -191 -187 +202 -190 -198 =208 -189 +216 2.5 1803
208. Edvarssson,Hannu Kalli SWE ---- - 90 -161 -209 -177 -146 -202 +216 =207 -200 +213 2.5 1806
209. Thomsen,Peter DEN ---- - 36 - 67 +208 -141 +206 -142 -194 -175 . . 2.0 1826
210. Zyde,Furat DEN ---- - 89 - 84 -148 =198 -168 +189 -131 =202 -187 -193 2.0 1756
211. Larsen,Alex DEN ---- - 78 -139 =197 =169 -186 -173 +199 -191 -198 -196 2.0 1765
212. Kotiranta,Vinni DEN ---- -155 -158 -153 -171 -188 +216 -201 -205 +213 -202 2.0 1758
213. Molvig, Julius DEN ---- - 98 -196 -174 +216 -147 -170 -175 -199 -212 -208 1.0 1638
214. Kirszenberg, Marc FRA 2224 -145 . . . . . . . . . 0.0
215. Stenstrup,Claus DEN ---- - 64 -164 . . . . . . . . 0.0
216. BYE ---- . . -201 -213 -200 -212 -208 . -206 -207 0.0
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The Ikaros Chess Festival took place 9th-22nd July 2005. Dmitry
Svetushkin finished with 8/9. News: Dimitris Skyrianoglou. I give the games
from last week again as I made errors with a couple of the players.
Official site: http://www.chess.gr/ikaros/
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Aegean Open Agios Kirykos GRE (GRE), 12-20 vii 2005
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1. Svetushkin, Dmitry g MDA 2514 8 53½
2. Nikolaidis, Ioannis g GRE 2522 7½ 57
3. Turov, Maxim g RUS 2527 7½ 55
4. Khurtsilava, Inga wm GEO 2281 7 54
5. Lekic, Dusan m SCG 2355 6½ 55
6. Koukoufikis, Alexandros GRE 2281 6½ 53½
7. Nikolaou, Georgios GRE 2288 6½ 53
8. Georgiadis, Ioannis GRE 2205 6½ 51
9. Margaritis, Fotios GRE 2190 6½ 50½
10. Klokas, Konstantinos GRE 2258 6½ 50
11. Panagiotopolous, Alexandros GRE 2137 6½ 48
12. Stiri, Alexandra GRE 2201 6½ 45
13. Zakarian, David ARM 2339 6 58½
14. Obodchuk, Andrei m RUS 2438 6 54½
15. Slavina, Irina m RUS 2391 6 53½
16. Exizoglou, Dimitrios GRE 2189 6 50
17. Simeonidis, Ioannis GRE 2246 6 48½
18. Sigalas, Frangiskos GRE 2248 6 47
19. Kouvatsos, Filippos GRE 2116 6 46½
20. Groh, Jiri CZE 2137 6 46½
21. Soukos, Konstantinos GRE 2137 6 46½
22. Parginos, Vassilios GRE 2149 6 46
23. Banisch, Anett GER 2103 6 46
24. Kakkanas, Evangelos GRE 2085 6 45
25. Draci, Robert ALB 2231 6 45
26. Poulos, Georgios GRE 2074 6 44
141 players
There was a match between Bulgaria and Turkey 19th-21st July 2005 in
Svilengrad (BUL) held as a part of the two countries preparation for the
upcoming European Team Chess Championship in Sweden. The main organisers were
the Mayor of Svilengrad and Mr. Trifon Todorov - President of chess club
Svilengrad 2004. Each team consisted of 5 men and 4 women. The time limit was
90 min. for 40 moves and then 15 min. for the rest of the game with additional
30 sec. per move starting from move 1. The first round was won by Bulgarian
Team with 5-4 after a very hard fight. The women drew and Bulgarian men won
3-2. The second round was won by Bulgarian team with 6-3: the women drew again
and Bulgarian men won with 4-1 giving the final result of 11-7. News: Milen
Petrov.
Official site: http://www.bulgaria-turkey.chessbg.com
Round 1 (July 20, 2005)
Georgiev, Kiril BUL - TUR Atakisi, Umut 1/2 34 B19 Caro Kann
Haznedaroglu, Kivanc TUR - BUL Spasov, Vasil 1/2 44 B30 Sicilian Rossolimo
Rusev, Krasimir BUL - TUR Erdogdu, Mert 1-0 26 E73 King's Indian Averbakh
Erturan, Yakup TUR - BUL Andonov, Bogomil 1-0 41 B54 Sicilian Rauzer
Karakehajov, Kalin BUL - TUR Esen, Baris 1-0 68 D02 Queen's Pawn Game
Yildiz, Betul Cemre TUR - BUL Voiska, Margarita 1-0 53 D05 Colle System
Velcheva, Maria BUL - TUR Topel, Zehra 1-0 57 B56 Sicilian Defence
Cinar Corlulu, Nilufer TUR - BUL Genova, Liubka 0-1 46 B43 Sicilian Paulsen
Shtereva, Slaveja BUL - TUR Bayrak, Asli 0-1 40 D06 Queen's Pawn Gambit
Bulgaria 5 - Turkey 4
Round 2 (July 21, 2005)
Atakisi, Umut TUR - BUL Georgiev, Kiril 0-1 79 C48 Four Knights Rubinstein
Spasov, Vasil BUL - TUR Haznedaroglu, Kivanc 1/2 15 C45 Scotch Game
Erdogdu, Mert TUR - BUL Rusev, Krasimir 1/2 20 B63 Sicilian Rauzer
Andonov, Bogomil BUL - TUR Erturan, Yakup 1-0 44 B39 Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Esen, Baris TUR - BUL Karakehajov, Kalin 0-1 45 D46 Semi-Slav Defence
Voiska, Margarita BUL - TUR Yildiz, Betul Cemre 1/2 39 A13 Reti Opening
Topel, Zehra TUR - BUL Velcheva, Maria 0-1 46 A28 English Four Knights
Genova, Liubka BUL - TUR Cinar Corlulu, Nilufer 1/2 20 A08 Barcza System
Bayrak, Asli TUR - BUL Shtereva, Slaveja 1-0 21 B25 Sicilian Closed
Turkey 3 - Bulgaria 6
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BUL-TUR Friendly Match Svilengrad BUL (BUL), 20-21 vii 2005
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Bulgaria
1. Karakehajov, Kalin BUL 2385 +16 +16 2.0
2. Velcheva, Maria wg BUL 2274 +18 +18 2.0
3. Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2666 =15 +15 1.5 2630
4. Genova, Liubka wm BUL 2235 +12 =12 1.5 2231
5. Rusev, Krasimir BUL 2426 +13 =13 1.5 2596
6. Andonov, Bogomil m BUL 2418 -11 +11 1.0 2311
7. Spasov, Vasil g BUL 2551 = 9 = 9 1.0 2430
8. Voiska, Margarita wg BUL 2328 - 7 = 7 0.5 1962
9. Shtereva, Slaveja BUL 2118 - 1 - 1 0.0
11.0
Turkey
1. Bayrak, Asli wf TUR 1967 +17 +17 2.0
2. Yildiz, Betul Cemre wm TUR 2155 +14 =14 1.5 2521
3. Haznedaroglu, Kivanc m TUR 2430 =10 =10 1.0 2551
4. Erturan, Yakup f TUR 2311 + 8 - 8 1.0 2418
5. Cinar Corlulu, Nilufer wm TUR 2038 - 5 = 5 0.5 2042
6. Erdogdu, Mert m TUR 2403 - 6 = 6 0.5 2233
7. Atakisi, Umut m TUR 2437 = 4 - 4 0.5 2473
8. Esen, Baris TUR 2301 - 2 - 2 0.0
9. Topel, Zehra wf TUR 2081 - 3 - 3 0.0
7.0
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The Mercosur Cup - 100 years of Vicente Lopez County. takes place July
14th-25th, 2005. The computer program Shredder 9 leads by two points with a
round to go. News Roberto Alvarez.
Official site: http://www.ajedrezmartelli.org.ar
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Mercosur Cup Vicente Lopez ARG (ARG), 14-25 vii 2005 cat. VII (2415)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
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1. SHREDDER ---- * 0 = 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 7.5
2. Lafuente, Pablo m ARG 2435 1 * = . = 1 = = = 1 0 5.5
3. Valerga, Diego m ARG 2499 = = * = = 0 1 1 = . = 5.0
4. Rodriguez, Andres g URU 2523 0 . = * 0 1 = 1 = = 1 5.0
5. Fernandez, Daniel f USA 2406 0 = = 1 * = 0 . = = 1 4.5
6. Alonso, Salvador m ARG 2457 0 0 1 0 = * 1 0 0 1 1 4.5
7. Mieles Palau, Daniel m ECU 2476 0 = 0 = 1 0 * = 1 = . 4.0
8. Garcia Palermo, Carlos g ARG 2467 0 = 0 0 . 1 = * 1 0 1 4.0
9. Scarella, Enrique m ARG 2367 . = = = = 1 0 0 * = 0 3.5
10. Slipak, Sergio g ARG 2489 0 0 . = = 0 = 1 = * = 3.5
11. Cubas, Jose Fernando m PAR 2451 0 1 = 0 0 0 . 0 1 = * 3.0
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The Maccabiah games took place in Jerusalem, July 10th-20th 2005. An
Invitational Tournament (over 2500 Elo Rating) included GM Smirin Ilia, GM
Najer Evgeniy, GM Felgaer Ruben. The Category 15 event saw Evgeniy Najer take
the gold medal Ilia Smirin the Silver after the finished joint first on 3.5/5.
It seems they drew lots for the medals. I got games from the wrong event last
week this finished with Yaacov Zilberman winning with 8/9. Quite a few games
missing from this event.
Official site including live coverage:
http://www.maccabiah-chess.co.il
Maccabiah Super Jerusalem ISR (ISR), 10-17 vii 2005cat. XIV (2576)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2614 * = = 1 1 = 3.5 2717
2 Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2652 = * = 1 1 = 3.5 2710
3 Lerner, Konstantin Z g UKR 2524 = = * = = = 2.5 2586
4 Felgaer, Ruben g ARG 2618 0 0 = * = 1 2.0 2496
5 Kantsler, Boris g ISR 2501 0 0 = = * 1 2.0 2519
6 Greenfeld, Alon g ISR 2549 = = = 0 0 * 1.5 2432
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Maccabiah GM Jerusalem ISR (ISR), 10-20 vii 2005 cat. IV (2346)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Zilberman, Yaacov g ISR 2442 * 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 2685
2. Porat, Shi m ISR 2416 0 * 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 2557
3. Szuhanek, Ranko m ROM 2444 = 0 * = 1 1 = 1 1 1 6.5 2500
4. Grunberg, Mihai-Lucian m ROM 2418 0 1 = * = = = 1 1 1 6.0 2462
5. Fichmanas, Ricardas LTU 2306 = 0 0 = * = = 0 1 1 4.0 2307
6. Braslavskij, Alex UKR 2315 0 0 0 = = * = 1 1 = 4.0 2306
7. Igla, Bella wg ISR 2299 0 0 = = = = * = 0 1 3.5 2270
8. Drori, Dan ISR 2242 0 0 0 0 1 0 = * 0 1 2.5 2191
9. Axelrod, Arie ISR 2234 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 * = 2.5 2192
10. Gershkowich, David ISR 2340 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = * 1.0 1995
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There were two major tournaments in Benasque 6th-15th July 2005. The
first was a 25th Anniversary Champions trophy which saw Alexksandar Delchev and
Elizbar Ubilava finish on 6/9 (reported last week). The other was an open which
was won by Krishnan Sasikiran with a massive 9/10. No games available.
Official site: http://www.turismobenasque.com/spain/ajedrez/
Final Round 10 Standings
1 Sasikiran, Krishnan (1) gm IND 2652 9 51.0 62.5 55.0
2 Oratovsky, Michael (11) gm ISR 2529 8.5 47.0 66.5 56.0
3-5 Kovchan, Alexander (15) gm UKR 2508 8 47.5 69.5 58.0
Roiz, Michael (2) gm ISR 2593 8 46.5 69.5 58.0
Babaev, Rashad (30) im AZE 2449 8 45.5 63.5 54.0
6-21 Neelotpal, Das (25) im IND 2467 7.5 47.5 68.0 57.5
Mamedov, Nidjat (26) im AZE 2463 7.5 47.0 66.5 57.5
Herraiz Hidalgo, Herminio (23) im ESP 2471 7.5 46.0 63.5 53.0
Jansa, Vlastimil (13) gm CZE 2511 7.5 45.0 66.0 57.0
Hracek, Zbynek (3) gm CZE 2591 7.5 45.0 65.5 54.5
Collas, Didier (37) im FRA 2425 7.5 44.5 66.0 55.5
Golod, Vitali (5) gm ISR 2582 7.5 44.5 65.5 55.0
Baklan, Vladimir (4) gm UKR 2584 7.5 44.0 67.5 56.0
Al Sayed, Mohamad (21) im QAT 2478 7.5 43.5 65.5 55.0
Burmakin, Vladimir (6) gm RUS 2558 7.5 43.5 61.5 52.0
Fernandez Garcia, Jose Luis (27) gm ESP 2456 7.5 43.5 61.0 52.5
Csiszar, Csaba (42) im HUN 2412 7.5 43.0 63.0 54.0
Castellanos Rodriguez, Renier (32) im CHI 2442 7.5 42.0 61.5 52.0
Rizouk, Aimen (20) im ALG 2482 7.5 41.0 61.0 52.5
Barrientos Chavarriada, Sergio (34) fm COL 2433 7.5 40.5 60.0 50.5
Escobar Forero, Alder (40) im COL 2416 7.5 39.5 56.0 47.0
22-44 Farago, Ivan (17) gm HUN 2499 7 47.0 69.0 57.0
Horvath, Peter (39) im HUN 2420 7 45.5 65.5 57.0
Mateo, Ramon (33) im DOM 2434 7 43.0 66.5 57.5
Roeder, Mathias (43) im GER 2393 7 43.0 65.0 55.0
Barria Zuñiga, Daniel (44) im CHI 2392 7 42.5 61.0 52.0
Cuenca Jimenez, Jose (54) fm ESP 2351 7 41.5 62.5 53.5
Kurajica, Bojan (9) gm BIH 2537 7 41.5 62.0 52.0
Matnadze, Ana (46) wgm GEO 2389 7 41.5 58.5 50.0
Zagrebelny, Sergey (14) gm UZB 2510 7 41.0 61.5 50.5
Martin Gonzalez, Angel (51) im ESP 2356 7 40.0 60.0 50.5
Lalic, Bogdan (19) gm ENG 2491 7 39.5 58.5 50.0
Sanz Arilla, Luis (82) ESP 2253 7 39.0 61.0 51.5
Baches Garcia, Guillermo (52) im ESP 2355 7 39.0 60.0 51.0
Garcia Martinez, Silvino (59) gm CUB 2337 7 39.0 59.0 50.0
Hernandez Onna, Roman (49) gm CUB 2373 7 38.5 59.5 49.5
Gonzalez Garcia, Jose (22) im MEX 2478 7 38.5 59.0 51.0
Baquero Neira, Luis A. (75) COL 2301 7 38.5 59.0 49.5
Hess, Christian (76) fm DEN 2298 7 38.5 57.5 48.5
Benet Catala, Antonio (87) ESP 2245 7 38.0 58.0 49.0
Peredy, Ferenc (62) im HUN 2332 7 38.0 58.0 48.5
Alvarado, Nelson (64) fm DOM 2324 7 38.0 58.0 48.0
Gavilan Diaz, Mario (131) ESP 2144 7 36.0 53.5 46.5
Jaracz, Barbara (83) wim POL 2251 7 35.5 55.5 46.0
408 players
The Championship of Paris took place 9th-17th July 2005. Alberto David
won on tie-break from Artur Kogan both finished on 7/9. Vijayalakshmi
Subbaraman made a GM norm.
Official site: http://www.idf-echecs.com/
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ch-Paris Open Paris FRA (FRA), 9-17 vii 2005
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1. David, Alberto g LUX 2579 7 51,5 2722
2. Kogan, Artur g ISR 2580 7 51 2728
3. Kazhgaleyev, Murtas g KAZ 2619 6,5 50,5 2622
4. Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman m IND 2414 6,5 49,5 2655
5. Gouliev, Namig m AZE 2555 6 53 2644
6. Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2627 6 52,5 2605
7. Sadvakasov, Darmen g KAZ 2610 6 51,5 2617
8. Landa, Konstantin g RUS 2609 6 50,5 2585
9. Yakovich, Yuri g RUS 2560 6 49 2570
10. Malakhatko, Vadim g UKR 2556 6 48,5 2568
11. Moradiabadi, Elshan g IRI 2485 6 47,5 2604
12. Drasko, Milan g SCG 2516 6 47 2568
13. Bagheri, Amir g FRA 2537 6 46,5 2560
14. Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan g IRI 2603 6 46 2520
15. Kengis, Edvins g LAT 2534 6 45,5 2548
16. Perez, Rodney m CUB 2442 6 44 2560
17. Tregubov, Pavel V g RUS 2607 5,5 50 2533
18. Apicella, Manuel g FRA 2553 5,5 46 2488
19. Sher, Miron N g USA 2420 5,5 45,5 2507
20. Sriram, Jha m IND 2437 5,5 45,5 2485
21. Meinhardt, Maximilian f GER 2324 5,5 43,5 2540
22. Paredes Galan, Angel f ESP 2334 5,5 43,5 2507
23. Shchekachev, Andrei g RUS 2570 5,5 43 2442
24. Hess, Robert L USA 2278 5,5 41,5 2458
25. Garcia Castro, Pablo f ESP 2377 5,5 40,5 2443
90 players
The Viking GM tournament took place 7th-17th July 2005 in St.Petersburg.
Four players finished on 6.5/10 with Michail Brodsky having the best
tie-break.
Official site: http://www.chigorin.ru
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Viking GM St Petersburg RUS (RUS), 7-17 vii 2005 cat. IX (2469)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
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1. Brodsky, Michail g UKR 2554 * 1 = = = = = = = 1 1 6.5 2570
2. Deviatkin, Andrei m RUS 2521 0 * = 1 = = 1 1 1 1 0 6.5 2573
3. Zakharevich, Igor g RUS 2499 = = * = = = 1 1 = = 1 6.5 2576
4. Yevseev, Denis g RUS 2537 = 0 = * 1 = = 1 1 1 = 6.5 2572
5. Sarakauskas, Gediminas m LTU 2427 = = = 0 * 1 = = = 1 = 5.5 2509
6. Solovjov, Sergey I m RUS 2496 = = = = 0 * 0 = = 1 1 5.0 2466
7. Klimov, Sergey m RUS 2475 = 0 0 = = 1 * 0 = 1 = 4.5 2432
8. Krapivin, Alexander m RUS 2451 = 0 0 0 = = 1 * = 0 1 4.0 2398
9. Payen, Arnaud m FRA 2417 = 0 = 0 = = = = * 0 = 3.5 2364
10. Smirnov, Artem m RUS 2405 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 1 1 * 1 3.5 2365
11. Bets, Anatolij m MDA 2377 0 1 0 = = 0 = 0 = 0 * 3.0 2329
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The 7th Saint-Lo Festival saw an IM event 8th-16th July 2005. Nikolai
Ninov won the event with 7/9.
Official site: http://www.echecsaglo.fr/festival2005.htm
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7th Festival IM Saint Lo FRA (FRA), 8-16 vii 2005 cat. V (2364)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Ninov, Nikolai m BUL 2493 * = 1 1 1 0 1 1 = 1 7.0 2569
2. Shalamberidze, Akaki m GEO 2419 = * 1 = = 1 = 1 1 = 6.5 2524
3. Cossin, Sebastien f FRA 2391 0 0 * 1 1 1 = = = 1 5.5 2441
4. Saric, Ivan CRO 2284 0 = 0 * 1 1 1 = = 1 5.5 2453
5. Vepkhvishvili, Varlam f GEO 2401 0 = 0 0 * 1 0 1 1 1 4.5 2360
6. Poley, Vladimir m BLR 2397 1 0 0 0 0 * 1 = = 1 4.0 2317
7. Mullon, Jean-Baptiste f FRA 2367 0 = = 0 1 0 * 0 1 1 4.0 2320
8. Coursaget, Nicolas f FRA 2358 0 0 = = 0 = 1 * = 1 4.0 2321
9. Feller, Sebastien FRA 2282 = 0 = = 0 = 0 = * 1 3.5 2293
10. Daurelle, Herve FRA 2249 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 0.5 1932
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The Barbera del Valles Open took place 4th-12th July 2005. Arkadij
Rotstein edged out Marc Narciso Dublan on tie-break, both finished on 7/9.
Official site: http://www.ajedreznd.com/2005/BARBERA.html
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Open Barbera del Valles ESP (ESP), 4-12 vii 2005
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1. Rotstein, Arkadij g GER 2520 7 43.0 39.5 51.5
2. Narciso Dublan, Marc g ESP 2476 7 42.5 37.0 49.5
3. Borges Mateos, Juan g CUB 2467 6 43.0 34.0 52.0
4. Moskalenko, Viktor g UKR 2534 6 42.0 33.5 48.0
5. Mirzoev, Azer g AZE 2550 6 41.5 31.5 50.0
6. Garcia Roman, Daniel ESP 2390 6 41.0 30.5 47.5
7. Gonzalez, Yuri m CUB 2495 6 40.5 32.5 49.0
8. De la Paz, Frank g CUB 2464 6 40.0 32.0 48.5
9. Janev, Evgeni g BUL 2460 6 37.0 30.0 45.5
10. Almeida, Omar m CUB 2462 6 34.5 27.5 41.0
11. Del Rio Angelis, Salvador G g ESP 2470 5.5 40.0 30.0 48.5
12. Alonso Moyano, Jonathan m ESP 2406 5.5 37.0 29.5 46.0
13. Bromann, Thorbjorn f DEN 2376 5.5 36.0 26.0 43.5
14. Panelo, Marcelo ARG 2404 5.5 34.0 27.0 41.0
15. Vehi Bach, Victor M m ESP 2404 5.5 33.0 26.0 39.0
16. Parligras, Mircea g ROM 2571 5.5 33.0 24.0 40.0
17. Gomez Jurado, Luis Alberto ESP 2292 5.5 32.0 23.5 38.0
18. Vilela, Jose Luis m CUB 2394 5 40.0 30.0 47.5
19. Pablo Marin, Alejandro f ESP 2424 5 39.0 29.5 46.0
20. Kurmann, Oliver f SUI 2293 5 36.5 25.0 40.5
21. Moor, Olivier f SUI 2374 5 35.5 28.0 42.5
22. Hernandez Casillas, Joan J ESP 2200 5 34.0 21.5 41.0
23. Rios, Alejandro m COL 2282 4.5 37.5 25.0 41.5
24. Dubreuil, Julien FRA 2210 4.5 36.0 22.5 42.5
25. Simon Padros, Emili f ESP 2287 4.5 35.0 24.5 43.0
26. Madeira, Wagner Martins BRA 2264 4.5 34.5 23.5 40.5
27. Paaske, Asger DEN 2171 4.5 33.5 20.0 38.5
28. Carstensen, Jacob f DEN 2324 4.5 33.0 24.5 39.0
29. Perpinya Rofes, Lluis Maria f ESP 2381 4.5 33.0 21.0 39.5
30. Ravot, Sylvain FRA 2265 4.5 32.0 22.5 38.0
31. Asensio Linan, Teodoro ESP 2228 4.5 32.0 21.0 36.0
32. Santos Ramos, Carles ESP 2061 4.5 31.0 20.0 37.0
33. Fabregas Fernandez, Bernat ESP 2221 4.5 28.5 15.0 34.5
54 players
The Open A in Chojnice (Poland) took place 16th-22nd July 2005.
Vladimir Malaniuk edged out Lukasz Cyborowski on tie-break after both madde
8/9.
Official site:
http://www.szachy.lo.pl/Turnieje/2005/chojnice05/chojnice05.htm
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Open A Chojnice POL (POL), 16-22 vii 2005
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1. Malaniuk, Vladimir P g UKR 2513 +11 +20 +14 = 2 = 3 + 4 + 9 + 5 +12 8.0 2603
2. Cyborowski, Lukasz g POL 2537 + 9 +18 +12 = 1 +17 = 3 + 4 +14 + 7 8.0 2613
3. Shishkin, Vadim UKR m UKR 2507 +13 + 6 +17 = 4 = 1 = 2 +12 +11 +14 7.5 2504
4. Kuzmicz, Krystian f POL 2357 = 8 +15 + 5 = 3 + 9 - 1 - 2 +17 +13 6.0 2369
5. Zolnierowicz, Krzysztof m POL 2276 =22 + 7 - 4 +21 +15 -12 + 6 - 1 +11 5.5 2223
6. Krasiewicz, Robert POL 2009 +26 - 3 +25 -17 +16 =18 - 5 +23 +15 5.5 2220
7. Bugajski, Robert f POL 2218 -15 - 5 +13 +23 -11 +22 + 8 + 9 - 2 5.0 2165
8. Wypych, Dominik POL 2041 = 4 =22 =21 +16 =10 -17 - 7 +31 +18 5.0 2114
9. Hasinski, Krystian POL 2098 - 2 +24 +22 +12 - 4 +10 - 1 - 7 +31 5.0 2239
10. Klicki,Wojciech POL ---- -18 +31 +20 =14 = 8 - 9 -13 +24 +17 5.0 2117
11. Michalska, Maria POL 2076 - 1 +19 -15 +22 + 7 =14 +18 - 3 - 5 4.5 2201
12. Myzyk, Jan POL 2203 +24 +23 - 2 - 9 +20 + 5 - 3 =15 - 1 4.5 2214
13. Czarnik, Josef GER 2070 - 3 =16 - 7 +25 +21 =15 +10 =18 - 4 4.5 2108
14. Jaroch, Pawel POL 2158 +19 +25 - 1 =10 =18 =11 +17 - 2 - 3 4.5 2215
15. Szybowicz, Piotr POL 1993 + 7 - 4 +11 =18 - 5 =13 +31 =12 - 6 4.5 2150
16. Jacek, Krystian POL 1835 -17 =13 +24 - 8 - 6 +31 =23 =19 +22 4.5 2025
17. Olszewski, Marek POL 2161 +16 +21 - 3 + 6 - 2 + 8 -14 - 4 -10 4.0 2108
18. Gasik, Adam POL 2148 +10 - 2 +23 =15 =14 = 6 -11 =13 - 8 4.0 2056
19. Starzynski,Waldemar POL ---- -14 -11 +31 -20 =24 =21 =25 =16 +23 4.0 1956
20. Siewert, Roman POL 2063 +29 - 1 -10 +19 -12 -23 +24 -21 +25 4.0 2066
21. Smykowski, Mateusz POL 1919 +27 -17 = 8 - 5 -13 =19 -22 +20 =24 3.5 1999
22. Wierzbicki, Slawomir POL 2002 = 5 = 8 - 9 -11 +31 - 7 +21 =25 -16 3.5 1971
23. Romanowski, Filip POL 2007 +30 -12 -18 - 7 +25 +20 =16 - 6 -19 3.5 2008
24. Hajnrych, Jakub POL 1935 -12 - 9 -16 +31 =19 +25 -20 -10 =21 3.0 1888
25. Theuss,Tomasz POL ---- +28 -14 - 6 -13 -23 -24 =19 =22 -20 2.0 1819
26. Nester, Igor f UKR 2336 - 6 . . . . . . . . 0.0
27. Paszek, Krzysztof POL 2168 -21 . . . . . . . . 0.0
28. Rymskyy, Aleksander UKR 2109 -25 . . . . . . . . 0.0
29. Stets, Dmitry m UKR 2412 -20 . . . . . . . . 0.0
30. Szymczak, Zbigniew m POL 2323 -23 . . . . . . . . 0.0
31. BYE ---- . -10 -19 -24 -22 -16 -15 - 8 - 9 0.0
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The Costa Rican National Chess Championships took place 2nd-18th July
2005. Bernal Gonzalez Acosta won the event with 11/13.
Daily coverage: http://www.tablerotico.com
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LXVIII ch-CRC San Jose Julio CRC (CRC), 2-18 vii 2005
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
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1. Gonzalez, Bernal m CRC 2405 * = 1 = 1 1 1 1 = = 1 1 1 1 11.0 2490
2. Valdes, Leonardo m CRC 2362 = * = = 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10.5 2448
3. Hernandez Basante, Francisco m CRC 2265 0 = * = = 1 1 = = 1 1 = 1 1 9.0 2346
4. Minero Pineda, Sergio m CRC 2440 = = = * 0 1 1 = = 1 1 0 1 1 8.5 2301
5. Granados, Carlos CRC 2225 0 0 = 1 * = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 8.5 2318
6. Murillo, Alexis m CRC 2362 0 0 0 0 = * 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 7.5 2254
7. Bermudez, Sergio f CRC 2223 0 1 0 0 = 0 * = 1 0 1 1 1 1 7.0 2237
8. Arias Santana, Mauricio f CRC 2238 0 0 = = = 0 = * = 1 1 1 = 1 7.0 2236
9. Arias, Rodolfo CRC 2173 = 0 = = = 1 0 = * 0 = = 1 = 6.0 2183
10. Ugalde, Ronald CRC 2174 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 * 0 1 1 1 5.5 2155
11. Leandro, Johnny CRC 2133 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 * 1 1 1 4.5 2105
12. Castro Madrigal,Randall CRC ---- 0 0 = 1 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 * 0 0 2.0 1929
13. Alfaro, Carlos CRC 1931 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 1 * = 2.0 1934
14. Ruiz Blais,Sebastian CRC ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 1 = * 2.0 1929
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Sami Hämäläinen reports: The 15th Heart of Finland Open
2005 Jubileum tournament was played in Jyväskylä, Finland, on July
18th-24th. The event was won by Estonian grandmaster Mihail Rytshagov with a
score of 8,5/10. Another undefeated player was the rating favourite Russian
grandmaster Vladimir Belov, who took the second place half a point behind the
winner. Finnish international master Sampsa Nyysti took the bronze medal with
7,5/10. He also made his second grandmaster norm. Along with Nyysti the
grandmasters Popov, Solozhenkin, Nybäck and Külaots ended up with 7,5
points. WFM Manuela Schmitz won the women's group with the result of 6/10.
There were 146 players from 10 countries. One interesting thing was that this
was probably the first time in chess history when the top boards of each round
were broadcast live to mobile phones. Games will follow.
Official coverage: http://www.shakki.net
Pairings, results, and final crosstable:
http://www.shakki.net/turnaukset/hof05/en/tulokset/
Leading Final Standings:
1. Rytshagov Mihail GM EST 8.5 66.00 54.50
2. Belov Vladimir GM RUS 8.0 67.50 52.25
3. Nyysti Sampsa IM FIN 7.5 66.00 47.25
4. Popov Valerij GM RUS 7.5 66.00 47.00
5. Solozhenkin Evgeniy GM RUS 7.5 64.50 46.50
6. Nybäck Tomi GM FIN 7.5 64.00 40.25
7. Kulaots Kaido GM EST 7.5 63.50 45.25
8. Kanep Meelis IM EST 7.0 65.50 43.25
9. Yemelin Vasily GM RUS 7.0 63.00 42.50
10. Kiss Pal IM HUN 7.0 63.00 42.00
11. Lugovoi Aleksei GM RUS 7.0 62.50 39.50
12. Seeman Tarvo IM EST 7.0 61.50 41.00
13. Rantanen Yrjö GM FIN 7.0 59.00 39.25
14. Nouro Mikael IM FIN 7.0 59.00 37.75
15. Goloshchapov Alexand GM UKR 6.5 67.00 41.00
16. Yrjölä Jouni GM FIN 6.5 60.50 37.25
17. Agopov Mikael IM FIN 6.5 58.50 35.25
18. Sisättö Olli FIN 6.5 58.00 36.50
19. Djuric Stefan GM SCG 6.5 58.00 35.50
20. Tiitta Sauli FIN 6.5 58.00 32.00
21. Bator Robert IM SWE 6.5 57.50 37.00
22. Franssila Tommi FIN 6.5 57.00 32.50
23. Norri Joose IM FIN 6.5 54.00 33.50
24. Niemi Kalle FIN 6.5 49.50 31.50
146 players
The Klatovy open 2005 took place in the Czech Republic 2nd-10th July
2005. Radoslav Dolezal won the A-open.
Official site: http://www.unileasing.cz/~lnovy/sachy/
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Open A Klatovy CZE (CZE), 2-12 vii 2005
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1. Dolezal, Radoslav1 CZE 2390 +50 +20 - 6 +34 +11 +10 = 3 + 7 = 2 7.0 2403
2. Volak, Michal CZE 2175 +19 =41 +38 +35 =10 + 6 = 7 + 3 = 1 7.0 2410
3. Lacina, Adolf f CZE 2244 +29 +39 +42 + 4 + 8 = 7 = 1 - 2 =10 6.5 2379
4. Turner, Jan CZE 2346 +37 = 9 +46 - 3 +20 =18 +13 +15 = 8 6.5 2323
5. Kaderabek, Jiri CZE 2149 +25 =21 +16 + 9 - 7 +14 =15 =10 =13 6.0 2269
6. Vedral, Oldrich CZE 2252 +26 +27 + 1 = 8 =22 - 2 = 9 =20 +24 6.0 2282
7. Palek, Miroslav GER 2282 +34 +45 =10 +14 + 5 = 3 = 2 - 1 = 9 6.0 2310
8. Stross, Frantisek CZE 2272 +30 +24 +18 = 6 - 3 = 9 =11 +22 = 4 6.0 2297
9. Sott, Pavel CZE 2102 +64 = 4 +33 - 5 +12 = 8 = 6 +23 = 7 6.0 2322
10. Trmal, Jaroslav CZE 2293 +59 +48 = 7 +36 = 2 - 1 +18 = 5 = 3 6.0 2304
11. Sodoma, Jan CZE 2243 -16 +40 +31 +39 - 1 +35 = 8 =21 +27 6.0 2219
12. Vybiral, Zdenek CZE 2206 +40 =16 +47 -22 - 9 +31 =27 +37 +21 6.0 2155
13. Folkova, Martina CZE 2149 -21 +25 =50 +59 +47 +32 - 4 +26 = 5 6.0 2214
14. Smid, Miroslav CZE 2215 +72 =51 +21 - 7 +16 - 5 +45 +32 =15 6.0 2223
15. Tupy, Martin CZE 2248 -42 +65 +27 +17 =18 +22 = 5 - 4 =14 5.5 2213
16. Vevera, Radek CZE 1966 +11 =12 - 5 +49 -14 +38 -24 +35 +32 5.5 2242
17. Snaidr, Jiri CZE 2069 =52 =44 +19 -15 =34 =41 =25 +33 +40 5.5 2103
18. Pekarek, Petr CZE 2127 +61 +67 - 8 +42 =15 = 4 -10 =24 +34 5.5 2219
19. Peniska, Pavel CZE 2044 - 2 +62 -17 +68 +39 +37 -32 +28 =20 5.5 2184
20. Stluka, Frantisek CZE 2121 +73 - 1 +37 =23 - 4 +30 +33 = 6 =19 5.5 2213
21. Cekan,Petr CZE ---- +13 = 5 -14 =38 +54 =45 +48 =11 -12 5.0 2191
22. Pirklova, Hana CZE 2121 +66 =33 +51 +12 = 6 -15 =23 - 8 =25 5.0 2188
23. Folk, Petr CZE 2246 =55 +56 -35 =20 +42 +29 =22 - 9 =26 5.0 2097
24. Hasek, Vaclav CZE 2117 +69 - 8 =59 +26 -32 +47 +16 =18 - 6 5.0 2127
25. Forman, Miroslav CZE 2048 - 5 -13 +64 =53 =48 +43 =17 +36 =22 5.0 2134
26. Danek,Vaclav CZE ---- - 6 =58 +52 -24 +51 +49 +35 -13 =23 5.0 2151
27. Hlavacek, Karel CZE 2121 +63 - 6 -15 =56 +52 +53 =12 +44 -11 5.0 2116
28. Ptacnik, Stanislav CZE 2136 -33 +66 =30 =41 =45 +55 =34 -19 +50 5.0 2071
29. Foukal, Frantisek CZE 2077 - 3 =68 =44 +58 +60 -23 =36 =46 +47 5.0 2161
30. Cecil,Pavel CZE ---- - 8 +69 =28 -32 +63 -20 =43 +57 +46 5.0 2116
31. Rmoutil, Martin CZE 2005 =70 =43 -11 +69 =41 -12 =55 +60 +44 5.0 2094
32. Kuba, Stanislav f CZE 2243 +65 -42 =45 +30 +24 -13 +19 -14 -16 4.5 2067
33. Svoboda,Vaclav CZE ---- +28 =22 - 9 =46 +50 =36 -20 -17 +59 4.5 2096
34. Novak, Jaromir CZE 2035 - 7 +53 +48 - 1 =17 +46 =28 =47 -18 4.5 2149
35. Krivanek, Vladimir CZE 2078 =43 +57 +23 - 2 +36 -11 -26 -16 +63 4.5 2070
36. Grill, Roman CZE 2167 =56 +55 +41 -10 -35 =33 =29 -25 +58 4.5 2076
37. Boleslav, Petr CZE 1991 - 4 +64 -20 +71 +44 -19 +41 -12 =49 4.5 2099
38. Novy, Vaclav CZE 2088 =57 +70 - 2 =21 =43 -16 =63 =42 +61 4.5 1988
39. Paldus, Petr CZE 2077 +58 - 3 +67 -11 -19 +69 -44 =41 +55 4.5 2073
40. Kellner, Petr CZE 1943 -12 -11 =73 +70 -53 +52 +49 +45 -17 4.5 2061
41. Framberk, Jan CZE 2042 +62 = 2 -36 =28 =31 =17 -37 =39 =54 4.0 2053
42. Prazak, Ondrej CZE 2006 +15 +32 - 3 -18 -23 =58 =53 =38 =48 4.0 2124
43. Vlach,Karel CZE ---- =35 =31 =49 =54 =38 -25 =30 =48 =45 4.0 2026
44. Palkova, Katerina CZE ---- =47 =17 =29 =50 -37 +62 +39 -27 -31 4.0 2011
45. Cvikl, Michal CZE 2066 +53 - 7 =32 +63 =28 =21 -14 -40 =43 4.0 2035
46. Gschwendtner, Stanislav CZE 2165 =60 +52 - 4 =33 =55 -34 +56 =29 -30 4.0 1997
47. Drahorad, Daniel CZE 2024 =44 +60 -12 +51 -13 -24 +58 =34 -29 4.0 2046
48. Cmiko, Jakub CZE 2093 +71 -10 -34 =60 =25 +64 -21 =43 =42 4.0 2008
49. Cakl, Zdenek CZE 2119 -67 +61 =43 -16 +57 -26 -40 +69 =37 4.0 1926
50. Pokora, Lubomir CZE 2006 - 1 +73 =13 =44 -33 =54 =60 +51 -28 4.0 2045
51. Korinek,Pavel CZE ---- +54 =14 -22 -47 -26 +71 =59 -50 +69 4.0 1997
52. Smejc, Jiri CZE 1855 =17 -46 -26 +62 -27 -40 +71 =56 +66 4.0 2004
53. Jonas, Vlastimil CZE 2055 -45 -34 +74 =25 +40 -27 =42 =59 =62 4.0 1993
54. Beran, Bohumil CZE 2125 -51 +72 =63 =43 -21 =50 =57 =61 =41 4.0 1927
55. Trepka, Jan CZE 2022 =23 -36 =57 +67 =46 -28 =31 =63 -39 3.5 1992
56. Hacaperkova, Lenka CZE 1967 =36 -23 =68 =27 =59 =57 -46 =52 =60 3.5 1986
57. Cerny,Vaclav CZE ---- =38 -35 =55 +65 -49 =56 =54 -30 =64 3.5 1971
58. Soukal, Rudolf CZE 2162 -39 =26 =62 -29 +61 =42 -47 +68 -36 3.5 1963
59. Krutina, Miroslav CZE 1985 -10 +71 =24 -13 =56 =60 =51 =53 -33 3.5 1991
60. Slajs, Vlastimil CZE 2062 =46 -47 +70 =48 -29 =59 =50 -31 =56 3.5 1955
61. Hacaperka, Michal CZE 1915 -18 -49 -69 +66 -58 +68 +64 =54 -38 3.5 1983
62. Gdovin, Jan CZE 2124 -41 -19 =58 -52 +70 -44 +65 =66 =53 3.5 1947
63. Ruzicka, Ales CZE 1834 -27 +74 =54 -45 -30 +65 =38 =55 -35 3.5 1980
64. Palkova, Hana CZE 2020 - 9 -37 -25 +72 +67 -48 -61 +71 =57 3.5 1931
65. Polak, Radim CZE 2044 -32 -15 +66 -57 =71 -63 -62 +70 =68 3.0 1929
66. Kalista, Karel CZE 2041 -22 -28 -65 -61 +72 +67 =69 =62 -52 3.0 1879
67. Hlavnicka, Jan CZE 2021 +49 -18 -39 -55 -64 -66 =70 +72 =72 3.0 1905
68. Muhlbauer,Hans Raine CZE ---- . =29 =56 -19 -69 -61 +72 -58 =65 2.5 1863
69. Vlcek, Marek CZE 1887 -24 -30 +61 -31 +68 -39 =66 -49 -51 2.5 1864
70. Kubat,Miroslav CZE ---- =31 -38 -60 -40 -62 =72 =67 -65 =71 2.0 1804
71. Kalivoda,Libor CZE ---- -48 -59 +72 -37 =65 -51 -52 -64 =70 2.0 1771
72. Kupilik, Jiri CZE 1936 -14 -54 -71 -64 -66 =70 -68 -67 =67 1.0 1698
73. Kasik, Miroslav1 CZE 1936 -20 -50 =40 . . . . . . 0.5 1750
74. BYE ---- . -63 -53 . . . . . . 0.0
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The David Navara - Sergei Movsesian blitz match took place in Prague on
June 14th 2005. First eight games at 5 minutes per side, last four at 3 minutes
a side. Match drawn at 6-6.
5 Minute Games
Movsesian, Sergei - Navara, David 0-1 58 C43 Petroff's Defence
Navara, David - Movsesian, Sergei 0-1 38 B80 Sicilian Scheveningen
Movsesian, Sergei - Navara, David 1-0 44 B46 Sicilian Paulsen
Navara, David - Movsesian, Sergei 0-1 36 A25 English Sicilian Attack
Movsesian, Sergei - Navara, David 0-1 45 C24 Bishop's Opening
Navara, David - Movsesian, Sergei 1/2 64 D10 Slav Defence
Movsesian, Sergei - Navara, David 1-0 49 B48 Sicilian Paulsen
Navara, David - Movsesian, Sergei 1/2 58 E69 King's Indian Fianchetto
3 Minute Games
Movsesian, Sergei - Navara, David 1/2 14 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Navara, David - Movsesian, Sergei 1/2 57 D15 Slav Defence
Movsesian, Sergei - Navara, David 0-1 32 C55 Two Knights Defence
Navara, David - Movsesian, Sergei 1-0 65 B48 Sicilian Paulsen
Blitz Match Prague CZE (CZE), 14-14 vii 2005
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Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2645 0 1 1 1 0 = 1 = = = 0 0 6.0 2663
Navara, David g CZE 2663 1 0 0 0 1 = 0 = = = 1 1 6.0 2645
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The World Youth Chess Championship 2005 takes place in Belfort, France
18th-29th July 2005. I will round up results and games next week.
Official site: http://www.belfort-echecs.com and
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Default.aspx?lg=en
Leading Round 7 Boys Under-18 Standings:
1 VITIUGOV Nikita 2519 Cad RUS 6 23 22,5 22,5
2 m PASHIKIAN Arman 2442 Cad ARM 5,5 23,5 22,5 22,5
3 f MORANDA Wojciech 2453 Cad POL 5,5 22,5 21,5 21,5
4 RODSHTEIN Maxim 2459 Min ISR 5,5 21,5 20,5 20,5
5 g TOMASHEVSKY Evgeny 2555 Cad RUS 5,5 21 20,5 20,5
6 g BLUVSHTEIN Mark 2525 Cad CAN 5 23,5 22,5 22,5
7 m KHAIRULLIN Ildar 2538 Min RUS 5 23,5 22,5 22,5
8 m JONES Gawain C. 2442 Cad ENG 5 23 22 22
9 f RAGGER Markus 2434 Cad AUT 5 22,5 21,5 21,5
10 STOPA Jacek 2460 Cad POL 5 22 21 21
11 m AMIN Bassem 2400 Cad EGY 5 21 20 20
12 f ROMANOV Evgeny 2451 Cad RUS 5 20,5 19,5 19,5
13 g WOJTASZEK Radoslaw 2591 Cad POL 5 20 19 19
14 m BRKIC Ante 2477 Cad CRO 5 19 18 18
15 m SENGUPTA Deep 2414 Cad IND 5 18 17,5 17,5
16 KHAMRAKULOV Dzhurabek 2280 Cad UZB 5 18 17 17
17 m PAPP Gabor 2474 Cad HUN 4,5 20,5 19,5 19,5
18 m BRAUN Arik 2475 Cad GER 4,5 19,5 19 19
19 VALEANU Eduard-Andrei 2398 Cad ROM 4,5 19,5 18,5 18,5
20 f MILMAN Lev 2459 Cad USA 4,5 19,5 18,5 18,5
21 f KHUSNUTDINOV Rustam 2354 Cad KAZ 4,5 19 19 19
22 HUNGASKI Roberto 2308 Cad USA 4,5 19 18 18
23 m DEEPAN CHAKKRAVARTHY 2465 Cad IND 4,5 18 17 17
24 BITELMAJER Martin 2243 Cad ARG 4,5 17,5 17,5 17,5
25 ALSINA LEAL Daniel 2322 Cad ESP 4,5 17,5 17,5 17,5
26 f PORAT Ido 2354 Cad ISR 4,5 17 16 16
27 CIFKA Stanislav 2347 Cad CZE 4,5 16 16 16
28 m FIER Alexander Hilario Ta 2462 Cad BRA 4,5 16 15 15
29 ASTANEH LOPEZ Alex 2304 Cad IRL 4,5 16 15 15
30 GUNSEN Bat-Ochir 2120 Cad MGL 4,5 14,5 14 14
105 players
The 28th Ghent Open took place 16th-20th July 2005. The summer
tournament of the Benelux! was 9 round Swiss tournament which saw Chris Ward
take first on tie-break from a group of 6 all tied on 7.5/9. News: Patrick Van
der Voort.
Official site: http://www.kgsrl.be/
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Open Ghent BEL (BEL), 16-20 vii 2005
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1. Ward, Christopher g ENG 2485 7.5 56.0
2. Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav g RUS 2560 7.5 55.5 2297
3. Van Haastert, Edwin m NED 2398 7.5 55.5 2264
4. Michiels, Bart m BEL 2457 7.5 53.5
5. Seger, Ruediger m GER 2413 7.5 53.0
6. Bagaturov, Giorgi g GEO 2428 7.5 48.5
7. Degraeve, Jean-Marc g FRA 2546 7.0 56.5
8. Kuipers, Eelco NED 2270 7.0 51.5
9. Lammens, Tim NED 2251 7.0 50.5 2127
10. Van Kooten, Luuk f NED 2275 7.0 50.5 2057
11. Van Wessel, Rudy f NED 2327 7.0 49.5 2171
12. Van Schaardenburg, Mark NED 2272 7.0 49.5 2125
13. Van der Stricht, Geert m BEL 2400 6.5 54.5 2262
14. Gutman, Lev g GER 2465 6.5 54.5 2185
15. Sowray, Peter J f ENG 2364 6.5 54.0
16. Pedersen, Erik m DEN 2395 6.5 52.5
17. Law, Andrew P f ENG 2303 6.5 51.5 2203
18. Hummel, Erik-Jan NED 2095 6.5 51.5 2164
19. Michiels, Rob BEL 2264 6.5 51.5 2073
20. Emms, John M g ENG 2509 6.5 50.0
21. Savchenko, Stanislav g UKR 2506 6.5 49.5 2200
22. Konings, Frans NED 2228 6.5 49.5 2184
23. Renette, Hans BEL 2170 6.5 49.5 2118
24. Goormachtigh, Johan f BEL 2244 6.5 49.5 2090
25. Van Dommelen, Martin NED ---- 6.5 49.5 2077
26. De Jong, Jan Willem f NED 2334 6.5 49.5 2075
27. Dutreeuw, Marc m BEL 2361 6.5 49.0
28. Tonoli, Benjamin BEL 2169 6.5 48.0 2069
29. Schalkx, Johnny BEL 2274 6.5 48.0 2016
30 Caluwe, Marc BEL 2105 6.5 48.0 1998
31. Farrand, Tom ENG 2266 6.5 47.5
32. Spaans M. NED ---- 6.5 47.0
33. Krul, Rene NED 2262 6.5 46.5
34. Clijsen Mark NED 2104 6.5 44.5
35. Gregoir, Christophe FRA 2210 6.5 41.0
392 players
The Visus Open 2005 took place July 2nd-10th in Prague. The was won by
Marek Vokac ahead of Eduard Meduna on tie-break after both finished on 7/9 .
Official site: http://www.visusopen.wz.cz/
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VISUS Open Prague CZE (CZE), 2-12 vii 2005
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1. Vokac, Marek g CZE 2441 7.0 47.5 2306 2526
2. Meduna, Eduard g CZE 2453 7.0 47.5 2279 2499
3. Voloshin, Leonid g CZE 2477 6.5 47.0 2273 2439
4. Pribyl, Josef m CZE 2392 6.5 46.0 2296 2462
5. Priborsky, Ivo CZE 2240 6.5 45.0 2263 2384
6. Hausner, Ivan m CZE 2432 6.5 44.5 2270 2436
7. Rudolf, Michal f POL 2437 6.5 42.5 2231 2397
8. Juptner, Jan CZE 2258 6.5 39.5 2157 2323
9. Londyn, Radek CZE 2350 6.0 46.0 2235 2324
10. Pilar, Miloslav CZE 2289 6.0 41.0 2151 2276
11. Kubecka, David CZE 2252 6.0 39.5 2173 2252
12. Jedlicka, Ales CZE 2288 5.5 49.0 2335 2415
13. Netusil, Miroslav f CZE 2333 5.5 46.0 2251 2331
14. Gregor, Jiri CZE 2214 5.5 46.0 2250 2285
15. Studnicka, Tomas CZE 2310 5.5 45.0 2207 2287
16. Simecek, Bohumil CZE 2114 5.5 43.5 2125 2250
17. Taborsky, Rostislav CZE 2204 5.5 42.5 2199 2279
18. Kozak, Petr CZE 2200 5.5 42.0 2145 2154
19. Priborsky, Jan CZE 2320 5.5 40.5 2187 2267
20. Havlik, Jan CZE 2185 5.5 39.0 2186 2266
21. Hadzala, Daniel CZE 2133 5.5 37.5 2113 2094
22. Koper, Stefan CZE 2061 5.5 32.0 1996 1859
74 players
The IX Open The "Battle Of Senta 1697" took place 15th-22nd July 2005.
Senta is in Serbia and Montenegro. Ana Gebejes won the event with 7.5/9.
Details: http://www.scgchess.org/2005/event/0507sen.htm
Final Round 9 Standings:
1 Gebejes, Ana 7.5 47.5 35.5 37.5
2 Davidovic, Zoran 7 52 38 40.5
3 Haragos, Kalman 6.5 53.5 36 42
4 Posa, Janos 6.5 52.5 36.5 41
5 Balogh, Viktor 6.5 41 29.5 32
6 Koltanyi, Imre 6 50.5 31.5 40
7 Grabez, Vojko 6 49.5 30.5 38
8 Milanovic, Nevenko 6 48 32.5 37.5
9 Petrusic, Goran 6 47 33.5 36
10 Nesic, Dragana 6 47 32 36.5
11 Szarvak, Gabor 6 43 27 34.5
12 Trajkovic, Velibor 6 41 29 33
13 Csomos, Janos 5.5 53 31.5 41
14 Farkas, Jozsef 5.5 49.5 27.5 39
15 Szegi, Csaba 5.5 48.5 29 37
16 Konya, Karoly 5.5 44.5 29 36
17 Agoston, Aron 5.5 44.5 26.5 35
18 Ujhazi, Mihaly 5.5 43 23.5 33.5
19 Ridjicki, Nenad 5.5 41 24.5 31
Alongside the superGM event won by Arkadij Naiditsch was the Dortmund
SparkassenOpen. The event was won by Thomas Henrichs. Couldn't find any
games.
Further details:
http://www.schachfreunde-brackel.de/Turniere/opena2005.htm
1. Henrichs,Thomas 7.0 52.5
2. Rasmussen,Karsten 7.0 52.5
3. Kolkin,Michail 7.0 52.5
4. Schebler,Gerhard 7.0 51.5
5. Keller,Thomas 7.0 47.0
6. Naiditsch,Irina 6.5 47.5
7. Bashylin,Roman 6.5 42.5
8. Klyuner,Vyacheslav 6.0 55.0
9. Kern,Guido 6.0 53.5
10. Eismont,Igor 6.0 50.0
11. Krallmann,Matthias 6.0 45.5
12. Schmücker,Marcus 6.0 44.5
13. Gabriel,Josef 6.0 44.5
14. Trella,Thomas 6.0 43.0
15. Krutwig,Longlong 6.0 43.0
16. Kartsev,Soel 6.0 42.5
17. Blübaum,Karl-Ernst 6.0 42.0
18. Izrailev,Alexander 5.5 50.5
19. Kleinegger,Frank 5.5 43.5
20. Lupor,Andre 5.5 43.5
21. Krueger,Erich 5.5 43.0
22. Hilverda,Alexander 5.5 39.5
23. Hegemann,Eike 5.5 38.5
24. Heinert,Eugen 5.5 37.0
100 players
The 2005 Irish Chess Championship was held in Dublin July 9th-17th
2005. The nine round event featured the welcome return of Irish international
Colm Daly who was formerly in dispute with the governing body of chess in
Ireland [ICU] has resolved his differences and went on to win the event with a
convivncing score of 8/9. This will also see him return to playing for Ireland
again at the 2006 Turin Olympiad after a noticable absence from the last two
Olympiads, as one of the perks of winning the tournament was/is an automatic
place on the 2006 Irish Olympiad Team. This was his fourth time winning the
event [98, 99 being the other two] but only his third time winning the title of
Irish champion owing to losing out on tie break in 1996. Runner up and second
seed Stephen Brady was also impressive with a score of 7/9 that will see him
also gain FIDE rating points. News: Martin Crichton.
Further details: http://www.icu.ie/
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1. Daly, Colm f FID 2343 +11 - 6 +17 + 4 + 2 + 5 + 3 + 9 +12 8.0 2529
2. Brady, Stephen f IRL 2320 +13 + 9 = 5 + 3 - 1 = 4 + 6 + 8 +10 7.0 2399
3. McPhillips, Karl IRL 2225 =19 +18 + 6 - 2 + 8 + 7 - 1 +13 + 4 6.5 2325
4. Jessel, Stephen IRL 2285 - 9 +13 +16 - 1 +10 = 2 +11 + 5 - 3 5.5 2242
5. Short, Philip M f IRL 2300 + 7 +17 = 2 +10 =11 - 1 = 8 - 4 + 9 5.5 2229
6. O'Donovan, Richard IRL 2155 +15 + 1 - 3 =11 - 7 +14 - 2 =18 +16 5.0 2175
7. Jeffares, Simon IRL 2077 - 5 = 8 +18 +12 + 6 - 3 - 9 +17 =13 5.0 2167
8. O'Connell, Gerard IRL 2134 -17 = 7 +19 + 9 - 3 +10 = 5 - 2 +14 5.0 2169
9. O'Rourke, Ray IRL 2071 + 4 - 2 +14 - 8 +15 =11 + 7 - 1 - 5 4.5 2189
10. Fitzsimons,David IRL ---- =14 +20 +12 - 5 - 4 - 8 +15 +11 - 2 4.5 2157
11. Fox, Anthony IRL 2118 - 1 +15 +20 = 6 = 5 = 9 - 4 -10 +19 4.5 2130
12. MacElligott, Gerard IRL 2133 =18 +19 -10 - 7 =14 +15 +17 =16 - 1 4.5 2061
13. Freeman, Gordon IRL 2101 - 2 - 4 -15 +19 +17 +20 +16 - 3 = 7 4.5 2101
14. Beveridge, Allan SCO 2128 =10 =16 - 9 +17 =12 - 6 +20 =19 - 8 4.0 2012
15. Boyle,Bernard IRL ---- - 6 -11 +13 +16 - 9 -12 -10 +20 =18 3.5 1982
16. Murray, David IRL 1985 =20 =14 - 4 -15 +18 +19 -13 =12 - 6 3.5 2011
17. Salter, David IRL ---- + 8 - 5 - 1 -14 -13 +18 -12 - 7 +20 3.0 2010
18. English,Kieran IRL ---- =12 - 3 - 7 +20 -16 -17 =19 = 6 =15 3.0 1940
19. Palmer, Bernard IRL 2018 = 3 -12 - 8 -13 -20 -16 =18 =14 -11 1.5 1818
20. O'Leary, Matt IRL ---- =16 -10 -11 -18 +19 -13 -14 -15 -17 1.5 1765
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George Mirijanian reports: The 11th Northeast Open took place 15th-17th
July 2005 in Stamford, Connecticut (USA). GM Alexander Ivanov of Massachusetts
captured first place with a score of 4.5-0.5. GM Sergey Kudrin of Connecticut
and WGM Rusudan Goletiani of New York tied for 2nd-3rd place with 4-1 tallies.
Deadlocked in 4th-5th place with 3.5-1.5 results were senior master Igor Sorkin
and IM Jay Bonin, both also of New York. A total of 131 players competed in
four sections. Steve Immitt directed for the sponsoring Continental Chess
Association.
The International festival of chess, bridge and games Czech Open 2005
takes place 14th-31st July 2005 in Pardubice (Czech Republic).
Top players in rapid are GM David Navara (CZE 2663), GM Vlastimil Babula
(CZE 2604) and GM Vladislav Borovikov (RUS 2595). Top players in main A open
are GM Evgeniy Najer (RUS 2614), Surya Sekhar Ganguly (IND 2596), GM Vladislav
Borovikov (RUS 2595), GM Jiri Stocek (CZE 2592) and GM Sergei Azarov (BLR
2582).
Internet coverage: http://www.czechopen.net
Smith & Williamson British Chess Championships
The Smith & Williamson British Chess Championships 2005 takes place
in the Isle of Man, 1st-13th August 2005.
Official site with live coverage:
http://www.bcfservices.org.uk/live2005/
Magistral Ciutat d'Igualada
The Magistral Ciutat d'Igualada takes place 16th-21st August 2005.
Double round robin with Andrei Volokitin, Viktor Korchnoi, Alexander Beliavsky
and Luke McShane. Pairings: Aug 16: Volokitin - Korchnoi / Beliavsky -McShane
Aug 17: McShane - Volokitin / Korchnoi - Beliavsky Aug 18: Volokitin -
Beliavsky / McShane - Korchnoi Aug 19: Volokitin - McShane / Beliavsky -
Korchnoi Aug 20: Korchnoi - Volokitin / McShane - Beliavsky Aug 21: Beliavsky -
Volokitin / Korchnoi - McShane.
Official site: http://www.escacsateneu.net/
Houston Open - Cajun Chess Events
A number of events are planned in the coming weeks in the Houston,
Charlotte and Orlando areas.
Houston Open - July 29-31, 2005:
http://www.cajunchess.com/tourns/tournament7.shtml
Charlotte Open - August 26-28:
http://www.cajunchess.com/tourns/tournament10.shtml
World Amateur Open Championship - October 7-9, 2005:
http://www.cajunchess.com/tourns/tournament13.shtml
Cajun Chess Web Site: http://www.cajunchess.com/
Alajuela International
Alajuela International Chess Tournament in Costa Rica takes place
23rd-28th July 2005. Leading Players: 1 Victor Mikhalevski 2 Neuris Delgado 3
Varuzhan Akobian 4 Vladirmir Georgiev 5 Nilola Mitkov 6 Alonso Zapata.
Official site: http://www.alajuela2005.com/
49th Spanish Teams Honours Division
The top division of the Spanish Team Championships take place in
Mérida, 23rd-28th August and 9th-11th September 2005.
Official site:
http://chessmagic.juntaextremadura.net/modules/news/
Denker Memorial
The Chess4Less Denker Memorial takes place at the Florida Atlantic
University, Boca Raton, Florida, July 9, 10, 11, 16 & 17. Live coverage of
some of the game son ICC. http://www.chessclub.com. Hopefully I'll be
able to round things up next week.
9th Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament
The 9th Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament takes place in Vlissingen (The
Netherlands) August 6th-13th 2005. The 9 round Swiss will see 250 participants
competing. 33 Titleholders will be present among which 10 GMs. They are: 2004
winner Krishnan Sasikiran (India, 2652), Konstantin Landa (Russia, 2609),
Viorel Iordachescu (Moldova, 2606), Oleg Romanishin (Ukraine, 2570), Ian Rogers
(Australia, 2569), Vyacheslav Ikonnikov (Russia, 2560), Vadim Malakhatko
(Ukraine, 2556), Daniel Stellwagen (Netherlands, 2533), Friso Nijboer
(Netherlands, 2529) and Susanto Megaranto (Indonesia, 2499). On August 5 GM
Sasikiran will give a simul in the Grand Hotel Arion in Vlissingen.
Official site: http://people.zeelandnet.nl/hgroffen/
2nd Varna Chess Festival
The 2nd International Chess Festival Varna, takes place September
7th-15th 2005. Further details: Mr. Boris Hristov 5 Konstantin Fotinov St.,
Varna 9002 "Seahorse" National Children's Chess Federation Tel: +359/52/642
877; Fax: +359/52/574 940; Mobile: +359/88/6025 403 e-mail: seahorse@abv.bg
World Open
The World Open took place June 30th - July 4th 2005 in Philadelphia. GM
Kamil Miton beat Magesh Panchanathan in a blitz playoff to take the title after
both finished on 7.5/9. Games are starting to appear the website advises not
archiving the games until they've finished the game file which will hopefully
be by next week.
Official site: http://www.worldopen.com
First Saturday August
The next First Saturday GM, IM and FM closed tournaments take place
6th-18th of August Budapest. Some vacancies, first comes-first served. One GM,
2-3 IM and 2-3 FM sections planned. Contact: Nagy Laszlo FIDE International
Chess Organizer e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net
http://www.firstsaturday.hu or
http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat
Phone-fax: (+36)-1-263-28-59 Mobile: (+36)-30-230-1914
Lausanne Young Masters
The 6th Edition of the Lausanne Young Masters 2005 with 8 of the best
under-20 players in the world will be held September 14th-19th, 2005, at the
Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne Players: Pentala Harikrishna Hikaru Nakamura,
Andrei Volokitin, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Magnus Carlsen, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Nana Dzagnidze and Elisabeth Paehtz.
Alongside will be an Invitational Event "Maîtres contres Espoirs"
including Vladimir Tukmakov and Florin Gheorghiu (Romania) will play several
young Swiss talents.
Also a General Open, total prize money CHF 14'500.-, CHF 3'000.- for
the winner, will be held at the same location from September 16th-19th, 2005. 7
rounds,
Information: René Kesselring, phone ++41 21 701 38 63 and ++41
79 342 44 15 Email: rkesselring@bluewin.ch
Internet http://www.lausanneyoungmasters.com
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.
Official site: http://www.schach-prag.de/
I Villa Benaojan Rapid
I Villa Benaojan Sunday 24th July 2005 15 minutos per player Contact
capanegra63@hotmail.com or ajedrezbenaojan@yahoo.es for further info.
Brno Fair Trade Chess Festival
The Fair Trade Chess Festival 2005 in Brno has 2 closed GM groups, 1
closed IM group, open A (FIDE), open B (national) 28th August - 7th September
2005. Contact: IM Petr Pisk -GM and IM groups (petr.pisk@centrum.cz) or go to
the website below.
Further details: http://volny.cz/skduras
Malaysian Chess Federation Calendar
The Malaysian Chess Federation has a calendar at:
http://tcn.sourceforge.net. The event includes: the 2nd Arthur Tan Malaysian
Open takes place 19th-26th August 2005, - Open Swiss with Prize Fund of US$
15,000 27 Aug - 1 Sep Merdeka Team Chess Championship 2005 - Team event Prize
Fund US$ 10,000 2 - 12 Sept Zone 3.3 (East Asia Zone) Championship. Contact:
Hamid Majid email: aham@pc.jaring.my
Official site: http://tcn.sourceforge.net
Senior World Championship
The Senior Chess World Championship takes place 27th September - 10th
October 2005 in the Lignano Sabbiadoro, Udine, Italy, just one hour car far
away from Venice.
The tournament is open to both men and women, and is an 11 round Swiss.
Time rate: 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 15 minutes until the end of the game.
with a 30 second increment from move 1.
Official site: http://www.vacanzesport.com
3rd Abe Yanofsky Memorial
The 3rd Abe Yanofsky Memorial takes place 3rd-5th September 2005. The
event takes place in Winnipeg Canada. The tournament is a six-round open Swiss,
FIDE-rated, over the Labour Day weekend. Entry fee by July 15th 2005: $80 Cdn.
Russian GM Sergey Shipov and Canadian GM Mark Bluvshtein have confirmed
their participation in the Abe Yanofsky Memorial.
This year's tournament will have 50 per cent more in prizes than 2004,
with $6,000 guaranteed, including class prizes.
Further details: http://www.chessmanitoba.com
Iranian Team Championship
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
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
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.
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/
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/
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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