THE WEEK IN CHESS 567 19th September 2005 by Mark Crowther
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4th Hotel Petra 6 games
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1139 games
My thanks to Leonid Galperin, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, Jan Mazuch,
Adolivio Capece, Carsten Hensel, Diego Gómez, Michael Rahal, Miklos
Orso, John Saunders, Goran Tomic, Greg Shahade, John Hillery, Antonio.Bento,
Gary Suffield and everyone else who helped with the issue.
The countdown to the FIDE World Championships in Argentina has begun,
they start on Tuesday 27th September. There is strong chess in the lead up to
this with the European Club Cup in Aosta Valley. Vassily Ivanchuk has got off
to a fine start with 2/2 and Vladimir Kramnik is expected to play for the
favourites NAO although he hasn't done so so far.
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
The European Club Cup takes place September 18th-24th 2005 in the
little mountain town of Saint-Vincent (Aosta Valley, very famous due to the
Casinò). The teams are expected to arrive on Saturday 17th.
About 50 teams are announced in the men's group and 16-18 in the women
group. The NAO team features: Vladimir Kramnik, Etienne Bacrot, Alexander
Grischuk, Teimour Radjabov, joel Lautier, Paco Vallejo, Sergey Karjakin,
Laurent Fressinet
Other teams: Ivanchuk, Aronian, Gelfand, Morozevich (also if he is
announced to play in the Argentinian World Championship starting on Sept 27),
Shirov, Ponomariov, Bologan, Dreev, Sutovsky, Volkov, Krasenkov, Mamedjarov.
Women: Stefanova, Lahno, Cramling, Zhukova, Peptan, Kosintseva.
Italy will be represented by the towm of Penne (winner of the Italian
team Championship 2005): gm Godena, gm Braga, IM Arlandi, IM Bruno and three
boys "under 17", Sabino Brunello, Daniele Vocaturo, Denis Rombaldoni.
Round 1 games available but no standings have been give at this early
stage.
Official site: http://www.scacchivda.com/
The 6th Edition of the Lausanne Young Masters 2005 with 8 of the best
under-20 players in the world was held September 14th-19th, 2005, at the Casino
de Montbenon in Lausanne. Andrei Volokitin beat Hikaru Nakamura 2-0 in the
final to take the title.
Official site: http://www.lausanneyoungmasters.com
Final
1 Andrei VOLOKITIN - Hikaru NAKAMURA 1-0 1-0
3rd-4th Places
2 Shakhriyar MAMEDYAROV - Pentala HARIKRISHNA 1/2 1/2 Playoffs 2.5-1.5
5th-6th Places
3 Magnus CARLSEN - Maxime VACHIER-LAGRAVE 1-0 1-0
7th-8th Places
4 Nana DZAGNIDZE - Elisabeth PÄHTZ 1-0 1/2
Round 2 KO 16th-17th September 2005
1st-4th
1 Andrei VOLOKITIN - Pentala HARIKRISHNA 1-0 1/2
2 Hikaru NAKAMURA - Shakhriyar MAMEDYAROV 1-0 0-1 Playoffs 1-0 1/2
5th-8th
3 Magnus CARLSEN - Elisabeth PÄHTZ 1/2 1/2 Playoffs 1-0 1-0
4 Maxime VACHIER-LAGRAVE - Nana DZAGNIDZE 1-0 1/2
Round 1 KO 14th-15th September 2005
1 Andrei VOLOKITIN - Elisabeth PÄHTZ 1-0 1-0
2 Hikaru NAKAMURA - Nana DZAGNIDZE 1-0 1-0
3 Shakhriyar MAMEDYAROV - Maxime VACHIER-LAGRAVE 1-0 1-0
4 Pentala HARIKRISHNA - Magnus CARLSEN 1-0 1/2
The Dutch Championships took place September 5th-16th 2005 in
Leeuwarden. Loek van Wely took the title with 5.5/9 half a point clear of
Daniel Stellwagen and Sergei Tiviakov. Peng Zhaoqin took the women's title by
two points.
Official site: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/nk2005/
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ch-NED Leeuwarden NED (NED), 6-16 ix 2005 cat. XIII (2551)
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1. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2655 * 0 = = 1 1 = 1 = = 5.5 2619
2. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2533 1 * = = 0 = 1 0 = 1 5.0 2596
3. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2678 = = * = = = 1 = = = 5.0 2579
4. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2529 = = = * = = = = 1 0 4.5 2553
5. Janssen, Ruud m NED 2501 0 1 = = * 0 1 1 = 0 4.5 2556
6. Smeets, Jan g NED 2537 0 = = = 1 * 0 = = 1 4.5 2552
7. Werle, Jan m NED 2514 = 0 0 = 0 1 * = 1 1 4.5 2555
8. Van den Doel, Erik g NED 2587 0 1 = = 0 = = * = = 4.0 2504
9. L'Ami, Erwin m NED 2519 = = = 0 = = 0 = * 1 4.0 2511
10. Ernst, Sipke m NED 2457 = 0 = 1 1 0 0 = 0 * 3.5 2481
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ch-NED w Leeuwarden NED (NED), 6-16 ix 2005
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Peng Zhaoqin g NED 2405 ** 1= 1= =1 11 =1 8.0 2448
2 Bensdorp, Marlies wm NED 2225 0= ** == =1 =1 1= 6.0 2316
3 Muhren, Bianca wm NED 2269 0= == ** 0= 11 01 5.0 2235
4 Schuurman, Petra f NED 2266 =0 =0 1= ** 0= =1 4.5 2200
5 Van Weersel, Arlette NED 2173 00 =0 00 1= ** =1 3.5 2144
6 Bensdorp, Laura NED 2108 =0 0= 10 =0 =0 ** 3.0 2118
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80th Championship of Argentina took place 8th-16th September, 2005.
Diego Flores defeated Pablo Ricardi took take the title in a playoff after both
finished on 6/9.
Official site:
http://www.ajedrez.com.ar/camparg/superior05/final05.htm
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80th ch-ARG Los Polvorines ARG (ARG), 8-16 ix 2005 cat. VII (2424)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Ricardi, Pablo g ARG 2551 * = = = 1 = 1 = = 1 6.0 2534
2. Flores, Diego m ARG 2513 = * 1 0 1 = = 1 = 1 6.0 2539
3. Pierrot, Facundo m ARG 2449 = 0 * 1 = = 1 = 0 1 5.0 2464
4. Alonso, Salvador m ARG 2457 = 1 0 * = 0 0 1 1 1 5.0 2463
5. Lafuente, Pablo m ARG 2435 0 0 = = * = = 1 1 1 5.0 2465
6. Valerga, Diego m ARG 2499 = = = 1 = * 0 = 1 0 4.5 2415
7. Needleman, Gaston ARG 2242 0 = 0 1 = 1 * 0 1 = 4.5 2444
8. Soppe, Guillermo m ARG 2432 = 0 = 0 0 = 1 * = 1 4.0 2380
9. Perdomo, Leandro f ARG 2345 = = 1 0 0 0 0 = * 1 3.5 2352
10. Duarte, Leonardo ARG 2317 0 0 0 0 0 1 = 0 0 * 1.5 2162
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The September First Saturday GM, IM and FM closed tournaments took place
3rd-13th September 2005 in Budapest. Attila Czebe and Zlatko Ilincic made
8.5/12 to finish a point clear of the field, Le Quang Liem made an IM- norm.
Hoang Thi Bao Tram achieved a WGM norm in sharing first in the IMA Group. In
the IM-B Zdenko Stupavski made an IM-norm and took clear first. Correction in
the PGN to the result of the round 5 game Pitl 0-1 Le Quang Liem.
Official site: http://www.firstsaturday.hu
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FSGM September Budapest HUN (HUN), 3-13 ix 2005 cat. VII (2402)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
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1. Czebe, Attila g HUN 2494 * 1 = = 1 = 1 = = = 1 1 = 8.5 2552
2. Ilincic, Zlatko g SCG 2470 0 * = = = = 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 8.5 2554
3. Fogarasi, Tibor g HUN 2490 = = * 1 = = 1 = 0 1 1 = = 7.5 2490
4. Collins, Sam E IRL m IRL 2413 = = 0 * = = 0 1 1 = 1 1 1 7.5 2496
5. Szabo, Krisztian m HUN 2422 0 = = = * = 0 = 1 1 1 1 1 7.5 2495
6. Sakelsek, Tadej m SLO 2390 = = = = = * = = 0 1 = 1 1 7.0 2460
7. Le Quang Liem f VIE 2326 0 0 0 1 1 = * = = 1 1 = 1 7.0 2465
8. Pilgaard, Kim m DEN 2415 = = = 0 = = = * = = 0 1 0 5.0 2344
9. Paschall, William M m USA 2399 = 0 1 0 0 1 = = * 0 = = = 5.0 2345
10. Reiss, Tibor m HUN 2397 = 0 0 = 0 0 0 = 1 * = = = 4.0 2277
11. Bergez, Luc m FRA 2353 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 1 = = * = 1 4.0 2281
12. Prohaszka, Peter2 HUN 2331 0 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 = = = * 1 3.5 2250
13. Pitl, Gregory f GER 2332 = 0 = 0 0 0 0 1 = = 0 0 * 3.0 2215
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FSIMA September Budapest HUN (HUN), 3-13 ix 2005 cat. II (2293)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Hoang Thi Bao Tram wm VIE 2267 * 0 1 = 1 = = 1 = 1 6.0 2420
2. Fodor, Tamas jr f HUN 2262 1 * = = 0 1 1 = = 1 6.0 2421
3. Petran, Pal m HUN 2416 0 = * = = = 1 1 1 1 6.0 2403
4. Jakab, Attila m HUN 2451 = = = * = 1 = = 1 = 5.5 2355
5. Woodward, Timothy DM f ENG 2313 0 1 = = * = = = 1 1 5.5 2370
6. Gerard, Nicolas f FRA 2295 = 0 = 0 = * = = 1 1 4.5 2292
7. Bernard, Jacques FRA 2252 = 0 0 = = = * = 1 1 4.5 2297
8. Werner, Dimo m GER 2369 0 = 0 = = = = * = 1 4.0 2241
9. Mihok, Oliver HUN 2157 = = 0 0 0 0 0 = * 1 2.5 2141
10. Harila, Per SWE 2144 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 * 0.5 1865
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FSIMB September Budapest HUN (HUN), 3-13 ix 2005 cat. II (2281)
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1. Stupavski, Zdenko f SCG 2337 * = = 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 7.0 2494
2. Hardarson, Robert f ISL 2361 = * 0 = = 1 = 1 1 = 5.5 2352
3. Pirisi, Gabor m HUN 2294 = 1 * = = 0 = = 1 1 5.5 2359
4. Kahn, Evarth m HUN 2307 0 = = * = 1 = = 1 1 5.5 2358
5. Lengyel, Bela m HUN 2284 = = = = * 0 = = 1 1 5.0 2323
6. Vasilkova, Svetlana wm RUS 2308 0 0 1 0 1 * = = 1 = 4.5 2278
7. Brustkern, Juergen f GER 2250 0 = = = = = * = = 1 4.5 2284
8. Farago, Sandor m HUN 2284 = 0 = = = = = * 0 1 4.0 2237
9. Bulthaupt, Freerk GER 2185 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 * 1 2.5 2125
10. Mihok, Laszlo f HUN 2201 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 * 1.0 1939
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The United States Chess League sees 8 of the strongest cities in the US
compete with each other in front of a live Internet audience on ICC.
Official site: http://www.uschessleague.com/
Week 3 4th September 2005
Boston - 2.5
Carolina - 1.5
Baltimore - 3
Philadelphia - 1
New York - 2.5
San Francisco - 1.5
Miami - 2
Dallas - 2
The Miami - Dallas match was agreed drawn on all 4
boards after Miami had some serious internet
connection problems.
The current standings after 3 weeks are:
East Division
Boston - 2.0/3
New York - 2.0/3
Baltimore - 1.5/3
Philadelphia - 1.5/3
West Division
Miami - 2.5/3
Dallas - 1.5/3
San Francisco - 0.5/3
Carolina - 0.5/3
The Arab Individual Championships take place 12th-20th September 2005 in
Dubai Chess Club. In the men's event there are 3 GMs, 7 IMs and 7 FMs and a
total of 21 rated players out of 22. 9 round Swiss with FIDE standard time
control. In the ladies event 20 players compete, WIM Monaril Knarian from
Lebanon is the top seeded player. News: Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.
Official sites: http://www.uaechess.org/english/
and http://www.arabfide.com/
Round 7 Standings:
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ch-Arab Dubai UAE (UAE), 12-13 ix 2005
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1. Al Sayed, Mohamad N m QAT 2478 5.5 2325 24.0
2. El Taher, Fouad m EGY 2456 5.0 2433 21.0
3. Amin, Bassem m EGY 2400 5.0 2373 19.0
4. Belkhodja, Slim g TUN 2468 5.0 2321 20.5
5. Taleb, Moussa g UAE 2508 4.5 2426 20.0
6. Adly, Ahmed g EGY 2503 4.5 2412 19.5
7. Tissir, Mohamed m MAR 2444 4.0 2371 18.0
8. Mohammad, Samir f SYR 2312 4.0 2340 13.5
9. Henni, Mohamed m ALG 2337 3.5 2425 15.0
10. Hussein, N.A f IRQ 2339 3.5 2381 14.5
11. Hakki, Imad m SYR 2471 3.5 2327 12.0
12. Khader, Sami f JOR 2396 3.5 2293 14.0
13. Al-Hadarani, Hatim f YEM 2320 3.5 2259 14.5
14. Najjar, Ahmad f LIB 2339 3.5 2235 14.5
15. Jasim, A.R. Saleh f UAE 2318 3.0 2335 11.0
16. Othman, A. Moussa f UAE 2377 3.0 2259 8.5
17. Bouasis, Mehdi TUN 2075 3.0 2188 9.5
18. Hassan, Abdullah m UAE 2341 3.0 2186 9.0
19. Ayyad, Maher BRN 2074 2.5 2328 13.0
20. Al Hageri,Badr KUW ---- 2.0 2275 9.0
21. Bengafer, Moh LBA 2247 1.0 2239 3.0
22. Ali, Obay SUD 2124 1.0 2197 5.0
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ch-Arab w Dubai UAE (UAE), 12-13 ix 2005
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1. Al-Rufei, Eman H wm IRQ 2104 6.5 865 26.0
2. Mouradian, Knarik wm LIB 2146 5.5 845 25.0
3. Bahji,Hind MOR ---- 5.0 1152 19.5
4. Ibrahim, Delbak wm IRQ 1923 4.5 577 18.5
5. Mona,Khaled EGY ---- 4.5 307 17.0
6. Algildah, Nibal wm SYR 1890 4.0 882 18.5
7. Salem,Amna UAE ---- 4.0 653 13.0
8. Mir Mahmoud, Afamia SYR 2021 4.0 301 16.0
9. Fuad, Natalie wm JOR ---- 3.5 1134 14.5
10. Saleh, Nora Mohd wf UAE ---- 3.5 595 16.0
11. Juma,Jamila UAE ---- 3.5 315 14.0
12. Toubal,Hayat ALG ---- 3.0 560 13.5
13. Al Najjar,Hoda SYR ---- 3.0 560 12.0
14. Malallah,Khadeja UAE ---- 3.0 545 13.0
15. Abdulsalam,Nadhmiya YEM ---- 3.0 275 9.0
16. Al-Harmoudi, Mona wm UAE 1896 3.0 0 9.0
17. Basil,Ziana IRQ ---- 2.5 1135 13.5
18. Al-Ghasra, Dalal BRN ---- 2.5 577 7.5
19. Al Naimat,Rayah JOR ---- 1.0 571 4.0
20. Al Hassan,Tissir SUD ---- 0.5 379 0.5
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The Polish Team Championship took place in Lubniewice 3rd-11th September
2005. Polonia Plus GSM Warsaw won the event. Games from the final round now
available.
Further details: http://www.ekstraliga2005.xt.pl/
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| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |10 | |
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 1 |Polonia Plus GSM Warszawa | ¤ |3.5| 4 | 4 | 4 |4.5|4.5|3.5| 4 | 5 |37.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 2 |Polfa Grodzisk Mazowiecki |2.5| ¤ |1.5|4.5| 3 |4.5| 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |32.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 3 |MCKiS Jaworzno | 2 |4.5| ¤ | 4 |2.5|3.5| 4 | 3 | 4 |3.5|31.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 4 |PTSz P³ock | 2 |1.5| 2 | ¤ | 4 | 4 |4.5| 4 |4.5|4.5|31.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 5 |AZS UMCS Lublin | 2 | 3 |3.5| 2 | ¤ |2.5|2.5| 4 |3.5| 4 |27.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 6 |Juvena Hañcza Suwa³ki |1.5|1.5|2.5| 2 |3.5| ¤ | 2 |3.5| 4 | 4 |24.5|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 7 |HetMaN Szopienice Katowice|1.5| 2 | 2 |1.5|3.5| 4 | ¤ | 3 | 3 |3.5|24.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 8 |Stilon Gorzów Wlkp. |2.5| 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |2.5| 3 | ¤ | 3 | 3 |23.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 9 |Pocztowiec TP SA Poznañ | 2 | 2 | 2 |1.5|2.5| 2 | 3 | 3 | ¤ |2.5|20.5|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
| 10 |Zelmer Rzeszów | 1 | 2 |2.5|1.5| 2 | 2 |2.5| 3 |3.5| ¤ |20.0|
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The 4th Hotel Petra Round Robin took place 3rd-11th September 2005 in
Rome. Oleg Romanishin won with 7.5/9 ahead of Ivan Farago with whom he played
out a short draw in the final round.
Official site: http://www.arrocco.net
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4th Chiuso Hotel Petra Rome ITA (ITA), 6-16 viii 2005cat. VII (2415)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Romanishin, Oleg M g UKR 2570 * = 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 = 7.5 2671
2. Farago, Ivan g HUN 2499 = * = = = 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 2625
3. Miladinovic, Igor g GRE 2609 0 = * = 1 = 1 = = 1 5.5 2473
4. Vazquez, Renier m ESP 2496 0 = = * = 0 = 1 1 1 5.0 2449
5. Sibilio, Mario f ITA 2380 0 = 0 = * 1 = 1 = 1 5.0 2462
6. Piscopo, Pierluigi f ITA 2389 0 0 = 1 0 * 1 = 0 1 4.0 2375
7. Corvi, Marco f ITA 2317 = 0 0 = = 0 * 1 = 0 3.0 2301
8. Mazzilli, Piero f ITA 2341 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 * 1 1 3.0 2298
9. Martorelli, Antonio m ITA 2277 0 0 = 0 = 1 = 0 * 0 2.5 2264
10. Ramondino, Renzo ITA 2274 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 * 2.5 2264
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The 27th Annual Southern California Open, held September 3-5 in Los
Angeles, drew 145 players. The Open section included six IMs and one WGM.
Taking first place with 5.5-.5 was IM Enrico Sevillano, followed at 5-1 by IMs
Jack Peters, Andranik Matikozyan, and Kongliang Deng, and WGM Regina Pokorna.
News: John Hillery.
Complete standings may be found at http://www.westernchess.com.
The Open A took place in Trieste 4th-10th September 2005 was won by
Konstantin Landa. Final round games now available.
Official site: http://www.sst1904.com/pagine/index.html
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Open A Trieste ITA (ITA), 4-10 ix 2005
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1. Landa, Konstantin g RUS 2609 +38 +13 = 6 +16 + 4 = 2 = 5 = 3 +12 7.0 2616
2. Tratar, Marko m SLO 2419 +31 +27 +19 = 5 +10 = 1 = 3 =12 = 4 6.5 2511
3. Fercec, Nenad m CRO 2500 +43 = 8 =17 + 9 +15 = 5 = 2 = 1 +10 6.5 2519
4. Efimov, Igor g ITA 2401 +33 +32 +21 =10 - 1 =12 + 8 +15 = 2 6.5 2487
5. Pavasovic, Dusko g SLO 2566 +29 =15 + 8 = 2 +18 = 3 = 1 =10 = 6 6.0 2519
6. Videki, Sandor m HUN 2394 +24 +23 = 1 = 7 =11 -10 +20 +14 = 5 6.0 2455
7. Lalic, Bogdan g CRO 2491 +25 =17 +42 = 6 =13 = 8 =10 =11 +15 6.0 2433
8. Borgo, Giulio m ITA 2380 +34 = 3 - 5 +37 +14 = 7 - 4 +27 +16 6.0 2436
9. Ramesa, Davor CRO 2172 +41 +11 -10 - 3 +31 -15 +26 +22 +18 6.0 2353
10. Jovanic, Ognjen m CRO 2447 +37 +20 + 9 = 4 - 2 + 6 = 7 = 5 - 3 5.5 2422
11. Drazic, Sinisa g SCG 2497 +22 - 9 +26 +19 = 6 =16 =14 = 7 =13 5.5 2337
12. Lazarev, Vladimir g RUS 2518 +26 =14 -16 +31 +20 = 4 +13 = 2 - 1 5.5 2361
13. Bosiocic, Marin f CRO 2381 +36 - 1 +22 +21 = 7 =18 -12 +17 =11 5.5 2384
14. Brunello, Sabino f ITA 2373 +30 =12 =15 +33 - 8 +21 =11 - 6 +19 5.5 2339
15. Loncar, Robert m CRO 2390 +35 = 5 =14 +23 - 3 + 9 +27 - 4 - 7 5.0 2337
16. Zufic, Miroslav m CRO 2391 +28 =42 +12 - 1 +32 =11 =17 =18 - 8 5.0 2357
17. Nedimovic, Ljubisa SLO 2217 +49 = 7 = 3 -18 +26 +19 =16 -13 =20 5.0 2316
18. Gyorkos, Lajos m HUN 2424 +39 -19 +43 +17 - 5 =13 +23 =16 - 9 5.0 2257
19. De Val, Daniele ITA 2155 +44 +18 - 2 -11 +22 -17 +25 +34 -14 5.0 2255
20. Trtanj, Tina wm CRO 2137 +46 -10 =25 +40 -12 +32 - 6 +37 =17 5.0 2231
21. Cedriano, Filippo ITA 2005 +48 +38 - 4 -13 +35 -14 =37 =31 +24 5.0 2130
22. Bevilacqua, Andrea ITA 1978 -11 +30 -13 +49 -19 +35 +42 - 9 +31 5.0 2166
23. Stantic, Severino ITA 2064 +50 - 6 +28 -15 =46 +40 -18 =33 +34 5.0 2177
24. Tonel, Giulia ITA 1793 - 6 =40 +36 -32 -25 +28 +29 +43 -21 4.5 2054
25. Arcion,Riccardo ITA ---- - 7 +44 =20 -27 +24 =37 -19 +42 =26 4.5 2078
26. Punteri, Marco ITA 1985 -12 +36 -11 +41 -17 +43 - 9 +35 =25 4.5 2153
27. Varini, Massimo ITA 2080 +40 - 2 -33 +25 +39 +46 -15 - 8 =28 4.5 2132
28. Plani,Andrea ITA ---- -16 +48 -23 +29 -42 -24 +38 +36 =27 4.5 2042
29. Samuelli, Daniele ITA 1986 - 5 +34 -31 -28 =49 +41 -24 +46 +33 4.5 2021
30. Cozzarin,Davide ITA ---- -14 -22 -47 -38 +45 +48 +39 =32 +41 4.5 2052
31. Brunello, Roberta ITA 1837 - 2 +46 +29 -12 - 9 =33 +40 =21 -22 4.0 2076
32. Bosiocic, Marko CRO 2121 +45 - 4 =37 +24 -16 -20 -34 =30 +44 4.0 2037
33. Pasquotto,Mirko ITA ---- - 4 +47 +27 -14 -43 =31 +46 =23 -29 4.0 2037
34. Omerzel,Nikola SLO ---- - 8 -29 -46 +50 +47 +39 +32 -19 -23 4.0 2035
35. Oblak,Mitja ITA ---- -15 +50 =39 =42 -21 -22 +44 -26 +37 4.0 2004
36. Brunello,Marina ITA ---- -13 -26 -24 +48 =41 +49 =43 -28 +42 4.0 1980
37. Batic,Aleskander SLO ---- -10 +41 =32 - 8 +44 =25 =21 -20 -35 3.5 2041
38. Grobovsek, Ivan SLO 2000 - 1 -21 -44 +30 -40 +45 -28 =39 +47 3.5 1988
39. Grudina,Marco ITA ---- -18 =45 =35 +47 -27 -34 -30 =38 +46 3.5 1976
40. Devetak,Robert ITA ---- -27 =24 +45 -20 +38 -23 -31 -41 +50 3.5 1910
41. Costariol,Elena ITA ---- - 9 -37 +48 -26 =36 -29 +47 +40 -30 3.5 1935
42. Padjen, Zdenko CRO 2068 +47 =16 - 7 =35 +28 . -22 -25 -36 3.0 2020
43. Milinkovic, Zdravko SLO 1980 - 3 +49 -18 =44 +33 -26 =36 -24 . 3.0 2000
44. Vecchiet,Gianfranco ITA ---- -19 -25 +38 =43 -37 =47 -35 +48 -32 3.0 1903
45. Gergolet,Jan ITA ---- -32 =39 -40 -46 -30 -38 =50 +51 +48 3.0 1888
46. Zerial,Marino ITA ---- -20 -31 +34 +45 =23 -27 -33 -29 -39 2.5 1845
47. Costariol,Mario ITA ---- -42 -33 +30 -39 -34 =44 -41 +50 -38 2.5 1841
48. Rozmann,Glauco ITA ---- -21 -28 -41 -36 +50 -30 +51 -44 -45 2.0 1780
49. Decleva,Gianni ITA ---- -17 -43 +50 -22 =29 -36 . . . 1.5 1833
50. Crivellari,Lucio ITA ---- -23 -35 -49 -34 -48 +51 =45 -47 -40 1.5 1734
51. BYE ---- . . . . . -50 -48 -45 . 0.0
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The European Youth Championships take place in Herceg Novi, Serbia and
Montenegro September 13-28th, 2005.
Further details: http://www.scgchess.org/euro2005/index.html
Leading Standings in the top groups
European Youth Chess Championship - Boys U18
Round 5 Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score
1 Rodshtein, Maxim ISR 2459 5
2 Czarnota, Pawel POL 2461 im 4.5
3-4 Laznicka, Viktor CZE 2517 im 4
Tukhaev, Adam UKR 2438 4
5-12 Lovkov, Roman RUS 2383 fm 3.5
Pashikian, Arman ARM 2442 im 3.5
Lanin, Alexsei RUS 2424 3.5
Valeanu, Eduard-Andrei ROM 2398 3.5
Nechepurenko, Roman V. RUS 2414 fm 3.5
Ponkratov, Pavel RUS 2377 3.5
Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2519 3.5
Brandenburg, Daan NED 2371 3.5
13-28 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 2502 im 3
Pancevski, Filip MKD 2319 3
Movsisian, Vardan ARM 2233 3
Hambartsumian, Yuri ARM 2186 3
Azaladze, Shota GEO 2358 3
Stopa, Jacek POL 2460 3
Moranda, Wojciech POL 2453 fm 3
Velchev, Hristo BUL 2212 3
Zorko, Jure SLO 2335 fm 3
Gavariev, Renat RUS 2294 fm 3
Erdos, Viktor HUN 2499 im 3
Bogosavljevic, Boban SCG 2302 3
Ragger, Markus AUT 2434 fm 3
Mamikonian, Tigran ARM 2273 3
Luch, Michal POL 2414 im 3
Papin, Vasily RUS 2425 fm 3
66 players
European Youth Chess Championship - Boys U16
Round 5 Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score
1-2 Trofimov, Sergey P. RUS 2411 4.5
Nakhapetiane, Pogos RUS 2325 4.5
3-7 Andriasian, Zaven ARM 2412 im 4
Margvelashvili, Giorgi GEO 2353 fm 4
Zadruzny, Nicolaj SWE 2077 4
Potapov, Pavel RUS 2285 4
Levin, Evgeny A. RUS 2303 4
8-19 Matsenko, Sergei RUS 2257 3.5
Jojua, Davit GEO 2337 fm 3.5
Saric, Ivan CRO 2284 3.5
Spoelman, Wouter NED 2365 3.5
Warakomski, Tomasz POL 2375 fm 3.5
Lintchevski, Daniil RUS 2332 3.5
Monsieux, Cyril FRA 2206 3.5
Krcal, Michal CZE 2025 3.5
Brener, Ilja GER 2316 fm 3.5
Figura, Atila Gajo GER 2277 3.5
Edouard, Romain FRA 2334 3.5
Caspi, Israel ISR 2241 3.5
72 players
European Youth Chess Championship - Girls U18 -
Round 5 Standings
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score
1-2 Melia, Salome GEO 2305 wgm 4.5
Purtseladze, Maka GEO 2313 im 4.5
3-6 Rogule, Laura LAT 2310 wim 4
Vasiliev, Olga ISR 2202 wim 4
Batsiashvili, Nino GEO 2316 wim 4
Burtasova, Anna RUS 2239 wim 4
7-12 Czarnota, Dorota POL 2238 wim 3.5
Rozic, Vesna SLO 2192 wfm 3.5
Kovanova, Baira RUS 2321 3.5
Dolzhikova, Kateryna UKR 2248 wim 3.5
Djukic, Sandra SCG 2095 3.5
Borosova, Zuzana SVK 2222 3.5
13-18 Lupik, Marina RUS 2200 3
Padurariu, Ioana-Smaranda ROM 2197 3
Guichard, Pauline FRA 2103 3
Markantonaki, Haritomeni GRE 2115 3
Khudaya, Aliaksandra BLR 2117 3
Rudolf, Anna HUN 2210 wim 3
50 players
The final part of the Iranian Championship takes place in Tehran
10th-20th September 2005. This is a 12 player round robin tournament, the
winner also will qualify for the Asian Individual ch. 2005 in India. Time
control is FIDE standard (90'+30"). News: Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.
Official site: http://www.iranchess.com/indexen.htm
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ch-IRI Tehran IRI (IRI), 11-21 ix 2005 cat. II (2297)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1. Khaghani, Mehdi IRI 2311 * . = 1 . 1 = . . . . 1 4.0 2518
2. Mahjoob, Morteza m IRI 2442 . * . . = . . = 1 1 1 . 4.0 2523
3. Sharbaf, Mohsen f IRI 2346 = . * . . . . 1 1 = 0 . 3.0 2338
4. Ghorbani, Mohsen m IRI 2340 0 . . * . = 1 . . . 1 = 3.0 2325
5. Darban, Morteza f IRI 2397 . = . . * . . 0 = 1 . 1 3.0 2364
6. Mahdavirad, Mehdi IRI 2228 0 . . = . * . 1 = . 1 . 3.0 2339
7. Mahmoody, M. Sadegh IRI 2228 = . . 0 . . * = . . 1 1 3.0 2355
8. Ardeshi, Mehrdad f IRI 2265 . = 0 . 1 0 = * . . . . 2.0 2256
9. Toufighi, Homayoon IRI 2170 . 0 0 . = = . . * = . . 1.5 2200
10. Mohajerin, Payman f IRI 2334 . 0 = . 0 . . . = * . = 1.5 2172
11. Doostkam, P IRI 2250 . 0 1 0 . 0 0 . . . * . 1.0 2076
12. Soozankar, A.M IRI 2251 0 . . = 0 . 0 . . = . * 1.0 2082
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The 13th Albacete Open took place 1st-7th September 2005. Renier
Castellanos won the event with 7.5/9. No games available.
Official site:
http://www.ajedrezenmadrid.com/torneos/torneo.asp?torneo=05090100
Final Round 9 Standings:
1 Castellanos, Renier m CHI 7.5 46.5 51.0
2 Rivas Pastor, Manuel g ESP 7 49.5 53.5
3 Vera, Reynaldo g CUB 6.5 46.5 51.0
4 Rodriguez Guerrero, Enrique m ESP 6.5 44.5 47.5
5 Vitor, Antonio f POR 6.5 41.5 44.5
6 Suba, Mihai g ROM 6 49.0 53.5
7 Oratovsky, Michael g ISR 6 48.5 53.0
8 Mateo, Ramón m DOM 6 48.0 52.5
9 Movsziszian, Karen g ARM 6 47.5 51.0
10 Saldaño Dayer, Horacio m ARG 6 46.5 51.0
11 Cabrera Pino, Alexis g COL 6 46.5 50.5
12 Zambrana, Oswaldo m BOL 6 46.0 49.0
13 Llanes Hurtado, Miguel f ESP 6 45.0 49.0
14 Camarena Gimenez, Rufino f ESP 6 44.0 48.5
15 Vehi Bach, Víctor Manuel m ESP 6 43.5 47.5
16 Gomez Baillo, Jorge H. m ARG 6 43.0 47.5
17 Spassov, Liuben g BUL 5.5 46.5 51.0
18 Fernandez Siles, Luis f ESP 5.5 46.5 50.5
19 Cuenca Jimenez, José f ESP 5.5 43.5 46.5
20 Avila Jimenez, Javier ESP 5.5 43.5 45.0
21 Alonso Fernandez, Marcos ESP 5.5 43.0 47.5
22 Camacho Calle, Pedro ESP 5.5 41.0 43.5
23 Jimenez Martinez, José Vicente ESP 5.5 40.5 42.5
24 Picazo Lopez, Juan Antonio ESP 5.5 40.5 41.0
25 Delgado Alarcon, Jesús Francisco ESP 5.5 36.5 39.5
79 players
The 4th Kesarovski - Georgiev Memorial, takes place in Sunny Beach,
Bulgaria 16th-24th September b2005. 84 players including 7 GMs and 14 IMs
compete.
Official site: http://www.chessmix.com/sunnybeach05/
The Golden Blitz Cup took place on September 13th-14th 2005 in Moscow.
In the final of the men's event, Ponomariov (who won against Tkachiev in the
1/2 finals and Grischuk in the 1/4 finals) won against Bareev (who won against
Tregubov in the 1/2 finals and Short in the 1/4 finals). In the semi-finals
were Tkachev (who won against Motylev in the 1/4 finals) and Tregubov (who won
against Pelletier in the 1/4 finals).
In the final of the women, Alexandra Kosteniuk beat Almira Skripchenko
2-0. In the semi-finals Kosteniuk beat Zhu Chen 2-0 and Skripchenko beat Irina
Krush. The event was on live TV (NTV+) in Russia.
Further details: http://www.kosteniuk.com/ and the official
announcement
http://www.chess-players.org/eng/news/viewarticle.html?id=426
and in Russian here: http://vvprofi.ru/news.php. A nice and
complete photo album of the event is here:
http://www.kosteniuk.com/albums/goldenblitz/goldenblitz05.html
The IX Taca Brasilia Clube de Xadrez took place in Brasília/DF,
Brasil 4th-11th September 2005. IM Everaldo Matsuura won 9/11.
Results, cross table are available at:
http://www.persocom.com.br/bcx
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IX Taca BCX Brasilia BRA (BRA), 4-11 ix 2005
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1. Matsuura, Everaldo m BRA 2453 9 57.0 67.0 54.25 58.0
2. Lima, Darcy g BRA 2535 8 58.5 72.0 52.25 46.0
4. Valle, Adriano BRA 2270 7 57.0 70.5 44.00 46.5
3. Lebredo, Gerardo m CUB 2300 7 56.5 70.0 44.50 42.5
5. Crosa, Martin m URU 2415 7 56.5 70.0 41.00 42.0
6. Silveira, Neri BRA 2244 6.5 58.0 71.5 40.50 41.0
7. Lucena, Lincoln BRA 2184 6.5 56.0 67.0 35.50 41.5
8. Marra, Eduardo da Costa BRA 2262 6.5 54.5 65.5 35.75 38.5
9. Da Silva, Alessandro Rodrigues BRA 2238 6.5 54.5 64.5 28.25 37.5
10. Damasceno, Marlos A BRA 2171 6.5 45.5 53.5 27.50 34.5
11. Andrade, Roberto Luiz Costa f BRA 2261 6 53.0 64.0 32.00 37.5
10. De Andrade, Waldemiro BRA 2185 6 47.5 56.5 28.25 37.0
13. Januario, Severino BRA 2099 6 43.0 50.5 22.25 29.0
14. Reis, Ernesto BRA 2016 5.5 48.0 56.0 17.50 35.5
15. Nascimento, Davi BRA 2153 5.5 47.0 57.5 22.50 30.5
16. Pimentel, William BRA 2126 5 50.0 60.0 17.75 32.5
17. Rocha, Tarciso BRA 1954 5 48.0 57.0 17.50 29.0
18. Sales, Espedito BRA 2038 5 48.0 57.0 15.00 31.0
19. Coutinho, Sidnei Bissacot BRA 2208 5 45.0 53.0 16.75 29.0
20. Matozo,Paulo Adriano BRA ---- 4.5 48.0 55.5 21.00 28.0
21. Andrade,Felipe BRA ---- 4 45.0 53.5 15.00 19.0
22. Machado, Gilmar Dias BRA 2037 2.5 49.5 59.5 3.50 19.0
23. Baeta,Andre BRA ---- 1.5 46.0 54.5 3.00 7.0
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There was a 9 player double round Autumn tournament in Alushta, Ukraine,
4th-14th September 2005. Valeriy Aveskulov and Yaroslav Zinchenko both finished
on 11.5/16.
Autumn 1 Alushta UKR (UKR), 4-14 ix 2005 cat. VIII (2435)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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1 Aveskulov, Valeriy m UKR 2450 ** == == == 1= 11 1= 1= 11 11.5 2599
2 Zinchenko, Yaroslav m UKR 2493 == ** == == == 11 1= 11 11 11.5 2594
3 Kuzmin, Gennadi P g UKR 2514 == == ** == 1= 01 == 1= 1= 9.5 2490
4 Obukhov, Alexander m RUS 2522 == == == ** 10 10 == 11 =1 9.5 2489
5 Ponfilenok, Vladimir RUS 2271 0= == 0= 01 ** == =1 1= 1= 8.5 2477
6 Truskavetsky, Alexandr m UKR 2399 00 00 10 01 == ** == 1= 11 7.5 2419
7 Shtyrenkov, Veniamen g RUS 2459 0= 0= == == =0 == ** == == 6.5 2367
8 Paramonov, Dimitriy BLR 2395 0= 00 0= 00 0= 0= == ** 11 5.0 2299
9 Chuprikov, Dmitry RUS 2416 00 00 0= =0 0= 00 == 00 ** 2.5 2153
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Vladimir Kramnik played from the NAO Chess Club, Paris (France) on
Thursday, September 15th 2005 at 18:00 h. (+1 GMT). Opponents: 8 players. Time
control: 60/30 (Kramnik) , 20/30 (opponents). Chess21 (the internet hosts) and
Kramnik's website have reports.
Further details: http://www.kramnik.com/eng/ and
http://www.chess21.com/news/viewarticle.asp?iCode=1878.
The 25th International Chess Festival "Conca della Presolana" took
place in Bratto (Italy), 20-28 August 2005. Vladimir Epishin took first place
on tie-break from Miso Cebalo with 7/9. These results were given in TWIC 565.
Embarrassingly I didn't pick up the Miles,A given in the PGN section. It should
be Ardaman,M (Miles). I give the game with the name and rating corrected.
Official Internet coverage:
http://www.scaccobratto.com/2005.shtml
FIDE World Championship
The FIDE Championship takes place September 27th - October 16th 2005 at
Potrero de los Funes, San Luis (Argentina). Players: Rustam Kasimdzhanov,
Michael Adams, Peter Leko, Vishy Anand, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Morozevich,
Peter Svidler, and Judit Polgar.
Official site: http://www.wccsanluis.net/home.asp?lang=en
Liberec Open 2005
6th International Chess Festival Liberec Open 2005 take places
22nd-29th October 2005 in Liberec (Czech Republic).
Further details: http://www.czechtour.net
GM against the World - Olympiads of Chess, Turin 2006
Sergio Mariotti is the first Grand Master to take on the world from the
official Turin Olympiad website starting on 29th September 2005. Just Register
on the Olympiad website and wait to receive your password by email. Then Enter
the game in PlayArea/play on line
Further details: http://www.chessolympiad-torino2006.org
World Inter-Varsity Chess Championship
The Rakan Muda Gacc World Inter-Varsity Chess Championship takes place
at the Second Residential College University Of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia. i. All teams are expected to arrive in Malaysia not later than 6 Dec
2005 and expected to depart earliest on 14 Dec 2005.Participation in GACC World
Inter-Varsity Chess Championship is open to all BONA FIDE representatives from
universities and colleges. GACC will be conducted as an individual Swiss event.
The accumulated results of the best 4(four) individuals from the same
university (which is inclusive of at least one female player) will be
accumulated for the team results. This format is to encourage more female
players to participate. Each University or Institute can send two teams if they
wish to.
Contact details: TEL: 03-7957 1706 . FAX: 03-7957 1608 E-MAIL:
gacc_10@yahoo.com
Official site: http://tcn.sourceforge.net
10th Cesenatico International
The 10th Cesenatico International Chess Tournament took place 3rd-11th
September 2005. Couldn't find games and results.
Further info: http://www.antiquascom.it
Brno Fair Trade Chess Festival
The Fair Trade Chess Festival 2005 in Brno had 2 closed GM groups, 1
closed IM group, open A (FIDE), open B (national) 28th August - 7th September
2005. Couldn't find results or games.
Further details: http://volny.cz/skduras
Scandinavian Chess Tournament Grand Prix 2005
Scandinavian Chess Tournament Grand Prix 2005. (3 Tournaments) Tallinn,
Estonia 26-27 March 2005. Mariehamn, Aland (Finland) 1-2 October 2005 (5000
Euro Prize fund, 1st Prize 900 Euro) 11 rounds 15 minutes games with time
handicap, Täby, Sweden 10-11 December 2005. 1st prize 12 000 SEK , 25
minutes games Besides the normal prizes there will be 5 Grand Prix-prizes:
30.000 SEK, 22.000 SEK, 15.000 SEK, 10.000 SEK, 5.000 SEK.
Information: http://www.scandinavian-chess.se
New RSS Chess Website
Chess Samizdat is a new portal which offers free syndicated chess
content to the world via JS and RSS feed.
http://www.correspondencechess.com/samizdat/
Seagaard ChessReviews
Soren Sogaard announces that his site Seagaard ChessReviews will no
longer be updated.
His letter: Dear reader! This is the last "newsletter" you receive from
Seagaard ChessReviews. I have run the site for 5½ years, but now I no
longer have the time to keep running the site. I have looked for sponsors for
some time now, but I didn't succeed. Without these sponsors it is not easy to
run the site. It was a hard decision, but the site, products and reviews will
still be there for you - I just stop reviewing the products that I receive. If
I receive products in the future, I will still store them in the database.
However, I will writ eto the publishers that the site is closing so don't count
on a lot of new products ;-) Thanks to all the people who supported me during
the years. I am happy that more than 320 people now subscribes to the
newsletter and that we have + 70.000 hits every week. All the best Soren
Sogaard - Seagaard ChessReviews
Website: http://seagaard.dk/review
Scanno Italy
SCANNO (ITALY) GM-IM closed tournaments, 7th-13th of November, Scanno,
50 km West from Pescara, info: IO Nagy Laszlo - e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net
Highlands Open Czech Republic
2nd International Chess Festival Open Highlands will take place on 24th
September - 2nd October 2005 in the Havlickuv Brod town (the Czech Republic)
which part is open FIDE with the possibility to participate for all applicants.
The festival is part of the 5th CZECH TOUR 2005/2006 Series.
More detailed information should be found at the address
http://www.czechtour.net.
Caissa Events September - October
The Caissa tournaments take place in Kecskemét (HUN) 17th-26th
September 2005 and 15th-24th October 2005... IM round robin and/or FM tmt, more
info http://www.caissachessbooks.com.
Contact Dr. Tamas Erdelyi caissa@axelero.hu.
Bratto della Presolana
Bratto della Presolana is a small mountain town 40 km from Bergamo,
Italy. 15 GMs in the Master Group. There will be also Italian Female
Championship and Italian Under 20 Championship.
Games, news, and Bulletin: http://www.scaccobratto.com/
Liepajas rokade
Liepajas rokade, the biggest chess festival in the Baltics took place
from 11th to 14th of August 2005 in Liepaja Latvia. Loek van Wely won the main
all-play-all rapid event. I will hopefully be able to round up the games at
some point.
English http://www.liepajniekiem.lv/?doc=19684
and Latvian http://www.liepajniekiem.lv/?doc=19681
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
4th Galway Chess Congress
The 4th Galway Chess Congress takes place October 7th-9th 2005 at the 4
star Corrib Great Southern hotel in Galway (Ireland). The prize fund is 10,000
Euros or approx £6,800. There will be 4 tournaments for different rating
sections with a 2000 Euro (£1300) first prize in the top section and
significant prizes for the other sections including generous grading prizes.
There are now direct flights to Galway from London, Manchester and Edinburgh so
we're hoping to perhaps have some visitors from the UK.
Further details: http://www.galwaychess.com
Moscow Open 2006
The International Chess Festival "Moscow Open 2006" takes place in
Moscow, Russia, 29.01 (31.01, 01.02) - 06.02. 2006. A stage of the Moscow Grand
Prix 2006 (http://www.chessmoscow.ru),
Russia Cup 2006 (http://www.russiachess.ru) and the ACP
Tour 2005-2006 (http://www.chess-players.org)
Contacts: e-mail: mcf06@bk.ru Mr. Igor Glek (IGM, ACP Board Member):
igorglek@hotmail.com, phone/fax: +49-2013162843, +7-0953883328. Mr. Alexander
Zlochevsky (IGM, Coach of the Moscow Chess Team): zloch@rambler.ru, phone/fax:
+7-095-3650757
Further details: http://www.chessmoscow.ru
European Team Championship
In addition to Olympiad history there is now European Team Championship
history (1957-2005) available at: http://www.olimpbase.org
Odessa Open - Geller Memorial
Odessa Open - Geller Memorial Two open tournaments will take place in
Odessa, Ukraine from 15 - 24 September 2005. The prize fund of A-Open will be
3475 USD (1st prize 1000 USD). The prize fund of B-Open will will be 525 USD.
Details in Russian are available at:
http://www.chesspage.kiev.ua Contact
with organisers: lvv@sky.od.ua, nik@sadt.od.ua
Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship
Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship, 2005-2006 The
starter round of this competition has now finished and the solution to the
starter problem, and other details, is available at the website:
http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/0506/bcsc.html
Coral Springs IM
Jon Haskel is running an IM Norm Round Robin in Coral Springs, Florida
on September 17, 18, 19, 24 and 25. There will be 1 round on the 19th and 2
rounds on each of the other days. The time control will be 90 minutes with a 30
second increment. He needs 3 players from foreign federations. Contact: Jon
Haskel jon@bocachess.com
Houston Open - Cajun Chess Events
A number of events are planned in the coming weeks in the Houston,
Charlotte and Orlando areas.
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/
58th Quebec Open Championship
IM Jean Hébert was the joint winner of the 58th Quebec Open
Championship with 6.5/9, with Antoine Berube, Simon Gravel, and FM Vahagn
Voskanyan. The tournament is usually Canada's largest open event, although this
year its 195 players ranked it just behind the Canadian Open for attendance.
Hopefully I can round up all the games at some point.
Games and results: http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/
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
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
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
Peter Leko Official Site
Peter Leko now has a web site. http://www.lekochess.com/
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.
Hungarian Tournaments September - December 2005
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
1 3rd-15th of September FS GM-IM-FM Budapest, org: NL
2. 1st-13th of October, FS GM-IM-FM, Budapest L
3. 5th-17th of November, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest
4. 3rd - 15th of December, FS GM-IM-FM.
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/
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
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
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/
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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