THE WEEK IN CHESS 568 26th September 2005 by Mark Crowther
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My thanks to John Saunders, Andrea Malfagia, Kurpnieks Vairis, Mikhail
Golubev, Doru Ionescu, Bognar Csaba, Hernán Sartori, Mogens Nielsen,
Adolivio Capece, James Alvis, Eugeny Atarov, Goran Tomic, Dr. Hesham Elgendy,
Stéphane Laborde, Giovanni Carlo Liistro, Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr,
Lahcene Chemali, Greg Shahade, Gary Suffield, George Mastrokoukos, Jovan
Petronic and everyone else who helped with the issue.
The first round of the FIDE World Championships in San Luis (Argentina).
I have to say I'm surprised both by the strength and format of the event and
there is no doubt the winner will have a lot of credibility. Whilst the FIDE
President has stated the winner could meet Vladimir Kramnik to tie up loose
ends he is in a strong position as the players have agreed to stick with FIDE
after the event and not play Kramnik without FIDE's permission. Kramnik had a
modest success at the European Club Cup with his +1=3 score gaining him some
rating points. Nevertheless he really needs a major success or he could end up
being sidelined. As to the San Luis Match tournament its format is similar to
the 1948 World Championship Match tournament and the Candidates tournaments
1950-62. These events split almost down the middle with half of them being
exciting events with lots of decisive results and half being full of bore
draws. A case could be made for almost all the competitors winning the event
given the right form but you'd be hard pushed to look beyond Anand, Topalov and
Leko as pre-event favourites. That said I don't believe Kasparov's estimation
of 95% chances for one of the three of them winning, 75% would be as far as I'd
go. I'm excited, and looking forward to Wednesday.
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
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. TWIC coverage:
http://www.chesscenter.com/event/wchfide05/index.html
Chesspro.ru have some interesting stats on the event:
http://www.chesspro.ru/events/sanluis05-stat.shtml
Schedule: Opening Ceremony Sept 27th 2005 Rounds 1-4 Sept
28th-Oct 1st Rounds 5-8 Oct 3rd-6th Rounds 9-12 Oct 8th-11th Rounds 13-14 and
tie-breaks Oct 13th-15th Closing Ceremony Oct 16th.
Time Control: 40 moves in 2 hours, followed by 20 moves in one
hour, followed by 15 minutes plus 30 seconds for all moves (40/2h, 20/1h,
15m+30sec/all).
The European Club Cup TOOK place September 18th-24th 2005 in the little
mountain town of Saint-Vincent (Aosta Valley, very famous due to the
Casinò). Time control: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves plus 15 minutes
to finish plus 30 seconds increment starting from move 1. The top three teams
all finished with a +6 -1 record. Tomsk-400 lost narrowly in the final round to
Polonia Plus GSM but still hung on to first place from them. Favourites NAO
Chess Club took third. NTN Tbilisi won the women's event.
Official site: http://www.scacchivda.com/
21st European Club Cup 2005 St. Vincent, Aosta / Italy
Men's Round 7 Final Standings:
Rank Team + = - MP Pts.
1 Tomsk-400 6 0 1 12 29½
2 Polonia Plus GSM 6 0 1 12 29
3 NAO Chess Club 6 0 1 12 27½
4 Ural 4 2 1 10 28
5 Werder Bremen 5 0 2 10 27
6 TV Tegernsee 4 2 1 10 25½
7 I & A Tbilisi 4 2 1 10 24½
8 TPS 5 0 2 10 24½
9 Ashdod City Club 4 1 2 9 25½
10 Beer Sheva Chess Club 4 1 2 9 25½
11 Union Ansfelden 4 1 2 9 25½
12 SK Rockaden Stockholm 4 1 2 9 25
13 KSK 47 Eynatten 4 1 2 9 24½
14 Csuti-Hydroc.Zalaegerszeg 4 1 2 9 21½
15 HMC Calder 4 0 3 8 25½
16 Ladya Kazan 4 0 3 8 25
17 Vesnianka Minsk 4 0 3 8 24
18 Marmaris Munic. SC 3 2 2 8 23½
19 LSG 3 2 2 8 22
20 SK Alkaloid Skopje 3 2 2 8 21½
21 Zeljeznicar Chess Club 4 0 3 8 20½
22 Buducnost Podgorica 3 1 3 7 23½
23 SG Biel-Bienne 3 1 3 7 21
24 Eczacibasi Istanbul 3 1 3 7 20½
25 SF Neukoelln 3 1 3 7 20
26 ASA Penne 2 3 2 7 18½
27 Rochade Eupen-Kelmis 3 0 4 6 23
28 Sparkasse Schwarzach 3 0 4 6 22½
29 Reykjavik ChessClub 2 2 3 6 21½
30 Chess Cl."NSEL30"Vilnius 2 2 3 6 21½
31 Matinkylan Shakkikerho 3 0 4 6 19
32 Hellir 2 2 3 6 19
33 C.E. Dudelange 3 0 4 6 19
34 Oslo Schakselskap 2 2 3 6 18
35 Barbican London 3 0 4 6 18
36 Jyvas-Shakki 3 0 4 6 17½
37 Cercle Royal de Liege 3 0 4 6 16½
38 Asker Sjakklubb 2 1 4 5 19
39 Cardiff Chess Club 2 1 4 5 18½
40 SK1968 Aarhus 1 2 4 4 18
41 Klubi shahut Prishtina 2 0 5 4 17½
42 Niederrohrdorf 1 2 4 4 16½
43 Limhamns SK 2 0 5 4 16
44 "de Sprenger" Echternach 2 0 5 4 14
45 KSH Mitrovica 2 0 5 4 13½
46 Phibsboro Chess Club 1 1 5 3 14
47 Ennis 1 0 6 2 7
48 Cwmbran Chess Club 0 0 7 0 10
10th European Club Cup for Women 2005
St. Vincent, Aosta / Italy
Women's Final Round 7 Standings
Rank Team + = - MP Pts.
1 NTN Tbilisi 4 2 1 10 18½
2 Southern Ural 4 2 1 10 18
3 Internet CG Podgorica 4 2 1 10 16½
4 BAS Beograd 3 3 1 9 15
5 FINEK St. Petersburg 4 1 2 9 14½
6 Platina 4 1 2 9 13
7 MTK Budapest 4 0 3 8 15½
8 AVS 3 1 3 7 16
9 MIKA Yerevan 3 0 4 6 13½
10 Obudovac 1 1 5 3 7
11 Stukkenjagers 1 1 5 3 6½
The 14th Monarch Assurance tournament takes place in Port Erin 24th
September - 2nd October 2005. The event is in its early stages with 13 players
on 2/2. My thanks to John Saunders for the news and games.
Official site: http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/monarch2005/
Round 2 Standings:
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14th Monarch Assurance Port Erin IOM (IOM), 24 ix-2 x 2005
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1 BRODSKY,Michail UKR g 2554 2
2 EPISHIN,Vladimir RUS g 2600 2
3 GORMALLY,Daniel ENG g 2557 2
4 IKONNIKOV,Vyacheslav RUS g 2560 2
5 KIDAMBI,Sundararajan IND m 2484 2
6 KOBALIA,Mikhail RUS g 2614 2
7 KORNEEV,Oleg RUS g 2594 2
8 KUZUBOV,Yuri UKR m 2535 2
9 PALLISER,Richard JD ENG m 2389 2
10 SHABALOV,Alexander USA g 2593 2
11 TIVIAKOV,Sergei NED g 2678 2
12 ULIBIN,Mikhail RUS g 2529 2
13 WELLS,Peter ENG g 2529 2
14 BOBRAS,Piotr POL m 2525 1½
15 DAVID,Alberto LUX g 2579 1½
16 GALKIN,Alexander RUS g 2598 1½
17 GHAEM MAGHAMI,Ehsan IRI g 2603 1½
18 GOLETIANI,Rusudan USA wg 2332 1½
19 GUPTA,Abhijeet IND m 2380 1½
20 KLENBURG,Mikhail UKR m 2400 1½
21 KOLBUS,Dietmar GER m 2416 1½
22 KRITZ,Leonid GER g 2544 1½
23 KUNIN,Vitaly GER m 2448 1½
24 LALIC,Bogdan CRO g 2491 1½
25 MIKHALEVSKI,Victor ISR g 2572 1½
26 POSTNY,Evgeny ISR g 2559 1½
27 SULSKIS,Sarunas LTU g 2535 1½
28 YAKOVICH,Yuri RUS g 2560 1½
29 AAGAARD,Jacob DEN m 2442 1
30 ADLY,Ahmed EGY g 2503 1
31 ALLEN,Keith IRL 2210 1
32 ARESHCHENKO,Alexander UKR g 2625 1
33 ASHTON,Adam ENG 2294 1
34 BOSBOOM-LANCHAVA,Tea NED m 2363 1
35 COX,John ENG f 2385 1
36 DUHAYON,Yves BEL 2230 1
37 DWORAKOWSKA,Joanna POL m 2401 1
38 ERENBURG,Sergey ISR g 2595 1
39 FAIRBAIRN,Steve CAN 2065 1
40 FRIDMAN,Daniel LAT g 2566 1
41 GRANT,Alan SCO 2152 1
42 GREET,Andrew N ENG m 2425 1
43 GROFFEN,Hans NED 2210 1
44 HANLEY,Craig ENG m 2367 1
45 HOWELL,David W ENG m 2471 1
46 HUGHES,Howard R ENG 2194 1
47 KOGAN,Artur ISR g 2580 1
48 KONONENKO,Tatiana UKR wg 2442 1
49 LOHOU,Stephane FRA 2144 1
50 MALAKHATKO,Vadim UKR g 2556 1
51 MARTIN,Katie ENG 1953 1
52 MIRZOEVA,Elmira RUS wg 2223 1
53 NEELOTPAL,Das IND m 2467 1
54 NEGI,Parimarjan IND 2376 1
55 NEUBAUER,Martin AUT m 2468 1
56 PEEK,Marcel NED m 2373 1
57 RADOVANOVIC,Jovica SCG f 2357 1
58 ROEDER,Mathias GER m 2393 1
59 SAREEN,Vishal IND m 2385 1
60 SMITH,Andrew P IRL f 2204 1
61 SPENCE,David ENG 2218 1
62 WALTHER,Cliff GER 2175 1
63 ZATONSKIH,Anna USA wg 2435 1
64 ZIMMERMAN,Yuri RUS m 2375 1
65 ZUDE,Erik GER f 2424 1
66 ADAMS,Phil ENG 2138 ½
67 BENNION,David A WLS 2074 ½
68 DUNN,Andrew ENG c 2197 ½
69 FOX,Pierre BEL 1815 ½
70 FRASER-MITCHELL,Jeremy ENG 2098 ½
71 GLADYSZEV,Oleg RUS m 2436 ½
72 GOODGER,Martyn ENG 2162 ½
73 KIRSCHBAUM,Gunnar GER 2204 ½
74 MANNION,Steve R SCO m 2331 ½
75 PERIC,Slavisa SCG m 2280 ½
76 VITOUX,Colomban FRA 2264 ½
77 WERNER,Gert DEN 2047 ½
78 YOUNG,Mel ENG 1971 ½
79 ZOZULIA,Anna UKR m 2314 ½
80 DE LAGONTRIE,Jean FRA 1988 0
81 FOX,Anthony IRL 2118 0
82 HENDERIKSE,Bert NED 2028 0
83 HENRICHSEN,Jens DEN 2075 0
84 HEYL,Thomas GER 2101 0
85 HICKMAN,John ENG 2115 0
86 HUTCHINSON,Norman ENG 2097 0
87 MARKS,Ian A SCO 1889 0
88 MCKENZIE,Mark AUS 0
89 NICHOLSON,John IRL 2000 0
90 RUSTON,Mark ENG 2116 0
91 SPANTON,Tim ENG 2032 0
92 WADEMARK,Helge SWE 2182 0
The Arab Individual Championships took place 12th-20th September 2005 in
Dubai Chess Club. 42 players ( 22 men & 20 women ) participated in the Arab
championships for men & women, held in Dubai, UAE 12th-21st September 2005
and organised by UAE Chess Fedration. 17-year-old IM Bassem Amin of Egypt won
the championship title and the GM norm with 6.5 points. Five players tied for
second spot with 6 points: IM Al-Sayed Nasser (Qatar), IM El-Taher Fouad , GM
Slim Belkhodja of Tunisia , GM Ahmed Adly ( Egypt) and GM Taleb Moussa (UAE)
The women championship was won by WIM Al-Rufei Eman of Iraq with 8 points. WIM
Mouradian Knarik was runner up with 7 points, Hind Bahji of Morocco and 11
years old Egyptian talented girl Mona Khaled came third with 6 points each.
News: Hesham Elgendy and Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.
Official sites: http://www.uaechess.org/english/
and http://www.arabfide.com/
Final Round 9 Standings:
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ch-Arab Dubai UAE (UAE), 12-13 ix 2005
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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1. Amin, Bassem m EGY 2400 +22 - 5 =10 +15 + 8 +11 = 4 + 2 = 3 6.5 2562
2. El Taher, Fouad m EGY 2456 + 9 +10 = 5 = 6 = 4 = 3 + 8 - 1 +11 6.0 2550
3. Adly, Ahmed g EGY 2503 +15 + 8 - 4 =18 +10 = 2 = 5 + 6 = 1 6.0 2541
4. Al Sayed, Mohamad N m QAT 2478 +18 +20 + 3 = 5 = 2 + 6 = 1 = 8 - 7 6.0 2523
5. Taleb, Moussa g UAE 2508 +19 + 1 = 2 = 4 - 6 +15 = 3 = 9 +10 6.0 2526
6. Belkhodja, Slim g TUN 2468 =17 +13 +16 = 2 + 5 - 4 +19 - 3 + 9 6.0 2465
7. Hakki, Imad m SYR 2471 -10 +11 -18 = 9 +12 -19 +21 +15 + 4 5.5 2425
8. Tissir, Mohamed m MAR 2444 +21 - 3 +17 +19 - 1 +18 - 2 = 4 =14 5.0 2426
9. Mohammad, Samir f SYR 2312 - 2 +14 -19 = 7 +13 +10 =15 = 5 - 6 4.5 2372
10. Al-Hadarani, Hatim f YEM 2320 + 7 - 2 = 1 +20 - 3 - 9 +16 +18 - 5 4.5 2340
11. Khader, Sami f JOR 2396 =13 - 7 +14 =16 +17 - 1 =18 +19 - 2 4.5 2316
12. Hassan, Abdullah m UAE 2341 -20 -18 +13 =17 - 7 =14 +22 =21 +19 4.5 2254
13. Bouasis, Mehdi TUN 2075 =11 - 6 -12 +22 - 9 =16 +20 +17 =15 4.5 2263
14. Othman, A. Moussa f UAE 2377 -16 - 9 -11 +21 +22 =12 =17 +20 = 8 4.5 2250
15. Najjar, Ahmad f LIB 2339 - 3 +21 +20 - 1 +16 - 5 = 9 - 7 =13 4.0 2244
16. Ayyad, Maher BRN 2074 +14 =17 - 6 =11 -15 =13 -10 +22 =21 4.0 2253
17. Jasim, A.R. Saleh f UAE 2318 = 6 =16 - 8 =12 -11 +21 =14 -13 +22 4.0 2239
18. Henni, Mohamed m ALG 2337 - 4 +12 + 7 = 3 =19 - 8 =11 -10 -20 3.5 2285
19. Hussein, N.A f IRQ 2339 - 5 +22 + 9 - 8 =18 + 7 - 6 -11 -12 3.5 2297
20. Al Hageri,Badr KUW ---- +12 - 4 -15 -10 -21 +22 -13 -14 +18 3.0 2168
21. Bengafer, Moh LBA 2247 - 8 -15 -22 -14 +20 -17 - 7 =12 =16 2.0 2056
22. Ali, Obay SUD 2124 - 1 -19 +21 -13 -14 -20 -12 -16 -17 1.0 1890
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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 +19 +10 +11 = 2 + 3 + 8 + 5 + 9 = 4 8.0 2348
2. Mouradian, Knarik wm LIB 2146 +18 + 6 + 8 = 1 + 9 + 4 - 3 +15 = 5 7.0 2213
3. Bahji,Hind MOR ---- = 9 +14 + 7 = 8 - 1 + 6 + 2 - 4 +12 6.0 2132
4. Mona,Khaled EGY ---- -10 +19 +12 = 6 +11 - 2 +17 + 3 = 1 6.0 2152
5. Mir Mahmoud, Afamia SYR 2021 =14 -11 +15 + 7 = 6 +10 - 1 + 8 = 2 5.5 2095
6. Saleh, Nora Mohd wf UAE ---- +15 - 2 +17 = 4 = 5 - 3 =12 +10 + 9 5.5 2090
7. Toubal,Hayat ALG ---- =16 +13 - 3 - 5 +19 =12 -10 +20 +14 5.0 2033
8. Algildah, Nibal wm SYR 1890 +17 +12 - 2 = 3 +10 - 1 = 9 - 5 =13 4.5 2010
9. Ibrahim, Delbak wm IRQ 1923 = 3 +16 =10 +11 - 2 +17 = 8 - 1 - 6 4.5 2015
10. Fuad, Natalie wm JOR ---- + 4 - 1 = 9 +14 - 8 - 5 + 7 - 6 +20 4.5 1993
11. Basil,Ziana IRQ ---- +13 + 5 - 1 - 9 - 4 -15 =20 +19 +18 4.5 1993
12. Juma,Jamila UAE ---- +20 - 8 - 4 +18 =14 = 7 = 6 +16 - 3 4.5 1987
13. Al-Harmoudi, Mona wm UAE 1896 -11 - 7 +20 -15 +18 -14 +19 +17 = 8 4.5 1987
14. Al Najjar,Hoda SYR ---- = 5 - 3 +16 -10 =12 +13 -15 +18 - 7 4.0 1947
15. Salem,Amna UAE ---- - 6 +21 - 5 +13 -17 +11 +14 - 2 -16 4.0 1964
16. Abdulsalam,Nadhmiya YEM ---- = 7 - 9 -14 -17 +20 +19 =18 -12 +15 4.0 1948
17. Malallah,Khadeja UAE ---- - 8 +18 - 6 +16 +15 - 9 - 4 -13 =19 3.5 1887
18. Al-Ghasra, Dalal BRN ---- - 2 -17 +19 -12 -13 +20 =16 -14 -11 2.5 1838
19. Al Naimat,Rayah JOR ---- - 1 - 4 -18 +20 - 7 -16 -13 -11 =17 1.5 1727
20. Al Hassan,Tissir SUD ---- -12 . -13 -19 -16 -18 =11 - 7 -10 0.5 1543
21. BYE ---- . -15 . . . . . . . 0.0
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The European Youth Championships took place in Herceg Novi, Serbia and
Montenegro September 13-28th, 2005. News: Goran Tomic.
Further details: http://www.scgchess.org/euro2005/index.html
Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Boys U18 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1-2 Czarnota, Pawel POL 7 38.5 49.5 6 35.5
Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 7 36.0 47.0 6 32.0
3-5 Laznicka, Viktor CZE 6.5 40.5 51.0 5 35.5
Tukhaev, Adam UKR 6.5 40.0 51.0 6 36.0
Ragger, Markus AUT 6.5 33.5 43.5 5 30.0
6-10 Rodshtein, Maxim ISR 6 42.5 53.0 5 38.5
Pashikian, Arman ARM 6 38.0 48.5 4 33.0
Lanin, Alexsei RUS 6 37.0 48.0 5 31.5
Erdos, Viktor HUN 6 33.0 43.0 4 28.0
Pavlov, Sergey UKR 6 31.5 40.5 5 25.5
11-18 Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 5.5 37.0 48.0 4 31.0
Azaladze, Shota GEO 5.5 36.5 47.0 4 28.0
Lovkov, Roman RUS 5.5 35.5 46.0 4 30.0
Moranda, Wojciech POL 5.5 35.5 43.5 3 29.0
Nechepurenko, Roman V. RUS 5.5 35.0 44.0 4 31.0
Llaneza Vega, Marcos ESP 5.5 34.0 43.5 5 25.0
Vass, Frantisek SVK 5.5 33.5 43.0 4 27.5
Broekmeulen, Jasper NED 5.5 30.5 39.5 4 23.0
19-30 Movsisian, Vardan ARM 5 37.0 48.0 2 27.0
Brandenburg, Daan NED 5 36.5 45.5 3 27.5
Gavariev, Renat RUS 5 36.0 45.5 4 26.5
Nithander, Victor SWE 5 36.0 45.5 3 23.0
Valeanu, Eduard-Andrei ROM 5 35.0 45.0 4 28.0
Ponkratov, Pavel RUS 5 35.0 44.5 4 29.0
Hambartsumian, Yuri ARM 5 34.0 44.5 3 24.5
Zorko, Jure SLO 5 33.5 44.5 3 26.0
Luch, Michal POL 5 32.5 41.5 2 26.5
Papin, Vasily RUS 5 32.0 41.5 5 24.0
Stopa, Jacek POL 5 32.0 41.0 1 27.0
Abdulov, Orkhan AZE 5 31.0 39.5 4 22.0
66 players
Boys U16 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1-2 Andriasian, Zaven ARM 7 42.5 54.0 6 36.5
Jojua, Davit GEO 7 36.5 46.5 6 34.0
3-7 Trofimov, Sergey P. RUS 6.5 42.0 54.0 5 37.0
Rakhmanov, Aleksandr RUS 6.5 38.0 48.5 6 30.5
Monsieux, Cyril FRA 6.5 38.0 46.5 6 31.0
Warakomski, Tomasz POL 6.5 37.0 47.0 4 33.0
Spoelman, Wouter NED 6.5 36.0 46.5 6 33.5
8-14 Nakhapetiane, Pogos RUS 6 40.5 51.5 5 36.5
Potapov, Pavel RUS 6 39.0 49.5 4 32.0
Edouard, Romain FRA 6 37.0 47.5 4 31.5
Margvelashvili, Giorgi GEO 6 37.0 47.0 5 33.5
Levin, Evgeny A. RUS 6 36.5 46.5 5 30.0
Lintchevski, Daniil RUS 6 35.0 46.0 4 30.5
Nestorovic, D. Nikola SCG 6 32.5 42.5 6 27.0
15-19 Zadruzny, Nicolaj SWE 5.5 39.0 50.0 5 32.0
Olszewski, Michal POL 5.5 38.5 49.0 5 28.5
Yaremko, Nazar UKR 5.5 37.0 47.0 4 28.5
Hasanov, Shakhriyar AZE 5.5 36.5 45.5 4 27.5
Agafii, Victor MDA 5.5 31.0 41.0 5 25.0
72 players
Boys U14 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1 Benidze, Davit GEO 7.5 40.5 52.0 6 37.0
2-3 Recuero Guerra, David ESP 7 38.5 50.5 5 36.0
Kulakov, Viacheslav RUS 7 36.5 46.0 6 34.5
4-7 Matlakov, Maxim RUS 6.5 41.0 53.0 5 37.5
Kharchenko, Boris UKR 6.5 38.0 50.0 6 31.5
Bregadze, Levan GEO 6.5 37.5 48.0 6 33.5
Narmontas, Matas LTU 6.5 36.5 46.5 6 33.5
8-15 Pap, Gyula HUN 6 40.0 50.5 4 36.5
Salgado Lopez, Ivan ESP 6 39.0 50.5 5 32.5
Feller, Sebastien FRA 6 38.0 49.0 4 31.5
Martinovic, Sasa CRO 6 38.0 48.0 4 30.0
Golichenko, Ilija UKR 6 37.0 48.0 5 28.5
Lilov, Valeri BUL 6 34.5 43.0 6 31.0
Tokarski, Lukasz POL 6 29.5 38.5 6 27.0
Ponizil, Cyril CZE 6 28.0 35.5 5 24.5
16-23 Safarli, Eltaj AZE 5.5 42.5 52.5 4 35.5
Roganovic, Milos SCG 5.5 39.0 50.0 5 31.5
Tvarijonas, Povilas LTU 5.5 37.5 45.0 4 31.0
Kruglyakov, Pavlo UKR 5.5 32.5 41.5 4 25.5
Galburd, Yan ISR 5.5 31.0 39.5 5 27.0
Khandelwal, Ankush ENG 5.5 31.0 39.5 5 21.5
Nguyen, Piotr POL 5.5 31.0 39.0 5 23.5
Chirila, Ioan Cristian ROM 5.5 30.0 38.5 4 23.5
75 players
Boys U12 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1 Sjugirov, Sanan RUS 8 44.0 55.5 7 42.5
2 Bogdanovich, Stanislav UKR 7.5 40.0 51.5 6 41.0
3-4 Tamazyan, Haik ARM 7 39.5 51.0 6 34.5
Lortkipanidze, Nodar GEO 7 36.5 48.5 5 33.5
5-7 Strzemiecki, Zbigniew POL 6.5 40.5 52.0 6 35.0
Graf, Felix GER 6.5 40.0 49.5 6 34.0
Ter Sahakyan, Samvel ARM 6.5 37.0 48.5 6 35.0
8-13 Popilski, Gil ISR 6 40.0 52.5 5 36.5
Smirnov, Artyom RUS 6 38.0 50.0 6 30.0
Galopoulos, Nikolaos GRE 6 37.5 46.5 5 30.5
Kanarek, Marcel POL 6 37.0 49.0 6 31.0
Rzayev, Bahruz AZE 6 33.5 43.0 5 27.5
Kovalev, Vladislav BLR 6 32.0 42.0 5 29.0
14-21 Zherebukh, Yaroslav UKR 5.5 39.5 52.0 4 31.5
Giri, Anish RUS 5.5 38.5 48.5 5 31.5
Witek, Tomasz POL 5.5 37.5 48.0 5 32.5
Petenyi, Tamas SVK 5.5 37.5 47.0 5 30.0
Swiercz, Dariusz POL 5.5 36.0 47.0 4 31.0
Meskovs, Nikita LAT 5.5 34.0 43.5 5 27.0
Plat, Vojtech CZE 5.5 34.0 43.0 4 27.5
Dionisi, Thomas FRA 5.5 33.5 43.5 4 29.5
79 players
Boys U10 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1-3 Nikologorskiy, Konstantin RUS 7.5 38.5 49.5 7 32.5
Bajarani, Ulvi AZE 7.5 38.5 49.0 6 37.5
Berbatov, Kiprian BUL 7.5 37.0 47.5 7 36.5
4 Gabrielyan, Rafael ARM 7 34.5 42.5 7 32.0
5-6 Chernyavskiy, Alexander RUS 6.5 39.0 50.0 6 37.5
Nyzhnyk, Illya UKR 6.5 38.0 48.0 6 39.0
7-14 Tomsia, Kamil POL 6 40.0 52.0 6 35.0
Yudin, Ivan RUS 6 39.5 51.0 5 33.5
Medvedev, Oleg BLR 6 39.5 50.0 6 30.0
Abasov, Nijat Azad AZE 6 37.5 48.0 6 30.0
Kazakos, Emmanouil GRE 6 36.5 45.5 5 27.0
Bukavshin, Ivan RUS 6 36.0 47.0 5 25.0
Benidze, Gigla GEO 6 34.5 44.0 5 32.0
Savitskiy, Sergey RUS 6 33.0 43.5 5 28.5
15-19 Lapidus, Mark EST 5.5 35.5 45.5 4 29.0
Vasilov, Artur RUS 5.5 35.5 45.5 4 29.0
Srbis, Jurica CRO 5.5 33.5 43.5 5 27.5
Amstadt, Aron HUN 5.5 33.0 42.0 4 26.0
Hunt, Daniel ENG 5.5 30.5 39.0 4 25.0
73 players
Girls U18 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1 Melia, Salome GEO 7.5 41.0 51.0 6 39.0
2 Purtseladze, Maka GEO 7 39.5 51.0 6 36.5
3-5 Kovanova, Baira RUS 6.5 40.5 51.5 5 32.0
Rozic, Vesna SLO 6.5 39.5 51.0 5 33.0
Dolzhikova, Kateryna UKR 6.5 37.5 48.5 5 33.0
6-8 Lupik, Marina RUS 6 37.0 48.0 6 30.0
Guichard, Pauline FRA 6 36.0 42.5 5 28.5
Raeva, Elitsa BUL 6 32.0 41.0 5 26.0
9-14 Rogule, Laura LAT 5.5 41.5 53.5 4 34.5
Vasiliev, Olga ISR 5.5 39.5 51.0 5 34.5
Burtasova, Anna RUS 5.5 38.5 48.0 5 30.5
Czarnota, Dorota POL 5.5 38.0 48.5 4 30.0
Batsiashvili, Nino GEO 5.5 37.0 48.0 5 31.0
Lomako, Anna RUS 5.5 35.0 46.0 5 29.5
15-23 Djukic, Sandra SCG 5 38.0 49.0 4 26.5
Lelekova, Olga RUS 5 36.5 47.5 4 28.0
Schoene, Maria GER 5 35.0 43.5 4 25.0
Borosova, Zuzana SVK 5 34.0 43.5 4 27.0
Khudaya, Aliaksandra BLR 5 31.5 40.5 5 25.0
Padurariu, Ioana-Smaranda ROM 5 31.5 40.5 4 26.0
Markantonaki, Haritomeni GRE 5 31.0 39.0 5 25.0
Gilbert, Jessie ENG 5 30.0 39.0 4 23.5
Savtchenko, Viktoria RUS 5 29.0 38.5 4 22.5
24-30 Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina ESP 4.5 35.5 45.0 4 25.0
Videnova, Iva BUL 4.5 33.0 43.0 4 22.5
Rudolf, Anna HUN 4.5 32.5 42.0 3 25.5
Darbinyan, Ani ARM 4.5 31.0 40.5 3 22.0
Novak, Ksenija SLO 4.5 31.0 39.5 3 23.0
Machalova, Erika SVK 4.5 25.5 33.0 4 15.0
Bolon, Karelle FRA 4.5 25.0 32.0 4 16.5
50 players
Girls U16 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1-2 Ivakhinova, Inna RUS 7 40.0 50.0 5 36.5
Benmesbah, Natacha FRA 7 39.5 50.0 6 38.0
3-7 Daulyte, Deimante LTU 6.5 40.5 52.0 5 34.5
Severiukhina, Zoja RUS 6.5 38.5 49.0 5 35.0
Kublashvili, Etery RUS 6.5 37.0 47.0 5 32.0
Rakic, Marija SCG 6.5 36.0 46.5 6 33.5
Leks, Hanna POL 6.5 35.0 46.0 6 30.5
8-11 Paulet, Iosefina ROM 6 39.0 49.0 5 35.5
Ignacz, Maria HUN 6 36.5 47.0 6 30.0
Foisor, Sabina-Francesca ROM 6 34.5 46.0 5 29.0
Congiu, Mathilde FRA 6 32.5 40.5 6 27.0
12-19 Mikadze, Miranda GEO 5.5 41.0 51.0 4 33.5
Gunina, Valentina RUS 5.5 38.0 49.5 5 31.5
Rudovska, Regina UKR 5.5 37.0 48.0 3 28.0
Huseynova, Sahar AZE 5.5 37.0 47.0 5 28.0
Atnilov, Bela ISR 5.5 35.0 44.5 4 28.0
Hairapetyan, Anna ARM 5.5 33.5 43.0 5 22.5
Ikonomopoulou, Maria GRE 5.5 32.5 42.0 5 26.0
Kruljac, Petra CRO 5.5 28.5 36.0 4 25.5
61 players
Girls U14 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1 Repina, Varvara RUS 7.5 36.5 44.5 7 37.5
2-3 Tairova, Elena RUS 7 38.5 51.0 6 36.0
Uta, Adeline-Ramona ROM 7 30.5 37.5 7 30.0
4 Erdos, Boglarka HUN 6.5 35.5 46.5 5 30.5
5-9 Girya, Olga RUS 6 40.0 50.5 6 37.0
Kulon, Klaudia POL 6 36.0 45.0 3 29.5
Khazhomia, Salome GEO 6 35.5 43.0 5 30.0
Savina, Anastasia RUS 6 34.0 43.0 5 30.5
Kiss, Kinga HUN 6 29.0 35.5 6 24.0
10-15 Guadamuro Torrente, Ana Isabel ESP 5.5 39.0 49.0 5 35.5
Ni, Viktorija LAT 5.5 36.0 46.5 5 34.0
Vojinovic, Jovana SCG 5.5 33.5 45.0 4 27.0
Bryla, Lidia POL 5.5 33.0 44.0 5 26.0
Braggaar, Leonore NED 5.5 30.0 38.0 4 22.5
Vince, Viola HUN 5.5 28.5 37.0 5 21.0
16-24 Muzychuk, Mariya UKR 5 39.0 49.5 4 32.5
Bodnaruk, Anastasia RUS 5 37.5 48.5 4 31.0
Bakhtiyarli, Aysel AZE 5 36.5 46.0 4 23.5
Paulauskaite, Gintare LTU 5 36.0 47.0 4 30.5
Karapetyan, Lusine ARM 5 34.5 44.0 4 25.0
Zeynalova, Hokuma AZE 5 34.5 43.0 3 26.5
Hannes, Diana GER 5 30.5 39.5 4 25.0
Parmar, Amisha ENG 5 30.0 40.0 4 23.5
Genzling, Sylvie FRA 5 28.0 37.5 4 23.0
51 players
Girls U12 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1 Paikidze, Nazi GEO 7.5 40.5 51.0 6 41.0
2-4 Arabidze, Meri GEO 7 40.0 50.0 6 33.0
Anakidze, Nino GEO 7 38.0 48.0 6 35.0
Efremova, Daria RUS 7 35.5 46.0 6 33.0
5 Kashlinskaya, Alina RUS 6.5 40.0 51.0 6 32.5
6-10 Bulmaga, Irina MDA 6 42.5 52.5 5 35.5
Butuc, Maria MDA 6 40.0 51.0 4 31.0
Purgar, Ivona CRO 6 33.5 42.0 5 26.5
Adamowicz, Katarzyna POL 6 33.0 42.5 5 28.0
Sokolova, Vera RUS 6 30.5 40.5 5 23.5
11-15 Pavlidou, Ekaterini GRE 5.5 39.0 48.5 4 32.0
Lysenko, Maria RUS 5.5 38.0 48.5 4 27.5
Vince, Andrea SCG 5.5 37.5 47.5 4 32.5
Jalabadze, Natia GEO 5.5 35.5 46.5 5 28.5
Olsarova, Karolina CZE 5.5 31.5 39.5 5 25.0
16-23 Kaya, Emel TUR 5 37.0 48.5 4 31.5
Abdulla, Khayala AZE 5 37.0 48.0 4 25.5
Foisor, Mihaela-Veronica ROM 5 35.5 45.5 4 25.0
Ivanenko, Olga UKR 5 34.5 44.0 5 25.0
Baciu, Diana MDA 5 33.0 43.0 5 27.0
Gorozhankina, Julia RUS 5 32.5 42.0 4 29.5
Torosyan, Lusine ARM 5 32.0 40.5 3 23.5
Messina, Roberta ITA 5 31.5 40.0 3 22.0
56 players
Girls U10 - Round 9
Standings
Place Name Feder Score M-Buch. Buch. Wins Progr.
1 Mestnikova, Varvara RUS 8 40.0 51.5 8 39.0
2 Ibrahimova, Sabina AZE 7.5 41.0 53.0 7 40.0
3 Lach, Aleksandra POL 7 42.0 54.0 6 37.5
4-6 Galunova, Tsveta BUL 6.5 39.5 52.0 6 32.5
Ziazulkina, Nastassia BLR 6.5 38.0 48.0 6 33.5
Severina, Maria RUS 6.5 32.5 41.5 6 30.0
7-10 Kusenkova, Natallia BLR 6 39.0 50.0 5 33.5
Baekelant, Eva BEL 6 38.0 48.5 6 33.0
Baraeva, Marina RUS 6 34.5 45.0 5 29.5
Gaboyan, Susanna ARM 6 30.0 39.0 6 27.0
11-15 Efroimski, Marsel ISR 5.5 39.5 49.5 5 30.5
Iwanow, Anna POL 5.5 37.0 48.5 5 30.5
Aflalo, Sophie FRA 5.5 35.5 47.5 5 28.0
Osmanodja, Filiz GER 5.5 35.0 45.0 4 28.5
Ivekovic, Tihana CRO 5.5 34.0 43.5 4 25.5
16-27 Baraeva, Irina RUS 5 40.0 52.0 5 32.0
Papathanasiou, Ageliki GRE 5 37.5 49.5 4 29.0
Gogishvili, Dea GEO 5 34.0 44.0 4 27.0
Visanescu, Daria ROM 5 33.5 44.0 5 27.0
Klek, Hanna-Marie GER 5 33.5 43.5 4 26.5
Owens, Megan WLS 5 33.5 43.5 4 24.0
Kolesnikova, Kristina RUS 5 33.0 41.0 4 23.0
Eid, Maha FRA 5 31.0 39.0 2 25.5
Kovacevic, Ana SCG 5 30.5 39.5 4 21.5
Huszar, Reka HUN 5 28.5 35.5 5 22.0
Koselova, Zuzana SVK 5 28.0 36.0 5 22.0
Macharashvili, Tekla GEO 5 27.5 35.5 4 19.0
59 players
The final part of the Iranian Championship took place in Tehran
10th-20th September 2005. Morteza Mahjoob took clear first on 9.5/11. Games
from the final rounds not available.
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. Mahjoob, Morteza m IRI 2442 9.5
2. Darban, Morteza f IRI 2397 8.5
3. Khaghani, Mehdi IRI 2311 6.0
4. Sharbaf, Mohsen f IRI 2346 5.5
5. Mahmoody, M. Sadegh IRI 2228 5.5
6. Mahdavirad, Mehdi IRI 2228 5.5
7. Toufighi, Homayoon IRI 2170 5.5
8. Ardeshi, Mehrdad f IRI 2265 5.0
9. Ghorbani, Mohsen m IRI 2340 5.0
10. Soozankar, A.M IRI 2251 4.5
11. Mohajerin, Payman f IRI 2334 4.0
12. Doostkam, P IRI 2250 1.5
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The Klaksvik International took place 16th-24th September 2005. Johan
Eriksson won the double round robin event with 6/10.
Details:
http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/asp/turniere.asp?tnr=2655&lan=1
It Klaksvik FAI (FAI), 16-24 ix 2005 cat. IV (2332)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Eriksson, Johan m SWE 2423 ** == =0 =1 10 11 6.0 2386
2 Olsen, Heini f FAI 2325 == ** 1= 01 == 10 5.5 2369
3 Gullaksen, Eirik m NOR 2382 =1 0= ** 0= =1 1= 5.5 2358
4 Simonsen, Hans Kristian FAI 2305 =0 10 1= ** == =0 4.5 2301
5 Fries-Nielsen, Jens Ove m DEN 2381 01 == =0 == ** == 4.5 2286
6 Ziska, Helgi Dam FAI 2177 00 01 0= =1 == ** 4.0 2291
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The Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria (UNI) hosted a semi-rapid match
(1 hour per player per game) 19th-20th September 2005. Julio Granda Zuniga beat
14 year old IM Emilo Cordova Daza 3.5-0.5. News: James Alvis Tafur.
Official site: http://members.fortunecity.es/unichessclub/
Granda Zuniga, Julio E - Cordova, Emilio 1-0 59 E15 Queens Indian
Cordova, Emilio - Granda Zuniga, Julio E 0-1 46 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit
Granda Zuniga, Julio E - Cordova, Emilio 1-0 49 E35 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Cordova, Emilio - Granda Zuniga, Julio E 1/2 64 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit
UNI Semirapid Match Ingenieria PER (PER), 19-20 ix 2005
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1 2 3 4
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Granda Zuniga, Julio E g PER 2601 1 1 1 = 3.5 2758
Cordova, Emilio f PER 2422 0 0 0 = 0.5 2279
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The Geller Memorial Open-A took place in Odessa, UKR, 15th-23rd
September 2005. Vadim Shishkin took first place on tie-break from Spartak
Vysochin, Alexander Zubov and Andrey Sumets who all scored 6.5/9. News: Mikhail
Golubev.
Final official table:
http://www.chess.odessa.ua/chess/geller05/Gell_9at.txt
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Geller mem Open A Odessa UKR (UKR), 15-23 ix 2005
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1. Shishkin, Vadim UKR m UKR 2507 +31 -12 +29 +15 +17 = 7 + 3 = 2 = 5 6.5 2582
2. Vysochin, Spartak g UKR 2573 +30 +38 =16 =17 = 9 +13 = 4 = 1 +12 6.5 2582
3. Zubov, Alexander m UKR 2473 =27 +44 +11 =16 +19 + 9 - 1 + 7 = 6 6.5 2497
4. Sumets, Andrey m UKR 2477 +39 =15 =25 =22 +28 +16 = 2 = 5 +11 6.5 2559
5. Malaniuk, Vladimir P g UKR 2513 +35 =13 +23 =10 =16 +14 = 7 = 4 = 1 6.0 2525
6. Drozdovskij, Yuri g UKR 2517 =36 +27 =12 =13 =11 +15 =14 +23 = 3 6.0 2479
7. Korobkov, Piotr UKR 2400 +54 +14 = 9 + 8 =10 = 1 = 5 - 3 +17 6.0 2541
8. Golubev, Mihail g UKR 2517 +32 =25 =15 - 7 +39 =29 +30 =12 +19 6.0 2440
9. Zavgorodniy, Sergiy m UKR 2448 +19 +21 = 7 +12 = 2 - 3 =17 -11 +28 5.5 2470
10. Gasanov, Eldar m UKR 2427 +37 +28 =17 = 5 = 7 =12 =16 =19 =14 5.5 2424
11. Peskov, Alexsey UKR 2378 +33 =18 - 3 +31 = 6 =30 +25 + 9 - 4 5.5 2453
12. Kozel, Roman m UKR 2378 +49 + 1 = 6 - 9 +36 =10 +26 = 8 - 2 5.5 2473
13. Shilin, Denis m UKR 2381 +48 = 5 =18 = 6 +20 - 2 -23 +32 +29 5.5 2464
14. Nedilko, Vasily UKR 2334 +46 - 7 +40 +38 +18 - 5 = 6 =17 =10 5.5 2449
15. Kovalev, Denis UKR 2373 +53 = 4 = 8 - 1 +22 - 6 +37 =29 +26 5.5 2419
16. Tarlev, Konstantin UKR 2409 +34 +22 = 2 = 3 = 5 - 4 =10 =26 =21 5.0 2432
17. Matjushin, Gennady m UKR 2443 +41 +20 =10 = 2 - 1 +21 = 9 =14 - 7 5.0 2435
18. Podgaets, Mikhail m UKR 2487 +26 =11 =13 =20 -14 =36 +27 =21 =22 5.0 2360
19. Fiodorov, Mikhail UKR 2151 - 9 +51 +24 +23 - 3 =25 +28 =10 - 8 5.0 2415
20. Vasilyev, Mikhail m UKR 2342 +40 -17 +39 =18 -13 -26 +41 +33 =23 5.0 2317
21. Muzychuk, Anna wg SLO 2364 +51 - 9 =31 +37 =25 -17 +36 =18 =16 5.0 2359
22. Nester, Igor f UKR 2336 +50 -16 +47 = 4 -15 =37 +39 =25 =18 5.0 2326
23. Galakhov, Vladimir UKR 2405 +47 =29 - 5 -19 +54 +35 +13 - 6 =20 5.0 2340
24. Arutyunova, Diana wg UKR 2338 =44 =36 -19 +54 =35 =27 =40 =31 +38 5.0 2240
25. Pichugin, Alexandr m UKR 2385 +42 = 8 = 4 =36 =21 =19 -11 =22 =31 4.5 2299
26. Goreskul, Alyona wg UKR 2250 -18 +33 =28 =29 +38 +20 -12 =16 -15 4.5 2341
27. Miljutin, Oleg UKR 2171 = 3 - 6 +42 -28 +49 =24 -18 +36 =30 4.5 2299
28. Fingerov, Dmitry m UKR 2358 +43 -10 =26 +27 - 4 +31 -19 +40 - 9 4.5 2272
29. Tishin, D m UKR 2334 +52 =23 - 1 =26 +43 = 8 =38 =15 -13 4.5 2326
30. Mironov, Ilya f BLR 2311 - 2 +45 =54 =43 +40 =11 - 8 =38 =27 4.5 2268
31. Voicu, Carmen wm ROM 2263 - 1 +49 =21 -11 +50 -28 +44 =24 =25 4.5 2258
32. Aliferenko, Aleksei UKR 2289 - 8 =42 -43 -40 +48 +52 +34 -13 +37 4.5 2141
33. Evtodiy,Vyacheslav UKR ---- -11 -26 -41 +53 =34 +49 +35 -20 +42 4.5 2153
34. Vecherkin, Alexey UKR 2090 -16 -50 +53 -39 =33 +46 -32 +44 +40 4.5 2118
35. Baranov, Jury UKR 2268 - 5 +48 -38 +47 =24 -23 -33 +50 +45 4.5 2197
36. Garifulin, Alexander UKR 2299 = 6 =24 +50 =25 -12 =18 -21 -27 +47 4.0 2260
37. Berdiugina, Elena UKR 2118 -10 =43 +44 -21 +46 =22 -15 +39 -32 4.0 2192
38. Gubanov, Oleg UKR 2393 +45 - 2 +35 -14 -26 +50 =29 =30 -24 4.0 2229
39. Elkin, Maxim BLR 2219 - 4 +53 -20 +34 - 8 +43 -22 -37 +48 4.0 2178
40. Makarov, Pavlo UKR 2147 -20 +41 -14 +32 -30 +47 =24 -28 -34 3.5 2174
41. Khazankin, Moisei UKR 2139 -17 -40 +33 -50 +42 =44 -20 -45 +51 3.5 2018
42. Lodochnikov, Alexandr UKR 1910 -25 =32 -27 =44 -41 =51 +46 +43 -33 3.5 2042
43. Kotin, Vladimir UKR 2114 -28 =37 +32 =30 -29 -39 =50 -42 +53 3.5 2091
44. Mamedov,Aflatun UKR ---- =24 - 3 -37 =42 +45 =41 -31 -34 +52 3.5 2072
45. Kovaleva, Marianna UKR 2045 -38 -30 =52 =51 -44 =48 +47 +41 -35 3.5 2053
46. Chayka,Vitaliy UKR ---- -14 -54 =49 +48 -37 -34 -42 +55 +50 3.5 1979
47. Daryev, Sergey UKR 2087 -23 +52 -22 -35 +51 -40 -45 +49 -36 3.0 2041
48. Andreev,Volodymyr UKR ---- -13 -35 =51 -46 -32 =45 +55 +52 -39 3.0 2008
49. Dmitriev,Sergey UKR ---- -12 -31 =46 +52 -27 -33 =53 -47 +55 3.0 1974
50. Romaniv,Dmitriy UKR ---- -22 +34 -36 +41 -31 -38 =43 -35 -46 2.5 2045
51. Kinarev,Nikolay UKR ---- -21 -19 =48 =45 -47 =42 =52 =53 -41 2.5 1911
52. Stasenko,Julia UKR ---- -29 -47 =45 -49 +53 -32 =51 -48 -44 2.0 1863
53. Kataev,Fedor UKR ---- -15 -39 -34 -33 -52 +54 =49 =51 -43 2.0 1877
54. Volosheniuk, Alexey UKR 2082 - 7 +46 =30 -24 -23 -53 . . . 1.5 2049
55. BYE ---- . . . . . . -48 -46 -49 0.0
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The 4th Kesarovski - Georgiev Memorial, took place in Sunny Beach,
Bulgaria 16th-24th September b2005. 84 players including 7 GMs and 14 IMs
competed. The website was unavailable when I checked for results.
Official site: http://www.chessmix.com/sunnybeach05/
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. Games from the playoffs in the final round of the
event now available.
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 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. I've
repeated the games from last week as I made a couple of errors. News: Greg
Shahade.
Official site: http://www.uschessleague.com/
Week 4 21st September 2005
Baltimore - 3.5
Boston - 0.5
New York - 3.0
Philadelphia - 1.0
Dallas - 2.0
Carolina - 2.0
San Francisco - 2.5
Miami - 1.5
The current standings are
East Division:
New York - 3/4
Baltimore - 2.5/4
Boston - 2/4
Philadelphia 1.5/4
West Division
Miami - 2.5/4
Dallas - 2/4
San Francisco - 1.5/4
Carolina - 1/4
Top 2 from each division qualify for the playoffs.
The season lasts 10 weeks.
The Caissa IM September tournament took place 17th-23th September 2005
in Kecskemet. Robert Hardarson and Attila Jakab won the event with absolutely
tie (they achieved the same results against all their opponents). Mr. Hardarson
and Miss Domany made an IM and a WIM norm. News: Csaba Bognar.
(Next events, 15-24-10-2005, 19-28-11-2005... IM round robin and/or FM
tmt, more info http://www.caissachessbooks.com Dr.
Tamas Erdelyi caissa@axelero.hu)
Final Standings:
1 Hardarson, Robert 2361 FM ISL 2300362 7
Jakab, Attila 2451 IM HUN 709727 7
3 Sarosi, Zoltan 2336 IM HUN 701521 5½
4 Kragelj, Igor 2230 FM SLO 14600960 5
Domany, Zsofia 2101 HUN 932353 5
Farkas, Tibor 2349 IM SCG 933333 5
7 Vasvari, Tamas 2203 HUN 721271 4
8 Bennett, David Michael 0 USA 2½
9 Donko, Matyas 2040 FM HUN 716812 2
Keresztes, Richard 2232 HUN 719919 2
The 1st Festival Scacchistico Internazionale "Montesano Hotels" took
place in Villa San Giovanni, Italy, 7th-15th September 2005. Igor Efimov edged
out Namig Gouliev and Sergio Estremera Panos on tie-break after all scored
6.5/9. News: Giovanni Carlo Liistro.
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Hotel Montesano Open A Villa San Giovanni ITA (ITA), 7-15 ix 2005
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1. Efimov, Igor g ITA 2401 6.5 47.5
2. Gouliev, Namig m AZE 2555 6.5 44.5
3. Estremera Panos, Sergio m ESP 2367 6.5 44.0
4. Lazarev, Vladimir g RUS 2518 6.0 49.0
5. Drazic, Sinisa g SCG 2497 6.0 47.5
6. Okhotnik, Vladimir m UKR 2404 6.0 47.0 5.0
7. Manca, Federico m ITA 2390 6.0 47.0 4.0
8. Genocchio, Daniele f ITA 2306 6.0 45.5 4.0
9. Vocaturo, Daniele f ITA 2372 6.0 45.5 2.0
10. Naumkin, Igor g RUS 2444 6.0 44.0
11. Rombaldoni, Denis f ITA 2327 6.0 41.5
12. Scharrer, Patrick ITA 2209 6.0 41.0
13. Calzetta, Monica wg ESP 2282 6.0 36.0
14. Mihalj, M. Miroslav f SCG 2298 5.5 45.0
15. Rombaldoni, Axel ITA 2137 5.5 42.0 3.5
16. Hirneise, Tobias GER 2131 5.5 42.0 3.0 4 3'
17. Safranska, Anda wg LAT 2291 5.5 42.0 3.0 4 11'
18. Sarno, Spartaco m ITA 2371 5.0 41.0
19. Nicoletti,Francesco ITA ---- 5.0 38.0
20. Caracci, Giuseppe ITA 2064 5.0 37.5
21. Xia, Jie ITA 2121 5.0 37.0
22. Armentano, Alessio ITA 2092 5.0 34.5
52 players
The Bucharest Open took place 17th-24th September 2005. The event had
112 players, including 6 GMs and 27 IMs. Marius Manolache won the event alone
on 7.5/9. News: Doru Ionescu.
Further details: http://www.chess-romania.ro
Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
1 Manolache, Marius ROM 2462 1421 7.5 50.0 42.00
2 Berescu, Alin ROM 2445 1401 7 51.5 38.75
3 Ionescu, Constantin ROM 2456 1444 7 50.5 38.75
4 Itkis, Boris ROM 2489 1468 7 50.5 38.50
5 Rogozenko, Dorian ROM 2517 1495 6.5 53.0 33.75
6 Bogdan, Dan ROM 2455 1421 6.5 49.0 34.25
7 Svetushkin, Dmitry MDA 2514 1514 6.5 49.0 33.75
8 Sanduleac, Vasile MDA 2480 1480 6.5 46.5 28.00
9 Vajda, Albert ROM 2439 1406 6 51.0 29.25
10 Nevednichy, Vladislav ROM 2583 1559 6 51.0 27.00
11 Khruschiov, Alexey MDA 2410 1410 6 49.5 31.25
12 Jianu, Vlad Cristian ROM 2453 1413 6 49.0 30.50
13 Szabo, Gergely Andras ROM 2440 1388 6 49.0 27.75
14 Ionescu, Doru Alexandru ROM 2377 1370 6 48.5 24.25
15 Mateuta, Gabriel ROM 2465 1444 6 48.0 30.75
16 Nanu, Ciprian Costica ROM 2434 1455 6 48.0 30.00
17 Dumitrache, Dragos Nicolae ROM 2469 1495 6 48.0 26.50
18 Barnaure, Vlad Victor ROM 2445 1391 6 46.5 27.00
19 Cosma, Ioan ROM 2453 1463 6 46.0 28.25
20 Voiteanu, Gabriel ROM 2187 1162 6 46.0 22.00
21 Nemeth, Francisc ROM 2415 1384 6 42.5 22.75
22 Grecescu, Gabriel Andrei ROM 2332 1210 5.5 50.0 30.50
23 Cioara, Andrei Nestor ROM 2403 1385 5.5 49.0 28.00
24 Vajda, Levente ROM 2541 1529 5.5 48.5 28.25
25 Grigore, Nicolae Petre ROM 2367 1344 5.5 47.5 26.00
26 Calotescu, Ana Cristina ROM 2273 1298 5.5 45.0 25.00
27 Tugui, Adrian ROM 2340 1330 5.5 44.5 24.25
28 Murariu, Andrei ROM 2435 1398 5.5 43.0 26.00
29 Motoc, Alina ROM 2270 1314 5.5 43.0 24.50
30 Nuta, Dan ROM 2216 1139 5.5 41.5 19.00
31 Nevednichy, Boris S 2302 1302 5.5 40.0 22.25
112 players
Anatoly Karpov was in Argentina reports Hernán Sartori of the
Clarín newspaper.
He gave two simuls.
Saturday 17th September 2005
He played a match against a six boards team of the Círculo de
Ajedrez de Villa Martelli, a tradicional chess club of northern Buenos Aires.
He finished 4,5 to 1,5
He won against IM Diego Valerga and Enrique Scarella, and 15 year ord
Germán Della Morte. He made draw against GM Sergio Slipak, IM Alejo De
Dovitiis y WIM Marisa Zuriel, national champion.
Tuesday 20th September 2005
He played against six boards in a shopping center: Diego Flores (22
years), recent Argentine champion; Gastón Needleman (15), eighth in
recent Continental Championships and invited to 2006 World Championships;
Germán Della Morte (15); and the winners of the different categories of
the Festival "Miguel Najdorf": Robert Hungasky (18), Anton Kovalyov (13) and
Cristian Massaferro (10).
Karpov won against Flores (on time), Massaferro and Hungaski (also
time). Then made draws against Della Morte and Kovalyov. And finally lost
against Needleman, the future of national chess. Karpov was so upset that he
did not attend the prize award meeting, in which was invited the Vicepresident
of Argentina. But at night Karpov had dinner with him, to be diplomatic.
Interview with Anatoly Karpov in Buenos Aires: By Hernán
Sartori, Clarín newspaper of Argentina. E mail: hsartori@clarin.com
Link in Spanish:
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2005/09/20/deportes/d-06101.htm
These are the quotes:
With the respect you have won in world chess, why are you planning to
participate in a difficult political campaign to confront the Fide president?
Because we must stop the people that are destroying professional chess.
They can´t find sponsors to make important tournaments. They don´t
push the National Federations to develop junior and youth chess. And great
masters are confronting a weak FIDE because it doesn´t follow the rules
and changes the schedule of the tournaments. Every tournament must be a success
for chess, but if somebody organizes one because he finds a sponsor, they get
jealous. That is why in many countries there are so many problems between chess
players and Federations.
About Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
"His main weakness is that he can not accept critics. He turns apart
anybody who criticised him and he has only people who say what he wants to
hear"
About World Championships
"Top players agreed in Prague 2002 that there is no need for a knock
out system. They would like to see a strong competition between the best. FIDE
participated in that meeting, but unfortunately nothing happened".
About San Luis World Championships
"It will be a digitated World Championships, because all the best
players won't be there. It just happened once in chess history, after Second
World War".
About changes
"We need changes at the top. We lost Kasparov, who stopped playing
because of this unclear situation. We hope to see changes, because when the
most famous players are there, the easiest is to find a sponsor".
About his rivalry with Kasparov
In soccer, everybody confronts Diego Maradona and Pelé to decide
who was the best. In chess, everybody confronted you with Kasparov. ¿Why
not enjoy your rivalry and the chess you both played against each other, rather
than confronting you? --It is a sign of the time. Mass media prefers articles
with problems. Television doesn´t show a constructed bridge. Television
only shows a destroyed bridge.
About presenting chess to children
"The future of the chess depends on the level in schools. Developing
masters or grand masters is not the most important and I don´t think
it´s even necesary. What is important is to present chess to every child
and then let him choose if he wants to play it or not"
About chess "Chess teaches to think logically, to make plans, to
administrate time and to develop memory. I tell parents not to worry if your
child gives two hours per day to chess, because he will recover those hours by
administrating time and developing his memory".
About Argentina and chess "I feel almost at home. People know me and I
know people. It's one of my favorite countries. I came here for the first time
in 1978, when chess was very popular. It's excepcional that besides the
political and economical problems, chess activity continues here"
In addition to Hernán Sartori's report above ChessBase
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2647
also reported the event. One interesting historical point was the meeting over
Anatoly Karpov and Diego Maradona on a human chessboard. The game wasn't of
much interest as it was only 4 moves long. Karpov vs Maradona 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 d6 4.Nc3 and draw.
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Karpov Simul Villa Martelli ARG (ARG),
17 ix 2005
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1. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2672
2. De Dovitiis, Alejo f ARG 2345
3. Slipak, Sergio g ARG 2489
4. Zuriel, Marisa wf ARG 2207
5. Della Morte, Pablo f ARG 2271
6. Scarella, Enrique m ARG 2367
7. Valerga, Diego m ARG 2499
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Karpov Simul Villa Martelli (September 17, 2005)
Karpov, Anatoly - De Dovitiis, Alejo 1/2 30 D46 Semi-Slav Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Slipak, Sergio 1/2 36 E12 Queens Indian Petrosian
Karpov, Anatoly - Zuriel, Marisa 1/2 48 E32 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Karpov, Anatoly - Della Morte, Pablo 1-0 39 D12 Slav Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Scarella, Enrique 1-0 48 E61 King's Indian Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Valerga, Diego 1-0 38 E11 Bogo Indian Defence
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Karpov Simul Buenos Aires ARG (ARG),
20 ix 2005
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1. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2672
2. Needleman, Gaston ARG 2242
3. Della Morte, Pablo f ARG 2271
4. Kovalyov, Anton f ARG 2234
5. Flores, Diego m ARG 2513
6. Hungaski, Roberto USA 2308
7. Massaferro,Cristian ----
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Karpov Simul Buenos Aires (September 20, 2005)
Karpov, Anatoly - Needleman, Gaston 0-1 91 E69 King's Indian Fianchetto
Karpov, Anatoly - Della Morte, Pablo 1/2 60 E63 King's Indian 6...Nc6
Karpov, Anatoly - Kovalyov, Anton 1/2 47 B13 Caro Kann Exchange
Karpov, Anatoly - Flores, Diego 1-0 40 E15 Queens Indian
Karpov, Anatoly - Hungaski, Roberto 1-0 59 D46 Semi-Slav Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Massaferro,Cristian 1-0 30 D12 Slav Defence
FIDE have announced an agreement with the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous
Region-Yugra to hold the 2005 World Chess Cup. The tournament will take place
3rd-24th December 2005 with the total prize fund of USD 1, 572, 000.
128 players participate: World Champion + four (4) semi-finalists from
the Libya World Championship, Women's World Champion, two (2) World Junior U-20
Champions (2004 & 2005), ninety (90) players from Continental
Championships, twenty (20) rated players, seven (7) FIDE President nominees,
three (3) Organiser nominees. The names of the Asian qualifiers will be known
on 16 October 2005, of the African qualifiers on 15 November 2005 and the name
of the World Junior Champion U-20 will be known on 22 November 2005. The full
list with the pairings will be announced on 23 November 2005.
FIDE Site: http://www.fide.com
Schedule for the World Cup Tournament:
Opening Ceremony/Players` meeting 3 December
Round 1: 4-5
Tie breaks 6
Round 2: 7-8
Tie breaks 9
Round 3: 10-11
Tie breaks 12
Round 4: 13-14
Tie breaks 15
Round 5: 16-17
Tie breaks 18
Round 6: 19-20
Tie breaks 21
Round 7: 22-23
Closing Ceremony/Tie breaks 24
V Internacional Governador Mario Covas
The V Internacional Governador Mario Covas takes place in Santos,
Brazil 26th September - 2nd October 2005.
Official site:
http://www.fpx.com.br/2005/01festsan05/progVmcovas.htm
Players;
1. Vescovi, Giovanni gm BRA 2640
2. Milos, Gilberto gm BRA 2606
3. Leitão, Rafael gm BRA 2598
4. Felgaer, Ruben gm ARG 2618
5. Granda Zuniga, Julio E gm PER 2601
6. Rodriguez, Andres gm URU 2523
26th International Bethune Open
The 26th International Bethune Open takes place in the room Olof Palme,
Commercial centre La Rotonde, Bethune, France (Pas-de-Calais) December
26th-30th 2005. This year the tournament will have 9 rounds instead of 7. The
tournament is divided in 2 tournaments: - Tournament A for players whose Elo
rating is above or equal to 1600, 1st price : 1500 euros - Tournament B for
players strictly below 1800 and not FIDE, 1st price : 300 euros, Fischer pace
1h30+30s KO for each game in both tournaments. At least 5500 euros of prices
(7300 euros given in 2004), prices for Elo categories in both tournaments.
Entry fee : 40 euros (adults), 20 euros (youngsters under 20), free for IM, GM
and FIDE Masters. Special conditions for IM and GM. Contact info: E-mail:
open@bethunechess.com
Further details: http://www.bethunechess.com
15th World Seniors
The 15th World Seniors takes place in Lignano Sabbiadoro 27th September
- 10th October 2005.
Official site:
http://www.vacanzesport.com/EventiDettaglio.asp?IDEvento=18
Grand Prix d’échecs d’Aix en Provence
The Grand Prix d’échecs d’Aix en Provence takes place
15th-18th December 2005. Magnus Carlsen will compete.
Official site: http://www.grandprixdaix.com
Mezezers International Open 2006
The Mezezers International Open 2006 (110 km from Riga Latvia) takes
place 1st-6th July 2005.
Details; http://www.mezezers.viss.lv
Jovan Petronic Website
Jovan Petronic has a new website with some news on it.
http://www.jovanpetronic.com/chessnews.htm
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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