THE WEEK IN CHESS 592 13th March 2006 by Mark Crowther
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Morelia/Linares 2006 16 games
US Championships 196 games
Women's World Chess Championship 104 games
XXII Reykjavik Open 357 games
Hungarian Championship 15 games
4NLC 96 games
Bundesliga 64 games
European Senior Teams 736 games
32nd National Bangladesh Championship 27 games
Turkish Championship 14 games
Russian Under-20 Championships 78 games
Polish Championship 18 games
Bulgarian Championships 61 games
First Saturday March 87 games
Mediteranian Flower Women's GM 10 games
Championship of Serbia and Montenegro 91 games
2nd Women's Championship of Serbia and Montenegro 45 games
ITT Torre Blanca 45 games
4th Breizh Masters 90 games
IX Malaga Open 135 games
U.S. Amateur Team East 305 games
124th Oxford vs Cambridge Varsity Match 8 games
2598 games
My thanks to Haroonor Rashid, Chris Duncan, Jan Mazuch, David Clayton,
Miklos Orso, Ali Nihat Yazici, Bill Townsend, Holger Lieske, Eduard Piacun,
Varlam Vepkhvishvili, John Saunders, David Lettington, Lars-Henrik BechHansen,
Arthur Brameld, Lubomir Ftacnik, Paolo Di Minico, Zsuzsa Veroci, Michael Rahal,
Peter Wells, Tomas Dvorak, John Henderson, Andy McFarland and everyone else who
helped with the issue.
There can now be little doubt that 23 year old Levon Aronian has
arrived. Rising from 10th to 5th in the January rating list after winning the
FIDE World Cup, he has now won one of the two biggest elite tournaments of the
year by taking clear first in Linares. The consensus is that he is still pretty
raw and that in a couple of years time he could be "really" strong. The event
as a whole was a tremendous success with lots of fighting and interesting
chess. In a possible first (although its happened in a World Championship
match) the event was played on two continents, North America followed by a move
back to the traditional Linares for the second half. The first half in Morelia
was a disaster for the favourite Veselin Topalov. He scored 2.5/7 and was
placed seven of eight. 5.5/7 almost recovered all the ground and if all the
games had been drawn in the final round then he would have won the event on
tie-break. For a long time Peter Leko looked like he would win the event after
starting with 3.5/4. He got bogged down and an example of his cautious mindset
was his short draw in round 8 against Francisco Vallejo Pons in what was a
pretty trivially winning position. Leko lost to Topalov in the penultimate
round in a game he should have drawn and then was mopped up by Aronian in spite
of having white in the final round. Second equal with Topalov was 19 year old
Teimour Radjabov for who this result with a solid +4 -2 =8 is also a good
indication for the future. Lots of other good chess about including the Women's
World Championship, Reykjavic and various national championships. Oh and the
very strong Amber event starts Saturday!
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
Morelia in Mexico hosted the first half of the traditional Linares super
tournament February 18th-26th, 2006. The Linares half took place 3rd-11th March
2006. Levon Aronian took clear first place ahead of Veselin Topalov and Teimour
Radjabov. Long time leader Peter Leko was relegated to fourth after losing his
final two games. Total prize fund 380,000 Euros.
Official site:http://www.marca.es/ -
live: http://linares.soloajedrez.com/.
Morelia organisers: http://www.moreliachess.com/eng/
Round 11 (March 7, 2006)
Aronian, Levon - Vallejo Pons, Francisco 1-0 36 D31 Semi-Slav Defence
Radjabov, Teimour - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 26 C65 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Leko, Peter 1/2 64 E15 Queens Indian
Bacrot, Etienne - Svidler, Peter 1/2 42 D11 Slav Defence
Round 12 (March 8, 2006)
Topalov, Veselin - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 37 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Leko, Peter - Bacrot, Etienne 1/2 41 C42 Petroff's Defence
Svidler, Peter - Aronian, Levon 1/2 20 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Vallejo Pons, Francisco - Radjabov, Teimour 1/2 45 B30 Sicilian Rossolimo
Round 13 (March 10, 2006)
Aronian, Levon - Bacrot, Etienne 1/2 38 D20 QGA
Topalov, Veselin - Leko, Peter 1-0 71 E32 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Radjabov, Teimour - Svidler, Peter 1-0 41 D16 Slav Lasker/Smyslov
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Vallejo Pons, Francisco 1-0 24 D44 Anti-Meran Gambit
Round 14 (March 11, 2006)
Leko, Peter - Aronian, Levon 0-1 40 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Svidler, Peter - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 55 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Bacrot, Etienne - Radjabov, Teimour 1/2 20 E93 King's Indian Classical
Vallejo Pons, Francisco - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 30 D39 QGD Ragozin
XXIII SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP (MEX/ESP), 18 ii-11 iii 2006cat. XX (2732)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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1 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2752 ** =0 1= =1 0= 1= 1= =1 8.5 2808
2 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2801 =1 ** 0= =1 1= 01 =1 0= 8.0 2771
3 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2700 0= 1= ** 0= =1 =1 1= == 8.0 2786
4 Leko, Peter g HUN 2740 =0 =0 1= ** 1= == == 1= 7.5 2759
5 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 1= 0= =0 0= ** 1= =0 =1 6.5 2703
6 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2765 0= 10 =0 == 0= ** 1= 1= 6.5 2698
7 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2717 0= =0 0= == =1 0= ** =1 6.0 2683
8 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2650 =0 1= == 0= =0 0= =0 ** 5.0 2641
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The U.S. Chess Championship took place in San Diego March 1st-12th, 2006
and was held at its new permanent home at NTC Promenade. There were two groups
of 32 players, the winners of each met in a final for the title. The final
consisted of two rapid games at time control of 30'+5". Alexander Onischuk beat
Yury Shulman in the men's final, almost winning game one and winning the 2nd
game with black. Anna Zatonskih defeated Rusadan Goletiani 1.5-0.5 in the
women's.
Full details:http://www.uschesschampionship.com
Men's Final
Onischuk, Alexander - Shulman, Yuri 1/2 65 D31 Semi-Slav Defence
Shulman, Yuri - Onischuk, Alexander 0-1 47 D38 QGD Ragozin
ch-USA Final San Diego USA (USA), 12-12 iii 2006
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1 2
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Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2650 = 1 1.5 2774
Shulman, Yuri g USA 2581 = 0 0.5 2457
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Women's Final
Goletiani, Rusudan - Zatonskih, Anna 0-1 34 A11 Reti Opening
Zatonskih, Anna - Goletiani, Rusudan 1/2 24 B22 Sicilian Alapin
ch-USA w Final San Diego USA (USA), 12-12 iii 2006
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1 2
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Zatonskih, Anna wg USA 2433 1 = 1.5 2571
Goletiani, Rusudan wg USA 2378 0 = 0.5 2240
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Official Final Preliminaty Standings:
Group A standings in tiebreak order
Place Name/Team Rate Score 1: MMed 2: Solk 3: SBx2
1 GM Onischuk, Alexander (3) 2686 7.0 36.5 44.0 66.5
2 GM Ibragimov, Ildar (2) 2707 6.5 38.0 46.0 66.0
3 GM Stripunsky, Alexander (7) 2642 6.5 36.0 43.0 64.0
4 GM Nakamura, Hikaru (1) 2774 6.0 35.0 40.0 54.5
5 GM Gurevich, Dmitry (13) 2562 5.5 39.0 47.0 53.0
6 GM Akobian, Varuzhan (4) 2662 5.5 37.5 45.0 52.5
7 IM Fernandez, Daniel (23) 2424 5.5 37.0 44.0 47.0
8 GM Kudrin, Sergey (8) 2627 5.5 35.0 42.0 44.5
9 IM Finegold, Benjamin (5) 2657 5.5 32.5 39.5 49.0
10 IM Friedel, Joshua E (17) 2513 5.0 38.5 47.5 52.5
11 GM Serper, Gregory (12) 2577 5.0 36.5 44.0 42.0
12 FM Stein, Alan R (18) 2486 5.0 36.0 43.5 44.5
13 IM Kraai, Jesse (15) 2540 5.0 36.0 42.5 42.0
14 GM Goldin, Alexander (6) 2642 5.0 35.0 42.5 42.5
15 WGM Goletiani, Rusudan (25) 2393 5.0 33.5 37.0 34.0
16 GM De Firmian, Nick E (11) 2600 4.5 26.5 46.0 43.0
17 GM Benjamin, Joel (9) 2624 4.5 25.0 43.0 42.5
18 IM Schneider, Dmitry (16) 2525 4.5 25.0 42.0 31.5
19 GM Dlugy, Maxim (10) 2604 4.5 24.5 43.5 38.0
20 FM Schneider, Igor (24) 2420 4.5 22.0 35.0 26.0
21 FM Tate,Emory A (20) 2441 4.0 30.5 41.5 32.0
22 IM Florean, Andrei (19) 2479 4.0 27.5 40.0 25.0
23 IM Lenderman, Alex (22) 2427 4.0 24.0 35.0 24.0
24 WFM Ross, Laura R (28) 2238 4.0 20.0 30.5 17.0
25 IM Gonzalez, Renier (14) 2548 3.5 33.5 47.0 35.5
26 FM Bercys, Salvijus (21) 2440 3.5 32.0 44.0 31.5
27 WGM Baginskaite, Camilla (26) 2331 3.5 30.5 43.0 29.5
28 WIM Epstein, Esther (29) 2172 3.5 21.5 33.0 13.5
29 WFM Vicary, Elizabeth (30) 2118 3.5 19.0 29.0 15.0
30 Zenyuk, Iryna (31) 2101 3.0 20.5 29.5 10.5
31 Kleiman, Jake (27) 2318 1.5 22.5 33.0 6.0
32 Cottrell-Finegold, Kelly (32) 1663 0.0 24.0 33.5 0.0
Group B standings in tiebreak order
Place Name/Team Rate Score 1: MMed 2: Solk 3: SBx2
1 GM Shulman, Yury (9) 2623 6.5 39.5 47.0 63.5
2 GM Kamsky, Gata (1) 2729 6.5 38.5 46.5 65.5
3 GM Christiansen, Larry (7) 2633 6.5 38.0 45.5 64.0
4 GM Fishbein, Alexander (11) 2593 6.0 35.5 43.0 58.5
5 GM Novikov, Igor (6) 2643 5.5 40.5 50.0 58.0
6 GM Shabalov, Alexander (4) 2665 5.0 39.0 48.0 49.0
7 IM Perelshteyn, Eugene (10) 2614 5.0 38.0 46.5 48.5
8 GM Yermolinsky, Alex (12) 2590 5.0 37.5 44.5 46.0
9 GM Ivanov, Alexander (5) 2657 5.0 37.0 46.0 49.5
10 GM Wojtkiewicz,Aleks (14) 2555 5.0 36.0 42.0 41.5
11 GM Kaidanov, Gregory (2) 2722 5.0 35.0 43.0 46.0
12 WGM Zatonskih, Anna (19) 2469 5.0 33.5 41.0 43.5
13 GM Kreiman, Boris (15) 2535 5.0 33.5 40.5 43.5
14 GM Browne, Walter S (17) 2507 5.0 32.0 36.0 31.0
15 GM Gulko, Boris (3) 2678 4.5 24.5 43.5 42.5
16 IM Kriventsov, Stanislav (18) 2491 4.5 24.0 42.5 40.0
17 GM Becerra, Julio (8) 2629 4.5 22.5 41.5 41.0
18 IM Milman, Lev (16) 2528 4.5 22.5 38.0 31.5
19 IM Lugo, Blas (22) 2440 4.5 22.0 39.5 34.0
20 IM Ippolito, Dean J (20) 2464 4.5 22.0 37.0 32.0
21 GM Fedorowicz, John P (13) 2558 4.5 21.5 38.5 38.0
22 FM Muhammad, Stephen (21) 2458 4.5 20.5 36.5 31.5
23 IM Ginsburg, Mark (23) 2425 4.0 29.0 40.5 34.5
24 IM Sarkar, Justin (25) 2399 4.0 26.5 39.0 26.5
25 WFM Abrahamyan, Tatev (26) 2325 4.0 24.0 34.0 21.5
26 IM Vigorito, David E (24) 2422 4.0 23.0 33.0 21.5
27 WIM Tuvshintugs, Batch (27) 2271 3.5 34.5 47.5 35.5
28 Liu, Elliott (28) 2266 3.5 23.5 33.5 18.0
29 Airapetian, Chouch (29) 2162 3.5 23.0 34.5 18.0
30 West, Vanessa A (31) 2034 3.5 21.5 31.0 18.0
31 WFM Itkis,Hana (30) 2149 1.5 23.5 33.0 7.5
32 WCM Christiansen,Nata (32) 1872 0.5 24.0 33.5 1.5
The Women's World Chess Championship 2006 takes place in Ekaterinburg,
Russia from 10th-27th March 2006. 64 player knockout. The defending champion
from 2004 is Antoaneta Stefanova.
Official site: http://www.womenchess.com
FIDE site details: http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=951
Round 1 Results 11th-12th March 2006
Name Rtng G1 G2 Rp1 Rp2 Bz1 Bz2 SD Total
Round 1 Match 01
Mezioud, Amina (ALG) 1989 0 ½ 0,5
Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) 2499 1 ½ 1,5
Round 1 Match 02
Koneru, Humpy (IND) 2537 1 1 2
Sabure, Tuduetso (BOT) 2072 0 0 0
Round 1 Match 03
Basta-Sohair, F. (EGY) 2083 0 0 0
Cramling, Pia (SWE) 2515 1 1 2
Round 1 Match 04
Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS) 2514 1 1 2
Khoudgarian, Natalia (CAN) 2106 0 0 0
Round 1 Match 05
Rivera, Ingris (COL) 2128 0 ½ 0,5
Chiburdanidze, Maia (GEO) 2511 1 ½ 1,5
Round 1 Match 06
Xu, Yuhua (CHN) 2502 1 ½ 1,5
Hoang, Xuan Thanh Khiet (VIE) 2196 0 ½ 0,5
Round 1 Match 07
Zapata, Karen (PER) 2218 ½ 1 1,5
Lahno, Kateryna (UKR) 2500 ½ 0 0,5
Round 1 Match 09
Hou, Yifan (CHN) 2269 1 ½ 1,5
Kosintseva, Nadezhda (RUS) 2480 0 ½ 0,5
Round 1 Match 10
Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman (IND) 2479 1 ½ 1,5
Berezina, Irina (AUS) 2285 0 ½ 0,5
Round 1 Match 11
Meenakshi, S. (IND) 2289 0 0 0
Kosintseva, Tatiana (RUS) 2479 1 1 2
Round 1 Match 12
Socko, Monika (POL) 2475 ½ 0 0,5
Ju, Wenjun (CHN) 2290 ½ 1 1,5
Round 1 Match 13
Pourkashiyan, Atousa (IRI) 2296 ½ 0 0,5
Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) 2475 ½ 1 1,5
Round 1 Match 14
Zhao, Xue (CHN) 2473 ½ 0 0,5
Kursova, Maria (RUS) 2319 ½ 1 1,5
Round 1 Match 15
Aketaeva, Dana (KAZ) 2330 0 ½ 0,5
Qin, Kanying (CHN) 2469 1 ½ 1,5
Round 1 Match 16
Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) 2467 1 ½ 1,5
Purtseladze, Maka (GEO) 2341 0 ½ 0,5
Round 1 Match 17
Lujan, Carolina (ARG) 2346 ½ 1 1,5
Dembo, Yelena (GRE) 2461 ½ 0 0,5
Round 1 Match 18
Skripchenko, Almira (FRA) 2461 0 ½ 0,5
Houska, Jovanka (ENG) 2355 1 ½ 1,5
Round 1 Match 19
Pina, Sulennis (CUB) 2358 0 ½ 0,5
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina (RUS) 2458 1 ½ 1,5
Round 1 Match 20
Mkrtchian, Lilit (ARM) 2453 ½ ½ ½ 0 1,5
Ruan, Lufei (CHN) 2361 ½ ½ ½ 1 2,5
Round 1 Match 21
Ovod, Evgenija (RUS) 2366 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
Dzagnidze, Nana (GEO) 2452 1 0 0 1 1 1 4
Round 1 Match 22
Krush, Irina (USA) 2447 1 0 1 ½ 2,5
Amura, Claudia N. (ARG) 2366 0 1 0 ½ 1,5
Round 1 Match 23
Turova, Irina (RUS) 2379 ½ 0 0,5
Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO) 2444 ½ 1 1,5
Round 1 Match 24
Zhukova, Natalia (UKR) 2432 ½ ½ 1 0 1 ½ 3,5
Shen, Yang (CHN) 2380 ½ ½ 0 1 0 ½ 2,5
Round 1 Match 25
Wang, Yu A. (CHN) 2385 ½ ½ ½ 0 1,5
Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) 2430 ½ ½ ½ 1 2,5
Round 1 Match 26
Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) 2428 1 1 2
Vasilevich, Irina (RUS) 2386 0 0 0
Round 1 Match 27
Ushenina, Anna (UKR) 2398 ½ ½ 1 1 3
Korbut, Ekaterina (RUS) 2427 ½ ½ 0 0 1
Round 1 Match 28
Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan (GEO) 2426 ½ ½ ½ 1 2,5
Zielinska, Marta (POL) 2398 ½ ½ ½ 0 1,5
Round 1 Match 29
Foisor, Cristina Adela (ROM) 2402 ½ ½ ½ 0 1,5
Danielian, Elina (ARM) 2423 ½ ½ ½ 1 2,5
Round 1 Match 30
Paehtz, Elisabeth (GER) 2422 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
Peng, Zhaoqin (NED) 2407 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
Round 1 Match 31
Sebag, Marie (FRA) 2415 ½ 1 1,5
Zaiatz, Elena (RUS) 2422 ½ 0 0,5
Round 1 Match 32
Radziewicz, Iweta (POL) 2421 1 1 2
Kononenko, Tatiana (UKR) 2417 0 0 0
Round 2 Results 13th-14th March 2006
Name Rtng G1 G2 Rp1 Rp2 Bz1 Bz2 SD Total
Round 2 Match 01
Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) 2499 1 1
Radziewicz, Iweta (POL) 2421 0 0
Round 2 Match 02
Sebag, Marie (FRA) 2415 ½ 0,5
Koneru, Humpy (IND) 2537 ½ 0,5
Round 2 Match 03
Cramling, Pia (SWE) 2515 0 0
Peng, Zhaoqin (NED) 2407 1 1
Round 2 Match 04
Danielian, Elina (ARM) 2423 0 0
Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS) 2514 1 1
Round 2 Match 05
Chiburdanidze, Maia (GEO) 2511 1 1
Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan (GEO) 2426 0 0
Round 2 Match 06
Ushenina, Anna (UKR) 2398 ½ 0,5
Xu, Yuhua (CHN) 2502 ½ 0,5
Round 2 Match 07
Zapata, Karen (PER) 2218 0 0
Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) 2428 1 1
Round 2 Match 08
Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) 2430 ½ 0,5
Arribas, Maritza (CUB) 2261 ½ 0,5
Round 2 Match 09
Hou, Yifan (CHN) 2269 1 1
Zhukova, Natalia (UKR) 2432 0 0
Round 2 Match 10
Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO) 2444 1 1
Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman (IND) 2479 0 0
Round 2 Match 11
Kosintseva, Tatiana (RUS) 2479 1 1
Krush, Irina (USA) 2447 0 0
Round 2 Match 12
Dzagnidze, Nana (GEO) 2452 ½ 0,5
Ju, Wenjun (CHN) 2290 ½ 0,5
Round 2 Match 13
Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) 2475 ½ 0,5
Ruan, Lufei (CHN) 2361 ½ 0,5
Round 2 Match 14
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina (RUS) 2458 1 1
Kursova, Maria (RUS) 2319 0 0
Round 2 Match 15
Qin, Kanying (CHN) 2469 ½ 0,5
Houska, Jovanka (ENG) 2355 ½ 0,5
Round 2 Match 16
Lujan, Carolina (ARG) 2346 1 1
Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) 2467 0 0
XXII Reykjavik Open takes place 6th-14th March 2006.
Further details: http://www.skaksamband.com/reykjavikopen2006/
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XXII Open Reykjavik ISL (ISL), 6-14 iii 2006
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1. Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2603 + 66 + 34 + 19 = 17 + 16 = 2 + 7 . . 6.0 2788
2. Hamdouchi, Hichem g MAR 2575 + 75 + 52 = 28 + 23 + 24 = 1 = 6 . . 5.5 2717
3. Erenburg, Sergey g ISR 2573 + 57 + 49 = 13 + 14 = 8 = 7 + 27 . . 5.5 2709
4. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2709 + 35 - 15 + 66 + 25 + 17 = 8 + 16 . . 5.5 2680
5. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2625 + 83 + 29 + 18 = 16 - 7 + 19 + 17 . . 5.5 2711
6. Harikrishna, P g IND 2673 = 48 + 91 = 25 + 49 + 31 + 13 = 2 . . 5.5 2629
7. Hillarp Persson, Tiger g SWE 2548 + 62 + 41 = 14 + 28 + 5 = 3 - 1 . . 5.0 2630
8. Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2625 + 69 + 56 = 24 + 10 = 3 = 4 = 9 . . 5.0 2676
9. Stefansson, Hannes g ISL 2585 + 70 = 46 + 51 = 13 = 19 + 44 = 8 . . 5.0 2593
10. Nataf, Igor-Alexandre g FRA 2553 + 68 + 37 + 15 - 8 - 13 + 50 + 39 . . 5.0 2587
11. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2689 + 72 - 14 + 58 + 50 = 26 = 23 + 29 . . 5.0 2567
12. Ehlvest, Jaan g EST 2619 = 43 + 55 - 50 = 42 + 58 + 40 + 31 . . 5.0 2497
13. Adly, Ahmed g EGY 2473 + 90 + 88 = 3 = 9 + 10 - 6 + 32 . . 5.0 2601
14. Williams, Simon m ENG 2452 + 73 + 11 = 7 - 3 + 47 = 18 = 20 . . 4.5 2567
15. Thorhallsson, Throstur g ISL 2455 + 77 + 4 - 10 = 43 = 33 + 41 = 23 . . 4.5 2507
16. Tregubov, Pavel V g RUS 2556 + 64 + 36 + 39 = 5 - 1 + 26 - 4 . . 4.5 2596
17. Kveinys, Aloyzas g LTU 2517 + 86 + 58 + 21 = 1 - 4 + 22 - 5 . . 4.5 2564
18. Galego, Luis g POR 2538 + 59 + 33 - 5 = 40 + 52 = 14 = 30 . . 4.5 2499
19. Pavlovic, Milos g SCG 2494 + 78 + 22 - 1 + 41 = 9 - 5 + 43 . . 4.5 2498
20. Ivanisevic, Ivan g SCG 2588 = 55 + 47 + 42 - 24 = 40 + 36 = 14 . . 4.5 2447
21. Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2624 + 54 + 30 - 17 = 37 = 50 = 56 + 49 . . 4.5 2499
22. Andersson, Christin SWE 2170 + 44 - 19 = 52 + 38 + 34 - 17 + 53 . . 4.5 2540
23. Matamoros Franco, Carlos S g ECU 2510 + 82 = 45 + 46 - 2 + 37 = 11 = 15 . . 4.5 2528
24. Danielsen, Henrik g DEN 2520 + 81 + 53 = 8 + 20 - 2 - 29 + 56 . . 4.5 2555
25. Steingrimsson, Hedinn m ISL 2439 = 91 + 48 = 6 - 4 + 35 = 49 + 44 . . 4.5 2526
26. Ward, Christopher g ENG 2475 - 63 + 76 + 35 + 45 = 11 - 16 + 48 . . 4.5 2456
27. Timman, Jan H g NED 2630 - 42 + 79 + 72 + 56 = 39 + 28 - 3 . . 4.5 2490
28. Brynell, Stellan g SWE 2493 + 76 + 63 = 2 - 7 + 51 - 27 + 45 . . 4.5 2494
29. Tissir, Mohamed m MAR 2444 + 74 - 5 + 75 + 62 = 32 + 24 - 11 . . 4.5 2530
30. Gaponenko, Inna m UKR 2437 + 80 - 21 - 62 + 79 + 72 + 66 = 18 . . 4.5 2426
31. Akesson, Ralf g SWE 2494 + 79 = 42 = 43 + 36 - 6 + 33 - 12 . . 4.0 2434
32. Rogers, Ian g AUS 2547 + 85 = 51 = 45 + 53 = 29 = 39 - 13 . . 4.0 2417
33. Bergsson, Snorri f ISL 2316 + 65 - 18 + 61 = 44 = 15 - 31 + 68 . . 4.0 2371
34. Rocha, Sergio m POR 2405 + 84 - 1 = 86 + 55 - 22 = 42 + 72 . . 4.0 2327
35. Arngrimsson, Dagur ISL 2298 - 4 + 77 - 26 + 63 - 25 + 78 + 62 . . 4.0 2385
36. Kujovic, Michal SVK 2344 + 89 - 16 + 63 - 31 + 68 - 20 + 70 . . 4.0 2370
37. Thorfinnsson, Bragi m ISL 2367 + 95 - 10 + 92 = 21 - 23 = 55 + 69 . . 4.0 2354
38. Panchanathan, Magesh Chandran m IND 2494 = 47 - 43 = 90 - 22 + 91 + 85 + 57 . . 4.0 2247
39. Ermenkov, Evgenij g PLE 2462 +103 + 61 - 16 + 68 = 27 = 32 - 10 . . 4.0 2439
40. Mankeyev, Rauan f KAZ 2381 - 61 +103 + 81 = 18 = 20 - 12 + 66 . . 4.0 2394
41. Thorfinnsson, Bjorn f ISL 2337 + 99 - 7 +101 - 19 + 85 - 15 + 61 . . 4.0 2280
42. Ziska, Helgi Dam FAI 2286 + 27 = 31 - 20 = 12 = 46 = 34 = 50 . . 3.5 2501
43. Gara, Ticia wg HUN 2265 = 12 + 38 = 31 = 15 - 44 + 67 - 19 . . 3.5 2485
44. Kristjansson, Stefan m ISL 2476 - 22 + 78 + 69 = 33 + 43 - 9 - 25 . . 3.5 2319
45. Zaremba, Andrie f USA 2316 + 93 = 23 = 32 - 26 = 81 + 47 - 28 . . 3.5 2343
46. Jonsson, Bjorgvin m ISL 2392 + 94 = 9 - 23 = 64 = 42 = 69 = 54 . . 3.5 2325
47. Sanchez Castillo, Sarai wm VEN 2177 = 38 - 20 + 67 + 48 - 14 - 45 + 83 . . 3.5 2397
48. Kjartansson, Gudmundur ISL 2287 = 6 - 25 + 74 - 47 + 80 + 81 - 26 . . 3.5 2321
49. D'Costa, Lorin f ENG 2386 + 71 - 3 + 88 - 6 + 64 = 25 - 21 . . 3.5 2381
50. Vasilevich, Tatjana m UKR 2385 =101 +102 + 12 - 11 = 21 - 10 = 42 . . 3.5 2430
51. Sigfusson, Sigurdur f ISL 2339 + 92 = 32 - 9 + 86 - 28 = 62 = 55 . . 3.5 2318
52. Gara, Anita wg HUN 2367 + 98 - 2 = 22 + 54 - 18 - 57 + 82 . . 3.5 2285
53. Olafsson, David f ISL 2319 + 87 - 24 + 93 - 32 = 62 + 59 - 22 . . 3.5 2197
54. Krockenberger, Martin f GER 2267 - 21 = 80 + 71 - 52 = 77 + 88 = 46 . . 3.5 2256
55. Bjarnason, Oskar ISL 2255 = 20 - 12 +102 - 34 + 73 = 37 = 51 . . 3.5 2368
56. Gunnarsson, Jon Viktor m ISL 2421 + 97 - 8 + 70 - 27 + 83 = 21 - 24 . . 3.5 2436
57. Einarsson, Bergsteinn ISL 2245 - 3 = 71 = 80 = 88 + 89 + 52 - 38 . . 3.5 2236
58. Mamedjarova, Turkan wm AZE 2308 + 96 - 17 - 11 + 76 - 12 = 82 + 84 . . 3.5 2331
59. Ptacnikova, Lenka wg ISL 2204 - 18 = 65 = 89 = 61 + 96 - 53 + 87 . . 3.5 2081
60. Marinelli, Tullio m ITA 2391 =102 =101 - 68 + 78 - 66 = 61 + 81 . . 3.5 2167
61. Gretarsson, Hjorvar Stein ISL 2046 + 40 - 39 - 33 = 59 + 75 = 60 - 41 . . 3.0 2284
62. Halldorsson, Halldor ISL 2226 - 7 + 99 + 30 - 29 = 53 = 51 - 35 . . 3.0 2250
63. Vovk, Oksana wm DEN 2164 + 26 - 28 - 36 - 35 + 92 = 83 = 67 . . 3.0 2260
64. Bjarnason, Saevar m ISL 2240 - 16 = 89 + 65 = 46 - 49 = 84 = 71 . . 3.0 2168
65. Kasaun,Henry USA ---- - 33 = 59 - 64 = 74 = 90 + 80 = 75 . . 3.0 2157
66. Kjartansson, David f ISL 2260 - 1 + 84 - 4 + 91 + 60 - 30 - 40 . . 3.0 2349
67. Hardarson, Robert f ISL 2369 - 88 = 90 - 47 + 71 + 86 - 43 = 63 . . 3.0 2105
68. Bick, John D f USA 2238 - 10 + 95 + 60 - 39 - 36 + 93 - 33 . . 3.0 2244
69. Johannesson, Ingvar Thor f ISL 2269 - 8 + 97 - 44 = 73 + 82 = 46 - 37 . . 3.0 2283
70. Schwartz, Ylon f USA 2250 - 9 + 94 - 56 = 80 = 88 + 77 - 36 . . 3.0 2203
71. Bjornsson, Sverrir Orn ISL 2108 - 49 = 57 - 54 - 67 + 99 + 86 = 64 . . 3.0 2153
72. Bogza, Adina-Maria wg ROM 2294 - 11 + 73 - 27 +101 - 30 + 76 - 34 . . 3.0 2322
73. Thorsteinsson, Erlingur ISL 2147 - 14 - 72 + 87 = 69 - 55 = 89 + 93 . . 3.0 2084
74. Halldorsson, Jon Arni ISL 2145 - 29 = 83 - 48 = 65 = 87 + 96 = 85 . . 3.0 2084
75. Moskow, Eric USA 2248 - 2 + 98 - 29 = 89 - 61 + 94 = 65 . . 3.0 2114
76. Baldursson, Hrannar ISL 2174 - 28 - 26 + 94 - 58 + 95 - 72 + 89 . . 3.0 2184
77. Thorsteinsdottir, Gudlaug ISL 2147 - 15 - 35 = 96 +102 = 54 - 70 + 92 . . 3.0 2136
78. Johnson, Ben USA 2189 - 19 - 44 + 99 - 60 +101 - 35 + 95 . . 3.0 2164
79. Thorhallsson, Gylfi ISL 2187 - 31 - 27 + 98 - 30 - 84 +101 + 88 . . 3.0 2214
80. Scheeff, Volker GER 2142 - 30 = 54 = 57 = 70 - 48 - 65 + 99 . . 2.5 2070
81. Hagesaether, Ellen wm NOR 2202 - 24 + 87 - 40 + 93 = 45 - 48 - 60 . . 2.5 2127
82. Mouradian, Knarik wm LIB 2190 - 23 - 93 + 84 + 92 - 69 = 58 - 52 . . 2.5 2113
83. Weeks, Manuel f AUS 2273 - 5 = 74 = 91 + 90 - 56 = 63 - 47 . . 2.5 2160
84. Olafsson, Thorvardur ISL 2132 - 34 - 66 - 82 + 98 + 79 = 64 - 58 . . 2.5 2126
85. Johansson, Victoria wm SWE 2222 - 32 - 92 + 97 + 95 - 41 - 38 = 74 . . 2.5 2123
86. Salama, Omar EGY 2199 - 17 + 96 = 34 - 51 - 67 - 71 + 97 . . 2.5 2165
87. Omarsson, Dadi ISL 1714 - 53 - 81 - 73 +103 = 74 + 90 - 59 . . 2.5 2088
88. Magnusson, Bjarni ISL 2016 + 67 - 13 - 49 = 57 = 70 - 54 - 79 . . 2.0 2153
89. Thorgeirsson, Sverrir ISL 1954 - 36 = 64 = 59 = 75 - 57 = 73 - 76 . . 2.0 2070
90. Gutierrez Castillo, Paloma wf ESP 2158 - 13 = 67 = 38 - 83 = 65 - 87 = 94 . . 2.0 2048
91. Bergsson, Stefan ISL 2144 = 25 - 6 = 83 - 66 - 38 - 92 + 96 . . 2.0 2136
92. Kristjansson, Atli Freyr ISL 1922 - 51 + 85 - 37 - 82 - 63 + 91 - 77 . . 2.0 2066
93. Khaled,Mona EGY ---- - 45 + 82 - 53 - 81 +102 - 68 - 73 . . 2.0 2059
94. Player, Edmund C ENG 2122 - 46 - 70 - 76 = 99 +103 - 75 = 90 . . 2.0 1999
95. Asbjornsson, Ingvar ISL 1996 - 37 - 68 +103 - 85 - 76 + 98 - 78 . . 2.0 2036
96. Kristinsson, Bjarni Jens ISL ---- - 58 - 86 = 77 + 97 - 59 - 74 - 91 . . 1.5 1953
97. Ragnarsson, Johann ISL 2134 - 56 - 69 - 85 - 96 = 98 +102 - 86 . . 1.5 1946
98. Trifunovic, Dusan SCG 2012 - 52 - 75 - 79 - 84 = 97 - 95 +102 . . 1.5 1938
99. Palsson, Svanberg Mar ISL 1720 - 41 - 62 - 78 = 94 - 71 +103 - 80 . . 1.5 1953
100. Palmason,Vilhjalmur ISL ---- . . . . . . +103 . . 1.0
101. Berg, Runar ISL 2128 = 50 = 60 - 41 - 72 - 78 - 79 . . . 1.0 2024
102. Knutsson, Larus ISL 2112 = 60 - 50 - 55 - 77 - 93 - 97 - 98 . . 0.5 1767
103. Eichab, Charles NAM 2157 - 39 - 40 - 95 - 87 - 94 - 99 -100 . . 0.0
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The Hungarian Championship took place in Szekesfehervar, 1st-9th March
2006. Zoltan Almasi took the title by a point after winning in the final round.
News: Zsuzsa Veroci.
Official site: http://web.t-online.hu/passant/sakkversenyek/
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1. Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2646 * = = = = 1 = 1 1 1 6.5 2709
2. Gyimesi, Zoltan g HUN 2602 = * = = = = = 1 1 = 5.5 2628
3. Balogh, Csaba g HUN 2561 = = * = = = = 1 = 1 5.5 2633
4. Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2597 = = = * = = = 1 = = 5.0 2592
5. Ruck, Robert g HUN 2540 = = = = * = = = = 1 5.0 2598
6. Cao, Sang g HUN 2543 0 = = = = * = = 1 1 5.0 2598
7. Sax, Gyula g HUN 2539 = = = = = = * = = = 4.5 2555
8. Szabo, Krisztian1 m HUN 2447 0 0 0 0 = = = * 1 = 3.0 2440
9. Portisch, Lajos g HUN 2533 0 0 = = = 0 = 0 * = 2.5 2390
10. Horvath, Adam1 g HUN 2532 0 = 0 = 0 0 = = = * 2.5 2390
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The 7th and 8th Rounds of the 4NCL took place 4th-5th March 2006. My
thanks to Arthur Brameld for the games.
In Division 1, table-toppers Wood Green 1 and Guildford-ADC 1 continue
on their merry way with a pair of comfortable victories apiece. Although both
teams have had plenty of scares this season, it’s beginning to look like
their final round encounter will again decide the title. Wood Green have the
advantage on games points … perhaps this turn out to be important if the
pair tie on match points. Slough Sharks 1 lead the chasing pack … an
honourable mention to their GM board 1, David Navara, who now has a perfect six
wins from six in his first 4NCL season. In the Division 1 relegation battle
there are 5 teams looking to scramble away from danger. Almost all the matches
between these 5 have now been played, so it looks like they will all be looking
to land upsets in the final weekend. Reading from the bottom, it’s going
to be tough for Barbican 4NCL 2, 3Cs Oldham 1 and North West Eagles 1.
Official site: http://www.4ncl.co.uk
Division 1 results - Round 7
RD 7 GUILDFORD-ADC 1 2497 v BARBICAN 4NCL 1 2360
1 w Rowson, Jonathan 2599 ½ - ½ Parker, Jonathan 2504
2 b King, Daniel J 2526 ½ - ½ Collins, Sam 2409
3 w Hebden, Mark L 2514 1 - 0 Ferguson, Mark 2388
4 b Conquest, Stuart 2522 1 - 0 Knott, Simon 2378
5 w Kosten, Anthony C 2501 ½ - ½ Palliser, Richard 2401
6 b Flear, Glenn C 2470 ½ - ½ Devereaux, Maxim 2367
7 w Cherniaev,A 2472 1 - 0 Taylor, Martin R 2299
8 b Ciuksyte, Dagne 2370 1 - 0 Lauterbach,Ingrid 2131
6 - 2
RD 7 BETSSON.COM 2291 v N.W. EAGLES 1 2254
1 w Ledger, Andrew J 2430 1 - 0 Morrison, Graham 2326
2 b Ansell, Simon 2383 ½ - ½ Hague, Ben 2300
3 w Webb, Laurence E 2336 1 - 0 van der Linden,L 2281
4 b Duncan,Chris 2332 0 - 1 Carleton, John J 2284
5 w Eames, Robert G 2320 0 - 1 Littlewood, John 2275
6 b Ledger, David J 2247 0 - 1 Kennaugh, Charles 2274
7 w Ledger, Stephen C 2175 0 - 1 Lund, D Brett 2247
8 b Tidman, Sophie 2106 0 - 1 Milligan, Helen 2045
2½-5½
RD 7 GUILDFORD-ADC 2 2366 v SLOUGH SHARKS 1 2432
1 w Plaskett, James 2485 0 - 1 Navara, David 2660
2 b Collas, Didier 2443 0 - 1 Pert, Nicholas 2500
3 w Shaw, John K 2432 ½ - ½ Le Roux,JeanPierre2497
4 b Wallace, John P 2392 0 - 1 Jones, Gawain C B 2418
5 w Buckley, Graeme 2398 0 - 1 McNab, Colin A 2456
6 b Povah, Nigel E 2353 0 - 1 Gourlay, Iain 2363
7 w Lalic, Susan (F) 2356 1 - 0 Martyn, Rafe 2323
8 b Yurenok, Maria S 2072 0 - 1 Ignacz, Maria (F) 2238
1½-6½
RD 7 THE ADS 1 2340 v 3CS OLDHAM 1 2320
1 w Chandler, Murray 2537 ½ - ½ Davies, Nigel R 2521
2 b Mestel,A Jonathan 2491 ½ - ½ Haslinger,Stewart 2426
3 w Jirka, Jiri 2393 0 - 1 Gordon, Stephen J 2414
4 b Cernousek, Lukas 2380 ½ - ½ Ashton, Adam G 2321
5 w Snape, Ian 2271 1 - 0 Bentley, John L 2244
6 b Cafferty, Bernard 2207 ½ - ½ Longson,Alexander 2264
7 w Anderton, David 2267 ½ - ½ Walton, Alan J 2197
8 b Bellin, Jana (F) 2170 1 - 0 Van Weersel,A 2169
4½-3½
RD 7 WOOD GREEN 1 2519 v BARBICAN 4NCL 2 2216
1 w McShane, Luke 2609 1 - 0 Rogers, Jonathan 2340
2 b Speelman,Jonathan 2539 1 - 0 Berry, Neil 2289
3 w Gormally, Daniel 2573 1 - 0 Coleman, David 2245
4 b Cramling, Pia (F) 2515 1 - 0 Pritchett, Craig 2285
5 w Baburin,Alexander 2511 1 - 0 Manley, Jon P 2188
6 b Emms, John M 2502 ½ - ½ Taylor, Peter 2240
7 w Ward, Christopher 2475 1 - 0 Moore, John C * 2048
8 b Pert, Richard G 2429 1 - 0 Bhatia, Kanwal K 2091
7½-½
RD 7 HILSMARK K'FISHER12454 v WOOD GREEN 2 2421
1 w Miton, Kamil * 2646 ½ - ½ Lalic, Bogdan 2488
2 b Wells, Peter K 2501 0 - 1 Arakhamia-Grant,K 2426
3 w Arkell, Keith C 2475 0 - 1 Turner, Matthew J 2495
4 b Berzinsh, Roland 2447 ½ - ½ Levitt, Jonathan 2448
5 w Trent, Lawrence 2423 1 - 0 Littlewood, Paul 2366
6 b Greet, Andrew N 2423 1 - 0 Sowray, Peter J 2357
7 w Houska, Jovanka 2355 0 - 1 Rechel, Bernd 2416
8 b Crouch, Colin 2365 0 - 1 McDonald, Neil 2374
3 - 5
Division 1 results - Round 8
RD 8 N.W. EAGLES 1 2248 v WOOD GREEN 1 2518
1 w Morrison, Graham 2326 0 - 1 McShane, Luke 2609
2 b Hague, Ben 2300 0 - 1 Speelman,Jonathan 2539
3 w van der Linden,L 2281 0 - 1 Gormally, Daniel 2573
4 b Kennaugh, Charles 2274 ½ - ½ Cramling, Pia (F) 2515
5 w Littlewood, John 2275 0 - 1 Baburin,Alexander 2511
6 b Lyell, Mark 2235 0 - 1 Emms, John M 2502
7 w Lund, D Brett 2247 ½ - ½ Ward, Christopher 2475
8 b Milligan, Helen 2045 0 - 1 Rechel, Bernd 2416
1 - 7
RD 8 SLOUGH SHARKS 1 2431 v HILSMARK K'FISHER12446
1 w Navara, David 2660 1 - 0 Miton, Kamil * 2646
2 b Pert, Nicholas 2500 ½ - ½ Wells, Peter K 2501
3 w Jones, Gawain C B 2418 ½ - ½ Arkell, Keith C 2475
4 b McNab, Colin A 2456 1 - 0 Berzinsh, Roland 2447
5 w Le Roux,JeanPierre2497 1 - 0 Greet, Andrew N 2423
6 b Gourlay, Iain 2363 ½ - ½ Trent, Lawrence 2423
7 w Jessel, Stephen 2313 0 - 1 Houska, Jovanka 2355
8 b Ignacz, Maria (F) 2238 0 - 1 Britton, Richard 2297
4½-3½
RD 8 3CS OLDHAM 1 2320 v GUILDFORD-ADC 1 2497
1 w Davies, Nigel R 2521 0 - 1 King, Daniel J 2526
2 b Haslinger,Stewart 2426 0 - 1 Rowson, Jonathan 2599
3 w Gordon, Stephen J 2414 ½ - ½ Kosten, Anthony C 2501
4 b Ashton, Adam G 2321 ½ - ½ Conquest, Stuart 2522
5 w Bentley, John L 2244 1 - 0 Hebden, Mark L 2514
6 b Longson,Alexander 2264 0 - 1 Flear, Glenn C 2470
7 w Walton, Alan J 2197 ½ - ½ Cherniaev,A 2472
8 b Van Weersel,A 2169 0 - 1 Ciuksyte, Dagne 2370
2½-5½
RD 8 BARBICAN 4NCL 2 2211 v BETSSON.COM 2323
1 w Taylor, Martin R 2299 0 - 1 Hunt, Adam C 2431
2 b Pritchett, Craig 2285 ½ - ½ Ledger, Andrew J 2430
3 w Berry, Neil 2289 1 - 0 Webb, Laurence E 2336
4 b Taylor, Peter 2240 ½ - ½ Ansell, Simon 2383
5 w Coleman, David 2245 0 - 1 Eames, Robert G 2320
6 b Manley, Jon P 2188 0 - 1 Duncan, Chris 2332
7 w Bhatia, Kanwal K 2091 0 - 1 Ledger, David J 2247
8 b Moore, John C * 2048 0 - 1 Tidman, Sophie 2106
2 - 6
RD 8 BARBICAN 4NCL 1 2365 v THE ADS 1 2340
1 w Parker, Jonathan 2504 ½ - ½ Chandler, Murray 2537
2 b Collins, Sam 2409 0 - 1 Mestel,A Jonathan 2491
3 w Palliser, Richard 2401 1 - 0 Jirka, Jiri 2393
4 b Knott, Simon 2378 0 - 1 Cernousek, Lukas 2380
5 w Rogers, Jonathan 2340 ½ - ½ Snape, Ian 2271
6 b Devereaux, Maxim 2367 1 - 0 Cafferty, Bernard 2207
7 w Ferguson, Mark 2388 1 - 0 Anderton, David 2267
8 b Lauterbach,Ingrid 2131 ½ - ½ Bellin, Jana (F) 2170
4½-3½
RD 8 WOOD GREEN 2 2423 v GUILDFORD-ADC 2 2366
1 w Lalic, Bogdan 2488 ½ - ½ Plaskett, James 2485
2 b Arakhamia-Grant,K 2426 ½ - ½ Collas, Didier 2443
3 w Turner, Matthew J 2495 0 - 1 Shaw, John K 2432
4 b Levitt, Jonathan 2448 0 - 1 Wallace, John P 2392
5 w Littlewood, Paul 2366 ½ - ½ Lalic, Susan (F) 2356
6 b Sowray, Peter J 2357 0 - 1 Povah, Nigel E 2353
7 w Pert, Richard G 2429 1 - 0 Buckley, Graeme 2398
8 b McDonald, Neil 2374 1 - 0 Yurenok, Maria S 2072
3½-4½
Round 8 standings:
Team + = - Points
WOOD GREEN 1 7 1 0 15
GUILDFORD-ADC 1 7 1 0 15
SLOUGH SHARKS 1 5 2 1 12
BARBICAN 4NCL 1 5 1 2 11
HILSMARK K'FISHER 1 3 2 3 8
WOOD GREEN 2 4 0 4 8
GUILDFORD-ADC 2 4 0 4 8
THE ADS 1 2 1 5 5
BETSSON.COM 2 0 6 4
N.W. EAGLES 1 2 0 6 4
3CS OLDHAM 1 1 1 6 3
BARBICAN 4NCL 2 1 1 6 3
Round 12 and 13 of the Bundesliga took place March 11th-12th 2006. OSC
Baden Baden extended their lead after second place Werder Bremen were held by
3rd place Köln Porz in round 12. Games from round 13 will probably be
available next week.
Official site: http://www.schachbundesliga.de/
Bundesliga Round 12 11th March 2006
Venue: Kirchheim
SG Kirchheim 2 - 6 SC Kreuzberg
2 Wippermann,Ti 0 : 1 Almasi,Zoltan 3
3 Bokros,Albert 0 : 1 Socko,Bartosz 4
4 Gschnitzer,Os 0 : 1 Romanishin,Ol 5
5 Tompa,Janos 1 : 0 Maiwald,Jens- 6
6 Beckhuis,Gern 0 : 1 Kalinitschew, 7
7 Wintzer,Joach ½ : ½ Lau,Ralf 8
8 Vonthron,Hors 0 : 1 Volke,Karsten 9
10 Zuse,Klaus-Pe ½ : ½ Loeffler,Stef 11
OSC Baden Baden 5 - 3 SF Berlin 1903
1 Anand,Viswana ½ : ½ Miroshnichenk 2
4 Shirov,Alexei 1 : 0 Polzin,Rainer 5
6 Nielsen,Peter 0 : 1 Berndt,Stepha 6
8 Movsesian,Ser 1 : 0 Borriss,Marti 7
10 Dautov,Rustem ½ : ½ Poldauf,Dirk 9
11 Schlosser,Phi ½ : ½ Thiede,Lars 10
12 Buhmann,Raine ½ : ½ Thinius,Marco 11
13 Doettling,Fab 1 : 0 Rudolf,Henrik 12
Venue: Leipzig
SC Leipzig Gohli 2½-5½ SV Wattenscheid
1 Vogt,Lothar 0 : 1 Macieja,Bartl 3
2 Voigt,Roland 0 : 1 Rustemov,Alex 4
3 Roos,Michael 0 : 1 Johannessen,L 5
6 Schoeneberg,M ½ : ½ Holzke,Frank 6
7 Quast,Michael ½ : ½ Handke,Floria 7
8 Fischer,Johan 1 : 0 Appel,Ralf 8
9 Hoffmann,Hend ½ : ½ Straeter,Timo 13
11 Rausch,Stepha 0 : 1 Thiel,Thomas 14
SK Zehlendorf 1 - 7 SG Aljechin Soli
1 Richter,Micha 0 : 1 Nikolic,Predr 2
2 Maksimenko,An 1 : 0 Baramidze,Dav 4
3 Werner,Dimo 0 : 1 Stellwagen,Da 5
4 Janz,Frerik 0 : 1 Naumann,Alexa 6
5 Heinig,Wolfra 0 : 1 Hoffmann,Mich 10
8 Rahls,Peter 0 : 1 Ernst,Sipke 11
9 Lieb,Harald 0 : 1 Zysk,Robert 12
10 Ribic,Kasmir 0 : 1 Drabke,Lorenz 15
Venue: Eppingen
SC Eppingen 1½-6½ SF Katernberg
3 Acs,Peter 0 : 1 Volokitin,And 1
4 Braun,Arik 1 : 0 Chuchelov,Vla 4
6 Medvegy,Zolta 0 : 1 Smagin,Sergey 6
7 Mann,Christia 0 : 1 L'Ami,Erwin 7
8 Rau,Hannes ½ : ½ Senff,Martin 9
9 Miltner,Arndt 0 : 1 Thesing,Matth 12
12 Schulze,Ulric 0 : 1 Scholz,Christ 13
15 Meinhardt,Max 0 : 1 Rosen,Bernd 14
TV Tegernsee 4½-3½ SV Mülheim Nord
1 Khenkin,Igor ½ : ½ Landa,Konstan 2
2 Sokolov,Andre ½ : ½ Fridman,Danie 4
3 Ribli,Zoltan ½ : ½ Levin,Felix 5
4 Bischoff,Klau 1 : 0 Schebler,Gerh 6
5 Boensch,Uwe 0 : 1 Saltaev,Mihai 7
7 Hertneck,Gera ½ : ½ Hausrath,Dani 8
8 Teske,Henrik 1 : 0 Wegener,Olaf 10
11 Bromberger,St ½ : ½ Kern,Guido 12
Venue: Godesberg
Godesberger SK 2 - 6 Hamburger SK
1 Kasimdzhanov, 1 : 0 Ftacnik,Lubom 2
2 Jenni,Florian 0 : 1 Kempinski,Rob 3
3 Sprenger,Jan- 0 : 1 Hansen,Sune B 4
4 Seel,Christia 0 : 1 Wahls,Matthia 5
5 Breder,Dennis 0 : 1 Mueller,Karst 6
6 Langheinrich, ½ : ½ Reeh,Oliver 7
7 Grafl,Florian 0 : 1 Heinemann,Thi 8
8 Jackelen,Thom ½ : ½ Van Delft,Mer 11
SG Köln Porz 4 - 4 Werder Bremen
2 Lutz,Christop 0 : 1 McShane,Luke 1
3 Van Wely,Loek ½ : ½ Efimenko,Zaha 2
5 Vaganian,Rafa 0 : 1 Areshchenko,A 3
7 Graf,Alexande ½ : ½ Hracek,Zbynek 4
9 Hansen,Curt ½ : ½ Pelletier,Yan 5
10 Van den Doel, 1 : 0 Babula,Vlasti 6
11 Andersson,Ulf ½ : ½ Nyback,Tomi 7
12 Kengis,Edwin 1 : 0 Schandorff,La 9
Bundesliga Round 13 12th March 2006
Venue: Kirchheim
SC Kreuzberg 3½-4½ OSC Baden Baden
3 Almasi,Zoltan ½ : ½ Anand,Viswana 1
4 Socko,Bartosz ½ : ½ Shirov,Alexei 4
5 Romanishin,Ol ½ : ½ Nielsen,Peter 6
6 Maiwald,Jens- 0 : 1 Movsesian,Ser 8
7 Kalinitschew, ½ : ½ Dautov,Rustem 10
8 Lau,Ralf ½ : ½ Schlosser,Phi 11
9 Volke,Karsten ½ : ½ Buhmann,Raine 12
11 Loeffler,Stef ½ : ½ Doettling,Fab 13
SF Berlin 1903 4½-3½ SG Kirchheim
2 Miroshnichenk 1 : 0 Wippermann,Ti 2
5 Polzin,Rainer ½ : ½ Bokros,Albert 3
6 Berndt,Stepha ½ : ½ Gschnitzer,Os 4
7 Borriss,Marti ½ : ½ Tompa,Janos 5
9 Poldauf,Dirk ½ : ½ Beckhuis,Gern 6
10 Thiede,Lars ½ : ½ Rudolph,Johan 9
11 Thinius,Marco 1 : 0 Zuse,Klaus-Pe 10
12 Rudolf,Henrik 0 : 1 Adler,Joel Dr 11
Venue: Leipzig
SV Wattenscheid 7 - 1 SK Zehlendorf
3 Macieja,Bartl 1 : 0 Richter,Micha 1
4 Rustemov,Alex ½ : ½ Maksimenko,An 2
5 Johannessen,L 1 : 0 Werner,Dimo 3
6 Holzke,Frank 1 : 0 Janz,Frerik 4
7 Handke,Floria 1 : 0 Heinig,Wolfra 5
8 Appel,Ralf 1 : 0 Rahls,Peter 8
13 Straeter,Timo 1 : 0 Lieb,Harald 9
14 Thiel,Thomas ½ : ½ Ribic,Kasmir 10
SG Aljechin Soli 5 - 3 SC Leipzig Gohli
2 Nikolic,Predr ½ : ½ Vogt,Lothar 1
4 Baramidze,Dav 1 : 0 Roos,Michael 3
5 Stellwagen,Da ½ : ½ Zesch,Ludwig 5
6 Naumann,Alexa 1 : 0 Schoeneberg,M 6
10 Hoffmann,Mich ½ : ½ Quast,Michael 7
11 Ernst,Sipke 1 : 0 Fischer,Johan 8
12 Zysk,Robert 0 : 1 Hoffmann,Hend 9
15 Drabke,Lorenz ½ : ½ Rausch,Stepha 11
Venue: Eppingen
SF Katernberg 2 - 6 TV Tegernsee
1 Volokitin,And ½ : ½ Khenkin,Igor 1
4 Chuchelov,Vla 0 : 1 Sokolov,Andre 2
6 Smagin,Sergey ½ : ½ Ribli,Zoltan 3
7 L'Ami,Erwin ½ : ½ Bischoff,Klau 4
9 Senff,Martin ½ : ½ Boensch,Uwe 5
12 Thesing,Matth 0 : 1 Hertneck,Gera 7
13 Scholz,Christ 0 : 1 Teske,Henrik 8
14 Rosen,Bernd 0 : 1 Bromberger,St 11
SV Mülheim Nord 4½-3½ SC Eppingen
2 Landa,Konstan ½ : ½ Acs,Peter 3
4 Fridman,Danie ½ : ½ Braun,Arik 4
5 Levin,Felix 0 : 1 Medvegy,Zolta 6
6 Schebler,Gerh ½ : ½ Mann,Christia 7
7 Saltaev,Mihai 1 : 0 Rau,Hannes 8
8 Hausrath,Dani ½ : ½ Miltner,Arndt 9
10 Wegener,Olaf ½ : ½ Schulze,Ulric 12
12 Kern,Guido 1 : 0 Meinhardt,Max 15
Venue: Godesberg
Hamburger SK 2½-5½ SG Köln Porz
2 Ftacnik,Lubom ½ : ½ Lutz,Christop 2
3 Kempinski,Rob ½ : ½ Van Wely,Loek 3
4 Hansen,Sune B ½ : ½ Vaganian,Rafa 5
5 Wahls,Matthia ½ : ½ Graf,Alexande 7
6 Mueller,Karst 0 : 1 Hansen,Curt 9
7 Reeh,Oliver 0 : 1 Van den Doel, 10
8 Heinemann,Thi ½ : ½ Andersson,Ulf 11
11 Van Delft,Mer 0 : 1 Kengis,Edwin 12
Werder Bremen 5½-2½ Godesberger SK
1 McShane,Luke 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov, 1
2 Efimenko,Zaha 1 : 0 Jenni,Florian 2
3 Areshchenko,A ½ : ½ Sprenger,Jan- 3
4 Hracek,Zbynek ½ : ½ Seel,Christia 4
5 Pelletier,Yan 1 : 0 Langheinrich, 6
6 Babula,Vlasti 1 : 0 Grafl,Florian 7
7 Nyback,Tomi ½ : ½ Jackelen,Thom 8
9 Schandorff,La 1 : 0 Armbruster,Al 9
Tabelle:
1. OSC Baden Baden 13 24 69
2. Werder Bremen 13 22 63½
3. SG Köln Porz 13 21 69
4. TV Tegernsee 13 21 63½
5. SG Aljechin Soli 13 19 61½
6. SV Mülheim Nord 13 15 58½
7. SF Katernberg 13 15 57½
8. SC Kreuzberg 13 14 55½
9. SF Berlin 1903 13 13 48½
10. SV Wattenscheid 13 12 52½
11. Hamburger SK 13 11 54
12. SC Eppingen 13 8 49½
13. Godesberger SK 13 7 44
14. SG Kirchheim 13 4 35½
15. SC Leipzig Gohli 13 2 28
16. SK Zehlendorf 13 0 22
The European Senior Teams took place in Dresden, Germany 17th-25th
February 2006. Dostoinstvo Moskau won the event.
Further details:
http://chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=5229
and http://www.schachfestival.de -
(Directly)
Final Standings:
1 1 Dostoinstvo Moskau 2429 7 1 0 15 - 1 22.5 81.0
1 Vasiukov, Evgeni 2493 5 3 0 6.5 - 1.5 33.5 27.25
2 Shabanov, Yuri 2427 3 3 2 4.5 - 3.5 34.5 16.75
3 Chernikov, Oleg L 2411 3 5 0 5.5 - 2.5 34.0 22.75
4 Arkhangelsky, Boris 2384 5 2 1 6.0 - 2.0 35.5 23.75
2 2 Deutschland 2416 6 2 0 14 - 2 23.0 84.0
1 017 Gutman,Lev 2465 5 1 2 5.5 - 2.5 35.5 21.75
2 116 Uhlmann,Wolfgang 2420 3 5 0 5.5 - 2.5 35.0 24.00
3 125 Hecht,Hans-Joachim 2397 2 6 0 5.0 - 3.0 35.5 21.75
4 197 Klundt,Klaus 2381 6 2 0 7.0 - 1.0 30.0 25.75
3 8 Finnland 2276 5 2 1 12 - 4 20.0 82.0
1 Westerinen, Heikki M.J.2382 4 2 2 5.0 - 3.0 36.0 20.50
2 Sorri, Kari Juhani 2286 3 2 3 4.0 - 4.0 35.0 14.25
3 Kanko, Ilkka 2227 3 3 2 4.5 - 3.5 30.5 16.25
4 Hurme, Harri M. 2210 5 3 0 6.5 - 1.5 32.5 24.50
4 Catalonia
5 Norwegen I
6 Phoenix Köln
7 WIS Odessa (Israel)
8 Schweiz
9 St. Petersburg
10 Berlin
46 teams
The Mercantile Bank The Mercantile Bank 32nd National Chess Championship
of Bangladesh 2006, takes place 10th-23rd March 2006 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The
round one game GM Murshed, Niaz Vs. IM Hossain, Enamul was not held due one
player's illness. The game will be held on the rest day. 14 players are
participating including 2 GMs, 3 IMs and 4 FMs. News: Haroonor Rashid I.A.
Chief Arbiter. 2006, takes place 10th-23rd March 2006 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The
round one game GM Murshed, Niaz Vs. IM Hossain, Enamul was not held due one
player's illness. The game will be held on the rest day. 14 players are
participating including 2 GMs, 3 IMs and 4 FMs. News: Haroonor Rashid I.A.
Chief Arbiter.
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32nd ch-BAN Dhaka BAN (BAN), 10-23 iii 2006 cat. III (2320)
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1. Abdulla, Al-Rakib m BAN 2477 * . . . . . . = . . 1 . 1 1 3.5 2609
2. Ahmed, Sk. Nasir f BAN 2321 . * . . . . . . 1 . . = 1 1 3.5 2492
3. Rahman, Ziaur g BAN 2557 . . * 0 1 . 1 . . 1 . . . . 3.0 2498
4. Reefat, Bin-Sattar m BAN 2478 . . 1 * . . . . 0 1 . 1 . . 3.0 2486
5. Haque, Rezaul f BAN 2193 . . 0 . * . . . 1 . . 1 1 . 3.0 2454
6. Hossain, Enamul m BAN 2468 . . . . . * . . = . . . 1 1 2.5 2445
7. Abu Sufian, Shakil f BAN 2278 . . 0 . . . * = . 1 1 . . . 2.5 2504
8. Murshed, Niaz g BAN 2460 = . . . . . = * . . 1 . . . 2.0 2493
9. Abdul, Maleq BAN 2233 . 0 . 1 0 = . . * . . . . . 1.5 2278
10. Rahman, S. Manfuzur BAN 2273 . . 0 0 . . 0 . . * . 1 . . 1.0 2162
11. Hasan, Mehdi f BAN 2349 0 . . . . . 0 0 . . * . . 1 1.0 2144
12. Hossain, Enayet Mohammed BAN 2110 . = . 0 0 . . . . 0 . * . . 0.5 1994
13. Hasan Md, Emam BAN 2147 0 0 . . 0 0 . . . . . . * . 0.0
14. Hossain, Delwar BAN 2136 0 0 . . . 0 . . . . 0 . . * 0.0
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The Turkish Championship takes place 11th-23rd March 2006. It sees the
debut of Mikhail Gurevich who has moved from Belgium, he's the ELO favourite
and is one of four players on a 2/2 start including 2nd favourite Suat Atalik.
Official site: http://www.tsf.org.tr/
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1. Atalik, Suat g TUR 2618 * . . . . . . 1 . . . 1 . . 2.0
2. Haznedaroglu, Kivanc m TUR 2438 . * . . . . . . . 1 . . 1 . 2.0
3. Can, Emre TUR 2281 . . * . . . . . . . . . 1 1 2.0
4. Gurevich, Mikhail g TUR 2633 . . . * . . . . . . . 1 . 1 2.0
5. Goksel, Doga Cihan TUR 2189 . . . . * . = . . . 1 . . . 1.5 2518
6. Erdogan, Hakan f TUR 2259 . . . . . * . = 1 . . . . . 1.5 2533
7. Atakisi, Umut m TUR 2441 . . . . = . * . = . . . . . 1.0 2235
8. Atalik, Ekaterina wg RUS 2399 0 . . . . = . * . . . . . . 0.5 2245
9. Kilicaslan, Hasan m TUR 2281 . . . . . 0 = . * . . . . . 0.5 2157
10. Erdogdu, Mert m TUR 2345 . 0 . . . . . . . * = . . . 0.5 2130
11. Yagiz, Yasin Emrah TUR 2209 . . . . 0 . . . . = * . . . 0.5 2074
12. Erturan, Yakup f TUR 2365 0 . . 0 . . . . . . . * . . 0.0
13. Korkmaz, Necmettin TUR 2071 . 0 0 . . . . . . . . . * . 0.0
14. Secer, Ata TUR 2229 . . 0 0 . . . . . . . . . * 0.0
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The Russian Under-20 Championship took place in Cheboksary 2nd-12th
March 2006. Boris Grachev took first place on tie-break from Nikita Vitiugov
both made 7/11.
Official site:
http://www.aeroflotchess.com/games/online20/results.htm
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U20ch-RUS Cheboksary RUS (RUS), 2-12 iii 2006 cat. XI (2517)
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1. Grachev, Boris m RUS 2510 * = 1 = 1 0 = = = 1 = 1 7.0 2619
2. Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2573 = * = 0 1 0 1 1 = 1 = 1 7.0 2613
3. Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2586 0 = * 1 = = 0 1 1 = 1 = 6.5 2575
4. Savchenko, Boris m RUS 2569 = 1 0 * 0 1 = = = = 1 1 6.5 2577
5. Nepomniachtchi, Ian m RUS 2506 0 0 = 1 * = = = = 1 1 1 6.5 2582
6. Lysyj, Igor m RUS 2523 1 1 = 0 = * = 0 = = = 1 6.0 2552
7. Kharitonov, Alexandr m RUS 2535 = 0 1 = = = * = 0 = 1 = 5.5 2515
8. Maletin, Pavel m RUS 2538 = 0 0 = = 1 = * = = = 1 5.5 2514
9. Khairullin, Ildar m RUS 2533 = = 0 = = = 1 = * = = 0 5.0 2479
10. Geller, Jakov m RUS 2505 0 0 = = 0 = = = = * = = 4.0 2415
11. Iljin, Artem m RUS 2510 = = 0 0 0 = 0 = = = * 1 4.0 2415
12. Safronov, Andrey G f RUS 2314 0 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 1 = 0 * 2.5 2324
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1. Tairova, Elena wm RUS 2294 * = = 1 = 0 1 1 = 1 1 1 8.0 2477
2. Kovanova, Baira RUS 2341 = * 1 1 1 1 = 0 0 = 1 = 7.0 2400
3. Gunina, Valentina wf RUS 2336 = 0 * = 0 = 1 1 1 1 = 1 7.0 2400
4. Malysheva, Polina wm RUS 2294 0 0 = * 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 6.5 2367
5. Burtasova, Anna wm RUS 2274 = 0 1 0 * 1 0 = 1 1 0 1 6.0 2340
6. Nebolsina, Vera wm RUS 2269 1 0 = 0 0 * = 1 = 1 1 0 5.5 2304
7. Chistiakova, Tamara wf RUS 2326 0 = 0 0 1 = * = 1 0 1 1 5.5 2299
8. Fominykh, Maria wf RUS 2332 0 1 0 1 = 0 = * 1 = 0 0 4.5 2234
9. Guseva, Marina wm RUS 2349 = 1 0 1 0 = 0 0 * 0 1 = 4.5 2232
10. Tomilova, Elena wf RUS 2273 0 = 0 0 0 0 1 = 1 * = 1 4.5 2239
11. Sukhareva, Evgeniya RUS 2248 0 0 = 0 1 0 0 1 0 = * 1 4.0 2204
12. Ivakhinova, Inna wf RUS 2287 0 = 0 0 0 1 0 1 = 0 0 * 3.0 2128
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The Polish Championship took place in Krakow, 25th February - 9th March
2006. Mateusz Bartel took the title with 8.5/12 a point and a half clear of the
field.
Official site: http://mzszach.l.pl/online/mpm2006/index.html
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LXIII ch-POL Krakow POL (POL), 25 ii-9 iii 2006 cat. XII (2531)
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1. Bartel, Mateusz g POL 2524 * = = 1 = = 0 1 1 1 1 = 1 8.5 2690
2. Socko, Bartosz g POL 2610 = * 1 = = = = = = = = = 1 7.0 2581
3. Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2605 = 0 * = 1 1 = = 1 0 = = 1 7.0 2582
4. Bobras, Piotr g POL 2531 0 = = * = = 1 1 0 1 = = 1 7.0 2588
5. Macieja, Bartlomiej g POL 2585 = = 0 = * 0 1 = 1 = = 1 1 7.0 2584
6. Czarnota, Pawel m POL 2497 = = 0 = 1 * = = = = = = 1 6.5 2563
7. Heberla, Bartlomiej m POL 2487 1 = = 0 0 = * = 0 1 = 1 = 6.0 2535
8. Dziuba, Marcin m POL 2491 0 = = 0 = = = * = 1 = 1 0 5.5 2505
9. Gajewski, Grzegorz m POL 2486 0 = 0 1 0 = 1 = * 0 1 = = 5.5 2506
10. Markowski, Tomasz g POL 2565 0 = 1 0 = = 0 0 1 * = = 1 5.5 2499
11. Kempinski, Robert g POL 2619 0 = = = = = = = 0 = * = = 5.0 2467
12. Grabarczyk, Miroslaw g POL 2479 = = = = 0 = 0 0 = = = * 0 4.0 2410
13. Warakomski, Tomasz f POL 2430 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 = 0 = 1 * 3.5 2381
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The Bulgarian Championships took place 28th February - 10th March 2006.
Valentin Iotov took the men's title by a point from Krasimir Rusev. Note the
correction to the result of Nikolov-Rusev round 5 which ended in a draw.
Margarita Voiska took the women's title on tie-break.
Official site: http://www.chessmix.com/bulchamp06/
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70th ch-BUL Svilengrad BUL (BUL), 28 ii-10 iii 2006 cat. VIII (2431)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
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1. Iotov, Valentin m BUL 2420 * 1 = 1 1 = = 1 = 1 1 1 0 9.0 2624
2. Rusev, Krasimir BUL 2409 0 * = = 1 = = = = 1 1 1 1 8.0 2557
3. Dimitrov, Vladimir g BUL 2449 = = * = = = = 1 = = 1 = 1 7.5 2524
4. Grigorov, Grigor BUL 2405 0 = = * 0 = 1 = = 1 1 = = 6.5 2462
5. Petkov, Vladimir m BUL 2512 0 0 = 1 * = 1 1 0 = 0 1 1 6.5 2453
6. Radulski, Julian g BUL 2515 = = = = = * = 1 = = 0 = = 6.0 2424
7. Nikolov, Momchil BUL 2446 = = = 0 0 = * = = = 1 = 1 6.0 2429
8. Karakehajov, Kalin BUL 2429 0 = 0 = 0 0 = * 1 1 = 1 1 6.0 2431
9. Vasilev, Milen m BUL 2451 = = = = 1 = = 0 * = 0 = = 5.5 2400
10. Janev, Evgeni g BUL 2494 0 0 = 0 = = = 0 = * 1 = 1 5.0 2368
11. Panbukchian, Valentin m BUL 2312 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 = 1 0 * 0 1 4.5 2353
12. Bojkov, Dejan m BUL 2475 0 0 = = 0 = = 0 = = 1 * 0 4.0 2302
13. Galunov, Todor BUL 2286 1 0 0 = 0 = 0 0 = 0 0 1 * 3.5 2285
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55th ch-BUL w Svilengrad BUL (BUL), 1-10 iii 2006
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1. Voiska, Margarita wg BUL 2308 * = = 1 1 = 1 = 0 = = 1 7.0 2280
2. Djingarova, Emilia wg BUL 2346 = * = = 1 = = 1 = 0 1 1 7.0 2276
3. Chilingirova, Pavlina wm BUL 2217 = = * = = 0 = 1 = 1 1 1 7.0 2288
4. Raeva, Elitsa BUL 2210 0 = = * = 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 6.5 2251
5. Savova, Stefka wm BUL 2204 0 0 = = * = = 1 1 1 1 = 6.5 2252
6. Velcheva, Maria wg BUL 2286 = = 1 0 = * = = 1 0 = 1 6.0 2216
7. Genova, Ruzka wm BUL 2218 0 = = 1 = = * 0 = 1 = 1 6.0 2222
8. Jordanova, Svetla BUL 2187 = 0 0 0 0 = 1 * = 1 1 1 5.5 2189
9. Andreeva, Plamena BUL 2071 1 = = 0 0 0 = = * = 1 = 5.0 2163
10. Nikolova, Adriana BUL 2112 = 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 = * 0 1 4.0 2093
11. Videnova, Iva BUL 2058 = 0 0 0 0 = = 0 0 1 * 1 3.5 2067
12. Draganova, Petranka BUL 2049 0 0 0 1 = 0 0 0 = 0 0 * 2.0 1939
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The First Saturday tournaments for March are under way. GM, IM and FM
Groups.
Official site: http://www.firstsaturday.hu/
FSGM March Budapest HUN (HUN), 4-13 iii 2006 cat. IX (2455)
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1 Vajda, Levente g ROM 2526 ** =0 1. 1. =1 11 6.0 2648
2 Ilincic, Zlatko g SCG 2545 =1 ** =. 1= == 1. 5.5 2583
3 Rojas, Luis m CHI 2423 0. =. ** =1 11 10 5.0 2537
4 Prohaszka, Peter2 f HUN 2344 0. 0= =0 ** 1. 1= 3.5 2427
5 Fogarasi, Tibor g HUN 2481 =0 == 00 0. ** =. 2.0 2274
6 Sendur, Adnan m TUR 2411 00 0. 01 0= =. ** 2.0 2258
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FSIMA March Budapest HUN (HUN), 4-16 iii 2006 cat. I (2261)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1 Nguyen Huynh Minh H f VIE 2217 * . = 1 1 . 1 = 1 1 . . 6.0 2598
2 Lengyel, Bela m HUN 2291 . * 0 = = 1 . 1 1 1 . . 5.0 2456
3 Fodor, Tamas jr f HUN 2302 = 1 * . 0 . 1 . = . 1 1 5.0 2397
4 Sanchez, Louis f FRA 2301 0 = . * . = . 1 1 1 . 1 5.0 2441
5 Adams, Nick A USA 2212 0 = 1 . * = = . . . 1 1 4.5 2349
6 Szeberenyi, Adam m HUN 2395 . 0 . = = * 1 = = . 1 . 4.0 2307
7 Horvath, Andras f HUN 2329 0 . 0 . = 0 * . . 1 1 1 3.5 2219
8 Brustkern, Juergen f GER 2240 = 0 . 0 . = . * = . = 1 3.0 2211
9 Petran, Pal m HUN 2426 0 0 = 0 . = . = * = . . 2.0 2122
10 Toth, Lili wm HUN 2215 0 0 . 0 . . 0 . = * = 1 2.0 2093
11 Gauri,Shankar IND ---- . . 0 . 0 0 0 = . = * 0 1.0 1961
12 Szell, Lajos f HUN 2198 . . 0 0 0 . 0 0 . 0 1 * 1.0 1919
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FSIMB March Budapest HUN (HUN), 4-13 iii 2006 cat. I (2262)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Duong The Anh f VIE 2287 ** 0. 1. 11 1= 1. 5.5 / 7 2476
2 Farago, Sandor m HUN 2282 1. ** == 01 1. =. 4.5 / 7 2358
3 Eperjesi, Laszlo m HUN 2268 0. == ** =. =. == 3.0 / 7 2219
4 Karim, Ismael MAR 2234 00 10 =. ** =. 1. 3.0 / 7 2222
5 Arjun, Vishnuvardhan IND 2205 0= 0. =. =. ** =. 2.0 / 6 2151
6 Pirisi, Gabor m HUN 2298 0. =. == 0. =. ** 2.0 / 6 2132
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The Tbilisi Spring tournament took place 5th-11th March 2006. Tamaz
Mgeladze won the event with 7.5/9. Chief Arbiter IM Akaki Shalamberidze and
Deputy Chief Arbiter IA Varlam Vepkhvishvili.
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Rank N Fed Tit Rating Name Total Tie-Break Colors
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1) 7 GEO 2167 F Mgeladze, Tamaz 7.5 39.5 wbwbwbwbw
2) 1 GEO NM 2367 F Makharadze, Jambul 7 33.5 wbwbwwbbw
3) 4 GEO 2258 F Jamagidze, Mikheil 6 30 bwbwbwbwb
4) 8 GEO 2161 F Patsia, Zviad 6 27.5 bwbwbwbwb
5) 2 GEO 2346 F Chigladze, Iveri 5.5 26.5 bwbwbwwbb
6) 11 GEO 2079 F Gugulashvili, Tamaz 5 24 bwwbwbwbw
7) 5 GEO 2197 F Nigalidze, Gaioz 5 23.5 wbwbwbbww
8) 12 GEO 2066 F Amirkhanashvili, Archil 4.5 26 wbbwbwwbw
9) 3 GEO 2322 F Gelazonia, Parmen 4.5 25 wbwbwbwwb
10) 10 GEO 2090 F Khelaia, Giorgi 4.5 22.5 wbwbwbbwb
11) 9 GEO 2101 F Meskhi, Teona 4 19 bwbwbwbwb
12) 15 GEO 1814eF Kosashvili, Otar 4 17.5 bbwwbbw w
13) 14 GEO 1957 F Tsaboshvili, Lasha 3.5 21 wwbbwbwbw
14) 13 GEO 2015 F Tsereteli, Kakhaber 3.5 13 bwbwbw b
15) 6 GEO 2188 F Urushadze, Davit 1.5 11.5 bwbwbb
16) 16 GEO Maridashvili, Giorgi 0 0 wbwbwwbwb
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The Mediteranian Flower women's GM tournament took place in Rijeka,
11th-19th March 2006. Round-Robin - 90 min + 30 sec increment.
Official site: http://sah.posluh.hr/skdraga/cvmed6.htm
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WGM Mediteranian Flower Rijeka CRO (CRO), 11-18 iii 2006
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1. Sudakova, Irina wg RUS 2358 * . . . . = 1 . . . 1.5 2441
2. Sargac, Rajna wm CRO 2233 . * . . . = . 1 . . 1.5 2450
3. Golubenko, Valentina wf EST 2146 . . * = . . . . . 1 1.5 2479
4. Ionica, Iulia-Ionela wm ROM 2234 . . = * . . . . 1 . 1.5 2327
5. Medic, Mirjana wg CRO 2239 . . . . * . . = 1 . 1.5 2362
6. Krivec, Jana wm SLO 2299 = = . . . * . . . . 1.0 2295
7. Gromova, Iulia RUS 2198 0 . . . . . * . . 1 1.0 2348
8. Corke, Anya wg HKG 2216 . 0 . . = . . * . . 0.5 2043
9. Franciskovic, Borka wf CRO 2123 . . . 0 0 . . . * . 0.0
10. Pokorna, Regina wg SVK 2338 . . 0 . . . 0 . . * 0.0
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The Championship of Serbia and Montenegro took place in Pancevo, 27th
February - 12th March 2006. Dejan Pikula and Branko Damljanovic tied on 9/13
and will play off in a match for the title.
Official site: http://www.scgchess.org/
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2nd ch-SCG Pancevo SCG (SCG), 27 ii-12 iii 2006 cat. XI (2501)
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1. Pikula, Dejan g SCG 2530 * = = 1 = 1 = = = 1 = = 1 1 9.0 2639
2. Damljanovic, Branko g SCG 2615 = * = = 1 0 = 1 1 1 1 = = 1 9.0 2633
3. Perunovic, Milos g SCG 2508 = = * 0 1 = = = = 1 1 = 1 1 8.5 2610
4. Miladinovic, Igor g SCG 2607 0 = 1 * = = 1 1 0 = = 1 = 1 8.0 2579
5. Abramovic, Bosko g SCG 2507 = 0 0 = * = 1 0 = 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 2587
6. Lajthajm, Borko f SCG 2464 0 1 = = = * = = 1 0 = 1 = 1 7.5 2560
7. Savic, Miodrag R g SCG 2517 = = = 0 0 = * = 1 1 0 1 1 1 7.5 2556
8. Kovacevic, Aleksandar g SCG 2535 = 0 = 0 1 = = * 0 = 1 1 1 = 7.0 2527
9. Vuckovic, Bojan g SCG 2506 = 0 = 1 = 0 0 1 * = = 1 1 0 6.5 2500
10. Tadic, Branko m SCG 2491 0 0 0 = 0 1 0 = = * 1 = 1 = 5.5 2444
11. Kontic, Djordjije m SCG 2355 = 0 0 = 0 = 1 0 = 0 * = = 0 4.0 2371
12. Djukic, Nikola g SCG 2523 = = = 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = * = 1 4.0 2358
13. Krivokapic, Marko SCG 2352 0 = 0 = 0 = 0 0 0 0 = = * 1 3.5 2337
14. Antic, Dejan g SCG 2505 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 = 1 0 0 * 3.0 2289
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The 2nd Women's Championship of Serbia and Montenegro took place in
Tivat, 21st February - 1st March 2006. , Irina Chelushkina and Suzana
Maksimovic finished on 7/9 and will play off for the title.
Official site: http://www.scgchess.org/
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2nd ch-SCG Women Tivat SCG (SCG), 21 ii-1 iii 2006
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1. Chelushkina, Irina wg SCG 2312 * = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 0 7.0 2391
2. Maksimovic, Suzana wg SCG 2276 = * = = = 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 2395
3. Stojanovic, Andjelija wf SCG 2193 0 = * = 1 1 1 = 1 = 6.0 2310
4. Benderac, Ana wg SCG 2302 0 = = * = = = 1 1 1 5.5 2253
5. Djukic, Sandra SCG 2152 = = 0 = * 0 1 = = 1 4.5 2189
6. Vojinovic, Jovana SCG 2035 0 0 0 = 1 * = 1 0 = 3.5 2122
7. Petrovic, Marija wm SCG 2246 0 0 0 = 0 = * 1 = 1 3.5 2099
8. Drljevic, Ljilja wf SCG 2213 0 0 = 0 = 0 0 * 1 1 3.0 2057
9. Rakic, Marija SCG 2130 0 0 0 0 = 1 = 0 * 1 3.0 2067
10. Bulajic, Svetlana SCG ---- 1 0 = 0 0 = 0 0 0 * 2.0 1986
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The ITT Torre Blanca 2006 tournament took place in Buenos Aires.
Bernardo Roselli Mailhe edged out Pablo Lafuente on tie-break, both scored
7/9.
Official site:
http://members.tripod.com/~scalise/scalise8/tbitt06.htm
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ITT Torre Blanca Buenos Aires ARG (ARG), 18-24 ii 2006 cat. III (2303)
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1. Roselli Mailhe, Bernardo m URU 2401 * 1 1 1 = = = 1 = 1 7.0 2511
2. Lafuente, Pablo m ARG 2408 0 * 1 = 1 1 1 = 1 1 7.0 2511
3. Cubas, Jose Fernando m PAR 2428 0 0 * 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 6.5 2454
4. Dos Santos, Ramiro f ARG 2376 0 = 0 * 1 = 1 = 1 1 5.5 2374
5. Granara Barreto, Sebastian A f URU 2241 = 0 = 0 * 1 0 = 1 1 4.5 2309
6. Converset, Juan Jose ARG 2270 = 0 0 = 0 * = 1 1 = 4.0 2263
7. Guerrero, Alvaro URU 2179 = 0 0 0 1 = * = 1 = 4.0 2273
8. Mazziotti Irigoyen, Gabriel ARG 2311 0 = 0 = = 0 = * = 1 3.5 2221
9. Albarran, Gustavo ARG 2241 = 0 0 0 0 0 0 = * = 1.5 2036
10. Pedro, Fernando f ARG 2173 0 0 0 0 0 = = 0 = * 1.5 2044
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The 4th Breizh Masters took place 26th February 4th March 2006 (IM, WIM
and Open tournaments, no games from the open) Mikhailo Oleksienko won the main
event with 7.5/9.
Further details: http://echiquierguingampais.free.fr/
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Breizh Masters Guingamp FRA (FRA), 26 ii-4 iii 2006 cat. IV (2335)
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1. Oleksienko, Mikhailo g UKR 2509 * 1 = = 1 1 1 = 1 1 7.5 2588
2. Dourerassou, Jonathan FRA 2354 0 * 1 1 0 1 = 1 1 = 6.0 2457
3. Picard, Romain f FRA 2338 = 0 * 0 = 1 1 1 1 = 5.5 2414
4. Bogdan, Dan m ROM 2441 = 0 1 * 1 = = = = = 5.0 2365
5. Onkoud, Abdelaziz f MAR 2391 0 1 = 0 * 1 0 1 1 = 5.0 2371
6. Jolly, Jean-Francois FRA 2206 0 0 0 = 0 * 1 1 = 1 4.0 2305
7. Calistri, Tristan f FRA 2382 0 = 0 = 1 0 * = 0 1 3.5 2249
8. Grabinsky, Vladimir m UKR 2293 = 0 0 = 0 0 = * = 1 3.0 2214
9. Ragot, Nicolas FRA 2203 0 0 0 = 0 = 1 = * = 3.0 2224
10. Gicquel, Frederic FRA 2229 0 = = = = 0 0 0 = * 2.5 2180
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1. Hrabinska, Myroslava wg UKR 2225 * = 1 1 = 0 1 1 1 1 7.0 2338
2. Benard, Anne-Laurie FRA 2081 = * = = = = = 1 1 1 6.0 2259
3. Andersson, Christin SWE 2170 0 = * 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 5.5 2204
4. Fierro Baquero, Martha L m ECU 2273 0 = 0 * 1 1 1 0 1 1 5.5 2193
5. Chulivska, Vita wm UKR 2279 = = 0 0 * 1 = 1 = 1 5.0 2155
6. Benmesbah, Natacha wf FRA 2145 1 = 0 0 0 * = = 1 1 4.5 2127
7. Choisy, Mathilde wf FRA 2152 0 = 1 0 = = * = = 1 4.5 2126
8. Le Diouron, Aurelie FRA 1983 0 0 0 1 0 = = * = 1 3.5 2065
9. Bolon, Karelle FRA 2049 0 0 1 0 = 0 = = * 0 2.5 1972
10. Le Bail, Clara FRA 1937 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 * 1.0 1799
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The IX Malaga Open took place 25th February - 4th March 2006. Slavko
Cicak won the event with 7.5/9.
Official site:
http://www.ajedrezmalaga.org/open/06open/06Open.htm
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IX Malaga Open Campillos ESP (ESP), 25 ii-4 iii 2006
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1. Cicak, Slavko SWE 2500 g 2500 7.5 48.5 41.0
2. Rivas Pastor, Manuel ESP 2502 g 2506 7.0 45.0 36.0
3. Tratar, Marko SLO 2466 m 2466 6.5 51.0 37.5
4. Khamrakulov, Ibragim ESP 2499 m 2504 6.5 47.0 35.5
5. Romanishin, Oleg UKR 2552 g 2552 6.5 46.0 35.5
6. Gonzales, Jayson PHI 2452 m 2452 6.5 46.0 35.0
7. Matamoros Franco, Carlos ECU 2510 g 2505 6.5 45.5 34.0
8. Vitor, Antonio POR 2354 f 2354 6.5 44.5 31.5
9. Perez Candelario, Manuel ESP 2511 m 2490 6.5 43.5 34.0
10. Gullaksen, Eirik NOR 2380 m 2380 6.5 43.5 31.5
11. Rotstein, Arkadij GER 2520 g 2520 6.0 47.5 33.0
12. Garcia Fernandez, Carlos ESP 2359 m 2324 6.0 45.0 31.5
13. Teran Alvarez, Ismael ESP 2446 m 2452 6.0 44.0 33.5
14. Mariano, Nelson PHI 2474 g 2474 6.0 44.0 29.0
15. Saldaño Dayer, Horacio ESP 2436 m 2424 6.0 38.0 28.0
16. Roeder, Mathias GER 2400 m 2400 5.5 46.0 31.5
17. Kovacevic, Slobodan SCG 2350 m 2347 5.5 45.5 30.5
18. Gorbatov, Alexej RUS 2381 m 2381 5.5 44.0 29.5
19. Aguettaz, Maxime FRA 2338 f 2338 5.5 43.5 29.0
20. Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel ESP 2415 g 2415 5.5 43.0 30.5
21. Naranjo Moreno, Antonio ESP 2132 2112 5.5 43.0 28.0
22. Colovic, Aleksander MKD 2459 m 2459 5.5 42.5 29.5
23. Alonso Garcia, Rene CUB 2392 m 2390 5.5 42.5 29.5
24. Sahl, Bjarke DEN 2381 m 2381 5.5 42.0 30.5
25. Fenollar Jorda, Manuel ESP 2277 2230 5.5 41.0 26.0
26. Terron Elena, Francisco Miguel ESP 2230 2247 5.5 40.0 27.0
27. Sanchez Aller, Fernando ESP 2278 2251 5.5 39.0 26.5
28. Liñan Baena, Jeronimo ESP 2175 2139 5.5 39.0 26.5
29. Garcia Vasquez, Jhoel Christopher PER 2228 2228 5.5 38.5 26.0
30. Ivanov, Jordan BUL 2348 m 2361 5.0 46.0 31.0
31. Rodriguez Lopez, Rafael ESP 2267 m 2256 5.0 45.0 29.5
32. Quillan, Gary ENG 2356 . 2356 5.0 44.5 29.5
33. Fernandez Siles, Luis ESP 2291 f 2269 5.0 43.5 27.0
34. Lopez Gonzalez, Daniel ESP 2230 2181 5.0 41.5 27.5
35. Garcia Martinez, Silvino CUB 2333 g 2333 5.0 41.0 27.0
36. Madina Yadarola, Martin ARG 2262 2272 5.0 40.5 27.5
37. Breivik, Lars NOR 2231 2231 5.0 40.0 26.5
38. Cruz Alvarez de Ron, Dan ESP 2244 2203 5.0 40.0 24.0
39. Diogo, Vasco POR 2186 2186 5.0 39.5 25.0
40. Picazo Lopez, Juan Antonio ESP 2135 2123 5.0 39.5 25.0
41. Jimenez Martinez, Jose Vicente ESP 2178 2185 5.0 37.5 25.0
42. Ladron Guevara Pinto, Miguel ESP 2132 2037 5.0 36.5 24.5
43. Guadamuro Torrente, Ana Isabel ESP 2111 2069 5.0 36.5 24.5
44. Uribe Arteaga, Daniel COL 2219 2134 5.0 35.5 23.5
45. Diaz Rodriguez, Jose Antonio ESP 2108 2115 5.0 35.5 23.0
101 players
Every year on President's Day Weekend (Feb. 18-20) the U.S. Amateur
Team Championships are held in four different locations throughout the United
States. There is South (Florida), Midwest (Illinois), West (California) and
East (Parsippany, New Jersey). The East was where the event started back in
1970, so Team East is always the largest of the four by far. In recent years it
has been consistently breaking its own record of being the largest team
tournament ever held in the Western Hemisphere, but this year it fell a little
short: about 1,150 players competed in 271 teams. While this is just shy of
last year's record of 286 teams and 1205 players, it is almost certainly going
to be the largest chess team event held in this half of the world this year.
Five teams tied for first with 5.5 points out of 6, but the winner by
Team East's unique tiebreaking system was "My G8 Predecessors" which was
originally seeded tenth. The team consisted of: Charles Riordan, Alex
Cherniack, Lawyer Times and Charles Mays. The other four teams were:
"University of Texas Dallas - White," "Mike Khodarkovskys Tycoons," "The Fed
Express" and "Hikaru wins the games; Evan b...".
The word "Amateur" in the title of the event refers to the fact that
the average team rating cannot exceed master strength, which is 2,200 USCF.
However, within that restriction anything goes and usually there are dozens of
titled players at any given Team East. There were even several grandmasters,
including 1954 U.S. Champion GM Arthur Bisguier and then-reigning U.S. Champion
GM Hikaru Nakamura. Bisguier was undefeated with a 5-1 record, but Nakamura's
upset loss to Pennsylvania master William Peterson was one of the sensations of
the tournament.
The U.S. Team East is always an enjoyable event, a strange mixture of
the serious and the silly. In spite of the odd costumes and funny team names,
serious competitive chess is the order of the day. At least a dozen of this
year's participants went on to play in the recently completed U.S.
Championships, including both women's finalists: WGM Rusudan Goletiani and WGM
Anna Zatonskih.
The credit for the success of this event goes to Steve Doyle, his team
of directors, and the New Jersey State Chess Federation.
News and games Bill Townsend.
The 124th Oxford vs Cambridge Varsity Match took place on 11th March
2006 at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London. The world's oldest regular chess
fixture has run from 1873, with gaps for the two world wars. Oxford University
won 4½-3½ after seeming worse for much of the match. In the end
it rested on the top board game which swung Oxford's way in the final half
hour. News and games John Saunders.
Details: http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/
OXFORD UNIVERSITY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
1 Alvar Kangur (2231) 1-0 Tom Nixon (2116)
2 David Shaw (2200) ½-½ David Hodge (2164)
3 Kieran Smallbone (2194) ½-½ Adam Eckersley-Waites (2143)
4 Tom Eckersley-Waites (2116) ½-½ Richard Mycroft (2141)
5 Mark Gray (2120) ½-½ Andreas Werner (2154)
6 Christopher Rawlinson (2063) 0-1 Teresa Khoo (2055)
7 Anna Partington (2064) ½-½ John Rennie (2053)
8 Benedikt Wagner (e2050) 1-0 Martin Rohrmeier (e2000)
4½-3½
Finnish Team Championship was decided last weekend. Joensuu won its
second gold with a clear margin, Matinkylä was second third time in a row
and Velhot got its first medal, bronze. News: Henri Koskinen.
I will round up the games next week.
Games, individual results etc. can be found on the website:
http://www.shakki.net/pelaaminen/turnaukset/liiga.html
Final results
1. JoeSK, Joensuu 15 +14
2. MatSK, Espoo 11 +13
3. Velhot, Helsinki 11 +9
4. TuTS, Turku 10 +7
5. JyS, Jyväskylä 10 +5
6. OpusCapita, Tampere 10 -4
7. Gaia, Helsinki 8 -5
8. EtVaS, Vantaa 5 -5
9. HSK, Helsinki 5 -10
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10.Tammer-Shakki, Tampere 5 -24
The 30th Blackpool Chess Conference took place 10th-12th March 2006.
Open results Results from the 30th Blackpool Chess Conference, 10-12 March
2006, held at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, England 1st= on 4.5/5 GM Mark
Hebden & John Merriman £550 each 3rd Lawrence Trent 4/5 £200
Official site: http://www.blackpoolchess.org.uk/
There was a vote this weekend by the English Chess Federation on who to
support in the coming FIDE Elections in Turin.
Their press release says:
FIDE Presidency Campaign 2006 The English Chess Federation officially
announces its support for the candidacy of Bessel Kok, as nominee for the next
President of FIDE (Fédération Internationale Des Échecs),
the official body for the World Chess Federation. The ECF acknowledges the good
work and valuable input of the incumbent Kirsan Iilmyumzhinov, Deputy
President, Georgios Makropoullos and their team and also recognises the
considerable contribution of David Jarrett as FIDE Treasurer. The ECF Board
approved the official endorsement of Bessel Kok at the Board meeting held on
11th March 2006. For further information on this press release, or any other
matters relating to Chess including news stories, sponsorship opportunities etc
please contact 01424 775222 or email office@englishchess.org.uk
Source:
http://www.bcf.org.uk/organisation/fide/fide-presidency_mar06.htm
There was a letter signed by many of the top English Grandmasters in
support of Bessel Kok before the meeting.
We, the undersigned English Grandmasters, would like to express our
support for Bessel Kok in the forthcoming Presidential Election in Turin, May
2006. He has an exemplary record of organising and supporting top level chess
events as well as a highly distinguished business career. We believe this is a
unique opportunity to restore credibility to FIDE and to reverse the decline in
their capacity to attract commercial sponsorship. For these reasons we implore
the English Chess Federation to join the clear majority of their European
colleagues in supporting positive change after a decade of stagnation.
Keith Arkell Murray Chandler Stuart Conquest Nigel Davies John Emms
Danny Gormally Mark Hebden Harriet Hunt Daniel King Jonathan Levitt Luke
McShane Jonathan Mestel John Nunn Jonathan Parker James Plaskett Nigel Short
Jonathan Speelman Peter Wells
PAL/CSS Freestyle Chess Tournament
www.playchess.com is holding the annual PAL/CSS Freestyle Chess
Tournament (advanced chess) on 18th-19th March (main tourney) and 8th-9th April
(final).
The details:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2950
Prizefund: The winner of the finals gets the first prize of US $8,000
and the title of "Second PAL/CSS Freestyle Chess Champion". The runner-up gets
$4,000, the third place gets $2,000. There will be special software prizes
totalling US $1,000 for the places 4-8
Registration and starting fee:
http://www.computerschach.de/online/freestyleregister.htm
IM, GM and "CSS Online" subscribers are free (proof of ID is necessary, if not
already a confirmed IM/GM nick on playchess.com). Other player pay 12US$ (10
?).
Dos Hermanas Internet VII on ICC
Dos Hermanas VII on ICC, free entry, cash prizes!
For the seventh consecutive year, ICC is hosting the annual Internet
Chess Tournament "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas" 2006. The cash prize fund amounts to
EUR 6,100 (about $7,250), plus ICC membership prizes.
Entry is completely FREE. You don't even need to be a paying member of
ICC to play.
Starting March 17th, there will be 12 Swiss-system qualifying tourneys,
that will begin at 2pm and 7pm server time on every day. You can take part in
all of them. Qualifier winners along with the 20 best-scoring players will
advance to the knockout finals, which will be played on the 24th and 25th of
March. The time control is now shorter, at 4/1 for all rounds.
Last years statistics were really good: 61 GMs, 110 IMs took part in a
field of 1,303 players from 79 countries. Overall winner was GM Daniel Fridman
(2559) and other top players that qualified for the final were GMs Sakaev
(2649), Sasikiran (2670), Harikrisna (2650) and Nakamura (2644).
Even if you are not aiming to win a prize, this tournament gives you a
chance to meet world class players! We hope that Dos Hermanas will become the
internet chess tourney of the year once more.
If you wish to participate, the rules, entry forms and the full
schedule are at http://www.doshermanas.net. Make sure to
register early; your registration is valid for all qualifiers, but you do not
need to play all.
Semi-finals Argentine Championship
The Open Tournament Semi-finals of the Argentine Championship take
place 4th-19th March, 2006 Merlo, Buenos Aires ARG Swiss Open, 7 rounds.
Coverage: http://www.ajedrezfaogba.com.ar
16th Chess Tournament of Pobeskydi
16th Chess Tournament of Pobeskydi takes place 13th March - 17th April
2005 in Frydek-Mistek, Czech Republic. There will be at least two tournaments.
Round-robin with possibility to achieve IM and WGM norm and FIDE Open.
Details: http://www.chessfm.cz/
CE Martigny 12 hour Blitz
The CE Martigny 12 hour Blitz takes place Saturday 15th April 2006.
Venue: 5 minutes per player per game, 40 games
Further details: http://www.uve-wsb.ch/ or Pierre Perruchoud
Rue des Marronniers 4 1920 Martigny Tél . 079 / 287 51 57 e-mail :
pierre.perruchoud@mycable.ch
6th Znojmo Open
The 6th International Chess Festival Znojmo Open 2006 takes place
13th-21st May 2006 in Znojmo (the Czech Republic). Among others European Women
Rapid Chess Championship (the prize fund 5 000 EUR), FIDE open, The Znojmo
Little Queen and Open Championship of the Southmoravian chess federation in
active chess will be a part of the festival.
Contact: Dr. Jan Mazuch, Director of CZECH OPEN & CZECH TOUR -
j.mazuch@avekont.cz
Website for the Czech Tour: http://www.czechopen.net
15th Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament
The 15th Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament, organized by the
Association Max Euwe, will be held at the Fairmont Monte Carlo Hotel in Monaco
from March 18th (first round) - March 30th (last round) 2006. There will be
rest days on March 22nd and 27th. The players are in alphabetical order:
Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, Alexander Grischuk, Vassily
Ivanchuk, Peter Leko, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Heine Nielsen, Peter Svidler,
Veselin Topalov, Francisco Vallejo Pons and Loek Van Wely. Notable absentee is
Vladimir Kramnik who withdrew from the event having not yet recovered from the
treatment for arthritis announced prior to his withdrawal from Wijk aan Zee.
The total prizefund is Euro 216.000.
The website will be active only a few days before the event and has yet
to be announced.
Free "How good is your chess" articles in German
For German Readers The excellent series "How good is your chess",
written by the english Grandmaster Daniel King, appears also in the german
language as "Test & Training". You can download a free sample in the
section "Training" at http://www.schach-magazin.de
Vladimir Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz Match Announced
Vladimir Kramnik will play the ChessBase computer program Deep Fritz in
a 6 game match 25th November - 5th December 2006 in the German’s Art and
Exhibition Hall in Bonne. Kramnik stands to win a prize of $1 Million US for a
win in the match doubling his starting fee.
Asked how he estimates his chances, Kramnik reacted cautiously: "Fritz
examines millions of moves per second. It is extraordinarily difficult to play
against such a calculating monster. Right from the start you are walking on a
very narrow ridge, and you know that any inattentiveness will be your downfall.
It is a scientific experiment and I will have to fight very hard for my
chance." The WCC is being organized by Universal Event Promotion (UEP), in
cooperation with the Art and Exhibition Hall.
Schedule: Game 1: Saturday 25.11.2006 16h Game 2: Monday 27.11.2006 16h
Game 3: Wednesday 29.11.2006 16h Game 4: Friday 01.12.2006 16h Game 5: Sunday
03.12.2006 16h Game 6: Tuesday 05.12.2006 16h During the entire period of the
match the Art and Exhibition Hall will offer a varied program.
Information: http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de
Memorialul Pius Brinzeu
The Memorial Pius Brinzeu Open takes place in Timisoara, 18th-26th March
2006.
Official site: http://ajsahtimis.ro/
Listed players:
1. Nevednichy Vladislav GM ROM 2581 1969
2. Malaniuk Vladimyr GM UKR 2532 1957
3. Chatalbashev Boris GM BUL 2494 1974
4. Bogdan Dan IM ROM 2441 1972
5. Berescu Alin IM ROM 2433 1980
6. Grunberg Mihai IM ROM 2416 1976
7. Grecescu Gabriel CM ROM 2386 1986
8. Colin Vincent IM FRA 2374 1980
9. Bylino Oleg FM UKR 2316 1939
10. Bach Adrian FM ROM 2287 1961
11. Dragomirescu Calin FM ROM 2259 1963
12. Dragomirescu Angela WIM ROM 2255 1973
13. Petrisor Adrian ROM 2078 1992
14. Dragomirescu Robin ROM 2066 1993
15. Craciun Paula ROM 2014 1989
16. Chirita Marius ROM 1987 1982
17. Miu Paul Vlad ROM 1986 1993
18. Clitan Zaharia ROM 1973 1987
19. Lolici Iselin ROM 1945 1993
MTel Masters Sofia
The Mtel Masters takes place in Sofia 9th (opening ceremony) - 21st
(closing) May 2006. Players: Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler,
Etienne Bacrot, Gata Kamsky and Ruslan Ponomariov.
Website: http://www.mtelmasters06.com/
Battle of Senta 1697 Chess Festival
The 10th Anniversary Chess Festival "The Battle of Senta 1697" takes
place 21st30th July 2006. Events: A Main tournament, B tournament,
rapid-transit ( ,, Blitz ,, ) tournament, rapid-transit tournament,
children’s rapid-transit tournament, women’s rapid-transit tournament
Information, registration for tournaments and private accommodation
bookings at Seles Ambrus, 27 Fruskogorska street, 24400 Senta Serbia-Montenegro
. Telephone number : +381-24-813-251 or mob. +381-63-8-754-713, E-mail :
kajari@sksyu.net , szelescs@sabotronic.co.yu, novaklaslo@ptt.yu,
brindzai@stcable.co.yu.
Further details: http://www.chess-senta.org.yu/
Politiken Cup
The Copenhagen Chess Festival, including the Politiken Cup will take
place 22nd-30th July 2006. Nigel Short has already agreed to participate.
Further details: http://www.politikencup.dk/
3rd South Wales International
The 3rd South Wales International Chess Tournament takes place 8-13 July
2006.
Official site: http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/
RC Sport Open 2006
The 1st RC Sport Open takes place 29th April - 6th May 2006 in
Ústí nad Orlicí (Czech republic).
Further details: http://sachy.rcsport.info
Brno Chess Festival
The Brno Chess Festival takes place in the Czech Republic, 30th June -
9th July 2006.
Events: A. Grandmasters close tournament 30.6.-9.7.2006 SKANSKA BRNO
2006 B. 2 masters close tournament 30.6.-9.7.2006 DS BRNO 2006 and ZS BRNO 2006
C. Open tournament FIDE 1.7.-9.7.2006 OPEN DURAS BVK FIDE D. Open tournament
national 1.7.-9.7.2006 OPEN DURAS BVK national E. Open blitz tournament
8.7.2006 Memorial Vaclav Felix F. Simultaneous games 5.7.2006
Further details: http://www.skduras.wz.cz/indexe.htm
World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad
The World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad takes place in 5th-13th August
2006 in Dogubeyazit, Agri Turkey.
Official site: http://www.tsf.org.tr
Andrew Martin Chess Academy
The Official web site for the Andrew Martin Chess Academy goes live on
Wednesday, March 1st featuring A Game Annotation Service A personal on-line
tuition and coaching service A regular newsletter A Series of (real OTB)
tournaments for Children under 14 years.
Official site: http://www.andrewmartinchessacademy.com/
(http://www.andrewmartinchessacademy.com/main.php)
Aarhus GM
There is a GM-tournament cat. X-XI in Aarhus, Denmark, August 5th-13th
2006 with a special event on August 4. The players will consist of 5 women vs.
5 men and women with ELO > 2460 are welcome to contact Soren Sogaard
(soren@seagaard.dk) for further information. There will also be an
IM-tournament, cat. V (5 women vs. 5 men).
XIX edition of the Ciudad de León
The XIX edition of the Ciudad de León chess tournament takes
place 8th-12th June 2006 at the Junta de Castilla y León building in
León, Spain.
Players: Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Paco Vallejo and
Lázaro Bruzón.
There will be 2 semi finals (June 9th and June 10th) and a final (June
11th)
Official sites: http://www.advancedchessleon.com
and/or http://www.elajedrezdelfuturo.com
Spanish Championship
The Spanish closed and open Championships will be held in León
November 22nd-30th 2006. The Hotel Conde Luna from León will be the
venue and the official hotel of the organization.
2nd San Marino Open
The 2nd San Marino International Chess Open takes place in the Republic
of San Marino June 5th-11th 2006, at the end of the Turin World Chess Olympiad.
Prize fund € 40.000, 1st prize € 10.000. For any related information
visit the internet website http://www.sanmarinoscacchi.sm
For further info: info@sanmarinoscacchi.sm
Las Vegas Masters
Las Vegas Masters Chess Tournament June 10th-14th, 2006
School House Chess Center, Las Vegas, USA FIDE rated, 9 round Swiss,
open to players rated FIDE 2200 and higher. $3,800 prize fund, free entry to
GMs and non-US IMs.
Website: http://www.clarkcountychessclub.com/masters/.
Info: Chris Bird, (702)575-0635, chris@clarkcountychessclub.com.
National Open
National Open Chess Tournament June 16th-18th, 2006
Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, USA 6 round Swiss, 8 sections:
Open, U2200, U2000, U1800, U1600, U1400, U1200 and Unrated. Estimated $100,000
total prize fund! Free entry to GMs. Side events include Susan Polgar World
Championship for Girls and National Open Blitz Championship.
Website: http://www.lvchessfestival.com
Alushta Tournaments
01.02.06 Tournaments in Alushta:
GM Norm: 29.04-9.05, 11.05-21.05, 23.05-1.06, 2.06-12.06, 16.06-26.06,
2.09-12.09, 14.09-24.09, 26.09–6.10,
IM Norm: 29.04-9.05, 11.05-21.05, 23.05-1.06, 2.06-12.06, 16.06-26.06,
2.09-12.09, 14.09-24.09, 26.09–6.10,
Rating tournament: 5.06-13.06, 23.06–27.06
Open tournament (under 16 years) First prize - 200$ 14.06-22.06, Swiss 9
rounds.
Open tournament First prize - 1000$ First prize (woman)- 500$:
28.06-6.07, Swiss 9 rounds. Open tournament (rapid chess) 7.07–8.07, Swiss
9 rounds. Blitz tournament 9.07. Session of school of Gennadi Kuzmin
23.06–27.06. Individual and group studying.
Further information: http://www.kaissa.com.ua phone +38
(06560)5-05-32, +380505828911 (for Russian speaking) + 38 050 669-26-04 (for
English speaking) e-mail: info@kaissa.com.ua
Lenk International Chess Festival
The "Swiss Chess Tour 2006" will continue in Lenk with the 18th
"Kreuz-Open" April 13th-17th 2006.
The venue is the Hotel Kreuz, Grande Open, Swiss system, 7 rounds and
the games will last a maximum of 5 hours (40 moves for 2 hours and 30 minutes
till the end). Prize are: 1.500 SF, 1.200, 900, 700, 500, 400, 300, 250, 200
and 150 SF. From 11.- 20. places natural prizes. Special prizes for best Lady,
senior (1945), junior(1986-89), schoolboy (1990) and best local player. Entry
fee 130 SF, FMs and juniors 60 SF, at the door 10 SF more, GMs and IMs free.
New: teams competition, with 4 members; 3 prizes: 4x100/4x75/4x50 SF; entry fee
10 SF. Venue: Hotel "Kreuz". Time table: Round 1st 18.00-23.00 April 13,;
Rounds 2/3 09.30-14.30 and 15.30-20.30 April 14,; Round 4 13.30-18.30 April
15,; Rounds 5/6 09.30-14.30 and 15.30-20.30 April 16,; Round 7 9.30-14.30 April
17. Closing ceremony April 17 at 16.00.
Info: Beochess +41+62+965-46-50 (Robert Spoerri) or info@beochess.ch or
site http://www.beochess.ch for more
details.
VIII Rector Cup
The VIII Rector Cup takes place 27th March - 7th April 2006. There are
GM events for men and women. The events take place in the National law academy
of Ukraine & Chess club in Kharkov 12 participants in each tournament,
round robin, 11 rounds, 90 minutes for each player to finish the game with
extra 30 seconds for each move from the start (Fischer system)
Further info:
+38(057) 704-38-12 Chess club - Law academy
+38(067) 562-00-07 mobile Karlovich Anastasiya
+38(050) 353-37-22 mobile
Kovchan Alexander
e-mail: nlau@mail.ru
20th Pula Open 2006
The 20th Pula Open (Croatia) takes place 18th-25th June 2006.
Further details and entry: http://www.skpula.hr/
GM against the World - Olympiads of Chess, Turin 2006
The second GM against the World game on the Olympiad site will be GM
Misho Cebalo (Croatia) and he it start on Monday, January 9th. 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
Lodi International Chess Festival
The 2nd Festival Scacchistico Internazionale "Città di Lodi"
takes place in Lodi, Italy, 5th-11th June 2006. Prize fund Euros20.000,00.
Further details: http://www.lenuvole.org/ or
scacchi@lenuvole.org
14th Donau Open
The 14th Donau Open took place 26th-31st December 2005. I couldn't get
the official site: http://www.aschach.info/schach/english.htm
to work correctly.
Asian Youth Championships
The Asian Youth Championships took place in New Delhi December 7th-14th
2005.
Games, Results, photos are available at
http://www.delhichess.com.
Free ICCF Server Offer
ICCF has announced an end-of-year gift to everyone around the World: a
free 2-game match on their dedicated ICCF WebChess server.
The offer is open to anyone Just fill a form with your personal
information (name and surname, nationality, e-mail address), and they will pair
you in a free 2-game match with someone else from around the World.
You can find the form on the ICCF WebChess server. Just go to
http://www.iccf-webchess.com/ . In
the main page, you click on "New Events". Then click on "Enter" in the line
with the offer to participate in a Friendly 2-game match. Fill with your
personal information and click "OK" when you're done.
The time rate will be 10 moves in 40 days, and the games will be
unrated, so your ELO (if you have one) will not change with the result.
The deadline for entries is December 31, 2005. We will be starting
matches throughout December and the last batch will be online in early January.
Davos Festival 2006
Swiss Chess Tour Davos Festival 2006 with Viktor Korchnoi playing the
first time in individual senior championship
The "Swiss Chess Tour 2006" will continue in Davos with Chess Summer
Festival from August 5-13, 2006. Main event will be the 6th European Individual
Senior Championship. The second tournament will be 5. Davos Open. The first
time Davos host an official event. Just to remind, Davos is one of the most
popular tourist places in Europe (summer and winter), with specific micro
clime, unique in the world.
6th European Individual Senior Championship, August 7th to 13th 2006.
"Sunstar Park Hotel" (4 stars) will be host festival in the new, comfortable
Congress Center. Swiss system, 9 rounds and the games will last a maximum of 6
hours (40 moves for 2 hours and 60 minutes till the end). Valid for FIDE titles
and rating: FIDE, Swiss (SSB) and German (DWZ). Seniors: men born 1945 and
earlier; women born 1955 and earlier. Prize (men):
2.500/1.700/1.000/700/600/500/2x400/2x300 SF. 3 group rating prize (200/150/100
SF). Women: 400/300/3x200 SF; Entry fee 70 SF; at the door 10 SF more. Time
table: Rounds 1 15.00-21.00 August 5th; Round 2/8 9.30-15.30 August 6th-12th;
Round 9 9.30-15.30 August 13th.
5th Davos Open, 7 rounds and the games will last a maximum of 6 hours
(40 moves for 2 hours and 60 minutes till the end). Prize are: 1.500 SF, 1.200,
900, 700, 500, 400, 300, 250, 200 and 150 SF. Natural prizes for 4 and more
points. Special prizes for best Lady, best local player. Entry fee 140 SF, FMs
and juniors 70 SF, GMs and IMs free; juniors lodging at Sunstar Park Hotel
free; at the door 10 SF more. Time table: Rounds 1 15.00-21.00 August 6th;
Round 2/7 16.00-22.00 August 7th-12th. Venue: "Sunstar Park Hotel" Congress
Center. Closing ceremony August 13th, 4 p.m. Unbelievable chess-rates. Info
Beochess: +41+62+9654-650 (Robert Spoerri) beochess@bluewin.ch or
http://www.beochess.ch or
http://yubc.net/~yuchess
Wellington College International
FIDE rated, qualifying event for British Champs and part of the BCF
Grand Prix. The event takes place over 2 weekends
Friday 27th January to Sunday 29th January 2006 and Saturday 11th to
Sunday 12th February 2006
£1,000+ prize fund including a paid place in 2006 British
Championships
Venue: Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire RG45 7PU (35 miles
south west of London)
Tournament Director: IM Andrew Martin. Chief Controller: Neville
Belinfante (BCF Arbiter)
Entries, requests for accommodation lists, travel details, detailed map
and other enquiries should be addressed to :
Ray Clark High Cedars, 17 Oak End Way, Gerrards Cross, Bucks, SL9 8DA
England
Tel. (44) (0)7802 306210 (Mon.-Fri. daytime) or Tel. (44) (0)1753
883300 (other times)
E-mail rayclark.mc@tiscali.co.uk or rclark@thehackettgroup.com
Hungarian Events November 2005 - August 2006
1. 5th-18th of November 2005 FIRST SATURDAY /FS/ GM-IM-FM round robins,
9-13 games, norm possibilities, in Budapest, Hungarian Chess Federation, Falk
Miksa Str.10. 2nd floor. Organisation: Nagy Laszlo, FIDE International Chess
Organizer /NL/, E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net
Website: http://www.firstsaturday.hu Other
website: http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat
Phone-fax: (361)-2632859, cellphone: (36)-30-230-1914 From 12:00 a.m. until
midnight - Central European Time - GMT+1 hour/
2. 17th-25th of November, Harkány Tenkes cup Open, 250 km South
West from Budapest, org:Fulop Csaba, mobile: +(36)-30-9276900
3. 19th-29th of November, IM-FM, KECSKEMET,
4. 3rd-16th of December, FS GM-IM-FM, Budapest, (Two GM groups - a
cat.VI.-VII and a cat.IX - X.!!!) Org: NL.
5. 27th of December 2005 - 4th of January 2006 IM-FM, Kecskemet,
6. 6th-14th of January 2006, Budapest, TAPOLCA Open, Org. Paréj
József, info: Nagy László, firstsat@hu.inter.net
7 4th-17th of February, FIRST SATURDAY GM (cat.VII and cat.IX/) -IM-FM
Budapest
8. 4th-17th of March FS GM-IM-FM, Org.NL.
9. 23rd- 31st of March SPRING FESTIVAL 9 rounds Swiss Open Budapest,
org.: NL.
10. 1st-14rth of April, FS cat.VII, IX, XII GM events, IM and FM closed
tournaments, Budapest, org.NL.
11. 14th-22nd of April, BUDAPEST Open, 9 rounds Swiss, organizer: IM
Rigo, e-mail: me-ri@t-online.hu
12. 6th-18th of May, Budapest, FS GM-IM-FM, org.NL.
13. 20th-30th of May, Budapest, ELEKES memorial GM-IM closed tmt,
org.IM Zsinka, e-mail: zsinkala@axelero.hu
14. 3rd-16th of June, FIRST SATURDAY GM /cat.VII and cat IX together/ -
IM-FM closed tournaments, Budapest, Org.NL.
15. 17th-25th of June, BALATONLELLE Open, GM-IM closed, org. IM RIGO,
e-mail: me-ri@t-online-hu
16. 1st-13th of July, FIRST SATURDAY GM-IM closed, Bp. Org.NL,
17. 15th-23rd of July, AGRIA Open 9 rounds Swiss, Eger, 100 km North
from Budapest, Org. RAUCH Ferenc, e-mail: rauch@freemail.hu
18. 24th-30th of July, SZOMBATHELY SUMMER Open 9 rounds Swiss, 300 km
West from Budapest, Org: FM KORPICS, Zsolt, e-mail: korpicschess@axelero.hu
19. 5th-17th of August, FIRST SATURDAY, Bp, GM /cat.XII-IX-VII/ - IM-FM
closed, Org: NL.
Iranian Super League
The second Season of the Iranian Super League starts from 3rd October
2005. News: Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.
Further details:
http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/asp/turniere.asp?tnr=2350&lan=1
and http://www.iranchess.com/indexen.htm
Czech Chess Christmas 2005
Czech Chess Christmas 2005 Litomysl (CZE) 26.12.2005-1.1.2006 7th
christmas chess FIDE tournament, swiss system of 9 round, rate of game 2 x 1,5h
+ 30s/move, prize fund 75.000 CZK (1st prize 20.000 CZK = 680 EUR), special
conditions for IM, WGM and GM, New Year’s Eve programme. Contact: Agentura
64, Jaroslav Fuksik, 783 73 Grygov 337, mobil: 608 364 664, e-mail:
a64@proclient.cz, web: http://www.a64.cz
Seagaard ChessReviews
Soren Sogaard has announced that his site Seagaard ChessReviews will be
updated after receiving a lot of positive e-mails, "I decided to try to keep
running the site. I also got two new reviewers, and the well known danish IM
Steffen Pedersen reviews his first book." He'll see if he can keep it going
another 6 months.
Website: http://seagaard.dk/review
World Amateur Open Championship Cancelled
Due to the Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita that recently hit the
Gulf Coast area, the World Amateur Open Chess Tournament that was to be held
Oct. 7-9, 2005, in Kissimmee, Florida, has been cancelled.
Cajun Chess Web Site will be back soon:
http://www.cajunchess.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
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
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/
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
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
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.
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.
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
) .
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
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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