THE WEEK IN CHESS 606 19th June 2006 by Mark Crowther
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Aerosvit GM tournament 18 games
Dutch Championship 18 games
2nd San Marino Open 93 games
Las Vegas Masters 90 games
National Open 153 games
8th Salou Open 195 games
First Saturday June 30 games
1st Alushta Summer 72 games
Norwegian Team Championship 245 games
10th Voronezh Chess Festival 217 games
St. Petersburg Championship 66 games
Finnish Championship 72 games
3rd Muhamedzjanov Memorial 66 games
2nd Goran GM 45 games
28th Nezhmetdinov Memorial 360 games
Lasker Memorial 243 games
Spiltan & Pelaro IM 45 games
21st Hasslocher Schachtage 140 games
9th Kaplun Memorial 45 games
1st Magistral Espirito Sancto 45 games
1st Magistral Guarapari 45 games
2303 games
My thanks to Gaguik Oganessian, Gary Suffield, Thomas Henrich, Tarjei J.
Svensen, Leonid Galperin, Andy McFarland, Lou Caruana, Miklos Orso and everyone
else who helped with the issue.
The top event of the week is the Aerosvit GM tournament in Foros, in
Yalta, the Ukraine. A very reasonable Category XVIII event with Ruslan
Ponomariov (having a bit of a disaster), Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexander
Grischuk (both on 50%) rated over 2700. The leaders are Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
and Viktor Bologan with 2.5/3. Also this week has seen the start of the Dutch
Championship with Loek Van Wely, Sergey Tiviakov and Ivan Sokolov competing. In
addition there have been two good events in Las Vegas and a huge amount of
other material. All this reminds me that the summer holidays approach which
means whilst the quality might not be that great always the number of games
played will grow quite considerably.
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
The Aerosvit GM tournament takes place in Foros/Yalta, 16th-29th June
2006.
Official site:
http://www.aerosvit2006.ukrchess.org.ua/index_e.htm
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Aerosvit GM Foros UKR (UKR), 17-28 vi 2006 cat. XVIII (2691)
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1. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2699 * . = . . . . 1 . 1 . . 2.5 2955
2. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2666 . * . . . . . . 1 . = 1 2.5 2971
3. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2699 = . * . = . . . . . . 1 2.0 2818
4. Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2660 . . . * . = . . = . 1 . 2.0 2829
5. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2719 . . = . * . = . . = . . 1.5 2696
6. Harikrishna, P g IND 2680 . . . = . * = . = . . . 1.5 2695
7. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2731 . . . . = = * . . = . . 1.5 2686
8. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2687 0 . . . . . . * . . 1 = 1.5 2699
9. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2695 . 0 . = . = . . * . . . 1.0 2543
10. Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2660 0 . . . = . = . . * . . 1.0 2591
11. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2738 . = . 0 . . . 0 . . * . 0.5 2398
12. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2661 . 0 0 . . . . = . . . * 0.5 2411
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Round 1 (June 17, 2006)
Bologan, Viktor - Karjakin, Sergey 1-0 33 E15 Queens Indian
Shirov, Alexei - Grischuk, Alexander 1/2 32 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Volokitin, Andrei - Ponomariov, Ruslan 1-0 63 C89 Ruy Lopez Marshall
Rublevsky, Sergei - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 0-1 43 C48 Four Knights Rubinstein
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Harikrishna, P 1/2 33 C91 Ruy Lopez
Areshchenko, Alexander - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 32 B82 Sicilian Scheveningen
Round 2 (June 18, 2006)
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Shirov, Alexei 1/2 28 D46 Semi-Slav Defence
Grischuk, Alexander - Areshchenko, Alexander 1/2 23 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Harikrishna, P - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 24 C42 Petroff's Defence
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Volokitin, Andrei 1/2 33 B22 Sicilian Alapin
Ponomariov, Ruslan - Bologan, Viktor 1/2 78 E97 King's Indian Classical
Karjakin, Sergey - Rublevsky, Sergei 1/2 31 B46 Sicilian Paulsen
Round 3 (June 19, 2006)
Bologan, Viktor - Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1-0 59 E10 Blumenfeld Counter Gambit
Shirov, Alexei - Karjakin, Sergey 1-0 35 E15 Queens Indian
Volokitin, Andrei - Harikrishna, P 1/2 90 C80 Ruy Lopez Open
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Grischuk, Alexander 1/2 20 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Rublevsky, Sergei - Ponomariov, Ruslan 1-0 54 C45 Scotch Game
Areshchenko, Alexander - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 0-1 47 C24 Bishop's Opening
The Dutch Championship takes place in Hilversum 16th June - 2nd July
2006.
Official site: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/nk2006/
- Live games: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/nk2006/livenk.htm
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ch-NED Hilversum NED (NED), 17-29 vi 2006 cat. XIII (2569)
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1. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2655 * . = . 1 . . . 1 . . . 2.5 2823
2. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2669 . * . . . . = 1 . . 1 . 2.5 2790
3. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2676 = . * . . 1 . . . = . . 2.0 2727
4. L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2565 . . . * . . . = = . 1 . 2.0 2621
5. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2511 0 . . . * = . . . . . 1 1.5 2591
6. Smeets, Jan g NED 2535 . . 0 . = * . . . . . 1 1.5 2590
7. Werle, Jan g NED 2529 . = . . . . * = . . . 0 1.0 2473
8. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2543 . 0 . = . . = * . . . . 1.0 2462
9. Bosch, Jeroen m NED 2465 0 . . = . . . . * = . . 1.0 2487
10. Timman, Jan H g NED 2616 . . = . . . . . = * 0 . 1.0 2415
11. Visser, Yge m NED 2480 . 0 . 0 . . . . . 1 * . 1.0 2491
12. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2584 . . . . 0 0 1 . . . . * 1.0 2400
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Round 1 (June 17, 2006)
Tiviakov, Sergei - Werle, Jan 1/2 51 C86 Ruy Lopez Worrall Attack
Sokolov, Ivan - Smeets, Jan 1-0 45 D10 Slav Defence
Van der Wiel, John - Nijboer, Friso 1-0 42 B30 Sicilian Rossolimo
Stellwagen, Daniel - L'Ami, Erwin 1/2 35 C83 Ruy Lopez Open
Bosch, Jeroen - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 33 E70 King's Indian Fianchetto
Visser, Yge - Timman, Jan H 1-0 55 B30 Sicilian Rossolimo
Round 2 (June 18, 2006)
Van Wely, Loek - Sokolov, Ivan 1/2 34 D10 Slav Defence
Tiviakov, Sergei - Stellwagen, Daniel 1-0 41 B22 Sicilian Alapin
L'Ami, Erwin - Visser, Yge 1-0 48 E91 King's Indian Classical
Smeets, Jan - Van der Wiel, John 1/2 26 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov
Werle, Jan - Nijboer, Friso 0-1 66 A87 Dutch Leningrad
Timman, Jan H - Bosch, Jeroen 1/2 34 D34 Tarrasch Defence, Main Line
Round 3 (June 19, 2006)
Sokolov, Ivan - Timman, Jan H 1/2 23 E11 Bogo Indian Defence
Van der Wiel, John - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 33 B42 Sicilian Paulsen
Stellwagen, Daniel - Werle, Jan 1/2 26 C97 Ruy Lopez
Bosch, Jeroen - L'Ami, Erwin 1/2 20 D94 Gruenfeld Closed
Visser, Yge - Tiviakov, Sergei 0-1 45 B51 Sicilian Rossolimo
Nijboer, Friso - Smeets, Jan 0-1 63 B50 Sicilian Defence
The 2nd San Marino International Chess Open took place in the Republic
of San Marino June 5th-11th 2006, at the end of the Turin World Chess Olympiad.
Vadim Milov won the event on tie-break from Varuzhan Akobian both finished on
7.5/9. Games from the final three rounds currently unavailable.
Official site: http://www.sanmarinoscacchi.sm
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1. Milov, Vadim g SUI 2625 7,5 GM SUI 43,0 2816
2. Akobian, Varuzhan g USA 2575 7,5 GM USA 41,0 2796
3. Gagunashvili, Merab g GEO 2560 7,0 GM GEO 39,0 2710
4. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2669 6,5 GM NED 43,5 2691
5. Ehlvest, Jaan g USA 2607 6,5 GM USA 43,0 2689
6. Pantsulaia, Levan g GEO 2611 6,5 GM GEO 38,5 2677
7. Torre, Eugenio g PHI 2543 6,5 GM PHI 37,5 2612
8. Sulava, Nenad g CRO 2493 6,5 GM CRO 37,0 2609
9. Epishin, Vladimir g RUS 2565 6,5 GM RUS 35,5 2596
10. Kuzubov, Yuriy g UKR 2554 6,5 GM UKR 35,0 2576
11. Ivanisevic, Ivan g SCG 2598 6,5 GM SCG 33,5 2564
12. Manik, Mikulas m SVK 2450 6,0 IM SVK 42,0 2647
13. Heberla, Bartlomiej m POL 2497 6,0 IM POL 40,0 2606
14. Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2660 6,0 GM UKR 39,0 2604
15. Markowski, Tomasz g POL 2554 6,0 GM POL 38,5 2594
16. Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2646 6,0 GM GEO 37,0 2593
17. Svetushkin, Dmitry g MDA 2552 6,0 GM MDA 37,0 2571
18. Paragua, Mark g PHI 2617 6,0 GM PHI 37,0 2543
19. Malakhatko, Vadim g UKR 2559 6,0 GM UKR 36,5 2588
20. Vazquez, Renier m ESP 2517 6,0 IM ESP 36,5 2551
21. Psakhis, Lev g ISR 2551 6,0 GM ISR 34,5 2550
22. Delchev, Aleksander g BUL 2640 6,0 GM BUL 34,5 2547
23. Shengelia, Davit g GEO 2556 6,0 GM GEO 34,5 2490
24. Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2622 6,0 GM BRA 34,0 2538
25. Nevednichy, Vladislav g ROM 2582 6,0 GM ROM 33,0 2516
26. Guliyev, Namig g AZE 2580 6,0 GM AZE 32,5 2501
27. Kaplan, Sasha f ISR 2341 6,0 FM ISR 31,5 2453
28. Godena, Michele g ITA 2537 5,5 GM ITA 38,0 2505
29. So, Wesley f PHI 2254 5,5 FM PHI 37,0 2522
30. Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman m IND 2472 5,5 IM IND 36,5 2547
31. Zozulia, Anna m UKR 2355 5,5 IM UKR 36,5 2488
32. Kuljasevic, Davorin m CRO 2408 5,5 IM CRO 36,5 2467
33. Efimenko, Zahar g UKR 2648 5,5 GM UKR 36,0 2528
34. Flores, Diego m ARG 2494 5,5 IM ARG 36,0 2472
35. Djuric, Stefan g SCG 2457 5,5 GM SCG 35,5 2505
36. Goloshchapov, Alexander g UKR 2556 5,5 GM UKR 34,5 2457
37. Stopa, Jacek POL 2469 5,5 IM POL 34,5 2438
38. Sulskis, Sarunas g LTU 2497 5,5 GM LTU 34,0 2491
39. Parligras, Mircea g ROM 2543 5,5 GM ROM 34,0 2463
40. Garcia Palermo, Carlos g ARG 2467 5,5 GM ARG 34,0 2454
41. Del Rio Angelis, Salvador G g ESP 2516 5,5 GM ESP 34,0 2421
42. Abergel, Thal m FRA 2457 5,5 IM FRA 33,5 2495
43. Berkovich, Mark A m ISR 2392 5,5 IM ISR 33,0 2449
44. Bhat, Vinay S m USA 2409 5,5 IM USA 33,0 2401
148 players
Las Vegas Masters Chess Tournament took place June 10th-14th, 2006.
Leonid Kritz, Robert Fontaine and Dejan Antic finished on 6.5/9. Two IM norms
were achieved at the tournament. FM John Bartholomew scored half-point more
than he needed to secure his third and final IM norm while FM Robert Hess did
enough to obtain his 2nd IM norm. IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon was extremely close
to obtaining a GM norm but went into the last round needing a win against
whoever he was paired against. Unluckily for him he got the #1 seed in the
tournament, GM Leonid Kritz, and tried pushing too hard and eventually lost the
game.
Website: http://www.clarkcountychessclub.com/masters/
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Masters Las Vegas USA (USA), 10-14 vi 2006
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1. Fontaine, Robert g FRA 2521 +24 + 9 +12 + 6 + 3 = 5 - 4 = 7 = 2 6.5 2632
2. Antic, Dejan g SCG 2491 +23 =12 +16 = 8 = 4 + 6 = 7 +10 = 1 6.5 2605
3. Kritz, Leonid g GER 2578 +13 =14 +20 =11 - 1 +19 = 5 + 4 + 7 6.5 2619
4. Mikhalevski, Victor g ISR 2566 +36 + 7 - 6 +14 = 2 + 9 + 1 - 3 = 5 6.0 2594
5. Golod, Vitali g ISR 2571 =19 =15 +17 = 7 + 8 = 1 = 3 = 9 = 4 5.5 2534
6. Stein, Alan f USA 2434 +21 +10 + 4 - 1 =11 - 2 =13 +25 = 8 5.5 2510
7. Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas m CAN 2419 +28 - 4 +23 = 5 +10 +18 = 2 = 1 - 3 5.5 2554
8. Sevillano, Enrico m USA 2472 =32 +17 =14 = 2 - 5 =22 +20 +12 = 6 5.5 2488
9. Bartholomew, John f USA 2406 +25 - 1 +27 =18 +15 - 4 +23 = 5 =10 5.5 2503
10. Perelshteyn, Eugene m USA 2526 +16 - 6 +13 =19 - 7 +17 +11 - 2 = 9 5.0 2442
11. Gonzalez, Renier m USA 2470 +31 =22 =19 = 3 = 6 +12 -10 =13 =16 5.0 2445
12. Almeida Saenz, Alfonso m MEX 2400 +27 = 2 - 1 +26 =18 -11 +19 - 8 +23 5.0 2437
13. Sarkar, Justin m USA 2355 - 3 +28 -10 +21 =20 +35 = 6 =11 =15 5.0 2434
14. Kriventsov, Stanislav G m USA 2449 +30 = 3 = 8 - 4 =19 -23 +35 =21 +24 5.0 2414
15. Ippolito, Dean m USA 2413 =35 = 5 =26 +22 - 9 =20 +32 =16 =13 5.0 2388
16. Savage, Ben D ENG 2310 -10 +35 - 2 =32 =25 +30 +17 =15 =11 5.0 2398
17. Rensch, Daniel f USA 2360 +34 - 8 - 5 +35 +24 -10 -16 +32 +25 5.0 2386
18. Friedel, Joshua E m USA 2465 +26 =20 =22 = 9 =12 - 7 =25 =23 =19 4.5 2345
19. Hess, Robert L f USA 2354 = 5 +32 =11 =10 =14 - 3 -12 +22 =18 4.5 2451
20. Vigorito, David m USA 2373 +29 =18 - 3 =25 =13 =15 - 8 +27 =21 4.5 2351
21. Belliard, Luis DOM 2248 - 6 -23 +28 -13 +36 +24 =22 =14 =20 4.5 2357
22. Gokhale, Chandrashekhar m IND 2368 +33 =11 =18 -15 =23 = 8 =21 -19 =26 4.0 2310
23. Belorusov, Mikhail f USA 2309 - 2 +21 - 7 +33 =22 +14 - 9 =18 -12 4.0 2339
24. Taylor, Timothy m USA 2330 - 1 =29 =25 +30 -17 -21 +28 +31 -14 4.0 2265
25. Arjun, Vishnuvardhan IND 2221 - 9 +36 =24 =20 =16 +26 =18 - 6 -17 4.0 2322
26. Kiewra, Keaton F USA 2257 -18 +34 =15 -12 =32 -25 +33 =29 =22 4.0 2254
27. Aramil, William J USA 2215 -12 +31 - 9 =36 -35 +33 =29 -20 +32 4.0 2255
28. Aigner, Michael USA USA 2245 - 7 -13 -21 =34 =33 +37 -24 +35 +29 4.0 2198
29. Murzin, Lenar m RUS 2195 -20 =24 -35 =31 =30 +34 =27 =26 -28 3.5 2185
30. Puri, Vinny f CAN 2246 -14 =33 =32 -24 =29 -16 =31 =34 +35 3.5 2190
31. Stoyko, Stephen E f USA 2293 -11 -27 =33 =29 +34 -32 =30 -24 +37 3.5 2150
32. Boor, Carl Brando USA 2233 = 8 -19 =30 =16 =26 +31 -15 -17 -27 3.0 2199
33. Allen, Edward J USA 2196 -22 =30 =31 -23 =28 -27 -26 +37 =34 3.0 2110
34. Alvarez, Franklin DOM 2188 -17 -26 =36 =28 -31 -29 +37 =30 =33 3.0 2113
35. Bick, John D f USA 2238 =15 -16 +29 -17 +27 -13 -14 -28 -30 2.5 2143
36. Adamson, Robby f USA 2354 - 4 -25 =34 =27 -21 . . . . 1.0 2047
37. Ducharme,Pierre CAN ---- . . . . . -28 -34 -33 -31 0.0
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The Las Vegas International Chess Festival (including the National Open)
took place at the Riviera Hotel and Casino June 15th-19th 2006. Aleksander
Wojtkiewicz took first place on tie-break ahead of Varuzhan Akobian, Nikola
Mitkov, Merab Gagunashvili and Lubomir Ftacnik all of whom finished on 5/9.
Official site: http://www.lvchessfestival.com/
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National Open Las Vegas USA (USA), 16-18 vi 2006
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1. Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander g USA 2552 5.0 21.0 21.0
2. Akobian, Varuzhan g USA 2575 5.0 20.5 23.5
3. Mitkov, Nikola g MKD 2561 5.0 19.5 21.5
4. Gagunashvili, Merab g GEO 2560 5.0 19.0 21.0
5. Ftacnik, Lubomir g SVK 2597 5.0 19.0 20.5
6. Mikhalevski, Victor g ISR 2566 4.5 22.5 25.0
7. Golod, Vitali g ISR 2571 4.5 19.5 22.5
8. De Firmian, Nick E g USA 2560 4.5 19.5 22.0
9. Kudrin, Sergey g USA 2553 4.5 18.5 21.5
10. Kritz, Leonid g GER 2578 4.5 18.5 21.0
11. Anka, Emil g HUN 2425 4.5 18.0 20.0
12. Browne, Walter S g USA 2434 4.5 14.0 14.0
13. Izoria, Zviad g GEO 2647 4.0 21.5 24.0
14. Friedel, Joshua E m USA 2465 4.0 20.0 22.0
15. Perelshteyn, Eugene m USA 2526 4.0 20.0 21.0
16. Gurevich, Dmitry g USA 2503 4.0 19.5 22.5
17. Khachiyan, Melikset m USA 2465 4.0 19.5 22.5
18. Sevillano, Enrico m USA 2472 4.0 18.5 20.5
19. Ippolito, Dean m USA 2413 4.0 18.5 20.5
20. Almeida Saenz, Alfonso m MEX 2400 4.0 18.5 20.5
21. Finegold, Benjamin m USA 2563 4.0 18.0 21.0
22. Taylor, Timothy m USA 2330 4.0 18.0 20.0
23. Kacheishvili, Giorgi g GEO 2605 4.0 17.0 19.0
24. Fontaine, Robert g FRA 2521 4.0 17.0 19.0
25. Odondoo, Ganbold m MGL 2390 4.0 16.0 18.5
26. Lein, Anatoly Y g USA 2325 4.0 14.5 16.5
27. Ibragimov, Ildar g USA 2637 3.5 20.0 23.0
28. Sharavdorj, Dashzegve g MGL 2449 3.5 20.0 22.0
29. Deng Kong Liang m USA 2423 3.5 20.0 21.5
30. Vigorito, David m USA 2373 3.5 19.5 22.0
31. Antic, Dejan g SCG 2491 3.5 19.0 21.0
32. Aigner, Michael USA USA 2245 3.5 18.0 20.5
33. Serpik, Ilia V USA 2281 3.5 17.0 19.5
34. Sadvakasov, Darmen g KAZ 2619 33.5 17.0 18.5
35. Gonzalez, Renier m USA 2470 3.5 17.0 17.0
36. Cheng, Xiao USA 2270 3.5 16.5 17.5
37. Liu, Elliot USA 2162 3.5 15.5 17.5
38. Varshavsky, Eugene USA ---- 3.5 14.5 16.0
39. Zavadsky, Peter SVK 2283 3.5 14.5 15.5
40. Ashton, Jeffrey USA 2224 3.5 14.5 15.5
41. Trammell, George III USA 2086 3.5 9.5 9.5
42. Ehlvest, Jaan g USA 2607 3.0 14.5 19.5
104 players
The 8th Salou Open took place in Salou, Spain 7th-15th June 2006. Kevin
Spraggett took first place on tie-break from Hichem Hamdouchi, Azer Mirzoev and
Josep Manuel Lopez Martinez, all scored 7/9.
Official site: http://www.chessinsalou.com/
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VIII Open Salou ESP (ESP), 7-15 vi 2006
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1. Spraggett, Kevin g CAN 2578 2578 7 51 54½ 38½
2. Hamdouchi, Hichem g MAR 2559 2559 7 50 54 38
3. Mirzoev, Azer g AZE 2532 2532 7 49½ 53½ 37
4. Lopez Martinez, Josep Manuel m ESP 2481 2481 7 47 51 36
5. Pogorelov, Ruslan g UKR 2385 2385 6½ 50 54 35
6. Korneev, Oleg g RUS 2671 2671 6½ 47½ 52 34
7. Caruana, Fabiano f ITA 2421 2421 6 48½ 53 33½
8. Narciso Dublan, Marc g ESP 2510 2510 6 47½ 52 32
9. Vernay, Clovis FRA 2293 2293 6 46 48 31
10. Vila Gazquez, Javier f ESP 2325 2325 6 43 47½ 28½
11. Kekki, Petri f FIN 2365 2365 6 39½ 42 27
12. Capo Vidal, Uriel f MEX 2357 2357 6 38½ 41 29
13. Moskalenko, Viktor g UKR 2540 2540 5½ 47½ 52½ 33
14. Alsina Leal, Daniel f ESP 2441 2441 5½ 44½ 49 32
15. Aloma Vidal, Robert f ESP 2352 2352 5½ 43½ 47½ 29½
16. Sachdev, Tania wg IND 2375 2375 5½ 43½ 47 29
17. Kononenko, Tatiana wg UKR 2383 2383 5½ 43½ 47 28
18. Benitah, Yohan m FRA 2417 2417 5½ 42 44 29½
19. Edouard, Romain f FRA 2363 2363 5½ 41½ 44½ 29½
20. Hoenick, Andreas GER 2168 2168 5½ 40½ 40½ 26½
21. Garcia Castro, Pablo f ESP 2309 2309 5½ 39½ 42½ 26
22. Fenollar Jorda, Manuel ESP 2331 2331 5½ 38½ 42 26½
74 players
The First Saturday tournaments for June took place 4th-12th June 2006.
GM, IM and FM events. Matthieu Cornette and Laszlo Gonda finished on 6/9.
Official site: http://www.firstsaturday.hu/
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FSGM June Budapest HUN (HUN), 4-12 vi 2006 cat. VIII (2429)
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1. Cornette, Matthieu m FRA 2448 * 1 = = = 1 = = 1 = 6.0 2551
2. Gonda, Laszlo f HUN 2465 0 * = 1 = 1 = 1 = 1 6.0 2549
3. Kosic, Dragan g SCG 2482 = = * = = = = 1 = 1 5.5 2502
4. Ilincic, Zlatko g SCG 2536 = 0 = * 1 0 = 1 1 = 5.0 2459
5. Paschall, William M m USA 2352 = = = 0 * = = 1 = 1 5.0 2480
6. Fodor, Tamas jr f HUN 2383 0 0 = 1 = * = 1 = = 4.5 2433
7. Seres, Lajos g HUN 2400 = = = = = = * 0 = = 4.0 2389
8. Jakab, Attila m HUN 2414 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 * 1 1 3.5 2350
9. Kovacs, Gabor m HUN 2456 0 = = 0 = = = 0 * = 3.0 2300
10. Turzo, Attila m HUN 2352 = 0 0 = 0 = = 0 = * 2.5 2271
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FSIM June Budapest HUN (HUN), 5-15 vi 2006 cat. II (2286)
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1. Reiss, Tibor m HUN 2377 * = 0 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 8.0 2516
2. Farago, Sandor m HUN 2262 = * = = 0 = 1 1 1 = 1 6.5 2398
3. Kaufman, Raymond USA 2230 1 = * 1 = 0 0 = 1 = 1 6.0 2363
4. Werner, Dimo m GER 2333 0 = 0 * = = 1 1 1 = 1 6.0 2353
5. Konnyu, Janos HUN 2262 0 1 = = * = = = 0 1 1 5.5 2324
6. Kahn, Evarth m HUN 2289 0 = 1 = = * 1 0 = = = 5.0 2285
7. Vul, Arkadi Eremeevich g RUS 2396 = 0 1 0 = 0 * = = 1 1 5.0 2274
8. Mihok, Oliver HUN 2215 0 0 = 0 = 1 = * = = 1 4.5 2256
9. Muranyi, Karl-Jasmin f GER 2385 0 0 0 0 1 = = = * 1 1 4.5 2239
10. Delabaca, Romuald FRA 2203 0 = = = 0 = 0 = 0 * = 3.0 2145
11. Kayar, Erdem TUR 2191 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 = * 1.0 1929
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The 1st Alushta Summer tournament took place 2nd-14th June 2006. Andrey
Sumets won the event with 12/16 although with the GM norm at 12,5 points he
didn't get a norm.
Official site: http://www.kaissa.com.ua
Summer-1 Alushta UKR (UKR), 2-14 vi 2006 cat. VI (2393)
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1 Sumets, Andrey m UKR 2461 ** == == == 11 1= 11 11 1= 12.0 2577
2 Kononenko, Dmitry1 m UKR 2472 == ** 10 1= == 11 1= 1= =1 11.0 2523
3 Zinchenko, Yaroslav g UKR 2499 == 01 ** 11 == == =1 1= 11 11.0 2520
4 Golubev, Mikhail g UKR 2484 == 0= 00 ** == 11 1= =1 1= 9.0 2424
5 Shtyrenkov, Veniamen g RUS 2416 00 == == == ** 11 01 == =1 8.5 2410
6 Mankeyev, Rauan f KAZ 2381 0= 00 == 00 00 ** 11 11 1= 7.0 2351
7 Podgursky, Sten f MDA 2314 00 0= =0 0= 10 00 ** == 1= 5.0 2261
8 Tishin, D m UKR 2316 00 0= 0= =0 == 00 == ** == 4.5 2236
9 Rozhkov, Vecheslav RUS 2191 0= =0 00 0= =0 0= 0= == ** 4.0 2224
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The Norwegian Team Championship took place June 7th - 11th in Oslo.
There were two groups, one for the finalists with 8 teams total, which
Porsgrunn and Asker shared 1st places and need a playoff to determine the
winner. There was also one open group with 11 teams total. Oslo Vest won this
one ahead of SK 1911. Magnus Carlsen and Simen Agdestein played for NTG, which
finished 3rd. This tournament worked as a qualification for the next season, in
which there will be a new national league sponsored by the broadband phone
provider Telio. News: Tarjei J. Svensen.
Official site: http://www.sk1911.no/nmlag06.htm
Pl. Navn Resultater Poeng I.P. Berger
1 Asker +4 -3 +2 4.0 10.5 4.00
1 Team Buer Porsgrunn +3 +4 -1 4.0 10.5 4.00
3 OSS -2 +1 +4 4.0 10.0 4.00
4 Trondheim -1 -2 -3 0.0 5.0
Pl. Navn Resultater Poeng I.P. Berger
1 Bergens Sk +3 +4 -2 4.0 12.0 4.00
2 Akademisk SK +4 -3 +1 4.0 10.0 4.00
3 Randaberg SK -1 +2 +4 4.0 9.0 4.00
4 Tromsø SK -2 -1 -3 0.0 5.0
Top Board Results
1. board: Roy Fyllingen, Bergens, 3/5
2. board: Eirik Gullaksen, Bergens, 4/5
3. board: Bjarke Sahl, Asker, 3/4
4. board: Leif Øgaard, OSS, 4,5/5
5. board: Carl Fr. Ekeberg, Asker, 4/5
6. board: Jon Ludvig Hammer, OSS, 3/4
Best reserve: Andreas G. R. Moen, OSS, 4,5/5
The 10th Voronezh International Chess Festival takes place June
10th-21st 2006.
Official site: http://www.relex.ru/~xuser/voronezh_open/
Leading Round 6 (of 9) Standings:
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1. 11 Zontakh, Andrey 5.0 23.0 18.75 17.5 2553 2744 +1.34
24 Gabrielian, Artur 5.0 20.0 17.00 15.5 2520 2624 +0.68
3. 2 Khismatullin, Denis 4.5 22.0 14.75 18.5 2584 2690 +0.78
6 Yakovich, Yuri 4.5 19.5 13.75 15.5 2570 2614 +0.30
7 Gleizerov, Evgeny 4.5 22.0 15.25 18.0 2562 2677 +0.84
15 Chernyshov, Konstantin 4.5 22.0 15.25 16.0 2544 2620 +0.54
16 Rychagov, Andrey 4.5 18.0 12.50 15.5 2542 2594 +0.36
17 Vorobiov, Evgeny E. 4.5 21.0 15.25 16.0 2540 2600 +0.42
18 Solodovnichenko, Yuri 4.5 21.5 15.25 17.5 2540 2644 +0.78
19 Belozerov, Andrei 4.5 22.5 16.25 16.5 2538 2620 +0.60
23 Yandemirov, Valeri 4.5 22.5 16.50 16.5 2520 2635 +0.84
29 Panarin, Michail 4.5 23.5 16.50 17.5 2491 2627 +1.02
33 Popov, Ivan 4.5 20.0 13.25 16.0 2482 2586 +0.78
40 Gavrilov, Alexei 4.5 18.5 13.75 14.5 2461 2540 +0.54
15. 1 Lastin, Alexander 4.0 20.5 13.25 14.5 2610 2579 -0.26
3 Kornev, Alexei 4.0 19.0 13.25 12.0 2575 2466 -0.74
5 Tseshkovsky, Vitaly 4.0 23.0 13.75 16.5 2572 2591 +0.16
8 Brodsky, Michail 4.0 19.0 12.50 14.0 2561 2538 -0.20
20 Shaposhnikov, Evgeny 4.0 20.0 12.25 15.5 2538 2554 +0.10
25 Kabanov, Nikolai 4.0 19.0 12.25 12.5 2504 2430 -0.56
26 Obukhov, Alexander 4.0 22.0 12.50 15.0 2498 2542 +0.34
30 Voitsekhovsky, Stanislav 4.0 22.5 13.75 15.0 2490 2502 +0.10
32 Iljushin, Alexei 4.0 21.5 13.50 16.0 2483 2589 +0.82
34 Andreikin, Dmitry 4.0 20.0 12.00 14.5 2481 2456 -0.20
37 Kryakvin, Dmitry 4.0 21.5 13.50 14.5 2472 2540 +0.52
52 Papin, Vasily 4.0 20.5 11.25 13.5 2388 2538 +1.18
55 Paveliev, Alexey 4.0 21.0 12.25 13.5 2368 2534 +1.36
97 Charochkina, Daria 4.0 15.5 8.50 10.0 2216 2448 +1.90
121 players
The Championship of St. Petersburg (RUS) took place 3rd-13th June 2006.
Valerij Popov and Vasily Yemelin finished on 8/11 with the former being
declared champion on tie-break.
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1. Popov, Valerij g RUS 2587 * 1 0 = 1 = = 1 = 1 1 1 8.0 2679
2. Yemelin, Vasily g RUS 2520 0 * = 1 = = = 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 2685
3. Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2550 1 = * 1 = 0 1 1 = 1 1 0 7.5 2641
4. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2640 = 0 0 * = 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 7.5 2632
5. Anisimov, Pavel m RUS 2500 0 = = = * = = 1 = 1 = 1 6.5 2577
6. Ionov, Sergey g RUS 2519 = = 1 0 = * = = = 1 = = 6.0 2546
7. Yevseev, Denis g RUS 2580 = = 0 0 = = * 0 = = 1 1 5.0 2469
8. Orlov, Vassily m RUS 2450 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 * 1 0 1 1 4.5 2452
9. Ivanov, Alexey RUS 2375 = 0 = = = = = 0 * 0 0 1 4.0 2422
10. Loginov, Valery A g RUS 2510 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 1 * 1 = 4.0 2409
11. Solozhenkin, Evgeniy g RUS 2508 0 0 0 0 = = 0 0 1 0 * 1 3.0 2336
12. Zacurdajev, Mikhail RUS 2400 0 0 1 0 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 * 2.0 2259
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The Championship of Finland took place in Helsinki (FIN) 10th-18th June
2006.
Official site: http://www.kolumbus.fi/shakkiliitto/
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1. Karttunen, Mika m FIN 2431 +15 = 7 + 4 + 8 = 2 = 5 = 3 + 9 +10 7.0 2497
2. Keskinen, Sauli FIN 2301 -16 + 6 +13 = 3 = 1 + 8 + 7 + 4 = 5 6.5 2445
3. Maki-Uuro, Miikka m FIN 2407 +10 = 8 = 5 = 2 = 4 = 6 = 1 +13 + 7 6.0 2395
4. Nouro, Mikael m FIN 2362 +12 +13 - 1 = 5 = 3 = 7 +11 - 2 + 8 5.5 2372
5. Norri, Joose m FIN 2368 = 6 +16 = 3 = 4 = 8 = 1 =13 = 7 = 2 5.0 2315
6. Rehn, Ralf FIN 2099 = 5 - 2 -10 +15 +13 = 3 - 9 +11 +12 5.0 2311
7. Niemi, Kalle FIN 2254 + 9 = 1 - 8 +14 +10 = 4 - 2 = 5 - 3 4.5 2292
8. Pudas, Teemu FIN 2168 +11 = 3 + 7 - 1 = 5 - 2 +16 =14 - 4 4.5 2309
9. Salimaki, Janne FIN 2193 - 7 +11 =16 -13 =12 +15 + 6 - 1 =14 4.5 2232
10. Parkkinen, Jyrki FIN 2218 - 3 =12 + 6 +16 - 7 -11 +14 +15 - 1 4.5 2251
11. Topi-Hulmi, Teemu FIN 2281 - 8 - 9 =15 =12 +14 +10 - 4 - 6 +16 4.0 2160
12. Lehti, Juhani FIN 2183 - 4 =10 =14 =11 = 9 -13 +15 +16 - 6 4.0 2178
13. Nokso-Koivisto, Antti f FIN 2237 +14 - 4 - 2 + 9 - 6 +12 = 5 - 3 -15 3.5 2178
14. Vuorisalo, Veli-Matti FIN 2184 -13 +15 =12 - 7 -11 +16 -10 = 8 = 9 3.5 2137
15. Tiitta, Sauli FIN 2230 - 1 -14 =11 - 6 +16 - 9 -12 -10 +13 2.5 2058
16. Luukkonen, Tommi FIN 2193 + 2 - 5 = 9 -10 -15 -14 - 8 -12 -11 1.5 1963
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The 3rd Muhamedzjanov Memorial took place in Nabereshnye Cherny (RUS)
11th-18th June 2006. Pavel Skatchkov won the event on tie-break from Arseny
Alavkin both scored 8/11.
Official site: http://www.nabchess.narod.ru
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III Muhamedzjanov Mem Nabereshnye Chelny RUS (RUS), 11-18 vi 2006cat. VIII (2439)
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1. Skatchkov, Pavel m RUS 2465 * = = 1 = 1 = 0 1 1 1 1 8.0 2611
2. Alavkin, Arseny m RUS 2485 = * = = 1 = = 1 1 = 1 1 8.0 2609
3. Balashov, Yuri S g RUS 2462 = = * = 0 1 1 = = = = = 6.0 2472
4. Kovchan, Alexander g UKR 2499 0 = = * = = = 1 1 = = = 6.0 2469
5. Mingachev, Mansur f RUS 2359 = 0 1 = * = 1 0 = = = 1 6.0 2482
6. Khusnutdinov, Rustam f KAZ 2392 0 = 0 = = * 1 = = 1 1 = 6.0 2479
7. Zubarev, Alexander g UKR 2515 = = 0 = 0 0 * 1 = 1 = 1 5.5 2432
8. Akhmadeev, Vadim m RUS 2439 1 0 = 0 1 = 0 * = = = = 5.0 2402
9. Ponfilenok, Vladimir RUS 2390 0 0 = 0 = = = = * 1 = 1 5.0 2407
10. Kupreichik, Viktor D g BLR 2455 0 = = = = 0 0 = 0 * 1 = 4.0 2335
11. Kichubaev, Kamil m RUS 2390 0 0 = = = 0 = = = 0 * = 3.5 2310
12. Zhidkov, Valery S m UKR 2416 0 0 = = 0 = 0 = 0 = = * 3.0 2266
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The 2nd Goran GM tournament took place in Bibinje (CRO), 8th-16th June
2006. IM Ante Saric won convincingly with 7/9.
Official site:
http://www.crochess.com/turniri/bibinje/06/index.htm
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1. Saric, Ante m CRO 2474 * = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 2634
2. Farago, Ivan g HUN 2534 = * = = 1 0 = = 1 1 5.5 2488
3. Groszpeter, Attila g HUN 2518 = = * = = 1 = = = = 5.0 2452
4. Sax, Gyula g HUN 2535 = = = * = = = = = 1 5.0 2451
5. Biliskov, Vjekoslav f CRO 2324 = 0 = = * = 0 = = 1 4.0 2388
6. Martinovic, Sasa CRO 2350 0 1 0 = = * = = = = 4.0 2385
7. Rezan, Sasa m CRO 2419 0 = = = 1 = * = = 0 4.0 2377
8. Mestrovic, Zvonimir m SLO 2315 0 = = = = = = * = 0 3.5 2352
9. Bilobrk, Franjo m CRO 2386 0 0 = = = = = = * = 3.5 2344
10. Jakic, Ivan f CRO 2352 0 0 = 0 0 = 1 1 = * 3.5 2348
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28th Nezhmetdinov Memorial took place in Kazan (RUS), 1st-9th June 2006.
Marat Aksarov took clear first with 7.5/9.
Official site: http://chesskazan.ru
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1. Askarov, Marat m RUS 2438 -48 =70 +61 +37 +22 +10 + 7 + 8 + 2 7.5 2636
2. Bocharov, Dmitry g RUS 2559 +58 +22 +21 = 9 +10 + 8 +14 = 4 - 1 7.0 2660
3. Khismatullin, Denis g RUS 2584 +63 +30 +34 =10 - 8 +13 + 9 = 5 + 4 7.0 2700
4. Kharlov, Andrei g RUS 2555 =60 +23 +24 +35 + 9 = 7 + 8 = 2 - 3 6.5 2623
5. Vorobiov, Evgeny E g RUS 2540 +50 +39 - 9 =11 +27 +24 +19 = 3 = 6 6.5 2579
6. Kalegin, Evgenij m RUS 2458 -14 +55 +63 +33 =15 =18 +21 +17 = 5 6.5 2572
7. Kabanov, Nikolai m RUS 2504 +46 +64 - 8 +52 +42 = 4 - 1 +18 +14 6.5 2554
8. Kornev, Alexei g RUS 2575 +72 +27 + 7 +16 + 3 - 2 - 4 - 1 +19 6.0 2597
9. Isajevsky, Anton f RUS 2441 +56 +48 + 5 = 2 - 4 +11 - 3 =15 +28 6.0 2565
10. Bezgodov, Alexei g RUS 2554 +45 +52 +25 = 3 - 2 - 1 +27 +36 =12 6.0 2568
11. Mihajlovskij, Sergei BLR 2414 +55 =37 =15 = 5 +43 - 9 =22 +52 +26 6.0 2487
12. Andreev, Eduard g UKR 2470 +67 =14 =37 +32 -17 +35 =28 +38 =10 6.0 2476
13. Akhmadeev, Vadim m RUS 2439 =61 =68 =38 +49 +40 - 3 +39 =16 +30 6.0 2486
14. Gerasimov, Ivan RUS 2227 + 6 =12 =36 +41 +16 +17 - 2 =19 - 7 5.5 2560
15. Gleizerov, Evgeny g RUS 2562 =26 +28 =11 +30 = 6 -19 +24 = 9 =16 5.5 2487
16. Yandemirov, Valeri g RUS 2520 +31 +32 +42 - 8 -14 +33 =18 =13 =15 5.5 2478
17. Tseshkovsky, Vitaly g RUS 2572 +38 =35 =18 +20 +12 -14 =36 - 6 +41 5.5 2486
18. Grebionkin, Vladimir m RUS 2420 =66 +61 =17 =43 +26 = 6 =16 - 7 +38 5.5 2463
19. Zemtsov, Igor RUS 2361 +57 -25 +67 +21 +34 +15 - 5 =14 - 8 5.5 2484
20. Alavkin, Arseny m RUS 2485 =49 +53 +26 -17 =35 =23 -38 +40 +39 5.5 2440
21. Iljin, Artem m RUS 2505 +51 +40 - 2 -19 +63 +42 - 6 =23 +35 5.5 2469
22. Sokolov, Sergei f RUS 2367 +74 - 2 =49 +51 - 1 +50 =11 =41 +34 5.5 2431
23. Reshetnikov, Alexey f RUS 2377 =76 - 4 +66 +70 =25 =20 =34 =21 +36 5.5 2459
24. Gubajdullin, Alexei f RUS 2413 =62 +66 - 4 +64 +69 - 5 -15 +44 +47 5.5 2377
25. Kupreichik, Viktor D g BLR 2455 +59 +19 -10 =40 =23 -28 -26 +49 +58 5.0 2386
26. Sharafiev, Azat RUS 2320 =15 +76 -20 +29 -18 =30 +25 +42 -11 5.0 2462
27. Ayupov, Damir m RUS 2398 +70 - 8 =64 +31 - 5 +45 -10 +46 =29 5.0 2416
28. Rodchenkov, Vitaly RUS 2343 +80 -15 +48 -42 +37 +25 =12 =29 - 9 5.0 2401
29. Zubarev, Alexander1 g UKR 2515 =53 +60 -35 -26 =68 +73 +33 =28 =27 5.0 2328
30. Rodchenkov, Sergey D RUS 2396 +78 - 3 +50 -15 =45 =26 +60 +43 -13 5.0 2399
31. Sotnikov, Alexander I f RUS 2259 -16 =74 +62 -27 +70 =40 -35 +69 +52 5.0 2312
32. Gorovykh, Eduard f RUS 2349 +77 -16 +59 -12 +67 -36 -44 +68 +51 5.0 2333
33. Mustakayev, Artur RUS 2339 +75 -34 +65 - 6 +77 -16 -29 +48 +54 5.0 2307
34. Voitsekhovsky, Stanislav g RUS 2490 +44 +33 - 3 +39 -19 =41 =23 =35 -22 4.5 2386
35. Ponfilenok, Vladimir RUS 2390 +65 =17 +29 - 4 =20 -12 +31 =34 -21 4.5 2443
36. Balashov, Yuri S g RUS 2462 =68 =49 =14 =60 +58 +32 =17 -10 -23 4.5 2347
37. Gutenev, Alexander RUS 2168 +41 =11 =12 - 1 -28 +67 =40 -39 +64 4.5 2371
38. Vasenev, Sergey1 f RUS 2327 -17 +71 =13 -69 +66 +46 +20 -12 -18 4.5 2332
39. Ozolin, Maxim f RUS 2393 +47 - 5 +44 -34 =46 +64 -13 +37 -20 4.5 2336
40. Somkin, Evgeni RUS 2367 +54 -21 +46 =25 -13 =31 =37 -20 +61 4.5 2315
41. Zaiatz, Elena m RUS 2417 -37 +47 +58 -14 +60 =34 =43 =22 -17 4.5 2321
42. Gabdrakhmanov, Rafail m RUS 2414 +71 +43 -16 +28 - 7 -21 +58 -26 =45 4.5 2363
43. Chistiakova, Tamara wf RUS 2351 +69 -42 +56 =18 -11 +49 =41 -30 =44 4.5 2306
44. Dimukhametov, Artur RUS 2253 -34 +79 -39 =71 +47 =52 +32 -24 =43 4.5 2303
45. Baharev, Vladimir RUS 2265 -10 -65 +74 +48 =30 -27 =49 +62 =42 4.5 2288
46. Kniazev, Igor f RUS 2244 - 7 +73 -40 +65 =39 -38 +63 -27 +60 4.5 2307
47. Fakhretdinova, Margarita wf RUS 2147 -39 -41 +75 =68 -44 +66 +72 +53 -24 4.5 2276
48. Mirzanurov, Bulat RUS 2198 + 1 - 9 -28 -45 +57 =51 =50 -33 +72 4.0 2258
49. Vafin, Niaz RUS 2242 =20 =36 =22 -13 +54 -43 =45 -25 +71 4.0 2298
50. Hamidullin, Aydar RUS 2262 - 5 +57 -30 +55 =52 -22 =48 -54 +65 4.0 2211
51. Amirkhanov, Roustem RUS 2246 -21 =69 +54 -22 =76 =48 =55 +57 -32 4.0 2159
52. Demianjuk, Alexander RUS 2356 +73 -10 +68 - 7 =50 =44 +69 -11 -31 4.0 2234
53. Gazizov, Ravil f RUS 2254 =29 -20 -69 -76 +80 +70 +59 -47 =55 4.0 2156
54. Jusupov, Tabris RUS 2084 -40 =72 -51 +78 -49 =71 +67 +50 -33 4.0 2215
55. Ioffe, Dmitry RUS 2161 -11 - 6 +73 -50 +79 =68 =51 =60 =53 4.0 2205
56. Petrov, Ilja RUS 2205 - 9 +75 -43 -58 +65 -60 -57 +73 +70 4.0 2149
57. Matsenko, Elena RUS 2050 -19 -50 -71 +75 -48 +74 +56 -51 +68 4.0 2151
58. Fedoseev, Vladimir f RUS 2300 - 2 +78 -41 +56 -36 +77 -42 +71 -25 4.0 2267
59. Gorbatjuk, Vladimir RUS 2226 -25 +80 -32 -63 =62 +76 -53 =70 +69 4.0 2158
60. Iliushkin, Evgen RUS 2274 = 4 -29 +76 =36 -41 +56 -30 =55 -46 3.5 2261
61. Zaletov, Yuri RUS 2200 =13 -18 - 1 =62 -73 =75 +66 +63 -40 3.5 2184
62. Tkachuk, Andrey RUS 2160 =24 -63 -31 =61 =59 =72 +73 -45 =67 3.5 2173
63. Lyanguzov, Oleg f RUS 2333 - 3 +62 - 6 +59 -21 =69 -46 -61 +75 3.5 2183
64. Vasilov, Artur RUS 2265 +79 - 7 =27 -24 +71 -39 =68 =65 -37 3.5 2195
65. Rudnev, Yuri RUS 2142 -35 +45 -33 -46 -56 +79 +77 =64 -50 3.5 2144
66. Yaksin, Oleg RUS 2198 =18 -24 -23 +74 -38 -47 -61 +77 +76 3.5 2149
67. Jakovenko, Igor RUS 2234 -12 +77 -19 +79 -32 -37 -54 +76 =62 3.5 2114
68. Demidov, Vyacheslav RUS 2228 =36 =13 -52 =47 =29 =55 =64 -32 -57 3.0 2179
69. Predke, Alexandr RUS 1998 -43 =51 +53 +38 -24 =63 -52 -31 -59 3.0 2182
70. Glidzhain, Gor RUS 2148 -27 = 1 +72 -23 -31 -53 +75 =59 -56 3.0 2151
71. Beliaev, Vasily RUS 2162 -42 -38 +57 =44 -64 =54 +76 -58 -49 3.0 2102
72. Ibraev, Vasilij f RUS 2329 - 8 =54 -70 -77 +74 =62 -47 +79 -48 3.0 2036
73. Masyagutova, Leisan RUS 2026 -52 -46 -55 +80 +61 -29 -62 -56 +78 3.0 2095
74. Shkuro, Alexandr RUS 2091 -22 =31 -45 -66 -72 -57 +80 -78 +79 2.5 2021
75. Demanov,Aleksandr RUS ---- -33 -56 -47 -57 +78 =61 -70 +80 -63 2.5 2008
76. Sadykova, Alsu RUS 2114 =23 -26 -60 +53 =51 -59 -71 -67 -66 2.0 2034
77. Matveeva, Anastasia RUS 1974 -32 -67 +78 +72 -33 -58 -65 -66 -80 2.0 2006
78. Vdovin, Sergey RUS 2147 -30 -58 -77 -54 -75 +80 -79 +74 -73 2.0 1884
79. Nikonova, Irina wf RUS 2072 -64 -44 +80 -67 -55 -65 +78 -72 -74 2.0 1960
80. Bessolitsin,Mikhail RUS ---- -28 -59 -79 -73 -53 -78 -74 -75 +77 1.0 1774
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The Lasker Memorial took place in Barlinek (POL), 3rd-11th June 2006.
Vadim Shishkin took first on tie-break from Vitali Koziak on tie-break after
both scored 6.5/9. Emanuel Lasker was born in Berlinchen in Brandenburg,
Germany which is now Barlinek in Poland.
Official site: http://barlinek.caissa.com.pl/en/index.htm
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1. Shishkin, Vadim UKR m UKR 2541 +38 + 3 = 8 +19 =11 = 9 =13 = 5 + 6 6.5 2543
2. Koziak, Vitali m UKR 2462 =15 +47 +27 =10 =13 - 3 +21 +29 +11 6.5 2394
3. Gumula, Daniel POL 2341 +25 - 1 +37 =12 +15 + 2 = 9 =11 =13 6.0 2449
4. Grabarczyk, Miroslaw g POL 2469 +29 =19 =18 =26 +10 = 8 +22 = 9 = 7 6.0 2464
5. Aliavdin, Nikolai f BLR 2355 =47 =15 +30 =24 +16 = 6 +14 = 1 = 9 6.0 2452
6. Malaniuk, Vladimir P g UKR 2539 +36 =12 +31 = 8 = 9 = 5 +23 +13 - 1 6.0 2494
7. Zezulkin, Jurij g BLR 2479 +16 =18 -10 =25 +39 +17 =11 +26 = 4 6.0 2390
8. Czerwonski, Aleksander m POL 2358 +44 +32 = 1 = 6 =14 = 4 =26 =12 +21 6.0 2487
9. Urban, Klaudiusz m POL 2457 +50 +42 +23 =11 = 6 = 1 = 3 = 4 = 5 6.0 2505
10. Kachur, Alexander f UKR 2261 =53 +28 + 7 = 2 - 4 -26 +46 +23 +20 6.0 2457
11. Tomczak, Jacek f POL 2369 +43 +35 +24 = 9 = 1 =14 = 7 = 3 - 2 5.5 2451
12. Liwak, Przemyslaw POL 2340 +33 = 6 =21 = 3 =26 =19 +32 = 8 =16 5.5 2365
13. Bulski, Krzysztof f POL 2389 -35 +43 +50 +18 = 2 +31 = 1 - 6 = 3 5.5 2403
14. Kalinitschew, Sergey g GER 2516 -32 +44 +29 +42 = 8 =11 - 5 =17 +26 5.5 2355
15. Swiercz, Dariusz f POL 2185 = 2 = 5 +46 =21 - 3 -18 +41 +27 +28 5.5 2352
16. Khamitskiy, Sergei BLR 2201 - 7 +48 +33 =23 - 5 +34 =19 +31 =12 5.5 2300
17. Strzemiecki, Zbigniew POL 2332 -41 =51 +40 =27 +33 - 7 +35 =14 +29 5.5 2229
18. Rutkowski, Maciej f POL 2298 +48 = 7 = 4 -13 =27 +15 +25 -20 =22 5.0 2287
19. Leniart, Arkadiusz POL 2333 +49 = 4 +20 - 1 =22 =12 =16 -21 +37 5.0 2349
20. Lagowski, Patryk m POL 2392 +37 =26 -19 +38 =21 -23 +24 +18 -10 5.0 2320
21. Szymczak, Zbigniew m POL 2276 +54 =22 =12 =15 =20 +24 - 2 +19 - 8 5.0 2327
22. Owczarzak, Jerzy POL 2380 +39 =21 =26 =32 =19 +46 - 4 =28 =18 5.0 2350
23. Orzech, Dominik POL 2346 +51 +41 - 9 =16 =24 +20 - 6 -10 +32 5.0 2309
24. Bronowicki, Mateusz POL 2278 +34 +46 -11 = 5 =23 -21 -20 +49 +36 5.0 2300
25. Kukla, Maciej POL 2026 - 3 =38 +51 = 7 +42 =28 -18 =32 +39 5.0 2310
26. Korneevets, Alexander m BLR 2293 +52 =20 =22 = 4 =12 +10 = 8 - 7 -14 4.5 2343
27. Goluch, Piotr POL 1966 =28 +40 - 2 =17 =18 -29 +30 -15 +42 4.5 2243
28. Bylino, Oleg f UKR 2316 =27 -10 =41 =43 +38 =25 +39 =22 -15 4.5 2148
29. Szwed, Jacek POL 2192 - 4 +49 -14 +45 =34 +27 +31 - 2 -17 4.5 2209
30. Kielbratowski, Aleksander POL 2153 -46 +34 - 5 -33 +51 =44 -27 +41 +45 4.5 2085
31. Szczepinski, Michal POL 2302 =40 +53 - 6 +41 +32 -13 -29 -16 +43 4.5 2155
32. Jaworski, Maciej POL 2203 +14 - 8 +39 =22 -31 +43 -12 =25 -23 4.0 2238
33. Wielosz, Jaroslaw POL 2023 -12 +36 -16 +30 -17 =37 =34 =42 =35 4.0 2151
34. Baumann, Dariusz POL 1892 -24 -30 +49 +37 =29 -16 =33 -39 +47 4.0 2093
35. Czaja, Roman POL 2144 +13 -11 -42 -46 +53 +50 -17 =45 =33 4.0 2152
36. Mouiwid, Jury BLR 2239 - 6 -33 +53 -39 =49 +40 +44 =37 -24 4.0 2065
37. Tokarski, Lukasz POL 2152 -20 +52 - 3 -34 +48 =33 +43 =36 -19 4.0 2084
38. Vogel, Jaap f NED 2256 - 1 =25 +47 -20 -28 -41 +52 =40 +48 4.0 2080
39. Budrewicz, Krzysztof POL 2142 -22 +54 -32 +36 - 7 +42 -28 +34 -25 4.0 2142
40. Siwiec, Arkadiusz POL 1957 =31 -27 -17 +47 -50 -36 +51 =38 +49 4.0 2114
41. Krajewicz, Pawel POL 1999 +17 -23 =28 -31 -43 +38 -15 -30 +52 3.5 2131
42. Warszawski, Bartosz POL 2299 +45 - 9 +35 -14 -25 -39 +48 =33 -27 3.5 2045
43. Chlost, Marlena wf POL 2122 -11 -13 +48 =28 +41 -32 -37 +44 -31 3.5 2111
44. Gorecka, Joanna POL 2082 - 8 -14 +52 +50 -46 =30 -36 -43 +53 3.5 2107
45. Klim, Kamil POL 1940 -42 -50 +54 -29 =47 =49 +53 =35 -30 3.5 1994
46. Szoen, Dariusz m POL 2440 +30 -24 -15 +35 +44 -22 -10 . . 3.0 2161
47. Kolomytchenko, Igor RUS 2079 = 5 - 2 -38 -40 =45 -48 +54 +51 -34 3.0 1950
48. Puczylowski, Marcin POL 1912 -18 -16 -43 +52 -37 +47 -42 +50 -38 3.0 2037
49. Tokarski, Bartosz POL 2004 -19 -29 -34 +54 =36 =45 +50 -24 -40 3.0 1967
50. Lubienski, Tadeusz POL 2166 - 9 +45 -13 -44 +40 -35 -49 -48 =54 2.5 1913
51. Kopinski, Tomasz POL 2069 -23 =17 -25 =53 -30 =52 -40 -47 +55 2.5 1899
52. Dragun, Kamil POL 1893 -26 -37 -44 -48 +54 =51 -38 +53 -41 2.5 1877
53. Czaus, Piotr POL 1799 =10 -31 -36 =51 -35 +54 -45 -52 -44 2.0 1864
54. Kowalska, Sara POL 1833 -21 -39 -45 -49 -52 -53 -47 +55 =50 1.5 1760
55. BYE ---- . . . . . . . -54 -51 0.0
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The Spiltan & Pelaro IM tournament took place in Göteborg SWE
10th-19th June 2006. Sergey Kasparov won the event with 6.5/9.
Official site: http://www.ssmanhem.se/nyheter.php
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1. Kasparov, Sergey m BLR 2481 * = = 1 = 1 = = 1 1 6.5 2487
2. Langrock, Hannes f GER 2413 = * = = = = = 1 1 1 6.0 2453
3. Akesson, Joel f SWE 2302 = = * = = = 1 = = = 5.0 2384
4. Svensson, Bengt m SWE 2388 0 = = * 1 = = 1 = = 5.0 2374
5. Nithander, Victor SWE 2301 = = = 0 * 0 1 1 = = 4.5 2341
6. Moberg, Karl Johan m SWE 2336 0 = = = 1 * = = = = 4.5 2337
7. Westerinen, Heikki M.J g FIN 2386 = = 0 = 0 = * = 1 1 4.5 2331
8. Soskov, Vjatsheslav EST 2240 = 0 = 0 0 = = * 1 1 4.0 2305
9. Sagit, Ranan SWE 2265 0 0 = = = = 0 0 * 1 3.0 2220
10. Ask, Josef SWE 2260 0 0 = = = = 0 0 0 * 2.0 2125
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The 21st Hasslocher Schachtage, Hassloch (GER) took place 2nd-5th June
2006. Vadim Milov won the event with 6.5/7.
Official site: http://www.schachclub-1926-hassloch.de
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21st Schachtage Hassloch GER (GER), 2-6 vi 2006
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1. Milov, Leonid m GER 2504 6.5 32.5 29.75
2. Thinius, Marco m GER 2353 6.0 29.5 25.50
3. Ovsejevitsch, Sergei g UKR 2527 5.5 32.0 22.75
4. Chernov, Vadim m ROM 2458 5.5 31.0 23.50
5. Boidman, Yuri m GER 2439 5.0 31.0 21.00
6. Voropaev, Gleb f GER 2271 5.0 31.0 20.75
7. Scherer, Frank GER 2157 5.0 30.0 18.50
8. Grabarczyk, Bogdan m POL 2475 5.0 29.5 19.75
9. Mutschnik, Ilia m GER 2426 5.0 29.5 17.75
10. Steinkohl, Thomas GER 2243 5.0 29.0 19.00
11. Metz, Hartmut f GER 2290 5.0 27.5 18.75
12. Dausch, Rene f GER 2349 5.0 27.0 18.50
13. Riediger, Martin f GER 2303 5.0 24.5 16.25
14. Braun, Joachim GER ---- 4.5 30.5 18.25
15. Bensch, Patrick f GER 2279 4.5 30.5 17.50
16. Ollenberger, Roland GER 2119 4.5 29.0 16.75
17. Eiler, Joerg GER 2116 4.5 28.0 16.75
18. Strohhaeker, Raoul GER 2289 4.5 28.0 15.75
19. Mueller, Hans Georg f GER 2224 4.5 27.5 15.75
20. Mandery, Markus GER 2137 4.5 27.5 15.75
21. Donchenko, Anatoly G m GER 2434 4.5 27.0 14.00
22. Merkel, Markus GER 2207 4.5 26.5 16.25
23. Barthel, Ansgar GER 2236 4.5 26.0 14.75
24. Galbraith, Martin GER 2074 4.5 25.5 15.25
25. Dischinger, Frank f GER 2190 4.5 25.0 16.00
26. Busch, Lorenz GER 2225 4.5 25.0 15.00
27. Kick, Joachim GER 2205 4.5 25.0 15.00
28. Dekan, Hans GER 2165 4.5 25.0 12.50
29. Otterstaetter, Stefan GER 2227 4.5 24.0 12.50
30. Postojev, Alexander GER 2261 4.5 23.5 13.25
31. Neurohr,Jürgen GER 2122 4.5 19.5 12.25
108 players
The 9th Kaplun memorial took place in Ternopil (UKR) 24th-29th May 2006.
Standings derived from the games. Alexander Kachur and Michal Skalski won with
7/9.
Official site: http://ukrchess.org.ua/ukrbase_u.html
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1. Kachur, Alexander f UKR 2261 * = = 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 7.0 2501
2. Skalski, Michal f POL 2327 = * = 1 = = 1 1 1 1 7.0 2493
3. Kalinina, Larisa UKR 2124 = = * = 1 = = = = 1 5.5 2376
4. Bets, Anatolij m MDA 2382 0 0 = * = = = 1 1 1 5.0 2310
5. Udovik, Alexander UKR 2094 0 = 0 = * = = = 1 1 4.5 2299
6. Kalinin, Oleg m UKR 2372 0 = = = = * = = = = 4.0 2225
7. Stopkin, Vladimir f RUS 2310 0 0 = = = = * = = 1 4.0 2232
8. Nazarevich, Vitaly UKR 2329 1 0 = 0 = = = * 0 = 3.5 2193
9. Privalov, Y m RUS 2271 0 0 = 0 0 = = 1 * = 3.0 2154
10. Jamashev, Evgeny UKR 2320 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 = = * 1.5 2001
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The 1st Magistral Espirito Sancto took place 15th-21st May 2006 in
Vitoria (BRA).
Official site: http://www.fesx.com.br/Magistral_ES_2006.htm
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1st Magistral Espirito Sancto Vitoria BRA (BRA), 15-21 v 2006 cat. IV (2339)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Rodriguez, Andres g URU 2502 * 1 1 = = 1 = = 1 1 7.0 2541
2. Stamenkovic, Dragan f SCG 2334 0 * 1 = = 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 2559
3. Hungaski, Robert Andrew f USA 2400 0 0 * = 1 1 = 1 1 1 6.0 2457
4. Bittencourt, Jorge f BRA 2395 = = = * 0 = 1 1 1 = 5.5 2413
5. Crosa, Martin m URU 2449 = = 0 1 * 0 0 = 1 1 4.5 2327
6. Di Berardino, Diego Rafael BRA 2342 0 0 0 = 1 * 1 = 1 = 4.5 2339
7. Diamant, Andre f BRA 2244 = 0 = 0 1 0 * = 1 1 4.5 2349
8. Molina, Roberto Junio Brito BRA 2307 = 0 0 0 = = = * 0 1 3.0 2217
9. Souza Neves, Andrey M BRA 2207 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 * 1 2.0 2134
10. Costa, Fernando V POR 2213 0 0 0 = 0 = 0 0 0 * 1.0 2002
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The 1st Magistral Guarapari took place 23rd-30th May 2006 in Guarapari
(BRA). Table derived from the games. Andres Rodrituez took first place.
Further details at: http://www.fesx.com.br/eventos.htm
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I Magistral Guarapari BRA (BRA), 23-30 v 2006 cat. III (2313)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Rodriguez, Andres g URU 2502 * 0 = 1 = = 1 1 1 1 6.5 2458
2. Bittencourt, Jorge f BRA 2395 1 * = = 1 = = = = 1 6.0 2429
3. Diamant, Andre f BRA 2244 = = * 0 = = 1 1 1 1 6.0 2446
4. Stamenkovic, Dragan f SCG 2334 0 = 1 * 0 = 1 1 1 1 6.0 2436
5. Hungaski, Robert Andrew f USA 2400 = 0 = 1 * = = 1 1 = 5.5 2383
6. Crosa, Martin m URU 2449 = = = = = * = 1 = 1 5.5 2378
7. Miranda, Marcio M.C f BRA 2302 0 = 0 0 = = * = = 1 3.5 2234
8. Asfora, Marco f BRA 2285 0 = 0 0 0 0 = * 1 1 3.0 2191
9. Rocha, Joao Batista BRA 2015 0 = 0 0 0 = = 0 * 1 2.5 2180
10. Souza Neves, Andrey M BRA 2207 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 * 0.5 1881
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World U-20 Juniors and Girls Championships
World U-20 Juniors and Girls Chess Championships will be held from
October 2 to 17, 2006, in Yerevan, Armenia. Please kindly give an ad about the
event on your famous chess site.
Updates about the event and the relevant materials can be found at
http://www.armchess.am.
20th Pula Open 2006
The 20th Pula Open (Croatia) takes place 18th-25th June 2006 in the
hotel Histria.
Official site: http://www.skpula.hr/
Duras and Czech Opens 2006
30.6.-9.7. 2006 DURAS OPEN 2006 - Brno (Traditional chess festival
includes OPEN FIDE, GM and IM round-robin groups: disscount is possible!) More
detailed information: www.skduras.wz.cz IM Petr Pisk, e-mail:
petr.pisk@centrum.cz, T: 00420-608 203 007
13.-30.7. 2006 CZECH OPEN 2006 - Pardubice (17th International Festival
of Chess,Bridge and Games whose part is World School Chess Teams Championship,
European Amateurs Championship, GM open taken in ACP-TOUR, 3 FIDE opens, Open
Championship of the Czech Republic in active chess taken in ACP-TOUR, Open
Championship of the Czech Republic of 4-member team tournament and in blitz
marathon, bughouse and Fischerandom chess, blitz tournaments for individuals,
pairs and teams, youth tournament, problem solving competition etc.)
More detailed information: AVE-KONTAKT s.r.o., Sukova 1556, 530 02
Pardubice, Czech Republic tel./fax +420 - 466 535 200 e-mail:
j.mazuch@avekont.cz, http://www.czechopen.net.
Canadian Open
The Canadian Open takes place July 15th-23rd 2006 in Kitchener, Ontario,
Canada. Evgeny Bareev Alexander Moiseenko Mark Paragua Surya Ganguly Alexander
Huzman are registered entrants in the Open.
Further details: http://www.chessfest.ca/can_open.htm
Computer chess tournament calendar
The Computer chess tournament calendar by Frank Quisinsky has been
updated. Frank's Chess Page: http://www.amateurschach.de Frank's
Chess Page, CC-Calendar:
http://www.amateurschach.de/atl4/_calendar.htm
Two new tournaments: 1. 14th WCCC in Torino 2006-05-25 - 2006-06-01
Junior by Amir Ban (Israel) won 2. 6th International CSVN Tournament, Leiden
2006-05-05 - 2006-05-07 Rybka by Vasik Rajlich (USA) won Now the *.pgn have
8.829 games.
Official computer chess events: 1990 up to 2006
Lugano tournaments
International Week-end Chess Open Lugano 2006 "ONE WEEKEND IN THE SOUTH
PART OF SWITZERLAND" When: Friday, 17 November ' Sunday November Where: Hotel
Flora, Via Geretta 16, 6900 Lugano- Paradiso Phone +41 91 994 16 71 Fax: +41 91
994 27 38 E-mail: hotelflora@bluewin.ch Modality: International Tournament. 5
Rounds Swiss System Rate of Play: 36 Moves in 90 Minutes + 30 Minutes K.O.
Rating: CH- & FIDE
International Amateurs Chess Open Ascona 2006 Only for Amateurs, Max.
2299 ELO. , 26th December ' Saturday, 30th December 2006 Where: Hotel Ascona,
via Collina, 6612 Ascona (Switzerland) Modality: International Chess
Tournament. 7 Rounds Swiss System Rate of Play: 40 Moves in 120 Minutes + 60
Minutes K.O. ELO: Not valid for ELO Points (holiday mood!)
Lugano Rapid Chess Marathon Ticino Cureglia 2006 Sunday, 18.06.2006
Where? Parco Rusca (Park & town hall), CH-6944 Cureglia Modality?
International Rapid Chess Tournament 24 rounds Swiss System Rate of play? 5
minutes to finish the game Prizes? CHF 600 (€ 400) / 400 (€ 268) /
300 (€ 200) / 200 (€ 133) / 100 (€ 67) CHF 100 (€ 67) Best
Ticino player + 9 Special prizes (Full prize amount with 50 players, otherwise
% to the number of participants ) Inscriptions? CHF 40 (€ 27) under 20 CHF
20 (€ 14), Sunday: 08.00 - 09.00 Timetable? Sunday 09.15 - 13.00 (15
rounds) 14.30 - 16.30 (9 rounds)
Further details: http://www.luganoscacchi.ch/
European Youth Championship 2006
European Youth Championship 2006 Herceg Novi (Montenegro), September 9 -
20th 2006.
Further details: http://www.scgchess.org/
Rob Huntington Blog
Well known chess journalist Rob Huntington is in Turin and has a new
Blog. http://www.allthingshuman.com/
2nd Assiut Tournament
The 2nd Assiut tournament takes place in Assiut City about 500 km from
Cairo in Upper Egypt 16th-25th July 2006. Swiss System 9 Round 90 minutes for
every player plus 30 sec. for each move. Further details to follow.
Frits Agterdenbos Photos
Chess Photographer Frits Agterdenbos has launched a website of his
photos at: http://www.chessvista.com/.
He is at the Turin Olympiad and his photo reports is available there.
FIDE Presidential Election Websites
Both Presidential tickets for the upcoming FIDE Elections in Turin now
have websites.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov:
http://www.chessfidelity.com
Bessel Kok: http://www.rightmove06.org
Olympus Riviera Open Greece
The 1st International Open Chess Tournament "Summer Cup 2006" takes
place in Olympus Riviera (90 km south of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece)
22nd-30th July 2006. 9 rounds, Prize fund: EUR 3500, 1st prize EUR 1000 Email:
cup2006@greekchess.com
Website: http://www.greekchess.com/cup2006
Ikaros Chess Festival
The Ikaros Chess Festival takes place 8th-22nd July 2006. The Ikaros
Chess Festival has been held for the last 28 years on Ikaria island, one of the
most picturesque and peaceful aegean islands of Greece.
Main event: "Open Aegean Championship" (12th till 20th of July) as well
as plenty of other side events such as Junior, Ladies, Veteran, blitz, rapid
and simultaneous exhibition events, blindfold chess, chess lectures and many
others.
Details: http://www.chess.gr/ikaros/
Karpov - Spassky Match
There will be a match between Karpov and Spassky on May 26th 2006 in
Porto-Vecchio.
Official site: http://www.opencorsica.com/
French Team Championship
The final four rounds of the French Team Top 16 Championship took place
4th-7th May 2006 in Asnières-sur-Seine. NAO Chess Club again won the
title three points clear of Monaco who they defeated in the final round. Games
from the final two rounds are not yet available (apart from the Monaco - NAO
match) if anyone has them I'd be grateful.
Further details: http://www.echecs.asso.fr,
http://www.europe-echecs.com/ and
http://www.nao-cc.com
Midnight Sun Chess Challenge
The Midnight Sun Chess Challenge takes place in Tromsø, Norway
June 24th - July 2nd 2006.
Details: http://www.midnightsunchess.org/english/index.htm
XXIV Andorra Open
The XXIV International Chess Open of Andorra takes place 8th-16th July
2006.
Official site: http://www.feva.ad
12th Annual Bray Rapidplay
The 12th Annual Bray Rapidplay takes place Sunday June 18 2006
Esplanade Hotel Strand Rd Bray 6-round Swiss, rounds 1-2 accelerated
Registration 9-10am Rd1 10.15 sharp Time control 25 0 all moves
FIDE Rapidplay rules apply Entry Euros30: Euros25 if prepaid by June 9
Prizes Euros 700 400 250 150 1-2-3-4; grading prizes ?100 each; biggest upset
Euros 50 Enquiries Colin Byford - 353-1-2351620h cbyford@esatclear.ie Entries
Frank Holohan 12 Rathdown Pk Greystones 353-1-2875368h 353-86-1612506m email
frankholohan@eircom.net
Event website: http://www.brayrapidplay.com
6th Open du Parc
The 6th Open du Parc Chess Tournament takes place in the Jeen Chess
Club in Paris, France FIDE rated 3rd-5th June 2006 . 1st prize : Euro 760 . 2e
prize : Euro 460 . 3e prize : Euro 270 . 4e prize : Euro 150 . 5e prize : Euro
100 and more than 20 other prizes. . Tariff : Euro 32 / Euro 16 (Euro 38 / Euro
19 after 2006-05-24). Phone : 33 (0) 1 46 51 04 34 E-mail : jeen@free.fr
More information and registration form available at
http://jeen.online.fr/
39th Biel International Festival
The 39th Biel International Festival takes place 22nd July - 4th August
2006. There are two closed tournaments, one for men, one for ladies.
Players include: Alexander Morozevich who will try to win the event for
the 3rd time out of 3 appearances.. Co-winner in 2005, Alexander Volokitin is
back. In addition Teimour Radjabov Magnus Carlsen, Yannick Pelletier and Lazaro
Bruzon compete. The women's event sees Almira Skripchenko, Ekaterina Atalik,
Monika Socko, Yelena Dembo, Anna Muzychuk and Pia Cramling compete.
Official site: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch
2nd Alajuela Open
The 2nd Alajuela international open (Costa Rica) takes place 11th-16th
July 2006.
Further details: http://www.alajuela2006.com/
IbeatGarry.com: The Six Degrees of Kasparov
If you've won a game that's appeared in Chessbase Megabase 2005 then
find out a series of results which by separation means you beat Garry Kasparov!
Fun stuff from Karlheinz Zoechling. I'm not in Megabase but have beaten someone
who has a separation of two, giving me a separation of three!
Site: http://ibeatgarry.com/
15th Open International D’Echecs de Martigny
The 15th Open International D’Echecs de Martigny takes place
4th-7th August 2006.
Further detail: http://www.uve-wsb.ch/openmartigny/
IRT Buenos Aires
An IRT (International Rated Tournament) takes place in Buenos Aires,
Argentina, organized by FAOGBA (Federación de Ajedrez del Oeste del Gran
Buenos Aires) Federation of Chess of the West of Great Buenos Aires. Apr,
19th-May, 20th 2006. 11 players, average ELO 2118 (eight rated players) It
takes place in the halls of the Italian Society of the city of Merlo, Buenos
Aires, Argentina.
Official site: http://www.ajedrezfaogba.com.ar
15th Kavala Open
The 15th Kavala Open takes place 4th-11th August 2006. There is one
(traditional) Open Tournament, which is at the same time the Greek
Championships. This year they decided to form two groups with very low elo
players competing separately, so as not to create great elo differences and
discourage high-ranked players from participating (and being paired with a 1400
player, when a game loss, or draw might mean an "elo catastrophy") on a swiss
tournament such as this one. This separation of low elos and the bigger ones is
done for the first time in Greece, previously all competed in one tournament.
The 1st group players will be eligible for Greek Open titles in men's and
women's competitions.
Entries must be sent by fax to + 30.2510.226871 or by e-mail :
vliog@tee.gr, not later than July 24th and should include full name, ELO
Rating, telephone and dates of arrival and departure. Telephone communication :
Vassilis Liogkas : +30.2510.622370 and 6977474684
Further info: http://www.chesskavala.gr or
http://www.chesskavala.com
5th Knokke Open
The 5th Knokke Open International Chess Tournament takes place
12th-15th August 2006 The Belgium Chess Club 'Cnoc Is Ier' located at the
coast city Knokke Belgium, the tournament accredited by the Flemish Chess
Federation exists of 7 rounds 'Swiss system 2 hours K.O'.
Prize money provided for a total amount of 2275 Euro 1st prize: 750
euro - 2e prize: 375 euro - 3e prize: 200 euro 4e prize: 125 euro -
6e until 13e prize: 25 euro. The best youth player (born after 15 Aug.
1990): 50 euro - Best senior (born before 12 Aug. 1946): 50 euro
The participants who win no money prize will rewarded with a gift
prize.
Tournament participation Before 31 July 2006 one pays 20 euro,
afterwards 25 euro. Participation is for nobody free. Maximum 120 players are
allowed. Registrations happen in order of recieved payment. Participants must
present themselves on the 12 of Augusts between 10 and 12 O'clock.
Register by e-mail sk_knokke@hotmail.com
Further details:
http://users.telenet.be/schaakknokke/SchaakClubKnokkeTornooiMain.htm
Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess Meeting
The Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess Meeting takes place 29th July - 6th
August 2006. Players: Arkadij Naiditsch, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Peter
Svidler, Peter Leko, Boris Gelfand, Michael Adams and Baadur Jobava.
Official site was http://www.chessgate.de/ last year.
10th Anniversary of correspondencechess.com
correspondencechess.com is celebrating its 10th Anniversary. It has a
10th Anniversary Commemorative Coin:
http://www.correspondencechess.com/coin.htm
Home of: Grandmaster V.V. Palciauskas' The World of Correspondence Chess
Senior International Master Knudsen's The Correspondence Chess Place The
Campbell Report Ralph Marconi's Chess Pages The Canadian Correspondence Chess
Association (CCCA) American Postal Chess Tournaments (APCT) The Correspondence
Chess Message Board (TCCMB) and much, much more!
Official site: http://www.correspondencechess.com/
15th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International
15th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International Dates: 23 September - 1
October 2006 Venue: Ocean Castle Hotel, Port Erin, Isle of Man Total Prize
Fund: £17,500
Three sections: (1) Masters (9-round FIDE Rated swiss, ACP registered,
GM/IM norms achievable, first prize £3,000) (2) Under 2000 / ECF grade
175 (7 round swiss, starts 25 Sept) (3) Under 1640 / ECF grade 130 (7 round
swiss, starts 25 Sept)
Confirmed entries so far include nine 2600+ rated players (Korneev,
Efimenko, Kobalia, Krasenkow, Volkov, Socko, Shabalov, Khenkin, Iordachescu,
Landa) plus US women's champion Anna Zatonskih, etc.
For entry details, consult the tournament website (
http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/monarch2006/index.html)
or contact tournament director Dennis Hemsley, 3 Links Avenue, Port St Mary,
Isle of Man IM9 5EY, tel. 44(0)1624 833742, fax 44(0)1624 833583, email
chess@manx.net
Open Internet Chess Blitz Cup 2006
Central Chess Club, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the Chess Assistant Club
invites chess players and chess clubs from your country to take part in the
Open Internet chess blitz Cup dedicated to 50 year jubilee of the Central Chess
Club (Moscow) for the prizes of FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
The prize-winning fund of the Cup makes 10 000 USD that will be played
off in 10 qualifying tournaments (April 1 - May 3) and 2 final tournaments (May
6 and 10). The closing ceremony and winners rewarding will be made by Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov in May during the 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin (Italy).
The Cup tournaments will be held at Chess Assistant playing zone
(www.ChessAssistant.com).
E-mail for contacts: info@chessassistantclub.com
Regulations: http://www.chessassistantclub.com/botv_50.html
Christophe Bouton Chess Blog
Christophe Bouton has started a chess blog in French at:
http://echecs64.blog.20minutes.fr/
4th Solingen chess weeks
The 4th Solingen chess weeks will be held in Solingen (Germany) June
10th- June 18th. Festival consists of Blitz tournament (June 10th, 22 games (11
rounds with 2 games));
Rapid Tournament (9 rounds, 20 min/game) will take place June 11th.
Main tournaments are two Open from June 15th to 18th; 7 rounds Swiss
system 2h/40+ 1h/ Rest; A-tournament is open for all players and Elo-rated. Top
prizes 800/500/400 euros
B-tournament is open for all players with a rating below 2000; top
prizes 300/200/150 euros
Further information: Andreas Peschel: 0175-5912407;
peschel@schachgesellschaft.de
Tournament site: http://www.schachwochen.de
Czech Tour 2006/2007
There is new information about the Czech Tour 2006/2007 including:
CZECH OPEN 2006 17th International Festival of Chess, Bridge and Games
European Amateurs Championship in Chess Pardubice 13th-30th July 2006, Czech
Republic
2nd WORLD SCHOOL CHESS TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIP Tournaments for school chess
teams in categories U12, U14, U16 Pardubice, July 12th-20th, 2006
6th ZNOJMO OPEN (the Dukla hotel and Monastery of Louka) 13th-21st May
2006 .
9th OLOMOUC CHESS SUMMER (the Sigma hotel) 2nd-10th August 2006.
3rd HIGHLANDS OPEN (Havlickuv Brod, the Slunce hotel) 23rd September -
1st October 2006.
7th LIBEREC OPEN (the Liberec hotel) 11th-18th November 2006.
6th PRAGUE OPEN (TOP HOTEL Praha) 11th-18th January 2007.
6th MARIENBAD OPEN (the Evropa hotel) 19th-27th January 2007.
Further details: http://www.czechtour.net or Dr. Jan Mazuch,
Director of CZECH OPEN & CZECH TOUR - j.mazuch@avekont.cz
In addition there is the 27th Tournament of Chess Hopes and 17th
Pobeskydi Tournament organised by the town of Frydek-Mistek 13th-17th April
2006.
Further details: http://www.chessfm.cz
Computer chess calendar
New updates to the Computer chess calendar with the latest official
computer chess tournaments and an updated PGN database. The latest events
added:
01. CCT-8 2006, Rybka won
02. IPCCC 2005, Rybka won
03. Dutch-open 2005, Zappa won
04. WCCC, Zappa won
05. Australasian NCC-ch 2005, Bodo won
06. Polish-ch, Gosu won
Next events are: 06th International CSVN Tournament Leiden, 2006-05-05
up to 2006-05-07 14th WCCC Torino, 2006-05-25 up to 2006-06-01 Please note: The
information are now again available under the older domain:
http://www.amateurschach.de
(selection: CC-Calendar).
The *.pgn database with official computer chess tournaments have now
8.673 games and 726 games from older tournaments (time before 1990).
21st North Sea Cup
The Esbjerg Chess Union organises the 21st North Sea Cup July 8th-15th
2006.
Further information and registration: Jens Nielsen, Storegade 66, 6700
Esbjerg, (+45)75123975, e-mail: Jerneif@get2net.dk. Registration not later than
Sunday July 2nd.
Further details: http://www.northseacup.dk/nsc2006/2index.htm
30th Blackpool Chess Conference
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/
Hungarian tournaments April-December 2006
1. 23rd- 31st of March 22nd Budapest SPRING FESTIVAL 9 rounds Swiss
Open org.: NL.
2. 1st-14th of April, 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/..
3. 15th-23rd of April Kecskemet, IM tmt, org: Dr.Erdelyi, Tamas,
e-mail: postmaster@caissa.t-online.hu Website: www.caissachessbooks.hu Usually
also in the second half of the month IM tmt-s in Kecskemet. 100 km South from
Budapest.
4. 6th - 18th of May, Budapest, FIRST SATURDAY GM-IM-FM, org.NL.
5.. 20th-30th of May, Budapest, ELEKES memorial GM-IM closed tmt,
org.IM Zsinka, e-mail: zsinkala@axelero.hu
6. 19th-27th of May, ZALAKAROS Open, 9 rounds Swiss, Info: IM Horvath,
Tamas, e-mail: mssz@zalaszam.hu website: www.csutisk.hu
7. 3rd-16th of June, FIRST SATURDAY GM /cat.VII and cat IX together/ -
IM-FM closed tournaments, Budapest, Org.NL.
8.. 17th-25th of June, BALATONLELLE Open, GM-IM closed, 130 km West
from Budapest, org. IM RIGO, e-mail: me-ri@t-online.hu Website:
www.lellechess.tar.hu
9.. 1st-13th of July, FIRST SATURDAY GM-IM-FM closed, Bp. Org.NL,
10. 15th-23rd of July, AGRIA Open 9 rounds Swiss, Eger, 100 km North
from Budapest, Org. RAUCH Ferenc, e-mail: rauch@freemail.hu
11.. 24th-30th of July, SZOMBATHELY SUMMER Open 9 rounds Swiss, 300 km
West from Budapest, Org: FM KORPICS, Zsolt, e-mail: korpicschess@axelero.hu
13. 5th-17th of August, FIRST SATURDAY, Bp, GM /cat.XII-IX-VII/ - IM-FM
closed, Org: NL.
14. 21st -29th of August, TALENTUM Kupa, Open, Zamárdi , org.
Valis János. E-mail: husi_sc@hu.inter.net
15. 2nd-14th of September FS GM-IM Budapest, org.Nagy
László
16. 7th-19th of October, FS GM-IM, Bp. Org.Nagy László.
17. 4th-16th of November FS GM-IM-FM closed tmt, info NL.
18. Second half of November, TENKES KUPA, Harkány, 250 km South
West from Budapest, Organizer: Mr FULOP, Csaba E-mail: fulopcsa@invitel.hu
19. 2nd-15th of December, FS GM-IM-FM, info NL.
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
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
Battle of Senta 1697 Chess Festival
The 10th Anniversary Chess Festival "The Battle of Senta 1697" takes
place 21st-30th 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/
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)
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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/
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/
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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