THE WEEK IN CHESS 64 02/01/96 Mark Crowther
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1) Introduction
2) 34th Groningen Chess Festival by Anjo Anjewierden
3) Hastings International Chess Tournament
4) FIDE's recent activities.
5) FIDE RATING LIST JAN 1996
6) Reggio Emilia
7) CUBA AGAIN PAN-AMERICAN CHAMPIONS by Roberto Alvarez
8) Short vs Adianto - Jakarta
9) Italian Championships in Verona
10) 6th Harvard Cup New York USA
11) BOOKS, BOOKS and more of them (5) by Bertrand Weegenaar.
12) WIC Correspondence Chess-news #3 by Bertrand Weegenaar
Note that the games from 11 and 12 will appear in TWIC 65
as I haven't received them yet.
GAMES SECTION
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Annotated Games 5 games
Adianto vs Short Match 1 game
Groningen Koop Tjuchem schaaktoernooi 35 games
Hastings Premier 20 games
Reggio Emilia 23 games
TWIC64EX.PGN
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Asian Team Tournament. 46 games
Asian Team Tournament (Women) 5 games
Harvard Cup 25 mins Computer v Humans 36 games
Hastings Challangers. 33 games
Italian Championships 15 games
Pan American Team Tournament 84 games
TWIC64GR.PGN
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Groningen Open Games 204 games
Extra Sections available via ftp and from my www:
These extra sections are available at:
Pittsburgh ftp site. (ftp.pitt.edu, group/chess/NEWS)
(probably Monday)
and straight away at my www site -
http://www.brad.ac.uk/~mdcrowth/chess.html
(note this is tilda mdcrowth, some terminals display this
as a percent sign which won't work)
1) Introduction
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What was supposed to be the last issue of 1995 now has become the first
of 1996. My E-Mail stopped arriving on Friday night and now only on Tuesday.
Is back operating again. I hope to get back on track for the next
issue.
My thanks to Anjo Anjewierden, Brian Stephenson, Bob Wade,
Marco Martini, Roberto Alvarez, Fairudin, Vadim Kaminsky
Bertrand Weegenaar and Massimiliano Orsi for their help in this issue.
In addition to Alon Greenfeld who annotated three of his games
from his match against Korchnoi for TWIC and to Gata Kamsky and
Peter Svidler who contributed annotated games to Anjo's Groningen
Chess Festival Bulletin. Also to SS Quah for some games from the
Asian Team Tournament reported on in TWIC 63.
Please note that the games sections with Bertrand Weegenaar's
articles on books and correspondence chess will follow in TWIC
65 as they haven't reached me yet.
Looking back on the last years TWICs (I will post my review of the year
in the next issue) certainly brought home to me how much it has changed.
There are more games now and a more complete coverage of World chess
than at any time. Judging from the appreciative E-Mails TWIC seems to
hit the mark for many people. Ideas that came from Anjo Anjewierden
of using a combination of the rating lists, and tables generated from
the games, have, especially from TWIC 45 onwards hopefully been a
major step forward. The rather sophisticated tools contained in cutour
have meant also that games with the players names mixed or the wrong
results have been possible to spot in a way not possible before. All
of this has added to a burdon that at first was light, to one which
has become nearly a full time job. These days every issue is completed
fighting against the time that I have available. The basic idea upon
which TWIC is base, the chess news and games of the recent past compiled
from internet postings, direct contributions and my own range of
sources has proved useful to players and chess magazines all over the
World.
I have in recent times been asked by a few people if there is any
reward in this for me. Much of the time I really haven`t had the
time really to think about this. The idea of the free quick and
easy transferal of chess games and data throughout the world is
one which I believe in. There is the thought that TWIC contributers
submit material because the magazine is free, useful and an idea
worth supporting. I myself have accepted no money for compiling
TWIC. But it is something I have to give thought to. My own job
is not going to be something to build a life on and as enter my 30's
this year I am out looking for a better job, however I do think
that I am actually quite good at what I do with TWIC. It is something
that I do take pride in but is it something that ought to exist?
Is it something that can only be compiled in the way I do it now?
I don't have any answers to these questions. It would be nice to
have TWIC sponsored in such a way that I could edit it as a
common good. I have no idea whether this is possible, I would be
interested to see if there is a solution.
Here are the people who brought you some of the many stories that
appeared in 1995 (hope I haven`t left anyone out)
All that remains for me to do is to wish everyone a very Happy New Year.
THE YEAR IN CHESS WITH THANKS:
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Adan Bonilla, Adriano Von Pfuhl Rodrigues, Al Tomalty, Alexander Huzman,
Ali Mortazavi, Alon Greenfeld, Amador Rodriguez, Andrei Leshkin, Andrew
Kinsman, Anjo Anjewierden, Annette Borik, Asbjorn Nejman, Ashok Waran,
Ashok Waren, Aviv Friedman, Ben Feingold, Bertrand Weegenaar, Bjarke
Kristensen, Bjarke Kristensen, Bo Sjogren, Bob Wade, Bobby Ang, Bosko Grove
Breanndan, Brian Jones, Brian Stephenson, Carlos H. Taboada, Chern Seng
Pau, Chris Dunworth, Christoph Pfrommer, Christopher Lutz, Claudio Antonio
Tonegutti, Dadi Jonsson, Damien Andre, Damir Medak, Darrin Bond, David
Cordover, David Sedgwick, Dirk Jonscher, Donald Schultz, Dr.H.K.Tsang,
Eduardo Bauza Mercere, Egon Ditt, Einar Gausel, Einar Karlsson, Einar S.
Einarsson, Eric Holdsworth, Eric Schiller, Eric van der Schilden, Eugeni K.
Grigorian, Fabian Maeser, Flemming Jensen (Under Uret), Frank Kroeze, Franz
Hemmer, Frederic Friedel, Gabriel Sanchez, Gilles G. Jobin, Gordie Mazur,
Gordon Taylor, Gustavo Albarran, Heinse van Houten, Henri Spijkerman,
Herman Grooten, Horacio Neto, Howard Streit, Hugh Brodie, ICC, Ian Murray,
Ian Rogers, Inform Systems (Chess Assistant), Irina Donchenko, Jaime
Calvin, Jan Van De Mortel, Janice Mehler, Jay Whitley, Jean-Pierre Mercier,
Jeroen van de Weijer, Jeroen van de Weijer, Jerome Bibuld, Jessica Harmsen,
Jim Bach, Joerg Harm, John Roycroft, Jonathan Berry, Jonathan Speelman,
Jonathan Tisdall, Jose Alberto F. Santos, Josef Zahner, Josh Manion, Judit
Polgar, Ken Sloan, Kenneth B Horne, Kevin O`Connell, Kieran English, Larry
Parr, Lars Zwisler, Laurent Sallen, Les Blackstock, Luis Santos, Maher
Saleh, Marc Derksen, Marco Martini, Margeir Petursson, Martin Borriss,
Martin Pribyl, Massimiliano Orsi, Michael Niermann, Mikal Ziane, Milan
Turcan, Norbert Friedrich, Norm Jenson, Otto Borik (from Schach Magazin
64), Panagis A. Sklavounos, Paolo Bertino, Paul A. van Linde, Paul Rubin,
Philip L. Peterson (Inside Chess), Piotr Nestorow, Rachel Lieberman, Ralph
Frisch, Reynaldo Vera, Richard Reich, Rob Bertholee, Rob van Aurich,
Roberto Alvarez, Rune Djurhuus, SS Quah, Sam Sloan, Sasha Nikulin, Sergey
Abramov (Chess Assistant), Shaun Press, Shay Bushinsky, Simon Latendresse,
Steffen A. Jakob, Steve Immitt, Steven J. Edwards, Steven Rix, Szabo Zsolt,
Tasc Tournament Systems, Tasos, Teun van der Vorm, Tim Krabbe, Tim Reilly,
Tom Crain, Toni Riedener, Troy Vale, Vadim Kaminsky, Vadim Kolupaev (Chess
Assistant), Vojin Vujosevic, Walter Taboada, Warren Rayle and Wlodek
Proskurowski.
2) 34th Groningen Chess Festival by Anjo Anjewierden
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| Koop Tjuchem schaaktoernooi |
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| 34th Groningen Chess Festival |
| December 19-30, Groningen, Netherlands |
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| Round 5: December 23 |
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ALL FIVE LEADERS DRAW
A quiet fifth round. Peter Svidler won with the black pieces
against Michael Adams. All other games were drawn. Tomorrow will
see the much expected game between Kamsky (White) and Karpov.
Contents:
- Father Kamsky.
- Results and comments from round 5.
- Games from round 5.
- Results from GM open, round 4.
- Games from GM open, round 4.
Father Kamsky.
After the fifth round we had a private discussion with Rustam Kamsky,
Gata's father. Most people will only know "bad things" about Rustam,
attacking people during tournaments and the like. As far as we have
been able to determine, he is a very friendly person. During the
tournament he is continuously chatting with other people, by some
coincidence most of them are female. As it was a private discussion
we cannot quote Rustam's view on the current state of affairs in the
chess world and organisation of the FIDE world-championship match
between Karpov and Kamsky. What can be stated is that Gata is looking
forward to the match and that an eight month abstination of chess has
not made him any happier. Because of the politics, Gata has not
received any invitations except for Groningen and with no set date
for the WC match, it is difficult to plan tournaments anyway. Rustam
stated that Gata will either win or lose tomorrow against Karpov. "No
quick draws, he must play."
Round 5 (December 23):
Leko, Peter - Kamsky, Gata 1/2 (21) Scandinavian defence
Sokolov, Ivan - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 (46) QGA
Adams, Michael - Svidler, Peter 0-1 (43) Pirc, 4. Be3
Lautier, Joel - Almasi, Zoltan 1/2 (85) Ruy Lopez, Zaitsev
Piket, Jeroen - Hansen, Curt 1/2 (26) Catalan
Tiviakov, Sergey - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 (10) Caro-Kann
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Leko, Peter - Kamsky, Gata 1/2 (21) Scandinavian defence
A surprising opening choice by Kamsky. White got a small advantage
that Kamsky neutralised to steer towards a draw.
Sokolov, Ivan - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 (46) QGA
Black emerged better from the opening, Sokolov had probably prepared
for Van Wely's favourite King's Indian. After 20... 0-0 (rather than
20... c5 as played) White would have had a difficult time.
Adams, Michael - Svidler, Peter 0-1 (43) Pirc
White got an overwhelming advantage from the opening and Svidler
thought he was probably lost round move 20. White could have played
the positional manoeuvre (16) Nc3-e2-g1-f3-g5 with an almost certain
win according to Svidler. When Svidler player 20... g6-g5 to close
the kingside, Adams should have taken the pawn with 21. f4xg5 with an
unclear position. When the kingside was closed it turned out Svidler
was better, and with some help of Adams he converted it to a win.
Lautier, Joel - Almasi, Zoltan 1/2 (85) Ruy Lopez, Zaitsev
Almasi was completely outplayed by Lautier, but in mutual time-trouble
Almasi succeeded in stirring up trouble, with a simple combination
Almasi picked up a pawn. The resulting ending with bishops of
opposite colour was not sufficient for a win.
Piket, Jeroen - Hansen, Curt 1/2 (26) Catalan
A weak performance by Piket, with the White pieces he was trying
to keep the balance.
Tiviakov, Sergey - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 (10) Caro-Kann
GM draw.
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| Round 6: December 24 |
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KAMSKY-KARPOV: HARD FOUGHT DRAW
VAN WELY SOLE LEADER
A spectacular 6th round. Kamsky and Karpov fought until both
had about five seconds left on the clock: draw. Hansen-Tiviakov
has been postponed to tomorrow because Tiviakov is ill. Almasi
beat Piket, Van Wely beat Adams and Svidler beat Lautier.
Contents:
- Results and comments from round 6.
- Games from round 6.
- Results from GM open, round 5.
- Games from GM open, round 5.
Round 6 (December 24):
Kamsky, Gata - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 (94) Caro-Kann
Hansen, Curt - Tiviakov, Sergey ... (..) POSTPONED
Almasi, Zoltan - Piket, Jeroen 1-0 (63) Ruy Lopez, Chigorin
Svidler, Peter - Lautier, Joel 1-0 (40) Sicilian, Najdorf
Van Wely, Loek - Adams, Michael 1-0 (60) Queens Pawn
Leko, Peter - Sokolov, Ivan 1/2 (44) Ruy Lopez, Marshall
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Kamsky, Gata - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 (94) Caro-Kann
Karpov played a strange move order in the opening, first Ne7, Bg6 and
only then c6-c5. Kamsky opened the centre and got a clear advantage
as Karpov had problems developing the queenside. However, after 21.
Bc7?, Kamsky lost all of his advantage because 21... Qd7! 22. Ba5
(Kamsky had counted on 22. Red1, completely overlooking 22... Rxc7!).
Karpov converted his small positional advantage to a pawn with the
combination 45... Nxa5!. Everybody expected Karpov to win easily with
the extra pawn and the better position, but then Kamsky showed
terrific persistency defending a worse position. The game continued
into the "sudden death" period (rate of play is 2/40 + 1/20 + 0.30 sd)
with Karpov still a pawn up. From move 75 the players blitzed out
their moves and with both flags hanging a draw was agreed. It is
possible that Karpov is still winning in the final position.
For the first time in this tournament Gata joined the post-mortem,
obviously delighted by the narrow escape. He forgot the instructions
of his father not to analyse with the opponent. The analysis, which
was together with Svidler, was very animated and there are people who
stated that it was the first time they saw Gata laugh. Even a joke
was part of the proceedings, Gata: "We cannot analyse for too long, we
have to dance." (In the evening there is the traditional Xmas-eve
dance party with the participants, seconds,
most-significant-other-halves and the organisation.)
Hansen, Curt - Tiviakov, Sergey ... (..) POSTPONED
Almasi, Zoltan - Piket, Jeroen 1-0 (63) Ruy Lopez, Chigorin
Spanish torture. Piket believed that the Black counterplay on
the kingside was sufficient, Almasi convincingly showed him wrong.
Svidler, Peter - Lautier, Joel 1-0 (40) Sicilian, Najdorf
Svidler did not get anything special from the opening. In the
middlegame Lautier was outplayed, but Svidler kept on delaying
(=missing) the final blow. Svidler: "Lautier missed a clear draw, so
I won".
Van Wely, Loek - Adams, Michael 1-0 (60) Queen's Pawn
Van Wely got a small but pleasant advantage from the opening (good vs.
bad bishop). 41... b5 was meant to stop b3-b4-b5 from White, but the
medicin was worse than the disease. Svidler: "What, Van Wely won?
Karpov would have kept the draw with his hands tied behind his back!".
Leko, Peter - Sokolov, Ivan 1/2 (44) Ruy Lopez, Marshall
Sokolov, never lost for words, had to win today because he was beaten
by Leko when the latter was only 14. Sokolov's plan was to slaughter
Leko today. The Marshall attack was an apt opening to show Sokolov's
aggressive mood, and after a complicated struggle Sokolov got a chance
to win. After 31... Qh6 (and not 31... Rdf8 as played) White has no
defence as pointed out by Leko. Sokolov took it as man.
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| Round 7: December 26 |
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KARPOV TAKES THE LEAD
In the 7th round of the Koop Tjuchem invitational tournament two
games were decided, those by the former leader (Van Wely loses against
Lautier) and the new leader (Karpov wins against Hansen). Hansen won
the postponed 6th round game against Tiviakov.
Contents:
- Results and comments from round 7.
- Games from round 7.
Round 7 (December 26):
Sokolov, Ivan - Kamsky, Gata 1/2 (51) Nimzo Indian, 4. Qc2
Adams, Michael - Leko, Peter 1/2 (58) Trompovski
Lautier, Joel - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 (38) English
Piket, Jeroen - Svidler, Peter 1/2 (31) Kings Indian, Main line
Tiviakov, Sergey - Almasi, Zoltan 1/2 (44) Ruy Lopez
Karpov, Anatoly - Hansen, Curt 1-0 (58) Kings Indian, Saemisch
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Hansen, Curt - Tiviakov, Sergey 1-0 (48) Queens Indian
White was slightly better throughout the game, Tiviakov still
suffering from fever succumbed in a complex Q+R endgame.
Sokolov, Ivan - Kamsky, Gata 1/2 (51) Nimzo Indian, 4. Qc2
The commentators thought that White was having a better endgame around
move 20, but Kamsky showed that it was Black who was playing for a
win. In the rook-ending Sokolov succeeded in securing the draw with a
rook-sacrifice to stop Kamsky's passed pawn.
Adams, Michael - Leko, Peter 1/2 (58) Trompowski
Adams' unambitious opening choice looked to pay off when he got a
pleasant middlegame. Leko defended well and deserved the draw.
Lautier, Joel - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 (38) English
Van Wely misplayed the opening, Lautier sacrificed a pawn for a
kingside attack. Van Wely could have defended better in time-trouble
with 35... Qf6 (rather than 35... Kh7?) when there seem to be no
direct ways to win the game.
Piket, Jeroen - Svidler, Peter 1/2 (31) Kings Indian, Main line
This game follows Van der Sterren-Glek (BL 9495) until 16. Bf2. Piket
thought that 18. e5 was too early, White should have tried to exploit
his better pawn-structure with quiet moves. The game ended with a
funny perpetual, if 32. Qa1 Qg4 with dangerous counterplay for Black.
Tiviakov, Sergey - Almasi, Zoltan 1/2 (44) Ruy Lopez
Tiviakov had to sacrifice the exchange and the pair-of-bishops
secured him the draw in the end.
Karpov, Anatoly - Hansen, Curt 1-0 (58) Kings Indian, Saemisch
Hansen seemed pleased with a draw and exchanged all pieces only to
find out that the remaining ending favoured White. The moves 30. c5!,
39. b4!, are exemplary of Karpov's fine technique when he is slightly
better. The bishop ending looks to be lost for Black, for example the
move 45... b4 looks to lose a pawn for nothing, but 45... Kc8 46. Ba3
Bc7 47. Bf8 Kb7 48. Kb4 Ka6 49. Kc5 also loses the pawn and the game.
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| Round 8: December 27 |
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KARPOV WINS AGAIN
Round 8 of the Koop Tjuchem invitational tournament saw victories
by the two K's. Karpov, with the black pieces, won against Almasi and
Kamsky beat Hansen. The other games were short draws.
Contents:
- Results and comments from round 8.
- Games from round 8.
- Results from GM open, round 7.
- Games from GM open, round 7.
Round 8 (December 27):
Kamsky, Gata - Hansen, Curt 1-0 (61) French
Almasi, Zoltan - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 (74) Caro-Kann
Svidler, Peter - Tiviakov, Sergey 1/2 (22) Sicilian
Van Wely, Loek - Piket, Jeroen 1/2 (18) Tarrasch
Leko, Peter - Lautier, Joel 1/2 (27) Sicilian, Sveshnikov
Sokolov, Ivan - Adams, Michael 1/2 (29) Queens Indian
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Kamsky, Gata - Hansen, Curt 1-0 (61) French
After careful preparation Kamsky finally opened up the position with
43. g4, immediately followed by the piece sacrifice 45. Nxe6. A
complicated position resulted. Dutch IM Gert Ligterink stated:
"During the last 20 moves, three World-Wars could have been fought".
Almasi, Zoltan - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 (74) Caro-Kann
Karpov deviated on move 16 from the game Almasi-Adams (round 4) with
16... Rfe8. The position looked equal for a long time, but after
26... Ne4! Karpov got the edge and won after a long endgame.
Svidler, Peter - Tiviakov, Sergey 1/2 (22) Sicilian
Boring.
Van Wely, Loek - Piket, Jeroen 1/2 (18) Tarrasch
Van Wely has too much respect for Piket with a quick draw as the result.
Leko, Peter - Lautier, Joel 1/2 (27) Sicilian, Sveshnikov
Again, not too interesting.
Sokolov, Ivan - Adams, Michael 1/2 (29) Queens Indian
Watching the two at the bar is more exciting.
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| Round 9: December 28 |
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KAMSKY LOSES; KARPOV DRAWS
The ninth round of the Koop Tjuchem invitational was attractive
with four of the six games ending in a decision. Kamsky lost against
Adams, Piket notched up his first tournament victory at the cost of
Leko, Sokolov won against Lautier in 21 moves and Tiviakov beat Van
Wely.
Contents:
- Results and comments from round 9.
- Games from round 9.
- Results from GM open, round 8.
- Standings from GM open, after round 8.
- Games from GM open, round 8.
Round 9 (December 28):
Adams, Michael - Kamsky, Gata 1-0 (65) Ruy Lopez
Lautier, Joel - Sokolov, Ivan 0-1 (21) Slav, 3... dxc4
Piket, Jeroen - Leko, Peter 1-0 (58) Gruenfeld, 5. Qb3
Tiviakov, Sergey - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 (28) Sicilian, Scheveningen
Karpov, Anatoly - Svidler, Peter 1/2 (32) Queens Pawn
Hansen, Curt - Almasi, Zoltan 1/2 (34) English
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Adams, Michael - Kamsky, Gata 1-0 (65) Ruy Lopez
Adams avoided the Marshall attack by playing 8. d3 (rather than 8. c3
d5). 9. a3 looked too modest to be true, but Kamsky never managed to
equalise. Kamsky sacrificed his weak d-pawn for counterplay (rooks on
the second rank), Adams' fine technique showed the counterplay was
insufficient.
Ultimately Adams reached a rook ending with two extra pawns and Kamsky
kept on playing. The most probable theory as to why he continued is
that he does not like to meet his father after a defeat.
Unfortunately for Gata, the loss was unavoidable and the striped suit
was replaced by a track suit and he is now running around Groningen in
the bitter cold (-12 Centigrade).
Lautier, Joel - Sokolov, Ivan 0-1 (21) Slav, 3... dxc4
Lautier sacrificed a pawn in the opening and never got enough
compensation. When Lautier blundered a piece with 18. Nxb4? the game
was virtually over.
Piket, Jeroen - Leko, Peter 1-0 (58) Gruenfeld, 5. Qb3
Leko allowed Piket's pet line against the Gruenfeld and apparently
Adorjan has not found a proper antidote to it. Piket kept his king in
the middle of the board and launched an attack against Leko's king. A
complicated struggle ensued, even when Piket got a white pawn on f6
matters did not seem to be too clear. Rather than 29... Qf7 (a queen
swap is advantageous for White), Leko might have tried 29... fxe3 when
Black seems to have counterplay.
Tiviakov, Sergey - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 (28) Sicilian, Scheveningen
Van Wely was "a little careless", he neglected his kingside (typical
defensive moves are g7-g6 and Be7-f8-g7), compare Karpov-Kasparov,
Moskva Wch m (24), 1985. Tiviakov took advantage of the opportunity
with forceful and attractive play (19. f5!, 21. Rf7!).
Karpov, Anatoly - Svidler, Peter 1/2 (32) Queens Pawn
Karpov got the advantage despite his calm opening play. The pawn
structure with Black pawns on c4 and e4 is very favourable for White,
Karpov should have played 21. Qc2 (instead of 21. Qb5) with continuous
pressure. For example, 21... Qd5 (forced) 22. a5! intending Ra4,
Rda1, Rb4 and Raa4 and Karpov would have had the type of position he
indulges in. (Comments based on remarks by Svidler).
Hansen, Curt - Almasi, Zoltan 1/2 (34) English
Both players tried hard, but when opposite coloured bishops appeared
the draw was quickly agreed.
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| Round 10: December 29 |
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KARPOV LEADS BY A FULL POINT
ANALYSIS BY SVIDLER
An exciting 10th round at the Koop Tjuchem invitational
tournament. Karpov defeated Loek van Wely and is now leading the
tournament with a full point. Kamsky is back on track with a win over
Almasi. Other wins in this round: Svidler beat Hansen and Adams beat
Lautier.
Contents:
- Results and comments from round 10.
- Games from round 10.
- Results from GM open, round 9.
- Standings from GM open, after round 9.
- Games from GM open, round 9.
Round 10 (December 29):
Kamsky, Gata - Almasi, Zoltan 1-0 (51) Nimzo Indian, Rubinstein
Svidler, Peter - Hansen, Curt 1-0 (36) Najdorf
Van Wely, Loek - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 (64) Queens Indian
Leko, Peter - Tiviakov, Sergei 1/2 (31) Sicilian
Sokolov, Ivan - Piket, Jeroen 1/2 (19) Kings Indian
Adams, Michael - Lautier, Joel 1-0 (41) Trompowski
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Kamsky, Gata - Almasi, Zoltan 1-0 (51) Nimzo Indian, Rubinstein
Almasi misplaced a rook on the h-file, this gave Kamsky much better play
on the queenside and once Kamsky picked up a pawn the win was secured.
Kamsky used about an hour for the entire game.
Svidler, Peter - Hansen, Curt 1-0 (36) Najdorf
As regular readers of these reports have already found out, Peter
Svidler is a very friendly super-GM. Today he annotated his exciting
game against Curt Hansen. Enjoy!
[See games section]
Van Wely, Loek - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 (64) Queens Indian
Van Wely got a slight edge from the opening. A pawn sacrifice
indicated Van Wely wanted a real game against the FIDE world-champion.
Karpov neutralised all dangers, despite being in time-trouble once
again, and picked up the full point in the endgame.
Leko, Peter - Tiviakov, Sergei 1/2 (31) Sicilian
Slow manoeuvres.
Sokolov, Ivan - Piket, Jeroen 1/2 (19) Kings Indian
These guys know each other too well.
Adams, Michael - Lautier, Joel 1-0 (41) Trompowski
Adams seems to play best when the well-trodden theoretical paths are
way out of sight. Lautier's knight moves (Ng6 and Nh5) look a bit
uninspired and Adams is quick to cash the goods.
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| Final Round: December 30 |
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KARPOV WINS KOOP TJUCHEM
Karpov secured the tournament win with a very quick draw against
Peter Leko. Almasi-Svidler was also a quick draw. The other games
saw dramatic battles with four Black wins as a result.
Many people contributed directly or indirectly to these bulletins.
I would like to thank Johan Zwanepol and Koos Stolk from the
organisation, Eddie Jansen and Jaap Brouwer for typing in the games,
Bernard Groeneveld for the press facilities, IM Gert Ligterink for his
excellent commentaries. Special thanks to IM Erik Hoeksema who
provided most of the information on how to games proceeded and GM
Peter Svidler for his well-informed and witty opinions on what really
happened.
After the tournament I can be reached again on my normal e-mail
account: anjo@swi.psy.uva.nl.
Groningen (NED), XII 1995. cat. XVII (2653)
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1 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2775 * = = = = = 1 = 1 1 1 = 7.5 2774
2 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2735 = * = = 0 = = = 1 1 1 1 7.0 2747
3 Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2630 = = * = = = = 1 1 = = 1 7.0 2756
4 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2635 = = = * 1 = 0 = = 1 = 1 6.5 2719
5 Adams, Michael g ENG 2660 = 1 = 0 * = 0 = 0 1 1 1 6.0 2687
6 Leko, Peter g HUN 2605 = = = = = * 1 = = = 0 = 5.5 2656
7 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2585 0 = = 1 1 0 * 0 1 1 = 0 5.5 2658
8 Tiviakov, Sergei g RUS 2655 = = 0 = = = 1 * = 0 = = 5.0 2616
9 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2645 0 0 0 = 1 = 0 = * = 1 = 4.5 2588
10 Hansen, Curt g DEN 2635 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 1 = * = 1 4.0 2552
11 Piket, Jeroen g NED 2625 0 0 = = 0 1 = = 0 = * = 4.0 2553
12 Lautier, Joel g FRA 2645 = 0 0 0 0 = 1 = = 0 = * 3.5 2520
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Contents:
- Interview with Gata Kamsky.
- Groningen and the proposed World-Championship tournament.
- Analysis of Kamsky-Piket by Gata Kamsky.
- Results and comments from round 11.
- Games from round 11.
- Results from GM open round 11.
- Final standings GM open.
Interview with Gata Kamsky.
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Q. Are you happy with your performance in this tournament?
Yes, it is nice to play again. That's why I participated.
Playing is different from analysing at home, you cannot take
back the moves. I missed some good chances, because of lack
of play. For example, in my game with Karpov I had a good
position from the opening and then I could not find a plan
and gave the position away. I'm very happy I was invited
to play here.
Q. What is going on with the WC match?
I don't know any details, no official papers. All the negotiations
are with Karpov and I can only wait. The date for the WC match
is changing all the time, first it was November, then December,
February and now June perhaps, but then there are the Olympics...
Perhaps it will happen that in January (the final deadline) the
Montreal organisation will say they have not found the money and
Karpov continues to be the WC, and there is nothing I can do
about it.
We (Rustam and Gata) have found many sponsors for the match.
At least four Russian cities offered a prizefund that is
significantly higher than the standard FIDE-fund. We think that
Karpov has broken off the negotiations.
Q. Do you want to become WC?
You think I would answer no! As a WC you can earn a lot of money,
status, prestige and you get good invitations. Of course, every
chess player wants to become WC and so do I.
It is clear that neither Kasparov nor Karpov would like me to
become WC. They both enjoy the power that being a WC provides.
Especially Kasparov is blocking my way.
Q. What do you think of the new WC-cycle proposal?
My main problem is that the time between my WC-match with Karpov
and the new WC-cycle is very short. Then I will be WC for only a
few months and I don't like that. Otherwise, I'm not really
against the proposal.
Q. How do you study chess?
That is a secret.
Q. What database do you use?
ChessBase.
Groningen and the proposed World-Championship tournament.
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It may be obvious that the proposal for the WC 1996 by the new
FIDE president initially came as an unpleasant surprise to the
organisation in Groningen. The dates of WC 1996 and Groningen overlap
and when all strong players take part in the WC, it is practically
impossible to organise a tournament in Groningen. Sponsorship for
Groningen 1996 has already been assured and nobody wants to stop a
tradition that started 34 years ago.
The shortest statement that can be made is: "If WC 1996 is in
December it will be in Groningen." The organisation in Groningen
is thus prepared to organise the WC 1996, just as they organised the
PCA candidates tournament in 1993.
The likelihood that the proposal by the new FIDE president is
accepted by the top players is very close to 0%. Most of the players
who voiced their opinion were very negative about the idea. The
expectation is that Kasparov will not agree to it either. Given that
the proposal gives the impression that the main purpose is to re-unite
FIDE players and PCA players and that the top players in both camps
will not accept the formula, it must be concluded that the proposal is
just an attempt to get all parties around the table. They at least
agree on something now: the FIDE proposal is not acceptable.
An alternative formula, that has been suggested in Groningen is
to create a "compact World-Championship" as follows:
1) A Swiss open with 64 players (say 11 rounds).
2) Immediately followed by a round-robin tournament with the top 8
of the Swiss.
Groningen Open
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Title results:
Socko GM result (after round 8)
Kempinski IM result (after round 8)
Meins IM result (after round 8)
Hendriks IM result (after round 8)
Hetey IM result (after round 8)
Berezin IM result (after round 8)
Lanchava WIM result (after round 8)
Groningen (NED) open, XII 1995.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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1 Onischuk, Alexander g UKR 2575 + 82 + 47 + 26 + 24 = 14 = 5 = 13 + 30 + 19 + 34 = 3 9.0 /11 2712
2 Baburin, Aleksandar m RUS 2495 = 31 + 37 + 79 = 23 = 9 = 11 + 43 + 15 = 22 = 5 + 20 8.0 /11 2600
3 Kempinski, Robert f POL 2455 =102 +118 + 72 + 12 = 22 = 42 + 35 = 13 = 20 + 19 = 1 8.0 /11 2625
4 Martinovic, Slobodan g YUG 2445 = 63 +114 - 52 = 92 + 83 + 61 + 25 - 5 + 73 + 35 + 22 8.0 /11 2573
5 Rozentalis, Eduardas g LTU 2610 +104 + 41 = 29 = 13 + 46 = 1 = 42 + 4 + 24 = 2 = 7 8.0 /11 2650
6 Berelovich, Aleksandar m UKR 2455 - 30 -110 +144 + 58 +123 = 52 = 57 + 59 = 61 + 55 + 34 7.5 /11 2439
7 Korneev, Oleg m RUS 2605 =124 =123 = 82 = 31 + 51 + 17 + 38 = 16 = 13 + 32 = 5 7.5 /11 2528
8 Krakops, Maris m LAT 2525 +115 + 77 = 23 - 15 + 62 + 56 - 30 - 54 + 95 + 27 + 39 7.5 /11 2509
9 Meins, Gerlef GER 2440 =118 +102 +109 = 44 = 2 + 60 = 14 = 45 + 36 = 22 = 11 7.5 /11 2558
10 Psakhis, Lev g ISR 2610 = 90 - 53 +114 = 83 +130 = 47 + 52 - 11 + 58 + 61 + 42 7.5 /11 2448
11 Ristic, Nenad m YUG 2400 =129 - 75 +118 +141 + 66 = 2 = 44 + 10 = 12 + 45 = 9 7.5 /11 2502
12 Soffer, Ram g ISR 2530 + 51 + 62 = 15 - 3 = 43 = 54 + 41 + 28 = 11 + 30 = 13 7.5 /11 2501
13 Summerscale, Aaron m ENG 2455 + 69 = 72 + 91 = 5 + 61 + 45 = 1 = 3 = 7 = 16 = 12 7.5 /11 2594
14 Tseitlin, Mark D m ISR 2545 +152 + 88 = 18 + 49 = 1 = 15 = 9 - 19 + 78 = 39 + 38 7.5 /11 2568
15 Avrukh, Boris m KAZ 2430 +117 +111 = 12 + 8 = 45 = 14 = 21 - 2 + 31 + 44 . 7.0 /10 2600
16 Kuijf, Marinus m NED 2495 -131 +117 + 87 + 95 = 60 = 41 + 40 = 7 + 17 = 13 . 7.0 /10 2602
17 Berezin, Oleg UKR 2265 + 48 = 64 - 40 +150 +135 - 7 + 49 + 18 - 16 + 56 = 35 7.0 /11 2558
18 David, Alberto m LUX 2465 + 92 + 59 = 14 + 28 = 19 - 22 = 73 - 17 = 52 + 91 + 57 7.0 /11 2447
19 Degraeve, Jean-Marc m FRA 2410 +140 +143 = 45 + 29 = 18 + 44 = 22 + 14 - 1 - 3 = 21 7.0 /11 2559
20 Filippov, Valerij RUS 2510 + 89 + 70 = 53 - 40 = 76 + 85 + 67 + 78 = 3 = 21 - 2 7.0 /11 2499
21 Golod, Vitali m UKR 2540 =123 +124 = 28 = 62 = 54 + 77 = 15 + 82 = 39 = 20 = 19 7.0 /11 2505
22 Howell, James C m ENG 2525 + 99 + 86 = 49 + 84 = 3 + 18 = 19 = 24 = 2 = 9 - 4 7.0 /11 2535
23 Poldauf, Dirk m GER 2415 +121 + 98 = 8 = 2 - 44 +102 - 45 +105 - 32 + 70 + 60 7.0 /11 2485
24 Socko, Bartosz f POL 2485 + 71 + 60 + 35 - 1 + 52 = 36 + 34 = 22 - 5 = 26 = 25 7.0 /11 2584
25 Tunik, Gennady m RUS 2515 +141 = 91 +150 = 33 = 41 = 67 - 4 + 65 + 87 = 42 = 24 7.0 /11 2478
26 Volke, Karsten m GER 2450 + 96 + 94 - 1 - 60 +104 = 95 + 70 = 87 = 41 = 24 + 64 7.0 /11 2458
27 De Vreugt, Dennis NED 2270 +147 = 40 - 33 + 88 + 48 - 78 + 46 - 32 + 85 - 8 + 65 6.5 /11 2495
28 Evseev, Denis RUS ---- +126 + 46 = 21 - 18 = 32 = 49 + 29 - 12 = 48 + 78 = 33 6.5 /11 2502
29 Finkel, Alexander m ISR 2490 +133 +106 = 5 - 19 + 81 - 30 - 28 = 80 +104 + 52 = 43 6.5 /11 2482
30 Hetey, Laszlo GER 2290 + 6 = 33 = 67 = 64 + 84 + 29 + 8 - 1 = 45 - 12 = 48 6.5 /11 2537
31 Kadimova, Ilaha wg AZE 2305 = 2 = 32 =135 = 7 - 85 + 75 + 84 + 40 - 15 = 79 + 81 6.5 /11 2482
32 Kiriakov, Petr m RUS 2495 =131 = 31 +123 = 52 = 28 - 43 +115 + 27 + 23 - 7 = 41 6.5 /11 2453
33 Kohlweyer, Bernd m GER 2420 +108 = 30 + 27 = 25 - 36 - 73 + 74 = 57 = 82 + 58 = 28 6.5 /11 2413
34 Kupreichik, Viktor D g BLR 2525 + 61 =150 = 95 + 70 = 67 + 64 - 24 + 62 + 54 - 1 - 6 6.5 /11 2477
35 Lutz, Christopher g GER 2575 + 87 + 76 - 24 + 85 = 78 + 40 - 3 + 64 = 42 - 4 = 17 6.5 /11 2472
36 Mainka, Romuald g GER 2530 +101 = 95 = 64 + 86 + 33 = 24 = 78 = 42 - 9 = 41 = 40 6.5 /11 2476
37 Nikitin, Andrey RUS 2290 =131 - 2 =119 +149 - 47 +122 + 90 = 50 - 38 + 95 + 79 6.5 /11 2452
38 Porper, Eduard m ISR 2425 - 98 +140 =100 +101 =102 + 72 - 7 = 71 + 37 + 54 - 14 6.5 /11 2417
39 Roeder, Mathias m GER 2460 = 74 =100 =101 +121 = 72 = 76 + 95 + 60 = 21 = 14 - 8 6.5 /11 2448
40 Schebler, Gerhard f GER 2415 +112 = 27 + 17 + 20 = 42 - 35 - 16 - 31 + 94 + 87 = 36 6.5 /11 2437
41 Schoen, Wolfram m GER 2400 +139 - 5 + 58 +148 = 25 = 16 - 12 +110 = 26 = 36 = 32 6.5 /11 2475
42 Sermek, Drazen g SLO 2490 =100 + 74 + 65 + 53 = 40 = 3 = 5 = 36 = 35 = 25 - 10 6.5 /11 2507
43 Visser, Yge f NED 2370 +128 - 45 +111 = 48 = 12 + 32 - 2 +102 - 44 + 75 = 29 6.5 /11 2466
44 Gyimesi, Zoltan m HUN 2525 + 83 = 79 + 54 = 9 + 23 - 19 = 11 = 73 + 43 - 15 . 6.0 /10 2458
45 Shipov, Sergei m RUS 2510 + 73 + 43 = 19 + 56 = 15 - 13 + 23 = 9 = 30 - 11 ? 6.0 /10 2466
46 Tompa, Janos m HUN 2455 + 58 - 28 + 51 + 77 - 5 = 82 - 27 =101 +110 + 80 . 6.0 /10 2471
47 Tratar, Marko f SLO 2405 +138 - 1 + 94 - 61 + 37 = 10 - 87 + 53 + 71 = 60 ? 6.0 /10 2368
48 Bojkovic, Natasa wg YUG 2425 - 17 +112 +115 = 43 - 27 +137 - 82 +100 = 28 = 65 = 30 6.0 /11 2334
49 Bosboom, Manuel m NED 2450 +127 + 80 = 22 - 14 = 82 = 28 - 17 = 51 +101 - 57 + 90 6.0 /11 2395
50 De Boer, Gert-Jan m NED 2425 -109 -121 +142 = 96 = 71 +134 + 92 = 37 - 60 + 73 = 61 6.0 /11 2285
51 Delemarre, Jop NED 2320 - 12 +116 - 46 +136 - 7 + 98 =111 = 49 = 67 + 85 = 55 6.0 /11 2398
52 Gaponenko, Inna wm UKR 2365 = 66 +125 + 4 = 32 - 24 = 6 - 10 +134 = 18 - 29 + 96 6.0 /11 2423
53 Grabuzova, Tatiana wg RUS 2195 + 85 + 10 = 20 - 42 - 56 + 80 - 54 - 47 = 92 + 94 + 91 6.0 /11 2420
54 Hendriks, Willy NED 2395 = 75 +129 - 44 +100 = 21 = 12 + 53 + 8 - 34 - 38 = 63 6.0 /11 2424
55 Lanchava, Tea wf GEO 2200 - 88 +152 - 86 = 99 +141 =135 + 72 = 85 + 62 - 6 = 51 6.0 /11 2368
56 Landenbergue, Claude m SUI 2420 +107 =109 + 75 - 45 + 53 - 8 - 60 =121 + 89 - 17 +100 6.0 /11 2346
57 Novikov, Yury RUS 2335 - 94 +138 -148 =117 +129 + 66 = 6 = 33 = 64 + 49 - 18 6.0 /11 2432
58 Onoprienko, Konstantin RUS 2290 - 46 +146 - 41 - 6 +103 +150 +135 + 76 - 10 - 33 + 88 6.0 /11 2389
59 Peng Zhaoqin wg CHN 2355 +119 - 18 -121 =111 =117 + 63 + 94 - 6 - 75 +109 + 98 6.0 /11 2258
60 Peptan, Corina wg ROM 2340 +149 - 24 +134 + 26 = 16 - 9 + 56 - 39 + 50 = 47 - 23 6.0 /11 2407
61 Perdomo, Carlos Andres COL 2320 - 34 + 93 +122 + 47 - 13 - 4 +109 + 67 = 6 - 10 = 50 6.0 /11 2456
62 Skripchenko, Almira wm MDA 2400 +142 - 12 + 69 = 21 - 8 + 96 +121 - 34 - 55 = 72 + 89 6.0 /11 2399
63 Wiersma, Eelke NED 2280 = 4 - 84 +126 - 76 = 65 - 59 +128 = 72 +135 + 86 = 54 6.0 /11 2381
64 Yagupov, Igor m RUS 2405 +137 = 17 = 36 = 30 +110 - 34 +130 - 35 = 57 + 82 - 26 6.0 /11 2379
65 Donk, Merlijn Silvester NED 2365 =103 + 68 - 42 -110 = 63 +127 + 97 - 25 +130 = 48 - 27 5.5 /11 2202
66 Ernst, Sipke NED ---- = 52 - 90 +133 +124 - 11 - 57 + 83 = 77 - 81 = 92 +115 5.5 /11 2336
67 Gasimov, Ragim AZE 2420 = 68 +130 = 30 + 90 = 34 = 25 - 20 - 61 = 51 = 74 = 73 5.5 /11 2336
68 Hoogendoorn, Joost NED ---- = 67 - 65 -141 =146 +126 +104 - 85 + 99 = 76 = 84 = 72 5.5 /11 2387
69 Jonker, Marc NED 2290 - 13 +151 - 62 -134 -128 +144 +116 - 79 +143 +119 = 77 5.5 /11 2231
70 Jonkman, Harmen f NED 2345 +144 - 20 +103 - 34 =134 + 93 - 26 =130 +119 - 23 = 74 5.5 /11 2253
71 Khurtsidze, Nino wg GEO 2295 - 24 =144 -130 +138 = 50 +128 + 81 = 38 - 47 = 77 = 76 5.5 /11 2349
72 Lelchuk, Zoja wg UKR 2335 +148 = 13 - 3 + 97 = 39 - 38 - 55 = 63 +114 = 62 = 68 5.5 /11 2281
73 Luetke, Jens f GER 2310 - 45 =120 =105 +119 +122 + 33 = 18 = 44 - 4 - 50 = 67 5.5 /11 2363
74 Mueller, Michael GER 2295 = 39 - 42 -139 +145 + 88 = 84 - 33 =135 +134 = 67 = 70 5.5 /11 2336
75 Oosterom, Erik NED 2205 = 54 + 11 - 56 - 81 =124 - 31 +141 +115 + 59 - 43 = 80 5.5 /11 2321
76 Peelen, Piet f NED 2395 +136 - 35 =127 + 63 = 20 = 39 =110 - 58 = 68 = 90 = 71 5.5 /11 2349
77 Pliester, Leon m NED 2375 +105 - 8 + 96 - 46 + 94 - 21 =100 = 66 =102 = 71 = 69 5.5 /11 2309
78 Pomes, Juan m ESP 2425 +110 = 81 = 90 +106 = 35 + 27 = 36 - 20 - 14 - 28 = 82 5.5 /11 2440
79 Reschke, Stefan m GER 2380 +116 = 44 - 2 -102 - 96 =138 +107 + 69 +109 = 31 - 37 5.5 /11 2318
80 Van Laatum, Gozewijn f NED 2345 +146 - 49 =143 =109 =121 - 53 +118 = 29 +105 - 46 = 75 5.5 /11 2264
81 Van de Mortel, Jan f NED 2340 +132 = 78 - 84 + 75 - 29 =105 - 71 = 96 + 66 +102 - 31 5.5 /11 2264
82 Van der Weide, Karel f NED 2325 - 1 +142 = 7 +143 = 49 = 46 + 48 - 21 = 33 - 64 = 78 5.5 /11 2415
83 Veroci, Zsuzsa wg HUN 2315 - 44 =105 +125 = 10 - 4 =108 - 66 =129 =139 +120 +121 5.5 /11 2316
84 Vydeslaver, Alik ISR 2445 =114 + 63 + 81 - 22 - 30 = 74 - 31 = 92 =127 = 68 +111 5.5 /11 2316
85 Weyrich, Morten f GER 2380 - 53 +137 +108 - 35 + 31 - 20 + 68 = 55 - 27 - 51 +114 5.5 /11 2277
86 Zak, Uriel f ISR 2360 +134 - 22 + 55 - 36 = 93 -130 =137 =127 +111 - 63 +110 5.5 /11 2307
87 Schiffer, Kai-Uwe f GER 2325 - 35 +136 - 16 =137 +139 +143 + 47 = 26 - 25 - 40 . 5.0 /10 2347
88 Afek, Yochanan m ISR 2390 + 55 - 14 =110 - 27 - 74 - 97 +145 =108 +137 +127 - 58 5.0 /11 2276
89 Ankerst, Michael GER 2310 - 20 - 97 +113 - 93 -116 +120 +125 +143 - 56 +130 - 62 5.0 /11 2132
90 Biebinger, Gerhard GER 2330 = 10 + 66 = 78 - 67 =105 =109 - 37 = 98 +118 = 76 - 49 5.0 /11 2285
91 Bjerring, Kai m DEN 2350 + 97 = 25 - 13 -130 =111 =118 +108 =119 +121 - 18 - 53 5.0 /11 2291
92 Friedman, Aviv f ISR 2295 - 18 =126 +120 = 4 - 95 +148 - 50 = 84 = 53 = 66 =105 5.0 /11 2230
93 Gabrielsen, Stig NOR 2175 -150 - 61 +107 + 89 = 86 - 70 -101 -122 +138 +118 = 99 5.0 /11 2258
94 Gaprindashvili, Valerian GEO ---- + 57 - 26 - 47 +103 - 77 +116 - 59 + 97 - 40 - 53 +129 5.0 /11 2202
95 Hedke, Fred f GER 2370 +113 = 36 = 34 - 16 + 92 = 26 - 39 +111 - 8 - 37 =107 5.0 /11 2353
96 Ivliev, Oleg RUS 2285 - 26 +149 - 77 = 50 + 79 - 62 =143 = 81 =106 +122 - 52 5.0 /11 2326
97 Jajonek, Roland GER ---- - 91 + 89 =104 - 72 =100 + 88 - 65 - 94 = 99 =129 +135 5.0 /11 2332
98 Kistella, Roman GER 2260 + 38 - 23 -106 -123 +144 - 51 +122 = 90 =100 +104 - 59 5.0 /11 2302
99 Koch, Wolfgang f GER 2315 - 22 -134 +116 = 55 -143 =125 +136 - 68 = 97 +113 = 93 5.0 /11 2374
100 Lorscheid, Gerd f GER 2305 = 42 = 39 = 38 - 54 = 97 +112 = 77 - 48 = 98 +116 - 56 5.0 /11 2333
101 Metz, Hartmut f GER 2320 - 36 +113 = 39 - 38 -137 +139 + 93 = 46 - 49 =110 =125 5.0 /11 2303
102 Stillger, Bernhard f GER 2285 = 3 - 9 +145 + 79 = 38 - 23 +123 - 43 = 77 - 81 =106 5.0 /11 2328
103 Van Beek, Lucien NED ---- = 65 =135 - 70 - 94 - 58 =149 +142 =124 -115 +137 +127 5.0 /11 2286
104 Van Wessel, Rudy NED 2330 - 5 =139 = 97 +108 - 26 - 68 +112 +137 - 29 - 98 +130 5.0 /11 2302
105 Wapner, Jonathan ISR 2195 - 77 = 83 = 73 +115 = 90 = 81 +106 - 23 - 80 =123 = 92 5.0 /11 2302
106 Zhukova, Natalia wm UKR 2360 +120 - 29 + 98 - 78 =109 -121 -105 +117 = 96 =107 =102 5.0 /11 2245
107 Zielinska, Marta POL 2250 - 56 -122 - 93 +113 +132 -115 - 79 +128 +124 =106 = 95 5.0 /11 2258
108 Coleman, David f ENG 2255 - 33 +147 - 85 -104 +146 = 83 - 91 = 88 -122 +136 =124 4.5 /11 2250
109 De Boer, Sybolt NED 2260 + 50 = 56 - 9 = 80 =106 = 90 - 61 +123 - 79 - 59 =119 4.5 /11 2297
110 De Jong, Migchiel NED 2260 - 78 + 6 = 88 + 65 - 64 +147 = 76 - 41 - 46 =101 - 86 4.5 /11 2335
111 Florath, Patrick GER 2275 +122 - 15 - 43 = 59 = 91 +124 = 51 - 95 - 86 +139 - 84 4.5 /11 2297
112 Hofman, Ron NED 2245 - 40 - 48 =146 =126 +120 -100 -104 =125 =136 +128 =122 4.5 /11 2205
113 Hulshof, Peter NED 2185 - 95 -101 - 89 -107 +140 +132 =117 -118 +144 - 99 +139 4.5 /11 2185
114 Manouck, Thierry m FRA 2270 = 84 - 4 - 10 =120 =119 +129 -134 +138 - 72 +126 - 85 4.5 /11 2248
115 Thiel, Thomas GER 2315 - 8 +128 - 48 -105 +136 +107 - 32 - 75 +103 =121 - 66 4.5 /11 2223
116 Tonning, Erik NOR 2200 - 79 - 51 - 99 +152 + 89 - 94 - 69 +148 +117 -100 =123 4.5 /11 2234
117 Vajda, Szidonia wm ROM 2265 - 15 - 16 +128 = 57 = 59 -123 =113 -106 -116 +132 +134 4.5 /11 2183
118 Van Gisbergen, Stan f NED 2270 = 9 - 3 - 11 =144 +149 = 91 - 80 +113 - 90 - 93 +142 4.5 /11 2215
119 Van Linde, Paul NED ---- - 59 =133 = 37 - 73 =114 +141 +150 = 91 - 70 - 69 =109 4.5 /11 2203
120 Van Wissen, Michiel E NED 2140 -106 = 73 - 92 =114 -112 - 89 =132 +149 +142 - 83 +141 4.5 /11 2137
121 Vandrey, Wolfgang f GER 2245 - 23 + 50 + 59 - 39 = 80 +106 - 62 = 56 - 91 =115 - 83 4.5 /11 2313
122 Vehi Bach, Victor M m ESP 2445 -111 +107 - 61 +139 - 73 - 37 - 98 + 93 +108 - 96 =112 4.5 /11 2196
123 Vuksanovic, Sanja wm YUG 2320 = 21 = 7 - 32 + 98 - 6 +117 -102 -109 =129 =105 =116 4.5 /11 2278
124 Weischede, Thomas GER 2330 = 7 - 21 +129 - 66 = 75 -111 =138 =103 -107 +134 =108 4.5 /11 2233
125 Chouganov, Juri RUS ---- =131 - 52 - 83 -147 -133 = 99 - 89 =112 +141 +135 =101 4.0 /11 2168
126 Eppinga, Herbert NED 2115 - 28 = 92 - 63 =112 - 68 =142 =139 =136 +140 -114 =137 4.0 /11 2202
127 Fontaine, Robert FRA 2285 - 49 +132 = 76 -135 =150 - 65 +148 = 86 = 84 - 88 -103 4.0 /11 2236
128 Khmiadashvili, Tamari wm GEO 2180 - 43 -115 -117 +140 + 69 - 71 - 63 -107 +148 -112 +145 4.0 /11 2119
129 Krylov, Stanislav RUS 2215 = 11 - 54 -124 +133 - 57 -114 +149 = 83 =123 = 97 - 94 4.0 /11 2225
130 Tulchinsky, Michael NED ---- =135 - 67 + 71 + 91 - 10 + 86 - 64 = 70 - 65 - 89 -104 4.0 /11 2279
131 Bye ---- = 37 -148 . . . -140 . -133 -132 . -149 3.5 /10 2176
132 Belle, Erika wm NED 2075 - 81 -127 -137 +142 -107 -113 =120 -140 +131 -117 +133 3.5 /11 2053
133 Braune, Stephan GER 2300 - 29 =119 - 66 -129 +125 -145 -144 +131 -146 +149 -132 3.5 /11 1911
134 Eppinga, Roland NED ---- - 86 + 99 - 60 + 69 = 70 - 50 +114 - 52 - 74 -124 -117 3.5 /11 2194
135 Houtman, Joop NED 2405 =130 =103 = 31 +127 - 17 = 55 - 58 = 74 - 63 -125 - 97 3.5 /11 2172
136 Jung, Karl-Otto GER 2210 - 76 - 87 +152 - 51 -115 +146 - 99 =126 =112 -108 =140 3.5 /11 2092
137 Koglin, Anke wf GER 2235 - 64 - 85 +132 = 87 +101 - 48 = 86 -104 - 88 -103 =126 3.5 /11 2202
138 Konson, Konstantin GER ---- - 47 - 57 =147 - 71 +145 = 79 =124 -114 - 93 -141 +144 3.5 /11 2177
139 Pinkus, Lutz GER 2215 - 41 =104 + 74 -122 - 87 -101 =126 +144 = 83 -111 -113 3.5 /11 2150
140 Richter, Gerald BEL 2245 - 19 - 38 -149 -128 -113 +131 =146 +132 -126 =145 =136 3.5 /11 1981
141 Tansky, Alexandr RUS ---- - 25 =145 + 68 - 11 - 55 -119 - 75 +146 -125 +138 -120 3.5 /11 1864
142 Van der Raaf, Erik NED 2215 - 62 - 82 - 50 -132 +152 =126 -103 +145 -120 +146 -118 3.5 /11 2079
143 Becking, Stephan GER ---- +151 - 19 = 80 - 82 + 99 - 87 = 96 - 89 - 69 . . 3.0 / 9 2174
144 Ismailova, Lala AZE 2115 - 70 = 71 - 6 =118 - 98 - 69 +133 -139 -113 +148 -138 3.0 /11 2070
145 Sasu-Ducsoara, Andreea wf ROM 2130 -131 =141 -102 - 74 -138 +133 - 88 -142 +149 =140 -128 3.0 /11 2107
146 Willemze, Jeroen NED ---- - 80 - 58 =112 = 68 -108 -136 =140 -141 +133 -142 =148 3.0 /11 2070
147 Yedidia, Jonathan f USA 2435 - 27 -108 =138 +125 +148 -110 . . . . . 2.5 / 6
148 Pel, Bonno NED ---- - 72 +131 + 57 - 41 -147 - 92 -127 -116 -128 -144 =146 2.5 /11 1935
149 Weclawski, Doris GER 2080 - 60 - 96 +140 - 37 -118 =103 -129 -120 -145 -133 +131 2.5 /11 1895
150 Carlier, Bruno m NED 2365 + 93 = 34 - 25 - 17 =127 - 58 -119 . . . . 2.0 / 7 2217
151 Petrescu, Irina C wf ROM 2090 -143 - 69 . . . . . . . . . 0.0 / 2
152 Belotelov, Dmitri RUS 2325 - 14 - 55 -136 -116 -142 . . . . . . 0.0 / 5
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3) Hastings International Chess Tournament
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My thanks to Brian Stephenson for the games. In the Open Section
11 year old Luke McShane beat GM Colin McNab. There is the belief
that he is the youngest player to do so. Ganguli of India I believe
won a game against a strong player and that would have to be looked
into. (early 1995).
Round 1 (1995.12.28)
Lalic, Bogdan - Miles, Anthony J 1-0 49 D20 Queen's gambit; Exchange
Conquest, Stuart - Luther, Thomas 1-0 39 A06 Reti (1.Pf3)
Speelman, Jonathan S - Sadler, Matthew 1/2 36 A07 Reti (1.Pf3)
Hodgson, Julian M - Khalifman, Alexander 1/2 57 D00 Queen's pawn
Yermolinsky, Alexey - Atalik, Suat 1/2 37 D44 QGD; Botwinnik
Round 2 (1995.12.29)
Sadler, Matthew - Hodgson, Julian M 1/2 47 D10 Slav defence
Miles, Anthony J - Conquest, Stuart 0-1 38 D00 Queen's pawn
Atalik, Suat - Khalifman, Alexander 0-1 44 A59 Wolga gambit
Yermolinsky, Alexey - Lalic, Bogdan 1/2 50 D25 Queen's gambit; Exchange
Luther, Thomas - Speelman, Jonathan S 1/2 27 B01 Scandinavian
Round 3 (1995.12.30)
Lalic, Bogdan - Atalik, Suat 1/2 26 E97 Kings indian; Main line
Conquest, Stuart - Yermolinsky, Alexey 1/2 59 B52 Sicilian
Khalifman, Alexander - Sadler, Matthew 0-1 52 D29 Queen's gambit; Exchange
Speelman, Jonathan S - Miles, Anthony J 0-1 39 D12 Slav defence
Hodgson, Julian M - Luther, Thomas 1/2 38 E08 Nimzo indian
Round 4 (1995.12.31)
Lalic, Bogdan - Conquest, Stuart 1-0 41 B39 Sicilian
Miles, Anthony J - Hodgson, Julian M 1-0 38 D11 Slav defence
Atalik, Suat - Sadler, Matthew 1/2 46 D40 Queen's gambit
Yermolinsky, Alexey - Speelman, Jonathan S 0-1 39 A40 Queen's pawn
Luther, Thomas - Khalifman, Alexander 0-1 48 B66 Sicilian
Hastings (ENG), XII 1995 - I 1996. cat. XIII (2571)
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1 Lalic, Bogdan g CRO 2590 * 1 . . 1 . = . = . 3.0 2728
2 Conquest, Stuart g ENG 2455 0 * . . 1 . . . = 1 2.5 2670
3 Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2655 . . * 0 . . 1 = . 1 2.5 2652
4 Sadler, Matthew g ENG 2565 . . 1 * . = = = . . 2.5 2692
5 Miles, Anthony J g ENG 2600 0 0 . . * 1 . 1 . . 2.0 2563
6 Speelman, Jonathan S g ENG 2620 . . . = 0 * . . 1 = 2.0 2568
7 Atalik, Suat g TUR 2525 = . 0 = . . * . = . 1.5 2505
8 Hodgson, Julian M g ENG 2590 . . = = 0 . . * . = 1.5 2505
9 Yermolinsky, Alexey g USA 2560 = = . . . 0 = . * . 1.5 2460
10 Luther, Thomas g GER 2550 . 0 0 . . = . = . * 1.0 2387
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4) FIDE's recent activities.
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A letter widely circulated on the internet has come from Willy Iclicki
the FIDE treasurer. It shows a President who is both energetic and
full of ideas. However his ideas for a knock out for the World
Championships are I think almost Universally regarded as ill conceived.
They cannot possibly produce an undisputed champion. To my mind a
World Championship match tournament of say 4 players playing 8 times
against each other, or 6 players playing 4 times would have much
more validity and would be even more exciting than his proposals.
(there is a problem of how to deal with Kasparov and the FIDE champion
equally) However the cancellation of the Interzonal seems to indicate
that the President is set upon this course. Initial reactions to the early
days of the Presidency suggest that the President will want his own
way. It will be interesting to see how this conflict will be resolved.
Here is the letter:
To All Federations
From Willy Iclicki
FIDE Treasurer
Willy's Letter
As FIDE received many complaints during 1995 of failure to communicate to
its members, I have decided to give you, say every two months, a letter to
you giving some news and personal views about our organisation. We have
now a new FIDE President with new ideas and fresh energy.
First Presidential Board, Singapore 20-22 December 1995 President Kirsan
Iljumzhinov invited on his own expenses all members of the P.B to
Singapore. The idea behind such an early meeting was to discuss with the
PB about ideas regarding about the working of our organisation and the
implementing of a new World Championship program.
Opening speech.
The President summarised his activities of the last three weeks.
1-Creating a image.
'To get investments we have to show stability and existence'. The
President set up in Moscow a marketing team to find the best way to
promote FIDE and chess around the world. Their first production is a video
clip of 15 seconds to be show at the prime time on CNN and on Russian TV.
Contacts with BBC and CBS have also be made. Our President's personal
investment will reach US$ 400,000.
2-Recreate the family - Gens Una Sumus.
On Friday 15th December the President spend a night to Budapest meeting R
J Fischer; he promises to pay to Fisher the US$ 100,000 claimed as due
from the former USSR Chess Federation. After twelve hours of talks Bobby
promises to reconsider his position with FIDE and accepted from the
President a gift of land to build a house in Kalmykia. However Fischer was
insisting that the Fischer's chess rules should be adopted by FIDE. The
President also had some conversations with G.Kasparov. Nothing concrete
was decided, but more meetings are to come.
3-Popularisation of Chess.
The President aims to raise the number of FIDE members countries to 198
(today-153). He plans to visit in the next four months 50 countries
around the world and meet their leading officials.Already on his agenda
are meeting with Presidents or Prime Ministers of Indonesia, Vietnam,
Kenya, France, Canada, Russia and USA.
4-World Championship.
'FIDE is there to promote chess and should be above all other chess
organisation'. With these words the President clearly replies to the PCA
concerning the World Championship matches. He wants G.Kasparov to return
to the FIDE's cycle for the sake of unity and as best for chess.The
President proposes to create, starting at the end of 1996, an annual 21
days Knock-out Championship tournament. Two to four games to decide each
pairing.Some players will qualify directly into round two and some to
round three. ( The schedule and list of players is already fixed) Kasparov
and the winner of Kamsky - Karpov will go directly to the semi finals
though they will be paired together only if they reach the final. For the
first event the prize fund will amount US$ 5,000,000!! This new idea
accepted unanimously by the P.B, will have the direct effect that the
Interzonal scheduled for Yerevan, Armenia in April-May 1996 is cancelled.
5-Chess and Politics : elections at FIDE Congress, Armenia 1996.
Mr.Makropoulos asked the President to clarify details of the 96 FIDE
election(s). Two offices to be elected or five? Also Mr. Makropoulos and
Mr. Iclicki were willing t resign as General Secretary and Treasurer if
the President wished to replace them. The President answered : ' I want to
work with Mr. Makropoulos and Mr. Iclicki. We have to much to do and we
need unity... For next year's election I will analyse the work done by
each one in this team and then I will nominate. Now FIDE need to be run by
professionals and we should consider paying people to work and also
encourage them to achieve. We should not lose time speaking about
politics but only think about producing'.
6. Campomanes' final speech.
'I solve my problem in Manila.But at the request of the President I shall
not put this on the table. I have full confidence in the President. Let's
follow his lead and let's put our problems aside. Let's move to peace and
move forward.'
7.Other business.
Next PB meeting will be organised by Willy Iclicki and is scheduled on
March 16,17 in Brussels The President nominates Mr. I.Leong member of the
administration staff. He shall move soon to Lausanne. All who will play in
FIDE events should be asked to agree to respect a FIDE Code of Conduct.
This one will be published very soon. The Treasurer proposes new
implementations of Financial Statutes.Those include approval of all
transactions over Sfr. 1,000. ChessPlanet, the company who will create
FIDENET (an Interenet WWW services), has received four business proposals
. The deadline for final decision will be the end of January 1996.
8.My conclusion.
The best start for the new President. A very ambitious program with real
possibilities. It will not be easy to avoid political clashes or personal
conflicts. But it's clear that money will talk. Not only for the players
but also for the federations and for all of us who spend time for chess
and FIDE.We should think like professionals and not like politicians! I'm
agreed with the President when he said: 'only the people who will achieve
should stay in the office'. My concern is also not give away the title of
World Champion on a couple games and also that this title will have a real
value only if it includes the participation of ALL top players. I shall
work in this direction.
Please send me few words if you wish to get my Issue number 2. Let me wish
you Happy New Year 1996.
5) FIDE RATING LIST JAN 1996
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Top 100 players and ties for 100
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Points to note. Kasparov appears second on the rating list to Vladimir
Kramnik. Kramnik had more rated games and thus appears first.
As Bill Harston points out rating differences of less than 25 points
are negligible statistically so we see a group of Kramnik, Kasparov
and Karpov as clear leaders in the World. Ivanchuk, Anand and Kamsky
form a second very close group. These are the clear chess elite.
The Kasparov-Anand PCA match was not rated because the results were
not submitted. Kasparov's performance rating for that match would have
been 2782 for 18 games, Anand's 2738. It is not clear to me whether
this would have increased or decreased his rating as compared to this
list. Some say Kasparov lost points because his performance was below
the expected 2795, intuitively I would say that because 2782 is higher
than the 2775 rating Kasparov has in the current list his grade may
have been 2780 including this match. Someone who knows what they are
talking about is required for that calculation.
Judit Polgar is the first woman ever in the top 10 in the World.
She had a solid year consolidating gains from previous years.
She won a number of matches convincingly and is reported to be
very happy with her progress in positional chess. I predict another
year of improvement for her.
I received the list via fax from Bob Wade on the day the list came out.
This was just the leading ratings, I do not expect to have the full rating
list for at least a couple of weeks. At least. So don't ask me what your
new rating is. I get a very large number of enquiries and it gets as annoying
as it does predictable.
If anyone does get the full list on disk please may I have a copy. I will
point people in the right direction for access to the new list from my
www page when it does appear on the net.
I grepped the old June 1995 list for the names that appear in the new list
and appended the ratings and number of games played to the end of the old
entry. Hope this explains any typos that might have occured. (So the 1/96
column and GAMES contain the new rating information.)
My thanks to Bob Wade for the new lists.
Underneath are the lists for Juniors, Women and Girls.
RANK NUMBER NAME TITLE NAT JURATING BIRTHDAY S 1/96 GAMES
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1. 4101588 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2730 31 25.06.75 M 2775 42
2. 4100018 Kasparov, Gary g RUS 2795 26 13.04.63 M 2775 19
3. 4100026 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2775 37 23.05.51 M 2770 12
4. 14100010 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2740 36 18.03.69 M 2735 39
5. 2000024 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2735 16 02.06.74 M 2735 0
6. 5000017 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2725 10 11.12.69 M 2725 0
7. 2900084 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2640 40 15.03.75 M 2700 40
8. 13500015 Gelfand, Boris g BLR 2685 29 24.06.68 M 2700 24
9. 2209390 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2695 61 04.07.72 M 2690 38
10. 700070 Polgar, Judit (GM) g HUN 2635 31 23.07.76 F 2675 29
11. 4100107 Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2670 35 30.01.69 M 2670 24
12. 4100069 Salov, Valery g RUS 2685 25 26.05.64 M 2670 11
13. 400025 Short, Nigel D. g ENG 2645 58 01.06.65 M 2665 37
14. 14400030 Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2630 69 13.06.68 M 2665 20
15. 4500016 Ehlvest, Jaan g EST 2630 37 14.10.62 M 2660 48
16. 400041 Adams, Michael g ENG 2660 63 17.11.71 M 2660 29
17. 14400669 Azmaiparshvili, Zurab g BIH 2620 33 16.03.60 M 2660 27
18. 4618777 Yusupov, Artur g GER 2680 53 13.02.60 M 2655 19
19. 4100115 Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2655 31 18.01.66 M 2650 34
20. 300071 Hracek, Zbynek g CZE 2635 53 09.09.70 M 2650 20
21. 702293 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2630 90 29.08.76 M 2650 19
22. 1300016 Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2635 57 23.03.31 M 2645 47
23. 4100182 Epishin, Vladimir g RUS 2640 35 11.07.65 M 2645 16
24. 4100140 Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2650 37 21.11.66 M 2645 09
25. 14400014 Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2645 26 11.09.60 M 2645 00
26. 4500024 Oll, Lembit g EST 2630 35 23.04.66 M 2640 14
27. 403385 Miles, Anthony J g ENG 2600 58 23.04.55 M 2635 66
28. 4100484 Glek, Igor V. g RUS 2580 37 07.11.61 M 2635 46
29. 2200015 Illescas Cordoba, Miguel g ESP 2620 45 03.12.65 M 2635 18
30. 4600010 Huebner, Robert g GER 2630 35 06.11.48 M 2635 17
31. 2802341 Yudasin, Leonid g ISR 2630 40 08.08.59 M 2635 16
32. 600016 Lautier, Joel g FRA 2635 51 12.04.73 M 2630 32
33. 4102142 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2635 54 17.06.76 M 2630 30
34. 1700014 Andersson, Ulf g SWE 2630 15 27.06.51 M 2630 20
35. 2000032 Seirawan, Yasser g USA 2625 22 24.03.60 M 2630 11
36. 4100840 Tiviakov, Sergei g RUS 2655 53 14.02.73 M 2625 38
37. 703303 Leko, Peter g HUN 2605 41 08.09.79 M 2625 23
38. 4116992 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2630 19 18.07.77 M 2625 11
39. 400033 Speelman, Jonathan S g ENG 2620 19 02.10.56 M 2625 06
40. 1000012 Timman, Jan H g NED 2590 44 14.12.51 M 2620 64
41. 13300032 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2625 46 07.12.71 M 2620 11
42. 400076 Hodgson, Julian M. g ENG 2590 56 25.07.63 M 2615 58
43. 14100029 Beliavsky, Alexander G g UKR 2650 41 17.12.53 M 2615 50
44. 2801990 Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2630 44 21.01.68 M 2615 43
45. 2900017 Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2605 39 28.11.65 M 2615 37
46. 2000040 Gulko, Boris F g USA 2620 50 09.02.47 M 2615 28
47. 13300016 Vaganian, Rafael A g ARM 2645 45 15.10.51 M 2615 19
48. 4623606 Dautov, Rustem g GER 2620 11 28.11.65 M 2615 11
49. 1400010 Hansen, Curt g DEN 2620 33 18.09.64 M 2615 09
50. 4115309 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2595 9 15.10.74 M 2610 63
51. 2800012 Psakhis, Lev g ISR 2610 41 29.11.58 M 2610 46
52. 4119819 Krasenkov, Mikhail g RUS 2590 32 14.11.63 M 2610 40
53. 4200012 Kotronias, Vasilios g GRE 2590 50 25.08.64 M 2610 33
54. 7100019 Adianto, Utut g INA 2590 25 16.03.65 M 2610 24
55. 4100190 Vyzmanavin, Alexey g RUS 2605 0 01.01.60 M 2610 23
56. 4100093 Dolmatov, Sergey g RUS 2615 11 20.02.59 M 2610 18
57. 1302310 Gavrikov, Viktor g SUI 2605 9 29.07.57 M 2605 22
58. 400017 Nunn, John D M g ENG 2615 33 25.04.55 M 2605 20
59. 2008564 Kaidanov, Grigory S g USA 2585 36 11.10.59 M 2605 17
60. 12800023 Rozentalis, Eduardas g LTU 2610 39 27.05.63 M 2605 10
61. 4100549 Goldin, Alexander g RUS 2585 24 27.02.65 M 2600 44
62. 400173 Sadler, Matthew g ENG 2565 28 15.05.74 M 2600 40
63. 3800024 Granda Zuniga, Julio E g PER 2605 30 25.02.67 M 2600 36
64. 13700146 Tkachiev, Vladislav g KAZ 2605 55 . . M 2600 31
65. 900010 Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g YUG 2600 32 02.11.50 M 2600 11
66. 14200074 Nenashev, Alexander g UZB 2585 40 25.08.62 M 2595 64
67. 2000105 DeFirmian, Nick E g USA 2605 66 26.07.57 M 2595 50
68. 14100096 Tukmakov, Vladimir B g UKR 2600 48 15.03.46 M 2595 37
69. 715620 Chernin, Alexander g HUN 2600 42 06.03.60 M 2595 31
70. 14100061 Lerner, Konstantin Z g UKR 2605 47 28.02.50 M 2595 27
71. 700037 Portisch, Lajos g HUN 2615 27 04.04.37 M 2595 21
72. 13600044 Giorgadze, Giorgi g GEO 2605 46 10.10.64 M 2590 79
73. 13900048 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2530 51 14.12.71 M 2590 63
74. 14100037 Novikov, Igor A g UKR 2580 30 23.05.62 M 2590 62
75. 4100425 Smagin, Sergey g RUS 2545 34 08.09.58 M 2590 57
76. 4107225 Korneev, Oleg g RUS 2605 84 25.07.69 M 2590 49
77. 4600037 Lobron, Eric g GER 2595 38 07.05.60 M 2590 32
78. 14100088 Romanishin, Oleg M g UKR 2580 63 10.01.52 M 2590 21
79. 200930 Gurevich, Mikhail g BEL 2585 21 22.02.59 M 2590 16
80. 700010 Ribli, Zoltan g HUN 2590 24 06.09.51 M 2590 00
81. 14100177 Malaniuk, Vladimir P g UKR 2580 59 21.07.57 M 2585 69
82. 4100379 Dvoirys, Semen I. g RUS 2580 29 02.11.58 M 2585 44
83. 2802058 Milov, Vadim g ISR 2570 47 08.01.72 M 2585 35
84. 2300028 Petursson, Margeir g ISL 2565 29 15.02.60 M 2585 34
85. 14101262 Savchenko, Stanislav g UKR 2590 21 21.01.67 M 2585 33
86. 14900017 Ftacnik, Lubomir g SVK 2580 58 30.10.57 M 2585 31
87. 4113403 Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2600 35 18.08.76 M 2585 31
88. 2801906 Alterman, Boris g ISR 2595 52 04.05.70 M 2585 18
89. 1500015 Agdestein, Simen g NOR 2585 11 15.05.67 M 2585 00
90. 1700022 Hellers, Ferdinand g SWE 2585 0 28.01.69 M 2585 00
91. 4100131 Polugaevsky, Lev g RUS 2585 0 20.11.34 M 2585 00 *
92. 13700014 Vladimirov, Evgeny g KAZ 2585 4 20.01.57 M 2585 00
93. 14101130 Zontakh, Andrey m UKR 2460 50 04.11.70 M 2580 112
94. 13600591 Movsesian, Sergei m GEO 2470 23 03.11.78 M 2580 70
95. 14100053 Eingorn, Vereslav S g UKR 2600 36 23.11.56 M 2580 41
96. 4600118 Hickl, Joerg g GER 2570 29 16.04.65 M 2580 39
97. 14101025 Onischuk, Alexander g UKR 2575 45 . . M 2580 38
98. 4100301 Razuvaev, Yuri S g RUS 2585 26 10.10.45 M 2580 37
99. 14502879 Kozul, Zdenko g CRO 2580 71 21.05.66 M 2580 35
100. 4100328 Sokolov, Andrei g RUS 2585 25 20.03.63 M 2580 31
101.14100142 Kruppa, Yuri g UKR 2570 17 . . M 2580 30
102.13300024 Lputian, Smbat G g ARM 2585 41 14.02.58 M 2580 11
103.13300040 Minasian, Artashes g ARM 2565 42 21.01.67 M 2580 11
104.32000019 Rogers, Ian g AUS 2600 36 24.06.60 M 2580 11
105. 2000059 Christiansen, Larry M g USA 2590 23 27.06.56 M 2580 09
106. 604011 Dorfman, Josif D g FRA 2580 14 01.05.53 M 2580 05
107. 4100476 Dokhoian, Yury g RUS 2580 8 26.10.64 M 2580 00
108. 2800080 Kosashvili, Yona g ISR 2580 22 03.07.70 M 2580 00
109. 4100514 Pigusov, Evgeny g RUS 2580 8 31.03.61 M 2580 00
* Lev died earlier this year and I don't believe should be
in the official rating list.
TOP 20 JUNIORS
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RANK NUMBER NAME TITLE NAT JURATING BIRTHDAY S 1/96 GAMES
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1. 700070 Polgar, Judit (GM) g HUN 2635 31 23.07.76 F 2675 29
2. 702293 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2630 90 29.08.76 M 2650 19
3. 4102142 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2635 54 17.06.76 M 2630 30
4. 703303 Leko, Peter g HUN 2605 41 08.09.79 M 2625 23
5. 4116992 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2630 19 18.07.77 M 2625 11
6. 4113403 Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2600 35 18.08.76 M 2585 31
7. 13600591 Movsesian, Sergei m GEO 2470 23 03.11.78 M 2580 70
8. 12400084 Dao, Thien Hai m VIE 2545 66 10.05.78 M 2560 10
9. 702218 Gyimesi, Zoltan m HUN 2525 61 31.03.77 M 2545 30
10. 2802007 Sutovskij, Emil m ISR 2545 50 10.09.77 M 2545 24
11. 1100696 Kaminski, Marcin m POL 2495 57 10.03.77 M 2525 59
12. 1202758 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter m ROM 2465 46 01.08.76 M 2515 44
13. 1200852 Schwartzman, Gabriel g ROM 2520 27 23.10.76 M 2510 20
14. 2801485 Har-Zvi, Ronen m ISR 2535 38 13.10.76 M 2510 16
15. 4119800 Dyachkov, Sergej RUS 2520 29 06.11.76 M 2505 12
16. 13700154 Irzhanov, Ruslan m KAZ 2480 33 27.11.76 M 2500 47
17. 11600454 Fridman, Daniel m LAT 2490 42 15.02.76 M 2500 27
18. 4113217 Yemelin, Vasily g RUS 2500 32 01.02.76 M 2495 32
19. 11600462 Krakops, Maris m LAT 2525 38 03.04.78 M 2490 40
20. 400580 Parker, Jonathan m ENG 2415 8 19.05.76 M 2480 38
21. 4122747 Shariyazdanov, Andrey RUS 2475 30 12.07.76 M 2480 33
22. 4119240 Lastin, A. RUS 2465 8 30.10.76 M 2480 17
23. 12400025 Nguyen, Anh Dung m VIE 2485 10 17.03.76 M 2480 10
TOP 50 WOMEN
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RANK NUMBER NAME TITLE NAT JURATING BIRTHDAY S 1/96 GAMES
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1. 700070 Polgar, Judit (GM) g HUN 2635 31 23.07.76 F 2675 29
2. 700088 Polgar, Zsuzsa (GM) g HUN 2565 21 19.04.69 F 2550 20
3. 8600147 Xie, Jun (GM) g CHN 2540 35 30.10.70 F 2530 23
4. 1700030 Cramling, Pia (GM) g SWE 2510 40 23.04.63 F 2525 43
5. 13600036 Chiburdanidze, Maia (GM) g GEO 2500 24 17.01.61 F 2515 18
6. 700231 Polgar, Sofia (IM) g HUN 2485 48 02.11.74 F 2495 38
7. 13600079 Ioseliani, Nana (IM) g GEO 2475 11 12.02.62 F 2485 28
8. 13600168 Arakhamia, Ketevan (IM) g GEO 2420 38 19.07.68 F 2480 78
9. 14100410 Galliamova-Ivanchuk, Alisa (IM) g UKR 2475 0 18.01.72 F 2480 30
10. 4119827 Matveeva, Svetlana g RUS 2440 31 04.07.69 F 2445 29
11. 904180 Maric, Alisa (IM) g YUG 2445 35 10.01.70 F 2435 59
12. 2005956 Levitina, Irina S g USA 2420 0 08.06.54 F 2420 00
13. 8600171 Peng, Zhaoqin g CHN 2355 15 08.05.68 F 2410 55
14. 2000547 Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Elena g USA 2420 22 11.03.57 F 2410 07
15. 1201930 Peptan, Corina g ROM 2340 22 17.03.78 F 2400 50
16. 908550 Bojkovic, Natasa g YUG 2425 27 03.09.71 F 2400 41
17. 14101181 Gaponenko, Inna m UKR 2365 49 22.06.76 F 2390 53
18. 13900145 Skripchenko, Almira m MDA 2400 57 17.02.76 F 2390 36
19. 4623614 Kachiani-Gersinska, Ketino g GER 2360 42 11.09.71 F 2390 22
20. 4108680 Prudnikova, Svetlana g RUS 2405 9 18.03.67 F 2385 38
21. 4106970 Stepovaia-Dianchenko, Tatiana g RUS 2310 16 23.09.65 F 2385 29
22. 8600546 Zhu, Chen g CHN 2390 31 16.03.76 F 2380 26
23. 13600125 Gaprindashvili, Nona (GM) g GEO 2390 0 03.05.41 F 2380 17
24. 8600350 Qin, Kanying g CHN 2370 23 02.02.74 F 2380 13
25. 14900440 Repkova, Eva m SVK 2320 31 16.01.75 F 2375 52
26. 700550 Madl, Ildiko (IM) g HUN 2370 39 05.11.69 F 2375 49
27. Misanovic, Vesna g BIH ---- -- 27.11.68 F 2375 15
28. 1200496 Foisor, Christina Adela g ROM 2345 39 07.04.67 F 2370 57
29. 2902257 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2415 50 19.04.79 F 2370 50
30. 13500210 Eidelson, Rakhil m BLR 2360 56 14.11.58 F 2370 13
31. 13600320 Khurtsidze, Nino g GEO 2295 33 28.09.75 F 2365 31
32. 100536 Amura, Claudia N. m ARG 2330 23 26.09.70 F 2360 36
33. 12400149 Hoang Th., Trang m VIE 2405 61 25.04.80 F 2360 33
34. 13600222 Gurieli, Nino g GEO 2360 23 07.12.61 F 2360 31
35. 14100495 Lelchuk, Zoja g UKR 2335 11 01.01.61 F 2360 16
36. 4630610 Borulia, Ekaterina g GER 2370 20 . . F 2360 11
37. 14101513 Zhukova, Natalia m UKR 2360 65 . . F 2355 38
38. 4105621 Demina, Julia g RUS 2345 0 03.02.69 F 2355 11
39. 14100380 Litinskaya, Marta I. g UKR 2350 48 25.03.49 F 2355 11
40. 8600406 Wang, Pin g CHN 2355 6 01.12.74 F 2355 00
41. 4108370 Shumiakina, Tatjana g RUS 2345 26 04.10.65 F 2350 34
42. 13400029 Velikhanli, Firuza g AZE 2355 40 . . F 2350 16
43. 2902265 Aleksieva, Silvia m BUL 2290 24 04.05.74 F 2345 42
44. 2900602 Voiska, Margarita g BUL 2370 25 03.04.63 F 2340 34
45. 13400010 Sofieva, Ainur g AZE 2350 41 19.07.70 F 2340 06
46. 4116704 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina m RUS 2350 43 . . F 2335 32
47. 403512 Hunt, Harriet m ENG 2385 43 04.02.78 F 2335 30
48. 4108558 Strutinskaya, Galina N m RUS 2330 33 01.07.57 F 2335 21
49. 302805 Holoubkova, Martina m CZE 2330 35 . . F 2335 09
50. 13300210 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2320 44 . . F 2330 29
TOP 20 GIRLS
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RANK NUMBER NAME TITLE NAT JURATING BIRTHDAY S 1/96 GAMES
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1. 700070 Polgar, Judit (GM) g HUN 2635 31 23.07.76 F 2675 29
2. 1201930 Peptan, Corina g ROM 2340 22 17.03.78 F 2400 50
3. 14101181 Gaponenko, Inna m UKR 2365 49 22.06.76 F 2390 53
4. 13900145 Skripchenko, Almira m MDA 2400 57 17.02.76 F 2390 36
5. 8600546 Zhu, Chen g CHN 2390 31 16.03.76 F 2380 26
6. 2902257 Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2415 50 19.04.79 F 2370 50
7. 12400149 Hoang Th., Trang m VIE 2405 61 25.04.80 F 2360 33
8. 403512 Hunt, Harriet m ENG 2385 43 04.02.78 F 2335 30
9. 13300210 Danielian, Elina g ARM 2320 44 . . F 2330 29
10. 4119851 Roschina, Tatiana RUS 2315 41 28.03.76 F 2315 28
11. 1106619 Bobrowska, Monika m POL 2310 69 24.03.78 F 2305 53
12. 13600656 Lomineishvili, Maia m GEO 2295 8 11.11.77 F 2305 34
13. 304050 Krupkova, Petra m CZE 2210 17 23.04.76 F 2300 29
14. 705136 Medvegy, Nora HUN 2265 39 29.03.77 F 2300 29
15. 13601032 Khorava, Miranda m GEO 2270 8 19.11.77 F 2295 21
16. 2903210 Velcheva, Maria m BUL 2315 22 14.10.76 F 2270 30
17. 1107445 Dworakowska, Joanna POL 2290 23 21.10.78 F 2265 53
18. 1203274 Vajda, Szidonia m ROM 2265 36 20.01.79 F 2265 39
19. 14900866 Hagarova, Zuzana SVK 2215 29 25.11.77 F 2260 40
20. 1106686 Zielinska, Marta POL 2250 31 30.01.78 F 2250 30
6) Reggio Emilia
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Round 1 (1995.12.27)
Beliavsky, Alexander - Vaganian, Rafael A 1-0 60 D57 Queen's gambit
Dreev, Alexey - Chernin, Alexander 1/2 27 D23 Queen's gambit; Exchange
Epishin, Vladimir - Dautov, Rustem 1/2 41 E15 Nimzo indian
Azmaiparashvili, Zurab - Belotti, Bruno 1-0 27 E97 Kings indian; Main line
Godena, Michele - Razuvaev, Yuri S 1/2 22 B17 Caro-Kann
Round 2 (1995.12.28)
Beliavsky, Alexander - Epishin, Vladimir 1/2 51 E11 Bogo indian
Dautov, Rustem - Dreev, Alexey 0-1 60 D43 Queen's gambit
Vaganian, Rafael A - Razuvaev, Yuri S 1/2 29 A07 Reti (1.Pf3)
Belotti, Bruno - Godena, Michele 0-1 39 C44 Scottish
Round 3 (1995.12.29)
Dreev, Alexey - Beliavsky, Alexander 1/2 58 D36 Queen's gambit
Epishin, Vladimir - Vaganian, Rafael A 1-0 62 D56 Queen's gambit
Razuvaev, Yuri S - Belotti, Bruno 1-0 26 A49 Queen's pawn
Azmaiparashvili, Zurab - Dautov, Rustem 1-0 31 A46 Queen's pawn
Godena, Michele - Chernin, Alexander 1/2 43 B08 Pirc; Classical
Round 4 (1995.12.30)
Beliavsky, Alexander - Azmaiparashvili, Zurab 1-0 33 D97 Gruenfeld indian
Epishin, Vladimir - Dreev, Alexey 1/2 21 D45 Queen's gambit
Chernin, Alexander - Razuvaev, Yuri S 1/2 10 A17 English; 1.c4
Dautov, Rustem - Godena, Michele 1/2 28 D23 Queen's gambit; Exchange
Vaganian, Rafael A - Belotti, Bruno 1/2 37 E08 Nimzo indian
Round 5 (1995.12.31)
Dreev, Alexey - Vaganian, Rafael A 1/2 17 E11 Bogo indian
Razuvaev, Yuri S - Dautov, Rustem 1/2 37 E04 Nimzo indian
Azmaiparashvili, Zurab - Epishin, Vladimir 1/2 28 E12 Nimzo indian
Belotti, Bruno - Chernin, Alexander 1/2 59 B08 Pirc; Classical
NOTE
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Chernin,A - Azmaiparashvili,Z (2)
Godena,M - Beliavsky,A (5)
These games were unfinished at the time of writing having been adjourned.
My thanks to Marco Martini and Massimiliano Orsi for the news and games
from this tournament. Regular updates can be got from the site:
http://www.icom.it/user/scac/
Chess World Magazine page.
Reggio Emilia (ITA), XII 1995 - I 1996. cat. XIV (2583)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1 Beliavsky, Alexander g UKR 2650 * = = . 1 . . . 1 . 3.0 /4 2836
2 Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2670 = * = . . . = 1 = . 3.0 /5 2703
3 Epishin, Vladimir g RUS 2640 = = * . = . . = 1 . 3.0 /5 2713
4 Razuvaev, Yuri S g RUS 2585 . . . * . = = = = 1 3.0 /5 2605
5 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab g BIH 2620 0 . = . * . . 1 . 1 2.5 /4 2667
6 Godena, Michele m ITA 2420 . . . = . * = = . 1 2.5 /4 2641
7 Chernin, Alexander g HUN 2600 . = . = . = * . . = 2.0 /4 2513
8 Dautov, Rustem g GER 2620 . 0 = = 0 = . * . . 1.5 /5 2438
9 Vaganian, Rafael A g ARM 2645 0 = 0 = . . . . * = 1.5 /5 2436
10 Belotti, Bruno m ITA 2380 . . . 0 0 0 = . = * 1.0 /5 2334
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7) CUBA AGAIN PAN-AMERICAN CHAMPIONS by Roberto Alvarez
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Cuba won the "IV Pan-American Teams Chess Championships" held on Cascavel,
a city of Brasil, from December 14th to 21st and got a place for the nex
"World Cup" to be played in Luzern (with the 10 world best teams).
The fight for the first place was reduced to only 3 teams: Argentina (ELO
favorite), Cuba (former Pan-American Champion) and Brasil (organizing the
event and with an strong team too). The remaining teams were at least one
category above, with Bolivia playing only three boards (lost all his games
on first board by walk-over). Chile played without his strongs masters
(Morovic,Cifuentes and Rodrigo Vasquez), but finished at 4th place.
Cascavel BRA 14-21/12/95
Aver. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pts
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1-CUBA 2515 XXX 2,5 2,5 3,0 3,5 4,0 4,0 19,5
2-ARGENTINA 2534 1,5 XXX 2,5 3,0 2,5 3,5 4,0 17,0 5*
3-BRASIL 2501 1,5 1,5 XXX 3,5 3,5 3,0 4,0 17,0 4*
4-CHILE 2335 1,0 1,0 0,5 XXX 2,5 3,0 3,0 11,0
5-PARAGUAY 2273 0,5 1,5 0,5 1,5 XXX 2,0 3,5 9,5
6-URUGUAY 2214 0,0 0,5 1.0 1.0 2.0 XXX 2,5 7,0
7-BOLIVIA 2041 0,0 0,0 0,0 1,0 0,5 1,5 XXX 3,0
* "Match points" wins=1 pt, draw=0,5 pt
ARGENTINA (Average ELO 2534)
1-GM Pablo Zarnicki 2570
2-IM Pablo Ricardi 2545
3-IM Sergio Slipak 2520
4-GM Ariel Sorin 2500
5-IM Alejandro Hoffman 2495
6-IM Marcelo Tempone 2435
CUBA (Average ELO 2515)
1-GM Jesus Nogueiras 2560
2-GM Walter Arencibia 2515
3-GM Reynaldo Vera 2495
4-GM Amador Rodriguez 2490
5-IM Julio Becerra 2460
6-IM Juan Borges 2445
BRASIL (Average ELO 2501)
1-GM Gilberto Milos 2555
2-GM Jaime Sunye Neto 2510
3-MI Darcy Lima 2475
4-MI Giovanni Vescovi 2465
5-MI Everaldo Matsuura 2415
6-MI Cicero Braga 2395
4-CHILE (Average ELO 2335)
1-FM Carlos Silva 2370
2-Luis Valenzuela 2340
3-Daniel Barria 2275
4-FM J.Cortes Moyano 2355
5-Raul Pinochet 2085
6-Alfonso Palma 2000
5-PARAGUAY (Average ELO 2273)
1-FM Eduardo Peralta 2295
2-Paulo Jodorkovsky 2260
3-FM Cristobal Valiente 2340
4-Leonardo Lipiniks 2195
5-Victorio Riego 2255
6-Jose Cubas 2165
6-URUGUAY (Average ELO 2214)
1-Juan Pablo Pichuaga 2235
2-Guillermo Carvalho 2170
3-Jaime EScofet 2215
4-Jose Riverol 2235
5-Gabriel Curi 2310
6-Jorge de la Riva 2000
7-BOLIVIA (Average ELO 2041)
1-Osvaldo Rivas 2000
2-Johnny Cueto 2165
3-Jorge Molina 2000
4-Boris Ferrufino 2000
TABLE of performances from the event.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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1 Milos, Gilberto g BRA 2555 = 2 +10 +32 +38 . + 7 +19 5.5 /6 2701
2 Nogueiras, Jesus g CUB 2560 = 1 = 7 +19 . +10 +30 +38 5.0 /6 2561
3 Ricardi, Pablo m ARG 2545 . . +20 +28 +33 + 6 . 4.0 /4
4 Slipak, Sergio m ARG 2520 +31 - 8 . +24 +35 +14 . 4.0 /5 2564
5 Barria, Daniel CHI 2275 =35 =14 =27 +29 =12 . +30 4.0 /6 2527
6 Sunye Neto, Jaime g BRA 2510 - 8 +20 +30 +33 . - 3 +31 4.0 /6 2457
7 Zarnicki, Pablo g ARG 2570 +19 = 2 =10 +32 +38 - 1 . 4.0 /6 2404
8 Arencibia, Walter g CUB 2515 + 6 + 4 . . =20 +28 . 3.5 /4 2732
9 Becerra Rivero, Julio m CUB 2460 +37 =18 . . +36 +24 . 3.5 /4 2696
10 Silva, Carlos NCA 2015 +38 - 1 = 7 +31 - 2 . +32 3.5 /6 2436
11 Borges Mateos, Juan m CUB 2445 . . +29 . . +16 +34 3.0 /3
12 Rodriguez, Amador g CUB 2490 . =27 +22 . = 5 . +35 3.0 /4 2448
13 Vescovi, Giovanni m BRA 2465 . +36 =24 . . =18 +29 3.0 /4 2513
14 Lima, Darcy m BRA 2475 +23 = 5 . +35 . - 4 =15 3.0 /5 2407
15 Valiente R, Cristobal f PAR 2340 +27 . =23 =20 =28 . =14 3.0 /5 2477
16 Curi, Gabriel URU 2310 . . =21 =17 +25 -11 =26 2.5 /5 2317
17 Hoffman, Alejandro m ARG 2495 =22 . +36 =16 . . . 2.0 /3 2411
18 Tempone, Marcelo m ARG 2435 . = 9 . . +34 =13 . 2.0 /3 2462
19 Peralta, Eduardo f PAR 2295 - 7 . - 2 . +32 +38 - 1 2.0 /5 2287
20 Valenzuela, Luis CHI 2340 +33 - 6 - 3 =15 = 8 . . 2.0 /5 2343
21 Braga, Cicero m BRA 2395 . . =16 +34 . . . 1.5 /2 2310
22 Lipiniks, Leonardo PAR 2195 =17 . -12 . . +35 . 1.5 /3 2299
23 Vera, Reynaldo g CUB 2495 -14 . =15 . . . +33 1.5 /3 2326
24 Riveroi, Jose URU 2235 . =34 =13 - 4 . - 9 =36 1.5 /5 2257
25 Cubas, Jose PAR 2165 . . . +26 -16 . . 1.0 /2 2197
26 Pinochet, Raul CHI 2085 =34 . . -25 . . =16 1.0 /3 2044
27 Sorin, Ariel m ARG 2500 -15 =12 = 5 . . . . 1.0 /3 2243
28 Escofet, Jaime URU 2215 . =35 . - 3 =15 - 8 . 1.0 /4 2193
29 Riego, Victorio PAR 2255 . . -11 - 5 . +34 -13 1.0 /4
30 Carvalho, Guillermo URU 2170 . =33 - 6 . =31 - 2 - 5 1.0 /5 2114
31 Jodorcovsky, Paulo PAR 2260 - 4 . . -10 =30 =33 - 6 1.0 /5 2036
32 Pichuaga, Juan Pablo URU 2235 . +38 - 1 - 7 -19 . -10 1.0 /5
33 Cueto, J BOL 2165 -20 =30 . - 6 - 3 =31 -23 1.0 /6 2113
34 Ferrufino,Boris BOL ---- =26 =24 . -21 -18 -29 -11 1.0 /6 2035
35 Molina,Jorge BOL ---- = 5 =28 . -14 - 4 -22 -12 1.0 /6 2088
36 Cortes Moyano, Julio CHI 2355 . -13 -17 . - 9 . =24 0.5 /4 2091
37 Matsuura, Everaldo f BRA 2415 - 9 . . . . . . 0.0 /1
38 Rivas,Osvaldo BOL ---- -10 -32 . - 1 - 7 -19 - 2 0.0 /6
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8) Short vs Adianto - Jakarta
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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Nigel Short 1 1 = = 2,5
Utut Adianto 0 0 = = 0,5
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Fairudin reports this stage of the match on the internet.
One game is given.
9) Italian Championships in Verona
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Verona (ITA), XII 1995.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1 Godena, Michele m ITA 2420 * = 1 1 1 1 = = = 1 7.0 2575
2 Belotti, Bruno m ITA 2380 = * = = = = 1 1 1 1 6.5 2528
3 Marinelli, Tullio m ITA 2440 0 = * 1 1 = = 1 1 1 6.5 2521
4 Arlandi, Ennio m ITA 2455 0 = 0 * = = 1 = 1 1 5.0 2378
5 Sarno, Spartaco m ITA 2405 0 = 0 = * 1 0 1 1 1 5.0 2384
6 De Santis, Alessio ITA 2260 0 = = = 0 * 0 1 1 1 4.5 2359
7 Tatai, Stefano m ITA 2435 = 0 = 0 1 1 * = 0 = 4.0 2337
8 Contin, Daniel m ITA 2365 = 0 0 = 0 0 = * = 1 3.0 2196
9 Martorelli, Antonio f ITA 2320 = 0 0 0 0 0 1 = * 1 3.0 2202
10 Tencati,Giuseppe ITA ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 * 0.5 1942
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Remaining games from Marco Martini Many thanks.
10) 6th Harvard Cup New York USA
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New York (USA), XII 1995.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 TOTAL
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1 Benjamin, Joel g USA 2575 = 0 1 1 1 1 4.5
2 Rohde, Michael A g USA 2540 0 1 = 1 1 1 4.5
3 Gulko, Boris F g USA 2620 0 1 1 = 1 = 4.0
4 Gurevich, Ilya g USA 2575 = 0 1 1 0 1 3.5
5 Kaidanov, Grigory S g USA 2585 = 1 0 0 1 1 3.5
6 Wolff, Patrick G g USA 2565 1 0 0 1 1 = 3.5
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1 2 3 4 5 6 TOTAL PERF
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1 Virtual Chess ---- = 1 1 = = 0 3.5 2633
2 Chessmaster 4000 ---- 1 0 0 1 0 1 3.0 2576
3 MChess Pro ---- 0 = 0 0 1 1 2.5 2519
4 WChess ---- 0 0 = 0 1 0 1.5 2383
5 Junior ---- 0 0 0 1 0 0 1.0 2303
6 Socrates 95 ---- 0 0 = 0 0 = 1.0 2303
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FINAL STANDINGS: HUMANS 23.5 COMPUTERS 12.5
Scheveningen Tournament with one game against each of the
opposing team. (so the 1-6 refers to the other table.)
My thanks to Vadim Kaminsky for the games.
Joel Benjamin had what was adjudged the superior performance
against the computers and will play exhibition match vs.
Virtual Chess. The games were conducted at 25 mins per side.
11) BOOKS, BOOKS and more of them (5) by Bertrand Weegenaar.
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First the best chess, and reading wishes for 1996. This issue brings mostly new
books from Cadogan and Batsford. Furthermore several interesting magazine tips for
the more unorthodox opening players. Added to this book review is a file with games of
which I hope you have time to play through and not just add them to your
database.
At the end of this year, and having been sent boxes of books, a question comes
to mind: is there a best book of 1995? I only noticed the BCF-award which was
won by John Nunn's Best Games (Batsford), and indeed (I bought and enjoyed it)
this was a splendid piece of analytical work, enjoyable comments (in his analysis
of the game Kasparov - Nunn, Skelleftea 1989 in a good position: "When one of
Kasparov's opponents plays a totally unexpected move, he reacts either by
curling his lip at the move, or by peering incredulously at the audience, as if
to say 'Can you believe what he's just played?. 14.Rf4 was greeted with a force
ten lip-curl from Gazza, but the World Champion then rather spoiled the effect
by thinking hard for twenty minutes."
To me the following three books score highly:
- John Nunn's Best Games (Batsford)
- Secrets of Spectacular Chess, Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood (Batsford)
- 99 Schonheitspreise aus 150 Schachjahren, L.Steinkohl (Rochade Europa)
I'd like to know the opinion of the audience on this?!
And there are as usual some recommendations:
Special
The Sorcerer's apprentice, David Bronstein and Tom Furstenberg, Cadogan
I have to start with three titles I only mentioned last time:
Strategisches Schach, Edmar Mednis and Rudolf Teschner, Edition Olms 1995, 193 p.
(ISBN 3-283-00288-6) Price: DM 34,80 (language German)
Part 20 of PraxisSchach. As a tactical player I often get in trouble when the
position 'neads' a plan. That the authors combine closed positions with
strategic lessons is reasonable, but sometimes (and also this is shown in the book)
it's not always closed position where strategic aims are more important to think
of then looking for tricks (also called tactical opportunities).
In 30 in depth analysed games the authors discuss all the in's and out's of
strategic targets. In these 30 games there are 9 played by Mednis and 9 played
by Korchnoi. The games by Korchnoi are added to the game-part of this WIC to
see what type of games Mednis and Teschner present.
Meisterspiele, Rudolf Teschner, Edition Olms 1995, 144 p. (ISBN 3-283-00289-4)
Price: DM 24,80 (language German)
Part 21 of PraxisSchach. Of course in an educational series like PraxisSchach a
book with chess beauty must have it's place. These 60 games give an overview of
all classic beauties, starting with the evergreens like The Immortal (Anderssen
- Kieseritzky) and Paulsen - Morphy, New York 1857 and finish with modern games
like Karpov - Kasparov, match (24) 1985 and Anand - Kamsky, Linares 1994.
An opening repertoire for White, R.Keene and B.Jacobs, Batsford 1995, 144 p. (ISBN
0-7134-7817-9)
Price: UK Pounds 10.99
This book is an interesting try to give the White player a total concept of
meeting Black's answer after 1.d4. It doesn't give long theoretical lines, but
in most big openings like the King's Indian and Queens gambit mere sidelines
like 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nge2 and exchange variation against
almost all queen gambit lines. The task for the White player is to bring static
to the centre and play along the wings, especially the kingside. Of course, it
can't be helped that this plan doesn't always work like in the case of the
Budapest Gambit and Dutch opening.
But nevertheless, a White openings student is tought a concept of playing and
not just moves after studying this book.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, David Bronstein and Tom Furstenberg, Cadogan 1995,
304p. (ISBN 1-85744-151-6)
Price: $19.95
To me the name David Bronstein is synonymous with the Zurich 1953-tournament
book (of which Bronstein is the author, as well as shared second place behind
the winner Smyslov). When I started playing chess in the 80's Bronstein played
little, but in recent years he is seen frequently in smaller tournaments. To me
he is also known for his interest in playing chesscomputer programs in
tournaments like the annual Aegon men/machine-tournament. But this nestor of
chess was challenged by an amateur (co-author Tom Furstenberg) to created a
chess biography. It resulted in an unique document with 220 games. 40 beauty
combinations, 50 games with Comments, 60 games with diagrams and 70 picturesque
games without comment. Great stuff especially the first 2 chapters. The comments
by Bronstein are superb, the stories around the games tell a big story about
Soviet chess politics in the 50's and 60's.
I've added some games from the Zurich 1953 tournament which where used in this
and the book "Meisterspiele".
If you have some money left and the family/friends haven't bought you the superb
Christmas gift, then this is a way to get even and enjoy the rest of the holiday
with great chess.
Timman's Selected Games, Jan Timman, Cadogan 1995, (ISBN 1-85744-121-4)
Price: $19.95
This book is a year old, because I received it in hard-cover edition by
Interchess at the end of 1994. The soft-cover is now published by Cadogan,
without changes. The 80 selected and annotated Timman games give an overview of
ten years (1983 - 1993) top chess (this period also goes parallel with the
existance of NIC magazinein which most games and analyses where published
earlier). It's unfortunate that 1995 was for Timman (apart from the Donner
memorial) a disasterous year of chess. (which can also be said for most Dutch top
GM's). But knowing Timman a bad year can be a good year next year. As a
Timman fan I can only advise you to buy the books and enjoys great attacking
games and analysis.
Modern Chess Miniatures, Neil McDonald, Cadogan 1995, 150 p.
(ISBN 1-85744-166-4)
Price: $17.95
To me a chess miniature is a game of 20 moves or less, where one player beats
the guts out of his opponent, often after an early opening-slip. (and of course
using great moves to do so) The author has put his limit to 30 moves, but the
rest of the definition is quit correct. Only McDonald tries to order the type of
combinations that can be seen in miniatures. He starts to "theories". OK, the
result is a more or less overview of "miniatures"-types, or a collection of fast
games and good combinations. BUT WHY ISN'T THERE A SINGLE CORRESPONDENCE CHESS
GAME. Don't we have miniatures? Of course. Are they difficult to find? NO, using
a large database, or looking into CC-books.
To give some extra pleasure to you reader, I have added dozens of modern
correspondence chess miniatures in the game-part of this WIC. They come from a
Miniatures (<20 moves) column by CC-GM H.Heemsoth in Fernschach in the 1995-
issues.
How to win at chess, Daniel King, Cadogan 1995, 127 p. (ISBN 1-85744-072-2)
Price: $12.95
An educational book with a lot of diagrams and 10 golden rules (for the novice
player), of which the first 3 are: Open with a centre pawn, Bring out your
pieces and Castle as quickly as possible.
The official Chess Yearbook, game-annotation by Murray Chandler, Batsford 1995,
208 p. (ISBN 0-7134-7818-7)
Price : British Pound 9.99
This yearbook from the British Chess Federation gives all to know about Chess in
Great-Britain: the tournaments, the players,the clubs, the magazines, the people
and the budgets. Besides that it gives information on Chess computers, using
Internet to enjoy chess and 42 good games from British tournaments in the period
1994-1995.
And some magazins:
Gambit Revue (editor: Volker Druke)
Published by Schachverlag M.Madler, Lilienthalstrasse 52, D-40474 Dusseldorf,
Germany this magazine gives 4 times a year more then 50 pages of gambit material.
Besides games sections, several articles are included concerning the Latvian
Gambit, the Blackmar Diemer etc. Issue 3 of 1995 gives also a large article on
the Zilbermints Gambit 1.d4 e5 2.de5 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nge7!?, by Zilbermints himself.
(Language German, games in figurines)
Randspringer (editor: rainer Schlenker)
Published by RandSpringer Verlag, Wiesenstrasse 78, D-78056 Villingen-
Schwenningen, Germany. This magazine also is published 4 times a year and is
dedicated to the extreme for more than 10 years and 73 issues. Topics this issue
are : Nh6! in the French, Queenbishop 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 , g4 against the Pirc and
1.e4 a6.
(Language German, games in text)
Orang-Utan (editor: Dirk van Esbroeck)
Published by Dirk van Esbroeck, PO Box 71, B-9120 Beveren-Waas, Belgium. This
magazine is dedicated to the 1.b4-opening and is published 4 times a year. It
gives also information on Orang-Utan tournaments. Besides a lot of annotated
games, theoretical material is concerned with 1.b4 e5 2.a3 and 1.b4 d5 2.g3!?
(Language German, games in text)
LGT Oppningbulletinen (editor: David Foster)
Published by David Foster, Vaksalagatan35, S-75331 Uppsala, Sweden, this Swedish
magazinegives also all attention to the gambit openings.
(Language Swedish, games in text)
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Books reviewed in Books
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OPENING THEORY
Winning with the Benko, Byron Jacobs, Batsford 1995, 144p. (ISBN 0-7134-7232-4)
Price: UK Pounds 12.99 (51)
The complete Vienna, M.Tseitlin en I.Glazkov, Batsford 1995, 144 p. (ISBN 0-
7134-7606-0)
Price : UK Pounds 12.99 (51)
The complete Benoni, Lev Psakhis, Batsford 1995, 256 p. (ISBN 0 7134 7765 2)
Price: UK Pounds 15.99 (51)
The Saemisch King's Indian, Joe Gallagher, Batsford 1995, 240 p. (ISBN 0 7134
7730 X)
Price: UK Pounds 14.99 (51)
The Latvian Gambit,Tony Kosten, Batsford 1995, 144 p. (ISBN 0 7134 7619 2)
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12) WIC Correspondence Chess-news #3 by Bertrand Weegenaar
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First of all the best wishes to all readers of Week in Chess, and of course to
all participating.
A. Schaakschakeringen November 1995 issue 311
This issue is a theme issue concerning the friendly country matches which are
played between the NBC and dozens of countries, members of ICCF, which where
played for the last decades.
An article by the team captain, Peter Heyboer concerns the reasons players can
participate.
A chess portrait by Piet Roos, for 22 years 27 times as the first board player
with an excellent score of more then 25 wins and a handfull of losses. The games
which comes with article can be found at the gamepart of this WIC.
Piet is very happy playing these friendly matches, and in those years he has
made a lot of contacts for life.
From Tom de Ruiter there is a gameselection of good games from recent
countrymatches against Iceland , Denmark and Finland.
This issue further has a books review part, results and an announcements for a
friendly E-mail match between the NBC and a Brazilian team!
B. Schaakschakeringen Decembre 1995 issue 312
A chess portrait from the hand of N.Oud starts this issue. 2,5 decades of CC-
chess has resulted in many friendly contacts around the world. A selection of
games can be found in the games section.
In the games part of this issue of Schaakschakeringen, the Dutch Open is the topic
for Tom de Ruiter to select his games from. Besides that several NBC-members
have send games material and analysis to share with other NBC-members. Games are
attached to this issue.
Also part 3 of the Sokolski-opening by Johan Dopper is presented concerning 1.b4
c6 2.Bb2 , 1.b4 Na6 2.a3 c5 and 1.b4 Nc6 2.b5 .
C. Gert Jan Timmerman: #1 on the ICCF ranking list.
For years Gert Jan Timmerman was in the top 10 of the ICCF-Elo ranking list, but
this year he reached the 1 place after his score in the FINJUB 30 tournament was
counted.
Besides CC Gert Jan is a very strong OTB-player, who even has participated in
the Dutch championships in the early 80's and an IM-title in 1985.
Correspondence chess started for him in 1975 when he started his first I-class
group and a year later starting in the Dutch Open. He quickly reached a place in
the Dutch CC championship (no 10) in 1981. The win of this tournament a head of
later GM's J.J.van Oosterom and P.C.Seewald, and also of Max Euwe who started in
this tournament but unfortunately died before all his games where finished (he
reached 4th place.)
The win of this tournament turned out to be very importent for his CC-carreer.
It game him the right to participate in a next final which he did when no 10 was
finished. The Dutch Final No 12, was also a win for Timmerman. But it also gave
him the invitation to participate in the NBC 15 Jubilee tournament which started
in 1982. In this tournament his real strenght showed: he finished shared second
with Tj.Wiersma, and after H.Rittner (GER), but ahead of CC-GM's like
H.Bouwmeester, K.Richardson and J.Sorri. The score of 10/14 earned him the GM-
title. During this tournament the Dutch Open Final of 1976 was finished, won by
GJ.Timmerman, ahead of Peter Boll (NLD, GM sinths 1993 and playing in the 14th
WM final). Gert-Jan also started playing the ICCF V-cup, a World Open
Tournament.)
The next big results came in the early 90's. The participating in the 40 years
Jubilee tournament of the German CC-organisation BdF, resulted in a shared
second place with S.Webb , a half point behind winner D.van Geet (NLD). More
spectacular are his win of the ICCF V-tournament with the score of 10 out of 11.
Winning this tournament is an immense operation, because in the preliminaries and
semi-final (both 11 players) only the winners place for the next round.
In 1992 the NBC 25 Jubilee started with a very large (21) and strong field of
players. The win with 17,5 points out of 20, before JJ van Oosterom and a lot of
othe CC-GM's was enormous. This can be also said of his win of the 30 years
Finnish Jubilea tournament where 12,5 points of 14 games are enough to secure
first place.
At the moment Gert Jan is playing the Norway 50 years Jubilea, probably the
strongest CC-tournament ever organised, which include almost only GM, most CC
but also one OTB player (Ulf Anderson).
From the following tournaments all (or most) games are added to the gamespart of
this WIC:
Dutch CC no 10
Dutch CC no 12
NBC/15 Volmac Jubilee 1982-1987
NBC/25 Jubilee 1902-1994
Bdf/40 Jubilee 1991-1994
FinJub 30 1992-
I hope you enjoy the games.
From the NBC 25 and BdF/40 Jubilea tournament books are available. (See
book review issues in earlier TWIC)