THE WEEK IN CHESS 660 2nd July 2007 by Mark Crowther
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Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 24 games
Aerosvit tournament in Foros 24 games
Kings Tournament Bazna Romania 5 games
Dutch Championships 35 games
Pula Open 272 games
Ceclub Division De Honor 2007 Grupo II 90 games
III Perla Baltyku Festival 180 games
Grenoble Masters 45 games
5th Nabokov Memorial 55 games
Balaton Festival 104 games
Atlantis Schaak Meestertienkamp 45 games
1st Thun Open 20 games
XXV Novi Becej Open 80 games
979 games
My thanks to Sinisa Joksic, Thomas Henrich, Yannick Pelletier, Yin Hao,
Dennis Monokroussos, Zenón Franco Ocampos, Roman M. Parparov, Chris
Bird, Igor Glek, Peter Doggers, Thomas Michos, Michael J. Yeo, Chris Mattos,
Bogdan Borshosh and everyone else who helped with the issue.
Who is the best player in the World? Is it Vladimir Kramnik who won the
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting for the 8th time with an impressive +3 score.
Or is it Viswanathan Anand who extended his lead as World number one in the
July FIDE rating list over Veselin Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik. Right now a
case could be made for another player, Vassily Ivanchuk, who has just gained 33
points to move to fourth place and also just won the category 18 Aerosvit
tournament in Foros which will appear in the next list. There is a lot of
interesting chess this week but its also been a sad week, with the first news
of the death of 38 year old Maxim Sorokin who died as the result of injuries
sustained in a car accident a week ago.
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting takes place 23rd June - 1st July
2007 in the Dortmund Civic Theatre. The Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place
23rd June - 1st July 2007 in the Dortmund Civic Theatre. Vladimir Kramnik
impressed in winning the event by a point. This is Kramnik's 8th win in the
event since 1995.
The first winner was Heikki Westerinen in 1973 (and indeed a second time
in 1975) and he played a match against the 1982 winner Vlastimil Hort both were
born in 1944.
Official site: http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/
http://www.chessvibes.com has a
number of films and interviews from the event.
Round 3 (June 26, 2007)
Leko, Peter - Naiditsch, Arkadij 1/2 38 B29 Sicilian Defence
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 21 E14 Queens Indian
Carlsen, Magnus - Alekseev, Evgeny 1/2 60 E18 Queens Indian
Gelfand, Boris - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 21 D45 Anti-Meran Variations
Round 4 (June 27, 2007)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Carlsen, Magnus 1-0 30 E05 Catalan
Alekseev, Evgeny - Leko, Peter 1/2 34 D23 QGA
Anand, Viswanathan - Naiditsch, Arkadij 1-0 57 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Gelfand, Boris - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 1/2 32 A41 Modern Defence
Round 5 (June 29, 2007)
Leko, Peter - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 38 C42 Petroff's Defence
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 68 E15 Queens Indian
Carlsen, Magnus - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 27 D11 Slav Defence
Naiditsch, Arkadij - Alekseev, Evgeny 1/2 50 E29 Nimzo Indian Saemisch
Round 6 (June 30, 2007)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Naiditsch, Arkadij 1-0 48 E04 Catalan
Anand, Viswanathan - Alekseev, Evgeny 1/2 43 C42 Petroff's Defence
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 26 D38 QGD Ragozin
Gelfand, Boris - Leko, Peter 0-1 65 D47 Queens Gambit Meran
Round 7 (July 1, 2007)
Alekseev, Evgeny - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 31 C42 Petroff's Defence
Leko, Peter - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 1/2 107 B46 Sicilian Paulsen
Carlsen, Magnus - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 39 D12 Slav Defence
Naiditsch, Arkadij - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 44 B92 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2
Sparkassen GM Dortmund GER (GER), 23 vi-1 vii 2007cat. XX (2727)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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1 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2772 * = = = = 1 1 1 5.0 2878
2 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2679 = * = = 1 = = = 4.0 2783
3 Leko, Peter g HUN 2738 = = * = = = 1 = 4.0 2774
4 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2786 = = = * = = = 1 4.0 2768
5 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2757 = 0 = = * = = 1 3.5 2722
6 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2693 0 = = = = * = = 3.0 2681
7 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 0 = 0 = = = * = 2.5 2623
8 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2654 0 = = 0 0 = = * 2.0 2578
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Westerinen, Heikki M.J - Hort, Vlastimil 1/2 31 B46 Sicilian Paulsen
Hort, Vlastimil - Westerinen, Heikki M.J 1-0 51 E81 King's Indian Saemisch
Westerinen, Heikki M.J - Hort, Vlastimil 0-1 37 B95 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Bg5
Hort, Vlastimil - Westerinen, Heikki M.J 1-0 36 D11 Slav Defence
Sparkassen Match Dortmund GER (GER), 27 vi-1 vii 2007
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1 2 3 4
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Hort, Vlastimil g GER 2494 = 1 1 1 3.5 2720
Westerinen, Heikki M.J g FIN 2384 = 0 0 0 0.5 2172
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The Aerosvit tournament in Foros, Ukraine, took place 17th-30th June
2007. Vassily Ivanchuk took clear first with 7.5/11 half a point clear of
Sergey Karjakin.
Official Site:
http://www.ukrchess.org.ua/aerosvit2007/index_e.htm
Round 8 (June 26, 2007)
Karjakin, Sergey - Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1/2 18 B82 Sicilian Scheveningen
Svidler, Peter - Sasikiran, Krishnan 1/2 67 C95 Ruy Lopez Breyer
Van Wely, Loek - Eljanov, Pavel 1-0 64 D38 QGD Ragozin
Shirov, Alexei - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 42 E05 Catalan
Dominguez Perez, Lenier - Jakovenko, Dmitry 1/2 55 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov
Rublevsky, Sergei - Ivanchuk, Vassily 0-1 66 B86 Sicilian Sozin Attack
Round 9 (June 27, 2007)
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Dominguez Perez, Lenier 1/2 136 B92 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2
Onischuk, Alexander - Svidler, Peter 1/2 48 D97 Gruenfeld Russian
Jakovenko, Dmitry - Shirov, Alexei 0-1 53 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov
Eljanov, Pavel - Rublevsky, Sergei 1/2 44 D11 Slav Defence
Sasikiran, Krishnan - Karjakin, Sergey 1/2 93 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 26 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Round 10 (June 28, 2007)
Karjakin, Sergey - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 38 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Svidler, Peter - Jakovenko, Dmitry 1-0 47 B51 Sicilian Rossolimo
Van Wely, Loek - Rublevsky, Sergei 1/2 44 D45 Anti-Meran Variations
Shirov, Alexei - Ivanchuk, Vassily 0-1 34 C91 Ruy Lopez
Dominguez Perez, Lenier - Eljanov, Pavel 1/2 61 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Sasikiran, Krishnan 1/2 33 B17 Caro Kann
Round 11 (June 29, 2007)
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Svidler, Peter 1/2 19 D81 Gruenfeld Botvinnik
Onischuk, Alexander - Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1-0 58 D20 QGA
Rublevsky, Sergei - Dominguez Perez, Lenier 1/2 20 B87 Sicilian Sozin Attack
Jakovenko, Dmitry - Karjakin, Sergey 1/2 29 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed
Eljanov, Pavel - Shirov, Alexei 1/2 25 D85 Gruenfeld Defence
Sasikiran, Krishnan - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 51 D44 Anti-Meran Gambit
Aerosvit Foros UKR (UKR), 18-29 vi 2007 cat. XVIII (2694)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 * = = = = 1 = 1 = 1 = 1 7.5 2823
2 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2686 = * = = 1 1 = = = 1 = = 7.0 2796
3 Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2663 = = * = 1 = = = = = 0 1 6.0 2732
4 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2736 = = = * = = = = 1 = = = 6.0 2725
5 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2674 = 0 0 = * 1 0 = 1 1 1 = 6.0 2731
6 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2699 0 0 = = 0 * 1 1 1 = 1 = 6.0 2729
7 Dominguez Perez, Lenier g CUB 2678 = = = = 1 0 * = = = = = 5.5 2694
8 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2680 0 = = = = 0 = * = = 1 = 5.0 2658
9 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2708 = = = 0 0 0 = = * = 1 = 4.5 2627
10 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2686 0 0 = = 0 = = = = * = 1 4.5 2629
11 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2690 = = 1 = 0 0 = 0 0 = * = 4.0 2591
12 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2693 0 = 0 = = = = = = 0 = * 4.0 2591
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The Kings Tournament Bazna Romania took place 15th-26th June 2007.
Alexander Khalifman beat Rafael Vaganian in the final round to take clear first
place from him, they were tied going into the round. News from the event's
arbiter Chirila Radu-Catalin.
Official site: http://www.clubulregilor.ro/ -
http://www.sahclub.ro/toma/070615live/
was also helpful.
Live: http://www.clubulregilor.ro/live/tfd.htm
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King's Tournament Bazna ROM (ROM), 16-26 vi 2007 cat. XIII (2566)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
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1. Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2624 * 1 0 = = 1 = 1 1 = 1 7.0 2708
2. Vaganian, Rafael A g ARM 2590 0 * = = = 1 = = 1 = 1 6.0 2635
3. Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2648 1 = * = = = = = = = = 5.5 2593
4. Andersson, Ulf g SWE 2528 = = = * = = = = = = = 5.0 2569
5. Ribli, Zoltan g HUN 2580 = = = = * = = = = = = 5.0 2564
6. Mecking, Henrique g BRA 2565 0 0 = = = * 1 = = 1 = 5.0 2565
7. Sokolov, Andrei1 g FRA 2584 = = = = = 0 * = = = = 4.5 2527
8. Chiburdanidze, Maia g GEO 2510 0 = = = = = = * = = = 4.5 2535
9. Portisch, Lajos g HUN 2512 0 0 = = = = = = * 1 = 4.5 2535
10. Suba, Mihai g ROM 2537 = = = = = 0 = = 0 * = 4.0 2496
11. Timman, Jan H g NED 2545 0 0 = = = = = = = = * 4.0 2495
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Round 11 (June 26, 2007)
Khalifman, Alexander - Vaganian, Rafael A 1-0 21 C09 French Tarrasch
Ribli, Zoltan - Andersson, Ulf 1/2 24 B36 Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Mecking, Henrique - Beliavsky, Alexander G 1/2 69 D58 Queens Gambit Tartakover
Suba, Mihai - Chiburdanidze, Maia 1/2 11 A13 Reti Opening
Timman, Jan H - Sokolov, Andrei1 1/2 38 B82 Sicilian Scheveningen
The Dutch Championships took place 16th-28th of June in Hilversum,
Holland. Sergei Tiviakov took the title 1.5-0.5 after a rapid playoff with
Daniel Stellwagen. Both had finished on 8/11 a point clear of Ivan Sokolov.
Peng Zhaoqin took the women's title with a fabulous 8/9.
Official site: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nk2007
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ch-NED Hilversum NED (NED), 16-28 vi 2007 cat. XII (2533)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2600 * = = 1 = 1 = 1 = = 1 1 8.0 2701
2. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2663 = * = = 1 = = 1 1 1 1 = 8.0 2696
3. Sokolov, Ivan NED g NED 2655 = = * = = = = 1 = 1 1 = 7.0 2623
4. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2606 0 = = * 1 0 = 1 = 1 1 1 7.0 2628
5. L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2617 = 0 = 0 * = = 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 2627
6. Smeets, Jan g NED 2552 0 = = 1 = * = = 1 = 1 = 6.5 2596
7. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2483 = = = = = = * = = = = = 5.5 2537
8. Janssen, Ruud m NED 2489 0 0 0 0 0 = = * = 1 1 1 4.5 2471
9. Hendriks, Willy m NED 2412 = 0 = = 0 0 = = * = 0 1 4.0 2441
10. Spoelman, Wouter m NED 2428 = 0 0 0 0 = = 0 = * = = 3.0 2367
11. Bosboom, Manuel m NED 2423 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 1 = * 1 3.0 2367
12. Dambacher, Martijn m NED 2466 0 = = 0 0 = = 0 0 = 0 * 2.5 2327
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Round 9 (June 26, 2007)
L'Ami, Erwin - Nijboer, Friso 0-1 44 B07 Pirc Defence
Van der Wiel, John - Stellwagen, Daniel 1/2 23 B42 Sicilian Paulsen
Janssen, Ruud - Sokolov, Ivan NED 0-1 44 D45 Anti-Meran Variations
Hendriks, Willy - Tiviakov, Sergei 0-1 36 B01 Centre Counter
Spoelman, Wouter - Smeets, Jan 1/2 21 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Dambacher, Martijn - Bosboom, Manuel 0-1 41 A42 Modern Defence
Round 10 (June 27, 2007)
Stellwagen, Daniel - Janssen, Ruud 1-0 50 C92 Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Sokolov, Ivan NED - Hendriks, Willy 1/2 41 A43 Old Benoni
Nijboer, Friso - Spoelman, Wouter 1-0 61 C96 Ruy Lopez
Smeets, Jan - Van der Wiel, John 1/2 30 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov
Bosboom, Manuel - Tiviakov, Sergei 0-1 40 A20 English Opening
Dambacher, Martijn - L'Ami, Erwin 0-1 46 D48 Queens Gambit Meran
Round 11 (June 28, 2007)
Tiviakov, Sergei - Sokolov, Ivan NED 1/2 36 C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen
L'Ami, Erwin - Bosboom, Manuel 1-0 37 B08 Pirc Defence
Van der Wiel, John - Nijboer, Friso 1/2 14 B66 Sicilian Rauzer
Janssen, Ruud - Smeets, Jan 1/2 77 D10 Slav Defence
Hendriks, Willy - Stellwagen, Daniel 1/2 48 B22 Sicilian Alapin
Spoelman, Wouter - Dambacher, Martijn 1/2 41 C10 French Rubinstein
Playoff Match
Tiviakov, Sergei - Stellwagen, Daniel 1-0 54 B07 Pirc Defence
Stellwagen, Daniel - Tiviakov, Sergei 1/2 37 B53 Sicilian Hungarian
ch-NED Playoff Hilversum NED (NED), 28-28 vi 2007
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1 2
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Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2663 1 = 1.5 2793
Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2600 0 = 0.5 2470
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ch-NED w Hilversum NED (NED), 18-28 vi 2007
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Peng Zhaoqin g NED 2439 * = 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 8.0 2494
2. Hamelink, Desiree wm NED 2220 = * 1 = = = 1 0 1 1 6.0 2292
3. Bensdorp, Marlies wm NED 2227 0 0 * = = 1 1 = 1 1 5.5 2247
4. Muhren, Bianca wg NED 2311 0 = = * = 1 1 0 = 1 5.0 2200
5. Van Nies, Pauline NED 2174 0 = = = * 1 0 1 = 1 5.0 2215
6. Van Weersel, Arlette NED 2156 = = 0 0 0 * = 1 1 1 4.5 2174
7. Bensdorp, Laura NED 2120 0 0 0 0 1 = * 1 1 0 3.5 2098
8. Schut, Donna NED 2026 0 1 = 1 0 0 0 * 0 0 2.5 2023
9. Middelveld, Martine NED 2019 0 0 0 = = 0 0 1 * = 2.5 2024
10. Otten, Colleen NED 2038 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 = * 2.5 2022
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Round 7 (June 26, 2007)
Peng Zhaoqin - Van Weersel, Arlette 1/2 41 E17 Queens Indian
Muhren, Bianca - Van Nies, Pauline 1/2 46 B65 Sicilian Rauzer
Schut, Donna - Bensdorp, Laura 0-1 30 B55 Sicilian Rauzer
Middelveld, Martine - Hamelink, Desiree 0-1 27 D02 Queen's Pawn Game
Otten, Colleen - Bensdorp, Marlies 0-1 33 C33 Kings Bishops Gambit
Round 8 (June 27, 2007)
Hamelink, Desiree - Bensdorp, Laura 1-0 41 B61 Sicilian Rauzer
Bensdorp, Marlies - Muhren, Bianca 1/2 28 D27 QGA
Van Nies, Pauline - Schut, Donna 1-0 21 C05 French Tarrasch
Van Weersel, Arlette - Otten, Colleen 1-0 41 B41 Sicilian Paulsen
Middelveld, Martine - Peng Zhaoqin 0-1 37 A46 Queen's Pawn Opening
Round 9 (June 28, 2007)
Peng Zhaoqin - Hamelink, Desiree 1/2 89 A12 Reti Opening
Muhren, Bianca - Van Weersel, Arlette 1-0 65 C68 Ruy Lopez Exchange
Bensdorp, Laura - Van Nies, Pauline 1-0 46 B63 Sicilian Rauzer
Schut, Donna - Bensdorp, Marlies 1/2 95 C02 French Advance
Otten, Colleen - Middelveld, Martine 1/2 85 D30 Queen's Gambit (without Nc3)
The new FIDE rating list has been released for July 2007. Viswanathan
Anand has extended the lead as world number one he gained in April gaining 4
points from 4 Bundesliga games. Veselin Topalov retains his second position by
virtue of games played from Vladimir Kramnik for the second list in succession,
both lost three rating points in the period, Kramnik by drawing against Jan
Smeets in a single Dutch League game. The biggest mover was Vassily Ivanchuk
who gained 33 points over 22 games and moves into fourth position. He played in
the Russian Team Championships, Capablanca Memorial and Bundesliga but the
ratings doesn't include the Aerosvit tournament in Foros which finished long on
June 30th but which will see him gain more points in the list. Ivanchuk could
be said to be the form player in the world at the moment. Levon Aronian lost 9
ratings points, 5 of which were at the Candidates (which FIDE quite rightly
decided to rate even though they finished after the strict cut off point, in
line with the decision over Linares in the last list) which is misleading as he
played pretty well against under rated opponents (both have gained in the
latest list) there. Into the top 10 for the first time is Dmitry Jakovenko who
has enjoyed a steady rise for some time now.
Alexei Shirov gained 36 rating points to recover from his bad Wijk aan
Zee, mostly through his performances in the Bundesliga (24 points gained).
David Navara lost 64 points to drop from 14th to 54th in the world, all of his
rated games came from team events, and he lost points in all but the French
League, but it was his catastrophic losing run in the Bundesliga that cost him
the most, 43 points. Leagues don't get rated until they finish and the number
of games from these events some of which started 9 months ago that has caused
some of the big changes throughout the list. Wang Yue gained 40 points from
Calvi, Cappelle and the Philippines. Konstantin Landa re-entered the top 100 in
spectacular style with a gain of 61 points, 30 of which came from a full 15
game Bundesliga season and another 13 from the European Individuals.
Notable too is the only FM in the list, Vladimir Afromeev, a Russian
businessman born in 1954 who organises his own events in Tula and apparently
does very well.... The E Sinitsyn Memorial (start: 2007-04-06) where he gained
13 of the 14 rating points to go from 2628 to 2642 saw him score 13/13 against
this field:
ID Name Fed FIDE Rc Rp W N K*change
4157770 Afromeev, Vladimir RUS 2628 2262 13 13 13
4161181 Novikov, Konstantin Ivan RUS 2218 2083 10 13 17.4
4132823 Andrianov, Vyacheslav RUS 2160 * 2085 2160 9.5 13 0
24117706 Chubakov, Oleg RUS 2128 2076 9 13 39.75
4161300 Abramov, Anatolij RUS 2121 2077 8.5 13 18.3
4184440 Kuznezov, Albert RUS 2069 2077 6 13 -5.55
24101834 Smolskiy, Mikhail RUS 2042 2077 5.5 13 -5.25
4184289 Kazakov, Nikolay RUS 2018 2077 5 13 -6.9
4161319 Krasnov, Yury A RUS 2246 2086 5 13 -42.3
24118052 Zerzhalova, Svetlana RUS 1953 2077 5 13 10.65
24121770 Shibaeva, Lilia RUS 2151 2078 4.5 13 -82.5
4163338 Grebenshikova, Tatyana RUS 2024 2076 4.5 13 -16.35
4113012 Zhukov, Vladimir RUS 1941 * 2077 4 13 -7.25
4132831 Zobnin, Vyacheslav RUS 1720 * 2032 1720 1.5 13 0
Most of these ratings are from the April 2007 list I had, a few of the
players didn't appear in that list and I took the ratings from the July list (*)
it seems of these only Vladimir Zhukov had a prior rating.
So it isn't a great wonder he isn't a GM if this is typical of the
events he got his big rating in. His other result was a single win and
withdrawal from an open where he gained one point. I'm not at all sure you
should be able to increase your top 100 rating (or indeed have one) with events
such as these.
9 players dropped out of the top 100 Seirawan (insufficient activity)
Asrian, Dreev, Azmaiparashvili, Spraggett, Khenkin, Gagunashvili, Najer and
Korchnoi and 11 either entered or re-enter (there are 102 names this time). A
rating of 2624 was needed to feature in the list, a rise of one point on the
April list.
FIDE Top 100 Players July 2007
No. Ap Name t NAT YroB oc05 ja06 ap06 ju06 oc06 ja07 ap07 ju07 Gms
1 1 Anand, Viswanathan........ g IND 1969 2788 2792 2803 2779 2779 2779 2786 2792 4
2 2 Topalov, Veselin.......... g BUL 1975 2782 2801 2804 2813 2813 2783 2772 2769 10
3 3 Kramnik, Vladimir......... g RUS 1975 2739 2741 2729 2743 2750 2766 2772 2769 1
4 12 Ivanchuk, Vassily......... g UKR 1969 2748 2729 2731 2734 2741 2750 2729 2762 22
5 4 Morozevich, Alexander..... g RUS 1977 2707 2721 2730 2731 2747 2741 2762 2758 18
6 6 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz.... g AZE 1985 2674 2709 2699 2722 2728 2754 2757 2757 14
7 8 Leko, Peter............... g HUN 1979 2751 2740 2738 2738 2741 2749 2738 2751 9
8 5 Aronian, Levon............ g ARM 1982 2724 2752 2756 2761 2741 2744 2759 2750 15
9 7 Radjabov, Teimour......... g AZE 1987 2704 2700 2717 2728 2729 2729 2747 2746 7
10 18 Jakovenko, Dmitry......... g RUS 1983 2644 2662 2675 2667 2671 2691 2708 2735 29
11 20 Shirov, Alexei............ g ESP 1972 2710 2709 2699 2716 2720 2715 2699 2735 28
12 9 Svidler, Peter............ g RUS 1976 2740 2765 2743 2742 2750 2728 2736 2735 6
13 11 Gelfand, Boris............ g ISR 1968 2717 2723 2727 2729 2733 2733 2733 2733 21
14 16 Grischuk, Alexander....... g RUS 1983 2720 2717 2719 2709 2710 2717 2717 2726 18
15 10 Adams, Michael............ g ENG 1971 2718 2707 2720 2732 2735 2735 2734 2724 18
16 19 Kamsky, Gata.............. g USA 1974 2690 2686 2671 2697 2705 2705 2705 2718 28
17 22 Carlsen, Magnus........... g NOR 1990 2570 2625 2646 2673 2698 2690 2693 2710 19
18 21 Akopian, Vladimir......... g ARM 1971 2707 2704 2706 2713 2713 2700 2698 2708 5
19 13 Polgar, Judit............. g HUN 1976 2735 2711 2711 2710 2710 2727 2727 2707 10
20 15 Ponomariov, Ruslan........ g UKR 1983 2704 2723 2738 2721 2703 2723 2717 2706 16
21 26 Eljanov, Pavel............ g UKR 1983 2663 2655 2665 2651 2658 2675 2686 2701 24
22 49 Wang, Yue................. g CHN 1987 2585 2599 2598 2626 2644 2644 2656 2696 25
23 17 Bacrot, Etienne........... g FRA 1983 2725 2717 2708 2707 2705 2705 2709 2695 20
24 30 Alekseev, Evgeny.......... g RUS 1985 2632 2634 2640 2644 2639 2661 2679 2689 26
25 48 Bu, Xiangzhi.............. g CHN 1985 2637 2645 2640 2664 2671 2644 2656 2685 27
26 23 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter... g ROM 1976 2707 2693 2695 2693 2690 2689 2693 2683 33
27 32 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam...... g UZB 1979 2670 2670 2673 2672 2672 2682 2677 2683 17
28 24 Short, Nigel D............ g ENG 1965 2673 2676 2677 2676 2677 2691 2691 2683 10
29 35 Almasi, Zoltan............ g HUN 1976 2640 2646 2657 2672 2664 2669 2675 2682 17
30 53 Volokitin, Andrei......... g UKR 1986 2666 2665 2660 2662 2645 2645 2654 2681 30
31 51 Ni, Hua................... g CHN 1983 2603 2614 2607 2607 2621 2632 2654 2681 24
32 31 Dominguez Perez, Lenier... g CUB 1983 2635 2638 2647 2658 2655 2677 2678 2680 9
33 28 Rublevsky, Sergei......... g RUS 1974 2652 2665 2687 2667 2688 2677 2680 2679 29
34 36 Van Wely, Loek............ g NED 1972 2648 2647 2655 2675 2676 2683 2674 2679 26
35 27 Karjakin, Sergey.......... g UKR 1990 2658 2660 2661 2679 2672 2678 2686 2678 19
36 29 Malakhov, Vladimir........ g RUS 1980 2670 2694 2691 2691 2682 2663 2679 2676 24
37 25 Sasikiran, Krishnan....... g IND 1981 2663 2670 2692 2681 2675 2700 2690 2676 17
38 33 Milov, Vadim.............. g SUI 1972 2652 2638 2625 2620 2657 2665 2676 2675 0
39 62 Miroshnichenko, Evgenij... g UKR 1978 2634 2619 2597 2616 2626 2632 2646 2671 50
40 -- Landa, Konstantin......... g RUS 1972 2600 2597 2600 2584 2570 2596 2608 2669 51
41 68 Movsesian, Sergei......... g SVK 1978 2635 2632 2618 2637 2637 2637 2642 2667 45
42 56 Sargissian, Gabriel....... g ARM 1983 2610 2603 2612 2667 2667 2658 2651 2667 29
43 34 Vallejo Pons, Francisco... g ESP 1982 2674 2650 2666 2674 2674 2679 2676 2666 24
44 50 Sokolov, Ivan............. g NED 1968 2696 2689 2676 2652 2670 2652 2655 2666 19
45 57 Harikrishna, P............ g IND 1986 2673 2673 2680 2682 2674 2673 2650 2664 17
46 42 Georgiev, Kiril........... g BUL 1965 2648 2645 2677 2685 2680 2661 2660 2663 21
47 37 Inarkiev, Ernesto......... g RUS 1985 2577 2597 2598 2625 2628 2669 2669 2663 7
48 40 Krasenkow, Michal......... g POL 1963 2655 2636 2650 2635 2647 2651 2661 2660 26
49 72 Socko, Bartosz............ g POL 1978 2610 2610 2606 2621 2630 2629 2641 2660 26
50 75 Volkov, Sergey............ g RUS 1974 2614 2629 2620 2628 2628 2636 2640 2659 19
51 43 Zvjaginsev, Vadim......... g RUS 1976 2659 2664 2670 2675 2674 2658 2659 2658 8
52 63 Cheparinov, Ivan.......... g BUL 1986 2618 2625 2635 2632 2632 2640 2646 2657 11
53 78 Sutovsky, Emil............. g ISR 1977 2654 2624 2628 2607 2607 2629 2637 2656 28
54 14 Navara, David............. g CZE 1985 2646 2660 2658 2719 2725 2719 2720 2656 26
55 55 Tkachiev, Vladislav....... g FRA 1973 2629 2642 2643 2645 2645 2649 2652 2655 30
56 64 Gashimov, Vugar........... g AZE 1986 2608 2625 2659 2644 2643 2658 2644 2655 29
57 73 Tomashevsky, Evgeny....... g RUS 1987 2564 2586 2595 2594 2595 2624 2641 2654 18
58 41 Lautier, Joel............. g FRA 1973 2680 2682 2682 2675 2667 2656 2661 2654 4
59 60 Beliavsky, Alexander G.... g SLO 1953 2631 2626 2622 2625 2639 2639 2648 2653 22
60 67 Bareev, Evgeny............ g RUS 1966 2675 2698 2701 2683 2683 2643 2643 2653 19
61 39 Onischuk, Alexander....... g USA 1975 2640 2650 2650 2668 2668 2663 2663 2650 33
62 79 Bologan, Viktor........... g MDA 1971 2682 2661 2666 2645 2659 2658 2636 2650 30
63 45 Timofeev, Artyom.......... g RUS 1985 2658 2653 2646 2657 2662 2663 2658 2650 30
64 58 Smirin, Ilia.............. g ISR 1968 2673 2662 2662 2659 2659 2654 2650 2649 10
65 47 Zhang, Pengxiang.......... g CHN 1980 2613 2638 2623 2622 2636 2643 2657 2649 9
66 -- Baklan, Vladimir.......... g UKR 1978 2590 2601 2606 2621 2622 2618 2618 2648 34
67 38 Tiviakov, Sergei.......... g NED 1973 2700 2669 2669 2668 2680 2667 2663 2648 33
68 69 Motylev, Alexander........ g RUS 1979 2632 2638 2660 2662 2662 2647 2642 2648 26
69 54 Miton, Kamil............... g POL 1984 2636 2646 2646 2638 2638 2655 2653 2648 19
70 46 Nakamura, Hikaru.......... g USA 1987 2662 2644 2664 2632 2640 2651 2658 2647 16
71 90 Nikolic, Predrag.......... g BIH 1960 2584 2596 2596 2626 2626 2626 2631 2646 17
72 65 Fressinet, Laurent........ g FRA 1981 2624 2625 2633 2626 2628 2646 2644 2646 14
73 61 Areshchenko, Alexander.... g UKR 1986 2653 2670 2660 2641 2640 2644 2647 2645 29
74 66 Avrukh, Boris............. g ISR 1978 2653 2633 2633 2641 2644 2644 2644 2645 22
75 71 Izoria, Zviad............. g GEO 1984 2646 2652 2647 2660 2657 2644 2641 2645 11
76 44 Jobava, Baadur............. g GEO 1983 2601 2614 2646 2651 2650 2650 2658 2644 31
77 52 Naiditsch, Arkadij........ g GER 1985 2641 2657 2664 2665 2676 2663 2654 2644 31
78 94 Afromeev, Vladimir........ f RUS 1954 2573 2573 2612 2620 2635 2628 2628 2642 14
79 91 Moiseenko, Alexander...... g UKR 1980 2663 2657 2662 2649 2632 2627 2630 2641 23
80 59 Nielsen, Peter Heine...... g DEN 1973 2646 2644 2646 2640 2640 2651 2649 2638 31
81 -- Shabalov, Alexander....... g USA 1967 2581 2595 2605 2604 2575 2602 2606 2637 30
82 -- Wojtaszek, Radoslaw....... g POL 1987 2606 2605 2597 2622 2630 2637 2620 2637 28
83 88 Smirnov, Pavel............ g RUS 1982 2637 2614 2614 2613 2623 2621 2631 2636 19
84 -- Sadvakasov, Darmen........ g KAZ 1979 2612 2629 2619 2613 2596 2615 2618 2635 30
85 85 Sakaev, Konstantin........ g RUS 1974 2668 2649 2637 2642 2641 2641 2633 2634 30
86 76 Kobalia, Mikhail.......... g RUS 1978 2634 2654 2654 2647 2643 2639 2639 2634 23
87 -- Zhang, Zhong.............. g CHN 1978 2598 2629 2640 2639 2609 2618 2621 2634 9
88 81 Gurevich, Mikhail......... g TUR 1959 2652 2633 2643 2643 2648 2635 2635 2633 19
89 83 Lputian, Smbat G.......... g ARM 1958 2614 2613 2619 2634 2634 2634 2634 2633 11
90 99 Khalifman, Alexander...... g RUS 1966 2653 2660 2640 2622 2622 2619 2624 2632 18
91 87 Ye, Jiangchuan............ g CHN 1960 2648 2641 2641 2641 2641 2641 2632 2632 0
92 -- Stellwagen, Daniel........ g NED 1987 2561 2573 2543 2575 2576 2585 2600 2631 16
93 -- Roiz, Michael............. g ISR 1983 2600 2599 2590 2611 2611 2605 2605 2630 28
94 74 Ehlvest, Jaan............. g USA 1962 2618 2619 2607 2593 2597 2610 2640 2629 44
95 97 Istratescu, Andrei........ g ROM 1975 2622 2618 2621 2612 2616 2619 2625 2629 24
96 -- Predojevic, Borki......... g BIH 1987 2558 2553 2566 2568 2590 2587 2609 2628 32
97 82 Fridman, Daniel........... g LAT 1976 2563 2559 2562 2569 2604 2626 2635 2628 18
98 95 Vladimirov, Evgeny........ g KAZ 1957 2616 2616 2616 2616 2616 2616 2627 2627 0
99 92 Bauer, Christian.......... g FRA 1977 2625 2627 2638 2599 2589 2609 2629 2626 27
100 -- Mchedlishvili, Mikheil.... g GEO 1979 2564 2568 2567 2561 2583 2583 2609 2624 41
101 -- Efimenko, Zahar........... g UKR 1985 2637 2666 2662 2632 2612 2616 2620 2624 28
102 77 Wang, Hao................. g CHN 1989 2519 2593 2605 2610 2622 2619 2638 2624 24
Dropping out in July
Ap Name t NAT YroB oc05 ja06 ap06 ju06 oc06 ja07 ap07 ju07 Gms
70 Seirawan, Yasser.......... g USA 1960 2635 2635 2635 2638 2638 2638 2642 2634 2 *
80 Asrian, Karen............. g ARM 1980 2645 2646 2646 2635 2634 2634 2635 2608 24
84 Dreev, Alexey............. g RUS 1969 2694 2697 2673 2666 2655 2658 2633 2606 29
86 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab.... g GEO 1960 2658 2658 2669 2669 2638 2632 2632 2604 11
89 Spraggett, Kevin........... g CAN 1954 2585 2581 2578 2577 2610 2633 2631 2585 42
93 Khenkin, Igor............. g GER 1968 2603 2595 2602 2586 2620 2611 2629 2602 45
96 Gagunashvili, Merab....... g GEO 1985 2542 2542 2555 2591 2611 2611 2625 2615 30
98 Najer, Evgeniy............ g RUS 1977 2641 2652 2653 2677 2648 2605 2624 2623 20
100 Korchnoi, Viktor........... g SUI 1931 2620 2608 2607 2600 2607 2629 2623 2610 9
* (inactivity)
The Pula Open took place in Pula, Croatia, 23rd-30th June 2007 at the
beautiful and famous tourist resort "Punta Verudela" in congress hall of hotel
Histria. Robert Zelcic took clear first place with 7.5/9.
Official site: http://www.skpula.hr
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1 GM Zelcic Robert CRO 2554 7,5 44,5 55,5 38,5 9 14,0
2 GM Jovanovic Zoran CRO 2529 7,0 44,5 55,0 38,5 9 9,8
3 GM Cvitan Ognjen CRO 2540 7,0 43,5 53,5 38,0 9 8,6
4 GM Rogic Davor CRO 2512 7,0 43,0 54,5 38,5 9 12,4
5 GM Lie Kjetil A NOR 2529 7,0 43,0 54,0 38,5 9 9,3
6 IM Petrik Tomas SVK 2522 7,0 41,5 52,0 38,0 9 8,5
7 IM Jones Gawain C B ENG 2524 7,0 40,5 52,5 37,5 9 8,0
8 GM Saric Ibro BIH 2507 7,0 39,5 51,0 37,0 9 5,6
9 IM Saric Ivan CRO 2463 7,0 39,5 50,5 37,0 9 13,7
10 IM Kovacevic Blazimir CRO 2442 7,0 39,0 51,0 35,0 9 5,9
11 GM Jankovic Alojzije CRO 2541 7,0 38,5 49,0 33,0 9 -0,7
12 GM Fercec Nenad CRO 2501 7,0 37,5 48,5 35,5 9 5,5
13 IM Milman Lev USA 2484 7,0 37,0 48,0 33,5 9 5,0
14 IM Kuljasevic Davorin CRO 2447 7,0 36,5 47,0 35,5 9 5,4
15 GM Stevic Hrvoje CRO 2506 6,5 42,5 54,5 38,0 9 5,3
16 GM Ramirez Alejandro CRC 2507 6,5 42,0 53,5 36,0 9 3,8
17 IM Jovanic Ognjen CRO 2488 6,5 40,5 52,0 36,5 9 0,7
18 IM Ljubicic Filip CRO 2414 6,5 40,5 51,5 34,0 9 5,9
19 IM Rasmussen Karsten DEN 2462 6,5 39,0 50,5 35,5 9 5,8
20 IM Papp Gabor HUN 2475 6,5 38,5 47,0 34,5 9 -2,7
21 IM Petr Martin CZE 2443 6,5 36,5 46,5 32,5 9 -3,0
22 Arnaudov G Petar BUL 2360 6,5 35,0 46,0 32,0 9 13,1
23 Dimitrov Radoslav BUL 2254 6,0 42,5 52,5 34,5 9 37,0
24 FM Karner Christoph AUT 2319 6,0 41,5 52,5 32,0 9 14,7
25 IM Barle Janez SLO 2400 6,0 41,0 52,5 35,0 9 5,8
26 IM Bellia Fabrizio ITA 2405 6,0 40,0 51,5 34,0 9 0,4
27 IM Krstic Uros CRO 2361 6,0 40,0 51,0 34,5 9 11,9
28 Kukov Velislav BUL 2282 6,0 40,0 51,0 31,0 9 16,5
29 FM Biti Ozren CRO 2378 6,0 39,5 50,5 34,0 9 10,1
30 GM Tratar Marko SLO 2476 6,0 39,0 50,5 35,0 9 -2,8
31 IM Rukavina Josip CRO 2382 6,0 39,0 50,5 34,0 9 5,3
32 IM Stojanovski Dejan MKD 2394 6,0 38,5 49,5 35,0 9 6,7
33 IM Antal Gergely HUN 2448 6,0 38,5 49,5 33,5 9 -1,7
34 IM Mikac Matjaz SLO 2391 6,0 38,5 49,5 32,0 9 -1,5
35 IM Feletar Darko CRO 2380 6,0 38,0 48,5 32,0 9 -2,6
36 IM Dambrauskas Virginijus LTU 2339 6,0 38,0 48,0 34,0 9 17,9
37 Papp Tamas HUN 2259 6,0 37,5 48,5 30,5 8 5,8
38 FM Orak Ljubomir CRO 2332 6,0 37,0 48,0 31,5 9 8,4
39 Maslik Miroslav SVK 2273 6,0 37,0 47,5 31,0 9 6,6
40 Kozarcanin Sead CRO 2184 6,0 37,0 45,0 31,0 9 26,4
41 IM Lanzani Mario ITA 2336 6,0 35,5 45,5 31,5 9 -2,4
42 FM Martinovic Sasa CRO 2400 6,0 35,5 45,5 30,5 9 -7,7
43 IM Franic Milan CRO 2386 6,0 35,0 45,0 29,5 8 -7,2
44 FM Fucak Emilijo CRO 2287 6,0 34,5 44,0 31,0 9 8,7
45 Mlynek Petr CZE 2155 6,0 34,5 43,0 27,0 7 11,6
46 Pfaffel Thomas AUT 2127 6,0 34,0 43,5 27,5 7 16,8
47 Kokol Peter SLO 2216 6,0 33,5 42,5 28,0 8 13,5
48 IM Gullaksen Eirik NOR 2412 6,0 33,0 43,0 29,5 9 -10,7
49 FM Cherin Diego ITA 2266 6,0 32,0 41,0 27,0 9 -6,3
50 IM Nikolov Sasho BUL 2378 5,5 42,0 53,0 34,5 9 9,5
303 players
The Izmailov Memorial takes place in Tomsk 25th June - 3rd July 2007.
Andrey Gutov leads on 7/8 with a round to go.
Official site: http://www.tomsk-chess.ru/
Round 8 of 9 Standings:
Nr Title Name Rating Score WP PS RC TPR W-WE
1 GM Gutov, Andrey 2466 7.0 40.5 33.5 2367 2703 2
2 GM Nikitin, Andrey 2469 6.0 39.5 27.0 2328 2521 0.55
3 GM Dzhumaev, Marat 2505 6.0 38.5 26.0 2322 2515 0.16
4 GM Amonatov, Farrukh 2574 6.0 37.5 27.0 2352 2545 -0.21
5 FM Voinov, Alexandr 2424 6.0 36.5 27.5 2353 2546 1.3
6 Aklanov, Fedor 2280 6.0 34.5 25.5 2280 2473 2.03
7 GM Belozerov, Andrei 2541 6.0 33.0 22.0 2280 2473 -0.48
8 GM Ibrayev, Nurlan 2472 5.5 40.5 30.5 2406 2547 0.83
9 IM Maletin, Pavel 2541 5.5 39.0 27.5 2360 2501 -0.33
10 FM Shkurikhin, Ilia 2353 5.5 37.0 26.5 2361 2502 1.7
11 GM Khasin, Alexander 2516 5.5 34.5 25.0 2312 2453 -0.54
12 IM Loskutov, Oleg 2409 5.0 42.5 28.0 2379 2474 0.73
13 IM Yudin, Sergei 2511 5.0 42.0 27.5 2408 2503 -0.05
14 GM Nevostrujev, Vladimir 2484 5.0 40.5 26.5 2344 2439 -0.45
15 FM Dashibalov, Erdem 2274 5.0 39.5 25.0 2445 2495 2.06
16 FM Kolesnikov, Evgeny 2383 5.0 38.0 24.5 2326 2421 0.5
17 FM Keosidi, Konstantin 2397 5.0 37.0 25.0 2291 2386 -0.04
18 WIM Nebolsina, Vera 2297 5.0 37.0 23.5 2330 2425 1.34
19 IM Salinnikov, Denis Y. 2407 5.0 36.0 25.5 2318 2413 0.12
20 FM Gritsenko, Andrey 2277 5.0 35.5 23.5 2333 2383 1
21 FM Efimov, Arkadij 2251 5.0 35.0 21.0 2323 2323 0.56
22 IM Slizhevsky, Alexander 2452 5.0 34.5 24.0 2260 2355 -0.98
23 Issabayev, Dias 2263 5.0 34.5 23.5 2366 2416 1.47
24 Mikhalchenko, Petr 2251 5.0 34.5 22.0 2308 2403 1.61
25 FM Popov, Roman 2289 5.0 34.5 21.0 2272 2322 0.32
26 GM Temirbayev, Serik 2484 5.0 34.0 24.0 2285 2380 -1.04
27 FM Pokazanjev, Nikolai 2444 5.0 34.0 21.5 2231 2326 -1.17
28 GM Iskusnyh, Sergei 2463 5.0 32.5 22.5 2256 2351 -1.09
29 IM Pridorozhni, Aleksei 2519 5.0 32.0 20.5 2248 2343 -1.57
30 Obolenskikh, Dmitry 2458 5.0 30.5 18.0 2210 2312 -1.12
31 Belmeskin, Ilia 2125 5.0 27.5 17.0 2322 2447 2.5
90 players
The Ceclub Division De Honor 2007 Grupo II took place in Torrelavega
27th June - 1st July 2007. Cuna De Dragones - Ajoblanco and Intel-Tiendas UPI
qualfied for the playoff final in Calviá (Mallorca) 20th-21st October
2007. Some of the round 5 games may be incomplete.
Grupo I took place last week in Lugo 20th-24th June 2007. Linex Magic
and Iretza Gros progressed to the playoff final with the top two in Grupo II to
decide the title.
Official site: http://www.feda.org/ceclub/honor2/index.htm
Round 1 27th June 2007
1.1 1 CAJA INSULAR DE CANARIAS 2-4 6 INTEL-TIENDAS UPI
1 gm Miton Kamil 2653 1/2 gm Bacrot Etienne 2709
2 gm Areshchenko Alexander 2656 0-1 gm Malakhov Vladimir 2679
3 gm Gurevich Mikhail 2639 1/2 gm Vallejo Pons Francisco 2676
4 gm Kurajika Bojan 2541 0-1 gm Volokitin Andrei 2654
5 im García Padrón Jose 2408 0-1 gm Baadur Jobava 2658
6 im Lezcano Jaén Pedro 2382 1-0 gm Rodríguez Guerrero,Enrique 2446
1.2 2 FOMENT MARTINENC 3-3 5 ESCUELA INT. KASPAROV-MARCOTE
1 gm Marin Mihail 2533 1/2 gm Gashimov Vugar 2644
2 gm Narciso Dublan Marc 2539 1-0 gm Graf Alexander 2620
3 im Aagaard Jacob 2477 1/2 gm Georgadze Giorgi 2610
4 im Jerez Pérez Alfonso 2413 0-1 gm Malakhatko Vadim 2598
5 im Granados López Manuel 2410 1-0 im Lariño Nieto David 2404
6 fm Torrecillas Martínez,Ant.2385 0-1 im Caselas Cabanas Jacobo 2423
1.3 3 SOLVAY 3½-2½ 4 CUNA DE DRAGONES - AJOBLANCO
1 gm Harikrishna Pentala 2650 1/2 gm Almasi Zoltan 2675
2 gm Delchev Alexander 2600 1/2 gm Inarkiev Ernesto 2669
3 gm Ubilava Elizbar 2540 1-0 gm Kobalia Mihail 2639
4 gm Chakkravarthy Deepan J. 2482 0-1 gm Pantsulaia Levan 2616
5 im Cacho Reigadas Sergio 2470 1-0 gm Khamrakulov Ibragim 2545
6 im Bernal Moro Luis J. 2431 1/2 im LLanes Hurtado Miguel 2441
Round 2 28th June 2007
2.1 6 INTEL-TIENDAS UPI 3-3 4 CUNA DE DRAGONES - AJOBLANCO
1 gm Bacrot Etienne 2709 1/2 gm Almasi Zoltan 2675
2 gm Malakhov Vladimir 2679 1/2 gm Inarkiev Ernesto 2669
3 gm Vallejo Pons Francisco 2676 1/2 gm Kobalia Mihail 2639
4 gm Volokitin Andrei 2654 1/2 gm Pantsulaia Levan 2616
5 gm Baadur Jobava 2658 1-0 gm Khamrakulov Ibragim 2545
6 im Terán Álvarez Ismael 2419 0-1 im LLanes Hurtado Miguel 2441
2.2 5 ESCUELA INT. KASPAROV-MARCOTE 3-3 3 SOLVAY
1 gm Gashimov Vugar 2644 1/2 gm Harikrishna Pentala 2650
2 gm Graf Alexander 2620 1-0 gm Delchev Alexander 2600
3 gm Georgadze Giorgi 2610 0-1 gm Ubilava Elizbar 2540
4 gm Malakhatko Vadim 2598 1/2 gm Chakkravarthy Deepan J. 2482
5 im Lariño Nieto David 2404 1/2 im Cacho Reigadas Sergio 2470
6 im Caselas Cabanas Jacobo 2423 1/2 im Bernal Moro Luis J. 2431
2.3 1 CAJA INSULAR DE CANARIAS 2½-3½ 2 FOMENT MARTINENC
1 gm Miton Kamil 2653 1/2 gm Marin Mihail 2533
2 gm Areshchenko Alexander 2656 1/2 gm Narciso Dublan Marc 2539
3 gm Gurevich Mikhail 2639 1/2 im Aagaard Jacob 2477
4 gm Kurajika Bojan 2541 1/2 im Jerez Pérez Alfonso 2413
5 im García Padrón Jose 2408 1/2 im Granados López Manuel 2410
6 im Lezcano Jaén Pedro 2382 0-1 fm Torrecillas Martínez Ant. 2385
Round 3 29th June 2007
3.1 2 FOMENT MARTINENC 1½-4½ 6 INTEL-TIENDAS UPI
1 gm Marin Mihail 2533 0-1 gm Bacrot Etienne 2709
2 gm Narciso Dublan Marc 2539 0-1 gm Malakhov Vladimir 2679
3 im Aagaard Jacob 2477 1-0 gm Vallejo Pons Francisco 2676
4 im Jerez Pérez Alfonso 2413 1/2 gm Volokitin Andrei 2654
5 im Granados López Manuel 2410 0-1 gm Baadur Jobava 2658
6 fm Torrecillas Martínez Ant.2385 0-1 gm Rodríguez Guerrero,Enr 2446
3.2 3 SOLVAY 3½-2½ 1 CAJA INSULAR DE CANARIAS
1 gm Harikrishna Pentala 2650 1/2 gm Miton Kamil 2653
2 gm Delchev Alexander 2600 1/2 gm Areshchenko Alexander 2656
3 gm Ubilava Elizbar 2540 0-1 gm Gurevich Mikhail 2639
4 gm Chakkravarthy Deepan J. 2482 1-0 gm Kurajika Bojan 2541
5 im Cacho Reigadas Sergio 2470 1-0 im García Padrón Jose 2408
6 im Bernal Moro Luis J. 2431 1/2 im Lezcano Jaén Pedro 2382
3.3 4 CUNA DE DRAGONES - AJOBLANCO 4½-1½ 5 ESCUELA INT. KASPAROV-MARCOTE
1 gm Almasi Zoltan 2675 1/2 gm Gashimov Vugar 2644
2 gm Inarkiev Ernesto 2669 1/2 gm Graf Alexander 2620
3 gm Kobalia Mihail 2639 1-0 gm Georgadze Giorgi 2610
4 gm Pantsulaia Levan 2616 1/2 gm Malakhatko Vadim 2598
5 gm Khamrakulov Ibragim 2545 1-0 im Reinaldo Castiñeira Roi 2452
6 im LLanes Hurtado Miguel 2441 1-0 im Caselas Cabanas Jacobo 2423
Round 4 30th June 2007
4.1 6 INTEL-TIENDAS UPI 2-4 5 ESCUELA INT. KASPAROV-MARCOTE
1 gm Bacrot Etienne 2709 1/2 gm Gashimov Vugar 2644
2 gm Malakhov Vladimir 2679 1/2 gm Graf Alexander 2620
3 gm Vallejo Pons Francisco 2676 1/2 gm Georgadze Giorgi 2610
4 gm Volokitin Andrei 2654 0-1 gm Malakhatko Vadim 2598
5 gm Baadur Jobava 2658 0-1 im Lariño Nieto David 2404
6 gm Rodríguez Guerrero, Enr 2446 1/2 im Reinaldo Castiñeira Roi 2452
4.2 1 CAJA INSULAR DE CANARIAS 1-5 4 CUNA DE DRAGONES - AJOBLANCO
1 gm Miton Kamil 2653 0-1 gm Jakovenko Dimitry 2708
2 gm Areshchenko Alexander 2656 1/2 gm Almasi Zoltan 2675
3 gm Gurevich Mikhail 2639 0-1 gm Inarkiev Ernesto 2669
4 gm Kurajika Bojan 2541 1/2 gm Kobalia Mihail 2639
5 im García Padrón Jose 2408 0-1 gm Khamrakulov Ibragim 2545
6 im Lezcano Jaén Pedro 2382 0-1 im LLanes Hurtado Miguel 2441
4.3 2 FOMENT MARTINENC 2-4 3 SOLVAY
1 gm Marin Mihail 2533 1/2 gm Harikrishna Pentala 2650
2 gm Narciso Dublan Marc 2539 0-1 gm Delchev Alexander 2600
3 im Aagaard Jacob 2477 1-0 gm Ubilava Elizbar 2540
4 im Jerez Pérez Alfonso 2413 0-1 gm Chakkravarthy Deepan J. 2482
5 im Granados López Manuel 2410 0-1 im Cacho Reigadas Sergio 2470
6 fm Torrecillas Martínez,Ant 2385 1/2 im Bernal Moro Luis J. 2431
Round 5 1st July 2007
5.1 3 SOLVAY 2-4 6 INTEL-TIENDAS UPI
1 gm Harikrishna Pentala 2650 1/2 gm Bacrot Etienne 2709
2 gm Delchev Alexander 2600 1/2 gm Malakhov Vladimir 2679
3 gm Ubilava Elizbar 2540 0-1 gm Vallejo Pons Francisco 2676
4 gm Chakkravarthy Deepan J. 2482 0-1 gm Volokitin Andrei 2654
5 im Cacho Reigadas Sergio 2470 0-1 gm Baadur Jobava 2658
6 im Bernal Moro Luis J. 2431 1-0 gm Rodríguez Guerrero,Enr. 2446
5.2 4 CUNA DE DRAGONES - AJOBLANCO 4-2 2 FOMENT MARTINENC
1 gm Jakovenko Dimitry 2708 0-1 gm Marin Mihail 2533
2 gm Almasi Zoltan 2675 1-0 gm Narciso Dublan Marc 2539
3 gm Inarkiev Ernesto 2669 1-0 im Aagaard Jacob 2477
4 gm Pantsulaia Levan 2616 1/2 im Jerez Pérez Alfonso 2413
5 gm Khamrakulov Ibragim 2545 1-0 im Granados López Manuel 2410
6 im LLanes Hurtado Miguel 2441 1/2 fm Torrecillas Martínez,Ant 2385
5.3 5 ESCUELA INT. KASPAROV-MARCOTE 2,5-3,5 1 CAJA INSULAR DE CANARIAS
1 gm Gashimov Vugar 2644 1/2 gm Miton Kamil 2653
2 gm Graf Alexander 2620 1/2 gm Areshchenko Alexander 2656
3 gm Georgadze Giorgi 2610 1/2 gm Gurevich Mikhail 2639
4 gm Malakhatko Vadim 2598 1/2 gm Kurajika Bojan 2541
5 im Lariño Nieto David 2404 0-1 im García Padrón Jose 2408
6 im Reinaldo Castiñeira Roi 2452 1/2 im Lezcano Jaén Pedro 2382
Final Standings
Rank Team Gam. + = - Pts. MP
1 CUNA DE DRAGONES - AJOBLANCO 5 3 1 1 19 7
2 INTEL-TIENDAS UPI 5 3 1 1 17½ 7
3 SOLVAY 5 3 1 1 16 7
4 ESCUELA INT. KASPAROV-MARCOTE 5 1 2 2 14 4
5 FOMENT MARTINENC 5 1 1 3 12 3
6 CAJA INSULAR DE CANARIAS 5 1 0 4 11½ 2
The III Festiwal Mielenska Perla Baltyku took place 18th-25th June 2007
in Mielno 6 km north of Koszalin. Piotr Bobras and Dominik Orzech finished with
7/9.
Official site:
http://www.hetman.man.koszalin.pl/index.php?wyn=175&grp=Turniej_A
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III Perla Baltyku A Mielno POL (POL), 18-25 vi 2007
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1. Bobras, Piotr g POL 2545 +20 - 5 - 3 +24 +35 +16 +15 + 2 + 4 7.0 2509
2. Orzech, Dominik POL 2335 +40 + 9 +14 = 4 +26 = 3 + 5 - 1 + 7 7.0 2611
3. Kanarek, Marcel POL 2225 +12 =19 + 1 +11 = 4 = 2 +13 +21 - 5 6.5 2572
4. Sergeev, Vladimir m UKR 2449 +38 +18 + 5 = 2 = 3 +10 + 6 = 7 - 1 6.5 2545
5. Sopur, Lech POL 2372 +22 + 1 - 4 +12 =15 +11 - 2 +14 + 3 6.5 2527
6. Kveinys, Aloyzas g LTU 2546 +31 -14 =21 +30 =16 +19 - 4 +15 +12 6.0 2474
7. Malaniuk, Vladimir P g UKR 2529 +21 -11 +33 + 8 =10 =15 +12 = 4 - 2 5.5 2431
8. Staniszewski, Piotr m POL 2402 +30 =15 +19 - 7 =13 +28 -14 =16 +21 5.5 2428
9. Warakomski, Tomasz f POL 2493 +33 - 2 =30 +21 -11 =20 +28 =13 +14 5.5 2382
10. Przybylski, Wojciech f POL 2320 =27 +34 =13 +14 = 7 - 4 -21 +33 +16 5.5 2401
11. Brodowski, Piotr POL 2364 +23 + 7 =26 - 3 + 9 - 5 +17 -12 =13 5.0 2422
12. Shishkin, Vadim UKR m UKR 2515 - 3 +25 +23 - 5 +20 +18 - 7 +11 - 6 5.0 2371
13. Schmidt, Wlodzimierz g POL 2415 +35 =17 =10 =18 = 8 +26 - 3 = 9 =11 5.0 2383
14. Chojnacki, Krzysztof f POL 2372 +25 + 6 - 2 -10 +22 =17 + 8 - 5 - 9 4.5 2342
15. Krzesaj, Robert f POL 2301 +32 = 8 +17 =26 = 5 = 7 - 1 - 6 =18 4.5 2395
16. Hnydiuk, Aleksander POL 2377 -34 +27 +22 =28 = 6 - 1 +26 = 8 -10 4.5 2329
17. Reshetnikov, Evgeny f RUS 2302 +24 =13 -15 =19 +27 =14 -11 =18 =25 4.5 2283
18. Lubczynski, Rafal f POL 2347 +29 - 4 +34 =13 =28 -12 =19 =17 =15 4.5 2328
19. Owczarzak, Jerzy f POL 2389 +36 = 3 - 8 =17 +34 - 6 =18 =25 =22 4.5 2263
20. Birjukov, Sergey f RUS 2273 - 1 -22 +40 +29 -12 = 9 =24 =27 +32 4.5 2246
21. Mickiewicz, Piotr POL 2271 - 7 +40 = 6 - 9 +37 +35 +10 - 3 - 8 4.5 2333
22. Kusina, Jan POL 2147 - 5 +20 -16 +38 -14 =33 =30 +37 =19 4.5 2283
23. Tofil, Borys POL 2138 -11 +31 -12 -27 =30 =37 +29 =28 +33 4.5 2252
24. Pigula, Marek POL 2093 -17 =35 =27 - 1 =31 +38 =20 +30 =28 4.5 2264
25. Fistek, Dariusz POL 2164 -14 -12 =31 +39 =33 =30 +32 =19 =17 4.5 2270
26. Sharapov, Evgeny m UKR 2428 +37 +28 =11 =15 - 2 -13 -16 +34 . 4.0 2306
27. Warakomska, Anna POL 2107 =10 -16 =24 +23 -17 -34 +39 =20 =30 4.0 2172
28. Markiewicz, Jacek f POL 2307 +39 -26 +32 =16 =18 - 8 - 9 =23 =24 4.0 2230
29. Ferenc, Jozef POL 2116 -18 +38 -35 -20 =32 =36 -23 +39 +40 4.0 2124
30. Lapinski, Krzysztof POL 2175 - 8 +36 = 9 - 6 =23 =25 =22 -24 =27 3.5 2160
31. Panocki, Adrian POL 2292 - 6 -23 =25 =36 =24 -32 =40 =38 +34 3.5 2095
32. Sokolowski, Ryszard POL 2089 -15 +37 -28 -34 =29 +31 -25 +35 -20 3.5 2140
33. Siembab, Bartosz POL 2206 - 9 +39 - 7 =35 =25 =22 +34 -10 -23 3.5 2167
34. Sieciechowicz, Marcin POL 2165 +16 -10 -18 +32 -19 +27 -33 -26 -31 3.0 2158
35. Just, Wolfgang GER 2180 -13 =24 +29 =33 - 1 -21 =37 -32 =36 3.0 2097
36. Natacheev, Peter RUS 2076 -19 -30 =37 =31 -39 =29 -38 +40 =35 3.0 2068
37. Nowak, Ryszard POL 2188 -26 -32 =36 +40 -21 =23 =35 -22 =38 3.0 2057
38. Kulon, Klaudia wf POL 2196 - 4 -29 =39 -22 =40 -24 +36 =31 =37 3.0 2049
39. Zakoscielna, Kinga POL 2094 -28 -33 =38 -25 +36 -40 -27 -29 +41 2.5 1976
40. Banach, Wieslaw POL 2114 - 2 -21 -20 -37 =38 +39 =31 -36 -29 2.0 1984
41. BYE ---- . . . . . . . . -39 0.0
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The Grenoble Masters took place 20th-28th June 2007. Clovis Vernay won
the event iwth 6.5/9.
Official site: http://grenoblechecs.free.fr
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1. Vernay, Clovis f FRA 2347 * 1 0 1 = = = 1 1 1 6.5 2495
2. Janev, Evgeni g BUL 2476 0 * = 0 1 1 = 1 1 1 6.0 2440
3. Olivier, Jean-Christophe m FRA 2363 1 = * 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 5.5 2407
4. Aguettaz, Maxime f FRA 2329 0 1 0 * = = 1 1 = 1 5.5 2411
5. Fargere, Francois f FRA 2344 = 0 0 = * = 1 1 1 = 5.0 2372
6. Foisor, Ovidiu Doru m ROM 2427 = 0 0 = = * 1 = 1 1 5.0 2363
7. Di Paolo, Raffaele f ITA 2341 = = 1 0 0 0 * 1 1 = 4.5 2330
8. Adda, Olivier FRA 2190 0 0 1 0 0 = 0 * 1 1 3.5 2267
9. Rodrigues, Emmanuel FRA 2153 0 0 1 = 0 0 0 0 * = 2.0 2131
10. Vuilleumier, Alexandre f SUI 2343 0 0 0 0 = 0 = 0 = * 1.5 2057
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The 5th Nabokov Memorial took place 3rd-12th June 2007 in Kiev, Ukraine.
Serghei Vedmediuc edged out the Alexey Diulger on tie-break after both finished
on 7.5/10.
Official site: http://ukrchess.org.ua/turnir/t126.html
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1. Vedmediuc, Serghei f MDA 2361 * = 1 = 1 1 = 1 = 1 = 7.5 2524
2. Diulger, Alexey m MDA 2364 = * = = = 1 1 = 1 1 1 7.5 2524
3. Golichenko, Ilija f UKR 2316 0 = * 1 1 = 0 = 1 1 = 6.0 2408
4. Perun, Sergey m UKR 2356 = = 0 * = 1 = 0 = 1 1 5.5 2368
5. Nyzhnyk, Illya UKR 2344 0 = 0 = * = = = 1 1 1 5.5 2369
6. Pavlov, Sergey2 UKR 2436 0 0 = 0 = * 1 1 1 = 1 5.5 2360
7. Moliboga, V RUS 2253 = 0 1 = = 0 * 1 = = = 5.0 2342
8. Baryshpolets, Andrey UKR 2305 0 = = 1 = 0 0 * 1 0 1 4.5 2301
9. Kernazhitsky, Leonid m UKR 2364 = 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 * 1 1 3.5 2221
10. Solomaha, Andrey UKR 2307 0 0 0 0 0 = = 1 0 * = 2.5 2143
11. Ogleznev, Alexandr MDA 2270 = 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 0 = * 2.0 2100
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The Balaton Festival took place in Balatonlelle, 16th-24th June 2007.
Denes Boros and Levente Vajda finished on 6.5/9 in the GM event. Some GM games
missing, rounds 5-9 missing in the IM file and only a few games per round from
the open event.
Official site: http://www.lellechess.tar.hu/
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XXV Balaton GM Balatonlelle HUN (HUN), 16-24 vi 2007 cat. IX (2473)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Boros, Denes m HUN 2501 * 1 = = = 1 = = 1 1 6.5 2635
2. Vajda, Levente g ROM 2549 0 * = 1 = = 1 1 1 1 6.5 2630
3. Sax, Gyula g HUN 2527 = = * = = = 1 = = = 5.0 2509
4. Farago, Ivan g HUN 2501 = 0 = * = = 1 = = 1 5.0 2512
5. Varga, Zoltan g HUN 2499 = = = = * 1 0 = = = 4.5 2469
6. Berczes, David m HUN 2442 0 = = = 0 * = 1 1 = 4.5 2475
7. Prohaszka, Peter2 f HUN 2443 = 0 0 0 1 = * = 1 1 4.5 2475
8. Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas m CAN 2422 = 0 = = = 0 = * = = 3.5 2398
9. Lindberg, Bengt m SWE 2443 0 0 = = = 0 0 = * 1 3.0 2350
10. Spiess, Gunter f GER 2398 0 0 = 0 = = 0 = 0 * 2.0 2260
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XXV Balaton IM Balatonlelle HUN (HUN), 16-24 vi 2007 cat. III (2311)
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1. Brueggemann, Joachim f GER 2347 6.5 38.5 28.0 2484 +1.64
2. Balog, Imre1 HUN 2378 6.5 38.5 24.75 2481 +1.22
3. Szabo, Zsolt Jozsef m HUN 2452 5.0 40.0 20.5 2349 -1.21
4. Wittmann, Walter m AUT 2316 5.0 40.0 19.75 2365 +0.56
5. Lauridsen, Jesper CHI 2223 4.5 40.5 18.75 2324 +0.37
6. Kiss, Pal m HUN 2374 4.5 40.5 18.25 2312 -1.10
7. To, Nhat Minh HUN 2260 4.0 41.0 17.5 2285 +0.33
8. Elarbi, Abobker LBA 2246 3.5 41.5 16.75 2249 +0.01
9. Chahrani, Ibrahim f LBA 2288 3.5 41.5 14.0 2245 -0.55
10. Asabri, Hussien f LBA 2228 2.0 43.0 7.25 2111 -1.27
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1 IM Gonda, Laszlo 2501 HUN 7.0 51.5 39.5 2628 +1.41 36.5
2 GM Horvath, Adam 2486 HUN 6.5 51.0 35.75 2544 +0.74 34.0
3 GM Seres, Lajos 2444 HUN 6.0 50.0 32.75 2466 +0.33 32.0
4 IM Meszaros, Tamas 2358 HUN 6.0 50.0 32.5 2497 +1.68 32.5
5 IM Csiszar, Csaba 2443 HUN 6.0 48.5 29.75 2475 +0.44 30.5
6 IM Hajnal, Zoltan 2430 HUN 6.0 45.5 29.0 2425 -0.05 30.0
7 IM Szeberenyi, Adam 2361 HUN 6.0 45.0 28.75 2430 +0.77 30.0
8 GM Horvath, Peter 2465 HUN 5.5 51.5 30.25 2467 +0.09 31.5
9 GM Czebe, Attila 2500 HUN 5.5 50.0 28.75 2458 -0.41 32.5
10 Balazs, Gabor 2249 HUN 5.5 46.5 27.75 2405 +1.93 30.0
11 IM Hardicsay, Peter 2328 HUN 5.5 46.0 26.25 2393 +0.74 30.0
12 IM Werner, Dimo 2358 GER 5.5 46.0 26.0 2395 +0.52 30.5
13 Papp, Gellert 2430 HUN 5.5 46.0 26.0 2392 -0.36 30.0
14 Nabavi, Parwis 2173 SUI 5.5 45.5 25.5 2445 +3.22 26.5
15 IM Lengyel, Bela 2324 HUN 5.5 44.0 25.75 2348 +0.34 27.0
16 FM Leviczki, Tibor 2292 HUN 5.5 43.5 24.75 2348 +0.73 28.0
17 IM Petran, Pal 2389 HUN 5.5 43.0 26.0 2290 -1.08 25.0
18 Pataki, Gyozo 2367 HUN 5.5 42.5 25.5 2295 -0.78 27.0
19 FM Kaufman, Raymond 2319 USA 5.5 42.5 21.75 2346 +0.39 28.5
20 IM Nagy, Ervin 2302 HUN 5.5 42.0 22.5 2327 +0.36 27.0
21 FM Horvath, Gabor 2241 HUN 5.5 40.5 22.75 2374 +1.68 28.5
22 IM Bokros, Albert 2454 HUN 5.0 47.5 25.25 2332 -1.42 30.0
23 IM Eperjesi, Laszlo Dr. 2223 HUN 5.0 45.0 23.0 2311 +0.89 24.5
24 Salem, Ali Maoloud 2214 LBA 5.0 41.0 20.0 2239 +0.27 21.5
25 Konnyu, Janos 2275 HUN 5.0 40.0 20.0 2241 -0.39 24.0
26 FM Vukovic, Ivo 2230 CRO 5.0 39.5 21.0 2278 +0.54 24.5
27 FM Gara, Gyorgy 2130 HUN 5.0 39.5 18.5 2225 +1.20 23.5
65 players
The Atlantis Schaak Meestertienkamp took place 9th-16th June 2007 in the
Cafe Atlantis in Groningen. Dejan Bojkov won the event with 7/9.
Official site:
http://cafeatlantis.nl/meestertienkamp/index.html
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1. Bojkov, Dejan m BUL 2487 * 1 1 = = = 1 1 = 1 7.0 2579
2. Brandenburg, Daan m NED 2421 0 * 0 = = 1 1 1 1 1 6.0 2491
3. Van Beek, Alexander f NED 2386 0 1 * = = = 1 0 1 0 4.5 2370
4. Hoeksema, Erik m NED 2369 = = = * = 1 0 = 0 1 4.5 2372
5. Bedouin, Xavier f FRA 2328 = = = = * 0 0 1 1 = 4.5 2377
6. Drenchev, Petar BUL 2447 = 0 = 0 1 * = = = 1 4.5 2363
7. Clemens, Adrian f NED 2327 0 0 0 1 1 = * 0 1 1 4.5 2377
8. Kodentsov, Grisja NED 2295 0 0 1 = 0 = 1 * = = 4.0 2337
9. Pel, Bonno f NED 2255 = 0 0 1 0 = 0 = * = 3.0 2260
10. Monroy, Charles f FRA 2407 0 0 1 0 = 0 0 = = * 2.5 2202
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1st Thun Open (part of the Swiss Chess Tour) took place May 25th-28th
2007 The event was won by GM Andrei Sokolov with 6.5/7, half point ahead of GM
Milos Pavlovic, his only serious rival. The tournament was very nice and will
be held in the same period next year. News: Sinisa Joksic.
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1st Open Thun SUI (SUI), 25-28 v 2007
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1. Sokolov, Andrei g FRA 2584 6.5
2. Pavlovic, Milos g SRB 2534 6.0
3. Dekan, Hans GER 2179 5.0 (30.0)
4. Gerber, Richard m SUI 2368 5.0 (27.5)
5. Horvath, Tamas m HUN 2414 5.0 (27.0)
6. Kurmann, Oliver f SUI 2433 4.5 (29.0)
7. Kovacevic, Vladimir SRB 2273 4.5 (26.5)
8. Erdelyi, Tamas m HUN 2207 4.5 (22.0)
etc 36 players
The XXV Novi Becej Open International Chess Tournament took place
9th-17th June 2007. Mihai-Lucian Grunberg took clear first place on 7/9. Games
from the final round as well as additional games from earlier rounds now
available.
Official site: http://chess-open-novi-becej.org
Final Round 9 Standings:
1 1 Grunberg Mihai-Lucian IM 2442 ROM 7 51 40 35½ 9
2 2 Bodiroga Predrag IM 2430 SRB 6½ 52 40 38 3
3 5 Nestorovic Dejan IM 2384 SRB 6½ 50 38½ 34½ 5
4 7 Andrijevic Milan IM 2334 SRB 6½ 49½ 38½ 33 9
5 3 Popovic Milos T FM 2404 SRB 6 47½ 36½ 31 0
6 16 Popovic Predrag R 2241 SRB 6 47 37 30½ 38
7 14 Radosavljevic Slobodan FM 2247 SRB 6 44½ 35 30 9
8 4 Dragovic Momcilo FM 2392 SRB 6 42 32 25½ -13
9 20 Milosevic Rade 2183 SRB 6 40½ 31 27 16
10 18 Andrejic Vladica 2197 SRB 5½ 48 39½ 30 27
11 10 Vukic Radivoj FM 2271 SRB 5½ 48 37½ 29 7
12 11 Sirotanovic Obrad 2268 SRB 5½ 47½ 36½ 32 7
13 15 Levnajic Pavle FM 2245 SRB 5½ 46½ 35½ 31 9
14 9 Sevo Dusan FM 2279 SRB 5 46½ 35½ 28 -6
15 6 Marholev Dimitar IM 2375 BUL 5 44 34½ 27 -17
16 19 Pantelic Sasa 2187 SRB 5 42 34 27 9
17 29 Kovacic Vlastimir 2099 SRB 5 40½ 32½ 24 0
18 26 Brkic Toma 2119 SRB 5 40 32 22 14
19 31 Nestorovic Lazar 2086 SRB 5 39½ 29½ 22½ 17
20 27 Grkovic Milan 2105 SRB 5 39 31 22 12
The VII Aratovsky Memorial takes place in Saratov (one of the biggest
siti on Volga River) 28th June - 7th July 2007. Prize fund of this open
tournament is just 1 million rubles (appr. 30 000 Euro or 40 000 USD). The
prize fund is third biggest in Russia and the number of GM’s is even more
than by “Moscow Open”. Players include 60 GM’s, under them 15
Super GM’s with FIDE-rating 2600+: Krasenkov (POL), Sargissyan (ARM),
Motylev, Volkov, Dreev, Smirnov, Najer, Riazantsev, Bocharov, Yakovich (RUS),
Shutovsky (ISR), Moiseenko (UKR), Fedorov, Aleksandrov (BLR), Kazhgaleev (KAZ)
etc.
Official site: http://www.chess-events.org -
http://www.chess-events.org/rus/aratovskii
Leading Round 4 Pairings:
1 GM Evdokimov Alexander A. 3.0 3.0 FM Gubajdullin Alexei
2 GM Khismatullin Denis 2.5 2.5 GM Sargissian Gabriel
3 GM Dvoirys Semen I. 2.5 2.5 GM Riazantsev Alexander
4 GM Zakhartsov Viacheslav V. 2.5 2.5 GM Bocharov Dmitry
5 GM Shaposhnikov Evgeny 2.5 2.5 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej
6 GM Lysyj Igor 2.5 2.5 GM Dyachkov Sergej
7 GM Vorobiov Evgeny E. 2.5 2.5 GM Krapivin Alexander
8 GM Azarov Sergei 2.5 2.5 WIM Kovanova Baira
9 IM Deviatkin Andrei 2.5 2.5 GM Gleizerov Evgeny
10 GM Sutovsky Emil 2.0 2.5 IM Geller Jakov
11 IM Chuprov Dmitry 2.0 2.0 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny
12 GM Frolyanov Dmitry 2.0 2.0 GM Dreev Alexey
13 GM Moiseenko Alexander 2.0 2.0 GM Yandemirov Valeri
14 GM Korotylev Alexey 2.0 2.0 GM Fominyh Alexander
15 GM Kazhgaleyev Murtas 2.0 2.0 IM Danin Alexandre
16 IM Romanov Evgeny 2.0 2.0 GM Potkin Vladimir
17 GM Vitiugov Nikita 2.0 2.0 GM Iljushin Alexei
18 GM Zinchenko Yaroslav 2.0 2.0 GM Lastin Alexander
19 GM Kharitonov Alexandr 2.0 2.0 GM Solodovnichenko Yuri
20 GM Voitsekhovsky Stanislav 2.0 2.0 GM Chernyshov Konstantin
The XXV International Chess Open of Andorra takes place 30th June - 8th
July 2007.
Official site: http://www.escacsandorra.com/ and
http://www.feva.ad
Leading Round 3 Pairings:
1 Kosten, Anthony C. (2,0) FRA 2517 - ISR 2622 Postny, Evgeny (2,0)
2 Baklan, Vladimir (2,0) UKR 2618 - AND 2525 De La Riva Aguado, Oscar (2,0)
3 Del Rio Angelis, Salvador G. (2,0) ESP 2505 - CAN 2611 Spraggett, Kevin (2,0)
4 Damljanovic, Branko (2,0) SRB 2585 - ESP 2511 Perez Candelario, Manuel (2,0)
5 Damaso, Rui (2,0) POR 2438 - ISR 2566 Kogan, Artur (2,0)
6 Peralta, Fernando (2,0) ARG 2563 - FRA 2447 Edouard, Romain (2,0)
7 Garcia Roman, Daniel (2,0) ESP 2425 - SRB 2563 Strikovic, Aleksa (2,0)
8 Mellado Trivino, Juan (2,0) ESP 2394 - ISR 2530 Rodshtein, Maxim (2,0)
9 Arizmendi Martinez, Julen L. (2,0) ESP 2525 - ESP 2437 Fernandez Romero, Ernesto (2,0)
10 Khenkin, Igor (1,5) GER 2629 - ESP 2415 Vila Gazquez, Xavier (2,0)
The South African Open takes place June 29th - 6th July 2007.
Official site: http://saopen.chesscube.com. Live games
at: http://www.chesscube.com/
Leading Round 5 Standings:
1 Kobese, Watu 1 2425 5
2 Levitt, Mark 8 2266 4½
2 Odendaal, Frederick 35 1936 4½
2 Rubery, Mark 5 2308 4½
2 Solomon, Kenneth 2 2342 4½
6 Blaauw, Corne 34 1927 4
6 Bouah, Lyndon 11 2198 4
6 Dole, Anant 16 1936 4
6 Klaver, Cornelis 15 2017 4
6 Klaasen, Calvin 12 1983 4
6 Lewis, Mark 22 1901 4
6 Mabusela, Johannes 7 2270 4
6 Mathe, Lehlogonolo 18 2042 4
6 Qabaka, Khanya 63 1737 4
6 Solomon, Maxwell 13 2080 4
6 Steel, Henry 6 2178 4
6 Van den Heever, Donovan 3 2310 4
6 Vergeest, Frans 31 1974 4
6 Vlietstra, Marc 19 1707 4
6 Willenberg, Athon 37 1893 4
Chess festival BRNO 2007 takes place 29th June - 8th July 2007. GM, IM
and Open events.
Official site: http://www.skduras.wz.cz/indexe.htm
The Uzhgorod Spring Open took place 24th-27th May 2007. Ladislav Kotan
edged out Juri Dovzik on tie-break after both finished on 5.5/7. I couldn't
find a reason why Matej Vyparina finished on 4 rather than the 5 points
suggested by the games [Corrected in the last edition the day after it was
initially released he lost in round 4].
Nice photo report:
http://chessfeduzh.narod.ru/Uzhopen07en.html
The 40th Cotswold Congress too place at King Edward School, Cheltenham,
26th-28th May 2007. 1st C Beaumont 6/6 2nd S Berry 5/6 3rd N Beveridge 4/6.
The Taiyuan Tournament is a 4 vs 4 Scheveningen event. Playing days:
July 4th-6th, 8th-9th, 11th-12th, 14th. Free Days: 7th, 10th, 13th. News: Yin
Hao.
Players
8600970 Zhang, Pengxiang g CHN 2649
8602883 Wang, Hao g CHN 2624
8601429 Wang, Yue g CHN 2696
8601160 Ni, Hua g CHN 2681
4113403 Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2658
2905540 Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2657
13300490 Asrian, Karen g ARM 2608
718939 Balogh, Csaba g HUN 2567
GM Maxim Sorokin has died in hospital, a week after a car accident in
Kalmykia from which he was initially expected to survive reports Chess Today.
There are also condolences from FIDE at:
http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=1398.
He most recently seconded Sergey Rublevsky in the Candidates in Elista.
The ACP had a press release this week announcing an ACP Women's
Series.
The ACP Board is glad to announce the start of the ACP Women Series. It
has been a long time since we thought of organizing a tournaments circuit for
women similar to the well-known ACP Tour. Only after we managed to stage the
ACP Tour Masters at the beginning of this year, did we make the final steps
towards launching the a women circuit. The 1st ACP Women Series is starting
together with the 4th ACP Tour on July 1st 2007.
The concept is the same as for the ACP Tour. Female members of the ACP
will be able to gather points at tournaments chosen by the ACP Board. At the
end of the season, the best players will either take part in a Final Event
organized by the ACP, if the association manages to raise necessary funds, or
receive money prizes. We shall include in the Women Series different sorts of
tournaments. Both individual and strong team tournaments reserved for women
will obviously be taken into account. In addition, women players performing
well at tournaments of the ACP Tour will also receive points for the Women
Series. All rules as well as the detailed Points System can be found on the ACP
website at:
http://www.chess-players.org/eng/tour/tour_2007/rules_wom.html
We hope that the ACP Women Series will contribute to the development of
women chess.
ACP Board June 30th 2007
XX Ciudad de León
The XX Ciudad de León Chess tournament takes place 4th-9th July
2007. Players: Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Rustam
Kasimdzhanov all of whom have been FIDE World Chess Champions. A 5th World
Champion will be present at León, Boris Spassky, who will give a lecture
about his match with Robert Fischer, and give a simultaneous exhibition.
Official sites: http://www.advancedchessleon.com -
http://www.elajedrezdelfuturo.com
Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup
The Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup will take place in Odessa, Ukraine from
4th-6th July 2007.
Ten grandmasters will take part in the event which is a rapid
all-play-all. The time control: 20 minutes for entire game + 10 seconds
increment after each move.
The participants are: Teimour RADJABOV (Azerbaijan), Vassily IVANCHUK
(Lviv, Ukraine), Alexander GRISCHUK (Russia), Boris GELFAND (Israel), Etienne
BACROT (France), Alexei SHIROV (Spain), Ilia SMIRIN (Israel), Viktor KORCHNOI
(Switzerland), Yuri DROZDOVSKIJ (Odessa, Ukraine) and Vladimir TUKMAKOV
(Odessa, Ukraine).
The event is organised by the PIVDENNY BANK, Ukrainian Chess
Federation, Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) and the Charity Fund
VICTOR.
Official site: http://www.worldcup.pivdenny.com
3rd Chess Summer in Bern
The "Swiss Chess Tour 2007" continues with the "Chess Summer"
tournament in Bern which takes place July 28th - August 5th 2007. Venue: Hotel
"Bern" in the center of the Swiss capital. Main event is "Int. Bern Open
Championship". 9 rounds; 2 hours for 40 moves + 60 minutes till the end. All
rounds from 16.30 to 22.30 except last round from 12.00 to 18.00. Enter fee:
140 CHF; juniors 1987 and younger and FM 70 CHF; GM&IM free. Ten money
prizes 10: 2000 CHF/1.500/1.000/700... The players who like to play late,
during night, will get a chance with the "Bern Summer Night Open" July 29th -
August 4th 2007. 7 rounds; 90 minutes for 30 moves + 30 minutes till the end.
Games start daily at 19.00 to 23.00. Enter fee: 110 CHF; juniors 55 CHF. Six
money prizes: 500/400/300/250/200/150 CHF. Special offer to juniors. Those who
register before July 9th will not pay an entry fee!
Info Beochess: +41+62+9654-650 (Robert Spoerri) beochess@bluewin.ch or
http://www.beochess.ch or
http://yubc.net/~yuchess
"Acropolis" 2007
The "Acropolis" 2007 tournament takes place 14th-22nd August 2007 at the
President Hotel, Kifissias 43,Athens.
The official annoucement is at:
http://www.chessfed.gr/declarations/declarations141.htm
European Blind Individual Championship
The Braille Chess Association host the European Blind Individual
Championship in Durham August 14th-23rd 2007. Play starting at 1.45 pm. except
Monday (a rest day) and final day (11 am start) ) IM Colin Crouch is the main
British contender and six others including Graham Lilley and Chris Ross will
play.
It is hoped that the top four boards will be shown live on the net at:
http://www.braillechess.org.uk
Frank K. Berry 2007 US Women's Championship
The Frank K. Berry 2007 US Women's Championship will take place in
Stillwater, Oklahoma, July 16th-20th, 2007. The tournament will be a 10-player
round robin and stars no less than 3 former US Women's Champions. Last year's
Champion WGM Anna Zatonskih will be joined by 2000 Champion WGM Camilla
Baginskaite and 1998 Champion WGM Irina Krush, who is also the highest rated
player in this year's tournament. Completing the field is WGM Katerina
Rohonyan, WIM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs, WIM Tsaagan Battsetseg, WFM Tatev
Abrahamyan, WFM Alisa Melekhina, WFM Chouchanik Airapetian and WFM Elizabeth
Vicary. A total prize fund of $25,000 is up for grabs with the winner taking
home $7,000. There are also 3 qualifying places for the American Zonal
Tournament and various players have the opportunity to score WGM and WIM norms.
As with the men's event it is sponsored by Frank K. Berry.
Official site: http://www.uswcc2007.com
40th Biel Chess Festival
The 40th Biel Chess Festival takes place 21st July-3rd August 2007. The
main GM is very strong in spite of defending champion Alexander Morozevich
deciding not to play due to health reasons (some treatment he needs and from
which he'll need to recuperate before the world championship in Mexico City).
Official site: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch
Players:
Teimour Radjabov AZE 2747
Judit Polgar HUN 2727
Alexander Grischuk RUS 2717
Magnus Carlsen NOR 2693
Loek Van Wely NED 2674
Alexander Onischuk USA 2663
Bu Xiangzhi CHN 2656
Boris Avrukh ISR 2644
Alexander Motylev RUS 2642
Yannick Pelletier SUI 2602
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Average : = 2677 (cat. XVIII)
MonRoi International Women's Chess Grand-Prix
MonRoi International Women's Chess Grand-Prix sees its finale in an 8
player round robin July 21st-28th in Montreal, Canada.
Standings, based on rating performances in 7 qualifiers in Grand-Prix
host countries: Gibraltar, France, Croatia, Germany, Liechtenstein, Italy &
USA 1. WGM Irina Krush, USA, RP- 2554 GibTelecom 2. GM Pia Cramling, Sweden,
RP-2522 GibTelecom 3. WGM Iweta Rajlich, Poland, RP- 2521 Euro 2007 4. WGM
Jovaka Houska, England, RP- 2512 GibTelecom 5. WGM Lela Javakhishvili, Georgia,
RP- 2490 Euro 2007 6. WGM Cristina Adela Foisor, Romania, RP- 2489
Liechtenstein 7. WGM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman, India, RP- 2482 Liechtenstein 8.
Myriam Roy, Canada, Quebec Chess Federation selection
Details: http://www.monroi.com/GP/
Mazovian Chess Festival
The Mazovian Chess Festival takes place in Grodzisk Mazowiecki,
20th-28th July 2007. Includes: VII Miguel Najdorf International Chess
Tournament and VI Mazovian Junior Chess Championship in the Age Groups From 10
to 18 Years old
Details: http://www.poloniachess.pl/ -
http://www.szachy.grodzisk.pl/ -
http://www.mzszach.net/
Form in English:
http://www.poloniachess.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=444&Itemid=80
6th Condom Open
The 6th Condom International Chess Festival will take place 7th-14th
July 2007 in Gers (South-West of France).
Official site: http://www.chess32.tonsite.biz/
Judge Lictenstein Memorial
The Elkana Chess Club in Israel is a closed 10 player category 8
tournament as part of the Judge Lictenstein Memorial chess Festival July
15th-26th in Israel. They have 9 players already and need another player rated
2439+ to complete the category 8 regulations.
All Accommodation& food is free of charge.
Contact Haggai Frank chaggaif@bezeqint.net
V Transcarpathian Rapid
The V Transcarpathian Rapidtournament "Chess Decyk" takes place
September, 15th-16th 2007 City: Uzhgorod Country: Ukraine Time control: Rapid:
20' - 20' Number of rounds: 9 System: Swiss Prize fund: 4000 UAH Remarks:
Welcome to the age-old town above the river Uzh with more than 1000-year’s
history!!!
Organizer: Chess Federation of Uzhgorod (President - IM Bogdan Borsos)
Tel: +380503179153, +380503723900 E-mail: chessfeduzh@rambler.ru Address:
Ukraine, Uzhgorod, Hotel "Svitanok", Koshitska st. 30
Further details: http://chessfeduzh.narod.ru
Hungarian tournaments July - December 2007
List of the chess tournaments from July - December 2007 in Hungary:
1. 7th - 19th of July 2007 FIRST SATURDAY Budapest GM-IM-FM, GM-IM-FM
round robins (BERGER), 9-13 games, GM-IM norm possibilities in Budapest, venue:
Hungarian Chess Federation, Falk Miksa Str.10. 2nd floor. Organisation: Nagy
Laszlo, FIDE International Chess Organizer E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net
Website: http://www.firstsaturday.hu Other
website: http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat
Phone-fax: +(361)-2632859, cellphone: +(36)-30-230-1914 /From 12:00 a.m. until
midnight - Central European Time - GMT+1 hour/..
2. 21st - 29th of July KECSKEMET, IM Berger tmt, org: Dr.Erdelyi,
Tamas, e-mail: postmaster@caissa.t-online.hu Website:
http://www.caissachessbooks.hu
Usually also in the second half of the month IM tmt-s in Kecskemet. 100 km
South-East from Budapest.
3. 22nd-29th of July AGRIA Open, Eger, 110 km North-East from Budapest,
Org: Rauch Ferenc, e-mail: rauch@freemail.hu
http://agriasakk.eurochess.hu
4 . 4th-16th of August FS Budapest, GM-IM-FM, org. Nagy L.
5. 18th-26th of August, TALENTUM CUP Open 9 rounds Swiss, near to the
Balaton lake, org: VALIS, Janos, e-mail: husi-sc@hu.inter.net
6. 1st-13th of September, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest, org.Nagy L.
7. 17th -25th of September KECSKEMET IM tmt, org. dr.Erdelyi
8. 6th-18th of October, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest, org.Nagy L.
9. 22nd-30th of October KECSKEMET IM - org. dr.Erdelyi
10. 3rd-15th of November, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest, org.:NL
11. 15th-23rd of November, XXXI. TENKES CUP, 9 round Swiss Open,
Harkany, 300 km South-West from Budapest, org: Mr.FULOP, Csaba, e-mail:
fulopcsa@invitel.hu Website:
http://www.baranyasakk.hu/index.php?cat=naptar&id=3&age=0&vid=15⟨=hu&det=12
12. 1st-13th of December, FS GM-IM-FM, Budapest, org.NL
8th Montreal International
The 8th Montreal International takes place 19th-28th July 2007.
Players: Vassily Ivanchuk, Gata Kamsky, Nigel Short, Pavel Eljanov,
Sergei Tiviakov, Emil Sutovsky, Kamil Miton, Pentala Harikrishna, Mark
Bluvshtein and Pascal Charbonneau.
Official site:
http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/index.php?typ=actu&id=1760&categorie
1st Leiden Chess Tournament
The 1st Leiden Chess Tournament is being organised by
http://www.schakers.info, a Dutch chess news website that celebrates its 5th
anniversary in 2007. The tournament is sponsored by H.L. Druckerfonds.
The tournament will take place in the Leiden Denksportcentrum, July
13th-July 22nd 2007. It is a 9 round Swiss
Registration by e-mail: redactie@schakers.info
More information and tournament site:
http://www.schakers.info info (banner
LCT2007)
2nd Konig Memorial
The Mechanics' Institute will be holding the 2nd Konig Memorial July
10th-25th 2007 on the Schevingen system - double round robin between the two
teams. The time control is 40/75 + SD/15 all with 30 seconds added per move.
GM Team GM Baburin ( Ireland) GM S.Atalik (Turkey) GM Yermolinsky
( USA) GM Fedorowicz ( USA) IM E.Atalik ( Turkey)
IM Team IM Pruess ( USA) IM Stein (USA) IM Zilberstein (USA) IM
Friedel (USA) IM Mezentsev (USA)
Daily coverage at: http://www.chessclub.org
XX Belgrade International Open
The XX International Open Championship of Belgrade "OBRENOVAC 2007"
takes place 22nd-30th November 2007.
Prizes : EUR 5,600.00 The championship will be played in 9 rounds
according to the FIDE Swiss System (computer pairing). Rate of play is 40 moves
for 2 hours and 30 minutes til the end of game.
Contact information: BELGRADE CHESS INFORMATION 11000 Belgrade,
Deligradska 27/III, Serbia Tel/Fax; +381-11 -2656 846 E-mail: beochess@eunet.yu
Further details: http://www.beochess.org.yu
Olomouc and Highlands Opens Czech Republic
10th International Chess Festival Olomouc Chess Summer 2007, which
takea place in the city of Olomouc on 1st-9th August 2007. Closed GM and IM
tournaments, closed FIDE tournament, FIDE open, seniors tournament, active
chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival. More detailed information
should be found at
http://www.czechtour.net/olomouc-chess-summer/regulations/.
Downloadable regulations in English, German, Russian and Polish are available
at the address http://www.czechtour.net/olomouc-chess-summer/.
4th International Chess Festival Highlands Open 2007, which will take
place in the town of Zdar nad Sazavou on 22nd-30th September 2007. Final
qualification for the Men and Women Championship of the Czech Republic, FIDE
open, active chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival. More detailed
information should be found at
http://www.czechtour.net/highlands-open/regulations/
. Downloadable regulations in English, German, Russian and Polish are available
at the address http://www.czechtour.net/highlands-open/.
Both events are held within the frame of 7th International Chess
Festivals CZECH TOUR 2007/2008 Series. More detailed information about the
series, which is taking place in 8 towns of the Czech Republic, should be found
at http://www.czechtour.net/regulations/.
Downloadable regulations in English, German, Russian and Polish are available
at the address http://www.czechtour.net/news/.
IGB 4th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open
The IGB 4th Dato' Arthur Tan Malaysia Open Chess Championship takes
place in the Cititel Mid Valley Hotel, Kuala Lumpur 19th-27th August 2007. 11
Rounds Swiss, 1st Prize USD4000, Info: aham@pc.jaring.my
Details:
http://chess.maribelajar.com/2007/06/08/datmo-4-details/
or
http://www.gilachess.com/2007/06/09/4th-igb-dato-arthur-tan-malaysian-open-2007/
GM Amir Bagheri's Website and Match
GM Amir Bagheri's Website: http://amirbagheri.freehostia.com/
Amir Bagheri (Iran, rating 2481) will play a 2-game match vs. members of
the ICCF Forum. The games (one with White and one with Black pieces) will be
played on the ICCF Webserver and are intended to start on June 20th 2007, with
the reflection time rule "10 moves/100 days".
http://www.iccf-webchess.com
6th La Fere Open
The 6th La Fere Open International Chess Tournament will take place
7th-13th July 2007 in Picardie (North of France).
Official site: http://laferect.free.fr/
5th Staunton Memorial
The 5th Staunton Memorial sees six Dutch and six English players
compete in a single round robin event. The players are: Holland: Loek Van Wely
2674; Jan Timman 2545; Jan Smeets 2552; Jan Werle 2556; Ivan Sokolov (last
years winner) 2663; Erwin L’Ami 2617; England: Michael Adams 2734; Jon
Speelman 2518; Peter Wells 2499; Colin McNab 2418; Gawain Jones 2524; Jovanka
Houska 2404. Play begins on August 7th and ends on August 18th. The event is,
as last year, supported by the Dutch chess enthusiast Jan Mol.
Official site: http://howardstaunton.com/index.shtml
British Chess Championships
The 94th Championships of The British Isles Organised by the English
Chess Federation Sunday 29th July - Saturday 11th August - Great Yarmouth
College, Great Yarmouth
Official site: http://www.bcf.org.uk/events/bc2007/index.html
John Watson Books Show
John Watson has a program on chess.fm on books, this week it features FM
Graham Burgess, Editorial Director of Gambit Publishing.
Details: http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/
Ghent Open
The 30th Open International Chess Tournament of Ghent takes place
14th-18th July 2007.
Official site:
http://home.scarlet.be/~ping6819/opentoer/2007/indexengl.htm
World Youth Chess Championships
The World Youth Chess Championships take place 17th-29th November 2007
in Antalya.
Official site: http://wycc2007.tsf.org.tr/
IV Calvià Chess Festival
The IV Calvià Chess Festival takes place in Calvià,
Mallorca (Spain) 6th-24th October 2006. Event including an International,
Blitz, Senior, Amateur & Under-16 tournaments.
Details: http://www.calviafestival.com
Czech Open 2007
The 18th Czech Open takes place in Pardubice 12th-29th July 2007.
Alongside will take place the World School Chess Teams Championship, European
Chess Solving Championship and European Amateurs Championship in Chess
Details: http://www.czechopen.net/index.php
John Watson Book Reviews on chess.fm
TWIC contributer John Watson can be heard on chess.fm reviewing books
every week on a Tuesday. Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam the editor of New in Chess will
be John Watson's guest on the show on May 22nd 2007. This show will be made
available for 7-days ONDemand for members.
http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/
ICC has announced it taken over World Chess Network, from Master Games
International, and Chess Live, from GamesParlor. The two services will be
merged together to form a new service, separate from ICC, to be called World
Chess Live.
Details: http://www.chessclub.com/tryicc/wcl.html
Anand interview
There is a new interview with Anand on the website:
http://latestchess.com/
Predeal Chess Festival
The Predeal Chess Festival takes place in Romania August 8th-18th 2007
This will be a very large one, with 5 tournaments, European Women Rapid Chess
and blitz Championships, World Amateur Ch, Romanian Open and a children
tournament. We expect over 600 participants.
Details; http://www.chess-predeal.com and also
on the Romanian Grand Prix and Romanian Chess Federation chess pages,
http://www.romaniangp.com and
http://www.frsah.ro.
Contact : Doru Ionescu, doru.ionescu@romaniangp.com, +40742064336.
12th Pannonia Cup
The 12th Pannonia Cup takes place in Balatonalmádi (Hungary)
1st-05th August 2007. Group A: International Open for FIDE ratings (without age
limit) Group B:International Open for FIDE ratings for players rated under 2000
(without age limit). U18 Players’ results will be evaluated separately.
Details: http://fancsyimi.fw.hu
Entry and contact for further information: Address: Fáncsy Imre:
8222. Balatonalmádi, Gábor Áron u. 15.; HUNGARY E-mail:
almadikupa@freemail.hu
Ikaros Chess Festival
The Ikaros Chess Festival 2007, is 30 years old. The main event of the
festival, the International Aegean Open Championship takes place 7th-15th July
2007 on the island of Ikaria in Greece. It is a 9 round swiss event with prize
fund 3000 Euros in total (1st prize 800 Euros, special money prizes for ladies
and veterans). Special conditions are offered to GMs/IMs/WGMs/WIMs. A package
including entry fee, accomodation (in double room, no meals or food expenses
included) and ferry tickets (C class, from Piraeus, the port of Athens to
Ikaria, and back) is offered at a reduced price (compared to normal price).
Details: http://www.chess.gr/ikaros
Contact: e-mail is: ikaros@chess.gr or phone one can try: +30 6932
478386 or +30 210 5010871 (Mr. Savas Kyriakou) Apart from the International
Aegean Open Championship, this year's events include plenty of other side
events such as Junior, Ladies, Veteran, blitz, rapid and simultaneous
exhibition events, blindfold chess, chess lectures and many others.
Crete Summer Cup
The 2nd International Open Chess Tournament "Summer Cup 2007" takes
place 21-29 July 2007, The games will take place in the Hermes Conference
Hotel**** on the seaside of Agios Nikolaos in Crete, 60 km east of Heraklion
airport. An excellent location on the beach with a panoramic view of the Aegean
Sea!
Location: Agios Nikolaos, Crete island (Greece), 21-29 July* 9 rounds,
Prize fund: EUR 3100, 1st prize EUR 1000* Website:
http://www.greekchess.com/cup2007
Email: cup2007@greekchess.com
2nd Edmonton International
The 2nd Edmonton International takes place August 2nd-6th 2007. The
tournament will be played in a 10 player round-robin format with regular time
controls. The confirmed participants so far are:
1. GM Aveskulov, Valery (2539, Ukraine) 2. IM (GM Elect) Kraai, Jesse
(2477, USA) 3. GM Khachiyan, Melikset (2475, USA) 4. IM Bachmann, Axel (2470,
Paraguay) 5. IM Donaldson, John (2413, USA) 6. FM Huber, Greg (2211, Canada) 7.
Reeve, Jeff (2205, Canada) 8. Li, Zhichao (2143, Hong-Kong)
Official site: http://www.albertachess.org/
Maxim Dlugy
Former World Junior Champion GM Maxim Dlugy now has a website.
http://www.dlugy.com/
MyChess correspondence Chess Server
There is a correspondence chess server designed by Matthias Karkowski
at: http://www.mychess.de/
Euro Chess Tournament 2007
The Euro Chess Tournament takes place August 6th-11th 2007 at the
University of Twente, Enschede. The Euro Chess Tournament is Europe's largest
Open Youth Chess tournament. Over 500 children will battle on the chess board
for the 33rd Open Dutch Youth Chess Championship titles. Parallel to the Dutch
Open, the University of Twente Young Masters, a 20 player Swiss by invitation
GM tournament will be played.
Details: http://www.onjk.nl/
1st Thun Open
The "Swiss Chess Tour 2007" will continue in Thun with the 1st
"International Town Hall Open" May 25th-28th 2007. Thun is famous turist place,
20 minutes from Bern by train, located on the lake, with the same name, Thun.
The venue is the Hotel-Restorant “City-House” Thun, Open, Swiss
system, 7 rounds and the games will last a maximum of 5 hours (40 moves for 2
hours and 30 minutes till the end). Prize are: 1.500 SF, 1.200, 900, 700, 500,
400, 300, 250, 200 and 150 SF. Special prizes for best Lady, senior (1946),
junior(1987-90), schoolboy (1991) and 3 best local players. Entry fee 130 SF,
FMs and juniors 60 SF, at the door 20 SF more (for everybody enclude GM, IM),
GMs and IMs free. Venue: Hotel "City House". Time table: Round 1st 18.00-23.00
May 25th ; Rounds 2/3 09.30-14.30 and 15.00-20.00 April 26th; Round 4/5
9.30-14.30 and 15.00-20.00 May 27th; Rounds 6/7 09.30-14.30 and 15.00-20.00 May
28th; Closing ceremony May 28 at 20.30. Info: Beochess +41+62+965-46-50 (Robert
Spoerri) or info@beochess.ch or site http://www.beochess.ch for more details.
Chess Classic Mainz
The Chess Classic Mainz takes place August 13th-19th 2007 at the
Rheingoldhalle. Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Etienne Bacrot and Rustam
Kasimdzhanov will play a mixed rapid chess and Chess960 event. These will take
place along with the usual mixture of other events.
Official site: http://www.chesstigers.de
Benidorm International Chess Festival
The VI Benidorm 2007 International Chess Festival takes place 30th
November - 9th December 2007 with diverse tournaments
More information and entry, discounts by individual lodging or for
groups larger than 15 people, please to contact Patricia Claros Aguilar:
615547567 - 6620 20592 or emails ajedrezenalicante@yahoo.es and
ajedrezalicante@hotmail.com.
Details: http://www.ajedrezbali.com/
British Chess Problem Society
Brian Stephenson of the British Chess Problem Society has a new website:
http://www.bstephen.me.uk/. The site
has much info on the Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship.
Endgame Studies
Alexander Rueb Vereniging voor SchaakEindspelStudie. Endgame studies:
http://www.arves.org/
Arctic Chess Challenge
The Arctic Chess Challenge will take place in Tromsø, Norway
August 4th-12th 2007. The Open Swiss is a follow up to last year’s
Midnight Sun Chess Challenge, won by GM Sergei Shipov ahead of among others
Carlsen, Krasenkow and Rozentalis and is the second in a series of events
leading up to Tromsø’s bid for the 2014 Chess Olympics
Details: http://www.arcticchess.org/engindex.htm
Lugano tournaments
There are two tournaments in Lugano. One at the end of April
http://www.scaccomatto.ch/. The other
at the end of November http://www.chessevent.ch/
Novi Sad Championship
Novi Sad will host the 2009 European National Team Championship. In the
run up to that the Championship of Novi Sad took place 18th-25th March 2007.
Dusan Rajkovic won the event on tie-break from Miroljub Lazic after both
finished on 6.5/9. I'm hoping for a better games file before I try and publish
the games.
Further details: http://www.drazic.co.yu
Mediterranean 2013" Open Rijeka Croatia
The "Mediterranean 2013" Open chess tournament takes place in Rijeka
Croatia, 25 November - 2 December 2007
System of play: Swiss / 9 rounds. Tempo of play: 90 minutes per player
+ 30 extra seconds for each move played starting with the first. The tournament
will be registered with FIDE in order to assign the rating and title norms.
Prizes Awards fund: about 10 000 Euros. 1st award - 12 000,00 kunas 2nd
award - 8 000,00 kunas 3rd award - 6 000,00 kunas
WEB: http://www.mediteran2013.com/en/default.asp
e-mail: club@sah-rijeka.hr
8th Montreal International
The 8th Montreal International takes place July 19th - 28th 2007. Nigel
Short, Sergei Tiviakov, Pavel Eljanov, Pentala Harikrishna, Vadim Milov, Kamil
Miton, Mark Bluvshtein and Pascal Charbonneau are signed up to play.
Details:
http://fqechecs.qc.ca/index.php?typ=actu&id=1760&categorie=1
RC Sport Open
The RC Sport Open takes place 10th-17th August 2007 in Ceská
Trebová (Czech republic). Total prize fund is 122 000 CZK (4 000 Euro).
Details: http://sachy.rcsport.info
Canadian Open
The 2007 Canadian Open Chess Championship is a 10-round, one-section
Swiss that takes place 7-15 July 2007 in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. 120
minutes/game + 30sec. increment/move. Projected prize fund of $20,000 CDN based
on 200 entrants. Free entry to GMs, WGMs and IMs. Entry fee for all others,
$125 CDN until May 31, 2007, $150 CDN thereafter. Players must be members of
the Chess Federation of Canada. A tournament membership is available for $10
CDN, and a one-year membership for foreign players is $50 CDN. The venue is the
Ottawa Marriott (www.ottawamarriott.com), offering rates of $89/night CDN for
single and double occupancy.
Online reservations may be made at the website:
http://cwp.marriott.com/yowmc/chess/
Confirmed GMs so far: GM Nigel Short, GM Vadim Milov, GM Suat Atalik, GM Alex
Yermolinsky, GM Mark Bluvshtein. More GMs will be announced at the event blog:
http://cocycc.blogspot.com
Event website: http://www.canchess.ca
ICC and FICS client for mobile phones
Mats Luthman has written a program that connects to ICC and FICS,
compatable with many modern mobile phones. I've been looking for something like
this for a while for watching live tournaments if I'm out and about. Its a nice
free solution, you can also play but I haven't tried that.
Website: http://www.luthman.nu/Mobi/Mobi.html
5th PAL/CSS Freestyle Chess Tournament
$16,000 Freestyle tournament starts on March 2nd 23.02.2007 The Fifth
PAL/CSS Freestyle Chess Tournament begins on March 2nd on the Playchess server.
The main tournament is an eight-round Swiss, with time controls of 60 min + 15
sec per game. You probably know that in Freestyle any kind of assistance is
allowed: computers, friends, books, anything. The starting fee is 10 Euro. GMs
and IMs are free
Details and entry:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3693
VI Benidorm Festival
The VI Benidorm Festival takes place 30th November - 9th December 2007.
Further details: http://www.ajedrezalicante.com/menu.htm
Baltic Sea Cup
The Baltic Sea Cup (Bornholm, Denmark) takes place July 30th - August
5th 2007.
Details: http://www.bornholms-skakklub.dk/balticseacup07/
Alushta Diary 2007
GM Norm events: 23.05 - 1.06, 2.06 - 12.06, 15.06 - 25.06, 2.09 -
12.09, 14.09 - 24.09, 26.09 - 6.10, IM Norm: 23.05 - 1.06, 2.06 - 12.06, 15.06
- 25.06, 2.09 - 12.09, 14.09 - 24.09, 26.09 - 6.10, Rating tournament: 4.06 -
12.06, 22.06 - 27.06, Open tournament (under 16 years) First prize - 200$ 3.06
- 11.06, 13.06 - 21.06, Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Open tournament First prize -
1000$ First prize (woman) - 500$ 28.06 - 6.07, Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Blitz
tournament 7.07, Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Open tournament (rapid chess) 8.07 -
9.07, Alushta Session of school of Gennadi Kuzmin 21.06 - 27.06
Individual and group studying Further information:
http://www.kaissa.com.ua phone +38
(06560)5-05-32, +380505828911 (for Russian speaking) + 44 7717890632 (for
English speaking, call after 18.00) e-mail: info@kaissa.com.ua
New England Masters
New England Masters, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August 13-17, 2007. 9
Round FIDE Swiss with great norm opportunities. Low entry fees and hotel rate,
open to players rated FIDE 2200 or higher. Website:
http://www.newenglandmasters.com.
Email: chris@chesstournamentservices.com.
Banyoles Chess Festival 2007
The Banyoles Chess Festival includes two tournaments: The Rapid-Chess
Tournament is on 15th of August. And from the 16th until 24th of August is held
the International Chess Tournament. Here, you will find more information about
them: 3rd. "Lluís Muratet" Rapid-Chess Tournament This will be played
the 15th of August of 2007. Rapid-Chess (20 minutes or 15min+5"). 9 Rounds.
Prizes: 1st. 800 €; Prize fund: 2.000 €. (Valid for Catalan Chess
Circuit) 10th Banyoles International Chess Tournament From 16th until 24th of
August of 2007. Swiss System. 9 Rounds. 105 minutes + 30 seconds/movement.
Prizes: 1st. 2.000 € (4.000 € if the winner achieves 9 points); Prize
fund: 8.000 €. (Valid for the Catalan Chess Circuit). Nigel Short has
announced his participation.
Official site: http://www.escacsbanyoles.com/
Battle of Senta tournament
The 11th International Chess Festival "The Battle of Senta 1697" takes
place 20th-30th July 2007 in Senta (the Vojvodina / Serbia).
Details: http://www.chess-senta.org.yu
Monroi Grand Prix for Women
Women in chess are being recognized by a Grand-Prix series of
international chess events. The events will be broadcast live using the MonRoi
system. “The world’s best women chess players have the opportunity to
qualify in some of the top tournaments in the world. We invite you to follow
live games, pictorial and video reports! Join us in Gibraltar, Cannes, Zagreb,
Dresden, Liechtenstein, St. Petersburg and Philadelphia and Montreal!”
said Brana Giancristofaro, Founder & CEO of MonRoi Inc. The Grand-Prix
Finale will be held in Montreal, Canada July 21-28, 2007. Qualifiers will be
selected on the basis of top performance and will compete for Finale prizes!
The Grand-Prix starts on January 23rd, 2007, in Gibraltar! Qualifying events
are the following:
GibTelecom, Gibraltar, January 23 - February 1
Cannes Open, FRA,
February 18-25
Zagreb Open, CRO, March 17-25
ECU Individual, Dresden
GER, April 2-15
Liechtenstein Open, May 11-19
World Open, Philadelphia
USA, June 28 - July 4
Montreal Chess Festival Finale, July 21-28
Further details: http://www.monroi.com/GP
Politiken Cup
The 29th Copenhagen Open Politiken Cup takes place 21st-29th July 2007.
Official site: http://www.politikencup.dk/
Pierre Barthélémy Chess Blog
Pierre Barthélémy Chess Blog in French:
http://echecs-info.blogspot.com
Russia vs ROW Correspondence
The Russian Chess Federation is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is
using this occasion to challenge the rest of the world to a match over 64
boards with 2 games for each and the start is 15.02 2004. Players include Joop
van Oosterom
http://www.mychessweb.com/Tables/Internationale/Play/russia-world.htm
