The Week in Chess 676

THE WEEK IN CHESS 676 22nd October 2007 by Mark Crowther

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Games Section
Essent Chess Tournament	346 games
Bilbao Blindfold Chess World Cup	30 games
Casino de Barcelona	25 games
IV Calvià Chess Festival	584 games
Spanish CECLUB Finals	24 games
Bundesliga	136 games
World Juniors	49 games
Corfu International Chess Festival	213 games
7th Winterthur Chess Week	24 games
First Saturday October	68 games
IRT Salomao Roved	62 games
3rd Arctic Cup	180 games
US Chess League	25 games
37th Corsico FIDE Tournament	28 games
Total	1771 games

1) Introduction

My thanks to David Ayza, Gerald Schendel, Geurt Gijssen, Patricia Claros Aguilar, Zenón Franco Ocampos, Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr, Stefan Loeffler, David Ayza, Ales Drinovec, Laura Gallardo, Miklos Orso, Anton Mihailov, John Saunders, Yuri Garrett, Dario Mione, Rolf Benz, Joaquim De Deus Fº and everyone else who helped with the issue.

Another very nice week of tournaments. The Essent tournament finished with victory for Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who was half a point clear of Loek van Wely who in turn was half a point clear of Ruslan Ponomariov. All gained ratings points as World Junior Champion Zaven Andriasian couldn't get off the mark in the same week he lost the title as the U20 event concluded in Yerevan. Its nice to give young juniors a go but clearly his lack of experience told. The Bilbao Blindfold Chess World Cup was an interesting if overtitled event (I haven't done anything like a scientific study but my feeling from the Amber Blindfold is that Morozevich and Kramnik are the best two blindfold players). Anyhow in a Category XIX field Bu Xiangzhi just ran away with it. Linex - Magic became Spanish Champions the week after becoming European Champions and the strongest league in the world got under way, the Bundesliga. All good stuff!

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) Essent Chess Tournament

The 11th edition of the Essent Chess Tournament took place 12th-20th October 2007. The location is the city of Hoogeveen. Just like last year there are several competitions: a Crown Group, a strong Essent Open, an Amateur Tournament and an event for youth. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the event with 4.5/6 half a point clear of Loek van Wely who beat 3rd placed Ruslan Ponomariov all three gained rating points because unfortunately bottom rated Zaven Andriasian (last year's World Junior Champion) was completely overfaced by the field and didn't score. Eltaj Safarli won the Open tournament.

Official site: http://www.essentchess.nl/ tournament info: http://www.essentchess.nl/info_eng.htm

Round 6 (October 20, 2007)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Van Wely, Loek	0-1	42	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Andriasian, Zaven	- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	0-1	40	B07	Pirc Defence
Round 5 (October 19, 2007)
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	½-½	41	D55	Queens Gambit Old Lasker Variation
Van Wely, Loek	- Andriasian, Zaven	1-0	53	D47	Queens Gambit Meran
Round 4 (October 18, 2007)
Van Wely, Loek	- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	½-½	25	D86	Gruenfeld Simagin
Andriasian, Zaven	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	0-1	43	B83	Sicilian Scheveningen
Round 3 (October 16, 2007)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	½-½	37	C79	Ruy Lopez Russian Defence
Andriasian, Zaven	- Van Wely, Loek	0-1	44	B80	Sicilian Scheveningen
Round 2 (October 15, 2007)
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Andriasian, Zaven	1-0	34	A53	Old Indian Defence
Van Wely, Loek	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	½-½	25	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Round 1 (October 14, 2007)
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Van Wely, Loek	1-0	41	D43	Anti-Meran Gambit
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Andriasian, Zaven	1-0	36	D30	Queen's Gambit (without Nc3)

11th Essent Crown Group 14th-20th October 2007
					1		2		3		4
1	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2752	*	*	1	½	½	½	1	1	4½	2836
2	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	2680	0	½	*	*	½	1	1	1	4	2792
3	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2705	½	½	½	0	*	*	1	1	3½	2716
4	Andriasian, Zaven	g	ARM	2546	0	0	0	0	0	0	*	*	0

Essent Open Hoogeveen NED (NED), 12-20 x 2007 Final Round 9 Standings:
1	IM	Safarli, Eltaj	IM	AZE	2488	7	43.5	2531
2	GM	Postny, Evgeny	GM	ISR	2599	6.5	52.5	2662
3	GM	Werle, Jan	GM	NED	2568	6.5	49	2615
4	GM	Nijboer, Friso	GM	NED	2559	6.5	49.5	2607
5	GM	Smeets, Jan	GM	NED	2558	6.5	46	2569
6	GM	L'Ami, Erwin	GM	NED	2577	6	50	2566
7	GM	Gofshtein, Leonid	GM	ISR	2542	6	49.5	2559
8	GM	Reinderman, Dimitri	GM	NED	2510	6	48	2491
9	GM	Winants, Luc	GM	BEL	2504	6	51	2599
10	GM	Hort, Vlastimil	GM	GER	2483	6	47	2526
11	IM	Simutowe, Amon	IM	ZAM	2421	6	46.5	2522
12	GM	Peng, Zhaoqin	GM	NED	2419	6	45.5	2505
13	IM	Pruijssers, Roeland	IM	NED	2408	6	41	2401
14	IM	Grooten, Herman	IM	NED	2350	6	43.5	2485
15	IM	Abergel, Thal	IM	FRA	2528	5.5	46	2436
16	GM	Visser, Yge	GM	NED	2470	5.5	46.5	2486
17	IM	Van Delft, Merijn	IM	NED	2418	5.5	43.5	2462
18	IM	Willemze, Thomas	IM	NED	2417	5.5	40	2378
19		Vedder, Henk		NED	2364	5.5	42	2385
20	FM	Tondivar, Babak	FM	NED	2353	5.5	37	2254
21	IM	Afek, Yochanan	IM	ISR	2349	5.5	37.5	2298
22		Kodentsov, Grisja		NED	2307	5.5	40	2325
23	WGM	Mamedjarova, Turkan	WGM	AZE	2227	5.5	46.5	2468
78 players

3) Bilbao Blindfold Chess World Cup

The Bilbao Blindfold Chess World Cup took place 16th-20th October 2007. Bu Xiangzhi was the clear winner with 6 wins, three draws and only the one loss. The event had 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, in fact it only once made any difference to the normal standings throughout the entire event (I updated them every day and just had to change the scores), in the final table where Karjakin took 2nd place from Carlsen and I don't think this scoring system makes any difference to the player's attitude. They also used the Sofia draw rules (ie no draws until the position is dead drawn) these rules of course have proved useful and must be particularly stressful in blindfold chess!

Official site: http://www.ajedrezbilbao.com/

Blindfold World Cup Bilbao ESP, 16-20 x 2007 cat. XIX (2708)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1	Bu Xiangzhi	g	CHN	2692	*	*	1	½	1	½	1	0	1	½	1	1	21	2903
2	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2694	0	½	*	*	0	1	½	1	1	0	1	1	17	2782
3	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2714	0	½	1	0	*	*	½	1	1	½	½	1	16	2778
4	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2708	0	1	½	0	½	0	*	*	0	1	1	½	12	2671
5	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2769	0	½	0	1	0	½	1	0	*	*	½	0	9	2585
6	Harikrishna, P	g	IND	2668	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	1	*	*	6	2522

(3 points for a win, 1 for a draw)

Round 1 (October 16, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Karjakin, Sergey	1-0	50	D20	QGA
Topalov, Veselin	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	24	B46	Sicilian Paulsen
Harikrishna, P	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	59	A22	English Opening
Round 2 (October 16, 2007)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Harikrishna, P	1-0	35	C09	French Tarrasch
Polgar, Judit	- Topalov, Veselin	1-0	15	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Karjakin, Sergey	- Bu Xiangzhi	½-½	28	C43	Petroff's Defence
Round 3 (October 17, 2007)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Bu Xiangzhi	0-1	68	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Polgar, Judit	- Karjakin, Sergey	½-½	46	B33	Sicilian Sveshnikov
Topalov, Veselin	- Harikrishna, P	½-½	50	C09	French Tarrasch
Round 4 (October 17, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	48	D12	Slav Defence
Karjakin, Sergey	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	45	B98	Sicilian Najdorf
Harikrishna, P	- Topalov, Veselin	1-0	46	B50	Sicilian Defence
Round 5 (October 18, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Topalov, Veselin	1-0	37	A40	Unusual Replies to 1.d4
Karjakin, Sergey	- Carlsen, Magnus	0-1	34	B30	Sicilian Rossolimo
Harikrishna, P	- Polgar, Judit	0-1	36	E30	Nimzo Indian Leningrad
Round 6 (October 18, 2007)
Carlsen, Magnus	- Karjakin, Sergey	0-1	42	D47	Queens Gambit Meran
Polgar, Judit	- Harikrishna, P	½-½	55	C18	French Winawer
Topalov, Veselin	- Bu Xiangzhi	½-½	59	D19	Slav Defence
Round 7 (October 19, 2007)
Polgar, Judit	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	26	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Topalov, Veselin	- Karjakin, Sergey	0-1	22	C84	Ruy Lopez Centre Attack
Harikrishna, P	- Bu Xiangzhi	0-1	42	D17	Slav Defence
Round 8 (October 19, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Harikrishna, P	1-0	70	D93	Gruenfeld 5.Bf4
Carlsen, Magnus	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	27	A32	English Symmetrical
Karjakin, Sergey	- Topalov, Veselin	0-1	31	B31	Sicilian Rossolimo
Round 9 (October 20, 2007)
Bu Xiangzhi	- Polgar, Judit	1-0	67	E62	King's Indian 6...Nc6
Carlsen, Magnus	- Topalov, Veselin	1-0	37	E20	Nimzo Indian
Karjakin, Sergey	- Harikrishna, P	1-0	49	C18	French Winawer
Round 10 (October 20, 2007)
Polgar, Judit	- Bu Xiangzhi	1-0	39	B51	Sicilian Rossolimo
Topalov, Veselin	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	51	E17	Queens Indian
Harikrishna, P	- Karjakin, Sergey	0-1	38	D36	QGD Exchange

4) Casino de Barcelona

The Casino de Barcelona tournament takes place 18th-26th October 2007.

Official site: http://www.escacs.cat/ciutat07/

Casino Barcelona ESP (ESP), 18-26 x 2007 cat. XV (2607)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2648	*	½	.	½	.	1	.	.	1	1	4	2857
2.	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2664	½	*	½	½	.	.	.	1	1	.	3½	2765
3.	Dominguez Perez, Lenier	g	CUB	2683	.	½	*	.	1	½	.	.	½	1	3½	2746
4.	Beliavsky, Alexander G	g	SLO	2646	½	½	.	*	½	.	1	.	½	.	3	2683
5.	Narciso Dublan, Marc	g	ESP	2546	.	.	0	½	*	.	0	1	.	1	2½	2588
6.	Krasenkow, Michal	g	POL	2668	0	.	½	.	.	*	1	0	½	.	2	2535
7.	Illescas C('o)rdoba,M	g	ESP	2598	.	.	.	0	1	0	*	½	.	½	2	2502
8.	Oms Pallise, Josep	g	ESP	2506	.	0	.	.	0	1	½	*	.	½	2	2524
9.	Vaganian, Rafael A	g	ARM	2600	0	0	½	½	.	½	.	.	*	.	1½	2512
10.	Fluvia, Jordi	m	ESP	2508	0	.	0	.	0	.	½	½	.	*	1	2356

Round 1 (October 18, 2007)
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Fluvia, Jordi	1-0	43	D80	Gruenfeld 4.Bg5
Gashimov, Vugar	- Beliavsky, Alexander G	½-½	41	C92	Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Dominguez Perez, Lenier	- Narciso Dublan, Marc	1-0	78	C11	French Defence
Oms Pallise, Josep	- Illescas Córdoba,M	½-½	41	D48	Queens Gambit Meran
Vaganian, Rafael A	- Krasenkow, Michal	½-½	36	D52	Queens Gambit Cambridge Springs
Round 2 (October 19, 2007)
Gashimov, Vugar	- Vaganian, Rafael A	1-0	48	C18	French Winawer
Beliavsky, Alexander G	- Illescas Córdoba,M	1-0	49	E97	King's Indian Classical
Narciso Dublan, Marc	- Oms Pallise, Josep	1-0	54	B42	Sicilian Paulsen
Krasenkow, Michal	- Nakamura, Hikaru	0-1	28	A14	Reti Opening
Fluvia, Jordi	- Dominguez Perez, Lenier	0-1	37	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Round 3 (October 20, 2007)
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	80	A61	Benoni
Dominguez Perez, Lenier	- Krasenkow, Michal	½-½	61	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Illescas Córdoba,M	- Narciso Dublan, Marc	1-0	51	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Oms Pallise, Josep	- Fluvia, Jordi	½-½	44	E97	King's Indian Classical
Vaganian, Rafael A	- Beliavsky, Alexander G	½-½	43	E15	Queens Indian
Round 4 (October 21, 2007)
Gashimov, Vugar	- Dominguez Perez, Lenier	½-½	35	C42	Petroff's Defence
Beliavsky, Alexander G	- Narciso Dublan, Marc	½-½	44	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Krasenkow, Michal	- Oms Pallise, Josep	0-1	22	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Vaganian, Rafael A	- Nakamura, Hikaru	0-1	45	E97	King's Indian Classical
Fluvia, Jordi	- Illescas Córdoba,M	½-½	40	B12	Caro Kann Advanced
Round 5 (October 22, 2007)
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Beliavsky, Alexander G	½-½	41	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Dominguez Perez, Lenier	- Vaganian, Rafael A	½-½	37	C18	French Winawer
Narciso Dublan, Marc	- Fluvia, Jordi	1-0	47	C59	Two Knights Defence
Illescas Córdoba,M	- Krasenkow, Michal	0-1	65	D46	Semi-Slav Defence
Oms Pallise, Josep	- Gashimov, Vugar	0-1	71	A60	Modern Benoni

5) IV Calvià Chess Festival

The IV Calvià Chess Festival takes place in Calvià, Mallorca (Spain) 6th-24th October 2007. Event including an International, Blitz, Senior, Amateur & Under-16 tournaments and the CECLUB Spanish Team Championship finals. Note that some Senior (over 55) players are playing in that event in the afternoon and the main open in the evening (amongst others Sveshnikov and Andersson).

Details: http://www.calviafestival.com/

IV Calvià Chess Festival Open 15th-23rd October 2007 Leading Round 7 (of 9) Standings
Rank	SNo.		Name	IRtg	FED	Pts	BH.	BH.	BH.
1	8	GM	Mikhalevski, Victor	2584	ISR	7	28½	31½	23½
2	3	GM	Mchedlishvili, Mikheil	2631	GEO	5½	28	31½	23
3	12	GM	Hamdouchi, Hichem	2576	MAR	5½	27	30½	22
4	9	GM	Kuzubov, Yuriy	2582	UKR	5½	27	30½	22
5	39	IM	Larino Nieto, David	2428	ESP	5½	25½	28	20½
6	1	GM	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	2660	ESP	5	31½	35½	24½
7	10	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	2582	AZE	5	29½	33	22½
8	20	GM	Godena, Michele	2535	ITA	5	29	33	23½
9	2	GM	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	2635	POL	5	28½	32	23
10	51	FM	Sveshnikov, Vladimir	2366	LAT	5	28½	31½	23½
11	6	GM	Berg, Emanuel	2593	SWE	5	28½	31½	23
12	5	GM	Malakhatko, Vadim	2596	BEL	5	28½	31½	21½
13	21	GM	Movsziszian, Karen	2531	ARM	5	28	30	21
14	32	IM	Orlov, Andrey	2481	RUS	5	27½	29½	22
15	14	GM	Arencibia, Rodriguez Walter	2562	CUB	5	27	30½	22
16	15	IM	Gharamian, Tigran	2557	FRA	5	26½	30	21½
17	11	GM	Spraggett, Kevin	2580	CAN	5	26	29½	21
18	16	GM	Strikovic, Aleksa	2551	SRB	5	25½	28½	20½
19	26	GM	Cabrera, Alexis	2499	COL	5	25	28	20
20	33	IM	Marzolo, Cyril	2478	FRA	5	25	27	20
21	29	IM	Libiszewski, Fabien	2486	FRA	5	24	26½	19½
22	24	FM	Kovalyov, Anton	2510	ARG	5	22½	24½	18
144 players

IV Calvià Chess Festival Seniors 15th-23rd October 2007 Leading Round 7 (of 9) Standings
Rk	SNo		Name	Rtg	FED	Club	Pts	BH.
1	5	GM	Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel	2434	ESP	Canarias	6½	27½
2	4	GM	Sveshnikov, Evgeny	2494	LAT	Latvia	6	30½
3	2	GM	Suba, Mihai	2502	ROU	Rumania	5½	29½
4	6	IM	Gonzalez, Rodriguez Jorge A	2405	COL	Colombia	5½	26½
5	8		Celaya Tapiz, Jose Maria	2260	ESP	Valencia	5	26
6	3	GM	Ermenkov, Evgenij	2496	PLE	Palestina	5	25½
7	11		Estrada Martinez, Cesar	2236	ESP	Madrid	5	25
8	10	FM	Simon, Padros Emili	2243	ESP	Calatuña	5	24
9	16	FM	Molina, Jorge	2201	BOL	Bolivia	4½	26½
10	20		Suslin, Alexander	2144	RUS	Rusia	4½	25½
11	17		Buxade Roca, Guillermo	2192	ESP	Cataluña	4½	25½
12	9	FM	Eppinger, Georg	2251	GER	Alemania	4½	24
13	21		Persson, Stellan	2136	SWE	Suecia	4½	20
			.....
30	1	GM	Andersson, Ulf	2528	SWE	Suecia	3½	20½
55 players

6) Spanish CECLUB Finals

Linex - Magic claimed the Spanish CECLUB title in a playoff against four other teams in Calvia October 20th-21st 2007. This after winning the European Club Cup the week before.

CECLUB Finals Calvia 20th October 2007. Semi-Final 1
Linex - Magic 3½						Intel Tiendas UPI 2½
1	Alexei Shirov	GM	2739	ESP	½	1	Vasily Ivanchuk	GM	2787	UKR
2	Michael Adams	GM	2729	ING	0-1	2	Alexander Grischuck	GM	2715	RUS
3	Sergei Rublevsky	GM	2676	RUS	1-0	3	Etienne Bacrot	GM	2695	FRA
4	Gabriel Sargissian	GM	2673	ARM	0-1	4	Francisco Vallejo Pons	GM	2660	ESP
5	Iván Cheparinov	GM	2670	BUL	1-0	5	Sergey Tiviakov	GM	2643	HOL
6	Manuel Pérez Candelario	MI	2525	ESP	1-0	6	Enrique Rodríguez Guerrero	GM	2440	ESP
CECLUB Finals Calvia 20th October 2007 Semi-Final 2
Iretza-Gros 1						Cuna de Dragones -Ajoblanco 5
1	Vadim Milov	GM	2676	SUI	½	1	Dimitry Jakovenko	GM	2710	RUS
2	Vladislav Tkachiev	GM	2661	FRA	0-1	2	Eugeny Alekseev	GM	2716	RUS
3	Christian Bauer	GM	2634	FRA	0-1	3	Artyom Timofeev	GM	2637	RUS
4	Roberto Cifuentes Parada	GM	2499	ESP	0-1	4	Viktor Bologan	GM	2657	MDA
5	Alberto Andrés González	MI	2435	ESP	0-1	5	Ibragim Khamrakulov	GM	2604	ESP
6	Iñigo Argandoña Rivero	MI	2397	ESP	½	6	Miguel Llanes Hurtado	MI	2459	ESP

CECLUB Finals Calvia 21st October 2007. Final
Cuna de Dragones - Ajoblanco 2½						Linex - Magic 3½
1	Dimitry Jakovenko	GM	2710	RUS	½	1	Alexei Shirov	GM	2739	ESP
2	Eugeny Alekseev	GM	2716	RUS	½	2	Michael Adams	GM	2729	ING
3	Artyom Timofeev	GM	2637	RUS	½	3	Sergei Rublevsky	GM	2676	RUS
4	Viktor Bologan	GM	2657	MDA	½	4	Gabriel Sargissian	GM	2673	ARM
5	Ibragim Khamrakulov	GM	2604	ESP	0-1	5	Iván Cheparinov	GM	2670	BUL
6	Miguel Llanes Hurtado	MI	2459	ESP	½	6	Manuel Pérez Candelario	MI	2525	ESP
CECLUB Finals Calvia 21st October 2007 3rd-4th place playoff
Tiendas UPI 4						Iretza - Gros 2
1	Alexander Grischuck	GM	2715	RUS	½	1	Vadim Milov	GM	2676	SUI
2	Etienne Bacrot	GM	2695	FRA	½	2	Vladislav Tkachiev	GM	2661	FRA
3	Francisco Vallejo Pons	GM	2660	ESP	1-0	3	Christian Bauer	GM	2634	FRA
4	Jobava Baadur	GM	2644	GEO	½	4	Roberto Cifuentes	GM	2499	ESP
5	Sergey Tiviakov	GM	2643	HOL	1-0	5	Alberto Andrés Glez	MI	2435	ESP
6	Enrique Rodríguez Guerrero	GM	2440	ESP	½	6	Iñigo Argandoña Rivero	MI	2397	ESP

7) Bundesliga

The German Bundesliga for 2007-8 takes place 19th October 2007 - 20th April 2008. The first games were on Friday 19th October as part of the special round 7 - fixtures from this round are played before various weekend programs.

Stefan Loeffler reports: Apart from Baden-Baden which is nearly 100 rating points stronger than its nearest competitors about every other team can beat everybody else in the German Bundesliga. And it´s a high-level affair, too. The average Bundesliga player is rated 2560 these days. The biggest upset of the first week-end, which has been played October 19-21, was caused by Erfurt. The nominally weakest team punished Remagen, the fifth of last season, for leaving out Ivanchuk in their saturday match. Only two out of the sixteen teams haven´t conceded any match points yet: Baden-Baden and Werder Bremen (yes, the chess chapter of the football club). The next rounds will be played on November 23rd-25th 2007.

Official site: http://www.schachbundesliga.de/ further coverage: http://www.schach.com and also at the national Federation site at: http://www.schachbund.de

Bundesliga Results Round 7 19th October 2007
1.	SV Wattenscheid	-	SG Solingen	4,5 : 3,5
Bundesliga Results Round 1 20th October 2007
1.	SK Zehlendorf	-	OSC Baden-Baden	1,5 : 6,5
2.	SC Kreuzberg	-	SG Turm Trier	3,5 : 4,5
3.	SC Remagen	-	Erfurter SK	3,5 : 4,5
4.	Godesberger SK	-	Bindlach-Aktionär	3 : 5
5.	Hamburger SK	-	TV Tegernsee	3,5 : 4,5
6.	Werder Bremen	-	SC Eppingen	5 : 3
7.	SV Wattenscheid	-	SV Mülheim-Nord	4 : 4
8.	SG Solingen	-	SF Katernberg	6 : 2
Bundesliga Results Round 2 21st October 2007
1.	OSC Baden-Baden	-	SC Kreuzberg	6 : 2
2.	SG Turm Trier	-	SK Zehlendorf	4 : 4
3.	Bindlach-Aktionär	-	SC Remagen	4 : 4
4.	Erfurter SK	-	Godesberger SK	4 : 4
5.	TV Tegernsee	-	Werder Bremen	3 : 5
6.	SC Eppingen	-	Hamburger SK	4 : 4
7.	SV Mülheim-Nord	-	SG Solingen	4,5 : 3,5
8.	SF Katernberg	-	SV Wattenscheid	3 : 5

Bundesliga Round 2 Standings
1.	SV Wattenscheid	3	5	13,5
2.	OSC Baden-Baden	2	4	12,5
3.	Werder Bremen	2	4	10,0
4.	TSV Bindlach-Aktionär	2	3	9,0
5.	SV Mülheim-Nord	2	3	8,5
6.	Erfurter SK	2	3	8,5
7.	SG Turm Trier	2	3	8,5
8.	SG Aljechin Solingen	3	2	13,0
9.	TV Tegernsee	2	2	7,5
10.	SC Remagen	2	1	7,5
11.	Hamburger SK	2	1	7,5
12.	Godesberger SK	2	1	7,0
13.	SC Eppingen	2	1	7,0
14.	SK Zehlendorf	2	1	5,5
15.	SC Kreuzberg	2	0	5,5
16.	SF Katernberg	2	0	5,0

Detailed results

Bundesliga Results Rounds 1-2 + 7 19th-21st October 2007
Round 1 20.10.2007
SK Zehlendorf
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SK Zehlendorf		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	OSC Baden-Baden	1,5 - 6,5
1.	UKR	2505	GM	3	Maksimenko	-	RUS	2732	GM	2	Svidler	0-1
2.	HUN	2430	IM	6	Berczes	-	SVK	2670	GM	7	Movsesian	0-1
3.	HUN	2470	IM	8	Prohaszka	-	GER	2639	GM	10	Naiditsch	0-1
4.	GER	2491	IM	9	Meister	-	DEN	2626	GM	11	Nielsen	0-1
5.	GER	2410	FM	10	Berger	-	GER	2590	GM	12	Dautov	0-1
6.	GER	2346	IM	11	Werner	-	GER	2579	GM	13	Schlosser	1-0
7.	POL	2483		12	Orzech	-	GER	2541	GM	14	Döttling	1/2
8.	GER	2387	IM	15	Brener	-	GER	2382	FM	15	Strohäcker	0-1
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SC Kreuzberg		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SG Turm Trier	3,5 - 4,5
1.	ARM	2741	GM	1	Aronian	-	GRE	2614	GM	1	Kotronias	1/2
2.	POL	2646	GM	3	Socko	-	POL	2564	GM	3	Bobras	1-0
3.	GER	2487	GM	6	Tischbierek	-	HUN	2499	IM	4	Flumbort	0-1
4.	GER	2489	GM	7	Kalinitschew	-	POL	2518	GM	5	Jaracz	1/2
5.	GER	2472	IM	8	Volke	-	HUN	2502	IM	7	Gonda	1/2
6.	GER	2452	IM	9	Pähtz	-	HUN	2433	IM	8	Galyas	1/2
7.	GER	2409	IM	11	Löffler	-	GER	2395	IM	9	Seger	0-1
8.	GER	2413	IM	13	Richter	-	GER	2386	IM	10	Kolbus	1/2
SC Remagen
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SC Remagen		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	Erfurter SK	3,5 - 4,5
1.	UKR	2645	GM	5	Fedorchuk	-	GER	2436	IM	1	Krämer	1/2
2.	UKR	2563	GM	6	Goloshchapov	-	CZE	2546	GM	2	Votava	1-0
3.	FRA	2546	GM	7	Degraeve	-	CZE	2525	GM	3	Haba	0-1
4.	SRB	2474	GM	8	Popovic	-	POL	2483	GM	4	Kuczynski	1/2
5.	GER	2496	GM	9	Mainka	-	GER	2430	IM	5	Machelett	1/2
6.	GER	2450	IM	11	Boidman	-	GER	2405	IM	6	Mueller	1/2
7.	NED	2433	IM	12	Swinkels	-	GER	2441	GM	7	Enders	1/2
8.	GER	2401	IM	14	Schulz	-	GER	2421	IM	8	Casper	0-1
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	Godesberger SK		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	TSV Bindlach-Aktionär	3 - 5
1.	UZB	2690	GM	1	Kasimdzhanov	-	CZE	2656	GM	1	Navara	1/2
2.	GER	2588	GM	2	Lutz	-	CZE	2610	GM	3	Laznicka	1/2
3.	GER	2536	IM	3	Sprenger	-	GER	2569	GM	4	Baramidze	0-1
4.	ISL	2533	IM	4	Steingrimsson	-	GER	2512	GM	5	Bindrich	0-1
5.	SUI	2511	GM	6	Jenni	-	GER	2564	GM	6	Prusikin	1/2
6.	SVK	2496	GM	7	Likavsky	-	GER	2547	GM	7	Slobodjan	1/2
7.	GER	2437	IM	9	Jackelen	-	GER	2518	GM	8	Bunzmann	1/2
8.	UKR	2439		11	Dranov	-	GER	2442		12	Schneider	1/2
Hamburger SK
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	Hamburger SK		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	TV Tegernsee	3,5 - 4,5
1.	GER	2606	GM	2	Gustafsson	-	UKR	2678	GM	1	Volokitin	1/2
2.	SVK	2553	GM	3	Ftacnik	-	GER	2600	GM	4	Khenkin	1/2
3.	POL	2596	GM	4	Kempinski	-	FRA	2588	GM	5	Sokolov	1/2
4.	GER	2515	GM	7	Müller	-	HUN	2577	GM	6	Ribli	1/2
5.	GER	2478	IM	8	Heinemann	-	LTU	2581	GM	7	Rozentalis	1/2
6.	GER	2449	IM	9	Beikert	-	GER	2518	GM	8	Teske	1-0
7.	GER	2427	IM	10	Reeh	-	GER	2491	IM	9	Bromberger	0-1
8.	GER	2445		11	Sebastian	-	GER	2530	GM	10	Bönsch	0-1
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	Werder Bremen		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SC Eppingen	5 - 3
1.	UKR	2624	GM	2	Efimenko	-	HUN	2606	GM	2	Berkes	1/2
2.	UKR	2638	GM	3	Areshchenko	-	HUN	2548	GM	6	Acs	1/2
3.	GER	2558	GM	5	Meier	-	AZE	2560	GM	7	Guliyev	1/2
4.	GER	2596	GM	6	Kritz	-	HUN	2512	GM	8	Medvegy	1/2
5.	FIN	2565	GM	8	Nybäck	-	GER	2473	GM	9	Vogt	1/2
6.	CZE	2596	GM	9	Babula	-	GER	2390	FM	10	Meinhardt	1/2
7.	SUI	2609	GM	10	Pelletier	-	GER	2363	FM	11	Miltner	1-0
8.	GER	2546	GM	11	Fish	-	GER	2235		14	Welz	1-0
SV Wattenscheid
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SV Wattenscheid		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SV Mülheim-Nord	4 - 4
1.	UKR	2681	GM	1	Eljanov	-	RUS	2678	GM	2	Landa	1/2
2.	RUS	2635	GM	2	Najer	-	GER	2621	GM	3	Fridman	1/2
3.	RUS	2552	GM	4	Rustemov	-	FRA	2634	GM	4	Vachier-Lagrave	0-1
4.	POL	2608	GM	6	Bartel	-	RUS	2609	GM	5	Tregubov	1-0
5.	POL	2554	GM	7	Czarnota	-	RUS	2612	GM	6	Potkin	0-1
6.	GER	2529	IM	8	Appel	-	UKR	2595	GM	8	Berelovich	1-0
7.	GER	2485	IM	9	Holzke	-	UZB	2511	GM	11	Saltaev	1/2
8.	GER	2497	GM	10	Handke	-	GER	2499	IM	12	Hausrath	1/2
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SG Aljechin Solingen		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SF Katernberg	6 - 2
1.	NED	2639	GM	1	Stellwagen	-	GER	2543	GM	3	Glek	1-0
2.	BIH	2657	GM	2	Nikolic	-	BEL	2544	GM	6	Chuchelov	1/2
3.	GER	2583	GM	3	Jussupow	-	UKR	2526	IM	7	Firman	1-0
4.	IND	2593	GM	4	Sandipan	-	GER	2495	IM	8	Seel	1/2
5.	GER	2548	GM	5	Naumann	-	GER	2474	IM	9	Senff	0-1
6.	GER	2471	IM	7	Hoffmann	-	GER	2481	IM	10	Siebrecht	1-0
7.	AUT	2528	IM	8	Ragger	-	GRE	2421	IM	12	Souleidis	1-0
8.	NED	2539	GM	10	Ernst	-	GER	2371	IM	13	Scholz	1-0
Round 2 21.10.2007
SK Zehlendorf
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	OSC Baden-Baden		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SC Kreuzberg	6 - 2
1.	RUS	2732	GM	2	Svidler	-	POL	2646	GM	3	Socko	1/2
2.	SVK	2670	GM	7	Movsesian	-	GER	2487	GM	6	Tischbierek	1-0
3.	GER	2639	GM	10	Naiditsch	-	GER	2489	GM	7	Kalinitschew	1-0
4.	DEN	2626	GM	11	Nielsen	-	GER	2472	IM	8	Volke	1-0
5.	GER	2590	GM	12	Dautov	-	GER	2452	IM	9	Pähtz	1/2
6.	GER	2579	GM	13	Schlosser	-	GER	2409	IM	11	Löffler	1/2
7.	GER	2541	GM	14	Döttling	-	GER	2413	IM	13	Richter	1/2
8.	GER	2382	FM	15	Strohäcker	-	GER	2014		16	Huth	1-0
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SG Turm Trier		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SK Zehlendorf	4 - 4
1.	GRE	2614	GM	1	Kotronias	-	UKR	2505	GM	3	Maksimenko	1/2
2.	POL	2564	GM	3	Bobras	-	RUS	2534	GM	4	Novikov	1/2
3.	HUN	2499	IM	4	Flumbort	-	RUS	2583	GM	5	Savchenko	0-1
4.	POL	2518	GM	5	Jaracz	-	HUN	2430	IM	6	Berczes	1-0
5.	HUN	2502	IM	7	Gonda	-	HUN	2470	IM	8	Prohaszka	1/2
6.	HUN	2433	IM	8	Galyas	-	GER	2491	IM	9	Meister	1/2
7.	GER	2395	IM	9	Seger	-	GER	2410	FM	10	Berger	1/2
8.	GER	2386	IM	10	Kolbus	-	GER	2346	IM	11	Werner	1/2
SC Remagen
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	TSV Bindlach-Aktionär		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SC Remagen	4 - 4
1.	CZE	2656	GM	1	Navara	-	UKR	2787	GM	1	Ivanchuk	1/2
2.	CZE	2610	GM	3	Laznicka	-	UKR	2645	GM	5	Fedorchuk	0-1
3.	GER	2569	GM	4	Baramidze	-	UKR	2563	GM	6	Goloshchapov	1/2
4.	GER	2512	GM	5	Bindrich	-	FRA	2546	GM	7	Degraeve	1/2
5.	GER	2564	GM	6	Prusikin	-	SRB	2474	GM	8	Popovic	0-1
6.	GER	2547	GM	7	Slobodjan	-	GER	2496	GM	9	Mainka	1-0
7.	GER	2518	GM	8	Bunzmann	-	NED	2433	IM	12	Swinkels	1/2
8.	GER	2442		12	Schneider	-	GER	2401	IM	14	Schulz	1-0
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	Erfurter SK		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	Godesberger SK	4 - 4
1.	GER	2436	IM	1	Krämer	-	UZB	2690	GM	1	Kasimdzhanov	0-1
2.	CZE	2546	GM	2	Votava	-	GER	2588	GM	2	Lutz	1/2
3.	CZE	2525	GM	3	Haba	-	GER	2536	IM	3	Sprenger	1-0
4.	POL	2483	GM	4	Kuczynski	-	ISL	2533	IM	4	Steingrimsson	1/2
5.	GER	2430	IM	5	Machelett	-	SUI	2511	GM	6	Jenni	0-1
6.	GER	2405	IM	6	Mueller	-	SVK	2496	GM	7	Likavsky	1/2
7.	GER	2441	GM	7	Enders	-	GER	2437	IM	9	Jackelen	1-0
8.	GER	2421	IM	8	Casper	-	UKR	2439		11	Dranov	1/2
Hamburger SK
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	TV Tegernsee		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	Werder Bremen	3 - 5
1.	UKR	2678	GM	1	Volokitin	-	UKR	2624	GM	2	Efimenko	1/2
2.	GER	2600	GM	4	Khenkin	-	UKR	2638	GM	3	Areshchenko	1/2
3.	FRA	2588	GM	5	Sokolov	-	GER	2558	GM	5	Meier	1/2
4.	HUN	2577	GM	6	Ribli	-	GER	2596	GM	6	Kritz	1/2
5.	LTU	2581	GM	7	Rozentalis	-	FIN	2565	GM	8	Nybäck	0-1
6.	GER	2518	GM	8	Teske	-	CZE	2596	GM	9	Babula	1/2
7.	GER	2491	IM	9	Bromberger	-	SUI	2609	GM	10	Pelletier	1/2
8.	GER	2530	GM	10	Bönsch	-	GER	2546	GM	11	Fish	0-1
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SC Eppingen		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	Hamburger SK	4 - 4
1.	HUN	2606	GM	2	Berkes	-	GER	2606	GM	2	Gustafsson	1-0
2.	HUN	2548	GM	6	Acs	-	SVK	2553	GM	3	Ftacnik	1-0
3.	AZE	2560	GM	7	Guliyev	-	POL	2596	GM	4	Kempinski	1/2
4.	HUN	2512	GM	8	Medvegy	-	GER	2515	GM	7	Müller	1-0
5.	GER	2473	GM	9	Vogt	-	GER	2478	IM	8	Heinemann	1/2
6.	GER	2390	FM	10	Meinhardt	-	GER	2449	IM	9	Beikert	0-1
7.	GER	2363	FM	11	Miltner	-	GER	2427	IM	10	Reeh	0-1
8.	GER	2235		14	Welz	-	GER	2445		11	Sebastian	0-1
SV Wattenscheid
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SV Mülheim-Nord		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SG Aljechin Solingen	4,5 - 3,5
1.	RUS	2678	GM	2	Landa	-	NED	2639	GM	1	Stellwagen	1/2
2.	GER	2621	GM	3	Fridman	-	BIH	2657	GM	2	Nikolic	0-1
3.	FRA	2634	GM	4	Vachier-Lagrave	-	GER	2583	GM	3	Jussupow	1/2
4.	RUS	2609	GM	5	Tregubov	-	IND	2593	GM	4	Sandipan	1-0
5.	RUS	2612	GM	6	Potkin	-	GER	2548	GM	5	Naumann	1/2
6.	UKR	2595	GM	8	Berelovich	-	AUT	2528	IM	8	Ragger	1-0
7.	UZB	2511	GM	11	Saltaev	-	NED	2539	GM	10	Ernst	1/2
8.	GER	2499	IM	12	Hausrath	-	GER	2413	FM	12	Wegerle	1/2
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SF Katernberg		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SV Wattenscheid	3 - 5
1.	NED	2577	GM	2	L'Ami	-	UKR	2681	GM	1	Eljanov	0-1
2.	GER	2543	GM	3	Glek	-	RUS	2635	GM	2	Najer	1/2
3.	ISR	2599	GM	4	Postny	-	RUS	2552	GM	4	Rustemov	1-0
4.	BEL	2544	GM	6	Chuchelov	-	POL	2608	GM	6	Bartel	0-1
5.	UKR	2526	IM	7	Firman	-	POL	2554	GM	7	Czarnota	0-1
6.	GER	2495	IM	8	Seel	-	GER	2529	IM	8	Appel	1/2
7.	GER	2474	IM	9	Senff	-	GER	2485	IM	9	Holzke	1/2
8.	GER	2481	IM	10	Siebrecht	-	GER	2497	GM	10	Handke	1/2
Round 7 19th October 2007
SV Wattenscheid
	Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SV Wattenscheid		Fed	ELO	T	Rnr	SG Aljechin Solingen	4,5 - 3,5
1.	UKR	2681	GM	1	Eljanov	-	NED	2639	GM	1	Stellwagen	1-0
2.	RUS	2635	GM	2	Najer	-	BIH	2657	GM	2	Nikolic	1/2
3.	RUS	2552	GM	4	Rustemov	-	GER	2583	GM	3	Jussupow	1-0
4.	POL	2608	GM	6	Bartel	-	IND	2593	GM	4	Sandipan	0-1
5.	POL	2554	GM	7	Czarnota	-	GER	2548	GM	5	Naumann	1/2
6.	GER	2529	IM	8	Appel	-	GER	2471	IM	7	Hoffmann	1-0
7.	GER	2485	IM	9	Holzke	-	NED	2539	GM	10	Ernst	0-1
8.	GER	2497	GM	10	Handke	-	GER	2413	FM	12	Wegerle	1/2

8) World Juniors

The World Juniors and Girls Chess Championships took place in Yerevan, October 2nd-17th 2007. The event was won by Ahmed Adly of Egypt with 10/13 half a point clear of Ivan Popov of Russia and a further half point clear of ELO favourite Wang Hao. Jon Speelman gave an interesting explanation as to Adly's loss in the first round in his Observer column. Adly like Wang Hao played in the Isle of Man before the event but as Speelman explained "he's sponsored by Egypt Air and has to use their planes, [so his route] was not Douglas-London-Yerevan but Douglas-London-Cairo-Moscow-Yerevan over the course of two days!" Adly won 10 and lost three games including both against his closest rivals. 18 year old Wang Hao recently beat Nigel Short and was top seed for the event but in spite of being undefeated he was derailed by too many draws and black in three of the last four rounds when the prizes are really sorted out can't have helped much (although he did beat Wesley So and the winner Adly in rounds 8 and 9 when he had two whites). 14 year old Wesley So started well in the event before losing to Adly and Wang Hao in the middle. This isn't quite the prestigious title it used to be (players in the past who have won the event (and indeed made a special effort to do so) included Spassky, Karpov, Kasparov and Anand. Even recently Aronian and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov have won it but the top 7 U20 players were missing (Teimour Radjabov, Magnus Carlsen, Wang Yue, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Borki Predojevic). Of all the Junior events it still has the greatest status and I'm sure we'll see a number of these players as strong professionals.

Official site: http://www.armchess.am/WJGCC07/wjgcc.html

Juniors Leading Final Round 13 Standings:
Rank	SNo.		Name	Rtg	FED	Pts	RtgØ
1	21	GM	Adly Ahmed	2494	EGY	10.0	2492
2	11	GM	Popov Ivan	2539	RUS	9.5	2515
3	1	GM	Wang Hao	2643	CHN	9.0	2527
4	10	GM	Andreikin Dmitry	2555	RUS	9.0	2512
5	9	GM	Meier Georg	2558	GER	8.5	2536
6	12	GM	Pashikian Arman	2534	ARM	8.5	2521
7	3	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	2615	ISR	8.5	2521
8	18	GM	Negi Parimarjan	2514	IND	8.5	2505
9	5	GM	Jones Gawain C. B.	2567	ENG	8.5	2475
10	34	IM	Jojua Davit	2434	GEO	8.0	2532
11	2	GM	Stellwagen Daniel	2639	NED	8.0	2529
12	17	IM	Romanov Evgeny	2515	RUS	8.0	2484
13	28	IM	Gupta Abhijeet	2470	IND	8.0	2453
14	19	IM	Corrales Jimenez Fidel	2513	CUB	8.0	2427
15	7	GM	Amin Bassem	2561	EGY	8.0	2420
16	6	GM	Khairullin Ildar	2567	RUS	8.0	2375
17	25	IM	Grigoryan Avetik	2489	ARM	7.5	2534
18	16	IM	Gopal Geetha Narayanan	2520	IND	7.5	2505
19	4	GM	Laznicka Viktor	2610	CZE	7.5	2505
20	13	IM	So Wesley	2531	PHI	7.5	2498
21	27		Ashwin Jayaram	2478	IND	7.5	2450
22	22	GM	Deepan Chakkravarthy J.	2492	IND	7.5	2446
23	8	IM	Vovk Yuri	2561	UKR	7.5	2404
24	26	IM	Brandenburg Daan	2483	NED	7.5	2369
25	40	IM	Simonian Hrair	2405	ARM	7.5	2360
80 players

Girls Leading Final Round 13 Standings:
1	6	WIM	Nebolsina Vera	2349	RUS	10.0	2302
2	4	WGM	Zawadzka Jolanta	2371	POL	9.5	2276
3	5	WGM	Melia Salome	2364	GEO	9.5	2210
4	2	IM	Tairova Elena	2391	RUS	9.0	2211
5	1	IM	Harika Dronavalli	2480	IND	8.5	2298
6	3	WGM	Mongontuul Bathuyag	2389	MGL	8.5	2288
7	13	WGM	Arutyunova Diana	2256	UKR	8.5	2226
8	15	WIM	Soumya Swaminathan	2244	IND	8.5	2199
9	7	WGM	Karavade Eesha Sanjay	2331	IND	8.0	2263
10	8	WGM	Vega Gutierrez Sabrina	2331	ESP	8.0	2252
11	16	WIM	Dauletova Gulmira	2240	KAZ	8.0	2248
12	10	WFM	Guramishvili Sopiko	2305	GEO	8.0	2240
13	27		Priya Panneer Ramachandran	2129	IND	8.0	2145
14	25	WFM	Kulon Klaudia	2139	POL	8.0	2085
15	21	WFM	Gasik Anna	2191	POL	7.5	2189
16	9	WGM	Khotenashvili Bela	2307	GEO	7.5	2186
17	22	WFM	Pertlova Sona	2169	CZE	7.5	2169
18	24		Limontaite Simona	2141	LTU	7.5	2125
19	26	WFM	Bokuchava Madona	2130	GEO	7.5	2088
58 players

9) II Patrimonio de la Humanidad Open

The II Patrimonio de la Humanidad Open takes place in Alcala de Henares 7th-15th October 2007. Oleg Korneev and Pablo Almagro Llamas finishyed on 7.5/9. Games from the final three rounds are currently not available.

Official site: http://www.ajedrezalcala.com/

II Patrimonio de la Humanidad Open in Alcala de Henares. Standings: Final Round 9 Standings
1	Korneev Oleg	GM	2587	RUS	7½	43½
2	Almagro Llamas Pablo	FM	2429	ESP	7½	37½
3	Roa Alonso Santiago	IM	2451	ESP	7	40
4	Suba Mihai	GM	2502	ROM	6½	41½
5	Mirzoev Azer	GM	2545	AZE	6½	41½
6	Guliyev Namig	GM	2560	AZE	6½	41½
7	Fedorchuk Sergey A	GM	2645	UKR	6½	41
8	Rizouk Aimen	IM	2470	ALG	6½	40½
9	Krivoshey Sergei	GM	2484	UKR	6½	40
10	Abreu Delgado Aryam	IM	2479	CUB	6½	39½
11	Dgebuadze Alexandre	GM	2505	BEL	6½	38½
12	Herraiz Hidalgo Herminio	IM	2484	ESP	6½	37½
13	Sanchez Nicolas		2201	FRA	6½	37½
14	Moreno Ruiz Javier	IM	2466	ESP	6½	36½
145 players

10) Corfu International Chess Festival

The Corfu International Chess Festival took place 1st-10th October 2007. There was a category VII all-play-all won by Aleksandr Karpatchev and an open which saw Arkadij Rotstein and Felix Levin finish on 8.5/9.

Official site: http://www.chessorg.de/corfou.htm

GM Corfu GRE (GRE), 1-10 x 2007 cat. VII (2418)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Karpatchev, Aleksandr	g	RUS	2469	*	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	1	6	2537
2.	Savchenko, Stanislav	g	UKR	2604	½	*	½	½	½	1	1	½	½	½	5½	2477
3.	Shavtvaladze, Nikoloz	m	GEO	2408	½	½	*	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	5½	2499
4.	Shneider, Aleksandr	g	UKR	2543	½	½	½	*	½	0	½	1	1	½	5	2447
5.	Kapnisis, Spyridon	m	GRE	2411	½	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	1	0	4½	2419
6.	Dembo, Yelena	m	GRE	2448	½	0	½	1	½	*	0	½	½	1	4½	2415
7.	Khetsuriani, Besarion	m	GEO	2337	0	0	0	½	½	1	*	1	½	1	4½	2427
8.	Bronznik, Valerij	m	UKR	2382	½	½	½	0	½	½	0	*	½	½	3½	2342
9.	Simeonidis, Ioannis		GRE	2268	0	½	½	0	0	½	½	½	*	½	3	2310
10.	Nikolaidis, Konstantinos	f	GRE	2314	0	½	0	½	1	0	0	½	½	*	3	2305

Open Corfu (GRE), 1-10 x 2007. Final Round 9 Standings:
1	Rotstein, Arkadij	g	GER	2534	8.5	2677
2	Levin, Felix	g	GER	2552	8.5	2686
3	Zierke, Oliver	f	GER	2300	6.0	2381
4	Dettmann, Gerd		GER	2166	6.0	2359
5	Kleifges, Matthias		GER	2152	6.0	2231
6	Papenbrock, Volker		GER	2188	5.5	2245
7	Kostiukova, Liubov	m	UKR	2318	5.5	2306
8	Trabert, Bettina	wg	GER	2260	5.5	2239
9	Dorfanis, Ilarion		GRE	2209	5.5	2164
10	Georgiadis,Konstantinos		GRE	----	5.0	2202
11	Makropoulou, Marina	wg	GRE	2243	5.0	2219
12	Wempe, Juergen		GER	2204	5.0	2114
13	Pountzas, Hrisanthos	fm	GRE	2235	5.0	2129
36 players

11) 7th Winterthur Chess Week

The 7th Winterthur Chess Week took place October 5th-13th, 2007. Rainer Buhmann edged out Vadim Malakhatko on tie-break after both finished on 7.5/9. Fabiano Caruana was a point further behind.

Official site: http://www.svwinterthur.ch/schachwoche/indexEngl.html

7th Winterthur Chess Week ctober 5th-13th, 2007. Final Round 9 Standings:
1.	Buhmann,Rainer	GM	2567	GER	7.5	48.0
2.	Malakhatko,Vadim	GM	2603	BEL	7.5	47.0
3.	Jenni,Florian	GM	2511	SUI	7.0	48.5
4.	Caruana,Fabiano	GM	2594	ITA	6.5	52.5
5.	Galyas,Miklos	IM	2433	HUN	6.5	47.5
6.	Filipovic,Branko	IM	2422	CRO	6.5	45.5
6.	Zozulia,Anna	WGM	2347	BEL	6.5	45.5
8.	Mede,Istvan		2233	HUN	6.5	45.0
9.	Eschmann,Patrick		2191	SUI	6.5	43.0
10.	Känel,Hansjürg	IM	2388	SUI	6.5	42.5
11.	Ballmann,Martin	IM	2403	SUI	6.0	51.0
12.	Bradford,Joseph	FM	2402	USA	6.0	48.5
13.	Leutwyler,Martin		2196	SUI	6.0	48.0
14.	Wyss,Thomas		2266	SUI	6.0	47.5
15.	Schmid,Michael		2200	GER	6.0	44.0
16.	Blasko,Istvan	FM	2325	HUN	6.0	43.5
17.	Macak,Stefan		2384	SVK	6.0	42.5
123 players

12) First Saturday October

The First Saturday tournaments for October took place 6th-16th October 2007. Krisztian Szabo won the GM group with 7.5/11.

Official site: http://www.firstsaturday.hu/

FSGM October Budapest HUN UN), 6-16 x 2007 cat. VIII (2429)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Szabo, Krisztian	m	HUN	2492	*	0	1	½	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	7½	2556
2.	Prohaszka, Peter	m	HUN	2470	1	*	0	1	½	½	1	½	½	0	1	1	7	2527
3.	Bromberger, Stefan	m	GER	2491	0	1	*	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	7	2525
4.	Fodor, Tamas jr	f	HUN	2422	½	0	½	*	½	½	½	1	1	1	½	½	6½	2495
5.	Hoang Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2466	0	½	0	½	*	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	6½	2491
6.	Kosic, Dragan	g	MNE	2482	½	½	½	½	½	*	½	½	1	1	0	½	6	2460
7.	Bui Vinh	m	VIE	2461	½	0	½	½	½	½	*	1	½	½	1	½	6	2462
8.	Fogarasi, Tibor	g	HUN	2428	½	½	½	0	0	½	0	*	½	1	½	1	5	2393
9.	Arjun, Vishnuvardhan		IND	2394	½	½	½	0	0	0	½	½	*	1	½	½	4½	2367
10.	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2411	0	1	½	0	½	0	½	0	0	*	1	1	4½	2366
11.	Wittmann, Walter	m	AUT	2304	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	½	½	0	*	½	3	2265
12.	Brustkern, Juergen	f	GER	2332	0	0	0	½	0	½	½	0	½	0	½	*	2½	2227

FSIM October Budapest HUN UN), 6-18 x 2007 cat. I (2274)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4
1.	Paschall, William M	m	USA	2352	*	1	½	1	½	½	½	0	1	½	½	1	1	½	8½	2378
2.	Toth, Ervin	f	HUN	2348	0	*	½	0	½	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	8½	2378
3.	Pitl, Gregory	m	GER	2403	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	0	1	8	2351
4.	Forsaa, Espen		NOR	2263	0	1	½	*	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	½	½	1	8	2362
5.	Werner, Dimo	m	GER	2346	½	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	7½	2325
6.	Gauri, Shankar		IND	2251	½	½	½	½	½	*	0	½	½	1	½	½	1	½	7	2305
7.	Vegh, Endre	m	HUN	2303	½	0	½	½	½	1	*	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	6½	2272
8.	Hanssen, Gunnar Berg		NOR	2253	1	½	0	½	½	½	½	*	0	½	½	½	½	1	6½	2276
9.	Ignacz, Maria	wm	HUN	2223	0	0	½	0	½	½	½	1	*	1	0	1	½	1	6½	2278
10.	Lengyel, Bela	m	HUN	2263	½	½	½	½	½	0	½	½	0	*	½	½	½	1	6	2246
11.	Farago, Sandor	m	HUN	2261	½	0	0	0	½	½	½	½	1	½	*	½	1	½	6	2246
12.	Cooke, Eric		USA	2253	0	0	0	½	0	½	½	½	0	½	½	*	1	1	5	2189
13.	Royset, Paal		NOR	2230	0	0	1	½	½	0	½	½	½	½	0	0	*	½	4½	2167
14.	Charpenel Elorduy, Mauricio		MEX	2092	½	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	½	0	½	*	2½	2037

13) XIV Abiero Pro-Am

The XIV Abiero Pro-Am took place 9th-18th October 2007. Games from the final rounds are missing.

Official site: http://www.ajedrezmartelli.org.ar/proam/2007/proam07.html

XIV Abiero Pro-Am 9-18 x 2007 Final 9 Standings:
Nr	Pts	Nombre	n	Elo	Prog
1	Rodriguez Vila, Andres	GM	2541	7.5	43.5
2	Zarnicki, Pablo	GM	2509	7	43
3	Valerga, Diego	IM	2469	7	39.5
4	Della Morte, German	FM	2370	6.5	44
5	Slipak, Sergio	GM	2437	6.5	41.5
6	Goldwaser, Cristian		2331	6.5	39
7	Iermito, Sebastian	FM	2334	6.5	36
8	Gibson, Tomas		2236	6.5	35.5
9	Pierrot, Facundo	IM	2450	6	40.5
10	Barrionuevo, Pablo		2319	6	38
11	Diaz, Nahuel	IM	2435	6	36.5
12	Orozco, Gustavo		2239	6	33.5
13	Prates, Fabiano Fortes	FM	2311	5.5	40
14	Amed, Stephanie	WFM	2040	5.5	37.5
15	Scarella, Enrique	IM	2338	5.5	37
16	Lalanne, Pablo		2225	5.5	36.5
17	Della Morte, Pablo	FM	2288	5.5	36
18	Alvarez, Roberto		2108	5.5	35
19	Perez, Maximiliano		2110	5.5	35
20	Perez, Mario Abel		2045	5.5	33.5
21	Juarez, Carlos Eleodoro		2180	5.5	32
22	Arbulu Rocha, Miguel		1928	5.5	31.5
23	Franco, Gaston		2035	5.5	30.5
72 players

14) IRT Salomao Roved

There was a rating tournament in Rio de Janeiro BRA 18th August - 6th October 2007. Goerg Von Bulow won with 6/7.

Official site: http://www.cxg.org.br/saloma07.htm

IRT Salomao Rovedo Rio de Janeiro BRA (BRA), 18 viii-6 x 2007
1	von Bulow Georg	GER	2387	6,0	133,5	21,5	24,50
2	Lima Darcy	BRA	2487	5,5	137,0	21,5	21,25
3	Chauca José	PER	2139	5,5	134,0	22,5	24,75
4	Bil Angelo	BRA	2197	4,5	135,5	21,5	16,75
5	Maia Marco Aurelio F	BRA	2129	4,5	130,5	17,0	11,00
6	Santos Filho Tadeu Sousa	BRA	2118	4,0	131,0	18,5	11,50
7	Rocha João Batista	BRA	2016	4,0	130,5	20,0	11,75
8	Rabelo David Sousa	BRA	1962	4,0	123,0	18,0	12,50
9	Giordano Guilhermo Nicolas	BRA	2021	3,5	126,5	17,5	8,75
10	Carvalho Renato	BRA	0	3,5	119,0	14,0	8,25
11	Chaves Jorge Antonio	BRA	2121	3,0	125,5	18,0	7,00
12	Rolim Carlos Alves	BRA	2046	3,0	116,5	16,5	9,25
13	Pereira Marcos	BRA	1950	3,0	104,0	14,0	7,50
14	Machado Wallace Fernandes	BRA	1962	3,0	100,5	14,0	7,50
15	Dacal Jorge	BRA	1889	2,5	117,0	15,5	6,00
16	Grilo Marcos Babosa	BRA	0	2,5	102,5	15,5	6,75
17	Mathow Hermann	BRA	2003	2,5	96,5	14,5	7,00
18	Faria Herbert Bento	BRA	0	2,5	84,5	16,0	7,25
19	Rovedo Salomão	BRA	1839	2,0	100,5	17,5	6,75
72 players

15) 3rd Arctic Cup

The 3rd Arctic Cup took place in the capital of the Yamal-Nenets District, Salekhard October 8th-18th 2007. The Yamal-Nenets District is located in Siberia. 12 youth teams took part in this event. In previous years only two foreign team were among the participating teams. This year four teams from abroad are present: India, Slovakia, Czech Republic and The Netherlands. The organizers have the intention to increase the number of foreign teams in the future events. Yamalo-Nenet won the event. News: Geurt Gijssen.

3rd Arctic Cup Final Round 11 Standings:
	Teams	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Mpts	GPts	Pl
1	Tyumen region	##	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	0	2	2	19	41	II
		##	3½:1½	4:1	3½:1½	5:0	4½:½	3½:1½	2½:2½	4:1	2:3	4:1	4½:½
2	Khanty-Mansiysky	0	##	1	2	2	2	0	2	2	2	2	2	17	33½	4
		1½:3½	##	2½:2½	3:2	4½:½	3:2	1½:3½	3:2	3:2	3:2	4½:½	4:1
3	Sverdlovsk region	0	1	##	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	2	2	9	25	8
		1:4	2½:2½	##	1½:3½	5:0	2:3	½:4½	2½:2½	2½:2½	2:3	4:1	4:1
4	Czech Republic	0	0	2	##	2	2	0	2	2	1	2	2	15	31½	5
		1½:3½	2:3	3½:1½	##	5:0	3:2	1:4	3:2	3½:1½	2½:2½	3:2	3½:1½
5	India	0	0	0	0	##	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	12
		0:5	½:4½	0:5	0:5	##	½:4½	0:5	0:5	½:4½	0:5	½:4½	0:5
6	Netherlands	0	0	2	0	2	##	0	2	1	0	2	2	11	30	6
		½:4½	2:3	3:2	2:3	4½:½	##	1½:3½	4½:½	2½:2½	1:4	5:0	3½:1½
7	Yamalo-Nenets	0	2	2	2	2	2	##	2	2	2	2	2	20	41	I
		1½:3½	3½:1½	4½:½	4:1	5:0	3½:1½	##	4½:½	3½:1½	3:2	3:2	5:0
8	Vologda region	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	##	0	0	2	2	8	24	9
		2½:2½	2:3	2½:2½	2:3	5:0	½:4½	½:4½	##	1½:3½	1:4	3½:1½	3:2
9	Slovakia	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	2	##	0	2	2	10	25	7
		1:4	2:3	2½:2½	1½:3½	4½:½	2½:2½	1½:3½	3½:1½	##	1:4	3:2	4½:½
10	Samara region	2	0	2	1	2	2	0	2	2	##	2	2	17	36	III
		3:2	2:3	3:2	2½:2½	5:0	4:1	2:3	4:1	4:1	##	3½:1½	3:2
11	Kurgan region	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	##	0	2	18	11
		1:4	½:4½	1:4	2:3	4½:½	0:5	2:3	1½:3½	2:3	1½:3½	##	2:3
12	Komi Republic	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	##	4	18	10
		½:4½	1:4	1:4	1½:3½	5:0	1½:3½	0:5	2:3	½:4½	2:3	3:2	##

16) US Chess League

The new US Chess League takes place August 27th - October 31st 2007 with playoffs on 7th, 14th and 28th November 2007. Games are played on ICC. My thanks to Greg Shahade.

Official site: http://www.uschessleague.com

USCL Week 8 Results 15th October 2007
New York				vs	Queens
1	GM	Hikaru Nakamura	(NY)	vs	IM	Eli Vovsha	(QNS)	1-0
2	IM	Dmitry Schneider	(QNS)	vs	GM	Pascal Charbonneau	(NY)	1-0
3	FM	Marc Arnold	(NY)	vs	FM	Jake Kleiman	(QNS)	1-0
4	NM	Parker Zhao	(QNS)	vs	WFM	Irina Zenyuk	(NY)	1/2
New Jersey				vs	Boston
1	GM	Joel Benjamin	(NJ)	vs	GM	Larry Christiansen	(BOS)	1/2
2	SM	Jorge Sammour-Hasbun	(BOS)	vs	IM	Dean Ippolito	(NJ)	1-0
3	NM	Evan Ju	(NJ)	vs	NM	Denys Shmelov	(BOS)	1/2
4	NM	Chris Williams	(BOS)	vs	NM	Victor Shen	(NJ)	0-1
Baltimore				vs	Philadelphia
1	GM	Sergey Erenburg	(BAL)	vs	GM	Sergey Kudrin	(PHI)	1/2
2	IM	Bryan Smith	(PHI)	vs	FM	Tegshsuren Enkhbat	(BAL)	1-0
3	IM	Larry Kaufman	(BAL)	vs	IM	Richard Costigan	(PHI)	1/2
4	NM	Elvin Wilson	(PHI)	vs	WIM	Tsaagan Battsetseg	(BAL)	1-0
Miami				vs	Tennessee
1	GM	Julio Becerra	(MIA)	vs	IM	Ron Burnett	(TEN)	1-0
2	FM	Todd Andrews	(TEN)	vs	FM	Marcel Martinez	(MIA)	1-0
3	NM	Miguel Espino	(MIA)	vs	FM	John Bick	(TEN)	0-1
4		James Wu	(TEN)	vs		Luis Barredo	(MIA)	0-1
Carolina				vs	San Francisco
1	IM	Lev Milman	(CAR)	vs	IM	Vinay Bhat	(SF)	0-1
2	IM	David Pruess	(SF)	vs	IM	Jonathan Schroer	(CAR)	1/2
3	FM	Oleg Zaikov	(CAR)	vs	IM	John Donaldson	(SF)	1/2
4	NM	Sam Shankland	(SF)	vs	NM	Craig Jones	(CAR)	1-0
Dallas				vs	Seattle
1	IM	Drasko Boskovic	(DAL)	vs	GM	Gregory Serper	(SEA)	0-1
2	IM	Eric Tangborn	(SEA)	vs	IM	Davorin Kuljasevic	(DAL)	0-1
3	FM	Keaton Kiewra	(DAL)	vs	FM	Slava Mikhailuk	(SEA)	1-0
4		Joshua Sinanan	(SEA)	vs	NM	Francisco Guadalupe II	(DAL)	0-1

Week 8 Standings:
EASTERN DIVISION	W	L	GPts	%	Op Av ELO	Opps Record	%
Boston	5.5	2.5	19.0/32	59%	2406	28-26	52%
Philadelphia	5	3	16.5/32	52%	2388	28.5-25.5	53%
New Jersey	4	4	16/32	50%	2379	24-30	44%
New York	4	4	15.5/32	48%	2381	30.5-23.5	56%
Baltimore	3.5	4.5	15.5/32	48%	2361	26.5-27.5	49%
Queens	3	5	14/32	44%	2411	29.5-24.5	55%
WESTERN DIVISION	W	L	GPts	%	Op Av ELO	Opps Record	%
Dallas @	6	2	19.5/32	61%	2377	26.5-27.5	49%
Seattle	4.5	3.5	18.0/32	56%	2371	29.5-24.5	55%
San Francisco	4	4	18.0/32	56%	2368	28-26	52%
Carolina	3.5	4.5	15.0/32	47%	2377	24.5-29.5	45%
Miami	3	5	14.0/32	44%	2361	24.5-29.5	45%
Tennessee	2	6	11.0/32	34%	2369	24-30	44%

17) 37th Corsico FIDE Tournament

The 37th Corsico FIDE Tournament took place 6th-14th October 2007 (with a bizarre schedule round 1 (and round 4!) on the 7th, round 2 the 6th etc etc).

Dario Mione reports: FM Michelangelo Scalcione from Bologna scored 5 points out of 7 and edged out FM Dario Mione from Bergamo by half a point. 15 y.o. Alessio Valsecchi couldn't play his last two games due to a bad flu. The competition had an average rating of 2247. A Chess Festival with 75 participants took place alongside the event: Oscar Mazzariol and Elo favorite Angelo Damia won the main open with 3.5 points out of 5.

Official site: http://www.corsicoscacchi.com/

It Corsico ITA (ITA), 6-14 x 2007
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1.	Scalcione, Michelangelo	f	ITA	2357	*	0	1	1	½	1	½	1	5	2388
2.	Mione, Dario	f	ITA	2254	1	*	1	½	½	½	½	½	4½	2347
3.	Vancini, Edoardo	f	ITA	2290	0	0	*	1	1	0	1	1	4	2290
4.	Sbarra, Marco	f	ITA	2220	0	½	0	*	1	1	1	0	3½	2250
5.	Gagliardi, Christian		ITA	2184	½	½	0	0	*	½	1	1	3½	2255
6.	Pace, Pierdario		ITA	2190	0	½	1	0	½	*	½	½	3	2204
7.	Ranieri, Fabrizio		ITA	2261	½	½	0	0	0	½	*	1	2½	2142
8.	Valsecchi, Alessio		ITA	2215	0	½	0	1	0	½	0	*	2	2092

18) 10th Rocca di Papa Rapid

The 10th Rocca di Papa Rapid took place on 21st October 2007. Gata Kamsky won with 8/9. No games available (in spite of blank games where they promise they are).

Kamsky also symbolically handed over the the 2007 "Herbert Garrett Scholarship" to 15-year old GM Fabiano Caruana. The Scholarhip was set up in 2005 by Caissa Italia editore, one of the leading Italian chess publishing houses, with the aim of helping young Italian chess players to fully develop their talent. The scholarship consists in 750 euro worth of Cassa Italia chess books. The awardees for 2005 and 2006 were IM Daniele Vocaturo and Marina Brunello.

Official site: http://asd.caissa.it/roccadipapa/

10th Rocca di Papa Rapid (g/15)
Pos	Rtg	NAME	PRtg	Pts	BucT
1	Kamsky Gata	GM	2714	8.0	52.50
2	Shytaj Luca	IM	2471	8.0	51.00
3	Caruana Fabiano	GM	2594	7.5	53.50
4	Rombaldoni Axel	FM	2399	7.0	52.00
5	Stromboli Carlo	-M	2248	7.0	47.50
6	Lagumina Giulio	FM	2327	7.0	47.50
7	Bruno Fabio	IM	2445	6.5	52.00
8	Corvi Marco	FM	2336	6.5	51.00
9	Vocaturo Daniele	IM	2443	6.5	49.00
10	Piscopo Pierluigi	IM	2365	6.5	48.00
11	Tosoni Augusto	-M	2255	6.5	45.50
12	Buono Michele	CM	2176	6.5	44.50
13	Stromboli Ettore	-M	2281	6.5	43.00
14	Parrella Alfredo	-M	2133	6.5	40.50

19) Casar de Cáceres

The I Magistral de Casar de Cáceres takes place 22nd-28th October 2007.

Official site: http://www.ajedrezenextremadura.com/

I Magistral de Casar de Cáceres 22nd-28th Oct, 2007
1	Mateo, Ramon	m	DOM	2493
2	Saldaño, Horacio	m	ESP	2452
3	Hera, Imre	g	HUN	2544
4	Llanes Hurtado, Miguel	m	ESP	2459
5	Gonzalez Garcia, Jose	g	MEX	2541
6	Vazquez, Renier	g	ESP	2553

20) Copa Puma

The Argentinian Chess League, so called "Copa Puma", finished Saturday 6th October 2007 with the participation of several GMs and IMs and many strong players, representing 26 teams. "Art/Chess" (García Palermo, Lemos, Giardelli, Tempone, Dolezal y J. Szmetan took clear first place. I will round up the games when all 9 rounds are available, 7 are on the site below.

Official site: http://www.lna.org.ar/

Copa Puma Argentine Chess League 11th August - 6th October 2007
1	ART/CHESS	20.5
2	MARTELLI VICENTE LOPEZ	19.0
3	AEROPUERTOS ARG.2000 - FERRO	18.0
4	FRANCHISING GROUP	17.5
5	CAM 3 TRES DE FEBRERO	16.5
6	SAN ISIDRO PERFIL JAQUE	16.0
7	T y E SAN MARTIN	14.5
	CIRCULO DE AJEDREZ MORENO	14.5
9	ZARATE	13.5
	CLUB BANCO PROVINCIA	13.5
	CORPORACION DEL SUR	13.5
	MUNICIPALIDAD DE AVELLANEDA	13.5
	NAJDORF POLVORINES	13.5
	OPEN TRADING	13.5
15	CALICE LIGURIA	13.0
	MAR DEL PLATA LOS LOBOS	13.0
	WWW.VENTAJEDREZ.COM	13.0
18	ASOCIADOS CREDICOOP	12.5
	FLORENCIO VARELA	12.5
	SCHIPULL CNC	12.5
21	CIRCULO PATAGONICO	12.0
	WWW.CHESSHOP.COM.AR	12.0
23	CLUB SOCIAL PERGAMINO	11.5
24	LUJAN	10.5
25	RONDI - MUPAS	10.0
26	SAN ANDRES	1.0

21) ECU Reply to Turkish Chess Federation

ECU Press Release 22nd Oct 2007

On October 12th, the Turkish Chess Federation published an Open Letter, wherein Mr. Ali Nihat Yazici, President of the Turkish Chess Federation, declared that his federation has sued the ECU in the judicial court in Lausanne on 3rd of October. According to Mr. Horst Metzing, Secretary-General of the ECU, the ECU office in Berlin has not received any official letter in this matter so far.

Gerald Schendel European Chess Union, Press Officer Monday, 22 October 2007

22) FIDE October Rating List Corrected

There have been some silent changes (not in the corrections section of the FIDE rating list site) to the FIDE top 100 list. Players whose ratings have changed are: Kamsky, Eljanov, Van Wely, Milov and a huge fall for Naiditsch. In some cases the number of games players has dropped, perhaps a whole event has been rated twice or something.

October 2007 FIDE Rating List. Top 100
No	Ju	Name	t	NAT	YroB	ja06	ap06	ju06	oc06	ja07	ap07	ju07	oc07	Gms
1	1	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	1969	2792	2803	2779	2779	2779	2786	2792	2801	21
2	4	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	1969	2729	2731	2734	2741	2750	2729	2762	2787	20
3	3	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	1975	2741	2729	2743	2750	2766	2772	2769	2785	21
4	2	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	1975	2801	2804	2813	2813	2783	2772	2769	2769	0
5	7	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	1979	2740	2738	2738	2741	2749	2738	2751	2755	21
6	5	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	1977	2721	2730	2731	2747	2741	2762	2758	2755	19
7	6	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz	g	AZE	1985	2709	2699	2722	2728	2754	2757	2757	2752	11
8	9	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	1987	2700	2717	2728	2729	2729	2747	2746	2742	9
9	8	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	1982	2752	2756	2761	2741	2744	2759	2750	2741	14
10	11	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	1972	2709	2699	2716	2720	2715	2699	2735	2739	11
11	13	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	1968	2723	2727	2729	2733	2733	2733	2733	2736	21
12	12	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	1976	2765	2743	2742	2750	2728	2736	2735	2732	25
13	15	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	1971	2707	2720	2732	2735	2735	2734	2724	2729	16
14	24	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	1985	2634	2640	2644	2639	2661	2679	2689	2716	17
15	14	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	1983	2717	2719	2709	2710	2717	2717	2726	2715	23
16	17	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	1990	2625	2646	2673	2698	2690	2693	2710	2714	25
17	16	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	1974	2686	2671	2697	2705	2705	2705	2718	2714	9
18	18	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	1971	2704	2706	2713	2713	2700	2698	2708	2713	5
19	10	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	1983	2662	2675	2667	2671	2691	2708	2735	2710	23
20	19	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	1976	2711	2711	2710	2710	2727	2727	2707	2708	9
21	20	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	1983	2723	2738	2721	2703	2723	2717	2706	2705	5
22	22	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	1987	2599	2598	2626	2644	2644	2656	2696	2703	27
23	23	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	1983	2717	2708	2707	2705	2705	2709	2695	2695	7
24	35	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	1990	2660	2661	2679	2672	2678	2686	2678	2694	11
25	25	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	1985	2645	2640	2664	2671	2644	2656	2685	2692	38
26	21	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	1983	2655	2665	2651	2658	2675	2686	2701	2691	20
27	29	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	1976	2646	2657	2672	2664	2669	2675	2682	2691	14
28	36	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	1980	2694	2691	2691	2682	2663	2679	2676	2690	15
29	27	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	1979	2670	2673	2672	2672	2682	2677	2683	2690	14
30	32	Dominguez Perez, Lenier	g	CUB	1983	2638	2647	2658	2655	2677	2678	2680	2683	11
31	34	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	1972	2647	2655	2675	2676	2683	2674	2679	2679	40
32	40	Landa, Konstantin	g	RUS	1972	2597	2600	2584	2570	2596	2608	2669	2678	15
33	30	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	1986	2665	2660	2662	2645	2645	2654	2681	2678	5
34	38	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	1972	2638	2625	2620	2657	2665	2676	2675	2676	33
35	33	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	1974	2665	2687	2667	2688	2677	2680	2679	2676	11
36	61	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	1975	2650	2650	2668	2668	2663	2663	2650	2674	20
37	47	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	1985	2597	2598	2625	2628	2669	2669	2663	2674	15
38	51	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	1976	2664	2670	2675	2674	2658	2659	2658	2674	8
39	44	Sokolov, Ivan	g	NED	1968	2689	2676	2652	2670	2652	2655	2666	2673	31
40	42	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	1983	2603	2612	2667	2667	2658	2651	2667	2673	24
41	41	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	1978	2632	2618	2637	2637	2637	2642	2667	2670	20
42	52	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	1986	2625	2635	2632	2632	2640	2646	2657	2670	17
43	--	Karpov, Anatoly	g	RUS	1951	2672	2672	2668	2668	2668	2668	2668	2670	9
44	48	Krasenkow, Michal	g	POL	1963	2636	2650	2635	2647	2651	2661	2660	2668	33
45	45	Harikrishna, P	g	IND	1986	2673	2680	2682	2674	2673	2650	2664	2668	24
46	26	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROM	1976	2693	2695	2693	2690	2689	2693	2683	2668	11
47	56	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	1986	2625	2659	2644	2643	2658	2644	2655	2663	23
48	55	Tkachiev, Vladislav	g	FRA	1973	2642	2643	2645	2645	2649	2652	2655	2661	19
49	37	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	1981	2670	2692	2681	2675	2700	2690	2676	2661	11
50	43	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	1982	2650	2666	2674	2674	2679	2676	2666	2660	5
51	71	Nikolic, Predrag	g	BIH	1960	2596	2596	2626	2626	2626	2631	2646	2657	18
52	62	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	1971	2661	2666	2645	2659	2658	2636	2650	2657	4
53	58	Lautier, Joel	g	FRA	1973	2682	2682	2675	2667	2656	2661	2654	2657	4
54	54	Navara, David	g	CZE	1985	2660	2658	2719	2725	2719	2720	2656	2656	0
55	53	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	1977	2624	2628	2607	2607	2629	2637	2656	2655	18
56	72	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	1981	2625	2633	2626	2628	2646	2644	2646	2654	26
57	60	Bareev, Evgeny	g	RUS	1966	2698	2701	2683	2683	2643	2643	2653	2653	0
58	39	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	1978	2619	2597	2616	2626	2632	2646	2671	2651	40
59	28	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	1965	2676	2677	2676	2677	2691	2691	2683	2649	36
60	46	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	1965	2645	2677	2685	2680	2661	2660	2663	2649	21
61	70	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	1987	2644	2664	2632	2640	2651	2658	2647	2648	21
62	50	Volkov, Sergey	g	RUS	1974	2629	2620	2628	2628	2636	2640	2659	2648	11
63	49	Socko, Bartosz	g	POL	1978	2610	2606	2621	2630	2629	2641	2660	2646	34
64	57	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	1987	2586	2595	2594	2595	2624	2641	2654	2646	19
65	79	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	1980	2657	2662	2649	2632	2627	2630	2641	2646	18
66	78	Afromeev, Vladimir	f	RUS	1954	2573	2612	2620	2635	2628	2628	2642	2646	12
67	59	Beliavsky, Alexander G	g	SLO	1953	2626	2622	2625	2639	2639	2648	2653	2646	10
68	--	Fedorchuk, Sergey A	g	UKR	1981	2590	2576	2592	2599	2601	2603	2618	2645	59
69	96	Predojevic, Borki	g	BIH	1987	2553	2566	2568	2590	2587	2609	2628	2645	18
70	68	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	1979	2638	2660	2662	2662	2647	2642	2648	2645	14
71	65	Zhang, Pengxiang	g	CHN	1980	2638	2623	2622	2636	2643	2657	2649	2644	38
72	76	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	1983	2614	2646	2651	2650	2650	2658	2644	2644	24
73	93	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	1983	2599	2590	2611	2611	2605	2605	2630	2644	20
74	67	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	1973	2669	2669	2668	2680	2667	2663	2648	2643	53
75	102	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	1989	2593	2605	2610	2622	2619	2638	2624	2643	47
76	90	Khalifman, Alexander	g	RUS	1966	2660	2640	2622	2622	2619	2624	2632	2643	10
77	75	Izoria, Zviad	g	GEO	1984	2652	2647	2660	2657	2644	2641	2645	2643	9
78	31	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	1983	2614	2607	2607	2621	2632	2654	2681	2641	29
79	74	Avrukh, Boris	g	ISR	1978	2633	2633	2641	2644	2644	2644	2645	2641	15
80	66	Baklan, Vladimir	g	UKR	1978	2601	2606	2621	2622	2618	2618	2648	2639	42
81	92	Stellwagen, Daniel	g	NED	1987	2573	2543	2575	2576	2585	2600	2631	2639	19
82	64	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	1968	2662	2662	2659	2659	2654	2650	2649	2639	17
83	77	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	1985	2657	2664	2665	2676	2663	2654	2644	2639	11
84	73	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	1986	2670	2660	2641	2640	2644	2647	2645	2638	5
85	--	Amonatov, Farrukh	g	TJK	1978	2564	2569	2542	2567	2559	2574	2598	2637	46
86	63	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	1985	2653	2646	2657	2662	2663	2658	2650	2637	10
87	83	Smirnov, Pavel	g	RUS	1982	2614	2614	2613	2623	2621	2631	2636	2636	0
88	82	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	1987	2605	2597	2622	2630	2637	2620	2637	2635	11
89	--	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	1977	2652	2653	2677	2648	2605	2624	2623	2635	9
90	99	Bauer, Christian	g	FRA	1977	2627	2638	2599	2589	2609	2629	2626	2634	30
91	--	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	1990	2542	2576	2577	2575	2573	2593	2595	2634	24
92	85	Sakaev, Konstantin	g	RUS	1974	2649	2637	2642	2641	2641	2633	2634	2634	0
93	87	Zhang, Zhong	g	CHN	1978	2629	2640	2639	2609	2618	2621	2634	2634	0
94	89	Lputian, Smbat G	g	ARM	1958	2613	2619	2634	2634	2634	2634	2633	2633	0
95	91	Ye, Jiangchuan	g	CHN	1960	2641	2641	2641	2641	2641	2632	2632	2632	0
96	95	Istratescu, Andrei	g	ROM	1975	2618	2621	2612	2616	2619	2625	2629	2631	9
97	100	Mchedlishvili, Mikheil	g	GEO	1979	2568	2567	2561	2583	2583	2609	2624	2631	9
98	86	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	1978	2654	2654	2647	2643	2639	2639	2634	2631	4
99	69	Miton, Kamil	g	POL	1984	2646	2646	2638	2638	2655	2653	2648	2628	28
100	88	Gurevich, Mikhail	g	TUR	1959	2633	2643	2643	2648	2635	2635	2633	2627	14
101	98	Vladimirov, Evgeny	g	KAZ	1957	2616	2616	2616	2616	2616	2627	2627	2627	0
Dropping out of the top 100 in October 2007
No	Ju	Name	t	NAT	YroB	ja06	ap06	ju06	oc06	ja07	ap07	ju07	oc07	Gms
--	80	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	1973	2644	2646	2640	2640	2651	2649	2638	2626	15
--	81	Shabalov, Alexander	g	USA	1967	2595	2605	2604	2575	2602	2606	2637	2626	38
--	84	Sadvakasov, Darmen	g	KAZ	1979	2629	2619	2613	2596	2615	2618	2635	*	*
--	94	Ehlvest, Jaan	g	USA	1962	2619	2607	2593	2597	2610	2640	2629	2601	22
--	97	Fridman, Daniel	g	LAT	1976	2559	2562	2569	2604	2626	2635	2628	2621	10
--	101	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	1985	2666	2662	2632	2612	2616	2620	2624	2624	0
* Kazakhstan not in the main list download probably due to fees owed.

Source: http://www.fide.com. The full list is available for download there.

23) Forthcoming Events and Links

European Team Chess Championships

The European Team Chess Championships (ETCC) takes place 27th October - 7th November 2007 in the luxurious Creta Maris Conference Hotel in Crete, Greece.

39 countries confirmed their participation for the European National Team Championships in Crete, Greece 27 October - 7 November 2007, including all the chess power houses of the continent.

The participants will include 7 of the World Top-10 GMs: V. Ivanchuk (UKR 2787, No. 2 in the world), V. Topalov (BUL 2769, No. 4), A. Morozevich (RUS 2755, No. 5-6), S. Mamedyarov (AZE 2752, No. 7), T. Radjabov (AZE 2742, No. 8), L. Aronian (ARM 2741, No. 9), A. Shirov (ESP 2739, No. 10). The Women's event will also feature world stars such as GMs Alexandra Kosteniuk, Maia Chiburdanidze, Tatiana Kosintseva, Antoaneta Stefanova, Elisabeth Paehtz and Almira Skripchenko.

Official site: http://www.euroteams2007.org

Ivanchuk - Leko Rapid Match

A match between Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Leko, takes place in Mukachevo, Ukraine 25th-28th October 2007. 12 round rapid match.

Official site: http://www.ivanchuk-leko2007.com/en/index.htm

I Avanzado International

The I Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez Avanzado (Tecnológico) takes place 1st-9th December 2007

Further details: http://www.ajedrezbali.com and http://www.eventosdeajedrez.com

Corus Wijk aan Zee 2008

The field for the 2008 Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee has been announced at http://www.coruschess.com Five of the top 6 in the world are playing including the new World Champion Anand and new World number 2 Ivanchuk. Also Kramnik and Gelfand who finished 2nd in Mexico City.

The Corus Chess Tournament 2008 will be held from 11-27 January 2008 in Wijk aan Zee. The tournament venue is the De Moriaan Community Centre

Corus Wijk aan Zee 2008 A-Group 11th-27th January 2008
Name	Year of birth	Rating	W rnk
GM Viswanathan Anand	1969	2801	1
GM Vassily Ivanchuk	1969	2787	2
GM Vladimir Kramnik	1975	2785	3
GM Veselin Topalov	1975	2769	4
GM Peter Leko	1979	2755	5
GM Shakhryar Mamedyarov	1985	2752	7
GM Teymour Radjabov	1987	2742	8
GM Levon Aronian	1982	2741	9
GM Boris Gelfand	1968	2736	11
GM Michael Adams	1971	2729	13
GM Magnus Carlsen	1990	2714	17
GM Judit Polgar	1976	2708	20
GM Pavel Eljanov	1983	2681	30
GM Loek van Wely	1972	2680	32
Average rating: 2741 (based on October figures) Category: 20

Corus Wijk aan Zee Participants honorary four-event match 2008
Name	Year of birth	Rating	CCT victories
GM Viktor Kortchnoi	1931	2611	4
GM Lajos Portisch	1937	2530	4
GM Jan Timman	1951	2559	2
GM Ljubomir Ljubojevic	1950	2550	1

28th Bethune Open

The Bethune chess club is preparing his 28th International Open, Hall Olof Palme, Commercial centre La Rotonde, Bethune, France (Pas-de-Calais) from December 26 to 30. 9 rounds The tournament is divided in 2 tournaments: - Tournament A for players whose Elo rating is above or equal to 1600, 1st price : 1500 euros - Tournament B for players strictly below 1900, 1st price : 400 euros, Fischer pace 1h30+30s KO for each game in both tournaments. At least 6000 euros of prices, prices for Elo categories in both tournaments. Inscription fee : 40 euros (adults), 20 euros (youngsters under 20), free for IM, GM and FIDE Masters. Conditions for IM and GM and special conditions for GM>2600, contact us at open@bethunechess.com

For more information visit: http://www.bethunechess.com

Harmonie Chess Tournament

The Harmonie Chess Tournament takes place 21st-30th December 2007.

Official site: http://www.so-on.org/kerst2007/2007eng.html

XVII Pampona International

The XVII Pampona International takes place 21st-29th December 2007.

Details: http://www.chesspamplona.com/

Chess.fm John Watson Book Show

The Chess.fm John Watson Book Show featured Jan Timman 9th October 2007. http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/

Chigorin Memorial 2007

The Chigorin Memorial takes place in St Petersburg 29th November 9th December 2007.

Details: http://www.totalchess.spb.ru/kalend/2007/chigorin.html

VI Bali International Chess Festival

The VI Bali International Chess Festival takes place 30th November 9th December 2007. Many events including the tournament of stars 6th-9th December 2007 which has the participation of the new world champion Viswanathan Anand.

Further details: http://www.ajedrezbali.com/

Czech Chess Christmas 2007

The Czech Chess Christmas 2007 tournament takes place in Litomysl (CZE) 26th December 2007 - 1st January 2008

9th christmas chess FIDE tournament, swiss system of 9 round, rate of game 2 x 1,5h + 30s/move, prize fund 64.000 CZK (1st prize 20.000 CZK = 700 EUR), special conditions for IM, WGM and GM, New Year’s Eve programme. Contact: Proclient s.r.o., Jaroslav Fuksik, Svedska 3, 772 00 Olomouc, mobile: +420 608 364 664, e-mail: a64@proclient.cz,

Further details: http://www.a64.cz/tournaments/litomysl2007/

8th Liberec Open

The 8th Liberec Open takes place 10th-17th November 2007. Open FIDE, active chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival.

More detailed information should be found in English, German, Russian and Polish at http://www.czechtour.net/liberec-open/

Hungarian Chess Tournaments October 2007 - March 2008

1. 6th-19th of October 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 /NL/, E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net Website: http://www.firstsaturday.hu Other website: http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat Phone-fax: +(361)-2632859, cellphone: +(36)-30-230-1914 /From 12:00 a.m. until midnight - Central European Time = GMT+1/

2. 24th-31st of October, HÉVÍZ Open - 200 km West from Budapest, 9 rounds Swiss, org: IM Rigo, http://www.lellechess.tar.hu

3. 22nd-30th of October 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.

4. 3rd-15th of November, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest, org.:NL

5. 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

6. 1st-13th of December, FS GM-IM-FM, Budapest, org.NL

7. 15th-21st of Dec, Kecskemet, IM tmt

8. 27th Dec- 5th Jan Kecskemet IM tmt,

9. 11th-19th of January 2008 Open in Budapest, Season opening, org: IA FAZEKAS, György, e-mail: srcolonel@freemail.hu

10. 19th-28th of January - IM tmt, Kecskemet

11. 2nd-15th of February - First Saturday Budapest,

12. 16th-25th of February - IM tmt Kecskemet,

13. 1st-13rd of March - First Saturday Budapest,

14. 21st-29th of March - Budapest Spring Festival Open, org.: Nagy Laszlo

Halkidiki Chess Festival 2008

The Halkidiki Chess Festival takes place in Kallithea, 28th April - 5 May 2008.

The Organizing Committee of the Halkdiki Chess Festival 2008. Tel/fax: +30 2310 865778 - e-mail: teotsorb@otenet.gr V.Olgas 285, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Official site: http://www.gamesfestival.com/

4th Singapore International Chess Convention

4th Singapore International Chess Convention, 16 - 22 December 2007: - Singapore Masters 2007 - Seminar for Coaches - Seminar for Arbiters The offical website of the organiser is the website of the Singapore Chess Federation:

Official site: http://www.singaporechess.org.sg

Computer Chess Events

On Saturday 29th September will take place the 1st AICA Man-Machine Match, Accademia Due Torri, Bologna, Italy. Delfi, current italian computer champion, will play FM Nicolò Ronchetti, who has just scored his third IM norm. Time control: Ronchetti 2 hours, Delfi 10 seconds per move. The game will be relayed on PlayChess, from 10:00 (CET). Site: http://e4e6.com/g6. On the same place, on 29 and 30 September will take place the 2nd Chess Computer Cup, also valid as 7th italian computer chess championship (CIPS 2007). 7 rounds, around 20 players. First two boards will be relayed on PlayChess, from 13:00 (CET).

John Watson's Book Show

Regular TWIC contributer John Watson has a book radio show on chess.fm on Tuesdays. This week Nigel Short appears. You can catch the show by signing up for ICC trial membership. Link: http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/

Moscow Open 2008

The 4th International Chess Festival Moscow Open 2008 takes place 2nd-10th February 2008. Venue - the Russian State Social University. Minimal gartanted prize fund of full festival is RUR 5 000 000 (nearly EUR 150 000 or USD 200 000, two times more than in 2007!) There are Open “A” (for all, 1st prize RUR 500 000 - also possible to play 6- or 7 days like last two years), Open “B” (<2300, 1st RUR 150 000), Women Open (new! 1st prize RUR 150 000), open tournaments for school chidrens (qualify for World School Ch). Conditions for GMs 2600+ and best rated women GMs will be given probably, for GMs 2550+ it’s still unclear. More details in the middle of September. Some days later (13-22.2) “Aeroflot Open 2008” will start. As preparation to the World Mind Games in China – 2008 there are probably "Moscow Open Mind Games 2008" - Chess 960, Bridge, Go, Shogi, Damen tournaments etc. Some days later (13-22.2) “Aeroflot Open 2008” will start.

Contact: wlct06@gmail.com

Further details: http://www.chess-events.org

Etienne Bacrot's Website

Etienne Bacrot has a website at: http://www.chess22.fr/ giving news about himself, some comments on recent events including the World Championships in Mexico City etc. Worth check out.

1st South Bohemia Open

1st SOUTH BOHEMIA OPEN 2007 International Chess Festival which takes place in one of the most beautiful Czech towns – Cesky Krumlov on 13.-20.10. 2007. Open FIDE, active chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival.

Details: http://www.czechtour.net/south-bohemia-open/

32nd Kings Head Rapidplay

The 32nd Kings Head Rapidplay takes place Saturday 5 April 2008 start time 11:00, details below: 6-round Swiss rapidplay (30 minutes), prize fund £700

The Porchester Hall Porchester Road Bayswater London W2 5HS

Contact: Colin Mackenzie 9 Allan Way Acton London W3 0PW 020 8992 1849 colin.mackenzie@atosorigin.com

Further details; http://www.khcc.org.uk

Baltic Sea Cup

The Baltic Sea Cup (Bornholm, Denmark) took place July 30th - August 5th 2007. Reynaldo Vera and Allan Stig Rasmussen finished on 7.5/9. A games file is on its way from the organisers.

Details: http://www.bornholms-skakklub.dk/balticseacup07/

 
Baltic Sea Cup July 30th - August 5th 2007
Standing
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No        Name                              Fed ELO  Nat  # Points
  1 - 2   GM Reynaldo Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo     2479          7.5
  1 - 2   FM Allan Stig Rasmussen               2450 2451     7.5
  3 - 5   GM Igor Khenkin                       2602          7
  3 - 5   GM Eduardas Rozentalis                2551          7
  3 - 5   GM Jonny Hector                       2550 2550     7
  6 - 9   GM Vadim Malakhatko                   2596          6.5
  6 - 9   GM Sune Berg Hansen                   2574 2580     6.5
  6 - 9   GM Tiger Hillarp-Persson              2568 2568     6.5
  6 - 9   IM Thorbjørn Bromann                  2413 2414     6.5
 10 - 20  GM Boris Savchenko                    2577          6
 10 - 20  GM Sergey Kasparov                    2500          6
 10 - 20  IM Kim Pilgaard                       2448 2453     6
 10 - 20  IM Jens Kristiansen                   2436 2439     6
 10 - 20  IM Jacob Vang Glud                    2435 2434     6
 10 - 20  GM Carsten Høi                        2422 2427     6
 10 - 20  Esben Lund                            2396 2408     6
 10 - 20  Ashwin Jayaram                        2399          6
 10 - 20  FM Jorge Cabrera Trujillo             2324          6
 10 - 20  FM Jake Kleiman                       2312          6
 10 - 20  Andreas Skytte Hagen                  2256 2278     6
 21 - 32  GM Alexander Stripunsky               2589          5.5
 21 - 32  Martin Matthiesen                     2363 2353     5.5
 21 - 32  WGM Anna Zozulia                      2332          5.5
 21 - 32  IM Bjørn Brinck-Claussen              2324 2300     5.5
 21 - 32  FM Jacob Carstensen                   2304 2293     5.5
 21 - 32  FM Tobias Hirneise                    2293          5.5
 21 - 32  FM Teddy Coleman                      2239          5.5
 21 - 32  FM Ove Weiss Hartvig                  2232 2210     5.5
 21 - 32  Andreas Wiwe                          2187 2152     5.5  
 21 - 32  Parker Zhao                           2180          5.5  
 21 - 32  Morten Kock Møller                    2178 2141     5.5  
 21 - 32  CM Andreas Arnold Schmitz             2081          5.5  
118 players

10th European Senior Team-Championship

10th European Senior Team-Championship take place 11th-19th February 2008 in RAMADA-Hotel in Dresden.

Further info contact: ZMD Schachfestival Dresden e.V., Oskar-Mai-Straße 6, D-01159 Dresden, Fon +49 (0)351 416 16 29, Fax: +49 (0)351 416 16 39 Dr. Gerhard Schmidt, Hepkestraße 131, D-01277 Dresden, Fon +49 (0)351 251 34 20, E-Mail: gerhard.schmidt@schachfestival.de

83rd Hastings International Congress

The Celebration 83rd Hastings International Congress takes place 28 December 2007 to 6 January 2008. This includes a 10 round Master Swiss, and an open FIDE Rated tournament 5-6 January. Celebrating what? The lives of the many people who have died within the past four years, who have so enriched the chess scene with their work. Full details http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/ Contact: Con Power conpowr@aol.com

Entries so far include:  
Vugar Gashimov    GM  AZE 2655
Vadim Malakhatko  GM  BEL 2596
Nidjat Mamedov    GM  AZE 2548
Stuart Conquest   GM  ENG 2546
Mark Hebden       GM  ENG 2540
Nicholas Pert     GM  ENG 2536
Gawain Jones      GM  ENG 2526
David Howell      GM  ENG 2519
Glenn Flear       GM  ENG 2479
Stewart Haslinger GME ENG 2468
Anna Zozulia   IM/WGM BEL 2332

Gibtelecom Chess Festival 2008

The 6th edition of Gibraltar's Gibtelecom Chess Festival will be held from 22nd-31st January 2008 at the Caleta Hotel, one of Gibraltar's best hotels. In previous years players of the quality of Alexei Shirov, Michael Adams and Nigel Short have played in the Masters section. Usually the Masters field includes at least 30 grandmasters. In 2008 the first prize in the Masters has gone up to £12,000 and the tournament is so strong at the top that it even offers a £2,000 prize for the best score by a player rated under 2600 (we think that might be unique worldwide) as well as the same amount for other rating categories down to sub-2200. There is also big money to be won in the Under 2250 (£1,500 first prize) and Under 1850 (£1,000 first prize) events. Even the relatively light-hearted evening events (which cost nothing to enter) have a combined prize fund of £1,200.

Full details and entry form: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/

XXXVII Rilton Cup

XXXVII Rilton Cup takes place 27th December 2007 – 5th January 2008 in Mälarsalen. Münchenbryggeriet, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2, Stockholm, SWEDEN Stockholm Chess Federation welcomes all chess players to the 37th Rilton Cup. This year’s tournament, with a prize fund of more than SEK 200 000 (about 22 000 euro) will be played in three groups: Rilton Cup, Rilton Elo and Rilton Open (Rilton Open is only open for Nordic players with a rating lower than national 1800). Rilton Cup and Rilton ELO is Elo registrated Rilton Cup and Rilton Elo plays 9 rounds Fide Swiss. The first round starts at 13:00 on the 27th of December and the following rounds start at 11:00 every day until the 5th of January. The 1st of January (New Year’s Day) is free. Send your entry by mail, fax or e-mail, not later than the 17th of December to Stockholm Chess Federation, attention “Rilton Cup”. Mobile telephones or computers are not allowed in the playing hall. Rilton Cup Open for players with an Elo rating or national rating >= 2200. Reflection time: 40 moves in two hours, 20 moves in one hour and 30 minutes for the rest of the game.

Entry fees: 800 SEK, 400 for FM, 300 for players born 1987 or later. IGM and IM free. Prizes (SEK): 1st 20 000 2nd 16 000 3rd 12 000 4th 10 000 5th 8 000 6th 6 000 7:th 5 000 8th 4 000 9th 3 000 10th 3 000 10th 3 000 Rating prizes: 3 000, 2 000 and 1000 (not for GMs and IMs). Prizemoney is not divided. Rilton Elo Open for all players with a n Elo rating or national rating up to 2199. Reflection time: 40 moves in two hours, then one hour for the rest of the game. Entry fees: 600 SEK, 400 for FM, 300 for players born 1987 or later. Prizes (SEK): 1st 8 000 2nd 5000 3rd 3 000 4th 2 000 5th 1 000 6th 500 Rating prizes: 3 000, 2 000 and 1000 Prizemoney is not divided.

Stockholms Schackförbund Hornsgatan 82 118 21 Stockholm Tel: 08-669 36 54 Mobil: 073-613 19 73 Fax: 08-669 64 44 Spellokal: 08-668 21 35 (under turneringen) E-mail:stockholms.schackfrbund@telia.com

Further details: http://www.stockholmschack.nu

Benidorm Chess Festival

The VI Festival Internacional de Ajedrez de Benidorm 2007 takes place 30th November - 9th December 2007.

Further details: http://www.ajedrezbali.com and http://www.eventosdeajedrez.com

Alexandra Kosteniuk Killer Chess Tips

Alexandra Kosteniuk has a free video podcast Killer Chess Tips which is available at the link below on RSS feed or Itunes.

Official site: http://www.chesskillertips.com

Liga de Campeones

The Liga de Campeones (Jesus de la fuente memorial) takes place 1st-15th November 2007 in Vitoria Gasteiz. Alongside is a tournament of champions with: Veselin Topalov, Anatoli Karpov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Judit Polgar.

Website http://www.ajedrez-hotelakua.com/ - David Llada's Blog

Alex Brunetti's TotoScacco Site

Alex Brunetti's TotoScacco Site allows predictions for current chess tournaments. http://e4e6.com/toto

olimpbase

Its always worth mentioning Wojciech Bartelski's excellent http://www.olimpbase.org which covers not only Olympiads but all team chess.

New events: European U18 Team Championship has recently finished in Subotica, Serbia. http://www.olimpbase.org/2007eb/2007in.html (boys' results) and http://www.olimpbase.org/2007eg/2007in.html (girls' results)

The 9th All-Africa Games took place in Algiers, Algeria 11th-23rd July There were 13 men's team in a four board round robin (rate of play was Active Chess 25+10). No games available. See details: http://www.olimpbase.org/2007f/2007in.html

Al Jazeera meets Kirzan Ilyumzhinov

There is a two Part Documentary on YouTube Al Jazeera meets Kirzan Ilyumzhinov: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrsmLxkt3Y and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCmHi50Mve0

Three GM events in Hungary and Serbia

THREE GM-IM norm tournaments in a row in Eastern Europe in Sept-Oct...(Hungary and Serbia)

1. 1st-13th of September GM-IM-FM closed tournaments, First Saturday - Budapest, Hungary, org: Nagy Laszlo, e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net

2. 15th-23rd of September GM-IM tmt, Third Saturday - Novi Sad, Serbia, org: IGM drazic, e-mail: sdrazic@eunet.yu (the Serbian city Novi is for 6 hours by train South from Budapest),

3. 6th-19th of October, GM-IM-FM, First Saturday - Budapest, org.: Nagy Laszlo

Sydney International Open 2008

The 2008 Sydney International Open takes place at Parramatta Town Hall 25th-29th March 2008. Free accommodation and modest conditions are offered to GMs. All enquiries to the Tournament Organiser, FM Brian Jones, at info@chessaustralia.com.au

Details: http://www.chessaustralia.com.au/

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

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

World Youth Chess Championships

The World Youth Chess Championships take place 17th-29th November 2007 in Antalya.

Official site: http://wycc2007.tsf.org.tr/

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/

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/

Lugano tournament November

There is a Lugano tournament at the end of November 2007. Details: http://www.chessevent.ch/

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

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

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

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