THE WEEK IN CHESS 769 3rd August 2009 by Mark Crowther

1) Introduction

My thanks to Adam Raoof, Adolivio Capece, Amro Al matmati, Brindza Istvan, Radu-Catalin Chirila, Dinu-Ioan Nicula, Jan Mazuch, Emmanuel Variniac, Frank Berry, George Perez, Harry Schaack, Hassan Khaled, Holger Lieske, Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr, Remco Hekhuis, Jan Krabbenbos, Steve Giddins, Roland Wimmer, Eric van Reem and everyone else who helped with the issue.

Yet another busy week of chess. The Chess Classic Mainz is the vision of Hans-Walter Schmitt. The event reflects his ideas, advocacy of chess960, his ideas on how chess should be presented and the kind of player he wants to invite. He was rewarded with a very interesting event, Hikaru Nakamura beat reigning chess960 champion Levon Aronian. Aronian however went on to break a far more longstanding record when he dethroned Viswanathan Anand, who had won every year since 2000 and a couple of times before that too. Anand didn't even reach the final after he made life very difficult for himself by losing his first two games of the preliminary section. Instead Ian Nepomniachtchi reached the final but his rather wild and inconsistant style presented no problems to Aronian who won with ease. Schmitt already has sponsorship for next year's event lined up and no doubt both Anand and Aronian will be back to do battle along with Mamedyarov who after many years of trying finally won the Ordix Open.

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave had the best result of his career when he won the Biel tournament above Alexander Morozevich and Vassily Ivanchuk who both had moments of greatness but played far less reliably than the winner. Vachier beat Morozevich in round 8 from a lost position and this in retrospect was the key moment of the tournament. That's not to criticise the winner who was the only undefeated player.

There is plenty of other chess elsewhere also including the British Championships which seems to be a two horse race between David Howell and Gawain Jones.

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) Chess Classic Mainz

The Chess Classic Mainz took place 27th July - 2nd August 2009 in the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz. Levon Aronian lost his Chess960 Rapid World Championship to Hikaru Nakamura but was more than compensated by winning the 14th Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship instead. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won a keenly fought Ordix Open with a record equalling score of 10/11.

14th Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship

The main event was the 14th Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship which took place 31st July -2nd August 2009. Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Arkadij Naiditsch played.

Day 1. Aronian and Nepomniachtchi started with 2/2. The main shock was that Anand started with 0/2 and in both games he had white! In the final round of the day Anand beat Naidisch and the two leaders drew.

Day 2. Anand had won this event 11 times, and was defending champion but was out of the running to win the event after being eleminated in the preliminaries. Anand has won the title every year since Kasparov won in 1999, He tried long and hard against Nepomniachtchi in Round 5 but had to settle for a draw. Nepomniachtchi drew against Aronian in the final round to secure his place in the final.

Levon Aronian beat Ian Nepomniachtchi comfortably in the final, he won the first two games and drew the other 2 to take the title 3-1. Viswanathan Anand and Arkadij Naiditsch drew all four of their games and shared 3rd place.

14th WCh-Rapid Final Mainz
Aronian, Levon	-	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	1-0	62	A29	English Four Knights
Nepomniachtchi, Ian	-	Aronian, Levon	0-1	34	C65	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Aronian, Levon	-	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	½-½	57	D75	Gruenfeld 3.g3
Nepomniachtchi, Ian	-	Aronian, Levon	½-½	25	C22	Centre Gambit

14th WCh-Rapid Final Mainz (GER), 2-2 viii 2009
Name	Ti	NAT	Rtng	1	2	3	4	Total	Perf
Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2768	1	1	½	½	3	2825
Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2632	0	0	½	½	1	2575

14th WCh-Rapid 3rd-4th Mainz
Anand, Viswanathan	-	Naiditsch, Arkadij	½-½	26	C55	Two Knights Defence
Naiditsch, Arkadij	-	Anand, Viswanathan	½-½	34	C95	Ruy Lopez Breyer
Anand, Viswanathan	-	Naiditsch, Arkadij	½-½	23	C65	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Naiditsch, Arkadij	-	Anand, Viswanathan	½-½	27	C64	Ruy Lopez Classical

14th WCh-Rapid 3rd-4th Mainz (GER), 2-2 viii 2009
Name	Ti	NAT	Rtng	1	2	3	4	Total	Perf
Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2788	½	½	½	½	2	2697
Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2697	½	½	½	½	2	2788

14th WCh-Rapid Prelim Mainz (GER), 31 vii-1 viii 2009									cat. XIX (2721)
					1		2		3		4
1.	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2768	*	*	½	½	1	½	1	1	4½	2898
2.	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	g	RUS	2632	½	½	*	*	1	½	1	0	3½	2808
3.	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	2788	0	½	0	½	*	*	1	½	2½	2642
4.	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2697	0	0	0	1	0	½	*	*	1½	2536

Round 1 (July 31, 2009)
Nepomniachtchi, Ian	- Naiditsch, Arkadij	1-0	59	C65	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Anand, Viswanathan	- Aronian, Levon	0-1	41	D11	Slav Defence
Round 2 (July 31, 2009)
Aronian, Levon	- Naiditsch, Arkadij	1-0	49	E59	Nimzo Indian
Anand, Viswanathan	- Nepomniachtchi, Ian	0-1	56	B97	Sicilian Najdorf
Round 3 (July 31, 2009)
Nepomniachtchi, Ian	- Aronian, Levon	½-½	32	C53	Giuoco Piano
Naiditsch, Arkadij	- Anand, Viswanathan	0-1	52	B12	Caro Kann Advanced
Round 4 (August 1, 2009)
Aronian, Levon	- Anand, Viswanathan	½-½	74	D90	Gruenfeld Flohr
Naiditsch, Arkadij	- Nepomniachtchi, Ian	1-0	60	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Round 5 (August 1, 2009)
Nepomniachtchi, Ian	- Anand, Viswanathan	½-½	106	B13	Caro Kann Exchange
Naiditsch, Arkadij	- Aronian, Levon	0-1	49	C60	Ruy Lopez
Round 6 (August 1, 2009)
Aronian, Levon	- Nepomniachtchi, Ian	½-½	35	A29	English Four Knights
Anand, Viswanathan	- Naiditsch, Arkadij	½-½	34	D37	QGD 5.Bf4

16th ORDIX Open Mainz

The 16th ORDIX Open took place 1st-2nd August 2009. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov took clear first place with 10/11. Half a point behind was Arkadij Naiditsch finished second, quite impressive as he also is playing in the main event that followed play in this tournament.

16th ORDIX Open Mainz (GER), 1-2 viii 2009 Final Round 11 Standings:
Pl	Player	Ti	Land	TWZ	+	=	-	Pts	PktSum	MiBuch
1	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	GM	AZE	2717	9	2	0	10	62.5	71
2	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GM	GER	2697	9	1	1	9.5	60.5	69
3	Akopian, Vladimir	GM	ARM	2712	8	3	0	9.5	58.5	67.5
4	Gashimov, Vugar	GM	AZE	2740	9	1	1	9.5	56	69
5	Moiseenko, Alexander	GM	UKR	2682	8	2	1	9	55.5	68.5
6	Guliyev, Namig	GM	AZE	2555	9	0	2	9	53	62
7	Riazantsev, Alexander	GM	RUS	2647	8	2	1	9	51.5	63
8	Nakamura, Hikaru	GM	USA	2710	8	1	2	8.5	59.5	71.5
9	Sargissian, Gabriel	GM	ARM	2683	8	1	2	8.5	57	70
10	Bacrot, Etienne	GM	FRA	2721	7	3	1	8.5	56	70.5
11	Grachev, Boris	GM	RUS	2669	8	1	2	8.5	55.5	66.5
12	Lysyj, Igor	GM	RUS	2617	8	1	2	8.5	55	67
13	Jovanovic, Zoran	GM	CRO	2539	7	3	1	8.5	54.5	68.5
14	Malakhov, Vladimir	GM	RUS	2707	8	1	2	8.5	54.5	66.5
15	Khalifman, Alexander	GM	RUS	2635	8	1	2	8.5	53	64
16	Azarov, Sergei	GM	BLR	2630	7	3	1	8.5	52.5	64.5
17	Najer, Evgeniy	GM	RUS	2663	8	1	2	8.5	52	66
18	Almasi, Zoltan	GM	HUN	2691	7	3	1	8.5	52	66
19	Horvath, Adam	GM	HUN	2506	8	1	2	8.5	52	64
20	Stevic, Hrvoje	GM	CRO	2624	7	3	1	8.5	52	63
21	Lalic, Bogdan	GM	CRO	2517	7	3	1	8.5	51.5	62.5
22	Erdoes, Viktor	GM	HUN	2565	8	1	2	8.5	51	58
23	Grischuk, Alexander	GM	RUS	2733	7	2	2	8	56.5	71.5
24	Navara, David	GM	CZE	2709	7	2	2	8	56	68.5
25	Shomoev, Anton	GM	RUS	2580	6	4	1	8	54.5	65.5
26	Potkin, Vladimir	GM	RUS	2619	7	2	2	8	54	65
27	Sokolov, Ivan	GM	BIH	2655	7	2	2	8	53.5	67
28	Meier, Georg	GM	GER	2658	6	4	1	8	53.5	65
29	Movsesian, Sergei	GM	SVK	2716	7	2	2	8	53	69
30	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	GM	RUS	2635	6	4	1	8	53	66.5
31	Gyimesi, Zoltan	GM	HUN	2595	7	2	2	8	53	65
32	Bologan, Victor	GM	MDA	2689	7	2	2	8	52.5	68
33	Gharamian, Tigran	IM	FRA	2615	7	2	2	8	52.5	64.5
34	Grigoriants, Sergey	GM	RUS	2580	7	2	2	8	52.5	63.5
35	Novikov, Stanislav	GM	RUS	2540	8	0	3	8	52	65.5
36	Cvitan, Ognjen	GM	CRO	2521	8	0	3	8	52	63.5
37	Bokros, Albert	IM	HUN	2501	7	2	2	8	52	63
38	Fridman, Daniel	GM	GER	2665	7	2	2	8	51.5	63
39	Bischoff, Klaus	GM	GER	2551	7	2	2	8	51.5	62.5
40	Siebrecht, Sebastian	GM	GER	2458	7	2	2	8	51	62.5
41	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	GM	UZB	2685	6	4	1	8	50	64.5
42	Seel, Christian	IM	GER	2493	7	2	2	8	50	64
43	Heimann, Andreas	IM	GER	2435	6	4	1	8	50	62
44	Gasthofer, Alexander	IM	GER	2458	7	2	2	8	49	63
45	Lahno, Kateryna	GM	UKR	2481	8	0	3	8	49	62
46	Andersson, Ulf	GM	SWE	2581	7	2	2	8	48.5	58.5
47	Ginsburg, Gennadi	GM	GER	2537	7	2	2	8	48	58.5
48	Sebag, Marie Rachel	WGM	FRA	2531	8	0	3	8	47	56.5
49	Gashimov, Sarkhan		AZE	2351	8	0	3	8	44	56.5
50	Tregubov, Pavel	GM	RUS	2663	6	3	2	7.5	54.5	66
51	Sasikiran, Krishnan	GM	IND	2669	7	1	3	7.5	54.5	65.5
52	Nielsen, Peter-Heine	GM	DEN	2680	6	3	2	7.5	53.5	67.5
53	Ekstroem, Roland	IM	SUI	2486	7	1	3	7.5	52	66.5
54	Panzalovic, Srdjan	IM	GER	2475	6	3	2	7.5	51.5	68
55	Landa, Konstantin	GM	RUS	2655	7	1	3	7.5	51	64.5
56	Schneider, Ilja	IM	GER	2508	6	3	2	7.5	51	62.5
57	Sokolov, Andrei	GM	FRA	2570	7	1	3	7.5	50.5	63.5
58	Fontaine, Robert	GM	FRA	2540	6	3	2	7.5	49.5	64.5
59	Brkic, Ante	GM	CRO	2544	6	3	2	7.5	49	66
60	Gofshtein, Leonid	GM	ISR	2540	7	1	3	7.5	49	60.5
61	Barle, Janez	IM	SLO	2411	6	3	2	7.5	48.5	60.5
62	Hoepfl, Thomas, Dr,	FM	GER	2357	7	1	3	7.5	48	63.5
63	Souleidis, Georgios	IM	GER	2435	7	1	3	7.5	48	62.5
64	Dann, Matthias		GER	2298	7	1	3	7.5	48	62
65	Vaganjan, Rafael	GM	ARM	2568	7	1	3	7.5	48	61
66	Cmilyte, Viktorija	WIM	LTU	2470	6	3	2	7.5	48	61
67	Rigo, Janos	IM	HUN	2325	7	1	3	7.5	48	58.5
68	Machelett, Heiko	IM	GER	2426	6	3	2	7.5	47.5	59
69	Alber, Horst	FM	GER	2340	6	3	2	7.5	47	62.5
70	Breutigam, Martin	IM	GER	2391	7	1	3	7.5	47	60.5
71	Dubiel, Jacek	FM	POL	2397	5	5	1	7.5	47	58
72	Zhukova, Natalia	WGM	UKR	2465	6	3	2	7.5	46.5	60
73	Polzin, Rainer	GM	GER	2491	7	1	3	7.5	46.5	59.5
74	Hort, Vlastimil	GM	GER	2494	6	3	2	7.5	46.5	57
75	Fries Nielsen, Jens Ove	IM	DEN	2439	7	1	3	7.5	46	59.5
76	Solonar, Stefan	IM	GER	2364	7	1	3	7.5	46	58.5
77	Galdunts, Sergey	GM	ARM	2464	7	1	3	7.5	46	58
78	Boidman, Yuri	IM	GER	2402	7	1	3	7.5	46	57.5
78	Eisenbeiser, Amadeus	IM	GER	2390	7	1	3	7.5	46	57.5
80	Gara, Anita	WIM	HUN	2381	5	5	1	7.5	46	57.5
81	Drabke, Lorenz Maximilian	IM	GER	2455	7	1	3	7.5	45.5	57
82	Konnyu, Janos	IM	HUN	2401	6	3	2	7.5	44.5	55
83	Siewert, Mathias		GER	2157	7	1	3	7.5	44	58.5
84	Kraeussling, Andreas	FM	GER	2266	7	1	3	7.5	43.5	56
85	Mazarov, Jürgen		GER	2186	7	1	3	7.5	42.5	54
86	Graef, Steffen, Dr,		GER	2307	6	3	2	7.5	42.5	50.5
87	Berend, Fred	IM	LUX	2354	7	1	3	7.5	41	53.5
88	Frese, Heiko		GER	2070	7	1	3	7.5	38	52.5
89	Kamsky, Gata	GM	USA	2717	6	2	3	7	52	67.5
694 players

6th Chess960 Rapid World Championship

The 6th Chess960 Rapid World Championship took place 28th-30th July 2009 with Aronian, Bologan, Nakamura and Movsesian. In the preliminaries Aronian (who scored 3/3 on day 1 and 1/3 on day 2) and Nakamura finished on 4/6. They then met in the final where Nakamura was the convincing winner standing 3-0 after the first three games before a final draw and thus taking the title 3.5 - 0.5. Aronian had won the previous editions of the event.

6th Chess960 Rapid World Championship Prelims Mainz (GER), 28-29 vii 2009 Final Preliminary Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	NAT	Elo	1		2		3		4		Sco	S/B
1	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2768	*	*	1	0	1	0	1	1	4/6	10.00
2	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2710	0	1	*	*	1	1	0	1	4/6	10.00
3	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	2689	0	1	0	0	*	*	1	0	2/6	6.00
4	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	2716	0	0	1	0	0	1	*	*	2/6	6.00

6th Chess960 Rapid World Championship Final Mainz (GER), 28-29 vii 2009
Pl	Name	Ti	NAT	Elo	1	2	3	4	Score
1	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2710	1	1	1	½	3½
2	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2768	0	0	0	½	½

3) Biel Chess Festival

The 42nd Biel International Chess Festival took place 18th-31st July 2009. There were around 10 different Tournaments (Open, Rapid, Blitz, Youth and for the first time Chess 960).

In Round 8 Alexander Morozevich had a winning position against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave but went wrong in time trouble and lost. This turned out to be the decisive moment as there was only one further decisive game in the tournament when Morozevich won in round 9. Thus in the best result of his career so far Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took clear first place with 6/10 half a point clear of the field.

Boris Grachev won the MTO Open with 8.5/11. In the Generations Scheveningen tournament the Swiss Senior team beat the Swiss Junior Team 28.5-21.5.

Official site: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch

GM Biel (SUI), 19-30 vii 2009											cat. XIX (2716)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2703	*	*	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	6	2790
2.	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2751	½	0	*	*	½	1	1	0	1	1	0	½	5½	2745
3.	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2703	½	½	½	0	*	*	½	½	½	½	1	1	5½	2754
4.	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	2714	½	½	0	1	½	½	*	*	½	½	½	½	5	2716
5.	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2755	½	½	0	0	½	½	½	½	*	*	½	½	4	2636
6.	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2670	½	0	1	½	0	0	½	½	½	½	*	*	4	2653

Round 8 (July 28, 2009)
Morozevich, Alexander	- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	0-1	76	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Alekseev, Evgeny	- Gelfand, Boris	½-½	11	C42	Petroff's Defence
Caruana, Fabiano	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	0-1	41	B07	Pirc Defence
Round 9 (July 29, 2009)
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	- Gelfand, Boris	½-½	21	C42	Petroff's Defence
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Morozevich, Alexander	0-1	38	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Caruana, Fabiano	- Alekseev, Evgeny	½-½	73	B48	Sicilian Paulsen
Round 10 (July 30, 2009)
Morozevich, Alexander	- Caruana, Fabiano	½-½	18	D10	Slav Defence
Alekseev, Evgeny	- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	½-½	14	B96	Sicilian Najdorf
Gelfand, Boris	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	32	E11	Bogo Indian Defence

MTO Biel (SUI), 20-31 vii 2009 Leading Final Round 11 Standings:
Rank	Name	Title	ELO	NAT	Points	Buchh
1.	Grachev,Boris	GM	2669	RUS	8.5	74.0
2.	Popov,Valerij	GM	2563	RUS	8.0	70.5
3.	Roiz,Michael	GM	2658	ISR	8.0	70.0
4.	Kritz,Leonid	GM	2589	GER	7.5	71.5
5.	Belov,Vladimir	GM	2627	RUS	7.5	71.5
6.	Riazantsev,Alexander	GM	2647	RUS	7.5	70.5
7.	Fressinet,Laurent	GM	2667	FRA	7.5	70.5
8.	Rodshtein,Maxim	GM	2623	ISR	7.5	70.0
9.	Novikov,Stanislav	GM	2540	RUS	7.5	68.0
10.	Lysyj,Igor	GM	2617	RUS	7.5	68.0
11.	Kosintseva,Nadezhda	IM	2482	RUS	7.5	65.5
12.	Gritsak,Orest	GM	2519	UKR	7.5	64.0
13.	Ulibin,Mikhail	GM	2516	RUS	7.5	59.5
14.	Bauer,Christian	GM	2602	FRA	7.0	71.0
15.	Pelletier,Yannick	GM	2574	SUI	7.0	69.5
16.	Shomoev,Anton	GM	2580	RUS	7.0	68.0
17.	Gleizerov,Evgeny	GM	2538	RUS	7.0	67.5
18.	Cebalo,Misho	GM	2476	CRO	7.0	67.0
19.	Kosintseva,Tatiana	IM	2539	RUS	7.0	66.5
20.	Hauchard,Arnaud	GM	2528	FRA	7.0	64.5
21.	Kaplan,Sasha	IM	2414	ISR	7.0	63.0
22.	Meins,Gerlef	IM	2488	GER	7.0	62.0
23.	Al-Sayed,Mohamed	IM	2515	QAT	7.0	60.5
24.	Golod,Vitali	GM	2599	ISR	6.5	70.0
25.	Hausrath,Daniel	IM	2519	GER	6.5	68.5
26.	Gallagher,Joseph	GM	2455	SUI	6.5	67.5
27.	Zhu,Chen	GM	2473	QAT	6.5	67.0
28.	Godena,Michele	GM	2540	ITA	6.5	65.5
29.	Nezad,Hussein Aziz	IM	2406	QAT	6.5	64.0
30.	Saleh,Salem Ar	GM	2469	UAE	6.5	63.0
31.	Domont,Alexandre	IM	2345	SUI	6.5	58.5
32.	Bozinovic,Bogdan	FM	2306	CRO	6.5	58.5
33.	Grandadam,Patrik		2066	SUI	6.5	57.0
34.	Heedt,Thorsten	CM	2191	GER	6.5	51.0
35.	Stella,Andrea		2301	ITA	6.0	68.0
112 players

4) British Championships

The 96th British Chess Championships take place 26th July - 8th August 2009 in Torquay. After 7 Rounds David Howell and Gawain Jones lead on 6/7. They have already met and drawn. The Round 6 table only was available to me at the time of publication.

Official site: http://www.britishchess09.com/

96th ch-GBR Torquay (ENG), 26 vii - 8 viii 2009 Leading Round 6 Standings:
1	Howell, David W L	ENG	g	5
2	Jones, Gawain C	ENG	g	5
3	Gordon, Stephen	ENG	g	4½
4	Gormally, Daniel	ENG	g	4½
5	Hebden, Mark	ENG	g	4½
6	Trent, Lawrence	ENG	m	4½
7	Wells, Peter	ENG	g	4½
8	Williams, Simon K	ENG	g	4½
9	Briscoe, Christopher	ENG		4
10	Conquest, Stuart	ENG	g	4
11	Eggleston, David J	ENG	f	4
12	Hawkins, Jonathan	ENG	f	4
13	Houska, Jovanka	ENG	m	4
14	Littlewood, Paul E	ENG	m	4
15	Palliser, Richard JD	ENG	m	4
16	Rendle, Thomas	ENG	m	4
17	Sowray, Peter J	ENG	f	4
18	Arkell, Keith C	ENG	g	3½
19	Buckley, Graeme	ENG	m	3½
20	Cobb, James	WLS	m	3½
21	Constantinou, Peter	ENG		3½
22	Eden, Tomer	ISR		3½
23	Fitzsimons, David	IRL		3½
24	Hanley, James L	ENG		3½
25	Kolbus, Dietmar	GER	m	3½
26	Lane, Gary	AUS	m	3½
27	Lewis, Andrew P	ENG	f	3½
28	Summerscale, Aaron	ENG	g	3½
29	Varnam, Liam	ENG		3½
30	Zhou, Yang-Fan	ENG		3½
76 players

5) Polish Women's Championship

The Polish Women's Championship took place in Bogatynia 19th-29th July 2009. Iweta Rajlich took clear first place with 9/11.

Official site: http://mpk2009.pl/

ch-POL w Bogatynia (POL), 19-29 vii 2009													cat. II (2298)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Rajlich, Iweta	m	POL	2448	*	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	½	1	9	2546
2.	Zawadzka, Jolanta	wg	POL	2387	½	*	½	½	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	8½	2500
3.	Majdan, Joanna	wg	POL	2382	0	½	*	1	½	1	1	0	½	½	1	1	7	2392
4.	Szczepkowska-Horowska, Karina	wm	POL	2327	½	½	0	*	½	0	½	1	½	1	1	1	6½	2360
5.	Kadziolka, Beata	wg	POL	2289	0	0	½	½	*	½	1	½	1	½	½	1	6	2334
6.	Toma, Katarzyna	wm	POL	2261	0	1	0	1	½	*	0	0	1	½	0	1	5	2265
7.	Jaracz, Barbara	wg	POL	2306	0	0	0	½	0	1	*	1	½	0	1	1	5	2261
8.	Kulon, Klaudia	wf	POL	2251	0	0	1	0	½	1	0	*	1	0	1	0	4½	2237
9.	Krupa, Monika	wg	POL	2229	½	0	½	½	0	0	½	0	*	½	1	1	4½	2239
10.	Warakomska, Anna	wf	POL	2193	0	0	½	0	½	½	1	1	½	*	0	0	4	2205
11.	Przezdziecka, Marta	wg	POL	2285	½	0	0	0	½	1	0	0	0	1	*	1	4	2197
12.	Jakubiec, Edyta	wm	POL	2217	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	*	2	2043

6) Dutch Open

The Dutch Open (Open Netherlands Championship) took place in Dieren 21st-30th July 2009. Erwin L'Ami took first place with 7.5/9. Long time leader Anish Giri won in the final round to take second place on tie-break from Jan Timman and Roi Miedema half a point back.

Official site; http://onk.schaakbond.nl/

Open Netherlands Championship Dieren (NED), 21-30 vii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk	Name	Ti	Rating	Pts	TPR	W-We	BH	SB
1	L'Ami, Erwin	GM	2593	7.5	2732	1.48	51	40.5
2	Giri, Anish	GM	2518	7	2689	1.97	56.5	42.75
3	Timman, Jan H	GM	2569	7	2624	0.72	54.5	41.5
4	Miedema, Roi	FM	2432	7	2673	2.83	50.5	38.5
5	Brandenburg, Daan	IM	2463	6.5	2566	1.3	51.5	34.75
6	Ernst, Sipke	GM	2598	6.5	2547	-0.37	49.5	34.75
7	Ootes, Lars		2261	6.5	2596	3.88	49.5	33.75
8	Lalith, Babu M.R.	IM	2472	6	2496	0.35	51.5	30
9	Visser, Yge	GM	2464	6	2531	0.86	50	30.75
10	Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav	GM	2556	6	2497	-0.56	48.5	29.5
11	Vovk, Andrey	GM	2506	6	2456	-0.46	46.5	27.75
12	Bitalzadeh, Ali	IM	2434	6	2484	0.66	46	28.75
13	Burg, Twan	FM	2422	6	2530	1.35	45	28.25
14	Bezemer, Arno	FM	2332	6	2456	1.52	42.5	24.25
15	Nijboer, Friso	GM	2552	5.5	2447	-1.08	51	29
16	Adhiban, B.	IM	2481	5.5	2446	-0.27	50	28
17	Reinderman, Dimitri	GM	2565	5.5	2427	-1.39	49.5	27.75
18	Swinkels, Robin	GM	2516	5.5	2433	-0.88	49	28.25
19	Wohl, Aleksandar H.	IM	2387	5.5	2506	1.47	46.5	26
20	Pruijssers, Roeland	IM	2401	5.5	2372	-0.24	46.5	24.75
21	Van Delft, Merijn	IM	2360	5.5	2483	1.53	44	24.75
22	Hoeksema, Erik	IM	2309	5.5	2397	1.15	43.5	24
23	Tondivar, Babak	FM	2372	5.5	2333	-0.35	43	24.5
24	Karthikeyan, P.	IM	2478	5.5	2354	-1.27	41	23.75
25	Motoc, Alina	WGM	2315	5.5	2297	-0.08	41	23
26	Haast, Anne		2158	5.5	2393	2.67	41	22
27	Harini, S.		1986	5.5	2287	3.48	35.5	21.5
28	Vovk, Yuri	GM	2567	5	2433	-1.5	53	27.5
93 players

7) Euro Chess Tournament

The Euro Chess Tournament takes place in Enschede 31st July - 8th August 2009. The main event is the University of Twente Young Masters.

Official site: http://www.onjk.nl/

University of Twente Young Masters Enschede (NED), 31 vii-8 viii 2009
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Moranda, Wojciech	m	POL	2545	+17	+11	+3	=2	.	.	.	.	.	3½	2826
2.	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	2621	+13	=6	+7	=1	.	.	.	.	.	3	2710
3.	Gopal, Geetha Narayanan	g	IND	2575	+12	+5	-1	+15	.	.	.	.	.	3	2589
4.	Pruijssers, Roeland	m	NED	2401	=7	=15	=8	+16	.	.	.	.	.	2½	2454
5.	Burg, Twan	f	NED	2422	+18	-3	+6	=12	.	.	.	.	.	2½	2515
6.	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2518	+10	=2	-5	=8	.	.	.	.	.	2	2454
7.	Iotov, Valentin	g	BUL	2603	=4	+9	-2	=11	.	.	.	.	.	2	2431
8.	Melia, Salome	m	GEO	2441	-9	+14	=4	=6	.	.	.	.	.	2	2412
9.	Otte, Marijn	f	NED	2298	+8	-7	=12	=10	.	.	.	.	.	2	2438
10.	Van Assendelft, Floris	f	NED	2332	-6	=13	+16	=9	.	.	.	.	.	2	2343
11.	Ringoir, Tanguy	f	BEL	2406	+16	-1	=15	=7	.	.	.	.	.	2	2385
12.	Kleijn, Christov	f	NED	2377	-3	+18	=9	=5	.	.	.	.	.	2	2376
13.	Van Oosterom, Chiel	m	NED	2402	-2	=10	=14	+17	.	.	.	.	.	2	2436
14.	Miedema, Roi	f	NED	2432	=15	-8	=13	+18	.	.	.	.	.	2	2323
15.	Hoolt, Sarah	wm	GER	2240	=14	=4	=11	-3	.	.	.	.	.	1½	2366
16.	Rademakers, Evert		NED	2154	-11	+17	-10	-4	.	.	.	.	.	1	2181
17.	Bok, Benjamin	f	NED	2360	-1	-16	=18	-13	.	.	.	.	.	½	2006
18.	Schut, Lisa	wm	NED	2212	-5	-12	=17	-14	.	.	.	.	.	½	2075

8) Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament

The Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament in Vlissingen takes place August 1st-8th 2009. They have the strongest line up in their history.

Official site: http://www.hztoernooi.nl

Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament Vlissingen (NED), 1-8 viii 2009 Leading Round 3 of 9 Standings:
Rank	Name	Ti	Rating	Score	TPR
1	Krasenkow, Michal	GM	2631	3	3040
2	Van Den Doel, Erik	GM	2590	3	3001
3	Kogan, Artur	GM	2542	3	2971
4	Vovk, Andrey	GM	2506	3	2922
5	Hoffmann, Michael	GM	2502	3	2926
6	Adhiban, B.	IM	2481	3	2903
7	Zaragatski, Ilja	IM	2472	3	2904
8	Henrichs, Thomas	IM	2463	3	2884
9	Bosboom, Manuel	IM	2444	3	2869
10	Bitalzadeh, Ali	IM	2434	3	2857
11	Shyam, Sundar M.	IM	2415	3	2804
12	Rubio Mejia, Luis Ignacio	FM	2371	3	2819
13	Zelbel, Patrick	FM	2348	3	2976
14	Provoost, Simon		2265	3	3094
15	Khairullin, Ildar	GM	2602	2.5	2485
16	Ernst, Sipke	GM	2598	2.5	2551
17	Nijboer, Friso	GM	2552	2.5	2475
18	Spoelman, Wouter	GM	2546	2.5	2469
19	Karthikeyan, P.	IM	2478	2.5	2401
20	Lalith, Babu M.R.	IM	2472	2.5	2370
21	Bosch, Jeroen	IM	2456	2.5	2426
22	Roeder, Matthias	IM	2438	2.5	2411
23	Kohlweyer, Bernd	IM	2418	2.5	2390
24	Leenhouts, Koen	IM	2413	2.5	2387
25	Van Haastert, Edwin	IM	2411	2.5	2802
26	Van Dongen, Cor		2342	2.5	2786
27	Van Eijk, Sander	FM	2338	2.5	2514
28	Bezemer, Arno	FM	2332	2.5	2482
29	Piasetski, Leon	IM	2288	2.5	2768
30	Tiggelman, Rene		2250	2.5	2265
31	Leenaerts, Robin		2248	2.5	2398
32	Marcziter, Dmitrii		2238	2.5	2419
33	Sarrau, Jelle		2229	2.5	2395
34	Timmermans, Ivo		2223	2.5	2206
35	De Vos, Nils		2205	2.5	2403
36	Van Weersel, Arlette	WIM	2204	2.5	2357
37	Van Den Berg, Ad		2197	2.5	0
38	Verduyn, Frederic	FM	2183	2.5	2721
39	Haast, Anne		2158	2.5	2326
40	Haak, Eelco		2154	2.5	2718
41	Ten Hagen, Yorick		2150	2.5	2434
42	Timmermans, Mark		2125	2.5	2562
43	Beijerinck, Nick		2022	2.5	2419
44	Beliavsky, Alexander G	GM	2662	2	2449
45	Vovk, Yuri	GM	2567	2	2217
46	Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav	GM	2556	2	2351
47	Michalczak, Thomas	FM	2352	2	2358
48	Kuipers, Stefan	FM	2324	2	2309
49	De Jong, Migchiel	FM	2319	2	2324
50	Soumya, Swaminathan	WGM	2309	2	2093
250 players

9) Arctic Chess Challenge

The Arctic Chess Challenge takes place in Tromso 1st-9th August 2009. Leading players: Bartosz Socko, Igor Khenkin, Yuri Drozdovskij and Emanuel Berg.

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

Arctic Chess Challenge Tromso (NOR), 1-9 viii 2009 Round 3 (of 9) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	i-Rtg	Fed	Score	i-Rtg	i-Performance	Chg.
1	Sarunas Sulskis	GM	2559	LTU	3	2559	2970	+5.00
2	Marijan Petrov	IM	2479	BUL	3	2479	2833	+2.30
3	Fabio Bruno	IM	2455	ITA	3	2455	2840	+4.10
4	Luca Shytaj	IM	2455	ITA	3	2455	3008	+10.20
5	Igor Khenkin	GM	2634	GER	2.5	2634	2571	-1.40
6	Emanuel Berg	GM	2610	SWE	2.5	2610	2608	+0.40
7	Jon Ludvig Hammer	GM	2582	NOR	2.5	2583	2577	+0.40
8	Vadim Malakhatko	GM	2570	BEL	2.5	2570	2566	+0.20
9	Julian Radulski	GM	2539	BUL	2.5	2539	2488	-1.10
10	Allan Stig Rasmussen	GM	2536	DEN	2.5	2536	2530	+0.20
11	Ray Robson	IM	2491	USA	2.5	2491	2507	+0.90
12	Kalle Kiik	IM	2475	EST	2.5	2475	2449	-0.40
13	Monika Socko	GM	2449	POL	2.5	2449	2570	+5.00
14	Torbjørn R. Hansen	IM	2425	NOR	2.5	2440	2553	+4.70
15	Natalia Zdebskaja	WGM	2412	UKR	2.5	2412	2410	+0.20
16	Arkadiusz Leniart	FM	2390	POL	2.5	2390	2368	-0.75
17	Aleksandar H. Wohl	IM	2387	AUS	2.5	2387	2528	+8.40
18	Gerard Welling	IM	2363	NED	2.5	2363	2504	+8.40
19	Heikki M.J. Westerinen	GM	2362	FIN	2.5	2362	2361	+0.30
20	Kjetil Stokke	FM	2347	NOR	2.5	2347	2479	+7.95
21	Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal	FM	2317	NOR	2.5	2333	2320	-0.45
22	Joachim Thomassen	FM	2307	NOR	2.5	2300	2485	+7.35
23	Bartosz Socko	GM	2656	POL	2	2656	2489	-5.10
24	Yuri Drozdovskij	GM	2620	UKR	2	2620	2461	-4.90
25	Matthew J Turner	GM	2517	ENG	2	2517	2332	-5.80
119 players

10) ZMD Open

The ZMD Open takes place 25th July 2009 - 2nd August 2009. 9 rounds Swiss - knock out system. The loser of the knock out continues playing in the Swiss tournament. Points reached in the knock out are taken over into the Swiss tournament. Vladimir Epishin won the tournament.

Official site: http://www.schachfestival.de/

ZMD Open Dresden (GER), 25 vii-2 viii 2009
Pl	Places	Ti	TWZ	NAT	+	=	-	Pts	Buch	SoBerg
1	Epishin, Vladimir	GM	2592	RUS	6	3	0	9.0	52.5	385.0
2	Ovsejevitsch, Sergei	GM	2583	UKR	4	5	0	8.0	52.0	382.0
3	Kempinski, Robert	GM	2631	POL	4	5	0	7.5	54.5	371.5
4	Arutinian, David	GM	2526	GEO	6	3	0	7.5	50.5	381.0
5	Kovalev, Andrei	GM	2533	BLR	7	2	0	7.5	49.5	379.0
6	Sanikidze, Tornike	GM	2559	GEO	7	2	0	7.5	49.0	365.0
7	Kovchan, Alexander	GM	2554	UKR	6	3	0	7.5	47.5	369.0
8	Graf, Alexander	GM	2583	GER	6	2	1	7.0	53.0	361.0
9	Luther, Thomas	GM	2552	GER	3	5	1	7.0	52.0	378.5
10	Baklan, Vladimir	GM	2656	UKR	5	4	0	7.0	52.0	367.0
11	Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan	GM	2589	IRI	4	4	1	7.0	51.0	372.0
12	Jaracz, Pawel	GM	2539	POL	6	3	0	7.0	49.5	372.0
13	Markowski, Tomasz	GM	2627	POL	7	1	1	7.0	49.0	363.5
14	Hera, Imre	GM	2559	HUN	5	4	0	7.0	48.5	376.5
15	Farago, Ivan	GM	2511	HUN	6	2	1	7.0	48.5	370.5
16	Miezis, Normunds	GM	2572	LAT	6	3	0	7.0	48.5	359.0
17	Savchenko, Stanislav	GM	2526	UKR	7	1	1	7.0	47.5	365.0
18	Breder, Dennis	IM	2435	GER	5	3	1	7.0	47.5	361.0
19	Womacka, Mathias	IM	2436	GER	6	2	1	7.0	46.0	359.0
20	Nyzhnyk, Illya	IM	2486	UKR	7	0	2	7.0	46.0	356.5
21	Heberla, Bartlomiej	GM	2536	POL	6	3	0	7.0	46.0	350.5
22	Porper, Edward	IM	2448	CAN	6	2	0	7.0	44.0	337.0
23	Peschlow, Patrick	FM	2296	GER	4	5	0	6.5	48.5	364.5
24	Rudolf, Sebastian		2195	GER	5	3	1	6.5	48.5	360.0
25	Seres, Lajos	GM	2456	HUN	4	4	1	6.5	48.5	355.5
26	Genov, Petar	GM	2478	BUL	6	1	2	6.5	48.0	359.0
27	Bobras, Piotr	GM	2568	POL	6	1	2	6.5	47.5	360.5
28	Zeberski, Jakub	IM	2421	POL	5	2	2	6.5	46.5	343.0
29	Doberitz, Paul		2192	GER	6	1	2	6.5	45.5	346.0
30	Roesemann, Rainer		2246	GER	5	2	2	6.5	45.0	352.0
31	Ohme, Melanie	WIM	2302	GER	5	3	1	6.5	44.5	351.0
32	Stabolewski, Andreas		2256	GER	6	1	2	6.5	42.0	347.0
33	Moeller, Hendrik		2172	GER	6	1	2	6.5	41.0	339.0
34	Hager, Joshua Aarash		2226	GER	6	1	2	6.5	40.5	340.5
278 players

11) Austrian Championships

The Austrian Championships took place 25th July - 2nd August 2009. Markus Ragger took clear first place with 7.5/9.

Official site: http://www.chess.at/specials/2009/0907_autch_jenbach.htm

Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr19739.aspx

ch-AUT Jenbach (AUT), 25 vii-2 viii 2009
Rk.	Name		FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Ragger Markus	GM	AUT	2563	7.5	50	39.5
2	Kleissl Helmut	FM	AUT	2271	6.5	49.5	38
3	Baumegger Siegfried	IM	AUT	2455	6.5	49	37.5
4	Schweitzer Werner		AUT	2022	6	51	39
5	Froewis Georg		AUT	2220	6	49.5	40
6	Neubauer Martin	IM	AUT	2443	6	49.5	40
7	Knoll Hermann	IM	AUT	2393	6	48.5	38
8	Lehner Oliver	IM	AUT	2421	6	48	38
9	Diermair Andreas	IM	AUT	2361	6	48	37.5
10	Halvax Georg		AUT	2260	6	48	37.5
11	Neumeier Klaus	FM	AUT	2344	6	47	38
12	Kleiser Gregor	FM	AUT	2292	6	44.5	36
13	Natter Siegfried		AUT	2262	5.5	47.5	37.5
14	Kuthan Andreas	MK	AUT	2197	5.5	47.5	37
15	Wagner Stefan	MK	AUT	2096	5.5	43.5	33.5
16	Pilaj Herwig	IM	AUT	2357	5.5	42.5	32.5
17	Singer Richard	FM	AUT	2284	5.5	42	32.5
18	Schachinger Mario	FM	AUT	2351	5	47	36.5
19	Freitag Manfred	IM	AUT	2404	5	44.5	35
20	Platzgummer Fabian	FM	AUT	2308	5	44	34.5
21	Mikulic Oliver		AUT	2004	5	43.5	33.5
22	Dietmayer-Kraeutler Marco	FM	AUT	2276	5	42.5	33.5
23	Kreisl Robert	IM	AUT	2422	5	42.5	32.5
24	Schwarhofer Christopher	MK	AUT	2239	5	41.5	32.5
25	Loidl Florian	MK	AUT	2251	5	41.5	31
26	Albadri Abd Al Sattar		AUT	2174	5	40	30.5
27	Schreiner Peter		AUT	2188	5	39.5	30.5
28	Theuretzbacher Klaus		AUT	2200	5	39	31
29	Gerhold Michael	MK	AUT	2241	5	38.5	29
30	Hoelzl Franz	IM	AUT	2358	4.5	47.5	36.5
68 players

12) 61st Championship of Montenegro

The 61st Championship of Montenegro took place 10th-21st July 2009 in Cetinje. Dragisa Blagojevic took clear first place with 8/11.

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

61st ch-MNE Cetinje (MNE), 10-21 vii 2009													cat. VIII (2432)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Blagojevic, Dragisa	g	MNE	2545	*	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	½	8	2596
2.	Drasko, Milan	g	MNE	2527	½	*	1	½	½	1	1	0	½	½	1	1	7½	2555
3.	Kalezic, Blazo	m	MNE	2445	½	0	*	½	1	1	½	1	½	½	1	1	7½	2563
4.	Kosic, Dragan	g	MNE	2488	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	1	7	2528
5.	Djukic, Nikola	g	MNE	2491	½	½	0	½	*	½	½	0	1	1	1	1	6½	2491
6.	Krivokapic, Marko		MNE	2416	½	0	0	½	½	*	1	1	0	1	½	1	6	2468
7.	Ivanovic, Bozidar	g	MNE	2415	0	0	½	½	½	0	*	1	1	1	½	1	6	2469
8.	Nikac, Predrag		MNE	2361	0	1	0	½	1	0	0	*	½	½	½	½	4½	2372
9.	Pajkovic, Vladimir	f	MNE	2428	0	½	½	0	0	1	0	½	*	½	½	½	4	2329
10.	Kontic, Djordjije	m	MNE	2364	0	½	½	½	0	0	0	½	½	*	½	½	3½	2304
11.	Mijovic, Stefan	f	MNE	2325	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	½	½	*	½	3	2266
12.	Benderac, Srdjan	f	MNE	2373	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	½	*	2½	2225

13) Puerto Rico Championships

The final phase of the Puerto Rico Chess Championship ended on July 27th 2009, with a new Puerto Rico Chess Champion FM Gariel Berrios-Echevarria with 7.5/10 points. In second place the NM Ramon Ovalle-Burgos and in third place the IM Juan M. Santa Torres. The event was full of public until the last round since the championship was not decided until the completion of the final round of the 11 round robin. Carlos Guzman Ortiz withdrew after three rounds. News: George Perez.

The official page of the Puerto Rico Chess Federation is http://ajedrezenpuertorico.com/ for more details on the results of the tournament please refer to Chess-Results http://chess-results.com/tnr23755.aspx?lan=1

ch-PUR Caguas (PUR), 11-27 vii 2009
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1
1.	Berrios Echevarria, Gabriel	f	PUR	2161	*	1	1	1	0	½	½	1	½	1	1	7½	2329
2.	Ovalle, Ramon		PUR	2148	0	*	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	7	2287
3.	Santa Torres, Juan	m	PUR	2229	0	1	*	½	0	½	1	1	1	½	1	6½	2239
4.	Davila, Juan		PUR	2176	0	0	½	*	1	½	1	½	1	½	1	6	2207
5.	Santana-Alvarado, Miguel		PUR	2159	1	0	1	0	*	1	0	0	1	1	½	5½	2172
6.	Montanez Nazario, Roberto		PUR	2081	½	1	½	½	0	*	0	1	0	1	1	5½	2180
7.	Rodriguez Santiago, Jaime		PUR	2105	½	0	0	0	1	1	*	½	1	½	1	5½	2178
8.	Vazquez Reyes, Raul		PUR	2147	0	0	0	½	1	0	½	*	½	½	1	4	2066
9.	Bermudez Adams, William		PUR	2149	½	0	0	0	0	1	0	½	*	1	0	3	1988
10.	Sotelo Kohama, Daniel		PUR	2173	0	0	½	½	0	0	½	½	0	*	½	2½	1942
11.	Ayala Sanchez, Abnel		PUR	----	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	1	½	*	2	1912

14) 14th Creon International Open

The 14th Creon International Open took place 27th July - 2nd August 2009. Creon is near Bordeaux. Vladimir Malaniuk won. 118 players. News: Emmanuel Variniac.

Official website : http://creonechecs.free.fr/

Final standings : http://creonechecs.free.fr/grilleamericaine09.htm

14th Open Creon (FRA), 27 vii-2 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
1	MALANIUK Vladimir P	g	2563	UKR	7.5	44.5	2623
2	DONCEA Vladimir	m	2460	ROU	7	43.5	2498
3	NAVROTESCU Catalin	m	2437	ROU	7	43	2472
4	PREUX Paul-Olivier		2256	FRA	7	42.5	2411
5	JOLLY Jean-Francois	f	2366	FRA	7	41.5	2398
6	SANDULEAC Vasile	g	2435	MDA	6.5	46.5	2459
7	MARHOLEV Dimitar	m	2364	BUL	6.5	45	2374
8	INKIOV Ventzislav	g	2473	BUL	6.5	44	2427
9	NGUYEN Chi-Minh	m	2447	FRA	6	45.5	2406
10	MOHOTA Nisha	gf	2315	IND	6	45	2363
11	BRUNNER Nicolas	m	2421	FRA	6	42	2314
12	KIRK Ezra		1882	FRA	6	40.5	2114
13	MAES Wim	f	2304	BEL	6	39.5	2188
14	L'HOSPITAL Philippe		1880	FRA	6	39.5	2029
15	NAVROTESCU Andreea-Cristiana		1847	ROU	6	39	2132
16	BANCEL Gerard		2134	FRA	6	39	2042
17	LAPEYRE Pierre		2109	FRA	6	39	2003
18	IPPOLITO Manuel	f	2287	FRA	6	38.5	2135
19	TERNAULT Mathieu		1962	FRA	6	38.5	2109
20	FAVAREL Antoine		2213	FRA	6	37.5	2070
21	LUDWIG Remi		2202	FRA	6	37	2148
22	ROLLIN Philippe		2047	FRA	6	36.5	1934
23	ADEIMI Michel		1856	FRA	6	36	1934
24	CHABROL Thierry		2096	ESP	5.5	41	2124
25	LAURENT Dominique		2014	FRA	5.5	39.5	2094
26	RIAZUELO Gilles		2106	FRA	5.5	39.5	2084
27	CRUZEL Thierry		1823	FRA	5.5	36	1967
28	CAZEAUX Didier		1872	FRA	5.5	35.5	1980
29	OUMAZIZ Paul		1791	FRA	5.5	34	1899
30	MARTIN DE LA MOUTTE Paul		1637	FRA	5.5	33	1822
31	CLAUZEL Andre		1782	FRA	5.5	31	1823
32	ROSELLE Tristan		1690	FRA	5.5	30	1721
118 players

15) 17th Open Saint Affrique

The 17th Open Saint Affrique took place 18th-25th July 2009. Vladimir Petkov edged out Jean-Marc Degraeve on tie-break after both finished on 7.5/9. Games from the final round are not yet available.

Official site: http://echecs.saintaffrique.free.fr/

17th Open Saint Affrique (FRA), 18-25 vii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
1	g	PETKOV Vladimir	2429	BUL	7.5	48.5	59.5	2575
2	g	DEGRAEVE Jean-Marc	2559	FRA	7.5	47	56.5	2609
3	m	BUJISHO Benjamin	2404	FRA	7	45.5	55	2510
4	g	FLEAR Glenn C	2490	ENG	7	45	55	2490
5	f	BISSIERES Matthieu	2300	FRA	7	45	54.5	2412
6	g	KARPATCHEV Aleksandr	2491	RUS	7	44.5	53.5	2488
7	m	GOZZOLI Yannick	2498	FRA	7	44.5	53.5	2443
8	m	COLLAS Silvia	2315	FRA	7	44.5	53.5	2428
9	m	RIFF Jean-Noel	2505	FRA	7	44	54	2480
10	f	SAADA Julien	2289	FRA	7	42.5	52	2436
11	f	LAGARDE Maxime	2352	FRA	7	42.5	51.5	2391
12	f	DAVID Vincent	2399	FRA	6.5	42.5	51.5	2318
13		MACON Arthur	1791	FRA	6.5	41.5	50	2259
14		MARCILLE Florian	2060	FRA	6.5	40.5	49.5	2174
15	gf	MOHOTA Nisha	2315	IND	6	44	53	2362
177 players

16) 13th Battle of Senta 1697

The 13th "Battle of Senta 1697" tournament took place 18th-25th July 2009. Miodrag R Savic took clear first place on 7.5/9. Games from the remaining rounds now available my thanks to Istvan Brindza.

Official site: http://www.chess-senta.org.rs/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr23861.aspx

13th "Battle of Senta 1697" OPEN A (SRB), 18-25 vii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name		FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB2	TB3	Rp
1	Savic Miodrag R	GM	SRB	2535	7.5	49	38	2631
2	Arsovic Goran	IM	SRB	2423	7	51.5	38.5	2568
3	Sarenac Ivan		SRB	2341	7	40.5	30.5	2448
4	Jovanovic Zoran Z	FM	SRB	2325	6.5	50	37	2470
5	Galunov Todor	FM	BUL	2341	6.5	50	35.5	2526
6	Arsovic Zoran	IM	SRB	2468	6.5	46	30	2475
7	Nadj Hedjesi Balind		SRB	2463	6.5	44	30.5	2479
8	Radovanovic Dusan		SRB	2312	6	50	32.5	2442
9	Kojovic Dragan	IM	SRB	2373	6	48	30.5	2502
10	Bodiroga Predrag	IM	SRB	2431	6	47	30	2424
11	Solomunovic Igor	IM	GER	2421	6	45	29.5	2423
12	Kulakov Viacheslav		RUS	2364	6	43.5	30	2431
13	Todorovic Goran M	GM	SRB	2458	5.5	45.5	29	2380
14	Farkas Tibor	IM	SRB	2303	5.5	44.5	27.5	2389
15	Gonda Laszlo	IM	HUN	2499	5.5	43	26	2353
16	Sorgic Dragan		SRB	2284	5.5	41.5	27.5	2369
17	Bojovic Dusan		SRB	2286	5.5	38.5	25.5	2340
18	Nestorovic Dejan	IM	SRB	2405	5	52.5	30.5	2385
19	Pantelic Sasa	FM	SRB	2303	5	51.5	30.5	2401
20	Ardeleanu Alin	IM	ROU	2405	5	51	31	2378
21	Nestorovic Nikola	IM	SRB	2410	5	49.5	29	2367
22	Stankovic Milos		SRB	2306	5	47.5	29.5	2373
23	Krstic Petar		SRB	2309	5	46	25.5	2321
24	Csirik Andras	FM	HUN	2281	5	42.5	28.5	2370
25	Dragovic Momcilo	FM	SRB	2383	5	42.5	28	2288
26	Strbac Mladen		SRB	2292	5	41.5	24.5	2297
27	Tancik Kristijan		SRB	2255	5	41.5	24.5	2272
28	Mikanovic Sandro		BIH	2280	5	40.5	25.5	2283
29	Sutorikhin Vladimir	IM	RUS	2341	5	40	25.5	2276
30	Damjanovic Dragan	FM	SRB	2230	5	39.5	22	2307
31	Jovanovic Miroslav O		SRB	2124	5	39	21.5	2277
32	Budimir Boris	FM	BIH	2352	5	38.5	23	2247
33	Zivkovic Sava	FM	SRB	2268	5	38	24.5	2238
34	Mijic Vladimir		SRB	2220	5	37	22	2283
35	Popovic Milos T	IM	SRB	2423	4.5	44	26.5	2316
77 players

17) 20th International Chess and Games Festival Czech Open

The 20th International Chess and Games Festival Czech Open 2009 took place 16th July - 2nd August 2009 in Pardubice (the Czech Republic). There were more than 100 tournaments in chess and other games, eg. European Youth Chess Teams Championship, ISCU Children Clubs Chess Championship and European Amateurs Championship in Chess.

Official site: http://www.czechopen.net/news/index.php.

The Rapid tournament was won by Konstantin Chernyshov with 8/9.

I couldn't find IM Alexey Choss nor Jahangir Agharahimov in the FIDE rating list in spite of both being reasonably highly rated according the http://chess-results.com. I'm a bit puzzled how you could be an active IM like Choss and not be in the rating list unless he changed his name.

The European youth team championship U18 for boys were won by Hungary, Poland won the women's event.

Anton Korobov won the main A-tournament with 8/9.

Czech Open A Pardubice (CZE). 24 vii-1 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name		FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	KOROBOV ANTON	GM	UKR	2623	8	2447	50.5
2	KRAVTSIV MARTYN	GM	UKR	2527	7.5	2381	47.5
3	LAZNICKA VIKTOR	GM	CZE	2617	7	2435	51.5
4	HABA PETR	GM	CZE	2533	7	2386	47.5
5	LINTCHEVSKI DANIIL	GM	RUS	2484	7	2343	46
6	RASIK VITEZSLAV	IM	CZE	2455	7	2321	45
7	MAXIMOV DMITRY	GM	UKR	2485	6.5	2433	52
8	ZAKHARTSOV VIACHESLAV	GM	RUS	2541	6.5	2427	49.5
9	BABULA VLASTIMIL	GM	CZE	2566	6.5	2419	50
10	ERDOGDU MERT	IM	TUR	2463	6.5	2413	49
11	STOCEK JIRI	GM	CZE	2584	6.5	2409	51
12	BARYSHPOLETS ANDRIY	IM	UKR	2426	6.5	2398	50.5
13	GRANDELIUS NILS	IM	SWE	2515	6.5	2387	47.5
14	JANSA VLASTIMIL	GM	CZE	2470	6.5	2384	47
15	ROJICEK VOJTECH	FM	CZE	2405	6.5	2384	43.5
16	VOKAC MAREK	GM	CZE	2466	6.5	2368	46.5
17	ROMBALDONI DENIS	IM	ITA	2465	6.5	2366	48
18	TESKE HENRIK	GM	GER	2536	6.5	2357	45.5
19	SIMACEK PAVEL	IM	CZE	2476	6.5	2352	43
20	KREJCI JAN	IM	CZE	2453	6.5	2276	41.5
21	SMITH AXEL	IM	SWE	2377	6	2456	50
22	STUPAK KIRILL	IM	BLR	2449	6	2423	51
295 players

18) Zonal 3.3

Zonal 3.3 took place in Phu Quoc, Vietnam 23rd-29th July 2009. Darwin Laylo was the surprise winner of the men's event with 8/9 qualifying to the next stage of the World Championship, along with favourite Wesley So who finished alone in 2nd place on 6½/9. The favourite Munguntuul Batkhuyag took the only qualifying place in the women's event finishing on 7½/9, half a point clear of the field.

Official site: http://vietnamchess.com.vn/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr23592.aspx?lan=1

zt 3.3 Ho Chi Minh City (VIE), 23-29 vii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rank	Name		FED	Rtg	Pts	BH.
1	Laylo Darwin	GM	PHI	2494	8	49
2	So Wesley	GM	PHI	2646	6½	50
3	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	GM	VIE	2592	6	50
4	Paragua Mark	GM	PHI	2487	6	47
5	Megaranto Susanto	GM	INA	2534	6	46
6	Mas Hafizulhelmi	IM	MAS	2391	6	44
7	Dao Thien Hai	GM	VIE	2552	6	43½
8	Zhang Zhong	GM	SIN	2613	5½	50
9	Nguyen Thanh Son	IM	VIE	2444	5½	45½
10	Duong The Anh	IM	VIE	2440	5½	44½
11	Nguyen Van Huy	CM	VIE	2414	5½	41½
12	Tran Thanh Tu	CM	VIE	2258	5½	39½
13	Nguyen Duc Hoa	FM	VIE	2331	5½	39
14	Le Quang Long		VIE	2279	5½	37½
15	Kojima Shinya	FM	JPN	2323	5½	37
16	Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy	IM	VIE	2500	5	47½
17	Bitoon Richard	IM	PHI	2495	5	47
18	Vo Thanh Ninh		VIE	2340	5	46½
19	Tran Ngoc Lan		VIE	2176	5	46
20	Ton That Nhu Tung	FM	VIE	2227	5	45
21	Nguyen Hoang Nam	CM	VIE	2320	5	43½
22	Pham Chuong	FM	VIE	2364	5	42
23	Nolte Rolando	IM	PHI	2458	5	41½
24	Nguyen Anh Dung	GM	VIE	2474	5	38
25	Bao Khoa		VIE	2161	4½	50½
26	Chan Wei-Xuan Timothy	FM	SIN	2344	4½	47
27	Torre Eugenio	GM	PHI	2560	4½	44
28	Ly Hong Nguyen	FM	VIE	2302	4½	42½
29	Lo Kin Mun Dominic	FM	SIN	2154	4½	42
30	Batchuluun Tsegmed	FM	MGL	2384	4½	40
31	Chan Yi-Ren Daniel	FM	SIN	2358	4½	37½
32	Watanabe Akira	FM	JPN	2339	4½	37
33	Bui Vinh	GM	VIE	2517	4	43
34	Baba Masahiro	CM	JPN	2229	4	41
35	Tu Hoang Thai	IM	VIE	2405	4	39½
	Nguyen Van Hai	CM	VIE	2249	4	39½
37	Chua Zheng Yuan Terry	FM	SIN	2226	4	39½
38	Nguyen Van Thanh	CM	VIE	2173	4	38
39	Nguyen Minh Tuan		VIE	0	4	36
40	Le Minh Hoang		VIE	1941	4	33
41	Nguyen Manh Truong		VIE	2160	3½	39
42	Tran Quoc Dung		VIE	2196	3½	37
43	Le Huu Thai	CM	VIE	1873	3½	36½
44	Nguyen Hung Cuong		VIE	2035	3½	36
45	Vuong Trung Hieu	FM	VIE	1964	3½	35½
46	Nguyen Sy Hung		VIE	2013	3½	34½
47	Dang Duy Linh		VIE	2084	3	33½
48	Do Hoang Lam		VIE	0	3	33
49	Nguyen Van Toan Thanh		VIE	1813	3	32½
50	Dang The Nam		VIE	2124	2½	31½
51	Srivachirawat Kannapon		THA	2256	2	38
52	Wiwatanadate Poompong		THA	1979	2	29
53	Nguyen Huu Hoang Anh		VIE	2086	1½	38½
54	Le Dinh Nguyen Anh		VIE	0	1½	32

zt 3.3 w Ho Chi Minh City (VIE), 23-29 vii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rank	Name		FED	Rtg	Pts	BH.
1	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	WGM	MGL	2412	7½	46½
2	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	WFM	VIE	2219	7	46½
3	Pham Bich Ngoc	WFM	VIE	2105	6½	45½
4	Sukandar Irine Kharisma	WGM	INA	2311	6	45½
5	Nguyen Thi Thanh An	WGM	VIE	2330	6	43½
6	Nguyen Quynh Anh	WIM	VIE	2102	5½	48
7	Enkhtuul Altanulzii		MGL	2051	5½	45½
8	Le Thanh Tu	WGM	VIE	2310	5½	45
9	Pham Le Thao Nguyen	WIM	VIE	2314	5½	43
10	Luong Nhat Linh	WFM	VIE	1952	5½	39½
11	Hoang Thi Bao Tram	WGM	VIE	2274	5½	39
12	Pham Thi Ngoc Tu		VIE	2089	4½	43½
13	Lkhamsuren Uuganbayar		MGL	2144	4½	42½
14	Vo Thi Kim Phung	WFM	VIE	2073	4½	40
15	Cua Sherily	WFM	PHI	2174	4½	38
16	Cua Shercila	WFM	PHI	2167	4½	34½
17	Perena Catherine	WFM	PHI	2092	4	48
18	Le Thi Phuong Lien	WFM	VIE	2216	4	46½
19	Nguyen Thi Tuong Van	WIM	VIE	2246	4	45
20	Le Kieu Thien Kim	WIM	VIE	2250	4	43½
21	Sihite Chelsie Monica	WCM	INA	0	4	40½
22	Le Hoang Tran Chau	WFM	VIE	2073	4	39½
23	Rivera Daisy		PHI	2087	4	37
24	Hoang Thi Nhu Y	WFM	VIE	2119	4	35½
25	Chan Wei-Yi Victoria	WFM	SIN	1912	4	35½
26	Nguyen Thi Hanh		VIE	1975	4	31
27	Dewi Aa Citra	WFM	INA	1923	3½	35½
28	Ton Nu Hong An	WFM	VIE	2046	3½	34
29	Nguyen Thi Diem Huong	WFM	VIE	2007	3	37½
30	Medina Warda Aulia	WCM	INA	1945	3	37
31	Tran Le Dan Thuy		VIE	1780	2½	35

19) Continental Absolute Chess Championship Americas

The Continental Absolute Chess Championship Americas 2009 took place 25th July - 2nd August 2009. This was the first time the event has been held in Brazil. Alexander Shabalov and Fidel Correles Jimenez finished on 9/11. There was a playoff for the remaining four places which saw Gilberto Milos, Diego Flores, Julio Granda Zuniga and Alexander Ivanov edged out Mauricio Flores Rios and Josh Friedel.

Time Control: 2 hours for 40 moves+ 30 minutes finish plus 30 sec every move since move 1 instead of the previous time control of 1:30 plus 30sec.

Organization: GM Darcy Lima - CBX Local: CXSP - Rua Araújo 154 Sao Paulo - SP Brazil Hotel: Confort Downtown - Rua Araujo 141

Official site; http://www.continental2009.com/cont09eng.htm

News: http://continentalamericas2009.blogspot.com/

Continental Absolute Championship Americas (BRA), 25 vii - 2 viii- 2009 Leading Final Round 11 Standings:
1.	Shabalov, Alexander	g	USA	2580	9.0
2.	Corrales Jimenez, Fidel	g	CUB	2602	9.0
3.	Milos, Gilberto	g	BRA	2589	8.5
4.	Flores, Diego	g	ARG	2579	8.5
5.	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	g	PER	2647	8.5
6.	Flores Rios, Mauricio	m	CHI	2482	8.5
7.	Friedel, Joshua E	g	USA	2547	8.5
8.	Ivanov, Alexander	g	USA	2527	8.5
267 players

Continental ch-Americas Playoff Sao Paulo (BRA), 2 viii 2009										cat. XIII (2562)
					1	2	3	4	5	6
1.	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	g	PER	2647	*	½	½	1	½	1	3½	2693
2.	Milos, Gilberto	g	BRA	2589	½	*	0	1	1	1	3½	2705
3.	Flores, Diego	g	ARG	2579	½	1	*	0	0	1	2½	2558
4.	Ivanov, Alexander	g	USA	2527	0	0	1	*	1	½	2½	2568
5.	Flores Rios, Mauricio	m	CHI	2482	½	0	1	0	*	0	1½	2428
6.	Friedel, Joshua E	g	USA	2547	0	0	0	½	1	*	1½	2415

Round 1 (August 2, 2009)
Granda Zuniga, Julio E	- Ivanov, Alexander	1-0
Milos, Gilberto	- Flores, Diego	0-1
Flores Rios, Mauricio	- Friedel, Joshua E	0-1	49	C90	Ruy Lopez
Round 2 (August 2, 2009)
Milos, Gilberto	- Flores Rios, Mauricio	1-0	54	E94	King's Indian Classical
Flores, Diego	- Ivanov, Alexander	0-1	41	A21	English Opening
Friedel, Joshua E	- Granda Zuniga, Julio E	0-1	42	B13	Caro Kann Exchange
Round 3 (August 2, 2009)
Granda Zuniga, Julio E	- Milos, Gilberto	½-½	13	E18	Queens Indian
Ivanov, Alexander	- Friedel, Joshua E	½-½	20	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Flores Rios, Mauricio	- Flores, Diego	1-0	29	B41	Sicilian Paulsen
Round 4 (August 2, 2009)
Milos, Gilberto	- Ivanov, Alexander	1-0	50	E18	Queens Indian
Flores, Diego	- Friedel, Joshua E	1-0	31	A28	English Four Knights
Flores Rios, Mauricio	- Granda Zuniga, Julio E	½-½	44	B12	Caro Kann Advanced
Round 5 (August 2, 2009)
Granda Zuniga, Julio E	- Flores, Diego	½-½	10	E59	Nimzo Indian
Ivanov, Alexander	- Flores Rios, Mauricio	1-0	60	B40	Sicilian Classical
Friedel, Joshua E	- Milos, Gilberto	0-1	32	B14	Caro Kann Panov

20) XXXV Sitges Open

The XXXV Open Internacional d'Escacs "Vila de Sitges" took place 22nd-30th July 2009. Lars Karlsson took clear first place with 7.5/9.

Official site: http://www.casinoprado.cat/open.html

Details: http://chess-results.com/tnr20620.aspx?lan=2

XXXV Sitges Open (ESP), 22-30 vii 2009 Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name		FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB3
1	Karlsson Lars	GM	SWE	2468	7.5	42.5	52.5
2	Solodovnichenko Yuri	GM	UKR	2596	7	37.5	50.5
3	Gonzalez Garcia Jose	GM	MEX	2509	7	37	49.5
4	Cruz Cristhian	IM	PER	2525	7	36	49
5	Moskalenko Viktor	GM	UKR	2558	7	35.5	49
6	Burmakin Vladimir	GM	RUS	2627	7	32.5	47.5
7	Cuartas Jaime Alexander	GM	COL	2521	6.5	37.5	49.5
8	Beltran Rueda Santiago	FM	ESP	2404	6.5	37	47
9	Vidarte Morales Arturo	IM	ESP	2444	6.5	36	49
10	Satyapragyan Swayangsu	IM	IND	2423	6.5	35.5	49.5
11	Arun Prasad S	GM	IND	2556	6.5	35	48.5
12	Panchanathan Magesh Chandran	GM	IND	2493	6.5	35	47.5
13	Lacasa Diaz Jose Antonio	IM	ESP	2392	6.5	34.5	45.5
14	Martinez Duany Lelys Stanley	FM	CUB	2507	6.5	34.5	44.5
15	Barria Zuniga Daniel	IM	CHI	2426	6.5	34	47
16	Barsov Alexei	GM	UZB	2511	6.5	34	47.5
17	Lettieri Giuseppe	FM	ITA	2363	6.5	33.5	44
18	Sundararajan Kidambi	GM	IND	2506	6.5	32.5	44
19	Garcia Castro Pablo	IM	ESP	2390	6.5	32	44
20	Oms Pallisse Josep	GM	ESP	2495	6	36	49
21	Bacallao Alonso Yusnel	FM	CUB	2467	6	35	49
22	Cruz Filemon	FM	PER	2415	6	33	44
23	Almeida Quintana Omar	GM	CUB	2524	6	32.5	46
24	Seger Ruediger	IM	GER	2405	6	32.5	45
25	Perez Mitjans Orelvis	FM	CUB	2404	6	32	42
26	Jerez Perez Alfonso	IM	ESP	2388	6	32	45
27	Fernandez Aguado Enrique	IM	ESP	2340	6	32	44.5
28	Douriet Duany Alexis	FM	CUB	2306	6	31	43
29	Coll Enriquez Lluis	MK	ESP	2234	6	31	42
30	Anton Guijarro David		ESP	2265	6	30	43.5
31	Layola Barrionuevo Oriol		ESP	2056	6	28	42.5
32	Alexandrova Olga	IM	ESP	2388	5.5	32.5	49
171 players

21) 2nd Open Paleohora

The 2nd Paleohora Open took place 21st-28th July 2009. Evgeniy Najer edged out Robert Fontaine on tie-break after both finished on 7.5/9.

Official site: http://www.chaniachess.gr/International%20Tournament/Paleogora%20tournament/index_en.html - Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr23946.aspx?lan=1

2nd Open Paleohora (GRE), 21-28 vii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name		FED	Pts.	TB1	TB3
1	Najer Evgeniy	GM	RUS	7.5	39.5	54.5
2	Fontaine Robert	GM	FRA	7.5	35.5	49
3	Rychagov Andrey	GM	RUS	7	39.5	54
4	Glek Igor	GM	GER	7	39.5	54.5
5	Turov Maxim	GM	RUS	7	39	56.5
6	Kryvoruchko Yuriy	GM	UKR	7	38.5	55.5
7	Banikas Hristos	GM	GRE	7	38	56
8	Gelashvili Tamaz	GM	GEO	7	38	53
9	Vorobiov Evgeny E	GM	RUS	7	37	50.5
10	Tukhaev Adam	GM	UKR	7	36	53
11	Timoshenko Georgy	GM	UKR	7	35	48.5
12	Lahno Kateryna	GM	UKR	7	34	45.5
13	Kharitonov Alexandr	GM	RUS	7	31.5	49
14	Parligras Mircea	GM	ROU	6.5	37	53.5
15	David Alberto	GM	LUX	6.5	36	51.5
16	Haznedaroglu Kivanc	IM	TUR	6.5	35.5	52.5
17	Das Arghyadip	IM	IND	6.5	35	51.5
18	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	IM	IND	6.5	33.5	49
19	Gupta Abhijeet	GM	IND	6.5	33.5	52
20	Antic Dejan	GM	SRB	6	34.5	54.5
21	Bakre Tejas	GM	IND	6	34	49.5
22	Maryasin Boris	IM	ISR	6	33.5	53
23	Svetushkin Dmitry	GM	MDA	6	33	53.5
24	Romanko Marina	IM	RUS	6	33	49.5
25	Smith Bryan G	IM	USA	6	32.5	51
26	Lipka Juraj	IM	SVK	6	32.5	48.5
27	Meijers Viesturs	GM	LAT	6	32.5	47.5
28	Harika Dronavalli	IM	IND	6	32.5	45
29	Saptarshi Roy	IM	IND	6	32.5	48.5
30	Sengupta Deep	IM	IND	6	32.5	48
31	Moradiabadi Elshan	GM	IRI	6	32.5	49.5
32	Georgiadis Ioannis	IM	GRE	6	32	49
33	Turova Irina	IM	RUS	6	32	46
34	Venkatesh M R	IM	IND	6	32	52
35	Sandalakis Angelos		GRE	6	32	47
36	Lekic Dusan	IM	MNE	6	31.5	49.5
37	Vuilleumier Alexandre	IM	SUI	6	31	47.5
38	Souleidis Georgios	IM	GRE	6	31	48
39	Kanakaris Georgios		GRE	6	31	48
40	Stefanova Antoaneta	GM	BUL	6	30.5	46.5
41	Managadze Nikoloz	IM	GEO	6	30.5	47
42	Hunt Adam C	IM	ENG	6	30.5	44.5
43	Grover Sahaj	FM	IND	6	30.5	45.5
44	Vucic Mladen	IM	USA	6	29.5	44
45	Hug Marcel	FM	SUI	6	29.5	46
46	Ashwin Jayaram	IM	IND	6	28.5	44
47	Prasanna Rao	FM	IND	6	28.5	44.5
48	Kudriashova Irina		RUS	6	26	42
49	Zeppos Panagiotis		GRE	6	24	40.5
50	Neverov Valeriy	GM	UKR	5.5	34	53
230 players

22) European Senior Championships

The European Individual Senior Championship took place in Rogaska Slatina/Slovenia 22nd - 31st July 2009. Vitaly Tseshkovsky took the men's title, Ludmila Saunina the women's.

Official site: http://www.sahohlacnik.com/eu-sen/

ch-Euro Senior Rogaska Slatina (SLO), 22-30 vii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name		FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Tseshkovsky Vitaly	GM	RUS	2573	7	42	53	5
2	Butnorius Algimantas	GM	LTU	2443	6.5	40.5	51.5	4
3	Shvedchikov Anatoly	IM	RUS	2396	6.5	40	51.5	4
4	Chernikov Oleg L	GM	RUS	2395	6.5	39.5	50.5	4
5	Plachetka Jan	GM	SVK	2370	6.5	37.5	47.5	5
6	Sorokin Valentin	FM	RUS	2319	6.5	35.5	46	6
7	Srebrnic Vojko		SLO	2212	6	38	48.5	4
8	Bogdanov Valentin	IM	UKR	2395	6	36	46	5
9	Wittmann Walter	IM	AUT	2274	6	33.5	43	4
10	Zakharov Alexander	IM	RUS	2422	5.5	40	50.5	4
11	Onoprienko Vladimir	IM	RUS	2318	5.5	38.5	49	4
12	Pushkov Nikolai	GM	RUS	2496	5.5	37.5	48	5
13	Svensson Leif		SWE	2165	5.5	35.5	45.5	4
14	Gruzmann Boris	FM	RUS	2236	5.5	34	43	5
15	Rooze Jan	FM	BEL	2238	5.5	33	42.5	4
16	Arkhangelsky Boris	IM	RUS	2300	5.5	31.5	40.5	2
17	Grabow Pouelsten Holm		DEN	2188	5.5	31.5	39	3
18	Vucenovic Dragomir	FM	SUI	2309	5.5	30.5	39	3
19	Ofstad Per		NOR	2158	5.5	29	38.5	4
20	Stull Norbert		LUX	2156	5.5	29	37.5	4
21	Djurkovic Maks		SLO	2149	5.5	26	34.5	5
22	Zoltek Tadeusz	FM	POL	2194	5	38	46.5	4
23	Titz Heimo	FM	AUT	2273	5	34.5	44	3
24	Novak Ivan	FM	SVK	2242	5	34	44	5
25	Vykydal Frantisek		CZE	2219	5	33	41.5	4
64 players

ch-Euro Senior w Rogaska Slatina (SLO), 22-30 vii 2009
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Saunina, Ludmila	wg	RUS	2293	*	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½	2460
2.	Khropova, Larisa	wf	RUS	2060	0	*	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	6	2238
3.	Sorokina, Tamara	wm	RUS	2143	½	½	*	½	1	½	½	1	1	5½	2176
4.	Beliaeva, Natalia	wf	RUS	1991	0	0	½	*	1	1	½	1	1	5	2149
5.	Komysheva, Margarita	wf	RUS	2114	0	0	0	0	*	1	1	1	1	4	2039
6.	Blagonadezhnaya, Ideya		RUS	1964	0	½	½	0	0	*	1	½	1	3½	2014
7.	Kabanova, Irina		RUS	2047	0	0	½	½	0	0	*	1	1	3	1960
8.	Shmyreva, Tatiana		RUS	1814	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	*	1	1½	1825
9.	Shelomovskaya, Valentina		RUS	----	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	*	0

23) African Championships

The African Individual Championships were held in Tripoli, Libya 20th-31st August 2009. The Open Section was won by GM Bassem Amin (EGY ) 2551, and it produced 6 qualifiers to the World Cup and the first 6 were Egyptians, but one of them GM Ahmed Adly (EGY) 2548, had already got a qualification place in the World Cup as he won the World Junior 2007. This meant there was tiebreak play-off match won by GM Aimen Rizouk (ALG) 2051 against Mohamed Hadouche (ALG) 2329. Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr24026.aspx?lan=1

The Women's Section saw 3 qualify for the Women's World Championship. This was won by WIM Melissa Greeff from South Africa and she earned the WGM title. WIM Amina Mezioud from Algeria and previous champion (2007) WGM Mona Khaled (EGY) qualified after a tiebreak Match against Anzel Solomons (RSA ) who won her Tiebreak against WFM Sabrina Latreche (ALG). Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr23976.aspx?lan=1

There was also an Active Tournament on the rest day won by IM Watu Kobese (RSA ) results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr24000.aspx?lan=1 and a blitz one won by GM Ahmed Adly (EGY).

News: Hassan Khaled and Amro Ali.

ch-Africa Tripoli (LBA), 21-30 vii 2009 Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Amin Bassem	GM	EGY	2551	7	0	34	45.5
2	Abdel Razik Khaled	IM	EGY	2462	6	0	33.5	48
3	Adly Ahmed	GM	EGY	2548	6	0	33	48.5
4	El Gindy Essam	GM	EGY	2501	6	0	32	50
5	Sarwat Walaa	IM	EGY	2390	6	0	29.5	44.5
6	Ezat Mohamed	IM	EGY	2459	5.5	0	29	46.5
7	Haddouche Mohamed	IM	ALG	2329	5.5	0	27.5	43.5
8	Rizouk Aimen	GM	ALG	2506	5.5	0	27	44.5
9	Abdelnabbi Imed	IM	EGY	2452	5	0	29	47
10	Solomon Kenny	IM	RSA	2351	5	0	28	45.5
11	Simutowe Amon	GM	ZAM	2481	5	0	27.5	47.5
12	Kobese Watu	IM	RSA	2391	5	0	27	45
13	Zaibi Amir	CM	TUN	2123	5	0	24	41
14	El Kamel Adel Mahmoud		TUN	2239	5	0	22.5	38
15	Van Den Heever Donovan	CM	RSA	2254	5	0	22	39.5
16	Belkhodja Slim	GM	TUN	2467	4.5	0	26.5	41
17	Njili Kamel	FM	TUN	2318	4.5	0	24	43.5
18	Arab Adlane	IM	ALG	2432	4.5	0	23.5	43
19	Kaabi Mejdi	IM	TUN	2313	4.5	0	23.5	39.5
20	Oatlhotze Providence		BOT	2164	4.5	0	21	41
21	Frhat Ali	IM	EGY	2397	4.5	0	20.5	37.5
22	Nyazi Nehad		EGY	2237	4.5	0	20	33.5
23	Ranaivoharisoa Alain		MAD	2083	4	0	20.5	42.5
24	Wageih Kareim	IM	EGY	2253	4	0	20.5	42
25	Solomons Deon	CM	RSA	2210	4	0	18.5	36
26	Shabash Abdullatief Mohamed		LBA	2193	4	0	16	34.5
27	Asabri Hussien	FM	LBA	2220	3.5	0	15.5	32
28	Gator Mosab		LBA	0	3.5	0	15	35
29	Degondo Simplice Armel		IVC	0	3.5	0	11.5	29
30	Chahrani Ibrahim	FM	LBA	2280	3	0	15.5	37.5
31	Humrana Mostafa		LBA	2114	2.5	0	16.5	36.5
32	Obiamiwe Paul		NGR	2043	2.5	0	10	33.5
33	Al-Zayat Ahmed		LBA	1969	2.5	0	9.5	31.5
34	Salem Ali Maoloud		LBA	2131	2	0	11.5	33.5

ch-Africa w Tripoli (LBA), 21-30 vii 2009 Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Greeff Melissa	WIM	RSA	2038	7	1	32.5	48.5
2	Mezioud Amina	WIM	ALG	2035	7	0	32	43
3	Mona Khaled	WGM	EGY	2094	6.5	1.5	31.5	48
4	Solomons Anzel	WIM	RSA	1932	6.5	1	35	44
5	Latreche Sabrina	WFM	ALG	1964	6.5	0.5	32.5	45.5
6	Beddar Karima	WCM	ALG	1803	5.5	0	28.5	48
7	Alaa el Din Yosra	WIM	EGY	1913	4.5	1	25.5	43.5
8	Abdulgader Amira		LBA	0	4.5	0	21.5	36.5
9	Rahal Mawadda		LBA	0	4	0	20	38
10	Matoussi Amina		TUN	1755	4	0	16	34.5
11	Elansary Eman		EGY	0	3.5	0	21.5	39.5
12	Mudongo Boikhutso	WFM	BOT	1905	3.5	0	18.5	38
13	Elfelo Khouled	WFM	LBA	0	3.5	0	16.5	35
14	Elgohary Myada		EGY	1683	3.5	0	15.5	34
15	Al Jahani Marwah		LBA	0	2	0	13	36
16	Al Felo Ekhlas		LBA	0	0	0	0	36

ch-Africa Rapid Tripoli (LBA), 26 vii 2009 Final Round 7 Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Kobese Watu	IM	RSA	2391	6	0	25	31
2	Haddouche Mohamed	IM	ALG	2329	5.5	0	24.5	31
3	Sarwat Walaa	IM	EGY	2390	5.5	0	24	29.5
4	Mohamed Farag Amrou	FM	EGY	2293	5.5	0	22.5	27.5
5	Kaabi Mejdi	IM	TUN	2313	5	0	19	24
6	Bouaziz Mehdi	CM	TUN	2242	5	0	17	24.5
7	Abdel Razik Khaled	IM	EGY	2462	4.5	0	21	33
8	Njili Kamel	FM	TUN	2318	4.5	0	21	26
9	Ezat Mohamed	IM	EGY	2459	4.5	0	20.5	27
10	Van Den Heever Donovan	CM	RSA	2254	4.5	0	20	31
11	Simutowe Amon	GM	ZAM	2481	4.5	0	18	29.5
12	Nyazi Nehad		EGY	2237	4.5	0	17.5	25.5
13	DEGONDO SIMPLICE ARMEL		IVC	0	4.5	0	14	23.5
14	Frhat Ali	IM	EGY	2397	4	0	19	29.5
15	Solomons Deon	CM	RSA	2210	4	0	18	29
16	FRANCA MURAD		LBA	0	4	0	16	21
17	El Kamel Adel Mahmoud		TUN	2239	4	0	15	22.5
18	GAHFER KHALED		LBA	0	4	0	14	22
19	Obiamiwe Paul		NGR	2043	3.5	0	15.5	26
20	Oatlhotze Providence		BOT	2164	3.5	0	15.5	24.5
21	FRANCA KHALED		LBA	0	3.5	0	14.5	25.5
22	ELGHDAMSI MOHAMED		LBA	0	3.5	0	14.5	24.5
23	ELNAME SALAH		LBA	0	3.5	0	13	21
24	Aissaoui Habib		TUN	0	3.5	0	12	25.5
25	Al-Zayat Ahmed		LBA	1969	3	0	16	31.5
26	El Mashaili Khalil		LBA	1685	3	0	12	26
27	ALSOURI ALI		LBA	0	3	0	11	25.5
28	Elflow Khalood	WCM	LBA	0	3	0	11	22.5
29	ELHELAWI MOHANE		LBA	0	3	0	11	22
30	ELARABY ABDUL HALEEM		LBA	0	3	0	10	20
31	Al Felo Al Said Juma		LBA	0	3	0	9	24
32	Ben Farahat Ramadan		LBA	0	3	0	8	22
33	Gator Mosab		LBA	0	2.5	0	13	21.5
34	Al Jahani Marwah		LBA	0	2.5	0	7.5	19.5
35	ELARABY ABDUL ALEEM		LBA	0	2.5	0	7	18
36	Ammar Rami Adel		LBA	1806	2	0	8	23.5
37	ALSOURI MOHAMED		LBA	0	2	0	8	21.5
38	Amira Abdelgader		LBA	0	2	0	6.5	21
39	Al Felo Ekhlas		LBA	0	2	0	5	19
40	El Felo Khawla		LBA	0	1.5	0	7	16
41	Alzantuti Yousef		LBA	2018	1	0	7	20
42	BIZANTI SADIK		LBA	0	0	0	0	21.5

24) First Saturday August

The First Saturday August tournaments take place 1st-13th August 2009.

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

FSGM August Budapest (HUN), 1-13 viii 2009			cat. VIII (2442)
Seres Lajos	GM	HUN	2456
Varga, Zoltan	GM	HUN	2473
Rapport Richard	FM	HUN	2401
Szabo Krisztian	IM	HUN	2493
Oleksienko Mikhailo	GM	UKR	2543
Shen Siyuan		CHN	2321
Rees Ioan		WLS	2339
Samhouri Ahmad	FM	JOR	2375
Zherebukh Yaroslav	GM	UKR	2543
Pap Gyula	IM	HUN	2503
Boros Denes	IM	HUN	2485
Tzermiadianos Andreas	IM	GRE	2447
Payen Arnaud	IM	FRA	2368

25) Maria Albulet Memorial

The Maria Albulet Memorial took place in Braila 18th-24th July 2009. IM Corina-Isabela Peptan won again this competition (as in 2008), followed by the greek WGM Marina Pogorevici-Makropoulou (the daughter of the late WGM Maria Albulet) and by WGM Elena-Luminita Cosma. News: Dinu-Ioan Nicula.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr23897.aspx

Maria Albulet Mem Braila (ROM), 19-24 vii 2009												cat. I (2268)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Peptan, Corina-Isabela	m	ROU	2392	*	1	½	½	1	½	½	½	1	1	6½	2419
2.	Makropoulou, Marina	wg	GRE	2245	0	*	½	1	½	1	½	1	½	½	5½	2350
3.	Cosma, Elena-Luminita	wg	ROU	2337	½	½	*	1	½	½	½	½	½	½	5	2303
4.	Gheorghe, Corina	wm	ROU	2209	½	0	0	*	½	1	1	½	1	½	5	2317
5.	Yordanova, Svetla	wm	BUL	2200	0	½	½	½	*	0	1	½	1	1	5	2318
6.	Daulyte, Deimante	wm	LTU	2268	½	0	½	0	1	*	0	1	½	1	4½	2267
7.	Sandu, Mihaela	wg	ROU	2312	½	½	½	0	0	1	*	½	½	0	3½	2182
8.	Bulmaga, Irina	wm	MDA	2277	½	0	½	½	½	0	½	*	0	1	3½	2186
9.	Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	wf	ROU	2199	0	½	½	0	0	½	½	1	*	½	3½	2195
10.	Padurariu, Ioana-Smaranda	wm	ROU	2238	0	½	½	½	0	0	1	0	½	*	3	2146

26) 4th Timisoara Cup

The 4th Timisoara Cup takes place 1st-9th August 2009. There are two sections. Tamas Tamas-Kristof started with 3½/4.

Official site: http://www.frsah.ro/ - Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr24200.aspx?lan=1

4th Timisoara Cup A Timisoara ROM (ROM), 1-9 viii 2009												cat. IV (2347)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Balla, Tamas-Kristof	f	ROU	2363	*	.	.	.	½	.	.	1	1	1	3½	2655
2.	Ogleznev, Alexandr	f	MDA	2338	.	*	½	½	.	1	.	1	.	.	3	2553
3.	Anton, Teodor		ROU	2379	.	½	*	.	½	.	1	.	1	.	3	2530
4.	Dragomirescu, Robin-Alexandru		ROU	2342	.	½	.	*	.	½	1	.	.	1	3	2546
5.	Foisor, Sabina-Francesca	wg	USA	2304	½	.	½	.	*	.	.	½	.	½	2	2363
6.	Petrisor, Adrian-Marian		ROU	2322	.	0	.	½	.	*	½	.	½	.	1½	2260
7.	Vedmediuc, Serghei	m	MDA	2444	.	.	0	0	.	½	*	.	.	1	1½	2251
8.	Bogdan, Dan	m	ROU	2400	0	0	.	.	½	.	.	*	½	.	1	2124
9.	Nemes, Silviu-Virgil		ROU	2264	0	.	0	.	.	½	.	½	*	.	1	2173
10.	Emodi, Gyula	m	HUN	2311	0	.	.	0	½	.	0	.	.	*	½	2041

4th Timisoara Cup B Timisoara ROM (ROM), 1-9 viii 2009
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Suciu, Dinu-Simi	f	ROU	2095	*	1	½	.	1	.	.	.	1	.	3½	2504
2.	Foisor, Mihaela-Veronica	wf	ROU	2123	0	*	½	1	.	.	.	1	.	.	2½	2286
3.	Florescu, Codrut-Constantin	m	ROU	2261	½	½	*	.	.	.	.	.	½	1	2½	2207
4.	Vavric, Pavel		MDA	2194	.	0	.	*	.	1	1	.	.	½	2½	2222
5.	Mocanu, Sergiu		MDA	2137	0	.	.	.	*	½	½	.	1	.	2	2140
6.	Ungureanu, Emil	m	ROU	2215	.	.	.	0	½	*	½	.	.	1	2	2126
7.	Postolachi, Viorel		MDA	2097	.	.	.	0	½	½	*	½	.	.	1½	2103
8.	Dragomirescu, Angela	wm	ROU	2215	.	0	.	.	.	.	½	*	½	½	1½	2025
9.	Adzic, Slobodan	f	MNE	2154	0	.	½	.	0	.	.	½	*	.	1	1984
10.	Uta, Adeline-Ramona		ROU	2076	.	.	0	½	.	0	.	½	.	*	1	2028

27) Stara Pazova Open

The Stara Pazova Open tournament took place 25th July - 2nd August 2009. Dragan Kosic edged out Peter Michalik on tie-break after both finished on 6.5/10. They played a three groups of 6 round robin to start with and finished with a swiss in the final four rounds. News: Mihajlo Savic.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr23942.aspx

Official site; http://www.chessdiagonals.com

Open Stara Pazova (SRB), 25 vii-2 viii 2009
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1.	Kosic, Dragan	g	MNE	2488	=3	+15	=4	=13	=12	=7	+10	=2	=6	+14	6½	2499
2.	Michalik, Peter	m	SVK	2428	=14	+17	+7	=6	+18	+8	=4	=1	=3	-5	6½	2482
3.	Cabrilo, Goran	g	SRB	2494	=1	=12	+15	=4	=13	=6	=5	+11	=2	=7	6	2474
4.	Nestorovic, Nikola	m	SRB	2410	=12	=13	=1	=3	+15	+10	=2	=6	=5	=8	6	2489
5.	Georgiev, Krum	g	BUL	2430	-8	+10	=11	=16	=9	=12	=3	+13	=4	+2	6	2436
6.	Ilincic, Zlatko	g	SRB	2479	+17	=7	+18	=2	=14	=3	=8	=4	=1	=10	6	2425
7.	Kosanovic, Goran A	g	SRB	2351	+18	=6	-2	+14	=17	=1	=13	=8	+9	=3	6	2433
8.	Kostic, Vladimir G	g	SRB	2436	+5	+9	-10	=11	+16	-2	=6	=7	=14	=4	5½	2388
9.	Avdic, Mirza		BIH	2270	=11	-8	+16	=10	=5	-13	+17	+12	-7	=15	5	2343
10.	Klasan, Vladimir		SRB	2293	+16	-5	+8	=9	=11	-4	-1	+18	=12	=6	5	2350
11.	Popov, Luben	m	BUL	2317	=9	=16	=5	=8	=10	=14	=12	-3	=17	+18	5	2317
12.	Sertic, Rudolf	m	CRO	2381	=4	=3	=13	=15	=1	=5	=11	-9	=10	=17	4½	2334
13.	Todorovic, Goran N	m	SRB	2384	-15	=4	=12	=1	=3	+9	=7	-5	=18	=16	4½	2311
14.	Vujacic, Borivoje	f	SRB	2315	=2	-18	+17	-7	=6	=11	=15	+16	=8	-1	4½	2305
15.	Martic, Zlatko	f	CRO	2359	+13	-1	-3	=12	-4	+18	=14	=17	=16	=9	4½	2293
16.	Skoko, Milan		SRB	2230	-10	=11	-9	=5	-8	=17	+18	-14	=15	=13	3½	2202
17.	Majeric, Zoran	m	CRO	2257	-6	-2	-14	=18	=7	=16	-9	=15	=11	=12	3	2170
18.	Zobenica, Ivan		SRB	2066	-7	+14	-6	=17	-2	-15	-16	-10	=13	-11	2	2101

28) 64th Oklahoma Open

The 64th Oklahoma Open and Jerry Spann Memorial was held in Oklahoma City July 25-26, 2009. Tom Braunlich won the title of Oklahoma State Champion for the year 2009 repeating his titles of of 1980 and 2006. He shared first place with Conrad Holt of Kansas who just applied for his FIDE Master title. Chief Arbiter was Frank Berry. Players from 6 states competed in the 5-SS. 23 of the 41 players were FIDE rated. My thanks to Frank Berry for this report.

OK Open Oklahoma City (USA), 25-26 vii 2009 Leading Final Round 5 Standings:
Conrad Holt	2303	USA	4.5 of 5
Tom Braunlich	2176	USA	4.5
Maxx Coleman	2212	USA	4.0
Jason Wawrzaszek	1920	USA	4.0
Kevin Cao	1952	USA	4.0
Devin Hughes	2052	USA	3.5
James Berry	2033	USA	3.5
Jacob Berger	1928	USA	3.5
Jason Hull		USA	3.5
41 players

29) 1st Artemis Cup

The "1st Artemis Cup" on Leros island took place 11th-19th July 2009. Evgenij Miroshnichenko took first place on tie-break from Mikheil Mchedlishvili after both finished on 7/9. Games from the final round now available.

Official Homepage of the Organizer: http://leroschess.gr/home.aspx?lan=el-gr

30) Swiss Championships

The 109th Swiss Individual Chess Championships took place in Graechen 9th-17th July 2009. Simon Williams finished in clear first place with 7½/9. He was half a point clear of Viktor Korchnoi who took the Swiss title on tie-break. There were 300 players in four sections, 111 played in the top group. I give the table again because I messed up somehow when I first released TWIC and had the British table here for reasons I just don't understand.

Official site: http://swisschess.ch/turniere/sem.php?action=news&year=2009

ch-SUI Graechen (SUI), 9-17 vii 2009 Leading Final Round Standings:
Pl	Player	Ti	ELO	NWZ	NAT	Pts	Buchh
1.	Williams,Simon	GM	2527		ENG	7.5	46.5
2.	Korchnoi,Viktor	GM	2561	2576	SUI	7.0	51.5
3.	Benkovic,Petar	IM	2456	2426	SRB	7.0	49.5
4.	Ekstrom,Roland	IM	2482	2472	SUI	7.0	45.5
5.	Huss,Andreas	IM	2330	2329	SUI	7.0	44.0
6.	Filipovic,Branko	IM	2422	2417	CRO	6.5	46.0
7.	Klauser,Markus	IM	2386	2380	SUI	6.5	45.0
8.	Contin,Daniel	IM	2279		ITA	6.5	44.0
9.	Misiano,Franco		2281		ITA	6.5	42.5
10.	Kaenel,Hansjürg	IM	2306	2321	SUI	6.0	51.5
11.	Kelecevic,Nedeljko	IM	2320	2306	SUI	6.0	47.0
12.	Jenni,Florian	GM	2513	2492	SUI	6.0	46.5
13.	Muheim,Lukas	FM	2323	2333	SUI	6.0	45.0
14.	Bigg,Andrew	CM	2289	2254	ENG	6.0	45.0
15.	Carron,Julien	IM	2416	2411	SUI	6.0	44.5
16.	Domont,Alexandre	IM	2345	2345	SUI	6.0	44.0
17.	Hugentobler,Patrik	FM	2253	2225	SUI	6.0	43.0
18.	Gaehler,Marco		2247	2312	SUI	6.0	42.5
19.	Illijin,Neboisa	IM	2246		ROU	6.0	37.0
20.	Stoeri,Simon		1974	2149	SUI	6.0	36.5
21.	Lehmann,Andreas		2297	2291	SUI	5.5	48.5
111 players

31) Ptuj Open

The Ptuj Open takes place 2nd-9th August 2009 in Ptuj. 9 Round Swiss. Time control: 100 minutes/40 moves + 20 minutes + 30 seconds for each move. Top seeds Blazimir Kovacevic and Robert Loncar.

Official site: http://www.sah-drustvo-ptuj.si/Open09/open.htm

32) I Vitoria-Gasteiz Open

I Open Internacional De Ajedrez Vitoria-Gasteiz Nazioarteko I. Xake Open took place 26th July - 3rd August 2009. Pontus Carlsson is the top seed and leads on tie-break from Juan Mario Gomez Esteban and David Astasio Lopez all have 7/8. I will round up the results and any games made available, next week.

Official site: http://sites.google.com/site/openvitoria/

33) Forthcoming Events and Links

7th Howard Staunton Memorial

The 7th Howard Staunton Memorial takes place 7th (opening ceremony) - 17th August 2009. This year there will be a UK vs The Netherlands double round Scheveningen match and an interesting Category IX all-play-all. The UK has a small Elo rating advantage in the Scheveningen match but the teams are well matched. The tournament is taking place in its usual venue - Simpson's In The Strand. The opening ceremony will take place on the evening of Friday 7th August. The final rounds and the closing ceremony will take place on Monday 17th August.

The organisers are hoping that the tournament will be a big media event with the Chinese and the Dutch Ambassadors hoping to attend the opening ceremony and surprise guest visits from other chess loving celebrities throughout. They thank their generous benefactor.

There will be live coverage of the games this year.

Official site: http://howardstaunton.com/index.shtm.

7th Staunton Memorial Scheveningen London (ENG), 8-17 viii 2009
UK			NETHERLANDS
GM	Michael Adams	2699	GM	Ivan Sokolov	2655
GM	Nigel Short	2684	GM	Loek Van Wely	2655
GM	McShane, Luke	2620	GM	Jan Smeets	2632
GM	David Howell	2614	GM	Erwin L'ami	2593
GM	Gawain Jones	2554	GM	Jan Werle	2575
UK	Elo Ave.	2634	NED	Elo Ave.	2622

7th Staunton Memorial International Challenge London (ENG), 8-17 viii 2009 - cat. IX (2463)
GM	Jan Timman	NED	2569
GM	Victor Korchnoi	SUI	2561
GM	Simon Williams	ENG	2527
GM	Peter Wells	ENG	2498
GM	Nigel Davies	ENG	2493
IM	Lawrence Trent	ENG	2471
IM	Willy Hendriks	NED	2447
GM	Alex Cherniaev	RUS	2428
IM	Eelke Wiersma	NED	2403
	Terence Chapman	ENG	2271

Copa Mercosur

The Copa Mercosur takes place 4th-14th August 2009.

Details: http://ajedrezmartelli.org.ar/magistrales/2009/cronograma09.htm

London Chess Centre Blitz Championships

London Chess Centre Blitz Championships - 13th August 2009

Details: http://www.loosecannonec4.co.uk/games-room/chess/london-chess-centre-blitz-championships.php

51st Imperia Festival (Liguria, Italy)

The 51st Chess Festival in Imperia (Liguria, Italy) celegrates it's 51st anniversay. It is the oldest open in Italy and possibly the oldest in Europe; all the editions have occurred without a break. During the giving of prizes, the organisers will present the historical book on the first 50 editions It takes place August 30th - September 6th 2009. 9 rounds.

Official site: http://imperiascacchi.altervista.org

Grand Slam Masters Final Bilbao

The 2nd edition of the Grand Slam Masters Final takes place in Bilbao, September 5-12th 2009. The winners of the Nanching Pearl Spring, Corus-Wijk aan Zee, Ciudad de Linares and Mtel Masters-Sofia tournaments will play in the final.

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

Grand Slam Masters Final Bilbao (ESP), 5-12 ix 2009. Cat XX (2749) Players list (July ratings)
No	Name	Ti	NAT	July Elo	DoB
1	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2813	1975
2	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2733	1983
3	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2732	1972
4	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2717	1990

Grand Slam Masters Final Bilbao. 5th-12th September 2009
5th September 2009	Drawing of lots	Time
6th September 2009	1st Round	17:00 CET
7th September 2009	2nd Round	17:00 CET
8th September 2009	3rd Round	17:00 CET
9th September 2009	Rest day
10th September 2009	4th Round	17:00 CET
11th September 2009	5th Round	17:00 CET
12th September 2009	6th Round	16:00 CET
12th September 2009	closing ceremony

VII Marx Gyorgy Memorial

The VII Marx Gyorgy Memorial takes place 24th September-5th October 2009 Paks, Hungary.

Participants: GM Almasi Zoltan 2684 HUN, GM Meier Georg 2658 GER, GM Berkes Ferenc 2647 HUN, GM Ganguly Surya 2637 IND, GM Safarli Eltaj 2597 AZE, GM Acs Peter 2550 HUN Average rating: 2629 Category: 16

I Teller Ede Memorial Participants: WGM Majdan Joanna 2382 POL, IM Vajda Szidónia 2375 HUN, WGM Gara Tícia 2354 HUN, WGM Doluhanova Evgeniya 2327 UKR, WGM Kochetkova Julia 2310 RUS, WIM Toth Lili 2172 HUN Average rating: 2320 Category: 3

Blitz-tournament 2nd October, 2009

Rapid-tournament 29th September, 2009

Children-tournament 27th September, 2009,

XIII Paks open 30th September- 04th October, 2009 7 rounds, A and B group

Information: Videki Sandor email: videkis2001@yahoo.com

Details: http://www.ase.hu/marxgy/2009

Golders Green Rapid August

The next monthly Golders Green Rapid takes place Saturday 1st August 2009 (half an hour per player for the game) at Golders Green.

The event is six rounds, starting promptly at 10.30am, finishing at 5.45pm at the latest You can enter online: http://www.goldersgreenchess.blogspot.com you can also find complete crosstables from their events going back four years.

2nd Nanjing Pearl Spring

The 2nd Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament will takes place 27th Sept - 9th October 2009 in Nanjing, China.

The field seems to be Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov, Peter Leko, Dmitry Jakovenko, Wang Yue.

The event is a 6-player in a double round robin. The total prize fund is 250,000 Euros.

News Gujuan Tzu blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews

Official site (In English): http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/yindex.htm (under construction)

Official site (In Chinese): http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/index.htm

2nd Nanjing Pearl Spring (CHN), 27 ix -9 x 2009					cat. XXI (2766)
No	Name	Ti	NAT	April Elo	DoB
1	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2813	1975
2	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2772	1990
3	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2760	1983
4	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2756	1987
5	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2756	1979
6	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2736	1987

Official site (In English): http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/yindex.htm

Official site: http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/index.htm (more information and pictures)

Gujuan Tzu blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews

NH Chess Tournament

The NH Chess Tournament Rising Stars vs. Experience takes place August 20th-31st 2009 NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky, Dam 9, Amsterdam. The NH Chess Tournament, organized by NH Hoteles in close cooperation with Association Max Euwe, Monaco, is a ‘Scheveningen’ team tournament between an ‘Experience’ team and a ‘Rising Stars’ team.

NH Chess Tournament Amsterdam (NED), 20-31 viii 2009
Name	Country	DoB	ApElo
Peter Svidler	Russia	June 17, 1976	2726
Peter Heine Nielsen	Denmark	May 24, 1973	2668
Alexander Beliavsky	Slovenia	December 17, 1953	2640
Loek van Wely	The Netherlands	October 7, 1972	2622
Ljubomir Ljubojevic	Serbia	November 2, 1950	2553
Hikaru Nakamura	United States	December 9, 1987	2701
Fabiano Caruana	Italy	July 30, 1992	2649
Jan Smeets	The Netherlands	April 5, 1985	2626
Daniel Stellwagen	The Netherlands	March 1, 1987	2619
Hou Yifan	China	February 27, 1994	2590

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

World Chess Tour GM Moscow

Two players made norms in the first GM round-robin tournament of "World Chess Tour" Series which took place in Moscow 4th-12th July 2009. The playing venue is the sport-leisure center "Alexeevsky" (Moscow, Prospect Mira, 120) Middle Elo is 2442.

It was the first event of new World Series 'World Chess Tour', the main idea of that is: any chess player and chess fan regardless of the level, age etc. can take part in the World Series as well as any chess event can be part of World Series - like the ACP Tour, but not only for top-GMs, but just for everyone. We present here also the WCT points which every participant of this event will get - in all possible categories. The next GM and IM events are planned for 8th-18th of August 2009.

Contact: GM Igor Glek. Phone mobile: (7)903-5593052, (49)179-7030605

Phone / Fax: (7)495-4336634 E-mail: wlct06@gmail.com, acpsecretary@gmail.com

Official site: http://www.chess-events.org with details of the tour.

Mecking - Fier Match

There is a Match between Henrique Mecking and Alexandr Fier in Sao Paulo 23rd-27th September 2009 in the amphitheater of Santa Cruz High School in Sao Paulo.

Match of 4 classical games with time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds/move. 1st game 23rd September 2009. 2nd game 24th September 2009. free day 25th September 2009. 3rd game 26th September 2009. 4th game 27th September 2009.

Details: http://www.ligadexadrez.com.br/conteudo/ver.asp?id=19&conteudoId=422

5th Heraklion-Gazi International Chess Tournament

The 5th Heraklion-Gazi (Greece) International Chess Tournament takes place 22nd-29th August 2009.

9 Round Swiss. 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment for every move starting from move 1.

Further information :
Tel.: (+30) 6972262486, Mr Charalampos Stefanatos
Fax: (+30) 2810821029

E-mail: stefanatos@gazichess.gr, babstef@otenet.gr

Details: http://www.gazichess.gr/en

2nd Arad Open Romania

2nd International Chess Open in Arad, Romania, 8th-14th august 2009 9 rounds swiss open, prize fund 3500 euro, 1st prize - 1000 euro More details: http://www.vados.ro/turnee/ro/8/16

Contact: Alin Campeanu sahclubvados@yahoo.com. Arad City is in the western Romania - 270 km from Budapest, 510 km from Vienna, 530 km from Bucharest.

16th Vienna International Open

16th Vienna International Open Chess Championship takes place 15th-23rd August 2009. Sergei Tiviakov is the top seed.

Official site: http://www.vienna-chess-open.at/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr19376.aspx

22nd Panevezys Chess Festival

22nd Panevezys Chess Festival takes place in the city of Panevezys in Lithuania 17th-23rd August 2009. Two Fide rated Open (Open A and Open B) Blitz tournament and maybe closed WGM woman tournament are planned this year.

Details: http://www.chesslyga.lt/panevezys/open2009

Mundial Chess Internet Tournament

The organising Committee Mundial Chess invites all the players (from the amateurs to Grandmasters) to take part in the 1st Internet tournament with the prize fund of more than 130.000 EUR in cash and many special prizes. The 1st prize in the main tournament will be not less than 10.000 EUR.

Registration (and information in English) in the tournament is possible following the link - http://www.mundialchess.com/chess-online/en/zvfdxt6 Registration and information in Spanish - http://www.mundialchess.com/chess-online/es/zvfdxt6 Registration and information in Russian - http://www.mundialchess.com/chess-online/ru/zvfdxt6

Kasparov vs Karpov Match in September

Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov will play a 12 game (4 Rapid and 8 blitz) match in Valencia 21st-24th September 2009. The match is on the 25th Anniversary of the start of their infamous first aborted match in Moscow in 1984-5, this was followed by an epic series of close World title matches which ended in Lyon 1990.

Report in Marca (in Spanish) - http://www.marca.com/2009/07/07/mas_deportes/ajedrez/1246987804.html

Mig confirms the reports: http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2009/07/kasparov-obama-karpov.htm

II Olalachess Academy

The II Olalachess Academy takes place 14th-16th August 2009 in (Salou) Spain. Training for all chess levels.

Official site: http://www.masters.olalachess.com

Zuerich Chess Club 200th Anniversary

Visit the official website look at a quiz with information contained in Richard Forster's recently published book "Schachgesellschaft Zuerich: 1809 bis 2009" the prize of playing in a Simul against a chess legend.

Dr. Christian Rohrer reports: The world's oldest chess club celebrates its 200th year with spectacular jubilee events, including World Champions Spassky, Kasparov and Anand.

The Schachgesellschaft Zuerich celebrates 200th anniversary with spectacular jubilee events.

The Schachgesellschaft Zuerich, the world's oldest chess club, celebrates its 200th year in 2009 with spectacular jubilee events. To mark the anniversary, some of the greatest masters of the last five decades, including World Champions Spassky, Kasparov and Anand, will play at the event. Highlights will be a simultaneous exhibition and a rapid chess tournament on the 22nd and 23rd of August, held in Zurich Main Railway Station. With generous sponsor support from Credit Suisse the Schachgesellschaft Zuerich continues its long standing tradition of world class chess tournaments.

On Saturday the 22nd of August, in simultaneous games 200 amateurs will be honoured to face eight word-class chess players, who have made historical contributions to world chess over the last 50 years: Viswanathan Anand, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Viktor Korchnoi, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Ruslan Ponomariov and Veselin Topalov. On Sunday the 23rd of August, these champions will compete against each other in an exciting rapid chess format. Judit Polgar, the strongest female chess player ever, and Werner Hug of Schachgesellschaft Zuerich, former world junior chess champion, will replace Kasparov and Spassky, who have retired from competitive chess.

A huge number of spectators, from enthusiasts to the generally curious, is expected for the events at Zurich Railway Main Station. And no one need miss it: All commemorative events will be streamed live via Internet.

The jubilee commences with an open tournament; certain to be one of the most exciting open chess tournaments of 2009. Players of every skill level, from beginners to the elite world class, are expected and will be welcomed at the Zurich Kongresshaus from August 9th to the 15th, 2009. They will compete in two tournaments, 9 rounds each, for CHF 100.000 guaranteed prize money and many attractive prizes.

To further honour the occasion, Richard Forster, reputable chess historian, will release his comprehensive book, researched in great detail, on the unique history of the Schachgesellschaft Zuerich. Entitled "Schachgesellschaft Zuerich: 1809 bis 2009", Forster's work will analyze the development of the Schachgesellschaft Zuerich from the times of Napoleon to the present day.

Details: http://www.sgzurich2009.ch

Alexander Morozevich along with Hou Yifan, Alexey Dreev, Artur Yusupov and Lajos Portisch appear in the Alois Nagler Memorial. This open can be entered here: http://www.sgzurich2009.ch/index.php?lang=en

The London Chess Classic in December

Cream of world chess to play in new London tournament. [Press release 25th June 2009]

The London Chess Centre is pleased to announce that the line up for the London Chess Classic 2009 is complete after GM David Howell of England accepted his invitation. This creates a balance to the event, an eight player all play all, with four world class players pitched against England's four highest rated Grandmasters. Using the latest available ratings and information supplied by the players on their recent successes, the tournament rating average is currently well above 2690 and may reach 2700 by December.

Nigel Short and Hikaru Nakamura are both in great shape. Nigel recently dominated the Sigeman tournament at Malmo and Hikaru won the US Championship held at St Louis. Vladimir Kramnik was top scorer at the Azerbaijan v Rest of the World match with 6.5/8.

Play begins Tuesday December 8th and runs until Tuesday December 15th 2009.

The venue for what will be the most prestigious chess tournament in the capital for 25 years will be announced shortly.

Malcolm Pein (IM) Director London Chess Centre

Notes for editors: All communications to Malcolm Pein IM at London Chess Centre: 020 7388 2404. E-Mail: info@chess.co.uk. Website: www.chess.co.uk

1st London Chess Classic (ENG), 8-16 xii 2009. Cat XVIII (2692) Players list (April ratings)
No	Name	Ti	NAT	April Elo	DoB
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2770	1990
2	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2759	1975
3	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2724	1983
4	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2703	1971
5	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2701	1987
6	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2674	1965
7	Howell, David W L	g	ENG	2613	1990
8	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2596	1984

Dates of the London Chess Classic. 7th-16th December 2009
Monday	7th December 2009	Press Conference and drawing of lots
Tuesday	8th December 2009	Round 1
Wednesday	9th December 2009	Round 2
Thursday	10th December 2009	Round 3
Friday	11th December 2009	Rest day
Saturday	12th December 2009	Round 4
Sunday	13th December 2009	Round 5
Monday	14th December 2009	Round 6
Tuesday	15th December 2009	Round 7 + Closing ceremony, charity simultaneous

Grand Slam Masters Final

The 2nd edition of the Grand Slam Masters Final will be played in Bilbao, September 2-15th 2009. The winners of Corus-Wijk aan Zee, Ciudad de Linares and Mtel Masters-Sofia tournaments qualify directly for the Masters Final in Bilbao, where the first edition (played at a central square, inside a glass cube) was a very big success last September.

More details on the 2009 tournament (number of players, system of play, etc) will be announced at the end of the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee. The Grand Slam is in negotiations to include one more high level tournament in the 2009 circuit.

Alexei Shirov received his invitation this week after winning in Sofia. Shirov will come up against Veselin Topalov - winner of the Pearl Spring Tournament, in Nanking, China. Sergey Karjakin - winner of Corus 2009, Wijk ann Zee in the Netherlands. Alexander Grischuk, winner of "Ciudad de Linares", Spain, who have already received their invitations to the Final in Bilbao.

Grand Slam Chess Association (GSCA)

Dresden, 23 November 2008

Commonwealth Chess Championships

The Masterskill Commonwealth Chess Championships take place 9th-15th December 2009 in conjunction with the 6th Singapore International Chess Festival.

It has been moved from 14th-21st July 2009 in Ipoh, Malaysia.

Details of the change: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/3991-commonwealth-chess-championship-2009

2nd Fide Women Grand Prix

The 2nd Fide Women Grand Prix is also take place in Nanjing in 27th Sept - 9th October 2009 with the top 12 players in the world.

Gujuan Tzu blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews

French Championships

The French Championships take place in Nimes, 10th-22nd August 2009.

Details: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Default.aspx?Cat=15

Canadian Closed and Zonal Championship

The Canadian Closed and Zonal Championship: takes place August 7th-16th 2009 in the Guelph University Centre. Eligibility: Provincial Champions, Titled players (FM, IM, GM), players rated 2200 or above. Winner qualifies to 2009 World Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, 2nd and 3rd place finishers qualify to 2011 Continental Chamnpionship. Time Control: 40/90, G/30 plus 30 second Fischer increment from first move.

PDF download

Likely official site: http://www.chess.ca

Unive Tournament Hoogeveen

The Unive Tournament in Hoogeveen takes place 16th-24th October 2009 with a new sponsor.

The main four player tournament has: Vassily Ivanchuk, Judit Polgar, Sergei Tiviakov and Anish Giri. There is an open alongside.

Details: http://www.univechess.nl/

Unive Tournament Hoogeveen (NED), 16-24 x 2009			cat. XVII (2663)
Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2746
Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2693
Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2697
Giri, Anish	f	NED	2517

Yoel Geva's Young Talents GM tournament

Yoel Geva's Young Talents GM tournament: The first Yoel Geva's Young Talents GM tournament takes place in Tel Aviv on 9th-18th August. There will be 10 players in a 9 round all-play-all. Four the best students from the project for young chess talents: T.Nabaty (2504), T.Baron (2410), G.Popilski (2392),D.Raznikov (2270) will compete with experienced players: GM S.Erenburg (2564), GM K.Lerner (2549 - Ukraine), GM Av.Bykhovsky (2396 - Russia), IM An.Bykhovsky (2487 - he is also young player), IM J.Jirka (2440 - Czech Rep.), IM M.Nedobora (2391 - Ukraine).This project was founded by Mr.Yoel Geva (well known with his mathematic and psychometric courses ) and ICF.

Ajedrez 21 English site

Ajedrez 21 now has an English site: http://www.ajedrez21.com/en/

Ravana Challenge International Sri Lanka

The Blue and Gold Chess Club organises the inaugural "The Ravana Challenge International Chess Tournament2 under the auspices of the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, September 12th (arrival) - September 20th, 2009 (departure) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The tournament will be held in a 5 star hotel in Colombo.

Details: http://www.blueandgoldchessclub.com/Ravana/index.html

World Youth Championship

The World Youth Chess Championship 2009 (under 8, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 years old - open and girls) which will take place in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, between November the 11th, 2009 (arrival) and November the 23th, 2009 (departure).

Official site: http://wycc2009.tsf.org.tr/

FIDE World Cup Nov-Dec 2009

FIDE have announced some of the qualifiers for the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, 20 November to 15 December 2009. In a few days the list with qualifiers from the Continental and Zonal Championships 2008-09 will also be published.

FIDE announcement: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/4037-list-of-qualifiers-for-world-cup

Khanty-Mansiysk (RUS), 20 xi - 15 xii 2009 Qualifiers:
a) From World Championship Match 2008:
1.	V. Anand	IND	World Champion
b) From World Cup 2007:
2.	G. Kamsky	USA
3.	A. Shirov	ESP
4.	M. Carlsen	NOR
5.	S. Karjakin	UKR
c) Women's World Champion 2008:
6.	A. Kosteniuk	RUS
d) Junior World Champions 2007 & 2008:
7.	A. Adly	EGY
8.	A. Gupta	IND
d) From FIDE Rating List, 20 players, average 7/2008 & 1/2009:
09.	V. Topalov	BUL	2786,50
10.	V. Ivanchuk	UKR	2780,00
11.	A. Morozevich	RUS	2779,50
12.	V. Kramnik	RUS	2773,50
13.	T. Radjabov	AZE	2752,50
14.	P. Leko	HUN	2746,00
15.	L. Aronian	ARM	2743,50
16.	S. Movsesian	SVK	2737,00
17.	D. Jakovenko	RUS	2734,50
18.	S. Mamedyarov	AZE	2733,00
19.	P. Svidler	RUS	2730,50
20.	A. Grischuk	RUS	2730,50
21.	B. Gelfand	ISR	2726,50
22.	M. Adams	ENG	2723,50
23.	R. Ponomariov	UKR	2722,00
24.	Wang Yue	CHN	2721,50
25.	V. Gashimov	AZE	2720,00
26.	E. Alekseev	RUS	2713,00
27.	L. Dominguez Perez	CUB	2712,50
28.	Ni Hua	CHN	2707,00
e) 90 players from the Continental & Zonal Championships 2008 & 2009:
(to be published soon)...
Reserve players who may qualify by rating, average 7/2008 & 1/2009:
1.	E. Bacrot	FRA	2706,50
2.	Bu Xiangzhi	CHN	2706,00
3.	P. Eljanov	UKR	2704,50
4.	J. Polgar	HUN	2702,00
5.	S. Rublevsky	RUS	2700,50
6.	H. Nakamura	USA	2698,00
7.	K. Sasikiran	IND	2697,50
8.	Wang Hao	CHN	2691,00
9.	V. Malakhov	RUS	2690,50
10.	M. Vachier-Lagrave	FRA	2688,50
11.	V. Milov	SUI	2687,00
12.	V. Bologan	MDA	2686,50
13.	V. Akopian	ARM	2686,50
14.	L. Nisipeanu	ROU	2683,50
15.	R. Kasimdzhanov	UZB	2683,00
16.	I. Cheparinov	BUL	2683,00
17.	Z. Efimenko	UKR	2679,00
18.	A. Naiditsch	GER	2679,00
19.	F. Vallejo Pons	ESP	2676,00
20.	A. Motylev	RUS	2675,00

Kingpin Magazine

The humourous and satirical chess magazine Kingpin has a new website.

New website address: http://www.kingpinchess.net

Efimenko vs. Short Match

There is a six-game match between GMs Zahar Efimenko (Ukraine) and Nigel Short (England) in Mukachevo, Ukraine 20th-26th (rest day 23rd) September 2009.

Info at: http://www.uep-worldchess.com/ (Universal Event Promotion) and the Mukachevo club website http://www.chess32x64.org

Arvier (Aosta valley) Open

The Festival des Echecs Francophone takes place in Arvier (Aosta valley) September 26th - October 3rd 2009. The final round has been moved back a day as the 4th is the start of the European Club Team Championship. More information will appear at: http://www.scacchivda.com.

If you require further details contact by email (in French) to a.scalfi@scacchivda.com

IX Szombathely Chess Festival

The IX Szombathely Chess Festival takes place 15th-23rd August 2009. GM, IM Round Robins and Open Tournament.

Official site: http://sakk.savaria.hu/main.php?Lang=EN

12th Olomouc Chess Summer International Festival

The 12th Olomouc Chess Summer International Chess Festival 2009, takes place in the city of Olomouc on 5th-13th August 2009. Closed GM and IM tournaments, FIDE open, seniors tournament, active chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival.

Details: http://www.czechtour.net/olomouc-chess-summer/

6th Highlands Open International Chess Festival

6th Highlands Open International Chess Festival 2009, takes place in the town of Zdar nad Sazavou 26th September - 4th October 2009. IM tournament, FIDE open, active chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival.

Details: http://www.czechtour.net/highlands-open/

XI Hostafrancs Open

The XI Open Internacional D'escacs de Sants, Hostafrancs I La Bordeta takes place 21st-30th August 2009.

Details: http://www.cotxeres.org/open/

Lithuanian University of Agriculture CUP

Lithuanian University of Agriculture CUP August 22nd - 28th 2009.

Organizers. Kaunas Chess Federation, Lithuanian University of Agriculture (http://www.lzuu.lt), Youth chess club "Three zeros" (http://www.0-0-0.lt).

XIII Magistral de la Republica

The XIII Magistral de la Republica takes place in Villa Martelli 4th-14th August 2009.

Official site: http://www.ajedrezmartelli.org.ar/magistrales/2009/cronograma09.htm

7th Mediterranean Chess Championship

The 7th Mediterranean Chess Championship takes place 11th-19th September 2009. Open to everyone.

Official site: http://www.medchess.com/ although I can't see details of the new tournament.

VIII Benidorm International Chess Festival

VIII Benidorm International Chess Festival 2009 takes place 27th November - 8th December 2009.

Website: http://www.ajedrezbali.com

Torch Real Estate Cup

The Chinese team competition the Torch Real Estate Cup started in Chengdu China on 4th May 2009. I'm hoping for a full game file.

Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess/tfd.htm

Official site: http://chess.sport.org.cn/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr21650.aspx

Acropolis Open

The Acropolis Open takes place 10th-18th August 2009 in Chalkida, Greece. Organizers: Greek Chess Federation (GCF), Ministry of Tourism in Attiki, Chalkida Chess Academy.

Regulations: Swiss System 9 rounds, invitational FIDE rated tournament, 70-80 players, minimum required FIDE rating 2200 (women 2000), GM & IM title norms possible, FIDE time-control (90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes until the end of the game plus increment of 30 seconds per move from move 1).

Contact info: Sotiris Logothetis (Tournament Coordinator) Tel: (+30) 6947324933, Email: middlewave74@gmail.com Greek Chess Federation (GCF) Tel.: (+30) 2109221465, Fax: (+30) 2109221620, Email: info@chessfed.gr

Official site: http://www.chessfed.gr/acropolis2009

Historical Elo Ratings

http://www.shakki.net/history/elotop.htm has a list of historical top ten FIDE lists. The text is in Finnish but is understandable anyhow.

Reno Far West Open

The Far West Open Chess Tournament took place April 10th-12th 2009 in Reno Nevada. Sergey Kudrin edged out Enrico Sevillano and Gergerly Antal who finished on 5/6. Games should follow.

Official site: http://www.renochess.org/fwo/index.html

14th Pannonia - Nitrokemia Cup

The 14th Pannonia - Nitrokemia Cup takes place in Balatonalmadi, 29th July - 2nd August, 2009.

Group A: International Open Tournament for FIDE ratings. Group B: International Open Tournament for FIDE ratings, for players under 2000 ELO System used: 7 Rounds Swiss without age limit for both Groups Venue: The air-conditioned Conference Hall of Pannonia Cultural Centre & Library Address: Balatonalmadi, Városház Square 6. Organiser: Recreation Association of Vorosbereny Time Limit: Group A: 90-90 minutes + 30sec after each move Group B: 120-120 minutes for all moves

Details: http://fancsyimi.fw.hu. Entries and further information IM Fancsy Imre E-mail: almadikupa@freemail.hu

6th Summer Catalan Chess Circuit

The 6th Summer Catalan Chess Circuit takes place May - September every year as part of the Catalan Chess Circuit, which is composed of 28 International Tournaments, and held in Spain, extended beyond Catalonia.

In 2009 there will be 14 Opens with traditional time control to be played over 9-10 days, as well as 14 Opens in Rapid Chess, played over 1-2 days (see Tournament Calendar).

During 120 days of tournaments, around 22.000 chess games will be played with selected ones broadcast.

Approximately 3,000 players from more than 30 different countries. The prize fund will reach 175.000 euros.

Apart from the traditional tournament prizes, the Catalan Chess Federation establishes a special classification composed of player´s results in each Circuit tournament, based on which players will be able to claim such special Circuit Prizes as General Final Standings, Prizes by Categories, Specific Prizes for best Catalan Players.

Prizegiving Ceremony will be held at Fiesta Catalana (Catalan Chess Party), on September, 27th, 2009

For more information please contact the Catalonia Chess Federation on federacio@escacs.cat or visit the official website: http://escacs.cat/circuit2009/torneigs.html

6th Summer Catalan Chess Circuit (ESP), 5 v - 20 ix 2009
20 June	CIUTAT DE REUS	REUS	9 Rd Swiss	a	a sup	Joan Pinol 649341056
21 June	MOLLET DEL VALLES	MOLLET DEL VALLES	9 Rd Swiss	b	a	Francesc Fernandez 647625832
24 June-2 July	VILA DE SORT	SORT	9 Rd Swiss	B	C	Joan A. Conesa 609825066
25 June-3 July	VILA DE MONTCADA	MONTCADA	9 Rd Swiss	A	A	Reyes Cantero 938152902
4-12 July	BARBERÀ DEL VALLES	BARBERA DEL VALLES	9 Rd Swiss	A	A sup	Victor Pont 629386528
4-12 July	TORREDEMBARRA	TORREDEMBARRA	9 Rd Swiss	C	B	Jordi Salvat 649061984
13-22 July	CIUTAT DE BALAGUER	BALAGUER	10 Rd Swiss	A sup	A	Antoni Montoliu 679082837
18-26 July	ANDORRA	LES ESCALDES	9 Rd Swiss	A sup	A sup	Oscar la Riva 00376-347085
22-30 July	VILA DE SITGES	SITGES	9 Rd Swiss	A	A	Francesc González 600923277
25 July	CERVELLO	CERVELLO	8 Rd Swiss	b	b	Juan Mª Santiago 936840402
26 July	OLOT	OLOT	8 Rd Swiss	b	b	Josep Ma Mir 606119678
1-8 August	FIGUERES "MIQUEL MAS"	FIGUERES	9 Rd Swiss	C	A	Jordi Serra 699848479
1-9 August	CIUTAT DE BADALONA	BADALONA	9 Rd Swiss	A	A sup	Manel Triquell 609683157
2-10 August	LA POBLA DE LILLET	LA POBLA DE LILLET	9 Rd Swiss	C	C	Josep Salvador 630625152
15-16 August	VILA DE POBLENOU	BARCELONA	10 Rd Swiss	a sup	a	Joan Lorda 659529581
21-30 August	SANTS	BARCELONA	10 Rd Swiss	A sup	A sup	Cotxeres 932918701
22-23 August	AJEDREZND	BARCELONA	9 Rd Swiss	a sup	a	Jordi Morcillo 620341266
1-10 September	FESTIVAL DE SABADELL	SABADELL	9 Rd Swiss	B	B	Ivan Aguilar 666346958
6 September	VILA DE SANTPEDOR	SANTPEDOR	9 Rd Swiss	b	b	Josep Mascaro 616477533
11 September	DIADA DE L'11 DE SETEMBRE	SABADELL	9 Rd Swiss	a	a sup	Ivan Aguilar 666346958
12 September	RIBERA D'EBRE	MORA D'EBRE	8 Rd Swiss	a	a	Josep Terrones 696204203
13 September	CIUTAT DE TORTOSA	TORTOSA	8 Rd Swiss	b	b	Abraham Pla 680532570
19-20 September	VALLFOGONA DE BALAGUER	VALLFOGONA DE BALAGUER	Suis 11 rondes	a sup	a	Jaume Parramon 649960831
Potential
13-21 July	SANT MARTI	BARCELONA	9 Rd Swiss			Ricard Llerins 933082425

European Youth Championships

The European Youth Championships (U10 - U18) takes place in Fermo/Italy 30th August - 10th September 2009.

Details: http://www.euroyouth2009.com

European Union Website

The European Chess Union Website ECU website has changed address to http://www.europechess.org

Alushta Diary 2009

Alushta Diary 2009:

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, 5.09 - 13.09, Open tournament (under 16 years) 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, 10.07 - 18.07, 20.07 - 28.07, 22.08 - 30.08, Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Blitz tournament 7.07, 19.07, 29.07, Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Open tournament (rapid chess) 8.07 - 9.07, 30.07 - 31.07, Alushta Session of school of Gennadi Kuzmin 21.06 - 27.06, 15.07 - 24.07. Individual and group studying Further information: http://www.kaissa.com.ua phone +38 (06560)5-05-32, +380505828911 (for Russian speaking), + 380506692604 (for English speaking) e-mail: info@kaissa.com.ua

Chess Study

Dr Robert Howard is making a study of rated chess players.

The full article: http://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/fidestudy/results

If you would like to participate, please go to this website: http://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/fidestudy/

For any queries, please contact Dr Robert Howard, University of New South Wales, on rwh@unsw.edu.au