THE WEEK IN CHESS 803 29th March 2010 by Mark Crowther

1) Introduction

My thanks to Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr, Miklos Orso, Mihajlo Savic, Dennis Monokroussos, Istvan Brindza, Mikel Larreategi, Eric van Reem, Sean Hewitt, Richard Reich, Dragan Babic, Mitko Iliev, George Mirijanian, Jon Speelman and everyone else who helped with the issue.

This week is dominated by the news of Vasily Smyslov's death at the age of 89. The 7th World Chess Champion was the best player for most of the 1950s even though he was only World Champion for just over a year 1957-8. His return to top level chess in his 60s when he played Gary Kasparov for the right to play Anatoly Karpov in 1984 was testament to his tremendous ability at the game. He only stopped playing due to failing eyesight. His final months seemed to have been distressed with both he and his wife being ill, a sad end to a true giant of the game. Elsewhere the Amber tournament was won by Magnus Carlsen and an undefeated Vassily Ivanchuk (who Smyslov beat in 1988 in a fine game). Again there is a lot of team chess also this week.

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament

The 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament took place at the Palais de la Mediterranee in Nice, France, March 12th-25th 2010. The event was organized by the Association Max Euwe of chess maecenas Joop van Oosterom, which is based in Monaco. World Number One Magnus Carlsen and Amber favourite Vassily Ivanchuk shared first place.

Official site: http://www.amberchess2010.com/

Round 9. Vassily Ivanchuk drew both his games against Vugar Gashimov. He now leads by half a point over Magnus Carlsen who beat Leinier Dominguez Perez 1.5-0.5. Alexander Grischuk leads the blindfold section, Ivanchuk the rapid.

Round 10. Magnus Carlsen retook the overall lead after 10 of the 11 rounds of the Amber tournament. He beat Ruslan Ponomariov 2-0. In both the rapid and especially the blindfold games Ponomariov had some advantage but Carlsen turned things around. In the rapid game Ponomariov lost a completely drawn position in the final Rook and Pawn ending. Alexander Grischuk lost his unbeaten record in the blindfold tournament when he was defeated by Levon Aronian. Vassily Ivanchuk put Vladimir Kramnik under sustained pressure in their blindfold game, Kramnik eventually holding the Rook and Knight vs Rook ending. Kramnik returned the favour by obtaining an advantageous ending against Ivanchuk in the Rapid but eventually Ivanchuk's technique was enough to hold. Magnus Carlsen leads overall with 13.5/20 half a point clear of Vassily Ivanchuk. Grischuk's lead is down to half a point from Carlsen in the blindfold tournament with 7/10. Carlsen and Ivanchuk have 7/10 in the Rapid. Vassily Ivanchuk is still undefeated in the tournament as a whole.

Final Round 11 Blindfold. Magnus Carlsen blundered away a whole queen by losing track of the position against Alexander Grischuk. This meant Grischuk took clear first place in the blindfold tournament with 8/11. Vassily Ivanchuk played very boldly against Boris Gelfand but eventually the players found a way to repeat. Thus Ivanchuk caught Carlsen in 2nd place in the blindfold tournament and also equalised their scores in the over-all standings. Vladimir Kramnik also joined these players on 6.5/9 by beating Sergey Karjakin. He also moved to within half a point of Carlsen and Ivanchuk in the overall standings.

Rapid: Vassily Ivanchuk made sure of at least a share of first place in the rapid and combined standings after finishing with a flourish by crushing Boris Gelfand. Vladimir Kramnik took one too many liberties in the pursuit of a win with black and was beaten by Sergey Karjakin. Kramnik still finished 3rd in the overall standings so I guess he thought it worth the risk. Magnus Carlsen won his final game against Alexander Grischuk in style to tie with Ivanchuk in the Rapid and combined sections

19th Amber Blindfold Nice (FRA), 13-25 iii 2010															cat. XX (2746)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2756	*	½	1	1	½	½	1	1	0	½	1	1	8	2920
2.	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2748	½	*	½	1	½	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	6½	2811
3.	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2790	0	½	*	1	0	½	½	1	1	1	0	1	6½	2807
4.	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2813	0	0	0	*	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	½	6½	2805
5.	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2750	½	½	1	0	*	1	½	½	½	0	½	1	6	2781
6.	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2740	½	½	½	1	0	*	½	½	0	½	½	1	5½	2746
7.	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2750	0	½	½	0	½	½	*	0	1	1	1	½	5½	2745
8.	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2725	0	0	0	0	½	½	1	*	1	1	½	1	5½	2748
9.	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2782	1	½	0	0	½	1	0	0	*	0	1	1	5	2707
10.	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2737	½	½	0	0	1	½	0	0	1	*	½	½	4½	2682
11.	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2651	0	½	1	0	½	½	0	½	0	½	*	½	4	2652
12.	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2713	0	½	0	½	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	*	2½	2538

Round 9 (March 23, 2010)
Grischuk, Alexander	- Smeets, Jan	1-0	52	A09	Reti Opening
Kramnik, Vladimir	- Svidler, Peter	½-½	31	D80	Gruenfeld 4.Bg5
Gelfand, Boris	- Karjakin, Sergey	½-½	18	D16	Slav Lasker/Smyslov
Gashimov, Vugar	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	30	B43	Sicilian Paulsen
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Aronian, Levon	1-0	49	D85	Gruenfeld Defence
Dominguez Perez, Leinier	- Carlsen, Magnus	½-½	50	E06	Catalan
Round 10 (March 24, 2010)
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Kramnik, Vladimir	½-½	112	C42	Petroff's Defence
Carlsen, Magnus	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	1-0	41	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Svidler, Peter	- Gelfand, Boris	½-½	49	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Karjakin, Sergey	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	25	B87	Sicilian Sozin Attack
Aronian, Levon	- Grischuk, Alexander	1-0	38	A29	English Four Knights
Smeets, Jan	- Dominguez Perez, Leinier	½-½	63	C45	Scotch Game
Round 11 (March 25, 2010)
Grischuk, Alexander	- Carlsen, Magnus	1-0	26	E70	King's Indian Fianchetto
Kramnik, Vladimir	- Karjakin, Sergey	1-0	76	E15	Queens Indian
Gelfand, Boris	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	33	D02	Queen's Pawn Game
Gashimov, Vugar	- Svidler, Peter	½-½	60	C91	Ruy Lopez
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Smeets, Jan	½-½	35	D10	Slav Defence
Dominguez Perez, Leinier	- Aronian, Levon	0-1	37	D13	Slav Exchange

19th Amber Rapid Nice (FRA), 13-25 iii 2010															cat. XX (2746)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2748	*	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	½	1	½	1	8	2921
2.	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2813	0	*	0	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	8	2915
3.	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2725	½	1	*	1	0	½	0	½	1	½	1	½	6½	2813
4.	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2790	½	½	0	*	1	1	0	0	1	1	½	1	6½	2807
5.	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2750	½	0	1	0	*	½	1	1	0	½	1	½	6	2781
6.	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2740	½	½	½	0	½	*	½	0	1	1	½	1	6	2782
7.	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2782	0	0	1	1	0	½	*	½	1	½	½	1	6	2779
8.	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2750	0	0	½	1	0	1	½	*	0	½	1	1	5½	2745
9.	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2737	½	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	*	½	½	1	4½	2682
10.	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2756	0	0	½	0	½	0	½	½	½	*	1	1	4½	2680
11.	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2713	½	0	0	½	0	½	½	0	½	0	*	0	2½	2538
12.	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2651	0	0	½	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	1	*	2	2492

Round 9 (March 23, 2010)
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	38	A09	Reti Opening
Carlsen, Magnus	- Dominguez Perez, Leinier	1-0	47	B92	Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2
Karjakin, Sergey	- Gelfand, Boris	½-½	35	C42	Petroff's Defence
Svidler, Peter	- Kramnik, Vladimir	0-1	43	D38	QGD Ragozin
Aronian, Levon	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	1-0	47	A13	Reti Opening
Smeets, Jan	- Grischuk, Alexander	0-1	45	B41	Sicilian Paulsen
Round 10 (March 24, 2010)
Kramnik, Vladimir	- Ivanchuk, Vassily	½-½	46	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Gashimov, Vugar	- Karjakin, Sergey	½-½	27	B97	Sicilian Najdorf
Gelfand, Boris	- Svidler, Peter	0-1	75	D85	Gruenfeld Defence
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Carlsen, Magnus	0-1	100	D86	Gruenfeld Simagin
Grischuk, Alexander	- Aronian, Levon	½-½	35	E04	Catalan
Dominguez Perez, Leinier	- Smeets, Jan	0-1	42	C80	Ruy Lopez Open
Round 11 (March 25, 2010)
Ivanchuk, Vassily	- Gelfand, Boris	1-0	32	C42	Petroff's Defence
Carlsen, Magnus	- Grischuk, Alexander	1-0	41	D38	QGD Ragozin
Karjakin, Sergey	- Kramnik, Vladimir	1-0	33	B09	Pirc Defence
Svidler, Peter	- Gashimov, Vugar	½-½	43	A46	Queen's Pawn Opening
Aronian, Levon	- Dominguez Perez, Leinier	½-½	42	A37	English Symmetrical
Smeets, Jan	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	0-1	44	C45	Scotch Game

19th Amber Combined Nice (FRA), 13-25 iii 2010																				cat. XX (2746)
					1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12
1.	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2748	*	*	1	1	½	½	½	1	1	½	½	½	½	1	½	½	½	1	½	½	½	1	½	½	14.5	2863
2.	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2813	0	0	*	*	0	½	0	1	1	0	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	14.5	2857
3.	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2790	½	½	1	½	*	*	0	1	1	0	½	1	0	0	½	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	½	13.0	2807
4.	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2756	½	0	1	0	1	0	*	*	1	½	½	0	½	½	1	½	0	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	12.5	2795
5.	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2725	0	½	0	1	0	1	0	½	*	*	½	½	½	½	1	0	1	0	1	1	½	½	1	1	12.0	2784
6.	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	2740	½	½	1	½	½	0	½	1	½	½	*	*	0	0	½	½	0	½	½	1	½	1	1	½	11.5	2760
7.	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	2750	½	0	0	0	1	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	*	*	½	0	½	½	0	0	½	1	1	1	11.5	2759
8.	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	2750	½	½	0	0	½	0	0	½	0	1	½	½	½	1	*	*	1	1	1	0	1	½	½	1	11.5	2759
9.	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2782	½	0	0	0	0	1	1	½	0	1	1	½	½	½	0	0	*	*	0	1	1	1	1	½	11.0	2743
10.	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2737	½	½	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	0	½	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	*	*	½	1	½	½	9.0	2682
11.	Smeets, Jan	g	NED	2651	½	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	½	½	½	0	½	0	0	½	0	0	½	0	*	*	½	1	6.0	2579
12.	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2713	½	½	½	0	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	½	½	0	*	*	5.0	2538

3) French League Top 16

The French League Top 16 saw the first weekend of games 26th-28th March 2010. There were four venues and two groups. Time control 90mins for 40 moves, 30mins for the rest, 30 seconds per move from move one. The second set of games 29th April - 2nd May 2010 and the final set 3rd-6th June 2010.

There are two initial groups, each with two venues. Group A took place in Vandoeuvre (Deauville, Drancy, Montpellier and Vandoeuvre) and in Evry (Evry, Noyon, Guingamp and Marseille Echecs). Group B took place in Chalons-en-Champagne (Cannes, Lyon, Strasbourg and Chalonnais) and Clichy (Metz, Mulhouse and Clichy-Échecs-92 (Bischwiller seem to be defaulting)).

French Chess Federation: http://www.echecs.asso.fr

Venue Links: http://www.lechiquier-chalonnais.com - http://www.clichy-echecs.org/ - http://www.evry-grandroque.com/ - http://www.vandoeuvre-echecs.com/

Compiled game files: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Tournois/2010/Equipes/2.pgn and http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Tournois/2010/Equipes/3.pgn

TCh-FRA Top 16 2010 (FRA), 26 iii-6 vi 2010
Group A
Round 1 26th March 2010
Deauville			4 - 1	Montpellier
m	BELLAICHE Anthony	2443	1 - 0	g	SWINKELS Robin	2501
m	VOJINOVIC Goran	2443	X - X	g	PRIE Eric	2502
m	COLIN Vincent	2445	1 - 0	m	TOUZANE Olivier	2287
m	TIRARD Hugo	2451	1 - 0	f	SARTHOU Gaetan	2386
m	GODARD Maxence	2340	X - X	f	KAUFELD Juergen	2241
f	GEENEN Marc	2327	0 - 1	f	LITWAK Aleksej	2269
	SANDALAKIS Angelos	2319	X - X		BUSCARA Sevan	2238
ff	FRUTEAU Sabine	2125	1 - 0		BUSCARA Lena	1688
Drancy			0 - 6	Vandoeuvre
g	KOMAROV Dimitri	2523	0 - 1	g	KASIMDZHANOV Rustam	2702
g	TODOROV Todor	2493	X - X	g	BAUER Christian	2607
g	LAZAREV Vladimir	2468	0 - 1	g	LANDA Konstantin	2635
g	LEGKY Nikolay A	2428	0 - 1	m	BRUNNER Nicolas	2420
m	GIFFARD Nicolas	2361	0 - 1	f	PACI Cedric	2345
m	KARR Jean-Philippe	2385	0 - 1	m	PHILIPPE Christophe	2428
m	BIJAOUI Manuel	2410	X - X	m	NEZAR Mustapha	2398
	LEFEVRE Margaux	2036	0 - 1	ff	STEIL-ANTONI Fiona	2151
Evry Grand Roque			2 - 0	Noyon
g	VACHIER-LAGRAVE Maxime	2727	X - X	g	MAGEM BADALS Jordi	2576
g	SVIDLER Peter	2750	X - X	g	GOFSHTEIN Leonid	2540
g	FELLER Sebastien	2576	X - X	g	SOKOLOV Ivan	2638
g	DORFMAN Iossif	2587	X - X	m	AGUETTAZ Maxime	2389
g	HAUCHARD Arnaud	2527	X - X	m	NGUYEN Chi-Minh	2439
g	KOGAN Artur	2524	1 - 0	f	CLERY Nicolas	2391
g	CHABANON Jean-Luc	2455	X - X	m	HOUSIEAUX David	2431
m	MILLIET Sophie	2391	1 - 0	ff	ASSAD Karine	2056
Guingamp			0 - 5	Marseille Echecs
g	CORNETTE Matthieu	2552	X - X	g	BACROT Etienne	2714
m	LE ROUX Jean-Pierre	2512	0 - 1	g	DELCHEV Aleksander	2625
m	TERRIEUX Kevin	2423	0 - 1	g	NATAF Igor-Alexandre	2534
m	DUMITRACHE Dragos-Nicolae	2467	X - X	g	MITON Kamil	2581
f	BAILET Pierre	2367	X - X	g	DEGRAEVE Jean-Marc	2563
f	LAURENT Julien G.	2319	0 - 1	m	GOZZOLI Yannick	2515
	BODENEZ Vincent	2186	0 - 1	m	MARZOLO Cyril	2470
	LE DIOURON Aurelie	1956	0 - 1	mf	DELORME Laurie	2226
Round 2 27th March 2010
Drancy			2 - 1	Deauville
g	LAZAREV Vladimir	2468	X - X	m	VOJINOVIC Goran	2443
g	LEGKY Nikolay A	2428	X - X	m	TIRARD Hugo	2451
g	KOMAROV Dimitri	2523	1 - 0	m	COLIN Vincent	2445
g	TODOROV Todor	2493	1 - 0	m	BELLAICHE Anthony	2443
m	BIJAOUI Manuel	2410	X - X		SANDALAKIS Angelos	2319
m	GIFFARD Nicolas	2361	0 - 1	m	GODARD Maxence	2340
m	KARR Jean-Philippe	2385	X - X	f	GEENEN Marc	2327
	LEFEVRE Margaux	2036	X - X	ff	FRUTEAU Sabine	2125
Guingamp			0 - 5	Evry Grand Roque
m	DUMITRACHE Dragos-Nicolae	2467	X - X	g	VACHIER-LAGRAVE Maxime	2727
g	CORNETTE Matthieu	2552	X - X	g	KOGAN Artur	2524
m	LE ROUX Jean-Pierre	2512	0 - 1	g	FELLER Sebastien	2576
m	TERRIEUX Kevin	2423	X - X	g	DORFMAN Iossif	2587
f	BAILET Pierre	2367	0 - 1	g	RELANGE Eloi	2455
	BODENEZ Vincent	2186	0 - 1	f	MOUSSARD Jules	2379
	LE GOFF Damien	2281	0 - 1	g	CHABANON Jean-Luc	2455
	LE DIOURON Aurelie	1956	0 - 1	m	MILLIET Sophie	2391
Marseille Echecs			4 - 0	Noyon
g	BACROT Etienne	2714	1 - 0	g	SOKOLOV Ivan	2638
g	DEGRAEVE Jean-Marc	2563	X - X	g	MAGEM BADALS Jordi	2576
g	NATAF Igor-Alexandre	2534	X - X	g	GOFSHTEIN Leonid	2540
g	MITON Kamil	2581	1 - 0	m	HOUSIEAUX David	2431
g	DELCHEV Aleksander	2625	1 - 0	m	NGUYEN Chi-Minh	2439
m	GOZZOLI Yannick	2515	X - X	m	AGUETTAZ Maxime	2389
m	MARZOLO Cyril	2470	1 - 0	f	CLERY Nicolas	2391
mf	DELORME Laurie	2226	X - X	ff	ASSAD Karine	2056
Vandoeuvre			2 - 1	Montpellier
g	KASIMDZHANOV Rustam	2702	X - X	g	PRIE Eric	2502
g	BAUER Christian	2607	0 - 1	g	SWINKELS Robin	2501
g	LANDA Konstantin	2635	1 - 0	f	SARTHOU Gaetan	2386
m	BRUNNER Nicolas	2420	X - X	f	LITWAK Aleksej	2269
m	NEZAR Mustapha	2398	X - X	m	TOUZANE Olivier	2287
m	PHILIPPE Christophe	2428	X - X	f	KAUFELD Juergen	2241
f	GENZLING Alain	2398	X - X		BUSCARA Sevan	2238
ff	STEIL-ANTONI Fiona	2151	1 - 0		BUSCARA Lena	1688
Round 3 28th March 2010
Deauville			0 - 5	Vandoeuvre
m	VOJINOVIC Goran	2443	X - X	g	KASIMDZHANOV Rustam	2702
m	BELLAICHE Anthony	2443	0 - 1	g	LANDA Konstantin	2635
m	TIRARD Hugo	2451	0 - 1	g	BAUER Christian	2607
m	COLIN Vincent	2445	0 - 1	m	PHILIPPE Christophe	2428
f	GEENEN Marc	2327	X - X	f	GENZLING Alain	2398
	SANDALAKIS Angelos	2319	X - X	m	BRUNNER Nicolas	2420
	AZADHARF Farrokh	2245	0 - 1	m	NEZAR Mustapha	2398
ff	FRUTEAU Sabine	2125	0 - 1	ff	STEIL-ANTONI Fiona	2151
Evry Grand Roque			3 - 0	Marseille Echecs
g	SVIDLER Peter	2750	X - X	g	BACROT Etienne	2714
g	VACHIER-LAGRAVE Maxime	2727	X - X	g	MITON Kamil	2581
g	ELJANOV Pavel	2736	1 - 0	g	DELCHEV Aleksander	2625
g	DORFMAN Iossif	2587	X - X	m	GOZZOLI Yannick	2515
g	FELLER Sebastien	2576	X - X	g	DEGRAEVE Jean-Marc	2563
g	HAUCHARD Arnaud	2527	X - X	m	MARZOLO Cyril	2470
g	KOGAN Artur	2524	1 - 0	g	NATAF Igor-Alexandre	2534
m	MILLIET Sophie	2391	1 - 0	mf	DELORME Laurie	2226
Montpellier			0 - 3	Drancy
g	SWINKELS Robin	2501	0 - 1	g	LEGKY Nikolay A	2428
g	PRIE Eric	2502	X - X	g	LAZAREV Vladimir	2468
f	SARTHOU Gaetan	2386	0 - 1	g	TODOROV Todor	2493
m	TOUZANE Olivier	2287	X - X	g	KOMAROV Dimitri	2523
	BUSCARA Sevan	2238	0 - 1	m	BIJAOUI Manuel	2410
f	LITWAK Aleksej	2269	X - X	m	KARR Jean-Philippe	2385
f	KAUFELD Juergen	2241	X - X	m	GIFFARD Nicolas	2361
	BUSCARA Lena	1688	X - X		LEFEVRE Margaux	2036
Noyon			3 - 2	Guingamp
g	SOKOLOV Ivan	2638	X - X	m	DUMITRACHE Dragos-Nicolae	2467
g	MAGEM BADALS Jordi	2576	1 - 0	g	CORNETTE Matthieu	2552
g	GOFSHTEIN Leonid	2540	X - X	m	LE ROUX Jean-Pierre	2512
f	CLERY Nicolas	2391	X - X	m	TERRIEUX Kevin	2423
m	HOUSIEAUX David	2431	1 - 0		LE GOFF Damien	2281
m	AGUETTAZ Maxime	2389	1 - 0	f	LAURENT Julien G.	2319
m	NGUYEN Chi-Minh	2439	0 - 1	f	BAILET Pierre	2367
ff	ASSAD Karine	2056	0 - 1		LE DIOURON Aurelie	1956

TCh-FRA Top 16 2010 Group A Standings: (FRA), 26 iii-6 vi 2010
Pl.	Team	Pts	j.	d.	p.	c.
1	Vandoeuvre	9	3	12	13	1
2	Evry Grand Roque	9	3	10	10	0
3	Marseille Echecs	7	3	6	9	3
4	Drancy	7	3	-2	5	7
5	Deauville	5	3	-3	5	8
6	Noyon	5	3	-5	3	8
7	Montpellier	3	3	-7	2	9
8	Guingamp	3	3	-11	2	13

TCh-FRA Top 16 2010 (FRA), 26 iii-6 vi 2010
Group B
Round 1 26th March 2010
Venue: Chalons en Champagne
Chalons en Champagne			8 - 0	Strasbourg
g	VAN WELY Loek	2639	1 - 0	g	ROZENTALIS Eduardas	2628
g	GIRI Anish	2624	1 - 0	g	VAISSER Anatoly	2511
g	EDOUARD Romain	2617	1 - 0	m	VARGA Peter	2434
g	KRASENKOW Michal	2652	1 - 0	m	ROOS Daniel	2435
g	SEBAG Marie	2506	1 - 0	m	SZABOLCSI Janos	2361
g	APICELLA Manuel	2523	1 - 0	m	ROOS Louis	2360
m	DOURERASSOU Jonathan	2413	1 - 0	f	REINHART Emmanuel	2337
m	COSSIN Sebastien	2497	1 - 0	mf	NICOARA Malina	2151
Lyon Olympique Echecs			0 - 3	Cannes
g	SUMETS Andrey	2614	X - X	g	KAZHGALEYEV Murtas	2637
m	DONCEA Vladimir	2475	X - X	g	TKACHIEV Vladislav	2639
m	VERNAY Clovis	2440	X - X	g	GODENA Michele	2561
m	BENITAH Yohan	2377	X - X	g	FONTAINE Robert	2548
f	RENAZE Luc	2304	X - X	g	LAHNO Kateryna	2518
	LACOUR Serge	2194	0 - 1	m	GOVCIYAN Pavel	2430
	RAVOT Sylvain	2264	0 - 1	m	GUIDARELLI Laurent	2433
	MEHIAOUI Dounia	1934	0 - 1	gf	LECONTE Maria	2330
Venue: Clichy
Clichy			2 - 3	Metz Fischer
g	JAKOVENKO Dmitry	2725	X - X	g	RIAZANTSEV Alexander	2660
g	FRESSINET Laurent	2670	X - X	g	SVETUSHKIN Dmitry	2554
g	PELLETIER Yannick	2611	X - X	g	POSTNY Evgeny	2641
g	TREGUBOV Pavel V.	2625	0 - 1	m	KOCH Jean-Rene	2470
g	HAMDOUCHI Hicham	2606	1 - 0		HISLER Thomas	2240
g	MAZE Sebastien	2554	1 - 0	m	COLLAS Silvia	2313
m	SKRIPCHENKO Almira	2456	0 - 1	f	PUCHER Olivier	2342
m	DELORME Axel	2429	0 - 1	f	NEIMAN Emmanuel	2339
Mulhouse Philidor			5 - 0	Bischwiller
g	BOLOGAN Viktor	2684
g	SOKOLOV Andrei	2563
g	ABERGEL Thal	2547
g	VOVK Yuri	2545
m	RIFF Jean-Noel	2505
m	WIRIG Anthony	2504
f	HEINZ Timothee	2261
	RICHARD Emma	2116
Round 2 27th March 2010
Venue: Chalons en Champagne
Chalons en Champagne			6 - 0	Lyon Olympique Echecs
g	EDOUARD Romain	2617	1 - 0	g	SUMETS Andrey	2614
g	KRASENKOW Michal	2652	X - X	m	VERNAY Clovis	2440
g	GIRI Anish	2624	1 - 0	g	MIRALLES Gilles	2469
g	VAN WELY Loek	2639	1 - 0	m	DONCEA Vladimir	2475
g	SEBAG Marie	2506	1 - 0	f	RENAZE Luc	2304
m	COSSIN Sebastien	2497	1 - 0	m	BENITAH Yohan	2377
g	APICELLA Manuel	2523	X - X		RAVOT Sylvain	2264
m	DOURERASSOU Jonathan	2413	1 - 0		MEHIAOUI Dounia	1934
Strasbourg			1 - 5	Cannes
g	ROZENTALIS Eduardas	2628	X - X	g	TKACHIEV Vladislav	2639
m	VARGA Peter	2434	X - X	g	KAZHGALEYEV Murtas	2637
m	ROOS Daniel	2435	0 - 1	g	GODENA Michele	2561
g	VAISSER Anatoly	2511	0 - 1	g	LAHNO Kateryna	2518
f	REINHART Emmanuel	2337	0 - 1	g	FONTAINE Robert	2548
m	SZABOLCSI Janos	2361	0 - 1	m	GUIDARELLI Laurent	2433
m	ROOS Jean-Luc	2259	1 - 0	m	GOVCIYAN Pavel	2430
mf	NICOARA Malina	2151	0 - 1	gf	LECONTE Maria	2330
Venue: Clichy
Mulhouse Philidor			0 - 3	Clichy
g	BOLOGAN Viktor	2684	X - X	g	FRESSINET Laurent	2670
g	ABERGEL Thal	2547	0 - 1	g	JAKOVENKO Dmitry	2725
g	SOKOLOV Andrei	2563	X - X	g	HAMDOUCHI Hicham	2606
g	VOVK Yuri	2545	X - X	g	MAZE Sebastien	2554
m	RIFF Jean-Noel	2505	X - X	g	PELLETIER Yannick	2611
m	WIRIG Anthony	2504	X - X	g	TREGUBOV Pavel V.	2625
g	BRICARD Emmanuel	2488	0 - 1	m	DELORME Axel	2429
	RICHARD Emma	2116	0 - 1	m	SKRIPCHENKO Almira	2456
Bischwiller			0 - 5	Metz Fischer
			F - 1	g	RIAZANTSEV Alexander	2660
			F - 1	g	POSTNY Evgeny	2641
			F - 1	g	SVETUSHKIN Dmitry	2554
			F - 1	m	KOCH Jean-Rene	2470
			F - 1	f	ELBILIA Jacques	2402
			F - 1	f	NEIMAN Emmanuel	2339
			F - 1	m	COLLAS Silvia	2313
			F - 1		DEILLER Pascal	2078
Round 3 28th March 2010
Venue: Chalons en Champagne
Cannes			1 - 4	Chalons en Champagne
g	TKACHIEV Vladislav	2639	X - X	g	GIRI Anish	2624
g	KAZHGALEYEV Murtas	2637	0 - 1	g	VAN WELY Loek	2639
g	GODENA Michele	2561	X - X	g	EDOUARD Romain	2617
g	LAHNO Kateryna	2518	1 - 0	g	KRASENKOW Michal	2652
g	FONTAINE Robert	2548	0 - 1	g	SEBAG Marie	2506
gf	LECONTE Maria	2330	0 - 1	g	APICELLA Manuel	2523
m	GOVCIYAN Pavel	2430	X - X	m	COSSIN Sebastien	2497
m	GUIDARELLI Laurent	2433	0 - 1	m	DOURERASSOU Jonathan	2413
Lyon Olympique Echecs			1 - 4	Strasbourg
g	SUMETS Andrey	2614	X - X	g	ROZENTALIS Eduardas	2628
m	VERNAY Clovis	2440	0 - 1	g	VAISSER Anatoly	2511
g	MIRALLES Gilles	2469	X - X	m	VARGA Peter	2434
m	DONCEA Vladimir	2475	1 - 0	m	ROOS Daniel	2435
m	BENITAH Yohan	2377	X - X	m	SZABOLCSI Janos	2361
f	RENAZE Luc	2304	0 - 1	m	ROOS Louis	2360
	CHEVANT Louis	2174	0 - 1	m	ROOS Jean-Luc	2259
	MEHIAOUI Dounia	1934	0 - 1	mf	NICOARA Malina	2151
Venue: Clichy
Clichy			5 - 0	Bischwiller
g	JAKOVENKO Dmitry	2725	1 - F
g	FRESSINET Laurent	2670	1 - F
g	TREGUBOV Pavel V.	2625	1 - F
g	PELLETIER Yannick	2611	1 - F
g	HAMDOUCHI Hicham	2606	1 - F
g	MAZE Sebastien	2554	1 - F
m	SKRIPCHENKO Almira	2456	1 - F
	OLIVIER Pierre	2218	1 - F
Metz Fischer			2 - 2	Mulhouse Philidor
g	RIAZANTSEV Alexander	2660	X - X	g	BOLOGAN Viktor	2684
g	SVETUSHKIN Dmitry	2554	X - X	g	ABERGEL Thal	2547
g	POSTNY Evgeny	2641	X - X	g	SOKOLOV Andrei	2563
f	ELBILIA Jacques	2402	0 - 1	g	VOVK Yuri	2545
m	KOCH Jean-Rene	2470	1 - 0	m	RIFF Jean-Noel	2505
f	TADDEI Benoit	2301	X - X	m	WIRIG Anthony	2504
f	PUCHER Olivier	2342	0 - 1	g	BRICARD Emmanuel	2488
m	COLLAS Silvia	2313	1 - 0		RICHARD Emma	2116

TCh-FRA Top 16 2010 Group B Standings (FRA), 26 iii-6 vi 2010
Pl.	Team	Pts	j.	d.	p.	c.
1	Chalons en Champagne	9	3	17	18	1
2	Metz Fischer	8	3	6	10	4
3	Clichy	7	3	7	10	3
4	Cannes	7	3	4	9	5
5	Mulhouse Philidor	6	3	2	7	5
6	Strasbourg	5	3	-9	5	14
7	Lyon Olympique Echecs	3	3	-12	1	13
8	Bischwiller	0	3	-15	0	15

4) 4NCL

The 4NCL takes place Sat 24th Oct 2009 - 3rd May 2010. Rounds 7 and 8 took place 27th-28th March 2010. Games broadcast live from round 7 and 8 available.

After 7 rounds, the top 4 teams in each preliminary pool qualified for the final championship pool. At the end of the season 4 teams will be relegated.

Official site: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/

4NCL 2009-10 Championship Results (ENG), 24 x 2009 - 3 v 2010
Group A
RD 7		JUTES OF KENT	2174	1 - 7	WOOD GREEN HILSMARK KINGFISHER 1	2467
1	w	Williams, Simon K	2519	½ - ½	Speelman, Jon S	2530
2	b	Harakis, Alexis M	2232	0 - 1	Gordon, Stephen J	2527
3	w	Mack, Andrew L	2213	0 - 1	Cramling, Pia (F)	2523
4	b	Naylor, John	2189	0 - 1	Tissir, Mohamed	2434
5	w	Rice, Chris B	2082	0 - 1	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan E (F)	2447
6	b	Wilson, Alexandra (F)	2065	0 - 1	Bellon Lopez, Juan M *	2431
7	w	Atako, Chino	2052	½ - ½	Martin, Andrew D	2411
8	b	Donovan, Nigel P	2042	0 - 1	Hanley, Craig A	2429
RD 7		OXFORD 1	2204	3 - 5	GUILDFORD-A&DC 2	2028
1	w	Rose, Matthew	2282	0 - 1	Stimpson, Philip M	2085
2	b	White, Michael JR	2239	0 - 1	Eckloff, Colin	2097
3	w	Shaw, David A	2241	1 - 0	Taylor, Dale C	2122
4	b	Rawlinson, Aidan M	2207	0 - 1	Punnett, Alan K	2094
5	w	Eckersley-Waites, Tom	2247	½ - ½	Roset, Christophe	2056
6	b	Smallbone, Kieran D	2218	½ - ½	Hill, David F	2048
7	w	Tidman, Sophie E (F)	2110	½ - ½	Shepley, Julien M	2022
8	b	Nitz, Tomos	2090	½ - ½	Shepherd, Katherine M (F)	1698
RD 7		BARBICAN 4NCL 2	2233	2½-5½	PRIDE AND PREJUDICE	2446
1	w	Cox, John J	2389	0 - 1	Adams, Michael	2704
2	b	Poobalasingam, Peter S	2324	0 - 1	Hebden, Mark L	2548
3	w	Morrison, Graham	2328	½ - ½	Flear, Glenn C	2517
4	b	Piper, Matthew S	2320	½ - ½	Emms, John M	2484
5	w	Berry, Neil	2320	0 - 1	Hunt, Harriet V (F)	2452
6	b	Franklin, Samuel GA	2196	0 - 1	Ward, Chris G	2431
7	w	Chapman, Terry PD	2231	½ - ½	Grafl, Florian	2421
8	b	Ynojosa, Angelica Maria (F)	1753	1 - 0	Auckland, Elliott	2010
RD 7		CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 1	2231	4 - 4	THE ADS	2122
1	w	Dearing, Edward J	2406	½ - ½	Richardson, John R	2298
2	b	Mah, Karl CC	2417	1 - 0	Wheeler, Darren P	2240
3	w	Moskovic, David M	2305	0 - 1	Snape, Ian L	2205
4	b	Bisby, Daniel L	2297	1 - 0	Swindells, Jonathan E	2170
5	w	Pickard, Charles	2191	½ - ½	Anderton, David W	2211
6	b	Chan, Nevil	2098	½ - ½	Bellin, Jana (F)	2151
7	w	Tyomkin, Mikhail	2111	½ - ½	Daley, Eugene	1782
8	b	Chevannes, Sabrina L (F)	2022	0 - 1	Bellin, Christopher J *	1922
Group B
RD 7		GUILDFORD-A&DC 1	2300	7½- 0	POISONED PAWNS 1	2196
1	w	Conquest, Stuart C	2551	1 - 0	Spence, David J	2268
2	b	King, Daniel J	2494	½ - ½	Swanson, Stephen	2263
3	w	Povah, Nigel E	2336	1 - 0	Posazhennikov, Alex	2252
4	b	Thompson, Ian D	2235	1 - 0	Harley, Andrew D	2204
5	w	Anderton, Matthew N	2244	1 - 0	Rosen, Daniel B	2145
6	b	Granat, Russell G	2250	1 - 0	Kueh Ju Lui, Andre *	2146
7	w	Meyer, Gordon	2165	1 - 0	Hutchinson, Norman A	2092
8	b	Grigoryan, Meri (F)	2125	1 - -½	default
RD 7		WHITE ROSE 1	2265	5 - 3	PANDORA'S BOX GRANTHAM	2099
1	w	Wells, Peter K	2492	½ - ½	Slavin,Alexei	2368
2	b	McNab, Colin A	2468	1 - 0	Cumbers, Paul	2218
3	w	Palliser, Richard JD	2435	1 - 0	McCarthy, Kevin C	2106
4	b	Buckley, Simon T	2348	0 - 1	Burrows, Martin P	2186
5	w	Gayson, Peter M	2205	0 - 1	Birtwistle, Nigel	2179
6	b	Townsend, M Paul	2222	½ - ½	Walton, Alan J	2137
7	w	Barrett, Stephen J	2181	1 - 0	Milson, Samuel A	1994
8	b	Flint, Martina *	1770	1 - 0	Milson, Amy F (F)	1602
RD 7		BARBICAN 4NCL 1	2372	5 - 3	SOUTH WALES DRAGONS	2184
1	w	Turner, Matthew J	2515	½ - ½	Cobb, James E	2415
2	b	D'Costa, Lorin AR	2466	0 - 1	Cooper, John G	2346
3	w	Collinson, Adam R	2393	1 - 0	Zeidler, Sven P	2221
4	b	Devereaux, Maxim L	2387	0 - 1	Morris, Charles F	2189
5	w	Knott, Simon JB	2342	½ - ½	Redmond, John P	2196
6	b	Ferguson, Mark	2393	1 - 0	James, David J	2110
7	w	Rogers, Jonathan W	2329	1 - 0	Roberts, David L	2101
8	b	Regan, Natasha K (F)	2152	1 - 0	Wilson, Julie C (F)	1890
RD 7		WOOD GREEN HILSMARK KINGFISHER 2	2309	5½-2½	BETSSON.COM	2291
1	w	Greet, Andrew N	2429	½ - ½	Hunt, Adam C	2425
2	b	McDonald, Neil	2421	1 - 0	Ansell, Simon T	2385
3	w	Houska, Jovanka (F)	2392	½ - ½	Bates, Richard A	2379
4	b	Tiller, Bjorn	2378	1 - 0	Baker, Chris W	2357
5	w	Sowray, Peter J	2334	1 - 0	Duncan, Chris R	2326
6	b	Briscoe, Chris	2232	1 - 0	Eames, Robert S	2295
7	w	McFarland, Robert S	2215	½ - ½	Ledger, Dave J	2205
8	b	Hegarty, Sarah N (F)	2067	0 - 1	Yurenok, Maria S (F)	1953
Division 1 Championship Pool results - Round 8
RD 8		WOOD GREEN HILSMARK KINGFISHER 1	2468	5½-2½	WOOD GREEN HILSMARK KINGFISHER 2	2272
1	w	Speelman, Jon S	2530	½ - ½	Greet, Andrew N	2429
2	b	Gordon, Stephen J	2527	½ - ½	Houska, Jovanka (F)	2392
3	w	Cramling, Pia (F)	2523	½ - ½	Sowray, Peter J	2334
4	b	Tissir, Mohamed	2434	1 - 0	Lindner, Daniel	2244
5	w	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan E (F)	2447	1 - 0	Lee, Graham D	2264
6	b	Bellon Lopez, Juan M *	2431	0 - 1	Briscoe, Chris	2232
7	w	McDonald, Neil	2421	1 - 0	McFarland, Robert S	2215
8	b	Hanley, Craig A	2429	1 - 0	Hegarty, Sarah N (F)	2067
RD 8		PRIDE AND PREJUDICE	2446	5½-2½	GUILDFORD-A&DC 1	2300
1	w	Adams, Michael	2704	1 - 0	Conquest, Stuart C	2551
2	b	Hebden, Mark L	2548	½ - ½	King, Daniel J	2494
3	w	Flear, Glenn C	2517	1 - 0	Povah, Nigel E	2336
4	b	Emms, John M	2484	½ - ½	Thompson, Ian D	2235
5	w	Ward, Chris G	2431	1 - 0	Anderton, Matthew N	2244
6	b	Grafl, Florian	2421	½ - ½	Granat, Russell G	2250
7	w	Hunt, Harriet V (F)	2452	1 - 0	Meyer, Gordon	2165
8	b	Auckland, Elliott	2010	0 - 1	Grigoryan, Meri (F)	2125
RD 8		CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 1	2250	3½-4½	WHITE ROSE 1	2313
1	w	Mah, Karl CC	2417	½ - ½	Wells, Peter K	2492
2	b	Dearing, Edward J	2406	½ - ½	McNab, Colin A	2468
3	w	Bisby, Daniel L	2297	0 - 1	Palliser, Richard JD	2435
4	b	Moskovic, David M	2305	½ - ½	Buckley, Simon T	2348
5	w	Eckersley-Waites, Adam	2197	0 - 1	Barrett, Stephen J	2181
6	b	Pickard, Charles	2191	0 - 1	Townsend, M Paul	2222
7	w	Churm, Rohan M	2167	1 - 0	Fernandez, Lucia Fidalgo (F)	2150
8	b	Chevannes, Sabrina L (F)	2022	1 - 0	Gayson, Peter M	2205
RD 8		THE ADS	2122	3½-4½	BARBICAN 4NCL 1	2372
1	w	Richardson, John R	2298	0 - 1	Turner, Matthew J	2515
2	b	Wheeler, Darren P	2240	½ - ½	D'Costa, Lorin AR	2466
3	w	Snape, Ian L	2205	½ - ½	Cox, John J	2389
4	b	Swindells, Jonathan E	2170	0 - 1	Ferguson, Mark	2393
5	w	Anderton, David W	2211	½ - ½	Knott, Simon JB	2342
6	b	Bellin, Jana (F)	2151	½ - ½	Devereaux, Maxim L	2387
7	w	Bellin, Christopher J *	1922	½ - ½	Rogers, Jonathan W	2329
8	b	Daley, Eugene	1782	1 - 0	Regan, Natasha K (F)	2152
Division 1 Demotion Pool results - Round 8
RD 8		POISONED PAWNS 1	2151	½-7½	BARBICAN 4NCL 2	2242
1	w	Swanson, Stephen	2263	0 - 1	Berry, Neil	2320
2	b	Posazhennikov, Alex	2252	0 - 1	Piper, Matthew S	2320
3	w	Spence, David J	2268	0 - 1	Morrison, Graham	2328
4	b	Harley, Andrew D	2204	0 - 1	Poobalasingam, Peter S	2324
5	w	Byway, Paul V	2158	0 - 1	Chapman, Terry PD	2231
6	b	Kueh Ju Lui, Andre *	2146	0 - 1	Sands, David A	2252
7	w	Rosen, Daniel B	2145	0 - 1	Coleman, David J	2239
8	b	Turvey-Cross, Syringa L (F)	1770	½ - ½	Morrison, Lynne GP (F)	1918
RD 8		SOUTH WALES DRAGONS	2184	6½-1½	GUILDFORD-A&DC 2	2028
1	w	Cobb, James E	2415	1 - 0	Eckloff, Colin	2097
2	b	Cooper, John G	2346	1 - 0	Stimpson, Philip M	2085
3	w	Zeidler, Sven P	2221	½ - ½	Punnett, Alan K	2094
4	b	Morris, Charles F	2189	½ - ½	Taylor, Dale C	2122
5	w	Redmond, John P	2196	1 - 0	Roset, Christophe	2056
6	b	James, David J	2110	1 - 0	Hill, David F	2048
7	w	Roberts, David L	2101	1 - 0	Shepley, Julien M	2022
8	b	Wilson, Julie C (F)	1890	½ - ½	Shepherd, Katherine M (F)	1698
RD 8		PANDORA'S BOX GRANTHAM	2099	4½-3½	OXFORD 1	2175
1	w	Slavin,Alexei	2368	1 - 0	Rawlinson, Aidan M	2207
2	b	Cumbers, Paul	2218	1 - 0	Shaw, David A	2241
3	w	Birtwistle, Nigel	2179	1 - 0	White, Michael JR	2239
4	b	Walton, Alan J	2137	½ - ½	Eckersley-Waites, Tom	2247
5	w	McCarthy, Kevin C	2106	0 - 1	Smallbone, Kieran D	2218
6	b	Burrows, Martin P	2186	½ - ½	Tidman, Sophie E (F)	2110
7	w	Milson, Samuel A	1994	½ - ½	Nitz, Tomos	2090
8	b	Milson, Amy F (F)	1602	0 - 1	Rawlinson, Christopher JA	2048
RD 8		BETSSON.COM	2267	5½-2½	JUTES OF KENT	2202
1	w	Hunt, Adam C	2425	½ - ½	Williams, Simon K	2519
2	b	Ansell, Simon T	2385	1 - 0	Harakis, Alexis M	2232
3	w	Bates, Richard A	2379	1 - 0	Cooley, Chris M	2265
4	b	Baker, Chris W	2357	1 - 0	Naylor, John	2189
5	w	Duncan, Chris R	2326	½ - ½	Mack, Andrew L	2213
6	b	Ledger, Dave J	2205	0 - 1	Rice, Chris B	2082
7	w	Ledger, Stephen C	2106	1 - 0	Atako, Chino	2052
8	b	Yurenok, Maria S (F)	1953	½ - ½	Wilson, Alexandra (F)	2065

4NCL 2009-10 Championship Pool tables (ENG), 24 x 2009 - 3 v 2010
	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	GP	MP
1	WGHK 1	xxx	4				5½	5½	7½	22½	7
2	Pride and Prejudice	4	xxx			5½		6	6½	22	7
3	Barbican 4NCL 1			xxx	3	5½	5½	4½		18½	6
4	White Rose 1			5	xxx	5	1		4½	15½	6
5	Guildford-A&DC 1		2½	2½	3	xxx	6			14	2
6	WGHK 2	2½		2½	7	2	xxx			14	2
7	The ADs	2½	2	3½				xxx	4	12	1
8	Cambridge Univ. 1	½	1½		3½			4	xxx	9½	1

4NCL 2009-10 Relegation Pool tables (ENG), 24 x 2009 - 3 v 2010
	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	GP	MP
1	Betsson.com	xxx		6	6			5½	6	23½	8
2	Barbican 4NCL 2		xxx			3½	6	6	7½	23	6
3	Pandora's Box Grantham	2		xxx	5½	4½			5½	17½	6
4	S. Wales Dragons	2		2½	xxx		6½		6	17	4
5	Oxford 1		4½	3½		xxx	3	5		16	4
6	Guildford-A&DC 2		2		1½	5	xxx	4		12½	3
7	Jutes of Kent	2½	2			3	4	xxx		11½	1
8	Poisoned Pawns 1	2	½	2½	2				xxx	7	0

5) Dutch League

The Dutch League takes place 26th September 2009 - 18th April 2010. Round 8 took place on the 27th March 2010. Games are available.

Rounds: Round 1 - 26th September, Round 2 - 31 October, Round 3 - 21st November, Round 4 - 12th December 2009. Round 5 - 9th January Round 6 - 6th February, Round 7 - 6th March, Round 8 - 27 March, Round 9 - 18 April 2010.

Official site: http://www.schaakbond.nl/wedstrijdschaak/knsb-competitie.

Further info: http://www.schakers.info/

Dutch League (NED), 26 ix 2009 - 18 iv 2010 Round 8 Standings:
Pl	Team	Mp	Bp	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1	HSG	14	60	x	8½	7½	7	8½	7	8½	.	8½	4½
2	Utrecht	13	47	1½	x	6½	8	.	5	5½	6	7	7½
3	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl	12	44½	2½	3½	x	6	7½	6½	6	6	.	6½
4	Schrijvers Rotterdam	10	41	3	2	4	x	5½	6	.	6½	6½	7½
5	Homburg Apeldoorn	9	44	1½	.	2½	4½	x	5	8	5½	8	9
6	LSG	8	40	3	5	3½	4	5	x	7½	6½	5½	.
7	Braceland ESGOO	6	33½	1½	4½	4	.	2	2½	x	7	5½	6½
8	HMC Calder	4	35½	.	4	4	3½	4½	3½	3	x	6	7
9	HWP Sas van Gent	2	30	1½	3	.	3½	2	4½	4½	4	x	7
10	SMB	2	24½	5½	2½	3½	2½	1	.	3½	3	3	x

Dutch League (NED), 26 ix 2009 - 18 iv 2010 Round 5 Standings:
Round 1 - 26 September
01	SMB	-	Schrijvers Rotterdam	2½	-	7½
02	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl	-	Braceland ESGOO	6	-	4
03	HMC Calder	-	HWP Sas van Gent	6	-	4
04	Homburg Apeldoorn	-	HSG	1½	-	8½
05	LSG	-	Utrecht	5	-	5
Round 2 - 31 October
01	Utrecht	-	SMB	7½	-	2½
02	HSG	-	LSG	7	-	3
03	HWP Sas van Gent	-	Homburg Apeldoorn	2	-	8
04	Braceland ESGOO	-	HMC Calder	7	-	3
05	Schrijvers Rotterdam	-	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl	4	-	6
Round 3 - 21 November
01	SMB	-	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl	3½	-	6½
02	HMC Calder	-	Schrijvers Rotterdam	3½	-	6½
03	Homburg Apeldoorn	-	Braceland ESGOO	8	-	2
04	LSG	-	HWP Sas van Gent	5½	-	4½
05	Utrecht	-	HSG	1½	-	8½
Round 4 - 12 December
01	HSG	-	SMB	4½	-	5½
02	HWP Sas van Gent	-	Utrecht	3	-	7
03	Braceland ESGOO	-	LSG	2½	-	7½
04	Schrijvers Rotterdam	-	Homburg Apeldoorn	5½	-	4½
05	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl	-	HMC Calder	6	-	4
Round 5 - 9 January
01	SMB	-	HMC Calder	3	-	7
02	Homburg Apeldoorn	-	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl	2½	-	7½
03	LSG	-	Schrijvers Rotterdam	4	-	6
04	Utrecht	-	Braceland ESGOO	5½	-	4½
05	HSG	-	HWP Sas van Gent	8½	-	1½
Round 6 - 6 February
01	HWP Sas van Gent	-	SMB	7	-	3
02	Braceland ESGOO	-	HSG	1½	-	8½
03	Schrijvers Rotterdam	-	Utrecht	2	-	8
04	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl	-	LSG	6½	-	3½
05	HMC Calder	-	Homburg Apeldoorn	4½	-	5½
Round 7 - 6 March
01	SMB	-	Homburg Apeldoorn	1	-	9
02	LSG	-	HMC Calder	6½	-	3½
03	Utrecht	-	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl	6½	-	3½
04	HSG	-	Schrijvers Rotterdam	7	-	3
05	HWP Sas van Gent	-	Braceland ESGOO	4½	-	5½
Round 8 - 27 March
01	Braceland ESGOO	-	SMB	6½	-	3½
02	Schrijvers Rotterdam	-	HWP Sas van Gent	6½	-	3½
03	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl	-	HSG	2½	-	7½
04	HMC Calder	-	Utrecht	4	-	6
05	Homburg Apeldoorn	-	LSG	5	-	5
Round 9 - 18 April
01	LSG	-	SMB		-
02	Utrecht	-	Homburg Apeldoorn		-
03	HSG	-	HMC Calder		-
04	HWP Sas van Gent	-	Groningen 1/Hotels.nl		-
05	Braceland ESGOO	-	Schrijvers Rotterdam		-

6) Swiss Team Championships 2010

The Nationalliga A of Switzerland takes place 14th February - 7th November 2010. Round 2 games not yet available.

Dates: Round 1 (2010.02.14), Round 2 (2010.03.21), Round 3 (2010.04.25), Round 4 (2010.06.13), Round 5 (2010.06.27), Round 6 (2010.08.28), Round 7 (2010.08.29), Round 8 (2010.11.06) and Round 9 (2010.11.07).

Details

TCh-SUI NatLigaA Switzerland (SUI), 14 ii-7 xi 2010
Round 2 21st March 2010
Tribschen 1	-	Wollishofen 1	2	:	6
Reichenstein 1	-	Bern 1	5½	:	2½
Zuerich 1	-	Genève 1	6	:	2
Luzern 1	-	Riehen 1	5	:	3
Joueur 1	-	Winterthur 1	5½	:	2½

TCh-SUI NatLigaA Switzerland (SUI), 14 ii-7 xi 2010
Round 2 Standings:
Pl	Club	MP	EP
1.	Reichenstein 1	4	11½
	Zuerich 1	4	11½
3.	Joueur 1	4	10
4.	Riehen 1	2	8½
	Wollishofen 1	2	8½
6.	Luzern 1	2	7½
	Winterthur 1	2	7½
8.	Bern 1	0	6
9.	Genève 1	0	5
10.	Tribschen 1	0	4

7) 33rd San Sebastian International Open

The 33rd Donostia-San Sebastian International Open takes place March 28th - April 4th 2010 in the new chess club of Gros Xake Taldea.

Official website: http://www.fgajedrez.org/

Live games: http://www.fgajedrez.org/directo

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr30848.aspx

33rd Open Donostia-San Sebastian (ESP), 28 iii-4 iv 2010 Leading Round 1 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	Rp
1	Spraggett Kevin	GM	CAN	2580	1	0	0
	Gleizerov Evgeny	GM	RUS	2565	1	0	0
	Korneev Oleg	GM	RUS	2558	1	0	0
	Alsina Leal Daniel	IM	ESP	2548	1	0	0
	San Segundo Carrillo Pablo	GM	ESP	2534	1	0	0
	Cabrera Alexis	GM	ESP	2533	1	0	0
	Movsziszian Karen	GM	ARM	2530	1	0	0
	Cifuentes Parada Roberto	GM	ESP	2525	1	0	0
	Ulibin Mikhail	GM	RUS	2516	1	0	0
	Llaneza Vega Marcos	IM	ESP	2514	1	0	0
	Alonso Rosell Alvar	IM	ESP	2509	1	0	0
	Pogorelov Ruslan	GM	UKR	2486	1	0	0
	Tratar Marko	GM	SLO	2486	1	0	0
	Alvarez Pedraza Aramis	IM	CUB	2486	1	0	0
	Recuero Guerra David	IM	ESP	2481	1	0	0
	Huerga Leache Mikel	IM	ESP	2446	1	0	0
	Barria Zuniga Daniel	IM	CHI	2435	1	0	0
	Ledger Andrew J	IM	ENG	2431	1	0	0
	Bae Torstein	IM	NOR	2414	1	0	0
	Collins Sam E	IM	IRL	2401	1	0	0
	Argandona Riveiro Inigo	IM	ESP	2388	1	0	0
	Alonso Arburu Juan Ignacio	FM	ESP	2372	1	0	0
	Almeida Toledano Daniel	FM	ESP	2367	1	0	0
	Andres Gonzalez Ivan	FM	ESP	2340	1	0	0
	Jakobsen Ole	IM	DEN	2332	1	0	0
	Thomassen Joachim	FM	NOR	2331	1	0	0
	Cruz-Lopez Claret Carlos	FM	ESP	2318	1	0	0
	Trepat Herranz Joan	FM	ESP	2305	1	0	0
	Martin Alvarez Inigo		ESP	2289	1	0	0
	Piasetski Leon	IM	CAN	2280	1	0	0
	Hernandez Elvis	FM	DOM	2277	1	0	0
	Hagesaether Ellen	WIM	NOR	2269	1	0	0
	Nava Pereda Carlos	FM	ESP	2254	1	0	0
	Nelson Jonathan P		ENG	2245	1	0	0
	Bjerke Silje	WIM	NOR	2218	1	0	0
	Griffiths Ryan Rhys		IRL	2195	1	0	0
	Vea Odin Blikra		NOR	2195	1	0	0
	Andersen Alf R		NOR	2185	1	0	0
	Aranaz Portugues Jose Carlos		ESP	2169	1	0	0
	Diez Fraile David		ESP	2168	1	0	0
	Hagemann Tim Dr		GER	2164	1	0	0
	Ros Eskisabel Jose Ramon		ESP	2143	1	0	0
	Corral Sierra Javier		ESP	2123	1	0	0
	Torres Ganuza Fco Javier		ESP	2109	1	0	0
	Guijarro Galan Jose Luis		ESP	2104	1	0	0
	Korhonen Pasi		FIN	2102	1	0	0
	Lakunza Plazaola Asier		ESP	2093	1	0	0
	Uriarte Prieto Goyo		ESP	2086	1	0	0
	Aranaz Murillo Amalia		ESP	2083	1	0	0
	Garro Beraza Haritz		ESP	2075	1	0	0
	Benson Oisin P		IRL	2065	1	0	0
	Bas Mas Jose Joaquin		ESP	2051	1	0	0
	Navarro Rivas Rashid		CUB	2046	1	0	0
	Pasanen Tuomo		FIN	2041	1	0	0
	Thomassen Thomas		NOR	2041	1	0	0
	Fehr Jukka		FIN	2024	1	0	0
	Tome Vazquez Oscar		ESP	2015	1	0	0
	Segura Del Frago Imanol		ESP	2010	1	0	0
	Fletcher John		WLS	2004	1	0	0
	Torres Patrice		FRA	2003	1	0	0
	Lopez Heras Arturo		ESP	2001	1	0	0
	Segovia Sanchez Antonio		ESP	1998	1	0	0
	Darrigues Alain		FRA	1997	1	0	0
	Navarrete Espi Samuel		ESP	1992	1	0	0
	Sanchez Dolado Jorge		ESP	1966	1	0	0
	Tung Siu Hung		ESP	1864	1	0	0
	Izagirre Alsua Aritz		ESP	1820	1	0	0
	Cantabrana Garona Alejandro		ESP	1780	1	0	0
	Perez Varela Alvaro		ESP	0	1	0	0
70	Alvarez Fernandez Enrique	FM	ESP	2366	0.5	0	0
	Acosta Garcia Alfonso Carlos		ESP	2327	0.5	0	0
	Meneses Gonzalez Kevin Moises		ESP	2117	0.5	0	0
	Rodriguez Lapetra Pablo		ESP	2105	0.5	0	0
	Perez Cameselle Francisco		ESP	1958	0.5	0	0
	Molina Rodriguez Borja		ESP	1941	0.5	0	0
	Nortes Hernandez Pedro		ESP	1896	0.5	0	0
	D Anna Razzetti Juan Pablo		ESP	1804	0.5	0	0
	Espin Laborde Jesus Maria		ESP	1796	0.5	0	0
	Bayrakdar Bianco Philippe		ESP	1745	0.5	0	0
	Veras Sanz Jose Antonio		ESP	1712	0.5	0	0
	Giovagnoni Josette		FRA	0	0.5	0	0
	Vazquez Alvarez Diego		ESP	1534	0.5	0	0
	Fernandez Lopez Ivan		ESP	1472	0.5	0	0
	Sanmateu Juan Sergio		ESP	0	0.5	0	0
85	Marholev Dimitar	IM	BUL	2423	0	0	0
	Seret Jean-Luc	IM	FRA	2395	0	0	0
	Andonov Bogomil	IM	BUL	2304	0	0	0
	Montoya Irigoyen Inigo		ESP	2083	0	0	0
	Rodriguez Cabrera Fco Javier		ESP	1962	0	0	0
	Martinez Pelaez David		ESP	1960	0	0	0
	Miguelez Garcia Erlantz		ESP	1958	0	0	0
	Etxeberria Iriondo Sabino		ESP	1958	0	0	0
	Tung Kai Ming		ESP	1957	0	0	0
	Hernandez Lopez Daniel		ESP	1955	0	0	0
	Lyons Brendan		IRL	1952	0	0	0
	Arana Garate Jon		ESP	1944	0	0	0
	Tirado Parra Alberto		ESP	1943	0	0	0
	Severri Arrese Carlos		ESP	1925	0	0	0
	Bello Castano Diego		ESP	1911	0	0	0
	Kopischke Maik		GER	1911	0	0	0
	Fernandez Zubitur Jokin		ESP	1908	0	0	0
	Fuente San Sebastian Ernesto		ESP	1897	0	0	0
	Nogues Fernandez Ramon		ESP	1894	0	0	0
	Garro Beraza Julen		ESP	1881	0	0	0
	Baroja Arrue Miguel Maria		ESP	1875	0	0	0
	Zaballa Zarzosa Jon		ESP	1872	0	0	0
	Saenz Zabala Juan Ignacio		ESP	1845	0	0	0
	Urruticoechea Sarriegui Jose A		ESP	0	0	0	0
	Buiza Prieto Aizbeltz		ESP	1812	0	0	0
	D`amade Philippe		FRA	1810	0	0	0
	Arabiotorre Arbulu Aitor		ESP	0	0	0	0
	Iglesias Gonzalez Veronica		ESP	1803	0	0	0
	Bas Mas Miguel		ESP	1801	0	0	0
	Navascues Zabaleta Jesus		ESP	1800	0	0	0
	Navarro Vallejo Jonathan		ESP	1795	0	0	0
	Ramos Espinosa Didier		ESP	1784	0	0	0
	Aguado Zabaleta Felix		ESP	1775	0	0	0
	Ciruelos Clerencia Juan Manuel		ESP	1773	0	0	0
	Bas Sanchez Jose Joaquin		ESP	1764	0	0	0
	Jimenez Penafiel Gustavo		ESP	1761	0	0	0
	Lazkano Gaite Tomas		ESP	1741	0	0	0
	Moreno Romero Ernesto		ESP	1739	0	0	0
	Cejudo Urdampilleta Juan Pablo		ESP	0	0	0	0
	Orube Bona Andoni		ESP	1732	0	0	0
	Arri Martinez Iker		ESP	0	0	0	0
	Cendagortagalarza Rodriguez Jo		ESP	1685	0	0	0
	Olivares Gutierrez Antonio		ESP	0	0	0	0
	Vicente Ezeiza Mikel		ESP	1674	0	0	0
	Muriel Dominguez Mariano		ESP	1657	0	0	0
	Aizpurua Zufiria Inaki		ESP	1648	0	0	0
	Martikorena Endara Patxi		ESP	0	0	0	0
	Moreiro Sanchez Silvestre		ESP	1636	0	0	0
	Sanchez Ruesga Carlos		ESP	0	0	0	0
	Sanchez Merino Christian		ESP	1623	0	0	0
	Delgado Canton Manuel		FRA	1620	0	0	0
	Gonzalez Pueyo Patricia		ESP	1610	0	0	0
	Sebastian Garcia Iban		ESP	0	0	0	0
	Santos Etxepare Agustin		ESP	1593	0	0	0
	Santesteban Gonzalez Begona		ESP	1588	0	0	0
	Campos Urbaneja Ricardo		ESP	1547	0	0	0
	Jauregi Barandiaran Jon		ESP	0	0	0	0
	Irulegi Garmendia Jose Antonio		ESP	1503	0	0	0
	Juaristi Izaga Jose Ignacio		ESP	1489	0	0	0
	Berdote Alonso Carlos		ESP	1443	0	0	0
	Benson Nicola		IRL	1377	0	0	0
	Gallas Gautier		FRA	0	0	0	0
	Goubert-Gaebele Robert		FRA	0	0	0	0
	Mazouat Herve		FRA	0	0	0	0
	Mohseni Neik		AFG	0	0	0	0
	Santos Etxepare Mikel		ESP	0	0	0	0
150 players

8) Uxbridge Chess Open

The Uxbridge Chess Congress took place 19th-21st March 2010. Jovanka Houska took clear first place with 4.5/5.

Officials site: http://www.e2e4.org.uk/uxbridge/Mar2010/index.htm

Uxbridge Open Uxbridge (ENG), 19-21 iii 2010
Rank	Name	Ti	Fed.	Score	Rating	TPR	W-We
1	Houska, Jovanka	IM	ENG	4.5	2392	2512	0.52
2	Arkell, Keith C	GM	ENG	4	2474	2419	-0.19
3	Livner, Anders	FM	SWE	4	2304	2367	0.42
4	Coates, David H		ENG	4	2043	2487	2.73
5	Radovanovic, Jovica	FM	SRB	3.5	2348	2329	-0.03
6	Ynojosa, Felix Jose		ENG	3.5	2165	2271	0.77
7	Talbot, Andrew R		ENG	3.5	2141	2339	1.29
8	Webb, Matthew		ENG	3.5	1999	2203	1.37
9	Burrows, Martin P		ENG	3	2186	2145	-0.23
10	Ociepka, Adrian		POL	3	2176	2205	0.15
11	De Coverly, Roger D		ENG	3	2119	2084	-0.23
12	McIntyre, Paul		SCO	3	2118	2130	0.05
13	Bonafont, Philip R		ENG	3	2115	2131	0.12
14	Doci, Stefan		SVK	3	2071	2226	0.81
15	Quinn, Rory		IRL	3	2036	2101	0.35
16	Richter, Hans		CHI	2.5	2187	2071	-0.78
17	Ackley, Peter J E		ENG	2.5	2092	2039	-0.35
18	Nelson, Omowale		JAM	2.5	2076	2028	-0.35
19	Atako, Chino		ENG	2.5	2052	2082	0.17
20	Makepeace, Philip J		ENG	2.5	2042	2039	-0.06
21	Iyengar, Ilya		ENG	2.5	2013	2023	0.05
22	Harnett, Robert		ENG	2.5	2010	2036	0.11
23	Bailey, Kevin J		ENG	2	2076	2007	-0.55
24	Harley-Yeo, Gareth		WLS	2	2053	1960	-0.46
25	Amato, Giampiero		ITA	2	2044	2030	-0.19
26	Pleasants, Allan J		WLS	2	2038	2019	-0.26
27	Chevannes, Sabrina L	WFM	ENG	2	2022	2109	0.24
28	Hunt, Daniel		ENG	2	2019	2034	0.01
29	Crichton, Martin		IRL	2	2001	1912	-0.6
30	Gibbs, Dominic V		ENG	2	1980	1961	-0.13
31	Holland, James P		ENG	2	1973	1966	-0.06
32	Andreev, Peter		ENG	2	1846	1957	0.52
33	Tarun, Malhotra		IND	2	1801	1853	0.19
34	Jiang, Jimmy		ENG	2	0	1862	1862
35	Cutmore, Martin J		ENG	1.5	2059	1879	-0.71
36	Armstrong, Malcolm J		ENG	1.5	1989	1874	-0.77
37	Ganger, Rajan		ENG	1.5	1947	1851	-0.48
38	Lenier, Jude		ENG	1.5	1942	1825	-0.59
39	Waters, Andy		ENG	1.5	0	1692	1692
40	Rudd, Jack	IM	ENG	1	2267	0	0
41	Tobisch, John		GER	1	1864	1776	-0.28
42	White, David J		ENG	0.5	1965	1643	-1.7
43	Madan, Augustin	IM	ROU	0	2362	1308	-0.87
44	Greatorex, Roger			0	0 *	1066	0

9) Budapest Spring Festival

The 26th Budapest Spring Festival took place 19th-28th of March 2010. Emil Szalanczy took clear first with 7.5/9. 9 rounds Swiss Open. Organised by Nagy Laszlo.

26th Budapest Spring Festival Budapest (HUN), 19-28 iii 2010
No.	PNo.	Name	Score	WP	SB	PS	rat.	TPR	W-We
1.	5	Szalanczy, Emil	7.5	51.5	41.25	41.0	2280	2491	+2.29
2.	10	Kahn, Evarth Dr.	7.0	48.5	35.75	37.0	2231	2366	+1.56
	9	Sanchez, Louis	7.0	47.5	36.25	34.5	2232	2384	+1.75
4.	6	Lengyel, Bela Sr	6.5	49.0	33.75	33.5	2267	2325	+0.74
	1	To, Nhat Minh Jr	6.5	54.0	35.00	31.5	2422	2318	-0.87
6.	19	Csonka, Balazs **Jr	6.0	51.0	32.25	34.0	2163	2290	+1.59
	11	Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung Jr	6.0	47.5	30.25	33.0	2224	2254	+0.43
	12	Sebestyen, Balazs	6.0	50.5	30.75	32.5	2221	2240	+0.33
	8	Steffens, Olaf	6.0	47.0	28.25	32.0	2250	2236	-0.11
	2	Karim, Ismael	6.0	49.0	31.00	31.0	2368	2254	-1.12
	14	Charleshouse, Glenn L	6.0	45.0	28.25	30.5	2203	2222	+0.30
12.	13	Istvanovszki, Martin Jr	5.5	50.5	27.50	32.0	2217	2286	+0.94
	20	Tesik, Csaba Jr	5.5	47.0	23.50	30.5	2159	2151	+0.03
	38	Horvath, Jeno Kalman Sr	5.5	49.0	29.00	30.0	2016	2295	+3.20
	18	Lyell, Mark	5.5	42.5	24.75	28.5	2179	2095	-0.76
	21	Korpa, Bence **Jr	5.5	45.0	26.25	27.5	2158	2160	+0.18
	17	Koczo, Kristof	5.5	43.5	24.75	26.0	2194	2071	-1.23
	43	Tran, Minh Thang	5.5	40.5	21.25	23.0	1972	2116	+1.48
	7	Menshikov, Alexander	5.5	39.0	23.25	23.0	2257	2056	-1.97
20.	27	Bodrogi, Mihaly Sr	5.0	45.5	20.50	29.0	2096	2172	+0.96
	22	Arsenault, Nicolas	5.0	44.0	26.75	27.5	2153	2136	-0.03
	24	Trajber, Daniel Jr	5.0	45.0	21.75	27.5	2123	2132	+0.16
	32	Mester, Attila	5.0	40.5	18.00	27.0	2080	2061	-0.11
	15	Tran, Tuan Minh **Jr	5.0	43.5	20.75	26.5	2203	2065	-1.38
	23	Adam, Gyorgy Jr.	5.0	42.0	21.00	26.0	2133	2108	-0.25
	39	Bea, Boglarka Jr	5.0	43.0	21.00	24.0	2012	2127	+1.27
	35	Hitter, Gabriella Jr	5.0	39.5	18.75	24.0	2060	2055	-0.03
	37	Yip, Michael	5.0	42.5	21.75	23.0	2017	2240	+2.07
	16	Toth, Lili	5.0	37.5	22.50	20.0	2198	1991	-1.78
30.	28	Czibulka, Zoltan	4.5	47.0	20.50	27.0	2094	2082	-0.02
	31	Kabai, Zsuzsanna Jr	4.5	44.0	27.25	26.5	2086	2131	+0.47
	73	Munkhbayar, Janjaadorj	4.5	43.5	26.25	25.5	0000	2252	+1.50
	33	Borda, Lajos	4.5	41.5	17.00	25.0	2076	2009	-0.64
	30	Meixner, Ferenc	4.5	43.0	18.00	25.0	2087	2036	-0.46
	51	Zsembery, Aron	4.5	43.0	17.75	24.0	1862	2083	+2.03
	25	Letay, Gyula Sr	4.5	43.5	18.25	24.0	2122	1988	-1.39
	40	Kantor, Gergely **Jr	4.5	43.0	20.00	23.5	2010	2100	+1.05
	29	Trajber, Csaba Dr.	4.5	40.5	16.00	23.0	2094	1960	-1.45
	44	Fendrich, Zoltan	4.5	39.0	18.25	21.5	1965	2011	+0.42
	52	Szabo, Gabor	4.5	37.0	16.50	21.0	1859	1926	+0.69
	61	Horvath, Ilona Klara	4.5	39.5	17.50	20.5	1777	2018	+2.58
	46	Pogats, Jozsef Jr.	4.5	38.0	15.50	18.0	1917	1873	-0.57
43.	3	Juhasz, Kristof Jr	4.0	48.5	27.75	27.5	2284	2223	-0.36
	36	Fomani, Medhi	4.0	41.0	15.75	23.5	2029	2032	-0.01
	74	Szucs, Gabor	4.0	37.0	15.00	20.0	0000	1976	1976
	41	Lantos, Attila	4.0	36.0	15.50	19.5	2006	1944	-0.63
	49	Juhasz, Armin	4.0	39.0	10.75	19.5	1877	1893	-0.01
	42	Juhasz, Ladislav	4.0	40.0	12.50	19.0	1986	1886	-1.11
	57	Kiss, Peter	4.0	38.5	14.50	17.5	1814	1882	+0.74
	59	Szecsi, Peter	4.0	38.5	17.75	17.5	1798	1922	+1.13
	56	Horvath, Attila Bela	4.0	37.0	11.50	16.5	1823	1874	+0.26
	62	Grimm, Daniel Jr	4.0	35.0	12.25	16.0	1759	1874	+1.20
53.	4	Boguszlavszkij, Jevgenyij	3.5	38.5	14.50	21.5	2281	1976	-3.02
	54	Vit, Daniel	3.5	38.5	12.25	17.5	1847	1885	+0.29
	48	Farkas, Richard	3.5	40.0	15.50	17.0	1877	1870	-0.24
	50	Papp, Laszlo	3.5	34.5	9.50	16.5	1868	1818	-0.68
	60	Czimer, Jozsef	3.5	35.5	10.25	15.0	1797	1820	+0.20
	65	Slezak, Daniel Robert	3.5	32.0	9.00	14.5	1590	1688	+0.76
59.	26	Cox, Tristan A	3.0	44.5	15.50	21.0	2106	2009	-0.68
	53	Altin, Halis	3.0	40.5	13.75	17.5	1849	1906	+0.45
	55	Varga, Melinda	3.0	37.5	8.50	16.0	1840	1863	+0.13
	45	Katona, Jozsef	3.0	34.5	8.50	16.0	1934	1740	-2.04
	47	Kun, Joan	3.0	36.0	11.00	14.5	1895	1797	-1.19
	64	Altin, Cem	3.0	32.5	7.00	13.0	1717	1608	-1.18
	63	Breen, Anthony	3.0	34.0	8.75	13.0	1719	1694	-0.37
	70	Kelemen, Lajos Dr.	3.0	27.0	5.25	10.0	1440	1385	-0.44
67.	34	Kovacs H., Zoltan	2.5	37.5	10.00	16.0	2074	1685	-2.91
	71	Alluch Abdellach, Nordin	2.5	30.5	5.00	14.0	0000	1630	1630
	68	Ramminger, Heinz	2.5	29.0	4.25	9.5	1516	1442	-0.58
	72	Dogan, Halit	2.5	26.0	3.75	8.0	0000	1411	1411
71.	58	Timar, Gyorgy	2.0	34.0	14.25	11.5	1801	1839	+0.17
	69	Mihajlova, Diana	2.0	29.5	5.75	10.0	1458	1515	+0.30
	66	Hetesi, Zoltan	2.0	26.0	3.75	7.5	1556	1391	-1.38
	67	Malyusz, Attila	2.0	25.5	2.75	7.0	1552	1343	-1.15

10) JNBS UWI Chess Open

The Uzbekistan Grand Master Gareyev, completed his domination of the JNBS UWI Chess Open during the Masters section when he defeated Jamaican FIDE Master Jomo Pitterson on Sunday, March 21 at the Assembly Hall, UWI, Mona . He copped a total of 8 points from a possible 9, thus gaining the title of Caribbean Collegiate Champion. International Master Margvelashvili and International Master (IM) Zivanic followed in second and third place respectively with 7.5 and 6.5 points. National Master (NM) Shane Matthews of Jamaica, placed an impressive fourth, after securing a well-fought draw with IM Margvelasvhili. Marcus Joseph, the National Champion of Trinidad and Tobago, made an exciting comeback when he defeated both Jamaica's top player, FIDE Master Warren Elliott and Swedish FIDE Master Bengt Hammar in tactical style.

JNBS UWI Masters Kingston (JAM), 15-19 iii 2010												cat. II (2296)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Gareev, Timur	g	UZB	2585	*	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8	2614
2.	Margvelashvili, Giorgi	m	GEO	2519	½	*	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½	2544
3.	Zivanic, Marko	m	SRB	2490	½	½	*	1	½	½	1	1	1	½	6½	2440
4.	Matthews, Shane		JAM	2203	0	½	0	*	½	1	1	½	1	1	5½	2386
5.	Pitterson, Jomo	f	JAM	2241	0	0	½	½	*	1	½	½	1	½	4½	2301
6.	Lorne, Malaku		JAM	2091	0	0	½	0	0	*	1	½	½	1	3½	2238
7.	Joseph, Marcus		TRI	2166	0	0	0	0	½	0	*	1	1	1	3½	2230
8.	Elliott, Warren	f	JAM	2264	0	0	0	½	½	½	0	*	½	1	3	2174
9.	Hammar, Bengt	f	SWE	2264	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	*	1	2	2079
10.	Byfield, Geoffrey		USA	2135	0	0	½	0	½	0	0	0	0	*	1	1962

11) 4th G.Agzamov Memorial

4th G.Agzamov Memorial International Chess Open takes place 22nd March - 1st April 2010.

Official site: http://www.uzchess.uz/

4th G. Agzamov Mem Tashkent (UZB), 23-31 iii 2010 Standings Round 7 (of 9)
Rank	Name	Ti	Fed.	Score	Rating	TPR	W-We	BH
1	Zhigalko, Sergei	GM	BLR	6	2648	2721	0.53	31
2	Golod, Vitali	GM	ISR	5.5	2590	2630	0.48	32.5
3	Turov, Maxim	GM	RUS	5.5	2609	2690	0.8	32.5
4	Jumabayev, Rinat	GM	KAZ	5.5	2542	2649	0.89	32
5	Guseinov, Gadir	GM	AZE	5.5	2609	2673	0.64	31.5
6	Dreev, Alexey	GM	RUS	5.5	2653	2693	0.41	30.5
7	Yurtaev, Leonid	GM	KGZ	5.5	2469	2600	1.25	30.5
8	Filippov, Anton	GM	UZB	5.5	2598	2543	-0.31	30
9	Egin, Vladimir	IM	UZB	5.5	2410	2496	0.8	29.5
10	Tseshkovsky, Vitaly	GM	RUS	5	2549	2625	0.91	34
11	Ismagambetov, Anuar	GM	KAZ	5	2508	2569	0.81	32
12	Mchedlishvili, Mikheil	GM	GEO	5	2634	2547	-0.53	29
13	Kotsur, Pavel	GM	KAZ	5	2565	2540	0.07	29
14	Nazhmeddinov, Sirodjiddin		UZB	5	2190	2484	2.2	26
15	Holmirzaev, Bahodir		UZB	5	2344	2427	0.85	26
16	Vakhidov, Tahir	GM	UZB	5	2516	2394	-0.83	26
17	Tiviakov, Sergei	GM	NED	4.5	2653	2510	-1.02	34.5
18	Li, Georgiy		UZB	4.5	2110	2444	2.46	31
19	Iuldachev, Saidali	GM	UZB	4.5	2511	2463	-0.21	30.5
20	Saduakassova, Dinara	WFM	KAZ	4.5	2094	2413	2.4	30
21	Karimov, I.		UZB	4.5	2340	2358	0.2	29
22	Dzhumaev, Marat	GM	UZB	4.5	2525	2382	-0.95	28.5
23	Agzamov, Viachesiav		UZB	4.5	2270	2388	0.9	28
24	Temirov, Bakhyt		KAZ	4.5	2258	2459	1.86	27.5
25	Muminova, Nafisa	WIM	UZB	4.5	2338	2293	-0.28	27.5
26	Ziatdinov, Raset	GM	USA	4.5	2410	2294	-0.93	27.5
27	Khamroev, Ravshan		UZB	4.5	2175	2385	1.92	27
28	Pak, Yevgeniy		KAZ	4.5	2333	2344	0.18	27
29	Eminov, Adkham		UZB	4.5	2218	2435	1.66	26.5
30	Djuraev, Sokhib	FM	TJK	4.5	2411	2293	-0.89	25
31	Saidov, Beqali		UZB	4.5	2361	2360	0.05	24.5
32	Sabirov, Farkhad		UZB	4.5	2346	2266	-0.63	24
33	Sydykov, Asyl	FM	KGZ	4.5	2266	2432	1.51	24
34	Kvon, Andrey	IM	UZB	4.5	2455	2310	-0.95	23
35	Nukin, Askhat	FM	KAZ	4.5	2366	2263	-0.81	23
36	Faizulaev, Akmal		UZB	4.5	2303	2315	0.34	22.5
37	Kasyan, Aleksandr	FM	UZB	4.5	2296	2210	-0.54	20
38	Akkozov, Berik	FM	KAZ	4	2269	2422	1.33	30
39	Igambergenov, Alibek		KAZ	4	2199	2312	0.89	28.5
40	Sukandar, Irine Kharisma	WGM	INA	4	2316	2215	-0.81	26
41	Ibrayev, Nurlan	GM	KAZ	4	2405	2262	-1.14	25.5
42	Alikulov, Elbek		UZB	4	2208	2342	0.81	24.5
43	Markov, Mikhail		KGZ	4	2119	2323	1.55	24.5
44	Zhunussov, Bibek		KAZ	4	2169	2138	-0.22	24.5
45	Tokhirjanova, Hulkar		UZB	4	2119	2312	1.71	24.5
46	Gubaydulin, Talgat	FM	UZB	4	2325	2235	-0.74	22.5
47	Vakhidov, Jahongir		UZB	4	2177	2290	0.84	22
48	Rustamov Alisher Abdusatta		UZB	4	2264	2269	0.05	22
49	Galyamov, Vildan		UZB	4	2183	2117	-0.52	21
50	Megaranto, Susanto	GM	INA	3.5	2527	2279	-1.86	28.5
51	Ohunov, Bobur		UZB	3.5	2150	2345	1.62	27.5
52	Rysbayeva, Aigerim	WFM	KAZ	3.5	2199	2246	0.23	26
53	Sadykov, Ilyas		KAZ	3.5	2089	2215	0.82	25
54	Dauletova, Gulmira	WIM	KAZ	3.5	2212	2148	-0.36	25
55	Lestari, Baiq Vina		INA	3.5	2156	2299	1.23	25
56	Grebenschikov, Vladimir	IM	KAZ	3.5	2254	2214	-0.35	25
57	Khamrakulova, Iroda		UZB	3.5	2151	2233	0.72	24.5
58	Aitbayev, Aslan		KAZ	3.5	2351	2151	-1.78	24.5
59	Rakhmatullin, Kamil		UZB	3.5	2314	2136	-1.43	24.5
60	Davletbakov, Saddam		KGZ	3.5	2174	2205	0.13	23.5
61	Mukashev, Assan		KAZ	3.5	2125	2213	0.6	23.5
62	Golcman, Evgeny		RUS	3.5	2292	2151	-1.12	23.5
63	Khoroshev, Nikita		UZB	3.5	2225	2105	-0.97	23.5
64	Kosokin, Valeriy		UZB	3.5	0	2200	2200	23.5
65	Ulkhanov, Azamat		KAZ	3.5	2178	2143	-0.39	23
66	Khamrakulov, Dzhurabek	IM	UZB	3.5	2509	2191	-2.55	22.5
67	Abylkassymova, Raushan		KAZ	3.5	2002	2167	1.45	22.5
68	Belyi, Anton		UZB	3.5	2193	2219	0.18	22.5
69	Sabirova, Olga	WIM	UZB	3.5	2195	2206	0.12	22
70	Lozhnikov, Vyacheslav	FM	KAZ	3.5	2323	2094	-1.98	21
71	Aripov, Iskandar		UZB	3	2078	2263	1.51	29
72	Gevorgyan, Irina	WFM	UZB	3	2153	2189	0.25	26
73	Hamrakulova, Yulduz	WIM	UZB	3	2249	2144	-0.95	25.5
74	Turaev, Halim		UZB	3	2284	2122	-1.55	25
75	Esonboeva, Gulruhsor		UZB	3	1992	2195	1.66	24
76	Akhmetov, Ayan		KAZ	3	2001	2158	1.34	23
77	Artemenko, Oleg		UZB	3	2159	2138	-0.37	23
78	Kozganbayev, Erken		KAZ	3	2218	1988	-1.87	22.5
79	Kholmatov, Yokubjon		UZB	3	2140	2085	-0.53	22.5
80	Saiyn, Zhanat		KAZ	3	1998	2016	0.02	21.5
81	Nakhbayeva, Guliskhan	WFM	KAZ	3	2245	2129	-1.12	21.5
82	Ainutdinova, Yekaterina		KAZ	3	1967	2072	0.7	21
83	Igonin, Timur		UZB	3	1780	2043	2.02	21
84	Khailaev, Mamatkul		UZB	3	2178	2068	-1	20
85	Chkartina, Gerhana		INA	3	2047	1943	-0.7	19.5
86	Miraliev, Mirzayokub		UZB	3	2116	2021	-0.68	17
87	Tologontegin, Semetey	FM	KGZ	3	2351	2053	-2.09	16
88	Gadoev, Timur		TJK	3	2068	1946	-0.8	15.5
89	Nodirjanova, Nodira		UZB	2.5	2138	2224	0.56	27.5
90	Baymuradova, Sevara		UZB	2.5	2035	2180	1.09	27.5
91	Ainutdinov, Alexander		KAZ	2.5	2047	2111	0.48	25.5
92	Nuritdinov, Nizomiddin		UZB	2.5	0	2026	2026	24.5
93	Rysbayeva, Korlan		KAZ	2.5	2073	2139	0.41	24
94	Irkabayev, Ahmad		UZB	2.5	2076	2007	-0.71	22
95	Shangarayeva, Daiana		KAZ	2.5	1949	1949	-0.04	20.5
96	Verbova, Elena		UZB	2.5	1982	1903	-0.65	18.5
97	Nazarov, Elyor	FM	UZB	2	2146	2005	-1.33	24.5
98	Sangmamadov, Davlatmamad		TJK	2	0	1941	1941	23.5
99	Irgaliyev, Alikhan		KAZ	2	0	2033	2033	23
100	Zakharov, Anatoliy		UZB	2	1965	1868	-0.65	21.5
101	Qurbonboeva, Sarvinoz		UZB	2	1996	1971	-0.32	21
102	Shaymuratov, Inomjon		UZB	2	2182	2034	-1.29	21
103	Tashbulov, Normamat		UZB	2	2079	1874	-1.57	20.5
104	Abdumalik, Zhansaya		KAZ	2	1865	1939	0.43	20
105	Klynin, Vladimir		UZB	2	2009	1543	-0.89	19
106	Khudoykulov, Nuriddin		UZB	2	0	1889	1889	18.5
107	Karimov, Erkin		UZB	2	2035	1989	-0.55	17.5
108	Khaitov, Akmal		UZB	2	1872	1898	0.07	16
109	Nigmatov, Ortik		UZB	1.5	1900	1860	-0.39	20
110	Antonova, Nadezhda		TJK	1.5	1835	1715	-0.57	19
111	Gruzdev, Oleg		UZB	1	0	1785	1785	21.5
112	Usseinov, Chingis		KAZ	1	1796	1373	-0.7	20
113	Artikova, M.		UZB	1	1975	1356	-2.13	19
114	Khusnutdinov, Rustam	GM	KAZ	0	2527	0	0	24.5
115	Amanov, Zhanibek	IM	KAZ	0	2395	0	0	24.5
116	Samakov, Nurdin		KGZ	0	2379	0	0	24.5
117	Shukuraliev, Algis		KGZ	0	2322	0	0	24.5
118	Daurimbetov, A		UZB	0	2269	0	0	24.5
119	Chernenko, Yevgeniya	WFM	KAZ	0	2236	0	0	24.5
120	Ziyaev, Negmat		TJK	0	2204	0	0	24.5
121	Turebayeva, Alfiya	WIM	KAZ	0	2193	0	0	24.5
122	Davletbayeva, Madina	WFM	KAZ	0	2166	0	0	24.5
123	Sukhov, Maxim		KAZ	0	2164	0	0	24.5
124	Ismailov, Mukhit		KAZ	0	2062	0	0	24.5
125	Khaibulin, Damir		KAZ	0	1732	0	0	24.5
126	Rahmatova, Mehrangez		TJK	0	1618	0	0	24.5
127	Babadzhanov, Yuriy		TJK	0	0	0	0	24.5
128	Ilyashev, Yerzhan		KAZ	0	0	0	0	24.5
129	Solomatin, Sergey		KAZ	0	2000	1512	-0.39	19.5

12) II Genset Cup

The II Genset Cup IM Tournament takes place 26th March - 3rd April 2010 Szombathely.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr30990.aspx?l

9 -11 round Robin 90 minutes/40 moves + 30 minutes , 30 sec addition after each move

II Genset Cup Szombathely (HUN), 26 iii - 3 iv 2010
Rk.	Ti	Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	FM	Rachela Milan	2363	SVK	*		½	½	½			1	1		3.5	7.00	0.0	2
2	WGM	Rudolf Anna	2293	HUN		*			1	1		½		½	3.0	6.25	0.0	2
3	IM	Kiss Attila	2342	HUN	½		*	½		½	½			1	3.0	6.25	0.0	1
4	IM	Sipos Istvan	2491	HUN	½		½	*	½		½		½		2.5	6.25	0.0	0
5	WGM	Lakos Nikoletta	2292	HUN	½	0		½	*	½			1		2.5	5.75	0.0	1
6		Stavrianakis Ioannis	2243	GRE		0	½		½	*		½		1	2.5	4.50	0.0	1
7		Nagy Gabor	2278	HUN			½	½			*		1		2.0	4.25	0.0	1
8	IM	Majeric Zoran	2255	CRO	0	½				½		*		½	1.5	3.25	0.0	0
9		Makk Robert	2230	HUN	0			½	0		0		*	1	1.5	2.25	0.0	1
10		Farkas Gabor	2245	SVK		½	0			0		½	0	*	1.0	2.25	0.0	0

13) Austrian Bundesliga

The third and final weekend of the Austrian Bundesliga (11 rounds) takes place 27th-30th March 2010 in Baden, Austria. Round 8 and 9 results and games are available.

Time control: 100 minutes for 40 moves an additional 50 minutes with 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.

Official site: http://www.chess.at/staatsligen/stl_a.htm

Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr21147.aspx

Austrian Bundesliga (AUT), 6 xi - 30 iii 2010
Rg.	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Wtg1	Wtg2	Wtg3
1	Sparkasse Jenbach	*	4½	5			3½	3½	6	4	5	5½	4½	18	41,5	0
2	Holz Dohr	1½	*		5	3½	3		5½	3½	5½	4	5	15	36,5	0
3	ASVÖ Wulkaprodersdorf	1		*	2½	4½	2	3½		4	3½	4	5	12	30,0	0
4	SK Kl.Ztg.MPÖ Maria Saal		1	3½	*	3½	2½	2	4		4½	4½	3½	12	29,0	0
5	SK Sparkasse Fuerstenfeld		2½	1½	2½	*		3	5	4½	4½	3½	5½	11	32,5	0
6	Styria Graz	2½	3	4	3½		*	2	5	2½		5	4½	11	32,0	0
7	SK Advisory Invest Baden	2½		2½	4	3	4	*	2	3½	4	5		11	30,5	0
8	ASVÖ SK Lackenbach	0	½		2	1	1	4	*	4		4½	5½	8	22,5	0
9	SK Hohenems	2	2½	2		1½	3½	2½	2	*	3		3½	5	22,5	0
10	ASVÖ Pamhagen	1	½	2½	1½	1½		2		3	*	2	3	2	17,0	0
11	Mayrhofen/Zillertal	½	2	2	1½	2½	1	1	1½		4	*		2	16,0	0
12	Husek Wien	1½	1	1	2½	½	1½		½	2½	3		*	1	14,0	0

14) Icelandic Teams

The Icelandic Team Championship took place 25th September 2009 - 3rd March 2010. The final three rounds took place 1st-3rd March 2010. Games now available.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr25745.aspx

Games: http://www.skaksamband.is/?c=webpage&id=377&lid=304&option=links

Official site in Icelandic: http://www.skaksamband.is

15) Women's Bundesliga

The Women's Bundesliga took place 7th November 2009 - 28th March 2010. USV Volksbank Ha took the title after beating OSG Baden Baden in Round 8. Games from the final two rounds not yet available.

Results: http://www.schachbund.de/SchachBL/bedh.php?liga=fb1

Games: http://www.schachbund.de/chronik/meister/dfmm/2010/index.html

Women's Bundesliga (GER), 7 xi - 28 iii 2010
Pl	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Sp	MP	BP
1.	USV Volksbank Halle	+	3½	3½	3½	5	2	5	4½	3½	5	3½	3½	11	20	42½
2.	OSG Baden Baden	2½	+	5½	3½	3	3½	4	4	6	6	5	5½	11	19	48½
3.	SK Grosslehna	2½	½	+	3	3½	3½	3½	4	3½	3½	4½	4	11	17	36
4.	Hamburger SK 1830	2½	2½	3	+	4½	4½	2	3½	5½	4½	4	5	11	15	41½
5.	Karlsruher SF 1853	1	3	2½	1½	+	3½	2	5	4	4½	3½	4	11	13	34½
6.	SC Bad Koenigshofen	4	2½	2½	1½	2½	+	4	2½	5	4½	3½	5	11	12	37½
7.	SC Leipzig Gohlis	1	2	2½	4	4	2	+	1	3½	3½	4	4½	11	12	32
8.	Rodewischer Schachmiezen	1½	2	2	2½	1	3½	5	+	2½	4	4½	4	11	10	32½
9.	SAV Torgelow	2½	0	2½	½	2	1	2½	3½	+	2	3½	3½	11	6	23½
10.	SK Lehrte	1	0	2½	1½	1½	1½	2½	2	4	+	3	3	11	4	22½
11.	SV Wolfbusch	2½	1	1½	2	2½	2½	2	1½	2½	3	+	5	11	3	26
12.	SV Medizin Erfurt	2½	½	2	1	2	1	1½	2	2½	3	1	+	11	1	19

16) Apatin-Vukovar 2010

The IGM tournament "Apatin-Vukovar 2010" took place in two parts: the first in Banja Junakovic (Serbia) and the second part in Vukovar (CRO), 15th-19th March 2010. The event was a six player double round robin tournament.

IM Szuhanek Ranko won with 7/10 and made a 9 game GM norm. Chief arbiter was Milutin Lukic, IA

Further info: http://www.chessdiagonals.com

IGM Apatin & Vukovar Banja Junakovic/Vukovar (SRB/CRO), 15-19 iii 2010											cat. VII (2425)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Szuhanek, Ranko	m	ROU	2496	*	*	½	½	1	0	1	½	½	1	1	1	7	2559
2.	Ilincic, Zlatko	g	SRB	2449	½	½	*	*	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	5½	2456
3.	Nurkic, Sahbaz	m	BIH	2379	0	1	½	½	*	*	½	½	½	½	½	½	5	2434
4.	Kostic, Vladimir G	g	SRB	2419	0	½	½	½	½	½	*	*	½	½	½	½	4½	2390
5.	Martinovic, Slobodan	g	SRB	2438	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	½	*	*	0	½	4	2350
6.	Goric, Esad	m	CRO	2368	0	0	0	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	*	*	4	2364

17) 12th Rector Cup Kharkov

The 12th Rector Cup took place in Kharkov 26th-29th March 2010. Anna Ushenina took clear first place with 6/9.

Official site: http://www.chesslaw.org.ua

12th Rector Cup Kharkov (UKR), 26-29 iii 2010											cat. V (2353)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1.	Ushenina, Anna	m	UKR	2452	*	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	6	2647
2.	Gaponenko, Inna	m	UKR	2472	½	*	½	1	1	0	1	½	4½	2437
3.	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2503	0	½	*	0	1	1	½	1	4	2381
4.	Burtasova, Anna	wm	RUS	2301	0	0	1	*	½	½	1	1	4	2410
5.	Klinova, Masha	m	ISR	2303	½	0	0	½	*	½	1	1	3½	2360
6.	Karlovich, Anastazia	wg	UKR	2180	0	1	0	½	½	*	½	0	2½	2275
7.	Doluhanova, Evgeniya	wg	UKR	2297	0	0	½	0	0	½	*	1	2	2202
8.	Soloviova, Liza	wm	UKR	2315	0	½	0	0	0	1	0	*	1½	2128

18) 5th MGU Opens Sofia

The 5th MGU Open took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, 27th-28th March 2010. Dimitar Iliev scored 5.5/6.

News: Mitko Iliev.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr31359.aspx

5th MGU Open Sofia (BUL), 27-28 iii 2010
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Iliev Dimitar	NM	BUL	2112	5.5	15.5	23	5
2	Tsekov Svetozar	NM	BUL	2293	5	14	22.5	5
3	Andreev Stanislav		BUL	2274	4.5	16.5	24	4
4	Krastev Goran		BUL	2007	4.5	13	19	4
5	Ruschukov Boyan		BUL	1887	4.5	12.5	19.5	4
6	Dimitrov Alexander Sv.		BUL	2158	4	14	22	3
7	Nikolova Adriana	WIM	BUL	2323	4	14	21	4
8	Vuchkov Sergey		BUL	1940	4	12.5	18	4
9	Todorov Dimitar P.		BUL	1937	4	10	16	4
10	Uzunov Diko		BUL	1849	3.5	13	19.5	2
11	Dobrev Petko		BUL	1977	3.5	12	18	3
12	Chunchukov Ivelin		BUL	0	3.5	11	17.5	3
13	Ivanov Borislav		BUL	2219	3	13.5	20	3
14	Krastev Krasimir Ign.		BUL	2163	3	13.5	20	3
15	Videv Georgi		BUL	1862	3	13	19	3
16	Zhelev Emil		BUL	2000	3	11	18	2
17	Mladenov Andrey		BUL	1954	3	10	15.5	2
18	Naydenova Yordanka		BUL	1893	3	9	15	2
19	Kamenov Valentin		BUL	1816	2.5	13.5	20	2
20	Toshev Vladimir		BUL	1993	2.5	13.5	19	2
21	Galabov Mihail		BUL	1896	2.5	11	18	2
22	Stanchev Plamen		BUL	1876	2.5	9	13	2
23	Yordanov Boris		BUL	1838	2.5	8	14.5	2
24	Kalchev Sava		BUL	1796	2	12.5	19	2
25	Krivoshijski Asen		BUL	1955	2	12.5	18.5	2
26	Krastev Stanimir		BUL	1780	2	12.5	17	1
27	Dulgerov Konstantin		BUL	1895	2	8.5	13.5	1
28	Borisov Ivan		BUL	1786	1.5	10	16.5	1
29	Angelov Georgi		BUL	0	1.5	10	15.5	1
30	Dudov Peter		BUL	0	1	10.5	16.5	0
31	Mitov Rumen Sljavjanov		BUL	0	1	9	14.5	1
32	Vardarov Lubcho Nikolov		BUL	0	0	8	13	0

19) 25th North American Open

The 25th North American Open took place 20th-24th March 2010. Final Standings: GM Ben Finegold, Mackenzie Molner - 6.5/9 GM Atanas Kolev - 6/9 GM Vladimiar Georgiev, GM Nikola Mitkov, GM Mesgen Amanov, Siddarth Ravichandran - 5.5/9

No games appear to be available.

Official site: http://www.nachess.org/ - Report: http://main.uschess.org/content/view/10261/576/

20) 107th Rhode Island Pawneater

George Mirijanian reports: The 107th Rhode Island Pawneater tournament took place Sunday, March 28, 2010, at Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.. IM David Vigorito, 39, of Somerville, Massachusetts was the winner with a perfect 4-0 score. Finishing as runner-up with a 3-1 tally was national master Miro Reverby, 40, of Providence, who lost to Vigorito in the third round. The tournament drew 38 players in three sections and was directed by John Magill, assisted by Eric Berkey of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, for the sponsoring Rhode Island Chess Association.

21) CXG Rio de Janeiro vs Angola

There was a match between the Chess Club CXG in Rio de Janeiro and Angola on 19th March 2010. CXG won 2.5-1.5. Games were correct, the entry contained errors.

Official site: http://www.cxg.org.br/nova/index.htm

CXG Rio de Janeiro vs Angola (BRA), 19 iii 2010
Bd	MATCH CXG				2½-1½	ANGOLA
1	MI	Pedro Aderito	2333	(ANG)	½-½	GM	Darcy Lima	2486	(CXG)
2	MF	Dirceu Viana	2261	(CXG)	1-0		Eduardo Pascoal	2193	(ANG)
3		Joao Simoes	2234	(ANG)	1-0		Cristovam Kubrusly	2235	(CXG)
4		Ocatacílio Freire	2123	(CXG)	1-0	MI	Armindo Souza	2200	(ANG)

22) Vasily Smyslov 1921-2010

Former World Chess Champion Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov has died at the age of 89.

Smyslov was born March 24th, 1921 in Moscow and was an emergency admittance to the Botkin Hospital in Moscow with heart trouble a few days before he died in the early hours of March 27th 2010.

When I re-examine the careers of famous chess players sometimes I've sometimes been left a bit under-whelmed, but there is no danger of that in this case. Undoubtably strongest player in the mid-1950s he is also the 6th strongest player of all time, if his career is taken over a 20 year period (Stats: http://chessmetrics.com). Yet I get the feeling that he was a little under-appreciated, in the galaxy of chess players. There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly the period of his tenure of World Champion was only 1957-8 and secondly he was followed by far more charasmatic players such as Tal and Fischer. However his career and style stand detailed scrutiny and mark him out as one of the true greats of the game.

Smyslov learned the game at the age of 6 in 1927, taught by his father who himself was a strong enough player to beat Alexander Alekhine in tournament play. He was taught simple positions and endings early on and Smyslov regarded this as one of the keys to the harmonious style he later developed along with the love of music which was also passed on to him by his father.

"Strict beauty and harmony, spontineity and elegance, the faultless intuition of the artist, the absolute mastery of technique and therefore complete independence from it - this is my ideal." was how Smyslov chose to express his beliefs.

He studied chess history and had the opportunity to see many of the greats at the Moscow tournaments of 1935 and 1936. He believed his chess style at 15 or 16 was pretty much well formed "... in a chess game I always sought not only victory, but also the triumph of logic." This crede meant that he played all sorts of positions, not just "positional variations" but also in his middle years he lost quite a few games against players who valued aggression rather than strict logic, I don't think he enjoyed playing against that kind of approach.

In 1938 he became Soviet Youth Champion and a master after sharing first place in the Moscow Championship.

He played the 12th Soviet Championship in 1940 and was in third place half a point behind the winners, he also started his rivalry with Botvinnik, their first game ending in a draw. His first major tournament was the Absolute Championship of the USSR Leningrad - Moscow 1941. Finishing 3rd out of 6 players in a field with no weak players marked him out as a player of the highest class.

In the tournament book Botvinnik said "His defects are chiefly psychological; sometimes he overestimates his possibilities during the actual game. After summing up the position he plays with great power; but when the struggle is involved he lacks the subtle appreciation of the critical moments." He conceded that Smyslov was still growing and praised his defence.

In spite of the difficult conditions during the war Smyslov continued to play and his best result was when he finished in 2nd place in the Soviet Championship in 1944.

The USA vs. USSR radio chess match 1945 took place September 1st-4th September 1945. In a portend of the Soviet domination of chess that was to come the USSR team won the match 15½-4½. Smyslov raised his international profile by beating Sammy Reshevsky 2-0. In a rematch against the USA in person in Moscow he beat Arnold Denker 2-0 in 1946 where the USSR won again.

His reputation was such that he recieved an invitation to the first major post-war tournament, the Groningen tournament of 1946. This proved key as his 3rd place eventually meant that he was invited to the Match Tournament for the World Championship in The Hague and Moscow in 1948 where he a was 2nd (if distant) to the new World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik.

In 1949 he shared first place in the Soviet Championships for the first time.

In 1950 he was only 3rd in the Budapest Candidates tournament behind Bronstein and Boleslavsky which had to be seen as a disappointment for him. There seemed to be a marking of time in his career which ended with the first great win of his career, the Candidates tournament in Zuerich, 1953, which also started the battles for the highest honours.

The Candidates tournament in Zuerich - Neuhausen in 1953 is justly famous. Smyslov won the tournament by a margin of two points over David Bronstein, Paul Keres and Sammy Reshevsky. Players such as Tigran Petrosian, Efim Geller, Miguel Najdorf and Max Euwe also competed, making it one of the strongest tournaments of the time.

Early pace was set by Sammy Reshevsky but once Smyslov took the lead in Round 12 he was never to surrender it although he was caught on 12.5 points in Round 21 by Sammy Reshevsky (when Smyslov suffered his only defeat, to Kotov) he took the lead alone again after round 24 and had a two point lead by Round 27 and then drew his way to qualification.

Candidates Tournament Zuerich - Neuhausen (SUI), 30 viii - 23 x 1953
Pl	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5
1	Smyslov, Vassily	**	½½	½1	11	½½	½½	11	½0	½½	½½	½½	½½	1½	11	1½	18.0
2	Bronstein, David I	½½	**	11	1½	½½	½½	½0	½½	1½	½½	½½	01	1½	½½	½½	16.0	224.00
3	Reshevsky, Samuel Herman	½0	00	**	½½	½½	½½	½½	10	½½	½1	½1	1½	½1	11	1½	16.0	210.75
4	Keres, Paul	00	0½	½½	**	½1	½½	½1	½½	½½	0½	11	1½	½1	½½	11	16.0	210.25
5	Petrosian, Tigran V	½½	½½	½½	½0	**	0½	½½	½½	00	½½	½½	11	½1	1½	11	15.0
6	Najdorf, Miguel	½½	½½	½½	½½	1½	**	00	1½	1½	½0	½½	½½	½½	0½	11	14.5	198.00
7	Geller, Efim P	00	½1	½½	½0	½½	11	**	½0	01	½½	01	1½	½1	01	½½	14.5	197.75
8	Kotov, Alexander	½1	½½	01	½½	½½	0½	½1	**	10	1½	00	10	1½	0½	01	14.0	198.75
9	Taimanov, Mark E	½½	0½	½½	½½	11	0½	10	01	**	10	½½	½½	½0	0½	11	14.0	191.75
10	Averbakh, Yuri L	½½	½½	½0	1½	½½	½1	½½	0½	01	**	½½	½½	0½	11	00	13.5	194.00
11	Boleslavsky, Isaak	½½	½½	½0	00	½½	½½	10	11	½½	½½	**	½0	½½	½1	½½	13.5	185.75
12	Szabo, Laszlo	½½	10	0½	0½	00	½½	0½	01	½½	½½	½1	**	1½	½½	1½	13.0
13	Gligoric, Svetozar	0½	0½	½0	½0	½0	½½	½0	0½	½1	1½	½½	0½	**	½1	11	12.5
14	Euwe, Max	00	½½	00	½½	0½	1½	10	1½	1½	00	½0	½½	½0	**	1½	11.5
15	Stahlberg, Gideon	0½	½½	0½	00	00	00	½½	10	00	11	½½	0½	00	0½	**	8.0

This qualification led to a first of three match against Mikhail Botvinnik. The first match started catestrophically for him with Botvinnik winning games 1, 2 and 4. However a run of 4 wins and a draw starting with game 7 took Smyslov into the lead, however he then lost game 12 to see the match level at the half way stage. Shared wins in games 13 and 14 were followed by two wins for Botvinnik. Smyslov scored wins in games 20 and 23 but didn't try all that hard in the final game offering a draw on move 22 to see the match drawn 12-12. This result meant that Botvinnik retained his title. (Botvinnik is supposed to have said in reponse to Smyslov's final game draw offer: "Your offer is so attractive I cannot refuse").

20th WCh Match 1954 Moscow (RUS), 16 iii - 13 v 1954
Pl	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4
1	Botvinnik,Mikhail	1	1	½	1	½	½	0	½	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	½	½	½	0	½	½	0	½	12.0/24	144.00
2	Smyslov,Vassily	0	0	½	0	½	½	1	½	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	½	12.0/24	144.00

1955 saw shared firsts in Hastings and the USSR Championships (lost playoff to Geller) and a win in Zagreb. When Smyslov returned to Candidates Chess in Amsterdam he again emerged triumphant but was level with Keres until three rounds until the end, he beat Bronstein, drew against Spassky and beat Pilnik to set up a second world championship match with Botvinnik, one that he claimed afterwards he was much better prepared for the match after his previous experience and his "play was more steady and harmonious". After he took the lead in game 8 and never surrendered his grip on the match after that. He thus became the 7th World Chess Champion.

Candidates Tournament Amsterdam (NED), 27 iii - 30 iv 1956
Pl	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1	Smyslov,Vassily	**	½½	½½	0½	½½	½1	11	½1	1½	½1	11.5/18
2	Keres,Paul	½½	**	½½	½½	½½	½1	½½	½0	1½	1½	10.0/18
3	Szabo,Laszlo	½½	½½	**	1½	½½	½½	½1	0½	½½	01	9.5/18	86.00
4	Spassky,Boris V	1½	½½	0½	**	½½	½1	0½	½½	½½	½1	9.5/18	84.00
5	Petrosian,Tigran V	½½	½½	½½	½½	**	0½	01	1½	½½	1½	9.5/18	82.25
6	Bronstein,David I	½0	½0	½½	½0	1½	**	½1	1½	½½	½1	9.5/18	81.00
7	Geller,Efim P	00	½½	½0	1½	10	½0	**	11	½1	1½	9.5/18	78.75
8	Filip,Miroslav	½0	½1	1½	½½	0½	0½	00	**	10	½1	8.0/18	69.50
9	Panno,Oscar	0½	0½	½½	½½	½½	½½	½0	01	**	1½	8.0/18	69.00
10	Pilnik,Herman	½0	0½	10	½0	0½	½0	0½	½0	0½	**	5.0/18

21st WCh Match 1957 Moscow (RUS), 5 iii - 27 iv 1957
Pl	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1	Smyslov,Vassily	1	½	½	0	0	1	½	1	½	½	½	1	0	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	½	½	12.5/22
2	Botvinnik,Mikhail	0	½	½	1	1	0	½	0	½	½	½	0	1	½	½	½	0	½	½	0	½	½	9.5/22

Mikhail Botvinnik had a rematch clause and a day less than a year from the start of the first match Smyslov had yet again to play a world title match. Smyslov claims that he started the match with flu and ended it with pneumonia. Whatever the reason, Smyslov was comprehensively defeated in this third match and never again was to fight for the world title.

22nd WCh Match 1958 Moscow (RUS), 4 iii - 8 v 1958
Pl	Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3
1	Botvinnik,Mikhail	1	1	1	½	0	1	½	½	½	½	0	1	½	1	0	½	½	1	0	½	½	0	½	12.5/23
2	Smyslov,Vassily	0	0	0	½	1	0	½	½	½	½	1	0	½	0	1	½	½	0	1	½	½	1	½	10.5/23

Remaining World Championship Adventures.

This match ends the period when Smyslov was World Champion and World Number One. By the end of 1958 Mikhail Tal had become the best player in the World and the new star. Tal demolished his way through the Interzonal and then won the Candidates tournament in Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade in 1959 whereas Smyslov finished in 4th place a full 5 points behind. Smyslov maintained a top 5 position for the next few years and top 10 throughout the 1960s but wasn't a serious force in final stages of the World Championships until his swan song in 1982-4. He missed out on a place in the Stockholm Interzonal of 1962. In 1964 he shared first place in the Amsterdam Interzonal but in the quarter finals of the Candidates Matches he was well beaten by Efim Geller (-3=5). He did come close to qualifying from various interzonals for a few years but it did seem that his career was winding down when in 1982 he persuaded a Federation (UAE?) to nominate him for the Las Palmas Interzonal of 1982 where he finished 2nd and qualified for the Candidates at the age of 61. He drew +1-1=12 against Robert Huebner in the Quarter Finals where famously it was decided after the match went on so long that the winner would be decided by the roll of the roulette wheel (Huebner objected but it happened anyhow).

Robert Byrne reports on Huebner - Smyslov at the time

He then beat Zoltan Ribli +3=7-1 to earn a match against Garry Kasparov in the final of the Candidates. These result showed both the quality of his concept of the game but also the dire state of international chess at the time with the Soviets having mostly aging stars except for World Champion Anatoly Karpov and the fast rising Garry Kasparov. Kasparov won a really quite interesting match against Smyslov 8.5-4.5 which in itself wasn't a bad achievement. His final Candidates' appearance was the Montpellier 1985 tournament but he didn't progress. He played in the 1997 FIDE World Championship Knockout in Groningen where he lost 2-0 to Alexander Morozevich. Smyslov finally became a World Champion again when he won the World Seniors in 1991.

Remaining Career

It is hard to do justice to the rest of his career with such a huge post-script following the heights of being World Champion. For the most part he lacked the ambition to return to the very top but was instead content to perform consistantly well for many years. He played 50 strong tournaments between 1939-1981 winning or sharing 15 first prizes according to the Oxford Companion to Chess.

Best results included Moscow 1960 1st, Capablanca Memorial 1965 1st in front of Fischer, Monte Carlo 1969 1st=, Moscow 1971 3rd. Smyslov scored 8/17 in the 55th Soviet Championships in 1988 which were the last of super-strong versions of this tournament. He drew with Karpov and Kasparov who shared first, and beat Vassily Ivanchuk in an impressive game.

He played in 9 Olympiads scoring +69 =42 -2. His total of 17 Olympiad medals won, including team and individual medals, is an all-time Olympiad record, according to olimpbase.org. Smyslov also represented the USSR in five European Team Championships, and emerged with a perfect medals' record: he won five team gold medals and five board gold medals. His total score in these events was (+19 = 15 - 1), for 75.7 per cent. (These stats are from his Wikipedia entry) Smyslov played for the USSR in both the 1970 and 1984 matches against teams representing the Rest of the World. He was on board six at Belgrade in 1970, and on board four at London in 1984 (which I attended), with the Soviets winning both matches.

His final event was the Klompendans tournament in Amsterdam in 2001 where he scored 50%. He played in a number of these Veterans vs Ladies events from 1997. After this his eyesight became so poor he retired from playing. He was the guest of honour at occasional events after this. Smyslov had a lifelong interest in music and singing which he inherited from his father. According to the Guardian Obituary: "In 1950 Smyslov, who had a fine baritone voice, was among several hundred singers who entered a national contest for a position at the Bolshoi, failing only at the final shortlist stage. Singing remained one of his great interests and he sometimes gave recitals during chess tournaments, often accompanied by Mark Taimanov, a fellow grandmaster. His bid for the Bolshoi helps explain why he finished only third in the 1950 Budapest Candidates tournament..."

On the pronunciation of his name I remember reading a book on one of the World Title Matches he played that explained that his name is Smyslov, which sort of rhymes with "whizz-cough".

Leading Results of Smyslov's Career
Yr	Pl	NAT	Event	Pl	Sco
1938	Moscow	URS	Russian Schoolboys	1st	8/10
1938	Gorky	URS	USR 1st Cat Tourn	1st-3rd	10/13
1938	Moscow	URS	Moscow Championships	1st-2nd	12.5/17
1939	Leningrad-Moscow	URS	Training Tournament	12-13th	8/17
1939	Moscow	URS	Moscow Championships	2nd-3rd	9/13
1940	Moscow	URS	12th USSR Championship	3rd	13/19
1941	Leningrad-Moscow	URS	Absolute ch-USSR	3rd	10/20
1942	Kuibishev	URS	Tournament	2nd	8/11
1942	Moscow	URS	Moscow Championships	1st	12/15
1943	Sverdlovsk	URS	Tournament	3rd	8/14
1943	Moscow	URS	Moscow Championships	2nd	11.5/16
1944	Moscow	URS	13th ch-USSR	2nd	10.5/16
1945	Moscow	URS	14th ch-USSR	10th-11th	8.5/17
1946	Moscow	URS	Moscow Championships	3rd-6th	8.5/15
1946	Groningen	NED	Staunton Memorial	3rd	12.5/19
1947	Leningrad	URS	15th ch-USSR	3rd-4th	12/19
1947	Moscow	URS	Chigorin Memorial	3rd-4th	10/15
1948	Hague-Moscow	NED/URS	Match-Tourn. WCh	2nd	11/20
1949	Moscow	URS	17th USSR Championship	1st-2nd	13/19
1950	Budapest	HUN	Candidates Tournament	3rd	10/18
1950	Venice	ITA	International Tournament	2nd	12/15
1950	Moscow	URS	18th USSR Championship	5th-6th	10/17
1953	Zurich	SUI	Candidates Tournament	1st	18/28
1954	Moscow	URS	WCh-Match Botvinnik	Draw	+7-7=10
1954	Hastings	ENG	International Tournament	1st-2nd	7/9
1955	Moscow	URS	22nd USSR Championship	1st-2nd	12/19
1955	Zagreb	YUG	International Tournament	1st place	14.5/19
1956	Moscow	URS	Alekhine Memorial	1st-2nd	11/15
1956	Amsterdam	NED	Candidates Tournament	1st	11.5/18
1957	Moscow	URS	WCh-Match Botvinnik	Won	+7-3=12
1958	Moscow	URS	WCh-Match Botvinnik	Lost	+5-7=11
1959	Moscow	URS	USSR Central CC	1st-3rd	7/11
1959	Bled-Zagreb-Belgade	YUG	Candidates Tournament	4th	15/28
1960	Moscow	URS	1st USSR Central CC	1st-2nd	8.5/11
1961	Moscow	URS	2nd USSR Central CC	1st-2nd	7.5/11
1963	Moscow	URS	3rd USSR Central CC	1st	11.5/15
1964	Havana	CUB	Capablanca Memorial	1st-2nd	16/21
1964	Amsterdam	NED	Interzonal	1st-4th	17/23
1965	Moscow	URS	Candidates Match Geller	Lost	2.5:5.5
1965	Havana	CUB	Capablanca Memorial	1st	15.5/21
1967	Palma de Mallorca	ESP	International Tournament	2nd-3rd	12.5/17
1967	Monte Carlo	MNC	International Tournament	2nd	6.5/9
1969	Monte Carlo	MNC	International Tournament	1st-2nd	8/11
1970	Rovinj-Zagreb	YUG	International Tournament	2nd-5th	11/17
1970	Amsterdam	NED	IBM-tournament	1st	10/15
1971	Leningrad	URS	39th USSR Championship	2nd-3rd	13.5/21
1971	Moscow	URS	Alekhine Memorial	3rd	10.5/17
1972	Las Palmas	ESP	International Tournament	2nd-3rd	11/15
1973	Petropolis	BRA	Interzonal Tournament	5th	11/17
1977	Moscow	URS	60th Ann October Revolution	3rd	10.5/17
1982	Las Palmas	ESP	Interzonal Tournament	2nd	8.5/13
1983	Velden	AUT	WCh Candidates Q/F Huebner	Won T/B	7:7
1983	Moscow	URS	WCh Candidates S/F Ribli	Won	6.5:4.5
1984	Vilnius	URS	Candidates Final Kasparov	Lost	4.5:8.5
1991	Bad Woerishofen	GER	WCh Seniors	1st-2nd	8.5/11

Information about Smyslov's death

World Chess Champion Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (March 24, 1921 - March 27, 2010) The date of death was the early hours of March 27th 2010.

http://www.utro.ru/articles/2010/03/28/883489.shtml [In Russian] says that Smyslov and his wife Nadezhda's final months were very troubled. Smyslov's wife suffered a fall in February and Smyslov himself was bedridden, and it seems they were not being helped or cared for. Smyslov had been poorly for around 3 months and was in serious condition with coronary heart disease and atrial fibrillation when he was finally admitted to hospital, by which time it was too late.

There will be a funeral service at the Chess Club on Gogolevsky in Moscow.

Links to stories, obituaries and information about Vasily Smyslov

Sources Wikipedia: Smyslov Wikipedia entry.

Excellent Guardian Obituary by Leonard Barden with info you won't see elsewhere

First Report of his death [In Russian]: (http://sport.rian.ru/sport/20100327/216724266.html). Heart failure is given as the cause. It states that Smyslov died in the early hours of Saturday 27th March 2010, unless you read a google translation into English which misinterprets the original.

Chess History 6512 has a number of photos of Vasily Smyslov

[In Russian] ChessPro Statistics and big games file [PGN] for Vasily Smyslov.

Career stats of Vasily Smyslov from ChessMetrics

Daily Dirt on Smyslov's passing

2005 interview with Vladimir Kramnik on his predecessors including Smyslov

Dennis Monokroussos on Smyslov's passing

ChessBase report and Photos on Smyslov's passing

ChessVibes Tribute to Vasily Smyslov

ChessVibes gives some Smyslov Studies

Timeline of Smyslov's career by Bill Wall

DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN Obit of Vasily Smyslov. Nice Smyslov Quote: "When his position was bad, his thoughts were devastating. ‘Why did I ever start playing chess?’ he repeatedly would ask himself."

A rather odd late interview with Smyslov

23) Forthcoming Events and Links

Russian Team Championships 2010

The Russian Team Championships take place in Dagomys 1st-10th April 2010. Premier, Major and Women's Competitions.

Preliminary Lineup for the Premier League.

1. The Economist - SSSEU-1 " (Saratov): Wang Yu, Eljanov P., Morozevich A. Alekseev, E., Tomaszewski, E., Moiseenko A., Ni Hua, Roiz M., Andreykin D.)

2. The Economist - SSSEU-2 " (Saratov): Galkin, A. Kovchan, Diyachkov S., Ilyushin A., Shaposhnikov VE, Novikov, Evdokimov, A., Lushenkov M., Karavaev V., Shuh N., Sharaf A.

3. Club im.Chigorina " (St. Petersburg): Khairullin I., Romanov AE, Matlakov MA, Ionov, S., Popov, Shimanov A. Anisimov P., Levin E.)

4. St. Petersburg Chess Federation (St. Petersburg): V. Ivanchuk, Svidler P., Vityugov N., Movsesian S., Sakai, K., V. Zvyagintsev, Efimenko Z., Emelin V.

5. "Ugra" (Khanty-Mansiysk) : Yakovenko, D., Alexander Grischuk, Malakhov, V., Rublevsky S., Syugirov S., Landa K. Kabanov AN, Roadside A., Khalifman A., Yoshan B.

6. "Tomsk-400" (Tomsk): Ponomariov R., Inarkiev E., Bologan W., Motylev A., Tkachev AV, Khismatullin D., Timofeev A., Amonatov F., Tiviakov S. Kurnosov I., Belozerov A.

7. Ural (Sverdlovsk region.): A. Grischuk, Shirov, A., A. Dreev, Bareev E., Sutovsky, E. Milov, Bald, I., Henkin I., Shariyazdanov A., Rashkovskii N., Epishin W., Totsky L.

8. "BSM-64" (Moscow): B. Gelfand, Karjakin S., Van Hao, Caruana, F., Najer E., Grachev, B., Ryazantsev A., Savchenko AB, Potkin VI, Popov VI, bar E., M. Kobalia

9. "BSU" (Belgorod): Ivanov. (USA), Ivanov, Potkin V. Savchenko, B. Hasanov, E., (Ukraine), Bryzgalin K., S. Kalugin, I. Glek, Fomichenko E., Uzhva A. Oparin G., Panarin M.

10. "Etude-Contact" (Moscow): Khenkin, I., M. Kobalia, Korotylev A., Devjatkin A., A. Rakhmanov, Chad N., Papin V. Krylov, M., Gabrielian, A., Chernobay A., Orlinkov AM.

Official site: http://russiachess.org

Chess Classic Mainz 2010

The 17th Chess Classic Mainz takes place 6th-8th August 2010. The festival has suffered from the general economic slowdown with the open taking the lead along with simuls.

The rapid chess open has been upgraded to the Grenke Rapid World Championship. The tenth edition of the Chess Classic in Mainz is sponsored by GRENKE Group, FiNet AG, Livingston GmbH, Hilton Mainz, Congress Centre Mainz, Stadtwerke Mainz AG and our Prime-Partners ChessBase, DGT and Schach Niggemann.

The prize fund for the rapid chess world championship is no less than Euro 30.000. Chess960 has to take a break for a year.

On the first day of the event, 6th August 2010, Anand will play a standard simul on 40 boards. On the same day, Alexandra Kosteniuk will play a 20-board Chess960 simul.

The Grenke Rapid World Championship will also be a treat for chess lovers: Levon Aronian, who is the current rapid chess world champion and the winner of the 2009 ORDIX Open, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, will play the open tournament to face a unique mixture of numerous world-class grandmasters and amateurs.

The Open will be played in the same established format as in the previous editions. On 7th-8th August 2010 11 rounds will be played, in which the time control is 20 minutes + 5 seconds per move.

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

Russian Teams 2010

The Russian Team Championships take place 1st-10th April 2010. Premier, Major and Women's Competitions.