THE WEEK IN CHESS 820 26th July 2010 by Mark Crowther

1) Introduction

My thanks to Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr, Luis Blasco de la Cruz, Mitko Iliev, Zenon Franco Ocampos, Dave Clayton, Denis Gauthier, Dennis Monokroussos, Emil Sutovsky, Etienne Van Leeuwen, Oscar de la Riva Aguado, Guven Manay, Harald Grafenhofer, Harun Taner, Jan Bey, Lennarth Eriksson, Mark Adams, Mikhail Golubev, Laszlo Nagy, Per Erik Hoem, Peter Boel, Peter Long, Yuri Vovk and everyone else who helped with the issue.

5000 games this week. There is a bewildering amount of chess going on at the moment. The main event was the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess-Meeting. Ruslan Ponomariov scored his best win since his FIDE World Title in 2002. He was a point clear of Le Quang Liem who had a very impressive debut at this level. The 19 year-old looks to have a tremendous future. The future of chess is also being seen in Biel. Many of the players there will expect to be the elite of the future. Fabiano Caruana leads with 4.5/7 with a couple of rounds to go. Alexander Morozevich has returned to chess in a tournament in Pamplona. Its a bit early to say how he is playing but 2.5/3 isn't bad, although the opposition isn't really that strong. The games just keep on coming leaving me almost over-whelmed but just about got there this week.

Just as I write the news comes from the FIDE Presidential Board in Tromso that the Candidates will be moved from Baku in Azerbaijan to Kazan in Russia. The full implications of this decision are hard to read. It isn't difficult to see this as part of a wider pattern which took in the desperation of the Russian Federation to nominate Ilyumzhinov and the upcoming contract with "Chess Lane" that seems likely to pass all FIDE Commercial activities to a Russian Company funded by the shadowy figures of the brothers Ziyavudine and Mohammed Magomedov from Dagestan and represented by their frontman David Kaplan. (Background in Russian in this article on the APN website: A Revolution is coming in the Chess World

Indeed where the money is coming from for this move to Kazan is a mystery. The main immediate problem is the Veselin Topalov this week has said he would refuse to play Candidates events in Russia especially against Russian (only Kramnik is playing) opponents. He must have known this deal was likely so the ball is in his court. He isn't certain to play Kramnik by any means. Mamedyarov does retain his position in the Candidates as the Azerbaijani representative.

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) Dortmund 2010

The Sparkassen Chess-Meeting in Dortmund took place 15th - 25th July 2010. Former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik was the top seed. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ruslan Ponomariov, Peter Leko, Arkadij Naiditsch and the winner of the Aeroflot Open Le Quang Liem competed.

Ruslan Ponomariov won the tournament by a point from up and coming star Le Quang Liem. Vladimir Kramnik got back to 50% and caught Mamedyarov by beating him in the final round. Peter Leko scored his only win to catch Naidtisch in last place.

Tigran Nalbandian edged out Thomas Henrichs and Mikhail Zaitsev on tie-break after all finished on 7/9. in the Open A tournament.

Official site: http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2010/

Results page for the Open tournaments: http://schachfreunde-brackel.de/schachtage/2010/

Sparkassen GM Dortmund (GER), 15-25 vii 2010											cat. XX (2731)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	2734	*	*	0	½	1	½	1	½	½	1	1	½	6½	2840
2.	Le Quang Liem	g	VIE	2681	1	½	*	*	½	½	0	½	½	½	1	½	5½	2776
3.	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2790	0	½	½	½	*	*	½	1	1	0	½	½	5	2718
4.	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	2761	0	½	1	½	½	0	*	*	1	0	½	1	5	2724
5.	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2684	½	0	½	½	0	1	0	1	*	*	½	0	4	2668
6.	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2734	0	½	0	½	½	½	½	0	½	1	*	*	4	2658

Round 6 (July 21, 2010)
Le Quang Liem	- Kramnik, Vladimir	½-½	39	E06	Catalan
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Naiditsch, Arkadij	0-1	36	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Leko, Peter	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	½-½	41	E06	Catalan
Round 7 (July 22, 2010)
Kramnik, Vladimir	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	½-½	37	E17	Queens Indian
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Leko, Peter	1-0	39	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Naiditsch, Arkadij	- Le Quang Liem	½-½	35	B12	Caro Kann Advanced
Round 8 (July 23, 2010)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Naiditsch, Arkadij	1-0	46	E59	Nimzo Indian
Le Quang Liem	- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	½-½	52	E06	Catalan
Leko, Peter	- Kramnik, Vladimir	½-½	31	E04	Catalan
Round 9 (July 24, 2010)
Le Quang Liem	- Leko, Peter	½-½	119	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	- Ponomariov, Ruslan	½-½	43	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Naiditsch, Arkadij	- Kramnik, Vladimir	1-0	34	B07	Pirc Defence
Round 10 (July 25, 2010)
Ponomariov, Ruslan	- Le Quang Liem	½-½	42	B13	Caro Kann Exchange
Kramnik, Vladimir	- Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	1-0	31	D38	QGD Ragozin
Leko, Peter	- Naiditsch, Arkadij	1-0	60	D37	QGD 5.Bf4

Helmut Kohls It Dortmund (GER), 15-25 vii 2010															cat. VII (2406)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Kotainy, Jens		GER	2299	*	½	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	6	2542
2.	Klyuner, Vyacheslav		UKR	2443	½	*	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	½	5½	2481
3.	Schmittdiel, Eckhard	g	GER	2485	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	5½	2476
4.	Mainka, Romuald	g	GER	2484	½	½	½	*	½	0	½	1	1	1	5½	2476
5.	Zelbel, Patrick	f	GER	2345	½	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	1	5	2455
6.	Schaefer, Markus	m	GER	2382	0	0	½	1	½	*	1	½	½	1	5	2451
7.	Saltaev, Mihail	g	UZB	2495	½	½	½	½	½	0	*	½	½	1	4½	2395
8.	Webb, Laurence E	f	ENG	2313	½	½	0	0	½	½	½	*	1	½	4	2372
9.	Mladenov, Svetlin		BUL	2463	0	0	½	0	½	½	½	0	*	½	2½	2233
10.	Voicu, Carmen	wg	ROU	2346	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	*	1½	2139

Round 4 (July 19, 2010)
Kotainy, Jens	- Mainka, Romuald	½-½	42	B03	Alekhine's Defence
Zelbel, Patrick	- Mladenov, Svetlin	½-½	40	C41	Philidor's Defence
Schaefer, Markus	- Voicu, Carmen	1-0	31	B83	Sicilian Scheveningen
Saltaev, Mihail	- Klyuner, Vyacheslav	½-½	23	C42	Petroff's Defence
Webb, Laurence E	- Schmittdiel, Eckhard	0-1	49	B30	Sicilian Rossolimo
Round 5 (July 21, 2010)
Klyuner, Vyacheslav	- Zelbel, Patrick	½-½	28	C45	Scotch Game
Schmittdiel, Eckhard	- Saltaev, Mihail	½-½	92	B10	Caro Kann
Mainka, Romuald	- Schaefer, Markus	0-1	31	C11	French Defence
Mladenov, Svetlin	- Kotainy, Jens	0-1	96	C12	French MacCutcheon
Voicu, Carmen	- Webb, Laurence E	½-½	83	C00	French Defence
Round 6 (July 22, 2010)
Kotainy, Jens	- Klyuner, Vyacheslav	½-½	29	C41	Philidor's Defence
Schmittdiel, Eckhard	- Voicu, Carmen	1-0	34	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Schaefer, Markus	- Mladenov, Svetlin	½-½	20	C41	Philidor's Defence
Saltaev, Mihail	- Zelbel, Patrick	½-½	34	B56	Sicilian Defence
Webb, Laurence E	- Mainka, Romuald	0-1	67	B40	Sicilian Classical
Round 7 (July 23, 2010)
Klyuner, Vyacheslav	- Schaefer, Markus	1-0	55	A05	Various
Mainka, Romuald	- Schmittdiel, Eckhard	½-½	10	E11	Bogo Indian Defence
Zelbel, Patrick	- Kotainy, Jens	½-½	29	C05	French Tarrasch
Mladenov, Svetlin	- Webb, Laurence E	0-1	35	C05	French Tarrasch
Voicu, Carmen	- Saltaev, Mihail	0-1	46	B18	Caro Kann
Round 8 (July 24, 2010)
Schmittdiel, Eckhard	- Mladenov, Svetlin	½-½	8	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Schaefer, Markus	- Zelbel, Patrick	½-½	20	B76	Sicilian Modern Dragon
Saltaev, Mihail	- Kotainy, Jens	½-½	23	C05	French Tarrasch
Webb, Laurence E	- Klyuner, Vyacheslav	½-½	68	C41	Philidor's Defence
Voicu, Carmen	- Mainka, Romuald	0-1	39	B43	Sicilian Paulsen
Round 9 (July 25, 2010)
Kotainy, Jens	- Schaefer, Markus	1-0	40	C13	French Classical
Klyuner, Vyacheslav	- Schmittdiel, Eckhard	½-½	29	A04	Dutch System
Mainka, Romuald	- Saltaev, Mihail	½-½	19	B10	Caro Kann
Zelbel, Patrick	- Webb, Laurence E	½-½	18	C01	French Exchange
Mladenov, Svetlin	- Voicu, Carmen	½-½	10	B24	Sicilian Closed

Open A Dortmund (GER), 15-25 vii 2010
Pl	Name	Ti	FED	ELO	Pts	Bu
1.	Nalbandian, Tigran	GM	ARM	2453	7.0	49.5
2.	Henrichs, Thomas	IM	GER	2490	7.0	49.0
3.	Zaitsev, Mikhail	IM	RUS	2507	7.0	48.0
4.	Bluebaum, Matthias		GER	2098	6.5	46.0
5.	Michalczak, Thomas	FM	GER	2367	6.5	45.5
6.	Cherniaev, Alexander	GM	RUS	2469	6.5	45.0
7.	Carlstedt, Jonathan		GER	2379	6.5	44.5
8.	Quast, Marcel		GER	2146	6.5	37.0
9.	Kuznetsov, Mark		GER	2085	6.0	46.0
10.	Kartsev, Alexandr		GER	2145	6.0	42.5
11.	Krueger, Andre		GER	2061	6.0	42.5
12.	Savchenko, Aleksij		GER	2275	6.0	41.5
13.	Wittenberg, Andreas		GER	2143	6.0	41.0
14.	Bouaraba, Max		GER	2224	6.0	37.0
15.	Boehm, Juergen		GER	2214	6.0	35.0
16.	Steinle, Carsten		GER	2151	5.5	43.0
17.	Sundorf, Jannik		GER	2070	5.5	40.5
18.	Harff, Marcel		GER	2168	5.5	40.0
19.	Liedtke, Dirk		GER	2191	5.5	40.0
20.	Roehrich, Stefan		GER	2142	5.5	38.0
21.	Bub, Volker		GER	2193	5.5	36.5
22.	Guennigmann, Manuel		GER	2234	5.5	36.5
23.	Kuempers, Ulrich		GER	2091	5.5	35.5
24.	Fistoul, Michail, Dr.		GER		5.5	34.5
25.	Frombach, Ralf		GER	2224	5.0	44.5
26.	Bach, Matthias	FM	GER	2303	5.0	44.5
27.	Chilla, Jan Eric		GER	2143	5.0	43.5
28.	Kahleys, Kevin		GER	2071	5.0	42.5
29.	Tkachuk, Konstantyn		GER	2181	5.0	41.0
30.	Aulich, Marcell		GER	2102	5.0	41.0
31.	Rott, Georg		GER	2221	5.0	40.5
32.	Richter, Gerald		BEL	2119	5.0	40.5
33.	Carrasco, Paul		USA	2038	5.0	40.0
34.	Strathoff, Jens		GER	2080	5.0	39.5
35.	Wiebe, Patrick		GER	2248	5.0	39.0
36.	Bauschmann, Christoph		GER	1871	5.0	38.0
37.	Naundorf, Maik		GER	2127	5.0	37.0
38.	Schorra, Helmut		GER	2111	5.0	36.5
39.	Mundorf, Johannes		GER	1903	5.0	36.5
40.	Franke, Thomas		GER	2198	5.0	34.5
41.	Schuelke, Tilman		GER	2053	5.0	31.0
42.	Weber, Martin		GER	2031	4.5	39.0
43.	Grahl, Matthias		GER	1776	4.5	38.0
44.	Kartsev, Soel		GER	2202	4.5	38.0
45.	Steinmetzer, Thomas		GER	2114	4.5	37.5
46.	Mazarov, Juergen		GER	2167	4.5	37.0
47.	Krueger, Erich		GER	2255	4.5	35.5
48.	Kubo, Thomas		GER	1992	4.5	35.5
49.	Busche, Klaus		GER	2071	4.5	35.0
50.	Butschek, Tanja		GER	2040	4.5	34.5
51.	Tran, Duc Cuong		GER	1958	4.5	32.0
52.	Thanabalasingam, Ajandhan		GER	1940	4.0	47.0
53.	Schiefelbusch, Dirk		GER	2135	4.0	43.0
54.	Kropp, Andreas Juergen				4.0	39.5
55.	Barskij, Aleksandr		GER	2000	4.0	39.5
56.	Fichtner, Ewald		GER	1972	4.0	39.0
57.	Wickenfeld, Stefan		GER	1974	4.0	38.5
58.	Virnyi, Julius		GER	2099	4.0	38.0
59.	Henkemeier, Michael		GER	1922	4.0	38.0
60.	Zimmermann, Dirk		GER	2085	4.0	38.0
61.	Hecht, Carsten		GER	1773	4.0	38.0
62.	Konow, Philipp		GER	1889	4.0	37.5
63.	Neuer, Thomas		GER	2090	4.0	37.0
64.	Pilat, Fabian		GER	1944	4.0	36.5
65.	Beer, Markus		GER	2024	4.0	35.5
66.	Boehm, Malte				4.0	35.0
67.	Gaul, Alexander		GER	1852	4.0	34.0
68.	Ossig, Rainer				3.5	38.5
69.	Kiehn, Andreas				3.5	38.0
70.	Glahn, Michael		GER	1826	3.5	36.5
71.	Schmitz, Philipp				3.5	36.0
72.	Zwielich, Frank				3.5	35.0
73.	Josten, Severin Johannes				3.5	28.5
74.	Eckert, Marius				3.5	28.0
75.	Kelm, Marcel		GER	1951	3.0	37.0
76.	Henkemeier, Markus		GER	1822	3.0	35.0
77.	Carmesin, Matthias		GER	1859	3.0	32.5
78.	Morgenroth, Hubertus				3.0	31.5
79.	Maniocha, Marek		GER	2051	3.0	31.0
80.	Budszuhn, Timo				3.0	30.5
81.	Lauche, Christoph		GER	1918	3.0	29.0
82.	Richters, Marc		GER	1951	2.5	38.5
83.	Sieberg, Rolf		GER	1951	2.5	37.0
84.	Butschek, Marc		GER	1891	2.5	32.0
85.	Deinert, Wolfgang		GER	1844	2.5	27.0
86.	Mueller, Rene				2.5	26.0
87.	Pedersen, Lars Wisler		DEN	1850	2.0	33.0
88.	Lienau, Henrik		GER	1763	2.0	29.0
89.	Schlottmann, Fabian				2.0	29.0
90.	Grasse, Herbert				2.0	25.0
91.	Ewers, Christian				1.0	2.5
92.	Kern, Guido	IM	GER	2375	0.0	11.0

3) 43rd Biel International Chess Festival 2010

The 43rd Biel International Chess Festival takes place 17th-30th July 2010. There will be 9 events including a strong Open, Fischer, Rapid and blitz tournaments and of course the traditional closed tournament. This year they have decided to go with a tournament of youngsters and with the talent around at the moment they probably couldn't have chosen a better moment.

Official site with full details: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/

YGM Biel (SUI), 19-28 vii 2010															cat. XVII (2658)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	2697	*	½	1	½	.	½	½	½	.	1	4½	2761
2.	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	2723	½	*	½	½	½	.	½	½	1	.	4	2712
3.	So, Wesley	g	PHI	2674	0	½	*	½	.	1	½	.	1	½	4	2705
4.	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	2708	½	½	½	*	½	.	.	½	½	1	4	2713
5.	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	2650	.	½	.	½	*	½	½	½	1	½	4	2701
6.	Rodshtein, Maxim	g	ISR	2609	½	.	0	.	½	*	½	1	½	1	4	2698
7.	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	g	VIE	2617	½	½	½	.	½	½	*	.	½	½	3½	2654
8.	Giri, Anish	g	NED	2672	½	½	.	½	½	0	.	*	½	½	3	2609
9.	Howell, David W L	g	ENG	2616	.	0	0	½	0	½	½	½	*	.	2	2506
10.	Negi, Parimarjan	g	IND	2615	0	.	½	0	½	0	½	½	.	*	2	2503

Round 2 (July 20, 2010)
Caruana, Fabiano	- Rodshtein, Maxim	½-½	25	D85	Gruenfeld Defence
So, Wesley	- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	½-½	64	D78	Gruenfeld 3.g3
Tomashevsky, Evgeny	- Negi, Parimarjan	1-0	94	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	- Howell, David W L	½-½	35	A45	Trompowsky
Giri, Anish	- Andreikin, Dmitry	½-½	109	A41	Modern Defence
Round 3 (July 21, 2010)
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	- Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	½-½	54	C03	French Tarrasch
Andreikin, Dmitry	- Tomashevsky, Evgeny	½-½	22	A46	Queen's Pawn Opening
Rodshtein, Maxim	- So, Wesley	0-1	39	D86	Gruenfeld Simagin
Howell, David W L	- Giri, Anish	½-½	27	C42	Petroff's Defence
Negi, Parimarjan	- Caruana, Fabiano	0-1	28	B23	Sicilian Closed
Round 4 (July 22, 2010)
So, Wesley	- Negi, Parimarjan	½-½	28	D58	Queens Gambit Tartakover
Tomashevsky, Evgeny	- Caruana, Fabiano	½-½	21	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Andreikin, Dmitry	- Howell, David W L	1-0	30	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	- Rodshtein, Maxim	½-½	36	A05	Various
Giri, Anish	- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	½-½	43	E92	King's Indian Classical
Round 5 (July 23, 2010)
Caruana, Fabiano	- So, Wesley	1-0	49	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	- Andreikin, Dmitry	½-½	56	C63	Ruy Lopez Schliemann
Rodshtein, Maxim	- Giri, Anish	1-0	39	E06	Catalan
Howell, David W L	- Tomashevsky, Evgeny	½-½	16	C53	Giuoco Piano
Negi, Parimarjan	- Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	½-½	22	C16	French Winawer
Round 6 (July 24, 2010)
Tomashevsky, Evgeny	- So, Wesley	½-½	24	D11	Slav Defence
Andreikin, Dmitry	- Rodshtein, Maxim	½-½	20	A29	English Four Knights
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	- Caruana, Fabiano	½-½	31	D00	Queen's Pawn Game
Giri, Anish	- Negi, Parimarjan	½-½	20	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Howell, David W L	- Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	0-1	40	E90	King's Indian Classical
Round 7 (July 26, 2010)
Caruana, Fabiano	- Giri, Anish	½-½	32	E06	Catalan
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	- Tomashevsky, Evgeny	½-½	38	C95	Ruy Lopez Breyer
So, Wesley	- Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	½-½	26	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Rodshtein, Maxim	- Howell, David W L	½-½	52	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Negi, Parimarjan	- Andreikin, Dmitry	½-½	28	B41	Sicilian Paulsen

MTO Biel (SUI), 19 - 30 vii 2010 Leading Round 7 (of 11) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	FED	Elo	+	=	-	Pts	TB1	TB2
1.	Feller,Sebastien	GM	FRA	2611	6	0	1	6.0	28.0	169.0
2.	Bauer,Christian	GM	FRA	2612	5	2	0	6.0	26.0	165.0
3.	Riazantsev,Alexan	GM	RUS	2682	4	3	0	5.5	30.5	164.0
4.	Kosintseva,Nadezh	IM	RUS	2551	4	3	0	5.5	28.0	157.5
5.	Mikhalevski,Victo	GM	ISR	2610	3	4	0	5.0	29.5	157.5
6.	Ulibin,Mikhail	GM	RUS	2540	4	2	1	5.0	29.5	157.0
7.	Kritz,Leonid	GM	GER	2618	4	2	1	5.0	28.5	160.5
8.	Pavlovic,Milos	GM	SRB	2534	4	2	1	5.0	28.0	159.0
9.	Hauchard,Arnaud	GM	FRA	2526	4	2	1	5.0	27.5	162.5
10.	Lysyj,Igor	GM	RUS	2631	4	2	1	5.0	27.0	161.5
11.	Kaplan,Sasha	IM	ISR	2422	5	0	2	5.0	27.0	154.0
12.	Golod,Vitali	GM	ISR	2585	4	2	1	5.0	26.5	156.5
13.	Roiz,Michael	GM	ISR	2645	3	4	0	5.0	26.5	156.0
14.	Pelletier,Yannick	GM	SUI	2589	3	4	0	5.0	26.0	163.0
15.	Maze,Sebastien	GM	FRA	2573	4	2	1	5.0	24.0	157.5
16.	Gleizerov,Evgeny	GM	RUS	2573	4	2	1	5.0	24.0	155.5
16.	Cebalo,Miso	GM	CRO	2500	4	2	1	5.0	24.0	155.5
18.	Al-Sayed,Mohammed	GM	QAT	2498	4	2	1	5.0	23.0	142.5
19.	Bok,Benjamin	FM	NED	2449	4	1	2	4.5	26.5	144.0
20.	Kamber,Bruno	FM	SUI	2302	4	1	2	4.5	26.0	154.0
21.	Ootes,Lars		NED	2315	4	1	2	4.5	25.0	154.5
22.	Donchenko,Anatoly	IM	GER	2378	3	3	1	4.5	25.0	149.0
23.	Grandadam,Patrik		SUI	2144	3	3	1	4.5	24.0	149.5
24.	Eichhorn,Andreas	FM	GER	2294	4	1	2	4.5	23.0	140.5
25.	Nezad,Husein Aziz	IM	QAT	2398	4	1	2	4.5	22.5	146.0
26.	Lampert,Jonas		GER	2106	3	3	1	4.5	21.0	139.5
113 players

4) IV Torneo Internacional A.D.San Juan

The IV Torneo International Closed tournament A.D.San Juan takes place in Pamplona 24th July - 1st August 2010. Alexander Morozevich is the star.

Chess Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr34216.aspx

Chess Results Open: http://chess-results.com/tnr34215.aspx

Official site: http://www.clubajedrezorvina.com/Foro.aspx?postid=3208#3208

IV AD San Juan GM Pamplona (ESP), 24 vii-1 viii 2010															cat. XVI (2637)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	g	POL	2663	*	½	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1½	2856
2.	Fedorchuk, Sergey A	g	UKR	2665	½	*	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1½	2780
3.	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2697	.	.	*	.	½	.	.	.	.	1	1½	2792
4.	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	2715	.	.	.	*	.	½	.	.	.	1	1½	2771
5.	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	g	RUS	2656	.	.	½	.	*	.	½	.	.	.	1	2668
6.	Iturrizaga, Eduardo	g	VEN	2614	.	.	.	½	.	*	.	½	.	.	1	2613
7.	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	g	PER	2639	.	.	.	.	½	.	*	.	½	.	1	2659
8.	Reinaldo Castineira, Roi	m	ESP	2511	.	0	.	.	.	½	.	*	.	.	½	2446
9.	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	2662	0	.	.	.	.	.	½	.	*	.	½	2458
10.	Lopez Martinez, Josep Manuel	g	ESP	2543	.	.	0	0	.	.	.	.	.	*	0

Round 1 (July 24, 2010)
Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	- Kurnosov, Igor	1-0	75	D80	Gruenfeld 4.Bg5
Fressinet, Laurent	- Lopez Martinez, Josep Manuel	1-0	61	E92	King's Indian Classical
Iturrizaga, Eduardo	- Morozevich, Alexander	½-½	20	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Granda Zuniga, Julio E	- Zvjaginsev, Vadim	½-½	29	A04	Dutch System
Reinaldo Castineira, Roi	- Fedorchuk, Sergey A	0-1	41	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Round 2 (July 25, 2010)
Fedorchuk, Sergey A	- Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	½-½	20	B17	Caro Kann
Morozevich, Alexander	- Lopez Martinez, Josep Manuel	1-0	41	E81	King's Indian Saemisch
Zvjaginsev, Vadim	- Fressinet, Laurent	½-½	16	C77	Ruy Lopez Anderssen
Iturrizaga, Eduardo	- Reinaldo Castineira, Roi	½-½	39	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Kurnosov, Igor	- Granda Zuniga, Julio E	½-½	45	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin

5) US Women and Junior Championships 2010

The US Women and Junior Championships 2010 took place in St Louis 10th-20th July 2010. Irina Krush regained the women's title she last won in 2008. She edged out her rival Anna Zatonskih, these two look set to battle it out for this title for many years (indeed they have won all titles since 2006). Zatonskih won the title in a chaotic blitz playoff two years ago which makes the case against using blitz chess to decide important events more than any other. This kind of playoff looked likely this year but was avoided when Zatonskih couldn't match Krush's win in the final round. Parker Zhao looked likely to win the Juniors after favourite Ray Robson lost in the final round but in the end he failed to win a winning endgame and three players played off on Tuesday. Sam Shankland beat Zhao and then Ray Robson to take the title. Shankland has had some tough times recently making a living and has talked about retiring. Winning this qualifies him for next year's US Chess Championship and the World Juniors. He says it is unlikely he will play the World Juniors as he has other commitments.

US Champs Women and Juniors 2010 (Saint Louis USA)

Sat 10th Jul 2010 - Tue 20th Jul 2010 - Official Site - Live

Women (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:120m:60m) - Games in PGN: Women | Women Live

Junior (10 players 9 Rds SRR Indiv TC:120m:60m) - Games in PGN: Junior | Junior Live

ch-USA w St Louis USA (USA), 10-19 vii 2010															cat. III (2308)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Krush, Irina	m	USA	2476	*	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	8	2640
2.	Zatonskih, Anna	m	USA	2470	½	*	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	7½	2562
3.	Abrahamyan, Tatev	wf	USA	2310	0	½	*	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7½	2580
4.	Melekhina, Alisa	wm	USA	2265	0	0	0	*	½	0	1	1	1	1	4½	2312
5.	Rohonyan, Katerina	wg	USA	2319	0	0	0	½	*	1	0	1	1	1	4½	2306
6.	Zenyuk, Iryna	wf	USA	2236	0	0	0	1	0	*	1	1	0	1	4	2272
7.	Baginskaite, Camilla	wg	USA	2343	½	0	0	0	1	0	*	½	1	1	4	2260
8.	Foisor, Sabina-Francesca	wg	USA	2317	0	½	0	0	0	0	½	*	1	1	3	2181
9.	Marinello, Beatriz M	wm	USA	2160	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	*	½	1½	2051
10.	Marshall, Abby	wf	USA	2182	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	*	½	1877

Round 9 (July 19, 2010)
Krush, Irina	- Marshall, Abby	1-0	52	D07	Tchigorin Defence
Zatonskih, Anna	- Foisor, Sabina-Francesca	½-½	40	D15	Slav Defence
Melekhina, Alisa	- Zenyuk, Iryna	0-1	41	B34	Sicilian Defence
Rohonyan, Katerina	- Abrahamyan, Tatev	0-1	59	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Baginskaite, Camilla	- Marinello, Beatriz M	1-0	55	A51	Budapest Defence Fajarowicz

ch-USA Junior St Louis USA (USA), 10-19 vii 2010															cat. V (2372)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Zhao, Parker		USA	2267	*	0	1	1	½	1	1	1	0	½	6	2509
2.	Robson, Ray	g	USA	2562	1	*	½	½	1	½	1	0	½	1	6	2476
3.	Shankland, Samuel L	m	USA	2513	0	½	*	1	1	1	½	0	1	1	6	2481
4.	Yang, Darwin	f	USA	2396	0	½	0	*	½	½	1	1	1	1	5½	2449
5.	Bryant, John Daniel	f	USA	2403	½	0	0	½	*	½	1	0	1	1	4½	2368
6.	Rosen, Eric S		USA	2179	0	½	0	½	½	*	0	1	1	1	4½	2393
7.	Zierk, Steven C	f	USA	2385	0	0	½	0	0	1	*	1	1	1	4½	2370
8.	Harper, Warren	f	USA	2304	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	*	0	1	4	2336
9.	Holt, Conrad	f	USA	2402	1	½	0	0	0	0	0	1	*	½	3	2244
10.	Hughes, Tyler B		USA	2312	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	*	1	2028

Round 9 (July 19, 2010)
Shankland, Samuel L	- Holt, Conrad	1-0	27	D17	Slav Defence
Yang, Darwin	- Rosen, Eric S	½-½	51	E43	Nimzo Indian Rubinstein
Bryant, John Daniel	- Zhao, Parker	½-½	81	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Harper, Warren	- Robson, Ray	1-0	40	E68	King's Indian Fianchetto
Hughes, Tyler B	- Zierk, Steven C	0-1	70	A50	Queen's Indian (without e7-e6)

6) Najdorf Festival Warsaw

The Miguel Najdorf Memorial Festival took place in Warsaw 17th-25th July 2010. The main open A had three top 100 players: Sergei Zhigalko, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Bartlomiej Macieja with Jon Ludvig Hammer just below that mark. Julian Radulski won the tournament with 7/9.

Official site: http://www.poloniachess.pl/najdorf2010/index.php?lang=en

Najdorf Mem Open A Warsaw (POL), 17 - 25 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	NAT.	Elo	Pts	MBch.
1	Radulski, Julian	GM	BUL	2574	7.0	43.00
2	Miśta, Aleksander	GM	POL	2562	6.5	42.50
3	Brodsky, Michail	GM	UKR	2540	6.5	40.50
4	Dziuba, Marcin	GM	POL	2582	6.5	39.50
5	Sveshnikov, Evgeny	GM	LAT	2487	6.5	39.50
6	Malakhatko, Vadim	GM	BEL	2576	6.5	38.50
7	Erdos, Viktor	GM	HUN	2592	6.5	38.00
8	Petrov, Marijan	GM	BUL	2535	6.5	37.00
9	Macieja, Bartłomiej	GM	POL	2639	6.5	36.50
10	Olszewski, Michal	GM	POL	2543	6.5	34.50
11	Bentivegna, Francesco	FM	ITA	2340	6.0	38.50
12	Krysztofiak, Marcin	IM	POL	2436	6.0	38.00
13	Boros, Denes	GM	HUN	2499	6.0	36.50
14	Staniszewski, Piotr	IM	POL	2389	6.0	36.00
15	Weichhold, Paweł	I++	POL	2190	6.0	34.50
16	Drozdowski, Kacper	k	POL	2223	6.0	34.00
17	Wieczorek, Oskar	m	POL	2316	6.0	29.50
18	Van Assendelft, Floris	FM	NED	2374	5.5	39.50
19	Zhigalko, Sergei	GM	BLR	2656	5.5	37.00
20	Vysochin, Spartak	GM	UKR	2562	5.5	35.50
21	Kadziolka, Beata	WGM	POL	2305	5.5	34.00
22	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	GM	NOR	2636	5.5	33.00
23	Berczes, David	GM	HUN	2551	5.5	31.50
24	Socko, Monika	GM	POL	2477	5.0	41.50
25	Simonian, Hrair	GM	ARM	2494	5.0	39.00
26	Burg, Twan	IM	NED	2449	5.0	37.50
92 players

7) XXVIII Andorra International Chess Open

The XXVIII Andorra International Chess Open took place 17th-25th July 2010. Lazaro Bruzon, Aleksandar Delchev, Csaba Balogh, Romain Edouard and Hicham Hamdouchi were the leading entries. However Dan Zoler's final round win against Romain Edouard meant he took clear first place with 7.5/9, half a point clear of the field.

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

XXVIII Andorra Open La Massana (AND), 17-25 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Zoler Dan	m	ISR	2474	7,5	2594	48,0
2	Bruzon Batista Lazaro	g	CUB	2653	7,0	2674	55,5
3	Hamdouchi Hicham	g	FRA	2600	7,0	2671	55,0
4	Balogh Csaba	g	HUN	2628	7,0	2634	53,0
5	Cori Jorge	gm	PER	2486	7,0	2617	51,5
6	Paunovic Dragan	g	SRB	2553	7,0	2592	51,0
7	Narciso Dublan Marc	g	ESP	2540	7,0	2580	53,0
8	Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis	g	ESP	2532	7,0	2575	50,5
9	Ipatov Alexander	m	ESP	2507	6,5	2539	50,5
10	Delorme Axel	m	FRA	2455	6,5	2537	52,0
11	Gagarin Vasilij	m	RUS	2403	6,5	2530	50,5
12	Almeida Quintana Omar	g	CUB	2559	6,5	2511	49,5
13	Delchev Aleksander	g	BUL	2632	6,5	2490	52,0
14	Mogranzini Roberto	m	ITA	2387	6,5	2486	49,5
15	Gonzalez Vidal Yuri	g	CUB	2522	6,5	2472	48,5
16	Philippe Christophe	m	FRA	2431	6,5	2442	48,0
17	Zilberman Yaacov	g	ISR	2441	6,0	2558	53,0
18	Edouard Romain	g	FRA	2620	6,0	2537	55,0
19	Spraggett Kevin	g	CAN	2575	6,0	2536	54,5
20	Demuth Adrien	f	FRA	2394	6,0	2451	48,0
21	Pavlovic Milos M	m	SRB	2483	6,0	2445	49,5
22	Fierro Baquero Martha L.	m	ECU	2372	6,0	2436	49,5
23	Benitah Yohan	m	FRA	2382	6,0	2389	47,0
24	Vehi Bach Victor Manuel	m	ESP	2405	6,0	2350	47,0
25	Midoux Sebastien		FRA	2314	6,0	2249	43,5
26	Loeffler Markus	m	GER	2355	6,0	2248	43,0
27	Archangelsky Mikhail	m	RUS	2209	6,0	2201	38,0
28	Shytaj Luca	m	ITA	2466	5,5	2491	54,0
29	Kogan Artur	g	ISR	2541	5,5	2444	51,0
30	De La Riva Aguado Oscar	g	AND	2532	5,5	2396	52,0
31	Almagro Llamas Pablo	m	ESP	2451	5,5	2388	49,0
32	Cruz-Lopez Claret Carlos	f	ESP	2307	5,5	2381	51,5
33	Panelo Marcelo	m	ARG	2450	5,5	2365	48,0
34	Shiven Khosla		IND	2335	5,5	2352	48,0
35	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	m	IND	2416	5,5	2351	46,5
36	Hamdouchi Adina-Maria	wgm	FRA	2319	5,5	2344	43,0
37	Berkovich Mark A	m	ISR	2397	5,5	2334	47,0
38	Alsina Leal Daniel	g	ESP	2546	5,5	2334	46,5
39	Givon Asaf		ISR	2194	5,5	2319	44,0
40	Vernay Clovis	m	FRA	2470	5,5	2301	45,5
175 players

8) 21st Czech Open

The 21st Czech Open takes place in Pardubice 15th July - 1st August 2010. Alexandr Rakhmanov won the Rapid tournament with 7.5/9. He is also tied with Anton Korobov and Hans Tikkanen on 4/4 in the Open.

Official site: http://www.czechopen.net/

21st Czech GM Open Pardubice (CZE), 23-31 vii 2010 Leading Round 4 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Korobov Anton	GM	UKR	2657	4,0	2435	5,0
2	Rakhmanov Alexandr	GM	RUS	2590	4,0	2414	5,5
3	Tikkanen Hans	IM	SWE	2469	4,0	2371	4,0
4	Potapov Pavel	IM	RUS	2445	3,5	2428	4,0
5	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	GM	IRI	2585	3,5	2397	5,0
6	Chernyshov Konstantin	GM	RUS	2578	3,5	2393	5,5
7	Akesson Ralf	GM	SWE	2470	3,5	2379	5,5
8	Jaracz Pawel	GM	POL	2541	3,5	2372	5,0
9	Gabrielian Artur	GM	RUS	2559	3,5	2367	4,0
10	Sethuraman S.P.	IM	IND	2513	3,5	2363	4,5
11	Danin Alexandre	IM	RUS	2509	3,5	2362	4,5
12	Pridorozhni Aleksei	IM	RUS	2553	3,5	2360	3,5
13	Smith Axel	IM	SWE	2416	3,5	2356	4,0
14	Zakhartsov Viacheslav	GM	RUS	2608	3,5	2336	4,5
15	Zaslavsky Mikhail	IM	ISR	2413	3,5	2333	4,5
	Allahverdiyev Anar	IM	AZE	2410	3,5	2333	4,5
17	Hasangatin Ramil	GM	RUS	2498	3,5	2316	4,0
18	Kasparov Sergey	GM	BLR	2492	3,5	2313	4,0
19	Shemeakin Alexander	IM	UKR	2281	3,0	2479	5,5
20	Raykhman Alexander	FM	GER	2362	3,0	2452	4,5
21	Maslak Konstantin	GM	RUS	2560	3,0	2440	5,0
22	Tsegmed Batchuluun	IM	MGL	2388	3,0	2437	6,0
23	Savitskiy Sergey		RUS	2245	3,0	2421	4,0
24	Morozov Dmitry	FM	RUS	2354	3,0	2414	4,5
25	Panarin Michail	GM	RUS	2531	3,0	2413	4,0
26	Safarli Eltaj	GM	AZE	2603	3,0	2406	5,5
27	Schlosser Philipp	GM	GER	2575	3,0	2395	4,5
28	Rojicek Vojtech	IM	CZE	2423	3,0	2381	6,0
29	Polak Tomas	GM	CZE	2544	3,0	2381	5,0
30	Kravtsiv Martyn	GM	UKR	2559	3,0	2378	5,0
31	Michiels Bart	IM	BEL	2460	3,0	2376	4,5
32	Kuljasevic Davorin	IM	CRO	2551	3,0	2374	5,5
33	Grigoriants Sergey	GM	RUS	2566	3,0	2373	3,5
34	Nithander Victor	IM	SWE	2409	3,0	2366	5,0
35	Nabaty Tamir	IM	ISR	2523	3,0	2363	5,0
36	Pileckis Emilis	IM	LTU	2438	3,0	2359	3,5
37	Klovans Janis	GM	LAT	2444	3,0	2354	4,5
38	Velicka Petr	GM	CZE	2483	3,0	2344	6,0
39	Stocek Jiri	GM	CZE	2587	3,0	2340	4,5
40	Richter Michael	IM	GER	2428	3,0	2340	4,5
310 players

21st Czech Rapid Open Pardubice (CZE), 21-22 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Rakhmanov Alexandr	GM	RUS	2590	7,5	7,5	41,0
2	Kononenko Dmitry	GM	UKR	2590	7,5	7,5	40,5
3	Korobov Anton	GM	UKR	2657	7,0	7,0	41,5
4	Babula Vlastimil	GM	CZE	2533	7,0	7,0	41,0
5	Maslak Konstantin	GM	RUS	2560	7,0	7,0	40,5
6	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	GM	IRI	2585	7,0	7,0	39,5
7	Schlosser Philipp	GM	GER	2575	6,5	6,5	42,5
8	Pridorozhni Aleksei	IM	RUS	2553	6,5	6,5	40,5
9	Stocek Jiri	GM	CZE	2587	6,5	6,5	40,0
10	Panarin Michail	GM	RUS	2531	6,5	6,5	39,5
11	Hasangatin Ramil	GM	RUS	2498	6,5	6,5	39,5
12	Grigoriants Sergey	GM	RUS	2566	6,5	6,5	39,0
13	Prokopchuk Evgeny	GM	RUS	2511	6,5	6,5	39,0
14	Zakhartsov Viacheslav	GM	RUS	2608	6,5	6,5	39,0
15	Movsesian Sergei	GM	SVK	2723	6,5	6,5	38,5
16	Akesson Ralf	GM	SWE	2470	6,5	6,5	38,0
17	Baskaran Adhiban	IM	IND	2483	6,5	6,5	36,0
18	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	IM	IND	2492	6,5	6,5	36,0
19	Maximov Dmitry	GM	UKR	2506	6,0	6,0	42,0
20	Navara David	GM	CZE	2731	6,0	6,0	41,5
21	Kalod Radek	GM	CZE	2506	6,0	6,0	39,5
22	Bryzgalin Kirill	GM	RUS	2499	6,0	6,0	37,0
23	Suran Jan	FM	CZE	2371	6,0	6,0	36,0
24	Baryshpolets Andrey	IM	UKR	2450	6,0	6,0	35,5
25	Sethuraman S.P.	IM	IND	2513	6,0	6,0	35,0
26	Zaslavsky Mikhail	IM	ISR	2413	6,0	6,0	35,0
27	Pribyl Josef	IM	CZE	2325	6,0	6,0	33,5
28	Shevtsov Nikoliy	IM	UKR	2309	6,0	6,0	33,0
29	Lalic Bogdan	GM	ENG	2491	6,0	6,0	32,0
30	Gergel Vladimir	FM	UKR	2295	6,0	6,0	31,5
31	Laubsch Bernd	FM	GER	2221	6,0	6,0	31,0
32	Gabrielian Artur	GM	RUS	2559	5,5	5,5	42,0
33	Yuffa Daniil	CM	RUS	2187	5,5	5,5	39,0
34	Khalafova Narmin		AZE	2063	5,5	5,5	38,5
35	Golichenko Illia	IM	UKR	2419	5,5	5,5	35,5
36	Umanec Filip		CZE	2226	5,5	5,5	34,5
37	Sriram Jha	GM	IND	2490	5,5	5,5	33,5
38	Radovanovic Jovica	FM	SRB	2329	5,5	5,5	33,0
39	Zwardon Vojtech		CZE	2247	5,5	5,5	33,0
40	Grinev Valeriy		UKR	2336	5,5	5,5	32,5
160 players

9) British Championships

The British Championships take place in Canterbury, Kent 25th July - 7th August 2010. Michael Adams is the top seed and he duly beat Robert Eames in Round 1. Nick Pert, Stuart Conquest, Simon Williams and Peter Wells also won but Stephen J Gordon was held by Chris Dorrington.

Official site: http://www.britishchess2010.com/index.htm

Live Games - http://www.britishchess2010.com/live_games.htm

10) Chinese Chess League Division A

The Youngor Chinese Chess League Division A takes place April 16th - December 30th 2010 in China. 10 teams compete in the Double Round-Robin event.

Time control: 1 hour 30 minutes for the whole game with an incremental time of 30 seconds per move.

Prize: 500,000 yuan or Euro 50,000.

The first 3 rounds took place in Ningbo city.

Official website : http://ccl.sports.cn/ - http://games.sports.cn/chessorg.ccl2010/index.html

The live games broadcast : http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

Archive of games should be here eventually: http://ccl.sports.cn/2010/news/2010-04-01/1995059.html

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr32818.aspx

Rounds 4-6 take place June 6th - June 9th 2010 in Shenzhen

Rounds 7-9 July 23rd - July 26th 2010 in Shanghai

Rounds 10-12 9th-11th Sept 2010 in Guangzhou

Rounds 13-15 in Oct. 10th-13th 2010

Round 16-18 in Dec. 28th-30th 2010 in Beijing.

Leading players: Wang Yue g CHN 2749; Wang Hao g CHN 2713; Alexander Motylev g RUS 2705; Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2682; Zhou Jianchao g CHN 2650; Li Chao b g CHN 2613; Zhang Pengxiang g CHN 2605; Zhou Weiqi g CHN 2585; Peng Xiaominn g CHN 2581; Zhao Jun g CHN 2575; Yu Yangyi g CHN 2574; Hou Yifan g CHN 2570; Ding Liren g CHN 2564; Wen Yang g CHN 2520; Li Shilong g CHN 2514; Xu Jun g CHN 2513; Liang Chong g CHN 2502; Ju Wenjun wg CHN 2500; Xiu Deshun CHN 2493; Zhao Xue g CHN 2490; Ruan Lufei wg CHN 2479; Xu Yuhua g CHN 2478; Zhu Chen g QAT 2476; Tan Zhongyi wg CHN 2464; Wu Shaobin g SIN 2453; Lin Chen CHN 2448; Liu Qingnan m CHN 2445; Shen Yang wg CHN 2444; Huang Qian wg CHN 2439; Zhang Xiaowen wg CHN 2437; Le Thanh Tu wg VIE 2318

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

6th TCh-CHN (CHN), 16 iv-30 xii 2010 Round 8 (of 18) Standings:
Rk.	Team	1a	1b	2a	2b	3a	3b	4a	4b	5a	5b	6a	6b	7a	7b	8a	8b	9a	9b	10a	10b	TB1	TB2
1	SHANGDONG Linglong	*	*	2½				3		3		3		3		4½		4		3½		15	26,5
2	SHANGHAI Jianqiao	2½		*	*	2		3		3		2½				2		3½		4		10	22,5
3	HEBEI			3		*	*	1		1½		1		3		3		4		3½		10	20,0
4	BEIJING Aigo	2		2		4		*	*			2		2½		3		4		4½		9	24,0
5	ZHEJIANG	2		2		3½				*	*	2½		1½		4		4		4		9	23,5
6	China Mobile CHONGQING	2		2½		4		3		2½		*	*	2½		2		3½				9	22,0
7	Lanpo JIANGSU	2				2		2½		3½		2½		*	*	2½		3		3		9	21,0
8	TIANJIN Nan Kai	½		3		2		2		1		3		2½		*	*			2½		6	16,5
9	GUANGDONG Huateng	1		1½		1		1		1		1½		2				*	*	4½		2	13,5
10	BEIJING Rendafuzhong	1½		1		1½		½		1				2		2½		½		*	*	1	10,5

11) Austrian Championships

The Austrian Championships take place in Vienna 24th July - 1st August 2010. Markus Ragger and David Shengalia are the top seeds in a field of 155 players.

Official site: http://www.chess.at/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr32907.aspx

ch-AUT Vienna (AUT), 24 vii - 1 viii 2010 Leading Round 3 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Ragger Markus	GM	AUT	2614	3,0	5,5	2,0	5,50
	Neumeier Klaus Mag.	FM	AUT	2380	3,0	5,5	2,0	5,50
3	Kreisl Robert	IM	AUT	2373	3,0	5,5	2,0	4,50
4	Baumegger Siegfried	IM	AUT	2389	3,0	4,5	2,0	4,50
	Diermair Andreas	IM	AUT	2312	3,0	4,5	2,0	4,50
6	Shengelia David	GM	AUT	2582	3,0	4,0	1,0	4,00
7	Kummer Helmut	IM	AUT	2351	2,5	5,5	2,0	4,25
8	Pilaj Herwig Mag.	IM	AUT	2362	2,5	5,5	1,5	4,25
	Fröwis Georg		AUT	2279	2,5	5,5	1,5	4,25
10	Kleissl Helmut	FM	AUT	2265	2,5	5,0	2,0	3,75
11	Denk Adolf	FM	AUT	2319	2,5	5,0	1,5	4,00
12	Schroll Gerhard Dr. MMag.	IM	AUT	2441	2,5	5,0	1,5	3,75
13	Neubauer Martin Mag.	IM	AUT	2433	2,5	4,5	1,0	3,25
14	Poetz Florian	FM	AUT	2347	2,5	4,0	1,5	3,50
15	Sandhoefner Florian	FM	AUT	2229	2,5	3,5	1,5	2,75
16	Steiner Bruno	NM	AUT	2233	2,5	3,0	1,0	2,50
17	Halvax Georg		AUT	2255	2,0	6,0	2,0	3,50
18	Freitag Manfred	IM	AUT	2387	2,0	6,0	2,0	3,00
	Kilgus Georg	FM	AUT	2361	2,0	6,0	2,0	3,00
20	Koller Hubert	CM	AUT	2107	2,0	6,0	1,5	3,00
21	Schweitzer Werner		AUT	2089	2,0	5,5	2,0	3,25
22	Schachinger Mario	FM	AUT	2353	2,0	5,5	1,5	2,50
	Druckenthaner Andreas Dr.	FM	AUT	2301	2,0	5,5	1,5	2,50
24	Opl Klaus Dr.	FM	AUT	2360	2,0	5,0	1,5	3,25
	Menezes Christoph		AUT	1947	2,0	5,0	1,5	3,25
26	Bachofner Andreas	FM	AUT	2245	2,0	5,0	1,0	2,00
27	Lehner Oliver	IM	AUT	2416	2,0	4,5	1,5	3,00
28	Fauland Alexander	IM	AUT	2406	2,0	4,5	1,5	2,75
	Dueckstein Andreas Dr.	IM	AUT	2254	2,0	4,5	1,5	2,75
30	Ernst Michael Mag.	MK	AUT	2166	2,0	4,5	1,5	1,50
31	Danner Georg	IM	AUT	2418	2,0	4,5	1,0	2,00
32	Hoelzl Franz	IM	AUT	2325	2,0	4,5	1,0	1,50
	Titz Heimo Dr.	FM	AUT	2243	2,0	4,5	1,0	1,50
	Albadri Abd Al Sattar		AUT	2216	2,0	4,5	1,0	1,50
35	Duer Werner	FM	AUT	2262	2,0	4,0	1,0	2,50
36	Mahdi Khaled	IM	AUT	2395	2,0	4,0	1,0	2,00
37	Wagner Stefan	CM	AUT	2159	2,0	4,0	1,0	1,50
38	Kindermann Stefan	GM	AUT	2530	2,0	3,5	1,0	2,25
	Knoll Hermann	IM	AUT	2378	2,0	3,5	1,0	2,25
40	Fauland Peter	MK	AUT	2243	2,0	3,5	1,0	1,50
112 players

ch-AUT w Vienna (AUT), 24 vii - 1 viii 2010 Leading Round 3 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Moser Eva	IM	AUT	2440	2,5	5,5	2,0	4,25
2	Kopinits Anna-Christina	WIM	AUT	2187	2,5	4,5	2,0	3,25
3	Mira Helene	WIM	AUT	2133	2,5	3,5	1,0	3,00
4	Novkovic Julia	WFM	AUT	2146	2,5	3,5	1,0	2,50
5	Kessler Michaela		AUT	2047	2,0	5,5	2,0	3,25
6	Horvath Maria	WFM	AUT	2013	2,0	5,0	2,0	3,00
7	Exler Veronika	WFM	AUT	2143	2,0	5,0	1,5	3,25
8	Schink Barbara		AUT	2052	2,0	5,0	1,5	2,50
9	Newrkla Katharina		AUT	2105	2,0	4,5	1,0	2,00
10	Fröwis Annika		AUT	1968	2,0	4,0	1,0	2,50
11	Hapala Lisa		AUT	1674	1,5	6,0	2,5	2,25
12	Bauer Valentina		AUT	1688	1,5	5,0	1,5	1,75
13	Bauer Marie-Christine	WMK	AUT	1854	1,5	4,5	1,5	1,75
	Landl Margot		AUT	1792	1,5	4,5	1,5	1,75
15	Fritz Rebecca		AUT	1697	1,5	4,0	1,5	1,25
16	Wunderl Eva	WMK	AUT	1798	1,5	3,5	1,0	0,50
17	Schmidbauer Andrea Mag.	WMK	AUT	0	1,0	5,0	2,0	1,00
18	Kopinits Silvia Mag.		AUT	1704	1,0	4,5	2,0	0,50
19	Klinkan Elisabeth	WMK	AUT	1963	1,0	3,5	1,0	0,00
	Hapala Michaela DDr.	WMK	AUT	1870	1,0	3,5	1,0	0,00
21	Fahrner Petra		AUT	0	0,5	4,5	1,5	0,50
	Kaser Gabriele Mag.		AUT	0	0,5	4,5	1,5	0,50
23	Schnegg Anna-Lena		AUT	1893	0,0	5,0	1,5	0,00
23 players

12) Montenegro Premier League

The Montenegro Premier League takes place 24th July - 1st August 2010.

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

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr36429.aspx

13) XXXVI Sitges Open

The XXXVI Open Internacional d'Escacs "Vila de Sitges" takes place 22nd - 30th July 2010.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr34456.aspx

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

XXXVI Open Sitges (ESP), 22-30 vii 2010 Leading Round 4 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Barsov Alexei	GM	2505	4,0	11,5	9,5	10,0
2	Gonzalez Garcia Jose	GM	2508	4,0	11,0	9,0	10,0
3	Movsziszian Karen	GM	2490	4,0	10,0	9,0	10,0
4	Gonzalez Perez Arian	FM	2403	4,0	9,0	7,5	10,0
5	Peralta Fernando	GM	2570	3,5	11,5	9,5	9,0
6	Martinez Duany Lelys Stanley	GM	2510	3,5	11,0	9,0	9,0
7	Beltran Rueda Santiago	IM	2369	3,5	10,5	8,5	9,0
8	Moskalenko Viktor	GM	2565	3,5	10,5	8,0	9,0
9	Cruz Jonathan		2437	3,5	8,5	8,0	9,0
10	Cruz Cristhian	IM	2536	3,0	10,5	8,5	8,0
11	Karlsson Lars	GM	2449	3,0	10,0	9,0	9,0
	Rojas Keim Luis	IM	2437	3,0	10,0	9,0	9,0
	Lorenzo De La Riva Lazaro	FM	2407	3,0	10,0	9,0	9,0
14	Lammers Markus		2386	3,0	10,0	8,0	8,0
15	Abreu Delgado Aryam	GM	2474	3,0	9,5	8,0	9,0
16	Rios Alejandro	IM	2308	3,0	9,5	8,0	8,0
17	Lehmann Holger		2168	3,0	9,5	8,0	7,0
18	Fernandez Aguado Enrique	IM	2343	3,0	9,0	8,0	8,0
	Capellades Subirana Marc	MK	2268	3,0	9,0	8,0	8,0
20	Cruz Filemon	FM	2456	3,0	9,0	7,5	8,0
21	Gongora Reyes Maikel	IM	2451	3,0	9,0	7,0	8,0
22	Getz Nicolai		2239	3,0	8,5	7,5	9,0
23	Arvola Benjamin		2188	3,0	8,5	7,5	7,0
24	Guerrero Olmos Sergio	FM	2360	3,0	8,5	7,0	7,0
25	Lasinskas Povilas	FM	2180	3,0	8,0	7,0	7,0
	Draghici Flutur Gavril		2155	3,0	8,0	7,0	7,0
27	Krallmann Matthias	FM	2234	3,0	7,5	7,0	8,0
28	Vargas Drechsler Carlos		1963	3,0	7,0	6,5	6,0
29	Coll Enriquez Lluis	MK	2231	3,0	7,0	6,0	8,0
30	Cuartas Jaime Alexander	GM	2529	2,5	11,0	9,0	7,5
31	Perez Mitjans Orelvis	FM	2424	2,5	10,5	9,0	8,0
32	Bukal Vladimir Jr	IM	2381	2,5	10,5	8,5	7,5
33	Alonso Garcia Rene Marcial	IM	2396	2,5	9,5	8,0	7,5
34	Rabinovich Anton		2007	2,5	9,0	8,5	7,0
35	Wolf Ulrich		2084	2,5	9,0	7,5	6,5
36	Degerhammar Tomas		2042	2,5	9,0	7,5	6,0
37	Lacasta Palacios Joaquim	MK	2139	2,5	8,5	7,5	6,5
38	Montell Lorenzo Joan Carlos	MK	2270	2,5	8,5	7,0	7,5
39	Cucurull Llobet Bartolome		0	2,5	8,0	7,0	5,0
40	Rafols Albet Josep		2049	2,5	7,5	7,5	6,5
134 players

14) IV Open Internacional Hotel Avenida de Canarias

The IV Open Internacional Hotel Avenida de Canarias took place in Vecindario, Santa Lucia (Gran Canaria) 18th-25th July 2010. Ivan Salgado Lopez edged out Miguel Munoz Pantoja on tie-break after both players scored 7.5/9.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr34669.aspx

4th Open Vecindario (ESP), 18-25 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Salgado Lopez Ivan	GM	ESP	2607	7,5	49,5	54,5
2	Munoz Pantoja Miguel	IM	PER	2494	7,5	49,0	53,0
3	Kurajica Bojan	GM	BIH	2528	7,0	50,0	55,0
4	Robin Samy	FM	FRA	2308	7,0	44,5	47,5
5	Tatai Stefano	IM	ITA	2357	7,0	44,0	48,0
6	Campos Gambuti Luis Maria	IM	ESP	2446	6,5	49,0	53,0
7	Cabrera Trujillo Jorge	IM	ESP	2365	6,5	47,5	50,5
8	Barlov Dragan	GM	SRB	2493	6,5	45,5	50,0
9	Andres Gonzalez Alberto	IM	ESP	2492	6,5	45,5	49,0
10	Pile Richard	FM	FRA	2317	6,5	45,0	48,5
11	Hernandez Leon Alberto		ESP	2274	6,5	43,0	46,5
12	Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo Reynaldo	GM	CUB	2513	6,0	51,0	56,0
13	Inigo Munoz Javier		ESP	2144	6,0	47,5	49,5
14	Martinez Martin David	IM	ESP	2406	6,0	46,5	51,0
15	Perez Felipe Marcos Adrian	FM	ESP	2273	6,0	45,5	49,5
16	Fernandez Siles Luis	FM	ESP	2368	6,0	45,0	48,5
17	Menvielle Laccourreye Augusto	FM	ESP	2245	6,0	44,5	48,0
18	Hernando Rodrigo Jose Maria	IM	ESP	2328	6,0	44,5	48,0
19	Bressac Stephane		FRA	2190	6,0	43,5	47,5
20	Angel Acosta Juan Carlos		ESP	2160	6,0	43,5	47,0
21	Trujillo Alvarado Ivan	FM	ESP	2196	6,0	42,0	46,0
22	Morales Camacho Julian	FM	ESP	2223	6,0	40,5	44,5
23	Rodriguez Perez David		ESP	2039	6,0	38,5	41,5
24	Vidarte Morales Arturo	IM	ESP	2409	5,5	49,5	53,5
25	Natalicchio Escalante Nicolas		ESP	2193	5,5	45,5	49,5
26	Hernandez Leon Sergio		ESP	2131	5,5	43,5	47,0
27	Vega Gutierrez Sabrina	WGM	ESP	2373	5,5	43,0	46,5
28	Vega Gutierrez Belinda	WFM	ESP	2266	5,5	41,5	45,5
29	Garcia Blanco Omar		ESP	2179	5,5	41,5	45,0
30	Thomas Fabien		FRA	2082	5,5	41,5	45,0
31	Gutierrez Olivares Daniel		ESP	2167	5,5	40,5	44,0
32	Cruz Pino Adrian		ESP	1871	5,5	40,5	43,5
33	Leon Varela Luis		ESP	2170	5,5	40,5	43,0
34	Stojanovic Marija R	WFM	MNE	2151	5,5	38,5	42,0
35	Larino Nieto David	IM	ESP	2461	5,0	48,0	53,0
36	Rudolf Anna	WGM	HUN	2393	5,0	46,0	50,5
37	Martin Hernandez Ruben		ESP	1988	5,0	46,0	49,5
38	Rodriguez Melian Jose Luis		ESP	2067	5,0	44,5	51,0
39	Garcia Padron Jose	IM	ESP	2455	5,0	44,0	48,5
40	Ramirez Medina Victor		ESP	1794	5,0	42,5	46,0
125 players

15) 3rd Paleohora Open

The 3rd Paleohora Open takes place 22nd-29th July 2010.

Official site: http://www.chaniachess.gr/International%20Tournament/Paleogora%20tournament/index_en.html

Results http://chess-results.com/tnr36301.aspx

3rd Open Paleochora (GRE), 22-29 vii 2010 Leading Round 5 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB2	TB3
1	Kryvoruchko Yuriy	GM	UKR	2609	5,0	15,0	0,0
2	Pap Misa	IM	SRB	2509	5,0	15,0	0,0
3	Rychagov Andrey	GM	RUS	2538	5,0	15,0	0,0
4	Svetushkin Dmitry	GM	MDA	2560	4,5	14,0	0,0
5	Zubarev Alexander	GM	UKR	2562	4,5	14,0	0,0
6	Volkov Sergey	GM	RUS	2597	4,0	14,0	0,0
	Zinchenko Yaroslav	GM	UKR	2544	4,0	14,0	0,0
8	Fontaine Robert	GM	FRA	2537	4,0	13,5	0,0
9	Iordachescu Viorel	GM	MDA	2623	4,0	13,5	0,0
10	Rombaldoni Denis	IM	ITA	2493	4,0	13,5	0,0
11	Parligras Mircea	GM	ROU	2574	4,0	13,5	0,0
12	Borovikov Vladislav	GM	UKR	2601	4,0	13,5	0,0
	Orlov Andrey	GM	RUS	2502	4,0	13,5	0,0
14	Tukhaev Adam	GM	UKR	2518	4,0	13,5	0,0
15	Sulashvili Malkhaz	IM	GEO	2498	4,0	13,5	0,0
16	Vorobiov Evgeny E	GM	RUS	2592	4,0	13,0	0,0
17	Banikas Hristos	GM	GRE	2591	4,0	13,0	0,0
	Lahno Kateryna	GM	UKR	2535	4,0	13,0	0,0
19	Maiorov Nikita	GM	BLR	2532	4,0	13,0	0,0
20	Filip Lucian	IM	ROU	2470	4,0	13,0	0,0
21	Prasanna Rao	FM	IND	2373	4,0	12,5	0,0
22	Kharitonov Alexandr	GM	RUS	2548	4,0	12,5	0,0
23	D`costa Lorin A R	IM	ENG	2456	4,0	12,5	0,0
24	Markidis Konstantinos		GRE	2342	4,0	12,0	0,0
25	Bellia Fabrizio	IM	ITA	2376	4,0	12,0	0,0
26	Khotenashvili Bela	IM	GEO	2423	4,0	12,0	0,0
	Vishnu Prasanna V	FM	IND	2341	4,0	12,0	0,0
	Goumas Georgios		GRE	2298	4,0	12,0	0,0
29	Mamedjarova Turkan	WGM	AZE	2280	4,0	12,0	0,0
30	Contin Daniel	IM	ITA	2307	4,0	12,0	0,0
31	Polzin Rainer	GM	GER	2494	4,0	11,5	0,0
	Kekki Petri	IM	FIN	2371	4,0	11,5	0,0
33	Smirnov Artem	IM	RUS	2446	4,0	11,0	0,0
34	David Alberto	GM	LUX	2622	3,5	12,5	0,0
35	Batsiashvili Nino	WGM	GEO	2383	3,5	12,5	0,0
36	Georgiadis Ioannis	IM	GRE	2457	3,5	12,5	0,0
37	Tchantcev Chaliko		RUS	2284	3,5	12,0	0,0
38	Dembo Yelena	IM	GRE	2470	3,5	11,5	0,0
39	Bensdorp Marlies	WIM	NED	2301	3,5	11,5	0,0
40	Schut Lisa	WIM	NED	2286	3,5	11,0	0,0
238 players

16) XV Balaguer Open

The XV Balaguer Open takes place 19th-27th July 2010.

Official site: http://www.openbalaguer.org/htm/inici_e.htm

Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr36308.aspx

XV Open Balaguer (ESP), 19-27 vii 2010 Leading Round 7 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Quesada Perez Yuniesky	GM	CUB	2603	5,5	32,0	23,5
2	Vocaturo Daniele	GM	ITA	2526	5,5	31,0	22,5
3	Neiksans Arturs	IM	LAT	2485	5,5	30,5	22,0
4	Bhat Vinay S	GM	USA	2536	5,5	29,5	21,5
5	Aroshidze Levan	GM	GEO	2548	5,5	28,5	21,0
6	Maletin Pavel	GM	RUS	2617	5,0	31,5	23,0
7	Leon Hoyos Manuel	GM	MEX	2556	5,0	31,0	22,5
8	Drozdovskij Yuri	GM	UKR	2624	5,0	30,5	22,0
9	Burmakin Vladimir	GM	RUS	2605	5,0	29,0	21,0
10	Corrales Jimenez Fidel	GM	CUB	2574	5,0	28,0	20,5
11	Soumya Swaminathan	WGM	IND	2281	5,0	27,0	19,5
12	Melkumyan Hrant	GM	ARM	2606	4,5	33,0	23,5
13	Haslinger Stewart G	GM	ENG	2552	4,5	32,5	23,5
14	Pogorelov Ruslan	GM	UKR	2424	4,5	30,5	22,0
15	Andriasian Zaven	GM	ARM	2588	4,5	30,0	21,5
16	Aloma Vidal Robert	IM	ESP	2445	4,5	28,5	21,0
17	Kohlweyer Bernd	IM	GER	2436	4,5	28,5	21,0
18	Vila Gazquez Xavier	IM	ESP	2478	4,5	28,0	20,0
	Daskevics Vadims	FM	LAT	2414	4,5	28,0	20,0
20	Gomez Ledo Roberto Carlos	IM	CUB	2445	4,5	28,0	19,5
21	Oms Pallisse Josep	GM	ESP	2494	4,5	27,5	19,5
22	Fluvia Poyatos Jordi	IM	ESP	2467	4,5	27,0	20,0
23	Del Rey Diego	FM	ESP	2395	4,5	27,0	19,0
24	Berbatov Kiprian	IM	BUL	2455	4,5	26,0	18,5
25	Colovic Aleksandar	IM	MKD	2452	4,5	26,0	18,0
26	Anikaev Yuri N	IM	RUS	2411	4,5	24,0	18,5
27	Starostits Ilmars	IM	LAT	2486	4,5	23,0	16,0
28	Linares Napoles Oleiny	WIM	CUB	2331	4,0	28,0	20,0
29	Rombaldoni Axel	IM	ITA	2448	4,0	27,0	19,5
30	Mateo Ramon	GM	DOM	2459	4,0	27,0	19,5
	Gabarro Sole Ramon		ESP	2159	4,0	27,0	19,5
32	Pozo Vera Sandro	IM	CUB	2453	4,0	26,5	20,0
	Roeder Matthias	IM	GER	2392	4,0	26,5	20,0
34	Zdebskaja Natalia	WGM	UKR	2383	4,0	26,5	19,0
35	Samolins Vitalijs	IM	LAT	2408	4,0	26,0	18,5
36	Arribas Robaina Maritza	WGM	CUB	2289	4,0	25,5	18,5
37	Westerinen Heikki M J	GM	FIN	2347	4,0	24,5	18,0
38	Ramon Perez Jose Luis	FM	ESP	2262	4,0	23,5	17,0
39	Guerra Mendez Jose Angel	IM	CUB	2480	4,0	23,0	17,0
40	Vilela De Acuna Jose Luis	IM	CUB	2329	4,0	22,5	16,5
92 players

17) Quebec Open Championship

The Quebec Open Championship takes place in Montreal 24th-31st July 2010. The main invitational has Vladimir Malaniuk, Pascal Charbonneau, Bator Sambuev, Matthieu Cornette and Anton Kovalyov lead on 2.5/3 in the 9 round swiss.

Official site: http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/

18) Nakamura vs Movsesian Blitz, Chess960 and Living Chess

Hikaru Nakamura was in Banska Stiavnica on the 16th July 2010 to play a one day series of games against Sergei Movsesian which took place alongside the International Championship of Slovakia covered last week.

Nakamura won both Chess960 and Blitz games before drawing a game of Living Chess where both sides were playing blindfold which was drawn.

Official site: http://www.livechess.sk/en/

19) Heini Olsen Memorial Klaksvik

The Heini Olsen Memorial took place in Klaksvik 20th-26th July 2010. Henrik Danielsen edged out Gawain Jones on tie-break after both scored 7/9.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr34467.aspx

Official site: http://faroechess.com/

Heini Olsen Memorial Klaksvik (FAI), 20-26 vii 2010
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Danielsen, Henrik	g	ISL	2512	*	1	½	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	7	2348
2.	Jones, Gawain C B	g	ENG	2568	0	*	1	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	7	2342
3.	Ziska, Helgi Dam	m	FAI	2426	½	0	*	½	0	1	1	1	1	1	6	2263
4.	Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	g	POL	246	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	1	1	½	5½	2460
5.	Sammalvuo, Tapani	m	FIN	2481	½	0	1	½	*	0	0	½	½	1	4	2089
6.	Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft		FAI	2062	0	0	0	½	1	*	½	1	½	½	4	2135
7.	Lund, Esben	m	DEN	2408	0	0	0	½	1	½	*	0	1	1	4	2097
8.	Berg, Olaf		FAI	2265	½	0	0	0	½	0	1	*	1	½	3½	2076
9.	Bekker-Jensen, Simon	m	DEN	2425	0	½	0	0	½	½	0	0	*	½	2	1918
10.	Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	f	FAI	2278	0	0	0	½	0	½	0	½	½	*	2	1934

Round 1 (July 20, 2010)
Danielsen, Henrik	- Bekker-Jensen, Simon	1-0	25	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Jones, Gawain C B	- Lund, Esben	1-0	44	C45	Scotch Game
Sammalvuo, Tapani	- Ziska, Helgi Dam	1-0	33	E94	King's Indian Classical
Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft	- Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	½-½	18	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Berg, Olaf	- Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	0-1	50	C42	Petroff's Defence
Round 2 (July 21, 2010)
Ziska, Helgi Dam	- Danielsen, Henrik	½-½	7	B07	Pirc Defence
Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	- Jones, Gawain C B	½-½	21	E69	King's Indian Fianchetto
Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft	- Sammalvuo, Tapani	1-0	25	C06	French Tarrasch
Bekker-Jensen, Simon	- Berg, Olaf	0-1	45	D35	QGD Exchange
Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	- Lund, Esben	0-1	41	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Round 3 (July 21, 2010)
Danielsen, Henrik	- Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft	1-0	34	A13	Reti Opening
Jones, Gawain C B	- Bekker-Jensen, Simon	½-½	37	E94	King's Indian Classical
Sammalvuo, Tapani	- Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	1-0	36	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Lund, Esben	- Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	½-½	50	D35	QGD Exchange
Berg, Olaf	- Ziska, Helgi Dam	0-1	31	A10	Dutch, QI and KID Systems
Round 4 (July 22, 2010)
Ziska, Helgi Dam	- Jones, Gawain C B	0-1	5	B12	Caro Kann Advanced
Sammalvuo, Tapani	- Danielsen, Henrik	½-½	47	A04	Dutch System
Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft	- Berg, Olaf	1-0	41	B01	Centre Counter
Bekker-Jensen, Simon	- Lund, Esben	0-1	27	D43	Anti-Meran Gambit
Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	- Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	½-½	26	C97	Ruy Lopez
Round 5 (July 23, 2010)
Danielsen, Henrik	- Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	1-0	22	A07	Barcza System
Jones, Gawain C B	- Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft	1-0	22	C45	Scotch Game
Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	- Bekker-Jensen, Simon	1-0	49	E69	King's Indian Fianchetto
Lund, Esben	- Ziska, Helgi Dam	0-1	29	E94	King's Indian Classical
Berg, Olaf	- Sammalvuo, Tapani	½-½	125	C00	French Defence
Round 6 (July 24, 2010)
Danielsen, Henrik	- Berg, Olaf	½-½	58	A00	Irregular Openings
Ziska, Helgi Dam	- Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	½-½	14	C42	Petroff's Defence
Sammalvuo, Tapani	- Jones, Gawain C B	0-1	57	E94	King's Indian Classical
Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft	- Lund, Esben	½-½	67	C58	Two Knights Defence
Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	- Bekker-Jensen, Simon	½-½	16	B99	Sicilian Najdorf
Round 7 (July 24, 2010)
Jones, Gawain C B	- Danielsen, Henrik	0-1	69	B09	Pirc Defence
Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	- Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft	½-½	43	E60	King's Indian without Nc3
Lund, Esben	- Sammalvuo, Tapani	1-0	40	E59	Nimzo Indian
Berg, Olaf	- Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	½-½	12	B99	Sicilian Najdorf
Bekker-Jensen, Simon	- Ziska, Helgi Dam	0-1	58	E73	King's Indian Averbakh
Round 8 (July 25, 2010)
Danielsen, Henrik	- Lund, Esben	1-0	44	A07	Barcza System
Sammalvuo, Tapani	- Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	½-½	8	C42	Petroff's Defence
Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft	- Bekker-Jensen, Simon	½-½	57	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Berg, Olaf	- Jones, Gawain C B	0-1	34	E90	King's Indian Classical
Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	- Ziska, Helgi Dam	0-1	31	E67	King's Indian Fianchetto
Round 9 (July 26, 2010)
Jones, Gawain C B	- Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe	1-0	37	A16	English Opening
Ziska, Helgi Dam	- Nielsen, Rogvi Egilstoft	1-0	19	C70	Ruy Lopez
Grabarczyk, Miroslaw	- Danielsen, Henrik	½-½	12	A88	Dutch Leningrad
Lund, Esben	- Berg, Olaf	0-1	50	E56	Nimzo Indian
Bekker-Jensen, Simon	- Sammalvuo, Tapani	½-½	9	E46	Nimzo Indian Rubinstein

20) II Corporation Cup

The II Corporation Cup took place in Izhevsk 15th-23rd July 2010. Dmitry Frolyanov won with 7.5/9.

Official site in Russian

Corporation Cup Izhevsk (RUS), 15 - 23 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	FED	Elo	Pts	BH	Prog	TPR
1	Frolyanov, Dmitry	GM	RUS	2587	7.5	49.5	38.5	2738
2	Khismatullin, Denis	GM	RUS	2667	7.0	50.0	33.5	2691
3	Shinkevich, Vitaly	IM	RUS	2508	6.5	53.5	34.5	2642
4	Amonatov, Farrukh	GM	TJK	2608	6.5	52.5	36.0	2639
5	Geller, Jakov	IM	RUS	2539	6.5	49.5	34.5	2571
6	Voitsekhovsky, Stanislav	GM	RUS	2524	6.5	47.0	32.5	2545
7	Shaposhnikov, Evgeny	GM	RUS	2543	6.5	46.5	30.0	2517
8	Dzhumaev, Marat	GM	UZB	2484	6.0	51.5	33.0	2537
9	Kokarev, Dmitry	GM	RUS	2629	6.0	51.0	32.0	2563
10	Gochelashvili, David	IM	RUS	2443	6.0	43.0	29.0	2432
11	Kotenko, Pavel	IM	RUS	2396	6.0	43.0	28.5	2459
12	Fedorov, Alexei	GM	BLR	2616	5.5	50.5	33.5	2542
13	Terentjev, Vladislav	FM	RUS	2299	5.5	49.0	30.5	2466
14	Predke, Alexandr		RUS	2425	5.5	47.0	32.0	2502
15	Savina, Anastasia	WGM	RUS	2392	5.5	46.0	29.5	2476
16	Balashov, Yuri S	GM	RUS	2400	5.5	46.0	29.0	2427
17	Smirnov, Alexey		RUS	2403	5.5	45.5	30.5	2485
18	Tunik, Gennady	GM	RUS	2469	5.5	45.0	30.0	2419
19	Shcherbakov, Ruslan	GM	RUS	2516	5.5	44.5	29.0	2428
20	Pushin, Vladimir	FM	RUS	2380	5.5	44.5	29.0	2412
21	Yaksin, Oleg		RUS	2406	5.5	41.5	25.0	2306
22	Skomorokhin, Roman	IM	RUS	2436	5.5	41.0	26.5	2320
23	Girya, Olga	WGM	RUS	2376	5.0	49.0	27.5	2421
24	Poniaev, Ruslan	FM	RUS	2277	5.0	46.0	28.5	2411
25	Alavkin, Arseny	GM	RUS	2447	5.0	45.5	28.5	2418
26	Shukh, Nikolai	FM	RUS	2459	5.0	45.5	27.5	2349
80 players

21) Macedonia Open Championship

The XIX Championship of Macedonia Open took place in Struga 18th-24th July 2010. Filip Panceviski took clear first place with 7/9. News: Ivan Kocovski.

Official site: http://www.chess.com.mk

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr36295.aspx

XIX Open Championship Macedonia Struga (MKD), 18-24 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Pancevski Filip	im	MKD	2402	7,0	37,0	47,0
2	Stanojoski Zvonko	gm	MKD	2487	6,5	37,0	47,5
3	Nikolov Sasho	im	BUL	2409	6,5	36,5	46,5
4	Skrceski Gavril		MKD	2215	6,5	34,5	45,0
5	Organdziev Oliver	fm	MKD	2307	6,0	36,0	46,5
6	Stojanovski Dejan	im	MKD	2437	5,5	40,0	51,5
7	Petrov Georgi		SRB	2273	5,5	36,5	48,0
8	Koteski Gjorgji		MKD	2261	5,5	29,5	37,5
9	Vasovski Nikola	im	MKD	2312	5,0	37,5	48,5
10	Menkinoski Riste	fm	MKD	2322	5,0	36,0	47,0
11	Andonovski Ljubisa	fm	MKD	2290	5,0	35,5	44,5
12	Glavinac Goran		MKD	2168	5,0	33,0	42,5
13	Stojanovski Kiril		MKD	2125	4,5	35,5	45,5
14	Bogdanovski Vlatko	gm	MKD	2416	4,5	35,0	44,5
15	Ilic Zoran	fm	MKD	2280	4,5	34,0	44,5
16	Ilievski Borce		MKD	2235	4,5	31,0	40,5
17	Hadzi-Manev Ljubomir	fm	MKD	2193	4,5	31,0	36,5
18	Matijevic Filip		SLO	1833	4,5	29,5	38,0
19	Ilic Ljubomir	fm	MKD	2250	4,5	28,0	35,0
20	Pavlic Petra		SLO	1508	4,5	27,0	34,0
21	Koskoska Gabriela	wim	MKD	2152	4,0	32,0	42,0
22	Temkov Blagoja		MKD	1960	4,0	27,5	34,5
23	Ruzicic Sinisa		SRB	2020	4,0	27,0	32,5
24	Stojkovska Monika		MKD	1910	4,0	26,5	33,0
25	Ismaili Vahidin		MKD	1860	4,0	26,0	32,0
26	Vladimirov Vladimir		MKD	2192	3,5	34,0	43,5
27	Nikolovska Dragana		MKD	1721	3,5	29,5	37,0
28	Stoilkovski Jordan		MKD	2027	3,5	29,0	39,0
29	Tairi Krenar		MKD	1614	3,0	28,0	35,0
30	Bejatovic Bojana		MKD	1881	3,0	27,0	32,5
31	Peev Kosta		MKD	1630	2,0	26,0	31,5
32	Gicarovski Petar		MKD	0	0,5	26,5	33,0

22) 2nd Leros Open

The 2nd Leros Open Artemis Cup took place 13th-20th July 2010. Ioannis Nikolaidis took first place on tie-break from Athanasios Mastrovasilis and Spyridon Kapnisis after all finished on 7/9.

Official site: http://www.leroschess.gr/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr35350.aspx?lan=1

2nd Artemis Cup Leros (GRE), 13-20 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB3
1	Nikolaidis Ioannis	GM	GRE	2493	7,0	37,0	50,0
2	Mastrovasilis Athanasios	GM	GRE	2539	7,0	37,0	47,0
3	Kapnisis Spyridon	IM	GRE	2514	7,0	35,0	46,5
4	Jeremic Veljko	GM	SRB	2509	6,5	36,0	48,5
5	Kovalyov Anton	GM	ARG	2599	6,5	35,5	50,5
6	Brkic Ante	GM	CRO	2568	6,5	34,0	47,5
7	Bromann Thorbjorn	IM	DEN	2426	6,5	34,0	44,0
8	Jankovic Alojzije	GM	CRO	2567	6,0	35,5	50,0
9	Schneider Stefan		SWE	2334	6,0	33,5	47,0
10	Mamedjarova Turkan	WGM	AZE	2280	6,0	33,0	44,5
11	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios	GM	GRE	2583	6,0	33,0	48,0
12	Zawadzka Jolanta	WGM	POL	2415	6,0	32,0	44,5
13	Kasparov Sergey	GM	BLR	2492	6,0	30,5	44,5
14	Carstensen Jacob	FM	DEN	2295	6,0	30,5	44,0
15	Stubberud Ornulf		NOR	2276	6,0	30,0	42,0
16	Moen Andreas	FM	NOR	2326	6,0	30,0	43,0
17	Trygstad Kristian	FM	NOR	2301	5,5	31,0	44,5
18	Mamedjarova Zeinab	WGM	AZE	2231	5,5	30,0	44,5
19	Kraidman Yair	GM	ISR	2266	5,5	28,0	40,5
20	Seretakis Nikolas		GRE	2204	5,5	27,5	41,0
21	Padurariu Ioana-Smaranda	WIM	ROU	2191	5,5	27,5	39,5
22	Sahl Sheila Barth	WIM	NOR	2156	5,5	27,0	42,5
23	Ciuksyte Dagne	IM	ENG	2344	5,5	26,0	38,5
24	Kasparova Tatiana	WIM	BLR	2167	5,5	26,0	41,0
25	Bulmaga Irina	WIM	ROU	2258	5,0	30,0	44,0
26	Pavlidou Ekaterini		GRE	2182	5,0	28,0	42,5
27	Calzetta Ruiz Monica	WGM	ESP	2256	5,0	27,0	40,5
28	Johansson Viktoria	WIM	SWE	2179	5,0	27,0	42,5
29	Skalkotas Nikolaos	IM	GRE	2217	5,0	27,0	41,0
30	Estremera Panos Sergio	IM	ESP	2358	5,0	27,0	41,0
31	Festas Georgios		GRE	2120	5,0	26,0	41,5
32	Vovk Oksana	WIM	DEN	2149	5,0	26,0	42,0
33	Gutmann Alois		AUT	2087	5,0	24,0	36,5
34	Haga Halvor		NOR	2037	5,0	24,0	36,5
35	Frank-Nielsen Marie	WFM	DEN	2018	4,5	28,0	43,0
36	Petersen Steen		DEN	2149	4,5	27,0	43,0
37	Berg Susanne	WFM	SWE	2000	4,5	25,5	39,5
38	Jiretorn Eva		SWE	2141	4,5	25,0	39,5
39	Horvath Reka		HUN	1967	4,5	24,5	41,0
40	Reppen Ellisiv		NOR	1962	4,5	23,0	37,0
80 players

23) 32nd Oberwart Open

The 32nd Oberwart Open took place 10th-18th July 2010. Imre Hera was the top seed but he finished half a point behind the winner, Aleksandr Shimanov who scored 7/9.

http://www.oberwart.gv.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=273

Results and games at: http://chess-results.com/tnr30180.aspx

Open A Oberwart (AUT), 10-18 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Shimanov Aleksandr	GM	RUS	2519	7,0	55,0	44,0
2	Hera Imre	GM	HUN	2585	6,5	54,0	42,5
3	Shengelia David	GM	AUT	2582	6,5	52,5	41,5
4	Lintchevski Daniil	GM	RUS	2507	6,5	52,0	41,5
5	Zelcic Robert	GM	CRO	2554	6,5	52,0	40,5
6	Palac Mladen	GM	CRO	2562	6,5	51,5	40,5
7	Fauland Alexander	IM	AUT	2406	6,5	51,0	40,0
8	Flumbort Andras Dr	IM	HUN	2540	6,5	51,0	40,0
9	Danner Georg	IM	AUT	2418	6,5	48,5	38,0
10	Sergeev Vladimir	GM	UKR	2486	6,5	47,5	37,5
11	Mihok Oliver	IM	HUN	2438	6,5	47,0	36,5
12	Kovacs Gabor	IM	HUN	2500	6,5	46,5	37,0
13	Lehner Oliver	IM	AUT	2416	6,0	51,0	40,0
14	Gergacz Attila	FM	HUN	2429	6,0	49,0	38,0
15	Alvir Aco	IM	AUT	2369	6,0	47,5	37,0
16	Schachinger Mario	FM	AUT	2353	6,0	46,0	36,0
17	Kummer Helmut	IM	AUT	2351	6,0	44,5	35,0
18	Poetz Florian	FM	AUT	2347	6,0	43,5	33,0
19	Mahdy Khaled	IM	AUT	2395	5,5	50,5	40,0
20	Moser Eva	IM	AUT	2440	5,5	49,5	39,0
21	Binder Michael		AUT	2270	5,5	48,5	38,5
22	Stanec Nikolaus	GM	AUT	2548	5,5	48,5	38,0
23	Papp Tamas	FM	HUN	2330	5,5	46,5	37,0
24	Csonka Attila	FM	HUN	2381	5,5	46,5	36,0
25	Nemeth Miklos	IM	HUN	2476	5,5	46,0	36,0
26	Serov Maksim		RUS	2347	5,5	45,0	34,5
27	Karner Christoph	FM	AUT	2345	5,5	44,0	34,5
28	Wallner Joachim	FM	AUT	2269	5,5	44,0	34,0
29	Platzgummer Fabian	FM	AUT	2351	5,5	43,5	34,0
30	Heiny Johannes		AUT	2270	5,5	43,0	33,5
31	Neumeier Klaus Mag.	FM	AUT	2380	5,5	43,0	33,0
32	Radnetter Georg		AUT	2295	5,5	42,0	32,5
33	Pergel Laszlo	FM	HUN	2277	5,5	41,0	31,5
34	Sandhoefner Florian	FM	AUT	2229	5,5	40,0	30,5
35	Diermair Andreas	IM	AUT	2312	5,0	50,0	39,0
36	Makk Robert		HUN	2243	5,0	46,5	37,0
37	Schneider-Zinner Harald	IM	AUT	2343	5,0	46,5	36,0
38	Liedl Wolfgang		AUT	2183	5,0	45,5	36,0
39	Fröwis Georg		AUT	2279	5,0	44,0	33,5
40	Veszpremi Andras		HUN	2272	5,0	43,5	34,5
120 players

24) 5th Summer Cup Porto Carras

The 5th Summer Cup in Porto Carras, Halkidiki Greece too place 11th - 18th July 2010. Trajko Nedev took clear first place with 7.5/9.

Official site: http://www.greekchess.com/cup2010/stands.html

Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr35393.aspx

5th Summer Cup Porto Carras (GRE), 11-18 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB2	TB3	Rp
1	Nedev Trajko	GM	FYM	2506	7,5	38,5	50,5	2333
2	Vafiadis Kleanthis		GRE	2227	7,0	39,0	57,0	2288
3	Karlovich Anastazia	WGM	UKR	2174	7,0	38,5	51,5	2325
4	Papadopoulos Panayotis		GRE	1951	6,5	33,5	49,0	2348
5	Spirliadis Achileas		GRE	2015	6,5	32,0	49,0	2084
6	Urosevic Goran		SRB	2225	6,0	34,0	54,0	2134
7	Csonka Balazs		HUN	2267	6,0	31,0	49,5	2049
8	Sigalas Frangiskos	FM	GRE	2276	6,0	31,0	49,5	2111
9	Avagianos Simeon		GRE	2034	6,0	31,0	46,0	2018
	Capone Nicola		BEL	1877	6,0	31,0	46,0	2066
11	Sverkounos Spyridon		GRE	2018	6,0	28,5	44,0	1884
12	Spiropoulos Panagiotis I		GRE	2144	6,0	27,0	43,5	1917
13	Kanakaris Georgios		GRE	2294	6,0	26,5	43,5	2038
14	Galopoulos Panagiotis	FM	GRE	2095	5,5	33,5	47,0	2110
15	Pantovic Dragan M		SRB	2115	5,5	32,0	47,0	2015
16	Hrisanthopoulos Dimitrios		GRE	2095	5,5	28,5	43,5	1910
17	Minas Ioannis		GRE	1836	5,5	27,0	42,5	2186
18	Theoharidis Georgios		GRE	1817	5,5	26,5	41,5	2004
19	Gamvrilis Ioannis		GRE	1996	5,0	30,5	47,5	1909
20	Sideris Giorgos		GRE	1976	5,0	28,5	46,5	1982
21	Paouris Nikolaos		GRE	1988	5,0	28,0	46,0	1911
22	Soultatis Kostas		GRE	2105	5,0	28,0	43,0	1865
23	Giordos Vasilios		GRE	1966	5,0	25,5	43,5	1817
24	Tompros Andreas-Hristos		GRE	1811	5,0	24,5	46,5	1939
25	Zygourakis Themistoklis		GRE	1728	5,0	24,5	42,0	1780
26	Tsironis Alexandros		GRE	1735	5,0	24,5	42,0	1715
27	Giannopoulos Ioannis		GRE	1645	5,0	24,0	42,5	1723
28	Nikolov Kole		FYM	0	5,0	22,0	43,0	1693
29	Vovas Georgios		GRE	1766	5,0	21,0	36,5	1799
30	Ganiaridis Panagiotis		GRE	1603	5,0	20,0	37,5	1663
31	Tassopoulos Marios	FM	GRE	2257	4,5	26,5	47,0	1831
32	Markantonis Vasilios		GRE	1976	4,5	26,5	46,5	1877
33	Efstathopoulos Efstathios		GRE	0	4,5	25,0	43,5	1883
34	Karagiannis Dimitrios		GRE	1895	4,5	23,5	43,5	1799
35	Tzoumakis Vasilis		GRE	0	4,5	23,0	44,5	1799
36	Xanthopoulos Dimitrios		GRE	1284	4,5	20,5	39,0	1753
37	Misailidis Panagiotis		GRE	1589	4,5	20,0	40,0	1794
38	Liakos Georgios		GRE	1658	4,0	25,0	43,5	1966
39	Valyi Adel		HUN	1802	4,0	25,0	42,5	1768
40	Ioannidis Evgenios		GRE	1817	4,0	24,0	42,0	1721
68 players

25) Dresden ZMDI-Open

The Dresden ZMDI-Open took place 10th-18th July 2010. Georg Meier took first place after tie-break games.

Official site: http://www.schachfestival.de/www_festival/fbcb037387e821a6b1898467b076c0d5.php

ZMDI-Open Dresden (GER), 10-18 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	Elo	NAT	+	=	-	Pts	T/B1	T/B2
1	Meier,Georg	GM	2648	GER	7	1	1	9.0	53.0	386.0
2	Ghaem Maghami,Ehsan	GM	2585	IRI	6	2	1	8.0	52.0	380.5
3	Lysyj,Igor	GM	2631	RUS	5	4	0	7.0	52.5	377.5
4	Graf,Alexander	GM	2590	GER	6	2	1	7.0	52.0	373.0
5	Iljin,Artem	GM	2546	RUS	5	4	0	7.0	50.0	377.0
6	Luther,Thomas	GM	2544	GER	7	0	2	7.0	50.0	372.5
7	Ovsejevitsch,Sergei	GM	2594	UKR	6	2	1	7.0	50.0	372.5
8	Moiseenko,Alexander	GM	2667	UKR	6	3	0	7.0	49.0	367.0
9	Kovalev,Andrei	GM	2521	BLR	6	3	0	7.0	48.0	366.5
10	Jojua,Davit	GM	2530	GEO	5	3	1	7.0	48.0	365.0
11	Miezis,Normunds	GM	2518	LAT	6	2	1	7.0	47.0	348.0
12	Zherebukh,Yaroslav	GM	2572	UKR	7	0	2	7.0	45.0	350.5
13	Khenkin,Igor	GM	2666	GER	5	3	1	6.5	47.5	360.0
14	Seres,Lajos	GM	2460	HUN	5	4	0	6.5	46.5	352.0
15	Iotov,Valentin	GM	2581	BUL	5	4	0	6.5	46.5	344.0
16	Schloetzer,Waldemar		2282	GER	6	0	3	6.0	50.0	350.0
17	Hoffmann,Paul	FM	2382	GER	5	2	2	6.0	49.5	359.5
18	Gutman,Lev	GM	2425	GER	5	1	3	6.0	46.5	356.0
19	Farago,Ivan	GM	2420	HUN	5	2	2	6.0	46.5	350.5
20	Heck,Norbert	FM	2268	GER	4	3	2	6.0	46.5	342.5
21	Stabolewski,Andreas		2267	GER	5	2	2	6.0	46.5	336.0
22	Schmid,Thomas		2268	GER	5	2	2	6.0	46.0	347.5
23	Herrich,Christoph		2044	GER	4	3	2	6.0	43.5	351.5
24	Bannink,Bernard	FM	2270	NED	4	3	2	6.0	43.5	338.5
25	Huettemann,Ralf		2068	GER	5	1	3	6.0	43.0	349.5
26	Rothe,Guido		2159	GER	6	0	3	6.0	43.0	331.0
27	Broekman,Willem		2085	NED	5	2	2	6.0	42.0	352.0
28	Koelsch,Maximilian		2178	GER	5	2	2	6.0	42.0	337.5
29	Turikov,Viktor	FM	2334	RUS	6	0	3	6.0	41.0	332.0
30	Mueller,Peter		2013	GER	5	2	2	6.0	40.5	332.0
31	Proschmann,Tino		2092	GER	5	2	2	6.0	39.0	327.0
32	Eskandary,Jahja		2155	GER	4	5	0	6.0	35.0	324.5
33	Juergens,Klaus		2142	GER	5	2	2	6.0	33.0	320.5
34	Mueller,Michael	FM	2258	GER	5	1	3	5.5	48.0	352.5
35	Grohde,Wolfgang		2119	GER	4	3	2	5.5	44.0	331.0
36	Dieckmann,Daniel		2011	GER	4	3	2	5.5	42.5	316.0
37	Friesen,Viktor		2054	GER	4	3	2	5.5	42.0	329.0
38	Ciara,Daniel		1990	GER	4	4	1	5.5	42.0	314.0
39	Schellmann,Frank	CM	2077	GER	4	3	2	5.5	41.5	337.5
40	Grzeca,Pascal		1880	GER	5	1	3	5.5	40.5	333.0
41	Schirmer,Werner		2087	GER	5	1	3	5.5	40.5	321.5
42	Liebscher,Helmar		2102	GER	5	1	3	5.5	40.0	337.0
43	Berndt,Matthias		2177	GER	5	1	3	5.5	40.0	327.0
44	Doell,Detlef		2109	GER	4	3	2	5.5	40.0	326.0
45	Noordhoek,Henk		2107	NED	3	3	3	5.5	39.0	321.5
46	Lehmann,Frank		2050	GER	3	4	2	5.5	38.5	320.5
47	Amos,Frank		2141	GER	5	1	3	5.5	36.0	322.0
48	Marotzke,Stefan		2026	GER	5	1	3	5.5	34.0	320.5
49	Hansch,Torsten	CM	2163	GER	3	3	3	5.0	45.0	350.5
50	Boehm,Robert		2187	GER	4	2	3	5.0	43.5	333.5
147 players

26) Ikaros Chess Festival (Aegean Open) 2010

The Ikaros Chess Festival 2010 is a traditional annual chess event which saw its 33rd consecutive edition on the picturesque island of Ikaria in Greece.

The main event of the festival, the International Aegean Open Championship took place 13th-21st July 2010. Elshan Moradiabadi took clear first place with 8/9.

Official site: http://www.chess.gr/ikaros

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr35924.aspx

Aegean Open Agios Kirykos (GRE), 13-21 vii 2010 Leading R ound 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	MORADIABADI ELSHAN	GM	IRI	2571	8,0	57,0	45,0	7
2	ENCHEV IVAJLO	FM	BUL	2441	7,0	58,5	44,5	6
3	NIKOLAIDIS KONSTANTINOS	FM	GRE	2290	7,0	56,5	43,5	7
4	NIKOLOV MOMCHIL	GM	BUL	2552	7,0	54,5	41,5	6
5	ZAGREBELNY SERGEY	GM	UZB	2480	7,0	54,0	41,0	6
6	IORDANIDOU ZOI		GRE	2107	7,0	51,5	40,0	7
7	MANAKOVA MARIA	WGM	SRB	2306	7,0	49,5	38,0	6
8	HARITAKIS THEODOROS	FM	GRE	2289	6,5	55,0	42,5	6
9	IKONOMOPOULOU MARIA		GRE	2066	6,5	52,5	40,0	5
10	SPILIADIS ATHANASIOS		GRE	1807	6,5	50,5	39,5	6
11	MARKANTONAKI HARITOMENI		GRE	2129	6,5	44,5	34,0	6
12	ORNITHOPOULOS NIKOLAOS		GRE	2080	6,5	44,0	34,5	6
13	KOUKOUFIKIS ALEXANDROS		GRE	2255	6,0	53,5	42,5	5
14	KAMENETS ANATOLIJ	IM	UKR	2246	6,0	52,5	40,5	6
15	DOUNIS ALEXANDROS		GRE	2235	6,0	51,0	40,0	4
16	POUNTZAS HRISANTHOS	FM	GRE	2181	6,0	51,0	39,0	6
17	KESOGLOU KONSTANTINOS		GRE	2098	6,0	49,0	38,0	6
18	TSAGAROPOULOS SPYRIDON		GRE	2051	6,0	48,0	37,0	5
19	PARGINOS VASSILIOS		GRE	2227	6,0	47,5	37,5	6
20	PANAGIOTOPOULOS VASILIOS		GRE	1981	6,0	45,5	35,5	6
21	KARAMALIS GEORGIOS		GRE	2084	6,0	45,0	34,5	6
22	KONSTANTELIAS KONSTANINOS		GRE	2085	6,0	45,0	34,5	5
23	FINOKALIOTIS GEORGIOS		GRE	1927	6,0	44,5	34,5	5
24	STEFANIDI MARIA-ANNA	WFM	GRE	2092	6,0	43,5	32,5	6
25	AFTSOGLOU IOANNIS		GRE	2155	5,5	55,0	42,0	5
26	TEPELENIS NIKOLAOS		GRE	2224	5,5	51,5	40,0	4
27	DIMOPOULOS NIKOLAOS		GRE	1933	5,5	47,5	36,5	5
28	KOKOLIAS KONSTANTINOS		GRE	2238	5,5	46,5	37,5	5
29	VALDEN PETROS		GRE	2223	5,5	46,5	36,0	5
30	LAGOPATIS NIKOLAOS		GRE	2208	5,5	46,0	36,0	5
31	PAPPAS ANDREAS		GRE	2080	5,5	46,0	35,0	5
32	SIGOUROS IOANNIS		GRE	1952	5,5	45,5	34,5	5
33	PETRAKI MARIA	WFM	GRE	2067	5,5	43,0	32,5	4
34	KOUVATSOU MARIA	WGM	GRE	2185	5,0	49,0	38,0	5
35	KOSTIANIS GEORGIOS		GRE	0	5,0	48,5	38,0	4
36	ISKOS ALEXANDROS		GRE	2112	5,0	48,0	37,5	5
37	ANDRONI KONSTANTINA		GRE	1870	5,0	48,0	37,0	4
38	MEGALIOS KONSTANTINOS		GRE	1896	5,0	47,0	38,0	4
39	MASOUROS PANAGIOTIS		GRE	1945	5,0	47,0	36,0	5
40	DEFTEREOS PAVLOS-EFSTATHIOS		GRE	1814	5,0	46,5	37,0	5
143 players

27) Leiden Chess Festival

The 4th Leiden Chess Tournament took place 8th-18th July 2010. Predrag Nikolic edged out Sergei Tiviakov and Eelke Wiersma on tie-break after all finished on 7/9. Former clear leader Erik van den Doel collapsed to losses against Tiviakov and Wiersma in the final two rounds and finished half a point further back. Akrawi vs Damen won the spectacular game prize. A small number of extra games are in the PGN section plus a couple of name corrections. My thanks to Jan Bey.

Official Site - Results - Live

Leiden AGp (97 players 9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1))

4th LCT Leiden (NED), 10 - 18 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rank	Name	Ti	Rating	Score	TPR
1	Nikolic, Predrag	GM	2592	7.0	2618
2	Tiviakov, Sergei	GM	2623	7.0	2608
3	Wiersma, Eelke	IM	2405	7.0	2536
4	Van Den Doel, Erik	GM	2591	6.5	2533
5	Slingerland, Fred	IM	2397	6.5	2518
6	Wohl, Aleksandar H.	IM	2375	6.5	2391
7	Gofshtein, Leonid	GM	2521	6.5	2462
8	Van Der Wiel, John T.H.	GM	2467	6.5	2410
9	Bezemer, Arno	FM	2322	6.5	2347
10	Michielsen, Joost		2397	6.5	2308
11	Lalith, Babu M.R.	IM	2502	6.0	2377
12	Kaufman, Raymond	IM	2333	6.0	2411
13	Erwich, Frank	FM	2333	6.0	2267
14	Vistisen, Lars		2143	6.0	2286
15	Wantola, Ivo	FM	2309	6.0	2243
16	Ducarmon, Quinten		2225	6.0	2301
17	Rijnaarts, Sjef	FM	2264	5.5	2289
18	Pijpers, Arthur		2248	5.5	2259
19	Blom, Vincent		2089	5.5	2290
20	Middelveld, Martine		2102	5.5	2236
21	Van Helvoort, Rob		2197	5.5	2209
22	Van Der Velden, Bram		2177	5.5	2178
23	Akrawi, Samir	FM	2247	5.5	2124
24	Timmermans, Ivo		2241	5.5	2101
25	Hortensius, Lisa		2058	5.0	2298
26	Haast, Anne		2240	5.0	2277
97 players

28) Rethymno Open

The Rethymno Open took place 13th-20th July 2010. Mircea Parligras edged out Gabriel Sargissian, Sergey Volkov, Bela Khotenashvili, Yuri Kryvoruchko and Vladislav Borovikov on tie-break after all finished on 7/9.

Official site: http://www.daor.gr/index.php?chessgr

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr36082.aspx

2nd Open Rethymno (GRE), 13-20 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name		FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Parligras Mircea	GM	ROU	2574	7,0	0,0	38,5
2	Sargissian Gabriel	GM	ARM	2673	7,0	0,0	37,0
3	Volkov Sergey	GM	RUS	2597	7,0	0,0	36,5
4	Khotenashvili Bela	IM	GEO	2423	7,0	0,0	36,0
5	Kryvoruchko Yuriy	GM	UKR	2609	7,0	0,0	35,5
6	Borovikov Vladislav	GM	UKR	2601	7,0	0,0	34,0
7	Iordachescu Viorel	GM	MDA	2623	6,5	0,0	36,0
8	Zinchenko Yaroslav	GM	UKR	2544	6,5	0,0	35,5
9	Banikas Hristos	GM	GRE	2591	6,5	0,0	35,5
10	Rychagov Andrey	GM	RUS	2538	6,5	0,0	35,0
11	Turov Maxim	GM	RUS	2628	6,5	0,0	34,5
12	Tukhaev Adam	GM	UKR	2518	6,5	0,0	34,5
13	Orlov Andrey	GM	RUS	2502	6,5	0,0	34,5
14	Zubarev Alexander	GM	UKR	2562	6,5	0,0	34,0
15	Bellia Fabrizio	IM	ITA	2376	6,5	0,0	34,0
16	David Alberto	GM	LUX	2622	6,5	0,0	34,0
17	Maiorov Nikita	GM	BLR	2532	6,5	0,0	34,0
18	Rombaldoni Denis	IM	ITA	2493	6,5	0,0	32,5
19	Richter Michael	IM	GER	2428	6,5	0,0	32,5
20	Vorobiov Evgeny E	GM	RUS	2592	6,5	0,0	31,5
21	Postny Evgeny	GM	ISR	2577	6,0	0,0	37,5
22	Svetushkin Dmitry	GM	MDA	2560	6,0	0,0	37,0
23	Kharitonov Alexandr	GM	RUS	2548	6,0	0,0	36,5
24	Pap Misa	IM	SRB	2509	6,0	0,0	33,5
25	Dubov Daniil	IM	RUS	2446	6,0	0,0	33,0
26	Turova Irina	IM	RUS	2394	6,0	0,0	32,5
27	Filip Lucian	IM	ROU	2470	6,0	0,0	32,5
28	Hovhanisian Mher	IM	ARM	2479	6,0	0,0	32,0
29	Vuilleumier Alexandre	IM	SUI	2361	6,0	0,0	31,5
30	Markidis Konstantinos		GRE	2342	6,0	0,0	30,5
31	Bensdorp Marlies	WIM	NED	2301	6,0	0,0	30,0
32	Haugli Petter	IM	NOR	2301	6,0	0,0	29,5
33	Batsiashvili Nino	WGM	GEO	2383	6,0	0,0	28,0
34	Sulashvili Malkhaz	IM	GEO	2498	5,5	0,0	33,5
35	Werle Jan	GM	NED	2585	5,5	0,0	32,5
36	Breier Andreas	FM	GER	2399	5,5	0,0	32,0
37	Georgiadis Ioannis	IM	GRE	2457	5,5	0,0	32,0
38	Goumas Georgios		GRE	2298	5,5	0,0	31,5
39	Prasanna Rao	FM	IND	2373	5,5	0,0	31,5
40	Kekki Petri	IM	FIN	2371	5,5	0,0	31,0
183 players

29) 1st Vaujany International Chess Festival

The 1st Vaujany International Chess Festival took place July 10th-18th 2010. Deep Sengupta took clear first place with 7.5/9.

Details: http://promoechecs.free.fr/

1st Open Vaujany (FRA), 10-18 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	Elo	NAT	Pts	Tr.	Perf.
1	SENGUPTA Deep	g	2527	IND	7.5	43.5	2695
2	VOVK Yuri	g	2561	UKR	7	44.5	2627
3	PETKOV Vladimir	g	2496	BUL	7	41	2580
4	BRUNNER Nicolas	m	2451	FRA	6.5	42	2535
5	HORVATH Jozsef	g	2552	HUN	6	43	2497
6	GUIDO Flavio	m	2397	ITA	6	41.5	2450
7	VOVK Andrey	g	2522	UKR	6	41	2470
8	HORVATH Csaba	g	2540	HUN	6	40.5	2466
9	KUKOV Velislav	f	2381	BUL	6	40	2478
10	DAS Arghyadip	m	2486	IND	6	40	2454
11	TO Nhat Minh	m	2441	HUN	6	40	2411
12	LOBZHANIDZE Davit	m	2513	GEO	6	39	2431
13	ROOS Daniel	m	2414	FRA	6	39	2376
14	CSIRIK Andras	f	2303	HUN	6	38	2396
15	ARNAUDOV G. Petar	m	2423	BUL	5.5	43	2447
16	JOIE Sebastien		2142	FRA	5.5	38	2351
17	KOVACS Lajos		2192	HUN	5.5	36.5	2312
18	DICKHOFF Ronald		2131	NED	5.5	34.5	2239
19	OLIVIER Jean-Christophe	m	2377	FRA	5	41.5	2364
20	SZABOLCSI Janos	m	2332	HUN	5	39.5	2300
21	JUHASZ Kristof		2260	HUN	5	38.5	2258
22	MOAL Alain	f	2207	FRA	5	37.5	2236
23	STETS Dmitry	m	2478	UKR	5	36.5	2250
24	VAN LEENT Dimitri	f	2209	NED	5	36	2236
25	VALUET Bertrand	f	2321	FRA	5	34	2185
26	DROGOU Gerard		2107	FRA	5	31.5	2113
27	VAN DONGEN Patrick	f	2330	FRA	4.5	39.5	2177
28	PRAKKEN Gerrit	f	2194	NED	4.5	38	2250
29	NEUHAUSER Salome		2054	FRA	4.5	36.5	2152
30	PRISER Patrick		2011	FRA	4.5	36.5	2110
31	DI NICOLANTONIO Lucas		2204	FRA	4.5	35.5	2180
32	HEYMANN-LOBZHANIDZE Anna-Luise	ff	2039	GER	4.5	34.5	2109
33	VASQUEZ Georges		2024	FRA	4.5	33.5	2122
34	HOUARD Sebastien		2117	FRA	4.5	33.5	2067
35	JUNCA Stephane		2048	FRA	4.5	32	2082
36	HAVER Bas		1775	NED	4.5	30.5	2059
37	CHARVIN Olivier		2052	FRA	4.5	30.5	2016
38	MAHIOUZ Oualid		2071	FRA	4.5	30	2015
39	MINET Steve		2172	FRA	4.5	28	2001
40	JEANNEROT Lea		1982	FRA	4	34	2132
41	DEGRAVE Jack		2003	FRA	4	32.5	2054
42	COENEN Albert		1916	NED	4	32	2050
43	BIRENS Eric-Andre		2024	FRA	4	31	1999
44	SZAJBELY Zsigmond		2042	HUN	4	30.5	1968
45	KOELMANS Jan Willem		2034	NED	4	30	1991
46	ROCHE Yves		2030	FRA	4	29.5	1977
47	BORDERIE David		2042	FRA	4	29	1983
48	DUBOIS Herve		1883	FRA	3.5	33.5	2002
49	FORTUIT Emilie		1945	FRA	3.5	32.5	2005
50	RODRIGUEZ Jean-Pierre		1910	FRA	3.5	31	2000
51	SZILI Andras		1985	HUN	3.5	30.5	1936
52	ZILIOTTO Thierry		2029	FRA	3.5	28.5	1941
53	LOPEZ Gerard		1925	FRA	3.5	28	1921
54	KIECKEN Jean-Marc		1941	FRA	3.5	28	1904
55	GUILLAUMAT Jean-Pierre		1959	FRA	3.5	27	1920
56	SZALONTAY Mihaly		2025	HUN	3.5	26.5	1854
57	OBRINGER Jean-Marc		2008	FRA	3	35.5	2064
58	HODOT Yves		1997	FRA	3	31.5	1925
59	DI PAOLO Marco		2021	ITA	3	30.5	1897
60	GUMB Bernard		1888	FRA	3	30	1923
61	FUHRMANN Valentin		1853	FRA	2.5	27	1814
62	FAHYS Bertrand		1824	FRA	2.5	26.5	1800
63	HAVER Daan		1754	NED	2.5	26	1810
64	GRESH Nohad		1958	FRA	2	30	1815
65	SATONNET Patrick		1844	FRA	2	25.5	1761
66	LEES Jean-Pierre		1857	FRA	1.5	25.5	1497

30) "Maria Albulet" Memorial

The 3rd edition of the "Maria Albulet" Memorial Romanian International Tournament for women took place in the Theater of Braila (port on the Danube) 15th-21st July 2010. Elena-Luminita Cosma won with 6.5/9 a point clear of the field.

Official site: http://www.frsah.ro

Maria Albulet Mem Braila ROU (ROU), 15-21 vii 2010
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Cosma, Elena-Luminita	wg	ROU	2337	*	½	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	6½	2363
2.	Genova, Lyubka	wm	BUL	2209	½	*	½	½	1	½	½	1	½	½	5½	2292
3.	Traistaru, Teodora		ROU	2194	0	½	*	½	½	1	½	1	½	1	5½	2293
4.	Makropoulou, Marina	wg	GRE	2245	½	½	½	*	½	1	½	½	0	1	5	2251
5.	Toma, Katarzyna	wm	POL	2261	½	0	½	½	*	0	1	1	½	1	5	2249
6.	Worek, Joanna	wm	POL	2232	½	½	0	0	1	*	½	0	1	1	4½	2209
7.	Partac, Elena	wg	MDA	2149	½	½	½	½	0	½	*	0	1	0	3½	2138
8.	Uta, Adeline-Ramona		ROU	2076	0	0	0	½	0	1	1	*	1	0	3½	2146
9.	Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	wf	ROU	2199	0	½	½	1	½	0	0	0	*	½	3	2088
10.	Dragomirescu, Angela	wm	ROU	2215	0	½	0	0	0	0	1	1	½	*	3	2086

Round 1 (July 15, 2010)
Cosma, Elena-Luminita	- Genova, Lyubka	½-½	33	B08	Pirc Defence
Traistaru, Teodora	- Uta, Adeline-Ramona	1-0	57	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Worek, Joanna	- Toma, Katarzyna	1-0	36	D85	Gruenfeld Defence
Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	- Partac, Elena	0-1	39	B38	Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Dragomirescu, Angela	- Makropoulou, Marina	0-1	41	E06	Catalan
Round 2 (July 16, 2010)
Genova, Lyubka	- Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	½-½	32	B36	Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Traistaru, Teodora	- Dragomirescu, Angela	1-0	57	B08	Pirc Defence
Makropoulou, Marina	- Cosma, Elena-Luminita	½-½	13	C05	French Tarrasch
Partac, Elena	- Worek, Joanna	½-½	41	B53	Sicilian Hungarian
Uta, Adeline-Ramona	- Toma, Katarzyna	0-1	36	B76	Sicilian Modern Dragon
Round 3 (July 16, 2010)
Cosma, Elena-Luminita	- Traistaru, Teodora	1-0	47	D12	Slav Defence
Toma, Katarzyna	- Partac, Elena	1-0	38	B34	Sicilian Defence
Worek, Joanna	- Genova, Lyubka	½-½	22	E21	Nimzo Indian 4.Nf3
Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	- Makropoulou, Marina	1-0	48	A09	Reti Opening
Dragomirescu, Angela	- Uta, Adeline-Ramona	1-0	51	A04	Dutch System
Round 4 (July 17, 2010)
Genova, Lyubka	- Toma, Katarzyna	1-0	40	B20	Sicilian Wing Gambit
Traistaru, Teodora	- Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	½-½	23	B36	Sicilian Maroczy Bind
Makropoulou, Marina	- Worek, Joanna	1-0	36	B86	Sicilian Sozin Attack
Uta, Adeline-Ramona	- Partac, Elena	1-0	62	B35	Sicilian Defence
Dragomirescu, Angela	- Cosma, Elena-Luminita	0-1	32	D30	Queen's Gambit (without Nc3)
Round 5 (July 18, 2010)
Cosma, Elena-Luminita	- Uta, Adeline-Ramona	1-0	30	A04	Dutch System
Toma, Katarzyna	- Makropoulou, Marina	½-½	81	A46	Queen's Pawn Opening
Worek, Joanna	- Traistaru, Teodora	0-1	41	D10	Slav Defence
Partac, Elena	- Genova, Lyubka	½-½	16	B40	Sicilian Classical
Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	- Dragomirescu, Angela	½-½	21	A09	Reti Opening
Round 6 (July 19, 2010)
Cosma, Elena-Luminita	- Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	1-0	22	D26	QGA
Traistaru, Teodora	- Toma, Katarzyna	½-½	21	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Makropoulou, Marina	- Partac, Elena	½-½	35	B31	Sicilian Rossolimo
Uta, Adeline-Ramona	- Genova, Lyubka	0-1	68	B48	Sicilian Paulsen
Dragomirescu, Angela	- Worek, Joanna	0-1	44	E00	Catalan
Round 7 (July 19, 2010)
Genova, Lyubka	- Makropoulou, Marina	½-½	22	B01	Centre Counter
Toma, Katarzyna	- Dragomirescu, Angela	1-0	49	B07	Pirc Defence
Worek, Joanna	- Cosma, Elena-Luminita	½-½	88	D31	Semi-Slav Defence
Partac, Elena	- Traistaru, Teodora	½-½	30	B13	Caro Kann Exchange
Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	- Uta, Adeline-Ramona	0-1	52	E18	Queens Indian
Round 8 (July 20, 2010)
Cosma, Elena-Luminita	- Toma, Katarzyna	½-½	27	D76	Gruenfeld 3.g3
Traistaru, Teodora	- Genova, Lyubka	½-½	25	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Uta, Adeline-Ramona	- Makropoulou, Marina	½-½	54	C53	Giuoco Piano
Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	- Worek, Joanna	0-1	41	A04	Dutch System
Dragomirescu, Angela	- Partac, Elena	1-0	35	E00	Catalan
Round 9 (July 21, 2010)
Genova, Lyubka	- Dragomirescu, Angela	½-½	10	D10	Slav Defence
Makropoulou, Marina	- Traistaru, Teodora	½-½	35	B17	Caro Kann
Toma, Katarzyna	- Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca	½-½	39	B74	Sicilian Dragon
Worek, Joanna	- Uta, Adeline-Ramona	0-1	42	A04	Dutch System
Partac, Elena	- Cosma, Elena-Luminita	½-½	10	C01	French Exchange

31) Brunei Chess Centre IM tournaments

Peter Long reports that there are back to back international 10 player round robin tournaments played in the Brunei Chess Centre, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam from 25th July - 4th August 2010.

Results: IM 1 tournament http://www.chess-results.com/tnr35656.aspx

Results: IM 2 tournament http://www.chess-results.com/tnr36348.aspx

Brunei Inv IM Bandar Seri Begawan (BRU), 26-30 vii 2010															cat. II (2281)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Nguyen Van Huy	m	VIE	2426	*	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	1
2.	Sukandar, Irine Kharisma	wg	INA	2311	.	*	.	.	.	.	.	.	1	.	1
3.	Vakhidov, Nodir		UZB	2134	.	.	*	.	.	.	.	1	.	.	1
4.	Duong The Anh	m	VIE	2415	.	.	.	*	.	½	.	.	.	.	½	2376
5.	Yee Soon Wei	f	BRU	2260	.	.	.	.	*	.	½	.	.	.	½	2433
6.	Ramnath Bhuvanesh, R	f	IND	2376	.	.	.	½	.	*	.	.	.	.	½	2415
7.	Barbosa, Oliver PHI	m	PHI	2433	.	.	.	.	½	.	*	.	.	.	½	2260
8.	Hj, Azahari Md Aliuddin		BRU	2049	.	.	0	.	.	.	.	*	.	.	0
9.	Hj, Sulaiman Hj Md Baharuddin		BRU	2339	.	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	*	.	0
10.	Hj, Azahari Siti Nur Fatimah		BRU	2065	0	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	*	0

Round 1 (July 26, 2010)
Nguyen Van Huy	- Hj, Azahari Siti Nur Fatimah	1-0	29	A15	English counter King's Fianchetto
Vakhidov, Nodir	- Hj, Azahari Md Aliuddin	1-0	29	D11	Slav Defence
Yee Soon Wei	- Barbosa, Oliver PHI	½-½	27	C41	Philidor's Defence
Ramnath Bhuvanesh, R	- Duong The Anh	½-½	10	C16	French Winawer
Hj, Sulaiman Hj Md Baharuddin	- Sukandar, Irine Kharisma	0-1	41	B34	Sicilian Defence

32) 12th MGU Open Sofia

There were three more weekend opens in Sofia.

12th MGU Open 24th-25th July 2010. Won by Giorgi Filev. Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr36381.aspx

News: Dimitar "Mitko" Iliev - rating officer of Bulgarian Chess federation

33) Turkish Women's Championship

The Turkish Women's Championship took place in Konya 8th-15th July 2010. Yildiz Betul Cemre won with 8.5/9.

Official site: http://kadinlar2010.tsf.org.tr/

Turkish Women's Championship Konya (TUR), 8-15 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Pl	SNo.	Name	Ti	FED	IRtg	Pts	BH.	BH.	SB.
1	2	Yildiz Betul Cemre	WIM	TUR	2235	8½	46	41½	47.25
2	4	Kaya Emel		TUR	2015	7	50	45	40
3	9	Patel Yesim		TUR	1806	7	43½	39	36
4	1	Ozturk Kubra	WIM	TUR	2286	6½	49½	44½	37.75
5	5	Sop Selen		TUR	1988	6½	49	44½	35
6	6	Sasmazel Burcu		TUR	1876	6	51	45½	34.25
7	10	Cemhan Kardelen		TUR	1777	6	46	41½	30
8	14	Ozturk Hilal		TUR	1671	6	41	37	27.75
9	15	Sahin Handenur		TUR	1669	6	40	36	27.25
10	11	Abdimanoglu Beste Basak		TUR	1765	5½	49½	44½	26.75
11	7	Menzi Nezihe Ezgi		TUR	1851	5½	47	42½	27.25
12	8	Durmaz Ayca Fatma		TUR	1807	5½	46	41	27
13	3	Yanik Sueral Emine	WFM	TUR	2037	5½	43½	38½	26.5
14	13	Borekcioglu Zeynep Dilara		TUR	1673	5½	42	38	24
15	23	Isparta Sevim		TUR	1605	5½	41½	38	24
16	21	Nurlu Selin		TUR	1616	5½	37	34	19
55 players

34) 33rd Taminco Open

33rd Taminco Open International Chess Tournament Gent (Belgium) took place 17th-21st July 2010, 9 rounds Swiss. Sergey Fedorchuk edged out Stefan Docx on tie-break after they both finished on 8/9. My thanks to Etienne Van Leeuwen.

Official site: http://www.kgsrl.be

33rd Taminco Open Ghent (BEL), 17-21 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	FED	Elo	Pts	Perf	T/B	AvOp
1	Fedorchuk, Sergey A	g	UKR	2665	8.0	2654	0.5	2309
2	Docx, Stefan	f	BEL	2370	8.0	2615	0.5	2270
3	Van Oosterom, Chiel	m	NED	2413	7.5	2518
4	Shchekachev, Andrei	g	FRA	2546	7.0	2521	---	2305
5	Van der Stricht, Geert	m	BEL	2393	7.0	2252	---	2147
6	Sarrau, Jelle		BEL	2238	7.0	2335	---	2119
7	Farrand, Tom		JCI	2256	7.0	2331	---	2115
8	Goormachtigh, Johan	f	BEL	2282	7.0	2229	---	2013
9	Dgebuadze, Alexandre	g	BEL	2537	6.5	2459	---	2293
10	Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav	g	RUS	2578	6.5	2428	---	2262
11	Hamblok, Roel		BEL	2211	6.5	2336	---	2170
12	Renette, Hans		BEL	2348	6.5	2299	---	2133
13	Van Mechelen, Jan	f	BEL	2278	6.5	2284	---	2118
14	Van Baarle, John	f	NED	2222	6.5	2283	---	2117
15	Froeyman, Helmut	f	BEL	2273	6.5	2245	---	2079
16	Decoster, Frederic		BEL	2260	6.5	2244	---	2078
17	Deman, Stefaan		BEL	2117	6.5	2237	---	2071
18	Mazajchik, Tim		NED	2219	6.5	2233	---	2067
19	Freeke, Matthieu	f	NED	2315	6.5	2214	---	2048
20	Ponnet, Hendrik		BEL	2072	6.5	2156	---	1990
21	Vanderwaeren, Serge	f	BEL	2168	6.5	2233	---	1983
22	Draftian, Ashote		BEL	2275	6.0	2307	---	2186
23	Sowray, Peter J	f	ENG	2383	6.0	2298	---	2177
24	Sadkowsky, Daniel	f	BEL	2255	6.0	2281	---	2160
25	Stork, Ornett		NED	2118	6.0	2265	---	2144
294 players

35) I Girona Open

The 1st Girona Open took place in Spain 13th-21st July 2010.

FM Carlos Salgado Allaria edged out Marc Ferrer Roche, Marc Pruja Ramirez De Cartagena and Juan Francisco Campo Echevarria on tie-break after all finished on 7/9.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr34791.aspx

I Open Girona (ESP), 13-21 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB2
1	Salgado Allaria Carlos	FM	ESP	2325	7,0	44,0
2	Ferrer Roche Marc		ESP	2063	7,0	41,5
3	Pruja Ramirez De Cartagena Mar		ESP	2228	7,0	42,0
4	Campo Echevarria Juan Francisc		ESP	1989	7,0	39,0
5	Valle Luis E		CUB	2285	6,5	42,0
6	Mundet Riera Jaume		ESP	2147	6,5	40,5
7	Parramon Ros Francesc		ESP	2066	6,0	41,5
8	Mayo Casademont Andreu		ESP	2018	6,0	38,0
9	Tarrus Galter Narcis		ESP	1946	6,0	37,0
10	Saurina Suner Francesc Xavier		ESP	1895	6,0	32,0
11	Garcia Martinez Josep		ESP	2119	5,5	40,5
12	Genover Rodriguez Ignasi		ESP	1758	5,5	36,0
13	Mas Recorda Pere		ESP	2010	5,5	38,5
14	Salagran Ferragut Guillem		ESP	1725	5,5	34,0
15	Cano Egea Gerard		ESP	1698	5,5	34,0
16	Pinsach Gelabert Alexandre		ESP	1735	5,5	31,5
17	Diaz Comas Jordi		ESP	1918	5,5	31,0
18	Perez Lopez Josep Antoni		ESP	2003	5,0	34,5
19	Mirasol Obrador Miquel		ESP	1832	5,0	32,0
20	Pruja Ramirez De C Eduardo		ESP	1681	5,0	32,5
21	Martin Fernandez Santiago		ESP	1918	5,0	34,0
22	Boada Marti David		ESP	1707	5,0	31,5
23	Alarcon Pages Salvador		ESP	1759	5,0	31,0
24	Alvarez Serra Jordi		ESP	2006	4,5	38,0
25	Montpart Pons Jordi		ESP	1937	4,5	34,5
26	Volkov Vladimir		ESP	1796	4,5	33,5
27	Curiel Perez Victorio		ESP	0	4,5	35,5
28	Gallegos Saliner Josep M		ESP	1560	4,5	29,0
29	Serra Palomar Josep		ESP	0	4,5	32,5
30	Salagran Ferragut Eduard		ESP	1533	4,5	30,5
31	Villa Carrillo Julio		ESP	0	4,5	31,5
32	Alsina Franco Sergio		ESP	2008	4,0	32,0
33	Las Heras Aixandri Guillem		ESP	1429	4,0	29,5
34	Mundet Riera Joaquim		ESP	1893	4,0	33,0
35	Puigvert Vigo Lluis		ESP	1493	4,0	32,5
36	Gimenez Aguirre Ismael Alejo		ESP	0	4,0	32,5
37	Cano Egea Joan Manuel		ESP	1441	4,0	29,5
38	Las Heras Maestro Lluis		ESP	1623	4,0	32,5
39	Vinas Torne Ramon		ESP	0	4,0	30,0
40	Las Heras Aixandri Sara		ESP	0	4,0	28,0
63 players

36) 12th Sant Marti Open

The 12th Sant Marti Open took place in Spain 13th-21st July 2010. Jose Gonzalez Garcia edged out Viktor Moskalenko on tie-break after both finished on 7/9.

Official site: http://www.cesantmarti.com/index.php/torneig-internacional

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr32696.aspx

12th Open Sant Marti (ESP), 13-21 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1
1	Gonzalez Garcia Jose	GM	MEX	2508	7,0	38,0
2	Moskalenko Viktor	GM	UKR	2565	7,0	34,0
3	Abreu Delgado Aryam	GM	CUB	2474	6,5	35,0
4	Rojas Keim Luis	IM	CHI	2437	6,5	33,0
5	Gongora Reyes Maikel	IM	CUB	2451	6,0	35,5
6	Perez Mitjans Orelvis	FM	ESP	2424	6,0	34,0
7	Matnadze Ana	IM	GEO	2422	6,0	30,5
8	Martinez Duany Lelys Stanley	GM	CUB	2510	6,0	30,0
9	Gonzalez Rodriguez Jorge A	IM	COL	2409	5,5	32,0
10	Mihailovs Jurijs	IM	LAT	2405	5,5	30,0
11	Beltran Rueda Santiago	IM	ESP	2369	5,5	29,0
12	Gomez Jurado Luis Alberto	FM	ESP	2287	5,5	28,5
13	Rios Alejandro	IM	COL	2308	5,5	28,5
14	Oms Fuentes Lluis	FM	ESP	2360	5,5	28,0
15	Avila Jimenez Javier	MK	ESP	2240	5,5	26,0
16	Perpinya Rofes Lluis Maria	FM	ESP	2344	5,5	25,0
17	Lorenzo De La Riva Lazaro	FM	ESP	2407	5,0	29,5
18	Gonzalez Perez Arian	FM	CUB	2403	5,0	27,5
19	Aderito Pedro	IM	ANG	2333	5,0	26,5
20	Aranda Gonzalez Jose	FM	ESP	2294	5,0	22,5
21	Gonzalez Valenzuela Didac	MK	ESP	2156	4,5	26,0
22	Lasinskas Povilas	FM	LTU	2180	4,5	25,5
23	Fernandez-Diaz Mascort Miguel	MK	ESP	2216	4,5	25,0
24	Capellades Subirana Marc	MK	ESP	2268	4,5	24,5
25	Collado Pallas David	MK	ESP	2124	4,5	21,5
26	Rabinovich Anton		RUS	2007	4,0	22,5
27	Fabregas Fontanet Antonio		ESP	2026	4,0	21,0
28	Navarro Alvarez Antoni		ESP	2066	4,0	19,5
29	Ridameya Tatche Jose Miguel	NM	ESP	2060	4,0	19,0
30	Delisau Gil Oriol		ESP	1818	4,0	17,5
31	Vazquez Moreno Josep M		ESP	2203	4,0	16,0
32	Alfara Ayllon Jose Luis		ESP	2062	4,0	15,5
33	Do Santos Julio Joao Manuel		ANG	2122	4,0	15,0
34	Sharaibi Olufemi		ESP	2104	4,0	15,0
35	Gonzalez Garcia Marc	MK	ESP	2255	3,5	21,5
36	Menac Comas Joan Ramon	MK	ESP	2198	3,5	21,5
37	Heredia Tarrats Amadeu	MK	ESP	2174	3,5	17,0
38	Marin Benito Carla		ESP	1832	3,5	13,5
39	Mateu Farre Josep Maria		ESP	2030	3,5	13,5
40	Corominas Garrido Antonio		ESP	0	3,5	9,5
55 players

37) 29th Open St Veit

The 29th Open of St Veit took place 10th-18th July 2010. Leon Mazi took clear first with 7/9.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr35823.aspx

29th Open St Veit (AUT), 10-18 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Mazi Leon	IM	SLO	2379	7,0	49,5	39,5
2	Hartl Daniel		AUT	2202	6,0	49,5	39,5
3	Genser Harald	FM	AUT	2262	6,0	49,0	38,5
4	Praznik Niko	FM	SLO	2343	6,0	47,0	37,0
5	Kiss Attila	IM	HUN	2359	6,0	47,0	37,0
6	Wertjanz David		AUT	2175	6,0	46,5	35,5
7	Halvax Georg		AUT	2271	6,0	46,0	36,0
8	Sucher Johannes Mag.	MK	AUT	2197	6,0	46,0	35,0
9	Schmidlechner Alexander	NM	AUT	2170	5,5	49,0	39,0
10	Leitner Gerald DI.		AUT	2259	5,5	41,0	31,0
11	Winiwarter Felix Dr.	NM	AUT	2165	5,0	44,0	35,0
12	Hafner Robert		AUT	2115	5,0	42,0	33,0
13	Franz Karsten		GER	2222	4,5	44,5	35,0
14	Praznik Anton	FM	SLO	2238	4,5	42,5	34,0
15	Ermel Dirk		GER	2209	4,5	42,0	32,0
16	Schmoldt Rüdiger		GER	2145	4,5	41,5	32,5
17	Schein Karl-Heinz Mag.	NM	AUT	2249	4,5	40,5	31,5
18	Logar Metod		SLO	2069	4,5	39,5	30,5
19	Matt Stefan		AUT	2090	4,5	36,0	27,0
20	Verhoef Helge		GER	2054	4,5	35,5	27,0
21	Meertens Martin		GER	2179	4,0	45,5	36,0
22	Molnar Attila DI.		HUN	2084	4,0	43,0	33,5
23	Valent Peter Dkfm.		AUT	2009	4,0	39,5	31,0
24	Granabetter Josef Mag.		AUT	1988	4,0	35,0	27,0
25	Simon Andre		GER	2032	4,0	34,5	26,0
26	Usleber Helmut		AUT	2014	4,0	34,0	26,5
27	Drnovoek Gal		SLO	1795	4,0	32,5	25,5
28	Praxmarer Christian		AUT	2026	3,5	41,0	32,0
29	Wegerer Josef Mag.		AUT	2074	3,5	39,5	30,5
30	Jirovec Alfred Dr.		AUT	2087	3,5	34,5	26,0
31	Piber Herald Ing.		AUT	1754	3,5	32,5	25,0
32	Gruber Dietmar		AUT	2028	3,0	39,5	30,5
33	Seifert Dierk Dr.		GER	2115	3,0	36,5	26,5
34	Morze Gert		AUT	1995	3,0	35,0	27,0
35	Kuttnig Roland		AUT	1926	2,5	34,0	26,5
36	Rauchlahner Robert		AUT	2061	2,5	32,5	25,0
37	Baumgartner Martin		AUT	2062	2,0	36,0	27,0
38	Hempel Olaf Dr.		GER	2118	2,0	35,5	27,5
38 players

38) 5th Nana Aleksandria Cup

The 5th Nana Aleksandria Cup took place 9-19 July in Poti, Georgia. Konstantine Shanava took clear first place with 7.5/9.

Official site: http://www.chesspoti.ge/axali/english/english.htm

5th Nana Aleksandria Cup Poti (GEO), 10-19 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1
1	Shanava Konstantine	GM	GEO	2556	7,5	39,5
2	Pantsulaia Levan	GM	GEO	2586	7,0	36,5
3	Azaladze Shota	IM	GEO	2443	6,5	36,5
4	Mammadov Zaur Fazahir Oglu		AZE	2302	6,5	36,0
5	Benidze Davit	IM	GEO	2508	6,5	32,0
6	Mikadze Miranda	WIM	GEO	2360	6,5	31,5
7	Nigalidze Gaioz	IM	GEO	2478	6,0	34,0
8	Javakhadze Zurab		GEO	2354	6,0	31,0
9	Shalamberidze Akaki	IM	GEO	2348	6,0	28,5
10	Shengelia Nikoloz		GEO	1929	6,0	27,0
11	Zarkua Davit		GEO	2350	5,5	30,5
12	Al-Ali Hussein Ali Hussein	FM	IRQ	2373	5,5	30,0
13	Gelazonia Parmen		GEO	2313	5,5	29,5
14	Lomineishvili Maia	IM	GEO	2370	5,5	28,5
	Lortkipanidze Nodar		GEO	2211	5,5	28,5
16	Arabidze Meri	WIM	GEO	2286	5,5	26,5
17	Nikolashvili Giorgi		GEO	2302	5,0	27,0
	Guramishvili Sopiko	WGM	GEO	2298	5,0	27,0
	Gamzardia Giorgi	FM	GEO	2188	5,0	27,0
20	Makharadze Jambul		GEO	2392	5,0	26,0
21	Bokuchava Madona	WFM	GEO	2120	5,0	24,0
22	Tsomaia Sergo		GEO	1989	5,0	21,0
23	Tsereteli Kakhaber		GEO	1977	5,0	20,5
	Modebadze Tariel		GEO	1915	5,0	20,5
	Tsomaia Merab		GEO	1897	5,0	20,5
26	Lomsadze Davit		GEO	2364	4,5	29,0
27	Khmiadashvili Tamar	WGM	GEO	2171	4,5	24,0
	Khelaia Giorgi		GEO	2115	4,5	24,0
29	Pipia Beka		GEO	1962	4,5	23,5
30	Shurghulaia Giorgi		GEO	2097	4,5	22,5
31	Kilasonia Levan		GEO	2073	4,5	20,5
	Kobeshavidze Lika		GEO	1929	4,5	20,5
33	Anakidze Nino		GEO	1965	4,5	20,0
34	Maghalashvili Davit	IM	GEO	2465	4,0	26,0
35	Kumsiashvili Nikoloz		GEO	1969	4,0	23,0
36	Ammar Abdul Jabbar Aliwy		IRQ	2181	4,0	22,0
37	Hamandi Mohammed Nawfel Karim		IRQ	2258	4,0	21,0
38	Rizhamadze Patman		GEO	2037	4,0	19,0
39	Mangiashvili Otar		GEO	1806	4,0	15,0
40	Ali Ghassan M	FM	IRQ	2138	3,5	23,0
57 players

39) ACCA World Computer Rapid

The 4th ACCA World Computer Rapid Chess Championships took place 17th-18th July 2010. Rybka took first place with 7.5/9. 18 engines, running on 1 cpu or on a cluster with 128 cpus. News: Harun Taner.

Official site: http://compchess.org/ACCAWCRCC/2010ACCAWCRCC/WCRCCResults.html

40) 7th South Wales International

The 7th South Wales International took place 10th -15th July 2010. Vladimir Georgiev took first place on 7.5/9. Games from the final 3 rounds are now available. My thanks to Mark Adams.

Official site: http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/home.html

7th South Wales International Pontypridd (WLS), 10-15 vii 2010 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Pl	Name	NAT	Rtg	Pts	B	C	D	E	F
1	Georgiev,Vladimir	MAC	2586	7½	9	7½	2324	7.31	0.19
2	Arkell,Keith	ENG	2465	7	9	7	2320	6.03	0.97
3	Rusev,Krasimir	BUL	2543	6½	8	5½	2337	6.04	-0.54
4	Wells,Peter	ENG	2488	6½	9	6½	2325	6.31	0.19
5	Brown,Tom	WLS	2064	5½	8	5	2007	4.63	0.37
6	Jaunooby,Ali	ENG	2155	5½	9	5½	2184	4.29	1.21
7	Kett,Tim	WLS	2222	5½	9	5½	2184	4.96	0.54
8	Menadue,Jeremy	ENG	2155	5½	9	5½	2127	4.81	0.69
9	Pleasants,Allan	ENG	2032	5½	7	5	2006	3.77	1.23
10	Zhou,Yang Fan	ENG	2348	5½	9	5½	2236	5.69	-0.19
11	Byron,Alan	ENG	2190	5	8	4	2169	4.23	-0.23
12	Davis,Lee	WLS	1955	5	8	4	2078	2.72	1.28
13	Garcia,Jason	WLS	2008	5	7	3½	2066	2.97	0.53
14	Gregory,Stephen	ENG	2116	5	6	2½	2108	3.08	-0.58
15	Harley-Yeo,Gareth	WLS	2024	5	6	2½	1953	3.54	-1.04
16	Marusenko,Petr	UKR	2233	5	8	4	2258	3.82	0.18
17	Rudd,Jack	ENG	2236	5	8	4	2195	4.47	-0.47
18	White,E Michael	ENG	1940	5	6	3½	1988	2.68	0.82
19	Goodger,Martin	ENG	2123	4½	6	3	2037	3.64	-0.64
20	Guy,David	WLS	1956	4½	7	3	2031	2.81	0.19
21	Ralphs,Nigel	WLS		4½	9	4½	1820	--	1820
22	Thomas,James	WLS	1900	4½	7	3	2048	2.22	0.78
23	Bridges,Paul	WLS	1875	4	6	1½	1975	2.21	-0.71
24	Davis,Ashley	WLS		4	9	4	1850	--	1807
25	Dixon,Christopher	WLS		4	7	3	1832	--	1782
26	Fathallah,Joseph	WLS	1919	4	7	2½	1934	3.32	-0.82
27	Foster,James	ENG	1924	4	8	4	1975	3.48	0.52
28	Gosling,Brian	ENG	1978	4	5	2	1927	2.82	-0.82
29	Price,Hugh	WLS	1769	4	7	2½	1948	1.93	0.57
30	Thompson,Robert	ENG	1905	4	5	1	2032	1.68	-0.68
31	Waterfield,John	ENG	2020	4	7	2½	2020	3.54	-1.04
32	Hurn,Robert	WLS	1843	3½	5	1	1979	1.65	-0.65
33	Jones,Jeremy	WLS	1585	3½	4	0	1928	0.4	-0.4
34	Owens,Megan	WLS	1792	3½	6	2	1986	1.51	0.49
35	Thomas,Ben	WLS		3½	7	2	1802	--	1644
36	Trombley,Frank	WLS		3½	7	2	1801	--	1643
37	Wills,Alex	WLS		3½	4	½	1850	--	1528
38	Vickery,Stephen	WLS	1782	3	5	½	1913	1.65	-1.15
39	Williams,Ron	WLS	1896	3	4	1	1943	1.79	-0.79
40	O'Rourke,Kevin	WLS		1	3	0	1759	--
41	Zhou,Yang Jian	ENG		1	2	0

41) 6th World School Chess Championship

The 6th World School Chess Championship takes place in Kayseri, Turkey 20th-31st July 2010.

Official site: http://wscc2010.tsf.org.tr/

42) Hakim Cup Tashkent

The Hakim (or Hokim) Cup takes place in Tashkent 22nd-31st July 2010. 90 players from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, USA, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan compete in the 9 round event.

http://uzchess.uz/ is a likely source of further information.

43) Polideportivo de Galapagar Open 2010

The Polideportivo de Galapagar Open took place 17th-25th July 2010. Javier Longa Yauca won with 7.5/9. I couldn't find any games.

Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr35610.aspx

44) XIV "Battle Of Senta 1697"

The XIV "Battle Of Senta 1697" took place 17th-24th July 2010. Sergey Pavlov won the event with 7.5/9. Games are not yet available.

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

XIV "Battle Of Senta 1697" Senta (SRB), 17-24 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts	BK.	BK.	Rtg+/-
1	Pavlov Sergey	IM	UKR	2524	7.5	50	40.5	14
2	Simantsev Mikhail	GM	UKR	2539	7	52	40	3
3	Kryakvin Dmitry	GM	RUS	2603	6.5	51	38.5	-7
4	Dragovic Momcilo	FM	SRB	2380	6.5	48.5	37.5	14
5	Andrijevic Milan	IM	SRB	2375	6	47.5	36.5	7
6	Bodiroga Predrag	IM	SRB	2406	6	46.5	35.5	2
7	Sutorikhin Vladimir	IM	RUS	2333	6	46	35.5	9
8	Radovanovic Dusan		SRB	2369	5.5	49	38	6
9	Ardeleanu Alin	IM	ROU	2399	5.5	49	37.5	-1
10	Strebkovs Andrejs	IM	LAT	2325	5.5	48	37.5	11
11	Tomilova Elena	WIM	RUS	2311	5.5	46.5	37	16
12	Nadj Hedjesi Balind		SRB	2426	5.5	45.5	36	-8
13	Petkovic Radosav	FM	SRB	2281	5.5	44	36.5	23
14	Domany Zsofia	WIM	HUN	2175	5.5	43	33.5	19
15	Dimitrijevic Radmilo		SRB	2211	5.5	42.5	33.5	19
16	Jones Iolo C	CM	WLS	2289	5.5	42	33.5	5
17	Nestorovic Lazar		SRB	2310	5.5	39	29.5	-1
18	Vujic Mihailo	FM	SRB	2328	5	48	37.5	2
19	Nestorovic Dejan	IM	SRB	2423	5	45.5	35.5	-15
20	Pantic Ivica		SRB	2269	5	44	33.5	0
21	Cerovic Danilo	FM	SRB	2300	5	43.5	34.5	2
22	Balla Tamas-Kristof	FM	ROU	2373	5	43	33.5	-7
23	Dudukovic Nikola		SRB	2244	5	41.5	32.5	-7
24	Popov Stevan	FM	SRB	2208	5	41.5	32	16
25	Savic Dragan		SRB	2182	5	41	33.5	21
26	Farkas Tibor	IM	SRB	2246	5	40.5	31.5	2
27	Siclovan Cristian-Daniel		ROU	2027	5	38	29.5	39
28	Tancik Kristijan		SRB	2258	5	37.5	29	-5
58 players

45) Satu Mare Romanian Open

SPI Open International Chess Tournament Venue: Satu Mare took place 16th-23rd July 2010. Lucian-Costin Miron took clear first with 7.5/9. No games currently available.

Official site: http://www.frsah.ro/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr34553.aspx

SPI Open Satu Mare (ROU), 16-23 vii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Miron Lucian-Costin	IM	ROU	2497	7,5	2538	39,5
2	Cioara Andrei-Nestor	IM	ROU	2427	7,0	2487	39,0
3	Manolache Marius	GM	ROU	2528	7,0	2430	35,0
4	Anton Teodor	FM	ROU	2339	7,0	2419	37,0
5	Dobre Claudiu-Cristian	FM	ROU	2341	6,5	2385	37,0
6	Vedmediuc Serghei	IM	MDA	2438	6,5	2325	32,5
7	Levay Sorin	NM	ROU	2209	6,5	2184	33,0
8	Florescu Codrut-Constantin	IM	ROU	2172	6,0	2336	31,0
9	Ogleznev Alexandr	FM	MDA	2320	6,0	2253	33,5
10	Vavric Pavel		MDA	2224	6,0	2252	32,5
11	Samu Sorin-Mihai	CM	ROU	2180	6,0	2175	32,0
12	Sandor Petrut	CM	ROU	2136	6,0	2156	33,0
13	Szabo Attila	FM	ROU	2330	6,0	2132	30,0
14	Suciu Dinu-Simi	FM	ROU	2121	6,0	2120	31,5
15	Mocanu Sergiu		MDA	2227	6,0	2117	30,0
16	Marinescu Mircea	NM	ROU	2208	6,0	2085	31,0
17	Culcear Petru-Gheorghe	NM	ROU	2134	6,0	2077	30,0
18	Manea Alexandru	IM	ROU	2390	5,5	2286	33,5
19	Fischer Johann	FM	GER	2292	5,5	2133	29,5
20	Lengyel Ferenc	FM	HUN	2286	5,5	2072	30,5
21	Frink Ferenc		HUN	2215	5,5	2060	29,5
22	Scripnic Dumitru		MDA	1993	5,5	1921	27,0
23	Moldovan Gheorghe-Zamfir	CM	ROU	2029	5,5	1858	26,5
24	Delgado-Vlaic Adrian	I	ROU	1881	5,5	1854	27,5
25	Manole Stefan	I	ROU	1927	5,5	1843	26,0
26	Marcia Gottfried	NM	ROU	2278	5,0	2174	30,5
27	Bonte Andrei-Mihai	NM	ROU	2301	5,0	2142	30,0
28	Bogdan Horia-Daniel	I	ROU	1805	5,0	1992	26,0
29	Marchis Arghil		HUN	2057	5,0	1901	27,0
30	Follert Iuliu	NM	ROU	2031	5,0	1895	25,0
31	Costin Petrica	FM	ROU	2176	5,0	1880	26,0
32	Szabo Ervin		HUN	2028	5,0	1842	24,5
84 players

46) Vitoria-Gasteiz Open

The Vitoria-Gasteiz Open takes place 26th July 2010 - 1st August 2010.

Details: http://sites.google.com/site/openvitoriagasteiz2010/Home/bases-del-torneo-1

47) 1st Grafica Yael International

The 1st Grafica Yael International takes place in Torre Blanca 24th July - 1st August 2010. I couldn't find any games.

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

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr36433.aspx

48) Dutch Open 2010

The Dutch Open takes place Tuesday July 27th (Sunday rest day) - Thursday August 5th 2010. 9-round Swiss Open with 13 GMs and 12 IMs. Including: 2009 winner Erwin L'Ami, Sipke Ernst, Valentin Iotov, Viacheslav Ikonnikov, Elshan Moradiabadi, Leonid Milov and Valery Neverov.

Dutch Open (78 players 9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1))

Official site has live games, downloads, round-to-round reports (in Dutch) and videos by Peter Doggers from ChessVibes.

Official Site

Results

49) Editor of Chess Informant Zdenko Krnic dies at the age of 62

International Master Zdenko Krnic born 2nd October 1947 has died at the age of 62 on July 23rd 2010. He was the Editor in Chief of Chess Informant.

He suffered injuries from a traffic accident whilst traveling home from his work on July 16th 2010.

This is very sad news. On a personal note I actually was fortunate to play him in the Donner Memorial Journalist's Tournament of 1996 when he tied for first with Malcolm Pein.

Chess Informant: http://www.sahovski.com has a short Posting on Zdenko Krnic.

50) Russian Chess Federation ask for World Title Changes

According to a report in kommersant the Russian Chess Federation (RCF) in two letters signed by presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich has written to FIDE asking for significant changes to the next World Championship cycle both for Men and Women.

Nor are they the only critics. Emil Sutovsky has proposed Changes to the current Candidates cycle. He wishes to separate the Final of the Candidates from the Quarter and Semi-Final stages.

Veselin Topalov has made it clear that he objects to playing in Russia at all, but most particularly if he is to play an Russian opponent (in this case Kramnik is the only Russian in the event). http://letters.chessdom.com/topalov-candidate-matches

51) FIDE concerned about pace of Olympiad preparations

FIDE Vice-President Israel Gelfer has visited Khanty-Mansiysk to check on the preparation for the 39th Chess Olympiad in September. The players hotel is heading towards completion but there are concerns about progress on the logistics for the event.

The venue is the "Olympic" Hotel complex. An external auditor has expressed concern about the lack of a contract with a service company responsible for looking after the atheletes.

The head of the organizing committee Nikolai Bondarev explains this by saying that in fact the hotel was not yet ready for operation. Alexander Gerber director of the Olympiad says the they can't wait for the hotel's opening on September 1st. He says the logistics of catering and contracts for food can't be settled in 20 days.

Gelfer says that through Kirsan Ilyumzhinov he hopes that the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will put pressure on the regions Governor and everything will be sorted out next week.

Building work on the hotel has been frenetic. Although the hotel looks spectacular, and big enough for the 1600 participants there is still obviously a lot more work to do. The rooms are nice but obviously not the 4 stars initially promised, the dining hall can only contain 600 people.

Photo report

Original Russian Report: http://ura.ru/content/khanti/23-07-2010/news/1052117193.html

52) Kristiansund Rapid with Carlsen, Anand, Polgar and Hammer

There is a Rapid chess tournament in Kristiansund (Norway) taking place 28th-30th August 2010. Players: Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Judit Polgar and Jon Ludvig Hammer.

25 minutes for a game with an increment of 10 seconds per move. The 4 players will meet 2 times, 3 games each on both Saturday and Sunday. Finals on Monday 30th August 2010.

No website available yet.

53) Forthcoming Events and Links

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

Vasylyshyn Memorial

The Vasylyshyn Memorial Chess Festival takes place in Lviv, Ukraine November 23rd - December 1st 2010. Men's and women's events.

For more details:

Men's event tournament director GM Yuri Vovk (English, Ukrainian, Russian languages ) via: e-mail:wolfisthegreatestpredator@gmail.com mobile phone:+380 673912027 skype:Imperator15chess ICC: Imperator15 Playchess: JohnConnor

Women's tournament director IM Vladimir Grabinsky (English, Ukrainian, Russian languages) via: e-mail:perfectchess@ukr.net mobile phone:+380 977471673 skype: perfectchess ICC: grandcoach

Transkarpathian Cup 2010

The Transkarpathian Cup 2010 Chess Festival takes place 10th-18th August 2010 in Mukachevo, Ukraine.

There is a six game classical match between GM Efimenko vs GM Naiditsch 11th-18th August (free day 15th August), two Opens on 10th-14th August, and also rapid, blitz and children's tournaments.

Schedule of all events (English): http://www.chess32x64.org/Tournaments/2010/Tr23/SheduleTC2010.htm

Efimenko vs Naiditsch Match - main page (English): http://efimenko.chess32x64.org/Najditch2010/eng/chessmatch2010.htm

Regulations - Open (English): http://www.chess32x64.org/Tournaments/2010/Tr23/TransCup-2010(eng).doc

XL Rilton Cup 2010-11

The XL Rilton Cup takes place in Stockholm, Sweden 27th December 2010 - 5th January 2211.

Details: http://www.rilton.se

PDF Invitation: http://www.rilton.se/1011/inbjudan_eng/XL_RILTON_CUP_eng.pdf

First Saturday August 2010

The First Saturday GM-IM-FM events take place 7th-17th August 2010. Places still available.

If you wish to play contact Laszlo Nagy by Mobile phone: +(36)-30-230-19-14 Office phone from 12:00 (noon) until 22:00 hour Central European Time: +(36)-1-263-28-59 E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net

Website: http://www.firstsaturday.hu

August GM (Min 9, max 13 games)

IGM VARGA, Zoltan /HUN/, IGM KOSIC, Dragan /MNE/, IGM GENOV, Petar /BUL/, IGM HOANG, Trang /HUN/, IM MIHOK, Oliver /HUN/, IM EID, Fadi /LEB/, IM LORSCHEID, Gerd /GER/, FM KISLIK, Erik Andrew /USA/, SZABO, Bence /HUN/ IM KARGIN, Arseny /RUS, 2394/ Reserves: IGM BERCZES, David /HUN/, IGM PROHASZKA, Peter /HUN/, IM KONNYU, Janos /HUN/, IM TO, Nhat Minh /HUN/, PAPP, Gellert /HUN/, FEHER, Adam /HUN/,

August IM tournament: (Min 9, max 11 games)

IM MARYASIN, Boris /ISR, 2339/. IM TO, Nhat Minh /HUN, 2441/, IM LENGYEL, Bela /HUN, 2251/, IM KAUFMAN, Raymond /USA, 2333/, IM HARDICSAY, Peter /HUN, 2271/, IM PETRAN, Pal /HUN, 2372/, IM FARAGO, Sandor /HUN,2243/, IM SZALANCZY, Emil /HUN, 2272/, IM KASHTANOV, Ruslan /HUN 2319/, FM LYELL, Mark /ENG, 2162/, ZHAO, Parker /USA, 2267/, PRIVITERA, Franco /ITA, 2131/, ERDELYI, Zombor /HUN, 2336/, OMARSSON, Dadi /ISL, 2150/, WFM GRIGORYAN,Meri /ENG, 2099/, FM TRAN, Tuan Minh /VIE, 2244/, WIM NGUYEN, Thi Mai Hung /VIE, 2240/, BATTEY, Alex /USA, 2150/, QU, Yanqiao /CHN, 2149/, MARTYNOV, Pavel /RUS, 2190/, MARTINI, Balazs /HUN,2310/, ADAMS, Nick /USA, 2244/. Reserves: IM KAHN, Evarth /HUN/, IM SZEBERENYI, Adam /HUN/. All ELO average: 2250.

25th open Teteven

25th open Teteven, Bulgarian takes place 14th-22nd August 2010.

Details: http://chessbul.hit.bg/teteven25/25tetevenen.htm

8th Davos Open

After one year Davos and "Sunstar Park Hotel" host again the International Chess Tournament. Switzerland is the famous tourist country particular popular is tremendous Davos. European's summers starting to be very hot, more than 40 C. In Davos you can face 25C maximum 28C always with a fresh area.

8th Davos Open, 7 rounds and the games will last a maximum of 5 hours (40 moves for 2 hours and 30 minutes till the end). Prize is: 1.500 SF, 1.200, 900, 700, 500, 400, 300, 250, 200 and 150 SF. Natural prizes for 5 and more points. Special prizes. Entry fee 140 SF, FMs and juniors 60 SF, GMs and IMs free; juniors lodging at Sunstar Park Hotel free; at the door 20 SF more. Time table: Registration desk 12.00-17.30 August 8th; Rounds 1 18.00-23.00 August 8th; Round 2/6 15.00-20.00 August 9th-13th; Round 7 9.30-14.30 August 14th. Venue: "Sun star Park Hotel" Congress Center. Closing ceremony August 14th, 3 p.m. Unbelievable chess-rates.

All information at: http://www.sinchess.com/davos or http://www.beochess.ch E-mail: davos@sinchess.com or event@beochess.ch Tel: +381 63 346 128 (Sinisa Joksic) or

+41 62 965 46 59 (Robert Spoerri)

25th Schwarzacher Open

The 25th Schwarzacher Open takes place 21st-29th August 2010. Mladen Palac and Robert Zelcic are the top seeds.

Official site: http://www.jacoby-info.at/herg/SchwarzacherOpen/index.htm

Results: http://www.jacoby-info.at/herg/SchwarzacherOpen/index.htm

Euro Chess Tournament 2010

The Euro Chess Tournament takes place 9th-14th August 2010 including the University of Twente Young Masters invitation tournament and the 36th Open Dutch Youth Championships. This year it is also part of the ECU Youth Grand Prix.

Invite for all European Youth players to take part in the Open Dutch Youth Tournament. Registration via the website and no upper limit to participants!

Details: http://www.onjk.nl. Or contact the secretary at secretaris@onjk.nl.

NH Chess Tournament

The NH Chess Tournament Rising Stars vs. Experience

The fifth NH Chess Tournament, organized by NH Hoteles in close cooperation with the Association Max Euwe of Dutch chess maecenas Joop van Oosterom in Monaco, is held from August 12-22 at the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam.

The NH Chess Tournament is a 'Scheveningen' team tournament between an 'Experience' team and a 'Rising Stars' team. All members of each team play all members of the other team twice, once with the white pieces and once with the black pieces. There's a special prize for the best Rising Star (provided he has a positive score): an invitation to the prestigious 2011 Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament.

The 'Experience' team consists of Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2739), Peter Svidler (Russia, 2734), Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark, 2700), Loek van Wely (The Netherlands, 2677) and Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Serbia, 2572). The 'Rising Stars' are Hikaru Nakamura (United States, 2729), Fabiano Caruana (Italy, 2697), Wesley So (The Philippines, 2674), Anish Giri (The Netherlands, 2672) and David Howell (England, 2616).

Spectators are welcome at the venue, where they can watch the games live and there is daily expert commentary. The entry is free.

Further information you can find at the tournament website: http://www.nhchess.com

Politiken Cup 2010

The Politiken Cup takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, 31st July - 8th August 2010.

Official site: http://www.ksu.dk/politiken_cup/

XI Figueres Open "Miquel Mas"

The XI Figueres Open "Miquel Mas" takes place 11th-18th August 2010.

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

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr33579.aspx

Women's Grand Prix 2009-10

The Women's Grand Prix series will see four more in 2010.

The 5th Grand Prix will take place in Ulanbaatar, Mongolia, on 29 July - 12 August 2010

The 6th Grand Prix will take place in Santiago, Chile, on 27th October - 9th November 2010

The first Grand Prix was in Istanbul 5th-20th March 2009 and was won by Humpy Koneru. The 2nd Grand Prix was in Nanjing, China, 27th Sept - 9th October 2009 and was won by Xu Yuhua. The 4th took place in Jermuk Nana Dzagnidze took clear first place with 9/11.

Villa Martelli Bicentenary

The bicentenary tournament in Villa Martelli takes place 4th-13th August 2010.

Official site: http://ajedrezmartelli.org.ar/

Villa Martelli Bicentenary (ARG), 4-13 viii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Ti	Name	Elo	FED
GM	Leitao Rafael	2629	BRA
GM	Milos Gilberto	2606	BRA
GM	Flores Diego	2584	ARG
GM	Felgaer Ruben	2584	ARG
GM	Fier Alexandr	2570	BRA
GM	Morovic Ivan	2566	CHI
GM	Bachmann Axel	2552	PAR
GM	Rodriguez Andres	2508	URU
GM	Valerga Diego	2506	ARG
GM	D�az Nahuel	2474	ARG

Paignton Congress

This year's week-long Paignton Congress starts on Sunday September 5th, the 60th consecutive congress held in the same room, the magnificent Ballroom of Oldway Mansion. This record of consistency is probably unique in chess.

To commemorate this milestone, the committee has planned several extra features. Michael Adams is coming to put on a simultaneous display, and there will be a Junior International tournament held in the Mayor's Parlour.

In addition, Committee Member, Bob Jones, is publishing a book on the history of the event, which was won spectacularly by Harry Golombek after he beat the former World Champion, Max Euwe, on the very first day of the first congress. Since that day, many top players have tested the Paignton waters; from the likes of Barden, Wade, Yanofsky, Alexander and Clarke in the early days, to youngsters like Keene, Hartston, Adams, Hodgson, Norwood, Arkell, the list goes on.

Details can be found on the chessdevon website, or obtained from the Congress Secretary, Alan Crickmore on 01752-768206.

4th Rijeka open chess tournament "Mediterranean 2017"

The 4th Rijeka open chess tournament "Mediterranean 2017" takes place 13th-20th November 2010 in the city of Rijeka, located at the North-west part of the Croatian coast of the Adriatic sea.

The president of the Republic of Croatia, Ivo Josipovic, has accepted to be a sponsor of this chess event while the County primorsko-goranska and the City of Rijeka are the co-sponsors.

Details: http://www.mediteran2017.com/en/home/About_the_tournament/Application

IX Festival Internacional de Ajedrez Benidorm 2010

The IX Festival Internacional de Ajedrez Benidorm 2010 takes place 3rd-12th December 2010.

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

Entries: info@ajedrezenelbali.com

Information: festivaldebenidorm@gmail.com

Movil: 0034-615547567

Geller Memorial 2010

The 6th Efim Geller Memorial (Open) will take place in Odessa, Ukraine on 21-29 August 2010 (Open A, Open B), the children's open will take place on 16-19 August. There also will be a blitz tournament on 30 August.

Details in Russian: http://chessportal.od.ua/news.php?extend.758.10

Contact with organisers: chess@te.net.ua

X Savaria Summer Chess Festival

X Savaria Summer Chess Festival 27.07.2010.- 04.08.2010. Szombathely, Hungary GM,IM Round-Rubin, Open A,B,C Group Contact: Csonka Attila attila_csonka@hotmail.com

Details: http://chess-results.com/Tnr31363.aspx?lan=1

London Chess Classic 2010

Viswanathan Anand will become the first reigning world chess champion to play in a major tournament in London since Anatoly Karpov in 1984 when he joins the eight-player field for the second London Chess Classic, which runs from 8-15 December 2010 at the Olympia Conference Centre.

Alongside him will be World Number one Magnus Carlsen, former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, US number one Hikaru Nakamura and the top four English players Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and David Howell.

IM Malcolm Pein is back as tournament director.

Vishy Anand is the one change from the stellar field which brought spectators flocking to London to watch elite chess in December 2009. The great Indian player, who will turn 41 during the tournament, recently retained his title as the undisputed champion of the world by defeating Veselin Topalov in the latter's home city of Sofia, Bulgaria. In London he will meet his immediate predecessor as champion, Vladimir Kramnik, 36, of Russia, and also the young man who is currently riding high as the world's highest rated player and widely tipped to be Anand's next challenger � Magnus Carlsen of Norway, who will be 20 by the time the tournament starts.

London is thus privileged to witness a clash of the past, present and likely future chess champions. At the time of writing Carlsen is world number one on the FIDE (World Chess Federation) Rating List, Kramnik is number three and Anand number four. Looking forward, London is also bidding to host the 2012 World Championship title match, so Anand's clashes with Carlsen and Kramnik could well be a preview of what happens in London's Olympic year.

Five more players make up the field of eight, all of whom played in the exciting 2009 event. Each one earned his place for his fighting play last year. The fourth non-British player is Hikaru Nakamura, USA, who will turn 23 during the London event. The American is known as the 'H-Bomb' for his explosive and totally uncompromising style of play. He has won the US Championship twice and also won major events in San Sebastian and Gibraltar in the past couple of years. He is improving all the time and can be expected to press hard for wins against the leading trio of players.

England has an established quartet of elite players and all four will be playing in London. Michael Adams, 39, from Cornwall, has recently wrested back his position as England number one and he spent a number of years as the world number four. He is fresh from winning the prestigious Gibraltar International. Nigel Short, 45, became a chess legend when he broke the Kasparov-Karpov strangehold on world title matches, beating Anatoly Karpov on the way to a title match with Garry Kasparov in 1993. He is still one of the most entertaining players on the circuit � and not to be missed in the commentary room after the game! Luke McShane, 26, started a financial career after university but couldn't resist the lure of the international chess scene. He is now re-establishing his status as one of the most talented of the world's young grandmasters. David Howell, 20 in November, had a sensational elite tournament debut in this event last year when he finished third behind Carlsen and Kramnik. He had recently won the British Championship by a handsome margin and has subsequently shared first at Hastings and won the British Rapidplay Championship for the second year in succession. Tournament Line-Up

Name	Title	Country	Rating (May 2010)	World Rnk May	Date of Birth
Carlsen, Magnus	grandmaster	NOR	2813	1	30.11.1990
Kramnik, Vladimir	ex-world champion	RUS	2790	3	25.06.1975
Anand, Viswanathan	world champion	IND	2789	4	11.12.1969
Nakamura, Hikaru	grandmaster	USA	2733	19	09.12.1987
Adams, Michael	grandmaster	ENG	2697	41	17.11.1971
Short, Nigel	grandmaster	ENG	2685	48	01.06.1965
McShane, Luke	grandmaster	ENG	2623	138	07.01.1984
Howell, David	grandmaster	ENG	2620	144	14.11.1990

For more information and to buy tickets to The London Chess Classic, please go to www.londonchessclassic.com Tickets will go on sale in July.

For further information please call:

Malcolm Pein

Tournament Director, London Chess Classic

T: 020 7388 2404

E: info@chess.co.uk

14th Unive Tournament

The 14th Unive Tournament takes place in Hoogeveen, Netherlands Fri 22nd - Sat 30th Oct 2010.

The 4 player double round robin sees Alexei Shirov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri and Sergei Tiviakov compete.

There is an open alongside for which entry is invited on the official site. Both events don't have a rest day in order to accommodate travel to Bulgaria for the European Club Cup.

(4 players 6 Rds DRR Indiv TC: 90m:30m+30spm(1))

Official Site

14th Unive Chess Tournament (NED), 25-30 x 2010			cat. XVIII (2682)
Name	NAT	May Elo	World Rnk
Alexei Shirov	ESP	2742	10
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	FRA	2710	30
Anish Giri	NED	2642	97
Sergey Tiviakov	NED	2634	111

VIII Marx Gyorgy Memorial

The VIII Marx Gyorgy Memorial takes place 5th-16th August, 2010.

Double Round Robin with 6 players.

Time limit: 100 minutes/40 moves+40minutes+30 seconds/move from the first move. Sophia rule: The players can offer a draw in the first 40 moves only with arbiter's permission in particular cases. Criteria used for tie: 1. more wins, 2. result against each other, 3. Berger.

http://www.ase.hu/marxgy

XIV. Paks open 11th-15th August 2010

7 rounds swiss tournament A and B (under1900) groups, 90 minutes + 30 seconds/move.

Application and information Videki Sandor (0036-75421225; 0036-304012866 Email: videkis2001@yahoo.com )

Children-tournament 8th August, 2010 Rapid-tournament 10th August, 2010 Blitz-tournament 13th August, 2010

VIII Gyorgy Marx Memorial Men Paks (HUN), 5-16 viii 2010			cat. XVI (2627)
Ti	Name	Rating	Country
g	Almasi, Zoltan	2725	HUN
g	Berkes, Ferenc	2676	HUN
g	Laznicka, Viktor	2636	CZE
g	Timman, Jan	2586	NED
g	Acs, Peter	2569	HUN
g	Robson, Ray	2569	USA

VIII Gyorgy Marx Memorial Women Paks (HUN), 5-16 viii 2010			cat. IV (2343)
Ti	Name	Rating	Country
wg	Galojan, Lilit	2402	ARM
m	Madl, Ildiko	2393	HUN
m	Kononenko, Tatiana	2374	UKR
m	Vajda, Szidonia	2363	HUN
g	Gaprindashvili, Nona	2348	GEO
wm	Toth, Lili	2175	HUN

European Individual Senior Championship 2011

The European Individual Senior Championship 2011 has been awarded by the ECU to Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy 10th-20th April 2010.

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

11th World University Chess Championship

The 11th World University Chess Championship takes place in Zurich 5th-11th September 2010.

Official site: http://www.wucc2010.ch/

Chinese Events 2010

Gujuan Tzu sends new of events in China in 2010. At the moment if you don't grab the games live they have a tendency to disappear (although http://ccl.sports.cn/2010/news/2010-04-01/1995059.html does now seem to have the early rounds of the Chinese League). It would be nice to find one spot where the Chinese Federation archives all their games.

1. The 4th All China Games in cluding chess game in 17-23 May 2010 in Hefei, Anhui, China. 11 rounds rapid games, Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

2. Chinese Championships: in 23 May-4 June 2010 in Xinghua, Jiangsu, China. Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

3. Chinese League A, Round 4-6, in 6-9 June 2010 in Shenzhan, China. Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

4. The 1st Chinese GM Super Tournament in 10-20 June 2010 in Hainan, China. 10 players: Wang Hao 2722; Bu Xiangzhi 2682; Ni Hua 2667; Zhou Jianchao 2652; Li Chao b 2619; Hou Yifan 2589; Yu Yangyi 2585; Zhou Weiqi 2585; Zhao Jun 2575; Ding liren 2547. Prize fund: 500,000 yuan or 50,000€. Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

5. Hou Yifan vs Kapov Match : 4-game and 4-rapid game in 27 Oct - 2 Nov 2010 (postponed) in Hainan, China. Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

6. Asia Boys and Girls in 8-18 July 2010 in Beijing, China. Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

7. Chinese League A Round 7-9 in 23-25 July 2010 in Shanghai, China. Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

8. The 7th China vs Russia Match in 14-25 August 2010 in Ningbo, China. Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

9. The 2nd Chess King and Queen Matches in 29 August-3 Sept. 2010 in Jiangzhou, China. Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

10. Chinese League A Round 10-12 in 9-12 Sept. 2010 in Guangzhou, China. Live Games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

11. Chinese League A Round 13-15 in 10-13 October 2010 in Hangzhou, China. Live Games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

11. The 3rd Nanjing Super Chess Tournament in 18-28 October 2010 in Nanjing, China. 6 players, Official site: http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/2009/cn/index.htm

12. The second half of Bilbao Final Masters in 10-16 October 2010 in Shanghai, China. Official site: http://www.bilbaofinalmasters.com/

13. Chinese League A Round 16-18 in 28-30 December 2010 in Beijing, China. Live Games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

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

World Chess Tour Events

Tournaments, simuls and classes in Moscow.

Contact: Contact: Igor Glek, International Grandmaster, FIDE Trainer, Deputy Chairman of the RSUPES&T Chess Chair E-mail: worldchesstour@gmail.com Russia: (7)903-5593052, (Germany/World): (49)152-04014194

Web-site: http://www.chess-events.org

15th Pannonia-Nitrokemia Cup

The 15th Pannonia-Nitrokemia Cup takes place in Balatonalmadi 28th July - 1st August 2010.

Group A: International Open Tournament for FIDE ratings. Group B: International Open Tournament for FIDE ratings, but competitors over 2000 ELO points can't attend, and competitors under 18 years will be rated separately.

Swiss system chess competition with 7 rounds and without age limits

Venue: The air-conditioned Conference Hall of Pannonia Kulturalis Kozpont es Konyvtar Address: Balatonalmadi, Varoshaz Square 6.

Details: http://fancsyimi.fw.hu

Entry Address and further information Address: Fancsy Imre: 8222. Balatonalmadi, Gabor Aron utca 15. HUNGARY E-mail: almadikupa@freemail.hu

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	-	Gen�ve 1	6	:	2
Luzern 1	-	Riehen 1	5	:	3
Joueur 1	-	Winterthur 1	5½	:	2½

Mihajlo Savic Website

The international arbiter, FIDE master and international organizer, Mihajlo Savic, the author of the book Commentary on the Laws of chess, has launched a new column You ask, we answer at website: http://www.chessdiagonals.com

Arvier (Aosta Valley) - September

ARVIER (Aosta Valley) - September, 4-12 2010. 6th European Union championship (open, 9 rounds) - http://www.scacchivda.com Free to all the players of the countries belonging to European Union, plus players from Croatia, Fyrom and Turkey without the right to the title. Aosta Valley is one of the most famous touristic regions in Italy, very well known for its castles, food and wines

Livigno (Sondrio, Valtellina)

LIVIGNO (Sondrio, Valtellina) - September, 10-18 2010. Open A (players more than 2000 elo) Open B (players less than 2000 elo) Open C (players without elo) http://www.livignoscacchi.it - http://www.livigno.eu Livigno is very well known as touristic skying town. It is said "the little Tibet". A few km far there is the village of Trepalle at 2250 metres above sea level, the highest inhabited place of Europe!

Victor Mikhalevski Website

GM, author and coach Victor Mikhalevski has launched a new website at: http://vmikhalevski.webs.com/

7th Knokke International Open

The 7th Knokke International Open takes place August 26th-29th 2010, consisting of 7 rounds "Swiss system" - 2 hours K.O.

Prize fund for a total amount of 3.730 Euros (increased by 1000 Euro this year)

Official site: http://www.knokkeschaak.be

email: knokkeschaak@knokkeschaak.be

11th World University Chess Championship

Zurich hosts the World University Chess Championship 2010 5th-11th September 2010. The Academic Chess Club Reti, which is organising the event, is expecting that up to 150 participants from over 25 countries will enter the contest, to be held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Many international masters and grandmasters between 18 and 28 years of age will fight for individual and team medals. The tournament will comprise nine rounds and will be played in accordance with the Swiss System.

The World University Chess Championship is held under the auspices of the Federation Internationale du Sport Universitaire (FISU). The organising club, the Academic Chess Club Reti in Zurich, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary next year. It is one of the four largest clubs in Zurich and has an ambitious team in the Swiss League. In 2009 many of the greatest champions and legends in the history of the game participated in the Zurich Chess Club's 200-year jubilee. This year, some of the strongest champions of the future will be in Zurich.

Official site: http://www.wucc2010.ch

WUCC 2010 is an event of the FISU: http://www.fisu.net

Hungarian Tournaments March - October 2010

The list of the HUN GM-IM norm and Open chess tournaments from March until October 2010:

1. 6th-18th of March, FIRST SATURDAY (FS) GM-IM-rating Budapest, Org: Nagy Laszlo, http://www.firstsaturday.hu

2. 19th-28th of March, 26th Budapest Spring Festival, 9 rounds Swiss Open, org: Nagy Laszlo

3. 19th-27th of March IM + rating CAISSA Kecskemet (85 km from Budapest), Org: Dr.Erdelyi, http://www.caissachessbooks.com

4. 3rd-16th of April FIRST SATURDAY GM-IM-rating Budapest, org: Nagy L,

5. 17th-25th of April, CAISSA Kecskemet, IM + rating, org: Erdelyi,

6. 1st-13th May, FIRST SATURDAY, Budapest, GM-IM-rating - org: Nagy L,

7. 14th-22nd May CAISSA Kecskemet IM + rating, org: Erdelyi,

8. 26th May-3rd June ZALAKAROS open, org: IM Horvath, Tamas, http://www.csutisk.hu,

9. 5th-17th June, FIRST SATURDAY Budapest, GM-IM-rating, org Nagy L,

10.19th-27h June, Balaton Open, HEV�Z, GM-IM, org: IM Rigo, e-mail: me-ri@t-online.hu

11.19th-27th June, CAISSA Kecskemet, IM + rating, Org: Erdelyi,

12.3rd-15th July, FIRST SATURDAY Budapest, GM+IM+rating, org: Nagy L,

13.17th-25th July, CAISSA Kecskemet, GM+IM+rating, org: Erdelyi,

14.27th July-4th August, GM-IM + Open, Szombathely (250 km West from Budapest), org: Csonka, Attila, e-mail: attila.csonka@lamived.hu

15.7th-19th August, FIRST SATURDAY Budapest GM+IM+rating, org: Nagy L

16.21st-29th August, CAISSA Kecskemet, GM+IM+rating, org: Erdelyi

17.4th-16th Sept, FIRST SATURDAY GM+IM+rating Budapest, org: Nagy L

18.17th-25th Sept CAISSA Kecskemet IM+rating, org: Erdelyi.

8th Davos Open

The 8th Davos Open takes place August, 8th-14th 2010, in the Hotel "Sunstar". Sinisa Joksic will organise the event which he hopes to be an old fashioned friendly tournament.

All information at: http://www.sinchess.com/davos

Czech Tour 2010-11

The 10th International Chess Festivals Series Czech Tour 2010-11 has the following preliminary list. (Subject to small changes.)

13th OLOMOUC CHESS SUMMER - Olomouc (FIDE open, closed GM and IM tournaments, seniors tournament, active chess, blitz chess tournament). 4th-12th August 2010.

9th Georgiev's and Kesarovsky�s Memorial - Sunny Beach, Bulgaria (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 28th August - 5th September 2010.

7th HIGHLANDS OPEN - Zdar nad Sazavou (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 25th September - 2nd October 2010.

11th LIBEREC OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 23rd-30th October 2010.

1st BRNO OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 14th-20th November 2010

4th SOUTH BOHEMIA OPEN - Cesky Krumlov (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 21st-27th November 2010.

2nd PILSNER OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament).4th-11th December 2010.

10th PRAGUE OPEN (2 FIDE opens, one of them with IM norm, active chess, blitz tournament). 7th-14th January 2011.

10th MARIENBAD OPEN (FIDE open, closed GM and IM tournaments, active chess, blitz tournament). 15th-22nd January 2011.

2nd NOVY BOR OPEN (FIDE open, active chess, blitz tournament). 12th-19th February 2011.

More detailed information: AVE-KONTAKT s.r.o., Sukova 1556, 530 02 Pardubice, Czech Republic tel./fax + 420 466 535 200, mobile phone + 420 608 203 007 e-mail: j.mazuch@avekont.cz

http://www.czechtour.net

9th Czech Tour 2009/2010

13-20.2. 2010 1st NOVY BOR OPEN (the Prazak Grandhotel) http://www.czechtour.net/novy-bor-open/

8.-15.1. 2010 9th PRAGUE OPEN (TOP HOTEL Praha) http://www.czechtour.net/prague-open/

16.-23.1. 2010 9th MARIENBAD OPEN (the Kossuth hotel) http://www.czechtour.net/marienbad-open/

Dates of the first tournaments of the 10th jubilee CZECH TOUR 2010 / 2011 Series:

15.-22.5. 2010 1st HRADEC KRALOVE OPEN (the Cernigov hotel)

15.7.-1.8. 2010 21st CZECH OPEN (Pardubice, CEZ Arena)

4.-12.8. 2010 13th OLOMOUC CHESS SUMMER (the Sigma hotel)

Official site: http://www.czechtour.net/news/

International Correspondence Chess Federation

The International Correspondence Chess Federation has announced the Preliminary Sections of the World Correspondence Chess Championship will start on March 10th. 2010.

Also Slovenia's 15 Years Membership of ICCF tournament semi-finals.

Details on the ICCF Official site: http://www.iccf.com/content/index.php

FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship

FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship - an Official FIDE World Chess Championship! 9R-SS G/90 + 30/sec increment. Holiday Inn Hotel: 5300 W Touhy Ave Skokie, IL 60077. 847.679.8900. $20,000 Guaranteed. Open to players with no FIDE title and rated under 2000 FIDE. All players compete in a single section. Please see tournament website for more detailed rating regulations.

Prizes: Overall: $3000-2000-1600-1400; Top Women: $1000-600-400-200; (1799-1600): $1000-600-400-200; (1599-1400): $1000-600-400-200; (U1400): $1000-600-400-200; (Unrated): $1000-600-400-200;

EF: $120 by 6pm 02/15, $150 by 6pm 03/15; $200 thereafter and onsite. No re-entries allowed. No half-point byes allowed (zero point byes only). Onsite registration from 3-5pm 03/19.

Rds: 3/19 - 6:30pm; 3/20-21 - 12pm and 6:30pm per day; 3/22-25 - 6:30pm per night.

Mail entries with registration information to: North American Chess Association (make checks payable to) 4957 Oakton Street, Suite 113, Skokie, IL 60077.

More information and online registration available at: http://www.worldchesschamps.com. Questions via email only: sevan@worldchesschamps.com

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

Ajedrez 21 English site

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

Kingpin Magazine

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

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

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.

European Union Website

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

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

THE WEEK IN CHESS 820 26th July 2010 by Mark Crowther

Sponsored by the London Chess Centre

Chess Classic Mainz 2010

Vasylyshyn Memorial

Transkarpathian Cup 2010

XL Rilton Cup 2010-11

First Saturday August 2010

25th open Teteven

8th Davos Open

25th Schwarzacher Open

Euro Chess Tournament 2010

NH Chess Tournament

Politiken Cup 2010

XI Figueres Open "Miquel Mas"

Women's Grand Prix 2009-10

Villa Martelli Bicentenary

Paignton Congress

4th Rijeka open chess tournament "Mediterranean 2017"

IX Festival Internacional de Ajedrez Benidorm 2010

Geller Memorial 2010

X Savaria Summer Chess Festival

London Chess Classic 2010

14th Unive Tournament

VIII Marx Gyorgy Memorial

European Individual Senior Championship 2011

11th World University Chess Championship

Chinese Events 2010

World Chess Tour Events

15th Pannonia-Nitrokemia Cup

Swiss Team Championships 2010

Mihajlo Savic Website

Arvier (Aosta Valley) - September

Livigno (Sondrio, Valtellina)

Victor Mikhalevski Website

7th Knokke International Open

11th World University Chess Championship

Hungarian Tournaments March - October 2010

8th Davos Open

Czech Tour 2010-11

9th Czech Tour 2009/2010

International Correspondence Chess Federation

FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship

Mundial Chess Internet Tournament

Ajedrez 21 English site

Kingpin Magazine

Historical Elo Ratings

European Union Website

Chess Study