THE WEEK IN CHESS 823 16th August 2010 by Mark Crowther

1) Introduction

My thanks to Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr, Luis Blasco de la Cruz, Mitko Iliev, Christian Sanchez, Harun Taner, Sandor Videki, Antonio Castello, Attila Csonka, Adrian Roldan, Ivan Kocovski, Matthias Thesing, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, Mikhail Golubev, George Mirijanian, Miklos Orso, Rodolfo Arias, Sean Hewitt, Yuri Vovk and everyone else who helped with the issue.

The NH Chess tournament has reached its half way stage. Anish Giri leads the battle amongst the Youth team for a place in the Amber tournament next year. Currently he is probably the most exciting young player in the world. I'm also fascinated how Ljubomir Ljubojevic is managing to compete, he hardly plays at all these days an apparently doesn't use a computer. Today he managed some kind of great escape against Caruana. Last year he did really well. The trend tends to be that players like Karpov who was in a similar position get forcibly retired simply because it isn't possible to play chess without the heavy opening knowledge that computers have brought. A success for Ljubo would buck that trend, but its the fact he really doesn't seem to play at all that has got me fascinated, don't know how he does it. The World Juniors saw favourites Dmitry Andreikin and Anna Muzychuk take the titles. However the junior moment of the week was when Hou Yifan won the women's Grand Prix in Ulaanbaatar. I think the women's Grand Prix has been tremendous for the Women's game and have really enjoyed it. Elsewhere there is the Efimenko vs Naiditsch match, the Gyorgy Marx Memorial, French Championships and more open tournaments than I can comfortably cope with.

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) NH Chess Tournament

The NH Chess Rising Stars vs Experience Tournament takes place in Amsterdam 12th-22nd August 2010. The experienced Gelfand, Svidler, PH Nielsen, Van Wely and Ljubojevic take on the Rising Stars of Nakamura, Caruana, Wesley So, Giri and Howell.

At the half way stage Youth lead Experience 13.5 - 11.5.

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

4th NH Chess Tournament Amsterdam (NED), 2010.08.12 - 2010.08.22 Score: Youth 13.5 Experience 11.5
Team	Name	Ti	FED	Elo	+	=	-	Pts	Gms
Experience	Gelfand, Boris	GM	ISR	2739	2	3	0	3.5	5
Experience	Svidler, Peter	GM	RUS	2734	1	3	1	2.5	5
Experience	Ljubojevic, Ljubomir	GM	SRB	2572	1	2	2	2	5
Experience	Nielsen, Peter Heine	GM	DEN	2700	1	2	2	2	5
Experience	Van Wely, Loek	GM	NED	2677	0	3	2	1.5	5
Youth	Giri, Anish	GM	NED	2672	2	3	0	3.5	5
Youth	Caruana, Fabiano	GM	NED	2672	1	4	0	3	5
Youth	Nakamura, Hikaru	GM	USA	2729	2	1	2	2.5	5
Youth	Howell, David W L	GM	ENG	2616	2	1	2	2.5	5
Youth	So, Wesley	GM	PHI	2674	0	4	1	2	5

3) Efimenko vs GM Naiditsch Match

The 3rd in a series of matches takes place in Mukachevo, Ukraine 12th-18th August 2010. This year Zahar Efimenko takes on Arkadij Naiditsch in a six game match. Previously the Mukachevo matches, organised by Josef Resch & Universal Event Promotion were: Ivanchuk v Leko 2007 (rapid) Ivanchuk v Leko 2009 (rapid) Short v Efimenko 2009 (classical).

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

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

Match Mukachevo
Efimenko, Zahar	-	Naiditsch, Arkadij	½-½	53	E04	Catalan
Naiditsch, Arkadij	-	Efimenko, Zahar	1-0	43	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Efimenko, Zahar	-	Naiditsch, Arkadij	½-½	34	E21	Nimzo Indian 4.Nf3
Naiditsch, Arkadij	-	Efimenko, Zahar	½-½	97	C97	Ruy Lopez

Match Mukachevo (UKR), 12-18 viii 2010
Name	Ti	NAT	Rtng	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total	Perf
Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2684	½	1	½	½	.	.	2½	2784
Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	2689	½	0	½	½	.	.	1½	2597

4) 5th FIDE Women's Grand Prix Ulaanbaatar

The 5th FIDE Women's Grand Prix took place in Ulaanbaatar 29th July - 12th August 2010. Hou Yifan took clear first place with 8/11 half a point clear of Antoaneta Stefanova with whom she drew in the final round.

Official site: http://ulaanbaatar2010.fide.com/

5th FIDE GP w Ulaanbaatar (MGL), 30 vii-11 viii 2010																	cat. X (2487)
Rank	SNo.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pts	Res.	SB.
1	4	Hou Yifan	GM	CHN	2577	*	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	8	0	39
2	8	Stefanova Antoaneta	GM	BUL	2560	½	*	1	0	0	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	7½	0	36
3	9	Kosintseva Tatiana	GM	RUS	2562	½	0	*	1	½	½	½	½	1	0	1	1	6½	1½	32.5
4	10	Zhao Xue	GM	CHN	2462	½	1	0	*	1	1	0	0	1	½	½	1	6½	1	34.75
5	1	Koneru Humpy	GM	IND	2600	½	1	½	0	*	1	½	1	½	1	0	½	6½	½	36
6	6	Chiburdanidze Maia	GM	GEO	2514	½	½	½	0	0	*	1	½	0	1	1	1	6	0	28.5
7	11	Xu Yuhua	GM	CHN	2488	0	0	½	1	½	0	*	½	½	½	1	1	5½	0	25.5
8	12	Shen Yang	WGM	CHN	2435	½	0	½	1	0	½	½	*	½	½	0	1	5	½	26
9	5	Zhu Chen	GM	QAT	2476	0	½	0	0	½	1	½	½	*	1	1	0	5	½	25.75
10	2	Sebag Marie	GM	FRA	2519	0	0	1	½	0	0	½	½	0	*	1	½	4	0	19.5
11	7	Batkhuyag Munguntuul	IM	MGL	2421	0	0	0	½	1	0	0	1	0	0	*	1	3½	0	16.75
12	3	Yildiz Betul	WIM	TUR	2235	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	1	½	0	*	2	0	10.25

Round 10 (August 10, 2010)
Hou Yifan	- Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	1-0	44	B80	Sicilian Scheveningen
Koneru, Humpy	- Zhao Xue	0-1	39	E15	Queens Indian
Shen Yang	- Xu Yuhua	½-½	24	E32	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Zhu Chen	- Chiburdanidze, Maia	1-0	48	E32	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Sebag, Marie	- Kosintseva, Tatiana	1-0	69	B69	Sicilian Rauzer
Yildiz, Betul Cemre	- Stefanova, Antoaneta	0-1	39	B19	Caro Kann
Round 11 (August 11, 2010)
Stefanova, Antoaneta	- Hou Yifan	½-½	60	A14	Reti Opening
Zhao Xue	- Sebag, Marie	½-½	51	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Kosintseva, Tatiana	- Yildiz, Betul Cemre	1-0	39	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Chiburdanidze, Maia	- Shen Yang	½-½	14	E06	Catalan
Xu Yuhua	- Koneru, Humpy	½-½	60	B80	Sicilian Scheveningen
Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	- Zhu Chen	0-1	63	C60	Ruy Lopez

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.

5) 7th China vs Russia Match

The 7th China vs Russia Match took place 4th-16th August 2010. Vladimir Malakhov g 2732, Wang Hao g 2724, Ni Hua g 2645, Kosintseva Nadezhda im 2551, Ju Wenjun wg 2496 etc.

5 Standard time rate games started the event followed by 20 Rapid Games over four days.

After the standard time-rate games China led 27-23 overall. In the men's half the score was China 15.5 - Russia 9.5. The Russian women lead 13.5-11.5.

The Chinese also narrowly won the Rapid section.

Overall rapid score: Russia 99.0; China 101.0

Overall match score: Russia 122.0; China 128.0

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

Live: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess.html

7th CHN-RUS Ningbo (CHN), 2010.08.05 - 2010.08.09 Score: CHN 15.5 RUS 9.5
Team	Name	Ti	FED	Elo	+	=	-	Pts	Gms
CHN	Bu Xiangzhi	GM	CHN	2676	3	2	0	4	5
CHN	Wang Yue	GM	CHN	2716	2	3	0	3.5	5
CHN	Wang Hao	GM	CHN	2724	2	3	0	3.5	5
CHN	Ni Hua	GM	CHN	2645	0	5	0	2.5	5
CHN	Zhou Jianchao	GM	CHN	2668	1	2	2	2	5
RUS	Timofeev, Artyom	GM	RUS	2690	1	3	1	2.5	5
RUS	Rublevsky, Sergei	GM	RUS	2688	0	4	1	2	5
RUS	Potkin, Vladimir	GM	RUS	2626	1	2	2	2	5
RUS	Vitiugov, Nikita	GM	RUS	2722	0	3	2	1.5	5
RUS	Malakhov, Vladimir	GM	RUS	2732	0	3	2	1.5	5

7th CHN-RUS w Ningbo (CHN), 2010.08.05 - 2010.08.09 Score: RUS 13.5 CHN 11.5
Team	Name	Ti	FED	Elo	+	=	-	Pts	Gms
CHN	Ju Wenjun	WGM	CHN	2496	3	2	0	4	5
CHN	Tan Zhongyi	WGM	CHN	2461	2	1	2	2.5	5
CHN	Huang Qian	WGM	CHN	2447	2	0	3	2	5
CHN	Wang Yu A	IM	CHN	2369	0	4	1	2	5
CHN	Ding Yixin	WFM	CHN	2385	1	0	4	1	5
RUS	Kashlinskaya, Alina	WGM	RUS	2352	2	2	1	3	5
RUS	Gunina, Valentina	WFM	RUS	2462	3	0	2	3	5
RUS	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	IM	RUS	2551	2	2	1	3	5
RUS	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	WGM	RUS	2397	2	1	2	2.5	5
RUS	Pogonina, Natalija	WGM	RUS	2501	1	2	2	2	5

7th CHN-RUS Rapid Ningbo (CHN), 2010.08.11 - 2010.08.14 Score: CHN 51.5 RUS 48.5
Team	Name	Ti	FED	Elo	+	=	-	Pts	Gms
CHN	Wang Hao	GM	CHN	2724	10	5	5	12.5	20
CHN	Wang Yue	GM	CHN	2716	8	8	4	12	20
CHN	Bu Xiangzhi	GM	CHN	2676	4	12	4	10	20
CHN	Ni Hua	GM	CHN	2645	4	10	6	9	20
CHN	Zhou Jianchao	GM	CHN	2668	4	8	8	8	20
RUS	Rublevsky, Sergei	GM	RUS	2688	7	8	5	11	20
RUS	Vitiugov, Nikita	GM	RUS	2722	7	7	6	10.5	20
RUS	Timofeev, Artyom	GM	RUS	2690	6	9	5	10.5	20
RUS	Malakhov, Vladimir	GM	RUS	2732	3	12	5	9	20
RUS	Potkin, Vladimir	GM	RUS	2626	4	7	9	7.5	20

7th CHN-RUS w Rapid Ningbo (CHN), 2010.08.11 - 2010.08.14 Score: RUS 50.5 CHN 49.5
Team	Name	Ti	FED	Elo	+	=	-	Pts	Gms
CHN	Tan Zhongyi	WGM	CHN	2461	11	5	4	13.5	20
CHN	Huang Qian	WGM	CHN	2447	9	7	4	12.5	20
CHN	Ju Wenjun	WGM	CHN	2496	9	3	8	10.5	20
CHN	Wang Yu A	IM	CHN	2369	1	11	8	6.5	20
CHN	Ding Yixin	WFM	CHN	2385	4	5	11	6.5	20
RUS	Kosintseva, Nadezhda	IM	RUS	2551	9	9	2	13.5	20
RUS	Gunina, Valentina	WFM	RUS	2462	9	6	5	12	20
RUS	Pogonina, Natalija	WGM	RUS	2501	7	6	7	10	20
RUS	Kashlinskaya, Alina	WGM	RUS	2352	6	5	9	8.5	20
RUS	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	WGM	RUS	2397	4	5	11	6.5	20

6) World Juniors

The prestigious World Junior Championships took place in Chotowa, Poland 3rd-16th August 2010. Top seed Dmitry Andreikin took first place on tie-break from fellow Russian Sanan Sjugirov. Home player Dariusz Swiercz took the bronze medal. 2nd seed Jon Ludvig Hammer finished in 6th and Parimarjan Negi 11th in the Open event.

The favourite for the Girls event Slovenian Anna Muzychuk also won. She dominated the event until she lost in Round 12 but took her score to 11/13 with a final Round win. Russian Olga Girya took second and Rout Padmini from India the Bronze.

The event has a history going back to 1951 and the first winner Borislav Ivkov. Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand went on to be World Chess Champion. In recent times Shakhriyar Mamedyarov found it worth his while to win it twice. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won it last year in Puerto Madryn, Argentina.

Official site: http://www.wjcc2010.pl/en

49th WJun Chotowa (POL), 3-16 viii 2010 Leading Round 13 (of 13) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	NAT.	RtgI	Pts	Tie Break	Prog.
1	Andreikin, Dmitry	GM	RUS	2650	10.0	0.00	74.0
2	Sjugirov, Sanan	GM	RUS	2610	10.0	0.00	70.0
3	Swiercz, Dariusz	GM	POL	2492	9.0	30186.00	67.0
4	Matlakov, Maxim	GM	RUS	2603	9.0	30144.00	66.0
5	Salem, A.R. Saleh	GM	UAE	2469	9.0	30075.00	64.5
6	Hammer, Jon Ludvig	GM	NOR	2636	9.0	29550.00	63.5
7	Cordova Daza, Emilio Arturo	GM	PER	2560	8.5	66.20	66.0
8	Tomczak, Jacek	IM	POL	2509	8.5	66.10	66.0
9	Stupak, Kirill	IM	BLR	2504	8.5	0.00	65.0
10	Bindrich, Falko	GM	GER	2522	8.5	0.00	64.0
11	Negi, Parimarjan	GM	IND	2615	8.5	0.00	63.0
12	Nabaty, Tamir	IM	ISR	2523	8.5	0.00	61.5
13	Martinovic, Sasa	IM	CRO	2505	8.5	0.00	59.0
14	Can, Emre	IM	TUR	2477	8.5	0.00	58.5
15	Safarli, Eltaj	GM	AZE	2603	8.5	0.00	56.0
16	Nyzhnyk, Illya	IM	UKR	2543	8.5	0.00	53.5
17	Blomqvist, Erik	IM	SWE	2407	8.0	30287.00	63.5
18	Hovhannisyan, Robert	GM	ARM	2529	8.0	29111.00	58.0
19	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	GM	ESP	2607	8.0	28969.00	53.0
20	Piorun, Kacper	IM	POL	2499	8.0	28759.00	51.5
21	Dvirnyy, Daniyyl	IM	ITA	2457	8.0	28417.00	48.5
22	Yilmaz, Mustafa	IM	TUR	2479	7.5	59.52	59.5
23	Delorme, Axel	IM	FRA	2455	7.5	59.51	59.5
24	Saric, Ivan	GM	CRO	2584	7.5	58.50	58.5
25	Kasyan, Aleksandr	FM	UZB	2326	7.5	58.02	58.0
26	Baryshpolets, Andrey	IM	UKR	2450	7.5	58.01	58.0
122 players

28th WJun Girls Chotowa (POL), 3-16 viii 2010 Leading Round 13 (of 13) Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	NAT.	RtgI	Pts	Tie Break	Prog.
1	Muzychuk, Anna	IM	SLO	2527	11.0	0.00	81.0
2	Girya, Olga	WGM	RUS	2376	10.5	0.00	75.0
3	Padmini, Rout	WGM	IND	2275	10.0	0.00	73.5
4	Muminova, Nafisa	WIM	UZB	2290	9.0	27273.00	69.0
5	Bhakti, Kulkarni Pradip	CM	IND	2249	9.0	26894.00	64.0
6	Mammadova, Gulnar Marfat	WFM	AZE	2260	8.5	27516.00	66.5
7	Nakhbayeva, Guliskhan	WIM	KAZ	2216	8.5	26730.00	62.0
8	Guramishvili, Sopiko	WGM	GEO	2298	8.5	26706.00	64.0
9	Melekhina, Alisa	WIM	USA	2265	8.5	26679.00	65.5
10	Severiukhina, Zoja	WIM	RUS	2341	8.5	26219.00	60.0
11	Andrenko, Irina	WIM	UKR	2133	8.5	26081.00	56.0
12	Cori Tello, Deysi Estela	WGM	PER	2403	8.5	25926.00	52.5
13	Corke, Anya	WGM	ENG	2257	8.5	25831.00	59.0
14	Pavlidou, Ekaterini	WIM	GRE	2182	8.0	0.00	62.5
15	Ohme, Melanie	WIM	GER	2326	8.0	0.00	62.0
16	Nemcova, Katerina	WGM	CZE	2282	8.0	0.00	56.5
17	Ziaziulkina, Nastassia	WIM	BLR	2293	7.5	26610.00	60.0
18	Kulon, Klaudia	WFM	POL	2230	7.5	25851.00	56.5
19	Toth, Sarolta	WFM	HUN	2207	7.5	25801.00	56.5
20	Saduakassova, Dinara	WFM	KAZ	2131	7.5	25704.00	49.0
21	Skinke, Katrina	WIM	LAT	2237	7.5	25617.00	55.0
22	Adamowicz, Katarzyna	WFM	POL	2123	7.5	25568.00	51.5
23	Lach, Aleksandra	WFM	POL	2179	7.5	25527.00	49.5
24	Nesterovskaya, Anzhelika	WFM	UKR	2177	7.5	25478.00	51.0
25	Ozturk, Kubra	WIM	TUR	2286	7.5	24520.00	42.5
26	Jablonska, Sabina		POL	1876	7.5	24400.00	40.5
81 players

7) French Championships

The French Championships take place in Belfort 9th-21st August 2010. Etienne Bacrot and Laurent Fressinet are the top seeds. Men's, Women's and National B Groups.

85th ch-FRA Belfort (FRA), 9-20 viii 2010															cat. XIV (2596)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Edouard, Romain	g	FRA	2620	*	½	.	1	.	½	1	.	.	1	1	½	5½	2813
2.	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	2697	½	*	.	.	½	.	½	1	½	.	1	1	5	2740
3.	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2720	.	.	*	½	½	½	½	1	1	.	.	1	5	2725
4.	Bricard, Emmanuel	g	FRA	2478	0	.	½	*	½	.	.	½	.	1	½	1	4	2648
5.	Tkachiev, Vladislav	g	FRA	2639	.	½	½	½	*	½	.	½	1	0	.	.	3½	2595
6.	Dorfman, Iossif D	g	FRA	2583	½	.	½	.	½	*	½	½	½	.	.	½	3½	2607
7.	Bauer, Christian	g	FRA	2612	0	½	½	.	.	½	*	½	.	½	1	.	3½	2608
8.	Charnushevich, Aliaksei	m	FRA	2497	.	0	0	½	½	½	½	*	½	.	.	.	2½	2515
9.	Sokolov, Andrei	g	FRA	2596	.	½	0	.	0	½	.	½	*	½	½	.	2½	2509
10.	Hamdouchi, Hicham	g	FRA	2600	0	.	.	0	1	.	½	.	½	*	½	0	2½	2477
11.	Cornette, Matthieu	g	FRA	2543	0	0	.	½	.	.	0	.	½	½	*	1	2½	2494
12.	Degraeve, Jean-Marc	g	FRA	2569	½	0	0	0	.	½	.	.	.	1	0	*	2	2447

Round 1 (August 9, 2010)
Edouard, Romain	- Bauer, Christian	1-0	43	C41	Philidor's Defence
Fressinet, Laurent	- Charnushevich, Aliaksei	1-0	56	E14	Queens Indian
Dorfman, Iossif D	- Bacrot, Etienne	½-½	21	A13	Reti Opening
Hamdouchi, Hicham	- Tkachiev, Vladislav	1-0	50	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Cornette, Matthieu	- Sokolov, Andrei	½-½	26	E08	Catalan
Degraeve, Jean-Marc	- Bricard, Emmanuel	0-1	53	C03	French Tarrasch
Round 2 (August 10, 2010)
Bricard, Emmanuel	- Bacrot, Etienne	½-½	36	A04	Dutch System
Tkachiev, Vladislav	- Fressinet, Laurent	½-½	23	D14	Slav Exchange
Bauer, Christian	- Cornette, Matthieu	1-0	48	C65	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Charnushevich, Aliaksei	- Dorfman, Iossif D	½-½	13	A09	Reti Opening
Sokolov, Andrei	- Hamdouchi, Hicham	½-½	30	B72	Sicilian Dragon
Degraeve, Jean-Marc	- Edouard, Romain	½-½	19	B52	Sicilian Rossolimo
Round 3 (August 11, 2010)
Edouard, Romain	- Bricard, Emmanuel	1-0	27	C14	French Classical
Fressinet, Laurent	- Sokolov, Andrei	½-½	30	E16	Queens Indian
Bacrot, Etienne	- Charnushevich, Aliaksei	1-0	47	B42	Sicilian Paulsen
Dorfman, Iossif D	- Tkachiev, Vladislav	½-½	30	D43	Anti-Meran Gambit
Hamdouchi, Hicham	- Bauer, Christian	½-½	29	C43	Petroff's Defence
Cornette, Matthieu	- Degraeve, Jean-Marc	1-0	32	D21	QGA
Round 4 (August 12, 2010)
Edouard, Romain	- Cornette, Matthieu	1-0	66	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Bricard, Emmanuel	- Charnushevich, Aliaksei	½-½	46	C00	French Defence
Tkachiev, Vladislav	- Bacrot, Etienne	½-½	26	E39	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Bauer, Christian	- Fressinet, Laurent	½-½	58	C54	Giuoco Piano
Sokolov, Andrei	- Dorfman, Iossif D	½-½	13	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Degraeve, Jean-Marc	- Hamdouchi, Hicham	1-0	37	B58	Sicilian Boleslavsky
Round 5 (August 13, 2010)
Fressinet, Laurent	- Degraeve, Jean-Marc	1-0	24	D06	Queen's Pawn Gambit
Bacrot, Etienne	- Sokolov, Andrei	1-0	50	E21	Nimzo Indian 4.Nf3
Dorfman, Iossif D	- Bauer, Christian	½-½	12	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Charnushevich, Aliaksei	- Tkachiev, Vladislav	½-½	17	A46	Queen's Pawn Opening
Hamdouchi, Hicham	- Edouard, Romain	0-1	39	B66	Sicilian Rauzer
Cornette, Matthieu	- Bricard, Emmanuel	½-½	12	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Round 6 (August 14, 2010)
Edouard, Romain	- Fressinet, Laurent	½-½	22	D11	Slav Defence
Bricard, Emmanuel	- Tkachiev, Vladislav	½-½	38	A00	Irregular Openings
Bauer, Christian	- Bacrot, Etienne	½-½	19	C53	Giuoco Piano
Sokolov, Andrei	- Charnushevich, Aliaksei	½-½	33	B40	Sicilian Classical
Cornette, Matthieu	- Hamdouchi, Hicham	½-½	14	E92	King's Indian Classical
Degraeve, Jean-Marc	- Dorfman, Iossif D	½-½	16	C50	Giuoco Piano
Round 7 (August 16, 2010)
Fressinet, Laurent	- Cornette, Matthieu	1-0	33	D85	Gruenfeld Defence
Bacrot, Etienne	- Degraeve, Jean-Marc	1-0	38	B04	Alekhine's Defence
Tkachiev, Vladislav	- Sokolov, Andrei	1-0	42	E03	Catalan
Dorfman, Iossif D	- Edouard, Romain	½-½	30	D85	Gruenfeld Defence
Charnushevich, Aliaksei	- Bauer, Christian	½-½	17	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Hamdouchi, Hicham	- Bricard, Emmanuel	0-1	48	C03	French Tarrasch

85th ch-FRA w Belfort (FRA), 10-20 viii 2010											cat. IV (2333)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Skripchenko, Almira	m	FRA	2458	*	*	½	.	½	.	1	½	1	.	1	.	4½	2505
2.	Milliet, Sophie	m	FRA	2367	½	.	*	*	½	.	0	.	1	.	1	1	4	2426
3.	Collas, Silvia	m	FRA	2333	½	.	½	.	*	*	½	.	½	1	½	.	3½	2387
4.	Leconte, Maria	wg	FRA	2337	0	½	1	.	½	.	*	*	0	.	1	.	3	2352
5.	Guichard, Pauline	wm	FRA	2320	0	.	0	.	½	0	1	.	*	*	½	.	2	2209
6.	Roumegous, Marina	wm	FRA	2181	0	.	0	0	½	.	0	.	½	.	*	*	1	2090

ch-FRA NatB Belfort (FRA), 9-20 viii 2010															cat. IX (2469)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Shchekachev, Andrei	g	FRA	2546	*	.	½	.	½	0	.	1	1	1	1	.	5	2618
2.	Prie, Eric	g	FRA	2529	.	*	½	½	½	½	.	1	1	.	½	.	4½	2574
3.	Le Roux, Jean-Pierre	g	FRA	2495	½	½	*	.	.	1	½	.	0	1	.	1	4½	2551
4.	Gozzoli, Yannick	m	FRA	2520	.	½	.	*	½	.	½	½	.	½	1	1	4½	2564
5.	Apicella, Manuel	g	FRA	2529	½	½	.	½	*	1	1	.	0	.	.	½	4	2511
6.	Lagarde, Maxime	f	FRA	2414	1	½	0	.	0	*	½	.	1	1	.	.	4	2531
7.	Bailet, Pierre	f	FRA	2425	.	.	½	½	0	½	*	0	.	.	1	1	3½	2468
8.	Vaisser, Anatoly	g	FRA	2515	0	0	.	½	.	.	1	*	.	½	1	0	3	2416
9.	Jolly, Jean-Francois	f	FRA	2411	0	0	1	.	1	0	.	.	*	½	0	.	2½	2379
10.	Terrieux, Kevin	m	FRA	2437	0	.	0	½	.	0	.	½	½	*	.	1	2½	2367
11.	Housieaux, David	m	FRA	2423	0	½	.	0	.	.	0	0	1	.	*	1	2½	2373
12.	Benitah, Yohan	m	FRA	2382	.	.	0	0	½	.	0	1	.	0	0	*	1½	2247

8) Abu Dhabi Open

The Abu Dhabi Open takes place Thu 12th - Fri 20th Aug 2010. Anton Korobov and Gadir Guseinov are the top seeds in the Ramadan Master Open which has 26 players.

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

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr37078.aspx

Live http://www.abudhabichess.com/2010/online/tfd.htm

Ramadan Master Open Abu Dhabi (UAE), 12-20 viii 2010 Leading Round 5 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Anastasian Ashot	GM	ARM	2578	3,5	0,0	10275	14,0
2	Antonio, Viani D'cunha		IND	2208	3,5	0,0	10207	13,5
3	Grigoryan Avetik	GM	ARM	2584	3,5	0,0	10067	13,5
4	Korobov Anton	GM	UKR	2657	3,5	0,0	10054	14,0
5	Guliev, Sarhan	GM	AZE	2485	3,5	0,0	9493	14,5
6	Amin Basem	GM	EGY	2568	3,0	0,0	10121	13,5
7	Gabuzyan Hovhannes		ARM	2261	3,0	0,0	9876	14,0
8	Sharbaf, Mohsen	FM	IRI	2370	3,0	0,0	9833	10,5
9	Sturua Zurab	GM	GEO	2512	3,0	0,0	9721	14,5
10	Arun Prasad S	GM	IND	2535	3,0	0,0	9203	12,0
11	Alhuwar Jasem	FM	UAE	2311	2,5	0,0	10207	14,5
12	Narayanan Srinath	IM	IND	2409	2,5	0,0	10024	13,5
13	Ibrahim Ismail		UAE	2157	2,5	0,0	9726	12,0
14	Raetsky Alexander	GM	RUS	2442	2,5	0,0	9694	12,0
15	El Arousy Abdul Hameed	IM	EGY	2251	2,5	0,0	9475	8,0
16	Malakhatko Vadim	GM	BEL	2576	2,5	0,0	9283	12,0
17	Guseinov Gadir	GM	AZE	2611	2,5	0,0	6971	12,5
18	Tissir, Mohamed	IM	MAR	2466	2,0	0,0	10021	14,5
19	Koohestani, Sh.	FM	IRI	2345	2,0	0,0	9767	12,5
20	Khouri Ibrahim Mohamed	FM	UAE	2208	2,0	0,0	9619	10,0
21	Sarwat Walaa	IM	EGY	2379	2,0	0,0	9076	11,0
22	Khademalsharieh, Sarasadat	WFM	IRI	2097	2,0	0,0	7006	10,5
23	Faisal Abdulla		UAE	2282	1,5	1,0	9249	11,0
24	Omearat Adel	FM	SYR	2218	1,5	0,5	10164	12,0
25	Ankit R Rajpara		IND	2362	1,5	0,5	9581	12,5
26	Salem Ghuloom	FM	UAE	2302	0,0	0,0	9568	12,5
26 players

9) Spanish Chess League 1st Division

The Spanish Chess Championships CECLUB First Division took place in Burguillos (Sevilla), 9th-15th August 2010. There was an all-play-all stage with 6 clubs in two groups followed by a knockout settling the title over the weekend. The ALZICAPITAL team with Polish players Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Bartlomiej Macieja alongside Spanish players Julen Luis Arizmendi Martinez dominated both Group A and the finals to qualify for the main Honor Division alongside Cajacanarias (Aleksej Aleksandrov, Oleg Korneev, Reynaldo Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo, Jose Luis Fernandez Garcia, Jorge Cabrera Trujillo etc...).

Honor Division CECLUB 2010 takes place in Sestao, Vizcaya, 23tf-28th August 2010.

Official site: http://www.feda.org/index.php

Results http://chess-results.com/tnr37112.aspx

10) Manhem Chess Week

Manhem Chess Week takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden 10th-18th August 2010.

Official site: http://www.ssmanhem.se/

Manhem Chess Week GM Gothenburg (SWE), 10-18 viii 2010															cat. IX (2453)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Berg, Emanuel	g	SWE	2612	*	½	1	.	½	½	1	1	.	1	5½	2668
2.	Rasmussen, Allan Stig	g	DEN	2510	½	*	½	1	½	½	.	½	1	.	4½	2562
3.	Tikkanen, Hans	m	SWE	2469	0	½	*	.	½	.	½	½	1	1	4	2495
4.	Hillarp Persson, Tiger	g	SWE	2538	.	0	.	*	0	½	½	1	1	1	4	2466
5.	Smith, Axel	m	SWE	2416	½	½	½	1	*	0	½	.	½	.	3½	2476
6.	Nithander, Victor	m	SWE	2409	½	½	.	½	1	*	½	.	0	½	3½	2455
7.	Ivanov, Mikhail M	g	RUS	2486	0	.	½	½	½	½	*	½	.	1	3½	2460
8.	Spirin, Oleg	m	RUS	2468	0	½	½	0	.	.	½	*	1	½	3	2412
9.	Carlhammar, Magnus		SWE	2311	.	0	0	0	½	1	.	0	*	½	2	2288
10.	Kovachev, Daniel Jakobsen		NOR	2312	0	.	0	0	.	½	0	½	½	*	1½	2240

11) 14th Hogeschool Zeeland

The 14th Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament took place in Vlissingen August 7th-14th 2010. Favourite Krishnan Sasikiran (IND, 2679) edged out Thomas Henrichs (GER, 2490) on tie-break after all finished on 7.5/9. Sergey Fedorchuk (UKR, 2665) and Erwin L'Ami (NED, 2620) were amongst those a further half point back.

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

14th HZ Open Vlissingen (NED), 7 - 14s viii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rank	Name	Ti	Elo	Pts	TPR	W-We	BH
1	Sasikiran, Krishnan	GM	2679	7.5	2694	+0.29	57.5
2	Henrichs, Thomas	IM	2490	7.5	2611	+1.40	54.0
3	Zaragatski, Ilja	IM	2472	7.0	2623	+1.84	55.0
4	Brandenburg, Daan	IM	2514	7.0	2551	+0.49	54.5
5	L'Ami, Erwin	GM	2620	7.0	2660	+0.54	54.5
6	Fedorchuk, Sergey	GM	2665	7.0	2600	-0.49	53.0
7	Pruijssers, Roeland	IM	2462	7.0	2571	+1.37	53.0
8	Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav	GM	2578	6.5	2597	+0.47	56.0
9	Erdos, Viktor	GM	2592	6.5	2540	-0.36	54.5
10	Nijboer, Friso	GM	2582	6.5	2530	-0.39	54.0
11	Guidarelli, Laurent	IM	2433	6.5	2459	+0.56	53.5
12	Kohlweyer, Bernd	IM	2436	6.5	2557	+1.40	53.5
13	Hoffmann, Michael	GM	2517	6.5	2488	-0.14	53.0
14	Haslinger, Stewart	GM	2552	6.5	2463	-0.73	53.0
15	Zelbel, Patrick	FM	2345	6.5	2473	+1.62	52.5
16	Freeke, Matthieu	FM	2315	6.5	2387	+0.91	51.5
17	Leenhouts, Koen	IM	2407	6.5	2348	-0.36	51.0
18	De Jong, Migchiel	FM	2358	6.5	2424	+0.96	51.0
19	Van den Doel, Erik	GM	2591	6.5	2429	-1.33	50.0
20	Bosboom, Manuel	IM	2455	6.5	2411	-0.26	49.5
21	Haast, Anne		2240	6.5	2292	+0.72	48.5
22	Afek, Yochanan	IM	2310	6.5	2272	-0.21	48.0
23	Bitalzadeh, Ali	IM	2415	6.5	2459	+0.73	48.0
24	Roeder, Matthias	IM	2392	6.5	2371	-0.01	47.0
25	Admiraal, Miguoel		2221	6.5	2272	+0.77	46.0
26	Balje, Jan		2204	6.5	2149	-0.33	45.5
248 players

12) VIII Marx Gyorgy Memorial

The 8th Gyorgy Marx Memorial took place 5th-16th August, 2010. Viktor Laznicka dominated finishing with 8/10 two and a half points clear of the field. Zoltan Almasi was defeated by Jan Timman in the final Round allowing Ferenc Berkes to take second with a better tie-break after both finished on 5.5/10. Timman generally struggled as did US Junior Ray Robson. Former Women's World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili and Tatiana Kononenko finished with 6.5/10 in the women's event.

Official site: http://www.ase.hu/marxgy

XIV. Paks open

XIV. Paks open took place 11th-15th August 2010. Haven't had time to investigate what happened. 7 rounds swiss tournament A and B (under1900) groups, 90 minutes + 30 seconds/move.

8th Gyorgy Marx GM Paks (HUN), 6-16 viii 2010											cat. XVI (2629)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Laznicka, Viktor	g	CZE	2638	*	*	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	½	½	1	8	2867
2.	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	2717	½	½	*	*	½	½	½	½	½	0	1	1	5½	2647
3.	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	2670	0	0	½	½	*	*	½	½	½	1	1	1	5½	2657
4.	Acs, Peter	g	HUN	2602	0	0	½	½	½	½	*	*	½	1	0	1	4½	2598
5.	Timman, Jan H	g	NED	2586	0	½	½	1	½	0	½	0	*	*	½	0	3½	2527
6.	Robson, Ray	g	USA	2562	½	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	½	1	*	*	3	2493

Round 5 (August 10, 2010)
Laznicka, Viktor	- Acs, Peter	1-0	28	D11	Slav Defence
Berkes, Ferenc	- Almasi, Zoltan	½-½	22	E15	Queens Indian
Timman, Jan H	- Robson, Ray	½-½	41	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Round 6 (August 12, 2010)
Acs, Peter	- Almasi, Zoltan	½-½	66	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Timman, Jan H	- Laznicka, Viktor	½-½	41	B46	Sicilian Paulsen
Robson, Ray	- Berkes, Ferenc	0-1	42	B13	Caro Kann Exchange
Round 7 (August 13, 2010)
Almasi, Zoltan	- Robson, Ray	1-0	24	A07	Barcza System
Berkes, Ferenc	- Laznicka, Viktor	0-1	42	D00	Queen's Pawn Game
Acs, Peter	- Timman, Jan H	1-0	46	C49	Four Knights Metger
Round 8 (August 14, 2010)
Laznicka, Viktor	- Almasi, Zoltan	½-½	39	E00	Catalan
Timman, Jan H	- Berkes, Ferenc	0-1	44	B12	Caro Kann Advanced
Robson, Ray	- Acs, Peter	0-1	60	C53	Giuoco Piano
Round 9 (August 15, 2010)
Almasi, Zoltan	- Berkes, Ferenc	½-½	17	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Acs, Peter	- Laznicka, Viktor	0-1	41	D10	Slav Defence
Robson, Ray	- Timman, Jan H	1-0	60	B46	Sicilian Paulsen
Round 10 (August 16, 2010)
Laznicka, Viktor	- Robson, Ray	1-0	68	A07	Barcza System
Berkes, Ferenc	- Acs, Peter	½-½	59	B14	Caro Kann Panov
Timman, Jan H	- Almasi, Zoltan	1-0	41	D15	Slav Defence

8th Gyorgy Marx WGM Paks (HUN), 6-16 viii 2010											cat. IV (2347)
					1		2		3		4		5		6
1.	Gaprindashvili, Nona	g	GEO	2348	*	*	½	½	0	1	½	½	½	1	1	1	6½	2456
2.	Kononenko, Tatiana	m	UKR	2374	½	½	*	*	0	½	½	1	½	1	1	1	6½	2451
3.	Madl, Ildiko	m	HUN	2401	1	0	1	½	*	*	0	½	½	½	1	½	5½	2371
4.	Galojan, Lilit	wg	ARM	2384	½	½	½	0	1	½	*	*	½	½	½	0	4½	2303
5.	Vajda, Szidonia	m	HUN	2338	½	0	½	0	½	½	½	½	*	*	1	½	4½	2312
6.	Toth, Lili	wm	HUN	2235	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	1	0	½	*	*	2½	2176

Round 5 (August 10, 2010)
Gaprindashvili, Nona	- Toth, Lili	1-0	77	D11	Slav Defence
Madl, Ildiko	- Kononenko, Tatiana	1-0	36	C16	French Winawer
Vajda, Szidonia	- Galojan, Lilit	½-½	37	C47	Four Knights
Round 6 (August 12, 2010)
Gaprindashvili, Nona	- Vajda, Szidonia	1-0	57	D58	Queens Gambit Tartakover
Galojan, Lilit	- Kononenko, Tatiana	0-1	33	A25	English Sicilian Attack
Toth, Lili	- Madl, Ildiko	½-½	64	A22	English Opening
Round 7 (August 13, 2010)
Kononenko, Tatiana	- Toth, Lili	1-0	35	D45	Anti-Meran Variations
Madl, Ildiko	- Vajda, Szidonia	½-½	17	C67	Ruy Lopez Berlin
Galojan, Lilit	- Gaprindashvili, Nona	½-½	51	D53	Queens Gambit
Round 8 (August 14, 2010)
Gaprindashvili, Nona	- Madl, Ildiko	1-0	41	D30	Queen's Gambit (without Nc3)
Vajda, Szidonia	- Kononenko, Tatiana	0-1	57	C08	French Tarrasch
Toth, Lili	- Galojan, Lilit	1-0	41	E20	Nimzo Indian
Round 9 (August 15, 2010)
Kononenko, Tatiana	- Madl, Ildiko	½-½	35	D12	Slav Defence
Galojan, Lilit	- Vajda, Szidonia	½-½	33	D59	Queens Gambit Tartakover
Toth, Lili	- Gaprindashvili, Nona	0-1	60	B00	Owen or Nimzowitsch Defence
Round 10 (August 16, 2010)
Gaprindashvili, Nona	- Kononenko, Tatiana	½-½	14	D13	Slav Exchange
Madl, Ildiko	- Galojan, Lilit	½-½	22	C86	Ruy Lopez Worrall Attack
Vajda, Szidonia	- Toth, Lili	½-½	20	C47	Four Knights

13) Costa Rica Chess

The Costa Rican Championship took place in the Gran Hotel Costa Rica in San Jose 26th July - 8th August 2010.

Veteran IM Bernal Gonzalez took a record 11th title. No less than four players had chances to take the title going into the final round. News: Rodolfo Arias.

News: http://www.pasionajedrez.blogspot.com/

ch-CRC San Jose (CRC), 26 vii - 8 viii 2010
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2	3	4
1.	Gonzalez, Bernal	m	CRC	2423	*	0	½	0	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	10.0	2363
2.	Murillo, Alexis	m	CRC	2286	1	*	½	1	0	½	1	1	½	½	1	1	1	½	9.5	2337
3.	Alfaro Rojas, Alfonso		CRC	2188	½	½	*	½	0	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	9.5	2345
4.	Arias Santana, Mauricio	m	CRC	2345	1	0	½	*	1	0	1	0	1	½	1	1	1	1	9.0	2299
5.	Valdes, Leonardo	m	CRC	2429	½	1	1	0	*	0	1	½	0	½	1	1	1	1	8.5	2261
6.	Hernandez Alvarez, Tania	wm	CUB	2215	0	½	½	1	1	*	0	0	1	1	0	½	1	1	7.5	2225
7.	Bermudez, Sergio	f	CRC	2183	0	0	0	0	0	1	*	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	7.0	2199
8.	Alvarez Hernandez, David		CRC	1954	0	0	0	1	½	1	0	*	0	1	½	½	1	1	6.5	2188
9.	Duran Vega, Sergio		CRC	2156	0	½	0	0	1	0	½	1	*	0	1	½	1	1	6.5	2172
10.	Maynard, Francis		CRC	2202	0	½	0	½	½	0	½	0	1	*	1	½	0	1	5.5	2112
11.	Carvajal Gorgona, Jonathan		CRC	2186	0	0	½	0	0	1	0	½	0	0	*	0	1	1	4.0	2029
12.	Munoz, Carolina	wm	CRC	2033	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	½	½	1	*	0	1	4.0	2041
13.	Duran Vega, Andres		CRC	1993	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	*	0	2.0	1889
14.	Zhang, Juan		CRC	1811	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	*	1.5	1863

14) 1st Negroponte International Open

The 1st Negroponte International Open takes place 9th-17th August 2010. Denis Khismatullin, Igor Kurnosov, SS Ganguly, Sandipan Chanda, Eduardas Rozentalis etc compete.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr33842.aspx

Official site: http://www.negroponte2010.gr/

Negroponte Open Chalkis (GRE), 9-17 viii 2010 Leading Round 8 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Atalik Suat	GM	TUR	2607	7,0	1,0	34,0	0,0
2	Hess Robert L	GM	USA	2588	7,0	0,0	32,0	0,0
3	Burmakin Vladimir	GM	RUS	2605	6,5	0,0	30,0	0,0
4	Andriasian Zaven	GM	ARM	2588	6,0	0,0	32,5	0,0
5	Papaioannou Ioannis	GM	GRE	2621	6,0	0,0	29,0	0,0
6	Ghaem Maghami Ehsan	GM	IRI	2585	6,0	0,0	29,0	0,0
7	Graf Alexander	GM	GER	2590	6,0	0,0	29,0	0,0
8	Parligras Mircea	GM	ROU	2574	6,0	0,0	29,0	0,0
9	Bosiocic Marin	GM	CRO	2543	6,0	0,0	29,0	0,0
10	Ganguly Surya Shekhar	GM	IND	2655	6,0	0,0	28,5	0,0
11	Khismatullin Denis	GM	RUS	2667	6,0	0,0	28,0	0,0
12	Nikolaidis Ioannis	GM	GRE	2493	6,0	0,0	28,0	0,0
13	Vorobiov Evgeny E	GM	RUS	2592	6,0	0,0	28,0	0,0
14	Sandipan Chanda	GM	IND	2637	6,0	0,0	27,5	0,0
15	Melia Salome	IM	GEO	2442	6,0	0,0	27,5	0,0
16	Baghdasaryan Vahe		ARM	2229	6,0	0,0	27,0	0,0
17	Rozentalis Eduardas	GM	LTU	2631	6,0	0,0	27,0	0,0
18	Moradiabadi Elshan	GM	IRI	2571	6,0	0,0	27,0	0,0
19	Zablotsky Sergei	GM	RUS	2553	6,0	0,0	26,5	0,0
20	Halkias Stelios	GM	GRE	2588	6,0	0,0	26,0	0,0
21	Gupta Abhijeet	GM	IND	2587	5,5	0,0	28,5	0,0
22	Mastrovasilis Athanasios	GM	GRE	2539	5,5	0,0	28,5	0,0
23	Rychagov Andrey	GM	RUS	2538	5,5	0,0	28,0	0,0
24	Nikolov Momchil	GM	BUL	2552	5,5	0,0	28,0	0,0
25	David Alberto	GM	LUX	2622	5,5	0,0	28,0	0,0
26	Charkhalashvili Inga	WGM	GEO	2346	5,5	0,0	26,5	0,0
204 players

15) XXXVI Badalona Open

The XXXVI Badalona Open took place 2nd-10th August 2010. Lazaro Bruzon Batista took first place. Results below as given on chess.results.com. Either they used a funny scoring system for the leading players or the points totals are wrong, not sure which.

Official site: http://www.cesantjosep.com/open/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr32550.aspx

36th Open Badalona (ESP), 2-10 viii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Bruzon Batista Lazaro	GM	CUB	2653	87,0	37,5	0,0
2	Quesada Perez Yuniesky	GM	CUB	2603	77,0	38,5	0,0
3	Almeida Quintana Omar	GM	CUB	2559	66,5	35,5	0,0
4	Corrales Jimenez Fidel	GM	CUB	2574	57,0	38,5	0,0
5	Munoz Pantoja Miguel	IM	PER	2494	46,5	34,0	0,0
6	Bhat Vinay S	GM	USA	2536	35,0	31,5	0,0
7	Larino Nieto David	IM	ESP	2461	26,0	33,5	0,0
8	Narciso Dublan Marc	GM	ESP	2540	15,5	34,0	0,0
9	Gonzalez Garcia Jose	GM	MEX	2508	6,5	33,0	0,0
10	Karlsson Lars	GM	SWE	2449	6,5	32,5	0,0
11	Cruz Filemon	IM	PER	2456	6,5	32,5	0,0
12	Van Kooten Luuk	FM	NED	2304	6,0	32,5	0,0
13	Gonzalez Perez Arian	FM	CUB	2403	6,0	31,5	0,0
14	Anikaev Yuri N	IM	RUS	2411	6,0	30,5	0,0
15	Bromberger Stefan	IM	GER	2537	6,0	30,0	0,0
16	Grafl Florian	IM	GER	2416	6,0	30,0	0,0
17	Mohota Nisha	WGM	IND	2295	6,0	29,5	0,0
18	Rojas Keim Luis	IM	CHI	2437	6,0	29,0	0,0
19	Abreu Delgado Aryam	GM	CUB	2474	6,0	28,5	0,0
20	Perez Mitjans Orelvis	FM	ESP	2424	5,5	31,5	0,0
21	Konguvel Ponnuswamy	IM	IND	2416	5,5	30,5	0,0
22	Bukal Vladimir Jr	IM	CRO	2381	5,5	29,5	0,0
23	Gongora Reyes Maikel	IM	CUB	2451	5,5	28,5	0,0
24	Perpinya Rofes Lluis Maria	FM	ESP	2344	5,5	27,5	0,0
25	Hernandez Ivan	FM	PER	2310	5,5	27,5	0,0
26	Spielmann Alain	FM	FRA	2286	5,5	27,5	0,0
27	Gomez Jurado Luis Alberto	FM	ESP	2287	5,5	27,0	0,0
28	Agostinho Tito Andre Queila		ANG	0	5,5	24,0	0,0
29	Cruz Jonathan	IM	PER	2437	5,0	31,5	0,0
30	Ipatov Alexander	IM	ESP	2507	5,0	31,0	0,0
31	Pomes Marcet Juan	IM	ESP	2361	5,0	29,0	0,0
32	Mestre Bellido Hector	FM	ESP	2404	5,0	28,5	0,0
33	Getz Nicolai		NOR	2239	5,0	27,5	0,0
34	Abdalla Luiz Guilherme Aurelli		BRA	2253	5,0	27,0	0,0
35	Wantiez Fabrice	FM	BEL	2342	5,0	26,5	0,0
36	Alberto Manuel		ANG	2140	5,0	26,5	0,0
37	Jellema Yme Jan		NED	2194	5,0	25,5	0,0
38	Llaneza Vega Patricia	WIM	ESP	2289	5,0	23,5	0,0
39	Van Gelder Bart		NED	2152	5,0	22,5	0,0
40	Rojano Cano Francisco Jose	MK	ESP	2127	5,0	21,5	0,0
105 players

16) Minsk Open

The Minsk Open took place 4th-12th August 2010. Alexander Khalifman edged out top seed Sergei Zhigalko on tie-break after both scored 7/9. Final round games not yet available.

Official site: http://openchess.by/hide/eventnews/225.html

Minsk Open (BLR), 4-12 viii 2010 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Pl	Name	Elo	Pts	WP	SB	PS	TPR	Dif
1.	Khalifman, Alexander	7.0	53.5	41.00	38.0	2625	2624	- 0.02
	Zhigalko, Sergei	7.0	52.0	39.50	36.5	2656	2624	- 0.29
	Zhigalko, Andrey	7.0	50.0	38.00	35.5	2591	2593	- 0.02
4.	Lintchevski, Daniil	6.5	54.5	37.25	39.0	2507	2571	+0.74
	Tihonov, Jurij	6.5	54.0	37.50	35.0	2469	2535	+0.74
	Prizant, Jaroslav	6.5	51.5	34.25	37.5	2489	2511	+0.29
	Teterev, Vitaly	6.5	50.5	35.50	33.5	2520	2422	- 0.88
	Zaiatz, Elena	6.5	50.5	34.50	33.5	2398	2470	+0.83
	Glidzhain, Gor	6.5	50.0	34.50	35.0	2369	2419	+0.56
	Podolchenko, Evgeniy	6.5	47.0	33.00	33.5	2514	2424	- 0.79
	Sharevich, Anna	6.5	46.5	31.25	30.5	2253	2410	+1.66
	Omariev, Maksim	6.5	44.0	32.00	30.5	2311	2317	+0.11
13.	Meribanov, Vitaly	6.0	50.5	31.50	33.0	2171	2445	+3.30
	Belyakov, Bogdan	6.0	49.0	30.25	31.0	2225	2384	+1.95
	Bulanov, Dmitri	6.0	47.0	29.75	30.5	2379	2297	- 0.93
	Aliavdin, Nikolai	6.0	46.5	30.75	29.0	2367	2265	- 1.11
	Lomako, Pavel	6.0	45.5	29.50	31.0	2431	2343	- 0.93
	Harshkou, Mikita	6.0	45.0	27.25	31.5	2175	2364	+2.31
	Zamruk, Aleksandar	6.0	45.0	29.25	28.5	2394	2253	- 1.40
	Leontiev, Aleksandr V.	6.0	43.5	26.75	30.5	2304	2298	- 0.12
21.	Smirnov, Valerij	5.5	50.0	27.50	31.5	2361	2323	- 0.44
	Kolesnik, Eduard	5.5	49.5	28.50	30.0	2351	2328	- 0.26
	Kovalev, Vladislav	5.5	47.5	25.50	31.0	2329	2319	- 0.08
	Grib, Roman	5.5	47.0	27.00	29.5	2219	2301	+1.00
	Kholopov, Alexander A.	5.5	46.5	26.50	30.0	2315	2265	- 0.62
	Kocheev, Aleksandr	5.5	46.0	24.25	30.5	2259	2347	+0.98
	Daulyte, Deimante	5.5	46.0	25.00	30.5	2333	2291	- 0.53
	Mochalov, Evgeny V	5.5	45.5	25.75	29.0	2408	2254	- 1.61
	Poleshchuk, Dmitriy	5.5	43.0	23.50	28.0	2204	2250	+0.55
	Khamitskiy, Sergei	5.5	43.0	25.50	26.0	2340	2148	- 1.97
	Shulakova, Svetlana	5.5	42.5	23.75	26.0	2192	2198	+0.10
	Homiakova, Elena	5.5	42.5	23.25	26.5	2142	2228	+0.98
	Elkin, Leonid	5.5	41.0	21.75	25.0	2196	2110	- 0.98
	Kisel, Nikita	5.5	40.5	21.00	22.0	1988	2099	+1.22
	Belotserkovsky, Dmitry	5.5	39.0	19.75	22.5	1978	2023	+0.34
36.	Bakin, Alexander	5.0	49.5	24.75	29.5	2247	2297	+0.59
	Kurukin, Dmitry	5.0	49.0	24.25	29.5	2258	2263	+0.05
	Bogachkov, Igor	5.0	49.0	25.00	29.5	2347	2286	- 0.76
	Bykov, Alexey	5.0	48.0	23.75	28.0	2257	2306	+0.59
	Cherepov, Alexej	5.0	46.5	22.75	28.5	2238	2281	+0.50
	Stetsko, Lanita	5.0	45.5	22.25	26.5	2132	2241	+1.20
	Litvinov, Vladimir	5.0	45.0	22.50	28.0	2277	2199	- 0.94
	Mukhin, Pavel	5.0	44.5	22.00	27.5	2214	2257	+0.50
	Abramenko, Sergey	5.0	44.5	21.75	28.0	2155	2173	+0.24
	Ayvazyan, Nikita	5.0	44.0	21.50	26.0	1888	2170	+2.72
	Ikonomopoulou, Maria	5.0	43.0	20.25	26.5	2066	2197	+1.44
	Turebayeva, Alfiya	5.0	41.5	20.25	25.5	2162	2186	+0.21
	Gromadin, Gleb	5.0	40.5	20.00	23.0	2169	2055	- 1.39
	Dvurechensky, Viacheslav	5.0	39.5	19.25	19.5	1994	2075	+0.84
	Agrafenin, Andrey	5.0	39.0	19.25	25.0	2071	2060	- 0.15
	Gorozhankina, Julia	5.0	38.0	18.75	23.5	2072	2045	- 0.24
	Nikitenko, Mihail	5.0	36.5	17.25	18.5	1804	1947	+1.25
122 players

17) Villa Martelli Bicentenary

The bicentenary tournament in Villa Martelli took place 4th-13th August 2010. Anatoly Karpov gave a simul on 7th August. Ruben Felgaer took clear first place in the main Category XIII event with 6.5/9.

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

Bicentenario GM Villa Martelli (ARG), 4-12 viii 2010															cat. XIII (2558)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Felgaer, Ruben	g	ARG	2584	*	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	1	6½	2721
2.	Morovic Fernandez, Ivan	g	CHI	2566	½	*	½	½	0	1	1	½	1	1	6	2682
3.	Flores, Diego	g	ARG	2584	½	½	*	0	½	½	1	1	1	1	6	2680
4.	Leitao, Rafael	g	BRA	2629	½	½	1	*	½	½	½	½	0	1	5	2593
5.	Rodriguez Vila, Andres	g	URU	2508	0	1	½	½	*	1	0	½	½	1	5	2606
6.	Fier, Alexandr	g	BRA	2570	½	0	½	½	0	*	½	1	1	1	5	2599
7.	Milos, Gilberto	g	BRA	2606	½	0	0	½	1	½	*	½	½	1	4½	2552
8.	Valerga, Diego	m	ARG	2506	0	½	0	½	½	0	½	*	½	1	3½	2483
9.	Bachmann, Axel	g	PAR	2552	0	0	0	1	½	0	½	½	*	½	3	2433
10.	Diaz Hollemaert, Nahuel	m	ARG	2474	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	*	½	2123

Round 6 (August 9, 2010)
Flores, Diego	- Morovic Fernandez, Ivan	½-½	30	A28	English Four Knights
Rodriguez Vila, Andres	- Leitao, Rafael	½-½	22	A46	Queen's Pawn Opening
Fier, Alexandr	- Felgaer, Ruben	½-½	100	B35	Sicilian Defence
Valerga, Diego	- Milos, Gilberto	½-½	14	A65	Benoni
Diaz Hollemaert, Nahuel	- Bachmann, Axel	½-½	14	A13	Reti Opening
Round 7 (August 10, 2010)
Felgaer, Ruben	- Valerga, Diego	1-0	39	C07	French Tarrasch
Morovic Fernandez, Ivan	- Diaz Hollemaert, Nahuel	1-0	53	A30	English Symmetrical
Leitao, Rafael	- Flores, Diego	1-0	37	E39	Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Milos, Gilberto	- Rodriguez Vila, Andres	1-0	48	C05	French Tarrasch
Bachmann, Axel	- Fier, Alexandr	0-1	58	B23	Sicilian Closed
Round 8 (August 11, 2010)
Flores, Diego	- Diaz Hollemaert, Nahuel	1-0	75	D15	Slav Defence
Leitao, Rafael	- Milos, Gilberto	½-½	33	E06	Catalan
Rodriguez Vila, Andres	- Felgaer, Ruben	0-1	47	A04	Dutch System
Fier, Alexandr	- Morovic Fernandez, Ivan	0-1	87	D37	QGD 5.Bf4
Valerga, Diego	- Bachmann, Axel	½-½	81	E91	King's Indian Classical
Round 9 (August 12, 2010)
Felgaer, Ruben	- Leitao, Rafael	½-½	20	C53	Giuoco Piano
Morovic Fernandez, Ivan	- Valerga, Diego	½-½	100	E62	King's Indian 6...Nc6
Milos, Gilberto	- Flores, Diego	0-1	59	C49	Four Knights Metger
Bachmann, Axel	- Rodriguez Vila, Andres	½-½	67	A04	Dutch System
Diaz Hollemaert, Nahuel	- Fier, Alexandr	0-1	33	A37	English Symmetrical

XIV Republica Villa Martelli (ARG), 4-12 viii 2010															cat. VII (2401)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Mareco, Sandro	m	ARG	2527	*	1	½	1	½	1	1	½	1	1	7½	2659
2.	Real de Azua, Ernesto	m	ARG	2432	0	*	1	1	½	1	½	1	½	½	6	2522
3.	Barrionuevo, Pablo	f	ARG	2337	½	0	*	½	1	1	1	0	1	1	6	2532
4.	Garcia Palermo, Carlos	g	ITA	2450	0	0	½	*	½	½	1	½	1	1	5	2438
5.	Slipak, Sergio	g	ARG	2440	½	½	0	½	*	½	½	½	½	½	4	2353
6.	De Dovitiis, Alejo	m	ARG	2361	0	0	0	½	½	*	1	1	½	½	4	2362
7.	Barreto Filho, Carlos Alberto	f	BRA	2329	0	½	0	0	½	0	*	1	½	1	3½	2328
8.	Saldano Dayer, Horacio	m	ESP	2428	½	0	1	½	½	0	0	*	0	½	3	2272
9.	Trois, Francisco R.T	m	BRA	2319	0	½	0	0	½	½	½	1	*	0	3	2284
10.	Fusco, Leonardo	m	ARG	2383	0	½	0	0	½	½	0	½	1	*	3	2277

56th Aniv ITT Villa Martelli (ARG), 4-12 viii 2010															cat. II (2281)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Liascovich, Lucas	m	ARG	2427	*	½	½	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	7	2485
2.	Della Morte, German	m	ARG	2351	½	*	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	½	6½	2439
3.	Tristan, Leonardo		ARG	2393	½	½	*	1	1	1	0	½	½	1	6	2394
4.	Fabian, Gaston		ARG	2260	0	½	0	*	1	½	1	½	1	1	5½	2363
5.	Guerrero, Alvaro		URU	2267	0	0	0	0	*	1	1	½	1	1	4½	2283
6.	Ibar, Marcelo	f	ARG	2210	1	0	0	½	0	*	1	½	½	½	4	2246
7.	Espinoza Palomino, Willyam		PER	2292	0	½	1	0	0	0	*	½	0	1	3	2155
8.	Zuriel, Marisa	wm	ARG	2205	0	0	½	½	½	½	½	*	½	0	3	2164
9.	Menna Barreto, Felipe Kubiaki		BRA	2154	0	0	½	0	0	½	1	½	*	½	3	2170
10.	Szmetan, Ricardo	f	BAR	2255	0	½	0	0	0	½	0	1	½	*	2½	2118

18) Arad Open

The Arad Open (Romania) took place 6th-12th August 2010. Vlad-Cristian Jianu took clear first place with 7.5/9.

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

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr36912.aspx

Open Arad (ROU), 6-12 viii 2010 Leading Round 9 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Jianu Vlad-Cristian	GM	ROU	2504	7,5	44,25	6	42,5
2	Szabo Gergely-Andras-Gyula	GM	ROU	2568	7,0	42,00	5	43,5
3	Grigore George-Gabriel	GM	ROU	2532	7,0	41,75	5	43,5
4	Vajda Levente	GM	ROU	2505	7,0	40,50	6	42,5
5	Sanduleac Vasile	GM	MDA	2451	6,5	37,25	4	43,0
6	Stanciu Alexandru-Ovidiu	CM	ROU	2261	6,5	37,00	5	42,0
7	Mekhitarian Krikor Sevag	GM	BRA	2511	6,5	37,00	5	42,0
8	Ardelean George-Catalin	IM	ROU	2514	6,5	36,75	5	41,5
9	Leviczky Tibor	FM	HUN	2393	6,5	36,50	4	41,5
10	Cioara Andrei-Nestor	IM	ROU	2427	6,5	35,25	6	41,0
11	Chifor Ovidiu-Emanuel	CM	ROU	2264	6,5	33,75	5	39,0
12	Rusan Paul	FM	ROU	2254	6,5	33,50	6	39,5
13	Kelly Ladislau-Endre		ROU	2223	6,5	32,50	6	36,0
14	Bogdan Dan	IM	ROU	2356	6,0	34,25	5	41,5
15	Petrisor Adrian-Marian	FM	ROU	2331	6,0	32,75	5	41,5
16	Turcu Iulian	CM	ROU	2232	6,0	31,75	5	39,5
17	Garbea Bogdan	CM	ROU	2268	6,0	29,50	5	38,0
18	Prunescu Claudiu	CM	ROU	2246	6,0	29,50	5	38,0
19	Florescu Codrut-Constantin	IM	ROU	2172	6,0	29,00	6	36,5
20	Horvat Dan-Sebastian	CM	ROU	2148	6,0	27,50	6	35,0
21	Sgircea Silvia-Raluca	WFM	ROU	2198	6,0	27,00	6	35,5
22	Jakovlev Juri		EST	2090	6,0	26,25	5	35,0
23	Ungureanu Sandu	I	ROU	1117	6,0	25,25	5	32,5
24	Sergeev Vladimir	GM	UKR	2486	5,5	27,25	5	40,5
25	Samu Sorin-Mihai	CM	ROU	2180	5,5	26,75	5	38,5
26	Lupascu Matei-Alexandru	I	ROU	1777	5,5	26,25	5	36,0
123 players

19) First Saturday August

The First Saturday GM-IM-FM events take place 7th-17th August 2010. The GM Group is the 1st Karoly Borloy-Androvitzky Memorial named after a master who died 25 years ago.

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

FSGM August Budapest (HUN), 7-17 viii 2010															cat. VI (2386)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Mihok, Oliver	f	HUN	2357	*	1	.	0	½	.	½	1	½	1	1	1	6½	2561
2.	Hoang Thanh Trang	g	HUN	2501	0	*	1	1	½	½	1	½	½	.	.	1	6	2507
3.	Szabo, Bence		HUN	2243	.	0	*	1	½	½	.	1	1	½	½	½	5½	2486
4.	Konnyu, Janos	m	HUN	2401	1	0	0	*	½	½	½	.	.	1	½	1	5	2416
5.	Kosic, Dragan	g	MNE	2488	½	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	½	.	.	4½	2396
6.	Varga, Zoltan	g	HUN	2473	.	½	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	½	.	4½	2396
7.	Eid, Fadi	m	LIB	2376	½	0	.	½	½	½	*	.	.	½	1	½	4	2392
8.	Kargin, Arseny	m	RUS	2396	0	½	0	.	½	½	.	*	½	.	1	1	4	2389
9.	Genov, Petar	g	BUL	2478	½	½	0	.	½	½	.	½	*	½	½	½	4	2332
10.	Kislik, Erik Andrew	f	USA	2342	0	.	½	0	½	½	½	.	½	*	½	0	3	2252
11.	Lorscheid, Gerhard	f	GER	2345	0	.	½	½	.	½	0	0	½	½	*	½	3	2241
12.	Feher, Adam		HUN	2233	0	0	½	0	.	.	½	0	½	1	½	*	3	2257

Round 1 (August 7, 2010)
Mihok, Oliver	- Eid, Fadi	½-½	20	C42	Petroff's Defence
Hoang Thanh Trang	- Feher, Adam	1-0	56	B13	Caro Kann Exchange
Szabo, Bence	- Konnyu, Janos	1-0	31	E70	King's Indian Fianchetto
Kosic, Dragan	- Varga, Zoltan	½-½	14	D85	Gruenfeld Defence
Kargin, Arseny	- Lorscheid, Gerhard	1-0	38	B07	Pirc Defence
Genov, Petar	- Kislik, Erik Andrew	½-½	15	D90	Gruenfeld Flohr
Round 2 (August 8, 2010)
Konnyu, Janos	- Mihok, Oliver	1-0	68	B48	Sicilian Paulsen
Kosic, Dragan	- Hoang Thanh Trang	½-½	15	D47	Queens Gambit Meran
Varga, Zoltan	- Eid, Fadi	½-½	13	E14	Queens Indian
Kislik, Erik Andrew	- Szabo, Bence	½-½	32	B53	Sicilian Hungarian
Lorscheid, Gerhard	- Genov, Petar	½-½	15	D94	Gruenfeld Closed
Feher, Adam	- Kargin, Arseny	0-1	59	B77	Sicilian Modern Dragon
Round 3 (August 9, 2010)
Mihok, Oliver	- Kislik, Erik Andrew	1-0	34	C02	French Advance
Hoang Thanh Trang	- Varga, Zoltan	½-½	7	D00	Queen's Pawn Game
Szabo, Bence	- Lorscheid, Gerhard	½-½	72	D11	Slav Defence
Eid, Fadi	- Konnyu, Janos	½-½	37	B23	Sicilian Closed
Kargin, Arseny	- Kosic, Dragan	½-½	12	C11	French Defence
Genov, Petar	- Feher, Adam	½-½	78	D35	QGD Exchange
Round 4 (August 10, 2010)
Hoang Thanh Trang	- Kargin, Arseny	½-½	58	D00	Queen's Pawn Game
Kosic, Dragan	- Genov, Petar	½-½	15	C92	Ruy Lopez Chigorin
Varga, Zoltan	- Konnyu, Janos	½-½	33	E84	King's Indian Saemisch
Kislik, Erik Andrew	- Eid, Fadi	½-½	23	C44	Scotch Gambit
Lorscheid, Gerhard	- Mihok, Oliver	0-1	41	D11	Slav Defence
Feher, Adam	- Szabo, Bence	½-½	20	B32	Sicilian Labourdonnais
Round 5 (August 11, 2010)
Mihok, Oliver	- Feher, Adam	1-0	85	B12	Caro Kann Advanced
Szabo, Bence	- Kosic, Dragan	½-½	24	E11	Bogo Indian Defence
Konnyu, Janos	- Kislik, Erik Andrew	1-0	29	C03	French Tarrasch
Eid, Fadi	- Lorscheid, Gerhard	1-0	37	C25	Vienna Game
Kargin, Arseny	- Varga, Zoltan	½-½	8	B01	Centre Counter
Genov, Petar	- Hoang Thanh Trang	½-½	12	A96	Dutch Defence
Round 6 (August 12, 2010)
Hoang Thanh Trang	- Szabo, Bence	1-0	40	A47	Queen's Indian without c2-c4
Kosic, Dragan	- Mihok, Oliver	½-½	36	D31	Semi-Slav Defence
Varga, Zoltan	- Kislik, Erik Andrew	½-½	41	D12	Slav Defence
Kargin, Arseny	- Genov, Petar	½-½	11	C41	Philidor's Defence
Lorscheid, Gerhard	- Konnyu, Janos	½-½	48	E84	King's Indian Saemisch
Feher, Adam	- Eid, Fadi	½-½	26	B00	Owen or Nimzowitsch Defence
Round 7 (August 13, 2010)
Mihok, Oliver	- Hoang Thanh Trang	1-0	51	C16	French Winawer
Szabo, Bence	- Kargin, Arseny	1-0	27	D17	Slav Defence
Konnyu, Janos	- Feher, Adam	1-0	43	B19	Caro Kann
Eid, Fadi	- Kosic, Dragan	½-½	38	C13	French Classical
Genov, Petar	- Varga, Zoltan	½-½	16	E92	King's Indian Classical
Kislik, Erik Andrew	- Lorscheid, Gerhard	½-½	18	C41	Philidor's Defence
Round 8 (August 14, 2010)
Hoang Thanh Trang	- Eid, Fadi	1-0	51	D02	Queen's Pawn Game
Kosic, Dragan	- Konnyu, Janos	½-½	50	A48	King's Indian Defence /c2-c4
Varga, Zoltan	- Lorscheid, Gerhard	½-½	25	A41	Modern Defence
Kargin, Arseny	- Mihok, Oliver	0-1	32	B81	Sicilian Keres Attack
Genov, Petar	- Szabo, Bence	0-1	43	E18	Queens Indian
Feher, Adam	- Kislik, Erik Andrew	1-0	26	B85	Sicilian Scheveningen
Round 9 (August 15, 2010)
Mihok, Oliver	- Genov, Petar	½-½	17	C42	Petroff's Defence
Szabo, Bence	- Varga, Zoltan	½-½	11	D11	Slav Defence
Konnyu, Janos	- Hoang Thanh Trang	0-1	22	C03	French Tarrasch
Kislik, Erik Andrew	- Kosic, Dragan	½-½	43	C11	French Defence
Lorscheid, Gerhard	- Feher, Adam	½-½	55	D48	Queens Gambit Meran

FSIMA August Budapest (HUN), 7-15 viii 2010
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Zhao, Parker		USA	2267	*	1	.	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	7	2583
2.	To, Nhat Minh	f	HUN	2441	0	*	1	½	.	½	½	1	½	1	5	2320
3.	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	wf	VIE	2240	.	0	*	1	½	½	0	1	1	1	5	2342
4.	Lengyel, Bela	m	HUN	2251	½	½	0	*	½	1	½	1	.	½	4½	2302
5.	Adams, Nick A		USA	2244	0	.	½	½	*	½	½	1	1	0	4	2225
6.	Kaufman, Raymond	m	USA	2333	0	½	½	0	½	*	.	½	1	1	4	2235
7.	Hardicsay, Peter	m	HUN	2271	0	½	1	½	½	.	*	0	½	½	3½	2192
8.	Battey, Alexander		USA	2150	½	0	0	0	0	½	1	*	½	.	2½	2135
9.	Lyell, Mark	f	ENG	2162	0	½	0	.	0	0	½	½	*	1	2½	2118
10.	Privitera, Franco		ITA	2131	0	0	0	½	1	0	½	.	0	*	2	2083

FSIMB August Budapest (HUN), 7-15 viii 2010															cat. I (2261)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Kashtanov, Ruslan	m	RUS	2319	*	1	1	0	1	.	1	½	½	1	6	2461
2.	Erdelyi, Zombor		HUN	2336	0	*	1	1	0	1	½	½	½	.	4½	2309
3.	Maryasin, Boris	m	ISR	2339	0	0	*	.	1	1	0	1	1	½	4½	2296
4.	Tran Tuan Minh	f	VIE	2244	1	0	.	*	1	0	½	0	1	½	4	2253
5.	Farago, Sandor	m	HUN	2243	0	1	0	0	*	1	½	.	1	½	4	2272
6.	Omarsson, Dadi		ISL	2150	.	0	0	1	0	*	1	½	1	½	4	2268
7.	Szalanczy, Emil	m	HUN	2272	0	½	1	½	½	0	*	1	.	.	3½	2260
8.	Martynov, Pavel2		RUS	2190	½	½	0	1	.	½	0	*	0	½	3	2185
9.	Petr('a)n, P('a)l	m	HUN	2372	½	½	0	0	0	0	.	1	*	1	3	2159
10.	Qu Yanqiao		CHN	2149	0	.	½	½	½	½	.	½	0	*	2½	2163

20) Euro Chess Tournament

The Euro Chess Tournament took place 9th-14th August 2010 including the University of Twente Young Masters invitation tournament and the 36th Open Dutch Youth Championships. This year it was also part of the ECU Youth Grand Prix. Valentin Iotov won the Young Masters with 7/9 taking a couple of quick draws towards the end.

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

Twente Young Masters Enschede (NED), 9-14 viii 2010															cat. VIII (2448)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Iotov, Valentin	g	BUL	2581	*	½	½	1	1	1	½	1	½	1	7	2652
2.	Zherebukh, Yaroslav	g	UKR	2572	½	*	½	1	1	½	½	½	1	½	6	2558
3.	Kravtsiv, Martyn	g	UKR	2559	½	½	*	0	½	½	½	1	1	½	5	2478
4.	Popilski, Gil	m	ISR	2451	0	0	1	*	½	½	1	0	1	1	5	2490
5.	Van Kampen, Robin	m	NED	2422	0	0	½	½	*	½	1	½	1	1	5	2493
6.	Kleijn, Christov	m	NED	2424	0	½	½	½	½	*	½	1	0	1	4½	2450
7.	Ootes, Lars		NED	2315	½	½	½	0	0	½	*	½	1	1	4½	2462
8.	Maenhout, Thibaut	f	BEL	2363	0	½	0	1	½	0	½	*	½	1	4	2413
9.	Van Assendelft, Floris	f	NED	2374	½	0	0	0	0	1	0	½	*	0	2	2235
10.	Miedema, David	m	NED	2414	0	½	½	0	0	0	0	0	1	*	2	2231

21) Macedonian Team Championships

The XIX Team Championship of Macedonia took place in Struga from 9th-15th August 2010. Alkaloid from Struga took first place.

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

TCh-MKD Struga (MKD), 9-15 viii 2010
Pl	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	MP	Pts
1	Alkaloid	*	5½	3	3	4½	5½	4½	5½	12	31½
2	GSK Kochani	½	*	3½	3½	3½	3½	4	4	12	22½
3	Gambit Aseco See	3	2½	*	4½	4	5½	3½	4½	11	27½
4	BM Kisela Voda	3	2½	1½	*	4	4½	3½	3½	9	22½
5	Teteks	1½	2½	2	2	*	3½	5	5	6	21½
6	Prilep	½	2½	½	1½	2½	*	3	4½	3	15
7	Biznis Milenium	1½	2	2½	2½	1	3	*	3	2	15½
8	GSK Kumanovo	½	2	1½	2½	1	1½	3	*	1	12

22) Slovenian Championships

The Slovenian Championships took place in Ljubljana 7th-15th August 2010. Luka Lenic score 7/9 to take the men's title. Vesna Rozic edged out Idira Bajt on tie-break to take the women's title after both scored 7/9.

Official site: http://www.sah-zveza.si/rez/1008/si10chw/

ch-SLO Ljubljana (SLO), 7-15 viii 2010															cat. VIII (2429)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Lenic, Luka	g	SLO	2602	*	1	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	1	7	2629
2.	Skoberne, Jure	m	SLO	2519	0	*	½	1	½	½	1	1	1	1	6½	2584
3.	Sebenik, Matej	m	SLO	2518	½	½	*	1	0	½	½	1	1	½	5½	2498
4.	Zorko, Jure	m	SLO	2437	½	0	0	*	1	½	½	1	1	½	5	2470
5.	Jelen, Igor	m	SLO	2383	0	½	1	0	*	½	½	½	1	1	5	2476
6.	Tratar, Marko	g	SLO	2505	½	½	½	½	½	*	1	0	½	½	4½	2420
7.	Gjuran, Denis	f	SLO	2351	½	0	½	½	½	0	*	½	½	1	4	2394
8.	Srebrnic, Marko	f	SLO	2331	0	0	0	0	½	1	½	*	½	½	3	2314
9.	Crepan, Marjan	f	SLO	2317	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	*	1	2½	2275
10.	Gombac, Jan	f	SLO	2324	0	0	½	½	0	½	0	½	0	*	2	2220

ch-SLO w Ljubljana SLO (SLO), 7-15 viii 2010
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Rozic, Vesna	wm	SLO	2287	*	½	½	1	1	½	½	1	1	1	7	2231
2.	Bajt, Indira	wf	SLO	2189	½	*	0	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	7	2242
3.	Krivec, Jana	wg	SLO	2318	½	1	*	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	6½	2173
4.	Stevanec, Lea	wf	SLO	2129	0	0	1	*	½	1	½	½	1	½	5	2071
5.	Kolaric, Spela		SLO	1996	0	0	1	½	*	½	½	1	0	1	4½	2043
6.	Novak, Ksenija	wf	SLO	2200	½	0	0	0	½	*	1	1	1	½	4½	2021
7.	Bucar, Natasa		SLO	1989	½	½	0	½	½	0	*	0	1	1	4	2001
8.	Nadvesnik, Maja		SLO	1826	0	0	0	½	0	0	1	*	0	1	2½	1896
9.	Urbanc, Suzana		SLO	1664	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	*	0	2	1860
10.	Kralj, Manca		SLO	1791	0	0	0	½	0	½	0	0	1	*	2	1846

23) 18th Troya Open

18th Troya 2010 chess tournament took place 7th-15th August 2010 in Canakkale, Turkey. There were two categories: Open and Under 16. Davit Maghalashvili edged out Bachana Morchiashvili on tie-break after both finished on 8/9.

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

24) e2e4 Uxbridge Autumn International

The e2e4 Uxbridge Autumn Internationals took place 11th - 15th August 2010. GM, IM, Women's and various Elo rated groups were played.

Details: http://www.e2e4.org.uk/international/2010/Uxbridge_Aug/index.htm

e2e4 Autumn Masters A Uxbridge (ENG), 11-15 viii 2010															cat. II (2276)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Buckley, Graeme N	m	ENG	2380	*	½	1	1	½	1	1	½	1	1	7½	2537
2.	McNab, Colin A	g	SCO	2463	½	*	½	½	1	0	1	1	½	1	6	2379
3.	Williams, Simon K	g	ENG	2511	0	½	*	½	1	1	0	1	½	1	5½	2329
4.	Poobalasingam, Peter S		ENG	2326	0	½	½	*	1	0	1	½	1	1	5½	2350
5.	Nilsson, Anders1		SWE	2160	½	0	0	0	*	1	1	1	1	1	5½	2368
6.	Sowray, Peter J	f	ENG	2383	0	1	0	1	0	*	0	0	1	1	4	2220
7.	Player, Edmund C		ENG	2176	0	0	1	0	0	1	*	½	1	½	4	2243
8.	Sen, Subin		ENG	2159	½	0	0	½	0	1	½	*	½	0	3	2163
9.	Norinkeviciute, Rasa	wf	LTU	2024	0	½	½	0	0	0	0	½	*	½	2	2083
10.	Jeanne, Mickael		FRA	2174	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	1	½	*	2	2066

e2e4 Autumn Masters B Uxbridge (ENG), 11-15 viii 2010															cat. II (2284)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Rausis, Igor	g	CZE	2466	*	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8	2614
2.	Lefebvre, Herve		FRA	2268	½	*	1	½	0	1	1	0	1	1	6	2410
3.	Arkell, Keith C	g	ENG	2465	½	0	*	½	1	½	0	½	1	1	5	2306
4.	Beaumont, Chris R	m	ENG	2305	0	½	½	*	½	0	1	1	½	1	5	2324
5.	Sturt, Raven M		USA	2173	0	1	0	½	*	1	0	0	1	1	4½	2296
6.	Eggleston, David J	f	ENG	2309	0	0	½	1	0	*	1	1	0	1	4½	2280
7.	Venkataramanan, Tiruchirapalli		IND	2307	0	0	1	0	1	0	*	1	1	½	4½	2281
8.	Rudd, Jack	m	ENG	2236	0	1	½	0	1	0	0	*	½	0	3	2164
9.	Burrows, Martin P		ENG	2173	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	½	*	1	3	2171
10.	Jackson, James P		ENG	2135	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	1	0	*	1½	2027

e2e4 Autumn Women Uxbridge (ENG), 11-15 viii 2010
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Lalic, Susan K	m	ENG	2298	*	½	½	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	7	2231
2.	Steil-Antoni, Fiona	wf	LUX	2193	½	*	½	½	½	½	1	1	½	1	6	2148
3.	Andersson, Christin	wm	SWE	2129	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	5½	2110
4.	Hegarty, Sarah N		ENG	2057	0	½	½	*	½	1	½	1	1	½	5½	2118
5.	Hoare, Amy		ENG	1909	0	½	½	½	*	½	1	1	½	1	5½	2135
6.	Blackburn, Suzie G	wf	WLS	1916	0	½	½	0	½	*	½	1	½	1	4½	2054
7.	Horn, Emilia	wf	SWE	2009	1	0	½	½	0	½	*	0	0	½	3	1919
8.	Dines, Sheila J		ENG	1931	0	0	½	0	0	0	1	*	1	½	3	1927
9.	Lang, Heather		SCO	2059	0	½	0	0	½	½	1	0	*	0	2½	1872
10.	Messam-Sparks, Lateefah		ENG	1904	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	½	1	*	2½	1889

e2e4 Autumn Challengers D Uxbridge (ENG), 11-15 viii 2010
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Jaunooby, Ali R	ENG	2155	*	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	8	2369
2.	Lindner, Daniel	GER	2249	0	*	1	1	1	½	½	1	1	1	7	2228
3.	Zulkipli, Zaidan	MAS	2039	0	0	*	1	1	1	½	1	½	1	6	2156
4.	Foster, James M	ENG	1924	1	0	0	*	0	0	1	1	1	1	5	2087
5.	Bennett, Dominic	ENG	1973	0	0	0	1	*	½	1	½	1	1	5	2082
6.	Kirby, Peter J	GCI	2039	0	½	0	1	½	*	0	½	1	½	4	1988
7.	Peat, Matthew	ENG	2082	0	½	½	0	0	1	*	0	1	1	4	1984
8.	Harley-Yeo, Gareth	WLS	2024	0	0	0	0	½	½	1	*	1	1	4	1990
9.	Healeas, Simon	ENG	1840	0	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	*	1	1½	1780
10.	Winter, Kevin	ENG	----	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	*	½	1592

e2e4 Autumn Challengers E Uxbridge (ENG), 11-15 viii 2010
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Quinn, John M	ENG	2143	*	1	1	0	½	½	1	1	½	1	6½	2173
2.	Keogh, Eamon	IRL	2047	0	*	0	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	6½	2184
3.	Atkinson, Paul	WLS	2215	0	1	*	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	6	2124
4.	Merry, Alan B	ENG	1931	1	0	0	*	1	½	1	0	1	1	5½	2111
5.	Stevenson, James	SCO	2097	½	0	1	0	*	1	½	1	1	½	5½	2092
6.	Collier, Timothy	FRA	2001	½	0	0	½	0	*	½	1	½	½	3½	1943
7.	Garcia, Jason	WLS	2008	0	0	0	0	½	½	*	1	1	½	3½	1942
8.	Kane, Robert	ENG	1864	0	½	0	1	0	0	0	*	1	½	3	1913
9.	Mcbride, John	SCO	1858	½	0	1	0	0	½	0	0	*	½	2½	1873
10.	Bailey, Kevin J	ENG	2047	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	½	½	*	2½	1852

e2e4 Autumn Challengers F Uxbridge (ENG), 11-15 viii 2010
				1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Byron, Alan M	ENG	2190	*	1	½	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	7	2207
2.	Tozer, Philip	ENG	2113	0	*	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	6½	2162
3.	Patel, Shyamal	ENG	1898	½	½	*	0	1	½	1	1	1	½	6	2145
4.	Campbell, Eoin	SCO	1915	½	½	1	*	0	½	0	0	1	1	4½	2018
5.	Lexton, Michael J	WLS	2009	0	½	0	1	*	1	½	½	½	½	4½	2007
6.	Clark, Robert	ENG	----	½	0	½	½	0	*	½	1	½	1	4½	2008
7.	McKenna, Jason P	ENG	2109	0	0	0	1	½	½	*	1	0	1	4	1953
8.	White, David J	ENG	1939	½	0	0	1	½	0	0	*	1	½	3½	1935
9.	Millward, Kevin P	ENG	1969	0	0	0	0	½	½	1	0	*	1	3	1887
10.	Marret, Benjamin	FRA	1936	0	0	½	0	½	0	0	½	0	*	1½	1742

25) Szombathely Tournaments

There were GM, IM and various Open tournaments in Szombathely, Hungary 27th July - 4th August 2010.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr31363.aspx

GM Szombathely (HUN), 27 vii-4 viii 2010															cat. X (2484)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Czebe, Attila	g	HUN	2461	*	1	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	1	6	2611
2.	Pap, Gyula	m	HUN	2508	0	*	½	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	6	2606
3.	Szabo, Gergely-Andras-Gyula	m	ROU	2568	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	5½	2554
4.	Szabo, Krisztian1	m	HUN	2523	0	½	½	*	½	½	1	1	½	1	5½	2559
5.	Kovacs, Gabor2	m	HUN	2500	½	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	1	½	5	2525
6.	Papp, Gabor	m	HUN	2545	½	0	½	½	½	*	1	½	½	½	4½	2477
7.	Vajda, Levente	g	ROU	2505	½	0	½	0	½	0	*	½	1	1	4	2438
8.	Nemeth, Miklos1	m	HUN	2476	½	½	0	0	½	½	½	*	½	½	3½	2404
9.	Baldauf, Marco	f	GER	2363	½	0	½	½	0	½	0	½	*	0	2½	2331
10.	Ringoir, Tanguy	m	BEL	2390	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	½	1	*	2½	2328

IM Szombathely (HUN), 27 vii-4 viii 2010															cat. II (2298)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Lizak, Peter	f	HUN	2337	*	½	1	1	½	½	½	1	½	1	6½	2459
2.	Ruck, Tamas	f	HUN	2279	½	*	½	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	5½	2380
3.	Lakos, Nikoletta	wg	HUN	2279	0	½	*	½	½	1	½	1	½	½	5	2343
4.	Jurcik, Martin	f	SVK	2382	0	½	½	*	½	1	½	½	½	1	5	2331
5.	Farkas, Tibor	m	SRB	2246	½	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	½	4½	2303
6.	Nagy, Gabor1		HUN	2367	½	½	0	0	½	*	1	0	1	1	4½	2290
7.	Tesik, Csaba		HUN	2249	½	0	½	½	½	0	*	½	1	1	4½	2303
8.	Majeric, Zoran	m	CRO	2267	0	½	0	½	½	1	½	*	½	½	4	2258
9.	Banas, Jan	m	SVK	2312	½	½	½	½	½	0	0	½	*	1	4	2253
10.	Goczo, Melinda	wm	HUN	2263	0	0	½	0	½	0	0	½	0	*	1½	2029

26) 25th Open Teteven

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

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

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr35891.aspx

27) 9th Mario Covas

The 9th Mario Covas takes place 13th-19th August 2010 in Sao Paulo Brazil. Rafael Leitao and Gilberto Milos compete. The VII Regina Helena Marques Prol was won by Manuel Larrea.

Official site: http://www.fpx.com.br/2010/paulistao2010/9covas.html

Official site: http://www.fpx.com.br/2010/paulistao2010/7regina.htm

9th Mario Covas Jr Santos (BRA), 13-19 viii 2010															cat. XI (2515)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	El Debs, Felipe de Cresce	m	BRA	2467	*	½	.	.	1	.	.	1	.	½	3	2757
2.	Leitao, Rafael	g	BRA	2610	½	*	½	.	.	1	½	.	.	.	2½	2581
3.	Rodriguez Vila, Andres	g	URU	2522	.	½	*	.	.	0	1	.	1	.	2½	2584
4.	Bachmann, Axel	g	PAR	2559	.	.	.	*	½	.	.	½	½	1	2½	2603
5.	Milos, Gilberto	g	BRA	2589	0	.	.	½	*	1	½	.	.	.	2	2495
6.	Cubas, Jose Fernando	m	PAR	2454	.	0	1	.	0	*	.	.	1	.	2	2527
7.	Mareco, Sandro	m	ARG	2503	.	½	0	.	½	.	*	.	.	1	2	2543
8.	Fier, Alexandr	g	BRA	2604	0	.	.	½	.	.	.	*	½	1	2	2467
9.	Coelho, Luis Henrique	m	BRA	2389	.	.	0	½	.	0	.	½	*	.	1	2341
10.	Di Berardino, Diego Rafael	m	BRA	2453	½	.	.	0	.	.	0	0	.	*	½	2211

7th Marques Prol Santos (BRA), 9-15 viii 2010															cat. III (2308)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Larrea, Manuel	f	URU	2303	*	½	½	½	1	½	½	1	1	½	6	2433
2.	Barbosa, Evandro Amorim		BRA	2279	½	*	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	1	5½	2391
3.	Stamenkovic, Dragan	m	SRB	2391	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	5½	2378
4.	Aranha Filho, Alvaro Z	f	BRA	2292	½	0	½	*	½	½	½	1	1	1	5½	2389
5.	Sega, Carlos Alberto	f	BRA	2293	0	½	½	½	*	½	1	½	1	½	5	2352
6.	Rosito, Jorge	m	ARG	2422	½	½	½	½	½	*	½	0	½	1	4½	2295
7.	Crosa Coll, Martin	m	URU	2398	½	½	½	½	0	½	*	½	½	1	4½	2297
8.	Campelo, Leandro Fabricio		BRA	2237	0	½	½	0	½	1	½	*	½	½	4	2272
9.	Martins, Vinicius Tine	f	BRA	2250	0	½	0	0	0	½	½	½	*	1	3	2189
10.	Van Riemsdijk, Dirk D		BRA	2213	½	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	0	*	1½	2045

28) 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

11th Miquel Mas Open Figueres (ESP), 11-18 viii 2010 Leading Round 7 (of 9) Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	Barria Zuniga Daniel	IM	CHI	2419	6,0	31,5	22,5
2	Martinez Duany Lelys Stanley	GM	CUB	2510	6,0	31,0	22,5
3	Aroshidze Levan	GM	GEO	2548	6,0	28,5	21,0
4	Corrales Jimenez Fidel	GM	CUB	2574	5,5	32,5	23,0
5	Alonso Rosell Alvar	IM	ESP	2521	5,5	30,5	22,0
6	Lillo Castay Victor		ESP	2284	5,5	28,5	20,0
7	Anikaev Yuri N	IM	RUS	2411	5,0	32,0	23,0
8	Campos Moreno Javier B	GM	CHI	2484	5,0	31,5	22,0
9	Cuadras Avellana Jorge	FM	ESP	2305	5,0	30,5	22,0
10	Huerga Leache Mikel	IM	ESP	2424	5,0	30,5	21,5
11	Abdalla Luiz Guilherme Aurelli		BRA	2253	5,0	30,0	22,0
12	Adrian Claude	IM	FRA	2292	5,0	28,0	19,5
13	Sorroche Martin Jose Maria	FM	ESP	2147	4,5	31,0	23,0
14	Sorbe Stephane	FM	FRA	2358	4,5	31,0	22,5
15	Casanellas Ruano Lluis		ESP	2182	4,5	30,5	22,5
16	Gomez Gustavo Pizzocaro		BRA	2142	4,5	29,5	21,0
17	Vinardell Cruanas Sergi		ESP	1955	4,5	29,0	21,0
18	Spielmann Alain	FM	FRA	2286	4,5	28,5	20,5
19	Vidal Zamora Alex		ESP	2150	4,5	27,5	20,0
20	Carlstedt Jonathan		GER	2379	4,5	27,5	20,0
21	Sabria Batlle Pol	cm	ESP	2211	4,5	27,5	19,5
22	Colls Bosch Emili		ESP	2010	4,5	26,5	19,5
23	Triadu Cassa Jordi		ESP	2025	4,5	25,0	16,5
24	Vehi Bach Victor Manuel	IM	ESP	2405	4,0	32,5	23,5
25	Vilar Lopez Monica	WFM	ESP	2166	4,0	29,0	21,0
26	Balague Camps Marc		ESP	1964	4,0	28,5	21,0
100 players

29) Portuguese Division 1

The Portuguese Division 1 took place in Vila Nova de Gaia 24th July - 1st August. Group stages were followed by the final. Sadly many of the games broadcast live are now lost. I've rescued 58 of them. AX Gaia with Sergei Tiviakov and Oleg Korneev won.

Official site: http://www.fpx.pt/online/gaia2010/1div2010.html

Final Standings: http://chess-results.com/tnr36608.aspx

30) 40th annual Continental Open

George Mirijanian reports: The 40th annual Continental Open took place August 12-15, 2010 at the Host Hotel at Cedar Lake in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, USA. GM Aleksandr Lenderman of New York and FIDE master Andrei Zaremba, also of New York, tied for first place with scores of 5-1. They did not face each other. Tied for the runner-up positions with tallies of 4.5-1.5 were GMs Giorgi Kacheishvili of New York, Alexander Ivanov of Masssachusetts, Sergey Kudrin of Connecticut, and FIDE master Charles Riordan of Massachusetts. The tournament drew 264 players in seven sections and was directed by William Goichberg for the sponsoring Continental Chess Association. U.S. Chess Federation senior tournament director Robert Messenger assisted.

31) Baden-Baden Summer Open

The Baden-Baden Summer Open took place 11th-15th August 2010. Andrey Orlov edged out Maxim Turov and Maarten Solleveld on tie-break after all scored 6/7. No games available.

Official site: http://www.schachzentrum-baden-baden.de

32) Vladimir Open

The Vladimir Open takes place 11th-20th August 2010.

Possible results at: http://www.obninskchess.ru/news/

Former official site: http://www.vladchess.ru/ has not been updated for some time.

33) Yaroslavl Open

The Yaroslavl Open took place 2nd-10th August 2010. Artem Chernobay took clear first place with 7/9 half a point clear of Marat Dzhumaev. No games currently available.

Official site: http://www.obninskchess.ru/alltur/alltur10/yar1000/

34) 6th Geller Memorial

The 6th Efim Geller Memorial (Open) takes 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.

News will appear at: http://ukrchess.org.ua

35) Competition to devise new Chess Ratings Systems

Jeff Sonas has initiated a competition to see if the Elo Rating system can be improved upon. As Elo developed his system around 50 years ago without the benefit of modern technology and the amount of data we have these days he felt it might be time to test it against other approaches. It may turn out that the Elo system is still pretty good, Sonas programmed an "Elo Benchmark" entry and submitted it a week ago. It was #1 briefly (for a few hours) but as more people played with the data and submitted their own tries, it fell farther behind and right now (after only a week) it is #14 out of 80 submissions. The contest runs for three more months. The top ten finishers will receive prizes donated by Chessbase or Amazon gift vouchers, and Sonas will be writing up the results of the contest since people have to share their methodology in order to be eligible for prizes.

Details of the competition http://kaggle.com/chess

36) 8th Davos Open

The 8th Davos Open took place August, 8th-14th 2010, in the Hotel "Sunstar". Nedeljko Kelecevic took first on tie-break from 5 other players after they all finished on 5/7.

Official site: http://www.sinchess.com/davos

37) Liepajas Rokade Open

The Liepajas Rokade Open took place 5th-8th August 2010. I reported on the wrong open last week. Oleg Krivonosov won the main open with 9.5/11 half a point clear of Evgeny Sveshnikov. 165 players competed in this rapid open with a time control of 25 minutes + 2 seconds per move. No games available.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr36930.aspx

38) 13th Olomouc Chess Summer

13th Olomouc Chess Summer - Olomouc (FIDE open, closed GM and IM tournaments, seniors tournament, active chess, blitz chess tournament). 4th-12th August 2010. I will round up results and games next week.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr36842.aspx

Official site: http://www.a64.cz/tournaments/olomouc2010/vysledky_en.php

39) Forthcoming Events and Links

Arctic Securities Chess Stars 2010

The Arctic Securities Chess Stars tournament takes place in Kristiansund 28th-30th August 2010. Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Judit Polgar and Jon Ludvig Hammer play in a two stage event. Double Round Robin between the four players followed by finals and 3rd-4th placed playoff on the Monday. 20 minutes + 10 seconds a move.

Official site: http://ksk.no/

Shanghai Masters 2010

The Shanghai Masters takes place 3rd-8th September 2010 just prior to the Olympiad. Wang Hao, as best Chinese player (20th ranked); Alexei Shirov, as best Spanish player (9th ranked); Levon Aronian, as winner of the Final Chess Masters 2009 (5th ranked);and Vladimir Kramnik compete for two places in the Bilbao Masters final after the Olympiad.

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

Bilbao Masters Final 2010

The Bilbao Masters Final takes place October 9th-15th 2010. Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen plus two players from the Shanghai Masters compete in the four player double round robin.

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

Pearl Spring Masters Nanjing 2010

The Pearl Spring Masters (I'm assuming the sponsor remains the same) takes place in Nanjing 18th-30th October 2010. ChessDom reports that the field has been finalised and that it should be just about the strongest of the year with Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue and Etienne Bacrot. 6 players 10 Round Double Round Robin.

Official site: http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/

Gibraltar Masters

The 2011 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival takes place at the Caleta Hotel, Gibraltar, from Monday 24 January to Thursday 3 February 2011. The new primary sponsors, Tradewise Insurance Company Ltd, have enabled the prize fund to be increased to £126,000, with £17,500 going to the winner of the Gibraltar Masters, £10,000 to the top woman scorer and two extra rating prizes (of £2,000 and £1,000) being awarded to each of two further rating bands (2000-2099 and under 2000) in the Masters. The tournament will be powered by previous primary sponsors Gibtelecom.

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

Tal Memorial 2010

The likely dates for the Tal Memorial are 4th-13th November 2010. As yet there seem to be no details at all as to the composition of the field. I would welcome any news as to any early indications of the players and confirmation of the dates.

Dun Laoghaire Masters

The Dun Laoghaire Master tournaments take place in Ireland 20th August 2010 to 29th August 2010. Two all-play-all tournaments, a GM and a Masters. The GM Group is Hebden, Bischoff, Baburin, Atlas, Collins Rochev, Quinn, Lopez, Heidenfeld and Manca.

Panevezys Open

The Panevezys Open takes place 18th-24th of August 2010.

Results http://chess-results.com/tnr34668.aspx

9th International Istanbul Chess Festival

9th International Istanbul Chess Festival, 21st August - 28th August 2010.

Likely website: http://www.izmiropen.com

Official site: http://istfest2010.tsf.org.tr/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/

Izmir Open

Izmir International Open Chess Tournament, 28th August - 5th September 2010

Porto San Giorgio

The Porto San Giorgio International Open takes place 21st-29th August 2010, at the Astoria Hotel in Fermo, Italy.

http://www.scacchirandagi.com/

14th Mind Sports Olympiad

The 14th annual Mind Sports Olympiad takes place at the Soho Theatre, London. The dates are 21st-30th August, 2010.

Chess Olympiad Championship 21st Aug 2010 10:30-18:00 (30 minutes) Exchange Chess (Siamese / Bughouse) 21st Aug 2010 18:30-23:00 (5 minutes blitz) Chess 960 24th Aug 2010 10:30-18:00 (20 min + 5 sec)

There will also be a number of other high quality fields in Chinese Chess, Go, Entropy and many other games. Spectators are welcome (free entry).

Official website: http://www.boardability.com

Baku Open

The Baku Open takes place 23rd-31st August 2010. Gata Kamsky plays.

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

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2011

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

Shanghai and Bilbao Masters

The Shanghai and Bilbao Masters takes place in two stages. The First stage is in Shanghai September 3rd-8th 2010. The Final in Bilbao, October 9th-15th 2010.

The four players who will participate in the first stage in Shanghai are: Wang Hao, as best Chinese player (20th ranked); Alexei Shirov, as best Spanish player (9th ranked); Levon Aronian, as winner of the Final Chess Masters 2009 (5th ranked);and Vladimir Kramnik, as fourth ranked in the world ranking (4th ranked).

The top two qualified in Shanghai will play in Bilbao along with Magnus Carlsen, winner of the tournaments of Wijk aan Zee, Nankin and Bazna, and current number one of the world (1st ranked) and Viswanathan Anand, current World Champion (3rd ranked). Among the best players of the world, only Veselin Topalov (winner of Linares and number 2 of the world) will miss the Final, due to personal reasons.

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

X Benidorm Chess Festival 2010

The X Benidorm Chess Festival takes place 3rd-12th December 2010.

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

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.

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: http://www.grandcoach.com/en/students/11/blog/31/

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

Players in the GM event so far: GM round robin : Oleksienko, Mikhailo g UKR 2548 Vovk, Andrey g UKR 2522 Petr, Martin m CZE 2511 Semcesen, Daniel m SWE 2420 Smith, Axel m SWE 2416 Bernadskiy, Vitaliy m UKR 2414 Grabliauskas, Virginijus m LTU 2404

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

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

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

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

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

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

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	-	Geneve 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, HEVIZ, 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.

Czech Tour 2010-11

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

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 823 16th August 2010 by Mark Crowther

Sponsored by the London Chess Centre

XIV. Paks open

Arctic Securities Chess Stars 2010

Shanghai Masters 2010

Bilbao Masters Final 2010

Pearl Spring Masters Nanjing 2010

Gibraltar Masters

Tal Memorial 2010

Dun Laoghaire Masters

Panevezys Open

9th International Istanbul Chess Festival

Izmir Open

Porto San Giorgio

14th Mind Sports Olympiad

Baku Open

Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival 2011

Shanghai and Bilbao Masters

X Benidorm Chess Festival 2010

Kristiansund Rapid with Carlsen, Anand, Polgar and Hammer

Vasylyshyn Memorial

XL Rilton Cup 2010-11

25th Schwarzacher Open

Chinese Chess League Division A

Paignton Congress

4th Rijeka open chess tournament "Mediterranean 2017"

IX Festival Internacional de Ajedrez Benidorm 2010

X Savaria Summer Chess Festival

London Chess Classic 2010

14th Unive Tournament

European Individual Senior Championship 2011

11th World University Chess Championship

Chinese Events 2010

World Chess Tour Events

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

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