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1) Introduction
2) 6th Investbanka Tournament Belgrade
3) World Chess Championships
4) Geza Maroczy GM Tournament
5) 7th World Seniors Championships
6) Clash of the Titans
7) Top 6 Rapidplay Netherlands
8) Polish Team Championships 1997
9) European Union Individual Chess Championships
10) Open international de Corse by Europe Echecs
11) DD CC v Chigorin CC Internet Match
12) 1st Clube de Xadrez Guanabara tournament
13) Belfort International
14) XVII Mitropa Cup
15) Upcoming events
Games section
Investbanka Belgrade 15 games Geza Maroczy GM 25 games World Senior Ch. 72 games Top 6 Rapidplay 30 games Polish Team Ch. 395 games EU Championship 91 games EU Championship (women) 91 games DDCC v Chigorin CC 6 games Olicio Gadia mem 66 games Belfort 30 games Mitropa Cup 19 games
My thanks to Massimiliano Orsi, Gerhard Hund, Shahcom, Bosko Grove, Zoltan Blazsik, Sinisa Joksic, Gerald Schendel, Ir.A.S. Wibowo, Peter Kemner, Przemek Jahr, Argiris Kotsis, Europe Echecs, Frans M. Hoynck van Papendrecht, Albert Silver and all those who helped with this issue.
The Belgrade tournament finished in a tie between Ivanchuk and Anand. Not quite as good as the previous Investbanka event but nevertheless having some interesting moments. At the conclusion of the event Vladimir Kramnik surprised many by indicating that he is likely not to play in the FIDE World Championships whose pairings were released this week. Plenty of chess on view this week.
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
The 6th Investbanka Tournament took place in Belgrade November 11th-21st. It ended in a tie between Vassily Ivanchuk (the winner on tie-break) and Viswanathan Anand. Alexei Shirov lost in the final round and finished 3rd. My thanks to Sinisa Joksic for sending games and news (on which most of the round by round summary below is based) from the event.
Round 6 saw Vassily Ivanchuk take the lead on his own. Quite remarkable as he has had winning positions in two games which he didn't convert. Today he played Alexander Beliavsky. Beliavsky had already lost two games in a row and is well known for his reliance on his self confidence. He is capable of winning many games in a row but also losing a lot. Today he got a passive position against Ivanchuk and faced a miserable defensive task. 24...Rfd8 was probably the decisive error 24...Qd8 being a better move.
The Arkhangelsk variation of the Ruy Lopez is becoming a major topic of theoretical discussion in this event. Both players rattled through the early moves following the game Polgar-Shirov from Tilburg. 17. Qf3 was Anand's attempted improvement over 17. Qg3 tried by Polgar. However his home preparation seems not to have been as thorough as it might have been. 18. ....c4+ and 21. ...Bf5 were not moves that he had anticipated as being critical. He decided to settle on the repetition of position offered by Shirov.
Georgiev's 6. g3 against the Najdorf produced a finely balanced game against Lautier. Georgiev sacrificed the exchange for dark square control on move 18 which proved to be a sound sacrifice but not sufficient for an advantage. Lautier returned the exchange later to produce a drawn ending.
Kovacevic at last got on the scoreboard, and with a win too. However it could have been all so different in a game of mutual blunders against Ljubojevic. In an equal but complicated position Kovacevic blundered the exchange. Ljubojevic had a winning position after the first time control. However he started to misplay the position horribly 44...Kd7? 45.Kd3 Bc7? etc. lost four tempo and the game, instead the simple 44...Rd7 with Rdc7 to follow would have produced excellent chances for a win.
Another game which did not follow its logical course was Kramnik-Gelfand. At first there was a theoretical battle in the Kings Indian. Kramnik won this particular battle when he found 23.Qc1! with 24.Bd1-b3 to follow something which Gelfand had not considered. This gave Kramnik a very large advantage. Increasing the position steadily for many moves Kramnik turned the position to a winning one. However here he started to misplay the position. For example 55.Bf6! (in game 55.Ra6 was played) Kd7 56.Rc4 Rc4 57.Kc4 with Kb5 or 56...Ra3 57.Rc3 same idea. His last winning try was 61.Ra6! instead 61.Bf2. After missing that Gelfand had a draw. The game took nearly seven hours to complete.
At the end of the 7th round there was a three way tie for the lead. Anand managed to beat Ljubojevic who thus lost his second game in a row. The opening was level but Anand took only 2-3 seconds to start complications. Ljubojevic unfortunately only took around 5 seconds to make the losing answer 14. d5? Correct replies included 14. Nf3 or event 14. d5. White spent 0.30 and black 1.30 on the whole game.
Shirov had good reason to be worried before his game against Kiril Georgiev. The Bulgarian had a +5 record with a few draws against Shirov. This gap narrowed as Georgiev chose a poor variation, tew move was 8.g5. Shirov was slightly better all the way through the game. In time trouble he should play winning 38.Kf2! instead of the 38.Ke2 he played. The decisive mistake was 44...Ka5? but even with better 44...Kb5 black can't save the game.
Beliavsky stopped the rot in this round. Three consecutive losses was a pretty depressing run but in this round he played the struggling Kovacevic. He had a slight advantage until Kovacevic played the losing 19...Ng7? better was 19...R5c8.
Kramnik and Lautier had a theoretical dispute, where Kramnik equalised but Lautier played carefully and the game was drawn.
Boris Gelfand had a good chance to beat the leader of the tournament. Ivanchuk chose rare opening and the game was very interesting. After 21.h4! Gelfand had some advantage. Ivanchuk's 30...Kf8? was wrong. Probably he overlooked that after the sacrifice on d6 he would have problems on the a3-f8 diagonal. Gelfand was in time trouble and missed several opportunities to play better and possibly win. For example, instead of 37...Bc5 he should play 37.c5! Rb4 38.cd6 Qd7 39.Rc1! winning. 40.a4 Bg7 41.a5 looks better than 40.f5 also. Finally had the possibility of 43.c5 again, instead he played 43.Ba3. Analysis will discover other chances. Anyway Ivanchuk got the chance to save himself and he did, by playing precisely in queen ending with opposite colour bishop, two pawns down.
A round of draws saw only one winner. In the battle between tail-ender Aleksandar Kovacevic and Boris Gelfand. Kovacevic managed to keep the balance until he found himself in time trouble. He missed 27.Qe4, instead of playing the correct 27.Qf6. A sharp position arose and Gelfand's attack on queen's side was faster.
Anand missed an opportunity to take sole lead in his game against Beliavsky. Beliavsky's unusual 3...e5 didn't surprise Vishy. He got a strong attack when Beliavsky suddenly sacrificed a piece (16...Nfg4?!). However then Anand became played the incorrect 18.Ne6? instead of the winning 18.Nd3. (Even 18.Nh3 was better.) Than Beliavsky found 20...Rf7! an excellent idea with the threat of Rdf8, exchanging rooks, and following this up with Nf7. Anand played 21.Bc4! which was the only move that saved his queen and the half point.
Georgiev-Kramnik and Ivanchuk-Lautier both played draws. The only surprise was the hardly critical opening choice chosen by Ivanchuk.
Shirov-Ljubojevic saw Ljubojevic get an advantage towards the end of the game. However with one minute for six moves he decided to offer a draw which was accepted. was slightly better at the end, when he offered draw.
Vassily Ivanchuk won the 6th Investbanka tournament on Bucholz. tie-break. He had same number of points as Viswanathan Anand. In the last round Ivanchuk was in trouble against Kramnik. Kramnik sacrificed his queen in the Grunfeld (10.ef6!), and after 14.Be2 was clearly better. 19.Bg4 wasn't very exact as it encouraged f5 which was good for black. Later Kramnik missed 21.Bb7 with excellent chances to win instead he played 21.Bg5? In the final position white still has a small advantage but it is very hard to win.
Shirov lost his first game in the tournament, in the last round with Beliavsky. Things start to go wrong after 16.Qf3 for instance with 19...Qg5? overlooking 20.Qg4!.Finally his 22. ...Qd5 was the losing error instead of 22...Qh5.
The game Gelfand-Anand was equal almost all the game. Gelfand had more space and Anand had weak pawn on d6 but white could not attack it. Lautier could not make more then half point against Kovacevic. Some chance white should had with 30.b4! instead 30.Ne6 which was the game.
Ljubojevic-Georgiev was extremely complicated in the middlegame. Georgiev could have played better with 16.Rfc8! instead of 16...Be6. Ljubo mentioned 31.Bc4! instead of 31.Qc1 as "winning". The game finish draw with move repetition.
Round 6 (1997.11.17)
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Beliavsky, Alexander G 1-0 41 B07 Pirc
Anand, Viswanathan - Shirov, Alexei 1/2 23 C78 Ruy Lopez
Kramnik, Vladimir - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 66 E97 Kings indian; Main line
Georgiev, Kiril - Lautier, Joel 1/2 32 B91 Sicilian; Najdorf
Kovacevic, Aleksandar - Ljubojevic, Ljubomir 1-0 61 B39 Sicilian
Round 7 (1997.11.19)
Shirov, Alexei - Georgiev, Kiril 1-0 46 B81 Sicilian
Lautier, Joel - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 24 D58 QGD;
Gelfand, Boris - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 63 A41 Queen's pawn
Beliavsky, Alexander G - Kovacevic, Aleksandar 1-0 38 B36 Sicilian
Ljubojevic, Ljubomir - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 31 D23 QGA;
Round 8 (1997.11.20)
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Lautier, Joel 1/2 18 B40 Sicilian
Anand, Viswanathan - Beliavsky, Alexander G 1/2 25 B07 Pirc
Shirov, Alexei - Ljubojevic, Ljubomir 1/2 34 B90 Sicilian; Najdorf
Georgiev, Kiril - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 23 D71 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6
Kovacevic, Aleksandar - Gelfand, Boris 0-1 41 B90 Sicilian; Najdorf
Round 9 (1997.11.21)
Lautier, Joel - Kovacevic, Aleksandar 1/2 32 A65 Modern Benoni
Gelfand, Boris - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 20 A00 Irregular
Kramnik, Vladimir - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 32 A16 English; 1.c4
Beliavsky, Alexander G - Shirov, Alexei 1-0 38 D17 Slav defence
Ljubojevic, Ljubomir - Georgiev, Kiril 1/2 36 B78 Sicilian; Dragon
Belgrade YUG (YUG), XI 1997 cat. XVIII (2679)
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1 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2725 * = = = = = 1 1 = 1 6.0 2798
2 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2765 = * = 0 = 1 = 1 1 1 6.0 2793
3 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2700 = = * = 1 = 0 1 = 1 5.5 2756
4 Lautier, Joel g FRA 2660 = 1 = * 0 = 1 = = = 5.0 2723
5 Gelfand, Boris g BLR 2695 = = 0 1 * = = = = 1 5.0 2719
6 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2770 = 0 = = = * 1 = = 1 5.0 2711
7 Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2710 0 = 1 0 = 0 * = 1 1 4.5 2675
8 Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2670 0 0 0 = = = = * = 1 3.5 2599
9 Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g YUG 2565 = 0 = = = = 0 = * 0 3.0 2566
10 Kovacevic, Aleksandar m YUG 2525 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 1 * 1.5 2422
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I had full day by day coverage of the event with news and games from
Sinisa Joksic. The official site was at:
http://www.invbankachess.org.yu
and
ChessAssistant have annotated some of the games at:
http://www.chessassistant.com
Serbian television had a daily 1 hour programme on satellite television which was a mixture of chess analysis, interviews and pop videos. The presenter was Risto Kubura a very interesting interviewer who liked to include questions on politics, philosophy, music and literature to his guests. All the players appeared on the programme and most seemed to enjoy it.
1. Belyavsky - gave the impression that Kasparov would be willing to play in the Investbank 1999 tournament.
2. Kramnik - was unhappy about the current world championship mess.
3. Lautier - said his best years were ahead of him and that he had the ambition to become world champion. Risto Kubura congratulated Lautier on his spoken Russian. "Did you learn Russian so that you would have more success with Russian women?" "No no, only to study the latest theory" replied Lautier with a cheeky smile on his face.
4. Ivanchuk who came equal 1st was interviewed after the final round. At one point in the programme he became very excited and punched the air with his closed fist shouting "forward, forward" in reply to a question from Gligoric.
5. Gligoric was having trouble with his computer. Risto Kubura said "do not worry Svetosar, computers do not have a soul".
The analysis team was Svetosar Gligoric GM, Alisa Maric WGM and Jovan Petronic IM. At the start of each programme Alisa Maric did a review of all the games from each round by picking the most interesting moments. Svetosar Gligoric the veteran grandmaster analysed the most important games and also told many interesting stories from the past about the great players. Jovan Petronic would choose a great game from a previous Investbank tournament. All this was mixed with pop videos and historical chess film. I could have done without the pop videos but maybe it made the programme easier to watch for the general viewer. I have not seen this mix in a chess programme before. Congratulations to Serbian television for such entertaining coverage. Let us hope we have similar service for the 1999 Investbank tournament.
The build up to the FIDE World Chess Championships to be held in Groningen and Lausanne in the December-January period saw a number of developments. This week saw the publication of the draw for the FIDE World Championships (a knockout event) have taken place. The official pairings are available on the ChessPlanet www pages.
In brief the players will play a series of two game matches. They will be played at a time-rate of 40 moves in 100 minutes, 20 moves in 50 minutes and then 10 minutes for the rest of the game. However the players get 30 seconds additional time per move. If the two game match is drawn then playoffs will take place. The players start with a pair of games with 25 minutes on the clock and 10 seconds per move. Then a pair at 15 minutes on the clock with 10 seconds. Then finally they play a blitz game with white having a minute more than black but he needs to win. In round 7 the matches go up to an initial 4 games and round 8 there are 6 games.
Probably not unconnected with this Garry Kasparov gave an interview to Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph. Kasparov intends to defend his own claims to the World Chess Championship Crown in a match, ideally next year. In this interview he indicated that because of the decline in playing strength of Anatoly Karpov he is no longer willing to play a unification match against him even if he wins the FIDE event. He accused Karpov of rejecting an offer of $2.5 million from Las Palmas to host the match (an offer made at the start of the Las Palmas tournament late last year). He now favours a Candidates tournament to select the strongest of his rivals to play a match against him.
Vladimir Kramnik also had his say this week. At the conclusion of the Investbanka tournament in Belgrade Kramnik made a number of surprising statements. In an interview with Arvind Aaron of the Hindu (to be published shortly) he was asked:
"Q: How do you see your form with Groningen coming up soon?
A: Well I am not sure I will play in Groningen.
Q: Not sure?
A: Probably not play.
Q: Have you signed already to play?
A: I signed the contract crossing out the point with Karpov seeded to
the finals. In fact if this point of regulation doesn't change I have the
possibility not to play.
Q: You have not decided to play?
A: I don't have to play. I have signed it in my own way and I have
the possibility not to play and probably not play. "
Later in the interview when discussing his disgust at Karpov's seeding straight to the FIDE final he said "Actually I will not participate. If I participate, it means I agree with this." saying that the conditions were so in Karpov's favour that he was sure he would win the event. Earlier in the year he expressed his doubts about playing in a Kasparov inspired Candidates tournament also.
All of which comes as a considerable surprise to me, and possibly to FIDE also. They did not allow Topalov to modify his contract and I find it difficult to understand how this situation as arisen.
The Official pairings are on the ChessPlanet www site. It is somewhat difficult to get the big picture from the presentation there. I have attempted to represent them in a way that groups the players together who will play each other round by round. It is interesting to note that Anand has quite a difficult draw. He will play Predrag Nikolic in round 2 then he could have: Khalifman in round 3, Polgar in round 4, Shirov in round 5, Gelfand/Ivanchuk in round 6, Kramnik/Topalov/Svidler in round 7 and of course Karpov who is qualified for the final in round 8. For a start I think the Nikolic match will be a potentially tricky tie.
It is not clear what will happen to the pairings if Kramnik withdraws, I hope they don't change too much as it took several hours to work out who was paired with who in the later rounds.
Pairings to be played in Groningen. The winner will meet Karpov in the final in Lausanne. Top Half 1st Quarter Gelfand Hracek-Barua - Lautier Salov - Tkachiev-Fominyh Oll-Petursson - Morozevich-Smyslov Ivanchuk - Seirawan-Anastasian Azmaiparashvili-Benjamin - Kaidanov Sadler - Ehlvest-Van der Wiel Dreev - Nenashev-Hoeksema 2nd Quarter Anand - Nikolic,Pr Khalifman - Nijboer-Glek Polgar - Almasi-Peng Jussupow - Illescas-Gretarsson Shirov - Granda Zuniga-Kurajica Yermolinsky-Kindermann - Milos-Murshed Akopian - Portisch-Luther Vaganian - Bologan-Umgaev Bottom Half 3rd Quarter Kramnik - Leko-Slobodan Alexandrov-Gulko - Hjartarson-Sulskis Bareev - Malaniuk-Hamdouchi Krasenkow-Van der Sterren - Sutovskij-Garcia Beliavsky - Timman Rublevsky-Spraggett - Morovic-Shaked Short - Korchnoi-Hernandez Chernin-Istratescu - Sokolov,A-Kobese 4th Quarter Topalov - Piket Van Wely - Hansen,Curt-Miladinovic Georgiev, Kir - Alterman-Wells Andersson,Ulf-Christiansen - Kotronias-Mohammed Adams - Giorgadze-Bacrot Rozentalis-Lerner - Tiviakov Svidler - Adianto-Wang Sokolov,Ivan - Epishin
The pairings are arranged to group together the players in a way to try to show the way the pairings will pan out over the whole event. They are based on the second round pairings. Taking it from the top of the draw. Gelfand is seeded to the 3rd round so he has no opponent. Lautier first appears in the 2nd round where he will meet the winner of Hracek-Barua a first round pairing. Gelfand will meet the winner of this pairing in round 3, the winner of that will meet the winner of the couplet below. Then the two remaining players in the quarter meet. In the following round the winner of the 1st quarter will meet the winner of the 2nd quarter, after that the winner of the top half will meet the winner of the bottom half. Finally the winner of all these matches will meet Karpov in the final in Lausanne in Switzerland.
The Geza Maroczy Grandmaster Tournament started on November 14th in Szeged Hungary. The organiser of the event is the Portal Chess Club in Szaged. The venue is the Hotel Forra's. The first move of the event was made by Geza Maroczy's 93 year old son on Adorjan's board. Zhang Zhong scored a GM norm and won the event on tie-break from Suat Atalik and Lembit Oll. My thanks to Zoltan Blazsik for the news and games.
Round 5 (1997.11.18)
Atalik, Suat - Wells, Peter K 1/2 30 E32 Nimzo indian
Oll, Lembit - Sax, Gyula 1-0 62 B83 Sicilian
Ribli, Zoltan - Lalic, Bogdan 1/2 21 E62 Kings indian
Adorjan, Andras - Zhang Zhong 1/2 14 A87 Dutch defence
Ivanisevic, Ivan - Miles, Anthony J 1/2 36 D17 Slav defence
Round 6 (1997.11.19)
Zhang Zhong - Atalik, Suat 1/2 21 B84 Sicilian
Miles, Anthony J - Oll, Lembit 1/2 25 A18 English; 1.c4
Ribli, Zoltan - Adorjan, Andras 1/2 21 A30 English; 1.c4 c5
Lalic, Bogdan - Sax, Gyula 1/2 17 E15 Nimzo indian
Wells, Peter K - Ivanisevic, Ivan 1-0 32 D49 Meran Variation
Round 7 (1997.11.20)
Atalik, Suat - Ribli, Zoltan 1/2 40 E32 Nimzo indian
Oll, Lembit - Wells, Peter K 1-0 29 C92 Ruy Lopez
Adorjan, Andras - Lalic, Bogdan 1/2 17 D56 QGD;
Sax, Gyula - Miles, Anthony J 1/2 32 C45 Scottish
Ivanisevic, Ivan - Zhang Zhong 1/2 18 A66 Modern Benoni
Round 8 (1997.11.21)
Zhang Zhong - Oll, Lembit 1/2 36 B51 Sicilian
Ribli, Zoltan - Ivanisevic, Ivan 1-0 50 A35 English; 1.c4 c5
Lalic, Bogdan - Miles, Anthony J 1/2 15 C43 Petroff defence
Adorjan, Andras - Atalik, Suat 0-1 33 D31 Queen's gambit
Wells, Peter K - Sax, Gyula 1-0 41 E12 Nimzo indian
Round 9 (1997.11.22)
Atalik, Suat - Lalic, Bogdan 1/2 18 D27 QGA;
Oll, Lembit - Ribli, Zoltan 1/2 14 E14 Nimzo indian
Miles, Anthony J - Wells, Peter K 1/2 113 A36 English; 1.c4 c5
Sax, Gyula - Zhang Zhong 1/2 35 C99 Ruy Lopez
Ivanisevic, Ivan - Adorjan, Andras 0-1 23 A57 Benko gambit
Szeged HUN (HUN), XI 1997 cat. XIII (2560)
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1 Zhang Zhong m CHN 2475 * = = = 1 = = 1 = = 5.5 2649
2 Atalik, Suat g TUR 2590 = * = = = = 1 = 1 = 5.5 2636
3 Oll, Lembit g EST 2645 = = * = = = = 1 1 = 5.5 2630
4 Miles, Anthony J g ENG 2595 = = = * = = 1 = = = 5.0 2599
5 Ribli, Zoltan g HUN 2570 0 = = = * = = 1 = 1 5.0 2601
6 Lalic, Bogdan g CRO 2600 = = = = = * = = = = 4.5 2555
7 Adorjan, Andras g HUN 2485 = 0 = 0 = = * = = 1 4.0 2525
8 Wells, Peter K g ENG 2530 0 = 0 = 0 = = * 1 1 4.0 2520
9 Sax, Gyula g HUN 2570 = 0 0 = = = = 0 * 1 3.5 2478
10 Ivanisevic, Ivan f YUG 2540 = = = = 0 = 0 0 0 * 2.5 2396
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The 7th World Senior Championships took place in Bad Wildbad, Germany 9-23 November.This FIDE event which has become an annual fixture in the chess calendar was organized by "ChessOrg" (Germany/Reinhold Hoffmann).
Gerhard Hund covered the event daily on the internet :
http://www.teleschach.de/berichte/swm97-01.html
The World Senior Men's Champion is IM Janis Klovans of Latvia. By winning the event he earned the GM title. In the final round he beat Heinz Baumgartner whereas his closest rivals all drew. Klovans was a contemporary of Tal and won the Latvian Championships as a first year student at University (a tradition for the Championships 1951-55) in 1954, he has been an active international player all his life and played in four Soviet Championships. He still has a rating of 2465 and his old IM title was almost certainly worth at least a GM title by today's devalued standards. Born 9th April 1935 he is still one of the top ten Latvian players.
The World Senior Women's Champion was Tatiana Zatulovskaya of Russia and completing a successful event for the Latvians Normund Miezes took the open and open rapidplay events (open to all ages). My thanks to Jonathan Berry for a correction to a game .
Final men's standings: 1. Klovans Janis IM LAT 9.0 55.5 2. Arkhangelsky Boris IM RUS 8.5 56.0 3. Lein Anatoly GM USA 8.5 56.0 4. Taimanov Mark GM RUS 8.5 55.0 5. Bagirov Vladimir GM LAT 8.5 52.0 6. Chernikov Oleg IM RUS 8.5 52.0 7. van Geet Dick IM NED 8.5 50.5 8. Baumgartner Heinz FM AUT 8.0 51.0 9. Borisenko Georgiy UZB 8.0 51.0 10. Luboshitz Alex. Dr. BLA 8.0 46.0 11. Darga Klaus GM GER 7.5 54.0 12. Uhlmann Wolfgang GM GER 7.5 52.0 13. Suetin Alexey GM RUS 7.5 51.5 14. Fronczek Heinrich FM GER 7.5 50.5 15. Gruzmann Boris RUS 7.5 50.5 16. Lainburg Viktor GER 7.5 49.0 17. Zoltek Tadeuz FM POL 7.5 48.5 18. Schlag Franz GER 7.5 47.0 19. Reichenbach Werner FM GER 7.5 47.0 20. Lapienis Donatas LTU 7.5 46.5 21. Hoffmann Hans FM GER 7.5 46.5 22. Martinovsky Eugene FM USA 7.5 46.0 23. Rosen Willy GER 7.5 44.0 24. Caminade Christian FRA 7.5 44.0 25. Littlewood John E. FM ENG 7.5 43.0 26. Kristiansen Erling NOR 7.0 48.5 27. Solonar Ion FM MOL 7.0 47.0 ... 226 participants Open rapid chess tournament (21 November, 7 rounds, 60 participants): winner GM Normund Miezis LAT 6.0 points There was also an open event (all age groups): Final standings open 14-22 November (28 participants): 1. Miezis Normunds GM LAT 7.0 50.5 425.50 2. Kalinitschew Sergey GM Berlin 6.5 50.5 411.00 3. Meijers Viesturs IM LAT 6.5 49.0 421.00 4. Solonar Stephan IM MOL 5.5 50.0 414.00 5. Pirrot Dieter IM GER 5.5 48.5 416.00 6. Caposciuti Maurizio FM ITA 5.5 48.5 414.00 7. Metz Hartmut FM GER 5.5 47.5 391.50 8. Zunker Reinhard Dr. FM GER 5.5 45.5 384.50 ... 16. Cordioli Jairo BRA 4.5 40.0 356.00 ... Final standings: 1. Zatulovskaya Tatiana WGM RUS 9.0 57.5 2. Khmiadashvili Tamari WIM GEO 9.0 55.5 3. Erenska-Radzewska H. WGM POL 9.0 51.0 4. Kozlovskaya Valent. WGM RUS 9.0 50.0 5. Malinicheva Lidija UZB 6.5 40.0 6. Bognarne-Cynolta E. HUN 6.5 38.0 7. Abdikasova Panu KAZ 6.0 42.0 8. Neumark Christel GER 6.0 41.0 9. Teasley Dorothy WIM USA 6.0 39.0 10. Gumilevskaja Galina RUS 6.0 36.5 11. Kohls Vera GER 6.0 36.0 12. Winter Irene GER 5.5 39.0 13. Hartog Christa GER 5.5 36.0 ... 30 participants World Senior Champion (women): WGM Tatiana Zatulovskaya (Russia).
Karpov was in Jakarta playing in a series of matches called "The Clash of the Titans" against Utut Adianto. 6 games held November 20th-24th. There were firstly two 25 minute blindfold games (which finished 1-1) two normal timerate games (finished 1.5 - 0.5 to Adianto) and two 25 minute rapidplay games (1.5 -0.5 to Karpov). The match was tied but Adianto's victory in the two normal time-rate games reflects very well on him. The event was held in the Omni Batavia hotel and sponsored by the Tamara Bank. It was organised by the Indonesian Chess Federation. My thanks to Ir.A.S. Wibowo for the news and games.
Blindfold
1) Adianto, Utut - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 51 C68 Ruy Lopez; Exchange
2) Karpov, Anatoly - Adianto, Utut 0-1 31 D20 QGA;
Normal Time rate
3) Adianto, Utut - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 61 E32 Nimzo indian
4) Karpov, Anatoly - Adianto, Utut 1/2 45 A64 Modern Benoni
Rapidplay
5) Adianto, Utut - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 32 C68 Ruy Lopez; Exchange
6) Karpov, Anatoly - Adianto, Utut 1-0 74 B85 Sicilian
Jakarta INA (INA), XI 1997
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Adianto, Utut g INA 2610 0 1 1 = = 0 3.0 2745
Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2745 1 0 0 = = 1 3.0 2610
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On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Dutch Chess chess club Messemaker 1847 in Gouda, organised a National Top 6 Rapid tournament. The top 6 players from the Netherlands: Loek van Wely, Jeroen Piket, Jan Timman, Friso Nijboer, Paul van der Sterren and John van der Wiel were invited. It was a double-round robin event 30 mins per player. It was played 22-23 November with 5 rounds per day. The event was won clearly by Loek Van Wely who scored 8/10 a point and a half clear of second placed Jeroen Piket. My thanks to Peter Kemner for news and games.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pkemner/mm1847/top6.htm
Round 1 (1997.11.22)
Van Wely, Loek - Timman, Jan H 1-0 76 D93 Gruenfeld indian
Piket, Jeroen - Van der Sterren, Paul 1-0 58 E20 Nimzo indian
Van der Wiel, John T.H - Nijboer, Friso 1/2 54 B06 Modern defence
Round 2 (1997.11.22)
Piket, Jeroen - Van der Wiel, John T.H 1/2 79 E15 Nimzo indian
Nijboer, Friso - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 37 A08 Reti (1.Nf3)
Van der Sterren, Paul - Timman, Jan H 0-1 76 E15 Nimzo indian
Round 3 (1997.11.22)
Van Wely, Loek - Piket, Jeroen 1-0 75 D38 Queen's gambit
Van der Wiel, John T.H - Van der Sterren, Paul 1/2 35 C43 Petroff defence
Timman, Jan H - Nijboer, Friso 1/2 36 B42 Sicilian
Round 4 (1997.11.22)
Piket, Jeroen - Timman, Jan H 1/2 35 A35 English; 1.c4 c5
Van der Wiel, John T.H - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 41 B85 Sicilian
Van der Sterren, Paul - Nijboer, Friso 1/2 41 E91 Kings indian; Classical
Round 5 (1997.11.22)
Van Wely, Loek - Van der Sterren, Paul 1-0 63 D37 Queen's gambit
Nijboer, Friso - Piket, Jeroen 1/2 61 C91 Ruy Lopez
Timman, Jan H - Van der Wiel, John T.H 0-1 43 D46 Semi-Slav
Round 6 (1997.11.23)
Nijboer, Friso - Van der Wiel, John T.H 1/2 69 B74 Sicilian; Dragon
Timman, Jan H - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 39 A46 Queen's pawn
Van der Sterren, Paul - Piket, Jeroen 0-1 46 E97 Kings indian; Main line
Round 7 (1997.11.23)
Van Wely, Loek - Nijboer, Friso 1-0 54 E97 Kings indian; Main line
Van der Wiel, John T.H - Piket, Jeroen 0-1 62 C45 Scottish
Timman, Jan H - Van der Sterren, Paul 0-1 43 C43 Petroff defence
Round 8 (1997.11.23)
Piket, Jeroen - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 29 D32 Queen's gambit
Nijboer, Friso - Timman, Jan H 1-0 43 C18 French; Winawer
Van der Sterren, Paul - Van der Wiel, John T.H 0-1 74 E15 Nimzo indian
Round 9 (1997.11.23)
Van Wely, Loek - Van der Wiel, John T.H 1-0 40 D45 Semi-Slav
Nijboer, Friso - Van der Sterren, Paul 1-0 36 B90 Sicilian; Najdorf
Timman, Jan H - Piket, Jeroen 1-0 23 B06 Modern defence
Round 10
Piket, Jeroen - Nijboer, Friso 1-0 60 E91 Kings indian; Classical
Van der Wiel, John T.H - Timman, Jan H 0-1 44 C45 Scottish
Van der Sterren, Paul - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 54 A46 Queen's pawn
Gouda NED (NED), XI 1997 cat. XIV (2599)
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1 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2655 ** 10 =1 11 11 1= 8.0 2828
2 Piket, Jeroen g NED 2630 01 ** =1 =1 =0 11 6.5 2703
3 Van der Wiel, John T.H g NED 2525 =0 =0 ** == 10 =1 4.5 2578
4 Nijboer, Friso g NED 2605 00 =0 == ** =1 =1 4.5 2562
5 Timman, Jan H g NED 2625 00 =1 01 =0 ** 10 4.0 2522
6 Van der Sterren, Paul g NED 2555 0= 00 =0 =0 01 ** 2.5 2415
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The Polish Team Championships took place in Krynica 25.09-05.10.97. My thanks to Przemek Jahr for the games and results.
Final Standings 1. Stilon Gorzow 45.5 2. Polonia Warszawa 45.5 3. Rymer Niedobczyce 34 4. BBTS Bielsko 33.5 5. Gedania Gdansk 32.5 6. Pocztowiec Poznan 32.5 7. Chrobry Glogow 32.5 8. PTSz Plock 30.5 9. Czarny Kon Bukowno 29.5 10. LKS Jasien 29.5 11. Hancza Suwalki 29.5 12. Miedz Legnica 21
The Greek Chess Federation, in cooperation with the European Union, the Perfecture of Athens, the Athens Municipality, the FIDE, the Association of Top Greek Chessplayers and the European Union Chess Federations, organised the European Chess Forum and the 1st Individual Chess Championship of men and women of member states of the European Union, for 1997, held in Athens, November 21 to 23 1997. The forum discussed the subject of chess in schools. My thanks to Argiris Kotsis for news and games.
The tournaments were single round robin events with 30 minutes per player. The Men's Championships were won by Ulf Andersson who just pipped Anatoli Vaisser and Alberto David to the title. Elvira Berend of Luxemberg won the women's event very comfortably with 11.5/14 undefeated.
Mens Championships
Athens GRE (GRE), XI 1997 cat. VIII (2450)
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1 Andersson, Ulf g SWE 2640 * = = 1 = = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 10.5 2686
2 Vaisser, Anatoli g FRA 2575 = * 1 = = = 1 = 1 1 1 = 1 1 10.0 2651
3 David, Alberto m LUX 2460 = 0 * = 1 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 10.0 2660
4 Grivas, Efstratios g GRE 2465 0 = = * = = 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 9.0 2589
5 Boensch, Uwe g GER 2540 = = 0 = * = 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 = 8.5 2553
6 Tella, Jussi f FIN 2375 = = 0 = = * = 1 0 0 = 1 = 1 6.5 2455
7 Arlandi, Ennio m ITA 2470 0 0 = 0 1 = * = 1 0 1 0 = 1 6.0 2419
8 San Segundo, Pablo g ESP 2495 0 = 0 1 0 0 = * 0 1 0 1 1 1 6.0 2417
9 Baumegger, Siegfried f AUT 2485 = 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 * 0 = 1 1 = 5.5 2390
10 Van den Doel, Erik m NED 2440 0 0 = 0 0 1 1 0 1 * = 0 = 1 5.5 2393
11 Turner, Matthew m ENG 2445 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 1 = = * = 1 1 5.0 2363
12 Ryan, Joseph IRL 2245 0 = 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 = * 0 1 4.0 2324
13 Ribeiro, Fernando f POR 2340 0 0 0 0 0 = = 0 0 = 0 1 * 1 3.5 2283
14 Geenen, Marc f BEL 2325 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 * 1.0 2058
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Women's Championships
Athens GRE (GRE), XI 1997
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1 Berend, Elvira S wg LUX 2355 *===1111111111 11.5 2514
2 Micic, Snezana wf YUG 2210 =*11===1=0=111 9.0 2348
3 Paasikangas, Johanna wm FIN 2325 =0*11=01=10111 8.5 2338
4 Jahn, Constanze wm GER 2180 =00*==10111111 8.5 2287
5 Regan, Natasha wf ENG 2170 0=0=*01=111111 8.5 2288
6 Jap Tjoen San, Linda NED 2175 0===1*=01==111 8.0 2288
7 Cuevas-Rodriguez, Maria Luisa wm ESP 2210 0=100=*11==11= 7.5 2247
8 Nicoara, Malina wf FRA 2210 0001=10*011111 7.5 2219
9 Makropoulou, Marina wg GRE 2290 0==00001*111=1 6.5 2154
10 Schroecker, Maria-Luise AUT 2130 01000==00*=111 5.5 2140
11 Collins, Danielle IRL ---- 0=100==00=*011 5.0 2104
12 Jiretorn, Eva SWE 2080 00000000001*1= 2.5 1879
13 Carvalho, Alda POR 2130 00000000=000*1 1.5 1875
14 Riegler, Alessandra ITA 2030 000000=0000=0* 1.0 1804
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Europe Echecs reports that the "Open international de Corse" was won by Russian GM Pavel Tregubov from Krasnodar. The active chess tournament was the strongest one ever in France regarding the prizes. Tregubov, who came in France to celebrate Joel Lautier's wedding with Almira Skripchenko, finished clear first and cashed 30 000 FF (5 000 dollars). The tournament was a 9 round active chess (50 min per game + 10 seconds per move) over 4 days. 200 participants competed, more than one third were from Corsica. All the rest came from "the Continent" or from abroad and no titled player received an appearance fee, only some happy few like Boris Spassky & Valeri Salov were invited (hotel + food). The notation of the games was compulsery up to the last 5 minutes. During these 4 days, there were some side events such as a tournament for 300 kids, a blindfold simul by French GM Eric Prié on 7 boards (7-0 including a win on Bacrot's father) and a regular simul by Iossif Dorfman (+27 = 3 in 2h30 min.) and permanent Internet connections (the local provider was plugged on ICC) to promote the internet among participants.
Final Standings
1 Tregubov (30 000 FF) 7,5/9
2-8 Smirin (15 071 FF) 7,0
Tiviakov (12571 FF)
Agrest (10 021 FF)
Filippov ( 9 071 FF)
Degraeve (8 571 FF + 6000 as 1st French player)
Prié (8 071)
Chtekachev A. (7 571)
9-20 Korneev (3932 FF), Dorfman (3932 FF), Salov (3682 FF),
Tkachev ((3182), Bacrot (4000 as first junior), Djuric (3182)
De la Riva (3182), Wojtkiewicz (3182), Kogan (3182) Santo Roman
(3182), G. Flear (3182), Kasimdjanov (1615 FF) all 6,5 pts
200 participants (25 GM, 14 IM, 4wim)
Last round pairings (with points of players after 8 rounds)
6,5 Tiviakov = Tregubov 7
6 Salov = Smirin 6,5
6 G. Flear = Wojtkiewicz 6
6 A. Schneider 0-1 Chtechekachev 6
6 Prié 1-0 Blatny 6
6 Agrest 1-0 Spassky 6
6 Santo Roman = Bacrot 6
6 Degraeve 1-0 Relange 6
6 Filippov 1-0 Barsov 6
Sunday 23rd November saw a match between DD Chessclub in The Hague versus Chigorin Chessclub St. Petersburg live on the internet. The final result was DD The Hague 2 Chigorin St. Petersburg 4. My thanks to Shahcom and Frans M. Hoynck van Papendrecht for news of the event.
DD were white on odd boards. 1. Nicholson - Sjaposjnikov 0-1 2. Petrov - Blokhuis 1/2 3. Van Egmond - Kasjtanov 0-1 4. Boedjko - Kort 1-0 5. Prakken - Doronenkov 1-0 6. Charitinov - Enschedé 1/2
There is full coverage on the internet including player profiles at:
http://www.balletorkest.nl/DD/or
http://www.dux.ru/chess/
The 1st Clube de Xadrez Guanabara (Olicio Gadia) tournament in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil took place November 10th-22nd 1997. The event was won by
ELO favourite Darcy Lima on tie-break from Ricardo da Silva Teixeira.
Internet coverage was at:
http://www.xadreznet.com/cxg/index.html
and
http://www.hipernet.com.br/HiperChess/ICXGuanabara.htm
Albert Silver reports on the event:
While not known for being a nation of strong chess players, Brazil has boasted a healthy supply of masters since the inception of it's first national championship in 1927. However, because of their lack of play in the international circuit, are completely unknown outside of the country. Even today, a good number of master strength players remain titleless due to the absence of financial and competetive opportunities, and thus are never able to properly chase after that elusive dream: the title of International Master. You can now understand the feelings of hope and excitement that were instigated when it was announced that a 12 player round-robin was going to take place from November 10th to 22nd right here in Rio de Janeiro, in which the best local players were invited, and that an IM norm was possible.
You can also imagine the trepidation this announcement caused. After all, the last such event took place no less than 8 years ago, and if the opportunity weren't seized upon now, who knows when the next chance would be.
Among the titled players were GM Darcy Lima Jr., Argentinian IM Gomez Baillo, and IM Gerardo Lebredo from Cuba. As for the rest of the field, although all participated with the hope of scoring an unprecedented IM norm, the most likely candidates were Luiz Loureiro, Hilton Rios, Ricardo Teixeira, and Marcio Miranda (Brazilian champion of 1974 and still going strong).
The beginning of the event was anticlimatic to say the least, as Teixeira went down to Lima in an absurd 14 moves, and Loureiro to Miranda in 22 moves. By the midpoint of the event, it seemed as if only Miranda had any real chances left as Loureiro needed 4.5/5 to reach the magical score, and Teixeira no less than 5/5! Both Darcy Lima and Gomez Baillo were leading the tournament at a furious pace and it seemed as if there weren't much left to see. Then, the miracle began to take place. As if awakened from their deep slumber, both Loureiro and Teixeira decided to have a last ditch go for it. After all hadn't they both been icons of chess here in Rio for the last 20 years? There was no reason why it shouldn't be possible, right? Neither had only easy opponents left either. Both had to pass by IMs Baillo and Lebredo still. In the 7th round Teixeira met Lebredo and squeezed him in a rook and bishops of opposite colors endgame, and in the 8th he outplayed Wagner Guimaraes, current state champion of Rio, in a rook endgame. Loureiro in the meantime had fewer difficulties passing by the two unrated players in the event.
The 9th round was the big one as Teixeira faced Baillo, who was so far undefeated and looking very strong. Baillo played the French defence but got lost as Teixeira used a strange plan that seemingly left his opponent confused and quickly obtained a tremendous advantage. What followed was a bishop endgame in which Teixeira had an extra pawn but a position that looked terribly drawish. Teixeira then showed a tour-de-force of technique as he managed transform it into a win and was after heartily congratulated by the other players. Even Baillo had little to say about it except that for a while there he had thought that he had still had chances for a draw.
The 10th round was a big one for both Teixeira and Loureiro as they both still needed no less than 2 out of 2. Teixeira, with Black, had to face the very experienced Miranda, always up for a good fight even though he had slowed his pace considerably and was no longer a contender. Loureiro, also with the Black pieces, on the other hand had to confront Guimarães who was having a disastrous tournament but was obviously someone to be wary of. Miranda decided somewhat prematurely that the moment had come to start flinging (metaphorically speaking) his pieces at Teixeira's King, but it quickly became clear that it was a gross misjudgement of the position and he soon found himself lost. Loureiro unfortunately allowed his opponent too much activity and Guimarães quickly settled for a perpetual check and a draw, putting an end to Loureiro's chances for a norm. Incredibly, the 10th round also saw the defeat of Darcy Lima to Hilton Rios. In the last round, Teixeira was faced against Peter Toth, clearly out of shape in this event, and who also has a tremendous negative score against him. Nevertheless, nervousness could easily negate all of these factors. After 3 hours of play though, the result was not in doubt, and Teixeira scored his much wanted IM norm after an incredible 5/5 comeback.
The tournament was won by Darcy Lima with 8/11 ahead of Ricardo Teixeira on tie-break. In 3rd place came IM Gomez Baillo with 7.5/11 and in 4th Luiz Loureiro with 7/11. The tournament, the Olício Gadia Memorial, in memory of Olício Gadia, two-time Brazilan Champion (1959 and 1962) and founder of the Clube de Xadrez de Guanabara (Guanabara Chess Club), took place at the CXG, founded in 1957 and one of the pillars of chess here in Rio. The club has been the first home to many great players and boasts an impressive collection of rare chess magazines, documents, and books of all kinds.
The event though officially organized by the CXG, was essentially only made possible due to the efforts of the management, it's members, Darcy Lima (vice-president of the Brazilian chess federation), and the players (who contributed to pay some of the expenses out of their own pockets). All in all, a clear demonstration of the adage "where there's a will, there's a way". Darcy Lima assures that next year's event has already been guaranteed. I can hardly wait.
Rio de Janeiro BRA (BRA), XI 1997 cat. II (2278)
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1 Lima, Darcy m BRA 2475 * 1 = = = 1 1 0 = 1 1 1 8.0 2484
2 Teixeira, Ricardo da Silva BRA 2320 0 * 1 0 = 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 8.0 2501
3 Gomez Baillo, Jorge H m ARG 2445 = 0 * = = = 1 1 1 1 = 1 7.5 2401
4 Dumont, Sadi Glasser f BRA 2305 = 1 = * = 1 = = 0 1 = 1 7.0 2462
5 Loureiro, Luiz BRA 2340 = = = = * 0 1 = 1 1 = 1 7.0 2376
6 Miranda, Marcio M.C BRA 2295 0 0 = 0 1 * = 1 = 1 1 = 6.0 2338
7 Lebredo, Gerardo m CUB 2320 0 0 0 = 0 = * 1 1 = 1 = 5.0 2255
8 Rios Filho, Hilton Carlos BRA 2340 1 0 0 = = 0 0 * 1 0 1 = 4.5 2253
9 Kubrusly,C BRA ---- = 0 0 1 0 = 0 0 * = 1 = 4.0 2224
10 Sokolik,D BRA ---- 0 = 0 0 0 0 = 1 = * = 1 4.0 2224
11 Guimaraes, Wagner P BRA 2285 0 0 = = = 0 0 0 0 = * 1 3.0 2173
12 Toth, Peter BRA 2215 0 0 0 0 0 = = = = 0 0 * 2.0 2074
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IM Jean-Marc Delgraeve won the Belfort international Chess tournament in France and also scored a GM norm. A Category 13 event with 3 foreign grandmasters giving 3 French IMs chances to get norms. GMs Eduardas Rozentalis and especially Mikhail Gurevich had bad results.
Belfort FRA (FRA), XI 1997 cat. XIII (2552)
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1 Degraeve, Jean-Marc m FRA 2540 ** 1= 00 10 =1 11 6.0 2626
2 Relange, Eloi m FRA 2505 0= ** =1 == == =1 5.5 2597
3 Kosten, Anthony C g ENG 2530 11 =0 ** 01 == 0= 5.0 2556
4 Rozentalis, Eduardas g LTU 2645 01 == 10 ** == == 5.0 2533
5 Marciano, David m FRA 2470 =0 == == == ** 1= 5.0 2568
6 Gurevich, Mikhail g BEL 2620 00 =0 1= == 0= ** 3.5 2428
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The XVII Mitropa Cup took place in Montecatini Terme - Italy 7-16 Novembre 1997. The "Mitropa Cup" is a team competition involving many central Europe (MITtel euROPA in German) countries. Similar competitions exist in many different sport (soccer for instance) despite which countries are entitled to be considered middle-European is not clear. The event was won by Slovenia (Mohr Georg IM (2480), Pavasovic Dusko IM (2495), Grosar Aljosa IM (2455), Tratar Marko IM (2395) whose 3-1 victory over 2nd place Croatia in the final round proved decisive. My thanks to Massimiliano Orsi for the news.
There was full coverage on the internet:
http://www.italway.it/associazioni/cssurya/mitropa.hstml
Final results
SLO CRO HUN GER SWZ ITA FRA CZE AUT SVK GM TP SB
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1.SLO === 3.0 2.0 2.5 3.0 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.0 3.0 24.0 16
2.CRO 1.0 === 2.0 2.0 2.5 2.5 2.5 3.5 3.5 3.0 22.5 14
3.HUN 2.0 2.0 === 3.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.5 2.5 20.0 12 103.00
4.GER 1.5 2.0 1.0 === 3.0 2.0 2.5 2.5 3.0 2.5 20.0 12 95.75
5.SWZ 1.0 1.5 2.0 1.0 === 3.0 1.5 2.5 2.5 4.0 19.0 9
6.ITA 2.0 1.5 2.0 2.0 1.0 === 3.0 2.5 1.5 2.5 18.0 9
7.FRA 1.5 1.5 2.0 1.5 2.5 1.0 === 2.0 1.0 2.5 15.5 6
8.CZE 1.0 0.5 2.0 1.5 1.5 1.5 2.0 === 3.5 1.5 15.0 4
9.AUT 1.0 0.5 1.5 1.0 1.5 2.5 3.0 0.5 === 3.0 14.5 6
10.SVK 1.0 1.0 1.5 1.5 0.0 1.5 1.5 2.5 1.0 === 11.5 2
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On 5 December Anatoly Karpov and GM Eric Lobron will play an exhibition
match in Walldorf/Germany (near Heidelberg). For the sponsor, the
worldwide operating software giant "SAP", it´s not just a
chess event, it´s a part of a greater project (11th SAP art
exhibition with paintings of an American artist + beautiful chess
pieces/collection Rainer Grund). More information (in German) on the
homepage of the chess association in Baden
http://members.aol.com/sibschach/newindex.htm.
A category 10 tournament with an average rating of 2478,5 is underway in Asker. For more information: http://home.sol.no/~torshall/sjakkjubileum.html