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Tel Aviv 45 games 2nd OIBM in Bad Wiessee 11 games 6th Loures Young Masters 36 games Boavista Challenge 66 games 7th Sonnevanck tournament 20 games Clichy International 10 games 65th Brazilian Chess Champs 38 games First Saturday December 120 games 1998 Arlington CC Champs. 9 games France-Iceland 6 games World Junior Championships 55 games
My thanks to Rubén Casafús and Adrián Roldán, Eric Schiller, Herman Van Riemsdijk, Thomas Leckner, Luis Santos, Michael Atkins, Laszlo Nagy, Ram Soffer, Jerry Bibuld, Christophe Bouton of Europe Echecs, Lost Boys, FICS, David Flynn and Stephane Laborde, John Saunders and all those who helped with this issue.
A bit of a holding week with plenty of chess but nothing really to stir the blood. However in the next few weeks over the Christmas and New Year period we should see some good chess at Wijk aan Zee and Groningen, at Hastings and elsewhere.
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
Ram Soffer reports on a category 3 tournament held in the Sol & Sissy Mark Center in Tel Aviv, home of the Kasparov Chess Academy, between 8-12 December 1998. The tournament organiser and director was Yochanan Afek. 17-year-old Evgeny Postny from Haifa, Israel scored his 1st IM norm.
Tel Aviv ISR (ISR), XII 1998 cat. III (2304) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Postny, Evgeny ISR 2260 * 1 = = = = = 1 1 1 6.5 2474 2 Erenburg, Sergey RUS 2310 0 * = 1 1 1 = = 1 = 6.0 2427 3 Roiz, Michael ISR 2355 = = * = = = = 1 1 1 6.0 2422 4 Bykhovsky, Avigdor g RUS 2455 = 0 = * 1 = 0 1 1 1 5.5 2366 5 Botvinnik, Mikhail BLR 2205 = 0 = 0 * 1 1 = 0 1 4.5 2314 6 Grinshpun, Eduard m UZB 2365 = 0 = = 0 * = = 1 1 4.5 2296 7 Haimovich, Tal ISR 2280 = = = 1 0 = * = 0 0 3.5 2226 8 Ribshtein, Nati ISR 2290 0 = 0 0 = = = * 0 1 3.0 2180 9 Yeke, Serkan TUR 2160 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 * 0 3.0 2194 10 Godes, Dmitry R m RUS 2355 0 = 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 * 2.5 2131 -----------------------------------------------------------------
The 2nd OIBM in Bad Wiessee was won for a second time by Russian Grandmaster Alexander Khalifman. He scored 8/9 which included one loss to Eric Lobron who was in a tie for second place with Igor Glek.
Players from 18 different countries played. There were 20 GMs, 16 IMs and 14 FIDE masters. Six GMs with an ELO over 2600. Going into the last round Eric Lobron, Alexander Khalifman and Christian Gabriel all had 7 points. There were nine players a further half point behind. Alexander Khalifman from St. Petersburg exploited a small inaccuracy by his opponent Christian Gabriel to take first prize. Khalifman won eight of his nine games. Eric Lobron played against Zurab Sturua but could do nothing against solid play. So despite stronger opposition than in the previous year Alexander Khalifman took first. Igor Glek joined Lobron after a win against Christoph Renner. Dimitij Bunzmann won the junior prize U20. For Bunzmann this performance also meant he scored a GM norm. The sponsors Bank Hofmann may sponsor a 3rd event but there was no announcement at the closing ceremony. News came from Thomas Leckner.
Coverage in full at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Thomas_Leckner/
1 g KHALIFMAN Alexander 2645 8 50,0 2 g LOBRON Eric 2540 7.5 53,0 3 g GLEK Igor 2580 7.5 47,0 4 g IBRAGIMOV Ildar 2610 7 53,5 5 g KHENKIN Igor 2600 7 53,0 6 g GABRIEL Christian 2555 7 52,5 7 g LUTZ Christopher 2600 7 51,5 8 g YANDEMIROV Valeri 2470 7 51,0 9 BUNZMANN Dimitrij 2455 7 50,5 10 g HERTNECK Gerald 2555 7 50,0 11 g STURUA Zurab 2600 7 49,5 12 g LUTHER Thomas 2560 7 47,5 13 g DREEV Alexey 2645 7 46,0 14 m JARACZ Pawel 2465 6.5 50,5 15 m KEKELIDZE Mikheil 2455 6.5 50,0 16 g NISIPEANU Liviu-Dieter 2575 6.5 49,0 17 m RENNER Christoph 2415 6.5 48,0 18 m KLUNDT Klaus 2355 6.5 48,0 19 g BISCHOFF Klaus 2550 6.5 47,5 20 g KALINITSCHEW Sergey 2505 6.5 47,5 21 m ANSELL Simon 2380 6.5 47,5 22 f NAIDITSCH Arkadij 2390 6.5 47,0 23 m HOLZKE Frank 2425 6.5 46,5 24 g GURIELI Nino (IM) 2365 6.5 46,0 25 BRAUN Peter 2215 6.5 45,5 26 g TESKE Henrik 2510 6.5 45,0 27 m KOSTIC Vladimir 2410 6.5 45,0 28 f DITTMAR Peter 2305 6.5 41,0 29 ZENKER Ulrich 2220 6.5 41,0 30 SCHMIDT-SCHAEFFER Seba 2370 6.5 38,0 31 g ROGOZENKO Dorian 2435 6 49,5 32 g KACHIANI-GERSINSKA Ket 2420 6 48,5 33 f WENDT Rene 2310 6 48,0 34 g EPISHIN Vladimir 2585 6 47,0 35 m HOFFMANN Michael 2440 6 47,0 36 GRUND Holger 2345 6 47,0 37 m HERMANN Manfred 2355 6 45,5 38 f FORCHERT Martin 2310 6 45,0 39 f KOUNTZ Jochen 2290 6 45,0 40 m REEFSCHLAEGER Helmut D 2355 6 44,5 41 LISKO Frantisek 2320 6 44,5 42 m KOGAN Artur 2485 6 43,5 43 f BIEBINGER Gerhard 2335 6 43,5 44 KANTORIK Marian 2305 6 43,5 45 DEGLMANN Ludwig 2280 6 43,5 46 f JONKMAN Harmen 2310 6 43,0 47 SCHMIDT Ruediger 2190 6 42,5 48 TAUBER Manfred 2275 6 41,5 49 m WOCKENFUSS Klaus 2320 6 40,5 50 CORDTS Ingo 2178 6 38,5 51 TIMMERMANS Ivo 2225 6 38,0 52 KROENCKE Manfred 2165 6 33,5 53 m MEDANCIC Rikard 2330 5.5 46,0 54 KRALLMANN Matthias 2285 5.5 45,5 55 m GRABARSKA Barbara 2195 5.5 45,5 56 f HEDKE Fred 2350 5.5 45,0 57 JUGOW Alexander 2265 5.5 44,0 58 EHRKE Michael 2250 5.5 44,0 59 OTT Frank 2235 5.5 44,0 60 f SCHALLER Sven 2345 5.5 43,5 61 HAMM Stefan Dr. 2260 5.5 43,5 62 KRUEGER Rainer 2250 5.5 42,5 63 GJOKAJ Gjon 2231 5.5 42,5 64 WIMMER Herbert 2225 5.5 42,5 65 WORNATH Kai Rudolf 2340 5.5 42,0 66 HEINEMANN Ernst 2228 5.5 41,5 67 CHRIST Ralf 2270 5.5 40,5 68 GABRIEL Josef 2200 5.5 40,5 69 f MAIER Alexander 2410 5.5 40,0 70 SILL Thomas 2259 5.5 40,0 71 JEROSCH Gunnar 2170 5.5 40,0 72 PEL Bonno 2175 5.5 39,5 73 DANZER George 1914 5.5 39,5 74 LAU Udo 2205 5.5 39,0 75 GESING Oliver 2164 5.5 39,0 76 BROEHL Stefan 2195 5.5 38,5 77 SCHULZ Wolfgang 2130 5.5 38,5 78 JAENIG Reinhard 2215 5.5 37,5 79 f ZUNKER Reinhard Dr. 2205 5.5 37,5 80 SPROTTE Norbert 2205 5.5 37,5 81 RECHEL Ralf 2145 5.5 37,5 82 POETSCH Klaus 2205 5.5 37,0 301 players
Luis Santos sends news of the 6th Loures Young Masters (Portugal). The event was won by Rui Damaso and Carlos Matamoros Franco both of whom scored 9/11 undefeateded. It ran 2nd to 12th December. Internet coverage was at: http://www.ip.pt/~ip001018/
Final Standings Loures POR (POR), XII 1998 cat. II (2277) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Damaso, Rui m POR 2430 * = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9.0 2524 2 Matamoros Franco, Carlos m ECU 2450 = * = = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9.0 2522 3 Vasallo, Mauricio ARG 2400 = = * = = 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 8.0 2440 4 Vega Holm, Fernando m ESP 2410 = = = * 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 7.5 2397 5 Kovacevic, Slobodan m YUG 2420 = = = 0 * = 1 1 1 = 1 1 7.5 2396 6 Cordovil, Joao f POR 2220 0 0 1 1 = * 0 = = 1 = 1 6.0 2317 7 Reis, Luis Sousa POR 2225 0 0 0 1 0 1 * 0 0 1 1 1 5.0 2245 8 Peixoto, Antonio POR 2185 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 * 1 = 1 1 5.0 2249 9 Quadrio, Alexandre POR 2190 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 * = 1 = 3.5 2151 10 Charneira, Hermenegildo POR 2140 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = = * 0 1 2.5 2078 11 Durao, Pedro POR 2140 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 1 * 0 1.5 1980 12 Carvalho, Alda POR 2110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 1 * 1.5 1982 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
In addition there was a tournament in Porto, the Boavista Challenge 1998 won by Luis Gallego which took place 3-13 December 1998.
Porto POR (POR), XII 1998 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Galego, Luis m POR 2425 * 1 = 1 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 = 9.5 2501 2 Parcerias, Pedro POR 2255 0 * = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1 1 9.0 2464 3 Guimaraes, Jorge f POR 2305 = = * 1 1 = = 1 1 = 1 1 8.5 2406 4 Pinho, Paulo POR 2150 0 0 0 * 1 = 1 = 1 1 = 1 6.5 2328 5 Padeiro,Jose ---- 0 0 0 0 * 1 1 1 = 1 0 1 5.5 2270 6 Santos, Jose P f POR 2345 0 = = = 0 * 1 = = 0 = 1 5.0 2260 7 Ribeiro, Fernando f POR 2335 = 0 = 0 0 0 * 1 0 1 1 = 4.5 2120 8 Felizes,Paulo ---- 0 0 0 = 0 = 0 * 1 = 1 1 4.5 2190 9 Camejo, Rui POR 2295 0 0 0 0 = = 1 0 * 1 = 1 4.5 2223 10 Ferreira, Paolo POR 2205 0 0 = 0 0 1 0 = 0 * 1 = 3.5 2085 11 Guimaraes,Rui ---- 0 0 0 = 1 = 0 0 = 0 * 1 3.5 2104 12 Costa, Fernando J.M POR 2115 = 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 * 1.5 2038 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
The 7th Sonnevanck tournament took place in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands and runs December 1-10th. The event was won by IM Sinisa Drazic of Yugoslavia who scored 7/9, well clear of the trio of Edwin Van Haastert (a final IM result for him), Alfonso Romero Holmes and Nico Vink who scored 5.5. Next year´s Sonnevanck tournament will be a special one, because Wijk aan Zee is Cultural Village of Europe in 1999.
Internet coverage by Lost Boys at: http://chess.lostcity.nl/sonnevanck/
Sonnevanck NED (NED), XII 1998 cat. VI (2383) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Drazic, Sinisa m YUG 2495 * = 1 1 1 = = = 1 1 7.0 2590 2 Van Haastert, Edwin f NED 2345 = * = = = = 1 = 1 = 5.5 2466 3 Romero Holmes, Alfonso g ESP 2485 0 = * = 1 1 = = = 1 5.5 2451 4 Vink, Nico NED 2285 0 = = * 1 = = 1 = 1 5.5 2473 5 Wortel, Marten NED 2285 0 = 0 0 * 1 = 1 1 = 4.5 2393 6 Van Beek, Lucien NED 2315 = = 0 = 0 * 1 = = = 4.0 2347 7 Armas, Jorge m CUB 2450 = 0 = = = 0 * = 0 1 3.5 2295 8 Friedman, Aviv f ISR 2370 = = = 0 0 = = * = = 3.5 2303 9 Kroeze, Frank M f NED 2390 0 0 = = 0 = 1 = * 0 3.0 2256 10 Bottema, Tom NED 2405 0 = 0 0 = = 0 = 1 * 3.0 2255 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
The 4th Clichy GM international is taking place December 12-20th 1998. My thanks to Christophe Bouton of Europe-Echecs. After two rounds of this Category VII event Luc Bergez leads with 2/2.
Internet coverage at:
http://www.clichy-echecs.org/resultat/gmi4cli.htm
Clichy FRA (FRA), XII 1998 cat. VII (2422) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Bergez, Luc m FRA 2420 * . . . . . . 1 1 . 2.0 2 Mohamed, Esam Ahmed Nagib m EGY 2455 . * . = . . 1 . . . 1.5 2670 3 Gross, David f GER 2340 . . * . . 1 . = . . 1.5 2550 4 Prie, Eric g FRA 2465 . = . * = . . . . . 1.0 2457 5 Murey, Jacob g ISR 2460 . . . = * . . . = . 1.0 2470 6 Neiman, Emmanuel f FRA 2355 . . 0 . . * . . . 1 1.0 2367 7 Relange, Eloi m FRA 2490 . 0 . . . . * . . 1 1.0 2425 8 Fontaine, Robert m FRA 2360 0 . = . . . . * . . 0.5 2187 9 Prusikin, Mikhajlo GER 2475 0 . . . = . . . * . 0.5 2247 10 Lamoureux, Charles m FRA 2395 . . . . . 0 0 . . * 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
The 65th Brazilian Championships are being held in Itabirito, Minas Gerais State reports Herman van Riemsdijk. 16 players are playing using a KO system of 2 games. The time rate is 2 hours for all with 30 additional seconds for each move. Tie-breaks are with 20 minutes with an additional 10 seconds. The favourites got through to the semi-finals with Vescovi beating surprise qualifier Adriano Caldeira 2-0 and top rated Rafael Leitao drawing his match against Everaldo Matsuura and then winning the playoff to meet Vescovi in the final.
Leitão and Vescovi play the Brazilian Finals [by Herman van Riemsdijk Arbiter of the 65th Brazilian Championship]
Grandmasters Rafael Leitão and Giovanni Vescovi will play a match of four games deciding the Brazilian 1998 title. Giovanni Vescovi got in the finals by beating Adriano Caldeira (2190) 2 x 0 in the semifinals. Leitão had more work after eliminating today IM Everaldo Matsuura in the tie-break of the other semifinal after two draws in the regular games. The time rate is 2 hours for the whole game with a bonus of 30 seconds after each move. In the tie-break each player had 20 minutes + 10 seconds. The four games will start tomorrow in Itabirito, a small town in Minas Gerais State and will last until Friday. If necessary, the tie-break will be Saturday, the same day in which the elections for the new President of the Brazilian Chess Federation will be held. There are two candidates. One is the current president, Estevão Bakô, who is supported by Milos, Leitão and the great majority of the Brazilian Ims (Including myself). The other is IM Darcy Lima who has the support of GM Sunye. Both are dissidents of the Brazilian Chess Federation board of directors. But players have no direct votes ... So the result is still open and will be the closest elections for a long time.
Round 1 (1998.12.09) Vescovi, Giovanni - Campello, Leandro 1.5 - 0.5 Matsuura, Everaldo - Marques, Vinicius 2.0 - 0.0 Caldeira, Adriano - Martinez, Carlos Alejandro 2.0 - 0.0 Leitao, Rafael - Batista, Gerson P 2.0 - 0.0 Guimaraes, Wagner P - Rodrigues, Adriano 1.0 - 1.0 [0.5-1.5 playoff] Prates, Fabiano - Braga, Cicero 1.0 - 1.0 [0.5-1.5 playoff] Tsuboi, Edson Kenji - Segal, Alexandru Sorin 1.0 - 1.0 [0.0-2.0 playoff] Dantas, Bianor da Silva - Borges, Wagner 0.5 - 1.5 Round 2 (1998.12.11) Vescovi, Giovanni - Rodrigues, Adriano 1.0 - 1.0 [1.5-0.5 playoff] Matsuura, Everaldo - Braga, Cicero 1.5 - 0.5 Borges, Wagner - Leitao, Rafael 0.5 - 1.5 Caldeira, Adriano - Segal, Alexandru Sorin 1.0 - 1.0 [1.5-0.5 playoff] Round 3 (1998.12.13) Vescovi, Giovanni - Caldeira, Adriano 2.0 - 0.0 Matsuura, Everaldo - Leitao, Rafael 1.0 - 1.0 [0.0-2.0 playoff]
Laszlo Nagy sends news of his First Saturday events in December which will run 5th-16th Dec.1998. The main tournament is a category VII GM-event with 10 participants, ELO-average 2423. The GM-norm 7 points out of 9 games, the IM-norm 5 ½ points. There are also two IM events, one with 11 and one with 10 participants. The IM-norm in the IM-A group is 8 points out of 10 games and in the IM-B-group 7 points out of 9 games. In the GM group Csaba Horvath leads with 5.5/8 with one round to go.
Events in Budapest early in 1999.
1. 6th - 18th of February 1999 - FIRST SATURDAY chess tmt,
2. 19th - 27th of February - HOTEL ZUGLO 9 rounds Swiss Open,
3. 6th-18th of March - FIRST SATURDAY,
4. 19th-27th of March - BUDAPEST SPRING FESTIVAL 9 rounds Swiss Open
/planned/,
5. 3rd - 15th of April FIRST SATURDAY
Organizer and info: Nagy, Laszlo E-mail: 100263.1700@compuserve.com Webpage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/chess_first_saturday_hu/ Tel-fax: /361/-263-2859
The crosstable after the 8th round in the GM-group: Budapest HUN (HUN), XII 1998 cat. VII (2423) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Horvath, Csaba g HUN 2540 * = = = = = 1 1 . 1 5.5 2556 2 Vaulin, Alexander g RUS 2550 = * = = 0 = . 1 1 1 5.0 2512 3 Nguyen Anh Dung m VIE 2495 = = * = = . = 1 = = 4.5 2466 4 Csiszar, Csaba m HUN 2410 = = = * . = = = = 1 4.5 2463 5 Horvath, Adam m HUN 2455 = 1 = . * 1 0 0 1 0 4.0 2420 6 Vadasz, Laszlo g HUN 2350 = = . = 0 * = = = = 3.5 2380 7 Zimmerman, Yuri m RUS 2340 0 . = = 1 = * 0 = = 3.5 2374 8 Toth, Andras HUN 2330 0 0 0 = 1 = 1 * = . 3.5 2395 9 Alienkin, Aleksander RUS 2365 . 0 = = 0 = = = * = 3.0 2328 10 Karatorossian, David ARM 2395 0 0 = 0 1 = = . = * 3.0 2351 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The 8th round of the IM-A group: Budapest HUN (HUN), XII 1998 cat. I (2271) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Resika, Nathan A USA 2210 * 1 1 = 0 . . . 1 = 1 5.0 / 7 2467 2 Czebe, Attila m HUN 2455 0 * = . = = 1 1 = 1 . 5.0 / 8 2345 3 Szalanczy, Emil m HUN 2370 0 = * = 1 . 1 . . 1 . 4.0 / 6 2406 4 Farkas, Tibor m YUG 2275 = . = * = . = = 1 = . 4.0 / 7 2300 5 Dudas, Janos m HUN 2340 1 = 0 = * = . . . = 1 4.0 / 7 2331 6 Pinter, Gabor HUN 2245 . = . . = * 1 = 0 = 1 4.0 / 7 2318 7 Jakab, Attila HUN 2245 . 0 0 = . 0 * 1 1 . 1 3.5 / 7 2288 8 Nguyen Thi Thanh An VIE 2115 . 0 . = . = 0 * = 1 1 3.5 / 7 2277 9 Jamrich, Gyorgy HUN 2310 0 = . 0 . 1 0 = * . 1 3.0 / 7 2206 10 Dembo, Yelena ISR 2165 = 0 0 = = = . 0 . * 1 3.0 / 8 2195 11 Rimawi, B. T f JOR 2250 0 . . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 0.0 / 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 8th round of the IM-B-group: Budapest HUN (HUN), XII 1998 cat. I (2254) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Pham Minh Hoang VIE 2245 * = 1 = . 1 1 1 = = 6.0 2451 2 Eperjesi, Laszlo m HUN 2305 = * 1 = 1 = 1 = = . 5.5 2394 3 Khechumyan, Gagik ARM 2320 0 0 * 1 1 = . 1 1 1 5.5 2401 4 Grunberg, Mihai f ROM 2360 = = 0 * = . 0 1 1 1 4.5 2284 5 Szeberenyi, Adam HUN 2230 . 0 0 = * = = 1 = 1 4.0 2258 6 Kaposztas, Miklos m HUN 2245 0 = = . = * = = = = 3.5 2198 7 Nowik, Volker GER 2135 0 0 . 1 = = * 0 = 1 3.5 2217 8 Farago, Sandor m HUN 2335 0 = 0 0 0 = 1 * . 1 3.0 2168 9 Bersutzki, Gregory f ISR 2160 = = 0 0 = = = . * 0 2.5 2114 10 Todor, Razvan AUT 2205 = . 0 0 0 = 0 0 1 * 2.0 2060 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Jerry Bibuld (one of the organisers and arbiters of the event) sends news of a ten-player Cat. VII (average rating = 2401.5; GM norm = 7; IM norm = 5.5) tournament at the Marshall Chess Club in NYC, which started Saturday 12th and will run until 22 December (with three days off). Sunday, 13 December, is a free day. Round 3 will be played at 6:00 pm on Monday, 14 December.
Round 2 standings 1-2 GM Kacheishvili, Georgi (GEO) 2510 2.0 1-2 GM Stripunski, Alex (UKR) 2520 2.0 3-4 FM Paschall, William (USA) 2365 1.5 3-4 FM Ady, Jonathan (HKG) 2395 1.5 5-6 FM Vulicevic, Nenad (YUG) 2370 1.0 5-6 IM Waitzkin, Joshua (USA) 2480 1.0 7-8 IM Ashley, Maurice (USA) 2490 0.5 7-8 GM Shamkovich, Leonid (USA) 2380 0.5 9-10 IM Robovic, Saudin (BIH) 2330 0.0 9-10 NM Santana, Joan (USA) 2175 0.0
Michael Atkins reports that IM Eugene Meyer took first place in the 1998 Arlington Chess Club Championship with 3.5/4. Finishing second was NM Phil Collier who was 3-0 going into the 4th round and had to get by Meyer to win and no such luck today! Tied for 3rd were NMs Ram Avrahami, John Meyer, Ram Avrahami and Nelson Egbert with 2.5. Also with 2.5 was Peter Schadler who took top under 2100. Krishnan Sudharsan went 4-0 to win the amateur section.
Results are at http://www.wizard.net/~matkins/champ.htm
Tom Murphy scored 9-2 to take clear first in the 1998 Arlington Chess Club WBCA Club Championship ahead of IMs Larry Kaufman and Eugene Meyer.
http://www.wizard.net/~matkins/toc.htm
1998 ACC Championship - Open Final Standings Name rtng ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 TOT 1 Meyer, Eugene B.............2520 10122953 W 11 W 6 D 4 W 2 3.5 2 Collier, Philip M...........2200 10169861 W 13 W 3 W 5 L 1 3.0 3 Avrahami, Ram...............2441 12567667 W 9 L 2 W 8 H--- 2.5 4 Meyer, John C...............2335 10169518 W 10 W 8 D 1 L 5 2.5 5 Greanias, Steven D..........2280 10034191 H--- W 12 L 2 W 4 2.5 6 Egbert, Nelson..............2202 10119464 W 7 L 1 W 9 H--- 2.5 7 Schadler, Peter.............1959 12526364 L 6 D 13 W 15 W 11 2.5 8 Passov, Alexander...........2154 12422857 W 14 L 4 L 3 W 12 2.0 9 Rehle, Thomas...............1988 12567284 L 3 W 15 L 6 W 14 2.0 10 Skirpan, Stephen J..........1976 10477182 L 4 W 14 L 11 W 13 2.0 11 Kurucz, Peter...............2128 10235855 L 1 H--- W 10 L 7 1.5 12 Tejano, Albert R............1904 12730764 H--- L 5 D 13 L 8 1.0 13 Campbell, John T............1800 10191572 L 2 D 7 D 12 L 10 1.0 14 Sullivan, John L............1667 10187737 L 8 L 10 B--- L 9 1.0 15 Lazo, Marvin Jose...........1871 12521193 H--- L 9 L 7 U--- 0.5
On 5th december there was a friendly match France - Iceland on FICS organised by the French TV Channel "FRANCE2" as one of the events of the "telethon" for handicaped people. This was the idea of Claude Londex a handicapped player, President of the Cadillac Chess Club near Bordeaux, and the AFM regional organiser Jose Fernandez of the "Association Francaise de lutte contre les Myopathies". The President of Federation Francaise des Echecs was present. The teams were for Iceland GMs Hjartarson, Olafsson and Stefansson + 3 handicapped players against France GMs Marciano, Relange IM Fressinet + 3 handicapped players. Iceland won 4-2. Iceland had white on boards 1, 3 and 5. Each player had 35 minutes for the whole game. The Icelandic players had an extra 5 seconds per move, and the French players had an extra 10 seconds per move, since they needed to transfer the moves from the computer to the board. My thanks to FICS, David Flynn and Stephane Laborde for news of the event.
Iceland 4-2 France GM Hjatarsson (2630) 1/2 GM Marciano (2525) GM Olafsson (2505) 1-0 GM Relange (2490) IM Gunnarson (2445) 0-1 IM Fressinet (2455) Mr Thrdarson 1-0 Mr Londex Mr Axelsson 1/2 Mr Moirat Mr Bjornsson 1-0 Mr Kamal
As reported last week the World Junior Championships took place in Calicut, India November 16th - December 2nd 1998. The boys event was won by IM Darmen Sadvakasov of Kazakstan with 10.5/13 and who was also undefeated. He was a point clear of IM Zhang Zhong of China on 9.5. In third was Hristos Banikas of Greece on 9.0 who took third on tie-break from Dao Thien Hai of Vietnam. In the women's event Women's GM Hoang Thang Trang took clear first with 10.5 ahead of Iweta Radziewicz of Poland on 9.5 in third was Irina Krush of the USA on nine.
The games section now has a number of additional games from the final round (13)
Coverage from http://www.fide.com/ and http://www.webindia.com/chessmate/.
Boys Championships Calicut IND (IND), XI 1998 -------------------------------------------- 1 Sadvakasov, Darmen m KAZ 2440 10.5 2 Zhang Zhong m CHN 2510 9.5 3 Banikas, Hristos m GRE 2490 9.0 4 Dao Thien Hai g VIE 2580 9.0 70 players Girl's Championships Calicut IND (IND), XI 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Hoang Thang Trang wg VIE 2350 10.5 78.5 78.50 2 Radziewicz, Iweta wg POL 2425 9.5 67.5 67.50 3 Krush, Irina USA 2275 9.0 60.5 60.50 4 Werner, Isabel GER 2195 8.5 55.0 55.00 40 players --------------------------------------------------------------
Garry Kasparov has just finished a trip to Argentina (see Mig this week) and will now be travelling to England. He will have a series of engagements including a simultanous exhibition against a number of juniors which will be at the Royal Society of Arts in London (December 17th) . Live internet coverage at: http://www.wireplay.co.uk/chess/
The Oxford International Chess Festival starts on December 14th. It takes place in the Keble Room, Oxford Moat House Hotel, 14-23 December 1998. Julian Hodgson, Jonny Hector, John Nunn, Emil Sutovsky, Peter Wells, Jonathan Rowson, Stefan Pedersen, and Matthew Turner are amongst the players. Updates by John Saunders at:
http://wkweb1.cableinet.co.uk/jsaunders/oxford1.htm or
http://members.xoom.com/4ncl/oxford1.htm
Victor Bologan, Jean Marc Degraeve, Mikhail Gurevich, Eduardas Rozentalis, and Ruslan Ponomariov are the GMs playing in the Category 13 (2563) event being held in Belfort December 14-23rd. More news when I have it.
In the report for the AMEBS tournament I didn't give the new address for Ajedrez Argentino.
Rubén Casafús and Adrián Roldán's Ajedrez Argentino is now at:http://www.roldan-casafus.com
The 37th International Chess Tournament in Groningen will be held from December 19-30th this year with 2 Invitational tournaments. One for men and one for women, both a double round robin events for 6 players. Sergei Tiviakov, Zoltan Almasi, Vadim Milov, Alex Yermolinsky, Jeroen Piket and Karen Asrian play in the main event. Average 2629 Category XVI
74th Hastings International Congress, 29 Dec - 10 January 1999 The line-up for the Hastings Premier is : John Emms 2585, Laurent Fressinet 2455, Tony Miles 2590, Jim Plaskett 2455, Ruslan Ponomariov 2585, Matthew Sadler 2660, Mihail Saltaev 2525, Sergei Shipov 2635, Ivan Sokolov 2620 and Jon Speelman 2600.
http://www.bcf.ndirect.co.uk/Hastings/chat.html
The Perenyi Memorial GM tournament (Cat. VII - VIII) will take place: 3-13 Feb 1999, Gyula, Hungary Hotel Agro *** Info: Emil Anka, Tel./Fax: +36-1-221 2328