THE WEEK IN CHESS 282 3rd April 2000 by Mark Crowther
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Contents
1) Introduction
2) Kasparov
wins the chess@iceland tournament
3) 9th Amber
Tournament
4) Kasparov to play Kramnik?
5) Tel Aviv International
6) 55th Yugoslav
Championships
7) Mechanics Institute Events
8) 21st Bled Chess Festival
9) 12th Asian
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Games section
chess@iceland rapidplay 40 games
9th Amber Tournament 12 games
Tel Aviv International 30 games
55th Yugoslav Championships 48 games
Mechanics Institute Events 43 games
21st Bled Chess Festival 276 games
12th Asian Cities 372 games
Austrian Staatsliga Qualifier 36 games
Total 852 games
My thanks to John Fernandez and ICC, Lost Boys, Ian Rogers, Ray Keene,
Ram Soffer and the Israeli Chess Federation, Sinisa Joksic, John Donaldson,
Ales Drinovec, Elie Holishian and Hassan Khaled, GM Chess School, Lazslo Nagy,
Harald Grafenhofer, Martin Mrva and all those who helped with this issue.
Alexei Shirov duly rapped up the Amber tournament, an excellent result.
He has been watching with interest the developments over a potential match
between Kasparov and Kramnik and believes it should be he rather than Kramnik
(having defeated Kramnik in a qualifying match) that should be playing. Judging
by my post-bag many agree. Reports of Anand's and Keene's view of the failed
negotiations that would have brought about an Anand-Kasparov match appear
below, judging from them they were a very long way from agreement when the
negotiations were called off. There is still no news as to whether Kramnik has
accepted the challenge, perhaps a press conference in London on Wednesday will
make things clear. Kasparov and Anand met in the final of a rapidplay event in
Iceland this weekend. When it came to the blitz playoffs Kasparov won 2-0. I
suppose the question is as to whether Anand, Kramnik, Shirov or anyone else can
give Kasparov a decent match. These players have a lot of chess ability but
Kasparov at least matches them there but his experience and proven mental
toughness are way out in front of anyone around. A challenger needs to find
something there that they haven't shown before (the old interzonal and
candidates were qualifiers that required such toughness and weeded out the
talented who didn't have nerve). There is plenty of chess elsewhere and the
forthcoming events are filling out with some interesting events later this
month.
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
Garry Kasparov won the chess@iceland rapidplay tournament over the
weekend of April 1st-2nd 2000. He beat Viswanathan Anand in the final by
winning both their blitz game playoffs.
The Chess@Iceland tournament was a World Class rapid tournament (25 min
player/game) which took place April 1st-2nd 2000, in Kopavogur, Iceland. There
were twelve players and the event consisted of two parts. Day one saw two 6
player round-robins. Day two saw the top two from each group play in the
semi-finals and final. The playing hall was the new Music Conservatorium in
Kopavogur, a suburb of Reykjavik. This is beautiful and modern concert hall and
was a wonderful venue. The 2 game matches were played at 25 minutes per player,
and the blitz tiebreak (5 minute games) settled drawn matches (in the end it
was only used in the final).
Website: http://www.chess.is the games were also live on ICC. The
tournament was sponsored by OZ.COM (http://www.oz.com), Islandssimi (http://www.islanssimi.is), Ericsson (http://www.ericsson.com) and Chessclub.com
(http://www.chessclub.com).
ICC's John Fernandez reports:
Day 1
In group A, Kasparov recovered from a first round draw with Viktor
Korchnoi to win his next 4 games and win clear first in the group. Icelandic GM
Margeir Petursson had a fantastic result, and despite his last round loss to
Kasparov, his 3/5 was good enough for second place in Group A, and a spot in
Sunday's playoff. Tied for 3rd-4th at 2.5 points were GMs Timman, who could
only manage a last round draw against Korchnoi, when he needed a win to force a
playoff for 2nd, and GM Helgi Olafsson. 5th place was taken by GM Fridrik
Olafsson at 1.5, and 6th place, Korchnoi, who despite losing to the three
Icelanders in the group, gave Kasparov and Timman fits, drawing both.
In group B, Anand was able to win his group, scoring three wins and two
draws. GM Alexander Wojtkiewicz, the qualifier from the internet tournament at
Chessclub.com, took clear second in the group, with 3.5 points, losing only to
Anand. This qualified him for the knock-out phase on Sunday. In 3rd place, Ivan
Sokolov had 3 points, but his losses to Anand and Wojtkiewicz cost him a spot
in the knockout. GM Johann Hjartarson took 4th with 2.5 points, GM Hannes
Stefansson was 5th at 1.5 points, and GM Jon Arnason was 6th with 0.5 point,
but his last round draw against Anand was a good note to end it on.
Day 2 Semifinal
GM Garry Kasparov and GM Viswanathan Anand could not play a world
championship match, but they qualified from their semi-finals for a mini-match
in Iceland. Kasparov and Wojtkiewicz quickly drew in an interesting game in
game 1, but then Kasparov's English Attack, with a novelty (15. e5!?) and a
nice knight sacrifice (20. Nxe6!!) finished Wojtkiewicz off . Anand also drew
game 1, but with the white pieces against GM Margeir Petursson. A nice exchange
sacrifice in game netting Anand 2 pawns for the exchange, which in Margeir
Petursson's time pressure, proved too much, and Anand went through.
Day 2 Final
Garry Kasparov won the Chess@Iceland speed tournament Sunday in the
small Reykjavik suburb of Kopavogur. His 3-1 victory over Viswanathan Anand
surely will come as a great boost to Kasparov, especially in light of the
recent turmoil with his problems in closing a deal on organizing a World
Championship match later this year.
In the 3rd-4th place playoff game, GMs Margeir Petursson and Alexander
Wojtkiewicz made draws of 10 and 11 moves respectively, in order to enjoy
Kasparov - Anand. In the end, they just agreed to share 3rd place between them.
This meant that Kasparov and Anand were alone on stage, and everyone
was fixated on these highly interesting and exciting games.
In Game 1, an English Attack in the Sicilian Najdorf, Kasparov saw his
a-pawn quickly get surrounded and captured on an open a-file. Of course,
Kasparov got an enormous outburst of activity for this pawn, as at a moment,
Anand had 5 (!) pieces on the a-file. This allowed Kasparov to play with a lot
of activity, and after some tactical squences, the game was agreed drawn.
Game 2 was the ever so popular Rubinstein variation of the French
Defense. Kasparov sacrificed a pawn in the opening, but Anand returned the
pawn, and neutralized Kasparov's attack on the h-file, and the players decided
to repeat moves.
The stage was now set for the 5 minute game blitz match.
In Game 3, again a Rubinstein French, but this time, Anand used too
much time in some critical moments. Having just played in Monaco, where the
games were played in increments, it was hard for him to adjust to having no
added time per move, and this undoubtably was a major factor. When Anand
checked his clock and realized he had 6 seconds left, he tried to make some
moves, but the flag caught him.
In Game 4, another Najdorf, Anand had to win, and was very aggressive.
This, as it usually tends to do in such situations, backfired, and Kasparov was
able to nicely defend, and force Anand to resign.
There were about 200 people in the hall, 500 outside watching on
monitors.
Final Standings:
1st Gary Kasparov
2nd Viswanthan Anand
3rd= Margeir Petursson and Alex Wojtkiewicz
5th Ivan Sokolov
6th= Jan Timman and Helgi Olafsson
8th Hannes Hlifar Stefansson
9th= Fridrik Olafsson and Johann Hjartarson
11th Victor Korchnoi
12th Jon L. Arnason
Preliminary Group Results:
chess@iceland Group A Kopavogur ISL (ISL), 1-1 iv 2000cat. XV (2610)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Kasparov, Gary g RUS 2851 * 1 1 1 1 = 4.5 2927
2 Petursson, Margeir g ISL 2544 0 * 0 1 1 1 3.0 2695
3 Timman, Jan H g NED 2655 0 1 * = = = 2.5 2601
4 Olafsson, Helgi g ISL 2491 0 0 = * 1 1 2.5 2633
5 Olafsson, Fridrik g ISL 2460 0 0 = 0 * 1 1.5 2491
6 Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2659 = 0 = 0 0 * 1.0 2360
-------------------------------------------------------
chess@iceland Group B Kopavogur ISL (ISL), 1-1 iv 2000cat. XV (2616)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2769 * 1 1 = 1 = 4.0 2825
2 Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander g POL 2563 0 * 1 = 1 1 3.5 2775
3 Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2637 0 0 * 1 1 1 3.0 2683
4 Stefansson, Hannes g ISL 2566 = = 0 * = 1 2.5 2626
5 Hjartarson, Johann g ISL 2633 0 0 0 = * 1 1.5 2463
6 Arnason, Jon L g ISL 2528 = 0 0 0 0 * 0.5 2267
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Semi-Finals:
Round 1 (April 2, 2000)
Anand, Viswanathan - Petursson, Margeir 1/2 31 D18 Slav defence
Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 32 D46 Semi-Slav
Round 2 (April 2, 2000)
Petursson, Margeir - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 61 A22 English; 1.c4 e5
Kasparov, Gary - Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander 1-0 26 B80 Sicilian
Final Rapidplay
Anand, Viswanathan - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 41 B80 Sicilian
Kasparov, Gary - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 28 C11 French; Classical
Final Blitz playoff
Kasparov, Gary - Anand, Viswanathan 1-0 37 C10 French
Anand, Viswanathan - Kasparov, Gary 0-1 29 B90 Sicilian; Najdorf
3rd-4th playoff
Petursson, Margeir - Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander 1/2 10 A37 English; 1.c4 c5
Wojtkiewicz, Aleksander - Petursson, Margeir 1/2 12 D14 Slav defence
Both players shared 3rd place.
The 9th Amber Tournament ran March 16th-28th 2000. The event was a
triumph for Alexei Shirov who took the honours in the overall combined
standings and the rapidplay event. Shirov almost became the first player to go
through the entire event undefeated until he lost the final game of the event,
a marvelously combative blindfold game against Vassily Ivanchuk. Shirov had his
share of luck benefitting from two of the more gruesome blunders in the
rapidplay event (Anand blundered a piece and Karpov a queen in positions where
they were pressing both the kind of blunders you might expect in the blindfold
event) but overall was the worthy winner. Vladimir Kramnik got off to a very
slow start losing three rapidplay games in the first six rounds and his only
blindfold loss came in round two. Kramnik did win the blindfold event with
7.5/11 half a point clear of Topalov and Anand, Alexei Shirov came in 4th on
his own half a point further back. In the rapidplay event half a point behind
Shirov (who finished on 8.5/11) was Vassily Ivanchuk who had a poor Amber
tournament last year but did much better this time. They were well clear of
Topalov and Van Wely on 6.5 points. In the overall event Shirov scored 15
points a point and a half clear of Ivanchuk, Topalov and Kramnik on 13.5, Anand
finished on 12.5.
Official site: http://chess.lostcity.nl/amber/
Final Standings:
Rapidplay standings:
Round 11 (March 28, 2000)
Shirov, Alexei - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 24 C75 Ruy Lopez
Van Wely, Loek - Nikolic, Predrag 1-0 56 E32 Nimzo indian
Anand, Viswanathan - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 33 B80 Sicilian
Karpov, Anatoly - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 20 E14 Nimzo indian
Lautier, Joel - Piket, Jeroen 1/2 121 D19 Slav defence
Ljubojevic, Ljubomir - Topalov, Veselin 1-0 48 D46 Semi-Slav
Amber Rapidplay Monaco MNC (MNC), 16-28 iii 2000 cat. XVIII (2684)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2751 * = 1 1 1 = 1 1 = = = 1 8.5 2888
2 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2709 = * = 1 = 1 1 = = = 1 1 8.0 2856
3 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2702 0 = * 0 1 1 = 1 = 1 1 0 6.5 2747
4 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2646 0 0 1 * = 1 1 = = 1 = = 6.5 2752
5 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2692 0 = 0 = * = = 1 = 1 = 1 6.0 2719
6 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2758 = 0 0 0 = * = = 1 1 1 1 6.0 2713
7 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2769 0 0 = 0 = = * = 1 1 1 = 5.5 2676
8 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2696 0 = 0 = 0 = = * = = 1 1 5.0 2646
9 Piket, Jeroen g NED 2633 = = = = = 0 0 = * 0 = 1 4.5 2623
10 Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2659 = = 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 * = = 3.5 2553
11 Lautier, Joel g FRA 2632 = 0 0 = = 0 0 0 = = * = 3.0 2513
12 Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g YUG 2559 0 0 1 = 0 0 = 0 0 = = * 3.0 2520
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Blindfold Standings:
Round 11 (March 28, 2000)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 51 D56 QGD;
Topalov, Veselin - Ljubojevic, Ljubomir 1/2 40 E18 Nimzo indian
Gelfand, Boris - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 37 D45 Semi-Slav
Piket, Jeroen - Lautier, Joel 1/2 43 E15 Nimzo indian
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Shirov, Alexei 1-0 26 C42 Petroff defence
Nikolic, Predrag - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 64 E14 Nimzo indian
Amber Blindfold Monaco MNC (MNC), 16-28 iii 2000 cat. XVIII (2684)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2758 * = 1 = 0 1 1 = = 1 1 = 7.5 2810
2 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2702 = * 0 = 1 = 1 1 = = = 1 7.0 2784
3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2769 0 1 * = = = = = 1 1 1 = 7.0 2778
4 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2751 = = = * = 1 0 = 1 = = 1 6.5 2742
5 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2692 1 0 = = * 0 = 1 = 1 = = 6.0 2719
6 Piket, Jeroen g NED 2633 0 = = 0 1 * = = = = 1 1 6.0 2724
7 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2709 0 0 = 1 = = * 1 = 0 1 = 5.5 2681
8 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2696 = 0 = = 0 = 0 * 1 = 1 = 5.0 2646
9 Lautier, Joel g FRA 2632 = = 0 0 = = = 0 * 1 0 1 4.5 2623
10 Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g YUG 2559 0 = 0 = 0 = 1 = 0 * = = 4.0 2593
11 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2646 0 = 0 = = 0 0 0 1 = * 1 4.0 2585
12 Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2659 = 0 = 0 = 0 = = 0 = 0 * 3.0 2511
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Overall Standings:
Amber Rapidplay Monaco MNC (MNC), 16-28 iii 2000 cat. XVIII (2684)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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1 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2751 ** =0 1= == 1= 1= =1 1= 1= =1 1= =1 15.0 2810
2 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2709 =1 ** =0 10 1= == == 11 =1 1= 10 == 13.5 2761
3 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2702 0= =1 ** 1= =0 11 == 0= 11 1= 0= 11 13.5 2762
4 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2758 == 01 0= ** =1 =0 11 01 == 1= 11 1= 13.5 2757
5 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2769 0= 0= =1 =0 ** == 1= 01 == 11 =1 1= 12.5 2726
6 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2692 0= == 00 =1 == ** =0 == 11 == 11 1= 12.0 2719
7 Piket, Jeroen g NED 2633 =0 == == 00 0= =1 ** =1 == == 1= 01 10.5 2674
8 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2646 0= 00 1= 10 10 == =0 ** =0 =1 == 11 10.5 2673
9 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2696 0= =0 00 == == 00 == =1 ** 11 1= == 10.0 2646
10 Lautier, Joel g FRA 2632 =0 0= 0= 0= 00 == == =0 00 ** =1 =1 7.5 2571
11 Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g YUG 2559 0= 01 1= 00 =0 00 0= == 0= =0 ** == 7.0 2562
12 Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2659 =0 == 00 0= 0= 0= 10 00 == =0 == ** 6.5 2537
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There will be a news conference in London on Wednesday 5th April 2000
at Home House in London. Raymond Keene who is fronting a consortium to bring
about a match between Garry Kasparov and a challenger for the "World Chess
Championship" as claimed by Kasparov. The match will be over 16 games and
according to GM Keene it will the first in a series of annual challenges for
the world champion some of which may be against computers. All matches will be
broadcast live on the internet. The venue is not fixed but I understand the
favourite is London. The winner of the title match, to be played in October
will receive 1,333,000 dollars and the loser half that much.
Malcolm Pein and John Henderson will be there and photos and recordings
should be available afterwards. If you have any questions you'd like asked at
the press conference with Kasparov, Keene and possibly the challenger then send
them to me and I'll forward them on to Malcolm and John.
Kramnik has been offered a chance to play Kasparov but the latest
reports suggest he hasn't yet signed.
Alexei Shirov has said in an interview with El Pais that "I believe that
Kramnik must reject the offer because I gained the right to challenge Kasparov
over the board". Judging from letters to TWIC there is a great deal of support
for that point of view from the general public.
The organisers are a new site called braingames.net. A site covering
Chess, Chinese Chess, Japanese Chess, Draughts and Go. Braingames has signed
exclusive five year deals with Garry Kasparov, the World Chess Champion and Ron
King, the World Draughts Champion, and will be hosting the World Championships
in everyone of the Braingames.
Ian Rogers reports:
Anand has been talking on the record about the reasons why he declined
the world championship contract. (In addition there are further comments by
Aruna Anand in the Hindu at
http://www.the-hindu.com/2000/03/29/stories/0729020b.htm
Anand was unhappy with many clauses of the contract, including:
(i) Anand would be required not to compete in any other World
Championship for the next five years.
(ii) Kasparov is guaranteed $US1m if the match does not take place.
Anand was not sure of receiving anything unless he relied on Kasparov's
goodwill, which is why he asked for $300,000 up front.
(iii) He was given until April 21 to consider the contract. On March 21
the organisers claimed that this was a typing error and that he must make a
decision immediately!
(iv) At one point in the negotiations Anand offered a list of changes
to the contract which were accepted by the negotiator. Then that same evening
he was told that all these conditions were not acceptable. He was later told
that his changes would be considered only after he had signed the contract!
(v) The contract was to be signed with a new organisation which did not
yet exist, but this would be the party Anand would have to sue if things went
wrong.
(vi) Anand was told to keep the plans for the match completely
confdential but then in Linares he discovered that information about the match
had been leaked to 'The Times' of London.
(vii) The source of the funding was never named.
Anand and Aruna were also very unhappy at the way they were harrassed
in Monaco, the match organisers hassling the Anands early in the morning and
late at night. Eventually Aruna was forced to disconnect all the phones in
their room, but the match organisers still kept trying, with 'urgent' messages
delivered by the concierge at 7am.
Anand is quite upset that he was given such an unfair contract and that
all his suggested changes were rejected. He said he would happily have accepted
a fair contract for a match against Kasparov but was unwilling to invest time
and money for seconds and training without any guarantees that he would have
compensation if the match collapsed.
Raymond Keene's response.
1 My understanding was that if he lost he would be obliged to compete
in our next qualifier but if he was not challenger or champion then he could
play anywhere else he liked.
2 Nonsense! the prize money of 2 million dollars was in escrow and if
the match was cancelled then he and gazza would simply have shared the pot
equally-though quite why we should cancel with 2 million bucks in escrow is
unclear to me!
3 Asking for 300k upfront when the money is secure is odd-if the money
was not secure -which it was-then i could understand his demand-perhaps he does
not understand the word escrow!
4 April 21 was a genuine misprint-however earlier communications had
made it clear that March 21 was the deadline.
5 I know nothing of these changes
6 The organisation exists braingames plc-check it out if you like.
7 We did not authorise the leak-in fact we did not have the money at
the time the leak occurred and it annoyed me greatly.
8 Of course the source was named-brain games plc.
9 They were not harassed-that was ridiculous.
10 The contract was exactly the same as gazzas-that was the point.
11 The guarantee was that if the match did not take place Anand got a
Million bucks - I cant say fairer than that!!
Ram Soffer and the Israeli Chess Federation sends news of the Tel Aviv
International. The event took place in Sol & Sissy Mark Center, Tel Aviv
March 20-29, 2000. The event was FIDE Category 9 GM norm = 6.5 IM norm = 4.5.
20 year old Alik Gershon won convincingly with 7/9, fulfilling his 2nd GM norm
with half a point to spare. Alik has previously (1994,1996) won the World Youth
championships under 14 and 16, and this result is hopefully a major step
towards joining the elite of Israeli chess. GM Leonid Gofshtein, who led the
tournament from the start, took 2nd place with 6 points. Ilia Botvinnik scored
his final IM norm with 4.5 points. The best game prize (donated by the chess
journalist Uri Zahor in memory of his wife) was also won by Alik Gershon, for
his victory over GM Mihail Marin of Romania.
Round 5 (March 25, 2000)
Gershon, Alik - Marin, Mihail 1-0 37 A75 Modern Benoni
Jonkman, Harmen - Mikhalevski, Alexander 1/2 52 C30 Kings gambit
Botvinnik, Ilia - Gofshtein, Leonid D 1/2 12 E92 Kings indian; Classical
Bykhovsky, Avigdor - Postny, Evgeny 1/2 17 A42 Queen's pawn
De Vreugt, Dennis - Botvinnik, Mikhail2 1/2 58 B47 Sicilian
Round 6 (March 26, 2000)
Gofshtein, Leonid D - Gershon, Alik 1/2 17 E12 Nimzo indian
Marin, Mihail - Jonkman, Harmen 1/2 17 A13 English; 1.c4
De Vreugt, Dennis - Bykhovsky, Avigdor 1-0 40 C43 Petroff defence
Postny, Evgeny - Botvinnik, Ilia 1-0 53 E83 Kings indian; Saemisch
Botvinnik, Mikhail2 - Mikhalevski, Alexander 0-1 60 D37 Queen's gambit
Round 7 (March 27, 2000)
Gershon, Alik - Postny, Evgeny 1-0 41 D17 Slav defence
Mikhalevski, Alexander - Marin, Mihail 1/2 30 A70 Modern Benoni
Jonkman, Harmen - Gofshtein, Leonid D 0-1 41 B22 Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Botvinnik, Ilia - De Vreugt, Dennis 1-0 24 A31 English; 1.c4 c5
Bykhovsky, Avigdor - Botvinnik, Mikhail2 1/2 19 E45 Nimzo indian
Round 8 (March 28, 2000)
Gofshtein, Leonid D - Mikhalevski, Alexander 0-1 32 D35 Queen's gambit
Bykhovsky, Avigdor - Botvinnik, Ilia 1/2 19 A40 Queen's pawn
De Vreugt, Dennis - Gershon, Alik 0-1 46 B57 Sicilian
Postny, Evgeny - Jonkman, Harmen 0-1 31 D50 QGD;
Botvinnik, Mikhail2 - Marin, Mihail 0-1 22 A87 Dutch defence
Round 9 (March 29, 2000)
Gershon, Alik - Bykhovsky, Avigdor 1/2 24 D27 QGA;
Mikhalevski, Alexander - Postny, Evgeny 1/2 27 A42 Queen's pawn
Marin, Mihail - Gofshtein, Leonid D 1/2 26 D79 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6
Jonkman, Harmen - De Vreugt, Dennis 1-0 21 B01 Scandinavian
Botvinnik, Ilia - Botvinnik, Mikhail2 1/2 9 E28 Nimzo indian
Tel Aviv International ISR (ISR), 20-29 iii 2000 cat. IX (2460)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1 Gershon, Alik m ISR 2471 * = = 1 1 = = 1 1 1 7.0 2678
2 Gofshtein, Leonid D g ISR 2580 = * 0 = 1 = 1 = 1 1 6.0 2571
3 Mikhalevski, Alexander m ISR 2479 = 1 * = = = 1 0 = 1 5.5 2537
4 Marin, Mihail g ROM 2555 0 = = * = = = 1 1 1 5.5 2529
5 Jonkman, Harmen f NED 2446 0 0 = = * = = 1 1 1 5.0 2504
6 Botvinnik, Ilia ISR 2405 = = = = = * = 1 0 = 4.5 2466
7 Bykhovsky, Avigdor g RUS 2467 = 0 0 = = = * 0 = = 3.0 2334
8 De Vreugt, Dennis m NED 2498 0 = 1 0 0 0 1 * 0 = 3.0 2330
9 Postny, Evgeny ISR 2424 0 0 = 0 0 1 = 1 * 0 3.0 2338
10 Botvinnik, Mikhail2 ISR 2274 0 0 0 0 0 = = = 1 * 2.5 2314
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Sinisa Joksic reports: The 55th Yugoslav Championships took place in
SuboticaMarch 17th - April 2nd 2000. There were 16 participants. The
Championships were Cat X (2478) Norms gm=10, im=7 and national master =6.
32 year old GM Zlatko Ilincic is the new Yugoslav Champion. Ilincic has
finished second on a few occasions but this is the first time he has won the
title. Ilincic has played for the Yugoslav national team for many years. He was
born in Vukovar and now is living in Vrsac as a refugee. After a start of 1.5
out of 4 games, Ilincic made his winning run of 7 out of 8 for a total of 8
wins, 5 draws and 2 lost games, 70% and 1.5 point clear of the second placed
pair! A very good second and third were GM Dejan Antic and IM Ivan Ivanisevic.
Ivanisevic was one point short of a GM norm. The most entertaining player in
the event was the oldest, Dragoljub Velimirovic (58), playing by turns great
games and great blunders. In Round 14, against Ivanisevic, after playing
excellently he missed a win in one move by playing 21.Qe4 instead of the
winning 21.Qc3! Velimirovic lost, also, completely won games with Tosic in
round 12 and unfortunately made some more mistake in other games. Generally
order of the players were according to their current form. Young players
Kalezic, Perunovic and Sedlak represented very well the new generation. Blazo
Kalezic and Milos Perunovic made IM norms. Sedlak was half point away from the
IM norm. The organization was good. Its high time to plan championship earlier
and to invite all the best players (Ivanovic, Gligoric) and players who lived
abroad (Ljubojevic, Djuric, Strikovic, Todorcevic, Barlov). Now players are
invited at the very last moment, many of them without preparation and even
information who else is playing in the event. They have to come into form
during the competition. The Yugoslav championships is one of rare the
tournaments where the games are better in second half than at the start of the
tournament.
Round 10 (March 27, 2000)
Antic, Dejan - Kalezic, Blazo 1-0 46 D46 Semi-Slav
Velimirovic, Dragoljub - Markovic, Miroslav 1/2 49 B56 Sicilian
Damljanovic, Branko - Ilincic, Zlatko 0-1 75 E94 Kings indian; Classical
Kosic, Dragan - Marjanovic, Slavoljub 0-1 49 E90 Kings indian; Classical
Perunovic, Milos - Todorovic, Goran M 0-1 29 B33 Sicilian; Sveshnikov
Sedlak, Nikola - Drasko, Milan 1/2 59 C18 French; Winawer
Pavlovic, Milos - Tosic, Miroslav 0-1 46 A30 English; 1.c4 c5
Mijailovic, Zoran - Ivanisevic, Ivan 1/2 72 E94 Kings indian; Classical
Round 11 (March 28, 2000)
Ilincic, Zlatko - Velimirovic, Dragoljub 1-0 56 B31 Sicilian
Ivanisevic, Ivan - Perunovic, Milos 1/2 26 B26 Sicilian; Closed
Markovic, Miroslav - Sedlak, Nikola 0-1 44 D45 Semi-Slav
Tosic, Miroslav - Damljanovic, Branko 1-0 49 E94 Kings indian; Classical
Marjanovic, Slavoljub - Mijailovic, Zoran 1-0 31 B43 Sicilian
Kalezic, Blazo - Kosic, Dragan 0-1 45 C02 French; Advance
Todorovic, Goran M - Pavlovic, Milos 1/2 72 B82 Sicilian
Drasko, Milan - Antic, Dejan 1/2 22 A60 Modern Benoni
Round 12 (March 30, 2000)
Antic, Dejan - Markovic, Miroslav 1/2 78 E94 Kings indian; Classical
Velimirovic, Dragoljub - Tosic, Miroslav 0-1 33 B56 Sicilian
Damljanovic, Branko - Todorovic, Goran M 1/2 61 A29 English; 1.c4 e5
Kosic, Dragan - Drasko, Milan 1-0 62 E14 Nimzo indian
Marjanovic, Slavoljub - Kalezic, Blazo 0-1 40 D43 Semi-Slav
Sedlak, Nikola - Ilincic, Zlatko 0-1 41 B54 Sicilian
Pavlovic, Milos - Ivanisevic, Ivan 1/2 11 D14 Slav defence
Mijailovic, Zoran - Perunovic, Milos 1/2 17 E15 Nimzo indian
Round 13 (March 31, 2000)
Ilincic, Zlatko - Antic, Dejan 1/2 12 D30 Queen's gambit
Ivanisevic, Ivan - Damljanovic, Branko 0-1 34 B33 Sicilian; Sveshnikov
Markovic, Miroslav - Kosic, Dragan 1-0 35 D45 Semi-Slav
Tosic, Miroslav - Sedlak, Nikola 0-1 54 B92 Sicilian; Najdorf
Kalezic, Blazo - Mijailovic, Zoran 1/2 61 B20 Sicilian
Perunovic, Milos - Pavlovic, Milos 1-0 51 B42 Sicilian
Todorovic, Goran M - Velimirovic, Dragoljub 0-1 36 B38 Sicilian
Drasko, Milan - Marjanovic, Slavoljub 1/2 25 D73 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6
Round 14 (April 1, 2000)
Antic, Dejan - Tosic, Miroslav 1-0 60 E04 Nimzo indian
Velimirovic, Dragoljub - Ivanisevic, Ivan 0-1 29 B57 Sicilian
Damljanovic, Branko - Perunovic, Milos 1-0 42 B20 Sicilian
Kosic, Dragan - Ilincic, Zlatko 1/2 13 B07 Pirc
Marjanovic, Slavoljub - Markovic, Miroslav 1-0 44 B60 Sicilian
Kalezic, Blazo - Drasko, Milan 1-0 38 C03 French; Tarrasch
Sedlak, Nikola - Todorovic, Goran M 1-0 43 B33 Sicilian; Sveshnikov
Mijailovic, Zoran - Pavlovic, Milos 1-0 43 E12 Nimzo indian
Round 15 (April 2, 2000)
Ilincic, Zlatko - Marjanovic, Slavoljub 1-0 31 D72 1.d4 d5 2.c4 g6
Ivanisevic, Ivan - Sedlak, Nikola 1/2 62 E96 Kings indian; Classical
Markovic, Miroslav - Kalezic, Blazo 1-0 54 D45 Semi-Slav
Tosic, Miroslav - Kosic, Dragan 1/2 12 C11 French; Classical
Perunovic, Milos - Velimirovic, Dragoljub 1/2 67 B34 Sicilian
Todorovic, Goran M - Antic, Dejan 1-0 43 C07 French; Tarrasch
Drasko, Milan - Mijailovic, Zoran 1-0 42 E39 Nimzo indian
Pavlovic, Milos - Damljanovic, Branko 0-1 35 B67 Sicilian
55th ch-YUG Subotica YUG (YUG), 16 iii-2 iv 2000 cat. X (2479)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Ilincic, Zlatko g YUG 2554 * = 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 0 1 1 1 = 0 = 10.5 2622
2 Antic, Dejan m YUG 2491 = * = = 0 1 = 1 = 1 1 0 1 = = = 9.0 2550
3 Ivanisevic, Ivan m YUG 2460 0 = * = 1 0 = 1 1 1 = 1 = = = = 9.0 2552
4 Markovic, Miroslav g YUG 2586 = = = * = = 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 = 1 = 8.5 2521
5 Velimirovic, Dragoljub g YUG 2558 0 1 0 = * 0 1 0 1 0 = 1 1 1 = 1 8.5 2523
6 Damljanovic, Branko g YUG 2534 0 0 1 = 1 * = 0 0 0 1 = 1 1 1 1 8.5 2525
7 Kosic, Dragan g YUG 2521 = = = 0 0 = * = 0 1 = = = 1 = 1 7.5 2476
8 Tosic, Miroslav g YUG 2503 0 0 0 0 1 1 = * 1 1 = = 0 = 1 = 7.5 2477
9 Marjanovic, Slavoljub g YUG 2524 0 = 0 1 0 1 1 0 * 0 = 0 1 = 1 1 7.5 2475
10 Kalezic, Blazo YUG 2403 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 * 0 = = 1 = = 7.0 2462
11 Perunovic, Milos f YUG 2384 0 0 = 1 = 0 = = = 1 * 0 = = 1 = 7.0 2464
12 Todorovic, Goran M g YUG 2426 0 1 0 0 0 = = = 1 = 1 * 0 = = 1 7.0 2461
13 Sedlak, Nikola f YUG 2323 0 0 = 1 0 0 = 1 0 = = 1 * = = = 6.5 2439
14 Drasko, Milan g YUG 2520 = = = = 0 0 0 = = 0 = = = * = 1 6.0 2404
15 Pavlovic, Milos g YUG 2481 1 = = 0 = 0 = 0 0 = 0 = = = * 0 5.0 2353
16 Mijailovic, Zoran m YUG 2394 = = = = 0 0 0 = 0 = = 0 = 0 1 * 5.0 2359
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John Donaldson reports: The Mechanics Institute in San Francisco is
hosting a series of events from March 29 to April 14. A G/45 exhbition game
between (Alex Yermolinsky who won with black) and Jaan Ehlvest on March 29
started things off. The Frisco Masters takes place March 31st-April 3rd.
The Val Zemitis International will be held April 5-14. The IM norm
event, with IM Cela (2527) as top seed, will be Category 4 (2340).
Frisco Masters Round 3 standings:
1 GM Alex Shabalov 3.0
IM Rashid Ziatdinov 3.0
3 GM Alex Yermolinsky 2.5
GM John Fedorowicz 2.5
GM Pavel Blatny 2.5
GM Walter Browne 2.5
Vinay Bhat 2.5
IM Guillermo Rey 2.5
9 GM Jaan Ehlvest 2.0
IM Vincent Mc Cambridge 2.0
IM Zoran Ilic 2.0
IM Rogelio Barcenilla 2.0
David Pruess 2.0
Carl Haessler 2.0
Mark Pinto 2.0
42 players
Ales Drinovec reports: The 21st Bled Chess Festival 2000 took place 25th
March - 2nd April 2000. There were 208 participants with the average rating in
the Open A event with 63 players was 2365. There were 80 players in Open B, 22
seniors and 43 juniors. Six players finished on 6.5/9 with Zdenko Kozul having
the superior Bucholtz tiebreak ahead of Oleg Romanishin, Robert Zelcic, Dusko
Pavasovic, Nenad Fercec and Franz Hoelzl.
Results and games at: http://www.sah-zveza.si/bled
21st Open Group A Bled SLO (SLO), 25 iii-2 iv 2000
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1 Kozul, Zdenko g CRO 2597 6.5 /9 2655
2 Romanishin, Oleg M g UKR 2578 6.5 /9 2643
3 Zelcic, Robert g CRO 2529 6.5 /9 2631
4 Pavasovic, Dusko g SLO 2544 6.5 /9 2569
5 Fercec, Nenad m CRO 2464 6.5 /9 2531
6 Hoelzl, Franz m AUT 2398 6.5 /9 2570
7 Bu Xiangzhi m CHN 2565 6.0 /9 2577
8 Rogic, Davor m CRO 2494 6.0 /9 2576
9 Miroshnichenko, Evgenij m UKR 2465 6.0 /9 2566
10 Thiede, Lars f GER 2390 6.0 /9 2564
11 Zheliandinov, Viktor m UKR 2411 6.0 /9 2511
12 Borovikov, Vladislav m UKR 2472 5.5 /9 2562
13 Markovic, Ivan YUG m YUG 2462 5.5 /9 2528
14 Loncar, Robert m CRO 2406 5.5 /9 2503
15 Berndt, Stephan m GER 2500 5.5 /9 2465
16 Rogulj, Branko m CRO 2437 5.5 /9 2496
17 Brumen, Dinko f CRO 2403 5.5 /9 2481
18 Mazi, Leon f SLO 2380 5.5 /9 2476
19 Sermek, Drazen g SLO 2517 5.5 /9 2454
20 Savanovic, Aleksandar f YUG 2435 5.0 /9 2474
21 Jelen, Igor m SLO 2427 5.0 /9 2450
22 Atalik, Suat g TUR 2575 5.0 /9 2462
23 Sveshnikov, Evgeny g RUS 2541 5.0 /9 2426
24 Soln, Primoz m SLO 2382 5.0 /9 2499
25 Loeffler, Stefan m GER 2426 5.0 /9 2428
26 Podlesnik, Bogdan m SLO 2415 5.0 /9 2422
63 players
Elie Holishian and Hassan Khaled report on the 12th Asian Cities Team
Championship took place in Beirut - Lebanon 19th-25th March. There were 22
teams from 15 countries and the event was a nine round swiss. The time rate was
all moves in 100 Minutes and 30 seconds added for every move. The winner was
the favourites Pavlodar and they took the Dubai Cup for one year which is
valued at $150,000. The Chief Arbiter was Mr Casto Abundo - Deputy Arbiters Dr.
Hesham Elgendy & Mr. Mohamed Succar The leading teams were first placed
Pavlodar Pavel Kotsur (2587), Evgeny Vladimirov (2586), Ruslan Irzhanov (2503),
Alibek Ibragimov (2441) and Evgeni Egorov (2417) and second place Namangan
Alexander Nenashev (2600), Saidali Iuldchev (2509), Marat Dzumaev (2483) and
Dmitry Kalumov (2475).
The Lebanese Chess Federation has a chess site:
http://www.lebchess.org
Final Standings:
Rank Team Fed. Pts Buchh Teams So-Brn
1 Pavlodar KAZ 29.5 182.5 8.5 168.5
2 Namangan UZB 28 179 8 153
3 Ashgabat TKM 22.5 188 6 114.5
4 Gorgan IRI 20.5 187.5 6 111
5 Tehran IRI 19 192 5.5 103.8
6 Baghdad IRQ 19 178.5 4.5 79.3
7 Beirut LIB 19 175.5 5 77
8 Zahle LIB 19 136 5.5 73.8
9 Ulaanbator MGL 18.5 146.5 5 77.5
10 Alleppo SYR 18 167 5 78.8
11 Dubai UAE 18 152.5 4.5 61.3
12 Nagpur IND 17.5 178 3.5 62.5
13 Damascus SYR 17.5 168.5 4 63.8
14 Sharjah UAE 17.5 161 4.5 76.3
15 Sanaa YEM 17 153 3.5 42.5
16 Amman JOR 17 139 3.5 38.3
17 Doha QAT 16.5 163 3.5 52.5
18 Manama BRN 16.5 132 4.5 62.5
19 Saida LIB 14 135 3 33
20 Jezzin LIB 13 118.5 2.5 18
21 Ghaza PLE 12.5 136 2 17
22 Jerusalem PLE 4 145.5 0.5 8.3
Final Individual Results for Board Medals
Board 1
Rank No. Name Team Fed. T. Rate Pt. g. % Medal
1 1 KOTSUR Pavel Pavlodar KAZ g 2587 7.5 9 83 Gold
2 25 HAKKI Imad Damascus SYR m 2405 6.5 8 81 Silver
3 6 NENASHEV Alexander Namangan UZB g 2600 7.0 9 78 Bronze
Board 2
Rank No. Name Team Fed. T. Rate Pt. g. % Medal
1 56 AL-SAYED Mohammed Doha QAT 2270 5.5 6 92 Gold
2 2 VLADIMIROV Evgeny Pavlodar KAZ g 2586 8.0 9 89 Silver
3 7 YULDAGHEV Saydali Namangan UZB g 2509 8.0 9 89 Siver
Board 3
Rank No. Name Team Fed. T. Rate Pt. g. % Medal
1 71 MANSOUR Sameer Amman JOR 2272 6.0 6 100 Gold
2 66 BASHEER Al-Qudami Sanaa YEM 2000 5.5 6 92 Silver
3 3 IRZHANOV Ruslan Pavlodar KAZ g 2503 5.5 7 79 Bronze
Board 4
Rank No. Name Team Fed. T. Rate Pt. g. % Medal
1 33 GHANE Shojaat Tehran IRI 2313 5.0 6 83 Gold
2 4 IBRAGIMOV Alibek Pavlodar KAZ m 2441 5.5 7 79 Silver
3 9 KAYUMOV Dmitry Namangan UZB m 2475 6.0 9 67 Bronze
Board 5
Rank No. Name Team Fed. T. Rate Pt. g. % Medal
1 44 JASIM A.R. Saleh Sharjah UAE 2288 5.5 6 92 Gold
2 24 AHMAD Aziz Baghdad IRQ m 2319 5.5 8 69 Silver
3 34 MORADIABADI Alshan Tehran IRI 2147 4.0 6 67 Bronze
The 73rd St. Petersburg Championships take place April 3rd-13th 2000. A
12 player all-play-all event with: Valery Loginov (GM 2512), Sergey Ivanov (GM
2543), Sergey Sivokho (2436), Evgeniy Solozhenkin (GM 2528), Genrikh
Chepukaitis (2393), Evgeny Shaposhnikov (FM 2503), Evgeny Alekseev (2475),
Aleksei Lugovoi (GM 2515), Konstantin Aseev (GM 2517), Vasily Yemelin (GM
2540), Valerij Popov (GM 2534), Sergey Ionov (GM 2558).
Official Site: http://www.gmchess.spb.ru/
There are two IM groups and one GM group for the FS April events which
run April 1st-14th 2000.
Info: Nagy, Laszlo, e-mail: firstsat@elender.hu www.elender.hu/~firstsat
Tel-fax: (361)-263-28-59 Mobile: (36)-30-230-1914 ICQ # 44805877.
Round 1 Results GM
Nguyen, Anh Dung VIE 2496 1/2 Fogarasi, Tibor HUN 2429
Balogh, Csaba HUN 2356 1/2 Almasi, Istvan HUN 2420
Kahn, Evarth HUN 2301 1/2 Galyas, Miklos HUN 2440
Varga, Zolt n HUN 2530 1/2 Hoang, Th.Trang VIE 2448
Horvath, Csaba HUN 2519 1/2 Tolnay, Tibor HUN 2514
Kallio, Heikki FIN 2448 0-1 Berkvens, Joost NLD 2297
Round 1 Results IM A
Lehtinen, Antti FIN 2246 1-0 Eperjesi, Laszlo HUN 2365
Murzin, Lenar RUS 2231 1-0 Dembo, Yelena ISR 2269
Guedon, Stephanne FRA 2332 1-0 Alfred, Nathan ENG 2200
Szieberth, Adam HUN 2334 1/2 Maki-Uuro, Miikka FIN 2341
Atakisi, Umut TRK 2250 0-1 Cooke, Eric USA 2266
Froehlich, Peter GER 2375 1-0 Driamin, Dmitri RUS 2230
Orso, Miklos HUN 2341 1/2 Farago, Sandor HUN 2271
Round 1 Results IMB
Karttunen, Mika FIN 2313 1-0 Rajlich, Vasik USA 2309
Vadasz, Laszlo HUN 2285 1/2 Dudas, Janos HUN 2321
Dolgener, Tobias GER 2260 1-0 Nemeth, Zoltan HUN 2379
Yu, Mingyuan CHN 2419 1-0 Resika, Nathan USA 2190
Khechumyan, Gagik ARM 2236 0-1 Barth, Norbert GER 2192
Szeberenyi, Adam HUN 2257 0-1 Van Blittersvijk,S NLD 2308
Harald Grafenhofer reports on a qualifying event from the Austrian
Staatsliga that took place in Linz-Dornach 31st March 2nd April 2000. There
were four teams that played each other once. The top two teams Gamlitz
Leutschach and SK Voest Linz both qualified for the Staatsliga A.
Place Team MPts BdPts SB
1 Spg. Gamlitz Leutschach 4 10.5 856 88,5
2 SK VÖEST Linz 4 10.0 836 86,0
3 SK Austria Wien - Husek 2 8.0 655 69,5
4 SK Sparkasse Absam 2 7.5 593 73,5
Grandmaster David Norwood, the Weekend Telegraph Chess Correspondent
and International Master Michael Hennigan are sponsoring a team in the 4
Nations Chess League to celebrate the acquisition of their high-tech company
Index IT by stockbrokers Beeson Gregory. Invicta Knights Home House, which was
always a mouthful, will now be known as Index IT. The pair are set to become
multi-millionaires when Beeson Gregory goes public next week. Index IT,
co-founded by Norwood, now forms 20% of the company which is to be floated on
the Techmark index and is set to be valued in excess of 200 million pounds.
IM Martin Mrva reports: The Slovak Team Championship took place 16th
October 1999 - 26th March 2000. The event was won by Tatran Presov who just
edged out Hydina Kosice on board count after both teams finished with a +9 =1
-1 record. Members of winning team, Tatran Presov: M. Mrva, Z. Hagarova (player
of winning team of Women's European Team Championship in Batumi 1999), E.
Hagara, S. Marek, V. Mrva, M. Kriz, V. Jacko, A. Mrvova (player of winning team
of Women's European Team Championship in Batumi 1999), P. Demeter, O. Kriz, D.
Rybansky, S. Svoboda.
Slovak Team Championship
16th October 1999 - 26th March 2000
1. Tatran Presov 11 9 1 1 58.0 : 30.0 28
2. Hydina Kosice 11 9 1 1 54.0 : 34.0 28
3. Slovan Bratislava A 11 6 4 1 54.0 : 34.0 22
4. Slovan Levice 11 7 1 3 47.0 : 41.0 22
5. Slovan Bratislava jun 11 5 2 4 44.5 : 43.5 17
6. Nove Zamky 11 4 3 4 44.0 : 44.0 15
7. Rajecke Teplice 11 4 2 5 43.5 : 44.5 14
8. Banik Prievidza 11 4 1 6 40.0 : 48.0 13
9. SKS Dubnica 11 2 3 6 40.0 : 48.0 9
10. Radegast Bratislava 11 2 1 8 35.0 : 53.0 7
11. Doprastav Bratislava 11 2 1 8 35.5 : 52.5 7
12. SK Trencin 11 2 0 9 32.5 : 55.5 6
Cross table
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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1. Tatran Presov xxx 4.5 4.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 6.0 6.0 3.5 4.5 4.5 7.0
2. Hydina Kosice 3.5 xxx 4.0 5.0 5.0 6.5 4.5 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.5 5.0
3. Slovan Blava A 4.0 4.0 xxx 4.0 6.0 6.5 3.5 4.5 4.0 5.0 6.0 6.5
4. Slovan Levice 1.5 3.0 4.0 xxx 2.5 5.5 6.0 5.0 5.0 4.5 5.0 5.0
5. Slovan Blava ju 2.0 3.0 2.0 5.5 xxx 4.0 2.0 6.0 5.5 4.0 5.5 5.0
6. Nove Zamky 2.5 1.5 1.5 2.5 4.0 xxx 4.0 4.0 5.0 6.5 6.5 6.0
7. Rajecke Teplice 2.0 3.5 4.5 2.0 6.0 4.0 xxx 3.5 4.0 6.5 3.0 4.5
8. Banik Prievidza 2.0 3.0 3.5 3.0 2.0 4.0 4.5 xxx 4.5 5.0 5.5 3.0
9. SKS Dubnica 4.5 3.0 4.0 3.0 2.5 3.0 4.0 3.5 xxx 5.0 4.0 3.5
10. Radegast Blava 3.5 3.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 1.5 1.5 3.0 3.0 xxx 4.5 4.5
11. Doprastav Blava 3.5 2.5 2.0 3.0 2.5 1.5 5.0 2.5 4.0 3.5 xxx 5.5
12. SK Trencin 1.0 3.0 1.5 3.0 3.0 2.0 3.5 5.0 4.5 3.5 2.5 xxx
Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament 2000
The Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament 2000 will be held 23rd-29th May
2000 in Malmö, Sweden. This year the event is a four player double
round-robin event with: IGM Judit Polgar, IGM Jan Timman, IGM Ulf Andersson and
IGM Tiger Hillarp-Persson.
http://www.sigeman-chess.comhttp://www.sigeman-chess.com
Danish Chess Championships
Danish Chess Championships 2000 take place April 15th-24th 2000 in
Aalborg, Denmark. The participants in the main group are:
GM Curt Hansen, former junior world champion
GM Lars Bo Hansen
GM Peter Heine Nielsen
GM Bent Larsen, 65 years old and a living legend in chess
GM Henrik Danielsen
GM Lars Schandorff
IM Steffen Pedersen
IM Jens-Ove Fries Nielsen
IM Klaus Berg
IM Erling Mortensen
The tournament will be broadcast live on the Internet.
Official site:
http://www.dm2000.skak.stofanet.dk/index_uk.htm
Heart of Finland Tournament
10th International Heart of Finland Tournament, the biggest open
tournament in Finland, will be played in Jyvaskyla, Finland 19-23.7.2000. More
information: http://www.shakki.net/turnaukset/hof00/.
Karpov-Xie Jun Match
FIDE Women's World Champion Xie Jun takes on ex-World Chess Champion
Anatoly Karpov in a 6 game match taking place April 7th-16th 2000. The event
will be covered on the site of one of the sponsors Guangzhou Daily at:
http://www.gzdaily.com
Tanta Open
The Tanta Open takes place 2nd-13th May 2000 in Tanta City about 90 km
from Cairo-Egypt.
9 Round Swiss 40 Players ( 2 GMs 10 IMs) 25 Egyptian
players - Time control 7 hours Fischer system. Arrival 2nd May 2000 1st
round 3 May, last round 12th May. Closing ceremony and departure 13th May. Play
start at 4pm daily. Full Accommodation and 3 meals in a 3 star Hotel single
room for GMs and double room for IMs. 1st Prize 750 U.S.$ - 2nd 650$ - 3rd 600
4th 550 5th 500 - 6th 450 7th 400 8th 350
9th 300 10th 250. 400 U.S.$ for every GM over 2500 and 250 U.S.$ for
every IM over 2300 The organisers need only one player from each country and
have vacancies for around 5 IMs. Free transportation inside Egypt, including to
and from the Airport. 2 Free Touristic tours.
Email ecf@idsc.gov.eg and haskh@yahoo.com Contact: Hassan Khaled
General Director Egyptian Chess Federation
Julian Borowski IGM event
The Julian Borowski IGM tournament in Essen takes place 26th April-5th
May 2000. Group A (cat. XV) players: Alexei Dreev (2679), Vadim Milov (2653),
Vadim Zvjaginsev (2641), Alexander Beliavsky (2640), Robert Huebner (2620),
Curt Hansen (2618), Rustem Dautov (2602), Emil Sutovsky (2597), Igor Glek
(2554) and Klaus Bischoff (2544). Group B (cat. X) has 10 players too.
Further details: http://home.t-online.de/home/jb_igm
Redbus International
The Redbus group of companies, owned by Cliff Stanford, the founder of
Demon Internet, have just announced that they will again be supporting an elite
knockout tournament to run alongside the Southend Easter Congress. The time
control will again be 100 minutes plus 30 seconds per move for the whole game
with one round per day and two games per round. Matches tied at 1-1 will be
decided by two ten minute games followed by sudden death blitz if necessary.
The prize fund is £7,400. The full line-up for the Redbus Knockout is:
Michael Adams 2715 Jon Speelman 2604 Tony Miles 2579 Bogdan Lalic 2548 John
Emms 2546 Murray Chandler 2527 Glenn Flear 2519 Jim Plaskett 2515 Daniel King
2514 Chris Ward 2509 Jonathan Rowson 2499 Nigel Davies 2497 Peter Wells 2494
Mark Hebden 2493 Matthew Turner 2489 Luke McShane 2438 The Southend Easter
Congress will have events for players of all strengths and is supported this
year by Southend Council and The GFI group. The top section will be a seven
round FIDE rated Open. Players wishing to participate at Southend should call
Howard Grist On 01702 617976
Presov Chess Festival 2000
Presov Chess Festival 2000, 12th -20th August A) Grandmaster tournament
(10 participants, round robin, 10th category FIDE) B) Women's grandmaster
tournament (10 participants, round robin, 10th category FIDE) C) OPEN for
players with Elo FIDE minim. 2100 D) National OPEN E) Accompanying programme
(simultaneous game, blitz, football, ...)
Total prize fund 169 900 Sk (about $4000). There are still FREE places
for players in A as well in B tournament (and of course in C and D
tournaments).
Official web-pages of the Presov Chess Festival 2000
http://www.chess.vadium.sk/presov.htm
Last year: The results of the Presov Chess Festival 1999 are in TWIC250
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic250.html#13
The organising committee of the Presov Chess Festival 2000 can be
contacted at: chess@vadium.sk
New York Open
Michael Atkins reports: The New York Open is back!! Long, the strongest
Open tournament in the U.S., the NY Open is scheduled over the period of May
5-11, 2000. Playing at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, the same site as the
last two NYO's, the Open section will feature $50,000 in prizes which is about
$10,000 more than in the open section in 1998.
New York Open website http://w-w-w.com/nyopen/
Send checks, money orders, or credit card information to New York Open,
21W. 46th St., Room 1004, New York, NY 10036. Tel. (212) 719-4204 Fax (212)
719-4369 e-mail: nyopen@w-w-w.com
Lausanne Young Masters
The second edition of the Olympic Capital Young Masters Tournament will
take place in Lausanne between 31st May - 4th June 2000. 3 events will take
place in the Casino de Montbenon. Young Masters: GMs Ponomariov, Bacrot and
Grischuk take part. Masters Open for players above 2000 ELO 15 year old WGM
A.Kostaniuk and other titled players compete. Also an Open for other amateur
players. Information and registration on our home-page
www.lausanneyoungmasters.com more information : +41.21.729.63.85 fax
+41.21.729.63.31
World Seniors
The 10th World Senior Championships will be held September 10th-24th,
2000 in the small village of Rowy in Poland. The event is open to men born in
1939 or earlier and women in 1949 or earlier).
Further information: Polish and Russian language: Mr. Alfred Obszanski -
Postomino, Poland, tel/fax: + 48 (59) 810-85-77 or German language: Mr. Jerzy
Konikowski - Dortmund (Germany), tel/fax: +49 (231) 17-15-67 e-mail:
konikowski@vobis.net
Official site: http://www.powiat.Slupsk.pl or
http://www.powiat.Slupsk.pl/chess
Two Mexican Events
The Mexican National Championship and International Open, takes place
18th-23rd April in the City of Irapuato, State of Guanajuato.
Website:
http://www.ciudadfutura.com/superajedrez/mexico/abiertonacional.htm
(All the information is in Spanish)
In June there is an interesting quadrangular tournament between Shirov
(Spain), Polgar (Hungary), Akopian (Germany) and Gilberto Hernandez (Mexico).
It will be a double round robin, running 13th-21st June 2000 in the City of
Merida, State of Yucatan, with 260, 000 pesos in prizes.
There is an
English
Wesite for the event and at the same time there is an open tournament.
Details in English on
the
Open here.
Veszprem Summer Tournament
VI.Veszprem Summer - HEMO Coup, International Chess Tournament from
22nd-30th July.2000. Venue: HEMO Building (Presidial Culture House) Zalka Mate
square 1, Veszprem city, Hungary Organizer: HEMO Chess Society,
Veszprém.
Events: "A" group - IM tournament , 10 players "B" group - Swiss type
open tournament in 9 rounds according to the FIDE rules.
Entry fees: "A" group: 10.000 HUF (about 70 DM) "B" group: below FIDE
2200 3.500 HUF (25 DM) 2200 - 2299 3.000 HUF (20 DM) 2300 - 2399 2.000 HUF (13
DM) 2400 - ------ HUF Prizes: "B" group: 60.000 HUF; 40.000 HUF; 20.000 HUF;
15.000 HUF; 10.000 HUF; 5.000 HUF.
Information: Norbert Szelényi Phone number: 88-401-400 Place of
work: 88-426-233 /358 (am. 8.00 - pm. 16.00) Fax number: 88-426-233 /364 (am.
8.00 - pm. 16.00) For more information E-mail to: vpinfo@veszpremtej.hu
Web pages: http://www.infornax.hu/hotelves and
http://testver.sednet.hu/veszpm/e_alap.html
Malahide Millennium Tournament
The Malahide Chess Club in Dublin, Ireland are holding a weekend
tournament in in association with the National Millennium Council present the
Malahide Millennium Tournament on the weekend of April 8th & 9th, 2000. The
venue is St. Sylvester's GAA Club, Church Road, Malahide, Co. Dublin and there
are three events - an Open, an Under 1600 ELO and a Top Team event. To enter
contact Vincent Bissett on 353 1 8453609 and further detailed information is
available on our website at http://members.tripod.co.uk/MalahideCC.
Frankfurt Chess Classic 2000
The Frankfurt Chess Classic 2000 takes place June 16th-25th 2000. There
will be six events: The Fujitsu Siemens Giants (6 players, double round robin,
4 days, June 22nd -25th) Participants: Anand, Kasparov, Kramnik, Leko,
Morozevich, Shirov. Masters (8 players, double round robin, 4 days, June 22nd
to June 25th) Participants: Adams, Bareev, Ivanchuk, Rabiega (winner of the
German championships), Topalov, Van Wely (winner of last years open), Yussupov
and the winner of this years open tournament. Computer exhibition matches (5
players, 2 games per match, June 17th to June 18th) Participants: Anand,
Kramnik, Leko, Morozevich, Shirov · Ordix Open (15 rounds swiss, 3 days,
June 16th to June 18th) The winner qualifies for the Master tournament, which
starts afterwards! · two simuls (June 19th, June 20th) one by Kasparov
and one by Ivanchuk · two Fischer Random Chess exhibition games In all
events each player has 25 minutes per game. The opening ceremony will take
place on the evening of June 21st, all players are obliged to participate. The
closing ceremony including price giving takes place on June 25th following the
last round of the Giants. Further details:
http://www.frankfurt-west.de/ChessClassic2000
soLett Chess Open 2000
soLett Chess Open 2000 will be played at Scandic Hotel, Skellefteå
in the northern part of Sweden 16th-24th April 2000 . Grandmasters as Evgenij
Agrest, Yuri Yakovic, Alexander Volzhin, Tiger Hillarp Persson, Vitali Golod,
Nikola Mitkov, Alexei Lugovoi, Jonny Hector and Viktor Mikhalevski are
registered. There will also be played a WIM-tournament: Skellefteå Kraft-
Sweden Ladies International with 16 participants. Information at:
http://tournament2000.tripod.com
Foxwoods Chess Open
The 2nd annual FOXWOODS CHESS OPEN April 20-23 or 21-23 7-round Swiss at
the world's largest casino $100,000 prize fund. For details about entry fees
etc see the website below.
Website: http://www.foxwoods.com/frm_chess.htm
Miguel Najdorf Blitz
The Club Argentino de Ajedrez in Buenos Aires is holding a blitz event
on Saturday April 8th. $5.600 in prizes, starts at 18-00. 150 jugadores. Entry:
$ 20 Club Members $10. 7 minutes per game. Further info: (011) 4811-9412.
Arbiter, Adrián Roldán with Blas Pingas and Leandro Plotinsky.
Contact: Adrian@Roldan.com. Website: http://Adrian.Roldan.com
Olomouc Opens
June 25-29, 2000 - Olomouc (CZE) "MLADI OPEN 2000" swiss system, 7
rounds 1) FIDE OPEN - for young players up to 20 years of age, 1st prize - FREE
START in round-robin tournament 4th category FIDE in August in Olomouc 2)
national open A - players born in 1984 and younger 3) national open B - players
born in 1988 and younger Contact: Agentura 64, 783 73 Grygov 337, Czech
Republic, tel./fax: ++420-68-5393327, e-mail: a64@proclient.cz, WWW:
http://www.proclient.cz/a64
August 2-10, 2000 - Olomouc (CZE) "OLOMOUC CHESS SUMMER 2000" 1)
round-robin GM tournament 10th category FIDE (10-12 players) 2) 2 round-robin
IM tournaments 4th category FIDE (10-12 players) 3) FIDE open - swiss, 9
rounds, 2/40+1, 1st prize 10000 CZK We are looking for players without title
for both round robin tournaments! Contact: Agentura 64, 783 73 Grygov 337,
Czech Republic, tel./fax: ++420-68-5393327, e-mail: a64@proclient.cz, WWW:
http://www.proclient.cz/a64
Garry Koshnitsky Memorial
The Garry Koshnitsky Memorial Australian Chess Festival is being held
this year from 7 June to 13 August in memory of arguably the most important
figure in Australian chess history who died last year at the age of 91. The
festival commences with the Surfers Paradise Parkroyal International which is
being held at a five star venue on Queensland's Gold Coast in order to give
Australian players the opportunity to play top class overseas opposition. The
nine round Swiss event features GMs Nikolic, Ftacnik, Rogers and Johansen and
runs from 7-17 June. Whilst the Prize Fund is a modest $5,000 the playing
conditions are superb and the hotel is situated in one of the world's great
holiday destinations. Entry fees are IMs and GMs FOC, players rated 2300+ $150,
2200+ $250, 2100+ $350, 2000+ $450. Overseas players are half price and there
are discounts for payment by 15/3/00 ($50) and 15/4/00 ($25). There are very
special room rates at the Parkroyal only available to competitors ($75 single,
$37.50 twin share).
The Garry Koshnitsky Festival features the following events: 7 to 17
June Parkroyal Surfers Paradise International 18 June Parkroyal Surfers
Paradise Corporate challenge 19 to 23 June GM coaching in local schools 24 to
25 June Gold Coast Open 26 to 30 June GM coaching of elite Australian juniors 1
to 2 July Noosa Open 8 to 9 July Queen Victoria Building event, Sydney 15 to 16
July Australian National University Open, Canberra 24 July to 4 August
Australian Masters, Reserve Bank Building, Melbourne 12 to 13 August Adelaide
Weekender (Festival Finale)
Contact details: Graeme Gardiner, President Australian Chess Federation,
C/O Somerset College, Somerset Drive, Mudgeeraba, Gold Coast, Queensland 4213
Phone: (+61 7 international) or (07) 5530 3777 (w); (07) 5530 5794 (h); (07)
5525 2676 (fax) Email: ggardiner@somerset.qld.edu.au
Bergen NOR
Tournament name : Bergen Chess International Site: Bergen, Norway. Date:
21-29th July 2000 Prize Fund : NOK 10000/6000/4000/2000/1000 + rating prizes
The prize fund is garanteed. Entry fee : No entry fee for foreigners with
FIDE-ELO Conditions : May be offered to a limited number of IMs/GMs. Number of
rounds : 9 System : Modifed Swiss Rate of play : 2 hours/40 moves, 1 hour/20
moves, 0.5 hour/rest Side events : Rapid tournaments, GM-simuls, blitz etc
Home page : http://home.sol.no/~eirikgu/bi2000.htm
40-50 participants are expected of which there will be 5-6 GMs and 6-8
IMs. Only 6 unrated players will take part. Confirmed titled players: GM
Yakovich (2580), GM Volzhin (2548), GM Gausel (2492), GM Djurhuus (2484), IM L.
Johannessen (2431), IM Fyllingen (2408), IM Bern (2379) and IM Gullaksen
(2353).
Oakham GM
The Oakham GM takes place 11th-19th April 2000, Oakham School, Rutland,
Leicestershire. Chris Ward, Danny Gormally, Neil McDonald, Colin McNab, Irina
Krush, Jacob Aagaard, Nick Pert, Yochanan Afek, Patrick Hummel and Alan Norris
play.
Further details: http://www.circuit.demon.co.uk/oakham.htm
Politiken Cup 2000
The Politiken Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark takes place 17th-28th July
2000. There is a new venue at the Nørrebrohallen with room for 500-700
players.
Further information: http://www.kbhsu.dk
13th Ciudad de León Tournament
The 13th Ciudad de León Tournament will again use the "advanced
chess" format (players will be allowed to use a computer for databases and a
playing program). The competitors will be Anand, Shirov, Judith Polgar and
Illescas. The event will run June 1st-5th 2000 (playing days: June 2nd
Shirov-Illescas 2 game match, June 3rd Anand-Polgar 2 game match, June 3rd,
final. The venue is the Junta de León” building, with the opening
ceremony in the Conde Luna Hotel and the closing ceremony and Judit Polgar
simul at the University.
The website is at: http://www.ajedrezdelfuturo.com and
the English version will be up soon at: http://www.advancedchess.com
Interchess Club
The InterChess Club headed by GM Yuri Averbakh is a new server at:
http://www.interchess.com It also has
lectures by GMs and simuls on a regular basis.
19th Reykjavik International Open
The 19th Reykjavik International Chess Tournament takes place in the
Reykjavík City Hall 5th-13th April 2000.
Minimum Prize fund: USD 15.000 1. prize USD 5.000 2. prize USD 3.000 3.
prize USD 2.000 4. prize USD 1.500 5. prize USD 1.000 Under 2450 .USD 1.500
Under 2300 .USD 1.000.
9 rounds, Swiss System, Time Limit: 40 moves in 2 hours, 20 moves in 1
hour, and 30 minutes for the rest of the game.
Registration: Please contact the ICELANDIC CHESS FEDERATION, P.O. Box
8354, 128 Reykjavík, Iceland, entry still open. Tel.: 354 568 9141 Fax:
354 568 9116 Email: siks@itn.is Eligible: All players rated 2000 or more (FIDE
rating list). No entrance fee for foreign players.
Coverage at:http://www.simnet.is/hellir/Reykopen00.htm