THE WEEK IN CHESS 291 5th June 2000 by Mark Crowther

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Contents

1) Introduction
2) Advanced Chess in Leon
3) Lausanne Young Masters
4) Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meet
5) European Women's Chess Championships
6) Playoffs for the Dutch Team Championships
7) Czech Republic Championships
8) Czech Extraliga
9) Indian Championships
10) First Saturday June
11) Lido degli Estensi
12) 2nd International Chess Festival in Bydgoszcz
13) Fide Zone 2.4 Zonal Tournament
14) Guillermo Garcia Tournament - Cuba
15) Norwegian team championship
16) Russian Women's Championships
17) Turkmenistan Chess Championships
18) Lisbon Championships
19) Sisak 2000
20) Professional World Chess Ranking
21) Forthcoming Events and Links


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Games section

Advanced Chess in Leon              8 games
Lausanne Young Masters             38 games
Lausanne Masters                  131 games
European Women's Championships     62 games
Playoffs Dutch Team Championships  40 games
Czech Republic Championships       66 games
Czech Extraliga                   528 games
Indian Championships               54 games
First Saturday June                12 games
Lido degli Estensi                101 games
Chess Festival in Bydgoszcz       128 games
Norwegian team championship        96 games
Russian Women's Championships     144 games
Turkmenistan Chess Championships   91 games
Lisbon Championships               66 games
Sisak 2000                         45 games
1610 games

1) Introduction

My thanks to Sami Hämäläinen, Anton Gubanov and Ruschess.com, Geurt Gijssen, Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk, Sergey Simonenko, Rodolfo Bigagli, Calle Erlandsson, George Mastrokoukos, JF Croset, Jean-Philippe Orsoni, Scott Pendergrast, Robert Klomp, net64, Martin Dlouhý, Visweswaran, Laszlo Nagy, Eirik T. Gullaksen, Luis Santos, Milan Franic and all those who helped with this issue.

As Summer comes the level of chess activity rises. This week there has been a huge variety of events. Anand won an enjoyable "advanced chess" event in Leon defeating Judit Pogar and Alexei Shirov on the way. 16 year old Alexander Grischuk is quietly rising in strength and has the potential to rise to the very top, he won the Young Masters event in Lausanne. Good new for July and August with Montecatini Terme running July 28th to August 6th 2000. There is a Champions Category XVIII event with Alexei Shirov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Evgeny Bareev, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Sergei Rublevski, Jeroen Piket, Artashes Minasian and Smbat Lputian.

Hope you enjoy this issue

Mark

2) Advanced Chess in Leon

The 13th Ciudad de León Tournament used the "advanced chess" format (players will be allowed to use a computer for databases and a playing program). The two game matches were at a timerate of one hour for all the moves per player. The competitors were Anand, Shirov, Judith Polgar and Illescas. The event ran 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 was 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.

Anand beat Shirov 1.5-0.5 in the final winning the first game as white in a French and then drawing the second with black. Anand's win in the final was almost an anti-computer idea with a piece sacrifice to produce an unstoppable passed pawn. The event was far more balanced than last year with all the players being familiar with the use of chess playing computers and databases, unlike Anatoly Karpov who lost heavily to Viswanathan Anand last year in a gross mismatch.

Round 1 (June 2, 2000)

Shirov, Alexei            -  Illescas Cordoba, Miguel  1-0   30  B12  Caro-Kann
Illescas Cordoba, Miguel  -  Shirov, Alexei            0-1   54  D48  Meran Variation

Round 1 (June 3, 2000)

Anand, Viswanathan        -  Polgar, Judit             1/2   60  B42  Sicilian
Polgar, Judit             -  Anand, Viswanathan        1/2   25  B85  Sicilian

Rapidplay playoffs

Polgar, Judit             -  Anand, Viswanathan        1/2   34  C10  French
Anand, Viswanathan        -  Polgar, Judit             1-0   68  E94  Kings indian; Classical

Round 2 (June 4, 2000)

Anand, Viswanathan        -  Shirov, Alexei            1-0   39  C11  French; Classical
Shirov, Alexei            -  Anand, Viswanathan        1/2   51  C42  Petroff defence

3) Lausanne Young Masters

The second edition of the Olympic Capital Young Masters Tournament took place in Lausanne 30th May - 4th June 2000 in the Casino de Montbenon. The event was a three round knockout. The event was won by Alexander Grischuk who beat Ruslan Ponomariov in the final. Final results: 1st Alexander Grischuk 2nd Ruslan Ponomariov 3rd Vladimir Malakhov 4th Alexander Galkin 5th Dennis De Vreugt 6th Bu Xiangzhi 7th Laurent Fressinet 8th Florian Jenni.

Round 1 (May 30th-31st, 2000)

Grischuk, Alexander - Fressinet, Laurent Gm 1: 1-0 33 Gm 2: 1/2 48
De Vreugt, Dennis - Malakhov, Vladimir Gm 1: 0-1 69 Gm 2: 1-0 34 Playoff: 25 min: 0-1 1-0 5 min: 1/2 0-1
Galkin, Alexander - Bu Xiangzhi Gm 1: 1/2 16 Gm 2: 1-0 37
Ponomariov, Ruslan - Jenni, Florian Gm 1: 1-0 39 {time} Gm 2: 1/2 57

Round 2: (June 1st-2nd 2000)

Ponomariov, R - Galkin, A 1-0 1/2
Malakhov, V - Grischuk, A 1/2 0-1

Playoff for Places 5-8

Jenny, F - Bu, X 0-1 1/2
De Vreugt, D - Fressinet, L 1/2 1/2 1-0 1-0

Round 3: (June 3rd-4th. Final results)

1st-2nd place Grischuk, A - Ponomariov, R 1/2 1-0
3rd-4th place Malakhov, V - Galkin, A 0-1 1-0 Tiebreak: 1/2 1/2 1/2 1-0
5th-6th place Bu, X - De Vreugt, D 0-1 0-1
7th-8th place Jenni, F - Fressinet, L 1/2 1/2 Tiebreak: 1/2 1/2 0-1 1/2

Internet coverage: http://www.lausanneyoungmasters.com and http://www.ruschess.com/News/2000/Lausanne/table.html

Mladen Palac won the Master Open which took place alongside the Young Masters event. Palac scored 7/9 ahead of seven players on 6.5/9. Igor Rausis only played the first four rounds. Games available from the first five rounds.

Master Open Lausanne SUI (SUI), 31 v-4 vi 2000
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 1 Palac, Mladen                g CRO 2570  7.0    50.0  424.
 2 Volzhin, Alexander           g RUS 2548  6.5    53.0  419.00
 3 Gallagher, Joseph G          g SUI 2558  6.5    52.5  397.50
 4 Moiseenko, Alexander         m UKR 2573  6.5    51.5  427.00
 5 Sokolov, Andrei              g RUS 2565  6.5    49.5  420.50
 6 Tukmakov, Vladimir B         g UKR 2574  6.5    48.5  396.50
 7 Gofshtein, Leonid D          g ISR 2580  6.5    47.0  406.00
 8 Turner, Matthew              m ENG 2487  6.5    42.0  393.50
 9 Prie, Eric                   g FRA 2501  6.0    52.0  421.50
10 Volokitin, Andrei              UKR 2347  6.0    49.5  422.00
11 Kveinys, Aloyzas             g LTU 2496  6.0    48.0  394.50
12 Preissmann, Emmanuel         f SUI 2368  6.0    47.0  395.00
13 Kengis, Edvins               g LAT 2574  6.0    47.0  392.00
14 Epishin, Vladimir            g RUS 2667  6.0    41.0  346.50
15 Fedorchuk, Sergey A          f UKR 2406  5.5    49.0  409.00
16 Bunzmann, Dimitrij           m GER 2502  5.5    48.5  396.50
17 Pelletier, Yannick           m SUI 2478  5.5    48.5  396.00
18 Hebden, Mark                 g ENG 2493  5.5    47.5  392.00
19 Prusikhin, Mihailo           m GER 2429  5.5    46.5  387.00
20 Masserey, Yvan               f SUI 2303  5.5    45.0  385.50
21 Huss, Andreas                m SUI 2349  5.5    44.0  385.50
22 Landenbergue, Claude         m SUI 2406  5.5    44.0  369.00
23 Firman, Nazar                  UKR 2261  5.5    43.5  380.50
24 Kosteniuk, Alexandra        wg RUS 2409  5.5    42.0  364.50
25 Seret, Jean-Luc              m FRA 2363  5.5    41.5  370.00
26 Hernando Pertierra, Jose C   f ESP 2403  5.5    41.0  349.50
27 Berkvens, Joost                NED 2297  5.5    40.5  373.00
28 Etchegaray, Patrice          m FRA 2360  5.5    37.0  370.50
29 Zelcic, Robert               g CRO 2529  5.0    46.0  379.50
30 Skytte, Rasmus               f DEN 2346  5.0    44.0  373.50
31 Hindermann, Felix              SUI 2224  5.0    43.0  380.00
32 Rainfray, Arnaud               FRA 2400  5.0    43.0  364.50
33 Van Blitterswijk, Stefan     f NED 2308  5.0    42.5  371.50
34 Midoux, Sebastien              FRA 2241  5.0    41.5  356.50
35 Trent, Lawrence                ENG 2188  5.0    40.5  380.50
36 Zwanzger, Johannes             GER 2275  5.0    39.5  369.50
37 Patuzzo, Fabricio              SUI 2299  5.0    39.5  364.50
38 Kohler, Gael                   SUI ----  5.0    39.0  344.00
39 Figeac, Aurelien               FRA 2195  5.0    34.0  348.50
87 players

4) Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meet

The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2000 takes place July 7th-16th 2000 in the Dortmund Theatre. The draw has been carried out very early to help publicise the event which also has a computer program JUNIOR 6 playing.

Round 1 7 July 2000 14-00 CET

Evgeny Bareev - JUNIOR 6
Michael Adams - Jeroen Piket
Vladimir Kramnik - Vladimir Akopian
Viswanathan Anand - Alexander Khalifman
Peter Leko - Robert Huebner

Official site with more details:http://www.dortmund.de/chess/

5) European Women's Chess Championships

The First European Women's Chess Championships are taking place in Batumi, Georgia May 26th - June 14th 2000. There were 32 entrants to this 32 player knockout event. Rounds 1-3 were two game matches, the semi-final and final are over 4 games. In the event of a tie games at faster time-rates are played. In rounds one and two these tie-breaks consisted of two 15 minute games followed by if necessary two 5 minute games. Then from the quarter finals onwards the tiebreaks consist of two 25 minute games, then two 15 minute games and then finally two 5 minute games.

Batumi is the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara in Georgia. It is the sea-shore resort at the Black Sea along of Georgian - Turkish border.

My thanks to Geurt Gijssen and Ruschess.com. Games from the first two rounds are now available.

Further internet details at: http://www.ruschess.com/ and in Russian at Kasparov's internet site in Russia http://www.clubkasparov.ru/indexe0.htm

Round 1 May 27th-28th 2000

1) Nill J. 0.5 - Chiburdanidze M. 1.5
2) Zhukova N. 2.5 - Grossar K. 1.5
3) Javakhishvili L. 0.5 - Khurtsidze N. 1.5
4) Kovalevskaya E. 2 - Melia S. 0
5) Khurtsilava I. 0.5 - Zatonskikh A. 1.5
6) Stepovaya T. 1.5 - Slavina I. 0.5
7) Mkrtchian L. 2.5 - Matveeva S. 3.5
8) Vasilevich T. 1.5 - Lomineishvili M. 0.5
9) Riezniece D. 0.5 - Madl I. 1.5
10) Alexandrova O. 0 - Pokorna R. 2
11) Matnadze A. 2 - Khmiadashvili T. 0
12) Gaprindashvili N. 1.5 - Golianina T. 0.5
13) Alexandria N. 2 - Gaponenko I. 0
14) Olarashu V. 0 - Radzievich I. 2
15) Eidelsson I. 1 - Gurieli N. 3
16) Sofieva A. 0.5 - Lagvilava H. 1.5

Round 2 May 29th-30th 2000

Lagvilava G. 0 - Chiburdanidze M. 2
Zhukova N. 1.5 - Gurieli N. 0.5
Radzievich I. 3.5 - Khurtsidze N. 2.5
Kovalevskaya E. 2 - Alexandria N. 0
Gaprindashvili N. 1 - Zatonskih G. 3
Stepovaya T. 2 - Matnadze A. 0
Pokorna R. 2 - Matveeva S. 0
Vasilevich T. 1.5 - Madl I. 0.5

Round 3 Quarter-Finals May 31st- June 1st 2000

Chiburdanidze M. 3 - Madl I. 1
Zatonskih A. 0.5 - Kovalevskaya E. 1.5
Radzievich I. 0.5 - Stepovaya T. 1.5
Pokorna R. 2 - Zhukova N. 4

Round 4 Semi-Finals June 3rd-5th 2000

The semi-finals and finals are over four games. After two games.

Chiburdanidze (GEO) - Kovalevskaya (RUS) 1-0 0-1
Stepovaia (RUS) - Zhukova (UKR) 0-2

6) Playoffs for the Dutch Team Championships

Robert Klomp reports: Panfox won the play-offs for the Dutch Team Championships. The results were:Semi-finals Panfox (Breda) 8.5-1.5 ESGOO (Enschede) and HSG (Hilversum) 5.5-4.5 BSG (Bussum). These semi-finals took place on Thursday 1st June. The finals and 3rd-4th place playoffs took place on Friday 2nd June 2000. FINAL Panfox 6.5-3.5 HSG and 3rd-4th playoff: Magnus BSG 6.5-3.5 ESGOO.

Detailed coverage at: http://www.svpanfox.demon.nl/playoffs_00/index.htm

The lineups were even stronger then last year. Panfox has added Sergei Movsesian and HSG, Mathew Sadler. The line ups for the 4 teams will be as follows:

Panfox: Loek van Wely, Jan Timman, Ivan Sokolov, John van der Wiel, Eric van den Doel, Michael Adams, Mikhail Gurevich, Rafael Vaganian, Sergei Movsesian,, Joel Lautier.

Magnus/BSG: Alexei Barsov, Rustam Kasimdjhamov, Jeroen Bosch, Dmitri Reinderman, Igor Glek, Hans Ree, Vladimir Chuchelov, Dorian Rogozenko, Liafbern Riemersma, Bruno Carlier.

ESGOO: Gerhard Schebler, Michael Hoffmann, Bernd Kohlweyer, Matthias Thesing, Daniel Hausrath, Marcel Beulen, Oscar Lemmers, Dirk Hennig, Christof Sielecki, Mihail Feigin, Thomas Henrichs, Frank Kroeze

HSG: Jeroen Piket, Matthew Sadler, Yona Kosashvili, Ian Rogers, Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Friso Nijboer, Paul Van der Sterren, Joris Brenninkmeijer, Rudy Douven, Sofia Polgar.

Round 1 (June 1, 2000)

Panfox (players starred) 8.5 - ESGOO 1.5

Van Wely, Loek       * -   Schebler, Gerhard      1-0   40  E97  Kings indian; Main line
Hoffmann, Michael      - * Adams, Michael         0-1   37  C34  Kings gambit
Timman, Jan H        * -   Hausrath, Daniel       1-0   41  B31  Sicilian
Lemmers, Oscar         - * Sokolov, Ivan          0-1   37  C68  Ruy Lopez; Exchange
Lautier, Joel        * -   Thesing, Matthias      1-0   43  D46  Semi-Slav
Kroeze, Frank M        - * Gurevich, Mikhail      0-1   54  C08  French; Tarrasch
Movsesian, Sergei    * -   Hennig, Dirk           1/2   72  B06  Modern defence
Feigin, Mihail         - * Vaganian, Rafael A     1/2   53  C17  French; Winawer
Van der Wiel, John   * -   Sielecki, Christof     1/2   22  C11  French; Classical
Van Wissen, Michiel    - * Van den Doel, Erik     0-1   27  B50  Sicilian

BSG 4.5 - HSG (players starred) 5.5

Ljubojevic, Ljubomir * -   Barsov, Alexei         1-0   48  A13  English; 1.c4
Chuchelov, Vladimir    - * Piket, Jeroen          0-1   36  D30  Queen's gambit
Pliester, Leon       * -   Glek, Igor V           0-1   25  A90  Dutch defence
Bosch, Jeroen          - * Van der Sterren, Paul  1/2   41  C54  Italian game
Sadler, Matthew      * -   Rogozenko, Dorian      1/2   35  D48  Meran Variation
Reinderman, Dimitri    - * Nijboer, Friso         0-1   37  A16  English; 1.c4
Kosashvili, Yona     * -   Langeweg, Kick         1/2   49  B19  Caro-Kann
Ree, Hans              - * Douven, Rudy C         1/2   25  E12  Nimzo indian
Polgar, Sofia        * -   Riemersma, Liafbern    0-1   55  B83  Sicilian
Carlier, Bruno         - * Rogers, Ian            1/2   24  D02  Queen's pawn

Round 2 (June 2, 2000)

FINAL HSG 3.5 - Panfox (players starred) 6.5 

Van Wely, Loek       * -   Rogers, Ian            1-0   23  E91  Kings indian; Classical
Van der Sterren, Paul  - * Timman, Jan H          1/2   52  D19  Slav defence
Adams, Michael       * -   Ljubojevic, Ljubomir   1/2   32  B47  Sicilian
Sadler, Matthew        - * Lautier, Joel          1/2   27  D47  Semi-Slav
Sokolov, Ivan        * -   Nijboer, Friso         1-0   31  E61  Kings indian
Piket, Jeroen          - * Movsesian, Sergei      1/2   26  D15  Slav defence
Vaganian, Rafael A   * -   Douven, Rudy C         1-0   38  E17  Nimzo indian
Polgar, Sofia          - * Gurevich, Mikhail      1/2   56  C15  French; Winawer
Van den Doel, Erik   * -   Kosashvili, Yona       1/2   31  C96  Ruy Lopez
Brenninkmeijer, Joris  - * Van der Wiel, John     1/2   41  E32  Nimzo indian

3rd-4th playoff Magnus BSG (players starred) 6.5 -  ESGOO 3.5         
        
Hausrath, Daniel       - * Chuchelov, Vladimir    1/2
Rogozenko, Dorian    * -   Feigin, Mihail         1-0   41  A43  Queen's pawn
Lemmers, Oscar         - * Bosch, Jeroen          1/2   17  B22  Sicilian; Alapin (2.c3)
Glek, Igor V         * -   Hoffmann, Michael      1-0   36  B30  Sicilian
Reinderman, Dmitri     - * Thesing, Matthias      1/2
Barsov, Alexei       * -   Hennig, Dirk           1/2   22  A35  English; 1.c4 c5
Schebler, Gerhard      - * Riemersma, Liafbern    1/2   46  B08  Pirc; Classical
Ree, Hans            * -   Kroeze, Frank M        1-0   18  D11  Slav defence
Sielecki, Christof     - * Langeweg, Kick         1-0   28  A30  English; 1.c4 c5
Carlier, Bruno       * -   Van Wissen, Michiel    1-0   33  D02  Queen's pawn

7) Czech Republic Championships

The Championships of the Czech Republic took place 22nd May - June 1st 2000 in Opava. The winner was Pavel Blatny who scored 8/11 half a point clear of ELO favourite Zbynek Hracek on 7.5, both players were undefeated as was Eduard Meduna who shared 3rd with Tomas Polak on 7. My thanks to Martin Dlouhý for the information.

Further information at: http://sachy-opava.hyperlink.cz/ or http://www.chessjournal.cz/

ch-CZE Opava CZE (CZE), 22 v-1 vi 2000                cat. IX (2459)
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                                  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 1 Blatny, Pavel       g CZE 2512 * = = = 1 = 1 1 = 1 = 1  8.0  2628
 2 Hracek, Zbynek      g CZE 2620 = * = = = = 1 = 1 1 1 =  7.5  2576
 3 Meduna, Eduard      g CZE 2495 = = * = = = = = = 1 1 1  7.0  2557
 4 Polak, Tomas        m CZE 2503 = = = * 0 = 1 = = 1 1 1  7.0  2556
 5 Konopka, Michal     m CZE 2442 0 = = 1 * = = 1 = = 1 =  6.5  2525
 6 Babula, Vlastimil   g CZE 2573 = = = = = * = = 1 0 = 1  6.0  2484
 7 Kalod, Radek        m CZE 2445 0 0 = 0 = = * = 1 1 = 1  5.5  2459
 8 Velicka, Petr       m CZE 2458 0 = = = 0 = = * = 0 1 =  4.5  2393
 9 Vokac, Marek        g CZE 2504 = 0 = = = 0 0 = * 1 0 1  4.5  2389
10 Belunek, Vladimir     CZE 2272 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 1 0 * = =  3.5  2342
11 Dolezal, Radoslav1    CZE 2329 = 0 0 0 0 = = 0 1 = * 0  3.0  2295
12 Firt, Stanislav     f CZE 2350 0 = 0 0 = 0 0 = 0 = 1 *  3.0  2293
--------------------------------------------------------------------

8) Czech Extraliga

The Czech Extraliga 1999-2000 took place between 23rd October 1999 - 19th March 2000.

The winners were SK Infinity Pardubice whose players included Sergei Movsesian, Vigen Mirumian, Jan Votava, Robert Kuczynski and Róbert Tibenský (they had 17 registered players altogether). In second place were Sportclub A64 Lázne Slatinice whose players included: Vlastimil Babula, Tomáš Oral, Karel Mokrý, Richard Biolek, Milan Zurek, Petr Pisk and Petr Buchnícek (15 registered players). In third was SK Dum armády Praha (players included: Zbynek Hrácek, Igor Štohl, Vlastimil Jansa, Tomáš Polák, Miloš Jirovský, David Navara, Vladimir Sergeev, Robert Cvek and Radek Kalod). Alexei Shirov played two games for Holdia DP Praha.

Venues included: Ostrava, Praha, Plzen, Karvina, Pardubice and Zlin. I've normalised the venues to Ostrava in the games section.

Final Standings.
 1. SK Infinity Pardubice  11 9 0 2 53,0 18 
 2. SC A64 Lázne Slatinice 11 7 2 2 53,5 16 
 3. SK Dum armády Praha    11 6 3 2 51,5 15 
 4. Nová Hut Ostrava       11 5 3 3 47,0 13 
 5. Holdia DP Praha        11 6 1 4 47,0 13 
 6. TZ Trinec              11 4 3 4 41,5 11 
 7. SK Sokol Vysehrad      11 3 4 4 44,5 10 
 8. SK Zlín                11 4 2 5 39,5 10 
 9. Ingem Plzen ZCE        11 2 4 5 38,5 8 
10. Sokol Kolín            11 1 5 5 37,5 7 
11. TJ Jäkl Karviná        11 2 2 7 41,0 6 
12. SK H Fuchs Ostrava     11 2 1 8 33,5 5 

Further details: http://www.chess.cz/extraliga/index.htm and http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~svatos/chess/sachy.htm

9) Indian Championships

The Indian National A Championships take place in Mumbai 15th May-5th June 2000. The huge Category 7 19 player all-play-all event is being led by Abhijit Kunte with 13/17, two points clear of Krishnan Sasikiran on 11/16 who is a further point ahead of Dibyendu Barua on 10/16 who still has to play the undefeated leader. There are an odd number of players so each player has one bye in the event. My thanks to Visweswaran for the news.

Internet coverage: http://www.chennaionline.com/chess/

ch-IND Mumbai IND (IND), 15 v-5 vi 2000                                        cat. VII (2424)
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                                         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
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 1 Kunte, Abhijit             m IND 2487 * 1 . 1 = = = = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 = 1  13.0 /17  2614
 2 Sasikiran, Krishnan        m IND 2514 0 * = 1 1 = = = = 1 1 . = = 1 1 . 1 =  11.0 /16  2563
 3 Barua, Dibyendu            g IND 2555 . = * 1 = 1 = 1 = . 1 = = = 0 = = = 1  10.0 /16  2506
 4 Ganguly, Surya Shekhar       IND 2440 0 0 0 * . = 1 1 1 = = = 1 = 1 = 1 . 1  10.0 /16  2517
 5 Prasad, Devaki V           m IND 2421 = 0 = . * = = = 1 . = 1 = = = = 1 = =   9.0 /16  2465
 6 Harikrishna, P             f IND 2354 = = 0 = = * = = = = 0 = 1 1 1 0 . . 1   8.5 /16  2448
 7 Ravi, Thandalam Shanmugam  f IND 2373 = = = 0 = = * 0 1 = 1 = . 1 . = 0 = 1   8.5 /16  2451
 8 Thipsay, Praveen M         g IND 2475 = = 0 0 = = 1 * 0 = . = = 1 1 1 0 1 .   8.5 /16  2445
 9 Saravanan, V               m IND 2412 = = = 0 0 = 0 1 * 0 = = 1 . 1 = 1 1 .   8.5 /16  2450
10 Sandipan, Chanda             IND 2424 = 0 . = . = = = 1 * 0 = = = = = = 1 1   8.5 /16  2436
11 Hegde, Ravi Gopal          m IND 2387 = 0 0 = = 1 0 . = 1 * = 0 = = . = = =   7.0 /16  2379
12 Sareen, Vishal               IND 2351 0 . = = 0 = = = = = = * = 0 . = = = 1   7.0 /16  2379
13 Sriram, Jha                  IND 2356 0 = = 0 = 0 . = 0 = 1 = * . 0 1 1 = =   7.0 /16  2390
14 Murugan, Krishnamoorthy    m IND 2382 0 = = = = 0 0 0 . = = 1 . * 0 = = 1 =   6.5 /16  2366
15 Sundararajan, Kidambi        IND 2433 0 0 1 0 = 0 . 0 0 = = . 1 1 * 0 = 1 =   6.5 /16  2365
16 Neelotpal, Das             m IND 2436 0 0 = = = 1 = 0 = = . = 0 = 1 * = 0 0   6.5 /17  2338
17 Prakash, G B               m IND 2435 0 . = 0 0 . 1 1 0 = = = 0 = = = * 0 =   6.0 /16  2334
18 Atanu, Lahiri                IND 2426 = 0 = . = . = 0 0 0 = = = 0 0 1 1 * 0   5.5 /16  2310
19 Ravi, Lanka                m IND 2391 0 = 0 0 = 0 0 . . 0 = 0 = = = 1 = 1 *   5.5 /16  2306
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10) First Saturday June

Laszlo Nagy reports: There are three First Saturday tournaments in June, one GM and two IM events taking place June 3rd-15th 2000.

Contact: Laszl Nagy. E-mail: firstsat@elender.hu www.elender.hu/~firstsat www.illawarra.net.au/chesscentral/ www.planet2000.com/firstsat/ Tel-fax: (361)-263-28-59 Mobile: (36)-30-230-1914 ICQ # 44805877 ICC nickname: MrFirstSaturday

Round 2 Standings:
FSGM June Budapest HUN (HUN), 3-15 vi 2000                cat. VIII (2436)
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                                  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 
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 1 Nguyen Anh Dung     m VIE 2496 * . . . . = . . . . 1 . .  1.5 / 2  2607
 2 Belichev, Nikolai     UKR 2414 . * . . . . . = . . . . 1  1.5 / 2  2623
 3 Galyas, Miklos      m HUN 2440 . . * . . . = . . . . 1 .  1.5 / 2  2582
 4 Lazarev, Vladimir   m RUS 2493 . . . * . = . . . . . . 1  1.5 / 2  2648
 5 Kallio, Heikki      m FIN 2452 . . . . * . . . . . = 1 .  1.5 / 2  2529
 6 Kosanovic, Goran A  g YUG 2474 = . . = . * . . . . . . .  1.0 / 2  2494
 7 Lukacs, Peter       g HUN 2460 . . = . . . * . . = . . .  1.0 / 2  2464
 8 Postny, Evgeny        ISR 2424 . = . . . . . * = . . . .  1.0 / 2  2417
 9 Almasi, Istvan      m HUN 2420 . . . . . . . = * . . . .  0.5 / 1  2424
10 Kallai, Gabor       g HUN 2489 . . . . . . = . . * . . .  0.5 / 1  2460
11 Jakab, Attila       f HUN 2354 0 . . . = . . . . . * . .  0.5 / 2  2281
12 Lorscheid, Gerhard  f GER 2318 . . 0 . 0 . . . . . . * .  0.0 / 2      
13 Markus, Robert        YUG 2436 . 0 . 0 . . . . . . . . *  0.0 / 2      
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11) Lido degli Estensi

The Lido degli Estensi (Ferrara) Open took place in the Hotel Plaza 27th May - 4th June 2000. The top event was the Open A which was a 9 round swiss system event with a 5 way tie on 6/9 between Igor Efimov (he had the top Buchholz tie-break), Igor Naumkin, Stefan Djuric, Lexy Ortega and Slobodan Martinovic.

Coverage: http://www.infcom.it/fsi/tornei/00este.htm

Open A Lido Estensi ITA (ITA), 27 v-4 vi 2000
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 1 Efimov, Igor               g ITA 2537  6.0   46.0
 2 Naumkin, Igor              g RUS 2498  6.0   44.5
 3 Djuric, Stefan             g YUG 2491  6.0   44.0  4.5
 4 Ortega, Lexy               m CUB 2479  6.0   44.0  4.0
 5 Martinovic, Slobodan       g YUG 2448  6.0   41.0
 6 Timoscenko, Genadij        g SVK 2519  5.5   45.0
 7 Razuvaev, Yuri S           g RUS 2548  5.5   42.5  4.0
 8 Ristic, Nenad              g YUG 2435  5.5   42.5  3.5
 9 Godena, Michele            g ITA 2487  5.5   41.5
10 Mrdja, Milan               m CRO 2425  5.5   41.0
11 Marchini, Massimo            ITA 2187  5.5   35.0
12 Aleksic, Nenad1            m YUG 2405  5.0   43.0
13 Davies, Nigel R            g ENG 2497  5.0   42.0
14 Pegoraro, Nicola             ITA 2060  5.0   33.5
15 Genocchio, Daniele           ITA 2245  4.5   42.5
16 Mauro, Alan                f ITA 2231  4.5   38.5
17 Dragojlovic, Andjelko      m YUG 2437  4.5   37.5
18 Diotallevi,Maurizio          ITA ----  4.5   36.5
19 Dell'Accio,Cataldo           ITA ----  4.5   36.0
20 Wagman, Stuart             f USA 2188  4.5   34.5
21 Pienabarca, Nicola           ITA 2030  4.0   38.5
22 Frank, Albert                BEL 2029  4.0   37.5
23 Barbieri, Giovanni           ITA 2103  4.0   35.5
24 Aglietti, Graziano           ITA 2051  4.0   33.5  1.0   3
25 Ruzza, Claudio               ITA ----  4.0   33.5  1.0   2
26 Insabato, Giovan Battista    ITA 2175  3.5   37.5
27 Ricci, Alfredo               ITA 2093  3.5   31.0
28 Bondielli, Georgio           ITA 2013  3.5   30.0
29 Straub, Peter                GER 2126  3.0   32.5
30 Renier,Renzo                 ITA ----  3.0   30.5
31 Turuncic,Bojan               SLO ----  1.0   32.0
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12) 2nd International Chess Festival in Bydgoszcz

The 2nd International Chess Festival in Bydgoszcz takes place May 28th- June 6th 2000. There are 3 opens with the main tournament having 17 GMs. After seven rounds Evgeny Gleizerov and Eduardas Rozentalis lead on 5.5/7.

Scores, tables, standings and games (only open A) are available during the event at: http://www.szachy.lo.pl/Turnieje/Bydg2000/bydg00.htm

Round 7 standings:
Bank Pocztowy Open Bydgoszcz POL (POL), 28 v-6 vi 2000
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 1 Gleizerov, Evgeny         g RUS 2508  5.5
 2 Rozentalis, Eduardas      g LTU 2553  5.5
 3 Kempinski, Robert         g POL 2528  5.0
 4 Vaulin, Alexander         g RUS 2540  5.0
 5 Brodsky, Michail          g UKR 2514  4.5
 6 Berg, Emanuel               SWE 2432  4.5
 7 Rashkovsky, Nukhim N      g RUS 2523  4.5
 8 Eingorn, Vereslav S       g UKR 2597  4.5
 9 Socko, Bartosz            g POL 2556  4.5
10 Rustemov, Alexander       g RUS 2553  4.5
11 Lerner, Konstantin Z      g UKR 2575  4.5
12 Makarov, Marat            g RUS 2513  4.5
13 Beshukov, Sergei          g RUS 2460  4.0
14 Ulibin, Mikhail           g RUS 2580  4.0
15 Grabarczyk, Miroslaw      m POL 2522  4.0
16 Poluljahov, Aleksandr     g RUS 2526  4.0
17 Volkov, Sergey            g RUS 2582  3.5
18 Malaniuk, Vladimir P      g UKR 2572  3.5
19 Malakhatko, Vadim         g UKR 2568  3.5
20 Vysochin, Spartak         m UKR 2494  3.5
21 Bogdanov, Valentin        m UKR 2425  3.5
22 Bobrowska, Monika         m POL 2417  3.5
23 Gorin, Leonid               RUS 2413  3.5
24 Shishkin, Vadim           m UKR 2411  3.5
25 Mueller, Matthias         f GER 2384  3.5
26 Szymanski, Marcin         f POL 2335  3.5
27 Kantorik, Marian            SVK 2303  3.5
28 Struk, Jerzy                POL 2268  3.5
29 Utnasunov, Alexander        RUS 2175  3.5
30 Likavsky, Tomas             SVK 2397  3.0
31 Starostits, Ilmars          LAT 2374  3.0
32 Dzjuba, Vsevolod            LAT 2274  3.0
33 Kludacz, Magdalena       wm POL 2261  3.0
34 Govashelishvili, Genadij    RUS 2240  3.0
35 Zolnierowicz, Krzysztof   m POL 2340  2.5
36 Krainski, Aleksander        POL 2271  2.5
37 Ziolkowski, Dawid           POL 2169  2.5
38 Romanov, Evgeny             RUS 2143  2.5
39 Borchardt, Adam             POL 2009  2.5
40 Mazalon, Mariusz            POL 2207  2.0
41 Takhirov, Viktor            BLR 2176  2.0
42 Rybak, Tomasz               POL 2174  2.0
43 Sciborowski, Miroslaw       POL 2197  1.5
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13) Fide Zone 2.4 Zonal Tournament

The Zonal Tournament of Zone 2.4 takes place June 5th-15th 2000 in the Sao Paulo Chess Club at 6pm (Brasília). Two players will qualify for the World Championships. There are 5 grandmasters: Milos, Leitao, Sunye, Lima and Vescovi. My thanks to Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk for the news.

Coverage at: http://www.hipernet.com.br/HiperChess/Zonal2000.htm

14) Guillermo Garcia Tournament - Cuba

The Guillermo Garcia Tournament takes place in Santa Clara, Cuba May 24 - June 9th 2000.

Premier I Round 7 standings:

 1 Bruzon,Laz          g CUB 2568 5.5/7 
 2 Gongora,Mai         m CUB 2439 5.0/7 
 3 Vera,Rey            g CUB 2546 4.5/7
 4 Abreu,Aryam         m CUB 2419 4.0/7 
 5 Perez,Rod           m CUB 2472 3.5/7 12.25 
 6 Gonzalez,Bernal     m CRC 2416 3.5/7 9.00 
 7 Borges Mateos,Juan  m CUB 2435 3.5/7 8.75 
 8 Fiorito,Fabian      m ARG 2459 3.0/7 9.25 
 9 Teran Alvarez, Ism  f ESP 2401 3.0/7 8.25 
10 Roeder,Mathias      m GER 2413 3.0/7 8.25 
11 Perez,Luis Manuel   f CUB 2459 2.5/7 9.75 
12 De la Paz,Frank     m CUB 2462 2.5/7 7.50 
13 Bellon Lopez,Juan   g ESP 2446 2.0/7
14 Mateo,Ramon         m DOM 2408 1.5/7 

Coverage at: http://www.galeon.com/capablanca/guille.htm

15) Norwegian team championship

Eirik T. Gullaksen reports: The Norwegian team championship was played in Oslo 31st May - 4th June 2000. The winners were Bergens Schakklub, beating second-placed Oslo Schakselskap 5-1 on the way to their third Norwegian title in four years. The winning team: IM Roy H. Fyllingen, IM Ivar Bern, IM Eirik T. Gullaksen, Daniel Hersvik, Stein A. Aarland, Trond Gabrielsen and Kristian Sørensen. The star performer of the tournament was the young Kjetil Lie (2227) taking 4 points out of 5 against 2 GMs, 2 IMs and 1 FM on the top board for the Porsgrunn team. This gave a rating performance of 2664.

The final round games should be available next week.

Final rankings:
1. Bergens Schakklub 
2. Oslo Schakselskap 
3. Asker Schakklubb 
4. Porsgrunn Sjakklubb
5. Akademisk Sjakklubb Oslo
6. Trondheim Sjakkforening
7. Randaberg Sjakklubb
8. Narvik Sjakklubb

Coverage at http://home.sol.no/~eirikgu/lagnm2000.htm (in Norwegian).

16) Russian Women's Championships

The Chess Palace in Elista was the venue for the 50th Russian women's championships which took place May 11th-19th 2000. Ekaterina Kovalevskaya won the event with 7/9 a point clear of five players in second place. Note that the results below differ from those given at the echess site by one place with Olga Stjazhkina scoring 5 points instead of the 4.5 points they give, but with an odd number of half points in the final results list they cannot be correct. Also S Bezgodova doesn't appear in the rating list, she may be S Filichkina but I have no way of knowing for sure.

Official coverage at: http://echess.dk.ru/

ch-RUS Women Elista RUS (RUS), 11-19 v 2000
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                                               1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 
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 1 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina       wg RUS 2451  +25 +13 = 7 =15 +16 + 3 +10 = 5 = 2  7.0  2567
 2 Kosteniuk, Alexandra          wg RUS 2409  =20 = 6 +26 + 8 + 7 -10 = 4 + 9 = 1  6.0  2433
 3 Galianina-Ryjanova, Julia     wm RUS 2307  +29 =21 + 6 =12 +15 - 1 +18 = 4 = 7  6.0  2443
 4 Slavina, Irina                wf RUS 2261  -15 +19 +29 =16 +20 +13 = 2 = 3 = 5  6.0  2423
 5 Zayac, Elena                  wg RUS 2340  =19 =26 -20 +32 +29 +15 + 8 = 1 = 4  6.0  2389
 6 Korbut, Ekaterina                RUS 2294  +24 = 2 - 3 -19 =22 +23 +27 +21 +13  6.0  2363
 7 Shumiakina, Tatiana           wg RUS 2365  +18 + 9 = 1 =11 - 2 =12 =15 +10 = 3  5.5  2428
 8 Kulish, Irina                 wm RUS 2282  =27 =23 +24 - 2 +14 +11 - 5 +22 =12  5.5  2314
 9 Sirotkina, Nina               wm RUS 2284  +31 - 7 +30 -13 +27 +19 =11 - 2 +21  5.5  2332
10 Polovnikova, Ekaterina        wm RUS 2356  +28 +17 -15 =20 +21 + 2 - 1 - 7 =11  5.0  2390
11 Stjazhkina, Olga              wg RUS 2319  +30 =15 +21 = 7 =13 - 8 = 9 =12 =10  5.0  2368
12 Demina, Julia                 wg RUS 2376  =26 =20 +32 = 3 =19 = 7 =13 =11 = 8  5.0  2318
13 Shadrina, Tatiana             wg RUS 2348  +32 - 1 +23 + 9 =11 - 4 =12 +18 - 6  5.0  2321
14 Malina, Diana                    RUS 2149  -17 +25 -16 +26 - 8 -27 +29 +19 +20  5.0  2266
15 Stepovaia-Dianchenko, Tatiana wg RUS 2420  + 4 =11 +10 = 1 - 3 - 5 = 7 =16 =17  4.5  2337
16 Strutinskaya, Galina N        wm RUS 2314  =23 =27 +14 = 4 - 1 =21 =19 =15 =18  4.5  2247
17 Lopatskaya, Elena P           wm RUS 2328  +14 -10 -27 +23 -18 -26 +32 +24 =15  4.5  2201
18 Zakurdjaeva, Irina               RUS 2216  - 7 -29 +31 +30 +17 +20 - 3 -13 =16  4.5  2248
19 Chasovnikova, Eugenia         wf RUS 2185  = 5 - 4 +25 + 6 =12 - 9 =16 -14 =22  4.0  2239
20 Saunina, Ludmila              wm RUS 2260  = 2 =12 + 5 =10 - 4 -18 =24 +27 -14  4.0  2207
21 Mashinskaya, Iulia            wg RUS 2381  +22 = 3 -11 +27 -10 =16 +26 - 6 - 9  4.0  2224
22 Mirzoeva, Elvira                 RUS 2258  -21 -30 +28 -29 = 6 +31 +25 - 8 =19  4.0  2170
23 Timurova, Lilia                  RUS 2114  =16 = 8 -13 -17 +32 - 6 =31 +26 =25  4.0  2217
24 Kursova, Maria                wf RUS 2091  - 6 +28 - 8 =31 -26 +30 =20 -17 +27  4.0  2162
25 Bezgodova,S                      RUS 2268  - 1 -14 -19 +28 =30 +29 -22 +32 =23  4.0  2153
26 Ovchinikova, Julia               RUS 2221  =12 = 5 - 2 -14 +24 +17 -21 -23 =28  3.5  2185
27 Vasilevich, Irina                RUS 2054  = 8 =16 +17 -21 - 9 +14 - 6 -20 -24  3.0  2139
28 Kochetkova, Julia             wf RUS 2197  -10 -24 -22 -25 =31 =32 =30 +29 =26  3.0  2064
29 Gelashvili, Anna                 RUS 2103  - 3 +18 - 4 +22 - 5 -25 -14 -28 =31  2.5  2065
30 Komiagina, Maria                 RUS 2120  -11 +22 - 9 -18 =25 -24 =28 =31 -32  2.5  2047
31 Kharashkina, Bairta              RUS 2090  - 9 -32 -18 =24 =28 -22 =23 =30 =29  2.5  2009
32 Potihoshkina, N                  RUS 2195  -13 +31 -12 - 5 -23 =28 -17 -25 +30  2.5  2076
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17) Turkmenistan Chess Championships

Sergey Simonenko reports: The Turkmenistan Chess Championships took place in Ashgabat May 12th - May 25th 2000. The event was won by IM Orazly Annageldyev half a point clear of FM Artek Ovezov and FM Karen Grigoryan.

ch-TKM Ashgabat TKM (TKM), 12-25 v 2000                         cat. I (2275)
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                                      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 
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 1 Annageldyev, Orazly     m TKM 2455 * 0 = 1 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 1 1 1  10.5  2512
 2 Ovezov, Artek           f TKM 2305 1 * = = = 0 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 1  10.0  2483
 3 Grigoryan, Karen        f TKM 2362 = = * = = 1 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 1  10.0  2479
 4 Odeev, Handszar         m TKM 2425 0 = = * 1 = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 =   9.5  2438
 5 Geldyev, Gochmyrad      f TKM 2308 0 = = 0 * 1 1 = 1 = 1 1 = 1   8.5  2382
 6 Kakageldyev, Amanmurad  m TKM 2491 = 1 0 = 0 * = 1 0 1 = 1 1 1   8.0  2345
 7 Aliev, Kerim            m TKM 2328 0 0 0 = 0 = * = 1 1 1 1 1 1   7.5  2328
 8 Annaberdiev, Meylis       TKM ---- 0 0 = 0 = 0 = * 1 = = 1 = 1   6.0  2267
 9 Tselutin, Evgeny          TKM 2202 = 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 * = = 1 = 1   5.0  2193
10 Kudriashov, Anatoli     f TKM 2368 0 0 = 0 = 0 0 = = * = 0 1 =   4.0  2127
11 Atabaev,Aidogdi           TKM ---- 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 = = = * = = 0   3.5  2121
12 Ovezova, Mekhri        wg TKM 2339 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 = * 1 1   3.5  2095
13 Temirov, Muhtar           TKM 2270 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = = 0 = 0 * 1   3.0  2064
14 Yahiaev,Tolikbay          TKM ---- 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 0 *   2.0  2000
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18) Lisbon Championships

Luis Santos reports: The Championships of Lisbon took place May 15th-June 1st 2000. 18 year old Diogo Fernando finished with a perfect 11/11 score.

Further coverage: http://www.ip.pt/~ip001018/

City-ch Lisbon POR (POR), 15 v-1 vi 2000
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                                   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 
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 1 Fernando, Diego        POR 2270 * 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  11.0      
 2 Guerra, Victor         POR 2131 0 * 1 0 1 = 1 = 1 = 1 1   7.5  2305
 3 Dias, Paulo            POR 2267 0 0 * 1 1 1 1 0 = 1 1 1   7.5  2292
 4 Santos, Antonio P      POR 2272 0 1 0 * 0 = = 1 1 1 0 1   6.0  2195
 5 Andrade, Jose          POR 2196 0 0 0 1 * 1 = 1 0 = 1 1   6.0  2202
 6 Ferreira, Nelson     m POR 2208 0 = 0 = 0 * = = 1 1 = 1   5.5  2165
 7 Rodrigues, Rui         POR 2128 0 0 0 = = = * = 0 1 1 1   5.0  2136
 8 Costa, Fernando J.M    POR 2100 0 = 1 0 0 = = * 0 0 1 =   4.0  2073
 9 Peixoto, Antonio       POR 2082 0 0 = 0 1 0 1 1 * 0 = 0   4.0  2074
10 Morais, Vitor          POR 2156 0 = 0 0 = 0 0 1 1 * 0 1   4.0  2067
11 Oliveira, Luis         POR 2166 0 0 0 1 0 = 0 0 = 1 * =   3.5  2036
12 Lima, Paulo            POR 2049 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 = *   2.0  1917
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19) Sisak 2000

A Category IV tournament took place in Sisak, Croatia, May 17th-23rd 2000. Sandor Videki and Richard Biolek took joint first place with 6.5/9. My thanks to Milan Franic for the information.

Internet coverage: http://www.fran.hr/chess/sisak2000/ including pictures, tables and further details.

It Sisak CRO (CRO), 17-23 v 2000                   cat. IV (2326)
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                                   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1 Videki, Sandor       m HUN 2439 * = = 1 = 1 = 1 = 1  6.5  2478
 2 Biolek, Richard      m CZE 2432 = * = = = 1 = 1 1 1  6.5  2479
 3 Franic, Milan        m CRO 2386 = = * = = = = 1 1 1  6.0  2443
 4 Jankovic, Alojzije     CRO 2320 0 = = * 1 0 1 1 1 1  6.0  2451
 5 Kos, Toni            f SLO 2300 = = = 0 * 1 = 1 1 1  6.0  2453
 6 Sitnik, Igor           SLO 2371 0 0 = 1 0 * = 1 = 1  4.5  2320
 7 Fuksik, Jakub          CZE 2275 = = = 0 = = * = 1 0  4.0  2288
 8 Balenovic, Zvonimir  f CRO 2254 0 0 0 0 0 0 = * 1 1  2.5  2167
 9 Brigljevic, Milan    f CRO 2278 = 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 * 1  2.0  2110
10 Takac, Zvonko          CRO 2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 *  1.0  1988
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20) Professional World Chess Ranking

The Professional World Chess Ranking for players rated 2500 and higher Produced by Ken Thomson, New Jersey Calculated by Vladimir Dvorkovich, Moscow Results up to June 1st 2000.

                          Birthday  NAT  RAT   VAR
 1.  Kasparov,Garry        4/13/63  RUS  2825  122
 2.  Kramnik,Vladimir      6/25/75  RUS  2749  106
 3.  Shirov,Alexei          7/4/72  ESP  2742  176
 4.  Morozevich,Alexander  7/18/77  RUS  2718  171
 5.  Leko,Peter             9/8/79  HUN  2715  125
 6.  Anand,Viswanathan    12/11/69  IND  2714  114
 7.  Adams,Michael        11/17/71  ENG  2701  164
 8.  Kamsky,Gata            6/2/74  USA  2696  184
 9.  Ivanchuk,Vassily      3/18/69  UKR  2680  152
10.  Bareev,Evgeny        11/21/66  RUS  2676  164
11.  Topalov,Veselin       3/15/75  BUL  2676  171
12.  Svidler,Peter         6/17/76  RUS  2654  165
13.  Azmaiparashvili,Zurab 3/16/60  GEO  2651  131
14.  Krasenkov,Mikhail    11/14/63  POL  2649  176
15.  Short,Nigel D          6/1/65  ENG  2645  148
16.  Almasi,Zoltan         8/29/76  HUN  2642  156
17.  Karpov,Anatoli        5/23/51  RUS  2640  122
18.  Akopian,Vladimir      12/7/71  ARM  2638  168
19.  Khalifman,Alexander   1/18/66  RUS  2635  154
20.  Dreev,Alexey          1/30/69  RUS  2632  158
21.  Gelfand,Boris         6/24/68  ISR  2631  156
22.  Piket,Jeroen          1/27/69  NED  2629  173
23.  Movsesian,Sergei      11/3/78  CZE  2627  171
24.  Rublevsky,Sergei     10/15/74  RUS  2619  140
25.  Georgiev,Kiril       11/28/65  BUL  2618  151
26.  Polgar,Judit          7/23/76  HUN  2617  172
27.  Beliavsky,Alexander  12/17/53  SLO  2614  161
28.  Salov,Valery          5/26/64  RUS  2612  199
29.  Lautier,Joel          4/12/73  FRA  2611  154
30.  Vladimirov,Evgeny     1/20/57  KAZ  2611  163
31.  Gulko,Boris F          2/9/47  USA  2610  163
32.  Seirawan,Yasser       3/24/60  USA  2607  148
33.  Tkachev,Vladislav     11/9/73  FRA  2607  151
34.  Ye Jiangchuan        11/20/60  CHN  2607  158
35.  Gurevich,Mikhail      2/22/59  BEL  2606  145
36.  Sadler,Matthew        5/15/74  ENG  2605  194
37.  Hjartarson,Johann      2/8/63  ISD  2604  175
38.  Smirin,Ilia           1/21/68  ISR  2604  180
39.  Wolff,Patrick G       2/15/68  USA  2602  186
40.  Granda Zuniga,Julio E 2/25/67  PER  2602  202
41.  Sakaev,Konstantin     4/13/74  RUS  2596  153
42.  Nikolic,Predrag       9/11/60  BIH  2596  154
43.  Kharlov,Andrei       11/20/68  RUS  2596  170
44.  Van Wely,Loek         10/7/72  NED  2596  177
45.  Khenkin,Igor          3/21/68  RUS  2596  182
46.  Psakhis,Lev          11/29/58  ISR  2595  129
47.  Magerramov,Elmar      4/10/58  AZE  2595  187
48.  Korchnoi,Viktor       3/23/31  SUI  2594  173
49.  Kasimdzhanov,Rustam   12/5/79  UZB  2593  160
50.  Hansen,Curt           9/18/64  DEN  2592  147


Tournaments & Matches          
            
  GER Essen Borovski  Cat.15&10          
  GER Berlin Lasker Mem. Cat.9          
  FRA Cannes Tkachiev-Piket match          
  LTU Vilius Championship          
  EST Tallinn Championship Cat.7          
  ITA Cutro Cat.9          
  YUG Split Cat.7          
  ISR Tel Aviv Israel Liga          
  INA Jafa Cat 16&open          
  UKR Kharkov Cat.7          
  UKR Lvyv Cat.17&10          
  NED Rotterdam Championship Cat.10          
  SWE Malmoe Cat.15          
  CUB Varadero Cat.13&8 (2)          
  POR Vilareal Cat.9          
  BIH Sarajevo Cat.19          

21) Forthcoming Events and Links

Montecatini Terme

There is an international chess festival in Montecatini Terme July 28th to August 6th 2000. There will be two events. A Champions Category XVIII event with Alexei Shirov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Evgeny Bareev, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Sergei Rublevski, Jeroen Piket, Artashes Minasian and Smbat Lputian.

In addition there will be an open for a maximum of 200 players. GMs Sax, Zelcic, Drasko, Farago, Naumkin,Skembris, Malakhov are entered already.

There will be a website.

World Open

The 28th Annual World Open begins on June 30th and runs through July 4th. The 9-round swiss system event has a $200,000 guaranteed prize fund. The tournament had over 1400 entries last year with seven players tieing for first (GM Gregory Serper won in a blitz tiebreak).

Internet coverage with live games, live images from a "chess cam," games in a Java board, and audio interviews with players: http://www.worldopen.com

Corsican Open 2nd-5th November 2000

The Corsican International Open takes place 2nd-5th November 2000 in Bastia (Theatre). There is a Prize fund of 450 000 F for 2 events.

Corsica Masters, 3rd-5th November (elo =>2300) 7 rounds 20'+5" After the 7 rounds 1/4 final (10"+10, return match), 1/2 final, final

Prize fund 300 000 F 60 000 F - 35 000F- 20 000 F - 20 000 F 5th thru 8 10 000 F each -8 000 F - 6 000 F - 11th thru 20th 4 000 F each elo 2300-2500 : 10 000 F - 7 000 F - 4 000 F 1st Woman 5 000 F, 2nd : 3 000 F, 3rd 2 000 F 1st french : 7 000 F, 2nd 5 000 F, 3rd 3 000 F Schedule : Friday November 3rd Round 1 6.00 pm Round 2 7.30 pm Round 3 9.00 pm Saturday November 4th Round 4 11.30 am Round 5 2.00 pm Round 6 6.00 pm Round 7 7.30 pm Sunday November 5th 1/4 final 9.00 am 1/2 final 11.00 am Final 1.00 pm

Entry Fees : 250 F if paid by october 1, 350 F after october 1st.

Tournament of Bastia, 2nd-4th November (elo=<2400) 9 rounds 50'+10" Prize fund 150 000 F 15 000 F -10 000 F - 8 000 F - 6 000 F - 5000 F - 4 000 F - 3 000 F - 2000 F 1st Junior : 6 000 F, 2nd 4 000 F, 3rd 2 000 F elo 2000-2300 : 8 000 F - 5 000 F - 3 000 F elo 1800-1999 : 6 000 F - 3 500 F - 2 500 F elo 1600-1799 : 4 500 F -3 000 F - 2 000 F elo 1000-1599 : 4 000 F - 2 500 F -1 500 F Entry Fees : 250 F if paid by october 1, 350 F after october 1st. Schedule : Round 1 : November 2nd 3 pm, last round November 4th 9 pm

Players rated elo 2300-2400 can play both events.

Tournament manager : Léo BATTESTI 33 195 31 14 08 - fax 33 495 32 42 44 Mobil phone : 33 608 51 52 93 e-mail : opencorse@wanadoo.fr web site : http://www.opencorsica.com

2nd ShakkiNet International

The 2nd ShakkiNet International sees three events in Helsinki July 10th-18th, 2000.

A GM-group (cat 9) players: GM Gavrikov Viktor LTU 2563 GM Solozhenkin Evgeniy RUS 2528 IM Külaots Kaido EST 2499 IM Anka Emil HUN 2474 IM Kallio Heikki FIN 2452 GM Yrjölä Jouni FIN 2438 IM Sepp Olav EST 2414 IM Agopov Mikael FIN 2402 IM Norri Joose FIN 2400 IM Sammalvuo Tapani FIN 2383

An IM-group (cat 4) players: IM Kiik Kalle EST 2445 FM Nouro Mikael FIN 2398 IM Payen Arnaud FRA 2376 IM Välkesalmi Kimmo FIN 2351 IM Raaste Eero FIN 2349 FM Mäki-Uuro Miikka FIN 2341 FM Lampen Timo FIN 2307 Gambäck Björn SWE 2235 WIM Koskela Niina FIN 2182 (one place left for a foreign player 2300+)

An Elo-group players: Sorsa Nuutti FIN 2222 Nybäck Tomi FIN 2141 Parkkinen Jyrki FIN 2121 Sorsa Miitrei FIN 2121 Liitiäinen Elia FIN 2074 Puuska Heini FIN 2063 (4 places left)

Website: http://www.shakki.net/2si

Contact info: Sami Hämäläinen at sami.hamalainen@shakki.net

Swiss Chess Tour 2000

ZURICH LAKE: The 1st Plaza Zurichzee - Open Pfaeffikon run from June 9th to 12th.

Open Pfaeffikon - open to all, 7 rounds, Swiss system. After round 5 the first four players will play a knock-out for the winner and the others continue in a Swiss system tournament. Time control: each players will have 2 hours to complete the game. Last 5 minutes without writing moves. Venue: Hotel Seedamm Plaza (****) Prize Fund : 2.000/1.500/1.000/800/600/500/400/300/250/200 + natural prizes

Registered: GMs Leonid Gofstein (ISR), Vladimir Tukmakov (UKR), Milos Pavlovic (YUG), Lothar Vogt (GER) and Florin Gheorghiu (ROM), IMs Slavko Cicak (SWE), Petr Velichka (CZE), Hansjuerg Kaenel (SUI), Nedeljko Kelecevic (BIH) and Martin Ballmann (SUI).

FRIBOURG: The 1st "Golden Tulip" Open run from July 7th to 11th.

"Golden Tulip" Open Fribourg - open to all, 7 rounds, Swiss system. Time control: 2 hours each players will have for 40 moves and 30 minutes to complete the game. "Golden Tulip" Chain host "Swiss Chess Tour" in Fribourg for the first time. Venue is Hotel "Golden Tulip" (****). Prize Fund : 2.000/1.500/1.000/800/600/500/400/300/250/200 + natural prizes.

More information: http://www.beochess.ch Robert Spoerri, Tiergarten 33, CH-3400 Burgdorf, tel: 00/41/34/4240106; Fax: 00/41/34/4240107 E-mail: info@beochess.ch

New Greek Site

The OAA Heraklio Chess Club a new website: http://www.oaachess.bizland.com the site has chess news from Greece, chess features, etc. Includes a Greek chess calendar.

Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2000

The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2000 takes place July 7th-16th 2000 in the Dortmund Theatre. Participants in the event are:

Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), Viswanathan Anand (India), Peter Leko (Hungary), Michael Adams (England), Evgeny Bareev (Russia), Alexander Khalifman (Russia), Vladimir Akopian (Armenia), Jeroen Piket (Netherlands), Dr. Robert Huebner (Germany) and the chess programme Junior 6.

In addition there will be another GM Tournament (cat. 10/11) and several opens that take place in parallel to the main event (registration by e-mail: Sparkassen-Open@schachfreunde-brackel.de).

Further details: http://www.dortmund.de/chess KasparovChess have bought exclusive rights to the live coverage at: http://www.kasparovchess.com

North Sea Cup

The Esbjerg Chess Union revives its North Sea Cup with a 15th edition July 7-15 2000. 10 players will play what appears to be the strongest round-robin ever in Denmark, probably category 14: John Emms Nick de Firmian Mikhail Gourevitch Alexander Grischuk Boris Gulko Curt Hansen Lars Bo Hansen Peter Heine Nielsen Dennis de Vreugt Peter Svidler The tournament has its own home page: http://home1.inet.tele.dk/tpherman/centrum.htm then hit 'Vesterhavsturneringen' which is Danish for The North Sea Cup.

European Youth Chess Championships 2000

The European Youth Chess Championships 2000 will be held 2nd-10th October in Kalithea in Halkidiki (Greece). If you require further details: http://www.geocities.com/eycc2000

33rd Biel Festival

33rd International Biel Festival. The event will take place 22nd July-5th August. Numerous events including a strong Open and a GM tournament, category 16 with Gelfand and Svidler (six players).

Website: http://www.schachfestival-biel.ch in 3 languages, English, French and German.

White Nights

The annual White Nights Chess Festival 2000 takes place in St Petersburg, Russia from June 23- July 2, 2000. The field is expected to be strong (GM norms in Round Robin, etc.). Further details: http://www.gmchess.com

Balatontourist Open

BALATONTOURIST Open, 9 rounds Swiss from 16th until the 24th of June in Budapest, Hungary /The Balatontourist is the organisation who is dealing with tourism near the Balaton lake./

Venue: Hungarian Chess Federation, Falk Miksa Str.10. Opening ceremony: 15:00 on the 16th of June, Friday

Organizer: Parej, Jozsef, phone: (36)-87-321-950 Central European Time 19:00-21:00 hours. More info /accomodation, etc./: Nagy Laszlo, e-mail: firstsat@elender.hu mobile from abroad: (36)-30-230-1914, tel-fax-answering machine: (361)-263-28-59

Prizes: 30-20-15-10-5-4-2x3-2x2 thousand HUF /1 USD = 283 HUF now/. Entry fee system will be sent upon request.

Keres Memorial

The Paul Keres Memorial, will be played in Tallinn, Estonia 14-22 August 2000. 9 rounds Swiss system, 2 hours / 40 moves + 1 hour / rest, tournament is rated for FIDE-ELO. Prizes: 1500 DM/1000 DM/800 DM/700 DM/600DM/500 DM/450 DM/300 DM/300DM/300 DM More info: Iivo Nei info@malemaja.neti.ee, Tel: +372 644 61 74, +372 631 32 24 Fax: +372 631 42 39

Website: http://www.estpak.ee/~iivoches/memorial

4th OIBM in Bad Wiessee

The 4th OIBM in Bad Wiessee will be held October 28th-November 5th 2000. It is expected to be a strong event, as last year with a number of strong GMs playing.

More details: http://www.schach-am-tegernsee.de/oib2000

Hogeschool Zeeland Chess

Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament in Vlissingen (The Netherlands). July 29 - August 5, 2000 9 rounds Swiss, FIDE-rated Rate of play: 40 moves in 2 hours, then 30 minutes knock-out. Entry fee: Dfl 60 (GM / IM free, FM Dfl 30) Prizefund: Dfl 3500 - 2500 - 1500 - 750 - 500 - 250 - 150 - 150 - 100 - 100 9 rounds in 8 days: on Sunday July 30 there will be 2 rounds. There will be a simul on July 28 and one GM will give chesstraining to the participating youth players during the tournament. Information: Hans Groffen hgroffen@zeelandnet.nl Paul van Rooijen pro@vlissingen.nl Website: http://people.zeelandnet.nl/hgroffen/index.htm

16th Maccabiah Chess Tournaments

As part of the 16th Maccabiah there will be a number of chess tournaments (GM/IM and open tournaments) The 16th Maccabiah (Jewish Olympiad) takes place in Tel-Aviv 16th-26th June 2001. http://www.slavchess.co.il/academy/maccabi.html

Czech Open

The 11th International Chess Festival Pardubice takes place 13th - 30th July 2000.

Events: A - open grand master tournament with rating for FIDE (participation of players with ELO FIDE 2200 min.) B - open rating tournament with rating for FIDE (players with ELO FIDE or ELO national 1950 min.) C - open performance tournament (players without ELO FIDE with ELO national 1700 min.) D - open amateur tournament (players without any ELO or with ELO national lower than 1950) E - open 4-member team tournament with rating for FIDE (players without age and performance limitation) F - open 4-member team tournament of young players up to the age of 16 (players born in 1984 and younger regardless ELO) G - open active chess tournament (players without age and performance limitation) H - blitz marathon (players without age and performance limitation) I - blitz tournament (players without age and performance limitation)

Applications together with accommodation orders should be sent by 15th June 2000 to the following address: AVE-KONTAKT Sukova 1556 530 02 Pardubice CZECH REPUBLIC tel./fax +420-40-65 35 200 e-mail: j.mazuch@avekont.cz

Full details: http://www.proclient.cz/czechopen

Krkonose Open 2000

Krkonose Open 2000 takes place 29th October to 5th November 2000 in Pec pod Snezkou town (The Krkonose mountains). Further information: http://www.proclient.cz/krkonose

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/.

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

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

Qingdao, China

Qingdao, a seaside resort 1000 km South-East of Beijing, takes place 15th-24th July. There is a flight from Budapest on July 13th and it is possible to combine with the FIRST SATURDAY Budapest tournament 1st -13th July.

Events: 1. GM closed tmt cat.IX.-X. Prizes: 1500-1250-1000-750-500 USD 2. IM closed tmt cat.II. , Prizes: 600-500-400-300-200 USD 3. Open Swiss, Prizes: 400-300-200-150-100 USD

More info: Nagy Laszlo, e-mail: firstsat@elender.hu Phone: (361)-263-28-59 Mobile: (36)-30-230-19-14

"Festival Schneider Bohemia " Pilsen 2000

The 6th International Chess Festival "Festival Schneider Bohemia " Pilsen 2000, takes place 19th-27th August 2000 at the "Strelecky stadion" Pilsen Lobzy (Czech Republic). The main tournament of this Festival is International Open Czech Championship ( 1st prize 20 000 CZK, sum of prizes 60 000 CZK ). Details: http://www.pef.zcu.cz/pef/kof/skline/

2000 Summer Hungarian Chess tournaments:

1.3rd-15th of June FIRST SATURDAY GM-IM-FM closed, Budapest, Organizer: Nagy Laszlo, e-mail: firstsat@elender.hu,

2. 16th-24th of June, BALATONTOURIST Open 9 rounds Swiss, Budapest, Chess Federation, Org.: Parej Jozsef, phone: (36)-87-321-950

3. 21st of June - 1st of July, HOTEL IROTTKO, GM-IM-closed, KOSZEG, Org.:FM Tomcsanyi, Peter e-mail: primerat@mail.matav.hu

4. 1st-13th of July FIRST SATURDAY,

5. 19th-27th of July BUDAPEST SUMMER, GM-IM-Open, org.:IM Rigo, e.mail: me-ri@matavnet.hu

6. 5th-17th of August, FIRST SATURDAY

7. 19th of August - 1st of Sept. PAKS, GM-IM closed, Org: IM Videki, e-mail: videkisn@mail.matav.hu

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 (Armenia) 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

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

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

Greek Events this Summer

The Ikaros Chess Festival 2000 (11-23 July 2000, Agios Kyrikos, Ikaria island, GREECE) This year Ikaros Festival includes seven (7) tournaments. The first three tournaments offer accommodation privileges for the winners while the remaining four offer cash prizes of total value one million drachmas (1.000.000). Further details: http://www.chess.gr/ikaros/

The Korinthos 2000 International Chess Open Tounament takes place July - August 2000. 9 round Swiss. Prizes: 1st 400.000 drs 2nd 275.000 drs 3rd 175.000 drs 4th 100.000 drs 5th-6th 150.000 drs (2x75.000) 7th-8th 100.000 drs (2x50.000) 9th-10th 80.000 drs (2x40.000) 11th-12th 60.000 drs (2x30.000) Further details: http://www.chess.gr/korinthos/announ.html

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 : Yes, but already taken. Number of rounds : 9 System : Modifed Swiss. Rate of play : 2/40, 1/20, 0.5/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).

Festival Schneider Bohemia Pilsen 2000

The 6th International Chess Festival "Festival Schneider Bohemia" Pilsen 2000 (The main tournament of this Festival is International Open Czech Championship) 19th - 27th August 2000 in Pilsen (Czech Republic) http://www.pef.zcu.cz/pef/kof/skline/

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

Kobuleti (Georgia, Adjaria)

There are two events in Kobuleti (Georgia, Adjaria a health resort on the Black Sea not far from Batumi). The Martve Open 2000 30th July-8th August 2000.The organisers are the Head Department of Physical & Military Training of Ministry of Education of Georgia, Chess school for children tenagers of the Kobuleti region named after Nana Ioseliani and Zurab Azmaiparashvili. A 9 round Swiss. Main open for Men and Women along with Junior Boys and Girls under 6,8,10,14 and 16 events.

In August 10th-19th 2000 the Remka Open. A 9 round Swiss. Main open for Men and Women along with Junior Boys and Girls under 6,8,10,14 and 16 events.

Further information : Fax: +(995)32 98 70 53; Phone: +(995) 32 999521, 958366, 226745 in Tbilisi and 63317, 62589, 63581 in Kobuleti (code 8-88236).. E-mail: a_japaridze@yahoo.com, allach@viam.hepi.edu.ge