THE WEEK IN CHESS 300 7th August 2000 by Mark Crowther

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Contents

1) Introduction
2) Montecatini Terme
3) Biel Chess Festival
4) British Chess Championships
5) Mecking - Vescovi Match
6) Zonal 2.5 Buenos Aires
7) 12th Portuguese Open
8) Ikaros Chess Festival
9) Swiss Chess Championships
10) Hogeschool Zeeland Chess
11) Scandic Hotels
12) Korinthos 2000
13) Kavala Open
14) Arnold J. Eikrem Memorial
15) Australian Masters
16) First Saturday August
17) Extra Games
18) Forthcoming Events and Links


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Montecatini Terme                        16 games
Biel Chess Festival                      18 games
Czech Open 2000                         365 games
Hartwall Heart Of Finland               240 games
Open Chess Dieren 2000                  305 games
Zonal 2.5 Buenos Aires                   35 games
Bergen Norway                           225 games
Politiken Cup 2000                      326 games
WIPRO GM Hyderabad                       25 games
15th Avoine Open                         83 games
Swedish Championships Correction          1 game
U18 European Team Champs                140 games
U18 Girls European Team Champs           84 games
48th Hungarian Women's Champs            30 games
Hogeschool Zeeland Chess                175 games
Scandic Hotels GM                        10 games
Korinthos 2000                          101 games
Australian Masters                       35 games
Glorney and Faber Cup 2000              160 games
2374 games

1) Introduction

My thanks to Olivier Breisacher, Lanfranco Bombelli, Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk, Luís Santos, Ruben Casafus, Alexis Harakis, John Henderson, Dimitris Skyrianoglou, Nigel Freeman, Hans Groffen, Lennarth Eriksson, Argiris Kotsis, Eirik Gullaksen, Gary Bekker, Laszlo Nagy, Jussi Tella and Tapani Sammalvuo and all those who helped with this issue.

Montecatini Terme and Biel tournaments saw triumphs for Vassily Ivanchuk and Peter Svidler, two of the most popular players. The British Chess Championships are being covered daily by TWIC and next week should see quite a bit of excitement.

Finally another landmark for TWIC, issue 300. Its a little hard to celebrate when you're struggling to get an issue finished late at night but TWIC is a source of great satisfaction to me. I would like to thank all those who have helped out with encouragement, news or corrections over the years and indeed to everybody who reads the magazine. Next week issue 301, its just one after another!

Hope you enjoy this issue

Mark

2) Montecatini Terme

The international chess festival in Montecatini Terme took place July 28th to August 6th 2000. The main Category XVII was won by Vassily Ivanchuk with 5/7 undefeated, half a point clear of Evgeny Bareev. The ELO favourite Alexei Shirov played some wild chess and finished on 50% after losing to third placed Zurab Azmaiparashvili in round one and Artashes Minasian in the penultimate round but beating Sergei Rublevsky and second placed Bareev.

My thanks to Lanfranco Bombelli.

Internet coverage: http://www.italway.it/associazioni/cssurya/ix/tornee.hstml .

Round 5 (August 1, 2000)

Ivanchuk, Vassily       -  Azmaiparashvili, Zurab  1/2   32  C41  Philidor's Defence
Bareev, Evgeny          -  Lputian, Smbat G        1-0   46  D35  Queen's Gambit: Exchange Variation
Rublevsky, Sergei       -  Piket, Jeroen           1/2   43  B06  Modern Defence
Minasian, Artashes      -  Shirov, Alexei          1-0   35  A07  Barcza System (with Transitions into other Systems)

Round 6 (August 2, 2000)

Ivanchuk, Vassily       -  Rublevsky, Sergei       1/2   25  B42  Sicilian Defence (Paulsen Variation)
Azmaiparashvili, Zurab  -  Lputian, Smbat G        1-0   36  D55  Queen's Gambit: Main Line - Deviations; Old Lasker Variation
Shirov, Alexei          -  Bareev, Evgeny          1-0   52  B12  Caro Kann (Advance Variation)
Piket, Jeroen           -  Minasian, Artashes      1-0   48  B14  Caro Kann (Panov Attack)

Round 7 (August 3, 2000)

Bareev, Evgeny          -  Piket, Jeroen           1-0   40  A25  English Opening (Sicilian Attack)
Rublevsky, Sergei       -  Azmaiparashvili, Zurab  1/2   15  B08  Pirc Defence
Minasian, Artashes      -  Ivanchuk, Vassily       0-1   70  E60  King's Indian Defence (without Nc3)
Lputian, Smbat G        -  Shirov, Alexei          1/2   44  D85  Gruenfeld Defence (Main Line)


GM Montecatini Terme ITA (ITA), 28 vii-3 viii 2000cat. XVII (2669)
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                                     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
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1 Ivanchuk, Vassily       g UKR 2719 * = = = = 1 1 1  5.0  2819
2 Bareev, Evgeny          g RUS 2702 = * = 0 = 1 1 1  4.5  2766
3 Azmaiparashvili, Zurab  g GEO 2673 = = * 1 = 0 = 1  4.0  2718
4 Shirov, Alexei          g ESP 2746 = 1 0 * 1 = 0 =  3.5  2658
5 Rublevsky, Sergei       g RUS 2670 = = = 0 * = 1 =  3.5  2668
6 Piket, Jeroen           g NED 2649 0 0 1 = = * 1 =  3.5  2671
7 Minasian, Artashes      g ARM 2595 0 0 = 1 0 0 * =  2.0  2521
8 Lputian, Smbat G        g ARM 2598 0 0 0 = = = = *  2.0  2521
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3) Biel Chess Festival

The Biel Chess Festival takes place July 24th- August 4th 2000. The main GM event was a Category XVI (2631) 6 player double round robin. The event was a triumph for Peter Svidler who won the event by by two clear point from Loek Van Wely and rising star Ruslan Ponomariov. Svidler was the only undefeated player also.

The MTO Open was won by Boris Avrukh and was in the special Swiss Tour format. This meant that after nine of eleven rounds the top four players were taken from the open were taken away to have their own mini-knockout during the final two rounds whilst the rest of the open continued. In the Semi-Finals Alexander Huzman beat Alexander Galkin 2-0 in rapidplay games after their normal time-rate game was drawn. Boris Avrukh beat Andrey Shariyazdanov 1.5-0.5 in their rapidplay playoff. In the final Boris Avrukh won a sudden death blitz game against Huzman after they drew their normal time-rate game and their rapidplay match 1-1. Galkin beat Shariyazdanov 1.5-0.5 in a rapidplay playoff to take 3rd place.

Internet coverage: http://www.schachfestival-biel.ch

Round 8 (August 1, 2000)

Ponomariov, Ruslan   -  Svidler, Peter       1/2   32  D97  Gruenfeld Defence (Russian System)
Gelfand, Boris       -  Van Wely, Loek       1/2   19  A30  English Opening (Symmetrical Variation)
Gallagher, Joseph G  -  Milov, Vadim         1/2   84  B43  Sicilian Defence (Paulsen Variation)

Round 9 (August 3, 2000)

Svidler, Peter       -  Van Wely, Loek       1-0   34  B81  Sicilian Defence (Keres Attack)
Milov, Vadim         -  Ponomariov, Ruslan   1/2   56  E91  King's Indian Defence (Classical System)
Gallagher, Joseph G  -  Gelfand, Boris       1/2   26  B90  Sicilian Defence (Najdorf Variation, Deviations)

Round 10 (August 4, 2000)

Van Wely, Loek       -  Milov, Vadim         1/2   37  D38  Queen's Gambit: Ragozin System
Ponomariov, Ruslan   -  Gallagher, Joseph G  1-0   33  B43  Sicilian Defence (Paulsen Variation)
Gelfand, Boris       -  Svidler, Peter       1/2   33  C92  Ruy Lopez (Tchigorin Variation)


GM Biel SUI (SUI), 24 vii-4 viii 2000          cat. XVI (2631)
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                                   1  2  3  4  5  6 
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1 Svidler, Peter       g RUS 2689 ** =1 == 1= 1= 11  7.5  2811
2 Van Wely, Loek       g NED 2643 =0 ** 1= == == =1  5.5  2664
3 Ponomariov, Ruslan   g UKR 2630 == 0= ** == == 11  5.5  2666
4 Milov, Vadim         g SUI 2626 0= == == ** == 1=  5.0  2631
5 Gelfand, Boris       g ISR 2681 0= == == == ** 1=  5.0  2620
6 Gallagher, Joseph G  g SUI 2514 00 =0 00 0= 0= **  1.5  2357
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MTO Open Biel SUI (SUI), 24 vii-4 viii 2000 Final Standings
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  1 Avrukh, Boris              g ISR 2625  
  2 Huzman, Alexander          g ISR 2574  
  3 Galkin, Alexander          g RUS 2587  
  4 Shariyazdanov, Andrey      g RUS 2582  

  5 Kempinski, Robert          g POL 2498  8	67.5	672
  6 Sturua, Zurab              g GEO 2594  7.5	69	674
  7 Pelletier, Yannick         m SUI 2474  7.5	68.5	678
  8 Gershon, Alik              m ISR 2502  7.5	66	649
  9 Tukmakov, Vladimir B       g UKR 2582  7.5	66	645.5
 10 Klovans, Janis             g LAT 2481  7.5	65	665.5
 11 Ramesh, R.B                m IND 2450  7.5	64.5	626
 12 Volokitin, Andrei          f UKR 2447  7.5	63	639.5
 13 Rashkovsky, Nukhim N       g RUS 2508  7	70	669
 14 Sundararajan, Kidambi        IND 2404  7	66.5	628.5
 15 Saravanan, V               m IND 2412  7	65	639
 16 Cvitan, Ognjen             g CRO 2541  7	64	617.5
 17 Pikula, Dejan              m YUG 2503  7	63.5	652.5
 18 Riazantsev, Alexander      m RUS 2418  7	63	633
 19 Pavlovic, Milos            g YUG 2461  7	60	631
 20 Mateo, Ramon               m DOM 2371  7	59	623.5
 21 Beshukov, Sergei           g RUS 2428  6.5	70	651
 22 Kelecevic, Nedeljko        m BIH 2414  6.5	67	656
 23 Holzke, Frank              m GER 2470  6.5	67	642.5
 24 Balcerak, Jakob              GER 2413  6.5	65.5	642
 25 Cherniaev, Alexander       m RUS 2454  6.5	65	648
 26 Jenni, Florian             m SUI 2440  6.5	65	615
 27 Bagirov, Rufat             m AZE 2471  6.5	64.5	636
 28 Radjabov, Teimour          m AZE 2476  6.5	63	615.5
 29 Nemet, Ivan                g SUI 2412  6.5	62	622
 30 Tseitlin, Mark D           g ISR 2445  6.5	61.5	623
 31 Jaracz, Pawel              m POL 2511  6.5	61.5	614
 32 Roiz, Michael                ISR 2440  6.5	61	614.5
 33 Burmakin, Vladimir         g RUS 2538  6	67.5	647.5
 34 Raetsky, Alexander         m RUS 2425  6	66	633
 35 Konguvel, Ponnuswamy       m IND 2377  6	64.5	607.5
 36 Kaenel, Hansjuerg          m SUI 2452  6	63.5	609
 37 Velcheva, Maria           wg BUL 2302  6	59	598.5
 38 Ponomariov, Boris            UKR 2460  6	58.5	584
 39 Gurieli, Nino              m GEO 2373  6	58	581
 40 Ravi, Thandalam Shanmugam  f IND 2385  6	57.5	606
 41 Huss, Andreas              m SUI 2346  6	56	578
 42 Lada, Ireneusz               POL 2182  6	55	566.5
 43 Hess, Christian            f GER 2296  6	53	560.5
 103 players

4) British Chess Championships

The British Chess Championships take place Monday 31st July to Saturday 12th August 2000 at Millfield School, Somerset. The event incorporates the Commonwealth Championships also which has allowed for Australian and Indian entries also.

TWIC has live games, daily reports and photos from John Henderson all at: http://www.chesscenter.com/british2000.html

After a week Mark Hebden and Chris Ward share the lead on 5/6 half a point clear of the rest of the field. The ELO favourites Julian Hodgson and Jon Speelman played in the second round with Speelman winning they are both now on 4/6.

Round 6 Standings:
ch-GBR Millfield ENG (ENG), 31 vii-15 viii 2000
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                                       1   2   3   4   5   6   
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 1 Hebden, Mark           g ENG 2505  +41 +55 +25 = 9 + 3 = 4     5.0 / 6  2661
 2 Ward, Christopher      g ENG 2508  +52 +37 +26 - 3 +12 +20     5.0 / 6  2658
 3 Summerscale, Aaron     g ENG 2459  +59 +42 + 6 + 2 - 1 = 5     4.5 / 6  2598
 4 Gormally, Daniel       m ENG 2499  +35 +38 +24 = 5 =20 = 1     4.5 / 6  2555
 5 McShane, Luke J        m ENG 2480  +40 +45 +21 = 4 =10 = 3     4.5 / 6  2586
 6 Chandler, Murray G     g ENG 2526  +49 +12 - 3 +25 =11 +26     4.5 / 6  2569
 7 Miles, Anthony J       g ENG 2584  +69 +11 =22 = 8 =26 +21     4.5 / 6  2597
 8 Speelman, Jonathan S   g ENG 2623  =23 +19 +17 = 7 =18 =13     4.0 / 6  2580
 9 Lalic, Bogdan          g ENG 2520  +57 +18 =20 = 1 =13 =17     4.0 / 6  2533
10 Emms, John M           g ENG 2527  +47 =17 =43 +37 = 5 =18     4.0 / 6  2475
11 Webster, Andrew        m ENG 2417  +34 - 7 +35 +45 = 6 =19     4.0 / 6  2518
12 Knott, Simon J.B       f ENG 2381  +32 - 6 +33 +24 - 2 +31     4.0 / 6  2436
13 Turner, Matthew        m ENG 2491  +46 =43 =30 +29 = 9 = 8     4.0 / 6  2431
14 Crawley, Gavin         m ENG 2401  =44 =21 =42 +46 =16 +22     4.0 / 6  2470
15 Wohl, Aleksandar H     m AUS 2461  +48 -24 =28 =23 +35 +33     4.0 / 6  2332
16 Wells, Peter K         g ENG 2506  +28 -25 +57 =43 =14 +37     4.0 / 6  2420
17 Kelly, Brian           m IRL 2426  +51 =10 - 8 +44 +42 = 9     4.0 / 6  2503
18 Williams, Simon        m ENG 2353  +58 - 9 +52 +30 = 8 =10     4.0 / 6  2499
19 Hodgson, Julian M      g ENG 2640  =30 - 8 +34 +49 +43 =11     4.0 / 6  2445
20 Hunt, Harriet         wg ENG 2454  +53 +61 = 9 +22 = 4 - 2     4.0 / 6  2487
21 Crouch, Colin S        m ENG 2448  +39 =14 - 5 +28 +27 - 7     3.5 / 6  2362
22 Arkell, Keith C        g ENG 2481  +33 +36 = 7 -20 +38 -14     3.5 / 6  2418
23 Buckley, Simon T         ENG 2237  = 8 =44 =53 =15 =29 +46     3.5 / 6  2330
24 McMichael, Richard       ENG 2250  +63 +15 - 4 -12 =25 +44     3.5 / 6  2368
25 Simutowe, Amon         m ZAM 2322  +66 +16 - 1 - 6 =24 +47     3.5 / 6  2400
26 Pert, Nicholas         f ENG 2455  +50 +64 - 2 +31 = 7 - 6     3.5 / 6  2409
27 Douglas, Timothy         IRL ----  -42 =53 +59 +55 -21 +43     3.5 / 6  2325
28 Willmoth, Robert         ENG 2211  -16 +66 =15 -21 +61 +42     3.5 / 6  2341
29 McFarland, Robert S      ENG ----   .  +69 +64 -13 =23 =39     3.0 / 5  2262
30 Mahesh Chandran, P       IND 2238  =19 +50 =13 -18 -37 +54     3.0 / 6  2334
31 Quek Suan-Shiau          SIN 2261  -61 +51 +60 -26 +32 -12     3.0 / 6  2189
32 Barton, R. Alan          ENG 2145  -12 =49 +47 =36 -31 +57     3.0 / 6  2262
33 Rudd, Jack               ENG 2176  -22 +62 -12 +54 +36 -15     3.0 / 6  2264
34 Spence, David            ENG 2153  -11 =47 -19 =56 +60 +55     3.0 / 6  2267
35 Briggs, Philip J         ENG 2200  - 4 +65 -11 +60 -15 +52     3.0 / 6  2265
36 Greet, Andrew            ENG 2266  +62 -22 =61 =32 -33 +58     3.0 / 6  2154
37 Buckley, Graeme        m ENG 2351  +70 - 2 +48 -10 +30 -16     3.0 / 6  2345
38 Koneru, Humpy            IND 2286  +67 - 4 =44 +61 -22 =41     3.0 / 6  2232
39 D'Costa, Lorin           ENG 2157  -21 +68 =55 -42 +49 =29     3.0 / 6  2205
40 Wise, David              ENG 2173  - 5 -54 +66 =63 =57 +64     3.0 / 6  2135
41 Jackson, Oliver          ENG 2209  - 1 -60 +70 =62 +64 =38     3.0 / 6  2162
42 Stephenson, F. Norman    ENG 2241  +27 - 3 =14 +39 -17 -28     2.5 / 6  2218
43 Vigus, James           f ENG 2266  +54 =13 =10 =16 -19 -27     2.5 / 6  2303
44 Tan, Desmond             ENG 2203  =14 =23 =38 -17 +63 -24     2.5 / 6  2209
45 Rayner, Francis          WLS 2256  +56 - 5 +54 -11 -46 =48     2.5 / 6  2153
46 Broomfield, Matthew      ENG 2192  -13 =67 +56 -14 +45 -23     2.5 / 6  2173
47 Simons, Martin           ENG 2226  -10 =34 -32 +65 +53 -25     2.5 / 6  2161
48 Collins, Sam             IRL 2172  -15 +63 -37 =59 =55 =45     2.5 / 6  2202
49 Lilley, Graham           ENG 2224  - 6 =32 +67 -19 -39 +62     2.5 / 6  2187
50 Waters, Clive L          ENG 2170  -26 -30 =65 +67 -58 +61     2.5 / 6  2079
51 Binks, Michael           WLS 2155  -17 -31 -62 +70 =56 +63     2.5 / 6  2077
52 Kemp, Peter D            ENG 2214  - 2 +70 -18 =64 +62 -35     2.5 / 6  2150
53 Frost, Nicholas        f ENG 2164  -20 =27 =23 =57 -47 =56     2.0 / 6  2064
54 Morgan, Ben              ENG ----  -43 +40 -45 -33 +59 -30     2.0 / 6  2088
55 Aarthie, Ramaswamy    wf IND 2319  +60 - 1 =39 -27 =48 -34     2.0 / 6  2039
56 Freeman, Richard         ENG ----  -45 =59 -46 =34 =51 =53     2.0 / 6  2056
57 Hempson, Peter W         ENG 2219  - 9 +58 -16 =53 =40 -32     2.0 / 6  2147
58 Buckley, Melanie         ENG 2124  -18 -57 -63 +66 +50 -36     2.0 / 6  2051
59 Snape, Ian               ENG 2170  - 3 =56 -27 =48 -54 +67     2.0 / 6  1980
60 Freeman, Gordon          ENG ----  -55 +41 -31 -35 -34 +70     2.0 / 6  2085
61 Homer, Stephen           ENG ----  +31 -20 =36 -38 -28 -50     1.5 / 6  2081
62 Pleasants, Allan J       ENG ----  -36 -33 +51 =41 -52 -49     1.5 / 6  2014
63 Howell, David            ENG ----  -24 -48 +58 =40 -44 -51     1.5 / 6  1986
64 Obiamiwe, Paul           NGR 2065  +65 -26 -29 =52 -41 -40     1.5 / 6  1982
65 Evans Quek, Debbie       WLS ----  -64 -35 =50 -47 =67 =66     1.5 / 6  1925
66 McDonnell, James J       IRL 2050  -25 -28 -40 -58 +70 =65     1.5 / 6  1965
67 Orton, Stephen           ENG ----  -38 =46 -49 -50 =65 -59     1.0 / 6  1900
68 Foster, James J          ENG ----   .  -39     .   .   .   .   0.0 / 1      
69 BYE                          ----  - 7 -29     .   .   .   .   0.0 / 2      
70 Hebbes, Tim              ENG 2121  -37 -52 -41 -51 -66 -60     0.0 / 6      
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5) Mecking - Vescovi Match

São Paulo is the venue for return of the veteran Brazilian player Henrique Mecking. He plays a match against Giovanni Vescovi in the "Centro Empresarial" August 7th-17th 2000 (August 7th-8th, 10th-11th, 13th is a rapid tournament, 14th, 16th and any playoff on the 17th). Timerates: Match 100' for 40; 50' for 20; 10' to finish. + 30" p. move Play-off* 25' KO + 10" p. move; 15' KO + 10"; 5' KO + 10"

Live games at:http://www.Desafio2000.com.br

Mecking, Henrique  -  Vescovi, Giovanni  1/2   24  E14  Queen's Indian Defence (4.e3)


Match Sao Paulo BRA (BRA), 7-17 viii 2000
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                                1   2   3   4   5   6 
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Mecking, Henrique  g BRA 2560    =   .   .   .   .   .   0.5  2526
Vescovi, Giovanni  g BRA 2526    =   .   .   .   .   .   0.5  2560
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6) Zonal 2.5 Buenos Aires

The Zonal 2.5 took place in Buenos Aires July 26th - August 4th 2000 and was a 9 round Swiss System event organised by the Argentine Chess Federation. Four nations were represented. Argentina by GMs Hugo Spangenberg, Ariel Sorin, Pablo Ricardi and Pablo Zarnicki and IMs Alfredo Giaccio, Fabian Fiorito and Sergio Slipak. Uruguay by GM Andrés Rodriguez, IM Bernardo Roselli and FM Martín Crosa. Chile by IM Rodrigo Vasquez and FMs Cristian Salas and Carlos Silva. Paraguay by FM Eduardo Peralta.

There was a three way tie for the two qualification places which lead to a playoff. Fabian Fiorito of Argentina won the double round rapidplay event (20 minutes + 10 seconds per move each game) with 2.5/4 ahead of Rodrigo Vasquez of Chile, Pablo Ricardi of Argentina was eliminated.

Internet coverage: http://members.tripod.com.ar/polerio, http://stop.at/zonal or http://www.ajedrezargentino.com.ar/

zt 2.5 Buenos Aires ARG (ARG), 26 vii-4 viii 2000
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                                          1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 
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 1 Ricardi, Pablo            g ARG 2488  +12 = 5 = 2 = 3 + 6 +10 = 7 + 4 = 8  6.5  2591
 2 Fiorito, Fabian           m ARG 2418  +13 + 4 = 1 + 7 = 5 = 3 +11 = 6 = 9  6.5  2609
 3 Vasquez, Rodrigo          m CHI 2454  + 8 = 9 = 5 = 1 = 7 = 2 +12 +11 +10  6.5  2625
 4 Roselli Mailhe, Bernardo  m URU 2400  =10 - 2 = 8 +13 +12 + 6 + 5 - 1 +14  6.0  2549
 5 Sorin, Ariel              g ARG 2490  +14 = 1 = 3 +10 = 2 + 7 - 4 =13 -11  5.0  2487
 6 Crosa, Martin               URU 2242  - 7 = 8 +11 + 9 - 1 - 4 +14 = 2 +13  5.0  2498
 7 Zarnicki, Pablo           g ARG 2488  + 6 =10 + 9 - 2 = 3 - 5 = 1 = 8 =12  4.5  2436
 8 Spangenberg, Hugo         g ARG 2542  - 3 = 6 = 4 -12 +14 =11 +10 = 7 = 1  4.5  2400
 9 Giaccio, Alfredo          m ARG 2505  +11 = 3 - 7 - 6 -10 =14 +13 +12 = 2  4.5  2405
10 Rodriguez, Andres         g URU 2493  = 4 = 7 +13 - 5 + 9 - 1 - 8 +14 - 3  4.0  2425
11 Silva Sanchez, Carlos     f CHI 2407  - 9 =12 - 6 +14 +13 = 8 - 2 - 3 + 5  4.0  2379
12 Salas, Cristian           f CHI 2300  - 1 =11 =14 + 8 - 4 =13 - 3 - 9 = 7  3.0  2334
13 Slipak, Sergio            m ARG 2520  - 2 +14 -10 - 4 -11 =12 - 9 = 5 - 6  2.0  2178
14 Peralta, Eduardo          f PAR 2330  - 5 -13 =12 -11 - 8 = 9 - 6 -10 - 4  1.0  2082
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zt 2.5 Playoff Buenos Aires ARG (ARG), 5-5 viii 2000cat. IX (2453)
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                                1  2  3 
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1 Fiorito, Fabian   m ARG 2418 ** == =1  2.5  2566
2 Vasquez, Rodrigo  m CHI 2454 == ** 10  2.0  2453
3 Ricardi, Pablo    g ARG 2488 =0 01 **  1.5  2349
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7) 12th Portuguese Open

The 12th Portuguese Open took place in Porto July 22nd-30th 2000. It was the 60th aniversary of Grupo de Xadrez do Porto. The event was won by CP Santos who scored 8.5/9 a point clear of Kevin Spraggett. My thanks to Luis Santos.

Further information at: http://www.ip.pt/~ip001018/

12th Open Porto POR (POR), 22-30 vii 2000
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 1 Santos, Carlos P           m POR 2385  8.5     48.5  387.00
 2 Spraggett, Kevin           g CAN 2501  7.5     50.5  374.00
 3 Hauchard, Arnaud           m FRA 2539  7.0     52.5  376.00
 4 Camejo, Rui                  POR 2270  7.0     50.0  368.00
 5 Rocha, Sergio              m POR 2374  7.0     48.5  383.50
 6 Damaso, Rui                m POR 2386  7.0     47.5  375.50
 7 Csom, Istvan               g HUN 2478  7.0     45.5  380.00
 8 Frois, Antonio             m POR 2346  6.5     49.5  358.00
 9 Dantas, Carlos               POR 2184  6.5     46.5  354.00
10 Zlotnik, Boris A           m RUS 2419  6.5     46.0  365.50
11 Rodrigues, Afonso            POR ----  6.5     40.5  335.00 
12 Silva, Antonio               POR 2202  6.5     39.0  343.00
13 Galego, Luis               m POR 2419  6.0     53.5  363.50
14 Caruso, Augusto              ITA 2286  6.0     52.5  369.00
15 Reis, Luis Sousa             POR 2244  6.0     49.0  342.50
16 Cleto,Fernando               POR ----  6.0     48.0  362.50
127 games

8) Ikaros Chess Festival

The Ikaros Chess Festival 2000 took place 11th-23rd July 2000, Agios Kyrikos, Ikaria island, Greece) Eric Van den Doel of the Netherlands won the main Aegean Open with 8/9. My thanks to Dimitris Skyrianoglou for the games and final results.

Further details: http://www.chess.gr/ikaros/

Aegean Open Agios Kyrikos GRE (GRE), 11-23 vii 2000
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 1 Van den Doel, Erik          g NED 2547  8        44.0  56.5   39.5
 2 Istratescu, Andrei          g ROM 2578  7        45.5  58.0   38.5
 3 Georgiev, Krum              g BUL 2532  7        45.0  57.5   40.5
 4 Khetsuriani, Besarion       f GEO 2417  7        41.5  53.5   37.5
 5 Potapov, Alexander          m RUS 2483  7        41.5  53.0   39.0
 6 Vuckovic, Bojan             m YUG 2444  7        39.5  51.5   37.0
 7 Mastrovasilis,Thanasis        GRE ----  7        38.0  49.0   37.0
 8 Managadze, Nikoloz          m GEO 2456  7        37.5  48.0   34.0
 9 Psomiadis, Stavros            GRE 2200  6.5      42.0  53.5   35.0
10 Kotronias, Vasilios         g CYP 2539  6.5      40.0  52.0   34.5
11 Karayannis, Athanasios      f GRE 2349  6.5      39.5  51.5   34.0
12 Kouvatsou, Maria           wg GRE 2223  6.5      39.0  50.0   30.5
13 Turov, Maxim                g RUS 2539  6        38.5  50.0   29.0
14 Hadzimanolis, Antonios        GRE 2235  6        38.0  50.0   31.5
15 Dalaklis, Giorgos             GRE 2058  6        38.0  49.5   30.0
16 Theodorakopoulos, Giorgos     GRE 2111  6        38.0  48.5   28.5
17 Litsas, Ioannis               GRE ----  6        38.0  48.0   30.5
18 Tassopoulos, Marios           GRE 2182  6        37.5  49.0   32.5
19 Keskinen, Sauli               FIN 2227  6        36.0  47.5   32.0
20 Panagiotopoulos, Orestis      GRE 2078  6        35.5  45.5   30.0
21 Kostouros, Alexandros         GRE 2147  6        33.5  43.0   26.0
22 Valden, Petros                GRE 2098  6        32.0  41.5   25.0
125 players

9) Swiss Chess Championships

The Swiss Chess Championships took place in Pontresina 13th-21st July 2000. There was a two way tie in the cat. IX (2455) event between Joseph Gallagher and Yannick Pelletier on 6/9 Pelletier won the rapidplay (g/15) play-off 1.5-0.5. My thanks to Nigel Freeman.

Further information at: http://schachbund.ch/

ch-SUI Pontresina SUI (SUI), 13-21 vii 2000        cat. IX (2455)
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                                   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1 Gallagher, Joseph G  g SUI 2514 * = = = = 1 1 = 1 =  6.0  2573
 2 Pelletier, Yannick   m SUI 2474 = * = = 1 = = 1 1 =  6.0  2578
 3 Ekstroem, Roland     m SUI 2487 = = * = = = = = 1 =  5.0  2494
 4 Cvitan, Ognjen       g CRO 2541 = = = * = = = = = 1  5.0  2488
 5 Kaenel, Hansjuerg    m SUI 2452 = 0 = = * 1 = = = 1  5.0  2498
 6 Jenni, Florian       m SUI 2440 0 = = = 0 * = 1 1 1  5.0  2500
 7 Zueger, Beat         m SUI 2416 0 = = = = = * = 0 1  4.0  2416
 8 Ballmann, Martin     m SUI 2413 = 0 = = = 0 = * = 1  4.0  2417
 9 Nemet, Ivan          g SUI 2412 0 0 0 = = 0 1 = * 1  3.5  2380
10 Wirthensohn, Heinz   m SUI 2404 = = = 0 0 0 0 0 0 *  1.5  2188
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10) Hogeschool Zeeland Chess

Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament in Vlissingen (The Netherlands) took place July 29th - August 5th 2000. It was a 9 round Swiss system event. There was a five way tie on 7/9. Ivan Sokolov won the event on Buchholtz tie-break from Epishin, Golod, Nijboer and Gelashvili.

My thanks to Hans Groffen.

Website: http://people.zeelandnet.nl/hgroffen/index.htm

Final Standings
HZ Open Vlissingen NED (NED), 29 vii-5 viii 2000
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  1 Sokolov, Ivan          g BIH 2611  	7.0  56.0  42.25  39.0  2612 2680 +0.66
  2 Epishin, Vladimir      g GER 2567  	7.0  53.5  40.00  39.5  2567 2644 +0.73
  3 Golod, Vitali          g ISR 2590  	7.0  53.0  40.25  37.5  2590 2622 +0.32
  4 Nijboer, Friso         g NED 2537  	7.0  53.0  39.75  40.0  2537 2618 +0.80
  5 Gelashvili, Tamaz      g GEO 2519  	7.0  50.5  37.75  36.5  2519 2552 +0.32
  6 Mikhalevski, Victor    g ISR 2532  	6.5  53.5  36.75  35.5  2532 2531 +0.02
  7 Psakhis, Lev           g ISR 2611  	6.5  53.5  36.50  35.0  2611 2540 -0.66
  8 Halkias, Stelios       m GRE 2502  	6.5  53.0  35.75  35.0  2502 2540 +0.28
  9 David, Alberto         g LUX 2487  	6.5  52.5  36.00  35.5  2487 2541 +0.51
 10 Van Beek, Alexander      NED 2270  	6.5  48.0  32.00  32.5  2270 2428 +1.05
 11 Ernst, Sipke           m NED 2373  	6.5  47.5  33.50  34.0  2373 2423 +0.51
 12 Janssen, Ruud          m NED 2414  	6.0  52.0  32.00  33.5  2414 2424 +0.06
 13 Barsov, Alexei         g UZB 2534  	6.0  50.5  31.50  34.5  2534 2446 -0.83
 14 Hendriks, Willy          NED 2378  	6.0  49.0  31.00  32.0  2378 2168 -1.08
 15 Delemarre, Jop         m NED 2347  	6.0  49.0  29.75  33.0  2347 2422 +0.60
 16 Afek, Yochanan         m ISR 2330  	6.0  48.5  29.75  31.0  2330 2279 -0.30
 17 Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav  g RUS 2548  	6.0  48.0  30.00  31.5  2548 2479 -0.45
 18 Van der Wiel, John     g NED 2531  	6.0  47.5  31.00  30.5  2531 2413 -0.75
 19 Werle, Jan               NED 2311  	6.0  47.5  28.00  31.0  2311 2297 -0.10
 20 Middelburg, Tom          NED 2328  	6.0  46.0  28.75  31.0  2328 2352 +0.15
 21 Rosmuller, Anton         NED 2169  	6.0  45.5  26.50  32.0  2169 2385 +1.68
 22 Wehmeier, Stefan       m GER 2390  	5.5  49.0  29.25  30.0  2390 2310 -0.46
 23 Groffen, Hans            NED 2224  	5.5  49.0  27.25  30.0  2224 2289 +0.52
 24 Van Beek, Lucien         NED 2416  	5.5  47.5  27.50  30.5  2416 2318 -0.52
 25 Vinck, Martin            NED ----  	5.5  47.0  25.75  28.5  2155 2233  2233
 26 Lammens,TJ               NED ----  	5.5  47.0  25.00  27.5  2141 2130  2130
 27 Willemze, Jeroen         NED 2298  	5.5  46.0  23.75  30.5  2298 2084 -0.90
 28 Gather,J                 NED ----  	5.5  44.5  23.50  27.5  2166 1783 0    
 29 Leenhouts, Koen          NED ----  	5.5  44.5  23.50  26.5  2030 2201  2201
 30 Kuijpers, C              NED ----  	5.5  43.5  25.75  28.5  2189 2222 0    
 31 Azadmanesh, Moosa        NED 2141  	5.5  42.5  24.75  25.5  2141 2156 +0.07
 32 Szuveges, Grant        f AUS 2159  	5.5  40.5  24.00  26.0  2159 2083 -0.18
 33 De Wolf, Johan           NED 2158  	5.5  39.5  21.25  25.0  2158 1711 -0.42
 34 Katzameyer, Michael      GER 2169  	5.5  36.5  21.25  26.0  2169  -   +0.00
123 players

11) Scandic Hotels

The Scandic Hotels Chess tournaments took place 29th july - 6th August 2000. There were three events with the main Category X GM tournament being won by Tom Wedberg by half a point from Alexander Matros who achieved the GM norm of 6 points. I will cover the Ladies International and the Open next week (results and games on the website below). My thanks to Lennarth Eriksson for his help.

Internet coverage: http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-21958/stock.html

Scandic Hotels GM Stockholm SWE (SWE), 29 vii-6 viii 2000cat. X (2479)
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                                      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1 Wedberg, Tom            g SWE 2473 * = = = = 1 1 = 1 1  6.5  2645
 2 Matros, Alexander       m KAZ 2425 = * = 0 = = 1 1 1 1  6.0  2610
 3 Ivanov, Sergey          g RUS 2574 = = * 0 = = 1 1 = 1  5.5  2548
 4 Akesson, Ralf           g SWE 2486 = 1 1 * = = 1 0 0 0  4.5  2478
 5 Karlsson, Lars          g SWE 2476 = = = = * = 0 = 1 =  4.5  2479
 6 Grabarczyk, Miroslaw    m POL 2495 0 = = = = * 0 = 1 1  4.5  2477
 7 Hillarp Persson, Tiger  g SWE 2549 0 0 0 0 1 1 * 1 1 =  4.5  2471
 8 Berg, Emanuel           m SWE 2456 = 0 0 1 = = 0 * 0 1  3.5  2401
 9 Tella, Jussi            m FIN 2428 0 0 = 1 0 0 0 1 * =  3.0  2359
10 Bator, Robert           m SWE 2430 0 0 0 1 = 0 = 0 = *  2.5  2318
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12) Korinthos 2000

The Korinthos 2000 International Chess Open Tounament took place July 25th - August 2nd 2000. The event was a 9 round Swiss with Eric Van den Doel taking first on Buchholz tie-break ahead of Giorgi Bagaturov and Maxim Turov, all scored 7/9. My thanks to Argiris Kotsis.

Further details: http://www.chess.gr/korinthos/

Open Korinthos GRE (GRE), 25 vii-2 viii 2000
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 1 Van den Doel, Erik         g NED 2547   7.0        42.0    5.00
 2 Bagaturov, Giorgi          g GEO 2501   7.0        40.0    6.00
 3 Turov, Maxim               g RUS 2539   7.0        39.5    5.00
 4 Istratescu, Andrei         g ROM 2578   6.5        44.5    4.00
 5 Chernin, Alexander         g HUN 2572   6.5        42.5    4.00
 6 Ovsejevitsch, Sergei       g UKR 2526   6.5        41.5    5.00
 7 Drazic, Sinisa             m YUG 2508   6.5        41.0    5.00
 8 Potapov, Alexander         m RUS 2483   6.5        40.0    5.00
 9 Volkov, Sergey             g RUS 2554   6.5        39.0    6.00
10 Novikov, Igor A            g UKR 2611   6.5        39.0    5.00
11 Kapnisis, Spyridon           GRE 2332   6.5        33.0    6.00
12 Kotronias, Vasilios        g CYP 2539   6.0        43.0    5.00
13 Georgiou, Kostantinos        GRE 2135   6.0        37.0    6.00
14 Radovanovic, Dusan           YUG 2331   6.0        36.0    5.00
15 Makkas, Panayiotis           GRE ----   6.0        34.5    5.00
16 Tsivelekidis, Georgios       GRE 2117   6.0        34.0    6.00
17 Galge, Hans                  NED ----   6.0        34.0    5.00
18 Agouridis, Aris              GRE 2117   5.5        37.5    5.00
19 Nikolaidis, Konstantinos   f GRE 2308   5.5        37.5    4.00
20 Jonkman, Harmen            m NED 2424   5.5        37.0    5.00
21 Glek, Igor V               g GER 2553   5.5        36.5    5.00
22 Papastavropoulos, Andreas  f GRE 2211   5.5        36.0    5.00
23 Tavoularis, Nicholas         GRE 2041   5.5        34.0    4.00
24 Dzhumaev, Marat            m UZB 2495   5.5        33.0    5.00
25 Stoumbos, Konstantin         GRE ----   5.5        31.5    5.00
26 Vakhidov, Tahir            m UZB 2458   5.5        31.5    5.00
27 Makka, Ioulia                GRE 2134   5.5        31.5    4.00
28 Vuckovic, Bojan            m YUG 2444   5.0        40.0    3.00
94 players  

13) Kavala Open

The Kavala Open (Greece) took place July 25th - August 1st 2000. My thanks to Argiris Kotsis.

Further details: http://www.chess.gre/

Open Kavala GRE (GRE), 25 vii-1 viii 2000
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 1 Mastrovasilis, Athanasios   f GRE 2372  8.0 52.0 45.00 42.0 2372 2530 +1.10 
 2 Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios      GRE 2386  7.5 55.0 45.00 40.5 2386 2694 +1.72 
 3 Fakhiridou, Ekaterini      wm GRE 2277  7.0 52.5 39.00 36.0 2277 2243 -0.20 
 4 Karapanos, Nikolaos           GRE 2305  6.5 53.5 36.75 35.0 2305 2388 +0.64 
 5 Botsari, Anna-Maria        wg GRE 2325  6.5 50.0 33.50 34.0 2325 2111 -1.18 
 6 Aftsoglou, Ioannis            GRE 2203  6.5 47.0 34.00 30.5 2203 2409 +1.25 
 7 Markidis, Konstantinos        GRE 2337  6.0 56.0 34.00 35.0 2337 2225 -0.80 
 8 Delithanasis, Dimitrios       GRE 2191  6.0 52.0 30.50 34.0 2191 1641 -0.99 
 9 Andreou, Dimitrios            GRE ----  6.0 50.0 31.00 33.0 2010 2105 2105 
10 Tsipouris, Eleftherios        GRE 2058  6.0 50.0 28.50 32.0 2058 1648 -0.54 
11 Prokopiou,Konstantinos        GRE ----  6.0 47.0 27.50 31.0 1850 1587 0 
12 Mihailidis, Anastacios        GRE 2126  6.0 47.0 27.25 29.0 2126 1611 -0.58 
13 Papadopoulos,Orestis          GRE ----  6.0 46.5 28.00 27.5 1845 1685 0 
14 Makridis, Nikolaos            GRE ----  6.0 37.0 21.00 26.0 1690 1449 0 
71 players

14) Arnold J. Eikrem Memorial

The Arnold J. Eikrem Memorial took place in Gausdal, Norway 30th July - 6th August 2000. The event was won by Sergei Tiviakov with 7.5/9. My thanks to Eirik Gullaksen.

Website: http://home.online.no/~eirikgu/am2000.htm

Arbiter and organizer Hans Olav Lahlum reports: "I always play well in Gausdal" said the top rated GM Sergei Tiviakov immediately making up for last week's result in Bergen with an outstanding performance in the Arnold J Eikrem Memorial. After playing on the top board for all nine rounds without losing any of them, Tiviakov finished with 7.5/9 1.5 points clear of the three next GMs. In between landed the fourth ranked IM Davit Lobzhanidze, who came just as close to a GM-norm as in Bergen: He again managed to defeat GM Yuri Yakovich from a difficult position in the eighth round, but proved unable to move the ultra-solid GM Alexander Volzhin in the ninth. Despite just 36 participants the organizer was satisfied with the foreign participation, but that only one of the top 100 Norwegians found time to play was of course a disappointment. Fortunately the Norwegian market seems much better for the next Gausdal-tournament, which will be the Troll Masters 5th-12th January 2001.

Eikrem mem Gausdal NOR (NOR), 30 vii-6 viii 2000
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                                        1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 
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 1 Tiviakov, Sergei        g NED 2608  +20 + 6 +21 = 4 + 2 = 3 = 5 +15 + 8  7.5  2696
 2 Lobzhanidze, Davit      m GEO 2493  = 8 +11 +22 +19 - 1 +15 = 6 + 4 = 3  6.5  2553
 3 Volzhin, Alexander      g RUS 2556  =10 +23 = 8 + 7 + 6 = 1 = 4 = 5 = 2  6.0  2541
 4 Yakovich, Yuri          g RUS 2585  +15 + 7 =19 = 1 +10 = 5 = 3 - 2 +12  6.0  2536
 5 Davies, Nigel R         g ENG 2486  = 9 +17 +18 =10 +21 = 4 = 1 = 3 = 6  6.0  2485
 6 Salmensuu, Olli         m FIN 2458  +12 - 1 +13 +22 - 3 +21 = 2 +10 = 5  6.0  2477
 7 Lampen, Timo            f FIN 2308  +36 - 4 +28 - 3 +29 -12 +16 +13 +20  6.0  2363
 8 Westerinen, Heikki M.J  g FIN 2370  = 2 + 9 = 3 =15 +19 =10 =17 +20 - 1  5.5  2476
 9 Bach, Matthias          f GER 2348  = 5 - 8 +11 +24 -15 -16 +21 +19 +18  5.5  2283
10 Holmsten, Aleksei       f FIN 2383  = 3 +32 +30 = 5 - 4 = 8 +12 - 6 +17  5.5  2421
11 Christenson, Flemming     NOR 2193  =18 - 2 - 9 +26 +31 -17 +24 +16 +15  5.5  2258
12 Bekker-Jensen, David      DEN 2320  - 6 +20 +23 -21 +27 + 7 -10 +17 - 4  5.0  2325
13 Skaaning, Kim             DEN 2082  +25 -21 - 6 +31 -17 +27 +14 - 7 +26  5.0  2166
14 Bru,Stein Kristian        NOR ----  =27 -22 +36 -16 =28 +31 -13 +33 +23  5.0  2104
15 Bekker-Jensen, Simon    m DEN 2388  - 4 +33 +16 = 8 + 9 - 2 +18 - 1 -11  4.5  2305
16 Rud, Morten               DEN 2148  +29 -19 -15 +14 =18 + 9 - 7 -11 +25  4.5  2155
17 Engelbert, Christoph      GER 2227  =24 - 5 +34 =30 +13 +11 = 8 -12 -10  4.5  2203
18 Hintz,Martin              GER ----  =11 +24 - 5 =27 =16 +19 -15 +22 - 9  4.5  2215
19 Porrasmaa, Timo           FIN 2163  +26 +16 = 4 - 2 - 8 -18 +30 - 9 +32  4.5  2223
20 Agopov, Mikael          m FIN 2399  - 1 -12 +25 =28 +30 +29 +22 - 8 - 7  4.5  2203
21 Osttveit, Martin          NOR 2079  +34 +13 - 1 +12 - 5 - 6 - 9 =26 =22  4.0  2231
22 Wiedermann, Franz         AUT 2169  =30 +14 - 2 - 6 +33 +24 -20 -18 =21  4.0  2115
23 Pedersen, Oyvind          NOR 2061  +35 - 3 -12 -29 +25 =26 =28 +32 -14  4.0  2100
24 Karlsen, Terje            NOR ----  =17 -18 +33 - 9 +32 -22 -11 =29 +34  4.0  2069
25 Sersch,Rudi               NOR ----  -13 -29 -20 +35 -23 +34 +27 +28 -16  4.0  2076
26 Clausen,Mikkel            DEN ----  -19 =35 =32 -11 +36 =23 +29 =21 -13  4.0  2061
27 Lomo, Markus              NOR 2043  =14 -30 +35 =18 -12 -13 -25 +36 +33  4.0  2033
28 Sander, Rolf              GER 2054  =33 =31 - 7 =20 =14 =30 =23 -25 =29  3.5  2005
29 Olsen, Anders             NOR ----  -16 +25 =31 +23 - 7 -20 -26 =24 =28  3.5  2027
30 Stam,Bart                 NED ----  =22 +27 -10 =17 -20 =28 -19 =34 =35  3.5  2112
31 Carlsen,Henrik            NOR ----  =32 =28 =29 -13 -11 -14 -34 +35 +36  3.5  1996
32 Svendsen, Mads B          DEN 2071  =31 -10 =26 =36 -24 =33 +35 -23 -19  3.0  1974
33 Bruun,Jesper              DEN ----  =28 -15 -24 +34 -22 =32 +36 -14 -27  3.0  1955
34 Sorensen,Niels            DEN ----  -21 =36 -17 -33 =35 -25 +31 =30 -24  2.5  1900
35 Jorgensen, Michael        DEN 2290  -23 =26 -27 -25 =34 +36 -32 -31 =30  2.5  1853
36 Ranft, Hans               NED ----  - 7 =34 -14 =32 -26 -35 -33 -27 -31  1.0  1728
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15) Australian Masters

The Australian Masters took place in Melbourne, Australia July 24th- August 4th 2000. The event was won by 20 year old Adam Hunt who scored 8/11 to finish half a point clear of Australian IM Guy West.

My thanks to Gary Bekker for the news.

Daily internet coverage: http://www.auschess.org.au/oceania/masters.htm

Australian Masters Melbourne AUS (AUS), 24 vii-4 viii 2000cat. IV (2327)
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                                     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 
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 1 Hunt, Adam               ENG 2392 * 0 0 1 1 = 1 1 = 1 1 1  8.0  2496
 2 West, Guy              m AUS 2372 1 * = = 1 0 1 = 1 0 1 1  7.5  2456
 3 Welling, Gerard        m NED 2364 1 = * = = 1 0 1 0 1 = 1  7.0  2425
 4 Solomon, Stephen J     m AUS 2359 0 = = * 0 = 1 1 1 1 = 1  7.0  2426
 5 Zhao Zong Yuan         m AUS 2341 0 0 = 1 * = = = 1 1 1 1  7.0  2427
 6 Martin, Benjamin       m NZL 2377 = 1 0 = = * 0 1 1 = = =  6.0  2358
 7 Teichmann, Erik O.M.C  f ENG 2369 0 0 1 0 = 1 * = = = = 1  5.5  2323
 8 Chapman, Mark AUS      f AUS 2351 0 = 0 0 = 0 = * = 1 1 1  5.0  2289
 9 Rujevic, Mirko         f AUS 2350 = 0 1 0 0 0 = = * = = =  4.0  2223
10 Hacche, David            AUS 2214 0 1 0 0 0 = = 0 = * 1 0  3.5  2204
11 Levi, Eddy             f AUS 2258 0 0 = = 0 = = 0 = 0 * 1  3.5  2200
12 Dizdarevich, Mehmeda     BIH 2179 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 = 1 0 *  2.0  2078
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16) First Saturday August

Laszlo Nagy reports: The main events are one GM group and two IM groups the events take place August 5th-17th 2000. You can contact Laszlo Nagy at firstsat@elender.hu

FSGM August Budapest HUN (HUN), 5-17 viii 2000            cat. VII (2409)
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                                 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 
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 1 Rajlich, Vasik G     USA 2209 * . . . . . . 1 . . . . 1  2.0 / 2      
 2 Medvegy, Zoltan    m HUN 2428 . * . . . . . . . . 1 . 1  2.0 / 2      
 3 Lukacs, Peter      g HUN 2488 . . * . = . . . . . . 1 .  1.5 / 2  2642
 4 Nguyen Anh Dung    m VIE 2487 . . . * . 1 . . . . . . .  1.0 / 1      
 5 Varga, Zoltan      g HUN 2541 . . = . * . . . . . = . .  1.0 / 2  2394
 6 Antal, Gergely       HUN 2405 . . . 0 . * . . 1 . . . .  1.0 / 2  2488
 7 Fogarasi, Tibor    m HUN 2456 . . . . . . * . = = . . .  1.0 / 2  2426
 8 Szabolcsi, Janos   m HUN 2411 0 . . . . . . * . 1 . . .  1.0 / 2  2286
 9 Hoang Thanh Trang  m VIE 2489 . . . . . 0 = . * . . . .  0.5 / 2  2237
10 Soos, Bela         m GER 2364 . . . . . . = 0 . * . . .  0.5 / 2  2240
11 Vadasz, Laszlo     g HUN 2301 . 0 . . = . . . . . * . .  0.5 / 2  2291
12 Szeberenyi, Adam     HUN 2357 . . 0 . . . . . . . . * .  0.0 / 1      
13 Atanu, Lahiri      f IND 2385 0 0 . . . . . . . . . . *  0.0 / 2      
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FSIMA August Budapest HUN (HUN), 5-17 viii 2000                cat. II (2284)
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                                           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 
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 1 Petran, Pal                  m HUN 2377 * . . . . . . 1 . . . 1  2.0      
 2 Borisek, Jure                  SLO 2089 . * . . . . . = 1 . . .  1.5  2458
 3 Borocz, Istvan               m HUN 2347 . . * . = . . . . . . 1  1.5  2517
 4 Scerbin, Dmitrij             m RUS 2405 . . . * . = . . . . 1 .  1.5  2440
 5 Szabo, Zoltan                f HUN 2320 . . = . * . . . . . 1 .  1.5  2511
 6 Vikulov, Alexander             RUS 2205 . . . = . * . . . 1 . .  1.5  2494
 7 Yu Mingyuan                    CHN 2319 . . . . . . * . = 1 . .  1.5  2419
 8 Cooke, Eric                    USA 2275 0 = . . . . . * . . . .  0.5  2040
 9 Lamprecht, Mark                GER 2256 . 0 . . . . = . * . . .  0.5  2011
10 Grill, Marc                    FRA 2197 . . . . . 0 0 . . * . .  0.0      
11 Ibanez Terradellas, Eduardo    ESP 2289 . . . 0 0 . . . . . * .  0.0      
12 Xu Hanbing                     CHN 2328 0 . 0 . . . . . . . . *  0.0      
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FSIMB August Budapest HUN (HUN), 5-17 viii 2000               cat. II (2282)
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17) Extra Games

The 15th Avoine Open took place July 22nd-30th 2000. Vladislav Nevednichy won with 8/9. Games from round 8 but not nine are now available.

Internet coverage: http://www.tour-infernale.net/

The Hartwall Heart Of Finland open took place in Jyväskylä Finland, 19th-23rd of July 2000. There was a 6 way tie on 7/9 with Viktor Gavrikov having the superior tie-break. (reported in more detail last week)

My thanks to Jussi Tella and Tapani Sammalvuo for the news.

Internet coverage: http://www.shakki.net/turnaukset/hof00/english.htm

18) Forthcoming Events and Links

Spanish Teams

The Spanish Team Championships with players including Alexei Shirov and Veselin Topalov take place August 5th-13th 2000.

Live games at:http://www.ajedrez21.com

Chania 2000

Chania 2000 takes place August 3rd-10th 2000. GMs Andrei Istratescu, Maxim Turov, Vasilios Kotronias, Ivan Ivanisevic, Sergei Osejevitch, Giorgi Bagaturov and Stratos Grivas play in the field of 134.

http://www.chess.gr/tourn/2000/hellas2000/chania2000/enter.html

Nordic FIDE Zonal

The Nordic FIDE Zonal KO-Tournament 2000 will be organized by Hellir Chess Club 5th-15th September in Reykjavík, Iceland. It will be a knock out tournament with 24 players until there is only three players left which will participate in the FIDE world championship. Official website: www.simnet.is/hellir/zonal2000.htm.

Zonal 1.1

World Championship Zonal 1.1 takes place in Mondariz, Spain September 3rd-17th 2000. There are six places available. Federations involved (and the number of invitations they have) are :Spain 6, England, France, Netherlands 5 each, Italy 4, Belgium 3, Portugal, Scotland, Luxembourg, Andorra 2 each, Ireland, Wales, Guernsey, Jersey, Monaco and San Marino 1 each. In addition to these invitations 8 players are over 2600 and have the right to play, they are: Jeroen Piket (NED 2649) Jan Timman (NED 2639) Loek Van Wely (NED 2643) Joel Lautier (FRA 2648) Jon Speelman (ENG 2623) Josif Dorfman (FRA 2600) Julian Hodgson (ENG 2640) Sergei Tiviakov (NED 2608). Players from this Zone who are already qualified to play in the World Championships are: Michael Adams and Nigel Short (ENG) Alexei Shirov (ESP), Mikhail Gurevich (BEL) and Etienne Bacrot (FRA).

Info: http://www.bcf.ndirect.co.uk/national/zonal2000.htm

Jyväskylä International

The Jyväskylä International Chess Festival takes place in Finland September 26th - October 9th, 2000.

Jyväs-Shakki has the honour to organize the Jyväskylä International Chess tournaments at September 26th to October 9th, 2000. There are four different tournament types: x main event: 14-player all-play-all IM-group, with possibility to reach international master title result, estimated FIDE category 4-6, IM-norm 8-9/13 x 14-player all-play-all ELO-group for players rated between ELO 2000-2300 x 6-player all-play-all SELO-groups for players with national rating x blitz event IM- and ELO-groups will be played from September 26th to October 9th with one free day (October 2nd). SELO-groups will be played on the weekend from September 29th to October 1st. The blitz event will be played in October 2nd.

Playing venue Jyväskylä ammattikorkeakoulu, Rajakatu 35, Jyväskylä, Finland.

Entry fees IM-group: FIM 600 (GMs and IMs for conditions please contact the organizer) ELO-group: FIM 400 SELO-group: FIM 200 Blitz: FIM 50 Prizes IM-group: FIM 1500, FIM 1200, FIM 900, FIM 600. ELO-group: FIM 1000, FIM 800, FIM 600, FIM 400. SELO-groups: FIM 600, FIM 200 (in each group). Blitz: prizes will be determined at the beginning of the event Playing times IM- and ELO-groups: 2 h / 40 moves + 1 h / 20 moves + 30 mins / rest of the game SELO-groups: 2 h / 40 moves + 30 mins / rest of the game Blitz: 5 mins / whole game

If interested contact Sami Hämäläinen, tel +358-9-5621090 or email sami.hamalainen@icon.fi

4th Cap d'Agde Festival

The 4th Cap d'Agde Festival takes place 28th October - 4th November 2000. Cap d'Agde in the south of France has organised this prestigious event (supported by the French Chess Federation) and the FSGT) every 2 years since 1994.

There will be 3 large Opens tournaments divided by Elo rating 9 rounds, Time control : 40 moves/2hours and 1hour KO, Swiss System.

Grand-Prix CCAS (players + 2000 Elo) This tournament is Open to all players above 2000 Elo rating. Internationals Masters and Internationals Grand Masters do not pay the entry fee. IMPORTANT : only the 20 first players above 2500 Elo rating on the latest Fide list, will be invited by the organisation (accommodation and food) transportation cost will be at the player's charge.

Tournoi du Cavalier (players - > 1700 - < 2100 Elo) This tournament is Open to all players between 1700 and 2100 Elo rating. Tournoi de l'Avenir (-< 1800 Elo) This tournament is open to all players below 1800 Elo rating There will be a Blitz tournament organised by the FSGT

Trophée CCAS 2000 "La rencontre des Continents" rapid chess A tournament of Champions from all 5 Continents. Trophée CCAS "Espoirs" Match des prodiges : Angleterre - France A match between 2 very young Chess prodigies in 8 games with different Time control

Contact : Cap d'Agde Avenue de la Butte 34 309 Cap d'Agde Cedex Tel : 04 67 01 00 63 Fax : 04 67 76 65 01

Nigerian National Junior Chess Championship

The Nigerian National Junior Chess Championship will be taking place in Lagos, Nigeria between August 1-3, 2000. For the first time in the history of chess organisation in Nigeria and possibly in West Africa, a web site has been put up for the tournament. Please find more information at the site at http://www.agusto.com/chess/default.asp The site will be updated regularly and results and games will be updated daily.

Lajos Ózdi IM Harkany

The Lajos Ózdi Memorial IM tournament in Harkany, Hungary taking place November 16th-24th 2000. The ten player all-play-all IM norm event takes place in the Hotel Platán Harkány Bartók Béla u 15. Contact: Schepp Zoltán Tel 36-72-258-044 e-mail: gyorkos.lajos@dpg.hu

In addition there is the 24th Tenkes Cup in the same venue and dates. With an A and B Masters Open. Entry deadline 10th November 2000. Contact: Faludi László SIKLÓS, Kossuth tér 1. 7801 Tel.: 00 36 72l352-122 Fax: 00 36 72/351-858 Hungary Mikola Lajos: e-mail : tenkescup@egon.gyaloglo.hu

Mytilene Open

The Greek Chess Federation and the Chess Club of Mytilene are organising the Mytilene Open. The event which takes place on the island of Lesvos, is in its 5th consecutive year, takes place July 24th-31st 2000.

More information about this event can be obtained from the official web site of the tournament: http://oaachess.bizland.com/mytilene.chtml

European Junior Championships

The European Team Championship for Boys and Girls U18 was held in Balatonlelle (Hungary) from 9th-15th July 2000. Results available at: http://www.sah-zveza.si/rez/0007/eu00chtj/ http://www.sah-zveza.si/rez/0007/eu00chtg/

Mecking-Vescovi Match

São Paulo is the venue for return of the veteran Brazilian player Henrique Mecking. He plays a match against Giovanni Vescovi in the "Centro Empresarial" August 7th-17th 2000.

Further details: http://www.hipernet.com.br/HiperChess/

Sants Hostafrancs Open

The II Open International of Sants Hostafrancs i La Bordeta takes place in Barcelona 1st-10th September 2000. 10.000 euros in prizes.

Internet coverage: http://www.secretariat.org/open

European Youth Championships

The European Youth Championships in Halkidiki, Greece, October 2nd-10th 2000 will be covered at the new website: http://www.inchess.com also information at: http://www.geocities.com/eycc2000

Ciudad de Oviedo

III Open Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de Oviedo 16th-17th September 2000 Active Chess -25' finish, 9 rounds 1.350.000 pts. 1st 200.000; 2nd 175.000; 3rd 150.000... (hasta 35 premios) Entry: 2.500 ptas. Sub16: 1.500 ptas c.c: 2048 0153 65 0340023819 More info: 985 29 63 95 (Víctor) - 649 104 582 (Arturo) oviedo@damanegra.com http://www.damanegra.com/oviedo

MSO Chess

After some initial doubt the 4th Mind Sports Olympiad will definitely take place in London, at Alexandra Palace, from August 19th-28th 2000.

The Ron Banwell MSO Chess tournament takes place in Alexandra Palace 20th-28th August 2000. Likely contestants include: Murey, McNab, Hodgson and Speelman.

Play 15.30-22.00 daily Rate of play: 40/100, all in 50, adding 30 seconds from the first # Prizes: £1000 500 300 200 150 100 This is the guaranteed prize fund. Best score by a Disabled player: £200 £100 If the income warrants it, the Best score by a player Under-16: £50 prizes will be increased. Mind Sports Olympiad Medals in categories: Open, Under 16, Disabled No player may win more than one cash prize nor more than one medal. Part of The Terence Chapman Group Grand Prix

Play 15.30-22.00 daily Rate of play: 40/100, all in 50, adding 30 seconds from the first # Prizes: £1000 500 300 200 150 100 This is the guaranteed prize fund. Best score by a Disabled player: £200 £100 If the income warrants it, the Best score by a player Under-16: £50 prizes will be increased. Mind Sports Olympiad Medals in categories: Open, Under 16, Disabled No player may win more than one cash prize nor more than one medal. Part of The Terence Chapman Group Grand Prix

Entry Fees: GMs, IMs, WGMs, WIMs, if received by the penalty fee date* free Players FIDE Rated 2300 or higher, FMs, WFMs £30 Players FIDE Rated 2150-2299 £50 Players FIDE Rated 2001-2149 £75 Players unrated, BCF Grade 175 (National 2000 or higher) £100 Players unrated, BCF Grade under 175 (National 2000 or lower) £150 Players with disabilities free Players Under 21 or Over 60 pay half the above fees BCF Direct Members, discount of £4 Penalty Fee for late entries postmarked after 12 August £20 *Players with international titles who accept a free entry will be expected to be prepared to work with a disabled player for the period of the event. This might include post game analysis, pre game preparation.

Directed by: Stewart Reuben on behalf of the London Chess Association with the financial assistance of: British Chess Federation, Friends of Chess Ron Banwell, a haemophiliac, left a substantial bequest to the British Chess Federation. It will be possible to gain international honours. It has the objective of demonstrating that people with disabilities can compete at chess on totally equal terms.

Address to send entries: MSO 51 Borough Way Potters Bar Herts EN6 3HA

Details at: http://www.msoworld.com/Olympiad/details-chess.html

If interested contact Stewart Reuben at sreuben@compuserve.com or Anthony C. Corfe at tony@tcs-chess.demon.co.uk for further details.

Confirmed other major events include the following: "The Times" British Crossword Puzzle Championship is expected to attract around 1,000 entries. The final stages of the British Land UK Chess Challenge is expected to add a further 1,100. And the British Open Dominoes and Cribbage Championships are likely to bring in another 1,000 or more. There is a programme of Go events, as well as the European Shogi Championships, the British Open Backgammon Championships, the British Scrabble Championships, the 5th Computer Olympiad (incorporating the World Microcomputer Chess Championship), and several other tournaments. There is also an initiative under way to enable the organisers to hold the MSO Masters Chess Championship. There will be a very large Bridge presence, including the London heats of the MSO Worldwide Charity Simultaneous Pairs Championship on August 22nd and 23rd.

Press Release at: http://www.msoworld.com/Olympiad/4preview.html

MSO Site at: http://www.msoworld.com/

Open Dutch Junior Chess Championships

The Royal Dutch Chess Federation would like to invite strong young players to their tournament.

The Open Dutch Junior Chess Championships takes place 7th-12th August 2000 in Hengelo (The Netherlands). For players with a FIDE-rating of at least 2200 there are a number of places with full board (free accomodation, meals and travel inside The Netherlands). Details about the tournament can be found at the site of the Royal Dutch Chess Federation: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/stork2000/index.htm The previous edition of the tournament was won by IM Stelios Halkias (GRE) ahead of IM Jan Gustafsson (GER), IM Leif Erlend Johannessen (NOR) and IM Alexei Iljushin (RUS). Players should be born in 1980 or later. You can also contact Anjo Anjewierden at webmaster@schaakbond.nl.

WPC Site

Valery Salov heads the WPC (World Players Council) and they have their own website. The site is at: http://ajedrez_democratico.tripod.com with a mixture of material in Spanish and English. Includes: In English continued correspondence between Yasser Seirawan and Valery Salov, the WPC Memorandum and a summary of a press conference in London and Alexei Shirov annotating his win against Bacrot in Sarajavo. In Spanish there is more material including a press conference in Leon 5th June with the participants: GM Valeri Salov, IM Javier Ochoa, GM Zenón Franco, GM Jordi Magem, IM Ricardo Calvo, IM Leonid Bass, Leontxo García, Miguel Ángel Nepomuceno, Frederic Friedel (his exchanges are given in English), Amador Cuesta Robledo, and David Llada. You could try running the Spanish sections through the Babel Fish translation program to get the early exchanges if you don't speak the language.

Halkida Open

The International open of Halkida (70 km north of Athens) will be organized this year from August 11-19. For more information, the official site of the event is: http://oaachess.bizland.com/halkida2000.htm Total prizes are over 5000 euro (1st prize: 1500 euro).

Lisbon International Chess Festival

The Lisbon International Chess Festival takes place August 21st-30th. The main open has 9 GMs entered already.

More information at http://www.infoxadrez.com e-mail for contacts: infoxadrez@infoxadrez.com

Regulations:

A. MAIN TOURNAMENT FIDE LEVEL 1. Swiss system, 10 rounds, from August 21st-30th, starting at 17-00h, except round 10, which will start at 9-00h. Automatic pairings by Swiss Perfect software. Possibility of FIDE norms. 2. Entry fee: 10.000$00. Players with FIDE titles exempt. 50% discount until June 30th. 3. Timerate: 2h/40 + 1h/20 + 30m KO. Tie-break: performance (SwissPerfect); progress; Brazilian. 4. Prizes: 1º 300.000$; 2º 150.000$; 3º 120.000$; 4º 100.000$; 5º 70.000$; 6º 50.000$, 7º 30.000$; 8º 30.000$; 9º-10º 25.000$; 11º-13º 20.000$; 14º-16º 15.000$; 17º-20º 10.000$. The prizes will be awarded according to the final standings after the tie-break. Cups and special prizes also will be awarded. 5. Special conditions for GMs: 30.000$00 + full board (lodging and meals)

B. OPEN TOURNAMENT NON-FIDE LEVEL 1. Swiss system, 10 rounds, from August 21st-30th. Starting at 20-00h, except round 10, that will start at 9-00h. Automatic pairings by Swiss Perfect software. Possibility of FIDE norms. 2. Entry fee: 5.000$00. 50% discount until June 30. 3. Time-rate: 2h KO. Tie-break: performance (SwissPerfect); progress; Brazilian. 4. Prizes: 4.1. General Standing: 1º 30.000$; 2º 20.000; 3º 15.000$; 4º-5º 10.000$; 6º-20º 5.000$ 4.2. Elo < 1800: 1º 5.000$; 2º 3.000$; 3º 2.000$ 4.3. Elo < 1600: 1º 5.000$; 2º 3.000$; 3º 2.000$ 4.4. The prizes will be awarded according to the final standings after the tie-break. Cups and special prizes also will be awarded.

The Hilton Chess Festival, Blackpool

The Hilton Chess Festival in Blackpool, Lancashire, England takes place August 20th-24th 2000. The overall emphasis will be on fun and bringing the game of chess in its many forms over to the public as well as the general chess playing people. The rapidplays will have prizes, whilst all the other events will have prizes for the children, including prizes to be used in Blackpool itself.

Details: http://www.lancashirechess.co.uk/hilton/chessfest.html

New Russian Website

There is a new Russian Website (English content to follow) at: http://kvkchess.euro.ru/. Material includes chess history and statistics and a collection of the chess links.

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

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.

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

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

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

Presov Chess Festival 2000

Presov Chess Festival 2000, 12th -20th Aug.

The list of participants in the A event:

Ruslan Scherbakov RUS g 2558 Andrei Kovalev BLR g 2537 Bartlomiej Macieja POL g 2536 Marat Makarov RUS g 2515 Jiri Stocek CZE g 2514 Tomas Polak CZE m 2499 Martin Mrva SVK m 2468 Mikulas Manik SVK m 2425 Milan Novkovic YUG m 2402 Irina Krush USA wm 2354 Average Elo 2480,8 (10th category)

Tournament B is canceled due to low interest of players (only 4 players interested to play). 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).

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

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

2. 5th-17th of August, FIRST SATURDAY

3. 19th-29th August GM cat.8 IM cat.4 11 rounds and 19th-27th August FM closed 9 rounds Paks HUN Org: IM Videki, e-mail: videkisn@mail.matav.hu

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

Olomouc Opens

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

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/

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

3 our tournaments, which will take place during summer in Kobuleti (GEORGIA). INTERNATIONAL CHESS FESTIVAL "MARTVE - OPEN - 2000" 30 July - 08 August INTERNATIONAL CHESS FESTIVAL "REMKA - OPEN - 2000" August 10-19 INTERNATIONAL CHESS FESTIVAL "KOBULETI-OPEN-2000" August 20-29 Full text of Provisions is on our web page: http://www.geocities.com/a_japaridze/kobu.htm Besides there will be held chess tournaments with the norm of the International Master: 1) 30.07-9.08 2) 10.08-20.08 3) 21.08-30.08 Organizers of the tournaments Mr.Amiran Berdzenishvili, Mr.Ioseb Mzhavanadze, Mr.David Japaridze. With best regards David Japaridze Georgian Chess Federation Fax: +(995)32 98 70 53; Phone +(995)32 99 95 21, 95 83 66, 22 67 45 in Tbilisi and 6 33 17, 6 25 89, 635 81 in Kobuleti. E-mail:a_japaridze@yahoo.com, allach@viam.hepi.edu.ge URL: http://www.geocities.com/a_japaridze/