THE WEEK IN CHESS 312 30th October 2000 by Mark Crowther
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Braingames World Chess Championships 4 games
34th Chess Olympiad 367 games
4th Cap d'Agde Festival 32 games
Monarch Assurance Isle of Man 22 games
I Magistral Salou Costa Daurada 15 games
IV Itau Cup 156 games
4th OIBM in Bad Wiessee 30 games
610 games
My thanks to Adolivio Capece, Laszlo Nagy, Richard Furness, Vladimir
Dvorkovich, Hirokaz Onoda, Herman Claudius van Riemsdijk, Miklos Orso,
Søren Søgaard, Konstantin Mashkov, Thomas Leckner and all those
who helped with this issue.
Unless Kasparov stages an unbelievable rally this week Vladimir Kramnik
will become the Braingames World Chess Champion, and certainly in Kasparov's
eyes 14th World Chess Champion. FIDE are taking a great interest in the match
even though they don't recognise it (even down to covering it on their own
website). Already there is talk of FIDE inviting Kramnik to the FIDE Congress
to try and broker a deal to re-unify the title. If that isn't enough to
motivate Kasparov then I don't know what can. Of course Kramnik undoubtably has
his own thoughts on the matter and his contractual commitments to Braingames
are not widely known, they're not thought to preclude him working with FIDE
(but do include participation in future events) but no-one knows for sure.
Whilst I think it essential that we get back to one World Chess Champion (at
the moment neither this nor the FIDE cycle receive anything like the coverage
they used to) I harbour grave doubts about FIDE and especially the policies and
the Presidency of Kirsan Iljumzhinov. We'll know better next week, if Kramnik
wins the match. I know better than to talk about a result until its final, in
sport it isn't over until its over.
The Olympiad has got underway in Turkey. Unfortunately the coverage from
FIDE is very substandard. Having electronic boards has never meant you get
games that make sense, especially in such a huge event. Its time for FIDE to
appoint a proper bulletin team for Olympiads and their World Championships as
in the old days, large enough to produce a good quality bulletin with all the
games checked and verified by the time of the next round. Work alongside
electronic boards by all means but a small team trying to monitor so many games
doesn't work, it hasn't in the past, it isn't working now, and won't do so in
the future. The low tech solution the Chinese organisers used for the
admittedly smaller World Cup earlier this year worked very well and produced a
fine watchable live broadcast. I would settle for 32 correct games live in a
single browser updated live followed by a more considered bulletin the
following day. I'm certain almost everyone else would too. I include the games
in this issue but I wouldn't archive them, I hope for better versions
later.
Hope you enjoy this issue
Mark
The Braingames World Chess Championships started on Sunday 8th October
2000. The 16 game match which takes place on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays between 8th October-4th November. Time control 40 moves in 2 hours,
20 moves in 1 hour, followed by 30 minutes + 10 seconds delay per move (that is
the ten seconds doesn't act cumulatively).
The Braingames took what was probably a decisive turn this week. First
of all on Tuesday (game 10) Kasparov played down a line of the Nimzo-Indian
known not to be very good and was defeated in only 25 moves. On Thursday (game
11) Kramnik avoided the Berlin Defence to the Ruy Lopez and played the Moller
Defence instead. This line was a speciality of amongst others Alexei Shirov who
showed that the game could be simplified down to a worse but tenable series of
endings. Kasparov and Kramnik blasted out moves down to 21. ...h5. Kasparov
claimed he'd had this in preparation and suggested that his 23.Kf2 was an error
and that 23.Ra1 followed by Ra5 was winning. Kramnik who had also seen this
position disagreed (but didn't repeat two games later). Whatever the truth
Kasparov looked distressed the following move and said he almost offered a
draw. In the end he continued and pressed hard but the game simplified out to a
draw in 41 moves. Game 12 on Saturday was probably the first full blooded game
of the match with Kramnik perhaps deciding to go for the kill. Kasparov
defended well but both players became short of time and Kasparov although a
pawn up had some work to do. He decided to play a trap which Kramnik didn't
fall into and Kasparov thought for around 3 minutes going down to 1.5 minutes
when he played a blunder and the game was drawn a couple of moves later. An
exhausting game for the players and Kasparov used it as an explanation for the
short draw that took place on Sunday (game 14) in a Berlin Defence.
Nevertheless that draw means that Kasparov needs to win two out of the last
three games and with only one white. It was greated incredulously, Kasparov was
better and surely playing on and asking Kramnik to keep his nerve was the only
option. But Kasparov again looked very unfocused at the board.
Its a very hard match to read. Kasparov has hinted at off the board
problems and has appeared very distracted since the embarrassingly short game
seven. Until he comes up with a satisfactory explanation one can come up with
all sorts of theories as to what is going on. I think he owes it to people to
explain his problem. Kasparov hasn't played dreadfully, he would have been able
to cope if he had been playing a weaker opponent, but the pressure of very good
well thought out play from Kramnik seems to have caused him to unravel. One
would have expected at least a full blooded attempt to get back into the match
on Sunday even at the cost of a loss. That would have been fitting. The short
draw was just a terrible cop-out. Kramnik does have to maintain his
concentation in the face of an opponent who appears to have given up. If
Kasparov were to win one of the next two games Kramnik would be in for a torrid
time I'm sure in the final game even with white. But at the moment Kasparov
appears to want to be anywhere but playing this match and if he can't motivate
himself to concentrate properly then expect two short draws and an end of the
match on Thursday.
Detailed coverage on TWIC's main pages and on our mini-site at:
http://www.chesscenter.com/wcc2000
Sponsors site: http://www.braingames.com/, for Wap phone
coverage point your phone at: http://mobile.sports.com or directly at:
http://www.wapdrive.com/ardcroney/nk/nk.wml,
coverage in French: http://www.sports.com/fr/echecs/, Notes by IM Ilias
Kourkounakis at: http://www.chess.gr/tourn/2000/kasparov-kramnik/
Kasparov, Gary - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 25 C67 Ruy Lopez (Rio de Janeiro Variation)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Kasparov, Gary 1-0 40 D85 Gruenfeld Defence (Main Line)
Kasparov, Gary - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 53 C67 Ruy Lopez (Rio de Janeiro Variation)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 74 D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted
Kasparov, Gary - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 24 A34 English Opening (Symmetrical Variation)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 66 D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted
Kasparov, Gary - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 11 A32 English Opening (Symmetrical Variation)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 38 E32 Nimzo Indian Defence (4.Qc2)
Kasparov, Gary - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 30 C67 Ruy Lopez (Rio de Janeiro Variation)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Kasparov, Gary 1-0 25 E54 Nimzo Indian Defence (Normal Variation)
Kasparov, Gary - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 41 C78 Ruy Lopez (Moeller Defence)
Kramnik, Vladimir - Kasparov, Gary 1/2 33 E55 Nimzo Indian Defence (Normal Variation)
Kasparov, Gary - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 14 C67 Ruy Lopez (Rio de Janeiro Variation)
Braingames WCC London ENG (ENG), 8 x-4 xi 2000
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Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2770 = 1 = = = = = = = 1 = = = . . . 7.5 2906
Kasparov, Gary g RUS 2849 = 0 = = = = = = = 0 = = = . . . 5.5 2713
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The 34th Chess Olympiad takes place Istanbul, Turkey 28th October - 12th
November 2000. This huge event should be one of the highlights of an already
busy year. The first couple of rounds have taken place (results below). The
FIDE website has games from the first two rounds but they are in a terrible
mess. I include them for interests sake and hope for better later in the event.
Full daily coverage by TWIC.
Official internet coverage:
http://www.istanbulchessolympiad.com/
Ard van Beek who helps Loek van Wely will make an official report from
the event interviews etc for the Dutch Chess Federation. Read his reports at:
http://www.topschaak.nl
Men's results Round 1 28th October 2000
Russia 4.0-0.0 Morocco
Albania 0.5-3.5 England
Hungary 4.0-0.0 U.A.Emirates
New Zealand 0.5-3.5 China
Israel 3.5-0.5 Norway
Andorra 0.5-3.5 Ukraine
United States of America 2.5-1.5 Turkey A
Colombia 0.5-3.5 Bulgaria
Netherlands 3.5-0.5 Venezuela
IBSA 0.0-4.0 Georgia
Germany 4.0-0.0 Paraguay
Faroe Islands 1.0-3.0 Czech Republic
Armenia 4.0-0.0 Pakistan
Iraq 1.0-3.0 Bosnia & Herzegovina
Poland 3.5-0.5 Malaysia
Yemen 0.0-4.0 Spain
Croatia 3.5-0.5 Wales
Nicaragua 0.0-4.0 Belarus
Uzbekistan 3.5-0.5 Turkey B
Cyprus 0.5-3.5 Brazil
Slovenia 3.0-1.0 Bolivia
Syria 0.5-3.5 Switzerland
Kazakhstan 3.5-0.5 Uruguay
Jamaica 0.0-4.0 Cuba
Greece 3.5-0.5 Luxembourg
Zambia 0.5-3.5 Sweden
Slovakia 4.0-0.0 Uganda
Trinidad & Tobago 0.0-4.0 France
Yugoslavia 3.0-1.0 Tunisia
Malta 0.0-4.0 India
Estonia 4.0-0.0 Monaco
Zimbabwe 0.5-3.5 Romania
Denmark 3.5-0.5 Puerto Rico
Japan 1.5-2.5 Indonesia
Latvia 4.0-0.0 Qatar
South Africa 0.0-4.0 Philippines
Moldova 4.0-0.0 Palestine
Netherlands Antilles 0.5-3.5 Australia
Kyrgyzstan 4.0-0.0 Namibia
Jersey 0.5-3.5 Lithuania
Former YUG Rep of Macedonia 3.5-0.5 Macau
Kenya 0.0-4.0 Italy
Vietnam 3.5-0.5 Honduras
Liechtenstein 0.0-4.0 Myanmar
Singapore 3.0-1.0 Hong Kong
El Salvador 0.5-3.5 Iceland
Canada 4.0-0.0 Surinam
Guernsey & Jersey 0.0-4.0 Azerbaijan
Scotland 4.0-0.0 Sri Lanka
Mauritius 0.0-4.0 Turkmenistan
Chile 3.0-1.0 Angola
Seychelles 0.0-4.0 Finland
Ireland 4.0-0.0 Panama
Botswana 0.0-4.0 Egypt
Iran 4.0-0.0 Papua New Guinea
San Marino 0.0-4.0 Mongolia
Mexico 4.0-0.0 U.S. Virgin Isl.
Bermuda 0.0-4.0 Austria
Bangladesh 4.0-0.0 Djibouti
Mauritania 0.0-4.0 Ecuador
Portugal 3.5-0.5 Barbados
Rwanda 0.0-4.0 Belgium
Costa Rica 4.0-0.0 Brunei Darussalam
Women's results Round 1 28th October 2000
China 3.0-0.0 Brazil
Finland 0.0-3.0 Georgia
Russia 3.0-0.0 Mexico
Kyrgyzstan 0.0-3.0 Ukraine
Yugoslavia 3.0-0.0 Former YUG Rep of Macedonia
IBSA 0.5-2.5 Poland
Moldova 1.5-1.5 Denmark
Venezuela 0.0-3.0 Hungary
Vietnam 3.0-0.0 Wales
Scotland 0.5-2.5 Germany
Romania 2.5-0.5 Indonesia
Albania 0.0-3.0 England
Bulgaria 3.0-0.0 Canada
Philippines 1.0-2.0 Israel
Belarus 3.0-0.0 Guatemala
Portugal 0.0-3.0 Netherlands
Slovakia 2.5-0.5 Norway
Iraq 0.0-3.0 Armenia
Czech Republic 3.0-0.0 Malaysia
Bangladesh 1.0-2.0 Cuba
Kazakhstan 3.0-0.0 South Africa
Iceland 0.5-2.5 Greece
Spain 3.0-0.0 Italy
Ireland 0.0-3.0 India
France 2.0-1.0 Turkey A
El Salvador 0.5-2.5 United States of America
Croatia 3.0-0.0 Iran
Japan 0.5-2.5 Azerbaijan
Latvia 3.0-0.0 U.S. Virgin Isl.
Angola 0.0-3.0 Estonia
Lithuania 3.0-0.0 Botswana
Morocco 1.0-2.0 Bosnia & Herzegovina
Ecuador 3.0-0.0 Singapore
Costa Rica 0.0-3.0 Turkmenistan
Slovenia 3.0-0.0 Macau
Puerto Rico 0.0-3.0 Uzbekistan
Australia 3.0-0.0 New Zealand
U.A.Emirates 1.0-2.0 Sweden
Austria 3.0-0.0 Zambia
Syria 0.5-2.5 Mongolia
Switzerland 3.0-0.0 Sri Lanka
Yemen 0.0-3.0 Colombia
Men's results Round 2 29th October 2000
Italy 0.5-3.5 Russia
Myanmar 0.0-4.0 Hungary
Georgia 2.0-2.0 Canada
Azerbaijan 0.5-3.5 Germany
Scotland 1.0-3.0 Armenia
Spain 2.5-1.5 Turkmenistan
Finland 2.5-1.5 Belarus
Cuba 2.0-1.0 Ireland
Egypt 1.0-3.0 Slovakia
France 1.0-1.0 Iran
India 3.0-1.0 Mongolia
Mexico 1.5-2.5 Estonia
Austria 2.0-2.0 Latvia
Philippines 2.5-1.5 Bangladesh
Ecuador 0.5-2.5 Moldova
Belgium 2.5-1.5 Kyrgyzstan
England 3.0-1.0 Costa Rica
China 2.5-1.5 Kazakhstan
Greece 1.5-2.5 Israel
Ukraine 2.5-1.5 Sweden
Bulgaria 1.5-2.5 Romania
Denmark 2.0-2.0 Netherlands
Australia 1.5-1.5 Poland
Lithuania 2.5-1.5 Croatia
Former YUG Rep of Macedonia 1.5-2.5 Uzbekistan
Brazil 2.0-2.0 Vietnam
Switzerland 3.0-1.0 Iceland
Czech Republic 2.0-2.0 Portugal
Bosnia & Herzegovina 0.0-0.0 Yugoslavia
Singapore 1.0-3.0 Slovenia
United States of America 2.5-0.5 Chile
Ethiopia 1.0-3.0 Japan
Indonesia 4.0-0.0 Turkey A
Tunisia 1.0-3.0 Faroe Islands
Hong Kong 0.0-4.0 Iraq
Bolivia 2.5-1.5 Angola
Uruguay 1.5-2.5 Albania
Luxembourg 2.5-0.5 New Zealand
Norway 2.5-1.5 Zambia
Zimbabwe 1.0-3.0 Andorra
Puerto Rico 1.0-3.0 Colombia
Venezuela 3.5-0.5 Netherlands Antilles
Malaysia 4.0-0.0 Jersey
Wales 3.5-0.5 Macau
Turkey B 2.5-1.5 Honduras
El Salvador 3.0-1.0 Cyprus
Barbados 1.0-3.0 Syria
Namibia 0.0-4.0 Argentina
Peru 3.5-0.5 Kenya
Morocco 4.0-0.0 Liechtenstein
U.A.Emirates 3.5-0.5 Surinam
Paraguay 1.0-3.0 Sri Lanka
Pakistan 3.5-0.5 Mauritius
Seychelles 0.0-4.0 Yemen
Panama 0.0-4.0 Jamaica
Uganda 2.0-2.0 Botswana
Papua New Guinea 1.0-3.0 Trinidad & Tobago
San Marino 0.5-3.5 Malta
Monaco 3.0-1.0 U.S. Virgin Isl.
Qatar 4.0-0.0 Bermuda
Brunei Darussalam 0.0-4.0 South Africa
Palestine 3.5-0.5 Rwanda
Guernsey & Jersey 0.0-4.0 IBSA
Women's results Round 2 29th October 2000
Spain 0.0-3.0 China
Georgia 1.5-1.5 India
Croatia 0.5-2.5 Russia
Ukraine 1.5-1.5 Latvia
Estonia 1.0-2.0 Yugoslavia
Hungary 1.5-1.5 Lithuania
Ecuador 1.0-2.0 Vietnam
England 3.0-0.0 Turkmenistan
Slovenia 1.0-2.0 Bulgaria
Uzbekistan 0.0-1.0 Belarus
Netherlands 2.0-1.0 Australia
Armenia 1.5-1.5 Austria
Switzerland 0.5-2.5 Czech Republic
Colombia 0.5-2.5 Kazakhstan
Poland 1.5-1.5 Greece
Germany 0.0-3.0 United States of America
Azerbaijan 2.0-1.0 Romania
Mongolia 2.0-1.0 Slovakia
Israel 1.5-0.5 France
Cuba 1.0-2.0 Bosnia & Herzegovina
Sweden 1.0-2.0 Moldova
Denmark 3.0-0.0 Turkey B
Turkey A 2.5-0.5 Philippines
U.A.Emirates 0.0-3.0 Bangladesh
Iceland 1.5-1.5 Scotland
Indonesia 3.0-0.0 El Salvador
Norway 3.0-0.0 Japan
Brazil 3.0-0.0 Syria
Italy 2.0-1.0 Argentina
Ireland 0.0-3.0 Finland
Mexico 1.5-1.5 Iran
Puerto Rico 0.5-2.5 Kyrgyzstan
Former YUG Rep of Macedonia 2.5-0.5 New Zealand
Botswana 0.0-3.0 Venezuela
Wales 2.5-0.5 Angola
U.S. Virgin Isl. 0.0-3.0 Albania
Canada 3.0-0.0 Macau
Guatemala 1.0-1.0 Costa Rica
Singapore 0.0-3.0 Portugal
Sri Lanka 1.5-1.5 Iraq
Malaysia 3.0-0.0 Yemen
South Africa 3.0-0.0 Zambia
IBSA 2.0-1.0 Morocco
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.
Internet coverage:
http://www.asmeg.org/echecs/frame.htm
Group A and B standings after 2 rounds:
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Gp A Cap d'Agde FRA (FRA), 29-31 x 2000 cat. XV (2609)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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1. Hamdouchi, Hichem g MAR 2541 * . . . . . 1 1 2.0
2. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2699 . * = 1 . . . . 1.5 2828
3. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2613 . = * . . . = . 1.0 2612
4. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2657 . 0 . * 1 . . . 1.0 2659
5. Tregubov, Pavel V g RUS 2620 . . . 0 * 1 . . 1.0 2617
6. Benjamin, Joel g USA 2577 . . . . 0 * . 1 1.0 2630
7. Zhang Pengxiang m CHN 2525 0 . = . . . * . 0.5 2384
8. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2641 0 . . . . 0 . * 0.0
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Gp B Cap d'Agde FRA (FRA), 29-31 x 2000 cat. XV (2608)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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1. Campos Moreno, Javier B m CHI 2491 * . . 1 . . . = 1.5 2802
2. Dorfman, Josif D g FRA 2600 . * . . . = . 1 1.5 2840
3. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2676 . . * . . 1 = . 1.5 2813
4. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2592 0 . . * 1 . . . 1.0 2563
5. Zhang Zhong g CHN 2636 . . . 0 * . 1 . 1.0 2583
6. Gurevich, Mikhail g BEL 2667 . = 0 . . * . . 0.5 2445
7. Serper, Grigory g USA 2574 . . = . 0 . * . 0.5 2463
8. Onischuk, Alexander g UKR 2627 = 0 . . . . . * 0.5 2352
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The Monarch Assurance Isle of Man tournament took place October
14th-22nd 2000. Mark Hebden won the 2000 Monarch Assurance tournament in the
Isle of Man in spite of a loss in the penultimate round. He was a point clear
of Ruslan Sherbakov (who defeated him) and Emil Sutovsky. My thanks to Richard
Furness for the news and now the round 9 games.
The I Magistral Salou Costa Daurada took place in Salou Costa Daurada
16th-25th October 2000. I have the games to round 6 now. My thanks to Juan
Sangés for the news.
Internet coverage: http://anas.worldonline.es/ortumsal/
Round 6 (of 9) standings:
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1st It A Salou ESP (ESP), 16-25 x 2000 cat. X (2493)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
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1. Miladinovic, Igor g GRE 2563 * . = . = 1 1 = . 1 4.5 2663
2. Stefanova, Antoaneta m BUL 2514 . * . = . = 1 = 1 1 4.5 2663
3. Tyomkin, Dimitri m ISR 2522 = . * = = = . . 1 1 4.0 2602
4. Georgiev, Vladimir g BUL 2564 . = = * . = = 1 . 1 4.0 2597
5. Kogan, Artur g ISR 2504 = . = . * 0 . 1 1 1 4.0 2601
6. Pogorelov, Ruslan g UKR 2445 0 = = = 1 * 0 . . . 2.5 2468
7. Oratovsky, Michael m ISR 2486 0 0 . = . 1 * = = . 2.5 2457
8. Hamdouchi, Hichem g MAR 2541 = = . 0 0 . = * = . 2.0 2390
9. Ivanov, Jordan m BUL 2461 . 0 0 . 0 . = = * 1 2.0 2357
10. Montell Lorenzo, Joan Carlos ESP 2327 0 0 0 0 0 . . . 0 * 0.0
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The World Youth Championships in Oropesa del Mar takes place 10th -
24th October 2000. Boys and Girls under 10,12,14,16 and 18. The results of all
the sections are below. I still haven't had a full file of games from the
event, does anyone have one?
Internet coverage:
http://www.ajedrez21.com/endirecto/oropesa2000/,
http://ajedrezactual.com/00oropesa_w.html
and http://www.infoxadrez.com/
UNDER 18
1 VALLEJO PONS, Francisco ESP 2554 gm 8.5 24201 56.5
2 DOMINGUEZ, Leinier CUB 2534 im 8 23423 46.5
3 JOBAVA, Baadur GEO 2480 im 8 23365 44.5
4 TIMOFEEV, Artyom RUS 2447 fm 7.5 0 51.5
5 NAVARA, David CZE 2433 im 7.5 0 50.5
6 NAIDITSCH, Arkadij GER 2449 im 7.5 0 49.0
7 KRITZ, Leonid GER 2424 fm 7.5 0 48.0
8 GHAEMAGHAMI, Ehsan IRI 2488 . 7.5 0 46.5
9 SZABO, Gergely Andras ROM 2330 7.5 0 46.0
10 NI, Hua CHN 2490 fm 7.5 0 45.0
11 VOLOKYTIN, Andrei UKR 2460 im 7 23380 42.5
12 KOKAREV, Dmitry RUS 2467 im 7 23136 43.5
76 players
GIRLS UNDER 18
1 MAMEDYAROVA, Zeynab (13) AZE 2173 8.5 0 49.5
2 WANG, Yu (1) CHN 2401 wfm 8 0 54.5
3 DANG BICH, Ngoc (21) VIE 2117 8 0 43.5
4 MATNADZE, Ana (2) GEO 2282 wim 7.5 0 47.0
GVETADZE, Sofio (11) GEO 2196 7.5 0 47.0
6 OUBIENYKH, Ekaterina (8) RUS 2219 wfm 7 0 50.0
7 CALOTESCU, Ana Cristina (7) ROM 2222 wfm 7 0 42.5
8 GEORGIEVA, Ljubka (15) BUL 2157 7 0 42.0
9 ZAKURDJAEVA, Irina (4) RUS 2272 7 0 41.0
10 CHURUN, Polina (14) BLR 2161 7 0 38.0
11 KARLOVYCH, Anastasya (3) UKR 2273 wim 6.5 0 48.5
12 OVOD, Evgenija (5) RUS 2263 wim 6.5 0 42.5
13 RICHARDS, Heather (23) ENG 2109 wfm 6.5 0 40.0
14 RODRIGUEZ VINUESA, Azahara (19) ESP 2121 6.5 0 38.0
15 GORLIN, Yelena (22) USA 2110 6.5 0 37.0
16 VARHOLAKOVA, Niki (54) SVK 6.5 0 32.0
57 players
UNDER 16
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score Rtg Sum Progr.
1 IZORIA, Zviad GEO 2450 im 9.5 23187 62.0
2 KHISMATOULLINE, Denis RUS 2349 8 0 51.5
3 PARAGUA, Mark PHI 2423 im 8 0 46.0
4 EFIMENKO, Zahar UKR 2432 fm 7.5 0 48.0
5 SCHNEIDER, Dimitry USA 2382 fm 7.5 0 47.5
6 SMERDON, David AUS 2315 7.5 0 44.5
7 RAEV, Rostislav BUL 2071 7.5 0 39.5
8 MAMEDYAROV, Shakhriyar AZE 2301 7 0 48.5
9 LLOBELL CORTELL, Enrique ESP 2285 7 0 48.0
10 MAXIMOV, Dmytry UKR 2344 7 0 46.5
11 NIKOLOV, Momchil BUL 2254 7 0 45.0
12 GHARAMIAN, Tigran ARM 2136 7 0 41.5
13 MORADIABADI, Elshan IRI 2256 7 0 41.0
LINDBERG, Bosse SWE 2159 7 0 41.0
15 BHAT, Vinay USA 2396 7 0 38.0
85 players
GIRLS UNDER 16
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score Rtg Sum Progr.
1 KHUKHASHVILI, Sopico GEO 2272 wfm 8.5 0 54.5
2 ZHAO, Xue CHN 2427 wfm 8.5 0 52.5
3 NOVIKOVA, Anna RUS 2245 8 0 52.5
4 HASANOVA, Elmira RUS 2239 wfm 8 0 51.5
5 GARA, Ticia HUN 2296 8 0 50.0
6 JAVAKHISHVILI, Lela GEO 2301 wim 7.5 0 53.0
7 LEVUSHKINA, Elena UZB 2103 7.5 0 44.0
8 AKSIONOVA, Tatiana UKR 2209 7.5 0 39.5
9 ZHOU, Guijue CHN 7.5 0 37.5
10 PARTAC, Elena MDA 2220 wfm 7 0 46.0
KOMIAGINA, Maria RUS 2186 7 0 46.0
HELM, Leonie GER 2124 7 0 46.0
13 TOMA, Katarzyna POL 2131 7 0 41.5
14 GHADER POUR TALEGHANI, S. IRI 2073 wfm 7 0 41.0
74 players
UNDER 14
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score Rtg Sum Progr.
1 ARYESHCHENKO, Oleksandr UKR 2328 9 0 54.5
2 WANG, Yue CHN 2440 fm 8.5 0 46.5
3 ZHOU, Weiqi CHN 2347 8 0 50.0
ZHAO, Jun CHN 2431 8 0 50.0
NAKAMURA, Hikaru USA 2281 8 0 50.0
6 BORISEK, Jure SLO 2089 8 0 45.0
7 ANISIMOV, Pavel RUS 2318 7.5 0 56.5
8 BERNASEK, Jan CZE 2146 7.5 0 50.0
9 BARAMIDZE, David GER 2242 7.5 0 49.5
10 GUSEINOV, Kadir AZE 2421 im 7.5 0 47.5
PENTYALA, Harikrishna IND 2500 fm 7.5 0 47.5
12 HASSAN, Abdul UAE 2257 fm 7.5 0 43.0
13 STELLWAGEN, Daniel NED 2285 7 0 49.0
14 ALCAZAR JIMENEZ, Victor ESP 2237 7 0 46.0
15 SZOEN, Dariusz POL 2139 7 0 45.0
16 TRENT, Lawrence ENG 2210 7 0 41.5
17 MEGARANTO, Susanto INA 2254 7 0 40.0
18 JONES, Gawain C. ENG 2168 7 0 39.5
19 BARRIENTOS, Sergio COL 7 0 38.5
95 players
GIRLS UNDER 14
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score Rtg Sum Progr.
1 KONERU, Humpy IND 2286 9 0 57.5
2 DZAGNIDZE, Nana GEO 2179 wfm 9 0 53.5
3 HRYGORENKO, Nataliya UKR 2096 8.5 0 53.5
4 HUANG, Qian CHN 8 0 50.0
5 KURSOVA, Maria RUS 2175 wfm 7.5 0 48.0
6 SEBAG, Marie FRA 2227 wfm 7.5 0 45.0
7 SACHDEV, Tania IND 2131 7.5 0 39.5
8 ORTIZ, Nadia Carolina COL 7 0 47.0
9 CZARNOTA, Dorota POL 7 0 45.0
10 STOJANOVIC, Nadezda YUG 2146 wfm 7 0 42.5
11 ANDRIASYAN, Siranush ARM 7 0 42.0
KIRILLOVA, Varvara RUS 7 0 42.0
13 VEGA GUTIERREZ, Sabrina ESP 2131 7 0 37.5
75 players
UNDER 12
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score Rtg Sum Progr.
1 SENGUPTA, Deep IND 2169 9 0 58.0
2 GONDA, Laszlo HUN 2255 8.5 0 53.0
3 BRKIC, Ante CRO 2208 8.5 0 51.0
4 MAMEDOV, Rauf AZE 2230 7.5 0 49.0
5 AMIN, Bassem EGY 2116 7.5 0 46.5
TUKAEV, Adam UKR 2288 7.5 0 46.5
7 ROMANOV, Evgeni RUS 2137 fm 7.5 0 44.5
8 CZARNOTA, Pawel POL 2189 7.5 0 39.5
9 AKSHAYRAJ, Kore IND 2103 7 0 46.5
10 LUTZ, Dieter GER 2154 7 0 46.0
IOTOV, Valentine BUL 2087 7 0 46.0
12 KRNAN, Tomas SVK 2123 7 0 44.5
13 KJARTANSSON, Gudmundur ISL 2248 7 0 43.5
LI, Haoyu CHN 2324 7 0 43.5
15 TAZBIR, Marcin POL 7 0 41.0
16 FERDIANSAH, Ferry INA 7 0 39.0
17 THIRUCHELVAM, Thirmurugan ENG 2218 7 0 38.0
18 ROUSSEL-ROOZMON, Thomas CAN 7 0 37.5
19 IAMALETDINOV, Roman RUS 7 0 37.0
ZORKO, Jure SLO 7 0 37.0
90 players
GIRLS UNDER 12
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score Rtg Sum Progr.
1 POURKASHIYAN, Atousa IRI 9.5 0 56.0
2 NEBOLSINA, Vera RUS 9 0 56.0
3 ARUTYUNOVA, Diana UKR 2115 8 0 51.0
4 XUE, Minynjie CHN 2142 8 0 47.0
5 CHOISY, Mathilde FRA 7.5 0 46.0
6 LAHNO, Kateryna UKR 2048 wfm 7.5 0 45.5
7 KHOTENASHVILI, BELA GEO 7.5 0 43.5
8 ROSS, Laura USA 7.5 0 42.0
9 YILDIZ, Betul Cemre TUR 7 0 50.5
10 XU, Tong CHN 2119 7 0 49.5
11 ISKENDEROVA, Khayala AZE 7 0 42.0
12 LUONG HUYEN, Ngoc VIE 7 0 40.5
13 MACHALOVA, Erika SVK 7 0 40.0
14 TALMAZAN, Olga MDA 7 0 37.5
75 players
UNDER 10
Place Name Feder Rtg Title Score Rtg Sum Progr.
1 NGUYEN NGOC TRUONG, Son VIE 9.5 0 54.5
2 ANDREIKINE, Dmitri RUS 8.5 0 58.0
3 VACHIER-LAGRAVE, Maxime FRA 2187 8.5 0 57.5
4 KARJAKIN, Sergey UKR 2250 8.5 0 53.0
5 WANG, Puchen NZL 8 0 49.0
6 HAIROLLINE, Ildar RUS 8 0 45.0
7 SUSILODINATA, Andrean INA 7.5 0 49.5
8 KRAVTSIV, Martyn UKR 7.5 0 48.5
9 HOWELL, David ENG 7.5 0 48.0
10 MEKALA, Abhinav IND 7.5 0 42.5
11 TOMCZAK, Jacek POL 7 0 46.0
12 NARMONTAS, Matas LTU 7 0 44.0
13 PEÑA HERNANDEZ, Alfredo COL 7 0 41.0
14 PANJWANI, Raja CAN 7 0 39.5
ZASLAVSKY, Michael ISR 7 0 39.5
92 players
GIRLS UNDER 10
Place Name Feder Title Score Rtg Sum Progr.
1 TAN, Zhong Yi (51) CHN 9 0 58.5
2 DRONAVALLI, Harika (13) IND 9 0 56.0
3 MUZYCHUK, Anna (35) UKR 8.5 0 53.0
4 TAIROVA, Alena (50) BLR 8 0 51.0
5 BAPTISTA, Ana (6) POR 7.5 0 40.5
6 PHAM BICH, Ngoc (40) VIE 7 0 48.5
7 DARBINYAN, Nune (11) ARM 7 0 47.0
8 IGNACZ, Maria (20) HUN 7 0 45.5
9 LEE, Michelle (29) AUS 7 0 43.5
GOLUBENKO, Valentina (18) EST 7 0 43.5
11 SAULYTE, Gabriele (44) LTU 7 0 43.0
12 JANKOWSKA, Maria (22) POL 7 0 39.5
13 AVDEEVA, Viktoria (5) AZE 6.5 0 40.5
14 ZHANG, Xichen (58) CHN 6.5 0 38.0
57 players
The 4th Itau Cup took place in Sao Paulo 16th-22nd October 2000. The
winner was Rafael Leitao with a score of 6.5/7. My thanks to Herman van
Riemsdijk.
Internet coverage: http://www.hipernet.com.br/HiperChess/
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IV Copa Itau Sao Paulo BRA (BRA), 16-22 x 2000
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1. Leitao, Rafael g BRA 2567 6.5
2. Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2526 6
3. Lima, Darcy g BRA 2525 6
4. Disconzi da Silva, Rodrigo f BRA 2352 6
5. De Souza, Mauro m BRA 2337 5.5
6. Pelikian, Jefferson m BRA 2394 5.5
7. Sega, Carlos Alberto BRA 2270 5.5
8. Martinez, Carlos Alejandro f BRA 2431 5.5
9. Segal, Alexandru Sorin m BRA 2327 5.5
10. Matsuura, Everaldo m BRA 2443 5.5
11. Marques, Vinicius BRA 2291 5.5
12. Tsuboi, Edson Kenji f BRA 2307 5
13. Caldeira, Adriano BRA 2304 5
14. Braga, Cicero m BRA 2426 5
15. Santos, M.V.M BRA 2255 5
16. Nagashima, Carlos BRA 2037 5
17. Hadad, Damaris BRA 2189 5
18. Chiaramitara jr, Pedro BRA 2081 5
19. Rodrigues,Edgar BRA ---- 5
20. Maia, Luciano BRA 2219 5
21. Malbran, Emilio BRA 2182 5
22. Ramos, Julio Cesar BRA 2166 5
23. Dos Santos,Cleiton BRA ---- 5
24. Rosa, Jose Antonio BRA 2149 5
25. Camara, Terbio Jose BRA ---- 5
26. Rouanet, Luiz Paulo BRA 2018 5
27. Chang, Suzana BRA 2088 5
166 players
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The 4th OIBM in Bad Wiessee takes place October 28th-November 5th 2000.
Alexander Nenashev, Igor Khenkin, Konstantin Landa, Simen Agdestein, Ildar
Ibragimov, Vladimir Epishin, Eduardas Rozentalis, Viktor Gavrikov, Igor Glek,
Gerald Hertneck, Eric Lobron, Valeri Beim, and Stefan Kindermann are in the
field.
Thomas Leckner reports that 495 chess-players are taking part in the Bad
Wiessee Open this year. Players from 27 different countries went to lake
Tegernsee to compare their skills in chess and to enjoy the alps. More than 250
of the players have an international rating and more than 365 players have a
national rating above 1800. In the first two rounds there were no great
surprises. Most of the highly rated grandmasters succeeded in winning against
their weaker opponents. Only GM Nenad Ristic (YUG) and GM Stanislav Savchenko
(UKR) had to accept a draw. In the fight for the best youth-player only Leonid
Kritz (WM U16) had to accept a draw. Dimitrij Bunzmann, and Andreij Volokytin
(WM U14) have won all their games. There are a few games in the pgn
section.
More details: http://www.schach-am-tegernsee.de/oib2000
The 1st Budapest Cup organised by the Hungarian Chess Federation took
place October 20th to 23rd 2000. The first moves were 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 (the
Budapest Defence or Gambit). The event was an 8 round swiss system event of
rapid chess 55 mins per player per game.
Budapest "specialists" included Romero Holmes, Lalic, Harding,
Reinderman, Mohr, Tagnon, Meinsohn, Wedberg, Tseitlin, Conquest and the
Hungarian masters: Kaposztas and Forintos. The event was won by Levente Vajda
with 7/8 a full point clear of Csaba Horvath and Tom Wedberg.
My thanks to Miklos Orso for news on the event. I would like to get hold
of the games if possible so if anyone can send them I'd be interested.
Final Standings:
1.Vajda, Levente 7.0 2447
2.Horvath, Csaba 6.0 2513
Wedberg, Tom 6.0 2487
4.Conquest, Stuart 5.5 2563
Lalic, Bogdan 5.5 2548
Postny, Evgeny 5.5 2434
Dudas, Janos 5.5 2338
Nemeth, Zoltan 5.5 2308
9.Almasi, Istvan 5.0 2429
Khechumyan, Gagik 5.0 2255
11.Medvegy, Zoltan 4.5 2428
Reinderman, Dimitri 4.5 2551
Kahn, Ewarth 4.5 2346
Galyas, Miklos 4.5 2420
Tseitlin, Mikhail 4.5 2454
Meszaros, Andras 4.5 2296
17.Kallai, Gabor 4.0 2531
Lanzani, Mario 4.0 2417
Kaposztas, Miklos 4.0 2219
Farago, Sandor 4.0 2292
Szalanczy, Emil 4.0 2360
Hardicsay, Peter 4.0 2315
Horvath, Kalman 4.0 2106
Biro, Sandor 4.0 2328
25.Harding, Tim 3.5 2225
Czebe, Attila 3.5 2520
Jamrich, Gyorgy 3.5 2225
Peredy, Ferenc 3.5 2298
Vajda, Szidonia 3.5 2282
Meinsohn, Francis 3.5 2258
Tagnon, Nicole 3.5 2083
Rendi, Eva 3.5 2035
Gibson, John 3.5 0000
Vajda, Albert 3.5 0000
35.Forintos, Gyozo 3.0 2360
Boguszlavszky, Evgeny 3.0 2278
Rabovszky, Gyorgy 3.0 2073
38.Salamon, Ferenc 2.5 2102
Parpillon, Muriel 2.5 0000
Olsen, Casper 2.5 0000
41.Babos, Laszlo 1.0 0000
42.Kocsis, Tamas 0.0 0000
Danish chess grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen has challenged the chess
players of the world at Politiken's web site. The game opened with the
grandmasters first move on Monday September 25th and is played on the internet
- and you have the opportunity to participate at
http://www.politiken.dk
After each of Peter Heine Nielsen's moves, Politiken's chess expert Sune Berg
Hansen will suggest some relevant counter moves. You may vote on the moves via
e-mail before the game continues. There will be 24 hours between each move.
Internet coverage: http://seagaard.dk/stormesterskak
or http://politiken.dk/skak
Søren Søgaard reports: The first 14 moves of the game
followed the well known game between Short and Kasparov, and the World came up
with a better move than Gary Kasparov. Instead of the very bad move 14...Qe7
the World came up with the move 14...Nf6 (A novelty!). At a first glance it
still looks good for white (Peter Heine) but a closer examination reveals that
it might be good for the "World". Time will tell...
The game so far (Total votes / The chosen move): 1. e4 c5 (397/159) 2.
Nf3 d6 (335/136) 3. d4 cxd4 (273/219) 4. Nxd4 Nf6 (353/235) 5. Nc3 a6 (434/166)
6. Bc4 e6 (293/183) 7. Bb3 Nbd7 (326/112) 8. f4 Nc5 (312/196) 9. e5 dxe5
(355/175) 10. fxe5 Nfd7 (334/238) 11 .Bf4 b5 (286/198) 12. Qg4 h5 (281/183) 13.
Qg3 h4 (292/213) 14. Qg4 Nf6 (330/126) continues.
The VIII "Chigorin Memorial" open takes place October 31st - November
10th, 2000. The 9 round Swiss system event has a large entry which includes GMs
Lastin (2633), Dolmatov (2600), Najer (2590) Balashov (2590) and others. About
200 participants in total, 50 GMs and 57 IMs. Coverage at
http://www.gmchess.com (Grandmaster Chess - Khalifman's website) and
http://www.totalchess.spb.ru (new
website of St. Pb. Chess Federation)
On October 22nd Mexico City had its 2nd Festival of Chess. Last year
5,046 Mexican chess players played games in one day. This year they broke that
record and even got on British TV.
More details http://www.ajedrez.df.gob.mx and
http://www.ajedrez.df.gob.mx/pages_ing/event.html
The World Professional Chess Rankings for November 1st 2000 produced by
Ken Thompson of New Jersey and calculated by Vladimir Dvorkovich of Moscow have
been released.
1.Kasparov,Garry 13.04.63 g RUS 2830 123
2.Kramnik,Vladimir 25.06.75 g RUS 2751 111
3.Anand,Viswanathan 11.12.69 g IND 2732 123
4.Leko,Peter 08.09.79 g HUN 2721 120
5.Shirov,Alexei 04.07.72 g ESP 2701 203
6.Kamsky,Gata 02.06.74 g USA 2696 184
7.Morozevich,Alexander 18.07.77 g RUS 2694 191
8.Ivanchuk,Vassily 18.03.69 g UKR 2674 162
9.Adams,Michael 17.11.71 g ENG 2667 187
10.Bareev,Evgeny 21.11.66 g RUS 2666 151
11.Svidler,Peter 17.06.76 g RUS 2664 166
12.Topalov,Veselin 15.03.75 g BUL 2664 174
13.Khalifman,Alexander 18.01.66 g RUS 2653 155
14.Gurevich,Mikhail 22.02.59 g BEL 2649 155
15.Gelfand,Boris 24.06.68 g ISR 2648 156
16.Azmaiparashvili,Zurab 16.03.60 g GEO 2647 171
17.Van Wely,Loek 07.10.72 g NED 2644 166
18.Grischuk,Alexander 31.10.83 m RUS 2640 157
19.Dreev,Alexey 30.01.69 g RUS 2639 153
20.Short,Nigel D 01.06.65 g ENG 2639 154
21.Georgiev,Kiril 28.11.65 g BUL 2638 162
22.Akopian,Vladimir 07.12.71 g ARM 2636 168
23.Lautier,Joel 12.04.73 g FRA 2630 149
24.Karpov,Anatoli 23.05.51 g RUS 2629 134
25.Smirin,Ilia 21.01.68 g ISR 2629 179
26.Ponomariov,Ruslan 11.10.83 g UKR 2627 153
27.Kharlov,Andrei 20.11.68 g RUS 2626 167
28.Ye Jiangchuan 20.11.60 g CHN 2625 165
29.Krasenkov,Mikhail 14.11.63 g POL 2625 167
30.Bologan,Viorel 14.12.71 g MDA 2624 164
31.Tkachev,Vladislav 09.11.73 g FRA 2619 146
32.Movsesian,Sergei 03.11.78 g CZE 2616 173
33.Salov,Valery 26.05.64 g RUS 2612 199
34.Almasi,Zoltan 29.08.76 g HUN 2611 157
35.Polgar,Judit (GM) 23.07.76 g HUN 2611 168
36.Vladimirov,Evgeny 20.01.57 g KAZ 2611 179
37.Piket,Jeroen 27.01.69 g NED 2609 161
38.Hjartarson,Johann 08.02.63 g ISD 2604 176
39.Granda Zuniga,Julio E 25.02.67 g PER 2603 202
40.Wolff,Patrick G 15.02.68 g USA 2602 186
41.Sokolov,Ivan 13.06.68 g BIH 2600 155
42.Vaganian,Rafael A 15.10.51 g ARM 2600 169
43.Sadler,Matthew 15.05.74 g ENG 2600 188
44.Sakaev,Konstantin 13.04.74 g RUS 2598 148
45.Kasimdzhanov,Rustam 05.12.79 g UZB 2598 159
46.Rublevsky,Sergei 15.10.74 g RUS 2597 173
47.Khenkin,Igor 21.03.68 g RUS 2596 167
48.Nikolic,Predrag 11.09.60 g BIH 2595 154
49.Magerramov,Elmar 10.04.58 g AZE 2595 187
50.Seirawan,Yasser 24.03.60 g USA 2594 170
Ano Liosia Open
The 11th International Open Chess Tournament "Ano Liosia 2001" takes
place 27 December 2000 - 6 January 2001, in Ano Liosia, Athens.
PRIZES 1st : 600.000 drs (1.500$), 2nd : 450.000 drs (1.125$), 3rd :
300.000 drs (750$), 4th : 250.000 drs (625$), 5th : 200.000 drs (500$), 6th :
150.000 drs (375$), 7th : 100.000 drs (250$), 8th : 90.000 drs (225$), 9th :
80.000 drs (200$), 10th : 70.000 drs (175$), 11th : 60.000 drs (150$), 12th :
50.000 drs (125$), 13th : 40.000 drs (100$), 14th : 35.000 drs (87.5$), 15th :
30.000 drs (75$), 16th : 25.000 drs (62.5$). TOTAL : 2.530.000 Drs. (6.325$)
Internet coverage: http://www.chess.gr/anoliosia
4th Afro-Asian Email Chess Championship
The 4th Afro-Asian Email Chess Championships which is a tournament of
the ICCF. Any chess lover who lives in Africa or Asia can take part in the
tournament with no entry fee. The preliminary round starts on 15.01.2001. The
application should be sent by Email to the zonal director samraoui@aol.com not
later than 31.12.2000.
First Saturday November
Laszlo Nagy reports: The registered participants of the 4th-16th of
November IM-tournament: IM Eperjesi, Laszlo /HUN,2348), IM Dudas, Janos
(HUN,2367), IM Nemeth, Zoltan (HUN,2293) Resika, Nathan (USA,2313), FM
Vigorito, David (USA,2304), FM Kanko, Ilkka (FIN,2206) Dubizeev (ISR,2187)
Bordas, Gyula (HUN,2168), Logdahl, Harald (SWE,2252) Vasari, Tamas (HUN, 2233),
Jamrich, Gyorgy (HUN,2233), Reserves: IM Kahn, Evarth (HUN, 2286) IM Farago,
Sandor (HUN, 2284)
Kevin O'Connell Auction
Kevin O'Connell is actioning his chess collection (4 tons = 4,000kg of
autographs, books,magazines, manuscripts, sets etc.) They come up for auction
at Phillips in London (and live on the Internet) on 7 November. Details can be
found at http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~chess/
mirrored at http://homepages.tesco.net/~kevinoconnell/
and also at http://www.btinternet.com/~kevinoconnell/
Zadar Christmas Open
The Zadar Christmas Open takes place 9th-17th December 2000.
Further details:
http://sites.netscape.net/mladen18/zd2000/index.htm
Bastia Open
The 4th International open of Corsica takes place in Bastia (2nd-5th
November) with 450 000 F of prizes with the participation of many IGMs (around
50) : Vishy Anand, Bologan, etc. The site will include live coverage:
http://www.opencorsica.comwww.opencorsica.com
Kramnik-Leko Match
The "Westfälische Ferngas AG" (WFG) announced a match between
Wladimir Kramnik and Peter Leko, to be held from January 2nd to 8th 2001. We
will see 12 rapid games (two per day, rest day: January 5th) in the Hotel
Kempinski, city centre of Budapest (Hungary).
Internet coverage: To be announced.
Corus Wijk aan Zee 2001
The 14 players who will compete in the Corus 2001 chess tournament in
Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands January 12th-28th 2001 have been invited. For the 3rd
year running Garry Kasparov will play in the event. The top nine players in the
July 2000 rating list are taking part.
Round 1 is on January 13th. Rest days were on Monday (15th), Friday
(19th) and Wednesday (24th) are rest days.
Players: Garry Kasparov (Russia - 1 - 2849), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia -
2 - 2770), Viswanathan Anand (India - 3 - 2762), Alexander Morozevich (Russia -
4 - 2756), Michael Adams (England - 5 - 2755), Alexey Shirov (Spain - 6 -
2746), Peter Leko (Hungary 7 - 2743), Vassili Ivanchuk (Ukraine - 8 - 2719),
Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria - 9 - 2707), Jeroen Piket (Netherlands - 34 - 2649),
Alexey Fedorov (Belarus - 37 - 2646), Loek van Wely (Netherlands - 39 - 2643),
Jan Timman (Netherlands - 46 - 2639), Sergey Tiviakov (Netherlands - 76 -
2608). Average rating: 2713 Category: 19
Coverage last year was at: http://chess2.lostcity.nl/corus/
and its expected this site will have the tournament for 2001.
Tel Aviv Open 2001
Open Swiss International Tournament in Tel-Aviv Dates: 9th-17th April
2001. 9 rounds. Possibilities for GM and IM norms. Prizes: 4000 3000 2000 1200
800....20 prizes in total (10 last are 250$); special U-2400, U-2000, U-18 y.o:
500 300 200 + women prizes; Special Conditions for the first 10 Grandmasters
(2550+).
Info: The Israeli Chess Federation through Mr. Igal Lotan 03-6437627,
03-6437630;
Rilton Cup
The XXX Rilton Cup in Stockholm takes place 27th December 2000 - 5th
January 2001.
Homepages: http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-21958/rc2000a.htm(English),
http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-21958/rifoen0001d.htm
or http://www.stockholmchessfederation.com/
2001 Australian Open
Thursday 28 December 2000 - Tuesday 09 January 2001 Rydges Hotel
Canberra City London Circuit, ACT, AUSTRALIA (3 hours drive from Sydney -
transfer from airport may be available)
11 Round Fide-Rated Open Swiss The Following Players Are Confirmed: Gm
Yuri Yakovich (Russia 2585) Gm Utut Adianto (Indonesia 2583) Gm Ian Rogers
(Australia 2558) Gm Alexander Volzhin (Russia 2556) Gm Darryl Johansen
(Australia 2505) Gm Markus Stangl (Germany 2479) Gm Goran Todorovich
(Yugoslavia 2455) Gm H. Ardiansyah (Indonesia 2421) Im Gary Lane (England 2452)
Im Michael Gluzman (Australia 2432) Im Vladimir Feldman (Australia 2399) Im Guy
West (Australia 2372) Im Zong Yuan Zhao (Australia 2341) Im David Smerdon
(Australia 2315) Im Irina Berezina-Feldman (Australia 2304) Gm And Im Norms
Will Be Available.
All rounds 2:00 PM except last round 10:00 AM Accompanying minor, rapid
and lightning events as well as simultaneous exhibitions. Entry: GMs, IMs,
WGMs, WIMs free. Otherwise: A$120 A$96 (concession) The Open prize fund will be
between A$11,000-A$15,000. 1st prize is A$3,000 with at least 6 place prizes
overall with 2nd A$1,800 and 3rd A$1,200. Also a wide range of rating group and
junior prizes in over 10 different sections.
Some conditions for GMs and IMs may be available, for instance billet
accommodation. A limited number of summertime tourist bus outback travel
packages might also be available for visiting titled players. 2001 Australian
Junior Championships: The Australian Junior Championships will follow the
Australian Open from 11 to 23 Jan 2001, also to be held in Canberra. Some
coaching opportunities may be available for squads of titled players playing in
the Open.
Important web sites: Australian Open
http://www.auschess.org.au/centenary/
Australian Chess Federation http://www.auschess.org.au/ Australian
Open Accommodation
http://www.auschess.org.au/centenary/austaccom.html
- cheap accommodation options available close to the venue
Villa de Calpe Open
The Villa de Calpe (Allcante, Spain) Open starts on October 8th 2000.
Contact: Teléfono 96-5839123 (Casa de Cultura de Calpe)
Teléfono 96-5202214 (Asociación Provincial de Ajedrez) de 18 a 21
horas Fax.- 96-5132840 ; E-mail: almipe@ctv.es
Website: http://www.arrakis.es/~asoalic/
British Rapidplay Chess Championships
The British Rapidplay Chess Championships take place in the Brunswick
Building of Leeds Metropolitan University. The eleven round event takes place
in Leeds, England, November 18th-19th 2000. Details are available at:
http://www.british-rapidplay.org.uk/
Bobby Fischer contribution to the Ambassador Report
Bobby Fischer was associated with Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide
Church of God for some time. The Ambassador report was compiled by opponents of
the organisation. You can read it at:
http://homepage.altavista.com/AmbassadorReport/files/Fischer.html
MSO Mind Sports Games
John Saunders reports: Mind Sports Masters (Ron Banwell Memorial)
downloadable from the BCF site at
http://www.bcf.ndirect.co.uk/national/mso2000.htm
It gives all the games by players with 5/9 or more. Note that some of the games
have been amended from the original file created by Stewart Reuben, which has
been published in TWIC. There will be a complete PGN file of all the games in
due course. [When the file is complete I will produce a corrected file MC]
4NCL Fantasy Chess
Fantasy Chess is now running a competition based on the 4NCL. People
have to predict the results of the matches rather than the individual games.
One for the Bundesliga will follow.
http://play.at/fantasychess
Krkonose Open 2000
Krkonose Open 2000 takes place 29th October to 5th November 2000 in Pec
pod Snezkou town (The Krkonose mountains). 60 players from 10 countries are
entered and entry is still open. Further information:
http://www.proclient.cz/krkonose
Three Hungarian Tournaments
Paks HUN WIM closed tournament 28.10-03.11 2000 9 rounds entry fee: 150
DEM information: Videki Sandor Tel/fax: 00-36-75421225 email:
videkisn@matavnet.hu
Szekszard HUN IM closed tournament 04-10 12 2000 9 rounds, 2 double
rounds, cat. 3-4, entry fee: 200 DEM information: Videki Sandor Tel/fax:
00-36-75421225 email: videkisn@matavnet.hu
Szekszard HUN 9 rounds open, children, blitz tournaments 05-10 12 2000
prizefound: 400000 HUF Information: Papp Csaba, Decs Oreg str.53 Hungary email:
rlaszlo@freemail.hu
IECG Cup
The IECG Cup VI preliminary stage. IECG Cup is an open tournament:
players of any rating are merged together. So this is a nice opportunity to
play a wide range of opponents. Subscriptions are open until September 15.
Entries received after this date are used for a replacement list, which will be
closed on October 1st. The tournament will be launched on October 1st, for a
duration of 11 months. All the unfinished games will be adjudicated. During the
preliminary phase, all participants take part in a 7 men, single round
tournament (so 6 games to play). The 2 winners of each section will be entitled
to play in the next stage, starting in October 2001. All games count for IECG
rating, of course.
The entry form for Cup VI is at:
http://www.iecg.org/cupentry.htm
The web entry form is the best method to be enlisted in the Cup, as the process
behind is easier for us.
Debrecen Open and Computer tournament
The Debrecen Open takes place 20th-24th October 2000. Place of
tournament: Aranybika Grand Hotel 4025 Debrecen,Piac u. 11-15. 9 rounds, Swiss
system, 20 moves in 1 hours, and 1 hour to the end.
Entry fee: 3500 HUF - Without FIDE ELO 3000 HUF - 2000-2199 2000 HUF -
2200-2299 1500 HUF - 2300-2399 1500 HUF - Young player (under 18 years) 1500
HUF - Pensioner 0 HUF - above 2400, and IM, GM
Prizes: I. 80000 HUF II. 50000 HUF III. 33000 HUF IV. 26000 HUF V. 17000
HUF VI. 10000 HUF
Category prizes, Extra prizes: - Best player from Debrecen - Best women
player - Best without FIDE ELO - Best player above 55 years - Best player under
18 years
Portocom Computer Open International Chess Tournament 20-24
October 2000, Debrecen
The players of the tournament: Whoever can take part in the
competition, but first of all computer chessprograms and advanced players. For
the foreigners we cover computers. If somebody send the chessprogram in mail
(by post) we cover him/her an operator. (the price of the operator is 40 DM )
Place of tournament: Aranybika Grand Hotel H-4025 Debrecen,Piac u.
11-15.
Opening ceremony: 20 October, at 4 o' clock (pm) Arrangement: 11
rounds, Swiss system, 2 hours to the end.
Entry fee: 9000 HUF - Advaced player 6000 HUF - Chess program 1000 HUF
- People
Prizes: I. 66000 HUF II. 55000 HUF III. 44000 HUF IV. 33000 HUF V.
22000 HUF VI. 11000 HUF
Date of entires: 10.October 2000
Entries should be sent to: Sandor Nagy H-4026 Debrecen, Bethlen str.
36-38.II/12. Phone: +36 52 416-524 Mobil: +36 20 322-8790 E-mail:
player@matavnet.hu
4NCL 2000-2001
The 4NCL season 2000-2001 fixtures have been published. The venue for
all matches is the The Birmingham Grand Moat House Hotel, Colmore Row,
Birmingham. The 1st and 2nd rounds take place 23rd-24th September 2000, 3rd-4th
on 25th-26th November, 5th-6th on 27th-28th January 2001, 7th-8th on 17th-18th
March and the final rounds 9,10 and 11 on 5th-7th May 2001. There are 26 Clubs,
40 teams, 3 Divisions, 536 players registered. Some of the changes in the
closed season: IndexIT have signed, Nigel Short from Wood Green and Mark Hebden
from Slough, to add to a very strong initial squad. Guildford-ADC have signed
Chris W Baker from Bigwood, which provides the team sponsor (Nigel Povah) with
the option of playing in their second team!! Slough have a new signing IM
Aleksandar Wohl from Australia. Wood Green have signed Matthew Turner from
Slough. Barbican 4NCL have signed GM Jonathan Parker and IM Mark Ferguson from
Bigwood.
Round 1 pairings division 1: IndexIT 2 v IndexIT 1, Richmond v Slough,
South Wales Dragons v White Rose, Guildford-ADC v Midland Monarchs, Wood Green
v Poisoned Pawns, Barbican 4NCL 1 v Barbican 4NCL 2.
For further information see the 4NCL website at:
http://freespace.virgin.net/nigel.chess96/4ncl/0001/0001menu.htm.
Additional coverage at:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/John_Katrin_Sharp
Possible University Event
The President of the Cambridge University Chess Club 2000/01, Nathan
Alfred, would like to get in contact with any University interesting in playing
in an event at Cambridge University (probably Girton College) on Saturday 11th
November 2000. The planned format is to have teams of eight compete at
ten-minute blitz chess, with possibly an all-play-all. If interested contact:
nswa2@cam.ac.uk
Vikings Chess Festival
The second York Vikings Chess Festival are 13th to 22nd December 2000.
The venue will once again be the superb Lady Anne Middleton's Hotel.
Contact: Adam Raoof if interested:
adam@circuit.demon.co.uk
GM 'A' - £10,000 in prizes! GM Julian Hodgson (British Champion)
GM Tiger Hillarp-Persson (SWE) GM Jonny Hector (SWE) GM Emil Sutovsky (ISR) GM
Alexei Barsov (UZB) GM Jonathan Rowson (SCO)
GM 'B' - £5,000 in prizes! GM Aaron Summerscale GM Keith Arkell IM
Irina Krush (USA) Entries from players 2350+ are invited.
Masters IM Valer Krutti (HUN) IM Still to be invited... IM Still to be
invited... Entries from players 2250+ are invited.
Open This will be a 9-round FIDE rated swiss tournament with a first
prize of at least £200. The entry fee is £25 for rated players
(July 2000 list) or £40 for unrated players. Blitz 5 minute chess -
Sunday 17th December - £5 entry - all entries returned as prizes - 11am
start - 6pm finish - parking at the venue Accommodation Very special room rates
at the Lady Anne Middleton Hotel venue for players and partners; £19.50
for a single room per person per night bed and breakfast £15.00 per
person per night if they share a twin/double room
http://www.ladyannes.demon.co.uk/
Website: http://www.circuit.demon.co.uk/york2.htm
Linares and Ubeda Opens 2001
The VIII "Anibal" Open takes place in Linares, January 8th-18th,
2001. 11 round Swiss System Event.
PRIZES 1º 1.000.000 pts. 2º 500.000 pts. 3º 250.000 pts.
4º 200.000 pts. 5º 150.000 pts. 6º-10º 100.000 pts.
11º-20º 50.000 pts. 21º-30º 30.000 pts. 31º-50º
25.000 pts. 1st Woman Chessplayer 50.000 pts. 1st Chessplayer under 2300 Elo
50.000 pts. 1st Chessplayer from Jaen 50.000 pts.
The VI "Ciudad de Ubeda" Open takes place Ubeda, January
21st-30th 2001. 10 Round Swiss System event.
PRIZES 1º 500.000 pts. 2º 250.000 pts. 3º 150.000 pts.
4º 125.000 pts. 5º 100.000 pts. 6º-15º 75.000 pts.
16º-50º 50.000 pts. 1st Woman Chessplayer 50.000 pts. 1st Chessplayer
under 2300 Elo 50.000 pts. 1st Chessplayer from Jaen 50.000 pts.
CONDITIONS
Chessplayers with 2580 Elo according FIDE ranking list July 2000 or
January 2001: Free full board in a single room and free fixed fee. G.M. and
I.M. Lodging free in a 3 stars hotel in Linares and in a 4 stars hotel in
Ubeda. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are $12 per person/day in a double room
(single supplement $25). Others Chessplayers: Lodging in a 3 stars hotel in
Linares and in a 4 stars hotel in Ubeda is $24 per person/day in a double room
(single supplement $25). Breakfast, lunch and dinner are $12 per person/day.
FIXED FEE PER TOURNAMENT: Until December 31st , 2000 7.500 pts. Since
January 1st, 2001 10.000 pts.
VIII Open "Anibal" Tel. 953 650400, fax 953 652204 (Miss Flori). VI
Open "Ciudad de Ubeda" Tel. 953 791011, fax 953 791012 (Miss Tana). e-mail
address: linareschess@wanadoo.es - linareschess@teleline.es
Bank details: Banco de Andalucía, account nº 0004 3270 84
0601005803 Prizes will be subject to 25% tax.
SC Lasker Autumn Festival
SC LASKER SRL is organising an Autumn Festival in Bucharest, Romania
over the period October 5th-November 4th 2000.
5th-19th October 2000
A. International closed chess tournament for IM norm (men), 2nd
–4th category, 12-16 players.
Entry fees: - <= 2100 -300 DM - 2101 – 2200 -250 DM -2201
– 2300 -200 DM -2301 – 2350 -175 DM -2351 – 2400 -150 DM - >=
2401 -100 DM
B. International closed chess tournament for IGM norm (women), 7th
– 8th category,12-14 players. Entry fees: 200 DM
C. International closed chess tournament for IGM norm (men), 8th –
9th category,12-16 players.
Entry fees: - <= 2300 -400 DM - 2301 – 2350 -350 DM -2351
– 2400 -300 DM -2401 – 2450 -250 DM -2451 – 2500 -200 DM - >=
2501 -150 DM
21st October-4th November 2000
D. International closed chess tournament for IM norm (women), 3rd
– 5th category,12-16 players. Entry fees: 200 DM Accommodation 100-150 DM
in private rooms or apartments for all the tournament.
Starting date: 5th October 2000, opening ceremony 14°°. Time
limits: 40 moves / 2 hours, then 1 hour for 20 moves + 30 minutes K.O.. The
games will be played every day from 15°° to 22°°. Prizes:
declared before the 3rd round. Romanian Chess Federation, Ion Campineanu
Street, no. 20, phone: 312.55.25 or 312.70.56, fax: 312.19.44 Central Chess
Club: Oþetari Street, no. 2, phone 314.68.13.
Organizer: FIDE Master Emil Pessi: O.P. 38 – C.P. 80, 72250
Bucharest-Romania, phone 0040-1-240.07.00; fax: 0040-1-312.19.44 (if contacted
he assures the reception of the players). E-mail: mpanait@fx.ro or ggg@dnt.ro
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
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
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.
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.
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
