THE WEEK IN CHESS 555 27th June 2005 by Mark Crowther

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Contents

1) Introduction
2) Hydra vs Michael Adams Match
3) III Marx György Memorial
4) 6th European Individual Chess Championship
5) European Individual Women's Chess Championship
6) III Open Bajada de la Virgen
7) Jan Timman vs Andrei Volokitin in Leon
8) 9th Chess Festival Voronezh
9) Accoona Toolbar Match
10) National Open Las Vegas
11) 19th Pula Open
12) Pinamar International
13) Torch Real Estate Cup China Chess League
14) Suduroy International
15) NAO win the French Team Cup
16) Berman Hillman Tournament
17) Alushta Summer
18) Salsomaggiore Chess Festival
19) Jerry Spann Memorial
20) Iranian Team Championship
21) Bray Rapidplay
22) Forthcoming Events and Links


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Hydra vs Michael Adams Match                  6 games
III Marx György Memorial                     90 games
6th European Individual Championship        916 games
European Individual Women's Championship    362 games
III Open Bajada de la Virgen                300 games
Jan Timman vs Andrei Volokitin in Leon        4 games
9th Chess Festival Voronezh                 225 games
Accoona Toolbar Match                         1 game
19th Pula Open                              163 games
Pinamar International                        20 games
Torch Real Estate Cup China Chess League    264 games
Suduroy International                        45 games
NAO win the French Team Cup                   4 games
Berman Hillman Tournament                    45 games
Alushta Summer                               66 games
Salsomaggiore Chess Festival                194 games
Jerry Spann Memorial                         30 games
Iranian Team Championship                   120 games
Bray Rapidplay                                1 game
2866 games

1) Introduction

My thanks to Mogens Nielsen, Eric Birmingham, Tarjei J. Svensen, Thomas Henrich, Leonid Galperin, Alfonso Romero Holmes, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, Rodolfo Arias Formoso, John Rødgaard, Fernando Gomez, Frank K Berry, Doug Bake, Pat Reynolds, Chris Bird, Dmitry V. Borisenkov, Luis Rodi, Luis Blasco de la Cruz, Stan Kriventsov, Mikhail Golubev, Adolivio Capece, Krzysztof Pytel, Aleksander Czerwo, Giorgio Gozzi and everyone else who helped with the issue.

A huge amount of chess this week. The Michael Adams against Hydra match turned out to be a gross embarrassment for the english number 1 and world number 7. Clearly underprepared he tried to play normal chess against Hydra and was comprehensively demolished. Its hard to rate Hydra's performance because Kramnik and Kasparov prepared for months for their matches against computers. I think we can expect a big payday for one of Kasparov, Kramnik and Anand to take on the machine. Korchnoi's good performance at the Paks tournament was spoiled by the final rounds and he finished 2nd in the end behind Almasi. Still a great performance for a player of his great age. The European Individual Championship is heating up there is a three way tie going into the final rounds in what should be an exciting finish.

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) Hydra vs Michael Adams Match

Michael Adams played a six game match against the Hydra Chess Computer at the Wembley Centre in London, 21st-27th (rest day 24th) June 2005, for a prize fund of $150,000 (£80,000). Adams clearly didn't prepare properly for the match and was duly hammered (Kasparov and Kramnik spent months preparing for matches against Deep Fritz and Junior).

Official site for the program: http://www.hydrachess.com
Further info on the programmers aims
PR for the match: http://www.rainierpr.co.uk/chess

HYDRA           -  Adams, Michael  1-0   33  C42  Petroff's Defence
Adams, Michael  -  HYDRA           1/2   65  B47  Sicilian Paulsen
HYDRA           -  Adams, Michael  1-0   28  C91  Ruy Lopez
Adams, Michael  -  HYDRA           0-1   50  B23  Sicilian Closed
HYDRA           -  Adams, Michael  1-0   41  C87  Ruy Lopez
Adams, Michael  -  HYDRA           0-1   43  B42  Sicilian Paulsen

Man-Machine London ENG (ENG), 21-27 vi 2005
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                              1   2   3   4   5   6 
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HYDRA                 ----    1   =   1   1   1   1   5.5  
Adams, Michael  g ENG 2737    0   =   0   0   0   0   0.5  
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3) III Marx György Memorial

The 3rd Marx György tournament took place in Paks, Hungary 12th-22nd June 2005. Zoltan Almasi won the even, half a point clear of Viktor Korchnoi. Ralf Akesson won the open.

Further details: http://www.ase.hu/marxgy

Round 9 (June 21, 2005)

Korchnoi, Viktor     -  Almasi, Zoltan       0-1   47  E15  Queens Indian
Berkes, Ferenc       -  Sutovsky, Emil       1-0   49  D87  Gruenfeld Botvinnik
Acs, Peter           -  Sasikiran, Krishnan  0-1   42  C99  Ruy Lopez Chigorin

Round 10 (June 22, 2005)

Almasi, Zoltan       -  Acs, Peter           1/2   14  C96  Ruy Lopez
Sasikiran, Krishnan  -  Berkes, Ferenc       1/2   32  D63  Queens Gambit Main Line with 7.Rc1
Sutovsky, Emil       -  Korchnoi, Viktor     1/2   30  C80  Ruy Lopez Open


III Marx Gyorgy Paks HUN (HUN), 12-22 vi 2005   cat. XV (2616)
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                                   1  2  3  4  5  6 
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1 Almasi, Zoltan       g HUN 2628 ** =1 =0 1= =1 1=  6.5  2723
2 Korchnoi, Viktor     g SUI 2619 =0 ** == 10 1= 11  6.0  2687
3 Sasikiran, Krishnan  g IND 2642 =1 == ** == 0= =1  5.5  2646
4 Berkes, Ferenc       g HUN 2617 0= 01 == ** =1 ==  5.0  2615
5 Sutovsky, Emil       g ISR 2665 =0 0= 1= =0 ** =0  3.5  2496
6 Acs, Peter           g HUN 2525 0= 00 =0 == =1 **  3.5  2524
--------------------------------------------------------------

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Marx Gyorgy Open Paks HUN (HUN), 14-22 vi 2005
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 1. Akesson, Ralf        g  SWE 2461 7½
 2. Erdos, Viktor        m  HUN 2480 7
 3. Paschall, William M  m  USA 2400 7
 4. Sikula, Vaszilij     m  UKR 2457 6½
 5. Videki, Sandor       m  HUN 2405 6
 6. Tancsa, Robert          HUN 2253 6
 7. Krumpacnik, Domen    m  SLO 2370 6
 8. Fodor, Tamas jr      f  HUN 2269 6
 9. Zakarias, David         HUN 2265 6
10. Gal, Peter1             HUN 2065 6
11. Papp, Tamas1            HUN 2221 5½
12. Ianov, Viktor        m  UKR 2381 5½
13. Nagy, Daniel            HUN 2189 5½
14. Balazs, Gabor2          HUN 2142 5½
15. Blazsik, Zoltan sr      HUN 2086 5½
52 players

4) 6th European Individual Chess Championship

The Warsaw Foundation for Chess Development and Sports Club Polonia Warsaw organise the 6th European Individual Chess Championship which take place June 17th - July 3rd 2005, in Warsaw - Zegrze Poludniowe. Full coverage live on the website now available. 8 rounds available. Carlsen-Sargissian round 8 looks a bit suspicious. After 9 rounds Sergey Karjakin, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and Vassily Ivanchuk lead with 7/9.

Official site: http://www.warsawchess.pl

Leading Round 9 Standings:
Place Name                        Rating  Score   Median    Buchholz  Wins  Prog
                                    Int            Buchholz 
   1  Karjakin Sergey              2635      7      41.5        53       6     39
   2  Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter       2670      7      41.5       52.5      5     37
   3  Ivanchuk Vassily             2739      7       40        51.5      5     35
   4  Milov Vadim                  2653     6.5     41.5        52       5    37.5
   5  Volkov Sergey                2634     6.5     40.5       52.5      4     34
   6  Dreev Alexey                 2705     6.5      40        51.5      4     36
   7  Radjabov Teimour             2673     6.5      40         51       5    34.5
   8  Beliavsky Alexander G        2630     6.5     37.5        48       4     34
   9  Najer Evgeniy                2615     6.5     37.5        48       4    33.5
  10  Tiviakov Sergei              2631     6.5      37         48       4    32.5
  11  Moiseenko Alexander          2665     6.5      37        47.5      5     32
  12  Asrian Karen                 2611     6.5     35.5       45.5      5    34.5
  13  Aronian Levon                2693      6       41        52.5      3     33
  14  Krasenkow Michal             2672      6       41        51.5      4     35
  15  Parligras Mircea             2560      6      40.5       50.5      3     31
  16  Pantsulaia Levan             2496      6       40         52       4     33
  17  Jakovenko Dmitry             2608      6      38.5        49       3     31
  18  Rublevsky Sergei             2645      6       38        49.5      4    31.5
  19  Eljanov Pavel                2641      6      37.5        48       3    31.5
  20  Balogh Csaba                 2531      6      37.5        45       3     31
  21  Malakhov Vladimir            2670      6      36.5       46.5      3    29.5
  22  Movsesian Sergei             2628      6       36        47.5      4     30
  23  Kotronias Vasilios           2578      6       36        45.5      4    32.5
  24  Popov Valerij                2568      6      35.5        45       4    28.5
  25  Fedorov Alexei               2602      6       35         44       4     29
  26  Efimenko Zahar               2620      6      34.5       44.5      3    30.5
  27  Cheparinov Ivan              2621      6       34         44       3    29.5
  28  Areshchenko Alexander        2595      6       34        43.5      3    30.5
  29  Sokolov Ivan                 2662      6      33.5        43       4     28
  30  Jobava Baadur                2637      6      33.5        43       3     29
  31  Gurevich Mikhail             2630      6       33         43       5    28.5
  32  Iordachescu Viorel           2609      6      30.5        39       4    26.5
  33  Bocharov Dmitry              2574      6      27.5       37.5      5    25.5
  34  Naiditsch Arkadij            2626     5.5      40        51.5      4    32.5
  35  Cao Sang                     2536     5.5     38.5       46.5      3     30
  36  Sakaev Konstantin            2672     5.5      38        48.5      3    29.5
  37  Carlsen Magnus               2548     5.5     37.5        47       3     28
  38  Alekseev Evgeny              2597     5.5     36.5        47       3    31.5
  39  Smirnov Pavel                2624     5.5      36        46.5      4    31.5
  40  Babula Vlastimil             2584     5.5      36        46.5      3    28.5
  41  Mastrovasilis Dimitrios      2562     5.5      36         45       4    28.5
  42  Guseinov Gadir               2573     5.5     35.5       45.5      3    29.5
  43  Fressinet Laurent            2638     5.5     35.5       45.5      3     28
  44  Motylev Alexander            2680     5.5     35.5       45.5      3     27
  45  Sargissian Gabriel           2630     5.5     34.5       44.5      2    29.5
  46  Van Wely Loek                2687     5.5     34.5        44       3     28
  47  Riazantsev Alexander         2608     5.5      34         44       3     29
  48  Izoria Zviad                 2602     5.5      34         44       3    27.5
  49  Brkic Ante                   2477     5.5      34        42.5      3     26
  50  Kobalia Mikhail              2644     5.5     33.5        43       3     27
  51  Andreikin Dmitry             2495     5.5     33.5       42.5      3     25
  52  Palac Mladen                 2574     5.5     33.5        42       3     30
  53  Gritsak Orest                2537     5.5     33.5        42       3    27.5
  54  Azarov Sergei                2572     5.5      33         43       4     27
  55  Wojtaszek Radoslaw           2569     5.5      33        42.5      5    28.5
  56  Ftacnik Lubomir              2540     5.5      33        40.5      3     29
  57  Dizdar Goran                 2524     5.5     32.5        41       4     24
  58  Aleksandrov Aleksej          2635     5.5     31.5       40.5      5     24
  59  Gdanski Jacek                2544     5.5     30.5       39.5      4     27
  60  Kornev Alexei                2565     5.5     29.5        39       5    27.5
  61  Nevednichy Vladislav         2566     5.5      28        36.5      4    24.5
  62  Mamedyarov Shakhriyar        2646      5       38        48.5      4     31
  63  Bologan Viktor               2700      5      37.5        48       3     29
  64  Portisch Lajos               2525      5       37         47       4    26.5
  65  Stefansson Hannes            2573      5       37         46       3    29.5
  66  Tregubov Pavel V             2612      5      36.5       45.5      2    28.5
  67  Potkin Vladimir              2552      5       36         44       3     27
  68  Iljushin Alexei              2543      5      35.5       44.5      3    27.5
  69  Wells Peter K                2525      5      35.5        44       3    25.5
  70  Postny Evgeny                2556      5       35         45       5     28
  71  Winants Luc                  2535      5       35         43       3    27.5
  72  Timofeev Artyom              2622      5      34.5        45       2     28
  73  Gagunashvili Merab           2547      5      34.5       43.5      3     26
  74  Kuzubov Yuriy                2558      5      34.5        43       3    28.5
  75  Macieja Bartlomiej           2613      5       34        43.5      3    27.5
  76  Huzman Alexander             2577      5      33.5        43       3     28
  77  Inarkiev Ernesto             2612      5      33.5       41.5      3    24.5
  78  Mista Aleksander             2497      5       33        42.5      4     22
  79  Galego Luis                  2493      5       33         42       3     22
  80  Jaracz Pawel                 2530      5      32.5        43       2    24.5
  81  Georgiev Kiril               2666      5      32.5        42       3     26
  82  Pavlovic Milos               2475      5      32.5       41.5      3    24.5
  83  Filippov Valerij             2621      5      32.5        41       3    23.5
  84  Minasian Artashes            2597      5       32        42.5      5     26
  85  Korneev Oleg                 2611      5       32         41       4     25
  86  Pelletier Yannick            2610      5       32         41       2     26
  87  Shomoev Anton                2540      5      31.5       40.5      3    25.5
  88  Romanishin Oleg M            2559      5      31.5       40.5      2    25.5
  89  Kempinski Robert             2627      5       31         39       3     23
  90  Pavasovic Dusko              2593      5       31         39       2    23.5
  91  Nijboer Friso                2553      5      30.5       39.5      3    24.5
  92  Nyback Tomi                  2551      5       30        39.5      4     24
  93  Markus Robert                2584      5       30         39       3     22
  94  Roiz Michael                 2579      5       30         39       2     26
  95  Markowski Tomasz             2560      5       30         39       2     25
  96  Fedorchuk Sergey A           2577      5      29.5        38       4    22.5
  97  Stocek Jiri                  2585      5      29.5        38       2     22
  98  Zelcic Robert                2514      5       29        38.5      4    20.5
  99  Gouliev Namig                2526      5       29         37       3     21
 100  Nalbandian Tigran            2508      5      28.5        37       2    22.5
 101  Sulskis Sarunas              2545      5      28.5       36.5      3     24
 102  Lupulescu Constantin         2546     4.5     38.5       47.5      2     28
 103  Kritz Leonid                 2549     4.5     37.5       46.5      2    27.5
 104  Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel  2488     4.5      37        46.5      4     25
 105  Stevic Hrvoje                2514     4.5      37        43.5      2     25
 106  Maze Sebastien               2470     4.5     35.5       45.5      3    22.5
 107  Kurnosov Igor                2550     4.5      35        44.5      4     26
 108  Kozul Zdenko                 2591     4.5     34.5       44.5      3    27.5
 109  Nataf Igor-Alexandre         2559     4.5     34.5        44       3    26.5
 110  Neverov Valeriy              2566     4.5     34.5        44       2     26
 111  Bobras Piotr                 2501     4.5      34         44       3    23.5
 112  Dautov Rustem                2609     4.5      33         43       2     25
 113  Prusikin Michael             2540     4.5      33         42       3    25.5
 114  Hulak Krunoslav              2534     4.5     32.5        41       2     23
 115  Nielsen Peter Heine          2653     4.5      32        41.5      2    25.5
 116  Gajewski Grzegorz            2396     4.5      32        41.5      2    21.5
 117  Kharlov Andrei               2628     4.5      32         41       4    23.5
 118  Graf Alexander               2632     4.5     31.5       40.5      3     23
 119  Navara David                 2647     4.5     31.5        40       2    22.5
 120  Iljin Artem                  2484     4.5      31         40       3     22
 121  Lputian Smbat G              2640     4.5      31        39.5      4     23
 122  Cvitan Ognjen                2481     4.5      31        39.5      1     22
 123  Chuchelov Vladimir           2571     4.5     30.5       40.5      3    22.5
 124  Del Rio Angelis Salvador G   2495     4.5     30.5        40       4    20.5
 125  Moranda Wojciech             2452     4.5     30.5        39       2    21.5
 126  Halkias Stelios              2549     4.5      30         40       3    22.5
 127  Gaprindashvili Valeriane     2415     4.5      30        39.5      3     19
 128  Evdokimov Alexander A        2503     4.5      30         39       2    20.5
 129  Godena Michele               2527     4.5     29.5        39       2    20.5
 130  Khismatullin Denis           2572     4.5     29.5       38.5      4     22
 131  Grabarczyk Miroslaw          2487     4.5      29        37.5      3     20
 132  Guliev Sarhan                2481     4.5      29        34.5      2     22
 133  Frolyanov Dmitry             2505     4.5     28.5       37.5      3     19
 134  Mastrovasilis Athanasios     2473     4.5     28.5        37       3    21.5
 135  Perunovic Milos              2549     4.5     28.5        37       3     20
 136  Socko Bartosz                2583     4.5      28         36       2     21
 137  Erenburg Sergey              2575     4.5     27.5       35.5      4    18.5
 138  Andersson Ulf                2579     4.5     27.5       35.5      0    22.5
 139  Anastasian Ashot             2574     4.5      26         36       4    22.5
 140  Czarnota Pawel               2478     4.5      26         35       3     19
 141  Bartel Mateusz               2511      4      36.5       46.5      3     23
 142  Firman Nazar                 2471      4       35         44       2     22
 143  Siebrecht Sebastian          2438      4      34.5       44.5      3    25.5
 144  Romanov Evgeny               2437      4       34         43       2     20
 145  Loeffler Stefan              2429      4       33         42       3     20
 146  Baramidze David              2542      4       33        41.5      3    22.5
 147  Kovacevic Blazimir           2510      4      32.5       41.5      3    22.5
 148  Guseinov Elmir               2391      4      32.5       41.5      2    20.5
 149  Grigoriants Sergey           2553      4      32.5        41       2    22.5
 150  Kovchan Alexander            2488      4       32        41.5      3    21.5
 151  Dziuba Marcin                2429      4      31.5       39.5      2    19.5
 152  L'ami Erwin                  2515      4       31        41.5      2     21
 153  Smeets Jan                   2518      4       31        39.5      3     20
 154  Mchedlishvili Mikheil        2518      4       31        39.5      2     22
 155  Urban Klaudiusz              2497      4      30.5        40       2     20
 156  Mamedov Rauf                 2511      4       30         39       1    19.5
 157  Warakomski Tomasz            2384      4       30        36.5      2     17
 158  Zaja Ivan                    2489      4      29.5        39       1    19.5
 159  Thorfinnsson Bragi           2442      4      29.5        38       2     16
 160  Khairullin Ildar             2517      4       29         38       1     19
 161  Haznedaroglu Kivanc          2440      4       29        37.5      2     18
 162  Lagowski Patryk              2393      4      28.5       35.5      3    17.5
 163  Heberla Bartlomiej           2454      4       28         36       4     16
 164  Atakisi Umut                 2439      4      27.5       35.5      3    16.5
 165  Bagheri Amir                 2518      4       27         36       3    16.5
 166  Karlsson Lars                2472      4       27        35.5      2    16.5
 167  Zawadzka Jolanta             2383      4       27        34.5      3    15.5
 168  Esen Baris                   2287      4      26.5       34.5      2     16
 169  Reinderman Dimitri           2509      4      26.5        34       1     19
 170  Jones Gawain C               2439      4      25.5        34       1    16.5
 171  Tzermiadianos Andreas        2453     3.5     33.5        41       2     22
 172  Tazbir Marcin                2322     3.5      33         42       2    18.5
 173  Abergel Thal                 2456     3.5      33        41.5      2    17.5
 174  Khmelniker Ilya              2458     3.5     32.5        41       2     19
 175  Petrosian Tigran L           2599     3.5      32        40.5      1     21
 176  Williams Simon               2466     3.5     31.5        39       2     19
 177  Ibrahimov Rasul              2514     3.5      31         40       2     19
 178  Bakalarz Mieczyslaw          2408     3.5      31         39       2     17
 179  Kuljasevic Davorin           2408     3.5      31        38.5      2     18
 180  Babujian Levon               2386     3.5     30.5       38.5      3     17
 181  Erturan Yakup                2277     3.5      30        38.5      2    17.5
 182  Mazi Leon                    2365     3.5      29        38.5      2     17
 183  Magalashvili Davit           2445     3.5      29         38       1     15
 184  Kristjansson Stefan          2461     3.5     28.5        35       3     18
 185  Kuraszkiewicz Michael        2300     3.5     28.5        34       3    14.5
 186  Luch Michal                  2417     3.5      28         35       2     13
 187  Guadalpi David               2317     3.5     27.5        36       3    17.5
 188  Matras Agnieszka             2280     3.5     26.5       33.5      2     13
 189  Dworakowska Joanna           2383     3.5     26.5        33       3    15.5
 190  Berescu Alin                 2439     3.5      26        33.5      2    14.5
 191  Erdogdu Mert                 2414     3.5      26        33.5      1     14
 192  Galazewski Tomasz            2137     3.5     25.5       32.5      2     14
 193  Van Der Weide Karel          2472     3.5      25         31       3    14.5
 194  Michalczak Thomas            2369      3      32.5        42       2     19
 195  Olszewski Michal             2387      3       31         39       2    14.5
 196  Leniart Arkadiusz            2279      3      29.5        39       1    16.5
 197  Sergeev Vladimir             2458      3      29.5       36.5      2     18
 198  Marzolo Cyril                2388      3      29.5       36.5      1     16
 199  Kadziolka Beata              2311      3       29         37       0    14.5
 200  Szoen Dariusz                2444      3      28.5        37       2    13.5
 201  Maier Christian              2387      3      28.5        37       1     14
 202  Neubauer Martin              2457      3      28.5       35.5      2     17
 203  Lanzani Mario                2356      3       28         37       0     16
 204  Murtez Hondozi               2354      3       28         35       1     13
 205  Krysztofiak Marcin           2401      3       27        34.5      2     14
 206  Kachur Alexander             2281      3       27        33.5      2     13
 207  Bugajski Robert              2218      3      26.5       33.5      2    13.5
 208  Godlauskas Kazys             2193      3      25.5       32.5      2    10.5
 209  Bleis Christian Dr           2258      3      25.5        32       2    11.5
 210  Bruno Fabio                  2374      3       25        31.5      2    13.5
 211  Rutkowski Maciej             2346      3       25        31.5      2     13
 212  Praszak Michal               2261      3      24.5       31.5      2     11
 213  Bednarek Sylwester           2321      3       20        26.5      3     8
 214  Bente Bjoern                 2218     2.5     32.5       41.5      2    18.5
 215  Stoma Pawel                  2295     2.5     32.5        41       1    16.5
 216  Skurski Jan                  2299     2.5     28.5       37.5      0     13
 217  Asauskas Henrikas            2357     2.5     28.5       36.5      1    12.5
 218  Citak Selim                  2351     2.5      28         35       1     12
 219  Kopczynski Michal            2150     2.5      27         34       1    14.5
 220  Sliwinski Marcin             2186     2.5     25.5       32.5      2    10.5
 221  Swiercz Dariusz              2136     2.5      25         32       1     10
 222  Krasiewicz Robert            2056     2.5      24         31       1     7
 223  Gluszko Tomasz               1977     2.5     23.5       29.5      1    11.5
 224  Wojcicki Lukasz              1833      2       23        30.5      1     8
 225  Krzymowski Alfred            2034      2      22.5       28.5      2     8
 226  Szewczak Andrzej             1995      2      22.5        28       1     5
 227  Azimi Reza                   2144     1.5      21         27       1    6.5
 228  Majewski Karol                 0       1      30.5        39       0     9
 229  Krzymowska Adriana             0       1       23         29       0     8

5) European Individual Women's Chess Championship

The European Individual Women's Chess Championship took place in Chisinau, Moldova 10th-25th June 2005. Excellent daily coverage from the official site. Kateryna Lahno won the event ahead of Nadezhda Kosintseva after a playoff.

Official site: http://eiwcc2005.chisinau.md/

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6th ch-EURw Chisinau MDA (MDA), 11-23 vi 2005
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Rank SNo.      Name                       Rtg   FED  Pts  BH.   BH.   vict Rp 
1    4    IM   Lahno Kateryna             2467  UKR  9    77    92    6    2588
2    7    IM   Kosintseva Nadezhda        2459  RUS  9    72    86½   6    2562
3    26   IM   Dembo Yelena               2402  GRE  8½   66    80    5    2478
4    37   WGM  Collas Silvia              2381  FRA  8½   70    83½   5    2501
5    29   WGM  Zaiatz Elena               2398  RUS  8½   73    87    5    2525
6    21   IM   Danielian Elina            2415  ARM  8½   68½   82½   6    2486
7    18   IM   Khurtsidze Nino            2418  GEO  8    75    89½   5    2480
8    10   IM   Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan    2452  GEO  8    73    87½   6    2475
9    27   IM   Mkrtchian Lilit            2400  ARM  8    71½   85½   5    2495
10   20   WGM  Kononenko Tatiana          2416  UKR  8    70    83½   4    2456
11   32   GM   Peng Zhaoqin               2392  NED  8    69½   83½   7    2451
12   53   WGM  Houska Jovanka             2334  ENG  8    69    81    6    2460
13   8    IM   Radziewicz Iweta           2457  POL  8    69    81    5    2431
14   13   WGM  Matveeva Svetlana          2423  RUS  8    68½   83    4    2476
15   23   IM   Paehtz Elisabeth           2407  GER  8    67    80½   5    2472
16   61        Purtseladze Maka           2311  GEO  8    66½   79½   6    2446
17   5    IM   Socko Monika               2464  POL  8    64½   77½   5    2413
18   19   IM   Sebag Marie                2417  FRA  8    64½   76    5    2434
19   16   WGM  Zielinska Marta            2419  POL  8    64    76½   7    2418
20   6    IM   Cmilyte Viktorija          2459  LTU  7½   74    89    6    2482
21   1    IM   Kosintseva Tatiana         2486  RUS  7½   72½   86½   5    2447
22   12   WGM  Javakhishvili Lela         2430  GEO  7½   71½   86½   5    2471
23   49   WIM  Vasilevich Irina           2347  RUS  7½   71½   85    5    2466
24   65   IM   Ovod Evgenija              2305  RUS  7½   69½   83    5    2390
25   51   WGM  Zdebskaja Natalia          2344  UKR  7½   69    83    5    2423
26   28   WGM  Korbut Ekaterina           2399  RUS  7½   68    80½   7    2391
27   30   IM   Lomineishvili Maia         2396  GEO  7½   67    81    6    2425
28   9    IM   Skripchenko Almira         2453  FRA  7½   67    81    5    2406
29   24   IM   Foisor Cristina Adela      2406  ROM  7½   66    78    6    2399
30   46   WGM  Ushenina Anna              2350  UKR  7½   65    79    6    2433
31   22   IM   Slavina Irina              2415  RUS  7½   63    75    4    2378
32   40   WGM  Bojkovic Natasa            2371  SCG  7½   62    75    6    2422
33   15   IM   Sedina Elena               2422  ITA  7½   61½   73½   5    2337
34   25   IM   Jackova Jana               2406  CZE  7½   61    73½   5    2371
35   38   WGM  Matnadze Ana               2376  GEO  7½   60    71    5    2333
36   57   WGM  Shumiakina Tatiana         2316  RUS  7    74½   87½   3    2413
37   54   WGM  Grabuzova Tatiana          2327  RUS  7    73½   86½   4    2413
38   47   WGM  Stepovaia Tatiana          2348  RUS  7    70    83    5    2378
39   2    IM   Dzagnidze Nana             2482  GEO  7    69    83    6    2394
40   31   IM   Vasilevich Tatjana         2395  UKR  7    69    83    5    2400
41   36   IM   Hagarova Zuzana            2386  SVK  7    65½   79    5    2352
42   44   WGM  Pogonina Natalija          2355  RUS  7    65½   78    4    2373
43   34   IM   Klinova Masha              2391  ISR  7    65    77½   3    2312
44   75   WGM  Vozovic Oksana             2288  UKR  7    64½   77    6    2346
45   92   WGM  Calzetta Monica            2254  ESP  7    64    76½   6    2362
46   68   WGM  Melnikova Yana             2301  RUS  7    63½   75    5    2350
47   35   IM   Vajda Szidonia             2391  HUN  7    63    76    5    2369
48   80   WIM  Sharevich Anna             2278  BLR  7    62    73    6    2341
49   58        Molchanova Tatjana         2315  RUS  7    62    73    6    2332
50   43   WGM  Ciuksyte Dagne             2356  LTU  7    61½   74    5    2320
51   87        Guseva Marina              2264  RUS  7    60½   72½   5    2316
52   17   IM   Kachiani-Gersinska Ketino  2418  GER  6½   72½   87½   4    2397
53   72   WIM  Hryhorenko Nataliya        2294  UKR  6½   72½   83½   4    2379
54   90   WGM  Zakurdjaeva Irina          2260  RUS  6½   70    82½   4    2407
55   82   WIM  Tsereteli Tamara           2273  GEO  6½   69½   78½   3    2335
56   3    IM   Gaponenko Inna             2482  UKR  6½   68½   82½   5    2343
57   11   IM   Peptan Corina-Isabela      2435  ROM  6½   67½   82    6    2349
58   124       Charochkina Daria          2183  RUS  6½   67    80½   5    2396
59   116       Rudolf Anna                2210  HUN  6½   66    77    6    2334
60   112  WIM  Srebrnic Ana               2221  SLO  6½   65½   78½   4    2381
61   63   WGM  Rohonyan Katerina          2309  UKR  6½   65½   78    4    2332
62   93   WGM  Ionescu Irina              2252  ROM  6½   64½   76½   4    2362
63   39   WGM  Pokorna Regina             2374  SVK  6½   63½   75½   4    2308
64   60   WIM  Kochetkova Julia           2311  RUS  6½   63½   75½   4    2346
65   88        Andriasian Siranush        2263  ARM  6½   63    75½   6    2301
66   67   WIM  Nebolsina Vera             2302  RUS  6½   62½   75    5    2341
67   56   WGM  Milliet Sophie             2319  FRA  6½   59    71½   6    2257
68   94   WIM  Doluhanova Evgeniya        2251  UKR  6½   58    70    5    2267
69   74   WIM  Nill Jessica               2290  GER  6½   56    67    5    2251
70   78   WGM  Makropoulou Marina         2285  GRE  6½   51    62½   6    2198
71   59   WIM  Kostiuk Tatiana            2313  UKR  6    71    83½   5    2333
72   66   WGM  Velikhanli Firuza          2303  AZE  6    70½   84½   4    2350
73   50   WGM  Demina Julia               2346  RUS  6    70½   84    4    2327
74   70   WIM  Kursova Maria              2300  RUS  6    69    80½   4    2345
75   48   IM   Petrenko Svetlana          2348  MDA  6    66½   79½   2    2301
76   106       Dolzhikova Kateryna        2232  UKR  6    66    79    3    2334
77   89   WIM  Chulivska Vita             2262  UKR  6    62½   75    5    2238
78   95   WGM  Susterman Anja             2250  MDA  6    62½   75    4    2313
79   77   WGM  Mamedjarova Zeinab         2286  AZE  6    61½   73½   5    2249
80   71   WGM  Bogza Adina-Maria          2297  ROM  6    60½   73    4    2244
81   113  WIM  Tsiganova Monika           2211  EST  6    60    73    4    2300
82   148       Paulet Iosefina            2051  ROM  6    60    71½   6    2266
83   91   WIM  Galojan Lilit              2256  ARM  6    59½   71½   5    2276
84   14   IM   Moser Eva                  2422  AUT  6    59½   70    4    2232
85   100  WIM  Czarnota Dorota            2244  POL  6    59    71    5    2236
86   97   WIM  Fakhiridou Ekaterini       2247  GRE  6    59    71    3    2286
87   69   WIM  Malysheva Polina           2301  RUS  6    58    70    5    2243
88   114       Alexanian Nelli            2211  RUS  6    58    70    5    2252
89   96   WIM  Makka Ioulia               2250  GRE  6    57    69    5    2228
90   42   WGM  Muzychuk Anna              2363  SLO  6    57    68½   4    2232
91   64   WGM  Smokina Karolina           2307  MDA  6    56½   68    2    2200
92   55   WGM  Goreskul Alyona            2323  UKR  6    56    68    4    2210
93   33   WGM  Repkova Eva                2392  SVK  6    55½   66    3    2187
94   84   WIM  Calotescu Ana-Cristina     2268  ROM  6    55    67    5    2225
95   137       Lupik Marina               2123  RUS  6    55    65½   4    2245
96   99   WIM  Ionica Iulia-Ionela        2245  ROM  6    54½   65    4    2208
97   86   WFM  Szczepkowska Karina        2264  POL  6    47    60    4    2161
98   79   WIM  Gvetadze Sopio             2283  GEO  5½   68    79½   4    2295
99   146  WFM  Muzychuk Mariya            2059  UKR  5½   66    79½   2    2310
100  102  WIM  Dragomirescu Angela        2241  ROM  5½   64    77    4    2278
101  52   IM   Zozulia Anna               2343  UKR  5½   63    75½   4    2288
102  41   WGM  Chelushkina Irina          2369  SCG  5½   62    75    3    2232
103  111  WIM  Mamedjarova Turkan         2221  AZE  5½   61½   73½   3    2249
104  85   WIM  Tarasova Viktoriya         2268  RUS  5½   61    73    2    2251
105  105  WIM  Bensdorp Marlies           2232  NED  5½   61    72½   3    2211
106  62   WIM  Voicu Carmen               2310  ROM  5½   60½   74    3    2228
107  110  WIM  Burtasova Anna             2223  RUS  5½   60    68    5    2205
108  128  WFM  Iodo Anna                  2176  RUS  5½   58½   69½   4    2201
109  104  WGM  Mirzoeva Elmira            2232  RUS  5½   58    69½   4    2198
110  120  WIM  Meshcheriakova Evgenia     2193  RUS  5½   58    69½   2    2243
111  98   WIM  Laesson Tuulikki           2246  EST  5½   57½   70    4    2174
112  119       Ivanova-Skripova Tatiana   2205  RUS  5½   56    68    5    2180
113  117  WIM  Sirotkina Nina             2206  RUS  5½   55½   66½   5    2183
114  81   WGM  Ptacnikova Lenka           2277  ISL  5½   52    63    3    2130
115  130       Van Weersel Arlette        2158  NED  5½   51½   59    4    2152
116  103       Gheorghe Corina            2234  ROM  5    63½   76    2    2209
117  109  WIM  Koskoska Gabriela          2230  MKD  5    60½   71½   4    2191
118  121  WGM  Partac Elena               2190  MDA  5    60    72½   3    2221
119  127       Sarakauskiene Zivile       2177  LTU  5    59½   71    4    2230
120  76   FM   Schuurman Petra            2288  NED  5    59    71    4    2159
121  132       Padurariu Ioana-Smaranda   2153  ROM  5    59    71    3    2240
122  108  WIM  Cherednichenko Svetlana    2230  UKR  5    57½   70    3    2152
123  131  WIM  Yildiz Betul Cemre         2156  TUR  5    57½   68½   3    2156
124  122       Khudaverdieva Afag         2187  AZE  5    55½   67½   3    2165
125  45   WGM  Olarasu Gabriela           2353  ROM  5    55½   65½   1    2153
126  136       Kuzevanova Evgenia         2124  RUS  5    53½   63    2    2153
127  107  WGM  Lematschko Tatjana         2231  SUI  5    53    65    2    2109
128  83   WGM  Eidelson Rakhil            2268  BLR  5    53    64½   2    2112
129  115       Foisor Sabina-Francesca    2210  ROM  5    52½   60½   4    2100
130  139  WFM  Seps Monika                2116  SUI  5    51    61    4    2110
131  134  WIM  Ankerst Milka              2124  SLO  5    49    59    4    2052
132  144       Kucherenko Olena           2079  UKR  5    48½   57½   5    2107
133  133  WFM  Butuc Maria                2147  MDA  5    45½   56    2    2026
134  147       Minina Veronika            2059  RUS  4½   61    73    3    2163
135  155       Lazo Xenia                 2001  MDA  4½   57½   68½   4    2122
136  153       Kalinina Olga              2022  UKR  4½   57    68    3    2165
137  125       Stiri Alexandra            2181  GRE  4½   57    67½   3    2126
138  138  WIM  Mar Karmen                 2119  SLO  4½   54    64½   3    2131
139  141  WFM  Topel Zehra                2085  TUR  4½   54    64½   3    2104
140  118  WIM  Bashkite Viktoria          2205  EST  4½   53    63    3    2098
141  156       Cherednichenko Elena       1969  UKR  4½   51    62    3    2106
142  101  WIM  Hamelink Desiree           2244  NED  4½   51    61½   2    2026
143  149       Bulmaga Irina              2046  MDA  4½   50½   60    2    2064
144  126       Kalinina Larisa            2177  UKR  4½   49    59    3    2062
145  129       Golubenko Valentina        2171  FID  4½   49    58½   3    2048
146  145  WFM  Grishina Alexandra         2065  RUS  4½   49    58½   3    2090
147  157  WFM  Bayrak Asli                1949  TUR  4½   45    52½   3    2043
148  123  WFM  Doibani Lilia              2185  MDA  4½   43½   54    3    1955
149  151  WIM  Cinar Corlulu Nilufer      2037  TUR  4    51½   61    3    2041
150  143       Cicariova Elena            2081  MDA  4    51    62½   3    2075
151  158       Vartic Irina               1948  MDA  4    51    59½   2    2049
152  163       Babei Angelica             1843  MDA  4    49½   59½   2    2010
153  142       Andronic Iulia             2085  MDA  4    46    55½   2    1977
154  160       Vetrila Sanda              1911  MDA  4    44    53    2    1956
155  150  WFM  Harbuz Daniela             2040  MDA  4    42    52    2    1938
156  159       Foisor Mihaela-Veronica    1930  ROM  3½   47½   54½   2    1975
157  140  WFM  Coimbra Margarida          2098  POR  3½   46½   54    2    1910
158  135  WFM  Vasilieva Maria            2124  MDA  3½   44    55    2    1906
159  152       Apanaviciute Kristina      2028  LTU  3½   41    47½   2    1842
160  161       Iurascu Mihaela            1906  MDA  3½   40½   49    1    1869
161  162       Baciu Diana                1870  MDA  3½   39½   47    2    1863
162  154       Talmazan Olga              2013  MDA  3    40½   47½   1    1801
163  164       Antoshkiv Anastasija       0     UKR  1    40    47    0    1387
164  73   WIM  Semenova Irina             2292  RUS  0    60    72    0

Champion Tie-break Match

   Name                    15 min + 10 sec    5 min + 2 sec    5/4 min  Final result
                           c 1st c 2nd        c 1st c 2nd      c
 
1  IM Lahno Kateryna       b      1   w   1                             2
2  IM Kosintseva Nadezhda  w      0   b   0                             0
 
Tie-break match for bronze medal Round 1

   Name                15 min + 10 sec    5 min + 2 sec    5/4 min  Final result
                       c 1st c 2nd        c 1st c 2nd      c
 
3  WGM Zaiatz Elena    b    ½     w   0                             ½ 
6  IM Dembo Yelena     w    ½     b   1                             1½ 
4  WGM Collas Silvia   b    ½     w   1                             1½ 
5  IM Danielian Elina  w    ½     b   0                             ½ 
 
Tie-break match for bronze medal Round 2

  Name                15 min + 10 sec    5 min + 2 sec    5/4 min  Final result
                      c 1st c 2nd        c 1st c 2nd      c
 
  IM Dembo Yelena     w      1   b   1                             2
  WGM Collas Silvia   b      0   w   0                             0
  WGM Zaiatz Elena    w      1   b   0   w     ½   b  ½   b   ½    2½ 
  IM Danielian Elina  b      0   w   1   b     ½   w  ½   w   ½    2½ 
 
Tie-break matches for qualification

    Name                    15 min + 10 sec    5 min + 2 sec    5/4 min  Final result
                            c 1st c 2nd        c 1st c 2nd      c
 
20  IM Cmilyte Viktorija    b    0    w   0                              0
35  WGM Matnadze Ana        w    1    b   1                              2
22  WGM Javakhishvili Lela  b    0    w   1    w     1   b  1            3
34  IM Jackova Jana         w    1    b   0    b     0   w  0            1
23  WIM Vasilevich Irina    b    ½    w   ½    w     1   b  0   b    0   2
33  IM Sedina Elena         w    ½    b   ½    b     0   w  1   w    1   3
24  IM Ovod Evgenija        b    1    w   0    w     ½   b  ½   b    0   2
32  WGM Bojkovic Natasa     w    0    b   1    b     ½   w  ½   w    1   3
25  WGM Zdebskaja Natalia   b    0    w   0                              0
30  WGM Ushenina Anna       w    1    b   1                              2
27  IM Lomineishvili Maia   b    0    w   1    b     0   w  0            1
28  IM Skripchenko Almira   w    1    b   0    w     1   b  1            3
 
Tie-break matches for qualification - 2nd round 

  Name                    15 min + 10 sec    5 min + 2 sec    5/4 min  Final result
                          c 1st c 2nd        c 1st c 2nd      c
 
  WGM Matnadze Ana        w    0    b   1    w     ½   b  ½   b    0   2
  IM Skripchenko Almira   b    1    w   0    b     ½   w  ½   w    1   3
  WGM Javakhishvili Lela  w    ½    b   ½    b     0   w  0            1
  WGM Ushenina Anna       b    ½    w   ½    w     1   b  1            3
  IM Sedina Elena         w    0    b   ½                              ½ 
  WGM Bojkovic Natasa     b    1    w   ½                              1½ 

6) III Open Bajada de la Virgen

The III Open Bajada de la Virgen 2005, took place in the Salones of Club Nautico, in Santa Cruz de La Palma 13th-19th June 2005.

Kamil Miton of Poland won the event after defeating Branko Dalmjanovic in a crazy endgame in the final round. Norms: GM Norm Sergei Krivoshey, IM Norm Pontus Carlsson, Roberto Mogranzini and Adalberto Villavicencio. It was the most important tournament in Canary Islands in 10 years with 26 GMs 12 IMs 3 FMs 2 WGMs 1 WFM 44 titled players from 21 Countries , 94 Players , 81 had FIDE Ratings. Games from rounds 1-7 now available.

Official site: http://www.ajedrezlapalma.com

Leading Final Standings: 
  1    MITON, Kamil (6)                     POL   2592      7.0      36.0    42.0  52.5
  2    KOLEV, Atanas (19)                   BUL   2524 2553 6.5      37.0    42.0  53.5
  3    DAMLJANOVIC, Branko (7)              SCG   2588 2583 6.5      36.5    41.0  52.0
  4    FRIDMAN, Daniel (11)                 LAT   2562      6.5      36.5    40.0  50.0
  5    KRIVOSHEY, Sergei (24)               UKR   2493      6.5      36.5    40.0  49.5
  6    SPASOV, Vasil (15)                   BUL   2543      6.5      36.5    39.0  49.5
  7    AVRUKH, Boris (1)                    ISR   2642      6.5      32.5    37.5  48.5
  8    GLEIZEROV, Evgeny (9)                RUS   2572      6.0      33.5    37.0  48.0
  9    AGREST, Evgenij (8)                  SWE   2579      6.0      31.5    38.0  48.5
  10   MORENO CARNERO, Javier (22)          ESP   2500 2495 6.0      31.5    37.5  48.0
  11   PERALTA, Fernando (13)               ARG   2556 2551 6.0      31.5    37.0  47.0
  12   BERG, Emanuel (18)                   SWE   2531      6.0      31.0    38.0  49.0
  13   KOGAN, Artur (5)                     ISR   2592 2578 6.0      30.5    37.0  48.0
  14   VOTAVA, Jan (21)                     CZE   2511      6.0      30.0    35.5  46.0
  15   KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim (20)            UZB   2514 2507 6.0      30.0    35.5  44.5
  16   STEFANOVA, Antoaneta (23)            BUL   2495      6.0      30.0    34.0  44.5
  17   DELCHEV, Aleksander (2)              BUL   2614      6.0      29.5    37.5  48.5
  18   MIRZOEV, Azer (14)                   AZE   2545      5.5      31.0    36.5  46.5
  19   ULIBIN, Mikhail (17)                 RUS   2536      5.5      30.0    35.0  46.0
  20   FELGAER ZIEGLER, Ruben (4)           ARG   2593 2594 5.5      29.5    36.0  46.5
  21   KOHLWEYER, Bernd (31)                GER   2429      5.5      29.0    35.0  43.0
  22   TISSIR, Mohamed (30)                 MAR   2442      5.5      28.5    38.5  48.5
  23   RODRIGUEZ GUERRERO, Enrique (28)     ESP   2449 2436 5.5      28.5    33.0  42.5
  24   ROEDER, Mathias (35)                 GER   2404      5.5      28.0    35.0  44.0
  25   MIEZIS, Normunds (10)                LAT   2564      5.5      27.5    35.0  45.0
  26   SRIRAM, Jha (29)                     IND   2445      5.5      26.5    34.5  45.0
  27   VILLAVICENCIO, Adalberto (41)        ESP   2333 2321 5.5      26.5    34.5  44.0
  28   VEHI BACH, Victor (33)               ESP   2425 2420 5.5      25.5    32.5  40.5
  29   STRIKOVIC, Aleksa (27)               SCG   2465 2461 5.0      30.5    38.0  47.0
  30   VAN DEN DOEL, Erik (12)              NED   2558      5.0      30.0    37.5  47.5
  31   KURAJICA, Bojan (16)                 BIH   2539      5.0      30.0    37.0  48.0
  32   KHENKIN, Igor (3)                    GER   2610      5.0      29.5    39.5  49.5
  33   JONKMAN, Harmen (32)                 NED   2428      5.0      27.5    40.0  50.5
  34   CARLSSON, Pontus (36)                SWE   2401      5.0      27.0    36.5  46.0
  35   VIJAYALAKSHMI, Subbaraman (34)       IND   2412      5.0      27.0    34.5  43.5
  36   FERNANDEZ GARCIA, Jose Luis (26)     ESP   2468 2450 5.0      26.5    35.0  46.0
  37   MOGRANZINI, Roberto (37)             ITA   2363      5.0      26.0    34.5  43.0
  38   SANZ ALONSO, Francisco Javier (38)   ESP   2361 2365 5.0      26.0    34.0  42.0
  39   DJINGAROVA, Emilia (43)              BUL   2290      5.0      26.0    32.5  41.0
  40   LUJAN, Carolina (40)                 ARG   2336      5.0      25.0    33.0  42.5
       NEBOISA, Illijin (46)                ROM   2244      5.0      25.0    33.0  42.5
  42   HERNANDO RODRIGO, Jose Maria (39)    ESP   2348 2331 5.0      23.0    29.5  37.0
  43   GUTIERREZ OLIVARES, Daniel (66)      ESP   2082 1986 5.0      22.0    31.0  40.5
94 players

7) Jan Timman vs Andrei Volokitin in Leon

Jan Timman played Andrei Volokitin in a 4 game match in Leon (Spain) on 24th June 2005. The match took place on Friday 24th in Pub Haddock. It consisted of 4 games at 20 minutes + 10 seconds (not accumulative).

Fernando Gómez reports: The young Ukranian GM won 2,5-1,5. On the 1st and 3rd games, Andrei won with white pieces against Timman's French Winawer that he had already prepared for his recent match against Bruzon in Curaçao. Andrei always had the initiave and the upper hand in both games scoring an spectacular short victory in the 3rd one. On the 2nd game Timman played a Rossolimo Attack and Volokitin answered sacrificing a pawn for some activity, Andrei reached a rook ending but could not win despite being a pawn up. On the 4th game Timman played an Open Sicilian and Volokitin soon had a very comfortable game, but the experienced Dutch GM drove the game into a double rook ending that was able to win with good technique. The match was followed by many spectators in the playing area and outside it thanks to several screens installed for that purpose. After the games, there was a press conference where the public asked many questions to those two great players.

Volokitin won the Open event that followed with 7/8. Games may follow.

Official site: http://www.editorialchessy.com

Volokitin, Andrei  -  Timman, Jan H      1-0   43  C18  French Winawer
Timman, Jan H      -  Volokitin, Andrei  1/2   55  B31  Sicilian Rossolimo
Volokitin, Andrei  -  Timman, Jan H      1-0   25  C18  French Winawer
Timman, Jan H      -  Volokitin, Andrei  1-0   52  B46  Sicilian Paulsen

Rapid Match Leon ESP (ESP), 24-24 vi 2005
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                                 1   2   3   4 
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Volokitin, Andrei  g UKR 2679    1   =   1   0   2.5  2702
Timman, Jan H      g NED 2607    0   =   0   1   1.5  2592
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Leading Final Round 8 Standigns Open
 1 Volokitin, Andrei          2679 UKR 7 
 2 Vazquez Igarza, Renier     2478 ESP 6.5
 3 Timman, Jan                2607 NED 6.5
 4 Damljanovic, Branko        2588 SCG 6.5
 5 Gonzalez Menendez, Ivan    2354 ESP 6.5
 6 Zlotnik, Boris             2433 RUS 6 
 7 Guerrero Olmos, Sergio     2245 ESP 6 
 8 Caselas Cabana, Jacobo     2407 ESP 5.5
 9 Oral, Tomas                2559 CZE 5.5
10 Llaneza Vega, Marcos       2346 ESP 5.5
11 Sande Edreira, Jose        2273 ESP 5.5
12 Andres Gonzalez, Alberto   2427 ESP 5.5
13 De Prado Rodriguez, Oscar  2216 ESP 5.5
14 Longa Yauca, Javier        2366 PER 5.5
15 Cruz-Lopez Claret, Carlos  2305 ESP 5.5
16 Strikovic, Aleksa          2465 SCG 5 
17 Santos Santos, Pablo       2299 ESP 5 
18 Paunovic, Dragan           2502 SCG 5 
19 Cruz Condori, Alfredo      2287 BOL 5 
20 Suarez Real, Alberto       2355 ESP 5 
21 Cruz, Filemon              2379 PER 5 
22 Bajo Gutierrez, Ignacio    2291 ESP 5 
23 Perez, Yovanny             2303 CUB 5 
24 Escobar Forero, Alder      2401 COL 5 
25 Gomez Esteban, Juan Mario  2473 ESP 5 

8) 9th Chess Festival Voronezh

The 9th Chess Festival Voronezh 2005 took place 10th-21st June 2005. Viacheslav Zakhartsov took clear first place with 7/9. My thanks to Dmitry Borisenkov.

Official site: http://www.relex.ru/~xuser/voronezh_open/

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Open Voronezh RUS (RUS), 12-21 vi 2005
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 1. Zakhartsov, Viacheslav V  m  RUS 2518  7.0  47.5  35.50  36.0  2662 +1.60
 2. Shaposhnikov, Evgeny      g  RUS 2550  6.5  50.5  36.00  35.0  2622 +0.83
 3. Lastin, Alexander         g  RUS 2590  6.5  49.0  35.00  31.5  2606 +0.20
 4. Chuprov, Dmitry           m  RUS 2454  6.5  47.5  32.00  36.0  2594 +1.64
 5. Vorobiov, Evgeny E        g  RUS 2550  6.5  47.5  33.25  33.0  2613 +0.74
 6. Obukhov, Alexander        m  RUS 2522  6.5  47.5  35.25  30.0  2570 +0.56
 7. Zaitsev, Vladimir         m  RUS 2435  6.5  45.0  32.25  32.5  2573 +1.64
 8. Novikov, Stanislav        g  RUS 2512  6.5  43.5  30.75  30.0  2559 +0.56
 9. Sergienko, Sergey         m  RUS 2456  6.0  48.5  29.75  32.5  2553 +1.14
10. Amonatov, Farrukh         g  TJK 2599  6.0  48.0  31.50  30.5  2577 -0.30
11. Brodsky, Michail          g  UKR 2532  6.0  46.5  30.25  31.5  2572 +0.42
12. Yandemirov, Valeri        g  RUS 2503  6.0  45.5  28.50  32.5  2530 +0.33
13. Geller, Jakov             m  RUS 2496  6.0  44.5  28.00  32.0  2572 +0.87
14. Okun, Leonid              f  RUS 2259  6.0  43.5  26.50  28.0  2547 +3.48
15. Savchenko, Boris          m  RUS 2480  6.0  42.5  26.00  30.0  2540 +0.69
16. Zubarev, Alexander        g  UKR 2514  6.0  39.5  26.25  26.5  2469 -0.48
17. Chuprikov, Dmitry            RUS 2416  5.5  44.0  23.25  26.5  2471 +0.73
18. Golovin, Leonid              RUS 2403  5.5  43.5  21.50  28.0  2402 +0.02
19. Skorchenko, Dmitriy       m  RUS 2476  5.5  42.5  23.50  29.0  2470 -0.08
20. Zakharevich, Igor         g  RUS 2505  5.5  42.5  24.25  27.0  2420 -0.98
21. Eraschenkov, Denis        m  RUS 2378  5.5  42.5  23.25  24.5  2449 +0.91
22. Chernyshov, Konstantin    g  RUS 2531  5.5  42.0  22.50  28.0  2458 -0.80
23. Voitsekhovsky, Stanislav  g  RUS 2499  5.5  39.5  22.50  26.0  2411 -0.98
24. Chebotarev, Oleg             RUS 2480  5.0  51.5  25.50  34.5  2514 +0.41
25. Kobylkin, Evgeni          f  UKR 2418  5.0  51.0  27.00  30.0  2533 +1.40
26. Smirnov, Alexey              RUS 2335  5.0  51.0  27.50  27.5  2551 +2.57
27. Harutjunyan, Gevorg          ARM 2392  5.0  46.5  23.75  28.5  2483 +1.13
28. Kurenkov, Nikolai         m  RUS 2455  5.0  46.5  23.25  28.5  2491 +0.41
29. Papin, Vasily             f  RUS 2440  5.0  46.0  22.25  25.5  2427 -0.22
30. Tarlev, Konstantin           UKR 2384  5.0  45.0  20.75  26.5  2448 +0.77
31. Arakelov, Ilya               RUS 2417  5.0  44.5  22.00  28.5  2480 +0.77
32. Ulko, Jaroslav            m  RUS 2478  5.0  44.5  21.50  28.5  2436 -0.58
33. Alavkin, Arseny           m  RUS 2501  5.0  44.5  23.25  27.5  2420 -1.03
34. Petrushin, Alexander I    m  RUS 2467  5.0  43.5  21.00  26.5  2417 -0.67
35. Bryzgalin, Kirill         f  RUS 2464  5.0  43.0  23.50  25.0  2411 -0.67
36. Novikov, Maxim            m  RUS 2524  5.0  42.5  22.50  25.5  2437 -1.12
37. Slugin, Sergey            f  RUS 2355  5.0  36.5  16.75  19.5  2360 +0.05
38. Aleshin, Oleg             m  RUS 2436  5.0  35.5  19.25  23.0  2362 -0.94
39. Sharma, Dinesh K          m  IND 2381  5.0  35.0  17.00  19.5  2349 -0.40
40. Burmakin, Vladimir        g  RUS 2552  4.5  46.0  23.75  26.5  2460 -0.94
41. Kostin, Alexey            m  RUS 2388  4.5  42.0  18.00  25.5  2358 -0.36
42. Smolkov, Igor                UKR 2288  4.5  41.5  16.75  23.5  2399 +1.35
43. Korochenskiy, Alexey         RUS 2262  4.5  41.5  14.75  20.5  2311 +0.54
44. Kim, Alexey               g  RUS 2449  4.5  41.0  16.50  24.5  2386 -0.81
45. Sidorov, Anatoly             RUS 2374  4.5  41.0  18.50  20.5  2379 +0.09
46. Provotorov, Ivan          f  RUS 2339  4.5  39.0  17.00  20.0  2294 -0.54
47. Jakovenko, Igor              RUS 2031  4.5  38.5  17.25  21.5  2368 +3.42
48. Sambuev, Bator            m  RUS 2505  4.5  37.0  20.25  22.5  2359 -1.50
49. Kislov, Sergey            f  RUS 2347  4.5  35.5  13.00  19.5  2321 -0.36
50. Riabtsev Sergey              RUS 2236  4.5  34.0  12.75  17.5  2267 +0.30
88 players

9) Accoona Toolbar Match

FIDE Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov played an exhibition game against the Accoona Toolbar, driven by a Fritz 9 prototype, in the ABC Times Square studios. 300 hundred spectators and a dozen television cameras watched the game.

Details: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2466

Kasimdzhanov, Rustam  -  ACCOONA TOOLBAR       1/2   42  C97  Ruy Lopez

10) National Open Las Vegas

Chris Bird reports: The 2005 National Open Chess Tournament was won jointly by GM Dmitry Gurevich, GM Nick De Firmian and GM Dashzeveg Sharavdorj and IM Ben Finegold, all scoring 5/6. Dmitry Gurevich took the much coveted Edmondson Cup and title of National Open Champion after a round robin blitz playoff.

A correction from last week from Chris Bird: "The list of US Championship qualifiers from the 2005 National Open should have included IM Stanislav Kriventsov and not IM Eugene Perelshteyn as originally reported. Also, Kelly Cottrell-Finegold qualified as the top female. Apologies for any confusion this may have caused."

Official site: http://www.64.com

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National Open Las Vegas USA (USA), 10-12 vi 2005
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 1. De Firmian, Nick E       g  USA 2549  5.0 
 2. Finegold, Benjamin       m  USA 2522  5.0 
 3. Gurevich, Dmitry         g  USA 2515  5.0 
 4. Sharavdorj, Dashzeveg    g  MGL 2453  5.0 
 5. Ibragimov, Ildar         g  USA 2611  4.5 
 6. Akobian, Varuzhan        g  USA 2556  4.5 
 7. Perelshteyn, Eugene      m  USA 2507  4.5 
 8. Anka, Emil               g  HUN 2447  4.5 
 9. Gonzalez, Renier         m  USA 2483  4.5 
10. Schneider, Dmitry        m  USA 2466  4.5 
11. Kriventsov, Stanislav G  m  USA 2409  4.5 
12. Vigorito, David          m  USA 2360  4.5 
13. Donaldson, John W        m  USA 2407  4.0 
14. Rensch, Daniel           f  USA 2360  4.0 
15. Manukian, Garuch            ARM 2293  4.0 
16. Ginsburg, Mark           m  USA 2354  4.0 
17. Kretchetov, Alexandre    f  RUS 2350  4.0 
18. Lu Xiaosha               wm CHN 2262  4.0 
19. Chase, Christopher       f  USA 2330  4.0 
20. Yanayt, Eugene              USA 2221  4.0 
21. Feinstein, Michael          USA ----  4.0 
22. Small, Greg                 USA 2249  4.0 
23. Burgess, Jon L              ENG 2196  4.0 
107 players

11) 19th Pula Open

The 19th "Pula Open 2005" in Croatia took place 19th-26th June 2005. Suat Atalik took clear first place with 7.5/9. Games from the final round not yet available.

Official site: http://www.skpula.hr

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19th Open Pula CRO (CRO), 19-26 vi 2005
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  1. Atalik, Suat            g  BIH 2561  7,5  44,5
  2. Kveinys, Aloyzas        g  LTU 2539  7,0  42,5
  3. Predojevic, Borki       m  BIH 2549  7,0  42,0
  4. Jovanic, Ognjen         m  CRO 2435  7,0  41,5
  5. Jovanovic, Zoran CRO    m  CRO 2481  7,0  40,5
  6. Dizdarevic, Emir        g  BIH 2521  7,0  39,0
  7. Fercec, Nenad           m  CRO 2504  7,0  39,0
  8. Riff, Jean-Noel         f  FRA 2438  7,0  38,5
  9. Medak, Bojan               CRO 2283  7,0  37,0
 10. Sedlak, Nikola          g  SCG 2514  7,0  36,0
 11. Savic, Miodrag R        g  SCG 2521  6,5  44,0
 12. Rogic, Davor            m  CRO 2499  6,5  43,5
 13. Jankovic, Alojzije      m  CRO 2480  6,5  41,0
 14. Cebalo, Miso            g  CRO 2507  6,5  39,5
 15. Feletar, Darko          m  CRO 2389  6,5  38,5
 16. Philippe, Christophe    m  FRA 2392  6,5  38,0
 17. Mikac, Matjaz           m  SLO 2376  6,5  38,0
 18. Bosiocic, Marin         f  CRO 2345  6,5  36,5
 19. Sutkovic, Damir            BIH 2251  6,5  32,5
 20. Saric, Ante             m  CRO 2472  6,0  43,5
 21. Franic, Milan           m  CRO 2390  6,0  41,0
 22. Michielsen, Joost          NED 2281  6,0  40,5
 23. Ljubicic, Filip         m  CRO 2407  6,0  40,5
 24. Tratar, Marko           m  SLO 2417  6,0  40,0
 25. Rukavina, Josip         m  CRO 2426  6,0  39,0
 26. Stokke, Kjetil             NOR 2226  6,0  38,0
 27. Wiley, Tom E            f  ENG 2238  6,0  37,5
 28. Kekki, Petri            f  FIN 2355  6,0  37,0
 29. Plenkovic, Zdenko       f  CRO 2302  6,0  36,5
 30. Nordahl, Helge          m  NOR 2402  6,0  36,0
 31. Orak, Ljubomir          f  CRO 2300  6,0  35,0
 32. Paci, Cedric               FRA 2266  6,0  35,0
 33. Cherin, Diego              ITA 2268  6,0  34,0
 34. Preiss, Martin          f  GER 2309  6,0  33,5
 35. Mandekic, Ivan             CRO 2238  6,0  32,0
 36. Medic, Mirjana          wg CRO 2247  6,0  31,5
 207 players

12) Pinamar International

The Pinamar International takes place June 22nd-30th 2005. Pablo Della Morte and Juan Pablo Hobaica lead on 3.5/5.

Official site: http://www.utopiasdepinamar.com.ar/soles.htm

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ITT Cinco Soles Pinamar ARG (ARG), 22-30 vi 2005       cat. III (2305)
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                                        1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Della Morte, Pablo      f ARG 2285  * . 0 = . . 1 1 1 .  3.5  2469 
 2. Hobaica, Juan Pablo       ARG 2312  . * . = = = 1 . . 1  3.5  2445 
 3. Fernandez, Daniel USA   f USA 2406  1 . * = 1 . 0 . = .  3.0  2360 
 4. Cubas, Jose Fernando    m PAR 2387  = = = * . = . . 1 .  3.0  2390 
 5. Duarte, Leonardo          ARG 2298  . = 0 . * 1 . = . 1  3.0  2393 
 6. Bronstein, Luis         m ARG 2362  . = . = 0 * . = . 1  2.5  2304 
 7. Rodi, Luis Ernesto        ARG 2243  0 0 1 . . . * = . 1  2.5  2305 
 8. Valiente, Cristobal     m PAR 2335  0 . . . = = = * = .  2.0  2211 
 9. Cornejo, Max            f PER 2229  0 . = 0 . . . = * =  1.5  2171 
10. Walsh, Hector             ARG 2191  . 0 . . 0 0 0 . = *  0.5  1922 
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13) Torch Real Estate Cup China Chess League

The Torch Real Estate Cup China Chess League first phase took place April 20th-28th 2005 in Jinan. The 2nd phase took place May 8th-14th, 2005 in Wuxi, Jiangsu and the 3rd phase June 20th-25th, 2005 in Xiapu, Zhejiang. This was the first league with 19 teams (male and female players). Games from round 14-18 in Xiapu now available. I had some problems with the names of players as I didn't have an easy time checking pairings. Hebei won the event. Below are the final standings with extremely approximate translations of the names.

Further details: http://www.64.net.cn/, http://ccl.sports.cn/ and http://www.chende.net

Rank Team                            Gam. +  =  -  MP Pts.
   1 Hebei Tianwei Education           18 13 4  1  30 58.5
   2 Jiangsu                           18 11 6  1  28 57.5
   3 Shandong Evening News             18 11 4  3  26 61.0
   4 Shanghai Construction             18 9  8  1  26 55.5
   5 Beijing Patriots                  18 11 3  4  25 57.0
   6 Zhejiang Medical                  18 10 5  3  25 54.5
   7 Wenzhou Legal                     18 10 3  5  23 52.0
   8 Guangdong                         18 6  10 2  22 54.0
   9 Chongqing Communications          18 9  3  6  21 50.5
  10 Tianjin                           18 8  4  6  20 47.0
  11 Wuxi Real Estate                  18 6  7  5  19 50.0
  12 Shenzhen                          18 7  3  8  17 49.0
  13 Shandong Torch                    18 6  4  8  16 45.0
  14 Heilongjiang Pharmaceuticals      18 4  7  7  15 44.0
  15 Hubei                             18 4  6  8  14 44.0
  16 Tianjin                           18 2  3  13 7  33.0
  17 Sichuan                           18 2  2  14 6  30.0
  18 Qingdao Jiangsu Elementary School 18 1  0  17 2  12.5
  19 Australia (Aomen)                 18 0  0  18 0  0.0  

14) Suduroy International

The Suduroy International took place in the Faroe Islands 18th-25th June 2005. Two players made IM-norms. The first was by the winner 21 year old Hans Kr. Simonsen and the second was by 17 year old danish junior champion Jacob Vang Glud. Both made 6.5/9.

Further info: http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/asp/turniere.asp?tnr=2381&lan=1 and http://www.faroechess.com

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Suduroy Tvoroyri FAI (FAI), 18-25 vi 2005                     cat. II (2284)
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                                              1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Simonsen, Hans Kristian        FAI 2317  * 1 0 = = = 1 1 1 1  6.5  2446 
 2. Glud, Jacob Vang               DEN 2319  0 * 1 = = = 1 1 1 1  6.5  2446 
 3. Hermansson, Emil             m SWE 2432  1 0 * = = 1 = 1 = 1  6.0  2392 
 4. Rodgaard, John               m FAI 2331  = = = * = = = = 1 1  5.5  2358 
 5. Shaw, John                   m SCO 2454  = = = = * = = = 1 1  5.5  2345 
 6. Samuelsen, Carl Eli Nolsoe     FAI 2238  = = 0 = = * = = = 1  4.5  2289 
 7. Nilssen, John Arni           f FAI 2372  0 0 = = = = * = 1 1  4.5  2274 
 8. Vovk, Oksana                wm DEN 2122  0 0 0 = = = = * = =  3.0  2176 
 9. Thorsteinsson,Sjurdur          FAI ----  0 0 = 0 0 = 0 = * =  2.0  2095 
10. Simonsen, Olavur               FAI 2254  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = *  1.0  1936 
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15) NAO win the French Team Cup

NAO Chess Club won the French Team Cup. The match took place in Le Senat in Paris on June 26th 2005. The match finished 2-2 but if I understand the Federation's website correctly Evry made an error in their team's composition and so lost the match.

Further details; http://www.nao-cc.com/naocc/index.html, http://www.evry-grandroque.com/, http://www.echecs.asso.fr/(xfzwjmzqkcrx5ii5io3jafmw)/Default.aspx

Final (June 26, 2005)

Degraeve, Jean-Marc    EVR  -  NAO Vallejo Pons, Francisco  1-0   47  B13  Caro Kann Exchange
Bacrot, Etienne        NAO  -  EVR Relange, Eloi            1-0   40  E93  King's Indian Classical
Lautier, Joel          NAO  -  EVR  Sebag, Marie            1-0   63  A29  English Four Knights
Bergez, Luc            EVR  -  NAO Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime  1-0   23  B22  Sicilian Alapin

16) Berman Hillman Tournament

The Berman Hillman Tournament took place 7th-12th June 2005. Julio Granda Zuniga won the event with 7.5/9.

Official site: http://www.torre64.com/

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Berman Hillman Santa Cruz BOL (BOL), 7-12 vi 2005        cat. II (2297)
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                                         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Granda Zuniga, Julio E   g PER 2599  * 1 = = 1 = 1 1 1 1  7.5  2536 
 2. Molina, Jorge            f BOL 2226  0 * = 1 1 1 = = 1 1  6.5  2471 
 3. Leskovar, Mario          m ARG 2366  = = * 1 = 0 = 1 1 1  6.0  2414 
 4. Zambrana, Oswaldo        m BOL 2472  = 0 0 * = 1 1 1 1 0  5.0  2320 
 5. Vera, Kelver               PER 2270  0 0 = = * 1 = = 0 1  4.0  2257 
 6. Pacheco, Daniel          f ARG 2343  = 0 1 0 0 * 0 1 0 1  3.5  2212 
 7. Campero, Ronald            BOL 2244  0 = = 0 = 1 * = 0 =  3.5  2223 
 8. Ferrufino, Boris           BOL 2228  0 = 0 0 = 0 = * 1 1  3.5  2224 
 9. Anez, Jorge                BOL 2166  0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 * =  3.5  2231 
10. Robles, Gustavo            BOL 2057  0 0 0 1 0 0 = 0 = *  2.0  2103 
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17) Alushta Summer

There were two Alushta Summer events that took plce 17th-27th June 2005. The Category VII event was won by Vladimir Belikov and Orazly Annageldyev who finished on 7.5/11. I will cover the other event next week as I have a problem with the result of one of the game. That was category I.

Further info: http://www.kaissa.com.ua

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III Summer Alushta UKR (UKR), 17-27 vi 2005               cat. VII (2423)
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                                       1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 
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 1. Belikov, Vladimir      g RUS 2517  * = = 1 = = = = = 1 1 1  7.5  2547 
 2. Annageldyev, Orazly    m TKM 2483  = * 0 1 = = = = 1 1 1 1  7.5  2550 
 3. Zinchenko, Yaroslav    m UKR 2460  = 1 * = 1 = = = = 0 1 1  7.0  2521 
 4. Feoktistov, Alexey A   m RUS 2434  0 0 = * 1 1 = = 0 1 1 1  6.5  2486 
 5. Kovalev, Andrei        g BLR 2567  = = 0 0 * 1 1 = = 1 0 1  6.0  2445 
 6. Ajrapetjan, Yuriy      m UKR 2395  = = = 0 0 * = 1 0 1 1 1  6.0  2461 
 7. Tolstikh, Nikolay      m RUS 2375  = = = = 0 = * = 1 = = =  5.5  2427 
 8. Tukhaev, Adam            UKR 2419  = = = = = 0 = * 1 = 1 0  5.5  2423 
 9. Kuzmin, Gennadi P      g UKR 2510  = 0 = 1 = 1 0 0 * = = 1  5.5  2414 
10. Belosvetov, Nikolaj      UKR 2340  0 0 1 0 0 0 = = = * 1 =  4.0  2328 
11. Semiev, Suhrab           TKM 2287  0 0 0 0 1 0 = 0 = 0 * =  2.5  2224 
12. Annaberdiev, Baba        TKM 2285  0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 = = *  2.5  2224 
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18) Salsomaggiore Chess Festival

The Salsomaggiore Chess Festival took place 20th-22nd May 2005. Yves Ranola edged out Rolly Martinez and Roland Salvador to first place, all scored 5/6.

Official site: http://www.salsoscacchi.3000.it/

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Open Salsomaggiore ITA (ITA), 4-16 vi 2005
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 1. Ranola, Yves                m  PHI 2467 5.0 22.0
 2. Martinez, Rolly                PHI 2414 5.0 21.5
 3. Salvador, Roland            f  PHI 2360 5.0 19.0
 4. Luciani, Valerio               ITA 2241 4.5 21.5
 5. Efimov, Igor                g  ITA 2458 4.5 20.5
 6. Giretti-Kanev, Jasen           ITA 2166 4.5 19.0
 7. Molina, Fabrizio            f  ITA 2257 4.5 18.5 3.0
 8. Barletta, Mauro                ITA 2252 4.5 18.5 2.5
 9. Mrdja, Milan                m  CRO 2373 4.5 18.0
10. Scalcione, Michelangelo     f  ITA 2242 4.5 17.0
11. Aldrovandi, Costantino      m  ITA 2246 4.0 19.5 2.5
12. Di Paolo, Raffaele          f  ITA 2284 4.0 19.5 1.0
13. De Santis, Alessio          f  ITA 2248 4.0 17.5
14. Gasperi, Fosco                 ITA 2168 4.0 17.0 2.0 4
15. Cottarelli, Franco             ITA 1930 4.0 17.0 2.0 3
66 players

19) Jerry Spann Memorial

The Jerry Spann Memorial and 60th Oklahoma State Championship took place in Norman, Oklahoma 18th-19th June 2005.

Movses Movsisyan won the Oklahoma State Championship title with a score of 4.5 from 5 games at the Oklahoma University Student Union in Norman, Oklahoma held June 18-19, 2005. Sergey Galant came in 2nd with 4 pts followed by Jake Ferguson with 3.5. The Reserve section was won by Marvin Lee with 4.5 pts from 5. Alex Relyea directed. Time rate: G-120 + 10 sec. Event sponsored by Oklahoma Chess Foundation. News Frank K. Berry

Official site: http://www.okchess.org

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Jerry Spann Mem Norman USA (USA), 18-19 vi 2005
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 1. Movsisyan, Movses     USA 2300  4.5 
 2. Galant, Sergey        USA 2211  4.0 
 3. Ferguson,Jake         USA ----  3.5 
 4. Braunlich, Tom        USA 2200  3.0 
 5. Lee,Wellington        USA ----  3.0 
 6. Berry, James E        USA 2184  3.0 
 7. Graham,Shaun          USA ----  3.0 
 8. Harper,Warren         USA ----  2.5 
 9. Claassen,Chris        USA ----  2.5 
10. Dennison,Jerry        USA ----  2.0 
11. Berry, Frank K        USA 2033  2.0 
12. Hall,Odell            USA ----  1.5 
13. Liao,Arnold           USA ----  1.0 
14. Tubbs,Mike            USA ----  1.0 
15. Carbonell,Ross        USA ----  1.0 
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20) Iranian Team Championship

The Iran Super League (Ligue 84) the 12 club team event started on 30th May 2005. The Double round robin sees 6 GMs, 12 IMs and a total of 28 titled players participate.

Official site: http://www.iranchess.com/indexen.htm

Rk. Team                    1 2 3  4  5  6 7  8  9  10 11 12 TB1
1   Taid Water, Hormozgan   *              3½          3     6.5
2   Petroshimi, Bandar Imam   *          3             3     6.0
3   Sanat Naft, Abadan          *                2½ 2        4.5
4   Ararat, Tehran                 *  2                   2½ 4.5
5   Rah Ahan, Tehran               2  *       2½             4.5
6   Farhangsara Honar         1          *          3½       4.5
7   Saipa, Tehran           ½              *              3½ 4.0
8   Payam Ertebat, Gilan              1½      *  2           3.5
9   Palayesh Naft, Abadan       1½            2  *           3.5
10  Khazra, Mazandaran          2        ½          *        2.5
11  Zoghal Sang, Kerman     1 1                        *     2.0
12  Naft O Gaz, GachSaran          1½      ½              *  2.0

21) Bray Rapidplay

70 players contested the 2005 Bray Rapidplay held on June 18. Stephen Brady defeated 2004 winner Sam Collins in the penultimate round on his way to clear first place. Tournament controller Herbert Scarry.

Further details and crosstable at http://www.brayrapidplay.com and at http://www.icu.ie

Final Standings:
  1   Stephen Brady       IRL   2320 f     5.5      17.0  25.5   20.5
 2-7  Colm Daly           IRL   2358 f     5        15.0  23.5   19.5
      Joe Ryan            IRL   2328 f     5        15.0  21.5   17.0
      Gerard O'connell    IRL   2134       5        14.0  21.0   17.0
      Karl Mcphillips     IRL   2235       5        14.0  20.0   17.0
      Simon Jeffares      IRL   2077       5        13.5  21.0   17.0
      Gerard Macelligott  IRL   2145       5        13.0  19.5   15.0
  8   Anthony Fox         IRL   2123       4.5      12.5  18.5   14.0
9-18  Sam Collins         IRL   2400 m     4        19.0  27.0   18.0
      Semyon Mkrtchyan    IRL              4        15.5  23.5   16.0
      Mark Heidenfeld     IRL   2344 m     4        15.0  23.0   16.5
      Thomas Brezing      IRL              4        15.0  22.0   16.0
      Martin Crichton     IRL   1996       4        14.0  21.5   12.0
      Seamus Duffy        IRL              4        13.5  21.0   15.5
      Laszlo Horvath      HUN   2272       4        13.5  20.5   16.0
      Pawel Madynski      POL   2178       4        13.5  20.5   16.0
      Adam Kelly          IRL              4        12.5  19.0   12.5
      Gordon Freeman      IRL   2101       4        11.5  19.0   13.0

22) Forthcoming Events and Links

Canadian Open

The Canadian Open takes place July 9th-17th 2005.

Players include: GM Vassily Ivanchuk 2739 GM Alexei Shirov 2737 GM Viktor Bologan 2700 GM Alexander Moiseenko 2665 GM Alexander Shabalov 2631 GM Igor-Alexandre Nataf 2603 GM Dmitri Tyomkin 2549 GM Mark Bluvshtein 2529 IM Pascal Charbonneau 2527 IM Irina Krush 2466 IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon 2425 IM Eric Lawson 2373 IM Martha Fierro 2330. Shirov will give a lecture during the event.

The official website is: http://www.edmontonchess.org/CdnOpen2005/

North Urals Cup

The North Urals Cup takes place July 3rd-14th in Krasnoturinsk, Russia. This is the 3rd time Krasnoturinsk city will host the strongest Women's Chess Tournament.

Players; 
1. Maia Chiburdanidze 
2. Koneru Humpy 
3. Antoaneta Stefanova 
4. Alexandra Kosteniuk 
5. Tatiana Kosintseva 
6. Natalia Zhukova 
7. Xu, Yuhua 
8. Ekaterina Kovalevskaya 
9. Alisa Galliamova 
10. Nadezhda Kosintseva

Further info at: http://www.northuralscup.ru/participants_eng.shtml

Official site: http://www.northuralscup.ru which will have live games, game downloads, interviews, standings and lots of photos.

Costa Rican National Championships

The Costa Rican National Chess Championships have just seen the conclusion of the preliminaries. 8 qualifiers from that event will be joined by 6 seeded players in a 14 players round robin final. The seeded are international masters Sergio Minero (current champion), Bernal González, Leonardo Valdés, Alexis Murillo and Francisco Hernandez, and fide master Mauricio Arias. That event starts June 28th 2005.

GM Alejandro Ramírez will not take part, as he has decided to retire from chess to pursue studies in a Dallas University, after his last place in Wijn aan Zee group B.

Further details: http://www.tablerotico.com

Norwegian Championship

The Norwegian Championship takes place in Sandnes, Norway July 2nd-9th 2005.

Players include: GM Agdestein, GM Carlsen, GM Johannessen, GM Djurhuus and GM Lie in the 9 round swiss.

Live games expected at http://www.rogaland-sjakk.org

Pivdennyi Bank Chess Tournament

The Pivdennyi Bank Chess Tournament - Efim Geller Memorial takes place in Odessa (Ukraine) in their Music Comedy Theater 1st-3rd July 2005.

Ten participants will compete in the round-robin rapid chess tournament: GM Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine) 2695, born 1983 GM Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) 2619, born 1931 GM Yuri Drozdovskij (Ukraine) 2517, born 1984 GM Mikhail Golubev (Ukraine) 2517, born 1970 GM Valery Beim (Austria) 2512, born 1950 IM Mikhail Podgaets (Ukraine) 2487, born 1947 GM Nikolay Legky (Ukraine) 2455, born 1955 IM/WGM Masha Klinova (Israel) 2391, born 1968 IM Dmitry Fingerov (Ukraine) 2361, born 1982 Stanislav Bogdanovich (Ukraine), 2128, born 1993

Schedule: June 30: The opening ceremony July 1: Rounds 1-3 July 2: Rounds 4-6 July 3: Rounds 7-9, closing ceremony.

All games will be played with a time control 20 minutes per game.

Official site: http://www.chesspro.ru

Fire on board trophy 2005

The match between Alexey Shirov and Viktor Korchnoi for the "Fire on board trophy 2005" due to be 24th-26th June 2005 in Eschweiler Germany is reported to have been postponed until September.

Official site: http://www.fireonboard.com

Friendship Tournament in Cartak CZE

The Friendship Tournament in Cartak CZE takes place 18th-26th June 2005. 7th international chess festival A) round-robin grandmaster tournament (10-12 players) B) round-robin master tournament (10-12 players) C) open FIDE (swiss system of 9 round). Hopefully I can round up results and games next week.

Official site: http://www.friendshiptournament.com

World Amateur Chess Championship Cancelled

The World Amateur Chess Championship 2005 due to take place in Piestany (Slovakia), July 31st - August 12th 2005 has been cancelled due to lack of entires.

Further information: http://www.wacc2005.chess.sk

Brno 2005

There are GM, IM and Open tournaments in Brno, Czech Republic 30th June - 10th July 2005.

Due to withdrawals there are places in the GM event. E-mail - petr.pisk@centrum.cz Phone - Petr Pisk, +420- 731 465 344 if you are interested in this or any of the other events.

Information: Internet - http://volny.cz/skduras

First Saturday July

The First Saturday July tournament takes place 2nd-14th of July 2005. If you want to play contact Nagy Laszlo e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net Phone-fax: (+36)-1-263-28-59 Websites; http://www.firstsaturday.hu and http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat

FSGM IGM CHERNYSHOV, Konstantin (RUS), IGM ILINCIC, Zlatko (SCG), IGM FOGARASI, Tibor (HUN), BINDRICH, Falko (GER), LUDWIG, David Joseph (USA), IM BOROS,Denes (HUN), IM DEARING, Eddie (SCO), FM LORSCHEID, Gerd (GER), IM KRISTJANSSON, Stefan (ISL), IM THORFINSSON, Bragi (ISL), IM MAHJOOB, Morteza (IRI), IM MANCA, Federico (ITA), IM PASCHALL, William (USA). Reserves: FM GONDA, L szl¢ (HUN), IM TURZ , Attila (HUN), IM JAKAB, Attila (HUN),

FSIM IM LENGYEL, Bela (HUN), IM FARAGO, Sandor (HUN), IM GALYAS, Mikl¢s (HUN), IM CHETVERIK, Maxim (RUS), IM PETRAN, Pal (HUN), IM JAKAB, Attila (HUN), SIMAKOV, Vladislav (RUS), WGM PTACNIKOVA, Lenka (ISL), WGM IGLA, Bella (ISR), MARTINI, Balazs (HUN), KATSUHARA, Osamu (JPN), IM KAHN, Evarth (HUN), FM CARUANA, Fabiano (USA), REYHAN, Dogan (TUR).

There are also FM events.

Peter Leko Official Site

Peter Leko now has a web site. http://www.lekochess.com/

Liepajas rokade

Liepajas rokade, the biggest chess festival in the Baltics takes place from 11th to 14th of August 2005 in Liepaja Latvia.

English http://www.liepajniekiem.lv/?doc=19684 and Latvian http://www.liepajniekiem.lv/?doc=19681

CC-Calendar

CC-Calendar. Now 8.092 official computer chess tournaments since 1990. 726 games from older official computer chess tournaments up to 1990. Arena Chess GUI http://www.playwitharena.com Selection: CC-Calendar New are two computer chess tournaments. CIPS (Italy), chess program Delfi won 5th International CSVN tournament (Netherland), chess program Shredder won. AnMon won the 7th French programmers tourney in Massy.

Bratto Open

The 25th International Chess Festival "Conca della Presolana" will takes place in Bratto (Italy), 20-28 August 2005. The Festival includes: Tournament A (players with Elo Fide > 1999), Tournament B, Tournament C and Promotion Tournament (for beginners). Swiss system, 9 rounds. Time control: 100 minutes for 40 moves + 50 minutes; all move played get 30 seconds bonus (Fischer mode). Prizes: in the tournament A: 1st 1500 Euros, 2nd 1000 Euros, 3rd 700 Euros .. ... 16th-20th 200 Euros.

Info: gpp@hotelmilano.com

Official Internet coverage: http://www.scaccobratto.com/2005.shtml

Jiraskuv Memorial

The Jiraskuv Memorial takes place 6th-13th August 2005 in Rakovnik (Czech Republic - 60 km west from Prague).

Further details: http://www.czfree-ra.net/~sachy

Hungarian Tournaments July - December 2005

1. 2nd-14th of July FIRST SATURDAY /FS/ GM-IM-FM round robins, 9 -13 games, norm possibilities, in Budapest, Hungarian Chess Federation, Falk Miksa Str.10. 2nd floor. Organisation: Nagy Laszlo, FIDE International Chess Organizer /NL/, E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net Website: http://www.firstsaturday.hu Other website: http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat Phone-fax: (361)-2632859, cellphone: (36)-30-230-1914 From 12:00 a.m. until midnight - Central European Time - GMT+1 hour

2. 15th -23rd of July, SZOMBATHELY SUMMER Open 9 rounds Swiss, organizer FM Korpics, e-mail: korpicschess@axelero.hu

3. 24th of July - 1st of August, AGRIA Open /EGER, 100 km North-East from Budapest/, organizer: Rauch Ferenc, e-mail: rauch@freemail.hu

4. 6th-18th of August, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest org.:NL

5. 21st-31st of August, PAPP BELA memorial GM closed tmt, Torokbalint, 10 km from Budapest, info: Nagy Laszlo, firstsat@hu.inter.net

6 3rd-15th of September FS GM-IM-FM Budapest, org: NL

7. 1st-13th of October, FS GM-IM-FM, Budapest L

8. 5th-17th of November, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest

9. 3rd - 15th of December, FS GM-IM-FM.

China - France Youth Match

The China-France youth match takes place in Shenzheng, China June 28th - July 6th 2005.

French players: Robert Fontaine g 2539, Maxime Vachier­Lagrave g 2525, Jean­PierreLe Roux m 2466, Natasha Benmesbah 2113. Chinese players: Zhao Jun g 2531, Zhao Xue wg 2478, Zhou Jianchao m 2473, Hou Yifan f 2158

28th Ghent Open

The 28th Ghent Open takes place 16th-20th July 2005.

The summer tournament of the Benelux! 9 round Swiss tournament.

Details: http://www.kgsrl.be/

Chess Classic Mainz

The Chess Classic Mainz takes place August 9th-14th 2005.

The field of participants for all top events of the Chess Classic Mainz (August 9 - 14) is complete. Following his twofold victory in the open tournament, Alexander Grischuk (Russia) will challenge Viswanathan Anand (India), serial winner in the Rheingoldhalle, for the world title in rapid chess. In Chess960, World Champion Peter Svidler (Russia) will meet Zoltan Almasi (Ungarn). Four legends of chess will get together to celebrate the 80th birthday of Wolfgang Unzicker. In addition to the Grandmaster from Munich, Anatoly Karpov (Russia), Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland) and Boris Spassky (France) will play.

Official site: http://www.chesstigers.de/

9th Offene Internationale Bayerische Schach Meisterschaft

9th Bayerische International Chess Open, takes place in Bad Wiessee takes place 29th October - 6th November 2005.

Further details: http://www.oibm-bad-wiessee.de/

15th Heart of Finland Open

The 15th Heart of Finland Open takes place in Jyväskylä, July 18th-24th 2005. The tournament will be a 10 round Swiss system. Tournament is ELO-rated and there are possibilities to reach FIDE title norms. Venue: IT-Dynamo, street address Piippukatu 2, Lutakko, Jyväskylä.

Prizes: Total prize fund approximately 7000 EUR, 1st prize 1500 EUR, lots of rating group prizes.

Registration / Info: Sami Hämäläinen +358 9 791140, mobile +358 40 5123864, email aurifera@kolumbus.fi

Official website: http://www.shakki.net/turnaukset/hof05/en/

IX Open The "Battle Of Senta 1697"

The IX Open The "Battle Of Senta 1697" takes place 15th-22nd July 2005. A and B Groups and also Rapid and Blitz tournaments. Senta is in Serbia and Montenegro.

Details: http://www.scgchess.org/2005/event/0507sen.htm

World Youth Chess Championship

The World Youth Chess Championship 2005 takes place in Belfort, France 18th-29th July 2005.

Official site: http://www.belfort-echecs.com

US Championship

The U.S. Chess Championship returns to San Diego from February 22nd - March 5th 2006 and will be held at its new permanent home at NTC Promenade.

The tournament will feature a 64-player field, composed of 19 seeded players (as determined by the October 2005 U.S.C.F Rating List), 43 tournament qualifiers (two of which being online) and 2 wild cards selected by the AF4C. The seeded players include the defending U.S. Champion, Hikaru Nakamura; Women's Champion, Rusudan Goletiani; the 2004 Chess Café.com Grand Prix winner, Aleks Wojtkiewicz; the 2005 U.S. Junior Champion; the 2005 U.S. Senior Champion; 8 top-rated Overall players, and 6 top-rated female players from the rating list. A new, innovative qualifying process will see one spot decided by the player who - while not qualifying directly- accumulates the highest score from playing in as many (or all!) of the qualifying tournaments. After each tournament, the latest placing for this Qualifier Grand Prix will be posted on the dedicated U.S. Championship website.

Details:http://www.uschesschampionship.com

Obrenovac Open

The Obrenovac Open takes place 22nd-30th November 2005. The event takes place in Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro. 9 rounds Swiss, Prize found: 5250 EURO. First prize: 1000 EURO Info contact: IO Nagy Laszlo, e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net

Lugano International Open

The Lugano International Open takes place 18th-20th November 2005. in the Hotel Meister, Via San Salvatore 11, 6902 Lugano-Paradiso 6 round Swiss Schweizer System 36 moves in 90 Mins + 30 Mins for the rest of the game.

Further details: http://luganoscacchi.ch/

Neuhausen Open

The Neuhausen Open took place 26th-29th May 2005.

Details: http://www.wnet24.de/sc-neuhausen/Open%202005/a-opentabelleframe.html

Euro Chess Tournament and Stork Young Masters

The 2005 Euro Chess Tournament, will be played in Hengelo (Netherlands) August 8th-13th 2005. The Euro Chess Tournament is organised by the Caïssa Foundation and the Royal Dutch Chess Federation.

The Euro Chess Tournament includes the 32nd Dutch Open Youth Championship groups U10, U12, U14, U16 and U20. In the Open we expect in between 600 and 700 players from all over Europe. The Dutch Open is a perfect mix of chess for recreation and top level

The second tournament played in the same week is the Stork Young Masters, a 20 player invitation group which will play 9 rounds Swiss. The topplayers in the group will be 5 GM's, all under 20 years old. We are still looking for some players for the Stork Young Masters. Please contact tournament director Albert Vasse (albert.vasse@home.nl) if you have candidates to participate.

All information on the tournament is available in English, German, French and Dutch at http://www.onjk.nl

Enrollment is also through this website.

2nd Samba Cup

The 2nd Samba Cup will take place 14th to 23rd October 2005 in Skanderborg, Denmark.

A-group will be at least cat. 16. B and C-group will be cats. 8/9 and 3/4 if played. All groups 10 players round-robin. Interested players for any group are welcome to contact organiser Michael Andersson at gm@skanderborgskakklub.dk.

Web site is under construction but will be http://www.skanderborgskakklub.dk/gm2005

17th Cannes Summer International Open

The 17th Cannes Summer International Open takes place July 25th-31st 2005.

Rated FFE and FIDE - Participation of GMI - Tournament A for 2100 or more - Tournament B for 2000 or less - Players between 2000 et 2100 can choose their tournament - 9 rounds - Time Control 1 h 40 for 40 moves + 20 min with 30 seconds added by move - Check-in obligatory Monday 25 from 10 h to 14 h - Special prizes for categories

Further details: http://www.cannes-echecs.org

Politiken Cup 2005

The Politiken Cup part of the Copenhagen Chess Festival and 27th Copenhagen Open takes place July 16th-24th 2005. Entries include: 1 GM Curt Hansen 2 GM Viktor Korchnoi 3 GM Petr Kiriakov 4 GM Sune Berg Hansen 5 GM Igor Kurnosov 6 GM Nick E. de Firmian 7 GM Murray Chandler 8 IM Davor Palo 9 GM Jonny Hector 10 GM Lars Schandorff 11 GM Arkadi Eremeevich Vul 12 FM Christoph Wisnewski 13 IM Ole Jakobsen

Details: http://www.politikencup.dk/

Olomouc Chess Summer

8th International Chess Festival Olomouc Chess Summer 2005 which is part of the 5th International Chess Festivals Series CZECH TOUR 2005/2006. The event takes place in Olomouc (Czech Republic) 3rd-11th August 2005.

Round-robin GM and IM tournaments, FIDE open, seniors tournament, open tournament in active chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival.

Further details: http://www.czechtour.net

2nd European Amateur Chess Championship

2nd European Amateurs Championship was transferred to Pardubice (CZE) and will take place on 20.-31.7. 2005 within the frame of CZECH OPEN 2005 festival. The registration deadline without additional charge is prolonged till 30.6. 2005.

Detailed information at: http://www.czechopen.net/news/index.php, other information about the festival at http://www.czechopen.net.

Ikaros Chess Festival

The Ikaros Chess Festival will take place 9th-22nd July 2005. The Festival has been held for the last 27 years on Ikaria island.

This year's events include the traditional open international tournament "Open Aegean Championship" (12th-20th July) as well as plenty of other side events such as Junior, Ladies, Veteran, blitz, rapid and simultaneous exhibition events, blindfold chess, chess lectures and many others.

Details: http://www.chess.gr/ikaros/

15th European Team Championship

The 15th European Team Championship takes place July 29th-August 8th 2005 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Official site: http://www.goteborgchess2005.se/

FIDE Trainers Committee

IM Jovan Petronic. Chairman, FIDE Computer & Internet Chess Committee has written about the FIDE Trainers Committee. Link to his article below. In 1998 FIDE formed a powerful Committee comprising of leading chess trainers around the chess globe. Accordingly, it was named the FIDE Trainers Committee, and below, I will try to summarize the immense useful information for the readers, current major chess training activities and appeals of the Committee, etc. The number of certified FIDE Trainers has grown and they are now (in alphabetical order) - none other than: Alburt Lev (USA), Asanov Bolat (Kazahstan), Azmaiparashvili Zurab (Georgia), Boensch Uwe (Germany), Beliavsky Alexandr (Slovenia), Chernin Alexandr (Hungary), Dorfman Iossif (France), Dvoretsky Mark (Russia), Gelfer Israel (Israel), Georgadze Tamaz (Georgia), Gulko Boris (USA), Illescas Miguel (Spain), Kuzmin Alexey (Katar), Khodarkovsky Michael (USA), Leong Ignatius (Singapore), Mikhalcishin Adrian (Slovenia), Marjanovic Slavoljub (Serbia & Montenegro), Mohr Georg (Slovenia), Nikitin Alexandr (Russia), Petrosjan Arshak (Armenia), Polgar Zsuzsa (USA), Postovsky Boris (USA), Psakhis Lev (Israel), Razuvaev Yuri (Russia), Seirawan Yasser (USA), Sosonko Genna (Netherlands), Schmidt Wlodzimerz (Poland), Tukmakov Vladimir (Ukraine), Ubilava Elizbar (Georgia), Vladimirov Evgeny (Kazahstan), Zapata Alonso (Columbia) and Xie Yun (China).

Read the article: http://www.jovanpetronic.com/fidetrainerscommittee.htm and an update: http://www.jovanpetronic.com/fidetrainerscommittee2.htm

Biel GM Tournament

The field of the Biel GM Tournament is now known. The event takes place 16th-29th July 2005.

Further info: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch

Biel Grandmaster Tournament 2005: 

Boris Gelfand         ISR Elo 2713 
Andrei Volokitin      UKR 2679   
Hikaru Nakamura       USA 2657  
Christian Bauer       FRA 2640          
Yannick Pelletier     SUI 2610  
Magnus Carlsen        NOR 2548       
Category 16, Elo 2641

Dortmund 2005

The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting takes place 8th-17th July 2005 (rest day 13th) in the Civic Theatre Vladimir Kramnik plays in this event which is a 10 player all-play-all.

Participants: Vladimir Kramnik, Peter Leko, Veselin Topalov, Peter Svidler, Michael Adams, Etienne Bacrot, Loek van Wely, Peter Heine Nielsen, Emil Sutovsky, Arkadij Naiditsch.

Pairings: 1. Round: Fri 08.07. Leko - Van Wely Adams - Topalov Naiditsch - Sutovsky Kramnik - Svidler Nielsen - Bacrot 2. Round: Sat 09.07. Van Wely - Bacrot Topalov - Naiditsch Sutovsky - Kramnik Svidler - Nielsen Leko - Adams 3. Round: Sun 10.07. Adams - Van Wely Kramnik - Topalov Nielsen - Sutovsky Bacrot - Svidler Naiditsch - Leko 4. Round: Mon 11.07. Van Wely - Svidler Topalov - Nielsen Sutovsky - Bacrot Leko - Kramnik Adams - Naiditsch 5. Round: Tue 12.07. Naiditsch - Van Wely Bacrot - Topalov Svidler - Sutovsky Nielsen - Leko Kramnik - Adams 6. Round: Thur 14.07. Van Wely - Sutovsky Topalov - Svidler Leko - Bacrot Adams - Nielsen Naiditsch - Kramnik 7. Round: Fri 15.07. Kramnik - Van Wely Sutovsky - Topalov Svidler - Leko Bacrot - Adams Nielsen - Naiditsch 8. Round: Sat 16.07. Van Wely - Topalov Leko - Sutovsky Adams - Svidler Naiditsch - Bacrot Kramnik - Nielsen 9. Round: Sun 17.07. Nielsen - Van Wely Topalov - Leko Sutovsky - Adams Svidler - Naiditsch Bacrot - Kramnik

In addition is the Sparkassen Open which is divided into two classes: Open A (Open ELO Tournament) and Open B (Amateur Open). The venue will be the town hall (Rathaus) of the City of Dortmund at Friedensplatz. Each day play begins at 11 a.m.. The conditions for the Open Tournaments, with information on registration, may be found on the internet under http://www.schachfreunde-brackel.de as well as on the official organizers’ homepage http://www.chessgate.de/do2005.

Official site: http://www.chessgate.de/do2005/

4th Condom Open

The 4th Condom open takes place 9th-16th July 2005. (south-west of France) Prizes found 7000 € - 1st :1100 €. Possibilities for GM and IM norm. Economical accommodation (boarding school) / campings / hotels. E-Mail contact: echecs.condom@free.fr

Further details : http://echecs.condom.free.fr

XXIII Open Andorra

The XXIII Andorra Open takes place 9th-17th July 2005.

Official site: http://www.feva.ad/

Instructional Tactics

There is an instructional tactical site at: http://www.chesstactics.org compiled by Ward Farnsworth.

Queenstown Chess Classic 2006

The Queenstown Chess Classic 2006 takes place on the South Island of New Zealand January 15th-24th 2006 followed by the NZ Rapid and Blitz Championship on Jan 25th & 26th. This event is being sponsored by NZ GM Murray Chandler and promises to be NZ's largest ever Open International event. The total prize fund is in excess of NZD $35,000. It is endorsed by the NZ Chess Federation and will incorporate the NZ Championship. Entries so far include GM's Chandler, Rogers and Hecht.

Further information: http://www.queenstownchess.com

20th North Sea Cup

The 20th North Sea Cup takes place in Esbjerg, Denmark, 2nd-9th July 2005. 9 Swiss Open, time control: 40 moves 2 H + ½ H rest Prize fund: DKK 65000,- = 8800 Euro

The organiser is Jens Nielsen Tel: 0045 75123975 Email: Jerneif@get2net.dk. Fax: 0045 75123975 Address: Storegade 66, 6700 Esbjerg Chief Arbiter: IA Lars Lindhard Deputy Arbiter: Aksel Hansen, Kim Schmidt, Karsten Jakobsen

Official site: http://www.northseacup.dk

Kasparov on his retirement

Kasparov's website: http://www.chesschamps.com gives a diary entry on the reasons for his retirement: http://www.chesschamps.com/diary07.html

Correspondence Chess - Romanian Chess Federation - 80 Years

Therer will be a CC tournament "Romanian Chess Federation - 80 Years"? which will be one of the strongest CC events of the year 2005 with 4 ICCF-GMs and 4 ICCF-SIMs among the 13 participants.

Every 2-3 months there will be reports on the tournament wrote by GM Dorian Rogozenko, IM Mihai Ghinda, IM Mircea Pavlov, IM Constantin Lupulescu and FM Marius Ceteras including comments around the games in progress (this is something new in CC).

A promo pdf booklet of the event is available in Romanian chess pages www.romanianchess.org , in the section dedicated to this event http://www.romanianchess.org/rcf80 The booklet contains the introduction of the players, their best games and a short history of the Romanian correspondence chess. Short link for download the promo booklet (archived pdf file) http://www.romanianchess.org/rcf80/rcf80.zip

The tournament will be played at ICCF webserver ( http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventCrossTable.aspx?id=278 ) .

II Calvia Chess Festival

The 2nd Calvià Chess Festival offers a varied programme with tournaments for different categories covering all ages. Takes place October 21st-November 5th 2005.

http://www.calviafestival.com

VII Sants Open

The VII Sants Open in Barcelona takes place 27th August - 4th September 2005.

Further details: http://www.cotxeres.org/open2005 This tournament is part of the Catalan Grand Prix http://www.fcde.org/circuit/oberts.html

Prague Chess Holiday

The XV International Chess Holiday 2005 and VIII Professor Jaroslav Pelikán Memorial takes place in Prague. Three dates: 16th-23rd July 2005, 23rd-30th July 2005 and 30th July - 6th August 2005.

http://www.schach-prag.de/

2nd Amsterdam Chess Tournament

The 2nd Amsterdam Chess Tournament takes place 16th-24th July 2005.

Further details: http://home.hccnet.nl/w.haggenburg/act05/eng.html

9th Essent Chess Tournament

The 9th Essent Chess Tournament (Hoogeveen) takes place 21st-29th October 2005.

Last year the event was covered at: http://www.essentchess.nl

Computer Chess News

There have been recent computer events. See the Computer Chess Calendar at: http://www.playwitharena.com

Ratings Article

Jean-Claude Templeur on ratings manipulation: http://www.chessmile.com/articles.php?id=30

Final of the WCBCSC 2004-2005

Brian Stephenson of the British Chess Problem Society reports. The Final of the WCBCSC 2004-2005 took place at Oakham School on Saturday 19th February. It was a resounding success for solving GM and Ex-World Champion Jonathan Mestel, who came ahead of two other ex-world champions. The event was sponsored by Winton Capital Management: http://www.wintoncapital.com/

The full results can be found at my website. Follow this link for the final table: http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/0405/finaltable.html and this for the problems used: http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/0405/final_diag.html

British Chess Problem Society: http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/

Swiss Chess Tour Davos Festival 2005

The "Swiss Chess Tour 2005" will continue in Davos with Chess Festival, the first time, besides "Open Davos", will be separate "Senior Open Davos", "Junior Open Davos" and "Summer-night open".

Davos is one of the most popular tourist places in Europe (summer and winter). Last year when all Europe caught by high tropical temperature at Davos was 20-25 degrees Celsius, always with a cupful of mountain wind. Next year, 2006, Davos will host European Individual Senior Championship.

Main event, the 4th "Sunstar Park Hotel Open", July 30th - August 7th 2005. "Sunstar Park Hotel" (4 stars) will be host festival in the new, comfortable "Congress Center". Swiss system, 9 rounds and the games will last a maximum of 6 hours (40 moves for 2 hours and 60 minutes till the end). Valid for FIDE titles and FIDE rating. Prize are: 1.500 SF, 1.200, 900, 700, 500, 400, 300, 250, 200 and 150 SF. From 11.- 20. places natural prizes. Special prizes for best Lady, best local player. Entry fee 140 SF, FMs and juniors 70 SF, at the door 10 SF more, GMs and IMs free. Time table: Rounds 1 16.00-22.00 July 30th; Round 2/8 14.00-20.00 July 31st- August 6th; Round 9 10.00-16.00 August 7th.

"Senior Open" July 31st - August 6th, senior 1945, 7 rounds and the games last of 5 hours (40 moves 2 hours and 30 minutes till the end). Valid for FIDE titles and FIDE rating. Prize is: 500/400/300/2x200/2x150 SF. Natural prizes for players with 4 points. Entry fee 70 SF, at the door 10 SF more. Time table 9.30 - 14.30 every day.

"Junior Open", born 1985 and younger. Exactly the same like "Senior Open" except, juniors lodging at "Sunstar Park Hotel" don't pay enter-fee. (Hotel pays for them).

"Summer-night Open", 7 rounds, 45 minutes for game; time-table 21.15-22.45 every day; natural prizes for all players with 4 points; enter fee 10 SF.

Venue: "Sunstar Park Hotel" (4 stars). Closing ceremony August 8th, half-hour after the last game. Unbelievable chess-rates. Info: Beochess +41+34+424-01-06 (Robert Spoerri) or info@beochess.ch

12th Echternach International Open

The 12th Echternach International Open takes place 25th-26th June 2005. Seniors should also note the following dates: 2nd Open (rapid chess) for young seniors (aged 50 and above) 13th-14th August 2005. 5th Open-seniors (aged 60 and above) 15th-21st August 2005.

Further info: http://www.desprenger-echternach.lu/

Alushta Diary 2005

Leonid Galperin sends a calendar of planned events in Alushta, Ukraine 2005.

GM Norm events: 6 17.06-27.06. 1.09-11.09 25.09-5.10 7.10-17.10 Rating tournament 5.06 - 13.06 Open tournament (under 16 years) First prize - 200 $ 14.06 - 22.06 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Blitz tournament 28.06 12.09 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Open tournament (rapid chess) 29 - 30.06 13-14.09 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Open tournament First prize 1000 $ First prize (woman) 500$ 2.07-10.07 15.09-23.09 Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Session of school of Gennadi Kuzmin 5.06-14.06 25.09-4.10 Alushta Individual and group studying

Further information: http://www.kaissa.com.ua phone +38 (06560)5-05-32 (for Russian speaking) + 38 050 669-26-04 (for English speaking) e-mail: info@kaissa.com.ua

Harald Malmgren 100 years Correspondence

31st Dec 2004 saw the start of the first Grandmaster tournament on the ICCF Webserver. The tournament is the "Harald Malmgren 100 years". The occasion is to commemorate the 100:d birthday of Harald Malmgren, Tierp in Sweden. Malmgren was runner up after Cecil Purdy in ICCF's first World Championship and earned his GM title in the event. Malmgren passed away in 1957. In his career he was also second in IFSB Championship 1939 and won the Swedish CC Championship in 1942. Malmgren was a true chess enthusiast and issued a book in 1953 "Mina bästa partier" (My best games) with only CC games he had played.

There are 13 participants and you will be able to follow the results on http://www.schack.se/SSKK/palview/res/malmgren.htm and as soon as about 10 moves are made in every game, SSKK will open a page for "live" games. That is games according to the ICCF CoC regulations for live games. The Category of the event is 10 which means that all norms are available.The tournament has two sponsors, Schackakademin and Svenska Schackbutiken AB.

The players are: IM Jan Bennborn, Sweden, IM Sture Olsson, Sweden, IM Rune Bergquist, Norway, IM Ervin Liebert, Estonia, IM Taisto Koskela, Finland, IM Leif Åhman, Sweden, SIM Jón A Pálsson, Iceland, SIM Josef Mrkvicka, Czech Rep, GM Matthias Rüfenacht; Switzerland, IM Gary S Benson, Australia, SIM John Pugh, England, Phillippe Chopin, France and Mads Smith Hansen, Denmark. The withdrawing ICCF President keeps playing CC and starts this event on his very last day in office.

Tomas Carnstam, Jonas Dahlgren, Robert Ericsson, Sebastian Nilsson and Per Söderberg wedish Correspondence Chess Federation (SSKK) Board members.

38th Biel International Chess Festival

38th Biel International Chess Festival Dates: 16th-29th July 2005 with, in particular: - the Grandmaster tournament (17th-27th July 2005) - the Accentus Ladies Tournament 17th-27th July 2005) - the active chess tournament (16th and 17th July 2005) - the Master Open (18th-29th July 2005, last round in the morning) - the General Open (20th-29th July 2005, last round in the morning) - the Blitz tournament (23th July 2005)

Further details: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch

Hamarat Challenge Match

The ICCF World Champion Tunc Hamarat (AUT) who has never lost a single game with White, has challenged the "Rest of the World" to a friendly 2-game match. He will have White in both games. The games (one will start with 1.e4 and one with 1.d4) will be played on the ICCF Webserver and started on 10th February 2005 with the rule "10 moves/70 days".

The players on the "Rest of the World" team will vote on each move. The move receiving the most votes will be selected. Should 2 or more moves receive the same number of votes, the "Rest of the World" will be given 2 more voting days to decide between the tied moves. Participation in this event is open to all players who pay an entry fee of 5 EUR or $7.00 US dollars via their National CC Federation or the ICCF Direct Entry (DE) option. All fees collected will be transferred to the ICCF Development Fund. The money will be used primarily for development and system support of the ICCF WebChess Server. It will be possible to join the "Rest of the World" team at any stage of the game.

The games may be seen "live" by all players and other observers at http://www.iccf-webchess.com

Each player who voted for the selected move will receive 1 point per move. The player(s) with the most points at the end of the games will receive an ICCF Gold Book. The list of all entrants will be published on the ICCF webpage.

1st ICCF Webchess Open Tournament

The ICCF have announced the 1st WebChess Open Tournament and invites every player worldwide to participate in the event. The event is to be played on the ICCF dedicated Webserver http://www.iccf-webchess.com. This tournament is open to all correspondence chess players worldwide, also for those without any previous ICCF experience. Multiple entries are allowed. The tournament will be played in three stages - preliminaries, semifinal and final.

Details: http://www.iccf-webchess.com/Message.aspx?message=19

Russia vs ROW Correspondence

The Russian Chess Federation is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is using this occasion to challenge the rest of the world to a match over 64 boards with 2 games for each and the start is 15.02 2004. Players include Joop van Oosterom

http://www.mychessweb.com/Tables/Internationale/Play/russia-world.htm

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