THE WEEK IN CHESS 567 19th September 2005 by Mark Crowther

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Contents

1) Introduction
2) European Club Cup
3) Lausanne Young Masters
4) Dutch Championship
5) 80th Championship of Argentina
6) First Saturday September
7) US Chess League
8) Arab Individual Championships
9) Polish Team Championship
10) 4th Hotel Petra
11) 27th Annual Southern California Open
12) Trieste Open
13) European Youth Championships
14) Iranian Championship
15) 13th Albacete Open
16) 4th Kesarovski - Georgiev Memorial
17) Golden Blitz Cup
18) IX Taca Brasilia Clube de Xadrez
19) Alushta Autumn
20) Kramnik Internet Simul
21) Bratto Correction
22) Forthcoming Events and Links


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Games section

European Club Cup                         185 games
Lausanne Young Masters                     28 games
Dutch Championship                         32 games
80th Championship of Argentina             25 games
First Saturday September                   63 games
US Chess League                            16 games
Arab Individual Championships             125 games
Polish Team Championship                   30 games
4th Hotel Petra                             6 games
27th Annual Southern California Open       32 games
Trieste Open                               22 games
European Youth Championships              352 games
Iranian Championship                       30 games
IX Taca Brasilia Clube de Xadrez          120 games
Alushta Autumn                             72 games
Bratto Correction                           1 game
1139 games

1) Introduction

My thanks to Leonid Galperin, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, Jan Mazuch, Adolivio Capece, Carsten Hensel, Diego Gómez, Michael Rahal, Miklos Orso, John Saunders, Goran Tomic, Greg Shahade, John Hillery, Antonio.Bento, Gary Suffield and everyone else who helped with the issue.

The countdown to the FIDE World Championships in Argentina has begun, they start on Tuesday 27th September. There is strong chess in the lead up to this with the European Club Cup in Aosta Valley. Vassily Ivanchuk has got off to a fine start with 2/2 and Vladimir Kramnik is expected to play for the favourites NAO although he hasn't done so so far.

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) European Club Cup

The European Club Cup takes place September 18th-24th 2005 in the little mountain town of Saint-Vincent (Aosta Valley, very famous due to the Casinò). The teams are expected to arrive on Saturday 17th.

About 50 teams are announced in the men's group and 16-18 in the women group. The NAO team features: Vladimir Kramnik, Etienne Bacrot, Alexander Grischuk, Teimour Radjabov, joel Lautier, Paco Vallejo, Sergey Karjakin, Laurent Fressinet

Other teams: Ivanchuk, Aronian, Gelfand, Morozevich (also if he is announced to play in the Argentinian World Championship starting on Sept 27), Shirov, Ponomariov, Bologan, Dreev, Sutovsky, Volkov, Krasenkov, Mamedjarov. Women: Stefanova, Lahno, Cramling, Zhukova, Peptan, Kosintseva.

Italy will be represented by the towm of Penne (winner of the Italian team Championship 2005): gm Godena, gm Braga, IM Arlandi, IM Bruno and three boys "under 17", Sabino Brunello, Daniele Vocaturo, Denis Rombaldoni.

Round 1 games available but no standings have been give at this early stage.

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

3) Lausanne Young Masters

The 6th Edition of the Lausanne Young Masters 2005 with 8 of the best under-20 players in the world was held September 14th-19th, 2005, at the Casino de Montbenon in Lausanne. Andrei Volokitin beat Hikaru Nakamura 2-0 in the final to take the title.

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

Final
1 Andrei VOLOKITIN       - Hikaru NAKAMURA        1-0 1-0
3rd-4th Places
2 Shakhriyar MAMEDYAROV  - Pentala HARIKRISHNA    1/2 1/2 Playoffs 2.5-1.5
5th-6th Places
3 Magnus CARLSEN         - Maxime VACHIER-LAGRAVE 1-0 1-0
7th-8th Places
4 Nana DZAGNIDZE         - Elisabeth PÄHTZ        1-0 1/2

Round 2 KO 16th-17th September 2005

1st-4th
1 Andrei VOLOKITIN       - Pentala HARIKRISHNA    1-0 1/2
2 Hikaru NAKAMURA        - Shakhriyar MAMEDYAROV  1-0 0-1 Playoffs 1-0 1/2

5th-8th
3 Magnus CARLSEN         - Elisabeth PÄHTZ        1/2 1/2 Playoffs 1-0 1-0
4 Maxime VACHIER-LAGRAVE - Nana DZAGNIDZE         1-0 1/2

Round 1 KO 14th-15th September 2005

1 Andrei VOLOKITIN       - Elisabeth PÄHTZ        1-0 1-0
2 Hikaru NAKAMURA        - Nana DZAGNIDZE         1-0 1-0
3 Shakhriyar MAMEDYAROV  - Maxime VACHIER-LAGRAVE 1-0 1-0
4 Pentala HARIKRISHNA    - Magnus CARLSEN         1-0 1/2

4) Dutch Championship

The Dutch Championships took place September 5th-16th 2005 in Leeuwarden. Loek van Wely took the title with 5.5/9 half a point clear of Daniel Stellwagen and Sergei Tiviakov. Peng Zhaoqin took the women's title by two points.

Official site: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/nk2005/

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ch-NED Leeuwarden NED (NED), 6-16 ix 2005          cat. XIII (2551)
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                                     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Van Wely, Loek       g NED 2655  * 0 = = 1 1 = 1 = =  5.5  2619 
 2. Stellwagen, Daniel   g NED 2533  1 * = = 0 = 1 0 = 1  5.0  2596 
 3. Tiviakov, Sergei     g NED 2678  = = * = = = 1 = = =  5.0  2579 
 4. Nijboer, Friso       g NED 2529  = = = * = = = = 1 0  4.5  2553 
 5. Janssen, Ruud        m NED 2501  0 1 = = * 0 1 1 = 0  4.5  2556 
 6. Smeets, Jan          g NED 2537  0 = = = 1 * 0 = = 1  4.5  2552 
 7. Werle, Jan           m NED 2514  = 0 0 = 0 1 * = 1 1  4.5  2555 
 8. Van den Doel, Erik   g NED 2587  0 1 = = 0 = = * = =  4.0  2504 
 9. L'Ami, Erwin         m NED 2519  = = = 0 = = 0 = * 1  4.0  2511 
10. Ernst, Sipke         m NED 2457  = 0 = 1 1 0 0 = 0 *  3.5  2481 
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ch-NED w Leeuwarden NED (NED), 6-16 ix 2005
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                                    1  2  3  4  5  6 
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1 Peng Zhaoqin          g NED 2405 ** 1= 1= =1 11 =1  8.0  2448
2 Bensdorp, Marlies    wm NED 2225 0= ** == =1 =1 1=  6.0  2316
3 Muhren, Bianca       wm NED 2269 0= == ** 0= 11 01  5.0  2235
4 Schuurman, Petra      f NED 2266 =0 =0 1= ** 0= =1  4.5  2200
5 Van Weersel, Arlette    NED 2173 00 =0 00 1= ** =1  3.5  2144
6 Bensdorp, Laura         NED 2108 =0 0= 10 =0 =0 **  3.0  2118
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5) 80th Championship of Argentina

80th Championship of Argentina took place 8th-16th September, 2005. Diego Flores defeated Pablo Ricardi took take the title in a playoff after both finished on 6/9.

Official site: http://www.ajedrez.com.ar/camparg/superior05/final05.htm

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80th ch-ARG Los Polvorines ARG (ARG), 8-16 ix 2005 cat. VII (2424)
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                                    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Ricardi, Pablo      g ARG 2551  * = = = 1 = 1 = = 1  6.0  2534 
 2. Flores, Diego       m ARG 2513  = * 1 0 1 = = 1 = 1  6.0  2539 
 3. Pierrot, Facundo    m ARG 2449  = 0 * 1 = = 1 = 0 1  5.0  2464 
 4. Alonso, Salvador    m ARG 2457  = 1 0 * = 0 0 1 1 1  5.0  2463 
 5. Lafuente, Pablo     m ARG 2435  0 0 = = * = = 1 1 1  5.0  2465 
 6. Valerga, Diego      m ARG 2499  = = = 1 = * 0 = 1 0  4.5  2415 
 7. Needleman, Gaston     ARG 2242  0 = 0 1 = 1 * 0 1 =  4.5  2444 
 8. Soppe, Guillermo    m ARG 2432  = 0 = 0 0 = 1 * = 1  4.0  2380 
 9. Perdomo, Leandro    f ARG 2345  = = 1 0 0 0 0 = * 1  3.5  2352 
10. Duarte, Leonardo      ARG 2317  0 0 0 0 0 1 = 0 0 *  1.5  2162 
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6) First Saturday September

The September First Saturday GM, IM and FM closed tournaments took place 3rd-13th September 2005 in Budapest. Attila Czebe and Zlatko Ilincic made 8.5/12 to finish a point clear of the field, Le Quang Liem made an IM- norm. Hoang Thi Bao Tram achieved a WGM norm in sharing first in the IMA Group. In the IM-B Zdenko Stupavski made an IM-norm and took clear first. Correction in the PGN to the result of the round 5 game Pitl 0-1 Le Quang Liem.

Official site: http://www.firstsaturday.hu

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FSGM September Budapest HUN (HUN), 3-13 ix 2005            cat. VII (2402)
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                                      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 
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 1. Czebe, Attila         g HUN 2494  * 1 = = 1 = 1 = = = 1 1 =  8.5  2552 
 2. Ilincic, Zlatko       g SCG 2470  0 * = = = = 1 = 1 1 1 1 1  8.5  2554 
 3. Fogarasi, Tibor       g HUN 2490  = = * 1 = = 1 = 0 1 1 = =  7.5  2490 
 4. Collins, Sam E IRL    m IRL 2413  = = 0 * = = 0 1 1 = 1 1 1  7.5  2496 
 5. Szabo, Krisztian      m HUN 2422  0 = = = * = 0 = 1 1 1 1 1  7.5  2495 
 6. Sakelsek, Tadej       m SLO 2390  = = = = = * = = 0 1 = 1 1  7.0  2460 
 7. Le Quang Liem         f VIE 2326  0 0 0 1 1 = * = = 1 1 = 1  7.0  2465 
 8. Pilgaard, Kim         m DEN 2415  = = = 0 = = = * = = 0 1 0  5.0  2344 
 9. Paschall, William M   m USA 2399  = 0 1 0 0 1 = = * 0 = = =  5.0  2345 
10. Reiss, Tibor          m HUN 2397  = 0 0 = 0 0 0 = 1 * = = =  4.0  2277 
11. Bergez, Luc           m FRA 2353  0 0 0 0 0 = 0 1 = = * = 1  4.0  2281 
12. Prohaszka, Peter2       HUN 2331  0 0 = 0 0 0 = 0 = = = * 1  3.5  2250 
13. Pitl, Gregory         f GER 2332  = 0 = 0 0 0 0 1 = = 0 0 *  3.0  2215 
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FSIMA September Budapest HUN (HUN), 3-13 ix 2005        cat. II (2293)
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                                        1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Hoang Thi Bao Tram    wm VIE 2267  * 0 1 = 1 = = 1 = 1  6.0  2420 
 2. Fodor, Tamas jr        f HUN 2262  1 * = = 0 1 1 = = 1  6.0  2421 
 3. Petran, Pal            m HUN 2416  0 = * = = = 1 1 1 1  6.0  2403 
 4. Jakab, Attila          m HUN 2451  = = = * = 1 = = 1 =  5.5  2355 
 5. Woodward, Timothy DM   f ENG 2313  0 1 = = * = = = 1 1  5.5  2370 
 6. Gerard, Nicolas        f FRA 2295  = 0 = 0 = * = = 1 1  4.5  2292 
 7. Bernard, Jacques         FRA 2252  = 0 0 = = = * = 1 1  4.5  2297 
 8. Werner, Dimo           m GER 2369  0 = 0 = = = = * = 1  4.0  2241 
 9. Mihok, Oliver            HUN 2157  = = 0 0 0 0 0 = * 1  2.5  2141 
10. Harila, Per              SWE 2144  0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 *  0.5  1865 
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FSIMB September Budapest HUN (HUN), 3-13 ix 2005       cat. II (2281)
---------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Stupavski, Zdenko     f SCG 2337  * = = 1 = 1 1 = 1 1  7.0  2494 
 2. Hardarson, Robert     f ISL 2361  = * 0 = = 1 = 1 1 =  5.5  2352 
 3. Pirisi, Gabor         m HUN 2294  = 1 * = = 0 = = 1 1  5.5  2359 
 4. Kahn, Evarth          m HUN 2307  0 = = * = 1 = = 1 1  5.5  2358 
 5. Lengyel, Bela         m HUN 2284  = = = = * 0 = = 1 1  5.0  2323 
 6. Vasilkova, Svetlana  wm RUS 2308  0 0 1 0 1 * = = 1 =  4.5  2278 
 7. Brustkern, Juergen    f GER 2250  0 = = = = = * = = 1  4.5  2284 
 8. Farago, Sandor        m HUN 2284  = 0 = = = = = * 0 1  4.0  2237 
 9. Bulthaupt, Freerk       GER 2185  0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 * 1  2.5  2125 
10. Mihok, Laszlo         f HUN 2201  0 = 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 *  1.0  1939 
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7) US Chess League

The United States Chess League sees 8 of the strongest cities in the US compete with each other in front of a live Internet audience on ICC.

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

Week 3 4th September 2005

Boston        - 2.5
Carolina      - 1.5

Baltimore     - 3
Philadelphia  - 1

New York      - 2.5
San Francisco - 1.5

Miami         - 2
Dallas        - 2

The Miami - Dallas match was agreed drawn on all 4
boards after Miami had some serious internet
connection problems. 

The current standings after 3 weeks are:

East Division

Boston        - 2.0/3
New York      - 2.0/3
Baltimore     - 1.5/3
Philadelphia  - 1.5/3

West Division

Miami         - 2.5/3
Dallas        - 1.5/3
San Francisco - 0.5/3
Carolina      - 0.5/3

8) Arab Individual Championships

The Arab Individual Championships take place 12th-20th September 2005 in Dubai Chess Club. In the men's event there are 3 GMs, 7 IMs and 7 FMs and a total of 21 rated players out of 22. 9 round Swiss with FIDE standard time control. In the ladies event 20 players compete, WIM Monaril Knarian from Lebanon is the top seeded player. News: Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.

Official sites: http://www.uaechess.org/english/ and http://www.arabfide.com/

Round 7 Standings:
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ch-Arab Dubai UAE (UAE), 12-13 ix 2005
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 1. Al Sayed, Mohamad N  m  QAT 2478 5.5  2325  24.0
 2. El Taher, Fouad      m  EGY 2456 5.0  2433  21.0
 3. Amin, Bassem         m  EGY 2400 5.0  2373  19.0
 4. Belkhodja, Slim      g  TUN 2468 5.0  2321  20.5
 5. Taleb, Moussa        g  UAE 2508 4.5  2426  20.0
 6. Adly, Ahmed          g  EGY 2503 4.5  2412  19.5
 7. Tissir, Mohamed      m  MAR 2444 4.0  2371  18.0
 8. Mohammad, Samir      f  SYR 2312 4.0  2340  13.5
 9. Henni, Mohamed       m  ALG 2337 3.5  2425  15.0
10. Hussein, N.A         f  IRQ 2339 3.5  2381  14.5
11. Hakki, Imad          m  SYR 2471 3.5  2327  12.0
12. Khader, Sami         f  JOR 2396 3.5  2293  14.0
13. Al-Hadarani, Hatim   f  YEM 2320 3.5  2259  14.5
14. Najjar, Ahmad        f  LIB 2339 3.5  2235  14.5
15. Jasim, A.R. Saleh    f  UAE 2318 3.0  2335  11.0
16. Othman, A. Moussa    f  UAE 2377 3.0  2259  8.5
17. Bouasis, Mehdi          TUN 2075 3.0  2188  9.5
18. Hassan, Abdullah     m  UAE 2341 3.0  2186  9.0
19. Ayyad, Maher            BRN 2074 2.5  2328 13.0
20. Al Hageri,Badr          KUW ---- 2.0  2275  9.0
21. Bengafer, Moh           LBA 2247 1.0  2239  3.0
22. Ali, Obay               SUD 2124 1.0  2197  5.0
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ch-Arab w Dubai UAE (UAE), 12-13 ix 2005
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 1. Al-Rufei, Eman H     wm IRQ 2104  6.5  865   26.0
 2. Mouradian, Knarik    wm LIB 2146  5.5  845   25.0
 3. Bahji,Hind              MOR ----  5.0  1152  19.5
 4. Ibrahim, Delbak      wm IRQ 1923  4.5  577   18.5
 5. Mona,Khaled             EGY ----  4.5  307   17.0
 6. Algildah, Nibal      wm SYR 1890  4.0  882   18.5
 7. Salem,Amna              UAE ----  4.0  653   13.0
 8. Mir Mahmoud, Afamia     SYR 2021  4.0  301   16.0
 9. Fuad, Natalie        wm JOR ----  3.5  1134  14.5
10. Saleh, Nora Mohd     wf UAE ----  3.5  595   16.0
11. Juma,Jamila             UAE ----  3.5  315   14.0
12. Toubal,Hayat            ALG ----  3.0  560   13.5
13. Al Najjar,Hoda          SYR ----  3.0  560   12.0
14. Malallah,Khadeja        UAE ----  3.0  545   13.0
15. Abdulsalam,Nadhmiya     YEM ----  3.0  275   9.0
16. Al-Harmoudi, Mona    wm UAE 1896  3.0  0     9.0
17. Basil,Ziana             IRQ ----  2.5  1135 13.5
18. Al-Ghasra, Dalal        BRN ----  2.5  577   7.5
19. Al Naimat,Rayah         JOR ----  1.0  571   4.0
20. Al Hassan,Tissir        SUD ----  0.5  379   0.5
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9) Polish Team Championship

The Polish Team Championship took place in Lubniewice 3rd-11th September 2005. Polonia Plus GSM Warsaw won the event. Games from the final round now available.

Further details: http://www.ekstraliga2005.xt.pl/

+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|                                     | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |10 |    |
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    1     |Polonia Plus GSM Warszawa | ¤ |3.5| 4 | 4 | 4 |4.5|4.5|3.5| 4 | 5 |37.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    2     |Polfa Grodzisk Mazowiecki |2.5| ¤ |1.5|4.5| 3 |4.5| 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |32.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    3     |MCKiS Jaworzno            | 2 |4.5| ¤ | 4 |2.5|3.5| 4 | 3 | 4 |3.5|31.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    4     |PTSz P³ock                | 2 |1.5| 2 | ¤ | 4 | 4 |4.5| 4 |4.5|4.5|31.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    5     |AZS UMCS Lublin           | 2 | 3 |3.5| 2 | ¤ |2.5|2.5| 4 |3.5| 4 |27.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    6     |Juvena Hañcza Suwa³ki     |1.5|1.5|2.5| 2 |3.5| ¤ | 2 |3.5| 4 | 4 |24.5|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    7     |HetMaN Szopienice Katowice|1.5| 2 | 2 |1.5|3.5| 4 | ¤ | 3 | 3 |3.5|24.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    8     |Stilon Gorzów Wlkp.       |2.5| 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 |2.5| 3 | ¤ | 3 | 3 |23.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    9     |Pocztowiec TP SA Poznañ   | 2 | 2 | 2 |1.5|2.5| 2 | 3 | 3 | ¤ |2.5|20.5|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+
|    10    |Zelmer Rzeszów            | 1 | 2 |2.5|1.5| 2 | 2 |2.5| 3 |3.5| ¤ |20.0|
+----------+--------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+----+

10) 4th Hotel Petra

The 4th Hotel Petra Round Robin took place 3rd-11th September 2005 in Rome. Oleg Romanishin won with 7.5/9 ahead of Ivan Farago with whom he played out a short draw in the final round.

Official site: http://www.arrocco.net

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4th Chiuso Hotel Petra Rome ITA (ITA), 6-16 viii 2005cat. VII (2415)
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                                      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 
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 1. Romanishin, Oleg M    g UKR 2570  * = 1 1 1 1 = 1 1 =  7.5  2671 
 2. Farago, Ivan          g HUN 2499  = * = = = 1 1 1 1 1  7.0  2625 
 3. Miladinovic, Igor     g GRE 2609  0 = * = 1 = 1 = = 1  5.5  2473 
 4. Vazquez, Renier       m ESP 2496  0 = = * = 0 = 1 1 1  5.0  2449 
 5. Sibilio, Mario        f ITA 2380  0 = 0 = * 1 = 1 = 1  5.0  2462 
 6. Piscopo, Pierluigi    f ITA 2389  0 0 = 1 0 * 1 = 0 1  4.0  2375 
 7. Corvi, Marco          f ITA 2317  = 0 0 = = 0 * 1 = 0  3.0  2301 
 8. Mazzilli, Piero       f ITA 2341  0 0 = 0 0 = 0 * 1 1  3.0  2298 
 9. Martorelli, Antonio   m ITA 2277  0 0 = 0 = 1 = 0 * 0  2.5  2264 
10. Ramondino, Renzo        ITA 2274  = 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 *  2.5  2264 
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11) 27th Annual Southern California Open

The 27th Annual Southern California Open, held September 3-5 in Los Angeles, drew 145 players. The Open section included six IMs and one WGM. Taking first place with 5.5-.5 was IM Enrico Sevillano, followed at 5-1 by IMs Jack Peters, Andranik Matikozyan, and Kongliang Deng, and WGM Regina Pokorna. News: John Hillery.

Complete standings may be found at http://www.westernchess.com.

12) Trieste Open

The Open A took place in Trieste 4th-10th September 2005 was won by Konstantin Landa. Final round games now available.

Official site: http://www.sst1904.com/pagine/index.html

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Open A Trieste ITA (ITA), 4-10 ix 2005
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                                        1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 
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 1. Landa, Konstantin    g  RUS 2609  +38 +13 = 6 +16 + 4 = 2 = 5 = 3 +12  7.0  2616 
 2. Tratar, Marko        m  SLO 2419  +31 +27 +19 = 5 +10 = 1 = 3 =12 = 4  6.5  2511 
 3. Fercec, Nenad        m  CRO 2500  +43 = 8 =17 + 9 +15 = 5 = 2 = 1 +10  6.5  2519 
 4. Efimov, Igor         g  ITA 2401  +33 +32 +21 =10 - 1 =12 + 8 +15 = 2  6.5  2487 
 5. Pavasovic, Dusko     g  SLO 2566  +29 =15 + 8 = 2 +18 = 3 = 1 =10 = 6  6.0  2519 
 6. Videki, Sandor       m  HUN 2394  +24 +23 = 1 = 7 =11 -10 +20 +14 = 5  6.0  2455 
 7. Lalic, Bogdan        g  CRO 2491  +25 =17 +42 = 6 =13 = 8 =10 =11 +15  6.0  2433 
 8. Borgo, Giulio        m  ITA 2380  +34 = 3 - 5 +37 +14 = 7 - 4 +27 +16  6.0  2436 
 9. Ramesa, Davor           CRO 2172  +41 +11 -10 - 3 +31 -15 +26 +22 +18  6.0  2353 
10. Jovanic, Ognjen      m  CRO 2447  +37 +20 + 9 = 4 - 2 + 6 = 7 = 5 - 3  5.5  2422 
11. Drazic, Sinisa       g  SCG 2497  +22 - 9 +26 +19 = 6 =16 =14 = 7 =13  5.5  2337 
12. Lazarev, Vladimir    g  RUS 2518  +26 =14 -16 +31 +20 = 4 +13 = 2 - 1  5.5  2361 
13. Bosiocic, Marin      f  CRO 2381  +36 - 1 +22 +21 = 7 =18 -12 +17 =11  5.5  2384 
14. Brunello, Sabino     f  ITA 2373  +30 =12 =15 +33 - 8 +21 =11 - 6 +19  5.5  2339 
15. Loncar, Robert       m  CRO 2390  +35 = 5 =14 +23 - 3 + 9 +27 - 4 - 7  5.0  2337 
16. Zufic, Miroslav      m  CRO 2391  +28 =42 +12 - 1 +32 =11 =17 =18 - 8  5.0  2357 
17. Nedimovic, Ljubisa      SLO 2217  +49 = 7 = 3 -18 +26 +19 =16 -13 =20  5.0  2316 
18. Gyorkos, Lajos       m  HUN 2424  +39 -19 +43 +17 - 5 =13 +23 =16 - 9  5.0  2257 
19. De Val, Daniele         ITA 2155  +44 +18 - 2 -11 +22 -17 +25 +34 -14  5.0  2255 
20. Trtanj, Tina         wm CRO 2137  +46 -10 =25 +40 -12 +32 - 6 +37 =17  5.0  2231 
21. Cedriano, Filippo       ITA 2005  +48 +38 - 4 -13 +35 -14 =37 =31 +24  5.0  2130 
22. Bevilacqua, Andrea      ITA 1978  -11 +30 -13 +49 -19 +35 +42 - 9 +31  5.0  2166 
23. Stantic, Severino       ITA 2064  +50 - 6 +28 -15 =46 +40 -18 =33 +34  5.0  2177 
24. Tonel, Giulia           ITA 1793  - 6 =40 +36 -32 -25 +28 +29 +43 -21  4.5  2054 
25. Arcion,Riccardo         ITA ----  - 7 +44 =20 -27 +24 =37 -19 +42 =26  4.5  2078 
26. Punteri, Marco          ITA 1985  -12 +36 -11 +41 -17 +43 - 9 +35 =25  4.5  2153 
27. Varini, Massimo         ITA 2080  +40 - 2 -33 +25 +39 +46 -15 - 8 =28  4.5  2132 
28. Plani,Andrea            ITA ----  -16 +48 -23 +29 -42 -24 +38 +36 =27  4.5  2042 
29. Samuelli, Daniele       ITA 1986  - 5 +34 -31 -28 =49 +41 -24 +46 +33  4.5  2021 
30. Cozzarin,Davide         ITA ----  -14 -22 -47 -38 +45 +48 +39 =32 +41  4.5  2052 
31. Brunello, Roberta       ITA 1837  - 2 +46 +29 -12 - 9 =33 +40 =21 -22  4.0  2076 
32. Bosiocic, Marko         CRO 2121  +45 - 4 =37 +24 -16 -20 -34 =30 +44  4.0  2037 
33. Pasquotto,Mirko         ITA ----  - 4 +47 +27 -14 -43 =31 +46 =23 -29  4.0  2037 
34. Omerzel,Nikola          SLO ----  - 8 -29 -46 +50 +47 +39 +32 -19 -23  4.0  2035 
35. Oblak,Mitja             ITA ----  -15 +50 =39 =42 -21 -22 +44 -26 +37  4.0  2004 
36. Brunello,Marina         ITA ----  -13 -26 -24 +48 =41 +49 =43 -28 +42  4.0  1980 
37. Batic,Aleskander        SLO ----  -10 +41 =32 - 8 +44 =25 =21 -20 -35  3.5  2041 
38. Grobovsek, Ivan         SLO 2000  - 1 -21 -44 +30 -40 +45 -28 =39 +47  3.5  1988 
39. Grudina,Marco           ITA ----  -18 =45 =35 +47 -27 -34 -30 =38 +46  3.5  1976 
40. Devetak,Robert          ITA ----  -27 =24 +45 -20 +38 -23 -31 -41 +50  3.5  1910 
41. Costariol,Elena         ITA ----  - 9 -37 +48 -26 =36 -29 +47 +40 -30  3.5  1935 
42. Padjen, Zdenko          CRO 2068  +47 =16 - 7 =35 +28  .  -22 -25 -36  3.0  2020 
43. Milinkovic, Zdravko     SLO 1980  - 3 +49 -18 =44 +33 -26 =36 -24  .   3.0  2000 
44. Vecchiet,Gianfranco     ITA ----  -19 -25 +38 =43 -37 =47 -35 +48 -32  3.0  1903 
45. Gergolet,Jan            ITA ----  -32 =39 -40 -46 -30 -38 =50 +51 +48  3.0  1888 
46. Zerial,Marino           ITA ----  -20 -31 +34 +45 =23 -27 -33 -29 -39  2.5  1845 
47. Costariol,Mario         ITA ----  -42 -33 +30 -39 -34 =44 -41 +50 -38  2.5  1841 
48. Rozmann,Glauco          ITA ----  -21 -28 -41 -36 +50 -30 +51 -44 -45  2.0  1780 
49. Decleva,Gianni          ITA ----  -17 -43 +50 -22 =29 -36  .   .   .   1.5  1833 
50. Crivellari,Lucio        ITA ----  -23 -35 -49 -34 -48 +51 =45 -47 -40  1.5  1734 
51. BYE                         ----   .   .   .   .   .  -50 -48 -45  .   0.0       
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13) European Youth Championships

The European Youth Championships take place in Herceg Novi, Serbia and Montenegro September 13-28th, 2005.

Further details: http://www.scgchess.org/euro2005/index.html

Leading Standings in the top groups
European Youth Chess Championship - Boys U18  
Round 5 Standings

Place Name                     Feder Rtg  Title Score 

  1   Rodshtein, Maxim         ISR   2459       5     
  2   Czarnota, Pawel          POL   2461 im    4.5   
 3-4  Laznicka, Viktor         CZE   2517 im    4     
      Tukhaev, Adam            UKR   2438       4     
5-12  Lovkov, Roman            RUS   2383 fm    3.5   
      Pashikian, Arman         ARM   2442 im    3.5   
      Lanin, Alexsei           RUS   2424       3.5   
      Valeanu, Eduard-Andrei   ROM   2398       3.5   
      Nechepurenko, Roman V.   RUS   2414 fm    3.5   
      Ponkratov, Pavel         RUS   2377       3.5   
      Vitiugov, Nikita         RUS   2519       3.5   
      Brandenburg, Daan        NED   2371       3.5   
13-28 Nepomniachtchi, Ian      RUS   2502 im    3     
      Pancevski, Filip         MKD   2319       3     
      Movsisian, Vardan        ARM   2233       3     
      Hambartsumian, Yuri      ARM   2186       3     
      Azaladze, Shota          GEO   2358       3     
      Stopa, Jacek             POL   2460       3     
      Moranda, Wojciech        POL   2453 fm    3     
      Velchev, Hristo          BUL   2212       3     
      Zorko, Jure              SLO   2335 fm    3     
      Gavariev, Renat          RUS   2294 fm    3     
      Erdos, Viktor            HUN   2499 im    3     
      Bogosavljevic, Boban     SCG   2302       3     
      Ragger, Markus           AUT   2434 fm    3     
      Mamikonian, Tigran       ARM   2273       3     
      Luch, Michal             POL   2414 im    3     
      Papin, Vasily            RUS   2425 fm    3     
66 players

European Youth Chess Championship - Boys U16  
Round 5 Standings

Place Name                   Feder Rtg  Title Score 
 1-2  Trofimov, Sergey P.    RUS   2411       4.5   
      Nakhapetiane, Pogos    RUS   2325       4.5   
 3-7  Andriasian, Zaven      ARM   2412 im    4     
      Margvelashvili, Giorgi GEO   2353 fm    4     
      Zadruzny, Nicolaj      SWE   2077       4     
      Potapov, Pavel         RUS   2285       4     
      Levin, Evgeny A.       RUS   2303       4     
8-19  Matsenko, Sergei       RUS   2257       3.5   
      Jojua, Davit           GEO   2337 fm    3.5   
      Saric, Ivan            CRO   2284       3.5   
      Spoelman, Wouter       NED   2365       3.5   
      Warakomski, Tomasz     POL   2375 fm    3.5   
      Lintchevski, Daniil    RUS   2332       3.5   
      Monsieux, Cyril        FRA   2206       3.5   
      Krcal, Michal          CZE   2025       3.5   
      Brener, Ilja           GER   2316 fm    3.5   
      Figura, Atila Gajo     GER   2277       3.5   
      Edouard, Romain        FRA   2334       3.5   
      Caspi, Israel          ISR   2241       3.5   
72 players


European Youth Chess Championship - Girls U18 - 
Round 5 Standings

Place Name                      Feder Rtg  Title Score 

 1-2  Melia, Salome             GEO   2305 wgm   4.5   
      Purtseladze, Maka         GEO   2313 im    4.5   
 3-6  Rogule, Laura             LAT   2310 wim   4     
      Vasiliev, Olga            ISR   2202 wim   4     
      Batsiashvili, Nino        GEO   2316 wim   4     
      Burtasova, Anna           RUS   2239 wim   4     
7-12  Czarnota, Dorota          POL   2238 wim   3.5   
      Rozic, Vesna              SLO   2192 wfm   3.5   
      Kovanova, Baira           RUS   2321       3.5   
      Dolzhikova, Kateryna      UKR   2248 wim   3.5   
      Djukic, Sandra            SCG   2095       3.5   
      Borosova, Zuzana          SVK   2222       3.5   
13-18 Lupik, Marina             RUS   2200       3     
      Padurariu, Ioana-Smaranda ROM   2197       3     
      Guichard, Pauline         FRA   2103       3     
      Markantonaki, Haritomeni  GRE   2115       3     
      Khudaya, Aliaksandra      BLR   2117       3     
      Rudolf, Anna              HUN   2210 wim   3     
50 players

14) Iranian Championship

The final part of the Iranian Championship takes place in Tehran 10th-20th September 2005. This is a 12 player round robin tournament, the winner also will qualify for the Asian Individual ch. 2005 in India. Time control is FIDE standard (90'+30"). News: Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.

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

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ch-IRI Tehran IRI (IRI), 11-21 ix 2005                    cat. II (2297)
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                                      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 
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 1. Khaghani, Mehdi         IRI 2311  * . = 1 . 1 = . . . . 1  4.0  2518 
 2. Mahjoob, Morteza      m IRI 2442  . * . . = . . = 1 1 1 .  4.0  2523 
 3. Sharbaf, Mohsen       f IRI 2346  = . * . . . . 1 1 = 0 .  3.0  2338 
 4. Ghorbani, Mohsen      m IRI 2340  0 . . * . = 1 . . . 1 =  3.0  2325 
 5. Darban, Morteza       f IRI 2397  . = . . * . . 0 = 1 . 1  3.0  2364 
 6. Mahdavirad, Mehdi       IRI 2228  0 . . = . * . 1 = . 1 .  3.0  2339 
 7. Mahmoody, M. Sadegh     IRI 2228  = . . 0 . . * = . . 1 1  3.0  2355 
 8. Ardeshi, Mehrdad      f IRI 2265  . = 0 . 1 0 = * . . . .  2.0  2256 
 9. Toufighi, Homayoon      IRI 2170  . 0 0 . = = . . * = . .  1.5  2200 
10. Mohajerin, Payman     f IRI 2334  . 0 = . 0 . . . = * . =  1.5  2172 
11. Doostkam, P             IRI 2250  . 0 1 0 . 0 0 . . . * .  1.0  2076 
12. Soozankar, A.M          IRI 2251  0 . . = 0 . 0 . . = . *  1.0  2082 
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15) 13th Albacete Open

The 13th Albacete Open took place 1st-7th September 2005. Renier Castellanos won the event with 7.5/9. No games available.

Official site: http://www.ajedrezenmadrid.com/torneos/torneo.asp?torneo=05090100

Final Round 9 Standings:
  1   Castellanos, Renier              m CHI  7.5  46.5   51.0
  2   Rivas Pastor, Manuel             g ESP  7    49.5   53.5
  3   Vera, Reynaldo                   g CUB  6.5  46.5   51.0
  4   Rodriguez Guerrero, Enrique      m ESP  6.5  44.5   47.5
  5   Vitor, Antonio                   f POR  6.5  41.5   44.5
  6   Suba, Mihai                      g ROM  6    49.0   53.5
  7   Oratovsky, Michael               g ISR  6    48.5   53.0
  8   Mateo, Ramón                     m DOM  6    48.0   52.5
  9   Movsziszian, Karen               g ARM  6    47.5   51.0
 10   Saldaño Dayer, Horacio           m ARG  6    46.5   51.0
 11   Cabrera Pino, Alexis             g COL  6    46.5   50.5
 12   Zambrana, Oswaldo                m BOL  6    46.0   49.0
 13   Llanes Hurtado, Miguel           f ESP  6    45.0   49.0
 14   Camarena Gimenez, Rufino         f ESP  6    44.0   48.5
 15   Vehi Bach, Víctor Manuel         m ESP  6    43.5   47.5
 16   Gomez Baillo, Jorge H.           m ARG  6    43.0   47.5
 17   Spassov, Liuben                  g BUL  5.5  46.5   51.0
 18   Fernandez Siles, Luis            f ESP  5.5  46.5   50.5
 19   Cuenca Jimenez, José             f ESP  5.5  43.5   46.5
 20   Avila Jimenez, Javier              ESP  5.5  43.5   45.0
 21   Alonso Fernandez, Marcos           ESP  5.5  43.0   47.5
 22   Camacho Calle, Pedro               ESP  5.5  41.0   43.5
 23   Jimenez Martinez, José Vicente     ESP  5.5  40.5   42.5
 24   Picazo Lopez, Juan Antonio         ESP  5.5  40.5   41.0
 25   Delgado Alarcon, Jesús Francisco   ESP  5.5  36.5   39.5
79 players

16) 4th Kesarovski - Georgiev Memorial

The 4th Kesarovski - Georgiev Memorial, takes place in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria 16th-24th September b2005. 84 players including 7 GMs and 14 IMs compete.

Official site: http://www.chessmix.com/sunnybeach05/

17) Golden Blitz Cup

The Golden Blitz Cup took place on September 13th-14th 2005 in Moscow. In the final of the men's event, Ponomariov (who won against Tkachiev in the 1/2 finals and Grischuk in the 1/4 finals) won against Bareev (who won against Tregubov in the 1/2 finals and Short in the 1/4 finals). In the semi-finals were Tkachev (who won against Motylev in the 1/4 finals) and Tregubov (who won against Pelletier in the 1/4 finals).

In the final of the women, Alexandra Kosteniuk beat Almira Skripchenko 2-0. In the semi-finals Kosteniuk beat Zhu Chen 2-0 and Skripchenko beat Irina Krush. The event was on live TV (NTV+) in Russia.

Further details: http://www.kosteniuk.com/ and the official announcement http://www.chess-players.org/eng/news/viewarticle.html?id=426 and in Russian here: http://vvprofi.ru/news.php. A nice and complete photo album of the event is here: http://www.kosteniuk.com/albums/goldenblitz/goldenblitz05.html

18) IX Taca Brasilia Clube de Xadrez

The IX Taca Brasilia Clube de Xadrez took place in Brasília/DF, Brasil 4th-11th September 2005. IM Everaldo Matsuura won 9/11.

Results, cross table are available at: http://www.persocom.com.br/bcx

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IX Taca BCX Brasilia BRA (BRA), 4-11 ix 2005
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 1. Matsuura, Everaldo              m  BRA 2453  9        57.0  67.0 54.25   58.0
 2. Lima, Darcy                     g  BRA 2535  8        58.5  72.0 52.25   46.0
 4. Valle, Adriano                     BRA 2270  7        57.0  70.5 44.00   46.5
 3. Lebredo, Gerardo                m  CUB 2300  7        56.5  70.0 44.50   42.5
 5. Crosa, Martin                   m  URU 2415  7        56.5  70.0 41.00   42.0
 6. Silveira, Neri                     BRA 2244  6.5      58.0  71.5 40.50   41.0
 7. Lucena, Lincoln                    BRA 2184  6.5      56.0  67.0 35.50   41.5
 8. Marra, Eduardo da Costa            BRA 2262  6.5      54.5  65.5 35.75   38.5
 9. Da Silva, Alessandro Rodrigues     BRA 2238  6.5      54.5  64.5 28.25   37.5
10. Damasceno, Marlos A                BRA 2171  6.5      45.5  53.5 27.50   34.5
11. Andrade, Roberto Luiz Costa     f  BRA 2261  6        53.0  64.0 32.00   37.5
10. De Andrade, Waldemiro              BRA 2185  6        47.5  56.5 28.25   37.0
13. Januario, Severino                 BRA 2099  6        43.0  50.5 22.25   29.0
14. Reis, Ernesto                      BRA 2016  5.5      48.0  56.0 17.50   35.5
15. Nascimento, Davi                   BRA 2153  5.5      47.0  57.5 22.50   30.5
16. Pimentel, William                  BRA 2126  5        50.0  60.0 17.75   32.5
17. Rocha, Tarciso                     BRA 1954  5        48.0  57.0 17.50   29.0
18. Sales, Espedito                    BRA 2038  5        48.0  57.0 15.00   31.0
19. Coutinho, Sidnei Bissacot          BRA 2208  5        45.0  53.0 16.75   29.0
20. Matozo,Paulo Adriano               BRA ----  4.5      48.0  55.5 21.00   28.0
21. Andrade,Felipe                     BRA ----  4        45.0  53.5 15.00   19.0
22. Machado, Gilmar Dias               BRA 2037  2.5      49.5  59.5  3.50   19.0
23. Baeta,Andre                        BRA ----  1.5      46.0  54.5  3.00    7.0
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19) Alushta Autumn

There was a 9 player double round Autumn tournament in Alushta, Ukraine, 4th-14th September 2005. Valeriy Aveskulov and Yaroslav Zinchenko both finished on 11.5/16.

Autumn 1 Alushta UKR (UKR), 4-14 ix 2005                   cat. VIII (2435)
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                                      1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 
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1 Aveskulov, Valeriy      m UKR 2450 ** == == == 1= 11 1= 1= 11  11.5  2599
2 Zinchenko, Yaroslav     m UKR 2493 == ** == == == 11 1= 11 11  11.5  2594
3 Kuzmin, Gennadi P       g UKR 2514 == == ** == 1= 01 == 1= 1=   9.5  2490
4 Obukhov, Alexander      m RUS 2522 == == == ** 10 10 == 11 =1   9.5  2489
5 Ponfilenok, Vladimir      RUS 2271 0= == 0= 01 ** == =1 1= 1=   8.5  2477
6 Truskavetsky, Alexandr  m UKR 2399 00 00 10 01 == ** == 1= 11   7.5  2419
7 Shtyrenkov, Veniamen    g RUS 2459 0= 0= == == =0 == ** == ==   6.5  2367
8 Paramonov, Dimitriy       BLR 2395 0= 00 0= 00 0= 0= == ** 11   5.0  2299
9 Chuprikov, Dmitry         RUS 2416 00 00 0= =0 0= 00 == 00 **   2.5  2153
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20) Kramnik Internet Simul

Vladimir Kramnik played from the NAO Chess Club, Paris (France) on Thursday, September 15th 2005 at 18:00 h. (+1 GMT). Opponents: 8 players. Time control: 60/30 (Kramnik) , 20/30 (opponents). Chess21 (the internet hosts) and Kramnik's website have reports.

Further details: http://www.kramnik.com/eng/ and http://www.chess21.com/news/viewarticle.asp?iCode=1878.

21) Bratto Correction

The 25th International Chess Festival "Conca della Presolana" took place in Bratto (Italy), 20-28 August 2005. Vladimir Epishin took first place on tie-break from Miso Cebalo with 7/9. These results were given in TWIC 565. Embarrassingly I didn't pick up the Miles,A given in the PGN section. It should be Ardaman,M (Miles). I give the game with the name and rating corrected.

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

22) Forthcoming Events and Links

FIDE World Championship

The FIDE Championship takes place September 27th - October 16th 2005 at Potrero de los Funes, San Luis (Argentina). Players: Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Michael Adams, Peter Leko, Vishy Anand, Veselin Topalov, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler, and Judit Polgar.

Official site: http://www.wccsanluis.net/home.asp?lang=en

Liberec Open 2005

6th International Chess Festival Liberec Open 2005 take places 22nd-29th October 2005 in Liberec (Czech Republic).

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

GM against the World - Olympiads of Chess, Turin 2006

Sergio Mariotti is the first Grand Master to take on the world from the official Turin Olympiad website starting on 29th September 2005. Just Register on the Olympiad website and wait to receive your password by email. Then Enter the game in PlayArea/play on line

Further details: http://www.chessolympiad-torino2006.org

World Inter-Varsity Chess Championship

The Rakan Muda Gacc World Inter-Varsity Chess Championship takes place at the Second Residential College University Of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. i. All teams are expected to arrive in Malaysia not later than 6 Dec 2005 and expected to depart earliest on 14 Dec 2005.Participation in GACC World Inter-Varsity Chess Championship is open to all BONA FIDE representatives from universities and colleges. GACC will be conducted as an individual Swiss event. The accumulated results of the best 4(four) individuals from the same university (which is inclusive of at least one female player) will be accumulated for the team results. This format is to encourage more female players to participate. Each University or Institute can send two teams if they wish to.

Contact details: TEL: 03-7957 1706 . FAX: 03-7957 1608 E-MAIL: gacc_10@yahoo.com

Official site: http://tcn.sourceforge.net

10th Cesenatico International

The 10th Cesenatico International Chess Tournament took place 3rd-11th September 2005. Couldn't find games and results.

Further info: http://www.antiquascom.it

Brno Fair Trade Chess Festival

The Fair Trade Chess Festival 2005 in Brno had 2 closed GM groups, 1 closed IM group, open A (FIDE), open B (national) 28th August - 7th September 2005. Couldn't find results or games.

Further details: http://volny.cz/skduras

Scandinavian Chess Tournament Grand Prix 2005

Scandinavian Chess Tournament Grand Prix 2005. (3 Tournaments) Tallinn, Estonia 26-27 March 2005. Mariehamn, Aland (Finland) 1-2 October 2005 (5000 Euro Prize fund, 1st Prize 900 Euro) 11 rounds 15 minutes games with time handicap, Täby, Sweden 10-11 December 2005. 1st prize 12 000 SEK , 25 minutes games Besides the normal prizes there will be 5 Grand Prix-prizes: 30.000 SEK, 22.000 SEK, 15.000 SEK, 10.000 SEK, 5.000 SEK.

Information: http://www.scandinavian-chess.se

New RSS Chess Website

Chess Samizdat is a new portal which offers free syndicated chess content to the world via JS and RSS feed.

http://www.correspondencechess.com/samizdat/

Seagaard ChessReviews

Soren Sogaard announces that his site Seagaard ChessReviews will no longer be updated.

His letter: Dear reader! This is the last "newsletter" you receive from Seagaard ChessReviews. I have run the site for 5½ years, but now I no longer have the time to keep running the site. I have looked for sponsors for some time now, but I didn't succeed. Without these sponsors it is not easy to run the site. It was a hard decision, but the site, products and reviews will still be there for you - I just stop reviewing the products that I receive. If I receive products in the future, I will still store them in the database. However, I will writ eto the publishers that the site is closing so don't count on a lot of new products ;-) Thanks to all the people who supported me during the years. I am happy that more than 320 people now subscribes to the newsletter and that we have + 70.000 hits every week. All the best Soren Sogaard - Seagaard ChessReviews

Website: http://seagaard.dk/review

Scanno Italy

SCANNO (ITALY) GM-IM closed tournaments, 7th-13th of November, Scanno, 50 km West from Pescara, info: IO Nagy Laszlo - e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net

Highlands Open Czech Republic

2nd International Chess Festival Open Highlands will take place on 24th September - 2nd October 2005 in the Havlickuv Brod town (the Czech Republic) which part is open FIDE with the possibility to participate for all applicants. The festival is part of the 5th CZECH TOUR 2005/2006 Series.

More detailed information should be found at the address http://www.czechtour.net.

Caissa Events September - October

The Caissa tournaments take place in Kecskemét (HUN) 17th-26th September 2005 and 15th-24th October 2005... IM round robin and/or FM tmt, more info http://www.caissachessbooks.com. Contact Dr. Tamas Erdelyi caissa@axelero.hu.

Bratto della Presolana

Bratto della Presolana is a small mountain town 40 km from Bergamo, Italy. 15 GMs in the Master Group. There will be also Italian Female Championship and Italian Under 20 Championship.

Games, news, and Bulletin: http://www.scaccobratto.com/

Liepajas rokade

Liepajas rokade, the biggest chess festival in the Baltics took place from 11th to 14th of August 2005 in Liepaja Latvia. Loek van Wely won the main all-play-all rapid event. I will hopefully be able to round up the games at some point.

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

3rd Abe Yanofsky Memorial

The 3rd Abe Yanofsky Memorial takes place 3rd-5th September 2005. The event takes place in Winnipeg Canada. The tournament is a six-round open Swiss, FIDE-rated, over the Labour Day weekend. Entry fee by July 15th 2005: $80 Cdn.

Russian GM Sergey Shipov and Canadian GM Mark Bluvshtein have confirmed their participation in the Abe Yanofsky Memorial.

This year's tournament will have 50 per cent more in prizes than 2004, with $6,000 guaranteed, including class prizes.

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

4th Galway Chess Congress

The 4th Galway Chess Congress takes place October 7th-9th 2005 at the 4 star Corrib Great Southern hotel in Galway (Ireland). The prize fund is 10,000 Euros or approx £6,800. There will be 4 tournaments for different rating sections with a 2000 Euro (£1300) first prize in the top section and significant prizes for the other sections including generous grading prizes. There are now direct flights to Galway from London, Manchester and Edinburgh so we're hoping to perhaps have some visitors from the UK.

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

Moscow Open 2006

The International Chess Festival "Moscow Open 2006" takes place in Moscow, Russia, 29.01 (31.01, 01.02) - 06.02. 2006. A stage of the Moscow Grand Prix 2006 (http://www.chessmoscow.ru), Russia Cup 2006 (http://www.russiachess.ru) and the ACP Tour 2005-2006 (http://www.chess-players.org)

Contacts: e-mail: mcf06@bk.ru Mr. Igor Glek (IGM, ACP Board Member): igorglek@hotmail.com, phone/fax: +49-2013162843, +7-0953883328. Mr. Alexander Zlochevsky (IGM, Coach of the Moscow Chess Team): zloch@rambler.ru, phone/fax: +7-095-3650757

Further details: http://www.chessmoscow.ru

European Team Championship

In addition to Olympiad history there is now European Team Championship history (1957-2005) available at: http://www.olimpbase.org

Odessa Open - Geller Memorial

Odessa Open - Geller Memorial Two open tournaments will take place in Odessa, Ukraine from 15 - 24 September 2005. The prize fund of A-Open will be 3475 USD (1st prize 1000 USD). The prize fund of B-Open will will be 525 USD.

Details in Russian are available at: http://www.chesspage.kiev.ua Contact with organisers: lvv@sky.od.ua, nik@sadt.od.ua

Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship

Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship, 2005-2006 The starter round of this competition has now finished and the solution to the starter problem, and other details, is available at the website: http://www.bstephen.freeuk.com/0506/bcsc.html

Coral Springs IM

Jon Haskel is running an IM Norm Round Robin in Coral Springs, Florida on September 17, 18, 19, 24 and 25. There will be 1 round on the 19th and 2 rounds on each of the other days. The time control will be 90 minutes with a 30 second increment. He needs 3 players from foreign federations. Contact: Jon Haskel jon@bocachess.com

Houston Open - Cajun Chess Events

A number of events are planned in the coming weeks in the Houston, Charlotte and Orlando areas.

Charlotte Open - August 26-28: http://www.cajunchess.com/tourns/tournament10.shtml

World Amateur Open Championship - October 7-9, 2005: http://www.cajunchess.com/tourns/tournament13.shtml

Cajun Chess Web Site: http://www.cajunchess.com/

58th Quebec Open Championship

IM Jean Hébert was the joint winner of the 58th Quebec Open Championship with 6.5/9, with Antoine Berube, Simon Gravel, and FM Vahagn Voskanyan. The tournament is usually Canada's largest open event, although this year its 195 players ranked it just behind the Canadian Open for attendance. Hopefully I can round up all the games at some point.

Games and results: http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/

2nd Varna Chess Festival

The 2nd International Chess Festival Varna, takes place September 7th-15th 2005. Further details: Mr. Boris Hristov 5 Konstantin Fotinov St., Varna 9002 "Seahorse" National Children's Chess Federation Tel: +359/52/642 877; Fax: +359/52/574 940; Mobile: +359/88/6025 403 e-mail: seahorse@abv.bg

Senior World Championship

The Senior Chess World Championship takes place 27th September - 10th October 2005 in the Lignano Sabbiadoro, Udine, Italy, just one hour car far away from Venice.

The tournament is open to both men and women, and is an 11 round Swiss. Time rate: 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 15 minutes until the end of the game. with a 30 second increment from move 1.

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

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

Peter Leko Official Site

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

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.

Hungarian Tournaments September - December 2005

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

1 3rd-15th of September FS GM-IM-FM Budapest, org: NL

2. 1st-13th of October, FS GM-IM-FM, Budapest L

3. 5th-17th of November, FS GM-IM-FM Budapest

4. 3rd - 15th of December, FS GM-IM-FM.

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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.

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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