THE WEEK IN CHESS 576 21st November 2005 by Mark Crowther
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My thanks to Sinisa Joksic, Gary Suffield, Christoff Mans, Luiz Roberto
Da Costa Jr., Laszlo Nagy, Gunther van den Bergh, John Donaldson, Mikos Orso,
Georgios Makropoulos, Daaim Shabazz, Carlos Matamoros, Stefan Koth, and
everyone else who helped with the issue.
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov looks set to regain the World Junior Championship
he won in 2003 as he leads by a point and a half with two rounds to go.
Elsewhere it seems that optimism that a reunification world championship match
between Veselin Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik was misplaced and negotiations
have broken down in acrimony.
Hope you enjoy this issue.
Mark
The World Junior Championships take place in Istanbul 9th-22nd November
2005.
Official site: http://www.tsf.org.tr/worldchess/
Round 11 of 13 Standings
World Junior Championship (Boys) U20
Rank after round 11
Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts RtgSum Ra Rp
1 1 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2674 AZE 9½ 25455 2529 2838
2 5 GM Berkes Ferenc 2596 HUN 8 24640 2447 2622
3 8 GM Nyback Tomi 2563 FIN 8 24495 2436 2611
4 4 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw 2606 POL 7½ 25071 2492 2625
5 12 GM L'ami Erwin 2541 NED 7½ 25065 2489 2622
6 2 GM Alekseev Evgeny 2632 RUS 7½ 24783 2478 2532
7 6 GM Wang Yue 2585 CHN 7½ 24659 2453 2586
8 15 GM Smeets Jan 2531 NED 7 25279 2507 2609
9 26 IM Heberla Bartlomiej 2465 POL 7 24964 2473 2575
10 17 GM Wang Hao 2519 CHN 7 24886 2470 2572
11 3 GM Gashimov Vugar 2608 AZE 7 24844 2472 2574
12 9 GM Stellwagen Daniel 2561 NED 7 24693 2456 2558
13 28 IM Magalashvili Davit 2448 GEO 7 24568 2434 2536
14 20 GM Bartel Mateusz 2513 POL 7 24540 2438 2540
15 11 IM Kharitonov Alexandr 2545 RUS 7 24369 2425 2527
16 22 IM Zhigalko Sergei 2490 BLR 7 23995 2385 2487
17 59 Li Chao(B) 2305 CHN 6½ 25041 2495 2560
18 49 FM Glud Jacob Vang 2349 DEN 6½ 24828 2457 2522
19 24 IM Romanov Evgeny 2479 RUS 6½ 24711 2451 2516
20 34 IM Sanikidze Tornike 2411 GEO 6½ 24542 2425 2490
21 7 GM Tomashevsky Evgeny 2564 RUS 6½ 24523 2442 2507
22 10 GM Predojevic Borki 2558 BIH 6½ 24435 2432 2497
23 13 IM Khairullin Ildar 2537 RUS 6½ 24359 2436 2425
24 41 IM Esen Baris 2384 TUR 6½ 24118 2412 2403
25 37 IM Poobesh Anand S 2397 IND 6½ 24086 2377 2442
26 18 IM Laznicka Viktor 2517 CZE 6½ 23908 2381 2446
27 16 GM Kurnosov Igor 2523 RUS 6½ 23894 2389 2383
28 14 IM Zhigalko Andrey 2537 BLR 6½ 23738 2357 2421
29 36 IM Sengupta Deep 2400 IND 6½ 23467 2321 2386
30 46 FM Terrieux Kevin 2365 FRA 6 25149 2515 2468
31 38 Karakehajov Kalin 2396 BUL 6 24339 2435 2394
32 19 IM Mamedov Nidjat 2517 AZE 6 24322 2417 2453
33 30 Babujian Levon 2429 ARM 6 24302 2409 2445
34 32 IM Rau Hannes 2421 GER 6 24173 2396 2432
35 25 IM Lenic Luka 2476 SLO 6 24049 2388 2424
36 29 FM Kuderinov Kirill 2432 KAZ 6 23891 2389 2353
37 53 FM Jojua Davit 2337 GEO 6 23816 2353 2389
38 42 IM Livshits Gaby 2381 ISR 6 23761 2376 2342
39 56 Macak Stefan 2319 SVK 6 23750 2375 2341
40 40 FM Sulashvili Malkhaz 2386 GEO 6 23662 2380 2333
41 44 Wen Yang 2374 CHN 6 22379 2487 2362
42 52 FM Xie George Wendi 2340 AUS 5½ 24574 2432 2432
43 54 Gopal G N 2327 IND 5½ 24518 2417 2417
44 48 Negi Parimarjan 2352 IND 5½ 24506 2428 2428
45 51 FM El Debs Felipe De Cresce 2341 BRA 5½ 24423 2407 2407
46 65 Maenhout Thibaut 2282 BEL 5½ 24245 2398 2398
47 78 Zeynalov Farid 2179 AZE 5½ 24169 2405 2405
48 33 IM Cornette Matthieu 2418 FRA 5½ 23866 2365 2365
49 63 FM Kurmann Oliver 2287 SUI 5½ 23857 2386 2314
50 61 Kvon Andrey 2293 UZB 5½ 23841 2388 2313
51 47 Krivokapic Marko 2361 SCG 5½ 23283 2299 2290
52 50 Tikkanen Hans 2343 SWE 5½ 23243 2306 2306
53 21 GM Moradiabadi Elshan 2497 IRI 5½ 23240 2311 2311
54 35 Rohit Gogineni 2401 IND 5½ 23076 2286 2286
55 31 FM Papin Vasily 2425 RUS 5½ 23035 2288 2288
56 23 IM Zinchenko Yaroslav 2485 UKR 5 23821 2371 2335
57 66 Akshat Khamparia 2275 IND 5 23190 2319 2218
58 71 Ouakhir Mehdi 2239 MAR 5 22738 2274 2177
59 27 FM Barnaure Vlad-Victor 2454 ROM 5 22434 2231 2189
60 43 Grecescu Gabriel-Andrei 2380 ROM 5 22164 2216 2124
61 57 Nava Roderick 2317 PHI 5 21495 2388 2209
62 68 Lettieri Giuseppe 2265 ITA 5 21459 2384 2206
63 45 FM Perdomo Leandro 2373 ARG 5 21436 2382 2204
64 74 Samakov Nurdin 2209 KGZ 5 21386 2376 2199
65 58 FM Carron Julien 2314 SUI 5 18747 2343 2105
66 60 Jessel Stephen 2304 IRL 4½ 24408 2441 2299
67 39 FM Wei Chenpeng 2390 CHN 4½ 24267 2392 2324
68 69 Moosavian S Hamed 2263 IRI 4½ 24027 2372 2307
69 88 Khuseinkhodzhaev Muhammad 0 TJK 4½ 23769 2344 2279
70 67 Amanov Mesgen 2273 TKM 4½ 23520 2352 2219
71 75 Yagiz Yasin Emrah 2206 TUR 4½ 23489 2349 2216
72 80 IM Stander Heinrich 2128 RSA 4½ 23426 2328 2263
73 55 Aleskerov Faik 2321 AZE 4½ 23425 2343 2210
74 89 Mosetlhe Kgaugelo 0 RSA 4½ 23209 2321 2190
75 64 Can Emre 2287 TUR 4½ 22914 2270 2205
76 70 Pileckis Emilis 2255 LTU 4½ 21097 2344 2144
77 82 Cil Hasan Kivanc 2067 TUR 4½ 20165 2241 2059
78 72 Shlykov Vitali 2238 EST 4 23123 2312 2146
79 79 Tanrikulu Erhan 2151 TUR 4 22888 2289 2124
80 62 FM Citak Selim 2291 TUR 4 20864 2318 2086
81 92 Villa Ronald 0 COL 4 20075 2231 2014
82 76 Bekkat Azeddinne 2202 ALG 4 19778 2214 1942
83 77 Tulay Berkay 2179 TUR 3½ 22695 2249 2116
84 81 Uzun Fuat 2070 TUR 3½ 20193 2249 2009
85 83 Agdestein Emil 2057 NOR 3½ 19834 2204 1961
86 85 Lauda Alexandr 2010 MDA 3½ 17241 2151 1871
87 90 Sarwary Hamidullah 0 AFG 3 21469 2147 1922
88 73 Laval Brice 2214 FRA 3 18269 2284 1922
89 86 Acuner Emrah 1903 TUR 3 17600 2165 1862
90 87 De Bruyn Leon W 0 RSA 2½ 19663 2185 1868
91 91 Tasdelen Deniz Murat 0 TRK 2½ 19530 2170 1856
92 84 Uesugi Shinsaku 2040 JPN 2 17467 2175 1763
World Junior Championship (Girls) U20
Rank after round 11
Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts RtgSum Ra Rp
1 4 IM Paehtz Elisabeth 2408 GER 8½ 23458 2320 2522
2 17 WGM Gu Xiaobing 2330 CHN 8 23290 2307 2482
3 8 IM Vasilevich Irina 2389 RUS 8 23198 2300 2475
4 5 WGM Pogonina Natalija 2401 RUS 8 23169 2301 2476
5 33 WIM Mamedjarova Turkan 2223 AZE 8 23014 2304 2413
6 13 WIM Kadziolka Beata 2352 POL 7½ 23323 2312 2445
7 6 WGM Harika Dronavalli 2392 IND 7½ 22888 2278 2411
8 1 IM Dzagnidze Nana 2443 GEO 7 23127 2302 2404
9 9 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta 2381 POL 7 22815 2265 2367
10 15 IM Purtseladze Maka 2338 GEO 7 22301 2218 2320
11 16 WIM Zhang Jilin 2334 CHN 7 22118 2200 2302
12 19 WFM Motoc Alina 2313 ROM 6½ 23259 2303 2368
13 10 WGM Tania Sachdev 2379 IND 6½ 23200 2304 2369
14 2 WGM Ushenina Anna 2409 UKR 6½ 23110 2302 2367
15 20 WIM Sharevich Anna 2305 BLR 6½ 22891 2266 2331
16 18 WGM Melia Salome 2318 GEO 6½ 22862 2268 2333
17 26 WIM Andriasian Siranush 2263 ARM 6½ 22793 2253 2318
18 32 WIM Nadig Kruttika 2224 IND 6½ 22685 2237 2302
19 14 WGM Karavade Eesha 2348 IND 6½ 22573 2243 2308
20 11 WIM Guseva Marina 2363 RUS 6½ 22479 2237 2302
21 34 WGM Corke Anya 2222 HKG 6½ 22096 2210 2219
22 21 Khotenashvili Bela 2288 GEO 6 23594 2330 2366
23 30 WIM Aketaeva Dana 2256 KAZ 6 23444 2309 2345
24 22 Liu Pei 2283 CHN 6 23291 2302 2338
25 25 WIM Pourkashiyan Atousa 2271 IRI 6 22789 2253 2289
26 40 WIM Bashkite Viktoria 2173 EST 6 22755 2251 2287
27 37 WIM Bensdorp Marlies 2199 NED 6 22473 2223 2259
28 28 WIM Muhren Bianca 2260 NED 6 22121 2189 2225
29 7 WGM Zdebskaja Natalia 2390 UKR 6 22057 2191 2227
30 24 WFM Szczepkowska Karina 2278 POL 6 22048 2183 2219
31 61 Ozturk Kubra 1980 TUR 6 21738 2154 2193
32 35 WIM Ortiz Nadya Karolina 2218 COL 6 21557 2136 2172
33 23 WIM Nebolsina Vera 2278 RUS 5½ 23112 2285 2285
34 52 Plazaola Maria De Los Angeles 2087 ARG 5½ 22856 2254 2254
35 3 WGM Mongontuul Bathuyag 2408 MGL 5½ 22568 2246 2246
36 45 WFM Gutierrez Castillo Paloma 2127 ESP 5½ 22160 2193 2193
37 12 WGM Khukhashvili Sopiko 2362 GEO 5½ 22142 2196 2193
38 57 Tilenbaeva Janyl 2019 KGZ 5½ 21741 2145 2145
39 36 Raeva Elitsa 2213 BUL 5½ 21667 2145 2145
40 38 WIM Meshcheriakova Evgenia 2197 RUS 5 22734 2247 2211
41 27 WFM Ciobanu Camelia 2262 ROM 5 22061 2186 2150
42 49 Umudova Nargiz 2101 AZE 5 21937 2173 2137
43 50 Gevorgyan Irina 2099 UZB 5 21812 2151 2115
44 39 Gregorova Zuzana 2183 SVK 5 21803 2160 2124
45 41 Zhang Xiaowen 2153 CHN 5 21757 2156 2120
46 47 WFM Topel Zehra 2105 TUR 5 21457 2126 2090
47 58 Dudas Eszter 2010 HUN 5 19521 2148 2076
48 62 Mezioud Amina 1978 ALG 5 19187 2132 2007
49 55 Ursic Simona 2040 SLO 4½ 22253 2214 2149
50 31 WGM Paridar Shadi 2237 IRI 4½ 22030 2179 2114
51 43 Hoolt Sarah 2144 GER 4½ 21976 2176 2111
52 44 Djukic Sandra 2140 SCG 4½ 21710 2142 2077
53 46 Bulmaga Irina 2122 MDA 4½ 21404 2126 2061
54 51 Bensdorp Laura 2090 NED 4½ 21348 2135 2021
55 42 WFM Gilbert Jessie 2148 ENG 4½ 20566 2048 1983
56 54 Alimova Maral 2053 TKM 4½ 19645 2150 2040
57 59 Levacic Melissa 1993 FRA 4½ 18872 2097 1937
58 56 Chaumont Adeline 2035 FRA 4½ 18504 2056 1900
59 64 Chierici Marianna 1960 ITA 4 21839 2166 2064
60 53 Xu Ruoyin 2079 CHN 4 21396 2113 2011
61 66 Frank-Nielsen Marie 1924 DEN 4 18866 2072 1923
62 67 Reppen Ellisiv 1850 NOR 4 18515 2055 1863
63 60 Pavlogianni Despina 1989 GRE 4 18481 2053 1859
64 48 Raghavi N 2104 IND 3½ 22044 2184 2051
65 63 Brekke Jorunn Marie 1961 NOR 3 21289 2104 1823
66 65 Almer Julia 1943 SWE 3 18460 2051 1766
67 68 Coddens Barbara 0 BEL 1½ 18434 2028 1558
68 29 WFM Ding Yixin 2260 CHN 0 0 0
II Festival Internacional de Ajedrez Villa de Bilbao takes place
19th-23rd November 2005.
Man-Machine event. Players: Ruslan Ponomariov, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and
Alexander Khalifman. s: Junior, Fritz and Hydra.
Official site: http://www.ajedrezbilbao.com
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2nd Man Machine Bilbao ESP (ESP), 20-23 xi 2005
cat. IV (2338)
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1. JUNIOR ---- 1.5
2. HYDRA ---- 1.5
3. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2704 1.0
4. FRITZ ---- 1.0
5. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2670 0.5
6. Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2653 0.5
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Round 1 (November 20, 2005)
HYDRA - Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 1-0 39 E94 King's Indian Classical
Ponomariov, Ruslan - JUNIOR 0-1 57 B10 Caro Kann
FRITZ - Khalifman, Alexander 1-0 53 C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen
Round 2 (November 21, 2005)
Ponomariov, Ruslan - FRITZ 1-0 48 D00 Queen's Pawn Game
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam - JUNIOR 1/2 31 B31 Sicilian Rossolimo
Khalifman, Alexander - HYDRA 1/2 41 D11 Slav Defence
The São Paulo International took place 10th-18th November 2005.
GMs - Giovanni Vescovi and Andrés Rodriguez finished on 6/9.
Official site: http://www.cxsp.com.br
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It Sao Paulo BRA (BRA), 10-18 xi 2005 cat. XI (2524)
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1. Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2646 * 1 1 = = 0 = = 1 1 6.0 2635
2. Rodriguez, Andres g URU 2479 0 * = = 1 1 = 1 = 1 6.0 2654
3. Milos, Gilberto g BRA 2620 0 = * 1 = = = = 1 1 5.5 2593
4. Galego, Luis g POR 2518 = = 0 * = = 1 = 1 = 5.0 2568
5. Matsuura, Everaldo m BRA 2453 = 0 = = * = = 1 = 1 5.0 2575
6. Fier, Alexander Hilario Takeda m BRA 2443 1 0 = = = * = = 0 1 4.5 2533
7. Leitao, Rafael g BRA 2586 = = = 0 = = * 0 1 1 4.5 2517
8. Lima, Darcy g BRA 2529 = 0 = = 0 = 1 * = = 4.0 2480
9. Sunye Neto, Jaime g BRA 2522 0 = 0 0 = 1 0 = * = 3.0 2399
10. Limp, Eduardo m BRA 2447 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 = = * 1.5 2259
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The Croatian Championship took place 7th-17th November 2005. Krunoslav
Hulak won the event with 7.5/11.
Official site:
http://www.crochess.com/turniri/vukovar/ch_05/index.htm
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ch-CRO Vukovar CRO (CRO), 7-17 xi 2005 cat. XI (2515)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2
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1. Hulak, Krunoslav g CRO 2507 * = 1 = = 1 1 = = = 1 = 7.5 2648
2. Kozul, Zdenko g CRO 2576 = * = 1 = 0 0 = 1 1 1 1 7.0 2611
3. Rogic, Davor m CRO 2520 0 = * = = = 1 1 = = 1 1 7.0 2616
4. Jankovic, Alojzije m CRO 2446 = 0 = * = = 1 = = 1 = 1 6.5 2585
5. Stevic, Hrvoje g CRO 2514 = = = = * = 0 = = = 1 = 5.5 2514
6. Cebalo, Miso g CRO 2512 0 1 = = = * = = 0 0 1 1 5.5 2514
7. Zelcic, Robert g CRO 2533 0 1 0 0 1 = * = = 1 0 1 5.5 2513
8. Palac, Mladen g CRO 2571 = = 0 = = = = * 1 = 0 = 5.0 2473
9. Dizdar, Goran g CRO 2542 = 0 = = = 1 = 0 * = = = 5.0 2476
10. Sulava, Nenad g CRO 2493 = 0 = 0 = 1 0 = = * = 1 5.0 2480
11. Jovanic, Ognjen m CRO 2469 0 0 0 = 0 0 1 1 = = * = 4.0 2416
12. Kovacevic, Blazimir m CRO 2493 = 0 0 0 = 0 0 = = 0 = * 2.5 2305
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The British Rapidplay Chess Championship took place in Halifax 12th-13th
November 2005. Mark Hebden won with 9.5/11. Some games available.
Official site: http://www.bcfservices.org.uk/rapid2005/
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British Rapidplay Halifax ENG (ENG), 12-13 xi 2005
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1 Hebden, Mark L 245 9.5 11 2823 257
2 Gormally, Daniel W 244 9 11 2746 250
3 Hanley, Craig A 223 7.5 11 2558 233
4 Haslinger, Stewart G 219 7.5 11 2424 220
5 Turner, Matthew J 229 7 11 2530 230
6 Mannion, Steve R 216 7 11 2442 222
7 Akbarinia, Seyed Arash 200 7 11 2426 221
8 Hunt, Harriet V 219 7 11 2424 220
9 Tozer, Richard Jd 192 7 11 2262 206
10 Wells, Peter K 245 6.5 11 2430 221
11 James, Dale R 182 6.5 11 2121 193
12 Palliser, Richard Jd 213 6 11 2327 212
13 Ansell, Simon T 221 6 11 2326 211
14 Ashton, Adam G 204 6 11 2243 204
15 Poobalasingam, Peter S 183 6 11 2249 204
16 Sherwin, James T 212 6 10 2027 203
17 Walton, Alan J 192 6 11 2103 191
18 Hague, Ben 200 6 11 2043 186
19 Peacock, Malcolm R 176 6 10 1772 177
50 players
The November First Saturday GM, IM and FM closed tournaments took place
5th-17th November 2005 in Budapest. David Berczes and Andrei Murariu finished
with 8/12 in the GM group. One corrected result in the PGN section.
Official site: http://www.firstsaturday.hu
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FSGM November Budapest HUN (HUN), 5-17 xi 2005 cat. VII (2408)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
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1. Berczes, David m HUN 2475 * 1 0 0 1 = 1 = 1 1 = 1 = 8.0 2527
2. Murariu, Andrei m ROM 2441 0 * = = 1 = = = = 1 1 1 1 8.0 2530
3. Ilincic, Zlatko g SCG 2540 1 = * = = = = = = 1 = = 1 7.5 2492
4. Turov, Maxim g RUS 2546 1 = = * 0 = = = = 1 = = 1 7.0 2453
5. Szabo, Krisztian1 m HUN 2390 0 0 = 1 * = 1 = 1 0 = 1 1 7.0 2466
6. Erdos, Viktor m HUN 2522 = = = = = * = = = 0 1 = 1 6.5 2427
7. Pap, Gyula HUN 2384 0 = = = 0 = * 1 = = 1 = = 6.0 2410
8. Seres, Lajos g HUN 2396 = = = = = = 0 * 1 0 = = = 5.5 2380
9. Porat, Ido f ISR 2328 0 = = = 0 = = 0 * = = 1 = 5.0 2357
10. Radziewicz, Iweta m POL 2453 0 0 0 0 1 1 = 1 = * 0 = 0 4.5 2317
11. Wittmann, Walter m AUT 2376 = 0 = = = 0 0 = = 1 * = 0 4.5 2323
12. Slavina, Irina m RUS 2385 0 0 = = 0 = = = 0 = = * 1 4.5 2323
13. Prohaszka, Peter1 HUN 2070 = 0 0 0 0 0 = = = 1 1 0 * 4.0 2311
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FSIMA November Budapest HUN (HUN), 5-14 xi 2005cat. II (2295)
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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1 Petran, Pal m HUN 2417 ** 1= =1 1= 1= 11 8.0 2510
2 Stupavski, Zdenko f SCG 2359 0= ** =1 1= 11 11 7.5 2475
3 Lengyel, Bela m HUN 2276 =0 =0 ** == 10 11 5.0 2299
4 Farago, Sandor m HUN 2271 0= 0= == ** =0 == 3.5 2190
5 Dougherty, Michael f CAN 2212 0= 00 01 =1 ** =0 3.5 2201
6 Brustkern, Juergen f GER 2236 00 00 00 == =1 ** 2.5 2114
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FSIMB November Budapest HUN (HUN), 5-17 xi 2005 cat. I (2273)
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3
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1. Nagy, Bence f HUN 2327 * = 0 = 1 1 0 1 = 1 1 = 1 8.0 2393
2. Werner, Dimo m GER 2376 = * = 1 = = 0 = 1 ? 1 1 1 7.5 2404
3. Galyas, Miklos m HUN 2424 1 = * = = = 1 = 1 = 0 = = 7.0 2317
4. Fodor, Tamas jr f HUN 2252 = 0 = * = 1 = = 1 = = 1 = 7.0 2332
5. Toth, Lili wm HUN 2173 0 = = = * 1 1 = = = 0 1 1 7.0 2338
6. Horvath, Andras f HUN 2339 0 = = 0 0 * = = 1 = 1 1 1 6.5 2296
7. Rombaldoni, Denis f ITA 2316 1 1 0 = 0 = * = 0 0 1 = 1 6.0 2269
8. Eperjesi, Laszlo m HUN 2252 0 = = = = = = * = = = = = 5.5 2246
9. Wiwe, Andreas DEN 2210 = 0 0 0 = 0 1 = * = 1 = 1 5.5 2249
10. Vass, Viktor HUN 2193 0 ? = = = = 1 = = * 0 1 0 5.0 2235
11. Porat, David f ISR 2199 0 0 1 = 1 0 0 = 0 1 * 0 = 4.5 2192
12. Ignacz, Maria HUN 2286 = 0 = 0 0 0 = = = 0 1 * = 4.0 2147
13. Murzin, Lenar m RUS 2206 0 0 = = 0 0 0 = 0 1 = = * 3.5 2120
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The FIDE African Continental Championship took place November 4th-15th
2005 in Lusaka, Zambia. Ahmed Adly won the event with 7/9. T Sabure of Botswana
won the women's event.
Coverage:
http://www.thechessdrum.net/newsbriefs/2005/NB_AfricanCh2.html
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ch-Africa Lusaka ZAM (ZAM), 5-14 xi 2005
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1. Adly, Ahmed g EGY 2480 +34 =13 +19 + 3 = 7 = 2 = 4 + 9 +11 7.0 2569
2. Belkhodja, Slim g TUN 2490 +14 = 3 +21 +11 = 4 = 1 +13 = 7 = 8 6.5 2532
3. Chumfwa, Stanley ZAM 2303 +27 = 2 +25 - 1 = 8 +16 + 5 = 4 +18 6.5 2478
4. Frhat, Ali f EGY 2306 +35 +22 =11 + 8 = 2 =13 = 1 = 3 +14 6.5 2472
5. El Taher, Fouad m EGY 2482 =17 =12 +26 +20 = 9 = 7 - 3 +15 +13 6.0 2387
6. Kobese, Watu m RSA 2400 -22 +32 -12 +25 +29 =15 +21 =13 + 7 6.0 2334
7. El Gindy, Essam m EGY 2524 =10 +28 =13 +15 = 1 = 5 + 8 = 2 - 6 5.5 2421
8. Rizouk, Aimen m ALG 2499 =12 +17 +10 - 4 = 3 + 9 - 7 +19 = 2 5.5 2403
9. Aderito, Pedro m ANG 2288 +29 -11 +14 +22 = 5 - 8 +20 - 1 +21 5.5 2404
10. Njobvu, Ignatius BOT 2220 = 7 +16 - 8 =19 +28 -21 +23 +24 =15 5.5 2345
11. Simutowe, Amon m ZAM 2458 +31 + 9 = 4 - 2 -19 +12 +17 =14 - 1 5.0 2333
12. Jere, Daniel ZAM 2195 = 8 = 5 + 6 -21 +23 -11 -24 +20 +25 5.0 2317
13. Lungu, Nase f ZAM 2265 +33 = 1 = 7 +28 +21 = 4 - 2 = 6 - 5 5.0 2378
14. Bouah, Lyndon RSA 2134 - 2 +24 - 9 +27 =17 +25 +16 =11 - 4 5.0 2289
15. Domingos, Catarino ANG 2240 =32 =26 +27 - 7 +22 = 6 +19 - 5 =10 5.0 2289
16. Solomon, Kenny m RSA 2353 =26 -10 +23 =17 +18 - 3 -14 +27 +24 5.0 2186
17. Cawdery, Daniel RSA 2229 = 5 - 8 +32 =16 =14 +29 -11 =25 +23 5.0 2278
18. Mandiza, Farai f ZIM 2200 -25 +30 -22 +24 -16 +31 +26 +21 - 3 5.0 2219
19. Ismail, Hamed EGY 2353 +30 =25 - 1 =10 +11 =20 -15 - 8 +22 4.5 2262
20. Sousa, Armindo m ANG 2207 -23 +35 +33 - 5 +26 =19 - 9 -12 +30 4.5 2172
21. Elgabry, Mohsen m EGY 2333 +24 +23 - 2 +12 -13 +10 - 6 -18 - 9 4.0 2195
22. Van den Heever, Donovan RSA 2132 + 6 - 4 +18 - 9 -15 -23 +33 +26 -19 4.0 2167
23. Simulundu,Judan ZAM ---- +20 -21 -16 +30 -12 +22 -10 +28 -17 4.0 2156
24. Mbambara, Tizenge ZAM 2090 -21 -14 +31 -18 +33 +27 +12 -10 -16 4.0 2132
25. Amini,Daud ZIM ---- +18 =19 - 3 - 6 +34 -14 +32 =17 -12 4.0 2176
26. Andrade, Ivan MOZ 2111 =16 =15 - 5 +33 -20 +28 -18 -22 +34 4.0 2154
27. Kamowa,James MAW ---- - 3 +34 -15 -14 +30 -24 +29 -16 +36 4.0 2134
28. Viageiro Mateus,Alice MOZ ---- +36 - 7 +29 -13 -10 -26 +31 -23 +35 4.0 2118
29. Chambule, Pedro Lucas MOZ 2192 - 9 +31 -28 +35 - 6 -17 -27 +36 +33 4.0 2074
30. Alberto, Manuel ANG 2123 -19 -18 +34 -23 -27 +36 =35 +32 -20 3.5 2022
31. Masango, S RSA 2140 -11 -29 -24 +36 +35 -18 -28 +34 =32 3.5 2042
32. Notha,Moakofi BOT ---- =15 - 6 -17 -34 +36 +35 -25 -30 =31 3.0 2018
33. Misomali,Yohane MAW ---- -13 +36 -20 -26 -24 +34 -22 +35 -29 3.0 2003
34. Meyer, Marany wm RSA 2161 - 1 -27 -30 +32 -25 -33 +36 -31 -26 2.0 1874
35. Chimthere,Charles MAW ---- - 4 -20 +36 -29 -31 -32 =30 -33 -28 1.5 1834
36. BYE ---- -28 -33 -35 -31 -32 -30 -34 -29 -27 0.0
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The second Bundesliga weekend took place 11th-13th November 2005. OSC
Baden Baden with Bacrot and Shirov were held 4-4 by TV Tegernsee. The next
weekend will take place on 10th-11th December 2005. Games now available.
Official site: http://www.chessbase.de/bundesliga/
Round 7 11th November 2005
Venue: Bremen
SV Werder Bremen 4½-3½ Hamburger SK
2 Efimenko,Zaha ½ : ½ Gustafsson,Ja 1
3 Areshchenko,A ½ : ½ Ftacnik,Lubom 2
4 Hracek,Zbynek ½ : ½ Kempinski,Rob 3
5 Pelletier,Yan ½ : ½ Hansen,Sune B 4
6 Babula,Vlasti ½ : ½ Heinemann,Thi 8
8 Fish,Gennadij ½ : ½ Rogozenko,Dor 9
9 Schandorff,La ½ : ½ Van Delft,Mer 11
11 Skripchenko-L 1 : 0 Sebastian,Dir 13
Venue: Koeln
SG Köln Porz 6½-1½ Godesberger SK
2 Lutz,Christop ½ : ½ Kasimdzhanov, 1
3 Van Wely,Loek 1 : 0 Jenni,Florian 2
4 Sokolov,Ivan ½ : ½ Sprenger,Jan- 3
5 Vaganian,Rafa ½ : ½ Seel,Christia 4
6 Timman,Jan H 1 : 0 Langheinrich, 6
7 Graf,Alexande 1 : 0 Grafl,Florian 7
8 Gurevich,Mikh 1 : 0 Jackelen,Thom 8
9 Hansen,Curt 1 : 0 Schmidt,Bodo 10
Round 3 12th November 2005
Venue: Tegernsee
TV Tegernsee 5½-2½ SG Kirchheim
1 Khenkin,Igor ½ : ½ Wippermann,Ti 2
2 Sokolov,Andre ½ : ½ Bokros,Albert 3
3 Ribli,Zoltan 1 : 0 Gschnitzer,Os 4
4 Bischoff,Klau ½ : ½ Tompa,Janos 5
5 Boensch,Uwe 0 : 1 Beckhuis,Gern 6
6 Kindermann,St 1 : 0 Vonthron,Hors 8
7 Hertneck,Gera 1 : 0 Zuse,Klaus-Pe 10
10 Stangl,Markus 1 : 0 Adler,Joel Dr 11
SC Eppingen 3 - 5 OSC Baden Baden
1 Gyimesi,Zolta 0 : 1 Bacrot,Etienn 3
2 Postny,Evgeny ½ : ½ Shirov,Alexei 4
3 Acs,Peter ½ : ½ Vallejo Pons, 5
4 Braun,Arik 0 : 1 Nielsen,Peter 6
5 Meier,Georg 1 : 0 Krasenkow,Mic 7
6 Medvegy,Zolta ½ : ½ Huebner,Rober 9
9 Miltner,Arndt ½ : ½ Dautov,Rustem 10
15 Meinhardt,Max 0 : 1 Schlosser,Phi 11
Venue: Koeln
SG Köln Porz 4½-3½ SV Wattenscheid
2 Lutz,Christop ½ : ½ Sargissian,Ga 2
3 Van Wely,Loek ½ : ½ Macieja,Bartl 3
4 Sokolov,Ivan ½ : ½ Rustemov,Alex 4
5 Vaganian,Rafa ½ : ½ Holzke,Frank 6
7 Graf,Alexande 0 : 1 Handke,Floria 7
8 Gurevich,Mikh ½ : ½ Lemmers,Oscar 10
9 Hansen,Curt 1 : 0 Straeter,Timo 13
10 Van den Doel, 1 : 0 Thiel,Thomas 14
Godesberger SK 3 - 5 SG Aljechin Soli
1 Kasimdzhanov, ½ : ½ Jussupow,Artu 1
2 Jenni,Florian 0 : 1 Nikolic,Predr 2
3 Sprenger,Jan- 0 : 1 Baramidze,Dav 4
4 Seel,Christia ½ : ½ Naumann,Alexa 6
6 Langheinrich, 1 : 0 Gabriel,Chris 8
7 Grafl,Florian 1 : 0 Werle,Jan 9
8 Jackelen,Thom 0 : 1 Hoffmann,Mich 10
9 Armbruster,Al 0 : 1 Ernst,Sipke 11
Venue: Bremen
SV Werder Bremen 3½-4½ SC Kreuzberg
1 McShane,Luke ½ : ½ Nisipeanu,Liv 2
2 Efimenko,Zaha ½ : ½ Almasi,Zoltan 3
3 Areshchenko,A 0 : 1 Socko,Bartosz 4
4 Hracek,Zbynek ½ : ½ Romanishin,Ol 5
5 Pelletier,Yan ½ : ½ Maiwald,Jens- 6
6 Babula,Vlasti ½ : ½ Kalinitschew, 7
8 Fish,Gennadij ½ : ½ Lau,Ralf 8
9 Schandorff,La ½ : ½ Tischbierek,R 10
Hamburger SK 4½-3½ SFR Neukölln
1 Gustafsson,Ja ½ : ½ Nataf,Igor-Al 1
2 Ftacnik,Lubom ½ : ½ Miroshnichenk 2
3 Kempinski,Rob 0 : 1 Polzin,Rainer 5
4 Hansen,Sune B 1 : 0 Berndt,Stepha 6
7 Reeh,Oliver 1 : 0 Schneider,Ilj 8
8 Heinemann,Thi ½ : ½ Poldauf,Dirk 9
9 Rogozenko,Dor ½ : ½ Thiede,Lars 10
11 Van Delft,Mer ½ : ½ Thinius,Marco 11
Venue: Leipzig
SC Leipzig Gohli 1 - 7 SF Katernberg
1 Vogt,Lothar 0 : 1 Erenburg,Serg 2
2 Voigt,Roland 0 : 1 Kritz,Leonid 3
3 Roos,Michael 0 : 1 Glek,Igor V 5
5 Zesch,Ludwig 0 : 1 Smagin,Sergey 6
6 Schoeneberg,M 0 : 1 Senff,Martin 9
7 Quast,Michael 0 : 1 Siebrecht,Seb 10
8 Fischer,Johan 0 : 1 Souleidis,Geo 11
12 Schunk,Thomas 1 : 0 Scholz,Christ 13
SK Zehlendorf 1 - 7 SV Mülheim Nord
1 Richter,Micha 0 : 1 Landa,Konstan 2
2 Maksimenko,An ½ : ½ Fridman,Danie 4
3 Werner,Dimo 0 : 1 Levin,Felix 5
4 Janz,Frerik 0 : 1 Schebler,Gerh 6
5 Heinig,Wolfra 0 : 1 Saltaev,Mihai 7
6 Carmeille,Lud 0 : 1 Hausrath,Dani 8
7 Klimm,Wolf-Di ½ : ½ Lytchak,Alexa 9
9 Lieb,Harald 0 : 1 Kern,Guido 12
Round 4 13th November 2005
Venue: Tegernsee
SG Kirchheim 2½-5½ SC Eppingen
2 Wippermann,Ti ½ : ½ Gyimesi,Zolta 1
3 Bokros,Albert ½ : ½ Postny,Evgeny 2
4 Gschnitzer,Os 0 : 1 Acs,Peter 3
5 Tompa,Janos 0 : 1 Braun,Arik 4
6 Beckhuis,Gern ½ : ½ Meier,Georg 5
8 Vonthron,Hors 0 : 1 Medvegy,Zolta 6
9 Rudolph,Johan ½ : ½ Miltner,Arndt 9
11 Adler,Joel Dr ½ : ½ Meinhardt,Max 15
OSC Baden Baden 4 - 4 TV Tegernsee
3 Bacrot,Etienn ½ : ½ Khenkin,Igor 1
4 Shirov,Alexei 1 : 0 Sokolov,Andre 2
5 Vallejo Pons, ½ : ½ Ribli,Zoltan 3
6 Nielsen,Peter ½ : ½ Bischoff,Klau 4
7 Krasenkow,Mic ½ : ½ Boensch,Uwe 5
8 Movsesian,Ser 1 : 0 Kindermann,St 6
10 Dautov,Rustem 0 : 1 Hertneck,Gera 7
11 Schlosser,Phi 0 : 1 Bromberger,St 11
Venue: Koeln
SV Wattenscheid 5½-2½ Godesberger SK
2 Sargissian,Ga 0 : 1 Kasimdzhanov, 1
3 Macieja,Bartl 1 : 0 Jenni,Florian 2
4 Rustemov,Alex 1 : 0 Sprenger,Jan- 3
6 Holzke,Frank 1 : 0 Seel,Christia 4
7 Handke,Floria 1 : 0 Breder,Dennis 5
8 Appel,Ralf 1 : 0 Langheinrich, 6
10 Lemmers,Oscar ½ : ½ Grafl,Florian 7
13 Straeter,Timo 0 : 1 Jackelen,Thom 8
SG Aljechin Soli 4½-3½ SG Köln Porz
1 Jussupow,Artu ½ : ½ Lutz,Christop 2
2 Nikolic,Predr ½ : ½ Van Wely,Loek 3
4 Baramidze,Dav 1 : 0 Sokolov,Ivan 4
6 Naumann,Alexa ½ : ½ Vaganian,Rafa 5
8 Gabriel,Chris 0 : 1 Timman,Jan H 6
9 Werle,Jan ½ : ½ Graf,Alexande 7
10 Hoffmann,Mich ½ : ½ Gurevich,Mikh 8
11 Ernst,Sipke 1 : 0 Van den Doel, 10
Venue: Bremen
SC Kreuzberg 4½-3½ Hamburger SK
2 Nisipeanu,Liv ½ : ½ Gustafsson,Ja 1
3 Almasi,Zoltan 1 : 0 Ftacnik,Lubom 2
4 Socko,Bartosz ½ : ½ Kempinski,Rob 3
5 Romanishin,Ol ½ : ½ Hansen,Sune B 4
6 Maiwald,Jens- 1 : 0 Reeh,Oliver 7
7 Kalinitschew, 0 : 1 Heinemann,Thi 8
8 Lau,Ralf ½ : ½ Rogozenko,Dor 9
10 Tischbierek,R ½ : ½ Van Delft,Mer 11
SFR Neukölln 3 - 5 SV Werder Bremen
1 Nataf,Igor-Al 0 : 1 Efimenko,Zaha 2
2 Miroshnichenk ½ : ½ Areshchenko,A 3
5 Polzin,Rainer 0 : 1 Hracek,Zbynek 4
6 Berndt,Stepha ½ : ½ Pelletier,Yan 5
8 Schneider,Ilj 0 : 1 Babula,Vlasti 6
9 Poldauf,Dirk 1 : 0 Fish,Gennadij 8
10 Thiede,Lars 1 : 0 Schandorff,La 9
11 Thinius,Marco 0 : 1 Skripchenko-L 11
Venue: Leipzig
SF Katernberg 5½-2½ SK Zehlendorf
2 Erenburg,Serg 1 : 0 Richter,Micha 1
3 Kritz,Leonid ½ : ½ Maksimenko,An 2
5 Glek,Igor V ½ : ½ Werner,Dimo 3
6 Smagin,Sergey ½ : ½ Janz,Frerik 4
9 Senff,Martin ½ : ½ Heinig,Wolfra 5
10 Siebrecht,Seb 1 : 0 Carmeille,Lud 6
11 Souleidis,Geo 1 : 0 Klimm,Wolf-Di 7
13 Scholz,Christ ½ : ½ Lieb,Harald 9
SV Mülheim Nord 5 - 3 SC Leipzig Gohli
2 Landa,Konstan ½ : ½ Vogt,Lothar 1
4 Fridman,Danie 1 : 0 Voigt,Roland 2
5 Levin,Felix ½ : ½ Roos,Michael 3
6 Schebler,Gerh ½ : ½ Zesch,Ludwig 5
7 Saltaev,Mihai ½ : ½ Quast,Michael 7
8 Hausrath,Dani 1 : 0 Fischer,Johan 8
9 Lytchak,Alexa ½ : ½ Hoffmann,Hend 9
12 Kern,Guido ½ : ½ Schunk,Thomas 12
1. OSC Baden-Baden 5 9 31
2. TV Tegernsee 5 8 23,5
3. SC Kreuzberg 5 8 22,5
4. Werder Bremen 5 8 22
5. Mülheim Nord 4 7 20,5
6. SG Porz 5 6 23,5
7. SF Katernberg 4 6 20,5
8. SG Solingen 4 6 17,5
9. SC Eppingen 5 4 18,5
10. SV Wattenscheid 4 4 17
11. SG Kirchheim 5 4 16,5
12. Hamburger SK 5 2 18,5
13. SF Neukölln 5 1 16,5
14. Godesberger SK 5 1 14
15. SC Leipzig-Gohlis 4 0 8
16. SK Zehlendorf 4 0 6
Zonal 2.3 took place in Guayaquil, Ecuador 5th-12th September 2005. The
final standings given on the site below don't seem right but the results
derived from the games below may also not be correct but there are two
corrected games from Carlos Matamoros Franco that improve the standings.
Further info: http://www.marticafierro.com
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zt 2.3 Guayaquil ECU (ECU), 5-12 ix 2005 cat. VI (2377)
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1. Matamoros Franco, Carlos S g ECU 2504 * = = 1 1 1 = 1 = = 1 1 8.5 2576
2. Arencibia, Walter g CUB 2527 = * = 1 1 = 1 = = 1 1 1 8.5 2574
3. Mosquera, Miguel m COL 2442 = = * 0 = = 1 0 1 1 = 1 6.5 2436
4. Mieles Palau, Daniel m ECU 2476 0 0 1 * = = 1 = = = 1 1 6.5 2432
5. Blanco, Alvaro MEX 2316 0 0 = = * = = 1 1 = 1 1 6.5 2447
6. Murillo, Alexis m CRC 2362 0 = = = = * = = = = = 1 5.5 2378
7. Castro, Oscar H m COL 2385 = 0 0 0 = = * 1 = 1 = 1 5.5 2376
8. Fierro Baquero, Martha L m ECU 2340 0 = 1 = 0 = 0 * = = = 1 5.0 2344
9. Perez, Luis Manuel m CUB 2430 = = 0 = 0 = = = * 0 1 1 5.0 2336
10. Hernandez Basante, Francisco m CRC 2265 = 0 0 = = = 0 = 1 * = = 4.5 2322
11. Santos Flores, Alberto m ECU 2344 0 0 = 0 0 = = = 0 = * 1 3.5 2246
12. Guerrero, Carlos ECU 2132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 0 * 0.5 1929
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There were two rapid events on the Corsican Rapid Circuit. The 2nd Rapid
Masters D'Ajaccio took place 26th-27th October 2005 and was won by Krishnan
Sasikiran. This was followed by the 1st Rapid Venaco 28th-29th October 2005.
Viswanathan Anand won this event. Games now available.
News: http://www.opencorsica.com/Pages/news.htm
The Russian Cup Final takes place 14th-24th November 2005. The
semi-finals of this knockout event sees Pavel Smirnov plays Alexander Lastin
and Pavel Maletin plays Denis Khismatullin. No games available.
News:
http://www.russiachess.ru/mods.php?name=section&oid=1102&bid=31&
Dragutin Sahovic, GM, suddenly passed away on November 12 2005, in
Belgrade. Excellent player, he won nearly hundred tournaments all over the
world. Mostly were open tournaments like Long Pine (with 100 GM), Dubna (RUS),
Biel and Zurich (SUI), Belgrade, Vrnjacka Banja and Novi Sad (YUG), many open
in Italy, France and Spain. Sahovic was great fighter, very inventive and
original player. Sahovic was high class professional, but also chess-artist.
Last few years he stops with tournament chess. He had chess column in weekly
magazine ?NIN? and wrote two very interesting books, novel with the chess
theme.
Dragutin Sahovic was born in Kraljevo on August 8, 1940. He finished
school in Nis and become teacher. Then he moved in Belgrade, creating chess
career. Like other Yugoslav players played too much open tournaments, looking
for the prizes to provide survival for family. That was main reason why he did
not become extra-class chess player.
News Sinisa Joksic.
John Donaldson writes. Igor passed away on November 17th 2005 in St.
George, Utah. The following tribute was written a month ago for ChessBase
magazine and will appear with photographs of Igor and 160 of his best games.
Igor played somewhere in the neighborhood of 7,000 games in his career.
Unfortunately he was not a good record keeper and most of them are not
available. If you played Igor and the game is not in Mega 2005 I would be very
grateful if you could send me a copy at imwjd@aol.com.
A funeral will be held for Igor in St. George on November 29 and there
will be a tribute to him at the St. George Chess Club the evening of December
16. A tournament will be held in his honor the following day. Contact Alan
Crooks at alan@stgeorgechess.com for more information.
Grand Master Igor Ivanov by John Donaldson
Igor Ivanov was born in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) on January
8, 1947. At age 5 his mother taught him to play chess and it was not long
before he could beat her. Igor's first book was one on chess and even at a very
young age he could remember his games. By age 8 Igor was an accomplished
player, attending the chess palace daily where he was singled out as one of the
most promising young talents, but this potential was to lay dormant for some
time. Igor's mother wished him to be a concert pianist and asked her son to
emphasize his musical abilities rather than play chess. It was only when she
died when he was 14 and left an orphan that he started to play again. His music
talent (piano and cello) earned him special privileges and his own room in the
orphanage but it was chess that he loved more. At 18 he matriculated at the
University of Leningrad, but soon gave up the study of mathematics to pursue a
career as a chess professional.
Initially Igor had a job as the manager of an army chess club in
Leningrad. The work was fine but did not allow him much time to play so when he
was offered a position as a professional player in Tajikistan he quickly
accepted. Igor stayed there only a year before moving to Uzbekistan where he
played first board for the republic in the annual Spartakiad. It was in such a
competition that he first came to the attention of the entire chess world when
he beat reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov in 1979. Soviet players had
become familiar with Igor's name years earlier, but particularly in 1978 and
1979. Playing throughout the Soviet empire Igor not only won several important
competitions but did it in such a dominating fashion that he couldn't help but
be noticed: 1st in the Zaitsev Memorial in Vladivostock in 1978, 1st at
Yaroslavl 1979 and again first at the Tashli Tailiev Memorial in Ashkhabad at
the end of 1979. His score in the latter was 12 from 13 (!), three points ahead
of second place finisher Kakageldyev. Regrettably few of the games from these
events are preserved. You can find some here and there in Shakhmaty Bulletin,
Shakhmaty Riga, Shakhmaty v SSR and lesser known Soviet chess journals, but
never complete bulletins for the events, the game scores of which were likely
lost long ago.
The victory over Karpov earned Igor his first trip abroad to play in the
Capablanca Memorial in Cuba in 1980. The return trip home to the Soviet Union
made a refueling stop in Gander, Newfoundland, where Igor asked for and was
granted political asylum by the Canadian government. This move had, as one
might expect, profound changes on Igor's life. An increase in personal freedom
was balanced by a lack of economic security. As a professional player in the
Soviet Union Igor did quite well, but such an occupation barely existed in
North America in 1980, especially in Canada. Igor also had to adapt as a chess
player. Playing in Swiss System events over a weekend with two or three games a
day is not quite the same thing as a 16 player round robin that lasts three
weeks. Nor is having to score almost 100 percent to win a prize.
Igor settled in Montreal and quickly picked up French and English. He
and the rapidly improving Kevin Spraggett would dominate Canadian chess over
much of the next decade. Igor won the Closed Championship of his newly adopted
country four times in five tries from 1981 to 1987. In 1985 he tied for first
place in both Canadian Open and Canadian Closed Chess Championships at
Edmonton, Alberta, while playing his games simultaneously! Igor played for
Canada in the 1984 and 1988 Olympiads and represented the nation in the 1982
Interzonal in Toluca, Mexico. This event was to prove to be a heartbreaker for
Igor, though he didn't know it at the time. Scoring 7.5 from 13 he was fourth
on tiebreak, but the GM norm - good for the title in an Interzonal - was 7.8.
Certainly the way Igor was playing he probably thought the title was just
around the corner, but it would be 24 years before he would become a GM. One
can't help but wonder how that title might have made his life easier with more
invitations and better conditions.
Canada is a very nice country, and one that has produced some good chess
players (Yanofsky, Anderson, Suttles, Biyiasas, Spraggett, Lesiege, Charbonneau
and Bluvstein) but it is not a promising place to be a professional. It is no
accident than former Candidate Kevin Spraggett lives in Europe nor that Igor
moved to the United States. There is no pot of gold for professional chess
players in the USA but if you are willing to travel there is always someplace
holding an event with a first prize of $300 on up. Chess players from around
the world are familiar with the World and National Opens, massive events often
with over 1000 players participating and five figures for first place. Such
tournaments are few and far between and the competition is such that no one can
be certain to win. To survive as a professional in North America on a diet of
just playing requires one find smaller events where the chances of winning are
highly likely. Igor hit this trail in earnest in the 1980s and by 1997 he had
won 9 of the US Chess Federation's Grand Prix series. This yearly competition,
where points are awarded each event on the basis of the amount of prize money
available ($300 first might equal six points, saw Igor reach close to 500
points in a single year. This does not equal many weekends off! At the end of
the year Igor would often have to make long journeys to play in small events to
secure his victory in the Grand Prix. One time he traveled back and forth to
Atlanta from Los Angeles (roundtrip close to 6,000 miles or 10,000 kilometers)
in less than a week by bus!
Igor started to play less frequently in the late 1990s turning his
attention to coaching. He had worked in the past as a second for Viktor
Kortchnoi in the 1981 World Championship, but he was most successful in his job
at the Shelby School in Arizona, where he coached them to two national
championships. More recently Igor relocated first to Central and then St.
George, Utah. He is the Grandmaster-in-Residence (he got the GM title in 2005
for norms that he made in the early 1990s and was unaware of) at the St. George
Chess School and lives in the the mountains of southern Utah with his wife
Elizabeth, a retired teacher. He teaches chess, runs a chess camp every summer,
give piano recitals at the St. George Tabernacle , takes care of Petruska and
Sasha (two very spoiled cats) and is an avid gardener and reader. Igor is much
liked by the many chess players that appreciate his excellent sense of humor,
kindness towards animals and love of life. The author of this piece is
confident that Igor and his games will be remembered for a long time.
The FIDE World Chess Cup takes place 26th November - 18th December 2005
in Khanty Mansyisk, Russia.
Official site: http://www.worldchesscup2005.com/
(not active yet)
Round 1 27th November 2005 Pairings:
| 1 |
Ivanchuk, Vassily |
UKR |
- |
128 |
Sibriaev, Aleksandr |
RUS |
| 2 |
Bacrot, Etienne |
FRA |
- |
127 |
Chumfwa, Stanley |
ZAM |
| 3 |
Aronian, Levon |
ARM |
- |
126 |
Frhat, Ali |
EGY |
| 4 |
Grischuk, Alexander |
RUS |
- |
125 |
Needleman, Gaston |
ARG |
| 5 |
Gelfand, Boris |
ISR |
- |
124 |
Kobese, Watu |
RSA |
| 6 |
Shirov, Alexei |
ESP |
- |
123 |
Kuderinov, Kiril |
KAZ |
| 7 |
Akopian, Vladimir |
ARM |
- |
122 |
Lane, Gary |
AUS |
| 8 |
Radjabov, Teimur |
AZE |
- |
121 |
Flores, Diego |
ARG |
| 9 |
Ponomariov, Ruslan |
UKR |
- |
120 |
Ahmed, Adly |
EGY |
| 10 |
Tiviakov Sergei |
NED |
- |
119 |
Belkhodja, Slim |
TUN |
| 11 |
Sokolov, Ivan |
NED |
- |
118 |
Stefanova Antoaneta |
BUL |
| 12 |
Dreev, Alexey |
RUS |
- |
117 |
Charbonneau, Pascal |
CAN |
| 13 |
Kamsky, Gata |
USA |
- |
116 |
Zhao, Yun |
CHN |
| 14 |
Bologan, Viorel |
MDA |
- |
115 |
Matamoros, Carlos |
ECU |
| 15 |
Lautier Joel |
FRA |
- |
114 |
Pridorozhni, Aleksei |
RUS |
| 16 |
Bruzon, Lazaro |
CUB |
- |
113 |
Kabanov, Nikolai |
RUS |
| 17 |
Bareev, Evgeny |
RUS |
- |
112 |
Rodrigo, Vasquez |
CHI |
| 18 |
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar |
AZE |
- |
111 |
Ibraev, Nurlan |
KAZ |
| 19 |
Vallejo Pons, Francisco |
ESP |
- |
110 |
Li, Shilong |
CHN |
| 20 |
Smirin, Ilia |
ISR |
- |
109 |
Arencibia, Walter |
CUB |
| 21 |
Harikrishna, Pentala |
IND |
- |
108 |
Yu, Shaoteng |
CHN |
| 22 |
Malakhov Vladimir |
RUS |
- |
107 |
Wang, Hao |
CHN |
| 23 |
Sakaev Konstantin |
RUS |
- |
106 |
Lima, Darcy Gustavo |
BRA |
| 24 |
Volokitin, Andrei |
UKR |
- |
105 |
Cao Sang |
HUN |
| 25 |
Moiseenko Alexander |
UKR |
- |
104 |
Kuzubov Yuriy |
UKR |
| 26 |
Sasikiran, Krishnan |
IND |
- |
103 |
Iljushin Alexei |
RUS |
| 27 |
Eljanov Pavel |
UKR |
- |
102 |
Kudrin, Sergey |
USA |
| 28 |
Nakamura, Hikaru |
USA |
- |
101 |
Ganguly, Surya Sekar |
IND |
| 29 |
Zvjaginsev, Vadim |
RUS |
- |
100 |
Shulman, Yuri |
USA |
| 30 |
Karjakin Sergey |
UKR |
- |
99 |
Balogh Csaba |
HUN |
| 31 |
Timofeev Artyom |
RUS |
- |
98 |
Agrest Evgenij |
SWE |
| 32 |
Azmaiparashvili, Zurab |
GEO |
- |
97 |
Carlsen Magnus |
NOR |
| 33 |
Krasenkow, Michal |
POL |
- |
96 |
Ammonatov, Farrukh |
TKJ |
| 34 |
Sutovsky, Emil |
ISR |
- |
95 |
Hamdouchi, Hichem |
MAR |
| 35 |
Areshchenko Alexander |
UKR |
- |
94 |
Stripunsky, Alexander |
USA |
| 36 |
Khalifman, Alexander |
RUS |
- |
93 |
Inarkiev, Ernesto |
RUS |
| 37 |
Milov Vadim |
SUI |
- |
92 |
Pantsulaia Levan |
GEO |
| 38 |
Gurevich Mikhail |
BEL |
- |
91 |
Markus Robert |
SCG |
| 39 |
Rublevsky Sergei |
RUS |
- |
90 |
Dao, Thien Hai |
VIE |
| 40 |
Van Wely, Loek |
NED |
- |
89 |
Minasian Artashes |
ARM |
| 41 |
Ye, Jiangchuan |
CHN |
- |
88 |
Xu, Jun |
CHN |
| 42 |
Izoria Zviad |
GEO |
- |
87 |
Erenburg Sergey |
ISR |
| 43 |
Navara David |
CZE |
- |
86 |
Nikolic Predrag |
BIH |
| 44 |
Vescovi, Giovanni |
BRA |
- |
85 |
Adianto, Utut |
INA |
| 45 |
Asrian Karen |
ARM |
- |
84 |
Wang, Yue |
CHN |
| 46 |
Jakovenko Dmitry |
RUS |
- |
83 |
Leitao, Rafael |
BRA |
| 47 |
Najer Evgeniy |
RUS |
- |
82 |
Ghaem, Maghami Ehsan |
IRI |
| 48 |
Naiditsch Arkadij |
GER |
- |
81 |
Kotsur, Pavel |
KAZ |
| 49 |
Onischuk, Alexander |
USA |
- |
80 |
Popov Valerij |
RUS |
| 50 |
Granda, Julio |
PER |
- |
79 |
Ivanov, Alexander |
USA |
| 51 |
Efimenko Zahar |
UKR |
- |
78 |
Macieja Bartlomiej |
POL |
| 52 |
Smirnov Pavel |
RUS |
- |
77 |
Bocharov Dmitry |
RUS |
| 53 |
Movsesian Sergei |
SVK |
- |
76 |
Paragua, Mark |
PHI |
| 54 |
Kobalia Mikhail |
RUS |
- |
75 |
Zhang, Zhong |
CHN |
| 55 |
Miroshnichenko Evgenij |
UKR |
- |
74 |
Korneev Oleg |
RUS |
| 56 |
Motylev Alexander |
RUS |
- |
73 |
Roiz Michael |
ISR |
| 57 |
Alekseev, Evgeny |
RUS |
- |
72 |
Kazhgaleyev, Murtas |
KAZ |
| 58 |
Beliavsky Alexander G |
SLO |
- |
71 |
Jobava, Baadur |
GEO |
| 59 |
Kotronias Vasilios |
GRE |
- |
70 |
Ni, Hua |
CHN |
| 60 |
Felgaer, Ruben |
ARG |
- |
69 |
Kaidanov, Gregory S |
USA |
| 61 |
Istratescu Andrei |
ROM |
- |
68 |
Ftacnik Lubomir |
SVK |
| 62 |
Milos, Gilberto |
BRA |
- |
67 |
Sadvakasov, Darmen |
KAZ |
| 63 |
Kempinski Robert |
POL |
- |
66 |
Vaganian, Rafael A |
ARM |
| 64 |
Cheparinov, Ivan |
BUL |
- |
65 |
Fedorov Alexei |
BLR |
There have been various press releases after the potential match between
Kramnik and Topalov appears to have fallen through.
Kramnik Vs. Topalov: Proposal declined 14th
November 2005.
Georgios Makropoulos, FIDE Deputy President replies:
Kramnik - Topalov. FIDE Reply to UEP press release
Thursday, 17 Nov 2005
Kramnik's Manager
Carsten Hensel replied in a letter to chessbase
Kramnik - Topalov. FIDE Reply to Carsten Hensel press
release Monday, 21st Nov 2005
FIDE Presidential Elections May 2006
It looks like Kirsan Iljumzhinov will have opposition in the next FIDE
Presidential elections in Turin in May 2006. Leo Battesti, who is the organiser
of one of the most important international chess events (the Corsican Circuit)
and is also Vice-President of the French Chess Federation, has announced he is
running. Karpov has stated he is thinking of becoming involved in the race (http://www.marca.es/edicion/marca/ajedrez/es/desarrollo/590608.html)
and now according to ChessBase:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2736
Bessel Kok, representative of the Dutch Chess Federation; and Ali Nihat Yazici,
President of the Turkish Chess Federation have also announced their
candidature. The cynic in me believes that the sitting President will win
whatever the merits of the opposition as they have done since 1982.
55th Greek Championship
The 55th Greek Championship take place 16th-24th November 2005 in
Kalamata, a town 250km from Athens. The tournament is a 10 player round-robin
with 10 players (7 GMs). The GM norm is at 6/9 and the IM norm 4/9 Current
champion is GM Banikas who has won the Greek championship five times in a row.
Official site: http://www.chessfed.gr (only in Greek). Live
coverage.
Players
1. Banikas Hristos GM 2566
2. Kapnisis Spyridon IM 2427
3. Mastrovasilis Dimitrios GM 2570
4. Souleidis Georgios IM 2421
5. Skembris Spyridon GM 2461
6. Nikolaidis Ioannis GM 2521
7. Halkias Stelios GM 2540
8. Kotrotsos Vasilios FM 2323
9. Mastrovasilis Athanasios GM 2496
10. Kotronias Vasilios GM 2626
First Saturday December
FIRST SATURDAY GM-IM-FM (Elo) closed turnaments in Budapest, Hungary,
from 3rd until 16th of December, GM closed events cat.VII and IX (two groups,
10-14 players), there are some vacancies, first comes, first served. Contact:
Nagy Laszlo, FIDE International Chess Organizer e-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net
http://www.firstsaturday.hu or
http://home.hu.inter.net/~firstsat
Phone-fax: (+36)-1-263-28-59 Mobile: (+36)-30-230-1914 ICC and Skype nickname:
mrfirstsaturday ICQ#: 44805877
Argentine Chess Club Centenary
International Open Chess Tournament Argentine Chess Club Centenary
Buenos Aires City Cup November 30th - December 11th 2005.
2 hours to finish for player / Swiss System to 11 Rounds. VALID
TOURNAMENT FOR FIDE ELO TOTAL PRIZES: u$s 15.000 TO WINNER: u$s 5.000
More information: http://www.ajedrezsiglo21.com and
http://club-argentino.tripod.com
Swiss Chess Tour 2006
The Swiss Chess Tour 2006 starts in Basle in the New Year
(1.-7.1.2005.). Venue of Chess Festival for 8th time is Hotel Hilton in Basle.
Hilton Open (1-7.1.2006.) 7 Rounds, 6 hours (2 hours for 40 moves + 60
minutes for complete the game.) Prizes:
2000/1500/1200/800/600/500/2x400/2x300/5x200 CHF. Special prizes 200 CHF for
best Lady, Senior (1946), junior (1986-89), schoolboy (1990). Enter fee: 140
CHF (FM and juniors 70 CHF) GM & IM free. At the door 20 CHF. Basle amateur
(1-7.1.2006.) 7 Rounds, 4 hours (90 minutes 30 moves + 30 minutes to complete
the game). Players under 1900 rating (FIDE or national). Enter fee: 120 CHF
(juniors 60 CHF). At the door 20 CHF. Prizes: 500/400/2x300/2x200/4x150 CHF.
Basle juniors (2.1.2006.) 7 Rounds, 15 minutes for the game. Juniors 1986 and
younger. Enter fee 5 CHF. Natural prizes for all players.
NSV Senior Open (1-7.1.2006.) 7 Rounds, 4 hours (90 minutes for 30 moves
+ 30 minutes for complete the game) Seniors 1945. Prizes: 400/300/200 CHF +
natural prizes. Enter fee: 70 CHF. At the door 20 CHF. Basel Lighting Chess
(1.1.2006. from 14.00 to 16.00) 9 Rounds, 5 minutes. Enter fee: 20 CHF (juniors
5 CHF). Prizes 300/200/150/2x100/2x50 CHF natural prizes for everybody 50% and
more points.
More information and registration: Robert Spoerri tel. +41+62+9654-650,
fax +41+62+9654-651 E-mail info@beochess.ch Further information:
http://www.beochess.ch or
http://yubc.net/~yuchess
Russian Championship Superfinal
The Russian Championship Superfinal features Vladimir Kramnik,
Alexander Grischuk, Alexei Dreev, Alexander Morozevich and Peter Svidler plus 7
qualifiers from Kazan. Arrival and drawing of lots 18th December 2005, 1st
round 19th December 2005, last round 30th December. One rest day.
Harmonie Chess Tournament
The Harmonie Chess Tournament takes place in Groningen, 23rd-30th
December 2005. No players listed yet.
Official site: http://www.so-on.org/kerst2005/2005eng.html
Hyderabad Open
Due to unavoidable circumstances, the International Open Tournament to
be conducted by Chess Players Association of India at Hyderabad, India during
December 2005 is postponed. There will be a fresh date (most likely in February
2006 after the Aeroflot Open).
Further details: http://www.cpai.in
East Bay Chess Club Fide Swiss
East Bay Chess Club Fide Swiss A 9 round swiss, Dec 17-23, 2005 for
fide ratings and norms. Prizes $US 900-700-500-400, plus appearance fees to the
first three GMs to register. Information is available at
http://www.eastbaychess.com/tourney/05/fideswiss.html,
or email tournaments@eastbaychess.com with questions or to register.
Gibraltar Congress 2006
The Gibraltar Congress takes place 24th January - 2nd February 2006.
Contact Stewart Reuben for more details: Stewartreuben@aol.com
Further details: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.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/
17th Leuven Open
Chessclub Desperado Leuven organises its 17th Open International
Tournament of Leuven, Belgium. It will take place from Thursday November 10th
until Sunday November 13th 2005. The Open Tournament consists out of 7 rounds,
Swiss pairing system, 2hours/40moves + 15' QPF. Prizemoney adds up to more than
EUR 4.500, including several large ratingprizes!
Further info: http://turn.to/desperado
5th Amplico AIG Life
The 24th Chess Memorial of Stanislaw Gawlikowski takes place in Warsaw,
16th-18th December 2005 in the Olympic Centre Wybrzeze Gdynskie street 4.
Warsaw International Blitz Championship (16th of December) 5th Amplico
AIG Life International Chess Tournament - European Rapid Championship 2005
(17th -18th of December)
Further details: http://www.pzszach.org.pl/
Deep Junior vs Almira Skripchenko Exhibition
Deep Junior will play Almira Skripchenko in an exhibition game. in the
resort of Madonna di Campiglio, Italy November 30th 2005 14:00 local in the
Golf Hotel. The exhibition is part of the Intetain conference featuring
intelligent technologies for entertainment. Almira will have the white pieces
and the game will be conducted under normal time controls. The following day
(Dec. 1st) Almira will make a presentation titled "In the mind of the
grandmaster" and will conduct a simultaneous exhibition versus a selected group
of the conference attendees.
Further details and registration: http://www.intetain.org as well as
http://chess.itc.it/irst/Renderer.aspx?targetID=1347
Wellington College International
FIDE rated, qualifying event for British Champs and part of the BCF
Grand Prix. The event takes place over 2 weekends
Friday 27th January to Sunday 29th January 2006 and Saturday 11th to
Sunday 12th February 2006
£1,000+ prize fund including a paid place in 2006 British
Championships
Venue: Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire RG45 7PU (35 miles
south west of London)
Tournament Director: IM Andrew Martin. Chief Controller: Neville
Belinfante (BCF Arbiter)
Entries, requests for accommodation lists, travel details, detailed map
and other enquiries should be addressed to :
Ray Clark High Cedars, 17 Oak End Way, Gerrards Cross, Bucks, SL9 8DA
England
Tel. (44) (0)7802 306210 (Mon.-Fri. daytime) or Tel. (44) (0)1753
883300 (other times)
E-mail rayclark.mc@tiscali.co.uk or rclark@thehackettgroup.com
Hungarian Events November 2005 - August 2006
1. 5th-18th of November 2005 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. 17th-25th of November, Harkány Tenkes cup Open, 250 km South
West from Budapest, org:Fulop Csaba, mobile: +(36)-30-9276900
3. 19th-29th of November, IM-FM, KECSKEMET,
4. 3rd-16th of December, FS GM-IM-FM, Budapest, (Two GM groups - a
cat.VI.-VII and a cat.IX - X.!!!) Org: NL.
5. 27th of December 2005 - 4th of January 2006 IM-FM, Kecskemet,
6. 6th-14th of January 2006, Budapest, TAPOLCA Open, Org. Paréj
József, info: Nagy László, firstsat@hu.inter.net
7 4th-17th of February, FIRST SATURDAY GM (cat.VII and cat.IX/) -IM-FM
Budapest
8. 4th-17th of March FS GM-IM-FM, Org.NL.
9. 23rd- 31st of March SPRING FESTIVAL 9 rounds Swiss Open Budapest,
org.: NL.
10. 1st-14rth of April, FS cat.VII, IX, XII GM events, IM and FM closed
tournaments, Budapest, org.NL.
11. 14th-22nd of April, BUDAPEST Open, 9 rounds Swiss, organizer: IM
Rigo, e-mail: me-ri@t-online.hu
12. 6th-18th of May, Budapest, FS GM-IM-FM, org.NL.
13. 20th-30th of May, Budapest, ELEKES memorial GM-IM closed tmt,
org.IM Zsinka, e-mail: zsinkala@axelero.hu
14. 3rd-16th of June, FIRST SATURDAY GM /cat.VII and cat IX together/ -
IM-FM closed tournaments, Budapest, Org.NL.
15. 17th-25th of June, BALATONLELLE Open, GM-IM closed, org. IM RIGO,
e-mail: me-ri@t-online-hu
16. 1st-13th of July, FIRST SATURDAY GM-IM closed, Bp. Org.NL,
17. 15th-23rd of July, AGRIA Open 9 rounds Swiss, Eger, 100 km North
from Budapest, Org. RAUCH Ferenc, e-mail: rauch@freemail.hu
18. 24th-30th of July, SZOMBATHELY SUMMER Open 9 rounds Swiss, 300 km
West from Budapest, Org: FM KORPICS, Zsolt, e-mail: korpicschess@axelero.hu
19. 5th-17th of August, FIRST SATURDAY, Bp, GM /cat.XII-IX-VII/ - IM-FM
closed, Org: NL.
US Championship
The U.S. Chess Championship returns to San Diego from March 1st-12th,
2006 (note the new dates) 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 top seeded players are: 1 Gregory Kaidanov; 2 Gata Kamsky; 3 Alexander
Onischuk; 4 Boris Gulko 5 Ildar Ibraigimov; 6 Alexander Shabalov; 7 Varuzhan
Akobian; and 8 Igor Novikov. In the women's: 1 Susan Polgar; 2 Anna Zatonskih;
3 Irina Krush; 4 Camilla Baginskaite; 5 Tatev Abrahamyan; and 6 Jennifer
Shahade.
Full details:http://www.uschesschampionship.com
Corus Wijk aan Zee 2006
The field for the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee has been finalised.
The event takes place January 13th-29th 2006.
Players: 1 (2) Viswanathan Anand IND 2788 2 (3) Veselin Topalov BUL 2782
3 (4) Peter Leko HUN 2751 4 (5) Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2748 5 (7) Vladimir
Kramnik RUS 2739 6 (9) Etienne Bacrot FRA 2725 7 (10) Levon Aronian ARM 2724 8
(12) Michael Adams ENG 2718 9 (13) Boris Gelfand ISR 2717 10 (20) Sergey
Tiviakov NED 2700 11 (21) Ivan Sokolov NED 2696 12 (23) Gata Kamsky USA 2690 13
(44) Sergey Karjakin UKR 2658 14 (55) Loek van Wely NED 2648. October world
ranking in brackets.
Official site:http://www.coruschess.com/
Linares 2006
Limited information on the Linares tournament this year. I understand it
may be a split event between Linares in Spain and an as yet unannounced place
in Mexico. Approximate dates 12th Feb - 12th March 2006. Possible lineup:
Veselin Topalov (not yet confirmed), Peter Leko, Vassily Ivanchuk, Peter
Svidler, Etienne Bacrot, Paco Vallejo and two more possibly including
Viswanathan Anand. 8 players. All news yet to be officially confirmed.
Iranian Super League
The second Season of the Iranian Super League starts from 3rd October
2005. News: Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh.
Further details:
http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/asp/turniere.asp?tnr=2350&lan=1
and http://www.iranchess.com/indexen.htm
Czech Chess Christmas 2005
Czech Chess Christmas 2005 Litomysl (CZE) 26.12.2005-1.1.2006 7th
christmas chess FIDE tournament, swiss system of 9 round, rate of game 2 x 1,5h
+ 30s/move, prize fund 75.000 CZK (1st prize 20.000 CZK = 680 EUR), special
conditions for IM, WGM and GM, New Year’s Eve programme. Contact: Agentura
64, Jaroslav Fuksik, 783 73 Grygov 337, mobil: 608 364 664, e-mail:
a64@proclient.cz, web: http://www.a64.cz
Penang International Open
Penang International Open Chess Tournament 2005 is a FIDE-rated, open
chess tournament open to all players. It will be held at the tropical island of
Penang, Malaysia. The tournament is organized by the Penang Chess Association.
Dates: 7th-11th December 2005.
Details: http://www.pca.bayanbaru.com/PgOpen/
Seagaard ChessReviews
Soren Sogaard has announced that his site Seagaard ChessReviews will be
updated after receiving a lot of positive e-mails, "I decided to try to keep
running the site. I also got two new reviewers, and the well known danish IM
Steffen Pedersen reviews his first book." He'll see if he can keep it going
another 6 months.
Website: http://seagaard.dk/review
Hastings Chess Congress 2005-6
The Hastings Chess Congress takes place 28th December 2005 to 6th
January 2006, with a weekend tournament on 7th-8th January 2006.
Further details from Con Power conpowr@aol.com and
http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/
Singapore News
Singapore Masters & Challengers International Open
Tournaments
The Singapore Masters & Challengers International Open Tournaments
takes place 25th-31st December 2005. Swiss System; FIDE-rated and titled; Rate
of play will be 90 minutes for the whole game with 30 seconds increment for
every move starting from the first move. 4. Prize Fund : US$ 18,000 Singapore
Masters International Open (US$16,000): For players rated 1801 and above 1st
4000; 2nd 3000; 3rd 2000; 4th 1200; 5th 1000; 6th 800; 7th 600; 8th 400; 9th to
12th 350; 13th to 20th 200 each
Further details: singchess@pacific.net.sg and
ignatiusleong@pacific.net.sg
Seminars for Arbiters and Trainers in Singapore
Seminars for Arbiters and Trainers will be held in Singapore in
conjunction with the Singapore I nternational Chess Convention from 18th-24th
December 2005.
Downloads:
http://www.fide.com/news/download/ArbSem05_SIN.doc
http://www.fide.com/news/download/TrainSem05_SIN.doc
The registration forms should be sent back not later than 15 November
2005 to: Singapore Chess Federation, 51 Bishan Street 13, #02-01A, Singapore,
International Games Centre, Singapore 579799. or by fax to: (65) 6352 9691,
(65) 6358 1483 or by e-mail to singchess@pacific.net.sg,
ignatiusleong@pacific.net.sg
Asian Schools Chess Festival 2005
Asian Schools Chess Festival 2005 in Singapore, Singapore International
Chess Convention The Singapore Chess Federation has the honour of inviting all
Asian National Chess Federations affiliated to FIDE to participate in the 2005
Asian Schools Chess Festival (under-9, under-11, under -13, under -15) in
Singapore from 17th December (arrival) to 25th December (departure).
Official Site: http://www.singaporechess.org.sg
World Amateur Open Championship Cancelled
Due to the Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita that recently hit the
Gulf Coast area, the World Amateur Open Chess Tournament that was to be held
Oct. 7-9, 2005, in Kissimmee, Florida, has been cancelled.
Cajun Chess Web Site will be back soon:
http://www.cajunchess.com/
26th International Bethune Open
The 26th International Bethune Open takes place in the room Olof Palme,
Commercial centre La Rotonde, Bethune, France (Pas-de-Calais) December
26th-30th 2005. This year the tournament will have 9 rounds instead of 7. The
tournament is divided in 2 tournaments: - Tournament A for players whose Elo
rating is above or equal to 1600, 1st price : 1500 euros - Tournament B for
players strictly below 1800 and not FIDE, 1st price : 300 euros, Fischer pace
1h30+30s KO for each game in both tournaments. At least 5500 euros of prices
(7300 euros given in 2004), prices for Elo categories in both tournaments.
Entry fee : 40 euros (adults), 20 euros (youngsters under 20), free for IM, GM
and FIDE Masters. Special conditions for IM and GM. Contact info: E-mail:
open@bethunechess.com
Further details: http://www.bethunechess.com
Grand Prix d’échecs d’Aix en Provence
The Grand Prix d’échecs d’Aix en Provence takes place
15th-18th December 2005. Magnus Carlsen and Laurent Fressinet will compete.
Official site: http://www.grandprixdaix.com
Mezezers International Open 2006
The Mezezers International Open 2006 (110 km from Riga Latvia) takes
place 1st-6th July 2005.
Details; http://www.mezezers.viss.lv
Jovan Petronic Website
Jovan Petronic has a new website with some news on it.
http://www.jovanpetronic.com/chessnews.htm
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
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/
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
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
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
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.
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/
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
) .
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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