THE WEEK IN CHESS 773 31st August 2009 by Mark Crowther

1) Introduction

My thanks to Valery Maes, Adolivio Capece, Axel Fritz, Haroon Rashid, Antonio Castello, Christian Rohrer, Douglas Griffin, Emmanuel Variniac, Herman Van de Wynkele, Hugh Brodie, John Hillery, Konstantin Mashkov, Luiz Roberto Da Costa Jr, Lubo Ftacnik, Mikhail Golubev, Lazlo Nagy, Richard Fireman, Wolfgang Perner, Yannick Pelletier, Vladimir Malakhov and everyone else who helped with the issue.

Another busy week, but probably chess festivals are starting to wind down a little. The NH Chess tournament finished with the experience team beating the Rising Stars. Plusses for Peter Heine Nielsen, Peter Svidler and Ljubomir Ljubojevic for the Experience team along with Jan Smeets for the Rising Stars. Negatives for Hikaru Nakamura for whom after a period of heavy activity this was an event too far. History for the FIDE Rating list as it goes to Bi-Monthly publication and it's first ever September publication. History as Anatoly Karpov falls out. I'm making a guess (I'm not sure if he was in the top 100 in the first list in 1970), I might be wrong, but it is entirely possible that with Karpov's exit no-one from the original top 100 is left in the list. He certainly must be it's most long standing member.

Hope you enjoy this issue.

Mark

2) NH Chess Tournament

The Experience Team beat the Rising Stars in the NH Chess Tournament 27.5-22.5.

Last year the Rising Stars won 33.5-16.5 so a major effort was made to beef up the Experience team. Key to the margin was probably the poor form probably caused by ill-health of Hikaru Nakamura. He has taken advantage of a lot of invitations recently but it is probably time for a rest for him.

Peter Heine Nielsen was the top scorer for the Experience side with 6.5/10, Peter Svidler scored 6/10. The only plus score for the Rising Stars was Jan Smeets and with this he has earned a place in the 2010 Amber Tournament.

Ljubomir Ljubojevic was a surprise plus scorer for the Experience team. He rarely plays these days and recent results for veterans who don't prepare haven't been encouraging. 5.5/10 was a very fine score for him and he will gain a huge amount of rating points. Loek van Wely was the only Experience player below 50%.

Final Score: Experience 27.5 - Rising Stars 22.5.

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

Round 1 (August 20, 2009) Experience 3 Youth 2
Round 6 (August 26, 2009) Experience 2.5 Rising Stars 2.5
Smeets, Jan	- Beliavsky, Alexander G	1-0	40	B07	Pirc Defence
Caruana, Fabiano	- Van Wely, Loek	½-½	38	B84	Sicilian Scheveningen
Hou Yifan	- Svidler, Peter	½-½	18	B06	Modern Defence
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Ljubojevic, Ljubomir	0-1	48	B35	Sicilian Defence
Stellwagen, Daniel	- Nielsen, Peter Heine	½-½	27	C64	Ruy Lopez Classical
Round 7 (August 28, 2009) Experience 3.5 Rising Stars 1.5
Nielsen, Peter Heine	- Smeets, Jan	1-0	36	D19	Slav Defence
Svidler, Peter	- Stellwagen, Daniel	½-½	41	B12	Caro Kann Advanced
Ljubojevic, Ljubomir	- Hou Yifan	½-½	62	D38	QGD Ragozin
Van Wely, Loek	- Nakamura, Hikaru	½-½	59	A40	Unusual Replies to 1.d4
Beliavsky, Alexander G	- Caruana, Fabiano	1-0	25	E12	Queens Indian Petrosian
Round 8 (August 29, 2009) Experience 2.5 Rising Stars 2.5
Smeets, Jan	- Svidler, Peter	½-½	29	C78	Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence
Caruana, Fabiano	- Nielsen, Peter Heine	½-½	60	C64	Ruy Lopez Classical
Hou Yifan	- Van Wely, Loek	½-½	47	B84	Sicilian Scheveningen
Stellwagen, Daniel	- Ljubojevic, Ljubomir	1-0	110	B30	Sicilian Rossolimo
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Beliavsky, Alexander G	0-1	71	C50	Giuoco Piano
Round 9 (August 30, 2009) Experience 2 Rising Stars 3
Nielsen, Peter Heine	- Nakamura, Hikaru	½-½	89	A88	Dutch Leningrad
Svidler, Peter	- Caruana, Fabiano	0-1	43	C80	Ruy Lopez Open
Ljubojevic, Ljubomir	- Smeets, Jan	½-½	17	D47	Queens Gambit Meran
Beliavsky, Alexander G	- Hou Yifan	1-0	53	E06	Catalan
Van Wely, Loek	- Stellwagen, Daniel	0-1	47	E97	King's Indian Classical
Round 10 (August 31, 2009) Experience 3.5 Rising Stars 1.5
Smeets, Jan	- Van Wely, Loek	½-½	18	B84	Sicilian Scheveningen
Caruana, Fabiano	- Ljubojevic, Ljubomir	½-½	34	C11	French Defence
Stellwagen, Daniel	- Beliavsky, Alexander G	½-½	45	C41	Philidor's Defence
Nakamura, Hikaru	- Svidler, Peter	0-1	32	E60	King's Indian without Nc3
Hou Yifan	- Nielsen, Peter Heine	0-1	50	C53	Giuoco Piano

NH Chess Tournament Amsterdam (NED), 20-31 viii 2009 Final Round 10 Standings
Experience								27.5
1	Nielsen,PH	2680	\|					6.5/10
2	Svidler,P	2739	\|	\|				6.0/10
3	Ljubojevic,L	2553	\|	\|	\|			5.5/10
4	Beliavsky,A	2662	\|	\|	\|	\|		5.0/10
5	Van Wely,L	2655	\|	\|	\|	\|	\|	4.5/10
Rising Stars								22.5
1	Smeets,J	2632	½0	½½	1½	11	½½	6.0/10
2	Caruana,F	2670	½½	½1	½½	½0	½½	5.0/10
3	Stellwagen,D	2630	0½	½½	01	0½	½1	4.5/10
4	Hou Yifan	2584	½0	0½	0½	10	½½	3.5/10
5	Nakamura,Hi	2710	½½	00	½0	10	½½	3.5/10

3) FIDE Rating List for September 2009

For the first time there is now a September Rating List. The list I believe will be updated every two months. Topalov and Anand remain in place. Aronian and Carlsen swap places. Ivanchuk fell from 12 to 30 last time, now he jumps back to 8 which is where he belongs. Jakovenko has played a number of top events and struggled a bit so he drops to 11 from 5. Nigel Short is back as England's number one for the first time since who knows when as he jumps back over 2700, but he probably would have been there anyhow as Adams precipitous drop continues, he is now 50 in the world, he was number 12 last October. 2643 gets you in the list, Anatoly Karpov drops out of the top 100 for the first time, probably since the list's inception.

Source: http://www.fide.com. The full list is available for download there.

FIDE Rating List September 2009 Top 100
Rank	Ju09	Name	Title	NAT	YroB	ja08	ap08	ju08	oc08	ja09	ap09	ju09	Rating	Gms
1	1	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	1975	2780	2767	2777	2791	2796	2812	2813	2813	0
2	2	Anand, Viswanathan	g	IND	1969	2799	2803	2798	2783	2791	2783	2788	2788	0
3	4	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	1982	2739	2763	2737	2757	2750	2754	2768	2773	13
4	3	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	1990	2733	2765	2775	2786	2776	2770	2772	2772	10
5	6	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	1975	2799	2788	2788	2772	2759	2759	2759	2772	10
6	7	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	1979	2753	2741	2741	2747	2751	2751	2756	2762	23
7	8	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	1987	2735	2751	2744	2751	2761	2756	2756	2757	10
8	30	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	1969	2751	2740	2781	2786	2779	2746	2703	2756	42
9	9	Gelfand, Boris	g	ISR	1968	2737	2723	2720	2719	2733	2733	2755	2756	33
10	10	Morozevich, Alexander	g	RUS	1977	2765	2774	2788	2787	2771	2751	2751	2750	18
11	5	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	1983	2720	2711	2709	2737	2760	2753	2760	2742	24
12	12	Svidler, Peter	g	RUS	1976	2763	2746	2738	2727	2723	2726	2739	2741	9
13	16	Ponomariov, Ruslan	g	UKR	1983	2719	2719	2718	2719	2726	2726	2727	2741	9
14	11	Gashimov, Vugar	g	AZE	1986	2665	2679	2717	2703	2723	2730	2740	2740	0
15	13	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	1987	2698	2689	2704	2736	2739	2738	2736	2736	0
16	26	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	1987	2670	2686	2697	2704	2699	2701	2710	2735	17
17	14	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	1983	2711	2716	2728	2719	2733	2748	2733	2733	0
18	15	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	1972	2755	2740	2741	2726	2745	2745	2732	2730	18
19	24	Alekseev, Evgeny	g	RUS	1985	2711	2711	2708	2715	2718	2716	2714	2725	23
20	20	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	1990	2732	2732	2727	2730	2706	2721	2717	2722	13
21	19	Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar	g	AZE	1985	2760	2752	2742	2731	2724	2725	2717	2721	2
22	23	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	1983	2691	2695	2708	2719	2717	2721	2716	2719	13
23	29	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	g	FRA	1990	2637	2632	2681	2716	2696	2684	2703	2718	31
24	21	Eljanov, Pavel	g	UKR	1983	2692	2687	2716	2720	2693	2693	2716	2717	13
25	28	Malakhov, Vladimir	g	RUS	1980	2689	2689	2689	2675	2692	2709	2707	2715	10
26	22	Movsesian, Sergei	g	SVK	1978	2677	2695	2723	2732	2751	2747	2716	2711	9
27	27	Motylev, Alexander	g	RUS	1979	2644	2666	2674	2672	2676	2677	2710	2710	0
28	17	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	1983	2700	2705	2691	2705	2722	2728	2721	2709	23
29	44	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	1965	2645	2660	2655	2642	2663	2674	2684	2706	10
30	31	Rublevsky, Sergei	g	RUS	1974	2695	2695	2699	2702	2702	2702	2703	2703	0
31	58	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	g	UZB	1979	2681	2681	2679	2672	2687	2695	2672	2702	30
32	32	Bu, Xiangzhi	g	CHN	1985	2691	2708	2710	2714	2702	2704	2702	2702	0
33	34	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	1975	2664	2664	2670	2644	2659	2684	2699	2699	0
34	25	Akopian, Vladimir	g	ARM	1971	2700	2673	2673	2679	2700	2696	2712	2698	13
35	45	Jobava, Baadur	g	GEO	1983	2643	2658	2665	2664	2669	2687	2684	2696	9
36	38	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	g	ESP	1982	2675	2684	2650	2664	2702	2688	2693	2696	9
37	47	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	1980	2643	2650	2632	2678	2676	2690	2682	2694	20
38	18	Kamsky, Gata	g	USA	1974	2726	2726	2723	2729	2725	2720	2717	2692	32
39	42	Navara, David	g	CZE	1985	2680	2672	2646	2633	2638	2654	2687	2692	9
40	33	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	1983	2680	2703	2705	2710	2709	2724	2701	2692	8
41	37	Miroshnichenko, Evgenij	g	UKR	1978	2647	2642	2593	2632	2667	2680	2696	2690	28
42	39	Wang, Hao	g	CHN	1989	2698	2689	2704	2736	2739	2696	2690	2690	0
43	40	Bologan, Viktor	g	MDA	1971	2663	2665	2686	2682	2687	2690	2689	2688	8
44	41	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	g	RUS	1987	2646	2658	2646	2646	2664	2684	2689	2688	7
45	50	Nielsen, Peter Heine	g	DEN	1973	2626	2629	2652	2662	2660	2668	2680	2687	10
46	43	Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	1976	2707	2709	2711	2711	2693	2693	2687	2687	0
47	36	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	1985	2638	2623	2665	2678	2693	2700	2697	2685	10
48	46	Almasi, Zoltan	g	HUN	1976	2667	2674	2668	2663	2680	2685	2684	2685	9
49	60	Grachev, Boris	g	RUS	1986	2601	2610	2640	2653	2655	2652	2669	2684	11
50	35	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	1971	2726	2729	2735	2734	2712	2703	2699	2682	25
51	67	Najer, Evgeniy	g	RUS	1977	2634	2627	2670	2682	2669	2669	2663	2681	17
52	52	Volokitin, Andrei	g	UKR	1986	2674	2684	2672	2659	2671	2671	2678	2681	2
53	49	Vitiugov, Nikita	g	RUS	1987	2609	2617	2616	2638	2687	2688	2681	2681	0
54	64	Sargissian, Gabriel	g	ARM	1983	2676	2643	2660	2642	2678	2660	2667	2678	10
55	54	Sutovsky, Emil	g	ISR	1977	2642	2630	2654	2651	2660	2660	2675	2676	9
56	51	Harikrishna, P.	g	IND	1986	2664	2679	2668	2659	2673	2686	2679	2673	8
57	57	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	1973	2649	2634	2645	2686	2684	2697	2674	2670	45
58	81	Tkachiev, Vladislav	g	FRA	1973	2657	2657	2664	2664	2657	2657	2650	2669	11
59	62	Kurnosov, Igor	g	RUS	1985	2577	2593	2617	2606	2602	2658	2669	2669	0
60	100	Avrukh, Boris	g	ISR	1978	2628	2632	2656	2657	2645	2647	2641	2668	19
61	48	Timofeev, Artyom	g	RUS	1985	2664	2664	2650	2670	2671	2677	2681	2668	10
62	53	Cheparinov, Ivan	g	BUL	1986	2713	2695	2687	2696	2679	2678	2678	2667	20
63	80	Areshchenko, Alexander	g	UKR	1986	2645	2650	2664	2664	2673	2657	2651	2667	9
64	66	Guseinov, Gadir	g	AZE	1986	2617	2625	2643	2650	2661	2659	2664	2667	2
65	72	Meier, Georg	g	GER	1987	2570	2560	2556	2558	2608	2641	2658	2664	18
66	55	Inarkiev, Ernesto	g	RUS	1985	2681	2684	2675	2669	2656	2676	2675	2664	13
67	56	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	g	ROU	1976	2684	2684	2692	2684	2675	2675	2675	2664	11
68	94	Georgiev, Kiril	g	BUL	1965	2662	2665	2671	2645	2634	2637	2645	2663	26
69	90	Berkes, Ferenc	g	HUN	1985	2618	2618	2645	2645	2651	2638	2647	2663	18
70	84	Pashikian, Arman	g	ARM	1987	2556	2537	2564	2611	2621	2655	2650	2663	18
71	69	Dreev, Alexey	g	RUS	1969	2633	2657	2657	2670	2688	2668	2660	2662	27
72	59	Caruana, Fabiano	g	ITA	1992	2598	2620	2630	2640	2646	2649	2670	2662	17
73	65	Fridman, Daniel	g	GER	1976	2627	2640	2637	2630	2650	2646	2665	2661	26
74	61	Sasikiran, Krishnan	g	IND	1981	2677	2679	2684	2694	2711	2682	2669	2661	9
75	86	Andreikin, Dmitry	g	RUS	1990	2573	2580	2604	2603	2614	2625	2648	2659	9
76	70	Milov, Vadim	g	SUI	1972	2690	2690	2705	2681	2669	2659	2659	2659	0
77	63	Fressinet, Laurent	g	FRA	1981	2656	2656	2673	2676	2666	2664	2667	2658	23
78	71	Roiz, Michael	g	ISR	1983	2659	2659	2680	2677	2647	2635	2658	2658	20
79	77	Sokolov, Ivan	g	BIH	1968	2686	2690	2658	2650	2657	2669	2655	2657	10
80	68	Beliavsky, Alexander G	g	SLO	1953	2638	2641	2606	2619	2646	2640	2662	2656	9
81	75	Landa, Konstantin	g	RUS	1972	2641	2633	2615	2613	2626	2627	2655	2655	0
82	97	Predojevic, Borki	g	BIH	1987	2641	2651	2634	2615	2650	2652	2644	2654	18
83	78	Efimenko, Zahar	g	UKR	1985	2638	2660	2670	2680	2688	2682	2654	2654	0
84	88	Postny, Evgeny	g	ISR	1981	2627	2649	2661	2674	2652	2648	2647	2651	33
85	--	Krasenkow, Michal	g	POL	1963	2636	2624	2639	2624	2620	2622	2631	2651	27
86	76	Van Wely, Loek	g	NED	1972	2681	2676	2644	2618	2625	2622	2655	2650	19
87	79	Tregubov, Pavel V.	g	RUS	1971	2636	2629	2658	2646	2647	2628	2652	2649	9
88	82	Smirin, Ilia	g	ISR	1968	2616	2630	2637	2649	2647	2641	2650	2648	17
89	95	Kobalia, Mikhail	g	RUS	1978	2623	2627	2618	2630	2634	2645	2645	2648	9
90	87	Lastin, Alexander	g	RUS	1976	2604	2622	2639	2651	2643	2650	2648	2648	0
91	--	Zhigalko, Sergei	g	BLR	1989	2558	2568	2583	2592	2587	2622	2621	2646	32
92	--	Baklan, Vladimir	g	UKR	1978	2647	2647	2631	2625	2627	2618	2639	2646	18
93	91	Riazantsev, Alexander	g	RUS	1985	2628	2638	2617	2656	2634	2635	2647	2646	11
94	93	Seirawan, Yasser	g	USA	1960	2628	2630	2634	2634	2634	2634	2646	2646	0
95	--	Fier, Alexandr	g	BRA	1988	2528	2527	2558	2581	2590	2595	2604	2644	31
96	89	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	g	PER	1967	2588	2609	2599	2628	2625	2610	2647	2644	27
97	92	So, Wesley	g	PHI	1993	2526	2540	2577	2610	2627	2641	2646	2644	9
98	74	Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	g	UKR	1981	2652	2671	2624	2603	2633	2656	2655	2643	37
99	99	Amonatov, Farrukh	g	TJK	1978	2649	0	2650	2634	2647	2648	2641	2643	13
100	--	Kazhgaleyev, Murtas	g	KAZ	1973	2594	2617	2641	2640	2630	2626	2639	2643	9

4) 57th Hungarian Women's Championship

The 57th Hungarian Women's Championship took place in Eger 21st-29th August 2009. Anita Gara took the title by virtue of the most wins, from her sister Ticia. Both finished on 7/9.

Official site: http://dodicsek.unsoft.hu/2009/0821noi/hunwomench2009.htm

57th ch-HUN w Eger HUN (HUN), 21-29 viii 2009												cat. I (2270)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Gara, Anita	m	HUN	2353	*	½	0	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	7	2481
2.	Gara, Ticia	wg	HUN	2354	½	*	1	1	½	½	1	½	1	1	7	2480
3.	Papp, Petra		HUN	2159	1	0	*	0	1	½	1	1	½	½	5½	2362
4.	Medvegy, Nora	m	HUN	2344	0	0	1	*	½	½	1	1	½	1	5½	2342
5.	Lakos, Nikoletta	wg	HUN	2310	½	½	0	½	*	½	½	1	½	1	5	2308
6.	Vajda, Szidonia	m	HUN	2375	0	½	½	½	½	*	½	½	1	1	5	2301
7.	Rudolf, Anna	wg	HUN	2313	0	0	0	0	½	½	*	1	1	1	4	2222
8.	Dudas, Eszter	wf	HUN	2141	0	½	0	0	0	½	0	*	1	1	3	2159
9.	Toth, Sarolta	wf	HUN	2236	0	0	½	½	½	0	0	0	*	½	2	2054
10.	Csatari, Mariann	wm	HUN	2117	0	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	½	*	1	1936

Round 5 (August 25, 2009)
Medvegy, Nora	- Toth, Sarolta	½-½	16	B42	Sicilian Paulsen
Lakos, Nikoletta	- Gara, Ticia	½-½	28	B52	Sicilian Rossolimo
Vajda, Szidonia	- Gara, Anita	0-1	36	B53	Sicilian Hungarian
Rudolf, Anna	- Papp, Petra	0-1	93	B85	Sicilian Scheveningen
Dudas, Eszter	- Csatari, Mariann	1-0	19	B01	Centre Counter
Round 6 (August 26, 2009)
Gara, Ticia	- Rudolf, Anna	1-0	18	C03	French Tarrasch
Gara, Anita	- Toth, Sarolta	1-0	57	B42	Sicilian Paulsen
Papp, Petra	- Dudas, Eszter	1-0	35	C18	French Winawer
Vajda, Szidonia	- Lakos, Nikoletta	½-½	19	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Csatari, Mariann	- Medvegy, Nora	0-1	44	E30	Nimzo Indian Leningrad
Round 7 (August 27, 2009)
Medvegy, Nora	- Papp, Petra	1-0	67	B90	Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Lakos, Nikoletta	- Gara, Anita	½-½	55	B27	Sicilian Early Fianchetto
Rudolf, Anna	- Vajda, Szidonia	½-½	20	B87	Sicilian Sozin Attack
Dudas, Eszter	- Gara, Ticia	½-½	60	B87	Sicilian Sozin Attack
Toth, Sarolta	- Csatari, Mariann	½-½	44	A11	Reti Opening
Round 8 (August 28, 2009)
Gara, Ticia	- Medvegy, Nora	1-0	30	B47	Sicilian Paulsen
Gara, Anita	- Csatari, Mariann	1-0	28	B53	Sicilian Hungarian
Papp, Petra	- Toth, Sarolta	½-½	34	C54	Giuoco Piano
Lakos, Nikoletta	- Rudolf, Anna	½-½	77	C03	French Tarrasch
Vajda, Szidonia	- Dudas, Eszter	½-½	45	B49	Sicilian Paulsen
Round 9 (August 29, 2009)
Medvegy, Nora	- Vajda, Szidonia	½-½	25	C41	Philidor's Defence
Rudolf, Anna	- Gara, Anita	0-1	74	B70	Sicilian Dragon
Dudas, Eszter	- Lakos, Nikoletta	0-1	38	B06	Modern Defence
Toth, Sarolta	- Gara, Ticia	0-1	38	B14	Caro Kann Panov
Csatari, Mariann	- Papp, Petra	½-½	31	D48	Queens Gambit Meran

5) 6th Kalamaria Open

The 6th Kalamaria Open took place 22nd-29th August 2009. 9 Round Swiss. Marcos Llaneza Vega took clear first place with 7/9.

Official site: http://www.skakistis.gr/

6th Kalamaria Open (GRE), 22-29 viii 2009 Leading entries:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB3
1	Llaneza Vega Marcos	IM	ESP	2521	7	34.5	48
2	Aroshidze Levan	GM	GEO	2537	6.5	36	50
3	Berescu Alin	GM	ROU	2495	6.5	35	51
4	Drazic Sinisa	GM	SRB	2538	6.5	34.5	53
5	Panchanathan Magesh Chandran	GM	IND	2493	6.5	33	45.5
6	Iotov Valentin	GM	BUL	2603	6.5	32	48.5
7	Grigorov Grigor	IM	BUL	2489	6.5	31.5	48.5
8	Arun Prasad S	GM	IND	2556	6	37.5	55.5
9	Bromberger Stefan	IM	GER	2510	6	35.5	48.5
10	Jaracz Pawel	GM	POL	2539	6	34	51.5
11	Iskusnyh Sergei	GM	RUS	2471	6	33.5	47
12	Erdogdu Mert	IM	TUR	2463	6	33.5	47.5
13	Antic Dejan	GM	SRB	2523	6	33	50
14	Gelashvili Tamaz	GM	GEO	2605	6	32	51
15	Shavtvaladze Nikoloz	IM	GEO	2452	6	31.5	47.5
16	Mastrovasilis Athanasios	GM	GRE	2503	6	31	45.5
17	Esen Baris	IM	TUR	2488	6	30	44
18	Zakarian David		ARM	2296	6	29	45.5
19	Gutov Andrey	GM	RUS	2459	6	27	41
20	Galopoulos N		GRE	2255	5.5	33	52.5
21	Nevednichy Vladislav	GM	ROU	2570	5.5	31	51
22	Michiels Bart	IM	BEL	2451	5.5	30	49.5
23	Argiroudis Stamatis		GRE	2265	5.5	29	46
24	Muzychuk Anna	IM	SLO	2542	5.5	29	47
25	Ivakhin Maxim	IM	RUS	2361	5.5	27.5	44
26	Kadziolka Beata	WGM	POL	2289	5.5	26.5	43
27	Markidis Konstantinos		GRE	2334	5.5	26.5	42
28	Pambalou Fotini		GRE	2135	5.5	25.5	40.5
29	Inants Aghasi		ARM	2229	5	30	46.5
30	Pavlovic Milos M	IM	SRB	2533	5	29.5	46.5
31	Pena Gomez Manuel	IM	ESP	2467	5	29	47
32	Frhat Ali	IM	EGY	2397	5	27.5	43
33	Pavlidis Antonios		GRE	2360	5	27	46.5
34	Kosmas-Lekkas Dimitiros		GRE	2124	5	25.5	43
35	Skoulakis Charalambos		GRE	2132	5	25.5	39
36	Franchini Gabriele	FM	ITA	2206	5	25	40.5
37	Milovanovic Ninoslav		SRB	2190	5	23.5	37.5
38	Loukopoulos Spyridon		GRE	2087	5	23	38
39	Frigieri Fabrizio		ITA	2114	5	23	43.5
40	Exizoglou Dimitrios		GRE	2237	4.5	25.5	45.5
103 players

6) XI Hostafrancs Open

The XI Open Internacional D'escacs de Sants, Hostafrancs I La Bordeta took place 21st-30th August 2009. 10 Round Swiss. Michal Krasenkow was the top seed but he was edged out by Alexandr Fier who scored 8.5/10 half a point clear.

Official site: http://www.cotxeres.org/open/

XI Open Sants (ESP), 21-30 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 10 Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Fier Alexandr	GM	BRA	2604	8.5	53	65.5	52
2	Krasenkow Michal	GM	POL	2631	8	53	67	46
3	Fargere Francois	IM	FRA	2480	8	51	63.5	45.5
4	Almeida Quintana Omar	GM	CUB	2524	7.5	55.5	68	46.5
5	Ikonnikov Vyacheslav	GM	RUS	2556	7.5	53.5	66	45.5
6	Martinez Duany Lelys Stanley	FM	CUB	2507	7.5	53	65.5	46.5
7	Grigoriants Sergey	GM	RUS	2564	7.5	52.5	64.5	45.5
8	Cuartas Jaime Alexander	GM	COL	2521	7.5	52	65	46
9	Cruz Cristhian	IM	PER	2525	7.5	50.5	63.5	43.5
10	Karlsson Lars	GM	SWE	2468	7.5	48.5	61	43.5
11	Gullaksen Eirik	IM	NOR	2396	7.5	48.5	60	39
12	Narciso Dublan Marc	GM	ESP	2553	7.5	47.5	59	42
13	Lemos Damian	GM	ARG	2547	7.5	47.5	58.5	40.5
14	Pogorelov Ruslan	GM	UKR	2441	7.5	46	56.5	40.5
15	Bacallao Alonso Yusnel	FM	CUB	2467	7.5	45.5	56	42
16	Gonzalez Garcia Jose	GM	MEX	2509	7	54.5	68	45
17	Ipatov Alexander	IM	ESP	2454	7	53.5	66.5	44
18	Alonso Rosell Alvar	IM	ESP	2461	7	51.5	63.5	42
19	Vila Gazquez Xavier	IM	ESP	2457	7	49.5	61.5	42.5
20	Pitl Gregory	IM	GER	2405	7	49	61.5	41.5
21	Perez Mitjans Orelvis	FM	CUB	2404	7	48.5	60.5	39
22	Vitoux Colomban	FM	FRA	2423	7	48.5	60	39.5
23	Mihailovs Jurijs	IM	LAT	2408	7	48	60.5	40
24	Matnadze Ana	IM	GEO	2413	7	48	60	42
25	Bergez Luc	IM	FRA	2371	7	48	59.5	43
26	Brethes Francois		FRA	2255	7	46.5	58	35
27	Munoz Pantoja Miguel	IM	PER	2427	7	45.5	57	37
28	Lorenzo De La Riva Lazaro	FM	ESP	2331	7	45	57	39
29	Huerga Leache Mikel	IM	ESP	2456	7	43.5	53.5	35.5
30	Oms Fuentes Lluis	FM	ESP	2351	7	43.5	52.5	33.5
31	Scharrer Patrick		ITA	2280	7	43	54.5	35
300 players

7) 5th Heraklion-Gazi International Chess Tournament

The 5th Heraklion-Gazi (Greece) International Chess Tournament took place 22nd-29th August 2009. Dejan Bojkov (2521) was the top seed. Nikolaos Aggelis took first place on tie-break from Zahari Zahariev, Paul Townsend and Paul Townsend after all scored 7/9. Games from the first 4 rounds only are currently available.

9 Round Swiss. 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment for every move starting from move 1.

Official site: http://www.gazichess.gr/en

5th Heraklion-Gazi (GRE), 22-29 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rank	Name	Ti	Rtg	FED	Pts	Fide	BH.	SB.
1	Aggelis Nikolaos	FM	2296	GRE	7	38½	55	41.5
2	Zahariev Zahari	IM	2399	BUL	7	38	54½	41.5
3	Townsend Paul		2183	ENG	7	36½	52½	38.75
4	Maris Ioannis	FM	2152	GRE	7	35	50½	37.5
5	Drenchev Petar	IM	2465	BUL	6½	37½	56	39.5
6	Dochev Dimitar	IM	2429	GRE	6½	37	53½	37.25
7	Bojkov Dejan	GM	2521	BUL	6½	35	54½	37.25
8	Tsilidis Alexandros	FM	2312	GRE	6½	35	49½	35.25
9	Panagiotakos Nikolaos		2162	GRE	6½	33	49	32.5
10	Papadakis Michalis		2123	GRE	6	34	51½	32.25
11	Kounalakis Evryklis		2125	GRE	6	33	47½	27.5
12	Lirindzakis Timotheos	IM	2344	GRE	6	32½	51½	33.5
13	Milonakis Georgios		2118	GRE	6	32	47½	27
14	Disha Beshim		2046	ALB	6	31	45½	28
15	Fragiadakis Emanouel		2020	GRE	6	28	44	27.5
16	Charleshouse Glenn	FM	2185	ENG	5½	33	52	29.25
89 players

8) 9th United Insurance & United Leasing Grandmasters

The 9th United Insurance & United Leasing Grandmasters Chess Tournament took place 21st - 29th August in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A total 40 players including 11 GM's, 2 IM's, 11 FM's and IWFM participated in the event. Dibyendu Barua took clear first place with 7.5/10 half a point clear of the field. My thanks to Haroon or Rashid for the news and games.

9th UIL&UL GM Dhaka (BAN), 21-29 viii 2009 Final Round 10 Standings:
Rank	SNo.	Ti	Name	Rtg	FED	1.Rd	2.Rd	3.Rd	4.Rd	5.Rd	6.Rd	7.Rd	8.Rd	9.Rd	10.Rd	Pts	RSum
1	10	GM	Barua Dibyendu	2473	IND	23b 1	29w 1	2b ½	13w 1	8w 1	3b 0	5w 1	7w ½	10b ½	11b 1	7½	22120
2	1	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	2592	GEO	19w 1	20b 1	1w ½	8b ½	11w 1	12b ½	4w 1	3b ½	5w ½	13b ½	7	22274
3	2	GM	Gagunashvili Merab	2574	GEO	22b 1	6w ½	17b 1	10w ½	14b ½	1w 1	8b ½	2w ½	7b 1	5w ½	7	21973
4	24	FM	Hasan Mehdi	2236	BAN	12w ½	32 - +	11b 0	30w 1	21b 1	6w 1	2b 0	10w ½	13b ½	18w 1	6½	22382
5	6	GM	Rausis Igor	2512	CZE	30b 1	9w 1	10b ½	11w ½	6b ½	14w 1	1b 0	8w 1	2b ½	3b ½	6½	22282
6	11	GM	Bakre Tejas	2453	IND	28w 1	3b ½	12w ½	15b 1	5w ½	4b 0	16w 1	14w ½	9b ½	8w 1	6½	21581
7	20		Bitan Banerjee	2306	IND	39b 1	11w ½	18b ½	21w ½	27b 1	10w ½	12w 1	1b ½	3w 0	14b ½	6	22138
8	8	GM	Reefat Bin-Sattar	2486	BAN	36b 1	15w 1	14b 1	2w ½	1b 0	26w 1	3w ½	5b 0	12w 1	6b 0	6	21983
9	15		Praveen Kumar C	2363	IND	33w 1	5b 0	35w 1	12b 0	18w ½	32w 1	26b 1	11b ½	6w ½	10w ½	6	21716
10	9	GM	Neelotpal Das	2474	IND	31w 1	26b 1	5w ½	3b ½	12w ½	7b ½	11w ½	4b ½	1w ½	9b ½	6	21663
11	7	GM	Khusnutdinov Rustam	2506	KAZ	35w 1	7b ½	4w 1	5b ½	2b 0	17w 1	10b ½	9w ½	14b 1	1w 0	6	21633
12	4	GM	Hossain Enamul	2531	BAN	4b ½	38w 1	6b ½	9w 1	10b ½	2w ½	7b 0	27w 1	8b 0	22w 1	6	21507
13	3	GM	Abdulla Al-Rakib	2532	BAN	25 - +	14b 0	19w 1	1b 0	29w 1	16b ½	15w ½	28b 1	4w ½	2w ½	6	20861
14	16	IM	Lahiri Atanu	2361	IND	40b 1	13w 1	8w 0	18b 1	3w ½	5b 0	20w 1	6b ½	11w 0	7w ½	5½	22269
15	19	FM	Grover Sahaj	2310	IND	34w 1	8b 0	39w 1	6w 0	32b ½	21w 1	13b ½	18b 0	20w ½	26w 1	5½	21248
16	25	FM	Vinoth Kumar M	2208	IND	18b 0	40w 1	21b 0	39w 1	22b 1	13w ½	6b 0	30w 1	27b ½	17w ½	5½	21105
17	18	FM	Rahman Md Taibur	2316	BAN	37b 1	18w ½	3w 0	29b ½	25w 1	11b 0	19w ½	20b ½	28w 1	16b ½	5½	20955
18	5	GM	Ismagambetov Anuar	2531	KAZ	16w 1	17b ½	7w ½	14w 0	9b ½	27w ½	30b ½	15w 1	21b 1	4b 0	5½	20788
19	21	FM	Ahmed Sk Nasir	2291	BAN	2b 0	24w 1	13b 0	26b 0	37w 1	31w 1	17b ½	21w 0	30b ½	27w 1	5	20752
20	14	IM	Sareen Vishal	2369	IND	24b 1	2w 0	30b ½	22w 1	26b 0	36w 1	14b 0	17w ½	15b ½	21w ½	5	20743
21	13	FM	Abu Sufian Shakil	2372	BAN	26w 0	31b 1	16w 1	7b ½	4w 0	15b 0	36w 1	19b 1	18w 0	20b ½	5	20590
22	22		Chatterjee Debaraj	2281	BAN	3w 0	28b ½	34w 1	20b 0	16w 0	24b ½	38w 1	36b 1	25w 1	12b 0	5	20510
23	30		Md Jamal Uddin	2138	BAN	1w 0	27w 0	37b 1	32b 0	33w 1	25b 0	35w 1	24b 0	31b 1	29w 1	5	20106
24	34		Karma Pandya	2128	IND	20w 0	19b 0	31w ½	34b 1	36b 0	22w ½	37b 1	23w 1	26b 0	30w 1	5	19835
25	23	FM	Rahman Syed Mahfuzur	2256	BAN	13 - -	- - -	38b 1	33w 1	17b 0	23w 1	27b 0	26w 1	22b 0	28w 1	5	17980
26	33		Hasan Md Emam	2130	BAN	21b 1	10w 0	27b ½	19w 1	20w 1	8b 0	9w 0	25b 0	24w 1	15b 0	4½	21237
27	17	FM	Islam Kh Aminul	2316	BAN	29w 0	23b 1	26w ½	28b 1	7w 0	18b ½	25w 1	12b 0	16w ½	19b 0	4½	20525
28	31		Shrestha Keshav	2134	NEP	6b 0	22w ½	36b 1	27w 0	30b ½	35b 1	32w 1	13w 0	17b 0	25b 0	4	20937
29	37	FM	Hamal Manish	2086	NEP	27b 1	1b 0	32w ½	17w ½	13b 0	30w 0	31b ½	38w ½	37b 1	23b 0	4	20665
30	26	FM	Mohammad Javed	2204	BAN	5w 0	33b 1	20w ½	4b 0	28w ½	29b 1	18w ½	16b 0	19w ½	24b 0	4	20515
31	29		Nepali Badrilal	2162	NEP	10b 0	21w 0	24b ½	38w ½	39 - +	19b 0	29w ½	32b 1	23w 0	34b ½	4	19997
32	12	FM	Minhazuddin Ahmed	2391	BAN	38b ½	4 - -	29b ½	23w 1	15w ½	9b 0	28b 0	31w 0	35 - +	35w ½	4	19852
33	35		Shrestha Bilam Lal	2106	NEP	9b 0	30w 0	- - 1	25b 0	23b 0	37w 0	34w ½	35b ½	36w 1	38b 1	4	17542
34	39		Ikramul Haque Siam	1984	BAN	15b 0	36w ½	22b 0	24w 0	- - 1	- - -	33b ½	37w ½	38b 1	31w ½	4	15297
35	27		Islam Aminul Polash	2188	BAN	11b 0	37w 1	9b 0	36w 0	38b 1	28w 0	23b 0	33w ½	32 - -	32b ½	3	20339
36	28		Bhuiyan Golam Mostafa	2177	BAN	8w 0	34b ½	28w 0	35b 1	24w 1	20b 0	21b 0	22w 0	33b 0	37w ½	3	20147
37	38		Abdullah Al-Saif	2083	BAN	17w 0	35b 0	23w 0	- - 1	19b 0	33b 1	24w 0	34b ½	29w 0	36b ½	3	17430
38	32		Tandukar Naveen	2133	NEP	32w ½	12b 0	25w 0	31b ½	35w 0	- - 1	22b 0	29b ½	34w 0	33w 0	2½	18001
39	40		Sultana Sharmin Shirin	1974	BAN	7w 0	- - 1	15b 0	16b 0	31 - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	1	6824
40	36	WFM	Shamima Akter Liza	2100	BAN	14w 0	16b 0	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	- - -	0	2361

9) Schwarzach Open 2009

The Schwarzach Open took place 15th-23rd August 2009 in Austria. The winner was GM Robert Zelcic with 7 points out of 9 rounds. My thanks to Wolfgang Perner for the news.

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr23490.aspx

Schwarzach Open (AUT), 15-23 viii 2009 Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Zelcic Robert	GM	CRO	2554	7	44	32.5	2354
2	Womacka Mathias	IM	GER	2429	6.5	47	35.25	2401
3	Danner Georg	IM	AUT	2450	6.5	44.5	34.75	2292
4	Roos Daniel	IM	FRA	2431	6.5	41	31.75	2259
5	Wiesinger Robert	MK	AUT	2272	6.5	40.5	31.75	2198
6	Jovanovic Zoran	GM	CRO	2525	6	48.5	34	2358
7	Doric Nenad	IM	CRO	2352	6	46	30.5	2251
8	Marcelin Cyril	GM	FRA	2498	6	44	30.5	2369
9	Smirnov Artem	IM	RUS	2449	6	40.5	26	2219
10	Palac Mladen	GM	CRO	2582	5.5	48.5	30.75	2382
11	Rolletschek Heinrich	FM	AUT	2213	5.5	46	27.75	2267
12	Labeckas Kestutis		LAT	2400	5.5	45	28.75	2329
13	Starostits Ilmars	IM	LAT	2482	5.5	45	27.75	2293
14	Platzgummer Fabian	FM	AUT	2308	5.5	44.5	26.25	2365
15	Meier Alexander		AUT	2146	5.5	42.5	24.5	2241
16	Cucinella Vincenzo		ITA	2152	5.5	41	23.75	2212
17	Bonnaud Remy		FRA	2204	5.5	38	21.5	2146
18	Medancic Rikard	IM	CRO	2261	5.5	37.5	23.75	2133
19	Van Dooren Dirk	FM	NED	2308	5	46.5	25.25	2285
20	Cremer Jochen		GER	2161	5	39.5	20	2116
21	Bochis Julia		GER	2053	5	39	23.25	2197
22	Knoblauch Leonhard		GER	2000	5	38.5	21.75	2184
23	Neulinger Manfred	FM	AUT	2293	5	38	21.75	2156
24	Hell Pascal		FRA	2177	5	38	18.25	2206
25	Egle Stefan		GER	2137	5	37.5	20.25	2121
26	Laqua Christian		GER	2181	5	37	20	2085
27	Legahn Dirk		GER	2206	5	36	18.5	2086
28	Popa Claudio	CM	ITA	2233	5	35.5	20.25	2113
29	Vidalis Evagelos		GRE	1991	5	31	14.75	2013
30	Schnegg Daniel		AUT	2092	4.5	41	20	2205
65 players

10) Brasschaat Chess Festival

The Brasschaat Chess Festival saw the 1st Masters and 9th Open take place 15th-23rd August 2009. Mher Hovhanisian took clear first in the Masters with 6.5/9. Valery Maes reports that the winner of the Open (Cor Van Dongen) gets an invitation for the Masters. Also they are hoping to have an even better event for the 10th Anniversary.

Official site: http://www.mastersbrasschaat.be/

Masters Brasschaat (BEL), 15-23 viii 2009												cat. IV (2341)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Hovhanisian, Mher	m	ARM	2471	*	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	1	1	6½	2492
2.	Laurent, Bruno	m	BEL	2339	½	*	½	1	½	½	1	½	½	1	6	2465
3.	Wirig, Anthony	m	FRA	2491	½	½	*	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	6	2448
4.	Soors, Stef		BEL	2222	½	0	½	*	1	1	1	½	1	0	5½	2433
5.	Dardha, Arben	f	ALB	2291	½	½	½	0	*	0	1	1	1	½	5	2389
6.	Docx, Stefan	f	BEL	2384	0	½	½	0	1	*	½	0	1	0	3½	2255
7.	De Wit, Michel	f	NED	2301	½	0	½	0	0	½	*	1	0	1	3½	2264
8.	Leenaerts, Robin		BEL	2248	0	½	0	½	0	1	0	*	½	1	3½	2270
9.	Nijs, Nils		BEL	2242	0	½	0	0	0	0	1	½	*	1	3	2226
10.	Piceu, Tom	f	BEL	2416	0	0	0	1	½	1	0	0	0	*	2½	2166

Open Brasschaat (BEL), 15-23 viii 2009 Final Round 9 Standings:
Nr	Name	Ti	FED	Rating	Score	TPR
1	Van Dongen, Cor		NED	2342	8.5	2672
2	Geirnaert, Steven	FM	BEL	2364	7.5	2434
3	Sadkowsky, Daniel	FM	BEL	2277	7	2413
4	Vandenbussche, Thibaut		BEL	2282	7	2300
5	Hetey, Laszlo	IM	GER	2352	7	2373
6	De Schampheleire, Glen		BEL	2156	7	2208
7	Van den Brande, Werner		BEL	2228	7	2270
8	Haast, Anne		NED	2158	7	2218
9	Afek, Yochanan	IM	ISR	2314	6.5	2237
10	Goossens, Hanne		BEL	1963	6.5	2338
11	Nieto, Emanuel		BEL	2246	6.5	2228
12	Van Cappellen, Jonas		BEL	2002	6.5	2220
13	Both, Erik		NED	2234	6.5	2202
14	Cools, Gorik	FM	BEL	2265	6.5	2141
15	Mengerink, Ynze		NED	2071	6.5	2176
16	Beukema, Stefan		NED	2007	6.5	2141
17	Colijn, Stefan		NED	2187	6	2178
178 players

11) Dieppe Chess Festival

The Dieppe Chess Festival took place 23rd-29th August 2009. Mark Hebden won the IM all-play-all with 8/9. Interview on the official site. Sarah Hegarty beat Salome Neuhauser in a four game match.

Official site: http://www.chess-and-strategy.com/

IM Dieppe (FRA), 23-29 viii 2009												cat. IV (2349)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Hebden, Mark L	g	ENG	2468	*	1	½	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	8	2686
2.	Tirard, Hugo	m	FRA	2434	0	*	1	1	½	½	0	1	1	1	6	2464
3.	D'Costa, Lorin A R	m	ENG	2477	½	0	*	½	½	½	1	1	1	1	6	2459
4.	Saatdjian, Thomas	f	FRA	2312	0	0	½	*	½	1	1	1	½	1	5½	2433
5.	Ringoir, Tanguy	f	BEL	2406	0	½	½	½	*	½	½	½	1	1	5	2385
6.	Eggleston, David J	f	ENG	2341	0	½	½	0	½	*	½	½	1	1	4½	2349
7.	Song, Julien	f	FRA	2319	0	1	0	0	½	½	*	½	½	1	4	2309
8.	Mandon, Fabrice		FRA	2251	½	0	0	0	½	½	½	*	0	1	3	2234
9.	Zhou, Yang-Fan		ENG	2265	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	1	*	1	3	2233
10.	Bersoult, Francois		FRA	2217	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	*	0

Neuhauser, Salome	-	Hegarty, Sarah N	0-1	45	B02	Alekhine's Defence
Hegarty, Sarah N	-	Neuhauser, Salome	1-0	20	B87	Sicilian Sozin Attack
Neuhauser, Salome	-	Hegarty, Sarah N	1-0	53	B04	Alekhine's Defence
Hegarty, Sarah N	-	Neuhauser, Salome	1-0	36	B87	Sicilian Sozin Attack

IM Dieppe (FRA), 25-27 viii 2009
				1	2	3	4
1	Hegarty, Sarah N	ENG	2098	1	1	0	1	3.0	2214
2	Neuhauser, Salome	FRA	2021	0	0	1	0	1.0	1905

12) 43rd Mislata Open

The 43rd Mislata, Valencia Open took place 24th-30th August 2009. Oleg Korneev took first place on tie-break from Jose Angel Guerra Mendez after both finished on 7.5/9.

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

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr23604.aspx

43rd Mislata Open (ESP), 24-30 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	FIDE	Pts.	Des 1
1	Korneev Oleg	GM	RUS	2537	7.5	50.5
2	Guerra Mendez Jose Angel	FM	CUB	2408	7.5	48
3	Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo	IM	CUB	2504	7	50
4	Gomez Garrido Camilo	IM	CUB	2461	7	49.5
5	Gonzalez Rodriguez Jorge A	IM	COL	2429	7	48.5
6	Komljenovic Davorin	GM	CRO	2431	7	48.5
7	Abreu Delgado Aryam	GM	CUB	2487	7	46.5
8	Gongora Reyes Maikel	IM	CUB	2446	7	44
9	Garcia Jhoel		PER	2341	6.5	49
10	Garcia Molla Victor	FM	ESP	2328	6.5	47.5
11	Battaglini Gabriel		FRA	2345	6.5	46.5
12	Vassallo Barroche Mauricio	IM	ESP	2409	6.5	46
13	Del Rio De Angelis Salvador G	GM	ESP	2560	6.5	45.5
14	Prie Eric	GM	FRA	2491	6.5	45
15	Fenollar Jorda Manuel	FM	ESP	2341	6.5	44.5
16	Torres Sanchez Jose		ESP	2322	6.5	43
17	Marholev Dimitar	IM	BUL	2364	6.5	42
18	Spassov Liuben	GM	BUL	2427	6.5	41
19	Molina Jorge	FM	BOL	2129	6.5	40
20	Gomez Ledo Roberto Carlos	FM	CUB	2404	6	50.5
21	Palencia Wilson	IM	COL	2319	6	48.5
22	Debray Christopher	FM	FRA	2328	6	48
23	Alonso Moyano Jonathan	IM	ESP	2365	6	46.5
24	Fernandez Cardoso Alexey	FM	CUB	2419	6	46.5
25	Varley Peter		WLS	2280	6	45.5
26	Vitor Antonio	FM	POR	2398	6	44
27	Silva Rodriguez Fernando		ESP	2010	6	43
28	Sanchez Jerez Emilio Miguel		ESP	2212	6	43
29	Crecente Penalba Jose Manuel		ESP	2106	6	42.5
30	Mascaro March Pedro	FM	ESP	2382	6	42
31	Gonzalez Aguirre Luis		ESP	2163	6	42
32	Tudela Corbalan Carlos	FM	ESP	2182	6	40
33	Moreto Quintana Alex		ESP	2077	6	39
34	Pavia Miralles Jose Manuel	FM	ESP	2219	6	38.5
222 players

13) 5th Geller Memorial Open

The 5th Geller Memorial Open took place in Odessa August 20th-28th 2009. Maxim Pavlov edged out Roman Kozul on tie-break after both finished on 7/9. My thanks to Mikhail Golubev for the news. Games from the final round (apart from his) are not yet available.

Official site: http://www.ukrchess.org.ua/turnir/t204.html

5th Geller Memorial Open Odessa (UKR), 24-30 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
No.	Name	Score	WP	SB	PS	rat.	TPR
1.	Pavlov, Maxim	7.0	51.0	38.50	37.0	2371	2576
	Kozel, Roman	7.0	51.0	38.50	36.5	2343	2553
3.	Golubev, Mikhail	6.5	53.5	37.75	37.0	2487	2522
	Rakhmangulov, Andrei	6.5	52.5	34.25	34.0	2367	2489
	Bogdanovich, Stanislav	6.5	52.0	35.25	35.5	2386	2480
	Matjushin, Gennady	6.5	49.0	30.25	35.5	2480	2480
	Lushenkov, Mikhail	6.5	45.5	32.25	32.5	2464	2433
	Budnikov, Oleg	6.5	40.5	28.25	29.5	2411	2383
9.	Truskavetsky, Alexandr	6.0	52.0	32.00	36.5	2385	2451
	Fingerov, Dmitry	6.0	48.5	30.25	33.5	2376	2397
	Mozharov, Mikhail	6.0	48.0	30.50	28.5	2475	2372
	Poluektov, Yury	6.0	44.0	26.00	32.5	2385	2356
	Tregubov, Vadim	6.0	43.5	28.50	29.0	2233	2350
	Kutsykh, Mikle	6.0	41.5	26.00	27.5	2285	2265
15.	Bogatyrev, Sergei	5.5	47.5	29.75	30.0	2285	2371
	Baranov, Jury	5.5	43.5	24.00	27.5	2163	2343
	Bernadskiy, Vitaliy	5.5	43.0	23.75	26.0	2330	2230
	Chudinovskikh, Alexander M	5.5	42.0	23.25	26.5	2375	2270
	Mazurchak, Bogdan	5.5	34.5	15.75	25.0	2187	2244
20.	Volosheniuk, Alexey	5.0	49.5	26.75	27.5	2086	2367
	Nedilko, Vasily	5.0	49.0	25.50	26.5	2414	2303
	Demidiukov, Eugene	5.0	48.0	23.00	29.0	2208	2319
	Stets, Vasilij	5.0	45.5	20.50	29.0	2241	2284
	Kalinina, Olga	5.0	45.0	21.50	29.5	2229	2319
	Chepel, Nikolay	5.0	43.0	22.00	29.0	2304	2232
	Bogdanov, Oleksi	5.0	42.5	21.50	26.5	2287	2250
	Goreskul, Alyona	5.0	42.0	20.25	24.5	2222	2251
	Aliferenko, Aleksei	5.0	41.5	18.50	25.0	2206	2151
	Tkachenko, Georgiy	5.0	41.5	20.00	25.0	2259	2178
	Kurayan, Ruslan	5.0	41.0	18.75	26.5	2256	2242
	Shagbazyan, Taron	5.0	40.0	20.75	24.0	2209	2167
	Naboka, Sergey	5.0	39.0	18.75	20.0	2021	2257
	Litvak, Mikhail	5.0	37.0	18.75	24.0	2270	2154
34.	Gorbunov, Igor	4.5	46.0	19.25	27.5	2253	2231
	Prokhorov, Alexander	4.5	46.0	19.50	26.5	2206	2277
	Prociuc, Evgenii	4.5	43.5	19.75	23.5	2105	2170
	Dhillon, Jasteen	4.5	37.5	15.00	21.5	1801	2090
	Promskij, Georgij	4.5	37.5	16.00	19.5	2084	2066
	Varchenko, Grigory	4.5	37.5	15.50	18.5	2149	2120
	Zinchenko, Evgen	4.5	36.0	12.75	14.5	1918	1919
	Fiodorov, Mikhail	4.5	33.5	15.00	21.0	2219	2060
42.	Kovtun, Sergei	4.0	42.5	17.25	24.5	2314	2157
70 players

14) 62nd Russian Championship

The Higher League of the 62nd Russian Championship 1st September 2009 in Ulan Ude, the capital of the Republic of Buryatia. 11 round Swiss, 1st round 2nd Sept - Final round 13th September 2009. News: Douglas Griffin.

Details here: http://russiachess.org/content/blogsection/12/360/10/10/

Players include Lastin, Sakaev, Rublevsky, Vitiugov, Siugirov, Tomashevsky, Timofeev, Inarkiev, Nepomniashchy, Riazantsev, Dreev, Khalifman, etc. The full list is here:

Official site: http://russiachess.org/content/view/3740/290/

Usually the live coverage is at: http://www.russiachess.org/online/index.htm

15) Southern California Invitational

Although marred by several forfeits, the 2009 Southern California Invitational Championship, held August 15th-29th 2009 at the law offices of Cheong, Denove, Rowell & Bennett in Los Angeles, saw excellent performances by the top scorers. IM Enrico Sevillano took first place for an unprecedented fourth consecutive year with 6.5-.5. Clear second, with 5.5-1.5, went to Tianyi He, the youngest (and lowest-rated!) player in the tournament. Others: Alexandre Kretchetov 5-2; Tatev Abrahamyan 4-3, IM Jack Peters 3-4, Elliot Liu and Ali Morshedi 2-5, Robert Reynolds 0-7. John Hillery directed for the Southern California Chess Federation.

Complete results and photos are available at http://www.scchess.com/champ09.html

16) San Sebastian de los Reyes

The San Sebastian de los Reyes tournament took place in Madrid on 30th August 2009. Pablo Almagro Llamas took first place on tie-break from Henrik Teske and Antonio Lopez Del Alamo after they finished on 6/7. No games available.

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

San Sebastian de los Reyes (ESP), 30 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 7 Standings:
Rk.	Name		FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	ALMAGRO LLAMAS Pablo	IM	ESP	2481	6	22.5	31.5	25
2	TESKE Henrik	GM	GER	2536	6	21	30.5	24.5
3	LOPEZ DEL ALAMO Antonio	FM	ESP	2326	6	21	29.5	23
4	RUBIO MEJIA Luis Ignacio	FM	ESP	2371	5.5	22.5	32.5	23
5	NIETO DE LA CRUZ Julio		ESP	2132	5.5	22.5	31.5	21.5
6	HERNANDEZ GALLARDO Fco. Javier	FM	ESP	2352	5.5	22	29.5	23
7	SERRANO SALVADOR Eduardo	FM	ESP	2370	5.5	20.5	27.5	21
8	BLANCO SANCHEZ Jose Fernando		ESP	2125	5	20.5	29.5	19
9	SOLAESA NAVALPOTRO Luis Julio	FM	ESP	2223	5	20.5	28.5	22
10	QUEVEDO MARIN Manuel		ESP	2171	5	20.5	28.5	21
11	CIURO MUÑOZ Ricardo		ESP	2113	5	19.5	26	20.5
12	SANTAMARIA BAEZA Adolfo		ESP	0	5	18.5	26.5	18
13	BLANCO BLANCO Jesus		ESP	1810	5	18	23.5	18
14	FERNANDEZ GARCIA Ignacio		ESP	1958	5	16	22.5	17
15	GARCIA SALAMERO Gabriel		ESP	2034	4.5	24.5	33	21
88 players

17) Moscow Blitz 2009

The 63rd Moscow Blitz Championship took place on 30th August 2009. Alexander Grischuk took clear first place with 17/21 half a point clear of Alexander Morozevich and Sergey Karjakin. Valentina Gunina won the women's event. Anatoly Karpov attended. They don't appear to have broadcast or saved the games.

News: http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2009/moscow-blitz-chess-championship

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

63rd Moscow Blitz (RUS), 30 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 21 Standings:
Rk.	Name	Pts
1	Alexander Grischuk	17
2	Alexander Morozevich	16.5
3	Sergey Karjakin	16.5
4	Mikhail Kobalia	14.0
5	Vladimir Malakhov	14.0
6	Boris Savchenko	13.0
7	Dmitry Jakovenko	13.0
8	Alexander Riazantsev	12.5
9	Farrukh Amonatov	12.5
10	Maxim Dlugy	11.0
11	Alexei Korotylev	11.0
12	Evgeny Najer	10.5
13	Vadim Zvjagintsev	10.5
14	Evgeny Dragomaretsky	10.0
15	Boris Grachev	9.0
16	Nikolai Vlasov	8.5
17	Andrey Kalinichev	6.0
18	Georgy Kastanieda	6.0
19	Alexandra Kosteniuk	5.0
20	Evgeny Vorobiov	5.0
21	Konstantin Mesropov	5.0
22	Evgeny Vasiukov	4.0

18) XXVI Collado Villalba International Open

XXVI Collado Villalba International Open took place 21st-29th August 2009. Javier Moreno Ruiz won with 7/9. Final round games are not yet available.

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

Results and Games http://chess-results.com/tnr24329.aspx

XXVI Open A Collado Villalba (ESP), 21-29 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB2
1	Moreno Ruiz Javier	IM	ESP	2418	7.5	38
2	Teske Henrik	GM	GER	2536	7	37.5
3	Ubilava Elizbar	GM	ESP	2547	7	32.5
4	Vazquez Igarza Renier	GM	ESP	2570	6.5	36
5	Rojas Keim Luis	IM	CHI	2453	6.5	35.5
6	San Segundo Carrillo Pablo	GM	ESP	2570	6.5	35
7	Gallardo Garcia Andres	IM	ESP	2414	6.5	34.5
8	Suba Mihai	GM	ROU	2540	6.5	32.5
9	Hernandez Gallardo Fco Javier	FM	ESP	2352	6	33
10	Barria Zuniga Daniel	IM	CHI	2426	6	33
11	Solaesa Navalpotro Luis Julio	FM	ESP	2223	6	32
12	Sanchez Gonzalez Sergio	FM	ESP	2305	6	31.5
13	Martinez Rodriguez Pablo	FM	ESP	2213	6	31.5
14	Rubio Mejia Luis Ignacio	FM	ESP	2371	6	29.5
15	Ramirez Garcia Jorge Alberto	CM	MEX	2203	6	29.5
16	Castano Henry Augusto		COL	2237	6	28.5
17	Pastor Alonso De Prado Emilio		ESP	2174	6	28
18	Perez Gonzalez Jose Manuel	FM	ESP	2307	5.5	34
19	Elissalt Cardenas Hector	IM	CUB	2317	5.5	34
20	Madina Yadarola Martin A		ARG	2250	5.5	32
21	Cao Armillas Jesus		ESP	2199	5.5	29.5
22	Montanes Arribas Adrian		ESP	2091	5.5	29
23	Semprun Martinez Fernando		ESP	2179	5.5	27
24	Gomez Peco Pablo		ESP	2222	5.5	26
25	Lopez Heras Arturo		ESP	1931	5.5	23
101 players

19) 2nd Arad Open Romania

2nd International Chess Open took place in Arad, Romania, 8th-14th august 2009 9 rounds swiss open, prize fund 3500 euro, 1st prize - 1000 euro. George-Catalin Ardelean edged out Constantin Lupulescu, Vlad-Cristian Jianu and Vladimir Danilov after all finished on 7/9. Games not yet available.

Official site: http://www.vados.ro/turnee/ro/8/16

20) IX Szombathely Chess Festival

The IX Szombathely Chess Festival took place 15th-23rd August 2009. Gabor Kovacs won the 5 round open A.

Official site: http://sakk.savaria.hu/main.php?Lang=EN

21) 25th Open van Geraardsbergen

The IX 25th Open van Geraardsbergen (BEL) took place 12th-16th August 2009. Geert van der Stricht won with 7.5/9. My thanks to Herman Van de Wynkele for the news.

Official site: http://users.skynet.be/vptd/

25th Open Geraadsbergen (BEL), 12-16 viii 2009 Final Round 9 Standings:
Pl	Name	Ti	ELO	Pts	Perf
1	Van Der Stricht Geert	m	2396	7.5	2471
2	Renette Hans	f	2303	7	2435
3	Alienkin Aleksander	m	2402	7	2436
4	Ringoir Tanguy	f	2394	7	2379
5	Schaeken Yordi		2151	6.5	2249
6	Clemens Adrian	f	2251	6.5	2290
7	Larmuseau Maarten		2229	6.5	2289
8	Balje Jan		2202	6	2179
9	Luminet Denis		2200	6	2163
10	Jaquet Reinier		2009	6	2107
11	Knol Geon		2070	6	2122
12	Larmuseau Michiel		2040	6	2098
13	Tonoli Walter	f	2165	6	2324
14	Hulshof Peter		2216	6	2218
15	De Moyer Karel		1973	6	1991
16	Achtergaele Koen		2123	6	2195
17	Barbier Wim		2190	6	2200
18	Da Ces Philippe		2041	6	2202
19	Desmyter Thomas		1791	5.5	2047
20	Saligo Pieter		1906	5.5	2226
21	Verhaeren Gertjan		2096	5.5	2019
22	Jans Micha		2162	5.5	1967
23	Verlinden Dirk		2087	5.5	2096
24	Rogmans Jelle		2005	5.5	1988
25	Gijsen Stief		2146	5.5	2184
26	Verlinden Robijn		1998	5.5	1996
27	Baguet Frederic		1947	5.5	2060
28	Van Hoecke Elena		1822	5.5	1871
29	Hugaert Arthur		2082	5.5	2045
30	Barbier Sigiswald		2080	5.5	2072
31	Carlier Sven		1654	5	1830
106 players

22) Canadian Closed and Zonal Championship

The Canadian Closed and Zonal Championship: took place August 7th-16th 2009 in the Guelph University Centre. Time Control: 40/90, G/30 plus 30 second Fischer increment from first move. Jean Hebert took first place ahead of Mark Bluvshtein. Jonathan Tayar made the IM title after beating Louie Jiang for 3rd place in a playoff. Games now available.

Canadian Closed and Zonal Championship Guelph (CAN). 7-16 viii 2009 Final Round 9 Standings:
#	Name	Old	Perf	New	High	Tot
1	Hebert, Jean	2442	2676	2498	2534	7.5
2	Bluvshtein, Mark	2634	2588	2632	2634	6.5
3	Jiang, Louie	2252	2602	2324	2324	6
4	Tayar, Jonathan	2436	2522	2460	2460	6
5	Gerzhoy, Leonid	2524	2514	2526	2546	6
6	Samsonkin, Artiom	2584	2492	2574	2614	5.5
7	Hambleton, Aman	2234	2461	2284	2284	5.5
8	Panjwani, Raja	2472	2411	2466	2472	5.5
9	Sapozhnikov, Roman	2372	2481	2396	2396	5
10	Jung, Hans	2150	2463	2225	2346	5
11	Humphreys, Michael	2142	2350	2209	2226	5
12	Thavandiran, Shiyam	2464	2344	2448	2464	5
13	Divljan, Igor	2412	2285	2396	2412	5
14	Porper, Edward	2556	2283	2516	2556	5
15	Martchenko, Alexander	2300	2382	2318	2318	4.5
16	Calugar, Arthur	2288	2345	2302	2302	4.5
17	Kaminski, Victor	2334	2283	2328	2334	4.5
18	Arsenault, Nicolas	2229	2344	2254	2254	4
19	Kaminski, Thomas	2183	2301	2220	2220	4
20	Henry, Liam	2270	2279	2275	2321	4
21	MacKinnon, Keith	2244	2273	2252	2252	4
22	Haessel, Dale	2276	2259	2276	2310	4
23	Krnan, Tomas	2534	2259	2490	2534	4
24	Vincent, Trevor	2290	2245	2286	2290	4
25	Noritsyn, Nikolay	2534	2185	2480	2534	4
26	Livshits, Ron	2416	2359	2410	2536	3.5
27	Plotkin, Victor	2366	2210	2342	2366	3.5
28	Qin, Zi Yi (Joey)	2216	2212	2219	2246	3
29	Morin, Yves	2160	2164	2166	2166	3
30	Me, Kevin	2188	2172	2188	2188	2.5
31	Casareno, Erwin	2254	2021	2220	2264	2.5

23) Porto San Giorgio

The Porto San Giorgio Open took place 21st-29th August 2009. Vladimir Epishin emerged as the winner on tie-break in front of Ognjen Jovanic, Lawrence Trent and Alexander Kovchan all of whom scored 7/9.

Official site

XXI Festival Open A Porto San Giorgio (ITA), 21-29 viii 2009 Final Round 9 Standings:
Pos	Name	T	Fed	Rtg	Pts	BucT	Buc1	ARO
1	Epishin Vladimir	GM	RUS	2592	7	56	51	2411.78
2	Jovanic Ognjen	GM	CRO	2541	7	51.5	47.5	2392.44
3	Trent Lawrence	IM	ENG	2471	7	51	47	2303.22
4	Kovchan Alexander	GM	UKR	2554	7	50.5	46	2371.22
5	Fedorchuk Sergey A.	GM	UKR	2655	6.5	54.5	50	2424.11
6	Sanikidze Tornike	GM	GEO	2559	6.5	53.5	50	2415.33
7	Baklan Vladimir	GM	UKR	2639	6.5	53	49.5	2418.22
8	Naumkin Igor	GM	RUS	2481	6.5	52	48.5	2373.56
9	Lalic Bogdan	GM	CRO	2517	6.5	52	48	2417.44
10	Jones Gawain C B	GM	ENG	2554	6.5	52	48	2340.44
11	Hera Imre Jr.	GM	HUN	2557	6.5	52	47.5	2352.78
12	Movsziszian Karen	GM	ARM	2570	6.5	51	46.5	2359.78
13	Borgo Giulio	IM	ITA	2433	6.5	49	45.5	2330.11
14	Ortega Lexy	GM	ITA	2437	6	52	48.5	2414.67
15	Nemeth Miklos	IM	HUN	2486	6	51.5	47	2357.67
16	Tomescu Vlad	IM	ROU	2422	6	50.5	46	2341.33
17	Calavalle Giulio	-M	ITA	2228	6	49.5	46	2322.11
18	Vuelban Virgilio	IM	PHI	2404	6	49.5	46	2300
19	Mogranzini Roberto	IM	ITA	2415	6	49	45	2256.22
20	Maiorov Nikita	GM	BLR	2513	6	48.5	45	2324.11
21	Aleksic Nenad	IM	SRB	2367	6	48.5	45	2303
22	Izsak Gyula	IM	HUN	2444	6	48.5	44.5	2296.22
23	Gordon Stephen J	GM	ENG	2537	6	48	45.5	2275.89
24	Estremera Panos Serg	IM	ESP	2394	6	48	44	2296.44
25	Kohlweyer Bernd	IM	GER	2418	6	47	43	2235.44
26	Malloni Marcello	-M	ITA	2271	6	47	43	2226.89
27	Farago Ivan	GM	HUN	2511	6	46	42	2216.22
28	Ranieri Fabrizio	-M	ITA	2264	6	44	42	2209.11
29	Cerquitella Luca	-M	ITA	2261	6	43.5	40	2137.67
30	Castaldo Folco	FM	ITA	2401	5.5	49	44.5	2251.78
31	Kizov Atanas	IM	MKD	2397	5.5	48.5	45.5	2325.56
32	Eperjesi Laszlo Dr.	IM	HUN	2250	5.5	48.5	44.5	2506.89
33	Voiska Margarita	wg	BUL	2332	5.5	45.5	42	2500
34	Lantini Marco	-M	ITA	2194	5.5	45.5	42	2196.56
35	Altini Daniele	--	ITA	2236	5.5	45.5	42	2196.22
36	Stromboli Carlo	-M	ITA	2289	5.5	43.5	42	2206.89
37	Parpinel Marco	CM	ITA	2165	5.5	43.5	41.5	2151.67
38	Capone Vincenzo	CM	ITA	2133	5.5	40.5	38	2317
39	Fierro Baquero Marth	IM	ECU	2394	5.5	40.5	37.5	2123.44
40	Piva Giorgio	CM	ITA	2159	5	47.5	44	2260.33
41	Roeder Matthias	IM	GER	2438	5	47	43	2260.78
42	Rinaudo Andrea	CM	ITA	2101	5	47	43	2194.11
43	Suppa Ercole	--	ITA	2100	5	45	42	2185
44	Boscolo Marco	CM	ITA	2136	5	45	41.5	2139.89
45	Martorelli Antonio	IM	ITA	2225	5	45	41	2111.11
46	Peredy Ferenc	IM	HUN	2277	5	44	41	2199.89
47	Passerotti Pierluigi	FM	ITA	2302	5	43.5	39.5	2177.78
48	Vezzani Stefano	--	ITA	2170	5	42	39.5	2138
49	Borgiani Flavio	-M	MC	2185	5	42	38.5	2154.67
50	Caprio Guido	-M	ITA	2212	5	41	39.5	2207
51	Grandinetti Pietro	CM	ITA	2110	5	41	39	2116.89
52	Faccia Sergio	CM	VR	2023	5	40.5	38	2142.44
53	Stromboli Ettore	FM	ITA	2272	5	40.5	38	2057.56
54	Giancotti Eraldo	CM	ITA	2100	5	40	37.5	2077.89
55	Pienabarca Nicola	CM	ITA	2081	5	39.5	38.5	2068.67
56	Bozzali Ermanno	CM	ITA	2080	5	38.5	36.5	2021.33
57	Piscitelli Vito	CM	ITA	2067	5	37.5	35	2053.22
58	Marozzi Giovanni	CM	ITA	1991	5	32	30	1950.22
59	Calzetta Ruiz Monica	wg	ESP	2344	4.5	48.5	44	2526.44
142 players

24) Castione Presolana

The Castione Presolana Open took place in Bratto 21st-29th August 2009. Erald Dervishi took clear first with 7.5/9. No games yet available.

Official site: http://www.puntoesclamativo.org/bratto2009/site/

Castione Presolana Open Bratto (ITA), 21-29 viii 2009 Final Round 9 Standings:
Pos	Name	T	Fed	Rtg	Pts	BucT	ARO
1	Dervishi Erald	GM	ALB	2545	7.5	48.5	2442.22
2	Lenic Luka	GM	SLO	2565	7	52.5	2439.44
3	Chatalbashev Boris	GM	BUL	2548	6.5	47.5	2394.44
4	Horvath Csaba	GM	HUN	2522	6	53	2471.11
5	Godena Michele	GM	ITA	2540	6	52	2462.89
6	Rombaldoni Denis	IM	ITA	2465	6	49.5	2413.11
7	Pavasovic Dusko	GM	SLO	2605	6	49	2464.67
8	Grigore George-Gabri	GM	ROU	2558	6	49	2431.33
9	Sanchez Joseph	GM	PHI	2491	6	49	2391.11
10	Bruno Fabio	IM	ITA	2455	6	48	2395.11
11	Pomaro Alberto	M	ITA	2284	6	45	2362.11
12	Salvador Roland	IM	PHI	2447	6	43.5	2366
13	Hunt Adam C	IM	ENG	2428	5.5	50	2375.44
14	Dvirnyy Daniyyl	FM	ITA	2440	5.5	49	2423.33
15	Sax Gyula	GM	HUN	2524	5.5	49	2376.78
16	Shytaj Luca	IM	ITA	2455	5.5	47	2353.33
17	Cebalo Miso	GM	CRO	2476	5.5	47	2351.89
18	Genocchio Daniele	FM	ITA	2455	5.5	46.5	2379.11
19	Skembris Spyridon	GM	GRE	2452	5.5	45.5	2356.11
20	Piscopo Pierluigi	IM	ITA	2415	5.5	45.5	2326.56
21	Romanishin Oleg M	GM	UKR	2503	5.5	45	2344.33
22	Borisek Jure	GM	SLO	2575	5.5	45	2310.67
23	Vocaturo Daniele	IM	ITA	2507	5.5	42.5	2327.78
24	Nikolova Adriana	WIM	BUL	2316	5.5	39.5	2304.22
25	Bresciani Nicola	FM	ITA	2274	5.5	39.5	2275.44
26	Guido Flavio	FM	ITA	2400	5.5	38.5	2286
27	Bernardi Ruben	CM	ITA	2162	5.5	37.5	2256.22
28	Collutiis Duilio	IM	ITA	2449	5	48	2317.44
142 players

25) 3rd Ramadan Chess Open

The 3rd Ramadan Chess Open took place 23rd-31st August 2009. Hrair Simonian took first place on tie-break from Yuri Drozdovskij after both finished on 7/9. The event was changed to a rapid event at the last moment. I will try and round up the games next week.

Official site: http://www.abudhabichess.com/. Live coverage of the top boards.

Results: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr24723.aspx

3rd Ramadan Chess Open Abu Dhabi (UAE), 23-26 viii 2009 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk.	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Simonian Hrair	GM	ARM	2520	7	20432	2560	2566
2	Drozdovskij Yuri	GM	UKR	2620	7	20272	2543	2548
3	Sturua Zurab	GM	GEO	2513	6.5	20496	2568	2575
4	Melkumyan Hrant	GM	ARM	2530	6.5	20019	2527	2552
5	Savchenko Stanislav	GM	UKR	2526	5.5	20412	2563	2572
6	Bocharov Dmitry	GM	RUS	2613	5.5	20346	2559	2574
7	Rakhmanov Aleksandr	GM	RUS	2559	5.5	20252	2555	2564
8	Aleksandrov Alexi	GM	BLR	2616	5.5	20224	2549	2567
9	Andriasian Zaven	GM	ARM	2585	5	20257	2554	2573
10	Amin Bassem	GM	EGY	2551	5	20016	2527	2556
11	Mamedov Rauf	GM	AZE	2645	5	20007	2521	2547
12	Shalamberidze Akaki	IM	GEO	2381	5	19730	2508	2534
13	El Gindy Essam	GM	EGY	2501	5	19617	2501	2523
14	Filippov Anton	GM	UZB	2583	5	19132	2427	2444
15	Aliev Kerim	IM	TKM	2355	4.5	20127	2535	2553
16	Ovetchkin Roman	GM	RUS	2548	4.5	19853	2526	2559
17	Tissir Mohamed	IM	MAR	2483	4.5	19435	2471	2495
18	Dovliatov Sanan	IM	AZE	2439	4.5	19345	2458	2511
19	Ayyad Maher	FM	BRN	2140	4.5	16770	2396	2444
20	Raetsky Alexander	GM	RUS	2431	4	19956	2514	2541
21	Agaragimov Djakhangir	FM	AZE	2370	4	17478	2497	2557
22	Bajarani Ulvi	FM	AZE	2358	4	16951	2422	2469
23	Gelazonia Parmen		GEO	2328	3.5	20350	2554	2566
141 players

26) Lithuanian University of Agriculture CUP

Lithuanian University of Agriculture CUP August 22nd - 28th 2009. 10 Round Swiss with 14 players. Normunds Miezis was the top seed. Sarunas Sulskis took clear first with 7/10. The games were covered live but I couldn't find a download.

Organisers. Kaunas Chess Federation, Lithuanian University of Agriculture (http://www.lzuu.lt), Youth chess club

Official site: "Three zeros" (http://www.0-0-0.lt).

Lithuanian University of Agriculture CUP (GRE), 22-28 viii 2009 Final Round 10 Standings:
Rk.	Ti	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2
1	GM	Sulskis Sarunas	LTU	2559	7,0	38,0	2540
2	GM	Miezis Normunds	LAT	2572	6,5	36,5	2503
3	IM	Neiksans Arturs	LAT	2478	6,5	34,0	2509
4	IM	Agopov Mikael	FIN	2442	6,0	34,0	2464
5	FM	Hagen Andreas Skytte	DEN	2300	6,0	30,5	2456
6	IM	Lund Silas	DEN	2412	5,0	31,0	2400
7	GM	Malisauskas Vidmantas	LTU	2489	5,0	29,0	2403
8	FM	Asauskas Henrikas	LTU	2336	5,0	28,5	2381
9		Laurusas Tomas	LTU	2115	5,0	25,5	2370
10	GM	Westerinen Heikki M. J.	FIN	2362	4,0	19,5	2287
11	FM	Wantiez Fabrice	BEL	2325	3,5	21,5	2253
12	IM	Beinoras Mindaugas	LTU	2402	3,5	21,5	2247
13		Kalvaitis Sigitas	LTU	2272	3,5	20,5	2231
14		Garnelis Julius	LTU	2228	3,5	15,0	2249

27) 10th Montreal International

The 10th Montreal International takes place 27th August - 7th September 2009.

Official site; http://www.echecsmontreal.ca/part2009.htm

TIM Montreal (CAN), 27 viii-7 ix 2009													cat. XV (2614)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Naiditsch, Arkadij	g	GER	2697	*	.	.	1	.	1	½	.	.	.	.	½	3	2801
2.	Bacrot, Etienne	g	FRA	2721	.	*	.	.	.	.	½	1	.	1	½	.	3	2738
3.	Kovalyov, Anton	g	ARG	2557	.	.	*	.	.	½	.	1	.	½	1	.	3	2763
4.	Bluvshtein, Mark	g	CAN	2558	0	.	.	*	1	.	.	.	½	.	.	1	2½	2771
5.	Onischuk, Alexander	g	USA	2699	.	.	.	0	*	½	.	.	.	.	1	1	2½	2685
6.	Shulman, Yuri	g	USA	2648	0	.	½	.	½	*	.	.	1	.	.	.	2	2644
7.	Maze, Sebastien	g	FRA	2546	½	½	.	.	.	.	*	0	.	.	.	1	2	2693
8.	Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2674	.	0	0	.	.	.	1	*	.	1	.	.	2	2577
9.	Akobian, Varuzhan	g	USA	2626	.	.	.	½	.	0	.	.	*	½	½	.	1½	2454
10.	Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas	m	CAN	2487	.	0	½	.	.	.	.	0	½	*	.	.	1	2451
11.	Bhat, Vinay S	g	USA	2473	.	½	0	.	0	.	.	.	½	.	*	.	1	2457
12.	Moiseenko, Alexander	g	UKR	2682	½	.	.	0	0	.	0	.	.	.	.	*	½	2303

28) European Youth Championships

The European Youth Championships (U10 - U18) takes place in Fermo/Italy 30th August - 10th September 2009.

Official site: http://www.euroyouth2009.com

29) 51st Imperia Festival

The 51st Chess Festival in Imperia (Liguria, Italy) celebrates it's 51st anniversary. It is the oldest open in Italy and possibly the oldest in Europe; all the editions have occurred without a break. During the giving of prizes, the organisers will present the historical book on the first 50 editions It takes place August 30th - September 6th 2009. 9 rounds.

Official site: http://imperiascacchi.altervista.org

30) Byelorussian Youth Championships

The Byelorussian Youth Championships (Minsk, Belarus). The Boys event took place 10th-16th August 2009 and was won by Vladislav Kovalev with 6/7. The Girls took place 10th-18th August 2009 and was won by Ekaterina Homiakova who edged out Nastassia Ziaziulkina on tie-break after both finished on 6.5/9. News: Pavel Makevich.

Official site: http://bychess.com/news/chempionat-belarusi-do-20-let-2009-rezultaty

ch-BLR U20 Minsk (BLR), 10-16 viii 2009											cat. III (2302)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1.	Kovalev, Vladislav	f	BLR	2307	*	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	6	2609
2.	Borsuk, Yuriy		BLR	2302	½	*	½	0	1	1	1	1	5	2459
3.	Stupak, Kirill	m	BLR	2449	½	½	*	0	1	1	1	1	5	2438
4.	Kocheev, Aleksandr		BLR	2237	0	1	1	*	½	0	0	1	3½	2310
5.	Bulanov, Dmitri	f	BLR	2393	0	0	0	½	*	1	½	1	3	2238
6.	Varnavski, Sergei		BLR	2321	0	0	0	1	0	*	1	½	2½	2196
7.	Abramenko, Sergey		BLR	2166	0	0	0	1	½	0	*	0	1½	2091
8.	Smolich, Pavel		BLR	2238	0	0	0	0	0	½	1	*	1½	2080

ch-BLR Girls U20 Minsk (BLR), 10-18 viii 2009
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0
1.	Homiakova, Ekaterina	wf	BLR	2102	*	½	1	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	6½	2205
2.	Ziaziulkina, Nastassia		BLR	2101	½	*	1	0	1	½	1	1	½	1	6½	2205
3.	Lvova, Yulia		BLR	2028	0	0	*	1	½	1	1	1	½	1	6	2172
4.	Sharova, Alexandra	wf	BLR	2091	0	1	0	*	1	1	½	0	1	1	5½	2120
5.	Stetsko, Lanita		BLR	2067	½	0	½	0	*	½	0	1	1	1	4½	2043
6.	Homiakova, Elena	wf	BLR	2123	½	½	0	0	½	*	1	½	1	0	4	1994
7.	Revo, Tatiana		BLR	1980	½	0	0	½	1	0	*	1	0	1	4	2010
8.	Bogdan, Ekaterina		BLR	1943	½	0	0	1	0	½	0	*	1	1	4	2014
9.	Minina, Alena	wf	BLR	2069	0	½	½	0	0	0	1	0	*	1	3	1918
10.	Scherbakova, Anastasiia		RUS	1953	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	*	1	1705

31) Zuerich Chess Club 200th Anniversary

The Zuerich Chess Club 200th Anniversay Jubilee started with an open tournament 9th-15th August 2009. Alexander Areshchenko took the title with a superior tie-break. This was reported last week.

This was followed by the Champions Simul on August 22nd where 8 great players played members of the public in a huge simul. 200 amateurs played against eight champions who have left indelible marks on chess in the past 50 years: Viswanathan Anand, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Viktor Korchnoi, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Ruslan Ponomariov and Veselin Topalov.

Finally on the 23rd August there was the Champions Rapid where Vladimir Kramnik edged out Viswanathan Anand by half a point, both players were undefeated.

The top two boards of the Simultaneous exhibition are now available. If players have additional games they played in this simul I'd be interested in seeing them.

Official site: http://www.sgzurich2009.ch

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr24443.aspx

Live coverage: http://www.sgzurich2009-live.ch/live.htm

32) 1st NN Bogoljubov Memorial

1st NN Bogoljubov Memorial an Academician (1909-1992), dedicated to 100 years from his birthday. The event took place in Dubna, Russia, August 25th-27th 2009. Rapid chess (15’ + 10’’). Sadly neither games nor a website is available. My thanks to Vladimir Malakhov for the news and Yannick Pelletier for passing it on.

1st NN Bogoljubov Memorial Dubna (RUS), 25-27 viii 2009										Average ELO = 2616.5
Pl	Name	Fed	ELO	1	2	3	4	5	6	Summ	Place
1	Vasiukov E.	RUS	2485	X	0 0	0 0	½ 0	0 ½	½ 0	1½	6
2	Dolmatov S.	RUS	2560	1 1	X	0 ½	½ ½	0 0	½ ½	4½	4
3	Dreev A.	RUS	2660	1 1	1 ½	X	1 0	½ ½	½ 1	7	2
4	Zvjaginsev V.	RUS	2635	½ 1	½ ½	0 1	X	½ ½	½ ½	5½	3
5	Malakhov V.	RUS	2707	1 ½	1 1	½ ½	½ ½	X	1 1	7½	1
6	Tregubov P.	RUS	2652	½ 1	½ ½	½ 0	½ ½	0 0	X	4	5

33) 6th LGA Premium Cup

The 6th LGA Premium Cup takes place 3rd-6th September 2009.

Official site: http://schach.lga.de/index.shtml

34) Vyacheslav Osnos 1935-2009

International Master Vyacheslav Osnos has passed away. Born 24th July 1935 - Died 27th August 2009. Osnos played in the Soviet championships 1963-1968 and was two time Leningrad Champion. He was a coach to Viktor Korchnoi and an author of books on the Reti and the Rauzer-Richter Sicilian.

News in Russian: http://www.totalchess.spb.ru/ - short bio in English: http://gmchess.com/gmschool/

35) Forthcoming Events and Links

48th World Junior Championships

The 48th World Junior Championships (27th for Girls) take place in Mar del Plata, Argentina 16th-29th October 2009. No website yet.

There are many junior titles but this is the only one of historic importance. Borislav Ivkov was the first champion, Oscar Panno, Boris Spassky, William Lombardy, Anatoly Karpov, Alexander Beliavsky, Tony Miles, Artur Jussupow, Yasser Seirawan, Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand and Levon Aronian are by no means the only well known players to have taken the title over the years. The event is for players under-20. (List: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Junior_Chess_Championship)

These are not to be confused with the World Youth Championships which take place in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, November 11th 2009 (arrival) - November 23rd 2009 (departure). These are of less historic interest although the under-18 group is always pretty well fought, there are way too many sections (I'd cut off at under-16 or under-14 and have a more fun based festival for the younger players) the idea of a World under-8 Championship of anything is just not right.

Official site: http://wycc2009.tsf.org.tr/

17th European Team Championship

The 17th European Team Championship takes place in Novi Sad (Serbia) October 21st-31st 2009.

Adolivio Capece sends news of the Italian team: Men - GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Michele Godena, IM Carlo D'Amore, IM Luca Shitaj, IM Denis Rombaldoni. Women - WGM Elena Sedina, WGM Olga Zimina, wfm Marina Brunello, wfm Eleonora Ambrosi, wfm Marianna Chierici. GM Daniele Vocaturo and IM Sabino Brunello play in the World Juniors.

Official site: http://www.eurons2009.com/

First Saturday September

The First Saturday Budapest, Hungary, GM-IM-FM round robin tournaments take place 5th-17th September 2009. There are still some vacancies.

Contact: Laszlo Nagy (Mobile: +36-30-230-19-14 Phone-fax: +36-1-263-28-59 E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net ICC, SKYPE, YAHOO, MSN, www.chess.com nickname: mrfirstsaturday)

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

Galicia Jubilee Chess Festival 2009

To celebrate 2010 Galicia’s Jubilee Year, there is a chess festival 25th-27th September in Orense (Galicia, Spain) Four spectacular tournaments: the "Fernando Marcote Memorial" International Rapid Chess Open, the European Women’s Rapid Chess Championship, the European Open Blitz Chess Championship and the European Women’s Blitz Chess Championship, with a prize fund of 50.000€

Details: http://www.galiciachessfestival.com/

Grand Slam Masters Final Bilbao

The 2nd edition of the Grand Slam Masters Final takes place in Bilbao, September 5-12th 2009. The winners of the Nanching Pearl Spring, Corus-Wijk aan Zee, Ciudad de Linares and Mtel Masters-Sofia tournaments were due play in the final. However at the last minute Veselin Topalov has withdrawn and been replaced with Levon Aronian.

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

Grand Slam Masters Final Bilbao (ESP), 5-12 ix 2009. Cat XX (2738) Players list (July ratings)
No	Name	Ti	NAT	July Elo	DoB
1	Aronian, Levon	g	ARM	2768	1982
2	Grischuk, Alexander	g	RUS	2733	1983
3	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2732	1972
4	Karjakin, Sergey	g	UKR	2717	1990

Grand Slam Masters Final Bilbao. 5th-12th September 2009
5th September 2009	Drawing of lots	Time
6th September 2009	1st Round	17:00 CET
7th September 2009	2nd Round	17:00 CET
8th September 2009	3rd Round	17:00 CET
9th September 2009	Rest day
10th September 2009	4th Round	17:00 CET
11th September 2009	5th Round	17:00 CET
12th September 2009	6th Round	16:00 CET
12th September 2009	closing ceremony

Quality Chess Edinburgh International

Quality Chess is sponsoring an international all-play-all tournament in which IM norms will be possible. The event will be hosted by Edinburgh Chess Club. Quality Chess publishes chess books and is based in Glasgow, Scotland. Edinburgh Chess Club is one of the oldest chess clubs in the world, and has been visited by many chess greats, including Capablanca, Alekhine and Karpov.

Tournament Details: 10 player all-play-all 12th-20th September 2009 Play will be from 1pm - 7pm each day. Edinburgh Chess Club, 1 Alva Street, Edinburgh, Scotland. International Arbiter: Alex McFarlane Time control: 40 moves in 2 hours, then one hour to finish. Prize money: 1st £500 2nd £300 3rd £150

Participants: GM Colin McNab Scotland, IM Andrew Greet England, IM Nikolaj Mikkelsen Denmark, FM Mads Andersen Denmark, FM David Eggleston England, FM Craig Thomson Scotland, FM Neil Berry Scotland, Jonathan Grant Scotland, Alan Tate Scotland, Martin Mitchell Scotland

Official site: http://www.edinburghchessclub.co.uk/

VII Marx Gyorgy Memorial

The VII Marx Gyorgy Memorial takes place 24th September-5th October 2009 Paks, Hungary.

Participants: GM Almasi Zoltan 2684 HUN, GM Meier Georg 2658 GER, GM Berkes Ferenc 2647 HUN, GM Ganguly Surya 2637 IND, GM Safarli Eltaj 2597 AZE, GM Acs Peter 2550 HUN Average rating: 2629 Category: 16

I Teller Ede Memorial Participants: WGM Majdan Joanna 2382 POL, IM Vajda Szidónia 2375 HUN, WGM Gara Tícia 2354 HUN, WGM Doluhanova Evgeniya 2327 UKR, WGM Kochetkova Julia 2310 RUS, WIM Toth Lili 2172 HUN Average rating: 2320 Category: 3

Blitz-tournament 2nd October, 2009

Rapid-tournament 29th September, 2009

Children-tournament 27th September, 2009,

XIII Paks open 30th September- 04th October, 2009 7 rounds, A and B group

Information: Videki Sandor email: videkis2001@yahoo.com

Details: http://www.ase.hu/marxgy/2009

2nd Nanjing Pearl Spring

The 2nd Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess Tournament will takes place 27th Sept - 9th October 2009 in Nanjing, China.

The field seems to be Veselin Topalov, Magnus Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov, Peter Leko, Dmitry Jakovenko, Wang Yue.

The event is a 6-player in a double round robin. The total prize fund is 250,000 Euros.

News Gujuan Tzu blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews

Official site (In English): http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/yindex.htm (under construction)

Official site (In Chinese): http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/index.htm

2nd Nanjing Pearl Spring (CHN), 27 ix -9 x 2009					cat. XXI (2766)
No	Name	Ti	NAT	April Elo	DoB
1	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2813	1975
2	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2772	1990
3	Jakovenko, Dmitry	g	RUS	2760	1983
4	Radjabov, Teimour	g	AZE	2756	1987
5	Leko, Peter	g	HUN	2756	1979
6	Wang, Yue	g	CHN	2736	1987

Official site (In English): http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/yindex.htm

Official site: http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/index.htm (more information and pictures)

Gujuan Tzu blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews

Mecking - Fier Match

There is a Match between Henrique Mecking and Alexandr Fier in Sao Paulo 23rd-27th September 2009 in the amphitheater of Santa Cruz High School in Sao Paulo.

Match of 4 classical games with time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds/move. 1st game 23rd September 2009. 2nd game 24th September 2009. free day 25th September 2009. 3rd game 26th September 2009. 4th game 27th September 2009.

Details: http://www.ligadexadrez.com.br/conteudo/ver.asp?id=19&conteudoId=422

Mundial Chess Internet Tournament

The organising Committee Mundial Chess invites all the players (from the amateurs to Grandmasters) to take part in the 1st Internet tournament with the prize fund of more than 130.000 EUR in cash and many special prizes. The 1st prize in the main tournament will be not less than 10.000 EUR.

Registration (and information in English) in the tournament is possible following the link - http://www.mundialchess.com/chess-online/en/zvfdxt6 Registration and information in Spanish - http://www.mundialchess.com/chess-online/es/zvfdxt6 Registration and information in Russian - http://www.mundialchess.com/chess-online/ru/zvfdxt6

Kasparov vs Karpov Match in September

Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov will play a 12 game (4 Rapid and 8 blitz) match in Valencia 21st-24th September 2009. The match is on the 25th Anniversary of the start of their infamous first aborted match in Moscow in 1984-5, this was followed by an epic series of close World title matches which ended in Lyon 1990.

Report in Marca (in Spanish) - http://www.marca.com/2009/07/07/mas_deportes/ajedrez/1246987804.html

Mig confirms the reports: http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2009/07/kasparov-obama-karpov.htm

The London Chess Classic in December

Cream of world chess to play in new London tournament. [Press release 25th June 2009]

The London Chess Centre is pleased to announce that the line up for the London Chess Classic 2009 is complete after GM David Howell of England accepted his invitation. This creates a balance to the event, an eight player all play all, with four world class players pitched against England's four highest rated Grandmasters. Using the latest available ratings and information supplied by the players on their recent successes, the tournament rating average is currently well above 2690 and may reach 2700 by December.

Nigel Short and Hikaru Nakamura are both in great shape. Nigel recently dominated the Sigeman tournament at Malmo and Hikaru won the US Championship held at St Louis. Vladimir Kramnik was top scorer at the Azerbaijan v Rest of the World match with 6.5/8.

Play begins Tuesday December 8th and runs until Tuesday December 15th 2009.

The venue for what will be the most prestigious chess tournament in the capital for 25 years will be announced shortly.

Malcolm Pein (IM) Director London Chess Centre

Notes for editors: All communications to Malcolm Pein IM at London Chess Centre: 020 7388 2404. E-Mail: info@chess.co.uk. Website: www.chess.co.uk

1st London Chess Classic (ENG), 8-16 xii 2009. Cat XVIII (2692) Players list (April ratings)
No	Name	Ti	NAT	April Elo	DoB
1	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2770	1990
2	Kramnik, Vladimir	g	RUS	2759	1975
3	Ni, Hua	g	CHN	2724	1983
4	Adams, Michael	g	ENG	2703	1971
5	Nakamura, Hikaru	g	USA	2701	1987
6	Short, Nigel D	g	ENG	2674	1965
7	Howell, David W L	g	ENG	2613	1990
8	McShane, Luke J	g	ENG	2596	1984

Dates of the London Chess Classic. 7th-16th December 2009
Monday	7th December 2009	Press Conference and drawing of lots
Tuesday	8th December 2009	Round 1
Wednesday	9th December 2009	Round 2
Thursday	10th December 2009	Round 3
Friday	11th December 2009	Rest day
Saturday	12th December 2009	Round 4
Sunday	13th December 2009	Round 5
Monday	14th December 2009	Round 6
Tuesday	15th December 2009	Round 7 + Closing ceremony, charity simultaneous

Commonwealth Chess Championships

The Masterskill Commonwealth Chess Championships take place 9th-15th December 2009 in conjunction with the 6th Singapore International Chess Festival.

Details of the change: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/3991-commonwealth-chess-championship-2009

2nd Fide Women Grand Prix

The 2nd Fide Women Grand Prix is also take place in Nanjing in 27th Sept - 9th October 2009 with the top 12 players in the world.

Gujuan Tzu blog http://blog.sina.com.cn/chessnews

Unive Tournament Hoogeveen

The Unive Tournament in Hoogeveen takes place 16th-24th October 2009 with a new sponsor.

The main four player tournament has: Vassily Ivanchuk, Judit Polgar, Sergei Tiviakov and Anish Giri. There is an open alongside.

Details: http://www.univechess.nl/

Unive Tournament Hoogeveen (NED), 16-24 x 2009			cat. XVII (2663)
Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2746
Polgar, Judit	g	HUN	2693
Tiviakov, Sergei	g	NED	2697
Giri, Anish	f	NED	2517

Ajedrez 21 English site

Ajedrez 21 now has an English site: http://www.ajedrez21.com/en/

Ravana Challenge International Sri Lanka

The Blue and Gold Chess Club organises the inaugural "The Ravana Challenge International Chess Tournament2 under the auspices of the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, September 12th (arrival) - September 20th, 2009 (departure) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The tournament will be held in a 5 star hotel in Colombo.

Details: http://www.blueandgoldchessclub.com/Ravana/index.html

World Youth Championship

The World Youth Chess Championship 2009 (under 8, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 years old - open and girls) which will take place in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, between November the 11th, 2009 (arrival) and November the 23th, 2009 (departure).

Official site: http://wycc2009.tsf.org.tr/

FIDE World Cup Nov-Dec 2009

FIDE have announced some of the qualifiers for the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk, 20 November to 15 December 2009. In a few days the list with qualifiers from the Continental and Zonal Championships 2008-09 will also be published.

FIDE announcement: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/4037-list-of-qualifiers-for-world-cup

Khanty-Mansiysk (RUS), 20 xi - 15 xii 2009 Qualifiers:
a) From World Championship Match 2008:
1.	V. Anand	IND	World Champion
b) From World Cup 2007:
2.	G. Kamsky	USA
3.	A. Shirov	ESP
4.	M. Carlsen	NOR
5.	S. Karjakin	UKR
c) Women's World Champion 2008:
6.	A. Kosteniuk	RUS
d) Junior World Champions 2007 & 2008:
7.	A. Adly	EGY
8.	A. Gupta	IND
d) From FIDE Rating List, 20 players, average 7/2008 & 1/2009:
09.	V. Topalov	BUL	2786,50
10.	V. Ivanchuk	UKR	2780,00
11.	A. Morozevich	RUS	2779,50
12.	V. Kramnik	RUS	2773,50
13.	T. Radjabov	AZE	2752,50
14.	P. Leko	HUN	2746,00
15.	L. Aronian	ARM	2743,50
16.	S. Movsesian	SVK	2737,00
17.	D. Jakovenko	RUS	2734,50
18.	S. Mamedyarov	AZE	2733,00
19.	P. Svidler	RUS	2730,50
20.	A. Grischuk	RUS	2730,50
21.	B. Gelfand	ISR	2726,50
22.	M. Adams	ENG	2723,50
23.	R. Ponomariov	UKR	2722,00
24.	Wang Yue	CHN	2721,50
25.	V. Gashimov	AZE	2720,00
26.	E. Alekseev	RUS	2713,00
27.	L. Dominguez Perez	CUB	2712,50
28.	Ni Hua	CHN	2707,00
e) 90 players from the Continental & Zonal Championships 2008 & 2009:
(to be published soon)...
Reserve players who may qualify by rating, average 7/2008 & 1/2009:
1.	E. Bacrot	FRA	2706,50
2.	Bu Xiangzhi	CHN	2706,00
3.	P. Eljanov	UKR	2704,50
4.	J. Polgar	HUN	2702,00
5.	S. Rublevsky	RUS	2700,50
6.	H. Nakamura	USA	2698,00
7.	K. Sasikiran	IND	2697,50
8.	Wang Hao	CHN	2691,00
9.	V. Malakhov	RUS	2690,50
10.	M. Vachier-Lagrave	FRA	2688,50
11.	V. Milov	SUI	2687,00
12.	V. Bologan	MDA	2686,50
13.	V. Akopian	ARM	2686,50
14.	L. Nisipeanu	ROU	2683,50
15.	R. Kasimdzhanov	UZB	2683,00
16.	I. Cheparinov	BUL	2683,00
17.	Z. Efimenko	UKR	2679,00
18.	A. Naiditsch	GER	2679,00
19.	F. Vallejo Pons	ESP	2676,00
20.	A. Motylev	RUS	2675,00

Kingpin Magazine

The humourous and satirical chess magazine Kingpin has a new website.

New website address: http://www.kingpinchess.net

Efimenko vs. Short Match

There is a six-game match between GMs Zahar Efimenko (Ukraine) and Nigel Short (England) in Mukachevo, Ukraine 20th-26th (rest day 23rd) September 2009.

Info at: http://www.uep-worldchess.com/ (Universal Event Promotion) and the Mukachevo club website http://www.chess32x64.org

Arvier (Aosta valley) Open

The Festival des Echecs Francophone takes place in Arvier (Aosta valley) September 26th - October 3rd 2009. The final round has been moved back a day as the 4th is the start of the European Club Team Championship. More information will appear at: http://www.scacchivda.com.

If you require further details contact by email (in French) to a.scalfi@scacchivda.com

6th Highlands Open International Chess Festival

6th Highlands Open International Chess Festival 2009, takes place in the town of Zdar nad Sazavou 26th September - 4th October 2009. IM tournament, FIDE open, active chess and blitz tournament are part of the festival.

Details: http://www.czechtour.net/highlands-open/

7th Mediterranean Chess Championship

The 7th Mediterranean Chess Championship takes place 11th-19th September 2009. Open to everyone.

Official site: http://www.medchess.com/ although I can't see details of the new tournament.

VIII Benidorm International Chess Festival

VIII Benidorm International Chess Festival 2009 takes place 27th November - 8th December 2009.

Website: http://www.ajedrezbali.com

Torch Real Estate Cup

The Chinese team competition the Torch Real Estate Cup started in Chengdu China on 4th May 2009. I'm hoping for a full game file.

Live games: http://live.chinaqiyuan.com/chess/tfd.htm

Official site: http://chess.sport.org.cn/

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr21650.aspx

Historical Elo Ratings

http://www.shakki.net/history/elotop.htm has a list of historical top ten FIDE lists. The text is in Finnish but is understandable anyhow.

Reno Far West Open

The Far West Open Chess Tournament took place April 10th-12th 2009 in Reno Nevada. Sergey Kudrin edged out Enrico Sevillano and Gergerly Antal who finished on 5/6. Games should follow.

Official site: http://www.renochess.org/fwo/index.html

6th Summer Catalan Chess Circuit

The 6th Summer Catalan Chess Circuit takes place May - September every year as part of the Catalan Chess Circuit, which is composed of 28 International Tournaments, and held in Spain, extended beyond Catalonia.

In 2009 there will be 14 Opens with traditional time control to be played over 9-10 days, as well as 14 Opens in Rapid Chess, played over 1-2 days (see Tournament Calendar).

During 120 days of tournaments, around 22.000 chess games will be played with selected ones broadcast.

Approximately 3,000 players from more than 30 different countries. The prize fund will reach 175.000 euros.

Apart from the traditional tournament prizes, the Catalan Chess Federation establishes a special classification composed of player´s results in each Circuit tournament, based on which players will be able to claim such special Circuit Prizes as General Final Standings, Prizes by Categories, Specific Prizes for best Catalan Players.

Prizegiving Ceremony will be held at Fiesta Catalana (Catalan Chess Party), on September, 27th, 2009

For more information please contact the Catalonia Chess Federation on federacio@escacs.cat or visit the official website: http://escacs.cat/circuit2009/torneigs.html

6th Summer Catalan Chess Circuit (ESP), 5 v - 20 ix 2009
20 June	CIUTAT DE REUS	REUS	9 Rd Swiss	a	a sup	Joan Pinol 649341056
21 June	MOLLET DEL VALLES	MOLLET DEL VALLES	9 Rd Swiss	b	a	Francesc Fernandez 647625832
24 June-2 July	VILA DE SORT	SORT	9 Rd Swiss	B	C	Joan A. Conesa 609825066
25 June-3 July	VILA DE MONTCADA	MONTCADA	9 Rd Swiss	A	A	Reyes Cantero 938152902
4-12 July	BARBERÀ DEL VALLES	BARBERA DEL VALLES	9 Rd Swiss	A	A sup	Victor Pont 629386528
4-12 July	TORREDEMBARRA	TORREDEMBARRA	9 Rd Swiss	C	B	Jordi Salvat 649061984
13-22 July	CIUTAT DE BALAGUER	BALAGUER	10 Rd Swiss	A sup	A	Antoni Montoliu 679082837
18-26 July	ANDORRA	LES ESCALDES	9 Rd Swiss	A sup	A sup	Oscar la Riva 00376-347085
22-30 July	VILA DE SITGES	SITGES	9 Rd Swiss	A	A	Francesc Gonzalez 600923277
25 July	CERVELLO	CERVELLO	8 Rd Swiss	b	b	Juan Mª Santiago 936840402
26 July	OLOT	OLOT	8 Rd Swiss	b	b	Josep Ma Mir 606119678
1-8 August	FIGUERES "MIQUEL MAS"	FIGUERES	9 Rd Swiss	C	A	Jordi Serra 699848479
1-9 August	CIUTAT DE BADALONA	BADALONA	9 Rd Swiss	A	A sup	Manel Triquell 609683157
2-10 August	LA POBLA DE LILLET	LA POBLA DE LILLET	9 Rd Swiss	C	C	Josep Salvador 630625152
15-16 August	VILA DE POBLENOU	BARCELONA	10 Rd Swiss	a sup	a	Joan Lorda 659529581
21-30 August	SANTS	BARCELONA	10 Rd Swiss	A sup	A sup	Cotxeres 932918701
22-23 August	AJEDREZND	BARCELONA	9 Rd Swiss	a sup	a	Jordi Morcillo 620341266
1-10 September	FESTIVAL DE SABADELL	SABADELL	9 Rd Swiss	B	B	Ivan Aguilar 666346958
6 September	VILA DE SANTPEDOR	SANTPEDOR	9 Rd Swiss	b	b	Josep Mascaro 616477533
11 September	DIADA DE L'11 DE SETEMBRE	SABADELL	9 Rd Swiss	a	a sup	Ivan Aguilar 666346958
12 September	RIBERA D'EBRE	MORA D'EBRE	8 Rd Swiss	a	a	Josep Terrones 696204203
13 September	CIUTAT DE TORTOSA	TORTOSA	8 Rd Swiss	b	b	Abraham Pla 680532570
19-20 September	VALLFOGONA DE BALAGUER	VALLFOGONA DE BALAGUER	Suis 11 rondes	a sup	a	Jaume Parramon 649960831
Potential
13-21 July	SANT MARTI	BARCELONA	9 Rd Swiss			Ricard Llerins 933082425

European Union Website

The European Chess Union Website ECU website has changed address to http://www.europechess.org

Alushta Diary 2009

Alushta Diary 2009:

GM Norm events: 23.05 - 1.06, 2.06 - 12.06, 15.06 - 25.06, 2.09 - 12.09, 14.09 - 24.09, 26.09 - 6.10, IM Norm: 23.05 - 1.06, 2.06 - 12.06, 15.06 - 25.06, 2.09 - 12.09, 14.09 - 24.09, 26.09 - 6.10, Rating tournament: 4.06 - 12.06, 22.06 - 27.06, 5.09 - 13.09, Open tournament (under 16 years) 3.06 - 11.06, 13.06 - 21.06, Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Open tournament First prize - 1000$ First prize (woman) - 500$ 28.06 - 6.07, 10.07 - 18.07, 20.07 - 28.07, 22.08 - 30.08, Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Blitz tournament 7.07, 19.07, 29.07, Alushta Swiss 9 rounds Open tournament (rapid chess) 8.07 - 9.07, 30.07 - 31.07, Alushta Session of school of Gennadi Kuzmin 21.06 - 27.06, 15.07 - 24.07. Individual and group studying Further information: http://www.kaissa.com.ua phone +38 (06560)5-05-32, +380505828911 (for Russian speaking), + 380506692604 (for English speaking) e-mail: info@kaissa.com.ua

Chess Study

Dr Robert Howard is making a study of rated chess players.

The full article: http://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/fidestudy/results

If you would like to participate, please go to this website: http://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/fidestudy/

For any queries, please contact Dr Robert Howard, University of New South Wales, on rwh@unsw.edu.au