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| Matches in Astana There were three matches in Astana, Kazakhstan 18th-20th December 2006. Games 1-2 Fide-Timecontrol, Games 3-4 Rapid (30 min). Shakhriyar Mamedyarov beat Darmen Sadvakasov in the strongest match. Games in PGN 1 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2728 3.5/4 2 Sadvakasov, Darmen g KAZ 2596 0.5/4 1 Andriasian, Zaven m ARM 2463 2.5/4 2 Ismagambetov, An m KAZ 2418 1.5/4 1 Chiburdanidze, Maia g GEO 2504 3.0/4 2 Aketaeva, Dana wm KAZ 2312 1.0/4 Official site: http://chess.ir.kz/ |
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| Hastings 2006-7 The Hastings Congress took place 28th December 2006 - 7 January 2007. Merab Gagunashvili took the Masters title on tie-break from defending champion Valerij Neverov. Games in PGN [Games from Steve Giddins of the Official Website] Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1. GAGUNASHVILI, Merab 1 7.0 NEVEROV, Valerij 1 7.0 3. IKONNIKOV, Wacheslav -1 6.5 GOFSHTEIN, Zvulon 1 6.5 PAVLOVIC, Milos 1 6.5 PERT, Nicholas -1 6.5 LALIC, Bogdan -1 6.5 CHERNIAEV, Alexander 1 6.5 9. WILLIAMS, Simon 1 6.0 GREET, Andrew -1 6.0 ANSELL, Simon -1 6.0 GROOTEN, Herman -1 6.0 RENDLE, Thomas 1 6.0 KNOTT, Simon 1 6.0 RUDD, Jack 1 6.0 BRISCOE, Christopher 1 6.0 17. HEBDEN, Mark 1 5.5 HASLINGER, Stewart -1 5.5 MCNAB, Colin 1 5.5 JONES, Gawain -1 5.5 WALLACE, John-Paul 1 5.5 PEEK, Marcel -1 5.5 KWIATKOWSKI, Feliks 1 5.5 NARAYANAN, Srinath 1 5.5 MANSSON, James 1 5.5 96 players Official site: http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/ |
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| Rilton Cup 2006-7 The Rilton Cup took place 27th December 2006 - 5th January 2007. Robert Fontaine of France took clear first place with 7.5/9 half a point clear of the field. David Howell made his final GM norm. IM Malcolm Pein reports Official site: http://www.rilton.se/ |
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| Reggio Emilia 2006-7 The 49th edition of the Reggio Emilia Torneo di Capodanno took place December 30 2006 - January 7 2007. 9 rounds at the hotel Astoria Mercure starting 2,30 pm. Time rate: 1h and 40 min x 40 moves then 50 min to end, plus 30 sec starting from the first move. Viorel Iodeachescu won the event with 7/9 half a point clear of Konstantin Landa and Igor Khenkin. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Iordachescu, Viorel g MDA 2564 7.0; 2. Landa, Konstantin g RUS 2570 6.5; 3. Khenkin, Igor g GER 2620 6.5; 4. Shytaj, Luca m ITA 2441 4.5; 5. Romanishin, Oleg M g UKR 2542 4.5; 6. Brunello, Sabino f ITA 2460 4.0; 7. Mogranzini, Roberto f ITA 2401 4.0; 8. Rombaldoni, Denis f ITA 2377 3.0; 9. Manca, Federico m ITA 2425 2.5; 10. Borgo, Giulio m ITA 2420 2.5; Official site: http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/ |
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| Pamplona Tournament The XVI Pamplona tournaments took place 21st-29th December 2006. A and B tournaments. Alexander Morozevich won the event with 6/7. Games in PGN Round 7 (December 29, 2006) Morozevich, Alexander - Korneev, Oleg 1-0 36 D48 Queens Gambit Meran Shirov, Alexei - Illescas Cordoba, Miguel 1-0 35 B84 Sicilian Scheveningen Bauer, Christian - Jakovenko, Dmitry 1/2 45 D15 Slav Defence Wojtaszek, Radoslaw - Laznicka, Viktor 1/2 66 D15 Slav Defence Final Round 7 Standings: 1. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2747 6.0; 2. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2671 5.0; 3. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2720 4.5; 4. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2585 4.0; 5. Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2630 3.0; 6. Illescas Cordoba, Miguel g ESP 2620 2.5; 7. Laznicka, Viktor g CZE 2596 2.0; 8. Korneev, Oleg g RUS 2657 1.0; Official site: http://www.chesspamplona.com/ |
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Bessel Kok to take over World championship
Cycles Bessel Kok has signed a memorandum of understanding with FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov form a company to take over the world championship cycle after competitions which have already been contracted by Fide have concluded. I believe that will be after Mexico City although its unclear to me whether the new FIDE suggestions for a World Cup every other year are something he is committed to or whether he has a blank sheet as to structure. Ilyumzhinov is on the board of directors along with Bessel and Alexey Orlov. Memorandum of understanding between the Hon Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Bessel Kok in Prague December 21st 2006 |
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| David Bronstein 1924-2006 David Ionovich Bronstein was born in Bila Tserkva near Kiev, Ukraine February 19th 1924 and died in Minsk 5th December 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bronstein and http://surov.livejournal.com/24856.html confirm the news. Here is my (Mark Crowther) appreciation of David Bronstein: David Bronstein 1924-2006 Malcolm Pein has devoted a lot of his recent chess columns to David Bronstein. Here is a compliation of the columns and notes in PGN. David Bronstein (1924-2006) by IM Malcolm Pein. Link to chesshistory.com: Edward Winter's Chess Notes 4753 on David_Bronstein |
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| Blind World
Duel Veselin Topalov and Judit Polgar played a blindfold rapid match in Bilbao 7th-9th December 2006. Time control: 25 minutes + 10 seconds a move. Topalov won the match 3.5-2.5 although that includes a final game win for Polgar when the match was already lost. IM Malcolm Pein. Chess Thursday December 14th 2006 Games in PGN Official site: http://www.ajedrezbilbao.com/FestivalEN.htm |
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| Russian Chess Super
Final The Russian Championship SuperFinal took place in Moscow 3rd-15th December 2006 (rest days 7th and 12th). Evgeny Alekseev beat Dmitry Jakovenko 1.5-0.5 in a rapid playoff after both tied for first on 7.5/11. Malcolm Pein on the finish of the championships. Games in PGN - Playoff Games in PGN Playoff Gm1 Jakovenko, Dmitry - Alekseev, Evgeny 1/2 50 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation Gm2 Alekseev, Evgeny - Jakovenko, Dmitry 1-0 47 C92 Ruy Lopez Chigorin Round 11 (December 15, 2006) Jakovenko, Dmitry - Grigoriants, Sergey 1/2 18 B82 Sicilian Scheveningen Alekseev, Evgeny - Nepomniachtchi, Ian 1/2 109 B91 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.g3 Inarkiev, Ernesto - Najer, Evgeniy 1-0 41 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation Svidler, Peter - Vitiugov, Nikita 1/2 36 B48 Sicilian Paulsen Tomashevsky, Evgeny - Khairullin, Ildar 1/2 13 A26 English Sicilian Attack Khismatullin, Denis - Rublevsky, Sergei 1/2 55 A22 English Opening Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2671 7.5; 2. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2639 7.5; 3. Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2628 7.0; 4. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2750 6.5; 5. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2688 5.5; 6. Khairullin, Ildar m RUS 2543 5.5; 7. Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2595 5.5; 8. Grigoriants, Sergey g RUS 2582 5.0; 9. Nepomniachtchi, Ian m RUS 2545 5.0; 10. Khismatullin, Denis g RUS 2583 5.0; 11. Vitiugov, Nikita m RUS 2596 3.5; 12. Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2648 2.5; Official site: http://russiachess.org/content/view/94/: live coverage: http://russiachess.org/online |
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| Torre
Memorial The Torre Memorial took place in Merida 14th-21st December 2006. Vassily Ivanchuk, Sergey Tiviakov and Lázaro Bruzón (it seems that Harikhisna Pentala didn't manage to make it to the event although initially announced) joined the competition at its knockout stage. 13 players qualified from a 6 round swiss which will continue on for the players who miss the knockout stage (and those eliminated in the first round of the KO also rejoined). Vassily Ivanchuk beat Lazaro Bruzon 2.5-1.5 after a playoff in the final. Vadim Milov won the open section with 7.5/9 half a point clear of Yunieski Quezada. Open Games in PGN - Knockout Games in PGN Knockout Section Final 21st December 2006 Ivanchuk,V 2.5- Bruzon,L 1.5 Semi-Final 20th December 2006 Bruzon,L 2.5 - Ehlvest,J 1.5 Ivanchuk,V 1.5 - De la Paz,F 0.5 Quarter Final 19th December 2006 Graf,A 1.0 - Bruzon,L 3.0 Georgiev,Vl 0.5 - Ivanchuk,V 1.5 Ehlvest,J 1.5 - Leon Hoyos,M 0.5 De la Paz,F 3.0 - Tiviakov,S 2.0 1/8th Final 18th December 2006 Gonzalez Zamora,Juan 0.0 - Graf,A 2.0 Zapata,A 0.5 - Bruzon,L 1.5 Quezada,Y 0.0 - Georgiev,Vl 2.0 Perez,Rod 2.0 - Ivanchuk,V 3.0 Milov,V 0.5 - Ehlvest,J 1.5 Martin del Campo,R 0.5 - Leon Hoyos,M 1.5 Nogueiras,J 2.0 - De la Paz,F 3.0 Tiviakov,S 1.5 - Vera,R 0.5 Swiss Qualifiers: GM Milov 5 points, GM Georgiev, GM Ehlvest, MI Roberto Martin del Campo, GM Graf, GM Nogueiras, GM Gonzalez, GM Quezada, MI León Hoyos, MI Rodney Pérez, GM Reynaldo Vera, GM Zapata y GM Frank De la Paz con 4.5 points. Official site: http://www.carlostorre.org.mx |
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Deep Fritz beats Vladimir
Kramnik 4-2 Vladimir Kramnik in action during game 4. Gm1 Kramnik, Vladimir - DEEP FRITZ 1/2 E03 Catalan Gm2 DEEP FRITZ - Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 D20 QGA Gm3 Kramnik, Vladimir - DEEP FRITZ 1/2 E03 Catalan Gm4 DEEP FRITZ - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 C43 Petroff's Defence Gm5 Kramnik, Vladimir - DEEP FRITZ 1/2 E51 Nimzo Indian Gm6 DEEP FRITZ - Kramnik, Vladimir 1-0 B86 Sicilian Sozin Attack Games in PGN and Kramnik - Deep Fritz Match Bonne 2006 - Viewer Notes on the games by IM Malcolm Pein Vladimir Kramnik vs Deep Fritz Game 6. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Vladimir Kramnik vs Deep Fritz Game 5. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Vladimir Kramnik vs Deep Fritz Game 4. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Vladimir Kramnik vs Deep Fritz Game 3. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Vladimir Kramnik vs Deep Fritz Game 2. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Vladimir Kramnik vs Deep Fritz Game 1. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Vladimir Kramnik played the ChessBase computer program Deep Fritz in a 6 game match 25th November - 5th December 2006 in the German’s Art and Exhibition Hall in Bonne. Deep Fritz won 4-2. The WCC was organized by Universal Event Promotion (UEP), in cooperation with the Art and Exhibition Hall. Schedule: Game 1: Saturday 25.11.2006 14h (UK time) Game 2: Monday 27.11.2006 14h Game 3: Wednesday 29.11.2006 14h Game 4: Friday 01.12.2006 14h Game 5: Sunday 03.12.2006 14h Game 6: Tuesday 05.12.2006 14h Time rate: 40 moves in 2 hours followed by 16 moves/ hour. Official site: http://www.rag.de/microsite_chess_com/ |
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| Greek Championships The 56th Greek Men's Championship takes place in Salonica 27th November - 5th of December 2006. The 29th Greek Women's Championship took place 25th November - 3rd December 2006 in Athens. WGMs Anna-Maria Botsari won the event with on tie-break (number of wins) from last year's champion Ekaterini Fakhiridou after both finished on 6/9. Vasilios Kotronias won the men's event. Games in PGN - Women's Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Kotronias, Vasilios g GRE 2587 6.0; 2. Skembris, Spyridon g GRE 2455 5.5; 3. Banikas, Hristos g GRE 2568 5.5; 4. Mastrovasilis, Athanasios g GRE 2533 5.5; 5. Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios g GRE 2562 5.0; 6. Nikolaidis, Ioannis g GRE 2536 5.0; 7. Kapnisis, Spyridon m GRE 2421 4.5; 8. Goritsas, Christos GRE 2289 3.5; 9. Kotrotsos, Vasilios f GRE 2276 3.5; 10. Karayannis, Athanasios m GRE 2361 1.0; Official site: http://www.chessfed.gr/Tournaments/ClosedGreekChamp06/ and http://www.chessfed.gr/Tournaments/ClosedGreekWomenChamp06/ |
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| Radjabov - Deep Junior Game Deep Junior beat Teimour Radjabov in Florence, Italy on December 3rd 2006. Game in PGN Radjabov, Teimour - DEEP JUNIOR 0-1 45 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit Official site: http://www.festivaldellacreativita.it |
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| Kramnik to play in Mexico City? Yury Vasiliev interviewed Kirsan Ilyumzhinov on 13th December 2006. The main news is that World Champion Vladimir Kramnik has agreed to take part in the World Championship tournament in Mexico City (http://www.chessmexico.com/) in September, 2007 in the same format as San Luis (8 player double round robin). Half the participants are already known:Vladimir Kramnik, Vishwanathan Anand, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich. The remaining four players will be established in matches in May 2007 in Elista. In answer to the question as to whether Topalov had challenged Kramnik to a match under FIDE rules he said no such challenge had been received and the next window would only occur only after a period of 6 months after the Mexico city tournament. Original Vasiliev interview in Russian http://www.chesspro.ru/. According to a report by Mig on Chess Ninja "There were extensive negotiations about this going on behind the scenes, not all of them friendly. There will now likely be a new contract signed, perhaps at a public press conference." Mig has now updated this as saying that he understands the negotiations are still ongoing However when the full article appeared in Chess Express http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3556 it seems that Kramnik hasn't really committed himself to playing in Mexico City yet in spite of it surely being the whole points of the reunification to play in an event already in place. All that remains to be seen is a confirmation from Kramnik himself. I received today a message from Silvio Danailov proposing April 12-30th 2007 for a world title match between Topalov and Kramnik. The relevant FIDE regulations suggest say the match would have to finish before March 12th 2007 because it should finish 6 months before Mexico City. The say they're willing to start earlier if they have to follow the regulations to the letter. The regulations say a) that Kramnik is obliged to accept a valid financed challenge, b) it doesn't set an minimum period between issuing the challenge and it taking place (so theoretically a 2700 player who had money and venue set up could organise one next week unless I missed something). But it does say that FIDE have five months to set the match up (which is way outside that date) which will probably be the get out clause. There is of course no chance Kramnik will accept the challenge] If the chances of a match were zero, they're now less than zero. Topalov has at least stopped messing about with innuendo and has directly accused Kramnik and the Russian Government of fixing the match in Elista. Translation of the interview in Spanish daily ABC 14/12/2006 - Original article in Spanish. I find it sad that Topalov appears to be so paranoid but this could also very easily go to court because I really don't think you can go round making such allegations with zero proof. Malcolm Pein's Chess Column 18th December 2006 A Russian article from Istvestia shows that Topalov has already been reported to the ethics commision. According to the article a FIDE advisor Berik Balgabaev (translation?) suggests that Topalov may not have been responsible for the article but instead his manager: http://www.izvestia.ru/sport/article3099681/ (I only have access to a poor electronic translation into English). http://www.veselintopalov.net/ has some links to a Carsten Hensel interview in english (directly) and denies the detailed comments in the ABC interview. |
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| Lahno vs Negi Match There was a lengthy match between Kateryna Lahno and Parimarjan Negi called the Amity Grandmasters Challenge. 18 games in all took place 17th-25th December 2006. The prize pool was Rs. 500000/- (USD 11000). There were six FIDE time control games, six rapid and on the final day six blitz. Kateryna Lahno won all three sections individually and had a final score of 11-7. Games in PGN Gm1 Lahno, Kateryna - Negi, Parimarjan 1/2 37 B92 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2 Gm2 Negi, Parimarjan - Lahno, Kateryna 0-1 45 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Gm3 Lahno, Kateryna - Negi, Parimarjan 1/2 43 B92 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2 Gm4 Negi, Parimarjan - Lahno, Kateryna 1/2 56 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Gm5 Lahno, Kateryna - Negi, Parimarjan 1/2 66 C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen Gm6 Negi, Parimarjan - Lahno, Kateryna 1/2 39 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Gm7 Lahno, Kateryna - Negi, Parimarjan 1-0 65 C54 Giuoco Piano Gm8 Negi, Parimarjan - Lahno, Kateryna 0-1 49 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Gm9 Lahno, Kateryna - Negi, Parimarjan 1-0 46 C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen Gm10 Negi, Parimarjan - Lahno, Kateryna 0-1 55 C45 Scotch Game Gm11 Lahno, Kateryna - Negi, Parimarjan 0-1 57 B92 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2 Gm12 Negi, Parimarjan - Lahno, Kateryna 1-0 26 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Gm13 Negi, Parimarjan - Lahno, Kateryna 0-1 34 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Gm14 Lahno, Kateryna - Negi, Parimarjan 1/2 65 B32 Sicilian Labourdonnais Gm15 Negi, Parimarjan - Lahno, Kateryna 0-1 27 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Gm16 Lahno, Kateryna - Negi, Parimarjan 1/2 54 B30 Sicilian Rossolimo Gm17 Negi, Parimarjan - Lahno, Kateryna 1-0 53 B07 Pirc Defence Gm18 Lahno, Kateryna - Negi, Parimarjan 1/2 51 B84 Sicilian Scheveningen The official websites for the event are http://www.amitychessacademy.com, http://www.parimarjannegi.com and http://www.delhichess.com |
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| Tal Memorial The Mikhail Tal Memorial took place November 5th-19th 2006 (Starts on the 6th (opening on the 5th), 3-rest-3-rest-3). Round 9 all the games were drawn. Leko, Ponomariov and Aronian all finished on 5.5/9. Its reported to me that Leko took first on Sonnenborg-Berger tie-break but this isn't totally confirmed. A blitz tournament follows after a break of a day. Then there will be two days of blitz qualifiers followed by a 16-player blitz event - 10 from the main event plus some qualifiers. Prize fund - $100K for the round robin and $100K for the blitz. Time control 5 mins + 2 seconds a move. Double Round Robin. Blitz Tournament Leading Final Standings: Anand won with 23/34, Levon Aronian, 2nd with 21 points. Peter Svidler and Teimour Radjabov shared 3rd-4th places 20.5. Two games per round were recorded using video cameras and should eventually become available. Full Final Standings: 1 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2779 23.0 2 Aronian, Levon ARM 2741 21.0 3 Radjabov, Teimour AZE 2729 20.5 4 Svidler, Peter RUS 2750 20.5 5 Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR 2703 19.5 6 Morozevich, Alexander RUS 2747 18.0 7 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2710 18.0 8 Gelfand, Boris ISR 2733 18.0 9 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2698 17.5 10 Karpov, Anatoly RUS 2668 17.5 11 Karjakin, Sergey UKR 2672 17.0 12 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE 2728 17.0 13 Polgar, Judit HUN 2710 17.0 14 Leko, Peter HUN 2741 16.5 15 Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS 2671 15.5 16 Bologan, Viktor MDA 2659 10.5 17 Timofeev, Artyom RUS 2662 10.0 18 Jobava, Baadur GEO 2650 9.0 Main Event Games in PGN Commentated Games Tal Memorial Round 7. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Tal Memorial Round 6. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Tal Memorial Round 5. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Tal Memorial Round 4. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Tal Memorial Round 3. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Tal Memorial Round 2. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Tal Memorial Round 1. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Round 9 (November 16, 2006) Ponomariov, Ruslan - Leko, Peter 1/2 19 E12 Queens Indian Petrosian Gelfand, Boris - Aronian, Levon 1/2 16 E01 Catalan Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Svidler, Peter 1/2 14 E60 King's Indian without Nc3 Grischuk, Alexander - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 17 D38 QGD Ragozin Morozevich, Alexander - Shirov, Alexei 1/2 26 C89 Ruy Lopez Marshall Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Leko, Peter g HUN 2741 5.5; 2. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2703 5.5; 3. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2741 5.5; 4. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 5.0; 5. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2728 4.5; 6. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2710 4.5; 7. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2750 4.5; 8. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2720 3.5; 9. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2698 3.5; 10. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2747 3.0; Official site: http://www.russiachess.org/eng |
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| Remco Heite Chess Tournament The Remco Heite Chess Tournament took place over the weekend of 24th-26th November 2006 in Wolvega, Netherlands. The schedule was much like a weekend swiss tournament with five games at a timerate : 1 hour and 45 minutes for 35 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game. However the field was a Category XIV GM event which was won convincingly by Loek van Wely who drew just one game Games in PGN Final Round 5 Standings: 1. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2676 4.5; 2. Jussupow, Artur g GER 2600 3.0; 3. Timman, Jan H g NED 2565 2.5; 4. Huebner, Robert g GER 2612 2.5; 5. Hort, Vlastimil g GER 2501 1.5; 6. Werle, Jan g NED 2551 1.0; Official site: http://www.heiteschaaktoernooi.nl/ also news at: http://www.doggers-schaak.nl/ |
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| Spanish Championship The LXXI Spanish Championship takes place in León, 22nd-30th November 2006. Knockout Games in PGN - Scheveningen Games in PGN Group A Games in PGN - Group B Games in PGN Final Francisco Vallejo Pons - Salvador Del Rio Angelis 1/2 1-0 Semi-Finals 1. Manuel Perez Candelario - Francisco Vallejo Pons 0-1 1/2 2. Salvador Del Rio Angelis -Juan Mario Gomez Esteban 1-0 1/2 Final Group A Standings: 1. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2674 3.5; 2. Del Rio Angelis, Salvador G g ESP 2492 3.5; 3. Narciso Dublan, Marc g ESP 2511 3.0; 4. Herraiz Hidalgo, Herminio m ESP 2493 3.0; 5. Rivas Pastor, Manuel g ESP 2511 1.5; 6. Garcia Castro, Pablo f ESP 2390 0.5; Final Group B Standings: 1. Perez Candelario, Manuel m ESP 2496 3.5; 2. Gomez Esteban, Juan Mario g ESP 2486 3.5; 3. Lopez Martinez, Josep Manuel m ESP 2508 3.0; 4. Illescas Cordoba, Miguel g ESP 2620 2.0; 5. Fernandez Garcia, Jose Luis g ESP 2470 1.5; 6. Arizmendi Martinez, Julen L g ESP 2540 1.5; Official site: http://www.campeonatoespanaajedrez2006.com/inicio.htm |
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| Capablanca Memorial The XLI Capablanca Memorial had to move from its normal dates in May due to the Turin Olympiad. This years event took place 19th-30th November 2006 in the hotel Habana Riviera. The top event was a 6 player double round robin with Vassily Ivanchuk, Evgeny Bareev, Kamil Miton, Jesus Nogueiras, Lenier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon (starts 21st). Ivanchuk won the event with 6.5/10 half a point clear of Evgeny Bareev recovered from a couple of early losses to take clear second place and gain rating points. Games in PGN Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2741 6.5; 2. Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2683 6.0; 3. Miton, Kamil g POL 2638 5.0; 4. Dominguez, Lenier g CUB 2655 4.5; 5. Bruzon, Lazaro g CUB 2648 4.0; 6. Nogueiras, Jesus g CUB 2554 4.0; Official site: http://www.inder.co.cu/capablanca/ |
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| 10th Corsica
Masters The 10th Corsica Masters took place on the 4th and 5th of November 2006. The main event was a knockout on the 5th which saw Rustam Kasimdzhanov defeat Viswanathan Anand in the final 1.5-0.5. Games in PGN Official site: http://www.opencorsica.com/bastia2006fr.html |
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| Spanish Team Championship The Spanish Team Championship 2006 División of Honor took place in Olite, 6th-10th September 2006 (Group 1). San Sebastián, 13th-17th September 2006 (Group 2) and Lugo 3th-4th November 2006 (Final). Linex Magic (Ponomariov, Shirov etc) defeated Cuna de Dragones-Ajoblanco (Svidler, Jakovenko etc) in the final 4.5-1.5. Games in PGN - Final Weekend Games Final Weekend Final CUNA DE DRAGONES-AJOBLANCO 1,5-4,5 LINEX - MAGIC 1 gm Svidler, Peter 2750 0-1 gm Ponomariov, Ruslan 2703 2 gm Jakovenko, Dmitry 2671 0-1 gm Shirov, Alexei 2720 3 gm Pentala, Harikrishna 2674 1/2 gm Karjakin, Sergei 2672 4 gm Timofeev, Artyom 2662 1/2 gm Sargissian, Gabriel 2688 5mi Llanes, Miguel 2435 0-1 gm Rublevsky, Sergei 2688 6mi Ibarra, José C. 2451 1/2 mi Perez Candelario, Manuel 2496 3rd-4th Playoff INTEL TIENDAS UPI 5-1 REVERTE ALBOX-UNICAJA 1 gm Ivanchuk, Vassily 2741 1/2 gm Dreev, Alexei 2655 2 gm Vallejo, Francisco 2674 1-0 gm Krasenkow, Michal 2647 3 gm Bruzón, Lázaro 2648 1/2 gm Movsesian, Sergei 2637 4 gm Volokitin, Andrei 2645 1-0 gm Rustemov, Alessandre 2552 5 gm Eljanov, Pavel 2658 1-0 gm Comas, Lluis 2495 6 GM Illescas, Miguel 2620 1-0 gm del Río, Gabriel 2492 SEMIFINAL 1 CUNA DE DRAGONES-AJOBLANCO 4,5-1,5 INTEL TIENDAS UPI 1 gm Svidler, Peter 2750 1-0 gm Ivanchuk, Vassily 2741 2 gm Jakovenko, Dmitry 2671 1/2 gm Vallejo, Francisco 2674 3 gm Pentala, Harikrishna 2674 1-0 gm Bruzón, Lázaro 2648 4 gm Timofeev, Artyom 2662 1-0 gm Volokitin, Andrei 2645 5mi Llanes, Miguel 2435 1/2 gm Eljanov, Pavel 2658 6mi Ibarra, José C. 2451 1/2 GM Illescas, Miguel 2620 SEMIFINAL 2 LINEX - MAGIC 3,5-2,5 REVERTE ALBOX-UNICAJA 1 gm Ponomariov, Ruslan 2703 1/2 gm Dreev, Alexei 2655 2 gm Shirov, Alexei 2720 1/2 gm Krasenkow, Michal 2647 3 gm Karjakin, Sergei 2672 1-0 gm Movsesian, Sergei 2637 4 gm Sargissian, Gabriel 2688 1/2 gm Rustemov, Alessandre 2552 5 gm Rublevsky, Sergei 2688 1/2 gm Comas, Lluis 2495 6 gm Perez Candelario, Manuel 2496 1/2 gm del Río, Gabriel 2492 Group Games Group 1 saw the two favourites Intel Tiendas UPI (Ivanchuk, Radjabov, Vallejo Pons, Bruzon, Volokitin, Eljanov, Illescas Cordoba etc) and Reverté Albox (Dreev, Krasenkow, Rustemov, Movsesian, Sutovsky etc) qualify for the final weekend. Group 2 saw Linex Magic (Aronian, Morozevich, Ponomariov, Shirov, Karjakin, Sargissian, Rublevsky etc) and Ajoblanco Cuna de Dragones (Svidler, Adams, Mamedyarov, Jakovenko, Harikrishna, Timofeev etc) progress to the final weekend. Incidently the Spanish Chess Federation has both a very clear website (below) and sent out a nice press release with each round. Official site: http://www.feda.org/ceclub/ |
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| Cap D'Agde The 7th Cap d’Agde tournament took place 26th October - 2nd November 2006. Teimour Radjabov defeats Sergey Karjakin 1.5-0.5 in the final. Group A Games in PGN - Group B Games in PGN - Group B Tie-Break Games in PGN - Knockout Games in PGN Cap d'Agde. Volokitin- Harikrishna. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Finals Teïmour Radjabov (2729) - Sergey Karjakin (2672) 1.5-0.5 Semi-Finals: Sergey Karjakin (2672) - Magnus Carlsen (2698) 1.5-0.5 Teïmour Radjabov (2729) - Andreï Volokitin (2645) 2-0 Quarter Finals: Monday 30 October - Match 1 Sergey Karjakin (2672) - Zhao Xue (2467) : 1-0 Zhao Xue (2467) - Sergey Karjakin (2672) : 1-0 Départages - Match 1 (parties de 3+2) Sergey Karjakin (2672) - Zhao Xue (2467) : 1-0 Zhao Xue (2467) - Sergey Karjakin (2672) : ½-½ Monday 30 October - Match 2 Teïmour Radjabov (2729) - Etienne Bacrot (2705) : 1-0 Etienne Bacrot (2705) - Teïmour Radjabov (2729) : 0-1 Tuesday 31 October - Match 3 Magnus Carlsen (2698) - Laurent Fressinet (2640) : 1-0 Laurent Fressinet (2640) - Magnus Carlsen (2698) : 0-1 Tuesday 31 October - Match 4 Andreï Volokitin (2645) - Harikrishna Pentala (2674) ½-½ Harikrishna Pentala (2674) - Andreï Volokitin (2645) : ½-½ Départages - Match 4 (parties de 3+2) Andreï Volokitin (2645) - Harikrishna Pentala (2674) : 1-0 Harikrishna Pentala (2674) - Andreï Volokitin (2645) : 1-0 Départages 2 - Match 4 (parties de 3+2) Andreï Volokitin (2645) - Harikrishna Pentala (2674) 1-0 Harikrishna Pentala (2674) - Andreï Volokitin (2645) 1-0 Départages 3 - Match 4 (parties de 3+2) Andreï Volokitin (2645) - Harikrishna Pentala (2674) : 1-0 Preliminary Group Stages: Group A Final Standings: 1. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2672 5.0; 2. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2729 4.5; 3. Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2640 4.5; 4. Harikrishna, P g IND 2674 4.0; 5. Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2489 3.5; 6. Negi, Parimarjan g IND 2538 3.0; 7. Sebag, Marie m FRA 2471 2.0; 8. Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2534 1.5; Group B Final Standings: 1. Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2645 5.5; 2. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2698 4.5; 3. Koneru, Humpy g IND 2545 3.5; 4. Zhao Xue wg CHN 2467 3.5; 5. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2705 3.5; 6. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2668 3.5; 7. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2579 2.5; 8. Skripchenko, Almira m FRA 2427 1.5; Group B Tie-Break:1. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2705 3.5; 2. Zhao Xue wg CHN 2467 3.5; 3. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2668 1.5; 4. Koneru, Humpy g IND 2545 1.5; Official site: http://www.agdechecs-ccas.com/ and further details: Europe - Echecs |
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| Pune Rapid Knockout A 64 player Knockout Rapid Tournament takes place in Pune, India 30th October - 5th November 2006. Organised by the Poona Club with assistance from the Chess Players Association of India, this is probably the strongest and best ever Prize-money Rapid Tournament ever organised in India (Rs.100,000/- First Prize and a total prize fund of Rs.514,000/-). The participants include GMs S.S.Ganguly, Abhijit Kunte, Deepan Chakravarthy, Pravin Thipsay and DIbyendu Barua, WGMs Tania Sachdev, Swathi Ghate and Eesha Karavade, and scores of IMs and other rated players. Details: http://www.cpai.in - (http://knockout.lci.in/) |
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Essent Chess
Tournament Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Judit Polgar finished on 4.5/6. Photo © Fred Lucas http://www.momentoo.nl The 10th edition of the Essent Chess Tournament took place October 20th-28th 2006. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov edged out a returning Judit Polgar on Sonneborn-Berger tie-break finish on 4.5/6. Veselin Topalov lost to Polgar in the final round and finished with 2 wins 3 losses and only one draw losing more rating points. Games in PGN - Open Games in PGN Link to a video of the games and a few other items: http://www.doggers-schaak.nl/?p=568&lp_lang_view=en Commentary Essent Tournament in Hoogeveen Round 6. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Essent Tournament in Hoogeveen Round 5. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Essent Tournament in Hoogeveen Round 4. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Essent Tournament in Hoogeveen Round 3. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Essent Tournament in Hoogeveen Round 2. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Essent Tournament in Hoogeveen Round 1. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Round 6 (October 28, 2006) Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Sokolov, Ivan 1-0 60 D12 Slav Defence Topalov, Veselin - Polgar, Judit 0-1 56 E32 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2 Final Round 6 Standings: 1. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2728 4.5; 2. Polgar, Judit g HUN 2710 4.5; 3. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2813 2.5; 4. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2670 0.5; Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2632 7.0; 2. Werle, Jan g NED 2551 7.0; 3. Postny, Evgeny g ISR 2609 6.5; 4. Brodsky, Michail g UKR 2566 6.5; 5. Gurevich, Mikhail g TUR 2648 6.5; 6. Goloshchapov, Alexander g UKR 2552 6.5; 7. L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2593 6.0; 8. Smeets, Jan g NED 2525 6.0; 9. Rogers, Ian g AUS 2526 6.0; 10. Ernst, Sipke m NED 2512 6.0; 11. Khairullin, Ildar m RUS 2543 6.0; 12. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2522 6.0; 13. Dvoirys, Semen I g RUS 2553 5.5; 14. Bitalzadeh, Ali NED 2345 5.5; 15. Ibrahimov, Rasul g AZE 2541 5.5; 16. Hort, Vlastimil g GER 2501 5.5; 17. Dambacher, Martijn m NED 2429 5.5; 18. Ris, Robert NED 2367 5.5; 19. Brandenburg, Daan NED 2421 5.5; 20. Pruijssers, Roeland NED 2339 5.5; 21. Hendriks, Willy m NED 2438 5.5; 22. Willemze, Thomas m NED 2384 5.5; 84 players Official site: http://www.essentchess.nl/ |
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| European Club
Cup The European Club Cup 2006 took place 8th-14th October 2006. Tomsk-400 won the men's event, Yerevan the women's. Games in PGN - Men rds 1-7 - Games in PGN - Women rds 1-7 - These are my final word on these files, I've done my best and hopefully resolved the problems between the various versions. Official site: http://www.ecc2006.com |
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| October FIDE Rating
List The October FIDE rating list has been released. FIDE October 2006 Rating List: Top 100 |
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World Championship Match.
Kramnik beats Topalov after Rapid playoff Live game in PGN - PGN file - Viewer Completed Playoff Games in PGN - World Championship Match Elista Playoff Games 2006 - Viewer Vladimir Kramnik is the World Chess Champion, he took the title after a tense rapid playoffs. The final score was Kramnik 2½ - Topalov 1½. Topalov was probably on the way to a loss anyway when blundered horrifically to instantly end the final game. The BBC report: "As Topalov resigned in the final game, Kramnik stood up and celebrated his victory by clutching his hands above his head, as his team erupted in joyful cheers. "We are planning to get drunk with my friends today," he said. " Kommersant.com: “I’m really happy that the Crown remains in Russia,” Kramnik said a few minutes after the victory. “I can compare this achievement only to a win over Garry Kasparov. Taking into account the environment that my rivals have created, the victory was a matter of principle for me.” Official site interview: "I am very glad that the crown stays in Russia. Personally for me this achievement is comparable to the victory against Kasparov. There aren’t many three-time world champions in the history, and I hope I will not stop there… Considering the atmosphere around the match and behavior of the opposing team, winning the match was a matter of principle." - "– I feel deeply tired. But of course, Elista will become a memorable place for me – such events do not occur often. It was a very hard test – even harder than I expected – but the winner’s joy outweighs everything negative." FOCUS report:: Topalov: “I’m glad that everything ended. I’m sure that whole Bulgaria supported me. What happened in Elista could have happened everywhere but we were ready. I shouldn’t say I lacked experience from international matches. The rules are the same everywhere. It’s strange that Kramnik’s violation remained unseen but my manager Silvio Danailov will give you more details on the case”, were Topalov’s first words when he landed. Kramnik,V (2743) - Topalov,V (2813) WCh Elista RUS Playoffs (4), 13.10.2006 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Be2 Bb7 9.0-0 Be7 10.e4 b4 11.e5 bxc3 12.exf6 Bxf6 13.bxc3 c5 14.dxc5 Nxc5N Topalov hits Kramnik with a novelty and a very good one too at this time rate. [14...0-0 has been seen before.] 15.Bb5+ Kf8 16.Qxd8+! Kramnik is the best player in the world without queens on. He gets a position he is totally comfortable with. 16...Rxd8 17.Ba3 Rc8 18.Nd4 Be7 19.Rfd1! a6!? The start of a very ambitious plan that Kramnik defuses brilliantly. [19...Ne4! and the game would probably have ended in a draw.] 20.Bf1 Na4?! [20...Ne4 again was probably better.] 21.Rab1! Either Topalov missed this, or more likely missed its power. He has to start to be careful. 21...Be4 22.Rb3! Bxa3 23.Rxa3 Nc5 24.Nb3! Clarifys the advantage 24...Ke7 25.Rd4! Putting the bishop out of commission. 25...Bg6 [25...Nxb3 26.axb3 Bb7] 26.c4 Rc6 27.Nxc5 Rxc5 28.Rxa6 Rb8 29.Rd1! Rb2 30.Ra7+ Kf6 31.Ra1! Before white pushes the a-pawn he stops black jumping behind it with his rook. 31...Rf5 32.f3 Re5 33.Ra3! Another move that reduces black's counter play. 33...Rc2 34.Rb3 Ra5 35.a4 Ke7 36.Rb5 Ra7 37.a5 Kd6 38.a6 Kc7 39.c5 Rc3 40.Raa5 Rc1 41.Rb3 Kc6 42.Rb6+ Kc7 43.Kf2 Rc2+ 44.Ke3 White probably is well on the way to winning this game. 44...Rxc5?? With things going very badly wrong Topalov blunders horrifically to end things instantly. 45.Rb7+ White has won a whole rook. 1-0 Kramnik - Topalov.Carsten Hensel Press Release 10.10.2006 Please take a note of the new TWIC Beta site: http://twic.chesscorp.com/infoglueDeliverLive/ address. We had some server problems during the round one game and I am mirroring the world championship coverage at our Beta site if we crash again. Games in PGN - World Championship Match Elista 2006 - Viewer Game Commentary  Kramnik - Topalov Game Rapid Playoffs. Game 3 Comments by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Rapid Playoffs. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Twelve. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Eleven. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Ten. Comments by Mark Crowther. Flash notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Nine. Comments by Mark Crowther. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Eight. Comments by Mark Crowther. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Seven. Comments by Mark Crowther. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Six. Comments by Mark Crowther. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Four. Comments by Mark Crowther. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Three. Comments by Mark Crowther. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game Two. Comments by Mark Crowther. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Kramnik - Topalov Game One. Comments by Mark Crowther. Notes by IM Malcolm Pein. Other commentary Kramnik - Topalov Game Twelve preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Malcolm Pein's World Service interview on the match - 2nd October 2006 Kramnik - Topalov.Carsten Hensel Press Release 10.10.2006 Kramnik - Topalov Game eleven preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Interview with Veselin Topalov, Trud daily, Saturday, 7 October 2006 Kramnik - Topalov Game ten preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Kramnik - Topalov Game nine preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Kramnik - Topalov. Peter Svidler and Evgeny Bareev 04.10.2006 Kramnik - Topalov Game eight preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Kramnik - Topalov. Carsten Hensel 2nd Press Release 03.10.2006 Kramnik - Topalov Game seven preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Geoffrey D. Borg on the situation Bessel Kok on the World Championship crisis. Its probable he will take over the running of subsequent championships after this My Bulgarian is very weak?! but it doesn't take much to interpret this. 3:1 or 3:2 under a picture of Kirsan having lunch with Danailov and Topalov. An official account of the negotiations. Bulgarian Chess Federation Statement Kramnik - Topalov. Carsten Hensel 2nd Press Release 29.09.2006 Kramnik - Topalov Game six preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik [obviously controversy permitting] Kramnik - Topalov. Carsten Hensel Press Release 29.09.2006 Kramnik - Topalov. Silvio Danailov Press Release 29.09.2006 Link to FIDE.com Result of the Danailov Appeal Kramnik - Topalov Game five preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Kramnik - Topalov. Silvio Danailov Press Release 28.09.2006 Kramnik - Topalov Game four preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Kramnik - Topalov Game three preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Gelfand Letter to FIDE on the World Championship Cycle Kramnik - Topalov Game two preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik Kramnik - Topalov Game one preview, which openings? by Martin Bennedik World Chess Championship Kramnik - Topalov Elista 2006. Preview by Mark Crowther. - Games between the players in PGN Kramnik and Topalov play their 12 game reunification match between in Elista 23rd Sept - 10th Oct 2006. The opening ceremony was on the 21st September 2006 where it was established that Kramnik will have white in game one. Full coverage here. Play starts at 12pm BST on game days. Each player will receive 500,000 USD net from FIDE and in addition certain revenues from possible commercial sponsorships. The winner goes to the WCC tournament 2007, the loser has to wait for the next cycle. The games will be played under classical time control (120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 61). Possible Tiebreak: 4 games of rapid chess (25min+10sec), then 2 blitz games (5min+10sec), then sudden death (6min/5min) with white to win. Dates: Open Ceremony 21st September 2006, 7.00 p.m. Play on: 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 29th, September, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 11th and 13th (tie-breaks) October 2006. Closing ceremony 13th October 2006. Official news about the match: http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=978 Official site: http://www.worldchess2006.com/ |
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| Barcelona The Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona-Casino took place 19th-27th October 2006. The Category XIV event was organised by the Catalan Chess Federation. New fide time control, approved in Turin (90' + 30'' + 30' + 30''). Lenier Dominguez won the event with 8/9 and a 2900+ performance from Vassily Ivanchuk on 6.5/9 who was defeated by the winner in the final round. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Dominguez, Lenier g CUB 2655 8.0; 2. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2741 6.5; 3. Korneev, Oleg g RUS 2657 5.5; 4. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2659 5.0; 5. Peralta, Fernando g ARG 2574 4.0; 6. Narciso Dublan, Marc g ESP 2511 4.0; 7. Granda Zuniga, Julio E g PER 2646 4.0; 8. Lopez Martinez, Josep Manuel m ESP 2508 3.5; 9. Timman, Jan H g NED 2565 2.5; 10. Lacasa Diaz, Jose Antonio m ESP 2410 2.0; Official site: http://www.fcde.org/ |
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| Monarch Assurance Isle of
Man The 15th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International took place 23rd September - 1st October 2006 at the Ocean Castle Hotel, Port Erin, Isle of Man. Alexander Areshchenko ediged out Sergey Volkov on tie-break after both scored 7/9. IM Norms for Gary Quillan and Anna Zatonskih. The tournament was dedicated to the memory of Richard Furness. I give the games again as I made the incredibly irritating error of getting the wrong Sergey Volkov in the PGN section again. Official site: http://www.monarchchess.bcmchess.co.uk/ |
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| World Junior
Championships World U-20 s and Girls Chess Championships took place October 2nd to 17th 2006, in Yerevan, Armenia. Games in PGN - Girls Games in PGN Open Leading Final Round 13 Standings: 1 IM Andriasian, Zaven 2463 ARM 9.5 2 IM Vitiugov, Nikita 2596 RUS 9 3 GM Kryvoruchko, Yuriy 2581 UKR 9 4 GM Pantsulaia, Levan 2596 GEO 9 5 IM Frolyanov, Dmitry 2498 RUS 8.5 6 GM Wang, Yue 2644 CHN 8.5 7 GM Stellwagen, Daniel 2576 NED 8.5 8 Wen, Yang 2416 CHN 8.5 9 GM Wang, Hao 2622 CHN 8.5 10 IM Khairullin, Ildar 2543 RUS 8.5 11 IM Meier, Georg 2484 GER 8.5 12 IM Rodshtein, Maxim 2517 ISR 8.5 13 GM Zhou, Jianchao 2522 CHN 8 14 GM Zhao, Jun 2539 CHN 8 15 IM Howell, David WL 2471 ENG 8 16 FM Brunello, Sabino 2460 ITA 8 83 players Girls 1 WGM Shen, Yang 2468 CHN 9 2 WFM Hou, Yifan 2481 CHN 9 3 WGM Melia, Salome 2395 GEO 9 4 WGM Mongontuul, Bathuyag 2383 MGL 9 5 WGM Karavade, Eesha 2321 IND 8.5 6 WIM Gomes, Mary Ann 2264 IND 8.5 7 WIM Pourkashiyan, Atousa 2330 IRI 8.5 8 WIM Rudolf, Anna 2265 HUN 8.5 9 WGM Harika, Dronavalli 2353 IND 8 10 WGM Tania, Sachdev 2383 IND 8 11 WIM Zhang, Jilin 2292 CHN 8 12 WFM Hamrakulova, Yulduz 2209 UZB 8 13 WGM Tairova, Elena 2415 RUS 8 14 WFM Abrahamyan, Tatev 2292 USA 7.5 15 WGM Hoang, Thi Bao Tram 2345 VIE 7.5 16 WFM Dolgova, Olga 2259 RUS 7.5 57 players Official site: http://www.armchess.am |
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| 4NCL The 4NCL season first weekend took place 16th-17th September 2006, when Divisions 1, 2 & 3 played their first two rounds at Initial Style Conferences, Sunningdale. Next two rounds 11th-12th November 2006. Games in PGN - Rd1-2 Division 1 results - Round 1 16th September 2006 BRISTOL 1 2262 2½-5½ HILSMARK KINGFISHER 2415 THE ADS 2350 2½-5½ NORTH WEST EAGLES1 2289 3CS OLDHAM 2259 3 - 5 BARBICAN 4NCL 1 2349 GUILDFORD-ADC 2 2338 2 - 6 GUILDFORD-ADC 1 2505 SOUTH WALES DRAGONS 2246 3½-4½ SLOUGH SHARKS 1 2201 WOOD GREEN 2325 3 - 5 BETSSON.COM 2363 Division 1 results - Round 2 17th September 2006 HILSMARK KINGFISHER 2415 6½-1½ WOOD GREEN 2294 GUILDFORD-ADC 1 2505 7 - 1 SOUTH WALES DRAGON 2246 BARBICAN 4NCL 1 2350 4 - 4 THE ADS 2350 BETSSON.COM 2363 3½-4½ BRISTOL 1 2261 SLOUGH SHARKS 1 2199 1 - 7 GUILDFORD-ADC 2 2338 NORTH WEST EAGLES 2289 5½-2½ 3CS OLDHAM 2259 Official site: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/ |
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| XI Blind Individual World Chess
Championship The All India Chess Fedederation for the Blind organised the XI individual world chess championship for the blind in Goa 8th-19th October 2006 at the Radisson white sands hotel. The event is held every 4 years. Vladimir Berlinsky won the title for the first time after he beat his rival, former champion and friend Sergey Krylov in the final round to take the title with 7.5/9. The silver medal on tie-break was taken by Cuban Carlos Larduet Despaigne. Lubov Zsiltzova Lisenko took the bronze medal she beat compatriot Sergej Wassin. Chris Ross represented England as the current B.C.A. British champion of the visually impaired. B.C.A. website: http://www.braillechess.org.uk Official site: http://www.aicfb.org with results and games. Coverage in TWIC 623 and 624. |
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Magnus Carlsen wins his first
Norwegian Championship after Playoff Magnus Carlsen is the 2006 Norwegian Championships: © Paul Weaver, Nettavisen Magnus Carlsen defeated Simen Agdestein 3-1 in the Norwegian Championship playoff. After both standard time rate games were drawn, Carlsen won both rapid playoff games to take the title. This is the second year in a row they've had a play off. The match took place 19th-21st September 2006. This is Carlsen's first Norwegian title, Simen Agdestein is a seven time former champion. The playoff became necessary after they tied on 7/9 in the championship tournament in Moss 8th-15th July 2006. Quotes: Magnus Carlsen "I am delighted to win. Especially after I made a mess of things, he told Nettavisen. Simen Agdestein: - It really annoyed me that I wasn't able to settle the match when I had the chance in game 2. Time controls: First two games. 40 in 120, 20 in 60 and then 30 to a finish. Then g/25 rapid games will continue in pairs until the match is decided. Standard Time Rate Games Gm1 Carlsen, Magnus - Agdestein, Simen 1/2 40 D27 QGA Gm2 Agdestein, Simen - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 47 A31 English Symmetrical Rapid Games Gm3 Agdestein, Simen - Carlsen, Magnus 0-1 33 A28 English Four Knights Gm4 Carlsen, Magnus - Agdestein, Simen 1-0 29 C76 Ruy Lopez Modern Steinitz Games in PGN Official site: http://www.nettavisen.no/sjakk |
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European Union Individual
Championships  Venue. Photo © Dave Clayton The European Union Individual Chess Championships took place at the Liverpool World Museum 6th-15th September 2006. Nigel Short took clear first place with 7.5/10 half a point clear of 8 players on 7 points. Short was the only winner amongst the leaders going into the final round beating Mark Hebden. All Games in PGN Reports: Steve Giddins reports are from the Official site Malcolm Pein - World Blitz Malcolm Pein - Round 10 Steve Giddins. Round 10 Report Malcolm Pein - Round 9 Steve Giddins. Round 9 Report Malcolm Pein - Round 8 Steve Giddins. Round 8 Report Malcolm Pein - Round 7 Steve Giddins. Round 7 Report Malcolm Pein - Round 6 Steve Giddins. Round 6 Report Steve Giddins. Round 5 Report Steve Giddins. Round 4 Report plus Malcolm Pein Annotates Steve Giddins. Round 3 Report Steve Giddins. Round 2 Report plus Malcolm Pein Annotates Steve Giddins. Round 1 Report plus Malcolm Pein Annotates Leading Official Final Round 10 Standings: 1 Short, Nigel D ENG g 2676 7½ 2 Sulskis, Sarunas LTU g 2514 7 3 McShane, Luke J ENG g 2614 7 4 Gordon, Stephen J ENG m 2443 7 5 Jones, Gawain CB ENG m 2416 7 6 Galego, Luis POR g 2528 7 7 Gormally, Daniel W ENG g 2513 7 8 Bischoff, Klaus GER g 2533 7 9 Van Der Weide, Karel NED g 2446 7 10 Williams, Simon K ENG m 2473 6½ 11 Hebden, Mark L ENG g 2532 6½ 12 Ciuksyte, Dagne LTU m 2440 6½ 13 Luther, Thomas GER g 2589 6½ 14 Conquest, Stuart C ENG g 2534 6½ 15 Rudd, Jack ENG f 2328 6½ 16 Pert, Nicholas ENG g 2503 6 17 Brandenburg, Daan NED 2392 6 18 Miezis, Normunds LAT g 2527 6 19 Haslinger, Stewart G ENG m 2423 6 20 Gyimesi, Zoltan HUN g 2616 6 21 Hanley, Craig A ENG m 2419 6 22 McNab, Colin A SCO g 2433 6 23 Medvegy, Zoltan HUN g 2518 6 24 Pritchett, Craig W SCO m 2289 6 25 Swinkels, Robin NED 2286 6 26 Karttunen, Mika FIN m 2422 6 27 White, Michael JR ENG 2239 6 28 Wallace, Paul A IRL 2242 6 85 players Official site: http://www.liverpoolchessinternational.co.uk/ |
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| World Blitz
Championship The World Blitz Championship final took place on 7th September 2006 in Rishon Le Zion (Israel). This was a Round Robin Tournament with 16 players. Alexander Grischuk won a final armageddon playoff game (he had white but had to win) against Peter Svidler to take the title after they tied during the all-play-all phase. Detailed final standings and results my thanks to the organisers for the file (only one partial game missing which is a great job for blitz). Final Standings: 1 Grischuk 10.5 72 9 * winner after playoff, inferior tie-break after the all-play-all. 2 Svidler 10.5 72.75 10 3 Radjabov 10 67.25 8 4 Anand 10 64.7 8 5 Polgar 9.5 67 7 6 Gelfand 9.5 63 8 7 Bacrot 8 62.5 6 8 Carlsen 7.5 51.5 5 9 Erenburg 7 46.5 6 10 Sutovsky 7 45.5 4 11 Gaunashvili 7 45 4 12 Roiz 6.5 41.25 5 13 Smirin 6 40.5 2 14 Gurevich 4 29 3 15 Zoler 3.5 24.75 2 16 Lifshitz 3.5 18.75 2 All Games in PGN - Final Playoff Game in PGN Official site: http://www.fideblitz.com |
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| Spitsbergen Chess
Festival The Spitsbergen Chess Festival took place 1st-4th September 2006. Peter Svidler defeated Magnus Carlsen 1.5-0.5 in their match on September 2nd in Longyearbyen, the largest settlement on Spitsbergen. Nick De Firmian plays Simen Agdestein play on Sunday 3rd September 2006 in Barentsburg the second largest settlement on the island. Games in PGN - Carlsen - Svidler Games in PGN Agdestein - De Firmian Official site: http://www.topchess.org/ and http://www.longyear.no/ |
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| Leko - Karpov
Match Peter Leko and Anatoly Karpov played an 8 game rapid match in Miskolc 30th August - 3rd September 2006. Two games per day at 16:00 and 17:30 local time. Time control was 25 mins + 5 seconds a move. Peter Leko won the match 4.5-3.5 courtesy of a terrible blunder at the end of game 3 from Karpov in an otherwise pretty sterile match. Games in PGN Gm1 Leko, Peter - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 28 B19 Caro Kann Gm2 Karpov, Anatoly - Leko, Peter 1/2 30 E35 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2 Gm3 Leko, Peter - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 51 E15 Queens Indian Gm4 Karpov, Anatoly - Leko, Peter 1/2 37 E37 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2 Gm5 Leko, Peter - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 46 D27 QGA Gm6 Karpov, Anatoly - Leko, Peter 1/2 34 D47 Queens Gambit Meran Gm7 Leko, Peter - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 64 D27 QGA Gm8 Karpov, Anatoly - Leko, Peter 1/2 56 E15 Queens Indian Official site: http://www.lekokarpov.hu/ |
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| 59th Russian Championship 1st
League The 59th Russian Championship 1st League took place in Tomsk 3rd-11th September 2006. Ernesto Inarkiev won the event with 6.5/9. There were 7 qualification places for the Russian Championships super-final at the end of the year. There were seven players tied for six places and it appears that Nikita Vitiugov edged out Evgeniy Najer on a second Progessive score tie-break after they tied the first. Swiss system, 9 rounds with time control 1 hour 40 minutes on the firsts 40 moves, then 50 minutes on the next 20 moves and 10 minutes till the end of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move. The prize fund was $100 000. Games in PGN Leading Official Final Round 9 Standings : 1 Inarkiev, Ernesto 2625 6,5 2 Khismatullin, Denis 2568 6 3 Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2594 6 4 Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2520 6 5 Grigoriants, Sergey 2579 6 6 Alekseev, Evgeny 2644 6 7 Vitiugov, Nikita 2555 6 8 Najer, Evgeniy 2677 6 9 Dreev, Alexey 2666 5,5 10 Khairullin, Ildar 2538 5,5 11 Landa, Konstantin 2584 5,5 12 Popov, Valerij 2578 5,5 13 Volkov, Sergey 2628 5,5 14 Lastin, Alexander 2613 5,5 58 players Coverage at: http://www.russiachess.ru, http://www.chesspro.ru/main/index.html, http://www.ruschess.com/ and http://www.aeroflotchess.com/games/tomsk/. There are now links to the PGN from the different coverages. Thanks! |
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| Kostic Memorial The 14th Bora Kostic Memorial took place in Vrsac, Serbia, 12th-21st September 2006. Ivan Ivanisevic took clear first place a point clear of Bartlomiej Macieja. Games in PGN Final Standings: 1. Ivanisevic, Ivan g SCG 2596 6.5; 2. Macieja, Bartlomiej g POL 2613 5.5; 3. Markus, Robert g SCG 2586 5.0; 4. Spraggett, Kevin g CAN 2577 5.0; 5. Miladinovic, Igor g SCG 2584 5.0; 6. Damljanovic, Branko g SCG 2625 4.5; 7. Delchev, Aleksander g BUL 2637 4.5; 8. Solak, Dragan g SCG 2564 4.0; 9. Korneev, Oleg g RUS 2638 4.0; 10. Munizaba, Slobodan f SCG 2319 1.0; Official site: http://chess.vrsac.com/ including live coverage. |
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| 7th Lausanne Young Masters The 7th Lausanne Young Masters took place in Lausanne 13th-18th September 2006. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat Wang Yue of China in a rapid playoff to take the event. Games in PGN (Rd1 blitz playoff games are missing) Final Standings: 1. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2577) 2. Yue Wang (2626) 3. Alexander Areshchenko (2641) 4. Vugar Gashimov (2644) 5. Radoslaw Wojtaszek (2622) 6. Humpy Koneru (2548) 7. Borki Predojevic (2568) 8. Tatiana Kosintseva (2479) Round 3 (September 17, 2006) Final: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2577) - Yue Wang (2626) 4-2 3rd-4th places: Alexander Areshchenko (2641) - Vugar Gashimov (2644) 2½-1½ 5th-6th places: Radoslaw Wojtaszek (2622) - Humpy Koneru (2548) 4-2 7th-8th places: Borki Predojevic (2568) - Tatiana Kosintseva (2479) 2-0 Round 2 Results Gashimov, Vugar - Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 1.5-2.5 Areshchenko, Alexander - Wang Yue 3-4 Predojevic, Borki - Koneru, Humpy 0.5-1.5 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw - Kosintseva, Tatiana 1.5-0.5 Round 1 Results: Gashimov, Vugar - Kosintseva, Tatiana 2.5-1.5 Areshchenko, Alexander - Koneru, Humpy 3.5-2.5 Wang Yue - Predojevic, Borki 3.5-2.5 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw - Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 1.5-2.5 Official site: http://ww2.lausanneyoungmasters.com/lym06/ |
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| 3rd Szeged Cup The 3rd Szeged Cup, Hungarian International Women's Championship take place in Novotel Hotel, has 36 participants from the 6 countries, 9 rounds swiss system. Official site: http://web.t-online.hu/passant/sakkversenyek/szeged/ |
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Odessa-Istanbul Cruise Rapid Closing ceremony of the tournament on the Yuzhnaya Palmyra ship. Photo © Maria Golubeva. A rapid tournament took place 28 August - 2 September 2006 during the Odessa-Istanbul-Odessa Black Sea ship cruise. 12 GMs are participated: Ivanchuk (2734), Vaganian (2598), Eingorn (2591), Tukmakov (2560), Drozdovskij (2552), Lerner (2523), Palatnik (2520), S.Savchenko (2508), Golubev (2467), Zhukova (2456), N.Gaprindashvili (2375), Klinova (2346). Vassily Ivanchuk won the event. Available Games in PGN Final Standings: 1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2734 10.0; 2. Eingorn, Vereslav S g UKR 2590 8.0; 3. Drozdovskij, Yuri g UKR 2552 7.0; 4. Golubev, Mikhail g UKR 2467 6.5; 5. Vaganian, Rafael A g ARM 2598 5.5; 6. Palatnik, Semon g USA 2478 5.5; 7. Zhukova, Natalia wg UKR 2456 5.0; 8. Savchenko, Stanislav g UKR 2508 5.0; 9. Lerner, Konstantin Z g UKR 2523 4.5; 10. Tukmakov, Vladimir B g UKR 2560 4.0; 11. Gaprindashvili, Nona1 g GEO 2375 3.0; 12. Klinova, Masha m ISR 2346 2.0; Website (in Russian): http://www.chessportal.od.ua |
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NH Chess
Tournament Magnus Carlsen qualifies for next year's Amber tournament by topping the Rising Stars standings. Photo © Fred Lucas http://www.momentoo.nl The NH Chess Tournament took place August 19th-29th at the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky. It was organized by the hotel chain NH Hotels in close cooperation with the Association Max Euwe from Monaco. The Scheveningen team tournament was a battle between a team of 'Experience' and a team of 'Rising Stars'. The 'old hands' were Andersson, Beliavsky, Jussupov, Ljubojevic and Nunn, while the 'Youngsters' were Carlsen, Karjakin, Stellwagen, Smeets and Wang Hao. As it turned out all the Rising Stars performed above their rating apart from Karjakin who lost a few points and they won the battle 28-22. Alexander Beliavsky is still an active competetor on the world scene and he scored excellently. Most of the rest don't compete that much these days and John Nunn (See interview at: http://www.doggers-schaak.nl/) in fact went as far as to announce his retirement a few years ago and in the end the 6 point gap was to be expected (and indeed spot on predicted by Mystic Mig). Magnus Carlsen will be invited to next year's Amber Rapid and Blindfold Tournament in Monaco after finishing as the Rising Star's top scorer. Games in PGN Round 10 (August 29, 2006) Beliavsky, Alexander G - Karjakin, Sergey 1/2 10 D20 QGA Ljubojevic, Ljubomir - Wang Hao 1/2 16 D18 Slav Defence Andersson, Ulf - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 29 A39 English Symmetrical Nunn, John D.M - Stellwagen, Daniel 1/2 18 B43 Sicilian Paulsen Jussupow, Artur - Smeets, Jan 0-1 46 D47 Queens Gambit Meran Round 10 Standings: 1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2675 6.5 2700 2 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2679 6.0 2662 3 Wang Hao g CHN 2610 5.5 2626 4 Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2575 5.0 2590 5 Smeets, Jan g NED 2532 5.0 2590 Rising Stars 28 1 Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2625 6.5 2724 2 Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g SCG 2551 4.5 2578 3 Andersson, Ulf g SWE 2542 4.0 2542 4 Jussupow, Artur g GER 2617 3.5 2504 5 Nunn, John D.M g ENG 2617 3.5 2504 Experience 22 Official site: http://nhchess.quinsy.net/ |
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Credit Suisse
Rapid Gary Kasparov. Photo © Fred Lucas http://www.momentoo.nl The Lichthof Chess Champions Day celebrated the 150th Anniversary of Credit Suisse. The event saw Garry Kasparov playing his first chess event since his retirement after the Linares 2005 tournament in Zurich on August 22nd 2006. The event was very much an exhibition with fairly relaxed and noisy conditions whilst the players played blitz (5'+2") in the double round robin tournament. Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov shared first on 4.5/6. Games in PGN [Problems with Karpov - Polgar round 4 Round 1 (August 22, 2006) Kasparov, Garry - Korchnoi, Viktor 1-0 23 E11 Bogo Indian Defence Polgar, Judit - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 43 B14 Caro Kann Panov Round 2 (August 22, 2006) Karpov, Anatoly - Korchnoi, Viktor 1-0 85 E14 Queens Indian Polgar, Judit - Kasparov, Garry 0-1 28 B80 Sicilian Scheveningen Round 3 (August 22, 2006) Kasparov, Garry - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 53 E12 Queens Indian Petrosian Korchnoi, Viktor - Polgar, Judit 0-1 54 E73 King's Indian Averbakh Round 4 (August 22, 2006) * Karpov-Polgar incomplete, and the only game now missing, don't know if Polgar or Karpov can reconstruct it. . Karpov, Anatoly - Polgar, Judit 1-0 E90 King's Indian Classical Korchnoi, Viktor - Kasparov, Garry 1/2 45 D25 QGA Round 5 (August 22, 2006) Kasparov, Garry - Polgar, Judit 1-0 47 E60 King's Indian without Nc3 Korchnoi, Viktor - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 52 D28 QGA Round 6 (August 22, 2006) Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Garry 1/2 19 D27 QGA Polgar, Judit - Korchnoi, Viktor 1-0 39 C12 French MacCutcheon Final Round 6 Standings: 1. Kasparov, Garry g RUS 2812 4.5; 2. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2668 4.5; 3. Polgar, Judit g HUN 2710 2.5; 4. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2600 0.5; Official site - Live coverage: http://www.chessbase.com/ |
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| Staunton
Memorial The 4th Staunton Memorial took place in Simpsons in the Strand 14th-19th August 2006 and then moved to Wellington College in Crowthorne, Berkshire from 21st-25th August 2006. Ivan Sokolov took clear first with 9/11 half a point clear of Jan Timman and Michael Adams. Games in PGN Round 11 (August 25, 2006) L'Ami, Erwin - Adams, Michael 1/2 32 E19 Queens Indian Wells, Peter K - Werle, Jan 1-0 40 E20 Nimzo Indian Speelman, Jonathan S - Sokolov, Ivan 0-1 33 D18 Slav Defence Bosboom-Lanchava, Tea - Timman, Jan H 1/2 38 A42 Modern Defence Levitt, Jonathan - Howell, David WL 0-1 38 A40 Unusual Replies to 1.d4 Day, Lawrence A - Visser, Yge 0-1 36 A48 King's Indian Defence /c2-c4 Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2652 9.0; 2. Timman, Jan H g NED 2594 8.5; 3. Adams, Michael g ENG 2732 8.5; 4. Werle, Jan g NED 2531 7.0; 5. L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2586 6.5; 6. Wells, Peter K g ENG 2480 5.5; 7. Speelman, Jonathan S g ENG 2541 5.0; 8. Bosboom-Lanchava, Tea m NED 2389 4.5; 9. Visser, Yge m NED 2516 4.0; 10. Howell, David WL m ENG 2479 3.5; 11. Levitt, Jonathan g ENG 2431 3.0; 12. Day, Lawrence A m CAN 2278 1.0; Official site: http://www.howardstaunton.com/hsmt2006/index.shtml |
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| Hereford International The Hereford International chess tournament took place 29th August - 3rd September 2006. Daniel Gormally won the event with 6/9. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Gormally, Daniel g ENG 2513 6.0; 2. Cobb, James f WLS 2370 5.5; 3. Jones, Gawain C m ENG 2416 5.5; 4. Wells, Peter K g ENG 2480 5.0; 5. Stark, Lars f GER 2419 5.0; 6. McNab, Colin A g SCO 2433 4.0; 7. Gourlay, Iain f SCO 2337 4.0; 8. Sowray, Peter J f ENG 2357 3.5; 9. Palliser, Richard m ENG 2413 3.5; 10. Devereaux, Maxim f ENG 2377 3.0; Official site: http://www.deversoft.co.uk/hict/ |
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| France - China Match France and China played for the Trophée MULTICOMS in Paris 4th-9th September 2006. This is a Scheveningen match with 6 men and 3 women in the teams. There are 20 000 Euros in prizes for the men's section. France edged out China 20-16 in the main men's event. The women's part was a complete mismatch in terms of ELO ratings in favour of the Chinese and so it proved in reality finishing 12.5-5.5. This left the final over all result as China 28.5 France 25.5. Games in PGN (Men) - Games in PGN (Women) [Round 5 has about half the games missing and Wang Yue - Sokolov (6) is incomplete] Final Round 6 Standings: Men 1. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2599 4.0 2705 2. Nataf, Igor-Alexandre g FRA 2592 4.0 2705 3. Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2626 4.0 2705 4. Sokolov, Andrei1 g FRA 2589 3.5 2637 5. Degraeve, Jean-Marc g FRA 2540 2.5 2523 6. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2577 2.0 2455 France Men 20.0 1. Wang Yue g CHN 2626 4.0 2712 2. Zhou Jianchao g CHN 2520 3.5 2644 3. Ye Jiangchuan g CHN 2641 2.5 2530 4. Yu Shaoteng g CHN 2542 2.5 2530 5. Zhang Pengxiang g CHN 2622 2.0 2462 6. Zhao Jun g CHN 2533 1.5 2394 China Men 16.0 Women 1 Leconte, Maria wg FRA 2304 3.5 2524 2 Choisy, Mathilde wf FRA 2145 1.0 2194 3 Guichard, Pauline FRA 2227 1.0 2194 France Women 5.5 1 Hou Yifan wf CHN 2488 5.0 2498 2 Zhao Xue wg CHN 2456 4.0 2350 3 Shen Yang CHN 2459 3.5 2282 China Women 12.5 Total: China 28.5 France 25.5 Coverage at: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/ and http://www.europe-echecs.com/ |
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| Rubinstein
Memorial The Rubinstein Memorial took place in Polanica Zdroj 20th-28th August 2006. The category XIII event saw Robert Kempinski and Bartosz Socko (share first on tie-break above) from Yuriy Kryvoruchko after all finished on 6/9. One of the pre-event favourites Suat Atalik came last. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Kempinski, Robert g POL 2567 6.0; 1. Socko, Bartosz g POL 2621 6.0; 3. Kryvoruchko, Yuriy m UKR 2536 6.0; 4. Laznicka, Viktor g CZE 2602 5.0; 5. Heberla, Bartlomiej m POL 2551 4.5; 6. Zubarev, Alexander1 g UKR 2518 4.0; 7. Belov, Vladimir g RUS 2598 3.5; 8. Czarnota, Pawel m POL 2547 3.5; 9. Bobras, Piotr g POL 2535 3.5; 10. Atalik, Suat g TUR 2619 3.0; Official site: http://www.rubinstein.64pola.pl/ |
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| French
Championships The 81st French Championships took place in Besançon 14th-26th August 2006.Vladislav Tkachiev defeated Laurent Fressinet in a rapid play off for the title. Games in PGN - Women's Games in PGN - Playoff games in PGN Playoffs (15 min + 10 secs/pm) Tkachiev 1.5 - Fressinet 0.5 - Gm1 Fressinet, Laurent - Tkachiev, Vladislav 1/2 52 C90 Ruy Lopez Gm2 Tkachiev, Vladislav - Fressinet, Laurent 1-0 71 D19 Slav Defence Round 11 Standings: 1. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2645 7.5; 2. Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2626 7.5; 3. Fontaine, Robert g FRA 2518 7.0; 4. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2577 6.0; 5. Lautier, Joel g FRA 2675 6.0; 6. Dorfman, Josif D g FRA 2586 5.5; 7. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2599 5.5; 8. Sokolov, Andrei1 g FRA 2589 5.0; 9. Nataf, Igor-Alexandre g FRA 2592 4.5; 10. Vaisser, Anatoly g FRA 2568 4.5; 11. Colin, Vincent m FRA 2415 4.0; 12. Libiszewski, Fabien m FRA 2482 3.0; Coverage: http://www.echecs.asso.fr and http://www.echecs2006-besancon.com/ |
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Chess Classic
Mainz Mainz GRENKELEASING Rapid World Championship. Anand against Radjabov. Photo © http://www.chesstigers.de The Chess Classic Mainz took place 15th-20th August 2006. Viswanathan Anand beat Teimour Radjabov 5-3 in the annual rapid match (17th-20th 8 game match). Peter Svidler was defeated by Levon Aronian in chess960. Games in PGN Gm1 Anand, Viswanathan - Radjabov, Teimour 1/2 34 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov Gm2 Radjabov, Teimour - Anand, Viswanathan 1-0 46 D45 Anti-Meran Variations Gm3 Radjabov, Teimour - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 36 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit Gm4 Anand, Viswanathan - Radjabov, Teimour 1/2 50 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov Gm5 Anand, Viswanathan - Radjabov, Teimour 0-1 46 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov Gm6 Radjabov, Teimour - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 46 D11 Slav Defence Gm7 Radjabov, Teimour - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 58 D43 Anti-Meran Gambit Gm8 Anand, Viswanathan - Radjabov, Teimour 1-0 57 B30 Sicilian Rossolimo Official site: http://www.chesstigers.de |
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| Montreal Empresa International The Montreal Empresa International A and B tournaments took place August 8th-16th, 2006. Pavel Eljanov of the Ukraine won the A event with 6.5/9 half a point clear of Poland's Kamil Miton. Alexander Huzman of Israel won the B event. A tournament in PGN - B tournament in PGN Tournament A Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2651 6.5; 2. Miton, Kamil g POL 2638 6.0; 3. Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2657 5.5; 4. Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2607 5.0; 5. Gulko, Boris F g USA 2570 4.5; 6. Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2668 4.0; 7. Korneev, Oleg g RUS 2638 3.5; 8. Mikhalevski, Victor g ISR 2571 3.5; 9. Charbonneau, Pascal g CAN 2501 3.5; 10. Ibragimov, Ildar g USA 2624 3.0; Tournament B Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Huzman, Alexander g ISR 2585 6.5; 2. Krnan, Tomas m CAN 2399 6.0; 3. Arencibia, Walter g CUB 2539 5.5; 4. Likavsky, Tomas g SVK 2498 5.0; 5. Mitkov, Nikola g MKD 2563 4.5; 6. Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas m CAN 2430 4.5; 7. Krush, Irina m USA 2436 4.5; 8. Barbeau, Sylvain f CAN 2398 3.5; 9. Lawson, Eric m CAN 2393 3.5; 10. Noritsyn, Nikolay CAN 2354 1.5; Official site: http://monroi.com/tournamentgate/MontrealInternational/index.html |
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| 16th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival The 16th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival took place 12th-21st August 2006. Vugar Gashimov edged out Ashot Anastasian on tie-break, both finished on 6.5/9. Games in PGN Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1 Gashimov Vugar GM AZE 2644 6,5 2 Anastasian Ashot GM ARM 2566 6,5 3 Potkin Vladimir GM RUS 2556 6,0 4 Miroshnichenko Evgenij GM UKR 2616 6,0 5 Kengis Edvins GM LAT 2539 6,0 6 Grigoriants Sergey GM RUS 2579 6,0 7 Goloshchapov Alexander GM UKR 2558 6,0 8 Azarov Sergei GM BLR 2579 6,0 9 GhaemMaghami Ehsan GM IRI 2594 6,0 10 Neverov Valeriy GM UKR 2556 6,0 11 Mamedov Rauf GM AZE 2561 5,5 12 Ibrahimov Rasul GM AZE 2528 5,5 13 Fedorov Alexei GM BLR 2617 5,5 14 Abbasov Farid IM AZE 2443 5,5 15 Sturua Zurab GM GEO 2509 5,5 16 Rausis Igors GM BAN 2510 5,5 17 Allahverdiev Anar IM AZE 2435 5,5 18 Amin Bassem IM EGY 2453 5,5 19 Ushenina Anna WGM UKR 2410 5,5 20 Alavi Sayed Javad FM IRI 2314 5,5 64 players Official site: http://www.abudhabichess.com/ |
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| Acropolis Tournament The 21st "Acropolis" tournament in Athens took place 13th-21st August 2006. Tamaz Gelashvili had the best tie-break of Fernando Peralta and Levan Aroshidze all of whom scored 7/9. Salome Melia won the women's event. Game in PGN - Women's Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Gelashvili, Tamaz g GEO 2575 7 2. Peralta, Fernando g ARG 2546 7 3. Aroshidze, Levan g GEO 2490 7 4. Georgiev, Vladimir g MKD 2518 6½ 5. Romanishin, Oleg M g UKR 2555 6½ 6. Svetushkin, Dmitry g MDA 2569 6 7. Mastrovasilis, Athanasios g GRE 2521 6 8. Zhu Chen g QAT 2476 6 9. Kotanjian, Tigran g ARM 2515 6 10. Solak, Dragan g SCG 2564 6 11. Rozentalis, Eduardas g LTU 2605 6 12. Georgiadis, Ioannis GRE 2312 5½ 13. Nikolaidis, Ioannis g GRE 2538 5½ 14. Grivas, Efstratios g GRE 2496 5½ 15. Managadze, Nikoloz m GEO 2444 5½ 16. Sriram, Jha m IND 2408 5½ 17. Al-Modiahki, Mohamad g QAT 2564 5½ 18. Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2520 5½ 19. Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios g GRE 2567 5½ 20. Hakki, Imad m SYR 2447 5½ 68 players Official site: http://www.chessfed.gr/Acropolis2006/ |
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| British Championship Smith & Williamson British Chess Championships 2006 (93rd Championships of The British Isles) organised by the English Chess Federation took place Sunday 6th August - Saturday 19th August at the University of Wales in Swansea. Jonathan Rowson won the title for the third year running as a result of a fine win against Jonathan Parker with black in the final round of the event. Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant finished half a point behind, alone in second place with 8/11 half a point clear of Daniel Gormally, Mark Hebden, Gawain Jones and Jonathan Parker. Games in PGN Leading Final Round 11 Standings: 1 Rowson, Jonathan W....... SCO g 2579 8½ 2 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan. GEO m 2427 8 3 Gormally, Daniel......... ENG g 2513 7½ 4 Hebden, Mark............. ENG g 2532 7½ 5 Jones, Gawain C.......... ENG m 2416 7½ 6 Parker, Jonathan F....... ENG g 2509 7½ 7 Davies, Nigel R.......... ENG g 2512 7 8 Haslinger, Stewart G..... ENG m 2423 7 9 Lalic, Bogdan............ CRO g 2488 7 10 Palliser, Richard JD..... ENG m 2413 7 11 Pert, Nicholas........... ENG g 2503 7 12 Pert, Richard............ ENG m 2445 7 13 Ward, Chris G............ ENG g 2461 7 62 players Official site: http://www.bcf.org.uk/events/bc2006/index.html - Live coverage: http://www.bcfservices.org.uk/live2006/ |
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| China-Russia Chess Summit The China - Russia Chess Summit saw two double round robin Scheveningen format events, one for men and one for women, taking place in Ergun, Mongolia 10th-20th August 2006. Russia won the men's event 26.5-23.5 but China got their revenge in the women's section winning 28-22 which meant that in the combined standings China beat Russia 51.5-48.5. Men's Games in PGN - Women's Games in PGN |
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| Boris Gelfand vs David Navara Boris Gelfand played David Navara in a four game match in Prague 9th-12th August for the Cez Chess Trophy 2006. The match was drawn 2-2. Jana Jackova defeated Vlastimil Hort 2.5-1.5. Gefand - Navara in PGN - Hort - Jackova in PGN Gm1 Navara, David - Gelfand, Boris 0-1 57 E17 Queens Indian Gm2 Gelfand, Boris - Navara, David 0-1 84 A32 English Symmetrical Gm3 Navara, David - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 104 E17 Queens Indian Gm4 Gelfand, Boris - Navara, David 1/2 32 E33 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2 Gm1 Jackova, Jana - Hort, Vlastimil 1-0 61 C16 French Winawer Gm2 Hort, Vlastimil - Jackova, Jana 0-1 53 A29 English Four Knights Gm3 Jackova, Jana - Hort, Vlastimil 1/2 30 B06 Modern Defence Gm4 Hort, Vlastimil - Jackova, Jana 1-0 52 C28 Vienna Game Info: http://www.praguechess.cz/ and live coverage will be at: http://www.promopro.cz/ |
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39th Biel International Festival Alexander Morozevich wins again in Biel. Photo © http://www.bielchessfestival.ch - read an interview with the winner. The 39th Biel International Festival took place 22nd July - 4th August 2006. There were two closed tournaments, one for men, one for ladies. Biel Chess Festival. Alexander Morozevich took a quick draw with black against Teimour Radjabov in the final round to finish on 7.5/10 a point and a half clear of Radjabov. Magnus Carlsen caught Radjabov by beating Lazaro Bruzon in the final round. The winner Morozevich lost both his games against Magnus Carlsen but until he drew the final round game quickly against Radjabov he had won all his other games. Pia Cramling won the women's event also by a point and a half. Bartosz Socko won the BrainStore Masters MTO Open ahead of Leonid Kritz, Laurent Fressinet and Boris Avrukh on tie-break, all scored 8/11. Games in PGN Men - Games in PGN Women - Biel MTO Open Round 10 (August 3, 2006) Carlsen, Magnus - Bruzon, Lazaro 1-0 49 C77 Ruy Lopez Anderssen Radjabov, Teimour - Morozevich, Alexander 1/2 10 D15 Slav Defence Pelletier, Yannick - Volokitin, Andrei 1-0 30 E59 Nimzo Indian Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2731 7.5; 2. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2675 6.0; 3. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2728 6.0; 4. Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2662 4.0; 5. Pelletier, Yannick g SUI 2583 4.0; 6. Bruzon, Lazaro g CUB 2667 2.5; Final Round 10 Women's Standings: 1. Cramling, Pia g SWE 2521 7.0; 2. Socko, Monika m POL 2464 5.5; 3. Dembo, Yelena m GRE 2465 5.0; 4. Muzychuk, Anna wg SLO 2456 4.5; 5. Skripchenko, Almira m FRA 2421 4.0; 6. Atalik, Ekaterina wg TUR 2377 4.0; Official site: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch - final interview with the winner Morozevich: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch/interview2006.php |
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| 21st "Ciudad de Villarrobledo" The 21st "Ciudad de Villarrobledo" international chess tournament took place 5th-6th August 2006. Viswanathan Anand took first place on tie-break from Ivan Sokolov, Ruslan Ponomariov and Oleg Korneev, all scored 7.5/9. Some games were broadcast live, not all are complete (file below). Games in PGN Official site: http://www.ajedrezenvillarrobledo.com/ |
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Hogeschool
Zeeland Chess Tournament Jan Timman lecture at the start of the event. Photo © http://www.hztoernooi.nl/index_en.html The Hogeschool Zeeland Chess Tournament took place in Vlissingen 5th-12th August 2006. Michal Krasenkow won the event with 8/9 half a point clear of Vyacheslav Ikonnikov, Erwin L'Ami and Friso Nijboer half a point behind. Games in PGN Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Krasenkow, Michal 8.0 2. Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav 7.5 L'Ami, Erwin 7.5 Nijboer, Friso 7.5 5. Barua, Dibyendu 7.0 Li, Shilong 7.0 Van der Wiel, John 7.0 Stellwagen, Daniel 7.0 Landa, Konstantin 7.0 Leenhouts, Koen 7.0 Garbisu, Unai 7.0 12. Negi, Parimarjan 6.5 Gurevich, Mikhail 6.5 Erenburg, Sergey 6.5 Iordachescu, Viorel 6.5 Henrichs, Thomas 6.5 Smeets, Jan 6.5 Ziska, Helgi Dam 6.5 Pedersen, Steffen 6.5 Bezemer, Arno 6.5 Saptarshi, Roy 6.5 Zambrana, Oswaldo 6.5 250 players Official site: http://www.hztoernooi.nl/index_en.html |
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Dortmund 2006 Vladimir Kramnik wins on Sonneborn-Berger tie-break. Photo © http://www.chessgate.de/ The Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess Meeting took place 29th July - 6th August 2006. Vladimir Kramnik caught Peter Svidler in the final round, both finished on 4.5/7 with Kramnik taking first on Sonneborn-Berger tie-break. Kramnik defeated Leko in the final round, his second win in a row. World number 3 Levon Aronian had a terrible event finishing with 2/7 after losing to Boris Gelfand in the final round. Games in PGN Malcolm Pein's Biel and Dortmund Commentary Dortmund. Round 3 (Leko - Adams) Dortmund. Round 2 (B Jobava - P Svidler) Dortmund. Round 1 Biel GM. Round 7 (A Morozevich - M Carlsen) Biel GM. Round 2 (M Carlsen - A Morozevich) Biel GM. Round 1 (Y Pelletier – M Carlsen and T Radjabov – A Volokitin) Round 7 (August 6, 2006) Kramnik, Vladimir - Leko, Peter 1-0 48 E32 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2 Svidler, Peter - Adams, Michael 1/2 17 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed Gelfand, Boris - Aronian, Levon 1-0 33 E15 Queens Indian Naiditsch, Arkadij - Jobava, Baadur 1-0 40 B19 Caro Kann Final Round 7 Standings: 1. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2743 4.5; 2. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2742 4.5; 3. Adams, Michael g ENG 2732 4.0; 4. Leko, Peter g HUN 2738 4.0; 5. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2729 4.0; 6. Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2664 3.5; 7. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2761 2.0; 8. Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2651 1.5; Official site: http://www.chessgate.de/ possibly more accurately: http://dortmund.chessgate.de/ |
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| 4th Marx György
Memorial The 4th Marx György Memorial took place 28th July - 7th August 2006. Pentala Harikrishna won the event with 6.5/10 a point clear of Zahar Efimenko. Games in PGN Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Harikrishna, P g IND 2682 6.5; 2. Efimenko, Zahar g UKR 2632 5.5; 3. Wang Yue g CHN 2626 5.0; 4. Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2672 5.0; 5. Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2601 4.5; 6. Acs, Peter g HUN 2520 3.5; Official site: http://ase.hu/marxgy and live games: http://www.ase.hu/marxgy/2006/schedule.htm |
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| FIDE Elo List July
2006 Just one rating list after taking top spot in the world after Kasparov's retirement meant that his rating became inactive Veselin Topalov has now exceeded Kasparov's final rating of 2812. He added 9 points after winning the MTel Masters in Sofia. Viswanathan Anand lost a few rating points at that event and a lot at the Olympiad where he managed only 50%. The rise of Levon Aronian the youngest player in the top 10 and the only player born in the 1980s continues as he gained 21 points in the period with his performances inthe Russian Team Championships and the Olympiad. Vladimir Kramnik's return at the Olympiad gained him 14 points and projects him back to number four in the world. Michael Adams returns to the top 10 gaining 12 points. Poor recent form has lost Ruslan Ponomariov 17 points and he drops from 6 to 13. Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov gained 23 points to rise to 12 in the world. David Navarra rises even further from 50 to 14 in the world after gaining a massive 61 points. Gata Kamsky's Olympiad and MTel performances means that he gains 26 points. Sergey Karjakin rises from 45 to 27 in the world, and his rival Magnus Carlsen from 63 to 34, both were born in 1990, after them the youngest players in the top 100 were born in 1987. Gabriel Sargissian is the top re-entry into the list rising from 2612 to 2667. Another surprise was FM Vladimir Afromeev's entry into the list with a rating of 2620, initially his April rating was given as 2558 but this must have been corrected at some point to 2612, he gained a further 8 points from a tournament in Tula to become the only non-GM in the list, especially surprising as he was born in 1954. 2619 is the mark to get into the top 100. It is surely well beyond the time to change the mark at which a GM norm is set (2600) which is a performance which clearly wouldn't get you anywhere near the top 100 (when it was originally set it was a performance of Candidates class which is now probably over 2700). FIDE July 2006 Rating List: Top 100 Source: http://www.fide.com. The full list is available for download there. |
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| Liepajas Rokade The Liepajas Rokade rapid tournament took place in Liepaja, Latvia August 3th-6th 2006. Kiril Georgiev won the main GM rapid event half a point clear of Zurab Azmaiparashvili. Games in PGN Final Standings: 1. Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2685 9.0; 2. Azmaiparashvili, Zurab g GEO 2669 8.5; 3. Kulaots, Kaido g EST 2550 8.0; 4. Dlugy, Maxim g USA 2518 7.5; 5. Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2622 7.0; 6. Malisauskas, Vidmantas g LTU 2510 7.0; 7. Kanep, Meelis g EST 2510 6.5; 8. Berzinsh, Roland m LAT 2445 6.5; 9. Miezis, Normunds g LAT 2527 6.0; 10. Ehlvest, Jaan g USA 2593 6.0; 11. Luckans, Arnolds f LAT 2469 5.0; 12. Neiksans, Arturs m LAT 2454 5.0; 13. Rausis, Igors g BAN 2510 5.0; 14. Antoms, Guntars m LAT 2414 4.0; Official sites: http://www.maleliit.ee/ and http://www.latchess.lv/lv/liepaja/2006/ |
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North Urals Cup The North Urals Cup women's supertournament took place July 22nd - August 1st 2006 in Krasnoturyinsk, Russia. Kateryna Lahno won the event with 7/9 a point clear of Zhu Chen. Games in PGN Round 9 (July 1, 2006) Lahno, Kateryna - Stefanova, Antoaneta 1/2 11 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Kosintseva, Nadezhda - Mkrtchian, Lilit 1-0 61 D34 Tarrasch Defence, Main Line Chiburdanidze, Maia - Zhu Chen 1/2 13 D17 Slav Defence Hou Yifan - Cmilyte, Viktorija 1/2 59 B31 Sicilian Rossolimo Kosintseva, Tatiana - Matveeva, Svetlana 1-0 37 C11 French Defence Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Lahno, Kateryna m UKR 2449 7.0; 2. Zhu Chen g QAT 2476 6.0; 3. Kosintseva, Nadezhda m RUS 2472 5.5; 4. Mkrtchian, Lilit m ARM 2459 5.0; 5. Chiburdanidze, Maia g GEO 2504 5.0; 6. Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2520 5.0; 7. Cmilyte, Viktorija m LTU 2476 4.0; 8. Hou Yifan wf CHN 2488 3.0; 9. Kosintseva, Tatiana m RUS 2479 2.5; 10. Matveeva, Svetlana m RUS 2454 2.0; Official site: http://www.northuralscup.ru/2006/tournament.shtml |
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| Dutch Open in Dieren The Dutch Open took place in Dieren 24th July - 3rd August 2006. Friso Nijboer took clear first with 7.5/9 half a point clear of Alon Greenfeld. Official site: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/dieren2006/index-e.htm - (Links to live games in Dutch at: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/dieren2006/) |
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Amsterdam Chess
Tournament Round 7 Frans Cuijpers (2510, NED) - Sergey Tiviakov (2668, NED) 0-1. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos. See http://www.chessvista.com/ The 3rd Amsterdam Chess Tournament took place 15th-23rd July 2006. Sergey Tiviakov, Sergey Erenburg and Friso Nijboer shared first on 7/9. Games in PGN Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1 Tiviakov,Sergey 2668 7 1 Erenburg,Sergey 2585 7 1 Nijboer,Friso 2598 7 4 Halkias,Stelios 2551 6.5 4 Ftacnik,Lubomir 2579 6.5 4 Vazquez Igarza,Renier 2517 6.5 7 Ami,Erwin l' 2586 6 7 Timman,Jan 2594 6 7 Al-Modiahki,Mohammed 2564 6 7 Parker,Jonathan 2509 6 7 Cuijpers,Frans Andr 2510 6 7 Spoelman,Wouter j 2461 6 13 Siebrecht,Sebastian 2414 5.5 13 Ernst,Sipke 2504 5.5 13 Hunt,Adam 2457 5.5 13 Stellwagen,Daniel 2575 5.5 13 Michiels,Bart 2455 5.5 13 Tukmakov,Vladimir B 2560 5.5 13 Ferguson,Mark 2389 5.5 13 Li,Shilong 2540 5.5 13 Beek,Lucien van 2345 5.5 22 Weide,Karel van der 2443 5 22 Ansell,Simon 2391 5 22 Oudeweetering,Arthur vd 2345 5 22 Delft,Merijn van 2378 5 22 Scha'fer,Markus 2354 5 22 Gullaksen,Eirik 2387 5 22 Holzke,Frank 2472 5 22 Elburg,Freddie van der 2348 5 22 Cox,John 2418 5 22 Hendriks,Willy 2426 5 22 Peelen,Piet 2352 5 22 Boer,Sybolt de 2353 5 22 Szymczak,Zbigniew 2288 5 22 Wunnink,Michael 2235 5 83 players Official site: http://www.amsterdamchesstournament.nl/ Photo report: http://www.chessvista.com/ Weblog with some videos (by mobile phone). The latest article has a video with IM Sebastian Siebrecht explaining his tactical draw against Jan Timman of yesterday on a demo board. http://www.doggers-schaak.nl |
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| Canadian
Open The Canadian Open took place July 15th-23rd 2006 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Walter Arencibia and Abhijit Kunte took first place with 7/9. Games in PGN (to round 9 official final round 9 standings not yet available) Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1 GM Walter Arencibia 2539 CUB 7.0 2 GM Abhijit Kunte 2535 IND 7.0 3 GM Evgeny Bareev 2683 RUS 6.5 4 GM Alexander Moiseenko 2649 UKR 6.5 5 IM Fidel Corrales 2492 CUB 6.5 6 IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon 2430 CAN 6.5 7 IM Tomas Krnan 2399 CAN 6.5 8 GM Hans Joachim Hecht 2394 GER 6.5 9 IM Leonid Gerzhoy 2386 ISR 6.5 10 GM Alexander Huzman 2585 ISR 6.0 11 IM Jesse Kraai 2473 USA 6.0 12 Nikolay Noritsyn 2354 CAN 6.0 13 IM Rahul Shetty 2304 IND 6.0 14 FM Goran Mikanovic 2284 CAN 6.0 15 Jonathan Tayar 2214 CAN 6.0 16 GM Mark Bluvshtein 2541 CAN 5.5 17 FM John Yoos 2373 CAN 5.5 18 IM Chandrashekhar Gokhale 2371 IND 5.5 19 FM Frank Pushkedra 2279 CAN 5.5 20 Michael Barron 2214 CAN 5.5 21 Justin Gulati 2132 CAN 5.5 22 Michael Buscar 2127 CAN 5.5 23 WFM Dina Kagramanov 2076 CAN 5.5 24 John Hall 2058 CAN 5.5 25 IM Eric Lawson 2393 CAN 5.0 26 WGM Swati Ghate 2379 IND 5.0 27 Shiyam Thavandiran 2264 CAN 5.0 28 Vicente Lee Jr. 2257 CAN 5.0 29 Sebastian Predescu 2222 CAN 5.0 30 David Wang 2206 CAN 5.0 31 Sasa Kulic 2192 CAN 5.0 32 Lucas Davies 2178 CAN 5.0 33 David [yu] Peng 2170 CAN 5.0 34 Vladimir Semyonov 2089 CAN 5.0 35 Nikita Kraiouchkine 2019 CAN 5.0 89 players Official site: http://www.chessfest.ca/can_open.htm |
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| Taiyuan
Scheveningen The Taiyuan double round Scheveningen tournament took place July 10th-22nd 2006, with one rest day on 16th. The total prize fund was 18000USD which was distributed according to the individual scores. Game started at 13:00 Beijing Time. The Chinese team won 36.5-35.5 against a foreign side. Games in PGN Official site: http://ccl.sports.cn Live Broadcast: http://sports.sina.com.cn/chess/live_gx/index.html. GM Scheveningen 2006
1 Ni Hua 2607 7.0/12
2 Bu Xiangzhi 2664 7.0/12
3 Zhang Pengxiang 2622 7.0/12
4 Wang Yue 2626 6.5/12
5 Wang Hao 2610 6.0/12
6 Zhang Zhong 2639 3.0/12
36.5
1 Jobava,Ba 2651 8.0/12
2 Timofeev,Arty 2657 7.0/12
3 Jakovenko,D 2667 6.0/12
4 Asrian,K 2635 6.0/12
5 Berkes,F 2601 4.5/12
6 Vescovi,G 2619 4.0/12
35.5
Team A Average Rating 2638
Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2667 1983 M
Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2657 1985 M
Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2651 1983 M
Asrian, Karen g ARM 2635 1980 M
Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2619 1978 M
Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2601 1985 M
Team B Average Rating 2628
Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2664 1985 M
Zhang, Zhong g CHN 2639 1978 M
Wang, Yue g CHN 2626 1987 M
Zhang, Pengxiang g CHN 2622 1980 M
Wang, Hao g CHN 2610 1989 M
Ni, Hua g CHN 2607 1983 M
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| 10th Petr Izmailov
Memorial The 10th Petr Izmailov Memorial rapid tournament took place in Tomsk, Russia 11th-16th July 2006. Sergey Karjakin won the event with a round to spare. Games in PGN [Rounds 1,3 and 4 unavailable, I typed the rest of the games in as they were played. Its to be hoped the remaining games turn up.. Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2679 7.0; 2. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2667 5.5; 3. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2672 5.0; 4. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2731 4.5; 5. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2721 4.0; 6. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2645 4.0; Official site: http://www.tomsk-chess.ru/ |
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Aleksander Wojtkiewicz 1963-2006 Aleksander Wojtkiewicz 1963-2006. Photo © John Henderson. Aleksander Wojtkiewicz was born 15th January 1963 in Riga, Latvia died around 6pm Friday 14th July 2006 in the USA. There is shock news from the US (http://beta.uschess.org/frontend/news_7_66.php) that one of the world most active GMs Aleksander Wojtkiewicz has died from a perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. the age of 43. Born in Latvia in 1963 his early games he appeared under the name Vojtkevic. According to an article in the Urbanite Baltamore Magazine (http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/juneMagazine/encounter.htm) "He became a chess master at 15, but his rise to grandmaster was delayed by a year spent in a Russian gulag. In the late ’80s, as a member of a human rights organization in Latvia, he refused to join the Soviet Army." He moved to Poland around 1988 (he doesn't seem to have played between 1982 and 1988 probably coinciding with his political problems with the Soviet authorities) and later spent increasing amounts of time in the US possibly after running foul of the Polish Chess Federation (http://www.chessclub.org/FischerRandom.html) and in 2002 he switched nationalities in the rating list. A GM since 1991 he was most recently rated 2562 in July. In spite of obvious ill health he had just tied for first in the World Open. |
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| Scottish Championship The Scottish Championship took place in Troon 8th-16th July 2006. Jonathan Grant won the event with 6.5/9 a point and a half clear of the field. Games in PGN Final Standings: 1. Grant, Jonathan SCO 2251 6.5; 2. Muir, Andrew J m SCO 2347 5.0; 3. Grant, Alan SCO 2193 5.0; 4. Jacob, Gunnar f GER 2316 4.5; 5. Spencer, Edwin SCO 2214 4.0; 6. Stevenson, James SCO 2089 3.5; 7. Brown, Steven A SCO 2087 3.0; 8. Doyle,Jim SCO 0 2.5; 9. Marks, Ian A SCO 1944 2.0; * Ian Nesbit withdrew after one round. Official site: http://www.chessscotland.com/ |
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| Foros
Tournament The Aerosvit GM tournament took place in Foros/Yalta, 16th-29th June 2006. Sergei Rublevsky wins the event with 7.5/11 half a point clear of Vassily Ivanchuk. Games in PGN Round 11. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 10. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 8. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 6. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 5. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 4. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 3. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 1. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 11 (June 28, 2006) Ivanchuk, Vassily - Shirov, Alexei 1/2 80 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar - Bologan, Viktor 1/2 15 E63 King's Indian 6...Nc6 Grischuk, Alexander - Rublevsky, Sergei 1/2 16 B46 Sicilian Paulsen Areshchenko, Alexander - Harikrishna, P 1/2 45 C55 Two Knights Defence Ponomariov, Ruslan - Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1/2 54 B83 Sicilian Scheveningen Karjakin, Sergey - Volokitin, Andrei 1-0 72 C92 Ruy Lopez Chigorin Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2687 7.5; 2. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2731 7.0; 3. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2666 6.5; 4. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2699 6.0; 5. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2699 6.0; 6. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2719 6.0; 7. Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2660 5.0; 8. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2695 5.0; 9. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2738 4.5; 10. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2661 4.5; 11. Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2660 4.0; 12. Harikrishna, P g IND 2680 4.0; Official site: http://www.aerosvit2006.ukrchess.org.ua/index_e.htm |
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| World Open The 34th Annual World Open took place in Philadelphia June 28th-July 4th 2006. Gata Kamsky wins a blitz playoff over Vadim Milov to win the event after 9 tie on 7/9. Games in PGN Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1 GM Kamsky, Gata 2736 7.0 2 GM Ibragimov, Ildar 2692 7.0 3 GM Ehlvest, Jaan 2685 7.0 4 GM Milov, Vadim 2682 7.0 5 GM Yudasin, Leonid G 2676 7.0 6 GM Ivanov, Alexander 2660 7.0 7 GM Kacheishvili, Giorgi 2643 7.0 8 GM Wojtkiewicz, Aleks 2615 7.0 9 GM Benjamin, Joel 2605 7.0 10 GM Chanda, Sandipan 2722 6.5 11 GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2705 6.5 12 GM Yusupov, Artur 2701 6.5 13 GM Nakamura, Hikaru 2697 6.5 14 GM Izoria, Zviad 2679 6.5 15 GM Shabalov, Alexander 2671 6.5 16 GM Shulman, Yury 2660 6.5 17 GM Stocek, Jiri 2651 6.5 18 GM Hansen, Lars B 2650 6.5 19 GM Ganguly, Surya 2628 6.5 20 GM Fressinet, Laurent 2683 6.0 21 GM Stripunsky, Alex 2659 6.0 22 GM Akobian, Varuzhan 2649 6.0 23 IM Finegold, Benjamin 2648 6.0 24 GM Vescovi, Giovanni P 2631 6.0 25 GM Sadvakasov, Darmen 2622 6.0 237 players Official site: http://www.worldopen.com/ |
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| Geller Memorial
Rapid The Geller Memorial Rapid took place July 2nd-4th 2006. Joel Lautier won the event with 6.5/9. Games in PGN [Source Chess Today] Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Lautier, Joel g FRA 2682 6.5; 2. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2731 6.0; 3. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2607 5.5; 4. Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2622 5.5; 5. Eingorn, Vereslav S g UKR 2595 5.0; 6. Tukmakov, Vladimir B g UKR 2560 5.0; 7. Drozdovskij, Yuri g UKR 2550 4.0; 8. Golubev, Mikhail g UKR 2484 2.5; 9. Bogdanovich, Stanislav UKR 2190 2.5; 10. Zhukova, Natalia wg UKR 2425 2.5; |
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| Norwegian
Championship The Norwegian Championship took place July 8th-15th 2006 in Moss, 1 hour south east from Oslo. Magnus Carlsen lost and defending champion Simen Agdestein won in the final round which set up a second playoff match in a row between the two players which will happen in the next couple of months. All Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2673 7.0; 2. Agdestein, Simen g NOR 2575 7.0; 3. Ostenstad, Berge g NOR 2480 6.0; 4. Johannessen, Leif Erlend g NOR 2555 5.5; 5. Sahl, Bjarke m DEN 2364 5.5; 6. Lie, Kjetil A g NOR 2536 5.5; 7. Bae, Torstein f NOR 2284 5.0; 8. Djurhuus, Rune g NOR 2462 5.0; 9. Tallaksen, Geir S f NOR 2356 5.0; 10. Hole, Oystein f NOR 2346 4.5; 11. Gabrielsen, Stig f NOR 2288 4.5; 12. Gabrielsen, Trond NOR 2235 4.5; 13. Hammer, Jon Ludvig f NOR 2325 4.5; 14. Hansen, Torbjorn Ringdal f NOR 2319 4.5; 15. Elsness, Frode m NOR 2428 4.0; 16. Lie, Espen f NOR 2357 4.0; 17. Dannevig, Oystein f NOR 2382 4.0; 18. Sagafos, Magne NOR 2331 4.0; 19. Stokke, Kjetil NOR 2303 3.0; 20. Stubberud, Ornulf NOR 2202 3.0; 21. Madsen, Dag f NOR 2290 2.0; 22. Jansson, Joran f NOR 2300 1.0; Official site: http://www.nm2006.sjakknet.no/ |
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| Midnight Sun Chess Challenge The Midnight Sun Chess Challenge took place in Tromsø, Norway June 24th - July 2nd 2006. Sergei Shipov took clear first with 7.5/9 half a point clear of Magnus Carlsen (who he defeated in round 7) and Leif Erlend Johannessen. Games in PGN [small correction to one of the names] Midnight Sun Chess Challenge 2006. Comments by Malcolm Pein Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Shipov, Sergei g RUS 2576 7.5; 2. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2646 7.0; 3. Johannessen, Leif Erlend g NOR 2559 7.0; 4. Johnsen, Gunnar NOR 2215 6.5; 5. Krasenkow, Michal g POL 2650 6.0; 6. Rozentalis, Eduardas g LTU 2596 6.0; 7. Lie, Kjetil A g NOR 2493 6.0; 8. Gullaksen, Eirik m NOR 2380 6.0; 9. Dworakowska, Joanna m POL 2364 6.0; 10. Akesson, Ralf g SWE 2472 6.0; 11. Pettersson, Tobias SWE 2071 6.0; 12. Soraas, Torben NOR 2115 6.0; 62 players Official site: http://www.midnightsunchess.org/english/index.htm |
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| 3rd South Wales International The 3rd South Wales International Chess Tournament took place 8th-13th July 2006. GM Milos Pavlovic won with 7/9. FM Charles Cobb gets his 3rd IM norm and title. Game in PGN Leading Final Standings: 1. Pavlovic, Milos g SCG 2497 7.0/9; 2. Gormally, Daniel g ENG 2554 6.5/9; 3. Barsov, Alexei g UZB 2525 6.5/9; 4. Broomfield, Matthew ENG 2303 6.5/9; 5. Cobb, James f WLS 2365 6.5/9; 6. Jones, Richard S f WLS 2308 6.5/9; 7. Allicock, Rawle Anthony f ENG 2302 6.0/8; 8. Cobb, Charles f ENG 2404 6.0/9; 9. Rudd, Jack ENG 2299 6.0/9; 10. Marusenko, Petr m UKR 2351 6.0/9; 11. Dobrov, Vladimir g RUS 2510 5.5/9; 12. Schmitz, Manuela wf GER 2042 5.5/9; 13. Varley, Peter WLS 2223 5.5/9; 14. James, Angus ENG 2030 5.5/9; 15. Klein, Felix GER 2176 5.5/9; 63 players Official site: http://www.southwaleschess.co.uk/SWI/ |
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| Women's Chess Cup The Women's Chess Cup took place in Dresden July 7th-8th 2006. The event was themed around the FIFA World Cup with the Group stages mirroring the football group stages. Several German players represented countries where they couldn't find players and a couple of teams in groups G and H didn't have players. After the group stages there were quarter finals, semi-finals and a final. Zsuzsa Polgar won the event for the USA beating Elisabeth Pähtz of Germany. Games in PGN Final Polgar, S. (USA) - Pähtz (GER) 1/2, 1-0 3rd-4th Playoff Lujan (ARG) - Sebag (FRA) 1-0, 0-1 Tiebreak 0-1 Semi-Final Lujan (ARG) - Polgar, S. (USA) 1/2, 0-1 Pähtz (GER) - Sebag (FRA) 1/2, 1-0 Quarter Final Lujan (ARG) - Socko (POL) 1-0, 1-0 Usehenina (UKR) - Polgar, S. (USA) 0-1, 0-1 Sebag (FRA) - Chang (BRA) 1-0, 1-0 Kachiani-Gersinska (Ivory Coast) - Pähtz (GER) 0-1, 0-1 1/8th Final Elisabeth Pähtz Germany 1.5:0.5 Pia Cramling Sweden Harriet Hunt England 0.0:2.0 Moniko Socko Poland Ketino Kachiani-G Ivory Coast 1.5:0.5 Caterina Leite Portugal Carolina Lujan Argentina 2.0-0.0 Vera Jürgens Angola Elena Sedina Italy 1.0-1.0 Suzana Chang Brazil Susan Polgar USA 2.0-0.0 Vlasta Macek Croatia Marie Sebag France 1.0-1.0 Amani Matoussi Tunisia Gundula Heinatz Switzerland 0.0-2.0 Anna Ushenina Ukraine Official site: http://www.schachbund.de/. Further details: http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=5567 and http://www.schach.com/nc4/index.htm |
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Dutch Championship Sergei Tiviakov won the Dutch Championship and added 20 rating points. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos. See http://www.chessvista.com/ for his final report. The Dutch Championship took place in Hilversum 16th June - 29th June 2006. Sergei Tiviakov won his final round game to finish on 9/11 a point and a half clear of Ivan Sokolov who was demolished in the final round by Friso Nijboer. Round 11. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 9. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 8. Comments by Malcolm Pein Round 5. Comments by Malcolm Pein Games in PGN Round 11 (June 29, 2006) Nijboer, Friso - Sokolov, Ivan 1-0 21 C80 Ruy Lopez Open Van Wely, Loek - Visser, Yge 1-0 63 E94 King's Indian Classical Van der Wiel, John - Werle, Jan 1/2 26 C91 Ruy Lopez L'Ami, Erwin - Tiviakov, Sergei 0-1 35 E17 Queens Indian Smeets, Jan - Bosch, Jeroen 1/2 19 C45 Scotch Game Timman, Jan H - Stellwagen, Daniel 0-1 36 B42 Sicilian Paulsen Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2669 9.0; 2. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2676 7.5; 3. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2584 7.0; 4. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2655 7.0; 5. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2543 6.5; 6. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2511 5.5; 7. Werle, Jan g NED 2529 5.5; 8. L'Ami, Erwin g NED 2565 5.0; 9. Smeets, Jan g NED 2535 4.5; 10. Timman, Jan H g NED 2616 3.0; 11. Bosch, Jeroen m NED 2465 3.0; 12. Visser, Yge m NED 2480 2.5; Official site: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/nk2006/ - Live games: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/nk2006/livenk.htm |
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XIX Ciudad de
León Game 1 of the final Topalov-Anand. Photo © http://www.elajedrezdelfuturo.com The XIX edition of the Ciudad de León chess tournament took place 9th-11th June 2006 at the Junta de Castilla y León building in León, Spain. The four game matches were rapid play 20 minutes for the whole game, with an increment of 10 seconds after each move. Tie-breaks: blitz games (5 minutes for each player). Knockout event with semi-finals and then a final. The event is no longer "advanced chess" with players aided by computers. Viswanathan Anand won game two of the final against Veselin Topalov. The remaining games were drawn giving a 2.5-1.5 win to the Indian. Games in PGN Friday: Viswanathan Anand 4.5-3.5 Lázaro Bruzón Gm1 Bruzon, Lazaro - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 59 B92 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2 Gm2 Anand, Viswanathan - Bruzon, Lazaro 1/2 42 C92 Ruy Lopez Chigorin Gm3 Bruzon, Lazaro - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 28 A32 English Symmetrical Gm4 Anand, Viswanathan - Bruzon, Lazaro 1/2 20 C69 Ruy Lopez Exchange Gm5 Bruzon, Lazaro - Anand, Viswanathan 1-0 28 D05 Colle System Gm6 Anand, Viswanathan - Bruzon, Lazaro 1-0 54 C96 Ruy Lopez Gm7 Bruzon, Lazaro - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 36 A46 Queen's Pawn Opening Gm8 Anand, Viswanathan - Bruzon, Lazaro 1-0 45 C97 Ruy Lopez Saturday: Veselin Topalov 2.5-1.5 Paco Vallejo Gm1 Topalov, Veselin - Vallejo Pons, Francisco 1-0 51 B19 Caro Kann Gm2 Vallejo Pons, Francisco - Topalov, Veselin 0-1 34 B91 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.g3 Gm3 Topalov, Veselin - Vallejo Pons, Francisco 1/2 48 D27 QGA Gm4 Vallejo Pons, Francisco - Topalov, Veselin 1-0 20 B54 Sicilian Rauzer Sunday: Final Viswanathan Anand 2.5-1.5 Veselin Topalov Gm1 Topalov, Veselin - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 67 D23 QGA Gm2 Anand, Viswanathan - Topalov, Veselin 1-0 50 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin Gm3 Topalov, Veselin - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 36 C84 Ruy Lopez Centre Attack Gm4 Anand, Viswanathan - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 61 B92 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Be2 Live games: http://www.diariodeleon.es/especiales/2006/ajedrez/index.jsp Official sites: http://www.advancedchessleon.com and/or http://www.elajedrezdelfuturo.com |
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Chess Olympiad in
Turin Armenia defeated China 2.5-1.5 in round 10 to extend their lead. Photo © Mark Horton The 37th Chess Olympiad took place 20th May - 4th June 2006. In one of the most open events in years Armenia became deserved champions after a quick 2-2 draw against Hungary in the final round. Israel beat favourites Russia 3-1 putting them out of the medals. China beat the Netherlands 2.5-1.5 to secure Silver. The USA beat Norway 3.5-0.5 which secured them bronze on second tie-break from Israel. In the women's event the Ukraine took gold from Russia and China. FIDE Chess Olympiad, Turin 2006. Results and Standings Round 13 Round 12 Round 11 Round 10 Round 9 Round 8 Round 7 Round 6 Round 5 Round 4 Round 3 Round 2 Round 1 results FIDE Chess Olympiad, Turin 2006. Team Compositions. Games Men's Games in PGN - Women's Games in PGN Men's Games zipped - Women's Games zipped [Hopefully my final version. Please let me know of any errors in names or games.] Turin Olympiad Reports Round 13. - Mark Crowther Round 13. - Malcolm Pein Round 11-12. - Mark Horton and Mark Crowther Round 11. - Malcolm Pein Round 10. - Malcolm Pein Round 10. - Mark Horton and Mark Crowther Round 9. - Malcolm Pein Round 9. - Mark Horton and Mark Crowther Round 8. - Malcolm Pein Round 8. [Sokolov-Aronian (7) annotated]- Malcolm Pein Round 8. - Mark Horton and Mark Crowther Round 7. - Malcolm Pein Round 6. - Malcolm Pein Round 4. - Malcolm Pein Round 3. - Malcolm Pein Round 1. - Malcolm Pein Leading Final Round 13 Results 4th June 2006 Armenia 2 : 2 Hungary China 2½ : 1½ Netherlands Russia 1 : 3 Israel Bulgaria 2½ : 1½ France USA 3½ : ½ Norway Ukraine 3 : 1 Poland Malaysia 0 : 4 Italy A Spain 3 : 1 Denmark Cuba 2 : 2 Georgia Czech Republic 2½ : 1½ Greece Uzbekistan 2½ : 1½ Azerbaijan FYROM 1½ : 2½ Germany Moldova 2½ : 1½ Canada Romania 2 : 2 Latvia Serbia & Montenegro 1½ : 2½ England Slovenia 2½ : 1½ Lithuania Sweden 3 : 1 Estonia Italy B 1½ : 2½ India Bosnia Herzegovina 2 : 2 Belarus Iran 1 : 3 Switzerland Brazil 2½ : 1½ Philippines Vietnam 2½ : 1½ Slovakia Turkey 2½ : 1½ Kazakhstan Croatia 3½ : ½ Mongolia Iceland 2½ : 1½ Qatar Australia 4 : 0 Peru Scotland 2 : 2 Argentina Tajikistan 2½ : 1½ Colombia Portugal 2½ : 1½ Dominican Republic Kyrgystan 0 : 4 Indonesia Official site: http://www.chessolympiad-torino2006.org - [English home page: http://www.chessolympiad-torino2006.org/eng/index.php] Live games: http://www1.chessolympiad-torino2006.org:8080/sungam/start.do Official results page: http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/tnr3410.aspx?art=0&lan=1&flag=30 Chess Photographer Frits Agterdenbos has launched a website of his photos at: http://www.chessvista.com/. He will be at the Turin Olympiad and his photo reports will be available there. Rob Huntington is in Turin and has a new Blog. http://www.allthingshuman.com/ |
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FIDE Election Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
re-elected Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is re-elected. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos http://www.chessvista.com/ Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was re-elected FIDE President. He scored 96 votes as against 54 - for Bessel Kok. Two abstained, one spoilt ballot. The question posed by this election is, will it ever be possible to unseat him? The power of patronage of the sitting FIDE council seems to mean that making progress is hard. That said this is the first election in a long time that went to a vote. If someone can build on the opposition this time then 20 odd votes are required to change side to unseat him. Perhaps something that may be possible. On the other hand at only 44 years of age its possible we may have another 30 years of his rule. Originally he was only supposed to rule for two terms in Kalmykia, it now seems there is no end in sight there either. My overwhelming feeling is that FIDE has been bought and paid for by a maverick who has no place being in charge of anything. FIDE Presidents: Alexander Rueb 1924-1949 Folke Rogard 1949-1970 Max Euwe 1970-1978 Fridrik Olafsson 1978-1982 Florencio Campomanes 1982-1995 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 1995- Malcolm Pein on the FIDE Elections in Turin 2006 Part 1 [Commentary] Malcolm Pein on the FIDE Elections in Turin 2006 Part 2 [On the spot report] |
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| Malcolm Pein's Chess
Podcast Malcolm Pein's Daily Telegraph Chess Podcast. He discusses the exciting game between Levon Aronian and Alexander Grischuk from the Amber Rapid tournament 2006. The game is demonstrated on a board.  If you have problems the broadcast works on Real Player and the itunes client. How to receive London Chess Centre Podcasts |
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| Hockenheim Willingen GM The Hockenheim Willingen GM tournament took place 1st-10th June 2006. Timerate: 40 moves in 90 min, after this 30 min for the rest; additional 30 sec a move starting from the beginning. Rainer Buhrmann won the event with 6/9. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Buhmann, Rainer m GER 2552 6.0; 2. Doettling, Fabian g GER 2550 5.5; 3. Romanishin, Oleg M g UKR 2552 5.5; 4. Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav g RUS 2593 5.0; 5. Gasthofer, Alexander m GER 2415 4.5; 6. Meier, Georg GER 2407 4.5; 7. Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2595 4.5; 8. Spoelman, Wouter m NED 2442 4.0; 9. Braun, Arik m GER 2496 3.0; 10. Meinhardt, Maximilian f GER 2378 2.5; Official site: http://www.schach.com/hockenheim/ |
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| Mtel Masters The Mtel Masters takes place in Sofia 9th (opening ceremony) - 21st (closing) May 2006. Topalov won five of his last six games to take the event by half a point from Gata Kamsky. Viswanathan Anand was a further half point behind. Mtel Masters Commentary Malcolm Pein Annotates the Mtel Masters - PGN File Round 10 - Mark Crowther - Round 10 - Malcolm Pein Round 9 - Mark Crowther - Round 9 - Malcolm Pein Round 8 - Mark Crowther - Rounds 7-8 - Malcolm Pein Round 7 - Mark Crowther Round 6 - Mark Crowther - Round 6 - Malcolm Pein Round 5 - Mark Crowther - Round 5 - Malcolm Pein Round 4 - Mark Crowther - Round 4 - Malcolm Pein Round 3 - Mark Crowther - Round 3 - Malcolm Pein Round 2 - Mark Crowther - Round 2 - Malcolm Pein Round 1 - Mark Crowther - Round 1 - Malcolm Pein Mtel Masters, Sofia 2006. Results, Standings and Pairings Games in PGN- Mtel Masters, Sofia 2006 - Viewer Round 10 (May 21, 2006) Topalov, Veselin - Bacrot, Etienne 1-0 42 D15 Slav Defence Svidler, Peter - Kamsky, Gata 1/2 33 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed Ponomariov, Ruslan - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 53 E12 Queens Indian Petrosian Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2804 6.5; 2. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2671 6.0; 3. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2803 5.5; 4. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2743 5.0; 5. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2708 3.5; 6. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2738 3.5; Official site: http://www.mtelmasters06.com/ |
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| Bosna Sarajevo
2006 Bosna Sarajevo 2006 took place in Sarajevo May 7th-16th 2006. Nisipeanu, Malakhov and Carlsen finish on 5.5/10 with the above being the tie-break order. Games in PGN - Games in PGN - B Group Round 10 (May 16, 2006) Carlsen, Magnus - Predojevic, Borki 1/2 88 C83 Ruy Lopez Open Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Malakhov, Vladimir 1/2 12 B22 Sicilian Alapin Sasikiran, Krishnan - Naiditsch, Arkadij 1/2 44 D27 QGA Final Round 10 Standings: 1. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2695 5.5; 2. Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2691 5.5; 3. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2646 5.5; 4. Predojevic, Borki g BIH 2566 5.0; 5. Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2692 4.5; 6. Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2664 4.0; Official site: http://www.skbosna.ba |
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| Karpov vs Spassky Rapid
Match Boris Spassky defeated Anatoly Karpov in the two game "Match des Légendes" on May 26th 2006 in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica. The players haven't played much in recent years, although they did draw their two games at the Unzicker 80 event in Mainz in 2005 (prior to that their last meeting seems to have been 1988 in the GMA World Cup). The time rate was 15 mins + 3 secs in front of 300 children. Much like Karpov's win against Kasparov in New York in 2002 this is I believe Spassky's first match win against Karpov. Very much after the Lord Mayor's show but still a match win. Indeed Spassky seems to have only won two games previously against Karpov, the first game of their 1974 Candidates semi-final and the second game of their 1982 TV match in Hamburg. Karpov won both matches in the end. Games in PGN Gm1 Karpov, Anatoly - Spassky, Boris V 1/2 62 E11 Bogo Indian Defence Gm2 Spassky, Boris V - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 41 B17 Caro Kann Official site: http://www.echecs.asso.fr and http://www.corse-echecs.com/Pages/sommaire.htm |
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| 4th "Young Stars of the World" The 4th "Young Stars of the World" (Vani Somova Memorial) took place 8th-21st May 2006 in Kirishi, Russia. Ivan Popov won the event with 8.5/11 half a point clear of Ian Nepomniachtchi. Games in PGN Official site: http://www.somovs-memorial.ru/ Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Popov, Ivan RUS m RUS 2482 8.5; 2. Nepomniachtchi, Ian m RUS 2506 8.0; 3. Lintchevski, Daniil f RUS 2414 7.0; 4. Caruana, Fabiano f ITA 2421 7.0; 5. Tairova, Elena wm RUS 2342 7.0; 6. Safarli, Eltaj f AZE 2417 5.5; 7. Volodin, Aleksandr EST 2352 5.5; 8. Hovhannisyan, Robert ARM 2260 5.0; 9. Onischuk, Vladimir m UKR 2388 5.0; 10. Sjugirov, Sanan f RUS 2412 4.5; 11. Narayanan, Srinath f IND 2170 3.0; 12. Kulikov, Alexander RUS RUS 2038 0.0; |
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| French Team Championship The final round of the Top 16 French Team Championship takes place on 7th May 2006 in Top 16 in Asnières-sur-Seine. NAO defeated Monaco to secure the title. Monaco needed to win the match to take the title. Games from Rounds 8-9 + NAO - Monaco rd11 [some corrections] Round 11 7th May 2006 Monaco - Nao C.C. 1-2 with 6 draws g ALMASI Zoltan 2657 g ADAMS Michael 2720 1/2 g SOKOLOV Ivan 2676 g SVIDLER Peter 2743 1/2 g KRASENKOW Mic. 2650 g BACROT Etienn. 2708 1/2 g IVANCHUK Vass. 2731 g GRISCHUK Alex. 2719 1/2 g DORFMAN Josif. 2594 g VALLEJO PONS . 2666 1/2 g RENET Olivier 2498 g FRESSINET Lau. 2633 1/2 m SKRIPCHENKO A. 2423 g LAUTIER Joel 2682 0-1 g MARCIANO Davi. 2514 g NATAF Igor-Al. 2558 0-1 g MIRALLES Gill. 2487 m COLLAS Silvia 2392 1-0 Final Standings Poule Haute
Coverage of the decisive match: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/retransmission/ Further details: http://www.europe-echecs.com/ |
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Final Dutch Teams Playing hall for the finals. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos. Photos and report at his new site: http://www.chessvista.com/ The Dutch Team Championship playoffs take place May 13th-14th 2006. U-Boat Worx (Breda) took the title by beating HSG (Hilversum) 6-3. Games in PGN Official site: http://www.esgoo.nl/plof2006/ |
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Sigeman & Co Chess
tournament Timman - Hector Rd6. Photo © Anders Hansen. The Sigeman & Co Chess tournament took place in Malmö 28th April – 6th May 2006. Jan Timman with 7/9 won the event by a point from Tiger Hillarp Persson and Suat Atalik. Games in PGN Round 9 (May 6, 2006) Stellwagen, Daniel - Khenkin, Igor 1/2 26 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin Fedorov, Alexei - Hillarp Persson, Tiger 1/2 19 B80 Sicilian Scheveningen Carlsson, Pontus - Timman, Jan H 1/2 12 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin Cicak, Slavko - Berg, Emanuel 0-1 32 B40 Sicilian Classical Hector, Jonny - Atalik, Suat 0-1 40 C45 Scotch Game Final Round 9 Standings:1. Timman, Jan H g NED 2616 7.0; 2. Hillarp Persson, Tiger g SWE 2524 6.0; 3. Atalik, Suat g TUR 2632 6.0; 4. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2543 5.5; 5. Berg, Emanuel g SWE 2539 5.5; 6. Fedorov, Alexei g BLR 2614 4.5; 7. Carlsson, Pontus m SWE 2433 3.0; 8. Khenkin, Igor g GER 2602 3.0; 9. Cicak, Slavko g SWE 2506 2.5; 10. Hector, Jonny g SWE 2514 2.0; Official site: http://www.sigeman-chess.com/ |
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| Russian Club
Championship The XIII Russian Club Championship and VII Russian Women’s Club Championship took place 19th April - 1st May 2006 in Sochi. 11 rounds. Morozevich, Grischuk, Akopian, Bologan, Volkov, Ivanchuk, Radjabov, Dreev and Ponomariov were amongst the stronger players. Four teams qualify for the European Club Cup. Time control: 100 min. per 40 moves, 50 min. per 20 moves, 10 min + 30 sec. after one move to the rest of the game. Final Standings: 1. "Ural" Sverdlovsk region 17 38 2. TPS Saransk 17 37.5 3. "Tomsk-400" Tomsk 16 38.5 4. "Termosteps" Samara 14 35,5 5. "Ladya" Kazan 12 34 6. "Yuzhyi Ural" Cheliabinsk 12 33 7. "Unilain" Samara 10 31.5 8. "Economist" SGSEU Saratov 8 30.5 9. MCF Moscow 7 32 10. "Lada" Togliatty 7 29.5 11. FINEK Saint-Petersburg 6 29 12. "Merya" Moscow- Ulan-Ude 6 28,5 Premier League Games in PGN from rounds 1-8 + some from rounds 9-11 - Women's Games in PGN - 1st League games in PGN Official site: http://www.chessliga.ru |
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Loek van Wely vs Magnus Carlsen
Match Carlsen beats Van Wely in round 2 to level up the match. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos. The DSB Bank match between Loek van Wely and Magnus Carlsen took place 28th April - 1st May 2006. The four game match (2H/40 + 1H/20 + 15 min/rest + 30 sec./move for the last period) was tied 2-2. There were an additional four blitz (5 mins + 2 seconds a move) tiebreak games played. The venue was the ROC-vestiging aan de Hofstraat in the town of Schagen in the North Holland region of the Netherlands. Carlsen won the blitz match 3.5-0.5. Games in PGN Standard Timerate Games Van Wely, Loek - Carlsen, Magnus 1-0 41 E15 Queens Indian Carlsen, Magnus - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 34 B43 Sicilian Paulsen Van Wely, Loek - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 87 E15 Queens Indian Carlsen, Magnus - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 40 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov Blitz Games Van Wely, Loek - Carlsen, Magnus 0-1 59 A31 English Symmetrical Carlsen, Magnus - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 64 B40 Sicilian Classical Van Wely, Loek - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 67 A17 English Opening Carlsen, Magnus - Van Wely, Loek 1-0 34 B43 Sicilian Paulsen Further info: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/njk2006/dsb.htm and http://www.tussendetorens.nl/ |
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| 4NCL Final Weekend The final three rounds of the 4NCL took place Saturday 29th April 2006 to Bank Holiday Monday 1st May 2006. Wood Green edged out Guildford ADC 1 on game points after finishing level on match points. Both teams won 9 and drew two games including their final round clash. Games from Wood Green vs Guildford final round Live coverage: http://www.bcfservices.org.uk/4ncl/ Official site: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/ |
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| Topalov wins the chess Oscar For the 11th time the Russian chess magazine "64 Chess Review" (the editor-in-chief Alexander Roshal) has organised the traditional competition "Oscar". This prize is handed over to the best chess player of the last year. In the past Garry Kasparov has won the award five times, Viswanathan Anand - for four times, Vladimir Kramnik - once. Unsurprisngly the Oscar for the best performance in 2005 is FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov 361 lists from 68 countries has been considered. Among voted are the journalists writing and acting in mass media, visible chess experts and the grandmasters, publishing the materials on a regular basis. Topalov topped 293 lists of the "best ten" Topalov. Overall he scored 4376 points. Other places: 2. V.Anand (India) - 3495 (31 times he is named by the first), 3. L.Aronyan (Armenia) - 2721 (10), 4. P.Svidler (Russia) - 1881 (1), 5. P.Leko (Hungary) - 1187, 6. A.Morozevich (Russia) - 1025 (4), 7. Garry Kasparov (Russia) - 1001 (12), 8. Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) - 968 (2), 9. R.Ponomarev (Ukraine) - 821, 10. M.Carlsen (Norway) - 433 (2). The bronze figurine of "The Fascinated wanderer" will be handed over to Topalov on May 10th at the opening of the international tournament in Sofia. In ceremony is expected participation of the president of Bulgaria George Pravanov and the president of International chess federation Kirsan Ilyumzhinov which the editor-in-chief "64" will ask to hand over a prize to the winner. http://www.64.ru/?/en/ |
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| 8th Dubai Open The 8th Dubai Open Chess Championship took place 22nd April - 2nd May 2006. Games in PGN Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Fedorchuk, Sergey A g UKR 2576 7.0; 2. Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2612 7.0; 3. Petrosian, Tigran L g ARM 2571 7.0; 4. Sadvakasov, Darmen g KAZ 2619 6.5; 5. Izoria, Zviad g GEO 2647 6.5; 6. Kacheishvili, Giorgi g GEO 2605 6.5; 7. Miroshnichenko, Evgenij g UKR 2608 6.5; 8. Gelashvili, Tamaz g GEO 2576 6.5; 9. Pantsulaia, Levan g GEO 2611 6.5; 10. Gagunashvili, Merab g GEO 2560 6.5; 11. Ramesh, R.B g IND 2507 6.5; 12. Safarli, Eltaj f AZE 2417 6.5; 13. Sturua, Zurab g GEO 2524 6.5; 14. Anastasian, Ashot g ARM 2553 6.5; 15. Kotsur, Pavel g KAZ 2570 6.5; 16. Abbasov, Farid m AZE 2467 6.5; 17. Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan g IRI 2584 6.0; 18. Adly, Ahmed g EGY 2460 6.0; 19. Amanov, Mesgen TKM 2305 6.0; 20. Gupta, Abhijeet m IND 2449 6.0; 21. Satyapragyan, Swayangsu m IND 2403 6.0; 22. Sareen, Vishal m IND 2386 6.0; 23. Neverov, Valeriy g UKR 2572 6.0; 24. Bistric, Faruk g BIH 2430 6.0; 142 players Official site: http://www.dubaichess.com/DxbOp06/index.htm |
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| Wolfgang Unzicker 1925-2006 Wolfgang Unzicker 26th June 1925 - 20th April 2006. The strongest West German Grandmaster before Robert Huebner has died of a heart attack on holiday in Portugal at the age of 80. Unzicker was an amateur player throughout his career being a judge of an administrative court. He became a Grandmaster in 1954. He won the German Championship 7 times and played in 12 Olympiads, on top board in 10 of them. His best results were probably joint 1st with Spassky in the Chigorin Memorial Sochi 1965 and 4th= in the famous 2nd Piatigorsky-Cup behind Spassky, Fischer and Larsen. He never made any serious impact in the world championship only playing two Interzonals finishing 9th in 1952 and 16th in 1956. His top board status in the Olympiad meant he played all the greats of the time and in 1950, he shared the prize for best top-board score (+9 =4 -1) with Miguel Najdorf for his performance on first board for the West German team at the Dubrovnik Chess Olympiad. A quick flick through his games reveals he had at least one victory over Tartakower, Bogoljubov, Gligoric, Keres, Reshevsky, Fischer, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Larsen, Donner, Timman, Ljubojevic, Korchnoi and Tal. He had a solid classical style and had draws against most of the world's best players of his era in addition to the list above such as Petrosian, Euwe, Karpov and Short. Although he seems to have stopped playing major events in 2002 he played for his team club "Tarrasch Munich" almost to the end and the Mainz Chess Classic organised an 80th birthday rapid event where he competed with Karpov, Korchnoi and Spassky in August of 2005 (http://www.chesstigers.de/ccm5_index.php?lang=1&kat=1). Further obituary: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3061 |
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European Individual
Championship Vassily Ivanchuk. Photo © Frits Agterdenbos. The 7th European Individual Chess Championships took place 4th - 17th April 2006, in Kusadasi, Turkey. Zdenko Kozul won the event half a point clear of Vassily Ivanchuk. Games in PGN - Women's Games in PGN In the women's section Khotenashvili-Javakhishvili (4) is missing. The game given in the official PGN section is identical to Danielian - Juergens. Final Round 11 Standings: 1 GM Kozul Zdenko 2606 CRO 8½ 2 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2731 UKR 8 3 GM Georgiev Kiril 2677 BUL 7½ 4 GM Izoria Zviad 2647 GEO 7½ 5 GM Macieja Bartlomiej 2584 POL 7½ 6 GM Nikolic Predrag 2596 BIH 7½ 7 GM Inarkiev Ernesto 2602 RUS 7½ 8 GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2664 GER 7½ 9 GM Belov Vladimir 2599 RUS 7½ 10 GM Baramidze David 2545 GER 7½ 11 GM Jobava Baadur 2646 GEO 7 12 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij 2608 UKR 7 13 GM Mamedov Rauf 2538 AZE 7 14 GM Nijboer Friso 2584 NED 7 15 GM Fressinet Laurent 2633 FRA 7 16 GM Palac Mladen 2561 CRO 7 17 GM Balogh Csaba 2576 HUN 7 18 IM Czarnota Pawel 2529 POL 7 19 GM Gurevich Mikhail 2643 TUR 7 20 GM Socko Bartosz 2606 POL 7 21 GM Berg Emanuel 2539 SWE 7 22 GM Sakaev Konstantin 2637 RUS 7 23 GM Gagunashvili Merab 2560 GEO 7 24 GM Zelcic Robert 2525 CRO 7 138 players Official site: http://www.tsf.org.tr/ and results and games at: http://schach.wienerzeitung.at/Tnr3328.aspx?lan=1 |
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| FIDE Rating List April
2006 Garry Kasparov finally drops out as world number one through inactivity. When I asked Anand and Topalov about the race to be number one Anand virtually conceded Topalov would be top because Anand wasn't playing any more rated events. Topalov said he could blow it at Morelia and Linares, and he nearly did. A dreadful performance in Morelia was made up for by a tremendous comeback in Linares and he edges out Anand by a point. Both are within striking distance of Kasparov 2812 mark too. Levon Aronian rises to number three in the world from five continuing his rise as a new star of the game. Peter Svidler effectively drops a place holding number four but losing 22 points. Leko rises a place, and Ponomariov and Morozevich both gain. Vassily Ivanchuk rises one place to 7 (effectively holding) after his rating was corrected a few days after the list was released. Vladimir Kramnik drops again after his poor performance in the Russian Championship. Gelfand makes up the remaining top 10 place. Source: http://www.fide.com. The full list is available for download there. FIDE April 2006 Rating List: Top 100 (corrected) |
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Cogas Match and Tournament Korchnoi and Timman after game one. Photo © Fred Lucas http://www.momentoo.nl The Cogas Match this year took place between Jan Timman and Viktor Korchnoi. The four game match took place in Almemlo, 14th-15th April 2006. Alongside was a six round open on the same dates. All four games were drawn between Korchnoi and Timman. Games in PGN Gm1 Timman, Jan H - Korchnoi, Viktor 1/2 34 C90 Ruy Lopez Gm2 Korchnoi, Viktor - Timman, Jan H 1/2 52 E52 Nimzo Indian Gm3 Timman, Jan H - Korchnoi, Viktor 1/2 34 E16 Queens Indian Gm4 Korchnoi, Viktor - Timman, Jan H 1/2 38 E52 Nimzo Indian Official site: http://cogas.schaakverenigingalmelo.nl/2006/ |
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| Topalov vs Nisipeanu Match A match Veselin Topalov and Dieter Nisipeanu took place in Bucharest, 6th-9th April 2006. There were 4 games, Time control is 40 moves / 2hours then 20 moves / 1 hour then 15 min and 30sec/move for the rest of the game. Veselin Topalov won convincingly 3-1 with victories in games two and four the games where he had white. Games in PGN Gm1 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 25 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin Gm2 Topalov, Veselin - Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1-0 43 D37 QGD 5.Bf4 Gm3 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 46 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation Gm4 Topalov, Veselin - Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1-0 43 B65 Sicilian Rauzer Official site: http://www.chess-romania.ro/ |
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| Indian Championship The 43rd National 'A' Indian Men's Chess Championship 2006 took place in Visakhapatnam 3rd-17th April 2006. Surya Shekhar Gangualy took first place on tie-break from Sandipan Chanda and DP Singh, all scored 14/20. Games in PGN (Sandipan - Deepan from the final round is missing) - Tejas Bakre's Round 1 game in PGN Final Round 21 Standings: 1. Ganguly, Surya Shekhar g IND 2579 14.0; 2. Sandipan, Chanda g IND 2522 14.0; 3. Singh, D.P IND 2395 14.0; 4. Kunte, Abhijit g IND 2551 13.5; 5. Deepan, Chakkravarthy J m IND 2428 13.5; 6. Koneru, Humpy g IND 2537 13.5; 7. Venkatesh, M.R m IND 2438 13.0; 8. Roy Chowdhury, Saptarshi m IND 2393 11.0; 9. Sundararajan, Kidambi m IND 2495 10.5; 10. Ramesh, R.B g IND 2491 9.0; 11. Thejkumar, M. S IND 2384 9.0; 12. Arun Prasad, S m IND 2384 9.0; 13. Gupta, Abhijeet m IND 2434 9.0; 14. Sharma, Dinesh K m IND 2370 8.0; 15. Ravi, Lanka m IND 2423 8.0; 16. Girinath, P.D.S m IND 2350 7.0; 17. Himanshu, Sharma IND 2411 7.0; 18. Sivanandan, B.S IND 2452 7.0; 19. Das, Arghyadip IND 2402 7.0; 20. Sriram, Jha m IND 2444 6.5; 21. Kamble, Vikramaditya IND 2403 6.5; Official site: http://www.avdca.org/ and http://www.indianchessfed.org |
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| Danish Championship The Danish Chess Championships took place in Aalborg, Denmark 8th-17th April 2006. The Championships introduced a whole new tournament system, Gladiator Chess, where the players will be playing a game at normal time settings (40 moves in 100 minutes + 30 minutes, and adding 30 seconds per move). In case of a draw, they continued to play, colours reversed, a game of rapid chess with the time settings 25 minutes + 10 seconds per move. In case of yet a draw, players will continue to play, colours changing at every game, blitz chess, 10 minutes + 5 seconds per move until a game is decided. Thus, only 1’s and 0’s counted. Sune Berg Hansen took first (he had the most victories in the standard time rate games) from Nicolai Vesterbaek Pedersen in 2nd, Karsten Rasmussen in 3rd and Steffen Pedersen in fourth. The top two were unaffected by the format. Standard Timerate Games in PGN - Gladiator games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Hansen, Sune Berg g DEN 2555 6.0; 2. Pedersen, Nicolai Vesterbaek m DEN 2517 6.0; 3. Rasmussen, Karsten m DEN 2449 6.0; 4. Pedersen, Steffen m DEN 2446 6.0; 5. Pilgaard, Kim m DEN 2417 5.0; 6. Aagaard, Jacob m SCO 2447 5.0; 7. Kongsted, Halfdan DEN 2245 3.0; 8. Glud, Jacob Vang f DEN 2421 3.0; 9. Berg, Klaus m DEN 2399 3.0; 10. Bekker-Jensen, Simon m DEN 2393 2.0; Official live coverage: http://www.skak-dm.dk/2006/Live/live.htm |
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| Amber Rapid and Blindfold
Tournament The 15th Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament, organized by the Association Max Euwe, took place at the Fairmont Monte Carlo Hotel in Monaco from March 18th (first round) - March 30th (last round) 2006. The total prizefund is Euro 216.000. Time controls: 25mins + 10 seconds a move for rapid and + 20 seconds a move for blindfold. Alexander Morozevich totally dominated the blindfold section scoring 9.5/11 three! points clear of the field. Anand won the rapid section with 8/11 and Morozevich and Anand shared first in the combined standings. Blindfold Games in PGN - Rapid Games in PGN Amber 2006. Results and Standings Final Round 11 March 30th 2006 12.30 Blindfold Aronian, Levon - Svidler, Peter 1-0 25 A00 Irregular Openings Topalov, Veselin - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 38 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed Nielsen, Peter Heine - Gelfand, Boris 1/2 18 A31 English Symmetrical 14.00 Blindfold Ivanchuk, Vassily - Grischuk, Alexander 1/2 59 D32 Tarrasch Defence Van Wely, Loek - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1 34 E97 King's Indian Classical Leko, Peter - Vallejo Pons, Francisco 1-0 41 C69 Ruy Lopez Exchange 15.45 Rapid Svidler, Peter - Aronian, Levon 0-1 40 C04 French Tarrasch Anand, Viswanathan - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 18 C65 Ruy Lopez Berlin Gelfand, Boris - Nielsen, Peter Heine 1-0 38 D45 Anti-Meran Variations 17.15 Rapid Grischuk, Alexander - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 33 C42 Petroff's Defence Morozevich, Alexander - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 32 B80 Sicilian Scheveningen Vallejo Pons, Francisco - Leko, Peter 1/2 21 B18 Caro Kann Final Round 11 Blindfold Standings: 1. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2721 9.5; 2. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2792 6.5; 3. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2650 6.5; 4. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2717 6.0; 5. Leko, Peter g HUN 2740 6.0; 6. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2723 5.5; 7. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2765 5.5; 8. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2647 4.5; 9. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2801 4.5; 10. Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2644 4.0; 11. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2752 4.0; 12. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 3.5; Final Round 11 Rapid Standings: 1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2792 8.0; 2. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2801 6.5; 3. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2752 6.5; 4. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 5.5; 5. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2647 5.5; 6. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2650 5.5; 7. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2717 5.5; 8. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2721 5.0; 9. Leko, Peter g HUN 2740 5.0; 10. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2723 5.0; 11. Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2644 4.0; 12. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2765 4.0; Final Round 11 Combined Standings: 1. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2721 14.5; 2. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2792 14.5; 3. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2650 12.0; 4. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2717 11.5; 5. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2801 11.0; 6. Leko, Peter g HUN 2740 11.0; 7. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2752 10.5; 8. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2723 10.5; 9. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2647 10.0; 10. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2765 9.5; 11. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 9.0; 12. Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2644 8.0; Official site: http://www.alldata.nl/amber/ |
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| VII Poikovsky
tournament The VII Poikovsky tournament took place March 18th-28th 2006. The leaders going into the final round met and Alexei Shirov emerged the winner of the tournament after defeating Alexei Dreev. Games in PGN Official site: http://admoil.ru/chess2006/index_chess_2006.htm and live http://www.aeroflotchess.com/pojkovsky/ Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2709 6.0; 2. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2723 5.0; 3. Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2664 5.0; 4. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2697 5.0; 5. Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2698 5.0; 6. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2689 4.5; 7. Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2652 4.5; 8. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2665 4.0; 9. Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2650 3.5; 10. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2661 2.5; |
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| XXII Reykjavik
Open The XXII Reykjavik Open took place 6th-14th March 2006. Gabriel Sargissian first amongst five on tie-break who finished on 7/9. Magnus Carlsen defeated by Ahmed Adly in the final round. Games in PGN Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1-5 Gabriel Sargissian ARM 2603 7 40.0 Ahmed Adly EGY 2473 7 39.5 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE 2709 7 38.0 Igor-Alexander Nataf FRA 2553 7 38.0 Pentala Harikrishna IND 2673 7 35.5 6-9 Magnus Carlsen NOR 2625 6.5 39.5 Ivan Sokolov NED 2689 6.5 36.5 Luis Galego POR 2538 6.5 34.0 Christopher Ward ENG 2475 6.5 33.5 10-15 Aloyzas Kveinys LTU 2517 6 38.0 Hannes Stefansson ISL 2585 6 37.5 Ivan Ivanisevic SCG 2588 6 35.0 Stellan Brynell SWE 2493 6 34.0 Ian Rogers AUS 2547 6 33.5 Jaan Ehlvest EST 2619 6 32.0 16-29 Pavel Tregubov RUS 2556 5.5 42.5 Laurent Fressinet FRA 2625 5.5 42.0 Hichem Hamdouchi MAR 2575 5.5 42.0 Tiger Hillarp Persson SWE 2548 5.5 40.0 Sergey Erenburg ISR 2573 5.5 39.0 Milos Pavlovic SCG 2494 5.5 38.5 Throstur Thorhallsson ISL 2455 5.5 38.5 Simon Williams ENG 2452 5.5 38.5 Henrik Danielsen ISL 2520 5.5 35.5 Evgenij Ermenkov PLE 2462 5.5 35.0 Emil Sutovsky ISR 2624 5.5 34.5 Carlos Matamoros ECU 2510 5.5 34.5 Inna Gaponenko UKR 2437 5.5 31.5 Tullio Marinelli ITA 2391 5.5 29.5 Official site: http://www.skaksamband.com/reykjavikopen2006/ |
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Hungarian Championship
2006 Closing ceremony 2nd placed Csaba Balogh, winner Zoltan Almasi and 3rd place Zoltán Gyimesi with their trophies. Photo © Zsuzsa Veroci. The Hungarian Championship took place in Szekesfehervar, 1st-9th March 2006. Zoltan Almasi took the title by a point after winning in the final round. Games in PGN Final Standings: 1. Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2646 6.5; 2. Gyimesi, Zoltan g HUN 2602 5.5; 3. Balogh, g HUN 2561 5.5; 4. Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2597 5.0; 5. Ruck, Robert g HUN 2540 5.0; 6. Cao, Sang g HUN 2543 5.0; 7. Sax, Gyula g HUN 2539 4.5; 8. Szabo, Krisztian1 m HUN 2447 3.0; 9. Portisch, Lajos g HUN 2533 2.5; 10. Horvath, Adam1 g HUN 2532 2.5; Official site: http://web.t-online.hu/passant/sakkversenyek/ |
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| Polish Championship
2006 The Polish Championship took place in Krakow, 25th February - 9th March 2006. Mateusz Bartel took the title with 8.5/12 a point and a half clear of the field. Games in PGN - Cancelled games of Klaudiusz Urban Final Standings: 1. Bartel, Mateusz g POL 2524 8.5; 2. Socko, Bartosz g POL 2610 7.0; 3. Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2605 7.0; 4. Bobras, Piotr g POL 2531 7.0; 5. Macieja, Bartlomiej g POL 2585 7.0; 6. Czarnota, Pawel m POL 2497 6.5; 7. Heberla, Bartlomiej m POL 2487 6.0; 8. Dziuba, Marcin m POL 2491 5.5; 9. Gajewski, Grzegorz m POL 2486 5.5; 10. Markowski, Tomasz g POL 2565 5.5; 11. Kempinski, Robert g POL 2619 5.0; 12. Grabarczyk, Miroslaw g POL 2479 4.0; 13. Warakomski, Tomasz f POL 2430 3.5; Klaudiusz Urban withdrew after 6 rounds and his games and results were cancelled. Official site: http://mzszach.l.pl/online/mpm2006/index.html |
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| January 2006 FIDE Rating
List Garry Kasparov remains World Number One for the last time before being inactive for a year following his retirement. FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov becomes the third player in history over 2800 after Kasparov and Kramnik. His rating is 2801 and he takes over from Viswanathan Anand as World Number 2 gaining 19 points. FIDE January 2006 Rating List: Top 100 Source: http://www.fide.com. The full list is available for download there. |
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| FIDE Women's World Championship The Women`s World Chess Championship 2006 took place in Ekaterinburg, Russia from 10th-25th March 2006. 64 player knockout. 29 year old Xu Yuhua won the final by beating Alisa Galliamova 2.5-0.5 both her wins came with black. The defending champion from 2004 Antoaneta Stefanova was eliminated in round 2. Games in PGN Final 23rd-25th March 2006 Gm1 Galliamova, Alisa - Xu Yuhua 0-1 64 C10 French Rubinstein Gm2 Xu Yuhua - Galliamova, Alisa 1/2 49 B30 Sicilian Rossolimo Gm3 Galliamova, Alisa - Xu Yuhua 0-1 58 E13 Queens Indian 5.Bg5 Round 5 - Semi-Finals 20th-21st March 2006 1 Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) 0.5-1.5 Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) 2 Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) 0.5-1.5 Xu, Yuhua (CHN) Round 4 18th-19th March 2006 1 Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) 2-0 Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) 2 Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) 1.5-0.5 Sebag, Marie (FRA) 3 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina (RUS) 1.5-2.5 Xu, Yuhua (CHN) 4 Chiburdanidze, Maia (GEO) 1.5-2.5 Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) Round 3 15th-16th March 2006 1 Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) 2.5-1.5 Radziewicz, Iweta (POL) 2 Sebag, Marie (FRA) 4-2 Qin, Kanying (CHN) 3 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina (RUS) 2.5-1.5 Peng, Zhaoqin (NED) 4 Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS) 0.5-1.5 Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) 5 Ju, Wenjun (CHN) 2-4 Chiburdanidze, Maia (GEO) 6 Xu, Yuhua (CHN) 1.5-0.5 Kosintseva, Tatiana (RUS) 7 Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman (IND) 0.5-1.5 Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) 8 Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) 2-0 Hou, Yifan (CHN) Round 2 13th-14th March 2006 Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) 2499 1-3 Radziewicz, Iweta (POL) 2421 Sebag, Marie (FRA) 2415 3-1 Koneru, Humpy (IND) 2537 Cramling, Pia (SWE) 2515 0,5-1,5 Peng, Zhaoqin (NED) 2407 Danielian, Elina (ARM) 2423 0-2 Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS) 2514 Chiburdanidze, Maia (GEO) 2511 1,5-0,5 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan (GEO) 2426 Ushenina, Anna (UKR) 2398 0,5-1,5 Xu, Yuhua (CHN) 2502 Zapata, Karen (PER) 2218 0,5-1,5 Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) 2428 Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) 2430 1,5-0,5 Arribas, Maritza (CUB) 2261 Hou, Yifan (CHN) 2269 2-0 Zhukova, Natalia (UKR) 2432 Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO) 2444 1-3 Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman (IND) 2479 Kosintseva, Tatiana (RUS) 2479 1,5-0,5 Krush, Irina (USA) 2447 Dzagnidze, Nana (GEO) 2452 1.5-2.5 Ju, Wenjun (CHN) 2290 Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) 2475 4-2 Ruan, Lufei (CHN) 2361 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina (RUS) 2458 1,5-0,5 Kursova, Maria (RUS) 2319 Qin, Kanying (CHN) 2469 2.5-1.5 Houska, Jovanka (ENG) 2355 Lujan, Carolina (ARG) 2346 1-3 Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) 2467 Round 1 11th-12th March 2006. Mezioud, Amina (ALG) 1989 0,5-1,5 Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) 2499 Koneru, Humpy (IND) 2537 2-0 Sabure, Tuduetso (BOT) 2072 Basta-Sohair, F. (EGY) 2083 0-2 Cramling, Pia (SWE) 2515 Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS) 2514 2-0 Khoudgarian, Natalia (CAN) 2106 Rivera, Ingris (COL) 2128 0,5-1,5 Chiburdanidze, Maia (GEO) 2511 Xu, Yuhua (CHN) 2502 1,5-0,5 Hoang, Xuan Thanh Khiet (VIE) 2196 Zapata, Karen (PER) 2218 1,5-0,5 Lahno, Kateryna (UKR) 2500 Zhu Chen - Arribas, Maritza by default Hou, Yifan (CHN) 2269 1,5-0,5 Kosintseva, Nadezhda (RUS) 2480 Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman (IND) 2479 1,5-0,5 Berezina, Irina (AUS) 2285 Meenakshi, S. (IND) 2289 0-2 Kosintseva, Tatiana (RUS) 2479 Socko, Monika (POL) 2475 0,5-1,5 Ju, Wenjun (CHN) 2290 Pourkashiyan, Atousa (IRI) 2296 0,5-1,5 Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) 2475 Zhao, Xue (CHN) 2473 0,5-1,5 Kursova, Maria (RUS) 2319 Aketaeva, Dana (KAZ) 2330 0,5-1,5 Qin, Kanying (CHN) 2469 Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) 2467 1,5-0,5 Purtseladze, Maka (GEO) 2341 Lujan, Carolina (ARG) 2346 1,5-0,5 Dembo, Yelena (GRE) 2461 Skripchenko, Almira (FRA) 2461 0,5-1,5 Houska, Jovanka (ENG) 2355 Pina, Sulennis (CUB) 2358 0,5-1,5 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina (RUS) 2458 Mkrtchian, Lilit (ARM) 2453 1.5-2.5 Ruan, Lufei (CHN) 2361 Ovod, Evgenija (RUS) 2366 2-4 Dzagnidze, Nana (GEO) 2452 Krush, Irina (USA) 2447 2.5-1.5 Amura, Claudia N. (ARG) 2366 Turova, Irina (RUS) 2379 0,5-1,5 Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO) 2444 Zhukova, Natalia (UKR) 2432 3.5-2.5 Shen, Yang (CHN) 2380 Wang, Yu A. (CHN) 2385 1.5-2.5 Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) 2430 Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) 2428 2-0 Vasilevich, Irina (RUS) 2386 Ushenina, Anna (UKR) 2398 3-1 Korbut, Ekaterina (RUS) 2427 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan (GEO) 2426 2.5-1.5 Zielinska, Marta (POL) 2398 Foisor, Cristina Adela (ROM) 2402 1.5-2.5 Danielian, Elina (ARM) 2423 Paehtz, Elisabeth (GER) 2422 2-4 Peng, Zhaoqin (NED) 2407 Sebag, Marie (FRA) 2415 1,5-0,5 Zaiatz, Elena (RUS) 2422 Radziewicz, Iweta (POL) 2421 2-0 Kononenko, Tatiana (UKR) 2417 Official site: http://www.womenchess.com FIDE site details: http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=951 |
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| 66th Armenian Championship The 66th Armenian Championship, a FIDE category 11 tournament, took place March 16th-25th 2006 in Yerevan, Armenia. Artashes Minasian took clear first with 7/9 a point clear of Arman Pashikian. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Minasian, Artashes g ARM 2574 7.0; 2. Pashikian, Arman m ARM 2472 6.0; 3. Kotanjian, Tigran m ARM 2471 5.5; 4. Anastasian, Ashot g ARM 2602 5.5; 5. Asrian, Karen g ARM 2646 5.5; 6. Petrosian, Tigran L g ARM 2558 4.5; 7. Nalbandian, Tigran g ARM 2524 4.5; 8. Yegiazarian, Arsen g ARM 2531 3.0; 9. Minasian, Ara g ARM 2487 2.0; 10. Kalashian, David ARM 2319 1.5; Official site: http://www.armchess.am |
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| Turkish Championship The Turkish Championship took place in Istanbul 11th-23rd March 2006. Mikhail Gurevich played and won his first Turkish Championship after moving Federations from Belgium with a score of 10.5/13. He was half a point clear of his only top 100 rival in the event Suat Atalik. Both will have lost a number of rating points. Games in PGN Final Round 13 Standings: 1. Gurevich, Mikhail g TUR 2633 10.5; 2. Atalik, Suat g TUR 2618 10.0; 3. Atakisi, Umut m TUR 2441 9.0; 4. Haznedaroglu, Kivanc m TUR 2438 8.5; 5. Can, Emre TUR 2281 8.0; 6. Erdogdu, Mert m TUR 2345 6.5; 7. Erturan, Yakup f TUR 2365 6.5; 8. Yagiz, Yasin Emrah TUR 2209 6.0; 9. Secer, Ata TUR 2229 6.0; 10. Goksel, Doga Cihan TUR 2189 5.5; 11. Kilicaslan, Hasan m TUR 2281 4.0; 12. Erdogan, Hakan f TUR 2259 4.0; 13. Atalik, Ekaterina wg RUS 2399 4.0; 14. Korkmaz, Necmettin TUR 2071 2.5; Official site: http://www.tsf.org.tr/ |
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| La Roche-sur-Yon 2006 The Trophee Universitaire took place in La Roche sur Yon 15th-24th March 2006. The category XII event saw Krishnan Sasikiran finish on 6/9 half a point clear of Christian Bauer who lost an interesting theoretical endgame to Andrei Istratescu (each side had an h-pawn and Istratescu had an extra bishop but of the wrong colour for the queening square, he managed to keep Bauer from reaching the corner to stop the pawn and pick up his opponents h-pawn). It turns out that 78...Kb4? was the blunder and that table bases say that 78...Kd4 still held. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2670 6.0; 2. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2627 5.5; 3. Werle, Jan m NED 2514 5.0; 4. Istratescu, Andrei g ROM 2618 5.0; 5. Dunis, Aurelien m FRA 2534 5.0; 6. Pelletier, Yannick g SUI 2579 5.0; 7. Maze, Sebastien m FRA 2518 4.5; 8. Charbonneau, Pascal m CAN 2496 4.0; 9. Rodriguez Guerrero, Enrique m ESP 2464 3.0; 10. Rombaldoni, Denis f ITA 2292 2.0; Official site: http://www.univ-vendee.com/e-accueil.htm - Games http://www.echecs.asso.fr |
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32nd National Chess Championship of Bangladesh The Mercantile Bank 32nd National Chess Championship of Bangladesh 2006, took place 10th-23rd March 2006 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Enamul Hossain took clear first on 12/13! (a 2700+ performance) a point clear of Al-Rakib Abdulla. Games in PGN Final Round 13 Standings: 1. Hossain, Enamul m BAN 2468 12.0; 2. Abdulla, Al-Rakib m BAN 2477 11.0; 3. Reefat, Bin-Sattar m BAN 2478 9.5; 4. Rahman, Ziaur g BAN 2557 9.5; 5. Murshed, Niaz g BAN 2460 8.5; 6. Abu Sufian, Shakil f BAN 2278 7.5; 7. Hasan, Mehdi f BAN 2349 6.5; 8. Haque, Rezaul f BAN 2193 6.0; 9. Ahmed, Sk. Nasir f BAN 2321 5.5; 10. Abdul, Maleq BAN 2233 3.5; 11. Rahman, S. Manfuzur BAN 2273 3.5; 12. Hossain, Delwar BAN 2136 3.0; 13. Hasan Md, Emam BAN 2147 2.5; 14. Hossain, Enayet Mohammed BAN 2110 2.5; |
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Morelia/Linares 2006 Winner Levon Aronian. Photo © Mark Crowther Morelia in Mexico hosted the first half of the traditional Linares super tournament February 18th-26th, 2006. The Linares half took place 3rd-11th March 2006. Levon Aronian took clear first place ahead of Teimour Radjabov (officially second because he won his mini-match against 3rd place Veselin Topalov). Long time leader Peter Leko was relegated to fourth after losing his final two games. Total prize fund 380,000 Euros. Games in PGN- Morelia/Linares 2006 - Viewer Comments by Mark Crowther. Annotations by Malcolm Pein Linares Annotations by Malcolm Pein - Chess Base Archive - PGN Round 14 - Malcolm Pein annotates Leko - Aronian. Final table in Official finishing order Round 13 - notes by Malcolm Pein to V Ivanchuk - F Vallejo Pons Round 12 Round 11 Round 10 - by Malcolm Pein and notes to Vallejo-Bacrot and Leko-Svidler. Round 9 Round 8 Round 7 Round 6 Round 5 - Ivanchuk,V - Topalov,V and Aronian Svidler annotated by Malcolm Pein Round 4 - Topalov,V (2801) - Radjabov,T annotated by Malcolm Pein Round 3. Comments by Malcolm Pein, game notes my Mark Crowther Round 2 - Vallejo Pons,F - Svidler,P annotated by Malcolm Pein Round 1 - Svidler,P (2765) - Topalov,V and Vallejo Pons,F - Leko,P annotated by Malcolm Pein Round 14 (March 11, 2006) Bacrot, Etienne - Radjabov, Teimour 1/2 20 E93 King's Indian Classical Vallejo Pons, Francisco - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 30 D39 QGD Ragozin Leko, Peter - Aronian, Levon 0-1 40 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed Svidler, Peter - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 55 C88 Ruy Lopez Closed Final Round 14 Standings: 1. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2752 8.5; 2. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2700 8.0; 3. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2801 8.0; 4. Leko, Peter g HUN 2740 7.5; 5. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 6.5; 6. Svidler, Peter g RUS 2765 6.5; 7. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2717 6.0; 8. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2650 5.0; Official site:http://www.marca.es/ - live: http://linares.soloajedrez.com/. Morelia organisers: http://www.moreliachess.com/eng/. Linares organisers: http://www.ajedrezenlinares.com/XXIII_ciudad_linares.htm Betsson. Final Round up. Linares was an amazing event this year. One punter was set to win Euros 15,000 if Topalov could have pulled off a last round sensation and snatched victory in Linares! The odds moved so much on Topalov that at one point he was quoted at 100/1, four rounds later he was just 2/1. Unfortunately it wasn't to be. However one lucky punter had Euros 500 on Aronian at odds of 10 netting him a tidy profit of Euros 5,000, not a bad little investment! |
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US Championship Alexander Onischuk beat Yury Shulman in the men's final. Anna Zatonskih beat Rusadan Goletiani the women's. Photo © http://www.uschesschampionship.com The U.S. Chess Championship took place in San Diego March 1st-12th, 2006 and was held at its new permanent home at NTC Promenade. There were two groups of 32 players, the winners of each met in a final for the title. The final consisted of two rapid games at time control of 30'+5". Alexander Onischuk beat Yury Shulman in the men's final, almost winning game one and winning the 2nd game with black. Anna Zatonskih defeated Rusadan Goletiani 1.5-0.5 in the women's. Games in PGN Gp A - Games in PGN Gp B Men's Final in PGN - Women's Final Games in PGN Men's Final Alexander Onischuk 1.5-0.5 Yuri Shulman Gm1 Onischuk, Alexander - Shulman, Yuri 1/2 65 D31 Semi-Slav Defence Gm2 Shulman, Yuri - Onischuk, Alexander 0-1 47 D38 QGD Ragozin Women's Final Anna Zatonskih 1.5-0.5 Rusudan Goletiani Gm1 Goletiani, Rusudan - Zatonskih, Anna 0-1 34 A11 Reti Opening Gm2 Zatonskih, Anna - Goletiani, Rusudan 1/2 24 B22 Sicilian Alapin GpA Round 9 Standings: 1 GM Onischuk, Alexander (3) 2686 7.0 36.5 44.0 66.5 2 GM Ibragimov, Ildar (2) 2707 6.5 38.0 46.0 66.0 3 GM Stripunsky, Alexander (7) 2642 6.5 36.0 43.0 64.0 4 GM Nakamura, Hikaru (1) 2774 6.0 35.0 40.0 54.5 5 GM Gurevich, Dmitry (13) 2562 5.5 39.0 47.0 53.0 6 GM Akobian, Varuzhan (4) 2662 5.5 37.5 45.0 52.5 7 IM Fernandez, Daniel (23) 2424 5.5 37.0 44.0 47.0 8 GM Kudrin, Sergey (8) 2627 5.5 35.0 42.0 44.5 9 IM Finegold, Benjamin (5) 2657 5.5 32.5 39.5 49.0 10 IM Friedel, Joshua E (17) 2513 5.0 38.5 47.5 52.5 11 GM Serper, Gregory (12) 2577 5.0 36.5 44.0 42.0 12 FM Stein, Alan R (18) 2486 5.0 36.0 43.5 44.5 13 IM Kraai, Jesse (15) 2540 5.0 36.0 42.5 42.0 14 GM Goldin, Alexander (6) 2642 5.0 35.0 42.5 42.5 15 WGM Goletiani, Rusudan (25) 2393 5.0 33.5 37.0 34.0 16 GM De Firmian, Nick E (11) 2600 4.5 26.5 46.0 43.0 17 GM Benjamin, Joel (9) 2624 4.5 25.0 43.0 42.5 18 IM Schneider, Dmitry (16) 2525 4.5 25.0 42.0 31.5 19 GM Dlugy, Maxim (10) 2604 4.5 24.5 43.5 38.0 20 FM Schneider, Igor (24) 2420 4.5 22.0 35.0 26.0 21 FM Tate,Emory A (20) 2441 4.0 30.5 41.5 32.0 22 IM Florean, Andrei (19) 2479 4.0 27.5 40.0 25.0 23 IM Lenderman, Alex (22) 2427 4.0 24.0 35.0 24.0 24 WFM Ross, Laura R (28) 2238 4.0 20.0 30.5 17.0 25 IM Gonzalez, Renier (14) 2548 3.5 33.5 47.0 35.5 26 FM Bercys, Salvijus (21) 2440 3.5 32.0 44.0 31.5 27 WGM Baginskaite, Camilla (26) 2331 3.5 30.5 43.0 29.5 28 WIM Epstein, Esther (29) 2172 3.5 21.5 33.0 13.5 29 WFM Vicary, Elizabeth (30) 2118 3.5 19.0 29.0 15.0 30 Zenyuk, Iryna (31) 2101 3.0 20.5 29.5 10.5 31 Kleiman, Jake (27) 2318 1.5 22.5 33.0 6.0 32 Cottrell-Finegold, Kelly (32) 1663 0.0 24.0 33.5 0.0 GpB Round 9 Standings: 1 GM Shulman, Yury (9) 2623 6.5 39.5 47.0 63.5 2 GM Kamsky, Gata (1) 2729 6.5 38.5 46.5 65.5 3 GM Christiansen, Larry (7) 2633 6.5 38.0 45.5 64.0 4 GM Fishbein, Alexander (11) 2593 6.0 35.5 43.0 58.5 5 GM Novikov, Igor (6) 2643 5.5 40.5 50.0 58.0 6 GM Shabalov, Alexander (4) 2665 5.0 39.0 48.0 49.0 7 IM Perelshteyn, Eugene (10) 2614 5.0 38.0 46.5 48.5 8 GM Yermolinsky, Alex (12) 2590 5.0 37.5 44.5 46.0 9 GM Ivanov, Alexander (5) 2657 5.0 37.0 46.0 49.5 10 GM Wojtkiewicz,Aleks (14) 2555 5.0 36.0 42.0 41.5 11 GM Kaidanov, Gregory (2) 2722 5.0 35.0 43.0 46.0 12 WGM Zatonskih, Anna (19) 2469 5.0 33.5 41.0 43.5 13 GM Kreiman, Boris (15) 2535 5.0 33.5 40.5 43.5 14 GM Browne, Walter S (17) 2507 5.0 32.0 36.0 31.0 15 GM Gulko, Boris (3) 2678 4.5 24.5 43.5 42.5 16 IM Kriventsov, Stanislav (18) 2491 4.5 24.0 42.5 40.0 17 GM Becerra, Julio (8) 2629 4.5 22.5 41.5 41.0 18 IM Milman, Lev (16) 2528 4.5 22.5 38.0 31.5 19 IM Lugo, Blas (22) 2440 4.5 22.0 39.5 34.0 20 IM Ippolito, Dean J (20) 2464 4.5 22.0 37.0 32.0 21 GM Fedorowicz, John P (13) 2558 4.5 21.5 38.5 38.0 22 FM Muhammad, Stephen (21) 2458 4.5 20.5 36.5 31.5 23 IM Ginsburg, Mark (23) 2425 4.0 29.0 40.5 34.5 24 IM Sarkar, Justin (25) 2399 4.0 26.5 39.0 26.5 25 WFM Abrahamyan, Tatev (26) 2325 4.0 24.0 34.0 21.5 26 IM Vigorito, David E (24) 2422 4.0 23.0 33.0 21.5 27 WIM Tuvshintugs, Batch (27) 2271 3.5 34.5 47.5 35.5 28 Liu, Elliott (28) 2266 3.5 23.5 33.5 18.0 29 Airapetian, Chouch (29) 2162 3.5 23.0 34.5 18.0 30 West, Vanessa A (31) 2034 3.5 21.5 31.0 18.0 31 WFM Itkis,Hana (30) 2149 1.5 23.5 33.0 7.5 32 WCM Christiansen,Nata (32) 1872 0.5 24.0 33.5 1.5 Official site: http://www.uschesschampionship.com |
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| Russian Under-20 Championship The Russian Under-20 Championship took place in Cheboksary 2nd-12th March 2006. Boris Grachev took first place on tie-break from Nikita Vitiugov both made 7/11. Games in PGN - Women's Games in PGN Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Grachev, Boris m RUS 2510 7.0; 2. Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2573 7.0; 3. Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2586 6.5; 4. Savchenko, Boris m RUS 2569 6.5; 5. Nepomniachtchi, Ian m RUS 2506 6.5; 6. Lysyj, Igor m RUS 2523 6.0; 7. Kharitonov, Alexandr m RUS 2535 5.5; 8. Maletin, Pavel m RUS 2538 5.5; 9. Khairullin, Ildar m RUS 2533 5.0; 10. Geller, Jakov m RUS 2505 4.0; 11. Iljin, Artem m RUS 2510 4.0; 12. Safronov, Andrey G f RUS 2314 2.5; Official site: http://www.aeroflotchess.com/games/online20/results.htm |
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| III GM Tage
Pulvermühle The III GM Tage took place in Pulvermühle 25th February - 5th March 2006. Jan Gustafsson, the winner of the second event in January 2004 is back defending his title. Gustafsson, Jussupow, and Prusikin finished on 6/9. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Gustafsson, Jan g GER 2614 6.0; 2. Jussupow, Artur g GER 2605 6.0; 3. Prusikin, Michael g GER 2563 6.0; 4. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2608 4.5; 5. Markos, Jan m SVK 2493 4.5; 6. Baramidze, David g GER 2554 4.5; 7. Braun, Arik m GER 2491 4.0; 8. Atlas, Valeri m AUT 2480 3.5; 9. Bezold, Michael g GER 2534 3.5; 10. Lahno, Kateryna m UKR 2500 2.5; Official site: http://www.pulvermuehle2006.steffans-schachseiten.de/ |
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Cappelle la Grande 2006 The winner Alexander Moiseenko. Photo © Pascal Villalba http://www.notzai.info/ Games in PGN Rd1-9 The Cappelle la Grande tournament took place 18th-25th February 2006. 96 GMs, 9 WGMs included in a total of 559 players. Alexander Moiseenko won the event with 7.5/9. Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1 Moiseenko Alexander g UKR 2657 7.5 2801 2 Gashimov Vugar g AZE 2625 7.0 2737 3 Goloshchapov Alexander g UKR 2533 7.0 2732 4 Azarov Sergei g BLR 2581 7.0 2717 5 Drozdovskij Yuri g UKR 2509 7.0 2714 6 Grigoriants Sergey g RUS 2550 7.0 2712 7 Sasikiran Krishnan g IND 2670 7.0 2695 8 Burmakin Vladimir g RUS 2519 7.0 2670 9 Szelag Marcin m POL 2468 7.0 2582 10 Firman Nazar m UKR 2468 6.5 2683 11 Yevseev Denis g RUS 2557 6.5 2654 12 Guseinov Gadir g AZE 2607 6.5 2647 13 Baklan Vladimir g UKR 2601 6.5 2641 14 Yagupov Igor g RUS 2534 6.5 2636 15 Riazantsev Alexander g RUS 2594 6.5 2621 16 Kulaots Kaido g EST 2558 6.5 2606 17 Ovetchkin Roman g RUS 2539 6.5 2606 18 Psakhis Lev g ISR 2534 6.5 2599 19 Nijboer Friso g NED 2571 6.5 2596 20 Golod Vitali g ISR 2577 6.5 2594 21 Andreev Eduard g UKR 2470 6.5 2590 22 Spraggett Kevin g CAN 2581 6.5 2590 23 Kveinys Aloyzas g LTU 2517 6.5 2589 24 Vazquez Renier m ESP 2513 6.5 2587 25 Chernyshov Konstantin g RUS 2539 6.5 2585 26 Ionov Sergey g RUS 2527 6.5 2576 27 Kryvoruchko Yuriy m UKR 2513 6.5 2575 28 Hebden Mark g ENG 2514 6.5 2566 29 Ciuksyte Dagne g LTU 2370 6.5 2565 30 Dembo Yelena m GRE 2461 6.5 2564 31 Nalbandian Tigran g ARM 2524 6.5 2541 32 Rozentalis Eduardas g LTU 2582 6.5 2530 33 Kovchan Alexander g UKR 2513 6.5 2529 34 Danielian Elina m ARM 2423 6.5 2523 35 Van Der Weide Karel g NED 2466 6.5 2470 629 players Official site: http://www.cappelle-chess.com/. Further coverage at: http://www.notzai.info - http://www.notzai.info/rubrique11.html |
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Aeroflot Open Anatoly Karpov at the ceremonial opening of the Aeroflot tournament. Photo © Eugeny Atarov. http://www.chesspro.ru The Aeroflot Open took place in Moscow 8th-17 February 2006. The leaders going into the final round were both defeated Pavel Eljanov by Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Kiril Georgiev by Krishnan Sasikiran. Baadur Jobava takes first on tie-break after finishing in a four way tie on 6.5/9. The winner of A1 tournament will be invited to play in Dortmund from 23rd July to 5th August 2006. Games in PGN Rd1-9 Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2614 6.5 2. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2661 6.5 3. Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2670 6.5 4. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2709 6.5 5. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2655 6.0 6. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2542 6.0 7. Petrosian, Tigran L g ARM 2558 6.0 8. Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2704 6.0 9. Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2645 6.0 10. Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2657 6.0 11. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2662 6.0 12. Efimenko, Zahar g UKR 2666 5.5 13. Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2652 5.5 14. Fedorov, Alexei g BLR 2608 5.5 15. Asrian, Karen g ARM 2646 5.5 16. Balogh, Csaba g HUN 2561 5.5 17. Yakovich, Yuri g RUS 2551 5.5 18. Sedlak, Nikola g SCG 2518 5.5 19. Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2694 5.5 20. Korotylev, Alexey g RUS 2609 5.5 21. Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2634 5.5 22. Izoria, Zviad g GEO 2652 5.5 23. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2638 5.5 etc 92 players are registered for the main A1 Open. Leading players include: Vladimir Akopian Aleksej Aleksandrov, Karen Asrian, Alexander Areshchenko, Viktor Bologan, Bu Xiangxi, Alexey Dreev, Zahar Efimenko, Pavel Eljanov, Kiril Georgiev, Zvaid Izoria, Dmitry Jakovenko, Alexander Khalifman, Vladimir Malakhov, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alexander Moiseenko, Arkadij Naiditsch, Evgeniy Najer, Konstantin Sakaev and Krishnan Sasikiran. Official site: http://www.aeroflotchess.com/ |
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| Czech Republic Championship The Championship of the Czech Republic took place 7th-17th February 2006 in Brno-hotel Bobycentrum. Viktor Laznicka won with a round to spare. Games in PGN Final Round 11 Standings: 1. Laznicka, Viktor m CZE 2525 8.5; 2. Blatny, Pavel g CZE 2483 6.5; 3. Voloshin, Leonid g CZE 2466 6.0; 4. Cvek, Robert m CZE 2498 6.0; 5. Simacek, Pavel m CZE 2480 5.5; 6. Polak, Tomas g CZE 2485 5.5; 7. Jirovsky, Milos g CZE 2476 5.5; 8. Stocek, Jiri g CZE 2580 5.5; 9. Jansa, Vlastimil g CZE 2521 5.0; 10. Kalod, Radek g CZE 2502 5.0; 11. Bernasek, Jan m CZE 2446 4.5; 12. Konopka, Michal m CZE 2489 2.5; Official site: http://muzi2006.chess.cz/index.php |
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| Cuernavaca Young Masters The Cuernavaca Young Masters took place in Mexico 1st-11th February 2006. Ruslan Ponomariov and Francisco Vallejo Pons finished on 6.5/9. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2723 6.5; 2. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2650 6.5; 3. Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2644 6.0; 4. Dominguez, Lenier g CUB 2638 5.5; 5. Bruzon, Lazaro g CUB 2650 5.0; 6. Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2665 4.5; 7. Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2625 4.0; 8. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2660 3.5; 9. Leon Hoyos, Manuel m MEX 2428 2.0; 10. Felgaer, Ruben g ARG 2607 1.5; Official site: http://www.uaem.mx/ajedrez2006/index.html |
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German Championship 2006 Champion Thomas Luther. Photo © Deutscher Schachbund. Games in PGN The German Championship took place in Osterburg 2nd-12th February 2006. Thomas Luther won on tie break from Vitaly Kunin and Artur Jussupow, all scored 6.5/9. Leading Final Round 9 Standings 1. GM Luther,Thomas 2569 6.5 46.0 2. IM Kunin,Vitaly 2462 6.5 48.0 3. GM Jussupow,Artur 2605 6.5 46.0 4. GM Khenkin,Igor 2595 6.0 51.0 5. GM Kritz,Leonid 2561 6.0 47.0 6. IM Meister,Jakov 2493 6.0 45.5 7. IM Henrichs,Thomas 2434 5.5 50.0 8. GM Prusikin,Michael 2563 5.5 44.5 9. GM Tischbierek,Raj 2466 5.5 46.0 10. GM Baramidze,David 2554 5.5 42.5 11. FM Muranyi,Karl-Jasmin 2359 5.5 38.5 12. GM Naumann,Alexander 2532 5.5 47.0 13. GM Gustafsson,Jan 2614 5.0 49.5 14. Köpke,Christian 2274 5.0 46.0 15. GM Graf,Alexander 2604 5.0 47.5 16. Reipsch,Jens 2293 5.0 40.5 46 players Official site: http://www.chess-international.de/ticker/dem2006/index.html |
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Moscow open 2006 Anatoly Karpov presents the trophy to Alexander Lastin for winning the Moscow Open. Photo © Eugeny Atarov. http://www.chesspro.ru The Moscow 0pen took place 29 January - 6 February 2006. 9 round swiss with the US system allowing for flexible schedules with the possibility of playing two games a day for two days to make a 7 day schedule. Alexander Lastin took first place on tie-break from Boris Grachev, both finished on 7.5/9. Games in PGN http://www.chessmoscow.ru/index.php?topicID=219 Leading Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Lastin, Alexander 2594 7.5 52.0 2750 +1.56 Grachev, Boris 2509 7.5 48.5 2700 +2.01 3. Rychagov, Andrey 2509 7.0 45.5 2674 +1.78 4. Maslak, Konstantin 2529 6.5 50.0 2631 +1.19 Nikolenko, Oleg 2527 6.5 47.5 2609 +0.92 Najer, Evgeniy 2652 6.5 50.5 2680 +0.29 Smikovski, Ivan 2538 6.5 52.0 2628 +1.10 Czarnota, Pawel 2497 6.5 51.5 2598 +1.19 Kosyrev, Vladimir 2527 6.5 51.0 2657 +1.34 Iskusnyh, Sergei 2510 6.5 44.0 2573 +0.74 Amonatov, Farrukh 2564 6.5 47.5 2601 +0.47 Khismatullin, Denis 2576 6.5 45.0 2600 +0.29 Yandemirov, Valeri 2503 6.5 46.0 2573 +0.83 Novikov, Stanislav 2520 6.5 45.0 2571 +0.56 Chebotarev, Oleg 2494 6.5 48.0 2604 +1.28 Aleksandrov, Aleksej 2653 6.5 49.0 2566 -0.82 Belov, Vladimir 2608 6.5 43.5 2545 -0.58 18. Zontakh, Andrey 2545 6.0 46.0 2527 -0.21 Nechepurenko, Roman V. 2430 6.0 48.0 2585 +1.86 Riazantsev, Alexander 2594 6.0 49.5 2522 -0.76 Grigoriants, Sergey 2550 6.0 45.0 2551 -0.03 Zabotin, Alexander 2418 6.0 40.5 2487 +0.78 Sveshnikov, Evgeny 2503 6.0 47.5 2563 +0.69 Poobesh Anand, S. 2413 6.0 45.5 2493 +0.96 Tarlev, Konstantin 2413 6.0 42.5 2496 +0.96 Prathamesh, Sunil Mokal 2346 6.0 46.5 2537 +2.31 Lysyj, Igor 2523 6.0 44.0 2515 -0.12 Khruschiov, Alexey 2386 6.0 45.5 2555 +2.04 Romanov, Evgeny 2489 6.0 44.0 2501 +0.15 Petrosian, Davit G. 2352 6.0 44.5 2547 +2.40 Slugin, Sergey 2407 6.0 41.0 2486 +0.96 Geller, Jakov 2505 6.0 41.0 2462 -0.48 Deviatkin, Andrei 2528 6.0 42.0 2494 -0.39 Gorbatov, Alexej 2381 6.0 44.0 2489 +1.32 Kuzin, Anton 2368 6.0 39.0 2535 +1.82 225 players |
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| Yasser Seirawan Letter The campaign to elect Bessel Kok and his deputy Ali Nihat Yazicias FIDE President at the Turin FIDE Congress alongside the Olympiad (20th May - 4th June 2006) is in full swing. Letters of support from Federations and individuals have been coming into their website: http://www.rightmove06.org/. In particular there was a recent letter by Yasser Seirawan in Chess Today. Yasser Seirawan on FIDE from Chess Today 3rd February 2006. From my point of view this is the best candidate for FIDE President for many years. But voting in FIDE elections does not proceed in the real world. I've seen Federation support for opposition to sitting FIDE Presidents Campomanes and then Iljumzhinov melt away in the night and these Federations end up supporting these candidates. At the very least we deserve to see the level of support for these candidates reflected in a final vote not some "we are one family" coronation and unanimous election of the next president. Bessel Kok would make a good president, he's highly qualified in all the areas needed. Kirsan Iljumzhinov never had the qualifications to do this job, and was elected in the first place because he had the finances to bail out an organisation made insolvent by Florencio Campomanes. But this support, and I'm by no means convinced as to his motivation, has come at too higher price. I do however fear that if he loses the winning candidate may find some nasty financial surprises. But right now I'd rather see bankruptcy, as I did at the time of his first election. I haven't touched these issues for years because its seemed to me pointless to get worked up about FIDE when change was so unlikely. I'm not optimistic this time either but if Bessel Kok can't get elected president in opposition to Iljumzhinov, no-one can. Further details about Chess Today: http://www.chesstoday.net/ Sample Chess Today Issues Downloads CT-1913.cbv CT-1913.pdf CT-1913.pgn CT-1914.cbv CT-1914.pdf CT-1914.pgn CT-info.doc |
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| Fibertex Cup The Fibertex Cup took place February 3rd-4th 2006 in Aalborg, Denmark. The double-round blindfold event was won by Peter Heine Nielsen a point ahead of Magnus Carlsen. Games in PGN Round 1: GM Magnus Carlsen - GM Peter Heine Nielsen ½-½ GM Lars Schandorff - IM Nicolai V. Pedersen ½-½ Round 2: GM Magnus Carlsen - GM Lars Schandorff 1-0 GM Peter Heine Nielsen - IM Nicolai V. Pedersen 1-0 Round 3: IM Nicolai V. Pedersen - GM Magnus Carlsen 0-1 GM Lars Schandorff - GM Peter Heine Nielsen 0-1 Round 4: GM Peter Heine Nielsen - GM Lars Schandorff ½-½ GM Magnus Carlsen - IM Nicolai V. Pedersen 1-0 Round 5: GM Lars Schandorff - GM Magnus Carlsen - ½-½ IM Nicolai V. Pedersen - GM Peter Heine Nielsen 0-1 Round 6: IM Nicolai V. Pedersen - GM Lars Schandorff 1-0 GM Peter Heine Nielsen - GM Magnus Carlsen 1-0 Final standings: 1: GM Peter Heine Nielsen, 5 2: GM Magnus Carlsen, 4 3-4: GM Lars Schandorff and IM Nicolai V. Pedersen, 1½ Live coverage: http://www.dsu.dk/fibertex/engelsk.htm |
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65th Georgian Men's Championship  Winner Giorgi Kacheishvili and a point behind him David Arutinian who beat Tamaz Gelashvili in a play off to make the Georgian Olympiad team. Photos © Mr.Karlo Topuridze. The 65th Georgian Men's Championship took place 21st January - 5th February 2006. The winner was Winner Giorgi Kacheishvili and a point behind him was David Arutinian who beat Tamaz Gelashvili in a play off to make the Georgian Olympiad team. News: Varlam Vepkhvishvili. Games in PGN - Mikheil Mchedlishvili and later Davit Magalashvili withdrew - Playoff Games for 2nd and 3rd Final Round 13 Standings: Kacheishvili, Giorgi g 2599 8.5/11 Arutinian, David m 2507 7.5/11 2nd after tie-break match Gelashvili, Tamaz g 2575 7.5/11 Jobava, Beglar m 2401 7.0/11 Gagunashvili, Merab g 2542 6.5/11 Margvelashvili, Giorgi m 2434 5.5/11 Sulashvili, Malkhaz f 2376 5.0/11 Shanava, Konstantine m 2490 4.5/11 Kuparadze, Giga 2381 4.5/11 Morchiashvili, Bachana 2370 3.5/11 Paichadze, Luka 2171 3.0/11 Sanitize, Tornike m 2425 3.0/11 Georgian Olymapid Team: 1) GM Azmaiparashvili Zurab g 2658 16.03.1960 2) GM Izoria Zviad g 2652 06.01.1984 3) GM Jobava Baadur g 2614 26.11.1983 4) GM Pantsulaia Levan g 2609 26.02.1986 5) GM Kacheishvili Giorgi g 2599 10.02.1977 6) IM Arutinian David m 2507 31.05.1984 |
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Corus, Wijk aan
Zee Anand beat Gelfand to share first place with Topalov. Photo © Mark Crowther The Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee took place January 13th-29th 2006. Anand and Topalov shared first place. Games in PGN Group A- Corus A Wijk aan Zee 2006 - Viewer Games in PGN Group B Games in PGN Group C Corus Wijk aan Zee 2006 A, B and C Results and Crosstable Brief Comments by Mark Crowther and IM Malcolm Pein Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 13. Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 12. Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 11. Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 10. Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 9. Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 8. Malcolm Pein analyses A Naiditsch - A Motylev (8) Wijk aan Zee Malcolm Pein on Wijk aan Zee Round 8. M Carlsen - E L'Ami Analysed.Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 7. Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 6. Malcolm Pein analyses M Carlsen - A Beliavsky Wijk aan Zee B (5) Malcolm Pein analyses S Karjakin - E Bacrot Wijk aan Zee (5) Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 5. Malcolm Pein analyses L Van Wely - V Topalov (4) Wijk aan Zee Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 4. Malcolm Pein analyses V Ivanchuk - V Anand (3) Wijk aan Zee Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 3. Malcolm Pein analyses M Adams - V Topalov (2) Wijk aan Zee Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 2. (Photos Michiel Abeln) Malcolm Pein analyses V Topalov - G Kamsky (1) Wijk aan Zee Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Round 1. Corus, Wijk aan Zee 2006 Preview. Group A Round 13 (January 29, 2006) Adams, Michael - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 1/2 27 C78 Ruy Lopez Moeller Defence Ivanchuk, Vassily - Karjakin, Sergey 1-0 64 A28 English Four Knights Leko, Peter - Topalov, Veselin 1/2 40 B91 Sicilian Najdorf with 6.g3 Aronian, Levon - Sokolov, Ivan 1-0 35 D17 Slav Defence Kamsky, Gata - Tiviakov, Sergei 0-1 43 B01 Centre Counter Anand, Viswanathan - Gelfand, Boris 1-0 66 B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation Bacrot, Etienne - Van Wely, Loek 1/2 91 D46 Semi-Slav Defence Round 13 Standings: 1. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2792 9.0; 2. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2801 9.0; 3. Adams, Michael g ENG 2707 7.5; 4. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 7.5; 5. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2723 7.0; 6. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2660 7.0; 7. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2669 6.5; 8. Leko, Peter g HUN 2740 6.5; 9. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2752 6.5; 10. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2647 6.0; 11. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2717 5.5; 12. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2709 4.5; 13. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2686 4.5; 14. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2689 4.0; Final Group B Round 13 Standings: 1. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2638 9.0; 2. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2625 9.0; 3. Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2646 8.5; 4. Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2614 8.0; 5. Navara, David g CZE 2660 7.5; 6. Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2625 7.0; 7. L'Ami, Erwin m NED 2550 7.0; 8. Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2657 7.0; 9. Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2626 6.5; 10. Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2633 6.0; 11. Koneru, Humpy g IND 2537 6.0; 12. Smeets, Jan g NED 2550 4.0; 13. Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2573 3.0; 14. Lahno, Kateryna m UKR 2500 2.5; Group C Final Round 13 Standings: 1. Atalik, Suat g TUR 2618 10.5; 2. Werle, Jan m NED 2514 9.0; 3. Marcelin, Cyril g FRA 2441 9.0; 4. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2505 8.0; 5. Li Shilong g CHN 2543 7.5; 6. Visser, Yge m NED 2485 6.5; 7. Bischoff, Klaus g GER 2560 6.5; 8. Van der Weide, Karel g NED 2466 6.5; 9. Jonkman, Harmen g NED 2470 5.5; 10. Hopman, Pieter NED 2332 5.0; 11. Atalik, Ekaterina wg TUR 2399 5.0; 12. Adly, Ahmed g EGY 2473 4.5; 13. Bensdorp, Marlies wm NED 2230 4.0; 14. Afek, Yochanan m ISR 2370 3.5; Official site:http://www.coruschess.com/ |
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Gibtelecom Chess
Festival Leader Kiril Georgiev held second placed Emil Sutovsky in the final round to win the event. Photo © Bill O'Rourke.  The Gibraltar Congress took place 24th January - 2nd February 2006. Kiril Georgiev won with an impressive 8.5/10 a point clear of Nigel Short and Emil Sutovsky. Official site: http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com Games in PGN Leading Final Round 10 Standings: 1 GEORGIEV,Kiril BUL g 2645 8½ 2 SHORT,Nigel ENG g 2676 7½ 3 SUTOVSKY,Emil ISR g 2624 7½ 4 AKOPIAN,Vladimir ARM g 2704 7 5 ARESHCHENKO,Alex UKR g 2670 7 6 EFIMENKO,Zahar UKR g 2666 7 7 GUREVICH,Mikhail TUR g 2629 7 8 GYIMESI,Zoltan HUN g 2602 7 9 SHIROV,Alexi ESP g 2709 7 10 VOLKOV,Sergey RUS g 2629 7 11 AL-MODIAHKI,Mohamad QAT g 2579 6½ 12 BELLON LOPEZ,Juan ESP g 2415 6½ 13 BOLOGAN,Viktor MDA g 2661 6½ 14 KOBALIA,Mikhail RUS g 2654 6½ 15 KORCHNOI,Viktor SUI g 2608 6½ 16 PAVLOVIC,Milos SCG g 2494 6½ 17 PELLETIER,Yannick SUI g 2579 6½ 18 SANDIPAN,Chanda IND g 2522 6½ 19 SPRAGGETT,Kevin CAN g 2581 6½ 20 STEFANOVA,Antoaneta BUL g 2499 6½ 21 SUNDARARAJAN,Kidambi IND m 2495 6½ 22 ZHU,Chen CHI g 2482 6½ 23 ZHUKOVA,Natalia UKR wg 2432 6½ 24 AABERG,Anton SWE 2383 6 25 AL SAYED,Mohamad N QAT m 2470 6 26 ARIZMENDI MARTINEZ,Julen ESP g 2534 6 27 CMILYTE,Victorija LTU m 2475 6 28 CRAMLING,Pia SWE g 2515 6 29 GANGULY,Surya IND g 2579 6 30 KUNTE,Abhijit IND g 2551 6 31 QUILLAN,Gary ENG 2356 6 32 SCHUURMAN,Petra NED f 2234 6 33 SHAW,John K SCO m 2432 6 34 SPEELMAN,Jon ENG g 2539 6 |
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| Queenstown Chess
Classic The Queenstown Chess Classic in New Zealand took place 15th-24th January 2006. Murray Chandler was half a point clear of Ian Rogers and David Smerdon Also Bob Wade returned to New Zealand for the first time in 56 years and scored 6/10. Official site: http://badbishop.com/queenstownchess/index.html |
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| Keres Memorial
Rapid The Keres Memorial Rapid took place in Tallinn, Estonia 6th-9th January 2006. Games in PGN and Women's Games in PGN (Rounds 1-3) Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2748 7.0; 2. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2672 7.0; 3. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2670 7.0; 4. Berg, Emanuel g SWE 2540 5.5; 5. Kosyrev, Vladimir g RUS 2530 4.5; 6. Vitiugov, Nikita RUS 2538 4.5; 7. Yemelin, Vasily g RUS 2529 4.0; 8. Liiva, Riho m EST 2411 3.5; 9. Agrest, Evgenij g SWE 2571 1.5; 10. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2710 0.5; Further details: http://www.maleliit.ee/turniirid/arhiiv/2006/kalev/index.php?act=10⟨=eng, http://www.moldesjakk.net and Live Coverage: http://www.kabeliit.ee/HTML/1/tfd.htm Malcolm Pein Annotates Malcolm Pein analyses E Agrest - N Vitiugov Keres Mem. Rapid Tallinn (9) Malcolm Pein analyses V.Ivanchuk - V.Kosyrev Keres Mem Rapid Tallinn (3) Malcolm Pein analyses V Yemelin - A Karpov Keres Memorial Rapid (3) Tallinn |
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| FIDE Candidates
Pairings FIDE have released their Candidates Pairings for their next World Championship Cycle. The matches will be some time this year at a time and place as yet unspecified. 1. L. Aronian - M. Carlsen 2. P. Leko - M. Gurevich 3. R. Ponomariov - S. Rublevsky 4. B. Gelfand - R. Kasimjanov 5. E. Bacrot - G. Kamsky 6. A. Grischuk - V. Malakhov 7. J. Polgar - E. Bareev 8. A. Shirov - M. Adams Source: http://www.fide.com. |
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Moscow Superblitz
tournament Photo © http://www.chesspro.ru/blitz/blitz05.shtml Moscow Superblitz tournament was held on the 6th January 2006 held in one of the best hotels in Moscow called Baltschug Kempinsky. The event was organised by the ChessPro.ru site. Final Standings: 1-2. Grischuk and Morozevich - 15/22; 3. Svidler - 14; 4-5. Tkachev and Korotylev - 12.5; 6. Dreev - 11.5; 7-8. Shipov and Kobalia - 10; 9. Jakovenko - 9; 10-11. Grachev and Savchenko - 8.5; 12. Malakhov - 5.5. Tie-break for 1-2 place: Grischuk - Morozevich 1.5:0.5 Official site: http://www.chesspro.ru/blitz/blitz05.shtml |
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| Reggio Emilia The Reggio Emilia international tournament took place December 29th 2005 to January 6th 2006 in Hotel Astoria Mercure. Konstantin Landa won the event with 7/9 a point clear of Denis Yevseev. Games in PGN Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Landa, Konstantin g RUS 2600 7.0; 2. Yevseev, Denis g RUS 2554 6.0; 3. Cebalo, Miso g CRO 2512 5.5; 4. Vocaturo, Daniele f ITA 2364 5.0; 5. Piscopo, Pierluigi f ITA 2399 4.5; 6. Fercec, Nenad m CRO 2512 4.5; 7. Kotronias, Vasilios g GRE 2626 4.0; 8. Zimina, Olga wg RUS 2397 4.0; 9. Ronchetti, Niccolo' f ITA 2402 3.5; 10. Franchini, Gabriele f ITA 2315 1.0; Official site: http://www.ippogrifoscacchi.it/ |
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| Rilton Cup The Rilton Cup took place 27th December 2005 - 5th January 2006. Eduardas Rozentalis took first on tie-break from four others, all finishing with 7/9. Games in PGN Leading Final Standings: 1 Rozentalis, Eduardas LTU 2585 gm 7 2 Ivanov, Sergey RUS 2538 gm 7 3 Nybäck, Tomi FIN 2563 gm 7 4 Postny, Evgeny ISR 2571 gm 7 5 Miezis, Normunds LAT 2469 gm 7 6 Karlsson, Lars SWE 2501 gm 6.5 7 Johannessen, Leif Erlend NOR 2564 gm 6.5 8 Berg, Emanuel SWE 2540 gm 6.5 9 Cicak, Slavko SWE 2496 gm 6.5 10 Nouro, Mikael FIN 2349 im 6.5 11 Brynell, Stellan SWE 2496 gm 6.5 12 Fontaine, Robert FRA 2507 gm 6 13 Rodshtein, Maxim ISR 2457 im 6 14 Kurnosov, Igor RUS 2523 gm 6 15 Iordachescu, Viorel MDA 2583 gm 6 16 Khmelniker, Ilya ISR 2430 im 6 17 Cramling, Pia SWE 2492 gm 6 18 Jaracz, Pavel POL 2492 gm 6 19 Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel ESP 2401 gm 6 20 Bérczes, Csaba HUN 2389 fm 6 21 Van Beek, Alexander NED 2334 fm 6 22 Bérczes, David HUN 2475 im 6 23 Åkesson, Ralf SWE 2486 gm 6 24 Kolbus, Dietmar GER 2413 im 6 Official site: http://www.stockholmschack.nu/rilton/rc_index.htm |
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