| June Computer Chess
Sale. New TWIC Theory June 2007: Developments in the Mainline Queens Indian by
GM Alexander Finkel |
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| 5th Staunton Memorial. Michael Adams takes
clear first place by a point. |
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| 5th Gyorgy Marx Memorial. Peter Acs and
Pentala Harikrishna finished on 6/10 with Acs taking first place as he scored
the most wins. Korchnoi collapsed with only a half from 4 in the final rounds.
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| Chess Classic Mainz. Rapid Anand beats
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| NH Chess Tournament |
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| IBCA Championships in Durham |
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| French Championships |
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| Hans Ree on John Watson's Book Show |
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| Euwe Stimulus Arnhem |
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| Banyoles 2007. Nigel Short plays |
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| 17th Abu Dhabi International Chess
Festival |
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| British Championships 2007. Jacob Aagaard
takes the title with a final round win over Glenn Flear with black. |
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| Liverpool Chess International. China - UK
match plus also a large open. September 3rd-9th 2007 |
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| ICC offer prize of visit to Mexico World
Championship tournament |
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| Ian Rogers retires from competitive
chess |
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| Chess Classic Mainz |
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| Canadian Open. Bu Xiangzhi won with
8/10. |
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| July FIDE Rating List the corrected
version |
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New John Watson chess book and software
reviews.
Most recent review: 17th July 2007.
#80: Historical and Biographical Works,
Installment 1 - #81: Historical and
Biographical Works, Installment 2
Recent reviews:
#79 - #78 -
#77 - #76
- #75 -
#74
Past
Reviews
John Watson's ambitious work,"Mastering
the Openings, Volume 1" is now available, with Volume 2 at the printers.
The books aim to explain openings on an instructional and conceptual basis. His
"Dangerous Weapons: The French" has just been released. It is available at the
London Chess Center, along with his recent co-authored book "How to Succeed in
the Queen Pawn Openings". Other of Watson's award-winning books include "Chess Strategy in Action",
"Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy",
and "Play the French, 3rd Edition".
John reports that TWIC is a constant Web companion. |
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TWIC Theory Service and
Promotions
TWIC Theory
TWIC Theory is an electronic
monthly magazine with high quality articles delivered in PGN and PDF format on
the 25th of every month. You can still get the back issues.
Number 34 July 2007.
Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation - set-ups with ...Bd6 By
Grandmaster Bogdan Lalic
Details:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twictheory/
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New TWIC Beta site
We're working on a new
format for the TWIC site. You can view the Beta site at:
http://www.twic.co.uk/infoglueDeliverLive/.
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5th Staunton Memorial
The 5th Staunton
Memorial saw six Dutch and six English players compete in a single round robin
event. The event as last year, was supported by the Dutch chess enthusiast Jan
Mol. Michael Adams took clear first place by a point from Ivan Sokolov and Loek
van Wely.
Games in PGN
Final Round
11 Standings: 1. Adams, Michael g ENG 2724 8.5; 2. Sokolov, Ivan NED g NED
2666 7.5; 3. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2680 7.5; 4. Jones, Gawain C B g ENG 2526
6.5; 5. Werle, Jan g NED 2552 6.5; 6. Smeets, Jan g NED 2538 6.5; 7. L'Ami,
Erwin g NED 2598 5.0; 8. Timman, Jan H g NED 2560 5.0; 9. Wells, Peter K g ENG
2517 4.0; 10. Speelman, Jon S g ENG 2511 3.5; 11. McNab, Colin A g SCO 2416
3.0; 12. Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2401 2.5;
Official site:
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5th Gyorgy Marx Memorial
The 5th Gyorgy
Marx Memorial took place in Paks, Hungary 4th-15th August 2007. Peter Acs and
Pentala Harikrishna finished on 6/10 with Acs taking first place as he scored
the most wins. Korchnoi collapsed with only a half from 4 in the final rounds.
Games in PGN
Final Round 10
Standings: 1. Acs, Peter g HUN 2530 6.0; 2. Harikrishna, P g IND 2664 6.0;
3. Balogh, Csaba g HUN 2568 5.5; 4. Berkes, Ferenc g HUN 2597 5.0; 5. Korchnoi,
Viktor g SUI 2610 4.5; 6. Hou Yifan wg CHN 2523 3.0;
Official site:
http://www.ase.hu/marxgy/2007/index_eng.html
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Chess Classic Mainz
The Chess Classic
Mainz takes place August 13th-19th 2007 at the Rheingoldhalle. Viswanathan
Anand, Levon Aronian, Etienne Bacrot and Rustam Kasimdzhanov will play a mixed
rapid chess and Chess960 event. These will take place along with the usual
mixture of other events.
The chess960 part of the event was won by
Levon Aronian who beat Viswanathan Anand in the final.
Anand beat
Aronian in the Rapid final 2.5-1.5.
Prelim Rapid
Games in PGN - Final Games in PGN -
3rd 4th Games in PGN
Finals 19th Aug
2007
Anand 2.5-1.5 Aronian
Kasimdzhanov 2-2 Bacrot (no playoff
reported.)
Rapid Tournament Prelim Final Round 6 Standings: 1.
Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2792 4.0; 2. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2750 3.5; 3.
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2683 2.5; 4. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2695 2.0;
Official site: http://www.chesstigers.de - Live Games:
http://www.chesstigers.de/live/ccm7/live.htm
- Videos: http://www.chessvibes.com/ |
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NH Tournament
The NH Chess Tournament
takes place 22nd August - 1st September 2007 in the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky
in Amsterdam organised by the Association Max Euwe in Monaco. The Scheveningen
team tournament is a battle between a team of 'Experience' and a team of
'Rising Stars'.
The 'Experience' team consists of Alexander Beliavsky
(Slovenia), Artur Jussupow (Germany), Alexander Khalifman (Russia), Ljubomir
Ljubojevic (Serbia) and Predrag Nikolic (Bosnia).
The 'Rising Stars'
team consists of Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgaria), Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine),
Parimarjan Negi (India), Jan Smeets (The Netherlands) and Daniel Stellwagen
(The Netherlands). A place in the Amber 2008 tournament is part of the prize
for the top finishing rising star.
Official site:
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I.B.C.A. European Individual Championship
2007
Round 4 Board 1 Zsiltzova-Lisenko v Meshkov. Photo ©
http://www.braillechess.org.uk
The I.B.C.A. European Individual Championship 2007 takes place at St Aiden's
College in Durham from 13th to 24th August 2007.
Play starts at 1.45
pm. except Monday (a rest day) and final day (11 am start) ) IM Colin Crouch is
the main British contender and six others including Graham Lilley and Chris
Ross will play.
Games in PGN rounds
1-5
Official site: http://www.braillechess.org.uk - Live
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French Championships 2007
The French
Championships take place in Aix-les-Bains 13th-25th August 2007.
Games
in PGN
Round 7 Standings: 1. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2655
5.0; 2. Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2595 5.0; 3. Sokolov, Andrei1 g FRA 2582
5.0; 4. Dorfman, Josif D g FRA 2584 4.0; 5. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2626 4.0; 6.
Degraeve, Jean-Marc g FRA 2520 3.5; 7. Fontaine, Robert g FRA 2567 3.5; 8.
Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2646 3.5; 9. Vaisser, Anatoly g FRA 2544 3.0; 10.
Nataf, Igor-Alexandre g FRA 2588 3.0; 11. Renet, Olivier g FRA 2498 1.5; 12.
Guidarelli, Laurent m FRA 2450 1.0;
Official site:
http://www.echecs.asso.fr and news also
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John Watson Book Show
Regular TWIC
contributer John Watson has a book radio show on chess.fm on Tuesdays. On
Tuesday 20th August 2007 his guest is the great Dutch journalist Hans Ree. You
can catch the show by signing up for ICC trial membership. Link:
http://www.chessclub.com/chessfm/ |
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Euwe Stimulans
Amon
Simotuwe. Photo © Fred Lucas http://www.fredlucas.eu
The Euwe
Stimulans tournament takes place in Arnhem, Netherlands 17th-26th August 2007.
Players: GMs Barua, Panno, Fridrik Olafsson and Gaprindashvili, IMs Simutowe,
Willy Hendriks, Ziska and Puchen Wang, WGM Bianca Muhren and 17-year-old Dutch
talent Vincent Rothuis.
Games in
PGN
Round 3 Standings: 1. Simutowe, Amon m ZAM 2421 3.0; 2.
Gaprindashvili, Nona1 g GEO 2364 2.0; 3. Wang Puchen f NZL 2348 2.0; 4. Barua,
Dibyendu g IND 2462 2.0; 5. Hendriks, Willy m NED 2420 1.5; 6. Olafsson,
Fridrik g ISL 2452 1.5; 7. Muhren, Bianca wg NED 2334 1.5; 8. Ziska, Helgi Dam
m FAI 2392 1.0; 9. Panno, Oscar g ARG 2457 0.5; 10. Rothuis, Vincent NED 2441
0.0;
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Banyoles 2007
The Banyoles International
chess festival takes place 16th - 24th August 2007. The main interest is the
participation of Nigel Short who is over 100 ELO stronger than the next best
player.
Top 6 players: 1 GM Short Nigel D ENG 2683 2 GM Shengelia
Davit GEO 2572 3 GM Moskalenko Viktor UKR 2560 4 GM Gonzalez Garcia Jose MEX
2540 5 GM Marin Mihail ROM 2533 6 IM Fluvia Jordi ESP 2497
Official
site: http://www.escacsbanyoles.com/
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17th Abu Dhabi Festival
The 17th Abu Dhabi
International Chess Festival takes place 12th–20th August 2007.
Further info: http://www.abudhabichess.com/ -
http://chess-results.com/Tnr7534.aspx?lan=1
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British Championships 2007
Buckley, Hebden, Rowson and Kosten. Photo © Bob
Jones.
The 94th Championships of The British Isles Organised by the
English Chess Federation took place Sunday 29th July - Saturday 11th August -
Great Yarmouth College, Great Yarmouth. Jacob Aagaard took the title with a
final round win over Glenn Flear with black.
Games
in PGN - Top British Games Rd11 [Thanks to Dave
Clayton and Jack Rudd]
Final Round 11 Results
1 Gordon, Stephen 2487 (7½) 1/2 Kosten, Anthony 2508 (7)
2 Flear, Glenn C 2479 (7) 0-1 Aagaard, Jacob 2467 (7½)
3 Rowson, Jonathan 2599 (7) 1-0 Pert, Nicholas 2536 (7)
4 Hebden, Mark 2540 (7) 1/2 Haslinger, Stew 2468 (7)
5 Howell, David W 2519 (6½) 1-0 Williams, Simon 2480 (6½)
6 Buckley, Graeme 2379 (6) 0-1 Conquest, Stuar 2546 (6)
7 Ward, Chris G 2439 (6) 1/2 Sowray, Peter J 2352 (6)
8 Lewis, Andrew P 2284 (6) 1/2 Ciuksyte, Dagne 2426 (6)
9 Fowler, Simon 2204 (6) 0-1 Arakhamia-Grant 2418 (6)
10 Bellin, Robert 2403 (6) 1-0 Briscoe, Christ 2224 (6)
Leading Final Standings:
1 Aagaard, Jacob SCO m 2467 8½
2 Gordon, Stephen ENG m 2487 8
3 Rowson, Jonathan W SCO g 2599 8
4 Haslinger, Stewart G ENG m 2468 7½
5 Hebden, Mark ENG g 2540 7½
6 Howell, David W L ENG g 2519 7½
7 Kosten, Anthony C FRA g 2508 7½
8 Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan GEO m 2418 7
9 Bellin, Robert ENG m 2403 7
10 Conquest, Stuart ENG g 2546 7
11 Flear, Glenn C ENG g 2479 7
12 Pert, Nicholas ENG g 2536 7
13 Rudd, Jack ENG f 2370 7
14 Chapman, Terence ENG 2200 6½
15 Ciuksyte, Dagne ENG m 2426 6½
16 Lewis, Andrew P ENG f 2284 6½
17 Sowray, Peter J ENG f 2352 6½
18 Ward, Chris G ENG g 2439 6½
19 Williams, Simon K ENG m 2480 6½
Official site:
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Liverpool Chess International
The Liverpool
Chess International takes place 3rd-9th September 2007. There is a China
( GM Wang Yue (age 20) 2696 GM Bu Xiangzhi (age 22) 2685 GM Ni Hua (age 24)
2681 GM Zhang Pengxiang (age 27) 2649 GM Wang Hao (age 18) 2619 WGM Hou Yifan
(age 13) 2523 WGM Shen Yang(age 18) 2439 WFM Ding Yixin (age 16) 2278) vs
UK ( GM Michael Adams (age 34) 2724 GM Nigel Short (age 42) 2683 GM
Jonathan Rowson (age 30) 2599 GM Nick Pert (age 26) 2536 GM Gawain Jones (age
18) 2526 GM David Howell (age 16) 2519 IM Keti Arakahamia-Grant (age 39) 2419
IM Jovanka Houska (age 27) 2401) Match.
Alongside is an open tournament
same dates. 9 round swiss £10,000 in prizes. Entry on the official site
below or
http://www.liverpoolchessinternational.co.uk/open_entryform_2007.htm
Official
site: http://www.liverpoolchessinternational.co.uk/
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ICC Competition - Prize is a visit to the Mexico World
Championship Tournament
Mexico 2007 ICC Qualifiers August
4th-9th 2007. Starting August 4, and running until August 12, you will have a
chance to win a trip to be a VIP guest at the World Championships in Mexico
City. Now, after the huge record-breaking success of our Mainz qualifier, there
comes another bigger and better qualifier - and exclusive ONLY for full ICC
members. The package for the overall winner includes: $1500 USD (to be paid out
only on arrival in Mexico) to cover your airfares and other expenses. Also
included in the package is 4 nights (13-17 Sept.) at a top hotel in Mexico
City, plus VIP tickets for the World Championships, and free entry into the
"Copa Internacional de la Cd. De Mexico" Open.
Details:
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Ian Rogers Retires
Ian Rogers has retired
from competitive chess after over 20 years as Australia's number one player.
His last event was the Lidums Checkmate Open which he won by defeating IM
Andras Toth in the final round. He didn't want to retire and is in reasonable
health but multiple doctors told him that due to the stress of playing and its
affect on blood pressure if he didn't give up chess immediately and
permanently, he would be on a dialysis machine within a few years.
Chess
Express on Rogers retirement
Ian
Rogers Final tournament
Games in PGN - Two wins
from his last event plus a stonking win from the final weekend of the 4NCL in
May showing what we'll miss |
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July FIDE Rating List
The July 2007 rating
list has been released. Viswanathan Anand has extended the lead as world number
one he gained in April gaining 4 points from 4 Bundesliga games. Veselin
Topalov retains his second position by virtue of games played from Vladimir
Kramnik for the second list in succession, both lost three rating points in the
period, Kramnik by drawing against Jan Smeets in a single Dutch League
game.
FIDE July 2007 Rating List: Top 100
Analysis
Top 20 July 2007
1 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2792 4 1969
2 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2769 10 1975
3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2769 1 1975
4 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2762 22 1969
5 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2758 18 1977
6 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2757 14 1985
7 Leko, Peter g HUN 2751 9 1979
8 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2750 15 1982
9 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2746 7 1987
10 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2735 29 1983
11 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2735 28 1972
12 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2735 6 1976
13 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2733 21 1968
14 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2726 18 1983
15 Adams, Michael g ENG 2724 18 1971
16 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2718 28 1974
17 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2710 19 1990
18 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2708 5 1971
19 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2707 10 1976
20 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2706 16 1983 |
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40th Biel Chess
Festival
GM Group along with Anatoly Karpov. Photo ©
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch
The
40th Biel Chess Festival took place 21st July-3rd August 2007. A final round
win for Magnus Carlsen after two straight losses earned him a tie with
Alexander Onischuk for first place on 5.5/9, Carlsen then won a blitz playoff
3-2.
Games in PGN - Blitz Playoff Games
Blitz Playoff (August 2,
2007)
Gm1 Onischuk, Alexander - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 69 E15 Queens
Indian
Gm2 Carlsen, Magnus - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 54 E36 Nimzo Indian
4.Qc2
Gm3 Onischuk, Alexander - Carlsen, Magnus 1/2 52 A58 Volga Gambit
Gm4 Carlsen, Magnus - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 54 C54 Giuoco Piano
Gm5
Onischuk, Alexander - Carlsen, Magnus 0-1 42 E20 Nimzo Indian
Round
9 (August 2, 2007)
Carlsen, Magnus - Radjabov, Teimour 1-0 28 B07
Pirc Defence
Polgar, Judit - Pelletier, Yannick 1/2 49 B47 Sicilian
Paulsen
Bu Xiangzhi - Van Wely, Loek 0-1 66 D45 Anti-Meran Variations
Motylev, Alexander - Onischuk, Alexander 1/2 31 C89 Ruy Lopez Marshall
Avrukh, Boris - Grischuk, Alexander 0-1 54 D39 QGD Ragozin
Final
Round 9 Standings: 1. Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2710 5.5; 2. Onischuk,
Alexander g USA 2650 5.5; 3. Pelletier, Yannick g SUI 2591 5.0; 4. Polgar,
Judit g HUN 2707 5.0; 5. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2726 5.0; 6. Radjabov,
Teimour g AZE 2746 5.0; 7. Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2685 3.5; 8. Van Wely, Loek g NED
2680 3.5; 9. Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2648 3.5; 10. Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2645
3.5;
Official site: http://www.bielchessfestival.ch -
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8th Montreal
International
The 8th Montreal International took place
19th-28th July 2007. Vassily Ivanchuk continued his hot run of form taking
clear first with 7/9.
Games in
PGN
Round 9 (July 28, 2007)
Ivanchuk, Vassily -
Harikrishna, P 1-0 41 C42 Petroff's Defence
Tiviakov, Sergei - Charbonneau,
Pascal 1/2 57 B43 Sicilian Paulsen
Kamsky, Gata - Eljanov, Pavel 0-1 36 E55
Nimzo Indian
Sutovsky, Emil - Miton, Kamil 1-0 32 C92 Ruy Lopez
Chigorin
Short, Nigel D - Bluvshtein, Mark 0-1 42 C34 Kings Knight
Gambit
Final Round 9 Standings:1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2762
7.0; 2. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2648 6.0; 3. Harikrishna, P g IND 2664 5.5; 4.
Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2701 5.0; 5. Kamsky, Gata g USA 2718 5.0; 6. Sutovsky,
Emil g ISR 2656 4.5; 7. Miton, Kamil g POL 2648 3.5; 8. Bluvshtein, Mark g CAN
2520 3.5; 9. Charbonneau, Pascal g CAN 2503 3.0; 10. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2683
2.0;
Official site: http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca and
http://www.monroi.com/tournamentgate/MInternational07/index.html
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Banja Luka 2007
The Banja Luka Tournament took place 22nd-30th July 2007. Korchnoi and
Ilincic shared first place.
Games in PGN
Final Round 9 Standings: 1. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2610 6.5; 2.
Ilincic, Zlatko g SRB 2509 6.5; 3. Ruck, Robert g HUN 2563 5.0; 4. Stojanovic,
Mihajlo m SRB 2601 5.0; 5. Andersson, Ulf g SWE 2520 4.5; 6. Vukic, Milan g BIH
2481 4.5; 7. Solodovnichenko, Yuri g UKR 2582 4.5; 8. Jakovljevic, Vlado m BIH
2440 4.0; 9. Savanovic, Aleksandar m BIH 2432 2.5; 10. Narancic, Vlado f SRB
2344 2.0;
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Canadian Open
Winner Bu
Xiangzhi. Photo © http://canchess.ca/
The 2007 Canadian
Open Chess Championship took place 7-15 July 2007 in Ottawa, the capital of
Canada. 10 rounds 100 minutes/game + 1 minute increment / move. Bu Xiangzhi won
with 8/10.
Games in PGN
Leading
Final Round 10 Standings:
1 Xiangzhi Bu GM 2685 8.0
2 Nigel D. Short GM 2683 7.5
3 Kamil Miton GM 2648 7.5
4 Chanda Sandipan GM 2563 7.5
5 Tomas Krnan IM 2492 7.5
6 Bator Sambuev GM 2482 7.5
7 Vadim Milov GM 2678 7.0
8 Sergey Tiviakov GM 2648 7.0
9 Andrey V. Rychagov GM 2557 7.0
10 Mark Bluvshtein GM 2520 7.0
11 Abhijit Kunte GM 2519 7.0
12 Alex Yermolinsky GM 2517 7.0
13 Anton Kovalyov FM 2510 7.0
14 Hoang Thong Tu GM 2483 7.0
15 Frank De La Paz Perdomo GM 2452 7.0
16 Thomas Roussel-Roozmon IM 2414 7.0
17 Alexander Reprintsev IM 2410 7.0
18 Leonid Gerzhoy IM 2409 7.0
19 Joe Bradford FM 2406 7.0
20 Daniel Rensch FM 2400 7.0
21 Jonathan Tayar FM 2271 7.0
22 Victor Mikhalevski GM 2601 6.5
23 Suat Atalik GM 2564 6.5
24 Anton Shomoev GM 2561 6.5
25 Valeriy Aveskulov GM 2539 6.5
26 David Howell GM 2519 6.5
27 Tomas Likavsky GM 2494 6.5
28 Tom O'Donnell IM 2427 6.5
29 Shiyam Thavandiran FM 2337 6.5
30 Arkady Vul GM 2312 6.5
280 players
Official site: Event website:
http://www.canchess.ca - Event blog:
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