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Some events in the year 2002
Groningen 2002
The Harmonie Chesstournament in
Groningen took place December 21st-30th 2002. Dgebuadze played the first four
rounds but then had to withdraw after becoming ill. Friso Nijboer won the event
with 6/8.
Games in PGN
Final
Standings: 1. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2556 6.0; 2. Romero Holmes, Alfonso g
ESP 2524 5.0; 3. Smeets, Jan NED 2461 5.0; 4. Werle, Jan m NED 2434 5.0; 5.
Stellwagen, Daniel f NED 2426 4.0; 6. Li Wenliang m CHN 2497 4.0; 7. Baramidze,
David GER 2390 3.0; 8. Ernst, Sipke m NED 2497 3.0; 9. Jonkman, Harmen g NED
2456 1.0;
Dgebuadze left the tournament due to illness; his results
have been removed from the ranking on the left. Regarding GM-/IM-results
(6pt./4.5pt.) however, games already played remain valid.
Internet
coverage: http://www.so-on.org/kerst2002/2002.html
Pamplona
2002
The
Pamplona 2002 took place 21st-28th December 2002. The main event was a double
round robin four player Category 16 event. Rustam Kasimdzhanov won a blitz
playoff 2-0 against Viktor Bologan after the players finished level on
3.5/6.
Games in PGN
Final Standings:
1. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2653 3.5; 2. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2627 3.5;
3. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2635 3.0; 4. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2684 2.0;
Kasparov - Karpov Rapid
Match
The start of the
decisive game 3
The four game match between Garry Kasparov and
Anatoly Karpov took place in New York, NY, USA, December 19th-20th 2002 in the
ABC Studios in Times Square. The Kasparov - Sting event was there a year or so
ago. 2 Games 25 mins + 10 secs each day. Karpov was the surprise winner
2.5-1.5.
On the spot with reports
x3dworld Kasparov - Karpov Rapid Report Day
2
x3dworld Kasparov - Karpov Photos Day
2
Mig and John Henderson Day 1
Report
x3dworld Kasparov - Karpov Day 1
Photos
Games in PGN
Results
Karpov 2.5 - Kasparov 1.5
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Garry 0-1 52
D92 Gruenfeld 5.Bf4
Kasparov, Garry - Karpov, Anatoly 0-1 47 C42 Petroff's
Defence
Karpov, Anatoly - Kasparov, Garry 1-0 46 D92 Gruenfeld 5.Bf4
Kasparov, Garry - Karpov, Anatoly 1/2 28 C42 Petroff's Defence
http://www.x3dworld.com
World Junior
Championships
The 41st World Junior & 19th Girls U-20 Chess Championships took place in
Panaji, Goa, 8th to 21st December 2002. Levon Aronian took gold, Luke McShane
Silver and Surya Sekhar Ganguly the bronze. Zhao Xue took the women's title.
World Junior Games Rds 1-13 in PGN and
World Junior Girls Games Rds 1-13 in PGN [only half
the final round games are available]
Leading World Junior Final (of
13) Standings: 1. Aronian L ARM 10.0 2. McShane Luke ENG 9.5 3. Ganguly S S
IND 9.0 4. Timofeev Artyom RUS 9.0 5. Potkin Vladimir RUS 8.5 Bu Xiangzhi CHN
8.5 Berkes Ferenc HUN 8.5 Harikrishna P IND 8.5 Ni Hua CHN 8.5 Inarkiev Ernesto
RUS 8.5 11. Jakovenko Dimtr RUS 8.0 Erenburg Sergey ISR 8.0 Paragua Mark PHI
8.0 Mastrovasilis D GRE 8.0 Satyapragyan S IND 8.0 Annaberdiev M TKM 8.0 88
players
Leading Final Women's Standings: 1 Zhao Xue CHN 10.5 2
Koneru Humpy IND 10.5 3 Kosintseva N RUS 10 4 Kosintseva T RUS 9.5 5 Wang Yu
CHN 9 6 Ubiennykh E RUS 8.5 7 Pogonina Natalia RUS 8 Tania Sachdev IND 8 9 Tian
Tian CHN 7.5 Harika D. IND 7.5 Pratibha Y IND 7.5 Milliet Sophie FRA 7.5
Holusova Tana CZE 7.5 "Delphin, C." IND 7.5 51 players
Internet
coverage: http://www.worldjuniorchessgoa.com/
Bali Hotel International in
Benidorm
Winner Judit
Polgar. Photo Pascal Villalba (Notzai)
This was a new tournament which
took place in Benidorm, Spain. Based on the idea of the New York Open with
amateurs and stars playing together in the same venue and is organised by
Alfonso Pedraza. The Festival ran November 22nd-December 1st 2002 there are
almost 300 participants from 17 countries. The event finished with a "Stars
Tournament" (November 29th-December 1st 2002). That saw a 12 players round
robin 15 minutes plus 10 seconds per move. Leontxo Garcia reports "Two blitz
games (3’ plus 2 seconds), the first one was a draw, Judit won the second
one in a very brilliant style, giving up two pawns for a very strong attack.
“I just trusted my intuition, and it worked very well”, said Polgar
after her victory, one of the most brilliant in her career. Karjakin, 12, lost
in the last round to San Segundo when he was fighting for the first prize,
after four wins and six draws in ten rounds. It looked like the tension was too
big for the prodigy child. However, his performance here has been very
impressive. "
All Games in PGN
Sergey Karjakin Interview
Sergey Karjakin games
collection at chess-sector
Final Standings: 1. Polgar, Judit
g HUN 2685 8.0; 2. Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2743 8.0; 3. Shirov, Alexei g ESP
2699 7.5; 4. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2688 7.5; 5. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2527
7.0; 6. Psakhis, Lev g ISR 2588 5.5; 7. Kurajica, Bojan g BIH 2548 5.0; 8.
Paunovic, Dragan m YUG 2532 5.0; 9. San Segundo Carrillo, Pablo g ESP 2523 4.5;
10. Granero Roca, Antonio m ESP 2342 3.5; 11. Vera, Reynaldo g CUB 2544 3.0;
12. Amura, Claudia N wg ARG 2360 1.5;
One of the targets is to promote
the second edition of the event which will take place in November 2003. This
will be announced in January or February, giving enough time to many European
and American amateurs to plan their holidays.
Official site:
http://www.ajedrezbali.com
Curacao Open
Viktor Korchnoi - Winner on Buchholz
tie-break. Photo John Fernandez
The Curacao 1962-2002 chess
tournament took place November 16th-28th 2002. The tournament commemorated the
40th Anniversary of the Candidates tournament in 1962. Viktor Korchnoi and Yona
Kosashvili finished on 7/9, Korchnoi taking first on Buchholz
tiebreak.
All Games in PGN
Leading
Final Standings: 1. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2634 7.0/9; 2. Kosashvili, Yona
g ISR 2543 7.0/9; 3. Macieja, Bartlomiej g POL 2615 6.5/9; 4. Timman, Jan H g
NED 2594 6.5/9; 5. Gallegos, Carlos m VEN 2432 6.5/9; 6. Ligterink, Gert m NED
2401 6.0/9; 7. Polgar, Sofia m HUN 2462 5.5/9; 8. Zapata, Alonso g COL 2556
5.5/9; 9. Sequera, Jose m VEN 2378 5.5/9; 10. Molander, Riku f FIN 2301 5.5/9;
11. Belakovskaia, Anjelina wg USA 2270 5.5/9; 12. Grimm, Sascha f GER 2372
5.5/9; 13. Hernandez, Alexander f VEN 2269 5.5/9;
Internet coverage
at: http://www.curacao.com/chess.
35th Chess Olympiad Bled
Russia - Hungary Match
Photos ©
Eugeny Atarov ("64")
The 35th
Chess Olympiad Bled took place 25th October - 11th November 2002 and the 73rd
FIDE Congress, 1st-11th November 2002.
Bled Olympiad 2002 Index to Coverage
All Men's Games Rd 1-14 PGN zipped
All Women's Games Rd 1-14 PGN zipped
My
thanks to Davor Golek for his help.
Leading Final Standings:
Men's: 1 Russia 38½ 2 Hungary 37½ 3 Armenia 35 4 Georgia 34 5
China 33½ 6 Netherlands 33½ 7 England 33½ 8 Slovakia 33 9
Israel 33 10 Yugoslavia 33 11 FYR Macedonia 33 12 Switzerland 33 13 Poland
32½ 14 Ukraine 32½ 15 Bosnia and Herzegovina 32½ 16
Germany 32½ 17 Belarus 32½ 18 Czech Republic 32½ 19 Spain
32½ 20 Uzbekistan 32½ 21 Lithuania 32 22 Iceland 32 23 Croatia
31½ 24 France 31½ 25 Greece 31½ 26 Denmark 31½ 27
Bulgaria 31½ 28 Romania 31 29 India 31 30 Azerbaijan 31 31 Moldova 31 32
Sweden 31 33 Canada 31 34 Bangladesh 31 35 Brazil 31 36 Ireland 31 37 Cuba
30½ 38 Italy 30½ 39 Philippines 30½ 40 Slovenia-A
30½ 41 United States 30½ 42 Latvia 30½ 43 Estonia
30½ 44 Belgium 30½ 45 Finland 30½
Women: 1
China 29½ 2 Russia 29 3 Poland 28 4 Georgia 27½ 5 Hungary
25½ 6 Ukraine 25½ 7 Yugoslavia 25½ 8 Azerbaijan 25½
9 United States 25 10 Czech Republic 25 11 Bulgaria 24½ 12 Vietnam
24½ 13 Israel 24½ 14 Romania 24 15 Armenia 24 16 Germany 24 17
Slovakia 24 18 England 24 19 India 23½ 20 Netherlands 23½ 21 Iran
23½ 22 Turkmenistan 23½ 23 Greece 23 24 France 23 25 Croatia 23
26 Argentina 23 27 Spain 23 28 Sweden 23
Official site:
http://www.35chessolympiad.com/
6th Corsica Open
The 6th Corsica Open took place
31st October - 4th November 2002. Anand comes back from losing the first game
to beat Karpov in the blitz playoff.
Games in
PGN
Final 4th November 2002
Karpov, Anatoly - Anand,
Viswanathan 1-0 0-1 1-3 after a playoff.
Semi-Finals 3rd November
2002
Karpov, Anatoly - Shirov, Alexei 1/2 1-0
Anand, Viswanathan
- Gurevich, Mikhail 1-0 1/2
1/4 Finals
Karpov, Anatoly -
Tkachiev, Vladislav 1-0 1-0
Shirov, Alexei - Kazhgaleyev, Murtas 1/2 1/2
Playoff 1.5-0.5
Anand, Viswanathan - Jussupow, Artur 1/2 1-0
Dreev,
Alexey - Gurevich, Mikhail 1-0 1/2 Playoff 0-2
1/8th
Finals
Anand Vishy - Moreno Carnero Javier 1/2 1-0
Milov Vadim
- Jussupov Arthur 0-1 0-1
Karpov Anatoly - Zezulkin Jurij 1-0 1/2
Shirov Alexei - Mikhalevski Victor 1-0 1-0
Pavlovic, Milos - Gurevitch
Mikhail 0-1 0-1
Brodsky Michail - Dreev Alexey 0-1 0-1
Glek Igor -
Tkachiev Vladislav 1-0 0-1 Playoff 1.5-2.5
Epishin Vladimir - Kazhgaleyev
Murtas 0-1 0-1
Internet coverage:
http://www.europe-echecs.com.
Details: http://www.opencorsica.com/
Cap d'Agde 5th Chess Festival
The Cap d'Agde 5th Chess Festival
took place 23rd-30th of October 2002. Boris Gelfand won the event beating
Anatoly Karpov 2-0 in the final.
The Rapid event had a prelimanary
group stage with two groups. Top 4 from each group going through to the next
round which was a knockout.
Final Games in
PGN
Semi Final Games in PGN
Quarter Final Games in PGN
Games in PGN
Finals 30th October 2002
Karpov, Anatoly - Gelfand, Boris 0-2
Semi Finals 29th
October 2002
Karpov, Anatoly - Bareev, Evgeny 1/2 1-0
Tkachiev, Vladislav - Gelfand, Boris 0-1 1/2
Quarter
Finals Day 1 27th October 2002
Bareev, Evgeny g 2737 -
Gurevich, Mikhail g 2634 3-1
Tkachiev, Vladislav g 2632 -
Fressinet, Laurent g 2619 2.5-1.5
Both after playoffs
Quarter
Finals Day 2 28th October 2002
Karpov, Anatoly g 2688 -
Dreev, Alexey g 2673 2-0
Morovic Fernandez, Ivan g 2549 - Gelfand, Boris
g 2704 0.5-1.5
Final Standings Gp A: 1. Bareev, Evgeny g RUS
2737 5.0; 2. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2632 4.5; 3. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2688
4.0; 4. Morovic Fernandez, Ivan g CHI 2549 4.0; 5. Adianto, Utut g INA 2562
3.5; 6. Lautier, Joel g FRA 2665 2.5; 7. Hamdouchi, Hichem g MAR 2593 2.5; 8.
Milov, Vadim g SUI 2620 2.0;
Final Standings Gp B: 1. Gelfand,
Boris g ISR 2704 5.0; 2. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2673 4.5; 3. Fressinet, Laurent g
FRA 2619 4.0; 4. Gurevich, Mikhail g BEL 2634 4.0; 5. Onischuk, Alexander g USA
2649 3.5; 6. Pelletier, Yannick g SUI 2587 3.0; 7. Nataf, Igor-Alexandre g FRA
2553 2.5; 8. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2627 1.5;
Internet coverage:
http://www.europe-echecs.com and
http://www.asmeg.org
Open Letter on Drugs
Testing
Alexander Baburin and Jon Speelman have written
an open letter on the contentious issue of drugs testing to FIDE. Signatures
are being added all the time. At the moment my view is that there is no
objective reason for drugs testing in chess but that there may be a case that
the funds nations outside of the UK and US may be benefitting from chess's
status as a sport with finance in some countries but that would be the only
justification. It isn't a case that FIDE has even made.
If you want my
tip for the most sure fire way of improving your performance at chess by
non-chess means then I can exclusively reveal that a good general physical
fitness regime with no drugs (eg alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine etc) is the
best.
Open Letter on Drugs
Testing
Open Letter
from Alexei Shirov
Alexei Shirov has released an open
letter addressed to GMs on the proposals for the new structure of the FIDE
World Championships.
There are a lot of details available on the
proposals at: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=604
and I have also tried to summarise them in the latest TWIC (TWIC420 of
November 25th 2002) You can also read further details about the elite GM
vote about timecontrols at: http://chess-sector.odessa.ua/gmtime.htm.
Read Shirov's Open Letter to
Grandmasters.
Moscow Chess Ceremonies
Kasparov with the Oscar Photo ©
Eugeny Atarov ("64")
On
Wednesday 27th November 2002 Moscow's Central Chess Club there were ceremonies
honoring the Russian Olympiad teams. Garry Kasparov also received the Chess
Oscar-64 for 2001. 
Team Russia Photo © Eugeny Atarov ("64")
Match of 3 Generations
The Match of 3 Generations took
place in Moscow 22nd-23rd October 2002. The match was between teams from Moscow
and St. Petersburg. Players included Svilder, Morozevich and
Grischuk.
Internet coverage: http://www.ruschess.com/
Brains in
Bahrain
Post-Mortem Game
8. Photo © Mig Greengard
Click Here for Moves of the Final
Game
Games in PGN
On the spot reports
By Malcolm
Pein
Opening
Ceremony
Opening Press
Conference
Sticky Fingers
About Sealing Moves
Game 1 Report
Game 1 Press Conference
Game 2 Report
By Ebrahim Al
Mannai
Game 3 Report
Game 4 Report
Game 5 Report
Game 6 Report
Game 7 Report
Game 8 Report
The Brains in Bahrain
match (website http://www.brainsinbahrain.com/)
between Vladimir Kramnik and Deep Fritz took place 2nd-22nd October 2002
(Opening Ceremony 2nd October. Playing days 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 17 & 19
October, 2002).
Mark Crowther interviews
Vladimir Kramnik
Sonas Rating Formula and discussion of Rapid
and FIDE Ratings.
Jeff Sonas has proposals to modify
the current rating system. This includes incorporating rapid and blitz games.
Read his article: Sonas Rating
Formula
Vadim Milov talks about rapid and FIDE ratings following on
from letters by Krasenkow and Shirov.
Milov
replies to Krasenkow and Shirov on Rapid Ratings
Read alsoShirov on Rapid Ratings and Krasenkow replies to Shirov on Rapid
Ratings.
FIDE Rapid Ratings 20th September
2002 with note by Willy Iclicki
Lautier vs. Shogi Players
Joel Lautier plays a
match against three Japanese professional shogi players on October 20th in
Tokyo, Japan. They are: Yoshiharu Habu (who participated in the last NAO Chess
Masters) Yoshiyuki Moriuchi and Yasumitsu Sato.
This simul will take
place on the 20 october in Tokyo at 14h00 local time. This event is sponsored
by NEC. The games can be followed live at:
http://campaign.biglobe.ne.jp/chess-shogi/e_index.html
Vladimir Kramnik has given his support to this event with a personnal
message :
http://campaign.biglobe.ne.jp/chess-shogi/message/e_index.html.
In addition there is coverage by the NAO Chess Club in France
http://www.nao-cc.com/naocc/index.html.
Read about Shogi at: http://echeymol.free.fr
Essent Chess
tournament 2002
The Essent Chess tournament 2002 took place
October 11th-19th 2002 in Hoogeveen, Netherlands. The surprise winner was World
Junior Champion Peter Acs of Hungary. He beat Loek Van Wely twice in the event
including a smashing final round
win.
Games in PGN
Final
Standings: 1. Acs, Peter g HUN 2591 4.0; 2. Polgar, Judit g HUN 2685 3.0;
3. Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2690 3.0; 4. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2681 2.0;
Internet coverage:
http://www.hoogeveen.nl/essent-chess/index-begin.htm.
FIDE World Cup in
Hyderabad
The
FIDE World Cup in Hyderabad, India takes place 9th-20th October 2002.
Men's Finals Games
Women's Finals Games
Men's Semi-Finals Games
Women's Semi-Finals Games
Men's Quarter Final Games
Women's Quarter Final Games
Group Stage Games in PGN Complete
Finals
(October 19-20, 2002)
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam - Anand,
Viswanathan 1/2 0-1
Semi-Finals (October 17-18, 2002)
Beliavsky, Alexander G - Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 1/2 0-1
Dreev,
Alexey - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 1/2 Playoff 1/2 1/2 1/2 0-1
Quarter Finals (October 15-16, 2002)
Beliavsky,
Alexander G - Rublevsky, Sergei 1-0 1/2
Short, Nigel D - Dreev,
Alexey 1/2 1/2 Playoff 1/2 0-1
Ye Jiangchuan - Kasimdzhanov,
Rustam 0-1 1/2
Malakhov, Vladimir - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2
0-1
Final Group Standings
Group A: 1. Malakhov,
Vladimir g RUS 2670 3.5; 2. Ye Jiangchuan g CHN 2667 3.0;
3.
Macieja, Bartlomiej g POL 2615 3.0; 4. Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2614 3.0; 5.
Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2709 2.0; 6. Iuldachev, Saidali g UZB 2511 0.5;
Group B:1. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2673 3.5; 2. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS
2664 3.0;
3. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2628 3.0; 4. Azmaiparashvili,
Zurab g GEO 2666 2.5; 5. Yermolinsky, Alex g USA 2575 1.5; 6. Kobese, Watu m
RSA 2399 1.5;
Group C:1. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2653 3.5; 2.
Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2755 3.0;
3. Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND
2670 2.5; 4. Hamdouchi, Hichem g MAR 2593 2.5; 5. Al-Modiahki, Mohamad g QAT
2550 2.0; 6. Xu Jun g CHN 2643 1.5;
Group D:1. Beliavsky, Alexander
G g SLO 2650 3.5; 2. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2684 3.5;
3. Ehlvest,
Jaan g EST 2600 3.5; 4. Ganguly, Surya Shekhar m IND 2531 2.0; 5. Harikrishna,
P g IND 2551 1.5; 6. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2707 1.0;
Schedule:
Preliminaries 5 Days October 10th-14th. Quarterfinals Four 2-game Matches 2
days October 15th-16th. Semifinals Two 2-game Matches 2 days October 17th-18th.
Finals One 2-game Match 2 days October 19th-20th 2002.
Internet
coverage: http://www.worldchesscup2002.com
and http://www.fideonline.com/worldchesscup
1st Klaksvík
International
The Category IV 1st Klaksvík International took place in
Viðareiði, Faroe Islands, 12th-16th October 2002.
Games in PGN
Final Standings: 1. Pilgaard,
Kim m DEN 2432 6.5; 2. Jakobsen, Ole m DEN 2381 5.5; 3. Sloth, Jorn f DEN 2340
5.5; 4. Blauert, Joerg m GER 2418 5.0; 5. Simonsen, Olavur FAI 2239 5.0; 6.
Ahlander, Bjorn m SWE 2393 5.0; 7. Nolsoe, Eydun FAI 2236 4.5; 8. Olsen, Heini
f FAI 2248 4.0; 9. Nilssen, John Arni f FAI 2385 3.5; 10. Simonsen, Hans
Kristian FAI 2231 0.5;
Official site:
http://www.faroechess.com
Milk Tournament in the Hotel Selfoss
The Category
XII Milk Tournament took place in the Hotel Selfoss, Iceland October 8th-16th
2002. Predrag Nikolic and Ivan Sokolov both from Sarajevo finished on
6.5/9.
Games in PGN
Reports from the Milk Tournament in Hotel Selfoss by Rod
McShane
Final Standings: 1. Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2661 6.5;
2. Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2684 6.5; 3. Tregubov, Pavel V g RUS 2594 6.0; 4.
McShane, Luke J g ENG 2546 5.5; 5. Stefansson, Hannes g ISL 2566 5.5; 6.
Olafsson, Helgi g ISL 2476 4.0; 7. Oral, Tomas g CZE 2546 4.0; 8. Hracek,
Zbynek g CZE 2607 3.5; 9. Kristjansson, Stefan m ISL 2431 2.0; 10.
Thorfinnsson, Bragi f ISL 2357 1.5;
Internet Coverage:
http://www.chess.is/milk2002/ the
event is run by the Hrokurinn Chess Club: http://www.hrokurinn.is who will be
organising future events.
FIDE October Rating List
The FIDE October Rating List is
now out at http://www.fideonline.com.
The list now goes down to players rated 1800 or above. The FIDE October top 100
still does not include Vladimir Kramnik. He is present in the full list (from
which I constructed the top 100) and should be there. More seriously the whole
list may be affected by the fact that no games played in France during the
summer were rated even through the results were submitted.
Top 100 Players October 2002 Rating
List
Bacrot - Gelfand Match
Etienne Bacrot played Boris
Gelfand in his home town of Albert in France 7th-13th October 2002. He has
played a match there every year since 1995. Games 1-5 were drawn before Bacrot
won the match by winning the final game and taking a 3.5-2.5 victory.
Games in PGN
Coverage:
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/ (they are
also covering the 13th NATO Championships in Brest, France October 7th-11th
2002) and http://www.nao-cc.com
Spanish Chess Championships
The Spanish National Chess
Championships took place in Ayamonte, Huelva 4th-12th October 2002. Alexei
Shirov beat Paco Vallejo in the final 2-0. Shirov scored a massive 8.5/9
throughout the various phases of the event. There were two preliminary groups,
playoffs followed by a semi-final and final.
Games
in PGN
Group A: 1. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2699 4.5; 2.
Romero Holmes, Alfonso g ESP 2524 3.5; 3. San Segundo Carrillo, Pablo g ESP
2523 3.0; 4. Del Rio Angelis, Salvador G g ESP 2494 2.0; 5. Fernandez Garcia,
Jose Luis g ESP 2453 1.5; 6. Estremera Panos, Sergio m ESP 2359 0.5;
Group B: 1. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2635 3.0; 2. Herraiz
Hidalgo, Herminio m ESP 2458 3.0; 3. Illescas Cordoba, Miguel g ESP 2585
3.0; 4. Arizmendi Martinez, Julen L m ESP 2510 3.0; 5. Comas Fabrego, Lluis g
ESP 2496 2.0; 6. Gual Pascual, Antonio ESP 2450 1.0;
Gp B
Playoffs: Paco Vallejo 3-1 Julen Arizmendi, Herminio Herraiz
2½-1½ Miguel Illescas. Then to decide 1st-2nd places Paco Vallejo
2-0 Herminio Herraiz
Semi-Finals: Alexei Shirov 2-0 Herminio
Herraiz and Paco Vallejo 1.5-0.5 Alfonso Romero
Holmes.
Finals
Alexei Shirov 2-0 Francisco Vallejo
Pons
Official site: http://www.pryconsa.es/ajedrez games
at: http://www.fsajedrez.com/torneos/islacanela02/islacanela02.zip
also details at Paco Vallejo Pons website in the news section:
http://www.pacovallejo.com
European Club Cup
The European Club Cup took place
September 22nd-28th 2002 in Greece. Bosna Sarajevo (Adams, Shirov etc) won the
event ahead of Norilsky Nikel (Bareev), Polonia Warsaw (Ivanchuk, Polgar) and
the NAO Chess Club (Grischuk, Svidler).
All Games in
PGN
Internet coverage: http://ecc02.chessworld.info/
Match of the New
Century
The
"New Match of the Century" took place in Moscow September 8th-11th and was a 10
round Scheveningen Rapidplay (25 minutes + 10 Seconds per move) tournament
between 10 players from Russia and 10 from the Rest of the World.
The winning Rest of
the World Team
Top scorer Shirov
Photos ©
Eugeny Atarov ("64") .
Games in PGN Corrections to a number of games are
needed. These include Ivanchuk-Kasparov (1) needs confirmation of the new
version which may still not be complete, Radjabov - Karpov (2) looks more
plausible but the final Radjabov move looks suspicious unless he won on time.
Round 1 World leads 6-4, Ivanchuk beats Kasparov. Round 2 World wins
5.5-4.5 to lead 11.5-8.5. Round 3 Russia win 5.5-4.5 and now trail 14-16. Round
4 Russia edge another 5.5-4.5. Kasparov wins his first game against his usual
customer Shirov. Russia now trail only by one game 19.5-20.5. Round 5 saw eight
of ten games decisive yet the honours were shared 5-5 leaving the score at
24.5-25.5 to the ROW. The huge shock was Judit Polgar's first ever win against
Garry Kasparov which sent him down to below 50%. Round 6 another 5-5 draw
leaving the score Russia 29.5 - ROW 30.5. Judit Polgar was a pawn up with black
ahgainst Vladimir Kramnik but this wasn't quite enought to win. Kasparov was a
pawn down against short when they agreed a draw in the end. Wins for Gelfand
and Shirov for ROW were matched by Russian wins for Bareev and Morozevich.
Round 7 Vladimir Kramnik lost with white against Ilya Smirin to go to -1 for
the event. Garry Kasparov had a torrid time against Teimour Radjabov before
drawing a tricky position. Russia tied the round 5-5 with Dreev beating Polgar
matching Smirin's win there were 8 draws. Score Russia 34.5 - ROW 35.5.
Round 8: The end of day 3 sees the Rest of the World 3 points clear with
2 rounds to go. The most astonishing thing has been the form of the top two
players in the World. Vladimir Kramnik lost for the second time in the event to
go to a -1 score in round 7 and didn't play round 8. Garry Kasparov also
struggled in round 7 just surviving against 15 year old Teimour Radjabov and
then went on to lose dreadfully in round 8 to Vladimir Akopian in only 25
moves. He is now on a -2 score. In round 8 Boris Gelfand was the other winner
for the ROW there were 8 draws. Round 9 saw the Rest of the World win
again 5.5-4.5 to give them a lead of 47-43 with one round to go, the Russians
will have to win 7-3 to draw the match. Kasparov played Ponomariov and after a
dubious sacrifice by the Ukrainian had the upper hand but his confidence seems
to have taken a battering over the last few days and he steered the game to a
draw. Anatoly Karpov beat Nigel Short in an ending that looked drawish but Leko
beat Morozevich and Shirov's 4 pawns proved too much for Grischuk's rook in the
game of the round. Round 10 was drawn 5-5. Games and results now
available. Fantastic wins for Radjabov and Shirov helped the Rest of the World
to a win in the match. Kasparov looked better against Anand but agreed a draw
when short of time to finish on -2 for the event. Kramnik finished on -1 after
drawing with Ponomariov. Karpov scored a somewhat fortunate win against Short
and Dreev won against Smirin with black. The Russians started strong favourites
with an average rating of 2708 (2717 over the top ten boards) as opposed to
2695 (2699 top 10) but whereas Kasparov and Kramnik would normally between then
be expected to deliver at least +5 (a pretty conservative figure) they in fact
managed only -3 which on its own delivers the entire winning margin. Shirov's
huge 7/10 (including his customary loss to Kasparov) and solid 6/10s from
Gelfand, Ivanchuk and Ponomariov (1 loss by Gelfand between the three) were big
parts of the victory as was the 5/10 scored by the lowest rated player in the
event Teimour Radjabov. Perhaps Kasparov was right that the chances were
balanced at the start of the match even though the World were without Adams and
Topalov.
Game of the Day Prizes: Day 1 V. Ivanchuk for the game
against G. Kasparov Day 2 G. Kasparov for the game against A. Shirov Day 3 A.
Shirov for the game against A. Motylev Day 4 A. Shirov for the game against A.
Grischuk
Malcolm Pein Reports:
Rounds 1-2
Rounds 3-5
Rounds 6-8
Main Page with all the
results
Full event results and
Statistics
Official coverage:
http://chess.alfabank.ru/en and
http://www.fide.com
Additionally
http://www.WorldChessRating.com
seems well worth checking out.
Anand vs. Ponomariov Rapid
Match
The highlight of Chess Classic
Mainz was an 8 game match between Viswanathan Anand and FIDE world champion
Ruslan Ponomariov. There were other events also taking place August 15th-18th
2002. Anand won 4.5-3.5 with a final game win.
Games in PGN
Anand 4.5 - Ponomariov
3.5
Gm 1 Ponomariov, Ruslan - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 39 B17 Caro
Kann
Gm 2 Anand, Viswanathan - Ponomariov, Ruslan 1/2 40 B90 Sicilian
Najdorf Variation
Gm 3 Ponomariov, Ruslan - Anand, Viswanathan 1-0 44 B33
Sicilian Sveshnikov
Gm 4 Anand, Viswanathan - Ponomariov, Ruslan 1-0 38 B80
Sicilian Scheveningen
Gm 5 Ponomariov, Ruslan - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 40
B90 Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Gm 6 Anand, Viswanathan - Ponomariov, Ruslan
1/2 36 C96 Ruy Lopez
Gm 7 Ponomariov, Ruslan - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 81
B49 Sicilian Paulsen
Gm 8 Anand, Viswanathan - Ponomariov, Ruslan 1-0 46
D27 QGA
Friday, 16th Rounds 1-3, Saturday, 17th Rounds 4-6. Sunday, 18th
Rounds 7-8. (Start 18-30 CET)
Internet coverage:
http://www.chesstigers.de and live
coverage: http://www.chessgate.de/turniere/2002/Mainz/index.html
Read an eve of the
event interview with Ruslan Ponomariov on the chess-sector site.
Russian Chess Championships
The 55th Russian Chess
Championships took place in Krasnodar 27th August 2002 - 4th September 2002.
Alexander Lastin won the event. Note corrected final result between Jakovenko
and Lugovoi which was originally given as 1-0 but was in fact 0-1.
All Games in PGN
Final Round 9 Standings:
1. Lastin, Alexander g RUS 2625 6.5; 2. Smirnov, Pavel m RUS 2539 6.0; 3.
Korotylev, Alexey g RUS 2558 6.0; 4. Yemelin, Vasily g RUS 2534 6.0; 5.
Rustemov, Alexander g RUS 2589 6.0; 6. Inarkiev, Ernesto m RUS 2545 5.5; 7.
Kharlov, Andrei g RUS 2609 5.5; 8. Lugovoi, Aleksei g RUS 2516 5.5; 9.
Timofeev, Artyom m RUS 2558 5.5; 10. Yakovich, Yuri g RUS 2586 5.5; 11.
Kiriakov, Petr g RUS 2553 5.5; 12. Nevostrujev, Vladimir m RUS 2502 5.5; 13.
Popov, Valerij g RUS 2579 5.5; 14. Iljushin, Alexei g RUS 2526 5.5; 15.
Gleizerov, Evgeny g RUS 2576 5.0; 16. Balashov, Yuri S g RUS 2526 5.0; 17.
Poluljahov, Aleksandr g RUS 2512 5.0; 18. Kornev, Alexei RUS 2567 5.0; 19.
Turov, Maxim g RUS 2518 5.0; 20. Volkov, Sergey g RUS 2636 5.0; 21. Galkin,
Alexander g RUS 2572 4.5; 22. Grigoriants, Sergey m RUS 2490 4.5; 23. Tunik,
Gennady m RUS 2505 4.5; 24. Maiorov, Oleg m RUS 2458 4.5; 25. Geller, Jakov RUS
2406 4.5; 26. Namgilov, Sogto m RUS 2477 4.5; 27. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2552
4.5; 28. Aseev, Konstantin N g RUS 2575 4.5; 29. Savchenko, Boris f RUS 2366
4.5; 30. Shomoev, Anton m RUS 2533 4.5; 31. Loginov, Valery A g RUS 2526 4.5;
32. Makarov, Marat g RUS 2512 4.0; 33. Pridorozhni, Aleksei m RUS 2453 4.0; 34.
Alavkin, Arseny m RUS 2498 4.0; 35. Grachev, Boris m RUS 2466 4.0; 36.
Hasangatin, Ramil m RUS 2517 4.0; 37. Potkin, Vladimir g RUS 2485 4.0; 38.
Ovetchkin, Roman m RUS 2557 4.0; 39. Frolyanov, Dmitry RUS 2448 4.0; 40.
Kosyrev, Vladimir g RUS 2562 4.0; 41. Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2537 4.0; 42.
Vorobiov, Evgeny E g RUS 2542 4.0; 43. Diu, Viacheslav m RUS 2451 4.0; 44.
Skatchkov, Pavel m RUS 2485 3.5; 45. Cherniaev, Alexander1 m RUS 2509 3.0; 46.
Beshukov, Sergei g RUS 2475 3.0; 47. Alikhanov, Felix f RUS 2364 3.0; 48.
Asylguzhin, Radik RUS 2353 2.5; 49. Dashko, Andrey RUS 2401 1.5; 50. Malinin,
Yuri m RUS 2412 1.0;
Internet site:
http://chess.yuga.ru/news/
US Team to
Challenge Drug Regulations at the Olympiad
Daily Telegraph Chess Correspondent
Malcolm Pein reports: A crisis is looming at the forthcoming Chess Olympiad
which starts on October 25th at the Slovenian resort of Bled. Fide intends to
test for more than hundred substances and demand written consent from all the
players. A huge body of opinion amongst the ranks of chess professionals is
against this including players from the Netherlands and the USA. Some American
GMs intend to refuse to be tested and the Executive Director of the United
States Chess Federation, Frank Niro, is going to support them. Mr Niro has a
unique perspective. A former athlete, he was the youngest ever American to run
a Marathon in under 3hrs, a feat he achieved in October 1966 aged 18 years and
one month. Speaking from the USCF's headquarters in New York State, Mr Niro
said: " I will advise my players to refuse to be tested if they so wish", "it
is up to the individual".
This follows the news that the IOC intend to
generally reduce the size of the Olympic games as they consider it unwieldy at
the moment and have rejected the idea that games such as chess and bridge (an
American bridge player was denied a medal at the World Bridge Championships in
Montreal because she was on medication for a bad back a move which was not
received well in the bridge world) have a place there at all. Events that have
had recent hopes of being included but now have been definitively rejected
include: ballroom dancing, surfing, bowling, billiards, squash, water skiing
and racquetball but also traditional events such as the Modern Pentathlon and
even various showjumping events when have been part of the games for many years
look set to be excluded.
Additionally Mr Steve Doyle an American serving
on Fide's Policy Board will be asked to raise the issue at the Fide meetings to
be held during the Russia v Rest of the World Match in Moscow next week with a
view to having testing scrapped.
45th World Congress of Chess Composition
Portoroz
The
45th World Congress of Chess Composition took place in Portoroz Slovenia 31st
August - 7th September, 2002.
Graham Lee's
report on British Participants plus one problem from the event
Internet coverage: http://www2.arnes.si/~ssljsksg1/Portoroz.htm
Imre Konig Memorial
The Imre Konig Memorial takes
place in the Mechanics Institute in San Francisco September 4th-15th 2002.
Players: Nakamura 2494, Browne, 2492, Atalik 2551, Fedorowicz 2509, Baburin
2580, Akobian 2486, Yermolinsky 2592, DeFirmian 2551, Shulman 2573 and
Wojtkiewicz 2555. Internet coverage: http://www.chessclub.org
French
Championships
The French Chess Championships took place in Val d'Isère 19th-31st
August 2002. Etienne Bacrot is the French Champion after beating Joel Lautier
1.5-0.5 in a rapid (15 mins + 5 seconds a move) playoff. This makes him
champion for the 4th consecutive time, he also won in Besançon 1999,
Vichy 2000 and Marseille 2001. Marie Sebag won the women's title by a point and
a half.
Playoff Games in PGN
Games in PGN [Corrections to Bacrot-Lautier (10) and
Dorfman-Bacrot (11) mean the games are probably correct, the game Degraeve -
Bauer I've assumed ended 25. ...Qd8 26. Rxd7 this is a guess, the original
makes no sense towards the end. If anyone has the absolute correct versions to
these games please let me know. My thanks to Andy McFarland for pointing out
the problems]
Final Standings Men:
1. Bacrot, Etienne
g FRA 2653 7.5; 2. Lautier, Joel g FRA 2663 7.5; 3. Dorfman, Josif D g FRA
2617 6.5; 4. Bauer, Christian g FRA 2550 6.0; 5. Sokolov, Andrei g FRA 2587
6.0; 6. Vaisser, Anatoli g FRA 2581 5.5; 7. Marcelin, Cyril m FRA 2470 5.0; 8.
Skripchenko-Lautier, Almira wg FRA 2497 5.0; 9. Degraeve, Jean-Marc g FRA 2586
4.5; 10. Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2619 4.5; 11. Fontaine, Robert m FRA 2514
4.5; 12. Bricard, Emmanuel m FRA 2454 3.5;
Final Standings Women:
1. Sebag, Marie wm FRA 2344 9.0; 2. Flear, Christine wm FRA 2176
7.5; 3. Delahaye, Raphaelle FRA 2166 7.5; 4. Te-Llalemand, Rosa wg FRA 2301
7.5; 5. Milliet, Sophie FRA 2173 7.5; 6. Muller, Anne wm FRA 2169 6.0; 7.
Wohlers-Armas, Friederike wm FRA 2170 5.5; 8. Costagliola, Marina FRA 2238 5.0;
9. Marchadour, Claire FRA 2081 4.5; 10. Dubois, Martine wm FRA 2049 3.0; 11.
Dacalor, Aurelie FRA 2123 2.0; 12. Verot, Melanie FRA 2077 1.0;
Internet coverage: http://www.nao-cc.com/naocc/index.html
and http://www.echecs.asso.fr. there
are also daily reports in French at: http://www.europe-echecs.com
Icelandic
Championships
The Icelandic Chess Championships took place August 20th-30th 2002. Hannes
Stefansson won with 9/11 for most of the tournament it was only a question of
whether he could score 100%, after an 8/8 start he lost in round 9 to Helgi
Gratarsson, he then drew his final two rounds to take the title.
Games
in PGN
Final Standings: 1. Stefansson, Hannes g ISL 2588 9.0;
2. Gretarsson, Helgi Ass g ISL 2505 8.0; 3. Thorfinnsson, Bragi ISL 2362 7.0;
4. Gunnarsson, Jon Viktor m ISL 2357 6.0; 5. Vidarsson, Jon G f ISL 2378 6.0;
6. Kristjansson, Stefan f ISL 2428 6.0; 7. Gunnarsson, Arnar ISL 2282 5.5; 8.
Thorfinnsson, Bjorn ISL 2314 5.5; 9. Bjornsson, Sigurbjorn ISL 2357 4.0; 10.
Bjarnason, Saevar m ISL 2264 3.5; 11. Thorarinsson, Pall A ISL 2281 3.0; 12.
Thorsteinsson, Thorsteinn f ISL 2332 2.5;
Internet coverage:
http://www.chess.is/sthi2002.htm
MVM Cup Polgar vs Macieja
Macieja won 5-3 against Judit
Polgar in the MVM Cup in Budapest. Polgar under pressure throughout the match
blundered horribly in the final game which she needed to win to draw the match.
Timerate 20 minutes per game + 10 seconds per move. The event took place August
19th-22nd 2002.
Games in PGN
Gm 1
Macieja, Bartlomiej - Polgar, Judit 1-0 39 A48 King's Indian Defence
Gm 2
Polgar, Judit - Macieja, Bartlomiej 1/2 23 C42 Petroff's Defence
Gm 3
Macieja, Bartlomiej - Polgar, Judit 1-0 52 A48 King's Indian Defence
Gm 4
Polgar, Judit - Macieja, Bartlomiej 1/2 41 C42 Petroff's Defence
Gm 5
Macieja, Bartlomiej - Polgar, Judit 0-1 55 A48 King's Indian Defence
Gm 6
Polgar, Judit - Macieja, Bartlomiej 1/2 65 C42 Petroff's Defence
Gm 7
Macieja, Bartlomiej - Polgar, Judit 1/2 114 D03 Queen's Pawn Game
Gm 8
Polgar, Judit - Macieja, Bartlomiej 0-1 23 C42 Petroff's Defence
Internet coverage: http://www.zagraj.pl
World Youth Olympiad 2002
The Malaysian Chess Federation
(MCF) organised the World Youth Olympiad (U16) which took place in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia 20th-28th August 2002. 2nd seeds China A took clear first on
the back of an 85% score on board 1 by Wang Yue and an 80% score on board 2 by
Zhao Jun. Top seeds the Ukraine finished second but could be said to have
underperformed with IM Alexander Areshchenko scoring only 60% on board 1 and
soon to be confirmed GM Sergey Karjakin losing a lot of points on board 2 with
a 75% (performance rating of about 2373) score. Natalia Zdebskaja scored 81.3%
for them on board 3. 7th seeds Indonesisa took 3rd place and 4th seeds India
finished 4th. Overperformances were achieved by 11th seeds Uzbekistan (5th) and
17th seeds Singapore (9th). 5th Seeds England (13th) and 3rd seeds Romania
(6th) performed less well.
Games in PGN
Internet coverage: http://www.thechessnetwork.net
Final Standings 1 2 China - A 2362 31 232.0 2 1 Ukraine 2412 27 234.0 3 7 Indonesia 2197 26.5 219.0 4 4 India 2292 26 238.0 5 11 Uzbekistan 2113 24 238.5 6 3 Romania 2300 23 233.0 7 6 Iran 2224 22.5 226.5 8 8 Kazakhstan 2176 22 228.5 9 17 Singapore - A 2022 21.5 213.0 10 10 Vietnam 2119 21 216.5 11 9 Malaysia - A 2162 21 211.0 12 14 Australia - A 2067 21 190.0 13 5 England 2225 20.5 233.0 14 15 Turkmenistan 2067 20.5 179.0 15 28 USA 2000 20 198.0 28 Teams
Botvinnik Memorial in
Elista
The
Botvinnik Memorial in Elista August 16th-27th had two round robin events
including the cat. VIII A event. 67 year old Janis and 79 year old Svetozar
Gligoric finished on 6/9 in the A tournament. The event included former
opponents and pupils of Botvinnik.
Games in
PGN
Final Standings A tournament: 1. Klovans, Janis g LAT
2425 6.0; 2. Gligoric, Svetozar g YUG 2459 6.0; 3. Razuvaev, Yuri S g RUS 2540
5.5; 4. Taimanov, Mark E g RUS 2425 5.5; 5. Nikitin, Aleksander S m RUS 2430
5.5; 6. Vasiukov, Evgeni g RUS 2537 5.0; 7. Karasev, Vladimir I m RUS 2465 3.5;
8. Bykhovsky, Anatoly A m RUS 2378 3.0; 9. Zhukhovitsky, Samuel m RUS 2346 3.0;
10. Gaprindashvili, Nona g GEO 2318 2.0;
Coverage:
http://www.fideonline.com/botvinnik
WDR TV
Match
The 20th
Anniversary annual WDR TV Match took place Saturday 17th August. The programme
started with a 58 move draw in 1983 between Robert Huebner and Anatoly Karpov.
The pair were brought back to play again. After two one hour games were drawn a
blitz game was won by Huebner.
Games in
PGN
http://www.wdr.de/tv/schach/grossmeister2002.html
Ignatius
Leong to challenge for the FIDE Presidency: Interview with Stefan
Loeffler
Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov will be challenged for the FIDE Presidency by Ignatius Leong. The
elections will take place during the 73rd FIDE Congress in Bled 1st-11th
November 2002. The full ticket is: President - Ignatius Leong Singapore, Deputy
President - Morten Sand Norway, Vice President - Lin Feng China, General
Secretary - Jean-Claude Loubatiere France, Treasurer - Uvencio Blanco
Venezuela.
Stefan Loeffler interviews Ignatius
Leong
Website: http://www.ignatiusleong.org/
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2002 
Peter Leko with his trophy for
winning in Dortmund
The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2002 took
place 6th-21st July 2002. The main event was a Candidates tournament to find a
challenger for Vladimir Kramnik's Einstein Group World Chess title. Peter Leko
won the final 2.5-1.5 against Vesselin Topalov. Other results: Naiditsch -
Timman 4,0 - 4,0 and Baramidze - Maric 4,5 - 3,5
Daily photo reports
from John Henderson.
John
Henderson's Final Game 4 (last) Photo Report
John Henderson's Final Game 3 Photo
Report
John Henderson's Final Game 2
Photo Report
John Henderson's Final Game
1 Photo Report
John Henderson's
Semi-Final Game 4 Photo Report
John
Henderson's Semi-Final Game 3 Photo Report
John Henderson's Semi-Final Game 2 Photo
Report
John Henderson's Semi-Final Game 1
Photo Report
John Henderson's Round 6
Photo Report
John Henderson's Round 5
Photo Report
John Henderson's Round 4
Photo Report
John Henderson's Round 3
Photo Report
John Henderson's Round 2
Photo Report
John Henderson's Round 1
Photo Report
Photos from the Opening
Ceremony
Games and Results
Final Games in PGN
All
Semi-Final Games in PGN
Baramidze - Maric and
Timman - Naiditsch in PGN
Preliminary Games in PGN
Complete
Results Round by Round
Finals 18th-21st July 2002
Leko wins 2.5-1.5
against Topalov after 4 games
Leko, Peter - Topalov, Veselin 1-0 81
B45 Sicilian Classical
Topalov, Veselin - Leko, Peter 0-1 66 B33 Sicilian
Sveshnikov
Leko, Peter - Topalov, Veselin 0-1 61 B42 Sicilian Paulsen
Topalov, Veselin - Leko, Peter 1/2 61 E27 Nimzo Indian Saemisch
Official website: http://www.chessgate.de
or directly http://www.chessgate.de/dortmund/e/index.html
British Chess Championships
The Smith & Williamson
British Chess Championships took place in Torquay, 28th July - 10th August
2002. There was a shock result as IM RB Ramesh won the event, he won with black
in the final round against Luke McShane.
All Games
in PGN [Thanks to Bob Jones and especially to John Saunders]
Major Open Game in PGN
Round 11 Results and Standings and report from
Malcolm Pein
Round 10 Report August 8th
2002 from Malcolm Pein + Rd10 Results and Rd11 Pairings
Round 9 Report August 7th 2002 from Malcolm Pein +
Rd9 Results and Rd10 Pairings
Round 8
Report August 6th 2002 from Malcolm Pein + Rd8 Results and Rd9
Pairings
Round 7 Report August 5th 2002
from Malcolm Pein + Rd7 Results and Rd8 Pairings
Round 6 Report August 3rd 2002 from Malcolm Pein +
Rd6 Results and Rd7 Pairings
Round 5
Report August 2nd 2002 from Malcolm Pein + Rd5 Results and Rd6
Pairings
Round 4 Report August 1st 2002
from Malcolm Pein + Rd4 Results and Rd5 Pairings
Round 3 Report July 31st 2002 from Malcolm Pein +
Rd3 Results and Rd4 Pairings
Round 2
Results and Rd3 Pairings
Round 1 Report
July 29th 2002 from Malcolm Pein + Rd1 Results and Rd2
Pairings.
Official Coverage:
http://www.bcf.org.uk/events/bcf2002/index.html
Samara -
Russian Cup 4th Stage
The latest open in the Russian Cup
took place in Samara July 26th - August 3rd 2002. Boris Grachev took first from
Denis Yevseev and Dmitry Bocharov all of whom finished on 7/9.
Games in PGN [Translated from the
Russian]
Leading Final Standings: 1. Grachev, Boris m RUS 2466
7.0; 2. Yevseev, Denis m RUS 2546 7.0; 3. Bocharov, Dmitry m RUS 2475 7.0; 4.
Nevostrujev, Vladimir m RUS 2502 6.5; 5. Vaulin, Alexander g RUS 2544 6.5; 6.
Matveeva, Svetlana wg RUS 2448 6.5; 7. Yurtaev, Leonid g KGZ 2552 6.5; 8.
Ovetchkin, Roman m RUS 2557 6.5; 9. Chuprov, Dmitry m RUS 2468 6.0; 10.
Iljushin, Alexei g RUS 2526 6.0; 11. Popov, Valerij g RUS 2579 6.0; 12.
Loginov, Valery A g RUS 2526 6.0; 13. Smirnov, Pavel m RUS 2539 6.0; 14.
Bezgodov, Alexei g RUS 2518 6.0; 15. Tihonov, Jurij m BLR 2382 6.0; 16.
Iskusnyh, Sergei g RUS 2485 6.0; 121 players
Internet coverage:
http://www.volgachess.ru
Biel Chess
Festival
The
35th Biel International Chess Festival took place July 20th to August 3rd 2002.
There were ten different tournaments including a GM -Tournament (category 16)
and a match between the swiss national team and Computer Shredder 6-0 from
Chessbase. Ilia Smirin won the event with 6/10. Internet coverage:
http://www.bielchessfestival.ch
Games in PGN
Round 10 (August 1,
2002)
Smirin, Ilia - Tkachiev, Vladislav 1/2 21 C90 Ruy Lopez
Korchnoi, Viktor - Dreev, Alexey 1/2 20 B10 Caro Kann
Pelletier, Yannick -
Vallejo Pons, Francisco 1-0 55 A89 Dutch Leningrad
Final Standings:
1. Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2676 6.0; 2. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2625 5.5; 3.
Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2676 5.5; 4. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2626 5.0; 5. Pelletier,
Yannick g SUI 2571 4.5; 6. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2648 3.5;
US-China Chess Summit
The US-China Chess Summit took
place July 10th-15th 2002 in Shanghai with games on the 11th, 12th, 14th, and
15th. Each round consisted of 10 games featuring six of the top male players,
two of the top female players, and two of the top junior players from each
country. The US led until the final round when a 6-4 loss condemned them to a
narrow 20½ - 19½ overall loss.
All
Games in PGN
Round 4 15th July 2002
CHINA 6-4 USA
20½ - 19½
Ye Jiangchuan W 1/2 B Alexander
Goldin
Xu Jun B 0-1 W Larry Christiansen
Zhang Zhong W 1/2 B Boris
Gulko
Bu Xiangzhi B 1/2 W Gregory Kaidanov
Ni Hua W 1/2 B Joel
Benjamin
Xie Jun B 1-0 W Alexander Shabalov
Zhu Chen W 1-0 B Irina
Krush
Wang Pin B 1-0 W Elena Donaldson
Zhao Jun W 1/2 B Dmitry
Schneider
Wang Yue B 1/2 W Nakamura Hikaru
Results of the 3rd
Round 14th July 2002
CHINA 5 - 5 USA
(14½ -
15½)
Ye Jiangchuan B 1/2 W Alexander Goldin
Xu Jun W
1-0 B Larry Christiansen
Zhang Zhong B 1/2 W Boris Gulko
Bu Xiangzhi W
1/2 B Gregory Kaidanov
Ni Hua B 1/2 W Joel Benjamin
Xie Jun W 1/2 B
Alexander Shabalov
Zhu Chen B 0-1 W Irina Krush
Wang Pin W 1/2 B Elena
Donaldson
Zhao Jun B 0-1 W Nakamura Hikaru
Wang Yue W 1-0 B Vinay
Bhat
CHINA 5.5-4.5 USA DAY 2 12th July 2002
Ye
Jiangchuan 1/2 Alexander Goldin
Yasser Seirawan 1/2 Xu Jun
Zhang
Zhong 1-0 Boris Gulko
Gregory Kaidanov 1/2 Bu Xiangzhi
Ni Hua 0-1
Joel Benjamin
Alexander Shabalov 1-0 Zhang Pengxiang
Zhu Chen 1-0
Irina Krush
Jennifer Shahade 0-1 WGM Wang Pin
Zhao Jun 1/2 FM Dmitry
Schneider
Vinay Bhat 1/2 IM Wang Yue
CHINA 4-6 USA DAY 1
11th July 2002
Ye Jiangchuan B 0-1 W Alexander Goldin
Xu Jun W 1/2
B Yasser Seirawan
Zhang Zhong B 1/2 W Larry Christiansen
Bu Xiangzhi W
1/2 B Gregory Kaidanov
Ni Hua B 0-1 W Joel Benjamin
Zhang Pengxiang W
0-1 B Alexander Shabalov
Zhu Chen B 1-0 W Irina Krush
Wang Pin W 1-0 B
Jennifer Shahade
Wang Hao B 0-1 W Dmitry Schneider
Wang Yue W 1/2 B
Vinay Bhat
Official coverage: http://www.linta.com and Official Live
coverage: http://www.worldchessnetwork.com
FIDE July 2002 list is out
The FIDE July 2002 list is out. A
quick look at the top 100 shows Adams getting back above Topalov, Leko back in
the top 10, big gainers Ivan Sokolov, Epishin, Kaidanov, Volkov, Kobalia and
Istratescu. Korchnoi is down 20 places, Seirawan, Dautov and Kharlov also lose
points. Back in the list are Nunn, Ftacnik and Van den Doel. In for the first
time is Kazhgaleyev. Those who have dropped out are Tregubov, Glek, Vladimirov,
Gyimesi, Andrei Sokolov, Andersson, Korneev, Stefansson, Rustemov, Fedorov and
Najer. 2598 was enough to get a player into the top 100 in the April list now
the mark is 2600 hence the clearout of players at the bottom of the list.
Russian players restored to the full list after their fees have been
paid.
Top 100 July 2002 Rating
List
Source: http://www.chessdaily.com. The full list
is available for download there.
3rd Grand Prix
du Senat
Photo:
OrganisEchecs
who were reponsible for the technical aspect of the match
The 3rd
Grand Prix du Senat took place over the weekend of June 29th-30th 2002.
Organised by the NAO Chess Club in Paris this four player ko rapid play event
saw Vladimir Kramnik take first place Laurent Fressinet 2nd, Joel Lautier 3rd
and Etienne Bacrot 4th .
Games in
PGN
Round 1 (June 29, 2002)
Fressinet,
Laurent - Lautier, Joel 3-2
Bacrot, Etienne - Kramnik, Vladimir
0.5-1-5
Round 2 (June 30, 2002)
Kramnik, Vladimir
- Fressinet, Laurent 2-0
Bacrot, Etienne - Lautier, Joel
1-3
Internet coverage: http://www.nao-cc.com/naocc/index.html
Smith & Williamson Young
Masters
The
2002 Smith & Williamson Young Masters took place 10th-17th July 2002 at
Millfield School, Somerset. Eddie Dearing (3rd IM norm) and Karl Mah shared 1st
on 6/9.
Games in PGN
Final Standings:
1. Dearing, Eddie SCO 2343 6.0; 2. Mah, Karl m ENG 2409 6.0; 3. Antal,
Gergely m HUN 2492 5.5; 4. Pinter, Gabor m HUN 2381 5.5; 5. Haslinger, Stewart
ENG 2310 5.5; 6. Skytte, Rasmus f DEN 2366 5.0; 7. Palliser, Richard m ENG 2441
5.0; 8. Middelburg, Tom f NED 2382 5.0; 9. Sinkevich, Petr f RUS 2337 5.0; 10.
Jones, Gawain C ENG 2237 4.5; 11. Gladyszev, Oleg m RUS 2388 4.5; 12. Addison,
Bret ENG 2219 4.5; 13. Broomfield, Matthew ENG 2229 4.5; 14. Erwich, Frank f
NED 2330 4.0; 15. Trent, Lawrence ENG 2246 4.0; 16. Martyn, Rafe ENG 2201 3.5;
17. Woodward, Timothy DM ENG 2211 3.5; 18. Koster, Ramon NED 2226 3.0; 19.
Skjoldborg, Jesper DEN DEN 2201 3.0; 20. Williams, Simon m ENG 2421 2.5;
Internet coverage: http://www.swyoungmasters.co.uk
Sigeman & Co Chess
Tournament
The
Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament took place 6th-14th June 2002, Malmö,
Sweden. The event was Category: 13 (2572). Nigel Short took clear first with
6.5/9 half a point clear of Peter Heine Nielsen. IM Leif Erlend Johannessen
made his third GM-norm with 5/9.
Games in
PGN
Live coverage: http://www.sigeman-chess.com
Round 9 (June 14, 2002)
Short, Nigel D - Stefansson,
Hannes 1/2 10 B26 Sicilian Closed
Nielsen, Peter Heine - Timman, Jan 1-0 23
D17 Slav Defence
Hector, Jonny - Epishin, Vladimir 1/2 59 B43 Sicilian
Paulsen
Johannessen, Leif Erlend - Luther, Thomas 1-0 43 D17 Slav
Defence
Wedberg, Tom - Berg, Emanuel 0-1 58 C18 French Winawer
Final Standings: 1. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2673 6.0; 2. Nielsen, Peter
Heine g DEN 2636 5.5; 3. Hector, Jonny g SWE 2513 5.0; 4. Johannessen, Leif
Erlend m NOR 2452 5.0; 5. Timman, Jan g NED 2616 4.5; 6. Epishin, Vladimir g
RUS 2606 4.5; 7. Luther, Thomas g GER 2566 4.0; 8. Berg, Emanuel m SWE 2514
4.0; 9. Stefansson, Hannes g ISL 2598 3.5; 10. Wedberg, Tom g SWE 2540 3.0;
Advanced Chess in Leon
Game 3 won by Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand played an Advanced Chess Match in Leon,
Spain June 20th to June 24th 2002. Both players consulted with their databases
and chess programs (Chessbase was one of the sponsors of the tournament). Each
player had 1 hour for the whole game. The event was played in 3 sessions: 2
games on Friday 21st, 2 games on Saturday 22nd and the last 2 games on Sunday
23rd. Kramnik won the only decisive game of the match in game three.
Games in PGN
Day 1 Games
Kramnik,
Vladimir - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 33 D37 QGD 5.Bf4
Anand, Viswanathan -
Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 20 E15 Queens Indian
Day 2
Games
Kramnik, Vladimir - Anand, Viswanathan 1-0 37 D27 QGA
Anand, Viswanathan - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 48 D37 QGD 5.Bf4
Day 3
Games
Kramnik, Vladimir - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 38 D27 QGA
Anand, Viswanathan - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 20 C67 Ruy Lopez Berlin
Live coverage: http://www.diariodeleon.com/ajedrez/
and http://www.ajedrez21.com also
further info http://www.advancedchessleon.com
Warmup Event: Vladimir
Kramnik was in Barcelona on the 19th June before his match with Anand in Leon
giving a 14 board simul in the Barcelona discotheque Luz de Gas. His opponents
were top spanish kids, journalists and spanish personalities/authorities. He
won 12 and drew 2 against Julio Ruiz (24 y.) and Teresa Muñoz (13 y.).
Coverage at http://www.ajedrez.educaterra.com.
FIDE Moscow Grand Prix
Photo Eugeny Atarov
http://www.joeblack.ru/
The FIDE Moscow Grand Prix took place
1st-6th June 2002. Garry Kasparov won the event beating teenage wunderkind
Teimour Radjabov in the final.
Moscow
Grand Prix Results
Final
Round 5 Games in PGN
Semi-Finals
Round 4 in PGN
Round 3 Games in
PGN
Round 2 Games in
PGN
Round 1 Games in
PGN
Coverage: http://www.fide.com
and http://www.fidegrandprix.com/
Final
of Moscow Grand Prix
Kasparov, Garry (RUS) - Radjabov,
Teimour (AZE) 1-0 1/2
3rd-4th Place
Khalifman,
Alexander (RUS) - Beliavsky, Alexander G (SLO) 1-0 1/2
5th-6th
place
Grischuk, Alexander (RUS) - Ivanchuk, Vassily (UKR)
1-0 0-1 tie-break 1-0 1/2
7th-8th place
Bareev, Evgeny
(RUS) - Smirin, Ilia (ISR) 0-1 1-0, tie-break 1/2 1/2 0-1
9th-10th place
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam (UZB) - Akopian,
Vladimir (ARM) 1-0 1/2
11th-12th place
Polgar, Judit
(GM) (HUN) - Ponomariov, Ruslan (UKR) 0-1 1/2
13th-14th
place
Onischuk, Alexander (USA) - Dreev, Alexey (RUS) 1-0
1/2
15th-16th place
Lautier, Joel (FRA) -
Sutovsky, Emil (ISR) 1/2 1-0
Moscow Grand Prix Results
French Chess Federation call for change in
FIDE Leadership
At a meeting on Saturday 15th June 2002 the
French Chess Federation has called for a change to the leadership of FIDE.
Read their press release. followed by a
2nd Press Release (June 29th)partially in response
to comments signed by amongst others
Jaan
Ehlvest and Zurab Azmaiparashvili published on Kasparovchess.com
GM Steering
Committee Report 1
Yasser Seirawan has issued a
lengthy report on the meetings in Moscow about the setting up of a GM steering
committee which was one of the ideas agreed on in Prague.
Yasser Seirawan report on the GM Steering Committee
Meeting in Moscow 1-3 June 2002 [Note correction by the addition of Joel
Lautier's name to the list of candidates]
Prague Documents
Documents:
Kramnik Statement on Prague
Einstein Group Statement
FIDE
New Proposals
Prague Chess Unity
Plan
Yasser Seirawan Proposals
Grandmasters's open letter to FIDE
TWIC395 of
June 3rd 2002
Yasser Seirawan on Prague: Part
1 and Part 2. Part 3
GM Comments on
Prague
Ponomariov
Dutch Championship
The Essent Dutch Championships
took place in Leeuwarden June 19th-29th 2002. Loek Van Wely beat Sergei
Tiviakov 3-1 in a playoff to take the title after both players finished on 7/9.
The playoffs took place on June 30th.
Games in
PGN
Playoff Games in PGN
Final
Standings: 1. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2642 7.0; 2. Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2625
7.0; 3. Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2647 6.0; 4. Ernst, Sipke m NED 2462 5.5; 5. Van
den Doel, Erik g NED 2583 5.0; 6. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2509 4.0; 7.
Janssen, Ruud m NED 2469 3.0; 8. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2578 2.5; 9. Reinderman,
Dimitri g NED 2537 2.5; 10. Jonkman, Harmen g NED 2520 2.5;
Internet
coverage: http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/nk2002/
32nd Sarajevo tournament
The 32nd traditional Bosnian tournament took
place in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina 21st-31st May 2002. Sergei Movsesian won
the event with 6/9 after a final round win over Alexei Shirov.
Games in PGN
Round 9 (May 30, 2002)
Sokolov, Ivan - Kozul, Zdenko 1-0 59 E70 King's Indian Fianchetto
Shirov,
Alexei - Movsesian, Sergei 0-1 55 D15 Slav Defence
Dreev, Alexey -
Kurajica, Bojan 1/2 80 E12 Queens Indian Petrosian System
Radjabov, Teimour
- Dizdarevic, Emir 1-0 27 A41 Modern Defence
Georgiev, Kiril - Smirin, Ilia
1/2 25 D77 Gruenfeld 3.g3
Final Standings: 1. Movsesian, Sergei
g CZE 2624 6.0; 2. Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2647 5.5; 3. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2704
5.0; 4. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2677 5.0; 5. Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2685 5.0; 6.
Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2610 5.0; 7. Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2654 4.5; 8.
Dizdarevic, Emir g BIH 2526 3.5; 9. Kurajica, Bojan g BIH 2555 3.5; 10. Kozul,
Zdenko g CRO 2595 2.0;
Internet coverage by the Sah BIH Portal
http://www.sah.co.ba
3rd European Individual
Championships
The 3rd European Individual Championships took place in Batumi, Georgia, June
11th-27th 2002. This was a 13 rounds Swiss. Bartlomiej Macieja won the event
with 9.5/13 half a point clear of four players. After a playoff Mikhael
Gurevich finished 2nd ahead of Sergei Volkov 3rd, Mereb Gagunashvili 4th and
Gabriel Sargissian 5th.
All Games in
PGN
Leading Final Standings: 1. Macieja, Bartlomiej g POL
2584 9.5; 2. Gurevich, Mikhail g BEL 2641 9.0; 3. Volkov, Sergey g RUS 2609
9.0; 4. Gagunashvili, Merab m GEO 2472 9.0; 5. Sargissian, Gabriel m ARM 2538
9.0; 6. Sulskis, Sarunas g LTU 2577 8.5; 7. Gashimov, Vugar m AZE 2470 8.5; 8.
Asrian, Karen g ARM 2591 8.5; 9. Milov, Vadim g SUI 2606 8.5; 10. Kharlov,
Andrei g RUS 2633 8.0; 11. Galkin, Alexander g RUS 2569 8.0; 12. Graf,
Alexander g GER 2623 8.0; 13. Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2566 8.0; 14. Izoria, Zviad
m GEO 2556 8.0; 15. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz AZE 2542 8.0; 16. Sturua, Zurab g
GEO 2565 8.0; 17. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2571 8.0; 18. Popov, Valerij g RUS 2575
8.0 101 players
Internet coverage: http://chess.batumi.net/
3rd European Individual Women's Chess
Championship
The 3rd European Individual Women's Chess Championship took place May 26th -
June 9nd 2002 in Varna, Bulgaria.
Further details:
http://www.chessbg.com/
Leading Players Sign Open Letter to
FIDE
Half the
top 20 players in the World have signed a letter about Prague. Their main
points are about missing players in the current setup who will have "no
opportunity to take part in the World Championship until 2005" and worries that
the "that the Grandmasters' Committee has not been established yet".
Signatories are World Number 3 Anand, Viswanathan IND 2752, 7 Bareev, Evgeny
RUS 2724, 8 Morozevich, Alexander RUS 2718, 11 Leko, Peter HUN 2707, 12 Shirov,
Alexei ESP 2704, 13 Grischuk, Alexander RUS 2702, 14 Khalifman, Alexander RUS
2698, 16 Svidler, Peter RUS 2688, 17 Smirin, Ilia ISR 2685, 18 Akopian,
Vladimir ARM 2678, 23 Lautier, Joel FRA 2675, 24 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB 2674,
29 Sutovsky, Emil ISR 2660, 31 Rublevsky, Sergei RUS 2657, 33 Georgiev, Kiril
BUL 2654, 37 Bologan, Viktor MDA 2652, 39 Sakaev, Konstantin RUS 2649, 41
Zvjaginsev, Vadim RUS 2645, 42 Lutz, Christopher GER 2644, 46 Krasenkow, Michal
POL 2641, 50 Dautov, Rustem GER 2636, 71 Jussupow, Artur GER 2618 and 87 Glek,
Igor V GER 2605.
Grandmasters's open letter
to FIDE
Yasser Seirawan on Prague
Yasser Seirawan has produced a
huge document giving his personal account of the events leading up to the
Prague agreement. Part 1 and
Part 2. Part 3
including detailed annex of future proposals for cycles. One point to emerge is
that Ponomariov will not get draw odds.
Julian Borowski International in
Essen
The
Category 16 Julian Borowski tournament in Essen took place 16th-25th May 2002.
Vadim Zvjaginsev wins.
Games in PGN
Internet coverage: http://www.chessgate.de
Round 9
(May 25, 2002)
Krasenkow, Michal - Lutz, Christopher 1/2 31 E12
Queens Indian Petrosian
Fridman, Daniel - Leko, Peter 1/2 22 E10 Blumenfeld
Counter Gambit
Jussupow, Artur - Zvjaginsev, Vadim 1/2 26 D47 Queens Gambit
Meran
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam - Korchnoi, Viktor 1-0 34 C11 French Defence
Luther, Thomas - Dautov, Rustem 1/2 28 A40 Unusual Replies to 1.d4
Final Standings: 1. Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2645 7.5; 2. Leko, Peter g
HUN 2707 7.0; 3. Lutz, Christopher g GER 2644 5.5; 4. Krasenkow, Michal g POL
2641 5.5; 5. Fridman, Daniel g LAT 2571 3.5; 6. Jussupow, Artur g GER 2618 3.5;
7. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2674 3.5; 8. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2635 3.5; 9.
Luther, Thomas g GER 2566 3.0; 10. Dautov, Rustem g GER 2636 2.5;
TWIC and GM comments on the Prague
Deal
I'm
looking for comments and reactions from the leading players who will actually
play in the new cycles. Read My (MC) TWIC
Comments, GM Comments on Prague and now
Grandmasters's open letter to FIDE.
Capablanca Memorial
The XXXVII Capablanca Memorial
took place in the Hotel Neptuno - Tritón, La Habana May 5th-17th 2002.
The main Category XIII Elite event was won by Lazaro Bruzon.
Games in PGN
Elite Final Standings: 1.
Bruzon, Lazaro g CUB 2569 6.0; 2. Dominguez, Lenier g CUB 2601 5.5; 3.
Nogueiras, Jesus g CUB 2534 5.0; 4. Vera, Reynaldo g CUB 2537 5.0; 5.
Arencibia, Walter g CUB 2542 4.5; 6. Stefansson, Hannes g ISL 2598 4.0; 7.
Zapata, Alonso g COL 2541 4.0; 8. Nataf, Igor-Alexandre g FRA 2567 4.0; 9.
Morovic Fernandez, Ivan g CHI 2556 3.5; 10. Kogan, Artur g ISR 2540 3.5;
Internet coverage: http://www.inder.co.cu/capablanca/
NAO Chess Club 2nd IM
tournament
The
NAO Chess Club 2nd IM tournament took place in Paris 13th-21st May 2002. IM
Cyril Marcelin won the event with 6.5/9.
Internet coverage:
http://www.nao-cc.com
ChessAward
2001
Many thanks
to those who voted for TWIC for the
ChessAward
2001 TWIC won for the second year in a row. Its nice to be appreciated.
Mark
Eurotel KO Anand Wins. 
The winner Viswanathan Anand with the
Eurotel trophy
An historic photo, the 5Ks, Kramnik, Kok,
Kirsan, Kasparov and Karpov. Photo exclusive John
Henderson.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Garry
Kasparov talk together.
The Eurotel knockout takes place in Prague April
27th - May 5th 2002. 32 of the best players in the World compete for a
prizefund of 500,000 Euros and the Eurotel Trophy. Presented under the auspices
of Online World Chess B.V. (Bessel Kok, and Serge Grimaux), it is the
highest-level chess event ever to be held in the Czech Republic.
John
Henderson Reports
Report 6 (Final
and Negotiations)
Report 5 (Round
4)
Report 4 (Round 3)
Report 3 (Round 2)
Report 2 (Round 1 Day 2)
Report 1 (Round 1 Day 1)
GAMES IN
PGN
All Games in
PGN
Final (Round 5)
Games
Round 4 Complete
Round 3 Complete
Round 2 Complete
Round 1 Complete
Finals
4th-5th May 2002
Anand (IND) - Karpov (RUS) 1-0
1/2
Two standard timerate games.
Semi Finals 2nd May
2002
Ivanchuk (UKR) - Anand (IND) 1/2 1/2 Playoff
0.5-1.5
Karpov (RUS) - Shirov (ESP) 1/2 1/2 Playoff
2-0
Quarter Finals 1st May 2002
Group A:
Kasparov
(RUS) - Ivanchuk (UKR) 1/2 1/2 Playoff 1-1. Sudden Death Game
0-1
Group D:
Anand (IND) - Sokolov (BIH) 1/2 1-0
Group B:
Karpov (RUS) - Morozevich (RUS) 1-0 1/2
Group
C:
Topalov (BUL) - Shirov (ESP) 1/2 0-1
Round 2 30th
April 2002
Group A:
Kasparov (RUS) - Polgar
(HUN) 1-0 1-0
Gelfand (ISR) - Ivanchuk (UKR) 0-1 1/2
Group D:
Anand (IND) - Khalifman (RUS) 1-0 1-0
Sokolov
(BIH) - Adams (ENG) 1-0 1/2
Group B:
Kramnik (RUS) -
Karpov (RUS) 1/2 0-1
Grischuk (RUS) - Morozevich (RUS) 0-1
0-1
Group C:
Topalov (BUL) - Svidler (RUS) 1-0
1/2
Shirov (ESP) - Jussupow (GER) 1-0 1-0
Round 1
28th-29th April 2002
Group A:
Kasparov (RUS) -
Milos (BRA) 1-0 1-0
Ye (CHN) - Polgar (HUN) 0-1 1-0 1/2 1/2 playoff
0.5-1.5
Gelfand (ISR) - Seirawan (USA) 1/2 1-0
Ivanchuk
(UKR) - Van Wely (NED) 1/2 1-0
Group D:
Anand
(IND) - Timman (NED) 1-0 1-0
Khalifman (RUS) - Bologan (MDA) 1-0
1/2
Leko (HUN) - Sokolov (BIH) 1/2 1/2 playoff 0.5-1.5 (Leko
lost the first blitz game on time)
Adams (ENG) - Radjabov (AZE) 1/2
1/2 playoff 1.5-0.5
Group B:
Kramnik (RUS) - Hracek
(CZE) 1-0 1-0
Karpov (RUS) - Short (ENG) 1-0 1/2
Grischuk
(RUS) - Tkachiev (FRA) 1/2 1/2 Tiebreak (and sudden death 2-1)
Morozevich (RUS) - Movsesian (CZE) 1/2 1-0
Group
C:
Topalov (BUL) - Milov (SUI) 1-0 0-1 Tiebreak 1.5-0.5
Svidler (RUS) - Piket (NED) 1-0 1-0
Shirov (ESP) - Gurevich
(BEL) 1/2 1/2 2-0
Bareev (RUS) - Jussupow (GER) 1/2 0-1
A
series of knock-out matches will determine the two finalists, who will then
play two games of classical chess during the last two days of the event. Each
knock-out match consists of two games of rapid chess. Time rate 25 minutes + 5
seconds per move. Two blitz games and if necessary a final game will be used in
case of a tie. The event’s final will have two games played at 40 moves in
2 hours; 20 moves in 1 hour; rest of the game in 30 minutes. If the final is
tied after two games, blitz games will be used.
Schedule: Round 1
April 28th and 29th, Round 2 on April 30th, the Quarter finals on May 1st,
Semi-finals May 2nd, Rest day May 3rd, Finals May 4th-5th 2002. Play starts at
2pm each day except the final which starts at 12-30.
Internet site:
http://www.worldchesstrophy.cz
Follow Eurotel KO Fantasy Chess Results at :
http://play.at/fantasychess
Note that further
material from 2002 is available at:
Important
Events of 2002 including things like John Henderson's reports and pictures
also all stories are covered in the TWIC weekly magazine section (Archive) which covers hundreds of
events a year week by week.
Historic Chess Unity Agreement made in
Prague
Plans for
a unified Classical Chess Championships under the auspices of FIDE have been
agreed in Prague today on May 6th. They will result in a single undisputed
champion from a World title match in October - November 2003.
Read the Unity
Agreement
Other documents:
A
joint proposal from the Einstein Group plc (London) and Madame Nahed Ojjeh
(Paris)
Yasser Seirawan's proposals
FIUDE
Press Release
Mitropa Cup 2002
The Mitropa Cup takes place in
Leipzig 3rd-11th May 2002. Teams from Germany (a very strong side including
Christopher Lutz, Robert Huebner and Alexander Graf), Slovenia (Beliavsky,
Pavasovic), Switzerland (Korchnoi and Jenni), Italy, France, Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Austria, Croatia and Hungary take part.
Internet
coverage
59th Men's Polish Chess Championships
The 59th
Men's Polish Chess Championships took place in Warsaw April 28th - May 12th
2002. Michal Krasenkow took clear first with 10.5/13.
Final
Standings: 1. Krasenkow, Michal g POL 2641 10.5; 2. Macieja, Bartlomiej g
POL 2584 10.0; 3. Markowski, Tomasz g POL 2538 9.0; 4. Kempinski, Robert g POL
2570 8.5; 5. Grabarczyk, Miroslaw g POL 2484 8.0; 6. Socko, Bartosz g POL 2564
7.0; 7. Cyborowski, Lukasz m POL 2510 6.0; 8. Gdanski, Jacek g POL 2523 6.0; 9.
Bobras, Piotr m POL 2435 6.0; 10. Blehm, Pawel g POL 2547 5.5; 11. Bartel,
Mateusz m POL 2417 5.0; 12. Tomczak, Rafal f POL 2384 4.5; 13. Stryjecki, Marek
m POL 2456 2.5; 14. Lagowski, Patryk f POL 2321 2.5;
Internet
coverage: http://szachy.plusgsm.pl/
Topalov Interview
Vesselin Topalov was kind enough
to grant an interview to me in the last week. He talks about where his career
is now and the challenges ahead especially in the Dortmund qualifier.
Topalov Interview
Additional links,
the official http://www.chessgate.de/dortmund/index.html
Vladimir Kramnik has also given a recent
interview to
ChessBase about his view of the Dortmund qualifier.
Shirov on the FIDE
Grand Prix in Dubai
Alexei Shirov writes to tell his
story about the reduction of the prize fund in the FIDE Grand Prix in Dubai.
Here is his letter
Shirov Letter on Dubai
Grand Prix
Octagon have replied to one point made in the
letter:
"Octagon were not and are not responsible for the prize
funds at FIDE Grand Prix events. The reason for the reduction in the UAE Grand
Prix prize fund was the last minute withdrawal of support from a private
investor with whom FIDE Commerce had been negotiating.
Octagon
continue to work alongside FIDE and FIDE Commerce to build on the success of
this first Grand Prix in Dubai."
Jeff Sonas Statistics on World Championship
Formats
Jeff
Sonas presents a statistical analysis of various world championship formats,
especially evaluating the FIDE, Einstein Group, and Seirawan approaches in
detail.
Championship Chessmetrics Analysis by Jeff
Sonas (version 2)
New FIDE top
100 for April
The New FIDE top 100 for April has appeared on the French Chess Association
site: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/. The
full list is at http://www.fide.com
April 2002 Rating List top 100
FIDE World Cup in Dubai
The First FIDE World Cup event
took place in Dubai, UAE April 3rd-8th. The event was a knockout but losers
continued to play on to determine their exact finishing spot (for instance
round 2 losers play for positions 9-16)
Time limits: first two games 25
minutes + 10 seconds a move. Next two playoff games 5 minutes + 10 seconds per
move. Final sudden death game black gets draw odds and 4 minutes, white gets
five minutes.
Final Standings: 1. Peter Leko 2. Alexander
Grischuk 3. Alexei Shirov 4. Kiril Georgiev 5. Anatoly Karpov 6. Zurab
Azmaiparashvili 7. Veselin Topalov 8. Etienne Bacrot 9. Viswanathan Anand 10.
Alexander Khalifman 11. Alexey Dreev 12. Teimour Radjabov 13. Joel Lautier 14.
Vassily Ivanchuk 15. Nigel Short 16. Zhu Chen
Peter Leko the winner
took US $ 43,200 with Alexander Grischuk earning US $ 22,800.
Dubai Grand Prix Results
Internet Qualifier's Tournament Dubai 2nd April in
PGN
Games in PGN Complete
Internet links. Info: http://www.fide.com/,
Official site: http://www.fidegrandprix.com/
The entries are now closed for the UAE Grand Prix Fantasy Chess
Tournament. Players may follow their progress and get updated scores by
visiting Fantasy Chess at: http://play.at/fantasychess
Redbus
Knockout
The
4th Redbus knockout took place in Southend March 29th - 1st April 2002. Bogdan
Lalic beat Chris Ward 1.5-0.5 in the final. My thanks to Alan Parsons for the
games and results.
Games in PGN
Final:
Lalic,B 1.5 - Ward,C 0.5
Semifinals:
Rowson,J 0.5 - Lalic,B 1.5
McShane,L 1.0 - Ward,C 3.0
Quarterfinals:
Davies,N 2.0 - Rowson,J 3.0
Turner,M 0.5 -
Lalic,B 1.5
McShane,L 3.0 - Summerscale,A 1.0
Wells,P 0.5 - Ward,C
1.5
Round 1:
Emms,J 0.5 - Davies,N 1.5
Martin,An 0.5 -
Rowson,J 1.5
Levitt,J 1.5 - Turner,M 2.5
Lalic,B 3.0 - Matros,A 1.0
Plaskett,J 0.5 - McShane,L 1.5
Summerscale,A 3.5 - McNab,C 2.5
Wells,P
1.5 - Pert,N 0.5
Ward,C 3.5 - Chandler,M 2.5
Redbus Chess site:
http://www.chess.redbus.co.uk/
Amber Tournament, Monaco
The Amber Blindfold and
Rapid tournament took place 16th-28th March 2002. Alexander Morozevich won the
2002 Amber tournament. He finished with 15/22 in the combined standings just
half a point clear of Alexei Shirov. Shirov made a brave attempt to catch
Morozevich beating Vladimir Kramnik 1.5-0.5 in the final round but it was not
enough. Boris Gelfand won the Rapid tournament with 7.5/11 half a point clear
of Topalov and Ivanchuk. Morozevich won the Blindfold event with 9/11 a point
clear of Shirov both players were undefeated!
Rapidplay Games in PGN
Blindfold Games in PGN
Results and Crosstables
Final Rapid
Standings: 1. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2703 7.5; 2. Topalov, Veselin g BUL
2739 7.0; 3. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2717 7.0; 4. Leko, Peter g HUN 2713 6.5;
5. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2715 6.5; 6. Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2707 6.5; 7.
Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2742 6.0; 8. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2809 5.5; 9.
Piket, Jeroen g NED 2659 4.5; 10. Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2644 4.0; 11.
Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g YUG 2548 3.0; 12. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2697 2.0;
Final Blindfold Standings: 1. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2742
9.0; 2. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2715 8.0; 3. Leko, Peter g HUN 2713 7.0; 4.
Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2717 6.0; 5. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2809 5.5; 6.
Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2707 5.5; 7. Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2644 5.0; 8. Topalov,
Veselin g BUL 2739 5.0; 9. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2703 4.5; 10. Piket, Jeroen g
NED 2659 4.5; 11. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2697 4.0; 12. Ljubojevic, Ljubomir g YUG
2548 2.0;
Final Combined Standings: 1. Morozevich, Alexander g
RUS 2742 15.0; 2. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2715 14.5; 3. Leko, Peter g HUN 2713
13.5; 4. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2717 13.0; 5. Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2703 12.0;
6. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2739 12.0; 7. Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2707 12.0; 8.
Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2809 11.0; 9. Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2644 9.0; 10. Piket,
Jeroen g NED 2659 9.0; 11. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2697 6.0; 12. Ljubojevic,
Ljubomir g YUG 2548 5.0;
The first round was on 16th March, there are
rest days on 20th and 25th March and the final round is on 28th
March.
Internet coverage (not live):
http://chess.lostcity.nl/amber/
Kasparov
wins Linares 2002
Linares 2002 was a seven player double round robin which take place 22nd
February - 10th March 2002. Garry Kasparov took clear first in the Linares
tournament by 1.5 points after defeating Shirov in the final round (and his win
against Ponomariov in the penultimate round). In clear second place was FIDE
Champion Ruslan Ponomariov in his first Super tournament.
Official live
coverage comes from two sites: http://www.todoajedrez.tv/ ,
http://www.ajedrez21.com and
http://www.chess21.com/ (English version
of ajedrez21)
Kasparov wins again
Games
in PGN
Linares Results and
Crosstable
Malcolm Pein Linares
Notes Adams - Ponomariov (2) and Kasparov - Ponomariovand the same
Notes in PGN
John Henderson
Reports
John Henderson Rounds
13-14 Report
John Henderson Round
12 Photo Report
John Henderson
Round 11 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 10 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 9 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 8 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 7 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 6 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 5 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 4 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 3 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 2 Photo Report
John
Henderson Round 1 Photo Report
Round 14 (March 10,
2002)
Ponomariov, Ruslan - Anand, Viswanathan 1/2 28 C89 Ruy Lopez
Marshall
Adams, Michael - Ivanchuk, Vassily 1/2 46 B42 Sicilian Paulsen
Shirov, Alexei - Kasparov, Garry 0-1 28 B33 Sicilian Sveshnikov
Final Standings: 1. Kasparov, Garry g RUS 2838 8.0; 2. Ponomariov,
Ruslan g UKR 2727 6.5; 3. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2717 6.0; 4. Anand,
Viswanathan g IND 2757 6.0; 5. Adams, Michael g ENG 2742 6.0; 6. Vallejo Pons,
Francisco g ESP 2629 5.0; 7. Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2715 4.5
Fantasy
Chess is Back! you can check out the progress of your predictions at:
Fantasy Chess. http://play.at/fantasychess.
Cat 18 in Cannes
The NAO Chess Masters tournament
took place 22nd February - 3rd March 2002. Veselin Topalov and Boris Gelfand
both finished with 6/9.
Games in PGN
NAO Masters Crosstable and Results
Round 9
(March 3, 2002)
Topalov, Veselin - Leko, Peter 1/2 26 E32 Nimzo
Indian 4.Qc2
Bacrot, Etienne - Karpov, Anatoly 1-0 68 E13 Queens Indian
5.Bg5
Fressinet, Laurent - Gelfand, Boris 0-1 36 C42 Petroff's Defence
Nataf, Igor-Alexandre - Bareev, Evgeny 1/2 32 B12 Caro Kann Advanced
Morozevich, Alexander - Lautier, Joel 1/2 59 B22 Sicilian Alapin
Final Standings: 1. Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2739 6.0; 2. Gelfand, Boris g
ISR 2703 6.0; 3. Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2707 4.5; 4. Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2649
4.5; 5. Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2693 4.5; 6. Leko, Peter g HUN 2713 4.5; 7.
Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2591 4.5; 8. Lautier, Joel g FRA 2687 4.0; 9. Nataf,
Igor-Alexandre g FRA 2546 4.0; 10. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2742 2.5;
Internet coverage: http://nao-ccc.com/
Kramnik-Howell
Exhibition Match Mini-site. Einstein Press Conference
Photos: Tinni
Levitt
Kramnik was in London on Friday March 1st 2002. In his match
against David Howell he won the first three games before conceding a draw in
the final game. Howell became the youngest player to avoid defeat against a
reigning World Champion. Full coverage of the event below.
Chess and Bridge
Mini-Site for the Event including Live Coverage
Yasser Seirawan
Proposals and Bessel Kok Press Release
Yasser Seirawan has produced a
series of proposals to heal the split in the chess world by creating a new
classical World Championship cycle while also recognizing World Champions for
rapid/Knockout and blitz. His proposal would also create a new office of Chess
Commissioners who would administer the new classical cycle.
He is
trying to set up a meeting possibly in Prague in May involving leading players,
FIDE and the Einstein Group PLC. Amongst other things he is calling for a
letter writing campaign to FIDE's Emmanuel Omuku at fide@fide.ch urging FIDE to
compromise at the negotiating table.
Whilst he faces formidable
problems (Do FIDE or the Einstein Group even want to contemplate change? Are
they even contractually able to? Can the disparate views of the leading players
be reconciled) and I'm not convinced by a number of details of his proposals, a
meeting especially amongst the players would be great. Indeed it is long
overdue.
Read Yasser Seirawan Article
Bessel Kok Press Release
Bareev wins Corus
2002
The winner Evgeny Bareev produced
the best result of his career.
The Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee
took place Jan 11th-27th 2002.
Games Main in
PGN
Games B event in PGN (correction to
Michal Krasenkow's name and rating)
Corus Wijk aan Zee 2002 Index
Page
John Henderson Reports
John Henderson Rounds 13 Report
John Henderson Rounds 11-12 Report
John Henderson Round 10 Report
John Henderson Round 9 Report
John Henderson Round 8 Report
John Henderson Round 7 Report
John Henderson Round 6 Report
John Henderson Round 5 Report
John Henderson Round 4 Report
Brief comments on round 3 by Mark Crowther (plus
one annotated game)
Brief comments on
round 2 by Mark Crowther (1 new Photo)
Brief comments on round 1 by Mark
Crowther
(My thanks to Jan van de Mortel for round 2
photos)
Round 13 (January 27, 2002)
Adams, Michael -
Timman, Jan 1/2 39 B26 Sicilian Closed
Khalifman, Alexander - Gelfand,
Boris 1/2 23 B80 Sicilian Scheveningen
Dreev, Alexey - Morozevich,
Alexander 1/2 57 D12 Slav Defence
Piket, Jeroen - Leko, Peter 1/2 18 E12
Queens Indian Petrosian
Lautier, Joel - Grischuk, Alexander 1/2 41 D34
Tarrasch Defence
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam - Bareev, Evgeny 0-1 33 D45
Anti-Meran
Van Wely, Loek - Gurevich, Mikhail 1/2 28 D46 Semi-Slav
Defence
Final Standings: 1. Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2707 9.0; 2.
Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2671 8.5; 3. Adams, Michael g ENG 2742 8.0; 4.
Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2742 8.0; 5. Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2688 7.5;
6. Leko, Peter g HUN 2713 7.0; 7. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2683 6.0; 8. Gelfand,
Boris g ISR 2703 6.0; 9. Piket, Jeroen g NED 2659 6.0; 10. Lautier, Joel g FRA
2687 6.0; 11. Timman, Jan g NED 2605 6.0; 12. Gurevich, Mikhail g BEL 2641 5.5;
13. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2695 4.5; 14. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2697 3.0;
B Tournament
Round 11 (January 27, 2002)
Krasenkow, Michal - Tregubov, Pavel V 1/2 41 D30 Queen's Gambit
Sokolov,
Ivan - Van der Wiel, John 1/2 47 E32 Nimzo Indian 4.Qc2
Stefanova,
Antoaneta - Werle, Jan 1/2 33 E17 Queens Indian
Yu Shaoteng - Jonkman,
Harmen 1/2 98 C54 Giuoco Piano
Cuijpers, Frans - Nijboer, Friso 1/2 34 B30
Sicilian Rossolimo
Peng Zhaoqin - Skripchenko-Lautier, Almira 1-0 51 D20
Queen's Gambit Accepted
Final Standings: 1. Krasenkow, Michal g
POL 2632 8.0; 2. Nijboer, Friso g NED 2574 7.0; 3. Sokolov, Ivan g BIH 2659
7.0; 4. Tregubov, Pavel V g RUS 2626 6.5; 5. Van der Wiel, John g NED 2501 6.0;
6. Jonkman, Harmen m NED 2498 6.0; 7. Stefanova, Antoaneta m BUL 2451 5.5; 8.
Yu Shaoteng m CHN 2522 5.5; 9. Cuijpers, Frans m NED 2458 4.0; 10. Peng Zhaoqin
m NED 2460 4.0; 11. Skripchenko-Lautier, Almira wg FRA 2498 3.5; 12. Werle, Jan
m NED 2481 3.0;
Official Coverage:
http://chess.lostcity.nl/Corus2002/
Bermuda Open
2002
John
Fernandez reports from the Bermuda Open which took place 1st-3rd February 2002.
Leading Final Standings: 1-3. IM Emanuel Berg, IM Florian Handke, GM Bojan
Vuckovic (Berg wins playoff round robin 2-0, taking title and trophy.) 4-7. GM
Pawel Blehm, IM Gregory Shahade, GM Andrew Soltis, IM Eugene Perelshteyn. Final
reports when John Fernandez returns home.
Games in PGN (complete)
John Fernandez Report 5
John Fernandez Report 4
John Fernandez Report 3
John Fernandez Report 2
John Fernandez Report 1
FIDE World Chess
Championships
The new FIDE World Chess Champion is Ruslan
Ponomariov. He beat Vassily Ivanchuk 4.5-2.5 in their eight game match in
Moscow. The match saw a crushing win for Ponomariov in game one, near
equalisation for Ivanchuk in game two and a painful reverse for Ivanchuk in
game 5 where he lost a won position. The 18 year old is the youngest winner of
the FIDE World Chess Championships Title (although Chiburdanidze was a younger
women's champion). He secured it with a 22 move draw in game seven a game he
was probably winning but quite rightly took just the result he needed. (See
Ponomariov's site for career achievements so far)
FIDE Championships 2001-2
Index
Play took place on January 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, rest day,
21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th. The venue was the conference hall of hotel Metropol.
Info Eugeny Atarov
Previous
Rounds
FIDE Brackets the path
to the final by Timothy Newman
Round 6 Results Complete
Round 5 Results Complete
Round 4 Results Complete
Round 3 Results Complete
Round 2 Results Complete
Round 1 Results and
qualifiers
Games in PGN
Games
from the Final in PGN
Round 6 Games
in PGN V1
Round 5 Games in PGN
V1
Round 4 Games in PGN
V1
Round 3 Games in PGN
V1
Round 2 Games in PGN
V1
Round 1 Games in PGN V1
(Karpov's first loss in the playoffs looks incomplete, does anyone have the
full version?)
The FIDE Championships take place in Moscow November
25th - December 14th 2001 (Kremlin) with the final in the Hall of Columns
January 16th-26th 2002. There will be full daily coverage by TWIC.
Round 1 Pairings Tuesday-Wednesday November 27th-28th
2001 FIDE Brackets by Timothy
Newman
FIDE Brackets Round 2 by
Timothy Newman
The official site is:
http://wcc2001.fide.com
Further
reports (my thanks to Eugeny Atarov): http://www.joeblack.ru (mostly in
Russian)
Aeroflot Open 2002
Gregory
Kaidanov took first place on tie-break from five others although the official
website confuses the issue
Photos Eugeny Atarov (www.joeblack.ru)
The Aeroflot Open 2002 took place in Moscow 4-11 February 2002. There was
$150,000 US in prizes.
Games in PGN
Complete [Round 7 corrected]
Leading Final Standings:
1. Kaidanov, Gregory S g USA 2596 6.5 2. Grischuk, Alexander g RUS
2671 6.5 3. Aleksandrov, Aleksej g BLR 2645 6.5 4. Shabalov, Alexander g USA
2606 6.5 5. Milov, Vadim g SUI 2595 6.5
6. Vorobiov, Evgeny E g RUS
2534 6.0 7. Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2559 6.0 8. Volkov, Sergey g RUS 2567
6.0 9. Vaganian, Rafael A g ARM 2662 6.0 10. Tregubov, Pavel V g RUS 2626 6.0
11. Yagupov, Igor m RUS 2466 6.0 12. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2655 6.0 13.
Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2680 6.0 14. Bu Xiangzhi g CHN 2593 6.0 15. Fedorov,
Alexei g BLR 2589 6.0 16. Dreev, Alexey g RUS 2683 6.0 17. Kharlov, Andrei g
RUS 2638 6.0 18. Poluljahov, Aleksandr g RUS 2527 6.0 19. Vescovi, Giovanni g
BRA 2590 6.0 20. Psakhis, Lev g ISR 2572 6.0
21. Eljanov, Pavel g UKR
2540 5.5 22. Sargissian, Gabriel m ARM 2515 5.5 23. Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz AZE
2522 5.5 24. Riazantsev, Alexander g RUS 2511 5.5 25. Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA
2634 5.5 26. Onischuk, Alexander g UKR 2655 5.5 27. Izoria, Zviad m GEO 2547
5.5 28. Dolmatov, Sergey g RUS 2588 5.5 29. Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2599 5.5 30.
Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2651 5.5 31. Dvoirys, Semen I g RUS 2563 5.5 32. Galkin,
Alexander g RUS 2570 5.5
33. Yemelin, Vasily g RUS 2522 5.0 34.
Timofeev, Andrei RUS 2320 5.0 35. Nadanian, Ashot m ARM 2407 5.0 36. Jobava,
Baadur g GEO 2556 5.0 37. Vasiukov, Evgeni g RUS 2524 5.0 38. Mchedlishvili,
Mikheil m GEO 2527 5.0 39. Meister, Yakov m RUS 2494 5.0 40. Potkin, Vladimir g
RUS 2481 5.0 41. Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina wg RUS 2462 5.0 42. Tunik, Gennady m
RUS 2469 5.0 43. Karjakin, Sergey m UKR 2460 5.0 44. Beshukov, Sergei g RUS
2465 5.0 45. Mikhalevski, Victor g ISR 2531 5.0 46. Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS
2656 5.0 47. Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2702 5.0 48. Kulaots, Kaido g EST 2531 5.0 49.
Sulskis, Sarunas g LTU 2579 5.0 50. Lastin, Alexander g RUS 2630 5.0 51.
Ehlvest, Jaan g EST 2589 5.0 52. Asrian, Karen g ARM 2599 5.0 53. Minasian,
Artashes g ARM 2576 5.0 54. Lerner, Konstantin Z g UKR 2569 5.0 55. Ivanov,
Alexander g USA 2578 5.0 56. Socko, Bartosz g POL 2585 5.0 57. Shariyazdanov,
Andrey g RUS 2532 5.0 58. Turov, Maxim g RUS 2563 5.0 59. Gershon, Alik g ISR
2558 5.0
60. Markowski, Tomasz g POL 2524 4.5 61. Rashkovsky, Nukhim N
g RUS 2505 4.5 62. Belov, Vladimir m RUS 2487 4.5 63. Ovetchkin, Roman m RUS
2483 4.5 64. Gagunashvili, Merab m GEO 2486 4.5 65. Pogorelov, Ruslan g UKR
2460 4.5 66. Shinkevich, Vitaly m RUS 2480 4.5 67. Efimenko, Zahar m UKR 2546
4.5 68. Filippov, Valerij g RUS 2625 4.5 69. Firman, Nazar m UKR 2485 4.5 70.
Van Wely, Loek g NED 2697 4.5 71. Sveshnikov, Evgeny g RUS 2565 4.5 72.
Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2639 4.5 73. Sadvakasov, Darmen g KAZ 2555 4.5 74.
Shipov, Sergei g RUS 2630 4.5 75. Goloshchapov, Alexander g UKR 2545 4.5 76.
Balashov, Yuri S g RUS 2545 4.5
132 players
Further details:
http://www.aeroflotchess.com/ and
photos from Eugeny Atarov:
Day 1 ,
Day 2,
Day 3 and
Day 4 and
Final
Day
Copenhagen CU 75th Anniversary
2002
The 75th
Anniversary of the Copenhagen Chess Union was celebrated with a Category 9
tournament. Chris Ward and Nick DeFirmian finished on 5.5/9.
Games in PGN
Internet coverage:
http://www.ksu.dk
Final Standings:
1. Ward, Christopher g ENG 2486 5.5; 2. De Firmian, Nick E g USA 2536 5.5;
3. Hector, Jonny g SWE 2507 5.0; 4. Schandorff, Lars g DEN 2545 5.0; 5. Gausel,
Einar g NOR 2520 5.0; 6. Brinck-Claussen, Bjorn m DEN 2359 4.5; 7. Hoi, Carsten
g DEN 2407 4.0; 8. Jakobsen, Ole m DEN 2405 4.0; 9. Mortensen, Erling m DEN
2441 3.5; 10. Kristensen, Bjarke m DEN 2406 3.0;
Morsø
Invitational 2002
The Morsø Invitational took place
9th-17th February 2002. David Navara and Alexander Rustemov finished on
6/9.
Games in PGN
Final Standings:
1. Navara, David m CZE 2531 6.0; 2. Rustemov, Alexander g RUS 2607 6.0; 3.
Sokolov, Andrei2 m LAT 2512 5.5; 4. Berg, Klaus m DEN 2418 5.0; 5. Pedersen,
Steffen m DEN 2440 5.0; 6. Aronian, Levon g ARM 2584 4.5; 7. Pedersen, Jan DEN
2413 4.0; 8. Miezis, Normunds g LAT 2498 4.0; 9. Prusikhin, Mihailo m GER 2519
3.0; 10. Pedersen, Erik m DEN 2400 2.0;
Internet coverage:
http://home19.inet.tele.dk/morsskak/mors2002/Home.html
Cappelle la Grande Open
2002
The XVIII
Cappelle la Grande International Chess Open took place 9th-16th February 2002.
There was one clear winner with Eduardas Rozentalis scoring 7.5/9 half a point
clear of eleven players on 7. Further details:
http://cappelle.free.fr
Bermuda
2002
Players Bermuda
2002
GMA Games in PGN and
GMB Games in PGN
The Bermuda tournament took
place at the Fairmont Southampton Princess Hotel. The 2002 GM Invitational
Tournaments was held January 21st-January 30th. Leif Erlend Johannessen and
Hikaru Nakamura scored GM norms in sharing first with 6/9 with Giovanni Vescovi
in the GMA event. Pawel Blehm won the GMB event.The Open Tournament will be
held February 1st - February 3rd. John Fernandez will be on the spot to report
from the open for TWIC. Further details: http://www.bermuda.bm/chess
GMA
Final Standings: 1. Johannessen, Leif Erlend m NOR 2427 6.0; 2. Nakamura,
Hikaru m USA 2430 6.0; 3. Vescovi, Giovanni g BRA 2590 6.0; 4. Macieja,
Bartlomiej g POL 2612 5.0; 5. Lesiege, Alexandre g CAN 2572 5.0; 6. Socko,
Bartosz g POL 2585 4.5; 7. Vuckovic, Bojan g YUG 2455 4.0; 8. Ernst, Sipke m
NED 2459 3.5; 9. Krush, Irina m USA 2424 3.0; 10. Handke, Florian m GER 2450
2.0;
GMB Final Standings: 1. Blehm, Pawel g POL 2535 7.5; 2.
Berg, Emanuel m SWE 2500 6.5; 3. Charbonneau, Pascal f CAN 2386 5.5; 4. De
Vreugt, Dennis g NED 2446 5.5; 5. Shahade, Gregory m USA 2454 4.5; 6. Paehtz,
Elisabeth wg GER 2383 4.0; 7. Perelshteyn, Eugene m USA 2451 3.5; 8. Kallio,
Heikki g FIN 2522 3.5; 9. Alvarez, Johan m VEN 2379 3.0; 10. Nyback, Tomi m FIN
2448 1.5;
US Championships in
Seattle
The US
Championships took place 5th-13th January 2002 in Seattle. There were 56
players in the event including for the first time 12 women (the highest placed
woman takes their title). Larry Christiansen won the US Championships after a
blitz playoff against Nick De Firmian. They tied a four game blitz match at 4
games of 5 minutes + 1 sec a move, Christiansen won a one off final game with
white against De Firmian white having 6 mins and black 5 mins black had draw
odds. Jennifer Shahade took the women's event.
All
Games in PGN
Playoff Games in
PGN
Daily reports and photos from John Fernandez.
US Championships 2002 Index of
Reports
Official site:
http://www.seattlechessfoundation.org/events.asp
Short-Stefansson Match
Hannes Stefansson played Nigel Short in
a 6 game match in Reykjavik, January 8th-13th 2002. The match was organised by
Hellir Chess Club to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The main sponsors of the
match are Kogun hf., VKS hf. and Guðmundur Arason. Game one was drawn. Game
two won by Stefansson. Short levelled by winning game 3 and then won the final
three to take the match 4.5-1.5.
Games in PGN
Internet coverage:
http://linux.vks.is/skak/hellir-e.shtml
FIDE January 2002 Rating
List
Kasparov
and Kramnik remain as one and two having no rated games in this period (they
did play four games in Moscow against each other that could have been rated).
Anand's rating continues to fall towards the rest of the field. Michael Adams
returns to World number four above Alexander Morozevich at five. Veselin
Topalov is at six. The FIDE World Championships finalists are at seven and
eight. Ponomariov reaches the top 10 for the first time and is now the top
Ukrainian player rated 2727 up from 2684. He is 10 points clear of Vassily
Ivanchuk whose rating has fallen to 2717. Shirov is back in the top ten at 2715
halting a slide over the last few rating lists. Peter Leko falls from World
number 5 to 10. Other players of interest: Kiril Georgiev falls from 18 to 33,
back in at 55 is Michal Krasenkow after a terrible fall in rating in April,
Macieja returns to the top 100 at 72, Baklan gets back into the top 100 at 74,
Zdenko Kozul in at 77 NS Shabalov in at 79. There are first time entries into
the top 100 for Hannes Stefansson and Ioannis Papaioannou. Glek is in the top
100 at 86, Epishin gets back into the top 100 after his huge loss of 100 points
between the January and July 2000 rating list. The wonderkind Teimour Radjabov
finally arrives in the top 100. He started the year at 2483 and is now rated
2599, he can only continue to rise. Lajos Portisch has returned to the top 100
after a few years absense. Yuri Shulman in at 100. Magaram Magomedov back in
the list after playing for the first time in over a year. Aleksander Delchev
falls from 2634 to 2591 and out of the top 100. Also out of the top 100 are
Ehlvest (down from 2626 to 2589), Gilberto Milos, Zbynek Hracek, Boris Avrukh,
Thomas Luther, Vadim Milov, Alexei Federov, Lenier Dominguez and John Nunn.
Top 100 January 2002 Rating
List
Source: http://www.fide.com.
The full list is available for download there.
77th Hastings
Congress
The
77th Hastings International chess Congress takes place 28th December 2001 - 6th
January 2002.
Games in PGN
Round 9 (January 6, 2002)
Hebden, Mark -
Harikrishna, P 1/2 42 D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted
Zhang Zhong - Sasikiran,
Krishnan 1/2 65 B92 Sicilian Najdorf
Gallagher, Joseph G - Kiriakov, Petr
1/2 8 C11 French Defence
Wells, Peter K - Pert, Nicholas 1-0 70 C07 French
Tarrasch
Krush, Irina - Barsov, Alexei 0-1 69 E54 Nimzo Indian
Final Standings: 1. Harikrishna, P g IND 2502 6.5; 2. Barsov, Alexei g
UZB 2525 6.5; 3. Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2569 6.5; 4. Hebden, Mark g ENG 2567
5.0; 5. Kiriakov, Petr g RUS 2547 4.5; 6. Zhang Zhong g CHN 2657 4.5; 7.
Gallagher, Joseph G g SUI 2511 4.0; 8. Pert, Nicholas m ENG 2451 3.5; 9. Wells,
Peter K g ENG 2517 3.0; 10. Krush, Irina m USA 2411 1.0;
Internet
coverage: http://www.hastingschess.org.uk
Pamplona
The Pamplona tournament took
place 27th December 2001 - 6th January 2002.
All
Games in PGN
Round 9 (January 5, 2002)
Radjabov,
Teimour - Conquest, Stuart 1-0 55 D98 Gruenfeld Defence
Almasi, Zoltan -
Bologan, Viktor 1/2 15 C95 Ruy Lopez Breyer
Fressinet, Laurent - Moreno
Carnero, Javier 1-0 37 C91 Ruy Lopez
Leitao, Rafael - Andersson, Ulf 1/2 16
B85 Sicilian Scheveningen
Narciso Dublan, Marc - De la Riva Aguado, Oscar
1/2 37 B49 Sicilian Paulsen
Final Standings: 1. Bologan, Viktor
g MDA 2668 7.0; 2. Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2567 5.5; 3. Almasi, Zoltan g HUN
2630 5.5; 4. Andersson, Ulf g SWE 2601 5.5; 5. Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2588
5.0; 6. Leitao, Rafael g BRA 2581 4.5; 7. De la Riva Aguado, Oscar m AND 2495
3.5; 8. Conquest, Stuart g ENG 2601 3.5; 9. Moreno Carnero, Javier m ESP 2514
3.0; 10. Narciso Dublan, Marc m ESP 2517 2.0;
Internet coverage:
http://www.institucionoberena.com
Reggio
Emilia
The
Reggio Emilia tournament takes place 30th December 2001 to 7th January 2002.
Vladimir Georgiev took first place on tie-break from Delchev, Chatalbashev and
Cebalo. Georgiev beat the leader Cebalo in the final round. My thanks to Carlo
Mazzoni.
Internet coverage: http://re.xall.com
Games in PGN
Round 9 (January 8, 2002)
Georgiev, Vladimir - Cebalo, Miso 1-0 43 A65 Benoni Defence
Chatalbashev, Boris - Delchev, Aleksander 1/2 35 D10 Slav Defence
Naumkin,
Igor - Scalcione, Michelangelo 1/2 29 E61 King's Indian Defence
Vezzosi,
Paolo - Zaja, Ivan 0-1 66 E45 Nimzo Indian Rubinstein
Costantini, Roberto -
Djingarova, Emilia 1-0 49 B46 Sicilian Paulsen
Final Standings:
1. Georgiev, Vladimir g BUL 2564 6.0; 2. Delchev, Aleksander g BUL 2634 6.0; 3.
Chatalbashev, Boris g BUL 2526 6.0; 4. Cebalo, Miso g CRO 2492 6.0; 5. Naumkin,
Igor g RUS 2414 5.0; 6. Zaja, Ivan g CRO 2476 5.0; 7. Vezzosi, Paolo m ITA 2401
4.0; 8. Costantini, Roberto ITA 2314 3.0; 9. Scalcione, Michelangelo ITA 2292
2.5; 10. Djingarova, Emilia wm BUL 2256 1.5;