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News & Events: Year 2003
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- Hastings Int. Chess Congress (December 28 - January 5 / ENGLAND)

         
Jonathan Rowson and Vasilios Kotronias tied in the 1st place

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- Pamplona Tournament 2003 (December 20-28 / Pamplona, SPAIN)

               Miguel Illescas won the tournament for the 2nd time

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- XVI Carlos Torre Memorial (December 12-20 / Merida, Mexico)
        
                          Cuban IM Yuniesky Quesada wins the title

* Chessville coverage

* Official site (Spanish)

- First Saturday Tournaments (December 2003/Budapest, HUNGARY)

* Follow the Tournaments! (results, games, photos)

* Official site


- Lindsborg Invitational (December 13-14 / Kansas, USA)

                            
Anatoly Karpov won this rapid event

* Final standings
* Official site

- Santo Domingo Chess Tournament (November 27 - December 5)

                          Vadim Milov won by better coefficient (7.5/10)

* Chessville coverage

       - Round 1 results
       - Round 2 results
       - Round 3 results
       - Round 4 results
       - Round 5 results
       - Round 6 results
       - Round 7 results
       - Round 8 results
       - Round 9 results
       - Round 10 results
 
       - Final standings

       - Picture gallery

* Official site

 

- World Computer Chess Championship (November 22 - 29, Graz)
                                       

                                       Shredder takes the title (9.5/11)

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* Live games:   ICC / Chessbase´s server
* Reports + pictures from Chessbase: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
* Official site


- 2nd Benidorm Chess Festival (November 27 - 29 / Benidorm, SPAIN)

 
Veselin Topalov wins (7/10), Anand & Radjabov finish in 2nd place (6.5)

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- Match Navara - Korchnoi (November 21 - 22 / Prague, CZECH RE.)

                                         
Navara wins 1.5 - 0.5
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* Official site

-
Kasparov vs. X3D Fritz (November 11 - 18 / New York, USA)

          
              
                  Final score: 2 - 2

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* Official site

- First Saturday Tournaments (November / Budapest, HUNGARY)

* Follow the Tournaments! (results, games, photos)

* Official site

- Milk Tournament 2003 (October 29 - November 7 / ICELAND)

              
                 Ivan Sokolov won the tournament

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* Official site

- Curacao International Chess Tournament (October 24 - November 3)

                                
Boris Gulko wins this year´s edition

* Chessville coverage

* Official site

- 7th International Open of Corsica (October 31 - November 3)

           
     Viswanathan Anand won this strong rapid tournament

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* Official site

- 6th Cap d´Agde Festival (October 24 - 30 / Cap d´Agde, FRANCE)

   Viswanathan Anand wins the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship

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* Official site

- 3rd Bangkok Chess Club Open (October 22 - 26, BANGKOK)

               
Antonio Rogelio won this open tournament (7.5/9)

* Final standings

- European Team Championship (October 11-20/Plovdiv, BULGARIA)

                        
Russia won the European Team Champion title

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* Official site

- 1st Samba Cup (October 10 - 19 / Skanderborg, DENMARK)

         
Nielsen, Short, Sadvakasov and Hansen share the 1st place

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* Official site

- 7th Essent Chess Tournament (October 12 - 18 / Hoogeveen)

                                
Judit Polgar won the tournament

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* Official site

- 1st Saturday Tournaments (October / Budapest, HUNGARY)
 

* Chessville coverage

* Official site

- European Clubs Cup (September 27th - October 5th / GREECE)

                      NAO Chess Club won the European Clubs Cup

* Chessville coverage

* Participants  men / women
* Official site

- Kasparov - Azmaiparashvili rapid & blitz match (September 23)

* Chessville coverage
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* Official site

- Lausanne Young Masters (September 17 - 22 / SWITZERLAND)

   
Luke McShane wins the tournament after beating E.Bacrot (1.5-0.5)

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* Official site

- FIDE rating list (October 2003)

* Top players: men / women

- Sanjian Chess Cup (September 17 - 20 / Ji Nan, CHINA)

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* Official site (chinese)

- 1st Saturday Tournaments (September 2003 / Budapest, HUNGARY)

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* Official site

- 56th Russian Chess Championship (September 2-15)

                    Peter Svidler is the new Russian Chess Champion


* Chessville coverage
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* List of participants
* Official site (Russian)
* GM Peter Svidler official site

- French Chess Championships (August 18-30)
                  
                     
Etienne Bacrot and Sophie Millet won the title

* Official site (French)

- Panamerican Continental Championships (August 17-30)

                      
Alexander Goldin finished in 1st place (8.5/11)

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      * Final standings 

      * Round 11 results
      * Round 10 results
      * Round 9 results
      * Round 8 results
      * Round 7 results
      * Round 6 results
      * Round 5 results
      * Round 4 results
      * Round 3 results
      * Round 2 results

* Official site (Spanish)
* Participants

- Mainz Chess Classic 2003 (August 13-17 / Mainz, GERMANY)


* Polgar - Anand (rapid match)   Viswanathan Anand won the rapid match vs. Judit Polgar (5-3)
* Leko - Svidler (Chess960 match)  Peter Svidler is the new WNCA world champion (4.5-3.5 vs. P.Leko)
* ORDIX Open:        Alexander Grischuk won the Ordix Open 2003 (9.5/11)
* Chess960 Open:     Levon Aronian won the Chess960 Open (9.5/11)
* Chess 960 simultans (Leko & Svidler):  Both players scored 17.5-2.5 (+15=5-0)

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* Official site
* GM Peter Svidler official site

- 1st Saturday Tournaments (August 2003 / Budapest, HUNGARY)

* August  tournaments (results, standings & pictures) / Download all the games

- U.S Open 2003 (August 3 - 15 / Los Angeles, USA)

 
                   
Alexander Shabalov wins the U.S Open 2003

* Official site

- Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2003 (July 31 - August 10)


 
   Viktor Bologan wins the Dortmund 2003 Chess Tournament (6.5/10)

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* Official site

- Biel International Chess Festival (July 21-31 / Biel,SWITZERLAND)


                     Alexander Morozevich finished clear first (8/10)

* Preview (GM Sergey Shipov, WorldChessRating.com)
* Final standings
* Download all the games (TWIC)
* Official site

- 25th Politiken Cup (July 14-25 / Copenhagen, DENMARK)

                             
Krishnan Sasikiran took the 1st place

* Official site

- 2003 Canadian Open Chess Championship (July 12-20)


          
Alexander Moiseenko took the 1st place (8/10)

* Final standings

* Official site

- Polgar - Gelfand Rapid Match (July 10-13 / Pacs, HUNGARY)
                                 
                                   
Gelfand beat Polgar 6-2
* Official site
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- 1st Saturday Tournaments (July 2003 / Budapest, HUNGARY)

* IM norm makers

      - GM group
               + Leonid Gershoy
               + Arnar Gunnarsson
               + Sergei Reutsky
               + Bragi Thorfinnsson

      - IM group
               + Yelena Dembo
               + Tibor Reiss

* July tournaments (results, standings & pictures) / Download all the games

- 18th North Sea Cup (July 4-12 / Esbjerg, DENMARK)

  
 Dreev, McShane & Sasikiran tied in 1st place (6.5/9)

* Official site (standings, results & games)

- 31st World Open (June 28 - July 6 / Philadelphia, USA)
              
                             
Jaan Ehlvest won the event
* Official site
* Results

- Dutch Chess Championship (June 26 - July 5 / Leeuwarden)
                                
    
Loek Van Wely is the Dutch Chess Champion 2003

* Chessville coverage -- pairings, results, standings & openings information
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* Official site (Dutch)

- FIDE rating list (July 2003)

Player ELO
Garry Kasparov 2830
Vladimir Kramnik 2785
Viswanathan Anand 2774
Peter Leko 2739
Veselin Topalov 2735
Alexander Grischuk 2732
Alexei Shirov 2732
Peter Svidler 2723
Evgeny Bareev 2721
Michael Adams 2719

* Top 100
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* FIDE site

- Greenland Rapid Chess Tournament (June 28 - 30 / ICELAND)
        
              
Luke McShane finished clear first (8.5/9)

* Final standings
* Results

* Official site

- 5th Enghien-les-Bains Chess Tournament (June 13-22 / FRANCE)

 
                    Evgeny Bareev won the tournament

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* Official site (French)

- 4th European Individual Chess Championships (Silivri, TURKEY)

                    
Zurab Azmaiparashvili won the title!

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* Final standings, pairings & results

* Download the games (TWIC)

* Official site

- 25th Oberwart Chess Open (June 5th-13th / Oberwart, AUSTRIA)

* Official site

- 16th Ciudad de León Chess Tournament (León, SPAIN)
                          
                 
Ruslan Ponomariov wins the tournament

* Chessville coverage

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- GM Patrick Wolff - the Rest of the World (from August 31st, 2002)
                                       
                                    
Game drawn after 42 moves
* Official site

- Distance Chess Match: St.Petersburg - NAO Chess Club

                                      
Final result: 2.5-1.5

        Board 1: Khalifman, A - Kramnik, V      0.5-0.5     Nimzo Indian: classical variation     36 moves
        Board 2: Radjabov, T - Svidler, P      0.5-0.5     English Opening      33 moves
        Board 3: Korchnoi, V - Fressinet, L      1-0     QGD Slav Defense      71 moves
        Board 4: Karjakin, S - Sakaev, K       0.5-0.5     Sicilian Defense: Scheveningen variation     46 moves

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- 33rd Bosnia Chess Tournament (May 17-27 / Sarajevo, BOSNIA)

               
 Ivan Sokolov finished in 1st place (6.5/9)

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* Official site
* Photo gallery

- 3rd Leiden Computer Chess Tournament (May 16-18 / Leiden)

                              The King (7.5/9) wins! 

* Chessville coverage

* Participants
* Official site

- Spanish Team Championships (Canary Islands, SPAIN)

                                 
C.A Marcote won the title

* Final standings

- Sigeman Chess Tournament (April 29th - May 8th)

                        
Ivanchuk won the tournament (7/9)

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* Official site

- Generation Chess International Tournament (April 23rd - May 2nd)

 
          
Eugene Perelshteyn won the tournament (6.5/9)

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* Official site


- 4th Karpov Tournament (April 20th - 29th / Poikovsky, RUSSIA)

                       
     Svidler won the tournament (6/9)

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- Match: WGM Zhu Chen vs. GM Iannis Papaioannou (April 20 - 21)

                                        
Zhu Chen won 3-1

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* Official site

- Hunguest Hotels Chess Tournament (April 11-20 / Budapest)


 
                           
   Short won the tournament (6.5 / 9)

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* Fantasy Chess contest

* Official site

- Karpov - Macieja Rapid Match (April 7-10, Poland)
                                             
                                          
Karpov won 6-2
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* Official site

- SIS-MH Masters Rapid Play (April 5-6 / Denmark)
                        
                     
Anand won the tournament (5.5/6)

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* Official site

- Dos Hermanas Chess Tournament 2003 (March 28th - April 5th)

         Rustemov & Dreev tied in the 1st place (6/9)

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* Download all the games

* Official site (Spanish)

- FIDE Rating list (April 2003)

* Top 100 players

Top 10 players
 

Ranking Player ELO rating
1 Garry Kasparov 2830
2 Vladimir Kramnik 2789
3 Viswanathan Anand 2764
4 Peter Leko 2746
5 Alexei Shirov 2735
6 Veselin Topalov 2735
7 Evgeny Bareev 2734
8 Michael Adams 2723
9 Ruslan Ponomariov 2718
10 Judit Polgar (WGM) 2715


- XII Amber Tournament (March 15th-27th)

               
Anand won this year´s tournament (14.5/22)

* Chessville coverage -- standings, games & results by round
* Download all the games (completed names and ELO by Pablo Sierra)

* Official site

- Dos Hermanas Internet Tournament 2003

                       Vladimir Potkin wins 1.500€

* Final standings
* Official site

- Match Krush vs. Shahade Match (March 21)

                                      
Final result: 1-1
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- 19th Budapest Spring Festival (March 14th - 22nd)
                                  
                              
Miklos Galyas won the Festival

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* Final standings

- Linares 2003 (February 22nd - March 9th / Linares, SPAIN)

Leko, Kramnik = 1st/2nd at 7/12

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* Official site
 

- Edda Rapid Tournament (March 3rd-5th / Reykjavik, ICELAND)

Mikhail Gurevich is the winner

* Final standings
* Round by round results

* Official site
* Registered players
* Time control: 25 minutes for the game, no increments

- Hrokurinn Chess Tournament (February 18th - 27th)

                     
Alexei Shirov won the tournament (7/9)

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- Aeroflot Chess Open Festival (February 11th - 20th)


                          
Bologan won by better coefficient

* Chessville coverage (top boards results + downloadable games)

* Final standings
* Round 9 results
* Round 8 results
* Round 7 results
* Round 6 results
* Round 5 results
* Round 4 results
* Round 3 results
* Round 2 results

* Round 1 results

* Official site
* List of participants

- Match Ghaem Maghami - Nigel Short (February 12th-17th / Tehran)

               
                      Short won the match (4-2)
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- Match Stefansson - Movsesian (February 10-15 / Reykjavik, Iceland)

           
Sergei Movsesian won the match / Final score: 1.5 - 4.5

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- Kasparov vs. Deep Junior Match (January 26th - February 7th)


                                                  
Final score: 3 - 3

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* Report + pictures from game 1 and game 4 (by Max Panfilov)

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- Kosteniuk vs. Karjakin Match (January 1st-6th, Switzerland)
 
                          
Sergey Karjakin won the match (4-2)

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- 4th Yateley Manor International (January 24-26, February 1-2)
 

Place Player Score + prize
1st John Cox 7.5 / 250£ + free place at British Champs 2003
2nd Colin Crouch 7 / 120£
3rd Andrew Greet 6.5 / 50£
4th Ben Savage 6 / 30£
Merit Thomas Sharp 5.5 / 30£

* Both FIDE and BCF rating tables can be found at http://www.juniorchess.info

- 20th Bermuda Chess Festival (January 25th - February 5th)

 
 Giovanni Vescovi won the tournament, Svidler finished in 2nd place

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* Official site
*
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- Evgeny Bareev vs. Hiarcs X (January 28-31 2003, NETHERLANDS)

                                          
Final score: 2-2 (4 draws)

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* Official site

* More details

- Corus Wijk aan Zee 2003 (January 10th - 26th)


                             
    Anand wins the tournament (8.5/13)

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- 2003 US Chess Championship (Seattle, USA)
   

   
Alexander Shabalov & Anna Hahn are the new US Chess Champions

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* Current standings
  
* WorldChessNetwork reports

* Official site
*
Participants


- Tapolca Open 2003 (January 3-11 / Tapolca, HUNGARY)

       
                                  
Laszlo Gonda won this Open Tournament

* Chessville coverage

- January 2003 FIDE rating list
 

                                                              Top 10

Place Player ELO rating
1 Garry Kasparov 2847
2 Vladimir Kramnik 2807
3 Viswanathan Anand 2753
4 Veselin Topalov 2743
5 Peter Leko 2736
6 Michael Adams 2734
7 Ruslan Ponomariov 2734
8 Evgeny Bareev 2729
9 Alexei Shirov 2723
10 Alexander Grischuk 2712

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