NEWSLETTER 34 (July 25, 2011)

GM HANS TIKKANEN IS THE NEW SWEDISH CHESS CHAMPION!!!

The name of the new Swedish Chess Champion is GM Hans Tikkanen! He won the tournament with final result of 6.5 points. With half of a point less on the second place in the final ranking is GM Jonny Hector. At one point distance from the winner are GM Pia Cramling and IM Bengt Lindberg.

GM Hans Tikkanen

Final Ranking

Rk. Name RtgI RtgN Pts. TB1 TB2 1 GM Tikkanen Hans 2596 2650 6,5 0 24,8 2 GM Hector Jonny 2568 2660 6 0 24,3 3 GM Cramling Pia 2472 2580 5,5 0,5 22,3 4 IM Lindberg Bengt 2391 2436 5,5 0,5 22,3 5 GM Grandelius Nils 2542 2583 5 0,5 22,5 6 GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 2547 2607 5 0,5 19 7 GM Carlsson Pontus 2496 2597 4 0 15,3 8 GM Berg Emanuel 2604 2662 3,5 0 12,5 9 IM Eriksson Johan 2401 2442 2,5 0 11,3 10 FM Westerberg Jonathan 2313 2314 1,5 0 5,5

The Swedish Chess Championship was held on 16-24 July, 2011 in Vasteras, Sweden. The tournament was played in 9 Rounds, according to the FIDE rules. The rate of play was 90 minutes for 40 moves+30 minutes for the rest of the game+30 seconds for each move, starting from move one.

The Championship was organized by Vasteras Chess Club, the Chief-Arbiter was Tappio Tikkanen.

Official web site: www.sm2011.schack.se

FIDE CHANGES TO RATING REGULATIONS

The following proposals were agreed at the General Assembly in Khanty-Mansiysk. Changes effective from July 1st, 2011.

K factor for players with fewer than 30 rated games is 30 (was 25) Articles 8.26, 8.34 and 8.56.

If a player has achieved a partial rating, each subsequent game against rated player is accumulated to the player’s rating (earlier three games in a tournament were needed) Article 8.21.

Source: www.fide.com

GM DUSAN POPOVIC WON THE 1ST SCIENCE PARK CHESS TOURNAMENT

GM Dusan Popovic from Serbia won the 1st Science Park Chess Tournament on tie- break with final result of 7 points. With the same points finished four more chess players – IM Roeland Pruijssers (NED), GM Aleksandr Lenderman (USA), GM Nikola Sedlak (SRB) and GM B.Adhiban (IND).

The winner-GM Dusan Popovic

1st Science Park Chess Tournament was held on 09-17 July, 2011 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Prize fund was 10.000 EURO. System and rate of play: 9 Rounds in Swiss system; 90 minutes for 40 moves+30 minutes for the rest of the game+30 seconds per move from the start.

Final Ranking - first 10 positions

Rank Name Score Fed. BH SB 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1 GM Popovic, Dusan 7.0 SRB 55.5 41.75 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½

2 IM Pruijssers, Roeland 7.0 NED 52.0 38.5 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1

3 GM Lenderman, 7.0 USA 50.0 37.0 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 ½

Aleksandr

4 GM Sedlak, Nikola 7.0 SRB 50.5 37.75 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½

5 GM Adhiban, B. 7.0 IND 53.5 39.75 1 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 1 1

6 FM Tan, Matthew 6.5 NED 48.0 31.5 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½

7 GM Haslinger, Stewart G 6.0 ENG 49.5 32.0 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1

8 GM Friedel, Joshua E 6.0 USA 49.0 29.0 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 0 1

9 FM Van Assendelft, Floris 6.0 NED 47.5 29.25 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 0 1

10 GM Neverov, Valeriy 6.0 UKR 46.0 28.5 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1

Official web site: www.amsterdamchess.com

BULGARIAN GM KIRIL GEORGIEV WON XXIX ANDORRA CHESS OPEN

Bulgarian GM Kiril Georgiev won XXIX Andorra Chess Open. He finished the tournament with personal result of 7.5 points. Kiril Georgiev dominated the tournament as it has always been at the top of the table.

The winner-GM Kiril Georgiev

On the second place finished the Spanish GM Julen Arizmendi with 7 points, the third place was for another Spanish chess player-GM Marc Narciso, who finished with 7 points too.

The tournament was held on 16-24 July, 2011 in Andorra, Andorra. The event organized by the Chess Federation of Andorra was with Prize fund of 10.000 EURO and the following system and rate of play: 9 rounds in Swiss system; 90 minutes for 40 moves+30 minutes for the rest of the game+30 seconds per move, starting from move one.

Final Ranking-first 15 positions

Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 1 Georgiev Kiril g BUL 2654 7,5 2722 45 42 2 Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis g ESP 2555 7 2637 43 38 3 Narciso Dublan Marc g ESP 2544 7 2634 42 38 4 Iturrizaga Eduardo g VEN 2603 7 2626 41 37 5 Zoler Dan m ISR 2527 7 2612 43 38 6 Damljanovic Branko g SRB 2611 7 2612 42 36 7 Almeida Quintana Omar g CUB 2548 6,5 2559 44 37 8 Riff Jean-Noel m FRA 2493 6,5 2554 40 32 9 Kogan Artur g ISR 2548 6,5 2539 41 36 10 Ibarra Jerez Jose Carlos m ESP 2530 6,5 2529 40 36 11 Tania Sachdev IND 2419 6,5 2522 41 35 12 Marin Mihail g ROU 2548 6,5 2473 39 31 13 Caspi Israel m ISR 2443 6 2530 43 36 14 Gonzalez Vidal Yuri g CUB 2503 6 2520 40 35 15 Hamdouchi Hicham g FRA 2628 6 2508 41 34

Official web site: www.escacsandorra.com

GM TOMASZ MARKOWSKI WON MIGUEL NAJDORF INTERNATIONAL CHESS FESTIVAL

The Polish GM Tomasz Markowski won Miguel Najdorf International Chess Festival with final result of 7 points from possible 9. On the second place is another Polish chess player – GM Dariusz Swiercz who finished with the same score. Six GMs finished the tournament with 6.5 points – Vadim Malakhatko (BEL), Paul Czarnota (POL), Robert Kempinski (POL), Oleg Romanishin (UKR), Vlastimil Babula (JUN), Spartak Vysochin (UKR).

Final Ranking-first 10 positions

M-ce Titus. First Name Last Name Fed. Pts. MBch. Bch. LZ Prog.

1 GM Markowski, Tomasz POL 7.0 41.00 52.00 5 37.5

2 GM Świercz, Dariusz POL 7.0 37.00 47.00 5 35.5

3 GM Malakhatko, Vadim BEL 6.5 40.00 50.50 4 35.5

4 GM Czarnota, Paul POL 6.5 39.50 50.50 4 35.0

5 GM Kempinski, Robert POL 6.5 39.00 50.50 4 34.0

6 GM Romanishin, Oleg M UKR 6.5 38.50 49.00 5 34.0

7 GM Babula, Vlastimil JUN 6.5 38.50 49.00 4 33.0

8 GM Vysochin, Spartak UKR 6.5 37.00 47.50 5 32.5

9 GM Maciej, Bartlomiej POL 6.0 40.50 51.00 3 33.5

10 IM Warakomski, Thomas POL 6.0 39.50 50.50 4 32.5

The participants

The tournament was held on 14-22 July, 2011 in Warsaw, Poland. The Prize fund was 10.158 EURO with the following system and rate of play: 9 rounds in Swiss system; 90 min. for 40 moves + 30 min. for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.

Official web site: www.poloniachess.pl