Daily News of Torino Olympiad May 26/2006. Status Quo mantained esterday a strange thing ria, Sweden, USA, Be- happened in men’s section. larus and Iran (!) as a First fi ve matches ended most positive surprise. 2:2 and with no high victo- Th e most negative ries behind them a perfect one untill now is cer- status quo was mantained. To avoid any mi- tainly England, only sunderstanding,Y they were all fought just on 12,5 points, with untill the last soldier. two such strong front Let’s start from the begining. Russia put players as are Adams for the fi rst time their basic line-up which and Short! looks frightening with its average of 2730 elo It was not a lucky points. However it was not enough to defeat day for Italian teams. Armenia whose rating average was «only» «A» lost to Poland 2680 points! 2,5:1,5, «B» to Malysia Kramnik produced one more beautiful 1:3, only «C» managed piece of pure positional chess against Aro- to mantain the balance nian, Svidler and Grischuk drew against against Austria. Akopian and Asrian, but Morozevich was Top pairings for outplayed by Sargissian in a way which round six are: usually puts him on the winning side. In Netherlands-Russia, match number two Dutch players were lon- Armenia-Uzbekistan, gtime in lead thanks to Tiviakov, but at the Sweden-Bulgaria, end Kasimdzhanov equalized the score. Th is Ukraine-Iran,Belarus-Spain and China- was a strange game, where Sokolov very ear- USA. ly overlooked a pawn, then managed to take Aft er their frightening start, Russian wo- it back, then lost it again, took it back again men showed that they are also vulnerable Please, shut down and fi nally lost slightly worse rook endgame human beings and lost a big derby again- when he was already close to draw. I’m sure st Ukraine with 1:2. A decisive game was that Spain was hoping for more, but they played on bord number one, where Zhuko- didn’t manage to defeat Sweden. Th e rea- va defeated Kosteniuk. Russia is still in lead the mobile! son is a surprising defeat of Vallejo against with 12,5 points, but Ukraine is now just half Hellsten, so that the victory of Illescas was a point behind. Th is tournament could easily n the third round of Chess Olym- Th e reason for this rule is clear: the enough just to equalize the score. become a two teams show. Hungary is now piad, the fi rst defeat by telepho- players cannot receive help from others via Ukraine and Bulgaria drew in the same third with 11,5 points aft er their splendid ne was recorded: it happened in telephone or to disturb the opponents and way. Ivanchuk recovered quickly from his victory, 2,5:0,5 against the defending cham- the Albania-Sweden encounter, other players. loss against Kasimdzhanov and won again- pions of China. It seems that this Chinese as soon as it begun, aft er the Th e arbiter Trapani tells: st Kiril Georgiev (see the comments), but team which is clearly not their best one, will third move, when the mobile phone of the “Th e Albanian girls of fi rst and third ches- this time Volokitin lost to Cheparinov, who not be able to defend the title. A group of 8 albanianI Shabanaj started ringing. sboard had arrived when the clock was past is one of Topalov’s seconds and a player of teams follows with 11 points: Bulgaria, USA, Th e arbiter on duty was ready to step in two minutes. Th ey had begun to play when the same sharp style. It seems like Black lost Romania, India, Armenia, Spain, Mongolia and obviously assigned the loss to Albania. the player of the third chessboard telephone on time, since in the fi nal position, although and Slovenia. Th e arbiter was the Italian Angelino Trapa- rang loudly. Th e girl opened up her purse being clearly worse, he could still continue. Italy «A» drew with Germany keeping so ni, from the province of Cosenza, his fi rst and quickly turned it off , but Christin An- Only in the fi ft h match between India and their position close to the top, but «B» team Olympiad and his fi rst experience with pho- dersson from Sweden noted that the ringing China all four games ended in a draw, but af- lost to Philippines 0,5:2,5. ne disturbances. of the telephone of the adversary and got the ter a big fi ght. It seems, however, that Anand’s Top pairings for round six are: Russia- “Now, aft er the many cases happened in attention of her captain. I immediately acted position was suspicious, as a consequence of Hungary, Spain-Ukraine, Mongolia-Usa, tournaments” has declared Franca Dapiran, and assigned the loss to the Albanian player the risk he took in the middlegame. On the Romania-Armenia, India-Slovenia and Ka- deputy arbiter, responsible for the female as per the regulations. Her two team mates other hand it is quite understandable that zakhstan-Bulgaria. fi eld, “the Fide regulations are quite strict for become obviously nervous and lost concen- Indian players must try to compensate their Tomorrow is a rest day, so the leaders can these situations: the players cannot use the te- tration, so that in the end the Swedens won loss from the fi rst round at any cost. enjoy their positions for 48 hours. However, lephone during the game not even on silence by 3 to 0”. Th e situation on the top is now: Russia a lot of other things will be happening in the or with the vibrator on. If the phone rings the Here are the played moves: 1. d4, d5 2. c4, and Armenia 15,5 points, Netherlands 15, tournament hall, like the World Champion- game is lost. In any case, at the beginning of c6 3 Cf3, d:c4 and at that point the telephone Uzbekistan 14,5 followed by a group of 7 ship for computers, so don’t miss the show! every encounter the arbiter has to warn the rang. teams with 14 points: Ukraine, Spain, Bulga- (M.Cebalo) players to turn off their telephones”. (A. Capece) Chess in Nepal Il salotto he Nepal Chess Federation beautiful country and in 1970 world chess was formed 30 years ago champion Max Euwe had visited Nepal and degli scacchi but there were chess tour- in a simultaneus display a Nepal player had naments played as early as infact defeated him. His visit opened up the 100 years as well. Nepal got doors for enhanced development of chess in n piazza San Carlo from May 23 the Fide recognition in 1985 and has star- Nepal and we would like to extend an invita- it’s opened of “Torino: il salotto tedT participating in Chess Olympiad since tion to top players like Viswanathan Anand, degli scacchi”. Calvia in 2004. Th e president of Nepal chess Vaselin Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik to Chess is not only played at the federation Sitaram Agrahari said we need visit us as part of being Fide cultural ambas- Lingotto Oval, where the ma- expert coaches and sponsorship from Fide. sadors and give us the momentum to further tches of the 37th Olympiad are taking place, Already the world chess association has develop chess in the Kingdom. British Gran- butI also in other places in the city, such as supported us through “cacdec” by books, dmaster Nigel piazza San Carlo, where “Torino: il salotto and now we are hoping that we will get a Short has also degli scacchi” is located: a battle fi eld, clearly Grandmaster coach from Fide. shown inte- a peaceful one, where you can play on the Th e registered players in himalayan kin- rest to visit us chessboards of four “houses”. gdom are 5000 and there are regular tourna- in the future. India House, Persia House, Arabia House ments and you can see chess being played in F o r m e r and Europe House will host sixteen tables cafe and streets as it is the most popular sport fi de president with all the necessary pieces and chessboards aft er football and cricket. Within 2 or 3 years F l o r e n c i o (one for each House) and these become the we have climbed to 116 in the Fide country Campomanes stages on which strategies and techniques rating and our best player is Digesh Shankar visited us in can be shown, with presentation of historical Malla who is rated 2257 and current natio- 1985 and he matches of the great champions of the past nal champion. We would like to organize in- saw the chess and the reading of literary pieces dedicated ternational tournaments and also participa- culture in Ne- to the world of rooks, knights, bishops, kings te in the international arena event. Another pal and gave and queens. promising player is Kesav Shrestha who is us the entry to Fide. We are very delighted Each house represents – and tells of - a expected to become an international master. to meet him here and we express our sincere historical period and a geographical area in Cricket and football get many support and thanks to him and to current president Mr. the history of chess from its beginnings and In the Houses of the “salotto degli scac- we need the backing of Fide and other inter- Kirsan for contributing to the development the spread of the game throughout Europe.