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NEWSLETTER 25 (May 23, 2011) NEWSLETTER 25 (May 23, 2011) EUROPEAN WOMEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP-TBILISI’2011 VIKTORIJA CMILYTE IS THE NEW EUROPEAN CHAMPION!!! Lithuanian grandmaster Viktorija Cmilyte is the new European women chess champion. She won the 12-th EWCC-Tbilisi’2011 with 9 points in the final ranking. GM Viktorija Cmilyte The Former World Champion GM Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) took the silver medal with 8.5 points. GM Elina Danielian (Armenia) won the bronze medal with 8 points. GM Antoaneta Stefanova GM Elina Danielian © Europechess.net Page 1 Place and date: Tbilisi, Georgia; May 6-18, 2011 Prize fund: € 110,000 System: 11-round, Swiss Rate of play : 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one. The opening ceremony was attended by the Georgian Minister of Sports and Youth Mr. Lado Vardzelashvili, the Mayor of Tbilisi Mr. Gigi Ugulava and Mr. Mahir Mammedov, Director General of the oil company SOCAR Energy Georgia – General Sponsor of the tournament. The European Individual Women’s Chess Championship - Tbilisi’2011 was officially closed by the President of the European Chess Union Silvio Danailov. Official web-site: www.tbilisi2011.ge Final Ranking (first 27 players) : Rank Title Name FED Rating Points TB1 TB2 TB3 N K rtg+/- 1 GM Cmilyte Viktorija LTU 2504 9 2692 65 78 11 10 24,3 2 GM Stefanova Antoaneta BUL 2506 8,5 2637 65 80 11 10 18,4 3 GM Danielian Elina ARM 2506 8 2629 65 80 11 10 17,5 4 IM Matveeva Svetlana RUS 2380 8 2413 49 61 11 10 8,3 5 IM Khotenashvili Bela GEO 2470 7,5 2580 66 80 11 10 16,9 6 GM Lahno Kateryna UKR 2530 7,5 2565 64 77 11 10 5,8 7 IM Javakhishvili Lela GEO 2454 7,5 2553 61 75 11 10 15,2 8 GM Kosintseva Tatiana RUS 2559 7,5 2539 60 73 11 10 -1,9 9 GM Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan SCO 2462 7,5 2535 56 70 11 10 11,4 10 IM Muzychuk Anna SLO 2537 7,5 2533 63 77 11 10 0,4 11 IM Foisor Cristina-Adela ROU 2414 7,5 2490 57 69 11 10 12,5 12 IM Bodnaruk Anastasia RUS 2419 7,5 2489 56 69 11 10 11,7 13 WGM Pogonina Natalija RUS 2448 7,5 2383 52 63 11 10 -6 14 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda RUS 2567 7 2513 62 76 11 10 -7,1 15 IM Ovod Evgenija RUS 2404 7 2509 62 74 11 10 16,2 16 GM Cramling Pia SWE 2468 7 2506 61 75 11 10 5,5 17 IM Romanko Marina RUS 2387 7 2487 58 71 11 10 15,4 18 IM Khurtsidze Nino GEO 2436 7 2456 58 70 11 10 3,8 19 GM Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 2456 7 2452 52 64 11 10 -0,2 20 IM Muzychuk Mariya UKR 2473 7 2439 54 65 11 10 -4,5 21 IM Mkrtchian Lilit ARM 2468 7 2432 55 67 11 10 -5,1 22 IM Khukhashvili Sopiko GEO 2421 7 2428 53 66 11 10 1,4 23 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta POL 2400 7 2425 56 67 11 10 5 24 WIM Tsatsalashvili Keti GEO 2280 7 2418 53 64 11 15 30,9 25 IM Gaponenko Inna UKR 2455 7 2412 54 66 11 10 -5,6 26 WIM Abdulla Khayala Mardan Qizi AZE 2168 7 2366 53 64 11 15 42,8 27 GM Zhukova Natalia UKR 2428 7 2298 48 59 11 10 -16,2 Organizers: European Chess Union, Georgian Chess Federation © Europechess.net Page 2 EUROPEAN SENIOR TEAMS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2011 RUSSIA IS THE WINNER!!! The team of Russia won the European Senior Teams Championship with 15 points. Germany won the silver, bronze is for the team of Montenegro. Place and date: Thessaloniki, Greece; 03- 11.05.2011 System: 9 rounds in Swiss system Rate of play: 40 moves in 90 minutes and 30 minutes to the end of the game. The player will additionaly receive 30 seconds for each move. Official web-site: http://gamesfestival.chessdom.com/ The Teams of Russia and Austria Final Ranking (first 26 teams): Rk. SNo Team Games TB1 TB2 TB3 + = - 1 1 Russia 9 6 3 0 15 24 195 2 2 Germany 9 6 2 1 14 24 187 3 4 Montenegro 9 5 3 1 13 23 187 4 3 Israel 1 9 5 2 2 12 22 184 5 6 Austria 9 4 4 1 12 22 172 6 8 Denmark 1 9 5 2 2 12 21 189 7 7 Italy 9 4 3 2 11 21 176 8 18 Belgium 9 5 1 3 11 21 166 9 15 Niederoesterreich 9 5 1 3 11 21 157 10 5 Finland 1 9 3 4 2 10 21 177 11 12 Scotland 9 5 0 4 10 21 169 12 11 Switzerland 9 4 2 3 10 21 166 13 9 Sportfreunde, Katernberg 9 4 2 3 10 21 157 14 25 Greece 9 3 4 2 10 18 170 15 10 Catalonia 9 4 2 3 10 18 181 16 13 England 1 9 4 1 4 9 19 165 17 21 Norway 1 9 2 5 2 9 19 160 18 22 Wales 9 3 3 3 9 18 147 19 14 Steiermark, Austria 9 2 5 2 9 17 163 20 17 England 2 9 3 3 3 9 17 156 21 20 Polar Bears Iceland 9 3 3 3 9 16 167 22 19 Sweden 1 9 3 2 4 8 19 166 23 16 Stiftung BSW DBAG 1 9 3 2 4 8 18 156 24 30 Israel 2 9 2 4 3 8 16 154 25 26 Turkey 9 3 2 4 8 16 156 26 35 Stiftung BSW DBAG II 9 3 2 4 8 14 131 © Europechess.net Page 3 XX CHAMPIONSHIP OF FORMER YUG REP OF MACEDONIA THE WINNER IS GM TRAJKO NEDEV!!! Place: Skopje, Former YUG Rep of Macedonia Date: 10-19.05.2011 The winner of the Championship is GM Trajko Nedev. GM Trajko Nedev Final ranking crosstable: Rank Title Name Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts. TB1 TB2 1 GM Nedev Trajko 2475 * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 1 7 0 5 2 GM Georgiev Vladimir 2574 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 6.5 0 4 3 IM Pancevski Filip 2399 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 0 1 5.5 0.5 3 4 GM Stanojoski Zvonko 2493 ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 ½ ½ 1 1 5.5 0.5 3 5 IM Colovic Aleksandar 2451 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 5 0 2 6 FM Menkinoski Riste 2331 0 ½ 0 1 ½ * ½ 1 0 1 4.5 0 3 7 IM Stojanovski Dejan 2436 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 1 ½ 4 0 2 8 IM Mitkov Marjan 2374 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 * 1 1 3 0 2 9 Petrovski Igor 2232 0 0 1 0 ½ 1 0 0 * 0 2.5 0 2 10 Veleski Robert 2259 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 * 1.5 0 1 UKRAINE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP’12-21.05.2011 A DAN DZO & PGMB (Chernigiv) TEAM IS THE WINNER!!! A DAN DZO & PGMB (Chernigiv) won the Ukraine Club Championship! The team composition is: GM Baadur Jobava 2704, GM Anton Korobov 2660, GM Sergei Azarov 2635, GM Boris Savchenko 2630, Alexander Lastin 2617, GM Gadir Guseinov 2603, GM Alexander Zubarev 2600, GM Yaroslav Zherebukh 2586, IM Alexander Nosenko 2522, GM Alexey Kislinski 2507. Final ranking crosstable: Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TB1 TB2 TB3 1 A DAN DZO & PGMB (Chernigiv) * 4 5 4½ 4½ 6 5 6 5½ 6 18 47 0 2 Law Academy (Kharkiv) 2 * 4 4 5 5 4½ 6 5½ 5½ 16 42 0 3 Podillya-Region (Khmelnitsky) 1 2 * 4 2 3½ 4½ 6 5 6 12 34 2 4 CRIMEA GAZ 1½ 2 2 * 4 4 5 5 5½ 5 12 34 0 5 Shtrafbat (Lugansk) 1½ 1 4 2 * 4 4 5½ 5 4½ 12 32 0 6 Nika (Nikopol) 0 1 2½ 2 2 * 3½ 4 4½ 5 8 25 0 7 With no mercy (Chernigiv) 1 1½ 1½ 1 2 2½ * 5 5½ 5 6 25 0 8 Kashtan (Kyiv) 0 0 0 1 ½ 2 1 * 4 4½ 4 13 0 9 Chess Shcool (Simferopol) ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1½ ½ 2 * 3½ 2 11 0 10 Crimea stars 0 ½ 0 1 1½ 1 1 1½ 2½ * 0 9 0 Official web site: http://ukrchess.org.ua/ © Europechess.net Page 4 CZECH REPUBLIC INDIVIDUAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP WIM KAROLINA OLSAROVA AND GM JIRI STOCEK ARE THE NEW CHAMPIONS!!! WIM Karolina Olsarova and GM Jiri Stocek won the gold in the Czech Republic Individual Chess Championship! Place and date: Pardubice, Czech Republic; 12-20 May 2011. Source of the photos: http://www.chessdom.com/ Final ranking crosstable-men: Rank Title Name Rtg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points TB1 1 GM Štoček Jiří 2600 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 6 25.5 2 IM Krejčí Jan 2489 ½ * 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 1 1 5.5 22.3 3 GM Polák Tomáš 2526 ½ 1 * ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 5 22.5 4 GM Babula Vlastimil 2566 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 5 22.3 5 GM Mirumian Viguen 2513 ½ 0 1 ½ * ½ ½ 0 1 1 5 20 6 GM Votava Jan 2541 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 4.5 18.8 7 IM Kaňovský David 2472 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 4.5 18.5 8 IM Šimáček Pavel 2462 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ * ½ 1 4.5 1 9 IM Rašík Vítězslav 2485 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 3 12.8 10 GM Jansa Vlastimil 2518 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ * 2 9.5 Final ranking-women: 1st – 2nd place Name Rating Result Name Rating Result Olšarová Pirklová WIM Karolína 2242 2 Hana 2153 0 3rd - 4th place Title Name Rating Result Title Name Rating Result Havlíková Kubíková WIM Kristýna 2288 1,5 WFM Alena 2121 0,5 © Europechess.net Page 5 FIDE WORLD CUP – QUALIFIERS FROM EUROPE FIDE has forwarded to the ECU Office the official list of World Cup qualifiers from Europe.
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