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NEWSLETTER 27 (June 06, 2011) THE PRESIDENT OF ECU SILVIO DANAILOV PARTICIPATED IN THE PRESIDENTIAL BOARD OF FIDE IN AL AIN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES’ 04-07.06.2011 The President of the European Chess Union, Mr. Silvio Danailov participated in the Presidential Board of FIDE in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates (04-07.06.2011). During the meeting of the Board, Mr. Danailov made a report, concerning the progress of the ECU activities for the period from the last Presidential Board of FIDE, which was held in Antalya, Turkey on 03-06.02.2011. Mr. Silvio Danailov and Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nayhan Mr. Silvio Danailov informed the members of the Board about the results of the work of the three Commissions which were formed after the ECU Extraordinary General Assembly on Mach 29, 2011: Sofia Rule Commission, Dress Code Commission and Copyright Commission about which formation and purposes you were already informed. © Europechess.net Page 1 Source of the photos: FIDE According to the decision of FIDE Presidential Board, Mr. Silvio Danailov will be member in the new FIDE working Commission which purpose is to be created a Foundation for Modernisation of FIDE which will be funded by private investment. The Head of the Commission will be the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. The members are: FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos, Secretary General Ignatius Leong, Continental President for Asia, Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nayhan, Continental President for Europe Silvio Danailov, Vice President Ilya Levitov and Chief Executive Officer Geoffrey Borg. IM SARAH HOOLT AND GM IGOR KHENKIN WON THE GERMAN CHAMPIONSHIP’2011 Place and date: Ibis Hotel, Bonn, Germany; 26.05-03.06.2011 Organizer: German Chess Federation Chief-Arbiter: Ralph Alt IM Sarah Hoolt and GM Igor Khenkin won the German Chess Championship’2011! © Europechess.net Page 2 GM Igor Khenkin IM Sarah Hoolt Final Ranking Crosstable after 9 Rounds-MEN (first 10 players) Rk. Name 1.Rd 2.Rd 3.Rd 4.Rd 5.Rd 6.Rd 7.Rd 8.Rd 9.Rd Pts. TB1 1 Khenkin Igor 28s1 13w1 5s1 2w½ 6s½ 8w1 4s½ 10w½ 3s½ 6,5 1 2 Gustafsson Jan 20w1 19s1 33w1 1s½ 3w½ 7s0 11w1 6s½ 12w1 6,5 2 3 Fridman Daniel 10s½ 14w1 8s1 6w½ 2s½ 4w0 13s1 16w1 1w½ 6 3 4 Buhmann Rainer 23w½ 22s½ 18w1 12s½ 5w1 3s1 1w½ 7s0 6w1 6 4 Gschnitzer Oswald 5 Dr. 27s1 34w1 1w0 33w+ 4s0 10w½ 14s1 12s½ 7w1 6 5 6 Stern Ren‚ 17w½ 11s1 16w1 3s½ 1w½ 9s½ 7w1 2w½ 4s0 5,5 6 7 Huschenbeth Niclas 22w½ 23s1 12w½ 26s½ 25w1 2w1 6s0 4w1 5s0 5,5 7 8 Siebrecht Sebastian 11w½ 17s1 3w0 23s1 26w1 1s0 9w½ 13s½ 10s1 5,5 8 9 Seel Christian 14s½ 26w½ 27s1 10w½ 16s½ 6w½ 8s½ 11w½ 22s1 5,5 9 10 Natsidis Christoph 3w½ 25s½ 30w1 9s½ 12w½ 5s½ 17w1 1s½ 8w0 5 10 © Europechess.net Page 3 Final Ranking Crosstable after 9 Rounds-WOMEN (first 10 players) Rk. Name 1.Rd 2.Rd 3.Rd 4.Rd 5.Rd 6.Rd 7.Rd 8.Rd 9.Rd Pts. TB1 1 Hoolt Sarah 8s1 2w½ 3s0 7w1 6w1 4s1 12w1 5s1 7,5 1 2 Ries Jutta 1s½ 9w1 3w1 10s1 4s½ 12w1 5w0 6s1 7 9 3 Vogel Heike 14w1 6s1 1w1 2s0 4w0 9s1 7w1 10w½ 6,5 3 4 Schmidt Jade 10w1 5s½ 13w1 3s1 2w½ 1w0 7s1 14w1 6 4 Klek Hannah 5 Marie 12w½ 11s½ 4w½ 9s½ 6w0 8w1 2s1 1w0 5 5 Leveikina 6 Jevgenia 13s1 3w0 7s0 8w1 5s1 1s0 9w½ 14s1 2w0 4,5 6 7 Schulz Stefanie 11w½ 12s½ 6w1 1s0 9w½ 10s1 3s0 4w0 13s1 4,5 7 8 Mass Elvira 1w0 14w½ 6s0 13s½ 5s0 11w1 12s1 4,5 13 9 Lopatin Olga 10s½ 2s0 5w½ 7s½ 3w0 6s½ 11s0 4 11 10 Reiter Brigitte 9w½ 4s0 12s1 2w0 7w0 11s½ 13w½ 3s½ 4 14 Official web site: www.schachbund.de TOP 12 FRENCH TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP’2011 THE WINNER IS MARSEILLE CHESS! Place and date: Mulhouse, France; 26.05-05.06.2011 Organizer: French Chess Federation The team of Marseille Chess won the last round in the tournament against the team of Clichy with 3-1 scores and became the new Champion of France. The Champions from Marseille Chess © Europechess.net Page 4 The team of Chalons en Champagne failed to defend their title. The second place remains for the team of Clichy, the third- for Evry Grand Roque. The team composition of Marseille was: Arkadij Naiditsch, Etienne Bacrot, Andrei Istratescu, Aleksander Delchev, Kamil Miton, Didier Collas and Yannick Gozzoli. The strongest players participated in that tournament was: GM Arkadij Naiditch, GM Anish Giri, GM Laurent Fressinet, GM Michael Adams, GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, GM Alexei Dreev, GM Pavel Eljanov, GM Dmitry Jakovenko, GM Etienne Bacrot and others. Official web site: www.echecs.asso.fr © Europechess.net Page 5 ROMANIAN CUP-NATIONAL RAPID TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP’2011 ACS DE SAH APANOVA BUCURESTI & CS AEM LUXTEN TIMISOARA ARE THE WINNERS!!! Place and date: Brasov, Romania; 03-05 June, 2011 System and rate of play: 9 Rounds; 15 minutes for all moves + 10 seconds increment per move. Organizers: CSU Brasov & Romanian Chess Federation Chief-Arbiter: IA Chirila Radu-Catalin In the men’s section the gold was taken by ACS de Sah Apanova Bucuresti. The second place remains for CS Politehnica Iasi, the third- for CS Sinandrei. The team composition of the champions was: GM Mihail Marin, IM Lucian-Costin Miron, IM Vladimir Doncea, FM Tiberiu-Marian Georgescu and Andrei-Theodor Dolana. Final Ranking-MEN (first 10 positions) Rk. SNo Team Games TB1 TB2 TB3 + = - 1 2 ACS de Sah Apanova Bucuresti 9 8 1 0 17 0 29 2 1 CS Politehnica Iasi 9 7 0 2 14 2 26 3 5 CS Sinandrei 9 6 2 1 14 0 24 4 3 CSM Lugoj 9 6 1 2 13 0 21 5 6 CS Conpet Ploiesti 9 6 0 3 12 0 23 6 11 CS Logic 64 Brasov 1 9 4 2 3 10 0 24 7 4 CSU Ploiesti 9 4 2 3 10 0 22 8 12 CS Spartac Bucuresti 9 4 2 3 10 0 21 9 13 CS de Sah Ioios Brasov 1 9 4 2 3 10 0 20 10 8 ACS Sah Chindia Targoviste 9 5 0 4 10 0 19 © Europechess.net Page 6 The team of ACS de Sah Apanova Bucuresti In the women’s section the winner is the team of CS AEM Luxten Timisoara. On the second place is CS Politehnica Iasi, on the third-CS Spartac Bucuresti. The team composition of the champions was: IM Anna Zatonskih, WGM Cristina-Adela Foisor and WFM Adeline-Ramona Uta. The team of CS AEM Luxten Timisoara Final Ranking Crosstable-WOMEN Rk. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 TB1 TB2 TB3 1 CS AEM Luxten Timisoara * 1½ 3 2 3 3 9 1 13 2 CS Politehnica Iasi 1½ * 2 2 2½ 3 9 1 11 3 CS Spartac Bucuresti 0 1 * 1½ 2½ 3 5 0 8 4 CSM Bucuresti 1 1 1½ * 1½ 3 4 0 8 5 Clubul Central de Sah Bucuresti 0 ½ ½ 1½ * 2½ 3 0 5 6 CS Conpet Ploiesti 0 0 0 0 ½ * 0 0 0,5 Source of the photos: www.chessbase.com Official web site: www.frsah.ro © Europechess.net Page 7 ANAND OVERCAME SHIROV IN LEON WITH 4.5-1.5 POINTS Place and date: Leon, Spain; June 2-6, 2011 Participants: Vishy Anand, Alexey Shirov System and rate of play: The match was played under the FIDE Active Chess rules; 6 games, 40 minutes per game+30 seconds increment after each move. The World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand overcame the No 1 chess player in the Spanish ranking Alexey Shirov with final result 4.5-1.5 points in the 24th edition of the tournament. This is the 8th title from Leon for Anand. GM Shirov have two wins there – in 1995 and 2004. Source of the photos: www.chessvibes.com The live commentary was made by GM Miguel Illescas (eight times Spanish champion) and IM Michael Rahal. Official web site: www.advancedchessleon.com © Europechess.net Page 8 29th INTERNATIONAL LIECHTENSTEIN OPEN’2011 GM TOMAS LIKAVSKY IS THE WINNER!!! Place and date: Gemeindesaal Triesen, Liechtenstein; 27.05-04.06.2011 Prize fund: 11.000 CHF Organizer: Liechtenstein Chess Federation Chief-Arbiter: IA Albert Baumberger The Slovakian grandmaster Tomas Likavsky took the winner’s trophy in the 29th edition of the international tournament Liechtenstein Open’2011 with 7 points. The silver took GM Imre Hera from Hungary with 6.5 points, the bronze medal remains for GM Ivan Farago from Hungary again with 6.5 points. The total number of participants in the main section of the Open tournament was 84. GM Imre Hera GM Tomas Likavsky GM Ivan Farago In the Senior section participated 44 chess players. The first place was shared by IM Bhend Edwin (SUI), IM Pribyl Josef (CZE), IM Eperjesi Laszlo (HUN) and FM Hohler Peter (SUI) with 6.5 points each. Official web site: www.schach.li © Europechess.net Page 9 .
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    ChessChess MovesMoveskk ENGLISH CHESS FEDERATION | MEMBERS’ NEWSLETTER | July 2013 EDITION InIn thisthis issueissue ------ 100100 NOTNOT OUT!OUT! FEAFEATURETURE ARARTICLESTICLES ...... -- thethe BritishBritish ChessChess ChampionshipsChampionships 4NCL4NCL EuropeanEuropean SchoolsSchools 20132013 -- thethe finalfinal weekendweekend -- picturespictures andand resultsresults GreatGreat BritishBritish ChampionsChampions TheThe BunrBunrattyatty ChessChess ClassicClassic -- TheThe ‘Absolute‘Absolute ChampionChampion -- aa looklook backback -- NickNick PertPert waswas therethere && annotatesannotates thethe atat JonathanJonathan Penrose’Penrose’ss championshipchampionship bestbest games!games! careercareer MindedMinded toto SucceedSucceed BookshelfBookshelf lookslooks atat thethe REALREAL secretssecrets ofof successsuccess PicturedPictured -- 20122012 BCCBCC ChampionsChampions JovankJovankaa HouskHouskaa andand GawainGawain JonesJones PhotogrPhotographsaphs courtesycourtesy ofof BrendanBrendan O’GormanO’Gorman [https://picasawe[https://picasaweb.google.com/105059642136123716017]b.google.com/105059642136123716017] CONTENTS News 2 Chess Moves Bookshelf 30 100 NOT OUT! 4 Book Reviews - Gary Lane 35 Obits 9 Grand Prix Leader Boards 36 4NCL 11 Calendar 38 Great British Champions - Jonathan Penrose 13 Junior Chess 18 The Bunratty Classic - Nick Pert 22 Batsford Competition 29 News GM Norm for Yang-Fang Zhou Congratulations to 18-year-old Yang-Fan Zhou (far left), who won the 3rd Big Slick International (22-30 June) GM norm section with a score of 7/9 and recorded his first grandmaster norm. He finished 1½ points ahead of GMs Keith Arkell, Danny Gormally and Bogdan Lalic, who tied for second. In the IM norm section, 16-year-old Alan Merry (left) achieved his first international master norm by winning the section with an impressive score of 7½ out of 9. An Englishman Abroad It has been a successful couple of months for England’s (and the world’s) most travelled grandmaster, Nigel Short. In the Sigeman & Co.
  • Bulletin Round 11 -14.08.14

    Bulletin Round 11 -14.08.14

    Bulletin Round 11 -14.08.14 Russia and China claim gold! Photo: David Llada, COT 2014 Chess Olympiad Tromsø 2014 – Bulletin Round 11– 14.08.14 Round 11 interim report: China and Russia claim gold! The Russian women team won the women’s section for the third time in a row. Photo: David Llada/ COT2014 The leaders in both divisions turned up looking confident, the Russian women in particular, who were dressed for success, giving off a celebratory air. The Chinese men's team were energetic on the board, and they looked intent on guaranteeing themselves the long coveted gold medal, Liren Ding and Yangyi Yu hitting fast and hard on boards two and three. Ding put China ahead in the third hour, and a 3-1 win and Olympiad gold at last seemed just a matter of time. By GM Jonathan Tisdall And so it proved! China could settle their nerves board Nakamura appeared to be losing against as Ding Liren's board two win over Grzegorz Azerbaijan, and their 'bottom gun', Sam Gajewski was followed by draws on top and Shankland, could not convert an advantage bottom boards. The one remaining game was an against Eltaj Safarli on board four - this result absolutely unloseable bishops of opposite colors means that the US GM had to 'settle' for a final ending where hot man Yangyi Yu had all the personal score of 9/10. chances and eventually brought home the bacon to give the majestic Chinese men's team a first India supporters noted that the not completely Olympiad gold.