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NEWSLETTER 61 (January 30, 2012) NEWSLETTER 61 (January 30, 2012) GM VUGAR RASULOV IS THE NEW AZERBAIJANI CHESS CHAMPION GM Vugar Rasulov is the new Azerbaijani Chess Champion. He won the title with the final result of 7 points. GM Azer Mirzoev finished second with a half point less than the winner. GM Vasif Durarbeyli is third with 6 points. The tournament, organized by the Azerbaijani Chess Federation, was held on January 22-30, 2012. Source of photo: www.biker60.wordpress.com The Chief-Arbiter of the Championship was IA Namig Ismayilov. Final Ranking after 9 rounds Rk. Name Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 1 GM Rasulov Vugar 2537 7 0 6 27,5 2 GM Mirzoev Azer 2523 6,5 0 5 27 3 GM Durarbeyli Vasif 2542 6 0 5 22,8 4 GM Mamedov Nidjat 2601 5 0 3 20,5 5 IM Mammadov Zaur Fazahir 2368 4 1,5 3 16 6 Rzayev Bahruz 2308 4 1,5 2 16,8 7 GM Abbasov Farid 2551 4 0 2 17 8 GM Ibrahimov Rasul 2550 3 1 1 12,5 9 FM Izzat Kanan 2309 3 0 2 11 10 GM Guliev Sarhan 2523 2,5 0 1 9,5 Official web site: www.azerichess.az © Europechess.net Page 1 GM MLADEN PALAC IS THE CHESS CHAMPION OF CROATIA GM Mladen Palac is the Chess Champion of Croatia. He won the Championship with the final result of 7.5 points. GM Ante Brkic won the silver medal, bronze – GM Ivan Saric. They both finished with 6.5 points. The Croatian Chess Championship for men was held in Opatija, Croatia on January 16-27, 2012. The total prize fund of the tournament was 10,000 EURO. The Championship, organized by the Croatian Chess Federation and Chess Club Rijeka, was played according to the Berger system with the rate of play: 90 minutes for 40 moves+30 minutes for the rest of the game+30 seconds increment per moves, starting from move one. © Europechess.net Page 2 Final Ranking after 11 Rounds Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 1 GM Palac Mladen 7,5 4 40 0 2 GM Brkić Ante 6,5 3,5 35 0 3 GM Šarić Ivan 6,5 3 33 0 4 GM Kuljašević Davorin 6,5 2,5 33 0 5 GM Bosiočić Marin 6 4 34,3 0 6 GM Zelčić Robert 6 2 29,8 1 7 GM Kožul Zdenko 6 2 29,8 0 8 GM Janković Alojzije 5 2 24,8 0 9 GM Šulava Nenad 4,5 2,5 23,5 0 10 GM Jovanović Zoran 4 2 21,5 0 11 GM Stević Hrvoje 4 1,5 19,5 0 12 GM Šarić Ante 3,5 3 21,5 0 The tournament Director was Ervin Sindik, the Chief-Arbiter - Nenad Doric. Official web site: www.crochess.com TURKISH YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2012 The Turkish Youth Chess Championships were held in Kemer –Antalya, Turkey on January 21-27, 2012. 139 young chess players competed in 12 categories. Final Ranking – U7-BOYS Final Ranking –U7-GIRLS Rk. Name Pts. Rk. Name Pts. 1 BÖLÜKBAŞI ARDA 8.0 1 ÜLKER CEREN 7.0 2 CAN IŞIK 8.0 2 ERASLAN YAĞMUR 7.0 3 AKBAY SAMET 7.0 3 YAKUT EFSUN 7.0 Final Ranking – U8-BOYS Final Ranking –U8-GIRLS Rk. Name Pts. Rk. Name Pts. 1 ÜZÜMCÜ AHMET UTKU 8.5 1 ARDA DOĞA SU 8.0 2 ÖZENİR EKİN BARIŞ 8.0 2 ÖREN ŞERİFE ECENAZ 7.5 3 KILIÇ GÖKTÜRK KAĞAN 7.5 3 DURAN ESMA DOĞA 7.0 © Europechess.net Page 3 Final Ranking – U9-BOYS Final Ranking –U9-GIRLS Rk. Name Pts. Rk. Name Pts. 1 AYDINÇELEBİ KAĞAN 8.0 1 SADE DEFNE 8.0 2 İNAÇ GÖKDENİZ 7.5 2 KAYGISIZ İLAYDA 8.0 3 TAN CENKER EREN 7.0 3 KARAÇAY DOĞA 6.5 Final Ranking – U10-BOYS Final Ranking –U10-GIRLS Rk. Name Pts. Rk. Name Pts. 1 ACAR UTKU CENGİZ 7.5 1 HEREKLİOĞLU SUDE 8.0 2 MADEN MİRAÇ KEREM 7.5 2 OKUYAZ DURU 8.0 3 KONYALIOĞLU MEHMET ALİ 7.5 3 YORĞUN YARENNAZ 7.0 Final Ranking – U11-BOYS Final Ranking –U11-GIRLS Rk. Name Pts. Rk. Name Pts. 1 DUMAN NECDET 7.5 1 AYAN BENGÜ SENA 7.5 2 KARACAN CAN BERK 7.5 2 ALTINÖZ FEVZİYE ECE 7.5 3 KÜÇÜK ÖMER YASİR 7.5 3 ARDA ÇAĞIL IRMAK 7.0 © Europechess.net Page 4 Final Ranking – U12-BOYS Final Ranking –U12-GIRLS Rk. Name Pts. Rk. Name Pts. 1 ÖZEN BAHADIR 8.5 1 AKSOY AYÇA 7.5 2 TEMİZKAN DENİZ CAN 7.5 2 MUTLU BESTE 7.5 3 GÖKERKAN CEM KAAN 7.0 3 GÜNDOĞAN SİNEM ÇAĞLA 7.0 Official web site: http://tyg2012.tsf.org.tr/ ACR VALE CAMBRA WON THE XXIII PORTUGAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP IN RAPID CHESS-MEMORIAL VAREDA The team of ACR Vale Cambra won the XIII Portugal Team Championship in Rapid Chess-Memorial Vareda. The team of FC Barreirense finished second, Academia Xadrez Gaia was third. The tournament was held in Marinha Grande on 28 January 2012. The Chief-Arbiter was Carlos Oliveira Dias. Final Ranking after 7 Rounds Rk. Team Games TB1 TB2 TB3 + = - 1 ACR Vale Cambra/oscacer 'A' 7 6 1 0 23 0 2097 2 FC Barreirense 7 5 1 1 21 0 1946 3 Academia Xadrez Gaia 'A' 7 4 2 1 20 0 1862 4 Clube TAP 7 5 0 2 19 0 1787 5 GD Dias Ferreira 7 5 1 1 19 0 1720 6 ADRC Mata de Benfica 'A' 7 5 0 2 18 0 1630 7 G D Diana 7 4 1 2 18 0 1611 8 CXE EB. 2, 3 João Meira 'A' 7 5 1 1 17 0 1570 9 AC Luis de Camões 'A' 7 4 1 2 17 0 1556 10 GX Porto 'A' 7 4 1 2 17 0 1556 11 GX Alekhine 7 5 0 2 17 0 1538 12 GD Ferroviarios Barreiro 'B' 7 4 1 2 17 0 1518 13 AX Mamede Diogo 7 3 1 3 16 0 1463 14 GD Ferroviarios Barreiro 'A' 7 3 2 2 16 0 1447 15 ACR Vale Cambra/oscacer 'B' 7 4 0 3 16 0 1445 The ACR Vale Cambra team composition was the following: GM Strikovic Aleksa (SRB), GM Galego Luis Miguel Araújo Bri (POR), IM Fernando Diogo Brigido (POR), IM Santos Carlos Manuel Ferreira (POR), FM Guimarães Jorge Manuel Noguei (POR), NM Silva Pedro Ventura Alves da (POR). Official web site: http://equipas-sr.fpx.pt/ © Europechess.net Page 5 GM LEVON ARONIAN – WINNER OF THE TATA STEEL CHESS TOURNAMENT’ 2012 GM Levon Aronian (ARM) won the 74th edition of Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. He finished at the clear first place with the final result of 9 points. The silver went to the Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen, Teymour Radjabov (AZE) finished third – both with 8 points. The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament was held from 13th to 29th of January, 2012. The system of the tournament was 3 GM groups – A, B and C – double round robin with 14 players with rate of play: 100 minutes for 40 moves+50 minutes for 20 moves+15 minutes for the rest of the game+30 seconds increment per move, starting from move one. © Europechess.net Page 6 Final Ranking- GM group A Rk. Name Pts. SB 1 Levon Aronian 9 56.5 2 Magnus Carlsen 8 50.25 3 Teymour Radjabov 8 49.5 4 Fabiano Caruana 8 47.5 5 Vassily Ivanchuk 7.5 46.25 6 Hikaru Nakamura 7.5 44.75 7 Gata Kamsky 7 43.25 8 Sergey Karjakin 6.5 37.5 9 Loek Van Wely 5.5 35.75 10 Boris Gelfand 5 31.5 11 Veselin Topalov 5 30.5 12 Vugar Gashimov 5 29 13 David Navara 4.5 29.5 14 Anish Giri 4.5 28.75 Participants in Group A were GMs: Magnus Carlsen (NOR), Levon Aronian (ARM), Teymour Radjabov (AZE), Veselin Topalov (BUL), Sergey Karjakin (RUS), Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR), Vugar Gashimov (AZE), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Boris Gelfand (ISR), Fabiano Caruana (ITA), Gata Kamsky (USA), Anish Giri (NED), David Navara (CZE) and Loek Van Wely (NED). Participants in Group B were GMs: Lazaro Bruzon (CUB), Vladimir Potkin (RUS), Alexander Motylev (RUS), Sergey Tiviakov (NED), Pentala Harikrishna (IND), Sipke Ernst (NED), Erwin L’Ami (NED), Dmitri Reinderman (NED), Jan Timman (NED), Iliya Nyzhnik (UKR), Kateryna Lahno (UKR), Daniele Vocaturo (ITA), Dronavalli Harika (IND) and Viktorija Cmilyte (LTU). © Europechess.net Page 7 Participants in Group C were GMs: Matthew Sadler (ENG), Maxim Turov (RUS), Baskaran Adhiban (IND), Hans Tikkanen (SWE), Daan Brandenburg, Elina Danielian (ARM) and IM Sahaj Grover (IND), IM Elisabeth Paehtz (GER), IM Sachdev Tania (IND), Pieter Hopman (NED), Lars Ootes (NED), WIM Anne Haast (NED), WIM Lisa Schut (NED) and FM Etienne Goudriaan (NED). Source of the photos: www.chessvibes.com Official web site: www.tatasteelchess.com BORIS SPASSKY TURNED 75 On 30th of January was the 75th birthday of 10th World Champion Boris Vasilievich Spassky. Boris Vasilievich Spassky (born January 30, 1937) is a Soviet-French chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from late 1969 to 1972. He is known as one of the greatest and oldest living chess players. Spassky won the Soviet Chess Championship twice outright (1961, 1973), and twice more lost in playoffs (1956, 1963), after tying for first during the event proper. He was a World Chess Championship candidate on seven occasions (1956, 1965, 1968, 1974, 1977, 1980, and 1985).
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