NEWSLETTER 33 (July 18, 2011)
VI EUROPEAN SCHOOL CHESS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
U8, U10, U12, U14-16 – VARNA’ 2011
Place and date: Bulgaria, Varna, “Golden Sands” Hotel “Admiral”; June 30 – July 10, 2011
Organizers: European Chess Union, Bulgarian
Chess Federation, Municipality of Varna
Official web site: www.euroschoolchess.org
The tournaments was played under the Swiss system in 9 rounds, according to the rules set by FIDE. The rate of play was 90 minutes for 40 moves per player plus 15 minutes until the end of the game.
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U8-RESULTS
In this section the winner is the team Palace-1 Moscow, on the second place is Minsk- 1, the bronze remain for the team of Palace-2 Moscow. The team composition of the winners was: Oleg Bezrukavnikov, Vladislav Sizov, Alla Kozenets, Koba Chitiashvili, Ekaterina Granovskaya.
Ranking crosstable
Rk. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TB1 TB2 TB3 1 Palace-1 Moscow * 3 4 3 3 4 4 21 12 0 2 Minsk-1 1 * 2 3 4 2½ 4 17 9 0 3 Palace-2 Moscow 0 2 * 3 4 2 3 14 8 0 4 2nd St. Petersburg High School 1 1 1 * 3 3 4 13 6 0 5 Palace-3 Moscow 1 0 0 1 * 3 4 9 4 0 6 Young Grandmaster 0 1½ 2 1 1 * 3 8,5 3 0 7 Minsk-2 0 0 1 0 0 1 * 2 0 0
U10-RESULTS
The first place in this section is for the team of 2nd St. Petersburg High School, the silver for Palace-1 Moscow, the bronze for Young Grandmaster. The team composition of the winners was: Daniil Golikov, Aleksey Levdanskiy, Anastasiia Nazarova, Georgii Chinchenko.
Ranking crosstable
Rk. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TB1 TB2 TB3 1 2nd St. Petersburg High School * 3 3½ 4 2½ 4 4 21 12 0 2 Palace-1 Moscow 1 * 2½ 2½ 4 3 3½ 17 10 0 3 Young Grandmaster ½ 1½ * 2 3½ 4 4 16 7 0 4 Minsk-1 0 1½ 2 * 2 3 4 13 6 0 5 Minsk-2 1½ 0 ½ 2 * 2 4 10 4 0 6 Baku School N1 0 1 0 1 2 * 3 7 3 0 7 Palace-2 Moscow 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 * 1,5 0 0
U12-14-16 RESULTS
The winner is - Baku School N1 (16), the silver took the team of 2nd St. Petersburg High School-1 (14), the bronze remain for Palace-1 Moscow (16). The team composition of the winners was: Elkhan Bayramov, Narmin Soyunlu, Aytan Amrayeva, Kanan Mukhtarov.
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Ranking crosstable
Rk. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TB1 TB2 TB3 1 Baku School N1 (16) * 3½ 2 3 3 3½ 3 18 11 0 2 2nd St. Petersburg High School-1 (14) ½ * 3½ 2 3½ 3½ 3½ 17 9 0 3 Palace-1 Moscow (16) 2 ½ * 2½ 2 2½ 3½ 13 8 0 4 Baku School N1 (12) 1 2 1½ * 1½ 2½ 3½ 12 5 0 5 STRATEGY Moscow (14) 1 ½ 2 2½ * 3 2½ 12 7 0 6 2nd St. Petersburg High School-2 (12) ½ ½ 1½ 1½ 1 * 2½ 7,5 2 0 7 Baku School N1 (14) 1 ½ ½ ½ 1½ 1½ * 5,5 0 0
ITALIAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP FOR BOYS AND GIRLS UNDER 16
The city of Porretta Thermae, a thermal center in the Region Emilia Romagna, not far from Bologna, hosted last week the Italian championship for boys and girls Under 16. The total number of players was 805.
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The winners in the different sections are:
Under 8: Lorenzo Della Peruta (Biella); Female: Marianna Raccanello (Torino)
Under 10: Andrea Iannello (Messina); Female: Chiara Giovagnetti (Ancona)
Under 12: Francesco Rambaldi (Milano); Female:Tea Gueci (Chieti)
Under 14: Lorenzo Pescatore (Pescara); Female: Laura Gueci (Chieti)
Under 16: Simone De Filomeno (Prato); Female: Daniela Movileanu (Roma)
The winners will play the world junior championship in Brazil next November, while the players classified at the second rank will play the European junior championship in Bulgaria next September.
Official web site: www.scaccomattissimo.it
EUROPEAN YOUTH TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP’2011
Place and date: Iasi, Romania; July 14-22, 2011
Organizers: European Chess Union, Romanian Chess Federation
Official web site: www.ajsiasi.ro
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Ranking after round 3-Open U18
Rk. SNo Team Games TB1 TB2 TB3 + = - 1 1 POLAND 3 3 0 0 6 9,5 17 2 5 CROATIA 3 2 1 0 5 7 18 3 3 TURKEY 3 1 2 0 4 6,5 18 4 10 BULGARIA 3 2 0 1 4 6 15 5 6 SLOVENIA 3 1 1 1 3 6,5 18 6 4 ROMANIA 1 3 1 1 1 3 6 22 7 2 HUNGARY 3 1 1 1 3 6 21 8 11 ROMANIA 3 3 1 0 2 2 5,5 16 9 9 ISRAEL 3 0 2 1 2 5,5 16 10 8 GERMANY 3 1 0 2 2 4,5 18 11 7 ROMANIA 2 3 0 1 2 1 4,5 21 12 12 MOLDOVA 3 0 1 2 1 4,5 18
Ranking crosstable after round 3- Girls U18
Rk. Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TB1 TB2 TB3 1 ROMANIA 1 * 1½ 1½ 1½ 6 4,5 8,5 2 BULGARIA * 1 1 2 4 4 4,3 3 HUNGARY 1 ½ * 2 1½ 4 4 4 4 ROMANIA 2 ½ * 1 2 3 3,5 1,8 5 SLOVENIA 1 * ½ 1½ 3 3 3 6 HUNGARY 2 1 0 1½ * 3 2,5 5 7 POLAND 0 ½ 1 * 1 1,5 1,8 8 ROMANIA 3 ½ 0 ½ * 0 1 0
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GM VIKTOR KORCHNOI AND GM ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK ARE THE SWISS CHAMPIONS’2011
GM Viktor Korchnoi and GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won the Open Chess Championship of Switzerland. This is fifth title for the legendary veteran Korchnoi after 1982, 1984, 1985 и 2000.
The first place in the tournament took Christian Bauer (FRA) with 7.5 points, the second place was for Andrei Sokolov (FRA) with personal result of 7 points, third- for Viktor Korchnoi – 6.5 points. The title of the Champion remain for GM Korchnoi, because the first two GMs are playing for France. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk has Swiss-Russian dual citizenship.
Final Ranking after 9 Rounds- First 25 positions
Rg Name FED Pts Bra Bras 1 Christian Bauer FRA 7 ½ 49 446 2 Andrei Sokolov FRA 7 49 ½ 446 ½ 3 Viktor Korchnoi * SUI 6 ½ 50 ½ 424 ½ 4 Joseph Gallagher SUI 6 ½ 50 441 5 Zueger Beat SUI 6 ½ 49 433 6 Raetsky Alexander RUS 6 ½ 47 ½ 404 ½ 7 Carron Julien SUI 6 ½ 46 428 8 Sergey Ovseyevych UKR 6 ½ 45 ½ 417 ½ 9 Siebrecht Sebastian GER 6 ½ 44 ½ 420 10 Alexander Cherniaev RUS 6 ½ 43 ½ 402 11 Richard Gerber SUI 6 47 402 12 Oliver Kurmann SUI 6 45 ½ 404 13 Branko Filipovic CRO 6 45 418 14 Miso Cebalo CRO 6 45 414 ½ 15 Grand Nicolas Adam SUI 6 44 ½ 389 ½ 16 Sermier Guillaume SUI 6 44 404 17 Emanuel Schiendorfer SUI 6 43 ½ 392 18 ** Georgiadis Nico SUI 6 42 387 ½ 19 Aurelio Colmenares SUI 6 41 ½ 385 20 Gähwiler Gabriel SUI 6 40 ½ 395 ½ 21 Lipecki Alexander SUI 6 40 370 ½ 22 Nuri Kambez SUI 6 36 ½ 372 23 Nüesch Gérard SUI 5 ½ 47 407 24 Alexandra Kosteniuk RUS 5 ½ 46 409 25 Känel Hansjürg SUI 5 ½ 44 ½ 399 ½
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The Champions
Official web site: http://schachbund.ch/
GM SEMEN DVOIRYS WON LEV POLUGAEVSKY MEMORIAL
Place and date: Samara, Russia; July 5th - 13th, 2011
Prize fund: 11.300 EURO
Organizers: Russian Chess Federation, Federation of Chess of the Samara region
Official web site: www.samara-chess.ru
GM Semen Dvoirys won Lev Polugaevsky Memorial with personal result of 7.5 points. GM Pavel Smirnov and IM Jakov Geller finished on the shared second place with final result of 7 points. The same result had one more player – GM Vasily Papin.
Lev Polugaevsky Memorial is a qualifier for the Russian Cup’ 2011.
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Final Ranking crosstable after 9 Rounds-First 15 positions
Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 1 Dvoirys Semen I 7,5 51 40 6 2 Smirnov Pavel 7 53 40 5 3 Geller Jakov 7 49 39 5 4 Papin Vasily 7 48 33 6 5 Aleksandrov Aleksej 6,5 51 34 5 6 Panarin Mikhail 6,5 51 34 5 7 Maletin Pavel 6,5 49 32 5 8 Shaposhnikov Evgeny 6,5 49 35 4 9 Predke Alexandr 6,5 42 30 5 10 Kovalenko Igor 6 55 36 5 11 Rakhmanov Aleksandr 6 54 35 5 12 Kokarev Dmitry 6 53 35 5 13 Volkov Sergey 6 49 32 3 14 Zenzera Alexey 6 49 31 5 15 Ziatdinov Raset 6 49 30 6
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GM EVGENY GLEIZEROV WON THE INTERNATIONAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP OF SLOVAKIA
Place and date: Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia; July 09-17, 2011
Organizers: Banská Štiavnica, Slovak Chess Union, Chess Club Banská Štiavnica
Official web site: www.livechess.sk
GM Evgeny Gleizerov won the International Chess Championship of Slovakia with final result of 7.0 points. With the same result finished the tournament the Slovak GMs Tomas Petrik and Jan Markos.
Final Ranking crosstable after 9 Rounds-first 15 positions
Rk. Name FED Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 1 Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 7 50 40 53 2 Petrik Tomas SVK 7 46 36 50 3 Markos Jan SVK 7 46 35 49 4 Boros Denes HUN 6,5 46 34 51 5 Michalik Peter SVK 6,5 46 32 50 6 Cernousek Lukas CZE 6,5 41 31 45 7 Timoscenko Gennadij SVK 6,5 40 32 44 8 Ftacnik Lubomir SVK 6 49 36 54 9 Gonda Laszlo HUN 6 48 35 53 10 Medvegy Zoltan HUN 6 47 33 52 11 Petenyi Tamas SVK 6 46 30 50 12 Jurcik Marian SVK 6 44 31 48 13 Vojtek Vladimir SVK 6 36 25 38 14 Aczel Gergely HUN 5,5 47 31 51 15 Likavsky Tomas SVK 5,5 45 30 49
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FORTHCOMING TOURNAMENTS FOR AUGUST
BAKU OPEN 2011
Place and date: AF Hotel, Baku, Azerbaijan; August 5-14, 2011
Prize Fund: 50 000 EURO
System and rate of play: 9 rounds in Swiss system; 90 minutes for the finishing of the game + 30 sec per move (beginning 1-st move)
Organizer: Azerbaijan Chess Federation
Tel: +99412 493-3841 or +99412 493-9084
e-mail: [email protected]
Official websites: www.chess.az and www.azerichess.az
ZMDI OPEN 2011
Place and date: RAMADA Hotel, Dresden, Germany; August 6-14, 2011
Prize Fund: 14.000 EURO
System and rate of play: 9 rounds in Swiss system; 90 minutes for 40 moves+30 minutes for the rest of the game; Waiting time 15 minutes
Organizer: Detlef Schmidt
Tel.: 0351-4161629, FAX: 0351-4161639 e-mail: [email protected]
Official web site: www.schachfestival.de
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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL “100 YEARS OF MIKHAIL BOTVINNIK” Place and date: St. Petersburg, Russia, August 11 – 20, 2011
Prize Fund: 25.000 EURO
System and rate of play: 9 rounds; 90 minutes for 40 moves, 30 minutes for the rest of the game with 30 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1
Contact person: Irina Sudakova
Tel.: +7 903 098 39 44 e-mail: [email protected]
Official web site: www.totalchess.spb.ru
VIENNA CHESS OPEN’2011
Place and date: Vienna, Austria; August 13-21, 2011
Prize Fund: 20.000 EURO
System and rate of play: 9 rounds in Swiss system; 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes with 30 seconds cumulative increment for each move starting from the first move
Organizer: Vienna Chess Federation
Tel.: +43 664 412 25 95
e-mail: [email protected]
Official web site: www.vienna-chess-open.at
XIII INTERNATIONAL CHESS OPEN-BARCELONA’2011 Place and date: Barcelona, Spain; August 19-28, 2011
Prize Fund: 15.000 EURO
System and rate of play: 10 rounds in Swiss system; 1:30 hours + 30 seconds for 40 moves and half hour + 30 seconds to guillotine
Tournament director: Mr. Alex Sulleva
Tel.: +0034 93 291 87 01 e-mail: [email protected]
Official web site: www.cotxeres.org
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KESAROVSKI-GEORGIEV MEMORIAL-SUNNY BEACH’2011
Place and date: Black Sea Resort, Sunny Beach, Bulgaria; 27.08-04.09.2011
Prize Fund: 10 250 EUR
System and rate of play: 9 rounds in Swiss system; 90 minutes for the whole game an increment of 30 seconds per move
Contact person: Zhivko Zhekov, phone: +359 888 454034 e-mail: [email protected]
Official web site: www.sunnybeach-chess.com
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