NEWSLETTER 159 (June 05, 2014)

NEWSLETTER 159 (June 05, 2014) SILVIO DANAILOV, GARRY KASPAROV AND JORAN AULIN JANSSON – JJ TAKE PART IN THE OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY OF NO LOGO NORWAY CHESS TOURNAMENT The ECU President Silvio Danailov, the chess legend Garry Kasparov and the President of the Norwegian Chess Federation Joran Aulin Jansson - JJ took part in the official opening ceremony of No Logo Norway Chess Tournament which started on 2nd June in Stavanger and will end on 13th June, 2014. No Logo Norway Chess is the strongest chess tournament this year worldwide. On 3rd June the ECU President Silvio Danailov gave an interview for the Norwegian TV channel NRK TV. On 4th June Mr. Danailov officially opened the second round of the competition by making the first symbolic move in the game between Veselin Topalov and Alexander Grischuk. © Ecuonline.net Page 1 ECU President also took part in the live commentary together with GM Nigel Short and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam. This year participants in the second edition of the tournament are: Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana, Vladimir Kramnik, Veselin Topalov, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Anish Giri and Simen Agdestein. © Ecuonline.net Page 2 © Ecuonline.net Page 3 Standings after round 2 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Rk. </li><li style="flex:1">Name </li><li style="flex:1">Pts. </li><li style="flex:1">Berger </li></ul>1,50 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Wins Black wins </li><li style="flex:1">i-Ratingprest </li></ul>3472 (+9,50) 2892 (+2,00) 2783 (+4,10) 2767 (-3,00) 2754 (-0,00) 2817 (+0,90) 2781 (-0,30) 2594 (-4,10) 2600 (-4,40) 2588 (-4,70) 123456789 GM Fabiano Caruana GM Levon Aronian GM Simen Agdestein GM Magnus Carlsen GM Anish Giri 2,0 1,5 1,0 1,0 1,0 1,0 1,0 0,5 0,5 0,5 2100001000 1000001000 1,00 1,25 1,00 1,00 0,75 0,50 0,50 0,25 0,25 GM Vladimir Kramnik GM Alexander Grischuk GM Peter Svidler GM Sergey Karjakin 10 GM Veselin Topalov Official website: <a href="/goto?url=http://norwaychess.com/" target="_blank">http://norwaychess.com </a>CC ASHDOD ILIT WINS THE ISRAELI NATIONAL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP 2014 CC Ashdod Ilit won the Israeli National Team Championship 2014 with 45 game points. CC Beer Sheva A finished second with 44 pts. The bronze medal went to Feldkelin Rishon Lezion with 37 pts. The championship was held from 14th February to 30th May, 2014. Chief Arbiter of the tournament was Dorner Abraham. The average ELO rating was 2409. Final Ranking after 11 rounds – first 10 positions <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Rk. </li><li style="flex:1">Team </li><li style="flex:1">TB1 </li><li style="flex:1">TB2 </li><li style="flex:1">TB3 </li></ul>12<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">CC Ashdod Ilit </li><li style="flex:1">54 </li></ul>53 44 42 39 34 27 24 24 21 45 44 37 36 34 29 26 22 21 20 1219 1198 995 CC Beer Sheva A <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">3</li><li style="flex:1">Feldkelin Rishon Lezion </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Hapoel Kfar Saba </li><li style="flex:1">4</li><li style="flex:1">939 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">5</li><li style="flex:1">CC Hapoel Petach Tikva A </li></ul>CC Herzliya 917.3 791.3 741 6<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">7</li><li style="flex:1">Elitzur "Dov" Petach Tikva </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">CC Beer Sheva K </li><li style="flex:1">8</li><li style="flex:1">607 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">9</li><li style="flex:1">Porat Mathematics </li></ul>Elitzur CC Jerusalem 562 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">10 </li><li style="flex:1">535.8 </li></ul>© Ecuonline.net Page 4 Team composition of the winners was: GMs Ivanchuk Vassily, Eljanov Pavel, Moiseenko Alexander, Volokitin Andrei, Sutovsky Emil, Smirin Ilia, Avrukh Boris, Golod Vitali, Mikhalevski Victor, Kogan Artur, Gruenfeld Yehuda and FM Shklovski Vladislav. Official website: <a href="/goto?url=http://www.chess.org.il/" target="_blank">www.chess.org.il </a>IM GUDMUNDUR KJARTANSSON WINS THE ICELANDIC CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2014 IM Gudmundur Kjartansson won the Icelandic Chess Championship 2014 with the final result of 6.5 points out of 9. The silver medal went to GM Hedinn Steingrimsson with 5.5/9, while the bronze was for GM Hannes Stefansson with the same result. The championship was held from 23rd May to 1st June, 2014 in Kopavogur, Iceland. Chief Arbiter of the tournament, organized by the Icelandic Chess Federation & Breidablik Chess Club, was IA Omar Salama, while Tournament Director was IO Gunnar Bjornsson. The average ELO rating was 2456. © Ecuonline.net Page 5 Final Ranking after 9 rounds <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Rk. </li><li style="flex:1">Title </li><li style="flex:1">Name </li><li style="flex:1">FED </li><li style="flex:1">Rtg </li><li style="flex:1">Pts. </li><li style="flex:1">TB1 </li><li style="flex:1">TB2 </li></ul>12<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">IM </li><li style="flex:1">Kjartansson Gudmundur </li></ul>Steingrimsson Hedinn Stefansson Hannes H Thorhallsson Throstur Danielsen Henrik ISL ISL ISL ISL ISL ISL ISL ISL ISL ISL 2439 2537 2548 2437 2483 2530 2462 2350 2459 2319 6.5 5.5 5.5 5 26.8 24 4444332221 GM GM GM GM GM GM FM IM <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">3</li><li style="flex:1">22 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">4</li><li style="flex:1">22.5 </li></ul>21.8 19 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">5</li><li style="flex:1">5</li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">6</li><li style="flex:1">Gretarsson Hjorvar </li></ul>Gretarsson Helgi Ass Jensson Einar Hjalti Thorfinnsson Bragi Gislason Gudmundur 4.5 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">4</li><li style="flex:1">7</li><li style="flex:1">16.3 </li></ul>15.3 13.8 9<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">8</li><li style="flex:1">3.5 </li></ul>3.5 2 9<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">10 </li><li style="flex:1">FM </li></ul>Official websit<a href="/goto?url=http://icelandicchesschampionship.com/" target="_blank">e: </a><a href="/goto?url=http://icelandicchesschampionship.com/" target="_blank">http://icelandicchesschampionship.com </a>TOP 50 PLAYERS – JUNE 2014 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Name </li><li style="flex:1">Title Country Rating Games B-Year </li></ul>Rank <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">1</li><li style="flex:1">Carlsen, Magnus </li></ul>Aronian, Levon gggggggggggggg NOR ARM RUS ITA 2881 2815 2792 2791 2785 2783 2775 2772 2771 2762 2760 2753 2753 2752 10 0 1990 1982 1983 1992 1969 1975 1987 1975 1990 1990 1983 1968 1976 1994 2<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">3</li><li style="flex:1">Grischuk, Alexander </li></ul>Caruana, Fabiano Anand, Viswanathan Kramnik, Vladimir Nakamura, Hikaru Topalov, Veselin Karjakin, Sergey Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime Dominguez Perez, Leinier Gelfand, Boris 0<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">4</li><li style="flex:1">13 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">0</li><li style="flex:1">5</li><li style="flex:1">IND </li></ul>RUS USA BUL RUS FRA CUB ISR <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">6</li><li style="flex:1">0</li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">7</li><li style="flex:1">12 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">0</li><li style="flex:1">8</li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">9</li><li style="flex:1">10 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">5</li><li style="flex:1">10 </li></ul>11 12 13 14 10 0<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Svidler, Peter </li><li style="flex:1">RUS </li></ul>NED 0<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Giri, Anish </li><li style="flex:1">3</li></ul>© Ecuonline.net Page 6 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">So, Wesley </li><li style="flex:1">g</li></ul>gggggggggggggggggggggggg<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">PHI </li><li style="flex:1">2744 </li></ul>2743 2743 2742 2738 2737 2736 2731 2730 2729 2726 2724 2724 2723 2723 2722 2720 2717 2715 2714 2713 2713 2712 2712 2711 10 10 3 1993 1985 1971 1987 1969 1979 1983 1977 1990 1989 1986 1985 1987 1983 1983 1990 1983 1981 1987 1992 1983 1987 1974 1991 1989 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar Adams, Michael Vitiugov, Nikita Ivanchuk, Vassily Leko, Peter AZE ENG RUS UKR HUN RUS RUS RUS CHN IND CZE AZE UKR UKR RUS FRA FRA POL CHN GEO CHN USA VIE 010 0 Jakovenko, Dmitry Morozevich, Alexander Nepomniachtchi, Ian Wang, Hao 9999 Harikrishna, P. Navara, David 012 10 18 0 Radjabov, Teimour Eljanov, Pavel Ponomariov, Ruslan Andreikin, Dmitry Bacrot, Etienne Fressinet, Laurent Wojtaszek, Radoslaw Ding, Liren 018 12 12 0 Jobava, Baadur Wang, Yue 10<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Kamsky, Gata </li><li style="flex:1">11 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">0</li><li style="flex:1">Le, Quang Liem </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Li, Chao b </li><li style="flex:1">CHN </li><li style="flex:1">0</li></ul>© Ecuonline.net Page 7 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Shirov, Alexei </li><li style="flex:1">g</li></ul>gggggggggg LAT UKR UKR GER FRA UKR HUN UZB ESP 2709 2707 2707 2705 2702 2701 2701 2700 2698 2698 2696 11 3 1972 1986 1980 1985 1990 1986 1996 1979 1982 1974 1979 Kryvoruchko, Yuriy Moiseenko, Alexander Naiditsch, Arkadij Edouard, Romain 0210 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">0</li><li style="flex:1">Areshchenko, Alexander </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Rapport, Richard </li><li style="flex:1">0</li></ul>Kasimdzhanov, Rustam Vallejo Pons, Francisco Rublevsky, Sergei 010 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">0</li><li style="flex:1">RUS </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">RUS </li><li style="flex:1">Motylev, Alexander </li><li style="flex:1">18 </li></ul>Official website: <a href="/goto?url=http://www.fide.com/" target="_blank">www.fide.com </a>FORTHCOMING TOURNAMENTS THE REGULATIONS FOR ECC BILBAO 2014 PUBLISHED The regulations for the upcoming European Club Cup 2014, which will be held in Bilbao/Spain from 13th September (arrival and opening) to 21th September published. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">2014 </li><li style="flex:1">(departure) </li><li style="flex:1">are </li></ul>The event will be held in the Euskalduna Palace in the centre of Bilbao. The championships will be held in 7 rounds, played in the Swiss system in accordance with the ECU Tournament Rules. The time control will be 90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">The </li><li style="flex:1">official </li><li style="flex:1">website </li><li style="flex:1">of </li><li style="flex:1">the </li><li style="flex:1">European </li><li style="flex:1">Club </li><li style="flex:1">Cup </li><li style="flex:1">2014 </li><li style="flex:1">is </li></ul><a href="/goto?url=http://www.europeanchessclubcup2014.com/" target="_blank">http://www.europeanchessclubcup2014.com </a>© Ecuonline.net Page 8 Contact information: Spanish Chess Federation, Tel: +34 913552159, Fax: +34 917256963, E-m<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">ail: </a><a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected] </a>You can find the official regulations her<a href="/goto?url=http://www.ecuonline.net/com/news/single/661.html" target="_blank">e: </a><a href="/goto?url=http://www.ecuonline.net/com/news/single/661.html" target="_blank">http://www.ecuonline.net/com/news/single/661.html </a>INTERNET YOUTH MATCH "NEW RISING CHESS STARS 2014" Association of Information Technology "Zivojin Misic", in cooperation with Serbian and Slovenian Chess Federations, is organising Internet Youth Chess Match "NEW RISING CHESS STARS 2014" between the youth teams of Slovenia and Serbia. The match will be played on 12 boards (one boy and girl of the following age groups: under 8, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 years), with the time control 40 minutes + 5 seconds per move. Both teams will be positioned in the premises of ComTrade in Belgrade and Ljubljana. The virtual host of the match is the ECU chess server – ECU Playing Zone. Partners in the organization of this match are the European Chess Union, ComTrade Belgrade and Ljubljana, Belgrade AGE. In addition to the representatives of organizers and partners, the visit of the Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Mr. Srdjan Verbic was announced, as well as the visit of the representatives from the Embassy of Slovenia. Schedule: 10:30 am to 10:45 am - gathering of players, 11:30 am - official opening of the match through the video conference, 12:00 am - start of the match. For more information, you can visit the official website of the Serbian Chess Federation <a href="/goto?url=http://serbiachess.net/" target="_blank">http://serbiachess.net/ </a>Find more news about the European Chess Union: <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">on our website </li><li style="flex:1">or Facebook account </li></ul>© Ecuonline.net Page 9

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