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Fantastic Atalik Wins Negroponte Open - 9th to 17th August, in the city of Chalkis, Greece
World University Chess Championship - Wang Yue and Batkhuyag Munguntuul top seeded
World U-20 title for Andreikin & Muzychuk
Top seed Dmitry Andreikin won the World Junior Championship (under 20) in Chotowa, Poland. The Russian finished shared first with compatriot Sanan Sjugirov but had a better tiebreak. Local hero Dariusz Swiercz won bronze. In the girls section favourite Anna Muzychuk won gold with 11/13.
Dmitry Andreikin (RUS) and Anna Muzychuk (SLO) take gold at the World U-20 in Chotowa, Poland | Photo © official website
The 49th World Junior Championships took place August 3-16 in Chotowa, Poland. Among the previous winners are Borislav Ivkov (who won the first edition in 1951), Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won it in both 2003 and 2005; last year Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took gold in Argentina.
Since 1982 there is a separate tournament for girls U-20. The first winner was Agnieszka Brustman of Poland. Former World Champion Zhu Chen from China (now Qatar, after being married with Mohammed Al-Modiahki) also won the Girls U-20 Championship.
This year top seed Dmitry Andreikin (2650) from Russia took the gold medal in the main section, with a score of 10/13. He edged out Sanan Sjugirov (2610) on tiebreak having been at the top of the leaderboard for most of the tournament. With a bronze medal local hero Dariusz Swiercz (2492) didn’t disappoint the organizers – after five rounds was he even on sole first place for one day.
With an advantage of more than a hundred points over the rest of the field, IM Anna Muzychuk (Slovenia) was the clear favourite. In the end she scored 11/13 and won by a half-point margin. WGM Olga Girya from Russia won silver and WGM Rout Padmini from India bronze.
World Junior Championship U-20 2010 | Final Standings (top 20)
World Junior Championship Girls U-20 2010 | Final Standings (top 20)
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Viktor Laznicka Dominating at György Marx Memorial - Six-player double round robin on 5th-16th August in Paks, Hungary
Rising Stars maintain two-point lead at halftime
In the fifth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Rising Stars and the Experience team split the points. Anish Giri’s win over Peter Heine Nielsen was compensated for by Boris Gelfand’s win over Hikaru Nakamura. Halfway through the event the Rising Stars lead 13½-11½.
The NH Chess Tournament takes place August 12-22 in hotel Krasnapolsky, in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As always, the tournament is a confrontation between a team of five young ‘Rising Stars’ and a team of five ‘Experienced’ grandmasters.
The two teams play a ‘Scheveningen’ tournament, which means that each player of one team plays against each of the players of the other team. They do so twice, once with the white pieces and once with the black pieces. The team that collects most points wins the tournament. The best player of the ‘Rising Stars’ team will be invited to the 20th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in March 2011 in Nice, provided he or she scores over 50% in the NH Chess Tournament in Amsterdam.
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The longest game of the day, lasting 75 moves and five and a half hours was the protracted struggle between Hikaru Nakamura and Boris Gelfand. In the opening Gelfand managed to reach a position from the Queen’s Gambit Accepted with an extra tempo. That put him in an optimistic mood and made him decide on an interesting exchange sacrifice. After the game he believed that White could have improved on 17.Bg3 with 17.Rfd1 which would have led to big complications in which he ‘hoped to survive’. In the middlegame Nakamura defended well and at some point he should have gone for a rook ending of four against three which would have been a sure draw. Instead, as Gelfand put it, the American grandmaster was ‘hesitating, got into time-trouble and messed up the position completely.’ In the end they reached an ending of Queen and Pawn (Gelfand) against Rook (Nakamura) which wasn’t too hard to win for the Israeli number one.
Fabiano Caruana missed an excellent chance to improve his score to plus-2 at the expense of Ljubomir Ljubojevic. The Italian grandmaster got an excellent position from a line against the Rubinstein Variation in the French Defence that he had been looking at recently. After the game he condemned Black’s 9…Nxe3 as ‘very risky’. On move 15 White could already have won a pawn with the tactic 15.Qb5+ Bd7 16.Qxb7, but Caruana believed that further strengthening his position with 15.0-0 was even better. White was soon winning, but he spoiled his chances with 30.R4d6 where he could have won easily with 30.Rxb7 Qxa2 31.h3. What Caruana had missed was that after 32…Qxb2, White cannot go 33.Qxh6 because of 33…Qb6+ and the white e6 pawn drops. White’s win evaporated and on move 43 the draw was a fact.
The game between Wesley So and Loek van Wely lasted less than one and a half hours and didn’t get the spectators in raptures. The Philippine grandmaster was surprised by his opponent’s 3…a6, an old variation that was often played by Oleg Romanishin. Unfamiliar with this line, So didn’t find the best set-up for White and already on move 15 he decided that a repetition of moves was an acceptable end to the game for him. Van Wely was slightly surprised by So’s timidity and blamed it on his painful loss yesterday. Of course, there were ways to continue the game if So had really wanted to. Van Wely, on the other hand, wasn’t willing to sidestep the repetition either and he, too, was thinking of yesterday. ‘I already blew myself up against Giri, I didn’t want to run that risk again.’
Anish Giri had more or less expected Peter Heine Nielsen to play another opening that his boss Vishy Anand used in the recent World Championship match and indeed he did. This time Nielsen went for a Grünfeld and Giri opted for a set-up with g3. With 8…c5, the Danish GM played the most critical line, but he got into trouble when he mixed up the moves. After 13…cxd4 14.exd4 Be6, Black is fine, but after the immediate 13…Be6 White won a pawn. However, Black had some compensation for this material loss, particularly because White also used up a lot of time. When he was asked after the game if he hadn’t been bothered by the fact that he was half an hour behind on the clock at a certain point, Giri quipped, ‘I’d rather have an extra pawn than an extra half hour.’ In the end it was Nielsen’s time-trouble that decided the game. With a few inaccuracies Giri had spoiled most of his advantage and with 35…Ba6 Nielsen would have been very close to a draw, but down to about a minute he erred with 35…Rc4 and soon he lost his queen and his position collapsed.
David Howell and Peter Svidler played an opening that not only baffled the spectators, but also themselves. In a Scottish Opening, Howell couldn’t believe his eyes when Svidler went 10…d6, a move which he figured was impossible (in his preparation that morning he had only looked at 10…f6). When Howell failed to fully suppress his astonishment, Svidler also suddenly realized that he had missed that after 11.Qg4+ Black is losing the knight on d5. Howell started to calculate to see if his assessment had been correct and spent over an hour on his next move. He also considered the alternative 11.Ba3, but then he took the plunge and grabbed the knight, even if by then he had seen that things were not as easy as they had seemed. Svidler, much to his amazement, had come to the same conclusion, and when after 18 moves, in a position where White had good compensation for the exchange he was down, the Russian grandmaster offered a draw, Howell only needed to have a brief look at the board and the clock before he accepted.
In the fight for the ticket to the 2011 Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament, 16-year-old Anish Giri is leading with 3½ from 5, half a point ahead of runner-up Fabiano Caruana. Tomorrow is a rest day. Round 6 will be played on Wednesday, August 18.
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Danailov: ‘Are we going to murder ECU with political dependence?’
“What I see are two of the candidates becoming victims of political games, tying themselves and the future of European chess with the choice of one or another personality for FIDE President”, says Silvio Danailov in his official statement for running for President of the European Chess Union (ECU) which was sent to chess media this morning.
Are we going to murder ECU with political dependence?
By Silvio Danailov , Candidate for ECU President
The elections for European Chess Union President are dawning upon us. The intentions of the candidates and their teams in the campaigns are now clear. What is also clear is that the faith of the European chess will depend on in which hands we will decide to surrender it.
Now, just days before the final dash, is the right time for us to stop and rethink what has been said and done by the candidates for the Presidential position. To have a sober judgment on whether they are offering real things or soap bubbles, whether they are capable of fulfilling their promises and, of the very most importance, whether they are telling the truth.
Regretfully, the facts are very disturbing. What I see are two of the candidates becoming victims of political games, tying themselves and the future of European chess with the choice of one or another personality for FIDE President. As to clarify, Mr. Ali Nihat Yazici does not keep his relationship with Mr. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov secret and neither does Mr.Robert von Weizsa?cker with the other candidate for FIDE Presidency – Mr. Anatoly Karpov.
Is this what we want – political equilibrists, puppets on strings, whose decisions and actions will follow third party interests, remaining deaf to the actual needs of the European federations? Is this what we want – the faith of the ECU to be decided not by the European federations, but by FIDE clerks? Apart from being contrary to common sense, an eventual choice of one of the two politically dependent candidates is in full dissonance with the characteristic of the EU geopolitical emancipation – Europe to solve its problems not under the command of, but with the cooperation of the other world factors.
The pre-election outwitting is at its peak. Candidates are giving their pre-election promises – one is offering to the European federations 300 thousand dollars a year, another is proposing to cover travelling expenses for FIDE Executive Board and General Assembly. There is a catch – please notice that this will happen if and only if after winning the ECU Presidency the corresponding partner of theirs is elected for FIDE President. But what if the candidate for FIDE President in question is not elected? There is no plan B!
Upon us is the moment for an important and responsible decision – what person do we want for President of our organization? Political equilibrists, who are experienced only in giving beautiful promises, who once elected will begin to explain beautifully why they cannot fulfill their campaign promises? Or an independent candidate and a businessman with professional team, who will turn the ECU in a working and profitable organization, without putting its future at stake depending on political games and pretty lies.
I am convinced that you, just like I, want to have a strong and independent ECU, belonging to the European federations. That is why I appeal to you to be extremely careful in your choice because the future of European chess in the coming four years will depend on it.
Will we murder ECU with political dependence? Together we can change the chess politics, together we can eliminate the strictly political factor and walk towards an independent European Chess Union. European Chess Union which will closely cooperate with FIDE for the benefit of chess stakeholders as a self-sufficient partner, not as a subordinate or dependent.
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China wins traditional match against Russia 128-122
In their annual match, China beat Russia 128-122 this year. On home ground, Yinzhou, Ningbo the Chinese were the strongest over five classical games and twenty rapid games.
Bu Xiangzhi, who scored 4/5 in the classical games, receives the 2010 Yinzhou Cup | Photo courtesy of www.sina.sports.com.cn
The traditional match between China and Russia took place August 4-15 at the New Century Grand Hotel Ningbo in Yinzhou, Ningbo, China. Just like the current NH Tournament, these matches follow a ‘Scheveningen’ format in which all members of each team play all members of the other team once.
In the men’s section, the Chinese team had Bu Xiangzhi (2676), Wang Yue (2716), Wang Hao (2724), Ni Hua (2645) and Zhou Jianchao (2668) versus Vladimir Malakhov (2732), Nikita Vitiugov (2722), Artyom Timofeev (2690), Sergei Rublevsky (2688) and Vladimir Potkin (2626) for Russia.
The women’s section saw the clash between Ju Wenjun (2496) Tan Zhongyi (2461), Huang Qian (2447), Ding Yixin (2385) and Wang Yu A (2369) versus Russians Nadezhda Kosintseva (2551), Natalija Pogonina (2501), Valentina Gunina (2462), Anastasia Bodnaruk (2397) and Alina Kashlinskaya (2352).
In the classical time control, over five rouds the Chinese men beat their Russian opponents 15.5-9.5. The Russian women did better, and won the match 13.5-11.5.
The twenty rounds of rapid were devided over four days. The Chinese men also narrowly won this match, with 51.5-48.5. The Russian women defeated their Chinese opponents with the smallest possible margin: 50.5-49.5. The overall rapid score was China 101, Russia 99 and so the overall match score was China 128, Russia 128.
The total prize fund was US$ 45,000; the men and women team winners took 10,000$ each, non-winners took 5,000$ each.
To change our habits a bit, this time we’ll have a look at one game that resulted in an interesting ending Rook and Pawn versus Queen. It’s quite instructive, since the Black player couldn’t manage to win the game because he didn’t use the Zugzwang theme (enough).
Ni Hua-Timofeev
Ningbo 2010
First we’ll see how this ending appeared: 64…Rb4! 65. a5 Ra4! 66. Rxa4 d1Q 67.Rb4 and now for a long time Timofeev played the strongest moves. 67. Rb4 Qa1 68. Rb5 Kd3 69. Rc5 Kd4 70. Kb6 Qa3 71. Rc7 Qb4+ 72. Ka6 Kd5 73. Rb7 Qa4 74. Kb6 Kd6 75. Rb8 Qc6+ 76. Ka7 Qc7+ 77. Ka6 Qc4+ 78. Kb6 Qd4+ 79. Ka6 Kc7 80. Rb7+ Kc8 81. Rb6 Qd5 82. Rb5 Qd3 83. Kb6
Now Timofeev goes for a move that looks logical, but in fact slows down the winning process: 83…Kb8?! Instead, 83… Qd6+ 84. Ka7 Qc7+ 85. Ka6 Qc4! 86. Kb6 Kd7!
87. Rc5 (87.a6 allows mate in one) 87…Qb4+ 88. Rb5 Qd4+ 89. Kb7 Qc4 90. Rb6 Qd5+ 91. Ka6 Kc7!
and White loses the rook because of Zugzwang, e.g. 92. Rb2 Qa8+ 93. Kb5 Qb8+. The game continued 84. Rc5 Qd7 85. Rc6 Qd8+ 86. Kb5 Qd5+ 87. Kb6 Qe4 88. Kb5 Qb1+ 89. Kc5 Ka7 90. a6
90…Qf5+?! Here strong was 90… Qd3! 91. Rd6 Qe4! 92. Rc6 Qe5+ 93. Kc4 Kb8! 94. Kb4 Qd5 95. Rc5
and now 95…Qd6 already wins the a-pawn. The game ended in a draw on move 113. Below are all classical games of the men’s section; as always all games are available for download below.
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Suat Atalik moves ahead at Negroponte Open - 9th to 17th August, in the city of Chalkis, Greece
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The Experience team hits back
In the fourth round of the NH Chess Tournament the Experience team convincingly hit back after yesterday’s 1-4 rout. Thanks to three wins by Ljubomir Ljubojevic, Peter Heine Nielsen and Peter Svidler, they defeated the Rising Stars 3½-1½ and brought back the tension. The overall score after four rounds is 11-9 in favour of the Rising Stars.
The NH Chess Tournament takes place August 12-22 in hotel Krasnapolsky, in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As always, the tournament is a confrontation between a team of five young ‘Rising Stars’ and a team of five ‘Experienced’ grandmasters.
The two teams play a ‘Scheveningen’ tournament, which means that each player of one team plays against each of the players of the other team. They do so twice, once with the white pieces and once with the black pieces. The team that collects most points wins the tournament. The best player of the ‘Rising Stars’ team will be invited to the 20th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in March 2011 in Nice, provided he or she scores over 50% in the NH Chess Tournament in Amsterdam.
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The fourth round started with a photo-shoot on the occasion of chief arbiter Geurt Gijssen’s 76th birthday. The grandmasters taking part in this fifth NH Chess Tournament were asked to be present in the playing room ten minutes before the start of the round and there a good old group portrait was made of the players and the arbiter. Once these pictures for posterity had been taken it was time to start the round, which after yesterday’s slugfest again saw a lot of bloodshed.
Peter Svidler was doubly motivated for his game against Hikaru Nakamura. To begin with he had promised his friend Jan Gustafsson, who was doing the live commentary on the Internet Chess Club (ICC), to provide some entertainment, and secondly his overall score against the American is most encouraging. Last year he beat him twice at the NH tournament (true, Nakamura was ill during that tournament) and in between that tournament and this one he had also defeated him at the European Club Cup. The cause of Black’s problems was his overly ambitious play in a Caro-Kann. His queen sortie to b6 (less ambitious and safer is 9…Qb6) followed by an excursion into White’s queenside cost him a lot of time and didn’t bring him anything when he played 12…Nd5 instead of going for 12…Bxe4 13.Nxe4 Nd5 14.Rh3 Qa4 when at least he would have had a pawn for his passive position. After White regained the pawn his position was a dream. It isn’t every day that you get such great play so early in the game presented on a platter. Black definitely was in deep trouble after 19…Qd8, which left him completely tied up, where he still could have cherished some hopes after 19…Qb6 20.Qf4 0-0-0. Now Svidler’s only task was to remain concentrated and haul in the point, which he did after 37 moves.
Boris Gelfand and Fabiano Caruana conducted an interesting opening discussion. The Israeli grandmaster went for the rather rare 3.Bf4 against Black’s Slav set-up, but this failed to surprise his opponent, who happened to have been studying this possibility and came up with the strong novelty 7…c5. Now the critical continuation would have been 8.Nc3, which gives White satisfactory play, but involves a double pawn sacrifice. After 8.Na3 soon an ending arose that was slightly dangerous for White, but Gelfand was up to the task, sacrificed the exchange when he had to and was even pressing a bit at the end. However, with the precise 21…Kb8 and 22…Rhe8, Caruana secured the draw.
Ljubomir Ljubojevic recovered from his poor start with a win over Wesley So. The young grandmaster from the Philippines had absolutely no complaints after the opening and ambitiously went for more with 15…Bxd4, giving White doubled d-pawns. Black was still fine, but he overestimated his position and when he let his queen be sidelined on h3, he should have started looking for ways to save the game. Afterwards he was unhappy about 23…a3 and thought that at this point he should have tried to bring back his knight into play with 23…N2c4. Now he was forced to sacrifice his queen, but this act of desperation didn’t bring any relief and after 32 moves he had to resign.
The clash between the number one rated Dutch player, Loek van Wely (2677), and his closest rival Anish Giri (2672) ended in a win for the Dutch junior. In the opening White tried to trick Black with his move-order, postponing Qc2, but it was Giri who profited from his plan with 6…e5, which gave him good play. Now White gets nothing if he plays slowly, so Giri was not surprised when Van Wely opted for the aggressive 9.g4. Before he went 10…e4, he briefly checked the piece sacrifice 11.Nxd5 and seeing it was ‘rubbish’ he proceeded with his original plan and wasn’t shocked when Van Wely went for the piece sacrifice anyway. Still, things weren’t that easy and during the game Giri wasn’t so sure if he was playing the best moves, but the lively post-mortem convinced him that he had played better than he had thought and that he had been winning all the way.
Peter Heine Nielsen played the 4.Bg5 variation against the Grünfeld Defence of David Howell, a relatively calm approach compared to other main lines. Still, the players soon found themselves in a minefield of complications, where every move carried great weight. In this phase Nielsen managed to obtain the initiative and after Howell had played 21…Qf6 (the queen would have been better placed on d7), he won a pawn. This material plus proved decisive and although Black must have maintained some hopes of saving the game because of the opposite-coloured bishops, White converted his advantage without too many problems.
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Ukrainian Chess Federation proposes to organize the 2011 Candidates matches
As a follow-up to Anatoly Karpov’s proposal to organize the 2011 Candidates matches in Kiev, the Ukrainian Chess Federation has announced a guaranteed prize fund of EUR 500,000. “The UCF is also ready to review other formats for the Candidates matches, including an increase in the number of games in the matches, and an increase of the time period between the main matches and the final match.”
In our latest update on the FIDE elections battle between Anatoly Karpov and Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, on August 9, we mentioned that Karpov has proposed to hold the 2011 Candidates matches in Kiev, Ukraine. Now the Ukrainian Chess Federation has made this proposal official, by expressing their willingness to organize:
15.08.2010
Kiev, Ukraine
Press release
Concerning the proposal to organize the Candidates Matches in Kiev
Recently there was an animated discussion in the media of the proposal by the FIDE presidential candidate Anatoly Karpov to move the Candidates matches to Kiev (e.g. “Karpov proposes Kiev for Candidates matches”, 13.08.2010, at ChessBase.com)
In response to the proposal by Anatoly Karpov the Ukrainian Chess Federation (UCF) would like to note the following:
1) It is possible to organize the Candidates matches that are a consistent part of the World Chess Championship cycle in Kiev in 2011. The UCF is ready to guarantee a prize fund of EUR 500 000 for the event, as well as organizational facilities at the highest level, taking into account all necessary financial and other conditions. The UCF is also ready to review other formats for the Candidates matches, including an increase in the number of games in the matches, and an increase of the time period between the main matches and the final match.
2) The UCF would like to draw attention to the fact that after the contract with the organizers from Azerbaijan was signed there was no official announcement from FIDE that due to organizational problems a new tender or selection procedure for organizing the Candidates matches was opened. Without the announcement of a new tender the sudden news that the matches are to be moved to Kazan, only because the Russian Chess Federation made such a proposition, causes concern about whether FIDE is paying attention to the principles of “One Federation – One Vote” and “Gens Una Sumus”.
In case FIDE has decided that the contract with the organizers from Azerbaijan for the Candidates matches should be cancelled, then it is necessary to announce a new selection procedure, whereby all potential organizers, including the RCF and the UCF, would have the right to participate.
3) After an analysis of the current situation and the general development in the past years, the UCF express disquiet that many important changes within the chess world are conducted without a proper public discussion of possible variants. International experts have no chance to meet regularly in order to discuss the topical questions, and the possibility for informal discussion during Chess Olympiads once in two years is limited, due to political and sporting pressure during the event.
There is a need to organize a so-called “Chess Davos” – an informal annual gathering. Such a forum should be apolitical, and its main goal should be to involve into the chess development process representatives of the chess community from different countries, such as representatives of federations, delegates, chess players, journalists, activists, trainers, arbiters, as well as other professionals who are fond of the game of chess.
The Ukrainian Chess Federation expresses confidence that arranging a “Chess Davos” will help to minimize the number of contentious events in the chess world. The UCF is ready to take upon itself the organization and the essential financial part for such regular discussions.
In order for such discussions to be successful one needs to understand the opinion of chess community. For this purpose the UCF will conduct an opinion poll and address all parties interested in chess development to take part. The questionnaire will be send out to the key persons of the chess community via email and fax.
Viktor Kapustin
President
Annex: Questionnaire (1 page)
In the questionnaire, questions like the following appear: Do you think that it is necessary and useful to conduct an annual informal chess forum (“Chess Davos”)? What are the main subjects that should be discussed at the chess forum besides an informal program? Would you like to take part at the informal chess forum in Kiev (Ukraine)?
You can download the questionnaire here in PDF.
World Junior Chess Championship 12 LIVE! - all replayable games, information, and broadcast
