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Monika Socko Won GM Tournament in Erfurt
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Wednesday, 03 September 2014 |
Stephan Oliver Platz reports from Erfurt/Germany
Part I of the report
When GM Monika Socko started with two consecutive losses, nobody thought that she would win the Erfurt tournament, but she did! After 9 rounds she had scored 6 1/2 points winning 6 of the next 7 games with only one draw. Former leader GM Bela Khotenashvili from Georgia came in second with 6 points. In her last game against Tatyana Melamed she missed a promising continuation and the game finally ended in a draw.
IM Shen Yang from China had the chance to achieve a GM norm and catch up with Monika Socko, but in the last round she was defeated by Russian IM Anastasia Bodnaruk while IM Lela Javakishvili and IM Elisabeth Paehtz drew their game. As a result Shen Yang, Lela Javakhishvili and Elisabeth Paehtz had 5 1/2 points each and shared the prizes for 3rd - 5th place. According to tiebreak rules Shen Yang ranks as 3rd, Lela Javakishvili as 4th and Elisabeth Paehtz as 5th in the cross table.
For Anastasia Bodnaruk the tournament had begun terribly with 1 out of 4. At a common supper with the organizers and other players on Wednesday evening she was in a bad mood, kept silent most of the time, but from the next day on a different Anastasia showed up winning three games in a row. In round 8 she lost against Bela Khotenashvili, but won her last game against Shen Yang and became 6th with 5 out of 9, only half a point behind the trio on 3rd - 5th place. IM Lilit Mkrtchian scored 3 1/2 points, followed by GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (3 points), WGM Tatyana Melamed (3) and IM Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska (1 1/2).
Left to right: Monika Socko, Bela Khotenashvili, Shen Yang, Lela Javakhishvili and Elisabeth Paehtz.
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Hou Yifan & Ju Wenjun Lead in Sharjah
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FIDE September 2014 Rating List
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GM Saric - GM Carlsen annotated by GM Balogh
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Congratulations to Newly-Elected Grandmasters
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Friday, 29 August 2014 |
The following grandmaster titles were approved at FIDE ongress meeting in Tromso on August 4-15:
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Zilka, Stepan |
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Glud, Jakob Vang |
DEN |
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Shoker, Samy |
EGY |
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Arribas Lopez, Angel |
ESP |
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Riff, Jean-Noel |
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Bromberger, Stefan |
GER |
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Stern, Rene |
GER |
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Dambacher, Martijn |
NED |
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Rozum, Ivan |
RUS |
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Bagrationi, Alexander |
UKR |
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Bernadskiy, Vitaliy |
UKR |
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Nguyen, Huynh Minh Huy |
VIE |
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Dimitrijevic, Aleksandra |
BIH |
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Fomina, Tatyana |
EST |
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Duisenova, Madina |
KAZ |
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Enkhtuul, Altanulzii |
MGL |
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Seps, Monika |
SUI |
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Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung |
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| Guidarelli, Laurent |
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As of today, there are 1459 GMs and 284 WGMs in the world.
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Ian Nepomniachtchi Won Tournament of Champions in Yaroslavl
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Friday, 29 August 2014 |
The main event of the Yaroslavl-2014 festival in Russia was the 'Tournament of Champions". Six European Chess Champions took part in a double round robin: Alexander Motylev (2014 Champion, Russia), Alexander Moiseenko (2013, Ukraine), Dmitry Jakovenko (2012, Russia), Vladimir Potkin (2011, Russia) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (2010, Russia). The time control was 15m/game and 10s/move starting from move one. The tournament was organized in a history museum as part of the program 'Chess in museums".
Final standings:
1. Ian Nepomniachtchi - 7.5
2. Dmitry Jakovenko - 6.5
3. Evgeny Tomashevsky - 5.5
4-6. Vladimir Potkin, Alexander Motylev, Alexander Moiseenko - 3.5
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Ju Wenjun Leads Sharjah after 4 Rounds
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Logic in Complex Openings
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Shen Yang and Bela Khotenashvili in the lead @ Erfurt
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Thursday, 28 August 2014 |
Stephan Oliver Platz reports from Erfurt/Germany
Four rounds have been played in the international women's grandmaster tournament in Erfurt. GM Bela Khotenashvili from Georgia and IM Shen Yang from China are in the lead with 3 points, followed by IM Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany) and IM Lela Javakhishvili (Georgia), both 2 1/2. Three players have 2 points: WGM Tatyana Melamed (Germany), IM Lilit Mkrtchian (Armenia) and GM Monika Socko (Poland). GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (Scotland, 1 1/2), IM Anastasia Bodnaruk (Russia, 1) and IM Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska (Germany, 1/2) have scored under 50%. But five rounds are still to go and a lot can happen during the next few days. With an average ELO rating of 2438 the event is the strongest women's chess tournament that has ever taken place in Germany. For a GM norm 6.5 points out of 9 must be reached.
Two other interesting competitions are taking place in Erfurt: an international women's junior tournament with young players from Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and Germany and the open international German women's chess championship. In the junior tournament Edit Machlik (Norway) is in the lead with 3 1/2 points, followed by Tran My Linh (Germany) and WFM Alisa Frey (Germany), 3 points. Teodora Rogozenko (Germany) and Monika Machlik (Norway) have scored 2 points. The other participants are Sarah Hund (Switerland, 1 1/2), Fiona Sieber (Germany, 1 1/2), Alina Zahn (1 1/2), WCM Nezihe Ezgi Menzi (Turkey, 1) and Josefine Heinemann (Germany, 1). In the open international German women's chess championship Christina Winterholler and Anastasia Erofeev from Germany are leading with 3 1/2 out of 4 ahead of four players with 3 points each: Lena Georgescu (Switzerland), Nguyen Ha Than (Germany), Daria Shmarina (Russia) and Madita Mönster (Germany). The 24 participants must play 9 rounds (Swiss system). It is very remarkable that six very young girls are competing for the title, the youngest being seven year old Anouk Lorenz (born in 2006).
The participants of the international women's grandmaster tournament and of the international women's junior tournament in Erfurt during the opening ceremony on Sunday, August 24th. The tournament will last until August, 31st.
Anouk Lorenz is the youngest participant competing in the open international German women's chess championship 2014.
In this first report I'll focus on two games for which the winners were awarded a special brilliancy prize:
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Book Review by Natalia Pogonina: "Journey to the Chess Kingdom"
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Wednesday, 27 August 2014 |
By WGM Natalia Pogonina
Best FIDE rating: 2508
Journey to the Chess Kingdom, 2014
Publisher: Chess Evolution
Authors: GM Yuri Averbakh, Mikhail Beilin
Edition: Paperback medium
ISBN: 978-83-934656-6-8
Pages: 284
Language: English
Cover price: $26.99/19.99
Available at: Chess Evolution site
Look and feel
GM Arkadij Naiditsch presented a copy of Journey to the Chess Kingdom to me during the recent Chess Olympiad in Tromsø. The cover and illustrations are quite attractive and stand out in a positive way among the popular chess board on the cover designs. The diagrams are neat-looking and the paper is glossy and nice to touch. Overall, the book has a positive aura and feels inviting to read.
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