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NEWSLETTER 150 (April 02, 2014)

RECOMMENDED ARBITERS FROM EUROPE FOR CHESS

OLYMPIAD 2014 IN TROMSO

President of the European Chess Union Mr. Silvio Danailov has sent a letter to FIDE President Mr. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov with the list of 12 recommended Arbiters from Europe for the forthcoming Olympiad 2014 in Tromso, Norway.

The list of recommended Arbiters is as follows:

ARM FA Norayr Kalantaryan

AUT IA Manfred Mussnig

BLR IA Nikolai Zhukov

CZE IA Ladislav Palovský

ESP IA Luis Blasco De La Cruz

HUN IA Miklos Orso

IRL FA Gerry Graham

LHT IA Albert Baumberger

POL IA Tomasz Delega

RUS IA Vladimir Fedorov

SCO IA Alex McFarlane

UKR IA Oleg Tovchyga

Official website: www.ecuonline.net

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AZERBAIJANI YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP FOR BOYS

AND GIRLS – U 14, 16, 18

The Azerbaijani Youth Chess Championship for boys

and girls – U 14, 16, 18 was held from 23rd March to 2nd

April, 2014. Chief Arbiter of the tournament, organized

by the Azerbaijani Chess Federation, was IA Namig

Ismayilov.

The average ELO rating of the different categories was: boys U18 - 2047, girls U18 -

1859,boys U16 – 1817, girls U16 - 1620, boys U14 - 1784, girls U14 - 1669.

Final Rankings – first 3 positions

Boys – U18

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Shabanov Nurlan M. 6.5 28.8 0 4

2 Pirverdiyev Agil K. 6.5 26.3 0 5

3 Bayramov Elvin Sh. 6 25 0 5

Girls – U18

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Fataliyeva Ulviyya 9.5 37.8 0 9

2 Amrayeva Aytan 6.5 25.8 0 4

3 Baghirova Khatin 5 16.3 0 4

Boys – U16

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Shahaliyev Ismayil 8.5 41 0 7

2 Mammadov Gul. 6.5 31.3 0 5

3 Bayramov Zaur 6 28 0 4

Girls – U16

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Hojjatova Aydan 9 41 0 9

2 Mammadova Narm. 8.5 33.8 0 8

3 Imanly Magrura 7.5 27.3 0 7

Boys – U14

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Naghdiyev Niyazi S. 8.5 38.3 0 8

2 Asadli Vugar Afg. 6.5 31.5 0 5

3 Bashirli Nail Q. 6.5 29.3 0 6

Girls –U14

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Balajayeva Khanim 9.5 52.5 0 9

2 Karimzada Narmin 7.5 38.3 0 7

3 Mustafazada Nigar 6.5 26.5 0 6

Sixty young chess players took part in the competition.

Official website: www.azerichess.az

ESTONIAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP FOR BOYS AND

GIRLS – U10

Estonian Youth Chess Championship for boys and girls –

U10 was held from 28-30 March, 2014 in Tartu.

Chief Arbiter of the tournament, organized by the Estionian

Chess Federation, was Peep Narusberg.

The average ELO rating of the boy’s section of the championship was 1287 and 1264

of the girl’s section.

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Final Ranking after 7 rounds – first 5 positions – Boys Rk. Name Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Pedoson Georg Aleksander 1703 5.5 0 30 27

2 Aga Rihard 1620 5.5 0 29 25

3 Andrijaškin Deniss 1605 5.5 0 29 25

4 Uibokant Karl Oskar 1440 5.5 0 27 23

5 Güsson Jürgen 1460 5 0 30 26

Final Ranking after 7 rounds – first 5 positions – Girls Rk. Name Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Sinitsõna Anastassija 1637 7 0 27 23

2 Bondarevskaja Emilin 1210 5 0 23 21

3 Sild Marta Pauline 1473 4.5 0 29 25

4 Belaja Anastastja 1304 4.5 0 27 24

5 Rubina Mari 1331 4.5 0 26 23

Fifty-five young chess players took part in the competiton.

Official website: www.maleliit.ee

LITHUANIAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP FOR BOYS

AND GIRLS – U 18, 16, 14

The Lithuanian Youth Chess Championship for

boys and girls – U18, 16, 14 was held from 25-30

March, 2014 in Panevėžys.

Chief Arbiter of the tournament was IA Paliulionis

Raimondas, whereas Tournament Director was

Gabrilavičienė Salvinija.

The total number of participants was one hundred and four.

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Final Rankings – first 3 positions

Boys - U18

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Laurusas Tomas 6.5 26 29 27

2 Vanagas Tadas 5.5 27 30 22

3 Vicas Marijus 4.5 27 29 18

Girls – U18

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Vanagaite Giedre 5.5 9 0 5

2 Klepeckaite Radvile 3 4 0 2

3 Jaskunaite Areta 0.5 1.5 0 0

Boys - U16 Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Stremavicius Titas 6.5 23 26 27

2 Sidabras Ignas 4.5 22 22 17

3 Miknevicius Laur. 4 25 28 15

Girls - U16 Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Semonaviciute Agne 7 24.8 0 6

2 Saumanaite Skaiste 5.5 20.5 0 4

3 Sibajeva Marija 4.5 14.5 0 3

Boys - U14

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Pultinevicius Paulius 8.5 46 49 44

2 Stauskas Lukas 7 46 50 33

3 Bisigirskas Paulius 6.5 45 47 32

Girls- U14

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 Gailiunaite Saule 6.5 34 37 31

2 Misiuk Karolina 6 34 36 25

3 Semonaviciute Migle 5.5 36 39 30

Official website: www.chessfed.lt

BELARUSIAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP FOR BOYS

AND GIRLS – U16, 14, 12

Belarusian Youth Chess Championship for boys and girls –

U16, 14, 12 was held from 19-27 March, 2014.

Chief Arbiter of the tournament was S. Meribanov, while

Tournament Director was V. Ginzburg.

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Final Rankings – first 3 positions

Boys - U16

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2

1 Lopatik Nikita 7 44 34.3

2 Filipets Egor 7 44 34

3 Ostapchik Anton 6.5 47 31.3

Girls - U16

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2

1 Malatsilava Volha 7.5 47 37.8

2 Beinenson Katsiaryna 7.5 47 36.8

3 Khrapko Marharyta 6.5 45 29.8

Boys - U14 Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2

1 Nikitenko Mihail 8 50 42.3

2 Kazakovskiy Valeriy 8 49 41.5

3 Ivannikau Maksim 6.5 51 33.5

Girls - U14 Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2

1 Prakapuk Vera 8 43 35.8

2 Stashis Anna 7.5 45 35

3 Antonovich Tatiana 6 47 29.5

Boys - U12

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2

1 Hrybchuk Kiryl 7.5 54 43.3

2 Zarubitski Viachaslau 7.5 49 40.8

3 Artsiomau Stanislau 6.5 52 34.3

Girls - U12

Rk. Name Pts. TB1 TB2

1 Mitskevich Yauheniya 7.5 47 37

2 Scherbatsevich Anastasiya 7.5 46 36.5

3 Badelka Olga 7 48 35

Official website: www.openchess.by

TOP 50 PLAYERS – APRIL 2014

Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year

1 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2881 0 1990

2 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2812 14 1982

3 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2785 14 1969

4 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2783 14 1975

5 Caruana, Fabiano g ITA 2783 0 1992

6 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2777 0 1983

7 Karjakin, Sergey g RUS 2772 14 1990

8 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2772 14 1975

9 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2772 0 1987

10 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2760 14 1985

11 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2758 0 1990

12 Dominguez Perez, Leinier g CUB 2757 0 1983

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13 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2756 14 1976

14 Adams, Michael g ENG 2753 2 1971

15 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2753 0 1968

16 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2753 0 1969

17 Vitiugov, Nikita g RUS 2747 0 1987

18 Giri, Anish g NED 2745 0 1994

19 So, Wesley g PHI 2738 0 1993

20 Wang, Hao g CHN 2734 0 1989

21 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2732 11 1983

22 Nepomniachtchi, Ian g RUS 2732 0 1990

23 Leko, Peter g HUN 2730 0 1979

24 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2726 11 1983

25 Harikrishna, P. g IND 2726 4 1986

26 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2723 2 1983

27 Andreikin, Dmitry g RUS 2722 14 1990

28 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2722 13 1983

29 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2722 0 1977

30 Wang, Yue g CHN 2717 0 1987

31 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2716 14 1987

32 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2714 9 1974

33 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2713 0 1987

34 Li, Chao b g CHN 2711 21 1989

35 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2711 13 1981

36 Ding, Liren g CHN 2710 20 1992

37 Le, Quang Liem g VIE 2710 9 1991

38 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2707 11 1980

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39 Navara, David g CZE 2706 22 1985

40 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2706 12 1985

41 Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2706 11 1983

42 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2706 0 1974

43 Kryvoruchko, Yuriy g UKR 2704 17 1986

44 Shirov, Alexei g LAT 2702 12 1972

45 Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2701 13 1986

46 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2701 11 1980

47 Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2699 0 1985

48 Rapport, Richard g HUN 2698 17 1996

49 Korobov, Anton g UKR 2698 16 1985

50 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2697 11 1987

Official website: www.fide.com

IVANCHUK WINS LATVIAN RAILWAY OPEN 2014

Ukranian Grandmaster Vassily

Ivanchuk won Latvian Railway Open

A, a Rapid tournament which was held

in Riga/Latvia, from 28-30 March, 2014.

Ivanchuk scored amazing 13 points out

of 14, with a rating performance of 3059

points! He started with 9 out of 9,

which is a truly remarkable start, and

finally finished with 12 wins and only

two draws.

It is certainly worth mentioning that the competition was very strong, with some of

the top players like Alexei Shirov (LAT), who was at the same time the co-organizer

of the event, Sergei Zhigalko (BLR), Vladimir Malakhov (RUS), David Navara

(CZE), Viktor Bologan (MDA), Loek van Wely (NED), Daniel Fridman (GER), Igor

Kovalenko (LAT), young Vladimir Fedoseev (RUS), the bronze medalist from

recently finished European Individual Chess Championship in Yerevan, etc.

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The first seed GM Vladimir Malakhov came second with 10 points, three points less

than Ivanchuk, and the third place went to GM Daniel Fridman from Germany with

9.5 points.

Final Ranking after 14 rounds – first 20 positions

Rk. Title Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3

1 GM Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2722 13 102 119 3059

2 GM Malakhov Vladimir RUS 2777 10 101 121 2776

3 GM Fridman Daniel GER 2649 9.5 97.5 117 2713

4 GM Bologan Viktor MDA 2680 9 82.5 96.5 2499

5 GM Shirov Alexei LAT 2742 8.5 101 121 2649

6 GM Van Wely Loek NED 2679 8.5 99 118 2646

7 GM Fedorov Alexei BLR 2547 8.5 97 112 2651

8 GM Kovalenko Igor LAT 2653 8.5 96 115 2590

9 GM Kovalev Vladislav BLR 2488 8.5 95.5 107 2637

10 GM Zhigalko Sergei BLR 2704 8.5 94.5 113 2623

11 GM Navara David CZE 2648 8.5 94 114 2590

12 GM Alekseev Evgeny RUS 2635 8.5 93.5 113 2601

13 GM Al-Modiahki Mohamad QAT 2547 8.5 90 108 2562

14 GM Azarov Sergei BLR 2646 8.5 90 105 2519

15 GM Shimanov Aleksandr RUS 2582 8.5 88.5 104 2550

16 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2616 8.5 88.5 103 2532

17 GM Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 2545 8.5 87.5 103 2546

18 GM Fedoseev Vladimir RUS 2681 8.5 84 102 2495

19 GM Kulaots Kaido EST 2505 8 96 111 2630

20 GM Lysyj Igor RUS 2675 8 95 114 2582

The tournament was held in the Latvian Railway History Museum in the heart of

Riga. It was played according to the Swiss System in 14 rounds, with the rate of play

15 minutes + 6 seconds.

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Apart from A group, there were B and C groups. The winner of the B tournament

was Edgars Lelis (LAT) with 10/12, while Jevgenij Pavlenko (LAT) won the C

tournament also with 10/12.

For more information, you can visit the website of the tournament

http://www.sahafederacija.lv/?p=6713

Photos by Matss Slis