TWIC 974(CAN) INDEX July 9 2013

Introduction
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther.

V4 Int Open ch-SVK 2013
IM Krnan(CAN),GM Banusz(HUN),IM Nagy(HUN),IM Bokros(HUN) are amongst a large group with 3/3.

GM Banusz(front right)

Photo-Gallery

Overall Standings

Rk.		Name	FED	FIDE	Pts.
1	GM	Banusz Tamas	HUN	2588	3
2	GM	Michalik Peter	SVK	2579	3
3	GM	Markos Jan	SVK	2580	3
4	IM	Nagy Gabor	HUN	2449	3
5	WGM	Kocetkova Julia	SVK	2328	3
6	IM	Bokros Albert	HUN	2439	3
7	IM	Krnan Tomas	CAN	2411	3
8	GM	Manik Mikulas	SVK	2412	3
9	IM	Pinter Erik	SVK	2364	3
10	GM	Likavsky Tomas	SVK	2458	3
11	IM	Macak Stefan	SVK	2374	3
12		Dzikowski Michal	POL	1904	3

World Open 2013-See Photo Gallery

Winner GM Varuzhan Akobian

GM Ray Robson

Canadian players

IM Cheng, B

FM Kleinman

Thavandiran

Prilleltensky

etc

Report-ChessDom

GM Varuzhan Akobian wins World Chess Open in Armageddon play-off

The 41st Annual World Open was held on June 29th – July 7th, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.

A 10-way tie for first place in the Open Section led to an Armageddon play-off game between the two players with the best tie-break scores.

This game was contested by GM Quesada Yuniesky, with white, against GM Varuzhan Akobian. Yuniesky had 5 minutes to Akobian’s 3 minutes and draw odds. The play-off game finished in a draw and GM Varuzhan Akobian became the 2013 World Open Champion.(more)

Benasque 2013(Previously covered on blog)

FM Humphreys and others from Annex CC.

DC International 2013(Previously covered on blog)

IM Cheng B

Edmonton International 2013(Previously covered on blog)

GM Hansen

TWIC 972(CAN) INDEX June 25 2013

Introduction
TWIC is produced by Mark Crowther

3rd Big Slick GM  2013 (In progress)
IM Panjawani,R 0.5/3 but 4 rounds have been played by the other players.

Round 1, 22 June 2013:
Raja Panjwani * - * Keith Arkell
Yang-Fan Zhou 0.5 - 0.5 Lawrence Trent
Jovica Radovanovic 0.5 - 0.5 Samuel Franklin
Bogdan Lalic 0.5 - 0.5 Alex Longson
Danny Gormally 1 - 0 Katerina Nemcova

Round 2, 23 June 2013:
Keith Arkell 0.5 - 0.5 Katerina Nemcova
Alex Longson 0.5 - 0.5 Danny Gormally
Samuel Franklin 0.5 - 0.5 Bogdan Lalic
Lawrence Trent 1 - 0 Jovica Radovanovic
Raja Panjwani 0 - 1 Yang-Fan Zhou

Round 3, 24 June 2013:
Yang-Fan Zhou 0.5 - 0.5 Keith Arkell
Jovica Radovanovic 0.5 - 0.5 Raja Panjwani
Bogdan Lalic 0.5 - 0.5 Lawrence Trent
Danny Gormally 0.5 - 0.5 Samuel Franklin
Katerina Nemcova 0 - 1 Alex Longson

Round 4, 25 June 2013:
Keith Arkell 0.5 - 0.5 Alex Longson
Samuel Franklin 0.5 - 0.5 Katerina Nemcova
Lawrence Trent 0.5 - 0.5 Danny Gormally
Raja Panjwani 0 - 1 Bogdan Lalic
Yang-Fan Zhou 1 - 0 Jovica Radovanovic

Standings After Round 4:
Zhou 3
Longson, Gormally, Trent, Lalic 2.5
Franklin 2
Arkell 1.5 (out of 3)
Nemcova, Radovanovic 1
Panjwani 0.5 (out of 3)

Geneva Open A 2013(In progress)
IM Hambelton 2/2
Oussedik 1/2

Results
IM Hambleton shares the lead in a large group with 2/2.

GM Christian Bauer

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Cornette Matthieu	FRA	2578	2
	GM	Le Roux Jean-Pierre	FRA	2576	2
	IM	Hambleton Aman	CAN	2461	2
	GM	Cherniaev Alexander	RUS	2447	2
	IM	Manea Alexandru	ROU	2389	2
	FM	Botta Gabriele	SUI	2327	2
	IM	Vuilleumier Alexandre	SUI	2321	2
		Bondar Yevgen	SUI	2307	2
		Rab Assif	SUI	1765	2
10	GM	Bauer Christian	FRA	2637	1.5
	WGM	Mamedjarova Turkan	AZE	2249	1.5
12		Midoux Sebastien	FRA	2329	1.5
13	WGM	Mamedjarova Zeinab	AZE	2264	1
		Prunescu Claudiu	ROU	2263	1
		Duport Nicolas	SUI	2229	1
		Louis Thibault	FRA	2222	1
	FM	Colmenares Aurelio	SUI	2214	1
	CM	Barletta Mauro	ITA	2212	1
	WIM	Heinatz Gundula	SUI	2197	1
		Meylan Andre	SUI	2094	1
		Oussedik Elias	CAN	2058	1
22		Noyer Olivier	SUI	2016	1
23		Gurtner Daniel	SUI	2131	1
24		Skouvaklis Alexis	SUI	2166	1
	WFM	Stoeri Laura	SUI	2111	1
	FM	Weeramantry Sunil	SRI	2111	1
		Nickel Arno	GER	2082	1
		Kupalov Igor	SUI	2054	1
29		Bagri Jaspaul	SUI	2131	1
30	GM	Meijers Viesturs	LAT	2469	1
	IM	Gerber Richard	SUI	2416	1
		Vernet Solene	SUI	1760	1

4th Forni di Sopra  2013
Previously reported on in detail
-IM Hambleton,Oussedik
-GM Horvath,C(HUN)

TWIC 971(CAN) INDEX-June 18 2013

Introduction
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther

4th Forni di Sopra  2013
Hambleton,A(CAN)  shares the lead in a group of four players with 3/3.

Pos		Nome	FED	Elo	Pts.
1	IM	Dvirnyy Danyyil	ITA	2540	3
	IM	Hambleton Aman	CAN	2461	3
	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	IND	2428	3
	IM	Tania Sachdev	IND	2408	3
5	GM	Horvath Csaba	HUN	2516	2.5
	IM	D'amore Carlo	ITA	2485	2.5
	GM	Lazic Miroljub	SRB	2467	2.5
	GM	Naumkin Igor	RUS	2457	2.5
	IM	Valsecchi Alessio	ITA	2422	2.5
	IM	Borgo Giulio	ITA	2378	2.5
	FM	Boscolo Federico	ITA	2314	2.5
12	GM	Moskalenko Viktor	ESP	2536	2
	IM	Pancevski Filip	MKD	2513	2
	GM	Levin Felix	GER	2497	2
	GM	Garcia Palermo Carlos	ITA	2468	2
	IM	Bruno Fabio	ITA	2422	2
	IM	Laketic Gojko	SRB	2410	2
	IM	Codenotti Marco	ITA	2390	2
	IM	Saravanan V.	IND	2371	2
	FM	Altini Nicola	ITA	2323	2
	FM	Cocchi Andrea	ITA	2304	2
		Albano Marco	ITA	2256	2
		Formento Paolo	ITA	2249	2
	IM	Medancic Rikard	CRO	2238	2
	FM	Ceschia Ivano	ITA	2235	2
		Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	2231	2
		Sardo Gabriele	ITA	2208	2
		Rothebarth Ana Vitoria De Pau	BRA	2006	2
		Dobboletta Alex	ITA	1978	2

Here is Hambleton's rd1 game where he got an early bind and won a pawn. There are no spectacular tactical blows but the result was never in doubt after Hambleton went up a P.

White(Hambleton) to Play
White has an extra pawn and the bishop pair. Now the question is how to convert the advantage while allowing the least counterplay possible. What do you recommend for white?

18..Rb6

TWIC 969(CAN) INDEX-June3 2013

Introduction
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther

2nd Server23 Open 2013(ITA)-Tournament site
After three rounds:
GM Hansen,E 2.5; IM Hambleton,A 2 and Ousssedik 1.5

IM Hambleton(right-2nd player from front in black shirt)

GM Nisipeanu(front left)

Rk.		Name	FIDE	FED	Pts.
1	GM	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	2667	ROU	3
2	GM	Volkov Sergey	2613	RUS	3
3	GM	Khenkin Igor	2601	GER	3
4	IM	Warakomski Tomasz	2488	POL	3
5	GM	Hansen Eric	2577	CAN	2.5
6	GM	Sundararajan Kidambi	2428	IND	2.5
7	GM	Burmakin Vladimir	2575	RUS	2.5
8	CM	Herbold Manfred	2091	GER	2.5
9	IM	Codenotti Marco	2390	ITA	2.5
10	GM	Levin Felix	2497	GER	2.5
11	IM	Solomon Kenny	2414	RSA	2
12	IM	Stella Andrea	2463	ITA	2
13	IM	Hambleton Aman	2461	CAN	2
14		Spornberger Maximilian	2257	ITA	2
15	IM	Collutiis Duilio	2465	ITA	2
16	WGM	Szczepkowska-Horowska Karina	2375	POL	2
17	WGM	Fierro Baquero Martha	2365	ECU	2
18	IM	Vezzosi Paolo	2274	ITA	2
19	IM	Saravanan V.	2371	IND	2
20		Paltrinieri Nicholas	2174	ITA	2
21	FM	Herzog Adolf	2401	AUT	2
22	FM	Boscolo Federico	2314	ITA	2
23	GM	Kveinys Aloyzas	2479	LTU	2
24		Schaefer Michael	2176	GER	2
25	CM	Krulich Roman	2229	MNC	2
26		Curien Nicolas	2204	SUI	2
27	FM	Bertagnolli Alexander	2329	ITA	2

Here is Hansen's rd2 game.

Boscolo,F (2314) - Hansen,Eric (2577)
SI 2.c3 Nf6[B22]
2nd Server24 Open Ortisei ITA (2.4), 02.06.2013

Position 1
Black is clearly better despite the symmetrical structure and opposite color bishops. What do you recommend for black?

Black to Play

23.Qc3

Chicago Open 2013
IM Porper 6.5/9

TWIC 968(CAN) INDEX-2013-May 28

Introduction
TWIC is produced by Mark Crowther. 

Chicago Open May 23-27 2013 Results
IM Porper did very well to finish second with 6.5/9 but GM Ray Robson took first with better tiebreaks over Friedel and Mitkov.

• Porper,E 6.5
• Gerzhoy,L 5.5
• Kleinman,M 4.5
• Preotu,Razvan 3.5

Report-ChessVibes
'Ray Robson won the strong Chicago Open on Monday with a score of 7/9. The 18-year-old American grandmaster edged out GMs Joshua Friedel and Nikolai Mitkov on tiebreak (modified median).

GM Ray Robson

Photo-Chessvibes

The tournament drew over 20 grandmasters, including Aleksandr Lenderman and Victor Mikhalevski. The 22nd annual Chicago Open was held May 23-27 and organized by the Continental Chess Association.

The venue was the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel in Wheeling, Illinois. In 2010 Loek van Wely won, in 2011 Timur Gareev, in 2012 Gabriel Sargissian and this year Ray Robson took the title of Chicago Open Champion. Robson (18), who became a grandmaster just before turning 15, is a freshman at Webster University.

Robson finished on 7/9 together with Josh Friedel and Nikolai Mitkov, but had the best tiebreak.(more)'

Some background on the Chicago Open.

 

Final Standings

#	Name	Rtng	St	Total
1	GM Ray Robson	2620	MO	7
2	GM Joshua E Friedel	2485	WI	7
3	GM Nikola Mitkov	2484	MKD	7
4	IM Edward Porper	2423	CAN	6.5
5	GM Alexander Shabalov	2544	PA	6.5
6	GM Aleksandr Lenderman	2585	NY	6
7	GM Varuzhan Akobian	2616	KS	6
8	GM Victor Mikhalevski	2551	ISR	6
9	GM Fidel Corrales	2604	CUB	6
10	GM Alex Yermolinsky	2497	SD	6
11	GM Mikheil Kekelidze	2509	GEO	6
12	GM Alexander Fishbein	2506	NJ	6
13	GM Conrad Holt	2513	KS	5.5
14	GM Yaroslav Zherebukh	2629	UKR	5.5
15	IM Michael A Mulyar	2383	CO	5.5
16	IM Leonid Gerzhoy	2469	CAN	5.5
17	IM Irina Krush	2470	NY	5.5
18	GM Zviad Izoria	2585	NY	5.5
19	GM Dmitry Gurevich	2492	IL	5.5
20	GM Andre Diamant	2479	BRA	5.5
21	GM Vladimir Georgiev	2559	MKD	5.5
22	GM Mesgen Amanov	2510	TKM	5.5
23	IM Daniel Fernandez	2396	TX	5.5
24	FM Jeffery Xiong	2376	TX	5
25	IM Darwin Yang	2485	TX	5
26	Tigran Ishkhanov	2306	CA	5
27	GM Benjamin P Finegold	2505	MO	5
28	FM John Danie Bryant	2442	CA	5
29	Bradley J Denton	2270	AL	5
30	Thomas M Ulrich	2213	WI	5
31	FM Akshat Chandra	2270	NJ	5
32	Sam A Schmakel	2192	IL	5
33	IM Kayden W Troff	2421	UT	5
34	Denys Konstantin Shmelov	2431	UKR	5
35	Kevin Y Cao	2201	MO	5
36	FM Kevin Wasiluk	2322	MN	5
37	FM Michael Kleinman	2302	CAN	4.5
38	Deepak Aaron	2257	NY	4.5
39	GM Yury Shulman	2570	IL	4.5
40	FM Seth Homa	2307	MI	4.5
41	Walker Kyle Griggs	2202	OH	4.5
42	Benjamin Coraretti	2151	NM	4.5
43	FM Shivkumar Shivaji	2272	CA	4.5
44	Iskandar Aripov	2196	UZB	4.5
45	FM Gregory Markzon	2191	NJ	4.5
46	IM Vitaly Neimer	2420	ISR	4.5
47	FM Samuel Sevian	2371	CA	4.5
48	Sean Vibbert	2255	IN	4.5
49	Richard Tyler Francisco	2277	GA	4.5
50	FM Ali Morshedi	2227	CA	4.5
51	WGM Anna Sharevich	2265	BLR	4.5
52	FM Adarsh Jayakumar	2336	IL	4.5
53	IM Florin Felecan	2375	IL	4
54	Alexand Velikanov	2210	WI	4
55	Joshua Colas	2201	NY	4
56	Christopher Wu	2199	NJ	4
57	FM Cameron Wheeler	2193	CA	4
58	WFM Sarah Chiang	2098	TX	4
59	Derek Richard Paitrick	2094	WI	4
60	FM Eric S Rosen	2289	IL	4
61	GM Wesley So	2705	PHI	4
62	Badamkhand Norovsambuu	1922	MGL	4
63	FM Konstantin Kavutskiy	2268	MO	4
64	Jarod M Pamatmat	2113	TX	4
65	Razvan Preotu	2221	CAN	3.5
66	FM Steven D Greanias	2132	VA	3.5
67	Edward Song	2093	MI	3.5
68	Kai Jie Edward Lee	2164	SIN	3.5
69	Safal Bora	2195	MI	3.5
70	Erik Santarius	2292	WI	3.5
71	Yuanchen Zhang	2045	ON	3.5
72	FM Robby Adamson	2284	AZ	3.5

e2e4 Sunningdale Open 2013
Hambleton clear first with 6.5/7

Calgary International 2013
GM Wesley So clear first 8/9.

TWIC(CAN) 966 May 14-2013

TWIC
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther.

Continental Chess Ch-Bolivia 2013 and IM Hambleton(CAN)
This tournament has already been well covered in previous blog entries.

Tschaturanga Open 2013(AUT) 
Suller, Lorant(CAN) finished with 3/7. 

More on Vienna,Austria.

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.
1	WIM	Umudova Nargiz	AZE	2233		6
2	IM	Burg Twan	NED	2478		5.5
3	IM	Fröwis Georg	AUT	2415	Sk Husek Wien	5.5
4	IM	Baumegger Siegfried	AUT	2473	tschaturanga	5.5
5	GM	Stanec Nikolaus	AUT	2516	Sc Donaustadt Wien	5.5
6	FM	Wukits Rene	AUT	2292	tschaturanga	5.5
7	CM	Sadilek Peter	AUT	2275	tschaturanga	5
8	FM	Beckhuis Gernod	GER	2294	Austria Wien	5
9	IM	Schneider-Zinner Harald	AUT	2370	Sk Wien-Ottakring	5
10	NM	Steiner Bruno	AUT	2166	Raiffeisen Währing	5
11	IM	Weinzettl Ernst	AUT	2292	Sk Donau Wien	4.5
12	MK	Sadilek Maximilian	AUT	2190	tschaturanga	4.5
13		Abdullayev Rufat	AZE	1671		4.5
14		Barthel Ansgar	GER	2207	SC Pirmasens 1912	4.5
15		Kersten Julian	AUT	1948	tschaturanga	4.5

48th Capablanca Open II 2013

Alvarez won with 8/9. Canadians Palsson,H and Doubleday,W finished with  3.5/9.

More on (bughouse)chess in Cuba.

Rank	Player	FIDE	Total
1	Alvarez,Fe	2237	8.0/9
2	Martinez Ramirez,L	2251	7.5/9
3	Lopez Gonzalez,A	2209	7.0/9
4	Campos Jimenez,Augusto Cesar	2203	7.0/9
5	Jodar Arias,M	2170	7.0/9
6	Pozo Bravo,J	2214	6.5/9

Here is Doubleday's rd7 game

Rosa,Danie (2202) - Doubleday,W (2016)
Sicilian Kan 6.g3[B47]
48th Capablanca Open II 2013 Havana CUB (7.28), 28.04.2013

Position 1
Black has the center and pressure on f2. What do you recommend for black now?

Black to Play

30.Re2

TWIC 960(CAN) INDEX April 2,2013

Introduction
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther

Philadelphia Open 2013 Results
IM Cheng,B  5.5
IM Hambleton,A 5.5
Song Michael  4.5



Report by ChessDom

The big winner, GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez

 
The 7th Annual Philadelphia Open was held over the Easter week from March 27-31, 2013, at the upscale, luxury Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 
 Cuban GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez and IM Daniel Naroditsky finished at the top of the Open Section with 7/9. Both players led from the front, each winning 5 games and drawing 4.
 
 Corrales Jimenez collected $4,827 for his efforts, which included the 1st place bonus by virtue of having a better tie-break score while Naroditsky collected $4,658. Naroditsky’s score was also good enough for a GM norm.
 
 IM norms were scored by FM Adarsh Jayakumar, FM Jeffery Xiong, FM Arthur Shen and Adithya Balasubramanian.

1. GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez 2601 CUB ($4827) and IM Daniel A Naroditsky 2472 CA ($4658) – 7.0
  3-6. GM Magesh Panchanathan 2579 IND, GM Mikheil Kekelidze 2488 GEO, GM Alexander Fishbein 2504 NJ and GM Alexander Shabalov 2550 PA – 6.5 ($953)
  7-11. GM Zviad Izoria 2583 NY, ($402), IM Darwin Yang 2486 TX ($402), FM Adarsh Jayakumar 2294 IL ($1694), GM Giorgi Margvelashvili 2565 GEO ($402) and IM Milos M Pavlovic 2482 SRB ($402) – 6.0
  12-17. FM Jeffery Xiong 2330 TX ($282), IM Aman Hambleton 2463 CAN, FM Arthur Shen 2227 NJ ($282), Adithya Balasubramanian 2253 IND ($282), GM Aleksandr Lenderman 2601 NY and IM Bindi Cheng 2409 CAN – 5.5 etc (71 players)

Final Standings

#	Name	FIDE	FED/State	Total
1	GM Fidel C. Jimenez	2601	CUB	7
2	IM Daniel A Naroditsky	2472	CA	7
3	GM Magesh Panchanathan	2579	IND	6.5
4	GM Mikheil Kekelidze	2488	GEO	6.5
5	GM Alexander Fishbein	2504	NJ	6.5
6	GM Alexander Shabalov	2550	PA	6.5
7	GM Zviad Izoria	2583	NY	6
8	IM Darwin Yang	2486	TX	6
9	FM Adarsh Jayakumar	2294	IL	6
10	GM Giorgi Margvelashvili	2565	GEO	6
11	IM Milos M Pavlovic	2482	SRB	6
12	FM Jeffery Xiong	2330	TX	5.5
13	IM Aman Hambleton	2463	CAN	5.5
14	FM Arthur Shen	2227	NJ	5.5
15	Adithya Balasubramanian	2253	IND	5.5
16	GM Aleksandr Lenderman	2601	NY	5.5
17	IM Bindi Cheng	2409	CAN	5.5
18	FM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy	2379	NY	5
19	Robert M Perez	2361	FL	5
20	GM Boris Kreiman	2482	NY	5
21	FM Thomas Bartell	2381	PA	5
22	WGM Tatev Abrahamyan	2300	CA	5
23	Alexander Ross Katz	2254	NJ	5
24	IM Lorin A R D’Costa	2416	ENG	4.5
25	IM David Vigorito	2437	MA	4.5
26	Safal Bora	2140	MI	4.5
27	FM Seth Homa	2307	MI	4.5
28	FM Akshat Chandra	2265	NJ	4.5
29	Alexander B King	2244	NY	4.5
30	IM Bryan G Smith	2460	PA	4.5
31	FM John Daniel Bryant	2454	CA	4.5
32	Kevin Wang	2276	MD	4.5
33	IM James A Rizzitano	2322	MA	4.5
34	Kevin Mo	2282	PA	4.5
35	Michael Song	2189	CAN	4.5
36	Benjamin Coraretti	2123	NM	4.5
37	Justus D Williams	2188	NY	4.5
38	Alex Barnett	2214	MD	4.5