THE WEEK IN CHESS 314 13th November 2000 by Mark Crowther

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Contact The Week in Chess Mark Crowther E-Mail mdcrowth@netcomuk.co.uk Tel or fax 01274 882143 [Bradford England] Mobile 07957381719 http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html Contents 1) Introduction 2) 34th Chess Olympiad 3) 4th Cap d'Agde Festival 4) I Magistral Salou Costa Daurada 5) Bastia Open 6) Alushta, Ukraine 7) First Saturday November 8) Manhattan Chess Club Club Championship 9) 4th OIBM in Bad Wiessee 10) Arco Open 11) Peter-Heine Nielsen vs Denmark/World 12) NATO Championships 13) L'Etang Salé 14) 8th Loures Masters 15) Kramnik interview and simul 16) Groningen Press Release 17) Chigorin Memorial 18) Kasparov to play odds match 19) Krkonose 2000 20) Forthcoming Events and Links

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Games section

34th Chess Olympiad Men's games       3511 games
34th Chess Olympiad Women's games     1803 games
4th Cap d'Agde Festival                 56 games
I Magistral Salou Costa Daurada         75 games
Bastia Masters                          44 games
Alushta, Ukraine                        91 games
First Saturday November                 62 games
Manhattan Chess Club Club Championship  20 games
4th OIBM in Bad Wiessee                134 games
Arco Open                              288 games
NATO Championships                     217 games
L'Etang Salé                           280 games
8th Loures Masters                      23 games
Kramnik simul                            1 game
Chigorin Memorial                     1045 games
Krkonose 2000                           10 games
7660 games

1) Introduction

My thanks to Davor Golek and Jozef Sith for their Olympiad help, Jakub Fuksik, Ilona and Laszlo Nagy, Johan Zwanepol, Christophe Bouton, Tony Kosten, Miklos Orso, John Fernandez, Juan Sangés, Luís Santos, Alan Cowderoy, Søren Søgaard, Thomas Leckner, Alexander Baburin, Lanfranco Bombelli, Adolivio Capece and all those who helped with this issue.

Whilst its been a great month or two for chess its very hard work to keep up. This week saw the finish to a very enjoyable Olympiad, also the quality of games made available has vastly improved and the games given so far in TWIC have also been much improved. Please scrap the Olympiad games from the last two issues, this issue gives all the men's and women's olympiad games in the best version I can manage. I can perhaps take it a little easier for just less than two weeks before we start with the FIDE World Chess Championships in India.

2) 34th Chess Olympiad

The 34th Chess Olympiad took place in Istanbul, Turkey 28th October - 12th November 2000. This was a great event with only a few top players missing, Kasparov and Kramnik for Russia (involved in their match in Russia) and Anand for India (surely with their performance this time he can return as top board and lead a strong challenge). Russia were the favourites and with a few scares, they lived up to the billing. Khalifman as FIDE Champion was board one (probably a little high) and only scored 50% losing interesting clashes with Leko and Topalov but powered by Alexander Morozevich on Board 2 who performed to 2803 (Bronze Medal for his board see his round 12 victory over Artashes Minasian) and rising star Alexander Grischuk (bronze medal for 2nd reserve) they came home easily with two quick 2-2 draws in their final two matches. The silver medal was deservedly taken by surprise package Germany. The 11th seeds were powered by stellar efforts from Artur Jussupow and Rustem Dautov with TPRs of 2782 and 2776 respectively. The Ukraine edged out Hungary for the Bronze medal largely as a result of a huge 8.5/11 performance from rising star Ruslan Ponomariov. Having said that Hungary also had their star. Judit Polgar has lead the Hungarian team in the past, this time she was on board three and scored 10/13 the second highest points total of any player in the Olympiad.

There were some of the most competitive Olympiads in recent years. The eighth placed India (seeded 31) have two young players in Abhijit Kunte and Krishnan Sasikiran promise much for the future. However this competitiveness led to some poor results for some teams. Number 2 seeds England finished 7th but this even looks quite good compared to number 7 seeds USA's finish in 26th and number 9 seeds Netherlands 33rd placed finish.

In the women's Olympiad China were impressive winners ahead of Georgia and Russia.

After a very ropey start the FIDE coverage became quite acceptable at the end but its insistance on individual pages for each game is stupid and does not produce good viewing. I must thank Davor Golek (1st Croatian Chess Home Page http://jagor.srce.hr/~davgolek) for sending me the games and any corrections as they appeared. Without his help I'm sure I would have got both eye strain and RSI before the end of the Olympiad. Also to Jozef Sith for producing a nice version of the standings.

Official Olympiad Prizes

Ratings Categories

Best Tournament Performance Rating Women's Section: Zhu Chen, China
Best Tournament Performance Rating Men's Section: Alexander Morozevich, Russia

Team Rating Category Prizes:

Men 
Category 5: Angola Captain: Andrade Manuel Joaoquim 
Category 4: Faroe Islands Captain: Nolsoe Eydun 
Category 3: Finland Captain: Yrjola Jouni 
Category 2: India Captain: Salov Valery 

Women 

Category 5: Costa Rica Captain: Garro Mario de Los Angeles 
Category 4: Portugal Captain: Santos Antonio 
Category 3: Australia Captain: Lyons Jason 
Category 2: India Captain: Thipasay Abhay 

Individual Board Prizes MEN:

Reserve 2

Bronze: Grischuk Alexander, Russia
Silver: Wondimu Dawit, Ethiopia
Gold: Barsov Alexei, Uzbekistan

Reserve 1

Bronze: Byambaa Zulzaga, Mongolia
Silver: Kadhi Hameed Mansoor Ali, Yemen
Gold: Moussa Taleb, United Arab Emirates

Board 4

Bronze: Socko Bartosz, Poland
Silver: Mannhart Marcel, Liechtenstein
Gold: Anastasian Ashot,Armenia

Board 3

Bronze: Dautov Rustem, Germany
Silver: Zambrana Osvaldo, Bolivia
Gold: Jacimovic Dragoljub, Macedonia

Board 2

Bronze: Morozevich Alexander, Russia
Silver: Spragett Kevin, Canada
Gold: Ponomariov Ruslan, Ukraine

Board 1

Bronze: Kasimdzhanov Rustam, Uzbekistan
Silver: Simutowe Amon, Zambia
Gold: Adianto Utut, Indonesia

Individual Board Prizes WOMEN:

Reserve

Bronze: Mammadyarova Zaynab, Azerbaijan
Silver: Moylan Laura, Australia
Gold: Zahira El Ghaby, Morocco

Board 3

Bronze: Vasquez Rocio, Ecuador
Silver: Lee Wing Yan Winnie, Macao
Gold: Khurtsidze Nino, Georgia

Board 2

Bronze: Ioseliani Nana, Georgia
Silver: Al-Rufei Eman, Iraq
Gold: Zhu Chen, China

Board 1

Bronze: Xie Jun, China
Silver: Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman, India
Gold: Cmilyte Viktorija, Lithuania

NONA GAPRINDASHVILI PRIZE:

RUSSIA Captains: Yuri Yakavich and Boris Postovsky

VERA MENCHIK CUP (Women's Olympiad Trophy)

Bronze - RUSSIA:

Galliamova-Ivancuk-Alisa, Kovalevskaya Ekaterina, Matveeva Svetlana, Stepovaia-Dianchenko Tatiana. Captain: Yakavich Yuri

Silver - GEORGIA:

Maya Chiburdanidze, Nana Ioseliani, Nino Khurtsidze, Nino Gurieli. Captain: David Gurgenidze

Gold - CHINA:

Xie Jun, Zhu Chen, Xu Yuhua, Wang Lei. Captain: Weida Zang

HAMILTON RUSSELL CUP (Men's Olympiad Trophy)

Men Bronze - UKRAINE:

Ivanchuk Vassily , Ponomariov Ruslan , Baklan Vladimir , Eingorn Vereslav , Romanishin Oleg , Malakhatko Vadim. Captain: Byk Ivan

Silver - GERMANY:

Arthur Jussupov, Robert Huebner, Rustam Dautov, Christopher Lutz, Klaus Bischoff, Thomas Luther. Captain: Uwe Boensch

Gold - RUSSIA:

Khalifman Alexander , Morozevich Alexander , Svidler Peter , Rublevsky Sergei , Sakaev Konstantin , Grischuk Alexander. Captain: Postovsky Boris

Event Statistics:

Leading Men's Performance ratings

Name                  NAT RAT   Pts Gms %    AOR  TPR 
Morozevich, Alexander RUS 2734  7.5 10  75.0 2611 2803.7 
Topalov, Veselin      BUL 2707  8.0 11  72.7 2622 2797.3 
Ponomariov, Ruslan    UKR 2624  8.5 11  77.3 2574 2785.2 
Jussupow, Artur       GER 2610  8.5 12  70.8 2624 2782.3 
Dautov, Rustem        GER 2603  8.5 11  77.3 2565 2776.4 
Polgar, Judit (GM)    HUN 2656 10.0 13  76.9 2561 2772.5 
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam  UZB 2690  9.5 12  79.2 2538 2767.8 
Adianto, Utut         INA 2571  7.5  9  83.3 2490 2763.2 
Gelfand, Boris        ISR 2683  7.0 11  63.6 2645 2747.3 
Shirov, Alexei        ESP 2746  8.5 12  70.8 2588 2746.0 
Adams, Michael        ENG 2754  8.5 12  70.8 2584 2742.3 
Sakaev, Konstantin    RUS 2620  7.0  9  77.8 2513 2732.9 
Van Wely, Loek        NED 2643  7.5 13  57.7 2674 2730.6 
Leko, Peter           HUN 2748  7.5 12  62.5 2642 2729.2 
Ivanchuk, Vassily     UKR 2716  9.0 14  64.3 2623 2725.4 
Kunte, Abhijit        IND 2538  8.5 12  70.8 2555 2713.4 
Barsov, Alexei        UZB 2534  5.5  7  78.6 2465 2695.4 
Rublevsky, Sergei     RUS 2653  7.0 10  70.0 2545 2693.5 
Aleksandrov, Aleksej  BLR 2597  7.0 10  70.0 2537 2685.6 
Antonio, Rogelio Jr   PHI 2548  7.0 10  70.0 2535 2684.4 
Smirin, Ilia          ISR 2674  7.0 11  63.6 2581 2682.5 
Spraggett, Kevin      CAN 2506  9.0 12  75.0 2489 2682.4 
Socko, Bartosz        POL 2525  8.0 11  72.7 2504 2678.5 
Portisch, Lajos       HUN 2573  6.0  9  66.7 2553 2677.8 
Anastasian, Ashot     ARM 2558  9.0 12  75.0 2481 2674.2 
Georgiev, Kiril       BUL 2674  7.0 11  63.6 2572 2674.0 
Sasikiran, Krishnan   IND 2594  7.0 12  58.3 2613 2670.4 
Kempinski, Robert     POL 2522  7.5 10  75.0 2477 2669.7 
Huebner, Dr. Robert   GER 2606  6.5 11  59.1 2600 2665.5 
Grischuk, Alexander   RUS 2601  7.5 10  75.0 2466 2658.5 
Degraeve, Jean-Marc   FRA 2540  7.0 10  70.0 2507 2655.9 
Avrukh, Boris         ISR 2625  7.0 11  63.6 2553 2655.4 
Marin, Mihail         ROM 2569  8.0 13  61.5 2573 2652.9 
Pelletier, Yannick    SUI 2474  8.0 11  72.7 2477 2651.7 
Ftacnik, Lubomir      SVK 2608  7.5 13  57.7 2595 2651.6 
Nikolic, Predrag      BIH 2657  8.5 14  60.7 2571 2651.1 
Xu, Jun               CHN 2665  9.0 14  64.3 2548 2650.4 
Kulaots, Kaido        EST 2495  8.0 11  72.7 2475 2649.8 
Papaioannou, Ioannis  GRE 2578  7.5 13  57.7 2591 2648.3 
Movsesian, Sergei     CZE 2666  7.0 11  63.6 2544 2646.0 
Khalifman, Alexander  RUS 2658  4.5  9  50.0 2645 2645.3 
Andersson, Ulf        SWE 2641  5.5 10  55.0 2606 2642.4 
Sutovsky, Emil        ISR 2609  6.0  9  66.7 2516 2640.7 
Hector, Jonny         SWE 2499  7.5 11  68.2 2507 2639.9 
Korchnoi, Viktor      SUI 2632  6.5 12  54.2 2609 2638.1 
Ehlvest, Jaan         EST 2628  6.5 11  59.1 2572 2637.0 
Kazhgaleyev, Murtas   KAZ 2526  7.0 10  70.0 2486 2635.2 
Miezis, Normunds      LAT 2524  8.0 13  61.5 2555 2635.1 

Leading Women's Performance ratings

Name                      NAT RAT   Pts Gms %    AOR  TPR 
Zhu, Chen                 CHN 2534  9.0 11  81.8 2378 2639.5 
Xie, Jun (GM)             CHN 2567  8.5 11  77.3 2407 2617.7 
Khurtsidze, Nino          GEO 2432 11.0 13  84.6 2322 2617.5 
Galliamova, Alisa (IM)    RUS 2550  9.0 12  75.0 2422 2614.6 
Vijayalakshmi, Subbaraman IND 2402 11.0 14  78.6 2345 2574.9 
Ioseliani, Nana (IM)      GEO 2500  9.0 12  75.0 2367 2560.3 
Cmilyte, Viktorija        LTU 2335  9.5 12  79.2 2288 2517.5 
Wang, Lei                 CHN 2483  7.5 10  75.0 2302 2495.4 
Maric, Alisa (IM)         YUG 2435  8.5 13  65.4 2380 2490.1 
Mammadyarova, Zaynab      AZE 2173  7.0  8  87.5 2153 2488.8