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- M-Tel Masters
May 8 - 18 2008, Sofia, Bulgaria
Round-robin in two rounds (all play all with White and Black alternatively)
Time control : 90 min for 40 moves + 1 hour to the end of the game.
Players:
Veselin Topalov Bulgaria ELO 2767
Vassily Ivanchuk Ukraine ELO 2740
Levon Aronian Armenia ELO 2763
Teimour Radjabov Azerbaijan ELO 2751
Ivan Cheparinov Bulgaria ELO 2695
Bu Xiangzhi China ELO 2708
Round 8 :
Topalov, V - Cheparinov, I : 1 - 0
Aronian, L - Radjabov, T : 0 - 1
Xiangzhi, Bu - Ivanchuk, V : 0,5 - 0,5
- US Chess Championship
May 13 - 21 2008, Tulsa,
Players:
Men :
Kudrin, Sergey , 2610
Becerra, Julio , 2637
Shulman, Yury , 2664
Kaidanov, Gregory , 2697
Onischuk, Alexander , 2728
Akobian, Varuzhan , 2666
Friedel, Josh , 2511
Ludwig, Daniel , 2429
Pruess, David , 2497
Kraai, Jesse , 2569
Fedorowicz, John , 2531
Yermolinsky, Alex , 2587
Finegold, Benjamin , 2607
Perelshteyn, Eugene , 2615
Ivanov, Alexander , 2622
Gulko, Boris , 2623
Shabalov, Alexander , 2697
Kaufman, Larry , 2398
Vigorito, David , 2471
Shankland, Sam , 2296
Gurevich, Dmitry , 2594
Langer, Michael , 2322
Ippolito, Dean , 2499
Galant, Sergey , 2176
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Women :
Zatonskih, Anna , 2490
Krush, Irina , 2515
Rohonyan, Katerine , 2318
Abrahamyan, Tatev , 2280
Tuvshintugs, Batchimeg , 2289
Airapetian, Chouchanik , 2143
Battsetseg, Tsagaan , 2251
Epstein, Esther , 2194
Jamison, Courtney , 2064
Zenyuk, Iryna , 2205
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- Moscow Chess Championship – Final tournament
May 12 - 18 2008, Moscow,
Players:
1 Gorbatov, A. 2414
2 Vorobiev, E 2536
3 Rustemov, A 2552
4 Rychagov, A 2565
5 Gabrielian, A 2494
6 Deviatkin, A 2568
7 Konovalov, N 2426
8 Savchenko, B 2569
- III International Chess Festival President’s Cup
May 9 - 21 2008, Baku,
President’s Cup Chess Festival dedicated to the memory of Heydar Aliev
is organized in Baku ,Azerbaijan
3 different tournamnets will be held :
Children U-14 tournament , Open tournament , Seniors tournament
Open Tournament is a 9-round Swiss tournament
Time control: 90 minutes per each player with the increment of 30 seconds for each move.
- Limburg Open 2008
May 9 - 12 2008, Maastricht,
7 round FIDE rated event.
Final Standings , top 4
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Swinkels, Robin | NED |
6 |
| 2 |
Nijboer, Friso | NED |
6 |
| 3 |
Klimov, Sergey | RUS |
6 |
| 4 |
Jones, Gawain C B | ENG |
6 |
- Open de Livry 2008 rapid
Final Standings , top 3
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Shchekachev Andrei | FRA |
25 |
| 2 |
Laurent Julien | GEO |
24 |
| 3 |
David Alberto | LUX |
23 |
- Kaupthing Open 2008
 The tournament is organized at the Woiwer Sports Center, Differdange, Luxembourg May 10-17 2008.
9 rounds Swiss Chess
A-Open : 90’/40 + 30' + 30’’ per move
A-Open : 85 participants, B-Open : 66 , C-Open : 21
- Father Ivan Cvitanovic memorial
April 28 - May 6 2008, Split, Croatia
Number of rounds : 9 ,System : Swiss
Final Standings , top 3
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Drazic Sinisa | SRB |
6,5 |
| 2 |
Doric Darko | CRO |
6 |
| 3 |
Polak Tomas | CZE |
6 |
- Gyumri 2008
April 25 - May 6 2008, Armenia
Number of rounds : 11 ,System : Swiss
Final Standings , top 3
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Pashikian Arman | ARM |
9 |
| 2 |
Bagaturov Giorgi | GEO |
7 |
| 3 |
Gelashvili Tamaz | GEO |
7 |
- Baku chess grand prix
April 20 - May 6 2008, Baku, Azerbaijan
The first FIDE Grand Prix tournament is the first part of a series of six tournaments .
Number of rounds : 13
120 minutes for the first forty moves, 60 minutes for the next twenty moves and then each player will be allotted 15 minutes after the second time control and an increment of 30 seconds per move will be allowed from move 61 onwards.
Draws: Players will not be allowed to offer draws directly to their opponents.
Gashimov, Wang Yue and Carlsen won Baku 2008 with 8 points and share prize money.
Round 13 :
Karjakin Sergey - Kamsky Gata : 0,5 - 0,5
Navara David - Cheparinov Ivan : 1 - 0
Grischuk Alexander - Radjabov Teimour : 0,5 - 0,5
Adams Michael - Gashimov Vugar : 0,5 - 0,5
Bacrot Etienne - Carlsen Magnus : 0 - 1
Wang Yue - Mamedyarov Shakhriyar : 0,5 - 0,5
Svidler Peter - Inarkiev Ernesto : 1 - 0
- 9th European individual chess championships
April 21 - May 5 2008, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Number of rounds : 11 ,System : Swiss
The playing time : 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.
337 players.
Average rating: 2475
Final Standings , top 3
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Tiviakov Sergei | HOL |
8,5 |
| 2 |
Movsesian Sergei | SVK |
8 |
| 3 |
Volkov Sergey | RUS |
8 |
- 55th Federal championship Wolfwil , Switzerland
The tournament is being organized in Wolfwil 1-4 May 2008.
Swiss system, 7 rounds, 90 mins for 36 moves + 1 hour
Ratings of the players: 1521 - 2561
93 players.
Standings , top 3
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Stojanovic,Mihajl | SRB |
6 |
| 2 |
Milosevic,Goran | SUI |
5,5 |
| 3 |
Giertz,Niklaus | SUI |
6 |
- Unicorn Open 2008
April 30 - May 4 2008 , Berlin. 7 rounds Swiss tournament
Time limit: 120 min for 40 moves + 60 min to end.
210 participants - 132 of it with FIDE-ELO (62%) - 22 titleholders (10%)
The players which has the highest ratings :
GM Robert Rabiega (ELO 2560) ,
GM Sergej Kalinitschew (ELO 2469) ,
IM Martin Krämer (ELO 2436) ,
IM Ilja Brener (ELO 2422) ,
IM Michael Richter (ELO 2411) ,
FM Ismael Karim (ELO 2394) ,
IM Ulf von Herman (ELO 2354) ,
FM Jovica Radovanovic (ELO 2349) ,
FM Norman Thielsch (ELO 2325) ,
FM Werner Reichenbach (ELO 2319) ,
Final standings , top 4
|
Player | Club |
Points |
| 1 |
Rabiega, Robert | SK König Tegel 1949 |
6 |
| 2 |
Krämer, Martin | Erfurter Schachklub |
6 |
| 3 |
Richter, Michael | SC Kreuzberg |
6 |
| 4 |
Böttcher, Patrick | SC Zitadelle Spandau 1977 |
6 |
- Ostravsky Konik 2008
The tournament is organized in Ostrava April 26 - May 4 2008.
FIDE Open - open master tournament.
Swiss system, 9 rounds, 90 mins for 40 moves + 30 mins till the end + 30 secs for move
Players with FIDE rating > 1900
134 players.
Final standings , top 3
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Kravtsiv Martyn | UKR |
7,5 |
| 2 |
Gleizerov Evgeny | RUS |
7 |
| 3 |
Velicka Petr | CZE |
7 |
| 4 |
Urban Klaudiusz | POL |
7 |
- 34th Bangladesh National Chess Championship-2008,
April 20 - May 4 2008
Single round robin league system
All moves in 90 minutes for each move a player receives an extra 30 seconds added to his clock time from move no.1.
Final standings , top 3
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Rahman Ziaur | BAN |
12 |
| 2 |
Hossain Enamul | BAN |
11 |
| 3 |
Abdulla Al-Rakib | BAN |
9,5 |
- Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament
April 22 - April 30 2008
Time limit: 40 moves in 2 hours, then 20 moves in 1 hour, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game.
Standings , top 3
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Hillarp-Persson | SWE |
7,5 |
| 2 |
Stellwagen | DEN |
7 |
| 3 |
Hansen | DEN |
6 |
- 7th Open International Chess Malakoff
April 19 - April 26 2008
Number of rounds : 9 ,System : Swiss
Rate of play : 40 moves in 1 hour 30 minutes, plus 30 minutes extra at move 40, with an increment of 30 seconds/move
201 players
Standings , top 5
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
FRANCO ALONSO Alejandro | ESP |
7,5 |
| 2 |
SVESHNIKOV Evgeny | LAT |
7 |
| 3 |
GIFFARD Nicolas | FRA |
7 |
| 4 |
SVESHNIKOV Vladimir | LAT |
7 |
| 5 |
VAN DONGEN Patrick | FRA |
7 |
- XXI Benidorm Open International
The tournament is organized by Benidorm Chess Club April 25 - May 4 2008. 10 Round Swiss system , 1 hour and 30 minutes plus 30 seconds per move for each player.
- Gausdal Classics
The tournament took place from April 8th to 16th with 10 players in Norway. Round-Robin tournament with 10 players. Average ELO is 2518. 40 moves in 2 hours, 20 moves in 1 hour and ½ hour for the rest
Final standings : Top 3
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Gregory Kaidanov | USA |
7 |
| 2 |
Geetha Narayanan Gopal | IND |
6 |
| 3 |
Vasilios Kotronias | GRE |
5,5 |
- Russian Team Chess Championships
The tournament took places in Sochi during April 1-14
Final standings , Top 4 :
|
Team |
Points |
| 1 |
Ural |
17 |
| 2 |
Economist 1 |
15 |
| 3 |
TPS Saransk |
14 |
| 4 |
Finek Gazprom |
14 |
Details
- 10th Dubai Open
6-15 April . Average rating: 2188
Final standings :
|
Player | Country |
Points | Sum of the ratings of the opponents |
| 1 |
So Wesley | PHI |
7 | 20234 |
| 2 |
Gagunashvili Merab | GEO |
7 | 20085 |
| 3 |
Ghaem Maghami Ehsan | IRI |
7 | 19789 |
| 4 |
Li Chao B | CHN |
7 | 19605 |
- 2.nd Ruy Lopez Chess Festival
The tournament took place in Merida from April 4th to 13th with 8 players. It was a round robin tournament (Category 15)
Final standings :
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Adams | ENG |
5,5 |
| 2 |
Zhang | CHN |
5 |
| 3 |
Sargissian | ARM |
4,5 |
| 4 |
Koneru | IND |
4,5 |
- 5th "Open International de Balagne"
The tournament took place from April 6th to 12th with 64 players.
9 rounds of which two days with double round , 9 games 1h30 + 30s Fischer.
The players couldn't not offer draw unless it is a dead drawn ending.
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
MACAK Stefan | SVK |
8 |
| 2 |
DAVID Alberto | LUX |
7,5 |
| 3 |
AL-MODIAHKI Mohamad | QAT |
7 |
- 8th Bangkok Chess Club Open 2008
99 players played during April 2 - 9. Swiss System, with 9 rounds for BCC Open. Each player was accorded with a time control of 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per move.
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Xiu Deshun | CHN |
8 |
| 2 |
Zhang Ziyang | CHN |
7,5 |
| 3 |
Li Shilong | CHN |
7 |
Details
- European Festival of Chess Composition
European Festival of Chess Composition, including the 4th European Chess Solving Championship took places in Antalya , Turkey between March 28 , April 3
One of the questions : Mate in 2 (Milan Velimirovic).
| FINAL TEAMS RANKING |
|---|
| |
Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Serbia |
223 |
| 2 |
Russia |
222 |
| 3 |
Poland |
206,5 |
| FINAL INDIVIDUAL RANKING |
|---|
| | Name |
Points |
| 1 |
Piotr Murdzia |
77,5 |
| 2 |
Bojan Vuckovic |
76,5 |
| 3 |
Miodrag Mladenovic |
73,5 |
Solution of the problem : 1. Qg1 ! Back to the diagram
- Dutch Championship 2008
The tournament takes place from April 2nd to 13th.
with the participation of 12 players . Average rating is 2536.
The participants :
Sergei Tiviakov 2634, Daniël Stellwagen 2621, Erwin L'Ami 2600, Jan Smeets 2578, Sipke Ernst 2559, Friso Nijboer 2558, Dimitri Reinderman 2526, Ruud Janssen 2504, Yge Visser 2477, Jan-Willem De Jong 2474, Manuel Bosboom 2471 and Daan Brandenburg 2435.
- Turkey chess championship
The tournament takes place between 23 March - 04 April 2008
with the participation of 14 players .
Round 13
Firat Burak - Dogan Ali Ekber: 1 - 0
Ataman Alper - Erdogdu Mert: 0 - 1
Haznedaroglu Kivanc - Buker Muhittin: 1 - 0
Secer Ata - Gurevich Mikhail: 0,5 - 0,5
Yilmaz Mustafa - Duman Aydin: 0,5 - 0,5
Kilicaslan Hasan - Erdogan Hakan: 1 - 0
Citak Selim - Atalik Suat: 0 - 1
- Fide ratings April
- 3rd Kolkata Open
Grandmaster Chess Tournament
The tournament takes place between 23 March - 02 April 2008
in Kolkata, India with 113 players . The ratings of 12 players are over 2500. 18 grandmasters.
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Laznicka Viktor | CZE |
8,5 |
| 2 |
Sasikiran Krishnan | IND |
8,5 |
| 3 |
Safin Shukhrat | UZB |
7,5 |
- 2008 Sydney International Open
Ganguly Surya Shekhar from India won the tournament on tie break with 7 points (44 points Buccholz ).
|
Player | Country |
Points | Buccholz Tie break |
| 1 |
Ganguly Surya Shekhar | IND |
7 | 44 |
| 2 |
Zhang Zhong | SIN |
7 | 43,5 |
| 3 |
Jones Gawain | ENG |
7 | 41,5 |
| 4 |
Zhao Zong-Yuan | AUS |
7 | 41,5 |
Details
- Heviz Grand Master Tournament
Category XVI
18 - 28 March 2008 .
Playing time: 100 minutes/40 moves+ 30-30 minutes + 30-30 seconds / move until the end of the game.
The round robin tournament (10 rounds)
Balogh HUN , Naiditsch GER ,Nisipeanu ROU ,Almasi HUN tied at the top with 5,5 points. Balogh won due to Berger-Sonneborn tie-break.
Round 10
Almasi, Zoltan - Balogh, Csaba : 0,5 - 0,5
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter - Vallejo Pons, Francisco : 0,5 - 0,5
Naiditsch, Arkadij - Mikhalevski, Victor : 1 - 0
Standings and previous rounds
- Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament 2008
15 - 27 March 2008 .
Aronian won the tournament with 14,5 points.Every day one round (four sessions) is played : two blindfold session and two rapid session.
|
Player | Country |
Points | Buccholz Tie break |
| 1 |
Aronian | ARM |
14,5 | |
| 2 |
Kramnik | RUS |
12 | 133,5 |
| 3 |
Leko | HUN |
12 | 128 |
| 4 |
Toplaov | BUL |
12 | 126 |
standings
Round XI
Blind
Anand-Van Wely 1/2-1/2
Kramnik-Karjakin 1/2-1/2
Mamedyarov-Gelfand 1-0
Topalov-Ivanchuk 1-0
Leko-Aronian 1/2-1/2
Morozevich-Carlsen 1/2-1/2
Rapid
Van Wely-Anand 1/2-1/2
Karjakin-Kramnik 1/2-1/2
Gelfand-Mamedyarov 1-0
Ivanchuk-Topalov 1-0
Aronian-Leko 1/2-1/2
Carlsen-Morozevich 1/2-1/2
Standings and previous rounds
- Scandinavian Ladies Open 2008
|
Player | Country |
Points | Buccholz Tie break |
| 1 |
Muzychuk Anna | SLO |
7 | 49 |
| 2 |
Khukhashvili Sopiko | GEO |
7 | 47,5 |
| 3 |
Danielian Elina | ARM |
7 | 43,5 |
Official site
- 32nd Open International de Fourmies
HAUB Thorsten-Michael from Germany won the tournament which took place between 22-24 March 2008 with 151 players from 11 different countries.
- Schack 08 Norrköping
The tournament takes place between 21-24 March 2008 with 136 players , 5 grand masters. 8 rounds.
|
Player | Country |
Points | Buccholz Tie break |
| 1 |
Brynell Stellan | SWE |
6,5 | 44 |
| 2 |
Miezis Normunds | LAT |
6,5 | 42,5 |
| 3 |
Smith Axel | SWE |
6,5 | 42 |
| 4 |
Karlsson Lars | SWE |
6,5 | 41 |
| 5 |
Akesson Ralf | SWE |
6,5 | 37,5 |
- Atatürk International Women Masters Chess Tournament
The tournament takes place in Istanbul, Turkey between March 11 to March 21. Average elo rating of participants is 2461.5
Round 9
YILDIZ Betul Cemre - CHEN Zhu : 0 - 1
CRAMLING Pia - USHENINA Anna: 0,5 - 0,5
YIFAN Hou - JAVAKHISHVILI Lela : 0,5 - 0,5
XUE Zhao - ATALIK Ekaterina: 1 - 0
DRONAVALLI Harika - KRUSH Irina : 0,5 - 0,5
- Schloss-Open
13 - 16 March 2008 . 924 players .
Elo between 2042 - 2583.
5 rounds (A-Open: 7 rounds) swiss system, FIDE rules
Time limit: A-Open: 90 min for 40 moves + 15 min for rest of the game + 30 sec increment per move from the first move on
Official site
- The XXIII. Reykjavik Open 2008
The tournament takes place in Reykjavik from 3 March to 11 March 2008 with the participation of 90 players .
Elo between 1721 - 2698.
90 min. / 40 moves + 15 minutes after 40 moves. 30 sec. increment for every move.
|
Player | Country |
Points | Buccholz Tie break |
| 1 |
Wang Hao | CHN |
7 | 40 |
| 2 |
Stefansson Hannes | ISL |
7 | 38,5 |
| 3 |
Wang Yue | CHN |
7 | 38 |
Official site
- 16. International Fajr Men's Chess Tournament
11 round Swiss tournament, with the Fide Standard Time Control (90 Minutes+30 seconds per move).
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Ghaem Maghami Ehsan | IRN |
9,5 |
| 2 |
Grigoryan Avetik | ARM |
9 |
| 3 |
Magalashvili Davit | GEO |
8,5 |
- WGM 'Mediterranean Flowers' Rijeka Croatia
Lujan Carolina won the tournament which took place in Rijeka between 1-8 March 2008 .
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Lujan Carolina | ARG |
8,5 |
| 2 |
Ionica Iulia-Ionela | ROU |
7,5 |
| 3 |
Voicu Carmen | ROU |
6 |
Full results
- 15. Linares Morelia 2008
Players : Alexei Shirov 2755 ,
Magnus Carlsen 2733
Peter Leko 2753
Veselin Topalov 2780
Levon Aronian 2739
Teimour Radjabov 2735
Vassily Ivanchuk 2751
Viswanathan Anand 2799
2.lap in Linares.
Round 14 :
Anand - Topalov: 0,5 - 0,5
Carlsen - Radjabov: 0,5 - 0,5
Leko - Aronian: 0,5 - 0,5
Shirovi - Ivanchuk: 0,5 - 0,5
- 25. Sahovski festival Bled 2008
Slovenija, 23.2.2008-1.3.2008,
9 rounds Swiss
Time: 90min/40move + 15min + 30sec/move . 54 players participate to Open A. ELO between 2568 - 1996
|
Player | Country |
Points | Buccholz |
| 1 |
Sveshnikov | LAT |
7 | 38,5 |
| 2 |
Sebenik | SLO |
6,5 | 40 |
| 3 |
Lenic | SLO |
6,5 | 38,5 |
| 4 |
Drasko | MNE |
6,5 | 36,5 |
| 5 |
Tratar | SLO |
6,5 | 36,5 |
- 15. Sélestat Open
The tournament took place from 21 to 24 February 2008
7 rounds Swiss , Time: 1h 40 + 30 s
|
Player | Country |
Points | Buccholz |
| 1 |
Barsov | UZB |
5,5 | 34,5 |
| 2 |
Ninov | NED |
5,5 | 34 |
| 3 |
Ikonnikov | ISR |
5,5 | 34 |
| 4 |
Karpatchev | ISR |
5,5 | 31,5 |
| 5 |
Haub | GER |
5,5 | 30,5 |
| 6 |
Prasad | GER |
5,5 | 28,5 |
| 7 |
Lerch | RUS |
5,5 | 28,5 |
- 1. Pfalz Open
16 - 23 february 2008 : 224 players . 9 rounds Swiss system. Time control is 40 moves / 120 min, and additional 60 min till the end.
|
Player | Country |
Points | Buccholz |
| 1 |
Markowski | POL |
7,5 | 48 |
| 2 |
Tiviakov | NED |
7 | 51 |
| 3 |
Greenfeld | ISR |
7 | 49,5 |
| 4 |
Postny | ISR |
7 | 49,5 |
| 5 |
Milov | GER |
7 | 48,5 |
| 6 |
Kempinski | GER |
7 | 46,5 |
| 7 |
Korneev | RUS |
7 | 42,5 |
Official site
- Cappelle La Grande chess tournament
Vugar Gashimov won Cappelle La Grande chess tournament which took place from 16 to 23 february 2008 with the participation of 302 players at Palais des Arts et des Loisirs.
|
Player | Country |
Points |
| 1 |
Gashimov | AZE |
7 |
| 2 |
Arutinian | GEO |
7 |
| 3 |
Fedorchuk | UKR |
7 |
| 4 |
Kryvoruchko | UKR |
7 |
| 5 |
Chernyshov | RUS |
7 |
| 6 |
Deviatkin | RUS |
7 |
| 7 |
Kotronias | GRE |
7 |
| 8 |
L'ami | NED |
7 |
Official site
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