The review of chess events and sites for August, 2003

Chess Siberia

The review of chess events and sites for August, 2003

by Boris Schipkov

The Smith & Williamson British Chess Championship 2003 took place 20th July - 2nd August in Edinburgh.
1. Kunte,Abhijit - 8.5 from 11; 2-4. Harikrishna,Pentala; Kotronias,Vassilios; Motwani,Paul - 8; etc.
Site: http://bcfservices.org.uk/

The Montreal International 2003 took place 23rd July - 3rd August in Canada.
1. Rozentalis, Eduardas - 8.5 from 11; 2. Onischuk, Alexander - 8; 3-4. Nataf, Igor-Alexandre; Legky, Nikolay - 7; etc.
Site: http://www.timontreal.ca/

The Malmo Masters 2003 took place 28th July - 6th August in Sweden.
1. Luke McShane - 7.5 from 9; 2. Leif E Johannessen - 6; 3-5. Jonathan Speelman, Johan Hellsten, Emanuel Berg - 5.5; etc.
Site: http://www.limhamnssk.m.se/

The Olomouc Chess Summer 2003 took place 30th July - 7th August in Czech Republic. There were organized 3 round-robin IM tournaments, FIDE open (semifinal of Czech Championship), seniors open and youngsters open.
Games (292, zipped pgn)
OPEN OLOMOUC
1-5. LAZNICKA VIKTOR, BERNASEK JAN, SHANAVA KONSTANTINE, SIMACEK PAVEL, KONOPKA MICHAL - 7 from 9; etc.
Site: http://www.proclient.cz/a64

The Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament 2003 took place in Vlissingen (Netherlands) August 2nd-9th.
1. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam - 8 from 9; 2-3. Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter; Iordachescu, Viorel - 7.5; etc.
Site: http://people.zeelandnet.nl/hgroffen

The Austrian championships 2003 took place in Hartberg 27th July 10th August.
1. Stanec, Nikolaus - 9. from 14; 2-4. Sommerbauer, Norbert; Neubauer, Martin; Schroll, Gerhard - 8.5; etc.
Site: http://www.chess.at/

The Slovenian Championships 2003 took place in Bled 3rd-10th August.
1-3. Borisek, Jure; Pavasovic, Dusko; Mazi, Leon - 7 from 9; etc.
Site: http://www.sah-zveza.si/

The Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2003 took place in Germany 31st July - 10th August.
Grandmaster Dr. Helmut Pfleger - 60 years. World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and Dr. Helmut Pfleger before the beginning of the sixth round. Photo: Dagobert Kohlmeyer Round 10, August 10
Radjabov - Anand 1/2. Bogo-Indian.
Naiditsch - Leko 1/2. Sicilian.
Kramnik - Bologan 1/2. Nimzo-Indian. Vladimir had two bishops advantage.

Final Standings
1. Viorel Bologan - 6.5; 2-3. Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand - 5.5; 4. Teimour Radjabov - 5; 5. Peter Leko - 4; 6. Arkadij Naiditsch - 3.5.
Rounds 1-9 Results

Games (30, zipped pgn)

Site: http://www.chessgate.de/dortmund2003/

The First Saturday August 2003 tournaments took place in Budapest (Hungary) 2nd-14th August.
GM: 1. Ovsejevitsch, Sergei - 7 from 10; 2. Todorovic, Goran - 6.5; 3-4. Aagaard, Jacob; Braun, Arik - 6; etc.
IM: 1-2. Lenderman, Alex; Nilssen, John Arni - 10 from 13; 3. D'Costa, Lorin - 9; etc.
Site: http://members.chello.hu/firstsat/0308/index.htm

The US Open 2003 took place in Los Angeles August 3rd-15th.
1. Alexander Shabalov - 10 from 12; 2-6. Leonid Yudasin, Sarunas Sulskis, Aleks Wojtkiewicz, Gregory Kaidanov, Ricardo De Guzman - 9.5; etc.
Site: http://www.usopenchess.org/

The North Ural Cup 2003 took place in Krasnoturjinsk (Russia, Sverdlovskaya oblast) 7th - 16th August.
1-2. Zhukova, Matveeva - 4.5; 3. Kovalevskaya - 4; 4-5. N.Kosintseva, T.Kosintseva - 3.5; 6. Stefanova - 3; 7-8. Kursova, Skripchenko - 2.5.
Games (28, zipped pgn)
Site: http://www.northuralscup.ru/

Chess Classic Mainz 2003 took place in Germany August 14th-17th.

Peter Leko Judit Polgar vs. Vishy Anand. Photos: www.chesstigers.de

Rapid chess match
Judit Polgar - Vishy Anand 3-5 (1-0, 0-1, 1-0, 0-1, 1-0, 0-1, 0-1, 0-1).
Games (8, pgn)
Ordix Open 2003 Rapid. 495 players.
1. Grischuk,Alexander - 8.5 from 11; 2-6. Sokolov,Ivan; Lobron,Eric; Pinter,Jozsef; Epishin,Vladimir; Volokitin,Andrej - 8; etc.
Chess960 World Championship Match
Peter Svidler - Peter Leko 4.5-3.5 (1/2, 1/2, 1/2, 0-1, 1/2, 1-0, 1/2, 1-0).
Chess960 Open, 11 rounds.
1. Aronian,Levon - 9.5; 2-3. Zvjaginsev,Vadim; Landa,Konstantin - 9; etc.
Site: http://www.chesstigers.de/

The Abu Dhabi Masters 2003 Chess Festival took place in UAE 16th-26th August.
1. Sargissian,Gabriel - 7 from 9; 2-5. Lputian,Smbat; Yemelin,Vasily; Kotsur,Pavel; Harikrishna,P. - 6.5; etc.
Site: http://www.abudhabichess.com/

The Vienna Open 2003 took place in Austria 16th-24th August.
1-8. Dizdarevic, Emir; Kindermann, Stefan; Manik, Mikulas; Stanec, Nikolaus; Pavlovic, Milos; Landa, Konstantin; Loeffler, Stefan; Lendwai, Reinhard - 7 from 9; etc.
Site: http://www.chess-vienna.at/

The Panamerican Continental Championship 2003 took place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) 16th-30th August.
Final Standings
1-2. GOLDIN Alexander, VESCOVI Giovanni - 8.5 from 11; 3-8. MOROVIC Ivan, NAKAMURA Hikaru, CHARBONNEAU Pascal, BRUZON Lazaro, ONISCHUK Alex, SHULMAN Yuri - 8; etc.
Alexander GOLDIN (USA, from Siberia, Novosibirsk) is the Champion.
Site: http://www.ajedrezvirtual.com/

The French Championships 2003 took place in Aix-les-Bains 18th-30th August.
1. Etienne Bacrot; 2. Joel Lautier; 3. Andrei Sokolov. Match Bacrot - Sokolov - Lautier for 1st place.
Games (71, zipped pgn)
1-3. Sokolov, Andrei; Bacrot, Etienne; Lautier, Joel - 7.5; 4-5. Apicella, Manuel; Dorfman, Josif - 6.5; 6. Vaisser, Anatoli - 6; 7. Bauer, Christian - 5.5; 8. Degraeve, Jean-Marc - 5; 9. Guidarelli, Laurent - 4.5; 10. Fontaine, Robert - 3.5; 11-12. Skripchenko, Almira; Chabanon, Jean-Luc - 3.
Site: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/

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