The review of chess events and sites for March, 2004

Chess Siberia

The review of chess events and sites for March, 2004

by Boris Schipkov

The Linares 2004 chess tournament took place in Spain 19th February - 5th March.
Final Standings
1. Vladimir Kramnik - 7 from 12; 2-3. Peter Leko, Garry Kasparov - 6.5; 4-5. Teimour Radjabov, Veselin Topalov - 6; 6-7. Alexei Shirov, Francisco Vallejo Pons - 5.

Rounds 1-14 Results

Crosstable of the Linares 2004 (rating)

Games (42, zipped pgn)

Site: http://www.marca.com/linares/

The Brazilian Chess Championship 2004 took place in Rio de Janeiro State 26th February - 3rd March. 38 players, 9 rounds.
1. Lima, Darcy - 7; 2. Matsuura, Everaldo - 6.5; 3-6. Rocha, Wellington Carlos; Resende, Antonio Carlos; Toth, Christian Endre; Reis, Paulo - 6; etc.
Site: http://www.fexerj.com.br/brasileiro2003/

The Cappelle la Grande Open 2004 took place in France 28th February - 6th March. Swiss, 9 rounds, 576 players.
1-6. NAJER E.; KULAOTS K.; TIMOFEEV A.; GYIMESI Z.; GRIGORIANTS S.; KORNEEV O. - 7; etc.
Site: http://www.cappelle-chess.com/

The Reykjavik Open 2004 took place in The Reykjavik City Hall (Iceland) from March 7th-16th.
1-8. Alexey Dreev, Vladimir Epishin, Emil Sutovsky, Jan H Timman, Levon Aronian, Igor-Alexandre Nataf, Jaan Ehlvest, Robert Markus - 6.5 from 9; 9-11. Oleg Korneev, Sergey Erenburg, Tiger Hillarp Persson - 6; etc.
Site: http://www.chess.is/reykjavikopen/

The First Saturday March 2004 tournaments took place in Budapest (Hungary) 6th-18th March.
GM: 1. Vajda, Levente - 9.5 from 12; 2. Nguyen Ngoc Truongson - 9; 3-5. Szeberenyi, Adam; Grafl, Florian; Pataki, Gyozo - 6.5; etc.
IM: 1. Kahn, Evarth - 6.5 from 9; 2-3. Berczes, David; Zigangirova, Sofya - 6; etc.
Site: http://www.firstsaturday.hu/

The Miskolc 2004 "Talent and Courage" chess tournament took place in Hungary March 10th-19th.
1. Varga, Zoltan - 6; 2-3. Prusikin, Michael; Goloshchapov, Alexander - 5.5; 4. Gyimesi, Zoltan - 5; 5. Portisch, Lajos - 4.5; 6-8. Balogh, Csaba; Erdos, Viktor; Antal, Gergely - 4; 9. Nevednichy, Vladislav - 3.5; 10. Firman, Nazar - 3.
Site: http://www.borsodchess.hu/

The Reykjavik Rapid 2004 took place in Iceland March 17th-21st.
Final, March 21
Nigel Short - Garry Kasparov 0-1 (Double-edged fight), 1/2

Semifinals, March 20
Garry Kasparov - Peter Heine Nielsen 1/2, 1/2; 1-0 (Kasparov grabbed the exchange)
Alexey Dreev - Nigel Short 1/2, 0-1

Round 2, March 19
Nigel Short - Levon Aronian 1/2, 1-0
Jan H. Timman - Garry Kasparov 1/2, 0-1 (fork)
Peter Heine Nielsen - Emil Sutovsky 1-0 (Nielsen grabbed a pawn), 1/2
Anatoly Karpov - Alexey Dreev 0-1, 1/2 (Karpov had 2 extra pawns)

Games (15, zipped pgn)

Round 1, March 18
Helgi Olafsson - Levon Aronian 0-1, 0-1
Magnus Carlsen - Garry Kasparov 1/2, 0-1
Igor-Alexander Nataf - Emil Sutovsky 0-1, 1/2
Margeir Petursson - Alexey Dreev 0-1, 1/2
Hannes H. Stefansson - Anatoly Karpov 1-0, 0-1; 0-1
Vladimir Epishin - Peter Heine Nielsen 0-1, 0-1
Johann Hjartarson - Jan H. Timman 0-1, 1/2
Nigel Short - Stefan Kristjansson 1/2, 1-0

Blitz tournament, March 17: 1. Levon Aronian - 13; 2. Garry Kasparov - 12; 3. Emil Sutovsky - 10; 4-5. Alexey Dreev, Anatoly Karpov - 9.5; 6. Peter Heine Nielsen - 9; 7. Jan H. Timman - 8; 8. Nigel Short - 7.5; 9. Stefan Kristjansson - 7; 10-11. Johann Hjartarson, Vladimir Epishin - 6; 12-13. Hannes H. Stefansson, Margeir Petursson - 5.5; 14-15. Igor-Alexander Nataf, Magnus Carlsen - 4; 16. Helgi Olafsson - 3.5.

Site: http://www.chess.is/reykjavikrapid/

Cup-Finals, Erfurt, March, 19-21
19th: Quarterfinals: Single-Competition
20th: Semifinals: Single-Competition, Team-Competition
21st: Finals: Single-Competition, Team-Competition
Dr. Joachim Asendorf (SV Werder Bremen) won the Single Cup against Olaf Heinzel (FC Bayern Muenchen). SG Porz won the Team Cup against SC Baden-Oos.
Games (23, zipped pgn)
Livegames + Infos: http://www.schach.com/pokal/

The 5th Karpov International Chess Tournament 2004 took place in Poikovsky (Russia), 17th-26th March. 10 players, Category XVIII (2676).
1-2. Grischuk, Alexander; Rublevsky, Sergei - 6; 3-4. Bologan, Viorel; Sokolov, Ivan - 5.5; 5. Zvjaginsev, Vadim - 5; 6. Onischuk, Alexander - 4.5; 7. Lautier, Joel - 4; 8-9. Aleksandrov, Aleksej; Zhang Zhong - 3.5; 10. Malakhov, Vladimir - 1.5.
Games (45, zipped pgn)

Site: http://www.admoil.ru/chess2004/

Bundesliga 2003-2004
The 10th - 13th rounds of the Bundesliga 2003-2004 took place in Germany in March.
Games (224, zipped pgn)
Site: http://www.schachbundesliga.de/

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