Fake Heroes Tournament
Recently
TWIC – The
Week in Chess, certainly one of the most assiduous and comprehensive chess
game collectors in the world – reported on an International Chess GM
Tournament called "Memorial Heroes of Chernobyl", which place in
Óity a Slavutich (Kiev region, Ukraine) from April 14th-26th, 2005.
Here is the official final table of the event:
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Heroes of Chernobyl Mem Slavutich UKR (UKR), 14-26 iv 2005 cat. VIII (2427)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4
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1 Nosenko, Alexander IM UKR 2513 # 1 = = = 1 = = = 1 1 1 1 1 10 1
2 Kislinsky, Alexey IM UKR 2410 0 # = 1 0 = = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9,5 2
3 Komarov, Dimitri GM UKR 2531 = = # = = = = = 1 = 1 1 1 1 9 3
4 Drozdovskij, Yuri GM UKR 2517 = 0 = # = = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 8,5 4-5
5 Savinov, Viktor IM UKR 2507 = 1 = = # = = = = = 1 1 1 = 8,5 4-5
6 Bobras, Piotr IM POL 2501 0 = = = = # = = = = 1 1 1 1 8 6
7 Mikhaletz, Lubomir GM UKR 2451 = = = = = = # = 0 = = = 1 1 7 7
8 Stepa, Dima FM MDA 2422 = 0 = = = = = # 0 = = = 1 1 6,5 8-9
9 Savinov, Vladimir MDA 2407 = 0 0 = = = 1 1 # 0 = = = 1 6,5 8-9
10 Indrak, Igor FM CZE 2357 0 0 = 0 = = = = 1 # = 0 = 1 5,5 10
11 Chokhonelidze, Giorgi IM GEO 2311 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = = = # = 1 1 4,5 11
12 Huda, Maryana UKR 2290 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = = 1 = # = = 4 12
13 Tuka, Oleg UKR 2400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = 0 = # = 2 13
14 Ivanov, Sergei RUS 2354 0 0 0 0 = 0 0 0 0 0 0 = = # 1,5 14
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The tournament has an official
web site, which is painfully slow, but does offer results, games
(incomplete ChessBase component files, with the instructions: "It is save
to keep all files on your computer"), and pictures.
Thumbnail pictures on the site, which expand into small pictures (if you
have the time to wait)
Sounds all very nice, except that TWIC's editor Mark Crowther has uncovered
an interesting fact: the event never took place, the tournament was faked.
Crowther: "It's possible some games were played at a rapid time rate but
a large number of the participants didn't compete at all as the organisers
didn't have any money and its now clear some of them didn't even know of the
event. I gather there is a game file for the entire event!"
The Ukrainian Chess Federation has confirmed that it plans to apply sanctions to
the organizers and arbiters. And they will not send the results of this tournament
to FIDE. Mark Crowther has advised chess players to delete the tournament from
their databases.
Links
- TWIC
Vol. 545 with four rounds and 28 games (hurry get them before
Mark deletes them!)
- TWIC
Vol. 546 with a report on the fake tournament
You can get the weekly installment of chess games by going to the TWIC
download page or by clicking on the menu "Get new games" in ChessBase
9. This will automatically retrieve the last four issues (if the program does
not already find them in your database directory) and display the contents
in the database window.
