ChessBase 17 - Mega package - Edition 2024
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First of all we would like to clear up a very grave problem that has arisen in our reporting of this event. We carelessly stated that the town of Gothenburg is spelled "Göteborg" in Swedish and pronounced 'yöteborg', the 'ö' rhyming with "eight", spoken with puckered lips. Not so, protested Thommy Perlinger from Kalmar, Sweden. "The letter "ö" in Göteborg does not rhyme with 'eight', it rhymes with the 'u' in 'burst'."
That is true to a certain degree. The 'ö' in Swedish and German are similar. Both are transcribed in the American Heritage Dictionary pronunciation key using 'œ', which is used for the French 'feu' and 'oeuf', as well as the German 'schön' and 'zwölf'. The Columbia Encyclopedia system transcribes the vowel as 'ö', and specifies "as in French peu and German Goethe". This sound is best rendered by untrained foreigners by replacing it with an "ay", as we said, and speaking it with puckered (rounded) lips, i.e. French: fay and ayf, for feu and oeuf; German: shayn and tswaylf for schön and zwölf with rounded lips. It is certainly better than replacing the 'ö' with an English 'o' (in German 'schön' means beautiful, 'schon' means already).
In the international dictionaries the pronunciation of Göteborg is given
as
(AHD transcription) or
(International Phonetic Transcription). But let us see what it sounds like
when spoken by a native Swede:
As you can see (or hear) modern Swedes tend to pronounce the 'ö' more like the 'e' in the English "yet", which makes it all quite simple for us. Simply say "yet a boy" and you will fool the natives. Naturally, as always the English-speaking world has another well-tried remedy for foreign places that are hard to pronounce: they simply give the city an easier name, Gothenburg. The French in fact call it Gothemburg. The Swedes are going to have to live with this.
We are glad that we have got that behind us (hopefully) and can return to the matter at hand – which was chess, was it not? Today we bring you the results, games and a lot of pictures.
| 3.1 | 2 | Israel | 2-2 | 6 | Netherlands | ||
| 1 | GM | Gelfand Boris | 2724 | ½:½ | GM | Van Wely Loek | 2655 |
| 2 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | 2674 | ½:½ | GM | Sokolov Ivan | 2691 |
| 3 | GM | Smirin Ilia | 2652 | ½:½ | GM | Tiviakov Sergei | 2678 |
| 4 | GM | Erenburg Sergey | 2595 | ½:½ | GM | Timman Jan | 2625 |
| 3.2 | 20 | Sweden 1 | 1-3 | 10 | Germany | ||
| 1 | GM | Agrest Evgenij | 2592 | ½:½ | GM | Lutz Christopher | 2616 |
| 2 | GM | Hellsten Johan | 2582 | ½:½ | GM | Gustafsson Jan | 2614 |
| 3 | GM | Berg Emanuel | 2539 | 0:1 | GM | Graf Alexander | 2605 |
| 4 | GM | Hector Jonny | 2534 | 0:1 | GM | Dautov Rustem | 2595 |
| 3.3 | 1 | Russia | 1½-2½ | 5 | France | ||
| 1 | GM | Svidler Peter | 2738 | ½:½ | GM | Bacrot Etienne | 2729 |
| 2 | GM | Motylev Alexander | 2675 | ½:½ | GM | Lautier Joel | 2672 |
| 3 | GM | Bareev Evgeny | 2688 | ½:½ | GM | Dorfman Josif | 2592 |
| 4 | GM | Timofeev Artyom | 2661 | 0:1 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | 2627 |
| 3.4 | 4 | Armenia | 3-1 | 14 | Georgia | ||
| 1 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | 2705 | ½:½ | GM | Azmaiparashvili Zurab | 2672 |
| 2 | GM | Aronian Levon | 2724 | 1:0 | GM | Jobava Baadur | 2621 |
| 3 | GM | Vaganian Rafael | 2614 | 1:0 | IM | Pantsulaia Levan | 2510 |
| 4 | GM | Lputian Smbat | 2629 | ½:½ | GM | Mchedlishvili Mikheil | 2549 |
| 3.5 | 17 | Greece | 1-3 | 7 | Azerbaijan | ||
| 1 | GM | Kotronias Vasilios | 2587 | 0:1 | GM | Radjabov Teimour | 2682 |
| 2 | GM | Papaioannou Ioannis | 2578 | 0:1 | GM | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | 2646 |
| 3 | GM | Banikas Hristos | 2548 | ½:½ | GM | Gashimov Vugar | 2594 |
| 4 | GM | Mastrovasilis Dimitrios | 2563 | ½:½ | GM | Guseinov Gadir | 2585 |
| 3.6 | 16 | Denmark | 1-3 | 8 | Romania | ||
| 1 | GM | Nielsen Peter Heine | 2668 | ½:½ | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | 2679 |
| 2 | GM | Hansen Lars Bo | 2567 | ½:½ | GM | Istratescu Andrei | 2624 |
| 3 | IM | Palo Davor | 2519 | 0:1 | GM | Nevednichy Vladislav | 2583 |
| 4 | GM | Hansen Sune Berg | 2568 | 0:1 | GM | Parligras Mircea | 2571 |
| 3.7 | 13 | Bulgaria | 2-2 | 12 | Poland | ||
| 1 | GM | Georgiev Kiril | 2666 | 1:0 | GM | Kempinski Robert | 2619 |
| 2 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | 2634 | ½:½ | GM | Socko Bartosz | 2615 |
| 3 | GM | Spasov Vasil | 2551 | ½:½ | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 2591 |
| 4 | - | Rusev Krasimir | 2426 | 0:1 | GM | Markowski Tomasz | 2564 |
| 3.8 | 27 | Iceland | 1-3 | 19 | Switzerland | ||
| 1 | GM | Stefansson Hannes | 2579 | 0:1 | GM | Korchnoi Viktor | 2615 |
| 2 | IM | Kristjansson Stefan | 2459 | 1:0 | GM | Pelletier Yannick | 2603 |
| 3 | IM | Thorfinnsson Bragi | 2448 | 0:1 | GM | Gallagher Joseph | 2544 |
| 4 | IM | Gunnarsson Arnar | 2438 | 0:1 | GM | Jenni Florian | 2494 |
| 3.9 | 36 | Scotland | 1-3 | 3 | Ukraine | ||
| 1 | GM | McNab Colin | 2451 | ½:½ | GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2752 |
| 2 | IM | Shaw John | 2449 | ½:½ | GM | Eljanov Pavel | 2639 |
| 3 | - | Grant Jonathan | 2273 | 0:1 | GM | Moiseenko Alexander | 2664 |
| 4 | FM | Upton Timothy | 2250 | 0:1 | GM | Karjakin Sergey | 2645 |
| 3.10 | 9 | Czech Republic | 4-0 | 31 | Italy | ||
| 1 | GM | Navara David | 2663 | 1:0 | IM | D'Amore Carlo | 2463 |
| 2 | GM | Hracek Zbynek | 2591 | 1:0 | FM | Bruno Fabio | 2425 |
| 3 | GM | Stocek Jiri | 2592 | 1:0 | IM | Contin Daniel | 2393 |
| 4 | GM | Votava Jan | 2542 | 1:0 | FM | Mogranzini Roberto | 2363 |
| 3.11 | 15 | Serbia and Montenegro | 3-1 | 11 | Hungary | ||
| 1 | GM | Damljanovic Branko | 2612 | ½:½ | GM | Almasi Zoltan | 2619 |
| 2 | GM | Markus Robert | 2591 | 1:0 | GM | Berkes Ferenc | 2619 |
| 3 | GM | Ivanisevic Ivan | 2577 | 1:0 | GM | Gyimesi Zoltan | 2628 |
| 4 | GM | Solak Dragan | 2557 | ½:½ | GM | Ruck Robert | 2546 |
| 3.12 | 18 | England | 3½-½ | 23 | Spain | ||
| 1 | GM | McShane Luke | 2625 | 1:0 | GM | Illescas Cordoba Miguel | 2624 |
| 2 | GM | Speelman Jonathan | 2549 | ½:½ | GM | San Segundo Pablo | 2514 |
| 3 | GM | Gormally Daniel | 2557 | 1:0 | IM | Lopez Martinez Josep | 2507 |
| 4 | GM | Pert Nicholas | 2493 | 1:0 | IM | Perez Candelario Manuel | 2504 |
| 3.13 | 22 | Slovenia | 1-3 | 21 | Croatia | ||
| 1 | GM | Beliavsky Alexander | 2599 | 0:1 | GM | Kozul Zdenko | 2585 |
| 2 | GM | Pavasovic Dusko | 2566 | 0:1 | GM | Palac Mladen | 2566 |
| 3 | IM | Borisek Jure | 2509 | 1:0 | GM | Zelcic Robert | 2522 |
| 4 | IM | Lenic Luka | 2463 | 0:1 | GM | Dizdar Goran | 2518 |
| 3.14 | 29 | Sweden 2 | 2½-1½ | 25 | Estonia | ||
| 1 | GM | Karlsson Lars | 2472 | ½:½ | GM | Kulaots Kaido | 2570 |
| 2 | IM | Olsson Anders | 2416 | ½:½ | IM | Kanep Meelis | 2491 |
| 3 | FM | Carlsson Pontus | 2394 | 1:0 | IM | Sepp Olav | 2462 |
| 4 | - | Lindberg Bosse | 2359 | ½:½ | IM | Seeman Tarvo | 2405 |
| 3.15 | 37 | Belgium | 1½-2½ | 24 | Lithuania | ||
| 1 | IM | Dutreeuw Marc | 2361 | 1:0 | GM | Rozentalis Eduardas | 2567 |
| 2 | IM | Van Der Stricht Geert | 2400 | 0:1 | GM | Sulskis Sarunas | 2535 |
| 3 | IM | Claesen Pieter | 2384 | ½:½ | GM | Kveinys Aloyzas | 2510 |
| 4 | FM | Docx Stefan | 2310 | 0:1 | IM | Sakalauskas Vaidas | 2473 |
| 3.16 | 34 | Sweden 3 | 2½-1½ | 32 | Ireland | ||
| 1 | GM | Brynell Stellan | 2484 | 1:0 | GM | Baburin Alexander | 2523 |
| 2 | - | Ong Kezli | 2371 | ½:½ | IM | Kelly Brian | 2504 |
| 3 | - | Tikkanen Hans | 2316 | 0:1 | IM | Collins Sam | 2413 |
| 4 | FM | Olsson Linus | 2352 | 1:0 | IM | Orr Mark | 2305 |
| 3.17 | 40 | Cyprus | ½-3½ | 26 | Macedonia | ||
| 1 | - | Kassinopoullos Doros | 2094 | 0:1 | GM | Georgiev Vladimir | 2532 |
| 2 | - | Kyriakidis Thrasos | 2144 | 0:1 | GM | Jacimovic Dragoljub | 2438 |
| 3 | - | Klerides Paris | 2224 | 0:1 | IM | Kizov Atanas | 2418 |
| 4 | - | Florentiades Michalis | 0 | ½:½ | IM | Stamenkov Vanco | 2391 |
| 3.18 | 38 | Luxemburg | 2-2 | 28 | Norway | ||
| 1 | IM | Bakalarz Mieczyslaw | 2423 | ½:½ | GM | Johannessen Leif Erlend | 2543 |
| 2 | WGM | Berend Elvira | 2350 | 0:1 | GM | Lie Kjetil A. | 2472 |
| 3 | - | Wagener Claude | 2273 | ½:½ | IM | Elsness Frode | 2440 |
| 4 | - | Weber Jean-Marie | 2262 | 1:0 | IM | Nordahl Helge | 2423 |
| 3.19 | 30 | Finland | 3-1 | 39 | Wales | ||
| 1 | IM | Sammalvuo Tapani | 2441 | 1:0 | FM | Jones Richard | 2325 |
| 2 | IM | Karttunen Mika | 2409 | 1:0 | FM | James David | 2213 |
| 3 | IM | Maki-Uuro Miikka | 2390 | 1:0 | - | Kett Tim | 2192 |
| 4 | IM | Nyysti Sampsa | 2344 | 0:1 | - | Spice Alan | 2175 |
| 3.20 | 35 | Turkey | ½-3½ | 33 | Austria | ||
| 1 | IM | Atakisi Umut | 2437 | 0:1 | IM | Neubauer Martin | 2468 |
| 2 | IM | Haznedaroglu Kivanc | 2430 | 0:1 | IM | Lehner Oliver | 2428 |
| 3 | IM | Erdogdu Mert | 2403 | 0:1 | IM | Lendwai Reinhard | 2416 |
| 4 | - | Esen Baris | 2301 | ½:½ | IM | Danner Georg | 2408 |
| 3.1 | 1 | Russia | 3-1 | 13 | Greece | ||
| 1 | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2516 | 1:0 | IM | Dembo Yelena | 2428 |
| 2 | IM | Kosintseva Nadezhda | 2490 | 0:1 | WGM | Botsari Anna-Maria | 2297 |
| 3 | IM | Kosintseva Tatiana | 2477 | 1:0 | WGM | Makropoulou Marina | 2287 |
| 4 | IM | Galliamova Alisa | 2453 | 1:0 | WIM | Fakhiridou Ekaterini | 2272 |
| 3.2 | 7 | Armenia | 1½-2½ | 10 | Romania | ||
| 1 | IM | Danielian Elina | 2433 | ½:½ | IM | Peptan Corina-Isabela | 2411 |
| 2 | IM | Mkrtchian Lilit | 2447 | 0:1 | IM | Foisor Cristina Adela | 2402 |
| 3 | WIM | Aginian Nelly | 2324 | ½:½ | WGM | Olarasu Gabriela | 2306 |
| 4 | WIM | Andriasian Siranush | 2280 | ½:½ | WGM | Bogza Adina-Maria | 2325 |
| 3.3 | 2 | Georgia | 2½-1½ | 3 | Ukraine | ||
| 1 | GM | Chiburdanidze Maia | 2509 | 1:0 | WGM | Zhukova Natalia | 2478 |
| 2 | IM | Lomineishvili Maia | 2420 | ½:½ | IM | Lahno Kateryna | 2498 |
| 3 | IM | Dzagnidze Nana | 2438 | ½:½ | WGM | Ushenina Anna | 2389 |
| 4 | IM | Arakhamia-Grant K. | 2423 | ½:½ | IM | Vasilevich Tatjana | 2393 |
| 3.4 | 4 | Poland | 2½-1½ | 9 | Germany | ||
| 1 | IM | Radziewicz Iweta | 2447 | 0:1 | IM | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2421 |
| 2 | IM | Socko Monika | 2465 | ½:½ | IM | Kachiani-Gersinska K. | 2416 |
| 3 | WGM | Zawadzka Jolanta | 2402 | 1:0 | WIM | Nill Jessica | 2323 |
| 4 | IM | Dworakowska Joanna | 2401 | 1:0 | WGM | Trabert Bettina | 2291 |
| 3.5 | 11 | Bulgaria | 2-2 | 8 | France | ||
| 1 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2501 | ½:½ | IM | Skripchenko Almira | 2437 |
| 2 | WGM | Voiska Margarita | 2328 | ½:½ | IM | Sebag Marie | 2438 |
| 3 | WGM | Djingarova Emilia | 2277 | ½:½ | WGM | Milliet Sophie | 2321 |
| 4 | WIM | Genova Liubka | 2235 | ½:½ | WIM | Muller Anne | 2169 |
| 3.6 | 5 | Hungary | 2-2 | 6 | Serbia and Montenegro | ||
| 1 | IM | Madl Ildiko | 2382 | ½:½ | IM | Maric Alisa | 2415 |
| 2 | IM | Vajda Szidonia | 2392 | ½:½ | WGM | Bojkovic Natasa | 2386 |
| 3 | WGM | Medvegy Nora | 2387 | ½:½ | WGM | Prudnikova Svetlana | 2370 |
| 4 | WGM | Gara Anita | 2372 | ½:½ | WGM | Benderac Ana | 2289 |
| 3.7 | 20 | Croatia | 2½-1½ | 15 | Israel | ||
| 1 | WGM | Medic Mirjana | 2268 | 1:0 | IM | Klinova Masha | 2384 |
| 2 | WIM | Sargac Rajna | 2242 | 0:1 | WGM | Borsuk Angela | 2342 |
| 3 | WIM | Macek Vlasta | 2211 | ½:½ | WIM | Tsifanskaya Ludmila A | 2190 |
| 4 | WIM | Jelica Mara | 2191 | 1:0 | WIM | Vasiliev Olga | 2202 |
| 3.8 | 19 | Spain | 1-3 | 16 | Sweden 1 | ||
| 1 | WGM | Calzetta Monica | 2282 | 0:1 | GM | Cramling Pia | 2494 |
| 2 | WIM | Vega Gutierrez Sabrina | 2262 | 0:1 | WIM | Agrest Svetlana | 2270 |
| 3 | WFM | Trujillo Delgado Dafnae | 2219 | ½:½ | WIM | Johansson Victoria | 2218 |
| 4 | WIM | Llaneza Vega Patricia | 2180 | ½:½ | WFM | Pavlovskaia Evgenia | 2174 |
| 3.9 | 18 | England | 1-3 | 12 | Netherlands | ||
| 1 | IM | Houska Jovanka | 2342 | 0:1 | GM | Peng Zhaoqin | 2405 |
| 2 | IM | Lalic Susan | 2362 | 0:1 | IM | Bosboom-Lanchava Tea | 2363 |
| 3 | WIM | Richards Heather | 2150 | 0:1 | WIM | Muhren Bianca | 2269 |
| 4 | WFM | Gilbert Jessie | 2151 | 1:0 | WIM | Hamelink Desiree | 2195 |
| 3.10 | 21 | Lithuania | 2-2 | 25 | Turkey | ||
| 1 | WGM | Ciuksyte Dagne | 2341 | 0:1 | WIM | Yildiz Betul Cemre | 2155 |
| 2 | WIM | Zaksaite Salomeja | 2237 | 0:1 | WFM | Topel Zehra | 2081 |
| 3 | - | Limontaite Simona | 2095 | 1:0 | WIM | Cinar Corlulu Nilufer | 2038 |
| 4 | - | Daulyte Deimante | 2195 | 1:0 | WFM | Bayrak Asli | 1967 |
| 3.11 | 26 | Austria | 1-3 | 14 | Slovenia | ||
| 1 | WFM | Kopinits Anna-Christina | 2124 | ½:½ | WGM | Muzychuk Anna | 2364 |
| 2 | WFM | Horvath Maria | 2039 | 0:1 | WIM | Srebrnic Ana | 2289 |
| 3 | - | Sommer Sonja | 2053 | 0:1 | WIM | Kaps Darja | 2319 |
| 4 | - | Nagy Laura | 1933 | ½:½ | WFM | Rozic Vesna | 2192 |
| 3.12 | 22 | Switzerland | ½-3½ | 17 | Czech Republic | ||
| 1 | WGM | Lematschko Tatjana | 2205 | 0:1 | IM | Jackova Jana | 2386 |
| 2 | WFM | Seps Monika | 2173 | ½:½ | WIM | Cedikova Katerina | 2262 |
| 3 | WCM | Wilson Alexandra | 2056 | 0:1 | WIM | Sikorova Olga | 2232 |
| 4 | - | Roelli Corinne | 2001 | 0:1 | - | Kulovana Eva | 2137 |
| 3.13 | 24 | Sweden 2 | 2½-1½ | 23 | Iceland | ||
| 1 | - | Jiretorn Eva | 2134 | ½:½ | WGM | Ptacnikova Lenka | 2204 |
| 2 | - | Hansson Susanne | 2110 | ½:½ | - | Thorsteinsdottir Gudlaug | 2132 |
| 3 | - | Agrest Inna | 1984 | 1:0 | WIM | Gretarsdottir Lilja | 2046 |
| 4 | - | Frisk Ellinor | 1991 | ½:½ | - | Fridthjofsdottir Sigurl | 1963 |
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Watch this lady: Russian women's top seed Alexandra Kosteniuk has won all
her games so far
Where are Leko and Polgar when we need them? Zoltan Almasi, Hungary's board
one player.
Vladimir Akopian, Armenia, 2705, board one
World top-ten player Levon Aronian on board two for Armenia
Yet another super-strong Armian: Smbat Lputian
Highest-rated player in Gothenburg: Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukraine
Winning for England: Luke McShane, board one
Romania's top board and European Champion Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Israel's board one: Boris Gelfand, 2724
Won today with black: the imperishable Viktor Korschnoi
The great Swede Ulf Andersson, playing for Sweden 2
Doing well on board four: Jan Timman, Dutch chess legend
Croatia's board one: Kozul Zdenko
You lost to Germany?? Agrest and Hellsten at a Swedish team meeting
Teimour Radjabov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov still struggling with the concept
of "team play"
Pictures by Calle Erlandsson
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The organisers have promised to broadcast between 24 and 32 games live
each day. This means that between 6 and 8 whole matches will be covered.
