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Playing in the First Saturday GM tournament held April 9-16, the greatest inspiration for Iweta Rajlich was her lovely 21 month old little son while successfully fighting for her second GM norm. “I was in a difficult situation against GM Miso Cebalo (Senior World Champion 2009) but when my son Waclav Andrej appeared in the room in the arms of my husband, I was lifted to heaven and found all the saving moves that proved to be so important later.”
IM Iweta Rajlich, married to Vasik Rajlich, author of Rybka, found
divine inspiration seeing her baby boy.
She returned to competitive chess last December and achieved her second GM norm (the first was achieved also at the First Saturday held in Budapest 2006) winning this unique GM event that could boast of the participation of two active World Champions.
GM Miso Cebalo (CRO) was Senior World Champion in 2009. In addition Fodor
Tamas Jr. who was U10 Word Champion (Oropesa del Mar 2001) was also playing.
Rk |
Name | Pts |
Fed |
M/F |
Rtg |
Perf |
1 |
IM Rajlich, Iweta | 7.0 |
POL |
F |
2422 |
2616 |
2 |
GM Simonian, Hrair | 6.0 |
ARM |
M |
2469 |
2516 |
3 |
FM Fodor, Tamas Jr. | 5.5 |
HUN |
M |
2482 |
2470 |
4 |
GM Cebalo, Miso | 5.0 |
CRO |
M |
2442 |
2437 |
5 |
GM Varga, Zoltan | 5.0 |
HUN |
M |
2440 |
2437 |
6 |
Szabo, Bence | 4.5 |
HUN |
M |
2317 |
2408 |
7 |
IM Rodriguez, Rafael | 4.0 |
ESP |
M |
2266 |
2371 |
8 |
GM Flumbort, Andras Dr. | 3.5 |
HUN |
M |
2530 |
2304 |
9 |
IM Estrada Nieto, Julian | 3.5 |
MEX |
M |
2306 |
2329 |
10 |
FM Bach, Matthias | 1.0 |
GER |
M |
2315 |
2057 |
The IM section brought no norms since fighting against seven experienced IMs was too hard a task for the candidates. The closest to succeeding was Padhya Saumil (IND).
Padhya Saumil
The winner was IM Szeberenyi Adam who came ahead of IM Galyas Miklos, winner of the Budapest Spring Festival Open just a week earlier.
IM Szeberenyi Adam won the IM tournament
Rk |
Name | Pts |
Fed |
Rtg |
Perf |
1 |
IM Szeberenyi, Adam | 6.5 |
HUN |
2305 |
2432 |
2 |
IM Galyas, Miklos | 6.0 |
HUN |
2445 |
2376 |
3 |
IM Kislik, Erik Andrew | 5.5 |
USA |
2403 |
2335 |
4 |
Padhya Saumil | 5.0 |
IND |
2187 |
2322 |
5 |
IM Szalanczy, Emil | 5.0 |
HUN |
2249 |
2281 |
6 |
Melkonyan, Vardan | 4.5 |
ARM |
2230 |
2275 |
7 |
IM Eperjesi, Laszlo Dr. | 4.0 |
HUN |
2206 |
2281 |
8 |
IM Lengyel, Bela | 4.0 |
HUN |
2257 |
2229 |
9 |
IM Farago, Sandor | 3.0 |
HUN |
2296 |
2142 |
10 |
Vrhovnik, Damir | 1.5 |
CRO |
2124 |
2013 |
There were two more groups with intense fights for rating points. The event was played in the recently renewed large Conference Hall of the MEDOSZ Hotel in Budapest which welcomes chess-players now with a bright, air-conditioned playing site.
MEDOSZ hotel tournament hall after the renovation
Legendary GM Pal Benko, 84 years young, observes the game of Ms. Wang
The next First Saturday tournaments are scheduled for May 5-16. See the First Saturday website for more information.
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