91st British Championship
1st – 14th August 2004, Scarborough, Yorkshire |
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The 91st Smith & Williamson British Championships is being held from August
1st – 14th in the Spa Complex, Scarborough, Yorkshire. The top seeds are
Mark Hebden, Jonathan Rowson and Paul Motwani are the top seeds. The prizes
are £10,000; £5,000; £2,500; £1,500; £1,200;
£900; £700; £500; £300. After eight (of nine) rounds
the leaders are Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (2446) of Georgia ROWSON, and Jonathan
W Rowson (2558) of Scotland with 6½ each, followed by Wells, Greet,
Hanley, Houska, Jones, Motwani and Williams with 5½ points each.
8th Hogeschool Zeeland Tournament
7th – 14th August 2004
The tournament consists of 9 rounds, Swiss system. The rate of play is 40
moves in 2 hours, followed by 30 minutes for the completion of the game. The
top seeds are Krishnan Sasikiran (India, 2666), Rustam Kasimdzhanov (FIDE world
champion, Uzbekistan, 2640), Viorel Iordachescu (Moldavia, 2633) and Sergey
Tiviakov (Holland, 2601).
The standings after six rounds were: 1. Krishnan Sasikiran, Merab Gagunashvili,
Mikheil Mchedlishvili and Daniel Stellwagen: 5.5 points; 5. Rustam Kasimdzhanov,
Sergey Tiviakov, Vyacheslav Ikonnikov, Lars Schandorff, Jan Werle, Harmen Jonkman,
Georgios Souleidis and Holger Riedel: 5.0 points.
There are results, games, reports (in Dutch: "Het duel tussen de twee
koplopers heeft geen beslissing opgeleverd..."), background information
and a lot of uncaptioned photos on the home page of the organisers. Many of
the pictures do have name plates visible, so you can often reconstruct who
the players are, as in our small selection below.
Top seed Krishnan Sasikiran vs young Dutch talent Daniel Stellwagen
Jansen vs Rustam Kasimdzhanov in round two
The tournament hall
Dutch summer: light clothing and beautiful legs everywhere
Tournoi d'échecs international de Montréal 2004
4th– 15th August 2004 |
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This category 12 closed tournament sports seven GMs and five IMs. Alexander
Moiseenko (Ukraine, 2640), Eduardas Rozentalis (Lithuania, 2619), Igor Novikov
(USA, 2610), Alexander Huzman (Israel, 2588), Zahar Efimenko (Ukraine, 2572),
Igor-Alexandre Nataf (France, 2553), Dmitry Tyomkin (Canada, 2498), Pascal
Charbonneau (Canada, 2472), Kateryna Lahno (Ukraine, 2472), Igor Zugic (Canada,
2465), Mark Bluvshtein (Canada, 2461), Thomas Roussel-Roozmon (Canada, 2451).
- The official
web site is in French (which is apparently what they speak in
large swaths of Canada). It contains results, games, and pictures, with the
navigation on the left thankfully understandable even to the most Francophobe
visitor (for instance, can you guess what Résultats – Cumulatif
or Photos – Participants could mean?).
Russia-China
Team Match
10th – 16th August 2004 |
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This match between the Russian and Chinese teams started on August 10 in Moscow
Central Chess House. A team consists of six men, three women and three juniors
(what a great way to promote chess for everybody!). The playing system is Scheveningen.
Men play in one robin, women and juniors – in two. The Russian team is
led by Aleksey Dreev (2690), Chinese team by Ye Jiangchuan (2681). Chinese
male team is fielding the currently strongest players of their country, but
their best female players, Xie Jun and Zhu Chen, are not in Moscow, the latter
because she is in a late stage of pregnancy.
It is the second official duel of the two countries. The first match (China,
2001) was won by the Russians with a 41.5:30.5 score.
Picture gallery
All pictures were supplied by Eldar Mukhametov of the Chess Information
Agency www.russiachess.ru, Gogolevsky
bulvar 14, 119019 Moscow, Russia. Tel: +7 095 / 291-87-70, 290-20-76.
The Central Chess House in Moscow, where the match is being held
Chinese team captain Ye Jiangchuan
His counterpart, the Russian team captain Alexey Dreev
A game under way in the men's team section
Xu Yuhua vs Natalija Pogonina in the women's section
Chinese team members analysing after a game
In the analysis room, Russian and Chinese players conduct a postmortem
The Russian women's team, with Olga Zimina, Polina Malysheva, Natalija Pogonina
and Elena Zaiats
Alexey Dreev making a point to WIMs Olga Zimina and Natalija Pogonina
Watching and discussing the games in the press room
