Before we come to the players, chess and the scenery of this event, which ran from June 20-30 and had a prize fund of 47,000 Romanian Lei (= 11,000 Euros or US $16,000), here is a letter we received from the Romanian Chess Federation distancing themselves from the tournaments and its organisers:
Text:
FEDERATIA
ROMANA DE SAH
Str. Vasile Conta nr. 16, Sector 2
Bucuresgti, Romdnia, Cod Pogtal 020954
Tel.: +40 21 3174701 | 02
Fax: +40 21 3174700
e-mail: contact@frsah
www.frsan.ro
Nr.4l6 / 17.06.2011
To: FIDE
In att: David Jarrett, Executive Director
Dear colleagues,
With reference to the situation of Mr. Dan Pasarelu, Romanian chess player, club manager and organizer ofchess competitions, we would like to inform you that his behavior and his activity in the recent past raised a lot of problems in our federation and in entire Romanian chess community.
The present situation is:
Both decisions are finals without any other appeal option!
The suspension decisions of Mr. Dan Pasarelu and Siciliana Chess Club and the rejection of the request to organize Eforie Intemational Open are according to the Romanian Chess Statutes and Regulations and to Romanian Sport Law.
In fact in the previous editions of Eforie Intemational Open there were serious organizing problems in paying prizes to awarded players and for arbiters revenues as well. RCF received many complains from players and arbiters and it seems that not all the sums are cleared until present. AIso, Mr. Dan Pasarelu has debts to some hotels, for example for RIN Grand Hotel in Bucharest, the 4500 Euros debt of Siciliana Club is 14 months in areas. This year he tried to involve Clubul Sportiv Municipal as the organizer club, because he is First Trainer in the club but what was to clarify it became clear that he remains the main person involved in the forthcoming event (see also that he is the contact person on www.fide.com).
In the above situation, he may organize the Eforie International Open, an "unofficial" tournament without the approval of RCF and FIDE. Based on the experience of this situation, we kindly ask FIDE to analyze the opportunity to improve the www.fide.com web site access and not to allow announcing an event on Other Tournament section which is not according to FIDE and a federation rules and regulations provisions.
Best regards,
RCF President
Constantin Dumitriu
In reaction to the above letter one of the participants of the tournament, top seed Sergey Tiviakov, wrote us in reply:
"I play in lot of tournaments all over the world, private and 'official'. For me the most important thing is good treatment of the organiser and nice conditions. About the Eforie Nord chess tournament I cannot say anything bad so far! If the Romanian Chess Federation wants strong players to participate in their tournaments then it must organise the tournaments accordingly. Inviting strong players on good conditions and providing a sufficient prize fund for the tournament is essential."
Sergey also sent us nice pictorials from the venue. Before we come to his latest here the final results – as you can see our photographer had enough energy left to win the tournament alone in first place:
| # | Ti | Player | Nat. | Rtng | Pts | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |
| 1 | GM | Tiviakov Sergei | NED | 2622 | 8.5 | 62.0 | 75.5 | 57.00 |
| 2 | GM | Fedorov Alexei | BLR | 2592 | 8.0 | 60.5 | 74.5 | 52.25 |
| 3 | WGM | Peptan Corina-Isabela | ROU | 2421 | 7.5 | 61.0 | 73.5 | 48.00 |
| 4 | GM | Malakhatko Vadim | BEL | 2546 | 7.5 | 60.5 | 74.0 | 48.25 |
| 5 | IM | Petrosian Suren | ARM | 2392 | 7.5 | 57.5 | 69.5 | 44.00 |
| 6 | WGM | Ionescu Irina | ROU | 2245 | 7.5 | 54.0 | 66.0 | 43.25 |
| 7 | GM | Manolache Marius | ROU | 2545 | 7.0 | 62.5 | 74.5 | 45.75 |
| 8 | IM | Miron Lucian-Costin | ROU | 2506 | 7.0 | 61.5 | 75.0 | 44.25 |
| 9 | GM | Badea Bela | ROU | 2491 | 7.0 | 60.0 | 72.5 | 44.25 |
| 10 | GM | Gavrilov Alexei | RUS | 2478 | 6.5 | 62.5 | 75.5 | 41.00 |
| 11 | FM | Ogleznev Alexandr | MDA | 2335 | 6.5 | 57.0 | 69.0 | 36.75 |
| 12 | IM | Nevednichy Boris M | MDA | 2269 | 6.5 | 56.5 | 69.0 | 38.00 |
| 13 | IM | Zozulia Anna | BEL | 2371 | 6.5 | 56.5 | 68.0 | 36.50 |
| 14 | WGM | Cosma Elena-Luminita | ROU | 2328 | 6.5 | 52.5 | 65.5 | 35.25 |
| 15 | Postolachi Viorel | MDA | 2111 | 6.5 | 49.5 | 60.5 | 31.25 | |
| 16 | FM | Agafii Victor | MDA | 2253 | 6.0 | 53.5 | 65.0 | 32.25 |
| 17 | NM | Jiroveanu George | ROU | 2218 | 6.0 | 51.5 | 62.5 | 30.50 |
| 18 | CM | Stegariu Vlad-Ionut | ROU | 2220 | 6.0 | 49.5 | 61.0 | 29.75 |
| 19 | FM | Breahna Radu | ROU | 2272 | 6.0 | 49.0 | 60.0 | 31.00 |
| 20 | CM | Barzanu Iulian | ROU | 2229 | 6.0 | 48.0 | 56.5 | 26.25 |
| 21 | CM | Pachia Mihai | ROU | 2084 | 6.0 | 47.5 | 59.0 | 30.75 |
| 22 | I | Raducanu Alberto | ROU | 1777 | 6.0 | 45.0 | 54.0 | 23.50 |
| 23 | Chircu Vadim | MDA | 2069 | 6.0 | 44.0 | 52.5 | 24.25 |
Click here for complete results. And here's a typical game by the winner:
The playing venu in the Hotel Acapulco (left) on the shore of the Black
Sea
The playing hall in the hotel
You can see the sea while playing your games (right GM Mahai Suba)
Wind-swept and heroic: the winner Sergey Tiviakov, with 8.5/11
In second place: Belorussian GM Alexei Fedorov, with 8.0/11
A sensational third place for WGM Corina-Isabela Peptan of Romania
Let me see, I prepared something for black – but will it work
with red?? In fifth place IM Suren Petrosian, ARM, with 7.5/11
1.d4 – wondering what the Red will play: Romanian GM Marius
Manolache, who finised in seventh place with 7.0/11
31st: WCM Ioana Gelip, Romania, rated 1973, 5.0/11
32nd: Alexandra Taposu-Matei, Romania, rated 1788, 5.0/11
34th WFM Andra-Marina Chirita, Romania, rated 2057, 4.5/11
35th: WCM Roxana-Ana Anton, Romania, 1836, 4.5/11
37th: WCM Georgiana-Steluta Morea, Romania, 1921, 4.5/11
40th: Diana-Maria Serbanescu, Romania, 1847, 4.0/11
One of many orthodox churches in the city
The plaque reminds us that Romanian is basically a dialect of Latin
Our intrepid GM reporter tasting the local mulberries
His judgement: they are absolutely delicious and very easy to eat
Fresh roasted corn sold on the beach front
A World War Two bunker on the beach – with a contemporary Belorussian
GM next to it...
... and a very successful Dutch grandmaster and photographer on top of it
A final look at the Black Sea beach of Eforie Nord
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