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The 21st International Bavarian Championship was a nine round open Swiss system tournament in Gmund am Tegernsee, Germany from October 28th to November 5th, 2017. The classical formant gave players 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment starting from move one. The prize fund of €16,300 included a first prize of €3,000.
The town is located on the north shore of the Lake Tegernsee, in the Bavarian Alps.
The lake flows into the Mangfall River, a tributary of the Inn River and therefore of the Danube
The tournament was decided in the final round. After eight rounds the Estonian Grandmaster Kaido Kulaots was sole leader with 7.0/8 but in the last round he drew a fantastic and exciting game against number one seed Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli, and this allowed his rivals to catch up.
The Gruenfeld Defence is a popular opening for fighting players. Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov liked to play it, Peter Svidler, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Anish Giri like to play. On this DVD Lubomir Ftacnik shows why the Gruenfeld is such an attractive and strong opening.
Kaido Kulaots finished second, missing tournament victory by an inch | Photo: Official site
Adly started the tournament with six straight wins which did wonders for his tiebreak points. But in round seven he lost against Kulaots and in round eight he drew against Evgeny Romanov but in the last round he was back to form and won a fighting game and the tournament.
On this DVD, Mihail Marin presents the major tactical themes and options available for both sides in the Benoni. Based on an interactive format the well-known theoretician and Grandmaster invites you to take part and challenge yourself.
Adly played a couple of fine games in Gmund. Here's an example from round two:
The King’s Indian Attack is a unique opening system in that it offers White a dynamic and interesting game but without the need to know reams of theory. In addition to being easy to learn it has an excellent pedigree, leading exponents including great players such as Bobby Fischer, Tigran Petrosian, David Bronstein, Viktor Korchnoi, Leonid Stein and Lev Psakhis. GM Nigel Davies presents a complete repertoire for White.
The top seed Iturrizaga finished tenth but he probably played the most brilliant game of the tournament, sacrificing pieces and pawns left, right and center.
Williams main teaching method behind this set of two DVDs is to teach you some simple yet effective set ups, without the need to rely on memorising numerous complicated variations.
Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli | Photo: Official site
The young Russian Andrey Esipenko made a grandmaster norm. In a crucial game against the Indian grandmaster G.N. Gopal Esipenko demonstrated his fighting spirit and tenacity.
Chess Endgames 14 - The golden guidelines of endgame play
Rules of thumb are the key to everything when you are having to set the correct course in a complex endgame. In this final DVD of his series on the endgame, our endgame specialist introduces you to the most important of these rules of thumb.
(left) Andrey Esipenko / (right) Tournament director Sebastian Siebrecht | Photo: Official site
| Rk. | Snr | Name | FED | Elo | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | ||
| 1 | 4 |
|
GM | Adly Ahmed | EGY | 2625 | 7,5 | 2448 | 51,0 |
| 2 | 10 |
|
GM | Kulaots Kaido | EST | 2573 | 7,5 | 2442 | 52,0 |
| 3 | 13 |
|
GM | Sandipan Chanda | IND | 2555 | 7,5 | 2384 | 50,0 |
| 4 | 14 |
|
GM | Heberla Bartlomiej | POL | 2551 | 7,5 | 2227 | 45,0 |
| 5 | 16 |
|
FM | Esipenko Andrey | RUS | 2551 | 7,0 | 2450 | 52,5 |
| 6 | 17 |
|
GM | Kveinys Aloyzas | LTU | 2535 | 7,0 | 2428 | 51,0 |
| 7 | 8 |
|
GM | Gopal G.N. | IND | 2589 | 7,0 | 2403 | 50,0 |
| 8 | 20 |
|
GM | Xu Yinglun | CHN | 2526 | 7,0 | 2378 | 49,0 |
| 9 | 28 |
|
IM | Li Di | CHN | 2459 | 7,0 | 2371 | 49,0 |
| 10 | 1 |
|
GM | Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo | VEN | 2665 | 7,0 | 2362 | 49,0 |
| 11 | 24 |
|
IM | Mons Leon | GER | 2500 | 7,0 | 2355 | 50,0 |
| 12 | 6 |
|
GM | Jumabayev Rinat | KAZ | 2603 | 7,0 | 2326 | 48,5 |
| 13 | 11 |
|
GM | Postny Evgeny | ISR | 2569 | 7,0 | 2325 | 48,5 |
| 14 | 23 |
|
IM | Dann Matthias | GER | 2506 | 7,0 | 2324 | 47,0 |
| 15 | 9 |
|
GM | Fier Alexandr | BRA | 2573 | 7,0 | 2285 | 48,0 |
| 16 | 5 |
|
GM | Zubov Alexander | UKR | 2623 | 7,0 | 2263 | 44,0 |
| 17 | 50 |
|
IM | Donchenko Anatoly | GER | 2301 | 7,0 | 2209 | 45,5 |
| 18 | 29 |
|
IM | Xu Yi | CHN | 2439 | 7,0 | 2173 | 45,0 |
| 19 | 3 |
|
GM | Romanov Evgeny | RUS | 2626 | 6,5 | 2450 | 52,5 |
| 20 | 2 |
|
GM | Korobov Anton | UKR | 2652 | 6,5 | 2435 | 52,5 |
| 21 | 18 |
|
GM | Ruck Robert | HUN | 2533 | 6,5 | 2390 | 50,5 |
| 22 | 15 |
|
GM | Peralta Fernando | ARG | 2551 | 6,5 | 2362 | 51,0 |
| 23 | 19 |
|
GM | Antal Gergely | HUN | 2529 | 6,5 | 2346 | 49,0 |
| 24 | 33 |
|
Henderson De La Fuente Lance | ESP | 2410 | 6,5 | 2335 | 45,5 | |
| 25 | 30 |
|
GM | Womacka Mathias | GER | 2434 | 6,5 | 2329 | 48,0 |
| 26 | 34 |
|
Zajogin Alexander | BLR | 2409 | 6,5 | 2321 | 48,5 | |
| 27 | 26 |
|
IM | Baldauf Marco | GER | 2483 | 6,5 | 2301 | 47,0 |
| 28 | 37 |
|
IM | Zysk Robert | GER | 2400 | 6,5 | 2295 | 48,0 |
| 29 | 45 |
|
IM | Chu Wei Chao | CHN | 2340 | 6,5 | 2280 | 47,5 |
| 30 | 7 |
|
GM | Huschenbeth Niclas | GER | 2596 | 6,5 | 2261 | 45,0 |
| 31 | 41 |
|
FM | Forchert Martin | GER | 2362 | 6,5 | 2233 | 45,0 |
| 32 | 12 |
|
GM | Nikolov Momchil | BUL | 2561 | 6,5 | 2194 | 46,0 |
| 33 | 48 |
|
FM | Bezemer Arno | NED | 2306 | 6,5 | 2183 | 45,0 |
| 34 | 40 |
|
IM | Zude Arno | GER | 2370 | 6,5 | 2180 | 43,0 |
| 35 | 53 |
|
IM | Köpke Christian | GER | 2290 | 6,5 | 2176 | 45,0 |
| 36 | 47 |
|
FM | Wacker Peter | GER | 2323 | 6,5 | 2173 | 46,5 |
| 37 | 43 |
|
FM | Schnepp Gunnar | AUT | 2349 | 6,5 | 2162 | 44,5 |
| 38 | 42 |
|
FM | Weber Ulrich | GER | 2357 | 6,5 | 2145 | 44,5 |
| 39 | 80 |
|
FM | Schneider Jana | GER | 2208 | 6,5 | 2139 | 40,0 |
| 40 | 27 |
|
GM | Hoffmann Michael | GER | 2462 | 6,5 | 2134 | 41,0 |
| 41 | 115 |
|
FM | Kalugampitiya R S | SRI | 2138 | 6,5 | 2102 | 41,0 |
| 42 | 49 |
|
FM | Promyshlyanskyy Vitaliy | UKR | 2303 | 6,5 | 2092 | 39,0 |
| 43 | 67 |
|
Fischer André | GER | 2259 | 6,0 | 2351 | 47,5 |
...total 484 players
