
The 18th annual Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament, organised by the Limhamn
Chess Club, is taking place in the classical Hipp Theater in central Malmo.
As in the previous year, six players face each other in a round-robin tournament.
Round three results
Cramling, Pia |
2536 |
Hector, Jonny |
2609 |
0-1 |
Grandelius, Nils |
2476 |
Hammer, Jon Ludvig |
2610 |
½-½ |
Hillarp Persson, Tiger |
2542 |
Giri, Anish |
2642 |
0-1 |
Hillarp Persson,T (2542) - Giri,A (2642) [A12]
18th Sigeman & Co Malmo SWE (3), 28.05.2010
1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.b3 Bg4 4.e3 e6 5.Bb2 Nd7 6.h3 Bh5 7.Nc3 Ngf6 8.g4
Bg6 9.Nh4 Nc5 10.Nxg6 hxg6 11.Qe2 a5 12.f3 e5 13.g5 Nh5 14.Rg1 d4 15.Nd1 Be7
16.h4 Ne6 17.Bh3
White has not done at all well by given the black knights free rein (there's
a pun in there somewhere). The Dutch Champion does not hold back but proceeds
in his typical aggressive and optimistic style: 17...Nhf4!?
18.exf4 Nxf4 19.Qf1 Rxh4 20.Nf2 a4 21.b4? a3 22.Bc1 d3 and
the rest is almost painful to watch: 23.Rb1 Qd4 24.Rh1 Qxc4 25.Bd7+
Kxd7 26.Rxh4 Qxa2 27.Rxf4 Qxb1 28.Rxf7 Qxc1+ 29.Nd1 Qc4 0-1. On the
Playchess server some spectators coined a new name for the lad: "Giriminator".

Anish Giri won three, while Pia Cramling lost her third game in a row in a
Slav ending she should have held. The Swedish grandmaster is clearly not in
good form in this tournament.

Youngsters: Anish Giri from Holland, 15, and Nils Grandelius from Sweden,
17
Current standings

Portraits

GM Pia Cramling, Sweden (2536)
Almost since she started playing chess, Pia Cramling has been Sweden's best
female chess player. She soon also became one of Sweden's best chess players,
regardless of gender. Nowadays, she is a rare visitor in Swedish chess tournaments,
since she has been living in Spain for many years and mostly plays in southern
Europe. Last season she played for Team Viking in the Swedish league, but she
also plays in the Spanish, French and German chess leagues.
Pia became a grandmaster in 1992, at a time when two of her Sigeman opponents
were not even born and one of them was only three years old. Her playing style
is sound and solid and she has great technical skills, something which might
be hard for some of the younger opponents, since they tend to try to decide
their games already in the opening or in the middle part of their games.
In last year's Swedish Championship Pia finished second to Emanuel Berg. Recently
she has had a number of good results, the latest being her win in the Women's
European Cup earlier this year. This was the second time Pia won this title.
Her latest appearance in the Sigeman Chess Tournament was in 2001, when she
finished third to Gulko and Timman. She is participating in the Sigeman Chess
Tournament for the fifth time.
Photos by Calle Erlandsson
Tournament Schedule |
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Round 1 |
Wednesday 26 May |
14.00-21.00 |
Round 2 |
Thursday 27 May |
14.00-21.00 |
Round 3 |
Friday 28 May |
14.00-21.00 |
Round 4 |
Saturday 29 May |
14.00-21.00 |
Round 5 |
Sunday 30 May |
12.00-19.00 |
Round four pairings
Hammer, Jon Ludvig |
2610 |
Hillarp Persson, Tiger |
2542 |
Cramling, Pia |
2536 |
Grandelius, Nils |
2476 |
Hector, Jonny |
2609 |
Giri, Anish |
2642 |
Links
The games were broadcast live on the official web site and with the kind
cooperation of the organisers on the chess server Playchess.com.
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