Swedish Championship round postponed!
Football fever has struck Swedish chess championships. Sweden is having their best world championships in football since 1994 and will play quarterfinals on Saturday against England. Thousands of people in the capital Stockholm wear yellow t-shirts before the game. You can most certainly say that Sweden has gone bananas!
The football fever has also reached Ronneby where Swedish chess championships are being played right now. The excitement for the England game on Saturday among the chess players has lead the organiser to reschedule the round on Saturday — that’s a very rare case in the history of Swedish Chess Championships.
A young victim of the fever | Photos: Lars O. Hedlund
Normally the round on Saturday starts at 15:00 CEST, which might unfortunately lead to a very significant risk of an unusually high drawing percentage due to the football game's scheduled start just one hour later!
The organisers have therefore given the players the opportunity to start their game already at 10:00 in the morning. But that luxury is not for all: the players in the elite group have to start at the ordinary time at 15:00 CEST.
Two players that perhaps will not will take a short draw in their games and run to the big screen TV are GM Hans Tikkanen and GM Nils Grandelius. Grandelius (2668) was the big favourite coming into the Swedish championships, but Tikkanen (2495) has shown splendid strength right from the start.
Tikkanen is currently in the driver’s seat after his win against Grandelius in the third round and leads with a full point ahead of the top seed with four more rounds to go.
History is also in Tikkanen's favour. He has won Swedish Championship four times while Grandelius has struggled several times and only managed to take one title.
In the fifth round, Hans Tikkanen celebrated his fourth victory, this time over Jonny Hector, keeping his pursuer at bay.
Black's attack crashed through with 32...Bxg3! 33.Ng5+ (33.fxg3 Nxg3+ leads to mate or heavy material losses) 33...fxg5 34.fxg3 Qh7 and White is helpless.
The final move was quite a sight:
Can you find the coup de grâce?
In Thursday's sixth round, Tikannen drew with Pia Cramling and thus maintains a full point lead over the rest of the field.
Round 6 results
Standings after Round 6
Here are the final pairings for the leader and the chaser:
Hans Tikkanen - 5.0 points
Round 7: (plays black) GM Tiger Hillarp Persson (2546)
Round 8: (w) GM Erik Blomqvist (2505)
Last round: (b) IM Oskar von Bahr (2432)
Nils Grandelius - 4.0 points
Round 7: (b) GM Jonny Hector (2499)
Round 8: (w) GM Pia Cramling (2452)
Last round: (b) GM Tiger Hillarp Persson (2546)
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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.d3 Bg7 6.h3 Nh6 6...Nf6 7.Nc3 0-0 8.Be3 b6 9.Qd2 e5 10.Bh6 Qd6 11.0-0-0 a5 12.g4 a4 13.Kb1 Be6 14.Ne2 b5 15.Ng3 Rfd8 16.Bxg7 Kxg7 17.Qg5 Nd7 7.Nc3 f6 8.Be3 b6 9.a3 e5 10.b4 cxb4 11.axb4 Nf7 12.0-0 0-0 13.Ra4N 13.Ra3 f5 14.exf5 gxf5 13...f5 14.exf5 gxf5 15.Bd2 Bb7 16.Re1 16.Ne2= 16...Qd7 16...b5! 17.Ra2 c5 17.Nh4 Nd6 18.Qh5 Qf7 19.Qxf7+ Rxf7 20.Nf3 Re7 21.Ne2 e4 22.Ng3 Ree8 23.Nh4 exd3 24.Rxe8+ Rxe8 25.cxd3 a6 26.Be3 Re5 27.Bxb6 27.Nh5!? Rb5 28.Nxg7 Kxg7 29.Kf1 27...f4! 28.Nf1 Re1 29.Ra2 Nb5 30.Nf3 Rb1 31.Re2 31...Bf8? 31...Kf7! 32.Re8+- Nd6 33.Rb8 a5 34.Bc5 1–0 - Start an analysis engine:
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| Grandelius,N | 2668 | Blomqvist,E | 2505 | 1–0 | 2018 | B31 | SWE-ch 2018 | 1 |
| Westerberg,J | 2517 | Von Bahr,O | 2432 | ½–½ | 2018 | D78 | SWE-ch 2018 | 1 |
| Hector,J | 2499 | Cramling,P | 2452 | 1–0 | 2018 | B48 | SWE-ch 2018 | 1 |
| Tikkanen,H | 2495 | Smith,A | 2491 | ½–½ | 2018 | D00 | SWE-ch 2018 | 1 |
| Seo,J | 2347 | Hillarp Persson,T | 2546 | ½–½ | 2018 | A62 | SWE-ch 2018 | 1 |
| Hillarp Persson,T | 2546 | Hector,J | 2499 | ½–½ | 2018 | A21 | SWE-ch 2018 | 2 |
| Blomqvist,E | 2505 | Seo,J | 2347 | 0–1 | 2018 | B10 | SWE-ch 2018 | 2 |
| Tikkanen,H | 2495 | Westerberg,J | 2517 | 1–0 | 2018 | D00 | SWE-ch 2018 | 2 |
| Smith,A | 2491 | Cramling,P | 2452 | ½–½ | 2018 | A13 | SWE-ch 2018 | 2 |
| Von Bahr,O | 2432 | Grandelius,N | 2668 | 0–1 | 2018 | A06 | SWE-ch 2018 | 2 |
| Cramling,P | - | Hillarp Persson,T | - | 0–1 | 2018 | A40 | SWE-ch 2018 | 3 |
| Grandelius,N | - | Tikkanen,H | - | 0–1 | 2018 | B12 | SWE-ch 2018 | 3 |
| Hector,J | - | Blomqvist,E | - | ½–½ | 2018 | B35 | SWE-ch 2018 | 3 |
| Seo,J | - | Von Bahr,O | - | ½–½ | 2018 | E10 | SWE-ch 2018 | 3 |
| Westerberg,J | - | Smith,A | - | ½–½ | 2018 | C42 | SWE-ch 2018 | 3 |
| Westerberg,J | 2517 | Grandelius,N | 2668 | 0–1 | 2018 | D02 | SWE-ch 2018 | 4 |
| Blomqvist,E | 2505 | Cramling,P | 2452 | ½–½ | 2018 | B31 | SWE-ch 2018 | 4 |
| Tikkanen,H | 2495 | Seo,J | 2347 | 1–0 | 2018 | D05 | SWE-ch 2018 | 4 |
| Smith,A | 2491 | Hillarp Persson,T | 2534 | ½–½ | 2018 | B06 | SWE-ch 2018 | 4 |
| Von Bahr,O | 2434 | Hector,J | 2499 | 0–1 | 2018 | C56 | SWE-ch 2018 | 4 |
| Grandelius,N | 2668 | Smith,A | 2491 | ½–½ | 2018 | C43 | SWE-ch 2018 | 5 |
| Hillarp Persson,T | 2534 | Blomqvist,E | 2505 | ½–½ | 2018 | A04 | SWE-ch 2018 | 5 |
| Hector,J | 2499 | Tikkanen,H | 2495 | 0–1 | 2018 | B12 | SWE-ch 2018 | 5 |
| Cramling,P | 2452 | Von Bahr,O | 2434 | ½–½ | 2018 | A38 | SWE-ch 2018 | 5 |
| Seo,J | 2347 | Westerberg,J | 2517 | 0–1 | 2018 | D02 | SWE-ch 2018 | 5 |
| Grandelius,N | 2668 | Seo,J | 2347 | ½–½ | 2018 | C43 | SWE-ch 2018 | 6 |
| Westerberg,J | 2517 | Hector,J | 2499 | 1–0 | 2018 | C47 | SWE-ch 2018 | 6 |
| Tikkanen,H | 2495 | Cramling,P | 2452 | ½–½ | 2018 | D02 | SWE-ch 2018 | 6 |
| Smith,A | 2491 | Blomqvist,E | 2505 | ½–½ | 2018 | D31 | SWE-ch 2018 | 6 |
| Von Bahr,O | 2434 | Hillarp Persson,T | 2534 | 0–1 | 2018 | A37 | SWE-ch 2018 | 6 |
| Hillarp Persson,T | 2534 | Tikkanen,H | 2495 | 1–0 | 2018 | A48 | SWE-ch 2018 | 7 |
| Blomqvist,E | 2505 | Von Bahr,O | 2434 | 1–0 | 2018 | C84 | SWE-ch 2018 | 7 |
| Hector,J | 2499 | Grandelius,N | 2668 | ½–½ | 2018 | C56 | SWE-ch 2018 | 7 |
| Cramling,P | 2452 | Westerberg,J | 2517 | ½–½ | 2018 | A05 | SWE-ch 2018 | 7 |
| Seo,J | 2347 | Smith,A | 2491 | ½–½ | 2018 | C01 | SWE-ch 2018 | 7 |
| Grandelius,N | 2668 | Cramling,P | 2452 | ½–½ | 2018 | C83 | SWE-ch 2018 | 8 |
| Westerberg,J | 2517 | Hillarp Persson,T | 2534 | 0–1 | 2018 | B06 | SWE-ch 2018 | 8 |
| Tikkanen,H | 2495 | Blomqvist,E | 2505 | 1–0 | 2018 | D00 | SWE-ch 2018 | 8 |
| Smith,A | 2491 | Von Bahr,O | 2434 | ½–½ | 2018 | A45 | SWE-ch 2018 | 8 |
| Seo,J | 2347 | Hector,J | 2499 | ½–½ | 2018 | D10 | SWE-ch 2018 | 8 |
| Hillarp Persson,T | 2534 | Grandelius,N | 2668 | 0–1 | 2018 | A13 | SWE-ch 2018 | 9 |
| Blomqvist,E | 2505 | Westerberg,J | 2517 | 1–0 | 2018 | C42 | SWE-ch 2018 | 9 |
| Hector,J | 2499 | Smith,A | 2491 | ½–½ | 2018 | C21 | SWE-ch 2018 | 9 |
| Cramling,P | 2452 | Seo,J | 2347 | 1–0 | 2018 | D10 | SWE-ch 2018 | 9 |
| Von Bahr,O | 2434 | Tikkanen,H | 2495 | 0–1 | 2018 | B18 | SWE-ch 2018 | 9 |
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