6/29/2011 – Working with a World Champion clearly has beneficial effects. Polish GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek has been a permanent second for Vishy Anand for a few years now, and the 24-year-old is showing signs of real greatness. At the 9th Gyorgy Marx Memorial he declassed the opposition, scoring 8.0/10, a point and a half more than anyone else. Which confirms a new genetic theory.
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The 9th Gyorgy Marx Memorial took place from Jund 16th-27th, 2011, in the Erzsébet
Grand Hotel in Paks, Hungary. The tournament is held in commemoration of the
great physicst György Marx. The main patron of the tournament is István
Hamvas, the General Director of Nuclear Power Plant Ltd. Paks, the
organiser Atomeromu TLK. The double round robin tournament with six
players is intended to give the most talented young local grandmasters a chance
to acquire experience. Time limit: 90 minutes/40 moves + 30minutes + 30 seconds/move
from the first move. The Sophia Rule was applied: players can offer a draw in
the first 40 moves only with arbiter’s permission in particular cases.
Tiebreaks: 1. most wins, 2. result against each other, 3. Berger.
Prof. George Marx was a member of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences and of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and died at
the age of 76 in 2002 in Budapest. He played an important role in particle physics,
in theoretical astrophysics and also in bioastronomy and SETI. After Michael
Papagiannis and Frank Drake he was the third chairman of the International Astronamical
Union (IAU) Bioastronomy Commission. He will be remembered also as an eminent
teacher by his students, friends and colleagues. [Source: Ivan
Almar at Seti]
The winner, with a +6 score and 2893 performance: Radoslaw Wojtaszek
The average rating of the GM tournament was 2664 = Category XVII. It was won
by Polish GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek, who demolished the opposition and finished
a point an a half ahead of the two nearest rivals Smirin and Berkes. His performance:
2893. It will bring him twenty additional rating points on the next list. Radoslaw,
we remind you, is the permanent second of World Champion Vishy Anand and confirms
the theory (which we have just invented) that genetic information can be transferred
by proximity alone.
At the other end of the expectancy scale: Viktor Bologan and Peter Acs played
well below their FIDE rating and stand to lose 17 and 20 points respectively.
The women's section was won by Alina Kashlinskaya, whose 6.5 out of 10 against
an average opposition of 2360 gives the 18-year-old an IM norm (according to
our calculations). Here's a video from earlier days – she made her WGM
title at the age of 15.
The tournament site has a zillion
and a half pictures, but they are not captioned, and the viewer is slightly
off synch (in Firefox 4). So here is a small selection.
The players in front of the venue, the Erzsébet Grand Hotel in Paks
Smirin vs Wojtaszek in round four – in spite of the announced "Sofia
rule" (see above)
this game ended after fifteen moves in a draw.
2900 thinking: Radoslaw Wojtaszek during a game
Dropped 17 Elo points in Paks: Moldovan GM Viktor Bologan
In second place with a 2771 performance: Israeli GM Ilya Smirin
Fourth: GM Ivan Salgado Lopez from Spain
The winner of the WGM section, Alina Kashlinskaya, with her trophy
In joint second place: Ildiko Madl giving an interview
In joint second-third: top seed Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia
Fourth place: Anna Rudolf, 23, former Hungarian Women's Champion
Anna Rudolf attracted attention during the Vandoeuvre Open in December 2007,
where she defeated the top seed Christian Bauer, finished ninth and scored WGM
and IM norms. Following her good results in the initial rounds of the tournament,
three players accused her of cheating, saying that a "secret Internet connection
was transmitting the best moves with the help of Anna's lip balm". After
the tournament, the Hungarian Chess Federation protested against the "unethical
behavior" of the three accusers and asked the FIDE Ethics Commission to
examine the case. This became known as the lip
balm controversy.
A very disappointing event for many time Belarusian Women's Champion WGM
Anna Sharevich, who scored 3.0/10 and shed 23 points from her 2210 FIDE rating
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