The tournament was organised by the Echiquier Cappellois Chess Club and took place at the Palais des Arts et des Loisirs in the town of Cappelle-la-Grande, which is located near Dunkerque and Belgium. It was a nine-round open that went from Saturday, February 28th to Saturday, March 07, with 611 players (102 GMs and 78 IMs) from 60 different countries.
Cappelle-la-Grande is located near Dunkerque at the northernmost tip of
France
The playing hall in Cappelle
The organisers of Cappelle once again experimented with a new rate of play, the “Decreasingly Accelerated System”, for their tournament. The logic behind the system is as follows: electronic clocks are now available and adjournments have fallen into disuse, leaving organisers with two options:
a “mechanical” rate of play in which each player is allotted a maximum period of time. The chief advantage is that the organisers can predict when the round will end and the playing venue be vacated. The disadvantages are the stress resulting from time scrambles (and any reconstructions of the moves of the game) or players exceeding the time limit, as well as the possibility that draw claims under Article 10.2 will force the arbiter into an area which is, ethically speaking, outside his competence.
an ”electronic” rate of play in which players receive an initial amount of time which is increased by a fixed amount after each move. This reverses the advantages and disadvantages. Most players and arbiters prefer this system as it seems more just. But it can give the arbiters problems when one or more games is extended indefinitely (going on one or two hours, or even longer, than the other games).
Starting with an “electronic” rate of play, one must therefore find a way to ensure that after a certain duration the longest games will not continue more than a few more minutes. The Cappelle solution is to reduce drastically the additional time added after a certain number of moves (fewer than one game in a hundred will be affected). The rate of play chose was as follows:
The above means that a 40 move game cannot last longer than (100 + 20) x 2 = 240 minutes or four hours. For an 80 move game one must add (30 + 20) x 2 = 100 minutes (one hour 40 minutes) with a total duration of five hours 40 minutes, which would be increased by 20 seconds for each additional move. It would need a 140 move game to exceed six hours of play. This retains the advantages of both types of rate of play without leading to any obvious disadvantages.
| # | Player | Titl. | Nat. | Rtng | Pts. |
Perf |
| 1 | Vovk, Yuri | GM | UKR | 2545 | 7.5 |
2814 |
| 2 | Zakhartsov, Viacheslav | GM | RUS | 2529 | 7.0 |
2714 |
| 3 | Dzhumaev, Marat | GM | UZB | 2529 | 7.0 |
2700 |
| 4 | Jaracz, Pawel | GM | POL | 2518 | 7.0 |
2652 |
| 5 | Jojua, Davit | IM | GEO | 2484 | 6.5 |
2717 |
| 6 | Miroshnichenko, Evgenij | GM | UKR | 2667 | 6.5 |
2688 |
| 7 | Gelashvili, Tamaz | GM | GEO | 2622 | 6.5 |
2686 |
| 8 | Hammer, Jon ludvig | IM | NOR | 2532 | 6.5 |
2676 |
| 9 | Dvoirys, Semen | GM | RUS | 2547 | 6.5 |
2670 |
| 10 | Mamedov, Nidjat | GM | AZE | 2607 | 6.5 |
2659 |
| 11 | Balogh, Csaba | GM | HUN | 2604 | 6.5 |
2647 |
| 12 | Olszewski, Michal | IM | POL | 2518 | 6.5 |
2645 |
| 13 | Rozentalis, Eduardas | GM | LTU | 2590 | 6.5 |
2639 |
| 14 | Sveshnikov, Evgeny | GM | LAT | 2535 | 6.5 |
2623 |
| 15 | Rychagov, Andrey | GM | RUS | 2514 | 6.5 |
2612 |
| 16 | Bobras, Piotr | GM | POL | 2554 | 6.5 |
2607 |
| 17 | Geetha Narayana, Gopal | GM | IND | 2555 | 6.5 |
2607 |
| 18 | Zubarev, Alexander | GM | UKR | 2566 | 6.5 |
2606 |
| 19 | Solodovnichenko, Yuri | GM | UKR | 2571 | 6.5 |
2598 |
| 20 | Sumets, Andrey | GM | UKR | 2546 | 6.5 |
2597 |
| 21 | Gordon, Stephen | IM | ENG | 2524 | 6.5 |
2592 |
| 22 | Sokolov, Andrei | GM | FRA | 2552 | 6.5 |
2578 |
| 23 | Leon Hoyos, Manuel | GM | MEX | 2542 | 6.5 |
2577 |
| 24 | Brodsky, Michail | GM | UKR | 2517 | 6.5 |
2571 |
| 25 | Corrales Jimene, Fidel | GM | CUB | 2586 | 6.5 |
2540 |
| 26 | Baramidze, David | GM | GER | 2548 | 6.5 |
2539 |
| 27 | Apicella, Manuel | GM | FRA | 2517 | 6.5 |
2537 |
| 28 | Shneider, Aleksandr | GM | UKR | 2539 | 6.5 |
2534 |
| 29 | Kharitonov, Alexandr | GM | RUS | 2537 | 6.5 |
2533 |
| 30 | Sanchez, Joseph | IM | PHI | 2461 | 6.5 |
2519 |
Click for table with 6.0/9 and higher (77 of 611 players) or for the full cross table.
The surprising winner with 7.5/9: GM Yuri Vovk, Elo 2545, perf. 2814
Third: GM Marat Dzhumaev, UZB, 2529
Place five and a GM norm for IM Davit Jojua from Georgia, 2484
Place seven for GM Tamaz Gelashvili from Georgia, 2622
Place eight and a GM norm for IM Jon Ludwig Hammer, NOR, 2532
Tenth: GM Nijdat Mamedov from Azerbaijan, 2607
13th: GM Eduardas Rozentalis, LTU, 2590
18th: GM Alexander Zubarev, UKR, 2566
Place 19 for GM Yuri Solodovnichenko, UKR, 2571
23rd: GM Manuel Leon Hoyos, MEX, 2542
25th: GM Fidel Corrales Jimene, CUB, 2586
29th: GM Alexandr Kharitonov, RUS, 2537
33rd: Alexander Graf, GER, 2644
49th: GM Todor Todorov, BUL, 2507
50th: GM Vladimir Baklan, UKR, 2627
52nd: IM Amon Simutowe, ZAM, 2485
66th: GM Stanislas Savchenko, UKR, 2571
81st: IM Malkhaz Sulashvili, GEO, 2444
84th: GM Mikhail Ulibin, RUS, 2511
99th: GM Vasile Sanduleac, MDA, 2432
100th: GM Jan Plachetka, SVK, 2406
104th: IM Oleg Spirin, RUS, 2438
110th: IM David Housieaux, FRA, 2419
111th: GM Mark Hebden, ENG, 2522
112th: IM Kruttika Nadig, IND, 2367
115th: WIM Veronika Schneider, HUN, 2304
135th: WIM Vita Chulivska, UKR, 2335
145th: WGM Katerina Matseyko, UKR, 2268
155th: GM Igor Naumkin, RUS, 2501
183rd: IM Lyubka Genova, BUL, 2231
201st: GM Heikki Westerinen, FIN, 2362
215th: WGM Myroslava Hrabinska, UKR, 2277
232nd: FM Margarida Coimbra, POR, 2096
259th: Klaudia Kulon POL, 2251 (with IM norm)
277th: WIM Angela Dragomirescu, ROU, 2220
278th: WGM Alyona Goreskul, UKR, 2270
Links
The most important games were broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program to read, replay and analyse the PGN games. |
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