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Women's World Championship,
Ekaterinburg, Russia.
28th March
2006 -
The
Chinese WGM Xu Yuhua has won the
2006 FIDE Womens World Championship
in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
She won the third game decisively
and the match 2½-½
against the Russian IM Alisa
Galliamova. The fourth game was not
needed.
The Championships took place from
11th-27th March. 64 players took
part in a brutal knock-out
tournament, with two-game matches in
each round until the final, which
was intended to be four games. Many
of the world's leading players took
part including Antoaneta Stefanova
of Bulgaria, Humpy Koneru (IND),
Kateryna Lahno (UKR), Alexandra
Kosteniuk (RUS), former champion
Maia Chiburdanidze (GEO), Pia
Cramling (SWE), Xu Yuhua (CHN),
England's Jovanka Houska and former
European women's champion Almira
Skripchenko. All the games and more
details available at the official
website:
http://womenchess.com. The final
(live games) were broadcast live on
the
ICC. All 181 games in
PGN or
viewer.
Xu Yuhua, the representative of
China is the only two time winner of
the Women World Chess Cup. When
asked about her impressions of
Yekaterinburg and about the
Championship’s organization, she
rather predictably replied,
"I really like your
city. We were very well received at
the airport; as for the hotel, food,
playing hall, organization –
everything is the best.
Unfortunately I didn’t have enough
time to walk about the city, but
I’ve already visited the church
nearby".
Ekaterinburg is one of the biggest
cities in Russia. The population is
1,337,000, 30% of those within the
Sverdlovsk Region. It is the fourth
most populated city in Russia and
was founded as the fortress-plant
upon the Ural River. The name of
“Ekaterinburg” emphasized the
characteristics of the new city. It
is the city of Empress Ekaterina I
and St. Ekaterina the patron of
mining. Nowadays Ekaterinburg is an
influential centre of financial and
banking activity, a city of
developing trade infrastructure,
tourist, cultural and entertainment
services. About 30% of the
population are employed in small and
middle scale business.
Linares 2006
14th March
2006 -
For the first time in it's history
the Linares tournament took place in
Mexico and Spain. The first half was
held in Morelia, Mexico (Feb
18th-26th) and the second half in
its traditional venue of Linares,
Spain (March 3rd-11th). It was an 8
player double round, all-play-all.
The players were, Topalov (BUL,
2801), Svidler (RUS, 2765), Aronian
(ARM, 2752), Leko (HUN, 2740),
Ivanchuk (UKR, 2729), Bacrot (FRA,
2717), Radjabov (AZE, 2700), Vallejo
Pons (ESP, 2650). Round 14 Sat
11th March: 24 year old Armenian
GM Levon Aronian, the current World
Cup champion won the event after his
powerful performance with black
against Peter Leko in the final
round. The game, virtually won after
20 moves was Leko's second
consecutive defeat. Favourite and
World Champion Topalov could only
draw with Vallejo Pons leaving him
with 8/14, not bad considering his
terrible start.
Radjabov drew with Bacrot and
Svidler also drew with Ivanchuk in a
close R+N v R+B ending. Games
in
Java Viewer. Official
website. Illustrated reports of
earlier rounds
here.
Morelia/Linares 2006
Atticus Summer Tournament
2005
25th July 2005
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This year's tournament was won
by Brian Ewart with 29.9 pts,
closely followed by Jeremy
Hawthorne with 29.2 and Farhad
Amir Afshar with 28.5 points.
See the final
table
with some photos and tournament
from controller Luke Boumphrey.
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Brian Ewart
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Jeremy Hawthorne |
Farhad Amir Afshar |
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Steve Connor
British U175 Champion 2005
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British U175 Championship
2005
27th Sept
2005 - Atticus
player and club webmaster Steve Connor won the British U175 Championship
in the Isle of Man with 4/5, winning a trophy and a cheque for £225.
Round by round details and crosstable
here. Brian Ewart competed in the very strong British Senior
Championships. Full
details
of this event. Steve also won the Week 2 Open with 4/5 (not 5/5 as
shown on the BCF website) and a cheque for £150.
See
photos
from the championships. Details of all results and events
here.
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Jim Wiseman
Proud winner of the
Liverpool Congress Minor
Photo by C. Atako
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Liverpool Congress 2005
5th Sept
2005 - The annual
Liverpool Congress was held at Hope University College 2nd - 4th Sept.
This was a BCF Grand Prix Event with three main sections; Open, Major
and Minor. Atticus player and club secretary Jim Wiseman was the
eventual winner of the Minor. Luke Boumphrey competed in the Open
beating John Littlewood in Round 1. Well done to both players. Farhad
Amir Afshar and Chino Atako competed too. More details to follow |
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FM Dave James
Elo 2222
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European Team
Championships 2005
29th July 2005
- Dave James represented Wales in the recent European
Team Championships in Göteborg, Sweden. This was a tough
event with several strong GM's taking part.
Dave played in seven of the nine rounds and his results
included a victory over Cypriot Doros Kassinopoullos,
Elo 2094 and draws against Turkish IM Mert Erdogdu, Elo
2403, Luxemburg's IM Fred Berend, Elo 2374 and
Scotland's GM Colin McNab Elo 2451.
For further details including the games click
here.
Official site:
http://www.goteborgchess2005.se/ |
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Luke Boumphrey |
Rhyl Congress
2005
1st June 2005
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Congratulations to Atticus player Luke Boumphrey, outright winner of the
Rhyl Major Championship 2005 and first prize of £120. The event, a five
round swiss, held at the Town Hall over the weekend of 20th - 22nd May
is one of the toughest Major's to win. This is a deserved result for
Luke who, as usual, prepared extremely well for his encounters. See two
of his
games from the event including an excellent win in 16 moves. Luke
also competed very successfully at the
Blackpool Chess Conference, Challengers
(U175), 11-13 March 2005 winning both a share of 3rd place with
a score of 4 out of 5, and for good measure, the £50 grading prize! More
details. |
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MCA Team Lightning 2005
21st June
2005
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Two Atticus teams competed in the annual Merseyside Team Lightning
Championships, held on Tuesday at the Liverpool Institute for Performing
Arts in Mount Street. For photos and short report click
here. Starting at 7.30pm, nine teams competed over seven rounds with
Waterloo taking the title on 24½ points ahead of Liverpool 1 and
Aigburth on 20.
Waterloo 1 - Winners 2005
(left to right foreground):
Steve McGrane, Peter Kirby, Gary Quillan and Colin Horton. In the
background to the left is FIDE Arbiter and tournament controller, David
Welch.
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