Tie-breaker in Turkey
By Malcolm Pein
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON)
June 02, 2004, Wednesday
THE fifth European Individual Championship at Antalya in Turkey went
to a tie-breaker as the established players Vassily Ivanchuk and
Praedrag Nikolic saw off a strong challenge from the younger
generation and prospered in the later rounds. The pair ended on 9/13.
There were no British players among the 72 who competed in the
tournament, which was a classic Eastern European carve-up. From the
prize-winners below, you will find that even the players given as
coming from Western Europe actually emigrated from Russia, Ukraine or
Armenia.
There were a number of play-offs to determine the distribution of
medals, prize money and places in the next Fide knock-out
championship, should it ever come to pass. Levon Aronian secured the
bronze medal.
Final scores: 1-2 Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Nikolic (Bosnia) 9/13; 3-7
Aronian (Germany), Istratescu (Romania), Miroshnichenko (Ukraine),
Navara (Czech Republic), Gurevich (Belgium) 8.5; 8-16 Kempinski
(Poland), Krasenkow (Poland), Agrest (Sweden), Milov (Switzerland),
Asrian (Armenia), Sargissian (Armenia), Macieja (Poland), Gashimov
(Azerbaijan) Naiditsch (Germany) 8.
BY THE time Black develops his pieces, his opponent has a decisive
attack. For better or worse, 21…Qxe4 had to be tried.
V Milov – M Parligras
5th IECC Antalya (13)
Nimzo Indian
1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 Nf3 b6 5 Bg5 Bb7 6 Nd2 c5 7 d5 h6 8 Bh4
exd5 9 cxd5 Qe7 10 Qc2 0-0 11 0-0-0 Bxc3 12 bxc3 Bxd5 13 e4 Bc6 14 f4
d6 15 Re1 g5 16 fxg5 Nh7 17 Bg3 Nxg5 18 h4 Ne6 19 Nc4 Rd8 20 Ne3 Ng7
21 Bc4 Nd7 22 Ng4 Rf8 23 Nxh6+ Kh8 24 Qd2 Ne5 25 Bxe5 dxe5 26 Ng4 1-0
Parligras – p p 7 e o p g c m
o – p p p p o o p
p A p b p ‘ n p n p p b p f p b p p d 6 p *
Milov
Final position after 26.Ng4
FIDE world championship semi-final, game one:
Kovalevskaya 1-0 Koneru: Koneru totally outplayed her opponent and
then turned down an endgame with three extra pawns to continue the
attack, which, although winning, gave Kovalevskaya chances to resist.
Three blunders later, Koneru lost.
Stefanova draw Chiburdanidze: a complex tactical line of the Pseudo
Trompovsky 1 d4 d5 2 Bg5 led to a drawn endgame.
NIGEL Short could not defeat the tournament winner, Alexey Shirov, in
the last round at Sarajevo. Short held an edge for much of the game,
but the presence of opposite-coloured bishops always made the draw –
Short’s seventh in a row – more likely. The England number two had
his first bad tournament for a long time and did not win a single
game.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress