Serbian Chess Championship

First Serbian Chess Championship will take place on 4-17th March in Vrsac. City Council has provided appearance fees and 5000 euros for prize fund.

Players:
GM Igor Miladinovic 2607, GM Ivan Ivanisevic 2602, GM Branko Damljanovic 2590, IM Mihajlo Stojanovic 2576, GM Dragan Solak 2564, GM Bojan Vuckovic 2551, GM Milos Perunovic 2547, GM Miodrag R.Savic 2533, GM Dejan Pikula 2513, IM Branko Tadic 2496, IM Slavisa Brenjo 2491, FM Boban Bogosavljevic 2470 (junior champion), IM Zoran Arsovic 2457 and Jovan Todorovic 2381.


Tournament website

Six Players Suspended

International master Ronald Dableo, who holds 2 GM norms, has been suspended by the National Chess Federation of the Philippines for a period of 1 year. He had allegedly fixed a game in the Malaysian Open. Five others were slapped with 6-month bans...

Read more at The Closet Grandmaster blog. We wish Serbian Chess Federation had more courage to investigate similar issues.

Gorenje 2007

Chess club "Sveti Nikolaj" from Valjevo is organizing 1st "Gorenje" tournament on May 2007. Promoter will be GM Ljubomir Ljubojevic and the initial list of participants is very interesting:

1. Anatoly Karpov (RUS 2668)
2. Suat Atalik (TUR 2584)
3. Kiril Georgiev (BUL 2661)
4. Dusko Pavasovic (SLO 2567)
5. Predrag Nikolic (BIH 2626)
6. Michael Roiz (ISR 2605)
7. Ivan Ivanisevic (SRB 2603)
8. Branko Damljanovic (SRB 2590)
9. Mihajlo Stojanovic (SRB 2576)
10. Viorel Iordachescu (MDA 2587)


Tournament Preview

Official website

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