European Senior Individual Championship 2006 was held on August 5th-13th in Davos, Switzerland. Serbian GM Borislav Ivkov outplayed higher rated competition (Korchnoi, Cebalo, Jansa) to win the tournament with outstanding 8 points from 9 games, full point ahead of Mark D.Tseitlin, Vlastimil Jansa and Boris Khanukov. In this way Ivkov, first world junior champion (back in 1955), united two titles. WFM Valeria Dotan from Israel is European champion in women category.
Final standings:
1. GM Borislav Ivkov (SCG 2425) 8.0
2-3. GM Mark D.Tseitlin (ISR 2455), GM Vlastimil Jansa (2482) and FM Boris Khanukov (GER 2357) 7.0
5-10. GM Victor Korchnoi (SUI 2603), GM Miso Cebalo (CRO 2505), GM Oleg Chernikov (RUS 2422), GM Wolfgang Uhlmann (GER 2413), GM Hans-Joachim Hecht (GER 2397) and Boris Gruzmann (RUS 2309) 6.5 etc
There were 120 participants.
Borislav Ivkov - Vlastimil Jansa
1. Nf3 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Bg4 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. d5 Ne5 7. Be2 Bxf3 8. Bxf3 Nxf3+ 9. Qxf3 Nf6 10. O-O O-O 11. Rb1 a6 12. Bd2 c6 13. Rfe1 Nd7 14. Qe2 Qc7 15. Rec1 Rfc8 16. b3 Qd8 17. a4 Qf8 18. a5 Bd4 19. Na4 Qg7 20. b4 Qe5 21. Qf3 Qf6 22. Be3 Qxf3 23. gxf3 Bxe3 24. fxe3 Rab8 25. c5 Ne5 26. Kg2 Rc7 27. Rc3 Rd8 28. Nb6 Kf8 29. Rbc1 f5 30. cxd6 exd6 31. f4 Ng4 32. h3 Nf6 33. exf5 gxf5 34. dxc6 Ne4 35. R3c2 Rg7+ 36. Kh2 bxc6 37. Rg2 Rxg2+ 38. Kxg2 Ke7 39. Rxc6 Rg8+ 40. Kf1 Rg3 41. b5 Rf3+ 42. Kg1 Rg3+ 43. Kh2 Ke6 44. bxa6 Rg7 45. Nc8 1-0
Victor Korchnoi - Wolfgang Uhlmann
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. Bg5 d6 6. h3 c5 7. d5 e6 8. Nf3 exd5 9. cxd5 b6 10. Bb5 a6 11. Bd3 b5 12. a3 Nbd7 13. O-O c4 14. Bc2 Nc5 15. Nd4 h6 16. Bf4 Re8 17. Nc6 Qc7 18. Qf3 Bb7 19. Rad1 Nfd7 20. Qg3 Bxc6 21. Bxd6 Qb6 22. dxc6 Qxc6 23. Nd5 Bxb2 24. Ne7+ Rxe7 25. Bxe7 Qe6 26. Bxc5 Nxc5 27. Qe3 Qe7 28. f4 Re8 29. e5 Ne6 30. Kh2 Qxa3 31. Qe4 Ng7 32. Qd5 Rf8 33. Rf3 Qa2 34. Rd2 Ne6 35. Bxg6 Rd8 36. Bxf7+ Kxf7 37. Qb7+ Kf8 38. Rxd8+ Nxd8 39. Qd7 Qa5 40. Rg3 Ba3 41. Qf5+ Nf7 42. e6 1-0
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