There is local saying that once a chess team drops from Central Serbia League, it is almost impossible to come back. This is exactly what happened to Radnicki Cuprija. The club was relegated to Regional Pomoravska League back in 2003. As there is always some local boss popping up with couple hundreds of euros buying players to take his team to the higher league, Radnicki had hard time coming back to where they belonged.
On 2005 I moved back to Cuprija and started to play for Radnicki again (I left the club on 1995). All of our players are amateurs gathering own money to pay the bills. Even if there is obligation to equally divide the funds, the corrupted members of Cuprija City Council are supporting only their pet clubs with money from the budget. Those pets are Football Club Morava, Handball Club and Chess Club Morava Supska (Radnicki beat them with 6-2 last two years).
Season of 2005 started bad, we lost in 1st round and couldn't catch the rivals anymore. I resigned as chairman and Vlada Stanisavljevic took the duty. It proved to be good move as he brought back another two of old members - Vladan Ilic (2167 FIDE) and Snezana Djordjevic.
In season of 2006 we won 8 matches and drew one to convincingly take first place in the Regional League. But that wasn't enough, there was another obstacle imposed by the system. In order to qualify for the higher league, we had to play two play-off matches against Radnicki Svilajnac, winner of the Regional Resavska League.
The first match was to be played on 26th November in Svilajnac. However, we were forced to change the winning lineup. Our first board Vladan Ilic couldn't travel as his wife is pregnant and he had to stay at home. Our female player Snezana Djordjevic got sick and we had to resign 7th board as we couldn't provide the replacement. The reliable 6th board player Goran Gajic was gone for vacation. Vlada Stanisavljevic and Sasa Gmitrovic had to jump in, but they both drew their games (Sasa was even exchange up and should have won) so we were happy with the overall win of 4.5-3.5. Rematch will be played on 3rd December in Cuprija.
I'm not sure if Nb3 is that good because it blocks advance of b-pawn, which has important role in White's queen-side attack. On the other hand, Black played Ne8 instead of normal Nd7 so Nb3 is sort of threatening c5. But f4 is big positional mistake and Dragan Gajovic wasn't aware what he has done until I told him later. He should have played Nf6 first, taking control of g4 square and pressing on e4 when White has nothing better than f3. Then, Black can proceed with the usual Kings Indian attack f4, g5, h5 etc.
12. Bg4!
Jumping on the opportunity. Light-squared Bishop is the weakest piece in this kind of White's setup against Kings Indian. Bc8 is valuable attacker, ready to be sacrificed on h3 or g4 and it also guards b7 pawn in some lines. White's king-side is much safer now. The trade is clearly favorable for White even if he is losing two tempos. For reference on complex of weak squares read Exchange Sacrifice, Complex of Squares and Methods Against Kings Indian.
12... h5 13. Bc8 Nc8?!
Another inaccuracy. The Knight is needed for operations on king-side after Nf6, g5, Ng6 etc
14. f3 Nb6?! 15. Qe2 c6?!
I can't remember if I have ever seen Black successfully playing on the queen-side in this variation. White's space is giving him clear advantage there. At this point, Dragan and I went outside for a smoke. He asked what I think about his position. I knew Black is much worse but I couldn't kill his motivation so I carefully softened "I think it's about equal. You shouldn't have traded light-squared bishops...". "Equal?", he interrupted me, "I think I'm better!". I know Dragan is big optimist, this attitude helped him win many tough games, but in this case, his usually reliable positional feeling completely failed. I shrugged and let him play on. He fought really hard but the opponent was too strong to drop the huge advantage and Dragan eventually lost.
Urosevic - Obradovic
I was playing White side of the Catalan opening on the 2nd board. Last year I beat this player fairly easy in Anti-Marshall so I wanted to try 1.d4 this time. To be honest, I don't know any theory in Catalan, but I wanted to keep pawn structure more flexible then in usual Queen's Gambit. This proved to be "brilliant strategy" as I played 10. c5 and had problems with that pawn through the most part of the game. The middlegame was complicated, we both made couple of small mistakes, but in general, my opponent played much better then last time. I wasn't anticipating such a strong display, most of his moves were matching Fritz's 1st choice, even if he never went to the toilet! Just proving what kind of idiot Silvio Danailov is....
Being shocked by previous good moves and afraid of more of that sort, I was spending alot of my time. With 5 minutes for the rest of the game I "blundered" the exchange. Actually, I was probably slightly better but I thought I had to give the rook for bishop to decline his mating threats. The position was probably in draw borders, but having extra 20 minutes on the clock, my opponent is trying to impose threats against the king and falls into the trap of not trading the queens. It's easy to overlook the danger when you're chasing opponent's king around.
In this position the king is finally safe and Obradovic should have started thinking about my a-pawn. The only move for him was to trade the queens with 43... Qg2 and then quickly play Ra1, f6 (or f5) and Kf7. With the retreat, he gives me crucial tempo.
43... Qf6 44. a5 h6?
Here he realized something was wrong. 44... Ra1 would run into 45. Qe4! with double threat of Qe8 and Bd4. 44... Qe6 was only move but White still keeps the advantage. I was in time trouble but my plan was clear.
45. a6 Ra1 46. a7 Qe6 47. b5!
Winning move that my opponent missed while allowing me to push the pawn to a7. Now he either loses c6 pawn to give me two connected passers or, like in the game, drops the rook for two pawns with 47... cb5 48. a8Q Ra8 49. Qa8. Later I won with advance of king-side pawns to g5 and combined threats on b5 and g7.
December 3rd Update: Radnicki Svilajnac didn't show up for rematch because two of their players had political obligations. Only 16 hours before the match start they have asked for postponement. Since we went to Svilajnac without 3 players, we have declined the offer. Our team showed up at the scheduled hour, and even then Svilajnac tried to use the influence of their good friend and regional chess federation secretary IA Rade Milosavljavic to postpone the match. Rade Milosavljevic, who is playing for Glavinci in same regional league, already screwed us last year, so this wasn't his first attempt to conflict with interests. League commissioner Voja Pavlovic refused to postpone the match and Radnicki Cuprija qualified for the higher league.
14th international tournament "Salona 2006" will take place on 24th November-2nd December at the Zvonimir Hall in Solin, Croatia. Curious fact is that the only two represents of Croatia are GMs Kurajica and Dizdarevic, both switched from BIH rating list this summer. Bojan Kurajica was also last year's winner.
Participants: GM Vladimir Malakhov (RUS 2682), GM Alexey Dreev (RUS 2655), GM Sergei Movsesian (SVK 2637), GM Bojan Kurajica (CRO 2555), GM Oleg Romanishin (UKR 2542), GM Vladimir Georgiev (MKD 2532), GM Emir Dizdarevic (CRO 2492), GM Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL 2489), IM Lilit Mkrtchian (ARM 2468) and IM Elisabeth Paehtz (GER 2449)
A: To give the human any chance, it is necessary to provide even conditions. The chess player should also have access to the database. Meaning, it is necessary to help the human.
Q: Will that be enough?
A: Certainly not. Today the person and the machine play with the identical time control. And it is necessary to allow chess player to play with time handicap. Ratio such is 2.15 on 1.40 (hours). It is necessary to struggle for better conditions. But nobody, besides myself, is talking about this. Big money is at the stake and the companies that produce such powerful programs will not be happy with giving human a chance.
Q: By the way, there is an issue of a so-called "computer doping". One year ago Veselin Topalov was accused of using database and program during World Championship Tournaments. In the reply he had notorious accusations against Vladimir Kramnik during the unifying match in Elista. The problem is not far-fetched?
A: No. There are dirty chess players who use good programs. Why counting variations behind the board when it is possible to receive help in few seconds.
Q: And what to do?
A: To punish strictly. As it was, for example, recently made in Germany. One German chess player was convicted for swindle. Even started criminal case.
This round robin tournament was held on November 14th-22nd in Rijeka, Croatia. Even if "rijeka" is Croatian word for "river", this beautiful city is placed on Adriatic coast. Winner IM Ante Saric has earned himself GM norm. FMs Marin Bosiocic and Darko Doric have earned IM norms.
Final standings: 1. IM Ante Saric (CRO 2489) 6.0/9; 2-3. GM Robert Markus (SCG 2567) and GM Ognjen Cvitan (CRO 2529) 5.5; 4-5. GM Milan Vukic (SCG 2504) and IM Ognjen Jovanic (CRO 2458) 5.0; 6. FM Marin Bosiocic (CRO 2448) 4.5; 7-8. GM Dusko Pavasovic (SLO 2575) and FM Darko Doric (CRO 2448) 4.0; 9. IM Imre Hera Jr. (HUN 2510) 3.0; 10. IM Blazimir Kovacevic (CRO 2471) 2.5
Earlier this year GMs Kurajica and Dizdarevic have left BIH rating list to join Croatian. Serbia & Montenegro (SCG) rating list will be split on two after January 1st. 28 players from current SCG list have expressed their wish to move (back, as they mostly live in Bosnia) to BIH rating list. GM Milan Vukic, IM Vlado Savanovic and FMs Slavko Rosic, Miladin Gavric and Milenko Sibarevic are among them.
Croatian Chess Championship was held on November 11-21 in Kutina. Prize fund was 10.000 euros. GM Zoran Jovanovic and GM Zdenko Kozul, that were tied on 1st place, will meet eachother again in 4 games playoff match to determinate title holder.
Final standings: 1-2. GM Zoran Jovanovic (2539) and GM Zdenko Kozul (2589) with 8.0/11 3. GM Robert Zelcic (2556) 7.0 4. IM Ante Brkic (2541) 6.5 5-6. GM Alojzije Jankovic (2533) and GM Davor Rogic (2502) 6.0 7. GM Krunoslav Hulak (2536) 5.5 8-9. NM Ivan Saric (2482) and GM Mladen Palac (2582) 5.0 10. IM Vladimir Bukal Jr. (2443) 3.5 11. IM Dinko Brumen (2368) 3.0 12. IM Vladimir Bukal (2426) 2.5
Torneio Internacional Prefeitura da Cidade de São Paulo was held on November 11th-19th in Sao Paulo, Brasil. IM Alexandr Fier scored his final GM norm and he should appear 2500+ on the next rating list. Brasilian chess organizers are very active lately, see their chess federation website. Prize fund was nice round number of 15.000 USD.
All of you adult players having problem to raise your level, stop reading "Chess For Zebras" as a Bible and search for advice from a player who actually succeeded in the quest. Dr Valerian Adam, solid player for many years (as IM Tom O'Donnell told me), managed to raise his rating by 180 points in last two years, earning some IM norms in between.
First he scored 6.5/9 at the Third Saturday 2005 that was held on 16-21st April 2005 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Organizer was GM Sinisa Drazic and arbiter Danko Bokan. Valerian has earned 79 rating points and IM norm. One of the participants told me that "Valerian was pushed by Drazic", whatever that means...
He gets more active in 2006. First he wins Borovo-Beternik International tournament that was held on 24-29th April 2006. He had 7.5/10 and earned 57 points. Arbiter was Milutin Lukic.
After few days of break they play another tournament in Borovo-Beternik on 1-5th May. This time Valerian is tied on the 2nd place with 6.5/9 and only plus 15 rating points. 1st was Nikola Vasovski from Macedonia, another interesting character deserving his own post. Arbiter was again Milutin Lukic.
New tourney after two days. Agronom IM 2006 was played on 8-13th May in Novi Sad. Arbiter was Danko Bokan and Valerian Adam scores 6.0/9 and 29 rating points. Just look at this funny crosstable, four players out of ten have earned IM norms: Valerian Adam, Nikola Vasovski, Miroslav Pucovski and Atif Dumpor. Organizer again GM Sinisa Drazic.
Valerian Adam
I wanted to take a look at the games, but imagine, there are no games available. These events are bringing Dr Adam to the 9th place on Canada rating list, since some of their GMs are inactive, I'm wondering if they will consider him for the next Olympiad...
Rooty Hill Chess Club continues with fine tradition of publishing Christmas chess stories. Die Götterdämmerung, this year's story, was written by our good friend David Evans.
World Champion Vladimir Kramnik is back for another clash against chess computer. This time he will face Deep Fritz in a 6 games match. The match will be played on November 25th-December 5th in Bonne, Germany.
WorldChessNetwork will provide Live Audio broadcast for this event. First round is scheduled for Saturday, November 25th, and commentator will be GM Alex Finkel. Alex is very patient, answering all the questions from audience.
November 27th Update: Kramnik blundered mate in one. This probably hasn't happened since his childhood. The blunder can have significant psychological consequences on Kramnik's play in next 4 games. The game itself started with a nice trick of Vladimir Kramnik who played weird move order to kick Deep Fritz out of his books. He gained advantage with black pieces and had control until the unfortunate blunder. Third game will be played on Wednesday, November 29th with live audio coverage on WorldChessNetwork.
November 29th Update: Third game was drawn. The Catalan opening was played again, and it looked like Kramnik was in favorable position. However, after couple of Kramnik's soft moves, Deep Fritz got passed a-pawn with balanced material. Exactly at this point, we have seen superiority of the human, even if Kramnik was only fighting to secure the draw. Program didn't even bother to stop exchange sac for neutralizing passed pawn because his calculations were showing that he has material advantage (rook for bishop+pawn). Deep Fritz is incapable of recognizing motive of fortress, something that every 2000 human player is aware of.
December 1st Update: I am sure many of us would feel uncomfortable with Knight on h5 and opponent's doubled Rooks, but not Vladimir Kramnik. This was "one of his positions", where he was slowly improving his pieces to the most optimal squares. Not even 1.e4 could help Deep Fritz achieving something, easy draw with no sweat. 5th game will be played on Sunday 9am, GM Larry Christiansen is providing audio comments for WorldChessNetwork.
December 3rd Update: Another transposition in the opening. After short flirting with Ragozin Defence, Kramnik took the game into Nimzo Indian waters. He had nice prospects in view of bishop's pair in open position, but Deep Fritz had the opportunity to claim open d-file. Instead of castling, Kramnik used his h-pawn and lifted rook to harass opponent's King. The game ended in draw after the moves were repeated. Deep Fritz is leading 3-2, last game is scheduled for Tuesday, December 5th at 9am EST.
December 5th Update: Deep Fritz won the 6th game and match with overall score of 4-2. Vladimir Kramnik surprised the viewers by choosing Naidorf Sicilian with black pieces. I can't remember seeing him playing this line. Fritz played amazing 10.Re3 novelty, a manoeuvre that was never tried before. After 25. e5! de5 26. Re5 Be5 was not possible because 27. Qe5 f6 28. Bg6 would win on the spot. Fritz took a4 pawn on move 30 and the rest was matter of the technique.
The 41st edition of Capablanca Memorial will be held on November 19th-30th in Habana, Cuba. Main group will be strong double round robin with 6 players: Last year's winner Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR 2741), GM Evgeny Bareev (RUS 2683), GM Kamil Miton (POL 2638), GM Ruben Felgaer (ARG 2591) and top Cuban players Leinier Dominguez (CUB 2655) and Lazaro Bruzon (CUB 2648). Leinier Dominguez had fantastic result at the recently played Magistral d’Escacs Ciutat de Barcelona 2006.
GM Leinier Dominguez
Open tournament will be played in 11 rounds. Looks like there will be 22 participants. Cubans will organize special events in honor of Fidel Castro and 40th anniversary of Habana Chess Olympiad.
Update: GM Ruben Felgaer dropped out or main tournament for "personal reasons". Legendary Cuban Jesus Nogueiras (2554) will replace him.
November 23rd: Last minute replacement Jesus Nogueiras beat Evgeny Bareev in first round but lost to Vassily Ivanchuk in 2nd. Ivanchuk is leading with 2/2, followed by Kamil Miton, Jesus Nogueiras and Leinier Dominguez one point each. Evgeny Bareev and Lazaro Bruzon are left with half point.
GM Evgeny Bareev
November 26th: Vassily Ivanchuk lost to Kamil Miton in 5th round but he is still leading the tournament with 3.5 points.
I was browsing Michael Goeller's list of Chess Blogs and got attracted with this description: "The Yermo Diary by GM Alex Yermolinski - This is really a brave and challenging GM blog that sticks a few fingers in the eye of the chess establishment and tells it like it is. I am glad that the chess archive exists to preserve things like this.". The Diary is preserved in Web Archive. Here is a quote from Chess Slavers:
"...I remember, in the 1980's every strong young player who got drafted to the Army would serve his duty in Karpov's training camps. Ivanchuk, Khalifman - you name them - were forced to work and produce results that later went to Karpov's cache of opening secrets. Karpov himself didn't even have to be there... . Soon Garry realized that in order to beat Karpov he had to do the same - off he went with the team of his own. Timoschenko, Vladimirov, Chekhov, later Dorfman, what made all these people, strong GMs at the time, sell themselves out? Some got lured by offers of money and tournament invitations, some operated under a wrong assumption that they will benefit as chessplayers from working with the greats. Like if plantation slaves would grow to become Schwartzeneggers.... Slave work kills, and our K's triumphantly marched over dead bodies. The author of these words considers himself lucky. I managed to avoid conscription to either camp, I must have been not good enough for them to notice.
Why am I recalling this? Just want to remind you what it took to made Kasparov and Karpov great. All this was happening at the times when Alex Wojtkiewicz had to hide from authorities after having been indicted for refusal to join the Army ( eventually he gave himself in and did time in prison ). Many years have passed since then, and our heroes have given a tremendous effort to re-write history. They are on CNN now, our freedom fighters turned chess businessmen. Ex-Champ Boris Spassky still calls them Party Crocodiles, however ( his press-conference in St.Petersburg published by "64-Chess Review" last year). I wouldn't go that far, times have changed, and there's no reason to live in the past. That's the present what bothers me..."
Serbian team GM Bojan Vuckovic, Marjan Kovacevic, Miodrag Mladenovic and FM Vladimir Podinic has won the 2nd European Championship in solving chess compositions that was held in Warsaw, Poland. Serbian biggest quality was uniformity, all members have scored good individual results.
Final team standings: 1. Serbia 219.50, 2. Russia 207.75, 3. Poland 205.25, 4. Germany 198.50, 5. Finland 198, 6. United Kingdom 188.75, 7. Ukraine 186, 8. Romania 187.5, 9. Netherlands 169.25, 10. Czech 150.25 etc
News: Borislav Gadjanski, Aleksandar Stanic and Goran Tomic
After one month of preparation, WCN Team Championship has started yesterday. The response was massive and manager Lena Brusilovski has full hands to organize matches for 26 teams and 190 players. Games are being played every other week, Saturday at 15 est or Sunday 11 est.
Some lineups are very strong, 1 GM, 3 IMs and 4 FMs are registered.
I am playing for The Butchers, team made of IM Miodrag Perunovic's students (The Butcher is his nickname): Miodrag Perunovic, Goran Urosevic, Sebastien Velon, Bogdan Girmacea, Bostjan Benko, Francois Chevalier and Erasmus Flattery.
The Butchers B: Steven Fuchs, Magnus Sigurdsson, Julio Gonzalez, Jeremiah Mullen, Michel Cloutier, Jay Weare, Daniel Pregent and Thinker.
WorldChessNetwork will run an almost-two months promotion named Golden Holidays Jackpot. All one-year and two-years membership purchases as well as donations to scholastic fund will give a certain number of entry tickets for a big jackpot. For every $10 donated to scholastic fund, a one-year WCN Gold membership will be given in your name to a deserving student through one of the following kids' chess organizations: Chess N' Math, Susan Polgar Chess Foundation, The American Foundation for Chess (AF4C) or Chess-in-the-Schools, NYC.
Having desire to give small contribution, I donated a copy of Yasser Seirawan and Jeremy Silman’s book, "Winning Chess Strategies". If you want to support the action by donating chess books or software, please email goran@worldchessnetwork or support@worldchessnetwork.com. A mention to your chess friends would also be nice. Thank you in advance.
Following the links in TCG's post, I noticed IM Mihajlo Stojanovic 2556 in the Sydney Open entries list. It's very rare for Serbian player to play chess tourney in Australia so I asked my fellow from junior tournaments how did this happen. Since Mihajlo is currently playing and teaching in Switzerland, we used Skype to talk about it (Mihajlo talked, I typed because of crappy connection). He saw the information on TWIC listing and emailed the organizers out of pure curiosity. People from Sydney were very professional, quickly securing Mihajlo's participation and even arranged some chess classes for Australian players.
I myself, preparing a "big" comeback after 3 years of break, will have training session with Mihajlo when he's back to Serbia in December. This is good opportunity to share some of the impressive details from his CV.
Tournament achievements: 2006 Forchheim Open, Germany - 1st place 2006 Scalea Open, Italy - 2nd 2006 Summer Cup, Pieria, Greece - tied 1st 2006 Blitz Championship of Serbia, Topola - 1st 2006 Verona, Italy - 2nd 2005 Phonak Schach Open, Switzerland - 1st 2005 Open de la Gruyere, Switzerland - 1st Winner of mutliple junior championships of Serbia and Yugoslavia Multiple titles in team events etc
Coaching achievemnts: 2006 Trainer of national teams of Serbia and Montenegro for Turin Chess Olympiad 2005 Lecturer on chess courses in Italy and Switzerland 2005 Licence of FIDE Trainer 2005 Official trainer of the talented cadets of the Serbian Chess Federation 2002-2005 Coaching Mihajlo Milisavljevic, Serbian U10 champion 1996-2005 Co-work with GM Ivan Ivanisevic, Serbian top grandmaster 2004 Second of WGM Ekatarina Korbut 2004 Coaching WGM Ana Benderac, Serbian top female player 2004 Co-work with GM Nikola Sedlak etc
Mihajlo was also chairman of Valjevo Chess Club and host of a TV show "The world of chess".
Sydney International Open will be held on 10th-14th April 2007. This is good chance for Aussie players to consider taking classes from Mihajlo. His email address is mihchess@beotel.net. This was friendly advertisement, if it works well, I might be encouraged to jump into marketing waters :-)
Arianne seems to collect grandmasters like a magnet attracts metal filings, yet neither player captured the queen. The object of her affection turned out to be someone other than Aronian or Gormally. He was German GM Arkady Naiditsch, 21. 'Maybe Danny punched the wrong man since I came to the party with Arkady," said Arianne, a member of Australia's female squad.
"We met when I was 13 and she was 12 and we have a mutual attraction," said Naiditsch. "Gormally behaved like a drunken hooligan in a soccer stadium, but he was wise not to attack me because I practised karate for five years."
I had quite a few posts about Dallas vs. Belgrade match (Dallas vs. Belgrade Update and Belgrade beat Dallas) and now it's time to steal some photos from the Serbian Chess Federation website and share the beauty with the world (are ya reading, TCG?). WFM Ljilja Drljevic, rated 4 points higher then myself, was playing on the 15th board for Belgrade University team. Her win against WFM Lilia Doibani was one of the crucial points to secure overall win for Belgrade.
WFM Ljilja Drljevic (GM Bojan Vuckovic and GM Veljko Jeremic behind)
The traditional open tournament was held on October 28th-November 3rd in Touquet, France. Three players are tied on the first place with 7 points. IM Marijan Petrov from Bulgaria has earned GM norm.
Final standings: 1-3. GM Vladimir Epishin (RUS 2527), GM Vladimir Burmakin (RUS 2559) and IM Marijan Petrov (BUL 2457) with 7.0/9 4-5. GM Jacob Murey (ISR 2487) and IM Tigran Gharamian (FRA 2467) 6.5 6-10. GM Aloyzas Kveinys (LTU 2540), GM Julian Radulski (BUL 2494), IM Mathias Roeder (GER 2456), Tanguy Ringoir (BEL 2185) and IM Marc Dutreeuw (BEL 2384) 6.0 etc
GM Michael Roiz is young Israeli player rated 2611 FIDE. I was watching his 2 0 min games against GM Goran Kosanovic and he amazed me with brilliant Queen sacrifice. I asked Michael if he saw the entire combination up to the mate and he replied it was only one of the lines he calculated! Incredible. He spent about 25 sec for 14...a4, maybe best defence for Kosanovic was 18. Qc2 Bf5 19. Qc8 Rc8 20. Kd2. See also Michael Roiz vs Rybka.
Here is Michael's biography, in his own words: Was born in Russia, learned to play chess at the age of 7, at the age of 9 became 2nd in Russia under 10. In 1995 moved to Israel and became IM in 1999, at the age of 16. 4 years later, in 2003, became a GM. My best tournament achievements are:
1-3 in Ashdod op 2004; 1-6 in Zurich op 2004; 2-4 with Gurevich and Golod with 7/9 in Saint Vincent op 2004; 3-5 with 8/10 in Benasque op 2005. The winner of several blitz and rapid tournaments, like in Biel 2006. A member of Israel national team in Plovdiv 2003, (silver medal for a team); Calvia ol 2004 and Beer-Sheva World Teams championship 2005. In 2005 qualified to the World Cup in Khanty-Manssijsk 2005,but lost to Motylev 0.5-1.5.
Update: Michael Roiz is currently sharing 1nd place in the 15th category Gorenje 2007 with one round to go. Direct duel against co-leader Suat Atalik in the last round will determinate the winner.
The Cap d'Agde tournament is being held on October 26th-November 2nd. For more information visit the official website. I'll post two games from Quarterfinals match Carlsen-Fressinet.
