Archive for August 21st, 2009

#548 Summer Tourney – Round 11

Friday, August 21st, 2009
Ian Mangion, looking to become the 6th champion in as many years, won twice to move a full point ahead.

Mark Kernighan took his 11th straight game but was re-relegated to 2nd place.

I used the K’s Indian to beat Mikhail Kruglyak, draw Greg Tomkovich, take-over 3rd & extend my KST unbeaten streak to 9 (+6-0=3) but squandered a half-point.

Geoff McAuliffe & Joe Renna also won.


Results
  • Kernighan 1-0 Carrelli
  • Mazzillo 0-1 Mangion
  • Kruglyak 0-1 Moldovan
  • Tomkovich ½-½ Moldovan
  • McAuliffe 1-0 Mann
  • Renna 1-0 Shiffman
  • Kruglyak 0-1 Mangion

Standings
  • 1. Mangion 12.0
  • 2. Kernighan 11.0
  • 3. Moldovan 9.5
  • 4. Tomkovich 9.0
  • 5. Carrelli 6.0
  • 6. Mann 5.0
  • 7. Sherer 4.0
  • 8. Renna 3.5
  • = 9. Pawlowski, Shiffman 3.0
  • = 11. Sturniolo, Mazzillo, Cole 2.5
  • = 14. Lewis, Wojcio, Agress, Sokolosky 2.0
  • 18. McAuliffe 1.5
  • 19. Zhu 1.0
  • = 20. Kruglyak, Balint, Castillo, Ruales 0.0

4 games & an updated crosstable will follow. Annotations might be delayed 3 or 4 days, though.

Update 8/21 @ 10 p.m. – Replay page & raw PGN uploaded.

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Balkan Grand Prix: Pleasure in Cetinje

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Instituted this year, the Balkan Grand Prix serves as an effort to promote increased cooperation and interaction between the Balkan countries: Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Romania. In the recently completed second stage of this Grand Prix, Bulgarian grandmaster, Dejan Bojkov, finished on top. His report and pictorial impressions follow.

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Swedish Astronaut to play Chess from Space

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Remember American astronaut Greg Chamitoff, who a year ago played chess against the NASA ground stations. Well, now European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang, Sweden, is going to do the same, playing a game against the Swedish public. Right now Fuglesang is in quarantine awaiting an August 24th launch. But the game has already started, and you can take part.

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