The Chess Classic Mainz 2008 Began

The Chess Classic Mainz began in style with Anand breaks his own record with a simul on 40 boards.After three and a half hours of play only about half of the players are still in the game. Only one player managed to achieve the draw.
In the end Anand won 38 , 2 draw and breaking his own record.

Schedule of events

GRENKELEASING Rapid World Championship – 1-3 August 2008

Rapid Chess, 20min/game + 5s/move. Course of events: Fri, 1 Aug.: first rounds 1, 2 and 3; Sat, 2 Aug.: second rounds 4, 5 and 6, possible tiebreak; Sun, 3 Aug: four-game matches, big and small final, possible tiebreak, award ceremony. Start time of rounds: 18:30h, 19:30h, 20:30h, final additionally: 21:30h. Participants:

Player Nation Title Rating WRnk
Viswanathan Anand India GM 2798 1
Alexander Morozevich Russia GM 2788 2
Magnus Carlsen Norway GM 2775 6
Judit Polgar Hungary GM 2711 22

2. FiNet Chess960 Women's Rapid World Championship – 29-31 July 2008
Rapid chess, 20min/game + 5s/move. Course of events: Tue 29 July: first set of rounds 1, 2 and 3; Wed, 30 July: second set of rounds 4, 5 and 6, possible tiebreak; Thu, 31 July: four-game matches, big and small final, possible tiebreak, award ceremony. Start time of rounds: 18:30h, 19:30h, 20:30h, final additionally: 21:30h. Participants
Player Nation Rating Title WRank
Alexandra Kosteniuk Russia 2523 GM 10
Victorija Cmilyte Lithuania 2508 IM 11
Kateryna Lahno Ukraine 2507 GM 12
Natalia Zhukova Ukraine 2489 WGM 17

4th Livingston Chess960 Computer World Championship– 30 July-1 August 2008
Rapid Chess, 20min/game + 5s/move. Course of events: Wed 30 July: first set of three rounds; Thurs 31 July: second set of three rounds; Fri 1 Aug.: four-game matches, big and small final possle tiebreak (5min/game + 5s/move). Start time of rounds: 11:00h, 12:30h, 14:00h, final additionally: 15:30 h, tiebreak: 17:00h.

Participants:
Rybka
Deep Shredder
Naum
Deep Sjeng

7th FiNet Chess960 Open – July 31-August 01, 2008
Eleven rounds Chess960 Rapid Chess, 20min/game + 5s/move. Thu 31 July: rounds 1-5; Fri 1 August: rounds 6-11. Start of rounds: Thu 12:00h and Fri 10:00h. Award Ceremony Fri 17:30h.

15th ORDIX Open – August 2-3, 2008
Eleven rounds Rapid Chess Open, 20min/game + 5s/move. Registration until Sat 2 Aug, 11:30h. Sat 2 August: rounds 1-5; Sun 3 August: rounds 6-11. Start of rounds: Sat 12:00h, Sun 10:00h. Award ceremony Sun 17:30h.

2nd Mini-ORDIX (29th July) and the 2nd Mini-FiNet (30th July)
2nd Mini-ORDIX Open: Rapid Chess Open for Children and Talents U14, 20min/game + 5s/move. Registration
until Tue, July 29, 10:30h. Seven rounds: 11:00h, 12:00h, 13:00h, 14:00h, 15:00h, 16:00h, 17:00h. Award ceremony: 18:00h.

2nd Mini-FiNet Open: Rapid Chess960 Open for Children and Talents U14, 20min/game + 5s/move. Registration
until Wed, July 30, 10:30h. Seven rounds: 11:00h, 12:00h, 13:00h, 14:00h, 15:00h, 16:00h, 17:00h. Award ceremony: 18:00h.

IM Mas Biel Master Tournament Round 8 & 9

Im Mas standing in 10th place with 6.5 after round 9 and will meet GM Evgeny Gleizerov at Round 10.


Round 9 (30.7.2008)
9 16. Skoberne,Jure (5½) - 28. Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus (5½) 0-1

Round 8 (29.7.2008)
8 28. Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus (5) - 18. Benkovic Petar (5) ½-½

Standings after round 9

1. Maze,Sebastien GM 2553 FRA 7.5 47.0 369.5
2. Belov,Vladimir GM 2561 RUS 7.0 47.5 361.5
3. Avrukh,Boris GM 2656 ISR 7.0 47.5 350.0
4. Bauer,Christian GM 2583 FRA 7.0 46.0 355.5
5. Kritz,Leonid GM 2610 GER 7.0 45.0 356.5
6. Grachev,Boris GM 2640 RUS 6.5 48.5 362.5
7. Smirin,Ilia GM 2637 ISR 6.5 47.5 362.5
8. Nezad,Husein Aziz IM 2372 QAT 6.5 46.0 351.0
9. Kim,Alexey GM 2460 KOR 6.5 45.5 347.0
10. Mas Hafizuhelmi A IM 2386 MAS 6.5 44.0 331.0
11. Cebalo,Misho GM 2523 CRO 6.5 39.0 337.0
12. Berczes,David IM 2458 HUN 6.0 50.0 350.5
13. Gleizerov,Evgeny GM 2549 RUS 6.0 46.5 352.5
14. Bindrich,Falko GM 2516 GER 6.0 45.5 343.5
15. Ivanisevic,Ivan GM 2664 SRB 6.0 45.0 346.0
16. Benkovic Petar IM 2479 SRB 6.0 44.0 338.5
17. Narayanan,Srinath FM 2220 IND 6.0 43.5 324.5
18. Ulibin,Mikhail GM 2520 RUS 6.0 43.0 338.5
19. Cherniaev,Alexand GM 2431 RUS 6.0 42.5 343.5
20. Hug,Werner IM 2437 SUI 6.0 41.0 325.5

41 Biel GrandMaster Result Round 8 and 9

Dominguez take a lead with 1 point over his nearest rivals Evgeny Alekseev and Magnus Carlsen. Magnus Carlsen make this tournament difficult for him to catch the leader when he only manage to draw with Etienne Bacrot at Round # 8,Dominguez get an advantage by beating Evgeny Alekseev.At round #9 Carlsen draw with Dominguez and missed a change to share a top lead. Dominguez now needs just a draw with the Black pieces in his final game with Bacrot to win the tournament outright.

The standings after round 9:

1 Dominguez Perez, CUB 2708 6½
2 Alekseev, Evgeny RUS 2708 5½
3 Carlsen, Magnus NOR 2775 5½
4 Bacrot, Etienne FRA 2691 4½
5 Onischuk, Alexander USA 2670 3½
6 Pelletier, Yannick SUI 2569 1½


9th round (July 30th):

Alexander Onischuk - Evgeny Alekseev 0 - 1

Leinier Dominguez - Magnus Carlsen ½ - ½

Yannick Pelletier - Etienne Bacrot ½ - ½


8th round (July 29th):

Evgeny Alekseev - Leinier Dominguez 0 - 1

Etienne Bacrot - Magnus Carlsen ½ - ½

Yannick Pelletier - Alexander Onischuk ½ - ½

PERCAWI open Result

OPEN

No. PNo. Name Scr WP SB PS TPR W-We
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1. 2 Ian Udani 5.5 19.0 16.50 20.5 2118 +0.34
2. 3 Kamaluddin Yusof 5.0 27.0 21.75 19.0 2007 +0.24
6 Tan Ken Wei 5.0 24.0 19.00 19.0 1987 +0.38
1 Mohd Kamal Abdullah 5.0 23.0 18.00 18.0 1886 -0.46
8 Mohd Khair Wahiduddin 5.0 21.0 16.50 18.5 1954 +0.24
4 Mohd Saprin Sabri 5.0 20.0 16.00 18.0 1625 -0.68
65 Syed Abd Rahman 5.0 18.5 16.00 15.0 2402 0
8. 12 Woo Beng Keong 4.5 21.5 14.25 16.5 1722 +0.18
5 Lim Zhuo Ren 4.5 17.5 12.25 16.5 1625 -0.31
10. 7 Nor Ilhamuddin 4.0 25.5 15.00 17.0 1340 -0.23
21 Abdullah Che Hassan 4.0 24.0 14.00 15.0 1201 0
9 Lee Kwan Pin 4.0 22.5 12.00 18.0 1858 +0.46
70 Yeap Eng Chiam 4.0 22.0 12.00 16.0 1570 0
62 Leong Kin Foong 4.0 21.0 12.75 16.0 1726 +0.50
10 Muhd Nabil AH 4.0 20.5 11.50 15.0 1342 -0.15

Under 15 (Boys and Girls)

No. PNo. Name Scr WP SB PS TPR W-We
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1. 30 Muhd Hazim 5.0 26.0 21.00 18.5 1577 0
36 Tariq Ziad 5.0 24.0 19.00 19.0 1528 0
1 Amira syahmina zulkifli(g)5.0 23.0 18.00 19.5 - 0
34 Lim Chin Shen 5.0 22.5 17.50 18.0 1355 0
5. 10 Gokul Sajeev 4.5 20.5 13.75 14.5 1324 0
6. 2 Edmund Ng 4.0 21.0 13.00 14.0 1728 +0.25
14 Kung Soon Heng 4.0 21.0 12.00 13.0 566 0
8 Anatha Krishnan 4.0 19.5 9.50 16.0 - 0
33 Seetharaman 4.0 19.0 10.00 11.0 - 0
10. 3 Tham Chee Leong 3.5 21.5 11.25 13.5 - 0
4 Jasy Ewe 3.5 20.5 8.75 14.5 - 0
11 Kalyana Chakravarthy 3.5 18.5 7.75 12.5 566 0
25 clarybelle loi (g) 3.5 17.0 9.75 10.5 - 0
5 Desmond Wong Chin Yann 3.5 17.0 7.25 12.0 566 -0.25
15 Lee Kok How 3.5 13.5 5.25 11.5 997 0
16. 9 Ashwin Shankar 3.0 22.5 9.50 12.0 1887 0
18 Mohd Fattah 3.0 20.0 8.50 9.0 1207 0
35 M. Venkat 3.0 20.0 7.00 12.0 - 0
7 Akshay Adithiya Nayar 3.0 18.0 6.00 13.0 - 0
13 Kishan Raj 3.0 18.0 6.00 11.0 658 0
19 Muhd Nafis Abdul Mois 3.0 17.5 6.50 8.0 533 0

Im Mas at Biel after round 7

So far IM Mas already have 5 point from 7 games. He will meet IM Petar Benkovic at round 8.

Round 8 (29.7.2008)
8 28. Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus (5) - 18. Benkovic Petar (5) -

Round 7 (28.07.2008)
17 28. Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus (4) - 111 Karrer,Damian (4) 1-0

Round 6 (26.07.2008)
18 52. Duschek,Volker (3) - 28. Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus (3) 0-1

Round 5 (25.07.2008)
9 -28.Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus(3)-8.Bauer,Christian(3) 0-1

Leinier Dominguez take the lead at Biel Grandmaster Tournament

Magnus Carlsen lose again Evgeny Alekseev for over 70 moves and then lost a pawn race. Leinier Dominguez win again Yannick Pelletier to take over the lead from Carlsen, and Etienne Bacrot make a comeback with a black win over Alexander Onischuk

Standings after round 7

				1	2	3	4	5	6	Points	SoBerg
1.	GM Leinier Dominguez	2708	CUB	**	½	½	1	½ 1	½ 1	5.0	13.25
2.	GM Evgeny Alekseev	2708	RUS	½	**	½ 1	1 0	½	1	4.5	14.75
3.	GM Magnus Carlsen	2775	NOR	½	½ 0	**	1	½	1 1	4.5	10.75
4.	GM Etienne Bacrot	2691	FRA	0	0 1	0	**	½ 1	1	3.5	9.50
5.	GM Alexander Onischuk	2670	USA	½ 0	½	½	½ 0	**	1	3.0	9.25
6.	GM Yannick Pelletier	2569	SUI	½ 0	0	0 0	0	0	**	0.5	2.50

5th round (July 25th):
Evgeny Alekseev	-	Alexander Onischuk	½ - ½	(34)
Magnus Carlsen	-	Leinier Dominguez	½ - ½	(26)
Etienne Bacrot	-	Yannick Pelletier	1 - 0	(34)
6th round (July 26th):
Etienne Bacrot	-	Evgeny Alekseev	1 - 0	(43)
Yannick Pelletier	-	Magnus Carlsen	0 - 1	(40)
Alexander Onischuk	-	Leinier Dominguez	0 - 1	(91)
7th round (July 28th):
Magnus Carlsen	-	Evgeny Alekseev	0 - 1	(84)
Leinier Dominguez	-	Yannick Pelletier	1 - 0	(56)
Alexander Onischuk	-	Etienne Bacrot	0 - 1	(55)

Mas lose again top seed

IM Mas lose in round #4 again 1st seeded GM Ivan Ivanisevic (2664) from Serbian. He will meet 8th seeded GM Christian Bauer (2583) in 5th round.

Round 4 (24.07.2008)
4 1. Ivanisevic,Ivan (2½) - 28. Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus (3) 1-0

Round 4 Biel International Chess Festival

GM Evgeny Alekseev join MAgnus Carlsen in the lead.

4th round (July 24th) result:
Yannick Pelletier - Evgeny Alekseev 0 - 1
Alexander Onischuk - Magnus Carlsen ½ - ½
Leinier Dominguez - Etienne Bacrot 1 - 0

Standings after round 4

1.GM Magnus Carlsen (NOR, 2775) 3.0
GM Evgeny Alekseev (RUS, 2708) 3.0
3.GM Alexander Onischuk (USA, 2670) 2.5
GM Leinier Dominguez (CUB, 2708) 2.5
5.GM Yannick Pelletier (SUI, 2569) 0.5
GM Etienne Bacrot (FRA, 2691) 0.5

IM Mas at Biel

IM Mas now also at 2008 Biel Chess festivel (Master Tournament),
Congrat Mas for beating Ulibin,Mikhail

PairingsRound 3 (23.07.2008)
9 28. Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus (2) - 14. Ulibin,Mikhail (2) - 1-0

Round 2 (22.07.2008)
24 121 Lienhard,Alex (1) - 28. Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus (1) 0-1

First round (21.07.2008)
29 28. Mas Hafizuhelmi Agus () - 90. Serralta,Michel () 1-0

Magnus Carlsen take the lead after Round 3 at Biel

Carlsen,M (2775) vs. Bacrot,E (2691)

Round 3 (July 22th)

Leinier Dominguez - Evgeny Alekseev 1/2

Magnus Carlsen - Etienne Bacrot 1-0

Alexander Onischuk - Yannick Pelletier 1-0


Standings after round 3

Points
1. GM Magnus Carlsen (NOR, 2775) 2.5
2. GM Evgeny Alekseev (RUS, 2708) 2.0
GM Alexander Onischuk (USA, 2670) 2.0
4. GM Leinier Dominguez (CUB, 2708) 1.5
5. GM Yannick Pelletier (SUI, 2569) 0.5
GM Etienne Bacrot (FRA, 2691) 0.5